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> it's really sad that desktops can't provide an experience like mobile where updates are platform managed

What do you mean? There's an App Store for Mac users and there's the Windows Store for Windows users. I bet Linux has some similar offerings as well that I'm not aware of.

The services are there but developers have to jump through a bunch of (compliance) hoops (for good reasons) before they're accepted and it's easier to just let users download a ZIP from your landing page.
Why do journalists insist that very simple conditional algorithms are analogous to intelligence? Is the same true for evolution? These are simple heuristic processes.

Maybe this simply speaks to the quality of education or the exposure of the average person to algorithms and conditional logic.
I believe they reference Figure 8 from the GPT-4 technical report[0], which shows that the pretrained model’s output probability for each answer (a, b, c, or d) is proportional to the probability of being correct, while after PPO (RLHF), it is quite a bit flatter.

[0]: https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf
https://screen.studio founder here:

Thanks for all the comments.

Why 5 minutes? Well I ask this question myself as well. I think it was bad and risky idea.

You create MVP and you make 20 decisions like this a day. I probably thought "why not" as it was stopping anyway and I released a few versions a day at times and wanted to get feedback and crash reports quickly.

I did change it now to 3 hours.

Why downloading it without user confirmation?

Well - because this is how Electron auto updater works under the hood (checking for update = downloading it) and it cannot be customized without implementing a lot of the logic by myself. I'll soon modify it and do exactly that, but I was creating MVP, got traction and as solo dev I had to carefully pick things to focus on. Electron auto updater works and is battle tested so I picked it knowing this limitation and suboptimal flow.

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So I understand a lot of critique you're making and I agree with it. It's just I was making compromises, iterating quickly and making silly mistakes.
This is hilarious but you know it would happen. It’s turtles all the way down.
You seem to be able to download it from here: https://www.astrobin.com/tb0sou/
> Am I not exercising free speech if I talk over you?

In civilized places, we do not talk over another. We take turns to speak.

> Why is interrupting a motorcade any different?

It is not different indeed. They are both wrong. Especially if the motorcade is organized by the public authority in a democracy, and the protestor is a small group in search of an audience that could not be bothered to listen to their arguments.
https://cdn.astrobin.com/thumbs/LaObmWwdGWXn_16536x0_ieTZ0IN...
(6000 × 4200 pixels, ~17 MB)
Apple brings Final Cut Pro and Logic Pro to iPad
> XR/JSO ran for election in London very recently for Mayor - the city they attack the most

I looked to see if this was true and couldn't find any joint extinction rebellion/ just stop oil candidates, nor any for either of them split.

> and it cannot be assumed that their stated goals are their goals

I think you are verging into conspiratory theories here, but I'll humor you. What are these goals you have an insight to?

> On that basis this isn't legitimate protest

It doesn't matter why you're protesting, you can do it for any reason. That's a cornerstone of a free and democratic society

I have to hope you aren't one of those people who believe everything is secretly funded by Bildeberg group for some nefarious agenda and that protestors dont really believe what theyre protesting about or whatever . If you are, try talking to some people under 30 about politics, or really just getting outside of your bubble.
We've switched to selfhosted Gitea last month, no regrets. Only the CI story could be a bit better. We're currently using Woodpecker but need macOS runners, and Woodpecker's "local" agent implementation is still unstable. I'm watching Gitea Actions' progress with great interest.
And how often that has happened? Seems a little harsh
You're comparing apples to oranges.

Montana to Seattle is 640 miles. That's almost the size of Finland (north to south), while very few people live in the far north. Spokane to LA is 1,200 miles, that's two Finlands worth of travel. 1,200 miles from the population centers of Finland gets you to Ukraine!

There is no part of Finland where you easily survive outside in the winter (without a tent with stove and plenty of firewood). Leaving the country means losing access to the social safety net.
I spent a couple of pandemic years at Dropbox, working fully remote. My team regularly started up Zoom calls and invited junior engineers to participate in design conversations, troubleshooting, etc., because it helped them to both feel invested in the product and to grow as engineers.

The trouble is that this takes explicit effort from senior engineers, whereas in-office teams don't require the same consideration.

So, while I fully believe remote work can teach junior engineers as well as in-person work, I don't think it always does teach them especially well, and I suspect that will always be a challenge.
There's some truth to that, but it's a very edgy/cynical view that ignores all of the good from connected platforms.

The phone I bought four years ago has a bunch of great features now that were not present when I bought it, and I got those for free. Today, software engineers will go to work and write code to make it even better.

The subscription media services I pay for release more new content than I can possiblh watch or read or listen to, and I don't have to drive somewhere and pay for physical media.

And in winter months when it's snow and ice outside, I can start my car and get the heater and defroster running from my phone, even if it's in a garage a half mile away.

There are some aspects of some business models to dislike, but it is needlessly negative to complain about those without at least being aware of some really great changes since the days of "you bought this brick, it will be the same brick tomorrow".
I believe LG has really good software and their OLED's are amazing. That will be my next purchase when the current TV gets too outdated.

I currently have a Sony one with Android TV that I bought in 2017 and software wise it's unusable. I have Apple TV setup for all the media apps and that works well enough though.
I fail to see how and why that particular reply is considered problematic at all. Is not the duty of Ukranian soldiers to fight off and kill the Russian soldiers invading their country? I would argue that the answer is consistent with most people's moral position regarless of religious background.
How else will I know which movies to avoid because they're passionless trash?
I’ve been married to a native Mandarin speaker for years now… this strategy does not always work.
They might as a concession for confidence and supply from the Liberal Democrats. Which might suit all involved since the lib dems could be blamed in such an event.
How does holding people responsible for the actions of people who died 100+ years ago lead to less tribalism?

The very idea is inflammatory, regardless of how it is talked about.
> This is my best guess, based on my own experience of being a manager.

So, as a manager. How would you feel if someone interviewed you, and hired you based on your years of experience as a manager, then suddenly started acting like you have no experience at all? How would you handle that?
gitlab.com or self-hosted?
Just one more, for myself: there is a reason it is called Firefox and not Hirefox
Refinancing a property doesn't trigger reassessment for property taxes in California. It has to change hands. So this statement means nothing.
too sparse maybe?
That's fine. You can not like/believe in static types - I'm not here to debate that (even if i did start accidentally advocating for it).

What I don't understand is why you would chose to use Typescript, and then opt out of the only/main benefit it actually has. At that point you're just writing dynamically typed Javascript with more keyboard presses.
> My favourite feature of theirs is that they take care of all the mosquitos so no need to buy or use repellent.

I am not so sure about that. I don’t think bats are either necessary or sufficient for effective malaria control. In parts of the world where there are bats, you still have a problem with mosquito borne illnesses such as malaria.
> I care about their right to shout their slogans and wave their placards more than I care about the existence or non-existence of the monarchy.

I do, too. I would have sympathised more with them in any other day, though.

Actually, I personally could not care less about coronation, so every protest going on that day just slipped over me :-)
Author here, if you have any questions or remarks.
well that was enough hackernews for today
Has FSF actually said this? I don't see how it makes it a non-free license - the original intent behind the xGPL is to ensure that a user of the software also has the access to the source code, along with the knowledge of who created it (attribution). This is to protect our right to repair. So if any part of your source code is used by someone else, even by an AI system, to generate a software, it should also inherit the same viral property of the license - be licensed under GPL with attribution. If it does not, it is similar to a non-free software using your GPL code in the project, which is already prohibited by the license.
https://archive.ph/cQUSU
The ones around here direct the light downwards at the street instead of almost-every-direction like the old ones did, so it's kind-of true that the LED ones have less light pollution (I know I'm getting a hell of a lot less light into my windows), but it's because of the lamp shape and not that they're LEDs.
Yep, I'm with you. The world changed. Car owners no longer need to know how to gap a spark plug or choke a carburetor to successfully use their cars. It's not a bad thing, it's just change.
> User expectations have changed in this regard.

I feel like developer / publisher expectations are what changed, not the users’.

The allure of telemetry (even if it’s actually used for telemetry, not for nefarious spying and data collection) is just too much for most developers or publishers to resist. As somebody else said, these 5 minute update “pings” seem less, to me, about updates and more about near-realtime usage monitoring.
lol this is a bad take
I'm not sure if it counts as technological askesis but I can highly recommend birdwatching. Going walking in natural areas is a million times better when you can start to put a name to all the birds you inevitably see and hear. (And don't discount the "hear" - learning to be able to identify species from the sounds you hear when walking is one of the best parts; especially as you tend to hear more species than you see).
https://www.climatechangepost.com/russia/agriculture-and-hor...

Sounds complex. There are open questions as to whether those regions that open up for farming would have the soil to support it. And whether reduction in rainfall elsewhere in Russia would cancel out the gains. They have already benefited from current warming.
I fail to see you offering a more in-depth analysis
Venture Capitalists Should Bet on America
For comparison, this would cost $3.11 on Cloudflare R2. Data transfer fees on the traditional providers are abysmal, but also kind of a known evil at this point.
Hm, we had this last week as well. Guess who had a demo yesterday, needed to deploy things on Thursday/Friday and couldn't :(
Yeah went full Apple instead.

I wouldn't say there was a definitive final straw. It was more of a death by a thousand cuts. Everything getting shittier and worse over time. Pixel phones originally were great, but I really wanted a great 1st party watch. Pixel Watch finally came out and it was lightyears behind the Apple Watch.

Software integration wise across the entire ecosystem as well. Google has been promising it, but Apple seems to have actually delivered it.

The Nest stuff hurts though. I've invested well over $3k in various Nest devices over the years, and to see what Google has done to the ecosystem is a shame.
Technically yes, but the general public probably doesn't have a concept of zero-width space.

(For everyone else wonder what ackfoobar is proposing: let's take the phrase (if you don't read Chinese, just treat them as shapes) 香港地少人多, properly segmented, is 香港.地少.人多. The font treats this incorrectly, because "香港地" is a commonly used fragment, the 地 in the fragment have a special sound, and parsing as 香港地.少.人多 gives a mistaken sound for 地.

Ackfoobar is absolutely correct that we can coerce the correct reading by going 香港[ ]地少人多 --- where the [ ] is an invisible spacer. My contention is that most users don't know how to do that in their favorite word processor.

Someone is probably thinking, could you add "香港地少" as a fragment? Purist says it's not pretty, but I'm a pragmatist, so I did do many of these patching. Doing this or not relies on some acumen as a native speaker, and there were hundreds of these decisions made. This language knowledge would be necessary if someone were to do Mandarin (or Thai or, ...))
Yet there are thousands of fully remote companies, plenty of startups that were highly successful as remote only and either IPOd or were acquired as fully remote. Including my current company, and many companies we all work with daily.

Lots of the covid inspired remote workplaces weren't ready for it. It's a change, and you have to know how to manage a remote company. That may take time and some people in management may not be able to do it.

Sam couldn't make it work. That's a Sam problem, not a remote work problem.
The headline will lead to confirmation bias among those who only learned to manage by proximity. I do think Sam Altman has expressed something, though, that my teams and I have been feeling acutely over these past few years. The quote: "the more fragile and nuanced and uncertain a set of ideas are, the more time you need together in person" - when my team is tackling something that resists applying formula or process, we do seem to make progress quicker in person than remote. That said, those truly ambiguous ideas make up a small percentage of our work.

Given that mass-engagement with AI has opened so many peoples' eyes to how few white collar skills are applied to truly fragile/nuanced/uncertain need, I'm trying to use THAT insight with my organization to evolve what in-person is intended for.
That was a lot of words to say "end users wanted simpler computers and some companies got rich meeting that need."
I was in a job search from late August through early November last year. I've been around a while as a manager, including inside a FAANG, so I have lots of recruiting contacts inside those companies.

I estimate that at least 75% of my recruiter contacts (existing, plus new ones from the job search) have been laid off in the past 6 months. Ones least affected seem to be at smaller companies, though they're not immune either.

My interview "process" at Amazon was hilariously broken, as the following sequence happened:

1) Recruiter screen

2) Initial hiring manager screen

3) Re-org, so position went away

4) Recruiter radio silence

5) New recruiter for new role reaches out and we chat

6) New recruiter laid off

7) Another recruiter reaches out for previous role, and we chat

8) That recruiter laid off

9) I decide this isn't the time to try to move to Amazon
I did that search on Google (not limited to "news") before adding my question, I saw stories dated 2019 and 2022 that were almost identical, but the headline on the latter suggested the system "would" (future tense) be installed.

I found a webcam, but the night shots were black & white so not much use.
It really doesn’t fix it, since the whole point of GTM is to allow arbitrary code execution on any page by marketing teams. (Yes, this is as bad of an idea as it sounds)
Can't wait to have the brain eaten by MRSA :)
The earliest version I could find [1] is already written in C.

[1] https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Researc...
Even if cast lists don't have copyright, they still need to source the data from somewhere. If I was responsible for this at Netflix, I would prefer to buy that data from a good quality source instead of scraping the data from external websites or running OCR on the credits screen.
They write this in their statement of principles, except expressed the opposite way around: https://www.republic.org.uk/statement_of_principles
I find it very frustrating that the 'continue watching'/'watch again' sections are often in a different spot. And my last show will be in one or the other section depending on if my last viewing included the last episode.
I agree with you, apart from the "fascism".

Unless you want to call right-leaning and left-leaning dictatorships both "fascist".
He said that he considers Lot 49 a "'story' marketed as a 'novel' [...] in which I seem to have forgotten most of what I thought I'd learned up till then." It doesn't compare to his later works IMO (Mason & Dixon still being my fav.)
Copyright cases around music are a great demonstration of many of the problems caused by our approach to intellectual property:

* Artists are generally inspired by other artists and societal context.

* Most artists make very little, some become fabulously wealthy.

* Artists with few resources must be extremely careful not to "infringe" the copyright of a powerful artist.

* Powerful artists have access to legal resources that allow them to, intentionally or unintentionally, take from smaller artists without facing similar repercussions.

There is a complete failure of the system to acknowledge that people produce similar works independently or that human progress has often been driven by conscious or subconscious inspiration.

The current regime would have us paying royalties to the dynasty of the guy that came up with the wheel. I don't think there's any justification that we'd be better off as a society if that were the case.
> "In some ways, Temu could not be more out of step with some current trends in the American market, where delivery times are all-important, name brands carry enormous weight, and sustainability and ethical sourcing are marketing fodder."

Really? Maybe it's all marketing fodder and people are looking for lower prices?
It’s really nice to see that the solutions they use are really simple.

It seems like no tricky optimizations or complex algorithms, they just tick everything active every frame. The key is that they don’t tick things they don’t have to, and don’t render off-screen sprites, so “ticking” an entity is updating a tiny datastructure and maybe a few other datastructures it points to.
Just one data point at one company, I passed the final stage with good feedback but after a long delay was told the offer was given to an internal candidate instead as headcount is really low for new hires. So a waste of time
Cptn.io is ideal for quickly prototyping a custom backend for specific tasks. While n8n also offers this capability through its webhooks, Cptn is more lightweight and developer-oriented.

To illustrate, suppose I want to create an API that saves a Pinboard link and sends it to a Telegram channel when passed notes. In such cases, Cptn is a better choice than n8n.
I humbly submit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_in_a_Bottle_(Star_Trek:_T... in support of GP
A fast food restaurant in Canada called Freshi used overseas workers to take orders. Customers would walk into the store and a screen would show a live worker in another country. It resulted in quite a bit of backlash since they were outsourcing already low cost jobs to countries with very cheap labour. I wonder if an AI order taker will get the same treatment.
Even if Sheeran defended himself successfully, it was an 8 year court battle. There are systemic issues that go beyond the verdict.
I actually just saw one of these a couple days ago at a Dunkin Donuts. I personally wonder if there's much of a point to having a drive-thru to pick up food ordered by app (outside of restaurants that have insane lines, like Chick-Fil-A), since the drive-thru is generally only used when food comes out fast enough anyway that you shouldn't need to leave your car.
I recently decided to start reading RFCs and picked up RFC-1035[1] (DOMAIN NAMES - IMPLEMENTATION AND SPECIFICATION) as I'm self hosting pihole+unbound and this could fill some knowledge gaps.

The ascii struct format in the RFC were intuitive to read so I wanted to visualize the req/rsp packets in the same way to easily identify each field and show the whole packet structure.

If anyone else prefers to look at ascii formatted structs instead of wireshark hexdumps, or just want to see A/AAAA/NS records and packet fields, give kydns[2] a try. Feel free to provide any feedback.

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1035
[2] https://github.com/eliaonceagain/kydns/
LinkedIn axes 716 jobs in fresh tech cuts, shuts China app
Ask HN: How can we make AI available to everyone?
We can't allow companies or governments to control access to AI as it becomes ubiquitous. Whatever reason you might consider, the fact is that this technology provides major advantages to those who have access to it versus those who don't.

What steps do we need to take to make a GPT level AI highly available to everybody?
Texas nor it’s leadership seem to be inspiring any more confidence than the country as a whole
Would love to hear your insights on my takes.
I think the entry Pynchon for people on here is Bleeding Edge. Set during the dot com boom with plenty of references to late 90s tech.
If you have a website where privacy is absolutely essential, you should NEVER include any third party content.

I find it unfathomable someone needs to say that.
I think happy and fulfilled are more or less interchangeable. If you ask Google to define happy, it comes back with a definition from Oxford Languages (at least for me it does) and the definitions given are:

1. feeling or showing pleasure or contentment
2. having a sense of confidence in or satisfaction with
3. fortunate and convenient

Contentment, satisfaction, convenient... these sound a lot like fulfilled to me.
My his and hers pair of S5s lasted 6 years despite a fun competitive game we would play where we would try to smack the phone out of others hand which often sent it flying comedically through the air. (good training for phone theives we both have iron grips of our phones now)
I met many Microsoft lawyers over the years who behaved the same way. The enthusiasm is effective perhaps, even when it's grounded in ignorance. MS is like a cult.
Hey rkwasny,

Which version of Meilisearch were you using?

We chose to use LMDB instead of RocksDB because it is a much faster, memory and CPU-efficient key-value store. However, it would probably be much quicker to insert all those inverted indexes into RocksDB. RocksDB is an LSM tree, meaning that merges must be done to retrieve the different entries, which means that the search side of the engine would suffer from that. LMDB is much easier to operate. There are a lot fewer parameters to manage the user-end cache, etc.

The bottleneck of the Meilisearch indexing phase is not writing into LMDB. It is mainly related to computing a bunch of databases storing prefix words and the computation of other databases. We are working on making that much faster and reducing the index size on the disk.
It's not used to validate transactions; it's used to protect the transaction from double-spending, i.e. to protect the property from theft.

It's impossible to protect private property without a cost.

Usually, private property is protected with laws and guns, but not everyone has access to these, or they come bundled with various external costs, or they fail to provide protection. Which is why Bitcoin is useful.