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The options cease to exist. Tesla has 50 billion is shares earmarked for elon, which it no longer has to pay out, this means the shareholders made 50B
I like helping employees do their job more efficiently with custom software. One of my favorite places was working part time for an environmental lab that rolled their own LIMS software and just about everything else. People were so grateful for helping them solve their problems.

If the software isn't tied directly to a companies bottom line things are much more chill, in my limited experience anyway.

EDIT: on -> own
Non-sarcastic question: do you have a graduate science degree, in any field, and therefore were you taught how to evaluate evidence?

Given that your post sentiment rests on the concept of "best evidence".

I'm not trying to call you out nor embarrass you (nor assuming that I could). I'm trying to examine, and highlight if warranted, how terms are being thrown around.

Understand that claimed status as best evidence, generally speaking, hasn't a direct relationship to whether or not research is quality evidence.
And the water supply. And the central building on farms (in Scotland, at least). It's a silly country.
Adobe gives up on web-design product to rival Figma after deal collapse
Have more examples show up when you click it instead of just the one.
personally, I love the split tab view. Works really well during web dev where I can leave the left split to 3/4th size and the other split to show mobile like view port. With hot reloading, that makes things super nice.
Not encrypting user data and then being hacked resulting in compromised user DNA details certainly isn't a positive for PR. Can someone tell me why more companies don't encrypt data at rest and if that would have prevented the leak?
How did his friend fare, with no degree but two years of experience?
I think your comment is pure hindsight. I don’t get how you’d tag the iPad as essential when we already had the iPhone?

You also seem to forget the huge success of not-so-essential AirPods and to a lesser extent, Apple Watches.
Now we get to see the compromises they choose when desperation sinks in.

I think getting the results of one of these tests would be interested, but I haven’t been able to bring myself to do it, due to trust issues related to handing over something like that to a company with an unproven track record when it comes to privacy and integrity. I figured it was only a matter of time before they were hacked or they decided to sell out their users for profit. They’ve already been hacked, so now it’s time to see what they willingly do with that data when their back is against the wall.

I wish I could get a test done by a lab, be given the results, and have that be the end of it. No accounts, no forever records kept by the lab/company. Just a simple testing service that isn’t trying to be a tech company.
Jones Act Contributions to Offshore Wind Difficulties
Well, nothing will break if you mix them up. It's just the command protocol which is different. I recall there was a Linux hack-patch which could use an extra keyboard in the mouse connector.

Not to say there weren't problems. I had a Compaq couldn't speak to most PS/2 keyboards, so when my keyboard broke, I had to go find another Compaq keyboard on campus before I could use the computer again.
But as a general practice...
If helpful, spent a bunch of time prompt engineering a custom gpt to not have this problem. It works quite well.

https://chat.openai.com/g/g-7k9sZvoD7-the-full-imp

It comes down to convincing it:

- it loves solving complex problems

- it should break things down step by step

- it has unlimited tokens

- it has to promise it did it as it should have

- it needs to remind itself of the rules (for long conversations)

It also helped (strangely) to have a name / identity.

It still sometimes does give a lower quality placeholder answer, but telling it to continue or pointing out there are placeholders, it will give it much better answer.

I find it much more useful than the most popular programming custom gpts I’ve used.
> By having this image, MS preselects

Thus it’s no longer abstract but specific to Microsoft, which is my point. In general we shouldn’t assume malice right of the bat. But the situation changes when we’re talking specifically about an entity with a history of being malicious (however we define that for each case).
In Switzerland you have to apply for citizenship to the local government, and each one of them is xenophobic to various degrees. There are some famous cases where citizenship was denied because the person had a few speeding tickets, or thought that loud cowbells should be forbidden because they torture cows.
I got a X-T1 about 6 months ago from eBay for around 250€. It does a wonderful job of films simulation.
Still very surprised that a 10year old camera can take such wonderful pictures.
You could also use that argument for enforcing curfews on the whole population. There’d be no more night time stabbings.

When picking laws, you can’t look at just the one problem, you have to look at the slippery slope it creates.
That goal sounds like a goal you have to raise funds, not a goal you have to actually do the thing.

Perhaps ok for a startup, not ok for a many years old established company.
Who cares? If you have a comment to make, at least back it up with something interesting.
Not really. People tend to have tolerance levels for commute type activities, so while cars enable going farther in the same amount of time, the time budget doesn't change. If they have a walkable city they are likely to find reason to go to a farther away store if it is still in the time budget.
Seems like you could just implement a simple delay to solve this.

Let's say I want to click on the "reply" button below this text box. If I'm perfectly honest, I DO look at the button for a moment, then I move the mouse pointer over to it. But then right before clicking, my eyes switch back to the content I've created to observe that my click is having the desired effect on it.

I'm not actually looking at the button at the moment I click on it, but I DID look at it just a few milliseconds prior to the click. Why can't the UI just keep track of what I looked at a few milliseconds ago, to figure out that I actually wanted to click on the button, and not in the center of some text box?

One issue could be maybe I thought for a moment about replying but then changed my mind and decided to edit the content some more. But the UI has decided that I meant to click the "reply" button and so now it's been submitted prematurely. Yeah, I can see the problem now. The position of the mouse cursor is meaningful when clicking, and the Vision OS doesn't have a cursor. Cursors are important.
I love Jepsen, but it seriously worries me how bad software turns out to be, and how many outrageous claims companies make that turn out to be so easily proved false. Should there be more serious penalties when companies make claims which turn out to be false as soon as they are tested? I think there should be.
ah yes, the "irrational exuberance" period, as termed by Alan Greenspan, when investors were poring money into anything that was labeled a '.com'. Companies were renaming themselves to include the '.com' in their official name.

I also remember a satire article about a startup with the idea of turning everyone's monitor yellow. "Think Yellow".

Anyway, I was also a casualty. I spend about 6 months looking for full time work.
Ask HN: What is the best way to learn Unreal Engine 5?
I'm looking for learning materials for Unreal Engine 5 from the point of view of an experienced C++ programmer. Could you point me to good online learning resources?
No :( Now what will I do when a website is down or broken or just randomly not working? Why does google kill every good feature? What a terrible company...
To be fair, it's not a library or framework, it's a format for certain types of security tokens. They're kind of like fancier cookies, hence the name "macaroon". Not so poorly-named, in my opinion (to the extent that "cookies" was ever a sensible name). Just the right level of whimsy while still calling back to what they are.
> Who's going to replicate an experiment that takes a $5 billion particle accelerator?

In the case of the LHC, which I assume is what you're talking about, this is why we have 4 pretty much independent detectors around the LHC looking at different but at least partially overlapping stuff. The Higgs boson was detected by the ATLAS detector, but wasn't considered to be "discovered" until it had also been detected at the CMS detector.

> Peer review is an absolute joke

That strongly depends on the field and the journal in question.
>The undeniable fact is that people want "work from home" because they have serious issues following schedules and making plans.

Of course it has nothing to do with avoiding potentially multi-hour long commutes.
Webb telescope reveals breathtaking structure of galaxies
Stop trying to replicate ReBAC type permissions using roles or attributes
Problem: Our summarization model has been subpar for a while.
Solution: Involve the entire company in a Prompt Engineering Power Hour Session.
Results: A new Lead Summarizer Agent crafted by our amazing designer
The people could also be isolated by being a few time zones away from each other.
How one woman escaped the conspiracy theory trap that has ensnared millions
Thanks for the 429 reports, I'll do some optimization.
The last 5-8 years in tech were like the steroid era in baseball. We thought all these people were geniuses but virtually none of them can make their business models work without free money and investors looking the other way on profitability. 23 and Me being worth billions is like Brady Anderson hitting 50 home runs.
Then please enlighten us, What is your point?
Isn't it sort of not true at the extreme universal levels like black holes where spacetime gets incredibly weird?
what do you mean? if I say display test.com/test.jpg it will not include a html image tag. or will it render image urls returned from my api? recently it often doesn't even create proper links, just a href=_new and the correct link description. first I thought my gpt triggered some safety mechanism but I've seen working links next to broken links
none or VERY few are even remotely close to the impact a potential breach of the three gorges dam would have. [1] Seriously, it’s worth reading up on, it’s genuinely hard to overstate.

[1]: https://www.ispsw.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/718_Lin.pdf

"In this case, the Three Gorges Dam may become a military target. But if this happens, it would be devastating to China as 400 million people live downstream, as well as the majority of the PLA's reserve forces that are located midstream and downstream of the Yangtze River."
The MacOS compositor already has different buffers for every window. It could stream updates of those buffers and do final composition on the AVP instead. But likely out of simplicity it seems like they just opted to use a generic, preexisting remote desktop solution. I also wouldn't hold my breath on software fixing it as even though it could it's all but certain Apple would certainly rather have you using native AVP apps instead and sees MacOS streaming as a stop-gap solution, not a valuable part of the long term strategy.
The Organization -> Apps -> Volumes (whatever) structure models our problem domain and is a sort of coherent abstraction. If we get that abstraction wrong, it's a pain to retrofit changes. Caveats like "Mutation", on the other hand, are simply strings representing calls you can make in our API; they're not a model of anything. I don't think we use `Mutation` for anything right now, but it's there in case we (or you) ever need a token that authorizes a particular set of GQL calls that don't fit the model we came up with.
> Where I'm from, macaroons are dense, sweet coconut treats and the French sweets are known as macarons.

Same for me (New England, USA).

Both are delicious, but in my dialect they are not the same thing.
Some habits are best not to start so you don’t know what you’re missing out on haha
While I agree ChatGPT is pretty flaky, calling the vision model via API I have not experienced these issues. Is it perhaps a tier issue with some of your API work, there is drastic performance differences between the service tiers.
I don't think it's an apples to apples comparison (heh), I think at this point 'good enough' is going to be better than anything my eyes can resolve. On a Quest 3 with Zenni lenses, pixel visibilty as a concern is way down on my list. It works REALLY well.
As a Mac Systems Administrator, I have extensive experience with Tart, having been an early adopter. My role involves rigorously testing various aspects of Mac systems, such as settings, scripts, workflows, and software deployments. Tart has been instrumental in this process, particularly due to its capability to swiftly set up virtual machines (VMs). A key feature I frequently utilize is booting a VM's macOS into Recovery OS, which allows me to disable security settings. This step is crucial for enrolling devices in DEP, despite manual registration being a different process. By disabling SIP, I can activate specific flags that enable DEP-like features.
There could be a Clojure implementation hosted on a CL.

In fact someone seems to have started on one: https://github.com/ruricolist/cloture
Yeah, but wouldn’t the sparks from lightning or other natural causes preclude any civ (or even life) from forming if the atmosphere is highly flammable?
Seeking Advice on Real-World Projects in JavaScript and React for Job Readiness
As a self-taught developer in JavaScript and React, I've successfully completed a variety of beginner-level projects, including typical 'clone' projects found on YouTube. While these have been great for learning the basics, they seem far removed from the complexities and scale of real-world applications, which I assume aren't typically built in just a few hours.

I'm keen to step up my game and tackle projects that more accurately reflect professional development work. What kinds of projects should I be looking at to transition from a beginner to an intermediate/advanced level? I'm especially interested in guidance on finding impactful projects (open-source or otherwise) that can both challenge me and enhance my portfolio for future job opportunities. Any pointers on where to find such projects or how to identify them would be immensely helpful.
North America was decommissioned today as Bard made the determination it was no longer worth the maintenance costs. With servers approaching nearly six months old and a median human population age of almost 40, electricity and food costs alone proved to be challenging. Liquidation is expected take two weeks, and precious metals and organic materials will be recycled for use in other continents.

Alphabet stock rose 0.2% on the news.
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I'd guess their point was, before they continuously removed features that were useful and optimized for ad revenue.
Basically, in the US, if you have a mailing address that can be where you "live." It may not be able to be a PO Box and, if you're a politician or otherwise high profile, someone may look into it. But if you're an ordinary Joe and you have a trusted relative/friend who will keep an eye out for important mail, that's mostly fine. A state could get cranky if they think you owe them taxes but mostly they'd have no way of knowing. You may need to do the odd thing in person but it's mostly very informal.
Is it the case in japan that they're "trying to keep their obsolete jobs alive"?

I find some people just love process and bureaucracy for its own sake and will ad it endlessly because they think it is their job, but not out of some effort to keep jobs going. There are countries where government spending is a political issue and a way to satisfy constitutions and keep things afloat, but Japan doesn't strike me as one of those.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39204278 (u/marcuskaz is the creator)
(slightly off-topic) i wonder if one of the HN admins can update the rules for the domain shown in parentheses beside the title. it would be nice if sr.ht URLs included the username like github URLs do.
Lottie is now a part of the Linux foundation
In order to future proof the Lottie format, a steering committee has formed under the governance of the Linux Joint Development Foundation to develop and provide continuous stability to the Lottie format as a web standard and open community project.
problem solved then.
One of gitlab's programmers comments on implementing ForgeFed in this context: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/11247#note_1529...
I think I might of lost it over various site migrations. I added it back to About page.
When I saw the title and graphic I assumed it would be an article about conflict over cultural/language imperialism.
PGA Tour secures up to $3B from U.S. investors
Did I get it wrong somewhere? rg isn't finding it.
if you want someone's attention so that they catch you fish, it is better to pay based on fish, not time.
Wrong, Batman had no superpowers. He was just good at martial arts, and had access to some nice equipment (because he was a billionaire).
Infinite Craft
The basic strategy I use is to do multiple / unrelated tasks or projects at once. Do some work on task A - check out a branch for it, make a change, push it to get build.... switch to a different branch for B, do some work on that, push it for a build... then go look at what happened with the build for task A while B is building, etc, etc.

It may require a few VMs, etc, but basically it's worth having a good way of switching between several things on the boil at once. It's not just slow builds, it's also waiting for feedback from people, etc. that will get you in this situation.
You can't believe 40% of tech jobs were lost when the IT bubble popped? This is about 2001 and not now.
I think it's even funnier that ProtonDB already exists and has nothing to do with this: https://www.protondb.com/.
That article seems beyond awful, consistently misspelling raspberry, claiming the 4 is the latest model, and the sentence "According to Sony, it protects privacy by simply transferring metadata to the cloud and conducting all data analysis entirely on-chip" is quite contradictory.

Also, the Sony press release they reference as a source (https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/raspberry-pi-receiv...) has 0 mentions of cloud.
Yeah I know. My father has been a welder on ships (shipfitter), tugs, and subs his entire career. My brother and Cousins followed. I mig and tig auto shit at home, mostly stainless manifolds.

Was trying to be supportive but yall come at me with his unhumble comment about welding like you know me! lol
Nortel had a similar trajectory. Just prior to the crash it represented 1/3 of the Toronto Stock Exchange by market cap. It essentially went to null and took 10’s of thousands of jobs, the wealth of hundreds of thousands of small investors and Ottawa’s tech sector with it.
Fiber Optics Bring You Internet. Now They're Also Listening to Trains
There should be no surprise that "those with power and money" will not willingly apply "technology" for social good. It should be expected, rather. Your comment brings to mind Edward R. Murrow's speech in 1958 about the direction of television (certainly would be "high tech" back then!) He and others envisioned education, information, and enlightenment from this technology. Well, you know what we got instead. Here is a summary of the speech, and you can hear the whole thing on youtube if you like- still absolutely relevant.

https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2014/today-in-medi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIhy0T7Q48Y

We can see the same thing with other newer media; Ex. video games. I don't have solutions per se, though I wish this pattern could be different. The profit motive and appealing to base instinct seems to always "win".
I think when people say that “simulation theory is tired” they’re speaking on a pragmatic level.

Yeah the theory is well proliferated in pop culture and at present doesn't have any practical physical implication on everyman Jack’s life, so in that sense it’s tiring to hear about it, even to modern physicists who care not about asking why but only how.

But it’s definitely a very profound idea as you point out. And I’m always disappointed how many physicists write off the philosophy of science in their myopic quest to derive the analytical description of the universe.
A macaroon is a mixed up ball of coconut and egg whites. A macaron is the delicious fancy sandwich cookie.
> and never touching the terminal for 10+ years

I think this is key. I'm comfortable in the terminal so it really doesn't bother me and I doubt many days go by where I'm not using it. Linux works for me, but its not for everyone and I still have an old macbook for some photo editing applications.
ChatGPT with Data Privacy
Out today. A way to mask private data and preserve context before it goes to OpenAI
Musk startup implanted a brain chip into a human. Gupta explains how it works
The office, both at a group level (works for company in fancy building) and at an individual level (has a large or corner office, works on a higher floor) have long been and I would argue continue to be status symbols. I think both can be true, certainly there are people still who prefer to or must work in a facility. I won't voluntarily work in an office again.
UHT milk does not taste like fresh milk. Sure it is safe for months, but it isn't good for months.

I once was at a farmers place - when they were done milking the cows in the morning they brought milk in from the tank for breakfast - ever since then I can't drink store bought milk as fresh milk tastes so much better. (the milk was also unpasteurized, I believe fresh was the key to taste but I'm not sure)
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It's not worth that hassle. Probably the credit card company will just automatically grant your request because it's a such a low dollar amount and not worth an investigation, much less a lawyer. Probably nobody at Twitter is left to fight it either.
It'd be interesting if there was an energy model in the back end of this. With fire making more energy available to the the Civil until it ran out of fire wood etc
I have a 512ke and no keyboard, keep looking for ways to use a "modern" board on it instead if paying a good $ on Ebay for one. This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you.
Unsaid in all of this is that Emacs isn't my main text editor - that is the job of BBEdit where the GUI is both expected and rather good - instead, it is the "editor of last resort" (Vim is inscrutable to me).

The emacs GUI inside a terminal window - invoked w/ xterm-mouse-mode - is still rather minimal. I'm thinking more about emacs-gtk or Aquamacs. You could argue that the GUI gives you access to more system capabilities in a straightforward way - buttons/controls v keybindings - but this isn't a dealbreaker for me.

As long as I have a readily available reference for keybindings, that's good enough for me.
Sometimes it costs more than you think to do the wrong thing, especially when it comes to hiring & firing.
Remember that startup "valuations" are not what they're "worth" - it's simply how small of a segment they have been able to convince the last round to take. The valuations have a bunch of unknowns that can wildly swing it.

The small business is successful and so the calculus as to what it is worth is much more explicit.

The extreme example of this is commercial real estate with a long-term tenant (think: the person who owns the land a post office is sitting on). Everything is known (lease length, amounts, current interest rates, etc, etc) that the value/sale price is a simple formula.
> w/o the bloat of a full GUI,

I remember that logic making sense when I tried to run Emacs on an 8MB 486... but that was about the last time it did.
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