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As LeoPanthera said, it is clearly implied.

Are self-hosted solutions impervious to outages? I wasn't aware.

> Good point. I can see why integrated support for local filesystem tools would be useful, even though I prefer manually uploading specific files to avoid polluting the context with irrelevant info.

Access to OS level resources != context pollution. You still have control, just more direct and less manual.

> The ones I've listed are open source and auditable.

Yeah I don't plan on spending who knows how much time auditing some major app's code (lol) before giving it my API keys and access to my chats. Unless there's a critical mass of people I know and trust using something like that it's not going to happen for me.

But also, I tried quickly looking up Msty to see if it is open source and what its adoption looked like and AFAICT it's not open source. Asked Gemini 3 if it was and it also said no. Frankly that makes it a very hard no for me. If you are using it because you think it's Open Source I suggest you stop.

I have a few reasons for the preference:

(1) The ability to add context via a local apps integration into OS level resources is big. With Claude, eg, I hit Option-SPC which brings up a prompt bar. From there, taking a screenshot that will get sent my prompt is as simple as dragging a bounding box. This is great. Beyond that, I can add my own MCP connectors and give my desktop app direct access to relevant context in a way that doesn't work via web UI. It may also be inconvenient to give context to a web UI in some case where, eg, I may have a folder of PDFs I want it to be able to reference.

(2) Its own icon that I can CMD-TAB to is so much nicer. Maybe that works with a PWA? Not really sure.

(3) Even if I can't use an LLM when offline, having access to my chats for context has been repeatedly valuable to me.

I haven't looked at provider-agnostic apps and, TBH, would be wary of them.

Gemini 3 is crushing my personal evals for research purposes.

I would cancel my ChatGPT sub immediately if Gemini had a desktop app and may still do so if it continues to impress my as much as it has so far and I will live without the desktop app.

It's really, really, really good so far. Wow.

Note that I haven't tried it for coding yet!

Yes.

A good way to think about American Cheese is to consider if instead of it being a mass produced, highly available product, it was made by Thomas Keller and served in a dish at The French Laundry. Then we would call it “molecular gastronomy” and it would be a nice littler touch to some dish.

American cheese is just cheese with an emulsifier, sodium citrate, added that makes it so that it doesn’t break when melted.

At most it adds a slight amount of acidity and makes for a very attractive melting property. There’s not really anything disgusting about it for most people because most people find its melting properties to be a positive.

Hating American cheese is an affect people adopt for the same reason people adopt an affect of hating mayo: certain cultural elements tell them to.

MSFT had a right to compute exclusivity.

"Microsoft will no longer have a right of first refusal to be OpenAI’s compute provider."

Seems like a loss to me!

> Hard to say what a "longer period of time" means, but I presume it is substantial enough to make this a major concession from OpenAI.

Depends on how this is meant to be parsed but it may be parsed to be a concession from MSFT. If the total amount of revenue to be shared is the same, then MSFT is worse off here. If this is meant to parse as "a fixed proportion of revenue will be shared over X period and X period has increased to Y" then it is an OAI concession.

I don't know the details but I would be surprised if there was a revenue agreement that was time based.

Nevermind, looks like the nn-profit gave up voting control lol:

"All equity holders in OpenAI Group now own the same type of traditional stock that participates proportionally and grows in value with OpenAI Group’s success. The OpenAI Foundation board of directors were advised by independent financial advisors, and the terms of the recapitalization were unanimously approved by the board."

Truly, truly the greatest theft from mankind in history and they dress it up as if the non-profit is doing anything other than giving away the most valuable startup in history for a paltry sum.

Credit where credit is due, Sam Altman is the greatest dealmaker of all time.

Will be interesting if we get to hear what his new equity stake is!

Can anyone point me to whether or not the OAI non-profit holds voting control or not after the recapitalization?

I've read this but it's extremely vague: https://openai.com/index/built-to-benefit-everyone/

As is this: https://openai.com/our-structure/

Especially so if the Non-profit foundation doesn't retain voting control, this remains the greatest theft of all time. I still can't quite understand how it should at all be possible.

Looking at the changes for MSFT, I also mostly don't understand why they did it!

The Magit experience is due to the use of the transient package for its UI.

Some other packages also use it. Most notably for my personal usage is the gptel package.

Yeah backups would’ve been totally useless in this case. All South Korea could’ve done is restore their data from the backups and avoid data loss.

Maybe but honestly your logic doesn’t really make any sense to me anyway. If my time is worth $10k/hr, why am I driving myself? That alone is a huge waste of money.

My only knowledge of significant parking ticket acquisition from upper classes comes from lawyers outside courthouses. I tried looking for reporting on this but it may have just been a hyper local thing to where I grew up.

They are definitely people who live in their cars and don’t pay the tickets.

EDIT: did a search to see if anyone had analyzed this and here’s reporting that shows basically this. None of the top cars are remotely luxury, eg.

https://sfstandard.com/2024/04/15/parking-tickets-san-franci...

Oh man this is so fun but I slightly hate it. It probably won’t help people avoid parking enforcement much but it could somewhat which sucks because I think parking enforcement is a very good thing.

More, I worry about the chance a deranged person uses it to track a specific SFMTA agent who gave them a ticket.

“ Every time HackerNews talks about anything in the legal or finance realm, people trip over themselves to make arguments for why something a big tech is doing is illegal.”

Except that this is isn't round-tripping at all. Round-tripping doesn't result in a company actually incurring expenses to create more product. Round-tripping is the term for schemes that enable you to double count assets/revenue without any economic effects taking place.

Every time HackerNews talks about anything in the legal or finance realm, people trip over themselves to make arguments for why something a big tech is doing is illegal. This is definitively neither illegal nor shady. If Nvidia believes, for example, that OpenAI can use their GPUs to turn a profit, then this is inherently positive sum economically for both sides: OpenAI gets capital in the form of GPUs, uses them to generate tokens which they sell above the cost of that capital and then the return some of the excess value to Nvidia. This is done via equity. It's a way for Nvidia to get access to some of the excess value of their product.

I don’t write Go at all but given the first example, also expected this.

I was very surprised that either example compiled, though.

> The problem here is that you're talking about the comments on the submission, whereas I was not. I'm talking about the upvotes on the submission.

I think the idea that one behavior being used as evidence for another behavior is problematic is ridiculous.

You asked why it was upvoted and I gave you the reason. That the referenced post has quality content and some quality discussion is not a rejection of that. I referenced that post not because it is analogous to this post but that the discussion on it is revelatory (which is clear by what I said).

Hacker News truly has a large number of topics for which the reactions and responses are reflexively negative and large in magnitude (there are similar positive reactions as well!). This isn't "reductive" analysis and you didn't understand what I said if your point is "your analysis is reductive because liquid glass has some serious usability regressions". You can even look in my own post history to see that I agree with that just fine.

Still, look through the discussion! Much of it is clearly reflexive negativity and based on zero user experience.

People love to hate on certain companies for certain things: Apple and all things design is one of those company-thing pairs.

Just take a look at the MacOS Tahoe topic (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45252378). A HUGE portion of the comments are clearly from people who both (A) don't use MacOS and/or (B) haven't used Tahoe and they are all intensely negative.

Taking Hacker News as an inverse signal on these things makes sense. For example, HN's iPhone Air hate is making me extremely bullish on its sales prospects.

Alternatively, you can add my voice to the chorus of people with older phones who at first had a choppy experience and then it became perfectly smooth. Likely due to background indexing/updates. iPhone 14 Pro.

My Mac actually seems to run faster but I may just be imagining that (M3 Max MBP)

I think the Cliff's mat is quite attractive actually.

However, my favorite by far, is the Greenville Lodge! Such a pretty looking graphic but if you look closely at the address/location information you see "Opposite Du Pont Plant"! That's fantastically mid-century to me. It's like a subtle joke you would've seen on Mad Men.

My first impression from that mat was that it was AI generated hah

I've been trying this now too based on your comment. I think I like it too but I also think it only works for me because I know where everything is on my phone. If I ever reorganized or expand my regular app usage to new things, I think it will be much harder as differentiating the apps is much harder.

Spotlight upgrades are really great in Tahoe.

Take a look at being able to search an app from Spotlight: CMD + SPC => "Mail" => TAB => then I'm searching all my emails

Being able to search an app from spotlight is so great.

CMD + SPC => "Mail" => TAB => then I'm searching all my emails is fantastic. Spotlight really is a huge improvement for me.

CMD + SPC for spotlight and then CMD + 1 gets you to the full set of apps.

My post is agreeing with you. It's sarcasm. Please try to parse it again.

I decided to install this and the updated iOS today to see how I felt about it.

My very initial impressions on MacOS:

(1) I like the look of Safari better and the Mail app compared to the prior designs. They both look really nice to me and the Mail app especially looks like a huge improvement in terms of design unification with some of the features like summaries and unsubscribe options that looked bolted on in the past now blending in seamlessly.

(2) I really, really don't like the new icons! Especially so on iOS.

(3) On iOS the app group/folders look terrible to me with the way they distort my wallpaper. Not a fan.

(4) A lot of people are complaining about transparent icons. It's not a valid complaint and is strong evidence whoever is saying that hasn't used the new OS as that is a choice you can make if you want. The default is not transparent.

(5) The increased radii in some places doesn't seem to have any meaningful impact to my information density. A simple comparison of Chrome (old styling) and Safari (with the liquid glass design) shows that Safari has a few pixels fewer in height search + tab bar as a concrete example.

(6) Messages app in MacOS looks like shit. I hate almost everything about it.

(7) Spotlight search has marked improvements! UI is nicer and functionality has expanded greatly (eg clipboard search).