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mhuffman··on VersaTiles – a complete FLOSS map stack
There really seems to be a lot of movement in the map space these days!
mhuffman··on Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements
Yes, I did paste the wrong link. Sorry about that. I meant to paste this one[0] However, there are other options available with oled, AI upscaling, etc. They are sold as "business displays" or similar, and can be expensive, but is exactly what a lot of people want instead of a "smart" TV.

[0]https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=QB65R

mhuffman··on Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements
>Show me the commercial equivalent to the LG G4.

I am not an expert, but this[0] looks like a commercial equivalent. And on my searches seems to be less expensive (although both are quite expensive)

[0]https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16889356840

mhuffman··on Love being interrupted when my monitor asks me to accept user agreements
You can search NewEgg or Amazon for "Business TV" or "Commercial TV" and they will almost all be "dumb" TVs. They are readily available.
mhuffman··on Why do random forests work? They are self-regularizing adaptive smoothers
It's talking about these[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_forest

mhuffman··on Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying
>The problem is that they have no moat, and Sam Altman is no visionary.

In his defense he is trying to fuck us all by feverishly lobbying the US Congress about the fact that "AI is waaay to dangerous" for newbs and possibly terrorists to get their hands on. If that eventually pays off, then there will be 3-4 companies that control all of any LLMs that matter.

mhuffman··on The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair
Agree with this. I do come from a family of farmers and they could do anything it seemed! Phone line repair, diesel repair, welding/fabrication, plumbing, hydraulic repairs (very dangerous), all manner of home repairs, light vet work, and the list goes on and on. BTW, the description I just gave was for a specific guy that dropped out of school in sixth grade.
mhuffman··on Microsoft and OpenAI's close partnership shows signs of fraying
>In long running games, untrustworthy players lose out.

Telco, cable companies, Nestle, and plenty of others laugh while swimming in their sector leading pit of money and influence.

mhuffman··on Arpeggiator Cube
Yes, if OP is reading, I would put a much more gentle and more drawn out ease function on the color changes. It would look better and if someone is twitchy with the cursor it won't make them feel like they are having a seizure. Also, the cube makes me think of Charlie Brown...tripping!
mhuffman··on [dead]
Netflix is also claiming (later this month) that they know who the "real" Zodiac Killer is ... because of a reddit post.
mhuffman··on Sometimes the product innovation is the distribution
Perhaps you might not have been looking close enough. If you are not blasting through flour very quickly and you leave it in a bag, even clipped, you can get weevils and mites. This is not new. Ask elderly home cooks that you know. Putting it in sealed containers or jars, however, it can keep for a good while.
mhuffman··on Musician Charged with $10M Music Streaming Fraud Aided by AI
Outside of literal cults and criminal organizations, I can't think of an industry that has duped, robbed, swindled, abused, and destroyed people at the same pace as the music industry. And generally, it is just hand-waved over in court.
mhuffman··on Gokapi: Lightweight selfhosted Firefox Send alternative with AWS S3 support
Abused in what way? Content? How would they know, if it was encrypted. Or volume?
mhuffman··on The Importance of Local Development
>Only tangentially related of course. But we end up using the Web (webapp in this case) for all sorts of things where “works on my machine” is not even a potential problem.

I am not sure how much web development you have done, but the "works on my machine" problem can and does show up. And not just machines, different browswers and different browser versions. Unless you go very simple, you can get a graphic designer to point out plenty of problems for you.

mhuffman··on World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission
Maybe not long at all. Scroll down to the section that says "Our Approach : Building a Designer Immune System" on this site[0]

[0]https://orcabio.com/what-we-do/

mhuffman··on Show HN: I made a super-simple image CDN
From Hetzner's dedicated server pricing page:

>All root servers have a dedicated 1 GBit uplink by default and with it unlimited traffic. Inclusive monthly traffic for servers with 10G uplink is 20TB. There is no bandwidth limitation. We will charge € 1/TB for overusage

mhuffman··on Pear AI founder: We made two big mistakes
Can I get more YC funding by forking Redis, adding OpenAI, and calling it an AI In Memory Cache?

No. But, maybe if you call it RediAI

mhuffman··on AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers' world
>This is with a next.js/supabase app deployed on vercel. For complex B2B saas.

I have seen this said before. Would you show some of these sites that you have knocked out in one day fully working? If not, would you be willing to do the community a service and over the course of a weekend, live-stream or video yourself duplicating this site[0]? Just the publicly available parts.

It would be eye-opening for many I think, and in the process would make you one of the most famous developers in the world (or at least in the US), since at least two very well-known developers/influencers do not think it is currently possible and dunking on them live or on video screen recording would really be a sea-change in our sector. Not to mention, settling once and for all the "LLMs are going to take our jobs" vs. "lol, that are just a fancier autocomplete" argument within the industry.

I am not joking about this or trying to bait you, I would seriously like to know if I am wasting my time with traditional development and really need to re-orient my skills and job prospects. So far, I have seen many people do demos, but none were anything other than relatively simple, error-prone, SPA apps. It is more complex ones, I am interested in. The link below[0] is not that complex for a traditional developer, but it isn't super-simple either. From your comment, it sounds like you have the experience and ability to do it.

[0]https://neetcode.io

mhuffman··on Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047
>and doesn’t take into account whether they are deployed in high-risk situations

Am I out of the loop here? What "high-risk" situations do they have in mind for LLM's?

mhuffman··on Show HN: The most comprehensive authentication library for TypeScript
>Passwords are dumb for most use cases. They’re okay if you follow best practices, the thing is 99% of people don’t. So most people re-use passwords, and if asked to create new ones they append a character or something ineffective.

This may be dependent on your social. Everyone I know uses password managers, even at work. So they have different passwords for every account and browser/phone extensions or apps to fill them in.

mhuffman··on EzAudio: Enhancing Text-to-Audio Generation with Efficient Diffusion Transformer
If you go to their demo[0] and type in a prompt to ask it to say something (eg. a person says "hello") it seems to hallucinate a response in a made up language ... maybe, I don't speak every language.

[0]https://huggingface.co/spaces/OpenSound/EzAudio

mhuffman··on EzAudio: Enhancing Text-to-Audio Generation with Efficient Diffusion Transformer
>Using it made me wonder what the application for things like this would be.

Almost certainly in video shorts or high volume video content, I would think.

mhuffman··on Show HN: I Wrote a Book on Java
This is interesting. It seems like a logic language (like Prolog) would work more naturally.
mhuffman··on What 10k Hours of Coding Taught Me: Don't Ship Fast
>One of the great things about working from home is that I often don't do anything. As in, I'm not even by my computer.

>I'm still thinking about what to do, but I'm not implementing anything. I'm not typing stuff, I'm not waiting for a compile, I'm not outwardly moving the project forward.

This is literally the nightmare scenario of middle managers and c-suite managers about wfh employees. You walking around visibly doing nothing and them paying you to do it! Somehow when you do the same thing near your cubicle or in your office you "look like" you're working so that is much better!

mhuffman··on AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off (2022)
Customer support centers.
mhuffman··on Julia Child's Kitchens
I agree that it does not, however real life sucks sometimes.
mhuffman··on Julia Child's Kitchens
Considering it is a teenager or young 20s person in the kitchen getting paid just above minimum wage and doesn't care about you at all ... yes?
mhuffman··on Julia Child's Kitchens
So yes and no in my opinion. First, almost all recipes are written from being cooked in gas stoves and ovens. However, many people have electric. That alone will cause you a problem. Second, tweaking or hacking a little bit of a recipe is a great way to learn what techniques and ingredients do while not breaking the bank. At some point, you will have learned ingredients, tools, and techniques and you can just "cook". You know, like your grandmother could just cook somehow. It was from practice and experience and she always had her own "secret" recipes.
mhuffman··on Tupperware files for bankruptcy as its colorful containers lose relevance
I have switched to (cup-style) deli containers for 90% of food storage now. They are cheap, stack great, hold up well if you drop them, and easy to wash and store.
mhuffman··on Show HN: Finic – Open source platform for building browser automations
Thanks!
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