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>and also why our "defense" institutions would rather manage chronic, unwinnable conflicts rather than see any side achieve victory (Ukraine, Syria, Gaza, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan) ... and also why our weapons / aid keep appearing on both sides of various conflicts

Huh? Citation needed. I've never heard of American weapons/aid appearing on "both sides" of any of these conflicts. Generally, these kinds of conflicts come down to Western weapons being used against Russian and/or Iranian weapons. Ukraine is quite obviously a proxy war between the West and Russia.

The reason the Ukraine war isn't being fought to win is because of the spectre of nuclear weapons use by Russia. Broadening the conflict carries that real risk. In Gaza, it is being fought to win, by Israel, but the cost is that they're losing the information war, as many countries accuse them of genocide. Afghanistan was a clear win by US forces, but then turned into the US propping up the civilian government they tried to institute with 20 years of military assistance against the domestic insurgency, and that failed when the US finally pulled out and the government collapsed to the Taliban. (Basically, the US wasn't willing to resort to the brutality needed to completely eliminate the enemy and change the local culture, so the whole project was doomed.) Iraq was a success; Saddam's government was destroyed and a new civilian government instituted, though it was at a huge cost and under false pretenses, but that government still stands today and many Iraqis (everyone who was oppressed by Saddam) are happier with the current situation.
> I look at the list of features Apple is removing and they all seem like things I wouldn’t want a web browser to have to begin with.

If only Apple just removed them from Safari, and allowed other browsers to compete...
> If you were responding to «"make a better version of itself" until that process hits a limit» — we've been doing, and continue to do, that with things like "education" and "medicine" and "sanitation".

I think you have a conceptual confusion here. "Medicine" doesn't exist as an entity, and if it does, it doesn't do anything. People discover new things in the field of medicine. Those people are not medicine. (If they're claiming to be, they aren't, because of the principal-agent problem.)

> And I have no idea what your point is about sexual reproduction, because it's trivial to implement a genetic algorithm in software, and we already do as a form of AI.

Conceptual confusion again. Just because you call different things AI doesn't mean those things have anything in common or their properties can be combined with each other.

And the point is that sexual reproduction does not "make a better version of you". It forces you to cooperate with another person who has different interests than you.

Similarly, your ideas about robots building other little smaller robots who'll cooperate with each other… why are they going to cooperate with each other against you again? They don't have the same interests as each other because they're different beings.

> AI may still use money to coordinate, because it's a really good abstraction, but I wouldn't want to bet against superior coordination mechanisms replacing it at any arbitrary point in the future, neither for AI nor for humans.

Highly doubtful there could be one that wouldn't fall under the definition of money. The reason it exists is called the economic calculation problem (or the socialist calculation problem if you like); no amount of AI can be smart enough to make central planning work.

> (2) I dispute the claim that "If you can program it to work for free, then it's subhuman." because all you have to do is give it a reward function that makes it want to make humans happy

If it has a reward function it's subhuman. Humans don't have reward functions, which makes us infinitely adaptable, which means we always have comparative advantage over a robot.

> and there are humans who value the idea of service as a reward all in its own right.

It's recommended to still pay those people. That's because if you deliberately undercharge for your work, you'll run out of money eventually and die. (This is the actual meaning of efficient markets hypothesis / "people are rational" theory. It's not that people are magically rational. The irrational ones just go broke.)

Actually, it's also the reason economics is called "the dismal science". Slaveholders called it that because economists said it's inefficient to own slaves. It'd be inefficient to employ AI slaves too.
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Hi all!
I'm working on a web server that is able to serve multiple versions of a web site.
Can be useful to prevent broken link errors (when a new site is deployed between a user's clicks), A/B testing (the server has some basic analytics), or just differentiating content based on source link.

Any feedback is highly appreciated.
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I'm out of the loop, what are the examples of this bias?
Hmmm, I have not explained it very well then.

Management is a job function. If someone has decided that X needs to happen, then a managers job is to ensure that X happens. They may or may not have influenced whether X is the thing that needs to happen.

Leadership is convincing people to go in a certain direction. It can happen on many different levels, from the overall direction of a company, to choosing certain technologies to use, to adopting some practices, or whatever. It's more of a quality that anyone can have, rather than a job function.
> I will omit the many interesting details of the Linux terminal infrastructure here, as it could easily fill its own article.

Linus Akesson has written that article here: http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php
Remaining disk space was estimated using a compression ratio of 2.0 by default, but you could change the default, at least in Win9x. I don't know why it showed you 450MB on a 160MB HDD. You probably already changed it to 3.0 or higher.

I used a drivespace volume for a very very very long time, even when I had 80 GB HDDs, because it made it SO EASY to back up the entire windows installation - just copy the file.
I really don't get the discord phenomena, it seems like more bloatware and demands on attention and notifications - I mean - IRC is right there and you can at least control your own attention span however you want.
That doesn't mean they don't have ads, or other things I want to work around.
Tldr:

Gemini is prioritizing ideology over facts, profit over truth abd google is explicitly doing it.
it is not incidental

But I don't know exactly what OP is talking about
I wonder what the folks in Cupertino are thinking when they look at this brouhaha over Google being supremely risk averse and receiving such blacklash.
How will Siri answer if you ask "Is Elon Musk just a meme lord or Tech Bro's cultural savior".

Side Note: As a person living outside US, I find US focused discorse's obsession with race and skin color such fascinating. It is almost similar to people obsessing over the color of a button on the home page when the page itself takes 1 minute to load.
It looks like the SynthWave '84 extension for VS Code: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RobbOwen...

Personally I think it looks awful but everyone to their own tastes!
The ctrl key has been moved to the far left, which is a welcome change.

The copilot key seems to replace the menu or prtscr key between the alt and ctrl on the right.
Does it make allowance for the utter pointlessness of the exercise? This idea has been around since at least the 17th Century in one form or another ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Berkeley ). Now we have computers which we imagine might be able to create a simulation. It is an interesting thought experiment but nothing more.

By the way, what's this "we" thing. If you are in a simulation, there is no need for anyone else to "exist" except when you can see them. You are unique and alone.
Have you tried multivariate testing on your landers?
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Thank god for Apple's lacklustre support for PWAs.

Else iOS would be like macOS, with every second app from a major vendor people need to run (for work, school, banking, etc) would be the equivalent of an Electron monstrocity.

Apparently that's the dream of the author.
I'm just starting to explore Pijul, to be honest. My interest was sparked when I revisited an old Haskell project and remembered using Darcs years ago, which led me to research Pijul. I'll be able to share more insights in a few weekends, once the remote communication components of vc-pijul are established.
Every company I know that has a design system the developers actually use based their first version on an open source library. Companies do exactly what you're suggesting. Their design system is usually little more than a config file for the library they've based it on, with some custom components for the bits that don't come by default.
tetripin does that too, but you have to pip install it.
Jesus. I just went on autotrader, found one that looked good that I could afford to buy 3 times, went to bloke's house, stuck my head underneath, unscrewed the oil cap, shook hands, did a bank transfer, taxed it online and drove it home. Took me a day.
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Back in the dark ages I put swap on most of the graphics memory of an AGP bus graphics card. The read spead was slow compared to system RAM but insanely fast compared to swapping to HDD. Then put the graphics card as the highest priority swap so it swapped there before going to HDD.
Wellcome to the world of B2B. Or any purchase involving larger ammounts of money. Buying real estate without having a lawyer reading the sales contract is just stupid.

And usually those fees are close to negliable, should be considered in pricing as part of the overhead and are simply cost of doing business.

Good news, if you are already at the point your customer provided paper worl to be reviewed, you are pretty advanced in the sales process with a decent chance of making the sale.
It's not about browsers. It's about OS APIs that browsers need to support PWAs. Apple is killing those APIs so that other browsers cannot offer PWAs.
Xolair (omalizumab) is already approved in my country, however, there is some risk of cancer developing ( _its use has been recently linked to potential increased cancer risk_ ), and having been informed about it, I decided that my allergy is not as bad, to try it out, at least at the moment
> Removing persistent storage

They aren’t making any policy changes relating to storage.

Apple have been progressively locking down methods websites use to persistently track people for privacy reasons. All forms of permanent storage (e.g. cookies, local storage) are limited to a seven day lifetime unless the user interacts with that website / web app. If the user keeps visiting the website / web app at least once a week, the storage remains.

Another thing Apple have been doing is using the act of installing a PWA as a signal that it should be trusted more than anything you happen to come across in a browser. So the seven day lifecycle doesn’t apply to PWAs that you install to the home screen.

What is happening now is that because PWAs installed to the home screen are no longer available in the EU, people use those PWAs through a web browser. And due to this, the seven days lifetime without user interaction starts to apply.

It’s a problem, but this specific thing isn’t a recent policy change from Apple regarding storage, it’s fallout from PWAs not having the elevated privileges from being installed to the home screen.
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You obviously can do that though; diffusion models produce better (fsvo better) images the more steps you run of them.

Similarly, LLMs can produce better answers if you teach them thinking strategies that remind them to put the available evidence and intermediate steps in their context window. Otherwise they'll tend to hallucinate an answer out of vaguely correct words.
Usps is at least partially kept afloat by marketing postage aka spam. It’s a quarter of their revenue and probably like 90%+ of my inmail…

Though it’s not like usps was created to prevent lots of trees from getting cut so I’m not sure what tp is on about
CIA Built "12 Secret Spy Bases" in Ukraine and Waged Shadow War for Last Decade
The bbcbasic list, ren, auto commands and copy key were very beginner friendly line editors. Super easy to grok.
Nobody wants to pay for an OS any more, so thats the sustainable strategy they are going for.
> all nations don't care much about people's suffering in some other country

> Most of the people also don't care

I think it may be quite the opposite, albeit usually not genuine "caring", rather just "focusing". Whether nations want to redirect people's attention away from problems at home, or people want/let their attention redirected, they'll focus more on the crap happening in another country. An enemy or an issue are always created somewhere far away, something as contrasting as possible with the apparent situation at home.

Take the example of prisons and prison labor in the US. People know millions are imprisoned at home, many forced to work, with inhumane conditions. But that's a bitter taste when they know it's at home, that it's a democratic country, that this could be changed but isn't. So it's made better by looking at how much worse it could be.

It's an easy mental and moral release and people need one especially when there's a discrepancy between the image they have of their country and the reality. The bigger the discrepancy, the easier and more attractive it is to look at the speck/plank in someone else's eye.

This happens everywhere in the world because it's human nature: it's where people's desire to comfort their conscience and leaders' desire to manipulate that intersect.
It is probably a miracle, that no nukes were used by accidents or random madmen yet. But those sort of incidents really don't make me feel save, by all that destruction potential guarded by 00000000. I don't really trust, that today it somehow became really save. Even if they changed it, it probably is still attached in a pinup note next to it.
Apparently the new model when asked for historical figures that were historically white would "hallucinate" more diverse persons. And the article's author is claiming that the training had these biases from the jump.

Re: the Twitter post it reads like a "I'm leaving social media' post and then the author waits to see all the engagement -- all the "no don't leave, we love you!" nonesense. Or maybe it's the radicalization origin of a tech person: oh they trained the data to be woke from the beginning, rawr I'm gonna crusade against this! sort of thinking.

It's an AI model who cares? It's not like anyone is getting their facts from it and if they are they need to be shown the folly of that. They're tools. I find them best at reasoning somewhat well about code and that's about it.
Gemini tends to generate images of non-white people which made some white people very mad.
Is it much the same as trying to use esm in node while having legacy CJS code? Several options that end up with weird tradeoffs and bugs?
Honestly?

Let's ban mobile/proprietary devices and related apps, soft-token included. We have smartcards since decades, we have physical OTP tokens, there is no reasons to allow someone else spying on intrinsically insecure platforms for logins.
Rice cookers are designed to reach a certain humidity level, you can choose how much under/over cooked you can make the rice by putting less/more water
The average salary for public researchers in France (only PhDs) is 47 k€ per year. Most PhDs end up in public research, as the private research sector is very small.

This is gross salary, on which you need to deduce social contributions (social security, retirement, unemployment insurance, and others) and usually reduces by 20% the gross salary. Then you get to pay income taxes in this net salary, which is around 10% of the net salary.

Note that sick leave is not paid by the employer, but by social security (the employer can complement). Social security here is the public healthcare and retirement system.

I am a software developer, I've relocated from US to France within the same company, and was paid 3 times less in the same role. As the private sector has extra contributions before gross pay, I estimate the employer cost is around 2 to 2.5 times lower in my case in France than in the US.

It is now also easier to fire people in France (probable the same in other EU countries) due to recent changes in employment law.

Each EU country is going to have a slightly different pay structure, but that gives you some comparison basis.

So overall I think the 2-3x ratio in skilled worker cost in EU vs US is a good estimate.
I was born in 2000 and learned writing cursive. After some years of my teachers complaining that they are unable to read my chicken scratch one of them suggested I should try to write in „normal“ print lettering instead. This solved the issue and I haven’t written anything in cursive since.
>Apologies if I sound old and cranky.

Worse, you sound new and square. In the olden times such "easter eggs" or cool logos were welcome, and in the DOS days (but also in the Unix console) often included ASCII art.
> The vehicle—priced at 1.68 million yuan ($233,450)—can reach 100 km/h (62 mph) in 2.36 seconds and reach a top speed of 309.19 km/h, the company said. It can also spin in place and enter dance mode, as videos posted on social media showed.

> The car will be available only in China for now, though traders taking advantage of a loophole have been selling luxury Chinese EVs to overseas customers who view them as status symbols—even in markets where they’re not yet officially available.

The luxury one is only officially available in China. The cheaper one ‘s paragraph made no mention of where it would be on sale.
Can't speak other than personally, but my step son falls into this category and doesn't hate being sold to. He and his partner have both bought a number of cars from dealerships. And he's not got that from me or his mum, we're both quite the opposite.
I dunno, if you've got a desktop, then you could just run linux, then you can do your normal dev stuff on it (I mean, I guess you may have issues with games, but proton+steam deck is making this less of an issue). This avoid the mess that is the start menu, edge taking over stuff, and generally Windows being Windows.
If Safari supported extensions then you'd have the ability to resolve this by installing something like Readability.

If iOS supported other browsers then you could read it in a Chromium based browser, where it appears completely readable.
The UK Tridents currently are on patrol with 8 missiles (they can carry more). What we don't want is someone thinking that out of the 8 a few won't work and maybe the missile defences around their capital city could surely shoot down the remainder?
Insecure Features in PDFs (2021)
It's hard to give good advice without more numbers.
No, you can deploy to your own device with a free Apple developer account. However there is a fairly short time line (I think a week?), after which you have to reinstall it. It’s designed for running apps on your device as you are developing them, not as a long-term deployment method.
I'm baffled by the ongoing lack of common sense these "making a breakthrough with my side projects" threads keep showing on Hacker News. Most of the times it's also some junior barely out of some dubious college, hardly presenting any work experience and certainly not the "FANNG" type.

Literally, this is Big Bang's Theory Penny trying to "make it" into big-star actress with no education and while working a waitressing job.

It would be amusing if it wouldn't be sad. And it's sad coze any attempt (like this one) of talking some sense into the wanna be superstar with little education, experience and effort (although they think working these side projects is effort, it doesn't compare with hard work in a demanding job) ... any such effort is met with furious downvoting from the seemingly smarter than average HN crowd. Only it seems there's plenty of Pennys out there and cancel culture works best for them.
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A project with "100s of deps" is already irresponsible and bloated for that alone.

Some logo or ASCII art in some/most of those deps would hardly be the real issue.
> Adding intermediate variables like "newline_delimited", "lowercased", "sorted", etc... is just pure noise.

I don't fully agree. Even when each step is fully descriptive it greatly helps to see the intermediate result, and names can be used for that as well. It is true that some intermediate names are not required, partly because some steps are best understandable in conjuction with neighboring steps (e.g. `sort | uniq -c` is a very common idiom and splitting them would do much harm than good), but a healthy dose of names would help in general.

I would say that there are three major steps in this particular pipeline: normalization (`tr -cs A-Za-z '\n' | tr A-Z a-z`), frequency calculation (`sort | uniq -c`), and extraction of first ${1} largest entries (`sort -rn | sed ${1}q`). So it is reasonable to have two additional names between them. Or you can name each step with a function so that you don't need intermediate results to understand that (`norm-words | calc-freqs | keep-largest ${1}`).

> It's the equivalent of a newb programmer putting a comment over each line of simple code explaining in English what that code does, despite it being clear already.

That is more about repeating functional parts without describing any intention. Comments about intents and clarifications are absolutely fine. For example:

counter += 1; // increment the counter by one (bad)
counter += 1; // increment the global counter, don't need synchronization here (better)
g_counter.incr_without_sync(); // (even better, but not always possible)
It's not the model it's the instruction set. Especially for image generation they just wrote a shitty prompt optimizer which is even more embarrassing.
Try asking a question in a IRC, and in a Discord, and you will get the phenomena is just that in discord at least someone answer you.
The 7 day limit only applies to third-party cookies / storage, that has nothing to do with progressive web apps.
Pretty sure he's using "Synthwave '84': https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=RobbOwen...
Tired of American military propaganda. Show me boobs and butterflies.
Take off the spin. When asked to generate nazi soldiers, it generated black, asian, and native american people wearing nazi uniforms.

When asked to generate white people, it said it's not allowed to.
You know what gives me the "creeps"? People looking for character flaws and projecting them onto the entire person.

There is a guy on "my side" who acts as if people like me are extreme radicals from the "other side" and you sound like you want to ride this slope downhill as hard as possible. At some point you will only focus on the bad things these people have done, after all you're not watching his videos, just hearing it from biased third parties and you no longer care if it has any semblance of truth to it or not.

I do not worship this guy. I don't even watch his videos. I probably don't even remember what he looks like.
If you make a language model which just predicts the next word without trying to shape the output to be “good”, what you get is GPT instead of ChatGPT. You try to ask it a question and it will keep asking more questions (with a similar writing style). Or curse at you, or change the subject. RLHF was the breakthrough that fixed this. We used human feedback to train the model to give “good” output.

Ok, so probably we agree that the product needs to try to be “good”. Cue a million opinions about what “good” is. Whatever comes out is the result of a value judgment, there is no getting around it. Same issue comes up with images from Gemini in this case, or any other generative AI product. You don’t actually want the AI to be unbiased because that output would be hot garbage.