skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I switched from Gmail to Proton last December ('23). So far it has worked okay, but there are some complaints.

First, the Android app is simply not as good as Gmail's. It doesn't allow a read message/delete it/move to the next message. This interrupts my workflow as I deal with large amounts of mail.

Second, I'm frequently running ProtonMail via web on two separate PCs. The two seem to get out of sync. If I bulk delete emails from my inbox on one machine, the other machine sometimes doesn't reflect this. Sometimes the emails reappear on the machine I used to delete them.

There have also been edge cases where I have lost an email I was composing on the PC under circumstances I've had a hard time narrowing down. When it happens it's incredibly frustrating, and there are no remnants saved as a draft. I wish I could tell you how to reproduce it for certain. It is usually happening in a dual-machines running scenario.

All in all the solution overall lacks the polish that Gmail has. I wish it wasn't so.
Would it be too late to call it PyToWasm?

I know Python 2 has been EOL for over four years now but you still see it (much to the chagrin of decent engineers everywhere) in the wild; could generate confusion.
A little bit verbal, a little bit intuitive, but mostly visual (both equations and diagrams).
Valve already has its own OS for a mobile device: Steam OS (based on Arch) on the Steam Deck. My bet is that they'd just modify that for a standalone headset.
When the majority of wealth isn't owned by a group roughly the size of the population of Fairlea WV we can start having meaningful conversations about what we can and can't afford.
But you do sign in to use an Android phone, or iPhone. Although, I agree with the point that someone would never want to sign in with their Facebook account there, with FB account holding so much personal information about them! For gaming, somebody would rather prefer to use an alias like dungeonmaster669 instead of their verified actual identity.
There was talk about banning / divesting from China well before the current flair up in Israel/Palestine. I don't think it has anything to do with AIPAC.
Plus, it doesn’t have the Apple logo.
That's literally what the mods do :).

There's moral discussions to be had I'm sure, but the purpose of the beat sabre mods is pretty factual :).
And potentially opens a whole new family of side channels.
Quote from article

At the present rate, computers suitable for humanlike robots will appear in the 2020s. Can the pace be sustained for another three decades? The graph shows no sign of abatement. If anything, it hints that further contractions in time scale are in store. But, one often encounters thoughtful articles by knowledgeable people in the semiconductor industry giving detailed reasons why the decades of phenomenal growth must soon come to an end.

I don't know where to look to confirm that can current computers do 1 billion MIPS (Million Instructions per Second?) as predicted by this article?

EDIT: This Wikipedia article puts an AMD CPU at ~2 million MIPS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second as the highest one.
There is a nee version of Catan for Quest 2/3
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but

You can moderate what can be seen from your site (and what your site will return when asked for comments on that post by other sites(?)), but you can’t moderate it completely when viewed on other sites — i.e. if you’re Site A, someone comments something you don’t like on Site B, and someone looks at the comments from Site C, if Site B and C were already federating with each other then C will see B’s comment (and in this case it’s Site C’s responsibility to moderate)

You can block a specific user of Site B from viewing your posts in the future, but it’s up to Site B’s software to actually respect that. But if it doesn’t (this is rare, most software does respect things like this and it’s only tiny forks that disable this functionality), you can also just block Site B entirely

Editing to expand: Yes, this is pretty wonky and basically means you can only control what’s seen on your site unless you go through a lot of effort, but without ActivityPub you can’t control what other people say about your post on other sites either (i.e. you can’t moderate the HN thread of your article)
> you'd simply disable WASD controls until the word is typed successfully.

Which it doesn't do, but would very simply be rectified by a follow up prompt asking it to do that
This is the first I heard of it! I love the idea, I keep looking for an easy-to-use editor for technical reports. I've been using Typora for now, but chapter management would be nice.

I was able to try it out on my personal computer and love this. I would like to transition to my work computer, but I can't because the PDF export goes to your servers. I understand why, but for someone technical, it's not hard to setup LaTeX. If you ever do a local-only version, I will buy a copy for my work computer.
We've decided servicing slumlords' profit margins is now a societal goal?
Show HN: Seqouia-PGP in Browser for sharing credentials
I am working on an open-source, on-prem first shared credential manager, powered by Svelte, Go and WASM(SeqouiaPGP)

https://github.com/osvauld/web-client
UTF-8 is variable width my friend
"giant desert installations of PV on the ground will incur a similar cost (though higher because the demand is farther from the source)."

I suppose it's too much to ask folks who frequent HN to read the whole article.
Another retread of the misconceived "AI as collage machine" idea behind some the early lawsuits, i.e. training data goes in and something intelligible comes out, therefore the output is "made of" the input. Non sequitur.

The author glosses over the actual point of contention, saying "through some mechanical trickery it will blend then together with some randomness to create something that is a new song".

'Blending together' is not what's happening. The "mechanical trickery" is the transformative part.
Isn’t Samsung going bankrupt at this point?
This sounds like a great way to chop off fingertips. Take it from someone who has done "just the tip" once, a sharp knife will do it with almost no effort, just like slicing through a tomato
Hackers threaten to leak a copy of the World-Check DB used to assess risks
If I paid for the song (even somewhere else, even on a subscription like spotify/apple music), I should be able to dance/move to it. I don't think one should have to re-buy every song in a videogame. Especially when the work is done for free to put in the dance moves by modders.
Have you tried vR chat?
I'm partial to the Pierce Quincuncial [0] projection myself. Actually, any conformal projection that tiles really.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce_quincuncial_projection
This is nice, and as a simple way to write and keep cross-references without having to commit to Word or LaTeX (journals often require one or the other, and often Word in my field unfortunately). The thing that would keep me from using this regularly is mostly issues of UI/UX polish, and of course no Linux version.

Examples:

- On Windows right now and the scrollbars pop out as white even when disabled (nothing to scroll), so I can't stand to use dark mode, but also hate light mode in general.

- The menu bar is my normal Windows UI font size, and the UI in the app otherwise is much bigger. The mismatch bugs me excessively.

- Relatedly, I need to be able to set fonts and sizes. Forcing me into one that doesn't have glyphs I need, and then forcing a fallback that's mismatched, it's a problem. Forcing me to use Poppins as the only font alone is reason enough that I won't be able to use it.

Which is really a shame because I would start using this tomorrow as my main writing tool for solo papers. It checks the boxes I otherwise need and would let me focus on writing not on packages or templates or other things that are just a waste of time, since again at any point I may need to run it through pandoc anyway if I change my mind on which journal to submit to.

Also local-only would be needed, but I guess the server is an easy enough way to implement a paywall? I just don't feel comfortable sending potentially sensitive data to some unknown server.

That said, honestly just giving me access to something like the stylesheet for basics would be a huge help, and again that alone would have me using this tomorrow. Otherwise I'll stick to Google Docs or Overleaf.

Well done, overall, though.
I’ve never even seen a prototype of what a GUI for Bash would look like.

However, there is Warp, which might be of interest.

“Ask Warp AI to suggest the right command or chat to get answers about any programming question. Your requests stay private and secure, never used to train public models.”

I haven’t tried it myself, but I have aquaintances that swear by it.

https://www.warp.dev/
I will say that we have a lot of e-bikers in NYC as well; but they're the bikeshare bikes. I see those zooming all over the place.

I have ridden one and they are quite fast. Actually scares me a little bit.
No 14 year old "publishes 4 books" without over-involved parents.

And she's not even complaining about not going to Stuyvesant or LaGuardia?

This is NYPost trash, not a real concern.
Meta kind of doesn't have a choice. The major platforms are now owned by Apple, Google, and Microsoft (and also to a lesser extent IBM and Amazon). The strategic risks of being dependent on other companies' platforms are huge. Meta is desperately hunting for a disruptive innovation that will allow them to control the next major platform. A lot of people are betting that will be AR/VR but it could be something completely different.
Most criticisms of ESG don't have anything to do with the environment aspect (unless we're dragging in the "carbon credits" scam), so I'm not sure if it's worth picking for an example.
The article isn't for programmers, it's for non-programmers (like management) who think it is mostly typing, and describing what's going on when we're not typing.
This is next level. Have you heard of Rama by Redplanetlabs?
> Our descriptions of how we want the future to play out are our descriptions of how we expect the future to play out

This doesn't seem right to me at all. I want a lot of things I don't expect: abolition of the electoral college, a carbon tax which reasonably approximates the actual costs and damages caused by emissions, US single-payer healthcare, a really huge increase in home construction, elder-care nursing robots by the time my parents need them, etc etc.
Because you need to buy apps to make use of your VR headset. Lets put it this way, do you need an account to use your Iphone?
How Wallapop serves 19M users while deploying new ML models in weeks
> Why are the Hacker News comments on this so different than when this topic came up a few years ago?

* Tiktok competes with FAANGM (MMANGA?) type companies, which happen to be heavily represented here, and those people may have pointed thoughts

* apropos of FAANGMs, China recently banned or set strict rules for FAANGM companies in China. If they're not going to play nice + make dubious demands, why shouldn't the US behave similarly?

* GPT is a thing... and was then, too. all available bot power may be focused on elections / Trump trials / Israel / Ukraine / etc., when it wasn't before, and rapid changes to viewpoints may reflect that; the 50 Cent Party has bigger fights to pick, etc.

* sort of a corollary to the above, it's an election year, a big one in several ways, and that drives the (real, human) commenters out in droves
Unfortunately the conveyor-belt educational system in the U.S. creates a perception of rule-based linear progression as a path to success. It makes you believe that if you get good grades, engage in extracurriculars, follow the rules, and work hard you'll be guaranteed a path to the "next stage". Eventually you realize the "next stage" is real-life, where the rules you followed in the educational system don't necessarily apply.

A strong life-skill is to learn to work with the system that exists and be malleable and adaptable like water under that system, at least until you're able to have the capacity to change it. This includes having the ability to change one's expectations.

In my opinion, this students stands to gain more by going the non-"prestigious" path.
Exactly. For an arms-length sale to an off-the-street consumer, I think laws requiring certification or otherwise demonstrated compliance with established standards are reasonable. I just hate it when those laws inadvertently (or intentionally) preclude DIY/hobbyist/experimentation.
I remember when Facebook released an "OS" for the phone (it was really just a skin for Android). While I'm really happy to see that FB is making another stab into the field with the Quest, and I'm very happy that we're finally getting some real development in VR, I'm even more skeptical of them now as I was then: I just don't trust FB with my data.

Part of what makes me so skeptical is how "cheap" the Quest 3 is. There's no way they're not loosing [literally billions](https://fortune.com/2023/10/27/mark-zuckerberg-net-worth-met...) of dollars developing VR tech and, given their track record, only have one way they know to make that money back.
Amazon used AOSP to create tons of their products. Even if most Android devices have the Play Store, there are successful variants that don't. And I'd even include Meta's Quest line here: every headset since the Go has the ability to sideload apks using standard Android tools.
wouldn't trust meta with anything for sure not running a whole os.
A random anecdote:

Last time I had cable was on Time Warner in the US. It was interesting because they didn't do the token bucket style ratelimiting I've seen from every ISP I've had since: they'd play games with TCP to try and slow down big flows instead. It was weird.

So I wrote a little program that transferred files by sending the data over UDP at a constant rate disregarding loss, then reconciling lost bits later over TCP. That allowed me to get almost double the upload bandwidth I was theoretically paying for at the time!

But on Verizon FIOS, it didn't work at all, because they really limit bandwidth at the packet level instead of trying to trick TCP into slowing down.
"if only your economy pod included an escape pod"
Just have to roll it up. Sadly PFAS are banned so can't put non-stick plastic layer in between to avoid sticking...
Scaling even higher?? Lol I can't even play on medium difficulty on the built-in ones. I don't know how people keep up with the high tracks.
Bet HN will be next once they understand the addictive design patterns of the website.
I started on my laptop and then continued onto my phone. Opened both links from the homepage, but apparently you switched them while I did.

Was very confused as to why the mobile version had more content.
The Jones Act is one of those truly infuriating acts of protectionism that absolutely hurts everyone except a small and dwindling number protected producers and doesn't accomplish its stated purpose. It's sad that this sort of policy is once again in vogue.
No, I was talking about when governments lose even basic ability to control the peace, when they can no longer keep the monopoly on violence expected of sovereign states. Haiti, for instance.
Microsoft: The Complete History and Strategy
The basic unix tools do account for variable width though. Variable chars are baked into most OS. When you use these commands the decode is implicit.
Texas anglos weren't the only people involved in the Texan revolution. And while it's true that Mexican elites were largely brutal and repressive, they didn't generally generate rebellions in half the Mexican states simultaneously. Santa Anna did.
The research seems pretty superficial. Reads much like a "briefing" for folks who have not yet heard of digital nomadism.
The printer driver situation was RMS’s last straw, but he was already saddened by the demise of the sharing culture of the MIT AI lab once Symbolics and Lisp Machines, Inc. were founded, and he spent a considerable amount of effort reimplementing features from Symbolics:

https://www.gnu.org/gnu/rms-lisp.en.html
Wanted to look at the VBA code but looks like its password protected
A shame
I've had a free email account since 2016, and started to really use it in 2020. I did not managed to use proton bridge with Thunderbird at all at the time, but the webUI was good enough. I recently started to use calendar and now pay for the service.

Basically: once a new feature/product exists, you will have to wait before it's really usable (Pass might be the exception). I wouldn't use their cloud storage yet, if it's a deal-breaker, wait a few months, maybe a year.

Really happy with the support, the few UI/UX changes, the performance improvements over the last 4years.
The article mentions absolutely nothing about this, but what about the security plan?

This is going to sound snarky, but I genuinely look forward to how this operates with the current state of the Mexico government, lawlessness, cartels, and in that particular area, insurgents.

Bad actors are not going to simply ignore the value, there.

I would really love to see Mexico become a rich country with a functional and less-corrupt government/military/law enforcement. That seems insurmountable within a generation, though.
Pretty handy collection of prompts to do basic things with LLMs. I’ve had good results with using Claude to explain code, tag sentiment and extract emails or other specific content from free form text.

If you plan on using any of these at scale I recommend investing in a good evaluation test harness to check for regressions when you tweak prompts.
At one hand it's laughable, at the other hand, the US and the EU allow Russia to do way too much so they are getting cocky.
One day the guy might be arrested somewhere in India/China and deported to Russia, after that it won't be laughable anymore.
https://flyonthewall-3499fa132151.herokuapp.com/

I made one called flyonthewall, you can upload a m4a file and it gives back transcription from openAI whisper model. Basic setup (no accounts right now) that I use to transcribe plus summarize my audio notes from my dictaphone.
That was an interesting article (as I assume anything with the word "Harvard" in its name should be).

I was intrigued by this company: https://byrotation.com/

Not really useful to me, and I suspect there's a lot of "ew" factors, but it could be interesting.
I mean that is a central question for ESGs and the answer is that different people choose different weights. I mean Tesla was kicked off of the S&P 500 ESG index for their own reasons but that's just one of many indexes one of many scoring systems.

It's not like they're all one thing.
Just giving an anecdotal response that I am very much the opposite. I'm absolutely thrilled for that future. There's something magical about that blend of real + digital that to me feels more human than sitting behind a desk and staring at a screen.

It will definitely be a cultural change though, and I totally get how that can be almost repulsive from a different perspective. I just want you to be aware though that there are people who at least are interested in that future.
HN Discussion:[0] (170 points, 7 days ago, 103 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40048657
Take a look at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity."
Future models are world-changing, and we have every reason to believe models will continue to scale in this way.

So how do you know this exactly?

What the naysayers always miss is exponential growth. They don’t look towards the future.

This is quite a pat response. There are plenty of critics within the AI/ML field of the unbounded growth hypothesis that you are effectively fronting here. I don't think you really believe that they "don't look towards the future", or that they aren't aware of the concept of exponential growth.

I'd be interested in a cohesive response to their arguments. But in the above post at least, I'm not seeing one.
What final enables is devirtualization in certain cases. The
main advantage of devirtualization is that it is necessary for inlining.

Inlining has other requirements as well -- LTO pretty much covers it.

The article doesn't have sufficient data to tell whether the testcase is built in such a way that any of these optimizations can happen or is beneficial.
SBCL 25th anniversary workshop is in Vienna thu-fri next week. See you there!
This stuff is a side effect of Silicon Valley centralizing upside and decentralizing the downside with all these app based gig jobs.

These guys don't work for anyone, so you don't have normal B2B procurement for the batteries, nor safe places (warehouses, restaurants, dispatch) to charge. So instead you end up with guys buying & supplying sketchy batteries, charging way too many, unattended, in living spaces and shops overnight.

It also makes enforcement nearly impossible because instead of dealing with 100s or 1000s of business entities, you have 10,000s or 100,000s of individual contractors violating the law. Some gig workers in NYC are even subbing out their ID/account so undocumented migrants can work illegally.. so the lack of accountability only spirals.
I smile, because ALL modern tech try to do what classic Smalltalk environment have done in the past, see a Pharo video demo to get an idea, a DocUI, with active elements. Well, no modern tool so far have reached the same level of power. Modern webapps might have some of that power, but fails dramatically in flexibility and user control...
You can still read and learn from something patented. That is, after all, the whole point of a patent!

You can also read and learn from copyleft and use that learning elsewhere.

Remember, copyright does not apply to ideas. It applies to a specific individual instantiation. In theory.
This joke gets made a lot, but I really don't want to live on this planet any more.

I've spent a lifetime in software and what I want more than anything is to shut it all off.
DARPA began working w AI in DEC 2022 as part of its Air Combat Evolution program
I see here a lot of generalities about good managers helping you prioritize work, shielding you from chaos, bringing organization to the team, etc. These are necessary, but not sufficient. Any reasonably well-organized, good-intentioned, and less selfish person/manager can do that, but I wouldn't necessarily call them a good manager.

The measure of a good manager is their willingness to do something difficult for them for the benefit of their team or reports, such as saying no to various pressures from upper management, not jumping into latest trends pushed down to the teams, not saying yes to every new pivot, etc. Most people in a work situation would not do that, which is why there are no good managers.
"Open" in the same way Android is, with complete control and app store by Meta. I think we have to accept that an 'open hardware platform' the way PCs were was an anomaly. We will never have anything like that again.
Why does arm hair have a growth limit while head hair grows continuously?