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kasdi··on GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler
It’s like incest.
kasdi··on GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler
Think about an AI as a personal assistant - for the whole world. Would you want the assistant to know about your business?

In most cases I do think so. It could mention you in a conversation, the analog to you appearing in Google Search results. And maybe even better, provide the necessary context to generate more real customers for your business. You don’t want traffic to your website, you want customers to your business. If you currently convert 10% of your traffic to customers, you’d be happy with 10% of the traffic of which you convert all to customers, because they are already converted before they even clicked your link.

kasdi··on GPTBot – OpenAI’s Web Crawler
What if very rich people came to your small free-entry photo studio to look at your pictures, and - perhaps because they have very fast jets - also go to every other photo studio in the world to look at every other painter’s pictures? Knowing this, would you still let them in for free?

I believe no. Most people would make a distinction between “normal” and “rich”. They would give normal people free access, but the rich should pay for it.

It’s like a billionaire asking for a free hot dog. It’s like “come on, you can easily pay $100, which could even sponsor it for the next 100 people”.

Here it’s not the AI itself that’s exploiting you. It’s the rich people that make the AI that get even richer - partly thanks to your free work.

kasdi··on Tesla committed fraud by “grossly” exaggerating EV range, class action says
No, the exact title is ‘Angry Tesla customers sue firm over “grossly” exaggerated EV range’

There’s a difference between “sued” and “committed fraud”.

kasdi··on Tesla committed fraud by “grossly” exaggerating EV range, class action says
@dang Editorialized title that tries to manifest an allegation. The only thing missing now is all caps… “X KILLED Y by using Z!!!! (reports say)”
kasdi··on Tesla committed fraud by “grossly” exaggerating EV range, class action says
@dang Editorialized title.
kasdi··on Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
Assuming in git you would keep it as untracked file in the working copy, I find jj’s automatic anonymous working copy commit better.

For once, it avoids the downsides of carrying untracked files around. Ever accidentally committed an untracked file somewhere deep in history during a long rebase?

Also I find it clearer what files are committed: every file - except if it is in .gitignore. Meanwhile in git you scourge through your untracked files before each commit to decide which ones you don’t want to add. Ever accidentally committed all files and forgot that there were untracked files you didn’t want?

kasdi··on Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
A safer way to keep temporary changes is to create a new local-only branch with a commit of those temporary changes. Then, whenever you need them, you rebase the branch on top of your working branch.

Usually these temporary changes are to config files, so rebasing shouldn’t create conflicts if you don’t otherwise modify the config file.

An alternative is to stash only those temporary changes but I find branches to be easier to work with.

kasdi··on Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
It seems CRDTs in the limit approach a commit for every keypress. Meanwhile a commit in git is an atomic set of keypresses, to transition from one working state to another. So, in a CRDT world with a commit for every keystroke we would need to annotate sets of commits. Like “all of these commits change the title ‘hello’ to ‘world’”. Would be interesting.
kasdi··on Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
> - when new artefact files are added and you have not yet added them to .gitignore, they'll be automatically committed

From only reading the README, my understanding is that you would just add the files to .gitignore and at the next auto commit they are removed again from the anonymous working copy commit. I agree it feels unintuitive that files are added and removed from the anonymous working copy commit, instead of not added in the first place. But since the anonymous working copy commit is largely invisible to you it shouldn’t make a difference.

kasdi··on Show HN: I made a customizable iOS browser for minimalists and myself
Really like the customizability approach! It’s Safari, for the advanced user. For example, the option to hide the toolbar entirely which Safari had but removed it during beta. Well done!

Biggest missing feature for me are the swiping gestures to switch tabs and enter tab overview, already mentioned by others. Main reason why I can’t switch to any other browser, including Orion which has it but the static animation doesn’t match the swiping movement.

Also caching (no page reload) and extensions are missing but these seem to be system-level restrictions which is understandable.

Also sooner or later I’d be missing the advanced features, like font zoom, request desktop website, long press on buttons like back/forward to select point in history, etc.

Nitpick: the address bar font seems to be much bolder than in Safari, would be great to (be able to) tone it down.

kasdi··on Show HN: I made a customizable iOS browser for minimalists and myself
Swiping on the address bar - horizontal to switch tabs, vertical to enter tab overview - is one of iOS Safari’s best features. It prevents me from using any other browser that doesn’t have this. It was even one of the main reasons to not use Orion, which does the navigation but only has a static animation that doesn’t match the actual swiping movement. Apple did set a high bar with UX, but it’s really good.
kasdi··on Show HN: I made a customizable iOS browser for minimalists and myself
Missing this too. Swiping up feels much more natural than pressing a button. Similar to opening iOS multitasking - multitasking for web apps.
kasdi··on A developer's view of Vision Pro
Thanks for saving my time. Always read the comments first.
kasdi··on Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news
It would be great if it could summarize topics of bundled individual news over time. Often a single news really is part of a wider context and doesn’t make sense to be read in isolation without knowing the context before.

I believe Google News does some bundling of topics.

Though I also recognize that topics are hard to define as they could be chosen arbitrarily wide. Everything could be a topic. The ultimate topic would be “The Universe” which contains everything.

kasdi··on PaLM 2 Technical Report [pdf]
Same here.

Seems this is a known issue https://www.googlecloudcommunity.com/gc/AI-ML/Receiving-quot...

kasdi··on Nushell.sh ls | where size > 10mb | sort-by modified
Still not 1.0 after all those years?
kasdi··on Launch HN: Electric Air (YC W23) – Heat pump sold directly to homeowners
I believe Elon repeatedly said that Tesla wanted to do heatpumps at some point too.

As you were working at Tesla before, I'd be interested as to why you chose to go at it alone and what it would mean if Tesla entered the space as a competitor?

kasdi··on EU-wide maximum limit of €10K for cash payments
It might be helpful to expand the example to make it even clearer.

Until you repay the debt to your friend, you can spend the 10,000, because you hold it in your pocket. But your friend can also spend the debt you own him, for example, by asking another person to get a loan on that loan.

So yeah, "free money"! Until one creditor somewhere in that long chain asks the debitor to pay up their debt...

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