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This is not a tech problem, it's a corporate profits problem.

> At 13 hours of flight duty time, India’s FDTL is already demanding, but after the pandemic slowdown, increased route expansion and pilot shortages have forced many to fly beyond the recommended maximum of 60 hours a week, exacerbating crew exhaustion.

It's not only unsafe for the pilots, but also for the passengers.

> An airline CEO ... claimed the proposed regulations would ... escalate expenses ... By the end of the month ... appeared to have yielded to influence from the airline lobby.

But you know, corporate profits are more important, so lets just keep working people to death.
I use a hybrid approach of .env files and whatever secret manager my cloud platform has available (in this case, AWS Secrets Manager), where anything that's sensitive that needs to be present within the .env file is essentially a macro that gets resolved later by a library I've written.

For example, my .env file may have something like this in it:

DB_PASSWORD = @AWS::db_password

Whenever my library reads a value that begins with `@AWS::`, it knows to resolve (and cache) that value by querying AWS's Secrets Manager at runtime and looking for the config setting set there (`db_password` in this case).

This is nice because I can check-in these .env files since they don't contain anything sensitive, but still gives me the flexibility to hard-code in secrets when working locally in my dev env.
or, you know, it's irrelevant as rent fall because nobody have money and listing increase because everyone is leaving.
MS Azure SQL on is very cheap compared to any other self hosted database including PG and MS SQL. Unless they running a super heavy workload , this solution will meet most business requirements.

But this is also a gateway drug for cloud addiction.
It depends on your definition of domestication. One could easily argue that ants have domesticated aphids so I don’t think the concept depends on the intelligence of the domesticator so much as the symbiotic relationship between species.

However the usual definition of domestication is specific to humans. The aforementioned aphid farming and the octopodes in TFA are technically in mutualistic relationships.
> The 2020 Rental Law ... mandated three-year lease terms and required rent to be paid in pesos—a currency rapidly losing value due to rampant inflation.

> Faced with inflation and rigid restrictions, landlords were hesitant to sign long-term leases. Many either set excessively high rents to hedge against future inflation or withdrew their properties from the rental market altogether. Others opted to sell in U.S. dollars or list them on short-term rental platforms like Airbnb, where they could charge in foreign currencies.
"I hate that we eat a bowl of feces every day, can we switch to something else?

"I want steak!"

"I want salad!"

"I want fish!"

"Alright, well, there's absolutely no agreement, let's stick with the feces."
OK, a better headline might start out "Indian Pilots Are Dying of Tiredness" for one. For those not familiar, crew rest requirements for US professional pilots are spelled out in Title 14 of the Code of Federal Regulations, Section 121:

- At least 9 consecutive hours of rest during the 24-hour period that precedes a flight assignment of less than 8 hours.

- At least 10 consecutive hours of rest during the 24-hour period that precedes a flight assignment of 8-9 hours.

- At least 11 consecutive hours of rest during the 24-hour period that precedes a flight assignment of 9 or more hours.

- At least 24 consecutive hours of rest in any 7 calendar days.

These can be reduced to 8 hours of rest if additional rest is scheduled on the back end.

No pilot may fly more than 1,000 hours a calendar year, 100 hours a calendar month, or 30 hours every 7 days.

I'm not familiar with the rules in the EU or elsewhere in the world.
does 'bi' mean 'olap'?

because the literal expansion 'business intelligence' (or the explanation in the Wikipedia article) is hard to interpret as something that makes sense in contexts like this where you're apparently talking about features of software rather than social practices. the reference to 'bi cubes' makes me think that maybe it means 'olap'?
Can't speak for them, but I have the same experience. The cable connection (either by the buds or by the plug) inevitably fatigues over time through normal use, and soon starts do develop connection issues. Maybe expensive buds are more durable.
He wasn't upended, in fact he states:

> Understanding what kind of tasks LLMs can and cannot reliably solve remains incredibly difficult and unintuitive.

His main point remains.
How about "figure out different solutions that work better for different teams instead of force-fitting everything from three-person startups to enterprise organizations into the same straitjacket of a framework"?
The trust problem here isn't with non-profits in general, it's specifically with Sam Altman. So no, you probably shouldn't trust the next non-profit he is involved with. But also, people have warned about Altman in advance.
At least they're not threatening to sue him if he dares to fix it himself, right?
True, non-profits don't pay taxes on any revenue regardless of expense.

How do you know they had no profit with all of the deals with major companies and having one of the most popular software services in existence? Non-profits can earn profit, they just don't have to pay taxes on those profits and they can't distribute those profits to stakeholders -- it goes back to the business.

They are also a private company, and do not have to report revenue, expenses, or profits.

So yeah, I stand by what I said -- it sounds like fraud. And it deserves an audit.
> there a pretty strict rules around crew (pilot & flight attendant) rest

only because pilots and crew are unionized which allowed them to fight for these; if they weren't you can be sure that conditions would be much worse up until the point of a major air disaster that would put pressure on the airlines
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I'm a game designer. I moonlight teaching it to middle schoolers and adjunct at the university level, and I work on Bloxels, a game design tool.

When I got the itch to make games as a kid (late 80s, early 90s) it was in BASIC and it started with modding existing games (snake, gorillas, hammurabi) and then into making levels for DOOM to play with my friends. Didn't get into "real" coding until the iPhone dropped and I started making my own stuff and switched careers.

Lots of good recs here but here's my take:

- Twine might be just about right based on what you're saying your kiddo is into. It's about the closest thing to hypercard I've found- you string scenes together and with some modest work you can make a great dungeon crawler/choose your own adventure with inventory and variables, etc.

- Gamemaker might be a pretty great place to go after that. Plenty of legit indie games have been made with it. In my experience it's kinda like unity or unreal but less overwhelming. There are plenty of step-by-step "how to make an asteroids game" tuts out there, and based on your kid's interests, you could probably pick one and work through it together.

- Your kid is probably too advanced for scratch at this point, and might get frustrated. I think the Scratch mission is lovely and right, but if I'm 11 years old I want to build "cool stuff" but in Scratch it just takes too long to do that, and the ceiling is too low.

- Everyone who mentioned tabletop is spot-on....if you kid wants to understand how games really work. An exercise you can do is take a video game they like, and make the board game version. Classic example: Mariokart as boardgame. Makes you slow down and think about mechanics, how they combine and interact, player choices- all that. This is stepping up the learning, and pairs well with making stuff.

- Bloxels (which again, full disclosure, I work on) is a game design tool that might be worth a look. We try to have a low-floor (easy for newbs), high ceiling (experts can make cool stuff) and wide walls (big possibility space.) There's logic but no code. The public arcade and builder is here: play.bloxels.com

- Long term: There are SO many interesting things to do with games and in games. I'm excited for you and your kid and where you take it. Being a pretty new medium that comes from computers, it's easy to equate games with coding. But it can be and really is so much more. Have a good time with it.
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Great point, and based on my amateur understanding you’re absolutely correct. I was mostly speaking so confidently because these founding documents in particular define the company as being founded to prevent exactly this.

You’re right that Altman is/will sell it as an unexpected but necessary adaptation to external circumstances, but that’s a hard sell. Potentially not to a court, sadly, but definitely in the public eye. For example:

We are concerned about late-stage AGI development becoming a competitive race without time for adequate safety precautions… We are committed to providing public goods that help society navigate the path to AGI.

From 2018: https://web.archive.org/web/20230714043611/https://openai.co...

And this is the very first paragraph of their founding blog post, from 2015:

OpenAI is a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Our goal is to advance digital intelligence in the way that is most likely to benefit humanity as a whole, unconstrained by a need to generate financial return. Since our research is free from financial obligations, we can better focus on a positive human impact.

https://openai.com/index/introducing-openai/
That seems like a poor comparison.

Recording devices permitted artists to sell more art.

Many of the uses of AI people get most excited about seem to be cutting the expensive human creators out of the equation.
it's similar, but Lisp was rarely "batch first" or "batch only", it was already coming from 100% interactivity and then adding compilation as subsystem. So running code during compilation is the default, for example with Lisp macros, which are normal functions. The software being compiled can add arbitrary code to the compilation environment.

The traditional idea "compiled language" usually means a language designed for mostly batch compilation -> the compiler is not a part of the (potential) execution runtime. "compile time" and "run time" are not the same. In Lisp it is allowed to be the same.
Same point I'm trying to make, but you _absolutely_ win on effect. Well put!
They probably hate Jira for the UI/UX or something similar.

I've worked at places that tried to do project management via worksheets and it's quite a challenge to keep those up-to-date, much less add dynamic connections to different repos for updates, adding new stories/tasks, etc. Jira is a godsend by comparison.
Your employer has been served a cease and desist. Does your legal counsel know you are commenting on the legal matters on social media as an employee? This doesn’t seem like a wise position to put yourself or your employer in.
Reminds me of "If Architects had to work like Programmers".

https://archive.is/r4l6C
What do you love so about PowerBI? I’ve not looked at it very closely. I’ve worked with Tableau and Looker and LookerPro. All of which seemed fine.

Is it a home run if the end users aren’t on Windows or using Excel? I’m thinking about the feature where you can use a SQLServer DB as a data source to Excel.
But it indicates that something is really wrong, right? And that we should all keep noticing that and keep working on a solution?

I think the negative responses are directed at the use of "meh" and the seeming indifference to an actual problem that could really use a solution, even if we don't have a perfect one everybody agrees on yet.
> Indian youth should work 70 hours a week for the nation's development

The nation does ghanta for Indian youth so why should they slave away for people who treat them like crops that regrow every year, and try to extract the highest yield. Every test for good jobs becomes a scam for politically connected kids. Every movement by people to raise wages (like the farmer's movement) is violently put down. The government has no plan, just doing stupid things like cancelling all the currency randomly and causing us all to miss so much work standing in bank lines, then blame us for work not getting done. Absolutely sick of it.
> The World Doesn’t Need More Features

Whereas a PM's job is all about that. We have bloated products. Mostly. Feature packed with FOMO. Incoherent. Inconsistent. Incompatible. But features.
A user from slashdot[0] says having a proper firewall will mitigate the issue:

"Yes, I've read the vulnerability report and have reproduced it. You'll get the details when the agreed upon disclose date arrives.

As for the firewall, just blocking incoming connections it sufficient for protection. On Ubuntu, this should do it: sudo ufw enable"

[0] - https://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=23466721&cid=6481791...
Yep. The issue has never been "Agile" the issue has always been a desire for command and control, leading to a bunch of "sounds good" ideas with lots of side effects.

There's no scope creep with agile, only responding to feedback.
Why wouldn't they, if everyone else is? Bills to pay, etc.

Low level employees are there for the money, not for the drama.
The old farts in power don't care. They will soon be dead anyway (at least if age-reversal research doesn't make serious progress in the next 10 years), so they want one last giant party - no matter how hard it fucks up those who come after them.
For me personally they build a lot of trust back with their work on llama. Also they do have capable software engineers. But hardware is a different thing. I am still burned by their handling of hardware support for Oculus devices. To such a degree that neither VR nor AR is of significant interest anymore, never mind developing software for such products.

That said, I was never a Facebook user. I do have an account and that is that, which I tend to not use in most browser session because of Facebook surveillance.
Isn't that the point though? Should there be an alternative we all agree on? All our situations are different. The whole point of being agile was to not take a one-size-fits-all approach to solution development.
Right, tons of gen AI stuff is super impressive. It's really cool that we can do all this stuff. In this thread we're talking about a fun toy.

But the actual practical applications are like, small useful tools. There's no real sign we're heading for a world-changing trillion dollar industry.
Demonstrating that any set of facts can be twisted to appear to support any narrative.
Even if they are intelligent, they are spineless opportunistic predators who will squeeze their way into anything. Just like octopuses.
Jira isnt agile. IS just bloeatware.

If you need more than a board, and maybe some notifications, you are doing it wrong.
> This one always felt off to me. Humans spent millennia working out the navigation problem.

The point of the original xkcd was that the hard seems easy and the easy seems hard, especially to laypeople. It wasn't particularly about computer vision or LLMs. The exact problem is not the main portion of the observation.
I think you just described SOC2, which your dumb-as-fuck customers will insist you do anyway because their even-dumber-than-that customers insist on it.
Agile is not supposed to make development faster. The core element of being agile (small "a") is to avoid doing work that results in features that are hardly used, not needed, etc. In lean terminology this is called eliminating waste in a process.

Smaller iterations of deliverable work prevents a big up front design and putting in features including UI designs, software designs, coding, tests, QA testing, etc. and then it doesn't get used or has minimal ROI.

JIRA sucks. If you think your issues with delivery are tied to your work tracking system then you're looking at the wrong things.
It was already annoying to disable the (non-ad) screensaver on my (rooted) LG TV, I imagine it won't get any easier.
Elon Musk absolutely has standing, as one of the biggest donors to the nonprofit. I assume he will settle for some ownership in the for-profit, though.
Of the companies you've listed, Microsoft's AI products that are actually useful are all based on GPT-4, and the rest of them don't have any models that are truly on par with it.
i find your questions a little funny as i had this sort of conversation already dozens of times and i know where this is coming from and where it's going. i mean i've been a vegetarian myself for more than a decade (am not anymore) and i took pleasure in leading people who initiated discussions around it ad absurdum.

in germany there was a case of cannibalism many years ago where a guy known by the name Armin Meiwes slaughtered and ate another guy called Bernd-Jürgen Armando Brandes. never got the panic around it given that the whole deal was consensual. other than that you know yourself that society comes up with rules to ensure its stability and survival. eating each other wouldn't fly well from that perspective.
"requires human intervention every 13 miles" is a horrible metric, because it makes it sound it's not so bad until you remember that the moments for intervention are unpredictable and are also when you're just about to die.
If it's illegal, you can simply not pay, and THEY have to fight it in court.

You can also do this if it's legal, but the court might not be favourable to you.
FYI, acronyms are spelled with uppercase letters.
I think Jira is in there just because it is the most used tool. Pick and choose any other tool, if the mindset with the new tool is the same, then we are in the same spot.
The point is that all the prescribed rules pushed down the throat of developers. (e.g. You must have a daily stand up. You must have a story that is no bigger than x Points, you must NEVER roll in our out stories into a sprint once it starts.. and the list goes on and on..The rules - no matter how "small" they are, they are still a big barrier to being agile in the truth sense of the word.
The above are only my observation and my thouhgts, your mile may vary.
Coming from a statically typed background, having Sorbet types in a Ruby/Rails monolithic codebase helps immensely.

I can think of 3.5 ways my productivity is limited:

1. how fast I think: understand problems/come up with solutions - not a bottleneck as I juggle things waiting on (3)

2. how fast I write - this is the least impactful, if you do it right there usually isn't that much to write. Having dependable refactoring tools for a Ruby/Rails codebase would be killer.

3. how fast I

a. test - this has been getting slower
b. ship - the slowest by far, time cycling in reviews, CI/CD pipeline

That is to say don't over-optimize your tools in areas that don't impact the slower parts of your flow.
Corporations don't generally pay sales tax either, if the bean counters can justify the purchase as COGS. There are plenty of accountants who can play fast and loose with what constitutes COGS.
Right, people were trying to 'pay their bills' with content that was freely shared such that AI could take advantage of it. Weird people.

Or we're all talking about and envisioning some specific little subset of artists. I suspect you're trying to pretend that someone with a literal set of paintbrushes living in a shitty loft is somehow having their original artwork stolen by AI despite no high resolution photography of it existing on the internet. I'm not falling for that. Be more specific about which artists are losing their livelihoods.
This is a defeatist attitude. There are plenty of jira alternatives that have fewer problems. There are obvious problems with jira that have gone unaddressed for years. For instance performance is horrendous. I would also remove infinite customization. It’s a sales pitch to executives but doesn’t benefit line managers or people working on tickets.

For my money Linear is just about perfect.
> Hospitals are chalk-full of surgeons, doctors, and nurses that are all overworked, burned out, and half-awake.

This is so true. It is unbelievable how much pressure they are in constantly. This is a high risk for all patients and I don't agree that medical providers are paid enough for the amount of pressure they are under.

I truly think that the corporation structure sucking up money into executives, admins and shareholders needs to be cut down. The share of revenue for "corporation" needs to be much much much lower than share of revenue for actual providers.
I don't want to play a definitions game and dissect word meanings here. I think it's usually a waste of time. That's why I implored folks to just accept a revision in wording in my previous comment. What I intended to convey was this:

1. There were many comments providing criticism that I disagreed with.

2. I felt that the vibe given by the comments at the time was not commensurate with how much utility the tool brought me in my own workflow.

So it seemed useful to point this out. That is, that there was a gap in the commentary that I thought I could fill.

Obviously I won't be using this phrasing again because it spawned off a huge meta sub-thread that I think is generally a huge waste of time and space.

> For the purposes of this discussion, the oddity seems to be the folks jumping to defend the software they had no part in creating. Why does the criticism result in negative feelings for them? I can understand the author taking issue with it, but someone else's criticism should not impact another's ability to utilize the software for whatever purposes.

Again, it cuts both ways. Why isn't it odd for folks to jump in and express criticism of software they had no part in creating? If folks can express negative criticism, then why can't I express positive feedback?

I didn't say people shouldn't make those comments. I said it was unwarranted. Or in other words, that it was undeserved and that I disagreed with it. Or that some balance was appropriate. This has literally nothing to do with my ability to utilize the software. I don't know why you're going down that road.
> I guess technically it's supposed to play some role in making sure OpenAI "benefits humanity". But as we've seen multiple times, whenever that goal clashes with the interests of investors, the latter wins out.

A tale as old as time. Some of us could see it, from afar <says while scratching gray, dusty beard>. Lack of upvotes and excitement does not mean support, but how to account for that in these times? <goes away>
> ask for a new feature that would take ages

You underestimate the level of cooperation that can exist between two tech companies working on each other's proprietary code-bases (where warranted). I'd wager that those agreements won't look too different than with source-available firms.

So, to me, there's no added benefit to source-available; some of these firms want to build a FOSS-like community but also don't want to be FOSS.
Plenty of highly paid people are slacking off as well.
You could put them all in Secrets Manager or Parameter Store, whichever is appropriate for the secret, then have your CI process fetch the secrets and setup your environment. That way, developing locally does not depend on access to AWS Secrets Manager or Parameter Store.