skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You should take a look at AnyIO, which unifies asyncio and Trio (it can use both event loops as a backend).

Two big deals of Trio and AnyIO are channels (similar to Go's channels), the ability to return data from starting a task in a nursery/task group:

async def my_consumer(task_status = anyio.TASK_STATUS_IGNORED):
tx, rx = anyio.create_memory_object_stream()
task_status.started(tx)

async for message in rx:
...

async def my_producer(tx):
await tx.send("hello")
await tx.send("world")
await tx.aclose()

async def main():
async with anyio.create_task_group() as tg:
tx = await tg.start(my_consumer)
tg.start_soon(my_producer, tx)
Researchers say they've discovered a new method of 'scaling up' AI
That's a distinction without a difference whatsoever. It's the same man doing the same things.
We don't have time machines and so can't re-run the experiment. I've read biographies of Rickover and not all people who lived through this time are complementary.

It's certainly true the strategic arms processes and nuclear submarine engineering benefited in a long term view.

I just find myself asking if the US army recruiting tag line Be The Best You Can Be was really met, or if Rickover achieved what might be more akin to crystallography "local optimum" where there are better peaks out there, but this one is mine. (To borrow another army concept)

Viewed from Australia the current state of US submarine construction is woeful. We're on the brink of being ripped off having prepaid for access to Virginia class subs soon, and AUKUS subs in future. We expect to be told we cannot have Virginia class subs ever, we cannot have longterm crewing or command ever, but we can host them retained in US HANDS and we can continue to pay for them.

Not that Rickover made that happen, but whatever his lessons are, the US submarine building industry doesn't seem to have learned then, or be able to apply them.
ChatGPT can't kill anything worth preserving
>wired headphones bring it to as low as 0.1 ms

I love this. Didn't know it could go down to 0.1ms.
Not to mention the same critical vulnerability in Clerk's Next.js SDK, which should've been a wake up call.

https://clerk.com/changelog/2024-02-02#:~:text=Our%20solutio...
My questions is do we have any way to make high power wireless charging, say 40 to 50W that is more efficient and lower heat. I believe we are currently reaching close to 80%. The idea of Wireless charging is great, but the reality is that it doesn't work well in hot environment, it is comparatively slow and expensive.
The common aspect of both products is their addictiveness.
Training LLM Agents
People would have you believe it's piracy.
A single thumbs down was all that saved it.
The top 50% of college freshman math and physics majors is approximately equal to the top 1% of all people.
My view is that I have a well paid job, so I don't need to nickel-and-dime people on my software. It's free and opensource in fact.
Why we don’t have an LLM based search tool for our pc / smartphones?

Specially for the smartphones all of your data is on the cloud anyway, instead of just scraping it for advertising and the FBI they could also do something useful for the user?
I never got used to your eyes sticking closed for a brief moment every time you blink
Legacy of the Angels
Well, we know what Zuckerberg's idea of "lost idealism" is with his recent rants about there not being enough "masculine energy."
One time in Arma dayz mod I was trapped on a water tower with an unfriendly player above me for 20m keeping me pinned down. My friend in team speak circled around and took them out with a shot from over 1km away. Good shot!
The thing to keep in mind about the RCMP is that they're complicated. They need funding and want to exert more visible control over the problem space. I'm not Canadian and my Canadian friends say the RCMP can be amazingly cool and simultaneously unbelievably reactionary. Beating up students uncool, and doing seriously good quality research in social science around drug use.

I read this article in that spirit: do I think this is a good future risk analysis? Yes. I think it paints a frighteningly plausible picture of society with continued income decline and climate related strain, and loss of territory assumed to be exploitable "virgin lands"

But I also think the RCMP probably wants more cool APCs with sonic or RF cannon and rubber bullets less prone to breaking down in storage and to replace some materiel stocks used up, and get faster desktop PC's.

Doesn't hurt to stock up, right? What helps stock up? Make politicians scared of future civil unrest.
Happy 18th Birthday CUDA
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41486565 -> possible targets due to high impact and low maintainers
The magnet in MagSafe really does wonders to increasing efficiency and decreasing heat escape. It really should just be the default, non-MagSafe wireless chargers are dangerous.

I haven’t inserted a cable into my iPhone for around 6 or so months now. The port is there, but it doesn’t seem to be doing much.
It doesn't solve any problem, you can just search your files using your prefered file explorer (crtl-f)

I'd assume most people organise their files so that they know where things are as well.
High-Performance PNG Decoding
Does AI not also automate away repetitive tasks? This seems to be a disingenuous comparison.
Neither of those things are addressed by DNS poisoning
What's the takeaway?
To see some contemporary "reverse oil painting on glass" works, see Jessica Frances Grégoire Lancaster's site.

[1] https://www.jfglancaster.com/
I think this is the best way to learn stuff.
Which open-source projects are widely used but maintained by just a few people
> And that perhaps explains part of the NoSQL appeal in the early 2010’s

No?
At the time clothes were typically made to last and did, with shoes being a weak point due to the harsher wear and tear of rubbing against the ground.
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41486565
Besides the millions COD gets, more than a few wannabe startup owners on Y Combinator will ever achieve.

There are people being affected by those decisions, effectively losing their jobs, and source of income, as unimpressed as you may be.
For some things not yet yes, for others it is already here.
"It is important to us that we don’t generate inaccurate content that contributes to the spread of misinformation on the Internet, so the content we generate is real and related to scientific facts, just not relevant or proprietary to the site being crawled.”

Can't wait for this to generate some liable content on a publicly traded company site. It's not because something is factual that it can't be wrong to communicate in context.

Cloudflare has a habit of handing machineguns to toddlers in the name of antibotting, then shrug their shoulders and call it user error as they shoot themselves.
I instantly thought Master Computer Program, ngl.
There was a paper[1] from last year where the authors discovered getting the model to output anything during times of uncertainty, improved the generations overall. If all of the post-training alignment reasoning starts with the same tokens then I could see how it would condition the model to continue the reasoning phase.

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15758
No, it lead to less jobs being available.

Good thing when people actually have another job available for them.

Not everyone lives in regions where there is another job across the street.
It is practically impossible to find a freelance project these days
Classical Economics says that in the long run, it's impossible to defy full-employment or saturate any market, Lassez Faire or free trade is quite the norm. Needless to say, the classical framework is based on some rational assumptions like no entry barriers to competition, free flow of information, rational actors who act in their own interest, etc. And yet, given these basic assumptions, the market indeed seemed to work that way for decades and centuries. And most global markets too, not just the freelance market.

The phenomenon of a "long term recession" or "long term saturation" is an unprecedented one and happening for the first time in history. From the news I read and watch, this seems to be happening in almost all sectors but freelancing is what affecting me directly. While short-term corrections of excesses and anomalies have indeed affected economic activity in the past (like world wars) but these aren't such exceptional times. The broader narrative is one of increasing prosperity, GDP output and stock market profitability all over, yet the middle class struggles more and more to find every morsel to feed their hunger.

Coming back to Upwork, a massive entry-barrier in the form of having to purchase connects is itself a problematic symptom. This indicates that supply/demand ratio is heavily tilted in favor of clients; again, this should self-correct itself in a rational market given the classical assumptions but it has carried on for several years now.

Another reason for an unhealthy supply/demand ratio is "brandification" of things which is a symptom of excessive consumerism. This isn't about just freelancing but the increasing cynicism and lack of trust of humans towards one another. Humans have lost empathy towards fellow human, they'd rather trust a Dominos or McDonalds than the little guy cooking French Fries or Samosas in the basement. They'd rather trust an Infosys or Tech Mahindra than the little freelancer who is struggling to make a living.

And from their perspective, they could be right. Apple can give them 24x7 support which I can't, the most I can do is respond to emails or messages within a specified time. There is also the human limitation of how much Coding, Testing, Deployment and Support a single individual freelancer could provide. Does it mean the age of individual freelancers is finally coming to an end, and only big businesses and agencies will eventually thrive?

The only way I can see real revival of freelancing as career option happening is if society at large wakes up from its usual cynical blue-pilled bubble, and starts having some faith in fellow homo sapiens like them, not just abstract entities like brands, gpts and platforms.

Have a nice day ahead, and may the Logos bless everyone!
The great Hobby Lobby artifact heist
They're now revoking residence permits[0] of people who arrived and stayed by legal means so you can't play the "illegals" card anymore.

0: https://apnews.com/article/immigration-humanitarian-parole-c...
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Well, probably you can try to go down to simpler models to get the idea. (they are almost useless) From my experience better model like Claude or o3 can do things that others simply cannot. At some complexity they start going circles making wrong decisions, forgetting things that are still in context window. But the thing is those complex tasks are usually the most interesting and important.
Environmentalists push renewables the way homelessness activists push housing: It’s a great idea if it is near no one, hurts no one’s views, impacts zero birds, affects zero animals, and is not built for profit by the rich.

I suppose I could use their terminology, though: responsibly sited, balancing conservation priorities, and protecting local communities.

I recall, in my college years, being told how Real Communism hadn’t been tried yet. It seems that Real Communism never did get tried and no matter who tries Communism they never try the good Real variety. After years of watching top environmental organizations repeatedly oppose nuclear power as a whole and renewables often, I think I have to say: Real Environmentalism Hasn’t Been Tried Yet. No True Environmentalist Would Do What These Guys Do.
The Origins of Dwarf Fortress 1:4 (noclip) [video]
“In the first episode of this four-part series we explore the decisions that led a pair of brothers”
agreed if openai doesn't give their custom GPTs access to local stuff or implement MCP I might switch to claude soon
I believe that an authoritative implementation of an MCP server was just created in the last couple weeks, which explains the flurry of initial posts.

The value is that this interface is the other end of a socket; implement it, and your LLMs will have magic tools. Sure it’s just another JSON-RPC adapter, but it’s a JSON-RPC adapter that works and has working integrations.

Give it a try, if you remain open minded to the potential I suspect you can find a use case and application that would shock you in its efficacy.
The control on the privateers comes when they claim their spoils. They have to go before a prize court and prove they went after valid targets and were within the scope of their commission with whatever prizes they took. These courts can deny prizes, give damages to innocent victims, fine irresponsible privateers, and even revoke letters of marque.
Thanks for the link. Ok so as I suspected, even with very little income but if one has assetts, there is no discount.
But file explorer does not read the actual files and build context. Even for pure text files that sometimes search functions can also access, I need to remember exactly the string of characters I am looking for.

I was hoping an LLM would have a context of all of my content (text and visual) and for the first time use my computers data as a knowledge base.

Queries like “what was my design file for that x service” ? Today it’s impossible to answer unless you have organized your data your self.

Why do we still have to organize our data manually?
Which economy would you have put in the "robust understanding of checks and balances" bucket as an outside observer 5 years ago? BULGARIA or the USA.

I know my own cultural biases. I know I made a lot of assumptions about former Comecon member states. But, I also know I've met people on the fringes of state sector national bank administration in this economy, and these are serious minded thoughtful, smart people.

The tone set here is admirable: be clear on your legal authority and respect process. Top down boots-and-all SQL admin access is not confidence building. "Here's the legal basis of what I'm asking show me using your administration rights and let's agree an export state, or help me to get the least privileged access needed and let's both log this in audit" is exactly what you want.
I find the vast majority of textbooks I have ever used tend to be overly verbose and graphically confused, with lots of inserts that distract from the reading process without adding any relevant information. If you read a textbook from fifty years ago, it notably reads like a book, with a coherent narrative structure. Contemporary textbooks read more like magazines; eliminating text boxes, colors, and columns would make them far easier to read.

There’s also a tendency in contemporary textbooks to try to relate topics to concrete things in the real world. This is a key thing to do when you’re teaching to show students both how they can do something and why they would want to do it, but someone who is reading the book has already been convinced of the subject’s importance - they just need to be told what they need to know about it. This also leads to the book becoming dated faster because the examples draw on trends that go out of fashion, even though the principles of the field likely haven’t substantially changed since the 1960s.
Using metric has never been an issue in trades or sciences in metric countries.

A metre is much the same as a yard or an adult arm span. Not a problem.

Pretty much all carpentry and cabinet making is done in mm alone, the width of a fat pencil mark.

1400mm is shy of a metre and a half (1500mm), cross piece spacing might be 300mm (about a foot).

No need to have feet, inches, quarters and thirds mixing up the page, just use mm everywhere.

A gram is fine for small mass measurements, a kilogram is a good unit for heavier masses - very human scale being the same as a litre of water and more or less a litre of milk.

It really comes down to familiarity, there's nothing intrinsically difficult about metric (and much that is more intuitive than odd imperialial units and the whacky intra unit conversion factors).
Show HN: Fingernotes – handwritten notes which become their own preview image
Hi HN, I've lurked here for ages and decided to come out of the shadows for my latest side project which reached the point where it’s sort of fun to use and hopefully not totally embarrassing to share.

Hacking fingernotes.com together over a couple of weeks was a creative outlet when work got stressful. I think of it as digital sticky notes. The goal was to make notes with a personal touch that are easy to write and share. I also wanted them to appear as their own link preview image on supported platforms. That way when you send the link to a note, the person sees the message without following the link.

Let me know what you think!

I drew inspiration from Apple's quick notes: low latency made scribbling a pleasure, and sending notes to friends felt warm and original compared to a typical exchange. It was also intriguing to see my handwriting printed in a message chat. In a time of rising artificial generation, spreading my clumsy handwriting feels like an act of rebellion.

But I dislike the light background in Apple notes, which I don't think you can change when sharing. More importantly, no one sent a note back. With fingernotes the low-friction interaction is meant to make creating notes simple. I also find the image previews aesthetically more pleasing.

For implementation, fingernotes are publicly accessible links to collections of strokes that have been persisted to a Cloudflare D1 database and rendered in SVG. Like pen on a sticky note, each stroke is immutable but anyone can add to a note if they have the link. You can't undo strokes, so if you mess up your note just throw it out and start a new one. Having append-only collections avoids handling order of operations when multiple people edit the same note. Hosting it as a Cloudflare worker made it easy to get up and running. There's some latency in Safari on iOS which is absent on desktop. It's noticeable compared to Apple notes and I'm afraid it's a limitation of the browser.
The fact they’re YC alum isn’t relevant.

“Startup offers crap deal to prospective employees” is just runway maximization.

No one’s forced to apply; don’t like the offer? Don’t take it.

If it’s illegal? Report it to the Department of Labor - or someone who can actually effect change.
An AI that comments on the PR is useful but I'd leave it at that. They should use their brain or they'll be vibe coding their whole life. Even seniors should be minimally using AI to write code.
I wrote something similar https://github.com/andrewarrow/xvibe
in the README I included the prompts used.
Checking the datasheet for Bangle's display, it seems to also be a transflective LCD.
> you can just search your files using your prefered file explorer

This only work if you remember specific substrings. An LLM (or some other language model) can summarize and interpolate. It can be asked to find that file that mentions a transaction for buying candy, and it has a fair chance to find it, even if none of the words "transaction", "buying" or "candy" are present in the file, e.g. it says "shelled out $17 for a huge pack of gobstoppers".

> I'd assume most people organise their files

You'll be shocked, but...
I think you may be looking at the wrong column. Hello World runs in 0.020s, per the benchmarks.
it took me 15 minutes once to understand one equation. It was the derivation of the Taylor series for the tangent function. It was a very old textbook for calculus (from the beginning of the 20th century) and it applied techniques which are not teached nowadays, so it is possible to understand mathematical expressions after staring at it ;)
I don't think anyone is stopping AI learning on the synopses of books. Or learning on books having paid licensing costs. It's the wanting to have cake, eat cake and for free that is falling.
Finetuning specialized small/cheap models on outputs from large/expensive general models is common practice.
In the field usually nothing takes off on the first attempt, so this is just a reason to ask "what's different this time" on the following attempts.
If Jia Tan's PR was approved, malicious artifacts could go to github releases just as easily as in a tarball. Struggling to understand the point made about github releases being a security mitigation.
Using residential IPs is standard operating procedure for companies that rely on collecting information via web scraping. You can rent residential egress IPs. Sometimes this is done in a (kind of) legit way by companies that actually subscribe to residential ISPs. Mostly it's done by malware hijacking consumer devices.
You are probably young and don't remember previous downturns. It is true that it's not possible to find any freelance project these days. And not just freelance, companies who sell outsourcing services to companies, have budgets for in-person visits, exhibitions and conferences, and have professional leadgen and sales teams , also can't sell anything at all - i'm in contact with several of them. It has nothing to do with Upwork or connects.

For the time being, custom development market is dead. It's probably not worthwhile to keep kicking a dead horse. I for example, gave myself a sabbatical.

But in late 2008-late 2009 there was exactly the same thing going on. It's natural and repeats once in a business cycle. Same factor that usually plays in favour of contractors: ability to satisfy short term demand without committments means commanding much better pay than full-time staff - plays against us in downturns; when there is slightly less demand for coding, contract market instantly saturates.

Get back to it in a year or two, things will fix. It happened many times in history before, now is not at all an exceptional time, all old-timers remember these days.

Good time to have a kid if you don't have one yet. That's what i did last time.
Most likely these were lecture notes that were transcribed by students. The figures are just pictures of the professor's drawings.

True, they're not hard to make on a computer, but who is spending time to do that? And is the result more clear? More educational? Or simply more beautiful?
This is roughly what Apple Intelligence was supposed to deliver but has yet to.
What is the hardest part of learning and practice, for you?
As we talked with our first user, he said "I always open flashcard during 20 minutes break of classes, to learn English and prepare my IELTS... It would be about 30-50 cards," so then we created MVP, a bank of AI generated quizzes for everything, and you can create yours too. Just type the topic, the example of questions, and the character (yup, this part inspired by c.ai to motivate learning). It will be endless quiz generators as long as you keep going. Now, we've generated 65 quizzes ranging from basics, elementary, until undergrads and PhD. Kindly try and give us feedback at wiyomi.com, thanks!
A long time ago I started working at this company and I fat fingered 'rm -rf /' instead with a dot.

When realizing what I had done and it was taking too long I powered off the machine.
When I told the sysops he looked horrified and asked me how far it got.

The fun thing was all websites and data where mounted from the server to each workstation to make it easy to update source code.