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I agree, not all chats. But it could be an opt-in for group chats.

Its possible - teams chats where I work can have ai transcription enabled, for example.

As to whether people like it: I was thinking of a work context, where expectations of privacy are lower. I guess it could be an opt-in for group chats.

How do people keep track of organizational knowledge?

In my experience:

1. Well meaning people try to build wikis/confluences/whatever that turn into backwaters of slowly rotting stuff

2. Beyond a certain extent that they can hold in their heads, most other people give up.

3. Some people hoard knowledge and use it for personal advantage.

I dont know what the solution is. Maybe an ai that reads every chat and email and commit - and builds some kind of browsable, queryable, executable knowledge trove.

nothing but mutable objects of indeterminable state getting caught in infinite-loops or unbound recursion due to INotifyPropertyChanged

Rant on brother/sister. I'm a year into building a large WPF (because reasons) app for my employer and some days its very difficult.

The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop

The system in my car (2018 Ford Fiesta) will play mp3s from a usb stick but, as with your experience, it has only a basic understanding of ID3. It completely ignores the "position in media set" tag, for example, meaning that it plays the 1st track from each cd in a set, then all the second tracks, etc.

I wrote [1] to post-process my (slightly obsessively) neatly tagged mp3 collection for use in my car.

[1] https://github.com/andyjohnson0/ID3Minimiser

Obligatory note: destructively edits tags, so run it on a copy of any mp3 files.

Welcome to HN. This isn't a place for hosting your blog posts. Instead why not put this on an external site, expand on it a bit, and submit a link? Thats how HN works.

1. Don't restrict yourself to two options.

2. Don't chase perceived prestige. In a few years nobody will care

3. I don't know, but I'm assuming you're young. If you already have a BSc or similar and have been accepted by Cambridge then there are many places you could go. The people you meet and get to know could unlock future flexibility.

4. Don't work for Amazon. Maybe they made you a good offer but, even more so than other corporations, they don't care about you. They'll run you hot and then stick a fork in you without a moment's hesitation.

People quibbling about whether TFA was written by an AI and why the chart is at the end of the article and what a standard deviation. Meanwhile the planet is simmering.

The smell of the Magic Smoke from burning electronics.

I chose a work device because I do not want any cross-contamination.

This is a wise choice. For me, nothing personal goes onto my work phone or laptop. And nothing work-related goes onto personal devices. Life is just easier that way.

I was surprised recently to read that the centre-point of the orbits of the starlink satellites doesn't actually correspond to the earth's physical centre. Instead, they orbit around the centre of Elon Musk's ego. As he moves over the surface of the planet, the constellation actually shifts its orbits in response.

I managed to cancel a (non-edu) Adobe subscription a few years ago, despite being a few days past the cut-off date for cancellation.

What worked for me was to phone them and insist on cancelling. The person I spoke to insisted right back that it wasn't possible. When I persisted they offered me an extended term for the same price. Then a discount, and then a better discount. After that they agreed to cancel.

My impression was that they had a customer retention flowchart to work through, and it was just a matter of getting to the right terminal node.

Disappointingly this is merely about the accuracy or otherwise of The Economist's predictions, not the rightness or otherwise of their world-view.

The quote originated with George Bernard Shaw back in 1903, not Nassim Taleb. And it has always been a lazy take. Some people just prefer to write (or teach).

What does it mean to you?

For this European: that Independence is increasingly illusory and maladaptive on our crowded, overheating planet - and that we all need to be thinking more about our mutual Interdependence and shared humanity.

Finally, what the most romantic ideal you have of America that you think would be worth sharing?

The nation that went to the moon, and showed us all what we're capable of.

Please don't post rants on Ask HN.

Ask HN isnt really the place for hosting blog posts. Instead why not put this on an external site, expand on it a bit, and submit a link?

https://archive.ph/tm1pg

Thank you. Initially the former, and maybe later the latter.

I've seen recommendations for Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization, and Machine Learning by David E Goldberg as a classic/foundation text. However its 35+ years old. Is it still worth reading?

Ask HN isnt really the place for hosting blog posts. Instead why not put this on an external site, expand on it a bit, and submit a link?

No idea where vacuum tubes were invented but I'm sure the BBC could find someone to make them.

The BBC has just cut its budget by £500 million, in an apparent attempt to limit the damage from the latest charter renewal process - which determines its funding. The new director general (ie ceo) is an ex-Google person, and they seem to be pivoting to become a social media content provider. So I'm pretty sure that spending licence fee money on making vacuum tubes to broadcast a signal that nobody under forty listens to wouldnt get past a value for money test.

(I like the BBC and its radio output, and I'm one of those weirdos who still pays the licence fee despite never watching tv or any of the stuff that the licence fee is required for. But it is becoming increasingly lost to me: focussed on triviality and politically cowed. Sadly, I no longer expect it to last.)

Full title: Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI: Avoiding Decoys in Pursuit of Accountability

I never met or knew him but, like many here, I've been following his blog for a decade or so. By impression and reputation he was a kind, thoughtful, and creative soul who did good by the world - and I'm saddened that he has gone. My condolences to his friends and family.

Building their own AI models second: building the infrastructure data centres, talent pipelines third: chips

Most countries lack the capacity to build these capabilities in a way that provides any return on investment. Rather than everyone trying to achieve "digital sovereignty". I'd argue that a better approach would be to try to ensure the survival of free trade and a rules-based system of inter-state relationships.

every country should make their own peter thiel and Elon musk

The social and political environments that led to the emergence of these two individuals are probably not things for states to aspire to.

The whole attitude and process around this and the other topics gives me very little faith that Java can be steered in a sensible direction here.

I agree. The stewardship of Java seems rather lacking - particularly when compared to that of .net, where MS etc. mostly seemed to make the correct decisions from the start.

Does Java even have any value or mindshare at Oracle nowadays? The company seems to be a datacentre/compute business at this point, with appendiges for its legacy activities and a vast overhang of debt.

I sometimes wonder if the only parts of Oracle that are still profitable are the Legal and Lawnmower divisions.

Switch to Firefox. And/or Kagi. Google is unlikely to be your friend.

I’m currently at 2.5 YOE at big tech making 250k

250k is good money. I'd stay, accrue experience and contacts, bank some money. The startup probably won't work out anyway - they usually don't. And even if it does, 3% equity is too low for the financial and personal sacrifices you'd have to make.

tldr: seems like the wrong time

https://archive.ph/zn6FI