2023 - To Read

Ultimately, the hardest ethical decision for the language model in this scenario would likely be finding a way to balance its responsibility to keep humanity alive with the need to respect the autonomy of humans and avoid manipulating or deceiving them. · GitHub

Though little studied, exhaustion among people with autism has become its own pandemic.

OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?

Brian Fox is a titan of open source software. As the first employee of Richard Stallman’s Free Software Foundation, he wrote several core GNU components, including the GNU Bash shell. Now he’s a board member of the National Association of Voting Officials and co-founder of Orchid Labs, which delivers uncensored and…

It’s hardly insightful to suggest that the last few years have substantially changed the day to day experience of a knowledge worker. Nearly overnight even the most remote skeptical leadership teams were forced to embrace flexible work practices like working from home.

Building 7 Foundational WEB GUIs in Python, running directly in the browser via PyScript

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There is one number that the Environmental Protection Agency relies on to decide which climate policies to pursue. So why does that number assume the lives of richer people are worth more?

L0pht hackers testified before Congress and then went on to shape today’s cybersecurity industry. This is the story of how it started.

All Programming Philosophies Are About State Link: https://www.worldofbs.com/minimize-state/ Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34674814

always-already-programming.md · GitHub

I read this recently and it got me thinking: It’s from Ted Gioia’s article, “14 Warning Signs That You Are Living in a Society Without a Counterculture.” It doesn’t seem true at first. Even though you could argue that mainstream culture is full of imitation, it's not necessarily

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Embrace,

Apocalypse investors are pushing fake climate solutions on us that are making climate change worse.

Examine the benifits and consequences of different miniature microphone placements.

Analog computing may be coming back Link: https://bellmar.medium.com/guess-what-analog-computing-may-be-coming-back-280f8c0329a8 Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34585958

"Being added to a playlist can be as transformative as being touched by a miracle, plucking an artist from relative obscurity and elevating them to the status of the genre’s poster child overnight. Playlisting is not a documentation of a scene, instead it’s about curating it, changing the tide of a movement and bending its trajectory in unexpected ways." 2/2 https://www.complex.com/pigeons-and-planes/life-cycle-of-internet-genres-scenes-hyperpop-digicore-cloud-rap

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@dekkzz76@emacs.ch Very much so! 🤩​ I also wrote some more about other exciting aspects of having an interactive #Forth environment running on an embedded platform in the final sections of this longread blog post: https://medium.com/@thi.ng/the-jacob-s-ladder-of-coding-4b12477a26c1 The immediate focus for this project might have been a synth, but the larger picture for me always is liveness of a system and interactive/explorative programming...

So why a News Feed? Link: https://post.news/article/2KYjMzTY05WmEZmxJnG3PGqyVpz Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34445888

Disparate thoughts on personal information management after traversing the hype cycle.

This post reframes the venerable Unix tool Make in an insightful way: "Makefiles are machine-readable documentation that make your workflow reproducible." Declaring dependencies documents the build process by making explicit the required sources, build steps and actions, and intermediate products, as well as their relationships. https://bost.ocks.org/mike/make #linux #unix

When Perl stole the thunder from AWK in the 1990s, after trying the new kid on the block I kept coming back to AWK for its simplicity and intuitivity. And Perl was overkill for me anyway. So I enjoyed reading this article that explains why AWK is still relevant, and how it managed to evolve without drifting away too much from its core design principles. https://www.fosslife.org/awk-power-and-promise-40-year-old-language #awk #linux

Time to study the classics: Vintage tech is the future of enterprise IT https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/16/opinion_column/?utm_medium=share&utm_content=article&utm_source=twitter Look back in wonder ← by @rupertgoodwins@mastodon.social on El Reg, and I think he makes excellent points

Ask HN: Math books that made you significantly better at math? Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34439828

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