skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Code reviews - Shines

Review code - Shines

Finding bugs - Shines

Suggesting coding patterns you want and suggest to LLM - Shines

Explaining error messages - Shines

Writing code from scratch - Mediocre

Architecting a solution - Mediocre/Poor

Understanding code or solutions it has no clue about - Poor

Contextual multi-file or multi-domain code understanding - poor
It's a natural limit – but it doesn't make it easy to figure out in advance when it is/isn't permissible to do what you want to do. (Now, if C had type inference...)
and if either happened to kill someone, the person would likely receive a similar sentence for manslaughter.
> It's no surprise they'd drag their feet on investing in a platform that actively prevents them from competing. You're describing a broken egg and asking why the chicken never hatched.

Did people who were interested in being able to run with just an Apple Watch choose not to buy an Apple Watch or choose to switch to Apple Music?

How did they think this was going to hurt Apple and not themselves?

> That's not what I said. Spotify is arguing that Apple has double-standards, and I'm using the existence of API entitlements to back them up

Of course the OS vendor is never going to allow every app the same level of access to the hardware that they have. Do you want every application to have root access?

How has Apple having “private entitlements” hurt their competitors when it comes to books (where Kindle is more popular), streaming video (AppleTV+ vs Netflix - really? ), streaming music (Spotify still has more market share on iOS I believe), podcasts (I use Overcast). Third parties can manipulate the photo library.

The two exceptions I can think of are adding music to the music library directly on the phone and installing apps.
I found a few leads googling around Palo Alto Networks docs website:

- "Advanced URL Filtering" seems to have a feature where web content is either can be evaluated "inline" or "web payload data is also submitted to Advanced URL Filtering in the cloud" [1].

- If a URL is considered 2 spooky to load on the user's endpoint, it can instead be loaded via "Remote Browser Isolation" in a remote-desktop-like session, on demand, for that single page only [2].

I think either (or both) could explain the signals you're detecting.

[1]: https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/advanced-url-filtering/adm....

[2]: https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/advanced-url-filtering/adm...
Oh the frequency illusion. I read just today about a possible value of one sign. That's in Adams and Mallory's Encyclopedia from 1997!
100% Agree. Im a big proponent of developing self-thought skills and making the best of e-learning, but I think math (alongside languages and other) are one of those areas where the real time feedback makes traditional education still worthwhile.

It's hard to replace it with just books and online courses. Not impossible but harder.
I understand what you are getting at, but the short answer is no.

The longer answer is something called The Superposition Principle. Essentially, waves (photons) pass through one another. The amplitude adds, but only at the intersection. The frequency does not change. (Consider the laser as the ultimate example of this)

(Side note: The superposition principle does not always hold; however, the realms where the addition of MOAR PHOTONZ becomes non-linear are broadly incompatible with life)

So, most techniques involve having many, many beams intersect so that the individual paths are only a little damaged while a specific spot where they all meet takes the hit. I met someone who specifically programs the machines that do this because there's a lot of math involved chucking radiation around irregular hunks of blood, meat, and bone, and the calculations are done because the first idea of "just cross the streams" works fine in a vacuum, but not so much in the human body.
No, that qualifies.
Could it be a "read it later" type of article reader/storage service? I know of at least one that fits the bill in that it uploads locally-viewed HTML to a server which then renders that page in a headless Chrome instance for archival:

I've recently been wondering how Omnivore, unlike e.g. Pocket, is able to store paywalled content (for which I have a subscription) on iOS when saving it via the Omnivore app target in the share sheet, but not when directly pasting the target URL in the webapp or iOS app.

Turns out that sharing to an iOS app actually enables [1] the app to run JavaScript in the Safari web context of the displayed page, including cookies and everything!

If I'm skimming the client and server source code correctly, it does just that: It seems to serialize and upload the HTML of the page [2] and then invokes Puppeteer on the server [3]. Puppeteer is a scriptable/headless Chrome – that would fit the bill of "an outdated Chrome running in a data center"!

Omnivore can also be self-hosted since both client and server are open-source; that would explain you seeing multiple data center IPs.

[1] https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ge...

[2] https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/blob/main/apple/Sou...

[3] https://github.com/omnivore-app/omnivore/blob/57aca545388904...
> Clearly this is not true. The largest companies in the USA are not financial.

i believe the parent post meant tech and financials (but is lumping them together into one).
If you give me the browser history of the most honest of men, I will find something in it which will hang him.
...and now you know why I don't run systemd. I believe their thought process is: what would Windows do? This is an example. For instance, the desktop shell still crashes often. In the old days, this would lock up the keyboard and mouse, and you'd have to power cycle. But MS "fixed" it by simply adding infinite restarts to the system. Now we have systemd. When something crashes, there's no need to fix the bug, just restart it.

My favorite new misfeature is PulseAudio. These geniuses actually built code for a multi-user, multi-tasking OS...which will only run for ONE user, and then only if that user is logged in. So forget running cron jobs, and sounding an alert if something needs attention.

This is all code produced by FreeDesktop[.]org. Thanks to them, your industrial strength, mission-critical server OS is now only suitable for single-user desktop systems.
One thing that many people aren't aware of (even mathematicians writing textbooks) is that "textbook" RSA isn't actually secure without random padding (it's a theorem that deterministic ciphers can't be semantically secure).
> I would like to see a donation/optional subscription model with tiered features as is seen in Patreon/Kickstarter etc. with the distinction that the tiers are community wide instead of being bound to the individuals donating.

Discord has a bit of this. Each 'server' can be 'boosted'. Boosted servers have access to more emoji slots, better audio/video quality for calls, and larger file upload limits.
Hi there, my name is Justin Skycak, I'm the Director of Analytics & Algorithms at Math Academy. I can speak a bit as to the stuff that's skipped in the Foundation Series.

After developing a curriculum that covers all the standards for 4th grade through AP Calculus BC, as well as plenty of advanced university courses (many of which are still under construction, but the structure is mapped out pretty comprehensively), we found that roughly a third of 4th grade through AP Calculus BC topics were not actually prerequisites for university math. So, we created a streamlined Mathematical Foundations course sequence that cuts out those topics. Those topics are necessary to check the box on grade-level / common core standards, but they're not really necessary for adult learners who want to pursue advanced university courses as soon as possible but lack the necessary foundational knowledge.

I'll also send your question to my colleague Alex Smith, our Director of Content, who designed the Mathematical Foundations courses himself and can elaborate more on the specifics.
Indeed. I’ve always tried to send decent rejection letters but doing it honestly takes so much effort. Sometimes it just got to the bottom of my to-do list to die. You want to give constructive feedback to someone you met briefly and sometimes the reasons are really not kind: “we don’t think you are smart enough”, “we didn’t like you”, “having seen your blog we are worried you are not able to be professional enough”.

This is true feedback a manager might have, or the team has voiced. For most people sending that verbatim is scary as hell. Wording it respectfully but also staying honest takes a lot of mental energy and is still scary. Over the years you build some muscle memory and thicker skin for it, but some copy paste templates of respectfully written rejection letters would be a great resource for hiring managers.
Good time for the classic line by Douglas Adams:

> For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0iPix...

> ...We have a ridiculous amount of people and resources, but we constantly self-sabotage and squander effort. There is no way to sugar coat this; I think our organization is operating at half the effectiveness that would make me happy. Some may scoff and contend we are doing just fine, but others will laugh and say “Half? Ha! I’m at quarter efficiency!” It has been a struggle for me. I have a voice at the highest levels here, so it feels like I should be able to move things, but I’m evidently not persuasive enough. A good fraction of the things I complain about eventually turn my way after a year or two passes and evidence piles up, but I have never been able to kill stupid things before they cause damage, or set a direction and have a team actually stick to it. I think my influence at the margins has been positive, but it has never been a prime mover...
I don't think so -- I derive a lot of pleasure from reading technical content and it's a great place to discover articles of note I may have otherwise missed.

But... I'm not that heavy of an HN commenter. I read them, especially on links where I have thoughts, but I generally stop scrolling once something annoys me.
Man, this article is an ad for Math Academy. I'm 100% sure that at the level of what Math Academy teaches, you don't need to worry about "non-constructive" or "pure math".
What are the standout features of the Tesla Cybertruck's interior?
> Everything is a double edged sword. Pointing that out isn't arguing in good faith.

The GP did much more than just point that out. The GP gave arguments for how encryption helps keep children safer, rather than detracts from that.

> The question is the ratio of good to bad.

But that is not something that can be judged in a vacuum, or by a single authority. Everyone's circumstances are different, and any policy dictated from the top down is going to do the wrong thing for a non-trivial number of people. That is why freedom is a better option: give people the tools they need to make their own individual decisions. That applies to people protecting their children as much as anything else.

> Detractors are arguing that encryption on social media platforms have a worse ratio than food and roads.

No, they're arguing that encryption in general is just bad. They're not recognizing any benefits to encryption (such as the ones the GP described).
Thank you for explaining it this way. I’ve been seeing this bit of news off and on all day and knew there was something I wasn’t understanding. This was the key bit
friend I understand the point, my point is maybe he is not done yet and he is focused on a way to accomplish one thing that can accomplish all the others.
Some have speculated psychedelics like psilocybin played a pivotal role in Homo Sapiens consciousness development. If true, the poetic symmetry of AI inventing psychedelics and smart drugs to fuel the next jump in human development is fascinating. Is there a genre of scifi for this yet?
The actual registration and information page[1] has this requirement which seems to violate the DMA?

"The search provider must have an app that is available for free of charge in Google Play to EEA users. The search provider must be in compliance with the terms of the Google Play Developer Distribution Agreement."

[1] https://www.android.com/choicescreen/dma/searchengine/
Ah, okay. I actually took calculus in 8th grade. I studied another two years past that, dropped out, and then later did a complete 180 and graduated with a literature degree.

I'm now over 40 and interested in relearning the math I learned long ago and pushing a bit further than I had before.
> The difference is that I find this process enjoyable, so I don't mind spending the time.

This is definitely the difference for at least some of the people out there, however...

Imagine however that you do enjoy it at the start so you move on from topic Y to topic Y+1, then to to Y+2. However you find that you no longer understand Y and you need Y when you are doing trying to learn Y+3 so you study Y+3 and Y, now your progress in Y+3 has been slowed down.

Really your goal was to get o Y+7 though that is where you can start breaking new ground and contributing but as you try Y+4 and Y+5 the gains stop and maybe even reverse. You are now on a learning treadmill(perhaps sometimes falling off and having to restart too) redoing Y-1,2,3,4,5 not moving forward. Often it is possible to find a trick/skill/simplification/etc to continue moving forward to get to Y+6,7.

How long would you find the process fun on that treadmill though? I think it is common to not find covering the same ground over and over fun or never being able to make it to the point where you are part of peer group where you can contribute. An understandable result is when those people invest elsewhere, where they see better returns.
If you keep these in long term storage charge them to 3.7V and recharge when they drop to 3.5 or so. That way they will last very long. 50 to 60% of full charge is what you should aim for.
Zoning laws have a lot to do with safety & public health. Industrial zoning is far away from residential because factories produce pollution.

Edit: Some parts of zoning law has to do with safety/health. Some parts don't. Some parts are about more than one thing.

When I was growing up there was a chemical fire in a factory in town. People were evacuated. Luckily, very few homes were evacuated because zoning laws kept homes far away from the factory. The residential area that was evacuated was low density.

The point I'm trying to make is that there is some value in some of these rules.
But in this particular case, it sounds like it wasn't known to him that it was an exposed credential. He thought it would just access his own data, so there would have been no reason to report anything to the vendor at that point. The access to protected data here was accidental.
Don't trust findlaw.com or a dictionary definition. It doesn't matter if you personally gain. Here is the actual text of the US federal fraud statute [1]

"....obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises....."

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1341
You mean appropriate harassment exists?
"Could be", should have said verifiable to keep you happy, Brittany Pietsch is in a one party consent state.

https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/georgia-recording-law

The thing that rubbed me the wrong way is that @legitster most likely knew this, and this why they said, "could be violating ..." and then the whole comment comes off like a pro-corporate scare post to not call out shitty tactics. It is disingenuous. It is shallow and dismissive to call what she did the act of a performative millennial.

By the point this article came up, it was widely known for those paying attention that Pietsch committed no crimes in recording this.
I imagine you don't expect a serious answer to that anyway, but to be clear: anyone talking about AI timelines seriously would not be expressing so much certainty because it's not possible to know AI timelines with certainty right now.
Japanese Startup's Ground-Based Fusion Laser to Combat Space Debris and Threats
Adding this to my arsenal of memorization tricks.
The alternative - at government scale - is absolutely 'let's host this ourselves' and that's what they should be doing, to ensure that institutional expertise remains. They should also own and operate their own datacentres which should be physically secure, not shared with commercial ventures and guarded by the armed forces, not civilian security.
> Timing attacks can be remote for instance, and with RSA some operations are slow enough to be noticeable over networks.

Huh, I'd be pretty curious about that.

> Not really. Cryptography is inherently not very conducive to tests, because they can only prove the outcome of specific inputs

I'm pretty confused by this. It's a completely deterministic operation on a series of bytes. If you have identical results to 2 billion randomized inputs how can that not be pretty high confidence that the underlying algorithm is sound?

Obviously it's good to do the math and reasoning as well, but... I just don't get it. It's not magic, it's math and bit munging.
I'm curious if you can actually get better than 3.5 though considering how meh it is at most applications. I'd be nice to know whether I could actually get a better model without the effort of trying this.
>I don't care? You're just forcing me to wordsmith the problem description

Yes, because if you don't define the problem clearly, the problem won't be solved. Java being inefficient with memory use doesn't mean any memory was leaked.

Memory leaks can be tricky to track down, and if I spent 6 hours looking for a memory leak only to come back and found out you meant it uses more memory than what's efficient I'd be pissed I wasted 6 hours because you wanted to save 5 minutes.
A US visa in 937 days (2020)
hhh,interesting
Just curious, what browser? This seems to be a bug.
You look like the other 2 dudes in the hood using LibreWolf among the other several hundred thousand people using Chrome.
Does the 2001 movie count?
ThePowerOfFuet should have googled it. Not sure where they got the idea that Costco is a Canadian company.
You mean they believed me when I said "responsibly?" Dumb fucks.
Companies declining to do free work for the benefit of another company's platform is not a "coordinated attack".
Wars are never waged just to wage wars, they are a means to an end: territory expansion, access to resources, religious reasons, whatever. It’s nonsensical to say humans should wage more or less wars. I get wars are unpleasant and cause suffering. Shooting someone in self defense is unpleasant and causes suffering too. But sometimes it happens to be the right thing to do.
If you right click on desktop and choose your browser's version of "show controls" it gives a nice sense of the loop points ... some of them are insanely short!
What are some useful AI chats available
Looking for some fun AI chat apps
I try to limit myself to the first 3 pages once a day. I keep coming back to HN because over the years I have found more great information on it than anywhere else. There are now several blogs that I semi-regularly follow after having been introduced to them from HN.

However, I do have a gripe. Many posts negatively impact upon my self-esteem. Reading HN I get the impression that there are lots and lots of folks earning huge salaries at very important companies. Lots of others have founded startups, raised $millions and in many cases have had massive windfall exits.
Ahhhh, yes. OpenAI's good old ToS... Where it's OK to break a ToS / copyright if you're OpenAI for the input to generate the output that, you (customer) don't own and can't cache. Because that would impact their revenue model, be more efficient (power and cost) and still leave them holding the bag after ingesting loads of content they never had a right to in the first place but have staked their claim that it's OK because there's a lot riding on their success.

And, oh by the way, they'll just change their ToS as it suits them for more revenue opportunities even when they stated they wouldn't do business with - oh you know nation state militaries. But - JK! Now we will because <enter some 1%er excuse here>.
> is hiring experts

'moving to AWS' (or any cloud provider) is not 'hiring experts' it's just outsourcing the risk to an entity that you, in the event of a genuine crisis, have no leverage over beyond 'we're going to stop paying you (once we migrate away from you which will take ten years)'
They don't teach that in schools.
> just couldn't even get started at all in any language

Let's apply Occam's razor.

You have someone who has been programming 8+ years professionally. Maybe they did good work or bad work, we don't know, but we know they've been programming as a profession getting paid to do it for 8+ years.

We also all know you can't really go through a week, or even usually a day, of programming without handling something as basic as an array or a list.

So, which is actually more likely:

a) Someone did 8+ years of programming without ever implementing an array loop

or

b) They know how to do it, but the test is flawed due to conditions (on a whiteboard in a high stress environment while being criticized).

A lot of people with deep expertise in programming are completely incapable of putting on a whiteboard performance under stress.

I can never believe the number of interviewers who go "Gotcha!! They don't know how to code despite doing it for years!" instead of considering the simple correct answer is usually (b).
I believe part of the solution-- that big tech hates-- is AI bots that pretend to be us and provide so much noise they make the signal difficult to find. An example would be browser plug ins that "click everything". If an AI bot clicks on every ad and signs you up for every free service and fills a lot of forms with incorrect data the value of surveillance is much lower.

The problem with this is Google in particular hates it. If they think you are using bots in this way they will ban you from all of their services. I have heard that. I don't know if it is true but don't want to risk it.
Why not just take with chocolate like everyone else
Frankly that seems a little strange to me. Was it not known as one of the most commonly used supplements in weight lifting for a long time before it was thought of as a nootropic? Just googling creatine gives all sorts of results about it being a sport supplement
I have no interest in banning you—I just would like you to follow HN's rules, same as any other user.

> I still remember many years ago when someone in a thread

If you're going to post that sort of thing, you should supply the link, so readers can make up their own minds.

Btw if you want to understand that Milner quote, you need to assess it as a whole. The key words are "toleration" and "solutions". It's not celebrating crude conflict.
When traffic is mad, one either drives the bus or goes under it, apparently.
You can get arrested. And you can't replicate yourself.

An AI model can't be arrested and can replicate itself almost infinitely.
As always, Nico Nico Encyclopedia[0] and Pixiv Encyclopedia[1] are good entry points for Japanese pop/otaku culture (though they tend not to have as many excellent sources as this article does).

This entry in the Pixiv Encyclopedia is valuable because it mentions the two most popular Japanese IPs using god Medjed in them and not covered in the article, Fate/Grand Order and One Piece.

[0]: https://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83...
[1]: https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E3%83%A1%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%83%89