skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be aware that more and more large orgs will have policy around software and services procurement for any software that will run on or touch internal enterprise systems or data, particularly protected data, regardless of price. This isn't 2004 anymore and engineers or even managers cannot just expense software purchases. It's only gotten harder to deal with big enterprise as a small software or services supplier.
"just" is definitely a 4-letter word here, but yes, I think I'll be getting him a new one and putting LineageOS on the thing to play with.
Agree, most web developers now are just in the opposite campaign of web "users" and trying every possible way to make their jobs (squeezing every penny out of their "users") simpler without any other considerations
The App Store ads are trivial and not the concern. I’m more concerned about the tracking that apps will be able to do when Apple cannot block them from installing. Hello FaceBook++
This article took a turn for the best. Nearly three-quarters of the way in, I was irritated that another "haha cs majors, you're not as slick as you think you are" post had spawned. Instead, the author notes something of intrigue: thinking, adapting, questioning, and forming connections between concepts are going to be increasing in importance. It's less important to know specifics in a given language or technology than ever before.
> I don't want to download apps from alternative app stores.

Then don't. Nobody is forcing you.
That’s fantastic. Yeah, what is it with all these people who didn’t use their time being boarded up inside their apartments and houses for months at a time for the first and hopefully last time in their lives, to better themselves. Wusses.
> We'd 100% still be using Flash if Apple hadn't refused to support it

I mean, that's hyperbole. Even in a flash-dominated web, there was still tons of non-flash technology being developed and distributed. In 2023 it would definitely be obsoleted, if for no reason other than Adobe having no incentive to keep it around. Apple's decision feels tangential relative to the progress of internet bandwidth, delivery technologies and even just the plain advent of YouTube obceleting 90% of the places Flash was used.

Flash would be dead today even if Apple did adopt it, because nobody in the industry wants to pay arbitrary taxes or kiss the proprietary ring. Their freedom on the web let them evolve and pick competitive replacements; Flash's death is hardly a defense of iron-fist ecosystem enforcement.
I love Kagi-the-search-engine, but I'm not at all surprised they recommended you switch to Orion.

If you go into Safari's extension settings, is their extension enabled for all websites?
People already use their phones for everything in our modern society, so they have simply declared them to be that, regardless of what Apple thinks about it.

Even if I'd personally like it, I don't think the same argument makes much sense for a PS5 - when have you last used it to order groceries or new furniture? Apple would love to get a cut of those purchases, by the way.

Starting by dealing with the devices that have the highest impact on the largest number of people, due to a runaway capitalistic empire trying to add an additional tax to everything that vaguely gets near it, has a higher chance of actually succeeding.
For a long time, AMD promoted OpenCL as viable without it actually being viable. This leaves scars and resentment. Mine come from about 10 years ago. They run deep.

I'm glad to hear your experience was better, but I'm fresh out of trust. This time, I need to see major projects in my application areas working on AMD before I buy, because AMD has taught me that "trust us" and "just around the corner" can mean "10 years later and it still hasn't happened." I'm pretty sure that this time is different, but the green tax is dirt cheap compared to learning this lesson the hard way, so I'm letting others jump first this time.
My biggest issue with the way Wal-Mart (and most other retail) did it is that it was... scammy.

Want an HDMI cable? Here's an overpriced Monster cable. Oh, don't want to pay absurdly high prices? Save money by buying one that is only 300% more than it should be instead of 400%!

The nice thing about Amazon was that it broke this model. Suddenly you could buy Anker or (insert small third party here) at very reasonable prices.

Amazon destroying those competitors is doing some damage to this, though.
You don't think the large companies that existed before Amazon abused those workers? Wal-Mart never did anything wrong to their workers? It's a repeating playbook.
Tell me when the rest of the company aligns with you

More or less the same message has been promulgated[1][2] by no less than Lisa Su[3], FWIW.

[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lisa-Su-ROCm-Commitment

[2]: https://www.forbes.com/sites/iainmartin/2023/05/31/lisa-su-s...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisa_Su
No it doesn't.

I've added many shortcuts to websites from my home screen from within Chrome since this feature was recently added, and they all open in Chrome.
Tearing down dams could save Western rivers – and also make climate change worse
>It’s an unprecedented green ambition in a deep-red state — or a greenwashing sham, depending on whom you ask
Design tools shouldn’t be hard to sell if they are useful to others. The product should very much do the sales for you. These people know of your product, you’re exchanging emails and getting beers, and yet those people aren’t coming to you and asking how can they get access. Design tools specifically don’t require rubbing elbows with folks over beers to sell, not if it’s useful. Designers will have zero hesitation jumping on something that saves them time or makes their workflows less tedious.

No offense intended but if other people found value in it you’d be making sales and they’d be praising it to their designer friends. Design products that people want are easy sells. This is a smell you don’t have product market fit. But, that’s ok, because it’s a thing you built for you, so if it doesn’t solve anyone else’s problem you’ve still solved your own. If your product has competition, how are they able to sell to folks? Are they small? Maybe it’s niche and there’s just no market to penetrate.

Why the b2b targeting? Aim it at b2c and skip the enterprise bs. Again, if it is valuable to designers, they will purchase for themselves personally and use it at both work and at home, and that is frictionless compared to contract negation and vetting, snail paced security audits, and nonsense terms and scope creep added to sign a deal. It’s not needed here imo and it’ll force you to sell your souls to get deals and your passion project will morph into a monster you don’t even like.
Fair points. But I think it's a pretty strong data point that the best known way to lose weight and keep it off in the long term is literally to cut/suck the fat cells out of your body (i.e., bariatric surgery). One would have to wonder what hormonal signals these fat cells are secreting in order to justify their continued existence and get fed...

The current second-best way are the GLP agonist drugs, which tweak hormones.

A very, very distant third is behavior modification/"changing diet and exercise regimen".

Now, to avoid gaining in the first place, you do have some points.

Someday soon, we're going to finally figure out the hideously complex orchestration of hunger, satiety and fat storage in the human body, and the obesity epidemic will finally end, and for the rest of human history this will be known as the "obesity era" /sigh

Lastly, speaking as a Mounjaro taker, you don't quite understand how this works. I do not have to exert willpower from the daily finite reserve I get in order to will it downwards. I do not have to change what I eat. I do not have to force myself to fast. I do not have to exercise (in fact, I exercise for other reasons, such as mood and mental clarity!). I do not have to calorie-track. I do not have to limit myself to specific foods. Here's what happens: I'm simply less hungry and reach satiety much quicker and that makes all the difference. I have far fewer "naggy" feelings of wanting to snack, I often don't finish meals, and I can use that spare willpower on other things in my life that need it, which is fantastic.
A cage with windows and doors is not much of a cage.
Is the suggestion elites were controlling access to procreation? Maybe men were also just killing each other extra fierce in the land grab. Uncompletely uneducated speculating on my part.
Hey, that's rather discriminating.
Back in 2013 or so Quora was absolutely amazing, flowing with content so fascinating and enriching that I had to unsubscribe from updates because I would just spend my entire day reading there. I was sad to come back many years later and find it mostly overtaken by ads and spam.
We don't "get by just fine".

Computers overflowing with naively self-installed adware/malware is a recurring and persistent problem with some relatives of mine. Nothing you can say stops them from inadvertently doing it again, they simply lack the sophistication to understand, and then complaining that their computer is slow or doesn't work anymore. Putting these people on iOS is a godsend, these kinds of issues don't happen there.
I'm curious to see the results, although as an english-only speaker, it may be hard for me to assess. Interesting write up nonetheless
Reality is far more complex then the simple take you have here.

>by offer better quality stuff,

Amazon, for example, offering counterfeits of your product as your product is not under the definition of "better quality stuff"

>for a lower price

Again, offering a lower price consistently is one thing. Using pricing as a weapon, for example selling a product lower than cost in order to monopolize a market is not.
Lilian Weng (AI safety at OpenAI) advocates ChatGPT for therapy
Also... how does it have any value then? Either I should ignore it (in which case ChatGPT was useless) or I already know it from a trustworthy source (in which case ChatGPT was useless).
Sadly digital personal assistants are the biggest example of something that we've not yet figured out how to build safely given the threat of prompt injection.

If your assistant can perform actions on your behalf - even as simple as replying to an email - you can't risk that assistant being exposed to any potentially malicious text from an untrusted source that might contain instructions designed to subvert it.

So your assistant can't be trusted to summarize web pages. Or even to read messages in your inbox!

I wrote more about this problem - and provided a very disappointing partial proposed solution - here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/25/dual-llm-pattern/
When I searched for this, I found there to be some debate on it (isn't there always?): https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1517943113 https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/why-was-most-of-the-...
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Full tweet:

> Just had a quite emotional, personal conversation w/ ChatGPT in voice mode, talking about stress, work-life balance. Interestingly I felt heard & warm. Never tried therapy before but this is probably it? Try it especially if you usually just use it as a productivity tool.
I hope this works. There hasn't been a big monopoly break up since the 1982 break up of AT&T. And with this conservative supreme court, I'm not holding my breath that this will actually go through.
I don't know whether it is popular everywhere, but it is certainly popular everywhere I go (anywhere in the US, and western Europe). I absolutely love it.
> Most homework is worthless.

Math says otherwise, my mastery of math in college came through hours of slogging through problem sets (which the answers are often provided for!) until I understood all the many ways to apply a concept.

Prior to college I had skated by w/o doing homework (I understood what was said in class, so why bother?) and it bit me really hard. Understanding what it said during a lecture is one thing, internalizing that knowledge, and knowing how to apply it, means actually putting in the time and effort.
Hah! Yes, I cursed him a few times for making me unable to see something slightly wrong. Like, friends don't point out kerning mistakes to friends. That stuff needed a content warning.
big corps (including apple itself) are powerful enough to force you to do everything if they really want.
Related: "Treating the Prodrome", a discussion about early treatment of schizophrenia and some speculation about possible mechanisms. [1]

This sort of work is very exciting to me! Treating schizophrenia early seems like a win for everyone - less of an impact on the individual, less of a need for antipsychotics, and less societal impact.

I've also seen some speculation about a prodrome for major depression, with a period characterized by anxiety or agitation before a full episode. Early detection of psychiatric episodes seems like a really ripe approach.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/09/20/treat-the-prodrome/
Oh my god, why didn't I look into that, that's so much better. Thank you!
Big-endian CPUs were once the dominant clients in TCP/IP networking, and these machines define the hton and ntoh C macros as no-ops. This means that the network itself is big-endian.

Here is an old HP-UX machine running on PA-RISC:

# grep ntoh /usr/include/netinet/in.h
#ifndef ntohl
#define ntohl(x) (x)
#define ntohs(x) (x)

On x86_64, this is a byte-swap:

$ grep bswap /usr/include/netinet/*.h
/usr/include/netinet/in.h:# define ntohl(x) __bswap_32 (x)
/usr/include/netinet/in.h:# define ntohs(x) __bswap_16 (x)
/usr/include/netinet/in.h:# define htonl(x) __bswap_32 (x)
/usr/include/netinet/in.h:# define htons(x) __bswap_16 (x)

SPARC is big-endian, and the memory is not in the same order as it is on x86. This can coax bugs out of software that are otherwise not seen on little-endian systems.

Alpha is litte-endian, but it has its own exotic problems.
I love Kagi, because I can downrank and block sites like Quora.
Yeah, it's pretty much the same everywhere I did the research (Estonia, Russia, Belarus).

What you could do is offer a discount to the business the minute they ask for a VAT receipt. (Of course, you bake the VAT amount in right from the start.)

Alternatively, you could explain that you aren't paying VAT because you want to keep prices low – I've seen a couple design studios use this argument successfully many times.
the monopoly car companies have on their cars is one of the ways they fleece consumers. It's why they have pricing power on repairs, can charge whatever they want for their self driving solutions etc. There's a reason why almost all of them are trying to turn their cars from mechanical vehicles into glorified software/service platforms, it's a way to lock people in.

In a world where hardware and software is open and interoperable and you can say, buy a self driving solution from any vendor (which is essentially what comma does in a hacky way), consumers benefit. Same is true for phones or laptops.
Almost like the Paradox of wanting open borders and higher minimum wages. The result being California, and the urban cores of Seattle, Portland, and Chicago
4) consider sharing your journey, challenges, accomplishments, product updates and demos on twitter, adding tags like #buildinpublic and #indiehacker helps. also periodically post on places like reddit in the form of 'this is who I am, this is the problem I experienced, this is the solution I have built so far, hope to hear your questions & feedback'

5) bootstrapping is super hard (doing it right now) and early on usually accompanied by some contract work on the side to sustain yourself until ramen profitability

happy to connect and point out some examples if it helps ioannis@algora.io best of luck!!
It doesn't seem correct to equate mathematics with proof. If I express a mathematical construction like the whole numbers (let Whole = Zero | Succ Whole), and I build further constructions on that foundation, am I doing mathematics? If so, then it seems mathematics does not depend on logic, as logic depends on propositions and there are no propositions to be seen.

Certainly you can analyze such constructions using logic, but that's again conflating logic with mathematics. There's overlap, but they aren't strictly the same.
> and will learn this usage for each different app.

Yes, not in Outlook, please.
Outdoor Survival Shows
OrbStack is about Linux containers. What we're talking about in this topic is the only software in the world for macOS containers.
The current trend does not determine long-term future behavior, any more previous trend of rapidly rising population did.
Reads like support, and I'm 99% sure they mean "/"
I didn’t have COVID even once. Or maybe I did and didn’t notice it. Most of the people I know are in the same boat. My 69 year old morbidly obese father tested positive for COVID but only had sniffles. My 95 year old grandmother had COVID and didn’t really have symptoms.

Since 2022 I don’t use any kind of protection ever and don’t follow up on vaccination. I am somewhat convinced COVID was a tempest in a teapot and the world would have been better off if we never heard about it. Even as it deployed itself into communities.

So, no. No more special measures, please. We’re back to normal and thank goodness for that.

P.S. Better ventilation in schools is great, of course. Just, let’s not make it about COVID. Let’s leave COVID confined to the dumpster heap of history and maybe learn some lessons from the whole episode. Like, fear is never to be trusted.
His prescience isn't what makes him interesting. In many ways he is writing about the past and the present.

He is unique for his tone. "Ballardian" conveys something immediately recognisable to anyone that's read more than a handful of his short stories and it conveys something that is fairly unique.

The recent craze for "liminal spaces" captures some of the flavour. But it's also intrinsically British and very much a 70s thing. Maybe it's just my memory of Britain in the 70s but the movie of Crash failed to capture the right mood, whereas High Rise did remarkably well.
I guess I do that to some degree. Amazon is doing some bad things, but I have a difficult time seeing that without also seeing the good impacts that they've had.

I remember online retail before Amazon dominance. Return policies and return shipping was a real mess. Amazon actually greatly improved the customer service experience. It also changed some markets in ways that were undoubtedly pro-consumer.

It also has had a lot of negative impacts, as their model (including the free shipping concept) has made it practically impossible for small independent stores to compete in online sales.

Put another way, very few things are all bad or all good. A lot of internet commentary wants to magically keep the good and vaporize the bad, but it just doesn't work that way.
I agree that having a choice is absolutely important. I want to have a choice of a closed ecosystem, like Apple. Can we not have the option between open (Android) and closed (Apple)?
Tailwind is the modern equivalent of Bootstrap.

Most teams do not have a dedicated designer. Most developers are quite bad at CSS. These teams, which are most teams, want to ship something that is not butt-ugly and do it fast.

That's what Bootstrap did and what Tailwind does. All the endless discussions about the technical merit of inlining utility classes versus hand-crafting CSS are pointless and cannot be resolved because they miss the point entirely.

The point is: ship something good-looking very fast by people that suck at UI or don't have proper time for it.
1) The OpenAI API will be queried each time a "prompt-function" is called in python code. If you provide the `functions` argument in order to use function-calling then magentic will not execute the function the LLM has chosen, instead it returns a `FunctionCall` instance which you can validate before calling.

2) I haven't measured additional latency but it should be negligible in comparison to the speed of generation of the LLM. And since it makes it easy to use streaming and async functions you might be able to achieve much faster generation speeds overall - see the Async section in the README. Token usage should also be a negligible change from calling the OpenAI API directly - the only "prompting" magentic does currently is in naming the functions sent to OpenAI, all other input tokens are written by the user. A user switching from explicitly defining the output schema in the prompt to using function-calling via magentic might actually save a few tokens.

3) Functionality is not deterministic, even with `temperature=0`, but since we're working with python functions one option is to just add the `@cache` decorator. This would save you tokens and time when calling the same prompt-function with the same inputs.

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1) https://github.com/jackmpcollins/magentic#usage
2) https://github.com/jackmpcollins/magentic#asyncio
3) https://docs.python.org/3/library/functools.html#functools.c...
I don't think photos are the real issue, it's video with voice.

Think of telephone scams, and now apply deepfake versions of a family member to it. Imagine your 70yo aunt having to deal with knowing if the whatsapp audio or zoom call that sounds/looks like you is really you.

I don't think this was possible before, feel free to prove me wrong with some evidence.
Well. Ballard?
OpenAI Seeks New Valuation of Up to $90B in Sale of Existing Shares
As a React developer, I tried, as much as I could, to like React Native, but in the end, every minute i spent with it was a waste of time. Every single day, something would go wrong and drive my attention away from my app. One day, I would do something that looks good in a platform but bad in another. Another day, Expo builds would fail for some bizarre reason. But like someone else mentioned, the package hell is real. You update one package and another package will fail in the most cryptic way possible. Stay away from React Native. This project is a mistake.

In the other hand, I had one of the best experiences in my life with Flutter. Everything is extremely well designed. 100% of the problems I had with Flutter dev, weren’t in Flutter itself. For example, sometimes I needed some magic out-of-flutter configuration to make Firebase authentication to work on iOS. Sometimes Java runtime problems would prevent the Android emulator to run. But with flutter itself, I had the best experience. It’s a god sent.
IS there a way to contact you via Email? Nothing is posted on your website.
Doesn't invalidate the above claim that the slowdown could have been made by Google.
Google indexed shared Bard conversions
> Do you expect each MP to individually vet the guests that other MPs have invited to the house?

They have cell phones, don't they? Maybe do a quick search before you give a standing ovation to a Nazi war criminal, _especially_ if you hear "fought against the Russians in WWII". If that doesn't set off more red flags than Red Square during an October Revolution Parade then maybe the MP is just too stupid to be in Parliament.
Based just on the documentation, it seems there are some assumptions they expect the data to adhere to, and if they don't apply then it would not produce good results.
> Previous testimony in this case is pretty damning for Google, since it implies their ad business is built on multiple levels of fraud.

I have not been following this as closely as I should have. Is there a specific source of that testimony that I can search for?
I fail to understand why not use the native browser rendering engine, or at least SVG for the UI. It must be cheaper in resources (memory, network, cpu), easier to make accessible and easier to render
Professors in law school love to use the Socratic method. Most classes are centered around the professor asking students about cases from the reading. The student describes the case and answers follow-up questions about it from the professor.
I would much rather the government paid people money to dig ditches and fill them back in, or even just give them the money for free, rather than paying people to actively make others' lives worse.