skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am thinking of starting a competing product that uses wifi APs for geo location instead of GPS satellites. I want to be a more customer friendly business than google or apple though, it'll only be opt-in. All you have to do to indicate that you have opted-in is to append "_nomap" to your AP name. /s

If I understand correctly, the research was only possible because they were able to leverage the Google and apple APIs against each other. The lesson I get from this is these companies shouldn't behave like they exist in a vacuum and when exposing data or forcing global configuration (like the AP name) they need to be more careful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Bell
I'm no market data specialist, but that seems like order of magnitude just top-of-book for US equities? The equity options market, at least, is orders of magnitude larger.
That's true, only mkfs.xfs & mount is required, any tuning options are optional. Write to filesystem while cut host power, last written data is incomplete but filesystem is coming up. With zfs you will get good chance for loosing import pool and all created datasets and even all snapshots at once in that case, so send/receive server should have other power, usv is good for clean shutdown and even backup always good to know :-)
> Except that it seems to work.

I'd still like to know according to who. Practically everyone agrees the economy is worsening for average people during many decades of nearly universal control by "mainstream" economists, advisors and bureaucrats.
Agreed, I think the word "bias" kind of depicts the issue better in some cases... Bias, detailing an upbringing that is devoid of knowing, respecting, being conscious of, and considering cultures outside of one's own...

I don't think it becomes the larger (societal-level) instance of racism until it is willfully and intentionally applied towards holding others of a specific race down, or discriminating against the race of others in esteem.
> What this legislation would allow is (even more) mass surveillance of normal people.

Totally. I feel like we agree but are talking past each other :-). Maybe you don't like my wording or the fact that I mentioned the scale of E2EE. But I think we agree on the fact that policy makers need to accept the reality of encryption: it exists, it's out there, and there is no compromise to be made, we have to live with those facts.
I get the compliance perspective but it feels stupid to bring it up now, especially since iTerm2 has already had integrated network features for a long time.

Agreed on the "do not access the network" feature flag though, every program should have that. Or really it should just be a toggle in the OS on a per-app basis.
We as a community need to rise up awareness that llamacpp can be used as easily as ollama.
Another thing is ollama models are hosted on non-open infra service.
I very strongly prefer slow software that has a reasonable UI over fast software that does not, though.
Whats the issue with ipv6 literals?
> I've been rooting for FreeCAD but I think it's just going to be consumed by Ondsel in the next few years.

Extremely unlikely. Also, no such plans :)
Wasn’t this an episode of Silicon Valley?
I don't believe I mocked anyone, maybe I mocked the idea that anyone who wears a seatbelt on a flight is gripped by fear. I apologise to the concept.
What a wonderful, terrible thing.
> the developer of a non-open source project

The first line of the article says "We're building a new open-source CAD program"
> business cycles are natural and periodic like a pendulum swing.

But how long the downturns last is a policy choice:

> I would summarize the Keynesian view in terms of four points:

> 1. Economies sometimes produce much less than they could, and employ many fewer workers than they should, because there just isn’t enough spending. Such episodes can happen for a variety of reasons; the question is how to respond.

> 2. There are normally forces that tend to push the economy back toward full employment. But they work slowly; a hands-off policy toward depressed economies means accepting a long, unnecessary period of pain.

> 3. It is often possible to drastically shorten this period of pain and greatly reduce the human and financial losses by “printing money”, using the central bank’s power of currency creation to push interest rates down.

> 4. Sometimes, however, monetary policy loses its effectiveness, especially when rates are close to zero. In that case temporary deficit spending can provide a useful boost. And conversely, fiscal austerity in a depressed economy imposes large economic losses.

* https://archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/0...
> Maybe I just am a person who is perfectly comfortable with apple's defaults and that is my blind spot, not sure.

This is likely the answer, if you don’t pay for office365 but do pay for iCloud you’re never gonna see the iCloud ads. I pay for both so I don’t see ads for either but there are enough reports by others (on both platforms) that I believe they exist.
Well since OP doesn't seem to want to: Thank you for your response.

I came across this thread while doing some research, and it's been helpful.

(I hate how common Tragedy of the Commons is. =/)
People are just trying things out and it will be some time before developers and users settle on what works best for them. In this case, you need to provide your own API key which is a pretty good filter for who wants to use it. Maybe it's distasteful to follow hype in certain cases although this one appears actually useful, even if minimally to the author. I would be more concerned with AI-in-the-OS or other deeply embedded system making it impractical to avoid.
It's hard to believe that some of these comments aren't trolling. Do they also consider the fact that iterm can call out to tools like `wget` and `curl` a privacy risk and slippery slope that might share their data if used wrong?
Show HN: An online billboard I built in 2 weeks
Never built something this quick from the ground up!
This is true, which is why people need to stop trying to make one UI that can cover both form factors. The two things are very different and require different designs.
>Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence.

Where did I claim otherwise? If you read my comments more carefully you'd see I never made such claim. For instance in my original comment said "the science on microplastics seem... far from conclusive". That's not the same as claiming there's evidence that there's no negative effects from microplastics. Moreover, that comment is in reply to a comment which says that there is evidence that microplastics was causing "various problems" and was "probably affecting everyone".
Here's one older than the FF one: https://eshelyaron.com/posts/2024-02-10-fixing-a-twenty-six-...
I think this is a great example of what I was talking about upthread.

If your position is that it's Israel's responsibility to protect and value Gaza's civil and religious infrastructure more than Hamas itself does, then you are treating Gaza as a dependent state that needs legal guardianship.

If Israel is expected to work around Hamas's militarizing of civilian infrastructure, that more than justifies Israel's blockade in my mind.
RIP. I had the pleasure of messaging with him while developing a PDP-11/70 hardware replacement 17 years ago.
I don't understand all the hate. I've been listening to this all morning and it's fantastic.

Sure, it's not going to trend on Apple Music... but it's the best we've ever done and a genuine step above previous efforts.
Happy to resist the trend forever:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23198893 (May 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17427354 (June 2018)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14673628 (June 2017)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9053634 (Feb 2015)
A proxy server is not a controversial feature.

The proxy server was not created through petabyte-scale plagiarism.

A proxy server does not use half a million kilowatt hours of electricity a day.

This is nothing like complaining that Firefox allows you to enable a proxy server.

I use ChatGPT but I also think the AI detractors have some good points...
Unleashing the Power of Homebrew on macOS
>Today's customer support zeitgeist is utterly opposed to this idea. I agree that it's the correct response, but support's goal — that is, the metric which they are apparently measured by, in nearly every case I've seen is, is to close the ticket as fast as possible.

First, I can't believe its taken me this long to start italicizing when I quote somebody. I'm going to do that for all future quotations.

Second, I can't easily imagine a better illustration of Goodhart's law than this. I can certainly see how they got to "average time to close", even though obviously the important metric is "how many customers eventually reached a satisfactory conclusion". Its just that its hard to answer that without bugging a bunch of people, reminding them of that time when the product shit the bed and they had to call support.

And "time to close" is not a bad metric, but it can't be the only metric. This reminds me of something that seems like a corollary of Goodhart's law: the easier it is to measure something, the less likely it is to be useful as a metric.
TL; DR “You’re either the company harnessing the barely controlled phenomenon of imminent self-replicating machine intelligence, leading humanity into its next technological epoch, or you’re a mid-stage start-up that for some reason really needs to copy that voice from that movie to market an incremental product upgrade.”
Hmmmm, html doesn't ignore line breaks, it just treats them as any other whitespace, where a consecutive sequence is folded into a single space. 27 00 would still be quite confusing, of course
> could it perhaps be time to retire?

Yes, but it's not going to happen. One of the (many) problems with a dictatorship is the lack of rule of law and what that means for giving up power. There is no such thing as a safe retirement plan, Xi and his loyalists would be at the mercy of the next ruler.

Leaders in such systems almost always surround themselves with loyalists and cling to power, especially as they age and their effectiveness diminishes.
This is a black box proprietary operating system. Called Windows. How do you know anything works according to specification, both intentionally and unintentionally?
3D TV and Cinema
Uhhh what? localhost to ollama is surveillance?
This isn’t the use case for the majority of people. Most are amateur developers who copy/paste the first thing they see on StackOverflow without understanding what they’re doing or reading the explanation because they just want to move forward on whatever project they’re actually working on (ex: building a REST API but they can’t install the necessary Python packages the YouTube tutorial they’re following uses). LLM-powered guidance here is tremendously useful, and if the person is curious, they can ask the LLM to explain the command, which it’s actually very good at based on my experience with GPT-4 and GPT-4o.

I think saying there’s “no confidence in the answer provided by an AI” is an overstatement and underestimates the value AI can have for the majority of users because that statement overestimates the value of “a reputable source that provides not only the command I’m looking for, but an explanation of the syntax” for the majority of users. Reputable sources and thorough explanations are great in theory, but very few have the patience to go through all that for a single CLI command when they want to make visible progress on the bigger picture project they actually care about.
> Don’t vendor your dependencies.

The alternative seems worse: your own application's stability is now at risk against upstream changes that could break your code. Sure, you might not get a fix immediately, but I'd rather know I'm making a change because I need a fix than introducing instability and additional risk that I don't want to subject myself to. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Also: Smart

Smart home
Smart phone
Smart watch
Smart thermostat
Etc.
The privacy line is marketing. Only used if advantageous to Apple. See for example how they don’t use it in all markets.
I'm always surprised that nobody has asked the US Navy if they heard anything. It's somewhat well known that US nuclear subs hang out in the Indian Ocean, and they have big ears.
Topological naming problem is fixed in RealThunder's Link Branch of FreeCAD:

https://github.com/realthunder/FreeCAD/releases

I highly recommend Link Branch, it's full of all sorts of usability improvements.

The fix is still being worked on for the next mainstream FreeCAD release.
Guess why Apple made m4?

Why Windows is adding an ai key?

Not sure what Ubuntu and other distributions will do but they will probably add it too.

(I'm not against this, just stating it)
That's about what I'd expected: Mods and flash-tier free web games.

It gets to the core of my concern: OpenAI API calls aint cheap, and Disney has not made a habit of letting others profit from their IP.
> I have no confidence in the answer provided by an AI

You don’t need to have confidence, these are shell one liners, you can generate it, run it, and verify the results in the time it would take you to open a browser window or scroll halfway down a man page.

And if it doesn’t work, then you can still fallback on those.
What Entry-Level Jobs Look Like Today
Businesses that ask for donations don't have a long and happy life :)

What you could do instead is donate to the FreeCAD Project Association. Part of the money goes into the development fund, that is, grants for developers.
You're right across the board. My only issue with it is general-purpose AI fatigue. Everywhere I look, blog posts use the same generic-looking AI art (I can't quite put it into words, but you probably know the look I'm talking about), social media posts are written up using genAI (e.g. Linkedin will now ask you if you want AI to write your post for you -- though let's be honest, original thoughts are few and far between on there to begin with), and while interviewing recently I received multiple warnings about disabling any AI assistants in my editor (to me, it's kind of a bummer that that's a big enough issue to mention at all).

I have, in principle, nothing against an opt-in feature that requires unmistakable user consent and a specific sequence of actions to enable. I'm just kinda tired of AI in general, and I'm also worried about potential licensing issues that may arise if you use genAI in your terminal to write scripts that weren't permissively licensed before being used as part of a training set. That's nothing new though, I had, and have, the same concerns with Github Copilot.

I also recognize that my complaint is pretty personal (not counting the licensing thing). My low-level annoyance with genAI isn't something the AI industry at large should seek to resolve. Maybe I'm more set in my ways than I should be at this point in my life. Either way, it's a factor for me and a few other tech people I know.
There were a lot more homegrown research than even you believe, but socialism doesn't reward risk-taking, and it doesn't reward improvements in work culture (because both increase economic inequality), so most of it remained in dusty boxes forever. While everybody who took decisions preferred to rely on copying proven things capitalist countries already started to make. Up until the moment when ever increasing lag made it impossible even to re-create something even having full set of freshly stolen docs.

As for nice things - it seems to be somewhat poorly defined expression. You could have sex in USSR, or go to a forest to pick some mushrooms, and that were nice things I guess? But situation with consumer products, including food was abysmal compared to even worst examples of capitalist world.
I don’t think you understand what that word means. Extortion isn’t simply any negative consequence.

A dentist requiring payment before preforming surgery didn’t cause your tooth decay and they have no obligation to help you. Same deal here, someone offering a job is offering the possibility of a mutually beneficial relationship, but that’s as far as it goes.
On site datacenter nuclear is making a comeback
Yeah they intrusively listen on a port. It is security redflag.
I've used both FreeCad and solidworks for hobby stuff.

Solidworks will take you perhaps only one quarter of the time to produce parts of similar complexity.

In both you can get quicker with experience. Both have far more features than you need, yet are missing the ability to make some shapes you can imagine yet cannot find a way to model.

Use Freecad if you care about opensource software. Use solidworks if you just want an STL file without hassle.
we're not willing to do anything against the ToS, I haven't checked them yet and we'll do things in compliance with policies, I'm just posting a problem and looking for a valid credible solution. thank you for the note!
> From reading that issue, it sounds like people are worried about compliance with security policies (whether personal or corporate)

This is incredibly stupid. If they don't trust iTerm to respect their privacy, why were they using it in the first place? For all they know it very well could have been sharing all their data without telling them from the very beginning. Alas, the tool is open source they could just audit instead of yelling at clouds but hey.
The country also added 600k[1] new people who do emigrate in 2023

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-...
There's an electric salt spoon that adds umami flavor
You realize Canal Mania & Railway Mania happened during eras where interest was artificially low below the historical rate of 7~8%?
>There are a lot of games exactly like that, but haven't had the person with the viewerbase to boost them up. Nor will they ever.

Such as? Just name one so we can all know. This is your time to help them out no matter how little and there are "a lot" apparently so it shouldn't be hard.
Off topic: I’m halfway through the article and can’t help but notice the relatively high number of times a word is erroneously repeated twice; wondering if it was “edited” by AI.
It's a poor craftsman who blames his tools.

You can blame a tool for making your work easier or harder, but you can't blame a tool for making your work substandard.
I don't think it's uncommon for a feature to start as opt-in, then turn to opt-out, then finally turn to built-in, so it makes sense to me to be wary if the feature is something you don't want in something typically light and not-overburdened-by-features as a terminal emulator.
> "if somebody was able to compromise the location services servers, but not iOS, what exactly would they be able to do with that"...

Aren't the locations on apple's servers end-to-end encrypted? I'm not sure what you'd be able to do with that.
On one hand, we want the web to be accessible and weird: for anyone to make a webpage and share their thoughts.

On the other hand, your site better be perfect, even if you aren't a professional web developer. If you are a professional web developer, you probably still won't meet the bar (though you will probably use fancier tools).

It's a funny dichotomy. What is anyone supposed to do?
Eerie, striking, and dystopian like a post-apocalyptic aquatic junkyard. Must be incredible in person.
I'm shocked people take compensation for that. I would've felt super weird taking money for it (not least because with how much I make charging for a favor feels like an incredibly crass thing to do)
Naming and matching is never done. That said, you’ve got me curious enough to go have a look. Thanks!
They need one for .NET MAUI. Copilot does a poor job helping with our port from Xamarin. “Maui is in pre-release at the time of training, so check the official documentation.” I’ve seen that several times on CoPilot and the JetBrains Rider AI.
I think a lot of people would absolutely adore a local co op rpg with protagonist romance tbh

Larian very very lightly did this in divinity 1 and I was kind of bummed out that it wasn’t fleshed out playing with my wife.
That's just not true for so many tools.

You find something and discover after trying it out that you have the gnu version or Mac version or a outdated or much newer version of the tool.

Than I give up, scroll through some shitty man page to slowly pull out one option after the other.
If you think AI is bad, wait til you hear about humans...

Im being facetious, but my point is that raw power/data usage isn't by itself a bad thing, as long as it is providing commensurate value. Now you can argue thy don't do that yet, but that would require a lt more nuance than "using resources bad".
Edit:

Annoying the articles doesn't come with citations. A bit of research showed these are probably their sources:

Li, H., Chong, Y. Q., Stepputtis, S., Campbell, J., Hughes, D., Lewis, M., & Sycara, K. (2023). Theory of mind for multi-agent collaboration via large language models. arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.10701.

Du, Y., Li, S., Torralba, A., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Mordatch, I. (2023). Improving factuality and reasoning in language models through multiagent debate. arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.14325.

Wu, Q., Bansal, G., Zhang, J., Wu, Y., Zhang, S., Zhu, E., ... & Wang, C. (2023). Autogen: Enabling next-gen llm applications via multi-agent conversation framework. arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.08155.

Junprung, E. (2023). Exploring the intersection of large language models and agent-based modeling via prompt engineering. arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.07411.

Camel
https://github.com/camel-ai/camel

Zhang, Z., Zhang, Y., Li, L., Gao, H., Wang, L., Lu, H., ... & Shao, J. (2024). PsySafe: A Comprehensive Framework for Psychological-based Attack, Defense, and Evaluation of Multi-agent System Safety. arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.11880.

Shah, R., Pour, S., Tagade, A., Casper, S., & Rando, J. (2023). Scalable and transferable black-box jailbreaks for language models via persona modulation. arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.03348.

And all the papers are unreviewed preprints, some with very low citation counts. So the article sure grabs attention, but seems to be pretty poor otherwise.
Gordon was the first investor in my first startup, the first guy that believed in us.

Even though I only met him later in his life he was still sharp as a tack, never lost the mind of the engineer. Sometimes it's best not to meet your heroes but Gordon lived up to the hype and then some.

Super gentle, generous with his time, the consummate gentleman.

One of my fondest memories from my startup years was enjoying dinner with Gordon and his wife in Sydney, she made the most amazing cookies. To this day I don't think I have had a better cookie haha.

Visited the computer history museum with him once for a bit of a VIP tour I guess. So many stories about PDPs and all the friends he made along the way.

Thanks for all the stories and memories old man, you have earned your rest.

RIP.
> In the era of virtual servers, cloud infrastructure, CDNs, etc., ASNs and IP blocks are not necessarily that helpful.

The above statement makes no sense at all. The whole Internet is built on connections between autonomous systems and all traffic is IP based. There is nothing but ASNs and IPs and information about them and the flows between them is extremely helpful in operating an ISP.
And no return paleolith, but it shouldn't impress anyone as the main achievement, frankly
Ahh.. a bit too trusting to the point of individual risk in a high trust society.
Looks like it could deliver a beating, too.

That thing could deliver a punch or get a good grip on a baseball bat.
Just the thing to hook up to a machine learning system.
Spotify recently changes terms to only include songs with certain numbers of downloads (1000) for payouts eliminating this strategy.
At least they don't sweep bugs under the rug after 6 months of inactivity as many projects.
I don’t think that supports your claim that this is what the market wants though. It’s merely that shitty porn games are incredibly easy and cheap to make. They earn much less than other games on average. But they’re still profitable to make.