skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US airline industry requires you to pay more to transfer a ticket or get a refund. Do the same for concert tickets.
It's extremely easy to replace the battery.

Anything you can buy online ships with all required screw drivers and dozen of Youtube videos or ifixit will give you step by step instructions.

10-15 minutes and you'll have the old battery replaced all by yourself.

It's that simple.
Not necessarily. If 25% of the code is written by AI but that code isn't very interesting or difficult, it might not be making the devs 25% more efficient. It could even possibly be more but, either way, these are different metrics.
I was a luddite about the generative LLMs at first, as a crusty sysadmin type.
I came around and started experimenting. It's been a boon for me.

My conclusion is that we are at the first wave of a split between those who use LLMs to augment their abilities and knowledge, and those who delay. In cyberpunk terminally, it's aug-tech, not real AGI. (and the lesser ones code abilities and simpler the task, the more benefit, it's an accelerator)
I would want a specific example in that case rather than "the good managers figure it out" because in my experience, the bad managers pretend to figure it out while the good managers admit that they can't figure it out. Worse still, if you tell your reports what those metrics are, they will optimize them to death, potentially tanking the product (I can increase my bug fix count if there are more bugs to fix...).
Russia fines Google $20T,000T,000,000, Surpassing Global Wealth
Maybe it is naive but I think search would probably work again if they could roll back code to 10 or 15 years ago and just make search engines look for text in webpages.

Google wasn’t crushed by spam, they decided to stop doing text search and build search bubbles that are user specific, location-specific, decided to surface pages that mention search terms in metadata instead of in text users might read, etc. Oh yeah, and about a decade before LLMs were actually usable, they started to sabotage simple substring searches and kind of force this more conversational interface. That’s when simple search terms stopped working very well, and you had to instead ask yourself “hmm how would a very old person or a small child phrase this question for a magic oracle”

This is how we get stuff like: Did you mean “when did Shakespeare die near my location”? If anyone at google cared more about quality than printing money, that thirsty gambit would at least be at the bottom of the page instead of the top.
Call me cynical, but when I see headlines like "up to 2x faster", I assume it's a cherry-picked result on some workload where they added a dedicated accelerator.

There's a massive difference between "pretty much every app is 80% faster" and "if you render a 4K ProRes video in Final Cut Pro it's 3x faster."
You're reading this wrong. They've deliberately chosen questions that one or more models fail at. It's not representative at all of how often the model is wrong in general.
> My personal favorite *nix utility nobody knows ships with Windows is tar.exe, which is libarchive's bsdtar and therefore supports a wide variety of archive formats.

TIL. However, some caveats: https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/issues/2092
"Legitimate" is probably a better word. I think you can get the point though. Those I have seen preferring the term CSAM are more concerned about CSAM being perceived less negatively when it is called child porn than they are about consensual porn being perceived more negatively.
Ultra-processed foods, animal-plant protein intake ratios' environmental impacts
In lisp about 50% of the code is just closing parentheses.
> a freaking co-op game where cheaters can't pose a problem

Winning doesn't give you any permanent rewards?
In that case, it's 2 clicks whether it's minimised or not: once on the bar icon, once on "Open 1Password". At least that's how it is for me.
I saw an LLM having this kind of problem when I was doing some testing a ways back. I asked it to order three fruits from largest to smallest. I think it was orange, blueberry and grapefruit. It could do that easily with a simple prompt. When the prompting included something to the effect of “think step by step”, it would try to talk through the problem and it would usually get it wrong.
I am not using Nvidia since 2011. Last nvidia device was bought in 2007.

Back then I migrated to Archlinux and in all these years I only had problems with nvidia. Since then they are dead to me :)
The benefit doesn't translate 1:1. The generated code has to be read and verified and might require small adaptions. (Partially that can be done by AI as well)

But for me it massively improved all the boilerplate generic work. A lot of those things which are just annoying work, but not interesting.

Then I can focus on the bigger things, on the important parts.
I think their point was they think the law should be based off of harms, not necessarily "morals" (since no one can seem to decide on those).
Ah interesting. Looks like that's strangely specific to JMAP and not a generic mail header or something like that, so K-9 won't be able to do it, as it doesn't (yet) support JMAP.
When it stops working great. My 2014 Macbook is about due for an upgrade, mostly due to the GPU struggling with a 4K screen.
I think any idea that Apple doesn't thoroughly understand the capacity, value, market, price tradeoff is untenable.

The most obvious view is that Apple price gouges on storage. But this seems too simplistic.

My conjecture is that there's an inescapable tension between supply (availabilty/cost) sales forecasts, technological churn, and roadmaps that leads them to want to somewhat subsidize the lowest end, and place a bit of back-pressure on consumption at the high-end. The trick is finding the tipping point on the curve between growth and over commitment by suppliers. Especially, for tightly vertically integrated products.

The PC industry is more diffuse and horizontal and so more tolerant of fluctuations in supply and demand across a broader network of providers and consumers, leading to a lower, more even cost structure for components and modules.

In real terms, Apple's products keep costing less, just like all computer products. They seem to make a point of holding prices on an appearance point of latest tech that's held steady since the first Macs: about $2500 for a unit that meets the expectations of space right behind the bleeding edge while being reliable, useful and a vanguard of trends.
They have problems because they're cheap and don't want to pay to host servers. They don't want to let people host their own authoritative server either because of the $billions in fake money.
> Most programming is trivial

That's a bold statement, and incorrect, in my opinion.

At a junior level software development can be about churning out trivial code in a previously defined box. I don't think its fair to call that 'most programming'.
I’ve already had one job interview where the applicant seemed broadly knowledgeable about everything we asked them during lead-in questions before actual debugging. Then when they had to actually dig deeper or demonstrate understanding while solving some problem, they fell short.

I’m pretty sure they weren’t the first and there’ve been others we didn’t know about. So now I don’t ask lead-in questions anymore. Surprisingly, it doesn’t seem to make much of a difference and I don’t need to get burned again.
If you make it to an offer, it probably means you are the best of the lot. You can always negotiate somewhat. Unless your ask is outlandish, they can always say "no, but the offer stands". If you ask for 10x what youre offered / marker, that's different of course.
There is always room. If a company makes you an offer it means thyley want to hire you over every other candidates so far and their first offer is unlikely to be the best they can do.
> A underdeveloped second rate power just can't afford it... If Russia could've done what US did in Iraq they certainly would've.

Jesus. the arrogance.
Sure, I'm aware. I tried K-9 many many years ago but didn't really like it. Seems like it's more my style now (or my style has changed).
Memegen is there but unrecognizable now. A dedicated moderator team deletes memes, locks comments, bans people for mentioning "killing a process" (threatening language!) and contacts their managers.
There's nothing fuzzy about letting an LLM determine the probability of a particular piece of text.

In fact it's the one thing they are explicitly designed to do, the rest is more or less a side-effect.
It's pretty cynical to say that wage suppression is one of the responsibilities of a CEO. But perhaps not off the mark.

If only we had the equivalent on the other side to balance the equation. Some kind of a group of individual employees, who work together to counter wage suppression efforts.
Its been a while since I was really fully in the trenches, but not that long.

How people deal with this is they start by writing the test case.

Once they have that, debugging that 25% comes relatively easily and after that its basically packaging up the PR
If you're going to claim that random hacking groups routinely do something the FBI and NSA claim to be unable to do... citation needed.
> Some of us take it personally if we cannot do everything using only the keyboard.

That's fine but how is that related to how many clicks it takes to bring it back up after it's minimised - which is what this thread is about?

If you want to activate 1Password from the keyboard, minimised or not, just use the global keyboard shortcut ⌘\ .
That's a low bar for girls IMO (not being able to grasp that someone might not want to use Whatsapp or Instagram).
I had one of those for work, recently got one of the newer MacBooks and the performance feels the same to me. Both were flawless.

What did change is almost everything else. Much better speakers, more ports, more external displays, no Touch Bar and probably some other stuff I forgot. Not worth buying a new laptop over though.
> Consumption per se does not incentivize it,

It can. In several public cases it seems fairly clear that there is a "community" aspect to these productions and many of these sites highlight the number of downloads or views of an image. It creates an environment where creators are incentivized to go out of their way to produce "popular" material.

> Strict liability for possession in particular is nonsense.

I entirely disagree. Offenders tend to increase their level of offense. This is about preventing the problem from becoming worse and new victims being created. It's effectively the same reason we harshly prosecute people who torture animals.

> nor social damage involved in that at any point,

That's a bold claim. Is it based on any facts or study?

> over the extreme ickiness of the act as opposed to any actual harm caused by it.

It's about the potential class of victims and the outrageous life long damage that can be done to them. The appropriate response to recognizing these feelings isn't to hand them AI generated material to sate their desires. It's to get them into therapy immediately.
I'd argue Alaska's system is even better. They have a top-4 jungle primary. Everyone focuses on the ranked-choice voting general election they have that follows, but I think letting 4 candidates advance out of the primary is an improvement because it weakens the primary electorate's power to eliminate candidates early. And as mentioned, the primary electorate is tiny and probably not representative of the population as a whole.
Well. When I developed in Java, I think that Eclipse did similar figures circa 2005.
It would depend on a countries consumer laws. I used to work for AASP's in Australia and they definitely used refurished phones for replacements and refurished parts for the Mac repairs. Not everyone who uses this site lives in America...
Previously (29 points, 1 day ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41989534
I personally think a big problem with search is major search engines try to be all things to all people and hence suffer as a result.

For example: a beginner developer is possibly better served by some SEO-heavy tutorial blog post; an experienced developer would prefer results weighted towards the official docs, the project’s bug tracker and mailing list, etc. But since less technical and non-technical people vastly outnumber highly technical people, Google and Bing end up focusing on the needs of the former, at the cost of making search worse for the later.

One positive about AI: if an AI is doing the search, it likely wants the more advanced material not the more beginner-focused one. It can take more advanced material and simplify it for the benefit of less experienced users. It is (I suspect) less likely to make mistakes if you ask it to simplify the more advanced material than if you just gave it more beginner-oriented material instead. So if AI starts to replace humans as the main clients of search, that may reverse some of the pressure to “dumb it down”.
Well, either they just didn't spend as much time writing the code or they increased their liability by about 33%.

The truth is likely somewhere in between.
I've heard of folks with 10+ years of experience not finding work in 9 months or more.
Jesus, just post a source.
> For some context, Google’s largest fine so far was €4.34 billion (approximately $4.7 billion), issued by the EU in 2018 over antitrust violations related to Android — minuscule next to Russia’s current demand.

Yes, Russia is aware of this. It’s just a comical play poking fun at EU and the fact that Google won’t pay up.
Selling 1 ticket for 100x != Selling all tickets for 100x

Especially not when many of those 100x prices are from scalpers or rescalpers in the first place. Once a ticket is seen as an investment vehicle it gets divorced from the intrinsic value of "seat at concert I'd like to go to".
Show HN: I Made an SEO Title Generator That Analyzes Top Rankings
Right? I seem to be the only high-level SWE at my company who hates RuboCop. Some of it's fine (e.g. no globals, use x.count { ... } instead of x.select { ... }.count). But so many of the rules are obsessed with trivial details like the "right" style of blocks to use (do vs {}) or "" vs '' for strings. Pointless busy work. I think the dumbest is requiring "def (x=true)" over "def (x = true)". Seriously, why could that possibly matter??
The 2014 model I bought in early 2015 still works, though the battery is dodgy. I did get the motherboard replaced in 2020 which was pricey, but much cheaper than a new machine.

Is there some reason your current computer isn't working for you? If not, why upgrade? Use it as long as you can do so practically & easily.

On the other extreme, I knew someone who bought a new MBP with maximum RAM specs each year. She'd sell the old one for a few hundred less than she paid, then she always had new hardware with applecare. It was basically like leasing a machine for $400/yr.
They're probably referring to the certificate verification that happens when you open any notarized application. Unless something changed recently, the system phones home to ensure its certificate wasn't revoked.
Show HN: Genomie – a genome browser you can talk to
I built a natural language interface for semantically searching across FutureHouse's WikiCrow generated gene summaries embedded in a genome browser.

As a PhD student working with non-coding variants, I found it challenging to quickly interpret genetic associations using traditional genome browsers. Genomie helps prioritize genes that could be regulated by nearby non-coding associations by running cosine similarity between gene article and your search terms.

Would love to hear what other bio people think about interfaces with new ml/bio tools.
Thanks for sharing. How about 4o-mini?
GitHub’s self hosted runners are as painless as they can get, and the Mac Mini in my basement is way faster than their hosted offering.
Agree, even without whisky (this whisky: https://getwhisky.app).

With whisky i feel like id never need anything else. That said, the benchmark jump in the m4 has me thinking i should save up and grab a refurb in a year or two
This is all about the tooling most companies choose when building software: Things with more than enough boilerplate most code is trivial. We can build tools that have far less triviality and more density, where the distance between the code we write and business logic is very narrow.. but then every line of code we write is hard, because it's meaningful, and that feels bad enough to many developers, so we end up with tools where we might not be more productive, but we might feel productive, even though most of that apparent productivity is trivially generated.

We also have the ceremonial layers of certain forms of corporate architecture, where nothing actually happens, but the steps must exist to match the holy box, box cylinder architecture. Ceremonial input massaging here, ceremonial data transformation over there, duplicated error checking... if it's easy for the LLM to do, maybe we shouldn't be doing it everywhere in the first place.
Plenty of shade to throw around, Ticketmaster+livenation sucks too.
At great time and expense, while you have bills to pay and someone else has your money.
> Most people do install Nvidia’s out‐of‐tree graphics driver

Most people that use Nvidia. I specifically don't buy Nvidia graphics cards or laptops that use them in my Linux computers because they're not in-tree.
A good farmer isn’t likely to complain about getting a new tractor. But it might put a few horses out of work.
> Mac OS calls home every time you execute an application

Consulting a certificate revocation list is a standard security feature, not a privacy issue.
With community servers an admin only has to police their server, which is a fixed number. More players, more servers, more admins.
Every story is the story of change
Do any free market absolutists actually say these things, or are you just attacking a strawman?

I assumed they would say something like tariffs=bad, unless it's to overcome market manipulation by some state actor.
Because there seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding producing a lot of nonsense.

Of course LLMs are a fantastic tool to improve productivity, but current LLM's cannot produce anything novel. They can only reproduce what they have seen.
If only google was trying to solve search rather than shareholdet values.
Switzerland has an organisation/NGO dedicated to saving rare breeds of farm animals and cultivated varietars:

https://www.prospecierara.ch/
It t would be easier to explain if people on HN understood the difference between recourse loans and non-recourse loans, but based on these two responses people clearly don't.

Suffice to say, if you tried to do what Elon does with his stock, you would not be able to, because the type of loan he has is not a type of loan available to the general public.
BI-as-Code Tooling: A Review
technically speaking the law is that you can't park 20 feet from an intersection but in practice this is rarely enforced in Seattle. I feel like literally putting up plastic posts and paint blocking the 20 foot zone would do wonders for safety.

it also does not help that people in Seattle love a rolling California stop, which is not legal. Combine that with the baseline level of driver distraction and I have gotten almost hit by inattentive drivers way too much.
Also most large concerts, especially if it's not all ages
It is insane how they have destroyed a wide swath of indie websites, I just wrote on this subject and how bad they hit us: https://build.shepherd.com/p/hi-google-please-stop-the-bed-a...
"Don't overthink it" is sometimes good advice!
I had to set up a Windows computer for the first time in a decade recently, and holy shit did they make it difficult to figure out how to do it without a Microsoft account.
> A lot is that I often can't trust the package manger.

If you can't trust the package manager, how can you trust the install media?
If you believe that fans that put in time are more deserving than fans that pay then this is correct.
Wow. Exactly my idea. Thanks for linking it, I'm glad it's a successful approach!
> End to end encryption by default, such that the cloud provider cannot access my data.

The App Store stores a lot of sensitive data about you and is not end-to-end encrypted. They operate it just like everyone else. You also use Gmail, which is just as sensitive as your iMessages, and Gmail is not end-to-end encrypted, so it's not clear you value that as much as you say.
Hello! I am https://bsky.app/profile/harrison.page and I post interesting articles (some tech, some politics) and my own photographs, mostly bunnies I see on early morning walks.
My previous Macbook was a Pro model from 2015, I waited 6 years to finally upgrade to an M1 Air because of the awful touchbar models they had in between (though I'm still using the 2015 Pro for personal stuff, in fact right now. It's upgraded to the latest macOS using OpenCore and it still runs great). But I would say upgrade every 3-5 years depending on heavy a professional user you are.
What about comparisons to Claude 3.5? Sneaky.
Did you try to ask it if Winnie the pooh look like the president of China?
What does open source mean here? Where's the code? The weights?
So, it was swapped for a :thumbs_up:, right?
This isn't some innate ability that people have. As evidenced by how bad my kids are at catching things. :D

That said, I think this is a good example. We call it "muscle memory" in that you are good at what you have trained at. Change a parameter in it, though, and your execution will almost certainly suffer.
I’m not sure that’s evidence; I looked at that and saw it was written in Go and just didn’t bother. As someone with 40 years of coding experience and a fundamental dislike of Go, I didn’t feel the need to even try. So the numbers can easily be skewed, surely.
Better for the consumer in the brief period before they are ripped off repeatedly due to lack of competition after the subsidies are not passed to the consumer.
You can tune the aimbot to be as good as the server allows, maybe with a bit of variation to throw it off.

And realistically, some real non-cheating players will by chance just have similar statistics to bots, especially since the bots will start doing their best to mimic real players.

Also many players don't need to cheat all the time; just in that critical moment when it really matters. Didn't Magnus Carlsen say he only needs a single move from a chess computer in the right moment to be virtually guaranteed win? Something like that probably applies to a many people and fields. This is even harder to detect with just statistics.

Also also reminds me of the "you can't respond in less than 100ms, and if start the sprint faster than that after the starting pistol then you're disqualified"-type stuff they have in the Olympics – some people can consistently respond faster and there's a bunch of false positives. Not great.
Yup, I simply stopped using it, which means they won.
Oh yeah, that was down to a huge JSON file / slow JSON parser or something wasn't it? That was so bad.
The fertility rate trends are missing the core point here. Your obesity and hunger examples actually reinforce the Jevons paradox - when a resource becomes cheap enough, we find ways to use it even beyond what seems rational. But more importantly, you're still not getting the original Malthusian comparison: Malthus wasn't predicting that cheaper food would make people eat more (obesity) - he was predicting that cheaper food would lead to more total people. Similarly, cheaper AI won't just make individual AIs consume more - it means AI will be deployed everywhere possible. The parallel is about multiplication of instances, not increased individual consumption.
Not a good look. I guess this is why we diversify ...
Oh yeah, they did rule that you were legally allowed to transfer / resell digital games... but not that Steam & co had to offer the option.