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The tagline boasts that it is "introducing the world’s best document understanding API". So, holding them to their marketing seems fair

Tell me this response was not generated by AI

Correction: China has never banned any US social network. That said social network decided not to comply with local laws is their decision. Even Tiktok does not work in China

The author's confidence in their conclusions hints at naivete at best

Yeah... African users... oh poor infantile, gullible, creatures... so incapable of discerning truth from falsehood are the ones to be fooled by generative AI...I get the gist

Snowden will disagree with you

A cynic would see Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea as vassal states of the US and as such "Western".

For a while I thought this is a step-by-step lesson on GPT, the model and architecture

For me, I have been using it as a faster substitute for Google+StackOverflow - generating short snippets that I'll still audit anyway. It is just another, better search engine once you are primed to watch out for the pitfalls

Some things are a little more appealing when you are in a country without a competent Federal Reserve

Working on Acadar(https://acadar.com) and Neviwi(https://neviwi.com) in Africa

Have you heard of Lightning Network?

You can DM me on stan AT acadar DOT com for details

Hello HN. I am Stan from Acadar. Acadar provides a storefront for a business or service tailored to that kind of business. We also help owners reach out to and build an audience around their product and services.

Four legs good, two legs bad. Hypocrisy of the incumbent

Are you pretending not to see how a language outside your tribe opens up more opportunities. The entire tribes of Africa and South America underwent the same massive foreign language reeducation now being demonized

Xender is more popular than Play store near where I live

From China to US... surveillance-free?

Same here. HN has recently been swamped with polarizing geopolitical rhetoric. Finding it more difficult to get any rational discourse outside the pro-US echo chamber

As a counterpoint, I have never been made to realize the US origin of HN as in recent times. The "hacker" in the name is gradually being swallowed by the "news"-mainly US

China is NOT 'imprisoning a million Muslims in a concentration camp'. Dig a little deeper. Hyperbole does not help anybody.

Gomatcha also requires Mac/XCode for iOS apps and Android SDK for android apps. I have been using Flutter to develop apps without Android Studio - just the flutter SDK + Android SDK + Gradle

This implies that making money can only come from the kind of jobs that are at risk of automation. But I think when robots take over our current jobs, we are freed to pursue other things which may have a different value premium and thus earn money

Have you tried Telegram?

North Korea placed 4th.[0]

[0] https://www.imo-official.org/year_country_r.aspx?year=2015

This is a cool project. Recently, I have had to teach a High School kid some basic science using Whatsapp and found it lacking. Searching on the app stores for a messaging app with Latex support yielded nothing. Already gearing up to roll up my sleeves and build one.

This is impressive. As a player in the Nigerian tech market, it is good to see budding local talents

In addition to the full access to the rich erlang eco-system, elixir also comes with its on rich features like macros which shines through in the design of Phoenix, its major web framework

Can anybody summarize the talk for folks like me who for several reasons cannot watch the video?