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Andreas isn’t targeting V8’s JIT performance. The goal is to be roughly in line with WebKit’s performance with the JIT turned off.

The theory is that JS JIT compilers don’t actually improve real world performance on the majority of websites. This was apparently per the advice of the authors of Chrome’s and Safari’s JITs.
You are talking about a system that has never existed and I'm not even remotely clear what 'democratic corporate structure' would mean in practice.
I don't know, this line of thinking seems similar to "I am a midget - but look, I never have a problem with legroom on airplanes!" The tiny upside is simply incommesurate with the massive downsides.
OK great, we are being leaked left and right. You know what, we should just demand $10 per collection. Collect and leak whatever you want, because I cannot stop you, but you need to pay me.
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Gnome never tried to copy Windows except for Bonobo/Corba.

KDE OTOH tried to combine every GUI into a single place, making it usable to any user.

Mac OS? RiscOS? Be? Die-hard Unix with Motif? KDE1 (and more 2 and 3) allowed that into widgets/window decorations and much more.

But I prefer stuff like IceWM+XFE if I had to choose a desktop like environment.

No desktop icons, the menu has shortcut entries and a subdir navigator allowing you to open anything with either the file-manager or xdg-open. It has a virtual desktop switcher, a task switcher, a systay and a clock.
Anyone not living under a rock knew who he was. If someone has been investing for 10 years before taking a job, one can reasonably assume they are going to have a bunch of investments. It doesn't need to be 'disclosed'. What's next, someone will be surprised warren buffett owns some stocks outside berkshire?
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Hey! Guess what? They're entirely within their rights to do so! We can even escort them with our own ships out at sea, since by definition these exercises occur in international waters! And if that changes, so does the US response.
I wrote a short book on this topic, from a timing lens. That is, what needs to happen to see certain inventions become sustainable innovations. The business model piece is what's often left out if you only think about new capabilities. Lots of examples to draw upon for this. If interested, the book is called Why Now: How Good Timing Makes Great Products.
They're call options right? So this could be a leveraged play.

Edit: Looks like the position is 5,000,000 shares and 120,000 call options.
> you can't create certificates this way

Sure I can. It's my network, so I decide what root CAs are trusted. Be your own CA, and tell your computers to trust your own CA cert.

For example:

https://smallstep.com/blog/build-a-tiny-ca-with-raspberry-pi...

or

https://github.com/jsha/minica
Their space program started with second hand copies of Soyuz, and they are still currently on copies of Soyuz.

But even if they were landing people on Mars right now, I don't see how that would be evidence they could win a nuclear war.
I should definitely add some sample images...

For now, the Mac app has real imagery in the demo mode:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photon-transfer/id6476578040

(The demo photos are from the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton.)
The post may not be at the extremes, but if the author has been following the issue as closely as it seems, they must be aware that there are people boldly proclaiming Sam Altman to be a sociopath on a daily basis.

The issue has become polarized, for reasons I don't rightly understand, but nevertheless this is where we have ended up.

To write on the topic in this environment it would be advisable to be clear on what they are saying, what they have an issue with, and what the appropriate remedy would be.

To just throw out some insinuations in a "I'm just asking questions" manner doesn't in-itself condemn a person. It isn't happening in isolation though. No snowflake believes itself to be responsible for the avalanche.
Question based on some surprising-to-me chatter in a thread some weeks back about interviews:

When people claim that some shocking proportion of allegedly-accomplished candidates can’t write basic code to perform even a simple task on a whiteboard—do they mean pseudocode, or something akin to that? Or are they counting off points for getting actual syntax wrong?

Because I’ve been paid to write code for more than two decades but will reliably screw up syntax details on a language I wrote 200 lines of earlier that same day. Like I’ll use the wrong “elseif” (or is it elif? elsif? else if? God I don’t remember). Basic shit like that. I might well fail a fizzbuzz even, by those standards, unless asking some really dumb questions about the language won’t raise red flags.
That will never happen, but RFC 6762 suggests some other options for private networks: .intranet, .internal, .private, .corp, .lan.

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6762#appendix-G

ICANN seems to be in the process of finalizing a proposal to officially reserve .internal for this purpose.

https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-seeks-f...
Not to hang around like a bad smell every time they come up, but just think it’s worth noting they are not open source anymore, instead being “source available”. Really gives me the old school “greenwashing” vibes Microsoft used to do with their Shared Source licenses. Poor showing considering they used others work to get to where they are, then shut the door when others started doing the same.

I would say feel free to give Waterfox a try - I’ve tried to strike the balance of useable web and privacy, with the added enhancement of Oblivious DNS enabled by default.
> Worst case, he has undisclosed conflicts of interest.

Given the size of these deals, that's kind of a big deal. It isn't an "oops, it slipped my mind" small little conflict of interest kind of thing, imo.
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> You may think browsers are slow

I don't. I use uBlock Origin which blocks "ad scripts" and the like. My everyday machine is an old PC (older than 10 years) still on Win7, and everything is running just fine.

I also use a top of the line, recent PC on Ubuntu, mostly for development. Websites there feel instantaneous. I sometimes wonder what a subpar browser would feel like on that machine.

Maybe I should just try to run Ladybird on this to see how it goes.
I'm certainly not against mirrors. But—

> GitHub really isn’t the place to host anything possibly damaging to or annoying big tech.

Why would Google give a crap if a handful of people futzing around with ancient versions of Windows and macOS want to run up-to-date Chromium browsers?

If you wanted to be super conspiratorial, you could point to Supermium's statement[1] that they plan to retain Manifest V2 support. But that merely puts them in the same category as Brave and Firefox.

At the same time, I don't know how else to explain what is going on!

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1: https://win32subsystem.live/supermium/#:~:text=Manifest%20V2....
Just to be crystal clear, US Americans are ineligible?
(It’s "hear hear," since you want people to hear it. Honestly I have no idea whether to say something or not. But I’d want to know, so, just in case it’s helpful.)
More significantly, indirect heating from increased greenhouse gases is about 400 TW.
No worries. Too bad that nothing worked.

Screen sharing for support is probably a necessary problem I didn't think of much since I happen to live close by. It'd absolutely need to be something that requires minimal effort from them.
> What does this mean for dummies?

He sold Loopt for $40mm and then invested his share of that into start-ups like Stripe. (That investment alone should have taken him past $100mm.)
I have that and the other two books in the series in my list:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/21394355-william-adams...
Tech loves drama just like anyone else, haha. But this recent pattern of drama that follows Altman is of his own making, although perhaps he is under more scrutiny than most, reflecting OpenAIs importance in our industry.
Glad I took mine out a couple years ago and put it in a high interest savings account. Gamified savings and articles about it got me more interested in my personal finances. So for that I'm thankful.
> Given the size of these deals, that's kind of a big deal

For investors, sure. (And the investors are more than fine with Altman, warts and all.) For the public, eh.
It’s my first time developing on Swift, but I have found that it can get pretty messy trying to accommodate older OS versions when trying to take advantage of features from a newer version. I may try to support iOS 16.2, but that’s probably the lowest I’d go without it being too difficult to manage.
I was with you until you suggested rewriting everything in Rust.
The idea that pigeon meat was considered to be better than chicken meat is fascinating.

That said - is there a volume challenge with pigeons (vs. chickens)?

Like, I feel like now-a-days I can get a reasonably good volume of chicken meat on the bone (breasts, drumsticks to some extent, maybe some wings?) but pigeons seem small enough that you'd need like 4-10 for a single meal for a 4 person family.

It feels like it's easier to produce more chicken meat, and more cheaply (is this why it's less desirable than pigeon meat)?

Also, it's time for lunch apparently :)
I’ve hired a book author, worked side by side with internet-famous lead devs of two different popular open source projects, and followed the lead dev of another semi-popular open source project that shows up on the HN front page frequently.

The key thing I learned is that they were all very talented at what brought them success in their endeavors, but none of them actually made great developers within a company. In two cases, it became immediately obvious that they wanted to treat their job as a side project (that pays the bills) while they further expanded their book/course/open-source empire.

Being the author of popular educational material doesn’t necessarily make someone a great employee. It can actually present a significant distraction, which unfortunately can make it difficult for them to get jobs.
This article is light on organizational and financial details. You don't just go to DC once, have some meetings, and announce what has to be done, if you're serious.

You open a permanent office, meet with people on the Hill regularly, and spread campaign contributions around liberally. DC is crawling with people whose life it is to help you do that. Just drive around Chevy Chase and see all the luxury shops catering to those people.

Is that slimy and disgusting? You bet it is.
I usually find this author's posts pretty insightful, but this one was a miss for me. Just a rambling mishmash of ranting and humblebragging.

The main point (I think? Hard to extract a thesis from this one besides "algo interviews bad") doesn't even hold up: "People say algo interviews reduce costly algo issues in production, but these issues still happen in production, therefore algo interviews don't work/those people are wrong." This conclusion doesn't follow. Who's to say that there wouldn't be twice as many, or twice as severe, algo problems if companies didn't interview this way? I'm not asserting that's the case, but it's consistent with the data points provided.

Outside of official HR statements, perhaps, I don't think anybody pretends leetcode-style interviews are actually ideal for evaluating corporate software engineer candidates. Everyone knows they are deeply flawed and provided limited value. They persist because they seem to be the least worst option, all things considered.
Thanks, this is still awesome to read.
He needs to justify not adequately compensating musicians for the use of their works.
i used to ask cycles in a graph. we were building a database, used graphs alot.

if we cant talk about the problem together from first principles and make some progress, and you cant demonstrate that you're tracking the discussion at all then we cant work together on that database.

sure, for devops, who cares.
CascadeStudio is new to me - this is really cool. Thank you for linking it.
There was a also proposal for ICANN to reserve ".internal" (earlier this year) which is what I currently use. I suppose home.arpa has the advantage of being strictly resolved in the local zone while ".internal" would be more for anything in a private network (or a large multi zone network)?

[1] https://www.icann.org/en/public-comment/proceeding/proposed-...
I'd need to self-sign my certificates, right? So any guests in my house (assuming a modern browser) would be presented with a big ugly security warning after navigating to a local home.arpa site?

I pay $10/year for a custom domain on my country's TLD and host any local stuff on that, so I can use proper CA-signed certificates which are trusted by default. But I could see this being useful if I was only using my own clients.
Yes... I commented on the part of your story I wanted to comment on. What's your point?

I didn't decide anything about billionaires anywhere. But if that's the story that keeps you being silly then so be it.
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He also would of made a little money from movie deals and other trades that he may of made.

Its worth noting that a lot of the figures in the article are after the spike caused by his announcment, specificly the options position would be giving him a large boost.
so register in a central database to not be registered in a bunch more central databases? Then the one "do not collect data" list will be leaked over and over?
I studied Chinese for 2 years in University and hitchhiked mainland China in 2019.

A common misconception is that Chinese "makes more sense" because many characters look like what they mean. So you can guess what a new character means just by looking at it.

A downside is that for many Chinese characters it becomes impossible to know how to pronounce a new word. I've seen adult native speakers ask how to pronounce a new word many times. Oftentimes there are hints in the characters (the "phonetics" mentioned by the writer), but usually not enough to guess correctly.

English is also bad at this, ironically.

Spanish is really good at this, if not the best. When you come across a new word, it's 99.99% of the time pronounced how its written.
> The problem is supporting the 'try before you buy' model would basically require most companies to be happy with someone taking a month off to go try working somewhere else for a bit and then come back if nothing happens.

I wouldn't think that this is how you would hire a known performer. I can still see the problem, but I can also see how it wouldn't be a problem if it were a more common and more standardized process. And if the applicant were being paid contractor's wages (higher) during the tryout period, not salary-level wages.
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It seems it's the filesystem that's most costly? Would it be possible, maybe, to store DNG file data, one after the other, on the card, without a filesystem?
This "gatekeeping organization" is the federal government. They have you pass an exam to prove that you know about public procurement law and how to plan and oversee a software engineering project before they let you work on public sector contracts, where you have to responsibly handle tax payer funds.

For something like this to work there needs to be a strong and technically competent government that the tax payers trust. This is presumably why it works in Austria and not the USA.

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In go there's contexts that do something similar

.NET and go seem to fairly good around request cancellation facilities
How on earth isn’t this blatant stock manipulation at this point.
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Its insane how far people are willing to project on their feelings towards Altman. Look at this quote in this thread.

"But it's worth noting that much of Sam Altman's presentation is just a mask (one he puts a ton of effort into and is good at maintaining), even if he's still less evil than the Sacklers or a mob boss."

How do people even come up with this narrative?
I think it would be interesting to understand why Servo seems to have moved so slow compared to Ladybird.

I suspect Ladybird’s success has a lot to do with Andreas himself.
You know the other thing that is a ratchet?

Experience.

It is true that sometimes you learn something at time T2 that invalidates something you learned at time T1 (T2 > T1), and thus you do need a de-ratcheting system of some sort.

But what actually drives the ratchet is experience with current policy (or lack thereof). "Oh, we had no plans to deal with X, and we got screwed, so lets add policy for X".

The ratcheting aspect of policy reflects the ratcheting aspect of societal experience accumulation.
You can use inductors. Some USB cables have a choke on them. But basically the problem is when a large amount of circuitry all powers up at one when you plug in. So everything connected directly to USB 5v with a lot of large capacitors to filter the power. If you really need that then you can self power and avoid the problem.
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You can take a picture on your phone and let chat-gpt (or whatever else llm) just solve it for you it whatever language
GTK was not always tied to Gnome. It was born with Gimp; and XFCE was remade into GTK making it faster than Gnome itself.
Roaring Kitty posted. He still holds the shares. Actually he holds 5 times more than he did 4 years ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1d6r5vp/gme_yol...
Selection based on OSS package scores
If you are a CEO, especially of a quasi non-profit, and you start a for-profit investment vehicle as part of this organisation, you should tell the board that.
Why would development time be wasted? Most of these forks are "I like the basis, but I want to tweak it a bit". To each their own.

I suppose Unity was a bit of a waste now that it's been mostly abandoned for standard Gnome these days. Then again, Canonical has a history of starting forks and alternatives and releasing them early, eventually ending up replaced by competitor projects that learned from their mistakes.

The fact KDE's design hasn't inspired much in terms of forks seems like negative signal to me. Very few people who want to implement things their own way seem to be using KDE as a basis. I don't know if that's because KDE is more difficult to work with or if KDE people just aren't the ones that like to experiment with their own vision, but nobody forking the project is not necessarily a good sign.

That said, KDE did just finish a complete redesign, with a Gnome-like desktop switcher, a Gnome-style (or rather, macOS-style) dock, altered default behaviour for mouse clicks, touchpad taps, and the way scrollbars work. Perhaps it'll inspire the next generation of tinkerers now that the redesign is out.
i mentioned the two I thought people moving from windows would be most comfy with.

for them, taskbar on bottom + 'start' menu = "neat, i already know how to use this!"

personally, i use i3/sway tiling window managers, and also keep gnome around if i want a full desktop. personally, i love the amount of choice we have in the gnu/linux world. if something doesn't work for you, you can select from so many other options.

"but...but...fragmentation! those guys working on cinnamon/mate/etc should just join gnome or kde and make The One True Desktop!" eh. i don't buy this line of thinking.
ICANN has proposed using .internal; see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39152306.
> but otherwise focus more on git’s behaviour when you use it and why sometimes git behaves in unexpected ways

This is my criticism of the approach that the investigation in this series of posts has taken; it would probably better be called "Git from the outside in", because that's what it is—it concerns itself mostly with the shape of Git commands, how things are expressed in the UI, and a some persnickety not-alrogether-very-important implementation details about how things work in the current release (that could change at some point and very well might change) and not so much "how Git works".

Previously:

> The biggest problem with people's attempts to wrap their heads around Git, its awful UI notwithstanding, seems to be an insistence on thinking of it foremost in terms of the experience of running any given command. I.e., trying to understand it from the outside in.

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39791274>

(NB: this is not just a facile criticism of the title; I believe this series resembles how a lot of people actually try to work out an understanding of Git, which is a problem, because it's fundamentally the wrong way to approach it and indeed is the mindset that's responsible for so many people left still confused.)
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