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"Ozer, a high-school dropout who founded Thodex in 2017 and fled to Albania after Thodex went bust, appeared unrepentant at his final hearing.

"I am smart enough to lead any institution on Earth," state-run Anadolu Agency cited Ozer as saying in court. "That is evident in this company I established at the age of 22. I wouldn't have acted so amateurishly if this were a criminal organization.""
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Who makes up this stuff?

> 'The most obvious signs would include use of words associative with unions or union-led movements such as 'living wage' or 'steward.'

Talking about making a living wage is dangerous to shareholders now?
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If you don’t mind me asking, how big was your development team?
No it's not. This is non-ionizing radiation.
Fair, though it's simultaneously showing the risk is losing a terrible job.
A) professional headshots make a big difference

B) the people promoting themselves the most on LinkedIn also tend to care the most about their image (including looks)

C) there’s a large component of sales for any startup. There’s plenty of ugly yet successful entrepreneurs, but looks do seem to matter.
Wait a couple of years and they will appear
So many people missing the point of 1:1s.
They help to build a trust relationship between two people so that when there is something difficult to discuss, that conversation can happen. It is perfectly ok for most 1:1s to be fairly empty, if only so that once a quarter/year/whenever, you can have the promotion discussion/hopes-and-dreams chat/you're not meeting expectations wake-up call.

This isn't an "American" thing, that's a very inaccurate generalisation. Maybe more correct to say that 1:1s are useful in cultures where trust needs to be built before saying difficult things. Sure, people from some cultures can just bluntly say difficult things. That's fine. Many people cannot.
The first and the last ones, at least, are tradeoffs where TOML made the right decision for most users.

Not being DRY is a good thing in a config file - it makes it much easier to understand and work with just one section of the file (which is what you most often want to do), because the context information is right there without having to jump around and figure things out.

And whatever the downsides of syntactic typing are, requiring a schema file to go along with your config file is far more of a downside; it's one more point of potential failure, another thing to maintain and sync up and keep in your head, and not worth it for most use cases.

And that's the crux of it: it all depends on what you need from your markup language, what your use case is, today and through the lifetime of your project. "What's wrong with TOML" makes much less sense as a question than "What's wrong with TOML(/JSON/YAML/etc.) for _this project and its needs_".
How nice of them to wait until now, so Apple could simply retract this phone because it's of yesterday, an older model.
That's a really interesting question. I created some small games with Löve and really loved it. However I always found the whole packaging/distribution/deployment a bit of a problematic topic.

If you don't just want to distribute a .love file (e.g. you do not want your user to get the Löve runtime themselves) this was basically unsupported and you had to come up with your own solutions..

I still think if the Löve community could improve this part it would help the most.
I don’t think there’s any one reason. In the early web days there were no client-side data stores, just server middleware and database that did all the work, generated and updated web pages with a little bit of JavaScript on them.

It wasn’t until Web2.0 and iPhone that web and mobile began to have the ability to do the write local then sync model. But the old client-server model was still easier to develop for, had the momentum, and internet speeds were fast enough.

Nowadays there are services like Firebase that make it super fast and easy to develop full-featured apps. They provide everything an app needs - user accounts, sessions, data store, etc. All of which is still more work to replicate in the local first model. Afaik there’s nothing like Firebase for local-first.
One of the more interesting config formats I've come across was an application that used an Excel file. Once you get over the horror of such a terrible decision, it was actually a quite interesting choice that allowed a fair few advantages. First of all each config subcategory was on a separate sheet making easy to navigate and find what you where looking for. You could use formulas to relate different config options (If you wanted A to be 20% of B you just set that in a formula). You could use drop-down for fields where there were only a limited number of valid values. You could include as much comments and documentation as you wanted (including diagrams and images) as long you only wrote in unused cells. And finally, my favourite, when configuring colours, instead of typing in RGB or hex values you simply changed the colour of the cell to the colour you wanted.

Now I would obviously never ever recommend doing this, but it was certainly an interesting and eyeopening experience.
Not the parent commenter but to chime in: I don't want to be a moral judge but I'd rather give money to someone actually poor than to someone richer than me that just lives beyond their means.
One UX feedback: it's very hard to navigate the map when links open if you happen to pan over one. Instead, if JS is supported, links should open on click vs on release. (maybe there's a way to do it without JS too?)
Why does the ANFR come up with this three years after the launch of the device?
And then there's this asshole.
> It's pretty clearly not though. We've had a huge adoption of mobile phones in a very short time, and we've seen no corresponding signal in the cancer rates across the globe. So the effect size is bounded to some extremely low value, probably zero.

https://www.efpia.eu/publications/cancer-comparator-report/c...

> Cancer incidence across Europe has risen by approximately 50% over the past two decades from 2.1 million to 3.1 million cases between 1995 and 2018 in Europe.

Hmmm...
Interesting how this method quantizes different layers / modules in a manner that minimizes perplexity as it adjusts parameters.

I'd be interested to see how 2.5 bit quantization compares to an unadjusted 4-bit baseline. Additionally would be interesting to see the usual benchmarks (ARC, HellaSwag, MMLU, TruthfulQA) of this method at different average bitrates (2.0, 2.5, 3.0, 4.0, ...). Would also be interesting to see if an average bitrate of 4 is just as fast and small as a constant bitrate of 4, but more accurate.

Very exciting work, looking forward to trying this out on my models!
> tie them to a vicious deed in 3 hops, and point out that their current path is likely to facilitate more vicious deeds.

Which would be irrelevant to a non-consequentialist. You're morally responsible for the actions you commit, judged by the kind of actions they are, not their consequences.
I especially love the Integrant[1] version which uses the E from EDN (extensible) to add references:

{:adapter/jetty {:port 8080,
:handler #ig/ref :handler/greet}
:handler/greet {:name "Alice"}}

[1] https://github.com/weavejester/integrant
Or maybe just maybe, we ought to move away from our current school of economics and find a different one that addresses the shortcomings of the current one.

I would love to see more coops start up as it puts each employee with the responsibility of working as hard as they wish, but also taking on the responsibility.

Or at least giving employees stock shares.

Oh also raise taxes, on the rich or force them to invest their excessive money into the economy (investment projects or even funds/stocks for instance).
>> So yeah, if smart people failed to convince other smart people, there's something wrong with it.

Maybe those weren't very smart people, after all? I mean we only have Google's assurances to go by, that they are the place where brilliant people go to feel mediocre etc, but doesn't that sound like a pick-up line, that would put off most people who don't consider themselves dumb?

Also: a good engineer never blames her tools.
Edit: Nevermind, saw you posted elsewhere. Thank you!

Can you share your system specs? I was looking into something similar but my costs were closer to 6 to 8k for the whole system.
> It all looks really nice, until you start wading through the dredge of fast charging, thunderbolt, displaylink over USB-c and whatever they’ll add in the future.

Show me a standard with this many features without these problems.

> But hey, you can basically charge over the same connector.

Yes, I can charge all my devices with one cable. Isn't that amazing?

> Which was however already possible because all phones support the same wireless charging standard.

Weird, doesn't work with my current phone. I guess it's not a phone then?
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That was the first option, "provides a framework for installers/uninstallers".

But what would you do with the millions of existing programs, most unmaintained? And what about programs with strong opinions on update schedules, or built-in extension marketplaces?

It's easy to solve this problem if your first step is "replace every program".
> Yes-and-no: the EU Commission serves as the "executive branch" (Americanisms...) of the EU

That's not an "Americanism". It's a principle of the separation of powers and I imagine it dates back to the "Europeanianist" Englightenment.
I'm in the UK and my debit card literally says "VISA debit" in the lower right corner (with "debit" in much smaller text).

In any case, there are a couple of important semantic differences between a debit card vs a credit card that you pay off immediately:

* you automatically get insurance/protection for certain purchases in a credit card (so I read, I've never used it)

* It's much worse if someone steals your debit card details and starts making purchases than it is for a credit card, because it's linked to your current account that you use for other stuff. If your credit card gets deactivated for a while then it's no big deal really.
> I don't understand that the lawmakers in Europe have allowed this horrible situation to develop

lawmakers in Europe don't drive. They normally get their private jet already "recharged".
I do it at my company, to talk to microcontrollers. We have a few CLI tools we use for testing that run on NodeJS. Our web-wrapped maintenance desktop application also sends UDP packages directly to microcontrollers but there we do it a bit differently. We have a proxy that forwards websocket messages as UDP packets running in the native code of our desktop application.

Would be really nice if we could send UDP messages directly from the browser, but it is understandable from security perspective.
So replace TOML with YAML? Or strictYAML?

That's like having an engine problem and replacing engine with Shuttle Thruster. Or Space X rocket engine.

YAML imo will never beat JSON. The spec is so complex and full of edge cases that it will never reach simplicity and speed of JSON.

I implemented a spec compliant parser and it gets around 20 MB/s. In JSON I can get to at least five times that.
Don't use it on my phone for some reason.
> you can query any file to see which package owns it

Presumably you mean something like using dpkg/apt for a Debian-style system?

I think that only works if a file is actually installed from within the framework. As soon as you've installed a file via npm, flatpak, pip, snap, specialist plug-in, standalone binary, that ancient program you had to install by hand, or one of the other squillions of ways of getting an executable program, you're out of luck and have to figure it out manually.
I tried it out and liked it a lot. That the produced audio is at 44100 kHz creates a lot of possibilities. I’m not a music expert, so take this with a grain of salt, but here are some of the uses I see for stableaudio:

- Generating samples for sampling VST instruments.

- Generating melodies.

- Generating particular drumkits, which can then be re-timed and quantized in a DAW.

Good prompts will require knowledge of music genres and musical theory, and then a music producer would probably want to do all sort of things to the audio to get a proper song. For example, extract musical notes, fine-tune the tempo, etc. All said, I’m not sure this would be a huge time-saver for any serious musician, but it’s definitely going to be a power tool.
Yup. Well said.

As for the cons, a nice way to put it would be that adding a black box into the workflow makes everything after it undefined behavior. And there's no shortage of C-Suite guys with itchy trigger feet.
> Sure, there's places where it's good, but it's always a balance - and large mailing lists are often a poor place for actual discussion and instead just get flooded with what ends up being "spam" to many viewers - being things unrelated to your own work that takes energy to filter through and pull out the chunks that are more relevant. In my experience there's few "large" email groups people actually look at, while most are pushed by an automated filter to whatever subfolder they never look at, so there's zero point to them still being on the email group. Anything possibly relevant will be missed anyway.

> Emails being push rather than pull means you can't self-filter as easily - something more like a company forum may be better than email groups as it finer grained categorization than emails, while still being visible to anyone if there ends up being useful discussions between groups which wouldn't be the case if you had a thousand different email groups.

I mean its stated fairly clearly that CEO reads these emails or rather randomly picks some to read every day.

It seems you're arguing based on some hypothetical view of Nvidia divorced from what the linked text and other comments state Nvidia actually runs like. I don't think it's fruitful to have a discussion where you simply make up something in your head and then argue based on that.
By “exploration” he’s referring to Materials Science stuff, like figuring out molecular combinations that produce materials with desired properties. Not Archeological/GIS exploration.
> I got tested and was diagnosed with third degree heart block

Did you tell the doctors your symptoms started after the vaccine? What did they say?
That's interesting. It makes sense that a two core machine doesn't benefit too much from multithreading, but "nowhere near C performance" is pretty surprising. I'll try out both the programs around this weekend on my own fairly anaemic machine, and see how they fair for me. Thanks for responding!
Yeah, I honestly don't see the point of learning one set style as long as the letters are sufficiently legible. I would rather see children try out a few types of handwriting/multiple letter forms per letter and let them pick what they find appealing and can reproduce legibly and quickly letter by letter.
PTSD is a better term because it can come from a wide variety of sources, many of which have nothing to do with war or combat. It also recognises the disorder part explicitly (most people who go through traumatic experiences don't end up with PTSD) as well as its place in time (after the trauma, not during it, which is very unclear with 'shellshock' or 'battle fatigue').
Why is there U+E183 "Trump"[1] that is just a caricature of Trump?

Seems a little bit daft to add any kind of political bias?

I would expect extensions to Unicode like that to be pretty universal, and to not include specific current political figures. Same with Great Thunberg[2] -- I just dont see why these characters are in any way revelant enough. Do we add Putin? Do we add Einstein? Do we add Hitler? Do we add all the Caesars? How about emperor of the holy roman empire? Oppenheimer? Ghandi?

There should certainly be a line. Last thing that needs to be more political are emojis.

[1]: https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-E183/

[2]: https://openmoji.org/library/emoji-E188/
I agree with you, now for completeness I should mention that Linux package formats usually allow packagers to provide arbitrary pre- and post- install shell scripts ran as root.

(which means that if you don't trust a provider, not only it's not safe to run the program, but it's also unsafe to install it)
The difference is that the government will save the banks, but probably not this random company.
you might want to consider an alternative with a base32 encoding with a luhn checksum

https://github.com/tttp/dxid
for myself, the line is usually drawn right around how a boss would respond to you stepping out for an hour to deal with something at a normal non-critical time (or leaving early, or arriving late). If they're prying trying to figure out what could possibly be so important that I dare disrespect them like that, its usually indicative of a severe culture problem between management and workers. If they trust me as a professional to meet my deadlines, then it's probably not much use to unionise.
Quantisation tradeoff is an interesting question. My experience so far is that larger models with lower bit quantisation seem to perform better than smaller models with higher bit quantisation. So, e.g., 30B-4bit appears to perform better than 13B-8bit. But, then, an 8-bit quantisation seems not really distinguishable from the non-quantised model, so what benefit might you gain from not quantising the model.

Of course, speed, accuracy, power consumption, etc are all considerations, sometimes at odds with each other.
I keep thinking back to when we didn't have stabilityai and it was just google and meta teasing us with mouth watering papers but never letting us touch them. I'm so thankful stability exists.
Owning the most popular browser, most popular search engine, most popular email platform, most popular ad platform, most popular video platform, etc. They don't need 3rd party cookies. They can mostly reconstruct what was lost.

It takes away more information from everyone else. Widens the gap despite slightly denting what Google can see.
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>It isn't fair but in the US money carries moral weight, and many people assume the less of it you have, the worse of a person you are.

This isn't about money, this is about debt. Owing money around really does sound like something a bad person would do.
Used to go there as a student, I saw Drawing Restraint 9 on me own at the back, amazing place.
Neat!

To anyone who expects to be working in IT in 15 years, here's a tip: take a long vacation for the whole January 2023, enjoy a rest and come back when most of the annoying problems are already solved.
Because slow-cooking your brain is a bad thing?
I think the moral justification for the revenge motive in distributing justice is rather flimsy, but it does have an actual utility. The other rationales have utility as well (deterrence and isolating dangerous people from the rest of society), but the utility in incorporating revenge into the justice system is social cohesion (or at least removing a threat to it). Most people who have been wronged crave revenge, which I would personally consider to be rather immature, but nearly all people react this way when tested. If people lose faith that the justice system will implement it for them, then faith in the institutions falls to pieces, and social cohesion collapses as people resort to vigilantism. Which would lead to the total collapse of a country as the government loses its monopoly on violence.
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You could provide the framework that well-behaved, maintained programs will use while still allowing the old installers to run.

By the way that's what we have on Linux, some programs come as a shell script that you run to install them. Most Java IDEs for instance.

(which can't be arsed to provide proper packages -- darn, what did I just write? :-))
Could you possibly be conflating Entity-Component systems with Entity-Component-System systems?
.xlsx and openpyxl For The Win!

Cross-platform; copious spreadsheet applications; no-one needs training; scales.
I really should have provided a couple of refs. For anyone that doesn't get the rest of the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxIPcbmo1_U
Someone should solve this with a Javascript app in an electron wrapper
If you want to buy a home you have to pay it, even if you’re past the seven years window. Or at least that’s what USAA did to us.

I had a credit card debt of about $700 after a failed startup that, when I called TD, I was unable to pay. It was “written off.” The debt was from 2015 and I was purchasing a home in the spring of 2023 and despite the balance having been written off 8 years ago, USAA demanded it be settled. So I spent 12+ hours in a Kafkaesque circle of hell trying to find someone to TAKE MY MONEY! Even the agents at TD found it sad-funny how desperate I was to pay and yet they seemingly had no system in place for me to pay off the debt I did owe them at some level. Ultimately, I got escalated so someone high enough up with enough tenure to find the right system to pay and a fax(!) was sent to USAA to settle that underwriting line item.

Interestingly, USAA also managed to find that I had a $25 Comcast bill from something like 11 years ago, likely having missed a final bill on move out of some apartment. This wasn’t reported on my credit report, ever. Somehow they managed to find it and I needed to pay.

I would love to know now about the underwriting process and how they find non-reported debts like my Comcast bill.
This should be in the headline (the 2.5 bit part), without the qualifier the result means nothing.
if you ask ChatGTP for today's weather (or for the state of the stock market), then it will probably turn to a plugin for the answer - still the plugin is answering some defined type of questions. I am not sure if that's a great deal.
A VSCode extension would be installed and managed by the OS package manager. User created content would be not.
> Although less explicitly, collective punishment is used in the office as well. For instance by letting an entire team work overtime if one of the team members screwed up his work and made the team miss a deadline.

A "good" idea (*sarc*) to either

- decrease the team cohesion (i.e. make the team members hate each other)

or

- increase the team cohesion in the face of a "common enemy" (the boss) who all of the team members will from now on hate

Both of these are likely not what a boss desires.
> Germany has been ruled by conservative governments for the last 16 years.

Olaf Scholz was vice prime minister, and finance minister in the last governments. So I guess he was as responsible for the last 16 years as Lindner is today?
>>> Poe's law is an adage of internet culture saying that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, any parodic or sarcastic expression of extreme views can be mistaken by some readers for a sincere expression of those views

You are welcome

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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We've been researching an audio denoiser for music that we will present at the AES conference in October. Description page: https://tape.it/denoising

We'll also publish a webapp where you can use the denoiser for free. Mail me if you want beta access to it (email in profile).

It won't be open-source though, although the paper will of course be public. It will also only reduce noise, and not reconstruct other aspects of audio quality. However, it can do so on any audio (in particular music), not just speech like Adobe Podcast, and it fully preserves the audio quality. It's designed exactly for the use case you want: to make noisy recordings sound professional.