skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Example from earlier today. I wanted to know how to format a date as "06/04/1947", just like that with leading zeros. I can never remember the details of the complex Ruby `strftime` method, so I usually have to spelunk in the docs for the details. Instead I prompted an LLM with "format a Ruby date like '06/04/1947'" and it gave me the correct answer, faster than I could have found the doc page let alone decoded it.

Why the heck not use AI when it's better?
Musk isn't interest in mono-racial communist ethno state being the worlds top super power.

An American civil war is high, if not at the top, of China's wish list. Yeah, they would feel the crunch, but would be able to cement unrivaled global power if the US unraveled.
Yeah I was hoping the HN community could provide some insight there, because my searches came up fruitless.
It pretty much was deterministic before Google started using ML to "help" interpret your search queries, which was a decade or more ago. Not coincidentally, that was also when Google search results started getting noticeably worse for me.
The IPv6 notation claims : for separating digits. But that's already an established notation for port numbers: 10.1.2.3:456. Oops!

The square brackets allow us to stick a port number on it: [ffff::0123:4567]:6301
“Google’s WPS computes the user’s location and shares it with the device. Apple’s WPS gives its devices a large enough amount of data about the location of known access points in the area that the devices can do that estimation on their own.”

This sums up the companies’ philosophies neatly.
Oh god I didn't even notice that. That's one of their "featured" showcase models, too.
> If you know how to solve problems using an AI, isn't that what they are going to (increasingly) expect you to do on the job?

Why would you work somewhere that prescribed your workflow?

You're a professional. Do your job as you see fit, whether that involves AI assistance or not.

> demonstrating that you can effectively use AI to develop, would seem to me to be something they'd want to see.

Irrelevant. They want you to meet business needs more than play with today's shiny technology.
yes and it seems unscrupulous to take kickback money for this. on the other hand, as someone who has one of these problems, I'd be only too happy to pay an insider to fix it. It's not just the technical problem (account suspension etc.), it's the injustice of the thing in the first place, and then the rage of being put in an endless hell loop.
If people had thought more critically about streaming when it was new, they might have foreseen that the ad-free experience was temporary and would inevitably be replaced with ads. That money was never going to be left on the table long term.

But the ads are worse now, the precedent with a DVR is to be able to control the video stream and skip ads but with streaming there's no such precedent so the technology allows that freedom to be taken away and ads can be made unskippable.

And now we have an opportunity to realize before it's too late that this generation of AI will inevitably lead to as much advertising as we had before, and it will once again become qualitatively worse in that it will be seamlessly and opaquely integrated into AI output without even necessarily any disclosure. I will take a blockable banner ad over that any day.
Maybe it's not the case for all of them, but some portals require you to scan a QR code with your bank app, IIRC.

Others require you to generate a token with the bank app.
What is truth?

I believe in objective truth, but finding it has always been very difficult.
I'd love the anecdata on what type of commenter you were.
You do can open issues (well, they are called tickets) on SourceForge https://sourceforge.net/p/peazip/tickets/
Yes, Amazon is actively working to support Aspire for AWS.
The toad's abode is by the road

The frog's abode is boggy

That is why the toad seems dry

And why the frog is soggy.

- Jack Prelutsky
But they'd still need to invest some time and effort. How dare you!
I sang this as I read it. Good to know those brain cells have been put to good use the last few decades.
I own this game too, got it probably from a bundle-sale, so I didn't really bought it on purpose for the game itself. It also seems to haven been given away for free some years ago.
The problem with Alibre is that it only works on Windows. I switched from FreeCAD to the free (as in beer) version of Onshape, which works in the browser and is a night and day difference over FreeCAD.

Your designs are wide open for anyone to see, but I can live with that for hobby stuff.
For me, it's an issue because my headphones have touch input on the outside of the right side ear and often when I'm putting them on I'll accidentally rich it in a way that registers as a tap which sends the play command.
Do they? I don't remember asking no crud app to be native. We are also using web apps on Android and iPhone without complaints.
"There's many factors that make Europe less competitive than the US: small fractured markets"

This first one seems the largest hurdle w.r.t. startups. If you are a startup founder of say a ride hailing app - the total addressable market is much larger in the US for the same level of effort. If you want to scale beyond your home state (i.e. California) in the US, there are probably just a handful of different state/city taxes/regulations that need to be accounted for.

If you start in a country in Europe, you need to factor in:

- language translation of the entire app

- different country cultures/customs (i.e. tipping, wording of prompts and promotions) - even down to the naming of the app which might have a negative connotation in a different language

- prior to the Euro - differences with respect to currency, trademarks, patents, etc.

- entirely new country regulations and politicians that need to be "handled" - each in their own separate language which means a separate lawyer and lobbyist needs to be on staff for each country

- home court advantage - French probably prefer to support LeCab while Spaniards probably prefer to support Cabify
You are right in that Internet does not represent real life. I saw this during the Bernie 2020 campaign. While there were unbelievably large movements online and even in cities like NYC(that 30k+ rally was a historic day) at the end of the day it led to a false belief that things were much better than they really were.

I was concluding the same thing at the start of this Israel/Palestine conflict but then I saw amazing amounts of resistance to Israel, the likes which I have not seen before. People taking the time to protest in real life gives a more reliable indicator of the internet support. There has definitely been a step change in favor of Palestine. I predicted that i'd see this in my lifetime but I honestly thought it would have taken another 20+ years as more Pro israel older generations died off. The fact that it is happening now and that the rich Israel supporters are freaking out and doing whatever they can to "suppress" the narrative makes me think we are seeing some sort of slow moving shift.
Wait how is this bad? If I have wifi on I'm pretty sure I want to reconnect to saved networks. You want them to only do it when near the network? By tracking the location? Isn't this much much worse for privacy? You can always turn wifi off....
Earlier this years, Github would routinely say "2 years ago" for comments made 11 months ago.
I don't think there'd be any takers!
Bing does this as well, for free.
> A lot people seem to subscribe to an ideology of "dumb people get what they deserve."

That's the mantra that allows far too many scammers to sleep at night.
> that getting overly excited about things seems to just be a thing humans tend to do

human nature is to avoid discipline when they're comfortable and set the stage for a bubble & contraction, exactly what happens with artificially low interest rates and speculations like the manias you brought up
No.

To accelerate ai for Photoshop, after effects, local enhanced Siri, voice to text and text to voice.
If the AI doesn't get the mechanics right, and you have subtle game-breaking bugs that make it impossible to complete, you will never be able to fix it.
There is an ARM-native version of VS out.
> It's the fact that it's being added to a tool without the user having the agency to decide if they want it to be added or not.

This is some wildly narcissistic logic.

Other people are free to add features to the software that they write, that is their agency.
The one reason I loathe to use Dropbox web app was the big buttons. It's like they were designed to be projected for training and not to be used with a desktop. The main important view (the files list) only got 60% or so of the physical space.
Ask HN: Why don't VCs just "suck it up" and pay founders a competitive salary?
Most startup founders and early employees make about 1/2 of what they can working for MAANG companies.

IMO this leads to the following problems:

1. Most startups that COULD exist are never actually started because the founders want to be making higher salaries working at Google/Microsoft/Meta/etc.

2. The only founders that actually move forward are ones that have a significant amount of cash in the back from previous startups.

3. The founders and investors aren't properly aligned. The founders want to exit but the investors want them to go long so that they get their unicorn exit.

Now #3 is mitigated in some situations by having the founders do 'partial founder buyout' where they sell some of their equity into the next round for a few million dollars each.

But this is an admission that there's a problem.

It just seems like everyone would be better off if VCs would just get over it and put in more cash and allow their portfolio companies to pay more competitive salaries.

I know this is happening in the AI space right now with companies paying more to pick up top talent - so they don't go to work for MAANG.

This is inherently bad for startup employees and they are directly subsidizing profits for the VCs.

The VCs get to diversify but the startup employees don't.
I think the space character in the comment above is representing a new line on the wire.
Azure will no longer charge for data transfer across availability zones
What sort of point is that? “In addition to the perfectly fine thing we know about, the author may secretly be evil?”
The stated reason was that they wanted to understand my ability to solve a problem and my thought process when faced with their problem. Having run technical interviews in the past, I completely agree with the reasoning.

While I don't use it, I'll grant you that AI is good at solving small, repetitive, tedious problems; stuff that's maybe a bit too domain-specific to be widely available in a library, but that's consistently subtly different enough that you have to sink time into either making different implementations or trying to generalize.

AI is generally going to be poor at solving novel problems, and while that's something that you can never really use in an interview for a variety of reasons, I can send you a problem that's likely new to you and see how you tackle it.

I'll also admit that there's not a single good way to do that as it is. Technical interviewing is more of an art than a science, and it's difficult to get really good signal from an interview, generally speaking.
They will say the same thing in 100 years.
OmniGlue: Generalizable Feature Matching with Foundation Model Guidance
Red Hat Layoffs
I did this for decades (using Emacs) but finally gave up and am using Notes.
One small shareholder group isn't going to change a thing. Elon will still get his well deserved bonus.
Curses. He spoiled all the fun.

I can only read the OP (OT? OX?) on his site, so who pissed him off this time? Microsoft? Apple? Both?
I like it iff I can hover over the human readable version to get the actual timestamp.
> it is a
toad skinned frog

Throws phone on the floor and goes outside.
Everyone should make music. Singing to yourself doesn't make it valueless. Singing with family and friends provides great value.

You were sold a lie that only certain people make good music and you need to spend money.
I like Go's approach, which ensures that all upgrades happen when you choose to do some upgrades.

(For apps, a lock file will do it too.)
New thread ;-). This is the cloudflare-is-a-big-man-in-the-middle-operation meme. When a site uses Cloudflare the traffic is encrypted between the visitor and Cloudflare, and then (possibly) re-encrypted between Cloudflare and the site.

As a large percentage of all internet traffic is going through Cloudflare, they could spy on us or let $GOV_AGENCY spy on us.

There is no evidence and Cloudflare is (or at least used to be) somewhat of a HN darling, so it's perhaps not so popular to say, but I wouldn't be hugely surprised if turned out PRISM 2.0 involved them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
One of the most influential people in computer history. I'm glad I got to exchange a few mails with him a few years ago. RIP, GB.
I meant something akin to recommendation engines like TikTok’s, applied to generative models instead of user-generated content.

Start-off with generic, "one size fits all", generated content, using a few parameters such as rough area, time of day, time of the wear, what’s currently popular at that time in that area, what’s popular with the person who created the link if they got in through that, etc.

Then, use the player’s actions (playtime, engagement, sharing, whatever) to infer preferences, and fine-tune the model using both context (time of day, location, other players if multiplayer, etc) and those preferences.

Again, recommendation engine, applied to generative models.

I wouldn’t wager on how distant or close that future will be.

I don’t think it’s doable today, but it’s so obvious that I am certain people are currently working on it. And perhaps some duct tape (sorry, heuristics and expert systems) may be able to somewhat fill the gap in current or near-future models’ capabilities.

But I’m certain (unless copyright laws end up killing such use cases), that it’s the future for both streaming platforms (Netflix, Disney, Spotify & all), content-driven "social" media platforms (TikTok, YouTube, Instagram,…), and video games. Most of them anyway. Some might doubt it can rival with the greatest movies, books, or games, but it doesn’t need to. It just needs to be as good as the cheap filler content these platforms are mostly filled with.

I just hope we’ll find a way to preserve those industries so we can keep getting great new things.
I'm wondering if they've experimented with higher endurance lifecycles risking larger % of failures relying on redundancy and replication to migrate data, or encountered increased OpEx costs.
So you'd do it for free?
Just wait until the enshittification hits. The power and compute to train and run AI models aren't free and all of these products integrating AI are going to get... interesting when the AI companies start trying to get to profitability.
Funny, I just switched to alacritty after using iTerm2 for over a decade because I wanted to get closer to a no frills experience (do one thing well). This was after trying warp terminal which is firmly heading in the opposite direction. Whatever the case, it’s nice to have a bunch of great options.
The "kisnet"?
>without my consent?

consent isn't needed, given that broadcasting your SSID in the open clearly fails the "expectation of privacy" test.

Also from a practical angle, what exactly are you trying to prevent? That there's a wifi router at your house?
Oh, I didn't see "future" war criminals. Yeah, not good.
Interesting incentive system being created here. You're going to give me $50 to remove an AI feature if I add one to another project?
https://archive.is/InLvc
A lot of people are angry or don't understand the feature. Am I the only one who actually loves this feature? I'd say 50% of my interactions with GPT are "Make a command line to do X". Right now I have to copy/paste back and forth to the GPT and tell it what happened.

Having all of that built into the terminal is fantastic! The only feature I would ask for is obfuscation -- when I'm doing it for work, I am always careful that I change my question such that I get the right answer without revealing any company information.

Of course a solution to this is enabling someone to point at another model that they control, either locally or hosted privately.
Do Astrological Signs Predict Personality?
I'm all for private ownership as I'm an Libertarian/AnCap. But long story short, we have a flawed world right now, and to make it better right now, we have to work within it and that means making a completely arbitrary line. One that optimizes freedom whilst balancing the abuse, because it's clear to everyone not drinking the koolaid that social media is being used to affect public opinion.

We've crossed the boundary of pure private ownership of anything many years ago. Heck, I don't even have private ownership of my own body, so a say in a highly influential component of our society is a small price to pay to keep the evil at bay.
Yep. Acknowledged.
All of the Fuji slide films are approaching $30 a roll now on the rare occasions they are available. The only black-and-white film Fuji is currently selling is "Neopan 100 Acros II," which is actually now made for them in the UK by Ilford.
You are making a conclusion based on rationality and governments operating correctly (ie. compromised based consensus between different sides of the political aisle)

Tom Cotton is a clown senator that is an symbol of the dysfunction of the US government of the last few decades. He along with a few frequent imbeciles are the reason there is so much dysfunction. If there was any redeeming factor of the current US system, he would be impeached and removed a long time ago.
Can you state your point along with sharing that link please? I can't read minds - and I lean away from making assumptions.
The initial model release had a terrible, frequent, issue with emitting the wrong "end of message" token, or never emitting one.[1] That is a very serious issue that breaks chat.

The ones from today still have this issue.[2]

Beyond that, they've been pushing new ONNX features enabling LLMs via Phi for about a month now. The ONNX runtime that supports it still isn't out, much less the downstream integration of it into the iOS/Android runtimes. Heck, the Python package for it isn't supported anywhere but Windows.

It's absolutely wild to me that MS is pulling this stuff with ~0 discussion or reputation repercussions.

I'm a huge ONNX fan and bet a lot on it, it works great. It was clear to me about 4 months ago that Wintel's "AI PC" buildup meant "ONNX x newer Phi"

It is very frustrating to see an extremely late rush, propped up by potemkin blog posts that I have to waste time to find out are just straight up lying. Burnt a lot of goodwill that they worked hard to earn.

I am virtually certain that the new Windows AI features previewed about yesterday are going to land horribly if they actually try to land them this year.

[1] https://huggingface.co/microsoft/Phi-3-mini-4k-instruct-gguf...
[2] https://x.com/jpohhhh/status/1793003272187351195
I want to put my hand on people's shoulders and calmly say 'take it easy'. So many times when I'm reading hn.
I mean its opensource so if you can point to where its doing that...
There are systems out there that do YYYY/DD/MM. AFAICT YYYY-DD-MM is only used by evil pranksters, so a date that starts with a 4 digit number and uses dashes is relatively safely assumed as YYYY-MM-DD.
I think this issue is actually two issues

1. A terminal shouldn't be able to ask some resource on the internet what to type and auto-execute it.
2. AI fear/fatigue/???

I think point 1 is reasonable to an extent, but it should be taken in context. iTerm2 is a free app, and as far as I can tell, not even remotely required on any mac platform, since there is technically a default dumb terminal, which can be customized. I think the context issue is from the video demos I've seen, nothing directly types into your terminal, it's up to the user to review/copy/paste the generated code snippet. The underlying tech has been in iTerm for a while, from the best I can see. Auto-fill also enables things like the 1password integration, and anyone can open a chatgpt client and copy/paste shell code from there in the same way the iTerm2 integration works.

I understand point 2, I have never cared for any AI hype, it has near-zero interest for me, and doesn't affect my work. Almost every editor has some capacity to ask the internet for data and paste it in, from AI or otherwise, and no one is really sounding a major alarm bell around that. You could argue there is a big push for these integrations to train models, but even that requires a key.
Well illustrated in this poignant clip from Margin Call (2011):

https://youtu.be/IAqAl292ozs?t=101
Does that mean you don't think shills are a significant-serious problem, or because you don't believe you can do anything about it then it's not important to you?

E.g. If you consider it to be a problem, and there were possible solutions to shills on HN (and elsewhere), would you be interested in seeing those solutions implemented and/or tested?

I think you're downplaying-minimizing your importance as an individual, and I'm not sure why you'd do that. Does downplaying it enable or justify it to yourself for what could be considered abdicating responsibility, so you can quell stress that otherwise would be felt if you took it seriously as a problem you would take on to help solving?

Because it is a very difficult problem to solve for, and to some degree you're right, you as an individual - "just a guy on HN" - can't do much about it; and such conversations are essentially ban-heavily frowned upon on HN, e.g. not talking about downvotes, etc; because that discussion rarely happens in any deep and serious way on - like perhaps an annual topic posted and pinned by dang to get a deep dive to offer a chance to present their deep dive essays and concerns and perhaps proposed solutions, to perhaps help others understand the severity and seriousness of shills gaming our communication systems-channels and their effects on the development of society? And where such a planned annual event may create a beautiful frenzy to help tech people and others refine their understanding and proposed solutions?
> From reading that issue, it sounds like some people are worried about compliance with security policies (whether personal or corporate)

The right thing to do, then, would be for the OS to have a group policy setting like:

"Disable application features that rely on processing documents, data, or application state using remote third-party inference APIs."

...and then for apps to look for it and respect it; and for corporations concerned about this to set it as part of MDM.

Then apps could offer these features as available by default, but also forcibly disabled when relevant.
> The American dream is the belief that anyone can be successful if they are smart enough and work hard enough

Silicon Valley has practically symlinked the word "successful" to "started a company that got a high valuation". Maybe outside of the USA, people are likelier to center friends and family in their vision of success?
The duplicated bug was where the fix was landed, it was just easier to use a new bug rather than discuss things on the 25 year old bug.
They are even running a startup together: https://medium.com/frog-and-toad-are-cofounders/technical-de...
I am sure you can use it in original ways. I got some pretty interesting and strange results myself by giving it contradictory or absurd
prompts.

I am a composer of experimental music and I can totally see how I could incorporate these AI tools into my existing art practice and use it in transformative ways. But that's not how most people - and the bad actors in particular - will use it!