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Regarding hobbyists: some clouds, and also the bigger clouds, do target hobbyists quite a lot, presumably with the intention that some of those hobbyists will eventually grow and stick with them. So I don't think "not wanting hobbyists" is entirely true.

But yes, the amount of money they spend is less, so it makes less sense to implement features that only hobbyists want.

I also don't think there is a park that looks like that, in that location relative ton the Eiffel Tower (although I could be wrong).

Firefox doesn't support WebGPU on Linux, that's probably why.

Youtuber Marques Brownlee did this (as a short). It's actually not so noticeable, it's only once you get to the very oldest phones that it's visibly worse.

the difference will be in things like low-light, telephoto lenses, video capability, HDR, and lots of other things that don't show up in most photos (including that one)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jru9Gsz3kJY

There's another aspect which none of the FTS search solutions for Postgres do well in my opinion: multi-language support.

For example this one: it doesn't mention support for CJK languages (meaning tokenization for e.g. Chinese will resolve to one token per character, which will technically work and give results, but is inefficient). Also word stemming (databases -> database) is also missing as far as I can see, so the kind of queries where you'd expect related words to show up will be missing. Just doing case-folding and accent-folding is a bit of a functional but bruteforce solution.

Ideally I'd want something that supports:

- language aware tokenization, with ability to define the language per record. Including stemming, etc. And have useful predefined configuration for common languages (e.g. the Postgres built in one is missing many languages).

- CJK support, tokenizing at word boundaries.

- Optional accent- and case-folding.

Most solutions just seem to assume English content, I have not found anything that does all of this yet.

Well, yes - those AI tools output images in aspect ratios which are not those of a typical sheet of paper (16:9, 2:3), which indeed wont't match. "Inches" etc doesn't matter.

You just need to offer the customer either the options of scale-to-fit / fill / stretch (white borders / crop on two edges / stretch), you probably already needed to do that before AI (such as people wanting to print letter-size documents in A4 land).

If you don't want to be responsible for it, another way is to just publish it anonymously: make a GitHub that isn't attached to your real name etc, perhaps using a one-off disposable email address, and put it there. Then you don't have to think about what the lawyers think. Worst case it'll get taken down, but by that point it'll likely be popular enough that there'll be plenty of copies.

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Their neutral harness is not very good though, if I read it right, it doesn't preserve the reasoning state between turns. No real harness discards reasoning state like that.

It's quite common in Europe. Usually you get 15 minutes which seems fairly generous.

As I understand it, Kosovo and Montenegro adopted the Euro unilaterally, without agreement from the EU. I don't think that'd be (politically) possible for Iceland (?). So the EU would need to agree to this, which also doesn't seem politically possible (?)

Yes, that's sort of our strategy as well: for us accuracy (and following a style guide, and extracting on-screen text from video) is important. So we do a first pass with whisper to get the word timestamps, and the pass the same audio (chunked in case of longer ones) to Gemini (pro, not this model), to transcribe without timestamps. After that you can transfer the timestamps from whisper to the timestamp-less Gemini text, by looking for runs of identical words in both and fudging timestamps for the other words I'm between a bit. Works quite well, and I'll be tesing this model to see if it can replace Whisper.

It seems like it has come to mean "fast, small, cheap" models these days, and seems well enough understood as such that different AI labs are adopting it.

As I understand it, the drive can thus be seized, and a potential loss of a cheap flash drive is a lower inconvenience than loss of the phone.

Not forever though, and if you're an iPhone user, already current iPhones sold in the US are eSIM only. So in some number of years (depenfing on your device oldness tolerance), they will become obsolete eventually.

Gemini "flash" models have an option for media resolution, including a high resolution option for screenshots.

It's not great if you don't want to use the Grok models though (and I don't, because it's now an Elon product), and if using Claude models via Cursor, the usage I get is way less, I was sometimes spending $60/month with Cursor and I get more with CC $18/month "Pro".

But CC took some getting used to, I also prefer the Cursor interface (the legacy "chat" pane).

Yes, now the poster of the issue just needs to (tell claude to) write a bot which posts a "bump" comment every 17 days, and the bots will cancel each other out.

€5.99, EU/UK only: https://facebook.com/help/262038446684066

(7.99 if subscribed via Appstore/Google Play, Apple/Google is getting €2 of your ad-free subscription there, too)

One interesting thing:

> Note: the original version of this post had a section here about an astronomy app I am working on that began as an astrology app and was rejected after having the astrology content removed. App store [sic] review reached out to me and let me know that they had apparently never been given the updated build and that the app should be fine to submit now.

So did the submitter submit the updated build, but it somehow never made it through Apple's process and thus was never looked at by the app store reviewer? Because that's also a bad look for Apple of "we rejected your app by mistake because we looked at the wrong version, not the new one you submitted".

Discussed previously, 2024, 564 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39479001

Krebs' blog is nice, but quite often it's just re-reporting stuff from somewhere else:

Original with more details: https://www.bitsight.com/blog/fuyao-enterprise-building-ad-f...

I think one attack vector this sort of overlooks in the first point, regular users installing malicious apps.

My elderly mum has an Android phone. She is not very tech-literate.

She might see a full page ad "your phone has a virus, clean it now", or somehow end up on something like it (e.g. a scam email).

She then dutifully clicks on it, which prompts to download an apk. The webpage provides clear instructions for how to install the just-downloaded APK.

That APK (app) then walks her though enabling ADB, so it can "clean the phone". The app gave very good instructions (customized to reflect the UI that her device manufacturer would use), so she manages to click through to the hidden settings menu and enable ADB.

The app can now exfiltrate all sorts of data, without needing any scary permissions prompt which will tell the user what is being accessed.

I think this sort of pattern is very real, and many users are being affected by these scams. And undoubtedly more android users than iOS ones.

Finding a balance that allows power users like me to use my device as I wish, and protecting regular users, is quite hard. I think the solution Google came up with of requiring a 24 hour wait, + some extra scary warnings, for unsigned apps is a step in the right direction, it helps less tech literate users avoid scams, and power users just have to be patient for 24h. But of course it's still not satisfactory for everyone, mum might still get scammed, and power users get annoyed at it.

This doesn't seem very competitive: it's priced at ₹4,199 (€38,08) on HMDs store.

On Amazon France, you can buy an "Energizer U506S" for €40.19 with free shipping. And that one has:

CPU: 1.5Ghz 4-core (MT6739 from 2017)

RAM: 2GB

Flash: 32GB

(and has card slot, dual sim)

And it runs Android 13 Go edition (probably not well, but enough to run Whatsapp and such).

So this device is facing some competition at that price point. Probably in India you can get an android device with higher spec at that €40 price point than you can in Europe.

It's often more nuanced than that IMO.

OSM in my experience is better at features (roads, hiking trails, and stuff like that), i.e. what's shown in that comparison screenshot.

Google Maps is better at place-metadata, such as opening hours; as well as user-contributed content like reviews and photos.

So I end up using both, depending on usecase.

And Organic Maps is itself a fork of Maps.me, started ...due to concern over the governance of Maps.me (introduction of commercial elements I think?).

This app has had quite a history.

I even (quite a few years ago) successfully ran an older version of Minecraft on a laptop released in 2003. That had a Radeon 9000 graphics with a whole 32MB of VRAM.

And yes, it was playable with IIRC around 20fps, with minimum settings and a performance-tweaking mod (Optifine?). I played it a lot, since that laptop was all I had.

Even 0ad (the open source RTS game) was playable on that.

That was maybe in 2013 or something like that, so the machine was "only" 10 years old.

Well, it could als also be argued that Chrome _is_ more secure, for example because it uses app-bound encryption using Windows DPAPI system, for cookies, so that it at least tries to protect cookies from malicious applications running on the device. Firefox does not do this: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/279629/are-cook...

If course the reverse can also be argued, for example that Firefox supports proper adblocking.

The ones in Spain often market themselves with their Chinese-ness: "Hyper China", "Panda Bazaar", "Maxi Barato (super cheap)", etc. would be some representative names & signage you see outside.

They range in size from small shops to things with huge floor space.

One thing I've found is that they seem to sell very low quality stuff: e.g. on aliexpress you can buy a flashlight which is built out of metal, has usb-c charging, for $10, whereas in the physical shop, you get the plastic one that takes AA batteries for $2. So they're not a replacement for AliExpress, Temu & co.

A question for OP: why did you choose Crunchy Data for your database, instead of Fly's own managed postgres offering? Because the latency between Fly and Crunchy Data must be quite high, given that they are probably not in the same datacenter.