skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I teach people who thought this way, and later decided to enter a career that requires basic data analysis literacy. They struggle with things like order of operations, which is incredibly frustrating. Teaching math up to the high school/introductory college level is about building foundational skills that can be applied in different directions. Will they need to apply trig identities? Probably not, but the process of getting there in high school is good for their minds and foundational abilities.

So yes, I'd personally say we should expect people to "keep up in math".
Unironically, letter casing was a mistake and it should not exist in any language.
In most of the US, the attractive nuisance doctrine applies, unfortunately. And nearly anything can be considered an attractive nuisance, or at least there's probably a lawyer out there willing to take the case and cost the landowner money.
> This is toxic as hell.

I think it's not toxic, and long overdue that open source isn't hijacked by overt political activism of a certain persuasion that's led to a decade+ of stagnation and so much wasted money (on CEO pay, etc.).
Remote?! Now there’s a valuable target for their adversaries!
That's my point. Same with AI.
SMTP has stringent escaping rules. The authors of the code in the article were incompetent.
I had no idea DigitalOcean pricing has become so uncompetitive.

I remember back a few years it was praised by people for how cheap it was.
At first I felt the same way, because as a language designer I feel there are enough good names out there that new projects should be able to go find one that isn't taken.

However, having looked at this case I'm not against it for several reasons.

First, it looks like the project has been abandoned. There hasn't been an issue closed in 2 years, and the latest copyright date is 2019.

That might not be enough to sway me, but then you have to realize the project doesn't even really call itself a language. They are "Amber Smalltalk". This is an implementation of Smalltalk, not a language itself.

Amber is an implementation of the Smalltalk language that runs on top of the JavaScript runtime.

Pharo Smalltalk is considered as the reference implementation.

So you see this is an implementation of Pharo Smalltalk that runs on JS.

Finally, and the nail in the coffin, over the past couple years in the mailing list there has been little activity -- nominally a monthly message from a single user advertising the "UK Smalltalk User Group Meeting" which sounds interesting but not really about Amber Smalltalk as a project per se.

No one is using it, no one is working on it, and it wasn't a language in the first place. I would say that it's fine for an actual language project to pick up the name.
I was using a Chinese website recently based on the “ant design” [^1] library / philosophy. It’s a really UI dense way of doing things and I enjoyed having everything there without having to go hunting into menus.

[1]: https://ant.design/
After spending six months with Python so far, the problem with the Python ecosystem is that you have a lot of really smart people (scientists, mathematicians) who are not software engineers by trade writing a lot of these libraries.

I guess it's a good problem to have, in a lot of ways, because it's also why Python has that huge science/datascience/etc ecosystem.
I guess on the DNA level there is not much difference between any two candidates for any $job ... yet. The questions I'm asking are not about the current situation, they are about potential (not yet existing) situations we can find ourselves in with the advancement of DNA science.
> Some sites disabled pinch zooms

I've always wondered why sites do this. What's the point of it? What does the web designer get from it?
> Instead, a legal solution like the GDPR offers better means of protection.

I mean, yes, that was my point — that there'd need to be some legal thing like GDPR. But that thing would very likely need some kind of explicit user-driven policy choice (ala how websites are now forced to ask for a user-driven cookie-handling policy.)

To comply with such a law, it would be likely that every application-layer protocol that could in theory involve a backend that relies on the use of third-party ML vendors, would have to be modified to somehow carry that policy choice along with requests. It'd be a huge boondoggle.
It is downvoted but it is basically true. Sweden works because it uses massive wealth transfers to appease the bottom quintile.
David sacks’ glueai app uses ragie.ai under the hood
I am writing this from a coffee shop where myself and others have gone well over 4 hours working. The business owners don’t care so long as you make purchases and don’t sit at a 10 person table for just yourself.

I see people get a morning coffee, get lunch and a drink, and then maybe something on their way out. It’s not a problem.
TL;DR: the Big Rip is likely not to be the fate of the Universe as dark energy term in lambda-CDM cosmology is not a constant but weakens as time moves forward. Seems like Heat Death or Big Crunch options are back on the menu!
> I don't think they should allow use of AI during tests because yeah, it'd just do all the work for them and they wouldn't learn anything, but I absolutely think there's value in being able to use it as a 24/7 instant tutor, particularly since ChatGPT can be coerced into explaining things in basically any style that you'd like.

For any test where there's an AI good enough to cheat with and cheap enough students can afford it, the test itself is no longer important — it is as pointless as testing how well students can use fountain pens when everyone uses a keyboard for actual work. Or how well they can play chess.

I'm not sure the exact shape of what each model can and can't do, but I am confident that this means they're never be an important "cheating" risk, not even when they're technically capable of it.
Very nice, an instant addition to my $PATH. In particular I like having the ANE usage displayed, as this is typically invisible in other top-like tools.
"
When presented with further evidence that she had been told as far back as 2011 that Fujitsu, the creators of the Horizon software, had remote access to the system, Vennells said she had not understood what she was reading."
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/22/paul...
> Ok... I see where this is going...

Me too, although it might not be the same thing you are thinking of. I see the license as a way to let corporations take advantage of your free work without giving anything back. I LGPL my public work so that anyone is free to use it but if they change it, I need to get the changes back and decide if I want to incorporate them.

So far, I've been fortunate that nobody's paying attention to my work so I don't have to worry about whether to harass someone for violating the copyleft.
A pioneer of a form of education that works for some, but not others.
1. If it's a remote switch, wouldn't Chinese hackers also be able to potentially block this kind of kill signal? (Unless it's a dead man's switch I suppose).

2. What would be the strategic implications of China getting access to these machines though? I mean if they didn't, they could just make 5 or 8 or 10 nm chips, right?

What is the strategic advantage of the better manufacturing that would make it worth the US gov saying it would bomb those foundries, or installing kill-switches?
Imagine a future hack where the car's connectivity and self-driving ability is used to remotely steal fleets of cars and drive them to pop-up chop shops. Maybe this can be the plot of Fast and Furious 37 or Gone in 2.0 Seconds.
> Since the Tesla 3's keyless entry system also controls the car's immobilizer feature designed to prevent its theft, that means a radio hacker could start the car and drive it away in seconds—unless the driver has enabled Tesla's optional, off-by-default PIN-to-drive feature that requires the owner to enter a four-digit code before starting the car.

I've always thought that keyless starts are a tiny UX improvement over just inserting a key and twisting it, and an improvement that is totally not worth all of the additional security complications. Now I learn that to patch the security complications it's now recommended that you set a four-digit pin that you have to type in in order to start the car. That will take at least as long as twisting the key does in a traditional car.

So, a question for people who have keyless starts: If the time savings are used up by a PIN, do you still derive any value from keyless starts?
I think that is different than deepfaking something
This has seemed like the next logical step in education for a while now.

I recently used ChatGPT to help me understand some Kubernetes and Terraform configuration. It was able to talk to me about the configuration and also help me understand some of the larger context- how information flows between the systems, what the terms mean, etc.

It provided direct explanations, and metaphors when I needed it, and let me ask clarifying questions.

This kind of learning system would be especially useful for people like myself who have Learning Disabilities, where once I understand a topic, I can speed ahead, but sometimes I'll just get "stuck", sometimes for days/weeks. Having a tutor can help, but there's a lot of embarrassment and that can lead to anxiety, which can in turn make it harder to learn.

Obviously such a system will need some safeguards around it, but having a system like this be able to both explain and point to primary sources could be a complete game changer for students.
How can you tell what's true or not?
here is some latency tests using an external camera, though that's Windows only, there might've been a similar one for Linux, but not sure

https://chadaustin.me/2024/02/windows-terminal-latency/

The other one where xterm is uber low is https://lwn.net/Articles/751763/ is using this tool with software-based screen capture https://pavelfatin.com/typometer/, not sure how reliable that is as a proxy for end-to-end (at the time of the benchmark Wayland wasn't supported)
https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/
Well I'll be damned. Thank you!
My dad had one, I really loved the form factor, with that keyboard that would somewhat slide out when you opened it. Nice keyboard as well, looked less like a toy than competition
It can be interpreted both ways: "I cannot recommend X too highly (because they suck)" vs "I cannot recommend X too highly (because whatever praise I give will be inadequate)"
If you approach a debate from a bad faith standpoint, don’t be surprised when the other person doesn’t change their mind. "I think you’re a liar" is a great way to make them nope out.

Which is a shame, since you had a decent argument.

Except it isn’t. Again, you’re acting like OpenAI tried to profit off of Scarlett. They tried to profit off of the portrayal she did in the movie Her. These are not the same thing, and treating them as interchangeable is some next level moral rationalization. One is taking advantage of someone. The other is what the movie industry is for.

Now, where’s this case from 1992 that expended and defined the scope of this?
I agree with you in that the stories of religion are pretty dangerous in their 'dogmatic' potential.

I think another big value of religion is the community that comes with it. Its really easy to get along with people who tell the same stories.

And maybe there's something else I'm less aware of, idk. My point is there seems to be something we've not figured out well enough to apply it.
The "good default" should be the default size that the browser uses, in my opinion. The designer of the website is not in a position to know what the best font size is.
You have to develop your own QA methods to ensure output is exactly what you want.
It makes you look the same as everyone else with webgl disabled. This happens to be a reasonably large number of people, because it's the default setting in a variety of privacy focused browsers.
I've been doing the daily crossword puzzle on Apple News and you often encounter a word you've seen on a previous puzzle.
If you don't want the terminal to have any features then why don't you just use the default Terminal app?
An engineer doesn’t cost $500k/yr. An engineer who lives in one of the highest cost-of-living places on earth costs $500k/yr. There’s absolutely no reason Wikimedia needs to pay that much.
scenario

-the creator of a new widget takes tha widget to another widget manufacturer and says "Would you like to put your stamp on this? It's similar to yours, yet derivative enough and we would both benefit."

- other widget manufacturer says "no"

-Creator of widget then puts the badge on the widget anyway, gets called out/faces legal action

-Creator of widget says "Well, we planned to put the badge on there anyway before even considering the other widget manufacturer. It's just coincidence.

This shouldn't even go to court. Laughable that the face of modern tech is cheesing this much.
Pure "woundology" may indeed make things worse. There's another book which I haven't read yet about the dangers of therapy and underestimating the people's intuition and resilience - "Bad Therapy, Why the kid's aren't growing up", but the podcast with the author seemed reasonable.

It gives lots of evidences on what you've just said.

Just simply living a life, focusing on goals and targets, making mistakes and learning from them - this works too. In my case, personally, I just couldn't ignore the problems anymore. I've also made this mistake of dwelling into wounds burning out people around me and being unavailable for them instead of trying to focus more on something good.

I think, we barely scratched the complexity of human psyche, and there lot's of moving parts in person's development. There might be a bit of dehumanization and modern over-materialistic somewhat arrogance perspective - how can I stop feeling what I feel, so I could continue my business as usual?

A few things why religion helps, out of the head:

- it's an empirical study of human psyche over thousands of years

- highlights importance of intentions behind actions

- emphasizes on connection with the world

Sounds totally reasonable?

The universal practical tip would be "just live your life, pay attention and genuinely try to make good out of it", but if being specific and speaking from personal experience and a keeping it small:

- studying violence (the last book in the list) significantly reduced anxiety, risk seeking behavior and moral rigidness (e.g. what is it: "social anxiety" or "embodied situational awareness"?)

- "woundology" and focus on trauma/pain without keeping healing as a target in mind, will, most probably, just make it worse; but studying the topic still has advantages

- try to pay attention to intuition, it seems like psyche tries to heal itself naturally or at least to draw an attention to yet not understood problem/information gifted to a person about the world/life; try to find out what is the center of what draws you onto it (or maybe scorns you off way more than you yourself would expect normally): Eugene Gendlin's Focusing is a quite good tool for that

- combine both inner and external healing - with a grain of salt, as some people I've met have better outcomes with focusing on actions/thoughts (CBT), while for me a deeper body/intuition oriented inner work seems to suit better; but it's good to try and keep both in mind

- it's ok to reach for medication when it's really bad as a temporal support on the path; don't replace everything with meds, but don't reject them completely either - it's always possible to get back on track later

- things seem to get better over time, even if it doesn't feel like that in the moment: new realizations, some knots are untying, sometimes something changes radically and sometimes for the good, and it's difficult to predict that; it's obvious since it's like a personalized empirical search - it needs practice and time, although a possibility of a downward spiral is here as well

- relationships have a degree of power to both devastate and heal
If you think Python is like that, I advise you to
never look at Ruby codebase.

The codebase for Ruby itself, or the codebase of your typical Ruby app or library?

I spent about a decade with Ruby and my general impression is that the community really moved away from overly-clever metaprogramming.

The codebase for the Ruby language itself is definitely a challenging read.
Having been through a few technology cycles now, I am also skeptical. We're in the honeymoon phase where anything seems possible and everything is cheap or free (VC/company subsidized). What will AI look like when it comes time to pay the piper? More ads? Perpetual subscriptions?
I feel like this is going to add costs to cars only to create significant annoyances. There are already too many chimes and alerts in new cars, as they become increasingly complicated and impose a lot of intrusive monitoring. As I understand it, each time traffic brakes to slow below the threshold and speeds back up, there will be an alert with an audible sound.

It’ll be especially frustrating for drivers because posted speed limits are often too low. For example on highways pretty much everyone can drive at 75 safely, and the left lane rarely goes below that.

Not to mention, I’m concerned this is just an initial bill to normalize nanny state behavior, with the next potentially becoming more surveillance state (like reporting your speed and location).

Side note: I believe this is one of 10+ bills being pushed by CA Senator Scott Weiner, who also is behind the AI regulatory capture bill that the CA Senate passed last night. His initial bill text here actually pushed for active control that overrides the driver’s intent and caps the speed, so we know where the slippery slope is headed.
Haha. Everyone is working on AI now. It's the latest Blockchain, NFT etc.

Many of these "products" are just hot air. Time will weed out the crap. It's not like we're stuck with nonsense Blockchain features now from the last hype (even though signal and others did work to implement that BS, it's not in the way or even remotely relevant)
I find that invoicing can be a real pain point for small businesses, with unexpected fees really adding up over time. But it sounds like the combination of Stripe's no-fee invoices and a tool could provide a seamless, cost-effective invoicing experience.

What's your take on this potential solution? Do the features like unlimited self-serve invoices, one-time payment, and easy editing appeal to you? Or do you have other priorities when it comes to invoicing?

I'm really interested to get your perspective as a fellow business owner dealing with these same invoicing challenges.

Feel free to share any other pain points or requirements you have as well. The more insights, the better I can evaluate whether Stripe + My Tool could be a good fit.

Join the waitlist if you are intrested https://forms.gle/ZgUUGBCA971rHFdWA
Having some array syntactical sugar alone would be invaluable for us casual Bash programmers.
Average US vehicle age hits record 12.6 years amid high prices
You could see the bibliography of the book itself. You could google a bit and see the guy is a leader in this field, and a pioneer of this research. Answering a request for sources of your assertion with a request for theirs isn't done in good faith.
Incredibly depressing to read this comment when I have tested GPT-4 extensively on simple finite group theory, and it could not reliably distinguish associativity from commutativity, either in prose or in computations, even for very small groups where I gave the multiplication table. The only simple abstract algebra problems it could solve were cliches it almost certainly memorized. I would never use an LLM for learning undergraduate mathematics.

It is overwhelmingly likely that you are learning incorrect facts about mathematics from ChatGPT, especially with the distracting gimmick of using cartoon characters.
>litter, trampling of grass/shrubbery

Obviously illegal, in public places too, do no relation to the topic discussed.

>theft

Come on. Theft is obviously illegal everywhere.

>idiots trying to pet or take pictures with livestock that weigh 20x what they do

Good thing is that it anyone is hurt in this scenario it's the idiot. Why worry about it?

>I literally can not imagine how bad it would be if people felt legally entitled to be there + how hard it would be to get law enforcement involved

I used to do a lot of hiking (in Spain, France, and some other European mountain ranges). Many remote routes go nearby or through someone's fields or even properties (like through someone's backyard). There are many farm animals on the trails or just next to them. Fortunately nobody here cares and we are all more happy because of it
How does this compare to metabase?
By separating "seek" (min/max/key/nth) from "edit" (in-del) and "balance" (AVL, red-black, etc.) operations, you can indeed cover a lot of bases as elaborated here: https://github.com/c-blake/bst (including also how you handle duplicate keys as well as the perhaps less useful neither-ranked-nor-keyed access, wherein the trees are kind of a double-ended queue with just "edge access").
> I wonder if this kind of nonsense is part of what keeps feeding the myth that USB is not good enough for NAS storage and you should use Thunderbolt/PCIe or something.

From a user's perspective, it doesn't matter where in the stack the problems arise, only that they exist. If Linux has better code quality for PCIe than USB, then it's likely that PCIe is better than USB in practice. (IMO this is a common mistake devs and other low-level folks make; users don't care exactly where in the stack problems arise, users don't care how elegant your code is, users don't care how ugly the code/firmware/hardware is - users only care what happens when they use the thing, and they only see the total result, not the pieces)
Trying to be charitable, I think maybe it's just a cultural thing. If someone grew up immersed in a culture which tells them that walking everywhere is a natural right of man, then it wouldn't be surprising if they think of private land ownership as being heinous. It's a very alien view to me, but values shaped by culture generally are. It's just how it is.
The commit linked there checks host only and not protocol for "always allow". I wonder if that's going to be a problem with some of the more interesting protocols.
I liked your comment! It was well thought out and typed. I just wanted to add a couple details I thought were really neat. The idea that stars can be destroyed at all blew my mind when I first learned about it. I always love to talk about it!
From my reading, the attractive nuisance doctrine applies to children - who I would have thought would be the people least likely to pay attention to "No Trespassing" signs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attractive_nuisance_doctrine
Spotify Mix, Our New and Exclusive Font
Won’t the tsunami generating nuclear wall between China and Taiwan accomplish that?
Isn't this just installing a really big "Push me!" button for our adversaries? Why do they need to take control of the fabs if they can just blow them up remotely Without taking responsibility? "Oh I guess there was a bug in the self-destruct system..."
This applies to more than just Tesla according to the article. I’ve always been of the belief that if you have a desirable vehicle it can be stolen with enough time and ingenuity thrown at it. That’s why insurance is around for the few% of people that experience car theft
Well, no, I absolutely and fundamentally disagree with that.

We didn't just stop teaching children how to read the second that text-to-speech stuff came about, and we didn't stop teaching basic arithmetic the second that calculators were invented, and we didn't stop teaching algebra the second that Wolfram Alpha was released.

There is value in learning the fundamentals of things. If you never actually learn algebra, then it becomes effectively impossible to do the more advanced stuff.
Elephant's Foot (Chernobyl)