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AI Startups Acquisition Models
So it turns out that the AI boom introduced a new exit strategy compare to 10 years ago.

Inflection, Adept, Character and many others they all went through founder drain. Big Tech not only acqui-hired, but also paid some royalties or licensing fees to likely keep investors happy.

What's this trend telling you? Why does this approach all of a sudden makes more sense than classic acquisitions?
We just have to wait that LLaMA does it, then suddenly they will have it.

Mistral is like FitGirl Repacks for LLaMA.
Positive comments on James Baldwin on the Orange Site? I must be having a stroke. ;)
Manticore is primarily oriented towards the MySQL world
Totally agree. I had to ween my kids off it slowly. Addictive grinding games full of rather nasty people.
YouTube.

Work out.

Meditate.

Shower.

Eat something healthy.
Maidenhead locator system map (with small squares)
re: 3, Python has a native numeric array type https://docs.python.org/3/library/array.html
While true, I think the reality is that this is still being figured out in the legal system right now. Forks of redis and hashicorp products should be completely fine theoretically, but there's a lot of legal chaos right now with the owners of the BSL versions trying to figure out if/how to prosecute the open versions for adding similar features to the "source available" versions. I've heard contributors to the forks on popular podcasts having to say "I'm not sure I can comment on this right now" due to ongoing battles and legal advice.

I'd love it to be cut and dry fork-wise but there are parties with vested financial interests trying to keep the OSS forks frozen in time. If anything, "source available" is almost weaponized because if you've looked at the available source, it's tenuous. And if two implementations of the same feature look similar (as they will) it might not be as easy to convince a jury that it's not a copying of copyrighted now-unlicensed code.
Is there an official reference implementation of the protocol available?
I always think it's a shame that instead of C# becoming a better OO language, they keep trying to become an uglier F#. IE, why is the syntax for multiple dispatch still so clunky?

I know I know, pseudo OO took over the world, and then people revolted against it, so the easiest thing to do to stay relevant is to become "slightly functional with curly braces", rather than to actually try and do OO well.
What's purpose of the left-eye shield?
> Late stage capitalism === Early stage communism

How so? Will you please indulge me you explain this a little?

Genuinely curious.
Better a backend dev in the frontend, than a frontend dev in the backend.
If you hate front end as much as OP does. I do as well. Just switch to infra/platform engineer. No one ever talks to me about front end unless it’s to deploy the application.
(It's a myth that there's an IRS 7 years 'statute of limitations'. It's far more nuanced than that: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe... )

However, it's still a reasonable time frame, and also, probably coincidentally, 7 years after the last update on any individual record is how long it will take to essentially reboot your U.S. credit report, so seven years sounds quite reasonable.
This is entirely factually incorrect I'm afraid, Scots is essentially accented English
Glad that we finally got confirmation of the speculation that I saw on Ars last week that they are exploring using SpaceX.

I honestly can't imagine the conversations happening privately with the Astronauts. You know the problems this thing is happening but apparently you may still fly on it.

Like I get that space travel is still risky, even if SpaceX seems to make it look trivial at times, but it seems like an unecessary risk.

Assuming the Starliner can be on autopilot and bring itself home, let it do that to confirm if things are indeed working. Worst case you loose a vehical, but 2 people were not killed in the process.

The only thing that really surprised me is the 2025 timeline. I figured they would prefer to move some things around than wait that long?
> I like jumping in to help where it's needed, even on the front-end

Did you say this in the interviews? Even if you said you don't do frontend, if you said this too, that's why.

I'd try to apply to jobs with titles like "Backend Engineer" etc, not generic software dev jobs. People look at titles. If your title is Senior Software Engineer, you'll be expected to do frontend at most poorly managed startups. Managers and HR churns all the time. But your title makes your responsibilities clear. Even if you apply for a "senior s/w engineer" job tell them you want your title to be "senior backend engineer" or whatever.

For example early on on my career I only did frontend, and then I applied for a job that was specifically "Backend Engineer". I never wrote a line of frontend at that next job.
OK, tomorrow you clean toilets in your office. Don't complain that it's not part of your job, just do it.
Astronauts historically work closely with the people that build their spacecraft. I wonder how much they knew going in and how confident they really were. They decided to go through with the mission, but there was surely an immense amount of pressure on them to do so. Can you imagine the political firestorm if one of them refused? It would ground them for sure.
Funny enough, one of my early startup experiences absolutely included, “here’s your (unassembled) chair and an Allen wrench.”
For an alternative approach, try browserbase.com

* https://browserbase.com/
Compared to other stuff of its time (Contax-Zeiss, Nikkor Ai-S, MD, even some M42 lenses), FD was indeed poor build quality, but it is still far, far superior to any of the trash in the more "modern" Canon EF line. Have you ever held a EF 50/1.4? It feels like a disposable toy. Back when I had one, it didn't even survive being tossed in a backpack for a city walk. Even a bunch of the EF "L" lenses are made of plastic.

Also, apertures in FD lenses are far easier to repair than EF lenses. They're just usually a lever or something that has slipped off its channel. In EF lenses it's often a fractured plastic part.
I spend capital building "your" brand. You decide to terminate the arrangement. I have -nothing-.

No, you spend capital building *your own* brand. I "white label" the product/service being provided to you --- you name it, price it and market it as you see fit.

The risks and benefits here are mutual.

We are doing business because you don't want to develop software and I don't want to do marketing. We are legally independent but the reality is, we are co-dependent. We both have incentives to work together. Neither of us can just "walk away" without significant loss.

BTW, I have been doing this successfully for over 25 years.
On the other hand, Turkey might do well to look at Robux as a model for a stable currency.
Same. If they want front end help don’t hire the guy who is telling you they don’t do front end. Have to take OP at their word here but if that is true the company just sounds like a place you don’t want to work anyway.
This has got to be one of the slickest websites I've seen on the web, kudos strongly deserved.

On the tech itself, it's a shame nothing like this exists for MySQL, but not surprising.
I'm still on my A7R2, it still works great, and while I sometimes wistfully think about the ultrasonic wiggly massive resolution mode (700Mpix or something) on the A7R4, I cannot in any way justify upgrading.

OTOH, I also bemoan the loss of my 70s OM1n 20 years ago.
It is rebased every 6 months, and those applications that do not follow semantic versioning can get an exception so they get full updates, to avoid the xscreensaver situation that Debian had.

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop...
From another source:

"The medication works in two ways: First, it interrupts viral replication by preventing HIV from reaching the nucleus of an infected cell, which then blocks reproduction.

The second mechanism is for cases in which integration of the HIV genome has already occurred. In this instance, lenacapavir interferes with production of viral progeny, “making them defective so that they are not able to infect other cells.” Therefore, it works in both early and late stages of the HIV life cycle to disrupt replication."

Since the drug works in two ways, it would be difficult for the virus to adapt. Similarly to how the current commonly prescribed PrEP regimen (Descovy or Truvada) is two different drugs in one pill and has not lead to any significant rise in resistance.
Just like every other part of life, I'll generally call people what they ask to be called. Türkiye has requested internationally to be known under this name.
> Please forgive my lack of understanding. This appears to be a great achievement. Is there any risk that a Lenacapavir resistant strain would rise up in many years as a result of treating a large portion of the global at risk population (estimated to be 60m people receiving the injection to materially lower global HIV rates)?

Not really. This same principle has been used for over a decade. The only difference here is that the previous version of injectables needed to be administered every two months, whereas this can be done every six months.
I would get a sleep study performed then. I know its expensive but fortunately once you have the prescription you're set to get a calibrated machine for you.
"outlaws" in the sense that they won't be in school libraries or used in classes, title is misleading.
Same here. I don't see how the government in Angora has any legitimate claim to make decisions on a foreign language.
There's a difference between becoming incredibly good at frontend and knowing enough to get things done and be a productive member of a team (ie, not get fired like the OP).
A New Code of Conduct and License for Ml5.js (2021)
> Dev jobs where you do no frontend at all are pretty unusual,

Maybe for webdev jobs this is true, but there's lots of software out there in the world that is not web development. I don't think I've ever seen ML engineers anywhere near the front-end except in cases where they're personally interested in it.

I do think if you're doing web development being asked to do a front end task, especially as your first ticket since these tend to be quicker fixes, is not too surprising.

But OP might do best to try to avoid web development work altogether. There are quite a variety of data engineering, ML engineering and infrastructure related roles where it would be completely out of the question to be expected to do any front-end.
Sounds like it's working as Apple has intended.
ParadeDB founder here. We are open-source: https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb. Very much not "invite only". We have hundreds of open-source deployments in production and several paying customers.

Our bring-your-own-cloud solution, which is our primary hosted service, is indeed in developer preview and if anyone is interested in using it, you can contact us. It will enable adding ParadeDB to AWS RDS/Aurora.
I call them agents just because. I'm just doing function calling with custom system prompts for the most part. It's hardly complex, I wrote most of it in a few days.

EDIT: I should add that the first step is used to cut down on the number of function definitions I need to send to the model on each user prompt. Navigating a map can be done with as few as four function definitions but styling a map gets out of control fast (google "Mapbox Style Specification" if you want to see why).
There's no unmanned supply mission planned before they get to go home?
Cynical but kind of accurate.

> One of those guys that gets invited to unwind a particular clusterfuck, gets paid $500/hour and quickly moves on to the next gig.

This is a "plays golf with the CTO" rate; I spent some time consulting because I thought that would mean more flexibility, and it's feast or famine, because of what you said about headcount, which applies all the way down until it's companies funded out of pocket. It took me years of consulting to figure that out: headcount is a costly liability at most businesses, but at a VC-funded startup, if they are trying to spend their competitors into the ground, frugality is discouraged.
One Couple's Tireless Crusade to Stop a Genetic Killer
I've used it, it's one of the only dbs you can use for free. It's extremely easy to get started. The only thing I'm worried about is the bait and switch, the offering is so much better than the alternative that I'm certain there will be a squeeze eventually.
Maybe the phrase I rather should have used would be "profiteering"?

But according to Wikipedia, I think the "classic example" fits many SaaS vendors:

The classic example of rent-seeking, according to Robert Shiller, is that of a property owner who installs a chain across a river that flows through their land and then hires a collector to charge passing boats a fee to lower the chain. There is nothing productive about the chain or the collector, nor do passing boats get anything in return. The owner has made no improvements to the river and is not adding value in any way, directly or indirectly, except for themselves. *All they are doing is finding a way to obtain money from something that used to be free*.
Doctors are already using agents for scheduling. These agents can access calendar and talk to patients to arrange scheduling, changes, conflicts etc
I do-- I own my own company and the office is my house :)
How to Install KDE Plasma on Linux Mint 22
> Is there any reason why I should consider Selenium or Puppeteer?

I'm not a heavy user of these tools, but I've dabbled in this space.

I think Playwright is far ahead as far as features and robustness go compared to alternatives. Firefox has been supported for a long time, as well as other features mentioned in this announcement like network interception and preload scripts. CDP in general is much more mature than WebDriver BiDi. Playwright also has a more modern API, with official bindings in several languages.

One benefit of WebDriver BiDi is that it's in process of becoming a W3C standard, which might lead to wider adoption eventually.

But today, I don't see a reason to use anything other than Playwright. Happy to read alternative opinions, though.
> I had absolutely no idea this was named after an American!

They're just called land drains or field drains elsewhere.
Given the astronomical number of frontend developers currently on the market, I am amazed that you are tasked with frontend work when you explicitly ask not to be. I would have thought it is much harder to find a back-end specialist these days. Are you not working in a team? Do you not have front-end specialists or full-stack generalists on it?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_popular_than_Jesus#/media...
> Well, technically, if you show them the door, you failed to get them implied in the business aspect.

I don’t think it’s a failure to recognize the problem and solve it by replacing the ignorant person with someone who cares. It has certain price, but it is better than supporting toxic culture, because toxic culture will inevitably increase churn and you will pay more.
Learn the difference between "fail to grasp" and "disagree".

No, maybe it's not a good idea to vent, in any direction.

Also: your estimate of which ring you are on relative to the person you are talking to may be off.
How would you feel if you were one of them?

I'd feel pretty upset. A few days in space is no big deal. Months in space is hard on the body, plus you're missing out on months of life on Earth -- maybe you're going to miss the birth of a child or grandchild, or a loved one's death and funeral, or some other big event. And are you getting paid while up there? Are there enough supplies? What if NASA and Boeing finally decide it's OK to return on Starliner, and as you know you basically must then, so now you're risking your life on a vehicle that you have much reason to think is not safe.

It'd be hard not to be hopping mad in private. I'd make the best of it, since there's no other choice, but I would not be happy about it.
ParadeDB supports partial indexes as well: https://docs.paradedb.com/search/full-text/index#partial-bm2...
There are in my country, sure. Brands like Pinnacle and Trek.

You're not going to be impressing anyone with an aluminium frame and Shimano's cheapest derailleur of course - but you also won't be scared to leave your bike chained up while you drop into a store.

And you might want to pick up lights, a lock, a helmet, and maybe mudguards, so you'll end up spending a bit more. And of course if you don't have the tools, time or inclination to do your own maintenance bike shops can get expensive.
What real world application is there, where in 2024 Lisp(s) is the definite better tool vs the dozen of established languages that are used in its place. Yes, technically Lisp is also established but still.
Besides that I also think that Lisp has a readability problem similar but not severe of course as APL for example. And of course just like APL part of that is familiarity but that is only part of it IMHO.
What are reasons to prefer puppeteer to playwright which supports many browsers?

> Cross-browser. Playwright supports all modern rendering engines including Chromium, WebKit, and Firefox.

https://playwright.dev/
> Apple is winning, somehow.

How is it winning? Apple employees generally need approval to even contribute to any open-source projects that are not their own products.

Apple is only "winning" by selling Macs to devs, but about 90% of devs using Macs don't even write software to run natively on Macs and iOS devices.
From use, it seems like "Source Available" generally means "it's not open source, but you can go and read the code somewhere." So it's more a definition by contrast, really. "Fair Source" is a new term defined more precisely by https://fair.io/about/ - it seems to refer to be a more specific term referring to this specific license type.
Right now, without further development time? Russia.
Do you need the link forwarding and analytics, or do you just want to generate QR codes?

There are several NPM packages (and I'm sure equivalent for whatever language you use) for generating QR codes, for instance: https://www.npmjs.com/package/qrcode
Yes, beginning in 2022 the government of the Republic of Turkey asked people to use "Türkiye" in English rather than the traditional spelling, "Turkey," which dates back to the 18th century in English or possibly earlier. Yes, "Türkiye" is used in diplomatic contexts in English because that's what Turkey's government requests. However, it's hard to argue that it's a real English name given the orthography is obnoxiously foreign. There are two letters present that are not normally used in English orthography. The obvious one is Ü/ü, which is used here as a different vowel rather than the usual (but rare) usage in English to indicate that two vowels next to each other are NOT a diphthong. The less obvious but more troublesome letter is the dotted I, İ/i. It is ONLY used in English to write "Türkiye," inflicting the dotted/dotless I problem on anyone who writes "Türkiye" or "TÜRKİYE" regardless of the language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dotted_and_dotless_I_in_comput...
It depends I think ?

See for example how Boeing works with the airplanes ( https://theprint.in/world/boeing-engineers-blame-cheap-india... )

At the end, I wouldn't be surprised if ChatGPT writes parts of critical code in some companies.

Just it would be very problematic to say it and nobody has interest into revealing that.
Frequently enough to have been mentioned in the bible...
Well, there are no umlauts in English.
You're right - hitting OpenAI/Anthropic/Google directly is often the quickest way to get started, and for many simple applications, it might be all you need. However, Release.ai addresses the needs of companies that require more control, customization, and scalability in their AI systems.

Release.ai isn't about replacing the big players but about giving you options. It's for when you need more than a generic API call but don't want to build an entire ML infrastructure from scratch. You can build exactly what you need without getting a Ph.D. in machine learning or becoming a DevOps expert.
If your company hires more scrum masters and project managers than engineers, this is where you’re heading.
Interesting! I have a 2014 MBP that runs a pretty ambient version of Band Camp. I'll see if there's anything I can do to remedy that!
Yeah, wait for someone to die and put someone else on the court. The Supreme Court has completely changed its mind on basically every important issue in the country's history, and it does so when the justices change, not when the evidence changes. They are not divine arbiters of truth, they're just people with opinions.

Here's a full list if you're curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_overruled_United_State...

One fun example: in 1940 they rule 8-1 that schools can compel students to salute the flag and recite the pledge of allegiance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minersville_School_District_v....). Then 3 years later they say oops nevermind, actually you can't do that (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_State_Board_of_E...). Some justices were in the majority on both cases.

Did the Constitution change in those 3 years? No, the people changed.
According to the arstechnica article linked by bell-cot it's a software issue:

"Well-placed sources said the current flight software on board Starliner, as configured, cannot perform an automated undocking from the space station and entry into Earth’s atmosphere. It will take about four weeks to update and validate the software for an autonomous return, should NASA decide it would be safer to bring Wilmore and Williams back to Earth inside a Crew Dragon spacecraft.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/08/nasa-confirms-slip-of-...
I feel you, I really do. A similar thing happened to me with Java.

I honestly disapprove of Java as a language, it's simple so I can write it, but find no joy in it whatsoever. Not once have I mentioned Java on my LinkedIn, CV, or in person.

Every company I've worked for, I had to write Java. Sometimes it's their backend, and I'm their frontend guy and get assigned end-to-end tasks. Sometimes it's more obscure, like an Android app (hey, you're the frontend person, and Android apps have frontend!)

In my current company I seem to have broken the Javacurse by moving into a low managerial role, so now I can assign the tasks I hate to people less offended by this nonsense.
This has been extensively studied and you are wrong.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
"Thank you ;) Much appreciated"
An Algorithmic View of the Universe (2012) [video]
Turkey by the way also blocks porn. This is surprising for tourists, but at the same time not surprising for a predominantly Muslim country.
I can’t tell from reading the Chrome page (https://developer.chrome.com/blog/private-network-access-pre...) or the linked WICG draft: do these new protections apply to the usual CORS-bypassing requests: form submissions and ordinary navigation?
Yeah, but there is still no while(1) here.
https://archive.is/e4TyF
Most shut left eye, an eye patch reduces muscle strain as eye doesn't have to close as tightly
You can run two DIMMs per channel without much downside. There's a dual-socketed server mobo out there that has 48 DIMM slots, making it possible to run 24TB of RAM in a 2U rack-mount