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California, legendary NIMBYs included, built the most prosperous and popular state in the nation, with its largest and fastest growing companies, with more innovation and scientific discovery than any other part of the country, with by far the best public university system in the country, and with maximal tolerance for immigrants and people with uncommon religious beliefs, sexual and gender inclinations, and approaches to work and life generally.

It was historically flexible enough about development to accommodate more people than any other state. I wouldn’t be so cynical as to think that greenfield development in a place where basically no one is now will not win over a substantial part of the population (even if some of the supporters would oppose the project if it was in their own metaphorical backyard).

As an ex Californian I know as well as anyone how easy it can be to take the state’s many unique strengths for granted when you live there. But believe me, you miss a lot of it when you leave, and you also realize most other states face similar problems, or will, including with nimbyism, homelessness, addiction, you name it.

California is great and retains the capacity to surprise. And I think one of the strongest pieces of evidence for that is even the critics building this development away from everyone else in the state still called it California Forever.
Here's a letter signed by Marc Andreesen, one the major investors in this project, to the mayor and city council of Atherton, where he resides:

>I am writing this letter to communicate our IMMENSE objection to the creation of multifamily overlay zones in Atherton … Please IMMEDIATELY REMOVE all multifamily overlay zoning projects from the Housing Element which will be submitted to the state in July. They will MASSIVELY decrease our home values, the quality of life of ourselves and our neighbors and IMMENSELY increase the noise pollution and traffic.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/08/marc-andre...
> Choosing a strict contract is only sustainable if a single project maintains all tools

You're obviously not working in the web space, where literally hundreds of thousands of sites have somehow successfully standardized on interoperating via JSON input/output for their HTTP API endpoints despite using many, many different technology stacks, over the last 10 years or so.

It isn't perfect, but it's easy to use and common and the tooling is mature.
Why would any non-lunatic want to live in a world where someone can't import an image into software?

If only some software is disallowed, then why permit Excel but prohibit Stable Diffusion?

Can someone even look at a SD-generated image, and claim with certainty that their own art was used to train it? Any more than claiming that another artist was inspired by it, looking at their output?

I'm fine with anything goes. The alternative seems to be copyright maximalist clownworld.
Considering this is literally not in their backyard, it would seem like a dream plan for them.
I'd move in in a heartbeat when it becomes available and if I can afford it. It sounds ambrosial.
The only consistent ones for me are TrueNAS and FreshRSS. Other apps haven't lasted as long in my network.
> Many people are seriously bothered by definitions such as (x,y)={{x},{x,y}}

I am bothered by the fact that most mathematicians aren’t bothered by that! Am I missing something? Would love to understand why like, system F isn’t the foundation of math (i should care about)
Damedable thing about it is that there's always humans around so it's actually very much the same.
There is a lot of value in handling the roads in the costal and southern metropolitan areas - a significant portion of the pollution lives there and its the 80% use case.

I'm waiting for a car that is able to handle https://www.kttc.com/2022/11/29/current-minnesota-iowa-road-... without having cell phone connectivity in night time conditions because that more closely resembles my evening commute for a season of the year.

Driverless cars may be good for commuting in cities... and highway miles, and fair weather trips (I'd be curious to see someone go driverless all the way to a ski resort in the winter when you need chains on the tires to go on I-80).

It may be good for all the driving needs for much of the population. But it's not categorically shown to be safer than human drivers (which is what the article is about) outside of the carefully crafted and restricted areas.

I can't take a driverless car to go see my parents for Christmas (rural road, midwest, no cell phone coverage for 25% of the route)... or for them to come visit me - and that's where the driverless car would have a great deal of value if it was safer than me driving there.
> I've taken to replacing docker compose files with bash scripts for my personal projects. So far, it's been OK.

I'm sorry but this is just incredibly messy for anything that's not trivial. We have tons of docker-compose services, all instantiated N times and each having their own network, secret, volume, env var, target etc configuration. In my mind it doesn't make sense to replace a 100 line YAML with a gargantuan messy shell script only old graybeards understand.
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You're somewhat right, though I was just parroting the parent comment's example. If anything, you're pointing out what a terrible example it is. If you drop unicode support, that's not "not thinking about your immediate users", it's shipping a pretty broken product in general in a way that's easily fixable in most projects, which transcends the "is it engineering" line by a good bit.

That said, I'd be curious what percentage of people with non-English names actually require Unicode for their names. Not every Asian or Latin person, or even most of them I know, use non-ASCII characters in their name, and very few businesses or applications require you to enter a full legal name that needs to be accurate the the language used to name you. I work at a company with a large amount of international employees and I'm not sure I've seen anyone with a non-ASCII character in their name, and I'm pretty sure Active Directory and Slack support Unicode. So while it would be a mistake to not have Unicode support, I am curious how much it would actually cause an issue. It would be inconsiderate to not support it on a form, but there's plenty of businesses who could probably operate just fine with only Latin characters.
Wow. That is a very powerful thought experiment. Is there any evidence that a series of very slow non-comingling death marauders. Took over a population of one million vs there just being a dangerous few individuals at one point? I feel like we haven't seen successful slow march death marauders more often than low populations.
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Lots of cities that are now very old were founded as quasi commercial ventures
You literally just rephrased the entire meaning behind NIMBY.
SF is a very complex city with lots of narrow and weird streets and random obstacles. Phoenix is more representative of most newer, griddy, car friendly cities. Real rural stuff isn't that far away. The one thing they're missing is snow and ice, but I don't know, you can't do everything at once.
> I publish copyrighted code. Some company decides to consume it without purchasing a license. The product they distribute is vastly different from my code itself, but I can still sue them into oblivion.

Isn't the analogy more: an employee at a company reads your copyrighted code, along with many other pieces of code, and produces a new piece of code? Your code influenced the output, but in no way can you a) detect that influence b) assert any copyright over the output.

In your analogy, your code is still "in tact" within the new product; that's not the case with LLM-produced output.
I thought that the whole point of self driving cars is it eliminates every single one of the problems you just listed. Humans get tired, drunk, distracted, ignore warnings about low pressure in the tires etc. A computer doesn’t worry about any of these things. It just complies or it doesn’t.

It’s kind of like the whole rust vs C++ debate. Rust proponents say that Rust as a language just eliminates a whole class of errors(memory errors). They’re just nonexistent anymore. Sure there are new problems, but they’re hopefully less commonplace. Your argument would be like a C++ programmer saying, “can we see some statistics on how many security vulnerabilities show up in code written by a modern C++ developer using smart pointers and RAII? That way they can make more informed decisions over whether rust is necessary.”

I think it would be interesting to see some alternative statistics, but I’m looking forward to the day nobody gets killed by an irresponsible drunk driver because cars don’t allow people to drive at all. Plus, once all the humans are off the road, I presume new technology can be made to reduce traffic patterns and other cool things.
We were going to adopt it but after internal discussions, we’re worried they’ll euthanize it after 22 months. We’re pivoting.
Much debate has been had about how existing copyright law applies to AI models. But once you get past that and start asking about how copyright should apply to AI models (as the copyright office is here) the answer in my mind becomes clear.

Copyright, as defined in the U.S. Constitution, exists "to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts"[1]. I can think of no better modern example of "the Progress of Science and useful Arts" than AI models themselves. Therefore, it follows that:

1. Existing copyright laws should _not_ be applied in such a way as to make training these models any more difficult than it already is (as that would be in direct opposition to the stated goal)

2. AI models should be copyrightable by the person training the model (for the same reason any other software program is copyrightable)

3. Output of AI models should be copyrightable by the person running the model (for the same reason any other creative work is copyrightable) provided the output does not conflict with any preexisting copyright

For those who think training on copyrighted materials should be illegal, explain to me how that helps "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" and I'll re-consider my position.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Clause
> Something has killed enthusiasm and ambition for a better future in many of us.

The billionaires backing this aren't doing it for "a better future". I think the mixed/cynical feelings on this are understandable given that billionaires are rarely (ever?) doing anything with a primary goal of the betterment of humanity, whatever their expensive PR may say. That leaves a lot of room for speculation as to their real motives, i.e. how they'll get a return on this investment.
Oh, I vaguely remember these icons being used in the UI but now the UI has flat and more brightly coloured icons.
I use python extensively. I've used bash (+awk+xargs+sed...) extensively.

Nushell is already a great improvement over bash _as a shell_. It is even better when using it to compose _preexisting text based programs_. I would say it is better in every way I can think of, except for:
- not (yet) coming pre-installed, and
- stability of interfaces and language.

Its already better enough to be my default shell on my daily driver, though I keep bash around because some things really assume it. I very much look forward to one day having a userspace with no traditional shells at all.

nushell is not yet a strict improvement over python, but it might one day be, and it is already better at:
- munging text, json, dates and tables
- quickly creating nice CLIs callable from the shell (even if that shell isn't nu!)
- fun of programming in it

> Nushell is trying to blend two domains, shells and programming languages, which I see distinct advantages in keeping seperate.

Interesting, though, how many PL features the most popular shells tend to have...

> I do not want the world to be built on the back of shell scripts, regardless of how good you make the type system.

If I had read that before knowing nushell, I would strongly agree. Yet, it turns out you can make a shell so good I wouldn't mind if... not the world, but _a lot more_ was built on it.
If a human author is allowed to read and cite other works in their new composition. For example a Stephen King book referencing another author or famous book like Lord of the rings, then ai should be allowed to do the same as provide similar outputs that Stephen King would come to organically. if it's just using themes, show me any book that's not got derivative parts in it at all.
"had"? What happened to it?
Trump's Georgia election interference trial will be livestreamed on YouTube
At a certain level of complexity it is easier to write the damn SQL than it is to explain your query to GPT.
Most of our yard was cat's ear (more aggressive relative of dandelion and lettuce), so spending some money on a pound of native-ish seed mix from meadows in this region and converting some of the yard to this no-mow, rarely-water (I water it sometimes because it's near the food garden) patch of pollinator catnip was worth it. Bees here generally don't go for the cat's ear if there's anything else nearby.

We don't water the yard, in any case, and are slowly converting it to meadow and forest, with a fire buffer around the house.
If cops can't qualify for a NYC mortgage and are forced to live in NYC, many will quit. They have very transferable skills and there are loads of police departments with staff shortages in places where housing is affordable on a police officer's salary.

Including overtime seems questionable. It's arguably a "perk" but it damages work/life balance and contributes to burnout. Most people do a ~40 hour work week, comparing that to a police officer doing 50-60 does not seem fair.

I understand the issues with policing as an institution, but average police officers are basically societal janitors, doing a nasty, unpleasant job for very mediocre pay. You aren't going to improve the quality of people hired by making the job even more unattractive.
In a war between Man and Machine, this could be a CAPTCHA against humans. The kind that only robots can get right.
Some people just can’t let the fear go…
culturally here - only poor people use public transportation. I don't think this is a place that expects to have a lot of poor residents
California City was largely a fraud. There are a dozen planned cities in California that succeeded to counter the CC story. Irvine, CA would be a prime example.
Well technically it’s not in _their_ backyards. It’s over the hills in some fields.
Solano is arguably the least NIMBY of the Bay Area counties, for whatever that's worth.
I won't speak about upper-division courses, but in the introductory computing courses, I'm dealing with students who still don't know the fundamentals but want to use the LLMs to "augment" their skills. But it's like trying to rely on a calculator before you learn how to do addition by hand... and the calculator sometimes misfires. They don't know enough to debug the stuff coming out, because they still don't yet have the fundamental problem-solving skills or understand the core programming techniques. In the hands of an expert (or even someone with moderate knowledge), I think these tools can be great. But there needs to be a period of development WITHOUT these tools too. "If you're nothing without the suit, then you shouldn't have it."
So i'm not sure how I feel, but to play Devil's advocate --

If I know anything I create is just going to be hoovered up and input into somebody's AI model so I do 99% of the work and they get 99% of the profit, perhaps I'm much less likely to progress Science and useful Arts by creating content in the first place.

I fear an internet of signup walls and TOC agreements for everything, just to prevent crawlers that feed AI from soaking it all up.
> Perhaps I’m missing something?

Yes, you’re missing something - geography. “Local time” doesn’t include a frame of reference. If you want to have a meaningful representation of local time you need syntax to specify where, probably Lat/Long.

Then, periodically, the computer can look up the lat/long to see what the rules are there for time, and compare vs the target time.

But even THAT doesn’t solve the problem, because you probably don’t want the computer in a tight loop of looking up location rules for time and checking time. But if you do it periodically then there is a nonzero chance that you will miss the event because the rules changed since the last check and the current check happened after the event.

And you can’t just use the city names for time zones (e.g. “Europe/London”) because only a very small number of places have such names, and because they really refer to a combination of time zone and DST rules, not to a city, they just choose representative cities.

Finally, ISO 8601 does support durations, which RFC 3339 does not, so ISO seems more useful in that regard, but durations are not relative to any epoch.
A divergence, but I see a lot of posters asserting that "humans learn by copying other people, but we don't call that a violation of copyright when they draw"

People casually asserting that software is equivalent to humanity will be a non-negligible thing to consider, as irritating and poorly-founded as it seems.

If the reproduction isn't pixel-perfect, but merely obvious and overwhelming, how do you refute that philosophically to people who refuse a distinction between 50GB and a human life?
You don’t know which models I used and never will know if that condition has suddenly become satisfied

Curious what the next goal post will be, I’ve seen them move already
it sound like they faked it without making it
The story of how Irvine went from a 93000 acre ranch in the 1960s to one of the largest cities in California is fascinating. Donald Bren, the sole owner of the Irvine Company, is now the wealthiest real estate developer in the US. It might have some parallels with how Solano county will evolve, assuming this plan goes through.

The Big Plan: History of Irvine and UCI, From Ranch to Global Community

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aCROhdTBZ70
Given your edit, I can’t quite tell if the rest of your comment is meant to be satirical or not. Anyway, I would argue that many of those sorts of restrictions on the second amendment are themselves grossly unconstitutional and should be overturned by the courts.
Unsheltered is more accurate. For many people “home” has a connotation which is broader than shelter. It might be the place where you feel welcomed or comfortable.
The only clear solution is to abandon the notion of a copyright.

We have know for a long time that everything can be represented with numbers, even more so within the space of computers.

All we have done is invent a system to help us find numbers we find special.
Well I don't know about other places, but for us we have a daycare on campus that's affordable and available for anyone in the community. We have family housing that is multigenerational (many international students bring their parents with them and they live together). We have plenty of older community members of course - many of our teaching faculty are retirees, and emeritus professors are some of the oldest people on the planet!

Scaling is a problem though, that's for sure, although many colleges are in fact towns outright (like Penn State). However, there's a big incentive for colleges to turn into hedge funds/real-estate holding firms which works against the educational mission of universities IMO.

As for overpriced... I mean, you get what you pay for. I don't think it's overpriced because I've tried the alternative, and I've found it lacking. Although I see several avenues to cut costs while keeping service levels.

But if you think college campuses are just for the students, you're missing half the picture!
> "Oh, the bridge fell down and killed 15 people, but it was worth it because I built a lot of bridges this week"

Not everything non-software engineers do is life or death either, and there are plenty of software people who do work in critical areas that don't have that attitude. This oft-repeated view is a caricature.

Licensed engineers make all sorts of crappy consumer goods that fail all over the place. Conversely, there are software engineers involved in medical devices, defence and various other spheres that follow very risk-averse, formalised coding, verification and release procedures.

The fact that a lot of consumer-oriented software is insecure, flakey crap is a consequence of time pressure and risk tolerance, as well as nebulous or amorphous requirements. Should I release this now, and try to capture the market, move fast and break things, adapting functionality as I go, with quality important but not that important?

Or should I spec out a complete and formal design, maybe formally verify it, implement to that spec and thoroughly validate it all afterwards? There'll be no product for five years but that's OK.

This latter category does exist, but isn't especially visible because it's not very sexy, it doesn't have 'hero' engineers, and there are few techbros getting rich off it.
It's absolutely NOT difficult. I've been a Reddit user for decades (I think 2006 was my first account)... if I was actually an asshole, I would have gotten banned a long time ago, instead of 2 months ago.

Step 1, have multiple Reddit accounts for anonymity (hey, look, I don't want everyone knowing my medical problems that I seek help on, for example). Step 2, encounter 1 mod on 1 subreddit who misinterprets 1 comment (or you violate TOS without realizing it, by accident) and bans you when you seem insufficiently apologetic (I can show you the conversation evidence here, apparently "I'm sorry I made a mistake" is insufficient). Step 3, accidentally post anything to that subreddit (even something tame or supportive) with a different account months later. Reddit, via fingerprinting, will detect this, and now you are irrevocably a Ban Evader(tm) and all your accounts (as well as any new ones you create, which will now automatically be considered "ban evasion accounts") will be locked in turn as you log into them, making it impossible to interact whatsoever with the site except Reddit admins themselves, and good luck reaching them.

I've even bought Reddit Gold (and had plenty of credits remaining). Doesn't matter.

Deleting every Reddit cookie, blocking ads and changing your IP? They'll still figure it out somehow, and now you will be even MORE guilty of "ban evasion". It's ridiculous. There's no way to appeal it. It's guilt via mere suspicion.

Systems without enough humans suck.

Anyway, it's bad enough that your accounts are not actually anonymous there and that Reddit can actually associate all of them with each other. That's enough of a privacy violation on its own to merit not going there.