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AI Wrappers: Why AI helpers for everyday jobs are a great idea
Imagine giving a powerful tool to someone without instructions. That's what using AI is like for many people today. But what if we could package AI into easy-to-use helpers for specific jobs?

Here's why this is a fantastic idea:
Everyone Can Use It: You don't need to be a tech wizard. Whether you're a lawyer, shop owner, or plumber, you can use AI to help with your work.

Focused on Your Needs: Instead of a one-size-fits-all approach, these AI helpers are designed for specific jobs. They speak your professional language, so you can focus on what you're good at, not on figuring out how to talk to AI.

Faster to Start Using: People can benefit from AI much quicker in their daily work.

Imagine these possibilities:

A legal helper who assists lawyers in writing contracts and researching old cases.
A retail helper that helps shop owners manage their stock and understand customer preferences.
A DIY helper that guides people through home repair projects.
A plumbing helper that helps plumbers figure out problems and estimate costs.

We're not making AI less powerful. We're making it more useful by tailoring it to real-world needs. It's like having a super-smart assistant who knows your job inside out.

The goal isn't for everyone to become an AI expert. It's about making AI a handy tool in everyone's work toolkit.

What do you think? Are these job-specific AI helpers the key to making AI useful for everyone? Or are there downsides I'm not seeing?
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Buy a laptop that has that feature. I prefer my slim devices. I've been hauling Thinkpads around for long enough.
I agree that I don't particularly want my device to have to optimize its design for a once-every-two-years operation. I'm just fine with taking my phone to an expert for that, and having it optimized for size/weight/power/whatever for the other 729 days out of 730.

I know that people have been replacing their phones rather than getting a new battery, and that is a lot of waste. I hope that the new rule will shift people away from that. But for me I've never had a problem letting someone else do it for me.
Say a trip to the repair shop comes with an inconvenience and price margin that discourages 80% of battery replacements of occurring. This throws phones in landfills before they need to be there.

You could argue that many more phones die this way than ones that do from exposure to water or fine sand. If so, a corollary could argue that the onus should be on those who need such features to rely on the aftermarket for them, for the sake of both the consumer and the health of the planet.
This is mostly a problem that affects poorer people, I suspect. I know people living paycheck-to-paycheck, who can't leave thousands of dollars lying around in their checking account, who are hesitant to use Interac because of the fees. Also, most people don't go to the trouble to shop around banks looking for a better deal.
Completely confused as to what they were trying to do other than getting into contact with high up people. I’m surprised they didn’t get more cease and desist letters
The problem is it's gonna be a golden key system where everyone who's worked there for the last ten years has a copy
> if you can compromise on the 40MB size requirement then Electron should be a good fit to cover all your other requirements.

Microsoft also supports React Native, which is arguably way better than any webview-based approach.
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Glueing phones shut is done because with a minimal footprint you have a very good seal.

The alternatives are all worse, either requiring too much space or being susceptible to the seal being broken. If this rule takes effect, phone design will have to change and quite likely many complaints will be had about phones failing at their advertised rating.

Glue is a fairly easily reversible process, which allows basically any repair shop, when parts are available, to perform a repair. Even hobbyists with basic equipment can do it.
The EU decided on this regulation about a year ago. [0]

From my understanding, the most important point was to make it easier to recycle rare earth minerals in rechargeable batteries so as not to be as reliant on countries outside the EU (read: China) where they are mined.

[0]. https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023...
There's a reason a lot of stuff is Electron.
Desktop OS like Windows one would also need to buy new versions of to get improvements. Nor did it require a periodic fee. But most importantly, the AI trying by default is changing the nature of the purchase/usage agreement, without consent of the buyer.
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PS Incidentally, that's why I find approaches such as the article's - or, more recently Joint Embedding Predictive Architecture (JEPA) - to be interesting. At some point we'll need architectural progress if we really want to move forward.-

This, for example, makes for a very interesting read, and might be on to something:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820942
Based on the policy of "piercing the corporate veil" of corporate governance, it is rare that a corporate agent (a person who works for a company) is held accountable. A company operates as an artificial human being meaning that it can perform action and be accountable for it. The people running the company is not largely liable, it is the company itself who is liable. It isn't the board of directors of 3M or Dow Chemicals accountable for chemical spills. It is Dow and 3M who are accountable. There is a separation of identity. Now, in extreme cases the board of directors or upper management are charged for activities of a company as they are the "brains" behind the artificial human entity representing the company. However, the investor, sponsors or other influential stakeholder will never get criticized (formally) because they can claim they do not have operational authority, legal standings or insights into company's internal mechanism. They can claim they acted on "good faith" and it is legally impossible to prove otherwise even if they have consulted or advocated for the company.

Corporate governance as a field of study is interesting. Feel free to explore it.
> Enterprise

> It also includes more features for security (SSO with LDAP or SAML), administration and collaboration (e.g. tracked changes).

https://sso.tax/
I guess this moves complexity away from the client and enables a dead simple setup (maybe for non-technical friends and family?) with just a single big feed, like they already know from TikTok and the likes.
As of Sciter and "antialiasing" issues mentioned in the article...

Author did not enable high-DPI support in his/her application. As simply as that...

Either in Visual Studio : https://sciter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/high-dpi-aware...

Or by including proper manifest: https://gitlab.com/sciter-engine/sciter-js-sdk/-/blob/main/d...

That actually is explained in "Hello C++" tutorial: https://sciter.com/hello-cpp-tutorial/
I subtitled an album of music written and performed by friends and colleagues in about 2000, "Music from Turn of the Century Southampton" and some people were initially confused because they indeed hadn't got used to the idea that nope, this is in fact the turn of the century - all that stuff you thought would happen in the 21st century? Well that's now.

Historians tend to talk about "long" versions of the centuries, e.g. European historians might have a "long 19th century" which ends when World War I breaks out in 1914 and begins with the French Revolution in 1789. The idea is that although calendars start and end arbitrarily, these "log" centuries are roughly 100 years but are bookended by substantial change to society.

I think there's an argument to be made that the "Long 20th century" didn't end until a few years back, historians doubtless have numerous events they'd focus on, Ukraine, Liz dying, financial crash... So it may still feel to some people like "last century" still means the 19th.
I don't understand the question. What crazy design aesthetic?
China already did a project like this to move water from the wet part to the dry, because their leaders were eager engineers and wanted to do it. Turns out that the wet part isn't making enough water to the dry part now because of climate change. Same thing would happen here. The rockies already create a rain shadow over the great plains, there isn't a way to get water from the other side of the rockies, because that is what it would take. and Cali has been in a drought for along time too. There just isn't water available.
Although, I've had my xcover6 pro for 2 years now. it's been in water several times, dropped many times (I think the back bursting off does indeed help dissipate energy). The screen is still fine (well, some minor scratches that I think are due to putting it in same pocket as my keys far too often), and I've not had any issues. As far as I can tell the battery is sealed off from everything that is important, and there is a rubber gasket around the battery as well. I have a second backup battery for it, and I can rapidly swap between the 2 in a few seconds. The back is a little plain and ugly, but I don't see why it couldn't be snazzed up to apple standards (metal shell or whatever) and still be a quick replacement.
Get a grip. Honking is honking. Comparing it to "war crimes" like killing civilians makes little sense and is disingenuous[1].

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/yCWPkLi8wJvewPbEp/the-noncen...
This completely ignores the power of network effects. Even if all regulation were removed tomorrow I doubt the market would accommodate new entrants.
Isn't Dravidian a language family (like Sino-Tibetan/Uralic) and not an ethnicity?

AFAIK no South Indian empire like Rasthrakuta or Satavahan called themselves Dravidian.
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Ratcliffe is the last one.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_coal-fired_powe...
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Sure, and at first the Canadian government didn't force indigenous children into residential schools - it just withheld resources and services and used a monopoly on violence to make resistance untenable. Believing that's acceptable behaviour from your government, is certainly... a position.
> Manufacturers should be required to provide replacement batteries and replacement seals, which allow any remotely competent repair shop to replace the battery, I there is a need for it.

Maybe, but the flip side of that is that competent repair shops are still a lot more expensive in most places than just buying a part from eBay that will do the job. Things like batteries for old phones that were user-replaceable were often $3-$5 depending on capacity and replacing them was trivial. But nowadays, something like a replacement screen requires fancy vacuum equipment and you have go to a shop.

I often go to Shenzhen in China, and if you have a damaged phone screen, they'll charge about $10 to replace it for you free while you wait. When I was in London, the cheapest repair quote I found was £100. The phone was only £150 when I got it new 2 years earlier and the newer model was available for £120, so I got that instead of getting a new screen for the old phone. Obviously, if you had a much more expensive phone, you'd just pay up for the replacement screen, but similarly if I'd had access to a replacement screen for $10 in the UK, I'd have just done that.

If we only insist on "repairable by a shop", I can imagine we'll probably still have the majority of phones in landfill at the end of their battery lives - because even if the battery could be replaced, if the cost is a decent chunk of the cost of a new phone, most people are going to just upgrade and get the new one anyway.
The reason why the lawyer looked at you strange is because if you applied that rule it would literally break all property rights, everywhere in the US. So of course no court is going to apply it that way.

Since property can always be inherited, and ownership of property confers rights.

None of this involves ‘nobility’ (necessarily) either.
This exists. It's called wxWidgets. It's an API shim over native components plus some convenience classes for abstracting out OS-specific functionality. It's LGPL with static linking exception, so no DLL hell.

I'm not quite sure what you mean by open spec, but it's just an API not a protocol, and uhhhh.... https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-supreme-court/18-956.ht...
> But being disruptive so that you piss people off is a way to not get more people onto your side of your movement. It is a way to inhibit further involvement of the public towards your side.

While I agree to some extent with your comment, I think there is some nuance needed.
For a movement to succeed you need to be disruptive and piss some people off. It just depends in what way disruptive and who you piss off.

For example take the women’s rights movements. Were they disruptive and did poss a lot of people off? Hell yeah they did.
Did they ultimately succeed and get the public opinion on their side. Also yes.

Another (horrifying) example is the nazi movement. They were extremely disruptive and pissed off a ton of people when they were still an extreme fringe group. Precisely because of that they became very successful.

There are many more examples like that.
A protest movement needs to be disruptive to some extent to be successful
> It strikes me that having the C++ requirement is part of what makes this difficult.

It doesn't.

In fact, it makes the problem even easier to solve due to the options that are already on the table. Virtually all .NET-based frameworks support C++ besides C#, specially WinUI3.
> Because in my original reply I said “alerts” and not “blocks using drm”?

And how soon before manufacturers move from the first to the second, if they are not stopped by law?

I have no objection to alerts per se, as long as it is done in a non-obnoxious way.
The idea is cool. The quality of the data is very questionable, though. The color swatches appear more or less random. What does that orange have to do with Google and that maroon with Microsoft? And yet they are in the spotlight of the demo page.
>some online payment systems (especially ones in Canada) have trouble with it.

it's not really anything technical that they "have trouble with", most gateways launched visa debit as an "opt-in" payment method for existing merchants, so if the merchant did not specifically enable it it never got enabled. newer merchant accounts have it enabled by default, so this should sort of work itself out over time. but yes, i don't understand why they made merchants opt in, it's pretty dumb.
I have a genuine question, what's to gain from this? I could half-understand it if they were going to re-allocate the 88-108 MHz block, but that doesn't seem to be the case.

I could also understand why such an action would be taken if that meant that they could pack more stations in the same spectrum, but considering that Switzerland is a relatively small country, so is there really a market? Even if considering multiple languages per niche.

I guess a case could be made for power savings by virtue of (assuming local topography allows) lower power transmitters or by multiplexing various stations on the same transmitter.

On a personal level, I'm not entirely sure how I feel about all forms of analog broadcasting being slowly phased out. The tinkerer in me likes the idea of being capable of constructing an information receiving device in an almost "survivalist" manner, but if this trend continues and analog FM really goes the way of the dodo, then I surmise that DAB (or whichever local flavor is chosen) will become easily and cheaply available, which makes my gut feeling a moot point anyway.

I don't know, I just don't like the idea of needing a processor to receive broadcast audio, and I can't quite put my finger on why.
Newswire: A large-scale structured database of a century of historical news
By the same logic, if the government wants to murder you, it can, so why live?
> You seem to be trying to conflate blocking a road and honking your horn with violence... In order to defend fucking with non-violent protesters bank accounts directly (and very illegally).

Do you want your movement to succeed? If yes, then don't piss off the non-members / the general public, and try to get them on your side.

That is what MLK understood and did.

That is what Nelson Mandela did not understand when he was young (when he did acts that caused him to go to jail), but did understand when he was older.

It is also what Ghandi (who also spent in jail) understood.
I wonder if any of the 9 characters are checksum (the example math indicates none is), or if the validation scan allows a search without one of the characters e.g AB1?3XYZ in case of sloppy writing.

If not, then the system relies on people being able to write 9 consecutive legible characters. With postal codes and addresses it’s less fragile because the context helps disambiguate (a last name helps a postman tell if a street address has a 7 or 1)
It really sounds like their chosen solution (Neon?) is doing something awfully inefficient when processing the transactions. :(
I think there is a thing called Microsoft Office development kit or some other name that allows C# and other .Net programs to manipulate Office apps. Not sure if it's what the author meant, though.
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Isn't the issue with Qt exactly what the GPL intended?

In that case, any Qt fork would force him to also comply with the GPL, and supply the source code of his project.
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try something like:

vim.keymap.set('n', 'gr', function()
local clients = vim.lsp.get_clients({ bufnr = 0 })
for _, client in ipairs(clients) do
if client.server_capabilities.renameProvider then
vim.lsp.buf.rename()
return
end
end
end)
The advantages of including a codeowners file for each repository
Ceiling sensor is another option.
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The article has been updated to "At the turn of the 20th Century", which ambiguously means either 1900 or 2000.
Epochs and slots all the way down: ways to increase Ethereum transaction times
How safe is it given the politics of the place?
CopperSpice is LGPL, not GPL.

It's not a problem.
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Conversely, since I notice myself spending time on HN (that does pay handsome information rewards), I am seriously thinking of moving all my note-taking to a new web-based solution, now that I dropped Evernote for laying off its entire U.S. staff.

That way, I can talk myself into closing some tabs and getting back on my personal focus. Low switching cost, or so's the internal conversation.

I like the analogy to the gold rush. Levi Strauss the big winner.
"One would expect India will declare Hinduism as their official religion as they should."

Well, apparently Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, Pagans and Atheists would strongly disagree.
Secularism was invented for a reason.
>Why can't phones use this "outstanding" innovation from 60 years ago?

Because it requires too much space. It works on watches because they are small, if you tried to screw in a phone back plate with 4 screws, it wouldn't seal at the sides, as pressure is too low.

>I'm sure the likes of Apple, considering their enormous R&D budget, can figure it out into a modern solution.

They already have found a way to tightly and reversibly seal a phone, which allows for repairs of components and is low cost. It is called glue and pretty much the optimal way to seal a phone.
Well, this Congress isn't up to doing its job. All they know how to do is act like Middle Schoolers and run their mouths in front of TV cameras. They have no idea, or experience, with governance.
Screws and gaskets are just as compact (see literally any wristwatch), but slightly more expensive. This, and probably some planned obsolescence, is the only reason why phones are glued together.
Not coming out here for or against cashless, but if things were that bad cash would be the least of my problems.
Yes. This is what some short sellers do: if they uncover what they think is fraud, they short the stock then publish their evidence. If the fraud is confirmed then they can have a huge payday when the stock collapses.
The claim I was answering was that Europe was no longer willing or capable to undertake "really ambitious technical things".

Really ambitious technical things by their very nature have uncertain outcomes and may prove spectacular, or even slow-motion failures. Concorde was only very barely commercially viable (if that) and ultimately exhibited fatal engineering flaws, as well as susceptibility to alternative (though slower) private jets with more flexible scheduling; still, it flew commercially for 27 years. The Channel Tunnel would have bankrupted the corporation building and operating it (Eurotunnel) without government bailouts.[1] The Airbus A380 has similarly proved a commercial failure with production halted at 254 units built in 18 years, compare against Boeing's 747 with 1,574 units over 55 years.[2]

Even accepting your characterisation of Energiewende as a failure, which I do not, it absolutely IS a "really ambitoius technical" project. And hence refutes the specious assertions of ur-whale.

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Notes:

1. "Megaprojects and Risk: An Anatomy of Ambition" <http://www.josephcoates.com/pdf_files/268_Megaprojects_and_R...> (PDF)

2. Wikipedia provides both Airbus's and Boeing's production years and units.
No idea about Apple, but I'd strongly disagree for Microsoft. In one way of speaking, they invest too much. WinUI3, like the article mentions has such a sordid history. It started as WPF, and WPF was (is) awesome. It's simple, clean, runs on a bunch of different platforms, doesn't have a zillion dependencies, has a great community, and is just all around pleasant to work with.

So naturally Microsoft decided to completely scrap it, replace it with a far less functioning successor, flop, and then repeat this process over and over til we get where we are today after WPF->UWP->WinUI2->WinUI3. And WinUI3 has also already been completely abandoned. Contrary to this article, it still doesn't even have a visual designer. The amount of time, energy, and money Microsoft has spent with all of these successors is going to be remarkable, just to keep throwing everything away and restarting.

Oh and while all of this was happening they've also been developing Xamarin, MAUI, and more that also all do pretty much the same thing - in completely incompatible ways, with a similar general trend of having the attention span, focus, and overall quality of a 13 year old ADHD boy, in a Japanese arcade, after 7 shots of espresso. This just isn't the sort of thing you could do without just completely absurd budgets and minimal concern about actually making something great. If they had instead just stuck to perpetually refining WPF, UI development on Windows would be a utopia today, and they probably would have saved an immense amount of money, or at least manhours.
There was an implementation of OpenStep for Windows named OpenStep Enterprise:

https://forum.winworldpc.com/discussion/11422/openstep-for-w...

It even survived Apple's purchase of NeXT, where the OpenStep API was renamed Yellow Box. There was a port of Yellow Box to Windows:

https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=29049

In both OpenStep Enterprise and Yellow Box for Windows, while the UI elements still have some NeXT-isms, it's not terribly out of place, either.

However, this got scrapped sometime when Apple abandoned Rhapsody (which had PowerPC and x86 versions) in favor of Mac OS X (which was originally only available for PowerPC until the Intel switch in 2006, though Apple maintained an x86 version internally during the PowerPC years). During the transition from Rhapsody to Mac OS X, Yellow Box was renamed Cocoa.
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