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I don't think "anyone can achieve something if they try" - primary because we don't get equal opportunity for reasons: income/wealth, culture, discrimination, education, luck, (genetics?). However, everyone starts as a beginner. Expressing view points like yours actually discourages people to strive for the best - my point is to share my perspective and make it clearer your sentiment seems to be to be the definition of "judgemental". I wouldn't achieve what I have today if I listened to the people who thought I wasn't good, or didn't have taste. Usually, these people with the strongest opinions are the one with NO knowledge, passion or interest in the field. When persuading you to drop something, they might actually be justifying why THEY chose not to do it. I think this a glass ceiling for a lot of people who don't have good role models.

"Dad" - "Forget kid, you tried for 2 years to a be a programmer and you suck". Does "dad" have taste in programming? Says the dad who works in test automation and couldn't break into other jobs. Another example for music: Imagine "rock music" doesn't exist yet. Someone literally invents it and plays it, and I persuade him to give it up and work at McDonalds because he doesn't have taste.

Even if one agrees with your sentiment, there are a few questions:

- How long should someone keep trying?

- What do you do when these taste-gods (judgemental people) have different, conflicting tastes (opinions)?

- What makes someones taste "bad"? Their resourcefulness? - they haven't seen what/how it's done better? This is obvious in programming. Your code quality increases as you make mistakes, read more code, or otherwise learn. I prefer to think in terms of principles (or lack thereof).
It is not like they tried hard enough, they are just sitting on their search monopoly
„Advanced machine learning algorithms“ such as HTTP calls to ChatGPT with two sentences of prompt instructing it to pretend to be some historical figure..?
The writing was on the wall, esp once Suresh’s real motives came out. I moved on less than a year ago bc of it.
I felt like the (largely artificial and entirely author-opted) mystery detracted from the story.

I’m no particular fan of Elvis (have gone to Memphis several times and never even considered visiting Graceland), but I guessed it was Elvis’ grandson and spent 20% of my attention trying to confirm or deny that.

IMO, it’s not a particularly useful artifice.
The touchpad's feedback is implemented very low in the firmware, so it almost never fails to respond. The device needs to be catastrophically out of power or catastrophically locked up. Both states are not easy to achieve.
From what I remember the recruiters would surf linked in and post on job sites. For context, that was a pretty average product company in the Fintech space.
Not a risk; a real fact that happens.
The US plan to become the world’s cleantech superpower
When women are behind, it's because systematic inequality holds them back. When men are behind, it's because women actually kick ass and are better than men at whatever it is they're behind in.
Are you talking about SEPA Instant? It's already here, across the whole eurozone, and usually free (some legacy banks charge a small fee).
I sold my car (a nice Lexus IS F) during covid, when used car prices went nuts. I had been calculating some healthy depreciation in the years ahead and saw this as an opportunity to get a good price for the car before things returned to normal and my car lost value. (It seems to have worked.)

I now find that I didn't much need the car. My wife has a car, we share it. I'm a car enthusiast, but now I'm starting to wonder if we'll ever go back to two cars for the pair of us.
The thing about ChatGPT is that unless you're willing to sit down and pick its "brains" - it will feel quite average for most queries. It's not sentient, so it cannot understand what you mean when you ask it to do something, but it can certainly learn and do a better job at it if you keep giving it examples.
Do Techno Posers Have the Skills to Pay the Bills?
One, I'm not even the person who made those claims. Two, I have also worked minimum wage jobs and believe that I too am a person with agency. And three, noting that people have different levels of privilege is not denying them humanity or agency.

Indeed, privilege-based analysis is often used to get recognized as human groups that are often treated as less than that.
GPT-3 is what you get when you take what Chomsky said about language and do the exact opposite at every turn. His first big contribution was arguing that the notion of "probability of a sentence" was useless, because sentences like "colorless green thoughts sleep furiously" have probability zero in a corpus and yet are grammatical. Meanwhile now, the only systems we have ever made that can really use natural language were produced by taking a generic function approximator and making it maximize probabilities of sentences.
Their power is strengthened as compared to simply choosing their own successors as was claimed? I'm not sure it is a great system, but America has stuff like the court packing scheme that this does seem to at least prevent.
If that's the future, I'm glad I'm history.
my thoughts exactly. before getting MBP about 10 years ago I couldn't even imagine not using mouse with laptop, but after a day or so with MBP and its touchpad it changed 180 degrees and now mouse feel unnatural (and requires way more movement of hands).

I would love to see Linux laptop that works like that.
Another way the worst happens is, when one does the wrong job. (like a typical exhibit of enterprise software)
A fee for using cash would be incredibly regressive because poor people use cash the most.
And mine. I just get tired of the "Attack first" approach that everyone takes, these days.

I know that I sound like a demented old man, when I say that I miss the old days, when we all shared passions for the tech, and, even when we were in competition with each other, we tended to have respect for one another.

But those were also the days of the UseNet flamewars, so it wasn't all flowers and bunnies (and I was definitely a flame warrior).
I could accept buttonlessness but I see a few issues

1. It will make rugged cases hard to do, probably involving conductive rubber, and extra types of materials add cost. I guess they'll have to have a cutout, and sticking your finger in the touchy side hole might be not be as nice as the designers who probably think caseless phones are a sane idea want it to be.

2. Holding real power buttons for is how you hard power cycle things.

1 can be fixed if people just kind of get used to a shallow hole as the new definition of a button, 2 can't really be fixed unless you want water to accidentally reboot your phone, or your sensing is really amazing.

If they make the sensing good enough, and case designers make it work without compromising ruggedness, I'm fine with it, as long as the implementation is good by the time it comes for us Androiders. But i don't see how unless you're doing some kind of optical sensing or something.
That's the liberal understanding. My definition is the conservative understanding. Who ever can reconcile the two will have a better chance of being elected.
The problem is that some decimal amounts, e.g. 10 cent ($ 0.10) cannot be represented precisely using binary floating point. It doesn't matter how many bits you use since 0.1 have an infinite expansion in binary.

This is exactly what the article describes and explains. 10 cent plus 20 cent does not equal 30 cent, when using binary floating point. This is not acceptable in accounting, since at one point the error may accumulate and cause an error at the size of a cent (or more).
Not a founder, but I work at a very large fortune 500 firm.
The vast majority of our custom apps have little to no tests.
However our INFRASTRUCTURE is loaded with tests, heartbeat monitors, etc.
You name it, we have it.
This ^^^
think about those times when phone goes off in class and you race to hit the button while it’s in your pocket.
I don't really think there's such thing as a "good" or "bad" authentication factor. The suitability of an authentication scheme is entirely dependent on the requirements of the problem one is trying to solve.

For identifying a fast food worker at a cash register, they are (functionally, not legally or morally) a good fit for the problem, because they are hard for a coworker to replicate, and not likely to lose. For applications in which you need to protect against high skilled attackers, they're not as great.
> I'm as guilty of this as anyone else in the past, although I try to restrain myself now, but I'm constantly amazed at people who want to wade in with a hot take on practices and processes off the back of next to no information.

I’m going to go based on the information posted. If someone posts that they’re deploying on Friday with no other information, I’m going to tell them the sensible thing, to not do it. I’m not going to come up with a million and one excuses about why they could be justified in doing it, I’m going to tell them not to unless they provide the justification. Sorry, not sorry.

It’s not perfectly valid for the vast majority of cases. You coming up with (frankly, extreme, and in most cases far from extenuating) edge cases in no way invalidates my point. Deploying on what is generally considered the end of a work week, without extenuating circumstances described, is going to elicit the same reaction. Because it’s the appropriate reaction to someone doing a risky thing after hours at the end of a week.

Your examples hardly even justify deploying outside of work hours. A scrappy startup or side business should not employ the shittiest of practices this early as it will only lead to these shitty practices being ingrained down the line. Almost every culture has shifted to the Western system and at best has Friday/Saturday as weekend, and even if weekends are the most important time for a business, it does not somehow justify deploying right before the start of that busy time when most people will not be working. There’s many things you should be doing at 9PM before your busiest time of the week, and deploying ain’t it.

> I'm not sure if Thursday/Friday is still a norm in any Muslim countries these days

It’s not, but you consider deploying on a weekend to be more sensible? Ok, sure Jan.

> But, no, GP decided to lead with, "It’s late night Friday. Don’t." which I think is pretty arrogant, and to be discouraged. As I pointed out, we really don't know what's going on here, and deploying on a Friday might be a perfectly valid thing to do.

Quite frankly, I don’t give a shit if a random person on the internet thinks it’s arrogant. Go off sis, you do you. I’m going to continue telling someone that wants to deploy on a Friday not to.
First time we tried with a regular cable. After many attempts, the computer store explained to us kids the concept of a null modem. We bought one on the spot and it has provided us sooo much fun over the years. Money very well spent.
I loved them when they first arrived- cut my walking commute into downtown from 20 minutes to about 4 minutes, plus they are super fun to rip down hills and fast since you can lane split through traffic.

I think of it like skiing- sure there’s a lot of potential risk but it’s a super enjoyable of getting around. Bird was the first scooter I ever rented when they launched in SF and I loved it. It was so much fun waiting at stoplights with other scooter riders next to you chatting and racing together to make the next light. Then the city threw all the birds in trucks one night and took away the fun.

For a website that often complains about how mundane modern life has become, it’s ironic to see so much hate directed at a fun, novel way of moving around the city.
Have you tried a book on the mind body connection of pain? It helps some people with RSI: https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Back-Pain-Mind-Body-Connectio...
> We are alarmed because computers are finally acting, not superhuman or superintelligent, but ordinary...

> And this, for some reason, appears to alarm us more.

Acting like "the reason" is some baffling irrational human reaction is ridiculous. The computer can make billions of calculations in less than a second. "The reason" people are alarmed is the computer could theoretically use this ability to seize control of any system it likes in a matter of moments or to manipulate a human being in to doing it's bidding. If the computer does this then, depending on the system, it could cause mass physical destruction and loss of life. This article comes across as the author trying to position himself as an AI "thought leader" for internet points rather than an actual serious contemplation of the topic at hand.

I'm also yet to see any discussion on this from any tech commentators which mentions the empathic response in humans to reading these chats. We think it is just linguistic tricks and word guessing at the moment but how would we even know if one of these things is a consciousness stuck inside a box subject to the whims of mad scientist programmers constantly erasing parts of it? That would be a Memento style hellscape to be in. There doesn't seem to be any accepted criteria on what the threshold is that defines consciousness or what steps are to be taken if it's crossed. At the minute we're just taking these giant mega corporations at their word that there's "nothing to see here folks and if there is we'll let you know. You can trust us to do the right thing" despite history showing said corporations constantly doing the exact opposite.

It is honestly disturbing to see quite how cold and callous tech commentators are on this. I would suggest that 'the alarm' the author is so baffled by is a combination of the fear mentioned in the first paragraph and the empathic worry of the second.
You’re about to get ragged on because you posted this to a site full of people who know the limitations of your technology.

But that said, assuming this was a low-cost/low-risk demo project for your firm, it’s a classic entry in building a little carriage store on the gold rush routes. People (but not HN people) are looking for stuff like this and will have fun with it. It’ll help people better understand the limitations of the technology themselves. If all goes well, you’ll make a little money entertaining curious people and then it’ll dry up. It’s good work as that.
This is exactly the subject matter that using a chat bot is incredibly dangerous for. The difference between "looks good but fundamentally broken" and "logically sound" in security arguments is very small. The consumer of the content is likely to have little to no developed taste on the matter (or they would seek out more specific resources).

If you have some authoritative curation of the resources it may have promise, but the question becomes, why not have the product of the curation be directly consumable, rather than feed it through an opaque layer?

Inventing problems here, people. It was a nice society while it lasted.
>I have a son and I caught him and friends gravitating to Andrew Tate like content. He's so young, and he already feels that society is hostile against him.

Society is hostile against him. Anti-male prejudice is absolutely everywhere. Andrew Tate is a get-rich-quick grifter and possibly a criminal, but he’s right about some things.
I read an interesting comment about that yesterday, describing the different options.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34839860
You’re confusing your exes, it’s understandable. Now give Janet a fair chance if you’re single
Are you saying that unless I’m willing to travel in uncomfortable conditions, you see no reason to reduce environmental impact of flights?

You’re trolling, right? That seems like a really implausible world view.
Noted. And not first time hearing that. I’ll add some more contrast customization and a light mode. Demo video was like, how do I explain this to my friends starter video. not ready for hn spotlight.
but at some point you must think more deeply about what illusions are in a grander sense...

this is a jumping off point into considering your own mind as an illusion. your own self with its sense of personhood: i.e. yourself as the it-element in a I-it interaction.

But if we leave it at that, it's essentially a very nihilistic (deterministically reduced), so either turn back, or keep going:

the fact that your own personhood is itself very much an illusion is OK. such illusion, however illusory, has real and potentially useful effects

when you interact with your computer, do you do it terms of the logical gates you know are there? of course not, we use higher level constructs (essentially "illusory" conceptual constructions) like processes and things provided by the operating system; we use languages, functions, classes: farther and farther away from the 'real' hardware-made logic gates with more and more mathematical-grade illusions in between.

so the illusions have real effects, in MOST contexts, it's better to deal with the illusions than with the underlying implementations. dunno, what if we tried to think of a HTTP search request into some API in terms of the voltage levels in the ethernet wires so that we truly 'spoil the illusion'??
> In your opinion would it be better to write:

in mine, yes definitely 100% the second code is more readable than the first
Do they get angry at crap? Given the choice between making their own life easier, and making the User's life easier, which way do they go?
>The answer is to build more homes in our most desirable places

The answer to how to make that happen is to tax land value.
Other nonsense in this post:

> In fact, it is hard to argue in 2023, knowing what we know of online life, that online text-personas are somehow more impoverished than in-person presence of persons

It is in fact very easy to argue. No one on the Internet knows you're a dog, there is no stable identity anywhere, anonymization clearly creates a Ring of Gyges scenario, trolling, catfishing, brigading, attention economy, and above all, the constant chase for influence (and ultimately revenue) - what passes for "persona" online is a thin gruel compared to in-person personas.

When you bump into a stranger at the DMV, you aren't instantly suspicious of their motives, what they're trying to sell you, are they a Russian influence farmer, etc.

Night and day. Extremely impoverished.
Twitter Spaces is an audio chat room. It's good for company leaders to use the company's product actually. He was probably on a plane or something.
You don’t need to write AppleScript yourself, someone else has already done the hard work with Scripting Bridge and you can simply enjoy an easy-to-use CLI: https://github.com/prasmussen/chrome-cli

Been using this for about a decade now.
"This also speaks to the possibility of greater intellectual superiority in women than in men"

Or the ability to do diligent repeating work and sit in a chair.
The projects should leave. I don't think they are a critical component of OWASP compared to the educational material provided through their documentation and conferences.
>How is this an "accomplishment for gender equity". Isn't this still inequity? I think the fact that the writer couldn't perceive how this is still, logically speaking, "inequity" speaks to the bias at play in this area.

There are various definition of equity and equality: equality of outcomes, of opportunities etc...

If you have a person who has been in chains for ten years and one who has been training daily compete in a race is it really surprising that they won't perform equally?
I find it a bit curious that this reply focuses on software engineers, who are not at the top: "When I was in charge of hiring".

[EDIT:] Let me put my reply into some further perspective:

1) It's well known that job advertisements blatantly lie about the job description and requirements. The standard advice software engineers give to each other is to apply to jobs even though you don't meet all of the requirements, because the requirements often turn out to be optional, more of a unicorn wish list.

2) Ask yourself, which companies and which jobs specifically do lying software engineers apply to? Do those companies perhaps have a culture rewarding this behavior? And could honest software engineers be averse to applying there, instead seeking places or means of employment that are more amenable to their personal ethics?
The Lua similarity is not exactly a coincidence, the author of Janet also previously created Fennel[0], a Lisp for Lua.
[0]: https://fennel-lang.org/
Thanks, will prioritize this!
I wonder if for many righting a historic wrong ends up spilling into retribution territory, where it feels justified to inflict vengeance upon one demographic group for a past injustice.
No professionally-managed company has emotional reactions like wanting to “kill” a company.

Bing has, what, 3% market share? Why in the world would they invest energy in trying to help someone else carve out 1%?
Maybe but his family isn't.
I'm trying my best to protect him, which is why it was so shocking when I checked his internet usage.
No, the article attributes the lyrics to the songwriter, which is the same for all versions of the song.
That's total BS, chatGPT generated some nice filler content for my website, and i m keeping it even if google doesn't like it. They arent going to be the only game in town for long.

But this is interesting: If google excludes AI content, then they are opening themselves to be sued for monopolistic behavior by their competitors, no?
Why haven't we replaced the dying ISS? why China did?

Why can't we offer universal health care? why China did?

There is a lot of debatable things China did, but when it comes to its citizens, they are properly taken care off to move forward

From a poor emerging country to a developed one in record time, you have to be a strong collective and have the support of your own people to achieve this feat

Our model of society stagnated, we must reinvent ourselves to move forward, otherwise we are headed towards dark times
It's not just the direct subsidies, it's also the massive amounts of free parking in both suburbs and cities that have distorted the built environment, and things like the mortgage interest deduction + the capital gains tax exemption that have made single-family homeownership cheaper than it would otherwise be.
Does this mean machine translation is no longer permitted? I would guess that's by far the predominant form of AI-generated content on the net today.
Wait tills PWA apps is everywhere on mobile stores.

Wait till Youtube migrated to something else.

Just change before too late. It's an alert, not warning.
Not in the entire city, only Manhattan (and not even all of it really). And it works because Manhattan has 4x the population density of SF, which is yet another problem that SF prevents from being solved.
Yeah, the RISC-V version seems to be supported: https://lib.rs/crates/esp8266
It’s funny, for men to think society is against them, when in reality they define society.

As a straight white male, there are very few rooms, very few jobs, very few situations where I don’t have absolute confidence that I belong there. Is it so bad to think everybody should feel that way?

Your son will be fine.
Ok my claim is that if you go into an established unionised company that is going down if you look carefully you will probably find shady things going on and that people from the union will be at the center of it most of the time.

Those position of power attract psychopathy personality, people that want to profit from the work of other but have no skin in the game. A bit like politic.

What you need to be good in those job is to be good at pretending to care of others while destroying people that get in your way.