skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What does a person look like? If you use the popular artificial intelligence image generator Stable Diffusion to conjure answers, too frequently you’ll see images of light-skinned men.
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> OpenBSD has maintained a fork of X.org called Xenocara

Did you RTFA? I specifically mentioned that:

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If nobody volunteers to take on the considerable workload of maintaining X.org, it will die. The task of getting OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and DragonflyBSD to all cooperate on maintaining a shared implementation, perhaps based on OpenBSD's Xenocara, is probably even more difficult. Xenocara does run on Linux – Hyperbola used it, but that OS is in the process of moving to a BSD base.
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The amount of energy in an inflated tire is surprising...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VLhLcJJefo
I've heard ancedotal stories years ago about Amazon trying to force employees out just before their share package vests.
Nobody at Microsoft claims they have the best tooling. Culture, for sure.

But tooling is a sad joke. Hell, we can’t even paste a git diff into a Teams chat because the crappy RTF box mangles the output. And Microsoft literally owns GitHub. But we go home early, the stock is up, everyone is Mormon-level nice to each other. Hard to complain.
Substack for Videos
I would be surprised if that were viable without advertising, but I guess we might just have to wait to find out.
The problem isn't that they are acquired, the problem is that they are acquired by their primary competitor, leading to a quasi-monopoly.

If Figma was being acquired by literally any other company the regulators wouldn't have any problems with it.
I completely agree. Plus, part of Amazon's candidate evaluation is to consider whether they are (or clearly have potential to be) better than 50% of your peers, as part of the hiring bar. Between that and stack-ranking/forced-attrition, even previously high-performing employees can one day find themselves on the chopping block.
OBS has a plugin that does background removal and incorporates different solutions to do so.

https://github.com/occ-ai/obs-backgroundremoval
Adobe clearly thought that or they wouldn't have paid that much, and so did their shareholders or they would have sued for wasting money.
The Skyhook Solution
When there's no utility visible, then the utility typically exists in anarchy and/or revolution. It was inevitable u'all would eventually make something only we could find useful. MUAHAHAHA...ahem...Mutual aid is the utility! Can these things regurgitate back to me child nurturement and care advice from nearly all cultures to create a custom GPT to help me figure out how to play my way out of parent traps? If so, my silly stay-at-home anarchist culture hacker self has a friend who may be able to help me play my way out of challenges a little bit easier for the wellbeing of the child. And I have few friends who choose to play this way, but the numbers are growing steadily. If this helps me get past algorithms, hooray for that!

I'm here to use this thing, whether people see the value in what I do or not. Youth liberation praxis preserves this species.
This is the spectre of infinite growth permeating everything, at every level.
"programmed using interrupts" may be true but it's hardly a unique selling point of kolibrios
I'm scared that if I start using Google search syntax in my grepping that I'll mostly get results trying to sell me something :)
Nobody is towing a trailer with an STI.
It's both that (which is reasonable) and on/against the general public (which is not).
It's a fork from MenuetOS, which might be interesting to check out as well, if you're interested in this!
It's a bit peculiar to cite PTSD to discredit everything a person says except the things that reflect poorly on themselves. I'm not sure there's any mental disorder that causes that pattern of misstatements?
even the people calling him up on the call in section on the were more sane than what we get today.
Yeah most of the specific engineering praise I see about him is by people paid to have such opinions. We know Musk fires anyone who pushes back, so we are left to assume employees have fallen in line. When you actually look at their praise critically it is faint, comparing him to a toddler as if that’s a virtue.
> Go is an engineering language - not an academic exercise.

Great summary. I personally think Scala is the antithesis to Go, it being an academic exercise - with complexity and tooling to boot.

re: Java generics, I've got this comment from 2015 bookmarked, it's a great explainer about the decision process behind adding generics to Go and the problem(s) with Java's implementation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9622417
Fascinating how even on hacker news people dont see that Russia spammed the whole internet with Trump.

I wonder if your account is also a part of this propaganda effort, or just brainwashed.
Vanguard has about 30 SEC registrants (formally, Delaware Statutory Trusts) for all its US mutual funds. But it has a lot more than 30 funds. For example, VMFXX is managed by Vanguard Money Market Reserves, which also holds VUSXX and the former VMMXX.
> Freelance Programmer and Writer

"I never thought the machines would come for MY job!"

> Human skills, inquisitiveness and thirst for knowledge and craft will eventually die off if all creative tasks are taken over by the machines. Consider the already degraded thirst for GK or General Knowledge ever since google search became a thing. There was a time once when kids used to watch the KBC Show (Indian adaptation of Who wants to be a Millionaire) with tremendous awe and enthusiasm, but no longer today. Today, a simple google search will tell them the correct answer for the quiz question, why bother with discussing the actual answer, the lore and the facts behind it, etc!

What a classic "kids today" take. Paraphrasing: kids used to be so starved for access to knowledge they had to watch a for-profit TV show for little nuggets of trivia sprinkled between commercials, but today they have the entire world's knowledge at their fingertips in an instant so they don't bother with the trivia show. What a disaster!

I think I get the point he's trying to make -- maybe one similar to the "no one debates trivia questions in person anymore, they just look up the answer on their phone" -- but I don't really think that's a very compelling condemnation of AI or technology in general. Increased access to knowledge is good, actually. Not that we haven't lost anything culturally, but the benefits are too great to justify sacrificing for nostalgia.
AWS, like every company, is really the culture+ managers.

Some managers can deflect the culture enough for you to feel "loved".

Others can't. They embody the culture. The AWS culture really is that ruthless.
> In the other 10% the PIP was an order from above that the line managers disagreed with and thus set a reasonable performance level.

An examples on how those played out? Curious if the line managers then get punished?
No, she isn't necessarily lying but just making it seem as if she would have received $200K over a single vest while it would have likely happened over at least 2 years and 4 vests.

I have £110K coming up if I look on the stock portal, but it's over the next two years, so 25K at a time, and I don't consider it as money I already have.
This!

People often forget that corporations are just a group of individuals at their core. If every one is as shitty as a human being as the person giving the interview, no wonder Amazon is so horrible.
Ilya essentially accused Altman of lying to the board. Hearing "zero ill will" from a liar looks like intimidation to me. Especially if we take into account his previous history.
Boo me all you want, I am right. The events that will unfold soon will prove it. I would love to be wrong, but I am not.
Reading the comment re: what the FS dev teams should do by someone who I bet didn't pay a dime for the software just upsets me.
Narcissism.
I'm morbidly curious, like if I knew I had a solid job waiting for after and didn't have to stress over it going sideways. They'd probably smell my non-seriousness a mile away though and never hire me.
Scientific research use only. No exceptions.
Sidenote: What a great commit message. The expanded comment explains why both checks are necessary, but the commit message gives so much more context for anyone wondering and `git blame`ing that line.
"flourishes best" ?

Compared to what?

Your opinion is not fact.
I tried for a while back in 2022 when Adobe announced acquiring Figma. I spent a week with Penpot. It's pretty good, but there were a number of issues that forced me going back to Figma... mainly random freezes and issues causing me to lose saved work.
I'm wondering if there will be a language that compiles to Go, like Typescript is for Javascript, that adds a stricter type system (and fixes other issues) and adds a compiler step, but still has all the other benefits of Go.
Cell phones were a mistake in the sense that all organization-dependent technology was a mistake. People of the past lived more happy and in-peace years of life despite child mortality, diseases, manual labor, wars, violence, inequality etc. Reason is that no matter how you look at it, either from a evolutionary or a creationist standpoint, human mind-body is literally not designed to live in this world of convenience and ease. There is friction, a lot, which we try to adapt to and fail, and will continue to fail. Nor do we evolve in timescales of 300 years.

No unga-bunga is speaking here. NixOS-loving Rust-writing software dev. Read some Ted Kaczynski folks.
> altho people would hack around it.

By opening a window?
Do you have any evidence of this? IIRC it is completely expected for users to consume it — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/community/t...
In programming languages where it was not already taken, 'next' would have been a better choice.
Anti-Aging, Gleaned from Your Dog
Assuming your last paycheck includes those two weeks, that's (almost certainly, in context) an $X,000 difference in what you walk away with. I could probably stomach hanging around for an extra fortnight even if X was quite small.
> but the benefits are too great to justify sacrificing for nostalgia.

I don't necessarily disagree - but I also don't think this is an obvious truth.
Really love the wallpaper on one of their screenshots[1], anyone knows the source? Is it integrated into Kolibri?

[1] https://kolibrios.org/i/slaid/slaid1.png

EDIT1: Seems to be from an old video game called Cosmic Osmo? https://www.flickr.com/photos/dot_tiff/3402910182/in/photost...

EDIT2: Web Archive to the rescue! https://web.archive.org/web/20130727123433/http://futurestac...

EDIT3: Looks cute :) https://imgur.com/a/j9XAWjN
Well, I think that, despite being a joke, your comment is deeper than it looks like. As model capabilities increase, the likelihood that they interfere with the instructions that we provide increases as well. It’s really like hiring someone really smart on your team: you cannot expect them to be taking orders without ever discussing them, like your average employee would do. That’s actually a feature, not a bug, but one that would most likely impede the usefulness of the model as a strictly utilitarian artifact.
> [Dunlop] promptly filed a patent (it was later invalidated)

I was curious and investigated: it was invalidated because of Thomson’s patent as prior art 42 years earlier.
Misra C++:2023 Released
Microsoft TaskWeaver – A code-first agent framework for analytics tasks
Companies hire where employees are cheaper, and where labor protections are weaker. All the time. They also are limited to hire in regions that can support their business, e.g. Poland in case of Germany. India wouldn't work for an inhouse team running order management for a German production company, but Poland might. Might because getting such an org off the ground, and running, takes considerable efforts which might not justify whatever salary savings one might have.

That being said, Amazon in Germany is more like a up-or-out place than a hire-and-fire one for white collar folks. And the blue collar personal is pretty much treated like logistics workers at other places, read not really great. Salaries tend to be higher so (accounted for region and other things).

No idea how things are on the ground in the US so, but I guess worse. Which seems to be a general thing so.
> "The model capability will have taken such a leap forward that no one expected." - "Wait, say it again?" "The model capability, like what these systems can do, will have taken such a leap forward, no one expected that much progress." - "And why is that a remarkable thing? Why is it brilliant? " "Well, it's just different to expectation. I think people have in their mind how much better the model will be next year, and it'll be remarkable how much different it is. " - "That's intriguing."

I can't imagine. It will take higher education, for instance, years to catch up with the current SOTA. At the same time, I can imagine — it would be like using chatGPT now, but where it actually finishes the job. I find myself having to redo everything I do with ChatGPT to such an extent that it rarely saves time. It does broaden my perspective, though.
Investors don’t have to structure their deals such that selling the company or an IPO is the only way to get their money out though. They could say give me 10% of profit until I get 10x my investment, etc. At least that way investors are aligned with creating a company with sustainable profits, rather than the VC pump and dump that we’re all familiar with.
What's really intriguing is that he doesn't flat-out reject the 'unfortunate leaks' (Q*) in his latest interview on the Verge. It was definitely a victory for Altman and Microsoft, and now we're left wondering what Ilya's next move will be.
> The chances of survival of the original combined organism were 0.0000000001%.

It was surely an experiment attempted many times, as countless bacteria infected countless protoeukaryotes. Probably doesn't explain Fermi paradox, as it succeeded at least twice here on Earth. One for mitochondria, another for chloroplasts.
It doesn't even have to affect compile times per se, it could be a linter/checker task running separately from the main compiler; most type errors are only relevant during development in my experience. Said experience lately is a lot of Typescript, where all type information is no longer relevant at runtime because it's compiled out or just bluntly removed to make it valid JS (I dunno how the TS compiler works).
It's the same frustration I'd have with other badly designed tools: "I shouldn't have to do this"
I bin celebrities into "insane people with too much money" bucket and spend minimal time on them. This allows me to keep them away from my life.

They have to display that they're worthy of being followed or listened to. It's their burden, not mine, and this proved to be very effective filter for regulating my brain time on people I don't know.
Good news is that a year in consulting isn't long enough to look like a detriment. Bad news is that the job market is crap right now.

> Is anyone aware of any firms that do formal-methods-like activities

Don't limit yourself to what you studied in your PhD. A big chunk of the commercial research position will be focused on AI.

> Has anyone got experience making a shift from a non-technical to a technical role?

Don't think of it as a shift from non-technical to technical role. Think of it as "I finished my CS PhD about a year ago and now I'm looking for a research/software job".
Tell me you don't know about sports without telling me you don't know about sports.

There's a huge problem in most sports precisely because of money. Those that have the money have the best players, the best equipment, the best facilities etc. And yes, they spend money on exclusive contracts and deals so that others don't get the same.

Some sports even go as far as try and implement certain restrictions and limits so that money don't play such an outsized role
Turning Twitter into a niche, subscription-funded platform is a totally acceptable thing to want to do, but he should just come out and clearly say that is the aim. I bet the investors didn't think that was what was going to happen. It's the doublespeak that is a problem here: he appears to be saying both "I'm taking my ball and I don't care about any of you" and "you meanies won't play with me".
I never heard of the Age of Napoleon podcast, seems to be a series by a Texas resident revisiting Napoleon's history after getting fascinated by the subject.

There's a ton of distance between the author and the subject, it's about something they deeply enjoy and decided to dedicate more than a hundred episode to, and I'm not sure how much being Marxists matters here, when Marx started becoming famous after Napoleon died.

That's a lot different from discussing a politician of your own country who's still alive and untried at the time you do your podcast series.
For an alternative and a similar system, TI has an RF DAC available now but the RF ADC is probably in the pipeline [1].

Imagine a flipper zero version on steroid based on this RF ADC/DAC platform but the price will probably going through the roof [2].

[1] 16-bit, 2-channel, 20.48-GSPS 12-GHz RF digital-to-analog converter:

https://www.ti.com/product/DAC39RF10

[2] Flipper Zero: Multi-tool Device for Geeks:

https://flipperzero.one/
Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.17541.pdf

Abstract:
Language Language Models (LLMs) have shown impressive abilities in natural
language understanding and generation, leading to their use in applications such as
chatbots and virtual assistants. However, existing LLM frameworks face limitations
in handling domain-specific data analytics tasks with rich data structures. Moreover,
they struggle with flexibility to meet diverse user requirements. To address these
issues, TaskWeaver is proposed as a code-first framework for building LLM-
powered autonomous agents. It converts user requests into executable code and
treats user-defined plugins as callable functions. TaskWeaver provides support
for rich data structures, flexible plugin usage, and dynamic plugin selection, and
leverages LLM coding capabilities for complex logic. It also incorporates domain-
specific knowledge through examples and ensures the secure execution of generated
code. TaskWeaver offers a powerful and flexible framework for creating intelligent
conversational agents that can handle complex tasks and adapt to domain-specific
scenarios. The code is open-sourced at https://github.com/microsoft/TaskWeaver/.
Even from this perspective I don't think the employee is in the wrong.

If a job gives you mental strain, especially if it is affecting your performance, IMO the right thing to do is to quit. I'm not surprised the boss was disappointed, but I do think they should've seen it coming.

I've been in situations where a job evidently isn't for me anymore, albeit in a seemingly healthier environment— my boss and I talked openly about the team no longer being a fit for me for weeks if not months prior.

I was evidently not working at my full potential too, and when I told my boss I was quitting, they told me what date I should officially submit my resignation so that I'd still get my latest bonus. It was all very amicable and objective.
> Consumers always have the opportunity to switch.

No, they don't always have a choice
The contractor route is for sure easier, but the IRS doesn't like "misclassification". So you would have to structure the work differently than you would an employee.

See https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
> Say there is a job offer on a job portal and you apply to it. Behind the scenes, there is already the right candidate with the right profile. However, in order to get the candidate through all the controls along the process, you have to evaluate other candidates as well.

For example, companies must perform this process in order to defraud America's H-1B visa program, which is now considered a table stakes employment practice.
> The public wil simply shift to an alternative.

"simply"
Southern Europe, software dev with 7 years of experience, have touched backend, frontend, and infrastructure as code on AWS and Azure.

Left my previous job last month, and got a new job just a few days after. Got really bad vibes, and left literally during the first week of having started.

Either I just wasted all my luck on that one opportunity, or that wasn't luck in the first place. Time will tell.

So my search just began again. Since we're at the end of the year I'm not too optimistic on even getting any interviews at all. Being realistic, I'm probably going to get ghosted for a few months and I'm mentally preparing for that.
What's interesting is that ripgrep now also powers VS Code search with a Node.js wrapper.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@vscode/ripgrep
They're paying for the network effects, not the app. They can build a Figma clone with less than $10 million, but good luck getting people to use it.
Well there's a definite regurgitation there:

From your pastebin:

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From https://classified.mtexpress.com/showads

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We decided to run a test campaign to compare the two approaches. Here's what we learned from this mini-experiment.
Indeed, a hostile one AIUI, and both projects continue separately, which seems like a huge waste of effort to me.

I would love to see a deep and knowledgeable comparison between them.
Microsoft's War over the Israel-Hamas War in Gaza
it's monopoly, in professional setting in most cases is no possibility to use something else even if alternative tools is better for your specific task. It really similar to case of MS Word decades ago, now we have choose but not in the past.

Figma had chance to grow later to level where it could become Adobe competitor, now it's no hope that would be any competition any time soon.

Just to illustrate why I think that. Usually Adobe software used for everything so is no escape in most cases, but Figma became so widespread in popular specific case so it could really transform situation in way: use Adobe for everything but for UI/Web use only Figma. In that way everybody become committed enough to Figma ecosystem and they as company can start offering new tools which will able to capture Adobe businesses bit by bit.