skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>AI doesn't eliminate the complexity, it just hides it. At best it'll get you maybe 80% of where you want to go and you can get to the remaining 20% by hand. At worst, the complexity is so thoroughly hidden that addressing it isn't an option. It simply does not allow you to manually edit the outputs, or makes it unreasonably difficult to do so.

That's the thing about games. It's "easy" to make a website, it's very hard to make a not buggy, minimally compelling game. And it works with multiple medium to boot.

If an AI can get me 80% of the way to a good UI, or a decent asset, or a right sounding SFX, that's a huge boon to development. The big issue with these early adopters tend to be that they

1. lack the ability to finish that 20% of editing, because that 20% is still really dang hard.

2. aren't interested in finishing the 20% because that 80% will be enough of a cash grab for asset flip level studios. Hence how the reputation of tech becomes a grift rather than a boon.

3. can do it, but want to be first to market so they skimp out and get something out for financial reasons

These all work against what consumers want out of their game, but that's early tech for you.
| "A big problem for a lot of devs is that even with an invalid API key, iTerm2 is still sending everything that happens in the terminal to OpenAI."

...uh why on earth would it be doing this?

Do you have any evidence this behavior is happening?

OpenAI integration is disabled by default, you have to actively enable it before it will send anything to OpenAI's servers.
I don't think it's accurate, though. Junior devs often write overly complicated code because they don't really understand the problem they're trying to solve. Junior devs write unintentionally complex code, mid-level devs write intentionally complex code, senior devs write simple code.
Yep, it's definitely an unbalanced mess -- an unfinished masterpiece, as is said.

What keeps me in love with the game is its world-building. Cities like Tarant feel alive in ways that are hard to explain.

That and the choices/consequence/reactivity. Playing as a dumb character and reading the newspaper article about your half-literate nincompoop's Zephyr crash is a true LOL moment.
Which is also why it’s unethical to use a voice clearly designed to be mistaken for her.
It starts off with, "Days before". However, we all know from her actual post, that it was only "2 days before". While 2 days falls under that, 2 days vs say 6 days make it even more damning. Since it's one day short of being able to say "hours" before. Many regular people may first hear about this through the Times, so wish they would have been more precise with the first word.
So I’m going to play the devil’s advocate and say that concise code has a readability advantage in that you don’t need to keep track of intermediate variables or other state across hundreds of lines of code or multiple files.

This was/is the promise of languages like APL; those willing to invest in learning arcane and terse symbols can move mountains in a few keystrokes.

I know that for my part, when reading a language I’m familiar with, it’s usually much faster to puzzle out a concise solution than a verbose-in-the-name-of-simplicity one.
> but is almost never on the line

The water surface in the ocean is almost never at "sea level".

Markets are a chaotic system.

> the booms seem roughly balanced with the busts until the great depression

Yup. Like waves in the ocean!

> The prosperity of WWI seems to have set up the cycle of bust for the great depression.

The setup was to peg the dollar exchange rate with gold, and then inflate the money. Such "pegging" historically has always led to a massive correction.
They explicitly aren't releasing any tools to do this with their models for safety reasons. But you could probably do it from scratch with one of the open models by following their methodology.
perhaps I reflect views of times past. C.P. Snow's "strangers and brothers" series of books starts with Lewis (the hero) as a child, bearing the burdens of his fathers bankruptcy and the implicit expectation he will work life-long to repay the debt, which he rejects. Shock! Horror! -Thats a 1940-1970 series.

It's a common trope in fiction: to be bankrupt, to fail in a business endeavour is to acquire shame and disgrace in society.

If the 40s is too far back, John Le Carré has used it several times as a back plot driver for characters across his books, no doubt reflecting his own experiences as a child of a fraudster and serial bankcrupt. He was writing actively into the modern era.

Obviously I'm not saying there is a literal colourfast red skin dye reserved for failed businessmen: Societal expectation is a stupid social construct, not law.
The first distinction I can think of is, “Who has agreed to the terms of service of the site being visited?”
The MacBook NPU is 3x slower than the 45 TOPS threshold required for Copilot+ PC branding.
Show HN: I created end-to-end encrypted app for networked note-taking
Hello HN!

Two years ago I was diagnosed with Axial Spondylarthritis - an auto-immune condition that causes inflammation, stiffness, and quite a lot of pain on my neck, spine, shoulders, and hips. This plus the constant blunder on behalf of most companies I've worked or was looking to work for, not doing the two most important things that would keep them afloat 1) shipping fast, and 2) talking to their customers - has caused me quite a lot of anxiety and has lead me to decide launching my own project - something I believe in, make use of, and that I can work on my own terms - Exocortex.

Exocortex is a private and secure application for networked note-taking that allows you to explore relationships between your thoughts and ideas, where your data is protected by employing AES-GCM 256 bit encryption, salted hashing, and PBKDF2 SHA-256 on your device - same technology (and architecture) used by popular password managers to protect your data.

Networked note-taking, or networked thought, is a method of organizing and linking notes and ideas in a way that mimics the associative nature of human memory. Instead of keeping notes in isolated, linear formats, networked note-taking encourages the creation of a web of interconnected information. This method of note-taking has been popularized by apps like Roam Research, Obsidian, and LogSeq.

Exocortex aims to be a secure, cohesive, and well crafted platform for personal knowledge management, with the potential to expand into the task management space, focusing on principles and methodologies that are known to be effective and easy to follow, with a user interface that gets out of the way and prevents you from procrastinating building and maintaining your own systems instead of actually getting work done.

Site: https://www.getexocortex.com

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYVDD-r6P7sBt72Qu6V74aw

Thanks.
Yeah, of course medical supplies count, I'm just saying there's no right for commercial traffic per se - the prewar count had a lot of stuff that's not relevant. The typical procedure is that Israel inspects the cargo and allows stuff not in a dual use list.
Information density in many areas are out of whack these days.

Reminds me of people taking pictures of my presentation slides at conferences where four bullet points with short phrases (say, 50 words in total) turn into a full 12 megapixel photograph.

Similarly, my entire PhD thesis written in LaTeX is a 4MB PDF file, whereas my wife's is a 700MB MS Word monstrosity. Both are mostly text, math, line plots, and tables...
Well the obvious touchpoints to me are that at one point the British Empire controlled about 60% of the world's wealth, was capable of conquering the Indian subcontinent and was a thought leader to the justifiably-named "Age of Enlightenment" that was the approximate foundation of the modern system of global organisation (let me just invoke Newton, Bacon, Locke and Adam Smith because they are good names to remember).

The UK today is world leading in a few industries. Which is underselling it a bit because I suspect even North Korea is world leading in something. The UK have a bit of wealth left over from the empire and some traditions they can be proud of in amongst a sea of fairly average policies and people. Still a nice place to live if you can handle the weather. Not really a leader, more a US follower.
I think the only thing keeping me on iterm is terminal.app's lack of a way to easily disable mouse integration.

If you're using a TUI that works with the mouse but need to select some text, in iterm you hold Option and can select. In Terminal.app you need to use the menu to turn mouse handling off, select your text, then turn it back on.
I've encountered a couple of robots.txt that specifically block popular llms for certain areas. Example:

https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/robots.txt
<img src="v.mp4"> is a thing, but unfortunately it’s not supported outside Safari. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60114243/using-videos-in...
Discussion at the time (it's now 45 days) [0] (136 points, 1 month ago, 155 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40048842
This looks similar to a tool I discovered a while back called Batsh. But Amber looks a lot more polished and has some nice safety about it.

https://github.com/batsh-dev-team/Batsh
In that case, you wouldn't have to.

But this is exactly why people hate the ubiquity of dd/mm/yy and yy/mm/dd wheb dealing with american and european dates

I, for one, am an enlightened yyyy-mm-dd_hh-mm-ss enjoyer which doesn't have such issues.
It should work in Safari https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60114243/using-videos-in...
Comparison: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40435695
this is absolutely fantastic. i wonder what the source code looks like
> The Federalist isn't an official source

lol

> just a US ultra conservative rag

Ultra conservative huh? Good one. Tell me to go check NPR or BBC or your favorite state media next won’t you?
Is there any way to confirm that they actually did hire a voice actor prior to reaching out to ScarJo?
I happen to have a copy of "Bruculinu, America" at home. Looking for rice recipes at roughly those positions in the book, it's either "Tumala d'Andrea: Rice Bombe" (blue bookmark) or "Arancini al Burru: Rice Balls with Butter".

I'm going to guess it's Arancini al Burru, because the Tumala d'Andrea is way more involved (and stuffed with pasta)[0]. Here's a similar recipe for Arancini al Burru[1].

However, Arancini al Burru is fried and Tumala d'Andrea is baked. So I'm still speculating, it could be either or something different. It's a nice cookbook worth adding to your collection.

[0] https://inasmallkitchen.wordpress.com/2012/08/12/tumala-dand...
[1] https://www.196flavors.com/arancini-al-burro/
Please refrain from willingly picking the naive interpretation when you've understood my point perfectly fine, it's against the rules of this website.

...sigh:

Secret codes as in "watermark-level omission of characters" are a myth. Lingo and jargon do however exist, and convey meaning in a particularly subtle way. They are shared and taught by culture, not by a secret handbook passed down from generation to generation. See also dogwhistling.

The goal is to protect the issuer, not to selflessly inform the recipient.
All the country had to do was to stop doing the things that caused the Depression:

1. pegging the dollar to gold

2. inflating the dollar

3. having the Fed set the money supply by fiat rather than the pre-1914 way of letting the market forces do it
The engineering challenges are just that. They'll either solve them or change the plan, and there's little reason to think they can't solve them.

No one thought reusing boosters was possible either.
you are going to hate most software with that attitude over the next few years
Now imagine you were able to go and edit the sign that says it is ethanol free to add the details of your test and dispute the claim, that would improve the knowledge.
> (A little surprised to find that Quinn does more than just work on steam engines as I have watched her YouTube channel for some time now — watching her building on her metal lathe and mill.)

Same! Her Youtube channel is the best resource I know for the hobbyist machinist. What a breadth of knowledge. I don't know how old she is, but would guess she probably wasn't even born when this game came out, so I'm astounded to learn she has decades of experience with Apple II dev.

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Tangent, but curious if anyone knows why I'm seeing a handful of ' ' / U+FFFC OBJECT REPLACEMENT CHARACTERs peppered throughout the post on Linux FF? From their position at the end of sentences I figured they were emojis my system is missing, but I pulled it up on my phone and there's nothing there - or more accurately, it seems iOS Webkit just renders U+FFFC as a blank space. Emojis that got garbled by her CMS perhaps?
I’ve encountered similar at a major Fin services co.

Don’t recall the exact wording but think stuff like “do you save two adults or one child” scenarios. No clear relevance to job and weird undertones like that where it’s a sorta ethics question but without a clear right/wrong

Part of their psychometric testing sessions. Probably a misguided attempt to check for dark triad or something.
from the stories i've heard, even if they hired back a support team, they wouldn't be able to bring back a lot of accounts people ask for

they just botched a bunch of the deletion/suspension processes, in a way that made them unrecoverable
Yes I don’t think long interview cycles make sense at all in the US.

When I say a chat with another dev, I’m not talking about trick questions. I’m talking “hey what’s something you built that you’re proud of” or “what kinds of systems have you been working on for the last few years”.

Trick questions are always stupid.
I guess this is what paying $0.72/KWh during peak gets you.
I think tech companies could probably do better with customer support, but I also recognize that it's an extremely difficult problem to handle realistically at scale, especially when most individual users pay little to nothing directly for many services. A higher-touch CS model would do better, sure, but that's expensive. It's different imo when you're a store or similar business where your customers are constantly actually giving you money.
The “dial” on a rotary phone broke the connection in rapid sequence a number of times corresponding to the number dialed. If your dial broke, you could place calls by “flashing” the “hook” the right number of times with pauses between.
Yahoo was ahead of its time.
> And unlike HTTP, most of the other application-layer protocols we use today don't have anything like a standardized way to communicate "user-imposed constraints on how they want you to process their request, while still giving the same result".

This is the wrong approach and what you really want is for LLMs to instead have access to a palette of pre-vetted bugtested commands and options implemented by other applications.

ie think like those python embeds in OpenAI… but instead of building a python script, you should be building an Ansible playbook or a MacOS shortcut that does the task, rather than an LLM banging together shell code directly.

Things like file access or web request etc are just more primitives in this model. Don’t want it to call out to the web? Don’t give it access to the web request primitives. Like this literally has been a solved problem for 30 years - macOS intents and windows COM interfaces allow applications to expose these capabilities in a way that can be programmatically interfaced by other code to build up scripts.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appintents

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/com/the-comp...

This is HyperCard-era stuff, Unix just won so thoroughly that people don’t consider these capabilities, and everyone assumes everything has to be a single giant unshaped command of CLI garbage piped together.

The Unix mindset is not the right one for LLMs working at a token level. The idiom you need to mimic is MacOS intents or Ansible actions… or at least powershell actions. The amount of unconstrained shell-scripting involved needs to be minimized rigorously. Every time you do it it’s a risk, so why make it write anything more complex than glue code or composable YAML commands?
They are natural, but are not cycles nor periodic. They are a chaotic system, like predator/prey relationships.
Agreed.

I saw “CADmium will use JSON for everything.” and cringed a bit.

This seems like a mistake.
Wax Programming Language
Artificial control over the economy (central economic planning) has never worked.
Regardless of the exactly voice spectrum, the plot would apply with any flirty female voice. It was not a movie about Scarlett Johansson. It was a movie about AI eliciting a relationship.

For the “her” reference(s?), was there anything beyond the single tweet?
The Sky voice actress could legitimately lose clients who fear "likeness" litigation, for all Her potential contracts, regardless of context. Your analogy needs work.
Preventing scraping also entrenches google for eternity.
“AI infused at every layer“

Okay… What does that even mean? And why does the company think we want that?

I love me some AI, but right now it’s getting put on everything like Nutella at a hipster eatery.
LibreCAD v3 is very nearly abandoned. I could be wrong, but the vast majority of the new code there came from GSoC students who didn't quite stick around for long except just one who did multiple GSoCs but also eventually left.
(2023) https://archive.is/pe0Xk
As someone who configures email servers for a living (among other things): email needs to be replaced, frankly. This is a stupid protocol with even stupider file formats. What is the reason for such a hard coded line limit? It's just a stream of bytes...

Not to mention all the weird bandaids on top of bandaids to try to get sender verification and tamper proof emails working. That alongside the complete lack of end to end encryption.

It's just an incredibly unpleasant tech stack from top to bottom, through and through. The amount of moving parts/pieces of running software needing to cooperate just right to even function as a simple outgoing-only mail server is too damn high.
You've seen Silicon Valley disrupt money laundering to great success, so get excited for Silicon Valley to disrupt bribery!
The money the rich people have to buy into the dips has dipped right along with it.
Japan's economic system was crafted in post-war reconstruction by General MacArthur. It's literally the furthest you can get from "social norms precede policy."
Or he could have tweeted 'her' to compare his product with the movie AI's conversational abilities and human-like interactions. It just depends on how one subjectively interprets a single syllable.
The *keys and derivative services have "antennas" that are the feeds you're looking for use an instance that use a good relay and you have what you're after.

But I agree that there are limitations with using an instance centric approach and the benefits may not appeal to many people.
"Move fast and break things"

Wait, no, not like that
I'm not sure the paper-like presentation of the article shows that the author was in pure discovery mode, eager to share something new and interesting.

My message is an echo to earlier comments of earlier posts that talked about a similar point: nothing is ever new, everything has already been done before. If we tell ourselves we're engineers, we should be studying what came before in order to prove that the new thing is indeed better.

That being said, recutils is the standard method of recording data in GNU, and ndb is the standard method of configuring stuff in Plan 9, a system that any proponent of UNIX mindset should know about. I'm not exactly talking about obscure stuff here.
The C# code ends up relying on LINQ, it's interesting how many C# programmers don't even think about that, either anything they work on already uses LINQ or they just reflexively bring it in everywhere they write C#

You'll see that a few of those SO comments actually say they're relying on LINQ to make that work. The array type doesn't have such a method itself.

So, in reality although many C# programmers will think of this as "correct" it just won't even compile... except if there's already LINQ.
I wonder if hiring managers and recruiters go some kind of dehumanising process before starting work, something a la full metal jacket
I'd be interested in trying this. I have a TrueNAS core running an Alpine bhyve child, and have run jails but because of minor userspace porting issues they can be a pain. Finding out which sysctl/os calls "fail" for e.g. Node compiled for Alpine would be interesting. Mostly, I think it will be around /proc and some fs stuff.
Hint: who (other than Trump) is most often compared to Hitler?
i think 99% of folks would take an occasional hallucinated ffmpeg option in exchange for never having to look up the man page again. i trust the iterm dev's judgement even more after this since it's an ideal use case.

gpt-4o seems fantastic at generating cli flags and such, not sure what troubles you have run into. i am questioning your judgement of their judgement, hah.
That is literally what people do with Stack Overflow, and yet there are no mobs with pitchforks demanding that the Paste command be removed from iTerm2.
If your research has added value over the existing state of the art I would love to read more about it !
There's certainly a case for their film business aiding their digital business - I just mourn that it isn't a two way street.

What happens to the appeal of Fuji's film simulation as the real film stocks go away? Two of their most iconic brands are already defunct, and as already mentioned, the last two appear to be approaching a similar fate. The photography industry moves in cycles as the brands take turns being trendy (just ask Olympus- erm, OM System). Where does Fuji go from here?
Gool for specific tucks!
Interesting, do you have a source?
Blink twice to low-key acknowledge the non-disparagement contract.
"i didn't try the feature and do not understand how it works, but it has AI so i hate it" is how you sound, fwiw.
It’s definitely plausible to me she would experience some form of shadow banning or algorithmic deprioritization due to posting advertiser unfriendly content and (incorrectly) blame it on her brother. These systems are frequently opaque so I don’t think it’s reasonable to count that as a strike against her credibility.

And of course it’s not really that implausible that Altman could pull some strings. It wouldn’t require a huge conspiracy to shadow ban a few accounts. I don’t think it’s the most likely explanation, though.
Show HN: Adblock for Podcasts
This is a small app that achieves surprisingly good podcast adblocking. It transcribes the podcast, identifies ad segments in the transcript, then creates a new version of the podcast without the ads.
It's quite likely a honeypot.
Lifecast.ai [YCW22] Open-Source NeRF Video on WebXR/Vision Pro/Quest
* We made an open source C++ NeRF volumetric video engine for VR.

* It trains a NeRF for each frame of video, then compresses it to our format 'ldi3', which enables real-time playback on Quest or Vision Pro in WebXR, Unity or Unreal (open source players are available for all of these).

* We provide a paper explaining how to bake NeRFs into layered depth images for real time rendering.

LMK your questions...
Show of hands: Who knew exactly where this was going as soon as "SMTP" was mentioned?
This seems to be begging for a user-switchable "dense mode" (like the fad of "dark mode" switches), which swaps the "buyer-oriented" CSS to the "I-use-this-every-day" oriented CSS.
Agreed, me as well.

The second example reflects how my brain thinks and the intuitive order of what has to happen.

In the first example, it's all out of order.
I held the 'upgrade' from 7 to 10 for more than a decade, when I did I had to remove a lot of stuff to get back my baseline usability, so once more unto the breach when I get around doing that methinks.
Wow. I had no idea such a significant capability expansion was in the works!