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> kids living in my city (Victoria) seems laughable too. The rental market is so expensive and volatile

The rental market on Vancouver Island has always been hellish.

I remember when we first immigrated in the early 2000s, we were a family of 4 living in a single bedroom that we were renting out for several hundred dollars (can't remember exact numbers because I was in Primary), and jobs were hard to come by despite both my parents having STEM educations.

My family ended up succeeding, but we moved to the US, and bear a persistent grudge against Canada to this day.

Having visited again recently, it seems the same issues persist. One of our family friends who were working as doctors in Oman are now in Victoria living in a dingy basement, but are fine with that sacrifice so they could ensure their kids could attend UVic.

The kids will probably try to emigrate to the US as well once their Canadian PR converts into Citizenship.
You know your country's broken when you have to design things around thieves instead of customers. Hopefully the US doesn't get this far, but it does seem we're on the road to it.
Even if you could somehow transport a cell phone back to 1920, it wouldn't work as there was no cell network back then. (Now, a walkie talkie on the other hand...)
My biggest problem is forgetting to un-silence it. I'll literally go days and miss tons of important calls/texts before I remember to check. I used to do that all the time but stopped after missing a some very important calls.
In fact ChatGPT does have diagraminig plugins you can talk to and output valid code-based diagrams.

Havent tried.
No I did not login. Viewed as anon.

Also opened 5 articles to see if there is "3 article per day limit" as usual, not happening.

Everything I post is set to non-monetized, so what you might see is just people ticked that monetize box.
I've been using their spreadsheet for over 5 years. I send them $50 every year or two, it's a lot cheaper than MS Office/Excel and does everything I need.
There’s an interesting incentive cycle here: decades of underinvestment in the power grid[1] have driven wealthier (in turn, primarily whiter) South Africans towards individual power sources, in turn fostering a market for stolen solar panels, etc. A good example of how private power sources (even green ones) exacerbate underinvestment in public utilities (since the people most capable of financing the utilities can opt out of doing so instead).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_energy_crisis
FBI, CIA, etc. would never decline to use the types of tools that China has.

That's just the kind of overheated hyperbole derailing so many of our civic discussions nowadays.

FBI and CIA have far more effective tools at their disposal. They'd nearly always decline to use the journeyman tools China has in its cyber arsenal.
It defeats the purpose when it becomes common knowledge that the panels are deliberately made to look damaged. Probably also makes it convenient for thieves as they can sell actually damaged panels and claim that they're these deliberate ones.

Outside of remote farms and businesses in industrial areas, there are claims that some of the installers will tip off their friends/associates about large residential installations so they can come steal them and go reuse them elsewhere.
Most people who install panels would live in houses that would require an electrical certificate of compliance, which TMK have to be issued by certified installers. So it makes it plausible that some installers probably buy stolen goods to increase their margins.

It's sad what humans will steal. In some South African rural areas, people have opted to start pouring concrete on a grave during a burial. A few months back I attended a relative's funeral, and there were a few freshly dug out graves (where it shows that someone was recently buried), and people were just going on with the business of the day, not seemingly bothered by this.
It made me think about this video where a person tests whether the car detects a small child that is very fast crossing the road.

The answer from Tesla: "It's all lies! It is a competitor!", without addressing the main concern.
That is a pretty interesting observation, I don't think I would have spotted that, especially given everyone have been saying it was bubblesort.
Ever since the Kalmar Union, Denmark has had the Swedish national emblem the Three Crowns as part of their Royal Coat of Arms. The union ended in 1523.
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What a waste of talent... why accomplish things in real life when you can grind leetcode to give the appearance of being able to accomplish things? /s
I have had both experiences. It has literally taken me all the way from Miami to Atlanta at least 6 times without issue and basically only disengaging when there is heavy road work spots and then I turn it back on. I have also used it to go from Miami to Key West 3 times back and fourth with almost no interaction other than road work situations.

That being said, when I visited areas with very little road traffic like in central Florida or in country areas in Georgia, it is very hesitant and I can only assume because of the lack of training data. Simple things like left turns become overly hesitant or it goes into a middle turning lane thinking it's a new lane because the lines are rough or non-existent.

I love using it for long trips, it has changed my quality of life when it comes to driving. I simply do not agree calling it 'rubbish' is fair at all and really is a gross oversimplification of it's faults in situations.
Yep, sadly Firefox requires external shims if you want to open binaries from the host machine (which in this case is the browser executable with a different profile).
I only charge my iPhone 12 about every 2 days as well - at least with normal usage. But I can also easily run it down with an audiobook playing all afternoon over Bluetooth. No idea why that uses so much power.

When I’m at home I’m so close to charge points all day that I don’t worry about it. And when I’m travelling, I bring an external usb-c battery pack that can fully charge my phone about 6 more times or give my laptop another few hours of use.

Sure, more battery life would be strictly better. But I’m happy with the state of things right now.

Apparently the EU has legislated toolless user replaceable phone batteries by 2027. I’m curious if apple plays ball and if so, what iPhones will look like in a few years.
Sure! Taivo here - CTO & co-founder of OpenCopilot.

The most recent LLM app we've built has been the Ready Player Me copilot (which you can see linked in the main repo as well, and which was an inspiration for actually making something open-source based on what we had learned into). The problem it solves is onboarding developers onto their platform, and is currently live for a subset of their users.

We've built a ton of copilots that we haven't published. Some have been for work like founder copilots for ourselves and a few friends, sales outreach copilots, etc. Some have been for fun: I wanted to see if I could create a copilot that coaches me to do things faster a la https://patrickcollison.com/fast - so I did. As a PoC I created a copilot that explains the rules of an obscure sport I like (floorball).

In addition, with the same team, since the beginning of this year we've made a bunch of experiments that I'm sure many others have tried:
* "chat with your knowledge base" style bots: for tech support, for developer docs, for internal HR use, and probably some I can't remember
* an LLM-based quiz app that dynamically makes a quiz based on your Spotify history
* an automated engineer (a much more basic version of smol-ai/developer)
* a website builder where you mostly uses a chat UI for making the website
* making AutoGPT better (higher quality, faster, more straightforward to use)
* we also briefly considered making an OSS LLM before Llama 1 came out and kickstarted the OSS LLM wild ride we've seen since then

We killed almost all of these experiments within a few weeks after release, because none found early traction; we'd probably been wrong about the problem these were solving.

About my AI background: I built a 25-person computer vision team from zero at an identity verification unicorn. After that tried and failed to build a computer vision labelling tool startup. Before that, built robot perception software at Starship robots and unsuccessfully tried to make a contribution to AI safety with my thesis on active reinforcement learning in 2017.

About Johannes (OP) & the rest of the team: in 2018 him and part of the current team tried to make Sidekik: something like character.ai, but training models from scratch - which eventually didn't work out. From 2020 (after a pivot) the same team was building Sentinel, a deepfake-detection startup - which again did not work out.

FYI: Sidekik's original website:
https://web.archive.org/web/20181008082142/https://sidekik.a...
When I was 5 I "invented" the TV watch.
You should click into the category and see there is literally ~100 blog posts about the issue.
Those things have 4Kw flowing through them and the circuit breakers are located in the home - it would not surprise me if it is dodgy installers who are running short on stock and repurposing them :).
> Macbook Air M1, just look at Dell XPS series.

If you want an unusable trackpad, a middling keyboard, a fan that spins up and down at random when the laptop is just sitting there, a space heater for your backpack when you close the laptop and stow it away, and a pathetic battery life, then, yes, a Dell laptop is just what you need.

I'll admit, I have a more expensive Dell Precision laptop, so maybe the XPS is actually usable, but I'm not going to hold my breath. The one that I have is the worst POS laptop I've ever had the pleasure of being forced to use.
A faux wood decal.
Artificial intelligence is ineffective and potentially harmful for fact checking
>according to US News and World Report

Is this any more than an advertising vehicle? Are the rankings useful?

>Canada has better healthcare than the US

This is astonishing to me. Our healthcare system is overwhelmed. It's nearly impossible to get a doctor anywhere in Canada. I can't move my elderly parents this way for that reason. Rural emergency rooms are almost always closed. I know, because I live in a rural area; we no longer have ambulance or emergency room services.

>Canadian cities rank highly for livability, including expensive ones Toronto and Vancouver. No US cities were on the list that I found.

Maybe it's just me, but doesn't that make the list seem like nonsense, then? What makes Toronto better than, say, Boston?
Hi I hope this doesn’t come off as insensitive. I just wanted to say some things which I realize is a huge edge case but maybe could be helpful to a young talented Canadian.

So I grew up in section 8 housing in the US. This is government housing for very low income. I was able to work really hard and work my way up to buying an SFH worth around $955k CAD on my own as a software engineer. I am in My early 30s and live on my own. It might be possible for a dink tech couple to come here and work in tech for some time and come back to Toronto and buy that way . I know this is super awful that I’m even fronting this idea . I am so sorry this is happening .
> "They were just doing their job" is not a response we accept when police and soldiers brutalize people.

Unfortunately, it is a response that we, collectively, mostly do accept.

We shouldn't, and occasionally we don't, but...
UTF-16 is proof that time machines don't exist, and even that they'll never exist.

More seriously, the fact that so many terrible things in the past are not fixed is pretty strong indication that time travel for fixing the past is not feasible.
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thank you for the information
Tachiyomi makes Android significantly better for comics/manga than iOS.

It's one of the reasons I sold my iPad for a galaxy tab s7+. Every alternative I tried on iOS was just shit in comparison, paperback especially.
I guess you don’t know what’s been going on for years in San Francisco:

https://www.carscoops.com/2021/12/people-in-california-are-l...
You can be an excellent driver even if you’re occasionally confused and blinded, etc. in my opinion the reason it doesn’t work today with vision is that it turns out more intelligence than musk thinks is required if you’re only using vision
This was on Linux. It takes a bit of getting used to, but I won't go back unless I'm absolutely forced to.
I keep my phone on silent 24/7 except for the very rare occasions when I'm expecting a call I don't want to miss.

Sometimes I notice the screen when someone calls, otherwise I call back when I next notice the phone, usually within an hour. If they're busy then, I just send a message instead.
That's exactly it. The companies behind the devices have a negative incentive to solve the annoyance issue for you, since your annoyance (attention) is their flow of income.

Like why do I need to be repeat notified if someone texts me 3 times quickly in a row? We ought to have some kind of an agent system that can handle these things somewhat intelligently. Apple is doing a little better in this regard, but I can't help but feel that in the OSS world we would have had a bunch of solutions to this by now. In a fragmented fashion with terrible usability, of course.
Add Surrey, Richmond, Burnaby, Delta, Abbottsford, Kelonwa, Nanaimo, Victoria, etc to that list.
Slowly but surely, I’m beginning to learn that whenever a US government agency has a problem with something, the problem isn’t that they are genuinely concerned about the thing they say they are, the problem is they aren’t the ones benefiting from it.
Why doesn't anyone check it then?
> Stress reduction is a good way to go

I totally agree, I think the thing I find discomforting is the apparent conflict between the systems that exacerbate the "problem" and the fact that a meditation app, medicalized psychedelic trip, or scientific research into either seems somehow part of that system. It feels like instead of becoming tools for liberation from daily suffering or for deepening the understanding of one's consciousness, these tools are being subsumed and defanged by the same system that makes us need them.

It's some of the same feeling as seeing businesses embrace social justice culture - without even getting into the whole "woke" debate, I'll just say it often feels weird to see these big machines of capitalism embrace these causes. It feels cynical - rather than "this is a good cause, we will support it" it feels like "people are into social justice, this is good marketing".

But again, maybe that's OK. If Disney embraces LGBT causes for cynical reasons to sell movies, but instrumentally advances rights or attitudes in doing so - or if Headspace makes a ton of money, but genuinely improves someone's internal experience - or if Joe Rogan convinces someone to try psychedelic therapy, and that person is able to work through some issues and be better for their family - it's hard to find an argument that these are bad things.

But they still make me feel weird.
RAG comes out of the box - see here: https://docs.opencopilot.dev/improve/knowledge-base

We were hoping to make dynamic RAG part of the very first release but didn't - we'll be adding that soon.
At least it's clear what I'm trying to persuade you about.

As for evidence, frankly like this other guy says "it's all around us" but you need to translate what happens to systems (species, civilizations, ecosystems, nations, companies, industries) in smaller scale, and translate it to a globalized economy. Indeed, by the time we have evidence that our entire species is potentially screwed... we'll no longer have use of the evidence.

It's the same story as climate change. I actually think it's quite poetic both of those are hitting us at the same time. COVID was a bit early and a bit weak, but I'm sure another will come, to make the perfect triple storm.
I have a Pixel 3a and longevity of phone is important. But Android is cutting down their supported cycles to 3 years. Unless something changes, in fall next year I will get an iPhone 14/15 (possibly refurbished) and keep it for 6/7 years. ios16 is still possible on the iPhone8 - a solid 6+ years of official updates!

Walled garden or not, their products are solid and supported. That is what most consumers look at. No hassle ownership for most.
Same with bicycles in New York City, even mimicking beat up duct tape and rust (although the entire frame and water bottle holder are carbon fiber).
This is a helpful framework for articulating the different ways in which organizations break.

If team topologies are not designed to minimize these, you're in for a world of normality (very bad)
Every piece of technology is incapable of doing anything if you label all solutions as "hacks."

Here's proof:

Is it possible to write C programs that manipulate strings? No, because string library functions are "hacks." Is it possible to write a bash script that passes arguments with spaces to a command? No, because quoting and character escaping are "hacks."

Nix packages are malleable. With a bit of code, customizations can be applied to individual packages and entire dependency closures alike. An overlay is an embodiment of this property. It allows the user to create packages that fits their unique needs on the fly without having to repackage the whole world. No other package manager maybe besides Guix has this capability. I don't think it's fair to dismiss it as an "hack."
So if you don't anticipate needing a mortgage or car loan, could you get rid of credit cards and perhaps cut down your online footprint? The question is how you would pay for stuff — are debit cards just as bad? Cash is being phased out at some stores so that's not always an option. I guess you could load up my Apple Pay straight from your bank and use that instead of a credit card?
"You can build arbitrary-precision rationals" is a far cry from saying, "this is a language designed for precision arithmetic." You can technically build arbitrary-precision rationals without BigInts using arrays, but it's not exactly ergonomic.

Even if we stipulate that users will be cognizant of floating point limitations and convert everything to integers, JS still requires all literals to be suffixed with n to avoid silently losing precision when integral values exceed 2*52.
Do you live in the EU? Even if you don't, the Digital Markets Act will probably be implemented everywhere by Google et, al.

A key provision there stipulates that apps offered by third-party developers must be afforded the same level of access to features and abilities as the gatekeeper (in this case, Google)

Since Google uses that tracking technology for their own apps, they would be obligated to offer it in the same fashion to developers.

And even if your app does not do anything of the sort, the law states that the store must operate in FRAND conditions, so you should get a reprive from the ban when it goes into effect.
Just for kicks, here's a Dart version:

enum ItemStatus { notAvailable, available, inUse }

enum FieldState { hidden, readOnly, readWrite }

FieldState decide(bool requiresApproval, bool canUserApprove, ItemStatus itemStatus) =>
switch ((requiresApproval, canUserApprove, itemStatus)) {
(true, true, ItemStatus.notAvailable) => FieldState.hidden,
(false, true, ItemStatus.notAvailable) => FieldState.hidden,
(true, false, ItemStatus.notAvailable) => FieldState.hidden,
(false, false, ItemStatus.notAvailable) => FieldState.hidden,
(true, true, ItemStatus.available ) => FieldState.readWrite,
(false, true, ItemStatus.available ) => FieldState.hidden,
(true, false, ItemStatus.available ) => FieldState.readOnly,
(false, false, ItemStatus.available ) => FieldState.hidden,
(true, true, ItemStatus.inUse ) => FieldState.readOnly,
(false, true, ItemStatus.inUse ) => FieldState.hidden,
(true, false, ItemStatus.inUse ) => FieldState.readOnly,
(false, false, ItemStatus.inUse ) => FieldState.hidden,
};

As with F# and Haskell, the compiler will tell you if you didn't cover one of the combinations. In the case of Dart, we go ahead and make it a full compile-time error, not just a warning.

The cool thing about pattern matching over tuples with compile-time exhaustiveness checking is that you can start simplifying and collapsing rows and the compiler will let you know if you made a mistake.

I believe you can simplify the example here to:

FieldState decide(bool requiresApproval, bool canUserApprove, ItemStatus itemStatus) =>
switch ((requiresApproval, canUserApprove, itemStatus)) {
(_, _, ItemStatus.notAvailable) => FieldState.hidden,
(false, _, ItemStatus.available ) => FieldState.hidden,
(false, _, ItemStatus.inUse ) => FieldState.hidden,
(true, false, ItemStatus.available ) => FieldState.readOnly,
(true, _, ItemStatus.inUse ) => FieldState.readOnly,
(true, true, ItemStatus.available ) => FieldState.readWrite,
};

Doing that simplification is a useful exercise to then determine how to express the rules you're modeling in a succinct way.
I gave it a spin a little bit ago. Per usual, install docs didn't quite work OOTB, here's how I got it working: https://llm-tracker.info/books/howto-guides/page/speech-to-t...

One limitation that seems undocumented, the current code only supports relatively short clips so isn't suitable for long transcriptions:

> ValueError: The input sequence length must be less than or equal to the maximum sequence length (4096), but is 99945 instead.
what sort of frequency are we talking here? Because the frequency that my kids get annoyed by it is maybe once a week. Most of the time my phone is in my pocket and nobody else even knows it's buzzing. The kids only know when I have the phone in my hand and they are nearby, or if they are looking at my phone (which is rare). I don't think it warrants a solution like silencing, which mainly serves to ensure I miss everything until days later when I remember to turn it back to vibrate.
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Inconspicuous design is universal, and not a symptom of “broken countries.” Compare intentionally beaten up looking bicycles, extraordinary wealthy (especially “old” wealth) people wearing inconspicuous clothes, etc.
> UTF-16 is proof that time machines don't exist, and even that they'll never exist.

Are you assuming that, if time machines ever exist, the people with access to them must be benevolent, or at least interested in our convenience?
While I don't believe Musk is honest[1], even if he were, I think Jimmy Carter and Dolly Parton have both made more honest efforts to save humanity.

(I'm assuming you don't mean "unique" in the sense that everyone is unique.)

[1] What do you think is the best example? How do you disentangle it from what appears to be half-assed efforts?
Ask HN: What things do you avoid?
It could be something that a lot of people use but you don't because you think it's bad or wrong or whatever the reason might be.
Avoiding something on your own doesn't make a big difference but if we tell each other about it we can make a bigger difference to punish the bad things and benefit the good things.

1. What things do you avoid using or doing?

2. What are the reasons that you don't want to do or use this thing?

3. What do you do or use instead to solve the same problem?
If you want to try something different for long roads, you can take a look at Mercedes cars.

Not only they are very comfortable and reliable for such, but also the manufacturer takes the legal responsibility when level 3 mode is activated, whereas if you use a Tesla, it is always your responsibility.

Means a lot.
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