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> You called it OP.

Thank you.

> I’m trying to understand how this is Apple’s fault

Apple: "it’s by design"

> neither the seller nor Apple are committing fraud here.

As the article points out, many App Store developers are in fact committing fraud, but Apple does little or nothing about that.

> The terms of the transaction are clearly spelled out before you commit to it.

Are they? From the article: "What is Apple's App Store refund policy? An as App Store developer and consumer, I honestly don't know!"

Retail stores typically have some kind of publicly posted refund policy, unlike the App Store.
What does the prompt injection look like, how do you prevent hallucination
it seems it's not "exactly" their house, either, as it sits on Stanford property, though the article stating such isn't super detailed.

https://www.businessinsider.com/sbf-parents-house-on-leased-...
It's the magic of "not being allowed to run anything".

If you kill -9 all your Linux processes then you'll be great at idle use as well.

Now hunting down all the processes that might be turning on your radios, CPUs and I/O devices is the hard part on OSes where you can actually run things in the background, since you easily get into tragedy of the commons situations.

For comparison, consider a Kindle (linux device, battery lasts for weeks) or a Garmin watch (battery life is about 3-10x better than Apple watch) to see how different can outcomes be if you control what processes run.
Can you give me some resources on how I can learn? I want to learn how to read and write over the next 5 years, and I have at least 30 min to dedicate each day.
And what is your experience?
Most cities have zoning that doesn't allow that kind of thing.
True, I suppose there are the "extreme" users of amphetamines which I haven't considered. Though I wonder if those who take megadoses of adderall are the same people who already are willing to consume methamphetamine or other street stims.

This isn't the same person as the student or office worker who prefers taking low dose methylphenidate to their usual two cups of coffee. If the drug was obtained illegally, many consider this to be misuse or abuse of the drug, and this is the caffeine/ADHD med cultural discrepancy I was pointing out.

So I suppose it is fair to ask: with the availably of black market stimulants, to what extent does restricting ADHD medication availability cut down on stimulant abuse?
Now they get to monetize Chat GPT and this new classifier. Starting fires and providing the extinguishers, charging for both of them.

All while pretending to be morally responsible in order to do it.
The Cleanse
I'm not blind, they didn't send one. And they admitted to me that they did not send one.
I'm 33, yes I am. Grew up on computers but only started programming in uni. Learning pytorch, programming every day, working at a security startup doing low level linux dev.

I worked at a FAANG and found it absolutely soul sucking. I hated the code bureaucracy.

I hope to go out on my own soon doing an AI related startup.
> "A good writer doesn't just think, and then write down what they thought, as a sort of transcript. A good writer will almost always discover new things in the process of writing. And there is, as far as I know, no substitute for this kind of discovery." -Paul Graham

What is it about writing that makes it different than thinking?
I wonder whether the "data dimension" from https://transformer-circuits.pub/2023/toy-double-descent/ind... could be used to identify the model parameters involved in memorization and remove them without having to retrain from scratch on a cleaned-up dataset.
So the computer’s evaluation model assumed that each student’s learning is independent? That seems like a ludicrous assumption to put in a model like this, unless the model authors have never been in a class setting (which I doubt).
No. Software gets crapper and crapper. Microservices, distributed nonsense, nothing is elegant any more. It's just stack overflow to manage to get parts to speak to each other for the promise of scaling, that so few companies actually need. No one knows how to build nice software any more, we just throw more cloud services at it and hope it works.
As a 14 year old I got into amateur radio and I was totally infatuated. That carried on through college. My ham radio experiences and learning helped me decide to get into electrical engineering where I've been blessed with opportunity.

Now as a 31 year old, it doesn't interest me as much, and in fact drains me to do some of the things that past me was invigorated by. Still seeking that former passion.
Something similar happened to me, the magic of programming is gone - now it is just another job that pays well. Personally I moved my interests to stock markets/investing/economy and also philosophy (but only basics).

I still feel about once or twice a year a need to quickly code a side project but it usually lasts month up to 3 months. In that time I code something that eventually is abandoned, but gives me some satisfaction.

When I was younger I tried things like taking part in CTFs and reading math books in my free time. Now something changed and those things seems pointless to me. Maybe it's the nature knocking on my mental doors telling me it is time to become a father?
Congrats on your launch, looks like a very useful tool!

Although I have to say the privacy implications are quite concerning before I'd consider using it personally or for a team.

You mention at rest encryption, how does that work with indexing the data and making search work?

Will you offer retention policies on data?

Any plans to include direct messaging platforms (if they offer api's)?
And the UK has done that. It has two aircraft carriers.

It's pretty unclear why it should have an army that's literally ready to go at full strength within days. The US does that but US levels of military spending are hardly normal. Even in WW2 there was time to rearm. Huge military conflicts on your doorstep rarely come out of nowhere, they are seen coming. The most likely next conflict after Ukraine is still Taiwan and the UK's role in that will likely be minimal regardless of the strength of the armed forces.
Not that much. Programming was much more fun when I was a kid. everything was new. Every single computer science concept used to amuse me. I used to think about how X works. how Y works. I feel like after finishing undergrad, I pretty much knew how everything in CS "basically" works. compilers, databases, machine learning, etc etc.
I still like programming, but I'm not as passionate as I used to be about it.
You can use Redis as a cache, but it's not fundamentally a cache.
In theory I agree - however there some differences between Japan and the US/CA.

I think the key with Japan is that they have several big HOA style restrictions at the very front of their property - the border. Immigration and existing cultural norms of being super respectful and following conventions in public places make this possible - the HOA style rules are built in at the country level.

There's also a very strict police presence apparently to ensure HOA compliance. [1]

It'd be awesome if there was experimental urban (or suburban) development in the US/CA that existed that was very high density and had very strict HOA rules and enforcement similar to Japan/Singapore.

[1] Japan, a "heaven for cops" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAri8cD4kN8
Compute and Edge Messaging? Introducing Fanout
https://archive.ph/eKEHt
Tell HN: Jigsaw.w3.org Is Down
I'm going to give it another decade before I try to come to any firm conclusions.
That's a great question about using web tech to build a DE. I've been wondering the same for sometime. Someone should shed some light on this.
I'm as opposed to this woke nonsense as anyone, but calling it "Marxist" is wholly misleading. Marx and his ideological companions saw social injustices, like slavery, through the lens of economic exploitation and class struggle. The DIE cult flips the script entirely; for them, economic inequality is a product of omnipresent "structural racism" and "white supremacy." Calling this delusion "Marxist" is just as incorrect as calling Donald Trump "fascist."
There are no income taxes in Houston though, so while the property tax load is higher, the tax part of cost of living is not very different. (depending on what state you compare to)
I have quite an old samsung tablet that, when I keep wifi and bluetooth turned off in LineageOS, has just this week surprised me as I had fully charged it and hadn't used it in about a month or so, it still had 70% battery life left. It may have even been closer to two months, I can't be sure.

But if I leave the wifi on, even with syncthing/etc not running at all, it will last about as long as you'd expect an unused android tablet to.

I'm sure it's many tricks adding to one great feat, but I've always guessed that many of these devices could probably be better optimized for what is ironically their primary use case: using low amounts of power in standby while still able to relay important information as needed.

But if that's any part of the apple magic, how does the trick work, and why aren't more devices doing similar things?
HelloSystem 0.8: A friendly, all-graphical FreeBSD
A couple things:

1. On Windows and Linux, devices have to handle a huge number of hardware configurations. Not everything can go into the same "deep sleep" mode with the same instructions, so developers implement different "idle" states that may or may not discharge the battery quickly. Too many sales efforts focus on making a laptop 'boot' from idle in seconds, and too few focus on making it usable after being off for days. Look up "S3 Deep Sleep", "Modern Standby", and the bevy of options described at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/k... to learn more. Apple only supports a small list of hardware platforms, and can make deep sleep work and resume quickly and reliably on just that list. Even the Kindle Fire is not totally vertically integrated between the MediaTek processor and Android OS and Amazon UI, there's bound to have been a lot of finger-pointing and little leadership pushing for microamp-level sleep capabilities.

2. Android/Windows/Linux allow users to install applications that do things that consume battery in the background - for example, my Tile bluetooth locators and Garmin smartwatch work great with my Android phones. They wake up a sleeping phone and force it to use a little power to grab a location data point or send my watch an updated weather forecast. Apple doesn't let third-party developers do the same.

I'd bet that if you pushed and held the power button on your Kindle tablet on Sunday night for 3 seconds and chose a full "Shut Down", and then held the button again Friday for 2 seconds, it would have the same battery level as it had when you turned it off. It's just because it's been checking for system/app updates and otherwise running code while 'sleeping' unused that the batteries are low, in spite of the fact that no humans were using it.
It isn't horrible but I don't think you can argue that it'd be better to put the high-rises near the Caltrain stations. If you don't then you are just requiring people to have cars which also makes it harder to afford the housing.
Those would be some of the implications of the ABC conjecture. However, proving the ABC conjecture, or any weaker version of it, is not what this paper is doing.

This paper is exploring a family of examples where the ABC conjecture is as close to being false as the author can manage.
That's fair, I suppose. But I still don't see how a weapon-centric interpretation or intention would stand out much against phrases like

- attack the problem
- circle the wagons
- on the warpath
- exploit vulnerability
- killed that interview
- nuke and pave
- shot across the bow
- shoot yourself in the foot

etc., and I don't think those stand out a ton in writing in or about our industry.

I dunno. Did 'weaponizing hyperfocus' as the sole title imply malfeasance or discrimination or abuse to you or something like that? I can see getting that kind of a vibe.
See also: sea water desalination blocked by the CA coastal commission over the will of literally everyone else.
Yep. Eventually the rich die and their kids have zero interest in living in the town and sell the property on an open market and huzzah now there is the potential start to open up the opportunities for more people to live in the gated community.
The math and probability part could probably be made into a game. Something engaging and with a compelling end goal (candy or completion of a fun narrative) would catch her eye.

My goals for playing are more oriented towards bonding, learning useful/life lessons, and keeping the kiddo challenged.
> You are talking out of your ass.

You can't attack other users like this, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. We ban accounts that do it, so please don't do it again. Your comment would be fine without that bit.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
I really love the product. Would you be open to hiring an intern to work on the technical aspect but also dabble with the product? Im currently a 3rd year CS + Philosophy student in NYC. If its something you'd consider can I have your email and ill reach out with some more info about myself.
and it sounds like in this case, anything that was out of compliance (in any regard) was acted on by wiping the device and deregistering it on the deadline day -- read this as 1700 laptops or desktops getting wiped in one day.
Yeah I was still feeling pretty motivated (I hate the word "passionate") at 28 but started to lose it in my 40s. I'm in my 50s now and want to retire but will need to wait at least until my kids are done with their educations.

You become much more cognizant of the ticking clock on your lifespan after you pass 50. You realize you have maybe 20-30 years left (which sounds like not much after you've lived 50), and you don't really get enthused about spending it learning yet another framework, language, or piece of infrastructure.
Your opinion here seems to come from more a lack of experience or imagination, than from reality. Yes, many US "urban cores" are as you describe. But that is not the norm. The US is severely broken when it comes to city planning, and has been since at least the advent of the automobile.
It's really hard to do much ML in anything _except_ python. Virtually everyone improving the ML ecosystems of other language got their start in Python and are knowingly competing with Python (e.g. R, Julia). If you want to get started in ML today, python is the obvious easiest path forward.

So, most ML users are python users. I don't know how that group compares to non-ML python users, but I have a feeling there isn't a flood of eager new Django devs the way there is Pytorch users. Most non-ML things you could do with python can be done similarly well in Go/Rust/Typescript, but there's no other option for most ML stuff.
My mother tongue is Chinese and I find that English is the easiest second language to learn. English has more or less the same grammatical structure as Chinese, so I didn't have to learn structures like object -> subject -> verb as in Spanish or reflexive verbs or structures like "Me pleases programming" (Me gusta programar) that means "I like programming", or the sentence structure of topic -> object -> verb with all kinds of particles in Japanese. Yes, English has a few conjugations, but boy that is so much simpler than those in Spanish. And English pronunciation is easy for a Chinese, but boy other European languages are hard, as Chinese does not have alveolar R or double R as in Spanish, and don't even get me started on the pronunciations in French and German.
The million-dollar question is how to prevent the extinguishment.
They did it in a nonstandard way because there is no standard way!

This is my point. Also the HEIF files are just a still frame of a standard video format in a standard container format.

The lack of third party support is 100% laziness.
Set aside a percentage of the cost each year in a pot so that when you need to buy you can just use those savings instead of draining your entire budget.
If you expect to have retail stores, teachers, and tradespeople nearby, then you need to build housing they can afford. If everyone has a one-hour commute to get to their job at 7-11 you're going to see even more inflation.
You are talking about "Tracker", the main GUI of Haiku. Read the user manual for all the niceties it has.
Probably because kids dont play outside on urban streets at all, it'd be an instant death sentence
Seems like a poor example as these are technical, not personal posts. I don't see Raymond talking about his personal experiences at all.
Good for them.

CA doing something good for once and walking-the-walk.
> What better giant finger to that neighbor than selling your multi-acre estate to be replaced by a 30 or 100-unit apartment complex?

You really do not realize how big (or small, rather) apartment complexes are. 100-unit building is the size of 6-7 single family homes (or maybe 3 McMansions), and maybe twice as high. It would barely be noticeable in such neighborhood.

See this for example: https://ctexaminer.com/2021/10/23/100-unit-apartment-complex...
This is all predicated on existing conditions, where AI-written text hasn't influenced the way that humans write. As the years pass and these tools become a common way to at least "spot check" your own writing, I imagine that we will all begin to write in styles that are increasingly similar to AI-written text.
>> let's say that I tease out the requirements but the machine implements absolutely everything.

>> How do I verify the software's functional and non-functional requirements have been implemented correctly

If you have the requirements sufficient to have the AI create code, wouldn't those same requirements be sufficient to generate tests and acceptance criteria?
> the point was really for the students to consider the sort of unusual constraints and considerations that are required for such a long-term design

Right ... and after considering those important aspects, they decided to send everyone to FB to check on the artefact's status?

Talk about scoring an own goal.
This is the best way to get Python devs to start using JavaScript. But if you're already writing in JavaScript (or TypeScript), why wouldn't you want to re-use the code on server and client? Next.js is basically modern day PHP - you create a file in /pages/foo/bar.ts and it renders at localhost:3001/foo/bar. It really doesn't get much easier than this, and anyone complaining about it has likely not tried it or doesn't have a green field project where they can start from scratch with TypeScript and Next.js.

Also, this trope that "JavaScript can only render websites that require JavaScript to read" is a common misconception. Next.js, for example, is perfectly capable of rendering websites that work for clients with JavaScript disabled. In fact, that was kind of the original point of SSR: to make websites that search crawlers could read by processing the HTML sent from the server. The server renders the initial page, and then the client (optionally, if following best practices) "hydrates" the DOM to render any further content that requires client-side interaction (indeed, it's bad practice to require hydration, and a mismatch between server rendered DOM and hydrated DOM will generate warnings in development).
best i can tell, dragoons in starcraft 1 used A- paths. that is, A*, but completely f-ing random
For me, I think it goes in waves. I went through periods where other things in my life were in disarray or where I had a lot of stresses from having kids and worrying about their future or just plain sleeping less while they were infants and toddlers or when the company I was working for was struggling financially.

Then there are upswings where the pure joy of learning something new or trying something challenging in computing comes right back with as much force as I could ever remember there being. (Doing Advent-of-Code in clojure this past Dec was one of those times of nearly pure joy for me.)

I do think it's easier in your first few years out of school because there's so much to learn and you're getting that feeling of progress and novelty every week, if not every day. After a while, you start to have more grind and less shiny-new, but there's still enough enjoyment that I get at not quite (but almost) twice your age.

If you "don't have a craving for anything anymore" that probably is a sign of general depression and you might need to talk to someone, might need to exercise, might need a vacation, or who knows what will help you climb out of it, but if you used to like programming and lots of other things and now you find you don't enjoy programming nor other things very much, I'd wager that it's not the programming part that's changed in that story.
It can't possibly work reliably.
It's going to be very challenging for honest kids because almost everyone is going to be cheating.

The reality is that learning to think and write will be harder because of the ubiquity of text generation AI. This may be the last generation of kids where most are good at doing it on their own.

On the other hand, at least a few will be able to use this as an instant feedback mechanism or personal tutor, so the potential for some carefully supervised students to learn faster is there.

And it should increase the quality of writing overall if people start taking advantage of these tools. It's going to fairly quickly become somewhat like using a calculator.

Actually it probably means that informal text will really stand out more.

I am giving it the ability to do simple tasks given commands like !!create filename file content etc.

It's actually now very important for kids to adapt quickly and learn how to take advantage of these tools if they are going to be able to find jobs or just adapt in general even if they don't have jobs. It actually is starting to look like everyone is either an entrepreneur or just unemployed.

Learning about all the ways to use these tools and the ones coming up in the next few years could be quite critical for children's education.

There are always going to be luddites of course. But it's looking like ChatGPT etc. are going to be the least of our problems. It is not hard to imagine that within twenty years or so, anyone without a high bandwidth connection to an advanced AI will be essentially irrelevant because their effective IQ will be less than half of those who are plugged in.
There is a lot of bloat, but the people who should be blamed are the executives who let it happen.

I’ve witnessed it first hand over the last decade, working at a handful of companies. Each year it seems like the # of engineers who don’t serve any purpose increases, and the more layers of abstraction are created (Frameworks on top of frameworks on top of frameworks) that don’t solve any real business problem. It sucks for the people being laid off, but things have gone off the rails and predictably we are now in a correction.
I mean, houses abutting landfills are even cheaper, but no one would consider "put landfills everywhere" a good strategy.

Houston has had a stable population (per square mile) over the past decade and has a median income of ~$50,000.
Sacramento has had the population per square mile increase by ~15% in the past decade and has a median income of ~$71,000.
San Francisco has had the population per square mile increase by ~9% in the past decade and has a median income of ~$126,000.
I don't know if that's the image compression, but the font looks very blurry.. they need to fix that asap

Also i'm not a fan of the color scheme, they'll need to make things a little bit more vibrant

Looks like it's still the Gnome Shell, not a fan at all
This is what every country needs.