skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the limit, the answer is “between zero and completely.” Zero because you may only have access to the prototype and not the body, say if the body is in another translation unit, or completely if a full solution could be found, which is certainly possible for trivial cases.

The reason to not do this isn’t due to impossibility, but for other factors: it’s computationally expensive, I’d you think compile times are already bad, get ready for them to get way worse. Also, changing the body can break code in competently different parts of your program, as changing the body changes the signature and can now invalidate callers.
Albumentations: Fast and Flexible Image Augmentations
Oh finally. I can't believe this bullshit was legal in the first place.
We'll see if varicella stays gone. It's tricky in that it can embed itself in the host genome and come back later. That means that until the last person exposed to the virus dies, we can't really consider it gone. Good luck convincing people to continue vaccinating for a disease no one has seen in a couple decades. Of course, if varicella was able to infect germ-line cells it would be even worse...

COVID on the other hand doesn't have such a mechanism, and just relies on being really contagious. So if everyone would stay up to date in their boosters and continue masking in public places, we may be able to get rid of it in a couple of years.
Talking AI at Reid Hoffman's Masters of Scale Summit
Only a matter of time before computers are generating videos of cats cuter than any real cat.
I think there's a lot of value, both social and emotional, to social media. That doesn't change the fact that social media products as they exist are not only not creating that value, they are outwardly, openly hostile to it. HN being a notable exception and why I spend a lot of time here. The discussions are thoughtful and the topics are (usually) at least somewhat relevant to my career and life. That said, the more mainstream social medias are not relevant to me, they are not stimulating or thoughtful, and they are not valuable.

I have Instagram and TikTok installed because both of my partners send me things from them that made them think of me, and in this way, and only this way, they are relevant and nurturing to my existence. That said, I never engage with them outside of that context, because it's just an endless barrage of vacuous bullshit, as are the rest, with TikTok personally, I think, being the largest firehose of stupid, worthless, intellectually bankrupt, pointless shit ever constructed by mankind. Holy fuck. Like they're all bad, but TikTok... it's just the modern social media apparatus refined and polished to a mirror shine. Takes absolutely no effort to engage with, and if you're sufficiently numb to outside stimulus, you will scroll it for literal hours. If social media is a drug, TikTok is black-tar heroin.
It's a fine place to run code trusted by the server (or code trusted by the client within the scope of the app).

But for code not trusted by either, it's bad -- user data in the app can be compromised/exfiltrated.

Hence for third-party plugins for a web app, the built-in JS runtime doesn't have sufficient trust management capability.
Computers are a “complete” system where everything they do is inspectable and, eventually, explainable, and I have observed that people who work with computers (myself included) over estimate their ability to interrogate and explain complex, emergent systems - economics, physics, etc. - which are not literally built on formal logic.
It'll be curious if there are compensating components that are co-ingested with spinach et al. that are not with red meat.

I.e. perhaps all high-iron foods promote colorectal cancer, but some foods also contain anti-cancer factors that zero out the net effect
Getting someone to replace a battery every 4 or 5 years really isn’t onerous. And for iPhones the magnetic batteries that attach to the back are a pretty effective way to stretch battery life a bunch more hours if you need to.
It’s a package of devices Apple is selling. They sell under powered smaller screen macs. They sell iMacs. They sell small iPads. They sell smaller watches. Some of these just don’t sell as well as their other offerings.

They should sell small phones. Because the whole family will be in on the brand, features, and services. I’ve heard many family members and friends say that they won’t give up their older small phones because Apple no longer makes new ones.

The idea that they don’t sell well is not a good enough reason when you are trying to capture the whole market for not just hardware but the lock in for services, apps, games, music, etc.
And, to me, none of that even sounds like AI. Just an assistant app, smart glasses, and google maps not being shit. I can't think of a reason, other than the reasons I already use ChatGPT and the AI object eraser, that I would need AI on my phone. Most of the crap they pump out is just a solution looking for a problem.
That's not "on a phone," though. That's just schlepping an image up to the Google data center, and getting a result back. That you're using the phone as an interface to a datacenter doesn't make it "AI on the phone."
This data is in the article

>So does that mean 75% _do_ find AI Feature helpful?

14% find it helpful

>Are 55% happy to pay a monthly fee?

6% are willing to pay

>66% have no privacy concerns?

no stat on this but I think we can assume based on the others that it is not split evenly because that was not the methodology
Sure, in the narrow case where the function only calculates a single return value and has no side effects.
Google monopoly: Prosecutors hint at breakup, but analysts say it's unlikely
You can't say that unless you've seen the test. Was it an Yes/No question, "check relevant to you", or "write how you feel about AI features"? It would change responses drastically
I actively don’t want AI, on-device or not. But with the near monopolies on these devices there isn’t a way to vote with your wallet. We’re getting whether we want it or not.
I agree that the Irish conflict is more like the West Bank (but that's super super bad and has been for a long time) and that October 7th was much more destructive than anything in the Troubles.

Like, it's worth noting that the core of the nationalist and unionist terrorists still live in Ireland and engage in a bunch of criminality. These organizations don't disband, they just die off/become politicians.

The big problem with Israel making peace is that it appears a solid majority don't want that, which depresses the hell out of me.
What useful discovery has given someone a household name in recent years?

Household names are more likely celebrities than scientists.
On the other hand, HN has consistently underestimated them for the last two years or so as they've begun to commercialize. Their trajectory has been 10x growth in rides served per year for a while now. At the current scale it's hard to imagine they could grow another 10x in the next year without being close to break even on operating cost.
The poll is very weirdly constructed. It looks like they gave people a set of checkboxes to check rather than asking people to rank their opinions on a scale.

25% checked the box saying they don't find AI tools helpful, but only 14% said they do. Which means 61% checked neither box.

45% are reluctant to pay, but only 6% said they were willing to. So again, 49% simply didn't say one way or the other.

12% straight-up didn't check any box at all.
Because the execution is usually borked... I was eyeig ZenFone 9 (or something around that) and what? It was reported that it had problem with overheating and build quality.

What's more, I would love something akin to my current Galaxy a52s 5G with a display around 5.2-5.5" (I first had LG G2, then OnePlus3 which was already a bit bulky and now a52 as compromise; https://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=5543&idPhone2...)...

I do have iPhone SE (2022) and it's the size of LG G2 and I find quite handy. Something of that size but with slightly bigger screen (better screen-to-body ratio). Specs doesn't have super-hiper-premium… and the price should be sane (usually compact phones are like 20-40% higher, sic)
I’m a UK vaper (former smoker) and while I’m sure I’m going to find this annoying (disposables are helpful in a pinch when your proper vape has run out of battery or liquid), it’s clearly the right thing to do.

The e-waste involved in that sub-industry must be absolutely horrifying. Tens of millions of tiny little batteries, surrounded in plastic, lingering quantities of nicotine-rich liquids…

Glad this is happening.

I’ll take the inconvenience on the chin lol
The danger of the point I'm making is that the less-realness that I'm arguing justifies poor behavior online. It does not. Many posters become seduced by the less-realness of online contact that they disconnect their own notions of what decent behavior is.

> Those are real people interacting in a potentially useful way. Being "addicted" to ideas and conversations is not necessarily unhealthy.

Agree! Addiction is compulsive use and the need to continually engage. My HN use is subject to a max of 15m a day with a browser extension that enforces it. I can at least try to curb it from blossoming into something more disruptive.
One small correction, WWII rations included instant coffee, but it wasn't freeze-dried, which was invented after the war.
Interpretation of this on its nose suggest the algorithms are the core feature not AI, as there is no artificial intelligence involved in these processes that I’m aware of.

If you actually peak under the hood they just pass through weighted selectors, no different than a switch statement
duckdb-wasm[0] would be a good addition here. We use it in Definite[1] and I can't say enough good things about duckdb in general.

0 - https://github.com/duckdb/duckdb-wasm

1 - https://www.definite.app/
Not much since it’s moderated to the point of being a boring headline aggregator, with a heavily biased, toxic community of vain Americans ignoring anything outside the HN RDF

May as well disable comments and treat it like a user updated RSS feed, discuss links elsewhere.
I would never allow an AI to SSH into a server.

Just the other day someone used Claude to write a script to configure a server. It left a port open and the server was hacked hours later and used to attack other servers. Hetzner almost banned the hosting account.

https://x.com/rameerez/status/1848707234068382001
I mean it reads like ad copy, and the entire first paragraph takes so many words to say nothing more than "I agree." As comments go, I have to say I've seen better.
The only one I use regularly is object replacement in photos. It's great for editing a street sign out of a picture of the sky or something, especially if you just don't want to dox yourself posting a pic. It's definitely not high quality most times. Just blurry redraw of what the background might look like.

Otherwise, totally with you. No idea why my phone needs AI. I can just open the ChatGPT app if I want to have a discussion with ChatGPT about something. I'm so tired of apps updating to "Add a new AI assistant!" like why do I need to talk to an LLM in most of the apps I use?
13M+ users would put bluesky's user count above mastodon, according to this page:

https://mastodon-analytics.com/

I would be interested in some stats that compare the number of active users, and also number of users who actually made use of decentralization features (i.e. use a custom domain instead of bsky.social).
It's more complicated than that. For example, why do those who eat mostly plant based (I mean real plants and not processed foods) have lower rates of cancer if both sides get iron? Iron is essential to live.

It could have something to do with amount. For example, Iron from animal products is easier for the body to absorb and there are MUCH higher levels per gram (e.g., beef has 7x the iron kale does). Is it too much iron?

It could be type. You have FE2+, FE3+, heme iron, non-heme iron, etc. This article points to FE3+. Is there something more there?

Is it some combination of things?

There's a lot we don't know.
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." - Winston Churchill
Hack at UnitedHealth's tech unit impacted 100M people, US health dept says
This is one of the puzzles at BrainBashers:

https://www.brainbashers.com/battleships.asp
FYI, bamboo is usually actually:

1. Some actual bamboo that has been processed to remove starches and sugars

2. Mixed with incredible amounts of chemical glues (some of which include BPA)

Most bamboo products are at least as suspicious to me as plastic.
You can have a dumb phone. If you require one for 2fa. Just have one in addition for that purpose. But you can also sms 2fa on many services
fe3+ definitely exists in non-animal matter too. We can talk about quantity, whatever, but my commentary is intended to criticize the baiting and conclusion-drawing.
>carpets near the bathroom sink and the shower

Now every spillage is a potential mold growth problem, which is also bad to inhale.
The app (and iOS keyboard integration) degrades to read only mode. It works about 95% of the time. I'd rather it work 100% of the time, and be read-write.

I don't run the browser extension. (There have been too many other password managers with exploitable password bugs.)
I would say it's extremely misleading. If a friend told you they got a 35% pay raise at work, wouldn't you assume it was instantaneous / for that year? I can't help but think people will read this and think "Those workers won't take a 35% pay raise? They are so greedy!".
They are throwing the food away after they create their reel?

I feel really old now. I am Gen X and I know what it means to be hungry.

I guess the new generations have never experienced hunger. Or their families did not teach them any values.
Sure, but fish contain several times less iron per weight.
Yeah, same. I'm all up for a "free country", and all that. But this was just absurd. I wonder if 30+ years don't the line, if maybe resources are scarcer, we'll think about these and say: "we were fucking crazy"
watch this:

$ sbcl
This is SBCL 2.4.8, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
* (setf z #C(1 2))
#C(1 2)
* (* z (conjugate z))
5
* (sqrt (* z (conjugate z)))
2.236068
* (abs z)
2.236068
I worked on a (failed) system that was supposed to help with this in the pre-ChatGPT era. The obvious limitations is getting the data, and scaling that to everyone. Learning about your flights, staying up to date on them, etc is such a daunting privacy-busting task that everyone is scared to start. Either you go use-case by use-case (flights, restaurants, calendars… etc) and never get traction or you just start scanning emails and open up huge data risks.

Today, this is nearly available, nearly. Probably only something Google/apple can realistically offer. Apple “intelligence” has started to read your notifications and rewrite them for you, so it shouldn’t be a big leap to listen for a United App notification and decide it’s urgent enough take action. Should be “trivial” for Google to do as well, and they could even run it server side to help without a phone present.
I love how the goal post is being moved publicly as to what AI means.

AI is anything automated it seems, and now they’re being subcategorized into niches as to what they do, e.g. “Agentic AI”, “LLM backed AI systems” etc.

If it’s not real intelligence then it isn’t really AI, and I wish the world at large would call it out.

LLM, Machine Learning, Neural Networks etc are all great but none of them have true spontaneous intelligence or learning ability.

Please, someone point out how any of these systems have organic spontaneous learning ability for a subject it was not pre-data seeded on. This is a generally accepted measure of higher level sentience as far as I’m aware
This might be of use:

https://github.com/a-ghorbani/pocketpal-ai
If they're anything like the US, even though sales to children are banned, kids still get their hands on it. I have a family member who works directly with children and they constantly find kids vaping in the restrooms. At some point adults are distributing vapes to children despite the legality.

If the most modulatable link in the supply chain is sales to adults who then distribute to children, that's unfortunately going to be the point that lawmakers target. Sucks to give people a chance and then be shown why we were wrong.
Thanks for the links, that does indeed seem to support your assertion.

I don't know enough about this dispute in general to offer opinion on what any party has or hasn't done though, so anything I have to say about the union representing Boeing workers would just be noise in the conversation.
> Based on the fact that easily 90+% of phones I see in the wild have cases on them, physical size and thickness isn't a big factor

Well, people are probably going to put cases on their phone regardless, so the phone has to be thin enough that even with a case it's still a manageable size.

But I agree that battery is where phones ultimately fail most of the time. I have had a Samsung S10 for a bit over 5 years now and it is the battery that is going to force me to retire it and get a new one. Speed, storage, screen quality, camera quality are all perfectly fine for my use case. But the battery rarely lasts a full day with any kind of usage now which is annoying.

I would love a phone with a replaceable battery. But I agree that the average consumer won't bother, they will just get a new one (or they will have upgraded before battery life ever becomes an issue).
Bimaru is a fun puzzle. I remember putting an Android App in the store containing the phrase "Battleships", only to receive a copyright claim from Hasbro, and Google immediately took the App down from the Store.

I rewrote it as a web version, should be still available: https://www.kleemans.ch/static/bimaru-web/
you use the same units on both sides of the equation, it's fine, it's like counting "meters squared"
It is fascinating how Google simultaneously provides a great lesson in how to leverage their primary competency of AI, as well as how not to (losing to OpenAI in LLMs).
>Computational photography uses AI a lot (next to parametric approaches), and without these algorithms, smartphone cameras would be quite shitty

Nah.

Smartphone cameras stopped being shitty a while ago, long before AI and computational photography hacks.

What you mean to say is they without AI, you'd know sooner that the smartphone maker put a cheap, shitty camera in your "premium" phone.

>People do care about that. AI isn't just LLM chatbots.

Yeah, it's also fake image generation featuring humans with a funny number of fingers.

What AI isn't is a camera.
An ex of mine used disposable vapes and I was shocked by how beautifully designed some of them are - transparent covers with visible inner workings reminiscent of the Nothing phones; custom multi-segment displays for battery and temperature status; original artwork printed in vibrant color on the side. It made me even angrier that these things are meant to just be used once and then thrown out. Of course putting all this e-waste into the environment is a disaster, but to then also treat art and design as similarly disposable feels heartbreakingly cynical on another level entirely.

I collected a few that she was going to throw out, someday™ I'll build some driver boards for the displays and make a little art piece out of them.
If I were a somebody worth a personal assistant/secretary, I'd be pissed about them doing such things without notice too
I well understand the security apologist’s approach to corporate device management and network security etc.

I lead citing your response as being something I don’t understand at a social-political level. From where does a company derive its power and authority to TLS inspect aka spy on its employees when it is by and large illegal to wiretap employees outside of specific allowed circumstances? Why is this legal and why do we broadly accept it?

Checkout https://honest.security/
That kind of thing only works in a high trust society. Given the choice, I'm not going to buy food from bulk bins where some stranger could have contaminated them, whether by malice or incompetence.
"Putin has no common topics to discuss with Scholz now — Kremlin"

https://tass.com/politics/1850993

That was the answer when the German chancellor was thinking about talking to Putin.

So it seems Musk has common topics to talk about with Putin.
1. How does it know how/when to reschedule that doctor's appointment that you need to call to reschedule? How do you know that receptionist won't hang up on your "AI agent" who tries to call them, b/c they think it's some sort of scam bot?

2. How does it know which contacts to contact? Does that acquaintance you talked to for some professional reason need to know your flight got rescheduled? What about that travel agency you talked to last night to confirm the flight?
The article provides insufficent data to answer any of those questions, since "don't know" or "undecided" are frequently options in such surveys.

Yet they do provide sufficient information for the headline. AI integrations came in 7th place for considerations when upgrading a smartphone.
Silicon Valley's Elite Pour Money into Blotting Out the Sun
> that's still only $100MM in annual revenue.

Given how fast Waymo is scaling, we should look at forward revenue projections, if available. Also, when it comes to TAM, Uber is a good standard to compare against. In Q2 2024[1], Uber had

- 10.7B revenue (42.8B ARR), out of which 6.134B (24.5B ARR) was from "mobility" and others from delivery/freight.

- Real fun part: Gross booking revenue for mobility was 20.554B, but revenue for Uber itself was 6.134B, or 30% of gross revenue. If 70% is going to drivers, that is Waymo's opportunity. It can price at 40% discount to Uber's prices while still reaping twice the revenue per ride. Start with the most lucrative markets where Uber is already profitable and expand from there.

[1] https://s23.q4cdn.com/407969754/files/doc_earnings/2024/q2/e...
I think the mistake a lot of companies are making with their approach to AI is making AI some "other" interface that you have to interact with explicitly. This chat bot approach is only one paradigm for using AI and it's probably the worst one in most use cases.

Amazon Rufus, for example, falls into this category and it's hard to even remember to engage with it. On the other hand, Amazon is happy to serve me absolute trash search results.

What most people probably want is an AI that can, for example, help organize their calendar transparently. Have a meeting coming up with a client? What if the AI can use tools to go find the latest info about the client? Check their LinkedIn, check their X, check their blog, research their company, give you a tear sheet on topics to discuss based on this in the calendar notes. If a user has to directly interact and instruct the AI, it feels like it defeats the purpose.
It wasn't the unions that prioritized shareholder value over everything else for the last few decades. Saying they were along for the ride is accurate but don't forget there is a serious difference in power between the csuite and everyone else.