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The history of tech is full of "X is better than Y. We should use X", only for X to die. It doesn't matter what is better; it matters what is used. For better or worse, Markdown is…

My 32GB RAM M1 is a fantastic machine, but it's getting old for the type of work I do. And I can't upgrade the RAM. I installed Omarchy via Asahi Alarm [1] and have been running it…

Twitter/X is what one makes of it. The algorithm is easy to tune to your personal interests. And with Grok available on every post, your options to go deeper on topics are almost i…

Let's take a step back. If I'm not in front of a tribunal, formerly accused of committing/attempting to commit a crime, who are you to check my private chats? This is not a problem…

Original story: Microsoft’s AI Guru Wants Independence From OpenAI. That’s Easier Said Than Done, https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsofts-ai-guru-w...

Can you still use the full functionality of the Scribe's pencil? (highlight text, drawing or writing notebooks, etc.) Thanks.

One thing is to have someone visually checking on your ID you're an adult, another thing is to record your full name and IP address, along with the site you access, who knows on wh…

That's great... for the HN reader. However, how is that supposed to work for your significant other, or your mother, or your indifferent-to-technology friend? Don't get me wrong, I…

Apple knows an M4 is a hard sell for M2/3 owners. Except if you have specific workflows that can take advantage of the newer silicon, you'll spend a lot of money on something you p…

> I don't see how this is different from disputing the banking sector by conducting a heist. Let's leave aside this logical fallacy; we're all adults here. Buying music on iTunes b…

Russian antiwar activists placed their faith in Telegram, a supposedly secure messaging app. How does Putin’s regime seem to know their every move?

Do they? https://signal.org/blog/pdfs/upload-moderation.pdf As an European, I’ve lost faith on any EU law “protecting” people. The business of trading your data is just too good to…

Two years ago, I had a similar experience with Chainlink. I underwent hours of interviews and completed an extensive work assignment, only to be offered the job _after a personalit…

Many of these countries though, finance theirs debts and pay them back in USD, simply because the USD is still the de facto currency in global financial markets.

https://archive.is/20231229055817/https://www.ft.com/content...

Thanks for sharing this. The voice interaction is indeed very impressive. I played with Meta’s SeamlessMT4 recently and I thought the output voice was quite ok for long inputs (whe…

> Sadly it doesn't seem to be smart enough to be at that level yet […] It is! Last week, I aked Bing Chat for a reference about the Swiss canton of Ticino. I made a mistake and wro…

I have the same experience with Invoke.ai or MochiDiffusion in the MBP M1. I can only match the quality of other images with Automatic1111 ( https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable…

I believe the problem is that the situation you describe occurs on a much bigger scale. It’s no longer you and your friend in the cafe; it’s millions of people looking at the headl…

Yes. According to the OpenAI Whisper repo [0], when you use the 'whisper' command line tool: "Adding --task translate will translate the speech into English." I tried translating a…

I've been there before. It's frustrating; I'm sorry for you. Here is the thing, you're not going to "fix" that co-worker's behavior, and trying to do so or deal with it can consume…

While I agree that an open and distributed messaging system (such as Waku[1]) can improve things, it’s not enough. Apple Store and Google Play Store are the true gatekeepers. And g…