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We are trying to design our kitchen for a renovation and I can see how these 3 constraints would be useful for us to do for something more about design than software.

I’m gonna go do these…

This has already helped me find extremely useful writings on a niche topic of mine. Thank you!

@sandGorgon8, thank you.

I was just telling some ex coworker friends that there was a great need for a compose frontend to more powerful infra backends, and this feels like the answer.

Once I get working on it I’ll try to add health check support. That is crucial for a lot of what we’re working on.

> And they didn't even bother to test the most important thing. Were the LLM evaluations even accurate!

This is not true; the professor and the TAs graded every student submission. See this paragraph from the article:

(Just in case you are wondering, I graded all exams myself and I asked the TA to also grade the exams; we mostly agreed with the LLM grades, and I aligned mostly with the softie Gemini. However, when examining the cases when my grades disagreed with the council, I found that the council was more consistent across students and I often thought that the council graded more strictly but more fairly.)

This is top 10 for greatest HN deep dives. I learned something new almost every sentence, and could not complete it on my first attempt.

There are a couple big problems with this type of digital and decentralized type of authentication (I say this as a long time cryptocurrency professional who wants this to succeed):

1. backups and account recovery: We’re working with humans here. They will lose their keys in great numbers, sometimes into the hands of malicious actors. How do users then recover their credentials in a quick and reliable manner?

2. Fragmentation: let’s be optimistic and say digital credentials for drivers licenses are given out by _only_ 50 entities (one per State). Assuming we don’t have a single federal format for them (read: politically infeasible national id) how does facebook, let alone some rando startup, handle parsing and authenticating all these different credential formats? Oh and they can change at any time, due to some rando political issue in the given state.

OP, you clearly know all this, so I’m just reminding you as someone down in the identity trenches.

You seem like a knowledgeable crypto user. Can you help integrate lightning payments with x402? Then we'll be rid of this Base/corporate-tech nonsense.

Heads up, your docs for “Getting Started > Multi-app integration > open source” point to a broken link for the open source code:

https://docs.klavis.ai/documentation/quickstart#open-source

Add a call to the mintlify cli ‘mint broken-links’ into your CI and you should be set!

I’ve been looking for something like this. The problem is, when to find the time to do it.

This isn’t enough information about the study to tease out cause and effect. There may be a third confounding variable that positively impacts both entrepreneurship growth and Starbucks growth.

For instance, what if Starbucks only decides to move into neighborhoods that have reached a certain level of economic growth (ie number of households, number of business, etc…)? Neighborhood economic growth would likely attract entrepreneurs as well, and we wouldn’t be able to conclude that Starbucks had anything to do with entrepreneurship growth.

Said a different way, would adding Starbucks in the middle of the Atacama desert grow Peruvian entrepreneurs? I mean come on it’d be the only third space around!

I can’t read the full paper because I don’t have a subscription, but the fact that they don’t call this out in the abstract makes me doubt it’s a meaningful conclusion.

The author mentions putting 20% down and getting a mortgage. Even with insurance, for a 10 year mortgage 29k is 430 per month. Or you live with your parents and save on $1500 rent for 2 years, bam you can buy it with cash.

As someone who grew up in the state of Vermont, where billboards have been outlawed since the 60’s, this feels do-able. It is also such a high leverage change that I’m going to keep thinking about this.

I am working on Navi, an open source digital twin that helps you review the digital notes you've taken in the past week:

https://github.com/Melvillian/navi

Checkout out the README; it gives you a straightforward idea of how Navi works. Currently only works for Notion, but the idea is to make any notetaking tool (Obsidian, Evernote, Google docs, etc...) be ingestable by Navi.

Next steps are to make an SRS plugin, and to make a HTMX-based website so it's useable beyond just the CLI.

What a great idea, I will soon be a paying customer. This solves a problem of an app I'm using that I was hesitant to try to develop myself.

I’m from Burlington and a couple weeks ago downtown I noticed a group of 2 or 3 people walking past me in full black clothing with ski masks (the kind you rob banks with).

I thought it was strange, having never seen that before except on Halloween, but didn’t think to alert any authorities specifically because Burlington is filled with people dressing differently and doing strange things. But 99% of the time it’s totally non violent and benign.

I’m guessing this was them. Scary!

That was helpful and seemed balanced, but I am not knowledgeable enough to know what it left out. thank you nonetheless.

I use Brave which is based off of Chromium just like Chrome, and the experience is great. I’d say I’ve had to go to chrome maybe 3 times in the last year, and it was always for some super complicated SPA.

Whatever decrease we see to our browsing experience will be worth the gains I expect to see from dealing a blow to a monopoly like Google.

I am working on a personal digital mentor, in the spirit of Dross from Will Wight's "Cradle" series.

I am a huge notetaker, so I'm trying to do RAG on my notes every week and have the mentor run a scrum-like retrospective for me. So far I've got the data ingestion from Notion finished, and next I need to setup the LLM mentor component as well as the CLI interface. For this first MVP I'm just trying to do better than Notion AI's response when I tell it something like "look at the last 7 days of notes I've taken and run a retro with me.

I like it because it scratches a personal-improvement itch of mine, it's a nice project to become acquainted with the popular LLM app tech, and I can share it with others who may find it useful.

It has definitely found a niche in the crypto space, specifically with the node clients and the underlying new cryptography libraries they use. For instance, the more efficient Ethereum devs can make their node clients, the cheaper it is to run and the more people around the world can run it, which increases decentralization. Rust makes this possible without compromising on stability and maintainability.

I have a newborn daughter, so watching this made me cry a little bit, alone at my desk.

If yall needed evidence of these tools giving everyday people the ability to make emotion-tugging creations, I'll send you a picture of the tears!

Now I'm thinking I can finally make the (IMO) dope music videos that come to me sometimes when I'm listening to a song I really love.

We are going to see a massive creativity expansion with the many, many people who will have access to amateur level coding. Think of it like the expansion of visual images once the first personal camera was widely adopted. There are still professional photographers, but they are now dwarfed by the number of amateurs (everyone with a modern phone).

Except this analogy breaks down because photography is but a sliver of what is possible with ubiquitous programmability. It's going to be more, different, and somewhat unexpected.

Get ready!

This finding bewilders me, because my copilot (I use Sourcegraph’s Cody) has become an essential part of my dev productivity toolset. Being able to get answers to questions that would normally break me out of flow mode by simply Option + C’ing to open up a New Chat has been a productivity boost for me. Getting it to give me little snippets of code that I can use helps keep me in flow mode. Getting it to do a first pass on function comments, which I then edit, has made it much easier to get over the activation energy barrier that usually holds me back from doing full commenting.

I can’t say if the bug count is higher or not. Maybe it is higher in terms of total number of bugs I write throughout my coding session. But if bug count goes up 10% then the speed with which I fix those bugs and get to a final edit of my code is 30% or 40% faster, so the bug count is not the right metric.

Maybe the differentiator is that I am a solo-dev for all this work, and so the negative effects of the copilot are only experienced by me. If I were in a 10 person team, the bugs and the weird out of context code snippets would be magnified by the 9 other people, and the negative effects would be strong. But I don’t know.

I welcome this wholeheartedly. I recently sold my first home and was frankly disgusted by how large the fee is for what my realtor did. I eventually went For Sale By Owner and will never go back to using a realtor. Zillow/redfin already replace the search and comparables part of the process. What realtors currently provide is the “white glove service” which helps first time buyer/sellers feel good about one of the biggest transactions of their life. Other than that I’d say realtors are mostly rent seekers, and their time has come.

What I predict will make or break the AI realtor experience is how well the AI can emulate (maybe and even improve?) the feeling of security and assurance that one gets from using a realtor.

I’d love some responses with stories on where realtors provided some actual unique service. Because all I’ve seen are realtors as a dying parasite of a bloated system.

I made a small CLI pomodoro tool that both locks the screen and emits a chime sound when the time limit has been reached.

https://github.com/Melvillian/pom-cli

> Does the state try to incentivize the young to have children by offering state care for the new children?

From what I have read/listened-to, efforts by governments to incentive increased birthrates have little effect. This comes from data across different countries like Denmark/Norway & the USA.

Bronze Age collapse seems a little bit much ;D.

My bet is that the culture changes to adapt to the higher proportion of non-working age people. So more younger and older generations will move back in with each other in order to save on the biggest household expense (the house itself) and more welfare is directed towards caring for old people in tandem with the market responding by supplying more private care.

Europeans made it through ~1/3 of the population dying from The Plague, we'll make it through this _much_ less catastrophic demographic change.

I switched from GitHub Copilot to Sourcegraph and have not wanted to switch back yet.

The output is more or less of similar quality as far as I can tell. However, what makes me like Sourcegraph's Cody more is the more advanced interface it gives me in VSCode. It allows me to do all the things I want (get quick answers to code-related questions, refactor code, write tests, and explain code that's confusing) all one hot key away.

But to the authors point, if we allow everyone to subvert status enough and create their own subgroups, then eventually each person will either be at the top of their chosen status hierarchy, or they will be above average in enough subgroups that they’ll be content.

It reminds me of the mathematician’s saying:

“When in doubt invert, always invert”

The youtube video of his VP experience is really oh-shit moment, I agree.

The question I'm still left with is whether these "experiences" have lasting effects on enjoyment and balance with the technology. I'm not looking forward to another dopamine death spiral.

Also, no matter who makes it, I think I will be forever fearful of powerful AR tech. After reading Electric State[1], you realize dystopia is only like 3 (big) steps away.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electric_State_(graphic_no...

The only part about the father in the entire article was a touching vignette about how Saunder’s dad would go above and beyond to answer his son’s questions.

Did something in the article or Saunders’ life point to him being neoliberal or into eugenics?

Your comment is strange; I assume you would not like it if people applied the sins of your father to you. If anything, the fact that Saunders turned out the way he did despite his father should be a cause for celebration.

Your comment made me sad that you thought a clearly positive-sum person’s life story could be summed up so pithely.

I think they're bringing it up because cats are indeed the #1 killer of birds, and so for people who care about maintaining bird populations (presumably people who read this article) it would be better to focus on solutions that decrease the damage cats to do birds, rather than the damage wind turbines + oil-and-gas plants do to birds.

Of course, if you care about birds you're going to try to solve it across multiple fronts. But cat damage should be the first thing bird-lovers try to mitigate.