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Here's the discussion we had about bootstrap 10 years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11287413

(The underlying webpage is no longer around. But the HN discussion is.)

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My wife is the primary user and frequently uses it when she works. She also travels with it and doesn’t mind occasional weird looks.

I use it occasionally, either to watch movies or the content that Apple releases specifically for it.

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I haven't had the chance to touch one yet. But the reviews seem to suggest the hardware doesn't "feel" cheap in the way a lot of low priced computers can.

I can't vouch on whether it's true, but that's the brand question here in my opinion. If the hinge was crappy and it felt like it was going to break any second and the keyboard was a return to the butterfly and it was slow and so on, because they wanted to make it cheap, then yeah I think that'd hurt their brand overall.

If you were to compare it to a painting or to the Grand Canyon or to the Northern Lights or like an act of kindness or a parent's love for their child or something, then I guess fine, not beautiful.

But for an open source project it's very nice!

(Note: none of the marketing materials for the website chose that word, at first glance. It seems to just be a descriptor given by the HN poster.)

> In addition to the welcome message for incoming students, she has used her A.I. avatar to communicate with parents and alumni in languages she does not speak. She said she was working on creating a kind of hologram of herself that could do the same.

This reminded me of back when it was popular on websites to use transparent video to have owners of companies virtually "walk" onto the webpage and talk directly to the user. Stuff like https://newimagemedia.com/videopackages/walk-on-spokesperson... There's a similar awkward period right now as people try to figure out AI.

The FT columnist/reporter, primarily, is lifting up this paper <https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6787638> as his newsworthy hook. But his conclusion is that "the evidence consistently shows hybrid arrangements get the best results." So I don't get the sense that he has a bias towards any specific outcome, given this kind of middle position.

And given he's the chief data reporter, it doesn't surprise me that he's looking at the academic work here.

If I were more -- or even at all -- versed in the geopolitics of the Andaman Islands, I may have found it more off-putting than I did. That's a fair enough point. If you're offended by this, that's understandable and I don't blame you.

What I was speaking about was more the claim that the author had veered into fanaticism. That doesn't seem true. He's working at Home Depot not becoming a hunter-gatherer let alone murdering anybody.

I took it as rhetorical, not a literal call for violence.

That said, I appreciate you noting their name as it gave me something to google/learn.

The Senate unanimously changed their rules last month to explicitly block senators and staff from engaging in prediction markets. https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/senators-agr...

The House has not (yet, at least) adopted any such rule.

> I redid/improved...

We are extending the fence in our backyard.

However, getting rid of the parking means the project will likely detract from the value of the home. But since we don't have a car, let alone two, it makes sense for us to do the project anyway. Despite the warning of our realtor when we purchased the home.

I've noticed a lot of folks are afraid to personalize their homes because of concern about the value when they eventually sell.

Most folks rent before they buy, and so they are aware of the hazards of renting.

"Larry will receive" answers your question.

But elsewhere on their website, on the Submit a Case FAQ, they do say very clearly: "Will this cost me anything? No. FIRE is a charitable, non-profit organization and does not charge for any of its services."

https://www.fire.org/research-learn/submit-case-faq

I’ll cut against the grain here and say it’s ABSOLUTELY appropriate for taxpayers to pay the bill here.

It’s pretty toxic that people don’t want to take responsibility for their own government in a democracy. In this case, it’s especially bad, given the sheriff is elected by the people directly. But I’d go even further and say even where control is less direct, we need incentives for voters to take this stuff seriously.

I think courts would likely see it as trash talk. In this trial, the judge wouldn't let the jury see it, given settlement discussions are not allowed into evidence.

Musk texted OpenAI's Brockman about a settlement two days before trial.

So I take that to mean Musk wanted a settlement as primary goal, and that the threat to OpenAI's reputation was just an (unsuccessful) means to get what he wanted. That isn't to say it wasn't personal for Musk, just that he would have preferred to have gotten paid.

As to Musk texting "By the end of this week, you and Sam will be the most hated men in America. If you insist, so it will be" when the settlement offer was turned down, while I'd agree there were a ton of super embarrassing details that came out I don't think Musk was successful in making them more hated than even he is. I don't even think this secondary goal was successful, even though there were a ton of juicy bits.

This reply implies it was his own usage (in fast mode):

https://x.com/steipete/status/2055428360789016964

Just a few years before Claude, in 2019, there was that huge facetime audio bug.

It could also be the problem was that they tried to code it themselves instead of letting a computer do it.

Like doing long division by hand instead of trusting a calculator.

Then we're in (2) and I'm hip and ahead of the curve!

Maybe I phrased it poorly, but I just mean the context for it changed as it became mainstream. I wouldn't say it's still "incel-speak."

That I, an old person, know what it means suggests that it has already gone from (1) the incel or whatever community usage, to (2) ironic usage by others, and then finally to (3) widespread usage entirely divorced from the original meaning.

Do you just mean the Monet at the top? I know little about art, but I assume impressionism.

That, plus an Anthropic-like logo.

I would have previously said I don't blame Apple for not prioritizing that rare use case.

But with so many people vibe-coding apps, I do think it'd be good if Apple simplified the experience for non-developers. I made a stupid little rhythm game ("Headbang") this weekend that is controlled by AirPods head movement and I'd love to share it with two people and two people only. They would run it once and then never again.

Was meta a public company back then? Amazon, I think, was quite small, too.

You're asking why, if its software is better than its hardware, people aren't driving cars with them on? Not sure I follow...

> Apple software is terrible

The Vision Pro software team did an incredible job. Its software is more impressive than its hardware.

This doesn't require the battery to be replaceable. It requires either the battery to still be good after 1000 charges or for it to be replaceable, either one.

Although some of this depends on how you define replaceable.

> As a group, they are 1) clearly feeling angry/threatened 2) in denial about LLM capabilities.

Or they (3) disagree with you