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fourthark

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fourthark··on Moon Disaster
The text and Apollo footage were real; Nixon’s face and voice were fake.
fourthark··on Graphviz 7
Right, we are witnessing a project switch to semantic versioning that did not have it before.

I don't know when semantic versioning was invented, but it only became prominent in the last decade. Graphviz is from the 90s.

fourthark··on Graphviz 7
Especially when the API surface area is as gigantic as graphviz's.

Still, it's great to see new maintainers with bold ideas.

fourthark··on GitHub Copilot, with “public code” blocked, emits my copyrighted code
I do the same. I think it satisfies BY (attribution) but not SA (Share Alike).

As GP says, no one really cares, but it seems hard to satisfy SA... even if you are pasting into open source, is your license compatible with CC?

Perhaps I'm over-thinking this.

fourthark··on An inorganic user engine driving ad campaigns on major websites and podcasts
Is there any such thing as a voluntary ad impression?
fourthark··on An inorganic user engine driving ad campaigns on major websites and podcasts
Right, how is this different from free game apps showing you ads for other games?

Typically these days you have to watch about 15s of the ad. Seems involuntary but the ads take this into account, "can I get you to play this fake simulation of the game inside the ad, or are you just going to click close?"

fourthark··on Timothy Leary's Mind Mirror (1985)
This page hijacked my browser tab on mobile iOS, kept reloading before I could read anything, could not navigate away, had to close tab.
fourthark··on Man who built ISP instead of paying Comcast $50K expands to hundreds of homes
At $55/mo, he'll start making a profit in 45 years.
fourthark··on Fibre-optic cables could be used to spy on people a kilometre away
I tried that too but it’s still truncated.
fourthark··on Carbon’s most exciting feature is its calling convention
This is mostly a Google project?

Unclear from the repo who is sponsoring it.

fourthark··on It’s time to leave the leap second in the past
Eventually we will have to get used to having two clocks, slowly diverging.

It’s inevitable because we don’t want hours of slip on Earth and eventually we will move to other planets which certainly don’t want Earth leap seconds.

fourthark··on Detroit’s new personalized flight information board is straight out of sci-fi
Interesting, thanks. I wonder how narrow the angle of personalized viewing is.
fourthark··on Detroit’s new personalized flight information board is straight out of sci-fi
Sure, we shouldn’t expect privacy from cameras and biometrics.

But doesn’t this mean that 20 people behind you see where you are going, your flier points, etc?

I’d find that embarrassing, personally.

fourthark··on The Great Green Wall
And they have more of an incentive to think in the long term and follow through.
fourthark··on Bill Watterson’s refusal to license Calvin and Hobbes (2016)
But Watterson stands apart from his fellow creators because he rejected that wisdom. Which ironically has led to the exact thing Watterson didn’t want… the creation of a brand identity.

The desperate American search for irony where there is none.

fourthark··on I just got access to DALL·E 2 and here are my first few results
Look closely at the cone, fingers, or the people behind the ice cream.

Or the food in the last one.

The detail breaks down.

The ash above Mt Rainier looks more like mountains.

fourthark··on Show HN: Brevity 500 – Short games to help you become a powerful writer
A nit: introduction seems to say that the required words or phrases will still be available during the game, but I didn't see any highlighting and had to remember. (Firefox)

Generally, judging validity just by whether a few phrases were kept seems pretty loose. I know, it would take incredible AI and might be completely subjective to decide whether the meaning is still there. But I didn't like that it seemed I could completely mangle the text and it would say great job as long as it was short and still had those phrases.

fourthark··on Where did the long tail go?
Mid tail
fourthark··on Ask HN: Having trouble getting senior applicants, wondering what to do about it
Fair.

I was trying to be charitable. :)

fourthark··on An experiment to test if Bionic Reading helps you read faster
18% faster with Literata
fourthark··on Meta VR prototypes aim to make VR 'indistinguishable from reality'
Except you are making yourself look idiotic instead of just holding something that looks idiotic.
fourthark··on Ask HN: Having trouble getting senior applicants, wondering what to do about it
To put it another way, it may be selecting for the candidate who wants exactly this job and none other.

Loyalty becomes the main criterion.

I have mixed feelings about this, but I can see why employers might want this.

fourthark··on A religious sect landed Google in a lawsuit
You are arguing that it would be alright for Google to fire the cult members.

Parent comments argued that Google is liable for allowing the cult to discriminate against non cult members.

fourthark··on Five glassy mysteries we still can’t explain
> Even more surprising, though, is the onset of glass behaviour in certain computer algorithms. For instance, if an algorithm is designed to seek out progressively better solutions to a problem with a large number of variables it can become overwhelmed by complexity and grind to a halt before the optimal solution is found. By borrowing statistical methods designed for the fundamental study of glasses, however, such algorithms can be improved, and better solutions found.

Are they talking specifically about simulated annealing here, or is this a more general observation?

fourthark··on Lessons from the golden age of the mall walkers
I counted 40 lanes in that picture!
fourthark··on Rejecting data demands, ExpressVPN removes VPN servers in India
It is optional isn’t it? I never gave Signal permission to read my contacts and yet I still use it.
fourthark··on Open Source Intelligence May Be Changing Old-School War
The article is talking about open source intelligence, not open source code.

I think it's unfortunate that they reused the term... there's almost nothing in common between the disciplines.

fourthark··on FairEmail stopping development after Google falsely flags app as spyware
I don't see what is wrong with an app being 5 years old.

That's not very old in the scale of things!

fourthark··on Plagiarized in a plagiarism atonement essay
Isn't it a grey line whether GPT-3 creates an original work or a derivative of potentially thousands of works?

There was the famous example where Copilot regenerated some John Carmack code verbatim with cussing comments, presumably because that code had been copied many times already.

Somewhere I read about GPT-3 committing clear plagiarism in English text, too, i.e. drawing way too much from one source and reproducing it.

fourthark··on Comby - Structural code search and replace for every language
Semgrep has "experimental" support for C++. My understanding is that the major gap with both C & C++ support is macros, which are really hard.
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