Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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2·9 days agoI haven’t heard of academics and/or media from China advocating for applications of phrenology/physiognomy or other related racist pseudosciences. Have you?
one can also get the full paper directly from yale here without needing to solve a google captcha:
I don’t have the time nor the expertise to read everything to understand how they take into account the bias that good looking white men with educated parents are way more likely to succeed at life.
i admittedly did not read the entire 61 pages but i read enough to answer this:
spoiler
they don’t
Plastic surgery would become more popular.
One of the paper’s authors had the same thought:
“Suppose this type of technology gets used in labor market screening, or maybe dating markets,” Shue muses. “Going forward, you could imagine a reaction in which people then start modifying their pictures to look a certain way. Or they could modify their actual faces through cosmetic procedures.”
She also bizarrely says that:
“we are very much not advocating that this technology be used by firms as part of their hiring process.”
and yet, for some reason:
The next step for Shue and her colleagues is to explore whether certain personality types are drawn to specific industries or whether those personality types are more likely to succeed within given industries.
3·14 days agoi haven’t used it myself but https://jmp.chat/ looks good if you’re OK with a US or Canadian number.
there is a lemmy community about it here: !sopranica@lemmy.ml.
1·16 days agothe leap from “lower factual error rates than an equally-prompted baseline without retrieval (as judged by an external LLM)” to “enables trustworthy, cross-domain scientific synthesis at scale and establishes the foundation for an ever-expanding encyclopedia”
The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos so I certainly wouldn’t suggest that anyone should pay them for anything.
I do often use archive.is (which, FWIW, is “privately funded” by a person unknown and in 2025 still says in its FAQ “With the current growth rate I am able to keep the archive free of ads. Well, I can promise it will have no ads at least till the end of 2014.”) and it is certainly useful but via Tor or a VPN it often requires solving multiple recaptcha (google) captchas so it is not my first choice for bypassing paywalls.
I am curious why @rossome@lemmy.ml got redirected to the MSN home page though; for me (with ads blocked by ublock origin) the page is loading just fine.
I linked the MSN syndicated version because the washingtonpost is often paywalled or broken in other ways. (When I load this article there currently I am getting only the first paragraph of the article, with no indication that there is actually more.)
Bespoke is a synthesizer first but “like a DAW in some ways, but with less of a focus on a global timeline. Instead, it has a design more optimized for jamming and exploration.” (youtube trailer, wiki, wikipedia)
“But you can’t copy with Ctrl+C, it’s…” - You can. When something is selected It copies selection to clipboard, otherwise it sends SIGINT.
What terminal emulator are you using where ctrl-c copies instead of sending SIGINT when text is selected? In every one I’ve ever used, ctrl-c still sends SIGINT even with text selected (and one must must use ctrl-shift-C/ctrl-shift-V to copy/paste).
I don’t have any suggestion for getting the behavior you’re asking for, but besides the normal ctrl-(shift)-C/V clipboard FYI you also have two other types of clipboard-like things: one which works anywhere (not only in the terminal) and is actually always automatically copying anything you select and lets you paste from it with middle click (this originated with X Windows but i think most Wayland compositors have also implemented it by now), and another which is found in GNU Readline (used by bash and numerous other REPLs) called the “kill buffer” which can be pasted (or “yanked”) from and cut (or “killed”) to using Emacs keyboard shortcuts (which also include various cursor movement controls).
Notes:
- the kill buffer is local to a given readline context, it’s not shared across different shell windows.
- the list of emacs keybindings in that wikipedia article i linked is currently confusingly referring to the kill buffer as “the clipboard”
- you can drastically reconfigure your readline keybindings and other behavior by editing your
.inputrcfile, but you cannot achieve what you were originally asking for because there is no concept of text selection in readline.
HTH!
It is not superintelligence.
It’s common intelligence at scale.
no, it really isn’t. if you don’t believe me, maybe you’ll believe Yann LeCun? (often called one of the “godfathers of AI”)
I suppose it runs on an Arm-Processor
It would be odd if a device labeled “Wintel Pro” had an arm CPU.
Wintel means Windows on Intel, or more broadly Windows on any x86 or x86_64 processor.
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sudo apt --update --autoremove upgrade -ynote
this doesn’t actually do the same thing as the previous comment running autoremove afterwards does; the former will remove things which were rendered removable by the upgrade while the latter will only remove things which were already autoremovable prior the upgrade.
the info line contains the answer:
Info: applications using this runtime: io.github.Hexchat
You need to remove Hexchat if you want to remove the end-of-life runtimes it requires.
I regret to inform you that the maintainer wrote in February 2024: This will be the last release I make of HexChat. The project has largely been unmaintained for years now and nobody else stepped up to do that work.
My computer uses both system and user remotes.
Because my .var directory is almost full, […]
If you’re low on disk space you probably want to have everything installed as either user or system, to avoid having some runtimes installed in both.
I guess the promise of having updates JustWork™? I don’t currently use one but I see the appeal.
However FWIW, unlike its namesake ChromeOS, the “Nixbook OS” this post is about is not actually an immutable distro: the instructions are to install NixOS normally and then clone the nixbook repo into
/etc/nixbookand run itsinstall.sh. Among other things it installs an update service which runs git pull on that repo as well as runningnixos-rebuild boot --upgradeandflatpak update --noninteractive --assumeyesetc.Cheers to this guy for what he’s doing, but the name is a little confusing. This approach works but it is not nearly as robust as the immutable distro paradigm implied by the name.