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borg16··on Modos Color Monitor Pushes E-Paper Displays Further
saw the video - that was so much better than this ieee link.

learnt a lot in the process too - kudos to him

borg16··on Waymo Premier
why would you say so?
borg16··on Waymo Premier
One of two ways - subscriptions or ads. Waymo chose the former.
borg16··on The quiet renovation at Bitwarden
can you recommend what host do you use? noob here, and looking for something like this.
borg16··on Auto-compact not triggering on Claude.ai despite being marked as fixed
vibe around and find out

folks have created software by "vibe coding". It is now time to "face the music" when doing so for production grade software at scale.

borg16··on The New Kindle Scribes Are Great, but Not Great Enough
at this point it may be considered as form factor that has been deprecated, despite the advantages it brings
borg16··on Tell HN: Azure outage
i guess folks in azure wanted to show some solidarity with aws brethren

(couldn't resist adding it. i acknowledge this comment adds no value to the discussion)

borg16··on Google has eliminated 35% of managers overseeing small teams in past year
I never really understood the concept of small teams. Managing a small team really does not provide the scale and benefit that a medium to large team does. Lost bandwidth of manager of said small team or extra salary of the same manager seem like something the company could use in other places.

But often such teams in faang come up as a by product of someone’s empire building and that is unfortunate for others involved in it.

borg16··on Show HN: Base, an SQLite database editor for macOS
can someone tell me what are some common use cases of such a tool? may be i'm not the intended customer base, but am curious to know what others are using it for.
borg16··on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers
i think your use of the phrase "terrifying forum" is aptly justified here. that has got to be the most unsettling subreddit i have every come across on reddit, and i have been using reddit for more than a decade at this point.
borg16··on Google shifts goo.gl policy: Inactive links deactivated, active links preserved
i read in an earlier thread for this on HN - "this is a classic example of data driven product decision" aka we can reduce costs by $x if we just stopped goo.gl links. Instead of actually wondering how this would impact the customers.

Also helps that they are in a culture which does not mind killing services on a whim.

borg16··on Unlike ChatGPT, Anthropic has doubled down on Artifacts
yeah their efforts seem to show no care for their consumer level subscribers. all they do seems to be tiered to enterprise customers.
borg16··on Can we test it? Yes, was can [video]
shout out to "A tribe called Quest" for the title (my guess)
borg16··on Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival
it's a third of the price to begin with. I think readwise has a winner in reader app, but they sure do charge a premium for the same. You can get the same functionality in linkwarden or pinboard for a fraction of readwise's subscription pricing.
borg16··on How University Students Use Claude
here is an idea, curious what others think of this:

split the entire coursework into two parts:

part 1 - students are prohibited from using AI. Have the exams be on physical papers than digital ones requiring use of laptop/computer. I know this adds burden on corrections and evaluations of these answers, but I think this provides a raw answer to someone's understanding of concepts being taught in the class.

part2 - students are allowed, and even encouraged to use LLMs. And they are evaluated based on the overall quality of the answer, keeping in mind that a non zero portion of this was generated using an LLM. Here the credit should be given to the factual correctness of the answer (and if the student is capable of verifying the LLM output).

Have the final grade be some form of weighted average of a student's scores in these 2 parts.

note: This is a raw thought that just occurred to me while reading this thread, and I have not had the chance to ruminate on it.

borg16··on 400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure
is it because there are features that AWS provides to you that are not available in GCP, or just the fact that setting up exact replicas of processes is hard for migrations like these?
borg16··on Anthropic's next major AI model could arrive within weeks
not if your investors see release of at least one new model every 'x' months as a necessity. but anthropic has definitely warded off that fate so far.
borg16··on Perplexity got ads
i think it comes down to:

1. the majority user base does not care and/or is not willing to pay for the ads 2. these platforms/products do not want to cater to the minority that cares about their privacy and not being exposed to any advertising

borg16··on Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader
thanks. I pay for miniflux through pikapods that I can now get rid of, thanks to your free and alternative offering.
borg16··on Trump wins presidency for second time
one thing i definitely worry is about using public lands for oil, mineral extraction purposes.

while America has a bounty of public land acreage wise, 4 years and a complete control of the government is a lot of time to do some lasting damage to the ecosystem by opening up these areas for privatization.

borg16··on World’s oldest tree? Genetic analysis traces evolution of iconic Pando forest
i was once on a solo road trip. I took a turn by chance and ended up near this lake and saw the Pando being talked about here. Talk about coincidence!
borg16··on Waymo closes $5.6B investment round
if i am interested in reading more about this, can you point me to some resources?
borg16··on Coffee Stats – Maximize Caffeine Intake and Get to Bed at Night
this is wonderful.

can i ask how you went about arriving at this workflow?

borg16··on Aerc: A well-crafted TUI for email
what have you moved on to?
borg16··on Grok-2 Beta Release
the results with grok-1 were unimpressive summaries based on the tweets, with a 10%-20% hallucinations (when enquiring about paris olympics specific events).

yet to see if this new model is able to do any better on that regard

borg16··on Show HN: Horizon – Private alternative to Imgur
what has been your experience with this alternative you have settled on?
borg16··on Microsoft makes Copilot less useful on new Copilot Plus PCs
this is what happens when the leadership wants you to ship something "good enough" out the door in a fear to not fall behind in whatever race they have conjured up in their minds.

this product on some levels, when looked at in isolation, feels as useless as did Rabbit's R1. However, Microsoft is a ginormous corporation, and hence can keep on throwing releases like these at the wall hoping something stick. The leaders will never learn, and I am sure, despite all the good points raised in this article, this release will be or is already being celebrated as a success within the internal circles.

borg16··on Ask HN: I have many PDFs – what is the best local way to leverage AI for search?
the op wanted a local method, and this does not seem to be local
borg16··on 2023 was the hottest summer in two thousand years
I was unable to access the url you shared either. Here's a cached copy of it I was able to find[1]

[1]https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https%...

borg16··on 2023 was the hottest summer in two thousand years
interesting you bring developed countries and not developing countries into the picture here first. Is it because such large scale disasters like the cyclones you mention tend to hit US more than any developing nations?

I ask because I hypothesize that the impact of these raising temperatures will be seen more widely and adversely in parts of developing countries given their population density and inability to address the same.

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