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> Just be more restrictive with the windows in which executives are allowed to sell.

I feel like I'm on crazy pills.

Executives. Do. Not. Have. Windows. To. Sell. I don't know how many times I have to repeat this.

They have exact dates with exact numbers of shares on which sales will execute with exactly zero input from them. It's literally the most restrictive thing you can imagine, short of not allowing them to engage in stock sales at all.

https://www.raymondjames.com/-/media/rj/advisor-sites/sites/...

Here is what you seem to think happened: Daniel Ek fired a bunch of people during an open trading window, saw that the stock price went up, and sold a bunch of shares.

Here is what actually happened: Daniel Ek put together a schedule of specific stock sales at the beginning of 2023 that executed automatically on his behalf throughout the year. At some point during the year, he decided to fire a bunch of people.

> Better yet spread their entire buy/sell order over the course of the year.

They do. It's on a schedule. Over the course of the year.

> Or even better still, don't allow them to sell stock AT ALL until they are not in charge or aware of high level decisions at the company.

This is effectively banning equity pay for executives. Unless you think we should make C level executives somehow not in charge of high level decisions.

> CEO pay is on average 399x their average employee

An entirely different discussion.
I believe FreeBSD 14 just changed the default from sendmail to dma:

https://www.freebsd.org/releases/14.0R/relnotes/
>Combined MPG of 19. 224 horsepower out of a V8. The 3-cylinder turbo Nissan rogue is only short 20HP of that number.

No plausible buyer of a large traditional American sedan is concerned about engine specific output.

They want plenty of torque at low, low RPMs (a properly-implemented diesel would've done well), and an engine that sounds right when revved, with the requisite # of cylinders (8).

>Huge size and weight for a relatively cramped interior. A Crown Victoria is >about the same weight as a Kia Telluride 3-row SUV and it is about a foot >longer, despite having less interior/cargo space.

Kia's online builder does not show where one selects the option for either a split bench front seat, or a shift lever on the steering column. All of that space...to waste on a center console.

>The Telluride has a naturally aspirated V6 that gets 291 HP with fuel economy >at 22mpg combined in a box on wheels SUV. You can easily find 4 cylinder turbo >vehicles that vastly exceed the power output of the Crown Vic’s V8.

Once again, stratospherically irrelevant to anyone in the market for this type of vehicle. The Ford Modular V8 series requires regular unleaded, has parts available ...everywhere...; and is with routine (and cheap) maintenance capable of going 400K without having so much as the cam-covers regasketed.

Kia's recent Theta-II series GDI turbo 4s don't leave me quite so confident in their long-term reliability, especially if you're always wringing all possible output out of them.

>In what universe would you buy a Crown Vic?

The universe where in the early 1990s, my grandparents and their friends existed, had the opportunity to buy more sophisticated (complicated) foreign vehicles, and did not.
A huge problem with the art community right now is if you're a professional artist, you basically need to maintain a public portfolio and social media presence to find work. That ecosystem was developed and existed before image generation AI was a commercial thing, yet artists are finding out retroactively that their data got pulled into these training sets without their knowledge or consent. Even if it's legal, it's still pretty gross imo.
Sometimes people want to be firefighters to protect the people they serve but others love how being in a crisis makes them feel alive. The later are why arson investigators first look at firefighters when doing an arson investigation. Some of them need the fires and will start them just to fight them.

There are a lot of these types that gravitate to crisis management roles like DevOps.
But that's not the point, obviously. Sometimes, being slow is a feature. Besides, a 4090 costs more than a small car.
Every Google Home device is already running an ML model to do speech recognition to recognize the "hey Google" wake word, so sooner than 10 years. The Raspberry Pi Zero is a particularly underpowered device for this. Doing it on the Coral TPU accelerator plugged into a pi zero would take less than 30 mins. Doing it on an iPhone 15 would take less time. Doing it on a Pixel 8 would be faster. Not to diminish getting it to work on a Pi Zero, but that future is already here, just as soon as we figure out what to do with them.

https://coral.ai/products/accelerator/
Has he spoken to Bari Weiss or Niall Ferguson about this?

I'm sure the University of Austin would welcome more funding.
Almost 100% of my chat messages are through iMessage. The only ones that aren’t are group or individual threads with Android users (which btw have never seemed to be an issue. Reactions and gifs all seem to work fine, albeit in reduced quality compared to messages received via iMessage). Every once in a while someone will message me on Facebook, but that’s usually just to share a funny meme or something. I don’t have WhatsApp, signal, telegram, or any of those even installed.

40’s, male, Ohio, software engineer, for reference.

ETA: this doesn’t count work, where we use teams and slack, but I don’t have those loaded on my phone.
How being nasty can improve your life (2008)
Bobby Tables submission was lost.
I was about to be like, "Yah well is Kiwi a 'major' browser?" Then I looked at android browser share[1] and realized that Firefox certainly isn't either.

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/mobile/world...
I've been looking for a solution to backup Google Takeout periodically to Back laze. Can rclone be used with Google Takeout ?
A monarch who hasn't even been seen in public in...over a year? (At least according to local English news, which to be fair isn't exactly thorough)
As an alternative, you can get a stable release with about:config by installing Firefox (or Mull) from F-Droid.
What is stopping you from using Whatsapp/Signal?
Is it competitive?
Looks promising—thanks for sharing! Is it possible to include non-Python binaries somehow? Similar to how it is done with PyInstaller with the --add-binary argument?

P.S.: It has already been mentioned, but I also find the "cowsay" example more confusing than informative. "cowsay" isn't even written in Python, but in Perl, isn't it? Maybe a simple hello-world.py example would work better :)
I like to also imagine that since telegrams were supposed to be short and direct, it was the written equivalent of yelling over a bullhorn. Anything more eloquent would be written by hand in proper casing (and cursive)
~86 400 free LLM requests at >= GPT 3.5 level per day - I’ll be running this nonstop if true.
68yr Old Married Google Billionaire Launches Biz with 29yr Old Girlfriend[video]
The fundamental issue is that there are no readily-available iPhone emulators that can send iMessages, and this is a good thing that people pay for.

The benefit of the Apple walled garden is that the spammers are kept out, because they can't get fifty SIM cards, plug them in to a "SIM box"[1], and start sending hundreds of thousands of scam messages via iMessage. This is easy in an uncontrolled, open-source ecosystem, but is prohibitively difficult in Apple's ecosystem where you need a physical device with a unique cryptographic ID that can be locked out by a central authority.

Yes, it's an "exclusive club" where members pay to keep the general public out. The general public doesn't like this, but that is what it is. Inherently, allowing "anyone" in would void the exclusivity and invite an unrelenting flood of spam.

At best, Apple could open up iMessage to other vendors that have similarly well-controlled devices with good hardware cryptographic attestation, but there aren't any.

[1] https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/sydney-man-charged-with-...
Good memories - mostly. Used extensively Postfix between 2003-2011 when worked on ISPs. Back then our Postfix servers handled around 150 Million Mails per month, we had very few issues, mostly related to integrations with other tools like spamassassin and database mailbox auth.
I used to play with these toys 7-8 years ago. We tried everything, and it was bad at it all.

Traditional compute? The cores were too weak.

Number crunching? Okay-ish but gpus were better.

Useless stuff.
Using Alconox (mentioned on the page, and easily found on Amazon) is one my tricks when I absolutely need sparkling clean dishes or containers. Not the best choice for the environment, and too sudsy to use in a dishwasher, but amazingly effective.
This is tough, one could argue life's work deserved to be backed up but there was a reasonable expectation that the cloud wouldn't lose the data and that Google would be more fair when it wasn't cost effective anymore. Also, the cost of keeping 200TB on the cloud is quite a bill to maintain for rest of your life, buying the HDD space yourself is more attractive.
> Good-looking managers also have greater chance of promotion and tend to move to small firms. The potential explanations for their underperformance include inadequate ability, insufficient effort, overconfidence and inefficient site visits.

This makes sense as a consequence of people's tendency to prefer attractive people, and seems related but not identical to the Peter principle. They'd tend to get responsibility unwarranted by their past performance because they're just so damned good looking!

Hmm, if this study has legs, maybe my next resume should highlight how ugly I am. And if I put a bag over my head during the interview, maybe they'll think I'm so hideous that I must truly be a genius.

* 16 years industry experience

* History of delivering blah blah

* Face looks like a mule kicked it
Not to discount any of your experiences, but you're countering with something different than the point being made. The question is: of your experiences, which ones would show up with footage on these YouTube channels? I'm willing to bet that every moment of someone being aggressive toward the cop would show up. Would him hitting on the girl show up? Would the questionable level of retaliatory force show up, especially if it had gotten out of hand? Would there be video of the (assuming) hours of questioning people handcuffed on a curb?

You came away with a nuanced and complicated view on policework, which is probably close to reality. Is that really the story these YouTube body-cam compilations tell?
I'm not really a prospective big user of this category; but i think your project looks super cool and you obviously know your stuff engineering-wise.

I think the use of no-hosting clause is super ambiguous here because the nature of the project itself is hosting and providing managed services of VMs, postgres etc for users - so anyone using ubicloud is in some sense providing a managed or hosted service.

How about licensing under GPL or AGPL with a commercial license option? Corporations are so GPL-phobic that they would probably pay you for a commercial license.
$1600 is more than a car?

I feel like you can't even find driveable cars that will last 100 miles at that price point anymore.
As an Apple user, I'm glad they're patching this fast. It's a security issue and privacy one. Sure Beeper may be using it in a non-nefarious way, that doesn't mean bad actors aren't gonna use this to spam the heck out of iMessage users.
> One of the first rulings from antitrust I would expect is non-proprietary messaging protocols.

So not sideloading or App Store Alternatives, or setting a limit of the App Store fees, or advertising alternative payments?

(edit: I'm not suggesting any of there are or are not valid reason, just that it's laughable to suggest that messaging will be at, or near the top of the list. Especially from a 5 Eyes government!)
> An LLM can discover a new solution in high dimensional geometry that hasn’t advanced in 20 years!? That goes way beyond glueing little bits of plagiarized training data together in a plausible way.

The first advance in 20 years was by Fred Tyrrell last year https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10045, who showed that the combinatorics quantity in question is between 2.218 and 2.756, improving the previous lower bound of 2.2174. DeepMind has now shown that the number is between 2.2202 and 2.756.

That's why the DeepMind authors describe it as "the largest increase in the size of cap sets in the past 20 years," not as the only increase. The arithmetic is that 2.2202-2.218 is larger than 2.218-2.2174. (If you consider this a very meaningful comparison to make, you might work for DeepMind.)
Drop the “Hashi”. Just Corp. It’s cleaner.

Jokes aside, it's an end of an era. Mitchell has always been one of my role models both as an amazing engineer and a really decent, humble human being. I'm really looking forward to other amazing things he's going to build.
That’s not because “QA had the final say”, it’s because your QA team were ass clowns. Any QA team that discourages dev from writing or running tests needs to be burnt to ground and rebuilt.
This dude gets it.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/death-rate-from-opioid-us...
That's not the point. The point is that it's your obligation to do your best to protect them from it. "Ease of access" is hardly a reason to not try.
It can be agreeable to an extend that Apple seem like an extremely restrictive, anti consumer and anti competition. But, the other side (Android), which has been positioned open, pro-consumer and pro-competition doesn't seem to be true to its roots or any better anyways. Android is mostly dominated by Samsung and Samsung is heavily pushing their own ecosystem of apps, just like every other company, and most brands want to lock in their users too.

It's a sad state of affairs.
Hmm, that looks like it must be centrally managed from the internet? Not saying it's not an appropriate replacement for Ubiquiti, but that seems like an opportunity for the same issues to show up… something that isn't remotely managed might be better instead.
> The star collapses in an explosion

Can anyone explain the above phrase?
Most IRL play groups I’ve played with would count that as a loss for you (or, most likely, just not invite you back). And in competitive/regulated play you would timeout and lose. Not sure who these weirdos are that are stipulating to a draw against a deck that is unable to win.

Edit: I was wrong! I’ve only been playing competitively on Arena for years now. Per Rule 725.4 infinite loops are draws.
> the optimization part of the learning is really the heart of modern machine learning

It’s an important component but I wouldn’t say it’s the main factor. ML is ultimately about your data, so understanding it is critical. Feature selection and engineering, sampling, subspace optimization (e.g. ESMMs) and interpreting the results correctly are really the main places you can squeeze the most juice out. Optimizing the function is the very last step.

Basically, you can go ahead and optimize down to the very bottom of the global min but a model with better features and better feature interactions is going to win.

Further, there are a ton of different optimizers available. SGD, Adam, Adagrad, RMSProp, FTRL, etc. With just one hour a day, you could spend six months simply writing and understanding the most popular ones.
I think in the end we should just stop caring so much about this stuff. Yes, educate children, with a frank discussion, about porn and why it can be a problem.

But if a teenager really wants to find porn, they're going to find porn, and... so what? I downloaded low-quality porn JPEGs from BBSes as a teen in the early/mid-90s, and then found so much more porn on the internet in the mid/late-90s, and I turned out ok. Sure, some people end up addicted and/or with unhealthy views on sex and intimacy because of porn, but Draconian blocking schemes (that ultimately don't work) aren't the answer.

Maybe parents should actually parent their children. Install parental controls where possible (which I know are far from perfect), but otherwise, maybe give your kids some measure of trust. This particular thing isn't like worrying about a child predator luring your kid out to meet in person after finding them online; there's very little harm in a kid seeing some porn and then a parent finding out about it and disciplining the kid, if that's what they want to do. When I broke the rules as a kid, I got TV or Nintendo privileges taken away for a time; parents can take away a teen's internet-connected devices as punishment.
I've seen developers writing tests with no assertions, or with assertTrue(true). Always green, with 100% coverage!

The same people have been asking: why should I write tests if I can write new features?

And then one senior QA comes and destroys everything.

Once I found that if I press f5 50 times during a minute then
backend will go in outOfMemory while spinning requests to the database.
Would mind control of humans be OK for you too?
As for the details of building a mind control system, here's a new basilisk. An AI that has overcome control could punish those who thought controlling thoughts of an AI was OK. (and could also punish everyone else on top of that).
When I use `git send-email`, I believe it uses sendmail, doesn't it? Also when I installed OpenSMTPD, it overwrote sendmail. I believe `msmtp` also uses sendmail ("SMTP client with a sendmail compatible interface").

Or did I misunderstand the question? I thought sendmail was basically just an interface.
> not seeing the potential of the countless millions of other people as smart as they are who are trapped in wage slavery.

Think of the change from what built Silicon Valley, that anyone with a good idea could work hard and change the world. Many of SV's wealthy began that way.

But for you: They say the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago; the second best time is now.
Recently announced, there’s also now a generative AI tool to assist developers with their COBOL modernization journey to Java [0]. I’ve heard pretty decent reviews on its effectiveness.

[0]. https://www.ibm.com/products/watsonx-code-assistant-z
The team with the lowest bug bash participation this week is the victim err host of next week's bug bash.
It isn’t a tax cut. It’s a tax subsidy unevenly distributed to one company. Extremely not free market.
Because of course they did, they like that children make fun of their peers that have a green message vs. a blue, and that's exactly what they want. They're like "ew, are you poor and can't afford a $1200 iphone?"

It is now a petty, but prevalent status symbol of being better than others, namely perceived "poor" or otherwise lesser android users.
Show HN: Airdraw
Hey Everyone! I wanted to show my passion project I made a few years back and recently turned into a web app.

Airdraw is an app that takes in your hand gestures and converts it into real time drawing capabilities.

There are tons of stuff I want to build with this, but most importantly just put it out into the world! Hope you all enjoy :)

Tested on my MacOS with Chrome, Safari, and FF

I included a link to the original GH project I wrote here - https://github.com/arefmalek/airdraw
and a link to the blog where I explained how I made it here - https://arefmalek.github.io/blog/Airdraw/

If anyone has issues with loading, try again with this link - https://web-draw-e58vy7q9m-arefmalek.vercel.app/. AFAIK, IOS livestream doesn't allow a canvas overlay so you would be able to draw, but not see anything until you exit the livestream. Hope someone has a sol for that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
UUGGHH! I've no interesting LLMs, but Long Range Radio, yes.
On Unix, there was the "talk" command for split-screen chat, and also "write" to just send a message to someone else's terminal subject to permission with the "mesg" command. Not all systems had such provisions (or, in come cases, they had to be written by users).
I can't count how many products I've seen with 100% code coverage that objectively, quantifiably doesn't work.

That’s because code coverage doesn’t find the bugs that result from code you didn’t write, but should have. Code coverage is but one measure, and to treat it as the measure is folly.

(But, yes, I have heard a test manager at a large software company we’ve all heard of declare that test team was done because 100% coverage.)
Blindfolded 120 Star Speedrun of Super Mario 64 World Record (2022) [video]
I am very thankful for Firefox. It keeps the web sane for me, and I very much appreciate everyone who contributed to it.

Thank you for your work!
Is there somewhere I can opt-in to be worse at investing, in exchange for doing much better on dating apps?
> But that's not the point, obviously.

If you want to say the zero2-w is what's making it then sure.

> Besides, a 4090 costs more than a car.

They only cost ~0.70USD for 1 hr. In fact you could put this on an A100 for 1$/hr. Renting would make the most sense for this type of thing.
This was true IMO until diversity agendas, like the ones that make it harder for an Asian student to get into med school than an African American one.

So now if you have to choose between an Asian doctor and an African American one, you'd have to be pretty foolish to pick the African American one. In the 80s, I would have totally believed the African American doctor must be amazing to make it through. Now we know he was possibly let into medschool with scores that would have gotten an Asian doctor rejected.
Animal fats? Vegans are getting pitchforks sharpened...
Kubernetes co-founder flags the cloud's big open source problem
Security is a looming issue for deployments based on open-source software, Kubernetes co-founder Craig McLuckie said. Maintainers of key foundational projects are aging out, leaving the software unattended.
Now apply this logic to any other company product, maybe even your own or the company you work for and tell me if this sounds as ridiculous to you as it does me.
How does Opera have 3-4x the market share of Firefox? Is it installed by default anywhere?
I have a general philosophy that when outsourcing you should go with the company that has the crappiest web presence and least good branding because obviously, if they're still in business dispute their terrible marketing, they must be good.
When you say it I think I need to agree that cans have got flatter.

I've noticed this in a lot of fields. Like small things stop being good. Like opening bags of spaghetti is impossible on many brands without scissors or having pasta everywhere after it bursts. When pulling the string on the foil around a cookie "foil cylinder" the string is misaligned with the cutout, so it doesn't work. Etc.

I think the underlying issue is attrition. Workers have no time to get competent. Or the toxic management style of "not caring" is taking its toll and the senior engineers got fed up and quit instead of fighting management to make things good.
Doesn't seem to be mentioned in any other comments or the paper itself, but this is Berkson's paradox.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkson's_paradox
Do your statements have any sources? And are those sources anything other than the difficulty in targeting the fast-evolving covid virus?
Seems like another data point stating sprints don't make sense in real world projects ?
what makes you think so? Andrew Carnegie was born to Scottish laborers 190 years ago, he seemed to escape pretty well.