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Is a person applying for roles at Msft more likely to use Google search or LinkedIn to find the openings or read a newspaper?

I think Science Direct just recirculates the news, perhaps to keep interest in topic but for folks who are looking for a solution like this, its just clickbait disappointment.

For interested folks, this is the Stanford publication from last year: https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/11/joint-cartila...

And, https://epirium.com/ is the company with which one of the researchers (Helen Blau) is associated.

exactly

Typically when a product is named x500 then one could assume its at 500 level or you are getting 500 of something.

I think this is the first instance where it means you are actually paying 500$

Creating luxury closets from the modest PAX platform is my favorite Ikea hack read (currently working on such project). And by the way, the non-nerds take it to a different level.

https://erinkestenbaum.com/2018/12/12/hacking-the-ikea-pax-i...

"Picture an AI agent trying to book you a table on a restaurant’s website. "

Are we there already? asking because I genuinely cannot find an agent that will do this end to end for me.

This is the best example of how Meta actually implements addiction forming apps.

The Insta Ads: Teens can set daily watch time limits.

The reality: When the teen exceeds their set daily watch time limit, the notification includes option to skip and continue watching !!!

This is just reckless without any responsibility.

A number of people, especially in tech sector, legally stay in US while their GC is being processed. They have kids born in the USA. If such people were to leave USA to seek green card:

- the kids must first get visas to their parent's countries

- once reaching the other country, consular offices now have multi year wait lines for getting an appointment with a office to even hear your case.

- parents may stay in that country but what if kids run out of their visa? A number of countries offer citizenship via parents e.g. Indian parents can obtain Indian citizenship for their kids but it also means letting go of the kids' US citizenship. And what if the parent's country does not have such mechanism?

It's completely illogical that a person must first stay in a country for 5 years to become eligible for a green card and then leave for x years to get a green card to come back !! this is just a tactic to get non-immigrant visa holders out of the country.

yah one of the most obnoxious cookie filters. You can visit these links though :)

kokaachi.com

www.maachis.art

harshitagrawal.com

map-india.org/matchbox-momentos

That website design is not too readable... but they did have links at the end:

kokaachi.com

www.maachis.art

harshitagrawal.com

map-india.org/matchbox-momentos

I used to collect these matchbox covers as a kid. Just like stamps. A bit later in time than the ones shown in the website, but definitely as fancy. There were no large "match box" corporations and each region had their own designs. Once our parents took us on a tour to North India and matchbox covers from those cities were the highlight of my collection.

Ads can be a nuisance but if/ when done they can be nice too.

I hate the Google sponsored results/ ads, often they masquerade as an organic result and push the actual relevant results down in the list.

On the other hand, Instagram ads are nice, I often find really interesting stuff from Insta ads.

It's a tradeoff, too early to say if it's a dumb move.

Side A: Tesla can grow FSD subscription revenue by making FSD + Autopilot completely based on subscription. Lot more people use Autopilot than FSD. In the happy path such users will pay the subscription and that revenue will increase.

Side B: Autopilot (aka lane keeping) is fast becoming default option across manufacturers. Tesla will take a dip in sales if such 'basic' option is no longer available.

Whether side A > side B is to be seen.

1. Developing an voice AI agent (applied AI, not research)

2. Production ready AI - mix of code and human eval

3. Understanding and building for the new agentic AI commerce

we should not dilute the effect of what's been by saying Maduro was not good for Venezuela.

One can only think if all the customer complaints really went to Bill Gates, how much different Microsoft would be today. They still operate in a world where they think once they build something, people would just use it. CoPilot is the latest example.

IIRC:

What you can do:

1. At setup time, you are not forced to provide any apple ID.

2. You can login to your notebook without needing Apple ID

3. Install apps directly (i.e not from app store)

What you cannot

1. Install apps from App Store

2. Get Apple care etc.

I think Netanyahu cleverly played on Trump's ego to get him to strike Iran.

It's almost becoming a bother of how accurate the rumors are becoming now a days. With this release they were spot on with the 16gb min ram and no change in screen size.

I am not building LLMs on my computer (I wish :)) but I do use my iMac for both work and photography. Lightroom slugs big time on my 2019 iMac. My dream spec for the next iMac would be:

- bring back the 27" form factor

- dumb down use as monitor. My work computer has disabled file & screen sharing so current methods dont work. I just want to plug my work macbook using a cable or wireless and use the imac as a display.

I use the monthly subscription every couple of months on my Model Y and the FSD has become quite good. For me the two recurring problems are does not follow traffic rules when merging and navigating to exit in case of back 2 back traffic on highway simply does not work. However in rest of the cases its pretty good or perhaps better way to say the best in market right now.

Not that privacy is important, but in the age where everyone is thinking GPTs will become the new interface to internet, it does not look like the right strategy for a browser to pivot to privacy.

Edge already has a copilot and looks like Chrome has something in the works too. I am afraid this strategy will only push Firefox more distance from prime time.

Wow, is the one from OpenAI for real?

Assume there was a law where GPTs cannot train on data from websites that put up a "Do not crawl" notice. If everyone did this, doesn't the value of the GPT diminish?

It does diminish and hence the question, what is the value the website owner is getting by having their data be used by someone else. (others have called out the same concern).

In your case, you seem to be fine with your data getting used for free. Others are not, especially if the art, data etc. on their website is something they want to earn their livelihood from.

Btw if you can't get MidJourney to create anything that looks like this artist's work, it does not mean it's impossible. Perhaps something with your prompt or perhaps it's something MidJourney will fix eventually. Once it does, the artist has simply lost opportunity to get some value from their own work.

An independent artist who was already struggling now got bamboozled by Midjourney. Instead of listing the Artist somewhere in the midst of a million attributions, every instance Midjourney draws a cartoon in the Artist's style should at least have a (clickable link) attribution to the artist's website.

Yeah, say I brought the car for $70K. 2 weeks later Tesla reduced the price by $12K. So, it's now $58K, and then you add depreciation...If I were to sell the car today (within 1 year of buying) I'd be looking at $35-40K!

My experience as a Model Y owner:

What works:

- best in class software quality. Both various controls (lights, wipers, electronic parking brake etc.) and infotainment work just right.

- Navigation is quite good, especially considering it automatically adds/ suggests charging locations as needed.

- Steering assist (automatic lane and speed control) is quite handy. I never felt the need for trying out autopilot.

What doesn't work: it's just one thing for me: you cannot trust Tesla:

- Battery mileage. My model Y is supposed to give me 330miles on a full charge. For the recommended 80% charge it should be ~260 miles but in reality, I get 125 miles in winter and 200 miles in summer.

- Price drops. Cars depreciate but to have a $10-15K price drop right after I purchased really sucked. For this reason alone, I will never buy a Tesla again.

- For a 70K (model Y) car, it rattles, and they will charge 30$ to test for rattling.

- I haven't faced them but I often read about poor quality issues like cracked roof, wheels falling off (yes !).

oh cool, can't wait for it.

I am always amazed how people even catch (come across) issues like this...the chances are 1 in a million?

Growing up in India, this was a favorite story my Dad used to tell us kids. I remember sincerely wishing it fell on our school so that we'd get a holiday ! Good to know at least some kid benefited from it :)

So one day you get the ceo of Microsoft to attend your dev conference and next day you get fired and then another day there are negotiations to get you back. What is this? A Russian roulette or a game of thrones??