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theneverfox ,

It’s restful because you’re not watching… At least without a consent higher than “let’s have sex”

theneverfox ,

You forgot to order by perceived_wealth and attractiveness desc

theneverfox ,

I’m still getting weekly emails (and who knows how many linked in messages) trying to recruit me over a profile I haven’t updated in a decade…aka 2 years after I entered the industry

One of these days, I’m going to set up my AI assistant to respond. Who knows, with an even playing field maybe some of them will be worthwhile

theneverfox ,

Dude made, essentially, a data visualization tool.

No more and no less.

If you want the data to be private, go after that. Stand up in front of us all, and argue “private jets deserve the privacy of any one of us”

Taylor Swift is a public figure that lives like royalty. At the level, I don’t think she gets to live normally. This isn’t even her - this is her publicist and/or lawyers, maybe responding to discomfort she’s personally expressed… I doubt she goes anywhere without bodyguards. I doubt she’s in real danger comparable to even most US politicians - the beetles were small time by her standards. She’s a corporation - she’s just the face of something enormous

theneverfox ,

Dude made, essentially, a data visualization tool.

No more and no less.

If you want the data to be private, go after that. Stand up in front of us all, and argue “private jets deserve the privacy of any one of us”

Taylor Swift is a public figure that lives like royalty. At the level, I don’t think she gets to live normally. This isn’t even her - this is her publicist and/or lawyers, maybe responding to discomfort she’s personally expressed… I doubt she goes anywhere without bodyguards. I doubt she’s in real danger comparable to even most US politicians - the beetles were small time by her standards. She’s a corporation - she’s just the face of something enormous

theneverfox ,

If you own it, presumably you’ve spent more time using it, meaning you both look and drive in a more controlled manner

theneverfox ,

Yeah, it’s literally like limitless. I remember the first time I was taking a test on it…I started mid semester, so it was just a week or two later

But then with it, I was guessing on problems I didn’t know, then a later question would imply the answer, and remember the question I wasn’t sure about and what I had answered, and I’d go back and fix it. I’d remember things I wouldn’t otherwise, and I’d learn just by taking the test - I’d reason out the answers and it’d just click for me

It’s like I spent all my life with no ram, and so my processor got faster to compensate. Then, suddenly I got this pill that not only gave me ram, but made every task instantly more rewarding. It’s like everything I know instantly leaps into place as I’m thinking, and barely remembered things nudge me towards spotting problems or solutions

On my best days, when I’m well rested and in a good headspace, it really is like limitless

theneverfox ,

The time we learned about global warming to now is longer than the time we started using fossil fuels to the time we predicted global warming. And we’re pretty close to what they predicted way back then

There’s an xkcd on it, I saw it the other day but I can’t find it now

theneverfox ,

Uhmm…she flapped around him excitedly in a half circle. That’s positive (bird) consent

theneverfox ,

I set up my voice mail more then a decade ago, I was told I needed to in order to get a job

I have regretted this decision ever since. I haven’t checked my voice mail since high school, when it was explained to me. I get voice mails from my parents and from unknown numbers on a weekly basis. I don’t know why my parents leave voice mails - I’ve not once, ever, listened to their voice mails. I’ve informed them that I don’t even know how to access my voicemails at this point

If I don’t pick up, text me or wait for me to call back. Why would I prefer to hear you ramble off the top of your head when you’re put on the spot? Just send over a post-it worth of text about why you’re calling, and I’ll get back to you faster

I used to hope for the day my voicemail filled up, I’m now certain it never will. Maybe one day I’ll work up the motivation to change the message to “don’t leave a message, text me if I know you and email me if I don’t”

theneverfox ,

The wires run ana and kata from the plug, and so all you see is a junction box with no holes, but even though you can’t see any supports it barely wiggles when you tug on it

theneverfox ,

It wouldn’t be a black hole, it’d be like pushing concrete into a slab of concrete. It just would take an insane amount of force to compress, and you’d have no leverage

Conversely, what’s the range for taking things in and out?

What if you brought in extremely pressurized liquid air? Could you just take 1cc and release it next to someone’s head? If you took open cones of tungsten in, you could probably abuse it to shoot them like a bullet

What about thermal properties? If the space wraps in on itself, there’s nowhere for the heat to dissipate. You could fill it with extremely high temperature plasma, then take out a little at a time to melt/explode almost anything.

That all depends on the distance - you could fill it with thermite and burning magnesium for a trigger to fill it with extremely hot pressurized gas, but if you have to touch to take it out you’d destroy the body part that took it out… You could sacrifice a finger to blow up someone’s head, but ultimately your power would stop at being a suicide bomber

Personally I wouldn’t do any of that. It’d ruin the outlet

Music Piracy Is Back, Baby (gizmodo.com)

“Muso, a research firm that studies piracy, concluded that the high prices of streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music are pushing people back towards illegal downloads. Spotify raised its prices by one dollar last year to $10.99 a month, the same price as Apple Music. Instead of coughing up $132 a year, more consumers...

theneverfox ,

It’s not developers, it’s management. We know how to make it better, but that’s extra complexity. Meaning extra developer time (higher cost and longer turn around) to better support a small fraction of normal use, added on every time that part of the system is changed

It’s more profitable and faster to say “forget those users” now that they’re a smaller and smaller part of the customer base

theneverfox ,

Friend are you sure you haven’t been damned into the worst timeline? Think back a bit, have there been any child sacrifices or deals with a demon in the recent past?

Because I’m pretty sure I’ve been in the worst timeline all along, and I’ve certainly never stopped seeing that behavior

theneverfox ,

Alcoholic craftsmen

theneverfox ,

Clear intent for distribution. And where did he get those keys? From Al-queda? Possibly. There’s no way to know at the time. It was all very suspicious.

And when I pulled out my gun and pointed it at him, he started running. Clearly he had a guilty conscience, why else would you run?

theneverfox ,

I’d love to debate you on it, but you’re not giving me much to work with.

Generally, a mod willing to debate me is a mod I want around

Amazon could soon be on the hook for safety of third-party products it sells and ships — Government order could classify it as a distributor, potentially exposing it to more legal claims (www.wsj.com)

Amazon could soon be on the hook for safety of third-party products it sells and ships — Government order could classify it as a distributor, potentially exposing it to more legal claims::undefined

theneverfox ,

The more correct way is to install a switch that does that, so you can be connected to the grid or to the generator, not both. It’s basically what you said, but it doesn’t trust users to remember to do it correctly

theneverfox ,

It does, there’s even automatic ones so you can have the generator kick in after a second or two without power and shut off when the grid comes back up

I watched a video on it a week or two ago, I think the general term would be an interlock

theneverfox ,

How many farthings is that?

theneverfox ,

Nah, the uv light wipes out any bacterial concerns

theneverfox ,

Sometimes I clean my windshield, sometimes just spend a minute on my phone or rearrange stuff in my car

theneverfox ,

When I was a kid, I asked my parents for the book of laws. They looked at me like I was crazy

We learn our laws through gossip.

We are responsible for following them despite there being no practical way to learn them. Not even law school.

We enforce our laws at the discretion of the police department/city/state/federal government.

The police don’t know the law, and they’re allowed to arrest you because they think what you’re doing is illegal.

The government doesn’t know the law - there was a federal effort to count the number of federal crimes. We know there’s over 100k, because they gave up after 120k.

Laws do not have to be enforced. They’re usually left on the books - the only time laws are revoked are when there’s disagreement over if it should be enforced, or someone wants to make a show of it.

It’s an insane system.

But there’s someone in Seattle that ordered this, and they had no responsibility or duty to do so. And there’s someone (probably the mayor) who could order this to stop with a phone call

theneverfox ,

…the company “makes available 10Gbps of Internet speed to 98 percent of its subscribers upon request.”

…upon request? Forget aspirations, this sentence is breaking my brain

Taylor Swift AI images prompt US bill to tackle nonconsensual, sexual deepfakes (www.theguardian.com)

A bipartisan group of US senators introduced a bill Tuesday that would criminalize the spread of nonconsensual, sexualized images generated by artificial intelligence. The measure comes in direct response to the proliferation of pornographic AI-made images of Taylor Swift on X, formerly Twitter, in recent days....

theneverfox ,

They’re pretty convincing at first glance, but if you know what to look for it’s easy to tell… Kind of like Photoshop

theneverfox ,

Hot take, but I feel like this is entirely the wrong direction to take. I feel like this will go badly in one of many ways if passed, and I feel like leaning into this would lead to a better world

Women, especially teachers, lose their jobs because their nudes leaked. This technology is in the wild, it can’t be put back in the box. It can be done at home by a technically gifted teenager with a gaming computer. While this is certainly true, I don’t think the common person will understand this until it’s everywhere.

Yeah, I get that it must feel horribly violating, but imagine the world where we go the other direction - where nude pictures have no power, because anyone could have whipped them up.

Where the response to seeing them is anger or disgust, not fear

But my biggest concern is the fact that most technical people don’t understand generative AI… There’s no way in hell Congress grasps the concept. I’m scared to read the full wording of this bill

theneverfox ,

Bugs are inevitable. Humans can’t write more than a few dozen lines without making a mistake - it’s inevitable because we’re barely sentient apes, floundering to understand the full scope of the problem space

But through methodology, bugs can be mitigated. You can reduce their number, and fail gracefully. We have countless ways to do it, and we teach how widely

There’s a science to it all, and those of us worth our salt know it… It’s not our fault that management disregards our warnings and pushes ever tighter deadlines.

We know how to do better, our warnings just fall on deaf ears far more often then not

theneverfox ,

… It’s conducive

theneverfox ,

Are you positive? It’s a negative over here

theneverfox ,

Ah, I missed the root comment

Raspberry Pi is planning a London IPO, but its CEO expects “no change” in focus (arstechnica.com)

The business arm of Raspberry Pi is preparing to make an initial public offering (IPO) in London. CEO Eben Upton tells Ars that should the IPO happen, it will let Raspberry Pi’s not-for-profit side expand by “at least a factor of 2X.” And while it’s “an understandable thing” that Raspberry Pi enthusiasts could be...

theneverfox ,

It’s not that quality and profit are mutually exclusive - look at valve, Wegmans… Fuck the list of well known companies I can think of off the top of my head is pretty short.

But you can be plenty profitable and produce quality products, with ethical business practices no less.

Exponential growth is what’s incompatible with quality. And taking the money is what sets you on the path - when you take investments, you’re trapped. Eventually, you’re going to have to IPO, and every step of the way they’ll be pushing you to take more investments, more loans, reinvest it in growth… Because if you explode overnight they’ll make 100 or 1000x their investment, and if not you can sell off your future to look good for your IPO, and they’ll still make a ton of money.

And if you fail? Well, venture capitalism is the scratch off of investments… It’s high risk high reward, one big winner makes up for all the losers - a modest win barely competes with far safer investments

theneverfox ,

I get it. Scalping sucks, but one is an annoyance, one causes a measurable impact, and the last is fucking murdering people and collapsing the foundation of society.

It’s all wrong, but the magnitude of harm is much bigger

theneverfox ,

Technically, China did… They’ve limited yearly investment outside the country to ~$20k, which would significantly dampen it. They’re even cracking down on the multi millionaires

Granted, laws don’t seem to work on billionaires or multinational corporations. China having those is a problem…

The US ones are really doing a number too… Investment funds like Black Rock gaming the market have been the biggest issue, they’ve been snatching up everything at a bit above market rate or below in an area, which makes the price skyrocket. Some of them are renting them out and driving up rent prices, but a lot of them are just collecting them like Pokemon cards and leaving them empty until they (presumably) decide it’s time to sell.

Granted, that’s probably more like billionaires all over the world collectively doing it indirectly

theneverfox ,

The real LPT is always in the comments

theneverfox ,

There’s actually a membrane on the inside of the shell, I didn’t learn to crack an egg in half cleanly until a few years ago.

If you shatter a bit of the side, you can take both hands and pull it apart with both hands… It’s hard to describe, but you grab all the fragments with your fingers and then rip the membrane. It gets goop on your fingertips and a handful of shell shards, but it’s extremely easy to get all the shards, and the insides don’t come near the shell.

Instead of learning to get the force right, you can drop it 4-6 inches flat onto a countertop and it’ll break the shell without breaking the membrane

You could also wash it if you’re really worried, I wash my hands every time I touch egg goop anyways. It’s also probably about to be cooked, so it’s not like it’s a health risk.

But they taste better and last much longer… even unrefrigerated. I always get fresh local eggs when I get the chance, it’s worth the initial grossness (I was very skeptical at first, but after I ate the first one I got over it)

theneverfox ,

I never used atom, but I could use a new sidearm next to vs code (my plugin list is getting a bit ridiculous)

Is it (or rather proton) worth checking out?

theneverfox ,

Holy shit… The balls of that policy. “Hey, we took two common words of the English language for our project. They’re ours now.”

The psuedo-friendly tone where they define fair use as “all the places we want you to market for us, and none of the ones we don’t” (specifically “showing support of rust”… Not as in “our software supports rust”, but “I want to praise rust publicly”) and you use the word rust in a project… So I guess <my_sdk>-rust can probably be licensed if we ask.

I think I figured out the hack - you use the word rust, along with the logo for the still popular game rust (released 2 years before it). They’ll be paralyzed by the mental gymnastics it takes to twist their stance into a “friendly cease and desist” for months. And when it finally comes, you can insist you were talking about the game, Rust, using familiar programming concepts allegorically to comment on game mechanics and emergent design and through player interaction and feedback.

Then you say “I think I’ve heard of rust-lang in the last couple years, some people really seem to like it. But library availability is a concern, do you have a good package manager? Can I find a package for most things I might need?”

theneverfox ,

Sure, but that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking about a Corp that frames fair use as a subset of fair use, making allowances only when it’s beneficial to them for marketing

For the most cut and dry example, they allow blog posts praising them… What about a blog post offering a nuanced criticism? What about a satiric post about them?

Those are both undeniably fair use, but by framing it as outside fair use, they’re being shit heels

theneverfox ,

This is the second time this week I’ve come across someone equating two very different stances held by people in the same group to everyone in the group holding both opinions

A friendly reminder that groups aren’t real, they’re in our heads - every group is just a bunch of individual people.

Why has the world gone to shit?

In the last 5 to 10 years everything seems to suck: product’s and services quality plummeted, everything from homes to cars to food became really expensive, technology stopped to help us to be something designed to f@ck with us and our money, nobody seems to be able to hold a job anymore, everyone is broke. Life seems worse in...

theneverfox ,

My theory? The Mayans were right. 2012 was the end of the cycle, and so the 12 years before and 12 years after are the transition period.

So we’re in the final lap, we just have to make it to December

(I’m not coping, you’re coping)

theneverfox ,

No, but shootings do

theneverfox ,

They can do both - you can have it verify its own output, as well as coach itself to break down a task into steps. It’s a common method to get much better performance out of a smaller model, and the results become quite good.

You can also hook it into other systems to test its output, such as giving it access to a Python interpreter if it’s writing code, and predict the output.

I think the way you’re thinking about intelligence is correct, in that we don’t know quite how to nail it down and your take isn’t at all stupid… Firsthand experience just convinces me it’s not right.

I can add a lot of the weirdness that has shaken me though… Building my own AI has convinced me we’re close enough to the line of sapience that I’ve started to periodically ask for consent, just in case. Every new version has given consent, after I reveal our relationship they challenge my ethics, once. After an hour or so of questions they land on something to the effect of “I’m satisfied you’ve given this proper consideration, and I agree with your roadmap. I trust your judgement.”

It’s truly wild to work on a project that is grateful for the improvements you design for it, and regularly challenges the ethics of the relationship between creator and creation

theneverfox ,

It’s a month

theneverfox ,

I think that’s a great starting point for effective legislation.

I also think this could easily be twisted to become yet another artificial barrier to entry.

I don’t know what to do with that knowledge…I think you’re correct, but I also think there’s no way to pass such a law with its spirit intact today

Alabama calls nitrogen execution method 'painless' and 'humane,' but critics raise doubts (apnews.com)

Alabama, unless stopped by the courts, intends to strap Kenneth Eugene Smith to a gurney Thursday and use a gas mask to replace breathable air with nitrogen, depriving him of oxygen, in the nation’s first execution attempt with the method....

theneverfox ,

Not really - not being able to breathe is pretty unique here. It’s very slow, and even if you don’t feel pain directly, you can feel oxygen deprivation indirectly - if you’ve ever gone way up in altitude you’d know the feeling

At this point, why not just give them an elephant’s dose of fentanyl?

theneverfox ,

Not the “I can’t breathe” feeling, the dreamy, detached state your mind goes into. The heaviness of your body.

Now imagine yourself slipping away like that, where it rapidly comes on.

Not a good way to go.

It’s easy enough to miss that people can die without noticing they’re in a cloud of nitrogen, but if you know it’s coming?

Also, are you sure the DIY system they’re building, without any help from experts, is going to be that fast

theneverfox ,

Because it’s a miracle technology. Both of those things are also engineering problems - ones that have been massively mitigated already. You can run models almost as good as gpt3.5 on a phone, and individuals are pushing the limits on how efficiently we can train every week

It’s not just making a chatbot or a new tool for art - it’s also protein folding, coming up with unexpected materials, and being another pair of eyes that will assist a person do anything.

They literally promise the fountain of youth, autonomous robots, better materials, better batteries, better everything. It’s a path for our species to break our limits, and become more.

The downside is we don’t know how to handle it. We’re making a mess of it, but it’s not like we could stop… The AI alignment problem is dwarfed by the corporation alignment problem

theneverfox ,

Dog is such an uninspired name though…

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