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About 10 years ago Netflix became available in the country where I was living back then. I was very excited about it, I was on their email list for years, waiting for the announcement. As I got the email that they are available, after work literally the first thing I did was to grab my credit card, and subscribe.

I found 4-6 movies I wanted to watch, but when I saw that they had Godfather 1 and 3 without 2, I had a good laugh. Then I watched all the Archer episodes they had, and tried to find something interesting for 2 more days before I cancelled my (still trial) account.

Though I stopped watching movies some years ago, until than I used to watch them on the same old pre-netflix way.

Of course I have heard that they have spent many billions on content since then, I'm sure they have some interesting stuff... but that came way too late for me.

Maybe I'm getting old, lol

The internet price is a problem exclusively in the US, at least in the developed world. Outside the US the internet isn't only a commodity, but its price also reflects that. In most of the world a monthly subscription with reasonable bandwidth and unlimited traffic starts at around the price of 2 or 3 packs of cigarettes.

Personal opinion, but public libraries shouldn't be closed to feed ISPs only because they managed to make the population believe that they are not ridiculously overcharged..

Meh, rejections happen all the time. Not sure why Phoronix singled out this one. On the other hand the bcachefs drama is reaching a high point...

  > Q: Can the yaml checker handle very large files?
  > A: Yes. The yaml checker uses efficient parsing algorithms and memory management to process large YAML files.

I pasted a 40MB yaml, and Firefox started to complain about a minute later that it is slowing down the browser. I waited another minute, but it was still thinking.

(Admittedly I'm not on a high-end machine, but it's not low-end either: Ryzen 5600G + 32GB RAM)

  > Accenture

Most companies work with these IT sweatshops (Accenture, Cognizant, Wipro, Tata...) only once, before learning why others try to avoid them. And people who spend a very long time at these companies are at a disadvantage, unless they are looking for work at another one of these sweatshops.

And of course, the role "manager" is synonymous with paper pushing. Expensive paper pushing.

I think the divide just got stronger, at least when I look at my, and my circle's sentiment, I feel that most of the original sentiments just got stronger.

Personally I have had very high hopes 3 years ago in some areas, that it would really make life better. But personally all I see is unmaintainable software (which is at least fast to write), still all the old bugs are present, vast majority of my programming and other technical questions get an obviously wrong answer from copilot, we have lots of fake pictures, disabled search engines, and weird generated porn videos.

Last week I tried an AI language learning service (YC backed), with a language that I speak at low-intermediate level, but want to level up. In the first 10 minutes I got 2 incorrect grammatical corrections - and that was my smallest problem with the service.

I don't have high hopes anymore. But also, I feel my career just as safe as I did during the lockdown.

See what happened to IBM. They have been doing it for decades. Are they still big? Sure. Are they here to stay for decades? Jawohl. Are they irrelevant too? Yup.

They are a shadow of their former self.

I expect to see the same screenplay with Intel. Actually it started a while ago also, but many were in denial about it.

Let me tell something else:

Just before the pandemic I have enrolled in a bachelors programme at University of London, majoring in AI/ML - just before the boom. I didn't do it because of some sixth sense, but my main hope was to get a (very) deep understanding of CUDA, and what I can really do with it, also on a theoretical level (and of course AI also sounds exciting on its own).

I left before graduation. Even the third year spent multiple lectures about installing python and pip, configuring some crappy ide, and finally doing some hello world level 20 lines long python script with pandas. This level was true for most classes, not only the AI-specific ones.

I was very disappointed, I definitely not got what I hoped for. Of course this is one person's anecdata of one specific place. And it's only tangentially related to your question, if it's related at all - but I think it fits.

Out of curiosity, what does your favorite AI engine (or even your own one, if applicable) answers when you ask it, and why is that answer not suitable for your needs?

I'm a total outsider, and haven't even tried to google this, just came to my mind: the bay area is supposed to be one the wealthiest regions in the whole world - cost of living is said to be high, but it also sounds that the earning potential matches it. How and why are there so many homeless people?

You are wrong. Faultier FTW.

It's expensive to generate all that LLM slop, and since it's a loss leader, someone else gotta pay for it.

This is exactly what the Illuminati wants you to believe.

I would be surprised if these would be long term investments - I think most are going for a quick buck.

With Elon companies investors hope that the market will behave just as irrationally as with Tesla.

With other companies they hope that they will be bought up by bigtech.

I like the idea, but there are two things that jumps into my eyes:

1. It generates invoice - but for which country? While invoices look similar across countries, usually they have a strict minimal content, which can vary between places.

2. It's alpha software. Every software starts at alpha, that's a natural thing. But also I wouldn't trust my company on an alpha software to save a couple of hundred bucks. I wonder if the author has a company where he dogfoods it.

On one hand, yes, anonymous sources can say whatever they want.

But they are referring to call centers when it comes to savings: I don't know if half billion USD is real, but I wouldn't be surprised if it would be close to reality. The problems call centers face are usually about a handful of topics, and if an agent doesn't know something that another agent does, that can very frustrating for everyone, especially for the caller.

It was meant for AI, and I am very much waiting for my ISP to fire all their call center helpdesk agents, and have AI, so I can get real help when they mess up my connection in their datacenter.

Of course, there is a small percentage of cases when a real human touch is mandatory - those problems will remain unsolved unfortunately.

Could be their motto instead of Intel Inside: too late.

They missed the smartphone revolution, they missed the AI revolution, they missed even the expectations of gamers, even though they are religiously loyal to their brands, up to a point.

Sure, edge AI sounds cool, I guess. Let's not even try with anything else, since it's too late anyway.

My first adult job, like almost 20 years ago, was to help introducing an ERP system at a steel tube retail company. My first office job, and all.

A few months into the job, there was a pretty big rain storm, and the roof of the warehouse started to leak - lotsa steel tubes drenched in water.

In the next week, everyone, including the warehouse workers and the office workers (including the CEO - it wasn't a big company, like 20 or so people) spent all time in the warehouse cleaning all the tubes, only 1 girl was allowed to take the phonecalls.

Good times, lol.

Last state, kitten_13.png throws a 404 error.

But otherwise, it doesn't look particularly sophisticated...

  For the catalog application, bot traffic sharply increased Fri, May 30 and essentially knocked the catalog out of service until Anubis could be applied on Tue, Jun 3. At the apex on Jun 1:
  3.4 million HTTP requests (about 40/sec) were made by 2.1 million unique IPs (avg 1.65 per IP).

So are these zombie networks? Why can't they be shut down somehow? Like name and shame their IPs and mac addresses, or throw these off of the internet, instead of the websites that cloudflare's boss disagrees with.

This looks like a pirate-content-aggregator. I don't judge, I think the internet needs these, but not sure if this is the right place to advertise.

But I have some notes also:

1. The site took like 20s to load the first time.

2. I live at a place where people speak German - however I prefer to use the internet in English. I see no option to change language on the website, and it also doesn't respect my browser's preferred language (English) headers - everything is in German. (Or maybe it's available only in German, and my location has nothing to do with it?)

3. The pictures are not loading, I see a bunch of black squares.

4. I also get stuff like this in the console: "Uncaught SyntaxError: missing { before function body netstreamz.duckdns.org:359:17"

5. Peeking at the source, it starts with some scripts tags, THEN it has a head tag, and THEN body tag. Those script tags shouldn't dangle around at the top based on the html spec if I recall it correctly.

Sample results from "microsoft employees protest" search query from DDG, by year:

2018: https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/microsoft-employees-...

2019: https://www.wired.com/story/microsoft-employees-protest-trea...

2020: https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-employees-messages...

2021: https://gameworldobserver.com/2021/04/06/microsoft-employees...

2022: (Well, I couldn't find anything here on the first 2-3 pages, Blizzard acquisition hides everything else)

2023: https://www.techradar.com/pro/microsoft-workers-protest-land...

2024: https://www.moneycontrol.com/technology/microsoft-fires-empl...

2025: https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-ai-protest-israel-gaza-...

etc.

One thing that's missing: a single whisper about "hey guys, maybe trashing the xbox/windows/clippy business is not a wise thing to do, it's not too late to change course tho".

There are companies where employees have no effective voice. Maybe Microsoft is such a company, I don't know, I've never worked there. But their employees do make their voice heard by others, if no one else - just not on every topic that matters. And that's my point.

  > it has carried substantial debt since it was acquired by DMPL from a group of funds led by KKR. The acquisition by DMPL, [...] was funded by debt that was put on Del Monte’s balance sheet

Ahh, leveraged buyout strikes again. Noice.

Well, yeah, kinda-sorta. Sure, the buck stops at the top. On the other hand why can people start picketing over real or perceived social justice issues at the workplace, but can't speak up if they see that the company/brand/project is going downhill? Or did they not see? Then they share the responsibility. They were hired to make value, not to destroy.

Or is it only a team when it comes to success, when it's about failure, it's just pointing finger at one specific person?

Maybe he is addicted to doing it.

With parental controls turned on.

I am the first to laugh when anything bad happen to MS, but I don't think they wrong on this one. If you want effective client-side filter enforcement, you have to be in control of the client side.

It is not dead, but Google and OpenAI are definitely strangling the internet - if it were for them, you would never find any new website beside the 30-50 that they promote. I learn about new things only by word of mouth - sometimes here on HN, or in random comments on the internet. Just today I learned from a phoronix comment about asterinas (https://asterinas.github.io/index.html), a new hobby++ OS written in Rust...

It is getting harder to find things, but it is not yet impossible, if you keep your eyes open. But if you blink you miss it...

On one hand, yes, I agree: duplicating the full functionality of a website for the sake of having an app is far from being ideal.

On the other hand, I also believe that this 200 MB comes mainly from 2 sources: bad engineering from the application developer, and bad engineering from the platform developer. These are not toolkit dependent, however. Bad engineering will create bad products, regardless of the tools used, even when some tools are harder to misuse to create bad products.

Personally I'm obsessed with efficiency and performance - and platform specific native toolkits are rarely beaten at that. I really don't like seeing wasting many megabytes of (V)RAM and long seconds of CPU time just to display a marquee...

Sure, "only 64 bits of state" is interesting. I find it more interesting though that it is less than 190 non-obfuscated lines - and it actually works.

Nice job.