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If the goal is to get something to run correctly roughly once with some known data or input, then that's fine. Actual software development aims to run under 100% of circumstances, and LLMs are essentially cargo culting the development process and entrusting an automation that is unreliable to do mundane tasks. Sadly the quality of software will keep going down, perhaps even faster.
I'm working full time on growing my app https://lookaway.app. I've been working on it for more than a year now and it's been growing organically since.
I experienced the same in my previous job. And it makes me wonder: what do those applicants hope to get out of this ruse? It's not like hiring managers will think "oh, we've gotten this far into the process, we might as well arrange a lengthy and expensive visa process for them"
> cutting long-running programs (even international commitments)

Can you name examples that you believe should not be cut?
As I skimmed trough the article, the most important pros of Clojure seem to be: REPL, functional language, immutable data, dynamic typing.

I wonder what would happen if someone adds a REPL to F#. Sure, it wouldn't have dynamic typing, but isn't static typing good for large code bases?

In particular, judging from the article and comments, it seems that the major boon is having an REPL integrated in the IDE, running in the background, so you can have feedback while you are writing the code.

Having such an integrated REPL for a language like Python would make the productivity up to par with Clojure?

I am trying to understand if Clojure has a particular feature other languages can't add with ease.
I'm still working on Shepherd, a book discovery platform aimed at feeding readers' curiosity. Later this year, I am developing a tool to bring your to-be-read pile to life in some cool ways and improve the accuracy of our topic/genre system (plus adding themes, tropes, and moods).

https://shepherd.com/

Our reader's fav reads of 2024: https://shepherd.com/bboy/2024?only-published
Hello World Welcome to the Viduli Changelog
Not secretly, at least in terms of "翻墙" (circumventing the GFW). It is commonly talked about in mainland chatgroups and on websites, sometimes with euphemisms (e.g. "科学上网" (surfing the web scientifically), etc.), but no one really bats an eyelid when talking about it.

In any case, I find it amusing that the case of UK disallowing E2EE could come back to CCP so quickly. Maybe without the example of CCP, other governments wouldn't realize the greatness of censorship? /s

Source: being a native who lives in mainland China.
This is political move, quid pro quo just like everything else. I wonder what UK got in exchange for some public heat (maybe not that much since common folks font care about this)
Maybe the author thought West Virginia was the western part of Virginia? I know it sounds preposterous, but I think it’s commensurate with the quality of the headline and article.
The one that did genocide is Junta, not Arakan army. junta made disinformation to western media to cover up their asses and put the blame to Arakan army. Arakan army is main force that is fighting junta.
Thank you! I posted it, but I think I did not recheck. Definitely not a bot :)
They don't have h100. wink,wink.
Responding to some feedback I got: I need to add better UI feedback for this, but you can drag whole hue/saturation/lightness curves if you click/drag between points on the curves.

Feel free to message me if you've got any tricky or tedious problems to do with creating color palettes that extra tooling like this might help with! I have more feature ideas but I want to understand more what others need.

I'm planning to write some articles for giving a more intuitive sense about WCAG color contrast rules and picking accessible colors too. From working with designers, I find many give up here because it takes a while to get your head around and it's often not obvious how to fix designs with failing contrast.
This assumes the genocide has ended, which it very much has not. In what year did Native American parents receive the right to choose not to send their kids to a boarding school?

1978.

Until 1978, Native American families were being separated against their will.

To say that no one currently alive screwed then over is absurd. This month, the President made motions to try and remove birthright citizenship for indigenous people.

No, there are absolutely people still alive who screwed them over.
Thank you! Please feel to try this out and share your thoughts.
Some work will be replaced with AI. If you regulate the AI, the work will also be relocated.
Still working on https://mockoon.com, an open-source API mocking desktop tool, after 7 years.
My focus is now on the cloud version which is key to guarantee a future where the tool is still actively maintained and independent (read: free from high growth/high profits pressure).
If we’re taking anecdotes, I found the market to be fine when I was searching for jobs last year.

https://sjer.red/blog/2024/job-hunt/
In France, this is https://www.s3ns.io/en
Man, please share a tutorial
I suppose "the Internet will interpret censorship as damage and route around it" was utopian naivete that got us pretty far, and "the LLM understands me and can help me understand myself" might be naivete it's useful to disprove/explore the truth of. I think utopianism is important even if it's Sisiphean, it's good to have a north star even if it can't be reached.

Sounds very cool. Good luck with it!
I don't know how reliable it is, but the first link I clicked on contradicts your assertion: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rates-from-energy-p...
Linear itself has a workflow for Github: https://linear.app/docs/github
In broad strokes, take AWS for example with us-east-1 being in Virginia and us-east-2 being in Ohio, respectively, and wondering how to fuel future East Coast expansion, West Virginia would offer similar latencies in a deep-red state (meaning, deals will happen when palms get greased) with a powerful energy lobby (that would appreciate additional energy demand). Being a poor state, the price of labor will be cheap as well, both to build the data centers and to maintain them afterwards.
It's not jailbreak, it's disabling stupid censorship.

Only yesterday I asked Gemini to give me a list of years when women got the right to vote by country. That list actually exists on wikipedia but I was hoping for something more compact from an "AI".

Instead, it told me it cannot answer questions about elections.
Do these prediction markets pay interest? If not I'd rather not pay $0.915 for a $1.00 payout in three years.
Discussion about Differences in "A Philosophy of Software Design", "Clean Code"
CIA has to get funds beyond what is approved by US govt to fund unapproved missions. China doesn't have these problems.
I think people read too much into IQ tests. IQ tests will test what sub skills you have and don’t have currently. They do not test your innate abilities and one can improve their sub skills within your lifetime.

Moreover, people assume having a higher IQ means you are definitely smarter than someone with a lower IQ. However, IQ does not measure how much rigorous thinking you have done in your lifetime — a metric that would better score how many useful insights you have gathered in your life — nor does it measure what domain-knowledge connections you have in your brain that are useful. It just measures a subset of cognitive subskills that makes it easier for one to pickup ideas: not that you actually have used them for such purposes nor that you have used these subskills to their full abilities.

Additionally, these subskills can also be a hindrance to your learning. Neurodivergent people — who typically perform worse on IQ tests — can often be forced to learn MORE effective systems and will outperform high-IQ neuro-typical people’s performances as they were forced to adapt around their subskill insufficiencies: analogous to a blind person learning how to echo-locate and can see in 360 degrees with their clicks bouncing off walls and objects (something seeing people typically can not do).

IQ tests are misleading because people believe they measure a person’s life-long cognitive ceiling and that it tests more than it actually does. IQ does not test intelligence nor learning abilities. It tests a subset of subskills that are the most common tools that most people use to learn. The test does not measure all the possible learning tools one can use to learn. IQ does not test how much one’s organization and scheduling abilities can help overcome IQ insufficiencies. IQ does not test one’s ability to pick which learning tactics is best to use when studying a given subject. IQ does not test how well one can update their priors — which is probably one of the most important items when measuring how intelligent/informed a person will become in their lifetime. IQ also does not test how well a person can reframe an issue/discussion to be more constructive and accurate.

IQ measures much less about intelligence than the complete set of subskills that are relevant to a person’s cognitive ceiling. IQ measures enough to draw a regression line on a graph between it and perceived intelligence. Any stronger statement one could make about IQ’s implication on measuring intelligence is simply conjecture.
What Andrew Ng Says about AI Agents?
I'd argue grid scale batteries are sensitive to energy density as a second order effect. Higher energy density -> More EV demand -> Eventual increasing flow of last-generation cheap used cells that can be used in the grid.
You're not wrong, but I felt these words of caution are something anyone should be aware of should they pursue TFA's advice.

If you're doing it for intrinsically valuable reasons (i.e., for yourself), wonderful!

But if you're doing it to try to overcome writer's block or establish themselves as a recognized name in a community, there are downsides that people don't tend to talk about much because they might sound ungrateful (especially if they financially benefit from their popularity). I, individually, have no such monetization incentives at play.
We’re building a new git collaboration platform on top of atproto! Here’s a sneak preview (best viewed on desktop for now; the UI is mostly WIP): https://tangled.sh/@tangled.sh/core

It’s going to be fully decentralised from day 1—we borrowed the PDS model from Bluesky to allow users to run their own “knots” to self-host their git repositories.

https://www.tldraw.com/s/v2_c_E1XeFuW0tGbDxqnhDiLRT?d=v-286....
Here's a possible idea for an open-source project if someone is qualified.

Make it as easy as it is in Windows.
The reason that twitter became "the place where a nobody could talk to an expert" (at the time it wasn't the place to mob experts) was the utter design failure of email against spam. Nowadays people don't publish their email address publicly and spam filters are likely to silently delete the message you sent.

(Twitter is a failure too, now)
Then you need to pay for and assign extra highly technical people whose only job is to watch and follow and report upwards. This is One advantage of a war room in that there are usually enough technical people that one finds themselves just watching (“I’m a bit behind the curve so Inwill watch, don’t want to jump in there Bob is already working on it …”) and becomes this role.
Many people have been helped and are helped by SSRIs today. I wouldn't be here today without SSRIs. And while CBT was a huge factor in why I'm largely a healthy, productive adult now, CBT wouldn't have done anything for me without an SSRI to help regulate my emotions first.

It's easy to look at studies and say "this shit doesn't work" (despite there being plenty of studies that show they're clearly effective and they're one of the best treatments we have). But when you talk to people taking it, clearly there are way too many that benefit from them to just say we need to stop prescribing them. That's just deciding due to your own biases that countless people need to suffer unnecessarily. Why? Why would you want to do this to people? Or do you not actually care about the suffering or wellbeing of the people affected and you just have this vague idea of "SSRIs bad"?

I spent a lot of time reading studies before going on SSRIs to decide whether it was worth it. The literature unambiguously said that SSRIs are absolutely a valid form of treatment that can help (even though it won't help everybody). Who are you to say they're horseshit?
Fuck future generations, fuck our kids... often touted by folks without any or at least somehow normally functioning family.

I think we are back in 80s with current orange man defining direction like fashion, 'greed is good' at any cost mantra is certainly back
Its not rambling if its useful. I have some crazy led cob lights that look like street lights when they're on. I might try them indoors. I have spares for my outdoor ones.

I might comment wattage and lux if I can, couple days.
It still is a unified force but crippling house of cards now.
Thy are losing and massacring civilization In retaliation on those liberated areas using 500lb bombs. Lost of civilians deaths on those areas there's aren't any conflicts.

But many of them are in people side and spying for revolution forces.
Cool! How are you getting your data? Public API?
Yup the UI and "click amounts" is terrible, a step down from both native Chrome or Firefox password managers.
If you have a domain.tld and are on sub.domain.tld it also shows ALL the credentials on EVERY subdomain and the tld, and you have to crawls through them all.

The only good thing is that I was finally able to switch away from Chrome on mobile, but for a high bad usability price.
That’s one way to measure it, sure. Another way is that archers can shoot 2 tiles away.

Part of the abstraction of the game is that the map for cities and the map for units are at different scales (despite being the same map), and scales change depending on what year you’re in
What about placing a fake speed camera? It might just get the job done
Merging data from spreadsheets with db, with schema mismatches nightmare...
It matters a lot, even if you never intend to run it yourself or look at the code.

It means that people can and will provide this service, and 1000's will build on this and make offers that you can use in either a commodity base market, or with a specific niche target.

It means regulatory capture and control will be much, much harder to execute.

It means AI might continue to be a benefit also to you rather than just a way to control, propagandize and exploit you.
I find it doesn't matter to me. Dark mode means I'm on a server 9/10 vis a vis code; otherwise I'm in notepad++ which is light mode.

I wish the colors on notepad++ were a little darker, and someday I need to figure out why the stock gentoo color scheme looks the best to me, and try and recreate it elsewhere.
Don't use Authy, I agree with you that the Bitwarden UI is getting uglier, but at least they are trying to make it better (it will get worse before they learn lessons to improve), unlike Authy.
It took them multiple tries just to use gdb, I don’t think this is a scenario where you can easily reflash the image on the board
I did pay the 70 and by the time I found out I hated the concept the return window was over.

The game has a broken UI, broke gameplay and everything which should be included is dlc. Try playing on a random map. Oh no you can't as the game requires two continents.

Wait two years and then buy for 15$. At least you feel less cheated by then.
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https://volt.fm - Spotify Stats & Music Discovery
I'm working on bluesky social analytics tool for businesses and marketers.
https://www.graphtracks.com.
Feedback is welcome.
>Rich said one of the reasons he built it was he was programming like this already (pure functions acting on data) but the languages he was using didn’t support it well.

But he could have been using F#, OCaml, Haskell. So it might not be just about pure functions and immutable data.
I agree that DeepSeek continues to prove themselves as a great example of engineering but the number of job positions requiring this type of knowledge IME is typically very very low so I am not sure if this would be the right advice to follow. Though I wish it was different.
They have H800s which have exactly same memory bandwidth and max FLOPS.
Why does anyone need to be careful using that word? What a bizarre way to try to intimidate someone over speech.

Another country has X because they were expected (in the terms of their purchase) to not sell it to an adversary. So yes they’re supposed to honor that agreement and are not supposed to trade that particular thing X with each other. Not doing so invites sanctions and other consequences. Is it worth the risk just to do business with a dictatorship? Probably not.
> Can we please reference Jimmy Saville instead? Jimmy Saville is an entirely deplorable example of what it is that you're getting at and he got away with blatant and horrific acts until he died.

His case comes up on Thursday.
They haven't given anything. We've moved from a government of looney idealogues to a government of insecurity. Labours' actions can be pretty well understood as a need to be taken seriously by the Very Serious People, be that finance, big tech or the security services.
Don't worry, you will get speaking skills with practice quickly. I think you can talk to OpenAI app in Romanian. Not sure. After not speaking for 3/4 of my life I understand only about one half of audio news and bit more of text.
https://screenmemory.app is my current project as of a year or so. Records your screen continuously and lets you look back at it through a GUI. I use it myself to recap days or weeks at work, mostly.
Working on "wanting to live". It's hard to create desire within oneself when one has experienced intense sorrow.

Been trying the "do the thing, and desire comes after" for many things (baking, piano, skating, ..), but that hasn't really worked. What has seemed to work is connecting with people (crucial that they know how to connect back).

Made a little web app that helped me communicate: https://azriel.im/tears/

(I could just point to the number when I couldn't talk/listen)
We need to get away from GitHub! Look forward to seeing this grow
> How many software developers could solve most even simple programming problems (except 'Hello world') with zero shot style (you write in notepad then can compile only once and execute once) without access to internet (stackoverflow, google search, documentation), tools (terminal, debugger, linter, cli)?

The experienced ones can
I went and looked it up and you are right. Memory failing me. I got a card in 2004 that was a Radeon which must be the mixup …

EDIT thanks for the push. I’m nearly certain it was an S3 Trio based card

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_Trio
As per some folks I've met (I live in french Romandie, almost 0 variation here they just speak slower than french), for ie folks from Zurich its almost impossible to understand folks from Bern. And thise are 2 big cities pretty close to each other, not some remote mountain valley.

But they can easily switch to more modest verion or even high german if needed.
That's super nice. Can I eventually replace my centralized forge ?
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Fwiw im generally ok with this as long as hotkeys are customizable.
Apps should behave like apps, and I like having the full array of shortcuts available
You're probably meaning the Belgian designed DAI computer that was developed for TI initially but was then refused in favor of the TI-99/4. From a corporate point of view it made sense as the DAI was architected around a Intel 8080A. TI-99/4 had the advantage of using much more exclusive TI parts (CPU, Video, sound, I/O, GROM, etc.).
It's a pity that the DAI then could not gain market shares as it was a very interesting and capable computer. It had graphic capabilities that only later 16 bit computer could reach (Amiga, ST), had a semi-compiled BASIC that was fast, even on the quite slow 2MHz 8080, it could use an arithmetic co-processor (AMD 9511), it also had genlock which allowed to mix TV signals with its graphics (long before Amiga), etc.
Since every activity has some externalities and also unexpected positive effects, isn’t focusing on just the negative effects of this one thing very lopsided?
Personality protocol for a chatbots platform. How to share personalities among different layers and components. At the end of the day is customization and parametrization of LLM instructions, however an interesting topic to explore.
No. Take that with a grain of salt. I did some large file reading in the past and gleam doesn't have a good abstraction for that yet whereas in rust it was straightforward. Simplifile basically reads the whole file into memory.
An absolute word salad. Dead internet theory
Some of these criminals suddenly claim to be CCP spies or victims of political or religious persecution to avoid extradition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/She_Zhijiang
I use Python with a REPL in Emacs, it's relatively similar. The two important differences to Lisps I see:

1. Syntax. It's a bit easier to just evaluate a symbolic expression (put in a simplified manner: anything enclosed by parentheses) than to select a region of Python code to evaluate. But it's no major issue. Don't know about any syntax that has similar properties, Ruby seems to be somewhat similar in spirit, every expression returning an object. Python OTOH has all kinds of constructs you can't evaluate readily.

2. Functional code. Lisp code is generally largely side effect free, Python is not. That goes from the libraries down to how you write your own code by convention. Evaluating code without side effects for quick feedback is a breeze. For side effect riddled code, it's kinda easier to just use unit tests with mocks etc. for that. There are lots of languages with good functional libraries nowadays.

Generally speaking, the things you list are what used to be unique about Lisp. But apart from the two points I'm making, I don't believe that's the case anymore. Lots of languages got inspired in the last few decades. I love Lisps and I wish I could use them more, but I'm happy lots of popular languages got reasonably close.
Not game over: it’s just that Engineering will turn into Biology :D
Consider a Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs applied to an AGI.

I predict weird nuclear and space proposals in the next few years.
So if we just do something politically unacceptable and probably morally unacceptable then nuclear will be viable? And of course you could apply the same thing to other sources of energy and they will equally get cheaper. Wind turbines in beauty spots. Remove the air quality equipment from fossil fuel plants. Dam evey river.