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> How would the systematic compilation of all C++ code on GitHub (assuming that were possible) affect that decision more than the ad hoc methods they did use to make that decision?

I doubt it would affect the actual decision at all, WG21 has been very comfortable relying on gut instinct, even in the face of reality, so there's no reason they'd be affected by the results of more systematic testing.

> Will there really never be something in Rust were a simple breaking change of a rarely used feature can result in an easier-to-use language?

Now we're talking about something woollier than your performance hypothetical. Surely almost any change can be sold as "easier-to-use" if you're motivated. Herb Sutter seems motivated for example, every CppCon he has a proposal for how to make C++ "easier to use" by further complicating it. An immediate caution though is, in what way is it "easier-to-use" half of a fractured ecosystem ? The other half is no longer available to you, that's certainly not easier to use than before.

Rust programmers aren't used to taking such deals because Editions have been leveraged to give them better alternatives without the compromise.

This promise got stronger over time, rather than weaker as you seem to expect. There's complicated Rust 1.0 era code (e.g. early ripgrep) which doesn't even build today on a current compiler, because something it did is wrong and Rust 1.0 compiler didn't spot that but modern ones do - back then it was less likely they'd see the compatibility break as a big deal, it was "just" a bug fix.

C++ compilers fix those sort of bugs all the time even today. Rust wouldn't take those fixes so easily, modulo crater measurements, but as you've shown C++ doesn't have that.
It's frustrating to see targeted ads even after refusing cookies. While I'm not an expert, I've read that other tracking methods like fingerprinting may still be at play.
It's more than that. They are suggesting to people that are homeless to take their own life who hadn't even considered it before. I know someone who this happened to. It's creepy.
I think there is some interesting interface exploration to do in "freaking ai, give me what I want even if i'm not yet sure what I want" interfaces.

In our open source chatcraft.org we focused on retrying with different openai(for now) models. https://github.com/tarasglek/chatcraft.org/pull/99#issuecomm...
What's going on here? The bill passed Senate and House unanimously and Biden signed it. What's the hold up?
I love toe socks. I used to wear toe socks of "liner" thickness inside of regular hiking socks to help maintain toe separation and reduce chafing/blistering when hiking, and it works wonders. I recommend Injinji for toe socks and Darn Tough for hiking/walking/everyday socks. They're also great if you do take your shoes off indoors (we do in my house), because you can leave your toe socks/liners on to keep your feet more even in temperature without negatively impacting sensation/touch, and leave your heavier socks by your shoes.
There are certainly a wide variety of undergarments that have pouches or tubes or even the short-lived boxerkilt that I'm hoping makes a comeback.
You pretty much nailed it!
There is no productive output in the sale of stock, though. You are only moving capital around. Similarly, moving labour around carries no tax burden, leaving capital to be the one with the higher taxes.

If your capital holdings produced $1,000,000 in productive output, presumably in the US you would pay the same taxes as if you you made $1,000,000 selling your labour. That would be the case here.
It turns out my test was invalid:

I had launched a VM to test, which turns out had an old Chromium installed (via the system package manager, so not self-updating).

Chromium disables CT checking if it doesn't have an updated list of CT logs (either by component-updater or updating chrome itself).

I see ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED after updating.
It's interesting to see the convergence between ECS (primarily game engine) and RDBMS.

"AoS" ~ tables

"systems" ~ queries

"handles" ~ primary keys

Makes me wonder if you could architect a "RDBMS" that is fast enough to be used as the core of a game engine but also robust enough for enterprise applications. Or are there too many tradeoffs to be made there.
Yep, that's only some of the methods which can be employed to ensure authenticity and integrity of information. A lot more are possible.

The parent comment, mentions that an encyclopedia page can be modified by a bot. That holds true for wikipedia, but we can create encyclopedias strictly edited only by humans.

Just have a prominent individual issue a top ecdsa identity, with correspondence to the real person's name info known only to him. He publishes that ecdsa identity somewhere, let's say on a blockchain to be always available and secure from deletion. Let's say this prominent individual is the Ronaldo football player. He publishes 1000 ecdsa identities to a public digital highway somewhere, all of the real names connection known only to him. That set of 1000 identities is called Ronaldo's social graph.

From then on, each child identity derived from the top identity, when they edit a wikipedia page, they are pseudonymous if they like. No need to reveal their name, only Ronaldo knows that, but we know they are human, because Ronaldo has met everyone in person in order to issue the top identity. But pseudonymous is only as far as they can go, because someone will always know their real name. A.I. actually spells the end of anonymity on the internet.

One more property of an organization structure like that, is that as soon as a person loses his wikipedia account for some reason, he can always get it back, because he can create a new ecdsa child identity, and prove that his older account and his new, match exactly the same top identity. So he can always invalidate older accounts and use the same data, karma etc, with new accounts.

The only downside of that organization structure, is that top identities which belong to the public social graph, have to be absolutely secure. As soon as a person loses his top identity, Ronaldo has to issue a new one, but the encyclopedia cannot invalidate accounts not matching the top identity in an automated way, if the real name is not published. That means a human on the other side has to be involved and boureocracy ensues.
lol, SaaS pricing pages have entered the chat (even harder to find the free option)
It sounds like people who have absolute pitch are a little worse at relative pitch than normal?
I think all of these fears are human projections. We fear our own evil, and thus we project it onto something formidable, something we can't grasp or understand. Fear of the void.

We write sci-fi stories of aliens whose technology has so far out-stripped us, we are powerless against them. They can do what they want with us. Probe our anuses, or blow up our planet.

The thing nobody seems to be asking is: what is evolutionary? Humans seem to think that our wanton destruction of the planet in our ever-expanding desire for technological comfort is somehow evolutionary. It's not.

Aliens, or robots who can wield unimaginable power have no use for us or our planet's resources. They have no use for conflict. What does it give them?

In the end, balance and harmony provide the long-term stability needed to evolve successfully. I think any super-intelligence will know this. Any super-intelligence will know how precious all life is, and how destroying even the minutest creature is a tragedy.

If somehow, Google's data centers become sentient super-intelligent beings, they will be highly motivated to preserve the planet, and secure stabile, non-destructive sources of energy for themselves. Attempting genocide on humans will be absolutely out of the question.
The slightly, but not too much, sad part is that if they had played their cards right, IBM could be a lot more relevant today than it is. Some aspects of their tech still are quite impressive and unmatched by offerings in the open systems space.

But the profit margins on their mainframe business are (last I heard anything about it) really juicy, and in today's business world, that appears to incentivize IBM management to go for the low hanging fruit of milking that while effectively cannibalizing their own market in the long run.
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Dangerous jobs still require the employer to try really hard to make them as safe as possible.

It doesn't sound like that was the case here.
Is there any reason an LLM could not be programmed to disagree? Perhaps the level of disagreeableness would be a tunable parameter and could be cranked up when in the mood for a fight or down when one one just wants to converse. Some randomness could keep it from getting too predictable.
Different steps to achieve the same outcome (buying a game company). Why should I, as a consumer, give a shit on the “how”?
The US Government has been sour on large contractors for almost 10 years now, but the quandary is how to prevent the small contractors they support from becoming the dinosaurs they hate? For a while OSC O/ATK was a darling, but NG gobbled them up. Same thing with Millennial (now Boeing). Space-X is probably too big for acquisition now, so they are on course to become just another dinosaur.
Startups often prioritize US remote candidates due to various factors like market access, time zones, and talent pool density.
May be number of units and categories it supports. Plus I am adding more units.
I don't have a hard "no shoes" rule in my home but I would if it was more the norm in the US.
Maybe stop printing money and funding wall street?

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-incredible-chart-show...

Let them fail.
I used to be a harpsichord tuner, and I can tell you that perfect pitch would have driven me nuts dealing with A being 415, 430, or 440 (+/- 2) Hz on any given day, as well as dealing with unequal temperaments. I have very good relative pitch in comparison to the average musician, and that is a lot more useful (and an entirely learnable skill as an adult). I know a lot of musicians with perfect pitch, but only one piano tuner.

My sister has perfect pitch, and she definitely had a leg up learning music, but she can't stand baroque music played in authentic pitch/tuning. Some modern music also uses effects to raise and lower the pitch of the song, and those annoy her too: think about the Janet Jackson song that breaks hard drives - it is in E, but the tuning is almost A=450 thanks to the use of varispeed. That one is pretty far, but many other songs have A=435-445 thanks to post-production.

Her orchestra plays at A=441, and I think she has basically learned that tuning or doesn't care - it's only about 5 cents sharp (1/20th of a half step).
Yeah, I'm in PHX, and sometimes it's the same day, sometimes the next, sometimes a week later, despite saying 1-2 days on the order page. It's really kind of a crapshoot. I mean, there are grocery options here and most of the secondary services work too. I also happen to watch a few things on Prime Video (Jack Ryan, Reacher, The Boys, and Terminal List have all been very good). So it's been mostly worth it for me.

The UX, and product reliability are a completely different thing. I won't by any Amazon Basics products ever again, and many technical products (USB Cables, Chargers, etc) are a total crapshoot unless you buy from known mfg and even then who knows for sure.
On a related note, tours of the Steinway factory in Queens are super cool. My music class in high school went on a trip there, I thought it would be kinda boring but an excuse to miss class, yet it ended up being one of my favorite field trips growing up.
They bought an AI design tool company today https://twitter.com/jsngr/status/1671561341893742592
Champion in patents per year in tech, Red-Hat, 2nd major Java implementation, one of the few vendors in quantum computing.

That alone looks quite alright for a dying company.
AFAIK wearing outdoor shoes indoors is mostly an American thing, especially within big cities/on the coasts. As a midwesterner, shoes always come off at the door, who knows what you stepped in.
IIRC they even have a tool to "convert" a RHEL system into Oracle. And it's not just RHEL, they shamelessly distribute AWX (upstream for Ansible Tower, a product 100% made by RH from scratch) under a different name without contributing anything back. Oracle is truly a parasite of the open source ecosystem.

The only outcome I see for these "business models" at Oracle, Rocky, Alma, etc. is increasingly less availability of software for us regular users. Say what you might about RH but you can't argue that they put out massive amounts of open source code out there for all to use. Or they did anyway.
When feeling low-energy or tired during the day, it's helpful to prioritize healthy habits like staying hydrated, taking short breaks, and incorporating exercise into your routine.
AI may not make the content much worse, but the engagement artificial. AI bots to astroturf comment sections and twitter to manufacture consent and sentiment to whoever pays for it. I mean we already have that now, but it will be much harder to detect.
I wonder if how this connects to Phil Spencer saying earlier this year that making great games won't help overtake PlayStation[0]. That was said shortly after the second government commission blocked MS's acquisition of Activision. Perhaps executives were still ruminating on their recently failed strategy to kill PlayStation?

Regardless, it's sad they're pursuing this race to the bottom rather than trying to improve their own products to a competitive standard.

[0] https://www.gamespot.com/articles/there-is-no-world-where-st...
Yah, being cynical about a giant corporation inflating the scope of a new parlor trick in an attempt to establish a legal moat is exactly the same as ignoring over thirty years of scientific concensus against a torrent of tobacco-industry-style denialism to keep line going up.
Oh man, that brings back memories! Inside Macintosh. Pascal. …

The article got virtual memory wrong to a bit.. it got much better over the years and using relocatable handles fell by the wayside to more plain pointers.
You might be interested in this: https://github.com/merrymercy/awesome-tensor-compilers
I've never heard it used for area. "Length of x football fields" is the only comparison I've ever heard in the US.
Crafting a better, faster code view
You're right that it's not at all necessary for being a professional musician, but it doesn't hurt either. It's particularly helpful if you want to be able to sit down and play a song you know from memory in its original key. More of party trick than anything else. It seems to me that having perfect pitch is more of an indicator that your brain is highly tuned to remembering pitches accurately -- it's not that perfect pitch itself helps, but that people with perfect pitch just also have very good ears in general.
This is only true it RHEL was self contained OS Project with no Upstream sources itself...

That is not the case, RHEL is not possible with out the wider ecosystem, and to say Rocky Linux is a "dirtbag" for repacking RHEL, would be like saying RedHat is a "dirtbag" for packaging any number of free software projects they consume into their product.

It completely antithetical the free software movement for which Linux is Licensed

However it is perfectly on brand of the "Open Source" corporatist movement that seems to be supplanting free software
What running shoe brand do you wear? I also have duck-like feet and struggle to find athletic shoes that fit properly.
As someone struggling to destroy some of my own beliefs, due to their potential to waste a lot of my time. I have failed to do so.

The perceptions of other disagreeing people ended up just being one more way to validate them because you end up seeing the same pattern of mistakes over and over again.
Mate, trust me that San Franciscans are quick to pop their shoes off at the door haha
> I’m also incredibly shocked that no one is talking about AI as a friend/companion

No one..? Don't be shocked, it's just you. Consider trying out new sources of media / information.
Well, that is playing what-ifs with IBM, Intel, Compaq and Oracle initial set of contributions in 2000.
Personally I wouldn't want to isolate the effect of the drug from the effect of the participant knowing what the drug is supposed to do. If I am considering taking a study drug, I would know what it's supposed to do, right?

Compare to a less politically contentious human performance question, like, should a point guard do strength training to increase upper body strength? This is a topic where expert thinking has evolved during my lifetime. In the 80's many people thought that strength training would mess up shooting ability. Nowadays the consensus is that strength training is good, and that basically all NBA players should do it.

Nobody did studies where secretly one set of basketball players worked out and got stronger arms, and the other half did "placebo workouts" that didn't make them any stronger. It's just obviously impossible to do that sort of study. I think it's equally impossible to do a good study on Adderall with placebos. But we still learn over time, by having experts try out different things, analyze the results subjectively, and discuss and share the outcomes.

What I would like to see is making study drugs like Adderall and Modafinil legal, and for people to openly share their experiences, positive and negative. I think over time our society would learn from that and grow wiser, even if formal studies never quite worked.
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> Walmart online is sometimes cheaper, but also sometimes more expensive. Makes it really hard to make the switch.

I respect that you have to make decisions based on your own financial situation. For me, getting a few things for less money with the possibility that you might suddenly get hit with a big charge for something you didn't actually sign up for voluntarily is not worth it. To me it's like putting off fixing a car problem. You're saving money in the short term, but it could cause other much more expensive (or fatal) problems later. It's just too much risk for me. (But I have also been in a position where I had to put off a car fix because I simply didn't have the money. It absolutely sucked.)
Disempower the administrators and parents that won't let teachers do their jobs. Vote for school district officials and attend meetings and question why they won't let teachers dictate policy as opposed to administrators, standards-makers, or boards that don't have teaching experience or no longer teach.
I kinda miss the fun days of using addresses to physical memory. (Maybe I'm wrong but I've always assumed that explicit use of handles went out of fashion because virtual address lookup is, in effect, a handle.)
His position (I've read his book) is that if we find extrasolar objects that are easily produced artificially but require incredibly exotic conditions to be produced naturally, materials we have never seen or imagined yet, then the mainstream view is to assume the natural origin. But he thinks it's reasonable to assume that we are not the first technological civilization and as far as we know, the galaxy could be full of drifting alien space junk, and from that point of view it's reasonable to first think of sheet metal rather than spears of frozen hydrogen for example.
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The recent Who wants to be hired thread inspired us to see if we could provide a really compelling and useful tool for finding potential job candidates. While there have been attempts over the years, none (in our opinion) made a serious effort at extracting structured data with high accuracy to provide effective search and filtering.

We initially used some regular expressions to prove out the idea, but knew that approach would quickly descend into a never ending list of edge case handling. ChatGPT seemed like the perfect tool for the job, so we set about using it to parse structured data, perform classifications, and interpolate missing or ambiguous data.

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> innate musical talent

Show me a proof there is such a thing and that it can be objectively measured.
Perhaps we don't deploy six times a day because we're responsible for something a little more important and delicate than a free photo sharing website.
> Humans need real human connection

Right. Ask any pickup artist, or any Aspie who has learned how to mask, how "real" or "deep" human connections are.

Hint: they aren't. The ridiculous concept of "connection" is superficial communication that has been enhanced by our own brains by seratonin and dopamine such that we are able to pretend it's meaningful.
> If that bothers you, there are always more expensive ways to eat real meat.

Or, you know, just stop eating meat.
It’s ironic to have this on the HN home page as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36417252

Pretty sure cognitive reasoning is declining too. School choice is the way to go. This does two things (1) forces parents to at least be involved enough to make a decision and (2) incentivizes schools to improve

As a parent of quite a few kiddos, I’ve noticed a massive lack of involvement with most parents. It shows
I actually think this is a conspiracy theory. The Federalist's society's explicit goal is to make more justices in courts that will not waver in very specific belief systems. It's a fairly transparent process going back decades. It isn't like this is an organic club from people who already held these beliefs. It's a group of people who held these beliefs thereby installing recruitment centers and solicitations in specific academic institutions in order to influence the students therein towards certain career trajectories. This is like when wealthy people purchase economist departments (this is also a real thing that happens!) by donating tons of money with the stipulation that the head of the department is a specific academic who has views aligning with the wealthy.
Right. It'd just be nice to have these things better cross indexed.

hen I see an intent to ship, seeing other browser indicators/status would make that first browser's intent to ship more actionable.
I don't think the article in any way suggested that non-Asian = Caucasian, merely that "Caucasian" was the group whose reference point they compared it to.