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Ask HN: Giving away all your best ideas to your employer
I'm about to start a new position soon that gives me a lot of creative control over a projects direction, having been in development for a long time with creative aspects like design and marketing mixed in this excites me - I've done similar work before and grew companies with this very work so I do have confidence in my abilities. I've always considered myself a creative person first and this new job may finally bring back the spark in life I've missed for a while.

I've already began the formulation of some ideas that I see can really shift this brand in a whole different league. With the preface of understanding what I'm saying may sound like a bit like I think too highly of my ideas (as ideas are infinite), I can't help but feel some regret that IF my ideas are correct and I happen to grow the company as hired to do so, that i'll be giving it away my best ideas away and not keeping them for myself.

I don't want to just go with the motions of my position, I would like to grow the company but is this always the best choice?

Has anyone had experience feeling like they've put too work, or has it actually paid off giving it your all in a position? I've had some bad experiences in the past so I'm hoping to hear some other points of view I may be missing
this goes into the heart of what it means to "know".

All human knowledge is "symbolic". that is, knowledge is a set of abstractions (concepts) along with relations between concepts. As an example, by "knowing" addition is to understand the "algorithm" or operations involved in adding two numbers. reasoning is the act of traversing concept chains.

LLMs dont yet operate at the symbolic level, and hence, it could be argued that they dont know anything. LLM is a modern sophist excelling at language but not at reasoning.
Haven't heard from this language since 2016 where a coworker tried this out but then gave up on it.
You are right I'm sorry. I wasn't notified that anything discussed on these forums should be exclusively about whatever "the real world" cares about at least one bit (preferably 8 bits or more I guess?).

Ah the nerds, when will we understand, indeed.
> all kinds of problems that you would never in a thousand years be able to handle with mere talk

Not "all kinds of problems" but very specific kinds of problems which is possible to formalize into a math language. How would you go about inventing thermodynamics if you didn't know words "temperature" and "pressure"? You'd need to start for your senses that can tell you "this is a hot surface", or "this is a cold one", or "this one is colder than that", you need to decide that "coldness" is a "negative heat" (it is not the most obvious idea for an animal, because animals have as receptors for a cold, so receptors for a heat, you could feel hot and cold at the same time, if you managed to stimulate both kinds of receptors at the same time). Then you need to notice that some materials change volume when heated, then you need to come up with an idea to use measurements of a volume to measure a temperature, and only then you can try to invent pV=nRT, which becomes almost tautological at that point, because your operational definition of a temperature makes it equivalent to a volume.

After that you really can use calculus and make all sorts of quantitative statements about thermodynamic systems. But before all that "mere talk" was finished thermodynamics was not a kind of a problem calculus can deal with.
Your first sentence is the exact reason why propaganda thrives in social media. There's an understanding that fellow people are somehow more trustworthy than Big Media. The part that's not considered is that people on a whole are not able to understand every intricacy of problems out in the world - but they sure do love sharing opinions about every problem as if they do understand.

Given this, easy-to-digest messages are easily amplified through social media and every complex detail is withered to nothing. This is why I stopped using Lemmy. The larger communities (read: the only ones that get any posts) ended up being a worse echo-chamber than every other platform due to people repeating the same simple concepts ad nauseam.
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> You know what's more efficient than glass? Ship the product in bulk and dispense it into the customer's container.

yeah, that would be a great use of everyone's time. line up at the olive oil station, line up at the beer station, line up at the flour station, line up at the coffee station, line up at the ketchup station, ....

and then on top of that, add up the time and expense of everyone getting a different price based on how much their unique container holds.
Water worries flood in as chip industry and AI models grow thirstier
>his son is learning Rust and that it is better

I'm hoping this was sarcasm.

This recommendation was in the form of a report by the Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) in the White House. I would suspect it had more thought to it than you're suggesting.

I think this quote from the article is quite useful:
"Recent studies from Microsoft and Google have found that about 70 percent of all security vulnerabilities are caused by memory safety issues." Which the article cites [1] [2]

There is validity to their argument on the source of security vulnerabilities.

[1] https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/memory-safet...

[2] https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2019/07/a-proactive-approach...
> This would be a terrible addition in most people's eyes.

Implementing UBI nationally in the US would almost certainly require a constitutional amendment, which is going to require overwhelmingly positive sentiment about it from the electorate.

Individuals remaining opposed at that point will have the same fiscal recourses they have to not liking NASA sending probes to Mars.
Ask HN: How to built a custom small LLM for finances?
Where exactly can someone else buy a car with a copy of your ID?
I don't know about the hardware, but one factor about the software is that Nvidia generally pushes their proprietary software solutions, while AMD favors more open source and open standards. This has likely helped Nvidia a lot. People sometimes confuse this, but open source being good overall doesn't mean that it is good for the business of an individual company. Just look at Apple and iMessage vs RCS. Proprietary tech can be used to push out competitors.
I think you might exaggerate this a bit. One of the beauties of Esperanto being constructed is that the letters only make one sound and not like 2-4 and there are a bunch of other tricks to keep vocabulary reasonable and grammar logical without a bazillion edge cases. It might be easier for an English speaker to learn than a Chinese speaker, but I guarantee it would be much easier for that Chinese speaker to learn Esperanto than English.

Teaching my kid to speak and then how to read and write has been a recent reminder of just how illogical English is. I would have massively struggled as a non-native speaker.
Fedora 40 Beta is currently on target to be released March 12[0] and will include KDE Plasma 6 so if anyone is looking to avoid running Rawhide it's only a two week wait for a beta release. It's also possible to install from the most recent build of the pre-beta 40 branch[1]

[0] https://fedorapeople.org/groups/schedule/f-40/f-40-key-tasks...

[1] https://kojipkgs.fedoraproject.org/compose/branched/latest-F...
That sounds horrific. When I biked a lot recently the worst I got was a water bottle thrown at me and shouts intended to startle me to fall down
Reason is a lovely, OCaml-esque language in the same functional vein, but I would say Gren feels like a great spiritual successor to Elm.

https://gren-lang.org/
Windows was copying KDE already with Vista/7.
That's a fun idea, and well executed.
New Android features to help you stay productive
The top reply the the top comment shows exactly why this "the number 1 preventable cause of death" nonsense doesn't actually line up with reality. Traffic deaths decrease while population is increasing, street are demonstrably safer for children than they ever have been. Barely 100 deaths for 330+ million people in the US, likely even less in less car-centric cultures.
Yes availability of technical solutions will dictate what the clients of the software can do here. You can have great connections with the users but if the core libraries you use doesn't help you to deliver the features you promised, they will leave for other solutions that actually deliver in shorter time while you struggle with GTK. This is exactly what is going on with GIMP.

GTK basically either doesn't support or make it really hard to create certain workflows outside very simple applications with limited things yo click. Also it is a C library with very leaky abstractions including gtkmm. So developing complex applications suck and waste a lot of developer time

Qt is C++ on steroids. It adds a bunch of features for GUI development, comes with a great library and many tools for testing, design and internationalization. It is overall nicer and IMO simpler to develop with. So you can go from a simple image viewer to a one with okay editing features and the difficulty doesn't skyrocket.

Another aspect is Windows support. GTK 3+ doesn't support Windows. It looks like it does but due to GNOME locking down their overall system design, the integration suffers. The UI looks off due to GNOME's insistence in client side decorated windows. Projects like Krita have lots of Windows and Mac users and Qt is the only low level cross platform UI library that actually delivers.
Small claims court maybe?
I always popped out the silicone valve for that very reason. You would have to squeeze until the pressure overcame the resistance of the silicone valve then the ketchup would squirt out at high velocity. It was nearly impossible to get exactly the amount you wanted. With the valve removed it only takes a gentle squeeze.
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Trying to make sense of the world is the surest way to go mad.
Saying that the total number of deaths decreased does not mean that children are safer interacting with roads. It could mean that children interact significantly less with roads in the first place. The statistic you gave is not enough to draw that conclusion.
I grew up in 80's the time where almost everybody played in parks and fields. But I can't give that to my own son of 7.

I realize it's not possible for everybody, but there are areas where this is still possible. Even in the suburbs.

My current "town" - Reston, VA - is like this. I can walk to all three schools (~1 mile), two lakes (~2 miles), a shopping center (~1 mile), community center (~1 mile), ball fields (~0.5 miles), and miles of wooded trails without crossing a single street at grade (we have pedestrian tunnels). And you can buy a decent TH for ~$600k (that's "affordable" for DC metro).

It always amazes me that people willingly choose newer/bigger homes with crap infrastructure for families to live locally over older/smaller homes where the QOL is, by my measure, so much higher.
The number of children hasn't changed that much, only a few percent since 1970. The proportion of the population under 20 years old has changed from ~~~about~19%~to~about~12%~~~ (edit:) about 38% to about 24%.
New to Rust. The language seems verbose. Is there a better way to do this
"Krita's image editing functionality ..is lacking"

What is missing, compared to gimp?
Lots and lots of people think like you, you’re definitely not alone. But there are so many people who still eat fast food at all times, and so many companies competing for fast food sales that yes, they can experiment with what the market will bear and not suffer serious consequences.
IMO, by design absolutely. The senior director for Gemini, Jack Krawczyk, is on the record as making statements showing his "ideology".

Example: https://twitter.com/drakeslayer100/status/176063664698545802...
Trivial to who? A seasoned Linux nerd? Maybe. A regular, non-tech person? Nope. And that is why there is no year of the linux desktop. And if you expect a regular, non-tech person to be able to master the terminal and type in commands you're delusional.
Remediating new DNSSEC resource exhaustion vulnerabilities
> it totally drops the central themes of lifecycles of empires.

I don't get this. The cycling of one empire ("Empire") to another ("Foundation") is ALL of the series. How can it drop it if that's what it's all about every single episode?
The benefit to users is having more than a few large platforms in control of information, which prevents them from setting the narrative. I would like to compare it to having multiple car manufacturers. What is the benefit of, for example, a BMW vs. a Toyota? At the basis, they both offer the same functionality, taking you from point A to point B. But many drivers have distinct preferences for one over the other for their own personal reasons. The market is big enough to allow for multiple players, and the competition will keep everyone on their toes, ultimately benefiting the end user.

(Oh, and we don't sell your data to Google)
I’d love to be surprised, but I think there isn’t any way to evaluate for vulnerabilities other than read all the code (fairly carefully). I don’t think the ecosystem is set up to make it easy.
A lot of stores have a "bulk food" section where you can get nuts or granola this way. It takes less space than the same amount of product in individual packages.
There is every indication that the mechanism behind gender dysphoria is very similar to the mechanism behind homosexuality.

Now ask yourself, in this day and age, is it appropriate to call homosexuality "dangerous"? So why are you calling gender dysphoria dangerous?
Not when it requires collusion between 3 separate legal entities.
Sure. Instead of servers, you have friends, and you subscribe to your friends content, and discovery occurs through friend-of-a-friend network and "discovery hubs" like the old Yahoo, but for niches (i.e. Follow TechDude96 for hardware review aggregation, etc).
In the third paragraph:

> The new cap appears as a uniform color in Voyager’s range map... compare it to the old cap, whose silicone valve is denser than the surrounding plastic.

Author: you must be completely blind. Both photos show a wide gradient of colors including blue, green, yellow, and deep orange!

Why does orange in the left photo mean "it is silicone" but orange on the right means "it is PP"?
At the very least it could be used to reduce the requirements and speed up the prompt recognition step(s) of image-based generative AI.

"Stable Diffusion 3 XS" will use ternary? Here's to hoping :)
Heh. Yes. They definitely seem to have internalized that particular experience.
Oh ok, anyone who disagrees with me is a racist. Nice fact based argument there thanks.
The first 2 are ersatz "layout systems" that were practiced before flexbox and grid. <table>s and the float property can be used alongside Grid.

The easiest (and default) layout system (flow) is never mentioned

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/CSS/CSS_layou...
Memory Safe TLS Library Now Has AWS Crypto and FIPS
I'm curious to hear people's thoughts on why this is interesting if the results "aren’t as clear as Opus", much less HE-AAC v2.
Yo don't take my comment in bad faith, I was being tongue-in-cheek sarcastic.

Obviously "we" here on HN care about the idea itself/tech ...

Was just saying things will likely never even begin to rival the Twitters and Instagrams out there contrary to what some utopists among us tend to think...
Yet another thing I like about Graphene OS: no push notification support at all. Unexpected side benefit: I can go two days between battery charges which also means the overall life of the battery before it cannot hold a charge anymore will be extended significantly.
As a vulnerability researcher, I used twitter, RSS feeds, and other sources to get the latest vulnerability intelligence. Suprisingly, I found that there is no single source to get the latest vulnerability intelligence rather than X.com

There is a tons of vulnerability intelligence sources available on the internet. But, since the market is moved towards the Attack Surface Management (ASM) and Vulnerability Management (VM) solutions, the vulnerability intelligence sources are also moved towards the commercial solutions.I built this website to provide the latest vulnerability intelligence to the security researchers. Right now it's literally a toddler, but I have a plan to make it a full-fledged vulnerability feed center to be used by the security researchers, penetration testers, and security analysts.
It will not be produced by Apple the company. It is comissioned by Apple TV but will be produced by some tv production company.

In any case, the “grittiness” and overall style is due to the director and creative team, not the company (although a company may specialize in certain genres).

Of course Apple might comission a production targeting specific demographic.
Yes but this is missing from most chatbot UIs (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, etc. ) so is therefore very useful. Machato has it but it is very laggy.
I don't understand why people refuse to see it. They had a nine-member board with three insiders but three independent directors resigned so they were split 3-3. The board was split on choosing new directors so they were at an impasse for months.

Then Altman cooked up an excuse to attempt to remove one of the independent directors and lied to other board members about it and that convinced Ilya Sutskever to vote to remove Altman from the board to restore its independence. Firing Altman was just fallout from that.

Edit: It occurs to me that Ilya could have resolved the situation by resigning from the board, but I suppose that was a non-obvious solution.
Five Years Ago, Anthem Was a Warning
Did you watch Silo? I didn't read the original, but the series was great imo.
This was an important differentiator for Twitter; even if you use a thread reader, the author can’t assume that’s the format their text will be read in. So they have to make the best of both worlds, distill the content into its essence and build long form content where each paragraph stands on its own. Bluesky has an opportunity to have a great first-party thread reader experience.

Longform content where the author is incentivized to see how it reads in chunks is an underrated thing.
> You can't make up a rule that doesn't exist. Either your CSS will work or it won't. And if it works it's not wrong.

So much this. Over the course of years, I've gone from writing my CV in Word, TeX, and (finally) straight HTML. Word processors are fairly straightforward -- and yet -- for more complex layouts you will eventually encounter internal sizing constraints that require messing with the global template.

This reality - combined with the fact that MS Office is a gigantic monster which is barely tolerable on macOS, led me to TeX. Plaintext -- more or less -- and good support for integrating with version control systems made it an easy choice.

Fast forward a few years and I'm all HTML + a handful of CSS rules w/ @print at this point. Cryptic error messages and the care and feeding of a BasicTex install just became too much work to bother with. At least in HTML, save for a showstopping error, your document will render something and the errors are usually pretty obvious.

Not so much in TeX...

Modern layout also meant I could ditch floats for nearly everything - flexbox will create reasonable page headers with much less gnashing of teeth.
Why not have some layers/nodes/systems be 2 states and have others be 3... couldn't you get arbitrarily close to Euler's number that way?
Not really aligned, but somehow reminiscent of this other dystopian future of what happens when a platform makes money not on products but on ads https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-01-12
Doesn't load in Firefox (macOS), though.
They were pretty nimble late 2000's, early 2010's.
Do you have a longer term graph please?
>(a decade before Covid)

You are aware that the increase in money supply from 2020 to 2022 is about the same as the increase from 2010 to 2020, despite ~45% lower GDP growth?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WM2NS
They butchered the entire terminus plot line by making it a series of badly done, saved by dumb luck action scenes.

I enjoyed the other stuff, though it was more “inspired by the foundation universe”.

If you’re going to rewrite terminus, give us a hint as to how these people are going to wind up dominating the galaxy technologically.
The sound from these things can literally tear other nearby assemblies apart. Aside from the "clean flow" problem, this is another gigantic engineering hurdle to scaling these things up to a larger size. There's such a thing as too powerful.
I was kinda wondering that myself... unless the implication that there is a camera or other "smart tech" in an elevator that knows how many humans are in the car and this data is being consumed in real time by someone who cares.
A purity pledge is very typical of cults. It's both a filter and an enforcement mechanism.

This may not apply to Elm. But I imagine it can feel easier and more rewarding to manage a community that's more like a cult than a typical free-for-all open source project.
But, what is the "deaths per mile walked/biked"? Put differently, people (kids included) also walk less than in the 60s or 70s because we've made it unsafe (or at least difficult and unpleasant) to do so.
6K view and It’s clearly marketed as AI generated. Is there any clue that people are watching this because of its qualities as a film and not as another demo about “OMG AI will destroy Hollywood next year this time around”?

I don’t believe that the hardship of making content is about it being pretty or resemble something.
Mandrake! I'm the other guy who used it!

In 1999 I paid about $30 for a copy so I didn't have to spend weeks downloading it over 56k.
This is an inauspicious start... would your answer change based on how I answer?

I have lived in rental housing far longer than I have owned a house, and my personal politics are such that I don't think that land should be private property. I don't associate with landlords. None of my family members have ever been landlords, but again, why would this matter? (Edit: and I am younger than 50 in California, most of my friends are renters and have little hope of ever buying a home, and more friends have been forced to leave the state due to high housing costs than I have friends currently. The churn of displacement makes me furious)

The only real reason (and one that I heartily disagree with) to be against corporate ownership of single family homes is that it gives renters access to the amenities that have been hidden behind the door of a 20% down payment in a wealthy neighborhood.
> I've seen so many apps implement this. It's so odd. If I can bring my cursor to the widget I can probably click on the right item instead of scrolling. The only case I imagine this would be useful would be for accessibility.

For me personally, it lets me think of desktops in terms of what is left or right of them, rather than what actual number it is, i.e my Steam desktop is to the right of my browser desktop and to the left of my remote session. If I need to go to the email desktop from where I'm at, it's two scrolls away. I usually leave a little bit of the desktop visible on each virtual desktop to facilitate this.

So, not an accessibility thing for me but an actual preference. People are different. I know, it shocked me too.
Does anyone know if Hetzner is looking to open up a datacenter in Australia or in Southeast Asia?