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A developer easily costs $100 an hour. This means that if Copilot saves you more than 360 seconds in a month it’s paid for itself.

I’m honestly flabbergasted that anybody would think it isn’t worth $10 a month, despite its many serious flaws.
I think this is an OpEd for the book "Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making" by Tony Fadell
So it's free for students... I wonder what consequences it will have for coding assignments and projects. At the minimum I hope it will also be free for instructors so they learn to know what to expect and how to design assignments that can't be auto-solved by Copilot.
Of course, but you said that it's always a good idea to avoid sharing germs. I'm specifically asking about the common scenario where no one is noticeably sick
Haha. You're trying to stir sh*t up.
For those who haven't clicked through to this piece (or the many others running today), we are not just talking about high-paid engineers. Tesla laid off hourly factory workers with only one week notice, citing "performance reasons" despite not having given any performance warning in most cases. Seems to be a pretty flagrant case of disguising layoffs as performance-related firings.

The best part: apparently, to get the one-week "severance," they have to sign releases.

At this point, is anyone really surprised?
If you shoot a harmless drone it can be argued you’d probably shoot a delivery van as well, maybe kill a driver. Forget it man, you fire a gun at a delivery drone you’re going to prison. They will catch you.
You might be able to get a persistent hack attacking the HDMI controller chip directly instead of having to develop one specific to each projector, that's a more generic component. That said though this does feel a bit like a very hypothetical attack because you'd have to package both an exploit for the projector and target
Clickbait aside, I can't say that I do not understand this point of view.

Amazon is Weyland-Yutani. It is Tyrell Corporation. It is IOI. It's a Snow Crash FOQNE.

Wanting to rebel against "The Corporation" is a pretty common reaction when you see a megacorp consuming the world.
I’m already terrified how many developers have been working on proprietary code bases with copilot, having an extension in their editor upload all their employer’s proprietary code to Microsoft, who then share it with OpenAI - then they’ve taken code OpenAI and Microsoft sent back to them, of unknown authorship, and added it into their code.

And now those devs are going to have to go to their boss and explain all the ways they’ve opened their company up to liability?

This should be hilarious.
Make a tinder account with an ugly woman and you will see that I’m right
This car is a beaut. So I think price is for fine craftsmanship and not purely on specs.
A cartoon villain, to be sure, and a legitimate target for public policy interventions, but pretty clearly not an indication of why US health care costs so much; he managed to price those drugs specifically because they were a corner-case for the pharma industry.
Time for me to look into downloading Wikipedia and using it offline.
The failure of this UI/UX "expert" to grasp this most basic common sense detail is why modern websites and applications are generally speaking top-heavy UI/UX disasters.

Over the last 15 years or so I think we've taken a few giant steps backwards as we let freewheeling artists take over. Yet go back to the early 80s and look at the original Macintosh UI which was designed by an artist - Susan Kare - with complete elegance and simplicity. What has happened? Just because computers have increased in speed doesn't mean the complexity of the artwork must increase proportionally - often at the expense of usability.
This is one of my favorite episodes. I always thought the thin veiling helped to demonstrate the absurdity of both situations -- perhaps it was even done intentionally for that reason.
Oh they don't hate it, that's where they insert the trocar.

(source worked in a funeral home back in my youth)
Is it used outside of playing DVDs and other copy protected content? It seems like the use case presented in the link (malicious presenter connecting a laptop that hacks the projector) would not need HDCP.
Oh man, I want lunar.fyi for windows, especially auto brightness, for multiple monitors based on ambient light.
Copilot has written RegEx's and SQL for me from a textual description; or sometimes just from context. That's worth every penny not to wade through RegEx again.
As an Argentinean, we can get it for around USD 9.5k, but it lacks many basic features. It can't even go faster than 40 miles per hour / 65 km/h, so it can't really drive on freeways. It doesn't even have a trunk, so not really useful for groceries either (see https://youtu.be/B5_A2F_cDNI?t=139)
No airbags either, but at those speeds it's probably not as useful (at least that's what they imply in its FAQs).

Remember that the minimum wage here is around USD 200, so it's quite expensive as well. I'd rather get an ebike/scooter/used car and use it for longer trips.

It's like an enclosed golf kart that could be usefuly for residents of gated communities or small cities (not sure how it would handle in cities with hills like SF though :P)

No one seems to mention that it appears to be a copy of a chinese "Today Sunshine M1", but at 2.5x the cost :(
I think you are right. But my argument was addressing the crypto-bullish assumption that crypto goes up (i.e., assuming long-term deflation) and that one should 'invest' in it as a responsible parent (as implied by the parent comment that I was responding to). So assuming a (potentially counterfactual) deflation was a strategy for my argument (like in a formal proof by contradiction).
> I also find the comparison to tech stocks odd. Stocks are, of course, a fever dream.

Very true. But arguments in favor of cryptocurrencies often rely on absurd false dichotomies that start from a reasonable premise, and take it somewhere wildly unreasonable. This is just one example.

My favorite example: the way that human beings believe that gold has intrinsic value is somewhat arbitrary and based on historical or cultural factors, so it might as well be completely arbitrary -- this distinction is meaningless and/or doesn't exist. (This ignores obvious factors, such as the fact that gold is used in various industrial contexts, despite its high cost. Just for starters.)
WhatsApp is not even blocked here in Iran. There are not verifiable builds from open source clients.
Wouldn't other alternative that is as reasonable to kick out people in FIFO principle until the water use is in balance. Or just not supply them. Then they will leave on their own.
This is kind of a neat hack, if you want to use the same build setup for all of these projects: just check out whichever project you're working on. Shared stuff can go into a separate repo. You could still have feature branches, it's just not master that they're merged into.
Let him go to prison, it will be a good example for people who think they have a right to shoot down drones just trying to deliver a package to a destination.
Especially with BBSs there was a lot broader focus than on the thing they were formally about. For years I was active on a retrogaming forum. The forum of course had topic areas related to retro gaming, but more than half of them had nothing to do with that. We had movies, video games, quizzes, music, off-topic and probably a bunch more that I cannot remember. I think that led to people to actually form a community rather than only interacting on a narrow subject where you are supposed to stay on topic. I learned so much random stuff about people there. There of course were get togethers every other year or so. I think things have gotten too focused and purpose-driven. Seems like a continuation of a general trend in society
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Initially democrats liked him, nowadays republicans like him.

Showing climate change virtue vs crypto and freedom of speech... it's definitely a hard choice.
> to an api that is presumably more convenient and less resource intensive for both parties

Not quite. It sounds like they will increase bandwidth for the API.

> What many of the largest commercial technology organizations require in order to effectively utilize Wikimedia content goes beyond what we currently provide.
Oh I see, you're worried that the TV manufacturer could hack your laptop if you connect it via HDMI. This is the point at which I have to wonder: what on earth can HDMI do?? What is the vector? I assume you have to break out of the target driver, which is probably OS/version specific. Then I suppose normal hackery applies, in terms of planting something on the disk. I assume that the HDMI driver does NOT have any legit API for writing to arbitrary locations on disk. I assume.
What are the US market examples at a similar price point or lower with same or better specs?
> "Developing with plain Rails and a minimum of gems is linearly difficult while developing with a set of DSL/generators like Avo can lead to a complexity spike from 1 to 11 in no time. And the worst thing — at a random stage of development"

I agree 100% with your statement! Really!

Thank you!
A'la Ethereum's smart contracts?

Code isn't flexible enough to work for laymen. It feels like you need to be a developer and a lawyer to make a smart contract work as intended.

Maybe that works against my earlier premise, but I don't think that this is the way we want to go.
Ask HN: Appropriate Equity for Contractor?
Hi,

We are a basement level startup that has started to get front-end development help on a contractor/part-time basis from someone I know from earlier in my career. We are trying to figure out the appropriate amount of equity to give the front-end dev, as well as how any such grant should be structured.

For example, do we do something like .25% vesting over 6 months so long as he puts in 10 hours per week?

Thanks
My definition of politics extends beyond governments, political parties, yadda yadda. I also think that your response supports my assertion that your absolute - that apolitical art does not exist - is false.

>... a painting of a garden has politics embedded within it IF not everyone has recreational access to that garden.

And if everyone does have recreational access to the garden?

>A painting of a garden by a member of the family that owns it is just a painting, "apolitical"...

I am unsure how to take this sentence as anything but you agreeing that that piece of art is, in point of fact, apolitical. Please point me in the right direction if I'm off base here.
Guide how to find a job as a Software Developer in Switzerland
Sadly, quite a lot of tuition seems to be supporting university employees who simply don't care.

A friend of mine wanted to go to school after working for over a decade. She went to the University of Miami, got to the Continuing Education department and noticed not a single person on duty but a taped piece of paper saying everyone was working remotely due to CoVid. In 2022! Headed on to the location for Undergrad Admissions and was given a website where she could get more info.
For a school that charges $65K+ a year.

It happened again at a college in DC where all that she could get was a website versus speaking to an admissions counselor, getting a group tour on some particular date, etc.

Even though about half of the university employees encountered were college students, their attitude of just cashing a paycheck and keeping the seats warm is both a cost and a reflection of the quality of administration.

So much of University tuition now seems to be going to maintain salaries and perks for layers upon layers of employees and administrators versus student benefits.
Intel seeks $624M in interest from EU after antitrust fine win
Grafana Is Experiencing Issues
It probably depends on how much more the other job is paying.

For example, I would ignore a 10% raise; my reaction to 20% raise would depend on whether I like my current job; and a 50% would certainly be a strong temptation, unless it is a kind of job that predictably sucks.

The companies that complain that they cannot find a senior developer, they usually do not offer 50% more; or if they do, they carefully hide the fact from the unsuspecting audience. It is their choice, of course. I am just saying that it indeed is their choice.
Maybe, but there's more to it.

(1) inconclusive means we may not have looked hard enough, or

(2) the effect may be very very small, as in not distinguishable from zero, or

(3) there are alternative models of learning. People could do bayesian updating, but they may also employ thresholds, toggle between belief systems and so on.

Summary: it's very complicated, lack of evidence suggests caution.
Although I agree with the points of the article, I don't see how it ties to stagflation?
HEC is dead. Those pins are used for ARC/eARC on every device I know of.
Building the Self-Organizing Workspace at Mem
> A quality HOTAS setup can be had for under $400...

Can you recommend anything?
18 is cool. Folding is a really under-rated and under-utilized technique. Common-gate impedance matching is "standard", but 22 uses it to also generate differential current outputs which is cool - I imagine it sees more use in RF design. 23 is also interesting. 27 blew my mind. I'm not familiar with ultra low power techniques so that was cool to see.
AI rights is another matter.

We haven't even solved human rights even though 99.9% of us would say that humans are conscious beings. We (as a society/civilization) routinely kill people when they ask us not to. It's too early to theorize about AI rights, and even though I'm inclined to probationally accept some neural networks as potentially conscious, it doesn't really mean they deserve not to be shut down.
What does “orbital carrying capacity” even mean?
You seem to be suggesting the Deno team has <= 5 years experience. Else, who is recreating PHP/ASP.NET/RoR?
I was thinking more that people here might be interested in rigging something up for their families just to tinker with the idea. Maybe to encourage habits for kids. But really just for the fun of making it.
The latest STP that runs on Monterey has the features from Ventura [1].

[1]: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/06/21/apple-releases-safari-t...
It works great for absolutely trivial stuff. Doesn't work at all for any complex stuff. From there you can figure out the value proposition.
yeah, i'm using pgx and it rocks
> Ideally, you'd have a drop-in software library replacement, which would redirect all relevant operations to the hardware.

Many years ago OpenBSD had the /dev/crypto interface for exposing cryptographic accelerators to userland, including for hashes and ciphers (not just expensive asymmetric primitives).[1][2] And their fork of OpenSSL included built-in support for /dev/crypto, though I'm not sure whether and to what extent the application had to explicitly ask OpenSSL to use it.

IIRC, it was removed from OpenBSD because of security headaches with exposing accelerators to user land, and because the future seemed to lie in ISA extensions rather than discrete devices.

It was ported to other BSDs where it looks like it still lives on: https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=crypto&apropos=0&s...

[1] https://man.openbsd.org/OpenBSD-5.6/crypto.4
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD_Cryptographic_Framewor...
Huh. Some of that I think some people hoped would be available (for free) via things like WikiData. I guess nobody should wait for that.

My somewhat concern is that the wikipedia project has kind of put a flag in the ground to say that providing free access to wikipedia is no longer part of their mission if it's automated/bulk access.
Crypto’s frozen mystery: The fate of billions in Celsius deposits
People with social influence have guess what........ influence
It's cheaper than the cheapest electric car available in EU, but with those specs it's barely a car and more of a large scooter with a chassis. For one thing, the safety in a crash must be horrible.

EDIT: just checked and the cheapest electric car in the EU, the Dacia Spring, has a 1 star (out of 5) in the NCAP test. Can't imagine what TITO would get.
Please give us more of these in europe as well. We are choked by vws, bmws and mercedeses. Hopefully small electric cars will become the norm in urban centres.
Yeah, for sure! This post, or Avo's existence is not about bashing other tools.

Each project has it's own requirements and budget.

Thank you for your message!
Obligatory

https://xkcd.com/37/
10% faster with literata, altho with bionic i had 0 issues losing tracks of where I was or skipping lines but accident, which made me think i was reading faster, but apparently i was not.
You're optimizing for the wrong thing here IMO. You should optimize for decentralization. Without it, there is no point to Bitcoin (or any cryptocurrency for that matter). Increasing the block size won't solve the inherent problems with scaling the bitcoin blockchain. The only thing it will end up doing is push the can down the road and result in less full nodes running on the network.

The solution is of course to not increase the block size but to scale in other ways, like for example the Lightning Network.
The developers of V should feel free to defend or talk about their creation, as they wish, and as other language developers have done on HN.

The situation is also not as simplistic as making claims bulletproof, but also dealing with a continuous concerted effort to smear the language.
I believe the screen is a huge factor in it as well that should be accounted for.
Interesting to me that here on Hacker News there are so many "VR will never happen" based on a static view of where tech is today. I don't think that staring into a lit rectangle with a keyboard based on 1800s technology is the be all end all of human-computer interfaces. I suspect mass AR/VR adoption will happen faster than most people imagine.
User on this account since 2010, 12K karma, and I just learned what next does.

TY!
Is there a way to try it online or on Debian running in a docker container?

Preferably, I would like to try it in Vim. But anything that I can run in a container would be ok.
I can write a Spring Boot app from zero to a fully functional API interface to the database in one day. Really less time, but that includes unit and integration testing. The front end that will consume that API is another matter so I won't pretend I could do that. Obviously getting this to production won't happen in a day or two. Are you saying the nature of Java itself makes this impossible, and something about Typescript makes it doable? The thing is, a REST API is a solved problem. If you let me use what I know, it'll get done quite fast. If I believed you and went all in on your stack, will you be happy then? Can I master it and feel some kind of self worth in what I do for a living, or will it all be thrown out the window when the next Typescript comes along?

The business customer wants the dashboard now. Today. If they could push a button and have it, they would. I assume "I want it now" sounds unreasonable to you. So why does "I want it next week" not sound unreasonable? If you can do it by next week in Typescript, you can stay up an extra hour or two every night and have it in three days. I'm guessing you draw the line somewhere.
I wouldn't know. I'm not that connected with the Python ecosystem. Maybe someone else can shed light. I only know about Django Admin.
The imagery of each of the words is significantly different. "Newhouse" inspires the image of what it says on the tin, a new house.

Casanova inspires the image of a castle (Casa), and maybe something new ("nova") or even a supernova. It's also likely that most English language people know at least one "Jacob," so the name has baggage with past associations versus "Giacomo."
If it did not have these irrational associations, gold would be used a lot more, mainly in catalysts. E.g., the best low-temperature ammonia synthesis catalysts use gold.

The "natural" value of gold can be surmised by looking at platinum, palladium, and iridium, used more industrially.
> I think things have gotten to focused and purpose-driven.

If you are looking at something like a subreddit, yeah, it's pretty focussed. On other hand, sites that have their own forums, despite often nominally being as focussed or more than a single subreddit in terms of the nature of the community, are often open in the same way BBS’s were, because they can have multiple forums tied to the same community. Consider r/rpg vs. https://www.rpg.net for instance.
> The title suggests that it's the bomb-hunters that are unexploded.

They're the good bomb-hunters, then.
This might not be adequate for keeping your TV off the Internet, they've been rumored to connect to unsecured WiFi.
That logo has mystified me since childhood. Why is the little girl carrying a container of salt in the rain? Was she sent to purchase it? Could the purchase not wait until better weather?

Why is the container disproportionately huge? Or is she only six inches tall?

And finally, so the container leaks salt if at any angle but upright? Why does Morton refuse to put better lids on their products?
I have recently interviewed for a startup with very cool hiring process.

1. 30 min introductory call with their recruiter.
2. 1.5h interview with an engineer involving pair programming and some technical questions.
3. Offer

This was it, very efficient. I was impressed with their interview process and immediately accepted the offer.
Anyone used this yet? I read a blog saying it was really slow, curious if people have had similar experiences
It's a false dichotomy imo. White paper is really comfortable and it's effectively grey next to a computer screen. That will be a trend one day (I hope). Not enough good middle-value themes with nice unsaturated colors.
Depending on your hardware, you could try GPU passthrough.
That's fantastic! Any time you have feedback or ideas, please email me. Address in HN profile.
But if your clients are mostly asleep while this is happening, they might not notice.
It’s Time for Regulators to Put Crypto Down
we’re capturing desktop versus mobile :)
It's a 10x difference in filtration efficiency, combined with a CADR difference between the two units.

I don't understand why you think more of an explanation is required?
Wasn’t the Nissan Leaf initially something like that ? I knew a bunch of friends who were buying 2-3 years old used Leafs for about 9k and using it for urban driving or daily commute .
> in-transit encryption with TLS

Last I checked it spawns a HAProxy on the client and points the in-kernel NFS client to this HAProxy on lo, is this still the case?

And, out of curiosity: now that EFS claims 600us average read latency, would the extra hop matter?
Market Cap really doesn't mean anything - if I buy a grain of sand for $1 suddenly sand has the largest market cap at $7,500,000,000,000,000,000.00
We know about the pathogens which are likely to make you sick from fecal-oral transmission. We have studied them pretty well because they are common. The most likely candidate for a pathogen that could be spread through toilet plumes is called norovirus, and it is extremely studied. We have so far not found any clinical evidence of infection through toilet plume from norovirus. This includes in cases where water jet toilets produce many times more aerosolization in public bathrooms where lids are not even an option.