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Revenue != profit


Correct, but he also explicitly said the reports that it was losing money were "not true". Given that he's a VP at GitHub, I would consider him to be more authoritative on the matter than the WSJ's "multiple sources."


Are you using ChatGPT 4 or 3.5? GPT 4 is phenomenal.


How are you prompting ChatGPT such that you get useful results in a real world code base? It doesn’t have any context. The context is what makes Copilot work.

By default, ChatGPT can only give a generic answer. Do you just paste the entire file in there?

For example let’s say I want to write a function foo() that calls functions bar() and baz() defined in the same file and uses a library Y that I already imported. If I just write the name of the function, Copilot will often autocomplete a reasonable body for me. If I wanted to use ChatGPT then I would have to first tell it about foo() and bar() and the dependency on Y, and by the time I’ve finished telling it about all of that I could have written the function by hand twice over.


ycombinator.com is down too


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I can write fairly well, but it takes so much time and energy.

How do I become more confident and efficient with my writing? That’s what I’m curious about.


Good writing, like anything worth pursuing to a certain level of quality, takes practice. Lots and lots of practice.

Pascal, in a letter, famously wrote something along the lines of "I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter."

More practically, I think Pinker offers great advice in his "The Sense of Style".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sense_of_Style


"If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter"


I don’t trust Amazon Alexa’s privacy standard, let alone a video camera.


I sometimes wonder what would the great dystopian writers of the 20th century make of the fact that people would one day say "hey telescreen, show me recipes for spaghetti" after buying it for the low low price of 49.99.


Amazon's Blink motion-detecting cameras don't have a hardware power switch..

https://safetywish.com/how-to-disable-blink-cameras/


i mean that kind of makes sense for a security camera, right?


If you get close enough to a CCTV camera that you can remove the panel covering the reset switch and network connection, you can just put tape over the lens.


For an indoor camera used by consumers? Perhaps they only want the security camera turned on when they are not at home.

Is there any other camera without an off switch, consumer or enterprise?


I have a bunch of different cameras, nest, Wyze, Amazon - none have on/off switches. Just plug in USB for power and they start up.


At least they can be unplugged.


Simplisafe cameras have a powered privacy cover that physically blocks the lens.


Can I ask why?

You have every reason not to want a smart speaker that learns about your questions and prompts to give you better targeted ads.

You also have every reason not to want to buy a piece of hardware fundamentally dependent on a server-side service the company could choose to turn off at any moment leaving you with a brick.

But people seem to treat these smart speakers with the kind of suspicion that would only be appropriate if you actually thought the speaker was listening all the time to your everyday conversations to truly INVADE your privacy.

Which - maybe you would think about a random piece of junk from a disreputable company (if you ignore the monumental amount of bandwidth this would involve that would likely be infeasible).

But I feel like you can probably trust weirdly enough companies like Amazon and Facebook NOT to do this because of the colossal news story it would be.

The other reason I can imagine technologists on here to not trust smart devices is that they might be used as a weakspot to hack into your network. Again - I can see not trusting that from a random 3rd party, but Amazon knows how to create strong secure systems. If you trust Cisco or Asus or 3Com to buy a router from them, it's really no different.


Because everything you said in your own home will be stored somewhere forever, ready for dragnet batch processing, just waiting for an appropriate witch-hunt, wrongthink prosecution or whatever. It's possible to verify that a router doesn't ship your (presumably encrypted when you care) traffic somewhere for permanent storage, with these devices it's their exact job.


HUH? you realize the device only enables the microphone based on the wakeword, and only then starts sending traffic out.

This is easily verifiable, and has been done so multiple times by independent parties.


>enables the microphone

The microphone is always listening, waiting for the wake word. If it can discern a wake word, it can speech-to-text everything (or will be able very soon), good luck noticing your daily <10kb of compressed text in what it sends up.

And this camera is a security camera, it's designed to send up video and audio 24/7.


If we're going to enter the land of "if it's possible (or not possible today, but possible very soon)", are you concerned with your router embedding such a capability? Your phone has a microphone. Are you concerned that Google or Apple are sending 10kb of compressed text daily after recording you all day?

If not, why not?


I am, therefore my AOSP phone is google-free.


Yes.


> And this camera is a security camera, it's designed to send up video and audio 24/7.

Definitely not blink.

These cheapskates only stream like 10 seconds before prompting you "continue?"


The problem isn't even intentional spying, it's what data about you becomes available via the metadata saved from every day filtering.


Thanks for the feedback!


I really like this, but it makes me nervous to use it in a production environment. I think if you market it as a recommendation engine instead of automatic deleter, it will be more appealing.

Separate question: If I put an Elastic Beanstalk application on the allowlist, will the app protect all related resources (load balancers, EC2 instances, VPCs, etc)?


This isn't really for a production environment. In prod you know what resources you have/need so you generally won't have anything in there that are "abandoned" per se. However, you could run this in the dry run mode and use the logs to see what you should and shouldn't clean up yourself.

Regarding Elastic Beanstalk, that's a great pick up. This is something I implemented for CloudFormation but completely forgot that Elastic Beanstalk creates resources in your account on your behalf. I'll work on adding those resources to the allowlist if the Elastic Beanstalk Application is allowlisted. Thanks.


We’re working hard to fix bugs and improve the user experience. Thanks for the feedback!


Thanks!


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