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Counterpoint: there are plenty of companies making VR hardware but they all remain niche and struggle because they can’t subsidize their hardware by taking both losses and user data as part of the price. Meta are better at killing competition more than they are at innovating.

I am self-hosting with Gitea. Have action runners set up on my Windows PC and Mac (with a container for Linux). Works great.

AI is a tool. You can use it to make better software, or worse. In an ideal world we would use it to make better software; there’s enough bad software out there already.

Unfortunately, unfettered capitalism has few incentives to support that, and would rather we pushed out software faster with fewer people being paid less. Paying down tech debt has always been challenging.

So is the problem AI, or capitalism?

And when the heavy subsidies of cloud AI come to an end? Plus the Macbook can do other tasks as well; presumably you need a computer anyway so should deduct the value of a computer for non-AI tasks from the cost.

What about non-Finnish sauna heat? Or do I have to go to Finland?

Wow, totally ignores the one framework Microsoft developed that was actually a pleasure to use (WinForms). Avalon sucked IMO; it was just a continuation of the fever dream at the time of making everything XML (or XAML in that case). MFC sucked because it was C++. WinForms was that brief Window of “modern programming language with simple, elegant GUI framework”.

I know it’s not a popular opinion, and I am sure there were reasons Microsoft abandoned it, but that was a brief few years when I actually enjoyed building GUIs on Windows.

Because it’s a functional society that has a government that works for the citizenry and not a small cadre of wealthy sponsors?

ETTD

I do find it encouraging that there’s not a lot of pro-Trump sentiment on HN these days. Unlike, say, in October/November 2024…

Make sure to test you thyroid hormone levels

“Completely preventing X is impossible. As such, attempting to stop it is a foolish endeavor” has to be one of the dumbest arguments I’ve heard.

Substitute almost anything for X - “the robbing of banks”, “fatal car accidents”, etc.

Given the number of times Musk has been pissed or embarrassed by Grok saying things out of line with his extremist views, I wouldn’t be so quick to say it’s not intended. It would be easy enough to strip out of the returned system prompt.

And models eat apps over time. If you build an app that’s valuable, OpenAI takes note.

Same, mine is about to graduate with a CS masters from a great school. Couldn't get any internships, and is now incredibly negative about ever being able to find work, which doesn't help. We're pretty much looking at minimum wage jobs doing tech support for NGOs at this point (and the current wave of funding cuts from Federal government for those kind of orgs is certainly not going to help with that).

This is one of those places where having a selected “security image” makes sense. That popup should not just be easily spoofed text.