skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the late 90's and early 2000's I learned all that data structure stuff but that was mostly in the first 2 years. Beyond that many classes were about software engineering, project management, etc. I learned Agile (then in it's infancy) as well as doing a complete waterfall project (which turned out poorly -- as expected). But even at that time most other schools did not offer those kinds of courses in their CS education.
Yes custom class loaders can solve this. Eclipse had an entire OSGI module system that did this among other things. In general though Java (and Kotlin) have been trending toward simpler and lighter though for years and I’d recommend just sorting out your dependencies, even drop some, to avoid that kind of thing.
> GCC..there are ways to make it work on Windows (through cygwin or MinGW)

I assume it would be working on WSL also? Which seems like a simple solution to the mess that is developing on Windows, especially in Python.
One of the major problems with apartment living here in Sydney (or Melbourne) is the lack of 3 bedroom apartments - there just isn’t any. So once you have a family you either stay in a 2 bedroom (most of which are pretty small) or move miles out to the outer suburbs which have zero amenities and commute for over an hour each way.
> we'll do a fair amount of that stuff. From trivia night to the knitting club, I'd like to be a 'Third Place' for people to have fun.

Sounds like a lot of fun!

> will anyone care besides me? I personally don't shop or eat at places that don't accept cash, require an app, or only allow online takeout orders - but that's not everybody by a long shot.

FWIW, I've been a dev for 10 years and have met many tech people -- I don't think I've met anyone IRL who would take that stance. Lots of people who notice that kind of stuff and wish it were better, but not to the level of buy/not buy.

Just a bit of anecdata for you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This was really interesting, particularly seeing how a lot of these are probably mistakes stemming from familiarity with syntax of other languages
There's a very good documentary about this guy called Accidental Courtesy - well worth seeking out.
Please accept my unreserved apologies, Heather! No offense is intended. I can speak for everyone working on Automerge when I say that we've very much appreciated Matthew's work and have indeed spent quite a lot of time studying and responding to it. We spoke about it in person last week, in fact.

As for the use-cases, I do not mean to exclude live collaboration from consideration, just to note that it hasn't been our focus or come up often in the use-cases we study. Live meeting notes are definitely a real use-case and I don't dispute the performance results you show.

As for Y-js, it's a wonderful piece of software with excellent performance and a vibrant community made by exceptional people like Kevin Jahns. We simply have slightly different goals in our work, which undoubtedly reflect where our engineering investments lie.

Indeed, your paper did not measure the same things we look at, and that's why it found new results. Hopefully in time we will join the other systems in performing well on your benchmarks as well.
How much was his cleaning fee? I imagine Airbnb employees are very different hosts from the average one.
This a great story, but maybe add 2017 to the title, dang?
Isn't that supposed to be a positive mark?

"Yeah, he ruined the product, let's promote him to Senior Product Manager" is not a thing that people say very often.
Fair enough, but this was going on during the good times, too.
Look into Windows debloating tools. I use Atlas OS which debloat Windows after a fresh install. There is also XToolBox, Chris Titus's Windows Utility, Win10ShutUp and many more, that let you pick and choose what to remove. It's great for privacy and also gets rid of Microsoft's annoying "features".
None of this is actually about CSAM. That’s just the unassailable cover story for implementing society-wide surveillance.
I think both viewpoints (contemporary civilisation is good and we should let "uncivilised" people live without interference) are reconcilable: I can believe that modern bureaucratic liberal democracy is the best system we have, partly because it allows for dissenting views, partly because of other reasons. At the same time I can advocate for letting groups of people control their territory and form states that aren't liberal democracies, since that's yet another form of allowing for dissenting views.

This runs into problems for global matters (global climate change and pollution) and conflicts with an overriding belief in a global morality (depending on how much you are willing to entertain the idea that your idea of morality isn't the "correct" one), but some compromise variation of this idea is certainly self-consistent.
https://jblevins.org/log/kbd
For WeWork to be a hedge, Softbank would have had to hold a very big short position on a company whose creditors it owes billions to.
Ads, generically, are one thing. Car insurance when I'm not looking for car insurance. The problem with targeted advertising is when they're for something I didn't know I wanted. A band I like is coming to town, or a product that solves a problem I've been having. because then I'm spending money I wasn't previously going to spend.
The proliferation of extremely expensive algorithms isn't necessarily good. A lot of ink has been spilled about how much useless work crypto does. We should consider the impact of AI on the total computational resources of the species carefully.
Coinbase is heading for bankruptcy and Binance is a criminal operation.

FTX was also a $32B company until it wasn’t.
That doesn't seem to be the case based on how I am understanding what was said?

If RCS goes through my carrier it is up to my carrier if it's Google's implementation or not? Meaning Google's servers or not?

If the person I am talking too is on an Android phone I would also assume the same, that the text is likely going through Google's servers at some point.

Needing to know whether or not a specific contact is using Google's RCS implementation seems like quite the hassle when "Google" is the flaw for RCS in my opinion.

If I am misunderstanding, I would love to be corrected.
Show us the paper that sounds sick
That’s my suspicion with Philips Hue’s 4.6 rating on the iOS App Store. They’ve got to have gamed the system somehow - it’s not a good app, and their “you need an account now…for reasons” change is unpopular
> Sometimes, Brian, your mom is right.

I'm sure Brian's mom is happy she was wrong and doesn't share your negative assessment.

> Removing homes from the rental market, increasing housing prices. Encouraging more treatment of housing as an investment.

This is a policy failure. We need to build more housing. Zoning, taxes, and NIMBYism are to blame.

Supply and demand curves are the law of the land. Add more supply and the problem is solved.
I bought a free smart switches and haven't implemented snything with them yet. Part of it is because I don't want to actually deploy these things and then be stuck with some crappy proprietary app. Home Assistant looks pretty cool in that regard.

Are the device brand that are more adequate for Home Assistant?
It's been a while since I gave up on it, so I don't remember clearly. But I think it gets reinstalled within a couple of days. It's probably because of some idiotic policy my employer implements, now that I think of it.

It's still incredibly annoying, though. It's not something that brings benefit to me, so it's not something I ever use.
I’ve seen some guides in arduous ways to get around the Microsoft Account requirement, but I can’t say from experience. I abandoned Windows when the hardware requirements meant I couldn’t upgrade my personal computer to Win11.
I use opengarage. https://opengarage.io/
I think the "other" in the Wikipedia articles refers to that the six listed (Andrew Viterbi, Franklin Antonio, Adelia Coffman, Andrew Cohen, Klein Gilhousen, and Harvey White) are in addition to the "leader" Irwin Jacobs, not that they are in addition to seven unlisted founders.
Jetpacks aren't here because they're fundamentally incompatible with real-world society. Imagine giving a typical driver a jetpack or a flying car, and then think about how a traffic accident would play out.

Or in other words, we already have flying cars - but the form of a flying car that's compatible with reality is called a helicopter, and piloting one comes with a fuck ton of expensive hoops to jump through.

That's the overall problem with all the cool sci-fi tech - it's cool in an action movie, when the protagonists are the only ones who get to use it. It stops being cool and becomes either useless or dangerous, once every rando gets to use it in their daily lives.
Sorry. You are correct. I forgot that it's CMake that can now generate Ninja files.
> Is it even possible to run Windows anymore without a Microsoft account?

Sure. On Pro you choose Organization/Domain setup and create the local account. Home is harder and the process keeps shifting. There are guides.

> If you only have a local account, OneDrive has nothing to sync to, right?

Mostly correct except if you have a local account and an MS login for Store/Office/etc. It isn't syncing automatically (so far) but could be triggered accidentally.

Another first today. I saw a dot next to my username (Start->username) that was naggy notification to MS Account myself.
I just upgraded my windows workstation to 128gigs so i could load larger language models for only $300. 8 gigs seems rather absurd of apple.

Apple charges 200 bux for 16 gigs or 400 bux for 24 gigs.
Is this a US thing?
Cut only marks files until they are finally moved with Ctrl-V or replaced by another selection (or the user closes the window)
NuScale/UAMPS Carbon Free Power Project Is Terminated
So was FTX
It has a dedicated item in the Edit menu, that becomes visible when you press the Option key. This is a well-known macOS idiom.

Homework exercise: go through various macOS apps' menus and see what happens if you hold the Option key.
One quarter of GDP is persuasion (1995)
So meta got in trouble for not having the personal ads opt out by default, so they have to ask their users to opt in.

But instead of it just being opt in, the options are effectively

1. Opt in
2. Quit
3. Pay

I'm not sure that's quite right. There is effectively no "I want to see ads, but you cannot use my data to target"

Am I wrong?
no

ai is demonstrably useful
crypto is not
beanie babies were booming as an investment vehicle, buying one was trivial, many people received very tangible value.

It'll be interesting when there is more distinction between the two in utility. LLMs already have a fair amount of utility in their relatively early stages and I've certainly seen meaningful adoption of diffusion model generated images to replace stock photo usage.
What We Owe One Another: The Political Economy of Open Source [video]
I've managed to avoid the Windows 11 "upgrade" so far by disabling my motherboard's TPM in its BIOS menu. Not sure what I'll do in 2025 when Windows 10 hits EOL.
Hah, reminds me of when they tried to justify having a max of 16GB of memory
Sony sells TVs that cost just a bit more than the competition but you can easily not opt-in to ads during initial setup (they are not selected by default!).

Sadly Google seems to insist on showing YT recommendations to matter what on Google tvs, but you can just opt into "app only mode" and then you get none of that.
So many “elected officials” and “government officials” are compromised by blackmail it’s a foregone conclusion as they operate in a handicapped manner as far as policies that make this country competitive.
what's their cut on something like that?
CT would not be allowed if ETSI does not allow it. Neither would distrusting that mis-issuing CA be allowed.
At Weave, we're building the operating system for drug research with a collaborative platform and AI. We're using LLMs to speed up compliance and regulation documentation to start and expanding from there.

We're launching to design partners this week and need to grow our team. We're looking for engineers for our software and AI stacks.

We're an experienced team looking for individuals who are experts at their craft while relentless at solving customer problems.

Principal AI Engineer: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Weave/5011c72b-9929-4367-a582-d1d66...

Staff Frontend Engineer: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Weave/645b4ace-0dc1-4411-b417-cd669...

Senior Backend Engineer: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Weave/a628804d-3658-428b-8861-e7f7d...
LoJack-alike and accident alerting features do make some sense to be offered directly by the car maker. The latter is obviously difficult to retrofit, and the former would likely be easier to defeat if retrofitted.

I don't buy the music and navigation arguments in a smartphone-equipped world, but I think a good case can be made for those two.
You asked for it. what about a captcha challenge to open your garage? Who is laughing now?
Smarttube has sponsorblock built in. Even though I have YT Premium, it’s a much better experience than stock app for this feature alone.
My biggest concern wouldn't be the initial setup but rather the ongoing maintenance. A local junior dev would be even worse than DIY -- what happens when their code inevitably breaks?
When I lived in NYC and like most didn’t own a car this was the way it worked (sans the neighbor, delivering a package to the wrong recipient is a big no no, and makes some huge assumptions about the neighbor, relationship to the neighbor, and sensitivity of the delivery). If you weren’t home you got a hang tag. They attempted redelivery a few times, held it for a while for pickup, then sent it back.

I worked, like most folks, and people are not generally home. The pickup location took two hours to get to via public transit. That’s a four hour round trip. There was one and only one pickup location in the entire NYC region for fedex.

It made life impossible. Amazon came along and decided to take responsibility for losses directly and instructed carriers to leave packages and not reattempt delivery or hold them. Customers vastly preferred this, carriers too as they saved tons of money. Amazon got a reputation for being much more convenient to order from. Their losses as a percentage were low compared to essentially owning mail order due to the convenience. When I had packages stolen they immediately shipped a replacement no questions asked.

Amazon Key is an attempt to mitigate theft but also a lot of folks just feel uncomfortable with packages on their front step. The idea of leaving you garage slightly open for deliveries isn’t a new one, but the Key product improves on that by only opening for the delivery person and recording their interactions to ensure they don’t do something they shouldn’t.

I used it briefly but I didn’t like it because I have a workshop in my garage and I just didn’t want people seeing what I’m working on. I wasn’t worried they would rob me per se, just didn’t like showing my work in progress to random strangers. If it opened the garage slightly to allow the package delivery I would have kept it but it opened 100%.
Are there people who really think this is not a PR stunt? Pardon my cynicism but I call bullshit on all of this not being organized/orchestrated by publicist.

> It's wild (vulnerable, transparent, kind, generous, and humbling) for the CEO of a $60B company to welcome complete strangers into his home to host them – including cooking together and showing them the city – for a weekend.

This phrase is outright insulting in my view. Do you really think you will be in the company of a billionaire (and CEO of a PUBLIC company) without even basic vetting? Give me a break.
There's another post linked within this one which is really interesting and goes into EEPROM programming!

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/16183/data-r...
It's fine for those functions to be a casualty of the owners choice to turn off the network, just like with a phone. If automakers want to use a cellular connection in your car for non-critical functions, it should come with a legitimate user-uncontrollable off switch, just like airplane mode on a phone.
Oh god, I remember...
But how much are you willing to pay for this service?

because it's not like human travel agents don't exist today, just like human drivers exist today. Does having an AI book the tickets for you meaningfully change the things for you, the customer?
In my experience, it's the opposite. Day in day out I tell patients to exercise and eat better. Some people manage to change their lifestyle, get better and even get off medications such as statins. Many don't and medication ends up being the only thing keeping things under control.

Then there are the patients who will destroy you on social media when you tell them to take some responsibility because that's "intolerance" of their morbid obesity. Plenty of people out there looking for easy pill solutions to everything.
> With AI, those same scammers are just a small fraction of the overall market

Are they really?

A lot of these fly-by-night operations are just glorified SASS apps sticking a few tokens in front of your text before it goes to ChatGPT and calling the whole thing a new AI application.

There's definitely a low of low-effort crap in the market today in "AI". There's some real gems out there for sure but... my guard is up. Some of these businesses have no actual business model and are coasting purely on hype.

And that's probably the _better_ of AI startups these days, in that it actually has a product, actually has a businessplan (a crappy one but one exists). There's even worse crap than this out there.
It works for 27 years just fine.
This is rather suspect, to say the least.
This has happened to me and it’s causing me a lot of headaches. Haven’t found a solution yet as I’ve not had the energy to figure it out.
true, like there are many cults that last for a while before they become murderous or just peter out. when it scales up to country level (USSR, China, Cambodia, Cuba...) communism is always murderous. Just give me an example that contradicts that.
It’s their version of “whoishiring”
I suggest (if you really want/need to use Windows) to just use LTSC version.
> C-suites view support (IT in my case) as a cost-center, without seeming to understand that our infrastructure is what all revenue travels over.

I think that's well understood as cost-centers go. What's also understood is that improving that infrastructure beyond a certain point doesn't change how much revenue travels over it.
The question of removing fortran from scipy has happened a few times, and never got anywhere for the reasons you gave. A lot of scipy itself contains fortran code that would take man years to rewrite.

Several key parts using fortran have been removed, once it became possible. For example fft stuff.
Microservices are Resume Driven Development, the leading paradigm of our industry and others. People will always optimize for the incentive structures of their environments.

The most important person in every company is the CEO. He sets down the culture of the company and creates these incentives either directly or indirectly. The only solution to RDD is for the CEO to be tech oriented, avoid hiring people who jump companies every couple years, build a great work environment, and compensate people well.
Only in text-editing contexts.
AI/ML is certainly going to get integrated everywhere ultimately and in a lot of things that will get hidden to the average consumer, like medical imaging.

What is really hype right now is how AI is going to upset all our day to day lives and earn billions for startups.

It is probably going to be a bit more incremental than the hype right now, and most of the profits will likely go to the already established tech companies.

ChatGPTs AI assistants are already seen as a sign that a good number of AI startups that are a thin layer around someone else's LLM will collapse due to zero moat.

It also isn't even clear where the profits are going to come from GPT/LLMs other than from NVIDIA selling shovels to the miners. Beyond that it will probably be the existing tech companies and they may be running them at a considerable loss for a long time to come.
I'm a non-believer. Counter arguments:

1) Not 55% from your article. Youngest boomer is 59. That's about middle of the 55-64. So split the difference, it's 43.8%. Millenials are larger than boomers. Gen X is larger than Silent generation. If your thesis of them not being able to buy when they die off is correct, well, see #2 and #4 below.

2) People that inherit don't have to sell. Many will simply rent as it could be tax advantageous. Or they move in.

3) Construction costs (labor, materials) will inflate minimizing new supply.

4) The Fed has no choice but to bring rates back down and keep printing. National debt is $33T which is crazy but unfunded liabilities are 211T! We're well on our way to paying 1T in annual interest. 65% of spending is mandatory. Debt historically % of GDP is 46.9%. End of 2022 - 97%. [1]. Interest rates cannot remain historically elevated and the only way out of the debt load is to print print print. This helps assets and affordability (debt service) for investors and the genx, millenials to acquire. The US and world got drunk off a cheap dollar.

So I disagree on the macro of your thesis. Certainly some areas will be affected though with boomer/silent passings but that will be due to a demographic change in demand, gen x and younger not desiring those areas for numerous reasons.

I'll be holding assets as inflation continues, and probably rips again in the near future. It will be traditional inflation (actual economy) or inflation in the financial economy (stocks, assets). One or both have to rip from inflation. There's no way out of the debt load.

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/publication/58888
> What we need is a radical change in the food we eat and how we live our lives.

That for sure would obviate the need for such pharmaceutical countermeasures, but achieving such radical change would be very difficult and time consuming. I'm glad we have some options to improve the quality and quantity of peoples lives while we work on that.
But don’t worry, they still nag users for unnecessary donations!
I get it, there's usually another metric that's at fault. Increasing Edge browser use by underhanded techniques on every install is easier than convincing users to install it. Boosting MSN hits by having a hundred million computers constantly downloading content is easier than making content people share. But the net result is going to be more of us opting out. It's a real Yahoo approach.
Believe this is called the "missing middle." AKA, low-rise apartment buildings.
Ah, you're talking about during an actual court proceeding? I was thinking just in the courthouse/police station/etc. generally.

In an actual court proceeding, things might be a bit different. In my state, anyway, the court itself makes audio and video recording of the proceeding and prohibits others from doing so. I'm OK with that, but I wouldn't have a huge issue if they allowed others to do it too. Outside of a court proceeding, though, I have a larger issue.
Use IoT Enterprise LTSC. Comes without the bloat by default.
And Microsoft wonders why I don't want to install Windows 11...
prediction: next version will also make you watch an ad before being allowed to exit