skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Security is indeed a problem when running scripts straight from a download. The script may appear one way when viewed with a browser and a different way when downloaded again, based on a number of possible alterations that a malicious server is capable of.

You are right about scripts doing a bunch of changes to your system. Certainly, if you don't even save the script, you won't even know where to start!
Heh, PRs were actually quite small (from what I saw), and many teams worked on their own repos and then grafted them into the main repo (via subtrees and automated commits). My team worked in the main repo, mostly on framework-ish code. I also remember quite a bit of other automated commits as well (mostly built caches for things that needed to be served sub-ms but changed very infrequently).

And yes, spending two-to-three weeks on getting 200 lines of code absolutely soul-crushingly perfect, sounds about right for that place but that has nothing to do with it being a monolith.
I would (as in, turn-key would use it tomorrow) but it's not open source yet.
> Game Mode is coming to iPhone, minimizing background activity to ensure the highest frame rates.

This might just be me, but this thing doesn’t feel very Apple-like to me. I always liked how a MacBook would run exactly the same whether connected to the wall or on battery power. There were no modes, no management, no battery strategies to choose from like on Windows, the machine was just powerful when needed and efficient when idle.

Now we have both High power and Low power modes on MacBooks and we’re getting “gaming mode” on iPhone? Like, can’t the latest flagship phone just tell? This thing can decide whether to show me my boarding pass, if I’m driving home or to work, but I need to put it in “gaming mode” manually?
As a full-blown queer autonomous neo Marxist, I own my own f*** company.

Have done so for 5 years now.

We pay all workers their fair share of the socially necessary production time. If the organization needs surplus to invest in equipment, we requisition it from the production with consensus from the workers.

I had to kick a number of capitalists to the curb to achieve this. Why? Cuz they wanted to exploit workers, and they wanted me to do it for them.

Get lost!

You can get paid the full value of your work, if you seize control of the business. Just don't be a wimp, and out maneuver the pudding headed capitalists who know no actual economics or category theory, lol. It's f*** easy.
Apple is finally launching the Vision Pro outside the US
On the contrary these aesthetic things are what like 99% of people actually want.
iPadOS 18 announced with customizable Home screen and Calculator app
> Nitpicking. If Russia is at war with NATO - it ceases to exist. Why would it enter that war then?

You seem way more certain than me that NATO countries have the means and will to destroy Russia in short order. Maybe you're right, but I expect that would be a much more difficult and deadly war than Russia simply ceasin to exist.

> This is just relativism. Very convenient to justify doing nothing. Ultimately there are facts. Nobody was going to invade Russia and you know it (and Russian government knew it).

Even a bar fight isn't so black and white that you can easily say who started and when. Sure, if you want to consider recognizing that the events leading to a war are complex as relitivism then I'd argue that claiming it's easy to see Russia started this war and there are no mitigating factors muddying that water is absolutism.

Boiling complex situations down to simple, binary facts is a great way to justify doing whatever it is you want to do.

The balance is in the middle. I'm not arguing that Russia wasn't the agressor here, and I'm not arguing that they weren't the aggressor in 2008 or 2014 either. I am arguing, though, that one side can see unwarranted agression while the other side honestly believes they are responding to a threat that already existed.
https://m.slashdot.org/story/21026

“No wireless. Less space than the Nomad. Lame”

Palm CEO on the iPhone

“ We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone, PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in.”

People seem to forget that it took two years to sell the first 1 million iPods and Apple only sold 10 million iPhones the first year - 1% of the total market.
Yup you can just install it now.
I like how fast they turned “ha ha, at least they have a sense of humor about how stupid it is that it’s taken this long to get Calculator on iPad” into “…oh my” when Pencil entered the picture.

Good that it delivers something really nice and isn’t just finally getting the damn thing on iPad.
The article says people loved screen, and as a user myself I concur and used it for exactly what was mentioned - screening junior candidates efficiently. Theoretically if the company wasn’t venture funded they could maybe have waited for those junior candidates to turn into senior ones that people want. I wish someone would bring back that tool.
But if you actually believe they'll be super AI in a year or two, why even bother with a product till then? Seems like the only focus should be getting there first.

Unless of course you don't actually believe that.
No more gainax bounce?
same thing we do today, hop on a call and screenshare.
So maybe the solution is to double-send all the encrypted packets - once to the VPN endpoint, and once to the original target (but encrypted so it doesn't reach). Or maybe instead of the intended target, to some randomized selection of targets. You wouldn't get responses, but maybe that doesn't matter.
Apple adds support for calculator on iPad (together with math notes)
This. And then a coup happened inside Apple (the Apple maps debacle) to oust Scott Forstall.
Keyboard is very fast for this.
It's a pity the iPod wasn't more successful and Apple decided to kill it. I still use my iPod Classic although the battery lasts just a few days.

The newer iPods looked just like the iPhone just without phone connectivity so that was probably the nail in their coffin but I kind of liked the separation of devices for different tasks.
So cameras that are used to spy on people are going to be replaced because someone might be spying along? :)
I hang around in the middle of nowhere in dangerous and stupid places a lot for days. It'd be nice to bounce the odd message to family to inform them that I'm not dead.
Genuine question because I'm out of touch:

Do people actually want ARM laptops? Wouldn't that immediately render a ton of x86 software obsolete?
When you look at the end credits for a lot of anime series, you'll see many Thai, Vietnamese and Cambodian names credited for animation. Most animation that doesn't come from a "prestige" studio like Kyoto, Ghibli etc. is outsourced to Southeast Asia.
People think DNA is the source code. It’s more like an API response. DNA is sufficient to pass traits down to the next generation. It is not sufficient to bootstrap life from nothing. It has to be interpreted by a very specific system.
There are improvements happening with third-party screen-casting apps.

"Universal Desktop" is the best IMO at the moment, as it supports streaming individual windows in addition to the entire desktop. It's far from perfect, unfortunately, but it's a step in the right direction, and shows what will be possible soon.

I originally thought I wanted multiple virtual displays in visionOS. After using a couple of tools that support that... I've realized that's not a good use of the technology. I think per-window streaming is the right way forward at this point.
The biggest single thing I found for reducing screen time is to set the screen to grayscale. It just makes everything so less engaging
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In my opinion, OpenAI is building a platform business [1]. OpenAI is primarily an innovation platform. It provides tools, models, and APIs that enable developers and businesses to create new applications and services, fostering a wide ecosystem of innovation where OpenAI’s technology is the beating heart, driving high-margin revenue. While it also sells API access, its main role aligns with enabling third-party innovation, similar to platforms like Microsoft and Google Android.

However, driving third-party innovation does not relieve OpenAI of the need to create consumer-facing applications like ChatGPT. If OpenAI was to remain exclusively a back-end API business, it would be leaving itself vulnerable to disintermediation as competition from other model providers like Meta enable swapping out the back end. I believe Kevin was brought in to make sure OpenAI has its own relevant front end innovation so that disintermediation is less of a threat.

[1] https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=56021
Math notes looks incredible, but it's probably one of those features that will be infuriating for anything remotely complex.
I doubt this story about Linus and Steve. MacOS is NEXTSTEP-derived and that pre-dated Linux by several years.
I really wish they would switch these back to being live. It just adds a human element that cannot be captured with this crap. Steve stood up there in a black sweater and let the tech speak for itself. On these I'm stuck beholding the same class of high-income-Silicon-Valley-mid-40s where they are all kind of weirdly look and sound the same even though they are all trying so hard to have unique styles and they are all just so excited to be telling you the thing that is really important and gives their life deep meaning and peace and they are so happy.
What does it tell us exactly?
The point of investments is that they grow. If the managers grew the money well, they'd still have plenty of capital under management after returning some back to the investors.
Thought the same when I read - and honestly I think the larger growth vector for OpenAI is their B2B and API potential. But good product leaders can span both, but curious none-the-less
I mean the conventions of HAVE and USE prefixed macros in C, as opposed to the C found in K&R or
C17-ISO/IEC 9899:2018.

Like this (they use HAS, not HAVE)

https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/blob/HEAD:/pp.c#l1259

or this

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/master/st.c#L115
It looks like Silicon Valley really values the experience of execs from Instagram:

OpenAI CPO: Kevin Weil, Instagram VP of Product 2016-2018 [1]

Anthropic CPO: Mike Krieger, Instagram Cofounder and CTO 2010-2018 [2]

OpenAI VP Consumer Product: Peter Deng, Instagram Head of Product 2013-2015 [3]

[1] https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinweil/

[2] https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikekrieger/

[3] https://www.linkedin.com/in/peterxdeng/
Frosty volcanoes discovered in Mars's tropics
Agreed, their audiences will definitely bear the brunt of those losses, but they will still absolutely try, and your average person has very little (if any) control over this.
Android has long had more aesthetic customization, but I doubt a statistically significant number of people make buying decisions based on it.

They are features people use, but they're refinements rather than significant advancements. I think the root of the situation here is that smartphones are mostly feature-complete.
Lively Kernel was one such idea.

https://youtu.be/gGw09RZjQf8?feature=shared
In the same vein is there any good, low latency, speech to text to speech (STTTS?) capable programs that are making use of LLMs or AI?
Yea I was tempted to make a joke that it took them 14 years (still ridiculous), but the new calculator app actually looks really impressive, and potentially will make learning math a lot more fun.
I wish they would provide useful customization features, such as adjusting the drop shadow on the app names that appear under the icons. Look at those images in the article; the "News" text is way less legible because it's over the highlight of the dog's ear. This has been an issue for years.
This is a great step if true. I think it's wonderful if someone wants these features but it should take an action to enable them. That way the less-technical users don't get tripped up by the features suddenly appearing with an update. It also means there will be a focus on keeping the system working both with or without these features, instead of having a system that is broken without them.
My favorite help desk call - user calls in to complain the monitor isn't working. Start doing the usual troubleshooting and ask them to verify the cable is connected to the computer. User complains the computer is under the desk and that they can't see under the desk because the lights are out - because the power is out.
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I wouldn't have believed it if I didn't live it.
Show HN: AiDAPal – An IDA Pro plugin and fine-tuned LLM for reverse engineering
Howdy HN! aiDAPal started out as a project to understand the process of executing a fine-tune of a locally running LLM and to better understand if it was possible to produce results that were competitive with hosted services locally on a fairly small model (mistral7b). Alongside the plugin and fine-tuned model, I have also included the training dataset/scripts and an in-depth blog covering the process of evaluating my original question. I am definitely not an expert in this field and a lot of discovery was done along the way, feedback from folks who do know better is welcomed. thanks!
As for Evagelion series, most of the creatives and copyright itself have moved into khara.

GAINAX had been in the vegetative state for many years now.
I wonder if this couldn't be solved at the OS level. Maybe there could be some kind of a flag that, if the OS sees it, the app is not allowed to store/save/communicate/whatever. Then, any app that has this flag doesn't need a privacy policy because it is OS restricted from doing anything that might require such a policy?

I suggest this as someone who has no experience whatsoever in making apps or mobile operating systems (beyond being a user of one), so I don't know how practical it is.
i recommend dumping a backup of the email into long term storage elsewhere every few months. otherwise it's a lot of memories down the drain if $provider decided "oh we didn't like your emailing patterns and deleted your account"
100%.

I was using it with my daughter to help her with math review for high school finals, and was presented by ChatGPT 4o with an impossible triangle as an example problem for her to solve.

We "told" ChatGPT the problem couldn't be solved with this kind of triangle and asked it to come up with other examples NOT using impossible triangles and it couldn't NOT come up with workable examples.
I love the minimal approach - will try it!

There is also:

https://kamal-deploy.org/
https://github.com/basecamp/kamal

https://dokku.com/
https://github.com/dokku/dokku/

https://clace.io/
https://github.com/claceio/clace
Ha!

> Notably, Aidan used to work at Google, where he was one of the authors of a paper called “Attention is all you need” that described transformers and really kicked off the LLM revolution in AI.

"Here's Aidan one of the geniuses that pioneered the modern AI landscape" gushes the article.

Then:

> It happened later that we started to see the community pick up the architecture and start to apply it to way more stuff than we had ever contemplated when building it.

And the academic community did all the work.

> so it’s very easy to personify the technology. You expect from the tech what you expect from a human.

> the technology is so similar to what it feels like to interact with a human, people overestimate it or trust it more than they should.

Saying the quiet part out loud. How to sucker in investors and rich people into investing into startups that promise the moon? Point to the natural language interface.
This is nice and Google themselves had an ad campaign that did exactly this. It will
work until Google decides to delete the email address for some inane reason. I guess that’s partly why they nixed that campaign.
they also fine you
Original version discussed 3 months ago (114 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39707356
> People have to read 1984 in middle school,

And yet they don't underestand anything from it.
Apple Announces Calculator App for iPad with Apple Pencil Support
> The folks that do tend to populate the open job market often have one or more dysfunctions that make it hard for them to slot into the corporate job market, the most common of which are not wanting to slot into the corporate job market and not being able to define yourself enough to identify where you should slot into it.

I think this is a pretty good reason to have an org that "speaks corporate job market", but that doesn't evaluate candidates the same way the corporate job market does. A person who is skilled but doesn't want to/doesn't know how to/has moral objections to selling themselves the way employers often want benefits a lot from having an agent who can vouch for them.

As for the market-for-lemons thing, yeah, absolutely! It's a good framing. And in that analogy, I'm betting on the idea that a team of mechanics that can identify the good cars is valuable.
Some of these are of course because Excel has certain defaults (like the gene-name-to-date conversion).

Some are simply data manipulation (the case that Data Colada uncovered), so not really Excel’s fault.

And some are formula mistakes. Any widely used programming tool will produce bugs like this. It would help if Excel had better facilities for code reviews.

Any ideas?
Hi, op here. Is there any sort of error message or status code? I use CloudFlare so it's quite strange if it simply didn't connect for you.
Huge HTMX fan but there are some things that just going to be easier to build with a real SPA. For example not going to be a great experience to build spotify using just alpine and htmx.
I mean that anime is Evagelion, it is like using Star Wars to showcase Lucasfilm, there is most accurate representation of the studio's accomplishment, as well as assets (used to be).
And Apple will never introduce a cheaper version?
Until that video comes out, you can read the proposal[1]. This appears to be quite recent (the timestamp says 4 days ago).

I personally found the writing style of the proposal to be clearer than the tutorial-flavor of the original blog post (I haven't watched the video). But that's probably because I have a programming language background and am intimately familiar with Rust.

[1]: https://github.com/modularml/mojo/blob/main/proposals/lifeti...
I think even the most bullish e/acc AI fanatic is probably not 100% sure AGI will be developed in a year or two, and so even in the most optimistic case you would want to hedge your bets.
People forget that ROS isn't really about the IPC or the build system or the networking.

Ok it is about those things, but fundamentally it's about standardization. Grab any lidar driver and it'll output a LaserScan. Every wheeled robot will send out Odometry, anything from a submarine to a flying drone to an agv will respond to a Twist message, every robot will have a central coordinate frame called "base_link", etc.

The cross ecosystem interoperability is frankly insane and the main perk of it all. It makes building things easy when you don't have to deal with writing adapters every single damn time. This is why ROS 2 is currently such a step backwards because it fragments the ecosystem in DDS compatibility, making sure that no two packages will necessarily be able to run concurrently.
Certainly not an advanced topic, but lesser known (compared to string or list) is probably an accurate description. This article seems like it's aimed at Python learners, rather than experienced programmers.
They don't use a content-hash (or some other means) to detect changes?
Finally. Icons don’t have to be stuck in the top left corner of the screen.

Not that this will ever be available on the 6s I’m still using.
Honest question: Do they not each worry they are each, in their own way, going to be Linda Yaccarino?
I don't think people discovering these profiles on HN is the concern here.

The true problem with OF models is due to an iterated mutual tit-for-tat strategy between OF models and popular groups on social media platforms:

1. OF models (or people acting on their behalf) want to promote themselves using popular groups/pages/channels on social-networks — they spam posts to these places, seeming to be authentic engagement, in ways that get people curious to look at their profile; and where their profile on the social network then directs those people to their OF profile.

2. The popular groups/pages/channels on social networks are inundated by spam from these OF models, and so attempt to use automated measures to detect and block posts from posters who link to OF on their profiles.

3. OF models/their agents try to work around this by indirecting their OF profile behind "make an About You page with links" services like carrd.co.

4. The popular SN groups respond by also blocking profiles containing links to these "About You page" services (because, keep in mind, the SN profile already works as an "About You page", so there's no need to link to one of these external "About You page" services — you could just put the same links you'd put on such a page into your SN profile instead. The only people who do link to "About You page" services from their SN profiles, are OF models.)

5. And OF models/their agents try to work around this, by finding ever-more-obscure "About You page" services — and/or profile pages on other, more obscure social-media services, to use as an "About You page" — to get ahead of this moderation.

This at.hn service would sadly be exactly the kind of service referenced in step 5.
Driveby answer to your question, sorry I can't expand: yes, for the most part.

Even when these topics are covered directly in a university course, this knowledge doesn't stick around to become "foundational". Especially for those that don't have a hardware, embedded, or otherwise resource-constrained background or area of interest.
Then I suspect it's just cowardice.
I've been pretty satisfied with the Netherlands as an American who moved here a couple years ago from Texas. Especially local government, things get done on time, when they say they are going to. I filed my taxes super early (by Dutch standards) and got my finalized copies in a couple of months. New IDs take days to process if you're already in the system. In all my interactions with the government to immigrate, everything was on time and efficient.

My only gripe is that you have to go to some larger cities for some services which requires travel or potentially taking time off, but that's not really a problem when your entire country is accessible by rail/car in less than 3 hours. And these are specific expat services, not every day stuff.
A Cure for Long Covid [pdf]
Very different market
Sarah was well respected at Square as the CFO, and left when it was obvious Jack wouldn't give up the CEO role.
> I always liked how a MacBook would run exactly the same whether connected to the wall or on battery power. There were no modes, no management, no battery strategies to choose from like on Windows

macOS has had power management settings for years and years - used to be branded "Energy Saver"
In my de-Googling process, I switched to Fastmail. I think they have a pretty good email, calendar, contacts, and notes interface.

It has a quick and easy Gmail importer. I also gave it access to my Gmail account to pull emails whenever someone emails my old email so I can let them know I switched emails. All I get now from my old gmail account is spam, but I'm holding on for at least another year to make sure I don't miss anything or anyone who hasn't updated my address. (I use a personal domain so I won't have such problems in the future if I change providers.)