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Was this an out of sample test of the router or was it trained on these specific use cases/eval suites?

Imagine giving birth to alien intelligence and the best thing you can think to do with it is advertise for laundry detergent and try to displace workers. We have put the least imag…

I worry the answer to "new surplus. who will it go to?" is a foregone conclusion. the surplus is the most surveillable technology imaginable.

The first sentence isn't even a sentence.

decoder ring?

"the law" is the fulcrum this turns on. if you wrong your employer, for example by failing to do your job well, you are not a criminal to be prosecuted by the state. you may well d…

I'd be eager to know if these layoffs are cover for firing "inconvenient" employees. Google's fired Timnit Gebru, labor organizers, and recently folks who protested a contract with…

What's wild is that a lot of that equipment (or barely newer versions) is still standard fare at flight schools. It's possible to get a fancy glass panel if you look. But you'll pr…

I haven't switched. I still mostly do software engineering. But I did burn out on my job in a toxic workplace and quit with nothing quite so formal as a plan. Before picking up mor…

Decentralized Storage Researcher | Open Archive | Remote, Contract, FT, 100k/yr OpenArchive helps human rights defenders to document and archive abuses. Our app, Save, empowers tho…

Decentralized Storage Researcher | Open Archive | Remote, Contract, FT, 100k/yr OpenArchive helps human rights defenders to document and archive abuses. Our app, Save, empowers tho…

SEEKING FREELANCER | REMOTE | Part Time | iOS or Android development (native) Hi, I'm John and I'm the tech lead for Save ( https://open-archive.org/save/ ). Save is an iOS and And…

wizardmac.com The most effective, efficient data exploration tool I've ever used. I'm a data scientist, but I use this before I write so much as a line of code.

Are you interested in the technical pros/cons, or the pros/cons for your user community? What's your company do?

This is a shame, and says more about the consolidation of the tech industry than Hipmunk's product. One of Hipmunk's founders spoke to a course that I was in about their experience…

"Things I wont work with" is a great concept that tech should borrow from chemistry. Some things, while they carry possible returns on investment, are simply not worth the risk. I …

Perhaps the reason to make it accessible is not because of market share. It turns out that other audio and (yes, even video!) mixing software is accessible, so it's certainly not i…

Ironically for the name, ableton turns out not to be accessible for the blind.

> Google likely spends more money on editorial control for issues of racism than for any other thing that doesn't make money. Is there evidence to this effect? There are a lot of t…

Link to Buffett's proposal?

The point of the article is that by making something scarce free, the company was in effect "rationing by the queue", an inefficient way to handle things. Those unwilling to get th…

Mentors. I learned a lot from HN, much more from side projects. But a mentor helped me clear the chasm between "writing code" and being a software developer. Honorable mention goes…