skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> add in a carseat or two

Adding in modern car seats absolutely blows up the amount of space you need. With 2 young kids I can barely fit both of the carseats in the back of my Range Rover.

As a kid, 5 of us would pack into one 2-door sedan without shoulder restraints, just waist seat-belts. I'm not proposing we go back to less safe conditions for children, just saying it does clearly makes a difference. (And I've lived in some parts of the world where entire families fit onto one moped, so this American level of safety is not universal)
> Sprint and T-Mobile – which have merged since the investigation began – face fines of more than $12 million and $80 million, respectively. AT&T is fined more than $57 million, and Verizon is fined almost $47 million

This seems fundamentally unserious. To scope it, Verizon's gross profit for the twelve months ending December 31, 2023 was $79.087B.
If both mom and dad are in the workforce, both are climbing the ladder, grinding everyday... commuting hours every day, always tired... and still not even making enough for a good mortgage... who's going to take care of the kids? I think maybe let's just buy a tablet or a phone to keep the kids quiet while we mull in the many ways we're not going anywhere in life.
> Windows checks the code signing certificate of the exe, and if it isn't present and the binary not widely used shows you a big scary warning to discourage you from running it.

Actually even if the file is correctly signed but is new users will see the warning banners. (Unless using the more expensive EV Code Signing certs)

> Of course open source projects rarely sign their exes because those certificates are expensive ($300+/year).

I'm not sure where the $300/ year comes from but one can get valid certs for less than 50 EUR a year (https://shop.certum.eu/open-source-code-signing-on-simplysig...). I got a physical key one for 65 EUR and it worked just fine.

If the open source project is widely recognizable I'd suggest contacting https://signpath.org/ to get code signing for free (as in beer) via simple Github Action workflow.
The Chinese Communist Party is loving that Americans are letting their kids’ brains be filled with lies and hate. What a self own.
Exactly. Maybe one level up than a MLM scam, but not that far up.
CG-NAT really isn't great.
Even adult psychology is not what we think. We don't really understand the implications of computing untrusted information in our brains every day.
A simple allegory to this: Cloud Computing.

Cloud computing boomed, and is by some measure continuing to do so, the last ~15 years, from AWS to Firebase to VPS providers like Linode.

The promise, in part, was that it would replace the need for certain roles, namely system administrators and - depending on what technologies you adopted - you could replace good chunks of backend engineers.

Yet, what happened was roles shifted. System Administration became DevOps, and backend engineers learned to leverage the tools to move faster but provide value elsewhere - namely in designing systems that are stable and well interconnected between different systems, and developing efficient schema representations of data models, among other things.

The reality today, is I can buy an entire backend, I can even buy a backend that will automatically stand up API endpoints in GraphQL or REST, (or both!). Even though this is true, the demand for backend engineers hasn't shrunken dramatically (if anything, it seemingly increased).

Technologies enable things in unforseen ways all the time, and whether LLMs will displace alot of tech workers will be up for debate, and the reality is - for some at least - it will, but overall, if we take the closest situations possible from the past, it will overall increase the demand for software engineers over time, as LLMs paired with humans have thus far shown that it works best that way and I foresee that continuing to the case, much like accountants + excel is better than accountants - excel.
Imagine if AI could update my Jira ticket status.. I would pay big money for that.
I believe your late FIL is correct. It is fear that drives the pivot.
> being an idealist doesn't give you the rights to delve into illegal behavior

Just to be clear, it is your position that the IA's Wayback Machine and abandonware archives should also not exist, right?
> unique human

Here's the thing. A sovereign nation can "generate" as many "unique" humans as it wants (via printing "fake" but official identities). No one would be on to them until there were more users than probable people in the country.
> what if we find ourselves in an environment where mistakes aren't tolerated. Many workplaces, along with their managers and leaders, lack a culture of embracing mistakes.

While I personally celebrate my mistakes and discovering that I'm wrong because they both mean that I've learned something and improved, I think it's probably too idealistic to expect my employer to celebrate along with me.

However, a workplace that doesn't at least tolerate and learn from mistakes is a workplace I'd consider toxic and would be leaving in short order. I haven't personally encountered one yet in my career, fortunately.
Traditional TV was a lot less addictive than TT. Video games were too taxing to consume an infinite amount of time.
The fourth book blessed by the original author is also great. Don’t sleep on that.
Translation, 30% of parents are quite simply bad .
Giving a phone or tablet to a child unsupervised . Unacceptable.
'Workers end up paying the price': laborers call for safer building sites
They'll just write it off as cost of doing business.

Increase the fines by 2 orders of magnitude, that will get their attention.
The total fine seems to be $200M, so maybe a buck a person. That’s still a whole lot more than their previous fine of $0.00 for it. Now we have a precedent.
The Americans is a highly sensationalized and fictionalized retelling of the life stories of Elena Vavilova and Andrey Bezrukov. From a historical/accuracy perspective, there’s basically zero resemblance of the show and the source material beyond the premise.

As drama, it excels in the drama around the marriage rather than the actual fact of them being spies, and has been praised as “fundamentally a show about a marriage”. If you’re looking for a spy thriller, you might look elsewhere. It’s very “American TV” and doesn’t really stray from the formula
I do it; I like messing with install scripts and optimize them. My next big yak shaving project will be to optimize rkhunter. Did you know it is a 20K line POSIX shell script? I read through it a couple of times, and there's significant potential for improvement both in performance and in its security. For me it's a lot of fun because I like programming in Bourne-derived shells.
Dokku Maintainer here.

Dokku supports a variety of proxy implementations - nginx on the host, caddy/haproxy/openresty/traefik from within containers. The latter are managed via compose files, and can be customized to not listen on the host if you _really_ wanted to (and then proxied to from whatever your actual host system is).

While we optimize for the 90% case, I'd definitely be interested in learning more about your needs to see if we can maybe get closer to what you're looking for. On the nginx side, the port mappings are such that port 80 is used by default, but you could swap it to be something else (and also listen on localhost) and then proxy to nginx from your proxy of choice, allowing you to take advantage of Dokku while using whatever you currently use.

Feel free to hit us up via Discord/Slack.
> However, looking into the past, a lot of people who used to be loners became artists later in live, or scientists, or tinkerers.

A lot of people who used to be loners become loners later in life, too.

And a lot of artists, scientists, and tinkerers weren't loners early in life.

You can make up whatever story your heart desires to convince yourself you're making a good decision.
Surely pacman is nowhere near as popular as yum/dnf.
just played with it. pretty solid! questions for me, how do you validate the new changes will work without any issues after applying them? the biggest issue I have with most code generators is the feedback loop from suggested code -> testing it out -> failing, doing it again. would be great if this was more seamless. additionally, would be helpful to control the code generation process in real-time.
Other Discussion over the last week

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40183125

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40171125

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40164462
if you don't get any record of them leaving, from a manned border crossing or an airline reporting to you, then they've overstayed
Show HN: Attorch – PyTorch's nn module written in Python using OpenAI's Triton
attorch is a subset of PyTorch's nn module, written purely in Python using OpenAI's Triton. Its goal is to be an easily hackable, self-contained, and readable collection of neural network modules whilst maintaining or improving upon the efficiency of PyTorch. In other words, it intends to be a forkable project endowed with a simple, intuitive design that can serve as an accessible starting point for those who are seeking to develop custom deep learning operations but are not satisfied with the speed of a pure PyTorch implementation and do not have the technical expertise or resources to write CUDA kernels.

There already exist a number of wonderful PyTorch-like frameworks powered by Triton, but most concentrate solely on Transformers and NLP applications, whereas attorch aims to be more inclusive by also presenting a variety of layers pertaining to areas besides NLP such as computer vision. Moreover, attorch is not an inference-only package and fully supports both forward and backward passes, meaning it can be used during training as well as inference, though its performance for the latter is generally not on par with dedicated inference engines.

Questions and feedback are welcome in the comments sections.
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I mean, could you put the main function at the top of the script, so that it calls later definitions?

The problem is that the script could be truncated in such a way that it executes successfully. It defines a bunch of functions and then quits.

If you're not checking for the success or failure of the download, you're probably not checking for the success or failure of the script; something is just going to assume the script worked.
Well, the brain is a heavily vascularized organ. Proper sleep and exercise are both crucial for cleaning up waste products, and supplying nutrients and good blood flow.
This is the first time I see a fellow Altered Carbon fan in the wild.
Parent to middle schooler:

"OK, honey, this is called cocaine. I'm going to let you try it, but only in a safe and reasonable manner. We'll discuss reasonable limits on how much you can use and when."
YouTube has also gotten pretty bad recently with Shorts.
The color gradation is due to phasing effects from the different wavelengths of light being combined, and the checkerboard effect is an artifact of the segmented mirrors.

JWST has separate modes for spectroscopy. They’re pretty cool!
Topological relationships vs metric relationships. I suppose a great embedding could handle both, but a graph database might help in the tail, where the quality of the embeddings is weaker?
I normally echo this sentiment, and I can easily imagine an outcome through which the money could pay for lawyers, but in the ongoing discussion about their court case <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40201053> there was a comment that predicts any money they get is just going to end up in the pockets of Hachette when they eventually lose :-(

I recognize this is a very pessimistic take but ... for consideration
In this case is it better that they get money and rich people consolidate more power over an emerging and likely influential technology, or is it better that they don’t and open source is able to flourish?
curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh && ollama run llama3 "Why it is bad to curl | sh?"

...for details.
> "set reasonable restrictions on phone usage"?

It's not so much that people are too dumb to do this or don't understand the danger, it's that doing this well is tedious and time-consuming and expensive. Setting up parental controls and monitoring them is a chore, you have to sign up for a bunch of apps you don't want and read outdated docs and troubleshoot random error messages and crap. Most of the good stuff costs money, all of the shitty stuff is free. Finding educational apps that aren't terrible requires research, whereas the worst garbage imaginable is heavily advertised.

So, I'm not saying you're wrong, but that this is a problem with incentives as opposed to a moral failing. I think there's a direct parallel to the rise of highly processed foods. The people 2-3 generations ago understood that junk food was unhealthy, and very few people fed their kids 100% soda and hot pockets, but junk food was so much cheaper and easier that people gradually allowed more and more into their diets, and now here we are with an adult obesity rate 3x that of 1960.

> "teach your child about the issues with being on a phone all day"

Edit to add, it seems most of your other responders are responding to this bit, which I agree is not realistic (children aren't rational to reliably refrain from something just because you can explain why it's bad) but I can see why you're frustrated that they're zeroing in on that part and not the part I responded to.
The problem is, the wrong party is doing the check (from a security point of view, not integrity).

When we download a script from a remote domain we don't trust, we have to validate its checksum against the known one; we can't leave that to the script, which we don't trust.
I think what this means is that she used her Czech passport when leaving a country, and used the Russian passport when entering Russia (Thus leaving no trace of her entering the EU as a Russian national).

That's far from "sophisticated tradecaft" though.
For instance a large % of Argentinians have double nationality (Myself included) and we do this all the time when travelling to Europe.
How old were you when you gained access to the family computer?

How old were you when you gained access to the internet?

Personally I think the educational advantage that a tablet or phone can provide is too quickly overlooked. People assume phone or tablet equals bad with black/white thinking. Sure it can be used to scroll junk mindlessly (although this would be blocked from a child account).

It also can be used to playback educational content with subtitles enabled. Kids can learn languages, math, puzzle solving, all sorts of things. A time limit can be enforced on it too.

TikTok at its core is a mechanism to share information directly between parties. If you allow your kids on there, and what they are allowed to do there, is up to you as a parent. I will say there is a STEM section that can be enabled, and I'm not personally opposed to it.
Please use original titles: Is this Normal for a 2-year-old?
Phones for children are not (just) entertainment devices; they’re social spaces (i.e. where other kids are) and channels for absorbing social norms and cultural shibboleths (which used to be a role played by mainstream media — kids growing up knowing the same quotes from the same cartoons, etc — but now is almost exclusively played by p2p media.)

A child without access to (some of) the Internet, is in roughly the same position, in terms of “ability to enculturate”, as a new immigrant trying to attend a University by commuting rather than living in dorms is.
My ISP assign changes the IPv4 /32 and IPv6 prefix every PPPoE authentication. This is so annoying and breaks routing every couple days or so that I ended up running NPT (NAT for IPv6) and using a ULA block for my LAN.

I've seen reports saying you can request a specific prefix as hints to Prefix Delegation and it keeps it mostly static but it is not guaranteed.
Kids who are not part of the cool in-group getting drunk and doing coke after school are the ones who read more and study more and become successful.

Data point: everyone in my HS's class of 1200 who was "cool" is now more or less a bagger in a grocery store, or dead from drug overdose. Everyone who was ostracized and a "loser" is successful.

Do you want your kids to have a happy high school time (4 years) or a happy life being able to afford fun things(~60 years)?
And yet...we don't recommend parents allowing their middle school children to try addictive drugs.
The easy answer to the hard concept is that the big bang is not the increase in size of a thing. It is an increase in dimensions, including time. Our notions of size, of dimension, might not exist outside the bubble. We would therefore never perceive an edge, but that doesn't mean that one does not exist nor that there may be a finite size.
This is a sane and reasonable comparison to what I was talking about. Thank you for the constructive addition.
I'd expect Poland for example, purely for bang-for-buck. Buying power and CoL are still catching up.
This is fine because LLMs are a dead end.

If LLMs are the core of 'AI' then I'm not interested, but I feel confident they're a sideshow on the way to stronger AI.

Lets avoid the huge mistake that was made with the internet, where the web happened to be the first broadly useful tool which exploded in popularity and then de facto became the internet, with everything shoehorned into it. The problem is, on the scale of possible interfaces and software, the web is absolute shite, but now its gravity is too great and we can't escape it.

I've tried to use LLMs but they're just not useful. Getting answers that may be great or may be nonsense just doesn't work for me. I know there is something better and I won't be distracted by a very impressive novelty.
Did they ever fine anyone over AT&T letting NSA tap into all decrypted network data, cause that seems a lot more egregious lol.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/25/nsa-att-intercept-surveill...
Sprint - $12 million fine (In 2019, Sprint Corporation's revenue amounted to 33.6 billion U.S. dollars)

T-Mobile – $80 million fine (T-Mobile US annual revenue for 2021 was $80.118B)

AT&T - $57 million fine (AT&T revenue for the twelve months ending March 31, 2024 was $122.317B)

Verizon - $47 million fine (Verizon annual revenue for 2023 was $133.974B)
The decisions made in Death's End in particular are very frustrating but I think the point was that humanity's biggest barrier to reaching the stars is itself.
OpenAI and other big VC funded LLM companies were all destined for enshittification anyway. They'll try and regulatory capture their way to monopoly and then offer a much worse product for more money. Luckily (hopefully) the cat is out of the bag and there are enough good, geographically diverse alternatives to prevent any serious regulatory capture efforts. Worst case we'll all be fleeing to the freedom of the Chinese LLMs.
It's not a crime to inform patrons of the existence of shadow libraries.

> That pretense is the only thing that's keeping IA online at this point. Otherwise, there would be no excuse to allow their distribution of copyrighted works at all.

> If you want to fight copyright, fight it directly, don't gamble the IA for it.

I agree with you. There is no (legal) excuse for the National Emergency Library, digital lending DRM is just a pretense, and they shouldn't have gambled the Archive on it. The battle will be won by shadow libraries, who by their extra-legal nature are better equipped to fight copyright directly.
It was NUMAscale. It’s mentioned in this article with some others for comparison:

https://www.nextplatform.com/2015/07/16/what-if-numa-scaling...
When you see a societal pattern that is physically, and mentally bad for your kids why would you want them to fit in with it?
> I would like to see something that records your keystrokes and gives you stats on what you type the most. Then spits out a keyboard arrangement to start from.

> Not sure how you'd get around it being a huge security risk? Maybe only write totals for keypresses every 30 minutes?

I did this once with a terrible script that just recorded keys with... I forget, probably either xev or `xinput test`. Anyways, yes, huge potential security/privacy risk but IMO it's fine if you keep it local and don't persist to disk without encryption (read: put the file on an encrypted filesystem or tmpfs). I specifically didn't want just the per-key total presses because I was interested in use of shortcuts and common substrings (IIRC I was looking at what to make macros of to save typing); if you just care about what actual keys get pressed the most and are only looking at rearranging the same keys then aggregation might make it safer.
> It feels as if everyone is calming their kids with opiates and Xanax, and no one bats an eye because that's what everyone else is doing.

Hot take: as a millennial, I feel like our entire generation is overall failing as parents. The average parent is incredibly conflict-averse but also thoroughly wired for paranoia. So the end result is that children often have no discipline/structure in their lives, but they also have no freedoms.

Their parents give them a phone with unlimited Youtube, but they aren't allowed to have friends. They never get spanked but they are always grounded. They don't sit down and eat meals as a family, but they follow a strict allergen-controlled diet because of a weird rash they had once in third grade.

Not to say that this generation of kids is going to turn out any worse than any other, but the way that Millenials blame Baby Boomers for all of their problems as adults is going to look cute in comparison.
A lot of this enforced waiting seems to be motivated by the negative behavior of children and early teens towards each other. And since you can't control how other parents raise their kids, a few bad apples have to spoil it for everyone. And, truth be told, when I recollect how bad junior high was before the Internet or smartphones existed, the capability of smartphones to magnify the negative as well as the positive certainly seems terrifying.

This just makes me want to home-school my kid if possible.

(My son, my only kid, is about to turn 3 and I have been carefully watching this ongoing conversation/debate/research.)
Nintendo needs that romset to stay up or otherwise they won’t be able to sell them on the next iteration of Virtual Console :o)
How much does a data broker pay for an individual's location?
There is a movement on TikTok to transition to Shorts due to the looming ban
"Even if you're aware of the mental health issues associated with social media use, you have the option of either giving up and losing your kid to the phenomenon, or giving them FOMO and complexes by depriving them of a phone."

I absolutely choose "FOMO complexes". Just because other parents let their teens do pot and alcohol doesn't mean it's right for my kid. That same logic can extend to less harmful (or more legal or socially acceptable) things like TikTok brain rot.
And GPT-4 is nowhere close to the human brain in terms of coding capabilities, and model advancements appear to be hitting an asymptote. So...
Hmmm....I'm waking up from Gell-Mann amnesia... Moving to Germany for cheaper labor? Is Munich known as a mecca for cut-rate python programmers? Does google have a "the python team?"

Whatever is going on, its not this, this makes no sense.
Actually that sounds great. Commercial piracy netflix competitor please and thank you.