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Having to audibly name the religion/ethnicity of beneficiaries of charities is a pretty wild requirement for a US charity. That may have been the judge’s framing, but it seems off …

The fact that the organization is Jewish is stated prominently in the article, but I’m not entirely sure why that’s relevant. Many charities in the US have religious affiliations. …

Anthropomorphizing is likely a mistake, but Daniel Dennett’s idea that the most straightforward (possibly only practical) way to create the external appearance of consciousness is …

Tool Use Steering via Prompting. I’ve seen that work well also, but I don’t know if I’d quite call it an architectural pattern.

Yes, agentic search over vector embeddings. It can be very effective.

I’ve seen several of these discussions on HN, they’re never particularly illuminating. What always seems to missing: * Perspective of what it’s like working in other engineering di…

That and also why start with multiplication? String concatenation, addition, list concatenation all make more intuitive sense to a working programmer. What's a straightforward way …

I was also dissatisfied with existing task tracking apps, and built my own: t-do.com There are still many rough edges, but it’s extremely useful. One of the best features that a te…

I disagree. There are many operators that you’ll never use but if you memorize (^.), (.~), and (%~), you’re pretty much set for a lot of real-world software development. Per Kmett’…

It’s wild how much the green color grading used in the film made the daytime location shots look un-Californian.

After many tries I also got into the dashboard, but it's not that usable, constant error pop-ups.

Seems to be affecting functionality of their "Verify you are human" dialogs as well as Workers.

Customers of those services have a lot of considerations, as long as Nvidia doesn’t undercut the prices too much, I think no. Getting more developers creating more models that can …

I really appreciate the integrated fingerprint reader in these cases. I usually run with my laptop screen closed (with external monitor) but open it specifically to authenticate in…

Ah, that’s a painful situation.

Not to quibble, but VSCode (and GitHub for that matter) are part of my tooling, not part of any of my stacks. To me the former is tolerable, the latter is not.

Did anyone ever tell them they lost? Are you volunteering?

> 2. Implementation Language doesn’t matter > I’m controversially writing our autorouter in Javascript. This is the first thing people call out, but it’s not as unreasonable as you…

It’s not just the syntax. Regex isn’t directly composable (unless you just mash together strings). They cannot define nested structures, I.e. no recursion. They can’t maintain cont…

> We don’t have philosophically satisfying insights into the universe at subatomic scales. We have quantum mechanics: a set of equations that are good at predicting the behavior of…

Right on! I’m using PureScript with an Elm-like framework.