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I know they recently released 0.5 which finally works with stable Rust, among other things, but it really is "too little, too late" for me, as I've since moved onto first Actix Web then onto Axum. There is something to be said for rapid development rather than waiting to release big releases every other year. This is similar to the discussion of Elm a few days ago, where I left it because we needed critical bugs to be fixed and features to be added, so we migrated to a framework that does have such a rapid development cycle.
It "just worked" on Fedora for me but nothing but problems on Mint
It could just be bluetooth itself? I know I've had lots of problems with bluetooth UX on Android devices.
There is big difference here between portable ISO C vs C with compiler extensions and platform specifics.
I'm not saying it's the best move for the country long-term (nor that it isn't!) - just that I'd be surprised to see it from Sunak. 'In the short-term, maybe' only adds to it: there'll be a general election before the end of Jan '25.
Sure, there is a difference there. But the actions that erode confidence are the same.

You could tell the same story about a rising sports team replacing their star coach, or a military sacking a general the day after he marched through the streets to fanfare after winning a battle.

Even without the money involved, a sudden change in leadership with no explanation, followed only by increasing uncertainty and cloudy communication, is not going to go well for those who are backing you.

Even in the most altruistic version of OpenAI's goals I'm fairly sure they need employees and funding to pay those employees and do the research.
I used to upgrade my MacBook every year.

I'm not sure if this is still true, but I found the resale value great enough that it was almost the same cost over time to upgrade annually vs every 3-4 years. Of course if you're only upgrading every 9-10 years, the math changes significantly.

That said, due to changing priorities and needs, my current MBP is from 2018. I am planning to upgrade to an M3 MBP this week.

While my current MBP does what I need, some development processes & platforms I use nowadays are taking more time than I'd like. If it saves me 15 minutes a day, it's a great deal.
Their communication was completely insufficient. There is no possible world on which the board could be considered "competent" or "professional."
To reduce radiation in interplanetary travel, you could surround the passengers with water.

By which I mean, the inner skin of your hull would be full of water.

You could do similar on the surface of a planet for the habitat.
It all hinges on how we define comfort. A comfy villager 500 years ago, with fruits and meat nearby was probably never really hungry, but, I'd argue:

- never the amount of processed calories at hand
- had to consume these calories on a regular basis.. no vehicles, no powered tools except the occasional mill, most things required walking of lifting
What do you mean by matter? As species most of us developed bias to not killing because we have better odds of surviving if we work together.
https://wg5-fortran.org/f2023.html
Nonsensical argument, this shielding has to exist on Earth first (we are rolling the dice otherwise), deciding to colonize Mars adds nothing except a colossal waste of time and effort on other things.
> I've heard tell of several instances of seriously vulnerable code making it to production and revealing folks' private information due to bugs introduced by AI assistants.

By this standard, we should ban all integrated development environments because, like the AIs you mention, they allow programmers to produce hugely buggy code.
The pay is awful and the benefits aren’t great. You also have people constantly telling you that you must be bad at your job since you work for the government and not the private sector. It’s also not a lot of fun when half of Congress repeats the lie that what you do is worthless or even worse that you’re part of some nebulous “deep state.”

If you don’t mind all of that then you should apply. There’s always a ton of openings for technical managers.
I assume Summers is there as a politically connected operative, to make sure OpenAI remains influential in Washington.
The money vs. mission question was what I was trying to answer with this hypothetical polling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38357485

(It seems obvious that hitching your wagon to Mr. Altman probably has a much better chance of making you rich, than does playing harps on a cloud at an altruistic non-profit. The question is what you actually want.)
The document from 4 centuries ago outlined a process for its continual refactoring, and the process has often been used since its passage.

All we have to do is ammend the Constitution, and the entire 2A debate could easily be settled.
What is a board of directors for [video]
Somewhat timely in view of recent events at OpenAI, this entertaining talk by Mike Olson (of SleepyCat, Cloudera) explains what a board should be doing, and how a startup founder should pick the members.
I was going to, but then I discovered LibreChat existed a few weeks ago. I use it way more often than ChatGPT now, it's been quite stable for me.

https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat
the problem is that O(1) here can be hundreds of nanoseconds which has a pretty notable impact for arrays shorter than a few thousand
Easy to see how humans would join a non profit for the vibes, and then when they create one of the most compelling products of the last decade worth billions of dollars, quickly change their thinking into "wait, i should get rewarded for this".
Her linkedin profile is 'winner' if it helps provide any backstory: https://www.linkedin.com/in/winner/
Absolutely, it's hard to overstate the importance of the theatrics and performance art. In many places, it's far more important that you "socialize" and "self-promote" than that you actually do your work. If I could go back 25 years and deliver one message to my old working self starting fresh out of college, it would be: "Buy lots of bitcoin and sell it in October 2021." But if I had a second message, it would be: "Concentrate on self-promotion and managing upward. You'll never get promoted just doing your job really well."
Thanks for checking it out! We’re certainly not done yet, but much of what you ask is possible or will be soon on the modeling side and we need tools to expose that to a sane workflow in traditional video editors.
Sad times. If not Google, what's the place to be nowadays? Has high interest rates killed tech as a great place to work in entirely, or is there any oasis left?
If 95% doesn't count as a vote of no confidence, what number would?
> People are not using Uber because they don't have a rating on newcomer apps. They're using it because Uber has a large number riders and drivers in many locations, and people are aware of it.

I think the general point is that you want to move the network effect outside the control of a single entity. So for example, like email rather than like Facebook. You relegate the service into something narrower, like payment processing, which then becomes fungible. You find the driver you want in a decentralized system and then pay them using Uber or Paypal or CashApp or Mastercard or physical cash or whatever you like.

> Deploying, integrating, maintaining, and operating software across an organization is labor intensive. Microsoft doesn't "compete with Linux", they compete with Red Hat or Canonical.

That depends on your scale, but there are different ways to go about it.

If you're small, just compiling something from github is a reasonable thing to do. You're not deploying it to a thousand workstations or trying to centrally manage anything. What do you need with Active Directory?

If you're large, you have a well-staffed IT department and possibly even your own software developers who can handle deployment issues in-house. Google has its own in-house Linux distribution in addition to ChromeOS.

The target market for Windows and Red Hat and Canonical is medium-sized entities with enough money to pay someone else to solve their problems but not enough to bring that expertise in house.

But many corporations and governments are large enough that they'd be better off doing what Google does, and open source communities can operate at the same scale. Medium sized companies that actually have a dedicated IT department could very well be better off to make a minor contribution to a community effort, and use it themselves, than lock themselves into one of these enterprise vendors. That would require more organization than is currently present, but not necessarily more than is humanly possible.
Most of the issues brought up by the author are not ones of priorities, but ones of a select group of mid-level directors (whom you've never heard of, but each of whom wield significant influence over the work output and roadmap for hundreds of engineers) doing a poor job, with nobody above them interested in doing anything about it.

> She treats engineers as commodities in a way that is dehumanising, reassigning people against their will in ways that have no relationship to their skill set

This is an example of that. Highly political, and also highly banal re-orgs, that leave the grunts scratching their heads, and picking up the pieces.

The risk-taking thing (for ICs) only became relevant post-layoffs.
Broadcom closes $69B VMware deal after China approval
Hi there, I wrote this article!

I'd recommend also the sequel to this article: "Good and bad analytics"

https://www.todepond.com/wikiblogarden/social-media/analytic...
More than I'll probably ever have to brag about during my tenure in the workforce, lol
> This article sounds like the author started with a conclusion and worked their way back to a premise.

That’s how all articles or persuasion techniques work! You have a message you want to convey in mind, and then you decide how to convince the reader and write accordingly!
> Google lasted a good 10 years

not sure what event you're thinking of, but Google was a public company before 10 years and they started their first ad program just barely more than a year after forming as a company in 1998.
Agree with everything he said, but then again nothing written here is unique to Google. Every company starts off with a coherent vision, competent leadership and bought-in employees, and then as the valuation goes up into the tens/hundreds of billions/trillions and employee count balloons to hundreds of thousands, it all inevitably goes to shit. It is impossible to have any semblance of "culture" at that scale. Google isn't the first to run into this and will not be the last.
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Totally agree. The people complaining about culture shifts there seem to want the company to pretend it's ~2006. I was never impressed with old Google. All their revenue came from ads, and they loss-led other projects. Fun, but the market has matured from that.

Since I joined several years ago, perks have really degraded but overall I've become more satisfied with my actual work. Over-engineered pet projects in and around our team gave way to business focus, meaning we work on truly important stuff. I have little faith in Sundar's leadership and think his speeches might as well be AI-generated, but that was always the case.
It's more like SDR goes from 0 to 255 and HDR goes from 0 to 1024. In SDR mode, 255 = (say) 500 nits while in HDR mode 1024 = 1000 nits and thus 255 = 250 nits so SDR content looks dimmer.
These are all reasonable questions. Here’s one paper of many that explains why the answer to your question is yes.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01389-w
Glad to see Hixie still working on Flutter though, as I'm a big user of it. For the Google specific parts, I can't comment much on the internal development structure of the company, having not worked there, but as a user of their products over the past 20 years or so, there really has been a slowdown of innovation from them. I mean, what did they really create in the last decade that endures?
My experience does not match your assertions. The Linux desktop has never been more accessible.

My mother in law has been happily running manjaro with gnome for a while. Now, truth to be told, she was navigating gnome 2 Ubuntu more than a decade ago but things were mostly not working back then. Upgrading versions was a minefield with mostly terrible results.

Maybe the state of things suited you better somehow. I just can't imagine how.
It’s a tale as old as time

The kid inherits the company built by the parent
I agree.

What we really need is more synthetic biology and body augmentation research, so you can become the catgirl.
That is not how it works lol
> fill in the blanks

What exactly are you looking for here, proof of concept? This stuff is inherently speculative - because if it wasn't speculative, we'd probably be dead.
> Whatever you can do within the "suburban style" parts of Seattle you can do in a politically separate suburb

I can't speak to Detroit, but here in Seattle, I just don't believe that's true. For example, look at Greenwood - close to the dense part of the city, it has a classic grid layout and there's already a good commercial core. Great bones, ready to pop, it just needs a zoning change and some transit investment:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Greenwood,+Seattle,+WA/@47...

Madison Valley, where I used to live, is currently going through that transition, and may in another 10-20 years become properly urban:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Madison+Valley,+Seattle,+W...

Compare this to a neighborhood in the suburbs, built in the sprawl era - for example East Hill, in Kent. What can be done with a place like this, full of wide roads, big box stores with vast parking lots, and meandery low-density cul-de-sac blocks which don't connect to each other?

https://www.google.com/maps/place/East+Hill,+Kent,+WA+98031/...

Move to a place like that and vote all you like, the whole structure of the place has been built around cars in a way which will be very difficult to fix. Lest you accuse me of cherry-picking a particularly obnoxious example, here's Totem Lake, equally hopeless:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Totem+Lake,+Kirkland,+WA/@...

If Seattle relaxed its zoning and let urban development happen throughout, we could fit an enormous share of the region's population growth into the city limits. This would create a virtuous cycle where investment grows, rapid transit development becomes increasingly economical, the economy diversifies, and services improve. That can't be done in a remote suburb, because urban value is a function of proximity to resources.

> Again, the only way to affect how suburbs are built is to vote there.

Why do any more suburbs need to be built at all? Fix the cities and there will be plenty of space.
If people read the title and thought she was convicted solely based on viewing a show about her own case: the suspect was also recorded giving what's essentially a confession to her husband, and advising an under-cover police officer to commit arson in the same way.
All things considered I think the world is better with some of these people doing these things for the lulz.
But constant factors matter. We don't expect there to be a difference in the big-O complexity between languages. If you have two O(N) implementations, but one is 10x faster than the other (or 1.5x or whatever), that's still a significant difference.
A good manager does not always a good SWE make.
Why would China venture into the Pacific? That would bring no strategic benefits to them.

More generally, I think that the US is preparing to fight the last big war that they’ve been involved in (meaning WW2), instead of preparing for the next one. Again, China won’t venture towards Midway or Hawaii, actually, I think that Imperial Japan might have had a better chance had it decided to focus on the land war (mostly in China) instead of risking it all at Midway.
Fair. This paper found the same thing. Women on teams leads to better results. But “token” members of teams do not. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-022-01389-w
Not for CSV import via SQL COPY sadly
> AI has already hurt plenty of people though; we already have examples of biased "AI policing"

Cops hurt innocent people. That's not the fault of the Chevrolet they are driving or the AI they are using.

Criminals will seek to obfuscate blame for their crimes to avoid getting caught, so police will frequently get the wrong person. Libertarians would rather leave it to lynch mobs, while statists want to fund better tools for the police. No solution is perfect.
The point being made is exactly that your inference about Google's motives early on was wrong. Common. But wrong.
>Why does 'pull' imply 'checkout'?

???

It doesn't.
I work at a fairly large non-tech company in the IT department and we have this culture. The IT department alone probably has about 500 people in it, but this past weekend I found myself in a different region needing a desk for a meeting. I reached out to the IT guys at the nearest location and within 20 minutes they had a desk cleared for me, and I was able to bounce questions and ideas of them for process improvements. This communal culture is hard to find and I have no intention of leaving until the culture dies.
> Is there a credible translation

It is.

Sannu Punjabi andhi hai. Koi Pakistani hega is thead vich jo translation nu verify vi kar sakta hai?
You're unfortunately getting downvoted but you're totally right.

https://store.flitetest.com/park-flyers-swappables/

I work in the UAS industry and we absolutely do use things like these cardboard airframes for prototyping. They're awesome out of the box and really easy to repair with some tape and hot-melt glue if necessary.
> All their revenue came from ads, and they loss-led other projects. Great, market has matured from that.

Has it? Seems like Google still makes most of their money via ads and everything else is a loss leader.
> However, the draft documents are usually available for free

Unfortunately, not for SQL :(
Don't Larry and Sergey still have 51% of the voting shares? (There are different classes of shares.) If so, then everything that happens at Google now is with the consent of the company founders.
What they mean is that at least one bot doesn't read mailto: links and only cares about plaintext e-mails.
there is a fairly major assumption being made here which is that none of the $20M cost is coming from Fortran. Part of the reason for porting the models is ease of development and if you make development easier, that $20m can go down pretty quickly.
> The effects of layoffs are insidious. Whereas before people might focus on the user, or at least their company, trusting that doing the right thing will eventually be rewarded even if it's not strictly part of their assigned duties, after a layoff people can no longer trust that their company has their back, and they dramatically dial back any risk-taking. Responsibilities are guarded jealously. Knowledge is hoarded, because making oneself irreplaceable is the only lever one has to protect oneself from future layoffs.

Well said. Just watched exactly this happen after some surprise layoffs in an entirely different industry.
seems like the union of developers is stronger than the company itself. hence why unions are so frowned upon by big tech corporate leadership
All: there are over 1800 comments in this thread. If you want to read them all, click More at the bottom of each page, or like this: (edit: er, yes they do have to be wellformed don't they):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38375239&p=2

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38375239&p=3

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38375239&p=4 (...etc.)
Common example of recusal is CEO comp when the CEO is on the board.
This is not going to be popular but I have noticed the same phenomenon at other companies where hiring decisions (especially for management hires) is a diversity quota exercise.

The decline is slow at first but compounds rapidly. Smart and lazy people leave first. Average but ambitious employees leave. Smart and hard working folks are the last to leave. Leaving the grifters and dumb & lazy to pick through the remains.
Thanks, folks! LetsGo is a result of having worked on a few startups that struggled with addressing the technical debt created during early development, where all priorities were aligned with getting the product out there. As a result, shortcuts were made that were much more expensive to address later, to the point of stifling any product progress.

LetsGo aspires to help new B2B SaaS avoid this by starting on a sounds architectural and devops foundation. Web, HTTP API, worker behind a queue, devops tooling with dedicated deployments. The areas where cuts are often made are included in the boilerplate.

Let's go!
This test for example shows the longest battery life they have ever measured: https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/apple-macbook-pro-14-inch-2023...

> In our video rundown test, the 14-inch Pro lasted even longer, crossing the 30-hour threshold, becoming the longest-lasting laptop we've ever tested.

In this video they compare the M2 Pro and M3 Pro and the M3 Pro has more battery remaining at the end of the video: https://youtu.be/aQvsZQ3QBiU

Same for this video where they compare M1 Max, M2 Max and M3 Max: https://youtu.be/BWeuhxnWDl0
https://bwiggs.com/notebook/queens-duck/ :)
I have only experience with one of Insta360's product, the Link tracking webcam, but was left extremely impressed. The image quality was absolutely phenomenal. I imagine this action cam could only be even better working with Leica.
And it’s called?
I do actually think this is reasonable. It's really annoying when the handle you want is taken by someone who hasn't used it for years.

Two years might be a little short though.
Do you actually believe that Canada, the US, or any other part of the West is trying to "interfere and destabilize" India? If so you really need to touch grass and put down the propaganda pipe. Many Indians seem to think that because Canada doesn't actively stomp on activities that you personally don't approve of it's sanctioning them, seemingly having no concept of how freedoms work.

If the West were trying to destabilize India I suspect it would be incredibly easy to achieve, which is exactly why there is that defensiveness and hitting at shadows. But the West isn't because India has long been a useful counter to regional powers.

What is absolutely true is that the Modi government is spectacularly corrupt. Every opponent of Modi is a "terrorist" -- even opponents in government. The government is falling further and further down the well towards fascism, all while proud Indians convince themselves that everyone else is actually the problem.
Impulse, Notion, Muse: Three ways we respond to events, and how to identify them
> I often saw privacy advocates argue against Google proposals in ways that were net harmful to users. Some of these fights have had lasting effects on the world at large; one of the most annoying is the prevalence of pointless cookie warnings we have to wade through today.

If you don't track users and store personal info about them, there is no need for a banner. You could have an opt-in link for being tracked to hell and back in the footer. It is amazing to me how many "engineers" and "webmasters" cannot understand something so simple.

Might as well say all those boneheaded laws made by people who aren't even professional rapists require you to ask random strangers if it's okay if you spike their drink; yes, you might say they do, but if you're the kind of person who doesn't spike drinks, you will never even know, the issue will not come up once, it will not take one second out of your life. Even just scrolling by the FUD still spread by people against the GDPR takes more away from me than the GDPR does.