skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I’m missing something obvious but shouldn’t the SIRI “platform” already be ready to integrate LLMs as just yet another processing API behind the scenes?

Like why wouldn’t Siri with GPT-n behind it just totally crush anything that any other possible competitor could do? Distribution and adoption of SIRI was complete over a decade ago.

I just don’t see how anyone could compete on a voice assistant tool with apple and google. I mean I WISH it was possible but the reality is different.
>People get into prestigious universities because they know how to be "successful" and are not necessarily successful because they went to the prestigious school.

It also depends on what the "lesser" schools are. I expect that if someone missed out on the significantly random admissions lottery to get into Harvard but were admitted to Dartmouth, Cornell, or Williams (or even UMass Amherst) instead, I expect that if they'd have done well at Harvard they'll do just fine.

I expect for the lower socio-economic students, the delta is probably related to being among fellow students who maybe set a bit higher bar than other schools would.
Things are already possible on today's hardware, see https://github.com/mlc-ai/mlc-llm which allows many models to be run on M1/M2 Macs, WASM, iOS and more. The main limiting factor will be small enough, high quality enough models that performance is high enough ultimately this is HW limited and they will need to improve the neural engine/map more computation on to it to make the mobile exp. possible.
I initially hated ligatures. Decided to give them a try with JetBrains Mono.

Now when they are turned off I feel like something is missing, and scramble to turn then on again. For whatever reason my brain feels more comfortable with them.
Ultimately the existence of elite universities is the root of the problem. Most colleges take a huge majority of the students who apply, so neither legacy students nor affirmative action make too much a difference for them. Universities should be more like this and less like incubators for the ruling class.

All of the drama recently revolves around wealthy students being denied their rubber stamps or underprivileged students being denied their golden ticket. It’s bad that college performs these functions, so let’s work to fix that.
AI-powered storytelling tool catches fire with Gen Z
It exists at Calder also, Florida regs require pari-mutuel activity to qualify for a slot machine license. They replaced the expenses of running a horse racing meet (and cleared up tons of land they could sell) with jai-alai and they pay a few locals to put on an exhibition. I say exhibition because, although it is bettable, most games get fewer than $20 and the attendance is typically less than a local gym's pickup basketball game.
Looks like it's working. Previously I was getting

dig gmail.com @1.1.1.1
;; Warning: Message parser reports malformed message packet.

; <<>> DiG 9.10.6 <<>> gmail.com @1.1.1.1
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 55809
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: Message has 1167 extra bytes at end

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;gmail.com. IN A

;; Query time: 5 msec
;; SERVER: 1.1.1.1#53(1.1.1.1)
;; WHEN: Wed Jul 19 10:33:59 PDT 2023
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 1212

The malformed was coming from every IP I tried (router, cloudflare, google)
We are fixing this! We are introducing "Global Authentication" files that can be defined once and used in as many collections as you want.

In the next 1-2 months you will see the biggest amount of improvements the Insomnia application has ever seen, since here at Kong we are pouring tons of resources into it.
Why does everybody do this? RFK talks about some study or the results of some lawsuit, and then people convert that into "he thinks/believes xyz, what a kook".

None of the things that people claim he believes (as far as I've seen anyway) are things that he just dreamed up in his head. They always tie back to something that somebody else published. That doesn't mean the claim in question is correct of course, but it does mean that you're being pretty sloppy when you say things like "He thinks wifi causes cancer and leaky brains. He doesn't think AIDs is caused by HIV ."

It wouldn't bother me if people said "he repeats things from studies that I dont believe, what a kook" or "he misinterprets studies, what a kook". Saying "he thinks/believes xyz" is weak sauce imho.
I've never hated comic sans at all. I think it's an attractive, easy-to-read font.

The problem with it is that it kept being used for inappropriate things, which is annoying and distracting, but that's not a problem with the font itself.
Any way that you fall, the pins will catch the bar before it lands on you. Failing safely, for the most part, only requires knowing how to set up the rack and safety pins properly.

Even barring that, the injury rate in squatting is quite low compared to most other sports and athletic activities of similar intensity.
In such companies it should be straightforward to request a particular keyboard for health reasons (risk of RSI). If you're lucky you can get exactly what you want, at worst it would be a Kinesis Advantage or Maltron.
Using newer CUDA version with supported hardware and software boost performance
I hate that I can't view the calendar separately from the email editor... it is convenient to have the integration in terms of invites/notifications and the availability for scheduling meetings is nice.

My biggest gripe is the distributed db that backs exchange/outlook365 mail on their server... I operate on inbox-zero and when I clear all the filtered mail out, then try to empty the "trash" I either have to wait 2 minutes for all the other deletes to sync to the trash, or empty the trash multiple times.

It's significantly worse than it was in the 90's on dedicated server(s), though back then the hardware was really easy to overwhelm with too much email/activity.
Well, the decision isn't between having feral chickens vs. caging them.

Domesticated chickens are bred into existence. We could just stop doing that if we had ethical problems with it. The consideration doesn't hinge on whether there exists some wild variant of the animal we're breeding.
Ask HN: Do people often change careers by returning to an early hobby/interest?
Did that happen with you?
The short answer is that an async function in rust (and C++ and C#) is rewritten by the compiler to become a state machine (a struct + an enum to discriminate the current state + an union store local variables). You could do it by hand, though of course it's tedious and error prone. Hence why almost nobody writes software like that.

For the compiler, the state machine code is amenable to optimizations. You can find examples online where a chain of async function is optimized to a single call in the main.

In contrast green thread and the like are very similar to a kernel thread. The difference is they are lighter because there is less bagage to carry around. But composing green threads require an arguably light context switch.
I really hope this works. Siri is essentially useless except for very small commands like "Call X", and even if X is a clear and unique name sometimes it messes it up. Apple is miles behind google and alexa :/
And in 100 years you will need to have your brain scanned to withdraw cash. The process will validate both your identity and that you aren't being coerced.

It has to stop somewhere. 100% security may reduce the banks' fraud costs but it isn't acceptable for personal freedom. "Choose a different bank then" only works until all they all adopt it.
Am I reading this right - any system with ssh-agent installed by default is vulnerable?

The link is short on specifics.
It's kind of begging the question to assume multigenerational family ties to a university are "not merit" when a big part of a university's value proposition is social networking: One doesn't go to Harvard just to take courses; one goes to Harvard to bump shoulders with the scions of dictators / diplomats / "captains of industry" etc. Personally I didn't understand that at the time, would have rejected the notion on principle, and still don't really like it, but is definitely worth consideration
> On the other hand, it's already difficult to retain talent, and a single good manager can be transformational for a team. Between this and the RTO shenanigans — both of which seem to be widespread across the tech industry these days — it's tough to see why talented managers would stay, let alone put in hard work.

It's too hard to actually measure performance, so most managers are just horribly incompetent parasites
I think it was, and Tokio appears to implement green threads as well with `tokio::spawn()`
I bought a small side project that was already making some money. Boom.
I see. So this comes from a temperate climate perspective, where it's historically been the case that everyone _needs_ heat but cooling is an optional luxury. This perspective would seem to need revisiting with a changing climate and in a global context.
> It's funny you mention ads though. One reason that it's so hard to find an SEO person that's actually worth anything is that if they were really good at what they did, they could just throw up their own websites with ads and make a much better living that way than selling SEO services. They don't of course, which should tell you something about how good they really are.

That doesn't even make sense. SEOs exist to make sure websites are more consumable by bots for search indexing. They likely have no backend experience or much experience working directly with css/html, and are more likely dealing with full stack developers who have no desire to understand how their code is functional for users but isn't consumable by bots. The most successful deal with brick and mortar companies which require actual capital to create and not just SEO skillz, and anyone with a brain would know dropshipping is so 2014 (there's like a million of these failed journeys documented on random boards like blackhatworld where people try to monetize search like you suggested, but it's a hella minority because we are deep into the enshittification of search). SEO is important to deal with things like the proliferation of angular 1, which was a hellhole abyss for startups in search because google wouldn't index their shit and developers needed to iterate fast. Hell, a large part of the react community is based around things like server side rendering just to get around google bot refusing to let JavaScript load and search results were polluted with handlebars variables for years because of that. Google bot still has problem rendering webpages while I do all of that shit all day with google's own puppeteer.

Tl;dr: SEOs are a cottage industry to help companies deal with the ongoing enshittification of search, and basing their value or success on whether they could launch their own site isn't a good benchmark.
Exactly so. I know a guy who got into the top MBA program in the nation (U of C). He had no undergrad degree, but was born to a wealthy family. His wife was born to an even wealthier family, and he quickly after flunking out of undergrad within a few years found a career as an executive.

Connect the dots on how all that works.

(Curiously he insists he's a "pulled himself up by his bootstraps" type character)
100%. Give me an intelligent agent that integrates with calendar, reminders, notes, messages, mail, *shortcuts* and the Finder. Zapier actually has a decent UI for this which integrates with OpenAI.
Apple’s AI Strategy: on-device models
I don't know, that looks a lot like Tailwind to me.
None of that really matters to a company like Prusa who has to pay salaries now, not in the future when these failed devices break and the customer is done being strung along for months.

The advice to investors applies here as well, “the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent”
Some more from the top of my mind:

- Apple Pay JS

- MusicKit JS

- Sign in with Apple JS

- App Store Connect API (not really user facing, but still)
Who do you will be lining up to buy AIGC software?

The article links to a tweet where hustlebros build a 500-page WP site with "best shoes 2023" type articles with affiiate links. It's already semi-automated, AI GC is just the final piece.
Wouldn't that still cause a correlation between schools that have legacy scholarships and alumni giving? In your lotto ticket example, there is a correlation between the jackpot and the number of tickets sold.
There’s no such thing as “superhuman” morality, morality is just social mores and norms accepted by the people in a society at some given time. It does not advance or decline, but it changes.

What you’re talking about is a very small subset of the population forcing their beliefs on everyone else by encoding them in AI. Maybe that’s what we should do but we should be honest about it.
Lolcommits – Take a snapshot every time you commit
Could be slightly worse... I can't access my personal calendar and my work calendar on the same device. I have to constantly check both (dr appts on personal) vs work meetings on the company laptop.
> "JavaScript is also a promising core technology for the new multimedia publishing tool that Macromedia is building."

I believe Bud Colligan may have been speaking about ActionScript in this quote, the scripting language found in their yet to be launched Macromedia Flash product. Of course, Flash is no more... and neither is Macromedia. Time flies!
Heh I absolutely love Arch, and probably would never have made it to the point of being able to do Void or FreeBSD installs if it wasn't for Arch and its excellent docs. But yeah, some kinda annoying stuff with it lately.
AIGC is absolutely already here. Recently I was trying to find information about a miter slot on a piece of equipment. One of the more helpful articles had a quick shout-out to miter slots in the middle of a listicle about casino slot machines.
Doubtful.

The only reason the cost of college is high is because 18 year olds that know nothing about finance don't have to pay for it now because they can get loans.

You take away the loans, and you take away the ability of the college to charge whatever it wants and kids keep paying.
Sharing code between Deno and Node where Bun and ts-node failed
It doesn’t; it’s a convention that the programmer is expected to honor. You could pass in a different function pointer instead (or something that isn’t a function pointer at all), and the behavior would be undefined.
With AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean and family present as core language features.
Well, the cursive is optional anyway. Also not my cup of tea, and I write in cursive.

Font looks awesome otherwise.
Exactly, the universities are extremely wealthy and could in principle choose to use that money to increase intake, but then it dilutes their status as a luxury brand, so they don't do it. But what business is it of the university to be a luxury brand anyway? They should be simply maximising the public good, and that means taking way more students with the huge endowments they have.
This didn't work in the same way it doesn't work with insurance: students are limited by more than just price alone. Location matters a lot (a student may be staying with their parents). And also if all univiersities raise their prices in this way, there's nothing the students can do.
At some point you don't. The cure becomes worse than the disease. Maybe if you could give users the option to enable it. But let's be honest, if this ships every bank will require it. Good luck checking your balance on Linux or a rooted Android phone. You will get an approved operating system to keep your cash under your bed.
As a user I agree but...

I think the cost of running these models is still astronomical, and unlike ms and google apple just doesnt really have cloud compute at their scale. So I could imagine they might run this as a premium service first to build hype, and then figure out bringing it down in cost over time.

A bit like the vision pro, its a premium product now, but I could imagine 3-6 years down the line it will cost around an ipad pro. Apple is really good at scaling things once they see the market. But suddenly switching everyone to a gpt-3.5 for siri overnight would be a humongous cost (I think).
> I do NOT want my code looking one way in the editor, and another when reading PRs on the web.

Some PR tools let you select your font. I think more should.

For one example on the web today, you can use github.dev (shortcut '.' on the github.com page for the PR) to open GitHub PRs in the web version of VS Code, which will Settings Sync, including font choice, with your regular VS Code profile. (Though, of course, that uses the GitHub Issues and Pull Requests extension to provide PR tools, and you can also just install that same extension locally into VS Code and never visit the web in the first place and just use VS Code for PR reviews if you like.)
Signal API is also another solution.
SAT score floor + lottery?
That's a simple case, I've seen much worse because of endianess and different archs have different conventions for whether char is signed or unsigned by default (common these days with arm/X86). Any C programmer who's coded for X86 and ARM will know what the rules are and how not to break them (I'd like to hope, anyway).
Ask HN: Is Code Commenting Outdated?
Just saw a Reddit comment saying that code commenting is an outdated practice and code should be self commenting. Personally, I like commented code, I think it's easier to read. I wanted to get HN's thoughts on this.

Link to comment - https://www.reddit.com/r/SoftwareEngineering/comments/153y4cm/comment/jslnvvc/

Extra commentary from me: I've never read the mythical man month but I've heard mixed reviews, is it worth a read?
Given that a drug's concentration in your bloodstream is absolutely critical for prescribing them, and considering that this is calculated using Calculus, you'd better hope your GP does actually know their Calculus!
(correction: his company's former attorneys; still a pretty weird situation)
I am in Thailand now and this time of the year the weather is usually unbearably hot and humid. It is surprisingly cool and the humidity is down. If it wasn't for the mosquitos, I'd turn off the air-conditioner and just open the windows.

I am not sure if it is pure luck for this summer or climate change effects. We'll see if it holds until the end the summer.
I do think it'd be nice if people mostly posted links that were accessible to the general public. At least paywalled articles usually have a link in the comments where they can be read. Many times tweets could even be pasted as text into a comment to make them accessible.
Nobody is an island. I would guess that the vast majority of cases of "blow their whole paycheck at the casino" is going to lead to some problem that society is going to have to solve afterwards.
The track star olympiad sounds like they have a bright career in track. I don't see what that has to do with academics.
Zig does not have closures, and probably never will barring someone coming up with a nice, no hidden flow idea for captures.
Earnings is probably a reasonable proxy for something like a business school. I'm not sure it's great for a liberal arts college. Way back when, I looked at some of this stuff and you're right that figuring out what outcome(s) to fit to is challenging. Undergrad GPA is pretty clearly not what you want either but generalized career or life success is pretty hard to quantify.
It's exploitable only by a SSH server that you connect to with agent forwarding enabled (i.e. one that you're already trusting with access to your SSH keys).
> Blizzard says it will bring “a selection” of its games to Steam, but did not specify which titles beyond Overwatch 2 will make the jump from Battle.net.

Listen unless you allow me to buy the original WC3 or SC1 I really don't care, there has been very little blizzard has built lately that is that good.

Its actually interesting in a way that Blizzard singlehandedly created 3 new generes of gaming because of how flexible their WC3 editor was. A different company a different time.
A Novel Approach to LLM Prompt Injection Using Genetic Algorithms
A research I did about automating prompt injection using genetic algorithms
To chime in Apple already has a lot of great ML talent they are just far more deliberate and slow to change their products. People forget that FaceID was/is one of the most cutting edge ML features ever developed/deployed when it was released a few years ago.

Siri is sort of a red herring because its built by teams and tech that existed before Apple acquired most of its ML talent and some of its inability to evolve has been due to internal politics not the inability to build tech. iOS 17 is an example of Apple moving towards more deep learning speech/text work. I would bet heavily we will see them catch up with well integrated pieces as they have Money, infra, and already the ability to go wide (i.e all iOS users, again think FaceID).
Teams << Slack < Discord when it comes to chat but it's still Slack << Teams < Zoom for video which is where I see it displacing competitors the most.

If your office has a culture of email for written communication and the chat feature is sparingly used and mostly for quick 1-1 messages or "can I call you?" then it's passable.
Worldwide, ten to twenty times as many deaths are caused by excessive cold as are caused by excessive heat.

https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/human-deaths-from-...

https://www.wunderground.com/cat6/Which-Kills-More-People-Ex...
Then we might as well admit that "merit" is heavily influenced by starting conditions instead of pretending that everyone has "equal opportunity". How many times have I heard from people that the USA is about "equality of opportunity" and not "equality of outcome"? Legacy admissions is directly contrary to equality of opportunity, and undermines the idea of meritocracy in university admissions that people have been crowing about in anti-affirmative-action rhetoric.
This reminds me of shhgit (github.com/eth0izzle/shhgit) which runned a similar service!
Thank you for writing this. Remote attestation for consumer software is such a disturbing idea.

In the past the main adversarial pressure has been exploiting security vulnerabilities ("jailbreaking"), but the software industry is getting its act together re that.
Untrue, at least for the older intel ones. Have put linux and windows on a few of them over the years. The m* line one sure.. but linux support is coming and honestly macos isn't so bad if you are just using it to run homeserver stuff like file sharing/plex/etc.

I do hope that apple reverses some of it's recent 'lets just solder everything to the board' tendencies (especially in regards to storage), maybe they can start with the minis/studios and move down until the thiness of the air line means they can't anymore. Maybe the EU can sue the shit out of them like they did around the lightning cable. It's less clear to me if the soldered in RAM is a requirement of the design of the m* platform or not, but the storage certainly should certainly move to a standard like m.2/m.3/u.2. I managed to wear out the storage on a touchbar intel powerbook and getting the storage replaced basically meant getting a refurbed laptop, it took several days.
So something is a 'high profile failure' when 99.99% (and I am talking about people who know Musk) of people don't know about and cost a few 10000$. That's not my definition of the term.