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Interesting critical review at:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/90590134-the-coming-wave

>...

>Given that The coming wave assumes that technology comes in waves and these waves are driven by the insiders, the solution it proposes is containment—governments should determine (via regulation) who gets to develop the technology, and what uses they should put the technology to. The assumption seems to be that governments can control access to natural choke points in the technology. One figure the book offers is how around 80% of the sand used in semiconductors comes from a single mine—control the mine and you control much of that aspect of the industry. This is not true though. Nuclear containment, for example, relies more on peer pressure between nation states, than regulation per se. It’s quite possible to build a reactor or bomb in your backyard. The more you scale up these efforts, the more it’s likely that the international community will notice and press you to stop. Squeezing on one of these choke points it more likely to move the activity somewhere else, then enable you to control it.

>...

>At its heart this is a book by and insider arguing that someone is going to develop this world-changing technology, and it should be them.
I've heard it's the same in Germany.
How is mass immigration going to help Canada stem inflation? It seems to be making that (and many other things, like crime) worse.
Powerful, and wealthy in particular, people are more interested in the latter than the former. When vast wealth is built off of maintaining the status-quo there is very little incentive for implementing changes that threaten the status-quo "organically."

I get hope when I read this essay from Harpers [0]. But I actually think it will be more like Paolo Bacigalupi's "The Water Knife" [1].

[0]: https://harpers.org/archive/2021/06/prayer-for-a-just-war-fi...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Water_Knife
The founder was one of the cofounders of Drip, and now he runs SavvyCal. Apparently StaticKit wasn't profitable enough to run as a viable business.
Completely agree. It should be on YouTube to do that and not a 3rd party.
The idea is that you would now engage with your dude and your fellow citizens in that conservative riding and be a moderating influence.

You are all in the same boat in a sense that’s more local and less abstract than with proportional rep.
Elections have a deadline after which a new election can be called, but there's no number of terms served that then stops a re-elected leader from taking office if they win another election. It's not the case that people can just stay in office without holding elections forever.
Automate that bitcoin!

```

setInterval(() => {
let max = 100;
while(max-->0) {
let price = +document.querySelector(".last-price").textContent.trim().slice(1).replace(",","").split("\n")[0];
if (price > 20000) {
document.querySelector(".stock-sell").click();
} else if (price < 10000) {
document.querySelector(".stock-buy").click();
} else {
break;
}
}
})

```
> What is stopping you from whitelisting websites she can visit?

You're right. I have an anecdote though. My kid is a good student, does his homework, and does well on tests. He has a time-limited device he can use at home with a few whitelisted websites. But one of the services we allow him to use is Perplexity. He's a naturally inquisitive person and this is how he learns, so an AI is a perfect fit for when his parents don't have the answer to his question, or if he wants to ask detailed follow-ups. He's young enough that he doesn't have much homework (and we wouldn't let him use his device for it anyway), so cheating isn't as much of a concern yet. We do discuss it though, and will keep that conversation going as he ages.

This won't be solved by abstaining from AI entirely because a) kids will not always be under our control, so they need to learn how to self-regulate, and b) knowing how to properly (and ethically) harness AI is going to be more and more important to their future success.
> relying on them to the exclusion of long form essays deprives students of the chance to really sit with their ideas

I think the crux of the issue is that professors want students to do the deep thinking you're talking about, but they know that if they base the course around writing papers, a bunch of the students aren't actually likely to do it.

But if you tell students that when they do the reading they should be asking themselves "What would the author of reading A think of reading B?" "Which of C or D do you find more convincing and why?" "How would you frame T in terms of S?", "What evidence does W cherry-pick an what do they ignore, and why?", and they know for some material the class discussion will look like that, and they'll be asked questions which both demand recall and synthesis in the blue book essays ... can they be nudged to do some of the thinking you're talking about before they see the specific question? Perhaps even using writing at the computer as a tool (but not necessarily as an output)?
"you want me to leave the main app feed broken"

This reminds me of when we introduced Yammer at a company. Initially, it worked great, everybody loved it, it was super valuable to share information internally. Then, at some point, the feed broke and it somehow started demoting the most valuable posts, requiring much more time to be sure that you had caught up on everything relevant to you.

Then I read an interview with the CEO where he bragged how they were data-driven and were optimizing for engagement. My guess is that somebody had figured out that hiding important information created more "engagement" because people now had to spend more time searching for the stuff that was relevant to them.

This person probably got a promotion, and we switched to a different system half a year later.
I managed to cheat this by buying a bunch of DVDs and making my window as small as possible, meaning they hit the edges much more often and gained me infinity stimulation.
Unfortunately the first thing I see is a giant ad scroll down over the header blocking the entire viewport on my phone, so immediately hit the back button. Are all personal blogs automatically monetized now?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Water_Tunnel_N...

Likely not as greenfield development but they’re still building.
> Trudeau's greatest mistake was not implementing the electoral change he campaigned on

Agreed. In an over-simplification,

- first past the post is the best for the Conservatives. (It was best for the Liberals before the Reform & Conservatives merged).

- single transferable is the best for the Liberals

- mixed-member proportional is the best for the NDP

Trudeau thought the electoral commission would give him the STV he wanted, but it was going to deliver MMP that would pretty much guarantee that he would have to coalition with the NDP. So he nixed it. He ended up with an NDP coalition anyways, so he didn't gain anything through the nixing. Instead FPTP is going to result in a Conservative landslide in 2025.
This game is truly a work of art. I literally got a migraine playing this game though and couldn't finish it unfortunately. This is the second piece of media to do this to me behind Koyaanisqatsi... now that I think of it, this seems like a modern interpretation of the film Koyaanisqatsi.
I had to sign a waiver absolving the government and vaccine makers of liability to get the vaccine that was required to keep my job. The vaccine I chose ended up getting pulled from the market due to the risk of blood clots. We now have the benefit of hindsight, but the authoritarian bent many governments gained during Covid should not be forgotten.
I think you have to ask yourself the following two questions:

1. Is the code that the AI generated something that I would have come up with minimal intellectual effort? (i.e. the majority of the time spent on it would have been looking up syntax, physically typing it, etc. and not higher level thought)

2. Do I understand what the code is doing, how to debug it when it throws an error, and can explain what it is for?

If you answer yes to both questions, AI isn't causing you to lose anything important.

That sort of code is like long division in math: it's disconnected from your actual understanding of the core concept.

If your answer is no to either question, AI might be dulling your coding skills. It's not a guarantee (perhaps you just forgot something that a simple Google search would have helped you remember), but it's a first check against AI eroding your skills.
Thank you! I was so proud of this comment that I read it aloud to my fiance and my dad :)
While I agree that the comedian plays with the expectations of the audience and therefore has to have a rough idea of those expectations (or just conventions?), calling it an "accurate theory of mind" is a bit of a stretch.
one of the more important ones in my opinion would be a prompt to make ChatGPT much less agreeable.
Unless explicitly asked for, it never really challenges your observations and will just keep being supportive and telling you how well of an argument you're making.

I fear this will push even more people into deep rabbit holes they won't be able to get out of because they think this neutral AI has confirmed their suspicions/ideas/observations.
> I’ve always been an optimist, and reading The Coming Wave hasn’t changed that.

I'm not an optimist, but I fail to see the dangers of AI. I think it's more likely we will be wiped out by nuclear war, or climate change, or the collapse of biodiversity and ecosystems that result in worldwide famines, before AI is advanced enough to constitute any kind of threat to our existence.
> In that case it would be great if the HTMX documentation included worked examples and guidance for how to do this.

You can refer to the WAI-ARIA standards.

> Leaving accessibility up the end developer feels like a genuine missed opportunity.

This doesn't compute for me. What would HTMX even provide? It's a set of attributes that extend the behavior of form submission to other elements and all request methods.

> HTMX or jQuery or React/Vue

These aren't the same kinds of tools. They address fundamentally different things. Handling ARIA automatically for you isn't in scope for any of them.
> No path out of this valley involves traveling alone.

Just wanted to let you know, for unknown reasons this statement really resonated with me, thank you.
https://docs.bsky.app/docs/starter-templates/custom-feeds

There are of course a ton of custom feeds already out there.
Americans Need to Party More
Don't forget Kittensgame! - https://kittensgame.com/web/#
> AMD 'Strix Halo' Ryzen AI Max+ 395 PRO

Gosh that name is a mouthful
No that's the thing, you can't get the treatment if it doesn't exist.

For the years that i was living in Ontario there were only 3 MRI machines across the entire province. The waiting period for that diagnostic MRI ranged from anywhere between 10 and 24 months. If doctors were even convinced you were worth getting it.

You could die from something before you could even end up getting properly diagnosed with it.

You might not have competent enough doctors in some countries for specialist treatment if you need it. A popular Canadian Youtuber who lives in Japan (which generally has great medical care) decided to relocate to the United States during the time they were undergoing their particular cancer treatment a couple of years ago. Japanese yakuza bosses pretty famously obtained their illegal organ transplants at UCLA Medical instead of in Japan...

The US's system is certainly flawed but it guarantees that you can obtain the best care possible if you can afford it. That's much better than not being able to get the care even if you can afford it.
How much does it require to finish? I mean how many stimulation points?

I gave up when I bought auto hydraulic press.
If they can deliver the drives and support for pytorch out of the box then I know what my next laptop will have in it.
I don't disagree, but this is not relevant for the vanilla JS vs. jQuery discussion, since vanilla JS has exactly the same problems you mention as jQuery.
Every store in my town now locks up anything small that costs more than $20 in cages. Talking to some people working there it was pretty common for people to walk in, take a bunch of shit, and walk out. Drivers are completely out of control. I've witnessed at least 3 people run red lights in the last 2 years, while I can remember only one such incident in the 10 years before that. Signalling is no longer something drivers do - like at all. For the last 2 years teenagers have terrorized the local park on Canada Day shooting fireworks at random passers by. With someone setting off fireworks under an occupied baby carriage last year. Car thefts in Toronto got so bad that people were building retractable bollards in their driveways[1].

I could go on, but there's a clear apparent trajectory to these experiences.

[1] https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/a-thief-will-think-twice-some-tor...
I think my favorite trick here was categorizing people less than four weeks out from their second dose, or anyone who didn't get a second dose (likely as a result of a nasty reaction to the first shot, itself a good indicator of high susceptibility to COVID spike pathology), or anyone whose vaccine status was "unknown," as "unvaccinated."
I was doing okay until the wormhole, and then I actually started to feel ill.
I think parts of our industry has gotten worse, but I also think there are a lot of opportunities to do some really great (and fun) work. I work in the green energy industry and I like working with software for solar plant equipment. I hope I can eventually pick up a little more on the electrical engineering side of things and get into farming robots.

Don't get me wrong, I also do work in the financial aspects of it and that'... Well, useless is too strong a word, but in the grand scheme of things it's frankly useless. There is so much ridiculous leglislation that can be digitized, some of it is stupid. Like how you can get various tax benefits if you split what you and I think of as a single solar farm into 100 smaller companies. How to game the various financial tariffs, how to figure out the optimal direction for solar cells based on market data. That sort of stuff. Then there is the reasonable parts, like how Italy has an agency which requires all money transactions to go through them as an anti-mafia thing (sorry I can't be more clear on that part I didn't make it). Over all though, it's fun to work with stuff that has a real world use.
This makes it sound like this is an overt decision by YouTube to stop monetizing a 3B1B video rather than an abuse of automated systems. The difference is important.

Whether creators should depend on YouTube as a practical matter is different from whether they should be able to. As a practical matter, yes, diversifying is safer. But creators and YouTube probably agree that diversifying shouldn’t be necessary.

Of course creators do not know how much money any particular video will make, but the implied social contract has always been that good videos will do well, for some definition of “good”. And no part of that definition of good has anything to do with bots abusing copyright systems.
There is a backlash against COVID actions that is happening now, is because people are terrible at math and worse at assessing risk. The idea that COVID was not a valid emergency is pure historical revisionism with no base in fact or data.
No it doesn't; C functions don't set up appropriate registrations with the C++ exception / stack unwinding systems, thus C functions are simply skipped over on the way up towards the nearest exception handler.

__attribute__((cleanup(…))) is purely a scope-local mechanism, it has absolutely nothing to do with exceptions.
People may be able to fake it, but the opportunity to do so may go away.

An idiot may be able to fake being a medical doctor with the right AI, but only until someone realizes they can fire the useless human.
> You mean like what the pro-Palestinian folks

How many of these were "de-banked"?

Yes, and I live in the same city as well, and I'll agree with you that both Conservatives and Liberals have made things worse for us at different levels of the government.
Not going to go and try to unearth it right now but everything he is saying about the figures coming out of England & Scotland is absolutely true, I saw it laid out on Twitter with links to the primary sources in real time.
It is a problem if police don’t do their job well, but we shouldn’t paper over that problem by locking people up without evidence.
Horrendous. 3 months in. O interviews.

Full stack web development, native mobile apps. Tech lead/architect.
Thanks!! Makes us so happy to see awesome projects like yours building on our stuff
Sufficiently accurate then.
I guess in most cases you will be affected by bugs that you did not notice let alone report.
...now back to my hourly check of HN frontpage. Gotta be diligent and keep up with the industry news.
I'm not sure if it's just me or a common feeling, but XPS laptops from the last few years (at least 2020 onward) felt really poor quality for "professional" computers. Especially regarding their main competitors (mbp & thinkpads). All the XPS we had at work had issues and particularly bad battery life even before the one year mark.. For those who didn't have their battery swollen.

I wouldn't have thought that such a recognizable brand as the XPS line would fade for "AI PC" BS but heh
Chickpeas, in particular, are both very cheap and very nutritious. If you are trying to save money, you can get 1 lb of dry chickpeas for ~$2.50 in the US which translates into ~4 cans of chickpeas (1/2 a cup == 1 can).

Dried beans are a bit of a pain, but if you are looking to cut funds then you really can't do much better than dried beans.

Also, unsaturated fat is an important part of the diet. You need fat in the diet to absorb many nutrients. Skimping out on it can really negatively impact you. Olive oil and Avocado oil are my go tos. But you really wouldn't go wrong with peanut oil or canola.
Great essay, but it doesn't really support your point. Umberto is saying that the inconsistency doesn't matter.

Also all human systems are inconsistent and none are perfectly rational. Your point is illogical.

From essay:

But in spite of this fuzziness, I think it is possible to outline a list of features that are typical [of Fascism]

These features cannot be organized into a system; many of them contradict each other
The “play the podcast my wife sent me the other day” example is interesting to me. That shouldn’t be difficult to do without AI. Yeah asking a thing is always gonna be quicker (provided it works), but a well designed app should make that possible within like ten seconds.

I can’t help but wonder if the reason “agentic” systems seem so appealing to people is because as an industry we’ve spent the past fifteen years making software harder to use.
Yeah, I think what they are getting at here is a bit holistic. The question(unrelated to actual code quality) happened to prompt the author to play around with the new build, which happened to result in a bug discovery. I can see how it's a good question to ask (gauges confidence in code and end product) but this is really just another feel good anecdote from middle management.
Windows WAS much lighter circa 8/8.1 (Literally designed to be run on tablets!) But that lightness didn't bring much advantage when you still have to support applications.

At the end of the day, ChromeOS's primary advantage was cost - and it's hard for Microsoft to do anything when the alternative is something being given away for free.

I think even if Microsoft had a compelling, light version that couldn't run apps and didn't have drivers for games, Google would still find a way to horn an OS into the market.
>>The people who are never helped, are the people who can't discern what amounts to lies from truth (without intention).

There's so much wrong with this sentence. Like, it apparently never occurred to you some problems can't be treated by medical treatments. Instead, it's the "patient's" fault for picking the wrong book?
I just read in the article and I replied to a comment that has:

I noticed that this often broke the spell and gave people an opening to back out or “wait and ask the wife about it.” As soon as I heard a yes, I said, “Great choice!” and transferred them to confirmation. My manager occasionally came by and reminded me that it was technically illegal to skip my disclosures, but he made commission off my commission, and his tone made it clear that I could do as I pleased as long as I kept putting up numbers.
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> On Mac, the Music app (not to be confused with the streaming service) is fantastic

I’d love to live in your alternate reality, not in mine where Music.app is slow, doesn’t do filtering to find specific content very well, doesn’t let you view album covers in a reasonable size, and shortcuts and buttons are inconsistent with the rest of the OS.

Also, syncing (about 350GB of) content to my iPhone has been hit and miss for at least 9 years now, where consistently the same tracks just disappear from the phone and maybe - just maybe - eventually get synced again, taking a few hours in the process. This has been going on across at least three Macs and about six iPhones.

I understand that streaming via Apple Music is the thing now, and us users from the “Rip, Mix, Burn” era are considered legacy now. I’d love to switch to something better, but haven’t found anything yet.
I agree about react and nextjs.

But the node ecosystem includes essentially everything that touches on javascript, both the bad and the good.

I don't think there are very many ecosystems that are guaranteed to have only good stuff. Regardless of ecosystem, the developer has to examine what is available and make wise choices.
I don't think anyone suggested they should not accept credit cards. You asked why I like to use cash, and I answered that one reason is it gives more money to the vendor than if I used a card.
How is this failing the most fundamental check: upload date?
Referring to the ARIA standards doesn't help me answer the more important question: will what I'm doing work in screen readers or not?

I feel completely starved of information here. I care about accessibility. I want to build a web page where clicking on a tab refreshes a subset of that page... and I still can't find a really good guide on how to do that in a way that works in screen readers, that's accompanied by a video (ideally multiple videos, one for each common screen reader) showing the experience I can expect my users to have from that pattern.

HTMX actively encourages that pattern, so I'd love to see the project also embrace helping developers do The Right Thing with regards to the accessibility of that pattern.
Why did you even click through? The title made it very clear this discussion was political. 29/30 of the stories on the HN front page are technical, click on those instead.
Agreed – they've even said as much. But some of the marketing is conflicting there, and I've had friends IRL confused that their new phones don't contain all the Apple Intelligence features they've heard of.
That website is (inadverently) one of the most effective marketing campaigns for jQuery. Some of the vanilla JS examples are atrocious.

What it doesn't show is that vanilla JS is not chainable (jQuery is).
Behind such simplicity at first lies incredible work.
"For anyone who wants to avoid Twitter's toxicity, here is how you get some Twitter content" :)
I would argue internet piracy is a more sure bet than your DVD collection.
Apologies if I've missed your point, but if what you're hinting at is that we should take his ideas about the social impact of AI less seriously because he's not deep into writing Rust code all day, that's just laughable.