skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s tacit apple approval. Apples PR department would probably have an employee fired for stating something like that without prior approval.
Wasn’t the issue that they put a cap on production to keep prices higher?
Ah well — that’s fair! I wasn’t sure about the best way to do it, let me see if I can replace the intro prompt with something more welcoming but also brief.

If you have a chance to try it out for longer and it’s still confusing, let me know! I do wish the game calculated your score for you at the end, but as I explain in the blog, this ended up being too complex for the first cut. I hope I can work this out in due course…
Welcome to C! The guns are free, but you can only point them at your foot.

The C standard specifies so much less than everyone thinks.
> If the state has total control over every aspect of their citizens' lives they can model the population into any perfect utopia they desire.

That has never worked before. I don't think it'll work in the future.
I hope that corporations more frequently put less relevant jurisdictions in their place and remind representatives that they are in competition with other jurisdictions and this overrides their public service ideas.

So I’m more of a fan of seeing that. Not the actual outcome.

Would make more people choose more collaborative solutions faster.
Can you not just vpn in to Canada with me for the time being? I mean hopefully they don’t implement it site wide for all regions I can’t imagine them doing that.
They still can with parental permission.
Is this a bit like "what about all the other cancers?!" in a discussion about breast cancer? It's not as though this prevents action/attention for poverty or other issues. It's one tack of many, whether you agree or not with the plan itself.
What do you need a "consistent ideology" for? These things seem to be what the majority of people in those states want (for better or worse).
Interesting article, but it all rests on the assumption that AI can produce quality software consistently. It only does a very weak job of proving this claim.
j6, for good reasons.
This should be the CEST Austria Daylight Savings change tonight.
https://www.visitingvienna.com/visitorinfo/time/

Proxmox is based out of Vienna, Austria.

So a Timing glitch.
Woman Tracks Lost AirPods to Airport Worker's Home
Age is not a class
> I would love it if you would state what you think the viewpoint opposite yours is and then try to defend it, then explain why that defense is wrong.

Sorry, I don't know what this means.

> What are your thoughts on pharmaceutical/heroin legislation? What are your thoughts on making it illegal to advertise unhealthy food to kids? How do you feel about the idea of product placement in children's TV shows? How do you feel about letting pharmaceutical companies directly market to children?

The comment this chain is replying to was about tech companies not offering their services at all in Utah. I'd think, for the most part, I'd be against most regulations that basically say "to protect the children, we will ban X for everyone". I'm sure there are exceptions though.

> ...rest of the comment

I agree, the government can act to improve the outcomes for children and I didn't state anything to the contrary. Rather, I believe that gleefully accepting or cheering on a ban of all technology, for both adults and children, that the government might believe causes harm to children is quite unfortunate.
>Shoplifting is now legal

Wut?
Large numbers of states actively monitor (via swiping IDs) your alcohol purchase history. Many states have entire bureaus whose job it is to keep this information.
Yes and no. I used protoboard to put my permanent WLED setup together. The complexity of the ESP32 is contained on its own board, the I2S microphone came from Ali in breadboard friendly form, the IR Receiver and LED terminal block were leaded components, etc. Protoboards are a good option for making anything you've built up around an ESP or Arduino on a breadboard more permanent as long is it doesn't have to stand up to rough handling. This covers a lot of ground in the maker community.
I agree SM isn't the only issue.

But I also don't think my teenagers are nearly as concerned about climate change and the world they are inheriting as they are living up to the life social media says they should have and feeling inadequate being unable to attain it.
May I suggest Rob Pike’s video on writing a lexer? It will make the task far more interesting

https://youtu.be/HxaD_trXwRE
...and the concept of "exempt employee" -- one who is salaried, and does not receive compensation for working overtime -- is also regulated, legal, and well-accepted.
Oh, interesting! The goal seems in a similar spirit for sure — I think the main difference is the mechanics of how it’s achieved… movable blocks for the rats, but fences made out of specific shapes for the sheep :)
Having the functions built in also allows them to be specialized at compile time. For example, if we have an operation on sequences, and we know the sequence is a particular kind (say, a list), we can invoke the method for that sequence.

It would be nice if such advantages could be ported to user defined libraries, or if built in functions could be extended (by making them generic and adding methods, say) without losing these advantages. Many of the features in Common Lisp are there because they helped implement things in the standard; it would be nice if that principle could be extended. The ultimate goal would be (in some standardized way) to expose to a library writer all the mechanisms that could make the built ins particularly effective.
Contrast Between Treatments of Apple CEO in China and TikTok CEO in US
How are people still not understanding that acting to prevent climate change is a cost saving measure?

It's not about saving humans from extinction.

It's just the smart thing to do unless we want to spend massive amounts of resources in the future to adapt to the consequences of a warming climate.
As someone who writes daily (primarily novels), I can’t say this has been an issue for me but I may not yet understand your approach. The site does not make it clear what would be different about note taking in your system.

Things I like about iA Writer and are holding me back from your approach is

- don’t quite understand the differentiation you’re describing here, not in the web copy either

- where do my files live? Unclear with your solution, and I need full ownership of my data to feel comfortable

- business model: iA is a one-time payment for cloud syncing out of the box, this looks like you’re angling for a subscription but what justifies that value?

I don’t like to criticize prematurely, but from someone who’s looked at a ton of tools in this space it’s not yet clear to me what you’re delivering that would get me to switch. Hopefully this is helpful criticism. Good luck!
There won’t be any. Look, it’s fun to imagine these shitty lawmakers getting bit by their own laws applied to the letter but that’s not how it will go. The law will only ever be enforced against social media platforms they see as threatening their ability to shelter their kids.

I think it says a lot about any politician that pushes for laws that are meant to be selectively enforced.
How is that relevant to the Utah declaration?
The original comment claims that US social networks are banned in China, which they are not.

No one is claiming that America has "banned abortion" despite it's unavailable for 1/3 of American women, i.e. those living in the 11 states that have banned it[0].

[0] https://reproductiverights.org/abortion-illegal-11-states/
The city/town you relocate to also has an impact. I think it's generally accepted that moving to the capital of a country is easier for foreigners.
The amount of tech debt at my last job was soul crushing. Trying to keep your head above water as the bugs keep coming in and features keep getting requested. Trying to balance the needs of 10 different departments all asking for priority. And this is with a team of 50 software engineers. We’re already using AI, but still probably need an order of magnitude improvement to make a real impact. I’m sure it’s coming.

I’m hopeful AI can help all of us really tackle legacy software - rebuild it to be simpler, more secure, well tested and easier to maintain and iterate.

I kind of view companies and governments as super intelligences unto themselves. Capable of doing things individuals are not. That is what AI will be competing with and/or augmenting.
They’re also taking away the support some marginalized people may get from social networks (eg LGBT, uncommon religions for the area) that their local community doesn’t provide/discriminates against/their parents hate.

Social networks, for all their faults, are not pure evil. They can be beneficial for some people.
I tried to break it by asking for -1 rounds. It caught it but then it told me to pick between 10-20, not 5-20 as previously indicated. This feels like a ChatGPT style bug. I find it doesn’t like to do abstractions such as “MIN_GAME_COUNT”, possibly because it doesn’t exactly do a great job going back to what it previously wrote, unless you ask it to.
Yeah, that's essentially when those claims break down for me. So they spotted a balloon that may have spy equipment and mobilised jets to shoot it down. Repeatedly. But some UFO supposedly regularly flies next to military plane formations and... they don't care.
Tim Cook praises Apple’s ‘symbiotic’ relationship with China
Exactly this, but even more so. Wittgenstein believed the purpose of philosophy is to "prevent the bewitchment of our senses by means of language". Throwing the ladder away is important, else the reader might mistakenly interpret the tractatus as being the ultimate systemization of reality, rather than a critique of all such projects.

Fantastically, our modern obsession with truth-tables when studying logic comes from exactly this misreading! (Which also lead to Wittgenstein quitting philosophy for years.)
That’s just not true.

If you’re a middle-class American, you have a huge house by global standards, which you heat and cool more than just about anywhere else on Earth. Each family has two bigger than average cars which they drive more than most other countries. Middle class Americans also eat far more beef than most of the world.

It is true that middle class Americans fly less than the rich, let alone the super-rich in private jets.

Yes, the super-rich do pollute a great deal per capita. But the idea that American or indeed global emissions is in large part the result of private consumption of the super-rich is just wrong.
You're assuming they're trying to have a conversation...
Likely sarcasm, still I'll bite.

I saw the exact same commentary around the no-code hype of the past few years and it made me increasingly cynical. No-code tools made it super easy to create a boilerplate website that looked pretty but was not fit for purpose. Meanwhile it was advertised as "Build an AirBnB clone without code!".

OK fine, hyperbole as a marketing tactic. But many people handed over wads of cash for courses that promised results that were in reality no more than cardboard cutouts of actual websites.

The Internet appears to have an endless ability to create markets for don't-do-the-work-and-still-enjoy-the-reward snakeoil.

And now we have ChatGPT- an instant boilerplate-creating machine. Watch as a new (or in many cases the same) class of charlatans grease up this technological wave too.
What about YouTube? Lots of educational material there. Fits all of the points.
I'll bite.

Why?
GitHub is not being banned. Neither is SO.
Your cognitive dissonance comes from thinking this is a monolithic party platform thing.

This is a Utah thing, with burgeoning consensus in a couple other states.
All computers of the 1980s were pretty poor, but that misses the point. The Spectrum was less than half the price of a Commodore 64. It sold to households and children that couldn’t have afforded or thought about buying anything more expensive and had a profound impact on computer literacy

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/clive-sinclairs-zx-spec...

>"You could buy a Spectrum at WH Smith's for £125, take it home -- it would take you two or three weeks to go through the programming manual, if you're that way inclined," Goodwins said.

"Then start digging into the machine. You could, within two or three months, be writing little games that were actually pretty good, and in six months you could have something that was as good as the rest of the market. By yourself. While going to school. Kaboom! This is where the UK game industry came from."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_games_in_the_United_Ki...

> This industry took off after the release of the ZX Spectrum in 1982: by the end of 1983 there were more than 450 companies selling video games on cassette compared to 95 the year before. An estimated 10,000 to 50,000 youth, mostly male, were making games out of their homes at this time based on advertisements for games in popular magazines. The growth of video games in the UK during this period was comparable to the punk subculture, fueled by young people making money from their games.
I think there might be an up vote minimum for posts to show up on Ask/Show, I have noticed quite a few submissions with few or no votes do not make it those pages.
That’s just humanity in a nutshell. I’d be more worried if everybody had the same views.
There is YouTube for kids which is meant to be more stripped down.
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I'm not sure that we really disagree, but I wrote this sort of late and I also think I wasn't entirely clear. The point I was trying to make is that the "container runtime" part of Docker is a lot less important than the tooling they put around it, and they made Docker Hub a very core part of that broader ecosystem.
I haven't been using it for much besides simple problems that I don't feel like trawling through SO or banging my head against for 30 minutes. Things like shell one liners for text processing/searching files/etc.

On larger tasks, I've not found it particularly useful, although I haven't had a chance to try it out with GPT-4. Previously, when I would ask ChatGPT about solving a particular problem, it would be terribly broken. Maybe GPT-4 is better.

That said... even though the code was broken, it was helpful in that it gave me a skeleton of what a solution would look like, especially if it was a problem domain I had no experience in.

For example, I wanted to do a little project to extract text from PDFs, including PDFs that were basically image scans, so I would have to do some kind of OCR. I'd never done anything like this before. I'm sure I could spend time Googling and figuring out which libraries to use. But instead I asked ChatGPT.

The solution it gave wasn't great, but more importantly it pointed me in the right direction with the libraries it used and some examples on how to use it.

Aside from programming, I've also used it as a "study buddy" since I'm going back to school and working on my masters in Computer Science. That's been much more successful. For example, I will give it questions from study materials handed out by the instructor (like previous exams or quizzes) and say "We are reviewing paper X in this class. Here's questions from a previous exam. Please generate questions like this to help me prepare for my upcoming exam."

or "Here are questions from a previous exam and my answers. Please evaluate my answers and provide feedback."

or "Here are questions from a previous exam, please quiz me in a similar format"

Also working on projects for class, while I won't ask it to solve the problem for me, sometimes I'll bounce ideas off of it. Like... "I know there's an algorithm to do X, but I don't know the name of it. I don't want you to write the algorithm for me, because that's cheating, but please tell me what the algorithm is called and if possible point me to a good paper describing it."

Lastly, I recently used it while helping someone update their resume (with permission). I removed all personal information and asked ChatGPT-4 to help me make it pop. We had a little back and forth conversation on ways we could improve the resume, and when we were done it was pretty damn amazing. I'm pretty good at doing resumes, but me + ChatGPT was better than me alone.

Apparently it did a bangup job, because every interviewer went on and on about how good the resume was and how impressed they were.
I've never seen something that said you will be paid for an assumed 40 hour work week. Whenever I contract, there was actual accounting.
> PDOS now works on real z/Arch hardware. And accesses 4 GiB of memory instead of being limited to 2 GiB. On real hardware

Where’d you get the real hardware to test it with?
Who will pay GitHub to not only install age validation but parental bypass (also with validation)?

I don’t believe they even allow under-13 today due to COPA laws.

Of course this focus on the age 13 is completely missing the point that the actual age gate is 17.
This should enlighten you: https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/1609/why-do-jet...
Are you referring to China or USSR by chance? Hardly utopias.

It's not about every aspect of life but a few key norms. I see this predatory social media like gambling if not worse, and gambling is regulated in most places
Reddit is also an incredible resource for niche, constructive topics like learning how to build a computer. You could draw the line anywhere you want for social media.
I'd love to read your sources for this information if you would like to share them.
If you had a bucket with 10 million options in one and 100m in another, you'd take 10 million picks before you realized via a 1-1 picking that one was smaller than the other.

Infinities obviously dont collapse and "end", but seeing infinities "grow" faster than others makes a lot of sense to me.
Spoiler: It is not worth a read.

99% of the code that you can generate via ChatGPT can be already be found in the form of an open source library, already packaged and ready to use. The number of libraries to solve various problems continues to grow each day.

Many of the questions you can ask to ChatGPT, if not already present in a project documentation, have been already asked on Stack Overflow, mailing lists, etc. and indexed by search engines. Typing a well formulated question in a search engine may likely take you to a valid answer these days.

When taking that into consideration, that leaves us with a very different narrative. LLMs can make a difference, but software engineers have been already reusing solutions to save effort for many decades now.

There are already programming languages that are close to natural language such as SQL and BASIC. Did the release of those mean the end of software engineering as an occupation? no. Each time programming gets easier, the result is often more programmers.

Finally, there are many expert developers on freelancing sites such as Upwork that you can hire, are "generally intelligent" beyond ChatGPT, and perhaps will cost you less than paying for OpenAI tokens. Still, organizations choose to hire full-time software engineers.
You underestimate how hard it might be to get your parent to sign some weird consent form from a "github" site, especially if it asks for a picture of the parent's ID (to ensure the kid isn't accepting the terms on their own behalf).
Although arguably this would be an economic inefficiency and so increases the cost of getting food to those starving people.
> The bills also impose a social media curfew that blocks children's access between 22:30 and 06:30, unless adjusted by their parents.

The main bill is a possibly a bit overreaching but I’m fully in favour of this part. There’s a huge problem where I live with kids just not going to school and many of those same kids are staying up until 1am each night doom scrolling or watching YouTube.
Direct from the article:

"The best advice is very simple. Read the label. Acetaminophen is safe if you know how much you're taking. And be sure when combining medications not to exceed four thousand milligrams each day."

As with any medication, you have to follow the directions, be safe, and smart.
Hourly contractors or salaried contractors?
Yesterday I visited an old, but still reasonably healthy man who has been living in Thailand for 40 years now, maybe longer. Reasonably healthy as in: he doesn't need to visit hospital or use medicine, but his power is now waning a bit due to age.

A man originally from Switzerland. 88 years old now. When he arrived in Thailand he bought a nice plot of land and made a quite beautiful garden there, with many fruits and vegetables and trees. Also many salas spread throughout the 8000 m2 terrain. And chickens, dogs, cats walking around and about.

The man has had quite an adventurous live in the past, back when the world was more adventurous as well, perhaps ...

Anyway, the man is content just tending to his plants. And reading and writing in one of the salas that he uses as a (kind of) outdoor office. In the past he also used to paint, but he's not able to do this anymore.

Maybe we'd all be happier with just a nice plot of land and some plants to tend to and perhaps some hobbies to keep us busy. And maybe it would keep us healthier (both mentally as well as physically) as well.
What part of the bill provides them an exception?
I have no idea because (a) I didn't experience any problems that needed debugging at that moment so I've never looked, and (b) I wasn't awake looking at the logs for fun at the time.

But I do sometimes have to look at the logs on some random Tuesday, mid-morning, when someone says they can't log into our SSH bastion hosts (but it worked yesterday), I can see there's failed password attempts at 09:59, 10:03, and 10:04 (versus 13:59, 14:03, and 14:04 (i.e., UTC+4), which I would then have to do mental math to bring back to local time), and so it turns out they entered their password wrong a few of times so fail2ban blocked their IP

Wallclock time is a human construct created for human convenience. Having UTC when all my servers are in America/Toronto is not convenient for me.
Sheepish is a cool name! Thanks for sharing… I read that review with some apprehension: fortunately, most of the critique appears to be not directly applicable to 13 sheep — phew.

I have to confess I have no professional experience in design, although I do consider myself a moderately picky user :)

I did try to think about what I’d enjoy or be put off by if I was playing — but I didn’t have anything beyond this common sense approach to guide the design choices.

Sheepish sounds like a slightly different game though: it reminds me of a few others (one to do with pipes again and another with laying out train tracks). Will dig these up and share once I do have the pointers. Thanks again!
The way to solve social media is to ban advertising. There, I said it.
there are still companies that make cut or square nails - and machines that make them are old.
Science isn't a religion and isn't something people should "believe in".

As to the lack of critical thinking skills on display over the past few years, now that's something I can believe is a problem.
Why isn't Kaiser significantly cheaper? They are non-profit. Whats the difference between PPO and HMO? Maybe 10%?

https://www.kff.org/report-section/ehbs-2022-section-1-cost-...
I disagree on the effect, ChatGPT / CoPilot is making it cheaper to produce more lines of code as a solution instead of requiring better understood and tested abstractions.

I believe this will cause an increase on the trend of technical debt.

There are several talks/papers/blogs on lines of code being a cost/liability and not a product/asset. (this blog post seems to assume the inverse)
Great resource. Do you teach teams virtually?