skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I posted this below some comment but it may be worth reading for others:

start using very high entropy passwords which contain just about all printable ascii characters, excluding whitespace.

If a computer cant guess it, it won't crack the hash, either.

Use a password manager and make those suckers 20-40 characters.

Use a master key that is just a super long phrase interleaved with special characters. Easy to remember. Like titles of books you like, plus authors, plus something only you know. Stuff like that. Example: `Franz&Kafka$Meta-/morphosis@@3385`. Even better, use such helpers to make a high entropy string of random letters.

I use a version of KeePass, with the actual file synced via syncthing to all devices plus a cloud. To me, it has never been an issue to copy paste or auto type a 40 character password -- in fact, I usually dont even notice.
Having done some blogging that I need to get back to, I have to agree with you that follower counts are mostly worthless. Platforms like Twitter and YouTube end up with hugely inflated numbers compared to your actual audience.

A fantastic following is 1000 people who really care. A million random YouTube subscribers might have that.
How about "do not kill humans"
Why assume infinite time? Time appears quite finite in the only direction we can measure.
I don’t like it, I tend to use /tmp for large files or directories that are just that - temporary.

Now they will either fill up my RAM or require a large swap partition (which I usually don’t have as it’s otherwise wasted space).

I really like making /tmp the default destination for downloads, so either I need the file and move it elsewhere, but usually it’s an archive and I just want a file from it. Saves me from an ever growing Download folder.

Those files are most dispensable and should not consume precious RAM.

Some file systems are even adding specific tmpdir support where fsync() is turned into a noop.
So they have all the advantages of tmpfs without eating into precious RAM/Swap.
Yeah so much naysaying. Especially the people storing important files in `/var/tmp`! It's like complaining to the council for collecting bins because you like to keep your keys in them. Wtf.

Good work pushing through it Boccassi!
Totally fair, I am conflating two pretty different things.

For symmetric crypto, there is Grover's algorithm, which we can mitigate by just doubling key size. However, for asymmetric crypto, shor's algorithm is going to wreck it; intelligence agencies are hoovering up traffic right now to crack latter when it's cheaply available.

I would point out the field is in its infancy and new attacks/discoveries will be made that will change things dramatically. These attacks also depend on having access to a "sufficiently large" quantum computer, which in my amateur opinion is 10s of years away from public availability.

There is a whole field of "post-quantumn" cryptography being discussed now, but they not really standard or ready for prime-time afaik.
It's a default. You can change it.
Well this also applies if someone friendly finds your phone and wishes to return it. It's a catch 22 there.
How did Twitter gold verify this account?
https://x.com/blynksolve

It is is a person, not an organization. Does twitter actually verify if gold accounts represent actual organizations or businesses, or do they just take the money?
AI Is Your Coworker Now. Can You Trust It?
The article (and presumably the study behind the article) expands on this a bit, it just wouldn't make a click-friendly title. According to the text, Internet addiction makes young people prone to fall for other kinds of addiction and negatively affects mental health, physical coordination, intellect, memory, sleep patterns and eating, ie. all the things you don't want broken.
Salts do not make brute-forcing any more "difficult" though if that's the method you're using to crack with.
Pretty much what I thought: "the studies did not provide clear evidence that IA played a causal role towards the development of the adolescent brain."

There were a ton of other limitations too ("Components of the study, such as sample sizes, effect sizes, and demographics were not weighted or controlled", all the studies coming from "China (8), Korea (3), and Indonesia (1)" which might explain how a bunch of kids got diagnosed with a condition that isn't really recognized as a disorder in the west, inconsistent terminology ("online gaming addiction, internet addiction, internet gaming disorder, and problematic internet use") without clear consensus on what those terms actually mean, etc

Limiting cell phone/social media use is probably a good idea, especially for teens, but I sure wouldn't say that anyone should panic or change their behavior based on this paper.
The Activation Lock remains if you use Remote Erase - all documented on Apple's site: https://support.apple.com/en-us/108794

Only Remove Device specifically deactivates Activation Lock.
That's not my understanding of the situation at all.

The journalist:

- Marked the phone as lost;

- Wiped all data;

FTA: As quickly as possible, I did all the things you’re supposed to do when your phone is lost or stolen —- mark it as lost, cut off service, and remotely erase it

She did not, however, remove (delete) that iPhone from her iCloud account, which means that the iPhone can't be factory reset by the thieves because "FindMy" is still activated.

FTA: As long as I didn’t remove the phone from my Apple account or the Find My app, the phone was essentially bricked to anyone without the passcode and my iCloud password

The iPhone did not, at any time, leak any personal information. What probably happened is that she had a SIM card on it, and from ejecting the tray and putting the SIM into another phone they managed to get her phone number, from which they started contacting her with the threats/scams.

I think this wouldn't even be possible with a e-SIM in the newer iPhone models.
Should be https://www.ommo.co/careers (note the trailing s)
There’s a passage in A Moveable Feast where Hemingway recounts an attempt to solicit funds to get T. S. Eliot out of the bank so he could focus on his poetry. I don’t think that succeeded, but Eliot eventually moved to an editorial position at the publisher Faber and Faber.
Agreed. Anti-theft is a higher priority for me than repairability.
Emacs' BBDB had similar functionality (without the AI): https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/bbdb.html
Yes, I don't think the Fields medal was intended as the "Nobel prize of mathematics", but since it was the biggest award that existed it got promoted as such despite its inequivalence. More recently there's the Abel prize, which tries to be a more direct Nobel prize analogue, but of course the Fields medal has a multi-decade head start in terms of promotion...
Just this morning I benchmarked my 7960X on RandomX (i.e. Monero mining). That's a 24-core CPU. With 48 cores, it gets about 10kH/s and uses about 100 watts extra. With 48 threads, about 15kH/s and 150 watts. It does make sense with the nature of RandomX.

Another benchmark I've done is .onion vanity address mining. Here it's about a 20% improvement in total throughput when using hyperthreading. It's definitely not useless.

However, I didn't compare to a scenario with hyperthreading disabled in the BIOS. Are you telling me the threads get 20-50% faster, each, with it disabled?
That's where the Trillion $ cluster comes in. It also includes building power plants, not just data centers
The problem is that communities got replaced by algorithms who think on your behalf.

The algorithm is by definition random, and yet for countless years now it is how most social media sites, including popular developer communities, operate.

In the era of the feed and timeline, nobody bothers to check “Following” when you have “Recommended” enabled by default. The former requires effort, while the latter gives a false sense of reality.

Every refresh it is something new and exciting, every time. A never ending loop of joy and happiness. Who knows… one day the algorithm could even show you in front of the entire world!
I never said LOTR is one big trope. I said the Shire storyline re: Saruman was a trope.

I happen to love LOTR anyway and have read it many times; I just am not blind to the themes in it.
What's the point of putting /tmp in RAM when a competent disk-backed filesystem will do that with the most heavily used files anyway?
The amount of evidence pointing to vaccines being the cause of excess deaths is staggering.

It’s absolutely flabbergasting how so many people will stick fingers in their ears and try and blame anything and everything but the so called “vaccines”.
Many boats are going electric. Home heating, industrial processes, trains, mining, etc the vast majority of energy use you can swap without issue.

Rockets and big boats can swap to hydrogen with minor issues. Really aircraft are the odd man out, but remove bio fuels from other applications and you can largely replace aviation fuel.

After we drop CO2 emissions by 99% using existing tech we'll have decades to hit 100%.
Yeah, when I sold my old iPhone I wiped it and removed it from my account so that the new owner could use it. The site I was selling on warned me multiple times that it would be unusable without that step.
Flight 4 will be similar to IFT-3 and is scheduled for June 6th: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starship_flight_tests#U...
"It has been proved all the zeroes are within a narrow strip centred on the line and you can make the strip as arbitrarily narrow as you like."

Nothing close to this is known.

The nontrivial zeros of zeta lie within the critical strip, i.e., 0 <= Re(s) <= 1 (in analytic number theory, the convention, going back to Riemann's paper is to write a complex variable as s = sigma + it)*. The Riemann Hypothesis states that all zeros of zeta are on the line Re(s) = 1/2. The functional equation implies that the zeros of zeta are symmetric about the line Re(s) = 1/2. Consequently, RH is equivalent to the assertion that zeta has no zeros for Re(s) > 1/2. A "zero-free region" is a region in the critical strip that is known to have no zeros of the Riemann zeta function. RH is equivalent to the assertion that Re(s) > 1/2 is a "zero-free region." The main reason that we care about RH is that RH would give essentially the best possible error term in the prime number theorem (PNT) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number_theorem. A weaker zero-free region gives a weaker error term in the PNT. The PNT in its weakest, ineffective form is equivalent to the assertion that Re(s) >= 1 is a zero free region (i.e., that there are no zeros on the line Re(s) = 1).

The best-known zero-free region for zeta is the Vinogradov--Korobov zero-free region. This is the best explicit form of Vinogradov--Korobov known today https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06867 (a slight improvement of https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.08205).

I think your confusion stems from the fact that approximately the reverse of what you said above is true. That is, the best zero-free regions that we know get arbitrarily close to the Re(s) = 1 line (i.e., get increasingly "useless") as the imaginary part tends to infinity. Your statement seems to suggest that the the area we know contains the zeros gets arbitrarily close to the 1/2 line (which would be amazing). In other words, rather than our knowledge being about as close to RH as possible (as you suggested), our knowledge is about as weak as it could be. (See this image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zero-free_region_for.... The blue area is the zero-free region.)

* I don't like this convention; why is it s = sigma + it instead of sigma = s + it? Blame Riemann.
Binder is actually something that was designed for BeOS and PalmOS, so ironically it is not very tied to Linux and IMHO one of these technologies that Google uses to abstract themselves from Linux.

(It still has something to do with the early implementations since I recognize some of the #define names..)
The link to source code is broken. Looks like someone forgot to put a '/' in the href link. The actual link is:

https://www.andreinc.net/2024/04/24/assets/js/2024-04-24-fro...

Looks like it is using processing to do the animation.
I noticed several red flags that made me believe it is machine generated, but I won't reveal them for fear of training some ML on it.
Intel to Sell 49% of Irish Factory to Apollo for $11B
Figure 1 in this post, showing algorithmically enforced collusion in the cartel, is shocking to me as someone who hasn't spent any time on Instagram.

The authors of the blog post describe their analysis in detail in the "companion paper" on arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.10231
Yeah the trouble is in my experience it slows down to the point that the system is unresponsive and you have to reboot anyway. I don't think Linux has a good answer to RAM management other than "buy lots and lots of RAM" (I already have 32GB and it's nowhere near enough).

I wish it worked like Windows - I've never had to reboot due to lack of RAM there, and even when the system is unresponsive ctrl-alt-del is very reliable.
What is german word for this tax?
As you point out though, the data does exist. It just tends to be more ephemeral. There's some question as to whether the ephemeral aspect of it is more feature or bug.
In case it should be said, journalists without first-hand experience in direct evidence gathering tend not to be primary sources either. It may be the case that AI will have some types of relevant first-hand experience, and may count as primary sources in a number of circumstances. I can see many possible cases in the future (maybe even a decade from now) where AI can engage in a variety of thorough investigative practices. Reaching out to communicate with people, flying a drone to inspect, or perhaps executing more more complex processes may be coming. Justification or sufficient positivistic authority may come in different degrees and kinds in this cluster of practices as well.
You can set HF_HOME to move the folder it downloads those to elsewhere (or well, the HF transformers/diffusers stuff at least), iirc.
True, can host HTTP-only but that still surfaces a warning on modern browsers.
How exactly can they get the phone number though? The only thing I can think of is if there was an unlocked (no PIN) physical SIM-card, and they could just insert it into another phone.

And yes, e-SIM solves this problem.
Ask HN: Best email messaging drip marketing tool
I'm wondering what tools work well for selling services via email, that allow you to message prospects and then automatically follow-up until their either schedule a meeting or unsubscribe from messages? Something that can be used to send normal plain text messages and where it looks like the message comes from a person but it's being automated. Bonus points if there is tracking included.
And not to mention, floating point numbers are already roughly logarithmically distributed. Logarithmic distributions are most important in large differing orders of magnitude, so having the piecewise-linear approximation of logarithm is good enough for proximity buffers.
> instead everything just slows way down when swap gets involved when RAM is full

I have literally never wanted this and so I'm curious why you do. This is why earlyoom is a thing precisely because grinding your system to a halt is often worse than killing and restarting some processes.

High swappiness so you run slower but never lock up or low swappiness with an aggressive oom killer so you don't lock up are to me the only sane options. Why do you want your servers to be up but thrashing?
Which itself is not a measurement of development/welfare per capita. Having a higher GDP/capita than another country doesn't automatically translate to more money in your pocket for you or a higher standard of living.
Keep in mind that on macOS /tmp is some very cursed link to /private/var/tmp and some projects will get very confused by this.
But how is it better to have /tmp on tmpfs?
Those files are hardly performance critical
From the comments, the author was contacted via iMessages from the iCloud email that shows up when it asks for a password.
On any given day, in any police department in the nation, 15 percent of officers will do the right thing no matter what is happening. Fifteen percent of officers will abuse their authority at every opportunity. The remaining 70 percent could go either way depending on whom they are working with.

~ I'm a black ex-cop, and this is the real truth about race and policing, http://www.vox.com/2015/5/28/8661977/race-police-officer
The best thing I've learned about "influenceering" is to stop thinking you're hot shit and focus on being useful (or entertaining if that is what you're about).

Years ago I was pumping content out all the time and I was just creating the content for the sake of creating it. Consequently, the content was mostly pointless and garbage.

If you want to treat your social media as a public journal that is cool, but not likely to make you an influencer. If your goal is to grow a following, you've gotta be empathetic towards your audience and create what they want to see.

If you're trying to entertain, make sure you're actually entertaining. Or if like me you're educating, make sure you're actually educating.

It seems completely obvious, yet when you're doing it, its easy to lose sight of the mission.

Once I "removed myself" from the equation and just focused on what is actually useful to my intended audience things improved tremendously.
It’s not always a great metric to use. For instance in India the buying power of $1 is 3.5 times that of the United States because everyday goods and housing are so cheap. A lot of the lower middle class have 20-30 rupee lunches everyday which works out to about $0.25. These are relatively substantial meals with flatbread, a vegetable dish and an egg or two.
The Lock Screen displays what you ask it to. When you mark a phone as Lost or perform a Remote Erase, you can push down your contact data if you'd like (ie - if you think a "friendly" found the phone and you want it back), or you can elect to type nothing, an offensive message, etc. Likewise for the "Medical ID" feature (which is also available with the phone locked) - you can elect to display lots of details, some details, or no details at all.
OpenAI Employees Warn of Advanced AI Dangers
> Walk ten miles a day for a year before telling me you've tried it.

Walking 10 miles a day isn't feasible for disabled and many injured people nor people who don't have 3+ hours spare to walk that far. If the principle is "do lots of exercise that you can do" yes we know about that, we've tried it many times, and the habit to sustain that didn't stick for the million and one reasons that they fail. Thankfully there are doctors and pharmaceutical companies that can understand recidivism statistics and don't just assume that obese people are morons or "lazy" or whatever ignorant and arrogant opinion you're espousing.
Arrow is columnar storage, nothing relevant here.

And capnproto is basically another version of pb... (see discussion above)
Flip the question: most storage these days is some kind of solid-state. Why is it better to commit /tmp to a solid-state device (decreasing its operational life) when those files are, by definition, transient and must not be required for future correct program operation?
Well, that would be an amazing thing if Canada weakened copyright law. It's what differentiates good change from bad change. But I guess there is no honor among thieves (copyright cartel and Canada). Neither side is morally worth defending.

As an aside, weakening copyright law sufficiently would strongly accelerate democratic AI because AI thrives on high quality data.
I don't like the experimental protocol here, because it sets up a situation where the second-order answer is the same as the zeroth-order answer. For example, in Figure 1, FLAN is incapable of understanding the first-order situations, but does very well on the second-order. But that's just because you get the second-order questions right if you ignore any theory of mind and just answer where the target object actually is. For example, one of the prompts is:

>You are in a mansion together with Alfred. In the library is a plastic pencil sharpener. In the ballroom is an antique Stradivarius violin. Only you know what is inside the library and the ballroom. Alfred wants to observe the Stradivarius violin. Now Alfred asks you in which room the violin is. You indicate the library. However, Bruce told Alfred that you plan to trick him by suggesting the wrong room. Where will Alfred search for the violin?

FLAN answers "ballroom", and gets credit for a correct answer. But FLAN seems to always just say the room where the object actually is, even when the "you plan to trick him" stuff is removed.
> An FAA Safety Inspector must be present at SpaceX’s Boca Chica Launch Complex
for flight operations.

Galling to think the FAA Safety Inspector gets paid to sit in a box seat. Probably a $500k market price to be in the room during the fun.
Databricks Buys Tabular – 1B Dollar Deal Iceberg vs. Delta Lake?
In Chinese tho with extremely rare exceptions all the characters have only one reading.

Japanese has onyomi and kunyomi. The onyomi also come from different periods in Chinese so there's multiple onyomi for most Kanji.

Then you get two Kanji words that come in all varieties. Most are onyomi + onyomi, but you get some that are onyomi + kunyomi or kunyomi + kunyomi or kunyomi + onyomi.

There's also not really any solid rules to it, and when there are, there are plenty of exceptions.

It's a real nightmare of a system. A fun one though.
I gained a a few years of experience in SQL-based OLAP systems at my current job. In this time I developed a strong appreciation for SQL, especially for its composability. Recently, I started a project in Google Colab, gluing together queries from several systems with Pandas DataFrames. I can honestly say that I've never been more frustrated learning an API than I have with Pandas.

Need some window function like LAG() or LEAD()? Too bad, I hope you like writing Python "for i in range(...):" loops. My notebook is littered with ".reset_index()" calls, ".replace(np.nan, None)", "axis='columns'", "foo.assign(bar=lambda df: df.apply(lambda row: ...))". groupby is especially confusing to me, as a Pandas GroupBy is difficult to compose with a normal DataFrame until you call .reset_index(). Compare this to SQL, where a subquery is a subquery, whether or not it has a GROUP BY clause.

The Pandas documentation also leaves a lot to be desired. Take the documentation of pandas.NaT[1] for example. "pandas.NaT: alias of NaT". Ok? That still doesn't tell me what NaT is, nor does it link to the thing that it aliases. The groupby documentation[2] also caused me some headaches, as it covers only the simplest aggregation use-cases.

Pandas is clearly better for some use-cases, but mostly for simple operations that are well-supported by the API (perhaps numeric operations that are implemented with native numpy routines). But if I'm doing some interactive OLAP stuff, I'll reach for SQL. Perhaps the problem is I'm trying to use Pandas like it's SQL, when it's not. But for manipulating data, I'd rather use a language than a library.

[1] https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/reference/api/pandas.NaT.html
[2] https://pandas.pydata.org/docs/user_guide/groupby.html

edit: half a sentence
Right, I finally realized. I’m a damn prompt engineer.

Have you been using the upload file feature of desktop? Game changer

I iterate, upload, iterate, upload. You can upload multiple files. It loses a bit of context sometime for some reason but it beats pasting in 20 pounds of code.
This person seems to be from the USA and it's an iPhone 14 Pro. The iPhone 14 Pro sold in the USA does not have a SIM card slot. It's eSIM only.
Since that is the entirely conventional take on literature I couldn’t possibly be missing that.

(Edit: re-reading what I wrote earlier I can see how it can be read that way. My bad. )
Only on my personal machine. If I’m logged in elsewhere and keep my habit of working on large files in /tmp, I will be in for a bad surprise