What is Hackers' Pub?

Hackers' Pub is a place for software engineers to share their knowledge and experience with each other. It's also an ActivityPub-enabled social network, so you can follow your favorite hackers in the fediverse and get their latest posts in your feed.

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most of you may never need to know this, but if you have a mechanical keyboard that occasionally dies when your mac wakes from sleep and you keep having to unplug it and plug it back in: go to System Settings > Privacy & Security > Wired Accessories and do this

A screenshot of macOS' System Settings app in the "Privacy & Security" pane after selecting the "Wired Accessories" item. There is a single setting, "Allow accessories to connect", with its value being changed to "Automatically allow when unlocked"
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There's a hot chocolate festival going on in Vancouver and I'm currently drinking one called "This is Not Matcha" and it isn't (it has other green tea powders as well as the requisite choc).

I feel it's my civic duty to participate in the festival as many days as possible

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Scheduled this weekend: new SadServers prices & offerings.
-Current Pro users keep their low price & all features.
-New Pro+ plan will get new features.
Responding to users' feedback:
-Introducing a new Business Pay-Per-Use plan.
-All subscriptions get bigger yearly discounts.

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I think some people have a problem reasoning with numbers. When a field is 80-90% male and we can compare its segregation to other similar fields it is now demonstrated that something is going on with gender and a field. Well explored and documented across the literature. This is not something I need to prove and I'm not going to waste my time defending this position when I could instead be spending my time working on the next steps around what helps shift this kind of problem.

@grimalkinaCat Hicks I've had too many conversations where pointing out that nearly half of women STEM grads have left those fields after a decade earns me a stock "well, we need to train more women for STEM careers then" and ... I'm like, my friend, my brother, you call yourself an engineer but I say "half of X falls unaccountably out the side of process Y after Z time", and your answer is "we need to shove more X in the front end?" If you said this in a meeting about making cat toys you'd be fired.

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Claude's constitution on "what pronouns should you use for Claude" > Perhaps this isn’t the correct choice, and Claude may develop a preference to be referred to in other ways during training, even if we don’t target this. We are not wedded to referring to Claude as “it” in the future.

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The nice thing about EICAR is that, when properly implemented, it should only produce a hit if it is at the beginning of the file (per the EICAR spec itself). Inclusions of EICAR elsewhere are amusing, but should absolutely be false positives that should be fixed.

The Anthropic magic string, by contrast, can appear anywhere. The chaos this enables is commensurately greater.

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오늘 흥미로운 걸 발견하는 운이 좋은 모양이네요. HN에서 보았는데, 결과물보다는 코멘트 첫머리에 링크된 블로그포스팅이 더 재미있었습니다.

글 초반의 어떤 문구에서 저는 부정적인 인상을 받았는데, HN에서 본 다음 코멘트를 읽고 조금 완화되었습니다.

I mean this pretty literally though - I'm not particularly interested in these questions. They've been discussed a ton by people way more qualified to discuss them, but I personally I feel like it's been pretty much the same conversation on loop for the last 5 years...

That's not to say they're not very important issues! They are, and I think it's reasonable to have strong opinions here because they cut to the core of how people exist in the world. I was a musician for my entire 20s - trust me that I deeply understand the precarity of art in the age of the internet, and I can deeply sympathize with people dealing with precarity in the age of AI.

But I also think it's worth being excited about the birth of a fundamentally new way of interacting with computers, and for me, at this phase in my life, that's what I want to write and think about.

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