skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[EDIT] - Before (if) this gains too much traction, apparently it's simply being made more difficult [0]. I still think this bodes poorly for long-term openness of MacOS, but I want Apple to dig their own grave instead of their defenders always being able to say "It's not as bad as reported"

[Original comment] I've seen numerous people on both sides of the "MacOS is becoming more locked down and more iPhone-esque"; I think this is a pretty solid indicator of where MacOS is headed, and how that debate will end.

[0] https://www.idownloadblog.com/2024/08/07/apple-macos-sequoia...
What's interesting is that she was damned, at least in large part, by testimony from her own brother, who claimed that she typed up memos on nuclear weapons for the Soviets. But then, in a plot twist, he recanted in 2001, saying:

> “I don’t remember that at all,” Mr. Greenglass said. “I frankly think my wife did the typing, but I don’t remember.”

> “My wife is more important to me than my sister. Or my mother or my father, O.K.? And she was the mother of my children.”

Such honor, such integrity.

See: https://archive.ph/yIrwV
seems like some thing like this might be searchable by regex's? "/.*ignore.*ssl/i"* , at least in reasonably popular packages like qbittorrent or transmission. I'm sure some regex gurus could come up with some good ones**
Free isn’t good enough. Sheets has stupid limitations like a hard cap of 10M or so cells per document.
Are you sure that isn’t what @mullingitover meant?

> Number of SMs is a more appropriate equivalent to CPU core count.

What do you mean by this? Why should an SM be considered equivalent to a CPU core? An SM can do 128 simultaneous adds and/or multiplies in a single cycle, where a CPU core can do, what, 2 or maybe 4? Obviously depends on the CPU / core / hyperthreading / # math pipelines / etc., but the SM to CPU-core ratio of the number of simultaneous calculation is in the double digits. It’s a tradeoff where the GPU has some restrictions in return for being able to do many multiples more at the same time.

If you consider an SM and a CPU equivalent, then the SM’s perf can exceed the CPU core by ~2 orders of magnitude — is that the comparison you want? If you consider a GPU thread lane and a CPU thread lane equivalent, the the GPU thread lane is slower and more restricted. Neither comparison is apples to apples, CPUs and GPUs are made for different workloads, but arguing that an SM is equivalent to a CPU core seems equally or more “misleading” when you’re leaving out the tradeoff.

I’d argue that comparing SMs to cores is misleading and that it makes more sense to compare chips is by their thread counts. Or, don’t compare cores at all and just look at the performance in, say, FLOPS.
By the way, I’d make a similar criticism of, for example, later Heidegger. At some point he collapses into a kind of solipsistic logorrhea. Sein and Zeit and his lectures from the 1920s, though, had real philosophical meat on the bone (this is not an endorsement of his views, by the way; I think he was just wrong about some stuff, like getting the ontological priority of ready-to-hand and present-at-hand exactly backwards—-but early Heidegger is philosophically substantive and engaging in ways later Heidegger absolutely isn’t).
Instagram-famous squirrel named Peanut seized by New York state authorities
I second watching Russ Barkley PhD on Youtube. Inspiring that he still covers the topic in retirement because he views it as the most underdiagnosed disorder in psychology despite being so easy to be treated. In regards to meds, this is stupidity and avoidable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRPeU1DYOWA
Llama-Berry: Pairwise Optimization for O1-Like Mathematical Reasoning
Huh? I don't even know what "didn't support" would even mean.

A CGI script isn't anything special. It's just "a thing that gets called with some environment variables, and prints out some text (on stdout) for the web server to send to the client".
This seems like pretty weak evidence compared to what’s shown in other sources like Venona. Regardless - if someone does not do the spy work themselves, but is aware of, married to, and likely supports in some way a spy.. have they committed any crimes?
Sheets is unfortunately mostly better than Numbers.
Hey, I am a developer who has covered many roles in the crypto world over the years, I don't have a very elaborate CV as I did everything self-taught but I would like to work with peanut as I have been following the company for months and I love it.
I am in Italy and my English is not perfect, just searched for FE dev?
what's your Discord server? paste an invitation link please
Hi! I emailed about a Junior position in September but never got a response - is there another avenue I should look at?
No, it's 'much more unfriendly', if you would read again.
Multi-Layer Perceptron Visualization
Can spouses testify against their spouse in court on a crime that is external?
Thanks for sharing, that was an interesting read.

> every instruction specifies the probability with which it should be executed

Is this still precise, in a way that prompting llms isn't? I'd need to explore the language in more depth to answer that, but if it does what I assume which is basically a string of instructions like do x with probability y, then it's still precise, except we're using probability theory in addition to/instead of standard programming logic.
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iPhones don't need to be expensive, you can get new iPhones quite cheap.

I paid about $100 for a brand new iPhone SE2 through a budget prepaid carrier with a projected support life of 8 years from when I bought it 2 years ago- a fairly common discount offer you can still find for new SE3s now. I don't think you can buy any usable Android phone for the $12 or so I'd have every 8 months instead of buying a base model iPhone. And Apple uses their top end CPUs and hardware in their cheap base model phones.
I love GSheets for convenience. But as soon as you're doing anything large and complex, GSheets might as well not even exist. It's simply not viable.
My honest guess is that they want to use AI generated content to lie more truthfully.

I imagine 2 or 3 years from now, major social media companies are gonna keep claiming stuff like "Over 1 billion unique images uploaded each month" or "We have over a million new tweets per month", while most of that content is AI generated.

Advertisers would eat that shit proudly.
Excel can be really great — it’s been said that a huge amount of the world‘s programming is actually done in excel (summing a column of numbers is, after all, a very primitive programme).

I wish there were better tools to help excel users migrate to more formal coding. Something that allows the immediate visibility and accessibility of Excel code, but avoids some of the problems of updating a formula in one place, but missing another, allowing better testing, and type safety for data.
Indeed, here are two lines atop my "util.sh" to regularize some strange non-conformant behaviours:

[ "${BASH:-}" ] && shopt -s expand_aliases
[ "${ZSH_VERSION:-}" ] && setopt SH_WORD_SPLIT
It’s the United States dummy
One drawback of the smartphone ecosystem is that as far as the aftermarket is concerned, there are two smartphone brands: Apple and Samsung. I broke the display on a Pixel 3a XL in New Orleans, looked around for a repair shop, and found one -- that refused to fix my phone if it wasn't one of those two brands.

iPhone users can walk into Target and find all manner of cases and other accessories with a variety of styles designed to fit their phones. Samsung users enjoy almost as much diversity. For my replacement Google Pixel, I had to go to Amazon and get a plain case from China that almost looks 3D printed.
Old Russian proverb.

Hard times create strong men.
Strong men create good times.
Good times create weak men.

Ultimately America, particularly once you get to the upper middle class is a straight up lazy country.

You see this often in immigrant families. The first gen comes here, knows struggle. The second gen grows up, fails to appreciate anything, drops out of college and blames mom and dad for their failures.

Then again, I don't buy into this neo coldwar propaganda.The fear mongering is getting out of hand. The Military Industry Complex needs fear though, how else would you justify spending trillions.
Can someone explain how this measures causality, rather than correlation?
Know what my untreated ADHD (not for long I hope, finalized my diagnosis last week) costs me every single week because I don't work as much as I should be able to? 1000 Euros if not 1500. Every single week. I have enough of working as a freelance developer with a minimal amount of work getting done and my bank account in constant overdraft. Gimme meds.
Excel is free online too.
Trust is earned. A person you don’t know immediately asking you to be vulnerable is predatory. Commonly seen in cults, frats, etc but at least you opt in to those (and can opt out).

Agreeing to work with a new manager is putting you in a vulnerable enough state. Build that trust over time - you likely don’t even need to hear about coworkers failed marriages.
I'm a bit in a hurry, don't have time for close reading. Does that article say some Google apps (notably Maps) store locations on your device even if you have configured them to not store it in your Google account? I may miss something, don't have time to read between the lines today.
Immediately focusing on the distinction between Microsoft Excel Proper and competing implementations with essentially similar functionality is so weird to me. I feel a fondness for this article despite not having used Microsoft Excel itself for like two decades. The point is the larger genre, and the empowerment of programming and data management capabilities it creates for regular users.
transmission is great if you're just getting linux images, but it's much easier to configure qbittorrent for stuff like VPN lockout and such
Haskell, any ML, Rust, etc. TS is on par with any crufty ad-hoc type system like that of Java or C++.

The TS type system is neither especially powerful nor especially robust
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Obligatory Krazam:

https://youtu.be/xubbVvKbUfY

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A more accurate headline would be "Sons of convicted spy find a sentence in a document they interpret as saying she's innocent if you ignore all the other evidence."
I mean it was just a thought I had. May be a "solution in search of a problem". I generate those a lot! haha. But it seems to me like having some sort of canonical set of training data and a canonical LLM architecture, we'd end up able to generate consistent embeddings of course, but I'm just not sure what the use cases are.
Already under discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42022796
We'll have the JD up on Monday, in the meantime you can apply to the "General Nut" position!

Self-taught is perfectly fine, as long as you're really good :)
Even the Soviet article 58-1c, which introduced criminal penalty specifically for the family members in case they did not report the treason to authorities, only applied a) if the traitor was in the military service; b) only in cases when the treason consisted of fleeing the country. Otherwise, 58-12 would apply which did not have the capital punishment as an option.
Fediverse and Browsers
Vim is 31 years old
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42022796
I agree with you. But not everyone will. Some people have jobs to pay for their lives outside of work, and that's it. And that's fine.

I take the stance of, the job I do for 8 hours 5 days a week might as well be something I actually enjoy doing above and beyond the financial incentive. Working on something I think is really neat is enjoyable, and I'm lucky to work in an industry doing things not so far from what I would spend my time doing anyway if I were retired.
> "I wanted to share a great deal I found with ------ Software Solutions (----.com). They’re running a winter promotion with 20% off on all their services! I’m working with them on a project and have been impressed by their approach – super flexible with no minimum fees, and they really let you customize your team and the services you need."

Blatant astroturfing. The same account's last posting (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41884875) said it was their own site: "I’d like to introduce ----.com, where we take care of building and managing your SaaS company...".
Maybe this guy, but he died last year

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen
Pour encourager les autres.
That is all that criminal punishment has ever been.
They absolutely can be. You can push back against your manager.
Best part: Excel supports your example and many other similar quality of programmers life use cases and has been for years if not decades (e.g. named ranges and tables). For some reason people don’t use them.
I’ve only ever used Libre(open) Office Calc since I’ve never paid for or bothered to pirate office before. What can Excel do that Calc can’t?

I’ve never done anything crazy heavy with it, but functions and stuff work fine for me I guess.
That memo shows no such thing. The persistence of this story is crazy. The article even links to the ample evidence of her participation. Just because she was physically unable to meet assets or whatever "work" means, doesn't mean she isn't guilty of espionage. Now, maybe you can argue the chair wasn't an appropriate punishment for her, but she is definitely guilty of conspiracy at a minimum.

This is the sad story of children unable to come to terms with the fact that their parents were Soviet spies.
I must admit, of all the stories I’ve heard about Excel spreadsheets being “this one goes up to eleven” in their complexity, “too many fonts” is a new one.

Perhaps you could use an alternative differentiator for your data presentation?

I’m morbidly curious to hear more about this scenario.
Show HN: June.so for LLMs
I'm building Zond, which is turnkey analytics for LLM product.

Lot's of analytics products, in my opinion, focus on the testing/evals part of building an LLM product. What Zond does is try to tell you how people are using your product.

At the moment the way it works is like a middleware: you swap out your LLM endpoint, then Zond starts capturing your LLM interactions and gives you:

- Clustering: so what are the key types of interactions people are having,

- Frustration tracking: how often are people saying things like "No, that's stupid" etc.

- Power user tracking: who's asking really complicated questions or trying to push your product.

- Confidence tracking: how often does the LLM generate responses that have low confidence, as measured by logprobs (only for OpenAI at the moment)

- Conversation completion: how often are people giving up

- Normal analytics stuff! An integration with Hubspot/Attio is on the roadmap.

Looking for beta users so if anyone is interested please let me know!
Indeed. There was time I myself used it as my primary browser and recommended it to everyone around. That changed when they started insisting on signing into the account to „make the most out of it” so I went back to Firefox. Since then I stopped caring. I know, virtue signalling. My point is: nobody handed anything over to Google. At the time alternatives sucked so they won the market. But today we have great alternatives.
I think I finally made sense of it in my mind:

The Max is their best CPU. The Ultra is two of their best CPUs glued together.

The Ultra isn’t a better CPU, it’s just more.
The memo says:

"she knew of her husbands work, but that due to ill health she did not engage in the work herself."

As an accomplice, she might have deserved a lesser punishment, but she was not innocent.

Moreover, supposing that what the memo says was correct, she was willing to contribute actively, but her health had prevented that.
I intentionally used the words "very long" instead of an exact time specifically to avoid pedantic replies along the lines of "no not actually that long but slightly shorter" because my point was that cooking oil, like rosin, is sometimes reused in some contexts and by some people. Please replace "very long" with whatever exact period of time you think is the longest time the shadiest possible restaurant with awful food might let their cooking oil go for.

I'll admit that I pretty much deserve this, because pointing out that cooking oil can also be reused, was itself a pretty pedantic and pointless thing to mention.
In the US this is known as "misprision of treason" which is a crime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misprision_of_treason
Perl lets you do this too:

my $foo = 5;
my $bar = 'x';
my $quux = "I have $foo $bar\'s: @{[$bar x $foo]}";
print "$quux\n";

This prints out:

I have 5 x's: xxxxx

The "@{[...]}" syntax is abusing Perl's ability to interpolate an _array_ as well as a scalar. The inner "[...]" creates an array reference and the outer "@{...}" dereferences it.

For reasons I don't remember, the Perl interpreter allows arbitrary code in the inner "[...]" expression that creates the array reference.
You might as uninstall everything on your computer. Rust isn't immune to stuff like this either, this is a logic/security mistake error.
Roles say $115-$150k
it always surprises me when people have this takeaway, as "first actual case" clearly indicates prior not-actual cases, where the term was merely used as a metaphor for errors.
> because the pumping lemma shows that it's false

Ah yes, I even used to teach this actually. Sorry for the understatement xD.
She was actively recruiting other sources to obtain access to nuclear design materials.

She lied about her involvement and her husband’s spying.

She perjured herself in court with full knowledge of their complicity

The assistance the Rosenbergs “provided very significant help in accelerating the production of [the Soviet Union’s] atomic bomb” (Khrushchev)

One memo doesn’t disprove the orgy of evidence in her treachery
Not if you port the shell and OS and ImageMagick to WASM first!
But it might more accurately reflect human visual perception. I can’t think of any case where your peripheral vision will perceive things that you won’t perceive by looking directly at them.
How many times was the atomic bomb developed? I think it might have been only once. Oppenheimer invented it, the Rosenburgs leaked it to the USSR, and if I understand correctly the communists leaked it to other communist countries. There were a few bad choices that led to MAD and I really regret that as a society we made those choices.
R.I.P. bruv. I wonder why people always overreact to stuff like this. qBittorrent is a great piece of software and I pay homage to the developers.
I used to _love_ the E-Reader, and had a huge stack of cards for it.

It was neat that it integrated into so many different games. I think my favourites were playing NES ExciteBike and the Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald trainer cards.

The E-Reader is only surpassed by the GameBoy Camera.
Building a REAL pawn that transforms into a queen [video]
Remember this the next time China whines about sovereignty and non-interference.
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Not without picking correct similes or metaphores, no.
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This is why you don’t post on social media. The world will not be kind to you, like a lawnmower, it doesn’t care about you.
I kinda applaud OP for sharing their personal story.
However, I personally never understood why people give a shit about objectives which aren't tied to business objectives. I mean the build improvement of 10x is great, but so what ?

Also, Stripe is barely profitable. As an engineer in big tech, I wouldn't even consider applying. You're better off targeting Principal engineer at Big Tech since it implies doing some really ground breaking software work. At that point, you probably don't have to worry about middle management and that bs. Outside the big 4 I had an experience where the manager read a Software engineering management book and would follow the things down to the letter like a superstition. It was a stupid exchange but ChatGPT really helped build my repository of meaningless corporate soeak. I find it to be a very useful skill.
wouldn't you assume that if you log into a machine with your apple "cloud" credentials that various programs would sync up? I don't see how it could happen any other way? It would be nice if they had a pop up like they do for app permissions though. Perhaps submit a radar on it as a regular user? https://lickability.com/blog/5-tips-for-filing-radars/
Finally, someone's paying attention to what I say!
>"That sounds dystopian to me. I prefer to have social life outside of work, with actual friends that I choose, not HR."

This. Companies doing social thing is nothing but trying to fool employees into feeling like they owe to company.
A tale as old as time...
I’ve used Excel and Calc and the short answer is ‘everything’. Excel is faster, more reliable and has a much bigger community.

Calc is ok if you want to work with small spreadsheets and don’t care about the occasional bug.
Ask HN: Could we make a list of lesser known good-for-society projects?n
Found this https://www.privacyguides.org/ in the who is hiring thread. Made me wonder how many such small, lesser known projects there are, doing great work for the good of society?

Can we make a list of such projects? They don't need to be digital, just any project that is not well known and could use publicity
> The languages I decided to support are Ada, Assembly, BASIC, C, C#, C++, COBOL, CSS, D, FORTH, FORTRAN, Go, Haskell, HTML, Java, JavaScript, Julia, JSON, Kotlin, ld, LISP, Lua, m4, Make, Markdown, MATLAB, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Shell, SQL, Swift, Tcl, TeX, TXT, TypeScript, and Zig.

A few (admittedly silly) questions about the list:

1. Why no Erlang, Elixir, or Crystal?

Erlang appears to be just at the author's boundary at #47 on the TIOBE index.
https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

2. What is "Shell"? Sh, Bash, Zsh, Windows Cmd, PowerShell..?

3. Perl but no Awk? Curious why, because Awk is a similar but comparatively trivial language. Widely used, too.

To be fair, Awk, Erlang, and Elixir rank low on popularity. Yet m4, Tcl, TeX, and Zig aren't registered in the top 50 at all.

What's the methodology / criteria? Only things the author is already familiar with?

Still a fun article.
Fair enough. From my perspective, lack of single line comments is a little surprising because most other languages had it at the time (1973, when ML was introduced). Lack of nested comments doesn’t seem surprising, because it isn’t an important feature for a language, and because most other languages did not have it at the time (1972, when C was introduced).

I can imagine both pro and con arguments for supporting nested comments, but regardless of what I think, C certainly could have added support for nested comments at any time, and hasn’t, which suggests that there isn’t sufficient need for it. That might be the entire explanation: not even worth a little complexity.
There was a day when Excel was used as a password manager. It might have been password protected. It might not have.
I don't understand how the down-payment on the loan you bought your phone on is relevant in this discussion.
The oil-rich parts were never a british colony.