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TowerTall··on Flesh-Eating Bacteria That Can Kill in Two Days Spreads in Japan
When I was i Japan the toilet in my hotel room had a remote control with 18 buttons.
TowerTall··on Where did the idea of the tin foil hat come from?
From one the great web 2.0 site "Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie" (Created in 1997) [1] [2]:

[...] There is a long history of using aluminum to both deflect mind control signals and to control them. Evidence suggests that the ancient Atlanteans used aluminum armor and psychotrons in their wars with the Phoenician Old Dynasty. [...] The first truly modern instance of anti-psychotronic aluminum use was in the late 18th century by the American statesman, philosopher, and inventor Benjamin Franklin. His discoveries were built upon in the beginning of the 20th century by Yugoslavian born electrical genius Nikola Tesla. Of course, the US military has been researching aluminum for use in psychotronic weapons and armor as long as it has been involved in mind control, which is to say since it's inception.

[1] https://zapatopi.net/afdb/history.html

[2] Please treat all info on the site as a joke. It is a very well done website, but I would take all info provide there with a grain of salt as it is a humorous website. Neverless a brilliant website that makes me laugh.

TowerTall··on Apple's AI promise: "Your data is never stored or made accessible to Apple"
> But you don't just have to trust Apple on this score, Federighi claimed. That's because the server code used by Private Cloud Compute will be publicly accessible, meaning that "independent experts can inspect the code that runs on these servers to verify this privacy promise."

How it's possible for world + dog to reliably verify the code running on a remote machine?

TowerTall··on Apple to Debut Passwords App in Challenge to 1Password, LastPass
> The software will also work on the Vision Pro headset and Windows computers.

No mentioning of linux

TowerTall··on Apple to Debut Passwords App in Challenge to 1Password, LastPass
https://archive.is/HDzNM
TowerTall··on Paris Closed 100 Streets to Cars for Good. Now, the City Is a Cyclists' Paradise
Copenhagen, Denmark, started doing this maybe 20 years ago. Today there are very few cars in the center of town and very few car parking spots. The few there are is super expensive and hard to get.
TowerTall··on I am seeking AI website builder which designs/layout according to my info
Adobe Express
TowerTall··on Microsoft Paint's new AI image generator builds on your brushstrokes
Eventually it will tied to o365 subscription (or windows license subscription) is my guess. For now they just swallow the cost to get access to all data and use that data to improve Azure and GPT. Bing didn't make a profit for many years for example
TowerTall··on Ask HN: What is the most productive stack or lang for single devs ?
For foss alternatives you should look at elastic stack [1].

If you aren't familiar with elastic stack don't let it put you off that they mark it as search product [2]. It has a tons of integrations [3] [4] allowing you to connect with almost anything and write code against it using any framework. Elastic is awesome.

Elastic Stack is much more code heavy than an low code platform but you get tons of features out of the box.

In the eyes of you app elastic is just an API that provides access to your data. When evaluating elastic try to abstract from that it is a search engine. Try to think of it as just a mechanism to access and work with data. Instead of firing a sql query against a database to get your data, you execute a search query.

From that build app app just like any other data drive app using whatever framework or language you prefer.

[1] https://www.elastic.co/elastic-stack/

[2] Elastic Search is the search component in the elastic platform. Elastic Stack is the platform.

[3] https://www.elastic.co/integrations

[3] https://www.elastic.co/integrations/data-integrations

TowerTall··on Show HN: I built a visual builder for prompt engineering AI workflows
Looks great. I don't want to sign up to try. Instead I went looking for images (or a demo) page but didn't find any. The images on the frontpage and in the template galley are too small to see the details. You should make some high res pictures of the templates available.

I would also suggest you to promote the link to the template gallery so i appears on the top of frontpage. The template galley seems to be a good way to display what your app is all about. You should make the template gallery easier to find for new visitors. Good luck!

TowerTall··on Ask HN: What is the most productive stack or lang for single devs ?
Power Apps alternatives: https://www.gartner.com/reviews/market/enterprise-low-code-a...
TowerTall··on Ask HN: What is the most productive stack or lang for single devs ?
In that case, and since you are looking for suggestion on where you can do work most or fast or most productive for a single developer, you could consider an alternative to learning a framework.

Learn a platform. Not a framework.

You could pick at platform to specialize on and learn whatever framework / language you can use to extend that platform.

For example you will be very productive very fast if you pick a platform like Microsoft Power Apps[1]. Although it is a no/low code platform there are tons of places to write code especially when you start to leverage azure functions. (c#/javascript/phyton/java) There are alternatives to Power Apps but that's the platform I am familiar with.

I know its fun to build apps from scratch but if you want to be productive fast you can cut a huge corner by building on top of an existing app platform.

[1] What is Power Apps? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-apps/powerapps-overv...

TowerTall··on Ask HN: What is the most productive stack or lang for single devs ?
The framework that you already know how to use
TowerTall··on VMware Fusion Pro: Now available free for personal use
How do you test sketchy software when Windows Defender is disabled in Windows Sandbox?
TowerTall··on Apple Nears Deal with OpenAI to Put ChatGPT on iPhone
https://archive.is/aRKV5
TowerTall··on Ask HN: Did you switch off "allow your content to train our model" in ChatGPT?
where is that switch?
TowerTall··on Ask HN: Can Devin genuinely replace the roles of developers?
You should watch this video that shows that some of the Devin demos are fake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNmgmwEtoWE&feature=youtu.be
TowerTall··on Ask HN: What software sparks joy when using?
kais power goo
TowerTall··on Tell HN: We should snapshot a mostly AI output free version of the web
“Somewhere at Google there is a database containing 25 million books and nobody is allowed to read them.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/the-t...

TowerTall··on How the O.J. Simpson murder trial 20 years ago changed the media landscape (2014)
The article is fresh and is in the press because O.J. Simpson has died
TowerTall··on How the O.J. Simpson murder trial 20 years ago changed the media landscape (2014)
https://archive.is/DMmt4
TowerTall··on OpenAI Sora's first short film – "Air Head," created by shy kids [video]
Up next: The Automated YouTube
TowerTall··on Ask HN: Textbook Regarding LLMs
I have pre-ordered this book: Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) https://www.manning.com/books/build-a-large-language-model-f...
TowerTall··on Ask HN: How to Identify a Need in the Market?
solve a problem you have yourself. Chances are that other people have the same problem. The good thing about solving your own problem is that you know when it solved. This might not be the case if you try to solve someone elses problem instead
TowerTall··on U.S. Intelligence Says TikTok Is a Threat – But Only in Theory
On facebook it is possible to target a specific invidual. [2014]

https://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking...

and more recent [2024] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39540738

TowerTall··on Ask HN: Measure the mouse current DPI being used
Are you talking about the cursor?
TowerTall··on OpenAI: Streaming is now available in the Assistants API
yes, it like surfing porn in the early internet year using a dialup modem. One line a the time until you finally can see enough of the picture (reply) to realize that is was not the reply you were looking for.

LLM streaming must be a cost saving feature to prevent you from overloading the servers by asking to many questions with in a short time frame. Annoying feature IMHO

TowerTall··on Ask HN: Any recommended AI tools to analyze data and generate insights?
elasticsearch / elasticstack

Check out this keynote from their last conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cMB7Sjzgt0

TowerTall··on Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G12 laptop review: First major refresh in three years
I just tested yesterday. Playing blue-ray from disk using VLC. It too 72 minutes for the battery to go from 100 to zero.
TowerTall··on Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G12 laptop review: First major refresh in three years
ok that is interesting and far away from my experience. Yes, it still under warranty. I will create a ticket with lenovo
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