stavros's comments

On: Mistral OCR

[stavros]

What do you mean by "free"? Using the OpenAI vision API, for example, for OCR is quite a bit more expensive than $1/1k pages.

On: There Was a Texas Lottery Arbitrage

[stavros]

This doesn't say anything about how she did it, was it just luck or was there some method?

On: Now there are two Chinese automakers on the top list

[stavros]

I got a Seal for 40k EUR (after the subsidy), and it's a great car in general, but absolutely fantastic for that price. I don't think you can find a comparable car for anywhere near that amount of money.

On: Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

[stavros]

"It has no ads" and "it's not surprising that it has ads" are basically opposites.

On: Finland applies the “Housing First” concept (2020)

[stavros]

It seems like this is free housing, but near the end it says that some people don't manage to pay the rent? Does anyone know if this is free or not?

[Ekaros → stavros]

Basically most of the cases end up so that municipal entities are those providing social housing. And on other side they are also last resort welfare. Generally welfare payments for housing and cost of living is paid directly to accounts of those receiving benefits, but in small number of cases who can not manage their own money it is paid directly from welfare to municipal(more rarely private was these people have really screwed up credit) social housing.

[martinald → stavros]

If it's similar to the UK they will get the money for the rent paid to them from the govt, but they have to pay it to the "landlord". In the UK some people can be eligible for direct rent payments to landlords.

[stavros → martinald]

Hmm, the article says the landlord is the NGO (unless I've misunderstood). Maybe it's as you say, though.

[noselasd → stavros]

You pay rent. You get the money to pay the rent from social security benefits.

[closewith → stavros]

There's a token rent linked to income.

On: Finland applies the “Housing First” concept (2020)

[stavros]

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say "they don't force them".

On: Dear Apple: Add "Disappearing Messages" to iMessage

[stavros]

Dear commenter, comment on some other article instead.

On: Dear Apple: Add "Disappearing Messages" to iMessage

[stavros]

I really don't understand this "I don't want to have a choice" mindset that I only see here for stuff relating to Apple.

Why would you want something to be missing for everyone, when the people who don't want it could just not use it?

[jisnsm → stavros]

Because even if you don’t want to use a feature, others will use it with you.

[stavros → jisnsm]

But you can still turn it off.

[jisnsm → stavros]

Others will text you and insist that you keep the feature on for the conversation.

[stavros → jisnsm]

If someone will absolutely not accept talking without disappearing messages, they probably won't go "well iMessage doesn't have the feature so I might as well talk without it", they'd ask that you switch over to an app that does have it.

[jisnsm → stavros]

I disagree, because I’ve lived it and I know how it goes.

It’s the same as unsending messages - you can ask people not to do it, but if the option exists, they will do it anyway. I’d rather that options I don’t like don’t exist.

[DrillShopper → jisnsm]

There are several people I know who have messaged me on Discord while I'm working/busy/sleeping and then deleted the message after it didn't get a response "fast enough" for them. However, the messages stay in the phone notifications, so I'll reply to them.

Lost a friend over that, actually. "Well you should have respected my wish to not read those messages" "THEN DON'T SEND THEM"

On: The Differences Between Deep Research, Deep Research, and Deep Research

[stavros]

> it does highlight the stark gulf that exists between the capability of the most advanced AI systems and what we expect as "normal competency" from the most average person

Yes, but now we're at the point where we can compare AI to a person, whereas five years ago the gap was so big that that was just unthinkable.

[EncomLab → stavros]

I mean people thought ELIZA was AI back in the 1960's. Everyone always thinks "this is it!!".

[mdp2021 → EncomLab]

> people thought ELIZA

But which people? Those people which show that a supplement of extra intelligence, also synthetic, is sought.

[Asraelite → EncomLab]

It was. The definition of "AI" keeps shifting.

On: We're Charging Our Cars Wrong

[stavros]

Owning an EV, I can confirm your numbers. I'm in a 240V country, but level 1 is still pretty slow. It's great for the home, but I'd want at least 3-phase AC charging when I'm out.

[loeg → stavros]

Yeah, FWIW I also have an EV, get ~2.2 mi/kWh highway and ~3 around town, and L1 charging on 120V gets me, you know, 1.0-1.1 kW.