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>Hunter Biden is next.

Thank fuck he's not running for election then, and if he did commit crimes then lets see them brought to trial.
PG:

>No, we would have been happy if he stayed and got someone else to run OpenAI.
If Trump doesn't understand the charges against him, maybe he should have paid attention when his lawyer explained it to him. The charges are pretty clearly laid out.
Feeling slightly called out right now
> [reddit is] a platform that's relatively easy to manipulate.

For all sides, apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7GtYaruTys
Thing is, even when web apps are essentially used as desktop app replacement (Electron etc), all the complexity discussed here is still there.

As far as looking OS-native, this is (unfortunately) increasingly less relevant as OSes themselves drop desktop UX consistency even internally. But that aside, Qt is still around and is a very mature framework for "near native" UI, and then there's Avalonia and others. Even Gtk is surprisingly decent on Windows these days. Although I'm not sure what this all has to do with the original subject, since web apps most certainly don't look native anywhere.
These seem like bugs that could be fixed, but it also seems like there should be relatively simple ways to work around them without disabling about:config, e.g.:

If some settings can cause a crash (and you don't have a complete list), create a separate launcher that only edits the settings in about:config without ever trying to run other Fenix code, so the user always has a way to revert settings if they're causing a crash on startup.

If some settings can be applied but are reset the next time the app runs, save the setting value itself and then re-apply it on each startup.

Other problems like settings doing nothing or breaking websites are just ordinary bugs. Until they're fixed, the user can just refrain from using those settings, or revert them if they cause problems. These sorts of issues are acceptable for users knowingly mucking around in about:config, it's fine, fix the bugs when you get time. It's no reason to disable access to the other settings that actually work in the meantime.
Given the usage of LLMs to rank answers to questions, I think testing could shift as well. Having an LLM (operating with good faith prompt, eg trying to genuinely discover a level of understanding from a student) have a back and forth with a student to evaluate a level of comprehension of a topic could be more supportive of students than traditional testing.

Validation of the LLM to do such a task reliably would be large undertaking, but seems like something that might be possible in the future.
Of course a backbone provider can directly inspect the source and destination IP addresses of any traffic transiting its network. How could it be otherwise? Thats not fingerprinting, it’s just pulling fields out of a struct.

Tor does defeat this though. Rather than seeing the true destination of your traffic they see that of a Tor exit node.
Why not link to the homepage rather than SEO spam? https://www.sightful.com/
None of that happened.
Non paywalled: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/donald-trump-v...
(Machiavelli might have something he would like to say here.)
Doing everything they can to diffuse and spread out the blow-back from their removal of the ability to have updates in javascript protection extensions.
> that's almost the perfect task where AI can do both ends. [..] Which is pretty much a sign that assessments such as this have low educational impact.

This seems like a bit too far of a leap.

When teaching math, we want students to be able to prove novel theorems. But all the open problems in mathematics are really hard, so teachers often start by getting students to practice on easier theorems that have already been proven.

In this context, something like "prove the Pythagorean Theorem" is a useful exercise and valuable assessment! You just need to make sure the student actually does it instead of copying the answer from the Internet (directly or via ChatGPT).
I am glad that Anduril was able to ride into prominence in an industry where old players had lots of lobbying capital/power.
Depends on domain: generally learn by building, try different langs, profile your code and gradually understand the relationship between data, memory, cache, latency, etc.
I think there’s a third level to it as well. It is also a true statement which is a contradiction of itself.
Logically then it is not self-consistent which also makes it logical.

Is the only way out is to assert as you do that some opinions are less valid than others? I don’t think that resolves the paradox.

Philosophers must have studied this... I understand that in math we have Gödel incompleteness which is an axiomatic version of a similar argument.
I’m wary when ai is presumed to be infallible despite its hallucinations; I’m not sure that’s a great way to teach kids yet. However, I went through the US public school system, so I’m well aware of how useless the average US teacher’s opinion is on basically anything. I also really want to see the institution change because right now everything after elementary is a patronizing, glorified daycare/prison for teenagers.
> Sometimes it's best to be DRY right from the start.

Never zealously adopt a programming practice that can be summarized in a headline!
A Generational Wealth Gap: Housing Is Unaffordable for Young People
I truly do not understand the complaints about Firefox, the browser (and not Mozilla's questionable stewardship thereof). Every time someone starts talking about their issue, it's either something super niche and inconsequential, or something that doesn't seem to have sufficient evidence to blame on the browser (turns out, crappy web apps will make any browser slow to a crawl). I used Chrome for a few years back in the mid-teens, then switched back to Firefox, and manage to use the Web just fine. It's a browser, it renders web pages. I really don't understand the fuss. Meanwhile, Google (the advertising company) would totally like you to use Google (the browser), for totally innocent reasons.
We can achieve peace only with responsible use of power.

We can't achieve peace without power.
I’d love to be a drywall repair contractor during these next few weeks.
I hate listening to tech people talk about education like it's some problem to be solved. Using a system that you know is wrong 10% of the time for education is a terrible idea. We're trying to teach things like basic literacy and cultural contex. School does not exist for the sole reason of pumping of good little tech workers. Some things are actually hard to measure and AI being able to put out a convincing looking essay doesn't mean the act of writing essays has no value for the student. The goal was not the production of an essay.
Simple, no-fuss self-hosted server software should really be Rust, or Go / C++ if needed.

All three of them allow you embed the UI assets (media, JS, CSS) into the binary and all three work great with key/value stores (badger, leveldb, rocksdb, etc..) or SQLite.

There is no install. No setup. No packages to download first. Just a simple binary that respects OS signals, has crazy good throughput, and uses so little memory that your router can run it.

Please, consider moving your JVM/Node.js/Electron project to one of these as a chance to jump into really performant software.

(There are also a lot of RSS servers written in Rust/Go/C on Github: https://github.com/search?q=rss+host+language%3AGo+language%...)
Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, *unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon*. A former US president being convicted of a crime is one.
Net News Wire

Marginal Revolution, Astral Codex Ten, and others are good are links posts.
> Have you looked at automated solutions for that?

Sure, I look forward to IS&T releasing one but it's more likely to happen if I have one to suggest they review for security.

> If it's a cost issue, then I think even Clonezilla will let you take an image of a "golden master" (aka pc set up how you want) then deploy it over the network to image a bunch of computers at the same time.

We used to do it that way with Acronis disk cloning. It is better to do PXE boot installs to avoid weird config problems according to IS&T, I didn't second-guess them on that. I don't hate the idea, just was told to avoid it.
They changed the extension model which broke the extensions using the old model. Many of the developers didn't have the resources to rewrite the extension from scratch, or the new model had restrictions that made what the extension was doing difficult to impossible, so they disappeared.
As it is right now, if you go to a containerized URL using the adddress bar you may end up losing the tab's history completely when it gets switched between containers, without warning. You can't even get the tab back with Ctrl+Shift+T cause it instantly switches to the new container as well. That's much worse design.

At least that's the behavior you get with Google Container and (Mozilla's own!) Facebook Container extensions. Twitter Container gets it right. Having it centralized could remove plenty of potential failure points.

I just accidentally clicked at a YouTube link from a comment on this very page and couldn't get back!
Lol... I love it. Blame the company for a person drunken driving
Could it actually be the hundreds of megabytes of JavaScript each website insists on executing?
As a parent, I put quite a bit of time into trying to find the huge number of excellent, new edutainment games that must exist since the market’s a ton bigger now and so many kids have access to tablets and such.

I was surprised to find that most of the best ones were remakes of the old ones (Oregon Trail) or weirdly empty and small in scope like the very simplest, early edutainment games (number munchers, say) as in the case of Dragon Box Math. The boom of ambitious, fun, and sometimes weird 90s edutainment the legacy of which I was hoping to find wasn’t there. Really weird.
It is less common at start ups, especially startups from certain cultures / geographic regions.

However, it can be fairly common at larger companies, especially in specific segments.
> I don't get why people complain about it: it's great!

That's what's insidious about Wayland. If it gave everyone a bunch of little paper cuts, it wouldn't be nearly as polarizing. Instead, it's great for the common use cases but unusably bad for the uncommon ones, so people who don't have any of the uncommon ones end up thinking that the people who do are exaggerating the problems.
> GraphQL absolutely feels like a technological solution to an organizational problem

Because it is :')
He’s the first president in history to be convicted of a felony. This particular one is related to election tampering, where he paid off a pornstar that he had sex with while married to not tell the story during the 2016 election season.

Seems like a big deal that many of us here should discuss. Hopefully as adults with the understanding that our country must socially mend ourselves eventually.
None of these things are in scope for a program that is supposed to browse the web (by fetching web pages and rendering them).
You can tabulate the info 90% of your info will be from single source. There are online tools that sort costco and walmart bills !!
One place I think it can be useful is in shortening the feedback loop for learning outside the classroom.

As an example (not K-12!) my wife is learning Japanese. She's taking a class and the teacher gives her homework, but she also studies on her own, including doing exercises in the textbooks beyond the ones the teacher assigns.

Sometimes she'll answer a question, look it up in the answer key, and find she got it wrong. Previously, she had to wait until the next class and find time to ask the teacher to help her understand her mistake.

But I showed her how to use the ChatGPT phone app to get an explanation right away. She doesn't even have to type it in: just take a picture of the quiz (which is all in Japanese, not English) and ask, "Why is the answer to question 7 'C' instead of 'D'?" And she gets back a detailed explanation of the differences between the two answers and why "C" is a better choice, complete with fresh example sentences and breakdowns of what they mean.

Hallucinations are a risk: she could get back a bogus explanation. So far, that hasn't happened, though. She isn't a total beginner and knows enough to be able to tell whether the explanation makes sense. Each time, her reaction has been something like, "Oh, right, I forgot about that," not, "What? Never heard of that." She also tried it on a couple of questions she'd run by her teacher previously, and got back roughly the same explanations the teacher had given her.

In theory she could just ask it for the answer rather than for an explanation of why her answer was wrong, and it would happily give her a usually-correct response. In her case, that's not a problem because her only goal is to actually learn the language. Cheating would serve no purpose at all. But for a K-12 student who mostly cares about getting a good grade, obviously that's going to be a big temptation.
Strange, I don't recall people questioning the "relevance" of other popular things this week like (A) national housing prices or (B) exoplanets or even (C) whether music makes food taste better... So why would you challenge this, which is an extremely noteworthy legal case with internationally-(in)famous politicians that may affect the future of many readers?

Sure, there's always a priority on tech news here, but that's not the same as banning all the other articles that don't involving a beeping computer or software for a beeping computer.

I see this as plenty notable and relevant to the regular-audience here, I only worry about controlling the inevitable cascade of near-dupe submissions.
I think it's important to put "AI" into some perspective. Despite it's apparent wonder and power it is little more than a advanced lossy compression algorithm (latent-space with back propagation most times) and a natural language query interface. SQL with a facelift.

Once you see the man behind the curtain it loses most of it's shine.
I am in school currently and have had students sitting next to me use ChatGPT to help with some in class quizzes, we are allowed to use other resources, so it wasn't cheating. For some of the questions, ChatGPT was flat wrong when analyzing code. One specific question was asking where errors were in a block of code by line number, ChatGPT gave the wrong line number and wrong number of lines on top of that. The student actually knew how to answer the question, but didn't want to think. In a different class, a prof said she knew some students were using ChatGPT because the errors some students made were the same errors ChatGPT made and they were kind of dumb mistakes if you knew what was going on.

I don't mean to say your experience isn't possible nor a fluke. What I mean to say is, if you don't know something, ChatGPT shouldn't be your only resource, you won't know when it's wrong.

edit: words, spelling
None of what you said is true, you might want to take a look outside your safe spaces to get a broader perspective.
I stopped reading the fifth time “Uber, Stripe and Carta” was mentioned without anything meaningful said yet
There are so many books on learning a programming language, that I'll ignore that topic.

Someone else mentioned data structures and algorithms. Algorithmic complexity is particularly important. The Algorithm Design Manual is a great book in this space.

As a low level developer, I've also found the following topics way more useful than I expected:

- Finite State Machines (These are the basis for everything from inter-device communication protocols to simple video game AIs.)

- Binary arithmetic and boolean logic (Rarely relevant, but absolutely essential for diagnosing certain types of parsing errors, buffer overflows, etc.)

- The Halting Problem and P = NP (Useful when a manager tries to get you to do something that is actually impossible.)

I learned these from intro to Computer Science classes in university, but honestly Wikipedia is probably a good place to start. I think the (middle grade) book Lorem Ipsum also covers most of these concepts.
I'm not, I'm using my decade of experience and nascent alcoholism.
>It still relieves pressure on the demand side

It doesn't if it's sitting there, with no one really occupying it, and priced out of the free market's reach. You're assuming a competitive free market is always determining the price here. That's another thing people don't understand, the theory that supply/demand fully determines prices again assumes a perfectly competitive market, which is almost never the case in reality, especially in places of low liquidity. (keep reading if you don't know what I mean).

>An individual can never afford an infinite number of houses

But there is still someone who practically can afford an infinite number of houses - those closely tied to the infinite money printer. Banks are deemed "Too big to fail". Take the SIVB failure for example, yes they failed, but the assets did not and got absorbed by other big banks. Just because those assets changed hands, doesn't really change anything in the grand scheme of things. I mean hell... there's a $25 million dollar estate with a private horse track and an observatory tower near where I live, whom locals are very familiar with, which has been vacant for 25 years ever since it was built. No one has ever lived in it. I happened to meet a greenskeeper at a golf course who happens to maintain it a while back. Who is paying his salary for maintenance? The banks. How can they afford to perpetually maintain those costs? Well, when they struggled like in 2008, they got bailouts, and the assets were never sold at whatever the market would bear. So the banks just sit on it, maintenance costs just get tacked onto the price or onto the banks customers over time, and if shit hits the fan, they'll get absorbed by another bank, and they'll just sit on it until hopefully someday someone will pay the price. It's technically for sale, but if the price is set by the bank and outside what demand for it actually is, its price is not really being determined by a competitive free market.

And that seems the case in a lot of places. I mean Miami has some of the highest vacancy rates in the US, but median price is like $660k, which is also amongst the higher end in the nation. China has 65 million vacancies, and literally multiple ghost cities where there is like a few dozen people living in skyscrapers, but prices are still sky high. There's a Toronto man who owns 30,000 houses. The US has just under ~15 million vacant properties, but housing inventory for sale is ~1.2 million.

I mean... I don't disagree that more supply is badly needed in some places, or fixes to zoning, but how does this not look like what the top post mentioned as the core underlying issue: underutilization of housing, and cheap credit creating an asset bubble virtually around the world? It just seems to me we do in fact have supply in many places, it's just no one is really being forced to adhere to the principles of supply/demand, due to cheap credit.
What a clickbait title.

According to the article:

* 25% more harm than good

* 32% equal mix harm and good

* 35% are not sure

* 6% more good than harm

(Yes, those do not add to 100%, but 98% is close enough.)

I came here looking for a fight, but this article does not back up any use of AI in teaching.

I hope that commentators will write about SPECIFIC ideas they have for AI in education (pro or con).

Right now we are in a situation where (many of) the traditional ways we ask students to demonstrate understanding can be done by a computer.

One important worry I have is that most of the best maths students I know are good at arithmetic/mental math even though we have had replacements for that since the 70s (at least). I think that a deep understanding of the foundations allows for a better ability to abstract. If we roll over everything with an AI, are students really going develop the ability to plan (think abstractly)?

I'm not against using AI's to accomplish something, but I think there's an important piece of intellectual development that comes from fluency (without looking everything up). I know one colleague who gets great mileage out of Copilot, great understanding and great productivity. Unfortunately, there's others who are on the "faking it" end of the spectrum - definitely net negatives even when they manage to produce working code.

If you're arguing that LLM's are the future of programming, I won't disagree, but please spend a few sentences imagining how people trained in that world (not the one you trained in) might see things in very very different ways.
Agree 100%.

I’ll add: build whatever interests you

The project you’ll work on will teach you more than the one you abandon.

Some of the most random things I’ve done purely out of curiosity, which were objectively not valuable at the time, have paid dividends decades later.

Like writing AOL chat room bots in the late 90’s and accidentally learning a lot about the Windows API.
I don’t think this stops him from being President again. Because he will appeal and he already rigged some of the higher courts with Trump-friendly judges
34 > 45

The new math.
Steam's Last Stand
It also may be worth simply providing an outlet for people to make a comment so it doesn't intrude on usual business.
The article discusses three unexpected anti-patterns in engineering leadership:

1. Micromanagement Avoidance: Sometimes, engaging in details can prevent leaders from becoming bureaucrats and help in making informed decisions.

2. Flawed Metrics: Measuring something imperfect but useful is better than not measuring at all, helping to build intuition and understanding.

3. Umbrella Leadership: Shielding teams from external pressures can hinder their growth. Involving them in challenges builds resilience and better prepares them for the future.

These lessons are drawn from experiences at Stripe, Uber, and Carta.
Being an outsider I'm particularly interested in this as my friend keeps claiming that these charges are bogus even thought they're a smart guy.

As far as I understand it's a jury trial which means it wasn't up to the judge to make the call.
"Until finally back home, I do some research and figure out what's going on: A scourge of cheap "lightning" headphones and lightning accessories is flooding certain markets, unleashed by unscrupulous Chinese manufacturers who have discovered an unholy recipe: True Apple lightning devices are more expensive to make."

Why are they more expensive to make. Is it for the good of humanity?

Recommended viewing:

https://www.metacritic.com/movie/steve-jobs/

Computers as "art", according to preferences of one person, versus computers as machines for the benefit of everyone.

Closed systems to extract maximum profits for Apple versus open systems that can be modified and expanded to benefit everyone.

"I wish @Apple would devote an employee or two to cracking down on such a technological, psychological abomination as this."

How about lowering the cost of making "lightening" devices. How about offering the option to use a non-proprietary protocol?

"And I wish humanity would use its engineering prowess for good, and not opportunistic deception."

No doubt that's what people is rural Chile want, too. They do not mind paying higher prices. As long as the products are "Apple-certified". /s

This person tweeting seems to be having a hallucination where Apple is neither opportunistic nor deceptive. Nevermind its deliberate attempts to make its computers incompatible (preventing interoperability) and needlessly expensive.