skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > A builder implementation using OCI instead of custom sandboxing code.

> Hermetic builds require some sandboxing; Using OCI containers seems like an obvious choice, but didn't exist when Nix was first created.

Presumably this would make this implementation Linux-only, since OCI isn't natively supported outside of Linux?
I recently started using "Clear-Site-Data" and it's been a neat addition. I just create a single endpoint on my site or API domain and make a page or method that returns this header. There's all kinds of utility in having this.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Cl...
Alternatively, searching has to be changed. The non AI content doesn't necessarily disappear, but are gradually becoming "hidden gems". Something like Marginalia which does this for SEO noise would be nice.
I've seen infomercial-tier products laid out like that back in the XP era. They use bespoke software, and probably some sort of IP over USB to work, but I've never needed to buy one.

Looking it up just now indicates that such products still exist. https://plugable.com/products/usb3-tran

The usb-c version of the same is even more confusing, either it's a normal type-c cable and the software is all you get, or it's a cursed bespoke type-c cable that will haunt you for years.
Americans don't understand the difference. specially if the phrasing also includes "children" or "communist"/"terrorist"
Feedbin sparks joy for me. Also Firefox's Pocket. Aboard is also a new web app I like a lot too. All reading based, or for collecting future reading.
about:config in URL bar -> Search media.av1.enabled -> toggle to false
It's incredibly feature rich and doesn't require a ton of time investment to set up. The command pallet lets you have quick access to things you don't use that often that I'd otherwise forget in the months between uses.

It handles pretty much everything about development. I can have my terminal in the bottom, any problems detected in the current file on the right. It's a perfectly good Git merging tool too.

The debugger is very easy to use, and it's got a ton of extensions that are easy to manage. It's even got settings sync in the cloud to keep track of it.
In a similar vein, I had a Pleo payment card at a previous job, and the speed with which it notified me on my phone when I had paid on the card, prompting me to take a picture of the receipt, always made me smile.

More often than not the notification came through before the receipt had even printed.
Its inevitable because of the power dynamics between democracies and totalitarian regimes. Democracies thought that with the internet they would topple totalitarianism because of free flow of information. They forgot that totalitarian regimes can just imprison and shoot all who have access to and propagate the information. Now the wheel has turned and the same regimes are weaponizing AI and shill farms to create enough propaganda to destabilize a democracy for the price of a few dollars. We're all headed towards a global race to the bottom because of it, the dream of the early internet has been crushed because of human evil.
Yeah, that really puts him in a much better light. Totally. For real.

Btw, kinda on-topic: did you notice this discussion yesterday?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40051597
My overwhelming memory of CRT monitors is struggling to see what was on the screen when there's daylight shining on them at all. Computer rooms at school and university always used to be dark caves (even more so than they are now) because they had to have heavy blinds so that you could do anything...
TFA: stop acting like you're famous

TFA (later): well, we made it to the front page of HN
I feel that I don’t have early memories, but for some reason I have a sense of the house I lived in before I was 3. My mother didn’t believe me so I draw her the floor plan one day. She said that’s great but where is the cellar? There apparently were steep steps to another floor which I wasn’t allowed to go and which didn’t exist in my memory. Now the memory seems very faded and I don’t think I could draw the place anymore.
In no particular order:

Prologue [0] - iOS Audiobook player, used Plex as a media source

Overcast [1] - iOS Podcast player

CleanShotX [2] - macOS screenshot/video/gif capture with annotation

Drafts [3] - iOS/macOS note taking tool

Paprika [4] - Cross platform recipe app

YNAB [5] - "You Need A Budget" - web/mobile budgeting app

1Password [6] - Cross platform password manager

Carrot Weather [7] - iOS weather app

Color Slurp [8] - macOS color picker tool

Phoenix [9] - macOS scriptable window manager

Alfred [10] - macOS app launcher

Bartender [11] - macOS menu bar organizer

Coderunner [12] - macOS tool to run snippets of code in a number of supported languages. Great for testing something quickly

DaisyDisk [13] - macOS disk space analyzer

iTerm 2 [14] - Rock solid macOS terminal

JetBrains IDEs [15] - Cross platform suite of IDEs

Rocket [16] - macOS emoji quick substitution tool

Transmit [17] - macOS SFTP/FTP/S3/etc tool

VLC [18] - Cross platform video player

CarbonCopyCloner [19] - macOS disk cloning/backup tool

Pixelmator Pro [20] - macOS photo editor

Preview [21] - Built-in macOS image/pdf viewer

QuickLook [22] - Built-in macOS file preview tool

[0] https://prologue.audio/

[1] https://overcast.fm/

[2] https://cleanshot.com/

[3] https://getdrafts.com/

[4] https://www.paprikaapp.com/

[5] https://www.youneedabudget.com/

[6] https://1password.com/

[7] https://www.meetcarrot.com/weather/

[8] https://colorslurp.com/

[9] https://github.com/kasper/phoenix

[10] https://www.alfredapp.com/

[11] https://www.macbartender.com/

[12] https://coderunnerapp.com/

[13] https://daisydiskapp.com/

[14] https://iterm2.com/

[15] https://www.jetbrains.com/

[16] https://matthewpalmer.net/rocket/

[17] https://panic.com/transmit/

[18] https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

[19] https://bombich.com/

[20] https://www.pixelmator.com/pro/

[21] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preview_(macOS)

[22] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick_Look
Ollama is seriously cool, it handles models like docker images, you pull and run. Especially when combined with a frontend app like Open WebUI, where you can set up your chatGPT key and other providers, to have all open + closed source models in one place.
I really like Things 3 on Mac and iPhone for recording and managing my Todos
> You don't get to be in charge of the global world currency by ignoring those who want to partner with you while they are being destroyed by an autocrat. It will erode trust.

Brazil and China have already started trading without USD precisely because of that.
That is also not what happened as can easily be seen by those same activist taking over non or only partly market-driven sectors like academia and large parts of the public sector, especially centred around education.

If "the market" truly were king I'd expect those who come with plans to rake in the most money for the least effort to take over, i.e. the thing which those same activists tend to point damning fingers at for being the evils of 'capitalism'. I'd also expect companies which are taken over by activists to fail in the market since they produce less efficiently given that part of their energy is used to further the cause of those activists instead of focusing on 'shareholder value'.
TVIX was a media player made by Dvico. I used to have one a few years ago. You may want to check on trademark issues around the name.

https://a.co/d/hOzOcvu
Swim lessons were mandatory (though nearly everyone knew how to swim beforehand) at my school in California (8th grade) and were mandatory at my son's school in Montana (he started there in 6th grade - but I believe younger grades were included).
That's a good explanation. I didn't know that.
I think my recovery was pretty normal. I spent two nights in hospital, which is normal where I’m from. When I woke up after surgery, I remember being in pain and asking for the strong stuff, which worked just fine. After that it was quite manageable. It’s a difficult long recovery, but I wouldn’t describe it as painful. I
IQ is not concentration. In fact, IQ or intelligence in general does not have a single accepted definition†. You are not "stupider" because you have no patience to sit down to concentrate to do a silly test. Nor you are "smarter" because you found it so engaging you hyperfocused and did it in one sitting.

IQ tests are designed by people that want to create automatons easy to quantify and categorize.

† My definition of intelligence is "ability to solve novel problems." With this definition, an uncontacted tribesperson can be as intelligent as a Nobel prize winner. The difference is education, and the type of problems they're facing, which is just a matter of context.
Just a FYI, "nosebleed" means the cheapest tickets - ie. the highest up/furthest away from the stage. It's a mountain climbing term related to suffering literal nosebleeds at high altitude.
Never thought about that, thanks! This post was worth it just for this!
Inline-snapshot: create and update inline snapshots in your Python tests
Having smart plugs that are controlled by voice is satisfying.
"Hey Siri, turn the Christmas tree lights on"
She could do some volunteer work.
Hanania also has similarly scathing things to say about low class and low end white people. He's not partisan at all, or if he is, he's biased against the more "pathetic" parts of humanity, if you wish to put it like that, rather than having a Dem/Rep bias.
The article starts with “San Fransisco”. It is clear which summer is meant.
I bet that in practice that happens pretty rarely because it's risky (what if the legislator has cameras you don't know about, etc).

But I think politicians understand that capital and the national security state are very influential, and their careers will go much better if they do their bidding (without anyone ever explicitly asking them to). They'll find it easier to get elected, less interference from courts, great consulting and speaking gigs after they retire, and so on.
This might sound hyperbolic but as a .NET developer JetBrains Rider is a real joy to use IMHO. I think being paired with an M1 Mac is probably part of what makes the experience great for me.

That IDE/hardware combo beats anything I've ever developed on in my career. By a long way.

Shameless plug but I mention it and a few of my other favourite software tools here:

https://supertron.dev/tools

The other "sparks joy" software I use regularly are Sketch - which after a lifetime of using Adobe products felt like a breath of fresh air when I switched to it - and Proxyman which is hands down the best HTTP interception/proxy software I've used on the Mac (and iOS).
Is there a more general reading for software engineers?

Seems like jumping right into the code can be a bit overwhelming if you have no background on the topic.
I’m just saying, the laws themselves. Whether they hold up and can be enforced is a whole different story.
And to read the opinions that other HNers spout. The comments are often better than the articles. Also, I know I'll be able to read them without fending off popups and dark patterns.
> Per capita

Is this a good metric? For a potential drug consumer it is more relevant which health/social risk is involved if taking a certain drug once/sometimes/regularly.
you also can't forward ports which kind of makes sense from their security model, but is annoying when wanting to use one host as a bastion
Well it currently doesn't cover all of EU. However that is a great question. I think there is going to be conflict between Urban versus rural communities with socioeconomics as these types of zones continue to expand.
The benefit when having an ecosystem of discrete GPUs is that CPUs can get away with having low bandwidth memory. This is great if you want motherboards with socketed CPU and socketed RAM which are compatible with the whole range of product segments.

CPUs don't really care about memory bandwidth until you get to extreme core counts (Threadripper/Xeon territory). Mainstream desktop and laptop CPUs are fine with just two channels of reasonably fast memory.

This would bottleneck an iGP, but those are always weak anyway. The PC market has told users who need more to get a discrete GPU and to pay the extra costs involved with high bandwidth soldered memory only if they need it.

The calculation Apple has made is different. You'll get exactly what you need as a complete package. You get CPU, GPU, and the bandwidth you need to feed both as a single integrated SoC all the way to the high end. Modularity is something PC users love but doing away with it does have advantages for integration.
Excel was the peak of programming by end users. One of the only apps ever to create a model that gives users that much power to do things on their own.

I rarely use it since I don't generally work with that kind of arbitrary data hands-on much, and I don't tend to use a lot of math outside of code, but whenever I do it's usually great
https://openjdk.org/jeps/469?ref=coderoasis.com
vector api looks nice

what resources exist for say a half-way decent python dev like myself to get into java development?, I'm mostly a back end dev / data engineer

from the article:"Overall, these changes will make it easier for beginning programmers to write programs without needing to understand the programming language features designed for larger or enterprise application development. "
someone should make a GUI and a subscription service for that. Oh wait, you just invented the current state of the web :/
You think they're doing this to keep you safe?
> we can try and work together to create an alternative

We can, we have. So are they ignoring OpenStreetMap?
But then, when chimps and gorillas do something human-like, it inspires laughter and delight rather than discomfort.
I think some people have asked whether it was. I'm not saying you did, just thought it was interesting! Haha :)

I don't even know what co-NP is. Could you explain?

I think that's a better definition because I find it more predictive and useful to think about: pretty concrete to know that you can't have a polytime algo for it.

Yeah, I guess what you're saying about NP\P is right in that it's a restatement of the definition of what I said, haha! I'm not an expert this is just what I think :)
A little OT -- about using AI for writing.

I wrote a book in 2021 -- a historical novel (in French) -- that I published on Amazon and that did reasonably well and was even selected as one of the five "Amazon Storyteller" for France that year (it didn't win though).

I wrote that book with zero AI, and it was very hard work. It was also not particularly enjoyable, and at times excruciating.

Now I'm writing a second one, also a novel, but using AI tools. AIs don't write the book: I discuss scene beats and plot twists with different models. It's mostly moral support -- something an old-fashioned, experienced editor that had infinite time on their hands might have done.

(Of course I did try to have models do the writing, but the output is usually very poor. I'm surprised that automated ways to detect AI writing don't work, because humans can tell the difference; why can't machines?)

Using AI as a partner/editor transforms the process of writing completely, and makes it actually pleasurable. Now I long for going back to work instead of dreading it.
Visual Studio Installer: The way how installer downloads and installs packages in parallel is a joy to watch. It makes me feel valued as a user. Great time savings. I know that's not unique to VS installer, but that's what I use it the most.
I saw a couple of scammy AI looking "summary of <book you actually want to read>" title in the search results of Libby recently.

Hopefully just a temporary glitch, but there's a hard problem of being a gatekeeper and saying "No, that's not a real book".
It may be a good resource, but as someone living in the EU, I am "protected" from using all the shiny new AI tools to increase my productivity. And then they wonder why the EU is so behind in innovation and startups.
Telegram Creator on Musk, Resisting FBI, and Getting Mugged in California [video]
Two Claude accounts of mine got blocked (one of them was a paid account for which I got a refund following the block), without explanation, very normal use.

I loved using Claude, I think it did better job than other LLM. Attempts to appeal failed with no response.

You think you can help me figure it out?
No more ironic than an alcoholic's introduction at AA.

In any case, though, I did read the article before commenting.
Without time or geo bounds both of you are wrong.
Carrot Weather [0] is probably the closest I’ve come to Dark Sky. I also used WeatherNerd till it shut down.

[0] https://www.meetcarrot.com/weather/
Fantastic.

I also like to apply the Dwarf Fortress adage to pretty much any game I play: "Losing is fun" :)
What are people's experiences with function calling on Claude? Does it work well for anything reasonably big?
You can use gpt4 which is at ~the same level freely in the EU, and you can use claude via other services.
Durov: As a leader of a politically neutral platform, it is my responsibility to speak to journalists representing different political views. In February, I did a 3-hour interview with a journalist of liberal views. On the same day, I spoke to Tucker Carlson, who is famously conservative. This way I can remain fair to all audiences and tell the story of Telegram to everyone.

The interview with Tucker is coming out very soon. It will be in video format, which is quite rare for me — so be sure to check it out. I heard that Tucker is also launching an official Telegram channel, so let’s stay tuned for an announcement there.
Who does? Europeans are mostly happy giving more power to their government including surveillance (they're tried to make end-to-end encryption illegal how many times now?). Australians allow the government to force companies to build backdoors.

Humans inherently care more about tangible past dangers repeating versus new potential dangers.
> The comments are often better than the articles.

I disagree.
Congratulations! You have ignored the point OP wanted to make by pointing out the original definition of a term that is used with another meaning nowadays.

Is there something you believe this adds to the conversation? (Genuinely asking, because I fail to see it, and I don't want to accuse you of anything based on that.)
Legally correct maybe, but morally?
This didn’t have to be the case. It was purpose built around these megalithic designs by these large companies. Now advertising and culture curation ensure it’s always displayed in a positive light. Google, Apple, MS, all know to use angelic white light in their branding (slight hazy, blurry, seems to penetrate where it shouldn’t be). Apple stores even mimic a church design. It’s not that people don’t want to. They don’t know any better and are addicted.

These are not scions of capitalism. These are anti-competitive ecosystems by design. Having to do more work wouldn’t be a thing if the protocols were designed to aid communication outside of corporate channels. People are afraid, not unwilling. Big brother says it’s not safe, so they go to the cozy sphere they know and regrettably trust with too much of their lives.

It’s a nation state problem too. The US gets economic advantage from having the major players local. It’s hard not to lose ground when a federated system in Sweden or China can chip away at your control base. So we subsidize and solidify. We get temporary advantage for long-term decay and virtual feudalism.

People lived under monarchies for a long time before a streak of luck, war, and land changed it.
If the main concern is latency, you could have the main store send push notifications to the caches (not client) whenever some data has been modified.

Not something trivial, but I think it is doable if you have control of both the origin server and the intermediate cache.
A promising tool!
Thank the gods for 4DOS https://wiki.preterhuman.net/4DOS_Introduction_and_Installat...
They don't say in the comic, but it seems like maybe they named it Unix as a cheeky nod to the "Multics" being too complex so a "simpler Multics" would naturally be "Unics"

Am I correct on this?
Depends on how you define "lamenting". Unless there are diaries of the artists in question, it is very difficult to know the private thoughts of people in the distant past. That said, there are certainly well-documented stories of artists being forced to change their work because of (unreasonable) demands from their patrons.

One example is the Windsor guildhall [1], where the architect was forced to add extra columns "for safety reasons" even though he knew they were unnecessary and even though they conflicted with his artistic vision. He was clearly unhappy with this and made them all an inch short of the ceiling as a demonstration to later generations, even though it was impossible to see this from ground level so he still got paid.

Michelangelo would also appease his patron (gonfaliere Soderini) while he was present, famously by faking the altering of the nose of his statue of David. Then some years later while Soderini had fled to Rome for unrelated reasons, Michelangelo publicly made fun of Soderini and mentioned that he only worked for him because he paid so well [2].

These are just some examples that readily came to mind, I'm sure there are many many more. The concept of patronage has existed at least since Roman times, and very much implied that the artists involved would spend their time glorifying their patron instead of just doing "what they want".

[1] https://inel.wordpress.com/2007/02/09/sir-christopher-wrens-...

[2] https://100swallows.com/2007/09/22/michelangelo-as-a-backbit...
The concerning AGI properties include recursive self-improvement to superhuman capability levels and the ability to mass-deploy copies. Those are not on the horizon when it comes to humans.
If hypothetically some human acquired such properties that would be equally concerning.
Lingo-2: Driving with Natural Language
JetBrains is definitely one of my favorite software companies.
Wow this is almost a list of everything on my machine.

Great list. I second these recommendations!!

Special mentions for: Alfred, Bartender, Daisy Disk and ColorSlurp
IIRC, free will is pretty much a myth, and beliefs are not relevant when it comes to science...
I was molested as a child, so out of vested personal interest I've read a lot of research over the years.

If you're a teacher, it would be wise to assume the parents may be in some way part of the problem.

If you're a teacher coming up with excuses to share nudes of your students with other people, you are at risk of being investigated very seriously as a potential child molester or distributor of child porn.

This is a minefield for a teacher and I don't think it's really a stretch to say it's "insane" or "extremely stupid" or other similarly strong language.

It has bad idea written all over it in blinking neon letters.
The rule should be, do not reply to strangers that message you privately on any platform. If you're messaging a scammer back and forward you already lost.

Even if they had your actual real nudes, you not replying might even make a real scammer go "shit they don't check their messages", and move to the next target.