maybe memory safety would help people remember what letting fascists run things tends to do to your country?

P0 blocker: USAian memory management suffers from multiple holes and transactional consistency issues

Prior attempts haven’t worked, closing LOLBUG

Too late, I already put it on the blockchain.

I'd personally just overthrow the US government and make it a British colony once more /j

Nearly laughed out loud in a waiting room

Sorry for you and your cat. You did the right thing, but that doesn't make it any easier.

I'm so sorry to hear that.

also the universe has granted me a small mercy and for once the alcohol/semaglutide thing I mentioned a thread or so ago seems to be totally impotent against the might of scottish chemical engineering. thank you jesus

Sorry for you and your cat.

💔

I’m so sorry. it’s never easy when this happens, but for what it’s worth it sounds like you gave him the best life possible. it takes a great deal of strength to be with a pet until the very end, and I hope you’re able to take the time you need to grieve and recover your emotional strength.

Fuck, sorry :( internet hugs available if desired

Clinic called back. Its metastasized through his lungs and he’s got months tops. Probably going to be less bc vet said he’s suffering.

That absolutely blows, friend. Hang in there and we'll see you around.

that sucks hard, I'm sorry. mine recently too, went from "looking a bit off" to "have to put 'em down" in less than a month. still hits me like a truck

hope it goes as well as possible for y'all

Fuck bro that sucks

My wife has been saying the same thing about her accounting courses. It's absolutely nuts.

I’ve started seeing people make paperwork with explicit carve-outs for prompt use (merely referred to as “AI” with no explicit definition, so …. gonna be fun when the lawsuits start)

part of what helps is coming here and seeing the spectrum of chud output to inoculate yourself a little.

What REALLY helps is broadening your own knowledge and worldview, in the sense that when you realise that everything is political, you start asking yourself the meta questions. Like, what’s the agenda here, what’s not being said, etc. I mean, understanding author intention is already part of reading comprehension, it’s going a little further beyond the face-value meaning. As the memes say, you are not immune to propaganda.

I've joked sometimes that I was lucky in that my childhood reading included more pulp mysteries than pulp science fiction, so my instinct is to think everyone is hiding their agendas by telling half-truths.

"Well, Detective. It looks like this is a house of lies... and wankers."

---Alasdair Beckett-King

I think actually listening to people remains important. But you're only truly listening to someone when you try to understand when they lie or the ways they can be wrong.

Assuming 100% good faith is not actually the most empathetic way to engage with a person.

Since someone linked to Bergstrom above, I wanted to mention his Marshack Colloquium talk from last year - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxn40xiK9g0 - basically the idea is we are all "information foragers" but the "information environment" has shifted radically around us all in a really short amount of time. In "information abundance" the right strategy is to visit a lot more different sites instead of just a few, if the model / analogy works for people about as good as it does for ant eaters. If vibes are off, on to the next tab, it will broaden your worldview too.

It's pattern recognition.

Listen enough to chuds and you learn to recognise chuds based on vibes. You can approach people with 100% good faith, but the moment you sniff a chud -- trust your guts.

There are two things here in my opinion:

1. American cops are trained murderers, but they are trained, in particular to avoid causing massive PR disasters with their murders*. A paramilitary goon with a rifle in a government organisation so opaque we still don't even know his identity is materially worse than a cop. It also looks much worse, the police have some completely undue public trust, ICE just looks like military forces.
2. We immediatelly had video with the full event. When cops kill people of colour there's usually no evidence since again, they know how to pull murder off without causing PR disasters. Basically the only reason George Floyd's murder wasn't successfully brushed aside is that we had video of it, and they tried to bury that shit hard. In this case I don't even think the victim being white or a citizen matters, the event itself is so fucking horrifying it'd elicit outrage anyway. I am 100% sure that if there wasn't video, just witness reports, it'd be out of the media cycle already.

* I don't want this to seem like a moral distinction, if anything the decorum granted to police forces is arguably a stepping stone that brought the USA here. Recall Mamdami's recent words: "For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty". HOWEVER, to me personally this is a rather chilling escalation. It shows that the PR part doesn't actually matter anymore. America is so far into the fascist pipeline that paramilitary forces can just execute citizens in broad daylight on the street. They don't need to hide it, they don't need to play coy about it, they can just post-facto label the victim as an Enemy of the State and move on. I'm sorry but to me this is like one step away from just rounding people up against a wall for fun. Human life is not only practically worthless to state actors, it's proudly and openly worthless as a matter of policy.

Yeah, just learned a black person was killed in the USA, and the only reason this was getting some attention was because Renee Good was also killed.

With the benefit of a sea of distance between me and the USA this is just really fucked up. Two different Americas.

Lately, I've become more and more concerned that "systemd free" is shifting from a thoughtful objection to an outright crank signifier

burzum and luke smith, that tracks as well

Hating systemd and/or Wayland isn't a sure sign that someone is a fascist, but it's one data point in that direction for sure.

@sc_griffith @BlueMonday1984 So just making it official that rich white men can commit all the sex crimes they want but those with less privilege might be stopped or face consequences.

dear fuck just when I think I’m out urbit pulls me back in

analysis coming soon, I’m reviewing some technical sources provided by a world-class cryptocurrency expert (yes it’s @[email protected]) and howdy fuck does this ever resemble the cardano grift but with Haskell replaced with a much worse ML with a much less coherent type system

@froztbyte

Keeper should sell their customer lists to other dating services so those services can keep those weirdos out.

Should have noted Hunter Ash admitted to being a pedophile.

*pig turned into a frog

Was it Wednesday, my dudes?

From the name alone I assumed it was going to try and turn the whole universe into an endless field of 3/3 elk tokens.

Haha, wow the reactions to that, 3 levels deep and suddenly people are talking about screws. (Im being positive here btw, funny to see what people have made/learned and how happy they seem with it).

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My lack of a Bluesky account spares me again. Thankfully, I have Skyview.social to ensure my eyes are scarred anyway (seriously, do we have to fight another world war over if Nazis are bad or not, it shouldn't take the blood of tens of millions to make that clear)

Also found a nice summary of our current moment in the replies:

(alt: "I am old enough to remember when we all agreed Nazis were bad")

"They might as well be Latvians" is a straight out of Arrested Development.

Futrelle was an AI guy for a bit, weirdly.

slaps roof of episode This bad breast can fit so many bad penises in it.

You might consider pitching Cursed Media if that's not who you already pitched-- I've been wishing for a while they had some EA/rationalist experts around who could do a series.

My 9495 word screed about how I did meth before the cool kids and turned out fine is raising a lot of questions already answered by my 9495 word screed.

yeah that's a classic

MDMA, however, is meth; it’s literally its name: three-four-methylene-deoxy-methamphetamine.

amazing

I think thats Eiganrobot’s wife’s gay escort ex.

Complementing sibling comments: Swift requires an enormous amount of syntactic ceremony in order to get things done and it lacks a powerful standard library to abbreviate common tasks. The generative tooling does so well here because Swift is designed for an IDE which provides generative tools of the sort invented in the 80s and 90s; when their editor already generates most of their boilerplate, predicts their types, and tab-completes their very long method/class names, they are already on auto-pilot.

The actual underlying algorithm should be a topological sort with either Kahn's algorithm or Tarjan's algorithm. It should take fewer than twenty lines total when ceremony is kept to a minimum; here is the same algorithm for roughly the same purpose in my Monte-in-Monte compiler, sorting modules based on their dependencies in fifteen lines. Also, a good standard library should have a routine or module implementing topological sorting and other common graph algorithms; for example, Python's graphlib.TopologicalSorter was added in 2020 and POSIX tsort dates back to 1979. I would expect students to immediately memorize this algorithm upon grokking it during third-year undergrad as part of a larger goal of grokking graph-traversal algorithms; the idea of both Kahn and Tarjan is merely to look for vertices with no incoming edges and error if none can be found, not an easy concept to forget or to fail to rediscover when needed. Congrats, the LLM can do your homework.

If there's any Swifties here: Hi! I love Taytay; I too was born in the late 80s and have trouble with my love life. Anyway, the nosology here is pretty easy; Swift's standard library doesn't include algorithms in general, only algorithms associated to data structures, which themselves are associated to standardized types. Since Swift descends from Smalltalk, its data structures include Collections, so a reasonable fix here would be to add a Graph collection and make topological sorting a method; see Python's approach for an example. Another possibility is to abuse the builtin sort routine, but this will cost O(n lg n) path lookups and is much more expensive; it's not a long-term solution.

Doesn't look interesting to me. NB I'm not a Swifty. If you're someone looking to make a compile-time dependency injection validation framework, cycle detection seems like an early feature to add, and feels like a pretty early unit test to implement.

E: read response from BurgersMcSlopshot please :)

For someone that has a bit of a PL/compiler background -- it's not hard if you're familiar with things like this.

What is worrying is that while the fix does address the test case from the issue, it seems there was no analysis performed as to why the failure occurred. Like okay, this test case passes, but I'm not immediately sure the system is now sound.

If it's hard to reason about then it means you as the developer are supposed to sit the fuck down, figure it out, and document it so that it's no longer hard to reason about for someone who reads it. Anything short of that is a cop out.

I'm not going to actually try to figure out how this DI framework works to do this analysis, definitely not for free.

@CinnasVerses @techtakes TESCREAL is very obviously an emergent syncretistic religion that follows the same basic structure as Christianity: it's evangelical, but unlike pre-Constantine Xtianity it specifically targets billionaires and power elites (white males). At the rate it's speed-running its development they'll be burning witches for denying the divinity of the singularity within another couple of decades.

I'm sure it's all meant to bolster a sales pitch to corporate clients that "this is YOUR AI, that YOU CONTROL!"

I've been wondering, since Rust has a more complex compiler that can take longer to run, and people are typically farming it out to a build/CI server anyway... are these otherwise accomplished vibe coders like Klabnik and the Oxide bros pursuing an experience similar to the REPL/incremental compilation of Lisp or Smalltalk? We've already discussed how the mechanics are similar to a slot machine, but if you can convince yourself you're getting a "liveness" that you wouldn't otherwise get with a compiled, rigorously type-checked language, you're probably more than willing to ignore all that. I'm curious, but not curious enough to go pin one of these people up against the wall, or start poking the slop machine myself.

“everyone will be a 10x vibe coder” and “everything will be made with some level of llm assistance in the near future” vs “no-one should be letting llms access anything where they could be doing permanent damage” and “there’s so much worthless slop in crates.io”.

"The things that AI cannot do but the salespeople assure me it will In The Near Future™️ sure sound great, but the real negative effects it has right now are really bad. Gee, I wonder if there's some bigger picture to see here, huh."

Ugh, I carried to listening to the episode in the hopes it might get better, but it didn’t deliver.

I don’t understand how people can say, with a straight face, that ai isn’t coming for your job and it is just going to make everyone more productive. Even if you ignore all the externalities of providing llm services (which is a pretty serious thing to ignore), have they not noticed the vast sweeping layoffs in the tech industry alone, let alone the damage to other sectors? They seem to be aware that the promise of the bubble is that agi will replace human labour, but seem not to think any harder about that.

Also, Willison thinks that a world without work would be awful, and that people need work to give their lives meaning and purpose and bruh. I cannot even.

Anyway, I can recommend skipping this episode and only bothering with the technical or more business oriented ones, which are often pretty good.

AI puffery is easy for anyone to see through. If they're regularly mistaking for something of actual substance, their technical/business sense is likely worthless, too.

It'll be something to see how the finance/degense/energy sector ghouls react to the citrus man definitively fucking with the money.

Edit: lol orange site killed the main thread with nearly 400 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582420

[THIS IS WHAT PALANTIR-BROS ACTUALLY BELIEVE]:

Also found a bonus in the replies:

He's not wrong. Previously, on Awful, I pointed out that folks would have been on the wrong side of Sega v. Accolade as well, to say nothing of Galoob v. Nintendo. This reply really sums it up well:

[I]t strikes me that what started out as a judo attack against copyright has made copyright maximalists out of many who may not have started out that way.

I think that the turning point was Authors Guild v. Google, also called Google Books, where everybody involved was avaricious. People want to support whatever copyright makes them feel good, not whatever copyright is established by law. If it takes the example of Oracle to get people to wake up and realize that maybe copyright is bad then so be it.

jesus fuck.

my experience has been that it's actually driven primarily by the absolute weirdest ppl you will ever meet, these people having overlap with anything weird you can think of, including antisemitism, wellness fascism, inceldom, MRAs, etc, but not tending to be based particularly in any of those groups.

all of which is unfortunate because i also think they are just correct in their claims that this is a real bodily autonomy issue

Think the opposition to it is pre manosphere, but yeah, I think from tne manosphere side not everybody who says that is a anti-semite / anti-islam, lot of it also felt very 'we need a cause to show those dastardly feminists that they don't have the moral high ground', if that makes sense. Same with the manospherian opposition to prison rape (which often felt a lot of 'men get raped too!' stuff, and not really that active in opposition to the prison system. (I mean in general, there are elements of it that were pretty vocal about it, but from what I always got from that space was that is was more like an empty signal). (Note im just talking about the manosphere and the bits I read from that space, not the general opposition to circumcision).

So just a couple things before the rest of this comment:

• If someone is reading this and wants to comment with information about the state of the penis of themselves or others, i do not consent, please kindly fuck off
• I don’t think parents should be pushed into circumcising their children.
• In an absolute scenario where I choose between outlawing circumcision or not, I would outlaw it
• none of this is really integral to the rest of the comment, i just felt that this would aid with keeping interpretation of this comment clean.

I spent about five minutes trying to see what I could find out. I looked up a few “intactivist” organisations and, at risk of poisoning my algorithms forever, looked at their socials and who they followed. I don’t think I really found out anything that interesting, except that a lot of them follow daniel “tosh.0” tosh? He probably platformed some of them at some point. Otherwise, I think in terms of what is organisationally there, it’s a little too fringe to be “driven primarily” by any particular cultural faction.

E: adding that when I think about it, I’ve seen intactivists presented in two tv shows as fringe weirdos. I think the editors of the shows chose to focus just on the views surrounding circumcision and not anything else.

When phrased like that, they can't be disentangled. You'll have to ask the person whether they come from a place of hate or compassion.

::: spoiler content warning: frank discussion of the topic

Male genital mutilation is primarily practiced by Jews and Christians. Female genital mutilation is primarily practiced by Muslims. In Minnesota, female genital mutilation is banned. It's widely understood that the Minnesota statutes are anti-Islamic and that they implicitly allow for the Jewish and Christian status quo. However, bodily autonomy is a relatively fresh legal concept in the USA and we are still not quite in consensus that mutilating infants should be forbidden regardless of which genitals happen to be expressed.

In theory, the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) has been ratified; Mr. Biden said it's law but Mr. Trump said it's not. If the ERA is law then Minnesota's statutes are unconstitutionally sexist! This analysis requires a sort of critical gender theory: we have to be willing to read a law as sexist even when it doesn't mention sex at all. The equivalent for race, critical race theory, has been a resounding success, and there has been some progress on deconstructing gender as a legal concept too. ERA is a shortcut that would immediately reverberate throughout each state's statutes.

The most vocal opponents of the ERA have historically been women; important figures include Alice Hamilton, Mary Anderson, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Phyllis Schafly. It's essential to know that these women had little else in common; Schafly was a truly odious anti-feminist while Roosevelt was an otherwise-upstanding feminist.

The men's-rights advocates will highlight that e.g. Roosevelt was First Lady, married to a pro-labor president who generally supported women's rights; I would point out that her husband didn't support ERA either, as labor unions were anti-ERA during that time due to a desire to protect their wages.

This entanglement is a good example of intersectionality. We generally accept in the USA that a law can be sexist and racist, simultaneously, and similarly I think that the right way to understand the discussion around genital mutilation is that it is both sexist and religiously bigoted.

Chaser: It's also racist. C'mon, how could the USA not be racist? Minnesota's Department of Health explicitly targets Somali refugees when discussing female genital mutilation. The original statute was introduced not merely to target Muslims, but to target Somali-American Muslim refugees.

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Affinity is (was) an actually great paid software suite that was the best shot at ending the Adobe cartel; unfortunately they were recently bought by Canva and lobotomized.

When I took my mom last week, they were blasting We Built This City.