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> For me VR for office use doesn't survive the "timeline reversal thought experiment".

I think the most damning "thought experiment" is "do you think you'd buy this?". I'm waiting for a VR headset for this. Less 'in office' and more 'WFH' but still same idea. I don't know if the Apple headset is the one (because my work/Apple won't let me connect my existing computer to it) but it looks to closely solve the problem on a hardware level.

I've screamed it from the mountains. I want a VR headset that acts as a monitor/tv and lets me turn any flat surface into a private desk. I travel a lot, and it sucks not having a monitor in a hotel. It sucks needing the extra room for a desk when I have tables already. Housing in my city is $1000+/sqft, so space for a desk or office is a meaningful expense for many. It sucks that having others in my house (kids, spouse) means I can't have a private, distraction free area without paying for a whole extra room (again, a premium).

Plenty of people besides me live in an n+1 bedroom house, where they have a whole extra room for a desk. Plenty more people live in urban environments where they can't afford extra private space. Think on the global scale, where people have more multi-generational homes, and live in smaller urban apartments. Sure they might not be able to afford the top-line apple headset today, but think longterm. Plenty more people are students, in academic halls and dorms and libraries, and would benefit from "on demand" distraction free, large monitors but don't have the private space for it.
> What are some good tactics on how to use Google-map on your cell-phone?

For navigation?

1. Don't activate navigation. It's broken six ways to Sunday, and burns through battery like there's no tomorrow. Use route preview instead (i.e. the step after searching, but before activating the voice nav proper).

2. Use your fingers to rotate the map so it always faces the same way you're going.

3. If confused, recenter and press the compass so it rotates to have North at the top, and continue from there.

Now FWIW, I use Google Maps when navigating on foot/scooter, or as a pilot in the car. If I were a driver... I'd probably buy TomTom or whatever nav that's not shit.
Quite the contrary - this is the exact opposite of how the job looks like.

All these resources should be available and the candidate should get a mark for efficiency of their usage. Not using google and/or chatgpt efficiently lowers the grade.
>says he believes the social media company is the “largest marketplace for predators and paedophiles globally”.

Doesn't sound like a fact.

On FB it's easier to find them compared to Telegram for instance
You should be able to cryptographically prove a) the block height of the current block and b) the state of any account, in constant space, using zero-knowledge proofs.

You don't need to trust a third party and do not need to be online all the time for that.
It’s no surprise that many maintainers are facing burnout. There are a lot of reasons for this, including lack of recognition, loneliness, lack of compensation, high demands, and increasing responsibilities.

If we want a healthy open source ecosystem, we cannot put all the work on maintainers. Contributors have to share the responsibility and be good open source citizens. How do we make open source sustainable for maintainers?
> Lots of blue collar workers are already furious about things like working from home, 'email jobs', flexible schedules, etc.

Sorry, I don't understand this part. Are the blue collar workers forced to work from home, use email and have a flexible schedule ?
A possible answer is that one could modify n inside the function body, which means that the length is lost. But honestly, one could just use const to avoid this. Though, pointers to VLAs are really useful and convenient when allocating dynamic arrays, especially multidimensional.
T: http://mumble.net/~jar/tproject/
In-Laws + Divorce = Outlaws made me chuckle a little bit...

Pretty addictive
... I mean, misleading investors being a problem isn't an exclusively Delawarian problem. Delaware's key difference is that it has comparatively fast and efficient courts, so you might drag it out longer elsewhere, but in general, if you are a company, you should plan on avoiding lying to shareholders.

Realistically, if a jurisdiction allowed the blatant ripping off of shareholders, companies in that jurisdiction wouldn't be seen as investable, so most jurisdictions will avoid that. Would you invest in a company which has just moved out of Delaware for the purposes of avoiding the high quality of shareholder protection offered by Delaware? Like, that seems like asking for trouble.

> due to a missing one sentence disclaimer on a proxy statement?

That wasn't the case here.
> Your asset base is in truth meaningless

If you believe this, do you also believe that debt is meaningless, because you can print money to pay it?
> I think its mostly PHD's that are paid shit comparatively to the US, lol.

No. The salaries at all levels in Europe are lower than in the US, regardless of a few outliers. That part is indisputable.
Except when it is, which will only be a bigger part of the job.

I'm definitely looking at googling proficiency when interviewing.

Being good at LLMs is about as important - this means being able to tell when you're being confabulated at quickly, knowing what to ask and what not to ask, etc.
> so it's technically less about the quality of the food (i.e. how healthy your meal ingredients are) and more about feeling satiated long enough to not go crazy from hunger pangs between meals.

This is clearly not backed by science. It's clear that humans need a certain set and quantity of micro nutrients, macro nutrients, minerals and vitamins.

Now, of course, food is not the only factor determining your health. So there are people who only eat french fries and smoke and live to be a hundred, and there are people who eat a balanced diet, work out every day and then die from cancer with 40. But it's all about probabilities. Eating a balanced, whole food diet decreaes your all-cause mortality. And this is not religion, this is science.

Now, of course, every body is different and not nutrition is complicated and not that well-understood on an individual level. And yes, if you have a allergies or other types of reactions to certain foods that are considered healthy in general, you should not eat them.
Is that true or is it just easier to find the posts compared to other tools like Telegram & Co.?
EU has no money for anything. We're "commies".

ASML already announced they're leaving the Netherlands. No 100% with those words, but they already know where they're going.
It is exactly that short sited mhz over all else attitude im referring to as a fatal mistake.
The 4-day work week is long overdue. Keynes promised us a 15-hour work week thanks to productivity gains, but those productivity gains have mostly been eaten up by excessive corporate profit-taking. Lots of people are overworked and underpaid.

I've been working a 4-day week for well over a decade (also because I've got kids, but I did this well before I had kids), and I strongly recommend it for everybody.
> Yes, but we typically think of the EU as advanced economies

The size of an economy is in no small factor of population size. All things considered, Luxembourg is an advanced economy, but it is also a tiny nation.

The economic bloc as a whole subsidizing any initiative should not be impacted by the relative small size of some of its members, as the bloc has a budget of its own, relative to the size of all those economies together.
TikTok is the least of your problems

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/jan/31/m...
If I were responsible for that company in anyway, I would be working proactively to avoid a headline like that.
Do better Meta.
Ask HN: ChatGPT Plus subscribers – Do you find GPT's or other features useful?
I'm considering if a ChatGPT Subscription would be worth it, but since I have been using Microsoft CoPilot which uses GPT4, I'm trying to gauge is it actually worth it.

Those that have access, what is the difference and do you find the new GPT feature of any use? What do you use it for?
Isn't it better (though harder) to have a good environment for building things than to just write protectionist rules?
> Interviews should be consistent with what day to day work actually looks like, which today means constantly using LLMs in some form or another.

I don't, and I don't know anyone working with me thar is using any LLM (we pair). Some tried Copilot at some point and concluded it was useless for our use case.

Not sure on what context one would constantly use LLMs.
And sometimes windows won't delete it from the print queue as it can't talk to the printer. Fun times.
I wouldn't want to get hired by a company which refuses to pay for Copilot.
LLMs are too new, and too much in flux, to answer this question well. I can give an answer now, and in two months it might be obsolete. So all I can do is say something generic like:

It's a productivity tool that will find it's place alongside similar tools like intellisense and linting. Just like those tools it will change the way people code - they will need to hold less info in their mind, and that can potentially allow them to reach greater heights, or learn faster. Or, it could potentiate laziness instead. That's down to the individual (and applies to more than just coding, LLMs are equally used in fields like art, translation, marketing, copyrighting etc.).

As for my personal usage. Here's a couple of thoughts that might be obsolete in two months:

* It's awesome for looking up basic algorithms like sorts

* It's pretty great for doing simple things with well established code bases (e.g. React)

* It's even better for doing those things if you are already an expert so that you know how to guide it

* It's pretty terrible for doing anything with more obscure/recently released code bases, whether you are an expert or not

* I have heard it suggested this will make people want to avoid working with less well known libraries. This remains to be seen I guess

Thoughts on what this means in a "professional" career:

1. If your professional career brings you down well trodden paths (e.g. writing React apps) it will probably be a big part of your work

2. If your professional career leads you to working on obscure systems, or even writing those systems, it won't be as useful for you except as a reference for algorithms, or for writing comments (this is where I have been recently).

However, if someone can figure out how to retrain the models constantly on new info so that even the newest of releases becomes a part of the training data just as fast as they would show up on a Google search, that will change things a lot. Likewise, if it can be trained on a your own personal obscure codebase (I think this might already be possible?) that would be a big deal.

Finally, as for stigma. I don't think so. There are privacy issues but these can be worked around by running a local LLM and these are getting better and better. If you have a graphics card with 16gb of RAM I think there's already models that you can run locally that are similar to GPT3.5 performance.
Great! A few notes:

- It'd be nice to have additional transformations: NFKC, NFKD, and maybe some others like CLDR transliteration, confusable mapping, ...

- Characters outside the BMP get broken down as surrogate pairs, which is not what you want. Non-BMP characters they should be treated as a single codepoint; surrogate pairs are an implementation artifact of JavaScript's internal UTF-16 representation.
For servers, I haven't had a genuine need to use real serial for more than 10 years.. but I have needed it for embedded or hardware hacking. There is always a better facility than a plain serial tty over D-Bus serial, and if the server doesn't implement some UI, IPMI or iLO then frankly I wouldn't have bought it.

If only servers had a universal serial bus we could use instead? /s
>Is an alias for a 3 letter function name really going to improve readability / usability?

In this case, absolutely. Plus it shows the attention to detail, or lack thereof, across the whole API.
Flight Slider in CSS
The vast majority of services and user programs don't need to escalate privileges by invoking SUID/SGID binaries. no_new_privs should be used on them so that the "setuid with libc/LD programs" security boundary is avoided.
its worth it, but what other features do you mean? aside from api access and dall-e i just use chat mostly.
So basically you're making living for locals unaffordable to trade of for tiny amount of taxes from expats and tiny amount of landowner taxes (which are avoided if possible via tax avoidance schemes)?

Sounds like a terrible tradeoff, isn't it?

I also don't get your focus on education, this is Europe, not US where college costs 200.000EUR per person, the aggregate education costs don't even come close to tax breaks.
>For even the simplest possible plot, I have to create a subplot and axis.

So? Can't that be abstracted away once in a custom lib, of the 3-4 plots you use 99% of the time, and be done with it?

In which case, you just need to pass in your data and labels, in a specific format, and that's it.
> they can just limit the export of ASML machines only to companies that have a fab here in the EU

This kills the crab.

Specifically, that would force the development of a (probably taxpayer-funded) US competitor. Even at the cost of delaying the shrink cycle by a few years.
ah make senses
> At some point we just have to acknowledge that young teenagers are going to use it no matter what.

We haven't tried to ban it for kids. Social media is a network effect. Currently kids have to go on if they don't want to get outcasted. But if you eliminate the network there isn't the same pull factor.
The UI breaks pretty easily with a “zalgo” amount of diacritics.

That said, very interesting. A cool tool to have in your belt.
If we constrain our selves to a pool of words of say Wikipedia entries, minutes names and maybe some other stuff, and use a "super node" like "addition" to kind of act as a math operation.. maybe this makes more sense?
I feel like a more effective way to use cron is just to dispatch jobs into a queue that will perform the actual processing. And not to do the processing within the cron scripts themselves. That way the load on the cron is light and the heavy lifting is done by your queue/worker system.
Antarctic Adventures I mean :-)
> "Type the question into ChatGPT and do what it says" is not the "how" that companies are looking for.

Then interviewers should stop setting tasks that require either a) copy and paste answer from leetcode or b) copy and paste answer from chatgpt.

Unfortunately that requires skill and awareness on behalf of the interviewers; who typically served in the leetcode wars and want their employees to go through the same.
>ASML isn't guarding profound insights revealed by the gods requiring some sort of eternal liver pecking sacrifice to obtain.

As someone who's worked in semiconductors... [citation needed] on that claim.

>If the EU plays hardball to too great an extent, other countries will replicate the research.

If they could have, they would have. Many have been trying, and still are.

>China will already have started their attempts.

Not "will have". China has been trying to catch up for many years.

> The EU does not have a track record of staying ahead when they tangle with Asians for tech manufacturing supremacy.

You're just lumping "Asians" into one group, aren't you? China, Japan, Taiwan, Korea have very different strengths.

>The EU can't parlay a temporary monopoly held by one manufacturing company into a useful strategic edge.

Oh they absolutely can. So can Taiwan (and does so pretty successfully).
The attorney general is an elected position in the US.

"Think of the children" is a common campaign theme so i suppose he's going for reelection soon.
> problem with the joke [..] denying that it's sexist or misogynist

Opinions differ on this. There are women who find the joke funny and who don't think it's sexist, and FWIW my wife is one of them.

> VdL is a terrible politician

At least we agree on that :)

> I strongly oppose her value system

Does she have a value system?

"it’s hard to imagine a more telling example of the EU’s complete lack of transparency, disregard for democracy and unsavoury cosiness with big business — and of the cronyism and corruption that has characterised the entire Covid management, and the vaccine rollout in particular — than a Commission president personally making a deal worth tens of billions of euros with a Big Pharma CEO. Then add to that the refusal to disclose the texts in question, or even the contracts related to the purchase, despite multiple requests by some of the highest EU bodies [..] What are they so afraid of?"

https://unherd.com/thepost/pfizer-and-ursula-von-der-leyen-t...

EDIT: to add, it's not the first time VdL has done this kind of thing:

'The German Defense Ministry has been accused of sabotaging parliament's attempts to investigate a defense consultancy affair, after data from the official phone of former Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen was deleted "for security reasons," according to the ministry.

Bundestag MPs have described "annoying stalling tactics" and "a real scandal" after the Defense Ministry revealed, after months of uncertainty, that von der Leyen's old phone was wiped in August, well after the parliamentarians had applied to have it classified as evidence. German daily Die Welt reported that the admission, made by a government official during a hearing on Thursday, sparked a heated row between MPs of different parties in the Bundestag hallways.

Von der Leyen [..] spent millions of euros of the German defense budget on consultancy contracts, as part of efforts to re-equip the German military during her six-year tenure.

Germany's official Federal Audit Office reported that the ministry had given massive contracts to consultancy firms without first opening a competition or assessing the offers for economic value.'

https://www.dw.com/en/german-defense-ministry-illegally-wipe...
And where is ASML leaving the communist European block to? If it is so clear, you should be able at least to tell us the destination. Props if you link to some sources confirming the future move.
Not the person you're replying to, but, you know, a lot of us have never been very impressed with him. The Muskovites are inclined to believe that everyone would be a cultist but for (reason), but this isn't necessarily the case.

(This is a common form of broken thinking for cults in general; the cultist is so convinced of The Truth that they assume that non-cultists must only be resisting The Truth for a specific reason, not realising that to non-cultists The Truth is just fundamentally disconnected from reality.)

I went from "ugh, this guy's pretty full-of-himself and bullshit-heavy" to "this guy's a loony" with the diver incident, but I was never particularly impressed with him beforehand. Like, even if he wasn't an unpleasant bigot, he still wouldn't be somebody that I'd be very keen on.
Sounds like it's not only whether they can be bothered to do DevSkiller, but whether they're not turned off by your company asking them to use DevSkiller.

So it's a hiring filter that only passes cheaters who have low standards.
It should probably go hand in hand. The US federal government is spending a lot of money on getting fabs to the US. But they also banned ASML from exporting their machines to China.

So they're simply doing both.

Furthermore, the EU is more expensive than other countries because we have stricter environmental standards and our people don't want to work 50+ hours a week as many in Asia do.

Letting Asian countries simply undercut your own homegrown companies because of these two (dis)advantages seems shortsighted.
It doesn't work for me on Firefox, but works on Vivaldi.
Very similar position to you, apart from I'm in the UK and have a b2b app.

To start with, unless you already know people, raising money can be a full-time job in itself, everyone wants to offer advice and no one wants to cut a cheque.

I took a massively risk-averse approach instead of aiming for $1m ARR I started with building a self-sustaining app that pays the mortgage/rent, then all the bills, then matches your salary.

Smaller more achievable goals will stave off burnout because you won't feel like you're failing everyday you're not making $1m ARR.
I'm using Mixtral, but rather than shell out for a gaming laptop with an expensive GPU, I simply run it via Together.ai APIs which works out alot cheaper. There's a few similar services out there.
> US is going to be ok.

Or, alternatively, US and a bunch of other countries are not going to be ok.
With public facts, for starters, otherwise just ignore my "shit".
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I think smaller commits and fewer long
lived branches are good. Feature flags are good. Breaking stuff down logically is good.

But this example seems inefficient. Keep that original failing branch in a seperate clone to refer back to. You can even pull down the fix commits back to it to observe the test count improve gradually!

And with dependencies certainly in .NET and Node and probably Ruby too there are dragons in the details. Let the compiler and/or tests do that heavy lifting rather than a tree if postit notes.

For example you assume you know upgrading gem A will need changes XYZ but I bet ya there are gotchas related to when you upgrade B and C along with A. Picking the granularity level takes a nose for it but I wouldn’t waste time planning just start chipping away at the problem to help get a lay of the land.

It feels like this method is like planning your walk to the shops and creating a survey of dogshit on your path. Just get walking and look where you walk!
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Hey, thanks for writing the article! My nitpicks aside, I learned a lot. I'm always interested in reading more about spectral rendering.

> I’m, admittedly, highly biased as I work for Wētā FX, a high-end visual effects vendor

That's fair. I can see it being a stated goal of PBR at Weta. However, I'm at the extreme other end of the rendering spectrum. I work with WebGL (I contribute a lot to three.js) and being indistinguishable from reality is most assuredly NOT a goal of a real time in browser rendering engine. I mean, we can dream. But it will be a long, long time before we could realize that dream so our time is better spent finding approximations that can work even on a midrange mobile device.
> Unless of course we ask adults to provide their credit card or driver's license to sign up. Which I suspect they won't.

Some states are already moving in this direction. However, it is a firmly unconstitutional approach. Our forefathers are rolling in their graves.
I dunno, the issue with government picking the winners is there’s plenty of people who like money out there and sound very convincing. Even selecting the best people you still might not build what ASML have. I’m not even sure they can produce the mirrors needed for EUV let alone the laser light source and all the tens of thousands of other technologies that are in these machines. It’s extremely hard and China is in a recession and property crisis right now.
Is the tech ASML has to get US export approval for coming from, or containing, tech from those acquisitions? Because if so, having to ask for US government approval is actually pretty standard.
Funny. Induatry transformed tobbe one of the most profitable public2private transfer is not suitable to produce even more robust things.
It works perfectly however - they will propose even photovoltaic propelled tanks in the near future, just to get the money
An idea to send a DDOS attack to company LAN printers
I have been part of a few interview tests that were proudly "open book". However, if you are going to read the context and tasks then build 20 spreadsheets in 20 minutes you have 0 time to google something.