TuringNYC

To begin with, they should make it a legal requirement to list Condo vs Coop in listings, not "condo/coop". One is usually easier to get, the other pushes people thru discriminatory hoops that many profiles have no hopes of passing -- but get stuck in the theatre of process and formality (often not knowing the entire process is engineered to exclude them.)

Congrats. I did want to respond to this

>> The hardest part of building Jamcorder was still, by far, the software -- roughly 200K lines of code spread across the firmware, app, and manufacturing tooling. It took over 3 years and many long nights in a pre-LLM world.

>> When compared to that, the hardware was undeniably smooth sailing.

>> For the record, I don’t think I’m special. It’s just that hardware’s reputation for being difficult is, IMO, overstated.

For me, when I complain about hardware, its actually usually complaining about drivers, compatibility, underdocumented interfaces, firmware etc. If one were to put firmware and manufacturing tooling in a separate bucket, that is indeed the problem!

her hit song, along with the nikki french dance remix have been on my coding playlist for 30yrs!

Sounds more like people retire somewhat early

I know many ex-colleagues who have been retired early -- they face age discrimination and cannot find work.

> There's got to be something wrong at the core of BD. They've been pawned off a bunch of times,

Well...there is the uncanny similarity to the T-800 and and uneasy realization that the owner of BD could become Cyberdyne Systems IRL. Perhaps some companies like that notoriety but not sure if many want that.

https://terminator.fandom.com/wiki/T-800

> But I'm not convinced about their view of having people casually going to a spa every week and getting a full body scan.

People are already doing this monthly with DEXA scans!

Seems Cloudflare is now doing this for scraping, so makes sense to continue down the pipeline!

So jealous we dont have this in the Northeast. Hurry up!

> If you're at $5,000/month, a 4.2% raise puts you at $5,210. If you're spending $600/month on gas (not unreasonable for someone that drives an SUV and lives in the suburbs instead of in the urban core), you still come out behind.

This is the problem with people treat CPI as some word from the heavens...it is not. CPI is a highly constructed figure which conveniently includes/excludes things and is really more a floor of what the inflation is. Anyone living in the real world knows experienced inflation is way higher.

> I didn't quite follow your comment about vector support, are you asking for something beyond what pgvector + diskann provide (both available on Azure)?

You dont support ultra-wide vectors from the largest embeddings models. We have to wierd stuff like chop up vectors across fields.

I'm trapped on Azure at work and we're constantly waiting for Azure pg to catch up with modernity.

For example, you cant use this: https://www.paradedb.com/blog/hybrid-search-in-postgresql-th...

Also for example, you dont get ultra-wide high dimensionality vectors.

It is nice they are open sourcing pg_durable, but how about adopting table stakes I'd get with AWS?

How do we know this is due to AI usage? Perhaps it is because the students missed key in-person learning at the tail end of high school due to the pandemic lock-downs? I cant imagine learning calculus / linear algebra on my own in high school.

> Concerts became about filming a DJ twiddling a USB controller.

This is one of the worst parts of any concert, performance -- having a sea of phones in front of you recording. In a dark theatre, it is impossible to watch the actual performance when you have a screen on super-bright in front of you recording it. Also, some people literally record on ipads!

All these are reasons i've not opted to do "concert in my living room" via YouTube and a big screen tv. Not the same, but a lot less silliness around me.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7008682/?ref_=nm_flmg_job_1_acc...

> That's why a web of trust was suggested. You keep track of who vouched for who and down weight those who vouch for users that prove to be bots.

Except eventually it will also weigh down those users who supported <XYZ political stance>

Similar! I think my experiences were best captured by the song SOFI TUKKER - Summer In New York

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCuSci5BSyQ

A lot of this went away, not sure why. People are too glued to phones.

When i was younger I would sometimes ride the F-train back and forth several times in the evenings just so I could think and put articulate thoughts into a notebook. This is before underground network connectivity, before smartphones, etc. The hum of the train was great and the speed of the F train at segments of Queens were exhilarating, a bit like listening to EDM while coding.

RIP. I absolutely loved the book A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life by J. Craig Venter.

> Doubt this kind of workloads would agree to send data then to a cloud of randos devices,

Totally agree, which is why i said "I'd love a way to do this locally -- pool all the PCs in our own office for in-office pools of compute."

So true. The latest rage on IG is "this guy built a trading system on OpenClaw and is now making 10k, comment MONEY and i'll DM you the recipe."

No indy hedgefund algotrader gives away their golden goose, that would crowed out the trade.

It is much more work because for many workloads you have geographic ringfencing and cannot send it out to the cloud

I'd love a way to do this locally -- pool all the PCs in our own office for in-office pools of compute. Any suggestions from anyone? We currently run ollama but manually manage the pools

I can attest to this. Ultimately I dont think it is possible to 10x output systems with AI and actually keep the traditional quality controls (yet.)

IMHO you just need two stacks -- systems where you can play fast and loose and 10x output. And systems where quality matters where you can perhaps 1.5 or 2x. That is still a lot of output.

In Motion is my favorite productivity track as well. Most of the time I just listen to the whole The Social Network soundtrack

I love hacker soundtracks too! I play the OST for Mr Robot and Halt and Catch Fire

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX2MjjP5LxjyxA0Vvws3y...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucSUs3adMQ8&list=PLrvyiZ4XwF...

> I've had three main tracks that I've used for the past 8 months or so.

I've had several dozen songs (grown from ~5 in 1998) that I've used for almost 28yrs. They were originally mp3s, eventually cds, then apple music. I'm glad the artists have been getting royalties on the songs, i play them on loop sometimes for hours a day for decades on.

I play that song too while programming (along with several dozen others on a dedicated programming playlist). Eventually it goes into the background and just covers up outside noise. Some key moments are noticed -- i stop looking at my screen, repeat after the singer, and then go back to working five seconds later.

No idea if this is the case anymore, but many NY Public Libraries had "Stacks" where they kept lots of magazines going back to the 1970s. I havent checked for at least a decade, but that was a lot of fun -- we'd go there and look at old computer ads from the 1980s. They would have a binder per decade -- giant thick binders.

If you're willing to put up with the hassle, you could find them on Microfiche for sure. I've found newspapers from the 1700s in NYPL's microfiche archives https://www.nypl.org/about/divisions/general-research-divisi...

I thought of OMNI before anything and was pleased to find it on the article :-)

Well you are lucky if you were able to dump the account. For me, I had Skype credit, monthly billings, and tons of contacts -- all gone in a botched post-merger integration. Definitely makes me never go back to that ecosystem ever again.

Ss it just me or did Microsoft never actually fix/figure out their account merge? I found that anyone who had a legacy skype/hotmail account basically got locked out once Skype/Hotmail/Outlook.com all merged. Multiple frustrated message threads online complained about this and from my personal experience it never got fixed. Basically two out of three accounts became inaccessable.

That was when I completely left that ecosystem, Office 365, everything. It was literally impossible to log in. Not surprisingly, the Office 365 bills continued to charge even though accounts were inaccessible. To this day, i'm far too scared to even attempt to use Azure on a personal account for this reason.