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Kaotique··on Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan
They will lose the individual subscribers for sure. My day job can pay up to the roof for ai access in this climate but personally I cannot.
Kaotique··on Does X cause Y? An in-depth evidence review (2021)
I think a lot of these kinds of studies are not really about objectively studying a phenomenon but trying to prove a predetermined point. The study is designed and adjusted until it proves what it should prove. Then it's wrapped in a nice news headline which goes away with all the details and subtleties and used for political or economic gain. Reproducing the results is not interesting and not funded. Other studies are then using these results as sources to stack the house of cards even higher. I think this does a lot of harm to science as a whole because a lot of people disregard all scientific results as a result.
Kaotique··on A standards-first web framework
It is interesting, but I really dislike the way it tries to bash every other tech in the blog post, on the homepage and in the docs itself. The tone is very confident, but it will put you open to a lot of scrutiny.

Instead it could really use a lot more explanation on how it works. If you make comparisons make sure they are fair. The image "JavaScript mixed together" and "Strict separation of concerns" is just comparing apples with oranges. Multiple times in the docs it compares a huge complicated JSX like component and replaces it with 3 lines of html and 3 lines of css. I don't believe that it does the same thing.

Some of the claims are strange. It praises standard HTML but apparently you have to use some custom Markdown syntax to write it. How does that add up? And on top of that it also introduces new syntax for loops and variables.

This could all work perfectly fine. But my suggestion would be to talk more about how it works and what are the advantages and less trying to bring down competitors. It could use less grand claims and focus more on what it really does.

Kaotique··on I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag
In my scouts group we used to organize a father and son police, robber and fence game in the woods at night. Robbers had to transport logs to the fence to gain points. Every player had a string round their arm and you could wrestle the players from the other teams to get it. It was very cool to see the boys battle each other and see dads wrestling other dads, older brothers and scout leaders. Or sneaking in the dark with their dad carrying the logs. It was a real father and son bonding experience. Great memories.
Kaotique··on Beijing criticises Netherlands’ move to block ASML exports to China
It is just a delaying tactic. ASML is 5-10 years ahead in their technology so it will take a while for China to catch up. Which will grant the USA some extra time to build its own chip industry and not be dependent on two or three other countries.
Kaotique··on To revive Portland, officials seek to ban public drug use
It seems trying to solve the homeless drug addiction crisis is putting the cart before the horse. Why are there so many homeless drug users in the first place? Any real solution for the problem would be to prevent people from ending up like this.

If you fall out of the rat race in the US you are screwed. No job, no insurance, no health care, no house, no car followed by homelessness and drug use. After all that it would take an insane amount of effort to get you back up to the ladder.

I know socialism is the big scary word in the US, but socialist European countries mostly prevent people from falling down the ladder that far and fast and the amount of homeless and drug use is significantly lower over here.

Kaotique··on Rapid Covid tests miss 90% of asymptomatic cases
In the end it turned out that common sense has always been right. The more sick you are the easier it is to spread and detect. The tests just detect and confirm the obvious.
Kaotique··on Bluesky now checks against this array of slurs when creating a username
Must be a fun morning for the devs to come up with a list. Not very complete as of yet.
Kaotique··on Indian developer fired 90 percent of tech support team, outsourced the job to AI
He closed the thread with a recruitment call for open positions. A company who treats their workers like garbage. No thanks.
Kaotique··on 3M reaches $10.3B settlement over PFAS contamination of water systems
Does it also stop them from polluting with the PFAS alternatives like GenX?
Kaotique··on Water heavily polluted with PFAS in 15 km radius around Dordrecht chemical plant
Also mentioned in the article is that this company did know that about the toxic effects of these chemicals but just ignored it or kept it secret. They know it is toxic but still choose to dump it in the river because it below the limit or there is no limit.
Kaotique··on Telly Is the First TV Paid for by Brands
That is not the definition of dystopian. This could have come straight from a Black Mirror episode.
Kaotique··on Telly Is the First TV Paid for by Brands
Sure they are somewhat transparent, but is the average person really going to read all the fine print?
Kaotique··on Ask HN: I won't have Internet access for months, How could I use my time?
Do you understand that OP lives in the city where the fighting is taking place? This advice is very unrealistic on several levels.

Other people right pointed out to download some e-books.

Kaotique··on Some employers have decided to build their own housing for workers
Good luck selling that house in a company town to anyone outside the company.
Kaotique··on Show HN: GPT crushes my high score in 2048.io
AlphaStar or AlphaGo were trained on thousands of games and played hundreds of thousands of games to learn what works and what doesn't. This model is told the rules of the game and knows how to use the 4 basic inputs. I don't think it has any notion of strategy, good or bad moves.

But maybe with a feedback loop it will improve.

Pretty cool example though to see its limitations.

Kaotique··on Show HN: GPT crushes my high score in 2048.io
Besides that you need to predict where the next number can and should spawn. If you don't figure out the strategy for that you will never get a decent score.
Kaotique··on Show HN: GPT crushes my high score in 2048.io
It is not building towards a corner which makes it super weak to random new numbers appearing in bad places.
Kaotique··on Show HN: GPT crushes my high score in 2048.io
2048 spawns new numbers randomly on the board. A human player uses that information to determine the best move.
Kaotique··on Tailwind CSS v3.3
I've tried them all.

Vanilla CSS, SCSS, BEM, Bootstrap, Styled Components, different kinds of CSS in JS solutions and I still prefer Tailwind over the other methodologies and libraries because I don't have to think about abstractions and naming things. Abstractions are huge foot gun in frontend development because it kills all flexibility. With Styled Components or similar libraries you have to wrap all your components with all kinds of variants that inherit properties. Composition over inheritance is a huge benefit of Tailwind. The big problem with CSS is the specificity and if you ever worked on a real big project with BEM or vanilla CSS/SASS it will eventually become a huge mess of specificity and more and more specific nesting of class selectors to override other styles that you don't want. With Tailwind you can just add exactly what you want, nothing more, nothing less.

Sure the html is "ugly" but that part is invisible.

It is also very likely your bundle size will be smaller because it only adds the CSS for the helpers that you really used.

Just my 2 cents I guess. People should use what they like.

Kaotique··on Show HN: Atmos – Everything you need to create color palettes
Looks great. I'll try it out later.
Kaotique··on Ex-Meta recruiter was paid $190K ‘to do nothing’ ahead of mass layoffs
If you are a $190k recruiter you should not be that surprised large orgs are like this. Meta wanted to recruit people, hired a recruiter and then higher ups changed course. Shit happens. Count your blessings and coast will ya?
Kaotique··on Tell HN: I stopped caring about personal development in tech after seeing GPT-4
If you are writing code as if you are a prompt yourself: specs in, code out. Then yes, I would get worried.

But most developers do and know much more than that. They have domain knowledge, understand the relation between different systems and understand the codebase as a whole, not just a specific file or function that does one specific thing.

Don't give up. Try to use this new tool to improve your knowledge and use it to you advantage.

Kaotique··on Hyundai promises to keep buttons in cars
Standardised physical controls are one of the best things car designers have ever done. When I did not own a car I rented them on a regular basis. It is amazing that you can just step into a car that you have never driven before, flip some familiar switches, turn some knobs and press some pedals and be on your way. Throwing all that away for some fancy touch screens is just a waste.
Kaotique··on Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought
Too bad the biggest violator also created the biggest browser.
Kaotique··on I gave GPT-4 a budget of $100 and told it to make as much money as possible
Do affiliate marketing, but don't actually do it, talk about GPT-4 and rake in the investor cash. Seems to sum up the current craze perfectly.
Kaotique··on My startup banking story
How does that even happen? Don't they have salaries to pay or marketing campaigns to run, pay rent? How can he sit on a pile of money and still grow the business?
Kaotique··on Why do modern pop songs have so many credited writers?
You can buy and sell royalty rights. Artists have sold all their rights for huge sums of quick money while the buyers hopes to earn it back over time.
Kaotique··on Professor writes history essays with ChatGPT and has students correct them
Text books also don't have a 100% correctness.
Kaotique··on The Dutch benefits scandal: a cautionary tale for algorithmic enforcement
I was also contacted multiple times by people who can help fill in the WBSO forms. It is not that hard to do it yourself.

A recent one is the STAP budget where every citizen can get 1000,- for education and millions went to get rich quick courses run by shady influencers.

Offer free money, people will abuse it, but if you crack down on fraudsters you will probably destroy some innocent people in the process.

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