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jallen_dot_devon Why doesn't TypeScript properly type Object.keys?

> I must redundantly ensure you know this number is a number! Even though you can easily convert it to one if you need to, and move on! Yay

I don't get where you're coming from. Yeah you can easily convert something to a number[1], so isn't it a good idea to force a dev to do that easy conversion by emitting a compile-time error if they don't? Because if they don't, and the value doesn't get coerced correctly, then the code blows up at runtime.

[1] Except when you can't and you get NaN

jallen_dot_devon Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

> You can’t just limit the check to private subs because it’s not known if they are private or not at the time.

That's not necessarily true. Perhaps the status of subreddits is cached (because there's no reason to hit the DB 100 times/second to check if r/funny is private or public). But for a given request to a private sub, it would need to check each user.

jallen_dot_devon Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

Sure, but that type of traffic is expected and they can handle it with things like caching and autoscaling. I'm suggesting that a part of the system that usually doesn't get a lot of requests wasn't designed to handle a huge influx of requests.

jallen_dot_devon Reddit.com appears to be having an outage

Wild guess: visiting a private sub requires an extra call to a service/db to check if the user can view it. Normally there are only a small number of these checks because private subs were usually small communities. Now, many large subs having switched private is causing some poor mircoservice somewhere to get hammered.

jallen_dot_devon Weird GPT-4 behavior for the specific string “ davidjl”

Fair enough on the social activity aspect. So why is "upvote your fellow counting comrades" rule #1?

jallen_dot_devon Weird GPT-4 behavior for the specific string “ davidjl”

I know they're just Internet points but they are supposed to serve as a social signal that somebody has contributed (meaningful) content. Also some subreddits require a certain amount of karma to post. And finally, this activity is just useless spam.

I never implied it was such a big deal as to warrant your snark.

jallen_dot_devon Weird GPT-4 behavior for the specific string “ davidjl”

I'm sorry, as a large language model I cannot discuss The Patriots.

jallen_dot_devon Weird GPT-4 behavior for the specific string “ davidjl”

> ETIQUETTE:

> 1. If you're counting, upvote your fellow counting comrades.

Looks like a voting ring for farming karma. Not sure why reddit allows it.

jallen_dot_devon US urged to reveal UFO evidence after claim that it has intact alien vehicles

Not only that, but when they're here on Earth they get from point A to point B by actually traveling the distance through the air. Slow enough for us to see. You'd think these aliens with FTL technology would just appear to us as popping in and out of existence when they change position.

They seem a little too domestic. It reminds me of how ancient people thought the Sun rode across the sky in a chariot. Because how else would the Sun get around but the same way we do?

jallen_dot_devon US SEC sues Coinbase, one day after suing Binance

Technically the thing you hold and use is a transaction output, and once an unspent transaction output (UTXO) is spent it can't be spent again. So from that perspective it is consumed!

jallen_dot_devon A Student-Loan Payment Pause Led Borrowers to Take on More Debt

> Loan forgiveness means more income to you.

But is it more in real or nominal terms?

jallen_dot_devon A Student-Loan Payment Pause Led Borrowers to Take on More Debt

If people willingly burned down their houses, that analogy might begin to apply.

jallen_dot_devon Roblox: Ten-year-old spent £2.5k of mum's money without her knowing

Yes, if they didn't authorize the purchase.

jallen_dot_devon Roblox: Ten-year-old spent £2.5k of mum's money without her knowing

If you read the article, it's clear the mom wasn't familiar with the game let alone spends money on it herself. She said the game looked "innocent" and "very basic."

jallen_dot_devon Show HN: I made an iOS HN app to navigate large threads without getting lost

Not to mention pretty much anything these days can be reduced down to "flipping a bit." As a software developer I flip bits for my employer, and in exchange, they tell my bank to flip some bits in their DB.

jallen_dot_devon The bill of materials for the Apple headset leaked

fir wire

jallen_dot_devon AI Will Create More Developers, Not Less

It's not clear to me that the new "loom" won't just operate itself completely.

That's the problem with comparing this to previous tech advances. Past advances made people much more efficient at some task, but it still required the people to work the new thing. But now we have a new thing that might be able to work itself.

jallen_dot_devon AI Will Create More Developers, Not Less

It can learn from it's own users. People paste their code into GPT for context, so it'll see new patterns that way. People paste the error message that results from some bad code GPT spit out, it learns from context plus the error text what the correct code should be.

jallen_dot_devon AI Will Create More Developers, Not Less

It doesn't take 4 hours to code review a few lines of code for generating random QR codes.

jallen_dot_devon LLMs are not greater than the sum of their parts: researchers

Wouldn't that only be affirming the consequent if it were the following?:

> If it rains, I drive home. I drove home. Therefore, it rained. <-- logical fallacy

Because, for example, you could've driven home for some other reason. But that wasn't the statement.

> If it rains, I drive home. I didn't drive home. Therefore, it didn't rain.

How could it possibly have rained without violating the statement "If it rains, I drive home." given you didn't drive home?

jallen_dot_devon People are trying to claim real videos are deepfakes

Not to mention one could generate an overwhelming amount of fake video evidence, making it virtually impossible to prove all of it is fake.

jallen_dot_devon GitHub is down

It's not DNS
There's no way it's DNS

It was DNS

jallen_dot_devon Replying to comments about our web page design

Probably trying to copy the "cool"/snarky PR approach of dbrand[1] or Ryanair[2].

[1] https://twitter.com/dbrand/status/1626716812128952320

[2] https://twitter.com/Ryanair/status/1569268623235231748

jallen_dot_devon Deepest fish ever caught on camera off Japan

GCU Low Quality Tangent

jallen_dot_devon SEC charges crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and his companies for fraud

Maybe he really liked the tech.

jallen_dot_devon SEC charges crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun and his companies for fraud

It's simple: they thought they could later sell it for more. Celebrities hawking it is "bullish" because other people (suckers) will see the hype and want to buy their bags. Unfortunately for them, they were the suckers.

jallen_dot_devon Americans lost a record $10.3B to online scammers last year, FBI says

How is it person to person if there's a 3rd party facilitating the transaction? Why should someone be guaranteed to keep the money if they got it fraudulently, with the victim unable to dispute?

jallen_dot_devon Americans lost a record $10.3B to online scammers last year, FBI says

The scam I've only recently began seeing is the Paypal Invoice scam. You'll get an email directly from Paypal saying you owe money for an antivirus subscription or for some service or something.

I didn't fall for it because I figured anyone with a Paypal account can generate and send an invoice through Paypal to any email address. But I wouldn't be surprised if this scam gets a lot of people. It's a well known company, the email is directly from them, and it's a legit looking invoice saying they owe money.

jallen_dot_devon Americans lost a record $10.3B to online scammers last year, FBI says

Ok but why is it not reversible? Is there any good reason? Is it doing Proof of Work?

jallen_dot_devon Instagram Is Disabling Its NFT Features

> They solve a real world problem of ownership of digital assets in an interesting way. We need a solution here

Do we, though?