skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with this. Read both of those books on the job during my first year. Fluent Python really takes you from "Python as a scripting language" to "Python as a functional language".

An example of why certain patterns aren't necessary in Python:

I have two types of repositories, one that wraps my API calls, and one that wraps an in-memory database for unit testing. A module called repos.py chooses which of these to instantiate when it is loaded based off an environment variable.

Because every module in Python is loaded once, every file/class that needs a repository for data access can import from repos.py and receive an instantiated repository object.

There is no need for dependency injection because the dependency can be imported from a module, and the module can be modified at runtime. This is extremely powerful too, since, so long as my in-memory repository and API repository have the same behavior, I can write a test suite that doubles as both unit tests and integration tests, all I need to do is change a single environment variable.

I think Java's limitation of "one class one file" and no support for first-class functions made design patterns necessary. Then you try out a language with some functional features and you're like "oh wait, that was just a workaround for what other languages have always been able to do".
I just watched this video: https://youtu.be/WB7qojkkVVU?si=_sqnKlXrblLSwrs8
and there still seems to be nothing that stands out about atuin. I do think it might be easier to work with the data in a database. Personally I don't see a reason to use this service .
At one time is was possible to open car doors with a coat hanger. Nobody suggested banning coat hangers. They fixed the doors.
That's only on paper - in practice the GDPR has a major enforcement problem.
This sounded like an interesting puzzle to me. I doubt it's the only way, but I arrive at 5620 if I both count the empty position and leave out detection of diagonal wins.
exactly. open source doesn't mean you can tell other people what to do with their time and/or money. it does mean that you can use your own time and/or money to make it what you want it to be. The fact that there are active forks of Chromium is a pretty good indicator that it is working
Show HN: Snitch! – The social screen use game (iOS)
I'm opening up a testflight link for Snitch! The concept is - you pick your app and website activities, set a time limit then choose a friend or family member to snitch yourself to when you go over the limit. The tracking is logged from the iOS screen time APIs which is all secured on your own device. I just wait for the monitor to tell me you went over the limit and send a push notification to you and a text to your snitch buddy.

Thanks for helping test, and hope it helps you control your screen time usage.
The app developer is being pretty tricky here.

It is unquestionably digital content when it's a teacher giving a class and the amount of tipping is so high that it is their primary compensation model.
You provide no structural basis or reasoning for these cynical assertions, nor for the implied responses. Seems to be founded on a philosophical foundation of individuals requiring safety from “elsewhere,” and assuming that “elsewhere” actually provides it.
Yes, and there’s loads of opportunity to over engineer every step of the process.
To be honest, I think a lot of smart people are willing to believe in magic when they've demonstrated some strong capability and the people funding their company want magic to happen.
Guess the author didn't bother to check that those books actually are correct? The first one I checked, "Growing Up with Lucy by April Henry" doesn't exist. The actual book is by Steve Grand, and it's very obviously so in the video used as input.

So a cool demo, but sadly useless for anything more.
Fig 4b
Their financials are public, from my reading the growth was not driven by Chromebooks or classroom (unfortunately for Google since they would love to diversify from search/ads)
See "Aboyne" from "The Meaning of Liff": https://quotepark.com/works/the-meaning-of-liff-3060/
Determining chess 960 starting positions with a standard die (no rethrows)
Where does he talk about this? I’m interested in reading it
You're joking surely.
Or this one: How is AI not outsourcing all over again? People pay almost as much for work that needs to be checked before it can be relied on. Sure, there is value, but there is also a lot of risk and questionable margins depending on the context.
Why aren’t you downvoters blaming the perpetrators that are STEALING cars?!??
This really sounds like Insight Timer was relying on these tips as a primary form of monetary compensation for their teachers. Which is to say, the existence of the tips means their own subscription fee can be lower because they don't have to pay the teachers as much.
Do you really think they're firing actual warheads for a test?

And also bad article, the test failed because the dummy warhead gave bad data to the computer, and computer failsafed and shut down

https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/21/europe/trident-missile-uk-fai...
Look at Life - Eating high, 1966
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMPXmnK8G8E

British Pathé - Top Of The Tower Aka GPO Tower (1967)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bi2_3gljm4

A breath taking view of the Horizon. Spin in the restaurant as the Postmaster general spins in his grave at what the Post Office has become.
This post is (barely disguised) spam. You own three of the tools listed in the post without disclosing that fact.
Reddit IPO
That title sounds quite botched? From the article, it sounds like it's illegal for governments to require backdoors to encryption, not for people to merely have them. Otherwise that would be very strange...
They would not have had a market cap of more than $100 billion dollars without it
You do know that Steve Jobs was CEO when the App Store was launched.

And in the 15 years since then very little has changed with how it works.
You could probably make shell history + fzf do a lot of what atuin does, but you'd have to write a bunch of glue code to make it happen. That's what atuin is doing. I particularly like the high configurability as well as the ability to switch between host, global, session, and directory history.
This was my first "AI" project, back in high school!

I had a "win statistic" for each possible play, for each game state. It taught itself to play by playing partially random moves, then going back and updating the win statistic for each game state in the play chain.

I was mesmerized, watching it teach itself to play.
That bug report is 12 days old...
> Tablets are for consuming media and are terrible at anything else

They are not necessarily great for consuming media, either: in my experience, tablet screens get mucky very quickly, not least because a tablet's primary mode of interaction is rubbing your fingers on it. I think tablets are nice devices, but I wouldn't buy one in preference to a laptop unless I had a specific use-case in mind.
Stock buybacks are just a tax advantaged dividend. Why would anyone invest in a company if there isn't some way to turn that into a profit?
But people ARE saying the thieves are not at fault.. “it’s just kids”, “we don’t want to put them in jail because that would ruin their future”, “they can’t pay a fine anyway so there is no point in going after them”
They absolutely can't. They've innovators dilemma'd themselves. Their cash cow is not making sense any more and they can't investigate any new technologies to save themselves.

They came out with Gemini really late and they look like they don't know what they're doing. They are going to be late to the next disruptor too
Would this make headlights even brighter than they already are? Because they're pretty frickin bright as it is!
Part of it, yes.
This misunderstands what is meant by the concept. The mechanisms and the public policies that dictate how they are used are not obscured. To borrow and improve another commenter's analogy about locks and keys, the lock on your door is more secure because every locksmith in the world knows how it works, which doesn't mean they have your key
Maybe it doesn't have to be more profitable. Even if open source models would always be one step behind the closed ones that doesn't mean they won't be good enough.
When the MacBook Pro switched to Intel processors, Intel made an entirely new top bin for Apple and for something like six months they had exclusive right to it.

Oh favoritism and bribery! More like, small market that can deal with the fact that the vendor can only promise small deliveries. But also Intel trying to land a whale.
Your argument about iMessage on Mac’s holds water, but the iPhone is sold as an appliance and there is no concept of a file system presented to the user. They sell the messaging platform as “encrypted” and the word “encrypted” is plastered all over iCloud marketing and documentation. You really can’t blame the user for assuming the appliance is secure by default. When you first set up an iPhone it just asks you if you want to back up to iCloud. It doesn’t use the word “insecure” nor “unencrypted” anywhere on that screen.
As a single person who eats out far too often, I've observed a general decline of commercial eateries over the past year in staffing, ingredient quality, and menu offerings. It's back to organic PB&J's for me.
That's a pretty unreasonably high standard to hold.

It's an offhand comment in a discussion on the internet not a research paper, expecting me to immediately have an answer to every possible angle here that I haven't immediately considered is a bit much.

Take it or leave it, I don't really care. I was just hoping to have an interesting conversation.
76% margins is absolutely bonkers. At what point does the government use that as evidence in an anti trust case?
Ahhh. Thank you. That makes more sense.
malum prohibitum, malum in se
Good point; I've edited my post so that it's more accurate.
Security through obscurity can have a place as part of a larger defense in depth strategy. Alone it's a joke.

Source: in security circles
Debian did something because Red Hat did it?

That's some tinfoil hat Olympics
It's not magic, though. If AI can do work of a human, it can do work of a human. It's a trivial statement, and inability to see it is a hard cope.

Are you gonna to take a bet "AI won't be able to do X in 10 years" for some X which people can learn to do now? If you're unwilling to bet then you believe that AI would plausibly be able to perform any human job, including job of AI researcher.
Signal perhaps does not allow you to export your message history through the front door, however decrypting and exporting your message history is relatively low effort.

You messages are stored in encrypted SQLite3 database. The Signal encryption key is in

~/Library/Application\ Support/Signal/config.json

in plain text. If you have SQLCipher (https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher) compiled you can decrypt your Signal database:

Navigate to

~/Library/Application\ Support/Signal/sql/

and type

sqlcipher db.sqlite
sqlite> PRAGMA key = "x'<your_key_here>'";
sqlite> .schema

and query away.

Of course there is a Python package to automate all of this here:

https://github.com/carderne/signal-export

This exports your message history as markdown and HTML files for your convenience and it will do incremental exports as well.

For iOS the same holds true, considering iOS has had a jail break most of its existence.

So, in retrospect your Signal messages are only as secure as computers of the people you talk to and of course your own device.

I would go a step further and assert that there is no such thing as secure communication.
Exactly! The people holding these views are unable to see their hypocrisy.
And wasn't Steve Jobs a Ringling Brothers level salesman?
For the reference of people seeing this now: The tweet that person linked has now been deleted and the scientist who tweeted it has acknowledged they were wrong and retracted their claim, as all good scientists should.
Did HM government allow the foreign nations to choose the individual locations of their embassies?
What do you mean by “parse of that tree to get useful structures out”? Can you provide some concrete examples?
This is extremely wrong.

The attention component that's quadratic is a relatively small portion of compute.
Cartman's dream came true.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar4aHfA2UwQ
I don't claim it's impossible, just that there isn't a clear path from what exists now to that reality, and that the explanation presented by the above commenter (and I suppose OpenAI's website) does not clarify what they think the path is
Do you believe that consumer protections should not exist?
I've given up that people are capable of understanding basic concepts like operationalization let alone identify when and where they are doing it in their day to day life. The closer someone positions themselves as a rationalist, the further they are from understanding how they are participating in the collective action of coloring reality with their biases.

It might be theoretically possible for people to inch toward objective reality, I've never seen it work in practice. It's a failed ideology and for some reason folks believe that this, the millionth time, it's going to work.
Remix has been around 4 years now. It’s not really a “framework of the week”.
git is not trademarked.
> The share price of Nvidia is not speculative hype.

The share price of nvidia will collapse as soon as anyone else releases a competitive datacenter gpu. End of the day GPU compute is fully commoditized. Massive margins in commodity markets dont exist because competition leads to a race to the bottom in pricing. Hard for me to imagine that doesnt happen eventually, but wouldnt be surprised if it took 5 years.
Tipping being pushed everywhere has become a way to simultaneously increase prices and wages but avoid officially doing the latter.

Companies want to avoid officially increasing wages because wages are sticky while tips are not.
I've recently switched from zsh's built-in history + fzf, so perhaps I can answer.

First, a bit more about my zsh+fzf use: I use `share_history` so that my history is available across shells, allowing me to quickly find and re-run commands. (https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Options.html#index-SH...)

Sometimes I want to switch back to some terminal tab/window and find a command that I nkow I ran in that session, but now it's flooded with 1000+ commands that I've entered elsewhere, making it difficult to find what I'm looking for. So the shared history is both useful and a hindrance, depending on the scenario.

Compare with atuin: I can filter by commands entered specifically within the current shell, or across all shell sessions, and possibly even across other hosts (when using atuin's sync functionality -- haven't tried that yet).

Given the metadata that atuin collects (current working directory, start time, exit status, duration, etc) I'm sure there are some other clever things that can be done with my shell history now, vs the the "line per entry, with optional start timestamp" approach used by zsh's builtin history functionality. Actually, more on that first point: you can also filter by commands entered within the current directory.
Punish the kid’s parents.. (oh wait, there might be a problem here)
As the non-ADHD spouse I definitely understand this but it leaves us both scratching our heads when problem solving ADHD related things. I simply can’t comprehend what it’s like and nothing that works for me works for her. Mostly I just try to focus on myself and my needs (which has limits in our relationship). I can’t offer anyone advice except sometimes loving someone else is a choice you make for you, especially when it’s inadvertently (often but not always) one sided.
I’d like to mention an interesting phenomenon on HN as you might notice it as well.

When I make a pro-libertarian comment I’ll initially get many upvotes, I know this because I refresh HN periodically and so I notice my points go up.

Then many hours or even days later I’ll be downvoted heavily and even go negative. I’m not sure what to make of it tbh.

Wanted to mention it because now your comment is faded which I think means negative feedback.

How this is relevant in general is that I find it disappointing that the tech community in general somehow has a very poor education in economic history and in particular seems to not be aware of the tragic consequences of collectivist and socialist policies. Which is clearly an indicator of problem within the education system.
I don't get it, sorry.
FWIW, as a high performance C++ dev who likes Rust but considers unsafe the biggest issue by far, it's encouraging to see important folk within the project believe there are issues. Too often as a relative Rust outsider it feels like the attitude is "but the unsafe situation is okay because you'd barely ever actually need it!". Hope that unsafe continues to improve!
Or, even better, `./main`
Copilot is the easy code gen in this case. It's even surprisingly good at Rust macros.
Yup, and you get downvoted for even trying to discuss it. Need the Overton window to shift slightly so it can be discussed on HN.
It is a societal problem and I hope for our future we can fix it.
The NHTSA are the same people that banned ATE Super Blue brake fluid in the US, even for 'off-road' use, because they have a standard that describes brake fluid as being "colorless or amber".

It was nice because you alternate with the regular color and have a visual indication of when you'd bled out the old fluid completely. But too dangerous for American roads because of important unspecified reasons, apparently.
Amplified Intelligence - I am keenly interested in the future of small-data machine learning as a potential multiplier for the creative mind
Byron aside, I recommend Tim Powers' novel "Declare" -- enjoyed that one more than "The Anubis Gates". Keywords: fiction, espionage, thriller, 40s-60s ww2 / cold war, occult horror, historical fiction.

For anyone who enjoys the mix of espionage & occult horror themes in "Declare", there's a couple of similar themes, with differences, in Charles Stross' Laundry Files series. Stross' series features a lot more government & IT bureaucratic comedy/horror.

I'm not sure there's a direct Byronic connection to the Laundry Files, but one of Stross' axioms for the Laundry Files universe is that magic is a branch of applied mathematics -- understanding the right theorem or having a person (or circuit) execute a certain algorithm has occult consequences. So we can at least indirectly make a connection back to Byron via Ada Lovelace.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/190554.Declare

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2020/10/the-lau...
All the cloud megasclaers already have in house chip design teams that have released successful products. Designing a GPU is easier than a cpu, they just need to figure out CUDA.
They're still paid a lot less than Apple employees, and considering that they are getting fewer and fewer opportunities for exposure outside of Apple/Google/Facebook ecosystems, it doesn't seem fair that they should be subject to insane taxes by these mega-corps, far more than the government would tax them.

Even consider a tech geek, gets $1M a year from a hot app, 30% goes to Apple, 37% of what's left goes to federal taxes, 13% goes to California taxes, there's hardly anything left, do we even own our money anymore?

And then lose another 10% of what's left to sales tax when you try to actually spend any of it ... god damn.
Being anonymous and having a username don't mix well. A random alphanumeric ID would have been a better choice.
This is disastrous for our company at the moment. Our feature flag hygiene has been pretty bad lately and this is now causing us major issues.
E-book readers are great. I also use mine to read collections of interesting online articles I encounter over the course of a week. Instead of just passively reading the headline and maybe the first paragraph on a glowing screen, I read them end-to-end on a comfortable e-ink display.

I'll also add smartwatches to those single-task devices. I use mine as basically a fancy beeper. I can read incoming messages, but not respond to them (at least, not very conveniently). And there's certainly no distraction of social media apps or a full web browser on that tiny watch screen.
Arch is actually very hard to use without systemd. It's the one thing that's hard-pinned there. For example with the packages.

But there's other options yes like Alpine and Devuan. And the BSDs. If you don't want systemd there's a lot of options.
They do. Altman is saying their tech may be poised to capture the sum of all value in Earth's future light cone.

Saying "well that is not physically impermissible" doesn't make it real.

In any case nobody has ever shown that recursive self-improvement "takes off", and nor is that what we should expect a priori.
Yep.

Table is here:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/102651
100%. Another underappreciated point is that factoring connection is very misleading. That is, we don't know if factoring is equivalent to breaking RSA (in particular, the algorithms breaking low-exponent RSA (which one shouldn't use for a number of reasons) don't factor the modulus). It might be true that computing e-th roots (i.e. breaking RSA) is tractable while factoring is not.

Similarly, PKCS is complex but every part of PKCS is there because without it there is a concrete attack. Burt Kaliski (former chief scientist of RSA Labs) has an amazing talk which goes into detail about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqsDKjPaJVg For example, why does RSA need randomized padding, besides the trivial IND-CPA violation? Because if you encrypt the same message to many recipients, the attacker can use Hastad's attack, which uses lattices in a deep way, to recover the message from non-randomized ciphertexts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppersmith%27s_attack?useskin... Very much like an airline checklist in a way :-)

Another nugget in the talk: how RSA embedded a public key in their products and bootstrapped VeriSign! Can't recommend it highly enough.
Part of me says "Yes, good, important, we gotta keep up the the latest...".

Another part of me says "WTF is this even worth printing? Even early in WWII, the M2 (60mm) mortar was a routine company-level infantry weapon for the US Army, capable of dropping ~15 rounds per minute on a target a good mile away. And mortar shells are vastly cheaper and considerably harder to counter than a drone."
Stupid question, but where would their competitive advantages be in these silos? Sounds like at that point cloud+AI is just a commodity.
It was built in the 60s. Hell, my dad was alive when it was built. That's hardly historic!
> in the 15 years since then very little has changed

that's what happens at companies that become ossified and management oriented.
That I can agree with, we arent there yet, make use of the tools you have.
We are building this at https://openadapt.ai, except the user specifies when to record.
i came here for this
How about dying from cancer due to all the fallout from the nuclear tests still circulating around?
Sorry, the article was finished in a bit of a hurry. (Not sure what you mean about a domain specific language.) Maybe if the writing's too bad, the tic-tac-toe code might still be readable, in the linked repo https://github.com/darius/mccarthy-to-bryant (tictactoe.py and ttt_*). Python 2 (I said it was old).
You could point your local computer's webcam at the work computer.

It probably breaks the spirit of the employment contract just as hard, but it's essentially undetectable for the work computer.
Didn’t read because paywall, but just eat like a successful hunter gatherer from the region of your primary genetic origin, and you’ll probably be fine. Easier said than done.
The fair point of comparison would be to contrast it with what the world would be like without it.

And neither I, nor you can make such a contrast fairly. It immediately goes hard into speculative-fiction territory, and such an exercise would educate us about our own biases, more than we'd learn about the UN.