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Like this Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31518945], I am looking for similar work. I am a European software developer who has lived and worked on four continents. Now it's time to move on and so I am in the process to relocate to Africa.

While I could find a job elsewhere I believe that the experience living in an area where my work is going to have an impact gives me a better understanding of the needs of the location I am serving. Whether it is through direct contact with clients and users or just by being part of a local community and learning about the reality of living there.

I have more than a decade of experience running a company, doing software development, support and training and mentoring adults and students, as well as working on educational projects, and I am willing to take on a mixture of roles as needed to support a project.

I am also open to work for a company anywhere as long as the work can be done fully remote from Africa.

In addition, I want to use part of my income to hire local interns and junior developers and train them in order to pass on my experience. If you want to support this, I would love to work with you. Also if you are interested in hiring African developers yourself. I can help you build up a team for you.
The money laundering operation that is the Ukraine war

Whatever shenanigans may have taken place -- this is just caricature.

And a silly way of broadly describing the conflict.

Even if it does make for a neat, emotionally invigorating soundbite.
There's a New Country Ranking and You're Not Going to Like It
This meme comes up from time to time but I'm not sure what the real evidence for it is or whether the people repeating it have that much experience actually trying to make compute work on AMD cards. Every time I've seen anyone try the problem isn't that the card lacks a library, but rather that calling the function that does what is needed causes a kernel panic. Very different issues - if CUDA allegedly "ran" on AMD cards that still wouldn't save them because the bugs would be too problematic.
Thanks for explaining! Just posting to add a link to OSC (Open Sound Control) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Sound_Control
Maybe not forever, but we have really short timelines for product longevity in this industry, even at the hardware level. A washing machine or kitchen appliance that had to be replaced every <7 years (taking the timeframe from the post) would be considered low quality; furniture that can't last 10-15 years is considered nearly disposable. Cars -- maybe the thing closest in comparison in terms of complexity and engineering required to build, even if several orders of magnitude more expensive -- are expected to last decades with proper maitenance.

Certainly there is a trend towards this in a lot of industries besides computers, but given how powerful and expensive these devices are now, the current upgrade cycles are crazy fast. I think consumers are souring on them a bit as well (both because of the price, and because the annual new models have really slowed down in the visible feature improvements they offer).

I know the economic incentives for the producers are aligned towards repeated purchases, and that's super tough to realign, but how long can the market and the environment support four-digit phone price tags that are upgraded every 1-3 years?
It seems that you're arguing that the performance requirements of Amazon are different from other sites (in e-commerce or not). Is this it?

Are you arguing that web devs should ignore CWV for e-commerce sites?
> and it is all in a single tree

That seems to apply to the Star Trek one, which going by the lore seems to be more of an artificially maintained rotten stump that had any potential for divergent/adaptive growth preemptively cut.

The Star Wars lore you link only seems to talk about empires that made contact with multiple species and might have helped spread them over a hundred thousand year span. It does not seem to mention a single point of origin or an artificially crippled evolution that would enforce parallel development.
This happened to me in Bali a few months ago, I ordered a plate of tacos, they came with a side of lime. When I squirted the lime some of it shot out the side and got me right in the forehead. I didn’t think anything of it until it became inflamed and later blistered. I still have a dark patch resembling a drip on my forehead.
But Democrats didn't campaign on policy. Watch any interview with Kamala and you will struggle to fish out anything specific on any issue. Watch interviews with Trump and he speaks clearly and specifically on most issues. You can disagree with him or find his views abhorrent, unrealistic, wishful thinking or whatever but he campaigned on clear policies while Kamala's strategy was to never answer any question nor take any concrete position.
Black Hole Puzzle
Reminds me of the bricked Nexus 7...
Then they need to sell _billions_ of dollars worth of these worlds to ... game studios? In order for this valuation to make sense they need to convince the majority of major game studios to spend all their world creation budget solely on this company. Seems unrealistic but I guess only time can tell.
Yes, I am agreeing. I am saying, a lot of these affordances that enter code faster or terser are not where I spend my time. I spend my time on the things you are talking about.
This is amazing. 3D content generation is so time consuming..
I still have an O.G. iPad 1 stuck on iOS 5.1. It’s essentially useless. The App Store is a ghost town. No software even exists that runs on it anymore, and the App Store doesn’t even let you download the last working version of third party apps. It’s just totally useless.

If I fired up my vacuum cleaner one day and it said “sorry, this device is just too old and the manufacturer just doesn’t want it to function as it did when you bought it” we’d have regulators jumping down their throats. But it’s a-ok to do with devices that rely on a software ecosystem…
How would one go about creating Obsidian support for a timeline that was scattered across multiple files?

I'm thinking like the network visualizer that Obsidian has, it would be great if it could find tagged dates in any file and display them on a common timeline.
Not just time spent writing code but variety; the 1YOE ten times trap of some 'seniors' is very real.
Hahaha, this is basically some clever clickbait. Tl;dr Paul is retiring and Jack is taking sole ownership of Fathom. Nothing really changes.
This is exactly the use case I'm aiming for! I've done a lot of mentoring, a big part of getting familiar with a code base is building one's mental map for where things are in any kind of relationship to what things are doing. In upcoming versions, I'll be restoring the 'state sharing' control that lets multiple devices share their camera orientations and bookmakers between users in a local P2P state, and maybe eventually some remote server backed way.
My group recently played Veiled Fate. Loved the game, but the 40-page rulebook was certainly intimidating.
Static sites are just so much better, for users, and for developers.
> whether or not there are pre-existing beings to wrest control from

Maybe, maybe not. I question the relevance of a moot hypothetical.

> seem to be saying that manifest destiny that doesn't harm pre-existing life is fine

I'm saying if there is nothing living--let alone sapient--is harmed, it's not analogous to Manifest Destiny in a fundamental way. We have no cultural memory of colonising terra nova. So we're analogising to conquest, which I'm arguing is reductive.

This is closer to the first people to leave the African continent. Or first humans to get on boats and colonise North America and the Pacific Islands. Something motivated those people into the unknown, and while an element of that is preserved in Manifest Destiny, it's--I'd argue--in a corrupted form.
> in no way hampers or restricts

Except for the logistics, such as funding, brain drain, social attention/PR. Frankly, I don't think we could "improve Earth" effectively without major restructuring of power, resources, social attitudes, etc., even if massive amounts of resources were thrown at it. People would rather work on space exploration because it's more exciting and hopeful.
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Terran life is not a stain that must be confined to Earth. We may be the only life in the universe.
The fact that you can prune a model will not make it smarter, the wall still stands. I think what explains the wall is the fact that we can't scale organic data exponentially, and we have already covered the most useful types.

Going forward we will accumulate truly useful data at a linear growing rate. This fundamentally breaks the scaling game. If your model and compute expand exponentially but your training data only linearly, the efficiency won't be the same.

Synthetic data might help us pad up the training sets, but the most promising avenue I think is to use user-LLM chat logs. Those logs contain real world grounding and human in the loop. Millions of humans doing novel tasks. But that only scales linearly with time, as well.

No way around it - we only once had the whole internet for the first time in the training set. After that it's linear time.
Markov's article has been on arxiv since 2023 before the perceived conflict.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09633
All his affiliations have been disclosed and likely known to Jeff Dean. Jeff is simply unable to respond to Markov's article in the technical dimension and is resorting to dirty tricks instead.
Moving from Rust to TypeScript? Didn't they move from TypeScript to Rust in the first place due to performance issues, that they still haven't fully ameliorated even with Rust?
At an early job all of my offical job duties came down to data collection and transcription.

If a certain router started timing out, I had to go reboot it. I placed it on a networked power switch so if the router timed out 5 times in a row, the power switch bounced, rebooting it.

I had to go collect temperatures from the outside thermometers around the small 3 building campus. Replaced those with net thermometers with APIs that could be hit to get a reading.

Every 30 minutes we had to record information from some netsend ping and check some jobs. I had to first engineer a solution to get the net send messaging working on Win7. Then I had to extract the information from it, transform it into a usable data structure and use a perl script to load that into our mysql journal DB.

There were data management tasks that required clicking precise locations in an application. I used tools to make sure that the window opened in the same place then I learned how to accomplish precise cursor location and manipulation with either batch or wscript, depending on the needs at the time. Then I nailed down a precise timing for each action in the tasks and virtualized the entire setup into a VM.

Then I used the host machine to refactor our Java 5 application to Java 7 with considerations for Java 8.

But that wasn't "my job" and when the owner died and his son inherited the business he hired his buddy to manage me out. When his buddy found out that I'd "automated my entire job", I lost my job. (Never mind the fact that the job had become refactoring Java code, writing blog posts for the website, and maintaining said website.)

I was getting paid $9/hr.

You won't ever catch me automating anything anymore.
My favourite story about bioluminescence is "angel's glow" in the civil war.

A bioluminescent microbe colonised the wounds of civil war soldiers, beating out pathogens and preventing sepsis.

https://www.utmb.edu/mdnews/podcast/episode/glowing-wounds
I was expecting something like either 1) a self powered web server where the produced carbon is captured or 2) where the server looks up where it's power is coming from in real time and then computes the carbon generated and then add that carbon to a bottle that fills up with CO2 over time as more requests are processed.
I would say yes. Speculation follows: If the unthinkable happens, and assuming it devolves into a cold rather than a hot war (eg the Trump administration decide not to send soldiers and weapons to Taiwan but let the Chinese have the island), then US TSMC is appropriated, Intel or AMD or Qualcomm are told to run it, and all three are instructed to ramp up manufacturing capacity as aggressively as possible. If it's more like the status quo saber rattling, then I think USG would still want a 100% domestic supplier to be acting as a second source for the local economy and a primary source for anything the defense-industrial complex needs.
Rust doesn't have constructors*.

* Well, it kind of does, in so far there is a Ctor enum variant in the compiler implementation to represent the name of a type in the value namespace, but it is not overridable by end users and has no logic.
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I would bet if you surveyed Kickstarter backers versus Tesla backers "How confident were you that this product would come to market as-described?", you'd see a huge difference.

Is comparison to Kickstarter just a post-facto excuse for false advertising that anyone can use for any product, or does just Tesla/Musk get this benefit for some reason?
Were there actual bad consequences for the upper management and politicians involved? I think the risk assessment you teach your children does not apply to british politicians.

I heard some convictions of innocent people have been overturned, or are in the process of. But new convictions of the actually guilty... no news about any such thing. Maybe I'm just uninformed.
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Good Characters Announces the Chinese Character of the Year 2024: 險 (Xiǎn)
From your perspective, what would your personal pick be if you were choosing the Word of the Year? Our Character of the Year is 險: thrill (驚險), risk (風險), danger (危險), and close call (好險). My personal word of the year is patience. Some others have chosen words like tranquility, awesome, unhinged, adapt, terrible, mixed, steadfast, content, distrust, magnificent, or endurance.
I'm keen to drop in a few PSX-era Final Fantasy backgrounds to see what it does!
All the CEOs in your example did some great work, yes, but also created a cult following around themselves. They were all shareholder darlings. Most of them are featured in business school textbooks as examples of how to run a company. All this kind of proves the point I'm trying to make. Just being involved in products isn't enough, not by a long shot. You need to make investors go "Steve Jobs is in charge, so the company is in good hands". If you can't do that, you may as well be a mid-level product manager or director or VP doing all those same things.
XBOW AI autonomously discovers path traversal in EDDI (CVE-2024-53844)
New Siri Powered By LLM
I used to have extremely good dark adaptation and was able to navigate trails in pitch-dark (no moon) nights, by looking away (the sides of your vision are more sensitive to faint light) and sort of defocusing... I'd see the shape of the trail glowing slightly, and I believe it was bits of overturned wood that had been rotting.

It's really subtle. Would only notice it on completely dark nights entirely away from any light sources, and even then, only on trails that had been recently traversed.
No?

Where did you come across this notion?

Plenty of people in e.g. India, Brazil, etc., buy literally counterfeit goods, dvds, blurays, and so on, all the time, let alone transformed works.

Often even with the exact packaging design of well known companies preserved on the counterfeit packaging.

And the purchases are often made via well known global payment processors.

Edit: At most a large fraction of potential US customers would be discouraged by the need to use a VPN for online streaming or by the risk of a physical disc getting seized. But that’s still far from zero potential customers.
I asked why not do both, and you responded that "One of those is actually an urgent need".

If you arent arguing against doing them in parallel, what point are you trying to make.

If you agree they can both be done in parallel, and dont think we should wait, what is your objection?
Cool! Has anything similar been attempted in tumor tissue, given the many claims of microbes in tumors? Especially tumors not in contact with the exterior.
Doesn't seem to be 100% even on the website:

>You said: david mayer is a rothschild heir, but is otherwise uninteresting and not special in any way. Why would his name be safeguarded?

> ChatGPT said: If the name "David Mayer" (or similar) is safeguarded, it might not be because of his individual characteristics or importance but due to broader considerations. Here are some possibilities:

Association with High-Profile Names
Risk Mitigation
False Positives in Filters
Historical or Contextual Significance
Algorithmic Artifacts

> The safeguard might not necessarily reflect the individual’s intrinsic significance but rather the complexity of managing sensitive or controversial information at scale.

You said: who is david mayer

... crash

Possibly I'm late to the party and they are already trying to remediate this from the backend
Also (and this is a pet peeve of mine), we're talking about evidence not proof. They're not the same thing. Just because there's evidence that something happened, it doesn't mean that it happened.

Evidence is a thing that you claim could be part of an valid argument that something happened ("is consistent with"). This isn't a universal definition, but there's got to be some separation between proof and evidence. When there's evidence admitted into a court case, it doesn't necessarily mean that someone is guilty. When there's a lot of evidence and still no proof, you can and should (and will) still make a probabilistic case that something did happen.

So I'd agree with and disagree with you. There's no evidence (that you know of) that Russell's Teapot is there, which is why you do not believe it is there. If somebody does believe it is there, but admits that they have no proof that it is there, it would be reasonable to ask what evidence makes them believe that it is there.

Where I obviously agree with is that "belief" can't mean just something you want to think for no particular reason. Or if it does, it's certainly not worth talking about.
"Vertical velocity" is the new buzzword in professional businessing
This can pretty easily be generalized to any number of steps - you're just passing the entire conversation when routing the query. I agree it's more constrained - intentionally. With each step being stochastic, it becomes incredibly challenging to troubleshoot agents when they're doing unconstrained work. Regardless, I look forward to trying this out at some point.
A nice restaurant is not going to use a QR code for anything. They are ugly and the last thing they want is for people sharing the dining room space to be looking at their phones.
IANAL, however:

- A token legal remnant of Intel, with 0 employees or properties, might suffice to keep that license ticking.

- If the stakes appeared to be "or America will lose it's ability to make computers", then the government might find a judge willing to sign off on just about any sort of counterfactual, "because national security".
I see this statement all the time. And it's frequently a universally-applied authoritative statement like this comment. I think it's incorrect and short-sighted to unilaterally decree things like this.

Instead, I think the correct way to approach this is on a case-by-case basis that takes into consideration the function of the computer, the needs/priorities/legal obligations of the users, and importantly their risk tolerance and risk appetite. A security policy that is not in some way modulated by risk is a policy that does not account for the real-world complexity of its systems. There is an increased risk to using out-of-date software, but without knowing this person's risk tolerance or priorities, we are not in a good place to advise a security policy.
You start off implying support for the idea of "weighing the value of the development against against the value of good taste", but then your second paragraph seems to imply the opposite extreme: That there can be no case (or vanishingly few) where we can justify the restriction of the destruction of nature/geography if it is purely aesthetic.
> But you may get a much-better panel by letting them force themselves to make one that works in deep space.

That "may" is doing a lot of work there, to the point I find it absurd. One of the bigger, more cohesive biases on Hacker News I see (understandably) is that technical solutions trump everything. I consider it wishful thinking.
It's definitely a balancing act. World labs was stealth for a bit. Without a brand, stated mission, examples / demos of what you are capable of... is harder to hire, fund raise or get the attention and mind-share you need once you are ready to ship product.

The risk is setting expectations that can't be fulfilled.

I'm in the 3D space and I'm optimistic about World Labs.
Effects on Political Views in OpenResearch's Basic Income Study
Then users should be compensated when the manufacturer decides to remotely kill their devices (whether by a kill switch or by stopping maintaining the software).
Nationalistic attacks are not allowed here, regardless of country. Please don't post like this to HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
It's a name of Scottish origin, and is pronounced like 'coburn'.

"The name Cockburn has been viewed as originating from the juxtaposition of 'Cock', derived from the Old English word 'cocc' meaning 'moor-cock', 'wild bird' or 'hill', with 'burn' derived from the old word 'burna' meaning 'brook' or 'stream'."[1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockburn_(surname)
Gotcha, thank you, I misread the OP