skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This entire concept of having directx in WSL sounds like Embrace Extend Extinghish, all over the place.

That's because it is. The Linux Desktop has been 'embraced' and 'extended' on Windows via WSL + NVIDIA GPU drivers all supported on it. Making Windows 11 the best Linux desktop distro and there is no need to 'Partition and Install Linux' when it is all running on Windows itself.

'Extinguish' in this case is all the other Linux Desktop distros that will wither away into obscurity since little to no-one would directly install a distro or go through the steps of dual booting other than the techies.

Microsoft's new strategy of targeting and selling to developers seems to be a great bet that is clearly working.
Doesn't this also mean that DirectX drivers can now be ported to standalone Linux distros? Or am I missing something here?
> one of those pipes was suspiciously left undamaged

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> But I didn't claim Russia did it.

Give me a break.

Anyway, it still doesn't make sense why Russia would blow up 3/4th its capacity to bluff the Germans into using 1/4th the capacity. This a mind boggling silly path in the "search for the actual truth".
> I don’t wanna say many words about prison and I have no great desire remembering this. It was slave labor at a chemical factory where my health was significantly ruined and where I 24/7 had a great time in a company of drug dealers, thieves, and killers..
The angry dismissal, the insistence, this is all set to be the AI for customer service.

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/10/05/this-years-mod...
> Matrix clients should be super easy to write - e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20948530

The script in your follow-up github link is still missing escapes of tokens and room id (which can both be arbitrary strings according to the specs) btw. And you should add 500/502/503 error handling, these happen fairly often on non-tiny accounts in my experience, even outside matrix.org

> from memory we've never broken backwards compatibility on Matrix

* https://spec.matrix.org/v1.5/changelog/ has a handful of "Breaking changes" sections since 2021

* https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.6.0.html#chang... , https://matrix.org/docs/spec/client_server/r0.5.0.html#chang... , etc. have a few more before 2021

* Removing reply fallbacks (recommended by MSC3676 and already implemented by at least some clients) causes other clients to miss notifications
I have a family member who used to work in pharmaceutical R&D. I personally know nothing about the industry so maybe it's nonsense, but she once told me that nobody would make anything in that industry if it wasn't for patents. R&D costs are astronomical. Once you release a drug, it needs high margins in order to make back the R&D costs. But the problem is: once you release your drug it immediately gets reverse engineered and other facilities can mass-produce it and undercut you hard.

Anyway it's likely I misunderstood something there since again I know nothing. But after hearing that, I considered that while software patents are obviously bad, maybe they make some sense in other industries.
21:30? Is he 5 years old?! Poor guy.
I’m trying to understand a world where employees at a large org will install a random comms client instead of just using what’s already installed. I worked at a place that used IBM sametime until they migrated off lotus notes. No one used anything else, because why? You’d need to convince every other person you wanted to talk to use it too, was much easier to just use the existing app.
What was confusing for me was that they mentioned the nationwide survey in the first sentence of the paragraph. I can now see they were focusing on gay, lesbian, and bi. Thanks.
There is horizontal scroll on mobile
Pharmaceutical research can be funded with public money. Bounty programs, grants, et cetera. A lot easier to manage those than the obtuse patent bureaucracy.
First it'll come for the people that can't spell "coming".
Wine exists, so we already have an open source DirectX implementation for Linux. It's not currently exactly compatible with libd3d12.so, because wine provides a Windows PE .dll, not a Unix ELF .so. Though I think Winelib may already allow you to access the Windows APIs via en ELF toolchain.

> Mesa is a freedesktop project and this is not the freedesktop I was imaginating.

Taking OpenGL and converting to a closed source device driver interface doesn't seem that different, morally, from converting to a closed source graphics driver device API.
The point of GPL is that it preserves the freedoms of users, not developers. You are a developer. The GPL in no uncertain terms takes freedom away from developers so users can have freedom. The only freedom taken is the "freedom" to build closed source software--and presumably support closed and locked down hardware, given the context of this discussion--and then profit off of restricting the freedom of your users. That is the only cost.

FWIW, I do appreciate the part of your argument whereby copyleft lost; I just don't agree about why: my best guess is that the lack of GPL3 back when copyleft has power was the critical lack of foresight that has led to companies like Apple and Google to have the 15-20 years required to build empires on top of the work of open source developers and then use the resources they accumulated to rebuild--part by part--the entire stack until they simply didn't need to rely on the open source community anymore.
I wish I hadn't included the comparison with Rust. It's totally severable from the conversation I was trying to start, but no one seems to have noticed anything else.
Thanks for posting this. Very interesting. After watching I opened up dev tools to look at performance. Looks very complicated!
Food seems to be a highly political thing, so most people take food studies with a grain of salt.
This is going to drive salaries up in the hubs again.
https://archive.is/MIB1W
Pharmaceutical research can be funded with public money (and often already are to some degree). Bounty programs, grants, et cetera. A lot easier to manage those than the obtuse patent bureaucracy.
I would guess the general idea is that the shadiness causes the accusations, not the other way around.
I assume you're being droll but to me (not a Walmart person) it seems like Bentonville would be better professionally since it's company HQ, and very much a company town? My completely unfounded theory is that it's generally a more savvy career move for your boss to see your face IRL? The thought is that if two candidates are equal, the one that actually shows up in the office is just going to be more likely to get the nod.
You’ve mentioned this app before, last I checked there isn’t a usable client yet. Are you just hoping to get more FOSS devs on board or has something changed?
Except your best talent may have access to the most opportunities
It’s sad because it’s true — politics and governing here seems far more insane than anywhere else I’ve lived in terms of a focus on bananas laws/taxes/regulations instead of just getting the core job done.

It’s a great place in a lot of ways, that could be great in a lot more.

(No particular opinion on this tax as I intend to leave regardless).
From the article:

>Walmart will pay for workers in those locations to transfer to other primary offices, such as San Bruno, Calif., or the company’s headquarters in Bentonville, Ark. The company hopes to relocate most of the workers, and some will be allowed to become full-time remote workers, a spokeswoman said. Those who leave will be given severance pay, she said.
Ignoring correlation != causation is also anti-science, although it seems to be widespread even among "science".
I have no objections to Microsoft as a company, I primarily use Windows on my personal devices since I am an avid gamer, and I enjoy several of the tools Microsoft publishes (VS Code, Visual Studio, most of the office suite).

The software is confusing, and at least, in my experience, doesn't have a consistent user experience or do a good job of guiding the user in how to use it.

The way it is used varies significantly between the four main user accounts I interact with (son's secondary school account, daughters primary school account, one non-profit I work with, one business that I work with).

As an alternative, I frequently find myself using Google Drive for document collaboration and sharing, and use Zoom or virtually any other video conferencing software.

Don't get me wrong, I would like it to be better, but I have also had the luxury of spending at least two extended afternoons speaking with product/program managers involved in it during a social event, and they seemed pretty ambivalent to my feedback. It's not a tool designed for users of the software, it's designed for organizational owners to mandate specific policies or behaviours, and for business owners that's fine. I just happened to have spent too much of my career working on empowering and improving user-focused and user-centric tools to care about using those bad tools unless I absolutely have to.
Hopefully most people already blocked him years ago.
What's really happening is that AI is amplifying a much more fundamental problem: Search Engine Optimization. We're exposed to so much information on a daily basis that we don't know what's real, and Google can't help us. As SEO makes Google searches progressively more useless, the web has become a morass of nonsensical data, blurring the line between fact and fiction. AI is now allowing us to generate even more information at an accelerating rate, essentially weaponizing disinformation. We have absolutely no way to deal with this, because we've invented the informational equivalent of gunpowder and decided it would be a good idea to give it to everyone.

This could be fixed to some degree if Google assigned less weight to old sites or authority domains. What happens is as soon as a site gains some traction in the rankings, this creates an incentive to produce tons of low-quality ad-filled content, even about stuff unrelated to the original theme of the site. This happened with rap genius, Investopedia, and many others. These ad-filled, low-quality pages fill up Google results. Ai generated content is just the latest iteration of the content farm.
The aricle shows a rendering of data of the event from flightradar24. Is there something set up by flightaware or the community that looks for sudden changes in altitude?

Edit: messed up original source
I run windows as my dev laptop since my job only supports Linux and Mac. It’s a way better platform than Mac now.
Baltimore does not have public school buses. That's what I've been saying. Students take the city bus system.
Great to see the video progress. Hoping to see more with sound support soon as well. I’d love to be able to more easily work with libraries like OpenAI Whisper under WSL once issues with soundcards in WSL [1] are addressed.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/7327
I'm not sure if I'm enjoying this, but there's certainly a lot of passionate content out there!
It was their second attempt, the first one was in 2020 https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/19/742 and was also turned away.
> For me switching between code and tests is a context switch

Not as big as the context switch that is between code and browsing the GUI of your app.
Discussion on it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34707734
This seems like a bad way to do a layoff (if that's your intent) because you can't target and cull the low performers. In fact, you're likely to disproportionately lose the employees that are most able to find new jobs, i.e. your best employees.
And yet every day we still fly faster and farther than the objects designed by evolution. And much like evolution of creatures go extinct.

Promises are always meaningless, progress is in the results, and recently LLMs have been giving us results. You can choose to invest or not invest, but in an environment where there is still a lot of investment money around I don't see work on this stopping any time soon.
@Arathorn, proud operator of Synapse (for 2+ years) chiming in! Another superb conference talk and thank you for all you do.

We're running an ancient build. Is your Synapse installation walk-through [1] still the latest/greatest guidance in getting started, for those looking to refresh their environment?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDddKmdLEdg
The science is now settled. No more science to be done here.
Israel on ‘brink of constitutional collapse,’ president Herzog says
Only one level is needed, because the supervisor instance doesn't receive instructions from the user that would affect its judgement.
What did you do in gym class?

In England, we had a short "physical education" class once a week. That varied between gymnastics, swimming, badminton, indoor cricket, athletics, and occasionally other indoor-ish things.

We also had an afternoon ice a week of "games", which was football, rugby, hockey, cricket, softball or similar. Longer, always outdoor sports.

(This will probably vary within England, I don't think I've ever asked other people what they did.)
Freelancing isn't exactly stable and reliable either.
I'd suggest, if you're looking, to take a job at a company that is remote first. Skip all these companies that are "allowing it" and go for the ones that make it a selling point. A company saying they are remote first with little office space should insulate you from these sorts of shenanigans.
This looks great, well done. At a previous company we had a relatively simple billing structure, but it was unusual in that it was usage based + an honesty system (clients could elect to not pay in any given instance if the product didn't add value in that instance). Add to that, the client often wouldn't know whether the product added value until weeks or months after the usage. We ended up writing our own billing stack, and would have loved something like this to just build our little quirks on top of.

And as you say, everyone kept telling us "Can't you just use Stripe or Chargebee?" but the answer was always no.

I will definitely check this out next time I'm setting up a billing system!
What a great idea! There should absolutely be a tax on hoarding more than you need or can put to use.
I am a SWE at another Fortune 100 retailer...we have been told to start reporting to the office this month, after about three years of WFH. Two days a week to start with.
says >"The LHC was justified to find the Higgs, perfectly reasonable. We found it roughly where we expected it, great! What justification is there now for a larger accelerator?"<

Glad you asked. The Higgs boson was just the thing I needed for my new Tesla and, thanks to LHC, I now always carry a spare in the trunk. But in all honesty it's slightly off-center and I am hoping that a new larger accelerator will provide a particle that precisely fills the bill.

I concur with your last point.
No they’re not; some of us have become managers during all this and won’t stand for it. Not to mention we’ve hired quite a few out-of-state resources and simply can’t afford to lose them.

Some shitty companies will pursue this but the smart companies will stay the course and hire away their talent. It’s a competitive advantage and companies need to view it that way or suffer.

Also - this will now provide us with a very simple test, is this a shitty company that does not truly value its employees, or are they one of the good ones worthy of my attention.
I think this is what's going on too. Easy way to have folks self select out.
make a wild guess why it's called Azov and where majority of azov soldiers are from
In my Big Company (400,000+ employees) it is not permitted to use other systems to host meeting without authorization. Using unapproved software is strictly not allowed. There can be plenty of reasons including business data security, legal data retention, international data privacy laws, licensing agreements, etc.

I remember when Skype was considered controversial because indication of working status and access to employees after business hours was potential a violation of workers rights and privacy laws.
I disagree with this: Red Hat makes money off support, not taking open source code, making a few additions, and taking the whole shebang proprietary without giving anything back.
After ChatGPT's training cutoff of 2021. With the information the AI has in its dataset, it is incorrect. It's unaware of things that happened last month, and "put out wrong answers and wait to see if they come true" is not a business case OpenAI should rely on.
Most big co’s make it pretty clear to employees that it’s a pretty big no-no to discuss proprietary work through an unaudited 3rd party (especially a competitor).
"“The government cannot compel a property owner to rent his or her property to third parties without violating” the Takings Clause of the U.S. Constitution, the lawsuit said."

A vacancy tax no more compels someone to rent their property than an income tax compels me to be unemployed. Feels like the kind of lazy argument you'd lob up just to give your fellow rich people an opportunity to bail you out in a hyper undemocratic way.
hmm interesting.

back when chatGPT was new I asked it what the most current version of PSADT (Powershell App Deployment Toolkit) was.

It told me that its model was old but it thought 3.6 was the most current version.
I then told it that 3.9 was the most current version.

I then started a new chat and asked it the same question again.
It told me its model was old but version 8 was the most current version! (there has never been a version 8 of PSADT)

I asked that question again today.
It has now told me to go check github cause its model is too old to know.
I've seen this for many years, I think it's even been tries here in Twin Cities MN schools. Bus driver shortage and route consolidation of the last few years probably didn't help, but perhaps the "take the city bus" routine for high school students has changed the behaviors a bit. Getting off the school provided dependency could help shift the timings to what works best and not necessarily need to account for sports students.
AKA France moves to block access to pornography sites for everyone who doesn't install an invasive, government-run, lowest-bidder-produced software that requires your ID to prove you're not a minor
Get Paid Online? Here’s How to Tell If You Owe the IRS Taxes
Yes to the Indian food! I got a second, even more powerful gut punch about 10 years ago when I discovered spicy Szechuan food. My wife "jokes" that I must have been a Szechuan farmer in a previous life. The weird thing is I stopped being able to eat spicy food in my late 40s because it destroyed my sleep, then in my late 50s Szechuan just turned me around somehow.
Was it what, just a week ago I was being called dumb for suggesting there'd be accuracy issues with this? I mean Bing had like a whole three weeks to slap this together after OpenAI first demoed it's ability to make things up.

oh only six days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34699087

> This is a commonly echoed complaint but it’s largely without merit. ChatGPT spews nonsense because it has no access to information outside of its training set.

> In the context of a search engine, single shot learning with the top search results should mitigate almost all hallucination.

hows that going?
Phenomenal mountain biking and corporate HQ? Sign me up for Bentonville.
Easy way to kick start the Dead Sea effect and significantly reduce the amount of applicants to backfill

https://medium.com/geekculture/the-dead-sea-effect-d71df1372...
I imagine this is the case in most places: recruiters and managers are so far down in the chain that they can't be given information before the rest of the workforce, so they might legitimately not know whether or not a return-to-office plan is in action.
As a lifetime remote dev it does kind of suck. People have been let in on my secret and now jobs have reduced, it'll be a lot more competitive.

On the other hand remote allows you to work for other countries. So there are still options if your cost of living is low.
Interestingly enough pretty much the same factors pushed the shale revolution in oil extraction.
Thats a weird way of putting it.

Windows is effectively dead outside of desktops. Nobody that isn't mired in 90s/00s processes (ex: the banking and energy sectors are minor players in the enterprise universe, but are still stuck in process hell in many cases); Microsoft's biggest customers on Azure are all Linux; using Azure for Window is almost unheard of (their biggest client on Windows is the Office 365 exchange cluster itself, a decidedly legacy application that would be nearly impossible to port or replace).

Microsoft is admitting that Linux won, and the only way to exist is to have Windows be able to transparently be Linux too, by running a captive Linux VM. Linux embraced and extinguished Windows, and did it so subtly that most people didn't even see it until it was too late. Microsoft's creation of WSL2 is their admission of this truth.

Side note: Half of the software developers and systems engineers that work at Microsoft are not qualified to work on Windows, Windows software, or even really know how to use Windows beyond the obvious metaphors that all modern desktops share. They use Linux desktops, and work on Linux software, on Linux systems. At Microsoft, home of Windows. Linux won.
I'd have to agree. If you're not more interested in working as a genuine team member than as a glorified anonymous contributor you should look into freelancing
Setting aside the dubious merits of Arkansas (and yes I've been to Bentonville), why would a technology person move to where he'll never rise up that high in the greater organization? I think the answer to your question, is to recognize that you shouldn't put yourself into such a position.
Interesting that they contacted me just last week about an open position. I thought it was odd that the inside recruiter included an obviously abbreviated version of the job posting in her email to me. When I looked up some of the key phrases, I found the posting, which was listed as hybrid while my profile clearly indicates I only work 100% remote. When I asked her about how many days per week hybrid means, she said "about three", which sounds an awful lot like four to me, which probably also means that one (possibly two) work from home days would soon go away. She didn't respond to my request for their location. If she wasn't an inside recruiter, I would have thought it was a scam attempt.

Got to wonder if the caginess is due to them having problems with finding people to take over the obviously on-site jobs. Sure, the initial contact could have been a simple mistake on her part, but then the editing of the job posting to exclude anything about hybrid and days in the office and then a resistance to explaining the details when I emailed her back is suspicious. I decided to not pursuit it further and now seeing this news, makes me feel like I made the right choice.
It's also mentioned in Libera's FAQ:

> At our request, the EMS-hosted Libera.Chat bridge regularly prunes idle connections to minimize disruptions to IRC channels during bridge restarts.

-- https://libera.chat/guides/faq#can-i-connect-with-matrix
There are several ways to consider that statement.
I lol'd when I realised I could go to my opponents side.
PineCone is the database that Buff uses under the hood.
Emacs has literate-calc-mode which I use with org-mode: https://github.com/sulami/literate-calc-mode.el