> large portions of companies are held by the general public in much smaller quantities via 401ks, pensions, etc.
Considering everyone is in index (or mutual) funds these days, do they actually own any shares in the underlying companies? I’m not sure they do? The fund surely owns shares of various companies, but the holders of the fund aren’t shareholders in the underlying companies.
Perhaps this is a silly point to make, but the fund providers will show up as 10% owners if the general public has any significant stake in these companies.
I haven't done a super deep dive but from what I can tell, they only considered individual people that own a 10% stake, not other holders like index funds.
Most people aren’t interested in vibing and maintaining their own bespoke apps.
But also they probably want to use this app on their phone and other devices. So the either have to make it a web app, become a server admin and pay for hosting. Or they have to buy a Mac and pay for the developer program and hope they pass App Store review so they don’t have to reinstall every days.
Source code has a structure, and some parts are more important to the reader than others. Good syntax highlighting makes the important parts easier to see; bad highlighting gives all parts the same emphasis. Notionally you could use font weight to convey this in a black and white medium, but color makes this easier.
After working as a programmer for about a decade, I went back to college to try to complete my education. This was when I first encountered code printed in a textbook. And it was just black monospace font on white paper. No color, not even bold / italic etc. It was Java.
Initially, it was much harder to read, both because of the habit I've developed and because, I think, the author also didn't use a "fancy" editor to write their code, so it wasn't formatted properly, didn't observe naming conventions. Well, your typical college professor writing. My first reaction was to type the code into the editor so I can explore it easier. This, of course, also provided syntax highlighting.
Of course, it took extra time. So, eventually, for shorter snippets, I'd just suffer, skipping all the typing part. I later discovered it to be somewhat helpful exercise when using Git diff or other Git commands that displayed code snippets in terminal w/o highlighting. But then the industry caught up to it, and now I don't have to read unadulterated Git output like that.
So, my conclusion so far: highlighting helps to discern the structure, to process larger blocks of code and to navigate it more efficiently. You can get better at reading code that's not highlighted, but it's never going to be as good as reading the highlighted code. It just seems like the struggle to even get to the level where it's palatable not worth it as there are very few situations where it would come in handy.
Yes, the sale only recently concluded, but it’s been in the works for decades. The most recent being The Helium Stewardship Act of 2013, which Congress passed and required the sell off to happen by 2021 or something.
Sort of? They have “cost of revenue” which is compute and salaries (and whatever) for serving inference, then “research and development” which is cost of compute and salaries for training, then “sales and marketing”, then “operations”. R&D is like half the expenses.
Most people have no interest in fixing the leaky faucet themselves, even if the already knew how and didn’t need an LLM to explain how. They’d rather pay someone and do something else with time saved.
Look at the label on it and it will tell you who paid for the book. It’s likely your local library and other city/county programs. Donate to them instead.
The intention of this program was to get books in the hands of children, who might not have access to a public library.
The books were kept free in order to combat the shame often associated with not being able to afford books for your kids.
These two services might be catering to two separate (though sometimes overlapping) audiences.
> The engine already existed, our public library system
How good one's library is depends on how well-off the operating local government is. The Imagination Library is more egalitarian because it's often funded at county and state-level, so kids with underfunded libraries get the same level of access as other kids from wealthier zip codes
I think this quote from her sums up the thinking behind it:
"It’s the fact they get recognised. They get this little book with their little name on it in the mail, and they feel special. They start taking pride in themselves, and they know that somebody out there is thinking of them."
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