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It's always surprising to me when people seem to be unaware that things like human rights or international laws only exist as long as every authority (i.e. everyone with the power to enforce it with violence if necessary) agrees with them.

The US literally passed a law allowing itself to invade The Hague if necessary to free any US service member brought before the International Court of Justice. Even the signatories of the UN human rights conventions could simply refuse to cooperate and experience no meaningful consequences. International laws are just treaties and treaties can be cancelled or revoked. Human rights are no more reliable than company mission statements.

Not to mention that even on a national level laws only exist as limitations the state imposes on itself (or to chisel away at limitations it imposed on itself before). This is why it took the civil rights protests and literal terrorism to arrive at universal suffrage and civil rights for women and Black people. Of course this only works if the government would rather change its laws than escalate protests to a civil war and which one your government chooses might surprise you.
"Your bottleneck is time management, and not motivation."

If indeed motivation, forgetfulness, procastrination and rapidly changing priorities were not a thing this would be great advice for me. Unfortunately for my distracted self this would be unmaintainable in any time span.

I can live by a mix of todo-lists (some with a deadline, most prioritised and all categorised), a red line in my agenda telling me when all the weekly/daily scheduled events are and bright coloured, triple alarmed random events breaking up the pattern. My goof off hours are after getting something done and before the next notification blaring from my phone.
Ahhh, I see my confusion here. Got mixed up with the abstractions (isEven != isEmtpy) and thought there was something crazy going on with lists of numbers implementing isEmpty.

On the whole I do agree with you about all this mess. The JS stdlib has a lot to answer for.
Nonsensical comment. Sounds like you just wanted to take a shot at Firefox.
That’s not variables, though. But maybe it’s something similar, like some variables being used in strings?

> which I don’t think VS Code can do as an automatic refactor using the native tools.

Yet another point for using an IDE over a texteditor with some bolted on IDE features, because the Jetbrains tools even suggest such refactorings ;)
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My secret is that I'm not simulating. Being blind forces you into it. :D

For testing purposes, the nvda screen reader is free and open source. I'm not sure if there is a driver for it to have an api access to what it would output, but it might be a fun project to try for a11y testing purposes.
Climate change, if it's even real and worth worrying about, is a different mess from prevailing economic conditions. That is, unless you think elites are sabotaging our economies and lives to advance some climate agenda. I don't put it past them but I think the economy is more likely screwed for other reasons.
It cannot, even if ppl think that this is what Bell's theorem says. But the determinism must be quite strange:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytyjgIyegDI
A while back someone linked to this relevant comment on HN, about using make as orchestration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32441602

I also believe I've seen someone setup tools that can draw the dependency graph for you, so you can view (not edit) it airflow style.
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> To simply throw out George as the be-all and end-all of a $245B company... frankly absurd.

I didn't do that, and I don't appreciate this misreading of my post. Please don't drag me into whatever drama is/was going on between you two.

The only point I was making was that George's experience with AMD products reflected poorly on AMD software engineering circa 2023. Whether George is ultimately successful in convincing AMD to publicly release what he needs is beside the point. Whether he is ultimately successful convincing their GPUs to perform his expectations is beside the point.
I always mix SBF and Altman in my mind, and have to spend few seconds thinking which was which..

But IMO the current AI hype has some almost religious elements to it
Citation needed. In my experience, most artists create to satisfy the inner urge and then hope to sell it.

> you would have very little left that we currently recognize as art.

What's the problem with that?
The response to potentially heavy, controversial topics should not be avoiding the discussion, nay, not even avoiding, but forbidding it. Surely we're all adults and we can engage with the arguments presented, and in the process learn something. And if the discussion becomes heated, then it becomes heated. Then some hours pass and we move on.

Having a couple of people saying: No, this should not be discussed is dystopic and illiberal.
I believe that reducing the power consumption and increasing the speed of AI inference will be best served by switching to analog, approximate circuits. We don't need perfect floating-point multiplication and addition, we just need something that takes an two input voltages and produces an output voltage that is close enough to what multiplying the input voltages would yield.
There does seem to be a somewhat obvious advantage: If all it has to do is matrix multiplication and not every other thing a general purpose GPU has to be good at then it costs less to design. So now someone other than Nvidia or AMD can do it, and then very easily distinguish themselves by just sticking a ton of VRAM on it. Which is currently reserved for GPUs that are extraordinarily expensive, even though the extra VRAM doesn't cost a fraction of the price difference between those and an ordinary consumer GPU.
> The question Searle wants to answer is this: does the machine literally "understand" Chinese? Or is it merely simulating the ability to understand Chinese? Searle calls the first position "strong AI" and the latter "weak AI".

I don't know why anybody thinks this is a profound question worth spending time thinking about. All it boils down to is whether or not we reserve the word "understand" for beings with souls or whether we allow it to describe machines too.. and BTW there's no empirical test for souls (not even for people!) so it's really just asking if "understand" is some sort of holy word reserved for people who have faith and believe in souls.

The question isn't about machines and their empirical capabilities at all, it's just about how humans feel about that particular word.
Feels extremely silly that the government would allow this threat to still stand. Feels like when this happened, it should have sparked an initiative that every child could attend public school if they wanted. I get bending in the moment, but that's a kind of threat that should have no teeth for a nation's government IMO.
What he describes is perfectly in line with the way self-hypnosis was conceived before it was captured by the ''feel-good'' crowd.
I recommend reading the exceptional book written by Dave Elman and the way he describes hypnosis and self-hypnosis: the bypassing of the critical faculty of the conscious mind. This means that what is imagined becomes/is real and allows one to control (certain) autonomic functions in this way.

It is unfortunate that a very promising and largely effective and earthy field with a ton of very practical applications has been kidnapped by the snake-oil salesmen and the aforementioned spiritual/ feel-good crowd.
Well-fed, well-educated and safe doesn't necessary imply western living standards.
vleam does not use Vue's `<script setup>`, but instead transpiles to a regular `<script>` block, so it does not rely on specialized syntax.

It works surprisingly well, and Gleam, being such a simple language, is a joy to code in. The main issues are honestly vleam itself -- the LSP is a bit finicky and the Vite plugin needs more work, as it sometimes requires a full restart and tends to transpile excessively. I expect most of this to be solved soon enough.

As for concurrency, the `fetch` usage example sums it up fairly well:

https://github.com/gleam-lang/fetch/tree/main
> against Google endlessly ramming new features down our throats and declaring them "standards".

New features that will be used for their intended purpose maybe 1% of the time and fingerprinting by AdTech the rest of the time. What could possibly go wrong handing the Web over to an advertising company?
Using AI to generate web forms from PDFs
While there's nothing stopping this technique from being accessible in principle, the example given in the article is a really bad one.

The article uses "Email us!" as the label on the svg and a elements, which effectively hides the actual email address from screen readers. Using aria labels in this way is a really bad practice, a screen reader user should have the same experience as anybody else unless there's a very good reason to do otherwise, and if you think your reason is a good reason, you're probably wrong.

The proper way to do this would be to put the actual email address in the labels,.
Apart from backward compatibility, sounds like a good idea
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Probably then is how you do TLS, i.e do you give your service a wildcard cert to capture any 443 traffic.

Then how do you do that for things like ssh, or other non-http based protocols.
We have genetically engineered plants and animals to our liking for thousands of years. Take my poodle for example.
> [0] Entity Framework has moved on a lot since then, and apparently now can be trusted to lazily load data

To some degree. If you're using it for anything serious you're still going to help it along a lot. It's rather easy to do so, however, and I certainly wouldn't consider writing your own code as fast or easy as simply telling EF how you want it to do certain things.

I'm not an overall fan of EF. I especially dislike how it's model builder does not share interoperability with other .Net libraries which also use it. I also don't really like the magic .Net does behind the scenes. EF as a whole has been one of the better ORMs for any language since .net core. I'd still personally much prefer something like Rust's diesel, but whenever I have to work with C# I tend to also use EF.
Apparently there used to be $10,000 bills :

https://www.moaf.org/exhibits/checks_balances/abraham-lincol...

With Salmon P. Chase on them. So you would only need 10,000 of these.
> Ads are designed to make you feel something, just like art.

Tear gas is designed to make you feel something.
I always hear this from people who are unwilling to fix current problems. They always push it onto some future genius that is going to pop up and act as the second coming of Jesus. In reality the average person is already more intelligent both in terms of education and IQ than people from a hundred years ago. The difference is that you are no longer losing them to mining accidents. Meanwhile the growth strategy glorifies the mining accidents as something that can be compensated simply by having more people. It's ok if our "geniuses" die, because we have eight times more. There is a deeply misanthropic logic behind this since one is discounting vast amounts of the population.
Interesting! Not sure a lot of pro sellers would allow that, but I can see an individual accepting the idea if it means quick cashout
We are currently on the latest.

We had an issue last week where we had an obect like

public class Foo
{
public List<Bar> Bars { get; set; }
}

We'd query for some Foos, like:

await _dbContext.Foos.ToListAsync();

and some amount of them would have Bars be an empty list where it should definitely be populated from the db. And it wasn't even consistent, sometimes it would populate thousands, sometimes it would populate a handful and then just stop populating Bars.

No errors, no exceptions, just empty lists where we'd expect data.

And so often we have to debug and see what SQL its actually generating, then spend time trying to get it to generate reasonable sql, when if we were using sprocs we could just write the damn sql quicker.

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They probably mean sapient. We consider most animals sentient but only humans sapient.

That said, rights don't happen through scientific discovery but through reform or revolution. There are strong economic incentives to keep animal rights minimal and there is only very weak political will to change that. It also doesn't help that in the US there are strong religious doctrines that oppose the notion of animals deserving rights at all.

It's worth mentioning that there are indeed jurisdictions (not sure about the US) where animal cruelty laws are actually framed as animal rights (usually with some limitations, e.g. only considering vertebrates) rather than as protection of private property but even they usually don't include a right to life or bodily integrity and are flexible about what constitutes cruelty and what can be done to reduce it.
(1) You really can't. The Mirai botnet was initially attributed to some state actor due to its massive DDoS attacks, but in the end it was just a bunch of teenagers.
The term wasn't new, pulled out of thin air.

The term was previously used when describing human donors. They just kept using it because it's as good a euphemism as any.
Not clear to me that Western living standards really imply Western resource usage.

Like: flying costs a lot in terms of resources, but is it more than 1% of the perceived living standards?
Well, it may preserve democracy for another round. It’s not glamorous but the alternative is horrible.
Biology isn’t magic, but it does do a heck of a lot of amazing things that we don’t understand yet.

We haven’t even been able to reproduce abiogenesis.
I've also started working on a modern PCMCIA card, so this is pretty exciting to me. Do you have a GitHub or IRC I can follow?
You probably mean probabilistic Turing machines. Non-deterministic automata in general don't involve randomness, and the results of their computation are considered to be deterministic despite the name.

And of course all TMs are just theoretical models. Non-deterministic Turing machine equivalents in particular don't physically exist and may be physically impossible.

But of course if there is indeed true randomness in nature that needs to be modelled, that same randomness can be used a source of true randomness for computation, and you can then build computation that does have stochastically determined results.
this comment is so bizzare and pointless that i'm strugling to understand why someone decided to write this
>And whoever wrote the original sentence can always come back and ask “but did you really really understand them”?

Asking questions that are very difficult to answer precisely and well, and then trying to do so, is kind of the whole deal with philosophy. How /do/ you know the things that you think you know? You can roll your eyes at it and choose not to investigate further, or you can try to get super granular about sussing out an answer. Philosophers generally try to do the latter.

If your answer to "what does it mean to know things" or "how do we actually use words to navigate meaning" or "how well can we understand other living things" is "I don't care, that's nerd shit" then I highly recommend that you don't read Wittgenstein, because you're gonna get real bored real fast.
That does depend on your interpretation of quantum mechanics: the wave-function is still entirely deterministic. Non-determinism is only induced by 'collapse', but it's not mandatory for this to ever happen: the many-worlds interpretation is basically the result of saying it doesn't, and is completely deterministic. (In fact 'collapse' interpretations are not particularly popular theoretically, because it's actually a blurry line of decoherance: it's just generally convenient for interpreting the outcome of a calculation, and you can assume it's a close enough approximation to experiment once your system has interacted with your detectors).
Interestingly, I have the ability to increase my resting pulse rate and then decrease it back to normal, without using any specific imagination techniques. I believe this is closely linked to the release of epinephrine into the bloodstream. To achieve this, I simply recall the sensation that arises when my body has the actual epinephrine response. This either tricks my body into responding as if there were an actual epinephrine response, or perhaps a small amount of epinephrine is actually released - I'm not entirely sure. Apart from increased pulse, my pupils also dilate significantly for a short time, which is also can be linked to adrenaline response.

I've had the opportunity to test this in a clinical setting under an ECG. Not only did it increase my pulse, but it also caused the QRS complex to invert. Upon seeing this, the doctors advised me not to continue with this practice. However, I didn't experience any negative effects from this experiment. On the flip side, I haven't found any practical use for this ability either.

I would be intrigued to connect with someone else who has a similar capability. It seems that those internal "feelings" is as close to direct control as we can get.

As of pain, I have similar experience as well, except instead of detaching myself from the pain, I "look" as closely as I can. At a certain point pain decomposes to what it really is — electrical impulses, and from this point it literally starting to feel as electricity going through your body, quite the same feeling as if you accidentally grab both pins of the electrical plug, albeit not as intense.
There used to be pensions - those people still cared deeply about the company after they left.

Nobody has pensions anymore, and as long as your 401k is in an index you don’t care if the building collapses after you walk out the door.

It’s been interesting to watch this dynamic in defense. There’s a lot of weird niche shit that’s absolutely critical and takes a really long time (and the right environment!) to become an expert in, but the turnover rate now is crazy. There’s an “old guard” (that has a pension) that kinda keep things running, but a LOT of them are retiring about now.
That’s just not how contract law works, at least in the west. You will generally never be forced to fulfil your obligations under a contract, rather you have to (reasonably) compensate the other party if you cannot.
> If you want your Python software to be PyPy-compatible, you’re much more limited in terms of which Python features you use

More so, you are also limited in terms of popular libraries versions, and it is much more cumbersome because of versioning hell itself.
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That's because people on Hacker News don't know shit. Everyone here who has a superficial understanding of deep learning and believes they know what an MRI is comes up with extremely strong opinions, but it is very obvious that noone here has even read the full article beyond the abstract (or even the title). There are legitimate questions and concerns you can raise about this article, but not a single one of them is found in this comment section.
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Climate change is not a clear problem, much less one that is clearly due to humans. There are no clear solutions either if it is real. Everyone needs fossil fuels until some actual alternatives make sense, regardless of what hysterical "experts" have to say about it. These same "experts" are probably secretly plotting to kill off or imprison billions of people to reduce emissions.
These future states may as well be parallel universes, however: there's no real way for them to interact with each other across the vast time and space of maximal entropy.
Isn’t the whole point of the exercise to not have the document contain the email address in a (machine-)readable format?
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I would argue that the kind of modification you can do to a big blob of weights is more akin to fiddling with a binary in a hex editor than modifying source code. It is not the "preferred form" for the source, and you cannot cleanly and easily do things like modify its "alignment" - that is why people speak of "jailbreaking" these models. So I still think "freeware" works as a term.
Right after "very horny", there's the entry for "very hard".

"My dick is onerous" might have been a phrase construct that went through my mind.
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That’s much cleaner than reality ever tends to be
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There are huge swaths of the Windows API that Wine straight up doesn't even try to implement, the complex APIs that a screen reader or driver would require to function being good examples.

There's a good argument that implementing kernel-mode driver APIs would be a complete waste of time, after all, Wine is running on top of another operating system, which should be responsible for interfacing with hardware. However, what the Wine developers didn't foresee was the fact that some applications (mainly games) started requiring a driver to function as an anti-cheat feature.