skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We've updated our pricing, and it can go as low as $0.005 per document. True, you'll still need to work with a third-party vendor, but isn't it worth considering if the features are competitive and the interface is user-friendly? It would be interesting to know what might convince you to switch from Puppeteer to another solution—or if you're completely satisfied and wouldn't switch regardless of the offerings, which is perfectly fine.
I covered both options in my comment.

The prompt I gave is a true quine if you consider the prompt to be the "program", and the model to be the interpreter of the program.

The other option that you described isn't really a true quine, although it's quine-like. A quine is supposed to be a "program", which when "run" without any input, produces its own source code as output.

To be considered a quine in the strict sense, a model that outputs itself implies that you're treating the model as the program. In that case, if it needs a prompt in order to output itself, that breaks the quine rules, strictly speaking.
> And if you think any Jack or Jill can just come in and text prompt a whole movie, you're crazy. It's still hard work and a metric ton of good taste.

If you want anything good, yes. If you just want something… I reckon it'd take a week to assemble an incomprehensible-nonsense-film pipeline, after which it's just a matter of feeding the computer electricity.

Short-term, this is going to funnel resources away from the people with good taste. Long-term, it might help collapse the entire "creative industry", after which we might get some of that artist liberation stuff you're talking about – but we might just end up with new gatekeeping strategies from the wealthy and connected, and business as usual.
> Translating code, generating cross language clients

Can any convert a native iPhone app to an Android one?
How safe would something like this be? It has a lot of appeal to me but I'm already getting nervous about battery fires as it is.
If AI gets good enough to wholesale replace developers, that is amazing news for the world. It's basically AGI. Productivity and GDP growth would skyrocket, tax receipts will explode, gov debts will be paid off, etc.
> yet nothing happens

Every time you dismiss a "we care for your privacy" banner, you're being made aware that your data is shared with hundreds or thousands of data brokers with "legitimate interest". The fact that vendors prefer to make your experience miserable rather than give up tracking is another example of "malicious compliance".

What happens is that you now have the right to request a copy of the personal information a site has collected and ask them to delete it. You can also sue them if they don't fulfil your request. You're welcome to exercise your rights as an EU citizen at any time.
That may all be true, but it sort of sidesteps my point. My point is that people have been saying for 15 years that "technology X" will cause truckers to become obsolete and create ubiquities self driving cars, and there has been billions (if not trillions) of dollars poured into it, and it has not come to fruition (yet). I do think it will eventually be automated, but your comment says we have "at best 2 years left as a software engineer." and that seems very naive to me given that we have seen your exact same argument for the past 15 years. Lets even imagine the tech gets to the point where software engineers can be fully automated, as you mentioned above, regulatory hurdles will need to be crossed even for office jobs and I just don't see that happening in 2 years. I do think it will happen, but if self driving is any indicator, it will take a couple decades at least for the tech and regulatory hurdles to be overcome.
Does it? Why does the NYPD have an office in Tel Aviv for example?
It's closer to Ford forcing you to drive only on Ford™ roads or charge your Ford EV at a Ford™ certified $$$ charging station.
A lot of startups are selling the dream/hype of not ever having to learn to code. Be aware that it’s hype. Learn to code if you want to build stuff. They will be tools for those that have the knowledge needed to effectively use them.
Do you use them? Why? Do you feel that there is different people in each group of users?
Oh okey, I just wanted to be sure we were on the same page. I guess my idea of good performance has been way far off and Flutter is actually performing way worse compared to others.

I did some Googling but could only find comparisons with RN and sometimes with Swift, but not with any of the web frameworks.
There will be only just few countries that are winners in this game. Do you believe e.g. USA will provide UBI for other countries or even only neighbours like Mexico? I don't think so. And once there is big unemployment that USA border will be filled even more with migrants or people unhappy with the situation.
I was in Nashville for the last Brood XIX emergence (2011)-- where they actually emerge is pretty patchy, but they were pretty dense around my office building, to the point where you couldn't walk down the sidewalk without stepping on cicadas or cicada shells with almost every step. Went to an area renaissance fair that same month, and they were just about deafening in the forest around the site (thankfully weren't swarming too badly where people were, at least).

I'm not looking forward to this May. Not sure what to expect at home this time around (still in Nashville, but a different part of town)-- hopefully they're not too bad, but I suspect my noise-cancelling headphones will be getting a workout while they're out.
> Mallory McGee, an attorney with the NYPD Legal Bureau, using another email attached to the drug task force.

This action puts Mallory at risk of getting disbarred. Submitting illegal subpoena's under the color of authority is fraudulent and a disbarrable offense.

Multiple people at the NYPD broke the law and should face criminal action.
If you need to infantilize your relatives because they cannot be trusted with their devices, then MDM them, or even have that be the default. But we do not need to surrender in the war on general purpose computing for it.
Better make sure nothing can gonwrobg then with robust systems
I wonder if cicadas will react to the total solar eclipse in April
I can't even begin to count how many times I've had this conversation with Siri.

"Hey Siri, is it going to rain?"

"It doesn't look like it's going to rain today."

"It's raining right now."

"It isn't raining right now."
> the easiest thing to do is yell "they took er jerbs

If the goal with AGI is to literally take all of our jobs (all jobs in all sectors) then what are you suggesting we can do instead?
See my response to NewJazz.
DMA is absolutely unfair. Why it doesn't include consoles? Why manufacturers are allowed to prevent users from running their software? And Apple isn't. Some animals are more equal than others?

Also, it is notable how free market fails to solve the problem: almost 100% of consumers seem to not care about freedom to install any software on their devices.
Cython can also compile to executables which are not to be used with python.

Same for Nuitka, and a bunch of transpilers
It's not even the harshest thing we do to that sort of bird.

Patè des californiens is going to be delicious.
Not too bad.

1000 steps takes about 10 minutes.

15K steps takes about 150 minutes.

150 min by 52 weeks in a year is 130 hours a year.

130 hours a year from say age 30 to age 80 is 6500 hours walking.

And so that gains you 3 years, which is 26280 hours, or 17520 awake hours.

So you are gaining about 17520-6500=11020 hours of life to use for things other than walking which is more like just under 2 years in days counting only awake hours.

Now of course it's certainly possible to do things you enjoy while you walk or perhaps things you would have done otherwise while not walking.

For instance I suppose a treadmill desk and using it to walk when you would have just been sitting instead.
About the most annoying thing about the modern Internet is this kind of chip-on-the-shoulder comment about "oh he has such a big ego" and nonsense like that.

Man, I preferred it when people could just write up and propose things. The insufferable "is that professional?", "What about consensus?", "Wow the ego to propose something".

Time to return to monke.
In wireless internet, ATT competes with Verizon and T-Mobile.

But for fiber internet to the home, ATT is still a monopoly for its customers since there are never 2 fiber ISPs.
iCloud is in no way mandatory
What you're describing is what most of the camera manufacturers are dealing with. There's not really "that" much to sell to people any longer, because you can get a "good enough" camera that will fit on a quarter.

Nikon for example, just bought Red One because (in my opinion) there's not much left in the consumer handheld market for DLSRs fighting with cell phones. [1] At least with the current development trajectory on both fronts.

In terms of what might matter, other than prior comments VR suggestion, TVs. People always gonna want their 2x TV. Same as the Bill Gates argument from 20 years ago. What are people gonna do with all that storage? Make larger videos. (likely porn).

[1] https://www.nikon.com/company/news/2024/0307_01.html
I remember the telephone poles being covered and the crunching sound while driving slowly on a residential street.
I feel like I just watched you go through every stage of grief. Yes, there is no perfect solution - that's the nature of authoring solutions in the first place.

The status-quo is not perfect either though, and some might say it's imperfections are expressly anticompetitive. The existence of nice features like free long-distance calls on Bell telephones is not an argument against fundamental infrastructure problems. You're making a rallying-cry that avoids even accepting the EU's criticism on it's merits.

> But it's clearly not going to be that case for at least one app and possibly others if it becomes normalized.

I don't know which planet you live on, but that has never been a thing. Your payments aren't all routed through Apple unless you sustain yourself off Genshin Impact draws somehow. You buy food, you pay rent, you pay taxes and exist in a non-Apple world and non-Apple context. Not exclusively relying on Apple to aggregate your payments is the norm, you're steelmanning a nonexistent lifestyle.

You can keep repeating the "I could have gotten an Android" line until your face turns blue, but the DMA is not about enabling Android phones to run iOS apps. It's about directly addressing Apple's internal market neglect, and their refusal to compromise on a clearly-anticompetitive distribution scheme. Every single defense that does not mention how it directly relates to distributing iOS apps is a strawman that is unrelated to the text and intent of Europe's DMA.
> you must accept that there are degrees of risk that are acceptable to some and not to others

Someone who accepts the 'risk' of certain death on the mission doesn't seem to me to be the sort of person you want as your companion on a dangerous voyage. And if you're planning to found a colony, you want all sorts; not just nerds, scientists and technicians.
> Why does the NYPD have an office in Tel Aviv for example?

Presumably to coördinate intelligence? (I'm guesing.)

If you don't trust the Feds, your options are to partner or duplicate that capability in house. Partnering seems the cheaper option.
Quite likely, like any tank. However the tanks are intended to be allow the occupants to survive when hit.
That doesn't really make sense, will the NYPD start patrolling airports in Europe and flights to the US?
The fact remains that single cities in the US - NY is hardly the only example - have budgets, manpower, and weaponry that exceed much of the world's nation states.

Chicago and LA are roughly #60 on the list of the world's militaries.
Show HN: SimplyStream for Unreal enables native apps to run in WASM/WebGPU
Hi everyone! I'm one of the co-founders of Wonder Interactive, the company behind the SimplyStream platform. We've spent the last several years building out a browser-based platform for developers to deploy their native applications to the web, and today we're showcasing demos of our integration with Unreal Engine. Here are a few highlights:

SimplyStream File System for seamless asset streaming

Tiny WASM core, full engine power

Multi-threaded WebGPU for native-like performance

Please see our website for more information such as additional features, pricing, etc.
Multiple whistleblowers have been raising concerns about Boeing safety and build quality issues for several years, so for you to say "so what, there have been issues on Boeing planes for several years" actually reinforces the "Boeing narrative". If there are multiple people on the inside raising alarm bells, there probably is some substance there. Finally the problems are getting big enough that they can't just be swept under the rug anymore.
We totally hear you and have been thinking through the best way to support this!

Question for you: would the app running locally be sufficient, or would the LLM also need to run on-premise?
It's worth nothing that over the holidays, I decided to pick up Go for a personal project and tried GitHub CoPilot. I was tremendously impressed. At the beginning, it was mostly useful for helping me with syntax as I could ask it to write a for loop, access member variables, etc.

Over time, it would start to suggest larger and larger blocks of code based on what I was writing. It got to the point where it would auto-suggest entire functions based on my code comments. e.g. I'd type: "//Update a user" and it would then suggest complete code for doing just that, while managing to match the style of previous methods, use the correct ORM objects, etc. In general, it seemed to be 90-95% "correct".

However, it did like to remind me that it was just really good at putting words together. For the Update user, it suggested a function that exactly matched how I'd write it, except for this:

//Persist changes to Show object to the database

user.Save()

Just a nice reminder that the GenAI is not "thinking" about what it's doing.
You're right, it updates all those widgets 60 times per second, that's even more.
There's 0 relativity involved in distributed databases
Multi-Threading and Mutation
You’re the one making spurious claims! Too much ‘In Europe…’ bullshit posted here
For Nearly 10 Years, I Operated a Satellite TV Hacking Network (2020)
A deep dive into distributed database architectures
> See my response to NewJazz

Sure, and I'd expect them to explain that to me. But to outright refuse--I would have a serious issue with that.

EDIT: Just asked. Friend, my counsel and partner at a Big Law firm. He'd absolutely do it.
>> Honestly, LLMs can't even get language right. They produce generic, amateurish copy that reads like it's written by committee.

I've had the same experience as well. I heard tons of people clamoring about the ability for LLM's to write SEO copy for you and how you can churn out web content so much faster now. I tried using it to churn out some very specific blog posts for an aborist client of mine.

The results were really bad. I had to re-write and clarify a lot of what it spit out. The grammar was not very good and it was really hard to read with very poorly structured sentences that would end aburptly and other glaring issues.

I did this right after a guy I play hockey with said he uses it all the time to write emails for him and pays the monthly subscription in order to have it write all kinds of things for me every day. After my trial, I was really wondering how obvious it was that he was doing that and how his clients thought about him knowing how poorly the stuff these LLM's were putting out.
I've seen a few suspect benchmarks for recent announcements of LLM releases. I'm sure they made an attempt at an honest benchmark, but until there's an independent assessment and benchmark (preferably multiple) you have to assume that there's bias in anyone's self published benchmarks like this.

I'm guessing it's a fine-tuning of some existing LLM model or API, but this largely seems to be an "agent" and UI that includes some SWE like workflow coding to allow more complex requests to be asked than just an LLM could provide.
There was clearly enough evidence to convict him: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-dis-col/1158861...

The government called other cybercriminals as witnesses to describe how Bitcoin Fog was knowingly aiding in laundering stolen funds: https://www.ccn.com/news/ilya-lichtenstein-bitcoin-fog/

(Disclaimer: my employer worked on this case but I had no involvement in it)
I think that's exactly the point that the parent poster is trying to make by example? Just because we don't have good tooling today for using ASCII delimiter characters, doesn't mean it's impossible -- just like typing the euro symbol on an american keyboard
I'm glad you liked it! I thought from the start to ask for a price that I myself would pay. The files are stored locally, so there's no cloud involved at the moment.

The attachments are stored as files in a directory, while annotations, notes and the folder structure are written to a SQLite database. I haven't made commitments yet regarding the database format, but I could look into documenting and creating compatibility requirements for it.

Is that something you need?
Or two commas in a row can be the escape, without overloading backslash.
I think the raw text inside Facebook groups is at least as valuable as Reddit data. Even if demographics data is restricted under European law, the raw text of people interacting is quite valuable.
aww, those existing offerings are overcomplicated as hell, a fresh look could yield substantially simpler cloud developer experience and this would compete well against those other cloud offerings on simplicity alone
The best way to tell a website your age
I think it's because these projects are usually 80-100% done, and the riskiest part that's left is the print run. Potential customers are given sample PDFs so they can see if they will like the final product, and there is significantly less risk compared to a video game or something with a more complex mechanical design.

It effectively acts as a pre-order system for many projects, letting them know how many to print. The more you print at once the cheaper things are - print on demand is very expensive even for books. Many of these projects do one print run to fulfill the kickstarter then toss the pdf over on drivethrurpg.

The project I linked is unique as far as projects I tend to back goes. It's an RPG system where they haven't even figured out advancement yet. There's going to be more inherit risk due to that, but it's being ran by a big name in the community with experience in delivering these projects.

Contrast this with Shadowdark: it had design, art, layout, etc. ready to go. All they needed to do was the print run. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/shadowdarkrpg/shadowdar...
NYPD is famously full of criminals who abuse their position and it seems unlikely to change any time soon
Massed Muddler Intelligence
hopefully the parachute is made by Boeing
What a Pedantic take on what constitutes a 'standard'.
How? there is zero blame in the comment, merely expression personal disappointment that the thing they like isn't widely available, while simultaneously being understanding of the reasons why it isn't.
ADM Gave Itself Some Discounts
My understanding is that it’s relatively common for airlines to change a flight's airplane for any number of reasons (mechanical, scheduling, etc). Even if you book a flight that's not on a Boeing, you might be assigned to one anyway.
Show HN: AiFormat – Convert files/folders to a Claude optimized prompt
Hey all!

Ever since Claude 3 released, I've been using Opus to code really fast.

Copying and pasting multiple files into the context window was the only bottleneck, so I built a handy tool that automatically converts files/folders into a format optimized for Claude, then copies them to your clipboard.

The project is fully open-source under the MIT license, contributors are more than welcome!

Here's the link to the Github repo with instructions on how to get started (it's really easy):

https://github.com/farouqaldori/aiformat/

Let me know what you think!
> https://www.npr.org/2024/03/12/1238033573/boeing-whistleblow...

His family doesn't believe so:

> The family says Barnett's health declined because of the stresses of taking a stand against his longtime employer.

> "He was suffering from PTSD and anxiety attacks as a result of being subjected to the hostile work environment at Boeing," they said, "which we believe led to his death."
One prerequisite is:

"Be a member of good standing in the Apple Developer Program for two continuous years or more, and have an app that had more than one million first annual installs on iOS in the EU in the prior calendar year."

The realistic part of me thinks this sounds like more resistance to the DMA.

Another part of me thinks this will be good for security. Some random can't get a dev account and publish malware payloads on a hidden URL that will happily run on iOS devices, and are installed via a Safari zero day.
https://archive.ph/LedUi
Remember when Apple taunted bigger companies to sue them, in the name of technological freedom? Pepperidge Farm remembers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi

So sad to see them on the other side of the table now, using every trick in the book to screw over the entire sector. Mr. Cook, tear down this wall!
Oh wow I was expecting some really bad turbulence. Saw the WSJ video of the passenger who mentioned that the pilot told him “he lost his instruments”, how does this even happen aren’t they supposed to have redundancy.
> Doing this on behalf of the client would be the absolute wrong thing to do. Any lawyer that would do that should be disbarred.

This is not true. Check out the American Bar Association Rules of Professional Conduct 1.2 (https://www.americanbar.org/groups/professional_responsibili...).

Broadly speaking, lawyers are bound to the client's wishes, and are expected to represent their client the best they can under those circumstances.

If a lawyer's client wants to sue the NYPD, even if the chances of winning are slim, they can represent that client (barring some niche scenarios).

This is how the ACLU typically works. They find someone with standing who cares enough to bother with following the lawsuit through and they represent that person.
Do you want a snarky answer or a serious answer?

The serious answer is that the way you'd try to figure this out is by combining weather radar, satellite imagery, and a nearby surface observation to try to estimate the current conditions. But there can be a latency of up to a few minutes from these sources, and they could disagree with one another. You have to use them to bootstrap your near-term or nowcast product, but enforcing consistency with recent real-time and the nowcast is quite hard.

It's a surprisingly nuanced technical challenge. Most of the time, it works out just fine (e.g. if there is no weather). But people are awfully good at remembering when these sorts of analyses end up being wrong!
The Imacon Flextight has been discontinued for a while now. Flatbed scannners are stagnant because there isn't enough demand to drive investment. Sheet-fed document scanners are still lively, but quality has gone down, my 2010 vintage ScanSnap S1500M has a high-quality CCD sensor, but newer models are almost invariably CIS with much lower color fidelity for scanning artwork.

High-quality XY prepress scanners like the Cézanne you mention, or prepress leaders like Fuji Lanovia, Creo-Scitex are also discontinued since the industry's gone fully digital and doesn't expect to scan medium-format slides any more.

No wonder Gen-Z finds scanners exotic and terrifying:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/feb/27/gen-z-tec...

The only actively produced scanner that can outperform the V600 is Epson's V850.