skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing work, prompt engineering at its finest. One future direction for Arc AGI could be to use not Python, but a much more concise programming language that is more suited for brute-force methods like genetic mutations. The problem would be of course to train an LLM that is proficient enough in such a language. I am thinking about stack based languages. For this competition I would develop a careful bit-level encoding of a variant of the 'Joy' programming language. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_(programming_language)) It would be a considerable effort though which I don't have time for, hence I post this idea publicly. A promising direction is a mix of things in my opinion: Special stack-based concise language, consulting LLMs like the OP did, and genetic algorithms combined.
> Whether you compare median or mean, Americans reliably come out ahead, except for a few small Euro countries (mostly tax havens for American companies).

No. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...

By median, the US is on par with Italy. If you adjust for property prices (cheaper in Italy), then it's definitively lower.
Living in Harmony with Nature? A Critical Appraisal of Earth Rights in Bolivia
From “their foundation web page”

> Take control of your data with our end-to-end encrypted email, VPN, cloud storage, password manager and calendar.

I think it’s pretty obvious?
And a complete shadow of the current EU. Should we call a current intel CPU an 8086?

I only make the point because the current EU is so far removed in scope from the initial post-WW2 version
> There's also no reason to assume that animals don't think the same way.

Indeed. I wonder do they see us as special at all? It'd be pretty funny if they didn't

> Animals didn't land on the moon or discover quantum mechanics

Humans existed for hundreds of thousands of years before they did either of these things
> It's still not a feature you can expect all implementations to have, so OCaml is not in a bad position there I think.

The number of SML implementations supporting this feature is greater than the number of OCaml implementations. ;)
It's really specialized jargon that underscores the fact that it's raw bandwidth, not usable bandwidth.
For local models you can use grammars to constrain it directly.
Possibly https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=CSS
Warning: Hairy nutsack of truth
If the company doesn't have someone ready for a promotion to CEO, and needs an "involved" search for a replacement, and doesn't get work done without one, it is an understaffed, unprepared and unattractive company.
A significant and huge evolution. That's why they have separate names
I wonder if you can make malware think your language and keyboard layout is Russian without having to endure the setup, that's been known to deter some nasty stuff.
The title is editorialized and wrong. This is the opinion of a single anonymous poster who claims to be a teacher in Canada.

I saw much of the same thing when I was in school. Everyone was in the same classroom because there was no money for anything else. I was limited by what the weakest student in the room could do, because everyone had to be able to pass.
Sub: A CLI to dynamically generate CLIs
Hi hackers. I built this CLI for organizing my personal scripts. I realized I have used it successfully for 5 years but never really shared it or talked about it with anyone. So I'm facing my fears and publishing it here.

Recently I added validation and parsing of command line arguments and I was pretty proud of how it looked in the end. No more getopts for me :)

I appreciate any feedback on the project, code, README etc.

Thanks for your time :)
Yeah, where's that app that was supposed to fix it?
White reflects sunlight better and leads to less heating of the airframe's skin, shows up damage and leaks well, and the expensive paint job doesn't fade in the high-UV troposphere, so it's the supreme paint colour for most civil aircraft both in practical and economic terms.
Are you working on a product or doing consulting?
Ask HN: Lead-gen tool for technical founders
We were looking for something that takes criteria (like hiring activity, tool stack, etc) as input and returns a list of high quality sales leads.

This became super important for us as our existing network (+ warm intros) quickly dried up. We’ve been doing it manually and tried several tools.

The closest thing we found was Clay, a general usage lead-gen tool that sell credits to enrich your data.

Here’s what we didn’t like:

1) It was hard to predict the value of credits in advance
2) We quickly used up all our credits inefficiently, and felt anxious watching the # of credits dwindle
3) We still spent time manually updating the table

All this didn’t really feel like a big leap thanks to AI, but more an incremental improvement.

Are we the only ones that feel this way? Or are there other tools that do this better that we haven’t found, yet?

Since my cofounder and I are both builders, we took a leap of faith and started building out our own solution. Here’s how it works:

1) You insert your search criteria (tool stack, hiring activity, company stage)

2) You get list of leads

Our current offer:

We want to help early, as we build out our tool. That’s why we’re offering 10 leads for free (for our learning, and hopefully your success).

Just give us your search criteria (ICP), and we send you a GSheet with 10 contacts (incl names, emails, companies, search properties as columns). Depending on demand, we'll do our best to get you the list within 48 hrs.

Here's the form: https://airtable.com/appbCKBM3tBYzrLmc/pagvXMtxPQzFuIEsK/form

Looking forward to learning about your needs, and hopefully getting you new customers.
> When hackers install malicious software on a compromised victim, they first check to make sure its safe for them to run. They don't want to get caught and avoid computers that have security analysis [...] tools on them.

Game anti-cheat code makes similar checks (arguably it is malware, but that's besides the point). So, running this might put you at risk of getting banned from your favourite game.
Is it osi approved?
The article makes sense.

In a way experience is knowing what things will cause friction and having solutions to overcome them. Friction reduction.
One of the reasons I decided to self-host emails for my domain names. There's no reason it should be hard to host your own email in 2024 even if you're just mildly technical.

An Ansible playbook that sets up Debian to host email, all the dependencies from the default Debian repositories.

https://github.com/programmer-ke/replatform/
The Threads API is finally here
You can't even stop it here. Start here.
I concur, was about to express the same sentiment. I will steal this, sorry-not-sorry :)
Unless you're a high net worth HNWI individual, right?
This has become my thinking as well. There is plenty of data for humans, so this is really a hardware / algos problem, not a data one. Using lots of text and energy is just a step on the path. We are already moving on to text+image and not long until video and later robots (with sensors) too
Why Does AI Hallucinate?
You’re assuming they would have never raised the upgrade pricing, which seems unlikely.
It would either be "Die hoogste bome vang die meeste wind" or "Hoë bome vang veel wind", if my idioms serve me correctly
We also have a funny way of applying solutions and lessons learn in one field to problems in completely unrelated areas. Given the statistical nature of LLMs I'm not convinced that they are able look across fields in the same way as a human brain, they lack creativity.

The greatest advantage you can have in life is a creative mind and I don't believe that is something that can be taught. It can be stomped out of you as a child, but it's not learnable.
As a frequent user, I certainly did.
Wouldn't that be more fragile though? CPU usage is not constant in time, so if - again - you're not sophisticated enough, you get more false negatives / positives, depending on which side of the heuristic you err.
We can't even find a whale that regularly gives itself away with a specific note? Yeah, good luck finding the wreck of Flight 370.
LibreOffice Forms: Buttons Support for Opening Forms, Reports, Tables, Queries
Shouldn’t the answer also be “yes” if it’s been expunged?
This is pretty inaccurate. Proton's E2EE works by encrypting client side, and we can't just replace the GPG key because we have both key pinning and key transparency: https://proton.me/support/key-transparency

Proton does not claim no logs and has never claimed no logs. We do not retain logs by default, but our privacy policy has always been clear that we are legally obligated to follow Swiss court orders, which can ask for IP logging on specific accounts.
I find it somewhat disturbing that this sort of thing is not considered a career killer for politicians.
... and we know that if we really want to nail it we'd better just pay someone else to create 1,000,000 more harder problems for training (without looking at any in test set, of course). i.e. make the training set distribution similar to test set again.

Because the thing we have now is data-hungry. Your brain is pre-trained on other similar challenges as well. What's the point of requiring it to "generalize beyond the training distribution" with so few samples?

Really, I thought LLMs ended this "can we pretrain on in-house prepared private data for ILSVRC" flame war already.
There must be something toxic in the water in Brussels.
Ask HN: Google Search is completely unusable. How do you work around it?
Over the last few years, Google search has lost its practical usefulness for technical or niche queries. I don’t understand how it got this bad.

Even the most basic search for a problem only returns results that share an out-of-context word with the query. When using quotes around an important keyword to force it into the results, Google still ignores that request silently, only for me to find out when I use Cmd+F on the page and see the word isn’t there.

It feels like Google is gaslighting me, as if I'm the first person to have the particular problem I’m researching, even though I’m sure documents about it exist on the internet.

Is it just me? What are you doing about this? Is Google salvageable in any way? What do you use now?
> (without playing the same game)

Presumably this is the actual answer—they're just better at manufacturing than we are at this point. By a large margin, as well. There is no shortcut to reversing decades and decades of shipping entire supply chains overseas at greatly reduced cost. We're just going to get substandard products at a greater cost to both the taxpayer (subsidy option) and the consumer (market option).

> How could the US build out a competitive drone industry with chinese manufacturers able to cut price because the Chinese government will cover the gap?

You swallow your losses until you automate your way out of a labor disadvantage or give up. Frankly the only reason this is getting attention is because it's seen as a military asset. It's basically burning cash to make the pentagon feel better about itself and generate a few hundred jobs at great cost to the taxpayer and pretending this is making some effort towards something valuable.
You don't.

If you think you need a mentor seriously reconsider what you have been doing
Already being discussed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40710993
Good. After that, go after Google and Microsoft for abusing their market positions other markets to destroy the browser market (again in Microsofts case).
is this good?

--- SPF ---
RFC5321.MailFrom domain: example2.com
Auth Result: PASS
DMARC Alignment: PASS

--- DKIM ---
Domain: example2.com
Algorithm: rsa-sha256
Auth Result: PASS
DMARC Alignment: PASS

--- DMARC ---
RFC5322.From domain: example2.com
Policy (p=): none
SPF: PASS
DKIM: PASS
DMARC Result: PASS
Do you have examples? People can avoid them
Get a PTR record for your IP, let it resolve to honeypot087.win.internal.security.example.com, that will make your IP less interesting... To some people
Not very convincing tbh.
Theres's no source code and no real name or company on the website...
We built a SaaS tool directory with interactive demos
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Why interactive demos in a tool directory?

Videos and screenshots only show you what companies want you to see. But when you actually use a product, even in demo mode, you get a real feel for it.

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Some malware will catch on, some will not. It's a cost vs profit problem. Statistically, this will always decrease the number of possible malware samples that can be installed on the machine, but by what margin? Impossible to say.
Or the subscription made LR more accessible to people. It also included storage space and made it easy to take and edit images on any device. That may not matter to you, but that is the market now.
A dollar a day for 100 days
I’ve been thinking about becoming better at sales and I need to if I want to grow and achieve my financial goals.

One dollar per day probably sounds ridiculous to you but it’s actually more scary than I anticipated even though it’s the smallest amount possible.

I’m curious to see the growth after 100 days and where I’ll be. Right now I feel pushy and awkward but I’m hoping to get the balance right in terms of reaching out respectfully without being weird.

Anyway, I’ll take any tips or stories you have about sales!
This is inaccurate. First, Swiss law does not allow the breaking of E2EE. All of Proton's client side code is open source. We cannot arbitrarily change keys in an undetected way due to Key Transparency: https://proton.me/support/key-transparency. We also have open source mobile and desktop apps, so you don't even need to rely on the web app if you don't want.
Almost nothing is. Local politicians fail upwards to the EU (at least in Germany) or some private job, if they fail at all. Most of the time, you can do what you want, and the voters don’t care.
One of the reference in "How does it work" [1] mentioned that some hackers will not mess with computers with Russian keyboard, so you can add one to reduce your chance of getting hacked.

Hilarious aside, it would only work if you don't actually use multiple keyboard -- otherwise an additional one would make switching between multiple keyboards very annoying [*].

It also mentions some other changes like adding RU keywords to your registry. Again, these measures would have many side effects since lots of software actually use these registry entries for legit reasons. So I don't know if this Cyber Scarecrow product would have this problem, since it does modify registry, too.

1: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/05/try-this-one-weird-trick...

*: A little rant: as someone who use three virtual keyboards (English, Chinese, Japanese), it is already a pain in ass to switch them since MS does not follow "last used" switching order (like alt+tab). Instead, it just switches in one direction.
Okay, in a few years China senselessly invades Taiwan just because. Not a real scenario?
FOXP2 was thought to be the genetic basis for language, but this has been overturned[1]. As far as I know there isn't a good candidate for a gene selected for language.

[1] https://www.the-scientist.com/language-gene-dethroned-64608
In mathematical queueing theory, Little's law (also result, theorem, lemma, or formula[1][2]) is a theorem by John Little which states that the long-term average number L of customers in a stationary system is equal to the long-term average effective arrival rate λ multiplied by the average time W that a customer spends in the system. Expressed algebraically the law is

L=λW

The relationship is not influenced by the arrival process distribution, the service distribution, the service order, or practically anything else. In most queuing systems, service time is the bottleneck that creates the queue.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little%27s_law

An extremely useful law to remember. You’d be surprised how much bullshit it can detect!
How does it compare to Termux / UserLAnd? See https://termux.dev and https://userland.tech

For my purposes Lindroid seems less powerful as it requires root and AOSP patches.
The US does not belong to the ICJ, so that judgement would only be valid if the US Supreme court would say so. I dislike a lot nuclear weapons but they are an escalation deterrent like the humanity never had[1]. I hope they continue to be a deterrent but never ever launched in war.

[1] If Ukraine kept the nuclear weapons post USSR collapse we probably would not have the war on Ukraine, lots of dangerous threats but nothing else.
I find it very funny how alleged journalists don't care about potential violations of sources

Ah who am I kidding, real journalism is pretty much dead
A simple magic is using an operating system that is not full of security holes by an incompetent vendor.
this has more weight: threema is the biggest "alternative" (after whatsapp and telegram) chat app among my peers. There's a sizable non-tech but pro-privacy part of the population that exclusively uses threema. This will be the first time they ever hear of this.
Well obviously there is more to it than just UHC. The US encourages and rewards risk taking, and has a healthy funding culture not found anywhere else, etc... But, I believe if you take how good the US already is with entrepreneurship and then add UHC it would trigger a boom.
Wouldn’t that only apply to strategic nukes, not tactical nukes? City busters, rather than low yield weapons intended for military targets.
And, on the flip side of the coin: once you are sufficiently disliked, almost anything can be taken as the trigger point for a scandal.
Many times you can still edit the EFI variable that has been disabled.

https://brendangreenley.com/undervolting-2020-dell-laptops-l...
> Not sure I understand you correctly, but I strongly disagree that colonialism was a necessary foundation for todays wealthy western democracies.

Then go visit Sevilla and enjoy the output of the mines in the cathedral (no danger at all). And then think a little how amassing enough silver by slavery to make a 60feet high altar 300 years ago didn't give you quite a nice headstart on dominating a world where most other competing cultures valued the same metals as currency.

Not saying this is particularly wrong in the grand scheme or we need to all be in eternal deference to anyone claiming to be a descendant of the people our ancestors exterminated for this. But it should be clear, getting access to these resources and ruthlessly exploiting them made Europe rich and enabled all the other colonialization which followed.
Migrating off Git by implementing superior versions of Unix's diff and patch
Solution: temporary "game mode" that disables most protections that can impact DRM, or a custom rule engine that disables protections if some application is detected to be running (e.g. fortnite.exe or something), but this second method should be done manually by the user.
DDG has been, for several years, consistently more useful to me than Google has been since the middle of the last decade.
Honestly, if you try it, you will find it doesn't really work this way. A lot of heuristics are used for recovery, many which are not visible to the outside for security reasons. Also, data recovery is never possible because of the use of zero access encryption.
It's always good to have options. You don't need to jump ship but it gives you peace of mind and there might be a good opportunity at some point.
Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022)
Genius! Weird nobody invented this before
Thanks for the urban dictionary suggestion.

The central security service doesn’t seem too controversial, but I see there’s another result for CSS student credibly breaks community guidelines:

“A white kid from a private school who thinks (s)he da' shit but (s)he is just a prepy bitch who knows about urban culture from watchin tv”

But it was submitted in 2003 and I’ve genuinely never heard that insult used.
Show HN: I couldn't find the Safari extensions I needed, so I coded them myself
Last year I decided to use Safari as my default browser. I could't find the extensions I normally use as a developer, like color pickers, css inspectors, etc, so I decided to make them myself during my free time. You can check them on this link:

https://www.safariwebextensions.com

If you use Safari, I really some of them might help you.
It's their job and goal in life to hurt the population
I might share it with you later on your discord server.

> I can send over my best guess of a good prompt!

Now if you could automate the above process by "fitting" a first draft prompt to a wanted schema, ie where your library makes a few adjustments if some assertions do not pass by have having a chat of its own with the LLM, that would be super useful! Heck i might just implement it myself.
You’re assuming they will never raise the rental pricing, which seems unlikely.

And yeah I paid for two upgrades before Adobe moved Lightroom to rental only. The pricing was quite steady. Keep in mind Lightroom had no DRM baked in. No licensing checks, perpetual three seat cross-platform license, etc., etc. That $10/mo is for one seat only.

If the cost to the consumer were close Adobe wouldn't have spent the engineering effort to integrate Lightroom with all of their licensing software and incur the cost of having to keep the rental servers running. You can't predict the future but based on the steady pricing (both rental and perpetual licensed) the rental software is unambiguously more expensive for the consumer.
Wtf? what are you doing? Did the point fly over your head, are you being malicious by removing the star, or?
Except when Apple does it (on their server hardware). Then it supposedly benefits you. See the thread for the "Private Cloud" analysis.
Hmm my Namecheap domains keep the location details even with WHOIS privacy enabled. To be fair they are 7+ years old so maybe something has changed in that time?
>How do they get peoples passwords / keys? Easy. They just wait for you to log in and they swipe it then. It’s targeted.

Under Swiss law, Proton cannot be compelled to do this. Nor is this "easy" to execute if you are using the open source mobile or desktop apps.
They can literally just sit there and it would be better…