We are trying to design our kitchen for a renovation and I can see how these 3 constraints would be useful for us to do for something more about design than software.
I was just telling some ex coworker friends that there was a great need for a compose frontend to more powerful infra backends, and this feels like the answer.
Once I get working on it I’ll try to add health check support. That is crucial for a lot of what we’re working on.
> And they didn't even bother to test the most important thing. Were the LLM evaluations even accurate!
This is not true; the professor and the TAs graded every student submission. See this paragraph from the article:
(Just in case you are wondering, I graded all exams myself and I asked the TA to also grade the exams; we mostly agreed with the LLM grades, and I aligned mostly with the softie Gemini. However, when examining the cases when my grades disagreed with the council, I found that the council was more consistent across students and I often thought that the council graded more strictly but more fairly.)
There are a couple big problems with this type of digital and decentralized type of authentication (I say this as a long time cryptocurrency professional who wants this to succeed):
1. backups and account recovery: We’re working with humans here. They will lose their keys in great numbers, sometimes into the hands of malicious actors. How do users then recover their credentials in a quick and reliable manner?
2. Fragmentation: let’s be optimistic and say digital credentials for drivers licenses are given out by _only_ 50 entities (one per State). Assuming we don’t have a single federal format for them (read: politically infeasible national id) how does facebook, let alone some rando startup, handle parsing and authenticating all these different credential formats? Oh and they can change at any time, due to some rando political issue in the given state.
OP, you clearly know all this, so I’m just reminding you as someone down in the identity trenches.
You seem like a knowledgeable crypto user. Can you help integrate lightning payments with x402? Then we'll be rid of this Base/corporate-tech nonsense.
This isn’t enough information about the study to tease out cause and effect. There may be a third confounding variable that positively impacts both entrepreneurship growth and Starbucks growth.
For instance, what if Starbucks only decides to move into neighborhoods that have reached a certain level of economic growth (ie number of households, number of business, etc…)? Neighborhood economic growth would likely attract entrepreneurs as well, and we wouldn’t be able to conclude that Starbucks had anything to do with entrepreneurship growth.
Said a different way, would adding Starbucks in the middle of the Atacama desert grow Peruvian entrepreneurs? I mean come on it’d be the only third space around!
I can’t read the full paper because I don’t have a subscription, but the fact that they don’t call this out in the abstract makes me doubt it’s a meaningful conclusion.
The author mentions putting 20% down and getting a mortgage. Even with insurance, for a 10 year mortgage 29k is 430 per month. Or you live with your parents and save on $1500 rent for 2 years, bam you can buy it with cash.
As someone who grew up in the state of Vermont, where billboards have been outlawed since the 60’s, this feels do-able. It is also such a high leverage change that I’m going to keep thinking about this.
Checkout out the README; it gives you a straightforward idea of how Navi works. Currently only works for Notion, but the idea is to make any notetaking tool (Obsidian, Evernote, Google docs, etc...) be ingestable by Navi.
Next steps are to make an SRS plugin, and to make a HTMX-based website so it's useable beyond just the CLI.
I’m from Burlington and a couple weeks ago downtown I noticed a group of 2 or 3 people walking past me in full black clothing with ski masks (the kind you rob banks with).
I thought it was strange, having never seen that before except on Halloween, but didn’t think to alert any authorities specifically because Burlington is filled with people dressing differently and doing strange things. But 99% of the time it’s totally non violent and benign.
I use Brave which is based off of Chromium just like Chrome, and the experience is great. I’d say I’ve had to go to chrome maybe 3 times in the last year, and it was always for some super complicated SPA.
Whatever decrease we see to our browsing experience will be worth the gains I expect to see from dealing a blow to a monopoly like Google.
I am working on a personal digital mentor, in the spirit of Dross from Will Wight's "Cradle" series.
I am a huge notetaker, so I'm trying to do RAG on my notes every week and have the mentor run a scrum-like retrospective for me. So far I've got the data ingestion from Notion finished, and next I need to setup the LLM mentor component as well as the CLI interface. For this first MVP I'm just trying to do better than Notion AI's response when I tell it something like "look at the last 7 days of notes I've taken and run a retro with me.
I like it because it scratches a personal-improvement itch of mine, it's a nice project to become acquainted with the popular LLM app tech, and I can share it with others who may find it useful.
It has definitely found a niche in the crypto space, specifically with the node clients and the underlying new cryptography libraries they use. For instance, the more efficient Ethereum devs can make their node clients, the cheaper it is to run and the more people around the world can run it, which increases decentralization. Rust makes this possible without compromising on stability and maintainability.
I’m gonna go do these…