skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also interesting to think that IBM released an 8-trillion parameter model back in the 1980s [0]. Granted it was an n-gram model so it's not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison with today's models, but still, quite crazy to think about.

[0]: https://aclanthology.org/J92-4003.pdf
> AI is us

In case you hadn’t noticed, “us” is the competition. But the machine “us” can be made arbitrarily faster and cheaper than us, for what is converging on a similar technical skillset.
All they have to do is post once since she’s been locked up and yet they don’t…
The EU laws allow exceptions for security, but most of the Apple shenanigans related to the DMA were walked back the minute the EU said they would launch an investigation into the matter.

So no, I would say it is absolutely about whether they can open up and still be secure. It seems that they lack confidence that the arguments they had put forward would survive scrutiny asking just that question. Heck, there are even exceptions in the law that would allow them extended time periods in order to comply with the requirements in order to ensure security. So if it is just a question of needing more time, they can get it, and if it is a question of not being possible for users to be secure when interoperable with third parties, they can get exceptions for that.
My thoughts too. I was expecting something between Go and Rust in syntax, maybe more terse.
My (US) colleagues were bitterly disappointed that although the tracks on DTH's 1998 christmas album are available via YouTube, they were missing out on the liner note recipe for Christstollen nach Alice B. Toklas'r Art: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wir_warten_auf’s_Christkind#Ar... ; don't germans have at least a half century experience with cannabis v. alcohol by now?

EDIT: even Duden knows how to kiff (schwaches Verb; Perfektbildung mit „hat“), see https://www.duden.de/konjugation/kiffen
Which AI you mean? It's so ubiquitous that it's hard to pick. Categorization and labelling existed before LLM-s, but they made it much better. Imagine not having to manually label support tickets if you have a 1000 new every day.

3D model generation is also a good example, you can save tons of time.

AI is everywhere, but most of the time you simply don't notice it since it's so well integrated or they are driving backend logic, anti fraud systems, etc.
I'd love to d othat - many parks have tables for eating and I could lunch and code there for a couple hours. Maybe I should try one of these "laptop sun shades" ...
In no way am I intending to insult your intelligence, and I apologize for any lack of clarity that could lead to such a misunderstanding.

Unlike modern messaging platforms, SMS has no:

- guaranteed delivery

- read receipts

- proper support for group chats (MMS adds this, but the implementation is poor compared to modern platforms)

- support for multimedia (again, MMS added this, but support is poor)

- support for replies

- support for reactions

- support for any kind of encryption

- support for typing indicators

- ability to work independently of an active cellular connection

If SMS works for your needs, and you have no issues with it, that’s great. Ultimately, SMS does work, but many users rightfully expect more of a messaging platform at this point. There are real benefits to users from upgrading to a more modern system.
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Stop posting dump comments like this
Chances that you are not even slower. With age we experience time differently - some things perceives faster others slower.
Biggest single buyer. It’s an investment that SS makes. They could instead buy securities of other governments but U.S. securities have been the safest to purchase. Without SS do you think the U.S. would not be able to borrow as much as it does?
This is the way.

Unfortunately, I've had no luck getting others to buy into the idea that they should understand this level of detail so they can make these calls. Quite frustrating and depressing, since companies will relentlessly exploit their indifference.
A Unified System for Facial Analysis
From what I have read, the microcode on M-series chips is NOT updatable. If this is the case, tsk tsk Apple.
> 1. One OS is locked down, has a walled-garden ecosystem, but has many privacy-protecting features.

I wonder, if you open up iOS, do you lose the privacy-protecting features? One of the benefits of iOS is that it makes good privacy decisions for you, where it can

If you take away the defaults, you kind of take away the design choices that were made to improve privacy. People (myself included) are not the best at making decisions that preserve their own privacy

Many people will hit whatever button gets them to the next stage of whatever it is they are trying to achieve. If Apple is not allowed to intervene in that experience, will we see a lot more people being taken advantage of by dark patterns and other software tricks?
i'm waiting to hit this "edge case". i had to
This is an example of great AI UX and not sure why it's not upvoted more. It's rare for users to use the term "Game Changer" when it comes to UX.
> it's not up to you to decide

Unless you live in a dictatorship it's definitely up to us to decide... Otherwise you leave your voice to the top 0.0001% business owners and expect them to work for your good and not for their own interests

Also read about the rebound effect. Planes are twice as efficient as they were 100 years ago yet they pollute infinitely more as a whole.

There is nothing ridiculous about the comment you're replying to
> because the competition is just nonexistent.

Only if the hiring org can tell the difference
Semi-related question: Is mailman still storing passwords in plain text?

I remember a time, not that long ago, where I regularly got mails from mailman telling me my current password.

Of course, people should never reuse their passwords anywhere, but people still do. Back then I looked into the topic and getting mailman to encrypt passwords wasn't simply changing a setting.
I struggled with a few different solutions for this and finally just settled on an alias on my existing fastmail account under my custom domain.

Works fine and zero hassle. I think it's fine for the kind of mailing lists you describe.
This is mostly as simple as striking out DMCA 1201. The device maker need not bless the activity so long as they do not have a cudgel with which to threaten users from modifying their own devices they bought.

I agree we should force platforms to be more.open and interoperable, but we can get at least part way there by not allowing them to sue innovators.
This happened in my family. Except my cousins just banded together and bought our Android using family member an iPhone. She was pleased with the result
Gonna drop my own link here, because I really think the UX I’m working on is truly novel. Inspired by the commonplace book format, I take highlights from Kindle and embed them in a DB [1]. From there I build (multiple) downstream apps but the central one, Commonplace Bot [2] is a bot that serves as a retrieval and transformer for said highlights. It has changed the way I read books. I now get to link ideas from books I read in 2018 to books I read last week. I don’t need to always have a query either, as I added a hypothetical question as an entry point allowing for the UX of finding an idea to be as simple as typing “wander”. Finally, since quotes are dense, short, and generally context free, I enable a bunch of transformations like Anki quizzes, and art from quotes, and using the quote itself as a centroid to search its neighbors, etc.

[1] - https://github.com/bramses/quoordinates
[2] - https://github.com/bramses/commonplace-bot
It's difficult to spot, because - similar to your sysadmin - if you know it's AI, it's probably because it's doing a bad job. It's when it just blends into the overall experience so you don't even notice it's there that it's great. There are cases where AI is helping a company be more profitable, by allowing them to provide a substandard service with fewer humans. From a company perspective, it's doing great, but the end user experience sucks.

So, my list:

* Spotify's weekly picks used to be pretty good at recommending new music, although it's actually got worse in the last 2-3 years.

* AI filtering out things like fraudulent transactions and virus-laden web pages. They're a long way from 100%, but it's got better, even as the challenge has got bigger.

* Some games have started making good use of AI - Red Dead Redemption 2 is probably the best I've played. Makes the in-game world feel a bit more dynamic, rather than the same procedural world.

* Google Maps does a lot with AI, redirecting based on traffic. It doesn't go out of its way to tell you how clever it's being, so it's hard to spot. But 10 years ago, I used to get stuck in a lot more traffic than I do now.

* ChatGPT is awesome, even if the hype cycle is now turning and we're all eye-rolling at it. I've conversed with it to improve my understanding of all sorts of topics, and it is amazing.
Feature bloat. Notepad is a simple, dumb editor. No formatting, doesn't muck with your text. This is important and useful.

What possible reason do they have, to change that?
But then you need an LLM that can separate between grammar and facts. Current LLMs doesn't know the difference, that is the main source to these issues, these models treat facts like grammar and that worked well enough to excite people but probably wont get us to a good state.
All the places I see AI being applicable to my work don't require a perfect score, and a threshold is actually much more useful, especially where multiple factors come together to make evaluation to a single value hard.
I'm imagining the email program using a formatting and rendering engine, both predictable.
Good for you but it's not the experience a lot of people have https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/18mu8w3/...
Precious metal.
Talking with an LLM feels very different to me from text-based chat interactions.

I used the spoken interface with ChatGPT 4 a lot a few months ago after it was released on the iPhone app, and it was pretty immersive. The latency was a bit long, though, and even when prompted to reply briefly the bot tended to ramble on, often with numbered lists, which sound awkward in speech.

For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been experimenting with Inflection AI’s Pi. Its voices are very natural—the American female voice I use even has vocal fry [1]—and the latency is short. It will talk about serious topics (sometimes with numbered lists), but it seems prompted mainly for friendly conversation. It calls me by my name and remembers our previous conversations. I can easily see people becoming emotionally attached to bots like that.

A man named Chris Cappetta has created some open-source software for talking with Claude 3. His conversations with the bot about AI are pretty remarkable [2, 3].

The current spoken interfaces all seem to run what the user says through a speech-to-text converter, so the bot does not perceive pronunciation, intonation, hesitation, etc. After multimodal models that can hear and respond to the speaker’s tone become available, the experience will become even stickier.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal_fry_register

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVab674FGLI

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY9-1isnARs
Pretty good? They slipped through the cracks in between the words of the DMA directive in a way that nothing in particular will change. I still can't publish an unnotarized .ipa so people can install it like they can install software on every other major operating system.

They will still collect rent on apps they do not host or have anything to do with in alternative app stores. Which is absolutely hilarious. Speaking of alternative apps stores, the bar is so high that an F-Droid alternative just cannot exist. Tim Epic got his wish though.
So what you're saying is there's tenuous-at-best, non-"solid" evidence that LLMs can reason even within their training data.

And yet I'm currently sitting at -1 for stating the blisteringly obvious. Lmao
Ask HN: Shell config is crazy complicated. Any solutions?
There are so many config files that are read in a particular order for each shell, interactive vs login, and for each platform. They all configure themselves using env vars and shell functions. Then every dev tool pastes some config into some of these config files.

It's really out of control.

The shell is probably the most used software on a developer's computer and it's a total mess.

Are there any solutions to this?
Even in war-torn countries, most humans are uncomfortable with the bloody realities of actually killing - at scale, ongoing for years - desperate civilians. Especially since governments seem relatively poor at sorting out who's "illegal", and who's not.

Then there are the physical realities - borders are not magical unbroken fences. Most (of the interesting ones, for migration) have huge quantities of legal people and goods moving across them. If the "migrants" are numerous, and there are plenty of "legals" who know how lucrative the people smuggling trade can be...
Great news! I don’t see many people on HN getting mad when you point out that Apple isn’t the best for everyone. I’m not saying you made it up. Maybe I just don’t read enough comments.

I do see people saying they like how Apple devices work, and that they consciously choose Apple devices over devices from other manufacturers. Those are informed consumers making a choice you wouldn’t make. It’s not sad. Some people won’t agree with you in life. That’s normal.

Choice does exist in the market. There are far more than 2 manufacturers, and some of them focus on more HN-ish people who have more principles than I do.

I don’t really want the government to limit my smartphone choices in this way, but I also realize that Apple devices will continue to exist and will mostly work the way they do today, so it’s not that big a deal to me.
I wouldn't call the early McCulloch & Pitts work quite "full-fledged". Also backpropagation, essential for multi level perceptrons was not a thing until 1980s.
This is super useful to know about!
The sprite designer & waveform editor / tracker is a really good creative introduction to computers for small children. And you can jump straight in to doing this with the above web link.

(For those new to Pico-8, hit 'esc' from the Lua console to bring up the editor tools, then click on the icon in the top right.)
Break them up into a software, hardware and services company.
> But to me large part of professional design is not personal taste but knowing and understanding your target audience and design intent, and design appropriately.

Design where intent doesn't align looks very ugly to me, so that is still a feeling. Things feel right when designed well.
> wiping down the seat padding in the gym

COVID aside, isn't wiping down gym equipment after use just good sanitary practice? I don't want to slide in on someone else's greasy residue.
There's lots of comments here about how stupid is to parse html using llms.

Have you ever had to scrape multiple sites with variadic html?
"barely moving texts" ?
You must not be aware that, to render the cursor, the whole "surface" of the monitor is rendered.
They call this: "progress". /s
I do not manage a mailing list, since the one I have set is not active, but I found Mailman 3 to be too resource-hungry, so went with much more lightweight mlmmj for mailing list management, and MHonArc for archiving. At least the initial setup is fairly easy with those, once you have postfix set. Probably not hard to set them with Exim, either, while Courier apparently includes mailing list functionality out of the box (though I have not tried that).
I'm building upon insights from this paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.03950.pdf) and believe that classification can sometimes outperform regression, even when dealing with continuous output values. This is particularly true in scenarios where the output is noisy and may assume various values (multi modal). By treating the problem as classification over discrete bins, we can obtain an approximate distribution over these bins, rather than settling for a single, averaged value as regression would yield. This approach not only facilitates sampling but may also lead to more favorable loss landscapes. The linked paper in this comment provides more details of this idea.
Their business belongs to the 80s. Where one or two companies made consoles. Today, these companies expect me to buy a new device every 2-3 years. What am I, an electronic dump heap?

If their device isn't good enough to put itself above others, it is not worth buying. The 1 or maybe 1.5 exclusive they have has zero worth these days. Every console has their exclusives. And among them you will always find something enjoyable. Just stop watching ads/campaigns, who decide for you, and you'll be happy to find many "under the radar" (aka not sold at full price so not marketed) titles.

Tangent - This is a disgusting practice to keep us paying for deprecated electronics. By them and the rest of the console companies. Arm wrestling law makers to vendor lock us is not a business model.
Sigma's Cine Primes Are So Good They're Official Test Lenses
Transforming Predicted Variables in Regression
I'm not dismissing anything, I'm pointing out the history of unions in the US and the reasons for the backlash behind them.

And I'm not anti-union, any group has the right to organize for any purpose in free societies. Even libertarians like Ron Paul are pro-union.
solve a problem you have yourself. Chances are that other people have the same problem. The good thing about solving your own problem is that you know when it solved. This might not be the case if you try to solve someone elses problem instead
It really is just this. And “fast” is mostly a function of “willing to work 10+ hours a day”.

My manager once told me we were going to turn down a very capable software engineer candidate because he was older and probably just going to try to pivot into a management role. I was disgusted but didn’t speak up.

Frankly, I do see a certain form of nepotism at play in some places as well. Let’s just say we don’t have the most diverse tech workforce.
If I buy an iPhone, I can legally sell it. Thats ownership.
If you read 7 sentences further than the title, the author explain what they meant by "modern" CMake.

> Not CMake 2.8 though; that was released before C++11 even existed!

> Modern CMake. CMake 3.5+, maybe even CMake 3.28+

Surely one can see that a tutorial written for CMake 1.0 and CMake 3.28 might have different content.
It’s also easier to have greater precision over what one says when communicating through text vs speech
And you could continue to enjoy that experience by only using Apple's own app store, while everyone else would also be free to use other app stores to install apps they want which Apple does not like. See how this still works? You don't lose here, you win freedom even if you don't want to take advantage of it. You might even win financially because competition from other app stores might force Apple to lower their fees.
It could like like a youtube channel with ads. Some of the revenue from ads shown in that sub go to pay the moderator.
The C# documentation was, at least in its initial years, very good. It even had working examples that demonstrated functions. Compare that to typical javadoc of its time.
If other people buy into this idea, then every site will begin proxying third-party javascript.

If the only way to get trackers on the average person is to serve it from the same first-party domain, or to bundle it in with the giant 'app.js', you better believe they'll do that.

Right now, the fact that only a small fraction of people run adblockers, and an even smaller fraction block javascript, is what allows it to work.
AI is nothing without us. Sure, it has a big set of training data now - but just how far do you think this will recurse before the knowledge becomes useless?

I'm not convinced AI is anything other than just another grep. A fancy one, for sure, but still its only as good as the data you give it. As has been the case with computers since the very beginning.

Of course, some AI-pro head will come along and tell me why I'm wrong, but the proof is in the pudding.

If nobody is coding any more, how will AI learn how to code? Is AI the ultimate stagnation of technology? It really could be, you know.

As it stands right now, I'm seeing junior programmers who cannot get AI to do things, whereas I can get AI to do things better than a junior programmer. But thats only because of my experience and knowledge. AI can be made to function really, really well as a junior dev - but only for as long as there are really good datasets from real human developers out there to work with. If the kids don't keep learning to program, that dataset is going to stagnate...
The login button in the extension doesn't work.
I do not have to time to hang about in forums, nor to idle on Discord or IRC.

E-mail, on the other hand, is a constant. I can snooze it, read it on Emacs, file it with custom rules, deal with it however I want. It doesn't require any particular app, any particular form of formatting, it doesn't give me points, badges, weekly recap emails, or require me to upload an avatar.

I feel mailing lists are underrated, and reading from this thread, it's mostly because the software to run them is as intuitive as Sendmail.
I know of no easier way to quickly release a very usable gui on top of a standard relational database then Elixir/Phoenix.
Could also be resetting expectations for people who've been expecting GPT-5 (or just GPT-4.5) sooner - been a year now since GPT-4 was released.

The other odd thing from Altman was saying that GPT-4 sucks.

I think the context for both announcements is the recent release of Anthropic's Claude-3, which in it's largest "Opus" form beats GPT-4 across the board in benchmarks.

I personally think OpenAI/Altman is a bit scared that any moat/lead they had has disappeared and they are now being out-competed by Anthropic (Claude). Remember that Anthropic as a company was only formed (by core members of the OpenAI LLM team) at the same time as GPT-3 was released, so in same time it took OpenAI to go from GPT-3 to GPT-4, Anthropic have gone from nothing -> Claude-1 -> Claude-2 -> Claude-3 which beats GPT-4 !!

Anthropic have also had quite a bit of success attracting corporate business, quite a bit of which is more long-term in nature (sharing details of expected future model capabilities so that partners can target those).

So, I think OpenAI is running a bit scared, and I'd interpret this non-announcement of some model (4.5 or 5) "coming soonish" to be them just waving the flag and saying "we'll be back on top soon", which they presumably will be, briefly, when their next release(s) do come out. Altman's odd "GPT-4 sucks" statement might be meant to downplay Claude-3 "Opus" which beats it.
When someone pulled right in front of me from a side street a while back while I was driving, the car slammed on the brakes and before I even registered fully what was going on, I found myself stopped safely, but only inches away from having t-boned that guy.

That is the level of experience AI needs to get to. Not buttons that basically say: "Use AI!!" but features so fully integrated and smooth that you don't even think about whether or not AI is behind it... it just does what it does when it needs to do it.

(And I know, my anecdote wasn't about LLMs, but that is kinda the point.)
Well it makes no sense to worry about side channel attacks if you don't have isolation in the first place, so there is an implicit assumption that you have a sandboxing layer like VM/container/browser (or the built in unix user separation) which don't care about terminals or X11 (usually a separate X server is used which is running inside the sandbox context).
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=udSiluTAOaQ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-ovo_sexing