skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They used chrome-key, aka green screen. The 2D card would be told to paint an area a solid color, and the Voodoo would overwrite that section.
> Other widely reported claims — that trees use CMNs to signal danger, to recognize offspring, or to share nutrients with other trees — are based on similarly thin or misinterpreted evidence. How did such a weakly sourced narrative take such a strong grip on the public imagination?

We've made wide reaching human policies on completely debunked outdated research.

I'd be super sympathetic to claims that lack strong evidences but aren't disproven either, nor are reaching for a narrative that is outlandish and heavily politicized.
The joke is that everyone, from the most junior neophyte to the expert wizard will judge themselves as a 7. Bjarne and a few elder gods might go as high as an 8.
Can you expand on these patterns?
Original Forbes article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrickcai/2023/06/04/stable-di...
I'm not American and I definitely do not think America is a haven for justice either, ha ha.
I haven’t seen much of that yet. But funnily enough, one of the top links for me right now is “Text message that will bring down Biden”, which sounds exactly like something you’d see on r/whitepeopletwitter or similar front-page disinformation subreddits, only from a right-wing instead of left-wing perspective.
That is not a problem, it simply converts the float value to uint32. What the post mentions is `uint32_t my_int = (uint32_t)&my_float;`
> this article reads almost like people are dying, arguing "consequences can be far-reaching, affecting policy decisions that impact real people". what are those consequences?

The obvious part would be wrong calculation of emission-trapping. The article mentions co2 quite often. This could mean wrong claims of health-benefits for living areas, or leading to wrong calculations around climate change.
Love the intention of this! I'm part of this community [1] which also has similar intentions of programming as fun, rather than as goal accomplishment or as a tool.

[1]: https://chaitinschool.org/
UBI doesn't prevent a fair welfare system on top of it. It doesn't have to be one or the other. UBI replacing unemployment welfare but not other welfare makes the most sense, IMO.
Can Carbon language by Google be counted as the next C++?
The fact that the community that formed trended in that way can be taken as an indication that those directions attracted more people than the original vision. Note how often Graydon was basically outvoted on design decisions. It would have been conceivable for the project to attract mostly people that fully shared Graydon’s vision, but that’s apparently not what happened.
Ben is the longest tenure Stack Overflow employee and got started at the company because he was a reader of Coding horror and he hung out on Meta and ended up building a unicorn webservice for an early April fools joke. The early story of stack overflow and how Joel and Jeff talked it out on a Skype podcast are something I wasn't aware of.

The other thing that's interesting though, is how Jeff and Joels efforts to build a Dev First place ended up backfiring in way. Ben opinion was devs, including him, became sort of assholes to other employees and even to each other on lesser teams because they were elevated so much.
Algorithms in Real Life
"There is no point in not supporting it" is not "it is supported" though. The former is an opinion, the latter is simply false.
> No vulgarity (dirty jokes, swearing words, etc.).

Antithesis of "promoting fun"
Of course, but strikers are paid workers operating within a legal process, they can't just be easily supplanted by free alternatives as can moderators.

But that's getting off the topic of whether or not the wording of the quoted paragraph reflects reality.
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Giving moderators the power to arbitrarily ban users they deem to have produced content by AI is not likely to work for long though. Perhaps today it's still feasible to note the "vibe" for GPT, but that's not likely to be possible for long (it's probably an artefact of the RLHF process anyway).
Then what? You'll end up with essentially arbitrary application of the ban hammer based on the moderators' "feelings".

I certainly don't have the answers (and let's face it it's likely going to be a problem here too).
> First-class &

Interestingly like Graydon suggests this and 'tis something D has, you can only have `ref` for function parameters. This is something the users sometimes complain about, but I guess it has positives.
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Empathy != experiencing emotions necessarily, just being aware of it.

We wouldn't want to program emotion into a killing machine anyway. Emotions are messy, meatbag programs that make us do suboptimal things driven by our own cultural, societal and personal biases.

Trolley problem where one side is one person who is dear to you, other side is two people you don't know. The majority of people would save the person they know well even if two innocent but unknown people die.

Also we probably can't specifically program emotion until we understand it better, but I reckon we'll see emotions/similar concepts arise as we build more intelligent machines. Humans are not special, we're just meat computers.
The technical reason is that it makes the compiler a lot more complicated.
"It's not easy being an alcoholic but it's worth it to stay alive"

Damn.
12*15=$180/year/person for cloudron.io is not the cheapest.

Have you considered or tried nextcloud?
VTCLab Media Analyzer v0.2.3
* Basic detection of RIFF (.avi and .wav), EBML (Matroska, WebM), MXF files
* QT timecode tracks support
* MVC-related boxes and NAL units
* QuickTime: basic support for mebx (QT "Timed metadata") atoms
* Scroll Jog control to be able to scroll the list with constant (adjustable) speed
* Navigation Bar: Support negative values of file position and item indexes
* SEI: Display x264, x265, ATEME info from SEI unregistered, recognize MDPM info presence
* AVC: Fix scaling list parsing
* RBSP: Fix incorrect data reading in some edge cases causing incorrect reading of some AVC/HEVC/VVC headers
* HEVC: Fix short-term ref pics set parsing
I hope not. Discord is outright hostile to the open internet and should not be considered an archive for anything.
I’ve always loved the topography of friction savers / cambium savers:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sKEfLm066-4

It’s such a clever idea using the emergent properties of gravity, stiction, and geometry.

A friction saver is a thick strap with two eyelets in it. With the strap placed over a limb, you can then run a thick rope through the eyelets instead of running the rope over the limb, which would otherwise abrade the rope and tree surface.

But how do you get the friction saver up there in the first place? To install, once you have a throw line over a limb you then add the friction saver as a segment to the end of the throw line but with the throw line also threaded into the eyelets of the friction saver. Once the friction saver is over the limb it will stick with a sticktion much stronger than the throw line is stuck to the friction saver.

Getting it back down is another clever trick which relies on one of the eyelets being larger than the other. To understand that (er, or indeed the whole system, as this is quite hard to explain) … watch the video.
Well this is off the topic of the quoted passage in my comment, but your use of "unquestioningly" - is a strange choice of word, and reflected elsewhere in the letter in "unchecked". I found that quite a dubious wording as well.

That's exactly what moderation is for, checking, questioning, etc, its not an argument against AI-generated content.

There seems to be an emotional reaction, but people will still value the highest quality content, whatever its provenance.

If the argument is that the workload will be too high, well make that argument - don't sidetrack with misleading and idealistic appeals to emotion.
No, that's a bad take. The unlicense makes your code impossible to use for many people e.g., those in countries like Germany where you're not allowed to dedicate works to the public domain. Similarly, many companies don't allow you to use code with the unlicense because of its unclear legal status.

See [1] and [2] for more discussion on this.

If you don't care about licenses, the MIT license is a much better choice.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20170301020915/https://lists.ope...

[2]: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1471...
I use jellyfin, is great for this and there are even phoone apps that can cache a certain ampunt of music on device.
Blocking in Loom is primarily about waiting for network traffic, possibly with extensions to file IO in future - it doesn't suspend if you do file IO today. Loom does get rid of coloring, or rather, doesn't introduce more of it and lets you phase out what exists, so I'm not sure what exactly you mean by that.

Kotlin suspend funs do not tell you they're about to touch network disk, that's the reason they use "suspend" and not "async". Suspend funs can also use generators (with yield) in which case no I/O is happening but they are nonetheless suspending.

So this is why blocking as a concept isn't a great one, IMO. The Kotlin designers were right to not use the word in their implementation of coroutines. Where Loom discusses blocking a bit, it's not defined as being about blocking, it's about being able to scale up threads to way beyond what was previously possible. It just so happens that the primary reason you'd want to do that is if you have lots of threads that spend lots of time waiting for things, but that doesn't automatically require network or disk access. For example you can use threads that spend all their time in Thread.sleep if you were writing an agent simulation.
The correct (but hard) way to prevent overflow-related bugs would be to insist on the compiler being able to prove that no overflow can occur. Basically the same thing you do in your head to convince yourself that the program is correct and won’t overflow, only in a more formally rigorous fashion. Modulo semantics by itself doesn’t prevent bugs.
Oops, fixed. Thanks :)
>strikers are paid workers

Not in this case. The exchange is real but non-monetary.

>But that's getting off the topic

No, not really.
Yes, being able to fwrite() dump floats to binaries is invaluable when working with large datasets. It's common to see binary 'cache' file being created for ASCII inputs (e.g. CSV) when there is any chance of it being fed repeatedly.
This has worked really well for me.
For instance, I deliberately work standing up in the garden with some fitness gear around. Every time I need to wait for something, like a build process or before the next email to write, I do a few bench presses, or push ups. Almost automatically. When I'm seated at a regular office desk, I tend to distract myself with some mindless internet browsing instead. Just creating the right environment can be enough to alter behavior.
Reminds me of the now infamous:

"The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil."

And the hilarious, but necessary exemption:

"I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil."

Personally I would love to see something named e.g. "corporate drone license", which would allow people in small, dead-end projects in large organizations to use it freely, but at the same time prevent said organizations from using it at scale to charge subscription fees for someone else's IP.

AGPL comes to mind as the closest thing I can think of, but I suppose the concept itself might be impossible to translate to legalese.

All I want is to give back some agency to people whose life circumstances require them to hold on to their current position.
This is a sad but inevitable consequences of tech people having no grounding in ethics. And really no education in or respect for the humanities at all. It's a classic case of "so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should", and evidences all the shallow fallacies that accompany this kind of thinking. The appeal to hypocrisy, false equivalence, 'whats the harm', etc. Resulting in the kind of amoral, 'look what technically cool and kinda messed up thing I made, but whats the real harm' cynicism that's been used to justify the destruction of the commons online since the creation of the banner ad.
I think there’s value in a service that indexes and ranks AI generated responses. If hypothetically stack overflow was 100% AI generated content, it would be acting like a cache for GPT-4. Running GPT-4 is far more expensive than a stack overflow database. Why not pre-generate answers to all common questions so they can be retrieved quickly and cheaply?

Future language models are going to provide better quality answers. At some point the line between GPT and expert will get so blurry, enforcing an AI ban will be a fools errand. Sites like SO will still have value as a cache for the most expensive models.
I don't think that modern C++ is any less messy than old C++. If anything it's more so, as even more difficult conscessions to backwards compatibility emerge. That's not the say the new functionality isn't useful, but I don't think it cleans anything up. Modern C++ is approaching an order of magnitude more complexity than pre-C++11 (which is not surprising if you are adding features but not removing or changing old functionality), and I don't think it's a sustainable increase.
Yes, but are there any effects systems in use outside of maybe Haskell? Effects seem mostly to be stuck in the research lab and have been for a long time.
Are we heading towards a Soviet Union 1.2? It seems like there’s writing on the wall that isn’t clear enough for my eyes. It seems that a temporary mass destruction of free market economy is anticipated.
I stand corrected then. I had heard a similar comparison that you should prefer Unlicense over WTFPL, but I had not heard it is impossible to dedicate works to the public domain. What a weird world.

If I want to use Unlicense, can I dual license as MIT and Unlicense?
UK launches SKYNET – not a doomsday plot, just for improved satellite comms
Remote Ruby – The GoRails Gang Takes Over
They do so once in a blue moon, and only for ideas so spectacularly bad that either they were never implemented or never used by anyone. Those aren't the main problem with C++ mess, the issue is the many small but important details which are deeply embedded into the language since it started as a super-set of C.
> The article mentions co2 quite often.

excuse me? it doesn't mention it even once ...
Sorry, to be more precise, "same document" could mean the same content but in different formats. OR just slightly tweaked to result in a different hash each time. Harder to abuse for sure, but still has holes.
For coroutines look at structured concurrency https://openjdk.org/jeps/437
I mostly agree, mixed systems are very much the way to go and in fact I thin in practice are inevitable. The USSR and China never entirely eliminated private capital, not even North Korea and the US provides many socialised services to citizens.

I don't quite agree on land value. Real investment in land means capital improvements such as building accommodation, offices, factories, retail premises, etc. These can be highly productive. It's why I favour the idea of a land value tax, to actually encourage investment in productive uses for land and penalise passive rent seeking.

I'm surprised you mention China positively in this regard, regional Chinese local governments have been largely funding themselves though massive land sales to private owners for decades. This often involved throwing off collectivised farmers with no or nominal compensation because the land belonged to the state. Arbitrary confiscation and abrogation of property rights with no appeal. Right up your street. Ive seen it happen in my wife's home town. With the recent collapse of property markets in China this is grinding to a halt.

I agree the US view on these things seems to almost cartoonishly polarised from a European perspective. They do have an incredibly flexible and dynamic economy, but a bit red in tooth and claw for my liking.
Having used both OCaml and Haskell in production, I can say that the typeclass way of doing things is massively more convenient.

But I guess enough syntactic sugar might make things palatable.
I've setup HA so that I can turn on/off a couple of WLED smart lights and I found the UX of the dashboard to be a bit confusing.

After setting up a HomeKit Bridge integration, you are given a QR code to connect from the Home app. The code appears in the Notifications tab. I missed the code at first so the Notifications tab was empty and I thought that there should be a button to issue another one? After looking it up online, apparently the way to go is: delete the integration, create it again and be more careful with the Notifications tab.

Then if I want another person in the house to be able to control the lights from their device, I can't show them the code. This makes me wonder whether the HomeKit Bridge supports only one connection or if I just have to screenshot the QR code? It can't be that bad, right?

Other than that, a great piece of software. When I got the smart lights it bummed me out that I couldn't control them with Home and had to use some third-party app to do it so eventually discovering HA significantly improved my experience.
Dual licensing should be fine. (IANAL)
Haskell is designed by committee, and it's a fairly alright language.
'Bad for the experiment' and ethical are orthogonal. There's an enormous body of work on the ethics of social science research, and an awful history of the consequences of such research that wasn't guided by consent and other ethical considerations.

If you're genuinely interested in answering those (likely rhetorical) questions. Check out work on the ethical dimensions of deception and covert research, especially relating to online research. e.g.: https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs...

If you're interested in the consequences of research online that violates consent, here's a good primer, focusing on Facebook's emotional contagion research amongst others - https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17470161166806...
A lot more CEOs need to be freed up so they can focus on other things, particularly those incapable of leveraging employee skills to grow the companies they manage instead of doing mass layoffs. It just shows they are not doing more than an accountant looking at numbers and figuring they cant afford to pay salaries. And while an accountant does the job well a CEO is hired to lead growth and innovation.
Hmm, some interesting suggestions there. Thanks!

Captcha is a good one and easy to implement for now. Will do that.
I don't mean "effects" in the sense where you can have effect handlers which get delimited continuations and all; it'd just mark what could happen (like checked exceptions). But I can't think of any languages with that and not effect handlers; Koka, Eff, and Unison come to mind for effects, though their practical-ness may vary.
That’s the point I think: these west coast companies are moving/hiring elsewhere
I'm currently using AppDaemon for a couple of webparsing-scripts. That has worked just fine without touching it for... well over a year by now.

But i have a nagging feeling that i should probably use PyScript instead.. If anyone has a more thorough analysis i'm open to hear it..
This warning happens during the time the method is added to libstd but is still unstable.
According to google, there are somewhere between 900 to 4000 x86 instructions (not sure which value is correct or what variants means in this context), and 329 Linux calls. Meaning, there is a lot missing. Which leaves the question: will it communicate in an obvious way if it encounters an unknown instruction or call? Or can I check at least for potential problems before executing a program?
This is basically what ACAB means anyway. It's not that only bad people become police, it's that the individual morality of any specific cop doesn't really matter. The system demands you be complicit in corruption and unjust violence, you either lathe your soul so that it fits or you leave entirely.
Every little thing, without exception, being called "racist" is exactly why it no longer has any value as a term. I'm at the point where if something gets called racist I just don't care. Cool new technology? An entire cottage industry has to do whatever it can to try to shoehorn racial grievance politics into it. It's all so tiresome.
Internet usage and the risk of dementia: A population-based cohort study
The Atomic Wallet Heist Unveiled: How $35M in Cryptocurrency Went Up in Smoke
Wow, it's quite concerning to learn about the recent security breach at Atomic Wallet. Reports are emerging that over $35 million in cryptocurrency has been stolen from users' wallets. As an Atomic Wallet user myself, I appreciate the transparency and urgency with which the developers are addressing this issue.
We don't see any tank wagons, and there would be no other possible water supply, so I don't think they are washing the stones. Given it gets rained on anyway, I doubt there would much benefit.
> there's nothing "volitional" in it

> hoping

Hmmmm
Opened the link. Saw Timnit Gebru. Closed the link.
All of the companies even the most secretive like Apple have been making their research public.

Google's Transformer paper is amazing but the current state of AI has its basis in a lot of people.
Actually I read through your links, and they seem to imply, that there does not exist (can not exist?) a license that you could use if you want to release your code to the public domain. That's a bummer if so.
> UBI doesn't prevent a fair welfare system on top of it. It doesn't have to be one or the other. UBI replacing unemployment welfare but not other welfare makes the most sense, IMO.

Another welfare system in addition to the existing welfare system is quite undesirable for most proponents of UBI who (like the parent I responded to earlier) present "no other welfare system" as a benefit of UBI.
any of which offer everything you've outlined

They don't, that's the "problem". Off the top of my head dependency management in Go is not best in class to put it charitably. .NET will tie you more closely to Windows. Sure, mono is a thing but you'll have more packages to choose from and fewer compatibility issues running .NET on Windows.
A psychoanalytic view of cross-cultural passages
They are pulling up the drawbridge behind them.

Get rich by being a western oligarch - then gerrymander the system so that you have no competition.
Is carbon not co2?
https://sci-hub.ru/https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1007/BF012...
I have the feeling that the whole MBA study is for jury-rigging the system. And not as one would have expected to, you know, build things.
Serialization of floating point number makes a lot of sense. But you don't need to read it as an integer.
I'm curious why all brakes aren't designed like this.
I do wonder what would happen if they scrapped karma. The right answers will still get upvoted, but there's no longer any incentive for those seeking internet points.