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> I sometimes find it hard to motivate my team to deliver on time.

> Perhaps there is some invisible work that gets in their way, or unexpected blockers waste too much time.

Invisible work and unexpected blockers aren't issues of motivation unless you are seeking to get them to work overtime to overcome these blockers.

> even if the milestones are aligned by everyone.

Everyone agreeing on something doesn't mean that everything is understood or correct.

It seems that your estimates are based on everything going right.
They aren't making a sequel, they are doing an unlicensed video game conversion.

Reading all these musings here about a possible "there is no bad publicity" approach, I'm starting to wonder if the plan for if Johansson signed up was achieving court drama publicity by getting sued by Annapurna Pictures. "Can a three-letter tweet be the base of a copyright case?"
A neighbor of mine went from the most brilliant and kindest person I've ever met, to not recognizing his own wife at home in a short time span of few months.

The fact that he would not recognize me after talking together every week for a decade felt slightly odd.

But what broke the camel's straw was after one morning he assaulted his own wife coming back with groceries thinking she was an intruder.

Living 50 years together and not remembering her at all was awful.

Broke her and his heart too when he had to be taken to a proper elderly care facility as he was too dangerous (70+ but still very fit and strong) to his own family. Obviously, luck wanted that he was lucid when they were taking him out the house. He was aware of what was happening and why for few minutes. But when it came to say goodbye it felt like Shutter Island finale, you couldn't say whether he was now faking a few moments later or if he was doing it because aware of his condition and danger.
Looking back at my career, I find that understanding the reason why having this milestone done by this date is important really helped. Is it "according to our contract if we don't deliver all of this by this date, the client doesn't have to pay us anything and we'll have trouble making payroll" or "I pulled a random date out of my ass in a meeting 6 month ago, and I don't want to look bad in front of my boss by explaining that I got the time estimate wrong". In the first case we pulled out all the stops to make sure we hit the deadline, in the second case we worked at our normal pace and didn't care too much

Not all deadlines are created equal and if you have a lot of deadlines that feel random and meaningless with no consequence of missing them, then people will feel that and not take it seriously. Have deadlines that are relevant for the project, and explain the relevance of each deadline to the team, and you'll hopefully get better results.
That's the default way to use OpenStreetMap, either with vector or raster tiles.

I'm guessing these apps did it this way for a reason, probably to support the offline usecase and not need a separate way to do it.
It might and world should worry what will replace it. Lot of those liberal democracies used to be empires or has reformed into large blocks which could be considered an empire. They might want to reestablish themselves.
Sorry but to me most of them are useless animations that create distractions from the content.

Like the blink or marquee tag of Internet Explore reloaded.
essential tool
Yes, this is true in the UK (at least amongst people who know the difference between an electric motor and an ICE)
> it's very unlikely that precedent would be interpreted as "whoever the judge heard of first wins"

No, it's whoever's voice is famous. The voice per se isn't valuable, its fame is. Personality rights are precedented [1].

> voices being similar to each other is found to be grounds for a successful tort action then it'd establish a legal precedent

It's not about similarity. It's about property. Johansson developed her voice into a valuable asset. It's valuable because it's Scarlet Johansson's voice.

Tweeting Her explicitly tied it to Johansson, even if that wasn't the case up to that point.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights
This defeatist attitude is unhelpful. Are you prepared to lose nearly everything come November? What will you do when the dictatorship looms over you, will you accept your dwindling freedoms? What would cause you to actually stand up for yourself and fight for a better future? I see this attitude espoused a lot and I wonder if any of the people who say so will just roll over and accept a creeping totalitarianism with a shrug. Is there literally anything at all that you'd be proactive about?

If you have causes you are passionate about but you refuse to participate in the (hard won, bloodily won) civic right of voting, then your ability to affect those causes will evaporate. No matter how much you think your government doesn't care now, they will care even less when it is truly, wholly, dictatorially unaccountable to you. And then what? What was your anti-voting stance for?

A substantial chunk of the electorate seems to prefer losing and then whining about outcomes as long as it allows them to pat themselves on the back for 'staying above it all and seeing the futility all along'. I implore you instead to care, hold your officials accountable, and vote. A bad future is not inevitable.
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> It is. There is no point in arguing otherwise.

Well, I don’t know how to respond to this. I clarified what the rules actually are (< 1 paragraph) and following them blindly leads to correct results. You’ve brought in a whole bunch of nonsense about why C++ has become complex as a language - it’s not wrong but I’m failing to connect the dots as to how the rule of 0 itself is hard to follow or complex. I’m kind of taking as a given that whoever is writing the code is mildly familiar enough with C++ to understand RAII & is trying to apply it correctly.

> The rule of 5 is a nice rule of thumb to allow developers to have a simple mental model over what they need to do to avoid a long list of issues, but you still have no control over what you’re doing. Things work, but work by sheer coincidence.

First, as I’ve said multiple times, it’s the rule of 0. That’s the rule to follow to get correct composition of resource ownership & it’s super simple. As for not having control, I really fail to see how that is - C++ famously gives you too much control and that’s the problem. As for things working by sheer coincidence, that’s like your opinion. To me “coincidence” wouldn’t explain how many lines of C++ code are running in production.

Look, I think C++ has a lot of warts which is why I prefer Rust these days. But the rule of 0 is not where I’d say C++’s complexity lies - if you think that is the case, I’d recommend you use another language because if you can’t grok the rule of 0, the other footguns that lie in wait will blow you away to smithereens.
That's $40/wk - when we were that poor, that would have helped but not solved our food needs
That's a pretty generous take on the situation. Sam Altman isn't some robin hood character taking from the rich to give to the poor. If AI companies can keep operating with impunity, taking as much data as they want with no compensation for the creators, or consequence for infringement, that's not good.

I agree that the technology is great, and it will empower small creators, but I'm also worried about the cowboy behaviour of all these tech billionaires.
You're talking about literal identical voice due to throat development and cultural background etc - which is obviously technically true, but I imagine a number of people who sound 99% like you(where a casual listener can't tell the difference) must be quite large.

Case in point - my wife has two twin brothers. Even though I've been interacting with them for over 10 years now, they sound exactly the same to me. If I close my eyes then there is zero chance I could tell them apart by voice alone. I know, it's an anecdote - but while I'm sure you could tell them apart by some really small thing that they do, to someone who isn't actively looking for those cues they are - for all intentions and purposes - the same.
What does your team typically look for in the first interview with interviewee?
Interviewees usually have to go through multiple interviews, so as an interviewer, what are the main things you look for in the first interview?
OpenAI does a deal with News Corp for content
And you can get them on the way out. Blackmail them again once they've made the payment as it's a crime
Yeah this seems pretty clear to me too. The voice was also overtly horny, way more so than the others are. I say this as a gay man - I was uncomfortable listening to her talk about ISA specifications like she had a fetish for them.

Seemed like an easy "pop culture" win akin to Cortana / Halo and Pacific Rim / GladOS.
I am a registered pilot. Had to do an online course and learn about restrictions, took an hour and was free and is valid across most countries in EU. Most stupid restriction is that for FPV, a spotter is required. But if I stay away from people/buildings I am permitted to fly up to IIRC 6kg drones
Yes, that's fair, but I think we can do better in our education revolution than just plonking kids down in a classroom with ChatGPT! If we take a fairly constrained subject like high school algebra, we should be able to, for example, study its BS rate by having knowledgeable testers converse with it at length, and thus perhaps produce AIs suitably calibrated and QA'd for classroom usage. But I should go read Sal's book, it sounds promising.
I'd rather say they are trying to prove some things to the general public.

People new to the stock market assume that when they buy shares through their broker, they own the share. They also often buy shares in hopes that the stock price will go up.

However, more often than not, a broker will hand out an IOU when you "buy" a share, and then proceed to rent out the share to short sellers. You buy a share in hopes that the price will go up, but that share is then used for the opposite.

Buying a share through the company's registered custodian prevents this.

They also want to show the general public that even when 100% of a company's shares are bought, owned and locked down - short sellers are still able to generate phantom shares to move the stock price down.
In Clojure you'll have to write the queries yourself unfortunately. People always ask, where is the fully fledged web framework in Clojure? There isn't one. Why there isn't one is hard to answer, but it's partially because the people who could write one, don't find they need one themselves.

There's definitely a preference in Clojure for not relying on frameworks, because the current people in the community like to be in control, know what's going on, or do it their own way.

That said, the whole code still ends up being relatively small. So, you kind of end up with a similar amount of total code, but you're much more in control. And if certain things you find too repetitive, you can remove the repetition yourself through many of Clojure's facilities, specifically where they annoyed you.

See: https://github.com/didibus/simple-website-with-posts where I implemented the small website you were talking about, creating posts and seeing them. The whole code is here (minus the CSS): https://github.com/didibus/simple-website-with-posts/blob/ma...

It's 95 loc and that includes the templates. There's no framework.
There was communism 40 years in Eastern Block. Whole countries basically imploded in 1990s
Dutch police tracked a crypto theft to one of worst botnets
Can't they make different studies to determine age?

We know that some turtles, sharks and whales can live way more than a century if not multiple centuries, but we don't know that because we have been following them from centuries.

There's a tortoise living on the Seychelle's governor garden since 1882 and has outlived every single governor yet.

We have a picture of it dating 1886: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Jonathan...
Yep! Although MoE use several "expert" linear layers within a single network, and generally the "routing" is not based on high-level semantics, but token specialization, as disuccussed by Fuzhao Xue, author of OpenMoE, in one of our reading groups: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3QOpJA0A0Q&t=1547s
what if the spider dies shortly after? You'll have no way of knowing if the worm was the cause of the death.

what if the spider doesn't die shortly after? You'll have no way of knowing if the spider would have died of hunger without your intervention
As a supposed adult you should be ok with the fact that not everyone will like your favorite toy and way of life.

I don’t use rust because I don’t have enough time in my life right now for discovering a new language just for the pleasure of it and even if I had, my real alternatives would be functional languages, not rust vs C++ which I use daily in a big project that has incentives stacked into C++ favor
Sure. I wasn’t advocating for making all your code clever. But clearly super clever code doesn’t make code magically not debuggable. It may not be fun to touch but usually you just make sure it’s well tested, documented, & then you try to never touch it again.
Radiomaster Boxer is probably the goto one for FPV quadcopters. If you want to fly LoS and autonomous missions then Radiomaster TX16S (large touchscreen, community support, all the LUA tememetry widgets you could ever want). For the link, it's either ELRS for manual flying or mLRS for Mavlink telemetry over LoRa.
I honestly don't understand how delusional you have to be to think OpenAI wanted this to happen.
China creates LLM trained to discuss Xi Jinping's thoughts
Once it's just regular Pascal, why translate it to C? Why not just keep it as is and compile with Free Pascal/Lazarus?
>perhaps less useful neither-ranked-nor-keyed access, wherein the trees are kind of a double-ended queue with just "edge access"

For normal btrees this is absolutely true. For b+trees you will see this basically everywhere.
Fyi, google just announced a new "Web" search option (in the ...More menu next to Images, News and so on). This skips all the AI stuff, too.
> Multi-region is pretty essential IMO

if we are talking about less than 1% of the applications, probably yes.
> ... aren't issues of motivation unless you are seeking to get them to work overtime to overcome these blockers.

OP: Is their compensation and performance assessment linked to getting things done to your deadlines?

>> even if the milestones are aligned by everyone.

> Everyone agreeing on something doesn't mean that everything is understood or correct.

It could be the tyranny of the collective "we": "We should ship X by date Y". Is everybody clear on their individual deliverable to make that happen? When you do post-mortems after a deadline is missed, does everybody have a different picture of who was depending on who to deliver what? Was the root-cause of that lack of incentive, lack of buy-in, or your communication?
>> The voice actor involved is irrelevant.

Quite the contrary, unless you believe that Scarlett Johanson owns the rights to the voice of anyone who sounds like her?
aha maybe we should change our slogan to "Uber for LLMs"
Yep. Make it a crime to pay ransoms. No data is worth enabling and enriching criminals. Have tested backups stored offsite. If you fail at that, then you fail at business and deserve to go out of business.
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Grab 'em by the nothing burger.
Yeah that's probably too much of a slog. It's probably the case that very few things would break if you just snuck the validation out the back door and added like u8str (or whatever) that did the validation for people who want that enforced by the type system. Would be real easy to provide migration tooling too.
That Microsoft Natural Elite on the left side of the image is still the only keyboard I use, or will use. I have a stack of four backups in the closet.
The press says Sky voice is indistinguishable from Scarlett Johansson, but I hear zero similarities to her voice in any of her films. Besides, of course, that it is a standard-issue unaccented white anglo female.
Sounds similar to the Composition of Experts from SambaNova (although that is for increased accuracy on single systems mostly, not for decreased cost from various suppliers): https://sambanova.ai/blog/samba-coe-the-power-of-routing-ml-...
It can't get to all the files even for a single admin user, you need to do something like run it as system with psexec.
Doesn't matter. Waits v Frito Lay
Huh, once I figured out how to switch to first person view and acro mode and hooked up my PlayStation controller this was surprisingly fun – it behaved a little like a more friendly helicopter simulator. The most annoying part was that I couldn't have throttle on a completely separate control from the rotation axes, and the frequent brief freezes I got in Firefox.

If this is an indication of what it is like to fly real FPV drones, I'll have to put a lock on my wallet.
Well what you're doing is actually a felony already.

https://www.federalcriminallawyer.us/securities-fraud/
"Böhme previously won a similar copyright case regarding an image with his photo-based wallpaper at Cologne Regional Court last year. This lawsuit was also against a landlady of a vacation apartment."
Sluggish and laggy on Chrome here as well: macOS Sonoma 14.5, Apple M2 Max, 32 GB of RAM.
Hi Greg! I am Vadim Voitenko - Greenmask [1] developer that you've mentioned in your message. Thank you so much for your interest.

[1] https://github.com/GreenmaskIO/greenmask

We are trying to deliver new features ASAP according to the user requests, if it not not a secret, could you list the features that you are looking for?

Since 5 days ago we have had a huge major beta release where we introduced important features - dynamic parameters and deterministic transformers and more. Check if there are features you need. If not so, I would love to hear them in order to prioritize them.
Who cares about this nothingburger
I dropped out of university for my £35k job as if I finished my final term I would have had _literally_ no money and no where to live. I could not afford to take risks. I had no family to rely on.

I was later invited to work for a startup as the first engineer. They offered me £45k which I negotiated up to £50k, which I declined as my stable job raised me to £52k to keep me. This startup is still doing well it seems, but that just wasn't a risk I could afford. I had no liquidity, I was barely saving £200 a month. If the startup fell through and I had no severance, then I would have had to find a job almost immediately or default on my rent.

This article is an extremely privileged take (which it acknowledges). University is relatively cheap in the UK, which makes the people that attend top universities often come from all classes of wealth.

I now have a lot more of my own cash in hand now and can certainly survive a few months of downtime, but I still probably wouldn't go for an early stage startup as I'd likely have to take a huge salary cut and would not be adding into this savings pot. I would rather be in a stable and good band of living rather than risk being on the poverty line again.
IMO that's consistent with them trying to look like they're being responsible and considerate (even though they plan to re-release the voice in a short while, after their side of the carefully-planned story is out).

In general, I assume anything a CEO says after a scandal breaks is whatever the crisis management people told him to say.
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Well, that's great.

Now in Europe, we fund the government through taxes so that the public education system can do for EVERYONE what Sal Khan did for YOU

So then you no longer have to worry about what your children can do in their lives
I’m still using the free OmniDiskSweeper from the legendary OmniGroup
I honestly don’t understand why people care about this story at all.
Related to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40449767
How is s3 implemented?

Is there a data center with many solid state disks?

Are tape drives used?
I'd like to see him go further again,

deliver all discussions on Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era via an animated Pooh Bear with the voice from the movie.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/23/china_xi_jinping_chat...
In this context they aren't "creators" because they don't create anything. These actors are not being compensated, b/c they're not actually performed any additional work or doing any acting

If you record my voice at a conference and then create a synthetic replica.. why would I care? You didn't make me do any additional work or anything
Yes I really hate that at hospitals. I am certain it is bad for health and recovery of patients and unnecessarily increases stress for everyone.
It's a very cheap way to get people to realize gpt4-o is something new.
I think they’ve understood and are claiming that a simple loop is cleaner than what you wrote. I’m not sure how since that 1 line communicates what’s happening at a high level with 1 word “sum” whereas a loop requires me to read the loop to confirm it’s a plain summation.

This sounds like someone complaining that the concepts they learned when they were first starting out are the only concepts that programming languages should introduce which is silly - technology evolves as we find better and new ways of accomplishing old tasks.
Writing Go is less fun but the language has far better tooling, dead simple deployment, lower memory usage, generally higher performance, and is easier to onboard new developers. Also I find it way easier to read old projects after time away.

You can get incredible mileage out of Go using just the stdlib, built in tools, and the pure go port of SQLite. With Clojure it feels like I have to stitch a million random libraries together to get anywhere. Writing Clojure is delightful but the ecosystem and tooling pale in comparison, and at the end of the day I think that’s what matters.

If Clojure had great built-in tooling, better error messages (and maybe some SBCL-esque type checking features), and if Datomic was open source and less rough around the edges, I think the language would have been far more successful.
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I agree this is an interesting direction, I think this is on the roadmap for DSPy [https://github.com/stanfordnlp/dspy], but right now they mainly focus on optimizing the in-context examples.
Maybe we should wait.

Everything OpenAI and Altman related seems to have multiple layers like an onion.

If we wait long enough we might get documents which show they uses Scarlett Johansson's voice but hired an actress to claim it's hers.

One month later it might be the opposite again.

In times of AI fakes real evidence is hard to find.
Does Microsoft have plenty of money to do anything? Sure. Does the trillion dollar company spend an appropriate effort on the product itself? Certainly not!

The issue is this: From Windows 10 and up, almost every interaction with the UI is a little bit broken, and I could fill pages just describing things that used to work just right in Windows 7 and earlier. It appears the Windows UI is now designed and approved by the visuals only. And now we learn about a disproportionate effort to create a visual.

So it's easy to see how a comment that points out this discrepancy, resonates with everyone who is halfway through their thousand daily cuts of UI punishment.
Sure but, in my opinion, you can tell all of those in both plots. The crossmarks are not even needed.
tl;dr a variation of merge sort. Which is still one of the best sorting algorithms ever devised.

Pretty impressive for the first stored computer program ever.
This is so over-engineered, it tells you that when you have billions, you do the most whacky things. A 5-minute VFX job will yield the same results. But no, there's so much f*k you money, they had to do this.
I'm curious why, if that's what you think about this place, you not coming here?