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gt565k | 7 hours ago | on: Tell HN: Apple development certificate server seems down?

Enterprise apps distributed via MDM & signed using in-house distribution certificates are dead in the water too with the error message "Unable to Verify App" showing on start-up.

Apple's status page is showing no problems (all green).

This is a really bad look for Apple.

gt565k | 2 years ago | on: Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues

It would appear the woke mind virus / DEI was deeply embedded into the core of the AI.

It refused to generate images of white people.

For example:

People would ask it to generate something like a picture of a German couple in 1820 and it would spit out images of Asian and Black couples.

Pictures of the founding fathers would also include weird things like native Americans and other ethnicities.

Other historical prompts would result in the same output - no white people.

Basically the AI went woke af.

gt565k | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: How Do You Budget?

Take the opposite approach.

It’s easier to calculate how much you want to save and save it upfront then the rest of the money can be spent.

Max out 401k - money never touched your bank account

Split direct deposit so a portion or multiple portions go to your investment account and/or savings account

The rest goes into checking account to pay for bills and lifestyle expenses.

Save the money up front and never let it touch the checking account!

You can start by giving yourself some buffer into your checking account and later dialing down those numbers in your direct deposit config.

It’s much easier to do it this way and not worry about every single expense line item. Just calculate how much you think you can save and never let that money touch your checking account. Evaluate every quarter and adjust the numbers at the front accordingly.

gt565k | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where do you live? What's good or bad about it?

Atlanta, Georgia

Pros: No natural disasters, fairly affordable, good schools.

2-3 hour flight to the Bahamas / Caribbean.

Cons: Summer weather sucks as it is too humid and hot. No winter / snow. Proximity to beach and mountains for skiing sucks.

Cant really enjoy the outdoor weather due to the sticky humidity most time of the year.

gt565k | 2 years ago | on: Refactoring has a price, not refactoring has a cost

Sure, but a lot of poorly written spaghetti code that works is sometimes impossible to extend or add new features to without a major refactor or complete rewrite.

Currently dealing with some 13 year old objective C code for a mobile app that’s gonna require a major rewrite cause it looks like it was written by someone who should have never been writing code in the first place

gt565k | 2 years ago | on: The U.S. Government Has $5B in Bitcoin

Heh, the Bulgarian government is so corrupt that they are all probably fighting and trying to find a way to launder the previously seized BTC used in money laundering.

gt565k | 2 years ago | on: Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

When going on a road trip Tesla calculates the time based on the route you put into navigation.

Obviously it will give a different estimate than stop and go traffic and starting the vehicle without pre-conditioning the battery.

Tesla does a great job with their scheduling functionality that lets you pre-condition battery before you leave and even when you near a supercharger to maximize charging efficiency of the battery.

gt565k | 2 years ago | on: Tesla created secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

ICE vehicles have lower range as well when going uphill or exceeding the optimal speed and increasing air drag.

The estimates are based on driving on a flat road at the speed limit.

Even my Lexus SUV can get 24mpg driving on 35-45mph roads vs 16-19 in the city or going to the mountains where elevation increases.

People's understanding of range is just not quite there yet whether it's for an ICE vehicle or an EV.

gt565k | 2 years ago | on: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

The overthinking, speculation, and wasted thoughts in the comments due to misinformed people attempting to spread unsubstantiated claims is quite shocking.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674887204580073474?s=20 ---- @elonmusk

"Several hundred organizations (maybe more) were scraping Twitter data extremely aggressively, to the point where it was affecting the real user experience.

What should we do to stop that? I’m open to ideas. 5:06 PM · Jun 30, 2023"

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674942336583757825?s=20 ---- @nearcyan

"so @elonmusk now that twitter blocks all requests that are not logged in, tweets can no longer be embedded in most chat apps

I'd strongly suggest reconsidering the UX+growth tradeoffs made here (take note how tiktok, youtube, etc, do not need this despite much higher b/w req!)"

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@elonmusk

"This will be unlocked shortly. Per my earlier post, drastic & immediate action was necessary due to EXTREME levels of data scraping.

Almost every company doing AI, from startups to some of the biggest corporations on Earth, was scraping vast amounts of data.

It is rather galling to have to bring large numbers of servers online on an emergency basis just to facilitate some AI startup’s outrageous valuation."

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