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Just curious - why/how did you decide to have kids at 29?

I can see mostly disadvantages to having children. Perhaps a nice highlights reel, but the daily grind sounds miserable. Having a cat seems like a much better deal. This sums up my sentiment: https://theoatmeal.com/comics/baby_vs_cat

You seem to have a different opinion, so I wonder if it is just a matter of preference of if your perspective is very different to mine?
Yes absolutely. Take games for example, bugs are absolutely tolerable and to be expected. In fact most software of any kind has known bugs that are simply accepted because the cost to fix them exceeds the value of doing so.
I look forward too it as a show HN one day.
The author of this post is oblivious to fractional bit encodings. When encoding an array of items, you can always encode the array optimally, only wasting less than 1 bit.

For example, if we had an array of n test scores from 1-100, we only need ceil(n*log2(100)) bits.

The key is that when reading the values, instead of shifting like we would normally to iterate an array, we instead divide by 100. Instead of masking bits, we get the current value by doing mod 100. Its equivalent to shifting/masking for a power of 2, but extends packing to fractional bits. It's quite beautiful.

Take a look at this blog post to understand more about fractional bit representations:

https://hbfs.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/fractional-bits-part-i...
It could be client side, where you're using it to hide content from someone who doesn't want to see something potentially abusive.

I did assume the example was client side, but it might not be. The server may be using it to avoid adding a comment to a database if it's abusive. URLSearchParams exists in Node too https://nodejs.org/api/url.html#url_class_urlsearchparams. There are fetch polyfills available, but the plan is to add it to node.
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I learned a language living in the country where it is spoken, mainly using DuoLingo for vocabulary and reading comic books for idiomatic usage. I don't get a tonne of practice because of lockdown but DuoLingo plus immersion definitely got me way further than I could have done without it.
If you don't understand the difference between Idea IntelliJ, which I loved as soon as it came out, and Github Copilot, then you are exactly the reason why I am frightened.
Of the four factions identified, only one - Just America - cannot stand having any opposing factions in the same body politic. And now that very faction prescribes its overriding value of equality as way of proselytizing, rather than coexisting with, the other three factions. Not going to happen - the other factions have grown distrustful[1].

[1] https://www.axios.com/media-trust-crisis-2bf0ec1c-00c0-4901-...
Or maybe I am thanking someone as a peer, acknowledging their quality of work. What has rank or social status or authority got to do with basic manners and courtesy?
Agreed about size when it comes to suing for patent rights. However, the problem with patent trolls is the same as copyright trolls: they send out unimaginable amounts of spurious notifications in the hope that some will pay. The spam really is the problem here.

I have no problem with a company - any company - making a serious allegation against someone else using IP they hold. They deserve to be heard. Being able to send out 1000 of these in a day without consequence is a big problem.

How about something like an exponential ratchet or cool down period for losing patent lawsuits? Maybe the cost to file (or damages if you lose) doubles after every 10th lawsuit you lose against 10 different entities, for a year.
The problem with naivete and idealism is that they actually rob you of agency and the ability to engage reality on reality's terms.

The most dangerous thing you can do is to try to immanentize the eschaton. Every time someone tries to straighten humanity by force, the crooked timber snaps, heads roll, and our understanding darkens.

So you have to be prudent about the changes you make. Idealists will always be disappointed by anyone who tells them that their vision, even if ostensibly good, is unachievable and its pursuit harmful.
Maybe they spent billions to stumble into it.
You're intentionally conflating scale here to make them seem the same.

> no warning that somebody/something is ingesting the repo

An individual reading code on their own time is not the same as ingesting terabytes to train a machine. No matter how much you believe in AI working similar to the human learning (it doesn't), they are not comparable.

> private profit

Again, the difference between an individual reading code to work for a salary is orders of magnitude different from ingesting terabytes of code so a company can create a new feature. Claiming these things are the same only makes sense if you ignore the massive differences in scale and the differences between how humans and machines learn.
The fact that some (bad) programmers already blindly copy SO code does not detract from the original argument that Copilot is dangerous because it effectively copy-pastes SO code blindly.
I heard that same thing in the 90' about outsourcing.

Adapt or be gone.
More likely to be iCloud data.
The problem with the article is that it only uses examples of extra ordinary people.

Most people are not geniuses, they are average.
You are not a genius.

Most people who flunk out or drop out of school
do not become billionaires and neither will you.

Most people who decide to give it their all and become
various forms of artists will never be famous, noticed
no wealty or admired (Though on a nano scale you may have people who do)

By a large margin most restaurants / startups fail.
You are not going to create the next unicorn.

yes this is not 100% accurate because it does happen.
Much like buying a lotto ticket.
People do win.

But you will not. (Almost entirely certain but again some do win).

People like Lonardo da Vinci are 1 in a billion.
Maybe one in 2 billion.

People like Jobs and Zuckerberg are a lot more common.
There are maybe 1000? 10.000?
If we say 100.000 that is about 0.0013% of the world
population.
You are not in the 0.0013% (2019 estimate)

(Though you really need take into account the privilege accorded people based. on where they live, where they were born, family. If you win the lottery and grow up in a wealty educated country, you have a HUGE advantage.

Much like buying 1 lottery ticket drastically increases you chance of winning.

The point being nearly all people fail to be special.
They will not be remembered by the grater society after their death. They will have made no huge impact on the world. They will never make it big.

Thus we should not focus our choices in life my making a few of the same choices that are advantageous for 1 in a billion.

We should not set our goals to achieve what they did.

We should focus on having a nice life, a good set of friends, enough money to live ok, having interesting hobbies
Having a job that is ok. A safe and dry place to live.
Have some love.

We should expect and respect that we will be average
That is not a failure. That is what most likely will
happen.

So set out to make the most of it.
A milder version of the background prank was to minimize all, open Minesweeper or Solitaire and set a screenshot of that as a wallpaper.
The PM is busy doing their own job (writing new stories, managing old stories, talking to clients, etc). They typically only do a superficial amount of testing on new features (and usually only on their pet-features). The vast majority of testing comes from QA and Dev.
I think of it as a drug that addresses some mild social anxiety and has some social history behind it. Drugs are similar in certain social circles.

But basically when someone wants you to drink it's their social anxiety that is manifesting, not yours. They need other people to participate in the bonding ritual, part of which requires people letting their guard down, which alcohol helps with.

But I'm not sure it's the chemical pathway that does it. I mean yes, drink enough and you will feel different. But you open up socially over a beer before the beer has any effect, eg. while you're waiting in line at the bar chatting to someone, or while you have just a tiny dose in your blood. Likewise with drugs, I never thought I was getting especially high or changed somehow. So perhaps it's more like a Schelling point, people accept that alcohol/drugs at a social event means that you can relax.

I've also never felt that I became someone else when drinking. Even when so drunk I couldn't walk straight, I could still understand social cues and conventions, and I still knew what I desired. It's like the beer is an excuse for bad behavior rather than the cause.

Luckily as an adult with kids I don't get badgered into getting hammered anymore. But I did think of a good excuse after talking to a cardiologist: you can always say you have some sort of condition that makes it a bad idea for you to drink or do drugs.
A less drastic extension is Clickbait Remover. It replaces thumbnails to an actual frame from the video and de-capitalizes titles: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clickbait-rem...
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Splitting this out a bit more seems like it would be a good strategic choice, not just for Mozilla, but for the web in general. There are undoubtedly all sorts of technical challenges involved, but betting on only Firefox is putting all eggs in one basket.

Say what you will about Blink/Google, but the easy with which you can build a browser on top of it has spawned a plethora of browsers, ranging from Edge and Vivaldi, to all sorts of more niche ones like Otter and Qutebrowser, and many more.

Half of Vietnam is using Cốc Cốc. Yandex Browser is fairly popular in Russia, UC Browser is popular in China (or rather was, since it was banned) and some other Asian countries.

There's no reason at least some of these couldn't have been a Gecko-based browser.
I don’t know much about JavaScript but the solution seems awfully complicated.

Isn’t the an `escape_entities` function like in old school php (haven’t used php in decades, so I don’t know how all the cool cats do it today)?
Most clothes are complex items and the manufacture of them is very unlikely to ever be fully automated within a reasonable time frame (such as our lifetimes). People will always be a part of the process. Many tasks are just too expensive to automate vs a cheap labourer.

Clothes should be like many other things: cost more, have better quality, longer lifespans and have less negative impact on those who produce them and the environment where they are produced & recycled.
There's a parallel between dev and QA here.

Writing code is generally easy. Figuring out what code to write is hard. I can spend 80+% of my day thinking about an overall system, what things are important, and how to design things so that they both work and don't prevent change later. Then sitting down and writing the code to do that is (usually) the easy part.

Writing automated tests is generally easy. Figuring out what tests to write is hard. Does the code break on normal cases? Does it break on edge cases? Does it handle all the known use cases? Does the implementation actually achieve what the client is asking for? Does what the client asked for actually make sense?

You can't just automate away testing. Automated testing (unit, functional, system, etc) is a power multiplier for both dev and QA... not a total solution.
Have you read the books?

The Butlerian Jihad was a backlash and threw humanity into chaos lasting two generations, and the only things that brought humanity out of that chaos in two generations were two fictional societies based on Spice. Our chaos would last many generations, think another Dark Ages.

AI is going to get created, accept it. Someone somewhere will create an artificial general intelligence, if they haven't already. The first group to do that will shape the course of history for centuries to come, for good or ill. This is because a jump of a few weeks between the first AI and the second is enough to give the first AI an insurmountable lead, barring major improvements in technology (which the AI might get to first).

The question is then, which group will get to AI first, people who want to help mankind (perhaps quietly behind the scenes), or people who want to control mankind. The AI will learn from them and act accordingly. I'd like to think OpenAI is a good group to win the race, but I don't know.
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Facebook seems to be in constant reactive mode, ready to undermine their own apps by catching up to the latest trend with poorly implemented features.
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Its brilliant. If the link is bad, find a different link. Email the webmaster if you believe its OK. Think about if you can actually help. Hashtag systematic whine.
Hey there! Thanks for the feedback, we just shipped a fix.
Can't access the link. Wish you great success on your dev journey :-)
It presents a suggestion, which you are free to reject. What's "blind" about it?
Regular SEPA wires between different banks take about one working day in France. But they can take up to three, legally. And four in the EU. Transfers in the same bank are usually instant.
In practice expect a 24h turnaround on a SEPA transfer during the week.

SEPA Instant Credit Transfer is probably what you're thinking about, but it's not universally supported by every bank yet.
The idea of giving every human (now and in the future) the same amount of coins is both obvious and enticing.

Iris scans sound pretty good. The other way forward would be to give everyone their coins who has a digital id certificate issued by his/her government. That would however exclude a lot of people right now and could also be insecure if any of the governments screws up (i.e. it's just a matter of time).
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I have a yaroze. The kit was rather limited and the tooling was buged out. I also got the codewarrior dev kit which helped a lot. I never got further than some simple demo hello world style applications. I was more interested in my PC at the time. I mostly used it to just play PS1 games. I basically wasted my money on it and should have just bought a normal PS.

If I remember right the thing was region free though so I could play imports. I think you could precompile apps and upload them to the yaroze web board and download them but only to other yaroze kits. I think a couple of devs actually managed to get a real shipped game out of it.

Luckily since I kept the whole lot in nice condition they are going for a decent amount on ebay. It is funny keeping the cardboard boxes makes it worth more...

I also had the PS2 kit. Which was in my opinion was more limiting than the yaroze one.
I think you are abstracting the matter by taking out the humanity. It's one thing to learn to do something by hand after purchasing the book. It's a totally different thing to read every single book in the world (humanly impossible) and then absorb some knowledge and train yourself to write exceptional books because you (the AI in this scenario) have learned that some words and sentence structures have lead to books having higher ratings than others. It's not humanly possible.

Of course we generate the world around us and its rules but I get angry every time we compare people to machines and say that it's the same thing. No it's not. We are constrained by time and space. I can't add more brain or more eyes to my body so I read more books can I? Microsoft can have a small city of servers somewhere and that could replace lots of people's jobs.
You haven't seen any european factories did you? They are proper high-tech in comparison to your average chinese one.

What people might not realise that manufacturing is still going on in Europe and US. It's just that less people are working in factories. Output is 'more' than in decades before. Automation and all that.
There are lots of companies that sign with enterprises to provide a language learning perk to employees.

But you're right, I can't imagine them leveraging that to some kind of billion dollar valuation and success on the NYSE
I'm not sure I've ever copied code from StackOverflow, though I do use it for inspiration.
Ok, maybe it doesn't defeat the whole point. The way I see it, there are two ways of using Copilot:

1. As a way to specify a problem and get a suggested solution (or a selection of them), to use as a starting point.

2. As a way to specify a problem, get it solved by the AI, and consider it done.

I'd expect that any developer worth their salt will do 1. I expect that of myself. I also worry this is so streamlined that people, including myself, will naturally shift to doing 2 over time.

This is similar to the problem with self driving cars - you can't incrementally approach perfection, you have to get it right in one go, because the space between "not working" and "better than human in every way" is where self-driving is more dangerous than not having it. When it works most of the time, it lulls you into a false sense of security, and then when it fails, you aren't prepared and you die. Similarly, Copilot seems to be working well enough to make you think the code is OK, but it turns out the code is often buggy in a subtle way.

> familiarity with language ecosystem

This is an interesting angle to explore the topic. Familiarity is a big factor when inspecting such generative snippets. For example, I'm really familiar with modern C++, and I'm confident I could spot problems in Copilot output (if and when it starts producing C++), maybe 50% of the time. If it's a logic issue, or initialization issue, I'll spot it for sure. If it's a misuse of some tricky bits of the Standard Library? I might not. I make enough of those mistakes on my own. Or, I know enough JS to be dangerous, but I don't consider myself fluent. I'm definitely going to miss most of the subtle bugs there.
I think Russians have the common problem with identity.
No, I was assuming we didn't treat all of the already-deferred tax as immediately due.

There would be some large long-term effects on investment behavior though, for sure. The topic is much more complicated than my napkin math suggests, and an appropriate policy to actually implement it would be huge and complex.

I'd guess there'd need to be some kind of asset class to represent those prior gains, so they can still be properly taxed at realization, and also some kind of risk-averaging system so that volatile investments don't end up taxed every time they appreciate through the same range of value (you can't tax a wave on every rise).
So, for people to quickly implement http requests, we need a mountain of AI hardware backed by legions of PhDs with endless time to vet the http requests.

That doesn't seem sustainable. It also seems like a poor cost to value ratio.
My point was that if there is a hard deadline that doesn't depend on the team, estimates are simply not relevant.

If the team provides an estimate that falls one month after the deadline, the pressure for them to change their estimate will be extreme as well. In reality, if management has already decided when the product should be released, they don't give a fuck about an estimate. What they're interested in is for the team to take ownership of a decision they didn't make, and that's what the estimate is for.
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Don't do as I did... I decided to use my iPad Mini with pencil to take notes at an important meeting, and the handwriting recognition worked really well. However, just to be sure/safe, I decided I'd also switch on the voice recorder app as well. Unfortunately, at the end of the meeting I had my notes, but also 30 minutes of pencil-tapping noises with barely-discernable voices in the background. I won't do that again...
Give more than you receive. Help your peers, help an adjacent team, help recruiting. Efforts and Time are within your control to dispense. The ability to care for a product / company beyond the work/pay trade, to be vested in the product's success, the learnt skill to obsess over the minute details and to suggest improvements in features or processes - your past grades have nothing to do with these traits. Any / most of these dimensions would make you a valued team member.
I think there's a pretty wide continuum of "knowing how to do it" and in a lot of cases you have a pretty good idea what's going on by seeing the code, once it is presented. I'd further suggest that a lot of examples the give on the page are just finishing tedious series where the problem is mostly just typing it all out.
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If i create another PoW coin then it will also become valuable if i just increase the hashrate enough?

No. It has to be desirable, too.

Given that bitcoin has lost most of its utility since its inception, it's also losing its desirability.
Or Nim's subrange types.

https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual.html#types-subrange-types
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Is it possible to download that eyeball data for using in malicious aims? Blockchain approach means that nothing can be hidden on somebody's private server.
IntelliJ and friends make a lot of suggestions, which aren't always good to blindly accept. It's not exactly the same but it's in the same universe of machine-assisted work that still requires human direction.
Is this new information? I thought it was well known that Venus is dry as a bone for quite some time now.

Anyway, Venus is hostile to life (as we know it) in so many ways, the lack of water is not even the biggest problem, as far as I can tell.
Prophet with MCMC can produce probabilistic forecasts. But how to choose MCMC priors and measure accuracy of the probabilistic forecast are open questions.
Ok, it's the first time i'll go into it here, and i'm probably not the best writer (especially in english), but this typical of the bourgeois mindset.

You don't have to have capital (social/economic or cultural) to have the bourgeois mindset. It two things in my opinion: either you're aware that your capital, your capital esperance, or your comfort is iniquitous and you're justifying this iniquity by any myth or legend you can invent, either you're not even aware of the iniquity and how your less fortunate peers are doing.

I've been thrice in the US. California, Ohio/West virginia, and New-York/Maryland. I've talked to people trying to get the tenderloin moving, i've talked to dockers and construction workers, and i've spent a lot of time with back-to landers but also "rednecks", ex-miners or truckers in WV. I guaranty you, a Polish trucker have a better life quality than a West Virginia one. And i would rather be a construction worker in europe, anywhere, even in Croatia, than in Maryland. At least i could hope to survive my 60s.

Our standard of living don't mean much. I mean, i go sail as a leisure almost every day, i'm 2 minutes away from the sea (by foot), i've got enough money to buy a house outside the city if i want to, my main issue this day is that i need to weld a support on my bike to be able to bring my kite board with me, as the best place to kite is 20 minutes away, and doing it by bike would be shorter.

Having more than 55k/yr at 30 wouldn't make me any happier. The new fablab and engineering "courses" i will try to make for the less fortunate kids of the city with 3 friends next year will probably though.
In order for AI to be the future, it needs to be the present first… and of course people will criticize. Let’s give it a chance to evolve. And if you have something to contribute to the movement, then build your own tool.
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