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"Anxiety. Depression. Withdrawal. Self-harm. These aren't just teenage phases — they're symptoms linked to social media addiction in children."

Seems like they couldn't write even three lines without a LLM.

"Not only can today’s journalists expect to finish their careers without competition from the Writernator—today’s parents can tell their children that they still need to learn to write, too."

OpenAI claims not to: https://x.com/aidan_mclau/status/1986255202132042164

Thanks, that makes sense in general. Do you know if these vulnerabilities have actually been exploited in the wild?

(also, on macOS specifically, Docker runs inside a Linux VM, so the shared kernel is the VM's kernel, not the host's. Are there known escapes from containers to Docker Desktop VM to macOS host?)

Should add (2020) to the title.

This seems to be the transcript of a speech given at ETech in April 2003, about why (Web)blogs took so long to emerge (original URL now returns a 404 so I'm using a IA link).

Great, even though it appears to work only with VS Code and JetBrains...

It has a waitlist and appears to be a fork to VS Code... But I will give it a try!

Specifically, I think it's a list of traits considered so universally shared across cultures that they are not worth mentioning when studying individual societies.

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Universals

It's really weird how HN changes the title sometimes... Here it removed the "How" at the beginning, I had to re-edit it.

Do you think there is an LLM involved somewhere?

I get your point, but I figured it would be easier to just not have the temptation than try to escape it. I favor minimal solutions that work (even if they don't fix the root cause) over things that require constant willpower.

Yes, I take my dumb phone to work, which means my relatives can only phone or text if they want to join me.

There is nothing to do on my dumb phone, not even games, so hopefully I don't feel the need to check it every 5 min :)

(Note: you should be able to circumvent the paywall by clearing your cookies.

If it doesn't work, the paywall pops up after the whole texte is loaded, so you can still read the text by disabling JS or using this one-liner:

`curl "https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/" > joy.html && open joy.html`)

(I decided to post the article when I realized that searching for "Linnainmaa" surprisingly didn't bring any result)

They have been programming for two months so they are not total beginners, they just have no notion of best practices. They already wrote two 300-line programs. The goal would be to have them read a codebase they didn't write, and optimize it.

I'm not looking for expert refactoring or sophisticated design patterns (they haven't even touched OOP), I just want to show them simple ways to improve their code.

Thanks! It's like an extended Feynman. It also reminds me of this: https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/12/08/a-debugging-manifesto

You're right to emphasize the looping it takes to solve bugs. Many students are not prepared for this.

Very interesting, thanks!

I loved this part: "Unfortunately, humanity's future is in the hands of [redacted]."

Google? or a person?

Yes, probably the best option at that point.

Thanks! Needs a GCP account though.

"Human subcultures are nested fractally. There's no bottom." (https://xkcd.com/1095)

It does, but not in the main view, which shows only the comment and date of the latest commit.

My mistake, I got the meaning of "polling" wrong (not a native speaker). What would be the proper verb then? I know we're not suppose to editorialize, but the original title ("What’s Wrong With 538?") seemed less informative.

It's true that most polls were wrong, and the HuffPost isn't the only one to blame here. But the author seems to imply that 538's _process_ was wrong because they were getting different _results_. For the record, the HuffPost gave Clinton a 99% chance of winning.

"It’s great to build a complex model and load it with empirical data like polls, economic reports and presidential approval ratings. But if the output of that model is implausible, it’s time to go back to the drawing board.

As a financial analyst at an investment bank, or a research analyst at an economic consulting firm, your job would be in serious jeopardy if you produced 538’s model output without a clear explanation of how those fat tails that represent an inordinate number of close to impossible scenarios could actually occur. A model like that just isn’t client-ready. Time to re-think those assumptions!"

Very nice, even though these are quite ambitious projects!

Like a small DB engine, or something like redis maybe?

Interesting, definitely too large for a single 3h session, but if splitted that would make a cool project.

Thank you for that, networking is often the blind spot when teaching Python... Also, you're right, it looks much simpler than expected. I'll have a look!

Very interesting per se, but needs to introduce several concepts (graphs, process management, etc.) that are too low-level for my scope :)