https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqS18aj6Vis
Readit Newsjmkni commented on Marines managed to get past an AI powered camera "undetected" by hiding in boxes rudevulture.com/marines-m... · Posted by u/voxadam
jmkni commented on 95% of Companies See 'Zero Return' on $30B Generative AI Spend thedailyadda.com/95-of-co... · Posted by u/speckx
AI Customer Service is very frustrating to work with as a end user.
Yep.
The thing is, you aren't contacting customer services because everything is going well, you are contacting them because you have a problem.
The last thing you need is to be gaslit by an AI.
The worst ones are the ones where you don't realise right away you aren't talking to a person, you get that initial hope that you've actually gotten through to someone who can help you (and really quickly too) only to have it dawn on you that you are talking to a ChatGPT wrapper who can't help you at all.
jmkni commented on 9 Years of "Learning to Code" and I Still Couldn't Build a To-Do App offpeaklog.bearblog.dev/l... · Posted by u/speckx
This is going to be controversial to say, but tutorial videos have never made sense to me. It's literally the least efficient way to communicate that information. I know junior developers love these sorts of videos, but I think they're more entrainment than education.
With a webpage you can read at your own rate of understanding, you can quickly jump back to find points you may have missed or not fully understood. You can follow hyperlinks to documentation the author thinks is important. Best of all, you can copy and paste! Assuming you are a competent reader, you can usually achieve all this in a fraction of the time as well.
Bring back books!
A good, well written, in depth technical book is the best way to learn any language/framework beyond a surface level IMO
They seem to have gone out of fashion in favour of Pluralsight/Udemy/etc, but I think they are superior.
As someone who's converted (unintentionally) a few people from Windows to Mac machines, I will say for most people there's less barriers these days. Lots of people use these machines as glorified Chromebooks anyway. So it really comes down to price, if they like how it looks, etc.
I have a base m2 macbook air I got a while ago for travelling, and I regularly use it for coding.
At one point I even had to install XCode onto it to release an emergency bug fix for an iOS app while on holiday, and it worked fine (just a bit slow).
It's definitely not a glorified chromebook, really interested to see how the $599 model performs
jmkni commented on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York reuters.com/investigates/... · Posted by u/edent
> Meta has publicly discussed its strategy to inject anthropomorphized chatbots into the online social lives of its billions of users. Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has mused that most people have far fewer real-life friendships than they’d like – creating a huge potential market for Meta’s digital companions.
I hate everything about this sentence. This is literally the opposite of what people need.
jmkni commented on Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B theverge.com/news/758218/... · Posted by u/ndr
I dislike tech monopolies but Chrome leaving Google would be most terrible thing ever, security wise.
Google has become the benevolent dictator of the web, if you like it or not. We get secure browsers, performance improvements, stable implementations at the cost of one bad feature being shipped a year (like Manifest V3).
Mozilla/FOSS community has fucked up Firefox, big time, which is not even their fault as they cannot hire thousands of six-figure developers.
What's wrong with Firefox? I've used it as my main browser for the best part of 20 years now and have no issues.
The last time I used Chrome there were ads all over the place because the ad blockers don't work properly anymore (I'm guessing because of manifest v3)
jmkni commented on A spellchecker used to be a major feat of software engineering (2008) prog21.dadgum.com/29.html... · Posted by u/Bogdanp
Is there a reason why Apple's iPhone spellcheck is often really poor, significantly worse than both LLMs and just...human eyes?
I often find myself butchering the spelling of a word in a way where the correct answer is obvious to human eyes (probably because of "typoglycemia" [1]) and an AI LLM immediately understands what I meant to say, but Apple's spellcheck has "No Guesses Found."
Does anyone else have this experience?
There's nothing more frustrating than when you type the word you want to type, it changes it to a different word, you delete it and type the word you wanted to type again and then rinse/repeat 3 to 4 times before you have the word you actually wanted.
And if you're not paying attention, your message ends up looking like you're having a stroke.
jmkni commented on GPT-OSS-120B runs on just 8GB VRAM & 64GB+ system RAM old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLa... · Posted by u/zigzag312
If you run these on your own hardware can you take the guard-rails off (ie "I'm afraid I can't assist with that"), or are they baked into the model?
what's funny is that newer models will now be trained on the exact question, "Without adding third-party dependencies, how can I compress a Data stream with zstd in Swift on an iPhone?" and similar questions to it, because of this post
maybe the key to training future llm's is to write angry blog posts about the things they aren't good at and get them to the front page of hn?
So disappointed it doesn't include OG solitaire!