skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VPN Apps on Google Play Turn Android Devices into Proxies
Yes, some of us think that entrusting one’s life’s work to platforms that lock in your identity and collaboration data is not a great idea.
> I've never come across a devops person who'd say "Hey, that sofware is too simple to prematurely scale for sudden spikes of irrational amounts of traffic, so why not just deploy it on a cheap vps?"

I work on the Ops side partially, and our platforms are defined by the highest level of complexity we need to support. That is to say that your basic web app can run on k8s, but that auto-scaling, messaged-based behemoth that 85% of the business flows through will not.

So I can either support k8s, or I can support k8s _and_ old-school rsync deployments to VPS'

The complexity of running a basic web app on k8s is entirely too high, but the cost of keeping an entirely separate deployment/monitoring/oncall/permissions stack for VPS' is worse. Better hope your monitoring vendor has an agent that can run in a VPS' on the OS you want, or you're back to running Nagios yourself.

If at least 1 group is going to write an app that runs on k8s, you might as well run most of the company on k8s. Otherwise you're either going to manage 2 separate stacks, and/or try to write an abstraction layer that will probably itself resemble k8s.
he is not an asset. he is absolutely a Fed Gov vendor

and will happily sell data to people willing to pay. and the USG can pay, bigly.
From the embedded video [paraphrasing]: "We've been exploring this idea for the past 3 decades."

I've always wondered how people are able to sustain themselves financially for multiple years working in a start-up without generating any income.

Is the payoff so big that investors just continue to inject funds? Is it necessary to get grants? What kind of salary can you sustain just working on ideas for decades without any actual product sales?
I don't care about Opus, it's way overpriced if not through the web interface.
Sonnet and Haiku are absolute achievements for the speed/cost though.

I recently read research that demonstrated that having multiple AIs answer a question then treating their answers as votes to select the correct answer significantly improves question answering performance (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.05120.pdf), and while this approach isn't really cost effective or fast enough in most cases, I think with Claud 3 Haiku it might just work, as you can have it answer a question 10 times for the cost of a single GPT3.5/Sonnet API call.
Listening to podcasts helps me. It gives my brain something else to focus on, and I drift off much more quickly.
I like the general idea, but it depends.

Sometimes these bash scripts are used in lots of contexts, local dev, CI pipelines, Docker build steps... good luck running Java or Rust in the last two. Even if you get it to work, good luck debugging if there are any issues.
> The problem is that Hamas fighters don't wear uniforms

Hamaa doesn't wear uniforms because Hamas is a political party. The al-Qassam Brigades do wear uniforms, as I have seen in GoPro and other footage from October 7th and after. There has been a blockade on Gaza for a decade so some don't get the full uniform, and make do with a headband and military fatigues instead.
Microsoft Engineer Sends Rust Linux Kernel Patches for In-Place Module Init
The http example at egui.rs uses the `poll_promise` crate to wait for a HTTP request: https://github.com/emilk/egui/blob/master/crates/egui_demo_a...
I got news… it started decades before 2007…
So is there anyway to include "context" documents like you can with GPT 4?

What I mean is add some documents that a referenced in every new chat instantiation Im really surprised I havent seen that. Its vital for me. I think in GPT 4 is called custom instructions.

Or am I being obtuse and not seeing the setting?
[dupe] help ppl out OP

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39822476
https://readmake.com/ from @levelsio cheap and covers a lot of indie 101
The majority of palestinians support hamas, blurring the lines of distinction between hamas agent and civilian.

https://themedialine.org/top-stories/poll-reveals-persistent...
We just had that same bug when we used a conventional ML engine to OCR a document. Thats very common on quantities. The new LLMs allow for prompt engineering, so we were able to solve it.
The fine seems reasonable. He disgorges the profits, and then gets fined twice what he earned and banned from serving on boards (worth far more than $1m over 5 years).

Big question for me is why was he doing crimes for such low stakes. It's like seeing a faang engineer rob a 7-11.
If it's a non-commercial affair, you can give them a "written offer valid for at least 3 years" and then you don't have to actually supply it unless someone asks.

In practice, this isn't a very good option to take. Much better to provide it on a "network server" as they were called at the time the license was written.
I have an 8 month old and am full time while mum's on maternity leave. When the baby was ill recently, at times he wouldn't sleep unless he was being held by a standing person. I'm not kidding - there were nights where sitting or lying down as gently as possible would wake him up. We ended up doing half-night shifts where I'd have him from 8pm to 2am and then mum would take him from 2am-8am. I'd wake up at 8am, put him in the carrier for a nap while mum napped as well (30-60 mins) and then start work.

How parents in the US do it when maternity is only 12 weeks unpaid... I have no idea!
> Has something like this happened on android?

Yes. This happened both on on iOS and android.

From TFA:

Thus, Project Ghostbusters was born. It’s Meta’s in-house wiretapping tool to spy on data analytics from Snapchat starting in 2016, later used on YouTube and Amazon. This involved creating “kits” that can be installed on iOS and Android devices, to intercept traffic for certain apps, according to the filings.
Mmhhh whats the country/party you are refering to if I might ask?
Show HN: Find partners for cross-promotion to reach more people
Aloha everyone!

I think cross-promotion can be a great additional channel for startups to attract people. That's why I decided to build this platform.

I'd love to see your feedback and ideas on this topic
well cheaper for the airline can lower the floor price. At some point it's no longer possible to make a profit at all, and over time the airline has to recognize that or go bankrupt
I listened to the entire poscast, and Sam gives away basically nothing more than anyone could easily assume to be true.

The only not-dry bits were:

New non-chatgpt products in the pipeline coming soon.

GPT5 maybe this year.

Smaller increment releases as opposed to big milestone is probably better.
I like how this uses something familiar (Kanban) in a novel way to address the real-time tracking of a budget.

I wonder if maybe another useful feature would be to schedule a card to be automatically moved to another column at a certain date for things like contract fulfillment, or schedule a recurring card to be added each month for paychecks and monthly bills. Or is that already a feature? I could also see building upon that to see a rudimentary forecast of the state of finances at specified dates in time.
Containers are a solution to dependency management for sure. In the world of the FHS, the dynamic linker is meant to solve a number of problems, like space saving and security updates, at the OS level by discovering dynamic deps installed in special library paths. One thing I've never liked about FHS is how everything is organized by kind.

The interesting thing about how Nix approaches the problem is to replace the concept of FHS almost entirely (only a couple binaries are linked to /) by hijacking PATH, and the linker configs like you mentioned. The biggest difference being that the whole version-pinned dep tree is encoded in a nix package(and in the linker config of the binaries it produces) rather than just the package itself.

At some level you could say there is no "dynamic" runtime linking in nix, i.e the linker uses partially specified deps in a discovery phase, all of the link bindings happen at build time.

The FHS did attempt to solve the issue of multi-version dependencies with an interesting name and symlink setup, but they are usually still bound by fairly loose version constraints (like major version). Containers are a lot more like nix in this way, where deps are "resolved" at build time by the distro's package manager by virtue of controlling the process' filesystem.

This is one major issue with the reproducibility of container builds, the distro package managers are not deterministic, you could run a build back-to-back and get different deps depending on your timing(yes, even between test and build CI steps).
These aren't happy cows grazing in sunset, but from factory farms. About ~36% of crops are fed to livestock.

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-800-m...
There are things that I have solved with this in a fraction of time that I otherwise wouldn’t have persued. Side projects I had in my mind. Or migration projects (old data) with lots of edge cases where I‘d have spent weeks to finish, I did in two days. Or apps I needed written in GTK as an interface for data or a workflow. Or semi-legal emails that I‘d have reached a lawyer for. There‘s a ton of things I can do with these tools in fractions of time. Or that I can do at all. This gives me superpowers. And it’s worth dropping a restaurant visit to pay for this.
legal discovery software, man. we'll see if those lawyers can still demand 400/hr in the future.

ChatGPT may eat those legal disco companies, too
Here's an excellent video about this problem from a first-person perspective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mExlPihH3jk
There is a difference between DRM and just not providing a service to a region.
I don't have a plan for that right now. I'm not even sure a web page can know what the RGB pattern of the display is so it can do proper sub-pixel anti-aliasing.

I'm sort of hoping high-dpi screens will make this a moot point very soon :)
> We don't need H1Bs. We need better PhD student and postdoc wages.

You need both.

Your PhD classmates from abroad (most likely Russia, China, Korea, and India) would have gotten an H1B after they graduated from the PhD program, and their (edit: post-) postdoc employment would have been on an H1B.

I'm assuming this was the late 1990s or early 2000s based on the numbers provided

One of my friends who did their PhD and postdoc at Stanford has been facing the J1 to H1B hellhole because employers increasingly make the applicant pay for the entire O-1 process now. They decided to screw the whole process and return to China.
Model Updates != New Models.

GPT5 will be substantially better than even the latest GPT4 update.
The CIA is not the US military, so saying the towers 'had US military intelligence offices as well' is not an accurate statement.

Further, a tiny office with a handful of intelligence personnel would not make the entire facility a legitimate target.
it is because GPL is viral

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#WhatDoesCompatMean
Worldwide, perhaps. But TFA is about Texas and Kansas. West TX where some of the largest cattle herding occurs, is largely semi-arid grassland.
Anybody can make money by owning - and we do. It's called investing and it's also how pension funds work.

Tilting the tax code against us is tilting it against the people and for politicians, unchecked bureaucrats with their uncontrollable spending thirst.
I would like to know too. I suspect the question should have been phrased "they offer pre build binaries but no source code".
> So chicken farmers would be at super high risk.

They're ostensibly "at risk" but it's not "super high", not even close. There has only been one confirmed human cases of H5N1 in the US [1], which has the fifth most chickens of any country in the world. That one case was a poultry worker who was culling sick birds.

Chicken farmers have to go out of their way to get infected.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/chart-epi-curve-ah5n1.html
It's like trying to out dig a backhoe with a shovel. Well not yet but...
> it’s worth the $3000 for a Studio display

It’s worth $6000 for the XDR Pro Display
Absolutely, that is 100% the way things are going to go. What's going to happen is that eventually there will be an online model directory that a local agent knows how to query to identify other models to call in order to build up an answer. Local agents will be empowered with online learning since it won't be possible to pre-train on the model catalog.
So, we shouldn’t make laws even if we think they are good because we aren’t exactly sure exactly how we will enforce them?

The legislative and executive functions are separate in our system. The former passes laws and the latter figures out how to enforce them.
It's not healthier, but that's the selective pressure, and if AI doesn't cause some catastrophic shift in society where we become its mindless appendages, the trend will continue.

Evolution is almost never graceful. You gain more in one department and you suffer in the rest. It's like pets. They're fluffy, come in all colors, shapes and moods, but they very, very sick, especially compared to any wild animal out there.

We have the ability to guide our evolutionary process (again much like we do with the plants and animals we interact with) but it's considered a taboo. When we refuse explicit control, there's still an implicit control. Someone always selects. If we reject an intelligent system, then an unintelligent system does the selection. If all else fails, it's random chance.
I wrote a small utility to find and dedup[0] using APFS features and had to poke around the user exposed metadata quite a bit. The short answer is probably. Metadata is extendable and there are things that work similarly already (encryption, and clone ids, for example).

0 - https://github.com/ttkb-oss/dedup
Answer A (because capitalism is for sociopaths): Sleep train

Answer B: Work harder on the days you have energy.
Vision by far, a lot more zeros for a robot.

Pest control targetting is still done manually, unless you buy this expensive robot.
But harvesting robots are already used in the field, and real-time vision helps there.
I use an app called MindMac for macOS that works with nearly "all" of the APIs. I currently am using OpenAI, Anthropic and Mistral API keys with it, but it seems to support a ton of others as well.
They can, because MIT.
Shoes and glasses frames are the worst for not being able to just buy the same thing for all time. Glasses have gotten better since I was a kid but shoes worse. I’ve given up on shoe aesthetics since Mizuno makes upgrades the same model with different colors. Looks like the current version of Wave Rider is 27.

Edit: Regarding total stock of clothes: this is a tricky balance between storage and wash cycle. Ideally I would do laundry nightly for day clothes and daily for pajamas so that no storage was necessary. With ~7 days storage already seems excessive since most days of the week there is more dirty than clean. It also only requires one load of laundry. With ~14 days that is twice the storage and while there are fewer batch operations there doesn’t seem to be a time savings since it would require two loads . . . Wait, do you scale in parallel by using a laundromat?
Show HN: A new metaphor for email – the dustpan
Wouldn't it be nice if emails "expired" after some predefined time period? Most emails would probably work this way, after a sale expired or a password reset link was clicked the emails should "self-destruct" to create more room in my inbox. The value of keeping an email in your inbox decays exponentially.

This is idea behind Mail Sweeper. It installs a Dustpan to your inbox. The Dustpan collects unimportant emails based on your criteria and automatically moves them to trash after 30 days (or more if you want).

It's designed to help save money by freeing up Gmail storage space (so you don't pay for extra storage) and prevent you from wasting time manually cleaning up your inbox.

The product is not a subscription, just a small one time payment and easy 2 minute setup.
That is just some UI code that enables to do this. Has nothing to do with the model
There are subtleties, but what I inferred from OP's post was that they modify or extend TinyMCE's code and that they don't want to relicense the modifications. If you just use TinyMCE without modification as a non-essential part of a larger whole it should be fine [0].

[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#GPLInProprietar...
At some point the ability to trigger these prompts (or ones like them, like the Bluetooth-based setup new device prompts that were in the news last year) on Apple devices is itself the problem right?

Obviously it must be possible to reset ones password, but from the article it's apparently possible to make 30 requests to reset ones password in a short amount of time.

What possible non-malicious reason could there be for that to happen?
If someone can’t deal with such totally standard and easily discoverable terminology, they don’t stand a chance. If they can’t ask their coworkers questions when confused, they (and the company) don’t stand a chance. You are far beyond the point of “balance” here.

I take pedagogy very seriously and work very hard for both experienced and inexperienced people to understand what I do, but this is just ridiculous. This is a non-issue.
That's a little upstream of where in one's anatomy is the common choke point - usually the back of the throat/soft palate relaxes and obstructs all breathing.

But I have nose blockage issues and use nasal strips nowadays, too. It prevents mouth breathing which is nice to prevent dry mouth in the middle of the night (which even a humidifier on my nightstand can't completely solve in my climate)
Backdooring Rust crates for fun and profit (2021)
What the hell are you talking about?

Like you don't understand that if you're a senior executive at a massive defense contractor you can hire former generals who just signed off on your bid to lucrative consulting agreements, you can put politicians on your board of directors (ie Nikki Haley @ Boeing) and employ their children's PR firms and "strategy consultancies" and so on.

It's not fraud in the legal sense, it's just disgusting and I agree it shouldn't happen. But it's all right out in the open and how the system works.

I'm not really asking if you agree, I'm describing something I have seen first hand.
The paranoid man sees traitors lurking around every corner. It's impossible for an event to occur that cannot be construed into something sinister by coalescing circumstantial evidence. We have rules of evidence for this very reason.
> Being tired may cause you to eat more but being tired isn't making you gain weight, it's the overeating that is.

Potato pot-ah-to.
I think it's a strong "it depends", if the script interface with data used/produced by the project, sure, seems natural.. If the script does something more system-near and the main language is not as convenient for it, then.. No.

I'd hate to do with typescript what we're doing in scripts with bash.. just like I'd hate doing in bash what we do in typescript..
It will be a challenge for a few months, but as other parents pointed out, it will improve over time. My advice is, if you plan to have kids, then try to reduce any other factors of stress, such as work-related, as much as possible, because your kid requires full attention, especially in the beginning.
Yeah when you kill civilians for decades you tend to not be beloved by the survivors of your victims.

How does this change the fact that there hasn't been any election in almost 20 years?
Yeah the competition for those professor jobs is pretty fierce. Don’t you basically have to do a postdoc to be considered for a tenure track position in the States these days (unless you are some prodigy)?
Something tells me your neck would ache after the sixth hour of a headset on it. Though, I'm largely sympathetic to the idea. I get that looking down feels off. Oddly, I'd also wager it is more similar to how things have historically been done. Used to writing and such was much more "at hand level" than it was elevated. Even physical work is often such that you are looking down more than up.

Sucks to say, but it is almost certainly the case that you need fewer 6 hour stints of work. Go for a walk. Think. Do some physical labor. All things are likely a good idea to help with aching bodies.
Mastoot is my new Mastodon favorite app
By Powerline I meant https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power-line_communication

But yes, mesh networking might be an interesting alternative.
And with a BS in CS or Math what would you have made going to work for a FAANG?

How do universities have all these endowments and not pay more?

>> $16,800

This is like 5 weeks of work at minimum wage... You would have been better off with a side hustle at macdonalds.

>> We need better PhD student and postdoc wages.

Living wages would be a start, then better.

EDIT: I fat fingered the 2... that was supposed to be 25... Do note that I live in CA so macdonalds is 20 bucks an hour now here.
Untrue the vast majority of foreign postdocs are on J1
I actually like the computing and adding numbers analogy because "Sleep apnea makes people overweight" is the nutritional equivalent of saying "1 + 1 = hammer."

The root cause of weight gain is either overeating or lack of sufficient exertion in almost every case. Sleep apnea may absolutely cause someone to overeat in part because of those dozens of biological feedback loops you mention. But that doesn't mean that sleep apnea makes people gain weight. It's still too much food at the end of the day.
And not every optimization is worth the effort.
I love this.

Could you someday add a login system or sharing system so I can save recommended books I want to bookmark to read later.

Thank you!
Yes. This.

The primary problem with using ChatGPT in mathematics is that by the time you can classify a ChatGPT answer as right or wrong, you are already more than capable of solving the answer independently.

So, for this field, ChatGPT is like having a research assistant that assists you, but one that occasionally gets frustrated, and tries to destroy your project from within by reporting good looking, but completely inaccurate information. You can't trust their work, and the validation of their work basically means that you'll have to do their work again by other means.

A faster and more accurate approach would be just to do the work without the subterfuge of an unreliable assistant. At least then, you are only subject to your own errors (which would still be present in validation of ChatGPT) and not subject to your own errors and those that ChatGPT induces.
Long March 6A launches second Yunhai-3 satellite – SpaceNews
because in the end the powers at work will make sure that the blame goes to some person turning a wrench instead of finding the real reason and the real source of the blame, most likely a process or inadequacy of redundancy/checks-and-balances would have been the real fix. Pointing at Max over in Wrenching because he left a wrench in the motor because he's been working double shifts for months on end does not fix future issues, and Hank the Replacement will likely make a similar mistake at some point in the future
SEC settles insider trading charges against Arista co-founder Andy Bechtolsheim
> Before anyone jumps in with "Rust solves all security problems" evangelism (love the language, hate the evangelists)

Seems a bit odd to go out of your way to bash rust evangelists on a completely unrelated thread, especially when the nobody in the comments has mentioned rust at all.
They are notorious around Europe for being mostly tasteless, but I think it's changing a bit. Many supermarkets here now often have "luxury" tomatoes that try to compete on taste. For example try the "Tasty Tom" variety when you can find it, it actually tastes pretty good despite being a hydroponic greenhouse tomatoe.
it's twice the size of mixtral and barely beats it.