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Your comment reminds me so vividly of the time when I had time and I could invest tens of hours deep in that sort of nonsense.

No thank you.

There you go, GPL, now we're talking.

I understand that people gotta make money, but giving access to something as insanely critical as a company private repo... it's either a huge company the lawyers can talk to, or this.

Open source.

Definitely checking out codemancer.

Thanks! Very detailed answer.

I've found the weird "make it easy" mindset a bit annoying with Metabase too. The whole questions, nice table names...

I'll give Superset a try in my next project I think.

Has anyone tried both this and Metabase? I've used Metabase in a few projects and I find it very nice. This seems more powerful, perhaps?

Is it worth it for BI on small datasets?

I'm curious, this is a cross-platform UI library. Does anybody know of any alternatives out here that are (if necessary) MacOS-specific but also easy to use and more "native looking"? Maybe a bit drag-and-droppy?

Sometimes I want to build quick and dirty things and a whole proper Mac app on Swift is too much out of my confort zone.

Maybe GTK/glade?

Not gonna lie, a Corten steel Cybertruck would be very cool.

Love postgres and use it extensively. However, there's always an issue when I start doing the more advanced stuff: how do I combine that with all my years of experience with version control, code reviews, types, tests, static analysis and all the niceties of coding in general?

Migrations?

It's called externalities.

Google it.

This is not obvious at all and in fact directly contradicts my anecdotal evidence in many "bubbles".

It's likely to be the case for the "bubble" of the Zed authors.

What truly set them apart wasn't inventory. Any large physical retailer could match back them.

It was inventory plus ease of use. Which is customer obsession.

One click purchase. Next day delivery. Flat fee shipping (prime). No questions asked drop-off returns. True, useful reviews. Good algorithmic sorting. Best in class logistics.

It was really much better than anything else online.

Now reviews are shit, searching products is a nightmare of sorting through clones and knockoffs, marketplace returns are hit or miss... and that's why it's worse.

A bit hyperbolic, aren't we?

Count me in for the destruction of the do-be-evil giant, but we're far from it not being absolutely dominant in the space.

I didn't even know what Kagi was.

> And the best part is that I can trust this information to be neutral and factually correct.

Excuse me, what?

Wikipedia is great. But assuming it's neutral and factually correct is delusional.

Like with every single organization made up of human beings, power dynamics and censorship are part of Wikipedia.

It's still the less bad one, but no one should trust it that blindly.

I guess this kind of fully removes the "they're making money out of it" argument from the discussion on the moral(?) implications of reverse engineering the iMessage proto.

Now it's just a matter of: is Apple justified in actively sabotaging interoperability in general?

Good, was out of popcorn already.

Somebody make a Netflix documentary please.

I don't get it.

Surely if you want to watch movies, you go to the cinema, with an actual projector, with a full frame film - not something which has been compressed down to the extent that it relies on digital trickery to make an acceptable looking image.

^ that

Care to elaborate? Is it well established that brains do not work at any level probabilistically?

I understand the mid-level abstraction is clearly different between LLMs and brains. The whole made of meat vs wires, etc, to start with.

But, honestly asking. I can't see how they can differ in a fundamental level in the specific regard of probability. Either both are probabilistic, be it explicitly in its construction or at a fundamental (quantum?) level, or deterministic again at either level, if we go with the mecanicist vibe.

Am I missing something?

What makes me uneasy is that it's the business or individual's whole revenue. Not the revenue generated by the app created with Delphi. That's 100% clear form the FAQ.

So if I'm a freelancer, say, doing DB management, and I make 5k in a year, then I cannot get the Community Edition.

The whole thing is weird and reaches way to deep into what I do apart from writing Delphi for my taste. I think I'd just rather prefer it being a commercial product with a reasonable freelance/small-business plan of, like, $200/yr up to $100k revenue or whatever.

The current jump of free to essentially students to $1.5k + $500/yr is too steep to risk it with anything resembling a side project.

It's always the same. Off with the old. Let's use the new. Or new-ish.

I thought we, as in the community, learned a while ago that was a bad path to go down.

That's why there's a resurgence of old-school (yeah, I know...) frameworks like Rails. Or why things like Laravel and the PHP world keep thriving.

Well, React is old now. We know. It's the Rails of the JS world. And it's plenty good enough.

If you know JS/TS and are comfy in that, just use React. Don't feel bad for not using whatever shiny new thing is trendy now. Who cares.

No one ever got fired for choosing react, as some other commenter said.

The demo was exactly what I expected.

That being said, quite nice and responsive. Not sure yet what the general purpose desktop metaphor solves in-browser, but nice nonetheless.

Same situation, I unzipped it with the built-in `unzip`, but the italics are corrupted.

I think the ZIP file is just broken.

My opinion, here's the deal: no, you don't need to abstract any set of classes. That defeats the purpose. But there's a catch: you must be working in a modern component-based framework to work like this effectively.

Because that's the context where Tailwind grew.

If you have your set of e.g. React components defined you don't really ever "repeat the same styles for links, buttons again and again". You just use your components. <Button/>. <Link/>. <Card/>. <Container/>. Whatever you need. And then your only "raw" tailwind in your "templates" is the scaffolding around it.

And it's great. No write-only CSS syndrome, no coupling between components, at-glance understandability of what's going on.

But you gotta be using components, otherwise it's just overwhelming.

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- Some Alpine.js lately

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Keep in mind that GPT-4 has a max context size of ~8000 tokens, if I recall correctly. That means that in any given ChatGPT session the bot only remembers roughly the last ~6k words, as a trailing window. It'll forget the stuff at the beginning fast.

What's with the "Apple users hate their money anyway lololol hurr durr" comments? Is this really the level of discussion we want here?

Sorry for the meta comment but it gets annoying.

Apple doesn't apply the 30% cut to physical goods like food, btw.

I agree there's a difference in the ease of access, a competitive advantage, sure. And I get that people writing public-source (however licensed) software don't want to make it easier for them (as in, Microsoft) to make money off of "learning" (of the machine type) from it. That's fair.

However, at a first glance, it still feels to me like an unavoidable reality that if you publish source code it'll eventually be ingested by Copilot or whatever comes next.

I mean, for the rest of the content all the new fancy LLMs have been trained with, there wasn't a Github equivalent. They just used massive scraped dumps of text from wherever they could find them, which most definitely included trillions of lines of very much copyrighted text.

In short: not only I don't really see an issue with Copilot-like AIs learning from publicly available code (as I described in the GP comment) but I also think if you publish code anywhere at all it's inevitable that it'll end up in Copilot, regardless of where you host it. If you want to make it more expensive for Microsoft to scrape it, sure, go ahead, but I don't think it matters in the long run.

To be fair, when a programmer learns from publicly available but not public-domain code, and then applies the ideas, patterns, idioms and common implementations in their daily job as a software developer, the result is very much a "commercial product" (the dev company, the programmer themselves if a freelancer) learning from someone else's work and ignoring all the licenses.

The only leap here is the fact that the programmer has outsourced the learning to a tool that does it for them, which they then use to do their job, just as before.

That was absolutely fantastic. I just left a pretty rough meeting and came to HN for some healthy procrastination.

Really made my day.

I'm looking for alternatives. What's out there for my two common use cases?

- Car navigation through Carplay that includes traffic data.

- Finding businesses i.e. restaurants, shops, services quickly.

I'm not loving GMaps lately buy tbh it does work as expected in those scenarios.

If you pay you can use GPT-4 within the ChatGPT UI.