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> It makes it very difficult to navigate their offerings.

Microsoft has always done stuff like this. For instance, it was hard to know if you needed Windows Deluxe Professional Edition, Windows Master Programmer Developer Edition, or Windows Demigod Master of the Universe Edition (those might not be the exact names :-)

I suspect that the goal there was to confuse people enough that the wealthy bought the most expensive one just so they were sure they "got everything", while not losing the sale to the poor schlub who could only afford Windows Broke-ass Fool You Suck Edition.
> I guess it shows how far off the radar Perl currently is.

This is a serious misconception. Perl is far, far from dead. The constant activity of the gargantuan CPAN library more than demonstrates very much the opposite.

I would say Perl and its community has done quite well considering it hasn't had the same mountain of corporate funds thrust into it like more highlighted have. Mainstream ain't everything.
I have published a free guide: https://www.dsebastien.net/the-ultimate-beginners-guide-to-o...

I also have a course: https://developassion.gumroad.com/l/obsidian-starter-course

And a starting point with a preconfigured vault and a user guide: https://developassion.gumroad.com/l/obsidian-starter-kit
As the PCB manufacturing industry becomes more accessible to hobbyists and junior engineers through services like JLCPCB and PCBWay, KiCad, despite its limitations compared to professional tools, is gaining popularity. While experienced PCB designers may not prefer KiCad over their professional-grade software, the growing adoption of KiCad by hobbyists and entry-level engineers could lead to its increased presence in the professional sphere as these users progress in their careers and bring their tool preferences with them.
what a bunch of nonsense, what a ridiculous excuse for a terrible action - "start somewhere" and "raise awareness"

Following this logic - why don't you cut out few buttons on your keyboard?

To raise awareness about online gaming and pron addiction.

It's not much, but you have to start somewhere, right?
> Even today, few bicyclists understand how a bicycle is able to turn and remain upright.

I’d go so far as to say no cyclist understands. AFAIK there’s no simple physical explanation.
No, they were unequivocal lies. In 2019:“ I think we will be feature-complete full self-driving this year, meaning the car will be able to find you in a parking lot, pick you up, take you all the way to your destination without an intervention — this year. I would say that I am certain of that. That is not a question mark." [1].

See the part where he says: "That is not a question mark." That is called making a clear and direct, unequivocal, unqualified, statement that he knew for certain was wrong. That is called lying.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-doubles-down-on-cl...
Sounds like a sound design to me. If he gets sued at least he can argue he did everything reasonable to prevent and quench a battery fire. That's how gen 4 nuclear power stations are designed to cool the core in the event of a loss of coolant incident. The other way is to use LiFePo chemistry which doesn't ignite like LiIon but has half the capacity.
“The purpose of a system is what it does.”
Dominus – A bitmap font for DOS, derived from Terminus
Sort of, though PCRE is not a 100% replacement for regex in Perl proper; the former lacks some features of the latter.
And then we haven't really seen much innovation in 100 years. Maybe recumbents...
There are a few things someone would pay Red Hat dearly to do. In my opinion the most likely are:

- No telemetry.

- Enabling software blocked features.

- Emulation.

There are few possibilities about making a performant OSS driver:

- This is impracticable, because the software you want to run on the GPU is so complex, and the hardware is so complex, that you will never get enough insights to make something that compares with the people who can see it all.

- This is eminently practicable because: (1) the software is much simpler, and the GPU hardware much simpler. Perhaps there is a lot of obfuscation of the simplicity. Or (2) the application that best utilizes the hardware only needs a limited feature set that is within scope.

I'm leaning on "application limited scope" and "telemetry." It aligns best with what is actually happening, which is NVIDIA is scooping up a lot of valuable intelligence on LLM workloads; and that there isn't enough competition for LLM "ASICs" to make them cheap enough to be worthwhile.
Somewhat off-topic, but I've been feeling really burned by my steam deck purchase lately. When it came out, I gave Valve the benefit of the doubt there was some good reason why they weren't providing an OLED option, and bought the highest tier even though money is tight. I figured their commitment to opening the PC platform and quality hardware earned them my trust on that. Now what am I supposed to do? Sell my model and take a bath on the used item depreciation to get a worthwhile screen? Buy a second device with pretty much identical performance otherwise? Pay for the screen I should have been able to choose separately and go through the headache of replacing it myself? This is tripping at the finish line, especially since I waited a massive fraction of the time it took them to release this for the inferior version anyway. I get Valve prides themselves on being different than most other technology companies, but innovating on what delivering the best product you can for the money to your customer means is the wrong place to break the mold, especially for a company of Valve's profitability compared to overhead. On so many things, they could do much better at comparatively little dollar cost if they just thought wanting to was important. It's really disappointing how much this has correlated with their success.
That and even if they had proper reviews in place, there is no telling when they would pull the plug on the entire thing. Based on that alone I never even considered making a GPT for sale.

Having said that, I do like them because of the openAPI integration. I made one for myself that can send things to a private discord channel through webhooks and can calls my memo instance (https://github.com/usememo) to store or retrieve memos.
Even Apple’s execs are willfully blind on this. Utterly baffling. There’s plenty of room at Apple Park for everyone to have a door that closes, but they insist on doubling people up in offices or open-plan labs. The entire executive class across the industry is broken.
No, I did not open an issue. When I checked the issues for tree-sitter-javascript, I saw the most recent issue was one reporting the same thing (segfault) from some weeks ago, with no attention. It still has had no attention, so I don't think reporting would have done much.

Anyways, since you're here, I dug a bit more into this to make a more useful report. Starting with v0.20.2, the following file will cause a segfault when parsed using tree-sitter-javascript: https://github.com/tursodatabase/libsql/blob/main/libsql-sql... . It worked fine in v0.20.1, and it's still broken with the latest v0.20.4. Based on the diff here: https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-javascript/compar..., I don't on the surface see a way to dig deeper into this than trying to read through a 170,000 line (!!!) diff to parser.c.

And looking at that diff raises another complaint: the names of parser nodes must be considered part of the public API, as they are exposed in descendantsOfType, .type, etc., but they are 100% not documented anywhere, and are liable to change without notice in patch version bumps. This makes developing against it a massive pain, as any version increase is liable to break any code expecting a particular nomenclature.

I don't mean to dunk on your project, I'm sure it solves some problems very well. But it is remarkably difficult to confidently depend on in a production environment.
Do you think that this might have something to do with it? https://www.npr.org/2023/12/04/1216950219/spotify-layoffs-17...
I highly highly highly recommend the book “Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle.” It explores the origin, the various social implications across various cultures (it often became a symbol of perversion due to its association with women’s liberation), and even the modern day e-bike movement. 12/10 book, very well written too.
As always, emacs did it first: https://lwn.net/Articles/707615/
Funny, I like to play a LLM game - copy paste a whole conversation thread into a LLM and ask "Write a 500 word article based on this material". The result is well grounded enjoyable "regurgitated slurry".

It's a match made in heaven - people's opinions debating stuff and LLMs ability to phrase that like professional written articles. Grounding and style.

I'm afraid in the future not even our social network posts will be directly read by other people. Everything will pass through an AI extractor-reformatter.

As an experiment, copy paste a few pages of comments into a LLM and see the quality of its outputs. I often grok a new angle or make a new connection after reading the AI text.

Here's a sample, what it understood from our thread: "The discussion touches on concerns around AI interfering with traditional content creation, advertising models, and how we discover and consume information online as AI language understanding and generation capabilities advance." Pretty spot on framing.
We’ve not been able to reach any animal language at a four year old level that they can speak but I think we have taught animals language at a level that they are able to understand? Though I guess we can’t necessarily prove that understanding.
That's probably true at some scale but the immigration numbers don't lie. More Europeans move to the US than the opposite, and more anecdotally, most immigrants in general would rather move to the US or Canada than to Europe. Same for international students.

In my home country, Morocco, Europe is basically seen as a step above but still not close to being similar to north america or Australia for example. Youth unemployment, lack of opportunities, much more discrimination and racism than in the US (yes, regardless of what Europeans would like to believe) or Canada...
(Android) It also gets easily confused with Wifi and whether or not I'm online (because I'm in a room with bad wifi reception). It sometimes blocks on playing downloaded content when there is no internet (when listening in bed and internet is turned off). This has not changed in the last ten years. Not sure why they have thousands of programmers, and tribes and squads and who knows what else.

It's barely usable for radio plays (favorites, queue, last played, ...) as it does act on songs not albums in general.
Or a heat dome when the jet stream slows. It makes loops up and down where pockets of extreme heat or cold form
Recall that the cops at #NoDAPL were effectively private pipeline security.

They just had to use water cannons and flashbangs on unarmed elderly people who just didn't want their land and water dug up and ruined with oil spills.
I think you are the best. Period. End of story.
Jazz Legend Is His Own Work in Progress
The arguments I've heard are basically increased cognitive load and the ability to make spaghetti logic. There may also be some concern, depending on the language, that problems are more likely if you can arbitrarily exit a scope/context without cleanup steps you might be counting on.

IMHO, I believe the reasoning behind "exceptions are bad" comes from a similar place.
RTO is all about control. It's an FU to your expenses, your time, your family, and your mental health.
Apple Launches All-in-One 'Manuals, Specs, and Downloads' Website
It's funny because threads that are critical about the US don't see this type of "leave the EU alone!" comments. It's so weird that even Americans have less of a weird patriotic response to any criticism than Europeans.
Correct. I am not in the software industry, but I love developers who have Sundays off and can come hang out with me.
There is another perspective you msy not be thinking of, developer availability

In 20 years when the current crop of greybeards are dead, how many experienced c programmers with kernel experience will exist.

Rust lowers the bar for contributing and also increases the pool of programmers who can.
Those could be seen as incremental, but from the top of my head the two biggest changes could be:

- foldables: they're a real game changer regarding where bikes fit and where they can go. Designs also tremendously improved and the cycling performance is really good nowadays.

- electric assist: it's not just adding a motor, a lot of work has happened to make the better of the it, and cargo bikes have become widespread mostly because of this.
> Ignoring all historical evidence that widening interstate highways or state regional roads is not an efficient way to resolve the issue.

If the issue is transportation demand exceeds transportation supply for some portion of the day, and that portion is too high. I think you're right, there are more efficient ways.

Reducing transportation demand is much more efficient than increasing transportation supply. Departments of transportation should be engineering recessions, pandemics, or ground wars to reduce our societal demand for transportation to enable commuting. Alternatively, they should consider forciably relocating some residents our of their survey area and limit population growth.
I have Taiwanese contacts. They say that roughly 30% of Taiwanese hate China, 30% would be happy to reunite, and 40% could go either way. It seems like suicide to risk WW3 to appease 30% of "never China" hardliners. And the US is doing its damnedest to convert that 40% so-so group into "never China" hardliners.
> Is this the same as the Copilot that is in VSCode via the Extensions?

This is about Microsoft Copilot – https://copilot.microsoft.com/ – not Github Copilot – https://github.com/features/copilot

There are a lot of “Copilot” extensions for VSCode, including Github Copilot, but none for Microsoft Copilot, AFAIK.

> It’s possibly confusing,

No, after Github Copilot being around for a while, Microsoft rebranding everything that is AI assistants “Copilot” (with “Microsoft” in some contexts, but often just bare) is confusing, especially since it follows lots of other projects adopting the X Copilot thing in between “Github Copilot” becoming popular and Microsoft introducing their new Copilot branding.
Sonoma has been trash so far. I faced an issue where they changed they way linking is done in the new Xcode version and that broke builds for erlang. This is so bad that programs that run on versions of OTP prior to 25 don’t work on the m1 macs anymore. At least last time I checked. Yes, this affects Xcode primarily but still it makes one think what the hell is going on over there.

They basically bamboozled us with fancy wallpapers and gave us this immensely substandard software.
Does anyone know How or where would this fits alongside the recent NVK driver by collabora?

www.collabora.com/news-and-blog/news-and-events/introducing-nvk.html
Went looking for literature, this doesn't quite address in-group charity versus general causes, but FWIW:

> All else held constant, rural respondents were almost 5.2 percentage points less likely to be a
charitable donor, and donated less, on average, than urban donors, after controlling for human
and social capital variables, such as education level, income level, health status, religious
affiliation, family composition, and others. Rural respondents were significantly less likely to be
donors to secular charities, and gave less on average to secular causes overall. These differences
do not exist when comparing the religious giving of rural and urban respondents.

> However, rural donors donated a statistically significantly higher percentage of their income to
charity than did urban donors. Also, rural donors are more likely to donate to religious causes
than secular causes. Frequent religious attendance is associated with a higher probability of
giving for rural residents, as is itemization of deductions on income tax returns.

-- Comparing Donation Patterns of Rural and Urban Donors
-- https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/00...
C++23: Encoding Related Changes
> God knows I'd love an AI that can fill tax forms for me.

Why? A good accountant can do it for an insignificant[1] annual fee, and if he screws up, you know where to find him.

Or if you're poor enough to really need to save a hundred bucks once a year, you probably qualify for freefile, probably have a really simple tax situation (1 or more W2s, end of story), and can file really quickly.

Have you used an e-file program lately? It, much like a human accountant, asks a bunch of questions. Not sure what an AI could do differently, except fuck up and ask the wrong questions confidently once in a while.

The US has some screwed up tax filing practices but throwing more magic at them would only make it worse. If AI does my taxes, who do I get mad at when it files it wrong and the IRS comes after me? Why are we even talking about AI to apply to a problem that really isn't particularly messy and is already easily solved by good data import and by a nest of ifs and elses maintained once a year by a team of programmers who can read tax laws?

Like, we could make tax filing unnecessary tomorrow for most people with no AI, just by passing a law that allows the IRS to use the imported W2 data they already receive to compute and file default tax returns for most people who have simple tax situations.
> 24. Will Redis accept community contributions under the new license?

> Redis remains a proponent of the open source philosophy and maintains a large number of open source projects. For those who wish to contribute, we remain open to accepting future contributions – as we have done with our source available modules over the past five years.Going forward, acceptance of the contributor license agreement (CLA) by the contributor is necessary in order for us to consider the contribution.

So they don't mind changing the license on their code, but they wouldn't want to have to be subject to the same terms from anyone else...
If the impact somehow could stop your all cells at the same rate, you wouldn't feel it. Your body gets compressed because of different rates of acceleration.

If aliens have tech which can apply this type of force field / acceleration, then they won't get squished in their spaceships no matter how hard they accelerate. You basically need a large force field like gravity, instead of transferring force via small intermolecular force fields.
I'll admit that I kind of like being in the office. However, I absolutely loathe commuting. There's honestly not a good solution. The best solutions are all overly optimistic. The ideal would be that all the employees lived 5-10 minutes away.
Excessive open office plans are an overreaction to WFH lack of “spontaneous interaction”. I’d get more done if I had a door at work
Assembler is a bad example for simplicity. Perhaps brainfuck fits better in this case.
I agree. But then on the other hand, there is a wide variety of ways that can be brought to bear to "encourage" humans to change their minds.

Alternatively, we could [1] consider waking up for even a short period of time and put some mental effort into considering whether our most sacred operating system may not actually be what it is advertised (and thus: believed) to be.

Is it not rather funny that thousands of incredibly smart programmers, systems analysts, etc are not able to even consider whether the system that controls our lives and well being, not to mention the literal continued existence of many thousands of innocent people throughout the world could maybe be substantially improved?

Day after day we engage in the pointing of fingers, funny how the fingers never get pointed at ourselves.

[1] Well, I am speaking a bit loosely: the laws of physics in this environment support it, but that does not guarantee that it is completely supported.
> I believe Microsoft reused the Copilot brand that it acquired from GitHub

Microsoft didn’t acquire Copilot from Github, Microsoft introduced it at Github long after Github was part of Microsoft.
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You're right on both counts. Things are a bit fraught in this thread so I apologize for misunderstanding you.
Disclosure: I work for Amazon, but I don't work directly on Redis related cloud services. I am close to the Open Source Program Office, and I care a lot about the people who do the hard work required to collaborate on open source projects.

Madelyn Olson did the hard work for years to earn the trust of other Redis core developers to become a core maintainer, all while employed by AWS to do that work. She and other AWS developers have contributed a lot to the core Redis engine. Some may say that they too worked their asses off for the Redis community.

You can read more about some of those contributions here: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/behind-the-scenes-on...
Don't panic about stuff falling off United planes at SFO, experts say
I disagree. Like many HNers, I align with Paul Graham's thoughts on the matter [1].

[1]: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/paul-graham-says-remote-does-...
What has played out with RTO is a prisoner's dilemma scenario with astoundingly low defection rates. Return to office is a prisoner's dilemma for executives where "defection" means permitting WFH and "cooperation" means enforcing return to office.

If a company dictates that their employees return to the physical office but their competitors do not, there is a likelihood of losing valuable talent to companies with remote-friendly working conditions.

If both the company and all their competitors allow work-from-home to continue, then all of them, as industry decision-makers, must adjust policies, expectations, and operations to reflect this shift. While this scenario does not lead to a talent exodus, it does entail some other costs. Potential costs to this mutual “defection,” the acceptance of a “new office normal,” could include investors pointing out the wasteful operational expense of unused office space. Additionally, investor pressure from commercial real estate interests may also oppose such leadership decisions.

If the company “cooperates,” such that they insist on RTO while all of their competitors simultaneously insist that their employees need to work in-the-office, then no one has to adjust company policies to operate in a remote company environment. The effect of this will be employees open to recruitment finding their choices for alternative, more accommodating employers scarce and in low supply.

In this multi-player, game-theoretic landscape, where CEOs want to avoid the costs (real or potential) of allowing their people the ability to work remotely, cooperating companies need as few “defector” companies in their industrial sector as possible. With their other choices few and far-between, employees seeking the freedom to continue working from home will eventually give up on their WFH-oriented job hunts and decide to stay on in their current positions.
I always found the game becoming easier with more mechanics/weapons/potions added (in other variants). Is this the case with SPD?
> Revenue through hosting continues to be the big driver for all of these projects, which is what is motivating the license changes.

Yeah, isn’t this just massive cloud providers eating the lunch of Redis etc? I don’t know enough about the licensing but I highly empathize with these small-mid sized companies building foundational tech that is commoditized and upcharged by an oligopolistic cloud behemoths. Surprised it's taken this long.

Question: what other alternatives than license changes are there, assuming we want a healthy ecosystem of both businesses and open source?
Fortnine recently made a video (motorcycles, but still applicable) which I think aids in understanding the issues and debunks some incorrect ideas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSZiKrtJ7Y0