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I think the misunderstanding is caused by existing of two types of ramen - traditional, good quality is one, and another is instant - bad quality fast food.
If every medium becomes editable like text, i don't see why it should be possible to watermark images or video any easier than text.

Images have the aliasing problem, which is NP-hard, but aliasing gets close to 100% correct after editing an image just by cutting shapes, and throw it in an image generator to create a new one with 99% similarity. In Stable Diffusion XL it need 70% similarity or something like that. The new image will be very similar to the old one with correct aliasing, but edited as much as you like.
From the evolutionary algorithms perspective, the work presented in the article is tremendously ordinary, even formulaic. There’s always somebody publishing a new evolutionary search operator with a flavor of the month biological analogy. The test functions are bog standard, and although they’re designed to present certain difficulties, they do a pretty bad job of resembling actual black box engineering models; their main advantages are fast evaluation and analytically known optima. Your best bet for single objective optimization is probably still CMAES.
With a promotion like "terrible, terrible Jefferson Starship video," I needed to go watch it.

That really was just a completely incoherent mess. But the guys with eyeballs on their heads were there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqLnVgR7fLw
SAL is wildly successful in the Windows world and is basically a contract language embedded in C macros.
They refunded him the money, without a lot of hassle. He toddled into a rough edge, bumped his head, Amazon made it better and apparently gave him a lollipop as well and sent him on his way. I think Amazon should get some credit here.
Given the numbers, the stress, the freedom, the self-actualization, would you still quit Google and take this journey, knowing then what you know now? Do you feel richer or poorer for the experience? What's next for you?
Somewhat tangentially, I will say that Touch ID-based sudo is a real upgrade over password sudo. It still gives you that extra moment to reflect on whether you really want to run that command (unlike passwordless sudo), without being burdensome.
And yet somehow every time they launch a new product they have no problem adding it to their billing code.
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Suicide. 25MB/s download, and they're not even reasonably cheaper than the competition.
User accounts and sudo does auditing of who is doing what. They’re are other ways, sure, but checking auth.log is the simplest.

And while lpadmin users can escalate, I’m more interested in escalations from services like web servers or whatever, running as low priv users. I use sudo to allow scripts running as my web server to run specific limited privileged programs as a simple layer of defence.
I had never thought about how close perception and reasoning are from a computational point of view, the parts of ARC that we call "reasoning" seem to just be operations that the human brain is not predisposed to solve easily.

A very interesting corollary is that the first AGIs might be way better thinkers than humans by default because of how they can seamlessly integrate new programs into their cognition in a perfect symbiosis with computers.
There is a great deal of misinformation on X.

Guardian leaving X is reducing that amount of misinformation.

Countless examples of Guardian contradicting themselves.
In my experience every AWS service I've worked with has an API to destroy the resource, eg destroy RDS instance without backup, terminate EC2, etc. I want it to irrecoverably destroy everything in my account when it hits the limit, no questions asked.
She happily echoes the regime's propaganda, but "ties to Russia" has to mean something more concrete than that.

Care to elaborate?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42130194
Compare

char (*(*x())[5])();

and

var x: pointer to func() pointer to array[5] of pointer to func() char;

or if you wish to replace some keywords with glyphs:

var x: ^func() ^[5] ^func() char;

And it's always a nice puzzle for the reader to explain why there are three "pointer" in cdecl output and three carets in the ALGOL-like declaration, but only two asterisks in the C declaration.
> I suppose you could simulate having a large population by maintaining a set of snapshots, but it still seems like not the same thing as a classic evolutionary technique.

I've got an experiment using this exact technique running on a machine right now, but I wouldn't argue that it is a good alternative for an actual population.

The reason I attempted this is because snapshotting a candidate is an unbelievably cheap operation. You don't have to allocate memory once the snapshot buffer is in place. It's just a bunch of low-level memory block copy operations. I can achieve several million iterations per candidate per hour with this hack, but only at the expense of maintaining a large population.

My conclusions so far are that it is interesting to use a snapshot/restore approach, but it seems to only take you into local minima faster than everything else. Real population diversity is an information theory thing that will implicate memory bandwidth, et. al., and slow things down by 3-4 OOM from where we'd prefer to be.
Which WASM features does CheerpX use? GC, BMO, Branch Hinting, Relaxed SIMD, Threads, Memory64?
Of course there is. If someone hits their spending limit, asynchronously shut off the services (using the same API call that your customers can use, so no need to alter the system).

Then apply the hard limit in the billing code. If it took a minute or two to shut off all the instances, maybe the customer's bill should have been $1.001M instead of $1M, but cap the bill to $1M anyway. Given their profit margins of x,000% I think they can afford the lost pennies.
if you have a couple projects making a couple thousands a months, you could still open one company to manage those projects
“All the people flocking to Bluesky — were you outraged at the Covid censorship and Hunter Biden laptop election interference in October 2020?”

And the same gaslighting was echoed here on HN as well, don’t hold your breath for any such acknowledgement though.
There aren't enough of those specialized shops to make a difference. Certainly not enough to present a sizeable disadvantage for Apple. If anything, not being in the Apple Store presents a sizeable disadvantage for Sony.
You’re running desktop Linux - your whole system is permanently in “developer mode”. That’s kind of the point? Windows and macOS don’t have “developer mode” either, at least not to the extent seen in the mobile OSes.

They’re very different models of computing.
I'm just not the party type
I really appreciate how straightforward your replies are
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Financing. Germany doesn't have financiers with a "we'll figure out how to monetize it later" mindset. B2B is seen as safer that way than B2C.
I don't think there is a huge difference: you can implement stackful coroutines via heap allocated frames a-la scheme that look a lot like separately suspended stackless coroutines. Conversely you can combine chains of stackless coroutines waiting on each other in a single object (I think rust is for example capable of this in principle).

Semantically the biggest difference is that stackless coroutines typically require yield points to be marked syntactically in code.
> What a ridiculous point. AWS achieves non-trivial things at scale all the time, and brag about it too.

Many companies achieve non-trivial things at scale. Pretty much every good engineer I speak to will list out all the incredibly challenging thing they did. And follow it up with "however, this component in Billing is 100x more difficult than that!"

I've worked in Billing and I'd say a huge number of issues come from the business logic. When you add a feature after-the-fact, you'll find a lot of technical and business blockers that prevent you doing the most obvious path. I strongly suspect AWS realised they passed this point of no return some time ago and now the effort to implement it vastly outweighs any return they'd ever hope to see.

And, let's be honest, there will be no possible implementation of this that will satisfy even a significant minority of the people demanding this feature. Everyone things they're saying the same thing but the second you dig into the detail and the use-case, everyone will expect something slightly (but critically) different.
Are you sure it's supposed to be "Mandela effect"?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42130194
Write on paper. Get time outside. Lift heavy circles.
Living on ramen by choice? Sure, you do you.

But living on ramen + $12k/year + no healthcare + collapsing floor? That's sounding a lot like poverty to me.
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When the character David Lightman in the movie Wargames used a modem to let his computer talk to another computer; it was already at least two decades old technology.
There's only so and so much you can practice in front of a mirror. Tell yourself a thousand times "I won't panic in a social setting" and you've made zero progress.

Expose yourself to a social setting twice, panic the first time immediately, panic the second time only an hour into the occasion, and you have made progress.

Being affected by social anxiety myself, I wouldn't say there's a "cure". But one can learn to get used to the panic, can learn to "grade" it from unjustified and harmless to "it's better to leave now". Keep doing it, try different settings. It's not really worse than learning to walk. The first steps are wobbly, you cry when you fall, but you get better at it over time.
I think the real issue is, those execs don't care if their idealogy is sus. They don't have to. They're rich. The only way humans will ever be free is if they shake off the shackles of billionaire worship.
I used ChatGPT to create a custom skin routine. These are the two month results
What about a possible future with a programming language designed from the beginning with AI in mind? It's fun to think about what that might even look like.
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Sometimes I feel like you guys live in alternative universe. Nothing about the "bad" interview sounded too atypical. Sure it's annoying, but not uncommon enough to be exceptional.

I don't mean to discount anyone's unpleasantness but you'd be surprised how much worse the rest of the world is.
Every once in awhile I see an 80s video or movie, and remember: yeah, wow, people really did have giant hair back then.
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This!

As win/mac user Visual Studio is my preferred tool, but in MacOS Clion (with vscode for few random workflow things not supported in Clion) is an adequate replacement (but Visual Studio remains king).

VSCode can be used as an industrial editor if one likes to, but if it does not feel right, it’s not a skill issue.
I actually have ps4 discs, which got me a free upgrade to the ps5 version. Credit to CDProjekt when it's due.

I now do have a desktop with windows and a geforce 4060, so i should be fine.

I just need to figure out which edition to get on Windows. Because as a negative credit, I had Witcher 3 and both addons and I never got access to the super duper whatever edition on GoG, in spite of actually having already paid for the content.

I'll one day figure out which is the super duper whatever Cyberpunk edition, add it to my wish list and wait for a sale.
WMDs was referring to the lies USA told to invade Iraq.
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Meet Wi-Fi 8, which will trade speed for a more reliable experience
What does a ban on gig working look like?
It's very strange this got so few upvotes. The scoop by The Information a few days ago, which came to similar conclusions, was also ignored on HN. This is arguably rather big news.
a^nb^n is regular, but it is also context free. I don't think there's a restriction on the n. Why do you say this?

Edit: sorry, I read "finite" as "infinite" :0 But n can be infinite and a^nb^n is still regular, and also context free. To be clear, the Chomskky Hierarchy of formal languages goes like this:

Finite ⊆ Regular ⊆ Context-Free ⊆ Context-Sensitive ⊆ Recursively Enumerable

That's because formal languages are identified with the automata that accept them and when an automaton accepts e.g. the Recursively Enumerable languages, then it also accepts the context-sensitive languages, and so on all the way down to the finite languages. One way to think of this is that an automaton is "powerful enough" to recognise the set of strings that make up a language.
Good shout — I may have to look into this.
Thank you for laying these out. And thank you for all the work you've done to make my tiny niche workflow possible.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11bn
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> how come it is still so primitive that you do not even get to know the location of the issue?

The link kind of explains why this was a difficult problem, but I think it's worth a moment to consider why this particular difficult problem just wasn't solved. Why was Apple OK with just shrugging, eh, it's hard ?

This is a Quality of Implementation issue. Quality is truly important but because Quality is hard to turn into a metric you'll see management don't like to make it a goal, after all they can't really measure if they succeeded and so when it is competing with other things which are goals it's just abandoned.
GPT-based isn’t really a thing outside of openai (it’s just the commercial name for their models)

But I believe we’re confident that all major models are causal transformer models right now.

No reason to believe otherwise. If one of them was doing something different, they’d let us know in order to stand out.
Right there in the first paragraph: “At the time, Starship's most famous member, singer Grace Slick, was 46.”

Grace Slick was born in 1939, so she was among the oldest of her cohort already in the Sixties. She’s one of the strangest things about pop history for me, right up there with Debbie Harry being over thirty when Blondie hit it big, and Stuart Murdoch being accepted by Glasgow hipster circles well into his late 30s. Pop music is so youth-centered, and that youth audience has often been highly suspicious and deprecating of people much older than them, that it baffles me that these performers still flourished.
Yes, all finite languages are regular.

Specifically, you can construct a finite automata to represent it.
That's kind of the point, the "typical" experience is actually pretty bad for job hunters
>I can second Vancouver, and will raise you any big city in the USA

I'll reraise you any decent size college town in the US as well.

Heck, I'm in Iowa and there's plenty of raves in the middle of nowhere here.
a commercial product along the same lines is KOMP https://komp.family/en/. We had it to communicate with our elderly grandparents until they died. Its a bit like a senior accessible social network feed for the family, including its dynamics, because the app shows what is being shown to everybody else of the family. In that regard it's a disadvantage you have some of the same dynamics going on. You dont only communicate to the grandparents, but also to the (extended) family.
Thank you, you make an excellent point! I very much agree, and I think the idea of two exams is very interesting. The analogy to calculators feels very good, and is very much worth a try!
Nonsense. The worst song of all time is "Wonderful Christmastime" by Paul McCartney.

(Don't believe me? Listen for yourself: https://youtu.be/94Ye-3C1FC8)
I'm flagging it just because the website is not readable at all, even with an adblocker. The content is completely blocked with popups.
I don't consume Russian propaganda. The information i get is from US Military personnel. And also written records by US and Western Officials over the last 20 years.

How do u know u haven't been duped by Western propoganda.
The announcement by America's Finest News Source: https://theonion.com/heres-why-i-decided-to-buy-infowars/

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all of these posts make me feel grateful that i've been able to pick up work. it also makes me wonder what i'm doing right and what all of these bloggers are doing wrong. bloggers are clearly good at marketing and communicating what they can do for a company, which is what a lot of software developers struggle with.
It's not giant when everyone is doing it: it's just normal.

And what do you have against letting your soul glo? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=961x0NmyHKE
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I absolutely thought that is was dubbing after watching the video and not paying close attention. This seems like 2010s tech and my expectations in 2024 are so much higher.
Exactly. I just want to talk to my relatives in real time. How do I sign up? No idea.
Software engineers are used to companies fighting over them. Now we're in a market where it's normal to have lots of experience yet be unemployed for months. So it's a shock for many (though not atypical when compared to plenty of other fields of knowledge work, as you note).
Yeah well what do recruiters know about software development?

They just know the keywords the EMs and C suite sent them in the headcount request.
Unless rents are going up - in which case, a renter moving out means you can charge the next person enough to cover the apartment sitting empty for a month.

(That's assuming apartments even stay empty that long; when we were searching, we almost always had to commit to an apartment the day of the showing, or it'd be off the market the next day. Apartments seem to stay empty long enough for the required cleaning and maintenance to take place - and sometimes barely even that long, we've viewed apartments that were being actively worked on.)
>>How do you know if it’s correct when you never learned the “correct” way and you’re just blindly believing the tool?

This is just splitting hairs. People who use calculators interpret it in only one way. You are making a different and a more broad argument that words/symbols can have various meanings, hence anything can be interpreted in many ways.

While these are fun arguments to be made. They are not relevant to practical use of the calculator or LLMs.
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At least in this chat, there's no hidden ASCII smuggling.
They're probably doing the same thing humans on our earth were doing for centuries until ~1600. Surviving. Given how cruel nature is I think we're lucky to have the resources to do more than just survive, to build up all this crazy technology we don't strictly need to live, just for fun/profit.
Lots of games in that era just put the game data as track 1 and then filled the rest of the disc with audio tracks, so that they could command the disc player to handle all playback for them

Rock raiders too
> * Diversity hiring: Big US/EU companies are trying to hire more females here because cost is low and they can show great diversity numbers. It hurts when you see posh privileged urban women having much more chance of getting into a good company than a man who worked his way up through sacrifice.

do you have any examples of this happening? or is this just a boogie man?

my experience has been different: so many mediocre men in this industry. all of the women i've worked with have been brilliant.
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Depends what you’re trying to do. I’m writing a personal assistant app (speech to text) and want to classify the user input according to the current actions I support (or don’t). The flagship LLMs are pretty great at it if you include the classes in the prompt and they will spit out structured output every time. But, man, they are expensive and there’s the privacy aspect I’d prefer to adhere to. I’ve only got 24 GB of RAM, so I can’t run too many fancy local models and things like llama3.1:8b don’t classify very well.

So I’m trying BERT models out :)
The information i get is from US Military personnel.

Tell us more about what you've been hearing, please.

Especially as regards this topic.
Sign of our times -- starship more popular than airplane
>"Layin' it on the Line"

Damn that song is great! Seems to have an anti-war message too.
Reading the article didn't give me any confidence it's actually real/true. Which could be seen as a compliment.
I thought they renamed it Urectum?
The real value of Firefox is to have a serious browser vendor that is not wholly owned by a FAANG company, and it still to some extent focused on the user's needs rather than its parent company's agenda. Having a third browser engine which is neither WebKit or Blink is a win too.

Implementation diversity is absolutely essential to an open-standards based Web, and right now the Web is pretty much the only open channel for pretty much all of human discourse.

Having said which, Mozilla is in real trouble, and desparately need to sort out their business model.
Ask HN: Those who have burned out on Cloud/DevOps work, what do you do now?
The title is the question, and I wanted to probe the community a bit on this.

I have been a software engineer in some capacity for the last 15 years. I started as a glorified WordPress administrator, moved to backend development, then ended up in the cloud spending my days fighting with Kubernetes, AWS, and CI/CD pipelines that would sicken Rube Goldberg. The things I did all day became so far detached from what originally got me interested in computers, and I voluntarily made myself unemployed to save my mental health. With the benefit of time and hindsight, I'm not entirely convinced that I want to return to software at all.

I suspect that, if you are the sort of person who was burned out by the cloud, you know exactly where I'm coming from, how I feel, and why I made the choice that I made. We would probably have much to discuss if we ever crossed paths at a bar.

So my question: If you have burned out on cloud development or a similar field and abandoned that path entirely, what did you end up switching to? I would be even more interested in hearing cases where you moved to an entire different industry or discipline.

Thanks!
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Right, but certain careers have figured out that women are, on average, better at the socialization game and thus, broadly speaking, a better fit for the job. Ain't nobody "diversity" hiring on the oil rigs or other jobs where the physical act is more important than interpersonal interaction.

However, it is difficult to measure those positive traits for what they are, so employers are selecting based on gender hoping for positive correlation. But that's illegal, so "diversity" hiring was created as a scapegoat to help avoid legal fire.
Not sure if this is true or just another Onion article.
Perfectly balanced, as all things should be. Thanks, Tim Onion.

https://bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3law23r...