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AureliusDreamer··on Show HN: HyperFast, a React Native starter kit. Idea to app store in a week.
These time estimates seem excessive. 8 hours to “set up the environment”?

Also, doesn’t Expo already offer most of these boilerplates for free?

Edit: Not to mention that Expo handles most of the heavy lifting for each of these items (e.g publishing to app stores). What are customers paying for that they cannot easily get for free from the Expo team?

AureliusDreamer··on Hugging Face and Google partner for AI collaboration
A lot of folks here being critical of the partnership because Google hasn’t open sourced all of their models, etc.

Not too defend Google, but they have arguably the deepest AI knowledge in the industry and released many of the fundamental building blocks for today’s AI boom (transformers, Tensorflow, etc.)

AureliusDreamer··on Show HN: Quetta – A privacy-first web browser with enhanced ad blocker inside
The competitor features comparison is not accurate. For example, Brave does have playlist. And I Firefox has flavors with built in ad-block
AureliusDreamer··on Show HN: Emergent Mind – Trending arXiv AI/ML Papers, Explained by GPT-4
The site gets hung when browser script blockers are on. Works fine without any blockers on though.

Cool concept and the summary has good detail. It gives a level deeper than the Abstract

AureliusDreamer··on In 2024, please switch to Firefox
Brave runs on Chrome and has some of the highest privacy protections.

I love Firefox, but just questioning if there aren’t good solutions available on Chrome.

And while Apple may not have a business model as focused on selling data, they still have a growing ad business + weaker protections against fingerprinting and ad blocking

AureliusDreamer··on Waymo has 7.1M driverless miles – how does its driving compare to humans?
Self driving cars (from industry leaders) are absolutely safer than human drivers. The real self driving test will be for them to be accepted by society. Will people accept that mistakes & edge cases happen and there isn’t a human to accept the blame?
AureliusDreamer··on AI proxy middlewares are a hack
Agreed. The author makes the point that middleware is trying to solve valid problems. I think the issue is that there are better ways to address it by “avoiding the middleware all together”. Especially since it introduces other 3rd parties into the mix
AureliusDreamer··on Show HN: Evolution Zero – extracting data from documents without any training
I would love to hear what kind of model this is using. Some type of transformer?
AureliusDreamer··on The Freedom Phone is not great at privacy
Love the irony that the "American Conservative" Freedom phone is just a generic phone from a Chinese tech company...