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Show HN: Creating Code Playbacks with Storyteller
I have been working for a while on a new medium to guide others through code examples. Devs use an editor (VS Code) to write code and then test it like normal. Then, the code can be played back in a browser and the author can add a narrative about its evolution. The narrative can include text, code highlights, hand drawn pictures, screenshots, audio/video files, and Q&A's. I call them 'code playbacks' (follow the link to see some examples in one of my 'books').

I have been making collections of these and using them instead of textbooks in the programming-focused CS courses that I teach for the last couple of years. My students don't like traditional programming books much anymore. They like videos but I don't think they are ideal for teaching with code. They have responded really well to the code playbacks.

I've been thinking about making a new site to host these so that anyone can sell (or share for free) their collections of playbacks. Users would also be able to make professional portfolios to show potential employers how they think about and communicate with code.

I don't really consider myself a web developer but I am pretty sure I can learn what I need to in order to build this. My dilemma is whether I should or not. Are playbacks a valuable enough new medium? Can they disrupt the traditional programming book market? Should I create a startup and write all of the code myself (probably slowly)? Should I raise money? Find a co-founder? Hire a seasoned web dev team? I'm looking for advice on next steps.
The pagination keep increasing past the point where Bing will provide no more results. Testing a popular search term, for which there are no doubt millions of results, it was only possible to get new results up to page 45. Yet the website will keep incrementing the page number and result numbers as if new results are being returned.

Then tried same search with popularity set to 500000 and could not even get a single full page of 10 results. It's laughable to assume from this "search" that only, say, 500004 out of the millions of websites in existence include this term. Not that I want to browse a full list, but at least I want to know how many hits I got. Then I can add more terms and try to reduce that number.
Didn’t Trump literally call it the “China virus” for over a year? Almost from the start? I know he got a lot of pushback from the DNC over that.
Twitter lays off another 50 including lead of Payments Esther Crawford
We are actually looking to "decaffeinate" back to vanilla JavaScript. Unfortunately there is rather a lot of it still even after the Atom team's attempt to remove some of it.
wtf. he entered that number just out of nowhere and it worked? what a wizard!
Just asking: is there a possibility that this could be a cold-war era PR story? I ask because I feel it is all totally perfect.
This is almost the same situation in France. Very same issue with management.

Most middle earning jobs don't need hard skills anymore, so most of employees gradually lost them over the time (and not the opposite, like a muscle). The gen-Z is additionnaly often missing the most basic soft skills : basic, social skills, punctuality... or even coming to work at all.

So we are gradually building a generation where about two-thirds of people have... no more or almost no skills whatsoever. Can't change a wheel, can't swap a breaker, can't replace a tap, can't do more than basic IT-assisted tasks in a predefined process. More and more youngs must try hard to get their driver license, and so city dwellers conveniently skip it (but a good thing in the end). To the point that basic maths are a thing of the past for them. Perhaps 10% are currently able to write this very comment. Let's not even talk about financial education at this point, more than 60% fail at giving you the right amount of two years worth of an account interests.

I can witness that even business holders are gradually losing skills at running their own businesses those last two decades. Their skill in the differents subjects they must address all day long are almost all declining, even their core ones. They don't want to make longer work hours anymore than their employees and want to "Netflix and Chill" like everyone else.

Remains about the 20% skilled, but I have the feeling that over the last 20 years their portion is progressively shrinking. Lack of forecast made health pro number dwindle, "true" engineers (mechanical/electrical/civil) are harder and harder to find since a non-negligible part of them leave the country after completing their studies.

Are we going to make Idiocracy a reality sooner that expected ?
If your point is that the department of energy is badly named, you are 100% correct. It's more like the "department of applied science towards security, energy, and nuclear bombs"
I have tool which lets you scroll through all characters in a large document. It also shows names, scripts, and IDNA-like status.

https://adraffy.github.io/ens-normalize.js/test/chars.html
Sorry, but you came in way too pretentious. A system like yours may support the student a bit, but it's in no way closing the gap with an individual tutor. Don't say it's a solution. It's an interactive homework list.
LLMs Are Compilers
Are these numbers corrected for testing bias?
>I honestly do not understand why evolution gave us this harsh treatment.

I think in the past we didn't use to sleep 8 hours straight. Perhaps it was fine, we just changed and forgot to send babies the memo.
I'm impressed on the speed of the new i3-N300/N305 at 7w or 9w/15w

https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/231806/...
I normally don't work for free, but just as a sample, here's one I've been crafting for a few weeks...

Epic 4k HD photo, high res and epic, cool extra awesome photorealistic 5k or 6k, realistic, in the style of a really good photographer.

Nah I'm just playing, your company looks pretty cool, I just think a dedicated job for coming up with prompts (which is only going to become easier anyway with better ways to control output) is silly.
Just yesterday I was attempting to record audio in Audacity under PopOS -- absolutely no good.
> why does the US actively support this cover up?

If it was a lab leak from Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), it was likely from a research program partially funded by USA.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...

"a zoologist named Peter Daszak, who has repackaged U.S. government grants and allocated them to facilities conducting gain-of-function research—among them the WIV itself."
Ditto here - I run Asahi on my Mac Studio, and all features I require work perfectly (HDMI, GPU driver, Bluetooth, sound, 10G networking, WiFi, etc.): http://triosdevelopers.com/jason.eckert/stuff/AsahiSwayM1Ult...
Why does it even matter at this point?

The WHO investigation in 2020, and subsequent report, was a complete sham. The CCP has the WHO in their back pocket. Nothing they say has any relevance in the matter.
Maybe the mental illness angle is a 4D chess "Hail Mary" play that's being orchestrated by his defense team.
> Given real valued, integrable function f

Of course that makes it possible. Note that it doesn’t say that f is simply measurable. By definition being integrable means E[|f|] < infinity. (And being square-integrable means E[f^2] < infinity, an even stronger condition).

Consider Y = Z/X where Z, X iid ~ N(0,1). Try to calculate E[Y|X], and try to minimize E[ (Y - f(X))^2 ]. Neither will make sense. I am sure both Rudin and Neveu were aware of this trivial result.
I think they've graduated to python now.
Its not a stupid thing to do when:

1) You're facing a demographic crisis due to your aging population and your next closest rival has a population of which half are under 30,

2) the virus primarily kills the elderly,

3) your approach to increasing influence and power is to increase your relative position and your relative position is decreasing after decades of increasing, and

4) you can cause an economic crisis for your rivals when they shut public life, and consequently their economies, down, and thus increase your relative position in the world.

I won't comment on any western motivations for going along with it.
Another clue that indicates that it all could be just cold War PR.
We had a P0 bug which caused unplanned device reboots in the field with unclear cause. It is still open, 3 years since first detection. And it looks like it will be open until device end of life. We have a mitigation for which affects performance, and that's about it. It was tracked down to deep inside Linux kernel and some firmware interactions and no amount of work produced a fix for it.
And that was a mission critical bug, which was pushed by the biggest and super important customer (and others too).
everyone else is replying with 'Yeah, and whatabou-you?!?' , which I think is non-constructive.

i'd just like to remind everyone that when you see something that represents an effort that you feel is trivial , it doesn't represent an opportunity to add effort elsewhere.

A thousand dog exercise machines won't fix world thirst. The people that work on dog exercise machines aren't going to suddenly divest all their effort from exercising dogs and throw themselves into tackling world-thirst should their company dissolve tomorrow.

'World effort' isn't one big commoditizable sum.
I guess it tracks with him being able to write intricate and detailed sci-fi, the man knew what he was talking about. There's a reason he's still revered as one of the greatest examples of the genre.
> use it as a means to pull their audience to Mastodon

This is all a very nice conspiracy theory, thank you.

> The cult leaders still need their followers.

People who tweet are now "cult leaders". Ok. By the way, how many Twitter followers does it take to become cult leader? I'm curious because I had over 3500, so I'm not sure whether I qualify or not.

> Crazy ranting folk.

Or HN commenters.
The response here further supplements the argument that Googlers (and ex-Googlers apparently) care more about winning the debate they can see (even if they’re fundamentally wrong as evidence showed here) instead of trying to imagine a life after Search.

As a taxpayer and Google shareholder, I definitely want technical talent diverted into making real products versus playing epistemic games with the DOJ or finding new creative ways to subvert discovery. We wasted enough fighting Microsoft, we don’t need to do it again just because Googlers think they’re better.
The LICENSE.md file in the root of the Pulsar repo is indeed available in the application under Help > View License.
No idea if it's possible to still find the source, but the doctor of patient zero also got infected (and died/"disappeared" afterwards like her boss at the wuhan hospital).

Patient zero was a virologist that seems to have been censored off the Chinese internet afterwards, and I can't find the links anymore :-/

In the beginning of sars-cov-2 breakout there was an article shared on wechat that later got censored in varying degrees of translations/"hacks" to avoid censorships, they wrote it in emojis and stuff to trick the censorship algorithm. All of them were referencing Ai Fen's video and photo of the diagnostics report of patient zero that she recorded and spread on WeChat to warn others.

Maybe someone else has an archive link or screenshots or anything. Impossible to google the source due to the apparent emoji noise.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ai_Fen
Isn't what Dev.to already does ?

A social Media for Programmers in my eyes would be GitHub with some kind of a share feed so that everybody can post their Gists or Pictures of their nerdy stuff.
why is it credible to you when you can as easily find contrary positions from other us govt agencies? what makes a "low confidence" doe take more credible than the other agencies to you
Very nice piece of software, unfortunately Microsoft didn't port it to Mac.
A seatbelt does not lose its ability with time (I have never heard about "changing the seatbelts"). So they don't need updates. However, software that connects to the internet "loses" security with time (as time passes, more vulnerabilities are found). That's why we need updates: to maintain our non-zero security level. Then you could argue that we could have smaller updates with fewer patches, because what we have right now is overkill. And maybe some of those updates don't really matter much, indeed. But some do.

And for those, you need security updates.
I think/know Pascal is still being taught at a lot of schools in Europe. My guess is that in small villages/cities/suburbs - the only people who can teach programming concepts and principles go way back as the new generation has moved on.
He's stretching the definition of "interesting" I think. The main application of modern SAT solvers (and SMT solvers) is formal verification, which I do think is interesting, but you're very unlikely to be using it.

There are some other uses, e.g. for programming languages with advanced type systems, but I doubt most people interact with SAT solvers basically ever.
>CGTN is funded in whole or in part by the Chinese government.
That's not definitive because you're assuming motivation, it could be that someone didn't want a vaccine, and you're assuming all research was publicized to us. This was the fastest vaccine ever developed in human history, it's worth noting.
People want to live next to green spaces. What if our developed areas had boulevards of trees (or other native plants)? You may have to sell fewer units or (shudder) increase density, but then people would have access to the kind of environment they want.
Sympy is a sufficiently advanced technology, indistinguishable from magic. If you love python and are interested in math, give it a try and you will be astonished of what it can do.
Time once again to post Jon Stewart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSfejgwbDQ8

I still don't understand how in 2020 people were branded as racist sinophobes for saying that the coronavirus that originated in Wuhan, probably originated from the coronavirus research lab in Wuhan. I know suspicion isn't fact, but that should have always been the leading theory to be disproved. Instead, IIRC Twitter and FB were flagging any post that said "lab leak."
The market was an early superspreading event (or actually multiple superspreading events), I don't know why people conflate spread at the market with a spillover at the market. I guess it made more sense when the virus was thought not to be airborne.
Yes, absolutely. I've felt 22-ish for most of my adult life, until midlife happened. That was a couple years ago, and I'm in the tail end of my midlife "crisis". Right now, at 47, I feel my age. Also, I'm totally okay with it.

Midlife crisis definitely happened for me, and might actually have been my internal age adjusting to my external one.

Makes me wonder if I'll feel 47 for the rest of my life...
There are real women who think like this. Not all of them, of course. Humans are weird. Incels on Reddit are gonna do and say weird shit regardless
Tbh thats business as usual
True. And yet, it shows that there is a large scientific community & apparatus willing to experiment with this.

Circumstantial evidence is not proof of wrongdoing, but it is reason to ask more questions. Why were those questions censored? Why were they ruled unacceptable "misinformation"? It seems to me that we were asleep at the switch.
Passkeys Analyzer
It's a little perplexing to me that we're getting evaluations from spy agencies and the Department of Energy. I know the latter specializes in nuclear energy in particular, and this has experience with proliferation and adversarial information-gathering.

They also supervise biological weapons laboratories (presumably for the same reason), but what they're being asked to do here is to validate a premise (natural or engineered?) whereas their actual expertise is in tracking pathogens already known to be weaponized. This may be why they expressed their findings with “low confidence”, which is mentioned in the WSJ report but given less weight than it deserves.

A big problem in the pandemic response is that there are powerful strategic incentives for people to express a false degree of very high confidence about this , and indeed many other topics, so as to maximize insecurity and anxiety across a large population, which makes it easier to herd. This was an issue prior to the emergence of COVID-19, and strongly correlated with a drop in vaccine uptake and localized outbreaks of infectious diseases like measles that were previously considered easily managed under existing public health regimes.

See https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30138075/ for a quantitative treatment of this issue.
There are 25 characters, each of which has 36 possible values. So 36^25 possibilities, and log2(36^25) = 129.2. There are basically 129 bits of entropy in there, so good luck bruteforcing it.

This makes me think of a shareware app (I think an icon editor) for Windows 3.1 back in 1994 or so... I could find a valid registration key by entering random numbers by hand in around 2 minutes. And I wasn't lucky as I tried and succeeded several times ;-) But the rule (figured out after I had 10 or so valid keys) was simple maths with the digits, no crypto behind.
> If you divide your key search effort by 10 your chances of success are divided by 10 (linear drop off).

Right, but if the starting point is 128 bits it doesn't matter how much you can parallelize the attack, you're not going to find a key regardless of how you divide the key space, even if the chances drop off only linearly.

Again, this is about "good enough". 128 bits of collision security are "better" than 128 bits of "preimage security" (I've never heard resistance against encryption key brute force called preimage security, but I think I get it) in the same way that 256 bits of collision security are better than 128 bits of collision security, or any bigger number is better than a smaller number. Cryptography needs to be secure, not as big as possible.
Hm, so the way I'm using "credible" here is as, "able to be believed". So I find the DoE and therefore the idea credible. It doesn't mean I do believe it, or that I find other, contradicting positions "uncredible" (incredible? lol).

The DoE is just an institution I trust, and if they're willing to publish this, I'm willing to listen to what they have to say.
We have it in a bunch of places around the GH org (literally the first two lines on the org readme), docs and blog posts. In no way do we want to hide it but we also made a decision that we didn't want any trademark disputes from GitHub's lawyers from misusing their Atom trademark anywhere. We very much acknowledge the Atom legacy (including hosting the full original Atom flight manual before the website went down alongside the rebranded docs).

Edit - We have updated the main repo readme with the info to hopefully address some of these concerns
Any idea how this would compare with Nvidia GPUs in price/performance for machine learning at home?

I guess this will be rather expensive (writing this from a Raptor Computing Power9 workstation so not much budget left) but it does look interesting:

> “Tenstorrent's processor cores are known as Tensix cores. Each Tensix core includes 5 RISC processors, an array math unit for tensor operations, a SIMD unit for vector operations, hardware for accelerating network packet operations and compression/decompression, and 1-2 megabytes of SRAM.”

They say that it works with pyTorch, ONNX and their own C++ API which sounds good. Over the years I accumulated a bunch of somewhat-exotic hardware that I could not actually use because of bad software support and documentation. Hopefully this will be better in that regard once it launches.
There were no bats being sold in the Wuhan wet markets. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-91470-2
In general, this isn't about an accountant picking up software engineering on the side. But there are a ton of adjacent skills/knowledge in jobs that you can pickup in maybe a day or two or hours here and there on the side--not necessarily on your own time.
I’m certainly not a doctor but I’ve heard varying reports on melatonin. While produced naturally it’s like anything else - we have receptors for everything from marijuana to heroin because our bodies produce similar molecules (endorphins for pain suppression during fight or flight, dopamine for reward systems, etc). So saying we “produce melatonin” doesn’t imply safety.

From what little I’ve read and understand it does seem to be very individualized, dosage dependent, etc.
It has been amazing to watch the feedback loop with tools like Stable Diffusion where you see two types of strategy for solving problems of missing functionality. The first strategy is coming up with some long winded manual process involving disparate tools and several steps. The other is simply train a model to do what it is you want automatically. It has fast taught me that there is no competing with this new paradigm, and those capable of being able to solve their problems by building models will totally leapfrog those that have to do things the old way.
I see you edited from:

> Comfortable as the sex they were born with, acting however they like, without harming their bodies.

> I would have thought that was clear but if you were asking genuinely there’s your answer.

Yeah. It was clear to me that you were using "healthy" to assert that transgender people who transition are "unhealthy." That surgery is "harm." Your later edit

> > > Many people against gender theory are former 'tomboys' that are healthy adults, don't conform to gender stereotypes, and are glad that breast binding, hormones and cosmetic surgery weren't foisted on them as children.

> By healthy adults I mean they don't feel any need to conform to gender stereotypes, and are glad that breast binding, hormones and cosmetic surgery weren't foisted on them as children.

shows that you understand your initial statement to be a dog whistle, and that upon reflection, you decided not to say the quiet part loud.

The topic here is about principles and rights of free speech. You've swerved into a debate about the legitimacy of transgender existence. I'm not here for that debate; you can keep yammering if you like.
Many things have happened since the 80s; obesity as also shot up. In general people eat out more, eat fast food, and more simple carbohydrates. I think it would be hard to pin this one on any particular one thing. I

It’s also possible it isn’t one thing, but a confluence of factors.
Well you live in that world, and it's always been that way. This propensity is the fundamental cause of gbling addiction and superstitious behavior.

But I'd point out, this wasn't a random guess. There has been a whole lot of circumstantial evidence for a long time, it's not quite a smoking gun but better than a guess for sure.
Your English is fantastic, I'm just being nitpicky. Some native speakers might see certain things and judge the product accordingly, so just a minor point.
Of course there's a reservoir. That's why there was a lab in the first place. There are many more viruses in those caves. Many many. And tourists literally pay money to go into such caves, and look up to the ceiling to look at the bats. Bats that may at any time shit into their eye with one of these new viruses. And then on top of that people catch them and sell them live to slaughter them at home to eat.

Again, this is all well known and the reason the lab was there in the first place. That's why the techs go into these caves wearing full haz mat. Unlike the tourists who are oblivious.

Not saying it's not a lab leak. But you seem confused about some basics facts...
Considering everything in the current US regime would be pushing against this to be the conclusion and it is still the finding, I suspect the "low confidence" is a managerial stamp based on high level skepticism of likely inscrutable work from lower analysts.
Here's a prompt I just engineered - "Flash in the pan".
Next step: proving it was created via gain of function research.