curtis3389

I recently looked into using Git in a decentralized way. It's actually pretty easy!

When you would usually create a PR, you use `git format-patch` to create a patch file and send that to whoever is going to merge it.

They create a branch and use `git am` to apply the patch to it, review the changes, and merge it to main.

It is nice that git supports multiple remotes, though. It feels good to know that `git push` might not work for my project right now, but I know `git push srht` will get the code off of my laptop.

Civil asset forfeiture is wild shit. John Oliver had a great episode on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kEpZWGgJks

They make criminal accusations against your property and not against you, and because of that, you have no rights or recourse. This is just blatant nonsense under the US legal system, but that's kind of irrelevant.

Civil forfeiture was introduced to take houses and cars from drug dealers as part of the War on Drugs, which was really started as war on minorities and hippies. The government wants to take stuff from drug dealers, so it gets to do it (see legal realism: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/legal_realism).

This is quite horrifying, but not particularly surprising. Most Americans have dehumanized homeless people, because if we truly saw them as equal humans, we would have to acknowledge that we all exist in a system where our humanity is contingent on the contents of our bank account.

Programmers today can feel the angst caused by this dehumanization when they look at LLMs generating code. We can see that our humanity could be ripped from us at any time.

It drives me nuts how OpenAI has misleadingly marketed their products, and the tech community at large has failed to clarify what their products really are. This article is so unsurprising to the point of being boring. Of course an LLM generates broken links. Why wouldn't it?

To those reading: 3-2-1 backups: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/

Also, Amazon Glacier is a pretty cool service, and it's incredibly cheap.

> At the heart of the move, say the two companies, is a six-year-old pay rule in New York that, among other things, requires firms like Uber and Lyft to pay drivers for the idle time they rack up between rides.

Remember, Uber and Lyft were created to get around labor laws, and here we see the companies continuing to try to skirt labor laws. It is a standard move of capitalists to fight regulations tooth and nail to try to protect their profit margins. These are fundamentally unprofitable businesses built on exploiting vulnerable workers.

Nah, but they'll study the systems and their incentives that led to such actions. Or they'll be more focused on finding food and shelter.

When speaking about LLMs, confabulation and hallucination refer to the same thing. The term "confabulation" is just the most accurate description of what's happening, whereas the term "hallucination" refers to something LLMs are fundamentally incapable of.

For comparison: Windows Server has 5-10 years of support, and MacOS has 3-5.

Repairing an obvious injustice.

The War on Drugs is a war on personal freedom, and the power the state has been given to enact it goes way beyond what any person should see as reasonable.

This is great first step, but they should be automatically expunging the records as well instead of requiring 175,000 people to pay a lawyer to request it.

Some of China's new reactors are pebble-bed reactors, which I just think are super-cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble-bed_reactor

The US Supreme Court has been illegitimate in my mind since Citizens United.

They're nothing more than unelected politicians working for moneyed interests.

If this is fracking water, it's truly horrifying.

This seems like a no-brainer for the console makers. The consoles are already sold, and they're making back any losses from that through games sales and subscriptions.

Then X comes along and asks for half a mil a year. I'm sure they looked at their usage numbers and how people feel about X, and they decided they could cut the feature and not lose many/any customers. Feature cut; projected revenue remains the same; problem solved.

This comment section reveals that you live in a dystopia.

If only Apple was big enough to fight the patent trolls...

I suppose this shows the purpose of the robot: to demonstrate the electronics. There is nothing interesting about solving a cube (although this robot is incapable of rotating the center), and a 3x3 cube can be solved quite quickly by humans already (3.13s!). I'd love to see them try to do this with any other cube. There's something quite special about the 3x3 that makes it easier to solve. No parity problems like an even cube, and no center pieces to move like a >3 cube.

School Principal: Hey, you beat up that kid, so I'm going to suspend you. The kid started it, so he's getting in trouble as well.

Israel: If you punish me, I'm going to hit him again.

> We’re joining forces with News Corp to support the highest journalistic standards and enrich our products with its premium journalism.

> OpenAI has permission to display content from News Corp ... with the ultimate objective of providing people the ability to make informed choices based on reliable information and news sources.

Great choice of partner there, OpenAI.

This article was a great read. Much better than the featured article.

Abandoned houses. They're all over the US, slowly decaying and collapsing, but at one time they were new. Someone assembled the materials and put in days of hard work, sweat, and blood building the house. They looked upon the completed house with all sorts of hopes and dreams in their mind. What happened? What was it like when they left? Did they hope to return someday? Or were they leaving behind a life of pain and suffering? Are there relatives that still own the house that look upon the house with disdain? Or is it a bank dispassionately looking to sell the land? Will it ever be bulldozed and burned? Or will it continue to sit in the corner of the plot rotting away to dirt and dust?

I believe you misunderstood what I wrote.

The difference between the OSI and GNU/FSF are well stated here: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/floss-and-foss.en.html

This is your reminder that OSI shills for corporations and is opposed to the GNU project and digital freedoms.

OSI has always existed to shift the conversation from talking about freedoms and rights in the digital era to about software quality.

Here, again, we see them pushing their corporate-benefactors' interests: reducing costs and meeting compliance requirements.

This reminds me of Orson Welles' excellent film: F for Fake.

It explores art forgery, art experts, and the author of a book about art forgery committing a massive forgery.

TFA states that the yakuza boss was acting as a middleman between an insurgent group in Myanmar and what he thought was an associate of an Iranian general. The group wanted to sell weapons-grade nuclear material and buy conventional military weapons. It could be related to Myanmar's rumored nuclear program: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myanmar_and_weapons_of_mass_de...

I find it interesting that they also wanted to offload meth and heroin into specifically the New York market. What's the connection between Iran and the drug trade?

Assuming the US legislature hasn't been almost completely broken since 2010, there are really just 3 solutions to the country's ballooning debt:

1. Increase taxes (a no-go for Republicans) 2. Default (a no-go for everyone) 3. Reduce spending, probably entitlements and not military (Republicans would love this; Democrats would whinge)

Option 3 is the most likely to occur if the legislature was able to get its act together.

None of this would stop the decline of the USD as world's reserve currency. With the ongoing political chaos in the US, countries are wise to diversify.

I suppose you would need to weld two hemispheres of plutonium together to make the hollow pit[1] for an implosion device. Or it could be safer to work on smaller pieces and then weld them together.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_(nuclear_weapon)

TestGen-LLM is such a strange creation. I can see how it could be used as a first step in a refactoring or rewrite, but the emphasis on code coverage in the paper seems totally brain-broke. I suppose it'd be great if your org is already brain-broke and demanding high coverage, but TestGen-LLM won't make your project's code better in any way, and it'll increase the friction involved in actually implementing improvements. It'd be much more useful to generate edge-case tests that may or may not be passing, but TestGen-LLM relies on compiler errors and failing tests to filter out LLM garbage. The lack of any examples of the generated tests in the paper makes me suspect that they're the same as the rest of the LLM-generated code I have seen: amateurish.