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Ask HN: Simplest, lightest way to sync a single file between Macs?
The title says it. I've got a specific file in mind: I want to keep .ssh/config identical between my MBP and my desktop - but in general, what's the best / simplest way to do this? Would be great if it didn't use anything cloud-y.
Keep on fighting the good fight
Working at a fortune 500 way back in 2011, I was assigned a ticket which was about asynchronously rotating an ad block at the top of a public search page on an extremely busy site.

There was a tiny bit of logic in there if I remember correctly, relating to when and whom to show the ad to.

I implemented it, tested in dev, assigned it to QA, QA approved it and rolled it out that afternoon.

The next morning when I showed up to work one of the other team leads walked straight up to me as I entered the campus, laughing hysterically.

Turned out that in production it behaved differently. The ad appeared, correctly. Then doubled every couple of seconds,1 ad, 2 ads, 4 ads and so on, until the client browser exploded into flames.

As luck would have it there was zero consequence, only chuckles all over the place. It was something to do with order of inclusion of a mad number of js libraries which differed in production and went unnoticed. The End.
But then you would have to use a mac.

Some people dislike that.
This is both rude and wrong. Congrats!
To steel man a bit, they're also trying to make things as easy as possible for the generic public that they want to buy their device, who doesn't know what a hub is, and definitely doesn't want to learn, to turn on a lightbulb.
Startup ideas and innovation in retail?
Specifically how the POS (software/saas for shops/brands/malls etc.) space is in 2025 for building a startup?
In 1999, the end was coming for newspapers. But few were looking for the signs
The linked page has this phrasing, which I’m not entirely sure what it means, but could be understood as personal liability?

> Senior accountability for safety. To ensure strict accountability, each provider should name a senior person accountable to their most senior governance body for compliance with their illegal content, reporting and complaints duties.
Ah, I see, I hadn't thought of that. I guess it makes sense that the Navy people would focus on the sea instead of the land.
Unrelated: During the dot-com boom, there was a company called nCompass Labs that developed one of the first content management systems (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCompass_Labs_Inc). Microsoft bought them in 2001. Their product was, "a plug-in for hosting ActiveX controls in Netscape Navigator named ScriptActive." ActiveX itself was a novelty, using C++ templates to define reusable and _downloadable_ web components.

All of this crap was happily replaced with JavaScript frameworks in later years. Yes, back in the early-2000s, your browser might literally download executable code just to render a custom button.
The same density _overall_ but locally the density varies. Maybe there’s some way to use this for detection but I don’t see it.
> I also take issue with the idea that there are just five cardinal flavors.

The five flavors model is an outdated model of what taste buds detect, a sixth has been established (oleogustus, associated with fatty acids and particularly with rancidity.) Furthermore, while not technically “tastes” in the detected-by-tastebuds sende, unctuousness (the mouthfeel of fats) and spiciness (detected by pain receptors instead of tastebuds) are part of what most people mean when they talk about “taste”.
I'd argue design and UX will be more important for engineers. You need taste to direct LLMs. You can automate some things and maybe have it do data-driven feedback loops but there are so many random industries/locations with off requirements, changes in trends, etc. that it will require someone to oversee and make adjustments
LLM is just a hypervised search engine. You still need to know what to ask, what you can get away with and what you can't.
I've been rendering my own lard by cooking down packs of bacon "bits & pieces" (leftovers from well manicured bacon products) in a big iron pot on my back porch. About once a week I pull 3-4 cups of fresh lard for cooking, baking, frying, etc.

I make enough to keep a deep fryer filled up. Potatoes fried in lard are truly magical. I also had a lot of distrust around using it in pastries due to the smell of pork, but some transformation happens in the oven about halfway through baking. Crisco, et. al. cannot compete with the result.
Whisk: Visualize and remix ideas using images and AI (US only)
I host a Mastodon server in the US. I almost wish I could get a legal threat from the UK so that I could print it and hang it on my wall as a conversation piece.

I have zero legal connection to the UK and their law doesn't mean jack to me. I look forward to thoroughly ignoring it, in the same way that I thoroughly ignore other dumb laws in other distant jurisdictions.

UK, look back on this as the day -- well, another day -- when you destroyed your local tech in favor of the rest of the world.
I thought that too, but we're seeing increasing spillover. Molly White points out that the crypto "industry" spent $200m to influence US elections. That we know of.
I argue it's not Open Source (Freedom, not Free Beer) because PRs are locked and only Hipp and close contributors can merge code.
It's openly developed, but not by the community.
> I would really like it if Magit was a standalone program, rather than an Emacs package, so that I could just switch to a more reasonable editor.

Always curious with folks who request this whether they've tried `tig` (https://jonas.github.io/tig/)?

Not sure what part of Magit you're looking for, but the basic workflow of jumping to changes and interactive staging works just as well to me in `tig` (with Vim) as Magit.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41220098 ("HN: China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41026542 ("HN: China is on track to reach its 2030 clean energy targets already")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40982276 ("HN: China installing the wind / solar equivalent of 5 nuclear power stations a week")
If you read that guidance, it wants you to have a moderation policy for 17 specific priority areas. You need prove you can demonstrate that you have thought about it. You need to have a paper trail that says you have a policy and that its a policy. You _could_ be issued with a "information notice", which you have to comply with. Now, you could get that already, with the RIPA, as a communications provider.

this is similar to running a cricket club, or scout club

For running a scout association each lesson could technically require an individual risk assessment for every piece of equipment, and lesson. The hall needs to be safe, and you need to prove that it's safe. Also GDPR, and safeguarding, background checks, money laundering.

> hold up to legal scrutiny from an activist court official

Its not the USA. activist court officials require a functioning court system. Plus common law has the concept of reasonable. A moderated forum will be of a much higher standard of moderation than facebook/twitter/tiktok.
Show HN: Chat Pager: bookmarklet exporting whole current ChatGPT chat as HTML
> (doesn't get reported on btw).

I wonder how it is that you know about it then?
Man, imagine having a million bucks to just give away to something you think is cool.
Apparently this gets submitted time to time, but I forgot it existed and well, it just makes my eyes bleed :)
Most humans can't correctly draw a bicycle from memory: https://www.wired.com/2016/04/can-draw-bikes-memory-definite...
I have a vague memory that nobody knew how high some birds flew until military radar got good enough to see them.

They sent up an interceptor aircraft to check out what was flying up there, rather than missiles.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_birds_by_flight_height...
Maybe creating your own AI agents with your own "touch". Devin, for example, is very dogmatic regarding pull requests and some process bureaucracy. Different tasks and companies might benefit from different agent styles and workflows.

However, true AGI would change everything, since the AGI could create specialized agents by itself :)
It's too bad that we cannot do this as a single global shared and provably neutral type of system. In the spirit of the US-USSR cooperation with Apollo-Soyuz. Most of the rival geo-navigation constellations operate on more or less the same frequencies and coordinate their chip codes. It works but it also raises the noise floor for everybody.
bearing in mind, this is also a country that will jail you for a meme post online.
Yes, it is. It’s not common to enact laws on the day before one leaves office. Pardons, sure.

It’s clearly an attempt to ram it through before the administration changes. Even a year ago they knew there was a good chance of that.
I'll leave the discussion here but let me remind you that you talked (indirectly) about changes in entropy and not about absolute entropies: "if we put it into a calorimeter and measure the amount of heat we need to transfer to it to change its temperature to some value".

Note as well that the mass dependence in that equation for the entropy is just an additive term. The absolute value of the entropy may be different but the change in entropy is the same when you heat a 1l container of helium or neon or a mixture of them from 300K to 301K. That's 0.0406 moles of gas. The heat flow is 0.506 joules. The change in entropy is approximately 0.0017 J/K.

> And a gas mix is not an ideal monatomic gas; its entropy increases at the same temperature and volume compared to an equal volume divided between the two gases.

A mix of ideal gases is an ideal gas and its heat capacity is the weighted average of the heat capacities (trivially equal to the heat capacity of the components when it's the same). The change of entropy when you heat one, or the other, or the mix, will be the same (because you're calculating exactly the same integral of the same heat flow).

The difference in absolute value is irrelevant when we are discussing changes in entropy and measurements of the amount of heat needed to increase the temperature and whether you "will get a value that will be different for a gas made up of only argon versus one that contains both neon and argon".
> The two numbers mentioned in the article are 176 mil and 612 mil.

Those two numbers are from the intro. The postscript and the updates at the end mention $1.4b and $3b respectively.

The real cost is probably impossible to calculate, but that order of magnitude is a reasonable estimate IMHO, and absolutely comparable, or even larger, than compute costs for SOTA LLMs
sorry but you don't have enough economic significance to the AI for it to serve you

it will serve a lot of other humans who do have the means, but not you... in fact it will be the "means of production" to enrich them further

you on the other hand might get laid off, and not be able to afford to get on the AI Train

but, at least AI will still generate some cool stories and videos for you on demand :)
I don't see how AI became a paying app on the consumer side. Copilot should have been included with Microsoft for free with some limit to block abusers or a way to upgrade for business processes. Absolutely zero people I know want to pay anything at all for a platform to rewrite an e-mail now and then.
I retrofit my 20 year old garage door opener with a $13 Shelly switch (Shelly 1 Gen3 ). Now my garage door is smart with zero outside dependencies. Blog post I used as reference: https://simplyexplained.com/blog/make-garage-door-opener-sma...
Cost as well. Most people don't want to invest in a high quality product unless it's something that is clearly miles above the competition (e.g. Vitamix, Herman Miller or Leap Chair, etc.)
My son's audiologist is (of course) quite bearish on this whole prospect. Her response was to ask who is going to do the audiogram programming for the airpods.

I imagine this is probably something that could be automated away, though.
Related. Others?

Kardashev Scale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40327782 - May 2024 (28 comments)

Kardashev Scale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27067895 - May 2021 (5 comments)

Classifying Civilisations: An Introduction to the Kardashev Scale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26108947 - Feb 2021 (1 comment)

The Kardashev Scale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24084021 - Aug 2020 (1 comment)

Nikolai Kardashev (of Kardashev scale fame) died - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20619494 - Aug 2019 (1 comment)

Kardashev Scale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20603386 - Aug 2019 (31 comments)

Kardashev scale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2183106 - Feb 2011 (15 comments)
Stanford misinformation expert admits to ChatGPT hallucinations in court filing
Its not that all crypto is for crime, its just that its hard to verify the funds came from legitimate sources if it comes from outside the walled garden of banks.

I do like to be debanked in the sense that it gives me freedom from bank runs and allows me to have private money.

I think people who want bitcoin checking accounts are against the ideology behind the technology and just want to cash in on the market volatility, they are pretty much the worst.

One thing is for sure, nobody really likes crypto bros.

I often wish crypto was just a quadratic funding mechanism for FOSS because its excellent at that but oh well, the swarm have taken over long ago.
Given that such porridges are only “unhealthy” to the extent that they increase risk factors for various diseases, perhaps eating them should be considered a form of gambling. Then government could tax it too.
I think on the point of build vs buy, what a lot of "buy" people neglect is that you can often cut a ton of use cases out of the product that you're paying for, and when you cut those use cases out then build becomes a really cheap proposition versus buying. Plus, when you buy you still have to maintain internal staff to manage the product. If you build, those people can also work on other things that advance the plot for whatever you're building elsewhere in the company.

If you have to make payroll and you're not interested in handling payroll business cases in your core business, absolutely buy payroll software. But if you need to spin up containers incidentally to your core business, maybe consider wrapping the same stuff Podman or Docker wraps if it makes sense. Going down a level of abstraction in this way can allow you to work more efficiently than if you just used those tools off-the-shelf.
“24hr” battery life is still usually <8h at significant load (IDE/video editing/etc.), also sometimes I want to use the display at full blast instead of 150 nits when I’m working in a park or cafe, sometimes the power outlet on a plane won’t hold my charger in and I wanna game on the plane, lots of legitimate use cases for “24hr” battery life
It's “less than ideal” level of ventilation, but it's also very far from “very poorly ventilated” (it's not even above the target level set by workplace regulation in my country, which is 600ppm above the baseline).
Highly paid like a million a year? Is that a thing?
I don't have any concrete examples. But I will say that I have literally never used !g with Kagi or felt any inclination to.

I agree about prior engines. I tried DDG for a short period but it felt like junk, and same for Bing. With Bing in particular I'd search and search and not find something I knew was out there.
LLMs aren't supposed to do basic math, but be chat agents. Wolfram Alpha can't do chat.
“Won” what exactly? I have no issues running stable diffusion locally.

Since Llama3.3 came out it is my first stop for coding questions, and I’m only using closed models when llama3.3 has trouble.

I think it’s fairly clear that between open weights and LLMs plateauing, the game will be who can build what on top of largely equivalent base models.
Agreed. A problem with selecting a bunch of successful businesspeople to lead the government is that the government is not, and should not be, a business.
But when I go and buy booze, I just show my ID and that's it, it isn't stored in a database with what I bought and then leaked on the internet.
What is their incentive? Intel fixed their mobile battery life issues, so why should Microsoft care anymore? Furthermore why should app developers care? And then why should consumers care?

As long as x86 performance / efficiency is in the ballpark, which it is (mostly). No one is going to bother.
Though the average temp of the overall core may be 15c, there may be a thermal gradient along the length, so maybe the inside end averages 28c and the outside end averages 2c, or something like that.
I know that Google's internal ChatGPT alternative was significally worse than ChatGPT(confirmed both in news and by Googlers) around a year back. So you might say they might overtake OpenAI because of more resources, but they aren't significantly ahead of OpenAI.
At my job I review a lot of code, and I write code as well. The only type of developer an LLM’s output comes close to is a fresh junior usually straight out of university in their first real development job, with little
practical experience in a professional code-shipping landscape. And the majority of those juniors improve drastically within a few weeks or months, with handholding only at the very start and then less and less guidance. This is because I teach them to reason about their choices and approaches, to question assumptions, and thus they learn quickly that programming rarely has one solution to a problem, and that the context matters so much in determining the way forward.

A human junior developer can learn from this tutoring and rarely regress over time. But the LLM’s all by design cannot and do not rewire their understanding of the problem space over time, nor do they remember examples and lessons from previous iterations to build upon. I have to handhold them forever, and they never learn.

Even when they use significant parts of the existing codebase as their context window they’re still blind to the whole reality and history of the code.

Now just to be clear, I do use LLM’s at my job. Just not to code. I use them to parse documents and assist users with otherwise repetitive manual tasks. I use their strength as language models to convert visual tokens parsed by an OCR to grasp the sentence structure and convert that into text segments which can be used more readily by users. At that they are incredible, even something smaller like llama 7b.
oooh, I was just looking at their refurbished M2 drives (1TB for $50, 2TB for $115). Adding 4 TB of storage for ~$275 looks pretty good. I doubt I need quite that much, but I may get it anyways, haha.
Have you looked into PaaS, for example, Render: https://render.com/docs/deploy-an-image
Researchers raise concerns over muscle loss with popular obesity drugs
If anything we need to go the other direction and de-privatize the USPS. We've essentially been going down the privitization route since Reagan. Rural folks (generally Trump voters) should really hate the idea of privatization as they're going to lose post offices and service.
I recently had a procedure denied (after the fact) because the price charged was apparently "excessively above the average" price for that procedure, leaving me on the hook for the full amount. It felt like the opposite of being insured.

I also couldn't wrap my head around why they didn't just pay whatever they thought it was worth and let me cover the rest.
Fascinating (and, dare I say it, pretty funny too).
Perhaps you didn't spot that the author was Professor Michael Mosley. Or perhaps that doesn't affect your assessment.
I wrote industrial control software that bumped a very expensive piece of equipment against the wall because I miscalculated the encoder position. Since then, special limit switches were added, colloquially known as anti-EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK switches.
They already did it, and I’m guessing they were using some of the various YouTube down loaders Google has been going after.
first time i logged on the net 30 years ago i said two things to myself. one of which was.

this will kill print.

if i could see it, 'everyone' could. one rides the trend down. that's how it's done.

while adapting. or not.
The country doesn't need high earners per se, it needs people that contribute effectively. There are plenty of "high earners" that are parasites, contributing little and extracting much. It all makes much more sense once you realise that governments spend before they tax and so what really matters is real resources.
A 'Second Tree of Life' Could Wreak Havoc, Scientists Warn - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42403886

Since that thread didn't make the front page, we'll merge those comments hither. Interested readers may want to look at both articles.
There's another sub-distinction (hah) I'd like to make: Smoke versus decoys.

So instead of 9000 devices to blanket the area with noise so that the movements of the real submarine are hard to discern, you could have 90 decoys which are localized, and the real sub is "hiding in plain sight."

In other words, the difference between obscuring "where" versus "which one."
If you want to train a model to have a general understanding of the physical world, one way is to show it videos and ask it to predict what comes next, and then evaluate it on how close it was to what actually came next.

To really do well on this task, the model basically has to understand physics, and human anatomy, and all sorts of cultural things. So you're forcing the model to learn all these things about the world, but it's relatively easy to train because you can just collect a lot of videos and show the model parts of them -- you know what the next frame is, but the model doesn't.

Along the way, this also creates a video generation model - but you can think of this as more of a nice side effect rather than the ultimate goal.
> I still don't understand what you are talking about.

I see that. Sorry for wasting bandwidth hoping otherwise.
Sound waves. Acoustic waves travel much farther and there are transmitting stations underwater.

Contrary to the other reply, ELF is not used and is impractical: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Sanguine

For VLF you can drag a very long antenna behind you, but most submarines just launch a buoy with a normal antenna to the surface and a fiber connection to allow them to stay below the surface.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2022/04/communication-a...
nope, in a simple lexicon, all you have to do is piss off any member of the court, this stands for most jurisdictions

https://html.duckduckgo.com/html?q=contempt%20of%20court
Trump Likely to Kill Federal Reporting Rule That Reveals Number of Tesla Crashes
> kagi ... fastgpt

I asked a speculative question to FastGPT@Kagi and it returned a "Dunno" as the three Wikipedia pages it suggests having checked did not contain an obvious reply.

I asked the same to Perplexity and it returned a plausible speculative logical reply with more credible reference links.

There is a strong difference between "looking for documents" and "asking sensible questions".

FastGPT@Kagi could neither reply to the question nor find web pages that could be interesting to extrapolate the answer.
Who says they've talked to Google about it at all?

I can't speak to OpenAI but ByteDance isn't waiting for permission.
Doing that would make sense, and we can't have that now, can we?
scrolls is this illustrated with AI slop

scrolls some more

sees happy teens holding computers with horrible melting keyboards only capable of emitting zalgo text

yep this is AI slop, thanks for shitting in my eyeballs, I haven't been doing more than skimming the text but now I'm gonna assume that's AI barf too, byyyeeee

closes tab
I'm there with ya, bud. There should be a term for this — for those of us in our situation — and we should be able to unite!