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Microsoft's goal is to have copilot present and monitoring everywhere you input data & interact with Windows (CP is always ready to help!)

This will provide an unprecedented layer telemetry gathering for Microsoft, including personal and sensitive data that wasn't as reliably available before.

Achieving one of the Gold Rings of surveillance is a powerful motivator.
Um, don't fill up at Brand X on the road? My millennial personal trainer said her dating prospects couldn't even change a tire let alone do an oil change, now I understand just how bad the situation was for her until she married a rocket engineer.
Many RSS readers implement a "share" button that can be used to post to a mastodon account. Is this different than the workflow you're describing?
That Go proverb comes to mind: "gofmt's style is nobody's favorite, but gofmt is everybody's favorite."

And I don't like gofmt's output, personally, but I immediately saw the benefit to community-wide adoption specifically because of my experiences with Ruby and RoR and every project having it's own specific little (typically also totalitarian, very teapot dictator in my experience) set of StyleCop configurations. Frankly, there's a high level of bikeshedding that can open yourself up to with configurable linters that I'm too old to give a shit about.

edit/ I have no horse in this race, either... I use neither of these languages today professionally.
Isn’t that I what I wrote?

Yes, the claimant is the only arbiter of the Content ID appeal, but if the uploader wants to take things further, they can force the matter from a Content ID claim to a DMCA takedown, which can ultimately be decided by a court - if a takedown is filed, a counter-notification is filed, and the rightsholder decides to sue.

It is not permanently in the hands of the claimant. If the uploader believes they are not infringing with enough conviction that they are willing to potentially be sued over it, they can turn a Content ID claim into a legal matter. And if the rightsholder backs down, the uploader wins.

The person I was responding to claimed that YouTube doesn’t follow the law because they don’t follow the DMCA process in relation to Content ID.

This is what they wrote:

>What YouTube does instead, which is absolutely unacceptable and far beyond what the law requires, is put the purported copyright holder in charge of judging the video poster's appeal, and naturally they tend to say "no". No counter-notice mechanism, video doesn't go back up.

While that is, of course, technically true, in reality it’s not, since nearly [0] all Content ID claims can be turned into DMCA takedowns if the uploader is dissatisfied with the result of their Content ID appeal. And when that happens, there is the counter-notice mechanism that the parent comment claimed does not exist.

[0] A very small minority of takedowns can’t be appealed due to YouTube’s contractual obligations with some major studios. I don’t know for sure, but I believe those contracts are intended to make it so people can’t upload copies, let’s say, of obviously infringing feature films, and then force Sony Pictures to go through the DMCA takedown process with what may be an eleven year old kid in Vietnam, who would be all-but-impossible to sue.
Using AI customer service chatbots really is a hoot. The most egregious examples they add an ai autocomplete service to your replies. So the thing asks you for your email and in the textbox its so very helpfully prefilled bob@example.com that you now need to overwrite with your actual email. Pretty fun to think of the resources consumed delivering this experience too
This case, at least as described in the article, has essentially no similarity to the Microsoft Internet Explorer trial (which, in case you forgot, Microsoft won on appeal).

Microsoft got in trouble for tying its monopoly in operating systems to OEMs preinstalling Internet Explorer. Essentially, they told OEMs that they would not sell them Windows unless they agreed to help Microsoft kill Netscape. That's a very different kind of antitrust complaint than what the article describes, which is Apple building seamless connections between its hardware and services while offering second-tier connections for competitors.

The Xcode angle is interesting, but likely not important enough for the Justice Department to sue over. Hardware for developers is negligible in the grand scheme of things.
Japanese public transportation made me never want to take the Amtrak/Subway/US Airlines again. It was astonishing how well it works there.
The sound of a failing hard drive gives me no joy.
Node.js, React, Postgres - boring technology :)
> if that was the argument, then that would also mean that we shouldn’t allow any newly built 8s and 9s to enter service, and I don’t see that happening

Yes, that's a fair point, although doing that would require some sort of modification of the existing certification of 8s and 9s, and I'm not sure how that would work. If those certifications were simply revoked, all 8s and 9s already in service would be grounded until the issue was fixed. But if they are simply left alone, new 8s and 9s can come into service since those variants are certified. An Airworthiness Directive, which is what is currently issued by the FAA for 8s and 9s, by itself doesn't prevent new units from coming into service.
And here I thought he was helped by a crystal ball...
Languages are not created in a vacuum, or at least sane ones are not.

Go failed to take into account the last 50 years of PL design, and it shows in its ridiculous number of shortcomings.
Are you sure? I remember that being present briefly in a beta several years ago, but then it was removed. I don't remember it ever coming back.
That was an amazing read, thanks for sharing all those details. Partway through I was amazed to find a code snippet that I need for my iOS PDF editor: your map of language to system fallback font! I had figured out part of it but hadn't done the whole "type in every language and see what I get" step yet.
Same experience. Everyone is a libertarian until they meet kids and realize how impressionable and gullible even the smartest of them are at a young age -- easy prey for the advertising industry, the junk food industry, the junk media industry, and worse. Giving them total freedom at too young an age doesn't really help them be free, it helps them be slaves to someone else with more ad dollars.

Libertarianism and freedom, etc, rest upon a foundation of a well educated society with members who have enough understanding of themselves and their world to resist exploitative influences -- you are not born ready for freedom, in fact, you are born literally a baby, totally dependent for years. After years of good parenting which helps you develop self respect, values, and critical thinking, hopefully then you are ready to responsibly embrace that freedom.

Moreover, how much my perspective was changed made me realize some problems in today's society could have to do with the fact that being a parent or at least being around and being responsible for kids, was a universal fact of life for nearly all adults until very recently, but now it's possible for a young adult to barely ever encounter a child through their entire 20s and beyond. No wonder it's easy to end up with a worldview that does not account for how children can fit into it.
wait so, because similar planes have not had failures yet, i should accept risk of death for airline profitability?
I understand the feeling looking for justice served by "breaking up", but in this case I don't think that's ever going to work. In fact, that will make even harder to regulate them in future since they're nominally smaller entities, but forming a cohesive cartel.

The market itself is reinforcing this distorted incentive structure, so even if you break them up into 100 smaller companies they will keep doing so in a more secretive way since they will still operate in the same market with aligned incentives. Breaking up works effectively only when you can effectively split the market those are operating on, something like AT&T or Standard oil. Big techs are not bound on geographic areas, so you're going to spend several years on uncertain fights only to make it even worse.

What we really need is precisely targeted legislation that will prevent anti-competitive business practice itself. EU has been successful here with GDPR, DMA and they're willing to extend them even further. US is holding everyone back here. This is a highly political problem. Any judicial treatment will only be temporary mitigation and those will quickly find out a way to circumvent it.
> What are you talking about, Tesla doesn't ship any autonomous features. Driver assist features do not make a car autonomous. Tesla has always plainly said you must monitor the car at all times autopilot is engaged, the exact same way that turning on cruise control in any other car doesn't make the car autonomous even though the car is managing the speed.

What are you talking about?

What Tesla markets and sells falls into SAE Autonomous Ground Vehicle classifications, just not level 5.

Nothing I wrote spoke to anything Tesla sells being L5 (or any particular level at all).

Edit: On the topic of MCAS, it strikes me as a system akin to around an SAE L2/L3, overriding pilot inputs to prevent a perceived crash/stall risk. This AIUI is well within the autonomy space Teslas operate...
> especially in small Europe

What's small about the scale of Europe in this context? Even taking the extremely conservative measurement of Madrid to Berlin, that's 1200 miles/2000 km, which is comparable to the entire length of the Japanese isles, or the distance from Beijing to the South China Sea, or the distance from Boston to Minneapolis and/or Miami. Speaking as an American, I'd be over the moon if our passenger rail was half as nice as Europe's, and we can't even use the scale of the country as an excuse.
Zeiss at CES 2024-Multifunctional smart glass
>cognitive dissidents

Heh, I love the term, and am surprised on how little it's used based on Google searches for the term. Also, how many people misuse dissidents instead of dissonance mistakenly.
And they definitely increase the prices for the customers. Apps charge you more when you buy from the app/play store vs if you buy from the internet.
> The contracting agency isn’t an invisible, blameless middleman.

Fantastic, you agree with the NLRB!

> "Cognizant and Google have codetermined essential terms and conditions of employment and have been joint employers"
How about the right to open loot boxes? Play gacha games? Play the lottery? Watch porn 24/7? Jerk off 24/7? Be childless? Be an alcoholic? Play games 24/7? Climb without a safety harness?
I think this is a wrong way to look at the Academia, theoretical groundwork is essential for building practical things.
Yeah, super slow startup of apps, themes not applying correctly with snap versions when they do fine with non-snap versions, inability to control when updates happen (this has been fixed since 20.04 but it was a huge PITA), a zillion weird entries in fstab, and multiple ways to manage packages on the same system. It is all a mess. I just recently moved off of 20.04 and after trying a few distros ended up on Linux Mint because not only are snaps completely disabled, they have a system in place for basing off vanilla debian instead of ubuntu if ubuntu ever makes it impossible to skip the snaps.
They can eventually settle down. Israel atrocities are already two orders of magnitude worse at this point.
"On an up-to-date Windows PC with Copilot enabled, you can currently do the same thing by pressing Windows + C. For PCs without Copilot enabled, including those that aren't signed into Microsoft accounts, the Copilot key will open Windows Search instead"

Just tried Windows + C on my Win 10 machine; it brings up a dialog that helpfully informs me "Cortana in Windows as a standalone app is deprecated."
Ah so aggressive keyboard trendsetters control the market then. It’s more likely that these keyboards will be a rarity. And when people see a keyboard with this key in a few years they’ll think, “what a weird old keyboard you have”.
Google and Apple simply shouldn't be allowed to operate exclusive App Stores on their devices.
I'm as quick to jump on the Medium roastwagon as anyone else, but I will say Towards Data Science has a surprising number of quality tutorials running the full spectrum of data science tasks.

That and they have great SEO, you basically can't avoid them.
I like the process that goes into these "imagine the architecture of AGI" articles. It's all hypothetical, but it's really fun.

But it's a missed opportunity if you don't embed LLMs in some of the core modules -- and highlight where they excel. LLMs aren't identical to any part of the human brain, but they do a remarkable job of emulating elements of human cognition: language, obviously, but also many types of reasoning and idea exploration.

Where LLMs fail is in lookup, memory, and learning. But we've all seen how easy it is to extend them with RAG architectures.

My personal, non-scientific prediction for the basic modules of AGI are:

- LLMs to do basic reasoning

- a scheduling system that runs planning and execution tasks

- sensory events that can kick off reasoning, but with clever filters and shortcuts

- short term memory to augment and improve reasoning

- tools (calculators etc.) for common tasks

- a flexible and well _designed_ memory system -- much iteration required to get this right, and i don't see a lot of work being done on it, which is interesting

- finally, a truly general intelligence would have the capability to mutate many of the above elements based on learning (LLM weights, scheduling parameters, sensory filters, and memory configurations). But not everything needs to be mutable. many elements of human cognition are probably immutable as well.
Probably some of the Stable Diffusion models as well. You can force it but I got a chuckle when I put in a set of prompts for an illustrated barbarian scene completely unrelated to Magic and one of the rendered images was a magic card...
What was used to make these animated diagrams?! Anyone know?
You can use Rust with QML[1].

QML is actually pretty amazing. I've been building my block editor[2] view entirely in QML while the model is in C++. This separation of logic and presentation works great. And yes, there are some crashes sometimes (that I find quite easy to debug thanks to the built-in debugger), but take for example a similar app that's built with Rust and Dart[3], in my testing there were still memory leaks that caused my computer to hang. It's better to know you have a bug than for it to be hidden from you.

I agree with parent commenter, saying these cross-platform frameworks will end up supporting the least common denominator set of features. But I found with external open source libraries, the community is catching up very fast. For example, you want the awesome translucency macOS apps have for your Qt app? Here you go[4]. Many such cases. It's also pretty straightforward to add your own custom OS-dependent code, especially so, if someone already open sourced his approach. I recently wanted to move the traffic light buttons on macOS for my app, but couldn't figure the Objective-C code for that. I ended up looking at either Tauri or Electron source code and found my answer.

[1] https://github.com/woboq/qmetaobject-rs

[2] https://www.get-plume.com/

[3] https://www.appflowy.io/

[4] https://github.com/stdware/qwindowkit
the whole point of the exemption they are requesting is to avoid "taking a test."
Long-term istat menus user here too, for the same reasons. I've found and removed so much crap through the years because I could notice it. I've fixed so many dumb issues because I could see it was doing absurd amounts of pointless, unexpected work.

And for istat menus specifically: it's super stable and they're extremely fast to support new OSes, unlike many fancy menubar apps. Easily worth the money for me.
I have. Live in Philadelphia near one of the worst open air heroin markets. While I empathize with people having to deal with such a mess, I do all the time, I still would not want to persecute them. That is a slippery slope. Am I also awful because I partake occasionally? I think not. Neither are all my friends who are professionals that pay taxes and bother no one.
It's hard to buy a TV with a remote control that has no streaming provider buttons. I guess that's where they are getting the idea from.
I'm the best musician on earth but I can't play any instruments but I can imagine a really amazing song, you'll just never hear it because it would take 1000s of hours of me practicing to actually learn to play so that I could prove it. So you'll just have to make do with my words and believe me when I say I'm the best musician alive.

Here's an article I wrote describing the song but without actually writing any of the notes because I can't read or write music either.

But I've listened to a lot of music and my tunes are better than those.

I went to school for music description so I know what I'm talking about.
The short version of this is:

> People are not very good at predicting what will bring them (enduring) happiness / joy.

The bullet list of recommendations are a bit of a sideways approach to lead you into things like building meaningful relationships/connections, experience life alongside people that mean something to you, work towards having autonomy (be efficient with your spending, don't waste money, delay consumption if it means being able to invest and have greater freedom in how you spend later).
You have space to do all of those things in the city too. I have a pellet smoker and a big garden. There's also a large park nearby with a playground and things like that. A pool is an option too but I don't think we'd use it.

I do think you have a point about space/interest/attitude and I find that (and I bet we could actually prove this with survey data if it exists) people tend to not want to have their neighbors over in suburbia. People sometimes walk their dogs and say hi (when I was in the suburbs) but it wasn't an actual interaction. Usually people just wanted to get back to their house as fast as possible and not have a conversation. Or maybe I'm just a scary looking person. Though we've had lots of neighbors over at our current house and have all of their phone numbers. That was hard to do in the suburbs too.

> Easier to pack up kids and gear for a quick drive than pack it all on municipal transport.

Idk. I have gear and I just walk out to my detached garage and throw it in the car too. I guess maybe it was easier when the garage was attached to the house? But then you have to suffer the bad house design so that's not great. I'm not sure why you would think living in the city would require putting things in municipal transport. Think less about NYC and more about walkable neighborhoods.
> It's a reverse light guide. We've been beam forming for a long time, it's unsurprising that the reverse is possible (imaging through a light pipe).

Beamforming in RF frequencies is old, beamforming at optical wavelengths is pretty new shit. Doing the reverse, that is receiving a signal, is brand spanking new fresh out the cow hot shit at any frequency.
Cloudflare’s stats also put mobile traffic and desktop traffic from the main browsers (assuming Edge and Firefox are for their desktop versions) at roughly equal 46%, causing Firefox to jump to ~9-10% of the desktop browser market.

That really isn’t bad imho.
That's also easy: the junkies just want drugs. They don't care about the rest of us at all. If the junkies had access to the drugs they wanted, you won't see them on the streets, they will be in an institution somewhere, being high. The problems start when the junkies don't have access to their drugs...
Unfortunately, these performance monitors can make the computer use more power, by waking up every second to update the display, and therefore preventing the computer from entering deeper idle states. It's the same reason the default on-screen clocks no longer shows seconds by default, and blinking text cursors often blink for only five seconds or so before becoming static: waking up every second to update the screen can be costly.

Of course, a performance monitor which updates less often can avoid that issue (for instance, atop by default updates every ten seconds), but most people who run these graphical performance monitors want second-by-second updates.
I'd say 85-90% of my work these days is programming. Both the actual coding and thinking through problems or architecture decisions, benchmarking, testing/comparing approaches, etc.

It really depends on the position and nature of the responsibilities though. I've had position where at least half my time was meetings, and others where there was just a lot of Slack chatter to work through during the day. Right now I'm on a limited-time contract with a very specific project to iterate on and finish up, so I don't get pulled into peripheral company decision meetings, 1-1s, etc as much. This appears nicely conducive to programming time.
Zeiss multifunctional smart glass

Product page: https://www.zeiss.com/oem-solutions/products-solutions/multi...

NASA/ESA mention: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/zeiss_automotive-augmentedrea...
Not the drone delivery program I was promised
Almost zero. I refuse to classify YAML as code.
If you move the goalpost even more, it's gonna clip of bounds.
Hamas is not, and never was a majority in Palestine. It's trending upward since mid-november (what's happening in the West Bank might be the reason why).
He is ignorant of it even before 2000, see their for loop fck up.
Microsoft got into trouble because they were a supplier to computer companies (they supplied the OS and some software) and abused their market share to mess with other suppliers (browser makers).

Apple is themselves the computer maker. The situation is not similar even though both MS and Apple are big companies.
They all state that openly. In case of Larian it may even be true.

But I still move that makes BG 3 "not indie".
When an addict reaches that point, they are almost certainly costing society resources. Not just being non-productive, but everything from social services to law enforcement, they are costing the rest of us resources which would be better used as an investment in our collective future. Society has a legitimate interest in the problem.
Apple's behavior seems much more anticompetitive because, for example, they ban third parties from offering apps that interoperate e.g. with iMessage.

That's worlds worse than just making sure your app is the most convenient option, while other options can easily be installed.
This is before considering that the gas car is at least 10k cheaper and probably closer to 20 to 30k.
You could close your eyes and then as far as you could tell nothing would exist. Then you could go around calling everyone a liar who claims that reality is still there even though you aren’t seeing it.
You are correct.

Swift is lighter on the eyes, but it still uses the same APIs when paired with UIKit/AppKit.

SwiftUI is a different thing though. It's like React for UIKit/AppKit and has a different API.