skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's interesting to hear, as someone living in a different country I always assume that the reason to homeschool is so you could give your children better education.
I used this same technique to induce lucid dreams when I was younger. My theory for why it worked was that one part of the brain was sending a 'roll over' signal to another part of the brain in order to check if it was ready to enter the next stage of sleep. By purposely ignoring that signal and remaining still, I was able to fall directly into a dream while still conscious.

I'm sure there was a bit more to it than that. I also kept a rigorous dream journal, and had several other rituals and practices that I've since forgotten. But lying still was definitely a big part of it.
I found it odd that the article complained about squid proxy being slow. There was a memory leak issue in the 4.x versions, it was fixed sometime in the 5.x version. I dealt with it for like 2 years but could never figure out where the leak was. I charted[0] the process size, you can see in June where I upgraded to 5.7. Before then, I had just cron'd a restart every week.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/hRromEd.png
Same experience here - forced to update a stable Android app due to minimum API requirements. Uploaded to the store - app does not crash but does not work as it does in the emulator. Customers pissed.
What are the circumstances where StackOverflow is still competitive against ChatGPT? As far as I can tell SO.com and google are both obsolete for getting answers to programming questions. I haven't used either in a while and as locally hosted LLMs get more pervasive I don't see the situation tilting back towards those services.
"but we don't think most people will care too much". This probably will not matter to me in real life. On the other hand when I read this my take away is that Apple is just trying to extract more money from people.

I really have no idea if this is the true motive. Maybe there is some reason the technology of limited speed is less expensive. I really do not know.

But I am so used to corporations treating their customers without respect, Apple included, that I assume it is true. That this is just another way to exploit a semi-captive audience.
The most negative influence on my sleep by far is from using my phone in bed, as I suspect it is for many others. Not only when falling asleep, but also when waking up reaching for the phone is too easy and robs me of any chance of falling asleep again.

The only trick I've found that works quite consistently for me, is removing the phone from the room entirely. This makes my laziness work for me for once, as getting the phone from another room altogether is too much of a hassle.

Similarly, if you want to stop eating after a certain hour, 9pm in my case, brush your teeth at that exact time. After that I can't be bothered to eat since brushing my teeth again would be a hassle.
Sure, you can leave Twitter and Meta and post on some Mastodon server nobody knows about, but if you do that, your reach collapses and you've been effectively silenced.

> You can't escape the state.

You can, by moving countries. I've done it four times in my life.
The closest equivalent Google has is the TPU which is very much a manufactured thing at large scale.
> Easy to do

It's not 'easy' to mix up people who you are accusing of lying about having a friend with ALS for profit.

Worldcoin also has nothing to do with eye-tracking, unless you purposefully play with English words. The request is optimizing software & eye tracking. Eye tracking itself is a solved problem, maybe more is needed for disabilities but that is not Worldcoin.

And since the request is for the Bay Area to meet the friend with ALS, what was the game plan here, invite them in and trap them in his lair instead?
My pixel 4a and 6a both came with usb3 usbc PD cables.
It’s easy. The Chinese companies that do business with me speak English to me.

However, after the first couple of times trying to teach in China and South Korea, I turned down further gigs, because I felt the students were not understanding me.
This is a no-win situation.

MS expends an inordinate amount of effort on back compatibility, and much kudos to them. But it vastly increases their attack surface.

Likewise many of the worst things about the unfairly maligned C++ come from a hardcore position on back compatibility: as much as possible, old code, and even old C code, should continue to compile and work as expected, even to the point of linking old binaries to which you’ve lost the source code.

Most people don’t go to that effort and just invalidate old stuff in the name of maintenance, reliability, and security.

Whichever branch cut you take you’re going to cause a problem for somebody. If not, nobody is using your code.
I liked her take. Maybe AI will continue to improve to the point that it understands some of the literary devices she mentions but it’s like anything AI generates so far - devoid of soul.
Yeah some of these philosophical positions have a baseline frequency generally - biased up or down for the respective group.

However, the frequency seems to be increasing, though my caveat is that this increase is cyclical - so not “new” per se, but cyclically new.
No, but many ereaders at least provide a pin code lock which the rm2 does not.
Would love to have the Zotero mobile-App (an Android Version seems to be in devolpment, iOS one already exists) on an eInk-Devise, ideally waterproof and with long battery life.
My problem with zola is you can only use markdown. So you can't right content in asciidoc or even plain html.
This Reddit user claims the included charging cable with the 4A is limited to 2.0 speeds.

https://old.reddit.com/r/UsbCHardware/comments/14irr99/cable...

Same for the Pixel 6A. Google charging cables are all 2.0.

https://old.reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/xm2fw5/why_doe...
While dopamine hits almost certainly plays a role, We need to be more mindful of our uses of “The problem is…” when we’re discussing complex nuanced fractal-tier depth subjects.

There will almost never be one (or The) problem.

I know it’s semantic, but I think particular thing matters, even in casual discussions that don’t demand rigor. It’s lazy of us to delude ourselves that something like this is only one issue. Particularly when it’s used in response to tear down someone else’s hypothesis—this just needlessly stifles more conversation.
I’ve found SSR is best when it’s just _one_ way data might be loaded in an app. If I use SSR at all it’s to initialize a page. You’re right that you need a separate API either way. I would think of the SSR host as a backend specifically for your web application. It shouldn’t do anything from a data standpoint that can’t also be accomplished via XHR, but it may layer some other things (like auth/cookies) on a top to provide a better/more secure web experience.
> Pentiums (586) are usually the minimum and some even push toward Pentium MMX/Pentium II which would be 686.

At least in gcc i686 is Pentium Pro, not Pentium II or MMX. It is important distinction as it lacks MMX extensions
Great example! Its hard to think of a topic more complex and obtruse than social interactions. There are going to be no straightforward answers here because social media is a conduit. Its like arguing whether home telephones are bad; its not really the phone’s fault if some arsehole keeps calling you or if it helps you stay in touch with loved ones - its merely the tech facilitating social interaction.
I'm not sure I've ever had to do that. When is that a need?
> I'm not even sure why are we, as developers, allowing this to happen — there's usually not any good reason to develop mobile applications at all anymore. It's time to move back to open (web) standards and take control back into our own hands!

In general yes, but if I look at the apps on my phone I have

A mail client, K9, old UI. This clearly can't be replaced by a web app because I'm using it to look at my mail in a few POP3 servers and then I'll download those messages on my laptop (Thunderbird)

OSMAnd, offline maps and trop recording. Can't be web based.

Password manager, with a local dB synced with Syncthing.

Syncthing.

Epub reader, from files stored on my phone.

Photo gallery, for files on my phone. I backup to my laptop with Syncthing.

Banking apps, that I must use for 2FA in the web sites of those banks.

A network scanner, useful to debug networking issues.

Etc.

Of all the apps that are currently installed on my phone the ones that could be web apps are:

Go4Go, to view game records of pro games.

Elementary.

Chwazi.
When supply outweighs demand you don’t get much money. I would be really surprised if any of those generated influencer army get anything.
I think apple customers are generally only semi captive in the sense that the products are so good that they find it inconceivable to pick one of the dozens of other high end smart phones.
Minimum desk height was the number one metric I looked at when purchasing a standing desk. Many did not go low enough for me to keep my keyboard a proper height while using my chair correctly. But I ultimately found one and I find the height adjustability more important than the standing.
A great easy, low maintenance option, but I then upgraded to a dog, couldn't be happier :p
It’d be nice to see continued adoption if only to make things searchable when prerendered. Locking data behind an API with a requisite auth token means discoverability goes away.

But sadly I think that era has come to an end, with every content company scrambling to lock data away to levy a fee for LLM training.
Sure, but you can choose the one which is the most suitable with the least amount of problems. I would argue that Python has many problems, so it's suitable for a fairly small set of use-cases. (by design, btw)
Poor performance, terrible UX, welcome to modern software.
Fair. Not most. Just over 200m people.
One of the interesting things in this study is that the mean symptoms of depression kept increasing between the ages of 10 to 14, but then dropped dramatically at the age of 16.

That seems odd when compared to the American experience at least.

I wonder if Norwegian kids are provided with access to high quality mental health care around the ages of 14-16. Or if there is something about the culture that’s able to identify kids with depression in the teen years and provide ways to help reduce/eliminate it.
Arguing LLMs can't solve AGI by themselves is like arguing an ALU unit will never make a general purpose computer. Yes it's true, it takes more than an ALU to make a CPU and it takes more than an LLM to make _anything_. To gain an intuitive understanding what LLMs can be used for one has to understand how they work. The easiest way I think is the following. Imagine A LLM is a black box and a dictionary. A dictionary contains let's say 65000 words, each word has its number. The input called the prompt is a sequence of numbers. The model spends some time and as its output it gives us not a single number as answer, no, it gives us 65000 numbers. Each number is a probability assignment for each word in the dictionary. The most trivial approach to use this output is to find the word with the highest "probability" value and consider it the output. Then we add that word to the input and we run again until we get the number that means "this is the end". This is how most trivial LLM implementations work.

However, one can be a lot more creative with that output. For example recently there was a paper describing a technique to improve source code generation quality by LLM where the words in the output are compared with various known variables or objects defined elsewhere in the code essentially making it more probable for the model to generate correctly named code items.

Another method can be allowing the model to take multiple paths. For example pick 3 most probable output words, run the model 3 times with each word added to the output, and so on. In the end you have many versions of the output. Feed them back into the model one after another (or together if short enough) and ask it to score them. Choose the best one. To me this is the closest thing we have to "ponder on this for a while" for LLMs.

Edit: I envy people that have access to huge amounts of hardware that can be used to run LLMs. There are so many interesting experiments one can run just by exploring various ways to process model output. It is such an obvious thing I very much doubt it's not being done as we speak by Microsoft, meta, Google. Why are there no papers about it? (other than that paper I mentioned?) Because it's considered "the secret sauce" that gives them a competitive advantage.
> "Couldn't there exist different laws of gravity for big things like planets and small things like rocks, which explains why I've never seen rocks attracted to each other?"

Something very related is a topic that is seriously discussed among physicists:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics

The problem with the existing theories of gravitation which seem to work quite well on the scale of solar systems is that there does seem to exist evidence that some observed data on the scale of galaxies might not be well-explainable by these theories. See

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics#Ob...

Very recently new evidence for MOND came up:

> https://phys.org/news/2023-08-smoking-gun-evidence-gravity-g...

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37051241

See also:

> https://tritonstation.com/2023/08/02/is-ngc-1277-a-problem-f...

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37009037
Love it! I learned so much from building projects like this! None of mine had cool logos like yours - this looks really pro.

Have you tried teaching Crumb to GPT4? I bet it could surprise you with what it can do.
So they don't open defecate then?
Many years ago I played drums in a band, and often the guitar players would write weird little off time parts that I couldn't do at first, but I could the next day. I used to tell them that I would practice in my sleep. The first time I said it I was ridiculed, but when I nailed the part it became a running joke that I should bring a bed to the practice space.
Likely the cable but not the phone itself. The pro cameras can create images and video that have large files. Even without the EU law, Apple needed a faster way to pull these files than todays lightning connector can provide.
>are outside HN radar, because IBM isn't cool

More like outside people's radar because IBM only sells to big companies.
Not all adults have that capacity.
Contrast lighting.

For me, it was a strip of white LEDs fixed at the back of the monitor.

Very comfortable for the eyes.

You can also buy a 5$ table lamp and it away fron the monitor at the back of it.
We had a financial crisis and a war as well.
Agree that not everything can be web-based and your list of apps seem to be non-typical if there exists a list of typical apps of course.
That "rest of Linux" that you talk about is not Linux at all.
Note for other readers: the two sentences in the parent post have nothing to do with each other. The Robert Heathon post does not describe how to break cert pinning without needing hardware/firmware modifications unfortunately.

The only relevant thing to repeat here might be this

> if you can’t get access to your IOT device’s hardware in order to add a new root CA to it, your journey mostly ends here. Don’t lose hope though. Leave your setup running for a while and see if anything strange happens. When I attempted the above process on my baby’s crib, the device refused to trust Burp’s certificate and so refused to complete a TLS handshake with my laptop. But after a minute or two of repeated failures, the crib started sending out some of its system status data over plain, unencrypted HTTP!
If they don’t take anything from general experience, why do you care? Core of the system will still be touch oriented.
Exactly, this is uniquely a linux problem that these consumer facing operating systems were designed to avoid. In theory all Steam needs is a proton version "good enough" to emulate a handful of major eras of Windows programs.
Wordpress has already been around one fifth of a century. Yet, it's quite something to appreciate the change that happened between the one tenth of a century before it, so, 1993, and it, so, 2003.

In that time we went from self (and often university) hosted HTML to self-publishing. And it wasn't just Wordpress. A plethora of single-writer and group publishing flourished in an incredibly brief period of time powered in large part by the sudden availability of low priced (and free) hosting and scriptable languages.

In comparison, the past 1/10th of a century has seen little. Choice of JS framework does not revolutionary change make. If anything, there's a now established no turning back movement from federalists, indeed a niche, a result of the swallowing creative and belching out stale innovation FAANGs+ have brought destructive force with. FB does nothing whatsoever now in social good that it didn't do a decade ago. Nor Google. Just as banks do good in facilitating individual with saving, loan and payment solutions, they get fucked up sometimes and in their chasing the last decimal point fuck up people's lives via markets; FAANGs are at the chasing the last decimal point in advertising but fucking up people's lives directly through their brains, and it's got a way to run.

Which roundabout wandering brings me to ask: Will the $100 be put in trust, or similar, to ride out the next revolutionary change in tech that may result in Wordpress no longer be around but some cash needs to be left over for hosting something. The past decade has been all but revolutionary and is no place to base an assumption on the volatility-in-tech two decades down the line.
MAGA/militia/Qanon are conspiracist grifts that simply extend pre-existing societal wedge issues (god, guns, government). What cultural artifacts or innovations has this counterculture created? They appear to be entirely dependent on mainstream media and social platforms to carry their message.
This is more general but if you end up going outside less then I believe Vitamin D3 helps with sleep and overall health.

More effective air conditioning/heating has been nice. Maybe a box fan to supplement if it's not always effective.

Weirdly my incredibly cheap Chromebook is preferable sometimes to the old laptop which is much better technically, because I don't have to worry about the battery and it doesn't heat up my lap at all and is quite light.

Make sure you are on Discord.

Having a reasonably priced VPS or two available for development is nice.

This is definitely not for everyone and not a purchase, but I don't have a car or drive anymore. It means I never have to stress about traffic and I feel like I save a lot of energy. I order groceries on Instacart. That does waste money but it's much less than people spend on transportation.

The thing that has made the biggest difference is just relocating to less expensive areas. That might not matter so much for highly paid HNers but for a few of us, cost of living is a big deal.
And taking foreign aid whilst doing it.
> For hyperactive and hollering people (with ADHD and alike) it may even amount to torture.

Seems like a slight overstatement.
Is that even usable? I don’t really understand how that would work in real condition. Maybe with a tiling desktop manager?
> That's not the steel man, that's a straw man where you just flipped the politics of the scenario.

That’s just HN
That's because the term "far right" actually does mean "far left". It's meant to be a synonym for the Nazis who were definitely not a conservative party in any sense of the word.

AfD positions: socialism is bad, smaller state, deregulation, strong law and order, no European unification, introduce Swiss-style referenda.

"Far right" (Nazi) positions: socialism is good (it's even in the name), state is totalitarian, run your own street army to destroy law and order, start a war to unify Europe and immediately abolish all voting.

These are opposing positions yet we are told they are the same. It is a rhetorical trick that renders people confused everywhere it is deployed.
I want the next generation of UIs to be so easy and natural to use that it feels like they're reading my mind.
None of those things count as open defecation.
I don’t think I have ever used the USB-to-lightning cable for data transfer on my current or previous iPhone. Maybe most users are like me.

If you do lots of data transfers this way, buy a faster USB-C cable?
Fair enough, Android has actual market share. It's rarely considered "Linux" in this context though.

The Steam Deck is a device serving a few million in a market of billions. The Switch outsold the Deck ten to one, with the Switch being an old console and the Deck in its release year.

Even with Steam Deck included in the survey, about 2% of Steam users (which is a subset of the gaming market) use Linux.
Yup, anecdotal evidence: I'm pretty much Alice. I avoid social media, but I can't avoid its effects - since everyone else doesn't, what social media does also indirectly affects me. It definitely affects me negatively how people around me have goldfish attention spans, it definitely affects me when they try to drag me into nonsensical trends, etc...
IBM revenue has been shrinking over the last 10 years. They aren't selling well.
if you want to DRM your app, yeah. In that case, also don't forget to check for microG or root (super scary stuff, a user having admin on their own device, imagine!) and ensure that the device isn't muted during ads as well as disabling app backups (they might be able to get at their own data!!1) and turning off screenshots (no benefit, but it can be claimed to be a security benefit just like denying root and turning off backups, and it will serve to further annoy the user).

If you don't mind that users can see what you're leaking to the server from their device, or sending to their device, then please don't use certificate pinning, or at least make it an option...

Not sure which side you're on here
Coming from someone who has never been a "true believer", I agree that the pushback is a bit harsh, but to be honest they brought it on themselves. When GPT-4 was first released you couldn't walk ten feet without seeing some Linkedin-tier bullshit about how this was going to be the final form of intelligence, the replacement for all developers, the replacement for all workers, the second coming of Christ on live broadcast, you get the idea.

When inevitably reality doesn't meet expectations, you get the pushback. The sooner we get over this ridiculous team game where we must either state that LLMs are AGI or LLMs are random number generators, the sooner we can start asking the real question: how can we take this technology, limitations and all, and actually use it in a production system? Where is it useful and where is it useless?

Because that's still the point, and if I haven't missed anything, it's still highly nontrivial to answer that question with any degree of seriousness.
Just a laymen here, but if the organic brain is something we're trying to model I always ached for some kind of analog processor for things like neural networks. Op-amps, not logic gates.

(Quick google found this fun hobbyist article of a perceptron built with op-amps: https://www.nutsvolts.com/magazine/article/the_perceptron_ci...)
Yes, that's definitely one side of the problem and I'm not chasing too much backwards-compatibility. My biggest concern in this particular situation is that there is no way (with Android, at least) to pull-back/cancel/rollback release and everything is blocked behind Google's review process. Why isn't it just possible to "yank" problematic release and continue showing previous release as the latest version. That would solve most of the issues within context of this problem.
Banking apps generally hardcode their certs in to prevent this, so this wouldn't work unless you find a way to replace that cert too.