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Ask HN: Do regular users care about AI-enabled features?
It's clear that "AI" is being shoved into everything even vaguely technical these days. Every web app gets a new little magic wand icon to convert a pithy high-signal sentence into 7 bland high-noise sentences, or a Mona Lisa icon to more easily insert DALL-E images into your chats, spreadsheets, and fast food orders.

For me personally, as someone who uses LLMs daily for research and learning - and who has hooked LLM APIs to REPLs, my filesystem, made dozens of little specialized tools - I still barely ever use anything beyond the basic ChatGPT style interface. Smarter models help, and while I dabble with a menagerie of local LLMs I find myself still gravitating to OpenAIs flagship models, especially with the price drops of 4-turbo and 4o.

Anyway all that to ask - pardon my French - is there a world of consumers I'm not seeing that gives a flying shit about all these magic wand and Mona Lisa icons? Not talking about TechCrunch or the business press, or shareholders speculating on the impact of Google Gemini 1.6 Gamma Multimodal LabelMaker 6-Sigma Assistant, but actual everyday users?

Is this all a crazy FOMO gold rush set off by the phenomenal uptake of ChatGPT a few years ago?

What recent AI products beside ChatGPT-style QA and diffusion image generation (and github copilot for developers) have made an impact on the average person's heart and mind, and seen a lot of adoption and enthusiasm?
Yes, that is what FOIA is. I've submitted probably over 3k requests and, well, you're WAY simplifying the extent of the issues and the dynamics of these things.

For example -- is your neighbor's email address suddenly public once they email someone within a government agency? Why? Why not?

And you're wrong about the city hall member topic. I specifically mentioned "in session" because in many municipalities, the activities they do while in session are responsive to FOIA. That includes their browser history. Regardless of the device they're using.
Even with Alexander inheriting a war machine from his father Phillip, he managed to do something that was unthinkable in Greece: defeat Persia in detail. Even with a machine created by his father, having the gumption to take it that far makes him sui generis.

But he had to do much more than copy his father. He had to deal with logistics in a way that his father never had to. Alexander's war was as much about the logistics of supplying his army as about the battles it fought. He had to deal with large geopolitical aspects of the war, such as the need to win (or defend successfully) at sea, not just land, and he couldn't be both at sea and on land. Founding lots of cities to anchor his authority was a geopolitical technique that his father had not had to employ.

Sure, Alexander was his father's son, but Alexander's accomplishments are his own.
Nope, that's unrelated.
iTerm2 v3.5.0 launches with ChatGPT integration
The Genkit framework just launched and it has open plugin API. You can already find support for groq, openai, anthropic... I don't think the answer to your question ("Why ollama, why not llamacpp?") really matters (maybe only out of curiosity), but practically if you want llamacpp support someone will probably add it very shortly... It's open-source.
Could you leave the tapping and chatting to the AI? This way, I can let it work on some basic guidelines and let it surprise me with a game every day.
> the numerical value for letters (A=1, B=2, C=3, etc) which I think will give me greater powers of lexical sorting. We'll see.

Another way of doing it could be generating a deck with questions like:

"Q or P. Which comes first?"

I suppose that which technique will be superior depends on whether you usually sort things relative to each other, or relative to their container. If you have a fixed container of files, you could think, "ah, 'T', that's 20 (out of 26), I should look down 3/4 of the length of the container". But if the container wasn't evenly divided - for instance, your 'I' for 'Insurance' was a much thicker file than your 'T' for 'Taxes' or whatever - you'd no longer be able to use those numbers directly. What do you think?
Tesla was nothing but two guys, a name, an office, and an idea when Musk invested $6.5 million into it. They had no technology, no car, no money, no nothing. That makes Musk a founder.
CERN's intro to C++ course [pdf]
Can you remap the entire keyboard so it's actually an ISO layout? I've been using Ukelele for this, but it's not optimal so I'm going to switch. Was considering Karabiner Elements, but i like Lua so maybe Hammerspoon is better?
Maybe watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lupWYQdDgQ

Looking at states is stupid, because 'states' don't limit where people live.

If you look at regions where people live, the US is brilliant for trains and high speed trains.
I personally love history, especially the 60's, so definitely added to the list!
Related: Adam Savage hates duct tape...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEfQAo-BuB0
Presumably you’d ask for higher base in place of equity.
Small-scale solar?

When we lived on a small homestead with animals, we burned some power taking care of the animals, but were able to do so off-grid by buying a small portable solar setup. You'll spend a few hundred to be up and running, but diminish how much you need to pull from the power company.

Of course, that only makes sense if all the fees scale down with usage. If those transmission and distribution fees are not usage-based, it might not save much.
> Not really. But any euphemism (like sheep, lemming) i could use to refer to "people who are incapable of critical thinking" would, by that use, become a pejorative, so there is no way to win that battle.

Any euphemism they could use to refer to people who support mass surveillance would, by that use, become a pejorative, so there is no way to win that battle. In your reasoning at least.

And none of these are euphemisms really.
If you really are concerned about this then you should be advocating for open access networks, i.e. separation of physical assets and service provisioning.

The municipality owns all the hard assets, such as ducts, pits, poles and fiber optic cables. Private service providers then sell Internet access and other services that on top of that.

The municipality cannot leak or hand over information it does not have.

Open access is a tried and true concept, easy to implement. However, you should also be working on better local governance, since that is the root cause.
U.S. and Chinese automakers are headed in different directions
I really enjoyed reading “Rivers of London” by Ben Aaranovitch, I read the second one which was not quite in the same page turner realm, but I plan to read more of the series.
The judgment is riveting, I read it front to back yesterday and couldn't put it down: https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/copa-v-wright/

After following this obvious fraud for nearly a decade, it's so, so satisfying to see him so thoroughly destroyed.
That really don't happen to me. Now if it could rip out dictation support that would be wonderful. It happens multiple times a day that macOS pops up "Would you like to enable dictation"... No, I would like to never ever talk to my computer.
Is there any reason we wouldn't keep advancing the computer bits beyond 64? "640K ought to be enough for anybody" has held up nicely, for example.
Funny, this article says 'they don't know why it works'. I remember the doctor saying that as well. "We are not sure what it is. But we know the virus responds to it and has been effective." So, maybe that was it?
Underwater acoustic analysis reveals unique pressure signals – Revisiting MH370
This is a genuine question. If it turns out they trained Sky on someone else's voice to similarly replicate the style of the voice in "Her", would you be ok with that? If it was proven that the voice was just similar, to SJ's would that be ok?

My view is, of course it is ok. SJ doesn't own the right to a particular style of voice.
At the moment, MS is only thinking about pushing AI into everything.
If my desk were large enough to support a pair of them, I'd be willing to try 32" 4K @ 1X.
Agreed. Seems like a long winded lead up to what reads to me like a mildly condescending Gestalt 101, followed with the same examples I've seen in countless other blog posts over the last 15 years and very little in terms of actually discussing design trends.
Knowing what are the 3 official manuals for the 3 most important projects in the core Nix ecosystem (the manuals for Nix, Nixpkgs, and NixOS, respectively) that together make up the core of the official docs will save newbies a lot of trouble.

> the language-y and build-system-y parts of Nix
Language-y manual: https://nixos.org/manual/nix/stable/language/index.html

Build system-y stuff manual: https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/

> the NixOS modules

Using the NixOS module system in the sense of leveraging existing modules is the main topic of the NixOS manual: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/

Details about the module system mostly live in this section of it: https://nixos.org/manual/nixos/stable/#sec-writing-modules

The piece they don't tell you is that as a NixOS user, you generally want to look for a NixOS module that supports your application first. Only if you don't see one should you then directly/manually install a package into, e.g., environment.systemPackages.

In other words, search here first: https://search.nixos.org/options

And search here second: https://search.nixos.org/packages

The landing page that ties these reference docs together and also contains a lot more example-centric and tutorial content is nix dot dev, here: https://nix.dev/

Imo nix.dev is a great entrypoint and quickly getting better. In addition to providing a bit of a map to help you navigate the official docs, it includes the best official starting docs on flakes, and links to the highest-quality external tutorial and expository material about Nix.

Make a mental note about the 3 big reference manuals, and bookmark nix.dev, and you have everything you need to learn your way around the official docs.
Is it people with regular incomes over $1M, or does it include windfall years?

Windfall years are hard to predict.

Also, it’s much easier to get to a $1M peak income (inheritance, individual contributor at IPO, etc) than to get to $1M mean income (become a VC or executive).

I’d be curious to see a histogram of the 5-year rolling average incomes of the people paying this tax.
Interesting. Does it approach it from a clinical & objective point of view or is it more of an over-arching story focused on the highlights?
In my experience, some key aspects of learning are honest self-assessment (avoiding unnecessary comparisons to others) and learning to appreciate whatever you have wherever you are.

Learning music is one of the best areas to learn how to learn. When you start a new instrument or technique, you will not be good relative to experts. That's ok. You just need to focus on what you can do and build from a solid foundation. Listen closely and your weaknesses will become apparent. You can even learn to appreciate your weaknesses as they provide the opportunities for growth and development.

Unfortunately, I worry that ai tools will ultimately hinder learning as much as help (at least in the aggregate). My fear is that it will prevent people from exploring and finding their own path, passively following the track laid out by the ai. Inevitably many will compare themselves to ai and find themselves wanting instead of asking what they can do that an ai can't.

Teachers can be helpful, but you ultimately are responsible for your own education. It is one thing to follow an individual who has a proven track record, but at least at this stage, I feel like ai tools may be more pied piper than wise sage.
My asus zephyrus was unfixable too. Luckily I had an overpriced warranty for it. Not sure what laptop to try next for game dev, I actually went back to a desktop afterwards
Could this be a contributing factor to male fertility falling?
Shadow Divers was amazing: https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Divers-Adventure-Americans-Eve...

The Tiger was also amazing: https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Depa...

Both non-fiction
It depends how portable they want their code to be across implementations and over time. Fortran compilers vary widely in their interpretations of the language, more so than mainstream C/C++ compilers do.
What I don't get is why he is so intent on claiming it. Didn't he mine and doesn't he still own a million Bitcoin? Doesn't he have something better to do being one of the richest people in the world? What is the point of wealth if you're still going to be a miserable attention seeker?
You may find The Power Broker (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_Broker) by him interesting as well :)
Appreciate hindsight is 20/20 but:

(Hard to judge from dashcam) but car seems to be going fairly quickly for the conditions. Low light, low viz, curving road... and surely the moment you see flashing lights up ahead (ie from the very start of the posted video!) you take your foot off the gas and reduce speed?

Don't see much situational awareness on display, either from the car's autopilot or the human behind the wheel. Strategy of blindly following the road at constant speed, hoping it will work.

Oh, and how did the (human) driver get so close to the crossing before taking any kind of action? If they'd hit the brakes even a few seconds earlier there would have been no need to steer off the road.
Written by a woman, by the way.

I mention this because I was surprised to realize that upon reaching the end of the article, and then of course I had to interrogate why I was surprised. I’m sure this will get some (justifiable) hate, but: I was more sympathetic to the arguments after realizing the author didn’t conform to my stereotype of a mathematically-focused man who undervalued other disciplines.

(I clearly have a blind spot around women who undervalue other disciplines.)
Scale.ai is announcing $1B of financing at a $13.8B
The myth propping could have stopped when he died. It didn't. And that is in spite of his kingdom immediately being partitioned and in spite of squabbles immediately arising. His generals and court fractured when he died, but they didn't turn on him.
bleep.
Records are useful for running operations and debugging issues. You can shorten the retention of them, but eliminating them altogether would significantly degrade the quality of service over long periods of time.

However, there is a major misunderstanding about the kinds of records ISPs can keep. They cannot store your browsing data for most major websites, because they don't have it. Widespread use of SSL/TLS along with the rollout of eSNI and DNS over HTTPS means the most interesting details of your browsing are encrypted. "Customer A sent 57 and received 94 packets to/from IP W.X.Y.Z on YYYY-MM-DD" is certainly not full anonymity but it's not hardly the detailed breakdown that "browsing history" implies.
The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy by Mark Schwartz. Shares an interesting view on bureaucracy, how it is all around us an used heavily in our line of work.
Congrats on shipping.
But watch out, the dark theme is not readable on my macbook.
I loved this book, such a great concept and wide open to interpretation.

They made a TV adaptation of it, I think they managed quite well given how difficult it is to visualise some of the concepts.
Are you thinking perhaps of something like Harvard's endowment which was valued at $49.444 billion as of June 30, 2022.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University_endowment
>Aegis Defenders

7/10 on Steam and Metacritic. Reviewed by major publishers. Over 100 reviews.

Not sure what you mean by "no traction". But I'm sure it did fantastic in some alternate universe because Sean Carroll.
> The UI was much less visually dense, but more value-dense by orders of magnitude. The results speak for themselves: Google went from a $23B valuation in 2004 to being worth over $2T today — closing in on a 100x increase. Yahoo went from being worth $125B in 2000 to being sold for $4.8B — less than 3% of its peak value.

Wait what??? THAT'S how you explain the differences in how their businesses fared - by the density of their UI?
Tech firms' lobbying and promotional language shows market approach
> If so, I’d live to see the science.

Ok, here's the science: [insert libertarian propaganda here]
yeah can't read on mac darkmode
This theme of comment comes up for sooo many types of posts, and it is unfortunate that it usually dominates the conversation. If Facebook or Airbnb-type companies share a new JavaScript lib, the comment sections will be about how Facebook is evil, or an anecdote about someone's horrible Airbnb experience when they cheaped out in Paris.
Are you pro DI as in "Dependency Injection", or pro DI as in "Dependency Inversion Principle"?

DIP is a good way to build software. When injecting dependencies becomes so complex you need a framework or need a separate concept of DI (sans P) then I think something has gone wrong, incidental complexity has won.
> My deeper beef with this method is the complete absence of emphasizing, discovering or forming connections between cohesive things. We're trying to learn, it's a super power to start seeing patterns in what we learn, it forms buckets that we can put new concepts and information in. Without it, the learning is ... shallow.

I'm confused why you'd expect spaced repetition to serve this purpose. Did someone claim it would?

Yes, it is shallow. It's meant to be shallow. It's not meant to replace other tools to build connections. It's not meant to be a complete solution. You still need to apply the material to learn it.

Spaced repetition is for remembering/recall - not understanding. It's useful for people who have already done the work to understand (practice problems, etc), but would like to keep it in memory. If you are taking grad level analysis, and can't remember that a compact set is closed, because it's been 2 years since you took undergrad analysis, then SR will help you.
This reminds me of how people often communicate to avoid offending others. We tend to soften our opinions or suggestions with phrases like "What if you looked at it this way?" or "You know what I'd do in those situations." By doing this, we subtly dilute the exact emotion or truth we're trying to convey. If we modify our words enough, we might end up with a statement that's completely untruthful. This is similar to how AI models might behave when manipulated to emphasize certain features, leading to responses that are not entirely genuine.
This trend seems to be a western trend. Here is somewhere where I think we could learn from the apps in Japan and especially China.

I frequently feel for any app that I use frequently, i would prefer for it to have many options that I could use to customize its behavior. For instance, Uber
The EPA is cracking down on cybersecurity threats
I wonder the same thing every day.

As a tech-literate user of the basic ChatGPT interface for the occasional coding assistance in an language or framework that I'm unfamiliar with, I pretty much *never* use it elsewhere. Nor do I miss it or wish it was integrated.

I see very few people asking for it to added, and plenty more people asking how to remove it where it was added.

I used a little image generation, but the process of trying to get an LLM to edit a generated image via a text interface is more work than it's worth.
> Nakamoto appears to have a "collaborative and non-confrontational nature," which makes it "likely that the real Satoshi would never have set out to prove in litigation..."

The Objective supersedes Vanity.
Surface Pro and Laptop with Snapdragon chip [video]
It's hard to figure out what to pay for open source. Is there much proprietary that's adding real value?
Forever immortalized in ReBoot!

https://reboot.fandom.com/wiki/Phong
Took a look at Mark Swartz and some of his other books as well — looks pretty interesting. Added to the list!
I've gotten in the habit of explicitly disconnecting my headphones from all but the device I'm actually using, typically my phone. I haven't had these kinds of problems since, but what I gain in control, I lose in flexibility. Typical Apple.
I'm not even sure if it's just how that font/typeface looks like, or the whole image is stretched horizontally.
AI feels like Google's Xerox PARC moment. Xerox PARC basically invented the modern PC, but others commercialized and profited.

Would Xerox have been better off if they had a stone cold panic reaction to the realization that others were commercializing their work? Probably.
If, like me, you hadn't read the iFixit article, the added value of this article was very high.
Which if I'm honest I'm almost always fine with, as long as the way they ran with is polished as hell.

It's when the way they obviously want you to do things is flakey and doesn't work that it becomes super annoying.
>what the model is "thinking" before writing its response

An actual "thinking machine" would be constantly running computations on its accumulated experience in order to improve its future output and/or further compress its sensory history.

An LLM is doing exactly nothing while waiting for the next prompt.
We Built the Fastest MQTT Client in .NET: Why We Built It [video]
> Surely no one expects other things like road maintenance to be financially self-sustaining?

I have never once in my life heard anyone describe the US Military through such a lens.
"They cannot store your browsing data for most major websites"

That "most" is doing a hell of a lot of work there.
Another thing not mentioned in the article is for delays >10s, a loading bar that fills slower at the beginning and faster towards the end feels faster than one filling linearly or accurately reflecting progression.

Using load times to convey something while users wait is fair however I would bet shorter loads times always beats however good a filler, unless your business is to trap users in load times to feed them more ads of course, in which case that's a whole other problem.
If my startup worked hard on something cool, got it on the front page of HN, and the top thread is: you have no chance.

I mean it's malicious
MS was too lazy to change the tech specs for the page with pen.

It's identical to the one without pen.
I don’t know enough about him or his vision. It doesn’t seem he’s as clear as say Jobs in the past. But I do look at all the amazing things openai has done in a short period of time, and that the employees overwhelmingly backed him with the whole board chaos issue. He also has fundraised a lot money for the company. It appears he’s doing more right than wrong, and openai pulled everyone else’s pants down.
He's talking about a statement from Jerry Buldak of Sears from the article he's quoting himself in:

https://stratechery.com/2016/walmart-and-the-multichannel-tr...
Tembo CEO here - we are targeting feature parity for Tembo Cloud w/ RDS as soon as possible, would love to have you give Tembo a try sometime, give us feedback :)

Tembo Cloud is standard SaaS offering, and our new Tembo Self Hosted (https://tembo.io/docs/product/software/tembo-self-hosted/ove...) allows you to run the same software that powers our SaaS, but in your own K8s cluster.
> I would argue that it's ...

Yes, to a great degree. Coupled with the west's military equipment establishment being disastrously optimized for sort-term profits.
I'm fairly sure it's a copy issue. Regardless, Microsoft's entire marketing site for this product needs a redo. It's poorly organized and designed.
Why does the timing of the “thinking” matter?
In other words, a material's safety may depend on the context in which it is used. I have concerns that a copper-coated nanotextured steel might, in some scenarios, have human health impacts; I'd rather not learn about it after decades of widespread use like PFAS.
It's a shitty summary of someone else's blog post and video.