This will supplement two of ChatGPT's larger deficiences: math and the veracity of its output. It'll be interesting to see how they price this integration, and how long OpenAI will maintain the $20 pricing for ChatGPT+.
Readit Newsrealmod commented on ChatGPT can now call Wolfram Alpha writings.stephenwolfram.c... · Posted by u/glorken
They have a window of less than 6 month to create a monopoly before their tech get commoditized.
The play is well know: create a marketplace with customers and vendors like Amazon, Facebook, Google.
But with GPT-4 training finished last summer they had plenty of time for strategy.
Yeah. I really underestimated OpenAI's ability to productize ChatGPT.
Larger improvement than I expected.
realmod commented on Common Beginner Mistakes with React joshwcomeau.com/react/com... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon
I stopped guys, I stopped doing it. For internal tools at my company, I just use a golang backend (because most of our services are golang so there's no learning curve for folks) and use go's templating system to render HTML.
I can crank out tools in minutes. No complicated build systems or web pack or dependency management system. No react, no reduce, no apollo or graphql. No typescript, etc.
Just simple go, html, css, and a bit of javascript when it's needed for a form. I don't minimize anything, or try to do anything fancy. It faster to develop in, and faster to load in the browser.
I'm specifically talking about internal tools here.
> a bit of javascript when it's needed for a form.
Until you get told to implement more reactive features, then it's over. Using Pure JS/JQuery for reactiveness is outright horrible.
realmod commented on Urgent: Sign the petition now ycombinator.com/blog/urge... · Posted by u/version_five
realmod commented on Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music riffusion.com/about... · Posted by u/MitPitt
Wow, absolutely fascinating. AI will continue to revolutionize our current approaches.
> that asked explicitly for a huge set of the users Facebook permissions which then led to scraping and spam.
I seem to remember early 2010s... I had written a few small FB apps, and ... the minimal permissions it would ask for from people were... large. IIRC, the minimal permissions always included access to friend lists, even when I had 0 intention of using that. I didn't want it, but there was no way to opt out. I suspect it's somewhat more granular now, and less intrusive out of the box, but... yeah, when your defaults/minimums are expansive, you'll get stuff like that. I think the CA stuff still happened while those defaults were in place (although they may have also asked for more permissions too).
Facebook API is today very granular and a lot stricter, in fact their system is borderline onerous for developers. They've obviously learned from the Cambridge Analytica situation, and I understand the need for the requirements, but unfortunately it also stops all smaller projects.
realmod commented on 4th leak reported on Nord Stream pipelines in Baltic Sea apnews.com/article/russia... · Posted by u/geox
The discourse regarding this incident is deranged. Despite all the resources put into teaching intellectuals and academians to exercise critical thinking, they still believe the most absurd claims without any evidence.
The claims I've seen circulating are all insane, such as that Russia did it to avoid being found guilty of contract violations or that they did it to attack the Norway-Baltic pipeline. Note that the Nord Stream pipelines' total capacity is 150+ BCM, whereas the Norway-Baltic pipeline is only 10BCM NG - less than 1/10th.
Russia has gained zero, whereas EU countries have removed an internal pressure point, and the USA has gained a larger energy share. I don't know who sabotaged the pipelines, but the superficial blaming of Russia without any evidence should be criticized.
Lastly, I detest all attacks and invasions of sovereign entities.
realmod commented on Ask HN: What is the future of the economy and government in Sri Lanka? · Posted by u/walrus01
Pakistan looks to be next. There will likely be some debt renegotiation and a bailout, attached with some pretty onerous terms I'm sure. A possible bad path is if the US decides to make an example out of Sri Lanka because it went all in on China's debt trap diplomacy. Does Sri Lanka occupy a strategic location on the busiest sea lanes? If so, then there may be some competition between China and the Quad that may play out in an interesting way.
> it went all in on China's debt trap diplomacy
No. Debt owed to China is less than 10% of Sri Lanka's total debt. And it owes a lot more to western nations/institutes.
I'm still shocked how this clearly unsubstantiated claim continues to circulate. The so called "China debt trap diplomacy" is a phenomenon mostly fabricated/promoted by columnists with a clear agenda.
realmod commented on Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources reuters.com/technology/ex... · Posted by u/thm
I kinda doubt it. Notable people were using Twitter long before blue checks were a thing, and although people threaten to leave twitter for other platforms, they usually come back.
Instead, I think his ideas for blue check verification won’t happen because blue checks are unofficially a carrot that Twitter can hang for brands that spend on their ad platform.
I wasn't even considering the people who threatened to leave in response to Elon's takeover - the true number would be inconsequential.
> Notable people were using Twitter long before blue checks were a thing
True. Now that I think about it, I most definitely oversold it. Blue-check is a nice to have benefit but notable accounts are still today religiously using Twitter despite not being verified. I think I was focusing too much on the journalist clique on Twitter and their excessive desire for a blue-check.