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You are viewing it like an engineer. From a business perspective if you can keep a product stable while growing your user base until you become an attractive acquisition target then this is a great strategy.

Sometimes as an engineer I like the frantically scooping water while we try to scale rapidly because it means leaderships vision is to get an exit for everyone as fast as possible. If leadership said "lets take a step back and spend 3 months stabilizing everything and creating a testing/QA framework" I would know they want to ride it out til the end.
The AI bubble in a nutshell:

* VC asks LLM question it can't possibly answer accurately

* LLM produces vaguely plausible-ish bullshit

* VC insists the bullshit is truth because something something slowly changing blah blah blah

* ????

* PROFIT!!!!
Is this the same/similar invisible character encoding scheme used by Sanity.io CMS?
https://www.sanity.io/docs/stega
It's a bit hard to do that for the people who still care about the movement when the "old nerd" is still on the board of directors.

You make an interesting point though: perhaps the FSF has made its bed and the best solution is to give up on it and rally behind another organization with similar goals. Maybe the 'net interprets Stallman as damage and routes around him.
So why did they release their 2 updates to GPT?
Not convinced that AI is doing things better. And transaction costs in what sense? The US banking system is an international joke, so I'm guessing you're talking the lack of language barrier?
And that's why OpenAI o1 will use chain of thoughts for this particular question rather than hallucinate approximate answer. And it does work just like before by generating token by token.
I wonder if some of the Amiga demos were inspired by her art, they have very similar effects and hers are at least a decade earlier.
Actually, almost every GUI toolkit's scheme for layout has issues, and none of them are perfect.

The ones that use absolute pixel positioning fail when using different resolution displays.

The ones that use box packing fail when you need to deal with different sized displays.

The ones that use constraint programming fail when you need to layout hundreds or thousands of widgets.

CSS-style layout has its own pros and cons, but there is no alternative to it that is clearly better under all circumstances. If you doing layout and want to be resolution-independent, function on everything from phones to giant displays and have thousands of things to layout, CSS is actually likely better than any alternative.
I'm sure that fascination with radiation being cool took a nose dive after the Manhattan Project completed
In the US, I've never had a boss with more the seven.
> Average wages in America’s poorest state, Mississippi, are higher than the averages in Britain, Canada and Germany.

This doesn't sound right.

Googling around, the median income (a much better metric than average) between Mississippi and Germany are about the same.

A huge difference: Britain, Canada and Germany don't have to pay for health care and education. I'm not sure how to factor that in, but something tells me if you do you'll find our Canadian and European friends are doing drastically better than those in Jackson, MS.
Right. Our food lines are merely shorter than those in other countries. Sigh.
Heck yeah! Love the touches like resize handling or rotation support! Contributions are more than welcome... hint hint ;)

> It uses face-api.js to find the face

Yeah, I'm using Google AI's Face Detector [1]. There's Tensorflow's Face Landmarks Detection [2] that looked most promising and accurate. But it had two bugs [3][4] that are blockers. The first one got fixed recently, but the other one is still pending.

[1] https://ai.google.dev/edge/mediapipe/solutions/vision/face_d...

[2] https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs-models/tree/master/face-l...

[3] https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs/issues/7905

[4] https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs/issues/8290
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you sure you understand what grandmaster in chess means?
I was using it today, and any day when there are birds around. It correctly identifies birds you can barely hear. It's become as useful as binoculars to me. A great free app.
Cool product! Still think Joel Spolsky was right that coders and engineers do best when they have an office with a door that closes though. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/19/where-do-these-peo...

I worked on a trading floor for several years - open floorpan is the right way for a trading operation to be set up because the whole nature of the job is to interrupt and be interrupted throughout the day. Not so for data science / AI / engineering work, unless it's a help desk, IMHO...
I don't think vendored copies are a special case or unrelated. For example, Debian does not allow vendored copies of libs. You have to use the version provided by the system, even if it's out of date or not the one you prefer. This explicit disallowing of different code versions also greatly improves security and threat response.

This recently (ish) bit hyprland, because they used a pinned version of wlroots, and the version of wlroots on Debian wouldn't work. And they couldn't just dynamically link to this pinned wlroots because that's still not around.

If the version of wlroots in Debian, hypothetically, contains a vulnerability, then only one change is needed instead of two.

I would argue if you allow static linking you implicitly encourage vendoring. I can't imagine such a distro where static linking is allowed, but there are 0 packages which use different lib commits.
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"anybody ambitious would kill for the kind of opportunities Americans have"

That's probably true for the very ambitious. I think the US doesn't work as well for people who just want to have a decent life.
With my experience now..

I fully accept that programming is purely a mental task. I choose to think with others and then code in my own time. The tasks are now so short that there is literally no space for someone to interrupt.

Everything else is productivity theater.
That's out of date. It was popular for a while. According to YouGov it's Fish and Chips again now. Which was based on something Jewish (and fairly different) but I think we can claim it now.

I do love a chippy tea.
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Discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41704657
What percentage of cars crash now?
Maybe just one feedback item for the site: "Visual Editing" shows up at the top of a few use case pages, and in other spots around the site. When you click on it, it's not very obvious you've been brought to the "enterprise" site. Just a clearly different nav bar on the enterprise pages, or callout badge on Enterprise features would be good.

I feel like a few people could be convinced that visual editing is part of the open source base product, not the enterprise plugins.
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… which was never a problem until we all decided that every single website, no matter how boring or inconsequential, needed to be encrypted.

There is no reason for kozubik.com to be served with SSL … But browser behaviors, and changing social norms force me to do it.
> what if corporate income tax were tied to the logarithm of the number of employees+contractors? What if the corporate income tax increased with the market share in markets served?

Is there a reason for choosing those rather than the simpler alternative of the corporate income tax rate increasing progressively with revenue (as it does for individuals)?
Those other countries' wealth is often mostly composed of the kind of thing that is easy to enjoy as a tourist and hard to enjoy as a resident.

E.g. beautiful real estate that is owned by the same family that owned it hundreds of years ago. An American tourist can rent space there and enjoy but a resident can never hope to earn enough to buy a piece of that.

or amazing public transit, which to a resident is just a commute to work but an American tourist sees the novelty in
Let's not forget:

- US Military patrolling the world's shipping lanes-- with US Citizens & Companies tax dollars directly subsidizing the price of oil & international goods for a significant portion of the world (the prices would be higher without some outside country prividing protection)

- US Military bases-- 750 in 80 countries-- with US Citizens & Companies tax dollars directly subsidizing the security of a significant portion of the world

As an American, I really wish we left the world to their own devices, and paid for their own security and shipping lane protection. The world takes the US for granted. I think we should let them squabble for a few years, then beg us to come back-- when we have them leaning over a barrel, then we charge high fees :P
Which rather importantly means that you still need to find something else to do:

* layout

* event handling

which are not exactly trivial for a "real" application (whatever that means).
Yes. Insufficient money can make you unhappy. After caring for needs, money won't make you happy.
When have you had 21 direct reports?

Some managers like to have weekly 1:1s as an opportunity to check in and for the employee to bring up any problems that might have emerged, ask for help etc. with 21 that’s obviously impossible.

The only management style available is “lol good luck, hope you can manage yourself because I can’t” fine for people who don’t want management intervention, don’t need help promoting, don’t need help learning or tackling the next challenge.
Fine for people who can effectively write their own evals for the manager to rubber stamp.
Not great if anything goes wrong.

Have you ever had an employee who needed a lot of support? Who was going through something tough? Attacking something slightly outside their comfort zone? I guess the answer at Amazon is fire and move on.

You should post an essay on your management style and how you handle the “perfectly reasonable” 21 direct reports situation. I am generally curious.
I saw this here so many times, I guess Amiga demos were really inspired by this
Some more earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41830657
I think that makes sense as a philosophical thought, but do you think it's testable to actually tell us anything about the human condition?

E.g., If motor movement and causal inference are coupled, would you expect a baby born with locked in syndrome to have a limited notion of self?
I edited in scare quotes for "complete" to make that clearer, but I mean in terms of at least having matching blocks/mobs despite many differing details.
What's extra fun is that that insurance only covers treatments to a fairly low amount, just slightly higher than the price of your regular checkups.

(That said, I believe dental issues that are the result of e.g. accidents do get covered by the default care package.)
Some people who actually live in Mississippi do so by choice, ya know, and feel that it's important to contribute to the improvement of the citizenry. But yeah, take the local minimum and compare it, apples to oranges, to a local maxima of a top EU country. Even so, there's still a lot going for Mississippi.
Probably that future co-author will write all of it w/o any attempt to preserve the aesthetic of the original. Probably that future co-author should not just not write anything.
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Actually in the US, real wages increased in the last several years (adjusted for inflation) so actually purchasing power is up on average. The data is always changing, good to keep up to date!
Exactly. If the US economy is 10x larger but 90% of the economy is benefiting only the richest 0.1%, what's the point? Too many mainstream media pieces focus on overall GDP when they should be focused on averages.

The end of the article handwaves away this criticism.

> Many critics of America’s economic model contend that it is intrinsically flawed, beset by extreme inequality and ever-more dominant companies crushing competitors. But these are exaggerations. There may be scope for a fairer distribution of the country’s wealth without undermining America’s growth, but the widely held belief that the top 1% are taking it all is overdone.

Handwaving.

> As for tech behemoths such as Apple and Amazon, their potential for dominance must be watched and, if necessary, curtailed, but it is also true that they have generated incredible value in daily life and shaken up stodgy industries. And they face fierce competition to stay on top.

Where's the fierce competition? Apple and Google have a phone duopoly.

Measuring the economy is not measuring quality of life or health of the population.
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> Shared dependencies were a mistake! There, I said it! I understand that disk space was limited back then and this was a legitimate constraint.

Now it is not disk space, but for instance security that is a major theme. It is so nice to update the shared OpenSSL library and after that just being safe for every application linked to it.

However, it is indeed annoying that some distros (looking at you Arch) don't ship older versions of some shared libraries, like libLLVM. And then you indeed run into "shared library not found" issues.
CRISPR, Yamanaka factors, computational biology, brain computer interfaces, Starship, LLMs... we are nowhere near the top of the tech S curve.
Great point thank you - will add a section on this to the landing page

Indiehost is even more of an abstraction (sign in with cloud provider and we do the rest) vs. Coolify Cloud still requires configuring your servers + resources + understanding of Coolify (e.g. proxies, redirects, ssh keys, backups, etc.)

Of course, the abstraction has its drawbacks (limited control) and I always recommend self-hosting. It's a template for the most common scenarios for new devs/app devs who may shy away from self-hosting for many reasons (takes too much time, not-reliable, fear of the unknown)
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It is not referencing ionizing radiation: it's referring to "RADAR" which was common early marketing for microwaves.

Now, microwave emissions are "radiation" in the scientific sense, but not colloquially.
As another data point it works on my M1 with Safari 17.2
BioClip (referenced in their writeup) is good to know about.

I run a small scale wildlife monitoring program with usually 3 cameras (depending on how many are being repaired for battery terminal corrosion). Each month I skim through and categorize ~200 videos that we've captured. Doesn't take too long, but it would be nice to automate at some point.
What the fork is this guy on about?
I don't know why I know this, but the first five digits of a win95 key were a julian date. Your cd was pressed on the 352nd of 1996, or December 18th.
Reminding all of us how old we are
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The important thing being missed here is that America, unlike the rest of the G7 or China against which it is being compared, is not aging as rapidly.

Take the book with a massive grain of salt, but the mechanisms are well described in The Accidental Superpower.
You'd think The Economist would know better than to use the average there. Stats 101. Geez.
The Economist is a british magazine. It's not triumphalism if they claim that the US is doing better then the rest of the world.
Replace it with any software (or hardware) and vulnerabilities, and you will see how ridiculous your hyperbole is.

Besides, never is a very long time. IIRC Dario Amodei said he expects the behavior of large transformers to be fully understood in 5 years. Which might or might not be BS, but the general point that it won't stay a mystery forever is probably true.
I remember the first CSS I ever wrote was for my NeoPets shop. The tutorial they had on how to do it was full of little britishisms like "I know it's spelled 'colour', but for CSS we use 'color'".
That's a very privileged attitude. Certainly someone already wealthy will not get much more happiness from gaining more wealth, but for many Americans a few thousand dollars could be a life-changing amount of money.
You're talking about the lottery winners, comparing the wealth and opportunities of the top 50,000 Americans to the average joes of the world and overlooking the reality of the other 369,950,000 Americans who have roughly the same quality of life that the people in your country do.

I'm from Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, the poorest location in America. I have memories of my uncles sleeping in the snow, 14 people stuffed into a 2 bedroom home, dirty streets and boredom being the norm, no jobs and what little money was to be had spent across state lines in White Clay for cheap liquor.

There are far more of people like us than there are the people living the lifestyles of the rich and the famous. Don't stab your brother in the back in hopes of being one of them.
Neat trick. Another, similar one, is possible with "xrandr --setmonitor". That doesn't require starting a separate X server & WM instance:

https://askubuntu.com/q/150066#998435

However, both Xephyr/Xnest and "xrandr --setmonitor" create separate non-overlapping screen(s), which means sharing part of a window (say, browser sans chrome [1]) can't be done here, but is possible with OP's tool.

[1] EDIT: "chrome", as in - parts of browser's window other than webpage itself: tabs, URL bar, bookmarks, etc...
Ohhhh...this is so awesome. Fits the most common app usecase for plain HTML+CSS rendering library and not a humongous browser for developing offline apps and its terrific that something like blitz exists.
Then take note of GDP-per-capita growth. The whole of the developed world had to deal with inflation and financial repercussions of covid. What's exceptional is the US recovery and the fact is economic conditions in the US has improved at a more rapid pace.

> young people's expectations of the future are down

Relative to?

> birth rates are down

Absent GDP, this matters because...? The country is growing as a matter of policy through immigration.

> Purchasing power is down

Wages are recovering
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I'm guessing the delays to Apple Intelligence came late in the process and it was supposed to release with the new iPhones? And then they just left hardware plans as-is when the software got delayed.
> Like, a browser that only runs wasm

That's not a browser.

More or less by definition, a browser is an application that can use HTTP (and potentially other protocols) to make requests to other systems and retrieve stuff described using HTML (and possibly other formats).

Sure, a tool that just loads wasm and executes it would be fun (and probably exists, at least for the local case). But it's not a web browser.
> hahahaha! thank you! starting my day with a belly laugh is a great privilege!

That's a really weird reaction. Like, yeah, he's a clown, but he has still made tweets that get discussed in thew news and here on HN.

> doesn't mean I need to hear every idiocy that comes out of his deranged mind.

Elon was just one example. Plenty of other tech people, hackers, politicians etc post important stuff on twitter. I mean, juts search HN for submissions with twitter or x.com as the domain. There is no shortage of submissions, and it beggars belief you have never clicked on one.
The ability of people to actually receive free medical services has certainly been in a downward trend over the last decade or so.
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Any console errors?
So you're telling me "MasterOfPuppets.mp3.exe" could've been legit after all....
"Food chain" is an unreasonable simplification destined to teach some concepts, and not something that exists and can be reasoned about.

(In fact, it's mostly not even used to teach anymore, because it wasn't helpful even for that.)
It's so cool to see humans be hunted. Fear of the monster outside, makes humans care for each other more. Now everything is safer, and we fight between ourselves.
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Had this cart at one point. Unfortunately it and a lot of other valuable N64 carts got stolen when my house was robbed.

At least they left SSB
Ticket can have multiple smaller PRs.

Lots of time it is true that ticket == pr but it is not the law.

It sometimes makes sense to separate subtasks under a ticket but that is only if it makes sense in business context.
I remember how amazed I was that you could do this with the xbox versions of the game. You could save music files to the internal hard drive. Stuff like that made sense to me on the computer, but at that point a console with internal storage was The Future
IMHO this is entirely miss-measurement or miss-characterization.

Probably if you look at dollar gains of stocks, land prices, etc you'll find Americans leading, but look at the actual lives of average people, and they are not so much better off, if at all. In other words it's mostly accounting/financial mirages.
> but something tells me if you do you'll find our Canadian and European friends are doing drastically better than those in Jackson, MS.

This will show a lot of selection bias. Any Europeans with American friends who are in the forum are unlikely to be representative of the median German/Brit.

I have a cousin who is a mid-level manager in a steel plant in southern Illinois near near Missouri and he lives like a petty king. I've known FedEx drivers with lake houses in low cost of living areas. Middle income people in low cost of living states often live quite well in the US.
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Thanks for sharing this. I love tiny projects like this, especially if they’re over engineered.

The job market is rough. I have no doubt you were considered, and they were interested, but everyone is giving their all right now. Someone likely submitted something even cooler, somehow.
Since I don't see moral deficit in the means involved in either example, I don't understand the point of your question.
> It will change some,

I think it can change significantly. The devil is in the details in this case.

> but if the general idea is that people are bad at knowing what they want and avoiding temptation,v

If it's a general idea though, as in you are generalizing, that would mean you are talking about 'most', and not 'some' or 'a lot'.
Its written from the ground up and has a clean foundation (which is not the case in vanilla minecraft server code). We also want to use cool modern features like multi-threading or the rust language which is a modern language designed to fix mistakes from older languages
> The bump in interest rates has cooled things down

This is the actual issue. When ZIRP was introduced (and then RE-introduced, sigh), it makes money appear to be worth almost nothing. Which means everything looks valuable.
Why dont we fix it at the "API" level, then? I.e OpenAPI or Claude's API could do this for everyone. I know some people host their own models, but this would lower the attack surface.
It is if all your customers are in the US.