skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The hiring bar is the same and the number of companies in europe that ask much harder questions for 4x lower salary is huge.

European state universities are pretty difficult and the requirements are much harder than US ones. No one hears sob stories - 59/60 is still a fail for 1 point, better luck next time. There are no privileges in Europe for sitting in first row.
CircuitBook: A Framework for Analog Design Reuse [pdf]
As an American, I have to say that that really does sound nice. I've never been all that "good" of a consumer, but increasingly I wonder what I need more stuff for. I think a lot of it is a status thing which I've always resented being a bit caught up in.
The thing you're thinking about is http.sys and it was introduced in Windows 2008/IIS7 to support the new "Integrated Mode" request pipeline.

WinHTTP doesn't have anything to do with http.sys it just listens for HTTP requests and then hands them off to the right bits inside IIS.

WinHTTP is essentially a HTTP stack for client services running on Windows Server to allow them to make HTTP requests. It has a sibling API named WinINet which is aimed at use in desktop environments. I think the threading models are main differentiator (I been a while since I looked at this).

WinHTTP is fairly well documented:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/winhttp/abou...
I started coding back in the days when literally all we had were physical book documentation and maybe a physical book textbook or how-to book. Having the internet certainly is faster. Having copilot is even faster. I wonder what the next leap forward in speed will be? Back in the days of physical books, I did not foresee online documentation or things like stackoverflow. In the days of stackoverflow, I did not foresee something like copilot. So I assume we cannot yet foresee what will be the next big thing.
People used to think it was really rare -- until someone actually recreated it in the lab[0]. In this paper, the researchers created a strain of bacteria (prokaryote) that would only survive if engulfed by modified strain of yeast (eukaryote) that would depend on engulfing said bacteria.

And shockingly, it worked! The engineered bacteria replaced the natural mitochondria in the yeast. Wild.

But I guess to answer your question more directly, the cells that don't have the mitochondria would more likely die, because they don't have the fitness advantage.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30373839/
Oftentimes companies that lay employees off (i.e. fire them) offer a severance package where the company continues to pay your salary and offer some benefits for a period of time after you no longer work for them. Just like the two-week notice, it is not mandatory where I live in the US. I just wanted to highlight that a company paying severance as a reciprocal perk to the employee giving a two-week notice.

Of course, severance is not universal, but, in my experience in the tech sector, having survived five lay offs at three companies and having been laid off once myself, it has been the case.
used to be that a drum drive covered /bin and a platter drive provided /usr/bin.

Makes upgrades easier when leaving SysV init alone (in /bin).
because in the end most of the work you have with your selfhosted server is to figure out why MS (or, in my experience also google) rejects your mails and how you can fix it because you need to reach one person there.

i gave up and started to use a secondary domain hosted with a paid email provider just so i can reach people that my selfhosted server can't reach.

aside from that my selfhosted server is maintenance free.
US cities are also full of homeless people and thugs with guns. Plus it's not safe to walk on the street, you have to drive everywhere.

Pros and cons.
Maybe? What happens when some people on the call are not sending the alpha though? Background segmentation remains a hardware-dependent feature.

Without the alpha, you can either skip the participant, render them unmasked, do the expensive segmentation on the receiver side (where the rendering happens), or do some kind of fast approximation for a mask.

Personally I would probably try to implement this feature first without the alpha channels, maybe just using face detection to get a passable mask cheaply. In a layout with a grid of people and a fancy complex background design, the requirements for mask quality are not quite as strict. There are compositing tricks that could obfuscate the cheap masking.
Good eye, and accurate original observation.
Well, you’d need to adhere to the license terms of the MPL which generally requires changes to be shared back.
This is interesting although ostensibly charge speed matters only when driving past the full charge range as presumably most consumers charge overnight.
> Asking if training a model violates copyright is unintelligible because 100 GB of weights don't resemble any work unless you produce and publish inferences from it.

I agree, but there are many who don’t, and assert that any training use should be banned. Those people are the ones who the article is talking about: people who suddenly became copyright maximalists due to their desire to halt AI training.
These benchmarking results are seven years old, so perhaps it has been.

My entirely anecdotal and unscientific impression is that rg and grep perform similarly on Linux (though rg has nicer defaults for searching through source code). The old version of grep that Apple preinstalls on the Mac was slower last time I checked though.
That has to be the most words that add up to “no comment” ever written. There’s no reason to even click “publish” on that article beyond getting clicks to sell ad impressions.
I’m not sure I follow - if there is no budget to hire a junior dev, or hiring a junior dev would further lose the company money, why would a company do that?

A company can’t give promotions and hire new people if it isn’t a profitable thing to do.
I think this might count as endosymbiosis replicated in a lab: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30373839/
Well it runs glxgears and doom. I am sold!
While I am firmly in the ZFS camp, my feeling is that there has indeed been a gradual slide in the disciplined development of ZFS.

After some initial bumps in brand new software, the Sun kernel group did a good job of avoiding corruption. Once Sun was absorbed by Oracle, OSS ZFS moved into illumos, who were overall quite good at doing the same (although they had less resources to play with). OpenZFS brought ZFS to the rest of the world (good), but I can't help but notice that the illumos devs are increasingly worried about pulling changes back from OpenZFS into illumos.

The increased popularity is for the best, but the change rate has increased, with all that entails.
Interesting analysis, though I think you should extend it to include the Franco-Prussian, Austria-Prussian wars as well as the Napoleonic wars if you want to understand the mindframe that Germany had going into WW1 and WW2.

In 1939, Hitler knew he was an underdog. His plan was to quickly switch to taking out France after the fall of Poland (according to himself in an audio recording with Mannerheim), but he was stopped by bad weather.

After the fall of France in 1940, his confidence must have been very high, though. He had basically won, and only British stubbornness kept the war going.

Had he ended his ambitions there, and just started to blockade the UK, while fortifying the USSR border, he might very well have won. Espeically if he could help Italy gain control of the Middle East.

However, it seems like Hitler's real ambitions were in the east all along. He did not hold Russia in high esteem, especially after the collapse in 1917. I would say that the planning leading up to Barbarossa, including the failure to put the economy on a 100% war footing, indicates that he expected a quick and easy campaign.

I don't think he realized that it was hopeless until some time 1942.

As for Putin, he is obviously not Hitler. But anyone in Europe over the age of 50 (ie all leaders) would remember the end of the cold war, where the USSR was definitely seen as capable of making a massive attack deep into Europe.

I think most people expected that Putin would not make a massive attack before first ensuring that the forces were in peak fighting condition. Combined with their numbers, poor readiness and amount of equipment, as well as the sorry state of most European militaries, it was not unreasonable to expect that only the US Army would be able to stop an assault.

Only when Russia was thrown back so brutally by Ukraine, one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in Europe, did it become clear how corruption and incompetence had completely corroded the Russian military.

If there's a common theme in the above, it is on-paper numerical strength is only a part of the equation when estimating the outcome of a conflict. Leadership, determiniation and popular support are equally important. Those factors caused Russia to collapse in 1917, France in 1940 and Italy in 1942, Palestine in 1948 and two wars each in Vietnam and Afghanistan.

Now most Europeans may not have thought it very likely that Russia would attack Nato at any point, but some would argue that a strong defense is better insurance than trusing that Putin would not be stupid and that the US would save Europe again if needed.
That sounds like it would be an absolute blast.
Another reason would be if you want to follow POSIX standards. For example, `GNU grep` supports `POSIXLY_CORRECT` environment variable.
The list of great software axed by M&A could fill bookshelves. It's rarely pro customer.
I think that's an underappreciated statistic.

Everyone's worried about the range, but the reality is that the range doesn't matter at all in city driving, and OTOH no BEV will have range long enough for a serious road trip, and it will have to recharge multiple times. And then the difference is whether the charging stops will be quick coffee breaks, or add frustrating hours to the trip time.

Here's another data source of 1000km trips in various BEVs with charging time:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1V6ucyFGKWuSQzvI8lMzv...

- With a fast-charging EV, a 1000km trip can be only half an hour slower than a cannonball run in an ICE car, or can be 5 hours slower in a Nissan Leaf, or 3 hours slower in a Toyota bz4x.
> Why does it feel like everyday I see some new example of stupidity on HN.

Please explain. This feels like a worthwhile effort to push LLMs towards mass-adoption.
With the AWS LLMs, I noted the other day that they legally indemnify users against copyright claims. That was a big move I thought.
> a dangerous lunatic with too much power and money.

I think you are exaggerating further beyond the line than one (likely autistic) man swearing in frustration.

Of all the dangers in the world today
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_(Star_Trek)
I've never found Amazon to be good at naming things and stopped wondering where they pull these out of
This is a discussion about worker pay. Salary is the metric.
Why You Can't Divide by Zero
Yup, pretty amazing. I had a bike that I rode a fair bit - same tires for 20 years. Back in the day, cars used to have flat tires pretty regularly - no longer - now some cars don't even come with the little donut wheels.

It is genuinely amazing how reliable tires have become.
This was my thought as well. Software that is as mature and well-defined as curl, I would be shocked to see three bug fixes per day. That means it is getting lots of new features / new code. That's not a bad thing necessarily, but most of the people that I know who use curl have been using it the exact same way for many years. A version that is a few years old would definitely not need three bug fixes a day
I added a PR[0] to a CLI project doing exactly this for all your saved tabs. Could probably be extended for all tabs on the site as well.

[0]: https://github.com/Pilfer/ultimate-guitar-scraper/pull/2
Navigating the API Continuous Deployment Workflow with Transparency, Collaboration and Automation
Author of ripgrep here.

Looking at your regex---just by inspection, I haven't tried it, so I could be wrong---but I think you can drop the --pcre2 flag. I also think you can drop the second and third \b assertion. You might need the first one though.
victory lap
> I've read a letter or two just like that.

So did the LLM.

Likely thousands as non-fiction, perhaps magnitudes more as fiction, satirical, or speculative. And I bet I'm still missing zeroes — countless business leaders have been writing this drivel a long time.

It's hard for us to keep in mind the sheer scope of online copy. Less hard for LLMs, that's why they feel to me like magic in the Arthur C Clarke sense. I have to keep reminding myself nothing's new under the sun.

This has all happened before, it will all be generated again.
I'm not sure it's always true to say "100 GB of weights don't resemble any work".

If I train a model on a famous poem or something, and it turns out if you ask the model to quote the poem verbatim, it can, then the model contains the poem. Have I not "copied" the poem into the model?
> Isn't hobbyist effort still effort? Human labour, being duplicated?
This is a feature of many FOSS projects, sadly, and I don't really get what aspect of human nature drives it, but it must be something.

Curiosity, Joy, learning, status, …
At least we can agree on something. Try contracting, you can get more than FAANGs pay in Europe.
We make about $1300/month (shared among three co-authors) from the ebook "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS" and a companion online course: https://stratospheric.dev/
Just saying that most people don't know international traveling routes at all, and so for most people, this is a fun little game that makes total sense.
You may have colleagues or reports who you genuinely like and don't want to burn or over-stress by just leaving without warning. That's the way I see it. If I truly despised everyone I worked with I'd consider just leaving immediately if I had to opportunity, otherwise 2 weeks.

Also if you just leave it may be harder to get a decent reference from your colleagues for future jobs.
It does feel like a bit of a snub — my guess is they did so because they see ChatGPT as a direct competitor, and don’t want to draw attention away from their own current or upcoming generative AI efforts.
RISC-V GCC Features and Optimization Improvements for GCC-14 – Jeff Law [video]
is the Elno supposed to be comedic or just derogatory?

It doesn't really strengthen your point like you think it might. And ironically is right out of Trump's playbook (who you are railing against a few comments above)
While this is ridiculously cool, I think the project missed an opportunity by tying itself so tightly to x86 assembly. A system that is usable with 8MB of RAM? Hell yeah. Except you're not going to find a lot of PC hardware this under-powered; these kinds of systems are actually getting more expensive, as they're slowly getting relabeled as "vintage". You can of course run this on a much more powerful machine (say 1GB of RAM and maybe even a second core), but at that point you could also opt for a more featureful OS like OpenBSD or Haiku, which will actually make better use of the extra resources.

But what if you could run Kolibri on a tiny, DIY, microcontroller-based computer? An ATmega or Cortex-M0, throw in some SRAM and I2C peripherals, run it off a couple of AA batteries and browse the web on that? That'd be ludicrously cool.
Laptop model: MacBook Air (M1, 2020)

CPU: Apple M1

RAM: 8192MiB

Screen: 13,3-inch (2560×1600, virtual 1440×900)

Personal comments: bought just to try out how well Arm can perform in a laptop. Love the hardware, not so much macOS. I try out Asahi from time to time and it's getting better each time – hopefully next time I can finally make a switch completely.

I also miss my ThinkPad's keyboard :-(
so you have KDE on top of Qt on top of Wayland on top of Firefox -> are you running wayland in Firefox? if yes, you might run Firefox in Wayland instead of xorg to have some further *ception
It kind of depends on what the SaaS does. But I’ve had a lot of success with B2C apps on WordPress. It handles user management, routing, and dashboard out of the box with a few free or cheap plugins. Then depending on what the app is meant to do, I write code or manipulate plugins to do what I need.
Q is short for Quebec.
Ah. Interesting that the translator would choose such an obscure word. lol. I love vocabulary though, so it was an interesting new word for me to run into.
Read OpenAI's response to this security issue carefully - it tells you a lot about how they think of being responsible for issues like this. I remember they put all the blame on the open source library, rather than taking responsibility themselves.
I think a big part is that Japanese is a lot easier to pronounce for westerners. We won't get it fully right but there are no tones and it transliterates to English pretty well, compared to pretty much every other Asian country.
What does the app do that web interface does not?
I don't want to halt AI training, I want corporations to fuck off from using my (A)GPL code to train their proprietary models which they then sell to people writing more proprietary code. I would be ok if the derived code is properly GPL licenced too.

I suspect many people feel in a similar way too (for example, artists whose art is used to train image generators without compensation).
It’s interesting. I finished reading the Amazon PIP thread. There was a comment about the double standard of at-will employment dishing out immediate firings, but employees must give 2 weeks notice; how employees have become accustomed to getting the shorter end of the stick.

At what point did we lose our ability to enforce our own desires through violence? The one real tool we have for making any tangible change, just stripped away from us at some point.
Some notes on his comments relating to AI:

At 42 mins Elon predicts AGI, an AI capable of matching any top tier human at anything, discovering new physics / maths, etc. in 3 years.

At 46 mins Elon is asked about the copyright issue as it relates to AI training, he says everyone is ignoring copyright. Says it won't matter because by the time the courts start to litigate the issue we'll already have the AI god.

Forgot to note the time, but he also says that he's curious about the Sam Altman situation and that he doesn't know why he was fired. He suspects that OpenAI must have something big happening internally to justify the firing attempt.

Another point that gets made is that many events develop in real-time on the Twitter platform, which means that their data is really valuable for training AI and figuring out what's happening around the world.
Some people thought of him as a rotten, old, toothless alcoholic. They weren't aware that he's actually a pure artist of a rare breed. We'll miss him dearly :(
There's like a whole host of things you could use to explain it. Inertia. Compatibility. Resistance to change. Innovator's dilemma. And so on. (I do not say any of these things pejoratively! All of those things apply to me too.)

With respect to compatibility, see my FAQ on the topic: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#pos...
Open Source Password Managers to Enhance Your Privacy Game
NPR has most of their programs in podcast form. It might be easier to search this way
Bjorn is the GOAT for EV testing
Amazon has a weird vesting schedule (40% in the third and fourth year IIRC) and it has gone up quite a lot over the last few years. It also appears to have yearly vests. This doesn't seem implausible under those conditions.
So are we linking from forums to other forums now just to talk smack about the forumgoers on said other forum?
You can simply copy the poem in much less space if that's what you want, but incidental replication is not the same with copying.

When you train a model, you use 1T...20T tokens, with deduplication to reduce direct memorization. Then the model is a superposition of gradients from trillions of tokens, no longer just a copy of a poem, it could also write a commentary about it or compose new ones.

GPT4 summarizes this in a haiku:

"Superposition bright,

Gradients blend in the night,

New poems take flight."
Is it technically though?

I still struggle to find any use to it in my daily life. It is a cool demo, but no one wants to read AI generated text from other people.
I might be in the minority here, but I agree with their decision.

If you're judging purely on the app, it's not surprising. The app itself is about as basic as they come.

On the Apple side, AllTrails won, and it's deserving of that win. It's made some incredible updates this past year with some topnotch design. Flighty would have been another very deserving win.
Founder of spyware maker Hacking Team arrested for attempted murder
What competition
I use a core i7-920 from first generation that I recently changed with a Xeon compatible socket and another i7-3770 from third generation as daily drivers. And I do some gaming with non-intensive games. The computer works perfectly with no major drawbacks.

The third generation is noisy because it is in a small format case and with very deficient ventilation that I can't solve.
Yeah the Medprompt name is misleading
At least this one is short. Un-Googleable, but short.

"Amazon Web Services Systems Manager Session Manager" remains my favorite.
You have to start cooking or preparing your food before you feel the hunger.

What worked for me, as a recovering Uber Eats customer, is to schedule two separate times to cook and to eat. That way you have time to make the decision before the hunger strikes and you resort to the easy way to order food.

Anyways, nice mosaic. Thought they were pictures you took, but my guess is that they are pictures of the restaurant.
Presumably most consumers charge overnight on a day to day basis (because otherwise buying an EV probably doesn't make a lot of sense). But charging matters a lot on longer trips.
The other examples you give are all software that people use "in the real world" as a means to solve problems. The value comes from using them. The developers may also enjoy working on them, but that's mostly incidental.

I can't speak for the kolibrios contributors, but I imagine that to them, the value comes from the development process itself. They do it because they enjoy it. Any practical usefulness of the resulting software is mostly incidental.

If your goal was to develop useful software in 2023, you wouldn't be writing pure x86 assembly within the constraints of a floppy disk.
What about people reading your code and learning from it before implementing their own code? What's the similarity level where that becomes a problem for you, if their code is closed-source or uses a license you disagree with?
It's difficult getting the first client. You mean like Upwork?

The other concern is it would likely look very bad on a resume, did this for one client another thing for another. I'm early stage in career and not an expert on anything yet.
In France though EDF has become a monopoly recently. I'm pretty sure the government fully intends to sell it as produced to French industries and individuals. Why wouldn't it? It is financed by us, we should reap its rewards.

Some others folks in the EU have chosen others means with lesser or unknown EROEI. But hey, their sovereign choices, their consequences. It's not like France is preventing them from doing nuclear.

I guess we'll see in a few years; but CfDs going over decades and being backed by governments I think it's safe to plan around this price.
Well the counter argument is that with an equal amount of compute, specialized models will win over generalized ones. The reason is that generalized ones have to spread out their weights to be able to do a ton of irrelevant things to the niche subject that a finetuned model can accomplish with fewer and more focused weights.