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I am biased because I built the rust SDK for dagger. But I think it is a real step forward for CI. Is it perfect? Nope. But it allows fixing a lot of the shortcomings the author has.

Pros:

- pipeline as code, write it as golang, python, typescript or a mix of thr above.

- Really fast once cached

- Use your languages library for code sharing, versioning and testing

- Runs everywhere local, ci etc. Easy to change from github actions to something else.

Cons:

- Slow on the first run. Lots of pulling of docker images

- The DSL and modules can feel foreign initially.

- Modules are definitely a framework, I prefer just building having a binary I can ship (which is why the rust SDK doesnt support modules yet).

- Doesn't handle large mono repos well, it relies heavily on caching and currently runs on a single node. It can work if you don't have 100 of services especially if the builder is a large machine.

Just the fact that you can actually write ci pipelines that can be tested, packaged, versioned etc. Allows us to ship our pipelines as products which is quite nice and something we've come to rely on heavily
Completely lose the zoomer voting base in the near to mid future?
Frankly, looking at pictures and videos from China, it looks nothing like the Soviet Union- it looks modern, rich, technologically advanced, full of people looking and acting like westerners. They might need to expand their internal markets and consume more, but any comparison with soviet Russia is absurd.
Just a note - 100k jobs aren't that common in software in the UK. Perhaps they're there in finance but there are a lot of people looking for software jobs now who accept much less. I've managed to avoid the finance sector my whole career in the UK by working for telcos, since I felt that, for me personally, finance was intensely boring and motivated by all the worst and most short term values.

IMO the whole attitude to finance here is difficult because not enough people have become rich through software/electronics to be angel investors. It's still a place where the big old money comes from people in banking. The arts are respected, being rich is respected, but the rest of us are still "techies" and that's an attitude prevalent throughout the population. The person who fixes your washing machine gets called an "engineer."

It's a matter of who has the power.

Success breeds success and we have had some great ones - it's just that the whole economy is still skewed towards finance. People want the pound to have a high value. Investment comes here to seek "safety". Costs are high. Everything is short term. We have "spaffed billions" on leaving our local trading bloc but moan a lot about investing in HS2. In other words we're not really united and trying to build a future. The population is aging and some of it thinks "only a few more years for me" and "I'm alright jack".

Do I really know? This is all just the bullshit whirling around in my head.

There's a chance with net-zero. It will require huge investments. If you want to do hardware then I suggest you think about that. Octopus Energy's Kraken system, heat pumps that work together to spread out demand over the day, home energy controllers, battery chargers ...who knows. One word of warning though: I'm actually from Africa and any idea that ends with "....for disaster relief in Africa" is a mistake. If your idea only works in poor countries then I think you'll never make any money. Nobody really cares significantly about disaster relief, especially the potentates of those countries who have allowed the disastrous situations to occur through their own mismanagement.
In that case perhaps detail why you believe it isn't how the Chinese government operates?
You can have pipelines trigger child pipelines in gitlab, but usability of them is pretty bad, viewing logs/results of those always needs extra clicking.
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We have global commerce; you are not only working on the creation part of something new, but also competing with similarly skilled people working with different more advantageous start conditions.

Nobody is talking about the difference between 1 and 2 billion, they are talking about the difference between 50 and 100 thousand, while competing.
This is AI bowdlerisation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expurgation
If one is too lazy to infuse, it’s nice to add homemade caramel or compote. Snacks like Lotus biscuits are excellent too.
I keep telling VCs and Angel investors that now is the time to look for relatively under-valued high growth startups using Reinforcement Learning to solve real world B2B / engineering / logistics problems ...

The balanced NPU/GPU/CPU with close cache ram, such as the recent Lunar Lake chip, coupled with better integrated GPUs in consumer class laptops, and a nice web GPU webgl api .. make for a lot of capability for problems that are well solved by Monte Carlo simulation ... and RL generally.

3D apps are now really doable in browser on current devices... and the browser is a great delivery device for applications, avoiding platform specific installs and dependency hell.
> He has literally zero power until tomorrow afternoon

For very weak definitions of power. Zuck didn't wait to bend a knee until the inauguration. Because power.
If Facebook is the minimum for top-tier then there is only one top-tier social network. Being an order of magnitude off Facebook still makes the network one of the most popular social networks of all time.
No, it started with DDC and was used since Win95, the first PnP OS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_Data_Channel
just do not use them. actually vote with your wallet.
Yeah, clearly, thats why we all willingly continue to use Teams.
The Steam Deck is a great example, and I attribute its success to riding that line between usability and customization. I can get into Linux and mess around, or I can never touch the back-end stuff and just play my games.
It is often accomplished enterpreneurs who complain of bureaucracy.

I remember reading a German enterpreneur's complaint that he was unable to build an extra electric connection between his two industrial buildings in Germany in less than a year, due to endless rounds of permiting for that single cable.

He contrasted the situation to Poland, where his application on a similar site was processed in two weeks and it took two more weeks to actually build the connection.

If you think complaints of bureacracy have no merit, maybe you never faced any. It now takes about 10 years to get all permits for a regular block of flats in Prague, Czechia. It used to be 3 years or so back in 2000, and it takes only about 9 months in Denmark.

These are experienced developers, and they are still stuck.
I missed that one: how did Biden snd Harris try to abolish the constitution?
So, the most terrifying part about China is that it's not really that terrifying.
> The issue here is that it is being spoken of as a protocol, which isn't just some kind of analogy. It is a word with a literal definition.

Every word has a literal definition, but every word also has an infinite variety of meaning, with nuance and subtlety that depends on context. It is quite obvious that Paul Graham didn't mean that Twitter was literally "another HTTP". I take the meaning to be something like "Twitter is an open platform that is widely-used enough to enable communication between other services" — not the case now, of course, but it certainly was at the time.
Session’s decision to remove forward secrecy is another big eyebrow-raiser. Signal is widely praised for its double ratchet precisely because it limits the damage if a key is compromised. Session’s lack of PFS means that if your private key is ever exposed (or derived), all your past and future messages are fair game. For a messenger that aspires to anonymity or strong privacy guarantees, this is a major trade-off. I haven’t seen a convincing argument as to why the onion-routed approach can’t coexist with a forward-secure key ratchet.
The whole idea behind 2FA is that if your password manager is compromised, you will still be fine, thats why its so damn important. (also please please please don't use SMS 2FA, it's not secure, it's expensive and there's no reason why I should need mobile phone signal to login to a service.
How? The law as written only gives the president the authority to give one 90-day extension, only if certain conditions have been met. And those conditions have not been met.
> Bambu Connect is explicitly about allowing you to continue to use your favorite slicer.

For now. They're putting themselves in the middleman position where they get the final say over what we can print on the printers that we supposedly "own".

It's naive to think that they won't try to extract revenue from that privileged position, they wouldn't have spent R&D resources on it otherwise.
Yeah, I was raised with that idea. I did make some nice businesses, but I don't care for growing because of growing. If I catch a few 100k a year for everyone in the company (yep, it is the reason I like tiny companies: we can just decide to all make the same), I don't really care about the rest. Doing that for 10 years (even shorter but he) is enough for anyone to live out their life in comfort out of the (etfs etc) interest here. I keep on doing making new things as I like it, but need no more money, so that helps.
The UK is over educated so everyone who walks into an interview has a degree so it just isn’t worth anything and puts you at the starting line, internships are there to mold nothing into something and if that values too low for you there is a queue of people behind you also with degrees who would be happy for the opportunity.

If your focus is money then higher education is the wrong path anyway, it’s oversubscribed.
Quite possible. I blocked it on cloudflare WAF but will check out what's wrong with the site itself. Thanks.
Depends what you mean by "Quality of Life". I literally won't go to see friends because that would mean travelling to London. I hate the place. It is expensive, hostile, dirty and everyone is rude.

I live on the outskirts of the peak district. I can walk/cycle less than 30 minutes out of town and be walking along the old canals, through old villages and get amazing views of the countryside.
That's just Apple life: users must constantly pay to keep their stuff working. But if you evade the system API entirely with SaaS, you don't need updates for broken system API. Might as well go with PWA, java or wine.
> Yes we have many comments on HN talking about how harmful the US VCs attitude is because they force good businesses into choosing between being unicorns and not getting funding.

Most of those are people complaining about a business having to make changes because it took $50+m in funding and now needs to justify it. The business was only "good" because it got $50m and didn't need to do things like charge enough money. If it hadn't gotten that $50m then those people wouldn't consider it such a good business or even know about it.
That's the point, illegal immigration is just a veil so some people can feel better for them selves.

"it's not that I don't like them - I am not like that, its just that I don't want illegal immigration"
Not sure about what's really "typical", nor which name would best describe what direction the USA (let alone anyone else) is even heading in.

The ancient Greeks had ideas about the κύκλος (cycles) of government: Plato's cycle went [aristocracy > timocracy oligarchy > democracy > tyranny]; Polybius' cycle was [ochlocracy -> monarchy -> tyranny -> aristocracy -> oligarchy -> democracy -> ochlocracy] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_cycle_theory
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It's called capitalism because we use capital to allocate value creation. So obviously finance extracts wealth, that's their job in a capitalist system.
No, and there was no need to be an asshole about it. It's like talking about your human childhood and adolescence to an alien therapist. I hope you see what I'm getting at.
This is contradictory. On one hand Google is moving away from python, on the other it is hiring python staff outside the USA. Not hiring US staff is not really newsworthy.
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I've played hide and seek in Albania and used a bunker as a hideout. AMA :D
That's one of the few experiences I remember when I was 3-5yo.
Photoshop isn’t on top simply because people know how to use it. There’s simply no better tool for most users who need that level of photo editing tool.

I’ve never seen a superior product to either Photoshop or Excel. Have you? Maybe they’re on top because they really are good products.
Absolutely. It is so fundamental, at the instinct level almost, that it didn't even came to my mind to mention it. Until absolutely necessary, you never chamber your weapon - "what if the trigger gets accidentally pulled!" :)

Even military guards on duty are by the military regulations explicitly prohibited from chambering their weapon until necessary:

209. Часовому запрещается: ..., досылать без необходимости патрон в патронник, ...

and only when the guarded security perimeter is about to be breached and the guard has already issued 2 verbal warnings, only then the guard chambers the round and makes the first warning shot toward the sky:

211. ...
Если нарушитель после предупреждения "Стой, стрелять буду" продолжает движение, часовой досылает патрон в патронник и производит предупредительный выстрел вверх.
Not just in startups. Feels like Arm lost almost their whole software division over a few years. This was an extremely stable high-profit-margin business, and it was obvious that it was uncompetitive on the labour market. But something in the culture stopped management from increasing salaries, so everyone buggered off to foreign companies.

I hear they fixed it eventually but seems like an unnecessary loss.
I highly, highly doubt that the ratio of durable to perishable baths, spas and jacuzzis is now higher or even similar to what it was back then. Will we ever know for sure ? No, of course not.
> The problem is most readers still think theres a discernable difference between the parties.

No, the problem is people like you who try to convince others that Democrats and Republicans are the same, when some child-level reasoning is all that's necessary to disprove this tired bit of rhetoric.
Unrelated to anything but what software is this blog running on? I love the sidenote feature.

Why does it have a customer service popover chat assistant?
We got ours built for what it’s worth. Beautiful house, though we ended up leaving.
Rightly or wrongly, in the UK Albians have a terrible reputation for organised crime, particularly drugs.[0] How is that perceived in Albania, and is organised crime a big issue in Albania? You make it sound like everybody is very trusting there.

My only direct interactions with Albanians here was a restaurant I used to go to regularly in London which was run by Albanians, who were all lovely and recommended books by Ismail Kadare, particularly The General of the Dead Army, which I thought was wonderful.

[0] Rather like the philosophical game "All crows are black, but not all black birds are crows" I have a feeling this may be due to a majority of illegal drug networks being run by Albanians, even though a large majority of Albians in the UK have no involvement in it.
Yes, it's not specifically Twitter's fault that it can be can used it to mass produce "both sides" and ragebait at near-zero marginal cost.

But IMO it's still a large part of why it took off. When it started in 2006, every media personality was almost immediately absolutely hooked on it. You couldn't move for columnists talking about what they'd seen there, gushing about how great it was and the news articles would embed anything that would get a click. Even my university newspaper had a satirical fake "what's happening on Twitter", mocking the overuse of Twitter as a source in news media. And that was the start of the academic year 2006-7: it was already a meme within the year of launch.

Yes, vox pops have been around since it was realised that the person on the street might have telegenic hot takes, but you have to pack up, go out to a specific place and interview enough people there to get all the takes you need. That's tens of thousands in gear, a minimum of two people (camera operator, interviewer) plus a stack of editing. Twitter just meant you could sift tens of thousands of takes, possibly from all over the world and select for the maximum engagement. And because the tweets could and did go national, every kook out there was posting madly in hopes of getting noticed.
Twitter indirectly kicked off a love of programming in me again after an aquantance said he was a programmer for writing a script to unknowingly aid with gold pump and dump campaigns
1. Convergent desktop/mobile app that syncs between devices (open source and local)

2. Performant for large numbers of feeds

3. Integrated browser and automagical discovery and organization of feeds while you browse

4. Multiple taxonomies and viewing layout options, chronological, by subject etc

5. Advanced filtering by keywords

6. Transparent and pluggable locally runing algorithms to track usage and inform the user of patterns and if desired adjust presentation

In a sense an advanced RSS 'reader' is what the web "browser" should have evolved to. There is really no real boundary between these two clients.

An advanced RSS reader is essentially a more dynamic browser that queries the internet in more ways that the user-initiated visit of a bookmarked url or typing something into a search form.
There is a culture there. I am not sure what people mean when they say there isn't a culture outside of the London. If you mean things like events, art exhibs etc. We have those here. If you mean bars, pubs and restaurants we have those here to.

Is it as glitzy as London. No. But saying there is "no culture" is just absolutely asinine.
To be fair though, they work for it. A consultant I saw recently did a full day with the NHS and they 3 - 4 hours of appointments in the evenings privately at a different hospital.
For anyone enjoying this type of content, I just happen to be reading The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan and damn, I never thought I could be so interested in all its cultural and religious context. So much to learn from history... but this time is different hehe ;)
As long as you can, see Germany's 1938 "election": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_German_parliamentary_el...

I doubt that that was constitutional, but maybe it was, after all they got in power legally in 1933.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for DRM-free purchases where most of the money goes to the artists. BitTorrent is a way to handle the fact when there is no such option (and put economic pressure so that options exist)
I think it makes sense in very narrow use cases such as hardware security modules for key management, giving the user a somewhat strong guarantee that there is a one-to-one correspondence between control of the key and physical ownership of the HSM. This is an example where limitations of what you can do with the hardware is the primary feature of the hardware and the reason the user acquired it in the first place. It is analogous to physical locks being hard to pick by design.

Any use of enclaves for DRM are unethical though, and solutions such as Play Integrity API is a commingling of security guarantees and totalitarian control over the user. Instead of proving to a service provider (such as your bank) that your whole phone is running a verified software and hardware stack, it suffices to communicate with a HSM with which you verify that the transaction to be authorized (1) comes from your bank, and (2) has a description which aligns with what you expect. The HSM can be built into the phone or be an external device with a small screen, but it should never ever enforce how you use the rest of the phone, it should only solve the narrow security issue of authorizing critical transactions.
> Our contract specifically prevented us from disclosing information about the funding source and the fact that OpenAI has data access to much but not all of the dataset.

Man, this is huge.
I have a L2395DW and its factory cartridge just ran out!

Factory setting is to stop printing. It can be changed to basically print anyway.

That worked, delivering increasingly crappy prints until replacement toner cartridges arrived.

Swapped one in and the machine is back to printing fine.

I did buy aftermarket, cheap as I could find for replacement.

The factory cart still had 5 percent or so, when compared to the new ones, of toner in it.

Haven't had the sam

All said and done I am pretty happy. Toner got well used, replacement was cheap.
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For anyone curious for more details, miri works in a different way than valgrind. it is an interpreter for rust that does additional checks at runtime to detect undefined behavior. This allows it to be fully deterministic, simulate other platforms, and do additional checks that I don’t think would be possible for valgrind
Havent FAANG companies improved the lives of the average American? They definitely did, and all these companies were created by ambitious individuals with a bold vision and prospect of making lots of money!

By taking big risks, one might ascend to this capitalist class if they succeed.
I think this is a combination of a lack of supportive environment and a risk averse mindset. Employers will likely scoff at a CV with one or more entrepreneurial stints. The way I see it is this: if the prohibition era was implemented in the UK, people would still acquire alcohol against any and all barriers. The same drive doesn't exist for entrepreneurial goals. Regulations make things difficult but the critical problem is that the entrepreneurial mindset is not there
> Attempting to justify potential misconduct through semantic technicalities ("well, validation isn't technically training")

Validation is not training, period. I'll ask again: what is the possible goal of accessing the evaluation set if you don't plan to use it for anything except the final evaluation, which is what the test set is used for? Either they just asked for access without any intent to use the provided data in any way except for final evaluation, which can be done without access, or they did somehow utilize the provided data, whether by training on it (which they verbally promised not to), using it as a validation set, using it to create a similar training set, or something else.

> This directly contradicts established principles of scientific integrity where the spirit of agreements matters as much as their letter.

OpenAI is not doing science; they are doing business.

> This represents a stark logical reversal. The initial argument assumed benchmark manipulation would be meaningful enough to influence investors and industry perception. Now, when challenged, the same metrics are suddenly "meaningless." This is fundamentally inconsistent - either the metrics matter (in which case manipulation would be serious misconduct) or they don't (in which case there's no incentive to manipulate them).

The metrics matter to people, but this doesn't mean people can meaningfully predict the model's performance using them. If I were trying to describe each of your arguments as some demagogue technique (you're going to call it ad hominem or something, probably), then I'd say it's a false dichotomy: it can, in fact, be impossible to use metrics to predict performance precisely enough and for people to care about metrics simultaneously.

> The attempted simultaneous appeal to and dismissal of credentials

I'm not appealing to credentials. Based on what I wrote, you made a wrong guess about my credentials, and I pointed out your mistake.

> at this point, the argument OpenAI did something rests on unfalsifiable claims about the industry as a whole, claiming insider knowledge, while avoiding any verifiable evidence.

Your position, on the other hand, rests on the assumption that corporations behave ethically and with integrity beyond what is required by the law (and, specifically, their contracts with other entities).