skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Similar experiences dealing with Quebec, though there are a lot of legal wranglings there, and it's a lot easier to find bilingual folks.
> This is especially true for After Effects

Or Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat...

I know, Affinity exists but as everybody in the graphic industry has learned on Adobe software, switching over is hard.
Explains why Spotify and Kindle Unlimited is an automatic yes from me, and new fiction hard copies much less so, based on my usage.

- Spotify: 65k minutes a year, 90h/mo, so around 0.13/h

I’m a fast reader, so a novel averages 2-5 hours for me, probably 4h would be a fair guess.

Last few years have averaged 150 titles a year on KU, so… 50hr/mo and 0.25/h in costs.

And that print novel is usually 15-25 these days new… and still only 3-4h for me, at least $5/h. I’ll buy books I want to own in the long term, or support the authors, but that’s still expensive.
The pandemic disrupted supply chains of everything and so the supply of things went down. A short recession happened in 2020 but the US economy bounced back quickly thanks to small business loans (which were converted to grants), stimulus payments, and Americans staying home were able to build savings. Additionally, because of the Pandemic, labor was in high demand, and real wages and buying power grew sharply for the first time in a generation. You could get $15/hr working at McDonalds with a signing bonus. This lower supply and increased demand resulted in higher prices.

Two prices deserve special mention: Gas and Housing. Gas prices went up due to the war in Ukraine (Russia is a major oil exporter), and Housing has been increasing in price since the great recession due to low supply. The federal reserve also slashed interest rates to help stimulate the economy in response to the pandemic, which had the effect of subsidizing demand. With historically low supply and high demand, the cost of housing exploded and has not fallen yet.
If I make a commercial app that serves Youtube videos without ads, can I get the DOJ to investigate when Youtube blocks my app?

I mean, it even makes sense, Youtube is more closer to a monopoly than iMessage is.

:-/
This claim requires more data. It could be that there's a natural accident rate, where bags end up dropped without intent. With enough dog owners in the area, it would be difficult to distinguish the two.

What matters then is whether they regret, and will seek to improve, their accident rate. Even harder to figure that out without a focused study.
> Those “integrated” steelmakers soon lagged behind so-called “mini-mills,” nonunion competitors that use more efficient electric arc furnaces to turn old steel scrap from discarded cars and other products into new steel products

This means "chinese" mini mills^1 which require a lot of manual labor to collect the steel. This is not a technology problem, but a manpower/safety race to the bottom, that the US couldn't effectively participate in. Unions may have prevented useful compromises, granted.

New technology was not a priority, because it wouldn't help the situation. It's not like steel makers stopped doing cost/benefit analyses for decades.

A Japanese owner looks like a strategic political move, given Japan's place in the world theater. The tariffs against steel were removed for the US and Japan at the same time circa 2022. Coincidence?

^1 https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-steel-overcapacity-...
That’s who’s blocking the sale according to Adobe’s press release: https://news.adobe.com/news/news-details/2023/Adobe-and-Figm...

Depending on specifics, the EU stopping blockbuster acquisitions in the US startup ecosystem feels ripe for abuse.
The cognitive screening process is long. It can take an entire day to complete with multiple personality interviews, computerized tests that strain your processing and reaction time, and a whole slew of other memory and attention tasks. It's a lot for anyone, and putting teenagers through it is cruel.

Apparently the FAA is acutely aware of this, in light of a growing shortage of pilots in the pipeline and huge demand from the airlines. It would be more reasonable to use the recommendations of your local CFI and flight school to decide if you have the cognitive skills to fly solo, compared to a neuropsychologist sitting in an office. Hopefully this begins to change soon.

What's really ironic is that once you've passed the certification and are sitting in the cockpit, you can have all the caffeine you want. But time-release ADHD medications are a no-no.
Regularly requoting Friedman doesn't make it true. You're confusing cause and effect. Inflation can be fixed by adjust the money supply, but it may or may not have been caused by money supply.
It’s a personality thing. The type of person who starts companies tends to start a lot of them. The idea of sticking around at a company and keeping a steady hand on the tiller (after all the big product problems have been solved) is anathema to these folks. What they need is a succession plan.

It just happened that mergers and acquisitions turned out to be the cleanest, easiest way for founders to hand over the reins. In days past, companies would go through this transition process internally, often by succession through the founder’s family. The founder may have been a very entrepreneurial type, but the child who was raised to be the successor was more of a managerial type. When it worked out, anyway. Sometimes none of the founder’s kids were suitable. Or the founder tapped the wrong kid to take over.
"among others, concerned the dissemination of illegal content in the context of Hamas' terrorist attacks against Israel, the Commission has decided to open formal infringement proceedings against X under the Digital Services Act."

Why not open a case against Israel and some of the citizens for spreading a misinformation about beheaded babies and some other lies?
Well, houses, it's simple: they (politicians) limit the number of new builds, otherwise prices would fall. It's always supply and demand in the end.
Diamond extracting also: they control the amount of diamonds that 'enter' the market each year. Imagine if it was 'flooded': the diamond market would collapse.
If we are impacted, how would you go about monitoring your systems for odd behaviors? Looking at the logs just doesn't seem adequate.
Apple TestFlight servers from 2012 to 2015 leak, containing terabytes of data
Yes, this is covered in the video. He talks about use in antiquity and in modern buildings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9-p4AkgVU8&t=407s
If you get a lot of value from their music, you may want to support them via merch and concerts!

I've found that "$1 per hour" is simply a good starting point for figuring out which things in my life are worth supporting. Obviously, it may be different for other people :)
is there a chance to see it? any links for someone interested?
Finger pointing aside, this does seem like a sad outcome for the U.S.
For photo editing, PixelMator Pro and Affinity Photo are great.
Generally popes have to be relatively conservative, often more conservative than their clergy, as they serve the foundation for the preservation of the church's doctrine.

This pope seems to be somewhat progressive and that is welcome. This is consistent with previous statements he has made:

https://apnews.com/article/pope-francis-gay-rights-ap-interv...

Some argue that the biblical passages against homosexuality are actually mistranslations, although I am not an expert on that, but there is a new movie on that concept (which I also have not watched):

https://www.1946themovie.com

Anyhow, cool pope, even though I am both not catholic by heritage nor even religious myself.
>"Cody’s secret sauce and differentiator has always been Sourcegraph’s deep understanding of code bases, and Cody has tapped into that understanding to create the perfect RAG-based coding assistant, which by definition is the one that produces the best context for the LLM.

That’s what RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) is all about. You augment the LLM’s generation by retrieving as much information as a human might need in order to perform some task, and feeding that to the LLM along with the task instructions. Cody’s RAG is a variant of a rec system, recommending relevant code and other context to the LLM for each task or query–a point made recently on Latent Space by our friends there who recently invited Beyang and myself on for a podcast. Good recommenders need numerous models, domain knowledge bases, fast retrieval over large corpora, and other infrastructure that Sourcegraph had already largely built for code.

Producing the perfect context is a dark art today

, but I think Cody is likely the furthest along here from what I can see. Cody’s Context has graduated from “hey we have vector embeddings” to “hey we have a whole squad of engines.”

The key to generating great context is to look at the problem from many different lenses

, and each of Cody’s backend context providers is a different lens. On the retrieval side, Cody has many code-understanding lenses: Among them, a high-speed IDE-like code graph, multiple high-performance code search indexes and engines, natural language search, and more, all acting in concert as specialized retrieval backends, both deterministic and model-backed.

Over on the context fetching side, for getting info for Cody to slice and dice, Cody is beginning to incorporate multiple context sources beyond just your repos. This gives Cody lenses into metadata and documentation that’s not necessarily evident from the code itself, such as any really critically important information that the author of the code didn’t put into a COMMENT."

[...] >"Cody is now Generally Available, and Cody Pro is free until February 2024."

[...] >"And it has a free tier for you to just screw around with it"

First, I love anything and everything that Steve Yegge writes.

Second, here we have the understanding that Context -- is everything in generative LLM AI...

Third, we have the concept of Context Providers (which could be called in AI vernacular/AI jargon "Lenses", or perhaps "Context Lenses"...)

Anyway, a great article!

Steve Yegge's articles are always great!
There are so many 3rd party communication sevices you can use free of charge.
I’ll do you one better. We should limit cars and have everyone ride motorcycles. You don’t need a 6000 pound pickup truck to drive to Starbucks, Jim. You aren’t a contractor.

Look at Europe they have 80% motorcycles and otherwise small hatchbacks. Very very few large cars. That’s step one.
Text outline with section breakdowns and key images for those that prefer it: https://www.videogist.co/videos/behind-the-scenes-scaling-ch...
The problem for Apple is because they are so big, any action they take will be seen as a "David vs Goliath" battle, regardless of the underlying right and wrong.
Published guidance is the correct tool. Blocking acquisitions doesn’t really decrease uncertainty.
Vim Plugin for Terramate
Imagine someone started selling bootleg sim cards running unofficially on Verizon's network.
There's a handful of programs around Chicago that involve TNRing feral cats[0] and providing them a caretaker so that they can hunt rats. You pretty much just provide the feral cat with food, water, and somewhere outside to sleep and let the cat be a cat.

[0] e.g. https://treehouseanimals.org/programs/community-cats/catsatw...
Show HN: Native GPT-4 and Gemini Pro iOS Client
I wanted a way to interact with GPT-4 Turbo and DALL·E 3 without having to pay a minimum of $20 for ChatGPT Plus - so I made this iOS wrapper client to achieve just that.

It's powered by your own API Key so there's no backend, and it also supports on-device conversation history.

It started off with GPT-4 but now also support Claude 2.1 and Gemini Pro with their respective API Keys.

Another very useful aspect is that you can choose to use the older GPT-4 models to see how they compare to the newer, allegedly nerfed, models.

Hope people find this useful!
I don’t understand your point. The user with iMessage that the Android user wants to communicate with is an Apple customer as well, and arguably pays Apple to be reachable via iMessage. And in the iCloud Mail example, the non-Apple user who is sending an email to the iCloud user also is not an Apple customer and doesn’t pay for Apple’s iCloud Mail infrastructure.
Perhaps it's because "ackshually" USB-C is not a protocol. It's a connector form factor.

The fact that "HN users" are "ackshually" not a big blob of identical people but rather a pretty diverse group might also count a little.
I can assure you the EU isn't blocking this to prevent US founders from making money
I wouldn't be sure about that, Venezuela is shown in the eggs search and that is a spanish speaking country.
Humans have a soul as per Catholic theology and therefore human blessings carry far more weight.

The issue here, theologically, is that Catholics believe that marriage and sex are both for procreation. That's a core tenant, and same sex couples cannot procreate.

EDIT: I think that the Church accepting that same sex couples can have blessings and a life filled with love and togetherness is still important. And I also think that's mostly what (Catholic) same-sex couples want.
AI sucks pretty hard at generating Vectors. The only option for now is to generate something in an illustration style and have it vectorized.
They're hard to find because they're not really linked anywhere. We used to have Web directories arranged by subject headings that tried to be mostly comprehensive and put some serious curation effort into that goal, such as DMOZ.org - but there's no modern equivalent to that. People like to complain about how the whole SEO issue has made search results useless as of late, but that if anything is downstream of the overall lack of manual curation.
so i’m fairly familiar with latin’s grammar because i speak it, proficiently. first, there’s material difference between latin and modern french grammars. for example, the genetive, dative, ablative, accusative noun cases have been largely replaced with the nominative case + prepositions, which makes them no different from the (ultra-)modern german or english language. both german and english have conjugations too.

* i say ultra because proper german has more cases than french in fact.
And, to be honest, I had trouble learning anything from this confusingly formatted site...
Much props to Doug and his previous work, but this seems like a terrible idea.

There is no clear advantage over JS/TS and the use of invisible characters to have such a dramatic effect on syntax is a non-starter.

Today's IDEs let us format and find errors in code laid out in many different ways. (Prettier, etc.). Why would we give that up?
Yeah, sadly. But really it's the best way to do virtual cards.

If a bank doesn't offer these, next best thing is to go to the bank that does.
I’m not sure I catch your drift here. As I define it, virtue signaling is the act of projecting your beliefs (or rather, the performative aspect of your beliefs) in a public space. So, yeah, when people place the placard of “open source” all over their projects, they may as well be saying “Free Range, Organic”. It’s a label that signals to others that care about that label.

Whether it’s done under the auspices of Twitter Spaces or VCs promoting certain projects over others implicitly by kingmaking projects with massive seed rounds, the result is the same.

This is why I say in the post that nuance is important.
Is there a build-once run every-where software?
This matches my experience. As a staff engineer I also did a lot of PO work and the fact that I was also an engineer on the team helped me ask customers the right questions. As an EM, I coordinate our Product processes but engineers on the team play a huge role and decisions are always collaborative. On teams I've been on with a dedicated PO/PM, the PO just ends up trying to micromanage the engineering team and pull people into a lot of useless meetings. Don't get me wrong, there are good PO/PM folks out there, but the vast majority I've worked with don't fall into the "good" category.
A step-by-step guide to add authentication to Custom GPT
Ever since the launch of GPTs by OpenAI, thousands of GPTs have been launched by GPT creators on a daily basis. But GPT creators have been stuck on few major issues while creating GPTs

Methods to limit access to a GPT and to monitor usage of a GPT
Strategies for monetizing a Custom GPT.
How to collect user emails of subscribed users from a GPT
In this blog article we shall discuss how we can achieve the above by adding an authentication layer on top of Custom GPT
Notably missing from title: this is the Elon Musk episode.
Wonder how this shifts funding. VCs won’t get same returns/horizons if companies can’t aim for acquisition exits.
> Webdevs need to get over themselves, and the wider world needs to stop letting them get by with (or encouraging) this kind of narcissism.

What a presumptuous statement! Authoritarian, even. It's one thing for someone else's website, such as HN, Reddit, Wikipedia, etc., to impose a homogeneous form on posts submitted by guests on the site. It's quite another thing to assert that "the wider world" should "stop letting [independent webdevs]" deviate from a similar standard of homogeneity.

If you don't like the appearance of someone else's webpage, maybe just don't go to that webpage?
> You can't actually delegate agency to a computer.

But...

> you agree in an actual contract to be bound by the black box of the LLM, then the LLM will govern the terms thereof.

This implies you can have a standing offer of a contract on the terms articylated5 by the LLM, with some specified method of acceptance, which suggests a different outcome than the “preliminary negotiations” you suggest for a contract where the LLM system is the frontend of the cobtract5 negotiation, provided that the reason that the outside party thought they were negotiating a cobtract with the company via thr LLM is that offer by the company.
The guidance already exists. Don't buy your biggest competitor, unless you're but one player in a diversified sector.

Blocking acquisitions creates precedents.
Less generic title suggestion - A detailed examination of Elon Musk's influence and controversies over the past year, including his management of Twitter and other ventures.

Text outline with key images:

https://www.videogist.co/videos/elon-musk-last-week-tonight-...
> Fifteen months into the regulatory review process, Figma and Adobe no longer see a path toward regulatory approval

How in the world did it take fifteen months for regulators to reject this? That’s an absurdly long time to be operating a business in limbo, and I have to assume it’s the regulators dragging their feet since the companies have every incentive to move quickly.

I don’t have an opinion on whether or not the merger should be approved, but regulators need to make up their minds quicker or else you can expect a serious chilling effect on M&A. Can you imagine agreeing to get acquired knowing that it can take up to 2 years to close? Anyone operating a real business would be crazy to sign on for the distraction.
Vote to make complaining about this sort of thing valid in the comments, some fancy presentations should be text files and it needs to be said.
Twitter is chock full of accounts like Jackson Hinkle and Syrian Girl (two of the most prominent) who post lie after lie after lie in favor of Hamas. Just an endless stream of claims that have been proven wrong. TikTok and Instagram, without moderation like a community note feature, is far worse at this.

Whenever talking to someone who is “critical of Israel” (who isn’t critical of that government? That’s not the point!) they use this line of defense despite leaving no room for criticism of their own extremely flawed and manipulative sources.
CFAA would be unenforceable if it required unauthorized users to have agreed to the terms of service of the systems they were abusing. You’re not supposed to be there and that’s sufficient.
> if other people like the idea and want to help contribute via an investment, why not?

Indeed! But VC investors are a very different animal than other investors (who may not even be investing cash -- in my past ventures, more than half of my investors were my vendors who invested in my company via their products and services instead of money).

If you're starting the sort of business that needs an enormous amount of startup capital, then VC is where you turn. If not, then you're far better off going with normal investors.

What VC wants to see is not the same as what other investors want to see, and finding the right expectation to match your business goals is a critical part of success.
I've been wondering the same thing. Could Apple ask the DOJ (or whomever would be appropriate) to go after Beeper with the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA)? To my uneducated eyes, this looks like a pretty clear case of Beeper accessing Apple computers without authorization.
Reviewing the Wolfram Language Documentation
What does the valuation of a company’s stock have to do with this? I keep hearing that Apple is a $3 trillion company but that is strictly a function of how investors value the company. Cash on hand is probably a better way to compare and here Apple is top dog I think.
Was it previously explicitly disallowed to bless gay couples but not drug addicts or cars? Or is this a case of the Pope clarifying something the priests weren't sure would be okay but wasn't explicitly forbidden for them to do?
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LdHeoPY2rvwK3wj9tC_G...
Self checkout machine at Uniqlo [video]
I completely agree, which is why more conservative Catholics, and myself reading what the Church teaches, don't think this makes any pastoral sense. If it was about blessing the people, why not pull them aside individually? Much less confusing.
>hold that automation takes over when wages climb too high.

It's not when wages climb too high, it's when the cost differential between wages and automation climb too high. It's possible to have stagnant or declining wages and still be taken over by automation, if the cost of automation drops at a faster rate.

>We're talking about AI.

Yes, and the OP was talking about what happens when AI takes peoples jobs. I was making the larger contextual point that we can see what happens when people lose their job to technology. AI job loss is a subset of that broader context.

>It's clear that service jobs - I am using the correct denotation - are not ipso facto drudgery if structured

I think you've moved the goalposts to suit your arguement. The original point was that people will be working "retail/food" jobs.

>Every retail/food service job is understaffed. You ask what people displaced by AI will do for a living? That.

You took that original point and then expanded it to encompass all service jobs. I do not think all service jobs are drudgery, and I'm made that point clear. Will AI help us get to the point where all get semi-leisurely pro-social and fulfilling work in a service economy? Maybe to a techno-optimist, but I don't see evidence that is the direction our system tends toward. Even if it did, I think it will be a long, long time away with the potential for miserable local minima along the way. So while I do think that certain service jobs can be fulfilling, that is not the future the OP was initially claiming we'd inhabit.
By being judicious about what we plug in and when. And by using gas.
>Fireworks tried to fill the gaps between PS and Illustrator, but never got traction.

I couldn't disagree more. Fireworks was a perfect blend of raster and vector editing and was killer for early 2000s web design work. It was an amazing Macromedia product that got neglected by Adobe.

If I'm in a cynical mood I sometimes think it's because an up-to-date Fireworks would have cannibalized the sales of PS/AI, but I think that gives too much credit to Adobe.