I had an issue with drag and drop which to me is just related to a very crappy UI.
I have to drag and drop my file exactly inside my small chatbox, and if it's in another place, it won't work. Such nonsense.
Introducing the two bit weight! Now you can pack all your uniform greyzones into the variable name. Save memory, process yoir dara faster on smaller chips! We can retrain them we have the technology !
Kessler cascades as depicted in Gravity aren’t really possible [1]. Instead, a Kessler cascade would proceed linearly, within a tight orbit, and over the course of decades if not centuries. In LEO, the timeline for a Kessler cascade is on the order of natural decay times.
It's comments like these that sadden me. It's this mindset that make me pessimistic about the long-term viability of humanity as I think it is shared among many people. When we (individuals/groups/society) don't plan far ahead (even for the loosest sense/meaning of the word "plan"), that will tend to lead to short-term benefits with long-term detriments. That even applies even for things that can occur past our lifespan. In my opinion, we should strive to benefit/help our decedents. Climate change is the most obvious case of this, but it applies to other cases like solar flares on the scale of the Carrington event or greater or like Kessler syndrome here (both perhaps on the order of hundreds of years). If Kessler syndrome is a legitimate concern to be a problem in the not crazy distant future, we shouldn't dismiss it outright just because the issue is unlikely to be a problem within our lifetime.
There's no incentive to do this, it's politically untenable to plan that far ahead. The beauty of humanity is we're always changing and evolving because we only do things within the scope of our lifetime.
The curse of humanity is having a brain that lets us think too hard about what we want to be rather than acknowledging what we are which is a bunch of mortal animals with finite time spans that like to fuck, make babies, raise families and occasionally we come together and do shit together in the form of work so we can further those three other priorities.
Legislation would certainly require political will, which we don't have now for tackling anything on such a time scale. To tackle the problem through laws and government enforcement, it would have to become politically tenable at some point, but how would we go from where we are now to something that is closer to this? It's difficult to say with any confidence. But I do know politicians are still human, influenced by their biases and beliefs inherited through biology and life experiences. If our future politicians are to grow up in an environment in which a larger (than today) proportion of people care about problems on a longer time scale, they are more likely to care as well. Consequently, a larger proportion of individuals getting into politics will care about these types of problems, increasing the likelihood of them being addressed.
In parallel but as a separate point, fewer people will be willing to use products or services provided by organizations that they believe are doing wrong or harm by contributing to such problems, thus making it less profitable within capitalism. We already see this to some degree today (Harry Potter comes to mind). Even if the reduction in customers and profit is small, it would decrease compounding and ever so slightly disincentivize the company from making such a pursuit.
It's impressive how adaptive humans are, I must admit. We are quite good at tackling problems we see right in front of us if we set our minds to it. But that doesn't mean we should dismiss problems that are not causing an issue right here and now. We shouldn't wait until it becomes an actual problem because there could be irreversible consequences (or rather, we cannot reverse on reasonable timescale).
> The beauty of humanity is we're always changing and evolving because we only do things within the scope of our lifetime.
This is just simply not true. For thousands of years, humans have done things that are meant to endure beyond our lifetimes - from building monuments like the the pyramids to conducting scientific research to creating art. Our ability to look beyond the here and now is actually one of the defining characteristics of humanity.
We better make double-sure than any leftover value past your life is purely meted out through hereditary lines and couldn't possibly benefit any but a tiny minority of people. Like, if you had three houses and two kids at death, there ain't no way some poor fool is getting that leftover house for free!
That's what they thought in the 70s when they discovered climate change. Look where we are now. Is basic concern for others a sin in our current world?
We're living out the consequences of a system where the Nash equilibrium is everyone maximizing their individual benefit at the expense of all else. And that extends to being an unapologetic jerk--as long as that face looks like a stepping stone, climb on. And screw future people and animals.
You're right, but for someone like me who hate feel hunger just 2 hours after a big mac meal, I must take 2 or 3 simple cheeseburgers + the big mac meal to feel ok until diner. It costs me more than $15. I don't go there anymore by myself unless there is no other options left.
What you are describing is like 1500-2000 calories even if you get a diet soda. At least you'll have to agree that it isn't typical for a person to eat this much in a single meal at mcdonalds.
Agreed, I'd just like to complement vibe coding feels like spamming retarded Mr Meeseeks hoping they get get the job done. It's _probabilistic programming_
Thanks a lot for that list ! It matches pretty much what I imagined.
On a side note and coming from high-level languages, D is the easiest to learn IMHO, as it is very dev-friendly, mature enough and has a good interoperability with C libraries.
I considered for a long time nim for its syntax and "low-levelness", but my lack of knowledge in low-level languages made the learning curve too much steep for me. I think I'll switch to it when I'll have more experience.
I totally dislike notebooks in the first place for a totally different reason. I'm really attached to my keyboard shortcuts, when I'm in a text editor or an IDE I have one specific "layout", but in the browser another. Some of my text editing shortcuts conflict with those in the browser (looking at you, ctrl-w for example).
I don't want to adapt, the shortcuts in the browser remain in the browser, and same for text editing, no overlapping.
IMHO we should always architect code to take advantage of human skills.
1°) When there is an issue to debug and fix in a not-so-big codebase, LLMs can give ideas to diagnose, but are pretty bad at fixing. Where your god will be when you have a critical bug in production ?
2°) Code is meant for humans in the first place, not machines. Bytecodes and binary formats are meant for machines, these are not human-readable.
As a SWE, I pass more time reading than writing code, and I want to navigate in a the codebase in the most easy possible way. I don't want my life to be miserable or more complicated because the code is architected to take advantage of chatbot skills.
And still IMHO, if you need to architect your code for not-humans, there is a defect in the design. Why force yourself to write code that is not meant to be maintained by a human when you will in any case maintain that said code ?
Yes, with a residential/mobile proxy. Russian proxies are cheap because they're blocked or heavily scrutinized by many interesting networks, due to the rampant and unpunished misbehavior of some people in Russia.
Would it make any sense at all for a government agency (DOGE) to buy shady residential proxies in order to log in to their super-admin accounts? No. Nearly every government bans foreign IP addresses from accessing internal systems. That leaves the question: why did that log-in attempt happen? There may be another explanation, but the only thing that comes to mind is that someone in Russia using a mobile internet connection tried to log in but forgot to enable his VPN before doing so.
I don't see a legitimate reason to require no logging either. If you're investigating things, you want your activities logged in a way you can't alter because it demonstrates how you found the evidence, and that you aren't just making things up.
Why would a representative of a US government agency use a Russian VPN with legitimate, freshly created login credentials? I'm confident this is against all the cybersecurity rules in place.
I also don't understand why the HN comment section is full of people trying to make excuses or explanations.
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