skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Received messages are always grey. It's sent messgaes that change colors. So a message from an Android, iPhone, windows phone, feature phone, etc. will always appear with a grey bubble. A sent imessage message to an iPhone user will be blue. A sent SMS text message to a iphone, android phone, feature phone, etc. will be in a green bubble.
Nope. That's not how it works.

Even if it is legal to collect that information, it does not imply that it's legal (or desirable to begin with) to feed that information to a blackbox algorithm.
You can cross-compile iOS apps.
Maybe the work needs to go into developing better UX, not so much UI or what the various tools can do. Look at PySimpleGUI (of which I was reminded of from a recent post here) for a good example of a nice project for the masses - we need better software for users.

We need better applications that have better UX.
Buying stealable big ticket stuff like this on Amazon is something I just realized I have never done. I haven't had issues with Amazon drivers stealing my packages, but I sure as hell have gone through issues with my fucking neighbors stealing my packages. Apartment living is hell. /rant

Game consoles and guitars I generally buy in person. Sure, there's corner cases, like buying used (generally retro) consoles on eBay, but these won't be clearly marked as a game console.
To be fair, Amazon did have 2 day shipping to anywhere in the 48 states. That promise has now been removed.

If you’re in a metro area you’ll still have it.
Everybody knows that by 2000 we will finally reach Communism end game and nobody will have to work that much.

Or at least that’s what my grandpa believed.
Thanks for the story.
I am not sure if the situation I describe is currently in production in Instagram.

But here's what I noticed when I went to the explore section of Instagram.

At display, there would be distinct choices of images and reels, varied and related to my interests. But if I select a particular reel/image type (e.g. animation or comics or 3d render), it would take that as a signal and would expand the feed based on that selection. I love that feature.

I guess Spotify Radio do that to some extent, not sure.
Dang I'm no fan of amazon's ethics but it seems bad ethics is the norm among corporates, governments not the exception. Corruption, abuses of power... occurring with such regularity and at worst a slap on the wrist or forced to retire with a huge payout.
Related discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38576626
I feel like comments defending Twitter (I'm still calling it that until they change their domain) are half missing the point. True, it's not necessarily an "OpenAI API wrapper", but the fact that it was trained on ChatGPT's logs basically means it's still an "OpenAI wrapper" of sorts, and it's going to be inferior in nearly every way (I always thought a huge problem with LLMs going forward was the risk that they would be "contaminated" with non-human training data).

I can't think of any reason anybody would use Grok over ChatGPT besides political tribe signalling.
The Evolution of Effects – Haskell 2023 – Nicolas Wu [video]
cool! this is going to save me so much time
Utter nonsense. The CLI lets you do complex custom things that you sometimes can't do with a GUI. But it is pretty awful from a UX point of view. Terrible discoverability, terrible UI, very unfriendly, no contextual help, etc. etc. I can't think of a worse interface from a UX perspective.
If anything, censorship on the platform increased after the purchase.

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/5/2/twitter-fulfillin...
> The US helped to overthrow the Ukraine

Really?

Ukraine was on the track to go direction “europe”,
When president suddenly did sudden 180 degree turn, back to russian empire/soviet union/mongol hoards.

Young people saw that their west Europe future was switched to eternal post-soviet.

Even if US helped, it probably was tea, printers for leaflets and hopefully intelligence when soviet omon will strike.

Edit: i don’t like US actions in vietnam cambodia iraq cuba south america (list goes on..). Power corrupts. But that does not and should not impact evaluation of Russia actions and implications. Both can be bad. (For my country far lesser evil is US)

For some reason lavrov always says, “but US also did that something”, as if that makes it ok..
With listining to YC president's 10k Etherum video in 2021 I lost money
He since then made the video unlisted. How can I believe what they say about any other thing? when they just unlist things after promiting them?

https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1402648829732614146?lang=en

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo58qEoThSs

is this all the public invesment opportunity they can share? so we lose money afterwards?
Yeah I'm weirded out by that as well. On our platform engineering team, the "early rising" crew is usually up and working at 7 - 7:30. Some guy needed the afternoon hours for personal reasons and started working at like 6:30 for two or three months.

Personally I like to start working around 8, so I can triage the monitoring while the brain runs through the last boot processes and unit activations so I can use those (for me) very productive hours between 9 and 12.
not quite what the parent comment was referring to - AirMessage is cool but needs a server Mac to run 24/7.

parent is asking if it’s possible to spoof the secure identifiers from the Mac in Beeper - extracting the secure IDs, inputting them into Beeper - at which point Beeper can communicate directly with Apple as if it is that Mac.

a clever workaround!
>And if it is legal to collect and use that information then it seems nonsensical to ban the use of algorithms specifically...

And a HN entrepreneur will say that they do not collect the race, a neuron somewhere in the AI will turn on for a specific race but it is not their fault, the input data had no race the AI deduced it.

The laws regulate high risk stuff, it will prevent that HN entrepreneur to sell medical AIs , crime predicting AIs, car driving AIs etc just because they put a disclaimer that the AI might be wrong.
fully agree. this is a very tasteless name. i wouldn't even go as far as the easy to google argument with this.
No.

Except nobody asked for this at all.
Ext4 data corruption in 6.1 stable
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According to the EU proposal, this is what they mean by AI:

(a)Machine learning approaches, including supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning, using a wide variety of methods including deep learning;

(b)Logic- and knowledge-based approaches, including knowledge representation, inductive (logic) programming, knowledge bases, inference and deductive engines, (symbolic) reasoning and expert systems;

(c)Statistical approaches, Bayesian estimation, search and optimization methods.

So rule-based systems (b) are considered AI for the sake of regulation.
China is the greatest civilisational threat to the West we have seen since Persia or the Umayyad Caliphate. The fact that the West has allowed letting China grow as much as it has done will be seen as one of the most fatal mistakes in grand strategy in history. That strategy had a purpose for defeating the Soviet Union, but after it had collapsed China had served its purpose for us and should have been isolated by the international community again.
Amazon is a private enterprise and its profit is soaring, which means this is simply a non-issue. I thought HN knew how free markets worked but I guess not.
Right and this holds the platform back. I'm all for hobby development- I've been an supporter of open source software for over 2 decades. But nothing much has changed since that time in terms of UX and user-friendliness. (Yes I am aware a lot of things have changed, but as much as things have changed - much of it is still the same.)
In principle maybe, but all present implementations fall a bit short. Why can't I use my mouse to position the cursor in any shell? Placing the cursor with the mouse is something people commonly do in terminal editors like vim or emacs; the efficiency arguments against it fall flat because this is entirely optional and besides, many people use laptops with either a track-point directly in the middle of the home row keys or with a touchpad directly below the keyboard.

And there's no technical reason it couldn't be done; years ago I once did it as a proof of concept. It just hasn't made it into any major shell yet.. besides eshell anyway. It does work on eshell.

Anyway, it's not really a big deal, not important enough for me to pursue, but I do think it counts as a counterexample to disprove the "peak UX" claim. Command line interfaces in principle are great but in practice we're doing it by emulating hardware that went obsolete decades ago and piling cludges and hacks on top of that to make it feel a bit more modern.

Another example; there are a few ways to inline images in a terminal emulator but they're all kind of shit in their own ways; graphical thumbnails have clear utility when listing some directories; every serious file manager supports it but to do this in a terminal emulator is cludgy hacks.
Something most people don’t know is how much Qatar invests into propaganda efforts in the west: https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/western-.... For example, it has a close relationship with Northwestern’s Medill school of Journalism, the top journalism school in the US: https://www.medill.northwestern.edu/about-us/our-locations/q....

Events like the World Cup are an effort to whitewash the Qatari monarchy, which isn’t any better or different than say Saudi.
Why bully foreign governments you can buy?
i switch the hand i use the mouse with...also instead of resting my wrist horizontally i turn it like 60degrees or so and only rest the outer part of it
My understanding is that unlimited SMS text messages have basically been included free with cellphone plans in the US for a very long time while that's generally still not the case in Europe. So there hasn't been a need to find a cheaper way to send messages.
> It seems odd to try to build an RPG in a procedural world. It’s hard to build an immersive world, when it wasn’t hand crafted to fit the story.

The entire genre of roguelikes is a counterexample
What do you think the answer is?

I'm not familiar with this, but it certainly does seem like the startup world is completely backwards, and anything VC funded should be considered toxic.
Yes. That would've served Europe better too. Now they are in the embarrassing position of trying to regulate companies that aren't under their jurisdiction.
I don't think the conclusions presented are true. It seems to be a pretty "standard" case of theft that, unfortunately, yes these things often take time to resolve. And all of the "analysis" is just speculation.

Does it suck that it took extra messages for the return to be acknowledged, and extra weeks for the refund to finally get approved and go through? For sure. Does this mean "Amazon has an honesty issue"? No. Dealing with a package where the expensive contents were swapped out for other content is probably going to take weeks to resolve with any major retailer.

Trying to shortcut the process by filing a chargeback isn't going to help anything. You only do that if Amazon ultimately denies the return.

Of course it sucks it ties up that money. But they can also just leave the balance on the credit card for an extra month and pay, what, $8 in interest? Everything about:

> remain in a state of financial limbo for the better part of 2 months, spending Christmas wondering whether we'd ever see our money again.

feels overly dramatic. Anyone who can put a $600+ Xbox bundle on a credit card isn't going to be left in "financial limbo". In the end, they can rest assured that a chargeback with Amex will work even if it didn't on their first attempt.

Yes this is all annoying. But it's not some conspiracy. These cases are hard for companies to deal with, because for every delivery person who's a thief, there's a customer who lies and gets a free Xbox out of it. So they do take time and effort to resolve.
probably because people who clicked on this particular link were the people who were interested in the drama and your comment added nothing of value to the discussion they wanted to have
Never Ship on Fridays
We've had the same experience. Prime shipments were 5-7 days regardless of order size, now most items show up in 1-2 days.

Not sure the logic in that.
It varies. I roast at home, and some beans are great the next day. Some are great the next week. The cafe I used to live next to would rest their beans for a week.
Because people (i.e., users) aren't the same thing as developers. Most people just want to use a tool, rather than develop it.
> On the day, I was full of righteous indignation and ideally wanted the driver to be nailed to the nearest wall

The guy keeps on making this out to be the driver's fault, when only circumstantial evidence points to that. Everytime he was mentioning reasons to think it was the driver I, as a person who has worked in shipping and delivery as a hoi polloi, thought of reasonable reasons why the driver would act that way.

- The driver probably isn't even there when his van is loaded, so easy for a package handler to swap things out.

- A package with mandatory code instructions may have been in another part of the van, and could have been missed the first go-around by a busy driver. (edit: assuming it wasn't loaded into another van entirely.)

- Online tracking being off happens all of the time.
Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu. You can use all Ubuntu packages just fine. It is really just a strictly better Ubuntu.

There is a Debian-based Mint version as well but that is more as a security so that they are not deadly dependent on the Ubuntu people.

Though these days, even using exotic distros isn't that problematic, as you can always use appimage/flatpack/snap if you native package manager doesn't have the specific app you need.
There is a fantastic interview of David Nutt where they talk in depth on the subject: https://youtu.be/UWhk2LMDwCc
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World borders would look quite different if they were based on majority language. Would you redraw them all? Also, do you not consider anything east of Germany part of Europe? Wouldn’t you be worried if you were Finland or one of the Baltic states?
Boinc is still a thing
> Too often they fall into the trap of creating more Linux distributions. We don’t need more Linux distributions. Stop making Linux distributions, make applications instead.

Right on the spot.
I use a similar method and the stirring / first drench (the “bloom” - 45-60sec sufficient in my experience) is important for letting all the air come out of the grounds so that they can dissolve in the rest of the water and not float on the top where the extraction will be suboptimal
Not sure about that. One of the screenshots mentions AMZNMKTPLACE AMAZON CO UK. If it was indeed an Amazon Marketplace vendor, then it's not entirely unheard of that it was a scam from the start.
> There is also the practical aspect of making less of a mess out of your grinder, as charged coffee particles tend to go where you don't want when to go and stick there.

I tried the RDT once. I find absolutely nothing practical about it. The mistake is trying to grind straight into the basket. I started grinding into a separate large cylindrical receptacle (a.k.a. a Tall Cup) that I can fit directly under the spout and catch all the grindings with.

Wait 10 seconds for the static to settle.. bang the cup three times on the counter... then pour the grindings into the basket. Manages most of the static, nearly all of the mess, and makes the whole operation so much easier and efficient.

The espresso space is filled with people who are _content_ to spend 95% of the effort chasing the last 5% of quality. I cannot truck with those people.
Multiple people have said something like this, but can you give me an example of another trained AI model that says it's an openai model?

Every example of grok transcripts I've seen so far very much has the feel of using the gpt4 api with custom prompts (ie, not chatgpt). It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if they're faking it.
This is what they say in their announcement of Grok:

> A unique and fundamental advantage of Grok is that it has real-time knowledge of the world via the 𝕏 platform.

You disagree with that?
> It’s untenable that there’s unsanctioned client software for a messaging platform for which privacy and security are a primary feature.

What a stupid take on the situation. At most it's untenable to Apples short term financial interests. A well designed protocol and implementation would be even better at protecting user privacy and security especially from a privileged attacker like the service provider and anyone able to put covert pressure on them.

The only way in which vendor lock-in helps the the existing users is that spammers and scammers have to invest additional money to acquire Apple devices to create new accounts instead of just phone numbers and a labor to create accounts.
Collect it, store it, use it. QED.

That's why drafting of laws is so tricky and important. You need to find the right way to make a general principle apply without having to spell every single possible case, which is impossible.

But on those things I am convinced that there is no need to single out AI if the law is drafted so as to spell put general principles.

On the other hand, AI can bring major benefits and, while we should be careful, we should allow "tech entrepreneurs" to bring those benefits to society.
I wonder why they decided not to filter-out references to OpenAI and ChatGPT.
We did not have any investment money to burn, Kagi was completely bootstrapped until June when we raised a very small amount from our users.

What changed is:

- Price of LLM APIs dropped significantly faster than we anticipated

- Kagi started getting adopted more broadly, which in turn meant more people who do not search as much started using it, lowering our average cost per user

Combination of those two factors made us more comfortable to adapt pricing again and pass all anticipated savings to our members.
It makes no sense to me that one would train a chatbot on chatgpt conversations and not filter strings that literally say "openai" and "chatgpt". Extreme incompetence.
Getting sexually assaulted as a small child by a family member would probably do that I imagine.
I had self hosted Llama 2 call itself Bard the other day, so I'd take this with a grain of salt - or maybe even the whole shaker.
Based on your comment, I would love to see a feature just as we have a prompt travel in image generations, how about genre travel? A playlist of 10 songs taking me from rock to french house.
It’s infuriating when you change brands. Built up a feel for how much a bean weighs and how many are needed to go from 17.9 to 18.0g? Yeah, that other bean requires five beans, and not just one.
Personally I find CLI to be great for this kind of "exploratory" work. Case in point: I recently had to plan a software upgrade for an AWS environment with zero documentation, accumulated over years by a defunct team without using IaC tools, or even much in the way of deployment infrastructure -- just a complete mess. My first order of business was to create read-only CLI credentials for myself, and spend time querying things with the usual combination of sed, awk, uniq, jq, etc. I did this "notebook style" in an org-mode file with org-babel. Within a few hours, I had internalized the structure of the setup, and even had the beginnings of documentation on it. I don't think I could have come to such a confident idea of everything clicking around in the AWS web console, and certainly not that quickly.
It’s there they just trick you. Don’t go looking for the option starting from your order details. Instead start from the general support chat and say the automated response didn’t help you and you need more help.
> Target All The Linux Distributions

If you are going through the trouble of targeting all Linux distributions, why not just target all platforms by using a framework like Flutter or React?
Elon Musk playing 5 dimensional chess to save freedom of speech.
The Amazon delivery driver doesn't know it's a game console either, as it was in a regular brown box. The driver just knew it required a special code prior to delivery. The only Amazon people who know it's a console are those responsible for packing it.
>Open-source is extremely difficult to make even a living wage off of…

So are you saying it’s even possible? I wish to learn at least one option to do it. Few is even better. How at all you can realistically make living this way?

Ok, not living , just partial income.
Ok not partial. Some income?

I am not making fun of I honestly look some way .

I understand that if you maintain 10 years some essential part of essential software project then people eventually come to you for consulting or will pay you to shift this part toward their requirements.

But other then that? Like can you write useful free software program and really have some money from it ?
True, but they don’t even offer 10gbs download
Chatgpt has done internet searches in responses for a while now.
An xAI engineer replied:

> The issue here is that the web is full of ChatGPT outputs, so we accidentally picked up some of them when we trained Grok on a large amount of web data. This was a huge surprise to us when we first noticed it. For what it’s worth, the issue is very rare and now that we’re aware of it we’ll make sure that future versions of Grok don’t have this problem. Don’t worry, no OpenAI code was used to make Grok.

https://twitter.com/ibab_ml/status/1733558576982155274
How can the working class afford to park in NYC? A monthly subscription to a parking lot/garage is $400 + monthly.
Ah yes -- the Mother Of All Demos. Impressive!
Sure there is an advantage, I can put a png file everywhere without needing to care if the users system supports the new capability.

For a (made up) example let's say Firefox supports hdr, but Chrome doesn't, if I want to include an HDR image into a website, but display a SDR image if the browser can't display it, I need to implement a test for the browser to serve decide if I serve a WebP or PNG. That is a real cost.
Most businesses have loans from banks and have some sort of line of credit (a business credit card, if not an actual line of credit at a bank) to draw from that could be used to pay employees from.
amazon has become total unadulterated garbage

I ordered a present last year, it was "delivered" to the side of my house when I was out

I found it a few days later, completely ruined by the winter weather

I explained to what they call customer service that their delivery had ruined it, they said send it back, which I did

few days later they're blaming me for returning damaged goods and trying to charge me for the damage

I contacted jeff@ too and the "executive support" were just as bad as the idiots on the website

I had an account for 20 years, now closed and I now happily pay more not to use amazon