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Define obscure.

Musicians are more discoverable than ever. Unlike in the past it doesn't matter nearly as much what's getting marketing/ gets air play at the top of the charts, because if you have a desire to find music that you like you just have to try and it's all there for free with an Internet connection.

If one can't find new music to ones taste it's not because of what's being produced.
> Who decides what is "societally-harmful content"?

Are you stupid, or just pretending to be?
This is a great way to frame a shift in perspective around what we consume, but just to add some nuance to this: not only should we be thoughtful about the content we consume in a similar way that we are thoughtful about the food we consume, but we should also be self compassionate.

Sometimes we want to eat those Chicken 'n' Waffles, just like sometimes we go on a trashy TV show binge! It's just a small thing that serves as a comforting release, and we shouldn't let the guilt overcome us!
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You should read the CJR link. The "shared sense of identity and community" is being descendants of the victims of the slave trade and not the color of their skin.
> But we are also capable of breathtaking stupidity, imagining that it’s a good idea to turn over a nuclear arsenal to Donald Trump

And ... nothing bad enough happened to warrant the phrase "breathtaking stupidity".

I think the author spent their entire article on the wrong precept, viz that while humans are smarter than cephalopods, they are also stupider, but it is hard to understand what the author's bar for stupidity is, considering that the final example didn't warrant the description of "breathtaking stupidity".

It's possible that the author is blind to certain facts, ironically, because it doesn't match their worldview.
Almost everything we do, everything we hear, everything we see, everything we experience etc.. they all have an impact. And while books do shape our thinking the statement "You are what you read" is nothing different from the hyperboles/metaphors "You are what you eat" or "You are who you associate yourself with" etc.
I just dump it into dokuwiki. Not ideal right now but at least it's stored somewhere.
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Within Microsoft when I was there, it was considered taboo to introduce a dependency to shell32 where it did not already exist. I tried to add a call to CommandLineToArgvW once and it got flagged.

From the part of Microsoft that was focused on cleaning up the windows code base in that era, the shell was not considered a core component. All of the utility functions that it provides like this were considered baggage, improper layering, poor design.
I'm in the target audience and still don't fully understand, although I do think the market needs more tools like this.

Generally speaking, the value prop for tools in this space tends to be that they map similar data concepts from lots of providers into one API so that it's faster to build interoperability. For example, if you're shipping a project management tools integration, every tool has the equivalent of a ticket and a project and a label regardless of what they call it.

What I /think/ this tool does is go one layer further and provide cloud-based orchestration for chained integration calls with appropriate failover and observability hooks built in automatically. Which is a sensible tool I think the market is hurting for.

But I could be wrong, and that's concerning.
I wasn't in the trade in 2004, so some of this is a bit speculative:

It looks like everything on the poster is made to be cut on a 3-axis machine. Stepping up to five-axis is a huge leap in cost at present, and surely was then as well.

Tooling has likely improved in availability and cost since 2004 as well. Automatic tool changers have probably also become more affordable, but just like going to five-axis, you're getting into a whole different class of machine once you start talking about adding that.

Some of the reasons to cut stuff single-sided on the flat are unchanged by any of that though. It still costs you precision (and time) to flip a workpiece over, and you're going to have issues if you don't have good consistency with your material thickness if you need to reference your Z axis to the material surface rather than the bed surface.

Working an end of a long piece remains a pain in the ass for fixturing that involves a hole in your machine bed, and possibly the floor as well. Tenoning a bed rail, for instance, is inconvenient however you do it.

All of my CNC experience is on a three-axis machine, five-axis gets you a lot of flexibility that most places won't have unless CNC work is their primary focus, or at least core to their workflow. I've seen a shop that builds high-end windows with a large five axis machine. I have no concerns about the durability of their products, it's just that most people don't have access to that kind of capability.
> open source ... under the ELv2 license

I would think a Launch HN would know better than to use "open source" with a non open source license. It is source available, sure, and it's your software so you can license it as you wish, but don't call it open source as that continues to pollute the very idea of the software freedoms that actual open source licenses are designed to provide
I haven't activated ABS for braking very often, but it's pretty loud when I do... Not as loud as locking up tires, of course. But I would think people would learn to change their driving if they're getting thumping on braking frequently.
>Our brain has a mechanism to put more or less weight on sensory input given previous input

I've always liked to say "free will isn't your current decision, but your previous one"
More on the history here:

https://www.asml.com/en/news/stories/2022/making-euv-lab-to-...
I got the out-of-print book Piloting Palm as research for my book. You can get a used copy for about $9. (it's co-written by David Pogue, the guy you see on PBS all the time)

Shameless self-promotion: This New Internet Thing, by the way, will be free to read in serial form! Just search on Amazon for my pen name "Albert Cory" to pre-order the Kindle version. I actually spoke to Donna Dubinsky and got a "job" for one of my characters.

Palm plays a key role for one of the characters. The context is that "handheld computer" was already a tainted category, after GO, Newton, Momenta, Zoomer, and General Magic had all wasted money and failed to catch fire.

Everyone insisted that you had to have wireless communication, and you had to recognize cursive. Jeff Hawkins had the guts to defy that, and focus on the price and the form factor, period. He gave up on cursive and gambled that people would use Grafiti. Saying "no" to features is one of the hardest things in tech.
Cow Clicker and Cookie Clicker are not idle games. You have to interact with them constantly and the less you do the slower you progress.

Idlerpg for IRC is the opposite. If you act you are punished.

Progress Quest is totally idle. It has a bunch of internals that just increment numbers and pretend things happen. It’s an app you start and then don’t do anything at all with.

All the clicker games, and the weird unfolding games like A Dark Room, Candy Box, Paperclips, are kinda fun but not in the spirit of Progress Quest.
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Economists have debunked the idea that retaliatory trade restrictions are beneficial. Not sure where you are getting your information.

As you may recall from the Snowden revelations, the US government has high bandwidth data intercept stations installed at major datacenters that are expressly for the purpose of ingesting massive amounts of data. There is no need for "ownership" when this level of cooperation with government exists.
I'm sorry your principal was a dick, but it's weird how you're acting like "teenagers now can fraudulently incriminate anyone they want" is somehow a good thing.
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> why they didn't do this decades ago

You might as well ask why, since we can do it now, Shockley didn't simply start at 3nm. It's all a very long road of individual process techniques.

> You need very tiny wires through very tiny holes in locations very precisely aligned on both sides.

Key word here is "both sides". It has challenges similar to solder reflow on double sided boards: you need to ensure that work done on the first side isn't ruined/ruining work on the second side.

https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-services/techinsights/288... seems to be a good description.

"The challenges with BPR are that you need a low resistance and reliable metal line that does not contaminate the Front End Of Line (FEOL). BPR is inserted early in the process flow and must stand up to all the heat of the device formation steps."

Contamination = metals used musn't "poison" the front-side chemistry. So they end up using tungsten rather than the more usual aluminium. (Copper is forbidden for similar chemistry reasons)

It also (obviously) adds a bunch of processing steps, each of which adds to the cost, more so than putting the rails on the front side.
Half the point of sanctions is making the life of average people difficult so the leaders fear them revolting over not being able to play a game or, you know, feeding their children.

The other half is to reduce their ability to wage war on their neighbors.

Either way, the leaders are still sipping wine and eating cheese.
No, they don't need a 'new' client for that. That already exists. Since minecraft is basically open source, it's not really a secret that how to make a client that simply don't require login. (Surely you don't want to say it loud or legal team of MS is going to chase you hard, but lots of client just slip that function in silently)

Besides that.

The minecraft login is basically a license check allow you to join 'legal purchase required' server. And whether you want to enable the enforcement is up to server owner.
I think there is a problem with the "rationalist" people. Opinions in itself is a useful and scientific tool, but they seem to consider it as an insult.

The reality is that as soon as you go further than quite simple discussion, you reach places where your conclusions depends on your arbitrary values of what is more important than something else. For example, in the case of AI doom, one question is "why are you panicking about it and not panicking about children dying of hunger in remote countries or not panicking with the injustice generated by capitalism". This is not an argument to say that you should not panic, but this is to say that based on people "values", they will find things more or less scary and more or less worthy of panic. I guess some people are already used to the fact that the world is pretty messed up and that the danger of AI is just one on top of the others and therefore it does not generate any more reason to panic. Those reasons to panic are very much "opinions", and there is no rational answer that is better than all the others. It's not a bad word, it just means that different people will have different view of the world.
I don't think we're ready for the consequences of this technology. My parents are immigrants and my first thought was this might get someone killed or locked up in the old country.

These free generators need to include some kind of audio watermark or key to indicate they are ai imitations. At least raise the barrier for this kind of action to being able to run your own llm or something.
I didn't say the outcome wasn't harmful. I said that the intent of the people who put it in place was to reduce harm, which is obvious.
So we agree higher intelligence is capable. But, “Is that a bad doomsday scenario?” is the next question. And then, “Is it so bad that society should fear these intelligence tools?” And to argue that, you have to get into a real abstract realm where there is zero conclusive anything (outside of philosophical thought experiments) indicating whether we should welcome or fear our new super intelligent systems.
I suppose VPN's will become illegal next?
As these synthetic voice generations become less and less obviously detectable, I fear two things will happen.

1. The obvious: There will be a lot of fake speeches floating around that spout fake news and hate-filled views.

2. The less obvious: The prevalence of hatred and sensationalized rumors will embolden those who find themselves agreeing with the extreme views seemingly endorsed by some authority figure, and will add their support and authentic voices to the mix.

Perhaps this is just an extension of what has already been happening with the internet. We will find ourselves more fragmented and divided than ever, filling our chambers with literal echos of synthetic voices.
There have already been cases like professors failing entire classes for plagiarism without any critical thought because an AI claimed their work was AI generated.

Those were reversed because they were particularly egregious, but I can completely see individual students getting falsely accused of using AI and treated as guilty until proven innocent, going totally under the radar because single incidents don't get much public scrutiny.
There is literally no connection between stock price and value to labor and customers from the activities of the business

VW would be better off as a worker owned cooperative and have no stock price

There was a time before the stock market created the mechanism to decouple labor from production

The plan now is to create the inverted stock market - returning capital to its rightful owner
This is just someone learning Verilog.

The project stops at simulation, making real hardware out of this requires much more work.
You'll be pleased to know that if you use a pirated copy, they won't come after you either...
Not what people are referring to as dark patterns.
I ask this 100% genuinely, since this isn't a subject I've ever given any mind to. Why should we oppose this? What are the potential negative outcomes if this goes through? Can you steelman the argument for why people support this, and explain why you find the arguments unconvincing?
> The problem is that we look back and no longer categorize these as “moral panics”, because in the end they turned out to be real and few people remember them that way. Only the “false” panics remain, which leads to some fallacious conclusions IMO.

This is a good point. A similar case: In early 2020, many journalists, TV experts and politicians emphasized that you shouldn't panic. This was true insofar "panic" is by definition irrational, but false insofar they also said that much more people die from the flu in a year, which ended up being false: For several years much fewer people died from the flu. Or when they said "currently the risk is low, so don't worry" -- that few people are being infected now (in early 2020) doesn't mean that the risk of infection is low, because current risk includes the probability of bad things happening in the future. If you race towards a cliff with your car, the risk of dying is already high before you fall of the cliff.

So "don't panic!" is ambiguous between "don't be irrational!" (which is a tautology) and "the risk is not high!" which requires justification and may well be false.
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Do you leverage Gorilla (https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/) at all? If not, perhaps consider if it would solve some pain for you.

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Why would Microsoft want to go through the effort of securing a license to allow people to play a game? That is not worth the financial effort.
> A children's block game is not going to help us build nukes or anything, so the sanctions excuse doesn't make sense especially since I already own it.

While I agree with that sentiment, and while I admit that I don't know exactly what the sanctions entail, it is quite possible that this is a legal compliance issue and not strictly Microsoft's doing. And of course it could also be a "better safe than sorry" policy when it comes to legal compliance.
> You really do seem to view life through a very-narrow lens; you appear to be generalizing your own family's recent, one-generation experience as though immigrant culture somehow quickly alters the host culture in major ways without that happening to the immigrants themselves.

I would say that, as a first generation immigrant, I'm viewing cultural change through a vantage point that most Americans lack. Most Americans have only arm's-length contact with immigrants; they aren't in a position to understand how their culture and values shape their behavior, including their political and civic behavior.

I don't deny that the immigrants are also changed in the process--I simply reject the assumption that the resulting amalgam is better. If you're Google, a two-way cultural exchange with a bunch of former IBM people isn't going to make your organization better.

And I also don't agree that the change we have had in America from prior generations of immigrants is a good thing. New York City, for example, would probably be much better run and more orderly if it was still mainly people from a culture that reflexively queue up even if they're unsure what they're standing in line for: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-tjgyWQ8nU. It would probably be even more orderly and well-run if it was still New Amsterdam and run by Dutch people.
Human mental capabilities don't seem to be well characterized - thus when people say 'intelligence' it's unclear what they're talking about. Case example: John von Neumann, who surely ranks high on anyone's list of 'most intelligent humans of the 20th century'. Brittanica:

> "Von Neumann insisted on the value of game-theoretic thinking in defense policy. He supported development of the hydrogen bomb and was reported to have advocated a preventive nuclear strike to destroy the Soviet Union's nascent nuclear capability circa 1950."

So, if humans destroy modern civilization with fusion bombs and are reduced to a Stone Age existence on a radioactive planet, will visiting aliens say, "Gosh, wasn't this a stupid species? Clever, yes, but not very wise."
Music only matters to the producer and the listener. It's deeply personal.

I think you're missing the point.
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Their front page is quite clear. Haven't seen the demo though. Its a unified API for all Integrations that your Saas can have. Typical Saas has integrations with a lot of other Saas and its like a web of complexity that you have to build from scratch. With Unified API you integrate with one API and it can give you things like auth, data, syncing from Github, twitter, Google, etc
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library of congress maybe?
> The Minecraft reddit moderators didn't even show my post, and downvoted it too. Real "inclusive" of you, guys.

Inclusivity is selective... Always has been, always will be.
Yeah because it takes significantly more effort to fake a screenshot than to just make stuff up. That's entirely logical.
Fair enough. Though as long as the price of bitcoin continues to increase demand for compute can continue increasing as well.
As an aside, what is the current state of "LLMs for NPCs" in video games?

I don't really game or follow the industry, but I have to imagine both modders and publishers are working furiously to introduce more natural conversational experiences?
This looks very interesting, but I have two questions.

1) Did I understand this correctly, oversimplifying, instead of going api.slack.com/users I go nango.com/slack/users

If I did it leads to question 2) since I assume this won't have feature parity 100% of the times, what's my escape hatch when I need a feature that's available in an api and not in your service, if worse comes to worse, can I still easily access the original api easily?
I'm not arguing your point, but this is the general state of gaming today. A significant portion of "single player only" games require you to be online, contain "online" content, and access to the game can/will be effectively removed when servers/services go offline.
To be clear, we're talking about what would more reasonably be called a query builder, but which for some reason has taken on the "ORM" monicker. Ever since duality views were invented, it's questionable how relevant ORMs (in the original sense) even are – maybe as a remaining stop gap for working with DB engines that haven't yet acquired such a feature.

I'm not sure if "add" is the right framing, but I posit the reason people reach for query builders/ORMs is:

1. Because SQL is not reasonably composable.

2. Because SQL syntax is horrid.

3. Because SQL implementations are terribly inconsistent.

Adding some layer of protection above the pitfalls Codd speaks to in this paper is an additional benefit, but I don't expect that is a driving motivator; still something to address. I'm probably forgetting other things, but something that tackles those issues would go a long way in reliving any desire to add another abstraction, with its own set of problems, on top.
Yes, it does seem that way at first. A minor spoiler: this game has its own DSL to script things, eventually.
I think the only "legitimate" use would be something like YouTube's like button, which has a cool animation (and vibrates the device if using the mobile app). Very pleasant UX.
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I guess autonomous platforms are exciting to defense procurement and war planners because they can use them much more aggressively in theatre without risking expensive pilots. It's hard not to think of the recent reporting on the "Lavender" AI targeting system and how these two ideas combined will lead to more indiscriminate killing of civilians. What's the calculus for human American pilot lives to collateral civilian lives? 5:1 or 40:1?
Because people spend years of their life artificially constrained by a system that infantilizes them.