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I love how you just continue the lie. I linked to the changelog. Feel free to quote from there where "they communicated it via changelog". That's not even getting into how it's a shitty argument anyway, especially with as shitty of a changelog as ffmpeg has.
When it's already faster than I can absorb the response, which for me as an organic brain includes the normal token generation rate of the free tier of ChatGPT.

If I was using them to process far more text, e.g. summarise long documents, or if I was using it as an inline editing assistant, then I'd care more about the speed.
I am now 36 and have been on the "business" rollercoaster since I was 19.

In and out of jobs when things didn't go to plan.

Here is what I can tell you about my experiences:

1. Learning to, and mastering how to sell is everything. No business starts with the best product because great products takes a long time to build. But every business needs revenue. Clearly you know this because you had a successful ad agency. But it sounds like you stopped selling that for what? Lesson: never, ever stop selling.

2. But the mistake you made was throwing away a 500k/y agency because your investors didn't like it. The mistake you made here was playing someone else's game. Lesson: play your game, and only your game.

3. Your desire to go to college is something I understand. You are in two minds (I think). Part of you wants business success, the other part wants stability. But there is a third option. This option I learned far too late. That is this: you do not need to work 100% of the time to be successful. You can build a successful business over time. With a team, over time. This is not something investors like. By accepting investors, you are forced to make quick (often stupid) decisions. Lesson: build one (or more) good businesses over time. Stick to it.

I want to make one thing stand out here... working 16 hours a day doesn't create success because it's 16 hours (I know some cleaners who work 16 hours per day in my building).

What nobody will be honest about is that there are only 1-2 things that actually move the needle. The other "activities" just make us feel like we are being productive.
UN nuclear watchdog condemns drone strike on Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant
As someone who was advised to wait 6-12 months for a tax refund in Finland (not a standard payroll/prepaid tax) [1] I'd say it's because 'the system' is still the old system from the past that hasn't entirely kept up with the fact that in this day and age:

- A limited company is not always a giant manufacturing concern

- An ever increasing amount of the population will not have been born in and will not be living their whole lives in Finland.

IT is a nice frontend for it and can serve you in many languages and with the latest and greatest UX - but the actual processes and decisions are not keeping pace. Changing these is a high-friction, low-reward endeavour for politicians.

[1] https://www.vero.fi/en/About-us/contact-us/processing-times-...
worked 100% of the time for me
The same person shared very similar benchmarks that include kitty on mastodon:https://mastodon.online/@YaLTeR/110842581333774175

They are a bit older but might still give a general idea.
It was already a shit show 10 years ago, so while the influx surely didn't help, it isn't like it wasn't broken already.
Irony is that you post this on hackernews that is known to censor critical things that could affect ycombinator negatively. If you use a centralized service be prepared to get censored by the providing overlord if it goes against his agenda.
This is amazing! I've been looking for an in-memory postgres mock for integration tests for ages!
There are still a few new vehicles on the market with disable-able telemetry. Now is the time to buy one, before it actually becomes impossible.
So which platform pays the highest royalty?
Frankly, this is why I always ignored Spotify and other streaming services and keep a jolly roger above my head.

If you had pirated or ripped those mixes off Spotify, you'd still have them. And you probably paid enough months of subscription to feel okay with that.

Because in the end https://xkcd.com/488/
100K is damn hard to break into if you're on the strictly technical path nowadays, but maybe it's just my line of work (embedded). I've been trying to learn some web stuff and go and C# to maybe expand my job options a bit.
This is the new modern version of the Berlin wall; trying to hold hostage the productive tax payers because you can't create or attract new ones. It didn't work for the Soviet Union and it's not going to work for Germany.
> if the product is good enough, someone will pay for it.

Many people are critical of US health care, with its costs and inefficiencies, However, it does let you pay money and have a procedure done. captitalism.

In some other countries, you can't do that, sometimes at the cost of your life.
Very nice!

I love both the underlying focus on performance by the VTE developers, and the intense hardware-driven measurement process in the article!

The use of a light sensor to measure latency reminded me of Ben Heck's clearly named "Xbox One Controller Monitor" [1] product [1] which combines direct reading of game console controller button states with a light sensor to help game developers keep their latency down. It looks awesome, but it's also $900.

[1]: https://www.benheck.com/xbox1monitor/
What I want is a dynamic chunking - I want to search a document for a word - and then I want to get the largest chunk that fits into my limits and contain the found word. Has anyone worked on such thing?
I know basically nothing about Finland, and was curious about your comment as I find government spending an interesting topic. So the first thing I did was look up the government budget trends in Finland. [1] As an outsider it just seems that the Finnish budget is growing at an exponential pace? From 2010 to 2019 the budget went from ~50bn to 55bn per year, nearly managing to even create a balanced budget in 2018. From 2019 to to 2024 it seems to have grown to 90bn/year and is continuing to rapidly grow. There's certainly some expectation of an increased budget during COVID times, but it doesn't seem to be coming down, at all?

[1] - https://vm.fi/en/the-budget
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Kitty was slower than alacritty and foot as per author's earlier input latency tests.

https://mastodon.online/@YaLTeR/110837121102628111
Bankruptcy in Germany requires you to attempt to pay off your debts within six years. Any remaining debt gets canceled after those six years pass. This is... not how bankruptcy works in Germany.

For a GmbH and other limited liability companiee there are minimum equity requirements instead.
By the composer, yes, but the composer here is the AI. In neither case did the musicians that the composer studied/trained on get asked.

And that's the point: The difference is the replacement of 1 flesh-and-blood composer with 1 virtual composer, with the consequence being the lost business of the former. The artists studied were never part of the transaction in either case.

Now, the long-term consequences for artists - e.g., reduced supply on the low end as they're out-competed - is harder to guess, but that's just market dynamics. It may very well increase supply as composition becomes more available, diversifying by allowing people with other skills or creative treats to create music that previously could not - even if the musical part is done by AI.
>> we can't cash it until it reaches I think $60 or more iirc

This is highly dependent on your distributor. It can be as little as $10.

>> Spotify is not (or barely) making money out of our work, but we otoh are "making money" by using its platform and visibility as means to reaching to our small fan base that will finance our work through concerts.

This is an odd way to look at it. Without music, Spotify doesn’t exist. People subscribe to Spotify and listen to their ads in exchange for unlimited music access. So Spotify is making money from your music.
Did the ai blogs perform well on your blog traffic wise?
Yeah-- I did the same thing. It just sucks when you've forgotten s prefix or a push/pop early in the code and you have to retarget all the subsequent addresses. It really makes you appreciate a real assembler.
"Austerity is dropout"
I'm comparing this mostly to the UK, which is not a third world country. And to be clear, I agree that DB have been absolutely awful with delays and a lack of proper track maintenance.

But to present that as a full picture of the German transport system is to be completely myopic, and that's the issue. Yes, improvement is possible and necessary, but it's also nice to celebrate the successes of your country, and having a single system that covers pretty much all of the country, that integrates regional and intercity travel, that has a transparent and reasonably cost-effective pricing structure, that includes deals like the Länder-Tickets and the 49€ ticket, that is clean, and many other things besides feels like a success to me.

Do there need to be changes and improvements? Yes, of course! But this sort of self-flagellation ("oh woe is us, our transport system isn't perfect") is really tiring.
My comment meant to trigger thoughts, not your echo. Do your own thinking.

Just last week a Turkish family was set on fire. They will claim the victims are not Turkish and then won’t reveal the identities or photos of them. So you won’t know it’s still happening.

Just talk to any Turkish person. Speaking of startups; Nazis here still attack Turkish small
business owners. Ordinary people
also face racist attacks if they get out of their neighborhood. Also at work if you work with Germans you’ll deal with mobbing.

There was even a serial killer just murdering Turkish small business owners. So you thought it’s just bureaucracy?
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Don't forget bread. Whenever I travel to the US I'm appalled by what is considered good bread there. Not throwing shade here, it's just what it is. On the flipside, buying Avocados here in Germany is akin to a crime against humanity.
> standard cheapy USB floppy drive.

The cheap ones with brands that seem to consist of random syllables are laptop drives harvested from e-junk and placed into a USB housing.
I often see comments like this, but what's a good solution to the ever expanding cost of public services (to the point most of western europe now has gov spending at 40%+ of gdp)? You do need to cut back if you're starting to run a significant deficit or more and more of your budget will go on interest payments.

Any large org tends to get more inefficient with time as it accumulates inefficient components it can't get rid of, but unlike companies, government departments aren't going to go bust and close down.

I genuinely don't know a good answer here, but would be curious about other people's.
Congratulations on some interesting life experience at a young age.

While working hard has its place, so does focusing on friends and fun at a young age, there's enough time to be a grown up, and most people end up missing their carefree teenage and early-20s years.

My suggestion, buy a backpack, a ticket to south-east Asia, and following the banana pancake trail for a little while. You'll decouple, find friends easy, have fun, relax, and become ready for your next steps.

Best of luck.
My distro recently upgraded to Gnome 46 and as someone who spends a big chunk of their day in a terminal, the difference was very noticeable. Great work to everyone involved!
It depends on the amount here, which I'm still not actually sure of.

Lots of companies today only pay you out once you reach $X, usually some nominal amount. It sounds like that could be the case here.

Why deal with payment processors, billing disputes, etc for a customer only earning pennies?
Now try Portugal. It will make Germany look like a walk in the park.
Does it take into account Wayland, and its double-buffered nature (unless you specifically opt for disabling v-sync, see the presentation protocol)?
A lot of publicly funded projects give free tours.

For science experiments and infrastructure this makes a lot of sense: we need to tell tax payers why we're taking their money. I'm a bit sad that it's not more widespread for a lot of critical infrastructure e.g. ferries, power plants, factories, etc: it's a great way to get people interested in engineering and big cool public projects.

It's often worth asking, the reactions can vary a lot. For example taking a ferry, I like to poke around and see how everything works:

- In Long Island Sound, even without going through any doors I got someone asking why I'm interested and essentially telling me there's no way in hell I could e.g. see the engine. He seemed to be 5 seconds away from calling the police.

- In Stockholm the engine mechanic noticed me looking around, invited me to climb down the ladder into the engine room, and showed me how everything worked. It was one of the highlights of that trip.
> So tired of this apologetics, modern German bureaucracy has been built exactly by former Nazis and Stasi agents.

I would argue that they are the best then to design something private :)
"This is more computationally efficient than performing a full content-based lookup across an entire memory buffer for each step in the future, and could be one step towards drastically increasing the context-length available for making a prediction."

Is this how they get a context window of 10 million tokens? Or are they refering to even longer context windows in the future?
> There’s at least a few dozen songs in my Spotify library that have been taken off the platform. It shows up in the list greyed out.

As infuriating as this is, it's the reason I still use Spotify. A music service that hides their catalog changes by subtly modifying my playlists is a no-go. Having the songs still appear lets me know, as it gives me the opportunity to find those songs elsewhere.
I appreciate the fine work done by developers and testers, however I've been using gnome-terminal for around two decades and never perceived the input latency.

Like, I installed Alacritty some years ago side-by-side with gnome-terminal, and gosh, I could not visually sense any difference. Do I have bad sight?
While rpgp is slowly gaining support for this format (the aid users to be able to talk to anyone they want) it will keep emitting the broadest compatible format for a while by default, until the whole ecosystem has upgraded. The aggressive stance from gnupg is really hurting people and removes one of the biggest benefits of pgp, broad interop with compliant implementations.
The recent Real Python pod has some anecdotal insights from a real-world project with respect to dealing with decades-old unstructured PDFs.
https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/199/
That's because kitty's default settings introduce a few ms of latency deliberately to save energy, see details at: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/performance/#keyboard-to-scr...

If you want to do a fair comparison to alacritty you need to set those to the recommended values for best latency.
> If they market it as a feature，yes?

Well, the status page is not the main feature of github/gitlab but I agree that if customers decide to rely on it then it's a problem.

> Were you expecting me to say something else?

Yeah, something like "their status page is not their core business" or "status pages and SLA are two distinct things".
I think royalties from <1k streams are basically nothing anyway. Giving up the ability to distribute your music for free and reach more people would be a terrible idea.
For prisma/nodejs devs who just want postgres-in-a-can for local dev you are better off using the recently released serverizing of pglite, pglite-server: https://github.com/kamilogorek/pglite-server

It's faster, can persist data to fs, though less stable under heavy use than the full x86 emu e2e test server. I found pglite-server uses only 150MB ram compared to 830MB for pgmock-server. You can then use dotenv to checkout a new .env.local with updated DATABASE_URL for all your nextjs/prisma package.json run scripts

DATABASE_URL="postgresql://postgres@localhost:5432/awesomeproject"
"db:pushlocal": "dotenv -e .env.local -- pnpm prisma db push"

Very easy to add to any project, No wonder neon is sponsoring this space.
Interesting! I’ll definitely take a look. I’ve been meaning to try Apple Music.
sputnikmusic is my go-to.
I guess that depends on the city and the procedure, but I had to replace my DNI last summer and it took me less than 30 minutes, and they gave me the new one on the spot.

In comparison I also had to renew my Japanese foreign card and later my ID card, and both procedures were a royal PITA, and in both cases I had to wait a month to get the new card.
Ok yeah, multi-attach was the magic I was looking for to handle failure of instances.

Thanks!
In my opinion governments are likely to change those deadlines as they approach.
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I admire their results, their method, and their will to share them with us. But I have to agree with this: my eyes can't perceive any difference.
There was a story in a Donald Duck comic, i read as a kid, where Dagobert extracted Gold with the help of a "Gold Flower" in a piece of land, where the gold concentration was to low for manual mining.

Always thought, and got reassured through a study a few years ago about plants that genetically adapted to otherwise toxic amounts of nickel in rainforest areas (linked on HN), that this could be a way to extract minerals in a future more slowed down and sustainable utopian society.

Also really interesting are ways to detox soils through plants. Unfortunately, a local pioneer project for extracting industrial contamination, and than making biogas from the plants, was stopped, because it was just cost covering but not really creating monetary profit.
A sad example of, how shortsighted the instant profit capitalism will act, if longterm effects are not integrated into the equation through regulations.

But what to expect from a species that puts great effort into spreading cultivation of seedless wine grapes, just to realize that grapeseeds have live prolonging effects. ; )
Feature data serve as the cornerstone for building robust models capable of making accurate predictions and classifications across various domains.
For all it's many many faults, I have to say I'm sometimes surprised by how efficient some South African bureaucratic state organs function. To get a renewed passport is a 5 minute online form, electronic payment, and then a 30 minute appointment at a local bank branch to get biometrics taken. Then about 1-2 weeks later you can go and pick up your new passport.

Driving license not much different.

For most people, paying taxes is a non-event, and tax returns happens automatically in most cases.

Then the bad:
- Firearm licenses: more like months if not years in some cases.
- Birth and marriage certificates: 4-6 months
- Permission for building/construction/alterations: Don't even waste your time.
- Healthcare: get private insurance if you value your life.
- Public transport: lol

It's interesting how in sufficiently large and complex bureaucratic systems (Governments, Microsoft, etc), you get little pockets of excellence because somewhere in the mess of it all, there is someone who cares about their job, and they put the effort in to make it better for their users/customers.

In South Africa's case, these pockets of excellence are often and frequently replaced, because they are being measured by different metrics than what we as citizens care about, and deemed lacking: Party first, enable corruption, etc. So then you have these government institutions that every 10-15 years or so get renewed, and then coast on that renewal while it gradually goes to shit, before someone steps in and fixes it all up, before them being fired again for not allowing the right amount of corruption to take place. Vicious cycle.
Are there more photos of the Endurance shipwreck online somewhere?
would love to see comparison of AI code completion tools
Ah, sorry, one of those situations where you think about what you'll write and don't end up writing it down. I am of course referring to the inverse in the second sentence, moving data into a brain from a computer. Corrected in the original comment now, thanks!
While the idea is similar, the main difference is that Perl assigns the taint tag to input strings and requires you to do a special operation to cast it away (and also you can just print a tainted string!, and Perl does several additional checks, e.g. on other-writable directories), while this new Javascript system requires you to specially bless all output strings, even ones you generate without involving any input data.
> considering they move and crush maybe 1000 or 10000 kgs of rock for every kg of metal

This is more or less what I visualize if I get weary of recycling bits of metal (bottle caps, aluminum foil, ...).
Similar experiences (but from a few years ago).

Even people who have Spotify end up buying stuff in Bandcamp, anyway. I never had merch but had CDs, and sometimes people would buy two physical copies, one to gift.

For me there was never any difference between Spotify and piracy.
If you go to GroqChat (which is like a demo app), they offer Gemma, Mistral, and LLaMa. These are all open-weights models.
I understand that it's a sensitive topic, but given that here is a place for startups to introduce their projects, wouldn't it be also the place where you find more people prioritize gaining insight about users above that? So if that's indeed not the case then I'm surprised honestly
I wouldn't want to live in a while where BT was the only telephone company, BBC was the only TV channel, There was only one nationalised newspaper, where Royal Mail was the only company allowed to deliver parcels.

If you look at the worse services in your country they are usually the worse: from applying for a passport, to filling in pointless forms to high prices. Almost everything is better off in competition than making the natural market illegal.
I though labels job was to prevent content like that
Because you usually have to move to the other EU country, or at least live there for half the year and many people still like to live in Germany. Optimizing taxes might not be the main goal in life.
Well, by blocking it they're already well on the way there of course.

Blocking is step 1. Monitoring step 2. After that it starts getting into physical danger territory.
Running at that speed with that little voltage implied good speed binning, though.

Also I tried to get factory-OC'd RAM, but couldn't find any 32G sticks with ECC.
> When it's already faster than I can absorb the response

Streaming a response from a chatbot is only one use-case of LLMs.

I would argue the most interesting applications do not fall into this category.
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that one! hmm...
So does CERN. Since 2023 they have a new visitor center, which I have yet to visit.
Are you kidding? Specially with the article in the topic referring to creating a company. Search for "Criar uma empresa na hora".
Please add a link for people relying on this info.
Thanks for the comic link and enjoy the riff off the book title “steal this book”.

Just looked into deleting my Spotify account through the app and appears that’s not an (obvious?) option. Ugh
>> Why deal with payment processors, billing disputes, etc for a customer only earning pennies?

Spotify doesn’t have to deal with these things. Artists work with distributors who then deal with Spotify on their behalf. The distributor pays the artist.

For me the issue here is they’ve changed the deal to the detriment of the littlest of the little guys. A company that just signed a non-exclusive $250m deal for Joe Rogans podcast, can’t afford to pay $10 a year to a whole bunch of independent artists. That’s outrageous. For me it’s the ethics of it rather than the amount.