> Is there a single thing that Microsoft doesn’t half-ass?
Nope.
TFA writes this: "The AI rip-off was not just ugly. It was careless, blatantly amateuristic, and lacking any ambition, to put it gently. Microsoft unworthy".
But I disagree: it's classic Microsoft.
> I have been having oodles of headaches dealing with exFAT not being journaled and having to engineer around it. It’s annoying because exFAT is basically the only filesystem used on SD cards since it’s basically the only filesystem that’s compatible with everything.
I hear you. exFAT works on Mac, Linux and Windows. I use it too, when forced. Note that bad old vfat also still works everywhere
> "Signaling" is just the information that your visible choices send to those around you, including strangers. That's why it's called "signaling" -- your choices are broadcasting an information signal about you to others.
Where the theory falls flat re- signaling to strangers is that there are people that do dress very differently, use different cars, sometimes shave, sometimes not, on different days of the week.
And it's also very well known that many people simply do not pay attention to others. They mind their own business and that's it.
When I'm driving a random car and I'm dressed casually and not shaven, what signal am I sending to the strangers I'll see once during the day and who are anyway only minding their own business?
And the next day when I put on fancy shoes, an expensive watch, and I take out one of my Porsche and then go out and cross path with strangers, what signal am I sending? I'll only ever see them during that other day. Strangers who, also, only mind their own business.
The funny thing is: just like I don't give a flying fuck about other people, other people don't give a flying fuck about me.
But anyway how can I be signaling one thing to strangers on monday and another thing tuesday to other strangers?
Where it gets better: some days my wife prepares the clothes she wants me to wear (maybe because people shall come to the house later on or whatever), some days she doesn't and I just change underwear after my shower and put the same jeans I had the day before. Then I go to the garage: we both have several car keys. Maybe she decided to take my Porsche, maybe not.
So basically: I don't always pick the clothes I wear and my wife loves to sometimes take my Porsche.
What am I "signaling" to strangers? Not only I'm not totally in control of my outfit and my car but also simply don't care.
"Grug hungry. Grug grabs money or credit card. Grub puts whatever clothes on. Grug goes to whatever car is in the garage. Grub drives to groceries store to buy atoms to stay alive".
That's literally me.
Now maybe people in this thread meant to say: "signaling in the workplace towards people you see every day at work" but that's way different than "signaling to strangers".
To put it simply: I think a lot of people in this thread are way overestimating the level of caring other people exhibit.
I guarantee you that on the caring continuum most people by very far are on the "I couldn't care less" extreme.
There is such a thing as people who simply don't give a fuck and nobody is signaling anything to people who aren't even paying attention to you.
Grug goes to the groceries store to buy atoms to survive, not to look at other people's clothes/watch/car.
Signaling to people who aren't strangers: OK, that one I can buy. But to strangers I call horse load of shit because many people can "signal" two entire different things on two different days of the week. The only signal people see is the same as what people see reading tea leaves.
Same... I remember when Super Castlevania IV came out on the SNES our jaw dropped when we saw that the whole level began to rotate. We were already coding back then but probably not old enough to be professional game developers (although some started really young).
Mind-blowing effect (for 1991) begins at 2min 12s:
FWIW I mainly go with offline HDDs and SSDs. And I basically now keep one source of truth, which I synch everywhere, for backups (and I verify the backups and make sure that my main source of truth ain't corrupted).
> I’ve always been skeptical of niche archival formats ... and formats go obsolete ...
The format is supported by Linux, that's never gonna be an issue. Not only can modern version of Linux read DVD or BluRay formats, should the support disappear, there's not a world in which in 30 years I cannot run an older version of Linux. There are, for comparison, people running Commodore 64 and Amiga hardware, today. You'll always be able to run the software, either on bare metal or emulated.
The issue is: will you find a drive in 30 years? As they are still built today and as many DVD readers from 25 years ago are still working today, I take it it's going to not be that hard to find a BluRay drive in 30 years and hook up to a machine running Linux.
And even on a BluRay, you simply do not store that much.
If one doesn't want to only rely on HDD/SDD and online storage, it's still probably a safer bet to go with tapes: you can store much more data, newer readers can read (up to limit) older tapes and these are battle-tested, supported for a long time, available, reliable. Because, well, it's not consumer tech but enterprisey.
> ... if regular scans were widespread, it's likely this result in innovations that would drive down costs, improve accuracy, as well as producing a much larger corpus of data with which to guide diagnosis and reduce false positives.
And if there's one thing where AI models really do already excel at it's classifying and noticing patterns.
Many dermatologists (not all of them yet, at least not in the EU), for example already have software classifiers using pictures of one's skin and helping guide diagnosis. I've lots of moles/nevi and freckles on my skin: I'm one of those Gen X kids raised by parents that had no idea that sun exposure and sunburns was a bad thing so I regularly get warning shots and my body, especially my back, if full of scars for for my entire life dermatologists have regularly removed concerning little buggers and sent them to the lab for further analysis.
Nowadays my dermatologist is helped in her classification by hardware/software.
I don't see why that wouldn't be the way forward for full scan MRI: they'll begin to be more and more hooked up to AI classifiers.
It always takes time: it's not as if the tech comes out and in 48 hours every hospital/physician is equipped with it.
It's literally the future is here (classifiers helping dermatologists find concerning nevi), just not evenly distributed (many dermatologists still don't have access to these latest machines).
I can't imagine this taking strong hold in the US unless it shields physicians from legal consequences of false negatives or produces enough false positives to ensure revenue doesn't fall.
I don't see any way that the hospital systems running healthcare in the US would embrace a technology that reduces false positives (income) without decreasing false negatives (risk and lost income) at least as much.
I now work on the "real thing" and that is fascinating to read. I didn't know about Wall Street Raider. Anyone who's ever tried a "paper trading account" on a real brokerage app knows how poor these are: it's near impossible to simulate the real thing without implementing the real thing.
One thing I really don't understand at all is how it's possible to do so much in only 115 kloc. 115 000 lines of code is next to nothing for such a project: there are solo projects with more lines of code than that. It simply ain't that much: how can you simulate mergers, financial derivatives, etc. all in so little lines of code?
It is, simply put, a little codebase. Which makes it all the more impressive.
I mean: it's both a lot (for the time) and nothing for what it does. I'm sure brokerage apps have 10x that amount of code and they only deal with the client side of things. I understand the game doesn't reproduce everything but it still looks incredibly impressive to me to pack so much in so little lines of code. Doubly so if this is sufficient to teach people the basics of finance and trading.
Now something else: this reminds me a bit of a game by the company FTL (created in 1982), who created Dungeon Master. Before that game FTL did "Sundog: The Frozen Legacy". In Sundog they implemented an interpreter for a programming language so that they could write their game (otherwise the default languages available were too limitating) and... You could buy/sell stuff across planets, that you'd transport in your spaceship. They had started writing a complex trading engine for the game: the player was supposed to be able to place buy/sell orders and whatnots but eventually they gave up that part of the game. FWIW when I was playing Sundog The Frozen Legacy I was feeling I was Han Solo in my spaceship: great memories.
Wishing the best to Ben Ward and sending big thanks to Jenkins. These kind of entries are why I'm on HN.
Before all the "instant" messaging apps we have now, it was extremely common to use email as some kind of a messaging app.
I have much more than 500 emails exchanged with my brother. Don't know the exact number as I'd need to unarchive very old email folders but... What I do know is that I have way more than 5000 messages exchanged with my brother in Telegram.
Now, granted, it's with my brother and that's since we've had the Internet in the 90s.
Note that it's not too clear why Musk is singled out for as I understand it he eventually declined going to Epstein's island.
Unlike Noam Chomsky for example who has more than four thousands emails exchanged with Epstein and who went to the pedo's island.
These scammers from FTX did put $500 million in Anthropic early on, for about 14% of the company. Later on this was diluted to 8%.
8% of a $380 billion valuation would be a cool 30 billion which I think would have covered the entirety of the fraud and left money for SBF and its friends.
But thankfully around June 2024, the clawback of stolen funds by FTX had its Anthropic shares sold for about $450 million.
I'm glad to know SBF and its scammers friends are going to see exactly jack fucking shit of that money.
> Satya Nadella’s framing is instructive:
> […] the company just literally provisions a computing resource for an AI agent, and that is working fully autonomously.
> executive orders targeting students who protested in support of Palestinians, Thomas-Johnson and his friend Momodou Taal went into hiding
Ah. They went into hiding. That explains why there are very few pro-Iran protests: for a second I thought there were double-standards when it came to protesting and that that was why we had non-stop pro-Gaza protests but hardly any protests to criticize the tens of thousands of victims the islamist iranian regime made in a few days.
> “As a journalist, what’s weird is that you’re so used to seeing things from the outside,” said Thomas-Johnson, whose work has appeared in outlets including Al Jazeera and The Guardian.
Where can I read the entirety of her work: that is, including her coverage of the tens of thousands of civilians executed by the islamist iranian regime?
For you're not telling she's not covering those because the islamist iranian regime happens to be pro-Hamas and anti-jews right? (btw I'm not jewish)
Nope.
TFA writes this: "The AI rip-off was not just ugly. It was careless, blatantly amateuristic, and lacking any ambition, to put it gently. Microsoft unworthy".
But I disagree: it's classic Microsoft.
> I have been having oodles of headaches dealing with exFAT not being journaled and having to engineer around it. It’s annoying because exFAT is basically the only filesystem used on SD cards since it’s basically the only filesystem that’s compatible with everything.
I hear you. exFAT works on Mac, Linux and Windows. I use it too, when forced. Note that bad old vfat also still works everywhere
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