skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The longer the AI bubble runs, the closer we get to defining where it's actually viable.

There are definitely some tricks it does well enough. I'm thinking of the old bit about the art students who make a better living than senior engineers on furry and fetish work, for example. That works because it's an industry where "good enough" pays the bills.

Conversely, industries where there's high standards, a risk of life/limb/finances, and associated regulations, are going to have a hard time with AI because it makes compliance and liability hard to manage. I could see some players trying to produce "HIPPA/PCI/etc-friendly hosted AI" or just putting up large insurance bonds to make their products amenable to industry, but there's a lot of "entire sector goes poof with the stroke of a regulator's pen" risk.

AI as "an augment" or as the primary user interface is at risk of trust corrosion. If the search engine/chatbot fails to respond reliably to prompts or hallucinates one wrong fact too many, the customer is going to bail. This has been a problem since Siri, if not every annoying IVR service-- we have marketers who desperately want to present the machine as open-ended and omniscient, which leads to insufficient documentation, poorly bounded user experience, and no easy way to control the user's expectations.

Many technical advancements are about being able to replace a skilled artisan with a less-trained and cheaper worker. I think a lot of the "AI for writing and coding" stories are going to fall flat there. You didn't get rid of the junior coder, you turned him into full-time QA, code reviewer and project manager to try to steer the robot, which is a lot harder!

I expect by the end of 2024, we'll have seen a fair number of services scale back the AI features, or at least constrain them-- offering AI interfaces alongside conventional ones when you absolutely need control. I don't doubt there will be some players with infinite budget still pushing it (Microsoft trying to make AI a thing may well be much like Meta trying to make VR a thing) but I don't think we'll be seeing so many 'your morning danish... NOW WITH AI' pile-ons.
OK, and then what? You can land the tiny capsule that you took back and forth to the moon and call it a permanent shelter, sure, but you're not going to be able to build any kind of substantial base at a rate of one giant rocket per tiny capsule.
The thing that landed Google in hot water was that they licensed Android to multiple vendors and then used anticompetitive shenanigans to control the marketplace.

Look at XBox and Windows at Microsoft.

XBox is a walled garden and you can't create a game for it without Microsoft's permission and giving Microsoft a cut. There have been zero legal repercussions for this.

Windows is licensed to multiple vendors and Microsoft has faced antitrust actions many times in many jurisdictions for their anticompetitive actions related to Windows over the years.
"Cancel" should never be on an "Are you sure" prompt.

Labels the buttons with what they DO.

"Don't delete", or "Keep", or "Save", and "Delete", would be appropriate button labels.
NeurIPS 2023: Day 1
For anybody else wondering, "TRL" is NASA's Technology Readiness Level, ranging from TRL 1 (pie in the sky) to TRL 9 (flight proven mission operations).

https://www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/space-communications-...
Label your buttons "Save" and "Discard".
We've reached the inevitable part of the conversation! What distinction are you drawing between what an LLM does and what a human does? Because as far as I can see they are identical.

A human artist looks at a lot of different sources, builds up a black-box statistical model of how to create from that and can reproduce other styles on demand based on a few samples. Generative AI follows the same process. What distinction do you want to draw to say that they should be treated differently legally? And why would that even be desirable?
The problem with Apple is that while they don’t have a monopoly on cellphones, they seem to have a monopoly on good cellphone experiences. Your choice is a couple of platforms that are closed but works decently well, and other more open platforms that are much more chaotic and poorer user experiences. Linux phones or android phones not running Google’s stack being examples of the latter.
So, the ER just shuts down for that hour?

Doesn’t epic cover everything from patient admission to medical imaging?
If you want area that's dedicated to being "dark", put cache there.
Will not, possibly. Cannot is inaccurate -- they could, but they choose not to.

IIRC Microsoft and AWS do use AGPLv3 code, at least in the form of offering hosted Grafana. Seems to me that if MSFT can make peace with the license, then there's little good reason for other BigCorps to shun it.
It depends on the age I think. I used to play a lot of games but as I've gotten older I've found myself with less time. I've also noticed my reflexes have gotten a lot worse, I'm in my late 30's I struggle with some multiplayer games like Counterstrike or Dota those competitive multiplayer games are no longer fun for me anymore.

I still like to chill out with a good single player game from time to time like Civilization or Total War series. I enjoyed Baldur's Gate 3 when it came out earlier this year.

I'd say gaming went from something I did often in my early 20's to occasionally by the time I was in my 30's.
I disagree. Bringing this to light even without discussion has merit. We are all members of the human race and I for one am grateful it was posted.
> I also use blackholing (with fail2ban) and non standard ports (for ssh) - but just as a way to quiet down log files rather than ascribing much ion the way of security benefits to them.

Just switch to IPv6: good luck scanning a /64. :)
State of Open Source AI Book – 2023 Edition
Sleep and food are essential to our life while caffeine isn't in my opinion. Interesting, my friend also told me about carnosine that can be found in red meat, would that be a reason contributes to your energy? Diet indeed is another intriguing topic to dive deep into.
I do, I have a fine whetstone. I agree, properly sharp/shaped screwdrivers make a huge difference. I think I need a better roller sharpening guide, and lots more stuff. :)
It is more like complaining that Tesla wouldn't let you purchase electricity from a 3rd party that isn't sanctioned by Tesla.
Oh yeah smart guy? What were the gauges reading before you flipped the switch?
i guess you can argue for age discrimination but come on, what does leetcode style interviews have to do with race and gender discrimination? In some sense, these interviews are exactly the type of interviews you want to not have race / gender bias since they are objective (either you solved it or you didn't).
I actually wrote a rudimentary BASIC interpreter in Scheme that does something like the latter. I invented a BASIC "abstract machine" that could interpret BASIC lines as tree structures. Then when the user typed in program source, the interpreter would parse it, turn it into a BASIC line data structure, and insert it in the proper place in the program. A logical extension which I did not implement is to keep the source of each line (so LIST and SAVE work, for instance).

It's a neat, sensical way to implement BASIC if you have the memory to spare. Crunching everything through tokenization and interpreting the tokens directly makes more sense if you're on an 8-bit, 4k machine however.
So “old book says so”?
So you really think the state controlling content is not going to be more restrictive than private corporations?

And why are you quoting an article about Russia?
Odd, on my S22 it's just showing a black screen.
> Next, try addressing why they change all the time, and seemingly for no reason. It's infuriating.

No, the "Modern iOS Navigation Patterns" (the title of this article) don't change all the time. Not even close.

What you are talking about has to do with _buttons_ on watchOS.

I strive to leave a wide wide berth for what people consider on-topic, but to me, this comment is an unrelated rant that will empirically crowd out discussion around the topic at hand: iOS navigation patterns. I'm here on this thread to learn about how to make better iOS apps.
> No, the US is not subsidizing drug development for Europe. What is happening is that US pharma is profiteering in the US because they can.

2 ways of describing the same thing. The difference between US "profiteering" vs Europe "getting a bargain" depends on your reference point. At the end of the day, the US is doing more to foot the bill for new drugs, and Europeans point and laugh instead of saying thank you.

>The US is dependent on international trade - not least for Middle East oil

The US is now a net energy exporter. I think we should retool to reduce dependence on foreign oil and reduce foreign entanglements. Should be good for the climate as well. And much cheaper than helping Europe with defense.

>For sure Europe should shoulder it's burden when it comes to defense - but the reason you have homeless people in every major city is not because of your defense bill! It is because your society is malfunctioning.

Resources are finite. You earlier implied that the US govt should spend more on social programs. That means either taking on more debt (terrible idea), or reducing large expenditures like defense. Furthermore, if it's true that the US is "malfunctioning", increased expenditure on social programs (as you earlier implied, remember our discussion was originally about capitalism vs social democracy) wouldn't necessarily even fix the problem.

This was a sufficiently disingenuous argument on your part that I don't plan to reply further in this thread.

>Bear in mind that isolationism is exactly what Putin's Russia (and Xi's China) wants, be careful that you are not being indoctrinated by anti-US interests.

I see Europeans trash the US about as much as I see Russia/China trashing the US. Where are the anti-US interests?

I never saw a Russian or Chinese person claim that US society is "malfunctioning". How would you feel if I said Europe was "malfunctioning" due to its low GDP?

You're talking about US interests. Being friendly with other major powers like Russia and China is in the US interest, for the purpose of preventing another world war. But at the end of the day, NATO is not in the US interest -- certainly not after the cold war has ended, which you seem to have forgotten about (cf "Soviet lakes"). Nor does it make sense as a humanitarian alliance. It's time for the US to leave. It's also time to charge Europeans more for drugs. They need to pay their fair share.
I think a better lesson would be to comply with the law, do not destroy evidence, and to do what you say you are doing. Google sold Android as being open. Once Android succeeded, Google started closing it and making anti-competitive deals. Many of these deals were illegal because Google had a monopoly and abused its monopoly. Please explain why Google's conduct should not be punished? Why should Google be allowed to violate the United State's anti-trust laws?
The Nintendo Switch runs a locked-down version of Android that has sold over 100 million units of associated hardware.
And then ...

> At this point I'm convinced they are making changes as a means to justify their existence.

I really hope this is humor and that you aren't convinced of this; that would a faulty generalization. There are plausible other interpretations.

> If I ran that company the project managers responsible for these breaking changes - and yes, unannounced UI changes are breaking changes - would all be fired.

1. Apple regularly breaks expectations. What is a breaking change to some is often the expectation at Apple.

2. I challenge your assumption that this decision was a mistake. I would expect the pros and cons were calculated.

3. How do you know the decision didn't get approved by higher up the chain?

4. Even if it was a mistake, I challenge your claim that the appropriate response is to fire the managers. I would point you to a vast literature on effective modern management. My remaining points elaborate on this...

5. I disagree with what appears to be angry, impulsive decision to fire them.

6. These are people. I'm not seeing any indication that you value them.

7. Emotions and empathy aside, it would be in your interest to build a healthy culture where risk-taking is encouraged and one mistake doesn't get you fired. Everyone makes mistakes. And we can learn from them. (Yes, dishonesty and negligence gets you fired. And poor performance gets you fired, but this is not evaluated on the basis of only one mistake.)

8. I disagree with what appears to be a "I have everything I need to know about this" attitude. At the very least gather more information before you fire people. If you disagreed with the pro/con assessment, look into how that decision was made. What process(es) could be improved?
> I've never been convinced that saving a bit of log file space is worth the reconfiguration time […]

This is relatively easy to do with Ansible (or whatever).

My main concern as a sysadmin in a company is user training and telling folks to use the non-standard ports.

If I could use SRV records for 'service (port) discovery' that'd be helpful.
Anyone ever rig one of these things with a solar concentrator as the heat source? I feel like a fridge that runs colder as the sun gets hotter would be one of the more elegant systems.
It looks like an interesting type of puzzle for AI. I think a blog post comparing different engines and text length would be very interesting.
This is nothing new but the article hits hard. I don’t want to live in a world where everyone is after my attention but a good chunk of the economy seems to depend on it. There has to be a better future than this?
Sorry, I disagree. I've seen the pattern you're describing. Yes, it is perfectly acceptable (usually preferable, even) to replace "OK" or "Yes" with an explicit verb. But please do not do the same for the cancel button. It creates an unnecessary cognitive prompt. Always give the user a no-thinking safe way of dismissing a confirmation prompt - we have trained users for decades that "Cancel" is that escape hatch.

As another commenter pointed out, I agree with the HIG here:
https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

> Always use “Cancel” to title a button that cancels the alert’s action.
In the old days? Back-breaking work that's no longer necessary or efficient.

In the slightly less old days, probably socialize.

Nothing super productive or world changing I assume. I would also guess that a lot of these hours are spent sleeping rather than actively watching. Most people I know put comfort shows on to help them fall asleep these days.
And the reason the backlash worked is because there are at least viable alternatives to intellij (at worst you go back to eclipse, or switch to vscode or any number of other lesser known IDEs).

Therefore jetbrain cannot afford to alienate their customer base. Unlike vmware or adobe.
> uploads of boring raw excel data and receive a nice UI

https://datasette.io/
We'll still be hacking stuff with python when the singularity comes. It will be ultra high tech alien stuff that we can't hack or understand, only AI can, and the tech will look like magic to us, and most will not be able to resist the bait of depending upon this miraculous technology that we can't understand or debug.
And if you chose to buy a Tesla knowing they in advance?
1999^h^h^h^h 2003^h^h^h^h 2017^h^h^h^h 2024 is the year of Linux^h^h^h^h^h IPv6 on the desktop. This time for sure!

:-)
> That entity need not be a single AI. It could be a system like a large corporation

This is not a new problem, then. Let's tackle the issue of corporations, rather than chase an AI boogeyman that doesn't fundamentally change anything.

Look at oil companies, for example. They have humans in the loop at every level, and yet those humans do little to prevent profit incentives from leading them to destroy the planet. A broken reward function is a broken reward function, AI-assisted or not.
Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo sometimes lose money on hardware sales. Operating system venders never lose money on software sales because software costs nothing to reproduce (they can still lose money but the loses do not increase as sales increase).

I do not know anti-trust law but I think the difference in business models should be acknowledged.
Monte Carlo forecasting in Scrum (2018)
List of The Price Is Right pricing games
You’re correct, the linked article contradicts the Human Interface Guide from Apple.

From the official docs [0]:

> Always use “Cancel” to title a button that cancels the alert’s action
…

> “A specific button title like “Erase,” “Convert,” “Clear,” or “Delete” helps people understand the action they’re taking.”

In fact, I think the entire topic is much better explained (with considerations for each platform) in the docs.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

More on navigation:

https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/10001
Side loading, while mentioned, is both the most common and argument I’ve heard. I don’t think that’s bad faith they thought that was implied.

What other interpretations would be common?
Heck, tea greatly increases your risk of oral, throat, and esophegal cancer just from the heat. Countries where tea is traditionally drank after being freshly brewed have a much higher incidence of these
Extending Responsive Video with HTML Web Components
How to make responsive HTML video remain responsive after page load, using web components.
I do not think the Switch runs Android. I think it runs BSD. Could you please provide a link showing the Switch runs Android?
> conflating the reel and the real

Love the sneaky word play! Does art imitate life or does life imitate art?

> ... reinforcing the stereotypes present in the world

The whole point of comedy is to take away the teeth behind these things. The act is meant to reshape culture and conversation. Stereotype, beauty, the perception of color, were very fungible and its just another tool!
I've made no claims as to the nature of the law, I've only asked questions about particulars and responded to the answers. If anyone is spreading FUD, it isn't me.
What didn't Apple write down?
As a 365 admin, I’m not aware of a single policy to track or manage your device through the authenticator app. Past that though, you should have the option while setting up to click that you want to use a different app than authenticator. The vast majority of businesses won’t lock you down to the single app, so check to see if that option is there. I couldn’t care less which 2fa app any of my clients are using so long as it’s a reputable one. And your company can’t get mad at you for using a different app if they left the option available.
Is it just me or does it feel like this is actually a submarine article by WPP to kind of console its clients and tell them that it’s OK. Everything is OK and WPP is in control?
Execution matters. See Singapore.
> IPv6 on the desktop.

I had IPv6 on my home desktop for several years before I switched ISPs a few months ago.

My new ISP does not offer IPv6 on their residential network… but their mobile telco subsidiary gives it out to smartphones (IPv6-only). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Good luck with that. The ones that can afford an ad-free internet are the same group as the ones that can afford the product you are trying to sell. Promoted links, selection/ordering of posts and other mechanisms will be use to lead ad-free people to the ads, in ways that won't look like ads. It's like gravity, there are forces in play that will make things end in the same way.
Blackberry, Tizen, Windows Phone, FirefoxOS. Samsung, HTC, Huawei, Alcatel, Nokia, LG.

How does Google, running closed and un-licensable Android with no phone to put it on, compete?
Wealthy people tend to have second homes, which are also considered "owner-occupied".
Acropolis is free but severely limits your choices when it comes to hardware and expansion down the line. I always felt like you were putting yourself over a barrel to consolidate both hypervisor and physical infrastructure to a single vendor.
One distinction would be that every source a human looked at involved a payment for access to/a copy of each and every source inputted into their black-box.

Which is not the case with the current AI models (or rather, the companies profiting off them), to my understanding.
Love that reference to the Unix epoch, and the all-too-human misassociation with a seemingly more appropriate event.
FastGPT from Kagi answers to this question:

"Baseband is the firmware that controls the cellular radio functions of an Android device. It is responsible for things like connecting to mobile networks, making phone calls, and sending/receiving SMS messages. [1][2]

The baseband firmware resides on the same storage (eMMC) as the Android operating system but runs independently on a separate baseband processor. It communicates with the Android OS through shared memory and AT commands. [3][4]

Baseband versions are different from Android build numbers. The baseband version refers specifically to the firmware running the cellular radio hardware. [5]

Baseband firmware has been found to contain vulnerabilities that could allow remote command execution if exploited. However, Android devices from reputable manufacturers like Google/Pixel generally receive frequent baseband updates to address such issues. [6][7][8]"

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-do-baseband-version-and-kernel-ve...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidQuestions/comments/1wzmp7/wh...

[3] https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/219230/where-is-...

[4] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24569075/how-mobile-os-t...

[5] https://forums.androidcentral.com/threads/difference-between...

[6] https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/08/android-baseband-flaws/

[7] https://www.reddit.com/r/GrapheneOS/comments/11op7yz/remote_...

[8] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38616922

And the last link is this hackernews post!
I keep reading this submition's title as "Where do journalists go to die?" Like there's some obscure place that aging journalists make a pilgrimage to after they've completed their final article (probably their obituary) to lay down and breathe their last.
So what happens to the Arab Israeli Jews who got forced out of their countries in the 60s and 70s. Do they also get reparations?
Sure but I always have a hard time comprehending these arguments tbh. Because I honestly can't tell the difference between someone who has a billion dollars and someone who has 200 billion dollars. There's essentially no difference other than a number.

But while writing this I decided to check instead of making what I thought was a reasonable assumption. Apparently the net worth of the CEOs of Boeing, Lockheed, and Raytheon are under $100m? That's a bit surprising if the numbers I googled are accurate. That would make the net worth of the two primary shareholders of BMW 1000x their counterparts. Each! I scrolled through Forbes billionaires and I didn't find aerospace anywhere but I did find pig breeding, shipping, and Chick-fil-A, candy, soy sauce, videogames, legos, in-n-out, dental implants, "Star Wars", "Billboards", and even "drones". Especially considering that there's a lot of shipping on there and a drone billionaire.

Really makes me think some of the other things are over priced tbh. Especially with how many crypto-bros are on that list.

Edit: Wait! "762 Charles Edelstenne" is listed as "aviation" but he cofounded Dassault...

Edit 2: "868 Neal Blue & family" is listed as "Defense" for General Atomics and "871 Eren Ozmen" as "Aerospace" for Sierra Nevada. "916 Fatih Ozmen" also for Sierra Nevada. So okay, maybe some are on this list but my intuition suggested defense and aerospace would have at least someone in the top 100. Surprised not even the top 500.

All of them under $4bn btw