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I've personally benefited a lot from Thinking About Things, a newsletter that emails me a couple of blog posts every week. https://thinking-about-things.com
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What kind of basic math are we talking about here? Arithmetic? Calculus? Group theory?

What makes those "basic maths" a good benchmark for whether we're fucked?

Freeing up head space for more important things is valuable. Not having to maintain 7 digit numbers in your head lets you focus on the actual problem.

Not having to worry so much about the phrasing in a document because anyone can ask a bot to rephrase it, in a way that makes the most sense to them, is better than what we have today.
Posting a salary range is hardly burdensome. The only “shenanigans” going on here is businesses willfully disregarding the intent of the law in furtherance of maintaining a status quo in which job seekers are at a significant disadvantage.
This is gonna be the funniest battle ever. AI is not gonna go away and it will be better at law than humans. I'll take any odds.
Believe it or not here in the US we have a lot of regulations as well. They're just designed to favor the big guy.
Yeah, but notebooks are allowed in court and you could spill water on your notebook and confuse an 8 for a 0 and then read it out to court and it would be a lie.

Lying to judges is bad, so notebooks should be banned. Likewise, anything typed should be banned because we could have hit the wrong key, causing you to lie to the judge.
For fun: max speed, max legibility, style 2, sentence "My first name is: bla bla bla bla bla bla bla bla", stroke width doesn't matter.

It may take a few tries but at some point, you may get some weird results (about 1/4 time for me). It may happen with other settings, but these work well for me.
Government doesn’t have time to deal with moderately informed opponents on individual tickets, so they don’t show up.

DNP should take the other side of this bet. AI for prosecution.
Really good thoughts and treatment of the different issues. The line between “tool” and “agent” is blurry and will probably just keep getting blurrier. But I do think it’s important for our judicial system to ensure that any delegation of representation is to a very qualified third party, for both ethical and process/cost reasons.

I’m not sure the startup’s name is especially germane though. If anything, it seems to fit right in with human lawyers like 1-800-BEAT-DUI.
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Dave Ramsey is very good. A lot of folks object to him because he can come off as extreme, but his advice is simple and effective.
Which is sad, because even multiplayer would be very interesting with Alien style NPCs who were actually clever and cooperated and had memories stretching over the timespan of the games existance. (Years.)
Hurricanes are cyclical. It’s not made up. I’m sure there’s a season for tornadoes and blizzards as well.
Thinking About Things: https://thinking-about-things.com
Checking in fake private keys is fine for testing. Why is it bad, out of principle, just in case you check in bad private key? I think that's a bad argument because there are a lot of benefits to being able to run end-to-end tests with some key.
I'm hoping for a tool that cannot just correct my English style, but can also play the advocatus diaboli in a little speech bubble while I'm writing philosophy papers. It ought to constantly try to disprove me, though only on a per-paragraph basis and by making mild suggestions ("Could you give an example here?", "On the other hand,...", "What if...", "Isn't this what <X> calls...?", "Isn't there a missing premise in this argument?",...).
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Tons of additional information here from an Atari staff engineer who worked on some of the XY games. [1] [2]

[1] https://www.jmargolin.com/vgens/vgens.htm

[2] http://www.jmargolin.com/xy/xymon.htm
> Dr Farbod Akhlaghi, a moral philosopher at Christ’s College, argues that everyone has a right to “self authorship”, so must make decisions about transformative experiences for themselves.

I'm only commenting on the news article's interpretation of the paper, which may be wrong, and not the paper itself.

There's nothing about giving advice that violates the right to "self-authorship".

I can vehemently urge somebody to move/quit a job/marry somebody else/have a babby/join a convent/buy a house/cheat on their wife/sell their car/etc and nothing about my speech would ever prevent the other person from having their own choice.

If the argument is that attempting persuasion violates individual rights, then freedom of speech would be impossible.
The US doesn’t have an affordable housing issue. A few cities do, primarily due to local regulations / restrictions.

It’s largely that people are interested in particular locations. Not everyone can afford homes in that location, it’s fact of life.

That said, there’s zero need to be homeless in the US. In Detroit you can get a home for free if you promise to repair it.
Very much different yes. Doc Converter doesn't re-use any of pdf2docx's GUI feature. Doc Converter's UI is instead built with Electron.
We are calling these things A.I, as if they were really intelligent; do they understand the concept of qualia?
Not exactly a balanced symbiosis. Certainly works to the enormous benefit of whoever controls the AI. Eventually it becomes some flavor of omniscient. It submits the papers, experts become reviewers?
The protocol notes that the relay has a choice to accept content, for example a large video. If you were running a relay you might want scanners for spam and illegal content running out front before relaying any content.
The subreddit personal finance has straightforward advice, and a very nice algorithm for determining where to put your money (and an exit criteria after which you can do whatever you want).

That basic flowchart has helped me set my goals for years, and to maximize my progress towards those goals.

It's very simple, a 10 minute read, and backed by most the books and advice you're likely to receive anyway, including basic stats about emergency funds, etc.

Unfortunately, it can seem mundane, as financial responsibility is about time in investment and good lifelong habits, not easy tricks.
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William Bernstein has written many finance/investing books, though most of them can get quite advanced. But he also wrote a much more approachable, 27 page booklet available for $1 called “If You Can: How Millennials Can Get Rich Slowly” that is a good intro to the space. I greatly appreciate the wit and no BS style of his writing.
You've decided to distribute your app closer to your users for increased performance. But if you also leverage a central relational database, how do you prevent that from being a performance bottleneck? In this tutorial we use PolyScale.ai to address this problem.
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I’m not necessarily in favor of these pay transparency laws, but this comment is paranoid hyperbole. Posting a pay range is not some slippery slope to wage fixing, nor is it some insurmountable bureaucratic hurdle. It’s frankly just an administrative checkbox that may (or may not if the range is too large to be useful) waste less time with upwardly mobile candidates. There is 0% chance California starts mandating salaries at the mid to high end.
thanks a lot! re: fine-tuning - it was about $30 using the most expensive model (davinci)
Another new resource I've discovered is qubemoney.com. Great way to set a budget and stick to it. They issue a debit card that declines unless you "open" a budget first on the app. That way you always have to think about what you're spending before you spend it and you always know how much you have in your budgets.
The Northlight is definitely one of the units we looked at, and was a top contender. Ultimately, it was between the Northlight and a second vendor, but funding was pulled before we ever got to make a decision. So, no new toys for me and the team =(
I'm not sure what their particular beef with Vue is but I've been using it for several years now with Rails and its mostly been great.

They had a similar issue as Python, albeit not nearly as bad, with their upgrade from version 2 to 3. It required some rewriting. They also introduced a new core concept with the "composition" API, which completely changes the way Vue apps are written. Luckily once you made a few required changes you could continue writing apps like you used to, ignoring the new composition API. I'm assuming at some point we'll be forced to change, which will suck.

One thing we do, which I don't think is as common when using Rails with a heavy frontend like Vue or React, is that Rails is not in API mode. That is Rails still handles routing, pages are still rendered in ERB, and then each page is its own little Vue app. So we can use Rails, Ruby, etc to initially hydrate the pages and inject stuff by calling to_json on it. This also means we can let Rails and Devise handle login and session, which I absolutely hate doing with a pure JS frontend.

Routing and session management are something I think Rails is extremely good with. This also means that if a section or sections of the site are pretty simple (password reset for instance) we can just render the page in ERB, no JS required.

Regardless, I still like Vue and it has a pretty decent ecosystem. If I had to go back and start again I'd probably just go with React. It clearly has the most support (and most jobs) on the front end.
yes, you obviously came up with the novel idea of PDF conversion!
>talking to a lawyer about my case obviously needs him to be licensed

Why's that obvious tho? Shouldn't it be on you to decide if you want a licensed lawyer? Isn't that the point of your post?
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I'd probably start with google calendar's docs.

Looks like it has a decent API for this: https://developers.google.com/calendar/api/guides/recurringe...

Edit: also this: https://developers.google.com/calendar/api/v3/reference/even...
I agree with this. .NET isn't sexy, but I can do it in my sleep. Throw in a reasonable front end framework, and I can spend my time getting feedback and iterating. Once I need to grow and scale, I'll put more thought into the right tech for that job.
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Ah you comment about MUI reminded me to include Mantine, also big productivity driver.
Wireless charging of personal electronics is slower than cable and heats the device more. Apple added glass back to their iphones to enable wireless charging and now these premium smartphones are crackable like a cheapest glass from IKEA. Why do we need this feature?!
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>> The legal system is no joke, and if there weren't regulations about who can practice law, you'd have all kinds of fly-by-night people getting paid to do it while getting their clients thrown in jail

> That sort of highlights the problem. The legal system is supposed to be about ensuring fair and impartial justice. What the legal system is actually about is providing jobs for people in the legal system.

> Lawyers make laws, directly or indirectly, and thus the legal system has become insanely complicated and nearly impossible to navigate without paying the lawyer toll.

And software has become insanely complicated and nearly impossible to navigate without paying the software engineer toll.

Life is complicated, and so is the law. Maybe it's just harder to ensure "fair and impartial justice" than you think? I'm not saying the system is perfect, but railing against lawyers and getting rid of legal licensing is not the way to get to a better one.

> I've often said that if you really want to make a lawyer squirm, suggest that we have socialized law care. Most modern countries have some version of socialized or single payer health care, so why not make it the same for legal services?

You might have said that, but I doubt it would actually many real lawyers squirm any more than it would the idea of socialized software engineering would make developers squirm. And in any case, something like that already exists: the public defender's office.
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Damn. I almost wish I didn't know this.
My question is "what is a derivative work?" This is equally applicable to images generated for a hobby as it is for professionals. It applies to art generated with a paintbrush and canvas, on a painting app on a digital tablet, and as generated though an AI model.

The definition of a derivative work is agnostic to the means to create it. The final product is what is being evaluated.

If the answer is "but the Bob Ross paintings that are derivative works by amateurs are never sold and only hung at home - it would only be an issue if they sold them or tried to display them publicly as described https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/106 " - then I would agree.

If I create an image through any means - be it paint on canvas, stylus on tablet, or prompt and ML and don't violate 17 U.S. Code § 106 then there shouldn't be any issue.

If, however, I publish that image - again, no matter how it is created - then there is an issue. But it isn't the maker of the paints, or Adobe, or the creators of whatever ML model generated it. A program cannot hold a copyright and cannot itself create a derivative work. ( https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-copyright-offic... ) and so the issue of creating and publishing a derivative work is upon the human who did it - not the computer.

If you want to sue someone for publishing an image generated as "create a landscape of San Francisco in the style of Pixar" then have Pixar go after the person who published that image. It doesn't matter what process created that image.
As somebody trying to learn the web stack, reading this thread makes me a little sick to my stomach.

Edit: Thanks for the advice!
> What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?

Many years ago a CIO told me he didn't really care what technologies I picked for an upcoming MVP backend, as long as I was already comfortable with them and would therefore be productive quickly.

He also told me we would almost certainly need to rewrite everything at least once, so not to dwell too long on the initial stuff.

Build the MVP, build it quickly, get it in front of users. It just needs to work, you're not going to get marks, or customers, for backend coding style.
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> Why not find a real gun that looks right for the part, and then run a blob of weld down the inside of the barrel?

If you did this, and then fired a live round in the gun, it could injure or kill the person holding the gun or someone nearby.

> Why would you even have live rounds on set?

I cannot imagine there's any acceptable reason to have live rounds on set, and it seems like whoever put live rounds on this movie set should have some explaining to do, at the very least.
he's good for people who are in massive debt and can't control themselves. people need to graduate themselves from him once they don't fall into those categories as his advice will hold people back if you blindly follow his hard advice.
A lot of movie scenes involve pointing a gun in the general direction of the camera, and there's generally people standing around the camera (cameraman, etc.). So pointing a gun at people is pretty much unavoidable. That's why there's a professional armorer who is supposed to make sure the gun doesn't have live ammo in it.
IMHO, part of this is that people have accepted the poor experience of non-realtime applications. But there's a huge UX improvement if the application responds faster than users can input actions. Doesn't matter for all applications but if your users are going to spend significant time inputting data it makes a huge difference.

Also IMHO, a flexible type system like Typescript makes development faster than without it. You can refactor faster, it catches silly mistakes, and you don't have to write as many tests.

Rails does a lot of great things for you, but IMHO ultimately it's stuff you don't really need. If there's any chance that the application will grow beyond a few developers I think it hurts more than it helps.
The best book bar none on investing is "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham. So if you want to learn about investing in a way that is a sustainable way to build wealth for the long term, that is the one to read. The original is pretty old, but the advice remains sound. The modern edition with the original text + chapter updates from Jason Zweig is the one to go for.

That said, it sounds like you have some financial foundations to build before investing is a realistic option.
Not fundamentally opposed to this, but who collects those taxes? the state? federal? locality?

if I have a cottage in the next state, when I file and if I have to pay, does that go to the other state?
What's insane is thinking that a bank that handles people's money shouldn't be required to report a coordinated successful attack, regardless of whether their technology is at fault.
Django/Postgres/htmx(for interactivity) . I was able to release aipaintr.com in 3 weeks working 2-3 hours daily.

All the new fangled frontend technologies make me dizzy :). On top of that this is my fist project in django.

There is a nice django starter oss project called djangox which takes care most of the integration out of the box.

For a new project the complexity should be on the marketing stack. Choosing a good tech stack is a distraction. Choose something that will allow you to create MVP fast and then start marketing.
There was talk about it, but to my knowledge nothing had come through. I only recall that US blocked Polish request for sending MiG-29s to Ukraine, due to these fighters having been upgraded with NATO technology.
Look up an LCA or fermi estimate it yourself. It's roughly on par with solar (4mo-2yr depending on just how unreliable it is).

The biggest part they don't usually include is a couple thousand people driving to and from and working for 20 years, but even that is tiny.

The mines (especially in a mass expansion scenario) are a little worse. Each fuel load takes up to a few months to pay off from a low yield open pit mine. The industry always uses Ranger or Cigar Lake for comparison which are anomalously high yield.
It's a catch-22 in the US.

You can't have a non-lethal gun that looks like a lethal one because the cops will shoot you.

Once it looks different, they don't want it in a movie.
You support this until you and the arbiter of "obvious bullshit" begin to disagree.
What possible hazards do you honestly feel the WA law is leading to?

I’m all for it. Less for tech workers and more for blue collar workers who don’t have nearly as much career mobility. Having them able to understand the current wider market when looking will only help them get better and more livable work.
This is an extremely insightful article. Strong agree with the core points made that these are copilots or co-processors rather than replacements. Maybe at some point in the future we will all be replaced (sound familiar?) but for now these are tools that can help us make progress as a society at a much faster rate
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The real question is: does the CEO take full responsibility?
For some people it happens automagically once there’s more than you can let yourself to spend in a moment. You see money, you think “good, better keep on keeping on”. For me it actually created motivation to seek and earn more.
To be fair, food delivery startups are wreaking havoc on food stations all over, it's getting harder to stay organized and clean.
My 2c.

Django shines at creating a nice project scaffold with all the things you need to do rapid development. It has first class support for DB, unit testing, schema migrations, good enough templating system, performant ORM and can be easily debugged. The documentation is top notch and the best thing is the community. Due to its longevity I found that almost all the issues I had were resolved by a simple Google query or visiting the docs.

It’s very easy to add functionality like social auth with few lines of code.

I’ve also not found anything like Django admin in any other framework. I would highly recommended Django for an MVP.
> AGPL restricts distribution.

It does not restrict distribution, instead of restricts the ability to limit/restrict distribution. Quite a significant difference.

Also, fundamentally, one (AGPL) is putting the freedoms of the code and its users over those of the authors whereas the other (ELv2) puts the freedoms and interests of its authoring business over the freedom of the code and it's users.
Would that be in Rust for performance reasons? Elixir IME isn't as slow as some other popular languages but it's no speed demon either.
Don't worry too much about all of the options.

Pick one stack and learn it. The concepts are all transferrable.
I made (admittedly, the 200th) uptime monitoring service - https://onlineornot.com

I've been running the business for almost two years now (and it's now more of a status page that also monitors uptime), and it's still steadily growing!
Odd that it doesn't include Saratoga Springs (cheaper and more walkable than Boulder, 20 minutes from the Adirondacks, direct train to NYC) or Madison WI.

Boulder is lovely but so so expensive.
Romance scams are definitely going to benefit from this.
You might accuse me of being glib in saying this, but this scene from the movie The Gambler[1] contains a lot of wisdom. The movie as a whole is moderately OK, but this scene really distills a lot of good stuff into a few minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJjKP8vYjpQ

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gambler_(2014_film)
To have the authentic learning experience, take a dollar bill out of your wallet and light it on fire every time you start a new game.

(inflation adjusted)
Just goes to show how little personalization matters. Unless it's actually personal, it's still fake!
The nice thing about bogleheads is it starts pretty simple but scales into the minutia of various tax efficiency techniques, fund selection, real estate, and so on when you need it.

The other thing I like about it is that the forums have lots of detailed personal scenario discussions that are helpful for getting real life examples of the application of the dogma.
ChatGPT is not disruptive enough to be used in law, end of story. It's a very impressive language model, but like any language model it will hallucinate, inventing arguments that sound impressive on a surface level but bear no legal authority whatsoever. That's simply not acceptable in a courtroom.
In Germany, there has been a high-level court decision last year about requiring a "proper" recourse process[1].

[1]: https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/facebook-bgh-urteil-1.53... (German)
This is the essence of GPT. It perfectly captures style, but not substance.

I naturally read the jokes in Jimmy Fallon's voice, before knowing it was fine-tuned. It really takes talent like his to pull off jokes like this every night.
Just naming a 'staffer' though seems to already be a way to apportion blame to a segment of the employees, insulating management from what was done. Named or not doesn't really matter, clearly blame is being assigned.
This is Hacker News, so why am I the first to suggest Common Lisp (SBCL) and Hunchentoot with PostgreSQL on the server? I'd default to Vue for the frontend.
I tried two. The first one was a dud, but the second one legitimately made me laugh.

My setup

>Scientists have discovered a new breed of monkeys that intuitively understand how to use Instagram.

GPT's punchline

>They're called "photographers."