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I have a feeling it splits by gender. I know a couple of professional programmers in that corner of the alignment chart, but they're not "bros".

The whole age verification thing is being pushed by one "techbro", because he wants others to deal with cleaning up his mess.

I had the same experience as the next 100 or so commenters here. Asked about how to do something in Win11, got the question closed as a duplicate because there was already a Win 8 version with an answer that no longer applied. But apparently I could "leave a comment" on the old answer.

They even have their own design system and CSS framework: https://design-system.service.gov.uk/get-started/

I can't speak for speed, but foreign keys and data type checking are on by default.

I think the OP wants duckdb.

The first two points are deliberate SQLite design decisions so they're unlikely to change.

My money is still on ARM. They, and their clients who produce the actual processors, have options to fight back if RISC-V ever becomes a serious competitor for, say, smartphones.

In what way do nurses and carpenters not contribute to a functioning democracy?

I would not underestimate the power of a fully mobilized USA. If we really need to, we can do a lot of things that would die to bureaucracy in peacetime - see WWII.

I don't think it's the javascript alone - what if sites don't want a third-party AI sitting between them and their customers?

Quote of the day from a post linked to by this one:

"When we opened up the server, we found no NVMe SSDs, no RAM, and especially no processors, which did rather explain the failure to power on."

What is the US legislation on this - I thought providers were already mandated to take action against distribution of CSAM, or is that only for public-facing posts?

This is about 1.0, which sounds ok - it basically allows providers a legitimate exception from data privacy laws to scan for CSAM in not E2EE communications. I reckon gmail, iCloud mail and the like already scan attachments for malware and emails for phishing scams, now they can also scan for child abuse.

cc 2.0 is a different beast.

The Sony one led to legal action and penalties. Also Microsoft themselves released an update that kicked the rootkit out.

I guarantee you, if your product is a mobile app, you're excluding more than 2% of the population.

"all" would be troubling indeed. I hope that someone can discover the mechanism, and whether it's depending on any settings like "Share browsing data with other Windows features" or any other settings.

AI goals, it seems: (1) the babel fish (2) the torment nexus (3) Horcruxes.

About that alignment issue ...

There's a famous post by Erik Hoel that calls the human version of this Aristocratic Tutoring [1] (Scott Alexander is unconvinced [2]).

In the 1980s, a researcher called Benjamin Bloom claimed a z=2.0 (that is 2σ) advantage for a combination of mastery learning (don't move on the the next topic until you've mastered the current one) and 1-on-1 tutoring. Later replications show there is definitely something going on, but the effect size is much lower, for example around z=0.7 in a 2020 paper [3].

I'm still open on AI tutoring, though the Dartmouth results look impressive. Someone please try and replicate this.

There's a saying that AI helps the best students get better, and the worst ones get worse. (Anthropic sort-of agrees [4].) It'll be interesting to see how that turns out.

[1] https://www.theintrinsicperspective.com/p/why-we-stopped-mak... [2] https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/contra-hoel-on-aristocratic... [3] https://www.nber.org/papers/w27476 [4] https://www.anthropic.com/research/AI-assistance-coding-skil...

As far as I know, replications showed an effect size that's still pretty amazing by educational standards but nowhere near z=2.0 (I think z=0.6 is the current best guess).

ACOUP, which is shared on HN regularly, has a series on fortifications too: https://acoup.blog/2021/12/31/collections-fortification-part...

To me, the fundamental problem is what Paul Graham pointed out here: https://www.paulgraham.com/startupideas.html

"The way to get startup ideas is not to try to think of startup ideas. It's to look for problems, preferably problems you have yourself.

Why do so many founders build things no one wants? Because they begin by trying to think of startup ideas. That m.o. is doubly dangerous: it doesn't merely yield few good ideas; it yields bad ideas that sound plausible enough to fool you into working on them."

Finding a problem _you have yourself_ also increases the chance that you understand the problem space.

It's probably chance, but this post is at the top of HN right next to https://weli.dev/blog/half-baked-product/. Seems like you don't need to be a young startup founder to get your dough in a twist.

At some point, RAM arbitrage will be profitable at small scale: buy a complete PC, rip the RAM out, dump the rest and resell online.

As if Meta glasses weren't creepy enough already.

> Like, imagine if some serious business leader, like, idk, Mark Zuckerberg, decided to announce that Meta was going to burn money.

Like ... pivoting to the "metaverse" and changing the company name to show he's serious.

And once you start paying the Danegeld, you never get rid of the Dane.

(Curious how the whole Hormuz situation will turn out.)

> Your keyboard shouldn't connect to the internet.

Amen. Glad to see that companies like that still exist.

The next question is why alphabet, apple, even Microsoft aren't opening their purses to push back on this? They're going to be the ones in court for false negatives.

They verified Linear B against a new tablet that turned up in a dig after the Kober/Ventris* solution had been published. It had pictures of jars with no or one or two handles, and the claimed Linear B for "two handled jar" and such next to the correct picture.

* Ventris' publication, but given Kober's contribution to the work they should really share equal credit. I like to think Kober would have got there on her own if she had access to the larger corpus that Ventris had (the Pylos tablets) and a comparable amount of free time and money available.

Yes. Somewhere in Claude Shannon's work, called the "unicity distance".