michaelbuckbee

To add on to your comment, in the arts and creative space there are substantial levels of opposition to AI as it's perceived as a job killer and maybe at some level perverse or akin to an automated plagiarism system that steals their intellectual property (this is complicated and not my personal take, but I see where they're coming from).

It's quite likely that SJ would suffer from severe reputational damage from being the literal voice of AI.

Copilot and also Cursor are still often not great (UI wise) for asking certain types of exploratory questions so it's easier to put them into ChatGPT.

It's a real shame as well since the Surface line of PCs started as such a clean break and has devolved into a confusing mess.

Several kids in our family's social group have successfully undergone desensitization therapy for severe nut allergies.

It was much more rigorous than the author's approach, with weekly doctor visits and taking increasingly large amounts of whatever they were allergic to (starting with micrograms of nut powder).

I think my niece had the best time as she eventually was advised to start eating daily measured amounts of nutella.

I mention this mostly because I do think the author was a bit cavalier in his approach (mostly because it's hard to accurately judge dosage from wild plants) but also to just spread the word that the allergy desensitization therapies are out there and quite effective and life changing.

You mentioned building drywall room - a neat building technique I only learned about recently that's along these lines (but a huge space and cost savings) is a "staggered stud" wall.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Carpentry/comments/13j7o4u/staggere...

This is something I've thought a lot about (I'm a software developer and used to be a writer/editor at a large cybersecurity company where I was responsible for generating ongoing organic search traffic).

What's different this time around is that it's much more _answers_ focused than _search_ focused, and it's not a smaller competitor coming in to try and play the same game, but a whole new thing.

PG invested in Phind explicitly with the notion that "our kids aren't going to know what a search results page is" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1rHPFiY6FA

AI services like ChatGPT are already cannibalizing search in certain areas (programming questions, knowledge questions, "what's the difference between" questions, etc) as they give objectively better answers without all the weird SEO and advertising cruft.

It's a wildly better experience searching for "traditional apple pie recipe" on ChatGPT than on Google due to the brutal amount of intrusive ads and over-optimization and the gap is just getting bigger.

Google can't meaningfully improve their search without killing their profits and growth numbers.

On the other side, we haven't even seen the real google killers arrive which are going to be in the form of better AI assistants (Siri, Alexa and Cortana that actually work).

The list you mentioned is what I see being eroded by Canva.

Right now, they have all of those items natively integrated into their online editor, making it stupidly easy for even someone as graphically challenged as me to get decent output.

I feel like the niche that Envato covered has gradually been eaten away by the site builders like Squarespace, Wix, etc. who offer built in themes and by sites like Canva that have mixed in the actual production applications. Seems like a good time for them to get out or to get a broader investment.

I'm not a Ham, but my grandfather (W8IGY) was, and I credit him for letting me know a larger, more technical community existed "out there" than what was apparent from the small rural town I grew up in the pre-internet days.

Ham radio's time has come and gone, but I still treasure the memories of listening to him talk to people all over the world.

MFJ shutting down is likely one of the final nails in the coffin, but I'll be sad to see it go.

Theoretically, the agencies in the executive branch should fulfill this role.

I don't think a button that launches ChatGPT is "it" - but I do think we're headed towards a UX that is invoked more often systemwide actions.

I take your point, but the risk is that even further advances on a price/performance basis will lap this investment.

All publishers are grappling with this where they want generally higher quality content (defined as more engaging, intrinsic quality is something else) and less low effort spam or retreaded concepts.

AI-generated content has really dropped the floor on how cheap it is to produce niche blogspam, and they're saying: "Hey if you're pushing out 1000s of articles a day on a topic and we look at it and it's insane gibberish, we're just going to assume it's no good on principle and ban you."

Nobody is getting banned for the "Gray-AI" of assisted writing, where you get help with an outline or use Grammarly Pro to rewrite your sentences into coherence.

Any chance you CH is proxied through a Heroku app? Heroku has 30s timeouts.

The reason the market has shifted to larger phones is that for many people outside the HN crowd, phones are their _primary_ computing device.

Reading books, watching videos, social, etc. but also interacting with webforms, etc. are all easier on a larger device and screen.

These type of blocks are meant to try and counter abusive bots that hide behind VPNs, Proxies and Tor.

In general, Tor exit nodes are quite well known and blocked to a greater degree than VPNs.

There's a joke that goes like: "What's the first thing a developer does when they want to publish a blog post? Write a SSG."

Friendly FYI - not sure if this is a skill issue on my part or something that's not possible yet, but I couldn't figure out how to change the audio input. I think when it asked for microphone access (chrome latest, Mac) that it chose the Macbook microphone which won't work as it's docked.

I'm not even sure the "digital fingerprint" is entirely helpful. Have you seen the moon issue? https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/11nzrb0/samsung_sp...

What makes it even more of an issue is that's comparatively easy to generate a 1000 images of a scene and push them all through until you get one that happens to line up in such a way as to pass through the detection (as compared to having to physically paint 1000 scenes).

In the scope of these things, this is pretty above board.

This looks like a neat app for non-developers, but for dev's it is really hard to beat the VS Code extensions for handling markdown.

My heavily used ones are: Markdown to HTML (copy), which lets you write and preview markdown and then copy+paste it as html into things like newsletters, CMS, etc. as a single step.

The other one is Markdown to PDF, which lets you organize a series of markdown files into a coherent structure and then spits out an ebook on command.

Not OP, but parent of multiple school-age kids and both:

1. You're 100% right, there are privacy concerns.

2. I don't know if they could possibly be worse than the majority of school districts (including my kids) running directly off of Google's Education system (Chromebooks, Google Docs, Gmail etc.).

I have nothing against this app or the other graphical HTTP tools like Postman, Insomnia, etc., as people clearly get value out of them, but personally, I've moved everything over to Hurl --> hurl.dev

- Open source

- Text files all the way down

- Easily understood DSL

- Easily distributed

- Easily versioned

- Fast

Download the executable, copy the two lines below into "first-test.hurl" and you're up and running.

    GET http://localhost:3000
    HTTP 200

I realize I'm fanboying a bit here, but Hurl really has been so helpful for our particular use case at wafris.org where we're trying to support a large number of different HTTP clients. We can just give an integration partner access to our hurl suite and they're good.

The analyst firm seems like they specialize in display panels, electronics etc. so it makes sense that their BOM breakdown doesn't include all the other (quite expensive components) that go into the device.

So this number isn't "wrong" so much as specialized.

Microsoft's gunning for a far more short-term win: Search.

Bing has been an also-ran in the search world for a decade (single digit % of search volume compared to Google's 90%+), and AI has shown the first real crack in Google's monopoly.

The future is pretty clearly going to be directly getting AI answers to questions and much less looking at a page of 10 blue links and it's still really unclear if Google is going to make the transition.

This is just a +1 to the ROI discussion, but I'd say that AI tooling roughly doubles my development productivity.

Some of it's in asking ChatGPT: "Give me the 3 possible ways to implement X?" and getting something back I hadn't considered. A lot of it is in sort of "super code completion".

I use Cursor and the UI is very slick. If I'm stuck on something (like a method that's not working) I can highlight it and hit Cmd+L and it will explain the code and then suggest how to fix it.

Hit Cmd+K and it will write out the code for you. Also, gotten a lot of mileage out of writing out a rough version of something in a language I know and then getting the AI to turn that into something else (ex: Ruby to Lua).

Appreciate the quick reply! That's interesting.

Friendly fyi - I think this might just be a web interface bug but but I submitted a prompt with the Mixtral model and got a response (great!) then switched the dropdown to Llama and submitted the same prompt and got the exact same response.

It may be caching or it didn't change the model being queried or something else.

Another live video scam I've seen is done via streaming. Scammers will take a long pre-recorded video feed of an on stage interview with a famous person (Elon Musk) and then stream it inside a frame and account that's hyping a crypto launch or something.