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Show HN: Gnbly – ChatGPT Powered Phone Assistants
Gnbly calls restaurants to make reservations for you. Also can go through phone menu and talk to customer service. Business can use Gnbly to take incoming calls as CSR / Sales representative.

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Political influence, like just about everything, is distributed unequally. I doubt software engineers have much more pull than artists. But once AI is threatening to obsolete lots of labor, it might run into problems.

The strategic way to introduce it, therefore, would be in ways that help a lot of people without (at least initially) destroying many jobs. But it seems like firms would have to cooperate beyond what they are capable of to pull that off.
I recall a sales gig from Google demoing Chromebooks and part of his dog and pony show was tossing it to the ground. It was an attempt to impress disposability. They’re so cheap you don’t have to care if they break. I got the opposite impression. Why would I buy a piece of trash?

Contrast that with a decade later and this attitude of disposability is a no-go. But they were selling that as an advantage.
Good. Pausing student loans was a perfectly sensible policy in 2020. We needed stimulus ASAP and that was an easy button to press for instant stimulus. It's insanity that we've kept this policy through the worst inflationary period we've seen in 50 years and record low unemployment.

As a side note, I'm not a fan of this new trend where papers publish articles that are clearly op-eds without labeling them as such.
I have noticed my right eye twitch after working on the computer too long. I felt like my left brain had been dominant for too long.
I don't really care if somebody entered the country legally or not. Eventually, everybody assimilates. However, I am not ok extending benefits paid for by taxes to non-citizens. As long as there are politicians trying to give tax paid benefits to "illegal" immigrants I will be against illegal immigration.
https://bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/Voight-Kampff_test
True, but I think some of the demise of them is down to bad design.

My partner is a tech at a first school here in the UK, and they have Chromebooks - pretty much one per child.

Most of them have needed to be put back together because the hinge attachment to the case is not strong enough. The screws are not well fitted from the factory, and as soon as it comes loose, the mounting can get damaged because where the brass inserts are set in the plastic is pretty flimsy, and will crack. So they end up with a chromebook which can be 'kind of' repaired if you put the screws back in really tight, but it's only so long that it will last as that area has no real strength to it.

If this part of these was made better (these are Asus C201, but there are others that are similar), then they would never have been a problem aside from the obvious actual abuse that about 10% of them get from children who have behavioural issues.

Others mentioned here (such as Dell) are better, but have other issues - the Dell ones have glass in front of the screens, which can break, and leaves razor-sharp splinters when it does. It's also a nightmare to replace as parts are difficult to get (we had to order them from the US, and paid quite a bit for each one), and they are macbook-like in the difficulty of repair here.

Making these much stronger (like many times stronger) would not have cost a lot. They just skimped on plastic in a few places, leading them to be weak in the field. Another £1 spent per unit would have meant almost none of them would have suffered this. The later model (C202) were better, but still broke in the same place, with the same failure mode for the most part.
It costs $10 extra for the code alongside the ebook? Is that a standard practice?
Dutch farmers must be thrilled.
jax and whisper-jax support running on GPUs in addition to TPUs, this particular demo just runs on a TPU.
No proof you examined this with "high-ranking Moldovan officials".

Also Moxie is extremely biased.
While that is true, I have seen executives attitude change when a regulation held them personally liable, either economically or under threat of jail time, in those are taken far far more seriously then when the punishment is just a fine for the company which then is a math problem, is the fine more than compliance.
What's nice about these platforms is that they scale with the complexity you need. You can drop down to Python for scripting operations and UI interfaces in TouchDesigner, GLSL if you want to build your own shader pipelines, etc.
See:

> The average net tuition and fees paid by first-time, full-time in-state students at public four-year institutions was estimated to be $2,640, the lowest it’s been since 2006-07, down more than a $1,000 from a peak in 2012-13 of $3,720 (in 2021 dollars).

Even if you have to take out a loan while attending a state school, it doesn't have to be a huge loan. And even a crappy part-time job will reduce that burden, even if it doesn't cover your tuition fully.
Climate change deniers are going to have field day with this one.
No that's definitely not the case. For digital design, in general, you're not doing anything transistor-level. But those digital designers are using standard cell or memory libraries which are created at a transistor level. I believe the foundries also charge for their own standard cell libraries, and there are many other vendors that a design company can choose from like cadence, synopsys, even ARM.

For analog/RF design, of which there is still an enormous amount, it's always transistor level.
Technical Dive into AutoGPT
For engineers looking to learn how autonomous agents work, this is a high level technical dive into the popular Auto-GPT project.
Summary:

The effect is 30% less than previously thought, and global warming is still really really really important.
Ok sure but tell me how you feel.
Not in a healthy human.

Cutting (or partially severing) the corpus callosum connecting the hemispheres of the brain has been shown to have some interesting results along those lines, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-brain
Past HN posts for author's other book, "Build Your Own Redis":

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34557389 (Show HN - 5 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34572263 (129 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35212660 (65 comments)
> While there are lots of solutions to this wiring problem, the most elegant is to have two bilaterally symmetrical systems of wiring between the brain and the body, with the connections from each side of the body crossing the midline.

Wouldn't a 3-D brain mapping also solve this issue? Do we just have this flipped symmetry because neural nets started out non-3-D in simple organisms, and we have all just inherited the 2-D structure as our brains have grown? Were there ever 1-D neural networks, and if so, how did they work?
I don’t think it’s a good idea to use blindly throw tax dollars at degrees which ultimately aren’t going to produce any economic value. We should be taking this idea and applying it to trades schools, though.
If they're only breaking down after three years I would consider that a stellar victory for the engineers that designed them. My kids are very careful with their gear. So they say. And yet, it develops mysterious faults, cracked screens, broken keyboards and pulled out sockets. And nothing, absolutely nothing ever happens in my presence. Weirdest thing.
For example, the loans may be extortionate or exploitative; they may be a policy mistake; there are many reasons.
I know plenty of people who used and continue to use stocks in the exact same way, particularly on apps like Robinhood.
I just had an idea.

I should call up my local privacy-contrarian legislators (I'm in a purple state) and ideate cookie banners as being a populist tool of the opposing party. And if that doesn't get them, as a tool for foreign powers to slow American tech startups and innovation. Bombastic take, but something you could plausibly sell.

The hope would be to get our lawmakers to put forth legislation banning the use of cookie banners and popups on US websites entirely. That's a cross-cutting solution that would force websites to immediately remedy their frontends.

If it ever came to pass, web operators would be doing a version of the "two buttons" meme wondering which jurisdiction to comply with. Hiring lawyers to determine if IP geolocation is a viable out, but how to respect EU residents abroad, etc.
We just had a conversation the other day about climate change and methane, and some people were saying 20x as strong as CO2, and others were saying and sometimes correcting them to 28.

According to this article the correct answer is 20. That’s still over an order of magnitude difference. It still doesn’t change the priorities much, it means you can leak 40% more methane from a system before it’s worse that coal, but we aren’t usually measuring these sorts of problems in 2 decimal points to begin with.
A map would have been nice there
This is a fundamentally misguided take.

An equivalent comparison would be jailing all humans to keep them safe from each other. Humans having a home for occasional safety from environmental hazards is not the same as free-flying birds being caged in isolation forever.
So the folks saying 20x may be right.
What about using JPEG XL - .jxl format instead? https://jpegxl.info/
I'm fine with that because they are becoming less relevant as increasingly extreme weather makes believers of skeptics
Off on a tangent here but I purchased a Logitech mouse from Amazon. The middle mouse button stopped working but it was still under warranty. After contacting the Logitech support centre they gave me a code to give to Amazon for a replacement.

I ended up on live chat with someone who did not understand what a warranty was - telling me "You have used it, so the warranty is void." 2 hours later he passed me onto someone else who immediately came across as 'not inside an Indian support centre megabuilding in Dheli'. Sorted it out in 2 minutes.
If people are ok with their data on Facebook, HN, Discord or Twitter the same can be on Telegram.
By that logic, you should be asking the Air Force for your own piece of an F35. Let me know how that goes.
Denier is such a loaded word, call them skeptic. In this case at least, seems their skepticism was warranted.
Passkeys: What the Heck and Why?
I would love to learn why ZFS and BTRFS are competing to a common-ish goal?
This is an extremely German world view.
The carbon footprint of cows is still horrendous.
I don’t know if it’s not but I question why the symptoms are being treated and not the root causes.

Why is college so damn expensive, why are people getting useless degrees, etc…
Could you build in a feature to allow people download stuff instead of to local, but to G Drive/Dropbox into it? It's a way to permanently have stuff you like on your own drive. Personal web archiving too. There are these suite of tools around "personal information management" which need to be built.
The state school thing is not necessarily true. Virginia Tech for example an estimates costs at 32k/year for in state and that doesn’t cover summer expenses. https://www.vt.edu/admissions/undergraduate/cost.html

Finding for state schools has dropped so low many private schools are cheaper than state schools. That doesn’t mean all schools are unaffordable without loans, living at home while going to school can make a huge difference.

But scool for some doesn’t mean there’s no problem.
Not sure how it is in the US, where I went to school I had to deal with textbooks that where up to 30 years old and showed it. The acquisition cost for school books was basically zero since they didn't buy replacements until the books literally fell apart in the hands of a student and students had to pay for anything they "broke".
Yes, it would be useful for a SOC-like scenario
In more prosperous countries it is simply free. There are a range of charges imposed in the US but it costs.
This sentiment is predicated on a scarcity mindset. This is America, I thought we were a land of abundance?
So we go from 28x to 20x. That changes the slope of a line but not the direction, or the magnitude.
I think you are really overshooting.

Most people don't even know where their water comes from. Most people that drive do not know how a combustion engine works. Even people watching TV are only vaguely aware it's a series of static images chained together to make it look like its moving.
Lots of reasons this isn't universally true - it only works if you know enough about the data to simulate it, and your stuck within some distribution + human guesses space that's not all encompassing.

The easiest counterexample is training LLMs, how are you going to synthesize useful language examples if you want more. Some version of this is true for most applications.
Domestic cats are another story. Mine actually prefers inside and is not very social even with other cats. Prefers solitude, sleep, cuddles and eating. My dog, on the other hand, a 70lb Husky mix requires a great deal of activity outside as well as socialization with his pack of friends from the dog park. 2+ hours of physical activity and socialization a day keeps him happy but, you have to be a responsible pet owner, listen to your pets and give them everything they need and more. Your pet shouldn't just be surviving, they should be thriving. It's your responsibility.
Why does a kid need a chrome book? To do what? Pencils and paper, what's wrong with that? It worked for centuries and now for some reason every student needs a chrome book to waste tax payer money, useless tech, theater for the parents that their children will have some kind of an advantage. Schools need to go back to the basics and not invent ways to make kids stupid and waste tax payer money.
Should somebody else?
Would educating young people better about finances and loans help the situation?
Not really. It’s 20x instead of 28x is hardly ‘methane is actually ok’.

Science is hard.
Adding a working control system doesn't take away the fact it requires skill though.

It seems like people think that one day they will be able to give a vague prompt and generate exactly what they were looking for, which I don't believe will ever happen. It feels like there will always be some skill in navigating the model.
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Those adults should certainly be ashamed of themselves.
Government contracting over time acquires more and more rules reacting to scandals which are designed to prevent that, which has the unintended effect that government contracting is so complex that it goes entirely to firms–or organizations within firms–whose core competency is navigating (and manipulating) the result bureaucratic maze, not delivering quality goods and services (not uncommonly, the actual goods and services are subcontracted out), whereas the contract managers on the government side are pretty much fully occupied with the trees of bureaucratic minutiae so as not to be able to see (and generally being sharply limited in what they could do even if they did see) the overall cost/value situation.
> The U.S. government treating a $100,000 loan for an English lit degree and a civil engineering degree the same is silly.

Personally, I believe that, generally, the former is more valuable - the problems in our society are not from a lack of engineering, but a lack of understanding the world and basic humanities. But regardless, should your or my opinions be imposed on the free choice of the students? I believe in freedom, in free choice, and that they should decide.
Europe wants more cities to use data center waste heating
It’s no worse than picking a market high preceding an ongoing recession as a reference, as the parent commenter did. The point is that his stock performance incentives are not tied to the absolute value of the stock, as the parent commenter is mistakenly claiming. Most of his performance based incentives don’t even relate to stock price, as the parent commenter is also mistakenly claiming. But the ones that do are tied to the stock’s performance against a benchmark. That benchmark has had the same ups and downs as the rest of the market, and Google’s stock has been tracking against it very well. Something that is an achievement, and that’s what google’s shareholder elected directors decided to reward him for with performance based incentives.

These are very simple concepts, and while you can be forgiven for not already knowing them, aspiring to retain your ignorance certainly isn’t admirable.
Telegram is more akin to Discord or forum platforms thanks to supergroups than it was to Signal. If you want privacy you use the right tool.
We want to be different, not better. Better often becomes a battle on price or brand which we never had

Never heard it phrased that way but it makes a lot of sense.

If you’re the founder and can’t sell the shit out of it, nobody else will.
Useful discussion needs to unbundle intelligence. Some people mean reasoning, some agency, some consciousness, and some the desert of moral consideration.
The so coveted Transformer architecture came out of Google for one...

I don't like what Google has become but I can't deny them the amazing work that both DeepMind and Google Brain have done over the years.
As if the exact number matters to them.
I still don't understand why do Boards continue giving these kind of compensation levels for C level execs...

Let's be honest, a 15 million compensation won't make a difference between 225 million..

It would be better to take the 225 million and make it a potential 1 million bonus to 225 engineers, I guarantee you would have better results.
Again, having standing to sue does not mean they'll win the case. They will not win the case by saying "we have a right to profit and the government's policy is subverting this", and the fact that anyone could read the article and come away acting like this is actually their argument just shows what a disservice its bias is doing.
> When will the government start paying off my mortgage?

Your mortgage interest is tax deductible.
Yes. It doesn't change anything to the problem.

But lots of people will say it does (the climate deniers).
You forgot to subtract 32 first. Then you get 27. Or in this case, 54 happens to be evenly divisible by 9, so doing the exact conversion is relatively convenient (divide by nine, multiply by five).
The book recommends that website: https://build-your-own.org/database/

Why do you say the codecrafters stuff is lower quality?
Something something 198Fart
Who is going to jail in the Theranos case?
Averages which exclude scholarships, books etc really distort these numbers.

Many schools require students to pay for room and board even if they live nearby. Schools are hiding tuition costs in those fees and really need people to pay them.
I definitely had classmates finding their parents' names inside the front covers of their books in the old checkout list. This was in suburban Denver in the early 2000s, so it's not like it was some backwater town a long time ago.
ZFS came first and Oracle started btrfs to try to clone it, before they acquired Sun anyway.

btrfs has never really matured. It has only a fraction of the features of ZFS and generally a lot more unstable.
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Separation of church is not the clear establishment most take it as. In the constitution it appears nowhere. It's only shows up in the 1st amendment in the phrase: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." This was taken to be a restriction exclusively on Congress for the majority of the US's existence. For instance the early states mostly all had their own official religions, and so on.

But in 1947 there was a critical case [1]. It was about whether a state could use public funds for busing kids to private religious schools. It was a 5-4 split decision that was kind self contradictory in its ruling, but in a way that ended up making everybody pretty happy. The court ultimately decided that publicly funded religious bussing was okay, but also expressed that there must be a strong distinction made between church and state.

I think the reason this has been less of an issue is because people have generally been willing to make some concessions to the other side. Religious types generally accepted not having e.g. intelligent design taught alongside evolution. And secular types generally accepted a bit of religion in cultural stuff, sports, extracurricular, times of crises, etc. But the divides in everything are changing that. And so it does look like we're trending towards another Supreme Court judgement.

[1] - https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/435/everson-v-b...
Climate deniers are not people who discuss whether methane is 28x or 20x as strong as CO2, but rather people that do not believe in global warming (or our responsibility for it) at all; that's not skepticism, that's blind faith.
"There's a million different ways to make something. Million different opinions. Million different cargo cults."

So... different tradeoff? Sounds like engineering to me :).
Suddenly 403 Forbidden (LLaMA)
May they choke on it.
It will not affect vegan arguments, it's still true that CH4 is a 20x worse GHG than CO2.
It’s up to the individual to diversify and triangulate their news sources. Open source news and open source software are two different things, so keep that in mind when parsing this. It’s up to everyone to call out poor journalism when they see it. That includes omissions and conflations.
"Some of the most famous examples of confabulation come "split-brain" patients, whose left and right brain hemispheres have been surgically disconnected for medical treatment. Neuroscientists have devised clever experiments in which information is provided to the right hemisphere (for instance, pictures of naked people), causing a change in behavior (embarrassed giggling). Split-brain individuals are then asked to explain their behavior verbally, which relies on the left hemisphere. Realizing that their body is laughing, but unaware of the nude images, the left hemisphere will confabulate an excuse for the body's behavior ("I keep laughing because you ask such funny questions, Doc!")." https://www.edge.org/response-detail/11513
I wish they didn't raise kids on such limited locked down devices. Kids will get the idea that the only software that exists is web based.
Elaborate cryptocoin scam (I guess you are anti-crypto), buying with Fragment is anonymous and easier than Google Voice. I agree on being banned on U.S.A, blame that to bad crypto regulations.
I agree. I spent a lot of time working with systemd for work and was perfectly happy with it.
Thats how agents / daemons startup on iOS / macOS. They don't for the most part-up start up on boot or when a user-session is created -- but rather launchd will spawn them when it has to deliver the first message.
There's a farside cartoon where one mosquito is about to explode and the other one is yelling "It's an Artery, pull out!"
They were created by different people at different companies with incompatible licenses for different operating systems. In my personal and very speculative opinion, if BTRFS didn't have a reputation for eating data and ZFS wasn't licensed in a way that's not quite compatible with the Linux kernel, one of them would have won by now.
Oh, that's interesting.

My father researched a family tree; not rigorously, like Mormons do, but he spent about a decade tramping around the country, visiting graveyards and inspecting parish records. I have a bound volume of the tree. He claimed descent from (a) William The Conqueror, (b) Lady Godiva, and (c) Charlemagne.

I don't have his records, only the tree. The links are pretty ropey, especially when you reach further back. And he imported big chunks of it from trees built by others. His conclusions seem pretty implausible, but that article makes them seem a bit more plausible.
Yup. In the sense that the unstoppable guillotine blade is descending slightly slower onto our necks. Yay!
Right, that's still true.