skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
why would I pay for the advanced features when I haven't been impressed with the free features? in fact Claude 3.5, which is what is available, is a nearly worthless product, with value comparable to a free search engine, and not even a very good one. It is usually incorrect and frequently in subtle ways that will cost me a lot of time.

pro AI people sound like someone with an expensive addiction trying to justify it. the free product is bad, so I just need to pay to see the light?

Why would Anthropic let me use a model for free that is going to make me more skeptical of their paid offerings unless it is pretty similar to the paid ones and they think it's good?

Just read the manual and write the code yourself. These toys are a distraction.
> AI is the best programming tutor you can wish for...you can always ask for clarification or examples when something isn't clear

Yep, AI can teach beginners the fundamentals with endless patience and examples to suit everyone's style and goals. Walking you through concepts and giving you simulated encouragement as you progress. Scary stuff, but that's how it is.

But... as we know, it doesn't always provide the best solution. Or it gets muddled. When you point out its mistakes, it apologises, recognises the mistake and explains why its a mistake. It's reasoning is incredible, but it still makes mistakes. This could be very risky for production code.

Related anecdote... I needed Photoshop help recently for horizontally offsetting a vignette effect. Surprisingly not easy. The built-in vignette filter can't be applied to a new blank layer, and is always centred on the image. AI suggested making it manually but I didn't want to do that, as I like the built-in vignette better. AI's next solution involved several complicated steps using channel isolation and weird selection masking etc. No thanks. Then my own brain sparked a better idea... simply increase the canvas size temporarily, apply the vignette, then crop back to the original size. Job done. I told AI about my solution and it was gushing with praise about how brilliant my solution was compared to its own. Moral: never stop trusting your own brain.
The headache could have been from LED flicker. I bought a corn cob LED bulb and it had some high frequency flicker that was visible when using a camera with no anti-flicker compensation.
Do you have any notes on how to run it inside a Gitlab pipeline via a Linux Docker instance? I'd love to learn how to do this, then.
Don't disable SIP, clear the downloaded/quarantine extended attribute instead. This clears all extended attributes: xattr -cr <file> and bypasses the obnoxious GK.
Or a gamepad port on a Soundblaster card.
Could not agree more! I also recommend the short Youtube series Snyder recorded before the release of the graphic edition:

Lesson 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tocssf3w80&list=PLhZxrogyTo...

Full Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhZxrogyToZsllfRqQlly...
Probably won’t work, since there’s legitimate interest of app users in having this information accessible. However at least in Germany private person can have a legal address different from home address: you can buy this service from a number of providers and all legal correspondence will be delivered to you without interference with your privacy.
How exactly Google Play works for monetised apps from legal point of view? Are they ones who provide paid licence to an app to consumer (reseller), or are they just a marketplace intermediate, where the transaction is between app provider and consumer?

But in both cases, seems to me that at least for monetised apps, providing identifying information is important for consumer protection and therefore they have legitimate reason to do this.
You think good biologists never need to summarize work into digestible language, or fill out multiple huge, redundant grant applications with the same info, or reformat data, or check that a writeup accurate reflects data?

I’m not a biologist (good or bad) but the scientists I know (who I think are good) often complain that most of the work is drudgery unrelated to the science they love.
It's harder to attract an audience with the article you describe.

The internet likes black & white. There's little room for shades of grey and any expression of nuance just invites hot takes. Like this one.
Contact a lawyer and have them send a cease and desist. Shouldn't cost a lot.

Just engaging Google's legal machinery is probably the only way to get their attention
You need their address to have a reliable way to take them to court.
I've seen this done before by journalists requesting license plate reader data but it's another nail in the coffin of anonymity. Dare I say unless you wear a full face mask, change your walking gait, and just about every habit you have, there is no escape. In television I've seen talk about masks and garments that help prevent this, but I think it's a zero sum game. You will be tracked. You will be photographed, profiled, analyzed and that data is likely sold to the highest bidder and it's only accelerating.
Efforts to Weed Out Fake Users for Online Advertisers Fall Short
Are you sure about that?

Could imagine that countries like India the majority of buisneses also have an whatsapp account.

Never tried it, but it seems that calling a regular non-account via whatsapp will still work. But routed through watsapp servers. If someone can confirm or deny that, would be cool.
Spot on. Go to work, jump on that Teams/Zoom meeting. And go out to lunch, so the local businesses don't fail. That includes not just restaurants, but parking lots as well (the public transport here is broken and getting worse). Somehow, 'green thinking' which was popular pre-COVID is no longer talked out - everyone should drive and come to the downtown office and support local business. How about suburb businesses? How about those business that cannot survive in a model are allowed to die a new business model (perhaps not food) pops up?
I needed to search if bullish is a positive or a negative expectation.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/investing/bullish-vs-bear...

The current discussion about LLMs guarantees that both positive and negative expectations are a valid title for an article xD
I would like to be sympathetic to this, because it is true that as a child I was free to do what I pleased at "bedtime" the rule being that I may not leave my room or disturb my parents, so e.g. reading until daylight is fine, playing music is not, but whether I'm "in bed" let alone "asleep" is on me. In fact of course almost always I would end up asleep, maybe not exactly when I "should" be asleep, but likely as soon as you'd end up getting a reluctant child to actually sleep if you're trying to enforce that.

However, we know lots of children left to their own devices get over-tired, they should sleep but they don't and then they're much worse for it the next day. So in practice most parents are doing the right thing by insisting that children should sleep when they were "supposed" to rather than leaving them to their own devices as mine did.

I have a friend who is an angry drunk. The sort of person who door staff may need to kick out of a bar before they start a fight. In his 20s and 30s, loud arguments about nothing of consequence and even occasional violence were a likely end to a previously enjoyable evening. But although he's still an angry drunk he eventually got good enough at understanding his own emotional state that by his 40s he would just leave. Instead of "We need to all go home or J might kick off" it's "Bye J, see you next week" because he's just realised he feels angry about nothing and he has ordered himself a ride home and is leaving, no fuss.

This ability to self-regulate is often not something children are good at, but it's important. There's a difference between reasoning that if you eat the whole cake you'll feel bad and not eating the whole cake because you'll feel bad
Same risk as any other country, huh?
He has a new book On Freedom, too. I haven't read it yet, but I have watched him give excellent talks on youtube, which reference it.

I believe his core thesis in On Freedom is that America has focused on negative freedom, when what really matters is positive freedom.

"Negative freedom" is the idea that no government should interfere with your life. Authoritarian regimes arbitrarily exercise power, and that results in people being prevented from doing things or forced to do things. Maybe that's restrictions on speech or protest. Focusing on "negative freedom" turns people against their governments, which creates a sort of power vacuum anyone with resources is happy to fill. Negative freedom is good, nobody should want the government interfering with their lives, but focusing solely on negative freedom leads to authoritarianism. We can see this effect right now with "free speech absolutists" functionally becoming oligarchs.

He says what people should focus on instead is "positive freedom" -- The idea that you have the freedom to do what you want. If you don't have health, money, or education, you can't really be free. There is no freedom in a hospital bed. So healthcare creates positive freedom. Building housing lets you spend more money on things you want to do instead of rent, that's positive freedom. Without education, you are more easily victimized by those who wish to manipulate you and you are less capable of producing things of value. So education is freeing.

He also has two major series of talks.

One, I believe, touches on his book The Road to Unfreedom and is absolutely worth watching if you have any interest in politics.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej_D0YkDjy8

The other is a reading of On Tyranny as well as discussion of each chapter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tocssf3w80&list=PLhZxrogyTo...

He also has a substack with quality information and analysis: https://snyder.substack.com/

He says from a historian's perspective what is happening is a coup and it is also very likely a decapitation strike, particularly if we imagine what is happening here were happening to a foreign country: https://archive.is/fNpSS https://archive.is/1xkxK
WOW. Thank you, that is really great.
There is a slight problem with that. It’s actually the law in the EU that your address has to be displayed

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/17/developers-eu-app-store...
I actually see it worse than that. Complaints that the powerful elite are doing X against the rest of us is reframed at “the powerful elite are in a conspiracy together to do X”. Which is no longer the original argument.

Bezos and musk don’t have to conspire together to oppose unions and squash them. They both gladly do it on their own and would do so without needing to conspire.

But by framing it as a conspiracy that they work together, you can now dismiss that the fact that the activity is actually happening by simply saying that there’s no proof they are working together and that it’s just a conspiracy theory.
> Ever since Jobs came back (and Apple became valuable again) it has also become very much top-down with the engineers, for better or worse, not calling the shots. Just an obvious example — there are of course no engineers in the decision to make a "Snow Leopard" release or not.

It's unclear how much explanatory value this has, because the Snow Leopard that everyone is pining for was during the Jobs era. After all, an Apple that goes bankrupt and out of business isn't going to make any software updates.

I find a stark difference between the Jobs era and the Cook era. Under Jobs, the early Mac OS X updates (Puma and Jaguar) came fast and furious, but then the schedule slowed considerably. Panther was 14 months, Tiger 18, Leopard 30 (delayed due to iPhone), Snow Leopard 22 months, Lion 23. Mountain Lion was the first release after the death of Jobs and came only 12 months after Lion. Thereafter, every Mac OS update came yearly, give or take a few months. That's a drastic change in release schedule.
Goalposts
It's disheartening. I've tried reaching out on several platforms, but they've completely ignored me.

I'll be exploring the privacy watchdog, as you've advised.
Don't forget that before "AI" there was crypto. Same attitude among their promoters.

So someone who isn't already invested can genuinely draw the conclusion they're similar and not worth the time.

Edit: oh wait

>because some marketing people are over-promising

all "AI" marketing people that I've seen. Ok 98%. And all my LLM info is from what gets posted on HN.

> I will retaliate by choosing to believe false things

"I will retaliate by cataloguing them as pathological liars and not waste my time with them any more".
It talks about Flock branded surveillance in several places, then the news site itself asks for donations with this tagline "Thanks for joining our flock!". Short double-take on that donation area for me.
Language models are closing the gaps that still remain at an amazing rate. There are still a few gaps, but if we consider what has happened just in the last year, and extrapolated 2-3 years out....
I didn't say they needed violins of sympathy, but the majority of them are not the wealthy upper crust they are often perceived to be. This goes double for family medicine, and double-double for pediatric specialties that are paid less since Medicaid covers so much of the cost.
>> no LLM should ever output a url that gives a 404 error. How hard can it be?

Very easy. We can replace the error handler with a bullshit generator, and these people will be satisfied, as the whole idea is bullshit by the way.
that's the thing if your inquisitive and have an interest in learning things then you can still go far with AI coding. can you explain why this code works?

is this the best way to do it or are there other solutions? what are the pros and cons?

are there security problems with this? how could I make this code more secure?

what are some things I should look out for with AI coding(meta question)?

what does this error mean?

just talking back and forth with the AI on the phone you can get a high level understanding of a topic pretty quickly and way more in depth and personalized than a tutorial on the internet.
Taking Control of Image Processing
SVG v2 advanced 1% in 6 years: now is at 44% completion
its tricky to compare because ours are designed to be integrated into a space and create the appearance of window with a big focus on high CCTs (2200k-40,000k) which relocates the color and spectrum of a blue sky using up to 180W. This lamp seems to be focused on lower CCTs (1800k-5000k) at high powers (750w is a lot of heat to dissipate). Both have similar Rf and CRI but we maintain great Rg and CRI across the whole range.

The one you linked is a stand alone lamp and they seem to focus on red light which I don’t quite understand. Red light (or very low CCTs) is used for skin therapy but typically requires direct exposure to the skin because irradiance levels need to be super high for that - from my understanding you wouldn’t have any benefit from a red lamp even at 750w. But blue light does can have lots of health benefits at low levels (search for ipRGCs).
I'm sure everyone has seen this 100 times already but it really fits given modern advertising practice of every major company, especially in designing products to fit advertising plans.

There are also entire "industries" designed to shield people who want to find quality content from big 'A' advertising.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGKsbt5wii0
For context John Sculley said "Apple was the marketing company of the decade" in the 80s and Kicked Jobs out of Apple
> What's also scary is that we know LLMs do fail, but nobody (even the people who wrote the LLM) can tell you how often it will fail at any particular task. Not even an order of magnitude. Will it fail 0.2%, 2%, or 20% of the time?

Benchmarks could track that too - I don't know if they do, but that information should actually be available and easy to get.

When models are scored on e.g. "pass10", i.e. pass the challenge in under 10 attempts, and then the benchmark is rerun periodically, that literally produces the information you're asking for: how frequently a given model fails at particular task.

> A computer that will randomly produce an incorrect result to my calculation is useless to me because now I have to separately validate the correctness of every result.

For many tasks, validating a solution is order of magnitudes easier and cheaper than finding the solution in the first place. For those tasks, LLMs are very useful.

> If I need to ask an LLM to explain to me some fact, how do I know if this time it's hallucinating? There is no "LLM just guessed" flag in the output. It might seem to people to be "miraculous" that it will summarize a random scientific paper down to 5 bullet points, but how do you know if it's output is correct? No LLM proponent seems to want to answer this question.

How can you be sure whether a human you're asking isn't hallucinating/guessing the answer, or straight up bullshitting you? Apply the same approach to LLMs as you apply to navigating this problem with humans - for example, don't ask it to solve high-consequence problems in areas where you can't evaluate proposed solutions quickly.
Get a PO box. Either USPS or UPS address. Change address. Get the cheapest in your area, especially if you won't actually use it for deliveries. This is a deductible office expense for the business.

You don't need a DBA (doing business as) registered with the state for this, but it helps build a business narrative for the IRS and business purposes. And then you can use it in lieu of your name.
Absolutely beautiful paper.

Yes, it is book length, but every page is a joy.

Here are some quotidian introductory references:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_de_Fuca_plate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1700_Cascadia_earthquake

P.S. TLDR; TLDW (video below); I live near the coast in Washington state, should I be worried? - Yes.
> I could use that type of assistance precisely when I hit that "niche problem" zone

Tough luck. On the other hand, we're still justified in asking for money to do the niche problems with our fleshy brains, right? In spite of the likes of Altman saying every week that we'll be obsoleted in 5 years by his products. Like ... cold fusion? Always 5 years away?

[I have more hope for cold fusion than these "AIs" though.]

> Popular search engines like Google and Bing are mostly garbage because they keep trying to shove gen AI in my face with made up answers.

No they became garbage significantly before "AI". Google at least has gradually reduced the number of results returned and expanded the search scope to the point that you want a reminder of the i2c api syntax on a raspberry pi and they return 20 beginner tutorial results that show you how to unpack the damn thing and do the first login instead.
Yeah, it feels like Goliath. But at the very least, I can try to get my voice heard.

I'll explore all options available to me.
This is not “Google nonsense”. It’s the law in the EU. Apple has to do the same thing

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/10/17/developers-eu-app-store...
> Much of the time the problem is simply an invented method name that doesn’t exist

I spent a solid 2 hours yesterday trying to get an SSDP protocol implementation going because the LLM was absolutely insistent upon using 3rd party libraries that don't exist and UDP client methods defined in Narnia. I had to spoon feed it half-way attempts before I could get it to budge on useful code. This was all before I realized we had a problem with multicast group membership and multiple network adapters.

These models definitely can help (I wouldn't have gotten as far as I did without one), but you need to know what you want every step of the way. Having mere "vibes" about a sophisticated end result will result in unhappy outcomes. I think the model would have made my life much worse if I wasn't as cynical and suspicious regarding every aspect of its operation. I can see how these models would steal learning opportunities from more novice developers. Breaking out Wireshark is the sort of desperation that only arises when you can't constantly ping some rubber duck for shreds of hope (or once you realize there is no hope).
and that's just about any topic.
Welcome to the new digital divide people, and the start of a new level of "inequality" in this world. This thread is proof that we've diverged and there is a huge subset of people that will not have their minds changed easily.
The GBA SDK is pretty minimal in terms of library support. It's mostly functions for accessing save data plus wrappers around syscalls found in the bootrom. Those syscalls are some basic math functions, a few decompression algorithms, and an early version of the MusicPlayer2000 sound engine.
I've tried the Ladybird browser and... it is definitely not ready for daily use.

Downloading, compiling and running it took me ~6 hours (granted, my hardware sucks), though I appreciate that it worked without errors. That said, the browser was painfully slow

I haven't tried Servo yet, but my expectations are pretty low.
1Password is also now subscription only and online only. Gone are the days of a forever license and fully offline encrypted database allowing for 3rd party syncing via iCloud or others. The death of their old app went hand in hand with their race to the bottom subscription payment VC backed ecosystem. It's only time until they suffer a breach like everyone else.
Thanks for this. To my knowledge, the current policy doesn't allow a PO box. But I'll explore what you've mentioned.

Although I've now lost interest in publishing on the play store.
Yes I agree. 4 humors were enough for medieval europe, they're good enough for me!! Who can remember all this complicated 'germ theory of disease' liberal junk?! There must be hundreds of these supposed 'germs' out there! No sir, no thank you!
LLMs will be best at HTML and CSS among programming languages because even if it's subtly wrong the browser will still render something.

Still, I'm not sure I need to spend $250/yr to occasionally generate some HTML that I could use a template to generate
I'm going to assume here that you aren't just a sociopath and are open to having your mind changed...

How does paid vacation or benefits like health insurance fit into your model of the business existing to make money? You almost certainly provide those kinds of perks to your employees even though paying somebody while they are sitting on a beach somewhere doesn't directly help the business.

Think of work flexibility as just another perk. It's something you do to attract and retain the best people and allow them to do their best work.
> window focus management broken

Although I do not mind the way that window management works on macos, recently I had a mildly infuriating situation. I was doing Cmd+Z to undo something, not sure which app and it didn't work so I pressed it a couple of times instinctively. But although my target app was visible and on top, it was Finder that was actually in focus - accidentally I triggered undo in Finder. I think I managed to undelete a file and something else, but I'm not sure. Not sure if there is a way to find a log of actions. That's something I would love to see in all desktop systems, a history of user actions. Also having undo/redo shortcuts in Finder is potentially destructive, what if I move some files from an SD card, reformat it in camera, and then accidentally hit undo in Finder?
Strachey's General Purpose Macrogenerator
> Dare I say unless you wear a full face mask, change your walking gait, and just about every habit you have, there is no escape.

Lol. Nobody will be able to track me as the guy crab-walking in a sumo suit wearing the Unabomber disguise.
You can ask the government
A corollary to the dead internet theory is that "all clicks are click fraud"

https://archive.ph/WLErC