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This feels very similar to the register used on placards in contemporary art museums to me so I don't think there's reason to suspect an LLM.

"remix culture" required skill and talent. Not everyone could be Girl Talk or make The Grey Album or Wugazi. The artists creating those projects clearly have hundreds if not thousands of hours of practice differentiating them from someone who just started pasting MP3s together in a DAW yesterday.

If this is "just another tool" then my question is: does the output of someone who has used this tool for one thousand hours display a meaningful difference in quality to someone who just picked it up?

I have not seen any evidence that it does.

Another idea: What the pro generative AI crowd doesn't seem to understand is that good art is not about _execution_ it's about _making deliberate choices_. While a master painter or guitarist may indeed pull off incredible technical feats, their execution is not the art in and of itself, it is widening the amount of choices they can make. The more and more generative AI steps into the role of making these choices ironically the more useless it becomes.

And lastly: I've never met anyone who has spent significant time creating art react to generative AI as anything more than a toy.

I tried zed for a few weeks because I'm generally sympathetic to the "use a native app" idea vs Electron. I generally liked it and its UX but:

1. VSCode is pretty damn fast to be honest. Very rarely is my slowdown in my work VSCode loading. Maybe I don't open very large files? Probably 5k lines of typescript at most.

2. Integration with the Typescript language server was just not as good as VSCode. I can't pin down exactly what was wrong but the autocompletions in particular felt much worse. I've never worked on a language server or editor so I don't know what's on zed/VSCode and what's on the TS language server.

Eventually all the little inconveniences wore on me and I switched back to VSCode.

I will probably try it again after a few more releases to see if it feels better.

Isn't the reverse of God In The Gaps just as ridiculous? Just because we have been able to use a materialistic, scientific approach to get this far doesn't necessarily mean it will keep working forever on everything.

Using your metaphor at the end: "There's dragons just over the next hill" and "There haven't been dragons so far so there will never be dragons" are both just guesses.

It's hard to ignore when it takes up my entire screen and I have to scroll to see anything else. AI artwork is popping up everywhere and I don't think it looks as cool as people seem to think. It comes off incredibly tacky.

Hello yes it is I Mr. Big Business CEO and could someone call up Fox and tell them to run an article that says "more money doesn't make employees happy, returning to office does", thanks.

1. Not _every_ human is capable of creating a false dataset. 2. No human is capable of creating 1000 false datasets in a day or whatever.

The same reason it's cool that AI can make a recipe for a cake or draw a picture of a boat is the same reason it's bad when it can do bad things. It's not as if people were not capable of making recipes for cakes or drawing pictures of boats. It's just now _anyone_ can rapidly do those thing on demand +/- some efficacy determined by the sophistication of the AI.

Before we can select a function to convert a string into a number we must first pick a numerical type

Except this has literally nothing to do with static typing and everything to do with whether or not the language you're using cares about numeric types.

For instance in typescript you'd just have `number` as the type. You could conceive of a dynamically typed language like python where adding a u8 to a u32 would cause a runtime error. In which case it sure would be nice to have the compiler tell you to convert before you called a function.

The other problem is that when you write such trivial programs

If only I had a career writing trivial programs that would make a lot of things easier.

I've dabbled with Svelte and find it pleasant to use and I think this is a step in the right direction. The main reason I ultimately keep coming back to React is I find the compile-time alterations to the semantics of my code difficult to reason about.

I've spent a lot of time building an intuition for how Javascript code executes and how I can combine its primitives to make reasonable abstractions. The fact that this _looks_ like Javascript but suddenly operates differently is almost more confusing to me than if Svelte was just a non-Javascript language.

React's `useState`, `useMemo`, etc. are perhaps more verbose but they're just functions. Dependency arrays are messy but it's fairly easy to extrapolate their behavior from a basic description.

If we boil the definition of of socialism vs capitalism into "who owns the means of production?" Capitalism answers "a small group of people by natural right" and socialism answers "everyone, collectively". These definitions leave you with the only alternative being "a different small group of people" (arguably the USSR did model this, ergo allegations of "state capitalism"). Given industrial production (assuming no one is advocating for a return to feudalism) it's one or the other, there's a privileged class or there's not.

If you mean why has no one come up with different ideas for _accomplishing_ socialism post-Marx (or Lenin or Mao), well they have. There's all kinds of weird and wild ideas out there. Searchable terms for interesting ideas on organizing society include "participatory economics" and "democratic confederalism".

The article even reaches the conclusion that granting more ownership to employees might be a solution. What an idea! You could make a new mode of production out of this.

Assuming you mean "Big Bang" in the sense of the beginning of the universe, not necessarily.

doesn't the fact that the Big Bang happened imply that there was some kind of state-change: from Big Bang is not happening to Big Bang is happening

Language is incredibly bad at describing this because we did not develop it when such a concept as "outside of time" existed. The word "happened" is misleading you I think. If we define "something that happened" as an event with a before and after then the Big Bang did not, by that definition, "happen".

I've had it explained to me that asking "What happened before the big bang?" is akin to asking "What's north of the north pole?"

We can safely add plenty of liberal democracies to that list if the criteria is "willing to cause the deaths of millions to realize their political project". At the very least Britain and the US.

As the other poster mentioned they're referencing treatment of trans children.

They are also factually incorrect as surgical intervention is not and has never been part of the recommended treatment for children. As such their intentions are either misinformed or malicious.

If not having access to "super reactions" or special avatars on Discord make you feel a genuine and affecting sense of envy and self-consciousness I uh... don't know what to tell you. It's some gifs, you just can't post some gifs.

This feels monumentally overblown to me. I don't pay for nitro but I clearly benefit from all the people who do and if they get some fun, silly little perks that's fine.

Well here's a start: humans are not dinosaurs.

Having warm Earth is much better than having an Ice age, right?

This is not the choice we're dealing with? We are not in a situation where we either continue to cause global heating or else face an ice age.

Yes, if I deliberately search for people saying ridiculous things I will find them. Doing so does not indicate a broader, systemic "anti-white" tendency in society.

Racism is actually significantly more complicated than "people saying mean things" based on race. If there were "anti-white" bias in society then why is there significant difference in the favor of white people across basically every health and economic outcome we can measure?

The inflammatory rhetoric of a handful of people (professors or otherwise) is in no way equivalent or comparable to the historic and systemic racism faced by black people (or the discrimination faced by other minority groups). The conflation of these demonstrates a lack of understanding of what is even _meant_ by "racism".

The idea that statements can have the "colors flipped" and be equivalent assumes a context where there exists racial and ethnic equality, which there isn't. A white person saying "I don't want brown people to move into this neighborhood" and a brown person saying "I don't want white people to move into this neighborhood" are only equivalent if you evaluate those statements without a social and historical context.

In this example how do we think that a legacy of redlining, gentrification, and racial wealth inequality would impact the motivations of the speakers?

I completely agree the primary root cause of minority oppression is a societal pressure to create division within groups that hold shared economic interests (poor whites and poor blacks, for example). We historically see cross-racial class movements being cracked down on _hard_ by "the powers that be" as it were. See the Reconstruction-era Farmer's Alliance, MLK's Poor People's Campaign, Fred Hampton's organizing, etc.

I never meant to imply that 100% of SWMs are directly responsible for the oppression of minorities. I'm simply pointing out that the rhetoric of characterizing a social movement as "anti-white" or "anti-man" or "anti-straight" is in itself a predictable reaction from people accustomed to certain privilege. In fact I would argue that this rhetoric plays directly into the divisions I mentioned previously.

GDScript is fine and I use it but it's a stretch to compare its type system to TypeScript. GDScript doesn't have generics let alone conditional types, string template types, variadic tuple types, etc. TS is significantly more sound as well if you turn on a lot of the strictness options.

Glad to see the HN crowd is as normal as ever when it comes to sex and relationships.

* Bengal famine [1]

* Boer concentration camps [2]

* Various indigenous genocides [3]

* Gaza and West Bank occupation [4]

* 750k deaths a year due to long working hours [5]

* Millions in the atlantic slave trade [6]

* the 19th century cotton industry

* the modern cotton industry [7]

I can go on.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengal_famine_of_1943

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War_concentration_...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocide_of_indigenous_peoples [4] https://www.statista.com/chart/16516/israeli-palestinian-cas...

[5] https://www.who.int/news/item/16-09-2021-who-ilo-almost-2-mi...

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_slave_trade

[7] https://ejfoundation.org/news-media/the-casualties-of-cotton

This is... an almost obsessive level of thinking about Twitter. I don't know why you would force yourself to use something you clearly didn't need.

I do find it funny that he found a community of people focused on getting followers on twitter to tweet to about twitter.

This has reinforced my decision to avoid this website at all costs.

I've worked at two companies using Elixir/Phoenix and both of them treated it exactly like a Rails app and there was no discernable BEAM-y ness about it other than how the library worked under the hood.

I asked the more senior Elixir devs if we should do something to take advantage of the platform and was met with shrugs.

Well to be fair Elm runs on a completely different platform, it's just the compiler is written in Haskell. "Leveraging the Haskell ecosystem" isn't part of Elm's value prop.

Installing the most popular LSP implementation for the language you're using is hardly comparable to setting up, like, an Arch install.

Not really fair to compare the dev experiences _for macOS development_ across VSCode and XCode. I wouldn't recommend using VSCode for Cocoa/UIKit/SwiftUI dev.

I'll say that working on TS/React in VSCode is head and shoulders above Swift in XCode from a DX perspective. I had to routinely restart XCode to verify that type errors were actually there, it was incredibly slow, and the Swift compiler would give up on highly polymorphic types and red line them.

I suppose US Citizens are all "in on" the US gov'ts various coups in Latin America, military interventions in the middle east, overzealous surveillance state, and lets throw Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo in there because we haven't overthrown our government?

I'd argue that it's not human nature but rather our socio-economic system that keeps us grinding away. It's become obvious that for the most part automation does a disservice to workers rather than liberating them since they don't have the legal ownership of the automating forces. A typical factory or whatever if it is able to automate 20% of the current work being done will simply lay off 20% of its workforce rather than reduce everyone's workload by 20% while maintaining their wage.

Now this creates a bit of a crisis since the automated production produces things that need to be bought by the workers they displace, who now no longer have any money. The outcome as I see it is an extension of credit systems and the propagation of tedious nonsense jobs (ala Graeber's Bullshit Jobs).

In order to bring about the ideal of automation creating more free time for all without diminishing their income you'd have to transfer ownership of the automating forces to the workers they're replacing. But then I'm just a Marxist looney so what do I know.

"In healthy people" seems to be doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I've done mushrooms three times and the first two were fun (but not enlightening or life-changing) experiences. The third time I had a bad trip. It was "my fault" in that in retrospect I did not have the right set/setting to take them, but it triggered a massive panic attack that spiraled me pretty severely into a months long anxiety episode. Before the mushrooms I was fine and after them I was having nightly panic attacks that lasted hours. I have a panic disorder but it was "in remission" previously.

Now having a panic disorder may disqualify me as a "healthy person" but given that the study is analyzing it as a treatment for mental disorders it seems that that's not what they mean. I don't know if panic/anxiety is included in "a range of mental health conditions, including treatment-resistant depression (TRD) and PTSD". I'm just saying that it definitely _can_ be harmful to your mental health based on my experience. I don't know whether or not complementary talk therapy would have changed my outcome.