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This is very interesting! I can't wait to run it on some of my own compositions...

This is so cool and also MPL licensed! Thanks!

Discrimination could be very hard to prove in practice.

I do care. Please, give me a couple of such good recruiters if you know them.

> If your agent could go read all of the patents and then avoid them in its implementations and/or tell you where you might be infringing them (without hallucinating), that would be valuable.

That would lead the whole society to a halt, because it feels impossible to do anything now without violating someone's patent. Patents quite often put small players at a disadvantage, because the whole process of issuing patents is slow, expensive and unpredictable. Also, I once heard a lawyer say that, in high-stake lawsuits the it is the pile (of patents) that matters.

Same experience too. Even in some cases the AI was harmful, leading me into rabbit holes that did not pay off, but lost a whole day trying out.

> Computers and tyranny do not necessarily go hand in hand.

... but the latter may greatly benefit from the former

If I can only go back in time to 2007 :)

In the beginning of my career, I've been once told by my senior management that I should never again:

1. Optimize things so that they work 10 000 times faster because it makes us look incompetent (must be done slowly to show gradual progress).

2. Brag about such optimization (to stakeholders) without first synchronizing this with them (so they can brag proportionally to their pay rate :) ).

This was one of the coolest job ads that I've ever read :). Congrats for what you have done with your infrastructure, team and product!

Perception changes with every next generation. For the last 8 years, I've been teaching at the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics at our University. One of the courses that I lead is IoT, where students get to program on bare metal (embedded) systems. I noticed that newer (cloud) generations have a harder time accepting the constraints of embedded hardware and living with them.

Kudos for your company and job description! Your stack and approach look very straightforward and refreshing. The only thing that kind of put me off was the on-site in Tanzania :) (I am sensitive to the risk of contracting malaria).

Indeed, but many people were led to believe so.

If it is Windows, then you and I are going to test it :)

Not just a couple of times. It happened to me countless times.

It was a very entertaining read. I am just wondering if this one may be actionable:

"And worst of all, you're like a pit bull that has lock-jawed onto OpenAI's ballsack, and you're not letting go, not matter how much we tell you to."

Same story in Bulgaria. A backpack with an iPhone and an iPad was stolen from a car. Had to go to the police department to file a written complaint. Weeks after that the devices were still visible in FindMy but police could not identify and catch the thieves.

So, airtags/findmy are good, but then it is up to the police to get their job done. I guess Switzerland and Bulgaria are different :)

Wouldn't it be nice if Microsoft opened the bing index for all.

In the context of sovereign debt, yes. I don't even feel that that the US is stable enough. Of course, everyone sees the world through their own eyes, but in my world, the EU has been going down post-covid in terms of e.g. purchasing power, industrial base, business opportunities for the small/medium business. The defense industry is strong, because it is currently needed and funded, but how long can that be sustained?

But I am having a hard time identifying this union/nation. Unfortunately, it feels like the EU is set on a downward trajectory.

Isn't the Bahdanau attention even earlier[0]?

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0473

It looks like this is an SaaS with an open source client only right?

That's a fair point! I am myself wondering how much of this is policy and how much is the "natural way".

And that copying was largely enabled by our greedy western bean counters that outsourced so many things in the first place.

Cool!

The viable alternative is to stop watching all the crappy content you don't need anyway. Their restriction to 3 videos for people with ad blocker was a wake up call for me, helping me realize how much content I consume from youtube that not I only don't have a need for, but is actively occupying a sizable portion of my mind. I am old enough to remember the world without youtube, when you could read a book, talk to people, do sports etc, without staring at the screen mindlessly. A 30 min video might not look like much, but that is the equivalent of a decent stretching workout, drinking a cup of tea while relaxing or a multitude of other activities that will actually help you become happier and healthier.

Thank you youtube for helping me realize how harmful you really are!

Assuming $ is NZD and you are quoting net, yearly income, then it is 1.5-2.5 times higher than Eastern Europe wages according to statistics in my environment. Unfortunately, cost of living has increased substantially here as well. For example, a decent (but not spacious) 2-bedroom apartment is in the range of EUR 300k-500k already.

How does it compare to e.g. Eastern Europe? What is the typical salary of a senior developer or architect in NZ?

I think it is not so much about capitalism, but about the coupling of democracy with money. Money -> Media/Influencers -> election -> corruption -> go back to 1. To make a meaningful change, the society must somehow decouple democracy from money. With current technology it shall be possible to vote directly for many things instead of relying on (corrupt, pre-bread) representatives. Something like democracy 2.0 :)

True, but the main reason for success here, as far as I understand, is that drones were launched very close to the airfield.