skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The best and brightest of Asia and Europe move to the US because of the salaries. Thus, the talent pool in the US becomes far stronger than the talent pool in other regions.

But it's also true that FAANG all have global offices and teams fully in places with lower salaries. They are aware of the pay differences and take advantage of them. But they can't completely have all development done in a separate time zone or even same time zone separate region (like LATAM). That slows down dev cycles, invites gaps in product understanding, and allows you to miss out on top talent who will move to get paid top dollar.
While it is true that a $4000 espresso machine will not get good results with a $20 blade grinder from the hardware store, I think you do see diminishing returns going above $1000 for burr grinders. On the other hand, spending more on the espresso machine can get you way more dials and knobs to tweak. Temperature and pressure profiling and all that.

This may not matter if you prefer medium or dark roasted coffee, but light and Nordic roasts really benefit from the extra control over temperature and pressure. With a fancy machine you can do these very long, lower pressure extractions with higher brew ratios to extract a finicky light roast which would otherwise require an impossibly fine grind that chokes a standard 9 bar machine.
With all that salary, keep the job and hire a team of outsourced workers to build the business of your dreams on the side.
Right now, but how long does it take for OpenAI, Facebook and Google's Bard/Gemini to catch up?
Ethnicity is not a social construct, and sometimes people use the word race as a synonym for ethnicity. There are clear genetic factors for ethnicity.
I have a playlist with 150 hours of music on it and it seems to play the same five or six songs every day, no matter what. I wish I could choose "actually random", I wouldn't mind unexpected clustering.
Great steps in the right direction. Now the EU only needs to ensure property is not stolen by ai companies. Essentially if you cant prove your model has been trained on content you have licensed then selling it should be illegal.
If everyone pirated, the only people who would create content would be people doing it purely for the sake of art or their own enjoyment, far more people would be personally involved in creating art (in music for example, there would be far more people going to see local performances if there were less music produced as mass media due to loss of profitability), mass media would be reduced and more art would be local (and still physical), increasing the richness and diversity of the media landscape.

In my opinion, that would be a far superior world to the one we live in.
> It's all marketing, I think EU is right to accurately use the "AI" marketing term for what it is.

I think EU calling it "AI" is fine today. I'm more worried about the future. In 5 years when the hype word for this class of tools becomes Tchounka. The world will say that EU is late and they need to pass a Tchounka law. While the reality is that EU passed an automated data processing law and doesn't care about how it's done.
No one you’ve responded to is defending Disney. No one is looking the other way. They’re telling you that you’re conflating unrelated things.

You spinning that into “actually that means you approved of CSAM” is teenage Twitter bullshit, frankly. Again, grow up.
I'm sorry but you don't know what you are talking about. Pledges are cheap, actually paying up the billions required to rebuild Gaza is a different matter. Yeah, we can focus on the death toll alone, but you are still wrong. 17k mostly civilians in 60 days of warfare is unprecedented in recent years.
> - is not easy to google

Nobody is googling "Murder" looking for a game engine and being disappointed that they can't find it. If you search "Murder Engine" this is the first thing that pops up.

> - is quite tasteless, less so if murder is mainly something you see on tv, but for some people murder is sadly much less of an fictional rare thing

I have an immediate family member that was brutally murdered. I also have no problem with the name of the engine. Of the things to take issue with, this seems silly. You would hate LOVE2D which has libraries famously named ANAL and LUBE.
I had a similar experience with ARC (actions-runner-controller).

One of the machines in the fleet failed to sync its clock via NTP. Once a job X got scheduled to it, the runner pod failed authentication due to incorrect clock time, and then the whole ARC system started to behave incorrectly: job X was stuck without runners, until another workflow job Y was created, and then X got run but Y became stuck. There were also other wierd behaviors like this so I eventually rebuilt everything based on VMs and stopped using ARC.

Using VMs also allowed me to support the use of the official runner images [0], which is good for compatibility.

I feel more people would benefit from managed "self-hosted" runners, so I started DimeRun [1] to provide cheaper GHA runners for people who don't have the time/willingness to troubleshoot low-level infra issues.

[0]: https://github.com/actions/runner-images
[1]: https://dime.run
Exactly. Show me an Arab country where Jews live as equals and prosper. There isn’t one. There’s just a few thousand Jews in the Arab countries. Less than 100 in Syria and Lebanon, about 100 in Egypt. Five in Iraq. Officially, zero in Saudi.

Ethnostates are still highly relevant today, especially for Jews.
Apple Watch already has a skateboarding workout that includes motion, HR, & location why would I use this instead?
Check out Infisical: https://github.com/Infisical/infisical

Disclaimer: I'm one of the founders
Also, and IMO, it is more important; please do not rely on GitHub as a single source for FOSS projects. Lots of makers prefer to host their own code, lots migrated from GitHub to GitLab and other alternatives after the Microsoft deal.
Just tried this trick, using a bottle spray on some beans in the hopper before grinding. And this was before I read this article, very timely!
yeah, but at least we try
Newly revealed 1994 photo of RFK Jr with Jeffrey Epstein raises questions
OK but the American field hospitals often only need to stabilize people because the expectation is that anyone needing serious treatment will be airlifted to expensive military hospitals in Germany or the US. In contrast, the victims of humanitarian emergencies in poor/developing countries usually need to be fully treated on site because they aren't getting airlifted anywhere :(
I was a sofware director at a Fortune 500 company. I had engineers in Silicon Valley, Santa Cruz, Canada, the Netherlands, Russia, UK, Taiwan, and Wuhan (!) China. I also had individual engineers in Romania, Ireland, Portugal and Germany. Since it was already a global company, it was feasible to hire wherever we could find talent. Some of the Russia team moved to Armenia last year when the office in St. Petersburg was closed. We considered other countries like Vietnam since we had Vietnamese-American engineers but this is where we ended up.

Cost was one of multiple variables determining which site we hired at. At the extremes, it was a 10x difference. The higher the salary, the more senior the team. The competition to hire and retain software engineers caused salaries to go up everywhere, but at a faster rate in the low-cost countries. And low-cost countries were our go-to source for new grads. The profiles of say Russia and China universities varied significantly e.g. experience with open source, mathematical rigor, English skills, credentials, initiative, teamwork, and relevant courses.

The core product develpoment was done in the US but over time, other sites took on more product responsibility. In some of the countries, we also wanted to be closer to our customers, in expanding markets.

It's hard to measure quality, productivity and contribution on an individual basis but it was reasonably correlated with salary. There were outliers though.

So geographically-based staffing was complicated.
Network effects. In the US at least WhatsApp and Signal are barely used in comparison to iMessage, despite them being solid cross platform alternatives.
Dictionary definitions and legal definitions may or may not overlap. If not discussing the legal definition, than steal could mean someone enjoyed an appropriately licensed copyrighted work secretly or in private.
How to Test If We're Living in a Computer Simulation
I smell Cisco…
> jealousy and envy

Pure Ad Hominem. What is the implication here? You think people are faking their (right or wrong) arguments to cover up jealousy? You think it's not possible to be wronged and envious at the same time? It's not an argument.
Chinese methane-powered rocket launches satellites into orbit
Apparently you can download it via torrent[0].

https://venturebeat.com/ai/mistral-ai-bucks-release-trend-by...
So? People are investing in Mistral too (which this submission is about), albeit smaller sums, so far.
what word would you use if you hired a lawyer or accountant to do some paperwork and when they finished you just copied the documents and then didn't pay them because "it's not stealing, it's just communication"?
The localization of these broader services to trade and market demands is how they scale faster and deeper. Unless you think MS and Google and Amazon have Europe locked down now?
I'd be worried if there's an increased risk of mold growth.
Wow, that's hella tone-deaf.

EVERYBODY under Capitalism, aside the owner class, is getting exploited.

It's not 'if you're getting screwed'. It's 'how much'.
That's it. The community is working on getting it implemented in the popular inference engines. It came out less then 48 hours ago so give it a few days and we should be able to run it and test it at various quantizations depending on how much compute power you have.
The study looked at the effects of the moisture on the grinder. They noticed a slight increase in humidity within the grind chamber that dissipated within a few minutes. Not something I’d worry about.
They are probably closer when evaporated as a % based on the amount of value and profit in the supply chain that is being extracted. People making iPhones are working for companies that have their margins squeezed to razor thin margins so that Apple can make its 30% cut.

The other thing is the amount of skill required. There are more people who can be hired to assemble iPhones than to design all the parts that go into the product.

Finally, there’s an arbitrage effect going on. A company can more easily go into a low CoL and pay the predominate local wage than a person from a low CoL can move to a high CoL and get paid a fair wage (aside from legal barriers there are also social ones involved with leaving your family)
I regularly had 7am PST calls with Europe and Russia and 7pm PST calls with China and Taiwan. Calls with both at the same time were particularly difficult to schedule.
> One of the biggest differences that you don't mention is the use of your body.

Oh, for sure. I was a dev for many years, then switched to product design. What I left out of my first comment was that my older brother is a maintenance guy for a hospital—basically a handyman with an office in the basement. Growing up, it was clear that he was at least as smart as me, but at a certain point he went one direction and I went another. Cut to 25-30 years later: his body is a wreck, mine is okay (modulo poor diet and lack of exercise), he's always broke, and I'm doing alright.

When I said that our jobs are very similar, I just meant that, like a handyman, much of what a SWE does is basically attaching one thing to another thing while cursing. That's a joke, but you get what I mean. My point was that neither are rocket science, but we shouldn't think we're especially smart for being programmers just because we get paid too much for it. Add the physical element of handyman work to that and that just underlines the point I wanted to make.

> I strongly disagree with "all the out of work engineers and designers will move into those industries.

This is timely. I said that because I was thinking about it yesterday, when talking to some friends about what they'd do if and when AI obviated their current jobs (which is in the realm of possibility). A common answer was that they'd become electricians. I think there are at least two problems with that: one is the physical aspect of being a tradesman, which nobody thinks about. The other is that there would certainly be more people going into the trades, not less, if those industries became a safe harbor from AI. Many of these people would wash out, sure, but at least some of them (like yourself) wouldn't. That, combined with all the upper-middle-class people being suddenly broke, would probably drive down wages for people who work with their hands. I can't imagine anything else happening, though of course I could be wrong.
> I'm not exactly sure what sets apart some grinder from another. Some say they more evenly grind the beans (similar particle sizes) but I am not sure if that is all there is to it.

Definitely not all there is to it. There are people who are in to swapping burrs on a grinder to experiment with different flavor profiles, or to make espresso vs filter coffee. Some grinders even cater to us, such as the Niche Duo: https://www.nichecoffee.co.uk/products/niche-duo?variant=431...

Also, some people who like more traditional, chocolaty espressos prefer grinders/burrs that produce more varied particle size. People who like cleaner, "modern" espresso prefer grinders that produce the more similar particle sizes.

It's a rabbit hole.
"Extraction yield" may be a good thing, but that hypothesis goes untested.

Distilling, one wants to control extraction yield to isolate the best flavors. Done carefully, one makes armagnac. Maximizing extraction yield makes moonshine.
Considering Google been lying in their marketing videos about their AI capabilities, OpenAI seems to be falling apart from the inside and Facebook refuses to release open (not commercially-locked "open") models, there seems to be space for at least one honest and open AI company.
The adversary is the incumbent that’s working to artificially stifle innovation, strong arm the market, and exclude competition.

Beeper is not someone who hacked your wifi. Beeper is sending legitimate packets to your router and Apple is saying “I don’t like those packets because they threaten my artificial hold on the market”.
Especially because people didn't know ALL the effects. This is not just about static, but also how it impacts shots.
This is wonderful. What a great way to continue innovation without facing the adoption hurdles of a new format
Apologies for lowering the level quality of the comments.. but.. PICKLE RIIIIIIIIICK!!! (I mean the whole episode, with mice, roaches, etc.)(and excuse the caps, the actor keeps shouting it in the episode)
I've been doing this for years and haven't seen any evidence of mold, even in more humid summer months.
Seems similar to some Linux distros business model, give it away for free but the service is paid.
> To give a concrete hypothetical: you hire an ML research team in Poland. While ML is in demand, those people can easily get a job offer in London or Zurich and get paid 2-3 times as much. They don't even need a work permit

They actually need a work permit for London (it's not EU anymore).

I believe that for Switzerland there might also be requirements for the employer to state that they couldn't find talent in the country, before extending an offer to foreign nationals (including EU: Switzerland is not EU, though it's part of Schengen... And thus EU citizens have freedom of movement)

But your point stands... I think that fiefdom building, and needing teams close to where the execs (and/or investors) work and live is the other big reason why companies hire in high COL areas
It's essentially mandatory unless you provide better terms on your own. If the unions want a CBA in that case, it doesn't change a single thing. You sign and nothing changes. Tesla claims to provide better than the CBA but openly refuses to sign which doesn't pass the smell test.

Tesla wants to punish anyone who joins a union which is super illegal. We're talking prison time if they don't back down. They can't take away the stock benefit when IF Metall wins. They've put it out there, and if they take it away because of unionisation, they'll lose. It's a huge fucking no.
Transparency of the inner workings isn't really relevant - getting the right results is (whatever that means in any particular situation). It diverts a lot of effort from solving the actual issues.

A transparent but poor decision is not really much better than an opaque poor decision.
In the question prompt, the title have already assumed the premise that we are in a computer program. Therefore, it is impossible to prove oneself not being in a computer program under this premise. This is a logical paradox rather than a philosophical or technical issue.
Curious about your take on consul -- it's been instrumental for service discovery in our non-K8S environment...
I bought it later and it was a good value they really did a lot with it. Honestly if they just did some better writing on the scripted stuff it could have been quite a bit better even if they changed nothing about how anything actually played
First-hand source: https://twitter.com/MistralAI/status/1706877320844509405
The money creates a bigger quality gap. At Meta's US offices, most devs are foreign origin. They moved for the money. So those devs wouldn't just accept paltry sums if Meta hired them overseas and they didn't need to come to the US to work. But Meta would have added friction the more and more of their teams are separate from product owners and business owners.
Mistral doesn't release source code or data just weights. They did include some details of sliding window attention previously
Appreciate the fork, but I think it's time for people to move on from Vault and other HashiCorp tools (especially that I'm hearing this is financed by IMB to keep their Vault competitor going).

Check out Infisical for secret management: https://github.com/Infisical/infisical

Disclaimer: I'm one of the maintainers.
Masking isn't about health...its about control.
> It would help to have civilian corridors into the south and into Egypt, but again that’s not in the best interests of Hamas.

Such a corridor is in nobodies interest but Israels, as they would happily expel the entire Gaza population and then forbid them from returning. It's not like high ranking Israeli officials haven't alluded or outright said this, and Israel has quite a history of illegal annexation in the West Bank.

Providing such a corridor would just be asssisting in ethnic cleansing.
There is a similar game that distributes more of the money to causes where people vote with their dollars and antidollars and the winning side gets 1-epsilon of it because the operator of the game requires vigorish.

It's like poker with no cards. Ideally the winner puts in just a dollar more than the loser and they nearly double their donation. If the winner can't get enough information to do that and has to spend too much for the pot they end up making a huge unmatched contribution.

The game makes sense to play if you're sure you will win but you don't want to start it if you think you won't.
How is Microsoft handling all of this right now?
> is "yes, and?"

It would be self defeating for artists. The same tools developed to scan AI art for copyright infringement will trigger on their own works as well. All "side inspiration" will be revealed, it will have a chilling effect on freedom.

Do you want art to be made of little islands of copyright, where someone staked their claim - nobody else is allowed to create? If they can own styles they can ban others from using those styles.

Let's explain it like this: in a system, a user has ownership over a few files. But from now on users will own whole extensions, like ".json" and own everything "*.json" instead of "myreport.json". They want copyright wildcard "*.©", it's a power grab. They want copyright to be more like patents.
iMessage is mostly a US problem.

EU usage of iMessage is minimal compared to WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal and Facebook Messenger.

So there's little incentive for EU to get involved.
True, but there’s a difference in seeing a random anonymous account parroting things and someone with a following pushing it.

Honestly many people here, myself too probably at points, tend to just repeat what they’ve heard elsewhere as fact. You can see it if you try and notice phrasing patterns repeating.

My real lesson is less that the internet is a shit show (it is though), and more that people like to take a very strong opinion as fact, over a more nuanced opinion that requires understanding of a topic.
Guilty until proven innocent. Very thoughtful take.
Not exactly. The linked post is from theregister announcing the fork. This post is the fork itself.
Oh lookie Sophie! Now we are having a piece of Kuhnigunde, doesn't she taste real beefy? Yum!
If you come to my restaurant isn't in my info that you walked in my door, sat at my table, ordered my food? Why do you think it's your info? When two interact both sides get to remember the interaction.
The irony of Slack writing about productivity is not lost on me.

"The productivity pit: how Slack is ruining work":
https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/1/18511575/productivity-sl...
Very cool, and I hope it sees adoption.

Also speaks to either wise or lucky design of PNG itself, that it can support these kinds of backwards-compatible extensions.
> > Surely you're not arguing in bad faith.

> People literally spit on you for having an Android phone? Like they literally hacked up a glob of saliva and spat on you?

Soooo, you're arguing in bad faith. Could have saved people some time and said so.
There is an extremely nationalist and warmongering rethoric coming from official Belgrade for decades now. I don't see how foreign capitals have anything to do with that.