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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 str…

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 …

> 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"…

> 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,…

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 r…

> 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 whe…

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 baffl…

> 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 charac…

> 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 …

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 …

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 m…

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 b…

> 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 b…

> 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 ca…

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-…

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 engi…

> "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 neura…

Exactly...new competitor forming as we speak