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> If I'm using Spotify, I don't think "oh this doesn't use windows navigation component from winUI"

We're either very different people or we have different use cases :) It immediately feels jarring to me to be using macOS and suddenly presented with a non-native UI. But I only ever use macOS on the desktop, so I don't have this cross-platform issue. What I find strange is, I would have thought that was the 99% common case — it seems strange to me to optimise for individuals using multiple OSes rather than multiple apps on one OS.

> Design development becomes this duplicated burden

That sounds like an OS flaw if true. Of course, I accept that some design will be necessary, even with the finest SDKs available to humanity, but it should be so burdensome that going non-native is seen as the solution.

> Even on iOS or mac, people regularly rely on apps that only vaguely interpret their native components.

You're totally right. Every now and again, I say to myself "I really must use Safari for the 'more native' experience", but I always come running straight back to Chrome again.

> The situation is even worse on windows

This was one of the things I liked best about macOS when I first migrated — everything was so consistent, things didn't visually clash, etc. I still get the impression it's better on macOS, but heck, it's definitely not as good as it used to be.
What were you making?
I wasn't dissing SvelteKit. But I've been using it for about 6 months now. It's not perfect. There are currently some things that are very hard to do in SvelteKit that are not hard in other frameworks. It is what it is. That will change over time.
> Inclusive and robust by default, Energy-efficiency, Privacy-focused
I imagine trying to use these reasons with executives and getting laughed out of the room
It's time to think about extending certain constitutional restrictions to corporations. It's becoming all to common that the government contracts out its rights violations to the private sector.
OPCW’s New Smoking Gun Backfires
To be fair, there are many excellent news outlets which were further to the right of Pravda.
Yep! I run ExtensionPay, a service to allow browser extension developers to take payments in their extensions: https://extensionpay.com

I made it after Google shut down their Chrome Web Store Payments system and I realized how annoying it was to take payments in extensions. So I made it for my own extensions and also for anyone who wanted to try monetizing their extensions with payments. The included library is open source if anyone is curious: https://github.com/glench/ExtPay

So far it's made extension developers around $175k. Pretty cool!
How many embeddings can fit into a single input?
Tell Congress how Section 174 changes are hurting small software businesses
Khoj: Search Assistant for Org-Mode
The point of serverless isn't to run 0 servers in your downtime, its to abstract away everything related to running hardware. I have an app that is built on a runtime (jdk, node, whatever) and I shouldn't have to deal with anything below that layer.
That's no accident.

It's named for the city of Kufa in modern-day Iraq.
Despite the popularity, there's nothing normal about smoking cigarettes.
> When DALL-E 2 was released, I remember reading lots of people here in HN saying it would never take the jobs of artists. Well, seems like this argument is aging badly.

And yet, the more I play with these image models, the less I worry they might replace all artists.

Granted, it will commoditize some skills, such as photo bashing, mockups, and visual exploration.

It is a "creative" tool in a way, in the sense that a prompt can give unexpected results, such as associations that were uncalled for. But as much as you can replace higher-paid video game concept artists, you'll still need people to operate these text-to-image tools. We are past the initial discovery days, where all the results look incredible, and even the public will grow more discerning. Artists can't ignore these tools. As tools for the individual, they can be a lever. As a full-time, corporate job? Not so much. That is to say, as a job, this is not different from many other bullshit jobs. Prompting all day long is as fun as filling boxes in Excel. That will probably attract a new crowd of less specialized workers, and artists will have no choice but to adapt.

Digital artists could find new ways of expression using traditional art (a luxury), diversify, and engage in content creation. There are many alleys to confront pessimism, despair, and the fear of becoming obsolete.

Artists thrive in adversity and uncertain situations because they are problem-solvers first. Imagination is their job.

Photography made portrait artists redundant, but it didn't eliminate artists. It will change the nature of an artist's job and kill some of the joy in some cases, but it will trigger creative responses, too.
These aren't sentences, care to try again?
So can heroin, the bible and television.
Usefull. Thank you.
At least then we would finally find out if it is constituional to execute someone for espionage.
Pressure is resistance to flow. In the aeropress, the coffee and the plastic filter screen resist flow and thus create pressure.

Not very much pressure, but there is pressure
They can "absorb it" (an interesting way of saying "hire them") because the price is now lower.
What’s in a Name? Taxonomy Problems Vex Biologists (2019)
Plants only store the CO2 until they decompose a relatively short time later. The only way to end up with a net decrease in CO2 this way is to bury the plants deep. Of course that is the process that initially created coal.
Yes it has, I see bitcoin ATMs all over the place and know that tons of people exchange cryptocurrencies daily for fiat and for other cryptocurrencies. A lot of people use it to gamble and buy drugs online. Some people are using it as a monetization scheme for their artwork (NFTs). The actual impact of those things is pretty small, but none of this was possible before their invention, so they literally changed the world, for better or worse (mostly worse).
You’d have to fix a lot more than housing and transportation. You’d also have to address crime, mental health, drugs, and public disorder. Living within walking distance of the office is nice. Having to dodge needles, human feces, psychotics, and periodic rioting is not.

I used to be an urbanist, too. Lived in Seattle and didn’t own a car for many years. But there are some real problems in our cities, and virtually no urbanists are serious about solving them. In fact, many will make fun of you for bringing them up. (Not that it’s easy to tell given the equal lack of progress on housing and transportation.)

Politics is a grotesque dance between the demagogues and the mob. A sane human being’s best interest is probably to just avoid being stepped on.

But it’s not all bad. The commute between the bedroom and the home office is pretty great.
Perhaps that time spent playing Starcraft in the past was part of what enabled you to do other things now. Transition from mid-game to late-game.
most recent global warming threat
Echos of the famous cartoon: https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
Or all the ChatGPT clones that have sprung up and will continue to spring up every other day.

It's a stupid and patronizing position, but corporate IT are sadly incentivised to be stupid and patronizing.
I have been adopting Apple Notes more after trying to use a lot of other note methods/apps. Always fall back to simple text in Notes. And I seem to be hearing of more people doing the same.

I recently set up a shortcut that works on both my Mac and iPhone to create a new note each day with the date as the title. And then each time I trigger the shortcut that day, it enters the time, location and weather. Easy way to keep a running "diary."
Popcorn time!
in other words
> The $11bn that Microsoft has reportedly put into Openai would, at the startup’s latest rumoured valuation of $29bn, give the software giant a stake of 38%.

That's not quite accurate, Microsoft first invested $1 billion in OpenAI in 2019 (four years ago) and another $10 billion a few months ago when it was valued at $29B.

So it's latest $10B investment gives it a 35% ownership, but it's unclear how much the $1B 2019 investment gave Microsoft. Some news reports peg Microsoft's current ownership at 49% of OpenAI, which means Microsoft's 2019 investment gave it 14% of the company (which would further indicate that OpenAI was valued at $7-8 billion at that time).
It is entirely possible that Moore's Law gets assassinated by supply chain destruction as deglobalization continues.

There are too many single source suppliers in the chain up to EUV lithography. We may in fact be at peak IC.
I ran a collection of websites that I built (see bolted together) with PHP, MySQL, and nginx. Most of them were curated media sites which made income with advertising revenue. A few services, most notably was a dating site I made for Mormons, which the church interestingly enough used a blind broker to buy and shut down within a year of going live.

I mostly ran the websites in to the ground with my custom wannabe frameworks on $5 dollar VPS's and lost interest. 2021 I sold the remaining three income generating websites for just shy of 1mill US.

I started the projects with a second person but ended up buying out their interest and running solo. I consider it success because I managed to last over a decade making on avg $400,000/year gross with that business "umbrella".

Advertising and publishing changed and continues to change by leaps and bounds on a yearly schedule. A lot good a lot bad, but its the same business over the years.
Right, thus meaning your employer gets outcompeted by a company willing to take the risk of handing their data to OpenAI.
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That does seem how it operates. A lot of the UI is directed at document sharing.

That's what makes me double take when I hear about folks using it for some very creative, but not what I think of uses for Google Drive.
If you like this sort of thing, you may enjoy Gore Vidal's Creation book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_(novel)

The story follows the adventures of a fictional "Cyrus Spitama", an Achaemenid Persian diplomat of the 6th-5th century BCE who travels the known world comparing the political and religious beliefs of various empires, kingdoms and republics of the time. Over the course of his life, he meets many influential philosophical figures of his time, including Zoroaster, Socrates, Anaxagoras, the Buddha, Mahavira, Lao Tsu, and Confucius. Though vehemently identifying himself as a Persian and speaking disparagingly of the Greeks, he is half-Greek himself – having had a formidable Greek mother.
Looking forward to our WALL-E style future.
The profile piece mentioned in the op-ed:

Sam Altman's Manifest Destiny, 2016

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/sam-altmans-ma...

-- the quote [in full] --

“Well, I like racing cars,” Altman said. “I have five, including two McLarens and an old Tesla. I like flying rented planes all over California. Oh, and one odd one—I prep for survival.” Seeing their bewilderment, he explained, “My problem is that when my friends get drunk they talk about the ways the world will end. After a Dutch lab modified the H5N1 bird-flu virus, five years ago, making it super contagious, the chance of a lethal synthetic virus being released in the next twenty years became, well, nonzero. The other most popular scenarios would be A.I. that attacks us and nations fighting with nukes over scarce resources.” The Shypmates looked grave. “I try not to think about it too much,” Altman said. “But I have guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Israeli Defense Force, and a big patch of land in Big Sur I can fly to.”
Robot Startups: Nailing the Demo
Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery with CircleCI and NestJS
If you are using Safari, you can switch to reader view to get past the paywall.

Last summer we were preparing to demolish a family property in a rural part of New York and invited some local Amish to take some furniture and other things we no longer needed.

Two of the middle sons (aged 18 and 19; they have 5 brothers and 7 sisters) came with a giant wagon pulled by huge dray horses ((https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh...)) and took it all away. They said the wagon is usually used for harvesting hay and corn, and sometimes for long distance moves of up to 40 miles. It's basically a hay wain used for other tasks as needed.

They took all of the old furniture including a sofa and a large table and box springs. They put the sofa on the front so they could sit on it on the way back to the farm, which they said is a bumpy ride because the wagon wheels are ringed with iron and most of the journey is on pavement. They also took the doors off the hinges which they said their father was going to use for a workshop as well as an old woodburning stove which must have weighed 200 pounds 90kg) and had a nonstandard exhaust. They managed to heft it out of the old cabin and onto the wagon, and said they would be able to do some metalwork to make the pipe fit in the workshop ceiling, as well as the doors which were narrower.

After the wagon was loaded they pulled out tobacco pipes and lit them and started smoking while we chatted. My dad said "I used to have a pipe like that" and the young one chuckled, and replied "Don't see English smoking pipes. Except some old fellows. Maybe like you." We all had a laugh.

The Amish moved to the area about 40 years ago. The winters up there are brutal and they live a tough life starting at a very young age, but this community has revitalized family farms and helped to stem the population decline in that part of New York.
Coping sounds like exactly the term I was looking for.

Maybe ChatGPT would have suggested that had I ran the comment through it prior instead of sounding like a bumbling fool lol
Good for you! now can you imagine that there are others living in this country maybe in a different situation? I hate these comments that say "my life is great, i can't see what these people are whining about"
I feel the exact same way; I'm not epileptic but I avoid media that knowingly contains rapid flashing lights out of precaution, and I look away or scroll down whenever I do come across rapid flashing lights.

I'm glad that Apple has made flashing light detection and auto-dimming technologies more available. It's amazing, in a sad way, how so many people are still unaware of the dangers of certain flashing light patterns, which leads to incidents continuing to occur. I personally only know about such dangers because I'm a long-time Pokémon fan since the English dub started airing in 1998; to this day the only episode of the Indigo League era I haven't watched is the infamous Porygon episode (only aired once in Japan) that had a flashy battle scene that sent about 700 people to the hospital. Yet even with this high-profile incident, I've heard some people say the incident was an urban legend until I told them otherwise, and there have been incidents in other media. There needs to be more awareness about the dangers of flashing lights so that way media creators and broadcasters can avoid them or mitigate their risks.
What if it can annotate itself ? With some feedback loop it can learn the correct annotation by experiments like a child. Earlier there was a comment of an agent learning to run a python program by itself and in the process of writing code to file and install python interpreter.
The game probably matters a lot.

“This definitely improves my mood” - said no League player ever
I've never seen anything that couldn't be incrementally improved. There are definitely tons of situations where the additional effort to "make it good" is worth incurring upfront. But you can definitely make something work then make it better. And a lot of times, you'll find that your carefully planned out "good" solution ends up not being all that good and needs incremental improvement. It can be hard to get something right on the first try especially if you haven't done it before.
Turning Red was a great movie—my daughters love it and have watched it repeatedly. I put that one in the category of wonderful box office bombs: miracles that they managed to exist, in spite of being obvious box office failures, like The Big Lebowski or Blade Runner.
If you reset/create an alternate appearance for faceid does that force a manual login for the services that use it? Because your device passcode lets you change all the faceid stuff… too lazy to mess around with it myself
> The purpose for government is to provide a framework for non-violent dispute resolution, and to safe guard natural rights and property), and maybe form a national defense force. Not to provide individual safety and security.

Providing for national defense, non-violent dispute resolution, and protecting natural rights and property sounds an awful lot like "keeping us all safe". I'm not sure what else you think that could mean.
It's also a generic interface which is offered by multiple vendors (Azure, Backblaze, etc) including some on-prem options like MinIO.

I mean, on one level, a plain directory is also a generic interface, but blob storage has semantics which naturally lend themselves to replication in ways that a regular filesystem doesn't.
When you go from doing 100 things to 10,000 things, it seems like a lot, until you realize you need to do 10,000,000,000 things to make the process work.

In theory if we could make multi-modal GPT-4 go very fast, we could have it operate a car right now. It's too bad we don't have access to feed it images, because my guess is if you put a picture of an inside of the car and showed a kid chasing a ball into the road in front of it, it's first guess would be "hit the brakes".
Kuberenetes has been a total failure at defining a simple "just works" devops workflow, but I don't think that is due to any deficiencies in the product itself. The basic premise behind its common use case – automating away the SRE/ops role at a company – is what is flawed. Companies that blindly make the switch are painfully finding out that the job of their system operator wasn't just to follow instruction checklists but apply reasoning and logic to solve problems, similar to that of any software engineer. And that's not something you can replace with Kubernetes or any other such tool.

On the other hand, there's still a lot of value in having a standard configuration and operating language for a large distributed system. It doesn't have to be easy to understand or use. Even if you still have to hire the same number of SREs, you can at least filter on Kubernetes experience rather than having them onboard to your custom stack. And on the other side, your ops skills and years of experience are now going to be a lot more transferrable if you want to move on from the company.
That sounds like a sci-fi plot in the making- AGI and extraterrestrials collaborating with each other to overthrow the human race.
> ChatGPT shouldn’t work based on what we knew

Why?
At least they had brains to be broken.
>Swift Boat Veterans for Truth for instance

That was such a disgraceful episode of our political history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_Vets_and_POWs_for_Truth
Usually in your BIOS you can disable your TPM chip. That will make it stop asking as you'll fail the min requirements check.
I think I fall into that camp of people of love RTS games, but find it too stressful to play competitively. I like to turtle up and build my cool base and then run over the enemy with a wave of tanks. Command & Conquer was my jam.

Between SC1 and 2 I probably played a couple dozen straight up competitive matches. I much, much, much prefer custom games/'use map settings' in SC1 parlance, or good old co-op comp-stomps.
Yeah, but the code coming out of ChatGPT is generally not in a state that you want to commit straight into you repo. Making adjustments (and writing the original prompt) is where your expertise comes in.
lol, you may be right, but it’s both hilarious and terrifying to imagine that the future of self driving cars is effectively one person in the passenger seat verbally describing the road ahead to a blindfolded driver.
> After Motherboard reported the U.S. Army and other purchases of Team Cymru data, the Tor Project, the organization behind the Tor anonymity network, said it was moving away from infrastructure that Team Cymru had donated. The Tor Project told Motherboard it expects that migration to be completed this Spring.
Without more details on how you tried to set up lambda...

> Cold startup really is awful

It has gotten significantly better over time, particularly for VPC-connected functions, as AWS no longer creates an ENI per function but re-uses an ENI. If most of your UI code is elsewhere (CDN, mobile app) then you're not hitting the lambda endpoint for initial UI draws.

> db migrations in step functions or find other solutions

Fargate? Especially as DB migrations might exceed the 15 minute maximum runtime for Lambda

> aurora serverless also does not scale to zero

Serverless V2 does auto-pause, but yeah, I agree that AWS's serverless SQL portfolio is lacking compared to Planetscale, Neon, other similar new entries. Which you can run without RDS proxy or a VPC.

I'll agree that projects for which response latency needs to be lower than what cold starts will reasonably permit should pick a different architecture, but I don't think most greenfield product projects are so latency-sensitive. That sounds to me like premature optimization.

> way simpler and cheaper to start with a single VPS single point of failure, then over time graduate to running docker compose or a single node k3 cluster on that VPS. And then eventually scale out to more nodes…

Cheaper in raw early cloud infrastructure costs, sure. Cheaper in total cost of ownership, particularly as the service starts to scale, including overprovisioning waste, engineering time dedicated to concerns unrelated to value... for any project for which autoscaling behavior would be bursty or at least unknown at best, I beg to differ.
Coderpad was a one man show for a while I believe.
I guess they are thinking that ChatGPT would also handle that part ...

Prompt 1: What would be an amazing tech project that would make me rich?

P2: Produce an excellent design for that project. Should be elegant and use microservices and scale to billions of users.

P3: Write all the code for this design.

P4: Tell me how to test and deploy all that code.

P5: How to sell all this for billions?
I actually have one thousand HackerNews good boy points, so I'm kind of a big deal

I think that a few years from now this tech is going to be ubiquitous, real time, and work on a mobile device. Trying to slam the lid shut on Pandora's Box probably isn't going to work.. the best thing at this point would be for the word to get out to everyone that voices can now be doctored the same way photos can
Given the very (very, VERY) obvious concerns associated with malicious deployment of this tech, and the minimal/largely ineffectual countermeasures deployed by the founders, what surprises me the most is that YC gave this startup its stamp of approval. It used to be that they offered at least a basic sanity check to anything they funded. Is this now getting lost as they scale up their funding operations?
What's the Best Way to Make Brand Guidelines?
Wait, are you seriously implying that if someone is far right they don't have the right to speak?
In D it is often as simple as:

T front() => array[index];

void popFront() => ++index;

bool empty() => index == length;
I watched that truck for minutes and it never hit the pole. Who was driving? Godot, or Zeno?
So you think literally anyone, at any time, should be supported by their society to have any number of kids, regardless of their financial or social situation?

I really don't understand what the value of this blank check for having children regardless of circumstances provides...
Why would they be different? The DOM structure can be exactly the same between an SPA and MPA.
It would be really cool if you added support for phonetic spelling