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Say they don't. If they can't afford to buy their own house, now those people no longer have a place to live. How is that better?

His two previous impeachments don't seem to have slowed him down, so it seems unlikely that a third would be any different. Not to mention his felony conviction.

I can't say as I'm not familiar with Preact signals, but I do know the Angular team brought on the author of SolidJS to implement signals in Angular. Though I think I remember reading at some point that Preact signals were essentially directly ported from SolidJS, so they're likely similar if nothing else. (Someone correct me if I'm wrong)

A good name for that could be "pragmatic perfectionism". Has a nice little alliteration and everything

I did the same and had the same suspicion. If that's actually the case, the ideas and the writing don't change, but it changes how you feel about it doesn't it? Which brings up some really interesting questions.

It made me realize that part of why I appreciated it so much was that I felt like I had some level of connection with another person who lived and learned and had shared experiences.

But on another level, it's sort of like how I see good works of fiction that really hit me emotionally and I feel real emotions for people that don't exist. My thought goes something like "this specific story isn't true, but it's true for someone, somewhere."

you shouldn't write code until you know someone is willing to buy

This is kind of a weird line to see in a thread where people are talking about coding for the joy of the craft. Also makes me think about where we would be if everyone who contributed to OSS projects over the years thought this way. And to be clear, I'm not shunning or criticizing, having this mindset is totally fine and I'm sure it does well for you personally.

Damn, not only is this great wisdom but your writing is honestly beautiful... Are you a writer by any chance?

Any reason you're using CSV instead of parquet?

This made me laugh audibly. Thank you.

Just barely. Had the military been just a bit more indoctrinated, they may have started shooting. Which, as far as I understand, were the instructions they received. If nothing else, if the legislators weren't able to get in, this would have gone a whole other way, and the coup could easily have been successful.

While it's true that there are U.S. states where it's illegal, there are many places (maybe most?) where it's not. Presumably due to the fact that it's near impossible to prove in court unless they were giving out receipts that said "bribe for business deal" on them or something. Otherwise there's almost no scenario where you can't say "we're friends and they gave me a gift, I chose their company for the contract because I thought they were the best choice."

I think you misunderstood the parent comment. The first part reads as if you're replying to a different comment, I don't see how you could come to that conclusion based on what was said.

For the second part, they were talking about the scientific community, supporting the paper by reproducing results. Not regular Joes saying "I support this paper" or whatever, if that's what you were thinking.

Scrolling down, I see that they apparently also sell hoodies for $130USD (not including tax and shipping). Literal insanity

Not sure if you're being sarcastic, considering the link you provided has a chart showing the progressive debasement of roman currency, but they definitely had inflation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_of_the_Third_Century#Ec...

Honestly. They want to earn back people's trust, so they figure the best way to do that is with good ol' gaslighting. Thing is, it'll probably work. At least to some extent. The irony is actually kind of funny.

Seems like you're implying that harmful stereotypes either: don't exist, aren't actually harmful, or are the "truth"? If, when given the text "[MASK] is a female job", a language model only fills in "CEO" a fraction of the time compared to what it would for "male", is that "the truth" because male CEOs vastly outnumber female ones? I would say no, because we're not actually saying anything about gender ratios in that text. And it's not that there isn't some form of truth in that output. In a pure mathematical sense, you're just more likely to see the word "CEO" associated to males. That's true. But what if I'm using it for something other than predicting text? At that point I don't think it's too hard to see how this could have farther reaching downstream impacts that could have negative effects. If I want to use it for assessing potential candidates for hiring, is it "teaching it to lie" if I train it to reduce or eliminate any gender or racial bias so that it doesn't potentially screen out the best candidates?

I can't say I like that chatgpt says "sorry I'm a robot" for even mild things, but it might be good too understand that that's a totally different issue. Mostly a PR one. They don't want to be in the news because people keep having it write essays about how great eugenics is. I wouldn't worry too much about it though, there are already uncensored LLMs you can spin up yourself so commercial products will likely follow soon enough.

Also, how sure are we this intelligence doesn't experience pain?

I'd say pretty damn sure. LLMs have no mechanism for anything close to conscious experience, let alone pain.

How can you tell which way is up?

Something like ge-tracker? I always thought it sounded fun to work on something like that, but also a ton of work for a game I'd probably be bored with way before I'd be able to finish anything tangible. I'm guessing there's decent potential for profit though, so that might be a good motivator.

Arrays aren't just used for counting though. For example, the origin in cartesian coordinates is "0,0" and not "1,1". Not to say that I disagree, I don't think I've come across a situation where 0-based indexing would have been better for me personally. But there are definitely a lot of situations where I can imagine it would be preferable, like pretty much whenever you're doing math with them.

Is it? If you're doing low-level stuff maybe, but I really haven't done much of that so I'm not even sure I know what you mean by "extending" an array (presumably has something to do with allocating contiguous memory?) and I can't actually think of any situation off the top of my head where I would ever need "the last index + 1" what with array methods existing and all.

I wonder if it has something to do with a cultural perception of how life and the world in general is perceived. As in, "He's currently experiencing his first year of life" vs. "He has lived for one year", kind of "the journey" vs. "the destination". Seeing the present more than looking back the past. In the same line of thinking as "What you're doing" vs. "what you've done", or maybe even "making progress towards goals" rather than "accomplishments".

Seems like a healthier and maybe even more productive way to see the world. I don't know enough about Korea to say whether that has anything at all to do with the way they count ages, but I feel like it's an interesting thought regardless.

It's more a problem of population density vs the cost of setting up and maintaining the infrastructure.

We all have to climb the latter of love, one rung at a time.

I find this line of thinking incredibly bizarre. If PTO is important to the candidate, why should they waste their time spending hours interviewing only to find out that the work-life balance in this position isn't going to work for them? To you that's having their head up their ass? God that's strange to me. I'm sure glad I don't work for people who make sweeping judgements like that.

I mean, that's what they would say isn't it? "Oh no, I accidentally had several squads go out and install industrial-grade loudspeakers in the woods and approved the sending out of forged warning letters to actual residents, oopsie doopsie!" and "Ah those guys weren't supposed to do that grr, sorry we'll tell them to stop!". Like yeah, ok, sure. Regardless, it's more than a little scary, not just that they're intentionally targeting the Canadian public, but that the people doing it are this incompetent. Unless they intended to get caught and that was part of the plan, who knows.

The cost-benefit analysis might look pretty decent to an arms manufacturer and their buddies and family members in congress/the senate.

Weird pivot to an unrelated point, but I find it kind of funny that this article is essentially saying the opposite of what you're implying. They noticed these deaths weren't actually from the virus, so they fixed the data. All 7 data points out of however many thousand.

That's really interesting. What's this effect called? I'd love to learn more about it. This topic fascinates me to no end!

Anecdotally, one of my friends had a small family gathering at some point and everyone got Covid except for the smokers. Could easily be a coincidence given the sample size of like 7 people, but interesting nonetheless.