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Times can be difficult but we can have peace, practical guidance, and help. Noah warned people, and prophets warn and guide today (the same God, had prophets then, has them now).

More at my web site (in profile, no sales and low stylistic ambition), if you click on "Things I want to say" (about 1/2-way down), then "On peace amid commotion" (also about 1/2-way down), then skim that page and click at least the last link. Then read the entire page and click the links that seem most interesting.
> Conquerers in the past used this strategy to win massive empires for themselves

Can you list which conquerers? I'm curious as to what you're referring to here
So paying incompetent administrators and teacher even more than what they make in California will somehow improve things magically?
The solution is to always tax more, that's it?
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How do you know it is decades away? A few years ago did you think LLMs would be where they are today?

Is it possible you’re wrong?
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Even base kids aren't all stupid. No matter what you call the program, the kids will know that's where the smart kids went.
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People are judging AI by what abusers of AI put out there for lols and what they themselves can wring out of it. They haven't yet seen what a bunch of AAA professionals with nothing to lose can build and align.
Azure Storage has also had this for years - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/s...
I love watching the feds scramble to stop committing crimes whenever someone with a camera happens to walk by. Really makes me believe they're behaving when we're not looking.
> breakfast cereals, bread and yogurt, were instead linked to lower risks for cardiovascular disease

Breakfast cereals? That sugary stuff? Someone else said 40-60% of nutritional studies are not replicable. Sounds more like the whole field is BS.

Scream naturalistic fallacy all you like but I would absolutely avoid all chemical additives and go natural all the way. If humans haven't been eating it for thousands of years, I would absolutely avoid it.
The uniquely invasive aspect is forcing people to spend half their money to buy bonds. That doesn't happen very often.

It reminds me of "trillion dollar coin".

In both cases, the average person loses their buying power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillion-dollar_coin
It's called Civil Asset Forfeiture (gov euphemism for said literal theft).

I believe John Oliver did a piece on it when he first joined HBO.
QNAP firmware update leaves NAS owners locked out of their boxes
No, I think raising the question is just fine: if you tell a story about someone carrying more money than most Americans ever have in their bank accounts in their entire lives, in cash, on their person, you're describing something extraordinarily unusual.

Again: I'm not saying he's a heroin dealer, and I said that specific to avoid this pointless preening about how it's everyone's right to carry large amounts of cash on them. Sure, I'm fine with that; in fact: I think you will find it difficult to find anyone to take the other side of that argument on HN (and HN is a big, complicated place, giving you some idea of just how banal that argument is.) So let's assume that's not what I'm talking about.

If it helps, though this isn't really my intent, assume my subtextual allegation is that this story is copypasta.
Big difference in Canada is that judges can be fully aware of an illegal unconstitutional search but convict you anyway from evidence collected from it if they feel like it.

And fewer jury trials (positive or negative depending on your point of view), and the prosecutor is free to appeal a not guilty ruling.
So I’m completely new to the Go but I have very specific need and I couldn’t fit it anywhere else:

I want to orchestrate asynchronous, highly fallible tasks. I could use Rust but I feel I would drown in correctness of handling various edge cases over which I’d rather panic and wind down everything I can.

Elixir/Erlang would also be an option, but getting it installed in specific version isn’t simple (and ASDF was guilty for long time of installing Elixir built on different OTP than defined one) and also problem lies in interacting with IOs, which also bring consequences.

And so, yeah, Go is simple enough so that I feel confident that if aj get hit by a bus there won’t be enough magic so that it won’t be picked up by someone and it… works.

After being in pull rope competitions with bash, sh, Perl and Python I have fun working with it.
While I enjoyed the article, it’s just another in a line of the same article with different flavors and authors that all have the same fundamental error.

The prevailing counterargument against AI consistently hinges on the present state of AI rather than the trajectory of its development: but what matters is not the capabilities of AI as they exist today, but the astonishing velocity at which those capabilities are evolving.
Thanks for the reply! I've used a bunch of grey market 3rd party tools for LinkedIn automation. Most of them have some sort of API. I'll try integrating with HumanLayer.
The fact you have a professional resume to point to likely means you are moving society forward. HN seems to have a weirdly high bar for this, and perhaps a very low understanding of just how bad "general" classes at inner city schools are.
As soon as we undo 3 centuries of systemic oppression and get the races roughly on par with each other, we'll have an easier time managing G&T programs.
Ha that’s not what IANAL means but perhaps should be
Specifically, Prop. 13's impact on commercial real estate, which was the real reason for it all along.
I consider Rust's Result<T, E> and Option<T> to be monads. Is this incorrect?
Looks like the Emerald City Cafe opened in May of 1995.[1] It is possible it was open at another location though, before moving to the Trowbridge address, since the business was incorporated back in May of 1992.[2] But I could only find the cafe connected to 1050 Trowbridge, so I'm not sure. Would probably have to go through more local newspapers to confirm.

Edit: But it doesn't look like Emerald City provided internet access when it first opened. An article from September of 1995 talks about how it's something the owner was working on.[3] Maybe your memory of going there in 1994 is off by a year?

[1] "In the Works," Lansing State Journal, April 8, 1995, 5B, https://imgur.com/a/emerald-city-cafe-JEE1zVx

[2] https://cofs.lara.state.mi.us/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSummary...

[3] "A Web with Your Coffee?" Lansing State Journal, September 1, 1995, 5B, https://imgur.com/a/web-with-coffee-VaQvQuA
I was going to say that I use Windows 11 and it hasn't been too bad about pushing Edge, but I'm mentally going through it and it does push Edge pretty hard, I just have workarounds for it that are now integrated into what I do.
Thanks, I was trying to find a way to word the caveat that you put here really well. I am glad writings like this can be found. Further glad that people study it.

But the point of slave narrative being a genre that was "homegrown" in the states is so awkwardly touched here. Calling in to question the influence of white editors and how that likely silenced some narratives completely ignores why there aren't similar narratives from many other places.

Worse, it continues with the common narrative that slavery was solely a United States thing. Specifically pushing that the published narratives were specifically edited to shape a more positive view of the nation. Ignoring any other reason edits may have happened.
We just did holiday donations at work. If I saw this last week, I probably would have earmarked some for them.
Summary: we still don’t know why, but definitely don’t eat UPFs.
> you must expect most people to accomplish very little.

Well, yeah—we would expect most Muslims to accomplish little in the space of Islamic jurisprudence as its a whole discipline unto itself.
Workers demand more transparency after Intel secures $8B CHIPS funding
If people don’t know what the LLM behind the chat service is, then it seems likely (or plausible at least) that one could easily replace the chat bot used by these services with one backed by a different LLM, right?
I figured people listened to them while commuting. It seemed the best fit: lots of time, mostly little attention needed (except when you alight or are driving in adverse conditions).
Ok, so when does a butcher shop become a factory?

When does a fruit farm become a factory?

Is candied bacon an ultra-processed food?

And even then, things made in a bakery can be made at home so I don't get how your above standard still makes any sense. Is homemade bread with flour milled at home ultra-processed as well? Candied bacon can be made outside of a factory as well. If so, it's not really a "was it made in a factory" argument now was it?
I don't care about G&T program per se, either. Nor did my country have it when I grew up. I do care about education. I guess my fundamental assumption is that when everyone maximizes their full potential, the outcome will naturally be different. So, pushing students to realize their potential will be against equity, but will be the best way to minimize the equity gap.

Now the nuances for us in the US specifically: the US system is really good for the most and the least talented. The most talented get access to all kinds of free yet prestigious programs and camps, excellent books in local libraries, and professors in colleges. The least talented are carefully looked after, and they don't necessarily have much pressure to get into a college, and rightly so. It is, unfortunately, the vast middle who get hurt because they squander their time in school. They think they have learned, but they barely scratch the surface. NYT used to report that a straight-A student dreamed to become a scientist, yet couldn't even pass placement test of her college. Malcom mentioned in his book David and Goliath that a straight-A student failed her organic chemistry class in Brown University. Similarly in my personal experience, if it weren't for my teacher, I wouldn't know how deep I could go. If a student like me, who managed to stay top of the classes in elite universities, still needed intense nurturing from my teachers, I'd imagine many more do as well.
> Really though, LLM makers have only one true supplier: NVIDIA

The argument relies on the axiom that NVIDIA will have a persistent hardware advantage. Maybe they will, but even if they were always 2 years ahead of the competition, if NVIDIA-trained LLMs would 'good enough' in 2025, then non-NVIDIA-trained LLMs would be 'good enough' in 2027.
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That works when there is 1 engineer and one marketer. When there are hundreds of engineers and many marketers you risk the marketer unknowingly asks an engineer who isn't the right one and that person over promises not realized the full scope of the problem and how it will affect others who are also making their own promises.
I'm only asking you to show me how you'd write tests to detect XSS (or concurrency) problems. In Go or the language of your choice. You've claimed that writing tests as all you need. I'm asking you to show how it's done. Just in general. No need to share actual code you've written in the past.
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This makes me wonder the modern day slave narratives that will not be understood as such for another 100+ yrs. There are more enslaved people now than ever.
I suppose the next step beyond vegetarianism and veganism will be mineralism: Food using molecules certified never to have been part of any known living organism.

I remember there was a fictional advertisement for such a product in a sci-fi story, but not exactly where.
I dont think LLM + TTS generated podcasts even make sense. The whole reason for long form content and podcasts is that people dislike fake and impersonal content.

I think there are a few niche users who just want to listen to the news as an audio book but the whole idea of an LLM generated podcast totally misunderstands why people want a podcast over the normal corporate drivel media.
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If you press tab, then Ctrl+A then backspace, you can delete the help icon.

Very cute website, I really like how every glyph looks, some more abstract than others.
> and a trickle of binary conditions is a very common occurrence as is code expanding to handle these (and become excessively complicated).

But you still have to handle this in your code. Wherever you have your conditions that handle this, your nest of if statements still need to cover all of these invalid combinations and ensure your app doesn't silently do the wrong thing or just crash (better).

Changing requirements requires changing code. I don't think it's a valid argument to say "we shouldn't take that approach because as requirements change we'll have to change the code". That's essentially software development.

Practically if you don't want to use enums and want another option, use a "builder" object. Pass in all of your booleans there and have it do you validation when you call its build method. It returns a read only configuration that the rest of your system can use, and the build method fails if an invalid combination of flags are passed in.

Again you force only valid combinations to exist after you call "build". And all code relies on the config produced by the build method.
I think we will get a surprising amount of AI generated content in the future. During the first year of the Urkain invasion there was an enormous amount of AI voiced and scripted video content on YouTube. I think AI content will take over in the easy parts first. And over time take up more and more views.
That book is full of ironies. It is the energy drink equivalent of motivation.
In cash? Did you tell him "this is a bad idea, you should wire the money instead"? What if he had been mugged? What if he lost the suitcase? I arranged the transportation of $25,000 in cash (I sold a car, it was a gag, I was very young, and it was an extraordinarily bad idea that cost me thousands of dollars), and just as a physical object that's pretty big. Also: where did he get the cash from? I had trouble getting it.
Show HN: Building a waitlist creator with built-in marketing/launch platform
The idea behind Storyteller is to focus on all the first marketing steps for any idea you want to launch. It comes with built in a/b testing, email capture, feedback, analytics with heat/click maps, personas, cohorts, and most imporant, marketing plans that tie directly into your traffic and events.

The idea is you focus on the story and messaging with a narrative editor, where you pitch and elaborate your idea.

Then capture email, run A/B tests on your content, and build an audience with actionable cohorts you define.
the dystopian startups that use bounding boxes to observe workers in a warehouse and give the boss a report on how many breaks they took...they're here
I agree. The author makes the argument that airlines have a terrible business partly because consumers don't have any brand loyalty and Coca-Cola has a wonderful business partly because consumers have brand loyalty. What distinguishes those cases? Why should we consider LLMs to be more like one business or the other?
I just learned from Duolingo that the French word for "term of office" is "mandat".

I started a whole unit on words about elections about two weeks ago. It was a pretty damn upsetting two weeks. I really wish Duo gave me the ability to skip a section and come back to it later.
>State machines are a clear, concise, elegant pattern to encapsulate logic. They're dead simple to read and reason about. And, get this, writing one FORCES YOU to fully understand every possible state and edge case of the problem you're solving.

It doesn't force you to do that at all.

You can start piling in hacks to handle edge cases inside of certain states, for instance, instead of splitting them into their own states. Or the next dev does.

Now it's an implicit ball of mud that pretends to be something else and has a execution pattern that's different from the rest of your company's business logic but not actually strictly "correct" still or easier to reason about for the edge cases.

And that's what most people do. They don't use it as a tool to force them to make things unambiguous. They bail when it gets hard and leave crappy implementations behind.

Copy-pasting from another reply to a different comment: As a simple example of something that's often left out in a way that fucks up a lot of devs' attempts at state machines, and is super annoying to draw in a typical state diagram: the passing of time.
i am gonna talk with the guy who made trykondo.com this week, I think he has a lot of experience in that area too
By team I mean "the people you interact with [the most]". Those who impact your routine and are impacted by you most directly.

As I mentioned before, there is no one size fits all recipe. And there are no multiple recipes of different sizes.

There are infinite variables a group of people can express. There is no point in making recipes, agile is about ideals.
Come on, all of our butts are on the line. You're not special just because you have aspirations of voice acting. So many jobs are going it's not even funny, if I were you I'd start accepting the inevitable instead of denying it.

The second ChatGPT learns to reason effectively this entire website and its users become useless. We're lucky that AI is kinda bad right now, and we can either hope that it's just a plateau, or prepare for the day when we need to find another job.

But asking nicely will get no one anywhere.
Amtrack mostly runs on freight lines. BNSF actually controls a Metra line in Chicago out of their headquarters.
> The IG found that the search was based on a tip by an airline employee who passed on the names of passengers who had purchased flights 48 hours before departure. That employee was being paid by the DEA a percentage of the cash seized, the IG found, and had received tens of thousands of dollars over several years. That arrangement is problematic, investigators concluded.

You don't say?

> USA Today reported in 2016 that, over a decade, the DEA seized more than $209 million in cash from at least 5,200 people at 15 busy airports

Assuming the top 15 airports account for 50MM annual travel, that means, on average, 1 in 100K traveler-trips have cash seized: 3 seizures per airport per month, with a per-seizure haul of $4K
> I'm having trouble understanding how else this is supposed to be? I understand that live migration is a thing, but even in those cases, a VM is "hardwired" to some physical server, no?

They mean the storage part. If your VM's storage(state) is on one server and that server dies, you have to restore from backup. If your VM's storage is on remote shared storage mounted to that server and the server dies, your VM can be restarted elsewhere that has access to that shared storage.

In AWS land it's the difference between instance store (local to a server) and EBS (remote, attached locally).

There's a tradeoff in that shared storage will be slightly slower due to having to traverse networking, and it's harder to manage properly; but the reliability gain is massive.
What we need first is transparency. Complete information about every ingredient, its supplier, where it was grown, what process it went through, etc. then we can perform research without confusing and conflicting results. Unfortunately I’ve seen people fight state or local level labeling laws by falling for corporate propaganda, particularly from companies in the GMO industry.
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Keep in mind that whatever you are doing day-to-day has value, even if it gets thrown away. Sometimes you need to build a feature so that people can see it, react to it, and realize it is not what is actually needed. That was not wasted work, it was research. If you are doing what the business is asking of you, your job is getting done, even if you are whip-lashing around and nothing you do actually sticks.

It can be frustrating, but it helps to think of yourself as more than someone who slings code... think of it as being someone who is helping to explore possibilities.
Quick tutorial I wrote on recreating the Supabase API experience using any hosted postgres. In this case I used neon for ease of setup, but the implementation can be adapted using the node `pg` module.
> From our Sufi perspective, the Hadiths are a lot of game of telephone.

Devaluing ahadith is a minority position in Sufism. The transmission of authentic hadith is not dissimilar to the transmission of the Quran.
I've heard amazing catchy songs from Suno and Udio. So much so they're still stuck in my head as earworms several months later. If they'd been streaming on youtube or spotify I wouldn't have given it a thought that they might be AI generated.

So, I can certainly imagine a podcast doing the same to some degree. Maybe not a podcast where AI wrote the script, but, a podcast where AI read a story dramatically doesn't seem too far off or, easier, a podcast that read news to me.
Generally I agree with you.

The part where I disagree is the 'why' and the 'who'. There are a number of very strong forces (aka lobbying groups, aka decisions like 'no child left behind') doing their best to destroy the public school system. By making this conversation about gifted vs not gifted, we are again distracted and pitted against ourselves.

Public schools should be well funded and funded in an egalitarian manner that doesn't replicate residential aggregation of race or money. It should be funded for kids who need remedial help, help appropriate for their age, and help because they're advanced. It should be funded so that people who move from one group to the next, and you can and do move from one group to another, are supported

IMO the goal of the lobbying and shit policy is to make private school the default option for those who can afford it and those who can barely afford it. Public school will be left to the masses, and will be defunded leaving a populous more easily controlled, with less social mobility.
Tons of features.

- Multiple profiles

- Logging of terminal output to files

- Regexp search

- Search marks matches in the scrollbar

- Quick jump between prompts — it knows where prompts are in the output, so you can quickly scroll to each position

- Window splitting

- Filtering — like find, but filters the window to only show matches

- Triggers: Do an action such as bouncing the app icon or playing a sound when a text string occurs)

- Status bar: Show the Git branch, current directory, etc. — better than custom prompts

- Preserves windows/tabs on restart/reboot, even current directory and window contents

- Cmd-Click to open files and URLs

I bet Terminal.app has gained some of these features over the years , but it certainly doesn't have have all of them.
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We've been through this song and dance before. AI researchers make legitimately impressive breakthroughs in specific tasks, people extrapolate linear growth, the air comes out of the balloon after a couple years when it turns out we couldn't just throw progressively larger models at the problem to emulate human cognition.

I'm surprised that tech workers who should be the most skeptical about this kind of stuff end up being the most breathlessly hyperbolic. Everyone is so eager to get rich off the trend they discard any skepticism.
OAI has certainly positioned themselves culturally the same way as Google did for search engines. Google this, Tweet that, ask ChatGPT.

We know now how much actual competition[0] Google had after the dust had settled, in all practical terms - zero. Even after all the SEO spam and enshittification they haven't lost any notable market lead.

Time will tell if ChatGPT ends up that way but unless OAI implodes (which isn't all that unlikely) they're on the way there.

[0] https://gs.statcounter.com/search-engine-market-share