> It's been a while since I used my ST3 license, but I remember my license affording me all updates for ST3
That's correct, but it could be the day after you buy the license is when ST3 stops receiving any updates and we dedicate all work to ST4. With a ST4 license you're always getting 3 years of updates, ST3 it was anywhere from 3 to zero (not counting the beta period, ST3 only got 3 years of updates).
> Although if my 3 years elapses right before ST4 introduces first-class LSP support and an official Debugger, I may be very peeved. :)
I think we can all sympathize with some buyer's remorse. Unfortunately the needs to be drawn somewhere. Maybe you take solace in that we probably can't put multiple huge features in a single update, at least not a dev release.
Some exceptions occur for people getting Tenure without post doc or people doing some other things like taking undergraduate in one or two years. But no one expect that we for whole skip the first two and then get any senior researchers.
The same idea applies anywhere, the rule is that if you don't have juniors then you don't get seniors so better prepare your bot to do everything.
Did their project manager and/or team lead think when they were hired “they are really going to be a great asset to my team and are going to help me complete my sprint/quarterly goals”?
When I ask for additional headcount, I’m looking at the next quarter since that’s what my manager is judging me based on.
Dot-com was the same way... the Internet did end up having the potential everyone thought it would, businesses just didn't handle the influx of investment well.
You feed it an image. It determines what is in the image and gives you text.
This can be objects, or something much richer like a full text description of everything happening in the image.
VLMs are hugely significant. Not only are they great for product use cases, giving users the ability to ask questions with images, but they're how we gather the synthetic training data to build image and video animation models. We couldn't do that at scale without VLMs. No human annotator would be up to the task of annotating billions of images and videos at scale and consistently.
unsurprisingly they killed off the BOI reporting requirement in March [1]:
> ALERT [Updated March 26, 2025]: All entities created in the United States — including those previously known as “domestic reporting companies” — and their beneficial owners are now exempt from the requirement to report beneficial ownership information (BOI) to FinCEN.
These are rich people hiring rich kids exactly to extract as much money as they can from the companies. A huge salary or bonus is the best way to do that regardless of company performance in the long term.
These CEOs are sons, brother in laws, cousins, friends, etc. from the same group of people that populate the boards. The corruption at the top is absolutely blatant and that's where huge chunks of money generated from the folks that actually do the work ends up.
There are even studies on companies that self-organize without CEOs being more efficient than "regular" companies. The sad truth is that having a dictator at the top of every company is not as good as people make it out to be. You may get a good dictator, but it's way more likely you don't.
You have special nerves that link multiple receptors in your eyes, specifically to recognize lines. There are more in the vertical than horizontal, so you can more readily see vertical lines ("Watch out for that tree!").
Repetition is deeply integral to our visual experience.
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44970290 mentions of other requirements that are allegedly on purpose to block older clients (as browser emulators presumably often would appear to be, because why would they bother implementing newer mechanisms when the web has backwards compatibility)
The Federal Reserve will lower interest rates to keep that big, beautiful bubble. Donald Trump thinks interests should be 1%. There are 2 FRB governors (jockeying for a new chair) that have publicly called for lower interest rates. One FRB member (Adriana Kugler) unexpectedly resigned a couple weeks ago and will be replaced by the WH economist.
Just yesterday, the guy who was found liable in court for financial fraud demanded an FRB (Lisa Cook) resign after being accused of mortgage fraud. Do you suppose somebody in the WH is digging up dirt?
And of course, weekly rants, accusations of fraud, and musings of firing JPo.
I’m really tired of this trope. I’ve spent my whole career on “boring CRUD” and the number of relational db backed apps I’ve seen written by devs who’ve never heard of isolation levels is concerning (including myself for a time).
Coincidentally, as soon as these apps see any scale issues pop up.
Wait… that's the specific question I had, because rendered text would require OCR to be read by a machine. Why would an AI do that costly process in the first place? Is it part of the multi-modal system without it being able to differenciate that text from the prompt?
If the answer is yes, then that flaw does not make sense at all. It's hard to believe they can't prevent this. And even if they can't, they should at least improve the pipeline so that any OCR feature should not automatically inject its result in the prompt, and tell user about it to ask for confirmation.
Damn… I hate these pseudo-neurological, non-deterministic piles of crap! Seriously, let's get back to algorithms and sound technologies.
