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Journalists have been on the grievance-grifter gravy-train for a long long time, so we can expect unrelenting hostility to anything that redirects attention away from the lucrative…

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Doesn't "everything Plato said was stupid" count as philosophical progress since Plato ?

This is a decent exploration of the third-worst possible outcome of AI, but it's a bizarre dismissal of the second-worst, even though he explains the mechanism himself: > The dooms…

> when a straightforwardly “I’m a Nazi” Nazi showed up in the beta, people used the report function, and the Bluesky team labeled the account and banned it from the Bluesky app "Do…

Among all the fuss about typography, the authors have overlooked the most important detail about the PHD thesis, which was that Dennis Ritchie was the inventor of Brainfuck.

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No, this is just question-begging by treating GPT's access to the world as being external to it, but your own as being part of you. If we fix this by treating your senses as extern…

When GPT mentions ice-cream, it does so because it was in the corpus. When it occurred in the corpus, it was as a reference to actual ice-cream. So GPT has just as much intentional…

1 GPa is less than half the yield strength of the best steels. All you would need to maintain the superconducting state is to put the material in a steel pipe.

Good for him. Nobody's racism should be unscientific.

Welp, HN has nerdsniped me again : After some unpaid pondering, here's my suggestion for a middle ground on downvoting: 1) Reduce issue-related downvoting by only allowing some ran…

Yes, tell everyone how much you hate white people too. Your act of piety is surely guaranteed to keep the inquisition from your door.

'Originators assumed that “liberals” would react negatively to such fliers and condemn them or take them down, thus “proving” that liberals did not even think it was “okay" to be w…

No, that's not what |I'm supposing. The 80386 got used in vending machines because technology moves on, the new stuff gets cheap, and because it's more generally useful, it gains i…

1974: "No-one would put an AGI in a bomb, that's just ridiculous" 1986: "No-one is going to put an 80386 in a vending machine, that's just ridiculous"

"The Yellowstone magma chamber is sitting there like an enormous angry zit. What's our plan ?" "We're going to stick a very big pin in it"

But the lack of a positive refcount means that it is, so this solves the problem the article was complaining about.

> task groups (nurseries from trio) can't arrive soon enough in the stdlib Please, no. Asyncio is horrible, and bodging it to make it less horrible just means we will be forced to …

This one seems quite easy to fix - just have the scheduler check that task objects have a positive refcount before running them, including the first time.

Did they change their minds about the waste in the pools at Fukushima ? If those had collapsed (and at one point it looked as if they might), it would have fatally irradiated over …

Copyright offences on an industrial scale.

https://youtu.be/_VfSl0iGAus?t=25