I am very curious too, I’ve asked this to other friends who have mentioned the same thing and the only concrete answer I have got so far was teaching the theory of evolution and climate change.

It's usually evolution or sex or race or something like that.

One of my friends was home schooled. It was at least partly about religious values, but I think it was also partly about him being a bit of a strange kid and getting along better at home. He went back to public schools in middle school, and that was real rough but I think he was happy by the time he got to high school.

I'm sure there are many reasons to home school, but the one I hear about most is religious.

Similar perspective from me, I really don’t understand why people in authority are allergic to making the correct decision and punishing bullies or even worse punishing the victim.

From my own personal experience being bullied. I went to teachers and the principal to speak up that I was being bullied, the teachers themselves witnessed it many times and acknowledged it was happening but the bully suffered no consequences other than being told to stop. My parents were awesome and got involved but even after that the school refused to do anything because the bully was “sorry”. Finally my parents told me they had my back and would support me if I wanted fight back but either way they were taking me out of that school at the end of the year. Punched the guy right in the face the next time after repeatedly telling him I would if he didn’t stop. I was immediately physically escorted to the principal’s office and my parents had to pick me up. The only reason I didn’t get expelled is because the bully didn’t want to admit I got the better of him so the school saw no fault. Never got bullied again by that kid. My story isn’t to say resorting to violence is the right thing to do but instead why did it even have to get to that point to begin with? So many members of authority could have issued consequences for behavior they witnessed but chose not to.

As someone who also was bullied heavily as a kid, my best explanation is that a lot of the adults who are in the posittions of authority were probably never the ones being bullied as kids (and some of them maybe were themselves the bullies). A large number of kids aren't directly involved in the bullying learn to keep their heads down and not get involved. The victims of the bullying will always remember it quite vividly, but those who just saw it happen without the same strong emotions attached to the memories won't recall the specifics of just how frequent or severe it was, but just have a vague recollection of bullying happening sometimes. When they end up seeing something similar happening in front of them again as adults, it wouldn't shock me if the same instincts around not getting involved or thinking about it too hard resurface and make it easier for them to rationalize not intervening.

For those of us who identify with the victims, this is almost unfathomable, but over the years I've been able to recognize that quite a lot of people don't actually identify in the victim in this situation. The idea that this might be the case didn't ever occur to me for years because of how much my insecurity and anxiety as an adult are related to my experiences of being bullied as a kid, so it made it hard to realize that this core emotional experience that's impossible for me to separate from my conception of what it's like to be a kid just doesn't exist for most people.

A lot of value is being created with some of these AI apps but are the people funding the development of these apps seeing a return on investment? (Honest question, I don't really know)

The article mentions

> This is a bubble driven by vibes not returns ...

I think this indicates some investors are seeing a return. I know AI is expensive to train and somewhat expensive to run though so I am not really sure what the reality is.

I’m not up to date with how the filter is supposed to work, the article mentions it hides Google Password Manager but didn’t hide passwords in plain text in a notepad text file. Seems like maybe programs have to indicate they should be hidden from Recall?

That said the feature still seems kinda dumb to me and feels very much like a solution in search of a problem. There is a ton of data on a device which doesn’t require screen shotting everything. Want to help the user find some website they visited long ago? Just parse every web page the user visits and summarize it no screen shot necessary

> Seems like maybe programs have to indicate they should be hidden from Recall?

That's not a solution, though. If I use Obsidian to store sensitive information about my business, does Obsidian need to know that the information is sensitive and to tell Windows not to look at it? How would it possibly know?

Fundamentally the user is the one who knows, and telling the OS whether every last thing is safe to index or not it's simply a non starter. Hell, even trusting the user to reliably and accurately tell you what is actually sensitive or not isn't going to work either.

Agreed, I don’t think there is a reliable way to actually achieve what Recall is trying to accomplish. I think if all the models and stuff strictly ran locally with no chance of leaving the box it wouldn’t be as much of an issue at that point it would be the same as if you stored all your passwords in a text file.

I think in the case of the article the date library isn't necessarily hard but tedious. They mention most date libraries suffer from supporting too many standards or allow ambiguity.

I agree with you though, do the hard things even if it doesn't work 100% right you will have learned a lot. In university I had to implement all of the standard template library data structures and their features, it wasn't as robust as the actual STL but the knowledge of how those work under the covers still comes up in my day to day job.

I think if I understand the article correctly it sounds like Google might also be reading the messages so it can respond for you. Regardless I think the other thing people might not be happy about is Gemini can still interact with apps regardless of if you have app activity turned on or off, as quoted from the linked email in the article: What's changing Gemini will soon be able to help you use Phone, Messages, WhatsApp, and Utilities on your phone, whether your Gemini Apps Activity is on or off

Google's own documentation explicitly states it cannot read your messages or notifications. You can ask it to compose a message for you or start a call, though.

As someone who has conducted interviews with candidates almost certainly using AI in both the phone screen and coding portion. The biggest giveaway is the inability to explain the why of things. Even some of the simple things like "why did you initialize that class member in this method rather than in the constructor?"

I think at this point we are in a world where the cat is out of the bag and it's not are you or are you not using AI but how are you using it. I personally don't care if a candidate wants to use AI but be up front about it and make sure you still understand what it is doing. If you can't explain what the code it generated is doing an why then you won't be able to catch the mistakes it will eventually make.

Yep, it's less about if you're using AI and more about how you're integrating it into your workflow. At this point, using AI tools is becoming a baseline expectation in many roles, not a red flag. But yeah, the moment someone can't explain the rationale behind a decision (especially in their own code) that's a huge issue.

TLDR: NASA knows the issue and is working on validating it and making changes internally before releasing it to the public. Nothing was found which would jeopardize Artemis II

Wow, I knew they were going to try to catch the booster this time but I really didn’t think it was going to work on the first try, I was just hoping they didn’t destroy the launch tower in the process. Congrats to the SpaceX team, absolutely amazing! Hope y’all are celebrating

I think if I understand the systems right Windows can roll back a bad driver update but the CS update wasn’t an update to the driver but instead updated a configuration file which CS updated outside of Windows Update. So from the Windows Update perspective the system started failing to boot with no changes to the system. Again though I don’t know if I totally understand what CS did and what capabilities Windows Update has.