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Advice: remove all slop and fluff from the website such as "Everything you need. Nothing you don’t."

Just state the information you want to communicate in the plainest and most straightforward way possible.

Is it true that contributors to homebrew need to know how to invert a binary tree?

You are exactly right. You are most likely not getting a pay cut just because your raise doesn't match inflation. It totally depends on how much of your money you are spending and what you are spending it on.

According to a 2017 study, approximately 38% of all children will be investigated by CPS by the time they are 18.

This seems outrageously high. The study says it is an "estimate". I'm willing to be their methods or assumption are seriously flawed. Would be curious if someone has looked into it.

People gatekeep actual work and save it for political favorites and everyone else on the outside is stuck cooking up bullshit projects. If you do manage to find work on your own, people will immediately start scheming to steal it

So this applies to even, say, mid-level developers? Wouldn't you get work assigned to you after you're hired, or do you actually have to hunt for your own projects, like you might in some consulting firms?

There's a lot of good ideas in Spring and there have been some outstanding engineers working on that framework over the past ~25 years. But it has accumulated so much baggage and relies on and perpetuates so many patterns that simply don't make sense anymore... I would love to see what the team would do with a fresh start. I wonder if they have or are considering doing a complete rewrite or starting something totally new for the next generation that will take us through the next 25 years of Java.

Last weekend I tried building an iOS app for pet feeding reminders from scratch.

Just start smaller. I'm not sure why people try to jump immediately to creating an entire app when they haven't even gotten any net-positive results at all yet. Just start using it for small time saving activities and then you will naturally figure out how to gradually expand the scope of what you can use it for.

Regarding the window manager and Finder; I had a better experience with the Windows equivalents way back on Windows 2k or even Windows 98 more than quarter century ago. Truly baffling.

Quantum computing-enhanced NMR could become a powerful tool in drug discovery, helping determine how potential medicines bind to their targets, or in materials science for characterizing the molecular structure of new materials like polymers, battery components or even the materials that comprise our quantum bits (qubits)

There is a section in the article about future real world application, but I feel like these articles about quantum "breakthroughs" are almost always deliberately packed with abstruse language. As a result I have no sense about whether these suggested real world applications are a few years away or 50+ years away. Does anyone?

Can you imagine trying to talk to someone face to face, but they are giving you a blank stare as random notifications and tiktok videos are being beamed inbetween their eyeballs and you.

It would be just like in the Dungeon Crawler Carl books (and probably other scifi/fantasy books)

Agree... this is an important blog. People need to press pause on MCP in terms of adoption...it was simply not designed with a solid enough technical foundation that would make it suitable to be an industry standard. People are hyped about it, kind of like they were for LangChain and many other projects, but people are going to gradually (after diving into implementations) that it's not actually what they were looking for..It's basically a hack thrown together by a few people and there are tons of questionable decisions, with websockets being just one example of a big miss.

There’s a difference between intellectually understanding it, versus actually seeing yourself tossed aside and cast out, while knowing that all the other cogs are already back in motion and pretty much fully adjusted to your absence.

Maybe I missed it, but are there any instructions on how to create them...e.g. how/where to draw the circles? It would be a fun activity with the kids.

"I do not wear my glasses while at the screen, as it's close enough that I don't have any issues."

This could be the problem, especially if you are close to 40 years old. You may be starting to develop presbyopia, which is typical. In the early stages you can still read and focus on closeup things fine, so you may not realize it is starting, but in the background your eyes are, in fact, straining a lot and causing headaches.

For a group that applies rationalism, they appear to have ended up committing very horrible and irrational acts.

Yes, also ironic how they were, per the article, very intrigued by the concept that ideas themselves could be like viruses but were unaware of how they seemed to be heavily impacted by that very thing, many times over.

attacker can use the cache geolocation method to pinpoint the recipient’s location

Agree, good writeup, but also a stretch to say they are "pinpointing" anyone's location.

That particular symptom is called cataplexy, and it's my chief narcoleptic symptom. You lose control of your muscles, either in part of your body or in all of it, and then you can't move for a while. Your mouth and face require muscles to move, so if they're undergoing cataplexy you won't be able to use those either

What if he fell facedown on something like a blanket and couldn’t breathe??

Note this is an opinion piece and Shaken Baby Syndrome has not been discredited or debunked as the author keeps claiming.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00247-018-4149-1

Abusive head trauma (AHT) is the leading cause of fatal head injuries in children younger than 2 years.

There is no controversy concerning the medical validity of the existence of AHT, with multiple components including subdural hematoma, intracranial and spinal changes, complex retinal hemorrhages, and rib and other fractures that are inconsistent with the provided mechanism of trauma

I think more than the specific prompts, I would be interested in how they came up with them.

Are these system prompts being continuously refined and improved via some rigorous engineering process with a huge set of test cases, or is this still more of a trial-and-error / seat-of-your-pants approach to figure out what the best prompt is going to be?

"These types of thoughtful personalizations and improvements are only possible if we study and understand how our users interact with Slack."

LOL

GitHub issues and projects

And I couldn't agree more. Well worth perusing if you (like me) usually only check the comments on HN.

And in classic fashion, of course the moderators locked it as "off topic".

There is no way to know what sources have been memorized vs which have made their mark by affecting other types of functions in the neural net.

But if it's possible for the neural net to memorize passages of text then surely it could also memorize where it got those passages of text from. Perhaps not with today's exact models and technology, but if it was a requirement then someone would figure out a way to do it.

Exactly...new competitor forming as we speak

There are a ton of websites that say it’s possible to create an MLS listing for a small fee, for a for sale by owner house.Are you suggesting there is some catch or that that is not actually possible?

Could someone please summarize what the expected timeframe would be? How long until leaded avgas is not used?

It's less of a popular choice for new projects than it ever was.

Totally disagree. I think it was at its trough of popularity in the Java 8 initial release timeframe around 10 years ago, when many companies were still stuck on Java 6 and other languages had moved way ahead. In the last few years, since around Java 17, there has been a ton of enthusiasm and I think it would be the best choice for a huge number of use cases.

Could you try one of the remote services like Better Help? (I have no idea if they have good therapists, I just see their name a lot lately).

Is there any downside to having a prepaid plan as opposed to a normal plan ? For example when the next year comes up, is there any additional hassle to continue with the same account and pay for another year ?

Yeah, genuinely curious for how many people in their 90s that are “put in a home”, does that change end up being the right move for them. Kind of wish the question was studied so people could make more informed decisions.