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The rich kids are also allowed to stand a lot closer to the board to throw.

> It is not the first time he has come across an organised rodent. When living in Bristol in 2019, his friend reached out for help fixing up a night camera when another mouse was keeping their shed in order.

I hate being one of those people who treats everything with suspicion, but he previously helped a friend who was also using a night vision camera to record a "tidying up" mouse?

I'd tried quite a few but had largely settled on the Uniball Jetstream as the one I always had on me.

The Biden administration is behind a few big bills:

1. The Infrastructure Investment Bill 2. The Inflation Reduction Act 3. The CHIPs Act

The name of 2 is a bit of a misnomer (extremely common in US politics to give bills misleading names to make then more popular).

Between them, he significantly increased government investment in domestic infrastructure, green energy, and the semiconductor industry.

Short term, that has probably been a big part of the magic formula that has kept unemployment low while interest rates have been high in order to combat inflation.

I ignored fountain pens for a long time because I'm not a calligrapher or artist and I mostly want writing to be easy and convenient.

On a whim, I finally ordered a LAMY Safari and was really surprised at how much better the writing experience was. I noticed my penmanship improved and I was able to write more easily on parts of the page that I normally struggle with, such as near the binding in some notebooks.

I attribute most of this to how easily the ink flows compared to other types of pens, although I'm sure the pen shape is also a factor.

Anyway, if you write a lot and just want to write more easily and a little better, I'd recommend giving a fountain pen a try, and I think the LAMY Safari is a great place to start (it is relatively cheap and the cartridges are convenient).

I also love JetPens and order most of my pens and stationary from them.

The Centurion Lounge analogy doesn't make that much sense to me.

Maybe if Amex also owned most of the airports and had their own airline? And you could only get into the lounge if you were also flying on Amex's airline? And while they let other companies operate lounges in their airports they made sure it was a pain in the ass to get to them?

I like it because it forces some decisions on various parties.

Don't want to look at ads online? Block them but realize you yourself may be blocked from certain places.

Don't want to allow ad-blocked users? Okay, but you lose those users unless you engage with the reason they are blocking ads and either give them an alternative or convince them to greenlist you.

Perhaps you could address that issue through explicit "family" or "friend" groups, where people can chose who they wish to verify for. That would limit the usefulness of the trust network but prevent the privacy issue you mention.

At its best it verifies that "Adam" is using a device that was verified by a trusted 3rd party as being added to the network by Adam himself. So, it is more about trusting devices than individual interactions.

It is important to note that the images in question are real, and involve actual victims of sexual abuse.

Perhaps you were thinking instead that this was referring to suppressing CSAM as output from a model trained on exclusively legal content, which would be different.

How is the web clipper? That is one thing I've found pretty lacking in other.

They really didn't think that through! "Artistic nudity?" They thought defining and enforcing rules around what constitutes "art" in the context of nudity was a good plan? Even without AI (which seems to be the in vogue thing to blame for everything that doesn't go well) this was a horrible idea.

This is a great tool for those of us who might have a bit of a distro hopping problem. You no longer need to do the whole song and dance with `dd` and can just copy a bunch of ISOs to a single USB drive

Gitlab's Open Source program actually seems prety good:

https://about.gitlab.com/solutions/open-source/join/

They offer everything in Ultimate, including 50k hosted CI minutes, and the requirements seems reasonable (basically, everything needs to be public, have an open-source license, and you can't profit from add-ons or services).

The drawback is that it looks like you have to apply for it to use it.

This is a weird article.

For one, I think this is super easy to say this if maybe you aren't hiring anyway for other reasons, and there is nothing other than the non-engineering hiring freeze that indicates that they are placing meaningful bets on this outcome. Where is the mention of the well-staffed R&D effort to bring this into reality?

And "AI" has just become a super annoying catch-all that allows people to perform a sort of sleight-of-hand that they wouldn't otherwise be able to get away with. "Look here not here" and the audience is mesmerized by the possible economic windfall that our future robotic overlords might grant them.

> 'many people always ask ‘what do you think Apple is going to do about this?' I am shocked that everyone is so shocked by the sheer existence of a 3rd party iMessage client.

I'm not shocked that someone figured out how to create a 3rd-party iMessage client, however I am somewhat skeptical of the notion that Apple will not find a way to break it.

I'm on the fence about using this. I don't want to switch all my conversations over to iMessage and then have Apple figure out how to ban this. That kind of feels like a recipe for lost messages.

I was surprised that the "average" is 5. It makes me wonder what that distribution looks like.

It isn't still going as a company. It was bought a little while ago by a company called Bending Spoons.

I do often wonder what Evernote would be today if they hadn't taken all that VC money.

At least National Geographic, Wired, and 2600 all still have print editions.

Lol. Well, I set aside some time still to read and comment on HN.

Please tell me he is quoting something for effect....

Well, the problem with those 3 examples is I think they all basically do most of what people want from them already, so if they don't change that is mostly fine. Stability is more important for their users.

ChatGPT on the other hand, isn't finished baking yet, and all the companies that are building a product on top of it are doing it because they expect more, and they expect more on a VC startup timetable, which means quickly.

Edit: and, you know, given how new the space is, there is a relative dearth of companies who have integrated ChatGPT in mission-critical ways that can't withstand an API service disruption or two.

The worst thing about this whole affair has been the failure of the board to coherently express, seemingly to anyone, why they did what they did.

I've been part of a development team meltdown, where an entire engineering org left a company within a few months (we didn't all have a standing offer from a single company, so people trickled out as we found new jobs).

In retrospect, it was not a good company and good for us all for leaving, but the internal drama hit such a fever pitch at one point that we were nearing open rebellion and it was perhaps a bit over the top. I did, however, make quite a few close friends that I still have to this day.

I would be curious to know under what circumstances the board indicated that "'allowing the company to be destroyed' would be consistent with the mission'. Because there are some circumstances under which it would. The most obvious is the reason why you strap a shotgun to that server, so to speak.

Whatever for?

I have made two changes that have helped me quite a bit:

1. I read the news on print. I get the newspaper and a few print magazines delivered. That limits how much news I can read, gives a bit of a buffer from the "real-time effect" of trying to follow things too closely as they happen, and helps me create a more mindful experience of news consumption.

2. I read mostly foreign news sources that cover US news but treat it a bit more dispassionately than the average American news outlet.

I would recommend either for those finding that they would like to put a bit more distance between themselves and following the news.

MS doesn't own GPT4