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I built this, kind of a mix of YouTube and mini Minecraft spaces: https://entervspace.com

Being reported that Russian State Media said this. E.g. https://twitter.com/sentdefender/status/1672665481055010816

I believe they were trying to force all Wagner fighters to sign a new contract with the Ministry of Defence by July 1st. Apparently this is no longer the case, although nothing confirmed 100% yet.

Looks like Prigozhin has got what he wanted?

- current military leaders are being removed

- new contract cancelled

Makes Putin look rather weak.

Compared to basically any modern city in Europe or Asia, yes. Downtown SF feels completely different - dirty, much less safe, homeless people and drugs everywhere.

It's not even close.

Note, I'm only talking about downtown SF, not the wider Bay Area.

Yes, my main point was that sync teams suffer from a lack of context, but that Context Warehouses will be able to help.

I wrote a blog a few weeks ago on how LLMs will enable ‘Context Warehouses’ for work. Looks like they may be realised even sooner than I thought!

https://macroapp.io/blog/the-context-warehouse

The creator of Elixir is José Valim, not Saša Jurić.

Intel claim this should be by 2025 (once their 18A process comes on line). Obviously they could miss this target, but they say they're still on track.

> Competition is thriving as the big tech firms compete with each other.

Thriving competition wouldn't result in super profits year on year.

I'm glad with this decision. Not sure the exact logic makes sense, but in general the top US tech companies (Google, Amazon, MS, Meta, Apple) are too big. They wield huge power and can snuff out entire startup sectors with loss-leading products.

The argument is always 'but we don't have a monopoly in this artificially small sector X', however I don't think that argument is the one we should be looking at when the companies involved are $1trillion+.

Can we prove exact consumer harm in each case? No. However, I think most people can accept that there's a risk to consumers, markets, and democracy if companies become too big.

Edit. Seeing a lot of comments saying UK couldn't function without Microsoft which kind of supports my point.

There are lots of tech companies (e.g. Fintech, games etc) however not much hard tech. Like the rest of Europe, we're completely reliant on the US/Asia for cutting edge chips and phones.

It's a classic misleading but true statement from the government. They can mandate apps scan messages client side before sending E2E.

"Meta prohibited from using personal data for advertisement"*

*without consent

It's perfectly acceptable under GDPR to do targeted advertising, as long as you have a user consent to it.

This seems odd to me, given that he looks (from the outside at least) to be one of the most ambitious CEO's around. E.g. Building a fulfilment network to compete with Amazon.

Many companies have weekly all-hands. E.g. My previous company had a weekly all-hands for the entire company (150 people).

I don’t understand the value of Solana. Crypto’s value (at least in part) depends on it being decentralised. I.e trustless. Solana looks like it was relatively centralised, so what’s the point? And why would it be worth much even before FTX collapse?

I'm not sure that the statements that a) there are bad actors in the space, and b) there will be a crash, are particularly insightful here. Both of these were predicted/expected by many, including many crypto supporters.

The key question is whether crypto will rebound. I would expect it to, particularly as governments move more into digital currencies.

Could you be specific about what tracking restrictions Apple imposes on others which they don’t follow themselves?

My understanding was that Apple asks for user consent before letting ad networks track users across many apps run by different companies. Apple doesn’t do that themselves as far as I know?

No mobile app right now. (Too much todo already ).

The site is responsive, however the mobile UX could be improved for sure.

Thanks!

I'm a solo founder working on a project management tool which supports markdown. Take a look. :)

https://macroapp.io

Sweet for many, but very tough for those on visas who will have to now leave the US and abandon the lives they built there.

Surprised by all the skepticism in this thread. The way I see it, Intel is the only real hedge against the China/Taiwan situation, and (at least according to their public statements) they're on track for the upcoming process nodes.

If the strategy works out, the upside is huge.

Three reasons for this:

1. Difficult/lengthy application processes can filter for intent

2. Structured data (obtained during sign-up) is useful for recruitment platforms

3. Some ATS's are just bad

Point 1. might be difficult for SWEs to understand, but in lower leverage roles (e.g. non-grad) you sometimes have a 100+ applicants for a single role, so any filter helps a lot with the recruitment process.

It's possible what you describe could be achieved by AI compositing. I.e. The AI creates a central view of what it believes is the most relevant info for your current task. This doesn't require any changes to the programs themselves.

Longer term, I think voice + AI assistants can help with this. In programming speak, our UX will become more declarative and less imperative. Combined with AR/VR interfaces, this will see a big improvement in productivity.

> I'm scratching my head and trying to figure out how this is illegal or different than what every other retailer can do.

I think it’s widely accepted that stronger rules can be applied in the case of monopolies. Amazon marketplace is considered by many to be a monopoly.

> Is it time to make this a reality?

That feels like it would increase the risk of nuclear escalation and strengthen domestic Russian support for the war.

Once Upon a Time in Iraq - interviews with people who lived through the Iraq invasion and the years following.

This was so eye opening compared to the standard news reporting about Iraq. Harrowing and informative.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Iraq

I can recommend WaniKani (I'm on level 17). However, some caveats:

Firstly, you'll see lots of forum posts about hitting level 60 in 1-2 years, this is very difficult unless you want to dedicate a substantial amount of time (hours) every day. A more realistic pace might be 4 years or so. Many of these speed runners skip the vocab, and/or use scripts (e.g. to allow undoing mistakes etc).

Secondly, it can be draining to know your reviews are always increasing. I recommend using vacation mode (which pauses everything) when things become too much.

Thirdly, I think you need to complement kanji learning with reading real-world material to make it properly stick. It's feels different recalling individual vocab/kanji compared to reading sentences.