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Philosophy postgrad and now long time programmer here!

This article makes a revelation of the pretty trivially true claim that philosophy is an undercurrent of thought. If you ask, why do we do science, the answer is philosophical.

But the mistake many philosophers make is extrapolating philosophy being a discipline that reveals itself when fundamental questions about an activity are asked, into a belief that philosophy, as a discipline, is necessary to that activity.

AI doesn't require an understanding of philosophy any more than science does. Philosophers may argue that people always wonder about philosophical things, like, as the article says, teleology, epistemology and ontology, but that relation doesn't require an understanding of the theory. A scientist doesn't need to know any of those words to do science. Arguably, a scientist ought to know, but they don't have to.

The article implies that AI leaders are currently ignoring philosophy, but it isn't clear to me what ignoring the all-pervasive substratum of thought would look like. What would it look like for a person not to think about the meaning of it all, at least once at 3am at a glass outdoor set in a backyard? And, the article doesn't really stick the landing on why bringing those thoughts to the forefront would mean philsophy will "eat" AI. No argument from me against philosophy though, I think a sprinkling of it is useful, but a lack of philosophy theory is not an obstacle to action, programming, creating systems that evaluate things, see: almost everyone.
These aren't serious claims. They're criticising the argument being used. Good job on the reading comprehension.

They are things I do stand for though
Wouldn’t the crew of a ship be pretty constant though, for this example?
Oh I see, you’re right.
I think then we can agree that if the people hold very little power, what we have today in the west is definitely not democracy.

A study[0] came to the conclusion that the US is in fact closer to an oligarchy, and I'd extend that to most other so-called democratic countries. The interests of a few always trump the interests of the many.

In this context, that Churchill's quote seems out of place and mostly serves the purpose of shutting down the discussion.

And thanks, I very much enjoy that Zizek video.

- [0]: https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
The president takes an oath to see that the laws are enforced
Serendipity at Work
the hotels were functioning that way through the entire administration last time

and the $DJT stock is already doing this as well

What you’re pointing out is just not a unique aspect of crypto or that interesting in the Trump portfolio of “things vulnerable to being used as kickbacks in a currently legal way”
Yes, under the "Intestinal anthelmintics" section..
I think they mean it probabilistically: given the cost, a "stupid and lazy" person is less likely to get a degree, so employers can hope that the percentage of such people among university grads will be lower than in the general population.
> Disregarding a law that was passed by a bipartisan majority

I wonder if there was actually a bipartisan majority in favor of getting rid of TikTok?

Yes, the bill passed by a bipartisan majority, but TikTok was not the only thing in that bill. Previous attempts to advance a standalone TikTok bill had failed to get majority support.

This time it got attached to a bill that provided $60 billion in aid for Ukraine, $26 billion in aid for Israel, and $1 billion of additional humanitarian assistance for food, medical supplies, and clean water for Gaza. There was also $8 billion for security in Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific.

A lot of Congress considered that aid (or parts of it) to be critical, and it had taken a lot of time to get there. I bet as a result of that a lot of Congress members would vote "yes" even if they disagreed with the TikTok part.

When Biden signed it he spoke about the importance of all the aid provisions and didn't mention TikTok at all.
I’ve got a three digit id (/. user number 404!) and I agree.
Clouds and storms don’t really help you with a SAR satellite.
We are loving it and we aren't even using it fully to its ability. For example we do almost no communication in the 'chat' that exists for each issue (in place of comments) since we are a very small team and still are talking mostly in slack about the issues, but I predict as we grow this will become a useful feature for us.

In the meantime we are loving the 'every issue can have sub-issues' and have customized the fields to our liking.

This is a tool with a lot of power. I can see a well-intentioned PM going crazy with it, but for our needs I was startled with how great it is.
If I had to guess, he has an extremely expensive HDR monitor aimed at designers and uses the full color gamut for everything.
Number of lines does not matter anymore.
> There is no allegation that the US seeks to suppress TikTok because of what Americans are posting on it.

Of course there is. It’s obvious that a huge chunk of the momentum behind the TikTok ban stems from a desire to suppress anti-Israel content.
> When a person gains weight, the number of fat-storing cells in their body doesn’t change; instead, each one expands to store more fat within it by changing the way it responds to and stores nutrients.

Is this true? I thought the number of fat cells increase when you gain weight but don't decrease when you lose it.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29991030/

> A decrease in body weight only changes fat cell size (becoming smaller), whereas an increase in body weight causes elevation of both fat cell size and number in adults.
> It's not an opinion. It was like that (Twitter), now it's not (X).

????????????

> He's telling you your experience is outdated.

No, they said what I said was simply not true.

And my experience is from using the new stuff. There may be technical reasons why it wasn't sticky however in my experience it wasn't as sticky as it should be and I ended up on the crappy feed all the time.
People seem to discount the way they are influenced by the media they are served. I’m seeing a lot of comments about “free agency” and how “people make up their own minds” rather than 1 to 1 believing what they read. This argument just ignores human nature. We evolved to catch onto ideas, good and bad, and be able to rationalize them in ways that often ignore the true outside state of the world. In this light we should strongly critique those who are the purveyors of information. Although I have many criticisms of even those who are serving information domestically, the idea that we’re going to trust a malicious foreign actor with molding the shape of our minds is just nonsensical.
Or from text and diagrams (which often contain large single-color areas) to photos and videos. The default HN color scheme looks much brighter than the bright daylight photo I currently have as a desktop background.
It also applies to their cloud providers
Yes, I am glad to see this post, because I had the sentiment to be alone with this ‘symptom’.
Can’t bear dark mode, it give me disorientation and nausea.
I wasn’t able to explain this to my ophthalmologist.
What would happen if Brazil says they would ban X if Elon Musk didn't divest from it?
Dark mode was the traditional normal.

From early green or amber text on black mono displays.
Grey on black DOS text mode.
Light Blue on Dark Blue C-64.
Apple 2's grey/white (I don't recall) on black.
Even GUI wise, Amiga used a dark-blue background as the default Workbench, with user selectable palettes for everything.

It was Microsoft Windows that changed the paradigm to default to a searing white display with black text in most apps, like Notepad, Word, etc., because "it's more like paper". Sure, paper is white, but it's not glowing white. That transition was painful.

I'm glad to see dark-modes return, I agree there needs to be an option, not just forced dark-mode. Preferably light mode options to use a not-as-bright-as-possible white too.
Any of them support dependencies between issues? Without it, it's still all worst-in-class experience for the purpose of managing work. Yes, this is distinct from issue tracking, which is an input, and usually external, but people seem to have this weird habit of trying to manage software projects using GitHub or GitLab issues.
Well, there's not much you can do about yellow background, but forcing Comic Sans is as easy as setting it as your preferred font and then deselecting "Allow pages to choose their own fonts", at least in the Firefox settings page.

This is what I do and it makes browsing the web so much better.
If anything, light mode is the trend.
Which RSS reader do you use in that case?

And is it fair to say there's a middle ground between purely chronological feeds vs algorithms that reward engagement/time spent on the app?
I do not hate him. I do not hate anyone. I just think he's a lost madman that comes from a broken home and believes he has to treat other humans like shit, exploit anyone and everyone, ignore the law, and use lies to advance an agenda of hate. He is a violent man and a criminal.

Can you point out some of the "truths" that he is telling?

Do you think he's a good and loving father to his twelve+ children?
Douyin also doesn't allow nearly as much brainrot as you see on tiktok, and definitely doesn't allow anything that challenges the CCP.
I'm more extreme, I dislike all dark mode, including code. Shreds my eyes, no idea why. Have tried a zillion themes, just can't be one of the cool kids.
I use MiniCA for this. It's really nice
I spent a while debugging a library with a chunk_time_ms parameter where it turned out "ms" stood for "microseconds".
I have found my mental health substantially better from downvoting and moving on in those cases, especially if there’s other people already responding with what you would want to say.
And we have a long history of restricting foreign media ownership
No. You can't do drop shadows in most dark-mode setups, there isn't enough contrast to make it work.

OS9:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

Windows NT:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F...

BEOS:

http://toastytech.com/guis/b5pebaqua.png
> but was instead included in the foreign aid (including Ukraine) package

I don't know why these kinds of shenanigans are still possible. It makes a complete joke of politics and legislation (and by extension: law).

I know I'm shouting at clouds here, and I know the reason is: the sheeple don't care enough to change this thing for the better. But I still feel the need to point it out.
Same here. I had the trackpad disabled on my ThinkPad in college (which always confused others when they tried to use it). After college I switched to a MacBook Air and was shocked at how good the trackpad on it was.

It's incredible that, over a decade later, non-Apple systems have still not quite caught up. Windows does better than any of the Linux distros I've tried at handling the trackpad input, but acceleration curves still feel off and it doesn't detect two finger scrolling when the angle of my hand is too extreme.
I recommend to call it free software, but just get rid of the disclaimers. Also free as in beer.

(That doesn't mean making beer is free, same as software, so I don't see the need to complicate simple things here)
Wasn't it the original Mac that changed it?
I see nothing Israel hasn’t done yet we give them billions of dollars in aid.
How do interruptions impact different software engineering activities
Ah yes, that was always entertaining. All the different ways additional metadata could be encoded was so much fun if you were dealing with geographical data.
They will forget about the ban in a week...tops.
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Thank you for reminding me about planets! I had forgotten about them, and your post has inspired me to explore them again. I appreciate your insights.
I'll bet that most who casually encounter hate speech/far right content on X, Meta or other platforms are not far-right and don't actually want to see or be influenced by it. It likely creates a negative user experience for them.

However powerful the X/Meta AI feed algorithms are at surfacing content people are interested in, it all counts for nothing if people see content that they find repulsive. Its not just far right content, disturbing content in general gets more engagement and is surfaced in feeds.

BlueSky and its AT Protocol, by putting moderation back into the hands of the user, allows people to see the content they want and not what they don't want, making for a much better and more positive user experience.

I predict that this means that at some point, it will take over as the dominant social media platform. There are already multiple startups with VC funding building things on the AT Protocol.

As for the moment, whenever someone complains to me about toxicity in social media on X/Facebook or whatever platform they are using, I recommend BlueSky and advise others to do the same. Word of mouth spread is powerful.
Seems to be a common thing. I did something similar two days ago. Pretty helpful so far: https://github.com/combatwombat/cmdline-ai-helper
What does this have to do with X, Brazil, or Musk?
“Be President while the other guy still is” is not one of them.
for a teenager, I definitely wouldn't recommend Ros, unless they're already very deep into Linux, c++, build systems, etc - I'm sure there are kids out there that can handle it, but I'd say most would find Ros endlessly frustrating. I think it makes grown men cry.

robot wise, I'd recommend something they can program with a raspberry pi and python, if they have some light background in programming. I had a quick look on Amazon and I have no affiliations with these, but maybe look for something like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/FREENOVE-Raspberry-Tracking-Avoidan...

note this one doesn't have either a raspberry pi nor any batteries. you might find a better one.
Wasn't the idea that it is more energy-friendly?

(In which case, please also stop all ads)
No, they couldn't ban just one book printed by a French company. They'd have to ban the company entirely. And that's what happened here too. It's not just TikTok that got banned, but all of ByteDance's other apps too, e.g., Marvel Snap and CapCut.

And it's also important that divesting was an option instead. In your analogy, they couldn't ban the books outright, but could demand they be published somewhere else.
the only reason we have entrepreneurs is that there are people who do not like the idea of working for someone else :) becoming a billionaire is like maybe 8765896th on entreprenuer’s mind
At least for the time being, traditional media outlets don't seem to have a problem airing US politicians' dirty laundry.
> You'll never see anything from the people who post occasionally because they get drowned out by the people who are posting all the time.

If you control the algorithm there is nothing to prevent you from sorting feeds by volume and adjusting their presentation accordingly.

Actually you can imagine countless other UI adaptations depending on preferences, usage patterns etc.

Ideally RSS readers should offer flexible customizations, e.g., with plugins or even some low-code environemnt.
I'm not the one setting liberalism up to fail, it seems to implode catastrophically every few decades. Last time was during the interwar period. The failure of liberal governments to exercise their sovereign powers in the face of social and economic crises is exactly what handed electoral victories to fascists in the decades after WWI. Their failure was baked in and you were duped from the start for thinking that liberal democracy could be a sound basis for human emancipation.
Sounds like your build system is the problem, not ROS.
> how this government works however.

I mean, with some of the decisions by SCOTUS in the last few years we should really be at the point of "This government works?"
There's an old joke where a man asks a woman

M: "Would you sleep with me for $1M"

W: "for $1M dollars? Yeah, I guess I could be convinced for $1M."

M: "What about for $10"

W: "No, what do you take me for!"

M: "We've already established that, now we're just haggling over price."

I don't think this is that funny of a joke, but the point I'm making is that picking a number is a detail that comes after we decide that there needs to be a number. And I think if you agree that there needs to be a number, the gov't is the one that could set it (or the voting public).

The most likely answer is you pick some multiple of minimum wage, and then some number of years at that number. 1000x minimum wage, 10 years of earnings at that value. That's the maximum you can have. You want more? You gotta raise minimum wage.
> The only situation dark mode is better than light mode is when you're sitting in a dark room with your screen as your only light source

It's really not that extreme. Dark mode is more comfortable as soon as it's dark outside (this time of year that starts between 3 and 4 pm) unless I'm flooding my entire room with enough light to replace the sunlight. I still have the lights on, but none of that light is as bright/white as an average white webpage. Even with screen brightness turned down and a blue light filter, an all-white webpage is usually just too much white.

> Light mode might be annoying to read in no-light environments, but dark mode is nigh impossible to read in high-light environments.

This is just completely opposite for me. Reading in dark mode is only uncomfortable if there's sunlight basically directly behind the screen, while light mode is only really comfortable in high-light environments.
I got an internal ad on Facebook telling me to connect my TikTok account the other day.

https://imgur.com/a/yCOpifC
Philosophy will help you in ways that don't directly get you paid. Ultimately philosophy is the study of how to think.

The number of arguments I've had about "AI" with friends has me facepalming regularly. Understanding why LLMs don't equate to "intelligence" is a direct result of that training. Still admitting that AGI might actually be an algorithm we haven't figured out yet is also a direct result of that training.

Most deep philosophical issue come from axiom consensus (and the lack there of), the reflexive nature between deductive and inductive reasoning, and conceptions of Knowledge and Truth itself.

It's pretty rare that these are pragmatic problems, but occasionally they are relevant.
Jeez, read the article. C++20 has such an elegant solution that it has him swooning.

Being truly luxurious, the tz library supports using not just your operating system’s time zone databases, which might lack crucial leap second detail, but can also source the IANA tzdb directly. This allows you to faithfully calculate the actual duration of a plane flight in 1978 that not only passed through a DST change, but also an actual leap second. I don’t swoon easily, but I’m swooning.
Yeah, a.1.B, (B) Providing internet hosting services to enable the distribution, maintenance, or updating of such foreign adversary controlled application for users within the land or maritime borders of the United States.

Is distributing content an "update"?
Isn't Foxglove built for ROS?
Haskell can be taught as recursive programming, learning about accumulator parameters and high order functions. A background in logic (which most programmers have to some degree) is more useful than an approach in math in that regard.
Procians bothered by the cost and status of Halikaarnian work. Its not about what "AI" can do, its a about what you can convince people AI can do (which to the Procian is one and the same)
9front Dash1 Manual [pdf]
Damn, I didn't notice that C++20 added a whole bunch of new features to the std::chrono library! Nice!
I think part of the problem is with how one "naturally" or "habitually" thinks of a Service. From systemd's perspective/terminology, the Service is the thing that starts and stops. But whether because it is inherently more intuitive, or because of how daemons traditionally worked on *nix, the mind tends to think of the process which the Service starts as the thing which starts and stops. I'm not able to double check currently, but I also think that systemd isn't totally consistent with the mental model it bases the choice of keywords on when it comes to ExecStop, because with that mental model one would expect ExecStop to only run when the Service is stopped from systemd, but I'm fairly sure it runs in other cases when the process started with ExecStart exits, but the service isn't necessarily stopped. I could be wrong about that though.
That is intriguing I had never seen xk used in that sense. Is that a common convention?
Yeah, it wasn't Windows that changed it, they just hopped on the bandwagon.
I remember (SunOS)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SunOS] on a SPARC in 1987 that was black in white text, and Macintosh before that.
The Biden administration said it wasn't going to initiate enforcement proceedings in the last 24 hours of their administration.

It did not, nor did it have the authority to, waive the apps stores requirement under the law to do that. To remove the potential for future enforcement actions (up to 5 years in the future) punishing them for failing to comply with the law. Neither will Trump even once he is president unless and until amongst other things ByteDance signs legally binding documents that they will divest from TikTok within 90 days.
Yeah - and an invert filter messes up photos. Again, like the author has on their blog.

If you wanna argue that we shouldn't force dark mode, maybe don't go around forcing light mode. My eyes hurt.
That's just like.. your opinion man. The whole point is it should be configurable so users can set their preference.

Personally I am blinded by light mode and it hurts and strains my eyes, everyone is different.
Request good producers to use platforms that syndicate.
Wow. Addicted, much?
I'm a bit confused by the connection you're trying to make - it sounds as if the project never went anywhere?
Xerox had applications with white backgrounds from the start.

https://crm.org/articles/xerox-parc-and-the-origins-of-gui
The last time this topic came up on here, via a different article, the majority of commenters chose to gaslight the author and continue insisting dark mode is the only valid style.
An algorithm doesn't have to reward engagement or time spent on the app. It can reward or punish anything at all -- and that's what it is about algorithms.

My feed reader (that I wrote myself) rewards things that I thumbs up and punishes things that I thumbs down.
Officially no, effectively yes. It is not like they have meaningful elections, so a lot of power brokering is done behind doors. They do, however, provide minority parties with a quota of seats, although they effectively don't have decision making power (like the governor of a province vs. the CPC chairman of the province).
Vivek Ramaswamy expected to depart DOGE
Google recommends absolute urls:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221208150134/https://www.webma...
Is this a real question? You can't imagine any population that can make this determination for itself?

If only there were organizations responsible for populations that could determine this locally for places in the world. Guess we just got to take a "world vote".
Honestly.. just keep asking "why?".

Most engineers ask "why" to the surface level questions. E.g. "Why is the bug doing this instead of that?" A: "Oh, because this conditional does thing..simple, just fix this conditional. Solved!"

Then the issue pops up again... The engineer probably didn't ask why enough.

The should have investigated more... "Why did the original author choose this logic instead of the alternative? Was it purposeful, or was it a truly logical mistake?". If it was purposeful, why was this alternative not considered? What was Product's intentions here?" etc. etc.