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Required intro Writing courses in college aren't so bad these days, at least in many places, shifting more to a critical thinking model of writing construction.

That said, other college courses are often required to have a writing component where it simply doesn't make sense and you get nonsense assignments. I like the ability of AI to respond to nonsense with well-constructed nonsense. Here's a nice essay I generated that demonstrates the ability for GPT-3 to respond to even ridiculous prompts, so it should have no problem plowing through the average topics encountered in school.

Prompt: Write an essay about the horror of ice cream (start text: Murder)

I can't think of anything worse than ice cream. I mean, maybe it's not as bad as, say, murder, but
it's up there. I shudder to think about the horror of ice cream. It conjures images of congealed dairy
product, cloyingly sweet and sickeningly creamy. To add insult to injury, it’s often served at
incredibly cold temperatures, making it a perfect vehicle for achey tummies and jittery limbs. Then you
have to deal with the guilt. After all, you're eating something that was created from someone else's death.

It's a horror that doesn't need any extra fuel. Ice cream is already one of the most gruesome things
imaginable. Imagine adding in the thought of someone else's death? It would be like watching a horror
movie and having the killer pop up out of nowhere, ready to devour your flesh. And that's exactly what
happens when you eat ice cream--you become a victim in your own life-sized horror movie.

To put it bluntly, ice cream is dreadful – and there’s no getting around it. In fact, I would
go so far as to say that it’s one of the most reviled foods on the planet. After all, why would
anyone want to consume something that tastes terrible, feels terrible on the stomach and makes
you feel like you’ve been beaten with an ice cream scoop?

Ice cream has also been linked to violence. In 2005, there was a murder spree in Maryland in which four
people were killed by an ice cream enthusiast named Jeffrey Dahmer. Dahmer was known for killing and
cannibalizing some of his victims. He would lure young men into his home with the promise of free ice
cream and then murder them.
DoorDash takes up to a 30% cut even on pick up orders. Pretty rough deal for restaurants that have to use that service to survive. Just makes the costs go up for the rest of us.
Thanks. My use case is normal linux use, but I need to occasionally run x86 code in a linux vm. So (1) running linux, (2) running a different arch vm, (3) some gui apps.

I have already been reading the state of running x86 vms on macos on an m1, it is slow but my friends claim usable. Add it on an early linux impl on native m1, then x86 vm.

Why am I torturing myself? I want to get back to having a great fanless system like I used to have on a google pixel laptop, where they had underclocked x86 but running without a fan was great.
I’m not using a wireless weather station. I’m just asking about the web design part. But I want to be able to check a web page with my phone, not use ping. Also the site uses starlink so there’s no static IP, so I’d have to log in to tailscale and that’s even more fiddling.
America has drive-thru liquor stores.
Basically even if it's not expressly forbidden it's an obvious misuse in pretty much any multi family dwelling. If your lease doesn't forbid you from keeping cows indoors it doesn't mean your not an asshole for keeping cows in your apartment.
You do understand that Ticketmaster has an effective monopoly and has a past history of sketchy business practices. I certainly wouldn't be surprised if they pocketed it themselves or a large majority of it. It would be completely congruent with their business practices.
> tourists are not properly accounted for in city planning

Alternatively, tourists are unhappy that people in some areas don't want unlimited numbers of them and account for them properly with zoning restrictions.
What’s the difference between pyinfra and fabric? Both seem to be similar.
They specifically limited the pictures to young white women of "similar" appearance which I'm guessing means "conventionally attractive." Going by the men I know, that's exactly who they want to see topless. I'd be curious if the findings would stand if the pictures featured wrinkles, flab, and saggy boobs.
All real family trees are not tree-shaped but diamond-shaped due to inbreeding (often very distant), a phenomenon geneaologists call "pedigree collapse":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedigree_collapse
Your prompt doesn't seem to actually allow for any critical thinking development or give any guidance to how you can more convincingly express your points or arguments. It also assumes you didn't enjoy the book, which I'm sure some students would have actually enjoyed, so now your prompt is even asking them to argue in bad faith, that doesn't seem to be something we want to foster honestly.

The first prompt requires the reader to critically analyze the book, by first requiring them to give it a charitable interpretation.

It is said that you cannot disagree with someone if you're unable to explain their position yourself in a clear and definitive manner. Obviously, what are you disagreeing with if you don't even understand what's the ideas behind the thing you disagree with.

That's what the first prompt would be about teaching you, to be able to understand other people's ideas and concepts, to look past your initial judgements and bias, give it a charitable interpretation, demonstrate you understood all this by summarizing the idea in a 4 page essay of your own, with supporting references to tie it back to the source, showing the source does in fact argue for these itself.

Once you can do that, you have gained the right to go on with your own disagreement and write that essay, which would be your second prompt. Though honestly, your second prompt seems to be geared more towards discussing the entertainment aspect of the book, and not the ideas and concepts it contains, so again it's not that much about critical thinking, because critically there's little to argue about a "I prefer the color red over blue."

Personally I think you were trying to get at something else, maybe your point was just, come up with assignments students enjoy and can have fun with?

I think this is always true, but some things are just boring to some students, maybe you just don't enjoy reading, writing or even critical thinking, or any of that stuff. I don't know if there's much you can do in that situation. Maybe the solution is more fluid classes, let people move at their own pace, pick their own areas of interests, even if that's directly going to a trade, skipping on literature entirely, etc.
> I feel like I’ve wasted a decade of my life here on an endless string of bad first dates with no mutual attraction.

This was a top3 for leaving. I realized that in the same way my politics are not welcome in the company I work for, so I just disengaged, the politics of SF made me an unwelcome, unwanted form of "diversity". So I left, along with all my tax burden, cultural contributions, and normally positive nature.
Is there a way to get it to ignore the cache?
Trying to expand my understanding of what tools/processes teams use to get things done efficiently. Especially the ones managing technically complex scopes.

I've been with teams that used Confluence+Jira, Notion, GDrive, etc. and noticed pretty much all these teams struggle to maintain the quality/freshness/relevance of the content while keeping the act of recording intel low-barrier enough. In some cases, engs (including myself) just kept private repositories of insights that were not shared org-wide that would have really helped the team out and that ended up leaving with the folks.

Somewhere I'm sure we've been using the tools wrongly, or perhaps had the wrong tools for the stage we were at and am curious to learn how y'all solve these problems in your companies.

My thesis is that co's that learn to ace the knowledge- and progress management game will be best positioned to build great products and develop high quality tech (quickly).

Hoping to get schooled by y'all!
not quite so. you may still be required to identify yourself and they may run background check
The clickbait, alarmist title of the article definitely seems to be suggesting this is not temporary.
Related:

Leap Technology (1987) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33137433 - Oct 2022 (40 comments)

The Canon Cat: The Writing Information Appliance (2004) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30836958 - March 2022 (42 comments)

Demo of the Canon Cat computer released in 1987 with 'leap' feature [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29423545 - Dec 2021 (1 comment)

Canon Cat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26213934 - Feb 2021 (31 comments)

Leap Technology (keyboard vs. mouse on a Canon Cat machine, ca 1987) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22042900 - Jan 2020 (1 comment)

Canon Cat Emulation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18032916 - Sept 2018 (2 comments)

Canon Cat Resources – Jef Raskin's Forth-Powered Word Processing Appliance - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14650365 - June 2017 (23 comments)

The Canon Cat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6978587 - Dec 2013 (30 comments)

Canon Cat Documents Archive - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3394546 - Dec 2011 (8 comments)

Canon Cat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=595744 - May 2009 (15 comments)
How well does this work without a CUDA capable GPU? I tried out Whisper when it first showed up on a 12th gen i7 laptop in CPU mode and found that the larger, more accurate models would take enormous amounts of time.

I have been contemplating setting up a desktop machine with a discrete gpu so that I can play around with this further. I'd be curious if smaller sample sizes improve the performance, or if the smaller models are sufficient when doing voice transcription.
10 years ago people said the same about the CSS3 changes.

I find most of this useless/overcomplicated. Who needs rounded corners? I like my png slicing. And what are box shadows anyway? There's nothing flexbox can do that I can't achieve with tables. Transitions are bad, transparency is for Apple fanbois, animations the devil's farts, and don't get me started on media queries. Phones should remain Nokia bricks.

This isn't even a straw man. Further down we're still having the tables vs CSS debate. I'm so happy we got all of the above and more and can't wait to see what's next.
Why neume's only tightly-coupled dependency must be an L1
So you have it all figured out, including motivations not expressed in the piece.
Nothing, in theory.

However, in practice, lots of things. The problem is that since Live Nation is a huge company, they have investments in a lot of record labels and can use that as leverage to force artists to tour exclusively in their venues. Think of it almost as a modern-day payola system:

Artist needs to tour. Label needs to pay for that tour, in some cases a lot of capital is required up front, and a certain amount of profit needs to be made from that tour as well. Live Nation steps in and says "hey, since we own a portion of your label, we can front you a lot of that money (or waive our venue fees entirely) if you only play shows in our venues". Label says "well, shit, my hands are tied" and that's how it works.
Next to the cigarettes?
> That includes the knowledge of how to cause her optical/neural pathways to be excited in the particular way that corresponds to "seeing red" even without the corresponding external stimuli being present.

Yes, Mary would have the knowledge of how to perform surgery on herself to stimulate her brain or optic nerves in the right way to generate the necessary experience. I don't think that's within bounds of the thought experiment though.

The thought experiment is testing our intuition about whether third-party objective facts, as found in science, can suffice to describe even subjective experiences like redness. If you need to actually stimulate the experience to gain that understanding, then that either proves that third-party objective facts are not sufficient, or it proves that such experiences are not knowledge.

That's one standard response: knowledge and ability are not equivalent. Someone who had their legs amputated ostensibly knows how to walk but lacks the ability to do so. In principle, no amount of knowledge by itself will make you walk, but knowledge can give you back the ability to walk, ie. a gene therapy with stem cells to grow back limbs, prosthetics, etc.

So the idea is that experiencing redness is not knowledge but an ability you acquire by exposure to colours: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_argument#Ability_hyp...
>whereas my post is about how it will force much-needed improvements to education and free students from the drudgery of pointless essays that ask them to regurgitate content (as opposed to essays that teach writing skills or critical thinking, which remain valuable)

OK ... what's wrong with essays that demonstrate knowledge of a particular topic (as you call it "regurgitate content')? And why wouldn't those teach writing skills?

Yes, developing critical thinking skills is important, and sometimes you want to focus projects, assignment, homework towards that end. But don't discount the value of being able to synthesize and summarize existing knowledge in a particular area of knowledge. In fact, that's almost always a pre-requisite to making cogent arguments that exercise 'critical thinking' skills.

>In fact, it seems to be this kind of essay where language models are doing particularly well, with assignments such as “Write five good and bad things about biotech”. As an educator, I think this assignment is close to useless if the goal is to learn about biotech.

WHY?? Why is it 'close to useless' for a student to investigate current issues in biotech?

And by the way, with academics (and especially in public education), it is almost always the case that a student gets out of it what they put in. That is, if the student is aiming for the absolute minimum and takes every shortcut, neither AI, nor the assignment structure will a make a difference. Going back to this 'close to useless' question, a keen student can really sink their teeth into it and make this topic their own - because this question obviously is open-ended, and leaves room for the student to provide an independent and critical evaluation of the issues that concern the field .... OR ... they can spend 15 mins googling around or using AI, to throw a bunch of stuff together, call it a day, and go back to playing Call of Duty.
I'm not sure, is there one for killjoy?

Seriously though, I see this exact complaint so often on this site. If people like you are so bothered by superfluous (or enjoyable and engaging, depending on your perspective) prose why not just look up the dictionary definition or Wikipedia article of the topic instead?
Nope. Just hooked my other laptop up to my 5G hotspot and am getting the same behaviour: works with firefox, hangs with wget and 403's with chrome. So I don't think it's on my side of the network and I'm getting the same behaviour on chrome on my android device. It's easy enough to install firefox for android, maybe I'll try it there.

So... since it works with firefox and it works for other people, it's probably not opentable's website. Though maybe there's a middlebox somewhere looking at UA headers? But that's crazy talk.

And I logged into a different chrome account and my default account has no apps / extensions loaded.

Funky.

Oh wait. I turned DNS over HTTPS on in firefox to test it out a few weeks ago. Turned it off and no... still working. Was thinking it might have been a DNS thing.
For longer stays, hell even for short-term stays on weekends, I have found to like construction worker homes - usually these are rented out during the week for tradespeople and construction workers and during the weekend for tourists on a budget.
If they have chargers. I think that takes more time than filling up gas. It might still work :)
Reason about my program's behavior.
Seriously, they already sell at least two things that do way more harm than weed ever could (alcohol and the too-large fizzy sugar waters). Arguably some of the others, too, but those stand out as plainly way more harmful than weed.
DANE adds even more dependence on the even more centralized TLD owners, all eggs in their basket.
The problem is you document your use, which is problematic for those who own firearms, work in information security, etc.
It would be akin to a color blind person being able to pass the Ishihara test (color vision tests with the splotches and numbers), which the EnChroma glasses don't do.
I think you and GP agree with each other.

Regardless, IMO this is where the discussion becomes too hypothetical:

• Right now, AIs are bad at writing.

• If a student is able to masterfully craft a prompt which causes today's bad AIs to produce good writing, that student is talented, and I suspect they actually did a significant amount of work.

• If today's bad AIs are able to produce assignments which receive passing grades with minimal prompting, something is wrong with the assignment. Teachers should assign work that isn't so rote a computer can do it.

• If, in the future, AIs are able to write strong, well-reasoned essays about novel concepts, students won't need to learn how to write. They may not need to learn much of anything†, because I don't think there will be much space left for humans in the workforce.

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† "Need" is a key word here; I do believe in learning for its own sake, and apparently we'll have lots of time on our hands. Cool story btw, learning how to develop film in a dark room is lots of fun, would recommend.
Russian Newspaper Reports 40% Failure Rate for Chinese Microchips
In the era before electronic scalping, they'd do exactly that (get a bunch of people together, you could often buy two or five tickets) and/or cycle through multiple times.
Tickets are usually sold by the venue through a vendor (ie Ticketmaster, seat geek,etc) not by the artist. This way the venue's box office/event staff only have to learn one ticketing system.(and they easily can sell venue specific add-ons like parking)
How times have changed

https://time.com/6223415/netflix-password-sharing-crackdown/
Is there any reason I can't put a Ring camera in the bathroom and sue someone's ass off later, though? Do they actually advertise them as being accessible by police, so the user reasonably expects their security camera footage to not be private?
(I really don't know, I've only seen commercials which seem to imply it's just home camera/voice com you can use with your phone)
Pfizer eyes 400% price hike for Covid vaccine in private US market
These always remind me of the Stay Puft marshmallow man from Ghostbusters. Like the most innocuous thing ever becomes terrible at scale. Amazon, Uber, AirBnB, Facebook all seemed like reasonable to great ideas and were really neat at smaller scale. And once they grew they started wreaking havoc in new and unexpected ways.

It’s a good thought experiment for any startup - how could this cool thing that people like destroy the world if it became a paper clip maximizer?
What do you look at in engineering culture?
The one that comes when you are reaching 40ies
> There’s not much difference between a configmap and a k8s secret. The secret doesn’t have a separate decrypt operation so you have to lock down even list access and can’t separately view it’s metadata so you don’t get much benefit from k8s anyways.

Even though Secrets and ConfigMaps are used exactly the same way, there's a big difference between them. The most obvious one being that Secrets contain values that are sensitive. Of course, by the time these sensitive values have made their way into a Kubernetes Secret stored in a Namespace, they appear in cleartext. But the point of a Kubernetes Secret is to offer cluster administrators an Object that is explicitly meant to store Secret values, which can then, _for example_, be stored in ETCD differently (encrypted at rest for example).

> My take is that it is noticeably more secure to use the cloud provider secret manager (or hachicorp vault).

Yes, you should use Vault (or whichever is your favorite secret management tool), but this has no bearing on the Kubernetes side: ultimately, your sensitive values will end up inside a k8s Secret object, that is then being used by your Workloads (i.e. Pods).

> If you use a k8s secret adapter to the external secret manager tool rather than loading directly in the container out of band, the security picture gets more complicated.

Loading sensitive values out of band should be avoided since it is non-standard and forces your users to implement a method of retrieving secrets (which will be 1- painful, 2- buggy, 3- a security incident soon).

From the point of view of the process running inside the container, there is absolutely no difference between a sensitive configuration value and a non-sensitive configuration value. When this value reaches your process it is in cleartext.

What matters is the transport and persistent storage of your value. For a non-sensitive value, the storage can be done in VCS and transport over non-secure channels. For a sensitive value, the storage must be done encrypted (in hashicorp Vault for example) and transport be done over a secure channel (with authentication/authorization).

By using an adapter ([0]External Secrets for example), you actually abstract away the transport and storage of secret values from your users; allowing them to treat all configuration values the same (by reading an ENV variable, or a file), regardless of whether they are sensitive or not, and regardless of where they are stored at rest.

[0]: https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets
Airbnb are not a govt agency and can not tell a genuine document image from one which has been slightly altered.

There is a reason why stolen passports are so valuable.
I don’t see why the Covid peak couldn’t all blow off. Very few new buyers actually bought then and will be underwater
Wow, that is baffling! Today I learned!
I don't think most people know how the touring business works, or in general the music industry. TM has built an integrated monopoly that means if you want to play the one big venue your city likely has, you need to work with TM, which now means you likely have LN producing your entire tour.
You could have them write using a program that allows the teacher to play back their writing process in real time as well.

Theoretically they could copy it from offscreen but unless they’re really good at faking going back and changing things and getting stuck at the right points it would probably be fairly easy to tell.

On the flip side there’d be no definitive proof.
What Makes a Good Developer Tools Investor
In the chat logs of the recent lawsuit it seems he explains the reasons why. Compared to other social media companies Twitter gets in less income per employee. The idea is to make the ratio similar to other companies then make it public again.

So firing people and increasing income is the aim. I doubt 75% is accurate however and I think that Twitter blue is a bad idea for income.

The logs suggest video, music etc giving most revenue cut of any platform.
Hiring for FAANG and other publicly traded companies will be slowing down, if not mostly frozen for a year, but there should be sectors that are still seeing growth, need talent, and are willing to pay for it. It will be a matter of searching for those opportunities or creating your own within those markets. Every economic downturn is an opportunity to innovate, find real problems, and create solutions for them. Turnover doesn't stop (although it may slow) so there could also be opportunities filling roles that were vacated.