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This feels timely given the many who will have recently received their rejections from YCombinator

Good. That’s kind of the point.

This is probably adding some interesting data processing steps in a few scientists work… you don’t normally have to adjust for a changing time dilation, but between the change in speed passing through the orbit, and the number of seconds being lost, there’s probably a few instruments where they have to account for the difference in the data over the course of each orbit!

How have I never seen that OpenScad Graph Editor!!!!

I work a lot with openscad for projects with my 3d printer and it’s been a real pain adapting some things I find to save any time, because the language is a bit odd and using libraries came really obfuscate what’s going on…

Thank you so much for sharing it!

Wow. This side effect was pretty much common knowledge in Australia due to a notable early incident and the press coverage it received. It was even factored into the early vaccination process here with the AstraZeneca vaccine not being made available to everyone due to the risks, and that was somewhat of a political hot potato due to that particular vaccine being the one the government had put their money behind, signed deals, and if I recall correctly, even begun manufacturing doses before the final clinical trials were completed.

It’s why I am focused on how this kind of technology gets “offline” and into locally run models. If I can buy a top of the line MAC in a few years time with something in the vicinity of half a terabyte of unified ram, and run this kind of model on my own hardware, it would be a powerful force multiplier, an a genuinely empowering tool… as opposed to having to rent it from someone in order to remain competitive with everyone else forced to rent it.

I honestly only managed to get my mind wrapped around how class based views worked by studying Django Vanilla Views and Django Rest Framework… while I eventually learned and understood why the built in class based views are the way they are… in no small part thanks to https://ccbv.co.uk/ … but it was definitely more instructive to have a more simple class and mixin hierarchy that I could use, put breakpoints on, and fully get my head at… in order to get my mind around the very concept of class based views … after that it all made a lot more sense.

I mean sure, we definitely need that material science research… but for a big part of the contamination we kind of already know what to do.

For textile related pollution, it’s using more organic fibres like cotton and wool for clothing where possible. And for tire wear it’s improving public transportation and pushing for greater use of rail on long distance transportation, particularly for cargo. Unfortunately clothing is not getting better as fast fast-fashion is not going to spend more for organic fibres… and in a lot of places people seem to be all but allergic to the very idea of public transport and in a lot of places around the world aren’t good at building train tracks and stations so that won’t really help in the short term.

There’s a lot of bad blood in the artistic community (on all fronts, production, distribution and consumption) to anything crypto due to the whole NFT thing… I don’t think you’re going to see anyone trying to do something that’s art + crypto for quite some time.

I would not have put my money on the pandemic disease prevention measures providing solid evidence for the Hygiene Hypothesis… but the mechanism does make sense and it would be nice to see a change from handing out antibiotics like vitamin supplements for anyone…

Don't be too hard on yourself, editing text is hard...

I'm pretty sure almost everyone will make the the mistake of leaving something out or adding something in the wrong place at least once. The human brain is pretty good at doing clever things like a gap in words with what it thinks should be there, or skipping over little things that shouldn't... or unscrambling usftf that is just completely up.

;-)

Also I edited my comment reflect that it was a mistake.

EDIT: This was an inadvertent copywriting/cms mistake. I'm leaving the original below for context only.

  >>> OLD POST FOLLOWS <<<

So while reading the landing page I came across a keyword that I'm always conscious of when considering anything AI related... you mentioned PRIVACY

Privacy. That's Struct.

The Struct app is the result of a meticulous design process, one focused on minimalism and efficiency. Our interface is deliberately subtle to ensure a distraction-free environment for work. It's completely brand-agnostic, free from any disruptive colors or logos.

We have lots of keyboard shortcuts for fast navigation, and a dark mode to reduce eye strain in low-light environments. We’re also committed to meeting users wherever they are — the app works on Windows, Mac, or Linux.

Now... I'm hoping this was just a copywriting fail, perhaps you trusted some ChatGPT output a little more than you should and as a startup you don't exactly have heaps of spare people to re-read things that seem good to go... But the problem is that Privacy is a pretty important detail when it comes to communications between people, a lot of us like to know who else can read our messages, where they're sent, how they're stored... that sort of thing.

So I keep reading, and re-read it a few times... and nope sorry... I cant connect the line in the H1, to anything in the following two paragraph tags. Your two paragraphs about how minimal and easy to use the app is... have nothing to do with privacy... and the conspicuous absence of anything about privacy after a statement saying how about privacy you are, has immediately made me incredibly suspicious of your company, and its otherwise interesting product...

Since you might still be reading comments jdplex hopefully you see this... You might want to fix your copy before it puts off more potential customers... But unless its a whole bunch of missing extra information about actual good privacy related, you've probably already lost me as a possible customer due to too much suspicion.

Despite knowing about its nickname… I found myself picturing a paraphrasing of the classic physicist’s “spherical cow in a vacuum”…

“Steerable brick in an atmosphere”… or the slightly more accurate “orientable brick in an atmospheric reentry regime”…

WW2 killed Isolationism… and the funeral was when Nixon went to China.

The two I can think of offhand are:

China is definitely starting to do this as part of its wider geopolitical ambitions under Xi.

Australia has started to dip its toes into providing security to small pacific island countries, it’s an interesting case too since while they can promise their own security resources, due to Australia’s deep ties with the USA via multiple defence and military related treaties, Australia is to extend the “selling security” business metaphor, starting to sell security as a “Value Added Reseller”… effectively they offer the immediate response time of a smaller business partner, with the added benefit of having having an even larger supplier that can be turned to if things are too big for your direct supplier to deal with… the catch is the same in business as in geopolitics however… to what degree your reseller is able to supply their own resources and call on upstream vendors for support, can vary greatly depending on what you need and when you need it…

Yep… I can totally prove this random pseudonym/anonnym is definitely the same one that has… never been used before because due to social incentives you want zero links between identities and thus the web of trust is just a sea of filaments floating loose in an ocean

An ocean filled with fish poop…

It’s so great I can definitively verify that this ID is something… but that’s absolutely fucking pointless if I have no way to judge if the entity or entities controlling it, connected to it, supporting it, or even associated with it (to consider potential future actions)… the goal was noble but the implementation completely failed because to succeed would have required the participants to build anchors in the real world of verifiable identities… and for all the value people get from day to day use of cryptocurrencies… the biggest value of crypto was in staying as far away from the real world as possible allowing such things as drug purchases and international money laundering and illegal gambling at a level low enough to evade legal enforcement services coming after the players (since obviously if they could come after the casino/house they would since that’s where all the money is)

Dunno how “new” it is… I’ve definitely got a big price difference and I’m pretty sure others will to…

Twitter, Tesla, Neuralink, Boring… all the non space Musk corps…. Quarter million if I don’t have to move from Australia, half million to a million depending on where I was going if it requires moving to the USA… I’d do it… but I’d basically have the resignation letter already drafted from day one…

For the rockets… I’d probably be happy with their normal pay offer… not being a US citizen basically makes it impossible for me to apply for a job with SpaceX so I’d take what I could get lol… and since Elon is clearly just glued to his phone tweeting… it’s not going to be the Elon show… Gwynne Shotwell is running the company like a level headed and competent management executive, the place is full of competent engineers who seem like pretty well adjusted people when they talk about their experiences after leaving, and they all seem to leave for normal reasons…

Oh it’s got a few solutions… but you’re probably not going to like them… there’s the whole 13th amendment issue for starters…

I’d definitely consider not letting some basic visual schematic outputs fall too far down the priority list.

A lot of existing EE is basically just the visual diagrams and a lot of existing EE people will expect the tools to give them the visual diagrams they work with somehow… like even just including the compiled schematic as an SVG in with the compiled outputs of netlist, gerber, etc… something that other software can be used to convert to PDF without extra complexity in your tool and can be used to interoperable with the existing talent pool of EE people who have not just no idea how to use your tool… but know how to read typical style circuit diagrams.

You might find this a stumbling point for adoption. My first thought is this could be a good tool for me to use, but how can I send a design to someone else to get feedback on if I’m not going to expect them to also also learn how to use this or how can I get my design manufactured if the tools can’t export out the, normally very visual, layout files.

That’s my point. They are ostensibly setup to primarily be a charity even if there’s a commercial organisation buried in the business structure (like Mozilla and a few other corps) … while the charity is in control the mission is simple, the charity is the owner and the owners of a company make the decisions.

Shifting to publicly listed means the owners are now the shareholders, it’s rare that public shareholders have zero board of directors representation, which is why I fear this is basically going to kill everything the Raspberry Pi Foundation have worked to build … the only question in my mind is how fast this kills it, I just can’t see how this won’t result in shareholders pressuring the company into compromising in the name of raw profit or whatever else is necessary for them to raise the stock price so the investors can get some profit.

Yeah... I have major concerns about how significantly this would impact their ostensible goals.

What guarantee is there that the newly publicly listed company won't be pressured by stockholders to improve the profit margins by driving up prices and reducing product quality on both the hardware and software fronts.

This wasn’t just some DEI/ESG score based thing…

There were people who had the answers fed to them! I don’t care why it was done, doing this seems to be the real moment the entire diversity effort seems to have become a farce. It’s unacceptable manipulation of a candidate selection system that would obviously lead to some kind of repercussions.

This is classic “the road to hell is paved with good intentions” stuff. Everyone is trying to do the right thing, wanting to improve the situation where the FAA was the least diverse federal agency seems like a laudable goal, they didn’t just rush it, they took years to develop new processes… it just so happened that some people got too keen, forgot their own responsibilities and began to advocate to help diversify candidates using methods that go beyond what is acceptable OF ANY CANDIDATE. No one should be fed answers like that, I don’t care if your Black, White, Martian, or Italian, it’s cheating, it’s just cheating the damn selection process and it’s obvious a problem…

Separating this from the diversity issue is quite difficult given the history, but fundamentally it’s necessary to have a proper discussion about it. It’s not DEI as a concept that lead to this, it’s people who made decisions and conducted themselves in a way that had broader consequences than just helping make the FAA a more diverse workplace.

Sadly this would be illegal in Australia.

Lack of available staff, and a CEO who is probably mostly focused on finding some way to salvage advertising and has no time to spare on thinking about anything else because the advertising situation is just abysmally dire…

I mean I think fully a quarter of the community notes I see directly on things in my timeline (not people sharing screenshots of particularly funny/interesting community notes) are people putting community notes on overpriced drop shipping scammers.

The advertising situation seems completely doomed and when the CEO was picked to remedy that and the owner is in a nebulous executive role as “product owner” and simultaneously a hyper emotionally invested product user (based on credible reports and the publicly verifiable behaviour)… what can she really do besides do a good enough job for long enough that it won’t seem weird when she quits/takes another position.

I meant I don’t see how the issues nitter faces at the moment are connected to this specific situation. The problems with jitter have been as a result of continued efforts to block scraping and bots after the removal of any non paid API access… which based on the AI/LLM generated instant reply guy bots that follow popular accounts and automatically post comments so predictable I’ve personally witnessed some of the OpenAI error code text just put verbatim into the tweet body.

They have basically managed to raise the floor for scraping and automated twitter use without paying a stupidly overpriced API access fee to require you run a full browser via selenium or some other similar set of tooling. Nitter isn’t going this far so it’s struggling to maintain reliable access. Guest accounts expiring is a real cliff in terms of how Nitter uses the various Twitter APIs and they stopped making new guest account tokens a little while ago and the tokens people have generated so far are all beginning to expire… which is just one prominent thing among the many things causing Nitter instances to have problems.

I think you expect too much. The end result is that she assets rights she already had yesterday, rights she had years ago before DALL-E or Stable Diffusion even existed… there’s nothing new here… just existing power structures that give the rich and famous some measure of control over their likeness due to it being part of their personal brands and thus their l business interests… while the non rich and famous have no right to privacy in public and short the limited protections that have been implemented in some circumstances against revenge porn, no right to protect their likeness being misused… from people taking pictures in public, to AI generated images… they do not have protections against this kind of thing as no act has been perpetuated against them unless it crosses a tiny minority of laws against things like commercial imagery rights which is why models have to sign a release… but that won’t protect from generated imagery given away for free.

I don’t see the connection.

She is rich, and famous, and can both afford to fight legally, and sway public opinion to her side ( which is is the ethically sound side, it’s hard to argue it’s totally fine for anyone to make fake porn and share it of you without permission… doubly so given we allow people to exercise likeness rights )

So she has the social and economic power to stand up for her rights, and enforce her existing likeness rights in the face of some widespread AI imagery that is violating those rights…

I’m not expecting precedent, just another sad example of how the rich and powerful have rights the rest of us don’t, because you have to assert those rights which requires lawyers which requires money and so… the status quo continues as it exists today… “nothing to see here, move along”… sadly.

You may not be an Apple shareholder and I’m not sure how being a US Citizen has any potential to be a conflict of interest in this case but you still sound like you “drank the cool aid”… the question I have for you is where (if anywhere at all) do you draw the line between what Apple should be allowed to do and and what it should do voluntarily … and what rights you think individual nations have to regulate their internal commerce including regulations on what manufacturers and sellers of devices must make it possible for the purchasing public to do…

while this regulation is targeting Apple’s software control the same principles are underlying the regulations that allow bilingual countries to require products be labeled in both languages, allow countries to mandate hygiene in health care facilities, higher food safety or ingredient quality control to minimise food contamination risks…

Does Unilever have the right to decide what’s good enough for consumers in a country? Or does the country and its citizens have the right to demand Unilever products meet their standards if Unilever wants to sell in that country?