skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Loss leader. It is uber/airbnb. Book revenue, regardless of economics, and then debt finance against that. Hope one day to lock in customers, or raise prices, or sell the company.
Not the operating system:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_Verifier
Absolutely not, but ChatGPT generated some Lean, I posted it in a comment. I'm not set up to run that, downloading stuff now. I guess we'll see.

[edit] I have deleted the half-ass ChatGPT generated Lean because it doesn't compile yet and that's lame. Working on it.
Have any other popular operating systems implemented something similar recently? If so that would be quite the tell that Microsoft are being coerced into this.
> Where analytics and ML does come into play is deciding which things out of their enormous catalogue they push to individual users at any one time […]

Except they don't. Only Netflix has a vague reminiscence of ML/analytics-driven recommendations. The rest of streaming platforms offer anything but personalisation, which is particularly bewildering considering the financial and engineering resources available to the streaming behemoths. I do not have subscriptions for each streaming platform out there, but out of the several ones I do, Disney+ and especially Prime are the worst offenders that throw random trash either into the home screen or into the «personalisation» section, e.g. «because you have watched The Expanse, we thought you would like an NBA season / rugby World Cup» and stuff like that. You would think that obsessively clicking the «Like» button after watching something you actually liked would influence the personalisation, except it does not. Disney+, again, fills up the home screen with garbage I would never fathom could even exist.

The thing is that with the currently available technology, building a capable (it does not have to be perfect) recommendation is not that hard. At work, we almost daily design and build solutions that employ semantic similarity search / something, and with the current crop of multimodal LLM's that can generate vector embeddings with ease, it is relatively easy to build out a recommendation engine or algorithm tailored for the needs of a specific streaming platform.

Granted, specific optimisations are required and there will be unique new challenges in there; however, crafting such a solution is well within the realm of possibility. And the amount of money required is not even that high considering that many building blocks are available as mature, managed services, or creating a bespoke and tailored in-house solution does not require starting off from the clean slate by leveraging the prior art. That was not the case, say, back in 2018, but in 2025 it is a reality. For a bizarre reason that is beyond my comprehension, almost no streaming platforms do that.

> […] that process is highly reactive, individualized, dynamic […]

That is the aspiration and the high ideal; however, something else is going on, and it is not entirely inconceivable that the marketing department is complicit in the foul play.
Man, this was fun to see in real time. A site whose earliest adopters were Twitter refugees who hated the crypto/AI/NFT boosters, created actual art, and ultimately left Twitter because of rampant fascism and bigotry, effectively cyberbullied the company and its Head of Social Media so badly the latter left the site entirely.

You have to be pretty bad at your job to misread the room so terribly. Just taking a casual look at Clearsky’s block rankings would show how many lists are specifically blocking and targeting brands, griftos, fascists, and bigots of various stripes, and likely dissuade you from approaching the community without some form of battle plan.

Treating BlueSky like a “new Twitter” is a dangerous mistake to make, something Adobe learned the hard way. To make matters worse, they also poisoned the community well to the point there’s a fresh witch hunt out for brands and companies to add to block lists, thus harming everyone else’s “engagement”.
_Supposedly_ they are more convenient if you are willing to tolerate abysmally subpar efficiency, exotic semantics and lacking ecosystem.
it seems like it might be mostly attributable to the RNG element of the game
It would be under the "laws be faithfully executed" clause.

If one law can be used against another it's up to Congress to pass another law clarifying around that.
IOCP, which originated in NT 3.1, is not a circular buffer like io_uring, but both are completion-oriented.

Microsoft introduced I/O Rings, more or less a 1:1 copy of io_uring, in Windows 21H1.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/ioringap...

https://windows-internals.com/i-o-rings-when-one-i-o-operati...

https://windows-internals.com/ioring-vs-io_uring-a-compariso...

Windows 8/2012 R2 did introduce Registered I/O for WinSock which is very similar to I/O Rings and io_uring.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/...
Their 260th anniversary watch never had the price officially revealed, and they supposedly only sold one, but that is estimated to have gone for over $10 million. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference_57260

That one was a pocket watch, but I doubt their wristwatch would be that much cheaper. Maybe I'm wrong.

edit the 250th anniversary watch was a wristwatch and went for a million at the time.
What he means is that Germans are less susceptible to the SV bullshit artists that are hyping up their bubble unicorns for VC money, inflating companies with workers just to sell them at peak of the hype before cutting all those “positions” and then en-shittifying the product.

Technology coasted for a few decades gaining public’s trust as an unquestionable improvement over the past. That reputation is wearing out faster than I’d like to admit.

I hear from friends and family that SV big tech are increasingly equated with surveilence, credit card leaks, and destructive games of billionaires detached from reality. I had a long potluck talk with a stranger that was convinced ChatGPT is analogous to another crypto scam. It blew my mind and opened my eyes that could be a popular opinion.
>By that metric Native Americans are basically animals.. which is problematic.

just as it's not problematic to discover that bonobos talk to each other like Shakespeare, it would not be problematic to discover that humans are animals. keep your fingers off the scales (and, to mix a metaphor) let the scales fall from your eyes: it's science, follow the evidence to the truth. Don't be guided by what you want to hear, in either direction.
I don’t use either lately because I’ve found that to be better for mental health overall, but to me it seemed that Bluesky was generally better about staying “on track” when it comes to showing relevant things, once trained. Xitter really, really likes to veer off course and so much as stopping scrolling for a second while an undesired post is on screen is enough for it to start showing more of the same type.

Bsky doesn’t have blue check replies which is a major point in its favor too. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a worthwhile blue check reply, it’s like if one purposefully dredged up the worst YouTube video comments they could find and pinned them at the top.
Aren't websockets the only way to some sort of actual multi-core and threaded code in JavaScript, or is it still subject to the single background thread limitation and it just runs like node does?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ObscureMedia/comments/qsbafv/weird_...
The company they use to manage the Skype Numbers also stole one of my phone numbers a few months ago (porting shenanigans). It was a decent number combination, but ultimately not that valuable and not in use. It's not worth me persuing, but one of these days I'll get around to filing a police report. I guess I should probably file it sooner rather than later.

Microsoft's "Executive Customer Relations" was a joke. The FCC wasn't very helpful either. I guess I can still get the FTC involved.
I mean Apple is attempting to implement “Siri personal context”/ originally expected to ship it in March -/ seemed similar to recall.
> economics

* Margin. A relatively low prestige Swiss brand (Tag) has stated they charge 3x bill of materials for their watches. The more exclusive the brand, the higher this number goes.

* Volume might be higher than you think. Popular Swiss models sell in the tens of thousands of units a year. Not bad if you’re charging four or five figures per unit.

* Consolidation. There’s a handful of actual parent companies for watch making that are responsible for most sells. Swatch, Citizen, Rolex. They share resources between each other.

* Common suppliers. Some movements are used in multiple brands, even across multiple parent companies. Sometimes a company will buy a movement, modify the movement, and completely rebrand it. This allows better economics of volume for the most complicated aspects of watches.

* Marketing works. There’s no practical reason to buy a $10k (or $40k) Rolex compared to a $25 Casio. There’s a reason James Bond wears expensive watches and that reason is product placement. Some watch conglomerates are publicly traded, so you can look at how much they spend on marketing.

* The fact that you haven’t heard of the brand is part of the point. If you’re wearing >$100k on your wrist you probably don’t want everyone to know. Even at this price point, it’s a highly liquid asset in some cities.
For what it’s worth, I wasn’t, am not, and will never be a Trump supporter, but there is simply no doubt in my mind that that many individuals could act independently of each other and somehow get magically lucky enough that all their actions meshed so well together from government agencies to politicians to media to district attorneys. Even timing as to how everything landed sequentially on media friendly days…no doubt it was coordinated in some way.
With additional swipes at ecosystems and ‘must be written in go’ with no real justification as to _why_ more than the developers preference
>these are legitimately the only people in the world who can do what they do at the level they do it

Lol, is this a joke? Any good dev can do software development.

Most people aren't willing to work for peanuts, don't want to stop using drugs for a clearance, or are ideologically opposed to building weapons used to kill children or propagate genocide.

Sounds like Raytheon employees are all good on those fronts, rather than being good at their jobs. After all, if they were so effective, why wouldn't they work somewhere without all those caveats?
This is the same reason they want to buy TikTok and banned it had nothing to do with Chinese influence it was that the censoring of pro Palestinian content was not being done like in western platforms and Israel and Israel bought US politicians did not like it.
Completely made up right when the admin needs to make China look bad.

“People familiar with the matter” lol yeah okay, sure.
Well, if we're talking medium-size companies - hard to bring any new language.

If we're talking pure modern-tech company - good luck bringing anything other than JS because "more developers == more growth" mentality.

So it's either end up being used where decision makers know/want-to-learn Erlang/Elixir or when all other possiblity was exhausted.
Okay, what if we find a way to grow just a human arm. Is that sufficiently "not fully human", or would you cop out and say that doesn't count?
Too hard (and i help my wife with crosswords).

Hint mode (put one letter in place) would be the best UI
I hate it too (and never had to use it) but $20/month is peanuts for people who use it professionally, unless they're from third world countries (which likely pirate it anyway)
> To add on to all that, if a ship is rolling and pitching like you describe your chances of an accurate sight are very low

You as a human wouldn't shoot a line in those conditions, no.

The point is that mechanical clock mechanisms endure those conditions .. the rise and fall of tempreture, the rise and fall of air pressure, the shock of acceleration (even when sharply reduced by a gimbal mount).

The error bar over months at sea is the tension betwen the drift effect of all those conditions and normalising complications - gimbal mounts, the use of bimetallic strips to counter tempreture change expansions, etc.

In dead calm conditions a mechanical clock at sea carries the accumulated drift baggage of past storms and heatwaves.

Circling back to quartz oscillators, my question above goes to prompting others to ask themselves if an electronic oscillator regulated by a quartz crystal shows any performance differences over a year when harsh real world physical usage conditions are compared to ideal controlled test conditions.

Does temperature affect the oscillator, does humidty, air pressure, accumulated shock forces, etc.

Addendum:

I cant imagine why an instrument that is ~40x less precise would offer more precise timekeeping

~ @dghlsakjg

I'm having some difficulty understanding how [..] will have less of an effect on a fragile mechanical system than a tuned electronic one.

~ @TheOtherHobbes

I've reread both my comments above and I'm having some difficulty seeing they can be read to take away a claim that a mechanical marine clock is more accurate than a quartz timekeeping mechanism. Both comments address accuracy in harsh variable conditions versus stable STP lab conditions.

See also: Precision vs. Accuracy - https://manoa.hawaii.edu/exploringourfluidearth/physical/wor...
A large part of the human history remains unknown because the Sahara is very difficult to explore and study.
Who knows, maybe entire city states are hidden here and there within endless quantities of sand.
I have only small experience programming with web sockets, but I thought the ping pong mechanism is already built into the protocol. Does it have timeout? Does it help at the application layer?

Ref: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WebSockets_...
"I am sitting in a petrie dish..."
They really should be doing POSSE instead.

https://indieweb.org/POSSE
I'm all for anti-trust and anti-monopoly but christ alive an operating system vendor gatekeeping their kernel is literally the whole point of being an operating system vendor. Braindead regulation.
You may be interested in seeing what Tal Broda, an executive at OpenAI, posted at the start of the war: https://x.com/StopZionistHate/status/1735471349278052584
In this specific case, stabilizing currency markets.

> many definitions of the word "conflict" have no immediate resolution in sight

Some ancient duels ended the life of one party, and thus the conflict.
Not just 1947, Jews have been been in the area continuously and have bought land many times. 27 million dunams, which is equivalent to about 7-8 million acres if I'm not wrong, but were attacked since Jews are somehow an exception for owning land. During the same time period Israel was created, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and I believe 2-3 other Arab Muslim countries were created, yet those countries were not attacked.
And that's just the user experience! For developers:

- multiple heap allocators

- have to install runtimes, even for C

- all useful permissions are off by default

- entire GUI is permeated by "Not Invented Here" mistakes

- msi is opaque and crusty
Actually, I think you're wrong. That's a perspective you might get from watching certain news outlets, but if you get outside and touch some grass, meet your neighbors, you'll find that most people AREN'T cynical robots who have taken transhumanism to an eugenic extreme. Maybe just my experience, though.
Going up a few directories reveals more games: https://oe.tradoc.army.mil/oegames/
The original ribbon sucked but with the improvements it's hard to say it's generally a bad choice.

The ribbon is a great fit for Office style apps with their large number of buttons and options.

Especially after they added the ability to minimize, expand on hover, or keep expanded (originally this was the only option), the ribbon has been a great addition.

But then they also had to go ahead and dump it in places where it had no reason to be, such as Windows Explorer.
There is nothing indiscriminate about attacking Hizbollah pagers. There is however something indiscriminate about attacking civilians like on Oct 7. Targeting civilians as a matter of fact. Even if someone called them "animals" it's hardly equivalent to women being raped and having their breasts cut off, and being stabbed while being raped. That would be "treating" people like animals. Let's not forget who launched this whole war. Hamas.
Sure it's a complex, difficult feature. But that's what "time travel" typically means in terms of querying databases. It's the headline of this article, the fact that what they really mean is a simple query log, is kind of bait-and-switch.
Both Windows 11 and modern macOS are slow as shit now. The other day I clicked the Notifications settings in the outhouse they call a Settings app on my Mac and it took a solid 3 seconds to render the UI.

And behind me, was a G4 Cube that could open the System Preferences app off of a spinning hard drive in less time.

What happened to us?
I mean, if you learned Erlang on the job to build reliable systems with it, you don't have to put an "obscure" language on your resume. You can put "highly fault tolerant systems" on your resume, and when asked about it in an interview, you got the chops to back that claim up, while many other people don't. It is very far from a "hole" in ones CV. Any engineer worth their salt in a hiring process will recognize this. It is a matter of learning new things, instead of repeating the same experience of some NodeJS or Java CRUD over and over again. If I was in hiring work, and I met someone with that kind of Erlang experience, I would hope I can hire them, and that they will not be too expensive for me. I would set them to work on the interaction between the system parts and let them work on reliability and latency stuff.

It is a matter of someone having the same 2 years of experience over and over again, or someone learning many things. Personally I would welcome a chance to learn more Erlang on the job and build something with it.

Unfortunately, businesses want the fresh graduate with 10y of work experience, who already knows their complete stack. Maybe not so much in the Erlang world, but in general. Learning on the job?? Pah! You already ought to know! Just another reason to pay less!

And Erlang jobs are rare. I am between jobs, so if someone happens to know a remote job, where I could start working and learn more Erlang (have only looked at the beginning of "Learn you some Erlang for great Good"), please let me know. I would be happy to have that "hole" as part of my CV :D
That sounds about right for .NET. One of the Elixir projects I worked on lived alongside a C# .NET, the latter being a game server backend. The guy who architect and implemented it made it so that large numbers of people can interact in realtime without having to shard. It is pretty amazing stuff in my book.

On the other hand, I have yet to have to implement a liveness probe with an Elixir app, and I've had to do that with .NET because it can and does freeze. That game server also didn't use up all the available cores as well as the Elixir app. We also couldn't attach a REPL directly to the .NET app, though we certainly tried.

I would be curious to see if Rust works out better in production.
I personally know people who received funding from EU innovation funds, thought more than 10 years ago. It was graded by bureaucrats that had no idea about anything and graded it based on keyword matching (basically like tech recruiting works). It was absurd.
These are no UAPs that are made from extraterrestrial beings, it does not exist. Everything is from earth.
Well, that'll be the straw that broke the camel's back for me. Its bad enough I get ads for games in the notification area in Win10 -- even though I have it all disabled through group policy.

Looks like this finally is the year of the Linux Desktop!
> Adobe is the one major company trying to be ethical with its AI training data

I was actually contacted by someone at Adobe for a chat about disability representation and sensitivity in Japan because they were doing research to gauge the atmosphere here and ensure that people with disabilities were represented, and how those representations would be appropriate for Japanese culture. It really blew my mind.
https://chromestatus.com/feature/6251293127475200

It looks like it's supported in Chrome and Firefox but not in Safari.
I don't think it looks very nice. But the whole point of it is for someone to show they have so much excess wealth they can thoughtlessly spend it on something useless and ugly.
If they are trying to be ethical, all it takes is one look at their stock photo service to see that they are failing horribly.
The Q is what gave me the solution. A U in an adjacent quadrant? They must be adjacent.
Adobe runs what must be one of the largest deceptive rebills. The vast majority of users signing up for a monthly plan do not realize that it is actually an "annual plan, billed monthly" and thus that if they cancel after one month (for example) they'll be billed for the remaining 11 immediately. I honestly don't know how they haven't faced FTC action for this, as it's been their primary model for 5-10 years now.
On Thursday, the company said it was reintroducing Recall. It currently is available only to insiders with access to the Windows 11 Build 26100.3902 preview version.

Some of those insiders with preview will also be active contributors (200+ contributors, 6 million users) to the Chris Titus Winutil project, an open source PowerShell GUI collection of open scripts and registry toggles to streamline common installs, sanity restrict updates, control windows features (such as Recall), access classic control panels, and custom build your own tweaked install ISOs and clean VM images.

Good for gamers, developers, custom minimal window images, etc.

( "The best thing you can do for a gamer is strip everything non-essential from the OS" .. which is exactly what winutil streamlines and simplifies - along with a wealth of other user chooses options. The MicroWin tab allows a user to create their own minimal stripped out install ISO )

See: https://github.com/ChrisTitusTech/winutil

Improved for 2024 (18 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_AaHXrelTE

Windows Utility in 2025 (7 mins) (Addresses upcoming Recall V2 release): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuaNw8Tpn7Q
It was already dead otherwise I would have downvoted it too. Why? Because the implication of your original post is the only reason that fb group would post about those topics is for bad reasons. Why can’t there just be a casual conversation about something that was all over the news?
This is how I used to do it over TCP, 20 years ago: each request message has a unique request ID which the server echoes and the client uses to match against a pending request. There is a periodic timer that checks if requests have been pending for longer than a timeout period and fails them with an error bubbled up to the application layer. We even had an incrementing sequence number in each message so that the message stream can resume after a reconnect. This was all done in C++e, and didn't require a large amount of code to implement. I was 25 years old at the time.

What the author and similar web developers consider complex, awkward or difficult gives me pause. The best case scenario is that we've democratized programming to a point where it is no longer limited to people with highly algorithmic/stateful brains. Which would be a good thing. The worst case scenario is that the software engineering discipline has lost something in terms of rigor.
Of course! Glad you enjoyed it. If you have any feedback on how to make it better I would love to hear :)