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by js8 3y ago
I work close to monitoring/observability space and I have to say, putting query parameters into path portion of the URL is a really bad idea. I know it's fashionable to have URLs like: https://example.com/appServic
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by js8 3y ago
You claim that "people not knowing what they need or want" is some objective reality, but I don't think it is. It seems to me that it is a symptom of top leadership unwillingness to commit to a clear goal. I also think you ca
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by js8 3y ago
> Today’s Catholic Church would be viewed by its founders as some kind of uber-hippy bunch of democratic maniacs out to destroy civilisation. Are you sure? It seems to me that Jesus would be dismayed by how establishment they've be
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by js8 3y ago
I think Tech has nothing to do with it, it's just neoliberalism and financialization of the economy. Basically the idea that your problems are your own, and the society (or government) has no responsibility to help people who are strug
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by js8 3y ago
Yes, you can do that, but then you can express only well-typed programs in that logic. My point is, I believe, that concatenative language such as Joy doesn't prescribe a specific way to do the evaluation (or type-checking) and as such
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by js8 3y ago
My understanding is that you control evaluation more explicitly in concatenative combinators. Combinatory logic cannot destructure programs, only apply them. I think this has implications for eta-equivalence of programs. I think there are p
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I think it has been generally accepted that Josef Capek (Karel's brother) was actually the one who coined the word "robot". Karel Capek wanted to call them "labors" originally.
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by js8 3y ago
We already have undetectable fakes. Anybody can buy a blue check mark on Twitter and pretend to be somebody else. Anybody can also domain squat. The way we detect them is if this becomes a problem, the authentic entity will speak against it
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by js8 3y ago
I am Czech, but was about to say something similar. Our country looks up to US a lot, and the rightwing here promotes neoliberal policies since the 90s. And we also suffer from lots of grift, which became normalized in the 90s. I think it c
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by js8 3y ago
I read quite a bit on Swiss democracy and the causality seems to be the other way around than politicians elsewhere always claim. Having lots of referenda on many levels (local, cantonal, federal) increases voter participation and makes peo
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by js8 3y ago
Sure, counterpoint to freedom is that you can make a mistake. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't have that freedom. The Brexit referendum was organized (and supported) by the conservative government, which wanted more neoliberali
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by js8 3y ago
I am not sure what country you're from, but if it's a Western one, it's unlikely that you have recently (in the past 40 years) fully adopted a more leftist proposal or idea compared to what was accepted 40 years back. So thin
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by js8 3y ago
When I am talking about acceptance of the values of equality (3) from liberals, I mean willingness to compromise and understand the benefit of value (3) for society. You're talking about acceptance on paper - yeah, you can have all the
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by js8 3y ago
You can go much further and adopt more direct democratic approaches, for example, referendums, which focus more on actual issues than on which individual gets the power. This can also reduce extremism, as it requires (and causes) a wider de
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by js8 3y ago
While I largely agree with what you said, about > there is this tendency of social activists towards conformance and centralization in the direction of authoritarianism I don't think that's the case, actually. I suspect the ten
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by js8 3y ago
I wasn't really dissing UX or frontends, that wasn't my intent. It's more about the approaches than validity of these fields. I'll illustrate what I mean by less features on desktop application. 30 years ago, there was a
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by js8 3y ago
> Now a lot of programmers are designing and implementing the equivalent of high-rise buildings. I get your point, but I think it's a bit of a myth. I work on mainframe applications and when you look at the actual business logic, th
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by js8 3y ago
>Freedom of speak doesn't mean freedom of consequences. Actually, freedom from consequences (of speech, which doesn't include every utterance, but certainly does include constructive criticism) is exactly what freedom of speech
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> What are the citations actually required for though? For me, yes! I do often reference (cite) myself when thinking, by making and reading notes, or materials that other people wrote. If I relied only on my own memory, I would be unable
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by js8 3y ago
I think you just identified another problem with LLMs - we don't know their values, either. Of course when you listen to human experts you're using the shortcut (and you do it based on trust), as I already argued. You have an opti
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by js8 3y ago
As long as from "NoSQL" it is clear that you mean "I can't do joins", then it is OK. I think LLMs (and similar models like Stable Diffusion) are really cool for things like fiction, but to rely on them to tell you t
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They are different, but perhaps you misunderstood my argument. Issue of plagiarism aside, we reason from facts, and it's the facts (or some other analysis, which is itself a fact) that should be sourced. That's why I agree with th
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Doesn't make legal what? Copying or publishing the articles? The model output could as easily be modified to output link to the article instead of quoting it verbatim.
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But if it produces the whole article verbatim, it should be relatively straightforward to match its output to the training set and give attribution, no?
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You're effectively saying that current LLMs cannot be taken seriously as some expert, they are just some kind of weird text remixing engines. I would agree. But if the AI wants to be relied on, then it should be, at minimum, capable of
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I, for one, agree with the original statement. I think the hallmark of enlightenment (for example, in the scientific method) is that we are able to externalize the expert knowledge, that is, experts are usually required to provide reasoning
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These are amazing people, and I like what they do, but they are still chasing the churn of newer hardware, which also introduces incompatible APIs. The incompatible APIs are often introduced commercially for business and not technical reaso
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I work on IBM mainframe (z/OS). Nothing else I know comes as close in maintaining backwards compatibility as IBM. Microsoft (Windows) is the 2nd, I think. Linux (kernel) ABI has the 3rd place, but that's only a small portion of Li
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These were featured on HN recently: https://nickm.com/poems/ppg256.html
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If you want people to have more children, put them into harsher conditions. It works empirically quite well. Policies that prevent women from getting education, and reduction in social spending so that children can be forced into labor as s

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