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> more and more people ditch the frontend/backend split and moving to Next.js, SvelteKit, Nuxt, SolidStart, and so on.

All this is javascript land. Unless your question implies that javascript kills everything else, then the answer is a clear no :-)
I just responded to how you originally framed the situation:

> I understand that immigration of unskilled people is a little off from the "skilled immigration" pipe dream and less convenient, but are people really that confused about the slightly longer term and exponentially scarier cost of no immigration?

In the case of Germany (and Europe more broadly) the unskilled migrants typically arrive as asylum seekers. So when we look at the data and the facts on the ground for how unskilled migrants integrate into society, and if they make a positive economic contribution or not, the population being studied will largely be asylum seekers from MENA countries.

So far it has been a bit of a disaster. Sweden has done a 180 on immigration policy, Denmark has tightened its rules, Merkel tarnished her legacy with her complete mishandling of the migration crisis, etc.
What you describe is called steganography. It's a very old technique, and the implications in the [lossy] digital realm are reasonably well-understood.

Here's some code that can be played with that relates to steganography in images:
https://github.com/RoliSoft/Steganography/tree/master
I wonder if you couldn’t just have gloves with small cushions inflated with air along the fingers and the palm, to simulate light physical resistance. Obviously you could overpower those easily, so it wouldn’t work for some scenarios, but still — shouldn’t that allow for a cheaper way than having huge setup like this?
A 63 convertible, iirc.
I've seen commercials specifically advertising automatic braking upon detection of a child. The technology seems to definitely be out there.
My politics are pretty moderate, neither left nor right for the most part. I would be annoyed if Twitter turned into a right-wing echo chamber but I like that it is now at least not dominated by the censorious side of the left. And I am probably a bit more into reading about politics on Twitter than you are, by the sound of it, and I am pretty used to seeing hardcore left-wingers and right-wingers yell at each other, so it does not bother me much. Another difference is that I do not use the feed, I pretty much only use Twitter when I follow links from other sites and then maybe jump around a bit browsing related threads. So if the feed is full of spam, it does not bother me.
Ahhh, I understand what you mean and believe you to be 100% correct in this case!
It's even worse: for example, the first one isn't undefined, it's merely unspecified - i.e., "depends on the system in a well-known and predictable way," not "you're doing something very wrong and the result is chaos."
I totally agree with the premise of Anne's article. Using a QR code for a menu or to place an order is so sterile and just ruins part of the reason for going to a restaurant in the first place, which is some sort of social interaction. Using a QR code to pay the bill is even more obnoxious as now a third party is being interjected into the payment/data tracking wheel of user surveillance. Technology is a great thing, but it can certainly be used in ways that are just plain degrading to a considerate life as a human being.
Who are their competitors?
The article is arguing against title case, not all uppercase.
Why were you running your AC while heated seats and steering wheel were on and why run the AC when it is freezing outside?
TFA makes a point of how weird it is that Tesla just say “Cybertruck” not “the Cybertruck”, so whether it was written for the Cybertruck or not, it has at least been updated for the Cybertruck.
Most of the cost of solar is now the installation cost - ie. labour.

Roof solar uses a lot more labour, partly because roofs are inaccessible and need to seal, but also because roofs are smaller than fields.

A typical home solar install might take 3 guys a day to do - for maybe 6 kilowatts.

A typical field install can probably install 60 kilowatts with the same 3 guys in a day.
The Stark Realities of Posting Your Layoff on TikTok
I am a professional physicist, but I know very little about analog circuit design. What are some good learning resources for this? Not afraid of textbooks.
lots of hole in the wall restaurants have great food for reasonable prices but not a lot of waitstaff to make sure every menu is pristine.
> Additionally; GraphQL never got the community love it needed on the backend side to make things hum. Apollo is the only organization really pushing it, and they invest something I'd estimate as 10% of their time into thinking about Apollo Server, which is in any event JavaScript-only.

The Guild [0] does some exceptional work in the GQL world and specifically server side with Yoga, Envelope, Hive, and some other stuff; but it does tend to be JS focused for now.

https://the-guild.dev/
You don't seem to understand.

Your credit card transaction is bundled and sold. Because it has value in establishing a consumer profile for marketing.

The fact that you visited some restaurant PDF or webpage from a dynamic IP address is not.

Like the parent commenter said, any information about how long the table is being occupied comes from the POS and reservation system. But that data is for the restaurant -- there's no market in selling it, though it absolutely has value to the restaurant for its business decisions. But your phone isn't being used for that part.

Data collection is certainly a thing. But it happens in specific ways for specific purposes.

Using a credit card tied to your identity, but then worrying about revealing your phone's IP address while ordering, doesn't make any sense.
When a site is as entrenched in the culture as twitter/x is it usually takes a loooong time to die - craigslist, yahoo mail are still very much around. That said Id be curious to know what the numbers are. Elon seems to be experimenting and he might yet pull this off
does merging all of your api calls to a single one means that the slowest request is a bottle neck?

when splitting your request the user can view his profile picture before the main content finished loading. this cam hurt user experience
That's kind of his point though - don't rely on your intuition for how most common compilers work! Learn enough to write correct code!
> Just make another endpoint for getting the whole thing in one go and call it a day.

That's pretty much the point (well, one of the main points) of GraphQL... precisely so you don't have to do that. Want to request a new object or list of objects? Request a new field on an existing object? You don't have to go "make another endpoint", you just change your GraphQL query.

This is really nice for iterating, though it does have some downsides (eg it's easy for the person iterating away on the FE to not have to think about the cost of querying that data on the BE).

GraphQL does have a few other advantages though, like being able to build your typing around it (again, doable with REST but with more work).
Generative AI helps to explain human memory and imagination
You can, but in that phase, you're expending energy without generating any.
They gotta be recording the serial numbers and listing them as "cancelled" in some database somewhere, right? But with enough shredded pieces, you could always reconstruct a different number.
I've been a software engineer for a very long time (pre-JavaScript existing).

I highly doubt it. I am working on a greenfield project and we are on Angular 17 for the front-end and C# for the REST APIs, backed by a relational SQL database. It is smooth sailing.

I am not familiar with those frameworks outside of what Next.js is doing with React (combining server and client code).

I don't like it, at all. I've spent decades working with what is now being called "SSR", but that's literally how everything was done.

So many developers got into software engineering knowing only JavaScript and usually a bit about a framework, generally React. Then we got Node.js so we could have JavaScript on the server, then Express.js so JavaScript can serve JavaScript, then NoSQL so you can store JavaScript objects in a database (essentially a KV store) without needing to learn SQL.

Now we have JavaScript that mixes front-end and back-end together.

I have 22 years of C# development. It works, it's easy, and it's fast. The "split" between front-end and back-end is perfectly fine to me.
I wonder what happened to Chesscademy.
I still don't quite get it. I can scroll my mouse on Google Calendar looking at the Saturday and Sunday columns. 12 clicks of my scroll wheel and I've seen my year of weekends. In your screenshot, I scroll left-to-right and Sat/Sun are combined, but I am not understanding the benefit of that.
Thanks for your enthusiasm and insight! We're in talks with Apple about integrating the MouthPad^ with the Vision Pro. The goal is to pair our tech with their eye-tracking system, offering a hands-free alternative for clicks and gestures currently done by hand.

Also, as more AR headsets become common, hands-free solutions will be crucial. Traditional hand tracking for clicking isn't always reliable, as hands might not be in the camera's view. The MouthPad^ could provide a consistent way to interact with these technologies, making computing more inclusive.
It’s definitely not not mass…
That's a terrible analogy. Until the scrapers start deleting all other copies of what what they're scraping, "stealing" the art in a traditional sense, there's no harm done in the process of training the network. Any harm done comes after that.
The only place I see AI downplayed is on HN. Everywhere else in my life the "Average person" gives one of two responses: (1) They're barely even aware of the recent AI hype, or (2) It's practically magic in how amazingly good it is.
I fell off my bike today. As I was wheeling it off the road and onto the pavement, someone in a passing car rolled down the window and asked if I was alright. My answer was "Ask me in ten minutes". And yes, ten minutes later I was sat on the ground against a shop window with my vision gone dark, apparently as white as a sheet, and a lovely old lady calling an ambulance for me. It's funny how the body works - it gave me a couple of minutes of being able to get myself off an active road before initiating shock symptoms.
This article is targeted at people using R to analyse data which is probably more as-hoc and not in a sql database. I don’t think the target audience (might include eg scientists who are working with experiment results) should be expected to know SQL, and even if they do, it’s still useful to understand the dplyr functions,
The thing is that while the two camps exist among those who say we can't get to AGI, there is no real equivalent of the first camp among those who think it is possible. I'm not counting the people who say it has already (as good as) been achieved, as this claim is of the sort that should have been satisfactorily empirically verified before it is made.
No one has written a C program of any complexity with zero undefined behavior. Noting its existence as if it's some kind of revelation is trite and annoying.
It absolutely does, and this has been a significant issue when I’ve used GQL.
A great way to write horrible programs.

In short: If it works until it crashes, it doesn't work.
Yeah if the first one weren't so obviously implementation defined, I'd have second-guessed myself on a lot of the others.
The best app for chess problems I've used is 'Chess Tempo'

Really large set of curated problems, which can be divided into particular problem types (e.g. attaction or desperado tactics). Further, after you do the problem, community discussion forum of that problem becomes available, where they discuss alternate choices and their problems etc. It really is high quality.
Makes sense. If there's anything Republicans hate the most it's the little guy.
Wow: that was nice.

Interesting that the nameplate clearly documented its current draw at startup and while running (1/3 the startup).
Programmers annoyed with the 'quiz' might really enjoy this book on that site, which is an excellent read.

https://wordsandbuttons.online/SYTYKC.pdf
I guess you’d have to have a rigorous chain of evidence really.
Nice! It would be helpful to include more of the motivation up front.

Also the choice of domain name is...odd.
This sub thread isn’t about hosted inference though. I interpreted the question as “is there a reasonable laptop out there that can run large models locally in real time?” And a MacBook Air does fit the bill for that.

It’s an entry-level Mac, and it is capable of doing inference jobs. If you have around $1k available to spend on a daily driver laptop, but you also want to do some AI inference experiments, the MacBook Air is what I’d recommend.

The AMD Framework laptop might be a good alternative. But I don’t know how well its integrated GPU is supported by llama.cpp.
Aren't some people also - at least trying - to move in the opposite with pure javascript, Petite Vue, Alpine etc. because of framework and tooling fatigue?

I have at least experimented in that direction.
I don't see how civilization would end from replacing some entertainment related professions.
There was a certain Space Shuttle program that never returned from interrupt. At the end of its interrupt handler, it would just spin. The next interrupt would just add to the call stack.

What happens when it runs out of stack? It just resets the stack pointer back to the start.
Marsupial
The author wasn't asking you to write code, but to analyze some existing snippets. And it wasn't about "intuition about how compilers work", because not all of these deal with undefined behavior. Some are merely unspecified - i.e., platform-dependent in a non-crazy way (example: big endian vs little endian). So the gotcha is that you made the reader assume you might be talking about a modern Intel or ARM CPU, but what you really meant is that the return value will be different on PDP-11. Frankly, seems pedantic.
Can someone help me understand?

Let's just say I started a company last year. I sell software and made $100k revenue this year. I hired someone for $100k to help build that software. I have zero dollars left in the bank at the end of the year.

According to 174 I can only amortize that $100k over 5 years, not all at once. So now I have to pay taxes on $80k profit. I have no money in my bank account, how can I pay any taxes at all?

It's not like I'm going to fire my engineer, he does feature and maintenance work. Let's say that next year my business stays the same. 100k in 100k out. I still have no money in the bank and have to pay taxes on $80k profit, again?

What??

Every little startup in Silicon Valley makes software, spends a lot on salaries, and is barely breakeven. How... am I expected to run a business like this?
Yes, someone can disagree on whether a fact is true. That's obviously true, but it has no effect on the truth of that fact.

I'm saying something very simple: If a machine can copy your style, that's a fundamentally different situation than if a human can copy your style, and it has utterly different consequences. You can disagree with my statement, or say that whether it's fundamentally different is subjective, or you can even say "nuh-uh". But it seems kind of pointless to me. Why are you here commenting if you're not going to engage intellectually with other people, and are simply going to resort to a childish game of contradiction?
Your experience was undeniably terrible and her behavior is highly unethical (yet not criminal...) but you're simply incorrect in ascribing this to a particular clinical disorder. She's found a grift that works. That makes her a grifter, not a Narcissist.

Want to meet a real Narcissist? Go talk to any businessman convicted of fraud who continues to insist they're the greatest investment advisor ever, they did nothing wrong and everyone is just out to get them.

Or the covetous types who complain that everyone else has nicer things than them and so they deserve to have even better things-- for no real reason. They're not hardworking or successful, but they expect all the rewards of a lifetime of labor to just be handed to them because they deserve it. Your abuser was willing to actually do the work of fleecing people.

I get where you're coming from-- she exhibits behaviors from the covert Narcissism checklist. This is not the only diagnosis these behaviors are associated with. If that helps you name-and-tame the trauma, more power to you-- I started there myself and have since found the world of behavioral analysis is not limited to the domain of Narcissism. For example, autism is easily confused with Narcissism (not that I'm saying it applies here).
Oh I fully agree that the invasion was unjustified and brutal, and as he was the chief in command, he was the person who decided to do that.

Although I wouldn't compare them directly. They are very different personalities, have different motives, etc
We cannot compare an out of context picture to an artificial video created with just a prompt.

First of all, video is accepted as evidence in almost all countries judicial systems. Proliferating fake video hard to distinguish is going to be a nightmare on that front.

Besides judicial systems, the reputation of countless people has been permanently ruined/damaged by some "leaked video" that went trough some kind of "trial by media". Even if a week later the video is confirmed to be fake, is too late. Once it's out there, the damage is done. Imagine these video to be created by anyone, from edgy teenagers to governments or political parties.

Secondly, there's a difference between an out of context picture that can be abused by bad faith actor and the ability to very easily generate countless misleading pictures AND videos by these actors. Disinformation can and will multiply.

Average social media user had a very difficult time recognizing fake news, ragebait content, etc even before the AI revolution. Things can only get worse when fake videos will start to spread everywhere. Imagine bad faith actors weaponizing VIPs, actors, tv personalities, etc to send misinformation to the people that do not have the tools to defend themselves. Imagine your average facebook user scrolling trough the feed and finding a fake video about some political misinformation. It's the same thing that already happened with fake news, but an order of magnitude bigger.
The more common scenario AIUI for spying is turning someone already in place, either because they have sympathies with your side, or because you have leverage on them - and probably a mix of both. It's a pretty cynical game.
https://www.google.com/search?q=human+teeth+for+sale

https://www.skullsunlimited.com/collections/humans/Real-Skul...

Why? I don't know
Interestingly, the kubernetes approach is the opposite one. Dependencies between pods / software components are encouraged to be a little softer, so that the scheduler is simpler.

Starting up, noticing that the environment doesn't have what you need yet and dying quickly appears to be The Kubernetes Way. A scheduler will eventually restart you and you'll have another go. Repeat until everything is up.

The kubelet operates the same way afair. On a node that hasn't joined a cluster yet, it sits in a fail/restart loop until it's provisioned.
Oh ok I thought they were hidden. But that mainly comes from the memory of WarGames, where the staff enters into the missile silo through a fake house :P

But I think keeping such massive project secret in a society like the US is much more difficult anyway than in a tightly controlled autocracy like the soviet union.
Sounds like an episode of the Frankenstein chronicles...
Our (Estuary; I'm CTO) streaming transformation product handles this quite well, actually:

https://docs.estuary.dev/concepts/derivations/

Fully managed, UI and config driven. Write SQLite programs using lambdas that are driven by your source events, in order to join data, do streaming transaction processing, and no doubt lots of other things we haven't thought of.
Okay but if that's the case we are no more than a decade away from integrating those into a newer and bigger model.
I bought one - batch 6, so it’ll be at least mid year, but international so maybe longer.

I was interested in it anyway but as a perplexity pro subscriber already, it made sense to get a year added on, along with a free(ish) gadget to play with
> Which brings some simplicity to the client

And puts all the complexity on the backend :-)

As far as I've seen, front-end developers are generally quite happy about graphql. Back-end developers on the other hand are a different story.
First Look at Columbia Missile Submarine's X-Shaped Stern
And perhaps even more pertinent - maybe the problem isn't that we don't have the solutions, but that we are trying to put all eggs in one basket.

The brain isn't a single system, it's several specialized systems cooperating as a whole.

Maybe no single solution gets us to AGI, but layering several of them together gets us much closer than any individual system alone.

The problem here is that the industry is set up more for large resources dedicated competition between models from different companies more than cooperative interoperation, so it may take a while to arrive here.
That looks great, can already see some use cases in my personal life, congrats for shipping !!
Trying to make sense of the above comment is difficult.

> Copyright law demands that everyone play along with the lie that is intellectual monopoly.

Saying "lie" suggests willful deception. Perhaps you mean "socially constructed"? Combined with "playing pretend" makes it read a bit like a rant.

> Then let's use a more precise term that is also present in law: monopoly.

Ok, in law and economics, the core idea of monopoly has to do with dominant market power that crowds out the existence of others. But your other uses of "monopoly" don't match that. For example, you talk about ideas and "intellectual monopoly". What do you mean?

It seems like some of your uses of "monopoly" are not about markets but instead are closer to the idea of retaining sole ownership.

> If we were to increase enforcement to the point of effectiveness, then what society would be left to participate? Surely not a society I am keen to be a part of.

It appears you've already presupposed how things would play out, but I'm not convinced. What is your metric of effectiveness? A scale is better than some arbitrary threshold.

Have you compared copyright laws and enforcement of the U.S. versus others?

How far would you go: would you say that i.e. society would be better off without copyright law? By what standard?
To me "zero trust" = sadness. Can't/won't do it.
Why would FFI be an issue?
It’s available from Java 11 as the Epsilon GC.
It's been a while since I used PHP, but this is something controlled by the server used. If you use Apache then it used to create a new process for each request, yes.
They also have clear decision point for the right solution (must be 2 pawns or more advantage, and okay solutions that are not best do not count against you(alts).

There is another mode (mixed) which includes problems that are about defending.
Apple collecting 30% off all purchases is not a feature, and being prevented from doing that does not make it impossible for them to differentiate otherwise.
That's a great idea! We're currently beta testing head tracking on the MouthPad^, which is aimed at improving upon traditional head tracking methods. This feature lets users recenter the tracker by simply placing their tongue on the trackpad, making navigation more intuitive and less fatiguing by reducing neck movements.

We're excited about the potential of the MouthPad^ to help people with various motor abilities. Its broad range of functionalities could be particularly helpful for individuals with conditions like Parkinson's.
I too have bipolar and I hear it all the time.