TotoHorner

Honest question, what's so bad about these bots?

If some lonely dudes can't find a girlfriend, so they talk to a chatbot instead, why is that bad?

Sure, I just meant compared to what we have today.

What? No, they're calling it a spatial computer because they don't want it to be lumped in the same category as the other VR devices. Because... theirs is $3500 while other VR devices are $400.

They literally just built a VR headset... do you seriously not think the Apple Vision Pro is a VR headset?

Lol when the iPhone came out, literally everyone was criticizing it for how expensive it was.

Also, looking at the functionality it had when it first came out, it wouldn't have really been very useful for me (no app store, basically just an iPod + shitty browser + phone).

Anyway, does anyone actually think that VR isn't going to revolutionize computing over the next 10 years?

I use the Quest 3 for this and it works really well (I have a m1 mbp).

I use the Immersed app and I'm able to code for 3-4 hours a day with the headset.

I really wish journalists at Reuters would just stick to neutral reporting and stop sharing their opinions.

The last thing anyone cares about is the opinion of some journalist at Reuters.

(and I say this as someone who doesn't like Musk)

Very cool! Thanks for the reply.

It would be awesome if you could also add GPT-4 as a kind of helpful tutor. Not sure if you're already experimenting with that.

Our spaced repetition model not only accounts for implicit "trickle-down" repetitions but also minimizes the number of reviews by choosing reviews whose implicit repetitions "knock out" other due reviews (like dominos), and calibrates the speed of the spaced repetition process to each individual student on each individual topic (student ability and topic difficulty are competing factors).

That's super interesting and definitely one of the issues I faced while building anki cards for math classes I took in undergrad. Thanks again!

Can anyone help me with some questions about this program? (I assume the founders will see this thread once they notice the HN hug of death)

1. How exactly is AI being used here? Is there an AI chat-bot that I can ask for help? Do you generate problem-sets with AI? Check answers with AI? Is it GPT-4?

2. Do you utilize Spaced-Repetition in any way? Have you found that to be useful?

Thank you

I am finding Apple to be such a greedy, hypocritical company and am getting disgusted by their PR image

I definitely agree with this but don't have too many issues with them installing the Journal app to be honest. I actually like the app personally, but totally agree with your sentiment.

No, being venture backed implies you're cashflow negative and you're relient on funding to live.

If you're a founder of a venture backed company, one of your main jobs is to build a pipeline of investors and constantly be planning for the next round of funding (that takes a significant amount of energy away from building the company).

With this strategy, you raise one round, then you go back to being similar to a bootstrapped founder where your only focus is to make the business sustainable and you're not spending mind-share trying to raise more money.

So it is a different way of building.

I don't know how to tell this without being condescending, but do you guys even understand how farming works?

Not sure why you're being condescending when you're totally uninformed & wrong lol.

The fertile soil is a result of a long process of bringing organic material and ash and depositing it on the field. Exactly the opposite of what we are doing today

2 minutes of research would tell you that the Terra Preta soil consists of - tiny, broken pottery shards - weathered charcoal - bones/compost/manure

It is very easy to see how this developed. They probably have noticed that if they keep throwing their leftovers or feces in a particular area, everything starts growing better there. The same if you throw out ash. Which they had lots of beacuse they were burning a lot of wood every day, living in the rainforest and not facing energy price hikes. If you have a village and you hunt and gather every day, if you constantly keep burning wood fire and spread it all around your village for thousands of years -- guess what -- whether you planned it or not you will create those fields because I bet nobody would be trucking the garbage far from the village.

The fact that you keep referring to them as hunter-gatherers when they've clearly developed an advanced fertilizer is hilariously absurd.

They were clearly advanced at farming.

I mean, that pales in comparison to the power the government has. And our government (in the US at least) is clearly not democratic (DNC rigged their primary to prevent Bernie from winning... we have an election between Trump & Biden and most Americans hate both choices, etc.)

You should be far,far more afraid of that since government spends more than a trillion every year.

So yeah, doesn't really make much sense.

Who are they people who vote for her? What motivates them?

The same geniuses who got us into Iraq.

Why would that be terrifying?

I'm not sure if there's an organization that has been more wrong about technology's impact than the IMF?

Because it's a good example to teach dynamic programming?

I grew up in the Soviet Union, where people had to affirm their fealty to ideals

Well, a scary % of the DEI professionals I've come across also self-identify as communists, so not sure if they view that as a bad association.

does Google have a hiring freeze right now?

100 messages / 3 hrs

Sorry where do you see that? I only see "higher usage limits"?

Sure! Newsletters get shared on HN + Reddit. I'm also posting on LinkedIn.

I've also done some paid ads using Facebook ads and doing ads in other newsletters.

No, I've never shared customer emails and doing so would obviously be grossly unethical (and illegal!).

I sell sponsorships to tech companies (ex. PostHog, InfluxData, Hubspot) + have a premium version of the newsletter that is $12 a month.

I've been writing an email newsletter on backend dev for the past few years - https://quastor.org/

Basically, I look through all the Big Tech engineering blog posts and look for interesting posts. Then I'll write up an article talking about the tech stack and the main takeaways.

I've been learning Adobe Illustrator + After Effects recently and am now starting to add some visualizations + graphics to accompany the articles.

I make more than $500 per month but this is more of a passion project and the income is honestly not competitive (at all) with what I earn as a dev.

It also gives me a way to learn about marketing/growth + monetization. Hard to learn that stuff w/o doing.

Are you joking or are you just completely uneducated on this topic?

There's been several outlets that have dived into the difference between the chinese version of TikTok and the western versions.

Also, they can affect public sentiment with slight nudges and those would be completely undetectable.

Yeah you're completely uneducated on the topic.

Several media outlets did a dive on the connections the CCP has into TikTok.

Their security auditors implied that they have backdoors.

Banning media from certain countries is exactly how you develop a delusional worldview and ironically become more susceptible to propaganda

You think banning propaganda machines from other countries makes you more susceptible to propaganda?

The user-base on TikTok (in the US at least) leans extremely left (because they're all young) so the news media has idiotically made this a left vs. right issue.

Yes, any neutral observer can see that it's incredibly foolish to let a company with strong connections to our largest geopolitical rival have control over 1-2 hours of attention (every day) of young people in the US.

We literally have no idea if TikTok is boosting certain political/social values amongst American youth. Even a slight nudge could have a huge effects (because of the scale at which TikTok operates) and it would be impossible to detect.

The idea that there's some "iron wall" between US and Chinese data has already been proven false. US user data has repeatedly been accessed from china - https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emilybakerwhite/tiktok-....

"I feel like with these tools, there’s some backdoor to access user data in almost all of them,” said an external auditor hired to help TikTok close off Chinese access to sensitive information, like Americans’ birthdays and phone numbers."

I had an epiphany about self driving recently late at night on the streets of San Francisco

So, the entire amount of VC dollars that went into Waymo is ~$5.5 billion dollars.

If you look at the entire self-driving market, it's probably less than $12 billion in total.

San Francisco's yearly budget, is $15 billion dollars. The Federal Gov spends 50 billion dollars per year on maintaining federal highways.

So yeah, you didn't have an epiphany. You just couldn't be bothered to spend 20 seconds thinking about the math.

Yeah, there's a couple email newsletters that do this.

- TLDR (https://tldr.tech/) <- it's mostly tech-related news. Has like 1 million+ subscribers

- Quastor (https://www.quastor.org/) <- sends summaries of the engineering blog posts that hit the top of HN (full disclosure - I've been writing this newsletter for several years now)

- Pointer.io (https://www.pointer.io/) <- summarizes the engineering leadership content that rises to the top of HN

etc.

I believe someone also developed a chrome extension for HN that would let you filter out the non-engineering related content but can't remember the name right now.

Lmao at this point I think a weekly newsletter with companies hiring in web3 would be more useful.

Wait I thought the LLM was only available on Edge?

Are you able to use it on Chrome/Firefox?