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> I know I can quickly write a parser, not by reading some spec, but by looking at the actual CSV file

This is fine if you can hand-check all the data, or if you are okay if two offsetting errors happen to corrupt a portion of the data without affecting all of it.

Also I find it odd that you call it "easy" to write custom code to parse CSV files and translate between CSV formats. If somebody give you a JSON file that isn't valid JSON, you tell them it isn't valid, and they say "oh, sorry" and give you a new one. That's the standard for "easy." When there are many and diverse data formats that meet that standard, it seems perverse to use the word "easy" to talk about empirically discovering the quirks in various undocumented dialects and writing custom logic to accommodate them.

Like, I get that a farmer a couple hundred years ago would describe plowing a field with a horse as "easy," but given the emergence of alternatives, you wouldn't use the word in that context anymore.
I've been on the Mac since 2001 for my personal machines, with Windows at work and I've had linux installations on and off since late '92. I have decided that I won't replace my aging M1 MBP. I got an used thinkpad and installed Fedora 41. It's really been a stellar distro. I've been in it full time for a couple months now. Since I'm now retired I don't need to have the latest and greatest. Linux is just fine for me and the remaining development work I do. I guess I've always known I'd end up on Linux.
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And yet they do nothing for the auxiliary staff that the medical industry demands to provide the unskilled labor that often play a critical role in patient outcome.

Please do me a favor (yes, me, the stranger on the internet) and look up how much a CNA makes at your local hospital, and compare that to the cost of living for your area. Now check how much your facilities staff makes.

I know you’re talking about the AMA, and I know my grievances are not necessarily well directed at that organization, but I’m at a loss as to where change for these critical workers will come from if not the physicians who hold the most leverage against the bean counters.

Turning patients to prevent bed sores, emptying catheters, providing the most basic of care all falls down to the CNA in a modern clinical setting, who in my wife’s firsthand experience makes less than a barista at Starbucks. Literally, she left her CNA job doing all of the above and more, to make more as a Barista. Your auxiliary staff is critical in preventing hospital acquired infections, and ensuring adequate care is provided for vulnerable patients who cannot assist themselves.

If you get the opportunity, go to your nearest oncology ward and interview some of the CNA staff about their experience as a CNA. Ask them how often a nurse is available to assist with turning a bariatric patient. There is a world of exploitative labor below you, supporting the high profit margins of the American medical system.
Awesome, thanks! I know them mostly from hobbyist contexts, and I noted that Atmel kind of stopped updating them after the ATMega328PU (and then failed as a company), so I wondered if they were kind of a failed product line, because there weren't enough hobbyists to sustain the product line. It's nice to hear I was wrong!
My main gripe with Cursor is that they put MCP usage behind a paywall and their support for the protocol is weaker than Continue's in meaningful ways[1]. Given the big community push on MCP development, I'm a bit annoyed that Cursor monetizes OSS work with a paywall...

[1]https://modelcontextprotocol.io/clients
I can't imagine that it took much pressure, given the ideological overlap between the two 'men' in question. I don't think that Spez is particularly burdened by standards or a dedication to fair moderation either, unless he's had a very late-in-life conversion to being decent.
I had somewhat similar experiences before. A lot of PnP is a bit too much dependent on the DM and what they tolerate. And I had both DMs being absurd non cooperative and players being absurd non cooperative, neither groups lasted long if the person in question isn't willing to reflect a bit about this games being at the core cooperative games (not just between the players but also the DM, even if the story is literally pitching players against each other, which is rare as hard to do well).

One issue I have seen a bit more specific to DnD is people over obsessing with the world building matching exactly the "generic DnD world" provided by wotc (or worse a specific module). And using this to remove agency from the DM to prevent them from tweaking things to e.g. stop a player from going completely rogue or accidental derailment of the campaign in not fun ways. It also means that people which play a ton of DnD have additional knowledge far beyond their in game character, which is rarely ever good. (DMs being similar inflexible is also not so helpful, but often based on inexperience, while for players it's often based on experience in combination with egoism).

But also to be clear some of the best complains did got derailed a lot, accidentally and not by a single person thinking their experience is more important than that of others.

Through the main reason I'm currently not joining a PnP group is that with the games I could have joined recently they require too much time in between meetings, at lest if you haven't played the system for docents or even hundreds of hours already :/
It sounds like their unit-tests cover abs(), but they weren't covering all of abs(), and were not reliably triggering the optimized codepath:

> When doing the refactoring, they needed to provide new implementations for every opcode. Someone accidentally turned Math.abs() into the identity function for the super-optimized level. But nobody noticed because it almost never ran — and was right half of the time when it did.

If it never was tested, plain and simple as that, then it couldn't matter that it 'almost never ran' or 'was right half the time'.

So the root problem here is that their test-suite neither exercised all optimized levels appropriately, nor flagged the omission as a fatal problem breaking 100% branch coverage (which for a simple primitive like abs you'd definitely want). This meant that they could break lots of other things too without noticing. OP doesn't discuss if the JS team dealt with it appropriately; one hopes they did.
Indeed, I did not vet those links.

The examples of hosting a foreign exchange student, and of couchsurfing, remain.
One of the biggest problem we hear about from CISOs is 'they don't know what they don't know' - meaning they need a way to catch all the data. This plays pretty directly into your comment - there's a need for wanting everything, but a penalty for having everything - slower queries, expensive, more false positives, slower time to resolution.

What's common as a middle ground is blob storage and rehydration - where you send everything into low cost storage like S3 while still peeling off the high value data into the SIEM / Datadog / etc. Then if you notice something is amiss, you can rehydrate the time window you care about.
Is this not just hiding the "complexity" of SQL behind an LLM and hoping for the best?

If you know SQL and know what you're trying to find, what can the LLM do quickly that you couldn't just constructing a query to get what you want?

Alternatively if you don't know SQL, aren't you never going to learn it if every opportunity you have you bust out an LLM and hope for the best?
Off the top of my head:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/...

Now you might argue that ECMA-376 accounts for this, because it has a `date1904` flag, which has to be 0 for 1900-based dates and 1 for 1904-based dates. But what does that really accomplish if you can’t be sure that vendors understand subtleties like that if they produce or consume it? Last time I checked (maybe 8 years ago), spreadsheets created on Windows and opened on Mac still shifted dates by four years, and the bug was already over twenty years old at that time.

And the year-1904 issue is just the one example that I happen to know.

I have absolutely zero confidence in anything that has touched, or might have touched, MS Excel with anything short of a ten-foot pole.
They sucked at product development.
In Germany we don’t say “four bedroom apartment”, we say “4-Zimmer Wohnung” usually meaning 3 bedrooms and a living room with kitchen. And no, this is absolutely an expectation that a middle-income family with children should be able to afford a decent place to live in. We have an artificial housing crisis in most Western countries, but there’s no objective economic reasons for it. It’s possible to build at scale and with good quality 3-4 times cheaper than current market prices.
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I just made a tool which parses any OpenAPI spec to MCP spec: https://www.open-mcp.org (literally just deployed so I don't know if the DNS has propagated globally yet..)
Bytes: because ls -lh is too slow
Also posted on arxiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.17337
The title here is sort of confusing-thinner films? Thinner than what? And what are these thin films made of?

Maybe something like “thin film semi metals conduct better than copper” would be better?
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Does it stem in real time? That is can you use it to do karaoke on an arbitrary song as it streams?
I guess you would be paying for pushing all of these tokens to the LLM. Also, too much irrelevant context can "confuse" the model about the task at hand
It might be true that we can’t compare gdp between Russia and other countries, but even if so, wouldn’t we see a growth in GDP over time (ie comparing Russia to itself)?
I played sooo much glider in highschool study hall, although it was the windows version, glider 4.0

I liked the gameplay so much I learned 6502 asm and coded my own version for the atari 2600. Nowhere near parity with the real version obviously, but I was able to make 3 screens with 1 to 2 moving obstacles, and a clock collectable that did nothing.
As a Reddit user I'm using this simple replace function to switch to the old.reddit.com version of a page:

javascript:(function(){ if (location.hostname === "www.reddit.com") { location.href = location.href.replace("www.reddit.com", "old.reddit.com"); }})();

Necessary due to Google search results on Reddit leading to the new.reddit.com version of a page which demands a login more often than not.
I don't see how it's unfair at all. This is novel technology with rough edges. Sharing novel techniques for working around those rough edges is normal. Eventually we can expect them to be built-in to the tools themselves (see MCP for how you might inject this kind of information automatically.) A lot of development is iterative and LLMs are no exception.
The vast majority of jobs that sustain our standard of living are blue-collar: farmers who grow our food, textile workers who make our clothes, construction workers who build our homes, plumbers, electricians, waste disposal workers, etc. I'd say it's white-collar work that became overinflated this past century, largely as a reaction to the automation and outsourcing of many traditional blue-collar roles.

Now, with white-collar jobs themselves increasingly at risk, it's unclear where people will turn. The economic pie continues to shrink, and I don't see that trend reversing.

It appears to me that our socio-economic model simply doesn't scale with technology. We need to have a constructive conversation about how to adapt.
You sure about that?

https://www.brookings.edu/books/dream-hoarders/

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/06/the-hoa...
The thing is, Americans brought the idea of constant, small improvements to Japan. Japanese took the idea of kaizen and ran amok with it. Turns out kaizen is very fitting to their craftsman mindset.
Past service can't be an asset. You can convert your present service into assets (i.e. you can save instead of spend) but the compensation for the service itself can only be done at the time it's rendered, even if the payment takes the form of debt. But the debt is the asset, not the past service itself. And I don't see anything wrong with that. It is quite literally the essence of capitalism.

Rent-seeking is different. Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating the social or political environment without creating new wealth [1]. That is not at all the same as making your living off of assets that you've earned with past labor.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
what app won't work without Google Play Services that doesn't deserve to be confined to a Firefox tab?
Used car sellers might be winners.
Not sure about that.

There is a feature request for supporting streaming services and the hurdle is legal more than anything. https://bugs.launchpad.net/mixxx/+bug/938180
Aw, thanks! I hope that what I wrote was almost entirely correct, but HN unfortunately only allows two weeks for people to post corrections.
In general, the apparent use-case and actual unintended impact on OS security must be clear. There is also always extreme suspicion regarding "security" widgets that touch the web browser, shell, or email programs. Normally, after something like CVE-2023-35866 is noted, a package maintainer may assume the project is a liability given the history.

If an application requires a 3 page BS explanation about how to use a footgun without self-inflicted pwning... it seems like bad design for a posix environment.

People that attempt an escalation of coercion with admins usually get a ban at minimum. Deception, threats, and abuse will not help in most cases if the maintainer is properly trained.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lITBGjNEp08

Have a nice day, =3
> The title here is sort of confusing-thinner films? Thinner than what? And what are these thin films made of?

You answer all your questions if you read the first paragraph of the article. The second paragraph even specified the exact material and thickness.
Depends on what kind of story is the one we are talking about. Fictional stories just have to be entertaining as you say it. Non-fictional stories have to be entertaining, but also true.

Nobody complains if it turns out that the poor moisture farmer boy from the edge of the galaxy didn't really actually blow up the space station of the evil space empire. It is not that kind of story.

But other types of stories purport to tell about something which really happened. There just being merely entertaining is not enough.
The situation in the UK is currently considered pretty bad by the public, but you can get free on-the-day appointments with qualified doctors who are paid roughly the equivalent of headteachers. Privatisation, middle-men, and private monopolies create a lot of inefficiency.
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> I thought the whole point of stories was that they were entertaining or had some pertinent message.

I guess it depends on what you as a reader value. The thing that makes any art valuable to me is that it is a human communication. Art made by a machine is far less valuable because, by definition, it isn't a human communication.

Others can value art differently, and they aren't wrong for doing so. That's part of what makes art special, that different people value aspects of it differently.

> Would you reject a math proof if it was generated by an AI?

That's an entirely different thing. A math proof isn't art, nor is it intended to be.
And that's why the US is constantly at war in one theatre or the other. It's incredibly expensive to keep production lines going - but it's vital because if you don't, you can't scale production up at a moment's notice.

Us Europeans learned that lesson the hard way three years ago and we haven't made much progress ever since the first Russian boot set foot on Ukrainian soil. 100k artillery shells don't sound like much of a thing... but apparently it is.
This is fair feedback—we're so early in building an ecosystem here that the prompts we've shared as starting points are relatively general. But already we've seen people start to build much more carefully-crafted and specific assistants. These are some examples that we've used internally and found to be super useful:

- https://hub.continue.dev/continuedev/playwright-e2e-test

- https://hub.continue.dev/continuedev/vscode

- https://hub.continue.dev/continuedev/service-test-prompt

Importantly, you don't have to pay to use custom assistants! You can think of hub.continue.dev like the NPM registry: it's just a medium for people to create, share, and pull the assistants they want to use. It's always possible to bring your own API key and we provide a Models Add-On mostly for convenience of not needing to keep track of API keys

Value prop of MCP is definitely early, but I would recommend giving Agent mode (https://docs.continue.dev/agent/how-to-use-it) a try if you haven't had the chance—there's something compelling about having the model take the obvious actions for you (though you can of course require approval first!)
Seems like it would need to be lifelong because those cells end up differentiating and fixing the damage so they will always be in there.
This isn't a study, it doesn't "objectively show" anything. It's an unreviewed discussion paper with questionable methodology.

The conclusion could just as easily be that an AI is better at writing engaging short-stories than the single author they chose.
The system could go haywire and crash in such unexpected circumstances. They might also not. It's hard to know how they will behave.
>Do you own a PinePhone?

Yes. Its a piece of junk. Why do I own it? I like to throw my money away on ideals I never actually follow. Its sitting next to my unplayed guitar, my list of books on how to effectively get A's in college (I ended up a C+ student) and my Raspberry Pi that has only ever been powered on once.
It’s why I write all of my code directly in binary. Depending on a compiler, or god forbid Python, is really detrimental to me accomplishing my goal as a data scientist: allocating registers.
> But you feel your original perspective is objective?

This is what I call first person problem. I have had two separate careers spanning decades each: software and military. Then because of community connections and decades spent talking with military members who themselves have other primary professions it seems clear software has a problem of self orientation that I don't see in any other profession except education. Entertainment may have this too, but I don't have any exposure to that industry.

Extreme self orientation is the inability to perceive the world outside of what is immediately limiting or gratifying to the person in question. This impacts perceptions of risk, statistics, measures, power distance, empathy, social intelligence, and much more. Convicted criminals acting in their own interests convicted of white collar crimes in industries like law and finance demonstrate this first person problem less than the average participant in education and software, which could be horrifying except many of those guys are sociapaths with high social intelligence and learned masking behaviors.

Outside of employment extreme self orientation is typically associated with a variety of anti-social behaviors like: autism, narcissism, sociopathy, and more. These are mental health concerns because they are limiting to the person in question and/or harmful persons around them.

The difference between our comments is that your comment was littered with first person pronouns. It was all about what you witnessed in limited contexts and what affects you. My comment was about the industry at large absent any participation from myself.
Gatekeepers going to gate keep. American doctors overprescribe EVERYTHING. From unnecessary tests to unnecessary surgeries & even unnecessary pharma (see Opiod crisis), a majority of MDs are looking out for their wallet first.

Of course you love the AMA. They artificially keep supply of doctors low so you can justify the exorbitant costs for a 15 minute consultation. It's no surprise that the state of tech in US Healthcare is also so poor. When you're so busy sitting on your high horse about your education, you dgaf about the actual experience for the patient.

You say the AMA keeps folks from seeing someone who just 'slipped through the cracks' but completely ignore the fact that many folks will complete their medical education training in the Carribbean and then do residency in the US. The worst part, post-residency, it's almost impossible to know where a physician went to medical school because they obfuscate and deflect to where they did their residency.

Also the arrogance surrounding foreign medical professionals in this comment is astounding. Most doctors around the world want to focus on helping their patient actually heal. American doctors just treat symptoms.
I don't know if AI books are or will be as good or better than human written, but to me this is the problem - "Even though artificial intelligence is still in its infancy, AI-made books are already flooding the market." There is no scarcity problem in books. There are already way more that I would enjoy reading than I will ever actually read. It's already tough to prioritize which ones to get to without having vastly more to sort through. And people _enjoy_ writing books. I don't want to support automating something away that people enjoy doing, is produced in abundance, and is very low cost to obtain already.
>> they'd be forced to work 80 hour weeks for $70K. (average schoolteacher salary).

That’s crazy and a terrible reason for the AMA. The correct way to solve this problem, for both schoolteachers and doctors, is with a union.
...or one of these things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_loop_game#/media/File:Wir...
Another angle might be that gluten is likely the primary source of refined carbs for most people, which can contribute to SIBO and general Dysbiosis.
Not all programming jobs are created equal
EPK stands for Electronic Press Kit
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>I burned though $25 in just 3 hours. Claude code will be great when they can get the cost down. If the cost is like 1/10th of that I’d be using it all the time, but +/- $10 / hour is too much.

I've been trying to figure this out, and I don't think it's malicious, but it's just a matter of incentives. Anthropic devs are certainly not paying retail prices for Claude usage, so their benchmark (or just intuition) of efficiency is probably much different than the average user. Without that hard constraint the incentive just isn't there for them to squeeze out a few more pennies, and it ends up way more expensive than stuff like Cline or Cursor.
It's a very hard question, borderline impossible with the current technology [1], but if you allow me to handwave and lie and lie even more:

It's a very heavy molecule.

The top "bread" of the sandwich has 14 Carbons and a few undraw Hydrogen, I guess 16. So the weight is 12×14+16×1
=184

Double that for the other "bread".

The "meatball" in the center is Berkelium 247.

So the total weight is 184+184+247=615.

Assuming the Berkelium is totaly covered, the exterior part is similar to Hydrocarbons in oil. There are many, so let's try to pick the correct one.

Each Carbon usually has two Hydrogen, so the weight is 14×num_C, so the number of Carbons in a fake equivalent is 615/14~=44.

Hydrocarbons in gasoline have like 6-10 Carbons, diesel has like 12-20. Parafin wax https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraffin_wax has 20-40 Carbons per molecule.

So this molecule is closer to heavy parafin wax.

Double bonds are also important, and this molecule has a lot of them, but my handwaving is not strong enough to deal with it.

> How fast does it evaporate in a vacuum?

I guess it will take forever.

[1] Edit: without a sample, you can probably measure it in the lab with a big enough sample.