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This is an incredible contribution to the community and it's just... one guy? I kept reading expecting a Series A funding announcement at the bottom.

It's a nice reminder: You can use AI to slop cannon at maximum speed, or you can use it to scale your ambitions and build something more rigorous and lasting than ever before.

I'd build Transcribe.cpp into the apps I maintain, but I feel like this functionality should (generally) be integrated into the OS or "everywhere" via an app like Handy.

This is my usage pattern and I agree it works really well. I start almost every conversation by asking Claude to read, not write. Then once it's explored a particular slice I let it rip.

This takes a couple minutes (and I suppose I'm spending tokens each time), but sessions rarely reach compaction length and I like that I'm not trying to keep a whole separate pile of docs in sync.

I learned to program with KidSIM and later Stagecast Creator, a spin-off of Apple's Advanced Technologies Research Group in the 90s. I'm re-creating it so a new generation can learn the fundamentals of object-oriented programming the same way I did. I've been working with Dave Canfield Smith (one of the original authors and also inventor of the icon ) and it's been a blast to bring back my earliest memories of programming. All open-source and free of course.

https://www.codako.org/

I think this is largely the point, this data is absolutely scraped but the people posting want to be found.

Just want to drive by and mention - a friend told me to play DDLC and I was highly skeptical given the anime pin-up girl art style. I eventually gave in and gave it a shot.

It's an amazing "playable story" unlike anything I have ever played. Super creative and well worth the couple hours it takes to play. I think it could use a few trigger warnings and it should be rated PG-13 / R, but there's stuff on Netflix 10x more disturbing so I don't quite grok the Google push back on this one.

That's unfortunate... I feel like every startup I know of just recently switched to Brex. I wonder how many are being kicked off the service.

Ahh this is super cool! Looking at the Visionect product line and their website isn’t entirely clear - do you need to pay a subscription fee for the cloud service that manages the device settings? This would be a great piece of office art but will be a much harder sell if there’s a paid cloud component...

EDIT: Answered my own question. The cloud software is included and you can run it yourself, they just optionally allow you to use their hosted version: https://docs.visionect.com/VisionectSoftwareSuite/Installati...

Great read, but remember this is the guy that also recently authored "Why I'm voting for Kanye West".

Wow, this ignores both the "floor" below which you would not be subject to the wealth tax (in the US, most recently by Elizabeth Warren, this has been discussed as $50M+), and ALSO fails to take into account that you would be growing your principal at ~3-8% a year through investment, etc.

Sure, I guess with no floor on the tax and with your money just literally sitting in a pile, the government would eventually take a lot of it.

Oh jeez this is cool. The least we can do is get this guy a working Macbook Pro to continue his work. Donated!

Hmm, it does make sense, but I think delaying carriers from starting their routes probably put backpressure on the upstream team to complete their work on time. Really hard to say if this is good or bad without more knowledge of the internal incentive structures that keep the system running smoothly.

I think that this is a really meaningful step. The ability to find community around a conspiracy theory or a wildly unacceptable belief on a mainstream site reinforces that it is valid. If high schoolers discovering QAnon for the first time have to log into a dumpy looking twitter clone, they'll know that they have turned off the highway onto a sketchy back road of the internet.

This is great! I wish it was searchable by bank though. I heard that a local bank was making some interesting choices about who they helped through the PPP program and I'd love to pull up all the results by Lender.

Wait, so you can just duplicate an app that has more privileges than your app, modify it, and run it to exploit it's access?

This is a pretty glaring security issue actually - after reading this, it seems like Apple's choice to track app permissions / security exceptions by the app's bundle ID and not its file path was a pretty big mistake.

I wonder if this is a case of iOS security engineers working on macOS, forgetting that app bundle IDs aren't enforced by a central install flow on the platform?

Buried in here there is a nice bit about expanding access to Vote-By-Mail, so that's nice. I know the democratic party has been pushing for this to be mandatory and un-burdened by extra rules for a while:

""" If an individual in a State is eligible to cast a vote in an election for Federal office, the State may not impose any additional conditions or requirements on the eligibility of the individual to cast the vote in such election by absentee ballot by mail """

Wait, are bills always typeset like this? It's no wonder it's 1000 pages, there are only ~150 words per page. This would fit in 300 pages if it was book-set (and that doesn't seem like too much to ask everyone to read before voting.)

It's almost like this is designed to be frustrating to read, with narrow lines, split words and extra whitespace. Lovely.

Hmm - is there a good summary of this argument I could read? I torrented many years ago and it always felt like stealing and still does. Seems more or less equivalent to shoplifting to me from a moral standpoint, would be curious to read into this!

(I'm assuming this is not the "oh I actually pay and I just want to watch it on an unsupported device" argument)

I realize this may not be the place for this comment, but a few of these comments got me thinking.

Human memory is squishy, and that's great. You retain facts + feelings that help you make future decisions and everything else is integrated into smaller and smaller summaries until it fades away entirely. I spent years clinging to every experience wanting not to forget anything, and being horrified when I couldn't remember. I documented everything. I wanted my memory to work more like infinite dropbox storage and less like a tool, evolved over millions of years, to keep me safe and making good choices.

These days, my personal knowledge base is whatever I've bothered to remember. Usually I don't know I've kept something tucked away until I'm in the middle of a conversation and realize it's still there. My memory of events shifts and degrades over time, and I'm fine with that.

If you don't use a tool to document every page you visit and every thing you read or learn, that's completely fine too. It all fades away eventually, and if it remains relevant enough you'll hold on to the important bits.

The real power-up isn't keeping it all, it's being able to change and grow, with just enough focus on the past to make good choices.

God do they proof read these articles at all? The image right at the top is captioned: "Workers wearing protective sourround pigs at a farm". Misspelled AND missing a noun :-/

Yeah this is hilarious. I feel like tech companies get away with this because the internet is more "mysterious".

This is no different than a chemical plant "accidentally" building a conduit a quarter mile and dumping waste into a river. Of course they know.

Same! I'd also be curious to hear about production scenarios that would really benefit from Redis going 5x faster. It's pretty darn fast to start with!

This line caught my attention:

"The US manufacturing of Mac Pro is made possible following a federal product exclusion Apple is receiving for certain necessary components."

Is this sort of a "if you don't make us pay tarrifs on component X, we'll build component Y in the USA?"

Also I'm happy to see Apple doing this. Even if it's 50% press fluff, I think it'll make other companies in the industry think harder about their own practices because Apple commands such a great reputation.

Ahh actually this makes a lot of sense. The thing is, I don't "pair" the scooter I ride - maybe it's Bluetooth LE?

Actually, I have an android phone around here somewhere loaded up with a BLE inspector app, gonna see if they actually broadcast bluetooth :-p

The Bird (scooter) iPhone app asked me for Bluetooth. It said something about "nearby scooters" which I think is a flat out lie because you unlock them via QR code? Probably also tracking...

Oh man this is exactly what I've been looking for. Spotify has the "Browse > Concerts" tab which shows upcoming concerts in your zip code for bands you've listened to on Spotify, but I've always wished I could just hit "Play."

Requested Nashville (c'mon, no Music City, USA??), look forward to giving this a spin!

Man what a shame, if they weren't a decade late (both in terms of competition and in terms of folks having trust in Facebook), this could have been cool.

This is super cool! I'd be really curious to see how the messaging to particular demographics compares as well. Wild that the Trump campaign is spending so much money...

Hmm, perhaps - though I feel the distrust progressives in the US feel toward Russia is warranted given their (well investigated) efforts to meddle in US politics, etc. I think xenophobia is more of an /unwarranted/ fear + hatred.

It is unfortunate that this fear extends to private Russian businesses, but it's difficult to discern how separate entities really are in tightly managed countries.

I totally agree this is getting into some cold-war-era territory though... US vs. Huawei has a similar vibe.

Yep this is correct, location history can be scraped from the EXIF data in the photos in your camera roll.

I think FaceApp in particular strikes a chord in the United States because it's owned by a Russian Company. Name + faces (and therefore age and gender and race) + Location is the kind of data that enabled a lot of granular facebook ad targeting in 2016.