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Is it possible that google is now turning to sites that have a strong moderation policy, as a vetting strategy against LLM generated posts? (Maybe November 2022 is turning out to be a new kind of Eternal September for the rest of the Web...)

maybe because some of them grew from a family business, but somehow managed to keep a similar ownership structure.

also it is a whole series, there are the other parts as well! Great series, makes systemd understandable - and less fear inspiring.

https://seb.jambor.dev/posts/systemd-by-example-part-2-depen...

https://seb.jambor.dev/posts/systemd-by-example-part-3-defin...

https://seb.jambor.dev/posts/systemd-by-example-part-4-insta...

Interesting. Wikipedia has a list of employee owned companies - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_employee-owned_compani...

Some of the US based companies in this list have something to do with tech and exist for quite some time. Interesting how these are run (i mean they would probably have closed shop if they were to hand out bonuses instead of investing)

/i am just asking, as I don't know much about the subject/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch_Technologies a defense contractor with 519$ million revenue

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematica_Inc. (the last dot is part of the link, HN doesn't handle these)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graybar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynetics they have 293$ m revenue

they don't like to mention the role of Dehomag, their German subsidiary - but it is also part of their history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehomag

adding the flour gradually avoids having flour lumps in the mixture.

an ideological interpretation of a pancake recipe would be a totalitarian approach - i think that would be too modern for the 17th century.

my pancakes aren't philosophically inclined, still here are my tips:

- you need to add in the flower gradually, sifting it through a sieve while stirring the milk.

- it helps to grate an apple and add that to the mixture, very recommended.

I wrote a script that is looking at the git log of a git repository, it tries to sum up how many commits per author/number of lines changed etc, when the author was active. This also gives some indication on the 'turnover rate' or whatever. (I know lines changed and number of commits is a very bad indication, but it is some indication)

https://github.com/MoserMichael/gittools/blob/main/git-whois...

On the other side of the story: Beria was promoting the reunification of Germany, during his short rule in 1953. His plan was to pull the Soviet army out of East Germany/German Democratic Republic. The motive was to get the Soviet Union out of the cold war with the west.

Some months later the uprising of the 17th of June 1953 happened in East Berlin, and the politburo got scared that something similar could happen with Russia.

https://www.cato.org/commentary/christmas-1953-lost-liberal-...

Stanislav Lem wrote the "Washer Tragedy" where washing machines got smarter and were taking over. I think he would have been proud of these toothbrushes...

whatever happened to "Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new 'features'"?

now we got lots of mega-cli programs, each one with its own distinct option language.

Examples: kubectl, docker, openssl, git - (git got two command line languages: plumbing and porcelain)

https://danluu.com/cli-complexity/

... ls had 11 command line options in 1979, in 2017 it got 58.

Doesn't it contradicts the 'bloat free' requirement, if every library needs to have its own version of std::list std::vector, std::unordered_map etc ?

I mean: i remember the days, when each and every project had its own string class.

this sentence sounds like British humor (or is it humour?)

Too early to tell. Expectations are still sky-high and there is no lack of funding.

if anyone tries to check this approach in practice (on a smaller scale), wouldn't that be prohibited under the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial_Nuclear_Test_Ban_Treat...

>Indeed, around the time the film was made, the two men shared political views on a lot of things

Roosevelt did object to Jewish emigration in the nineteen thirties. He also had some rather racist opinions. https://www.timesofisrael.com/historian-new-evidence-shows-f...

However Chaplin had different opinions on the matter. He donated part of the profits from his movie to facilitate emigration. https://www.jta.org/archive/charlie-chaplin-reported-giving-...

Charlie Chaplin did not say that 'it depends on the context'.

i think that the fact these five words were said is a sign. It shows that the collective memory of these events is waning.

still the Nazi party was part of the political process in the Weimar Republic, prior to taking power. Back then there was no objection to their genocidal ideology, as it was regarded as 'free speech'.

Actually this historical precedent is the reason for the stricter rules on expression in the Germany of the present.

this 'resistance' is just killing every civilian right and left, that's just pure evil. Go inform yourself.

but the folks at OpenAI worked hard to bring Altman back, as they petitioned their board with petitions. Does that mean they are no longer following their own AI safety ideology (or do they now see AI safety as secondary) ?

Most of the top comments here are against Israel, the country that is defending itself against Hamas-ISIS. I think the bias in this discussion is a direct illustration of Sam Altmans tweet from yesterday:

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1732925866836210151

"for a long time i said that antisemitism, particularly on the american left, was not as bad as people claimed.

i'd like to just state that i was totally wrong.

i still don't understand it, really. or know what to do about it.

but it is so fucked."

Another example for firmware manipulation: the Volkswagen emissions scandal (Dieselgate). Some firmware was changed, so that emissions were lower during emission tests.

That was a big scandal some eight years ago, who remembers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal

Maybe firmware fudging is more frequent than one would assume...

> News of the study was first reported on Israel’s financial news website The Marker.

The article does not provide a link, I only found this one in Hebrew. The headline is asking "did the Hamas make make a fortune? short selling against Israel has been revealed on the Wall Street stock exchanges" later: "it is very likely that the source of the inside info is coming from Hamas. Also evidence of exceptional short selling at Tel Aviv stock exchange, which resulted in tens of millions in profits after the attack"

(article behind paywall, can't read all of it).

https://www.themarker.com/markets/2023-12-04/ty-article-maga...

Well, non of them in particular. But without side projects i would have lost interest long ago.

Here they are: https://github.com/mosermichael

wait, if the NSA needs to buy location data, does that mean they can't get it directly from the mobile phone carrier?

> could classify General Relativity as a Galactic Algorithm for solving Newtonian Equations

GPS satellites needs to correct their clocks based on General Relativity. It is a very very small correction, but quite important to the accuracy of the navigation system, so you see general relativity quite below galactic scale.

https://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/pogge.1/Ast162/Unit5/gp...

looking at the prompts in https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts

Now i am a bit sceptical of this whole prompting business, still some of it is doing something (otherwise people would not put their work into it)

Also not clear to me how this steering of the automcpleter in another direction is working.

looking at the perfection of Turbo pascal always made me feel stupid. At least it's not just me, wikipedia says:

"Scott MacGregor of Microsoft said that Bill Gates "couldn't understand why our stuff was so slow" compared to Turbo Pascal. "He would bring in poor Greg Whitten [programming director of Microsoft languages] and yell at him for half an hour" because their company was unable to defeat Kahn's small startup, MacGregor recalled.[21] " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_Pascal

yes, however both Trurl and Klapaucius were also robots. In the story it is machines creating machines to describe meaning. I think Lem really liked recursion.

(and i still don't understand how ChatGtp is able to respond to metaprompts like 'be brief', i mean if it is a model that is selecting the next most likely word, then it should not be able to control its own style of output.)