skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
token/password protection is in the works; just designed it with my co-maintainer yesterday.
> OpenThread code is open to be inspected, and you can contribute to it, under a BSD-like licence; but Thread Group holds the IP, and reserves the right to sue. As always, the patents covering it are not listed, and some of them might be submarines

Sounds like they are trying to have their cake and eat it? Release code on a copy left license to try and gain open source contributions, but also force people to pay if they want to use it by crippling it with patents and some weird licensing BS.

Except no one outside of large corporations already paying for it are going to ever contribute code... how could they, you can't contribute code in a vacuum.
When possible. Apple already has a hybrid model — for example, Series 9 and Ultra 2 can do many things with Siri completely on-device, but (as with pre-S9-chip devices) still leverage a more powerful device when needed. I predict they're generalizing this as a framework that automatically passes and returns requests according to some heuristic of quality + privacy + latency. Even local devices like Macs and HomePods may participate in this "AI mesh".
So if you send that as text that isn't HTMLified by the recipient's client, they'll copy it as text and paste it into the adress line of the browser. The problem is still that the recipient goes to an adress the sender didn't intend (i.e. the recipient is stupid); has nothing to do with HTML vs text.

Or, if you want, the problem is that the recipient's client software HTMLifies text. Stupid client software (and possibly stupid recipient, for using the stupid software). Still has nothing to do with HTML vs text per se. Yes, that is literally $SOME_OTHER_PROBLEM. I mean, really? You can't tell the difference between various formats and problems caused by something else entirely?

(I get the feeling your supercilious "I mean, really?" was intended to slyly convey that I was the one being stupid here. IMO that backfired rather convincingly.)
The latest “Decoder” episode was about local smart homes. Mainly about “Matter”, but also about Thread: https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/decoder-with-nilay-pat...

Might be of interest if Thread is of interest to you.
All it provides is one to many time shifting.

What if a chat program deleted the message exactly after the recipient read it?

What if a chat program never persisted messages to disk and only in memory?

Would companies be told not to ever power off machines?
Yes, but then more people would start to hear their inner voice.
I had to go back and read the article properly instead of skimming through it,

"These would be the last public comments Reiss made about the case. On 26 May 2021 he was arrested on suspicion of possessing images of child sexual abuse. Two images had been uploaded to his Gmail account, and detectives had traced them to his IP address. When they raided his home and seized his electronic devices, they found more than 1,700 images and videos depicting children, including 84 of toddlers and infants. Reiss pleaded guilty in March 2022, and was later sentenced to 11 and a half to 23 months in jail. To use Weintraub’s language, if anyone was “preying on juveniles”, it was the police officer who led the investigation."

Damn! It's usually the case that the most mentally insane people are the ones who try to hold others to unreasonable high standards of made-up "morality". Anyone who has been given a prison sentence where this officer was involved should have their case reviewed, whether they request it or not. The odds of this asshole ruining people's live throughout his career are very high.
Here are the full texts of both emails I sent them: https://overengineer.dev/txt/2024-05-11-thread-group-emails/

The second one to their press team sounds super presumptuous, sorry for that, but I found that you kinda have to talk to press teams in that way if you want to get /any/ response at al.
why the downvote? debate me. it's saturday and i'm working in jupyterlab
Sam Altman on the all in podcast this week

Such weird timing to do an interview and avoid on device versions for Apple

If this Bloomberg rumour is true, why wouldn’t he schedule that interview for next week?

What a waste of everyone’s time
Thanks for trying us out back then! It’s been quite a journey since the initial launch - we ended up building & rebuilding 7 times since then. What’s now live at Jam is our 8th attempt at solving the slow back & forths about bugs, I hope you like where the product has iterated to!
Manual memory management vs GC is orthogonal to memory safe vs unsafe.
I'm wintering for the South Pole Telescope.

https://pole.uchicago.edu/
It is the sheer amount of recently popping up negative reviews of that "accidently" bad advert that is the actual advertising campaign.

This company and their competitors are eminent masters in deception and attention grabbing. Bad news sells, and it sells best.

Obviously, they catched even my attention this way. And i wouldn't ever (and never did) bother buying anything from them.

Falling into this trap myself is the very best example how power exerted over remote attention has become escapeless. Even its critics are the cheapest integral part of this very toolchain.
Check https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/whisper-memos-speech-to-text/i...
Joshua Bloch, of Effective Java fame, used the term unintentional object retention as a more precise term for memory “leaks” in garbage collected languages.
Recent Apple Ad I don't understand why people are pissed. It's just an Ad
Ask HN: How has your salary changed over the past 5 years?
Obviously I know this wouldn't be scientific, but I'm interested in knowing how folks salaries have changed since just before the pandemic.

Clearly the pullback in tech has had an effect, and there were reports about 9 or so months ago that tech salaries had fallen around 15%. For me personally my salary has basically been flat for the past 5 years (some ups and downs), and it's probably the longest stretch I've seen that happen. When you take inflation into account it means my salary has fallen about 19%. Overall it definitely feels to me that there is salary compression at many levels - on the lower end I see tons of outsourcing to LatAm and Eastern Europe, so junior folks are competing with those salaries, and on the higher end unless you're in senior management (SVP or above) that salaries are essentially capped lower than they've been in the past. Note I'm not so much in "the thick of it" with regards to the current hotness of AI, so not sure how those salaries compare.

Just curious to hear what others are seeing.
My only and immediate reaction as well.
If you ask the majority of people if somebody who they do not perceive as engaging in autisitic behaviours, and was not diagnosed as autistic, but considers themselves autistic, is autistic, they will say no. Scientifically (which how it’s defined in the OP), it’s not defined by psychiatrist appraisal and self-assessment plays no necessary role in the process and alone holds no diagnostic validity. We can also invert this: self-denial doesn’t make one non-autistic if they’re seen as engaging in autistic behaviours and are diagnosed as autistic by a professional.

I’ll concede that a minority believe that autism is self-definable though. I’d prefer things that way myself, but the among other things it would make it impossible to gatekeep services for the autistic if self-diagnosis were held in the same esteem as physician diagnosis, so it won’t catch on anytime soon.
What are the ULA wins you're thinking of here?
There are also now enough people with solar that it may not be catastrophic. Many of those solar + battery systems have enough electronics to make syncing to grid relatively straightforward.

I wonder how quickly you would see small neighborhood subgrids pop up.
I know of at least one book written by and for autistic people who advocates for a gluten free diet. They claim in the book that this significantly reduces their symptoms.

I don’t know if I believe it or not, but the notion of gut-brain axis seems to imply that a good diet should help a bit, right?
> But hypothetically, if a sufficiently-damaging coronal mass ejection occurred, such that we were forced to rebuild Earth's electronics infrastructure and electrical grids from scratch, what design changes would we make the 2nd time around?

I'd guess the goal would be to get things going again as fast as possible so no, I doubt there would be much time & effort put into some of the points you mention, at least in the short term. Decentralization might come not so much by design in an event like that, but out of necessity.
That’s great feedback! The way we currently solve that is by setting a memory limit for Instant Replay and then automatically disabling that feature when the limit gets tripped.

Yeah +1, the reason why we built a blocklist vs an allow list is because Chrome settings already allows you to specify an allow list for extensions so we were just trying to round out what settings you couldn’t set already in the browser.

Also I love the idea of annotating a video, sharing that with the team! Thank you!
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I hear the same with my shower, but I'd wager most of the change in sound would be to do with pressure change between the hot and cold source.
If there wa required viewing for entering big tech. This would be it.
I know but the whole thing isn't floppy. The earlier ones were called floppy disks because the whole thing was floppy, including the case. You could literally bend them.
I didn't finish yet but I was thinking he's talking about memorizing the algorithm to calculate sines in your head.
Reminds me of this story I heard about Yahoo. Their ads server had a memory leak and it would OOM after something like 10000 requests.

Their solution: restart the server after 8000 requests.

This worked for a year or two. And then it started OOM-ing after 8000 requests.

Next solution: restart the server after 6000 requests.
People with high functioning autism make up a majority of the “people who died at 25 and didn’t know it until they were 80” crowd.
LLMs are boring, though. Have you actually tried going to ChatGPT and asking it to tell you a story? It isn't entertaining. It isn't interesting. It's a waste of time.

Anything interesting will have to be provided by the player (as in a sandbox game) or by the designer (as in a conventional game), and at that point you've just ruined a perfectly good game by introducing an LLM to slather boring slop all over the interesting stuff the player or the designer has tried to do.
> similar to how a web browser never splits the browser window into multiple viewports.

Unless you have a browsers that does exactly that (e.g., Vivaldi), allowing you to view multiple pages at once!
And even if it’s not it would be like saying all of Lord of the Rings is garbage because I found out Tolkien was a catholic.
When we were PMs at Cloudflare, we were always exporting browser sessions with HAR. Definitely there are ways to do anything, but we wanted to make it as simple as possible both for the PM and for the dev.
React Is a Programming Language
> compete solely on price

and yet, the american car market is very protectionist, esp. against cheap chinese imports.
A lot of improvements!

Relevant to my 2020 article: What’s wrong with computational notebooks?

https://austinhenley.com/blog/notebookpainpoints.html
This sent me down a bit of a rabbit hole. I followed the PC demoscene casually from afar back in the early 90s. I remember rumblings about Future Crew being involved in some kind of hardware development. Apparently this processor is related.

This article is a bit disjointed in places but helps fill in my understanding: https://hardforum.com/threads/bitboys.1973024/
Neolithic site in Orkney to be reburied after 20 years of excavation
And what does this pedantry solve, exactly? It clearly is something the author thinks often enough about and enjoys talking about.

Let people enjoy things.
The problem with taxes & subsidies is that their discriminatory power is not as great as policy makers would like to believe. They tend to either not work at all, or they work too well and overshoot the target. (This is the issue with many other economic interventions as well.)

Economists like to pretend that everything is a continuous function of price, but this very rarely reflects real markets. Most utility functions are step functions; there is some point at which changing your behavior becomes economical, and above it everybody switches, while below it nobody switches. People can either afford to raise a child in the lifestyle they expect, or they can't - and many of the sacrifices in lifestyle don't move the needle in fundamental living costs. For having a child, that point appears to be in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. If you make childcare and college free and give 2 years of maternity leave and ensure that you can buy a 3BR+ house on an average income, then sure middle-class people will start having kids again. All the middle class people will start having kids again, because they all face the same economic constraints. And then you'll have fertility > 2 again, and the population will start exponentially growing.

You could have a large per-child subsidy and cap at 2, but this also is a lot harder to generate the desired effect than expected. Accidental pregnancies are a thing. Twins are a thing. Infertility is a thing. Careers are a thing. People who want to remain childfree regardless of cost are a thing. If you cap at 2, you'll get a fertility rate under 2 because of all these other considerations.

And this is what's playing out empirically across many countries right now. A lot of European countries have generous subsidies for childbearing; they still find that they can't raise the fertility rate above 1.5 or so. China lifted its one-child only policy, moving it to 2 children in 2016 and 3 children in 2021, and finds that fertility still collapsed (even after instituting subsidies) and they can't convince people to have babies. There are significant non-monetary costs to parenthood; it's a whole other lifestyle, and the money involved needs to be pretty large to alter that.
You just made my day :) that is so amazing to hear, thank you so much. Feel free to reach out anytime for feature requests, suggestions, product gripes, anything! I’m dani@jam.dev
It’s fascinating to see how the other side thinks sometimes. Most of the places I’ve worked have been dogmatically averse to scarequote “microservices.”
In my case, I've repeatedly had bad experiences with Fedora itself, and bad experiences with a lot of other software coming out of that part of the Linux ecosystem.

For example, I had one computer about a decade ago where the Fedora installation image wouldn't boot properly. It didn't matter if I burned it to disc or used a USB key, and I remember trying a number of different versions of Fedora over the years. It'd lock up very early on, without giving any useful diagnostic information. Meanwhile, I had no problems installing and using distros like Debian, Ubuntu, and Slackware with that same computer. Whatever the problem was, it seemed to be isolated to Fedora, while other distros worked fine.

As software like GNOME since version 3, NetworkManager, PulseAudio, PipeWire, Wayland, and systemd started making its way into other distros like Debian and Ubuntu that I did frequently use, I almost immediately ran into a lot of problems that just didn't exist before.

I find GNOME since version 3 to be very unintuitive, and very inefficient to use. If it's the default desktop for a distro, I have to strip it out and replace it with something else.

Wayland has either not worked, or has been horrifically slow, or has had annoying glitching on the systems I've tried to use it on. X, meanwhile, works fine on the same systems.

I've found software like NetworkManager, PulseAudio, PipeWire, and systemd to be unstable. Too often they will kind of work, but then they'll spontaneously break, often in ways that are a hassle to debug.

These days, I try to use FreeBSD or OpenBSD instead of Linux. They tend to just work for me, unlike Fedora, and unlike the other non-Fedora distros that have started incorporating more software from the Fedora world.
Those people often link to papers that directly contradict the claims they make, assuming no one is going to check them. This won't make a difference.
We're adding support markdown with fenced code blocks, which maybe gets you closer to "delimiting areas of particular syntax": https://github.com/marimo-team/marimo/pull/1332.

Python is nice because it enables composition and reuse as vanilla scripts. But there are definitely tradeoffs.
Oh yes! And also dont forget about the hand holding static type system that wont let you fart unless you explicitly convince it that you will not shit your pants!
I originally thought "for some countries like the US where there is such regional and urban/rural differences, this data won't be that helpful because the average will mask tons of variation", but I thought the gender differences were pretty fascinating, e.g. female obesity much more prevalent than male obesity in South Africa, and in Poland the opposite.
Walmart recently had a blowout sale on M1 MacBooks for $399. Absolute bottom-spec machines but based on the good things I'm hearing about Asahi I plan to keep an eye out for future sales, particularly with the M4 refresh coming we should see something like that happen again. So I'm sharing in case anyone else wants to know about relatively impulse purchase sale prices for Mx MacBooks for use with Asahi.
AT&T had free cash flow of 26.8 billion and EPS of $3.40. They run the largest 5G cell phone network in the US.

I'm not sure that's insignificant or that they can be referred to as a "former" giant.
I am full down that if UNIX wasn't free beer it would never had been adopted at scale.

Its warts are only bearable, because of being free beer.
I'm not sure I understand the quote.
More taxes or better tax enforcement doesn’t necessarily mean more government. Those revenues can be applied to closing the budget deficit and even paying down national debt, as the Clinton administration was able to do in the 90s.
It’s been increasingly difficult to make money writing, even before AI. I believe AI will kill >90% of writing jobs in the near future. With a GPT-5 level model, a human manager/editor will be able to lay off most of their writers. The top writers will remain, of course, but I have no idea what will happen to the rest.

Pretty sure it’s the same situation with programmers.
The default build of KeepassXC is without any optional modules

https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/wiki/Building-Ke...

-DWITH_XC_ALL=[ON|OFF] Enable/Disable compiling all plugins above (default: OFF)

To me, it seems like the maintainer is simply bringing the default package back to what it should have been, and he's offering another build with all features enabled under keepassxc-full

If KeepassXC is unhappy with the defaults, they can adjust theirs to reflect what they feel should be available out of the box.
Totally, it’s going to be a bit of a beast to tackle but really excited to do so. Would love any thoughts on how we should think about doing this for desktop! I’m dani@jam.dev if that’s easiest.
Just tried this: first experience - beautiful sunset scene, with the audio of two kids ... the first communication being a Bevis and Butthead, stoned "oh, I just farted, ehehehe".

Very compelling as you click around the world though. Thanks.
i have the unique experience of being in a plane over the Bering sea a few hours ago. https://twitter.com/JeremyRubin/status/1789273537179426922

i was going nuts in my seat and seemed to be the only one on the plane aware of what was going on.
That's a good book, I can recommmend it.

I also recommend the review by Jean Bartik (i.e. Betty “Jean” Jennings Bartik, 1924-2011) about the book: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R3K2DSB6UE1X7H/re...
Yes! I remember reading your article very closely a few years ago, before starting work on marimo. Thanks for writing it and sharing it here.

Other things we looked at closely: Joel Grus' (in)famous talk on notebooks, and obviously Pluto.jl.
It’s an interesting question!
Omg I love that. Yes!
A gluten free diet may or may not help but it’s not synonymous with “a good diet”.
Streaming Is Cable Now
Immersive Linear Algebra (2015)
> Not even Tsai Ing-wen herself would claim that.

Are you kidding? It's her formal title right now. She can't call herself anything else!

If we're going to insist on dealing with "historical and administrative facts", shouldn't we at least know the facts?
Ooh we’ve considered building a Jam for debugging extensions (honestly it would really help us to have that!). We should!
Yeah, I don't understand what I was supposed to be seeing or hearing in that clip, and they never bothered to explain it.

The guy says "Baa" and we see his lips move accordingly. Then we hear him say "Baa" again, but this time he's obviously pronouncing something else, judging by his lip movements. We don't know what he's saying (or at least those of us without lip-reading skills don't), but nothing unusual or tricky seems to be happening.

What am I missing?
Asperger here, who doesn’t eat gluten at all for almost 3 years now (due to allergy). I cant say it improved symptoms of autism but my life is divided between before/after stopping gluten consumption. I feel like I just started living for real.
This is so hyperbolic and inflammatory that it serves only as an emotional expression, not as a practical statement of how to move forward. Ironic, because hyperbolic reactions like this are at the core of the story your reacting to.
Minecraft doesn't have an LLM in it.

Here's why Minecraft works: It's an ecosystem full of carefully-designed areas and resources (biomes fine-tuned to generate specific types of landscape, enemies with focus-tested behaviours, items with particular abilities) which combine to form a sandbox where players can exercise ingenuity and build projects that satisfy their creative vision.

Where does generative AI fit into this? Should it be generating an infinite variety of dull and unoriginal items that don't do anything cool? Should it be building derivative-looking houses for players to ignore or burn down so that they can build their own houses in their place?

LLM-generated slop has no place in games. It is an obstacle to having a good time.
I found Jin-Roh's use of the Red Riding-Hood narrative to be much more subversive than a mere retelling. Both lead characters alternately play the role of red riding-hood and the wolf, luring each other in and betraying each others' trust at differing stages in the story. At the same time, neither truly wants to harm the other, but it's the human society they exist in which compels them to.

The last shot of the movie is the Rotkaeppchen storybook lying in tatters in a puddle.
Not the same. If Apple pays OpenAI, it won’t give them 0.001% of their profits, but something like 20%.

If your iPad is worth 20% of Apple’s profits, you bet Tim will be hand-holding you through the obnoxious setup process.
A lot of people here are assuming this will involve API calls to OpenAI’s servers.

If a deal is made it will almost certainly be to self host OpenAI’s models, the same way Microsoft does. Apple will use RAG to ground requests in the user’s own iCloud data, and no user data will be sent to OpenAI or be used to train any OpenAI models.
That is amazing to hear!! Thanks for giving us a try.

1 - that’s so true, hadn’t considered that. Thank you!

2 - yes! Right now we just have window vs desktop but definitely there’s more to be done there

3 - +1

Great feedback thank you!
What are details of the technique?
Do they?

// Disposed when goes out of scope
using var http = new HttpClient();
var text = await http.GetStringAsync("https://example.org/");
I'm one of the authors of marimo; happy to answer any questions.

Also see the previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38971966