skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that's pretty abnormal.

I was earning 35k in Nottingham as a C++ programmer with 3 years' experience in around... 2006 or so. Most of my programmer friends were in roughly the same pay scales. Programmer salaries in the UK aren't usually that low.
2 posts on HN front page about it right now [1] and 3 within 12 hours [2], seems quite popular :)

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40428032

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40425428
Spoken like someone that has never run a business
> there will always be a healthy competitive market of alternatives

I'm not complaining about iTerm2, but this statement on its own is not true.

For example - a healthy competitive market for phones that respect your privacy. Cars without touchscreen controls for everything. Televisions that are not "smart".

Honestly, I hope that iterm2 gets a "local AI" feature.

Running a local LLM or stable diffusion is fun.
Thanks! Similar to how Plausible is doing. Each user gets a unique identifier which is based on `hash(domain+useragent+ip+salt)` (the salt is generated each day).
Your input was incredibly low effort and prompted a very low effort output.

I took part of your blog post (which you clear were willing to put a few more tokens into) -

"My mother remembers growing up with a sicilian dish that was primarily rice baked in an egg mixture. Roughly a "rice frittata". What are some distinctly Sicilian dishes that this could be referring to?"

Notice there is not much extra context that you've offered any of us, either the LLM or us. You didn't even tell us what the recipe was...

How was the dish served, what did it look like?

What are you expecting of the LLM here? It not a psychic AGI.
Japanese also doesn't have casing or spaces, which can make text written solely in hiragana (like some Famicom games) hard to read. I don't know enough about Chinese and Korean to opine on how difficult they are to read and comprehend, but by using the four writing systems (hiragana, katakana, kanji, and western script), Japanese is easy enough to read.
Some people have principles, and that's ok.
I continue to hold the strong position that calling LLMs without injecting source truths is pointless.

LLMs are exceptionally powerful as a reasoning engine. It’s useless as a source of truths or facts.

We have chat bots, chat bots with automatic RAG etc. After the initial excitement wears off, you’re going to want a way to inspect and adjust the source queries yourself. In this case, being able to select what to search for in Google might be a good way for the cooking recipe usecase.
People are getting dumber by the hour. It's sustainable.

When I design computing systems, I am like "what's the point?", if there is nobody with a brain around to maintain it. The cloud allows companies to have services they could never ever maintain themselves long after I am dead.

We are going full Idiocracy from what I can tell.

You sound way too optimistic, but I am guessing you are still young.
Yet this also exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download
Redefine the word “density”
Bullet points of caution:

- Realthunder’s branch contains unique, forked changes that will cause file incompatibility with core freecad if you use them unknowingly

- Core freecad is ahead in many, many ways and improving quickly

- the Realthunder branch is likely a dead end

The TNP mitigation from the Realthunder branch is very close to being enabled in 0.22, and the feature freeze for 1.0 is weeks away. 1.0 is currently targeted for early August.

My feeling is that it would be much better to learn what the topological naming problem is, and how it can be worked around, and then use Ondsel 2024.2 or a 0.22 weekly release until the TNP mitigation is mainstream. (It’s likely to be in 0.22 very soon indeed)

My thinking is straightforward: there are and will be more tutorials and more support for this route, and learning about how to mitigate TNP is not wasted info: it will teach you useful skills for making generally robust designs, TNP or not.

Among others, Mango Jelly Solutions has a recent video about TNP, and Brodie Fairhall’s video on the topic is worth seeing.
press down and hold (long tap) choose from options that appear
Ooh, that's the fun part. What (augmented) sense does the observer rely on? On what timescale? How was the attack coordinated? The attack surface of the operation - and the ability to trace it back to its origin - might be wider than you can plan for. "Plausible" is a shaky ground to be on with your civilization in the balance, if you suspect there's even a chance you can be discovered and have chosen to remain as hidden as possible heretofore. Dark Forest doctrine and hostility are incompatible, I think.
At the same time it’s Airbnb for tech support. It just needs a note that people performing the fixes aren’t employees in this context, they’re independent contractors acting in their own name.

Tongue in cheek. I like how it highlights the enshittification brought by both 1. lack of customer support and 2. by gig economy.
Please stop with the [dupe] comments. No one is asking you to do it, and you’re not doing a good job of it.
I was hoping more groups did stuff like this. The free sites doing it could handle some copyright issues if their EULA had a built-in license for distribution.

In my previous analysis, (IIRC) I found that Wikipedia articles were under a copyleft license with attribution requirements. Does how Wikipedia Enterprise delivers this bypass that where neither use nor derivatives have those requirements? Or are they ignoring the licensing requirements which still legally apply to enterprise customers? Or are they not even claiming to address it?
no way to play the song from what i could tell.
I wonder if the VS Code terminal is now the most popular. Since I migrated back to a Mac, I have also chosen VS Code, and have no need for the builtin terminal or iterm
It certainly could be built into the shell. But the people who did it first make a terminal. No reason it couldn't be ported to the shell though.
> RWin, arrows, Enter is the fastest way to open an app which is pinned in the Start Menu.

No, the left-right arrows don't let you pick the pinned apps after you press a Window key.

Oh, and now that I am at home and can look at my keyboard, apparently I am not the only one who thinks that RWin is a useless key, but A4Tech as well: [0]. I didn't even notice that before!

[0] https://i.imgur.com/Qjf0M4X.jpeg
Spoiler: UK capital flow isn't as bad as some of the doom and gloom comments on this thread are making it out to be
At what point do we call behaviour like this bigotry?

In the field of AI there are many issues to be debated and legal findings to be made.

People have disagreements on a lot of even basic premises yet proponents on either side will state them as fact without providing an argument.

I have seen people post messages on generative AI forums about how to handle the hate they receive. All too often people on those forums handle it by behaving like a 12 year old childishly retaliating.

When it comes to products with AI features, it stands to reason that there will be a lot of new things and a lot of them will be useless. It's an interesting new technology that nobody knows exactly where it fits in. We only find that out by experimentation.

My only concern with an optional feature like in iTerm2 is if it consumed significant resources when not used. Ie. Does it significantly contribute to bloat.

If not then the objection is not to the feature itself but to the idea of the feature.

That seems to be a step fraught with danger.
Yeah, though it's plausible that database corruption could just mean "the deleted flag was accidentally unset."
I use iterm2 as a default and haven't given it any thought or looked into to it.

But "AI powered" very often implies spying on you and sending home everything it can which has me a bit concerned. Is this true or likely to become true of iterm2?

Edit: looking around the thread and at other conversations like https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/issues/11475 it's not just me with this concern
Ehh. I really dislike this paragraph:

> Sure, you could push your glasses up your nose and say, “Well actually, no file is ever really deleted until it’s overwritten...” And while that is true, a reasonable customer would expect that when Apple says a deleted file is permanently deleted, this sort of thing shouldn’t even be possible.

You could stereotype it as well-actuallying, sure, but the reality is that "deleted files aren't actually deleted" has been the way computer storage has worked and still works, in the majority of cases, for a very, very long time. I don't disagree that a reasonable customer would expect that when they delete a file on their hard drive, it's gone forever. But if I were a writer for a tech publication, I don't think I could credibly write an article indignantly demanding an explanation for an undelete utility.
Maybe you’re just getting older
> Obviously, but then the boat and all the objects within it would be experiencing the same gravity acceleration, immediately, at the same time.

That is not correct. The airplane experiences this uniformly because the wings transmit the forces to the fuselage. But the contents of the aircraft follow Sir Issac Newton and want to continue their previous motion. If the aircraft experiences high enough negative G then anything not strapped down will appear to rise relative to the fuselage.

To put it another way: you need a physical connection (eg seatbelt or cargo strap) to transmit the force in such an event, just as the fuselage needs a connection to the wings to transmit the force.
My biggest issue w/ stock terminal.app is the rendering is terrible compared to iTerm. Try running `docker run -it --rm ghcr.io/pdevine/thisisfine` on both terminal.app and iterm2. Terminal.app completely butchers the line spacing.
This is modern art, highlighting the absurd difficulty of getting in touch with a human that can fix your issues at big tech.
The fact that this letter is signed by a number of institutional investors is notable, since those are the ones who usually bother to vote.
Relevant Qwantz from today: https://qwantz.com/index.php?comic=4194
AI Winter is an extreme example of the hype cycle, and refers more to investor expectations than technical capability. In the historical case a lot of investment went into AI (Summer), and the disappointing performance caused a deep pullback in investment dollars for decades (Winter).

Another way to frame my question above: Is this feature a good demonstration of AI's value (present or future) in the eyes of Microsoft's investors?
> meant to be being punished

Who is the punisher is important.
Sure, but if someone told me they were getting up for a walk on a flight because they didn’t want to get DVT, I wouldn’t go on a tirade about how their life was ruled by fear. That’s what my original comment was intending to address.
https://music.apple.com/us/album/backroads-and-memories-sing...
A comment on HN doesn't Trump the GPL on code mostly written by someone else. Also, they claimed to be open source even though they made a stupid license choice.
>When I make a hot spot hidden

That's a misnomer. It doesn't actually make it hidden, only transmit beacons with a blank ssid. That's why even if your network is hidden, it will show a "hidden network" option for you to manually enter the SSID[1]. Moreover, client devices that have hidden networks saved will send out probe packets with network names it has saved[2], so it can determine whether the hidden network is actually around. This is actually worse for privacy, especially if your network name is vaguely unique, because you're broadcasting this high entropy information everywhere you go.

[1] https://www.digitalcitizen.life/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/h...

[2] https://www.acrylicwifi.com/en/blog/hidden-wifi-network-secu...
VHB, the 3m stuff. It's incredible

Also check out prepreg fiberglass and carbon fiber tape.
This could be great satire. The fact it's actually serious is both surprising and sad.
yeah that's the remake but if you don't have a fast computer I guess it's going to be slow. the original still plays very well though.
No, the foreman like character in Hardspace has a heavy Southern accent and the soundtrack has a western tone
> You can tell it to output in a JSON structure (or some other format) of your choice and it will, with high reliability.

I mean, this is provably false. Have you tried to use LLMs to generate structured JSON output? Not only do all LLMs suck at reliably following a schema, you need to use all kinds of "forcing" to make sure the output is actually JSON anyway. By "forcing" I mean either (1) multi-shot prompting: "no, not like that," if the output isn't valid-ish JSON; or (2) literally stripping out—or rejecting—illegal tokens (which is what llama.cpp does[1][2]). And even with all of that, you still won't really have a production-ready pipeline in the general case.

[1] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/1300

[2] this is cutely called "constraining" a decoder; what it actually is is correcting a very clear stochastic deficiency in LLMs
Today's opt-in is tomorrow's opt-out.
On what grounds could they sue?
Its getting really boring now.

God knows how many years we have been promised the fantasy Cyber-accident taxi's.

I wont ever get in to one those killing machines just in case a random kid runs across the road and the AI has a kernel panic and forgets to brake.

Or the AI swerves out of the way of a granny crossing the road a ploughs into a bus stop full of childen on their way to school.

when I was about 10 years old I remember always wanting my own hover back pack or personal hovercraft so I could fly around everywhere. where did they go?

After all I saw them on tv and in films.

The only robo-cab that I have seen is the one in Total recall with Arnold. The one where arnold ripped out the steering column and manually drove it.

Lone's robo-cab's may look smarter but underneath that flashy exterior they are just the robo-cabs from total recall.
I spent 8.5 years teaching at a lower-tier, public "access" university in the US. Don't get me wrong, it was great for what it did, and I was fortunate to work with a lot of awesome people. But we were far from an elite, exclusive institution like Harvard or MIT.

For many years I served on the CS department's graduate admissions committee. Lots of our MS applicants talked about working on sites for major US / western brands, and lots of those kids did not make the cutoff for even our relatively low bar for admission.

I think about that a lot whenever I see that a multibillion dollar multinational corporation has a web page that doesn't work at all.
Same thing with Google Ads, often your account will get suspended for no sane reason and you need an insider to reactivate it, or you're starting from scratch. Appealing only sends you through a kafkaesque circle of hell of support staff who are unable to answer any questions or fix anything, they won't even tell you what exactly you violated or how to return into their good graces.

It's effectively a black market that formed because the official channels abdicated from their responsibilities or provide a terrible service even to paying customers, at least SMBs who aren't big enough for a Google to care.
How the new Microsoft Recall feature fundamentally undermines Windows security
No, you're not reading it wrong, there are a lot of extremely negative comments on this thread that just aren't accurate. Limited companies are just like LLC's. There's so much nonsense being posted here
That was specifically to the world of open source.

I can't do anything about our government failing to enforce anti trust laws that have existed for more than a century. If they did enforce them then perhaps this statement would have wider truth to it.
If this makes money, big tech could open a lucrative market for themselves, suspending more and more accounts, and requesting higher and higher "priority fees" to unsuspend them. (Hmm... somehow reminds me of organised crime...)
Surprised, no, because I've known plenty of ahem security researchers who were contrarian just for the sake of it.
I wonder if the database corruption stemmed from the job responsible for deleting photos after approximately 40 days. This job likely involves two main steps: (1) deleting the actual file and (2) updating the database. At guess, in some rare cases, step (2) might occur even if step (1) fails. Could this issue have arisen because step (1) occasionally failed due to changes in iOS's security model over the years? Did the photos reappear when the database was rebuilt or reindexed from files stored on the device?

With the messaging based hacks exploiting images encoders, pdfs etc it seems plausible to me that they added some protections that could have made file I/O more sandboxed and accidentally over-sandboxed it in some scenarios and the error codes weren't being checked.
Holy shit, Firefox has been around for 25 years?
It's not summer yet. There was one day last week that called for the A/C. And with PG&E rates damn near doubling, I just don't know how retirees and others are going to deal with the abundance of heat, available power and double drain on the wallet.

Regardless of the source, people are going to roast, and some will die because of unaffordable cooling.
Do you think it works that way in medicine or in public health?

Medicine is reactive. It is individually-focused. Something goes wrong, so we visit the doctor.

Public health is proactive but possibly based on bad predictions. It deals with populations instead of individuals. Concepts like "herd immunity" are from public health.

These approaches are oppositional and perhaps complementary.

https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(11)00514-9/ful...
Relevant track record: the developer thought this would be a worthwhile "feature" to add. Frankly, that says enough. Even if they do eventually give in and remove it, the stain will still be there.
In Australia they are the same price ($1.9k AUD vs $1.6k for MacBook air). How much where you're at?
I was subscribed to Shapr3D and had been using their parametric beta before switching to Linux and even in that fillets would mess up what I could do with my models afterwards.

The impression I’ve gotten while learning FreeCAD is that making a CAD ‘just work’ is incredibly difficult and the commercial packages probably have a lot of very messy workarounds and heuristics in place to work like they do.
Questions About AI
So you can start by using the beta if you want to try it. I dont think I'll take any money until after summer (I have no rush here)

Currently the pricing looks like this: No tiers, you get everything. You only pay for events. So everything except events are unlimited.

5000 events - free

10,000 - $5

100,000 - $10

200,000 - $20

500,000 - $40

1,000,000 - $60

2,000,000 - $80

5,000,000 - $120

10,000,000 - $150

I hope to push the pricing model for things below 1m events. But its so hard for me to set a pricing model before getting to know how much resources I need.

/ edit format
> Why do you think gamers have become less interested in strategic thinking and planning?

Maybe because the few remaining Starcraft players are getting pulled off life-support and are lowering the average for everyone.
This is a feature, not a bug of the system.
Fair enough, Related... there's already a number of threads on the bug is the point. More discussion there.
This one has the nuvia cpu in it. Much faster than the previous one.
Very cool!

I love the math block. Is there a way to reference a variable elsewhere, or fetch data online? Then you could build a little personal dashboard with it.
I think you can hardly call it “focused on”, when it’s one feature out many many updates made to the software. Alao I believe you can retarget the calls to a local instance of a model behind an OpenAI compatible API, and it will happily use that.

Seems like lots of knee jerking going on.
US fought a war with a well armed state.

Israel started by dropping bombs on hundreds of sleeping families, leveling entire neighborhoods and after a month of that, started fighting some ragtag scavenger fighters (non-state actor), who have almost no external support, while continuing to level everything remotely related to governance, culture, or other social institutions that came in their path for seemingly no reason but the desire to completely erase possiblity for Palestinians to live in Gaza.

Seems more like an extermination campaign, and no, you can't fight that lawfully.
> What a way to frame "please stop bombing hospitals and churches"

Hospitals and churches that are militarized. I don't think you are interested in understanding or fairly representing what I'm actually saying, so I'm not interested in discussing this further with you.

> When you call Palestine "Hamas" like this, it becomes obvious what you're doing ideologically. Come on.

That was unintentional actually. I was trying to edit for clarity and conciseness, but this is not what I meant. I changed it to "Gaza's".
There's only a few apps that qualifies to be app, and for those, flexbox is usually enough. But most apps are actually document viewers and a few buttons to select, filter and sort data (you don't doom-scroll on Photoshop). And if you want to design a document (or a form for that matter), you either go with the reflowable mindset, or you do preset sizes and constraints.
Supply and demand. If you don't like it supply a better skillet, less ownership, or better yet fund someone yourself in a way that lives up to your ideals.
I think you're mixing up personal and business bankruptcies
Different person but I've had the same experience.

You can't just write code to, for example, "put this line at a 56.7 degree angle and have it end 0.22mm from this surface". You have to break out the trigonometry to calculate how long that line needs to be.
I mean, I don't disagree in the slightest on any point! I'm just curious why anyone who isn't working in the C-suite of any large media company wants that product to exist!
I've opened a few bugs, mostly surrounding extensions. Bugs from the XUL days still exist today, even though the UI is different and the API is different and everything. It is somewhat astonishing. I filed most of them over 10 years ago.

So no, just closing them because they'll be accidentally fixed isn't the correct argument IMHO. Instead, they should just admit that most stuff will never get fixed and just clutters the list. Even though that hurts.
If you just need a spreadsheet and graphing package, gnumeric is a good choice under Linux.
That's great! I wonder when they will automatically switch Airdrop over to thunderbolt when one is available.
It is seems wildly corrupt and unethical if somebody would built a business with such bad customer service that people are willing to bribe their way around it.
iTerm still do not send anything to a third party, you do, by willingfully using a feature that explicitely states so. If you have concern that iTerm would do something behind your back, then you shouldn't be using it in the first place.
I suspect it refers to Wolfram's "A New Kind of Science".

I don't see it as a this-is-all-a-joke thing though, more tongue in cheek.

also I think one-big-text-file has a certain simplicity, like everything-is-a-file on unix (or more properly plan9)
The problem is social media is inherently anti competitive. It relies on network effects, so you have to either limit their size or use utility style regulation.
Misunderstanding. I’m talking about the death of the buzzword, not the death of what it represents.

AI is here to stay but eventually it will die out as a buzzword and as a trend to be made to fit in places it has no reason being in.

Big Data, Blockchain etc are all still here and used but the trend of being used as a buzzwords and added to random products for no reason has long been forgotten.

Hope it clears it out.
No, this was filed for originally Netscape Navigator which codebase evolved into modern Firefox.