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Everywhere I've worked has been Google Docs. Usually there is a process on the side that if you really, truly, need MS office specifically they can get you a copy, mostly for people in certain parts of finance who do specifically insist on Excel, but Google Docs has been the standard for like a decade now.
This made me realize how much I miss screensavers. I used to sit and just stare at them meditatively as a teen.
Par for the course in the prissiest, most Karen city culture in the entire country. Seriously, living in King County is like living in a giant HOA neighborhood.
> I'm not sure why the non-unicode APIs are still so commonly used. I can't imagine it's out of a desire to support Windows 98 or Window 2000.

Nowadays, it's either for historical reasons (code written back when supporting Windows 9x was important, or even code migrated from Windows 3.x), or out of a desire to support non-Windows systems. Most operating systems use a byte-based multi-byte encoding (nowadays usually UTF-8) as their native encoding, instead of UTF-16.
You can get some pretty far-out places doing this on an electronic typewriter, in the dark, with the right state of mind.

Example: https://bedaring.org/post/quarantined-thoughts/the-pursuit-o....
I wish they would post the emails. It's all hearsay still.
The answer to the question of "Should I raise my prices?" for an agency is always yes, as long as you're getting clients.

You need to discover what clients are willing to pay you for your excellent services. What you consider excessive might be considered pizza money by your prospective clients - it's their opinion of excessive not yours which matters. Note that those other agencies are charging more then you because they clearly get clients at those prices, even with their messy project management.

As for by how much? At your level I'd eyeball it and say ratchet things up by $4K and see what happens. If it works and you still get clients keep going, but maybe grandfather your old clients on your old pricing until the end of the year or some such.
In Chrome on macOS, you can hold down the OPT key to more easily drag-select the "namespace" part without triggering the link or drag-and-drop.
I think they are addressing the claim "hens aren’t supposed make eggs year round"
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I was definitely serious.
It's damn near a crime against humanity that so many talented people are forced to deal with garbage software. Given the orders of magnitude hardware advances of the last few decades, we should be that much faster and more capable. But that's not what we see at all - it takes a special kind of incompetence to make software do even less while increasing the resource burn. You really have to try to do that bad. And we're trying hard. I weep for our industry.
Ah, so they've finally given up? Interesting to hear. But I guess the app manifests does give them a way to move forward this way while maintaining the backward-compatible behaviour (for apps without this setting in their manifests).
What is the logic behind this? I genuinely don’t understand your moral argument
I wouldn't necessarily define `null` as "unknown" -- it's just "no value" -- which is really the same thing and also somewhat equivalent to "unset". But null pointers aren't unset as pointers aren't initialized to null in C and you can explicitly set a pointer to null.

E.F. Codd added nulls to relational model in 1970 so that does pre-date C. The concept is even older than that I imagine.
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Well, you can just go hacker mode, press Ctrl + Shift + I, point the element, and copy the text from the HTML tag.

Nonetheless, a valid concern.
What cost? Moderators are volunteers, not employees. The closest thing to paid moderators are the Community Management team but they only step in occasionally.
This sort of technique worked really well for me in my first semester of uni. I was stuck in a funk and tried many things (even including stuff like cold showers). What really worked was just changing my thinking. I consciously decided that I'd stop feeling sorry for myself and that I wouldn't blame my surroundings or others for bad things. It worked wonders at the time.
That part stuck out to me as well. However, I wonder if that would be as conclusive as it seems. Even if waste removal is faster while awake, waste creation may be slower. Part of the purpose of sleep and getting tired could be that waste concentration hits some threshold, and the body says “it’s time to stop creating so much metabolic waste”.
What a fabulous collection!
> It's just calling a LLM n-times with slightly different prompts

That's one way of building something you could call an "agent". It's far from the only way. It's certainly possible to build agents where the LLM plays a very small role, or even one that uses no LLM at all.
This is publishing for the sake of publishing.
Until they post evidence, legal counsel comments on it, or its reported by a news agency its a bit moot. I personally would have gone full nuclear and posted all evidence to put pressure on the school already by now. If I'm already defacto expelled I'd have nothing to lose by putting this on blast.

Its weird that he hasn't posted anything given the retaliation he is receiving, hence why its hard to take completely seriously.
Thanks I was meaning to find a reason to spend the next 200 hours playing factorio
> And yes, Python’s subprocess module can’t prevent this.

A reasonably sane solution would be for it to reject command line arguments on Windows that contain non-ASCII characters or ASCII characters that aren’t portable across code pages (not all code pages are a superset of US-ASCII), by default, and to support an optional parameter to allow the full range, documenting the risk.
> Man if you think adult humans are that helpless I really don't know what to tell you. They aren't, but apparently you'd need some convincing.

It is not about being helpless. It is about day having certain amount of hours, you needing minimum 8 of them for work, another 8 for sleep and showering, then another time for cooking, cleaning, putting kids to sleep, ensuring they do homework and simply being at home supervising them. If your kids cant engage in hobbies without you driving them there and back, then congratulation, you just spent 3 hours driving and waiting.

Additional 3 hours a day needed to get to work, back from work, to gym and from gym are a time you simply cant use for anything else.

> none of the entertainment and cultural experiences that folks who are stuck in major urban areas use to tout the experience are denied to folks who don't live in the city.

Sure, it is just that they require more effort, time and money to get there and back. So much, that you just wont do it on the regular.
Works with Alt as well on Linux, and should work on Windows too.
use the australia url, it shows total price upfront (auzzie law)
512 was known to be too low for a looong time, why do you think it was the export-grade security?

1024 being at risk against state-level adversaries isn't shocking to anyone, but there's a significant gap between this and costing $64, and this gap is much bigger than 10 years of Moore's Law (NSA had much more than 32*$64 of available compute ;).

You're making grandiose claims and there's nothing that holds in your reasoning, it really feels like I'm discussing physics with a flat-earther…
People have lost their lives and many more have lost their homes.

Elon Musk has chimed-in on the matter. I don't post this flippantly. As a huge fan of Tesla and SpaceX, someone please explain to me what is happening.

https://i.redd.it/iasdlw98tzbe1.png
Internally laughing and crying at the same time. "Oh the horrors..." is exactly right.
>"The two main categories I see are people who think AI agents are obviously things that go and act on your behalf—the travel agent model—and people who think in terms of LLMs that have been given access to tools which they can run in a loop as part of solving a problem."

This is exactly the problem and these two categories nicely sum up the source of the confusion.

I consider myself in the former camp. The AI needs to determine my intent (book a flight) which is a classification problem, extract out the relevant information (travel date, return date, origin city, destination city, preferred airline) which is a Named Entity Recognition problem, and then call the appropriate API and pass this information as the parameters (tool usage). I'm asking the agent to perform an action on my behalf, and then it's taking my natural language and going from there. The overall workflow is deterministic, but there are elements within it that require some probabilistic reasoning.

Unfortunately, the second camp seems to be winning the day. Creating unrealistic expectations of what can be accomplished by current day LLMs running in a loop while simultaneously providing toy examples of it.
Agreed, but at least it's more than one person's interpretation that's put their reputation on the line, even if it's a family member.
I always see people saying that sports is financially positive on its own, but my actual experience is a ~10% tuition hike to subsidize sports expansion, so ...
Yes. I am fond of saying "If you're talking about agents and think the term is something new, go back and read everything Michael Wooldridge ever wrote before talking any further". :-)
Huh. Is that line on the scope a one-time glitch at power up, or does it happen on every cycle?

"Rummaging through my old parts box unearthed a power supply that was a bit more powerful than the one that came with the router, and even fit the connector." Is he describing a "wall wart" type power supply? A picture would help. A teardown would help more. There are large numbers of really crappy wall-powered DC supplies available, mostly from China.[1]

Look for a UL approval marking and a UL approval number. That indicates at least some attention to quality. UL is mostly concerned about fire safety, but their basic test for power supplies includes connecting it to a load box at the power supply's maximum rating, then running it for a while to see if it overheats. This catches power supplies with exaggerated ratings.

Avoid no-name power supplies. This is a well-known headache.

[1] https://hackaday.com/tag/wall-wart/
Basically we are testing every strategy to acquire as much feedbacks as we can in order to launch a succesful V1 for the community.

Currently the webapp is in BETA and we are improving and deploying a new version almost every day.

The most important goal now is to make an easy way to find answers to the user's query without getting ads or unwanted content

Just try it out and let us know if the experience got your attention :)
>it has not been economical to remain awake at night

Why? If you can gather fruits or hunt pray while all your competitors (or predators!) are asleep, isn't it an advantage? What about nocturnality? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnality
The cost of housing going up causes people not to be able to afford housing? No?!?! You’re kidding!?!

Really though.. investments need to rise faster than inflation right? Houses are investments right? Wages usually go up by less than (or equal to at best) inflation right? Therefor the entire situation is such that it is expected that people will be priced out of houses on a long enough timeline.
In general I worry about ragebait stories that trend on HN.

They're sometimes legit, but way too often there's a quiet coda where someone figures out it was all a sham, but that discovery occurs after the story has already been drawing attention for 24 hours or more, and the recall doesn't get the attention the initial rage did. So people walk away remembering a story that was a lie, while the truth gets quickly forgotten.
I was thinking "shut up and take my money" until you brought YAML into it. Hard pass. ;p
And when q is negative? Don't we have 1 = 3/3 = f(0/3) = f(0/-3) = 3/-3 = -1?

This same problem will occur everywhere negative, though. I wasn't thinking about it; I was just being sloppy.
You could even go further -- all actions are spontaneous...life is spontaneous.
I once encountered a good anti sudo control.
Execute sudo and you get a warning “log in as root instead!”
Firstly, no
Secondly did you just “prevent” sudo by aliasing it?
I also wonder why cats sleep so much. Is it mainly because there’s nothing for them to do during the day, so why not sleep? Whereas humans can be active all day?
Thanks, it works! Although a bit awkward, but at least it works!
The entity paying the lawyers isn’t making the rules here. This is professional ethics: the attorneys in question have a conflict of interest.
When will Masters Degree be banished?
You'd be happy to know that googling "Twankle Twonkle Twonkle" will yeild the result you're looking for :) I just found a few that look to be exactly what you describe.
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> In hindsight I don't think there was any particular evidence the polls were inaccurate.

One notable exception was The Des Moines Register poll the day before the election.
Jeez, somebody not going immediately full mental meltdown fully public for reason X Y Z should be immediately dismissed. You have 0 info about him or his life, so it would be wiser to stop passing clueless judgements.
Windows doesn’t really have an ARGV though. It’s a user space abstraction for compatibility with POSIX.

Windows technically just works on the principle of an executable name + a single argument. And it does this for compatibility with DOS.

So you end up with this stupid escaping rules you’ve described so there are compatibility conventions at the kernel level with earlier implementations of Windows, which in turn maintained compatibility with MS-DOS. While providing a C abstraction that’s compatible with POSIX.

Which is just one of many reasons why it’s a nightmare to write cross platform shells that also target Windows.
Windows really should provide an API that treats path names as just bytes, without any of these stupid encoding stuff. Could probably have done that when they introduced UNC paths.
i didn't start working in the industry until 2019.

> The advice I’m giving is to stop wasting time on a side hustle and do whatever it takes to get on the BigTech side of compensation if you want to maximize your income.

this was good advice 5 years ago, even 2-3 years ago, if your goal is to maximize income. but it's out of date now. nonetheless, we are not talking about maximizing income here, we're talking about surviving in a changing world with a tougher job market for devs. let me remind you of the grandparent orginal comment that started this all: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42631755 that person is right.
I use Excel to run my life. I have PTO calculators, workout and nutrition spreadsheets, and tons of financial spreadsheets with predictions, records, what-ifs, etc. How much did I spend on prescription eyewear in 2007? I can tell you. I've been using Excel since either the late 80s or very very early 90s so it is very familiar to me.

I use Word to draft and submit board reports for two non-profit boards I am on. One, has followed the same format, except for typeface updates, since 1951. You can take the very first vice president's report from 70+ years ago, set mine next to it, and they look practically identical (except for the typeface). Using the Word template someone made 20-ish years ago is very handy. I assume that is when they eliminated the secretary's position whose job it was to type up the reports for all of the old men, which I am one of now. I fill it out, hit save, email a copy to the rest of the board, show up with two printed copies, and put one in the binder that has every monthly VP's report since July 1951 and use the second as a reference for when I give my verbal report. Easy peasy no cloud bullshit.

I am a volunteer watershed steward, a fire prevention educator, and a member of an amateur radio and an astrophotography club. I give presentations 1-4 times per year for all of those and all of them are done in powerpoint. Again, no cloud bullshit. My presentations are on my laptops and don't rely on hopping on someone's wifi or tethering to my phone in a cinderblock building with no service anyways.

Even onenote is fantastic but I think that's free. I'm using it right now to plan a trip with 8 other people. When in-country with no, or poor, cell service the local notebook will be synced and ready for reference. No cloud bullshit.
>This thing that was just released is the future of UI testing?

The general idea of it, yes. No one will be writing selector based tests by hand anymore in a couple years.
Have you ever read translations of such ancient texts? Why are you so certain there are enough reliable translations to do the model training?

Look at https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/etcsl.cgi?text=t.3.1.2... , for example. To me it doesn't come across as something I would expect an LLM to be able to produce. They are basically decent at translating between certain languages, and only documents that are very formal. As soon as metaphor, idioms and so on come up in source texts they suck.

There's more translated sumerian you can read here: https://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/edition2/etcslbycat.php
It's worth noting that the dad also gave his son a job at his company while the kid was still in high school. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but it does show that the father is heavily invested in this kid and willing to act affirmatively to give him a leg up, which means I personally would not count this as additional testimony backing up the story.

The dad's testimony doesn't make it less likely to be true, but it's not high quality evidence in favor.

Edit: I'm fine with downvotes, but do everyone a favor and explain why you disagree. It's a bit disheartening that every comment that doesn't go full on pitchfork gets squashed with no justification other than 'failure to light a torch'. We can be better than that.
this is a horrible idea.

which is why i am commenting to check it out later.

since postscript is also a language that it literally runs to render, would it also be possible to use postscript to make interactive elements?
> Take any irrational a where 1/a is also irrational.

In other words: any irrational at all
> "Cloud" and "serverless" both refer to hardware, not software.

Not really. "Cloud" refers to a software abstraction that tries to hide the existence of actual hardware namely to remove dependence on the availability of any specific hardware component (like, as in, being able to transparently move to another physical machine without the user ever knowing). It is clearly a software term. I can't go down to my local Walmart and buy a "Cloud". Amazon won't ship a "Cloud" to my place. There is nothing "hard" implied by the word as used in this context. I'll grant you that it more or less maintains some kind of "virtual" hardware concept. Perhaps that is what you mean?

There is no hardware association with "serverless". It refers to a pattern for developing a certain breed of applications that resemble servers, but without the server. "Server" is definitively a software term as used here. A server is an application that listens for requests from a client, typically on a network port if we are to dive into implementation territory, but could be something else like a unix domain socket. Much like CGI of yore, these "serverless" applications shed the server, relying on the runtime environment to fill in the missing pieces.
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Doesn't that already exist today for many of the solutions?

I know Honeycomb, Elastic, Observe, and others have ways for you to take natural language to do analytics on column data stores. In fact, I took one of your examples and it worked in Honeycomb but not your sandbox.
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> Excel for Mac isn't great (find/replace is really annoying)

And it's so slow. Excel is the only sluggish app of my Macbook.
I think it really depends on how you want to use it. There are 'Collections' which are basically like custom categories you can create as well as #tags. When you add a bookmark you can put it directly into one of your collections and add tags. I have created a few collections around high level areas but have generally just added bookmarks without sorting, then after I read them I will move them into a bucket. The highlighting feature is very nice as well.

I would try it out for a few days and see how you like it. I definitely think there is something psychologically behind saving links and never reading them, I have quite the backlog.
Same, now I'm listening to "Machines of Loving Grace: Butterfly Wings" which I've not heard in a very long time..
It's exactly what I was talking about. Rust enables me to avoid using the heap when I would be forced to in C/C++. And thanks to the borrow checker ensuring safety in doing so, this extends to libraries and dependent code in ways not easily achievable in C/C++. The net effect is a profound reduction in heap usage by comparison.
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Let's say that's true: all misogynistic rhetoric is coming from the right. This does not also mean that anyone on the right is automatically a misogynist.

I know, you'll have a knee-jerk reaction to the above. Let me illustrate the point. 100% of "white people are oppressors" rhetoric comes from the left. By your logic, no white person should vote Democrat. Ah, but you'll say that not everyone on the left is hung up on this, not everyone is actually an oppressor, and we can all get along. Well, the same point applies to the right and misogynists then, doesn't it?
Yeah as I’ve gotten into parent age territory I’ve been surprised by how basically all of my peers seem to value making money over spending time with their young children.

Like, you have decent money already, you can make money again in 5 years or whatever, I don’t understand the priorities.

It feels more like they are sleepwalking vs making conscious value judgements.
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I just find that Octal not as "tight" UI-wise. Hack feels a little too dense and I'm completely unable to hit the upvote/downvote/reply buttons reliably, I just have to long-press to bring up all the options.

I like Hack's notification replies and showing karma for comments you wrote. The UI just feels too tight to me and I can't quite explain it, it's just harder for me determine where one comment starts/stops/indention/etc. Maybe I could fiddle with the settings enough to get it to where I want but Octal had almost everything I wanted out of the box and I didn't need to fiddle with settings as much.