There is no tile server running; only nginx serving a Btrfs image with 300 million hard-linked files.

Wow. Btrfs ftw

Um, companies wanting to charge for their services? Sure it not as nice as getting stuff for free but how else are they supposed to fund the insane cost of running LLMs along with at least some profits.

The point is not in the form but in the critical mass of users to achieve an active community. Lemmy (and Reddit before) are way superior in every way to forums on the technical software side.

We need more people. Share, comment and participate. That’s the only way to create a community

In most companies there’s no incentive to write good code. It does the job? Keep it. Oh it costs 5x in AWS costs than it theoretically could if it was a good design? Who cares nobody even understands infrastructure costs

That’s the correct way to do it.

The wrong way to to do it is: moving to another team requires you to go through the full hiring process. Any lateral movement, for example backend engineer -> fronted engineer is treated as if you’re a junior starting a completely new career.

It’s not even about the quality of individual people. The organizational structure of large companies encourages pointless work.

Internal mobility and cross department collaboration are frowned upon. So you get many people doing duplicate work, new ideas don’t propagate, and even if someone has an idea it’s quickly shut down.

The only way to achieve anything substantial is to be both: 1. assertive and energetic, and 2. at the correct level of hierarchy. And make no mistake even if you pull a miracle there will be no reward. Maybe a 3% raise at the yearly review.

Sorry for the rant, I currently work in a company like this.

with the virtual assistant earning customer satisfaction ratings at the same level as human agents.

zero equals zero

Actually Google made a huge success by training an AI to ignore personal characteristics like skin color or gender when generating images. It uses a “generic human average”, and that’s awesome!
Normally models like these replicate categorization by (racial/gender) categories of the society it created them.

Gemini completely misses categorization by these features. Of course it also loses the contemporary context, because the concepts of race & gender still impacts most of humanity.

But for what it is it’s a huge success.

From the perspective of the decision maker it does “work”. It rejects a % of candidates in such a way they can pretend it’s objective rather than random. Imho, just randomly selecting 100 out of 2000 for human review would actually be more fair and give better results.

Dorsey created one immensely popular social platform, sold it for a huge sum, let the new owner ruin it and then created the same thing again.

An actual real world case of “have your cake and eat it too”.
Respect where it’s due.

After reading the whole article - wow that was one sophisticated scam.

Deepfake was only one part of it, scammers impersonated multiple people on video, chat and email to create a believable story. It was apparently not too out of line with the normal company processes, which makes it extra scary (and likely helped by someone on the inside)

Bad bot

Was it ever anything else? 4 years ago it was already a wrapped webapp.

There was also a certain level of “denial of talent” competition among the tech giants. Hire any vaguely competent people event if practically useless so the competition doesn’t get them. It works only if you have infinite money (as in 0 interest rates) which is not the case any more.

It could be not on purpose.

Did they even build their system with the idea that copyright can expire? This is the first major video work to expire.

In a lot of companies this would be the first feature to be given low priority and sent to the bottom of the backlog. To be done “when we have the time”

The fact that they needed to receive a lot of complaints to reconsider makes me wonder - do they even do any kind of usability testing for their products? Anyone who even sat in a car with only touchscreen can tell you the experience is not comfortable.

And I don’t think it’s just about the price of physical buttons. Buttons are a selling point right now, they could charge a small premium (not in the thousands but ~$200 certainly.

Problem? Isn’t this the goal of any company - make a lot of money, primarily for the shareholders, but in this case employees are also the shareholders themselves. They are not a charity, they’re in this to make money.

One of the rare example of success in capitalism.

(and maybe a taste of what different systems could achieve if we didn’t separate ownership and employment)

He’s there at the invitation of the current president who’s doing an election campaign for his party, leading to parliamentary elections on Dec 17.

The way they got in touch is through a celebrity who is a member of the political party in question.

How is Woz going to help him I don’t know, probably boasting that rich and famous want to become Serbians due to their policies.

Edit: those qualifiers like “left-wing”, “right-wing”, “progressive” can be ignored due to being meaningless. The party happens to be called “Serbian Progressive Party” when translated to English

People who need to archive a shitload of data without reading often, or ever.

Didn’t read the article but the answer is - yes.
The “Ugandans” part is superfluous.

Fuck mobile operators, this kind of cost should be illegal to exist at all.

A judge saying he will not rule until the trial ends? How shocking!

All the mental gymnastics they do just to avoid outright increaseing prices…

They find it easier/cheaper to lay off a bunch of people and then hire again.

Hiring costs for new people don’t factor in financial reports apparently.

Makes sense to reflect on life and understand one has made mistakes. We shouldn’t judge people based on prejudice, if he says it was painful for him - it was.

But then the typical billionaire narcissism triggers. Please pity me but only me. I don’t see him saying we need to fix the system so no one else suffers the same.

A billionaire being a revolutionary - strange thing happen in this world, if he’s honest about it I’ll believe him.
But he’s not saying anything about dismantling capitalism. Any revolution worth fighting for - he will not be a billionaire after it, and I don’t see him saying billionaires existing is a bad thing.

I understand the reason - it’s technically possible. But from practical side having your government id depend on your phone is risky. Phones are more likely to get stolen, phones can run out of battery…

Even more true for payment cards. If something happens to your phone - you’re fucked. No way to pay for anything and no way to contact anyone for help.

Still waiting for Excel stories …

As someone who’s not American and had a couple of job opportunities to move to San Francisco, I’m glad not to have done it.

What kind of hellhole is that city? I had an impression it was extremely expensive but also very wealthy. The more I hear the worse it seems.

Less than 1%? Did they forget to flip a boolean condition?
Like that’s worse than random, it’s worse than if you intentionally wanted to be wrong.

2005 - 2018 - Many decent cars were made in this period. Aside from all the pollution. And emissions fraud.

It 's the pinnacle of the small SUV fashion (I like them, sue me) but you could still get sedans and station wagons as well. Mechanical controls still ruled, no single touchscreens. Good audio was the norm, rear cameras not so much but you could get one. Small turbocharged diesels have the best fuel economy possible for a pure combustion engine.

Most importantly no online connection or subscriptions of any kind. I love the idea of electric propulsion. But in the current market it comes with so much undesirable baggage.

“Tech” doesn’t exist. Entire concept is a lie propagated by companies trying to appear like something different.
Not a tech company - a taxi company, a short term rental company, a video distribution company …

Look at what they sell, not what tools they use to do it.

This debates frustrates me to no end. Phrasing is so so bad, with very bad intentions.

Benefits? A slave is not a person, it’s a tool. A tool doesn’t have a possibility of self improvement, it can only be improved by owner so it serves better. Any improvement in the skills of a non-free person are morally irrelevant, because they can’t use them in the way of their choosing.

hired people through the app

Dare I ask what the interview process was

So if you eat the chip, does it mean you officially become a wheel of cheese?

Feeling so vindicated, Americans are massively becoming not just socialist, but outright communist

They got $44 billion, double what sane people thought the company was worth. It would be irresponsible not to take Elon for a ride.