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> maximizing user satisfaction

I'm never going to be satisfied with Spotify's recommendations until it's easy for me to curate the input to the recommender.

As things stand, to prevent Spotify from giving me crap recommendations, I have to keep secrets from it! If I want to listen to Led Zeppelin once but don't want Spotify to think "oh I should recommend classic rock from now until the end of time", then I have to go to a different app (YouTube or whatever).

There's a "private session" feature in Spotify which allows me to prevent searches and listens from entering into history, but Spotify really really doesn't want me to use it — it's cumbersome to access and it gets turned off automatically after a few hours.

EDIT:

The satisfaction achieved by whole-account recommendations determined by algorithm described in this post is going to be crushed by some app which gives me a UI where I can say "give me recommendations based on these N arbitrary things". Not just "this one artist" or "everything in my history". Let me design my own recommended channel.
Yeah you better sign up to get your $13 check!
By "poor", I actually meant "not stupendously wealthy". This includes the merely rich.

A doctor or plumber or engineer or cashier knows how to translate their time into quality of life. A wealthy person cannot possibly do this. They don't know what their time is worth in money, and money doesn't change their quality of life.
UK Home Office backs facial recognition technology to curb shoplifting
Just search Jargon File on here for the many similar/related posts.

Created a new account just to submit this? Welcome.
Nothing worse than when you have to click submit to find out that the username is taken, and now you have to retype the passwords and the captcha again, to also find the other one is taken too..
4-letter word list helped me a lot to build paths to goal words. Also, I collected all words from code, so I can chase nearest goal.

PS.

Game works better in Firefox.
No. It Does not.

It’s the LLM of LLMs.
That's good enough for me. I'll go ahead and try it out then.
Huh. Thanks.

I really don't understand how they have declined so quickly, if that's the case, especially when lots of appliances fail earlier than they should (experience with washers).
“One gentleman thought the whole an X-ellent joke.

Another said that, indeed, Musk had shown much X-uberance of fancy.

A third admitted him X-entric, but no more.”
Because this article is about ScreenTime on Apple devices. That is the same reason they don't talk about why back-up cameras in cars are so low resolution, or how you'd need to eat an insane amount of tuna to have mercury poisoning. It just isn't what the article is about.

You knew that, though. Apple is the market leader in mobile devices in the USA. Heavy lies the crown.
> He also made the decision not to publish data from similar attacks on the RNC.

I've been watching Assange's odissey quite closely and I don't remember seeing anything about withholding data "on the RNC". Do you have an example?
In the port of Halifax right now there are two heavy-lift semi-submersible transports carrying 12 13MW wind turbines destined for the Vineyard Wind project off Cape Cod. A photo of what the tower segments look like: https://twitter.com/BenMacLeod/status/1680629818931511296/ph...
That has nothing to do with the sentiment I was addressing, though. That is a different complaint.

I agree that it was too narrow, but it wasn't exaggerating.
It is certainly far from the case that all problems and weaknesses with software technology are due to historically being too much of a monoculture, but it is not true that none are.
Thanks for sharing, I'm curious. What service are you using for this? Can you choose/tweak/tune her personality/worldview/opinions? Run multiple "versions" in parallel? Are there things that she isn't able to discuss very well, beyond recent events in the real world? How far back in the past can she recall previous interactions with you?
I am glad you find PyPy useful. The good news is exactly the boring consistency with which we have been able, on a volunteer basis, to stay pretty close to CPython progress. There are no big challenges there, it is work at the top layer of the interpreter to adapt current code to CPython changes. On the other hand, we need sponsorship to implement the deeper changes we would like to make that would make things even faster.
man im sure this will be used for good.
When I'm in a new city I love to go for an aimless walk with no destination in mind just to get lost, get a feel for the place and see what I discover.

Then I visited the US and quickly realised that this is a terrible idea in pretty much any American city.
One of the important concepts in cyberpunk, and this applies to the cyberdeck, is the customization of hardware and connectedness between the power user (the jockey) and their gear.

A good cyberdeck isn't clean or new. It's well used, customized, hand repaired.

Which means it has to be customizable and hand repairable. Which (in the common mind) means chunky. Cyberdecks are about a love affair with good tech (full size mechanical keyboard, a trackball, an outdated OS) than slick hardware.

When brand new slick cyberdecks show up in cyberpunk culture they aren't the ones that belong to hackers but signs of a corporate entity. The classic trope is the jockey who takes on a corporate job and discovers his employer is actually a corp because they provide some hot and brand new cyberdeck.

The hacker/jockey/protagonist subverts their culture because they have a personal connection to their tech. It is not disposable, it is loved.
It's highly situational, but speaking broadly the US usually it's a "5 minute drive vs a 25 minute walk" situation.

But even if you live 5-10 minutes from the supermarket many people will still drive because everything is designed around people driving. For example, it's very common to lack sidewalks and even when there are sidewalks, protected crossings can be sparse.

So a 10 minute walk to the store can involve you having to walk in the street or in the mud and grass, cutting across the street where there's no crossing signal, and having to walk through a busy parking lot to actually get to the building.

And even once you're in the store things are designed around cars. The size of packaging and the quantities that people normally buy in are based on the idea that Americans take their car to the grocery store once a week and fill their trunk space with groceries.
Some things should not be made.
Yes, making fax machines work over VoIP was important in the early days. The G.711 codec was designed to support endpoints that needed a full 64kbps datapath.
It's not false information. OSI doesn't own a trademark for "open source".
Then choose a license like AGPL and no corporation will touch your code. If you choose an Apache 2 license or similar, don't be shocked when people use it as the terms intend.

Personally, I will continue to release any code I open source as Apache 2, and if I intend to sell it, code will not be open source. You are free to think I am "wrong", but fortunately we need not agree with each other.
> The reality is, IRC will probably be still around after Discord and its successor have bitten the dust. The Lindy effect has been trustworthy so far.

You do realize that even if Discord dies, its users on there won't be going back to IRC? That is the point.

We have already seen the Matrix protocol being used in the tens of millions whilst IRC is in decline.
Part of the reason it's illegal to lie to Congress is that you are at the same time lying to the American public, who are the people Congress answers to.

It would be like lying in a deposition in front of the board of directors and then going back in private to your friend the line manager and saying "hey, that thing I said when it really matters was a lie because I didn't want the board to find out about it."
Google is already blocking Apple Safari (on a lockdown Apple iOS) from user being able to login.

Had to use Firefox/Webkit/iOS to sign into Google.

Enough said.
I don't think that it's necessarily speed which is the thing that we should look for. It's how best to convert large amounts of moving air into rational motion. So a large slow moving windmill may generate more power than a smaller faster moving one.
It was pretty close, hardly "not at all"! You're right that the new format has two numbers - three numbers was from the old ABC 123 A format.
At first I was expecting this to be a joke repo for “technical program managers”. Was hoping it’d just print “connected to $1”
Unless you reveal the ADV, kick rocks.
I want to point out that everywhere except online it's absolutely illegal to allow children to see pornography.

Online you can drop a link on a forum just to shock people but try that in a park and you'll be arrested.
Your thumbs may not be getting any bigger, but your eyes are probably getting worse.
Is this a test to see if anyone reads the linked articles?
Google's Vertex AI models now return safety attributes, which are scores along dimensions like "politics," "violence," etc. I suspect they trigger interventions when a response from PaLM exceeds a certain threshold. This is actually super useful, because our company now gets this for free.

Call it "woke" if you like, but it turns out companies don't want their products and platforms to be toxic and harmful, because customers don't either.
Rotating Target Neutron Source
I think it's less about the position you've taken as it is the broadcasting and framing of it.

It's difficult to engage with what you've said beyond inquiring into your history and reasoning, asking you what has happened in your life to lead you to make these choices. It steers the discussion away from the article and towards you. Hence, the comment about being self-absorbed.

The 'embarrassed' qualifier really attaches to that - the steering - not the statements themselves.

> why do so many people care about what I do in my private life?

One thing you could consider is whether people would care as much about your decisions if you didn't announce them and invite response. You may not be intending to invite response, but I've personally found that if I comment in a public discussion forum, people often assume I'm trying to start a discussion, and reply.
Well, a couple key differences from Mojo are 1) LPython is open source (BSD 3-clause), and 2) LPython is available to download and use locally today. Mojo is still only available on private Modular notebooks.

Granted, I'm optimistic for Mojo's potential but I do wish I could run it locally. Modular's pricing model also remains to be seen.
As someone else who is not normal, I have to say I'm a little tired of having my taxes subsidize the roads and sewers for someone who lives in the middle of nowhere and commutes 40 miles each way by car. "But my kids NEED a backyard!" Fair enough, but afford it on your own without a handout from the government.
Vaultwarden: Alternative implementation of the Bitwarden server API in Rust
Alternative implementation of the Bitwarden server API written in Rust and compatible with upstream Bitwarden clients*, perfect for self-hosted deployment where running the official resource-heavy service might not be ideal.

Support for : SQLite, MySQL/MariaDB and PostgreSQL.

You can use the docker version or extract the binary and assets files and run it directly.

Works well also on ARM based SBC, like RaspberryPi.
I recommend this post from the r/cyberdeck subreddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/jzvvli/a_7_scree...
Their appliances (refrigerators etc) are worse.
1. Enable AppArmor
2. Done

Your distro already has AppArmor files for your distro software.

You can also kick it into learning mode if you desire.

You could also just stick to flatpaks/snaps - totally sandboxed.

You could choose Whonix where every app is an isolated VM.

Or choose tails where any egress is locked down and monitored.
And on Apple iPad/iOS too, Google is blocking this user from logging into Google account.

(sigh)
> Switzerland and Luxemburg

Ok, now look back to the life of ordinary swiss when things around were not good (aka worldwar 2 rationing. do you really think germany, france and italy will not pull a ukraine/belarus on them if they need to?) ...

Can you tell me, how normal people will prosper in these countries if things go bad around? Spoiler: they won't.

> You keep trying to die on this whataboutism hill by brining in the US

For all matters, people in Germany are EU citizens. They go down and up with the EU. I don't think it is a relevant comparison what some EU-landlocked microstates/money-laundromats do now if you think about the future: There is the EU. There is the US. There is China. There is the 3rd World. Largely EU might not be the worst bet all things considered (incl. now)...

> Damn, I didn't know Austria and Poland are distopic nightmares.

And now tell me about the innovative industries there which germany doesn't have?
I would not generalize to the whole of Europe. This is true of Germany, which dictates what happens in Europe. But even France is more dynamic. And if you look further North or East or South you also see more willingness to take on risk.
Ooh a sneak preview of Twitter's AI model, trained on tweets!
I don't get it. You need glasses anyway for everything else.

I've started using glasses and I'm not interested at all in getting a foldable.

What I would like is something like an Ubuntu phone. And better batteries.
Could you maybe find where that was in google street view? Out of curiosity for the secret doors !
My man living Her IRL
Keep it to yourself. What is this schoolyard tattle-tale behavior? Employees have a right to job hunt. Additionally, interviewing is a skill and people should do practice interviews when they don't want a new job and for jobs they don't want, so that they can be prepared when one they do want comes up. And they should do that because assholes like you do nothing to help them get those jobs and then take a fat slice on top of their paychecks.
If I think along the line of B5's technomages, Gandalf's staff is his cyberdeck. It has everything built into it, with a verbal and touch interface to access it. All he'd need is a small, highly directional speaker built into his cloak or hat, and he'd be set.

"You shall not pass!"

"Initializing scan. Acoustic scan of bridge indicates significant brittleness in materials. Initializing directional vibratory motivators to further destabilize bridge materials."
Yeah but we're talking about passing viruses between humans and pigs.
This is a silly statement. The technology doesn't embody any 'elitism', back in the day there were many channels/networks with non-technical users. Back when Shoutcast was a thing, servers often had an associated IRC channel where people would make requests, or just talk music, just as one example. This also makes the "keep technically illiterate users away" statement silly, I've seen middle school age kids connect to IRC channels without any apparent difficulty.
It must be easy to ignore a homeless population if you can just drive past them
Nothing about the post you responded to says "people are willing to pay for a more pleasant experience".

The closest is "people aren't willing to pay to improve an unpleasant experience" which isn't related to purchasing a laptop in anyway.
I love how the author puts dignity over safety. So timely.
> even as a sort of call for sympathy.

No call for sympathy, at all. At the end of the day, it is a box store. Nothing more, nothing less. It really isn't that big of a deal... I just won't go back. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

> I'm skeptical a Costco employee 'literally screamed' at you, that's grounds for getting fired.

Fine to be skeptical, but it happened.
I think this is somewhat a function of phones maturing, the way PCs did. I just don't need to replace it every two years anymore. The utility of doing so is declining and the price is rising.

I used to get a new computer every two years, now it's probably 6-10. Right now everyone I know on an iPhone 10 or earlier is a boomer, but I don't think that'll be true of the 15 in five years.

It also doesn't help Samsung that Apple's market share is growing. And Google's Pixel line is going mainstream.
>I looked at how well self-reported ancestry corresponds to hapmap populations.

>The mapping is very noisy.

>"race" as such isn't important

Sounds like quite the leap to reach the conclusion that you're trying to make.
What is desired is broad diversity of experience and perspective. Statistically, if that goal is achieved, it will also result in diversity of identity, because many experiences and perspective are highly correlated with different identities, not universally, but statistically. This is pretty clear if you talk to a number of people across differences in both perspective and identity.
Too bad. You got outvoted in a democracy. Because most people do not hold this view.
Vimoutliner/vimoutliner: Work fast, think well
> here is significant intimidation from criminals who are afraid this feature will disrupt their illegal and/or unethical businesses

he means adblockers and people that use adblockers, right?
I struggled to find a smartphone that doesn't have > 6 inches of screen and barely fits in my pocket.

I would prefer a 4 inch screen but since they are a fringe market by now, I would settle with a huge foldable screen instead.

Arguably I am not buying something from Samsung because of all the cruft that comes with their software but I can see the appeal in such a device.
Last I heard I think 25MW turbines were in some early stage of development. At least that is the biggest my former employer I recall was considering for their latest installation vessel. But I have been out of the loop for a while, so would love to hear an update.

The first 14MW was installed quite a few years ago (and it might have been upgraded to 15MW), so this is just a small-ish increase in max size. The big news, foe at least, is that it is Chinese. Siemens, Vestas and GE have some serious competition now it seems
Flatpak works fine for this. The discord flatpak only has access to my downloads. If I want to tweak that, I run the flatpak customizer UI. It's sort of vaguely annoying to have to restart the app.

Or I just run it in docker and only mount what I want. No VM overhead since cgroups are native.
>> I don't feel lucky, I feel frustrated. I get 3 reviewers and 3 completely different reasons to reject, often nonsensical (not joking, recently was rejected because a broken reference link to the appendix).

The people who review your papers in conferences and ask you why you didn't cite future arxiv papers are the same people who put their work on arxiv and cite each other's preprints. You can't rely on the process of "peer-review" on arxiv any more than you can rely on the conference peer-reviews because they're performed by the same people, and they're people who don't know what they're doing.

The sad truth is that the vast majority of the researchers in the machine learning community haven't got a clue what the hell they're doing, nor do they understand what anyone else is doing. The typical machine learning paper is poorly motivated, vaguely written, and makes no claims, nor presents any results, other than "our system beats some other systems". As to reproducibility, hell if we know whether any of that work is really reproducible. Everybody who references it ends up doing something completely different anyway and they just cite prior work as an excuse to avoid doing their job and properly motivating their work. The people who write those papers eventually get to be reviewers (by sheer luck), or sub-reviewers. They have no idea how to write a good paper, so they have no idea how to write a good review, either. And they couldn't recognise a good paper if it jumped up and bit them in the cojones.

I love to cite Geoff Hinton on this one:

GH: One big challenge the community faces is that if you want to get a paper
published in machine learning now it's got to have a table in it, with all
these different data sets across the top, and all these different methods
along the side, and your method has to look like the best one. If it doesn’t
look like that, it’s hard to get published. I don't think that's encouraging
people to think about radically new ideas.

Now if you send in a paper that has a radically new idea, there's no chance
in hell it will get accepted, because it's going to get some junior reviewer
who doesn't understand it. Or it’s going to get a senior reviewer who's
trying to review too many papers and doesn't understand it first time round
and assumes it must be nonsense. Anything that makes the brain hurt is not
going to get accepted. And I think that's really bad.

https://www.wired.com/story/googles-ai-guru-computers-think-...

So the problem is not arxiv or not arxiv, the problem is that peers in peer review lack expertise and knowledge and they can't do their job well.
So in that scenario, is it beneficial to society that someone who has a 50ms delay live feed can unload their shares at a higher price than someone with a 5s delay live feed? Or the same question for someone who has AI to parse the information and execute trades faster than the human?

There's a benefit to liquidity to everyone, but I don't really see a liquidity benefit faster than a few _minutes_, much less faster than a few _ms_: end individual traders don't even get to trade that fast anyway, they're just artificially disadvantaged against the institutions.
The GE Haliade X, smaller but not by a lot, maxes out at 7 rotations per minute, giving a rotor tip velocity in the vicinity of 80m/s. Generally noise considerations mean you don't aim for a tip velocity faster than that, although for a turbine that is only installed in offshore or other uninhabited locations, you might design for a higher tip velocity. Despite some advantages to higher velocity, though, considerations related to erosion caused by high speed impact of dust, water drops and ice particles become an issue long before you'd get to supersonic speeds.
Well, I don't know what to tell you other than "that doesn't mesh up with the reality of TCP".
I have observed that "keeping up with Jonases" may play a role here. My cousin that could easily afford it has bought it for some reason, then he's brother has bought it just because he had it - and the thing is, he could not easily afford it - and not even in the sense of why would you pay so much for a phone but could not easily afford an expense like that in general and he's bought it anyway just because he's brother had it.

I personally would not want to carry an even bigger phone in the pocket. I have an old S7 for 5 years now and I'm not looking forward to an upgrade because even the new non-foldable Samsungs are much bulkier (and probably nowhere near as durable - the phone is tougher than a brick - fell like 10 times on the hardest surfaces with no protection and only got a few scratches on the screen that are not visible when using the phone). By the way, anyone got recommendations for a new replacement?
I did use stackdriver for quite a while before I moved to Mimir. TBH its great that you are still sticking to opentelemetry. Stackdriver as metric storage is not even a wise option in todays world give there are some really good TSDB providers SaaS or otherwise that would do a much better job.

I moved away because of 2 primary reasons

1. The cost of stackdriver can add up with large-scale deployments or high-frequency metrics. It's essential to monitor and control usage to avoid unexpected billing.

2. I have experienced delays in metric updates, specifically at high frequency data. While the delays are usually minimal, they may not be ideal for some real-time monitoring use cases. FYI GCP on its own resources makes metrics available after 210s so you are always behind.

Going the TSDB route to reliably run storage has worked for me.

Also if this helps https://last9.io/blog/time-series-database-comparison/
Well, we’ve been going for a year and have <400 subs. So I think that counts? https://makernews.substack.com/