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avree··on Show HN: Robata, macOS window selector: put it on the grill
Just to make this feedback a little more constructive (I agree) - I suggest starting the demo video at 0:46/1:44 (the line beginning with "So, if I touch the bottom left corner of my trackpad...").

It's obvious to the viewer that these are windows being shown, in my opinion - you can start right off with the invoke interaction and go into the demo.

avree··on Cryptominers made $100k from mining at an Airbnb for three weeks
This story is unbelievable. The power costs versus profit make no sense, and if you had 10 magical supercomputers that could mine $100,000 of crypto against a $1,500 power investment, you surely wouldn't waste your time moving them around - or get the proper cooling setup in a random Airbnb, over and over.
avree··on Initial details about why CrowdStrike's CSAgent.sys crashed
A lot of snarky replies to this comment, but the reality is that if you were selling an anti-virus, identified a malicious virus, and then chose not to update millions of your machines with that virus’s signature, you’d also be in the wrong.
avree··on Wild new Wi-Fi routers turn your home network into a security radar
The technology isn't new, at all. In fact, I wrote the announcement blog post https://www.plume.com/homepass/blog/give-your-home-a-sixth-s... on Plume's website almost 4 years ago.

https://www.cognitivesystems.com/, https://aerial.ai/ both have pretty significant penetration in ISPs.

avree··on Amazon is bricking $2,350 Astro robots 10 months after release
I also know someone at Amazon who “dogfooded” one! I saw one, single, semi-valid use case, which is that it was a decent way to intermittently check up on your pets without setting up multiple cameras… but obviously not worth it at nearly $3,000 with tax.
avree··on A live ranking of airlines by how much luggage they are losing
The US DOT publishes "Mishandled Baggage" statistics. These lump together lost and damaged, but for example states that Delta was around a 1 out of 256 chance to get "mishandled"... so, I'm not sure if the stats on this page are really all that far off - they seem all within the range of believable to me.
avree··on Artificial needles to real haystacks: Improving retrieval capabilities in LLMs
If this type of fine-tuning severely harms the general-purpose capabilities of the model, why is it advantageous versus using a slimmer model more suited to your goal from the start? I guess I don't fully grok the paper.
avree··on Uber Is Locking Out NYC Drivers Mid-Shift to Lower Minimum Pay
Uber drivers have been able to see the approximate destination before accepting the ride for over a year now in all markets.
avree··on Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024
Ah, that is a very important distinction. Thanks for clarifying! For my purposes, the passphrase storage works fine, but I can see how the vault could be a useful feature.
avree··on Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024
Is this not exactly what the Apple Keychain does? Manage keys?
avree··on Apple unveils 'Passwords' manager app at WWDC 2024
1Password is still around? I used to love it, then they changed the app, pricing schema, UX, and generally made things worse overall.
avree··on I connected Windows XP to the Internet; it was fine
They released XP well into Windows 7, I'm surprised that there's that much incompatibility with modern versions of windows when running software.
avree··on Amazon Pharmacy
Getting controlled substances is such a nightmare in the USA. Prescribers can't have renewal scripts, they can't prescribe for more than 30 days at a time on a single script...
avree··on NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching
You are very incorrect, but there's no point in going back and forth on this given how far off we are on claims.

Suffice it to say I have talked, personally, to enough bippers to understand that there are 'spotters' and 'bippers', and which one uses the cell-phone based Bluetooth scanner (which requires no 'hardware' or 'effort' to figure out the source of a BLE signal.)

avree··on NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching
The "time" it would take to do a Bluetooth scan? What are you talking about? There are free apps that will instantly show Bluetooth signal when walking past.
avree··on NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching
Thieves in San Francisco take advantage of the first one to check if there are goods in cars.
avree··on Show HN: I open sourced Athena Crisis, a game built with React and CSS
This looks very reminiscent of Advance Wars.
avree··on Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira
That seems about right? I use Netlify to deploy my own 11ty static site, and it costs $19/month, plus there's no WYSIWYG editor like Squarespace.
avree··on Did GitHub Copilot increase my productivity?
Even if it was lightning-fast, it never was a game changer, as it has very low quality of output.
avree··on Mise: a polyglot tool version manager
Used it since it was called rtx - a great tool.
avree··on Find My Device on Android
Do the Pixel Buds not have a Find feature? I have the same experience as you with Tile, but I use the "Find" feature on my iPhone to locate my AirPods all the time.
avree··on GPT-4, without specialized training, beat a GPT-3.5 class model that cost $10M
Doesn't seem like you are very informed on how LLMs work, but just so you know, there are many different versions of Claude, just like how ChatGPT can use different versions of GPT.
avree··on A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments
There were 112 heroes available at that time. It's also worth noting that two of the heros chosen for OpenAI to use, Viper and Sniper, are considered some of the mechanically 'easier' heroes, as they rely primarily on autoattacks to do damage, as oppose to decision-making around when to use spells. Crystal Maiden, Lich, and Necrophos, the other 3 of the 5 OpenAI heros, are similarly considered 'easier' as they have spammable, very forgiving abilities that can be used almost indiscriminately.
avree··on Show HN: Your AI Product Manager
If this is what your Product Managers are doing, your company should probably remove the Product Management function.
avree··on Okta lays off 400 employees – almost a year after last staff cuts
The Community Notes feature was called "Birdwatch" and was launched in 2021. Elon took over in late 2022, and renamed the feature in early 2023.
avree··on Electric scooter company Bird files for bankruptcy
I feel like this is really what killed the scooter companies. Either you have enough need to use one for commuting/etc. that you just buy your own, in which case you always know where it is, know it's in good condition, charged, etc. or you have infrequent need for one, in which case you're looking at spending maybe $20/year on scooters.
avree··on Tesla blamed drivers for failures of parts it long knew were defective
Unrelated question to the article: “They were absolutely petrified,” Jain said of his wife and daughter. “If we were on a 70-mile-per-hour highway, and this would have happened, that would have been catastrophic.”

Is it normal for people in the UK (Jain is from Cambridge, England) to use miles-per-hour? I thought it was kilometers-per-hour, generally.

avree··on The teenager who lives like it's the 1940s
Am I alone in thinking this is a little strange? If my teenager decided to live their life in a comic book costume, or cosplaying and pretending to be an anime character, I would say they are too attached. There are YouTubers like "ReportoftheWeek" who like to dress in an older style, but choosing to not learn to use a cellphone and bypassing understanding modern technology seems to be going too far.
avree··on Coinbase targets financially vulnerable young adults
Most savings accounts pay 5%+ now, I agree that holding your cash under your mattress is not the play, but that's very different than gambling on risky options or even riskier cryptocurrencies.

Your second point makes zero sense - BTC is 40% lower than it's all-time-high, I just looked it up. Other cryptos are much worse.

avree··on Coinbase targets financially vulnerable young adults
Weird, I know friends who lost all their savings to cryptocurrency. Don't know anyone who lost all their savings due to inflationary monetary policy.
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