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What prevents an agent from using your credit card to hire a hit squat to abduct your children?

The prompt. That prompt has to come from somewhere.

No agent. This is the formatted email from OpenAI. What would be a better than Markdown?

The retail price you pay them is unlikely the wholesale price they pay the factory.

After listening to a few dozen chimes and confusing some of them I can't help but wonder why we accept technology to communicate to us in this crude way. Why not make it talk to us, "too fast", "too close", "hand brake active", etc.?

Might want to keep chimes for emergency warnings where speech would be too slow, although there's an argument to be made that speech would still be better, since jarring chimes might scare you so much that you take just as much if not more time until you've identified the emergency.

Isn’t this is a jury trial?

Out of curiosity, how would you solve this particular problem with shell commands?

Isn't this a self-fulfilling prophecy? Giving up can't end in success.

> GNP counts income only owned by residents of the US that happened in the US.

Also income of US residents that happened outside the US, no?

IIUC, "domestic" is location-based while "national" is residency-based.

IIUC, it is income of any "person" of the nation, including personal, business and government.

> tremendous power in "not knowing what you don't know" that sometime in university disappeared

This.

By now I believe university does at least as much harm as it does good if not more. The good mainly boils down to building up contacts and connections. If you’re able to find a substitute for that, then skip university!

> Do you have any evidence to support your assertion that Elon overruled all the SpaceX engineers on the timing of when to install the steel water cooled plate or are you Literally making things up?

Unfortunately, #LiterallyMakingThingsUp seems to be a trend these days.

No, it does not. But one can’t assert something one doesn’t know. Therefore this assertion is as good as they can do.

Unfortunately, this seems to be the future. While now the sky is largely empty with an occasional plane, in the future it will be filled with drones. It already happened with cars. A century ago the land was mostly quiet, now you usually have a loud and busy street somewhere in the vicinity. And in the farther future, it will be spaceships in the solar system (and maybe beyond).

Interesting point. Seems like a point where the law lacks behind technological progress. Though, in any case, most people aren’t aware of the detailed laws and when pressured enough by enough authority - perhaps not quite lawfully - they will give in. So, this seems to me a rather niche case where both sides know and follow the law, which is usually not the case.

People should just make up their own mind by reading a publication, instead of adopting another publication’s opinion about a publication.

Can evolution be attributed thought or more generally consciousness?

The project is a mess, which is obvious if one follows it. There is only slow progress. Instead of focusing everyone on one thing to do it right, they focus on multiple things that remain half-baked forever, e.g. multiple concurrent implementations like Synapse and Dendrite, Element and Hydrogen, Element and Element X, etc. pp. They seem to have organizational challenges, stemming from technical founders who didn’t know that it takes more than technical knowledge to build a great product. I believe they’ve learned somethings, e.g. that Element’s UI has always been crap hence Element X now, which they’ve denied for a long time. But they are surely still learning, e.g. how to be a focused and decisive leader, etc.

A project is always in large a reflection of the leaders. It’s the messy hackathon type project - not the clear and polished corporate project.

Great approach. User agent default style sheets are the worst, especially since they are all different.

But, instead of handing the user a empty slate with nothing, it should contain a note saying “look, these are the recommended options”. If the initial config is interactive, it could even prompt to activate them: “want to use compression?” - “yes”, etc.

I’m curious, not being from this era, what are some examples of better old software than new? And why is the new one worse instead of better?

Naive question: Why not use OS concurrency then?

Maybe the issue is that we overload the concept of a function with an entirely different thing, a Future / Promise. Maybe if the syntax would have been entirely different too, it would have been easier to understand. We tend to have different syntax for different things.

I’m hesitant towards not distinguishing different things anymore and let the underlying system “figure it out”. I’m sure this could work as long as you’re on the happy path, but that’s not the only path there is.

More:

- Excel on iOS won’t let you open files without signing in. Then it loses the session and you have to sign in again.

- Microsoft AutoUpdate on macOS jumps in your face every day multiple times. No way to uninstall it.

At this point, I treat Microsoft as cancer. Avoid touching anything from them at all cost.

This is the same link.

Would be great if people could share their provisioning and bootstrap code repos (assuming they keep the private data separated).

Clever Elephant Operator?

ChatGPT: How can I tell my VC to shove it, but politely?

Seems like it was an aqui-hire https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37103910

Title Case, not ALL CAPS

> Even when someone knowledgeable in finance describes it to me on the surface, in layman's terms

Could you share the explanation in layman’s terms?

Might want to check out 1Password CLI which can eliminate the need to store access tokens on disk.