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Such termination happens very much in Europe also. I have lived in Europe my whole life, half of my working life inside the EU, half of it outside. And I have seen this happening bot in- and outside:

on the head-roll day HR sends a friendly message asking you to pay a visit in their office. While you do that, security folks clear your desk, and a few minutes later you are outside the building with the signed paperwork in your hands. And suddenly another guy gets a friendly message from HR...

Of course the severance is paid according to the law - but such sudden (mass)termination does happen here too.

Maybe MS just got extremely lucky, like winning-the-lottery-lucky.

But your timeline is off, however. Their partnership started in 2016[1]. In 2019 MS started to invest publicly in OpenAI - but by then they have had some history.

To me, this is at least suspicious. Granted, I have no hard proof.

[1]: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/11/15/advancing-ambiti...

GitHub was sold because it didn't make too much money. Microsoft bought it for OpenAI only, to train Copilot on the vast amount of code.

Of course, MS every once in a while says that it makes a lot of money, but they don't really say how much is costs to keep it up. Their free tiers are still very generous, even they are buggy as hell - I can't imagine that the profit it makes even dents MS' bottom line (assuming it's not in the red). But at the end of the day the model training is done.

I guess Github doesn't have a lot of use anymore, beside having a lot of users that you can use to experiment with such shenanigans to see what can you get away with.

Heh, classic Mike (not the Pope one)

  > net-zero marginal cost

Lol, you single-handedly created a market for Anubis, and in the past 3 years the cloudflare captchas have multiplied by at least 10-fold, now they are even on websites that were very vocal against it. Many websites are still drowning - gnu family regularly only accessible through wayback machine.

Spare me your tears.

I wonder how much it costs without the fake Samsung sticker. I'm always almost on the market for cheap, good SSDs...

    > Autonomous weapons would require a much faster and much more reliable and deterministic AI. 

I think this is only true when the bots are on home-field, and you don't want to kill your own ones. When you are on the other side, you just want to shoot indiscriminately everything that moves, and monitor your surroundings to protect yourself. For this, today's LLMs seem to be more than enough. And since there was no human intervention in shooting everyone, it's not even a war crime.

Well, I could just cover it with duck tape.

But no Home/End, PgUp/PgDown, Print Screen, merged Delete and Insert... where to start.

Edit: just noticed that the power button is just also next to Backspace. Hahahaha, I remember when keyboard-manufacturers loved to put power/sleep buttons just above the arrow keys. How many times I pressed them accidentally. I hated that viscerally.

Ahhh, the benefits of modern software - there are no user manuals anymore. You can only find out about software behavior if you develop it yourself, or an angel appears in your dream telling you about it.

Otherwise no one knows if something is a bug or a feature, and you are SOL. It's behavior.

For me the worst here is that the just the previous article (published 11 minutes earlier) on the website is saying that older ATI (nee AMD nee ATI) cards are still pretty capable, have lots issues with the drivers that need to be reverse engineered, and get no attention from AMD.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/ATI-R300-Occlusion-Query-Fix

Oh well. Still, :(

    At first, I tried to build some other efforts I found online to make Zed work without the AI features just so I could check it out, but didn't manage to get them to work. At some point, the curiosity turned into spite.

I... I can identify with the above sentiment so much. "OK, then I will create my own IDE with blackjack and hookers"

I guess I have no choice but to give it a go.

Can't talk about wholesale mobile network capacity pricing, but what you experienced is quite rampant with pretty much all services. They count on you to be too lazy to look up the information, and too lazy to actually do the switch. (And it works, with vast majority of the people)

I had the same with my ISP - currently I pay about $60 for 10 Gbps connection. Before I switched, I paid about $130 for 200 Mbps, years ago...

A few months ago I reviewed my bills from Godaddy, and it turned out that they have hiked the price of my domain every single year since I've had it. I switched to Porkbun, and now I pay half (the same that I paid to Godaddy, when I bought my domain 10 years ago...)

Switching bank will be a bigger bite, but I'm preparing for that too...

The curriculum of some universities is.. well.. not too challenging. They can be speedran in 2-3 months, no problem. I laughed very hard and University of London's CS degree curriculum, as an example. I know that MIT is a top school, but are their graduate curses actually hard?

It stuck on "Please wait while Windows 99 is starting up" screen, without any feedback.

Rouge (buggy) bot, (D)DoS attack (maybe intentional, maybe accidental). Maybe you are reading the numbers wrong. Maybe you or your website became very popular.

Check your access logs.

Somewhat reminds me of the vigil eso-language (https://github.com/munificent/vigil)

It's a programming language that helps you write error-free programs, by self-correcting itself. If it finds an error (exception), it simply deletes the offending code until the program runs without an error.

What is not clear for me, is the purpose of this project. What I could find is that it wants to be a drop-in replacement of PanVK. But since PanVK exists, I fail to see the point. Is PanVK similar to xserver, that is not salvageable? Or is it just RiiR? That's also a fine reason, but I'd expect that more for personal hobby projects.

I do too, and I hate it. Some of my pet peeves from the top of my head (there would be more most likely if I'd think a bit, but maybe later):

    > I keep pressing the second button to OK a card, I rarely use the 3rd and 4th. But if I fail a card, that button becomes a NOK, and I keep pressing it out of reflex
    > I can't help interpreting "card was a leech" notification other than "how dumb can you be". Fortunately there is no way to turn it off.
    > It keeps phoning home for some reason, each time it gets into the foreground. It is really great when you are behind a proxy, and it keeps complaining that there is no network, every single time. Of course that call can't be turned off. Also, have no idea what it sends home. I try to trust that it's not some nefarious.
   > Some years ago, for some reason Anki changed DB format, in a backwards incompatible way. There was a notification at the start of the app, that if I don't want it, I shouldn't update my app. I did turn off auto-update. A few weeks later it bricked my deck (my deck got updated to the new format, even though that old iOS app was the only way I accessed it), also trashing my 3 years long strike.

I'm sure that making this even more public will win him a lot more smiley stickers from HR.

Testing is important, even the ancient Romans knew that.

Lately Google's image search started to do the same some time ago. Click on an image, and then on the link beneath the image - it first opens a redirection notice which needs to be confirm. Acting like it's something unusual to click on a link from a search result screen...

Do you have a spare RPi (or other Arm SBC) at hand? Spend an afternoon at https://armasm.com/

Though I don't think ASM will help you learning other languages, it could be an interesting couple of hours.

They managed to earn enough to retire? Nice

Hack:

    long-running-command &
    pid_of_long_running_cmd=$(pidof long-running-command)
    tail --pid=$pid_pf_long_running_cmd -f /dev/null && forgotten-command

Tail quits when $pid_pf_long_running_cmd disappears, and kicks off the forgotten-command. (It won't know however the exit code of the original cmd, so that's a drawback)

So you want to host it yourself, or you want to use bittorrent? The former is how people distributed cat videos before the Youtube era.

The latter is not hosted by you, but by all users participating the swarm. The first page for "bitternt stream online" (sic) keywords in your favorite search engine should should give some ideas about that (I use ecosia now, which gives at least usable results for this).

Personal opinion: 1000 users sounds realistic, but only with a service that appeals the masses, some generic good. I find Japanese learning to be a fairly niche thing, however. Now saying that it's a bad idea, but probably you should readjust your success criteria based on the size of your target market.

    If we delivered a bad quarter, it is evidence there's an AI bubble. If we delivered a great quarter, we are fueling the AI bubble,

While I think the bubble pop will be spectacular, he is not wrong here. You can't do right, if others want to see bad only.

It's a followup on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45960893 from a few hours ago

Every living creature evolves into crabs eventually.

Every software evolves into Electron apps eventually.

Python serves as an established, mature glue language that's relatively easy to learn. But of course even in Python, if some heavy lifting needs to be done, that happens in C/C++, and precompiled as a native binary object, with a Python layer on top of it for the users.