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I stopped viewing due to LACK of moderation.

There were too many questions asking the same thing that had been answered many times before.

Too many where the answer is RTFM.

SO used to have interesting questions, questions that I needed answered or that I found interesting to spend time on to research.
Maybe it's not a good idea for the company. However, avoiding the echo chamber feedback loop in AI training data is absolutely a good idea for society.
The massive downsize of zip is that each file is compressed individually, which means very poor compression. Overall the compression rate is significantly lower, same with an attempt to decompress it all. It's only useful for random reads of few select files.

Tar -> read, skip, read, till you find what you need, compression doesn't change much, as most stream compression algorithms have a flush method.
> using their paid service without paying is bad

Software engineers on HN or anywhere else certainly do not tend to agree that stripping ads from freely-available content is equivalent to using a paid service without paying.
OP can’t and obviously has never run a business.
People should know what others are working on through discussions, status updates, team meetings, project plan, Jira/whatever, etc. They should not find out when a commit occurs.

There would also be code reviews (right?) so at least a subset of most relevant people should know what is happening before the commit occurs (after code review).

It's also a good idea to have something like gitweb available so anyone can quickly have a look at what has happened on the master repo.

To me pushed notifications seem like noise.
Premium Lite for 6.99 eu was perfect, not sure if I will continue my subscription when they drop Lite and they will charge 11.99 eu.
I don't think the US has ruled over whether third party YouTube apps are DMCA violations yet.

The DMCA takedown of youtube-dl was complete nonsense, even if youtube-dl is violating the DMCA it is not copyright material subject to a takedown. And Germany has ruled that YouTube's rolling cipher is DRM, but that case may be being appealed and has nothing to do with the US DMCA.
If it had the ability to block videos that have that stupid mouth open and shocked expression of the presenter in the preview tile then I’d be sold.
Zaka: The volunteers giving dignity to Israel's dead
Anyone here old enough to remember from the BBS days when Phil Katz was embroiled in a legal dispute over his program PKARC and the ARC compression file format? At the time it was cast as a David and Goliath story (with Phil being David) when it was really just two small home based software developers fighting it out.

Long story short, Phil lost the arc dispute which is why I assume he moved onto the ZIP format. In the end, Phil Katz was taken from us too soon because his personal demons got the better of him.
Best use case I've found so far for ChatGPT is using phind.com to search Stack Overflow and integrate the answers with whatever other relevant documentation it could find.

Sometimes it's a 1:1 copy of stackoverflow, sometimes it's a bit more. Either way it saves me a few minutes searching for the relevant post.
Many people do not care about cryptocurrencies and they are not confident in its safety and reliability, that even North Korea drove most of the hacking activity in 2022.

This is something that only criminals would be happy that exists.

I don't think creators would want to use any form of crypto or have their wallet becoming blacklisted at any time because they 'bought' or received bitcoin/monero from someone else that is associated with north korean hackers and criminals.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/10/majority-...

https://civicscience.com/paypal-now-sells-cryptocurrency-but...

https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2022-biggest-year-ever-for-...
I definitely find them better, with gpt4 at least. The main hiccups are with the latest libraries/versions of things.

It beats searching various SO questions, some of which don't have answers, some are too old, some are hard to read.

The best part is being able to ask for further clarification, or feeding the answer into a fresh context chat to help find problems
Hey folks,

Some clarifications:

- Leap AI (tryleap.ai) created a template which is a demo, incomplete version of other popular products.

- Templates get submitted to the marketplace all the time. One of Vercel’s devrel promoted it. The idea is to help people learn from a realistic, complete example

- This template has nothing to do with the code or data of any existing hosted Vercel app

Happy to clarify anything else further
Latency ought to be much better, since you're skipping several abstraction layers in the kernel.

But that's about it. And the latency is still worse than in-memory solutions.

Between that and the non-trivial effort needed to make this work in any sort of cloud setup (be it self-hosted k8s or AWS), it's a hard sell. If I really need latency above all, AWS gives me instances with 24TB RAM, and if I don't… why not just use existing kv-stores and accept the couple of ns extra latency?
There was a period of several months not all that long ago where they didn't work. But they're back now.
HG Wells - "the shape of things to come" is like that if I understand what you're after, it was very much like a non fiction book.
The only configuration you will do is choosing the mode you're gonna use (I don't even think it counts as configuration). There are a few modes, and as I said at the comment above, very soon you could choose the default mode.

Also, its OK not wanting to configure anything, but some people might find it useful. This program aims to include both types.
I used ChatGPT recently to develop an iOS app (I'm an iOS dev, but I wasn't proficient with SwiftUI at the time). ChatGPT astounded me. When I copied something that didn't work, I could tell it "hey I get this error" and it would reply with the necessary changes. I was able to get an MVP together this way. I learn by doing and I learnt much more quickly using this method than reading guides/watching YouTube/reading docs. Until that point I didn't fully get the AI craze.
New degree in the occult takes magic to another level
I think they were talking about syntax like
INSERT INTO t(a,b,c) VALUES (1,2,3)

I agree that something like
INSERT INTO t VALUES a=1, b=2, c=3

would be much more readable.
tar.gz/bz2/zstd might be more sane, as it separates the concept of concatenating multiple files together from the compression aspect. Perhaps the thing we can improve upon is the tar format, which IIRC was designed for tape devices.
They still haven't admitted that LLMs have taken their users and the usage of site is dropping?
I've seen the recommendation many times.

The price of the guns is ok, it costs about a dualsense, but the pedal is crazy expensive, and I really don't get why it costs 220 euros.

https://www.sindenshop.com/products/sinden-arcade-pedal
The US is surrounded by 2 oceans and friendly countries as far as one can see (well, barring Cuba, but blockading Cuba could not be easier, and making them an ally would be even easier).

The US is unlikely to be engaging in fighting on its own territory and any ground fighting will likely be in Asia.

It’s very hard to see a situation where it’s logistically feasible for the US to transport so many people over that it exceeds the number
of soldiers already in the military.

It’s likely thst if a war is going badly enough to conscript people, the US would decide to stop fighting it continents over well before it gets to the stage of a draft.

Especially in modern warfare where it’s becoming extremely
Evident that unmanned drones will play the bulk of the role of actual fighting.
Volume.

Most SO answers tend to be near the correct way as they explain why they answered.

A good answer should also gove references as to why the answer is correct.
Let some degenerative model do the work...

There, FTFY.
oh man it was such a beautiful place! bought so many fun things there back in high school (including tons of weird caffeine products like caffeinated soap). made me really sad when they began centering things around cosplay/fan gear and merch. RIP
> Microsoft uses all dirty tricks in the book to keep their users on the default browser (which is of course MS Edge).

Why do they? How do they profit from this?

Why should they not? Their browser market share is munuscule, and I actaully feel good if somebody takes some of it from Chrome, slightly decreasing Google's hold on absolute power in defining the web.
Would the prices you charge not also track inflation?
What a relief – having to filter crypto out every time everytime I scope the market and think, "this is the day I'm finally quitting scientific computation on Python!", was a minor pain point. For a type of person with a different career background, espeiclaly "switchers", it's a good sane default.

(For the people who are trying to argue this is irrational and emotional – I promise you this isn't personal, and I promise you this isn't about making a clear, deeply-felt ideological stance. Truly, some tech people don't think about crypto that much.)
Is this a canary in the coal mine?

I've been following layoffs for the last few years, and it generally seems like ~10% is normal, with larger companies doing a smaller percentage, while startups often layoff 10% or slightly more.

28% is a scary number.

I'm betting that everyone on this site has visited StackOverflow at least once. If they cannot figure out a way to weather an incoming storm, then this makes me even less hopeful about tech employment in general.

But, then again, SO did get purchased in 2021 by Prosus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosus).

Scary times ahead? Or, just more evidence that private equity ruins everything good? Or, an entirely new story that AI is going to rapidly destroy all businesses?
As a company that moved to 4-day work week for our development team I can share the following results:

- Output per person per day increased compared to 5-day work week (throughput increased based on surveys, performance metrics and personal experience of leads)

- Happiness increased

- Fifth day remains as a reserve for extreme situations (eg. some unexpected thing occuring that requires additional capacity in the system)

It is true that we're a dirty communist EU country, but so far this works for us.

Btw: the fear of working less hours and doing more is real. Even internally some teams/employees do not want to move to 4-day work week saying it's not for them or that they can't cope with the time limit. And then they move and everything works out better...

So implementing 32-hrs work for 80% of pay feels like a steal even with the overhead. You're probably getting better rested developers that output 100% of 40-hrs workweek.
>It's the same behaviour of course, blindly copy/pasting errors into ChatGPT, unquestioningly copying output back,
>and as far as I can tell the results don't seem to be that much better, just quicker.

This is actually a shame, as lots of very knowledgeable and helpful people have answered questions over the years on SO, and sometimes the comments and discussions are just as useful as the accepted answer.
At least for me - I never took stadia seriously because google was always going to cancel it. There’s no point investing energy in new google products.

It may still be true that cloud gaming is not an interesting product, but google’s failure to enter it isn’t proof of that.
In this market, can they also expect some people to resign soon, as a direct result of the layoffs?
The definition of inflation is a increase in the money supply, full stop.

If you print 10% of all the dollars in existence, that's 10% inflation.

Modern economists play around with the definition for political reasons, but classical economics were quite clear on what inflation is.
Research and curiosity a miles away from “get instantly rich” and “solution in search of a problem” we’ve seen in crypto.

Given the context of the original comment this was a response to, you’d have to take things out of context to construct this as a generic comment
> The problem is that companies are throwing tons of garbage at the wall to see what sticks. And somehow, investors are rewarding them for this.

Happens in all hype cycles. See metaverses a year or so ago, a couple of rounds of crypto nonsense before that, and before _that_, why it's our old friend AI again (there was a brief period when everything was pretending to be an AI chatbot to get the VC moneys; that last AI bubble more or less died with the release of Microsoft Tay).
Which may be another motivation for them to buy up so much of the gaming industry. They can probably justify blanket banning anyone playing COD on Linux in the name of banning cheaters.
The main problem I see is that it's one more channel everyone will need to mute.

If the goal is just you watching their work then maybe it could send it to a private channel only you're in.
I think because the effort bar becomes too low when providing answers.

The gamification of the Stack Exchange sites is a double-edged sword, and I think it relies on an assumption about the effort threshold required to provide an answer.

Typing out an answer, even a wrong one, takes time and effort that the system then rewards through points and badges.

If you can just copy a question to Copilot and then paste the answer back, the effort threshold is likely then low enough that too many (or at least lots) of people will do only that in order to engage with the gamification and get points, rather than do it to try to help out the asker.
Unfortunately, most humans don't seem to have a good idea of how feedback loops work, they get stuck focusing on a single leg of them "they hurt me, I must get my revenge" instead of noticing the other leg and self-reinforcing nature of the phenomenon "I get my revenge, they feel hurt and now hurt me to get their revenge, ad infinitum".

And Moloch is a personification of a large system of feedback loops.

That's to say - most humans - and therefore, most "authentic" humans - have trouble recognizing Moloch is a thing in the first place.

(FWIW, I don't think it's an issue of capabilities, but rather, of education. Some basics of feedback control should be covered in elementary education, instead of specialized university degrees.)
That's what we do with fruits and veggies so go for it!
Sensorvault
When you make such a suggestion, maybe you want to start by defining terms and how you differentiate between plug-in vs library..
A book is not a visual medium. A game is. In a book, you imagine the environment in your head, in the game, the graphics are already imagined (and drawn) for you. If the graphics already exist, a "modern" flat soulless UI overlay just makes for a painful disjointed from the in-game world experience.
Latest "Windows Update" added an Edge icon back to my app bar. They actually had the reasonable behaviour for the search box, "do you want to keep it"; but the Edge icon gets stuffed without any option.

I looked, again, at how to remove Edge ... I don't have the will power for their shenanigans, they won that one.

Over the last few years MS have actually done quite a few things that would have changed my opinion of them. But they always back it to with a reminder they're still awful.

Prior to this was the convoluted process to buy Minecraft, my third time buying it, but first time buying a game from Microsoft. Jeez-louise, I needed three accounts: the child who is getting it, an adult to authorise the child to get it, and an Amazon account (somehow!?) to buy it ... having bought it, it was not simple to install it. They can't sell software, they have to control you, it's like signing up for an abusive relationship.
do we agree with this authoritarianism? I wonder whether we should just let the kids access to all information, we actually don't know whether this will lead to good or bad outcomes.
I would argue that the salary is not following the infinite growth, not even close for employees. Sure, for startup there is a path ahead for increase, but I bet Google, Amazon, Meta or any big company are not increasing the salaries anymore as much as these companies are generating increased revenue over every year.
At my company (a tech company admittedly) the only options are Linux and Mac. Anyone requiring a Windows machine would need special permission.
When you phone in, they tell you to turn the radio off and the radio plays through the telephone. Otherwise you would get feedback.
>Their civilization did not evolve on Earth and isn't biologically human, and the books are (with the exception of one short story) not set anywhere near Earth or even in our time.

The State of the Art is, in fairness, one of the best things Banks has ever written.
Isn't ggml supposed to be running on CPU? It seems that this can run over any GPU, not necessarily just NVIDIA
SolidCache and SolidQueue from Rails will be doing that when released.

Otherwise though…you have the file system. Is that not enough?
I don't think it's better in terms of results, but at least it doesn't close your question as duplicate/irrelevant/opinion
I’ve been interested in using chatgpt to learn SwiftUI but chatgpt’s cut off date scared me away. Did you face any issues?
Since ChatGPT relies on Stack Overflow and similar sites for training data, it's only really going to be as good what's already on the Web.

So it can't replace these sites in their entirety, because if those sites decline, so will the quality of ChatGPT responses. I suppose there will be some kind of mediocre equilibrium.
How much did the Stack Overflow corpus contribute to the training of GPT-4?

(I'm thinking contributed directly, not indirectly, from all the copy&pasting answers into Git repos.)
You can actually go all the way to the prohibition era and create the printer yourself, the designs are free.
I think it's related to how atlassian develops their products - they acquire then. Jira, confluence and Trello have three different editors because they're three different products developed by three different companies.
Verdn (YC W22) Is Hiring Full Stack Engineers in London
And people white knight for that behavior left and right.

I refuse to interact with the platform after these encounters.
I wouldn't try to read the tea leaves from a single company
In that case the grocery store is providing a service of aggregating and organizing all the products you want, and keeping them fresh. That’s not free. Even if the act of making a copy is free, there are a lot of expenses involved on the store side.
At the enterprise level, I suppose you could be looking at IBM Rational or Microsoft Dynamics. I'm surprised ServiceNow isn't trying to break into this space. But with the amount of customization that ends up being demanded, I'm not surprised the big companies start rolling their own.

For smaller companies, there's so many choices out there, I can understand why it's hard to decide on one.
Crypto is only used for non legitimate and speculative purposes and mostly scams, except projects like this one which are using crypto to fund an open source project, but we don't count those.

Mind your confirmation bias.
You should maybe check this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dearrow/
But the Culture doesn't stop individuals or groups leaving - if anything it seems to support it?
Where is that law applied?
Of course it isn't, but what's the alternative?
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Context matters.

We are coming out of a ZIRP (zero interest rate policy) period where debt was effectively free and lots of companies borrowed and grew very quickly (some/many/most probably knowing they might eventually need to shrink back down some amount if the financial climate changed).

I have no idea if this was the case with Stack Overflow, do we know how many people they hired in the last 3 years, leading up to this cut?
Better tell Stack Exchange that. See answer https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/391625/136010 and a StackExchange employee saying the page count is down due to the cookie changes
All the big tech companies predate Jira to be fair.
so you never walk away or change station when there is advertising on tv/radio/billboards?
It's illegal to kill people in japan.
absolutely stellar work to you and your team. Thank you for giving voice and a framework to this -- many of us having been struggling with how to do this for a long time. You're a total champ!
Example: my Lexus had remote start ability. It no longer does, as 3g towers were deprecated.
If it is sponsored Ads, then I presumre that parented comments thinks the price is not good enough to actually provide, as it does not provide enough money for creators to not have sponsored ads as well.
Zip is terrible as a local files system, unless you consider read only (randomly, and not many files). Writing/append to a file requires some form of garbage organization/compaction - which requires rewrite of the entire CEN. Unlike the regular files/entries, CEN doesn't have a checksum, so corruption there is pretty bad.

Each file being compressed individually means low compression rates, the deflate overhead might be acceptable for slow mediums (although in that case the memory overhead would be non-trivial).
Yes, it used to be like that, but these good people have left SO long time ago. People with higher scores started to harass lower scored people, regardless of the questions they have asked.

After a couple of "you do know nothing, go play over there" replies, I stopped visiting and participating in SO, and even started to avoid going there because the answers' quality started to go down as well.

They tried to solve it with a CoC, better moderation, etc., but they only slowed down the process a little. In my eyes, it became a free Experts Exchange filled with people with short temper.

If I knew better, or my half day search yielded better results, I wouldn't be asking with all that I know, in that poor form. Judging me because I'm not as knowledgeable as you is not a good way to help people, it seems.
That is right and proper. This is one of the many ways in which first-worlders who claim to care about the climate refute themselves, that they do not press for coutries like yours to be developed as quickly as possible, leap-frogging over fossil fuels.
The bioinformatics community uses block based gzip compression (bgzip) [0]. The gzip standard allows for blocks so, using an additional index file, you can use it to seek to arbitrary locations and uncompress the block.

gzip compression is maybe not optimal now and the block segmentation reduces the efficiency even further.

Though not very standard, there is also a tar indexer program [1] that allows you to create an index on tar files to do the same.

My information is at least a couple years old so things may have changed.

[0] http://www.htslib.org/doc/bgzip.html

[1] https://github.com/devsnd/tarindexer
Somebody needs a hug.
Not just those; Return to Zork, Zork Grand Inquisitor, and Zork Nemesis are there too.

(Zork Nemesis is pretty unlike other Zork games.)
Not OP, but we moved to Gitlab Issues.

Project Managers are missing some features, but the devs (including me) like it a lot more due to integrating so well with PRs/commits.
AI is a red herring, you would be hiring people to work on that not just firing people working on something else.

A common trend in these lay-offs is that I can't for the life of me come up with what those employees would be doing. That combined with a sudden lack of easy money due to rising interests rates and more uncertainty about pretty much everything seems like a simpler explanation for these lay-offs.
The first book (consider Phlebus) does the opposite. It follows an enemy of the culture and has you believe the culture is just the borg (an empire of machines.). It’s only through the philosophical debates do you come to see the culture as the utopia it is.