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> think it is probably fair to call Google out as having always been an advertising company

I don't think that's fair unless you can find something that says that was their intent (sibling posts in this thread claim there's actually evidence to the contrary). I don't see the problem with "startup trying to figure out a sustainable business" and leaving it like that. It's not like that's something unprecedented or even unusual.
Huge congratulations team, you were always one of the few Lithuanian companies I'm proud to talk about.

Didžiausi sveikinimai!
Perceived Control
Pardon my shooting from the hip here, but IMO if you're using R for something radically different than statistical analysis and data visualization, you're probably better off using a tool/language that's more purpose-suited.

> As someone who basically uses R as a nice LISP-y scripting language to orchestrate calling low-level compiled code from other languages

When I read this, I think, would `bash` or something equally portable/universally installed work?

R is a beautiful thing when limited to its core uses But in my experience, the more we build away from those core uses, the more brittleness we introduce. I wish the Posit team would focus on the core R experience, resolve some of the hundreds of open issues on its core packages in a timely way [0,1], and just generally play to R's strengths.

[0] https://github.com/rstudio/rmarkdown/issues

[1] https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/issues
Hitler, Stalin and Mao or did you have others in mind?
I think the sweet spot is a somewhat younger dentist that has their own office with a few exam rooms, and avoid the businesses that are multiple dentists. I say somewhat younger because solo dentists seem to mostly buy their equipment once, presumably mortgaging it over decades, and then retire when it's mostly used up. So a younger one is going to have the technical advantages that the older ones don't. I much prefer the newer ones that have digital xray systems and can show you the images on a giant monitor vs the ones that are developing xrays and looking at tiny images. It's amazing how much nicer the newer drills and suction and stuff are too, it's a much nicer experience when everything is battery operated and they aren't dragging hoses and wires across you.
The alternative theory is they are trumping up the numbers in a disingenuous way to make it sound better than it is.
Mine were not impacted but they are the hardest teeth to keep clean as they are so far back in the jaw. I've since had two of them pulled for decay, the other two are still healthy.
New dentist keeps trying to push Invisalign on my family, thinking about switching for that reason alone. Haven't needed braces my whole life and suddenly I'm getting a sales pitch about all the terrible things Invisalign could prevent.
there's a few attempts, templ[0], gomponents[1]. Not for cli apps per se but for web dev.

0: https://github.com/a-h/templ
1: https://github.com/maragudk/gomponents
I use to have a pihole at home to deal with advert. Alas that is now gone. Would highly recommend though.
just because you can doesn't mean you should
The fact that you can never escape the bullying is a huge differentiator from the before times, where coming home after school was a sanctuary (assuming you didn't come from an abusive household).

These days kids are 24/7 connected to what is going on in social media and group chats, and it never goes away.
APL Challenge 2024.4
I wonder if this is also their play to offer some options for generative AI, without necessarily going against their current statements related to Photos where they don’t want to fundamentally change what a photograph is.
I use Gruvbox Dark (hard) wherever I can. I found the community made themes pretty decent for this one.
Can’t say the same about Monokai. I tried a few, but all of them looked different. They didn’t even use same color palette.

Nord looks very nice. But the lack of contrast in its colors makes it a bit too hard to read for me.
Yeah. This thing is "assembling a different transformer" on the spot for each token.

If one thinks about it for more than a moment, it's kind of incredible that it works.
That reminds me of the old 'long S'[1] that used to exist in English and survives in the symbol for integration. That worked in a ſimlar way for writing Engliſh, at the ſtart and middle of words you'd use the long s but not at the end so you end up with 'poſſeſs' for 'possess'. There were other rules around it too, I think you'd always use the usual S for a capital.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
Weird, because the overlap between After Effects and Resolve is insignificantly small. Anyone using AE for post-processing only has been in the wrong app for years already.
Yeah this. Aperture was a mess. Some of the "full" edit tools from Aperture are actually lurking in Photos which is a fairly competent photo editor on macOS surprisingly.

I think they have a chance. I know a couple of professional photographers. One uses Capture One and only for tethering support. The other an ancient copy of Lightroom that was a one time purchase and use that for persistent contract work for one of the larger advertising companies in London. If the price is right and it's good enough, they are probably going to do fine.

I'm an amateur and I want to get off LR because I hate giving Adobe money every month and the damn thing is a fat pig compared to Photomator. Photomator is missing decent dehaze and because I have a shitty little DX mirrorless, I need the denoise and it's not as good as LR is.
I remember when PE took over my dentist’s practice. Before the takeover I went in every six to twelve months, they did their cleaning and on average maybe every two years they found a little something to fix. After the takeover there was a problem with every visit together with a four digit treatment offered. My current dentist is a family practice and now we are back to the old rhythm.
You’re absolutely right, I misremembered the details. Thanks for the correction!
Separation of Concerns in a Bug Tracker
What I said is true even if you believe it is random (which I don't).

Good work output is the smart choice if I will be retained OR if I will be fired. crapping out ignores the fact that the chance of being fired is low, even if it is random (google isnt going to go full twitter, if there even is a layoff). Being the guy who's work goes to shit when a layoff is announced sticks with you if you stay. If your boss is firing based on their subjective impressions OR quantitative ones, it actively hurts your chances.

There are big cognitive distortions at play here at each progressive leap: Randomness exists > Randomness is predominant > Nothing I do matters> It is a good idea to give up.

This is how I think when I am clinically depressed. It is self defeating and self fulfilling.
Influenced Stable Steady State, Negative Affect Reciprocity, and Repair
Yeah, my best dentist experiences have all been with a practice where it's just the owner (or a family operation). Practices where it's a bunch of dentists in some corporate thing never have been as good.
I really don’t know why I stumbled into the comments section on this particular article, but while I’m here I have to commend you on writing perhaps the most thoughtful and eloquent comment I have ever read on HN.
i was clicking around on the site and found an interesting article about other attempts to make cubes more challenging --

https://ruwix.com/twisty-puzzles/bandaged-cube-puzzles/

in particular, "bandaged cubes" in which certain faces have fused blocks to limit your available moves, and "constrained cubes" in which certain faces can only rotate in one direction, and only by a certain amount.
Pixelmator is my favorite photo editing tool. It’s like Photoshop without the baggage/subscription and is perfect for the types of edits I need to do. I’m cautiously optimistic about this acquisition, I almost hope Apple just makes it free as part of the iLife suite (or whatever it’s called now).
Adobe doesn't offer CAD and 3D animation products.
Empirically a monkey did already creat the works of Shakespeare in a mere 13billion years. This is the time it took for the universe to form, earth to evolve to create a monkey that could write all those words down. The entire process from start to finish is way more complicated and random than anyone typing 26 character randomly into the keyboard. But I guess we are talking about uniform distributions here.
KitOps modules are now available on the Daggerverse
this is the syntax for variable binding in ocaml.

Hazel appears to be written in ocaml and mentions being "ml-like" on the site
You’re right, there’s a history.

The reason I remember (I don’t know which of us or both are right) is that modern doctors came out of the “medical”/healing specialty where as dentists came out of the barber/surgeon tradition.

So I believe doctors didn’t want to admit their inferiors (barbers who pull teeth) to the profession and so that’s why dentists were kept out.

Overtime they’ve both grown in parallel since they end up covering a lot of the same things. X-rays, infections, medications + dosages. but dentist still get different training than “real“ doctors.

It does seem like dentistry should probably be a specialty of a normal doctor program at this point, but it’s not for some kind of historical reason as you mentioned.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/24/meta-layo...
Article published on 24th May, layoffs announced in March.

Meta started carrying out the last batch of a three-part round of layoffs on Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the matter, as part of a plan announced in March to eliminate 10,000 roles.
I did a quick test "Best air conditioner by value", comparing Bing and ChatGPT search, and the rankings on the first two pages of Bing vs sources on ChatGPT were about half the same. It's interesting that there is some deviation where ChatGPT isn't blindly trusting the rankings Bing provides and is going deeper into the results to find something more relevant. It's a good improvement over products like Arc Search.

Seeing search enter the space is something that I feel has been seriously needed, as I've slowly replaced Google with ChatGPT. I want quick, terse answers sometimes, not a long conversation, and have hundreds of tiny chats. But there's something scary seeing the results laid out the way they are, which leads me to believe they may be closer to experimenting with ad-based business models, which I could never go back to.
>Do you have an example where funding was given out with zero accountability?

Yes, this article and the whole crisis it references.

Will people be removed from their position? Prosecuted, even? No.

That's what zero accountability means.
I love the Roux method! I just went to a competition this weekend and got my personal record of 9.39 second average with Roux.

The unfortunate part is that beginner tutorials for Roux kind of suck.
What if it becomes another iMovie or Garageband?
How did last months hiring from this thread go? More headcount, not enough candidates?

The legislature in your state and other major markets said to post compensation ranges in the JD, maybe not for companies of your size but it has become very competitive. Would be helpful to know any indication, might save you guys months of interviewing too
How do you know your reasoning is sound?
plenty of people doing motion graphics with Resolve

and now Rive is really taking the 2D world by storm
A Developer's Guide to Large Language Models
This is a small book / guide I've written with the goal of demystifying the details of language models for developers without any ML / neural network experience.
From my perspective, there is a level of understanding within the grasp of most developers that will enable them to build software with drastically new capabilities. This guide is my attempt at bridging that gap in education.
Please share if you find it helpful!
Or there was a parade last year, and the promotions included real footage, but sorta left out the (2023). Happens all the time on HN.

Also, the organisers were busy in another county with a real thing.
She's going in for cleanings. If she's not experiencing problems, what does that tell you about the prognoses she's receiving?
Every time I see this flowchart I get reminded that Slack casually sends half of my notifications to a sleeping/disabled laptop instead of my phone.

I also get reminded that Telegram has one of the simplest notification schemes in existence.
Notify last used device -> If still unread after ~30 seconds notify every logged in device. That's it, dead simple, never missed a TG notification.
> The CPUs aren't cheap, but they don't cost more than the Mac mini.

OEM price for the Intel one is $599, same cost as an M4 Mini. The AMD one is $649.
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Yes, technically it is closer to (T | null) & {__tag: K}, but the context where "equivalent" is used is clearly about practical usage. Option<T> is most similar to T | null in code people actually write on a normal basis.
Oh to be clear I'm not arguing that they're not curse words at all, in fact the increased censorship in high profile spaces like popular video games is evidence they are curse words.
I'm of the opinion that we should instead work on destigmatizing people with mental disorders. I find it descriptive and don't buy into this superpower BS
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The History of Perspective
The abandoning of FCPX after surviving the reputation blow it took during the transition from 7->X is baffling to me. In the mid 2010s it was actually a fantastic NLE, I used it for professional work for a solid decade. When it comes to speed editing there’s just nothing like it. But starting around 2019 or 2020 they just began to let it languish. To say they don’t have feature parity with resolve and premiere is beyond an understatement, whereas they were trailblazing some great stuff previously. Their multi-cam and audio sync’ing was next to none at one time.
> I do know people who think "g-- damn it" is a far worse thing to say than 'fucking piece of shit' for example.

That would be my mother. Hasn't been to church in decades, curses like a sailor, but will never take the lord's name in vain.

Although, maybe with enough time, she will, it took her until she was 60 before she started saying 'fuck.'
I think some of the blame _definitely_ lies with me. No doubt. The only sure fire way I've found that won't cause offence is to offer up a slack call/huddle so that they can hear my tone.

I have been failing quite successfully at communicating my tone over text for some time now, so I confess that and admit it upfront.
It can happen a lot faster with a rigged random number generator:

https://www.pcg-random.org/party-tricks.html
Logic is a weird one. It has really truly excellent included instruments (such as Alchemy) and effects, but the app itself feels rather outdated. The mixer, whilst having had some nice features added since Logic 9, is in dire need of an update.
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I would be shocked if Rive had even 1% of the DAU that After Effects does.
ADHD is one of the most well-researched disorders, and medication is very effective. Removing the "disorder" label would only lead to people not getting the help they need. In Europe it is already an awful situation with psychiatrists completely ignoring your symptoms or using outdated information for diagnosis such as not being able to sit still or say the days of the week backwards (I shit you not, that was a hard requirement that exempted me from diagnosis).

For some reason, neurotypicals really want to normalize our disorder so that we can be exempted from proper medication and treatment because we're just like them but just a little quirky. It makes me very angry to think that instead of just giving people medication, one of the most effective treatments, they'd rather just employ "accommodations" that nobody is going to care about properly implementing, if they even barely help at all.
Can you buy this as a printed book? The design/inspirational quality is exceptional.
Still sad that the Apple-award-winning vector drawing program Lineform all-but vanished. (and don't get me started on Freehand being bought by Adobe which is why I need to find a replacement vector drawing tool)

Cenon is nice, but hasn't seen much updating (but at least, being opensource gets updated as new versions are released).

Inkscape is workable, but still a bit awkward (and I doubt it will ever get all of Freehand's functionality/keyboard shortcuts).

I've been buying Serif's Affinity Designer (and their other apps), but they're still not as comfortable as FH/MX --- wish the Quasado/GraviT folks would get further along.
Wow love pixelmator! Great for team but Uncertain for product.
OS-9 was a gateway for a lot of good developers. Constrained (8/16-Bit) enough to make you think but having a lot of the tools and ideas from mainframe/Unix world.
I haven't had "chip failures" like that for 15+ years. Has hardware gotten more stable?
Level headed take. There’s no secrets to AGI that Altman/Musk/etc know that you or I don’t. The cutting edge research is out of the bag and in the open. They see AGI as an inevitable result of funding continued research in the space. There is most certainly some hubris there as well that they think they are uniquely positioned to be the one to bring it across the line.

Either way, it’s all speculation about the future. I think if we’re being truly honest and objective, transformer models are interesting and occasionally useful, but they are still a very far cry from AGI.

I also think AGI will become marketing term. We’re going to see it lose any meaning as the capitalists try to upsell us and convince us “mission accomplished, we now have the world’s first AGI”, at the nearest convenient moment, if it helps them juice short term profits.
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Logic is still solid, they even added audio stem decomposition in Logic Pro 11 recently.
What's perhaps not obvious is that if you take a 2006 game and "add" raytracing, there's no relevant information available for the raytracer. Whatever original light sources were used to bake in global illumination does not exist in the game assets used for rasterization. In the best case the original art assets can be used to create raytracing scenes, but it's not as straightforward as it might seem, and most conversions are pretty sloppy.

If you want to see what raytracing can do, I'd only look at very, very recent UE5 titles that are designed for raytracing from the ground-up.
ISO C23 Standard Published
The ISO C23 standard got published as ISO/IEC 9899:2024. Public drafts can be found here:
https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/projects#9899