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This. I think LLMs have been most helpful to me when I'm doing something that's not really in my mainstream domain. Yesterday wanted to know the structure that SAP stores invoices in, GPT-4 had a great detailed answer and even made me sample data instantly. It would take me hours of research to do it myself.

There's still a lot of closed off knowledge that's hard to access even though it should be open. ChatGPT is great for that.

Not an answer to this question. Is there a Postgres.app equivalent for mysql on MacOs?

Apache Echarts. You run into constraints with most others after a point.

That's a great project. Have you documented anything. Sounds doable, but a leg up would be great.

And you know Google is using it's spam filter only so that they become the gatekeeper to your email. It's like SMS. First google added a spam filter for text messages and used our help to train it. Now I get "Verified by google" spam messages from companies that I didn't give my number to. Beware the free spam filter it's primarily a way for google to sell you more verified ads.

Sounds like a good idea. We'll get to it.

I don't know about toaster ovens but I've been considering if people would start building 'smart appliances' but with stock open source software. Eg A 'smart tv' with stock linux or something like that. For eg. I like Amazon echo as a device, but I don't like the Amazon software ecosystem around it. Could you produce an open device with the same hardware capabilities?

I've found that access control devices (biometric, nft) that are used in small offices have terrible software and useless interfaces. The devices itself can be procured easily from China. Maybe building something like this would be a good boring business.

Would you mind sharing the prompt design you have for such tasks. For example, I've been wondering if we can use it for reconciling two statements by auto matching invoices. Wanted to understand how that can be structured in the prompt.

Send a maniac to catch a maniac

I'm worried somebody will call my parents and tell them to transfer money to a weird bank account using my deepfaked voice.

I've been feeling similar feelings. It's not fear technically. It's that inability to predict where the future even 5 years from now will fall. The company I've built, the tech I believe is a real advantage for my customers, I'm beginning to question it all. I know GPT-4 isn't capable of doing what I personally and my company is today. But the rate of improvement has me shocked as well. I'm not a luddite by any stretch of the world, but I'm beginning to wonder the impact this will have on the world, and by extension my corner of the world.

Excited and really really worried at the same time.

Can I setup DoS protection, basic WAF on the free Nginx? If so, any resources to do the same would be appreciated.

Not from a government perspective, but does anyone want to 'quit spending money' on anything anymore? I find that as a society we've become addicted to spending on stuff and we never cut back spending on anything anymore.

I don't know if the majority agrees but we've all become addicted to e-commerce spending. The number of shoes is not counted in number of total shoes owned but number of shoes bought per month. A stock metric vs a flow metric.

Everybody has a vague idea that they're addicted but nobody seems to want to acknowledge it or even track it.

It's almost as if cutting frivolous spending is no longer a virtue.

Sorry if that's a rant.

Technically millions of human intelligence coders were trained from public open source code and tutorials, etc.

Bulk of the training of these types of questions are probably from stack overflow anyway

That'll be an interesting job. AI generated code bug fixer. An AI generates all code in bulk and then it's handed to you to fix the 'subtle' bugs they introduced. Those bug fixes go back into training the algorithm so that the bugs die out over time!

I have my main TV hooked up to a mac mini and do most of my hobby coding there. None of my work accounts are activated on that mac. I also do most of my HN reading there. Makes a good separation.

You still had non-LED bulbs? We moved almost exclusively to them over 8 years ago in India.

One thought I've had to the contrary to this is "centralization is more efficient". In India there's a debate about states programs vs central programs. The central programs seem to be way more efficient since they have scale and appropriate funding than the state ones. Plus over the years people tend to think of everything as India's system rather than Maharashtra's or Karnataka's system. As people's mobility for work has accelerated this has been even more pronounced.

The states complain about losing power in this game but I think the people tend to prefer it that way now.

An Indian NGO receiving foreign funds requires FCRA registration. That they didn't have.

As to the rest of your comment, his video was doctored to take the statement out of context and aimed at violent islamists to take action against the individual. His specific video is quoted by most of the islamists threatening her with beheading.

Umm. Only it's not an allegation anymore. The 'journalist' in question already admitted to receiving foreign donations without having the necessary compliance registrations in place.

This is also leaving out the part that this 'journalist' doctored a video about a person and posted it that is causing islamists to give the person beheading threats. 2 people who supported her have already been beheaded. This 'journalist' also has several allegations of fake news of his own. So it's not so black and white.

My own experience.

I started out with meditation after reading how it was integral in hindu philosophy. I subscribed to the 'think nothing' path of meditation. The focus on your breath or on an 'Om' chant is just a pathway to get to that state of mindfulness. As background, I consider myself as someone who has a decent amount of control over my mind (It's probably just my ego). However when I tried to start thinking nothing, I found it incredibly hard to do. I try to suppress all the thoughts in my mind and actually think nothing, something keeps creeping in.

After a few weeks of practice I began to get there, actively suppressing my conscious thoughts for a few minutes at a time. That's when the senses hypersensitivity began to kick in. I began to hear every bird, every small sound and every smell in the vicinity. I meditate outside so sometimes I'd feel a small ant crawling near my arm, or a small insect sit on my neck. Since I had my eyes closed, visual stimuli were technically already blocked out, but I still sometimes saw phantom images or these fractal patterns from the light leaking through my eyelids. Suppressing these and stopping thinking about these were another level of effort that took weeks.

One other thing I noticed is how time sort of lost meaning. Sometimes I'd stop meditating to find that 25 minutes had passed, sometimes I'd find I barely did 7.

I'm by no means any expert at doing this for myself. Everytime I had a break and stopped meditating for a few days or weeks (when I was on vacation or such), it took weeks to get back to the state I was. If I meditate for like 25 minutes, it's like only 12-14 minutes I'm really in the deepest state. The rest of the time I'm trying to get back there since something has distracted me.

I honestly don't know what it does for me. I do feel next level refreshed after a longish session, even better than the best sleep ever. Honestly, the thing that keeps me going on this is my ego that I can't even control my own mind. I actually try to ignore all commercial forms of meditation training and try out stuff on my own. That way I don't really have the need to validate it as a 'scam' or as 'worthy'.

Just my personal 2 cents.

'Be a better product manager' is key here. I would say if non-tech people have to learn one skill to manage a tech company it's learn product management. Then in my opinion any of the approaches will work.

Your clarity of thought and features and roadmap and scope is the most critical to building a good product. Very, very rarely can you outsource that.

This isn't just the government though. There's enough backing to the idea that Twitter especially applies very flawed moderation, suspension standards to voices on its platform. In the early days Twitter was a place for debate and discussion and hearing alternative viewpoints. That's eroded away and hence the outburst. Also I think Indians still hold the view that a corporate with its black box policies can't and shouldn't suppress the voices of democratically elected representatives. I think that's a recipe for disaster.

If the final identifier can't be reverse engineered to identify the specific individual is it PII?

So A user visited me on the 12th. That user visited me again on the 15th. Is that PII?

Imagine that the company is paying 25% extra because of these policies.

This is true, but truly the customer's own benefits are being compromised here. They can obtain better effectiveness at lower prices and push their margins, but procurement policy is not something companies want to mess with too much. It's also how they apply the same procurement policies to equipment purchases and software subscriptions. Some of those forms I don't even have a clue how to answer since it's so irrelevant.

This is so true. And big corporations push around smaller vendors to have so many compliances, insurance and other certifications in place, whereas larger vendors can get away with insane security and privacy lapses just because of legacy. Makes me mad.

What's your company? I want to sell to you.