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Show HN: Zipy Chrome Plugin to Record Sessions, Replay, Autofix Issues with GPT
I’m super stoked to announce the launch of Zipy Plug & Play, the on-demand Chrome extension of Zipy.

Let me paint you a picture: A customer calls in with an issue, and you can hear the frustration in their voice. You spend hours trying to reproduce the issue, but it never happens. You forward the issue to your product team, but they can't understand the user behavior. And when you finally get it to your developers, they're scratching their heads trying to fix the bugs. Sounds familiar?

We've been there, and that's why we created Zipy. And now with Zipy Plug & Play, you can easily record bugs in live customer environments and send them to your developers. Plus, with our ChatGPT integration, Zipy AutoFix can even suggest code changes to resolve the bugs. It's like having a superhero on your team, always ready to swoop in and save the day! Don't believe me? Give Zipy Plug & Play a try and see for yourself how it can help you sleep better at night, knowing that your bugs are taken care of.

Zipy Chrome Extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zipy-plug-play/pbd...
Zipy Website: https://www.zipy.ai/chrome-extension/plug-and-play?utm_mediu...

Benefits of Zipy Plug & Play:
Support can record bugs in live customer environment.
QA can record and report bugs while testing.
▶ Growth and Product teams can track and replay user experience issues.
Developers can AutoFix bugs within Zipy using AI.
Overall, it can help save revenue, customers, and sleepless nights for your engineering, support and growth teams.

The plugin itself is free to use any number of times, but if you want to upgrade and store more than 1000 sessions a month, here’s a special discount coupon for the HN Community: Use ‘ZIPYHUNTERS25’ to avail 25% off on all our Startup and Growth Plans.

The Zipy team as a whole is certain that you will enjoy using the extension we have created. Looking forward to your feedback and support.

Helping you fix what matters,
Karthik and Team Zipy.
> their mission contradicts the advantage they’re providing to friends.

“Missions” are pure marketing. The only mission of a corporation is to make money.
Ah, I wasn't aware, thanks.
I disagree with pretty much all of that.
How serendipitous. I was looking for something like that recently. Admittedly my use case was much simpler, detecting tables of contents on scanned pdfs that usually don’t have them as links to navigate within the document. Will see if this could help. Is anyone using something else for my use case?
They must mean for free
You'll be able to optimize it a lot to make it fit on small systems if you are willing to modify your workflow a bit: instead of 1 prompt -> 1 image _n_ times, do 1 prompt -> _n_ images 1 time -> _m_ times... For a given prompt, run it through the T5 model and store; you can do that in CPU RAM if you have to because you only need the embedding once so you don't need a GPU which can run T5-XXL naively. Then you can get a large batch of samples from #2; 64px is enough to preview; only once you pick some do you run through #3, and then from those through #4. Your peak VRAM should be 1 image in #2 or #4 and that can be quantized or pruned down to something that will fit on many GPUs.
>Large companies over-hire to short-term inflate the share price

src on that?
There's so much self-indulgent angst oozing out of this comment that it's hard to pick out the intended signal but I'll try:

- It's not about credit cards, it's mostly debit. It's a large driver of the 15 billion dollars in NSF fees banks pick up yearly.

- Having 100% up to date information on your money makes it easier to not overdraft, the emotional smokescreen deployed doesn't change that.

- I don't know anyone with any level of financial literacy who would prefer less accurate data on their money: so your suggestion for a switch that makes your transaction history less accurate is questionable to say the least.

Overall you sound insecure about living in a bubble. I didn't paint people as jerks for being in a bubble, but I rightfully pointed out that you're clearly unfamiliar with a challenge in some people's lives.

If self-loathing makes you feel like a jerk for being in a bubble I can see how you could misconstrue that.
My fiber provider inherited network equipment that is preventing them from deploying IPv6. On their subreddit they responded from multiple inquiries that they are ready to provide a /60 once they upgrade their equipment.

I imagine this may be a problem for other providers.

Thankfully no CGNAT, so I have a couple VLANS that use he.net in the meantime.
You also need an active Iridium subscription to use a Garmin. Iridium is really expensive. Data caps are a low number of kb's.

These RockBLOCK's are intended as a drop in comms module for remote embedded devices like weather stations.
No?

When I said this post I meant OP if not clear
I don't believe the changes they've advocated with suffice.

They are, of course, the experts, and I'm just some schmuck on the Internet. So take it with a grain of salt.

But I don't think that their plan will increase density enough for people to get where they need to go without a car. Either people won't move in, because they don't want to walk all the way to the subdivision entrance for groceries, or they'll have an extra car even without a place to park it.

Maybe they'll get away with a golf cart or other mini-vehicle that couldn't do trips outside the subdivision, though that would take more changes to make that legal. And still, I'm not sure people will find that sufficient.

I do think the zoning and parking laws need to change, but I think it requires a lot more. I think it'll require much higher density -- not Manhattan, perhaps, but at least as high as most other US cities. Something more like towns that were designed before cars were invented, and before roads were made primarily for car traffic with no pedestrians.
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> ASUS has also issued a statement, clarifying that it will issue firmwares that limit SoC voltage to 1.3V

What about RAM that requires 1.4V?
This is especially pertinent to Microsoft which wants video games for their own hardware while Sony might have exclusives Destiny 2 is still on all platforms. Not to say that Sony is a perfect example in every situation and they do have exclusives.
- No need to deal with Google or the Play Store and everything that comes with, having to do reviews and all that

- Faster deployments to actual devices. AFAIK, you could even implement self-updating if you're feeling brave

- No sharing of data to Google and/or Play Store.

- Basically everything that the Play Store is now allowed, as you set your own rules (besides local regulation).

Basically, lots of goodies for developers and companies who want to skirt whatever safety Google has setup, with minor benefit to the users themselves.
I can’t access the FT article - is that in inflation adjusted/real terms? I know that in 2022 as a whole their trade deficit with the EU broadly increased in size and percent.
> Love seeing websites make smart choices about which work to handle in the server versus the client.

The intro community discussion page at https://www.linen.dev/s/linen
does need to load 20+ javascript files for some reason to show the latest messages.

Whereas messages still show up even if javascript is entirely blocked, just starting from the beginning in 10/2022 (?).

So I'm not quite sure if it's as optimized as it can be.
https://archive.ph/tYVE7
Haha, no worries :)

My latest failure was Wize, a mobile app that let anyone share their skills. It was a great idea, a bit early for its times (live streaming app before Instagram Live and Tik Tok), and it had a great start--we were in the top 20 at the Launch Hackathon, won an award from Google, and we had grammy award music teachers teaching on the platform. It failed because we pivoted too early. Building the two sided market was challenging, but instead of narrowing our focus to one topic, we decided to pivot to a "professional 1-1 coffee chat platform", and then again to a networking app–"Tinder for professionals." After going to a lot of conferences and meetups and talking to professionals, the resounding message we heard was that this domain was tough to dominate and it was going to be an uphill battle for us.

The biggest lesson I learnt in this is take advice with a pinch of salt. There are many successful apps today that resemble v1 (Maven), v2 (Intro), and v3 of Wize, and I think we would have been fine if we had persisted.

A more detailed write up of Wize, if you're interested:
https://swamiphoto.com/wize
This is my experience. It's hard because it's very complex. As a non-domain-expert it's hard to separate necessary complexity from unnecessary complexity, but it feels like there's a lot of the latter, plus enough gotchas in the former ("oh, you didn't specify an encryption algorithm that we support in your request, and our logs are terribly unhelpful for realizing that") to make it a giant pain.
yeah, this is called "cancellation." Autovacuum is very polite and tries to let go of a lock when there's a conflict. So it lets go, over and over, until it triggers a heuristic deciding "no, not succeeding in this session could be dangerous!" and then people begin to notice it.

Last I checked (....a few years ago, so things may have changed,) the theory of autovacuum heuristics may not have changed much since the turn of the millennium, they're probably about due.
I would never trust or hire people that wash their laundry publicly like this.
I am a lawyer, and as flimsy and wishy-washy as the term "open-source" already is, I can't even fathom what is meant by "open source" here?

Are people suggesting that "look at the code but don't touch" actually fits what some people think of as open source?
Yes, this is especially true for successful shows. They can be told in 2-3 seasons but they end up as 5 seasons. The pace of storytelling crawls to a halt in the middle seasons typically.
Minecraft and Mojang studios more broadly did great
I'm a Saskatchewan resident. It's easy to grumble about the phone company, but Sasktel does a great job. We're a huge low-density province, but with the crown corp mandates, small towns in Saskatchewan have excellent cell and fibre service. There's no way a private company invests like that. Saskatchewan gets better and faster service for less money.

We also have a provincial auto insurer, SGI. The prices for car insurance in Alberta or Ontario are ludicrous in comparison. The power and natural gas crowns are decent, as far as I can tell.

https://twitter.com/wingkarli/status/1582019472315289601
> Canada is just five big banks, two grocery chains, and three telecom giants in a puffer down jacket.

I'm not sure if federal crowns would be any better, but some competition would be a start.
1. because it's conceptually not an easy thing

2. because the standard was messed up (instead of specificing a protocol with _at most_ one clearly specified flow per use-case (you can use it for more then SSO/Cross App Auth) they specified something more like a framework to build your own standard, but still pretended it's a single protocol, but if you can't use the standard to "blindly" build a client which works without knowing anything about the vendor then it's not a protocol, at least not a complete one)

3. because the standard covers too much potential use cases

4. because vendors haven't yet converged their implementations enough and might never do so (time for OAuth 3 which just specified on specific OAuth2 flow implementation??)

Given that OAuth2 was started with clearly very different goals in mind and the main profiteers of the current situation are a few big companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft I have heard people stating that OAuth2 being messed up was intentionally. _I don't believe so_, it more looks like a typical case of accidentally over engineering by trying to doing so much.

I still don't like the situation as OAuth2 was too some degree a coffin nail to the idea of generic SSO (i.e. you as a customer can freely choose a SSO provider when signing one) and that sucks really hard and if we had generic SSO passwords would be _way_ less of an issue today (imagine _any_ email provider could _easily_ also provide a SSO service for any side you can have an account with).
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I'm bookmarking this to go through the next time I need to bang my head against this wall, thanks
I'm not sure if I fully understand your point. In this solution browser is not expected to vault card. It should just be intermediary between payment methods and payment gateways (of course saving card inside browser can be one of the payment methods).

Also depends what do you mean by more mainstream. Google Pay and Apple Pay both support tokenization. So do many other payment methods - I would say that it's mainstream. Next step would be refusing plain cards at all.

Google Pay is everything that Google needs for Chrome to have full solution.
We probably shouldn't have both this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35719937 on the front page. Which is more interesting?

Edit: the other project seems to have had updates within the last 24 hours so I'm going to guess that that submission is the one that should 'win'. It of course would be fine to link to this other project from the comments there.
I'm not sure "I want my favorite game to get better" is a good reason to allow more mega-conglomeration.
I just upgraded today from free user to paid (i did lose all those welcome credits long ago by playing around with, what i already forgot).

There is no different signup or waitlist for the api. It's just much more expensive to use gpt4 in favor of gpt-3.5-turbo.

The first example you find there for creating a chat-app let's you freely choose between the models.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/chat
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Never demand something which you can’t enforce. Signals major weakness.
Something that surprised me is how good GPT 4 is at extracting tables from unstructured data, or data with weird or messed up formatting.

For example, I copy-pasted some text from a HTML page where each table cell ended up on its own line, like so:

Enable feature?
Yes
Expand things?
No

This could be fixed with some multi-line regex, except that it was interleaved with headings that messed up the key-value pairings.

I fed this into GPT 4 and it correctly surmised which rows were headings, keys, and values. This is an easy task for a human, but a shocking thing to see a computer solve without years of programming effort put into solving this specific problem!

You've got to wonder how many of these single-purpose AI models like Table Transformer are going to be subsumed into LLMs. For example, Table Transformer comes with a bunch of labelled training data. Just point the variant of GPT 4 that has vision at the training data to make a tuned version. That should outperform a "small" model because it both understands what it's seeing and has been tuned on the special-purpose data set.

What I'm saying is that if you have a terabyte of specific training data and train a model on it, that's fine, but then you'll have a model with "1 TB of knowledge" at most. If you start with a pre-trained LLM with petabytes of knowledge crammed into it, then adding that 1 TB would give you the benefits of both, but the benefit of the petabyte vastly outstrips the extra terabyte!

With LLMs being quantized down to just a few gigabytes and able to run on mobile devices, I wonder if this is what the future of AI will look like. No more training models from scratch...
The escalating privileges part is easy: the file /usr/bin/sudo is owned by root and has the setuid flag set, meaning it gets executed with the permissions of the file owner instead of those of the caller.

The complexity has more to do with the fact that it has 28 command line flags, plus a fairly complex config file to configure who is allowed to do what, impersonating which user, and whether they need a password to do so. All of that dealing with security critical stuff like what exactly should carry over and what should be reset (all configurable ofc).

su is very simple by comparison (and you can do `sudo -s` anyways to get the same result as calling su without parameters).
> wonder if they've decided that some layoffs while keeping the raise structure the same is better for morale than no layoffs but turning the annual raise percentages down a bit

Your competitors will pay real market for your best employees. Better to trim than spread the pain.
Broadly, section 7 of the NLRA, but it is not spelled out in the text of the act. Instead, Quicken Loans, Inc. v. NLRB established the precedent that discussing working conditions is not a violation of confidentiality: https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/casebrief/p/casebrief-q...
Don't forget their fiber-to-the-home that started in 2012.
Too Big to Challenge?
> The Manhattan project was an exploration into a fundamental (and, without trying to sound ungenerous, a relatively simple) property of physics, put towards a relatively simple task. The laws of nature defined the constraints, and requirement was singular.

Your points here don't square with what I know. Have you read the Wiki page on it and found something incorrect?
I wouldn't be surprised if OpenAI people are scouring hackernews.

I still remember that one time someone posted that GPT3 was leaking its own source code[1] and within the hour not only was that post flagged, but ChatGPT was down for immediate maintenance[2] and it no longer behaved in that way.

I'm not saying that it was actually leaking source code, but it was an extraordinary coincidence.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33875231

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33875545
I have infinite respect for the process that Waymo followed to get to where they are. And I'm impressed that Google continued to fund the project and move it forward even when it represents such a long-term bet.

but it's not a product that has any real revenue. and most car companies keep their distance from google self-driving tech because they're afraid. afraid google wants to put them out of business. It's unclear if google could ever sell (as a product, as an IP package, etc) what they've created because it depends so deeply on a collection of technology google makes available to waymo.
Are you comparing with similar cost devices?
Excellent rebuttal of my point. Springer even has 5k' to land on, large enough for a moderate size commercial plane.
Wow, how do you spend that much money on one group of products?
I highly recommend front end devs add a step to their CI pipeline which extracts bundle size information from the build and includes it in pull requests, or something similar. It's great to have eyes on how heavy your bundle is, and keeping an eye on how it changes over time (easy to add as part of the pipeline) can help the team understand when things are trending the right way or not.

It's usually a call you need to make based on what you're shipping, but at the very least, it'll ensure you don't blow up your performance because something slipped by.

Finally, looking at the components of your bundle if you haven't already is well worth it. Like the people over at Linen noticed, they were shipping a ton of icons they were never using. This is happening all over the internet, and it's a real drag on the network, parsing, and executing phases in a browser. If you benchmark, you'll see significant differences when you trim things back.

If you have customers using lower powered devices, this is even more crucial.
And Typescript.
I think similar solutions have often been tried in the last decades in other countries and often fail. I’m thinking Zimbabwe (although I admit I am incredibly ignorant about the history there).

Why do you think everyone would be better off after following your suggestions?
It is much better, yes. The new 3.5 is still pretty good and very cheap, so it's my go-to for simple things, but GPT-4 is unmatched for complicated reasoning.
I Play a Round of Golf with ChatGPT as My Caddie
Or unless, as seems to be fairly widely expected but untested, model weights are not actually copyrightable, so model licenses are superfluous.
We love automation. There is just too much to do, and the field is unbounded. More automation means more papers and more interesting science.
Their target demographic is kids whose brains haven't developed yet and are unable to resist buying shiny digital things with their parents' credit cards and Epic makes sure to add as little resistance as possible. It's no surprise they wanted to add their own payment system to Fornite on iOS: Apple's has too much friction and parental controls to prevent abuse like this. The commission Apple collected was just a drop in the big bucket they were after.

From the FTC blog post:

>The FTC alleges that with millions of consumers’ credit cards conveniently in hand, Epic failed to adequately explain its billing practices to customers and designed its interface in ways that led to unauthorized charges. You’ll want to read the complaint for details, but here are a few of the dark patterns the company allegedly used.

>According to the complaint, Epic set up its payment system so that it saved by default the credit card that was associated with the account. That meant that kids could buy V-Bucks – the virtual currency necessary to make in-game purchases – with the simple press of a button. No separate cardholder consent was required.

Scum. Glad Apple booted them from the App Store and the courts sided with Apple.
GPT-4 is also free to all users, not just from the US, with 200 turns per day and 20 per conversation. It's just called "Bing Chat mode" instead of GPT-4. Of course Microsoft is losing money with it. But Microsoft can afford to lose money.
I have one firm rule these days. No rent seeking behaviors. This avoids talking to phone centers in India or some other foreign country, where the person on the other end of the phone barely speaks English to try to get the service cancelled or to fight aggressive billing.
That’s a good question. I don’t recall ever seeing something like this happening.
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Pill (BOE economist) is advocating for wage price restraints, which is what the parent observed.

The parent then said it is in effect calling for price controls on labor, which is true.

Pill is then recorded as saying wages do contribute to inflation:

> "He said that firms and workers are in a “pass the parcel game” that’s causing more persistent price pressures, contributing to the UK’s main inflation rate remaining stuck in double digits."

The final parent comment captures a very common line in corporate media messaging: which is that wages always need to be suppressed lest inflation rear its head, but corporate profits never should because that is market distortion and not related to inflation.
https://www.export.org.uk/news/631720/UK-trade-deficit-with-....

In total, imports from the EU, excluding precious metals, hit £82bn whilst exports to the EU were valued at £49.2bn. This represents an increase of 7.5% in imported goods and a decrease of 6.1% in exports.

The UK’s total imports of goods decreased by £3.5bn (-2.1%) in Q4 2022 compared with Q3. Goods imports from non-EU countries fell in this time period (10.4%).

Exports of goods over the same period decreased by £4.5bn (4.5%), with exports to both the EU and non-EU countries falling.
Stretching out the advertising is a huge reason why they want to delay releasing episodes. I value my time and setting my own schedule higher. I think that as long as the shows are good they'll find an audience and sustain cultural relevancy long after the ads have moved on to shoving the next thing in our faces.