skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I started programming right when they got started.

Then let me tell you about SourceForge. SourceForge, around the time that GitHub started, had a lot of these features (or at least, the ones that were standard practice at the time). It was the de facto home of open source software development at the time, but it was also a megalith that tried to do everything.

GitHub was a breath of fresh air precisely because it had just the right balance of minimalism and features. There were plenty of truly minimalist hosts out there, so we didn't need any more of those. But we also had lots of bloated and slow code hosts. And it deserves to be stressed that the bloated ones were just as unusable as the minimalist ones, even while being (again, for the time) as feature-complete as they come.

Bloated products can't pivot. New features often don't integrate well with existing ones, and they take a long time to develop. We're seeing this with GitHub too, as feature velocity has dropped. But the difference is that GitHub's feature set, particularly their core initial feature set, was exceptionally well designed. They've lost a bit of this edge over time, but overall I think they've done a well enough job of balancing the thoughtfulness of their build-out with doing things at a reasonable speed.

I just want to emphasize this point because I think it gets lost, especially if you're not familiar with what the competition of the time looked like. GitHub absolutely would not have made it to where it is today if they had rushed to add features. For a comparison of what it looks like to build features first and put design on the back burner, see GitLab. There's a reason why I still find their product difficult to navigate despite it being one of the main tools I use in my day-to-day work. And I fear that if anything, GitHub is succumbing to the lure of feature count and becoming its own bloated monolith over time, even with their slow pace.
If that were the case, then why was ByteDance given the option to divest?
So it was a free speech issue, wild.
You’re overestimating the number of people that care about it. A good chunk of people really don’t care about privacy, data security and potential exposure to propaganda, no matter how much we (engineers who actually care about it) tell them to.
Milliseconds are a commonly-used unit. It doesn't really matter if 1 ms is too fine a granularity -- you'll just have to write "autocorrect = 500" in your config file instead of "autocorrect = 5", but who cares?
Trump Meme Coin Suddenly Crashes Back as Melania Coin Shock Hits Crypto
Well to put it into context, I use fish shell, which will only save commands that have an exit code of 0. By using git autocorrect, I have guaranteed that all git commands have an exit code of 0 :)
Elliot Glazer seems to have been caught in a contradiction: https://xcancel.com/ElliotGlazer/status/1880809468616950187

Here he says that Epoch is "developing" a private test set that OpenAI doesn't have access to, but elsewhere Epoch strongly implied that this already existed. This kind of makes me lean towards "Epoch AI lied" instead of "Epoch AI got played." (Even the coauthors weren't informed about the funding, so Epoch does not deserve a presumption of good faith.)

I guess the real question: o3 was able to solve 25% of Frontier problems, so were these the problems whose solutions OpenAI had access to? If so, then that score is meaningless and dishonest.
I would argue that computing has never been more personal if you’re willing to put in a little effort. The advent of containerization, miniaturization of PC’s, and overall drop in cost of technology has allowed anyone to run there own personal intranet, homelab, whatever.
Are you saying that if they just assert they're not doing any interfering, we should uncritically take them at their word?
Also, looking at abandoned blogs and old photos of people lying next to their computers from the early 2000s is so interesting. It captures a time when people truly connected with their machines and made them part of their identity.
No, dark mode is not traditional normal.

Paper was, which is black on white.

And you shouldn't have your device or monitor set to glowing white -- turn the brightness down so it's the same as a sheet of paper next to it.

And Windows didn't change the paradigm, the Mac was the first widely available consumer device which did. And its built-in CRT wasn't especially glowing either -- it was less bright than paper in traditional office lighting.

Early computers had "dark" color schemes because the resolution was so low and pixels "bled" brightness, that it was easier to read. As technology improved, that problem thankfully went away, and it's easier on the eyes to read dark text on a light background, regardless of print or screen.
I actually prefer text as #fff and background as #000. Lower contrast just seems harder to read. I suppose it depends on brightness setting.

Also from an article in Nature.
“Impact of text contrast polarity on the retinal activity in myopes and emmetropes using modified pattern ERG” 09 July 2023.

“Recently, reading standard black-on-white text was found to activate the retinal OFF pathway and induce choroidal thinning, which is associated with myopia onset. Contrarily, reading white-on-black text led to thicker choroids, being protective against myopia. Respective effects on retinal processing are yet unknown.”
10 meters is plenty to covertly track you entering/leaving a building.

> The distance from which an attacker is able to eavesdrop the RF signal depends on multiple parameters, but is typically less than 10 meters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-field_communication
Why would you look at it “per year” when speaking in terms of “per president” other than to say “except trump”
UK's hardware talent is being wasted
Track US politician stock trades
Traditionally we were using CRT monitors and 80x24 terminals... it feels silly to hold on to that out of inertia.
I'm kinda disappointed the "How We Can Reclaim Control" part isn't a bit more prescriptive.

I feel like retaining control on a scale that effects the average person is basically impossible.
Also, the technical bit serms entirely on app distributors.

This is the internet.
It's crazy how people forget they already have censored activists during China's takeover over of Hong Kong.
Overlapping. Some are the same, but the earlier team was Lisp hackers instead of MAD-Slip & FAP hackers, which makes sense and is almost a non-overlapping set of individuals IRL :-)
> 8 months

This has been a possibility for a lot longer than 8 months. Trump was talking about it during his first term more than four years ago. You can take the time to line up buyers even if you don't end up having to sell, but if you have the time and then don't use it, whose fault is that?

> Besides I don't think any company's strategic decisions like this should be solicited by a government. That goes against the free enterprise.

Of course it's not free enterprise. It's a government regulation.

If the US passes a law that says US companies aren't allowed to do business with Russia, that's not free enterprise either. Should those laws be unconstitutional? Maybe, but not any less than this one.
What is the actual argument for why this new societal/technological/economic trajectory will occur…?
> I insist on this all the time in code reviews. Variables must have units in their names if there's any ambiguity. For example, `int timeout` becomes `int timeout_msec`.

Same here. I'm still torn when this gets pushed into the type system, but my general rule of thumb in C++ context is:

void FooBar(std::chrono::milliseconds timeout);

is OK, because that's a function signature and you'll see the type when you're looking at it, but with variables, `timeout` is not OK, as 99% of the time you'll see it used like:

auto timeout = gl_timeout; // or GetTimeoutFromSomewhere().
FooBar(timeout);

Common use of `auto` in C++ makes it a PITA to trace down exact type when it matters.

(Yes, I use IDE or a language-server-enabled editor when working with C++, and no, I don't have time to stop every 5 seconds to hover my mouse over random symbols to reveal their types.)
> Has there been any other behavior like this in the past where a company "shut themselves down" to make a big political statement and then almost immediately undid the shut down?

OnlyFans did something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlyFans#Restrictions_on_porno...
The law specifically gives the president a 90 day extension.
There's plenty of Ed Zitron's opinions I don't agree with, but this is a really good quote:

"Our economy isn’t one that produces things to be used, but things that increase usage."
The crew would be relatively constant, but ships also carry attachments that are based on the types of missions they are going to complete. So the actual number of passengers would vary.
But the consumers of the API aren't humans, they're programmers.
Please don't force light mode either. :) My astigmatism means that I find dark mode on backlit screens to be far more readable. For proper accessibility, include both and respect the browser/OS user preference accordingly. Allow the user to override that on a per-app basis if you're feeling fancy.
One of my all-time favorite articles.

Some past HN posts about it:

- https://hn.algolia.com/?q=frank+sinatra+has+a+cold
It is bizarre to me that so many posters in this thread are discussing a tv show as if it reflects reality. Perhaps it is submarine marketing?
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I suffer from the same issue and I've always assumed it was astigmatism as well. There are different types of astigmatism so perhaps some types have this issue and some don't? I'm unsure, but I know that dark mode is legitimately hard for me to read.
Sleep hygiene. I'm in college and I know too many people that waste away online until 3am and are always tired and then down coffee after coffee during the day.
Right, it's fine if your image format has an opinion about this, what's infuriating is that TIFF lets each individual image have its own opinion, so a decent TIFF decoder needs to be able to do either for each image.
If you want to run your own little silo completely disconnected from your fellow human beings then it has never been easier. But that was never really all difficult in the first place. I don't think it's truly the problem that needs to be solved.
There's a bit of a difference between a downstream commercial host and turning the open-source project into open-core. Gitea went from a rotating governance to deciding half of the decision-makers must now come from a for-profit company that now competes with the open-source offering.
Onavo posted the link

> https://tribunecontentagency.com/article/philosophy-eats-ai/

at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42762093
I use Feedly, which as a RSS reader is ok but probably one of the better ones available on iOS/iPadOS platform. I loved Google Reader back in the day, but Google loves to kill every product of theirs that I actually like and used.

I believe the HN feed is available here: https://news.ycombinator.com/rss
The issue is if you accept the wrong command instead of retyping it correctly, you never get the correctly spelled command into your history — and even worse, you don't get it to be more recent than the mistyped command.
If the specific intent was to make it difficult to assemble, then yes.
like all trades of men

the most important skill i have

is showing up every day
It’s not an insane business decision, but the easiest way to garner support for your preferred candidate. Anyone who is 24/7 on TikTok (there are a lot of them) will now say how Trump saved the app. And kinda, technically, they’re not wrong (if you ignore the history).
That's explaining some specific technical properties of how this particular NFC card works, it not explaining what the implications of that are.
Well, i'd like to remind him that designers are supposed to "design" for users. Who may have a used monitor they paid $50 for and it's from 2003...
> Also, expect to see that Facebook is partnering with TikTok on Monday morning. The head of the bill banning TikTok just invested 100 million in Meta... so I imagine there will be a followup announcement how Trump brokered some deal to Americanize TikTok or something.

Wait, if this is truly what this outcome was about, this seems.. huge? Can you share more information about that?
Ed also uses "?" for "Are you sure?" If you're sure, you can type the last command a second time to confirm.

The story goes that ed was designed for running over a slow remote connection where output was printed on paper, and the keyboard required very firm presses to generate a signal. Whether this is true or folklore, it would explain a lot.

GNU Ed actually has optional error messages for humans, because why not.
I mean, the building blocks are there, but so much has moved into "the cloud". You can't run Just Photoshop anymore, you can only run CC that sends all your images to them, you can't run Word without running Office 365, you cant run most games without Steam, etc etc. And all of the exciting new software is -As-A-Service

So while there's more options now for homelab things the overall ecosystem has moved strongly away so there's a lot more to avoid
I actually think OpenAI is right, unless you have a base url tag? That’s a relative url and its relative to the current url you are on, not the root domain
> Tamay from Epoch AI here. We made a mistake in not being more transparent about OpenAI's involvement. We were restricted from disclosing the partnership until around the time o3 launched, and in hindsight we should have negotiated harder for the ability to be transparent to the benchmark contributors as soon as possible. Our contract specifically prevented us from disclosing information about the funding source and the fact that OpenAI has data access to much but not all of the dataset.

Not sure if "integrity of the benchmarks" should even be something that you negotiate over, what's the value of the benchmark if the results cannot be trusted because of undisclosed relationships and sharing of data? Why would they be restricted from disclosing stuff you normally disclose, and how doesn't that raise all sorts of warning flags when proposed even?
Yes. And so complex to explain that it still isn't obvious what federation does or is after an afternoon of research by a tech enthusiast. Where does the data live? How does it spread? Who has control over it?

You could tell me that, but don't. The answers are very much besides the point if you can't explain it and the advantages of the arrangement in five minutes to somebody on the opposite end of the normal distribution of technical understanding to your average HN account. Network effects dominate most social network pros and cons, so if you can only educate five percent of the general population there isn't much point.
Funny I have just the opposite problem. And so I use a dark reader add-on in Firefox to force light sites, and curse any app that only provides a light theme.
it's irrelevant in politics because they are still going to act on their own level of information regardless.
I believe they predicted something slightly different. That the magnetism would remain until structural failure. .

Simply put physics says if you put enough energy on an atom in a solid, it will eventually leave the solid on the solid/vacuum boundary from raw kinetic energy alone. Now, if you're trapped in an infinitely large solid, there would be no boundary and the magnetism could remain. For example the example of the early universe would be an example of one of these near infinite structures where magnetism remains. Large astronomical objects with lots of gravity may be able to reproduce these conditions somewhat like this.

With all that said, it should give us means of maintaining magnetism in an ordered manner in structures we'd consider hot as a human.
if they used it in training it should be 100% hit. most likely they used it to verify and tune parameters.
Then you can stop using it, and you're no worse off than before when the choice wasn't even available.
> (This is mathematically worse for a reason I don't remember; it causes any picture taken at a concert with blacklights or blue spotlights to look bad.

The iPhone camera sensor is prone to saturating and clipping the blue channel when strong light from a blue LED is in the frame. Once the blue channel clips at the maximum value, a typical HDR gain map won't do anything to restore more nuance to it because they're not designed to add high-frequency detail to a blob of clipped pixels with identical values in the base image.
I still object to this being a trait of Chinese people or citizens of China.
RSS feeds, so underrated. Rediscovering RSS and adding my YT subs as RSS feeds feels so liberating.

Plus, RSS feeds combines the reg videos + short videos into single feed.
I don’t know. I’ve written that seemed like obvious simple code that got tripped up with the 25 hour day on DST transition. That’s when I learned to stick to UTC.
This course is not for everybody -- only those determined to do whatever it takes to succeed. There are alternatives to sleep used by top performers: caffeine, cocaine, (meth)amphetamines, etc.

Yes, this is sarcasm.
My reading of the law does not require ISPs to block customers from accessing TikTok. US-based CDNs would be unable to provide hosting, but that just makes it less efficient, not inaccessible.
We are watching the norm be created that ‘what apps we are allowed to use’ is something that is in the personal gift of Donald Trump.

That is a very weird precedent for us to be setting.
I'm going to try to put this in as few words as possible.

>> Why are soldiers allowed to bring GPS-enable consumer smartphones along with them on top-secret deployments in the first place?

That was your original question.

It wasn't 'Should we ban TikTok to enhance military security?'

When people answered your original question with relevant points, you reached back to banning TikTok.
That actually works in the UK government's favor - people would be demanding that the government start more surveillance and crackdowns. If the attack was backed by a government in the Middle-East, they would have near-total immunity due to the politics of oil.
Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42761648
Related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42763231
It might be because (very few!) mathematicians like Terence Tao make positive remarks. I think these mathematicians should be very careful to use reproducible and controlled setups that by their nature cannot take place on GPUs in the Azure cloud.

I have nothing against scientists promoting the Coq Proof Assistant. But that's open source, can be run at home and is fully reproducible.
Relevant: https://newsboat.org/

If you like your email in mutt, then you'll probably like your feeds in newsboat.
When buying a 3D printer I found it better to support Prusa[0] or another company that cares more about open source / hardware.

[0] https://github.com/prusa3d
"Still, TikTok’s opponents hadn’t relented. Jacob Helberg, a member of a congressional research and advisory panel called the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, has been working on building a bipartisan, bicoastal alliance of China hawks, united in part by their desire to ban TikTok. Over the past year, he says, he has met with more than 100 members of Congress, and brought up TikTok with all of them.

Some lawmakers built momentum for the bill by holding hearings to introduce their colleagues to arguments against TikTok, Helberg said. He also co-hosted a hearing that focused in part on TikTok.

It was slow going until Oct. 7. The attack that day in Israel by Hamas and the ensuing conflict in Gaza became a turning point in the push against TikTok, Helberg said. People who historically hadn’t taken a position on TikTok became concerned with how Israel was portrayed in the videos and what they saw as an increase in antisemitic content posted to the app.

Anthony Goldbloom, a San Francisco-based data scientist and tech executive, started analyzing data TikTok published in its dashboard for ad buyers showing the number of times users watched videos with certain hashtags. He found far more views for videos with pro-Palestinian hashtags than those with pro-Israel hashtags. While the ratio fluctuated, he found that at times it ran 69 to 1 in favor of videos with pro-Palestinian hashtags."

linked in the article
https://www.wsj.com/tech/how-tiktok-was-blindsided-by-a-u-s-...
Trump's biggest backers, Elon Musk, Jeff Yass...etc. all have ties with China.
Too little, too late. The list of reasons to stay in the UK are slim; and there’s very little the UK can do about it (other than begging people to stay out of national pride). Even the strong arguments a decade ago, like the NHS, are cracking.
WNYC's "One the Media" have done just this:

"How Rush Limbaugh Paved The Way For Trump" (2021)

<https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/how-rush-l...>

Audio: <https://chrt.fm/track/53A61E/pdst.fm/e/dts.podtrac.com/pts/r...> (MP3)
A co-founder of Epoch left a note in the comments:

> We acknowledge that OpenAI does have access to a large fraction of FrontierMath problems and solutions, with the exception of a unseen-by-OpenAI hold-out set that enables us to independently verify model capabilities. However, we have a verbal agreement that these materials will not be used in model training.

Ouch. A verbal agreement. As the saying goes, those aren't worth the paper they're written on, and that's doubly true when you're dealing with someone with a reputation like Altman's.

And aside from the obvious flaw in it being a verbal agreement, there are many ways in which OpenAI could technically comply with this agreement while still gaining a massive unfair advantage on the benchmarks to the point of rendering them meaningless. For just one example, knowing the benchmark questions can help you select training data that is tailored to excelling at the benchmarks without technically including the actual question in the training data.
Because BitBucket is a GitHub clone itself (I'm not entirely sure if it started out as such, it very quickly turned in to one).
Executive orders have historically been a way to get things done when the law is ambiguous. It has not, as far as I know, been used to try to directly contradict existing law that has been upheld by the judiciary branch. I don't even know how that would be legal - if it were then it upends literally the entire basis of our government.

We're essentially saying the president is a dictator - which I know is what the current president wants, but I sure hope the rest of the country doesn't.
We’ve also started seeing TT ads on Reels, and a brand new blue-checked Facebook account appeared on TT yesterday and rapidly gained 100Ks of followers.
Given that screens are always adding their own light, it’s impossible for a screen to ever be equally bright as a piece of paper next to it. The screen will always be brighter.
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I think it was intentional, and omitted arguments defaulted to zero for any "FOO 1,2,3" style command. Think LOAD, SAVE etc.