skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe. The buyer certainly has more info for how market valuations are set if they're an investing professional, like is often the case for these tender offers.

However, on the other side... you have long standing employees of the company! So they are by definition insiders. And you'd have to think that some subset of employees actually would have info about the company that buyers in the tender offer process wouldn't have, particularly execs or in finance or maybe some key component of technology that the company's ultimate success hinges on. (Else, you wouldn't see public company restrictions on employees trading shares.)

I believe the general thinking around tender offers is they're often done on some level of discount on what an "open market" offer could be, at that point in time. In part, that's because private companies like to control their cap table. And so you're right that this dramatically reduces the competition in the bidding process as basically it's large funds/firms. Of which there are way fewer than, say, retail investors and smaller funds who would be willing to buy fractions of a few dozen employees' stakes.

Nevertheless, many people taking tender offers are not necessarily doing so out of desperation for liquidity per se. It's an opportunistic way to get some value out of your having worked to build a company, besides salary.
dead for the web. I still store various images in JPEG-XL, have support for it in my image-viewer of choice, can use it in Python's pillow (with a decoder plugin) and lots of other things I use to modify images.

I still have to occasionally convert some images back to jpeg, but the savings from storing all of them in jpeg-xl instead is worth it to me (and avif support is spotty in the same areas, it is only really ahead in browsers and photoshop)
Yes, when mixed together in the world at large, it's rare to run into people who have enough shared context to click with.
Ah that's a shame it's not actually integrated into the fediverse, it would be nice to be able to reference Tweets and Twitter users.
Isn't it a false dichotomy to suggest that a degree exclusively leads to white collar jobs and no degree leads to blue collar jobs?
Not sure I agree with the conclusion. Having worked and gone to school in the neighborhood, everyone loved Eric Owen Moss’s unique style and it helped Culver City stand out from the rest of LA.
How does it compare with cast iron ones such as:

https://www.amazon.com/Lodge-Baking-Pre-Seasoned-Round-Handl...

Or

https://www.amazon.com/Lodge-BW15PP-Seasoned-Pizza-Black/dp/...
Widgetsmith += 100,000,000
I'm glad I caught the tail end of this.
I think that line was being a bit cheeky. It seems to be excluded for the same reason JPEG2000 is: it's patent encumbered.
back when distributed humanity improvement were not causing weird bubbles
Not quite, I didn’t go into the details, but the analogy is flawed in a few ways: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/03/18/0140
Some people try to spin this as a Google vs open standards, while it's mostly a Google devs vs. some other Google devs situation:

If you look at https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl/graphs/contributors, ~everybody except Jon Sneyers is a Google employee (I think the AVIF ratio is similar, but I didn't check).

So the question isn't about which format is better, but who won internal politics and it's clearly the AVIF folks - for reasons which aren't really possible to tell from the outside.
I miss that spirit, how do we get it back?
You would think openai would elect not to use a google docs form for opt out purposes. This link seems sus and I would not provide any personal data.
To start, In Germany

Alternative universe title: After several decades German Insects learned not to keep falling on Malaise traps, or local birds learned how to ravage the traps and take profit of it

Another alternative universe title title: After taxonomists vanished insect biomass is flying under the radar and being severely underestimated
Casio F91 Alternative Round-Up – Which Cheap Digital Watch Is Best?
This is what turned me off also. Category theory is all promises of potential benefits, but none seem to have materialised.

The closest example to something useful I’ve seen is a CT-based explanation for why Automatic Differentiation is formulated the way it is.

However, AD was invented before CT, and the explanation didn’t add any value that I could see. It didn’t result in a “better” AD, it simply attached esoteric labels to existing things.
"But not everybody can just ignore systemic injustice and not try to cause change, however small."

Its also that, the majority ignoring what "they cannot change" at least directly, is a part of the problem. The majority really should not be "OK", and also able to say they do not condone the more horrific injustices. The majority can change the supposed systemic issues, they don't.

The OP in this instance (not the article) makes reference later to the "wisdom to know the difference", which is merely another way of saying, they are unwilling to rock the boat because they are too comfy to do otherwise. The argument about personal family etc., while true, is tangential to the point that you should not be "OK" - OFC everyone must put family, friends first, and crucially _once those are stable_ you can affect the most more change more broadly, not sit on your hands and say "I'm fine".
Yeah, its just a slow instance. This [0] one seems to be faster. But yeah, they get "destroyed" easily, the same for piped/invidious or libreddit.

[0]: https://nitter.tiekoetter.com/elonmusk/status/16368352095879...
From ChatGPT using the prompt of a description of someone ordering household items from a voice assistant in the style of 1984:

As the clock struck 10 in the morning, Winston Smith approached the telescreen in his small apartment, where his voice assistant, known as "Big Alexa," awaited his commands.

"Order household items," Winston spoke into the device, his voice barely above a whisper.

"Confirmed," the cold, metallic voice of the voice assistant replied. "What items would you like to order, Winston?"

Winston hesitated, feeling a twinge of paranoia as he considered the possibility that his every word and bowel habits were being monitored and recorded by the omnipresent Party. But he knew that he had no choice but to comply with the rules of this totalitarian society.

"Two rolls of toilet paper," he said, his voice trembling slightly.

"Two rolls of toilet paper," the voice assistant repeated back in its emotionless tone. "Anything else?"

"Yes," Winston said, his eyes darting nervously around the room. "One bottle of dish soap, one box of laundry detergent, and a package of paper towels."

"Confirmed," the voice assistant said. "Your order will be processed and delivered within the next 24 hours."

Winston breathed a small sigh of relief, knowing that he had successfully navigated yet another aspect of his tightly controlled life. But as he turned away from the telescreen and resumed his mundane existence, he couldn't help but wonder if there was any escape from the all-seeing eyes of the Party.
How has the IT industry changed over the last 16 years?
the outcome of their kids doesn’t change the fact that most of them were taught and raised as artists
The comment before mine set the binary condition. I'm not writing a dissertation here.

> A moderate amount, especially lean, is considered a net health positive by the vast majority of the relevant professionals.

I don't think that's true, but how do you define "net health positive". My understanding is that you are better off without it, but a little won't kill you.
Jxl can be byte for byte identical as the original jpeg at an around 80% iirc. Google isn’t interested in perfect archiving, they’d rather have lossy compression, which you can also do.

Why can’t they take the reference decoder?

As for the attack surface, why would their own codes be less vulnerable?

They don’t tend to support each other’s codecs either, not because of attack surface
… or of Airplane Mode by Elliott Downing
How is 32 bits not enough ?
I’ve been programming professionally in C since 2005 and still short myself in the foot all the time.

I’m Rust I’m found various side projects. An all in one PiHole like dns server, a distributed key value store based on raft and an openwrt module.

But nothing interesting or revolutionary enough to share.

How about you?
Tech workers who adopt this perspective shouldn't be surprised to find themselves in the same position as manufacturing workers when the United States was deindustrialized over the last 4 decades. Labor in the U.S. is not on an even footing with labor overseas because the USD cost of living and real estate prices are so much higher here.

Flattening out global entry wages like this will be great for the holders of corporate equity capital but would probably even rugpull U.S. real estate prices.
Yes, it can. Why is Yes not an answer?
Not just no quality loss. Byte-for-byte identical
Yes, you should be delighted. Normal work of operations is only guaranteed in normal circumstances. Any unusual castrophic situation is grey area, at best.
There are probably cheaper ways to make friends.
> Cars have come a long, long way since those days.

Even in "those days" that kind of stuff you're describing is well below par.
Very funny to read, especially because it feels outdated. "With this new architecture we cannot simply..." years after we can say we can!
Edit - "No, Sun, we’re not going to be able to analyze our corporate sales data “as simply as putting a DVD into your home theatre system.”" is what I am talking about
The solution (that I don’t really see happening) is some perishability that’s enforced cryptographically.

Then you purchase one off, and as you enjoy it, it slowly will perish.
MaaS – Musk as a Service
A free public API for fetching a random news article which mentions Elon Musk
Water is wet.

That's what these models do. That's how they work. The fact that you can sometimes (often?) end up with factual information is a happy byproduct.
You know, I didn't remember the story very well so I checked wikipedia. Here's what it says about the (start of) the plot:

>> Two swindlers arrive at the capital city of an emperor who spends lavishly on clothing at the expense of state matters. Posing as weavers, they offer to supply him with magnificent clothes that are invisible to those who are stupid or incompetent. The emperor hires them, and they set up looms and go to work. A succession of officials, and then the emperor himself, visit them to check their progress. Each sees that the looms are empty but pretends otherwise to avoid being thought a fool.

So everyone "pretends otherwise to avoid being thought a fool".

Huh. I guess that explains it. Good metaphor.
i m sure it's de rigueur to diss Musk, but this is smart for business. Twitter's recommendations arent that great and i doubt they re such a big driver of traffic (i use the chronological mode and it s not much different). The EU will now have to eat its paper, cause they are trying to pass laws about this, and the EU has solely called Musk to testify in the parliament. If true, this pulls the rug under a lot of very opinionated people
The software industry survived for several decades without subscriptions. The installed base grew, people paid for upgrades, publishers managed their expenses and road maps to keep them profitable.
To repeat my earlier comment: analysis on mainstream foundations uses infinite sets of multiple transfinite cardinalities, and there are results like "countable sets have Lebesgue measure zero", and the difference between finite, countable, and uncountable sums/unions/intersections, that are relevant to proving results that have practical significance, as well as (crucially) to avoiding erroneous calculations.

If you want to prove the same results in a finitist framework, there is nontrivial work to do, and few mathematicians are interested in doing it.

If your contention is that only calculations matter, not proofs, I would agree with you that transfinite set theory may not be relevant. You can do calculations without any rigor at all. But I think the position that proofs are of no practical value is untenable. It is historically simply not the case that engineer or physicist intuition is a sufficient guide to deriving results reliably.
> It should be unable to distinguish between BS self help money types and actual profitable ideas.

My aunt is an AI?!
Changelog link https://www.php.net/ChangeLog-8.php#8.2.4
Ah, yes, Elon promising a deadline for a release. Those always hit on target.

Even better that there's absolutely no indication of what this will actually look like.
> The truth is that even seasoned C/C++ developers can’t write safe C/C++ code.

Except DJB, of course.... ;-)
The Intelligent Monster That You Should Let Eat You (2020)
You probably "subscribe" to internet and cell service too (categories similar to rent).

I guess Spotify and Copilot are okay if all you do is listen to music while writing code, but consider more common lifestyles:

- NYT & other media publications are common subscriptions.

- YouTube can be pretty hard to watch without YouTube premium. Given that it's a wealth of information for fixing your house, learning to cook, getting better at your job, or just pure enjoyment, seems well worth it.

- Netflix and/or {HBO, Hulu, Peacock, Disney+} are hard to beat given how much TV an avg American consumes per day. Yeah it's not great for you and yeah you can do piracy to save money but it's not unreasonable to have at least one of these subscriptions.

- iCloud if you want to back up your phone without plugging it in to your computer (or if you don't have a Mac but you have an iPhone). Google One if you use Google Photos a lot.

- Subscription vitamins, shaving razors, baby {food, diapers, toys}, groceries, ____ <insert other item you use frequently but is a consumable>, etc.

- Some folks support creatives by way of patreon or pay for newsletters by way of substack.

- Amazon prime, costco membership, nest/ring camera, nintendo switch online, other annual subscriptions.

- Web hosting & domain names are also common for YC readers, since you mentioned copilot :)

"We" could be anyone with some combination of subscriptions that bring value to their lives. It's definitely a lot of recurring costs to manage, and many don't do a good job of culling things that once brought them value but haven't lately (e.g. I only canceled my HBO subscription 3-4 months after realizing I wasn't using it).
That's a funny anecdote thanks for sharing, wild how different cultures recieve differently media because of it
If image types were implemented the way they are on the Amiga OS, we wouldn't be having this conversation about whether jpeg-xl will be supported in a web browser.

When you add a jpeg-xl.library, every app on the system instantly supports loading and saving that image format.
Truly hideous and a blight on the eyes. I wonder what majesties of modernist and post-modernist architecture the architect lives and works in? I’ll try not to laugh when I find out.
I use a dedicated credit card for my subscriptions so I can see exactly what I am paying per month. Subscriptions are pretty annoying but being able to accurately see them is at least something. You can go in and prune things with waning value and additionally see what monthly cost looks like as it is the full CC bill. I understand the fascination with subscriptions from a business perspective but of course it is annoying as hell as a consumer.
Elon also said he would resign as CEO
AWS engineers must be horrible because others are able to do it for at least an order of magnitude less.
I reached subscription fatigue about a decade ago. Now I'm really economical about what I pay for online. There are certain things that I've committed to like web hosting & domain renewals which will be renewed for as long as possible. I have an agreement with my registrar that specific domains should NOT be allowed to expire, even outside of ICANN's ten year window. I paid my registrar in advance of ICANN's arbitrary ten year limit and my domains (and hosting) are golden for the next 50 years.

As for Netflix, Disney+ etc I only pay if there's some show I will be watching. I nuke the account if there's no shows I will be watching. This is basic financial hygiene. Why pay for something you don't use?
If you entrust your money to someone else to invest for you, what are you expecting?
The Bionutrient Meter
How should anyone know that it was generated by AI if a human "artist" puts his/her signature on it?
I'm constantly curious whether anyone working in the AI space is cognizant of the Tower of Babel myth.

I don't think an arms race for convincing looking bullshit is going to turn out well for our species.
It's great that this is the top comment. It's sad but unsurprising that the second to top comment is a thread chain about how ironic this article is.
Burritos are too healthy and too filling.
On YouTube web if you use sponsorblock + ublock origin (or S-Tube if you have an androidTV), it becomes a quite amazing experience.

Not strictly ethical I guess but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Learning languages is a statistical problem.

You have to learn the high frequency words/phrases in context (forget 500 most common vocabulary lists -- those don't work). As a child, you do this naturally.

However, there are certain situations where Anki helps. I find it's with words that are useful but don't occur frequently enough to pattern match. For instance, the word "ad hoc" in English -- it occurs in professional speech, but not quite often enough for you to remember what it means in context. This is where Ankifying can really help.

Ankifying commonly confused words/phrases can also help. For instance, in English the word "put" can be used in so many contexts, and many of those contexts don't occur frequently, but can be the source of funny mistakes.

"Put up (with)" and "put out" and "put in" all mean different things in different contexts. Embedding context in your Anki cards will help you recall these contexts.
Is there a reason why this is a bad long term idea? I mean I am giving them fair 2 week notice, offering to help with knowledge transfer and certainly not trying to negotiate more money or anything from them.
Spotify is the only subscription worth having due to its recommendations and convenience. I can pirate everything else.
> I’ve had to build out a locked down windows 10 LTSC build to get anywhere near a sensible outcome for me.

Smart move. Truly sucks that we have to do this nowadays, but this is what Microsoft has become. Back in the day I would format a machine I purchased from a vendor due to all the added garbage; Microsoft is becoming just as bad.
> One vote doesn't matter

C'mon, we can think deeper than that. One soldier doesn't matter; are militaries useless? One software developer can't do much on a sizeable project; should we abandon all software? All open source? One journalist, one HN comment, etc. etc. When can one person accomplish much by themselves?

You're right, one person alone doesn't accomplish much, yet somehow humanity has accomplished incredible things. We are social creatures, we naturally work together to build and do amazing things. Please join us! The sky is the limit, and not even that since 1961.
Really? Is it that bad? You cannot google what you like. I ask obscene questions all time. Just out of interest. Whats wrong with that?
I will try this but as a native New Yorker I just want to get the style I am most comfortable with working first. I have never even had the Chicago thin-style pizza, actually.

Someone got me a “super peel” which has a cloth gadget to drop the pizza. I wonder if it will work or incinerate.

(PS I am one of the people that matched your donation on twitter a few years ago. I miss you there but in retrospect leaving was a good idea.)
Thank you for the explanation and linking the paper!
The paper 3rd party manuals went down the shitter over the course of the 00s but realistically for any model that new or newer you can use Youtube for the procedures and the manual (haynes or otherwise) as a desk reference for torque specs and whatnot.
Not so easy considering it requires decimatàtion of corn belt state GDP
Unconvincing. The LLM approach must be easier to learn the first time, but do you really want to write out an English sentence any time you want to change font size or make a word bold, or draw out a table? No way. The GUI is much faster for these if you know how to use it. The LLM might be useful as a tutorial agent to teach you how to use the more efficient approaches though.
rent, ugh. the worst of all subscriptions.
Did you mean previously unknown? Or is this an ironic comment.
At some point if food, housing, medicine, education etc are consistently rising faster than inflation for long periods perhaps there’s a constant issue with how inflation is being measured.

In the end if your spending doesn’t map to the basket of goods used to calculate inflation then the official figures aren’t meaningful.
And blame the programmers when things go south

We shouldn’t automate anything as long as the general public, or at least the people in charge don’t understand how tech works and “algorithms”
Knowing people who work support, this is statistically not true. Many people know absolutely nothing about how to do anything with technology.
Which registrar are you using that allows payment in advance beyond 10 years?
Caesar wanted to do a lap around the Black Sea after defeating the Parthians and work his way home through what was then Sythia.

Depending on how far they got, and there's more than a good chance that the Parthians may have destroyed any army sent against them. If not, then the Romans would have had to face the steppe horse archers a few hundred years earlier than otherwise. And that would never be easy.
Oh please. Try harder. How about some wit? When they switch to ad hominem, they have nothing of merit left (and no sense of humor).
> People will discover many silly things , but we’ll patch issues as soon as they’re found!

Like maybe? I'm sure it'll get a lot of eyes, so I guess they're hoping for some free labour?
Watch it squirm as you ask it about animal cruelty, e.g. whether it’s okay to harm a dog, harm an animal, eat a dog, and eat an animal.
Only works when fail early is better than run slow which IME is not often the case
I filed a issue on `rust-analyzer` and apparently it is by design - https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-analyzer/issues/14375
Dang, can we get the url updated to point to this?
> Do they realize how many security holes everyone’s use of “ImageTragick” generates

Can you expound on this?
Then why are all the most anti-ist people dull as dishwater and working in hr? If you have no opinions that mainstream culture finds repulsive then you're not done much thinking.

There's even a pg essay about it: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
Newspapers have always had a subscription. You used to pay 3-4 bucks every day, now all they want is a few bucks a month. It's not ironic.
Alternatively, it may continue to be said because it helps. Every day, new people are born, new people age into the position of calling support, and new people need to be reminded that they have the ability to help themselves.
It would be interesting to see how ChatGPT would play after making the first illegal move. Would it go off the rails completely, playing an impossible game? Would it be able to play well if its move was corrected (I'm not sure how illegal moves are treated in chess; are they allowed to be taken back if play hasn't progressed?). Could it figure out it made an illegal move, if it was told it did, without specifying which one, or why it was illegal? By stopping the game as soon as an illegal move is made, the author is missing the chance to understand an important aspect of ChatGPT's ability to play chess.

I got the impression the author did this because they thought they were being fair with ChatGPT, but they're much more likely to be letting it off the hook than they seem to realise.

(Sorry about the "they"'s; I think the author is a guy but wasn't sure).