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There are countless unemployed, underemployed, and reasonably employed adults who ostensibly have plenty of bandwidth for responsible parenting.

Two parents working four jobs between them is a tragedy of its own, that needs to be addressed, but it’s not the norm by any means. There aren’t even enough jobs for that.

What actually seems to missing for parents is insight into how to find wellness within what they have. Traditions that allowed for finding joy and contentment in modest lives with some discomfort have been supplanted by a fantasy that we should all have all the cool toys and do all the fun travel and never feel sad and that if we’re not receiving that life we should either feel ashamed or take a pill.

People are buying melatonin for their sleepless kids because they take pills for their own sleepless nights, and they have sleepless nights themselves because many of their parents forgot to teach them that it’s important to just chill the fuck out and quietly unwind without a lot of stimulation as evening comes on.

We do need social effort to rectify all this, but it starts with re-teaching people how to find ease and acceptance in their inevitably modest lives, an education that most can start to find by just looking backwards a few generations in their own family. Those lives didn’t embody aristocratic fantasies either, and included plenty of discomfort, but you don’t find the anxiety and chronic misery people feel crushed by now, nor the troubling and incorrect idea that all discomfort must have an easy remedy in the form of a pill or whatever.
It would be great to see a live demo link! :)
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/16/magazine/san-francisco-ho...
But eventually they'll need to make good on that for their investors. So either of two things need to happen:

- Generating ChatGPT 4 quality responses has to get a lot cheaper, so they make money on $20/month.

- They need to increase prices to make money without losing people.

I really like ChatGPT Plus right now, but $20/month is at the top of what I am willing to pay. ChatGPT 4 is the best, but you can get "good enough" for free from the competition.

If they increase the price or reduce the quality of 4 responses too much, I'll look around.
does that mean that if someone unearthes my blog in 100 years i will be back to life again? :D
Yeah we need to capture CO2 and NOT try and use it for short term gains. We need to capture it and lock it away to never be used.
> How long is the lock held?

For however long the user has a browser focus state on the element seems like a reasonable answer, and submit changes as they are made. However, I don't know how you resolve conflicts of two users simultaneously attempting to acquire a lock.
By exploring that locking and unlocking mechanism, you will find that the logical conclusion in the end, when enough complexity and edge cases get covered/fixed as bugs, that it turns into a crude form of "CRDT" (where it's not actually consistent, but merges within reason for 99% of use cases).

It might as well have been CRDT from the get go.
I/O, backups, and such. Just having the instances cost money. Using them costs even more!
> I have no interest in playing any of these so-called "walking simulators".

Me either, but I have nothing against people who enjoy them, and it does seem like a fun enough writing exercise to create one as a writer.

Not everything needs to be for me. I never want to play a walking simulator, but nobody's making me, so whatever.
It is sort of funny that language has changed to the point where quotes are assumed to be dismissive or sarcastic.

Maybe they used the quotes because they were quoting you, haha.
Unless its just music
I also have a bridge I can sell you. And trust me: you've never seen one like this, at rates like I'm offering! Buy now!
If by "common" user you mean the desktop user, not much. But this is a huge deal for embedded devices like industrial control and communication equipment, as their devs will be able to use the latest mainline kernel if they need real-time scheduling.
This reminds me of what I’ve been saying to friends… we will either see al lot more layoffs of us software engineers or another big boom because the technology is moving way faster than normal humans can learn. Non tech people will just hire software engineers to do it for them.
Yeah, decouple Signal user identity from the phone number.
I wouldn't bother, it's an absolutely awful hot take.
LCARS, the control panel UI in TNG/DS9/VOY/LD was always supposed to be quickly reconfigurable to the task at hand. But the prop implementation was usually sheets of translucent acrylic under glass, which isn't that easy to update.
Are you the author? Somewhat strange to so defensively respond to every critical comment in this thread in the same manner.
A big desk. A bunch deeper and longer than the bare minimum. And L-shaped so that I can rest my hand on it.

Having an external monitor behind my laptop screen allows me to change the focal distance of my eyes back and forth, so that's probably good for the eyes.
The issue isn't the scans but the method used to identify patterns in the scan.

Have they described the method in such a way that others can replicate it?

... that others can apply the method to other objects?

Have multiple independent people used the method to analyze the same objects? Do they get the same answers?

Has the method been tested on hand-made, lathe-made, and CNC-made objects?

What about on naturally made objects?

We know the ancient Egyptians had hand-made stone vases. Does the method resolve which vases were hand-made vs (potentially) machine made?

Where is any sort of archeological evidence? Why no broken machine parts? Why no foundries were the metals were processed? Why no depictions of any of the required processes when other parts of life were depicted, including making stone vases by hand?
> I get what you are trying to say, but we still live in better conditions than humanity has for 20,000 years.

That is irrelevant. The situations are completely different.

The U.S. social support structure for the lower and lower middle class doesn't exist. There are many kids whose only meal is the potentially free but terrible meal at school. Many moms have effectively the same if not worse healthcare as a tribeswoman during pregnancy due to lack of insurance and affordable access to healthcare and reduced social support.

Times are very rough for a lot of people out there. Your comment is frankly flippant and removed from reality.
True - Holden's version is much more in-your-face
A pitch perfect Attenborough impression by a human would be an expression of talent and itself a kind of artwork. We understand intuitively that perfect impressions of famous people are scarce. When we watch something like this, we see that those impressions will be cheap, instantaneous and universally available; there is only the negative aspect, and none of the wonder at what it took to pull off.

Perhaps for a few minutes we're going to be marveling at the achievements of developers who make these things! But most people here, and, in the near future, everybody else, understand that a programming accomplishment today is a boxed up SKU next year. Most likely, in a very short period of time, the overwhelming majority of people making use of this technology will have had no hand in the accomplishment of building it.

So, yeah. Impressive. Creepy.
You have to respect the hustle to a certain extent, but yikes, these guys are sure to be made an example of.
Only for ones issued prior to 2011. While this encompasses any current adult it is something to keep note of.
Possibly karbiner but I've never looked into doing specifically that, so I may be wrong https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/

I use it to map a ton of stuff on my Moonlander layers and my razer tartarus.
You can divide realtime applications into safety-critical and non-safety-critical ones. For safety-critical apps, you're totally right. For non-critical apps, if it's late and therefore buggy once in a while, that sucks but nobody dies.

Examples of the latter include audio and video playback and video games. Nobody wants pauses or glitches, but if you get one once in a while, nobody dies. So people deliver these on non-RT operating systems for cost reasons.
Free DALL-E 3 access sends Microsoft Bing user numbers through the roof
How much would they pay an average SRE to deal with random fires operating a poorly designed, poorly instrumented and poorly understood system?
> I don't want to read disorganized thoughts, though.

See, this is where I differ (potentially from most, given the responses here). I love reading "disorganized" thoughts because they aren't random, they follow the writers train of thought. This gives insight not just into the content of their mind, but the structure! How fun!
Candreva used to work for Truel, which got bought by a spyware vendor called Variston in 2018. His LinkedIn says he worked there 2018-2022. Amnesty International discovered a hacking campaign using their spyware in the UAE, and Google wrote a blog post about it. https://blog.google/threat-analysis-group/spyware-vendors-us...

Bartoli has been a security researcher for a long time.
It's not that hard to just not stick your sensitive data in. If find it absurd that people would even consider it.

I had a whole presentation today on how important it was to 'scrub' your data before sticking it in a generative model, and I was just like 'hell no', I'm not doing that because data that's supposed to be scrubbed shouldn't go anywhere near the model.
I was watching clips of LinusTechTips' podcast, and he said that speaking to people who he trusts in the mobile phone space, that SD removal was primarily because SD flash is worse than the onboard stuff and they lose more customers who complain/think the phone is bad because of the SD card being worse, than customers who wouldn't buy the phone in the first place because it lacked it.

Personally, I think it's a little of both. It probably helps that less customers complain about the SD card not working, but being able charge an arm and leg for extra storage is icing on the cake.
Ha! It's been a while since I last touched Blender - and the wrong terms confirm that.

Of course a rectangle only exists in 2D space :)
Microsoft patches 3 high-severity bugs under active attack
> Feels very Justine Tunneyish almost..

I'm not sure I get this reference
Would this be solved by just providing APIs? Scraping is a pain and people only do it when there's no API. (Though these days a lot of businesses offer unofficial 3rd party APIs by scraping.)

It's also stupid and massively wastes computation and traffic on both ends.

Then people would think "but then I'd have to pay money to offer a free API", but they're already doing that in a more expensive way via the web interface anyway.
The terrifying (or maybe really consoling) thing is that it take A LOT to be remembered for a significant amount of time. Just think about it: How many people can you name off the top of your head that lived 100 years ago, or 500 years or a 1000? How long ago lived the oldest family member that you know anything about?

It also seems, that the best way to be remembered is either to write or to win battles. On the other hand, building long lasting monuments (like some contemporary billionaires) seems to be quite inefficient when it comes to remembrance of a person, historically speaking. The only exception I can think of is the Eiffel-Tower, dude made a wise decision naming it after himself.
Oh, it's not a "tricky fair use case" at all. They'll end up having to pay to whoever licenses these things fees at some point for using dialogue from scripts (not a transformative use of copyrighted material at all) as the basis of their business. They're flying under the radar now but, you're right, a day of reckoning is coming for them.
ok, i was thinking of content that didn't have official subtitles.
I'm pretty sure they were just putting it in quotes because it was the expression you used, and they thus were referencing it.
So you don't think that dogs can be bred for specific traits? Are you serious??

Border Collies are bred to herd cattle and sheep, and they are exceedingly good at that task, where other breeds are not, because Border Collies were bred for this task.

Humans have for centuries selected specific dogs for breeding for specific traits. But you don't seem to think that's a thing??

https://wagwalking.com/breed/top-working-dog-breeds

Your ignorance is truly astounding. Pit bulls were specifically bred to kill, to fight until death They are not good as house pets. It's like leaving a loaded handgun around the house as a toy or a decoration. Sure, most of the time it isn't shooting anyone, but when a mistake happens, the results are disastrous.

>Of course there's not going to be anything in the story to suggest that, because the parents don't know that they made a mistake. But I'm not "making up in my head" the obvious fact that if you bring a baby into a house that has a dog, that will be stressful for the dog, no matter what breed it is, and the adult humans in the house have the responsibility to manage that.

So here you're doubling down on making up in your own head what the situation was. You don't know anything more than what was in the story, but you're trying to convince me that you know something that you don't. Delusional.

> But I do not agree that killing the dog because of the parents' failure to realize that earlier is the right thing. They should take the dog to a shelter if they can't find a friend or neighbor who will take him.

All dog shelters everywhere are already maxed out, absolutely full of pit bulls that nobody wants because they are dangerous dogs. When someone finally realizes they invited a monster into their home, they will get rid of it, and unfortunately they dump them off at shelters where there simply is no more room for dogs that were bred for violence. And the dog in this story has bit a child in the face, so I'm not sure how you can reason that this dog can ever find a welcoming home. There are already far too many pit bulls in shelters. If someone really wants a pit bull, there is no shortage in shelters.

The parents in this story did the right thing by not making this murder-dog someone else's problem.
Sorry, I should have explained more.

I think it’s ridiculous to make a blanket statement about how kids are raised in America vs France with zero evidence to back it up. There are plenty of strict parents in the US, and I’m sure there are plenty of lax parents in France. Plus, as the article states:

> The American psychiatrists believe that ADHD is a disorder based on biological issues.

So the way a kid is raised has nothing to do with whether or not they have ADHD.

According to the article, the real reason “Why French Kids Don’t Have ADHD” is because the doctors avoid that diagnosis:

> Basically the French community has decided to focus more on fixing the underlying causes of the problem behavior instead of giving it a wide range diagnosis.

Looking for underlying causes and fixing problem behavior sounds great, I just feel like the article is confuses having ADHD and being diagnosed with ADHD.

Despite my problems with the article, I actually do think that ADHD in children is over diagnosed in the US. And even if the disorder itself isn’t over diagnosed, I think ADHD medication are over prescribed to children. Those medications have can have negative side effects, like reducing appetite and therefore growth, but that’s not even my main problem with it. As other posters have described really well, ADHD medication can reduce creativity and problem solving skills. If a kid is medicated too young they might obey the rules a little too much and develop into a less creative, interesting, and dynamic person as a result.
I agree. We'll have life-like androids for all kinds of entertainment (not AGI-controlled, just some fancy future-generation LLM) sooner than direct neural interfaces for full-immersion VR or stuff like that.
How does Numbat infer the type/unit for operations that involve transcendental functions like the trigonometric functions and the natural logarithm? How about for exponents that are not integers (rational or irrational)?

I've seen from to time some empirical equations that result to this. Usually, it's just hand-waved away and the non-integer units are ignored or dropped when the transcendental function is evaluated. I guess the trivial answer is probably add an extra factor with a value of 1 with the reciprocal units to result to the said type 1 for dimensionless units?
I think that makes sense, though I would still expect counters to be more dense than logs. I'm definitely interested in any case studies on this.
The core problem is that we have an utterly idiotic system in which knowing a nine-digit number lets you do any harm whatsoever.

We have all the worst parts of a proper national ID system—tracking and data gathering by government and other large organizations isn’t hindered a bit, and we’re required to engage with our ad-hoc national ID system all the time for anything important—but none of the benefits.

Tons of suffering and wasted time, for no damn reason.
Reserved m6a.xlarge(4vcpu, 16 GB RAM) costs <$1000. Assuming most companies use reserved for things like DB. So yeah their savings is like less than $1000, at which point it feels more like a developer satisfaction project rather than having any ROI on money terms.
Sometimes it really is simple though. Anyone that is letting their child have drinks or foods containing caffeine, but then treating them for a sleep disorder with drugs or things like melatonin, is making a big mistake.
You could also say the same for the cloud when your internet is not working.
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I have heard estimates [1] that OpenAI's $20/month ChatGPT charge isn't enough to cover the cost of compute. For example, if their model needs ~100GB of VRAM, at cloud prices of $0.08 per minute for a g5.12xlarge. you make a loss if the average customer uses more than 9 minutes per day. And chatgpt's responses are pretty slow.

And that's without counting the huge free tier they have to support, the employees they have to pay for, and any overheads.

No rush to go multi-cloud if you're making a loss - you'd want to put your efforts into reducing costs.

[1] AI chatbots lose money every time you use them, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/05/chatgpt...
A lot of the stuff I see people writing application code for doesn't require any more complex SQL features than joins, aggregations and filters. i.e the stuff plain old SQL is really good at.
Buying specialized software and buying latte. To me this seems part of same trend: You deserve it, You are worth it, Why not?

This is kinda opposite of old thrifty lifestyle: starting up early, making own coffee, doing speadsheets and all.
Interesting, I'd think logging is one of the clearest situations when you want best effort. Logging is, almost by definition, not the "core" of your application, so failure to log properly should not prevent the core of the program from working. Killing the whole program because logging server is clearly throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

What people probably mean is "logging is important, let's avoid losing log messages if possible", which is what "best" in "best effort" stands for. For example it's often a good idea to have a local log queue, to avoid data loss in case of a temporary log server downtime.
Human beings build stuff non deterministically too. The key is just to give the tool more information along with the screenshot, for example showing it your current codebase so it writes code using the same conventions.
All things considered. Pretty impressive how cheap it is to run given the adoption of the Signal.
Or maybe you didn't, depending on how much money you can drop on a car.
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Cloud companies found a way to directly monetize developers' love of complexity and overengineering. It's genius.

The developers' tastes differ a lot. Consider the extreme counterexamples

* the "small code" scene

* people who love to port modern games to C64, Amiga, retro consoles, ...

The situation is in my opinion rather that quite some managers love complexity and "future-proofness", and thus hire developers who have a similar taste.
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That's true for collaborative experience. Crdts are a mechanism to handle eventual consistency (that's even the preface of the paper). If you assume that said collaborative experience is always online, you don't need them, and "using locks" as you described is probably enough.

If you want a mechanism to handle that eventual consistency, it's probably better to reuse their principles rather than reinventing something that will eventually ressemble Crdts.

You mentioned "offline first", I think it's probably a good place to pluck that ib https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/
"The drug increases connectivity in the brain" is a completely orthogonal claim to "the drug does something beneficial for me."

In fact a lot of people who have taken (and really cherish) psychedelics would not describe them as fun, and sometimes they're very actively un-fun/terrifying/unenjoyable, and yet can still be beneficial.

What exactly is going on at the level of "brain connectivity" is pretty much unrelated to all of that^
> If you had good tooling, you could annotate the assembly routine as being equivalent to the C implementation; then maintenance would be a lot easier, since the compiler would yell at you if they ever diverged.

Is that something actual compilers can do right now? I don't think I have heard of something like though, though I don't work that close with compilers much. Furthermore, if the compiler can recognise that the assembly routine is equivalent to the C implementation, wouldn't it also be able to generate the same routine?
For native English speakers or western audiences being blunt seems rude, to some wasting people's time with fluff would seem rude or even might be be the best they can do.

Both sides can definitely introspect but I'm not on OP side on that one.

Assume incompetence not malice etc
Your site is great. I've signed up and I'm using it now to re-play EarthBound. Thanks.
- you define a template class accepting 1 constant integer for each dimension you want to consider (length and/or time and/or mass and/or temperature);

- you define addition and subtraction between objects of one type returning an object of the same type;

- you define multiplication and division as returning an object of a type with the dimensions summed or subtracted;

- and you get dimensional correctness via type safety.
thanks for sharing, I didn't know
Navigating Around in Your Shell
Just to push against the crowd here pooh poohing client-side joins: this is a standard technique for scaling when you are stuck (for the time being) with a RDB and is definitely not in general "horrible". It does not mean pulling entire tables to the client then joining there. It means splitting a query that in effect walks down a chain of pointers (FKs) between tables into separate client-initiated queries. There are several benefits to this: 1. makes the design "nosql-ready" for when you design out the RDB. 2. Makes all DB queries inherently indexed and quick, allowing easy perf analysis (any non-quick query must be a bug) and alleviating connection pool starvation issues. 3. Prevents pesky devs from adding expensive queries under the radar. 4. allows more ready deployment of caching solutions. 5. recognizes that client resources scale with the number of clients, and are paid for by the client while RDB resources generally scale with difficulty and $$$, and are paid for by you.