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Would you buy a business textbook entitled "Bizziness" ?

Me neither.

> I'm someone with a speech impediment from childhood which led to a long struggle with spelling and I don't really see how it is different.

The spelling in your post is perfect, so I infer you did overcome it. Great!

One can also have one's roommate check a term paper for spelling. I'd even write "business" on a card and refer to it as necessary. It's not like needing a dictionary. Just 5 words or so.

Little story: I would contract out the work preparing brochures for my business. I would have to correct the spelling every time. The contractor would get annoyed with that. One day, he prepared a brochure, and sent it to the printer for thousands of copies. He proudly showed it to me. The first thing I noticed was the headline was misspelled. He wound up fixing it and rerunning the print run at his own expense.

Misspelling in business is not only unprofessional, it's costly.
> Regex engines neither know nor care what a character is. They match bytes.

I think this is mostly not true, for example there's some interesting behavior in POSIX-compliant engines:

"Other than POSIX-compliant engines part of a POSIX-compliant system, none of the regex flavors discussed in this tutorial support collating sequences.

Note that a fully POSIX-compliant regex engine treats ch as a single character when the locale is set to Czech. This means that [^x]emie also matches chemie. [^x] matches a single character that is not an x, which includes ch in the Czech POSIX locale.

In any other regular expression engine, or in a POSIX engine using a locale that does not treat ch as a digraph, [^x]emie matches the misspelled word cemie but not chemie, as [^x] cannot match the two characters ch."

If you were just matching bytes you wouldn't do any of this. These engines clearly know that "ch" is two characters and two bytes under some locales and 1 character and two bytes under others.

Same stuff goes for the Unicode regexes: using the traditional patterns leads to unexpected results: "In Unicode, à can be encoded as two code points: U+0061 (a) followed by U+0300 (grave accent). In this situation, . applied to à will match a without the accent. ^.$ will fail to match, since the string consists of two code points. ^..$ matches à." [1]. \p{Letter} works correctly here though, again showing that these engines know about more than just bytes.

[0]: https://www.regular-expressions.info/posixbrackets.html#coll

[1]: https://www.regular-expressions.info/unicode.html
Right, that falls under the European Directive on Electronic Commerce, which is strongly against business anonymity.
The only way I can see this being a valid contract is if the equity grant that they get to keep is a new grant offered the time of signing the exit contract. Any vested equity given as compensation for work could not then be offered again as consideration for signing a new agreement.

Maybe the agreement is "we will accelerate vesting of your unvested equity if you sign this new agreement"? If that's the case then it doesn't sound nearly so coercive to me.
Very cool. Can this be calibrated to an existing track? I wonder in case of spin outs how would someone get back on track.
Either way very cool demo
i worked at McDonald's in the mid-late 00s, I'm pretty sure there was a clause about never saying anything negative about them. i think they were a great employer!
> Guess what happens when I'm late on a mortgage payment!

It depends on how late. If it's not too late, generally nothing. If it's a little late, a penalty of a few %

> And it's even worse if I'm late filing a tax return, or heaven forbid, late on a tax payment.

If you don't owe taxes, then you don't even need to file. If you overwithhold, there's no penalty for not filing.

If you don't, the the penalty is like a few % of the owed tax, per month late. Similar with nonpayment. And it caps at like 40-50% extra of the owed tax, if you're extremely late (though there's interest too).

So actually it's not that bad.

But an F on a single paper also isn't that bad either.
OpenAI is not the government. Yet.
I would strongly encourage anyone faced with this ask by OpenAI to file a complaint with the NLRB as well as speak with an employment attorney familiar with California statute.
"Legal" seems like a fuzzy line to OpenAI's leadership.

Pushing unenforceable scare-copy to get employees to self-censor sounds on-brand.
you could praise them for the opposite of what you mean to say, and include a copy of the clause in between each paragraph.
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It's not. The earlier tweets explain: the initial agreement says the employee must sign a "general release" or forfeit the equity, and then the general release they are asked to sign includes a lifetime no-criticism clause.
It's weird that the obvious wasn't mentioned in the article nor here: cars change how you perceive cities.

When you're walking you have time to apreciate ornaments on nearby buildings and you can see the whole buildings around you.

When you're driving you don't have time to see anything that is close (as it whizzes by), the car roof occludes anything higher than the 1st floor, and anything that is far you can't see in detail. What's the point of ornaments when 90% of people won't see them? So instead of detailed ornaments people design buildings that look nice from 2 km away.

Even the difference between walking and biking is huge. The same street visited by bike feels completely different than on foot. With cars you're basically half-blind. You no longer see the buildings around you - at best you might see the skyline on the horizon.

I blame cars for the modern buildings' lack of decorations.
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> I am curious how long it will take for Sam to go from being perceived as a hero to a villain and then on to supervillain.

He's already perceived by some as a bit of a scoundrel, if not yet a villain, because of World Coin. I bet he'll hit supervillain status right around the time that ChatGPT BattleBots storm Europe.
Again, this assumes some kind of overarching relationship among these countries with a shared goal. But what does North Korea gain by, say, keeping South Korea busy while China invades Taiwan? It basically means Pyongyang is flattened by artillery fire and missiles, with a more-likely-than-not chance of regime change.
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Yes, and you quoted yourself that just because it’s a “ShowHN” doesn’t mean that it has to be praised effusively and get a attaboy.

My negativity wasn’t “gratuitous”. His tool was meant to predict stock price. Every reputable article shows that kind of analysis is foolhardy- or as the WSJ put it - about as good as blind monkeys
What would be the primary benefit of emitting Rust rather than C? Both would be considered safe (assuming Wuffs generates correct code), and Rust could access the C code via FFI. Is there something I’m missing?
Okay, no. I know I called out performance in my post, but that was just from my observations. It surprised me to see something be that much slower than pure python. If you show me a near-python code example in a new language, as someone who mostly writes python code, I'm going to go and write it in python and see how it compares performance wise.

The authors never made any kind of false claims at all. You're reading a lot in to both their README and my post.

They've updated the README for a bit of clarity, but even re-reading the README as it was when I looked this morning (and even a few from before) it hasn't claimed to be fast. The claims are all related to the features that it does have, around parallelisation.
You have to signal you are elite somehow. Boarding school, phds, grinding law school, hazing at elite fraternities, or whatever stupid thing.
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Since the code hasn't been made public, it's not really meaningfully more 'rescued' than it was before. One hard drive crash, guy getting bored and shutting the server down because of no hits in X days, or similar and it's back to being lost media again. It's not clear to me from the video that any effort has been (or will be) made to secure the rights to release this obsolete zombie product to the adoring public. The Archie dev seems to have given them the blessing to set the server up based on the sources received from the Polish university, but no mention of anything further.

If you wanna save Archie, let it go free so hobbyists can run more servers! After all, it's not like there's any money left to be made on an FTP search engine in 2024.
What do I do with this information?
Hmm, if anything the emphasis on national bodies having discretion in when this is enforced seems sketchy and concerning to me. Sketchy on the regulatory side because I don't trust them to not pick targets in a manner which is informed by public sentiment or some other motivation. Concerning on the corporate side because I have heard people say things like "oh, it doesn't have to be 100%, we just need to be good enough to not be a target for enforcement", which then becomes the basis for not making an entirely good faith effort.

Whereas something like PCI compliance for businesses handling credit card transactions isn't a law, but does have pretty clear standards, a certification process, and serious potential risks to your business if you do it wrong. But you go through the process, you get certified, and then you know you're doing it.
That sounds rather... serious. Is there anyone here with relevant knowledge who can comment?
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I wrote an SVG that's all javascript, no elements. All the graphics are generated dynamically at runtime by the javascript. It's SVG standards compliant, but only opens correctly in browsers, not in inkscape or other desktop publishing apps.

I work a lot in OpenSCAD, and had a need to design some custom graph paper. So I found the subset of SVG which was similar to OpenSCAD. :)
No. Humans can have actual domain knowledge plus contextual awareness which leads them to actually understand the subject by means of their education, and thus make guesses based on more than linguistic and syntactic plausibility. Educated guesses can be wrong, but are by definition not merely "plausible sounding nonsense."
IOW, this is burying the illegal part in a tangential document, in hopes of avoiding legal scrutiny and/or judgement.

They're really lending employees equity, subject to the company's later feelings as to whether the employee should be allowed to keep or sell it.
> A study by researchers at Yale estimated that drugs like Wegovy can be profitably manufactured for less than $5 per month.

Serious question: Why not just bootleg the stuff?

It's a very small protein, easy to make, and "research chemical" companies that sell structurally similar bodybuilding drugs and nootropics are a dime a dozen. Search online for "BPC-157" (a protein drug of only slightly inferior complexity) and you'll find a million places that sell it at $25 for a month's supply. Those vendors are legitimate far more often than not.

If Novo Nordisk won't sell to humans at a humane price -- instead preferring to gouge insurance companies and the gatekeeping medical bureaucracy -- I'd argue that there's a moral imperative to bootleg the drug and distribute it to those who would benefit from it at a fair price.

And, unlike many of the bodybuilding drugs (which are a big business,) these new weight-loss drugs aren't scheduled, so you won't get in much trouble even in the unlikely event you are caught.
Non-disparagement clauses seem so petty and pathetic. Really? Your corporation is so fragile and thin-skinned that it can't even withstand someone saying mean words? What's next? Forbidding ex-employees from sticking their tongue at you and saying "nyaa nyaa nyaa?"
"\033[31;1;4munderlines\033[0m" is (again) no worse than a stream of vertices or a stream of object code. Everything is a stream of bytes (well, a stream of bits anyway). Do you want CSS? Lipgloss is not too far off [0].

I read your objection basically as "escape sequences and control codes are noisy garbage"; are you saying something more like "the functionality you can achieve with escape sequences and control codes is fundamentally limited"? If that's the case, I don't see how, especially in the context of a character-based display.

[0]: https://github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss?tab=readme-ov-file...
Their head of alignment just resigned https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40391299
Does anyone still believe the german carmakers will be able to turn the tide?

As someone living in central europe the decay of this industry will be absolutely brutal to watch and experience. So many stem jobs around here are tied to the success of VW/Mercedes/BMW and they keep messing it up.
https://web.archive.org/web/20240516020104/https://www.nytim...

https://archive.ph/mY00A
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It's just as easy to forget the tax due date. But I take precautions to not miss it, because it's expensive to miss it. That's the point.
There still exist data brokers and personalized advertising in the EU so it hasn’t gone far enough.
DCC doesn't work through NAT, as it creates a fresh connection to a random port. That's the entire contents of the DCC send message, the ip/port of the sender and the filename.

I'm pretty sure these Netgear routers were trying to create an automatic port forwarding rule so the DCC connection would work through NAT without any configuration.
I recall people talk about that in Sweden too. There did however seems to be a bit confusion around since copper, silver and iron mining tend to release a lot of radioactive radon dust in a fairly large area. The recommendation to be careful with wild mushrooms or wild meat never made a distinction between the two sources.
I got the same canned response. Followed up asking for more details and got crickets.
That was my own quote taken directly from the exact law text.

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELE...

There's many more as well:

> The processing of personal data should be designed to serve mankind

> Natural persons should have control of their own personal data.

> Legal and practical certainty for natural persons, economic operators and public authorities should be enhanced

> The protection afforded by this Regulation should apply to natural persons

And that's just from the first 3 pages.
Have you considered Google Titan keys?

https://store.google.com/product/titan_security_key?hl=en-US
This video does a good job explaining it, yes it really is quite mind-bending.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UitzmhJe578
I think it's like 5G. Yeah, it's running out of steam, the marginal benefit is virtually nonexistent.

I personally don't want a ton of tracking and screens in my car. People want to be able to "fill up" in 10 minutes, go wherever they want, and spend less than a thousand dollars on CSR repairs to get them going again. Until that's possible, even with cheaper cars, electric cars will always be an upper middle class social signalling decision.
I’m responding to this:

> that can then be shipped like normal C, so you don't get the ecosystem friction like with ex. Rust.

Emitting Rust doesn’t help with this.
Archive link for the lightboard project page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20160308042719/https://sites.goo...
All these problems happen eventually to every spec. Nothing you will build can stop people violating spec.
Also, will Ilya likely have similar contractual bounds, despite the unique role he had at OpenAI? (Sorry for the self-reply. Felt more appropriate than an edit.)
Maybe! Or maybe another tool is like, "oof that's some junk in there, let's pop that out"
In order for it to work, you need as many people tumbling the same exact amount of crypto. If it’s self hosted, it wouldn’t be difficult to figure out that if two or three transactions went in, you only need to track the two or three transactions that come out.
Extra respect is due to Jan Leike, then:

https://x.com/janleike/status/1791498174659715494
It's high time to ditch Slack for slimmer, faster and privacy-respecting open source alternatives: https://itsfoss.com/open-source-slack-alternative/
Well yes, most AI integrations are worthless and not just this one.
What if I sell my equity? Can I criticize them then?
Thanks for your response.

The benefit of immutability is that values can never change "out from under you". But there seems to be a counter-point, which I haven't seen articulated much. In cases where object reference identities are meaningful, all references to an object are always current. Think video game characters running around in an arena interacting with each other.

I think immutability is a great tool for domains where it's helpful. That's the same position I have regarding mutability. I think the mutable Date object in javascript was a mistake. I also think it's hard to compete with the simplicity of a recursive `walk()` function that mutates the AST nodes and query queue in place.

Maybe I'll see the light when I manage to comprehend what a monad is.
They are not really as far apart a you think. At small numbers, yes get are distinct. At large enough numbers, they in all practicality the same thing. E.g what’s the population of the US
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As soon as the unfair competition from China gets regulated, the tide will turn.
I think this is quite different- I don’t think mojo runs on the GPU unless I am mistaken.
I get recruitment contacts fairly often as well. Mostly by email (and they don’t look automated) but also some on LinkedIn (these look more automated).
Yes, /cn is deprecated. But letsencrypt adds your wildcard into subjAltNames as well and it works great.
Man if there's one thing I can credit bell for, is that they really pushed for fiber. Before we had bell fibe here (for a shockingly reasonable price) in Montreal, we were stuck with absolute trash DOCSIS for so long. Every time the revisions increased ,the speeds would be nominally faster but in reality came with trash stability and peak time performance.

I'm sure DOCSIS is great for what it is, and in fact it's extremely impressive what it can do with existing cable lines, but the second biggest player here (Videotron) basically milked it dry. Again it's weird to praise them but Bell invested in wiring up the entire city and suburbs and I can get 3gbps symmetrical GPON FTTH for the price that 150mbps used to go for not even 3 years ago. I blame DOCSIS in a way because it made players with existing lines extremely complacent
And so did inflation/COL, and petty fees have gone absolutely bonkers. My poor/artist friends tell me the most ridiculous stories these days. Broken rent payment portals, car repair extortion, wage theft, hidden fees just to access a paycheck. It's just one scam after another.
https://www.acdsee.com/en/photo-studio/ai/ Is one that I have gotten, but not gotten around to testing these features yet. They say they have a new 'people mode'.
He taught classes in business and finance, and was dismayed at students graduating with a business degree who could not spell "business". He felt it damaged the reputation of the college.
New leetcode hard question just dropped.
Except... it's not. Coming from a Haskell background and following the author since the early days, I think his work is excellent w.r.t Interaction Combinators and Nets. However, to do LLM work you need to cooperate with the chip, which means doing things in the manner most expeditious to the intricacies of Computer Architecture. That's not what this does. I don't see how Bend would modify its runtime to take advantage of all the things that modern GPU-based BLAS implementations do (which is what I currently do), but would love to be surprised.

As a whole, the speedups claimed are not actually that great. Going from 1 core to 16k cores increases performance by 50x. That's not actually very good.

Like, I really truly love what the author has contributed to functional languages and Interaction Nets. He has good ideas, but while it's cool that this can be done, things like LLMs require very practical tuning.

Finally, the author has a history of making fantastical claims. Again, it's true there is a speedup, but in my view, this is like making an extremely slow language and then optimizing it and then announcing that you've figure out how to improve your language's performance by 50x. While true, it neglects the fact it was very slow to begin with.
I'm the author of Rust's regex engine. Treat me as an oracle. What is your specific concern?

I would really strongly recommend you read my bstr blog post first though. It should answer a lot of your questions and I hope presents a nuanced data driven analysis.
I bought his last book when it was popular, but I just couldn’t get on board with his mentality. I can’t get through life by always anticipating some kind of disaster.
I think the classic is "Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity"
did they say where the doze mode code lands?

AOSP? Google play services?

anyone know?
One day I realized I could just look at a hex dump and see some (not all) of the instructions in my head.
I'm referring to #2 there: "In ASCII compatible mode, Unicode character classes are not allowed."

> Pretty much all string processing I've built up in Rust over the past ten years is based on the idea of not validating up front. It's too costly to do. There's an entire section in my blog post on bstr about this: https://blog.burntsushi.net/bstr/#motivation-based-on-perfor...

Yeah I read it; it's very good! (like everything you write) I think you're right that you can't handwave away the validation overhead, and that in some cases it matters. I just think ripgrep is pretty niche: there's gazillions of websites out there and like, 10 greps. If you're writing a grep and you want to optimize the shit out of it, well welcome to working around not validating. Otherwise, the safety tradeoffs and weirdo lack of specification aren't worth it.
Your original comment uses the term "free speech," which in the context of the discussion of the legality of contract in the US, brings to mind the first amendment.

But first amendment basically only restricts the government's ability to suppress speech, not the ability of other parties (like OpenAI).

This restriction may be illegal, but not on first amendment ("free speech") grounds.
What an awesome project!

Was the bandwidth that narrow at the resonant frequency? Intuitively, I wouldn't have expected that "wet string" has a high Q. :)

If I had been your student, I would have had great fun with it.
> Notice it says “should”, not shall. Does this mean consent is technically optional? What is their definition of informed, affirmative, or agreement?

It looks like you are reading from the preamble, not the provisions. The purpose of the preamble is to describe the general intent behind the regulation or directive, not the technical requirements themselves. When national regulators of member states create the laws that are legally-binding within their jurisdictions, they might refer to the preamble to check that the spirit of the law is compatible with the original European text. The preamble can also inform judges in the situation that a case is taken to one of the European Union's courts. When one finally gets to the provisions, there's even more introductory text, but it's a lot more terse than the preamble.
Nominally it can safely elide bounds checks via unsafe that it has proved are actually safe within the constraints of Wuffs, which is what it does for C (+ the language is built for more easy translation to vectorizated than something like llvm is able to do for general purpose languages).

So basically higher performance.

FFI nominally has a runtime and compile time cost - whether that matters for you in particular will depend on your needs, but being able to publish a very simple crate without a build.rs to manage can have an attraction.