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My 18 year old son is pursuing a degree in CS. I think about this question often. I also mentor graduates and it is indeed a very difficult job market right now.

We are in a period of rapid change. And rapid change ultimately favors the young.

AI is creating uncertainty. Eventually it will open up new fields, new jobs, new opportunities. CS feels worth the risk. The better you understand the forces that are shaping the world, the better off you will be.
This article seems to focus on the shortcomings of LLMs being wrong, but fails to consider the value LLMs provide and just how large of an opportunity that value presents.

If you look at any company on earth, especially large ones, they all share the same line item as their biggest expense: labor. Any technology that can reduce that cost represents an overwhelmingly huge opportunity.
This isn't niche, it is the sort of thing every child used to have drilled into them in primary school.
"Post-Stallman Changes"

Isn't Stallman still on the board of directors at FSF?
Dirty, disgusting, filthy, lice-ridden boids. § Scott Smitelli
This is a monstrous twisting of the facts.

The plan to attack homelessness was a billion dollars.

The tiny home program is $80M.

They've build 100 homes so far of a planned 500, and are in the process of acquiring land.

In fact there will be 1200 homes built for that $80M, about $70,000 each.

I can't see any way you can know enough about this program that it exists, and yet spin this so horribly. "Billions to build 100 tiny homes in LA". If you knew of the 100 homes, you also know that about 500 have been constructed so far. But hey.
I don’t understand, is this a general jab at Oracle or was there something specific to this topic?
+1 for Kuzu

I would avoid Neo4j open source offerings (community edition, etc) like the plague until their court case is over. They are fighting to be able to use their interpretation of what GPL terms means - and from their past behavior - it’s probably going to be bad news for anyone who adopted it because it was open source.
The myth of Snow Leopard is strong (while in reality a lot of fundamental things people still complaint about weren't fixed), so Apple can just as well do nothing better and hope a new myth will emerge sticking to some other current name...
Not necessarily, but agree that bad managers or organisations have a tedency to do this.

I guess the ultimate goal is to keep everyone happy right? Everyone has different ideals, you can probably assume the business wants everything to work by spending as little as possible, employees want to be paid as much as possible while enjoying their job. Striking that balance is always a challenge.
Open Settings, scroll down to Spotlight. Unselect the things you don’t want.

You’re welcome :-)
And that surely has something to do with the price of tea in China. WASM on the client is why you mentioned JS.
> blocking political sites you don't agree with?

There's "don't agree with" and there's "website is known for spamming false information". Fox, breibart and daily mail all fall into the second category, whether you agree with their political ideas or not.

Edit: I wanted to link the original "things that cause and prevent cancer" list page, but it's not online anymore unfortunately https://web.archive.org/web/20140807144235/http://kill-or-cu...
> In this scenario we have the print version AND the digital version.

Except this is the exact scenario I've been suggesting all along. If you want access to both versions, you still employ the same DIY bookbinding techniques. Nothing changes.

Of the bookbinding tips I gave, "obliterate your digital copy" was (and I didn't think I had to explain this) not one of the suggested steps. ;-)

Hence backup, not format shift.
Surely you understand why an LLM that has no knowledge of your niche wouldn't be useful right?
We’ll need at least three more years to sort out the Lycos, AltaVista, and HotBots of the LLM world.
the swamp was drained to make room for a golf course and country club, pay your dues and make the proper social calls and you are part of the clic that can do unto others what others cannot do unto you
> I don’t think there’s anything unethical about using AI to pass an interview.

Assuming a job description / interviewer explicitly prohibits the use of AI, then using it "in stealth" represents a basic lack of integrity. And I guess it needs to be explicitly stated, but this is orthogonal to how well they would actually perform in the actual job.

How would this be ethically any different than a student who sneaks in an LLM using a tiny camera and wireless BT headset during an exam?
Okay, but it's weird there is a "don't lie to me" button.
And... I know people who now use AI to write their professional-sounding emails, and they often don't sound as professional as they think they do. It can be easy to just skim what an AI generates and think it's okay to send if you aren't careful, but the people you send those emails to actually have to read what was written and attempt to understand it, and doing that makes you notice things that a brief skim doesn't catch.

It's actually extremely irritating that I'm only half talking to the person when I email with these people.
I've used w3schools a fair bit, but hardly for their web stuff.

I've used it for looking up SQL, XML/XSD/XPath and such when I had some specific question. Found it quite helpful, and still use it as a quick reference every now and then.
A scientific instrument that is unreliably accurate is useless. Imagine a kitchen scale that always gave +/- 50% every 3rd time you use it. Or maybe 5th time. Or 2nd.

So we're trying to use tools like this currently to help solve deeper problems and they aren't up to the task. This is still the point we need to start over and get better tools. Sharpening a bronze knife will never be as sharp or have the continuity as a steel knife. Same basic elements, very different material.
NFTs are the perfect example.

NFT is still a great tool if you want a bunch of unique tokens as part of a blockchain app. ERC-721 was proven a capable protocol in a variety of projects. What it isn't, and never will be, is an amazing investment opportunity, or a method to collect cool rare apes and go to yacht parties.

LLMs will settle in and have their place too, just not in the forefront of every investors mind.
Ha, a little harsher than I intended it to come off, but it really does make me wonder.
Spotlight is unbelievable bad, especially on iOS. If I type a substring of the name of an installed app, it should find it effectively instantly (say, within 1-2 frames of the input showing up). Instead, it finds it sometimes. On occasion I need to hit backspace (removing a letter that should match) to get it to find it.

I struggle to imagine the software design that works so poorly.
Apple needs to make all of the accessory apps (photos, music, news, maps, mail, etc..) uninstallable and able to be added later if needed through their app store.

Every MacOS update brings along this bloatware that is not easily removed.
Congress is the right answer to the question I think
This kind of cynicism just encourages inaction. First, it frames the problem as only that of the powerful.

But largely, opinion polls are against the kind of action that would be useful. Nuclear, for example, is the only baseload tech we currently have at scale that doesn't burn carbon. It is widely opposed and public pressure has led to regulations blocking it or even expanding it.

Second, a lot of ultra wealthy ARE funding research. Bill Gates contributed substantially (though pulled back recently).

Stripe notably has made Stripe Climate, which lets businesses contribute shares of revenue to carbon sequestration tech, which is absolutely vital to removing CO2 from the air if we somehow got to net zero. They promoted it heavily and made great UI to allow businesses to list it as a marketing expense.

The real block is us. Public opinion is very powerful. Now, specific companies have worked mightily to convince the public not to act, particularly from the oil sector.

But the convenient message of gloom posting is not to do anything not to believe in doing anything and fob it off to the rich.

(I use Stripe Climate, it's great)
5 Stages of Understanding Transistors
Was waiting for someone to MCP midi
No, they aren't. The host is equally memory safe with a WASM guest as with any other fully sandboxed embedded system, of which Java is not. And everything you mentioned isn't any more memory safe running in the same process as in a foreign process, which was, again, the bar you set.
You can agree with whatever you like. But if your stance is people should be able to just give money to whoever and it all works out in the end then you aren't supporting an environment where management are honest, because they are being supported in being wilfully blind.

They're managing capital. If they get bailed out because they turned out to be completely irresponsible in managing their capital then nobody can claim to be surprised that management tend not to be of the highest standard on any axis.

What is supposed to be the incentive here for appointing competent managers for most companies? It literally doesn't matter. Even company-bankrupting performance will turn a profit once the effects of money printing are factored in.
If a book distributor is going to be criticised for censorship, we should criticise it for voluntary censorship (where it can legally sell a book but makes a voluntary policy decision not to do so), rather than legally mandated censorship under the laws of whatever country. The principle is you have greater responsibility for decisions you make in full freedom than decisions you make under legal coercion. This analysis misses the mark because all the cases it cites are effectively legally mandated censorship, and it ignores all the cases of voluntary censorship
You're right — I mean I shouldn't't have used the word 'popularity'. I'd say their positive image though has lost a good deal of its shine since their peak.
Ohio lawmakers repeal coal subsidies from scandal ridden FirstEnergy bill
https://pyproject-nix.github.io/uv2nix/usage/inline-metadata... might be an option for you.
Show HN: Ghibli AI – The Ultimate Studio Ghibli Style AI Image Generator
No, that doesn't mean you should never ask your friend things again if they make that mistake. But, if 30% of all their references are made up then you might start to question everything your friend says. And looking up references to every claim you're reading is not a productive use of time.
https://archive.is/6eiKT
Yes, I have used that workflow to fix a tricky data corruption issue earlier this week.

A buggy feature left DB in invalid state, I described the issue to Claude + Postgres MCP to both query the DB to analyze and then generate SQL scripts to fix, and validation and rollback scripts. Easy enough to do without the tooling... but with the tooling, it took probably a quarter or less of the time.
Team up with some loyal friends who are effective at getting things accomplished and make a company. If you can dream it you can achieve it. Especially now, with the barrier for creating products being lower than it has ever been. Of course, it probably helps to have some internship experience or learn from someone who has already built a business so you don't make all the same errors that can be easily avoided. But in general I think we are telling people that they are not ready to make businesses, when in fact the tools are getting very good, so good that it might be advisable to advise people to start making businesses straight out of school.
Oh, so a few of the grants exist (some outside of the USA) at some places across the country, all of which are not the Smithsonian. Got it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_nuclear_bribery_scandal

https://ohiomfg.informz.net/ohiomfg/data/images/HB6%20OVEC%2... | https://archive.today/2090D

> Ohio's electric utilities forecast that the OVEC coal-fired power plants are to lose $56.3 Million in the
second half of 2024, totaling $105.1 in estimated losses for the year.

> Utilities will recover an additional $37.6 Million in the second half of 2024, a true-up from unexpected
losses in the second half of 2023. Because of true-up from the previous year’s unexpected losses,
OVEC subsidies will cost Ohio ratepayers nearly $200 million in 2024.

> Through the end of the year, Ohioans are set to have paid nearly $600 million in total subsidies to
OVEC's utility owners since 2017.

> Based on historical and predicted future electricity prices, we estimate Ohioans could subsidize
OVEC's utility owners over $1 billion total by 2030, all of which directly profits utility shareholders.
Cool idea. Atmospheric attenuation (regardless even if you lase at "transmissible" freqs), would be a major issue. Additionally, beam steering and focusing from 1000km+, and accounting (essentially a variable continuously changing integration) for a high variability in index of refraction would make it possible without a closed-loop feedback of on target strike.
Rough ballparks, I mean, the beam power density required would likely far exceed the thermal dissipation rate of any heat pipe, etc, tech I am officially aware of.
Space warfare is super fun tho. However, this is a very outdated idea. If anyone like noodling on this stuff, they should DM me. There are far better ideas... unofficially.
> In 1946, President Harry Truman enlisted Herbert Hoover to tour dozens of countries and coordinate a massive famine relief effort.

For background, it's worth understanding that Hoover founded and ran the Commission for Relief in Belgium during WWI [1], which brought American food past the British blockade and German submarine patrols to prevent famine. And oddly, one of these relief ships was most likely the cause of the largest non-nuclear man-made explosions [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_for_Relief_in_Belgi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion
Obfuscation 101: Unmasking the Tricks Behind Malicious Code
> But then Packer has no concept of multi-stage or copying in assets from other containers.

I don't know about containers specifically, since I've never bothered to use packer for that process, but it does seem that packer supports multi-step artifact production and their example even uses docker to demonstrate it https://github.com/hashicorp/packer/blob/v1.9.5/website/cont...
I have found it useful to put all the emphasis on me. "Sorry, I have this issue with eating noises, so I'm going to step out for a bit". Nice people will generally pick up on this and work with me over time. I don't get so many defensive reactions any more.
I once didn't want to wait to get a ps/2 keyboard in the mail to set up an older PC so I made a quick and dirty adapter out of an arduino.
As a former Apple employee that left in part due to declining software quality (back in 2015!), and the relentless focus on big flashy features for the next yearly release cycle, I could not agree more.

I recently had to do a full reinstall of macOS on my Mac Studio due to some intermittent networking issue that, for the life of me, I could not pin down. Post-reinstall, everything's fine.
> People don't want to feel judged, and people will assume you are judging them (not the core issue with misophonia)

Really? Scott Alexander had a response to this very article pointing out that judgment does indeed seem to be the core issue with misophonia ( https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/misophonia-beyond-sensory-s... ):

> So it’s a sensory hypersensitivity, right? Maybe not. There’s increasing evidence - which I learned about from Jake [author of the Asterisk piece], but which didn’t make it into the article - that misophonia is less about sound than it seems.

> Misophoniacs who go deaf report that it doesn’t go away. Now they get triggered if they see someone chewing. It’s the same with other noises. Someone who gets triggered by the sound of forks scraping against a table will eventually get triggered by the sight of the scraping fork. Someone triggered by music will eventually get triggered by someone playing a music video on mute.

> If you trick misophoniacs into thinking their trigger sounds are something else, they won’t get triggered. In this study, scientists played people who hated chewing sounds a video (with audio) of someone chewing; unsurprisingly, they hated it. Then they played them a video of someone walking on squelching snow, but the audio track was secretly actually the same chewing sounds. It looked like the snow was making the noise - now the misophoniacs didn’t hate it!

> some misophoniacs say that they’re only triggered by specific people - usually those close to them. If some rando chews loudly, they’ll be mildly annoyed; if their brother does, they’ll flip out. Probably there’s a reasonable explanation here too, but at this point maybe we should also be considering a larger-scale update.

> even as misophonia makes me miserable - even as I absolutely fail to overcome it - I can’t help feeling like it’s sort of fake. I’d already noticed something like the thing about people close to me. The way I thought of it was something about righteous anger. The sound of the wind in the trees barely bothered me at all, because there was no one to get angry at. Sounds that were natural parts of the social order were nearly as benign - I didn’t like hearing the bus driver announce the next stop, but it was an inevitable part of the bus-riding experience and I was resigned to it. But if a group of gangbangers scared the kids out of the nearby park and put on loud music while smoking drugs, I would go through the roof.

He doesn't actually make the connection, but the way he describes his own experience with misophonia is pretty much identical to the phenomenon of e.g. compulsively checking a Twitter feed from someone you hate.
I often ask "So you say LLMs are worthless because you can't blindly trust the first thing they say? Do you blindly trust the first google search result? Do you trust every single thing your family members tell you?" It reminds me of my high school teachers saying Wikipedia can't be trusted.
is there a way to plug say Grok or Chatgpt API into LibreOffice writer or sheets? such that it can have write access to the documents?
Part of it is that women are less likely to join studies (especially risky ones that might impact their fertility or the health of their future children).

Part of it is that men are seen as disposable and it's more socially acceptable to exploit and experiment on men. It was also much easier to deal with men historically since once women got involved everything got a lot more complicated. This was especially true in the past where women were so infantilized that their husbands/fathers were put in charge of their medical care/choices. Those backwards attitudes had some strange consequences. On one hand women were seen as the property of men who could get their wives/daughters institutionalized or even lobotomized for not conforming, but at the same time women were also seen as delicate over-emotional creatures who had to be protected and whose modesty had to be preserved in ways that just weren't a consideration when men were involved. Basically for a large part of our history both men and women have been treated like crap by society and while things have improved in a lot of ways, our records and knowledge have been tainted by those old stupid biases and so we're stuck dealing with the fallout.
Isn't it fun to noodle on? lol
Turned out there was only room for about 4 oligopolist cloud providers.
A Figure Dash is perfect for phone numbers (especially when working with tabular numbers).
The newer XPS 13 comes with snapdragon x elite now (Qualcomm's answer to Apple silicon). Curious if anybody here runs Linux on one of those
Yes, many.

In case it wasn't clear, my post was sarcasm. I realize that sarcasm plays badly in text forums and on HN in particular, but it's the best way to express how angry I am that the US government is so utterly deranged when it comes to science.
A regular hyphen arguably looks better when used as a hyphen and not a minus.
I find the whole thing funny. There's not so much secret sauce going on here as much as you might think. I've been reading Daring Fireball for a long time but I think anytime you make this suggestion the automatic response is to think there is some shady cabal behind the scenes and that's just conspiracy theory stuff. Anytime someone makes a meta post questioning how HN ranks articles it almost always gets flagged because it's not really on topic.
This sounds like a healthy arrangement. Compensate fairly for overtime and those who want it will take it.
The point of this comment thread is that important Windows settings are scattered throughout many different interfaces beyond just the Settings app, and you can never be sure where to find what you're looking for, which results in a poor user experience. Off the top of my head, you have the Settings app, Control Panel, Device Manager, System Configuration, and Network and Sharing Center.
The first thing I do when I reinstall macOS is to disable most of the ”features”, services, and apps Apple added over the last decade. I can’t imagine how cluttered my digital life would be if I’d depend on all those useless toys Apple stuffed into the OS and abandons a few years later (looking at you, Dashboard).

My initial wish for Apple was to make macOS as bulletproof, lightweight, and bug-free as possible. But now I just want to use Linux on my M1 MacBook because of all the bullshit that’s going on in the US right now. It’s only a matter of time until the Trump administration will start to dismantle the American technology sector, beginning with the softening of encryption and the death of Advanced Data Protection I currently rely on on iCloud. Mark my words.

Like I’ve said in a couple of comments before in other threads, I’d love to switch to Asahi but without native disk encryption I just can’t. If my laptop gets stolen, all my files would be visible to the thief, and that’s a risk I’m not willing to make.
on apple card you can always pull up the real card info on the app.
Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada
No, it's really not. Joining words into a compound word enables the new compound to take on new meaning and evolve on its own, and if it becomes widely used as a compound it always does so. The term you're looking for if you care to google it is an "open compound noun".

A dog in the sun may be hot, but that doesn't make it a hot dog.

You can use a towel to dry your hair, but that doesn't make the towel a hair dryer.

Putting coffee on a dining room table doesn't turn it into a coffee table.

Spreading Elmer's glue on your teeth doesn't make it tooth paste.

The White House is, in fact, a white house, but my neighbor's white house is not The White House.

I could go on, but I think the above is a sufficient selection to show that language does not, in fact, work that way. You can't decompose a compound noun into its component morphemes and expect to be able to derive the compound's meaning from them.