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> not paying the most productive people equivalent to the productivity gains, i.e. software developers and the technical folk.

So now you are making hawthornio's point for him! Software developers are underpaid.
Don't just do something, stand there! is my favourite exhortation. If I ran my own company, I would have it plastered all over the office.
Yes, because we've had a few decades of those words no longer being considered impolite in all situations.
i opened the page and have no idea what i am looking at. good job!
How do you spot these people though? In a large organization, it's hard to know. Hell, even in my team of 10 people I only really know how much 2 or 3 of my teammates are doing.
Look up how much he has cashed out by selling shares since 2021. I just eyeballed it and it looks he's sold at least $2-300M easy. He probably has incentive packages. I've never seen a CEO carve out incentive/future awards as a pay reduction but it would be more meaningful
Edge is continually adding new invasive features. I've had the same policies set for Chrome for some time to remove any telemetry but Edge has a habit of turning things back on that were disabled and trying to push more junk. Chrome has not does this to me and I really don't think your point is accurate, at least not based on my experience and if you compare the two you'll definitely find Edge opting in to much more by default.
They paid people more and then laid them off to ... pay them less?

This seems an unlikely strategy. More like a conspiracy theory.
That is great information, but perhaps it would be even more interesting with a comparison focusing on supported features, standard library support, and so on.

MicroPython [1] is designed for "real" embedding, i.e. in the "embedded development" sense, on microcontrollers and so on and seems quite successful in that niche. Those are often a smaller target than a game running on either a phone/tablet or PC, which would seem to kind of invert things.

[1]: https://micropython.org/
> While I do like more pure FP languages very much, I don’t think there is all that much value in everything being a value besides some mathematical elegance. Besides, a throwing exception can be turned into a value via a try-catch block, and can be just as easily tested as if it were a value, so where is the downside?

It's really cumbersome in practice. E.g. when processing results from a database query (say), you probably want to call some callback for every row and then close the transaction and return the result of that callback. But handling exceptions around that becomes a significant pain. Once you've used a language with proper result types you don't want to go back, IME.
> You obviously believe the human brain is something supernatural which I do not (in fact, the past 10 years of AI boosts kind of convinced me our brain mechanism is vastly simpler than we thought

It's entirely possible that this statement applies to your brain specifically, but not necessarily to all brains
I’ve been using duck duck go for years and have been happy. I have not noticed any change in search results quality yet.
> I love negative-LOC commits! They warm my heart. As do the people who take the time to make them.

Agreed, but only if there's adequate test coverage and it's pretty clear how everything should work.

Otherwise it's a very stressful experience, working with a seemingly brittle and puzzling codebase.
Mostly because KDE Frameworks are OS frameworks done right (and what Qt offers as well).

GNOME used to be great as well, nowadays I no longer know. I was on the GNOME side back in day, even wrote an article on The C/C++ Users Journal advocating for Gtkmm.

It would be so nice if WinDev would have followed similar approach in rich C++ APIs, or more .NET love for that matter, instead of their deep love for COM with crap tooling for IDL files and C++ code generation.
You can't add nullness to types because that would break generics.

List<String!> will still have nullable methods and fields.
Is this a one person operation you’re describing or a commercial project developed by a team which is bringing in revenue? How long has it been in production and how long will it be developed and supported?

My concern regarding web Rust is focused on long-term viability and development speed, not performance which is a given or memory safety which is a standard in webdev.
This does not work in practice. You don’t have a perfect metric to evaluate performance, and managers at all levels have some margin of decision and they can interpret different people’s productivity differently. The effects on morale are also usually terrible and can reduce the productivity of the remaining employees while the best ones polish their CV and look elsewhere.

This idea is rooted in a philosophy where people are interchangeable cogs that can be evaluated purely on a one-dimensional axis, don’t have emotions, and where you don’t have competitors taking advantage of this by getting good engineers for cheap you fired for ideological reasons.
> The Japanese have some ideas which seem bizarre to the West. Like, companies in those positions might "adopt a son". Typically they're 25-30 year-old men who take on the name of their adopted families. They then run the business (although presumably not straight away). Seems weird, but look at the results.

Family-run companies don't have an agent-principal problem companies with a dedicated corporate management layer have, but they have a problem of inheritance: when the old owner+manager dies, the new one must be one of his children, but this is a very limited pool of potential successors. What if your sons are all rakes and louts?

Someone who loves working for your business and shows a lot of potential is a much better heir if he's willing to become your son-in-law. The whole "adopt a son" thing is just a bit of legal fiction the preserve the family name.
Eat more meat and less ice cream.
> $60 for a beautiful work of art that you'll remember for the rest of your life is the deal of a lifetime, whereas $60 for a forgettable, shameless cash grab is a complete rip-off.

This exactly. I can't remember what I paid for Factorio or Subnautica or Valheim but 100x what I paid still would be amazing value vs 1/100th of what I paid for Fallout 4 would still be too much.
Yup, an approach is a go-around with the option of landing. (Thanks Juan Brown)

However, landing is eventually assured.
There is one clear benefit to me. Targeting native platforms allow the use of RenderDoc or equivalent. This is of a tremendous help when debugging or profiling.

I've been working on a realtime softbody simulation in WebGPU for a while. After trying it in JS, C++ and Rust, wgpu is by far the best experience I got with WebGPU
GP might not be a software engineer and even if they were they might not be in a position to submit a PR.
from itself and other interfaces around.

And i didnt say client side, there probably is simply an api wrapper in between.

I also believe that this is how its moderation works. Chatgpt has not all "bad stuff" removed from its data, but there simply is an output filter.

The question always still is how to get from complex prompts to actual answers and boy have i tried complex prompts!

Of course im looking in from the outside with no validity to my claim but if i were to write a bot from scratch thats also how i would do it.
I think spending 10% of your time on sync meetings is totally expected (at least in scrum) and doesn’t feel too outrageous to me.

For myself I have learned the total amount is rarely the problem but when meetings are. I am most productive in the morning hours so I asked everyone to schedule sync meetings in the afternoon and I have told my team I will not attend dailies unless it’s requested or I have some action that needs to be taken. Works out pretty good so far.
because the hiring process is on autopilot and the leadership of the company has already exited / checked out so they're not incentivized to care or be in the weeds enough to preemptively put a stop to it.
Same! It's been great so far. I sure don't miss all the sponsored results at the top!
My money is on human life vanishing from existence in 500 years, a wet silent fart of universe that nobody ever caught a whiff of….
This comment should be pinned to the top. It's the only reason for all these tech layoffs: owners/shareholders don't want their profit margin to drop during a self-inflicted crisis and someone must pay.
Although I also have fond memories of computing in the 90’s, the fears in this article seem to me both a little paranoid and unrealistic.

Paranoid because ‘they’ will take away our freedom, a classic conservative fear reinforced by citing the Nazi minister of propaganda.

Unrealistic because there is no going back in history. The future seems to be headed to a mix of local and remote computing, I’ll grant that. Especially with the looming dominance of GPT etc that so far requires resources not typically available locally.

But what that means and how unfree we will become is not all that clear. I think the main problem with such a statement is that it mixes a political attitude with a capitalist one. It fails to appreciate how disinterested Big Tech really is in politics and people. It will do what it needs to do to make money now and in the future.

There is probably not a lot of profit in prohibiting all kinds of computer usage. Yes, moderation on behalf of governments will remain a battlefield. But in the end no one forced us to go from BBS to Facebook. Enough people wanted to and then things became enshittified. You don’t need to force us, people can make the commons a shitty place all by themselves.
On Windows I've used Tixati previously, because it doesn't do ads and has a rather pleasant UI: https://tixati.com/

On Linux, however, Transmission is great! Actually, Transmission also runs on Windows, so if the simpler UI is enough for you, then it's also a great choice across multiple platforms.
It will also be great to have video background enabler, dark mode and ublock origin extensions like on Android.
Reading the thread under that suggests I will be starting an airline shitlist effective immediately.
Then why these companies hire massively just a couple of years ago with the highest possible salaries in the world.

Nothing everything is a class struggle conspiracy.

Insisting highly paid but unproductive employees not be laid off is insisting on a form of rent seeking.
>> four dimensions

You're sure about that?
> Safari (WebKit) is the one that is the last remaining serious competitor against Chromium.

Safari isn't available on platforms other than Apple's (which have a minority share of computing devices on the market), so it's obviously not an actual competitor to Chromium based browsers.
It's not so much Safari compatibility, but WebKit compatibility. Anyone who wants their website to work on iOS has to test against mobile WebKit, regardless if their target users are on Chrome or Firefox. If these legislative changes go into effect, Webkit market penetration will plummet quickly to only those using Safari, and Apple will have less leverage to hold back on features that don't suit their App Store profits.
> Which specific unimplemented standards are preventing your work?

Still no proper Opus support, where it was available in Firefox 10 years ago.

Also bugs. My experience is that it's a common occurrence that I make a change, and it works correctly in Firefox and Chrome, but it breaks in Safari and I need a workaround just for it.
The big companies have debt, see https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/Investor/earnings/FY-2022-Q1... . It was often cheap for them to raise it in the past and quickly.
for the Switch they are using non-volatile flash storage. Even though "ROM" is in the name, it's still a flash based storage (dubbed HybridFlash by Macronix). I read somewhere that their stated lifetime is ~20 years, which means they won't last nearly as long as their NES/SNES forebears.
Exactly. Seem OP found a fun new tool and decided to go all in.

The euphemisms also are questionable.

> Everything seems to be moving to the web; I can see how many desktop-related headaches (like installing software) will become irrelevant over time

I've heard this since dial up days.

We GPU may be a natural progression sure. But it's not the game changer. (Bad pun)
Just reading the beginning, it looks like they're mainly complaining about proprietary OS vendors restricting users' choice in browsers through various shenanigans.

Linux users (for desktop systems) don't have this problem, and for mobile, Android users can easily install Firefox (or better yet, Firefox Nightly) through the Google Play store and set it to be the default browser.

Basically, if you want to have choice in a browser, don't use Apple products or a Microsoft OS. And even the Microsoft OS isn't that bad these days. Apple is now the worst offender in forcing you to use your computing the device only the way they want you to.
Thanks for all the advice, I think we're pretty much on the same page here. It's not hard for me to understand intellectually what can be done, but motivation is a strange beast that doesn't seem to follow logic.

And my employer has been amazing, truly amazing. They basically gave me free reign to find projects on my own that could benefit the company.

No I'm afraid I'm stuck at stagnation and if I don't find another remote-only job that allows me the freedom of work/life balance I've become accustomed to I will just have to suck it up and do some effin work. Which is exactly what I've been doing lately.

Using all the known techniques, pomodoro, timeblocking, dividing tasks up into smaller components, I have managed to do some work lately and it feels good.
There are several reasons for that:
- lack of knowledge how to maintain own servers on premises
- MASSIVE PR by a handful of top tier cloud providers to instill the notion that cloud is the only solution, the best one and most advanced technologically and attractive silk set wise
- hockey stick growth expectations of (past days) startups from investors, forming the mindset that it must be met from day one in deployment
- “no one got fired for buying IBM” managers/tech leaders mentality, where IBM is replaced with “cloud”
- difficulty obtaining true costs information of cloud vs on premises deployment. For example - a team of ~16 people already pays off the costs of dedicated sysadmin to maintain on premises servers
- etc.
Trustfall: How to Query (Almost) Everything
One of the best books about animal intelligence and personality is over 100 years old.

https://wikiless.org/wiki/Wild_Animals_I_Have_Known?lang=en
And the VR goggles help them read the minds of pilots about the speed in which they move their planes around on the ground, and when?

Move fast and break things has no place in aerospace nor aviation, just rolling whatever fancy new tech is there is not done for reasons. And this behavior made aviation as safe as it is today.
Inflation is just tge cover story.

2021 was the most profitable year for big corporations since 1950, with pre-tax profits rising to $2.5 trillion and after-tax profits surging 35%, enabling the 1% to finally overtake the middle class in share of overall wealth.

53% of price increases went straight to profit.

They've got you right where they want you.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/errolschweizer/2022/05/10/how-w...

> And yet STEM graduates were getting $200K+ for their first jobs. How is that collusion working out?

?? City traders can make millions, they actually get a cut of profits they generate.
Dear Mozilla, you're practically drowning in money, so do something with it. Like, have Firefox on Android support creating home screen borderless widgets with any webpage.

Oh, but Google isn't going to like it. Don't bite the hand that feeds you, I get it.
> aws could just change their name and avoid that.

But if you say Amazon or any of their subsidiaries. They are not going to rename Amazon to add 1 product to aws.

The wording is indeed difficult; for my taste to be something not considered abuse, it would need to be integrated in a bespoke product where it offers less than 5% of said products functionality. However that would allow aws. But I think it can be rewritten or added on-to by saying something like that it cannot be offered as a distinct service meaning you cannot say ‘we offer a search engine, here is elastic’; it can be a nocode product which allows you to add search and search apis from elastic by clicking them together if that nocode product also allows for many other features not offered in elastic. So some way to convey it needs to be integrated and not just a copy you can spin up.

However, that would be difficult and convoluted and hard to fight. That’s why I was thinking about adding mandatory FTEs if you use it to make money. That type of thing would simply have the aws lawyers not sign off using it.
I was with up up until your statement:

> Basically, if you want to have choice in a browser, don't use Apple products or a Microsoft OS.

I get the "Apple products" bit - Apple famously refuses to allow you to install your own browser engine under the hood on iOS. But Microsoft? Can you qualify that with some concrete examples?
For browsers specifically, one can select their own browser on iOS and MacOS as well.
I agree with you that they have the capacity to remember an image - but they're not compressing them. That's a fundamentally different thing. The argument being made by that class action lawsuit is that "this thing can reproduce image X so it's a compression algorithm and nothing more", which they are predicating on an exercise that is sneaky and dishonest, and only likely to hold water with someone who has a limited understanding of the tech and isn't paying very close attention.

I think it does go without saying that our legal system has made some pretty dumb decisions regarding tech in the past - we read here all the time about the patent system, which is damn close in spirit to copyright.

Again, yes, they can remember an image, but they are not remembering pixels, and it's not compression. The vectors you're referring to are not a smaller version of the data, nor are they a pixel representation or even a close derivative thereof. Sure, there's a connection between the latent space and the pixels, but I don't see how that's the same thing.

For those following along, (1) is the best paper I could find talking about extracting images from SD. I'm open to more resources, and I'm even open to being convinced I'm wrong, but not by intentionally overtraining a model and calling it 'compression'. That's a lie.

To take a step back here, is it really the incidental occasional regurgitating of an existing image that's got everyone on edge, or is that just an easier target than "this is disruptive so I want to make it go away"? I'm not saying it doesn't suck that this is gonna put a ton of people out of jobs; both my parents were professional photographers in the 80s. I get it. But like, let's talk about that. Not some orthogonal strawman.

And hey, just to get it out there. We might disagree but I'm not calling you dumb. I do appreciate your willingness to engage an opposing view - it's part of what keeps me coming back to HN.

1 - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.13188.pdf
Curiosity rover found a metallic meteorite on Mars
Its not about bitrate, its about sampling and advertising nonsense only Bats could hear.
I do a lot of systems engineering-level work on Linux and was surprised to see this title. The paper talks about how corporations behind commercial operating systems exploit their position and suppress user choice and use other shady tactics.

The title of this paper is a bit inaccurate it should at least say "... commercial operating systems".
Calling Carmack a credible expert is a bit rich. He claims to have read a handful of papers. He's yet to do any significant, successful work in the field.
Only if you assume that the change will not cause people to switch from Safari to alternative browsers, eg Chrome.
Proper airlines only please.
Anyone still maintaining Keybase?
Guess its a valid option. But first step is to find a running group in my near vicinity eheh
My Uncle is over the moon after hearing this news
On iOS it’s just the chrome, not the full browser.
This is some weird revisionism. The Reign of Terror was until the Fall of Robespierre, July 1794. The Armée des Émigrés was still going strong and represented nobles actively fighting with France's enemies to destroy the revolutionary regime. The Vendée uprising was facing brutal suppression at the same time, but also existed and had local nobles participating.

Voluntarily is a massive stretch. Even more so when you consider that many that returned after the Restauration tried to get "their" lands and titles back - so it was only the threat of violence that made them abandon everything and run.
Or hell, they could have taken the even-safer option and informed ATC they were going to hold until FedEx landed.

Regardless, I think it's too early to lay definitive blame until the NTSB report comes out.
They likely mean { X, Y, Z, T } three spatial dimensions and time which are four orthogonal dimensions.

That said, it makes the "moving in" redundant and is shy a few dimensions if you want to go full descriptive phase space diagraming given velocity and acceleration in each spatial dimension are missing.
No, this is a lightweight block cipher, requiring low resources. ChaCha20 is a stream cipher based around 64 bit operations and a large internal state. Ascon is more a replacement to AES equipped with a authenticated encryption mode (AEAD even). (Yes, technically Ascon also has 64 bit operations, but crucially not addition.)

ChaCha20 is an ARX construction. Ascon is Sponge construction (more akin to Keccak and all its versions and friends).
> Have the courage to not take off.

As the old old saying goes, better to be down here wishing you were up there than up there wishing you were down here.
Using ChatGPT to build System Diagrams – Part I – by aruva
That is sadly what I do now.
Would you mind supplying a source supporting that they’re drowning in money? Developing a browser on the functionality of chrome (especially in terms of security) is crazy imo, especially with a different engine. Sincere question btw, as far as I know they’re “non-profit” but they get a good bit of hate. I love the browser due to the customization/flags it offers while being up to date in terms of security. I haven’t put any effort into looking into them beyond that so I promise it’s not a loaded question, I’d be upset to hear they’re squandering their funds.
I bet on that too (and indeed should added ‘if we are still here’), however if that happens or not, we’ll see emotion rich AI actors way before that.
Presumably, the people who care about web would only install firefox on their iOS devices, while the people who don't care would just keep safari.

in other words, the chrome share of the iOS market would remain small.

So a product manager cannot just say that it works on chrome and forget about safari. Unless, somehow, google manages to boost chrome's iOS marketshare up and above safaris'!
And how would you define "commercial operating system"? Is Android one or is it "Linux"?
Looks good. My friend launched Flagsmith a few years back too -https://github.com/Flagsmith/flagsmith. I have used it on a few of my own projects and it’s been great/easy to integrate
Maybe this is about battery?
Way to lower the standard of conversation while displaying your IQ for all.

If you see past your comments, the sources are high standard left leaning ones.
When clicking on a link in any browser, if the URL matches an app that you have installed - it will switch to the app rather than stay in the browser. So anything reddit.com will bring up the Reddit app.
The other comparison would be memory and disk/ROM usage.

Also, micropython, in its hundreds of thousands of lines of code, supports quite a number of microcontrollers and boards; I suspect the core language is smaller, or counting lines used for a single build target would drop it considerably.