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> the only reason to select FreeBSD is the ability to close-source everything you're doing?

I doubt that's the reason, since you can certainly develop closed-source applications for Linux.

I'm moving to BSD specifically so I can stop using Linux, because I dislike the development direction that Linux is on.
Yeah in a world where dogs can smell cancer and people with relatively mild brain injury can wake up permanently speaking in a different accent I think it's entirely possible that a radical change in microbiome due to freak accident or experimental treatment has resulted in a change in sexual preferences.
The "Bullshit Jobs" phenomenon was identified decades ago by Buckminster Fuller:

"We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living."

As more and more work becomes automated or done by robots, we have less and less to actually do, but with a growing population. So we make up all this work and have 1/2 the population digging holes so the other 1/2 can fill them in. I fully expect that by the time my [eventual] grandchildren enter the workforce, more than 50% (maybe more than 75%) of jobs will be make-work that just serves to employ people so that society doesn't fall apart.
It's absolutely true. I'm in the technological side of finance. I create a lot of cool systems. I absolutely hate what they are applied to, but it's satisfying to use technologies and design complex systems.

But in the end it is utterly pointless. However so is so much other crap in the world.. and if I'm not doing this someone else will. Thus I try to take solace in just the work I do, not necessary what it's applied to.

But yeah- finance is 98% bullshit in this world.
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Propaganda is all we get. Some Russian propaganda here.
Spain has the advantage of having an entire continent who speak Spanish, are generally Catholic, and were former colonies / have overlapping culture. Failing that, British expats might suffice.
You can use GraalVM Native Image and Kotlin/Native to compile Kotlin to a binary executable, which is fairly fast to start up but does not have all of the high-performance JVM features.
Did they target some issue you're sensitive about?

They're the same as they have always been. I've been reading the Onion for over 2 decades.
Ability to will yourself to endure those hours is maybe the talent itself though
I think you are right on average about learning, but I am sure you have learned a lot from your colleagues in 22 years of WFH: I sure did in my 15+ years.

I think the main difference is between fully remote companies and semi-remote, semi-colocated employees: this is probably the worst of all worlds (depending on the distribution of people who are remote and who's in office).

Having recently moved into an office, the one thing I hate the most is lack of a personal office (open space, urgh): moving away from my desk and back the whole day for any calls with people outside the office. I might as well take one of those "phone booths" to myself.
Better to be pointless than actively evil, like convincing people to buy things they don't need.
Unpopular opinion time...

Feelings are important for individuals and that can have an impact en mass.

But they are not accurate or meaningful ways of measuring someones actual worth. For that we have money.

This is why bankers earn more than nurses and teachers: everyone pays lip service to the urgent need to care for the sick, educate kids etc. But when it comes time to spend money or cast votes what they actually want are cheap credit and cheap goods and services.

This is the problem with all sorts of commentary like this. It relies on people's own internalized hypocrisy. And that's both very strong and very misleading.
Thank you for saying this. I'm currently in the 100h phase and I'm struggling to explain it and you said it beautifully.
What are all the factors that impact gut microbiome? Is it just things that go into your mouth like dirt and food? Or are there other pathways as well?
My college made all Mech and adjacent engineers learn lathe and machining and basic welding

Anyway designing a simple latheable part is not difficult
All the features they exclude from the MIT code base and only include in the The GitLab Enterprise Edition...

https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/#compare-options

There is a box for "Open Source - MIT License". You'll notice most of the features are not covered under it.
I've had to institute a blanket "no clicker game" policy for myself because I find them way too addicting. The frustrating thing about most (but not all) clicker games is that for me, they usually don't even feel good (e.g., relaxing, mentally stimulating, satisfying). They just make me feel like I'm an addict that needs my dopamine drip. There are definitely non-clicker games that hit the same spot for me, but almost every clicker game I've tried manages to completely suck me in.

I would put Universal Paperclips and A Dark Room as exceptions though in the sense that they're still fully engrossing, but there's a little bit more depth and discovery than just "click the thing until you have enough clicks to get the next thing".
Is it even possible to change your gut microbiome significantly without doing something extreme like a fecal transplant?

Also, I'm guessing that after someone's brain has developed it's going to become much harder to change.

That said, I'd be asking the alternative question, can we use this to give people high-functioning autism?
No enforced static typing and no proper debugger make Python painful for large code bases. It’s good for scripts, prototyping, and gluing libraries together to make utilities, but if something expands beyond a single file I stop wanting to use Python. Convincing my employer of this is another matter and why I would rather avoid it completely.
> It depends on various factors that do not necessarily have anything to do with the actual usefulness of work as claimed by Graeber. For example, people may also view their work as socially useless because unfavorable working conditions make it seem pointless.

It's important to remember that asking people about stuff like this—the pointlessness of their job, their perception of safety, how happy they are—is problematic because in the end it just comes down to how they choose to define the meaning of a concept to themselves, how they are feeling on a particular day, how the question is asked, and so many other factors. Ask the same person again under different circumstances, or present the question differently, and you may very well get a different response. I don't take studies like this with a grain of salt, I assume they are packed in salt, like barrels of cod on a transatlantic sailing voyage in the 18th century.
Vacuum tubes suck, and everyone knew it at the time. The transistor itself was one of the single most intrinsically useful inventions ever.

It seems you have an extremely biased and narrow perspective on technology.
Do you honestly believe that the only people who have thought about the ramifications of AI are Sci Fi authors? I can guarantee people who spend years researching and building advanced language models have thought about the ramifications of their work.

This isn’t Jurassic Park.
I don't know how it came about, but this was one of the first audiobooks I used to listen to as a child, when my family had a subscription that included 2 free audiobooks every week/month or whatever. It left quite an impression on me and turned me into a life long DFW fan, another favourite of mine is "Good Old Neon": https://sdavidmiller.com/octo/files/no_google2/GoodOldNeon.p...
Hey, I think I thought of a way to make everyone happy here: Why not dual-license it as AGPL / BSL-Apache? That way it is Open Source right now, but under the AGPL so AWS won't touch it, and then in 3 years it also becomes available under the more permissive Apache license.
I wonder how long until we end up with multiple physical computers in the same box, I suppose sharing clipboards etc. would be even more of a headache than Qubes, but it would hard for one cpu to escape to its neighbors...
Maybe it is easier to learn a framework within the ecosystem of a language you already know than to learn both a framework and a new language.

Tons of software exists for this reason. For example, somewhat relevant here, web apps in R via R Shiny: https://www.rstudio.com/products/shiny/

(There is also Shiny for Python IIRC.)
The reply you replied to was a parody of how Chat GPT responds when you correct it. They were alluding that its grandparent could be AI generated, explaining its slight vapidness.
>Most people would agree that the USA from about 1950-1975 functioned very well

It did nothing to stop extremely rich people existing. It was an utter failure by your goal.

>You seem to either be using "progressive tax rates" to mean something different than it conventionally does, or to not understand how they work.

It means the tax rate increases with income. Quite unambigous.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_tax

>This is simply not true of progressive tax rates as conventionally defined.

Yes it is. It is very basic mathematics. Do you not understand how taxes work?

>Progressive tax rates do not devalue work, they devalue excessive rates of compensation.

With progressive taxes working for 30 hours instead of 40 with same hourly wage before taxes means that after taxes your hourly rate for 30 hours is higher than for 40 hours (assuming the taxes don't just align to be flat in that region). This is not debatable, it is an explicit property of progressive tax rates.

>Actually, several US Republican presidential candidates over the past couple of decades have specifically proposed a flat rate of income tax.

Are you serious? I don't want to attack you personally, but that is fourth grade math or civics you just failed.
My estimate of 80% included 6-12 months of serious development first, and a certain amount of budget for manual intervention for the first several dozen jobs. Certainly just flinging HTML at ChatGPT as it stands today would do nothing useful at all. Providing manual testing could easily be done as part of a higher service plan. Not only is there no rule that a startup using AI has to be just in the form of "throw it at the AI and then steadfastly refuse to do anything else", that's probably a pretty good way of filtering out the ones that will make it from the ones that won't.

Do assistive technologies have more "bugs" and "quirks" and "different behaviors" than natural text? I don't really think so. In fact I'd expect they have qualitatively fewer such things.

Semantic HTML would be important in this case... but it would be important as the output, not the input.

This hypothetical startup could also pivot into developing a better screenreader pretty easily once they built this, but there would be a good few years where an AI chewing on the HTML and HTML templates in use by a server would be practical but you can't expect every assistive technology user to be using a 64GB GPU to run the model locally. Certainly that would factor into my pitch deck, though.

I'd give more credence to the "it has to be perfect to be useful at all" argument you're going with here if it weren't that I'm pretty sure every user of such technology is already encountering a whole bunch of suboptimal behavior on almost every site today.
The mere existence of marketing and sales is a really good example of why unregulated capitalism (heck, even heavily regulated capitalism) doesn't perform well or do the things we would want an economic value system to do. Maximizing profits by selling useless products to people who don't need them isn't progress, but under capitalism it's oh so smart to do in the short term.

I love that we worry about AI maximizing the wrong objective function and killing us all, when our own economic system is already doing that for us and has been for over a century.
I've been enjoying Bitburner, which has pretty good variation between levels of gameplay and a little bit of fake cyberpunk hacker story to it.
> thank you for your willingess to upset some customers and potential customers

Or, thank you for wasting your customers time attempting to figure out why one or more sites aren't responding appropriately on your network while they work on other networks.

Not everyone is clued into EDNS or why archive.is doesn't function with CF.

CF is wasting everyone's time.
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If you use the mobile app it will work just find. Highly recommend.
it's also unfinished if I recall correctly? I enjoyed the power-balancing system, thought that was pretty neat
Complementary to this, if you are looking for a thorough, mathematical introduction to Kalman Filters and family, I will highly recommend this book[1]

- Written by a software engineer who had to implement kalman filters for his job. How he motivates and conveys concepts may resonate with this audience.

- Written as interactive Jupyter notebooks. You can clone the repository and run through the lessons.

- Incremental improvements. Starting from a simple filter, incorporating Bayes' rule, and extending to probability distributions. It provides a gentle on-ramp to Kalman filters.

[1]: https://github.com/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Pyt...
What’s extreme about a fecal transplant, aside from the ick factor? It doesn’t strike me as that different from taking a probiotic or a suppository
because some people have a square peg and not a round one.
A thought experiment: if Cloudflare was a Chinese company would it bother you?
This can work if the time scale of inference is smaller than the time scale of your measurements. I’m skeptical that this would work on a quadrotor that requires a fast control loop. However, model predictive control (determining actions given a state and dynamic model; the Kalman filter is model predictive estimation) first found major use in chemical plants because they could crunch the numbers on a big computer that didn’t need to fit on a robot and the real time between each time step was large. For such a situation, you might be able to get MCMC to work.
Encrypted SNI has been in the works for a long time: https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/learning/ssl/what-is-encryp...
In copyright law the use of the work itself is considered a commercial benefit, so "noncommercial use" is an oxymoron. Consider these situations:

- If I use AudioCraft to post freely-downloadable tracks on my SoundCloud, I still get the benefit of having a large audio catalog in my name, even if I'm not selling the individual tracks. I could later compose tracks on my own and ride off the exposure I got from posting "noncommercially".

- If I run AudioCraft as a background music generator in my store, I save money by not having to license music for public performance.

- If I host AudioCraft on a website and put ads on it, I'm making money by making the work available, even though I'm not charging a fee for entry.

I suspect that a lot of people reading this are going to have different arguments for each. My point is that if you don't think that all of these situations are equally infringing of CC-BY-NC, then you need to explain why some are commercial and some are not. Keep in mind that every exception you make can be easily exploited to strip the NC clause off of the license.

If you're angry at the logic on display here, keep in mind that this is how judges will construe the license, and probably also how Facebook will if you find a way to make any use of their AI. The only thing that stops them from rugpulling you later is explicit guidance in CC-BY-NC. Unfortunately, the only such guidance is that they don't consider P2P filesharing to be a commercial use.

So, absent any other clarifications from Facebook, all you can do without risking a lawsuit is share the weights on BitTorrent.

EDIT: And yes, I have made stuff just to make stuff. I license all of that under copyleft licenses because they express the underlying idea of 'noncommercial' better than actual noncommercial clauses do.
Glyphosate use vs autism prevalence overlay

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Correlation-between-chil...
How can pointless things be needed?
I use ChatGPT to write code for work constantly. The quality is quite high, it saves me lots of time, on the order of hours typically.

If a company prevents me from using ChatGPT, I will use it clandestinely unless they offer an equivalent. There's no going back.
Music is self-expression. I don’t always identify entirely with others. I always identify with my self. Having music generated for you on such a personalized level is an attractive prospect.

I don’t think this replaces “100% organic, human-made” music, though. I think there’ll always be a reason to listen to music made by other people. But I think this changes the landscape of how and why people create music to begin with. It certainly will devalue existing music, since everyone has something they may prefer that they can generate instantly.

I think generative AI is a terrible technology for artists who want to make money from their art, but in my personal opinion, I strive for a world where art isn’t a transaction, but a gift of human expression and connection. A world where art is appreciated for the emotion, stories, and ideas it conveys rather than the monetary value it holds. Generative AI might disrupt the traditional economic models in the art world, but it also opens up new opportunities for creative exploration and personal expression. It’s a challenging evolution, but one that could potentially democratize art, making it more accessible and personal than ever before! Bring on the Renaissance: Part 2!
Companies with good ESG scores pollute as much as low-rated rivals
My website was down because of a permission error
with php 5.6 how can i avoid code injection by the url even sanitizing the input fields?
The mobile app works much better than the website used to on mobile.
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I wonder if employment is really a valuable metric on it's own here.

I've known a lot of people who live with a bunch of roommates, each of them works just a little, part time fast food or grocery store job type things. Outside of the very minimal participation in society at their jobs, they mostly sit at home, drink, smoke weed, and play videogames.

Yeah, technically they aren't NEETs. Technically they don't live alone and eschew all social contact.

But it seems to me it's basically the same lifestyle. Just hampered by the need to support oneself somehow. If they received a basic income that covered a solo apartment, weed, and a game a month ( or MMO subscription ) they absolutely would not be employed or living with people.
Loved that one enough to play it twice, after a while. Thanks for the reminder!
Never to the degree JS on the client is, though the early and strong support on PaaS/serverless systems gaveit something of an edge for certain server-side stuff, and it was popular for a long time (though not dominant) outside of that.

Really, I think the main driver for isomorphic Python web libraries like this isn't general web apps (though they'll get used for that, too), but the putting frontends on data science, ML, etc., stuff where Python is the dominant tooling language.
Heat Is Shaking the Foundation of the Ocean Food Web
As an amateur musician I’m wondering if there are any of these audio generators that you can give a tune or chord progression to riff on. ABC format maybe? There are lots of folk tunes on thesession.org.

Could you generate a rhythm track? Ideally you could make songs one track at a time, by giving it a mix of the previous tracks and asking it to make another track for an instrument. Or, give it a track and ask it to do some kind of effect on it.

Another interesting use might be generating sound samples for a sampled instrument.
That sounds like it is pointless with extra steps
Right, full project this content is from https://www.1945project.com/ is a documentary project created by Haruka Sakaguchi and published on August 6, 2017.
"‘[BS]’ After All? Why People Consider Their Jobs Socially Useless. Work, Employment and Society" (2023) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09500170231175771 :

> Of course, this definition raises the question of how one is to decide whether a job makes a positive, a negative, or no contribution to society at all. To make such a decision, one clearly needs a theory of social value.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_economics#Approaches

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_efficiency :

> Pareto efficiency or Pareto optimality is a situation where no action or allocation is available that makes one individual better off without making another worse off.

"Ask HN: Any well funded tech companies tackling big, meaningful problems?" (2020) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24412493 ; Impact_investing, Strategic_alignment, #GlobalGoals (UN SDG Sustainable Development Goals) ;

> You can make an impact by solving important local and global problems by investing your time, career, and savings; by listing and comparing solutions.

Impact investing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_investing

Strategic alignment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_alignment

There are 17 Global Goals. GRI Sustainability Reports are aligned with the Global Goals. Helping keep the information for the [GRI] Sustainability Report ready all year may afford additional opportunities to find meaning and impact.
You don't own data. You can sometimes copyright data.

https://www.americanbar.org/groups/science_technology/public...
Interesting because people also used to say sexual preference was genetic
Same initial reaction when I read that part :/ Let's see what the next level of voodoo programming looks like...
It's terrible, but not far removed from what's been already happening with "developers" copying and pasting StackOverflow comments into a text editor and making uninformed compiler-error-guided-edits until it runs then done!

The root of the problem here is people making production stuff who don't know wtf they're doing. If they turn to SO posts, LLMs, or "developers" on fiverr/upwork doing the same thing, is there really much of a difference? LLMs seem to mostly be tightening the loop of horror that's already been happening.

Same downward trajectory, increased velocity.
1945 Documentary Project (2017)
Which is exactly where I would start if I had access to a lathe and was tasked with teaching someone who should know how to design a basic part that is meant to be machined on a lathe.

Where would you start?
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