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How would that be helpful if you want to cancel the subscription using a third party payment processor from the app store/settings(current workflow)? Apple would still have to call a third party API, otherwise it doesn’t seem particularly useful (i.e. you just get to see the status and that’s it?)
Like you think those followers are going to track you down and assault you?
Because those are the underlying services that the above software is built on. And they allow the system to handle both very few to many many requests/sec for basically $0. That's the point of the article.

To say, "I can run a server that can handle a bunch of requests for free" doesn't mean much. Of course you can do that. But can you replicate the aforementioned system for free? Probably not.
Hi there! You know the drill, long-time lurker, creating an account only now, posts a link... But I thought you might enjoy this :)

And "this" is Goom, a music visualizer; originally created by Jean-Christophe Hoelt, with releases between 2001 and 2005, it's one of these wowzer-amazing visualizers of old that have somehow fallen from their height of popularity into near-total oblivion, such that the youngins here may not have known them at all... I feel like I almost missed the window myself!

So when I found out that VLC actually supports so much more than boring bouncing bars, and that from within the selection, Goom closely resembles the effects I remember from my childhood, _and_ that sure, it is in VLC, it must be FOSS... Figured I could get it working on the web, and did just that!

So, just drag and drop a music file, and watch the magic unfold :) Watch also the battery, as it doesn't use WebGL or anything like that for acceleration; mind you, it should still be _fast_, otherwise check that your browser is not slowing it down on purpose - I actually saw Edge do this, says that it's because this is a relatively unknown domain, and now you know one reason why I'm posting it here :-)
Interested in hearing more. I've heard the same sentiment from not just old (~30 yr old) practices but just-starting ones.

Like any non-technical market, they just bought what was pitched, and there's often more gripes than complains.

One example:

When a patient transfers to another dental office, their records need to follow. Before you "had to" fax or snail-mail them. The software/cloud solutions promised streamlined, painless transfers, but those benefits never really materialized due to the amount of HIPA-compliancy issues (the details around this pain point are fuzzy).

The office-manager explaining all of this was (half-jokingly) fantasizing about going back to snail mail.
they did - see Tesla
The opportunity for vertical integration here is incredible.
The chips are slightly smaller than a grain of salt. Doesn't seem like the craziest amount of waste.
I have been working on a similar space for the last 8 months. Creating a way for the AI use your OS. There are many projects out there trying to achieve this: Open Interpreter, OpenAdapt, etc.

The thing that is hard to achieve is not to get your LLM to operate your computer but to make it do the right thing. And by right thing I mean, the thing you expect it to do in the way you want. Example I always show to people when I give a demo of what I built:
Say you want to buy a new Macbook. If you ask the computer to buy you one, it might:

A) Go to Google and search for a Macbook
B) Go to Apple and search for a Macbook
C) Go to Amazon and search for a Macbook

Now, depending on your implementation it might then ask you to give you more details about the Macbook you need (pro? air? how big?)

The tough part is to wrap all this together in a way that doesn't frustrate the user. In a way it's like when you do a Google search: the first result is the best guess of what you want. But how likely is it that it's not? Pretty much 50% of the time you look at the top 2-3 results right?
Well it's the same with having the AI control your computer, at this point in time, you want to have "multiple sessions" - sort of like a parallel universe where the AI has done 2-3 things and lets you pick from A, B ... or C and then go from there.

Another approach would be to collate a library of most used "prompts" - i.e. if you are trying to buy a laptop and someone else managed to get the AI to go through a very thorough process where you're asked all the important details that lead to purchasing the Macbook, then you should be able to re-use that one workflow from the library, rather than have the AI start from scratch.

Anyway, it's very very tough - more so from a UX experience rather than an AI perspective.
It'd be a pain at the multi-dealership-network level, sure.

But an individual dealership has what, 50 cars in stock? That seems easily manageable to me. I'm old enough that I've seen far larger operations running on paper.

Of course, the days of paper-based paperwork did require businesses to employ diligent and numerate clerks, and to have filing cabinets, manual calculators, photocopiers, whiteout, and suchlike. I suppose they could have run into some challenges around that sort of thing.
You could be taking away someone's livelihood and they might want revenge.
Modern life does not make it easy or very safe to live modestly. Obligations are often long term and costs are unpredictable. I don't think most people are kept from pursuing their dreams due to greed...more so by fear.
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Apple without Steve Jobs is

1. Not very good at explaining itself.

2. Not entirely sure why things are done in a certain way, they their changes it and revert to Steve jobs's way, or they refused to change and did not understand why Steve decided on doing certain things in the first place.

3. Not a very coherent company. Still better than most other companies except may be Jensen in Nvidia.
Interesting - I guess there is some sort of balance there, given the radical biochemistry that is seen with Mitochondria. “The more [mitochondria] the merrier” …?
Workloads are starting to converge back to on-prem and there hasn't been so much pressure on only cloud. Hybrid approaches seem to be prevailing (for much larger co's)
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> In some ways, open source tries to solve some of this: everyone can still compete to make something better with the freedom to do so, but you can just take other people's code so you don't have to duplicate efforts.

Yes, open sourcing and sharing training data would likely get us to safer self-driving cars faster.

> Of course, the problem there can be that companies don't want to share the pieces that are worth a lot of money. If self-driving tech is worth a trillion dollars, I might rather get that trillion dollars for myself and you can wait another 2, 5, 10, 20 years for it to be available.

I guess I'm not sure it's a trillion dollar idea ultimately if it becomes widespread - is ABS a trillion dollar industry? Also, I wonder if auto companies will become wary of the liability issues. A full self-driving car (no steering wheel) likely won't generally be owned by consumers. You'd hail one like you do an Uber. Consider the liability issues: Who carries the insurance? Not the rider as they have no input (even if someone chose to buy one it's tough to see that they would be liable in the event of a crash since, again, they had no input). It would have to be the maker of the vehicle that carries the insurance.

The other thing to consider is that ultimately in order for these systems to work most efficiently (and most safely) we need some communication between vehicles and with traffic signals. Another area where cooperation would be better than competition.
MacOS also isn’t connected to a cellular network.
> And both the institutional shareholders and ultra-rich shareholders have the experience, resources, and connections to police corporate behavior far more tightly than they usually do...

They really don't, at least not in the case of index fund investors like Vanguard and BlackRock. Have you ever read about their operations? They run a very lean ship. The only reason you're able to invest in index funds with 0.005% fees is because they have essentially nobody on staff, at least compared with the number of companies they invest in. They definitely can't do the kind of investigation and policing you're talking about without radically changing their pricing

(and if they did do that, a competitor would come in offering to skip the inspections and go back to 0.005% fees, the money would flow there in droves, and we'd be right back where we started. The fundamental issue here is that passive investors don't care and you can't make them care.)
Current Steam vanilla version.

GOG games seem to be harder to get working.

There are some default mods bethesda recently gave away and some DLC i bought that haven't caused on issues.

No idea about third party stuff

Another indie game "Intergalactic fishing" doesn't run for me in windows, but does run on WINE .. which is hilarious.
I personally can't immediately envision what the disruption would look like. Do you have any notions? Tekion is one of the newer DMSes to be built with modern architecture and be cloud-native versus the retrofit of all the other DMSes (which were retrofits of other types of solutions before they were automotive). I would love to see something be the Uber or Airbnb for Deal Management.
> paying the payment processing fees

Was that ever an option? I thought you always had to pay 30% when selling digital goods
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> their collapse would trigger the collapse of that whole local economy

Yes, but why would they collapse? General Motors also had a web of suppliers when it went bankrupt. Preserving the value of a struggling company while it reörganises is why we invented modern bankruptcy.
Buzzword bingo is where you yell "bullshit!" in the middle of the meeting once you get a winning set, right? My sister was playing that 20 years ago, and she's in car sales.

It's probably every industry that has this sort of nonsense.
That's what I get from studying FP and smalltalk. There are strong similar notions behind the paradigms. The dirt came from the industry.. they started to apply OO for large engineering projects and patterns became a fad.
I can verify that this happened to me last year. The dealer could not positively affirm that they did or did not have a particular model in their inventory, so the salesman and I wandered around the lot for ten minutes before deciding they did not.

I told him, "okay, well if you do get any in, call me up so I can come over and buy one." Easiest sale ever. Well, that didn't happen, and my assumption is that they just don't know what they have from day to day.
I wonder what the play is here. Any ideas?

The key must be somewhere in the statement "we’ve been increasingly asking ourselves how we should work with computers. Not on or using computers, but truly with computers."

I wish I had some experience using Multi so I could picture this better. But is there a chance this is for a sandboxed execution environment that would allow models to interact with software alongside a human counterpart?
Also anticipating a possible question, yup, I tried to pair it with YouTube and stuff, no, haven't succeeded, blame the CORS...

But maybe a lurker here sits close to the YouTube embed API? Just need a tiny little function to obtain some FFT... Imagine the uses... :)
+1 Was going to be my response as well...
I liked that Daniel mentioned link previews. I've seen Vittorio from Linkz.ai posted how link previews would look on Daniel's website: https://x.com/linkz_ai/status/1805253204583575860
"Not only should municipal transit be zero fare, using it should provide tax credits."

"This is a genuine, serious proposal. Cars and car infrastructure are so enormously expensive and destructive. Paying people to use public transit instead would be a net positive, and it's not even close."

From: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/112667806776752372
Having a class in databases from the person who was the DeWitt Clause in Oracle licenses.

I had his class before (the aforementioned sophomore data structures and algorithms) and I knew he was a good lecturer. That wasn't a question. It was a "too much going on that semester and I wasn't able to do the assignments in a timely manner".

Professor Landweber's class had a waiting list that I scoffed at as a college student and looked for something that I could get into and fill the requirement without realizing who he was. It wasn't until later while reading the UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook and seeing an image in there that was attributed to him that the name clicked but he wasn't teaching that next semester and I had filled that requirement elseclass.

Another regret was dropping numerical methods with Professor de Boor ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_R._de_Boor ) when I couldn't get my head around splines rather than going to his office hours (he was also the undergraduate advisor and very helpful).

Those classes could have changed the trajectory of my career. I was looking at being a sysadmin instead and writing perl and keeping some big iron running. My career pivoted from sysadmin to webmaster to web developer (perl) to web developer (Java). I have no regrets from that path - I do have regret for not learning what I could from the experts in their field when I was in a place and time to learn from them.
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This is how I—a frontend developer—would write this quickly:

https://runarberg.github.io/calculator-display/

repo: https://github.com/runarberg/calculator-display

MDN Playground: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/play?id=0pEoA2OCnfwNLV3E...

Actually I would have simply included a woff2 file with a font that does the job and displayed that text in that font, but I wanted this to fit in a reasonably sized data-url, and didn’t want the extra assets.
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Specifically, 83% of enterprise CIOs plan to repatriate at least some workloads back to private cloud/on-prem according to a Barclays CIO Survey program
> I'm not sure what was going through his head at the time, whether he'd just learned how to write them at college, or if he just thought they were the pinnacle of engineering.

That's understandable and rather common with new fresh grads. They have the energy and motivation but may not quite have the experience. We were all there once, including me.

My history professor from 8th grade used say: "There is a difference between knowing what you're doing and doing what you know".
Why should Apple divert resources creating a secondary environment?
Exactly my thoughts. I dont want anything being dropped on me when I am riding my bike or walking with an infant in a stroller. But I am hoping the guy did this just to solve problems and not actually dropping hats on others.
It isn't that hard to imagine strips of LEDs on tons of their structures. Completely agree that they'd likely have used them if they could
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RVV was only ratified Nov 2021 (not too far from the release of SVE2). It shouldn’t be surprising that adoption will take some time.

The first cores using the final extension are hitting the market this year, so addition is happening really quickly.
Well... you are certain that consciousness exists because you experience it: that is measuring.

As for explaining it, I guess it's more of a definitional problem than a physical one. I'm still confident that one day we'll be able to look at something and approximate how conscious it is.

Free will, on the other hand, requires supernatural phenomenons coming from outside the material world (dualism) to explain how we, humans, can make decisions free of any (or some) of the influences of the physical world. I don't buy it, and I believe the burden of proof falls on the ones who do.
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It's desktop refresh season in the land of the Windowsalikes
Japanese-origin management for US Nissan dealers?
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It's not "bad" it's just a factor to consider when planning market entry, like a start-up trying to get these dealers on their platform.
What's your top 5 "things that were branded misinformation that have turned out to be correct"?
"OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company. Our mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity."

Is this like EA where they have to make a trillion dollars first before getting to the actual mission?
Yep! I know a ton of people who never lost money on Beanie Babies because they haven't sold yet and are waiting for the market to rebound! /s
And this doesn’t even include founders on LinkedIn with “We’re Hiring” in their bio.
I've been in rental cars that I wouldn't buy based on driving them for 5 minutes. IMHO, a test drive is to confirm the car basically works. Some of the value is just from sitting in the car, but is there any thing terrible going on with steering, visibility, pedal feel, shifting, etc.

For my car shopping, I've usually been locked into a model before I visit the dealer/private party, but if I test drive a car and it drives like some of those rentals, I'd be back to looking at other things. I also just recently test drove a lower trim / different engine/transmission configuration vehicle than I wanted, because that configuration was available to test drive and the desired one wasn't... and I was pleasantly surprised by the drivability, so I broadened my search (helps that the configuration I wanted is more expensive and less produced; it's easier to compromise towards something that I might be able to buy for less)
At least it's not the healthcare industry...
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"So depending on the incentives and short term nature of the person deciding, there are a lot of incentives to not look too hard."

This gets at what has been reported as the fundamental problem at Boeing: It used to have a safety culture, when it was run by engineers. Now it's run by finance people, and it has a short-term profit culture. Instead of asking "will this plane be safe to operate for the next 30 years" it becomes "will this plane be slightly more profitable to sell next quarter". This is a major problem where safety is paramount.
Well, I suspect like most drone components the clone is manufactured in China? And it probably used a lot of the same supplier parts as the real one. That is sort of how it goes I think in China.
The developer could probably sell them same app service directly through a webpage and use that in the advertisement link instead of the App Store link.
Just leave NATO. Make us pay for our own defense.
I have a probably stupid question, but would microwaves like this heat water in the air in any sort of substantial manner? Perhaps with negative climate effects?
It's important to get the analogies close.

The bookstore isn't the same. It would be if the book had a QR code on the back labeled "guaranteed cheaper here" - not just the UPC/ISBN.

The customer is choosing to price compare somewhere else, that's not steering, that's brand loyalty.
Why not waste your money on literally anything else? Build a museum, fund a public library, get your name plastered on a university by giving tuition to some poor kids!
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I just got an older (2020) truck with an older generation Ford infotainment (SYNC 3) with CarPlay/Android Auto. I use AA, and its huge latency and the difficulty of use (capacitive touch, the physical buttons on the media console are useless) make it hard to use. I notice my eyes are locked on the console for much longer than necessary because it's so hard to press things and then wait for a response, or go back if the wrong thing got touched. I don't have my eyes on the road and it feels dangerous.

If they had just made the radio tuning knob into a scroll wheel for the UI, it would be so much easier, quicker, safer to navigate the screen. But I know they'll be going in the opposite direction due to tech trends. We need hackers to save us.
I think you'd have to compare that .38% of revenue to the cost of developing the paper process, as well comparing what revenue you'd lose with the paper process anyway. It doesn't seem crazy to me, unless your paper process is hard to develop.

There's also an argument that developing a backup process is a great exercise to help people understand all the parts of your system and how they interact, as a first step to making them more efficient/redundant/secure/delightful.
Primagen mentioned.
This works until it really doesn't - for example, you are visiting your family 3 hours away from home, slip and fall, go the ER, and die because you are allergic to some random drug but that was only noted in your paper documents. This is a contrived example and allergies to medicine are typically checked on the fly - The point is, you will be at a disadvantage any time your records need to be ported somewhere new.
On-prem is less likely to get patched and it's somewhat more work for the criminals to breach each installation individually but overall it's probably less secure.
> Most who grew up to become geniuses, pre-1900, were kept apart from same age peers and raised at home, by tutors or parents

Pretty much all kids are a lot smarter than we acknowledge

Lazlo Polgar believed geniuses are made, not born, and raised his daughters to become chess grandmasters https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3_Polg%C3%A1r

The school system is more of an industrial childcare operation for working parents, than an actual education system for the kids

It’s also easy to criticize, and it is very hard for parents to provide good resources and enough attention for the kids to fully develop their potential
I think that’s a different fee. As a merchant accepting credit card or debit card payments is going to cost you the same 2-3%. At least that’s what Stripe or local payment processors charge
If it’s a TV show - I’d expect it to be the same quality, because most of those are WEB-DL from those same services, no?
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If you solve precise vapor deposition at a scale like your printer does with toner, you'll become very rich.
Oh, that's a relief. Having "set" objects in JS, without having any of the standard set operations, didn't make a lot of sense.
The commit message for the first commit there says "Actually Portable Executable now supports Android". I assume this means that the bare executables can run on Android kernels, not that there's any support for installing APEs as Android apps. But it seems possible for that to eventually work! Is that a goal of the project?
'Slop': the rhetorical gambit of framing failure as partial success
Rip your CD's then convert them to mp3's with ffmpeg.
Related:

Lynn Conway has died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40648470 - June 2024 (328 comments)
Two things spring to mind: a whole computer inside an SFP module[1] and the O.MG cable[2]

[1]: https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/smart-sfp-linux-inside
[2]: https://shop.hak5.org/products/omg-cable
The difference (or at least what would be argued as a difference) is that you have no other choice with Apple (Amazon maybe in a similar situation).

If I didn't like AirBNB I could use VRBO/whatever else, or I could use both even.

I can understand Apple's cut for app developers who solely create apps and distribute them through Apple.

Where it becomes a problem is a large number of apps are just a way for the iPhone to connect to a larger product (Spotify, Basecamp, most SaaS companies), and I don't know why Apple should feel entitled to own the relationship with a businesses customers because they also use an iPhone when it's an ancillary part of the product.