skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds like a combination of open doors and corporate mumbo jumbo to me.
I'm not quite at that stage, perhaps in the next couple of weeks and for the next article.
Interesting, because now that I'm looking at them a little closer, it seems to me runes are reduction of magic objects in Svelte

> At first glance, this might seem like a step back — perhaps even un-Svelte-like. Isn't it better if let count is reactive by default?

> Well, no. The reality is that as applications grow in complexity, figuring out which values are reactive and which aren't can get tricky. And the heuristic only works for let declarations at the top level of a component, which can cause confusion. Having code behave one way inside .svelte files and another inside .js can make it hard to refactor code, for example if you need to turn something into a store so that you can use it in multiple places.

(https://svelte.dev/blog/runes)

If the vibes are subjectively off for you with the new syntax that's fair, I just can't get it to align with what you are saying because at the end of the day, they are removing some Svelte magic and replacing it with regular JavaScript, apparently even the "$" label dependency tracking stuff, which I find to currently be the most magical thing in Svelte

To me that looks like a step to making Svelte more easy to reason with, but vibes are subjective in the end.
Wow, at first I thought this was just a misunderstanding, but you're legitimately arguing that there's no value in anything a human being creates that a machine can mimic. I'm not going to argue against misanthropy, but I am curious about the implications of what you're saying.

So do you think we should just shut down museums, put the Mona Lisa in a shredder, and just discontinue art as a whole since it all apparently has no value? Also, what happens when AI and robotics can do everything that a human being can? Are we an obsolete species with no value when that time comes? I'm legitimately curious about how you see the world.
You are not correct, it is a service that is directly linked from the IRS: https://www.irs.gov/e-file-providers/free-file-fillable-form...

It may be made by a contractor but it’s the IRS’ official free filing solution without the sort of income and situation limitations that exist with the free filing products.

That said, I prefer TurboTax’s better competitors like FreeTaxUSA because filling out the forms yourself still really sucks. In the crappy system we have the best you can do is either find a cheap and decent commercial filing solution or get yourself a tax professional, because everything else is a huge time waste.
Those companies do exist. I can confirm specifically that at least when I had an offer from Supabase they paid everyone, internationally, regardless of location, the same pay bands. Being USA based it was one of the reasons that I turned down the offer because I was able to get a much higher salary elsewhere but it would have been extremely competitive had I taken the role and moved to some place like Vietnam.

I wish I could have taken the Supabase role because it was definitely my top pick otherwise. One look at the output and caliber of people they hire also indicates that they have little issue finding talent.

FWIW this was a couple of years ago and I have no idea whether they are still doing this equal pay band thing or not. But they were doing it for awhile at least
Who said anything about houses? An apartment dweller can have a power outlet installed at their parking spot. For people that have to endure street parking lantern charging is becoming more and more prevalent. Back when I didn’t have a private charging I would charge while doing my grocery shopping. Of course there’s always work charging.

Back in the day luddites also pointed out the lack of gasoline infrastructure. A horse is much less annoying obviously.
Fwiw companies like Remote and Deel charge a fixed fee of substantially less than 30-40%. IIRC we pay about 600 euros per employee per month to Remote. That’s a lot of money that I’d rather give to the employees themselves, but it’s much much less than 30-40%.
For sure the 50% square wave is a limitation, but sometimes such limitations feed creativity. That's also why I intend to couple the oscillators to filters, so there's another dimension to play with.
So we agree that neither the police nor the swatters should be let off the hook?
> or to dig deeper.

I think they're asking you to dig deeper.

> However your town works, Detroit is different. NYC is different. Tampa is different.

Yup. But you know what? Europe isn't just one town either. It's not even one country, one currency, one language, or one alphabet. Αθήνα isn't Berlin isn't Paris; Cambridge isn't like London isn't like Glasgow isn't like Belfast, and only the latter has "RPG Avenue" nicknamed due to the weapon fired at the cops, and yet the English (do not go to Belfast and describe it as "England") are so anti-gun that even the cops don't want to be armed.

America isn't unique in being diverse, it's not even half as diverse as its self image makes claim.

Learn about the differences that mean the rest of us don't face your challenges, and then use that to make your cities better.
Why don't Americans use the word "greed" when referring to such behaviour?
Story of bad management aside, this was also a highlight for me on the risks of early stage startup even when the startup goes big

> In my case the amount of taxes would be so high I wouldn't be able to afford it, forcing me to wait until GitLab went public

I have seen a bunch of cases where people really want to leave the company but can't due to short exercise windows and taxes that come along with exercise.

One of the companies I know had to partner with a lender just so that their employees could exercise stocks. So now if the company IPOs you owe the lender a load compounding at 15%

Thankfully many newer companies seem to be going towards 10 year exercise windows, but they are still a minority
> so long as it falls within the light cone

I look forward to bring my vehicle by navigating through my 4D tessaract to a place where I could not have had the information of the rule.
the game i really loved in this genre was railroad tycoon 2; not so much for the gameplay (though that was great too) but because somehow it really managed to evoke the feel of growing a country and a rail network hand in hand. openttd just didn't have the same atmospheric quality when i tried it (though that was admittedly years ago and it might have come a long way since)
for a gui based tool, I find klogg really good.
The Dutch Prime Minister gets paid €186k annually [0]. He has 13 years of tenure in this role and 22 years total in the politics industry [1].

I'd hope a high performing, vastly experienced engineer in NL could aspire to that, though they might not get the same benefits or future opportunities.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_Netherla...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rutte
oooh, not sure. I suspect Thunderbolt has very specific requirements, and switches would be consequently expensive.
For software KVM you can use https://github.com/debauchee/barrier

I use it between a Windows PC & a Macbookpro (Linux version available but I don't have Linux)
Thank you for the insight.

We manage memory directly within the DBMS, for instance, by setting MySQL's innodb_buffer_pool_size to 1GB. This precise control method ensures that each cloud-based DBMS instance on our large EC2 instances remains within its memory limit without adversely affecting others.

When the internal memory pool limit of the DBMS is reached, we understand that it will spill dirty pages to disk and utilize the write-ahead log to guarantee ACID properties in the event of a crash. This process is predictable and manageable. In contrast, the effects on the DBMS when cgroup memory limits are reached are less clear, introducing uncertainty into system behavior under memory pressure. This unpredictability strongly supports our preference for managing memory within the DBMS itself.

Our experience over a decade with cloud DBMS products has shown that mmap doesn't suit our needs. We prioritize direct memory management methods within the DBMS to ensure system reliability and optimal performance.
It’s not. If I have to pay some service or agency a lot of money to be able to employ you, there’s less money left to pay you. Employers at distributed companies don’t look at your take-home salary, they look at the total cost to employ you. Fees and taxes differ wildly per country, there’s no other way to compare. So if a large % of that total cost goes to middle men, then that makes you a more costly employee at no benefit to either you or the company.

If I’m considering two people for a job but one is in a place where paying them well means I spend a huge amount on fees (or “employer-side taxes” for that matter, looking at you Austria), I might well choose the other.
You mean, "Every nation gets the government it deserves"? Yes, I believe you are right.

I often see this quote interpreted with the meaning that each of us vote for the candidate we want to represent us, and by voting for stupid people we mirror our own stupidity (I do not suggest you interprets it in this way). I believe that this is a simplification of how we should understand De Maistre.

For a nation to get true representation of its people in its leaders, it requires active participation, critical thinking, and ongoing engagement from its citizens in all parts of society. People are not necessarily stupid when they choose stupid people in elections, they are guilty of not putting efforts into understanding societal matters and facts. They are more ignorant and lazy than stupid, i think.

This "I don't care" attitude is easy to exploit by people of religion and ideological faiths. People with an agenda for power, not for the sake of the better good but for their own goals. People in power have many ways of manipulating the public discourse, political processes and how information and truths are treated in education, media etc. Over time this creates a people that don't know their own best, and lack the resources and will to do anything about it.

The US is in the forefront of this development at the moment, however this is history rhyming itself.

I am currently reading Tim Urban's https://waitbutwhy.com/whatsourproblem . I think he is onto something in regards of how we get to these kinds of points in history.
Maybe in the US. Not here in Europe
I actually did. The previous owner could not open it because the front panel got disconnected from the electronics at the inside and he didn't bother to look further.
Love it.

Unfortunately I can't install it on my work computer due to policy & VPN.

The benefit of SimpleKVM is that I just have to run it on my home PC, and I can switch between work and home.
Yep, and they choose not to have it unless there's some compelling reason to. We've got staff in many countries, but it's not a blanket "work from wherever you like".
I use Oracle Cloud only because of their cheap egress + lots of regions. Hetzner and similar are cheap but don't have enough regions.
I did not imply that O_DIRECT was a full equivalent of raw devices, it was rather a compromise as Linus would not concede with the idea of raw devices making it into Linux.

Besides, O_DIRECT can be used at the file level (and the file system level as well via chattr – if the file system supports it) whereas the raw devices are, well, device level only.
Post Office officials knew about flaws for year but decided to cover up and continue with prosecutors. It was belief in impunity, not software.
This is an interesting read and I am grateful for the author sharing their experience.

One thing that I could pick up is that the author is somewhat bitter about their experience, but isn't really taking responsibility for their own contribution to getting into the situation.

At most companies that are not evil and not exceptionally dysfunctional (and I presume GitLab is neither) getting to a state where one is put on a PEP/PIP is preceded by a longer period where they had indications that they are not performing in accordance with what is expected of them. Also, at most larger companies consistently "meeting expectations" is not hard, if you're in a role you're skilled for (which it sounds like the author was) and willing to receive the explicit and implicit signals from your environment, especially the hierarchy above you, and adjust.

Being able to make these adjustments and work effectively as part of a complex environment is an important part of working at a larger company. Not taking responsibility for the need to learn how this system works and adjust accordingly is counter-productive. It sounds like the author realised that rather late. Perhaps they could have had a better experience if they figured that out earlier.
They figure most people are hosting websites which are only a couple of MB, so they need to charge this much to be able to extract egress money from them.
Hololens is standalone
>You're asking for equal pay for equal work.

Equal pay for equal work doesn't mean the same pay. It means that an employee from Bay Area, one from Netherlands and one from India are able to buy the same amount of goods on their local markets from their wage.
What interests me is the application of this behaviour to domestic trials. We've had a situation worldwide for decades where us forces only deploy if the economy agrees to allow them to evade local justice. Sure, there would be risks in not doing this but okinowans and others will testify to rampant abuse of this evasion of civil penalty.

Or.. the woman who killed a British kid outside a us facility and was whisked back inside us borders before British legal process could apply.
Is there something like this for general computer magazines? I want to remember the old days of copying assembly listings and reading nice technical articles on computer internals.
Since one could ostensibly use ChatGPT to make the commits, this entire idea is moot.

The paranoia we are seeing now will slowly fade. It doesn't make sense to adopt extreme measures, especially since the truthiness of any claim as to creative originality becomes more dubious with every day.

Even if you hand-wrote and mailed a copy of your manuscripts one page at a time to the US Copyright Office, that would not suffice, since from the moment ChatGPT was made public, you could have been using it, then transfering your thoughts to paper.

Just live your life.
This article seems completely off-base to me. The fact that the training method can't learn 'no 3 repeated moves' doesn't change my opinion of the result at all; to me this is just a technical detail, and does not retract from the essence of the result (that you can get good performance without hard-coding search). But the author harps on this point over and over as if it's a fatal flaw.

And then we get some rant about how 'it's not really learning how to plan' because it doesn't know to win in as few moves as possible. But again this just doesn't matter! The model was trained to maximize its odds of winning. You don't get to make up a new rule that you're supposed to win quickly. Totally beside the point. But somehow this observation is taken to mean that 'well it's not actually planning/reasoning/understanding. It's just imitating its training data.' Such statements are usually operationally meaningless, and the argument could just as well apply to human learning.

Point taken that the training method can't learn arbitrary rules (this is a good point, and it sounds like it needed to be made, though I didn't see the Twitter-storm myself). But the tone of this article irked me a bit.
I grew up in a Midwest farm town with a population below 10,000 people. I’m well aware of what they have to offer and it’s not what I want in life. I think you should stop taking offense to my comments and realize they are just stating the broad reality.
Love the design.
How to remember that I installed this in 2 weeks when I need it?
I dunno if I just got older and "wiser" or if corporation leadership just got worse.
openttdcoop's Wiki and blog is a great way to learn how to build these types of junctions:

https://wiki.openttdcoop.org/Line_hierarchy

https://wiki.openttdcoop.org/Backbone_Hub

If you prefer a video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YfxugbgQqs
There is no scenario in which cloud is cheaper than bare metal to operate.

What's cheaper with cloud is that you don't need upfront costs, but here, you already have the whole infrastructure already there, up and running.

Why would you even consider getting rid of it and replacing it with AWS, makes no sense.
Microsoft has toxic management but it also has M1 who are just trying to navigate the maze and do the right thing. It is never straightforward like this.
It's fewer operators that are full of shit and might mess up things.

Cattenom, Fessenheim, Tihange etc are already getting their share of criticism and protest, but that's all German citizens can do about foreign reactors that happen to be built right across the border.
While I get your point, I kept wondering why the police would continue harassing him while reading the article. I came up with two reasons:

- Inflated incidence response, probably help for asking more budget

- "real-life situation" field training

In any case, I wouldn't say the terrorism comes directly from the police, but from the stalkers. The police might benefit from the situation, however.
>the productivity is unmatched

I would like to challenge that.
I can't say the same of the reserved instance team which is genuinely running a protection racket business.
Sorry I blew your dogs head off, I was defending myself after kicking your door in.
Many police departments have upper IQ limits for officers that’s only slightly above average. Since leadership is promoted from internal ranks, that also causes ineffective leadership.
Also from Europe, Canada, and Latin America.
Amazing idea! I had no clue web MIDI existed.
3. They are morons.
It's worth noting that when photography was new it was viewed much like generative AI is today - as not "real art", "cheating", or somehow otherwise less valuable than traditional art forms. Today, after such impactful photos as Afghan Girl (Steve McCurry), Raising the Flag over Iwo Jima (Joe Rosenthal), or Monolith (Ansel Adams), I don't think anyone could successfully argue that photography a lesser art form. I don't know what that means for generative AI but it sure seems to be a similar situation. The old guard feels threatened and tries to invalidate the new techniques, but when those people are gone will it be gradually accepted alongside everything else?
This is an alarming development. Nevertheless, as a scientist, I believe it's an effect of a misguided culture of trust. This culture has, paradoxically, allowed mistrust of the sort described in the article to fester.

> So much of science is built on trust and faith in the ethics and integrity of our colleagues.

This is where things went wrong. We need a culture of "show me," not "trust me," the core of critical rationalism: Establishing the convention that checking each other's work is the only way to advance our understanding of the world.

Figuring new things out is an error-prone process. Sometimes, these errors are not known to a researcher; sometimes, they are known but deemed non-critical; sometimes, a person has ulterior goals that would be endangered by acknowledging and correcting the error. I don't judge. We've all been there.

However, things have been swept under the rug for far too long. If large-scale attempts can only replicate 50% of the studies investigated, published results from psychology cannot and should not be trusted without further checks (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2515245918810225). The problem may be less acute in other fields, but perhaps only due to a lack of scrutiny (https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...).

Absent an established process to verify a publication's central claims, substitute measures are used, such as "sounds like ChatGPT to me." This is an effect, not a cause, of a culture that values "trust me" over "show me."
Besides toxicity, i believe the main issue of some bad management is uselessness. Perhaps it leads to toxic situations, but the root cause is that they don’t add value to anything in the org.
This is what burnout is. Burnout is not caused by working, but by stress. The root cause of this stress is personal and interpersonal factors. People can burn out on very small workloads if the ratio of interpersonal toxicity to hours of work is high enough.

Sometimes it looks like people are burning out because of extreme workloads. In these situations, I've always asked "why is the workload so extreme to begin with?" This gets you to the real source of stress.
Basic ideas are forever, everything else is tweaks
For future reference, you are certainly not violating US copyright law, because quoting a few sentences from a book falls under fair use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
Germany's and Austrias Universities of Applied Science use the same trick, Fachhochschulen is their German name.
> saying that they must take all calls as credible, and investigate

If "investigate" is limited to "send in team", then criminals can exploit this by calling in a dozen or so fake cases on the far side of the police jurisdiction to where they're actually going.
Images as Code: The pursuit of declarative image builds
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/2.Process.htm...

https://git-scm.com/docs/gitworkflows
Very interesting to read as a former employee of a company being Gitlab's customer, self-hosting EE production and solving everyday problems, with their support also, during the described years
We have required payroll deductions here in the US for federal, state and (sometimes) city taxes and if you are self-employed we have required quarterly estimated tax payments. Federal deductions include Social Security tax, Medicare tax, and income tax and employers send this money directly to the federal government. State and city deductions are usually just income tax (here is Massachusetts we also pay a tax for paid family leave).

The insane part in the US is that then every year we have to fill out a bunch of forms filling in information the government already knows. For many people this should instead be as you said "click like 3 links".

It gets really complicated when you have investment or partnership income, sell stocks or property, etc. I still do my own (complicated) taxes every year but it gets more and more complex every year and takes more and more time.
I am really serious about direct authoring of shaders using SPIR-V (with probably a little SSA checker on the side). We can reasonably think it will significantly increase the compatibility and bug avoidance of shaders among various drivers (and that is priceless when you think QA of big video games spaning many different drivers).

I am perfectly aware this will require a bit more upfront work to write shaders, but due to their life cycle, it should be benign and we should get all the benefits (not even mentioning to free the SDK dependency from a massive and complex high level shading language compiler).

I am going to give it a try. I need first a SPIR-V assembler, the one from the khronos spriv tools and the one from llvm are c++ diarrhea then a definitive nono, have to write my own. Let's think long run here: we don't have a _REAL_ standard very high level language yet (python? lua? javascript? perl5? ruby? so_many_others?), I'll go rv64 assembly then (I'll write a mini rv64 interpreter for x86_64).