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> No, you can't Kickstart a conference, and what's more be cautious about attempting one. Think of it like a small college, except it's an event. Sayre's law applies: the reason the politics will be vicious, is that the stakes are so low. After the event, everyone will go home, including you. Therefore, anybody you bring in to help run the event will feel mighty licensed to get their way on their 'fun weekend'. Your job may well be to keep your vision intact (and, along with it, the conference itself). 'cos you likewise can't Kickstart a vision.

People wouldn't think that way once they've had a look at a conference budget, and how so many (community) conferences tread that tightrope between making losses and a decent amount of profit.

That's also probably why the article, and a lot of the comments here are all about finances and sponsorship.
This article focusses on the procedural mess Musk has gotten Twitter in to. But it skips over something more important.

Former Twitter employees have suffered real harm. They deserve justice either via courts or arbitration to get back pay, expense reimbursements, and severance that they were promised. It's a shame that Musk has stripped the company down so much it can't respond to legal requests. It's a shame that the pre-Musk Twitter's binding arbitration means that the company now has a lot of arbitration cases to handle. The ex-employees deserve a fair and rapid hearing regardless. That, or a summary judgement if the company can't respond to the claims of the people it fired in a timely fashion.
Based upon one of the letters sent by one of the law firms to Twitter[1] it seems that the arbitration agreement requires filing a separate individual arbitration agreement? "with each employee filing a separate individual agreement, as required by the terms of your arbitration agreement"?

It seems like Twitter's own arbitration terms is going to be the thing that hurts them here?

[1] https://twitter.com/AkivaMCohen/status/1598487532764798983/p...
> There are about 30-35 quality titles being put out on steam alone, every day of the week, weekends included.

Absolutely not. The vast majority of games released on Steam are not good. You can verify this yourself by looking at new releases. Maybe one or two out the ones released the 19th of June are _potentially_ interesting.

Quality, defined as well-produced games in unsaturated niches, is really the only thing that matters, but marketing can be a multiplier of that quality. I've seen many games that blame marketing for their failure, and I have seen many games that fail despite their marketing. Usually those games are not compelling, and reviews will confirm this. It's rare to see games fail despite their high quality.
"Seems necessary" in order to attempt to decouple Amazon's brand from the experience of window shaking bass that pounds from the Amazon delivery trucks that park for up to five minutes at a time on my street. Union issue aside.
Hi HN,

I got a bit tired of repetitively anonymizing my prompts, removing/redacting personal data, and thought that I might be not alone there.

So I made this tool to substitute names, locations, and organizations in the prompt with made up name entities, while keeping the structure of the prompt intact.

MaskMyPrompt is build on a NER model from HuggingFace and programmed with Transformers.js. It does all the job locally in the browser window, so no prompt data is ever sent to my server.

Wonder if anyone would find it useful, really appreciate any feedback.

Fun fact: I didn’t write a single line of code for this project, all the coding job is done by ChatGPT.
Not always. I'm pretty sure MY failures in life are because I'm bald. Certainly they have nothing to do with my own choices.
Heh. Tupperware, $10 on ebay.

Try searching for vintage Pyrex bowls.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/134571954089
Lawyers still get paid in arbitration, too.

For most class actions that involve small payoffs you're right. But this is a relatively small class, so it would be much harder to push through a specious settlement.
They don't need to use the same version of the Django package but Python dependency pins are often either way to tight and can easily be expanded or outright missing, so they often get ignored.
A lot of this is because employees let employers do this.

I don't care what time my employer emails me or sends me a slack message I'm going to ignore it if it's after normal work hours until the next day, unless I'm very bored, but there is no expectation. I do participate in an on call escalation rotation but there is exactly one way to contact someone through the escalation process. If something doesn't come through that process you are not getting me after hours when it's my turn to be in the rotation. Additionally the employer understands that if you are contacted after hours for an escalation there is comp time to make up for the time you worked after hours.

Having interviewed at other companies I understand that I work at a decent employer who understands work-life balance and strives to give that to their employees. This also fosters extremely loyal employees. During the height of the pandemic I know I worked many extra hours because I'm single I live alone and being bored work is something to do. But that did not become the norm that the employer expected they were simply grateful extra work got done.

Ultimately I believe it is employees at these other companies that allow their employer to abuse them. It can be difficult as a single employee to stand up against this kind of nonsense but as a group it becomes a lot easier.

Additionally for the more passive aggressive, simply record all of the after hours expectations and report this to your state agency.
A lot of people in IT are often salaried usually at 40 hours a week in the United States. Employers love to classify these workers as exempt workers thus not having to pay them overtime for additional hours, but when you actually look at what it takes to qualify for exempt status you don't actually meet it. Again this kind of enforcement really comes down to employees reporting this up to State and Federal agencies so audit can be done and back pay handed out.

I worked for one company in a services department where we were required to track our hours because they were billed to customers. It was not uncommon to bill out more than 40 hours per week because there was just that much work to do plus you also recorded your hours for the mandatory paperwork and everything else. I actually mentioned when they switched to this process of recording hours this would be a bad idea because we were all salaried but they insisted this would be better. When I left I sent the copy of my timesheets off to the states wage an hour department reporting violations and failure to pay overtime. Took a couple years to wind through the entire process but a check finally came.

If you don't protect your time it's unlikely anyone else will do it for you.
Been there, except I was the pizza being eaten by 5 microservices.
i agree with some of your points but differ as follows:

getting an entire team or project up and running in less than 5 mins with devenv is a fanstastic introduction for folks who do not have experience with nix. devenv solves the “onboarding new developer in a couple seconds without having to learn nix” pain point.

the next step there is to migrate away from only using nix shell (via devenv) and go for making ci reproducible locally once folks are more comfortable with nix/less career risk for introducing new tech.

then the world is your oyster.

use build2dockerImage and start creating docker images that are reproducible and use them in production.
Where should I put my stuff, while the property is being rented? What if I get fired and need to return in a short notice (working on a worker’s visa)?

My situation is exactly that, I left my apartment first time for 3 years. Got fired and had to return. This time it’s six years already, haven’t been “home” even once since then. I don’t have anyone to help me manage the rental. Not selling the apartment right now because I’m waiting for citizenship in a different country. Which might not work out, thus I’ll need a place to return to. Yes, my situation is anecdotal, can’t disagree. But forcing me to rent out with more taxes doesn’t sound fair as well. Especially that in many places it’s the government who created all that bureaucracy which prevents people to build new houses inflating prices and all that.
Doesn't that kill your battery though?
If these were before a court then Twitter could try and have them combined into a class action suit. Twitter's contracts with these employees included arbitration clauses though. Normally companies prefer this because it heads off class action suits, but here Twitter has been hoist with his own petard. Twitter demanded the arbitration and now is paying the cost for that.
The FSF and the RMS fanbase advocate for a philosophy without a viable business model or skin in the game.

The FSF can stand on principle, but most of the developers who are employed to work on Free Software don't wish to follow it into irrelevance and oblivion. The FSF can advocate for its principles and philosophy, but ultimately it has painted itself into a corner where it has no skin in the game for the impact of the strident interpretation of those principles and philosophies on the developers whose jobs depend on Free Software projects.

The FSF is happy to take credit for the impact and benefit of the GNU Project software packages. And happy to raise money for its efforts based on the impact of the software, although the efforts primarily are advocacy for and enforcement of the licenses, not support for the success of the software projects. The FSF and its advocates mostly are concerned about the purity of the ideology. Anyone or any project that deviates is an apostate.

The FSF and its leadership explicitly have stated that they have inhibited innovation in deference to the ideology. When Free Software was the only option to counter proprietary software, maybe that made sense. With a plethora of Open Source licenses and an explosion of Open Source projects, a reactive approach of waiting until the FSF is forced to allow a technically competitive feature is a losing strategy.
Given Twitter's ... pithy ... relationship with invoicers, I don't know if the arbitration firm would want to have them as a continuing client.
1 hour by plane (+ time hanging around the airport, but train/bus has the same issue there)
I never stated otherwise, IDK what are you not agreeing with.
The problem with this utopic vision is that the vast vast majority of users have no power over their software regardless of whether it's proprietary or open source: they just don't know how to write software, so the supposed four freedoms are almost entirely lost on them.

The other problem is that it is simply un-economical to imagine a software world that is run non-commercially in the current economical models. Most software would simply not get written if it had to be redistributable for free by every recipient. As it stands, the only economical way of creating free software is as a cooperation project between several commercial entities, who benefit from pooling resources to build common infrastructure - such as the Linux kernel, LLVM and clang, or Kubernetes.
>The "problem" is that when this purist meritocratic approach has been tried, it results in more white men being hired, not less.

What an ignorant and bigoted thing to say. Next your gonna say the same thing about Asians.

Meritocracy is blind to race and focuses solely on aptitude. The fact you don't like the outcome says more about you than about meritocracy.
And then it’s time to change jobs now that you can answer soft skill questions in STAR format that shows “scope” and “impact”.

But a new job is not going to give you a senior position if you haven’t already demonstrated it at your previous job.

Yes, I realize titles are meaningless outside of major tech companies with real leveling guidelines. I worked at your standard enterprise/Corp dev jobs all of my career until 2020.
Java, Go, PHP, Python...?

What a bizarre list of languages.

Not... C?
Stallman is huge. Practically you cannot appoint someone to his position. FSF is meaningless without him. If you could, this would have happened when they fired him.
I can also supply a bit of the why, from what I remember of the exhibit at the Wright-Patterson air force base museum.

The SR-71 needed a specific grade of titanium, something of extreme purity. Only the USSR sold that purity with regularity, I believe what I read said something like 90%+ of what they bought from other suppliers had to be discarded
I do indeed find it somewhat difficult to call something that people willingly apply for "forced labor". Forced labor is when the Taliban come to your village and force you to work under threat of shooting you and your entire family. I think you'll find very few people willing to volunteer for the Taliban option, while H1B applications were 9x oversubscribed in 2023.

The US could do a lot better when it comes to worker rights, don't get me wrong. But comparing a H1B worker to an actual slave has a very misguided vision to what slavery is, and how it continues to impact people around the world today.
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1987 paper

Did you even look at the link?

Neither shilling nor trolling is welcome here. Is there a relationship you haven't disclosed with RISC-V?
I think this fragmentation is kind of a shame. It would be great if there were one place everyone agreed to go to.

If I quit reddit today and pick up a new interest in a few months I'd be at a loss as to where to find a community for it.
Q: What is "JAMS"?

A: https://www.jamsadr.com/about-the-jams-name/
Well, it's a great example as Dr. Earl Haas patented the first tampons in the early 30s and nobody cared. He then sold the patent to a business woman that made it successful. So effectively a man invented it but failed to market it and sell it well.
My point is that this is a uarch decision rather than something fundamental to RISC-V itself. If you want high performance, that idea doesn’t hold.

This is like arguing that RISC-V doesn’t need advanced branch predictors because MCUs done need them.
What does it mean to “serve a model”? Where exactly does the request go and how does it interface with the model?
1) People have been gathering around the idea of moving to lemmy (see the Star Trek subreddit for example), resulting in a number of posts over the past week here about it

2) My general frustration with FOSS projects having zero interest in good UX/UI design, resulting in a lack of prioritization for basic stuff like this

Like, if Lemmy has no interest in being a viable option to most people, then fine. People just need to stop pretending that it is.
Keep in mind that this site is filled with snake oil salesmen that will try to push anything to you. (Among many honest commenters, obviously.) I've never used third-party authentication and do not plan to. Web frameworks usually handle most of that stuff anyway.
I feel like this is the only place I hear about Kotlin actually.
This matches my experience with it so far. Extremely complicated and hard to understand, projects that use it have builds fail anyway except now with very hard to debug errors.
That leaderboard does not line up with my personal experience with those models at all...
> There's no such concept of a lock file with pip.

There's the --require-hashes flag and the ability to specify the hashes in your requirements.txt
A building would be analogous to an application in my example. The professions I mentioned sell their labor to produce a fully featured building. Software engineers should sell their labor to produce a fully featured application.

The difference here is that buildings naturally succumb to the laws of physics, while software is only subjected to the more liberal laws of information by nature. We apply laws such as copyright to software to create artifical scarcity in order to benefit the authors to an artificial degree, at the expense of general freedom and technological advancement.
> Any instance can connect to any other instance by design. That includes any of the communities (sub Reddits). Any community is available from any instance.

Which is both good and bad. Good because federation of course. But it also ends up fracturing the community. Say all the r/python people decide to move out from Reddit to Lemmy. They are probably going to go to different Lemmy instances each with their own c/python community. Yes you can follow any c/python from any instance but let's be honest, how many such c/python communities are you going to follow?
I don't think it is good and bad; I just also think that creating things is creative.

Writing a video game story or drawing its assets aren't the only type of creativity, and in this case it sounds like the creative workload on the technical person was fairly extreme.
> packaging for Debian.

Not really, nix is way more flexible and more up to date and nix also often runs tests and different pythons cannot interfere with each other that easily. On a high level things are similar but the details are wastly different.

> Or you could create a hermetic environment, where an app gets an isolated copy of dependencies, specific just to the single app, a situation similar to using virtual env.

That could also be done with nix but is often not because upstream pin quality is often lacking.
> I get the networking aspect but sounds like you have to waste 80% of the time and inordinate amounts of money on all sides doing this mating display of a traditional conference with useless bs talks (like an inauguration) circle jerk award ceremonies, overpriced junk food (not to mention the outrageous amount of food and boxed lunch packaging waste) just so that you get that 20 min or so 1-1 time with some experts?

If someone is looking for "1-on-1 time with experts", most people would have better luck writing them a well-worded email or sending them a tweet.

I personally think conferences are the best way for someone to get somewhat-passive exposure to what's up-and-coming in their specialisation or favourite programming language, because all an attendee needs to do is sit there and listen.
“Professor Jochen Brocks inspecting the 1.6-billion-year-old rocks in Australia’s Northern Territory. The rocks contained a primordial chemical structure that hinted at the existence of the Protosterol Biota.”

Not sure where this sentiment is coming from… Considering it’s fat traces of a primordial species that is a common ancestor of all complex life on earth, which went extinct over 800 million years ago, and is found in ancient rocks around waterways literally all over the world; I think we are fine to touch it.
Social media behavior is associated with vaccine hesitancy (2022)
It’s probably just a translation error. The author probably doesn’t natively speak English.
> Making the word sound French is a non-U hypercorrection.

I disagree that pronouncing it "VALLay" is hypercorrection. Proper French pronunciation would be "vallAY" (with the emphasis on the second syllable).

At any rate, my language background is upper-middle-class English English, and nobody pronounced the word "valitt". That's an americanism, as far as I'm concerned. As a consequence, I've always struggled with the word when used to mean cleaning e.g. a car interior.

FWIW, I understand that the "U and non-U" thing was meant as a joke, was horribly snobbish, and was anchored in a particular stratum of early 20th-C English society.
Same as in the US -- right wing politicians who believe the state is bad at doing things remove the funding that allowed the state to do it. Then when that means those government provided services become worse, they use that to show that the state is bad at doing those things, and therefore even less funding should go there, et cetera.
I’m glad my impression of you was accurate.
Yes, there's a lot of great communities focused on LGBT or politics
That's a huge problem for the FSF then, which it should be urgently looking to solve.

He's 70 years old, which means he will need a successor fairly soon in one way or another. If the mission is that important, it shouldn't die with him.
Calling these the “biggest” failures is an interesting viewpoint.

These were all companies with some P/M fit that just didn’t cross the threshold for whatever reason (barring the one fraud).

That’s especially true when the list of YC startups that never even reached P/M fit is probably in the hundreds by now.
I visited Vasa museum in May this year. It is a beautiful ship and one of its kind, which has been painstakingly restored to full glory indoors ー including the ornate decorations & few of the 46 cannons. They even explained details of years-long restoration process of replacing the wood's moisture entirely with some polymeric binder (can't remember the compound). Every stage with photographs - starting with how they found it, salvaged it & bringing it to current state.

They have even managed to salvage & reconstruct the faces of few of these seamen. It was incredible learning experience about medieval seafaring. Highly recommend, and it is bang next to the Gamle Stan (the old city seen in almost all stock photos of Stockholm).
Why is the number so low? Why aren’t the other 4,500 former employees suing also?
> many key value stores are not hash tables

Yep. In fact, in an FPGA, you can even have true TCAM/CAMs (content addressable memory).

https://www.xilinx.com/products/intellectual-property/ef-di-...
I 100% agree with you. The inflexibility of the FSF as to adapt to platform capitalism (e.g., address licensing issues of Uber-like platforms and clients) is also a serious concern. When I see the debacle that the coopyleft (with two o, not a typo) licencing of the CoopCycle software platform and client has been, I'm left wondering if the discussion on human users vs software freedom (which is more or less supposed to be the philosophical difference between free and open source) isn't just a hypocritical argument.
Allocating more bits for each parameter increases precision, by definition. But that doesn’t come for free.* So it is useful to optimize network performance for a given number of total parameter bytes.

I haven’t done a recent literature review, but my hand-wavy guessplanation is that a NN (as a whole) can adapt to relatively low precision parameters. Up to a point.

* In general. Given actual hardware designs, there are places where you have slack in the system. So adding some extra parameters, e.g. to fully utilize a GPU’s core’s threads (e.g. 32), might actually cost you nothing.
Long way to go before this is going to replace Splice et al.
I have a feeling the quantum-crypto conversation is going to take off like a rocket after IBM does their Quantum System 2 presentation later this year.
Any bets on when we'll transition to the "Twitter could be more profitable" horse?
...and yet there's tons of Python packaged in traditional distributions including Django.

Nix promises to solve exactly this problem... so it's not clear what the real benefit of Nix is.

EDIT: a rain of silent downvotes?
> Like are there any objective news sources to rank these services and what internet comments to trust at face value?

This might be useful:

https://thatoneprivacysite.xyz/
I wonder if they will pay the arbitrators?
These are crazy to see under a microscope. I keep a reef aquarium that at one point had a problem with dinoflagellants. I dosed silicates to induce a diatom bloom that out competes the dinoflagellants, and as a fun side effect saw a huge explosion in my sponge population.

Any time I'm sampling the water under the microscope, I see sponge spicules these days. Makes me happy.
That's not how discovery works. Every person will ask for different things and the arbiter(s) may grant different things in different cases.