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To be clear, this is not a particularly new thing: https://ehssanelmedkouri.medium.com/chatgpts-monday-what-did...

I used it a few months ago, and from what I can gather online, it’s been around for at least four months.

But interesting though!

Did you consider using more “traditional” recommendation systems? (and maybe using LLMs to create synthetic preferences…)

Important to note that Air Canada is denying the magnitude of the drop: https://thepointsguy.com/news/airlines-cut-canada-flights-bo...

> Air Canada, the largest airline by seats between the U.S. and Canada, disagrees with the analysis. > "We can confirm that [the preliminary OAG data] is not reflective of Air Canada's booking patterns, nor the state of the market, based on all information sources available to us," an Air Canada spokesperson said.

My first thought: maybe competitive programmers could find it useful, if it’s a way to reduce the amount of key presses needed to write their code? (At the very least, that’s a crowd that would be motivated enough to get accustomed to that way of writing code.)

Is this a first for Chrome DevTools to have features that require a Google account?

That's cool! There's one other feature I would love to have that current to-do lists don't capture: follow-ups. Basically, for a task such as "email Mr. and Mrs. XYZ", have the ability to snooze the tasks for a few days, if they haven't responded. There are many tasks that aren't done just because you did your part of it...

Reminds me of prose.sh. Turns out, there’s a lot you can do if you SSH keys as an authentication mechanism!

Meta has a lot of work to do on DevEx for non-gaming experiences. Say what you want with the Vision Pro, but it comes with a lot of niceities like SwiftUI. When you develop with the Quest, you're stuck with Unity or Unreal Engine -- it's almost too much freedom to develop simple productivity apps.

I love the DMA. But if you have to launch a long, sprawling compliance investigation the minute the law enters in force, it might mean you didn’t write it with enough precision…

Paul Krugman covers that question here (gift link): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/opinion/inflation-target-... and argues that the theoretical assumptions that led to the 2 percent rate didn’t turn out to be true:

> On one side were economists who believed that the essential role of monetary policy — maybe even its moral duty — was to deliver stable prices. Money, after all, is a yardstick we use to measure economic activity, and they argued that this yardstick shouldn’t be constantly changing its length.

> On the other side were economists who worried that too low an inflation rate could inhibit our ability to fight recessions. The Federal Reserve and its counterparts in other countries try to manage the economy mainly through their control of short-term interest rates; but these rates can’t go much below zero, because negative rates would just lead people to accumulate stacks of $100 bills. A higher rate of inflation tends, other things being equal, to raise interest rates and makes it less likely that the Fed, faced with a recession, will hit the “zero lower bound” and be unable to cut rates further.

The zero lower bound turned out to be a real problem, given the amount of years we spent at a zero percent interest rate.

Yeah, and also you have the problem of job location. The regional government says they want to make the Paris area more "polycentric", but there’s a limit to that if jobs are heavily concentrated in one area. We are racing to open more subway lines, and that will surely help, but at some point, raw distance will remain a bottleneck.

As a Parisian, who is generally angry at the city’s housing policy (build taller!), I find the public housing of the past few years to be a great achievement. In general, public housing sits on the outer edges of Paris, but the city has been agressive in reconverting buildings in posher neighborhoods. It doesn’t really lead to reduced rent (because no additional supply), but it decreases social segregation. That alone is critical to keep a city alive.

Yes, the Reddit dev team might have spawned a 2000+ repo mess, but they also host it under the snooguts.net domain name, which is objectively adorable, so all is forgiven.

At first glance, it looks preordained that the DOJ will sue on antitrust grounds. Or maybe Prime Video has grown sufficiently over the years so that Warner + Fox + Disney are now small enough to attempt something like this?

In any case, I don’t think it’s a way to improve user experience in a streaming world: it’s a pretty transparent attempt at improving bargaining power within rights negotiations…

Knowing the history of deepfakes, I really hope you have a good NSFW filter :)

The best part about this is that Apple Music historically asked Android users to put in their credit cards, bypassing Android’s own IAP system. (Might have changed a few years ago)

(Some of) the devil is in the details. You might want to look at the announcement [1] and the support page [2]. It's only certain services (although it includes GCS and VM persistent disks), and it's really meant for a full migration out of GCP. So if you want to migrate only a portion of your data to create a multi-cloud setup, this might not work.

Still, it's great.

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/networking/eliminatin...

[2]: https://cloud.google.com/exit-cloud

I think they didn’t want to antagonize any specific watch brand.

Any example of bad typography, for my money, is Louis Vuitton’s latest watch, which uses Myriad (Adobe Illustrator’s default font): https://eu.louisvuitton.com/eng-e1/products/tambour-automati...

I hate it when there’s a GitHub project that looks promising but makes you install a whole dev stack, run a script, and then go on localhost:666 before you can see the UI, as if it was a rite of passage.

I understand the arguments against publishing screenshots. But that’s how it feels to me as an external user. And frequently the UI tends to be disappointing. Personally, if I don’t see screenshots for a web or app GitHub project, I probably won’t touch it.

It apparently outperforms GPT-4 at WinoGrande as well…

"The AI accurately predicted 70% of earthquakes a week in advance, with 14 forecasts coming true… However, it issued eight false warnings and missed one earthquake." Beyond the fact that n is very small, I don’t think 14/23 is 70%…

I'm wondering what the title tag of the image is referring to...

this is super AI-generated. paradoxically, the PR release might be a better link: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/city-of-hope-scient...

For context: this is pretty surprising, given the significant amount of independence Deepmind had within Google. So much so, in fact, that they tried for a long time to be spun off from Google: https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-unit-deepmind-triedand-f...

There are a couple of websites that let you do this without running your own email server.

https://33mail.com is one, for instance (disclaimer: happy customer here.)

from the thank-god-for-section-230 dept...

Awesome work! Is there any chance you would release the list of the blogs and publications you selected?