skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 'What would make for a better cross-platform development experience?'

Back in the day, people balked at using Java as a universal portable application platform, because ironically, everyone wanted their own language and their own platform semantics. Yet everyone on the planet has already unanimously agreed to a cross-platform development platform with a strict set of languages:

- HTML/CSS for presenting text/style/layouts
- Javascript for crafting and organizing the UI
- WebAssembly for compiled code run in a VM
- HTTP for IPC

So right there you have prescribed languages, formats, protocols. We gave up a single simple prescribed system for a more complicated one.

However, if you wanted to, you could get rid of the browser, and still support those same things - plus everything else a native app can do.

Separate those components into libraries, then link those libraries into your app, have your app load the libraries & components you want, and configure how the library should handle the presentation, UI, and business logic. You're then basically shipping a custom, streamlined browser - except it doesn't have to obey browser rules! It can run any code you want, because it's your app. It can present any way you want, because it's your app.

But it's also portable! The UI, the business logic, presentation, would all be using libraries ported to multiple platforms. Just recompile your app on the target platform. Avoid native code for an instant recompile, or add native code and deal with the portability tax.

It's sort of like compiling one browser on multiple platforms, except 1) it's broken down into components, 2) you can interchange those components with ones from different vendors that follow the same standards, and 3) you are not limited to these libraries - you can add your own native code.

In terms of interoperability with other apps, use the same network protocols, the same URIs. You can add new ones too, if you prefer, just for your own custom backend for your app... but probably everyone will stick to HTTP, because it's a universal way to access everyone's backend APIs or other native apps across sandboxes.
It was quite jarring in Amazon's Citadel Diana. The voices were ever so slightly out of sync with the lip movements, and the audio sounded like the studio recording hadn't been processed to match the environment.
Anyone remember why they were so desperate so leave Mexico to go independent and get annexed by the US?
That's right, you can enable that email by checking "Keep my email addresses private" at https://github.com/settings/emails#toggle_visibility_note
Seems like the latest version might be as old as July 2024?

https://www.atoptool.nl/allnews.php

For anyone interested, here are the latest commits to the GitHub: https://github.com/Atoptool/atop/commits/master/
> There will be some that will engage, but those aren't the students we're concerned about here.

Any school teacher can tell you: a single kid that refuses to engage easily holds back an entire class. The only way to get really well educated kids is to separate kids that engage. But do that, and the parents won't stop screaming at you ...
I live in a country where almost no one under 35 is able to purchase a house, no matter how educated you are. We live to pay the rent, the system is broken and we all know it, so we don't need to toil anymore; there is no incentive. As simple as that.
Why not snooze the news for a year and see what’s been invented when you get back. That’ll blow your mind properly. Because each of these incremental announcements contributes to a mind blowing rate of improvement.

The rate of announcements is a sign that models are increasing in ability at an amazing rate, and the content is broadly the same because they’re fungible commodities.

The latter, that models are fungible commodities, is what’s driving this explosion and leading to intense competition that benefits us all.
Google Gemini 2.5 is able to search the web, so if you're able to find the answer on reddit, maybe it can too.
Here you go:
https://imgur.com/a/QJlj4I9
Show HN: Matrix-themed Nostr note composer
I'm not an expert in the field but the Related Work section in the paper has quite a lot of references and seem to cover significant ground. Some quotes from that section:

Recently, there has been a body of work following this structure with Taylor expansions of order higher than two [40, 9, 12, 28, 29, 25]. Unlike our paper, these works are in the setting of convex optimization, do not study the complexity of minimizing the regularized Taylor expansion in each iteration [...]

To the best of our knowledge, no efficient algorithm for higher-order Newton methods of degree d > 3 has been presented. In fact, designing such an algorithm is referred to as an open problem in [23, Sec. 1.5] and [25, Sec. 5].

To our knowledge, the only works that establish superlinear rates of local convergence for higher-order Newton methods are [47] and [24] (and the related PhD thesis [23]), the latter of which came to our attention at the time of writing this paper.

Seems highly unlikely it's anything close to the example you posted.
I’m actually surprised I didn’t have it installed, what with all the packages I check out just through sheer curiosity. Thanks Rachel! I’ll avoid it in the future.
The FBI makes charging decisions all the time. The FBI has to be the one to investigate charges.

Now whether or not said charges are prosecutable is the job of the DoJ.

The demarcation line between the two is when the charges are filed in federal court.

Hillary Clinton was famously not charged by the FBI director Comey back in 2016. Not because she committed any crime, but because they wouldn't likely get a conviction at trial.
I had the same problem. I think a lot of people reading this will have weak hamstrings. I think it's a natural consequence of desk work.

Adding in some Romanian Deadlifts really forced me to focus on my hamstrings when doing lifts. It helped me breakthrough some plateaus with the conventional deadlift.
Does atop have any legitimate need to connect to the network? I can’t think of any legitimate accidental security holes that might show up in something like atop, but then, these utilities often have funky features I don’t know about!
https://github.com/sveltejs/cli/issues/487#issuecomment-2743...
I like how critique of LLMs evolved on this site over the last few years.

We are currently at nonsensical pacing while writing novels.
I stopped using atop when I found it installs several hooks which automatically run code as root and deposit files around the filesystem, including a "power management" hook.
I have this weird gut feeling that it's going to be one of those "this was introduced in 2010 commit and has been in every build since"

Edit: I have no knowledge of what this is FYI.
I think the article explains that.
Tried it myself on the new model, worked out pretty well:

https://chatgpt.com/share/67e34558-5244-8004-933a-23896c738b...
> because for write-protected files '-i' is a no-op.

On my machine, `rm -i` with a yes to a read-only file does delete that file. But maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean by it being a no-op.

> touch foo
> chmod 400 foo
> ls -l
total 0
-r-------- 1 joshua joshua 0 Mar 26 00:06 foo
> rm -i foo
rm: remove write-protected regular empty file 'foo'? y
> ls -l
total 0

> but there is another problem i have with using an alias, this may not apply to you, but i work on multiple machines and in containers, and i keep creating new ones for projects, that there is a high risk that i forget to set the alias. so every time i use rm i can't be sure, did i set the alias, or did i not. and if i rely on 'rm' always asking me, then it makes me complacent. ah, i don't have to pay attention because rm will ask me anyways.

Oh yea. I've definitely run into this. Luckily, a large percentage of my stuff off my dev machine is backed by code, so I can usually just throw things away and bring them all the way back up.

> writing 'rm -i' explicitly every time makes it much easier to see that '-i' is indeed being invoked. it makes me pay attention and i know that i am running the command that i want. it's three extra characters to type each time, but it has become muscle memory. i don't think about it anymore, except when verifying what i typed. the '-i' just has to be there.

Ha. I know that feeling, and this is probably something I should've let happen to me with these dangerous commands. Would definitely make my experience with cp a lot better. I have so many aliases I've made to make my life easier, but I just end up typing in the full command every time. :D
Author here.

That was an error.

I think what happened was that I was going through the list of domains and assumed that "righto.com" would be too valuable a domain name for a personal blog and excluded it without checking. Sorry about that!

Ken is #8 of all-time now.
meditation, if you want to try a drug free approach.

Make it simple. Stare at a clock with a big second hand. Take one breath every 15 seconds. Then, after a minute or so, push it out to 20 seconds, then one every 30 seconds.

For the 30, my pattern tends to stabilize on inhale for 5-7, hold for 5-7, and then a slow exhale. I find that after the first exhale, if I give a little push I can get more air out of my lungs.

Do this once a day, 7-10 minutes session, for a week, and see if things aren't a little different.
I'd like to argue with you, but yeah - as much as I love OP, the restaurants are usually just okay
AV2 from what I heard is aiming to be released this year.
- Subscription model that gives you guides and connects you to vendors to open a 3k garage coffeeshop under a shared name. You can be your own boss and we collect beautiful / plentiful / gracious MRR.
That doesn't sound like suburbs I know. The streets are so empty you can safely walk down the middle of them most of the time. People don't, but you could. (kids used to play baseball/basketball in the streets, stopping play when cars come). Of course to get anywhere you need to leave and so it is never far for a major road that is dangerous to be near.
Complaining about students is just as much of a crutch as parents using iPads as childcare.

Things (gasp) change. Teachers should be looking for funding to keep up with changes, not shitting on kids. If you dont like the kids, get out of education.

Honestly, its very likely that the vast majority of your curriculum is simply not useful or relevant to them, they have no interest or connection with you, and you have made no effort to engage them.
> Does Chinese intelligence know?

How likely is it that all 18 of those people were accessing from mobile operating systems with no known working exploit chain? I would say pretty unlikely.
I dunno. I think the main thing is that LLMs just don't have any ability to reason, at all. An AI that can reason might one day use an LLM to put its thoughts into words, but asking the LLM to write code for a program that it’s never seen before is putting the cart before the horse.
Yeah, from a rando this would be just bad vagueposting but Rachel is absolutely someone who could know about a very good reason why we should uninstall atop but be unable to legally say why. I would heed her warning.
That's what it smells like but this is still a weird way to disclose something like that. I imagine some people with free afternoons are taking a stab at auditing atop's PR history right now. I'm not personally up to the task, but the fact that the top 3 contributors other than the original author are ByteDance employees might cause some to jump to conclusions.
Internet unites the world. It must be united, but there are two ways to do that: it can be a union of the free or it can be a tyranny of one. The two futures may happen simultaneously, but for different people, based on their preferences. This is what's fueling the feeling of doom for many. Moreover, the world must be united at three levels: mental, emotional and physical. The grand empires of the past tried to unite the world with armies at the physical level. The hierocraties of the mediaeval ages tried to do the same with religion at the emotional level. The Internet is trying to do this now at the mental level. Just like in the past, some want to inspire the people with a common ideal, while others want to unite the people by force, only this time it will be mainly applied to our thoughts.
I'm a nobody, but I imagine the feds or spooks would never use anything like that on someone they have physical access on. If the target is in their jurisdiction or a blacksite and it's that important, a lead pipe is easier.

IF they can decrypt stuff, they'll only use it when it's has an actual benefit beyond a conviction and the keys are truly inaccessible. (e.g., person is dead, the keys are in an enemy state HSM, etc.)
> kids have no ability to be bored whatsoever

Funny how intolerance for boredom is framed as the problem, rather than the boredom itself.

> incarcerated students really want to learn

They also really want to see the sky. It's good that students in general don't behave as if they are incarcerated.

> children under the age of two are already spending more than an hour per day on screens

Most two-year-olds can fit an hour of Cocomelon into their busy schedule. Kids, like adults, are going to burn a few hours every day vegging out. Before the phone screen, it was the TV screen, which was worse.

> And they have a level of apathy that I’ve never seen before in my whole career. Punishments don’t work because they don’t care about them. They don’t care about grades. They don’t care about college.

Perhaps students increasingly feel that the things above obstruct and delay their future, rather than prepare them for it. Perhaps we should consider how to make school more relevant and engaging to them, rather than how to impoverish their lives outside of school.
Small world. I’ve run by the stoop coffee and their pancake parties in SF many weekends.

Love seeing the details behind this intentional community building (:
I agree they are all creating negative value for site owners. In my personal experience this week blocking Amazon solved my server overload issue.
This is bit besides the point, but I'll stick it here anyway.

When I read <u>A Man Called Ove</u> in English I was impressed over and over again with the writing. It made me wish I could understand Swedish to compare the original prose. I concluded that Henning Koch is an amazingly talented wordsmith. And it made me suspect that Fredrik Backman might also be one. Clearly, Backman is a very good writer. But I wonder if Koch is a better wordsmith. Sadly, I am unable to enjoy Backman in the original language. As it is, I credit Backman with great writing and Koch with great wording (probably inspired by Backman's great wording).
Happy to be included at #4429. thank you!
As many other people have said, I find big cities more neighborly. People you pass on the sidewalk won't say hi - too many people to do that - but neighbors know each other and can be friendly.
Sorry about that!

Fixed now: https://github.com/mtlynch/hn-popularity-contest-data/pull/1...
It should be in the "reasoning" category, right? (still topping the charts there)
Usually porn and fan fiction.
Sandbox for Cisco
> I suspect common usage will practically be nonexistent, just like HVEC

HEVC is used in all TV broadcast station. FaceTime and other Cameras, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Disney+ and many other large streaming services outside US. The only one that doesn't have any usage of HEVC is Youtube.
no problem, thanks :)
if you load as Smith, you can post anonymously to nostr without having a signer extension
ditto for me. prompted to remove hands, but no success.
Why is that easier with affluent people?
> And yeah, I don't want to work for someone who likes paleoconservative Pat Buchanan enough to give him money.

How many people have you worked for? You've probably already violated this principle. His views aren't exactly fringe and he's reasonably popular. Eich was giving him money because his position was reasonably popular position in the US tech scene.

The Bush family ended up disgracing itself so there is a great argument that Buchanan should have been president when he stood against Bush in the 1992 primary.
I think that is wholly unfair. If Paul Graham is anything its a writer/creator first. Those articles have also been extremely influential to many entrepreneurs and people in the business world. I'm personally appreciative of them, even if I don't always agree with him.
That was a cool button though
Has anyone used the sandbox before?
The irony is that the people and employees of the AI companies will vehemently defend the morality of capitalism, private property and free markets.

Their robber baron behavior reveals their true values and the reality of capitalism.
Am I correct in assuming that accuracy < using correct edit format? i.e. it made mistakes in 27% of the problems, 11% of which were due to (at least) messing up the diff format?

In which case, google should be working on achieving better output format following, as Claude and R1 are able to hit nearly 100% accuracy on the format.
And it takes time and effort to develop the method for creating the crafts.

That doesn't change that they're different in reproducibility...
Thanks! Not to complain, but you spelled my name wrong :-)
> What does 5408 mean and why is it taking up valuable screen space?

For anyone who's not familiar with something as basic as the history command, please pick up a book on bash/zsh/sh and take the time to learn.

If you don't know how to use the shell, you will struggle with (or simply be unable to perform) many basic tasks that could be accomplished quickly and easily by someone who's taken the time to learn how to use the shell and a handful of basic tools like grep, sed, awk, etc.
To clarify, by "doing the opposite" I mean OpenAI releasing GPT-4.5, a non-reasoning model that does worse on benchmarks (but supposed to be qualitatively better). People shit on OpenAI hard for doing that.
> Which I'm assuming is in a university setting, yes?

No. Title I urban school in the state’s third largest city.

> There will be some that engage….

First, if I were being nitpicky, i’d say that this assumes that it’s the student’s responsibility to take the initiative to engage with content. Rather, that’s just what the job of a high school teacher is… to lead them to a point, often sneakily, where they are engaging.

All that said, people are rather overlooking the “bad news” paragraph I included. Getting kids to at least respond to you as an individual teacher on an individual level is easy. But it’s often actively sabotaged by the systems and processes that govern day-to-day crap that happens in a public school. Sad.
There's a lot of speculation about why, with the answer almost certainly security / exploitable (or backdoor), and I'll just throw an extra little tidbit in:

atop seems to run persistently as root, which may be the reason for preventing it from running/uninstalling.

the netatop part of atop installs a persistent kernel module, netatop.ko, as part of its installation. The module hooks netfilter to be able to monitor all traffic.

If there's an exploitable flaw in the kernel module, this would be a max-severity CVE.

netatop _also_ runs a persistent daemon, netatopd, which I believe from inspecting the source runs as root.

The article's language about uninstalling it kinda sorta makes you think one of these three parts is in some way exploitable or backdoored -- any which way it's a privileged process, and one that's monitoring network traffic.

(I'm not sure if netatop is installed by default on systems when you install atop, per czk's comment below)
The problem is that most of those 18 people are just random folks picked on the premise of just one qualification: THey'd be Yes Man/Woman!! They aren't career professionals. I believe that explains the mess they've created and their incompetent approach to their duties.

It's still not too late to impeach that entire shack of clowns.
You can do that on 10 acres, which is affordable near a city. (possible even a reasonable commute to the suburbs. It will feed you but won't otherwise pay the bills (probably not even property taxes!) so figure out how to handle health insurance, and those other details of life.

I know enough about this to know that it isn't for me. It will sometimes be hard dangerous work. There will be late nights and early mornings. You can't take a vacation unless you find someone to cover for you. There will be years when there is a crop failure of some sort and you have nothing to work with. I'm happy working for John Deere where I get to meet and learn about the people doing this but I work my 40 hour weeks and go home.
Probably a backdoor.

Repositories controlled by accounts based in mainland China and Russia are always a risk- it's too easy for a dictatorship to force something to happen even if the authors themselves are trying to act in good faith.

XZ, Swoole... examples off the top of my head.
Author here.

This is something I wanted but I couldn't figure out a way to do it in a way that's meaningful. Authors like Simon Willison publish frequently, so even though he has a lot of high-scoring posts, he has a lot of low-to-no-scoring posts too. It feels unfair to penalize people who publish frequently just because not every post is a homerun.

I'm open to suggestions!

I'm almost positive Paul Graham would be #1.
Stars and Bars
Fair enough, I can see how this would be useful but I have to admit I was hoping it would be the opposite, how to log into a web page with a ssh key.
Interesting points and some things I've been exploring too:

Video quality does decrease, and sometimes that's good a good thing.. :)

- Lower video quality is lower resolution = less addictive.

- Decreasing saturated colors reduces children's brain heroin. (Try to put the tv in normal or movie color mode and see the addictiveness fall off).

- Lowering the sound helps kids hear less of the background addictive noises and strain their hearing a little more and can help them get tired.

- Lowering brightness can help with as well.

- Kids device for viewing could be different than adults to allow filtering and shaping.

As for content, I agree.

- Recently I heard there's more and more fraudulent content under official channels that includes bad content inside the good stuff. This needs to be caught.

- Managing access to shorts is important, if not limit outright.

Do you have a youtube premium account that removes ads by chance?
When I queried using the term, it seemed to perform well, listing 13 results on a singular page. [1] All have the term [2]

Stories that are dead do not show up though.

For date ranges, there should be a pull down box up the top of the search page. I prefer to just get all by date and page to older entries as far as I need.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

[2]

HN Search Is Misleading ... When I search USMLE,

Show HN: LLM reasoning partner for multiple choice questions ... I made this for my gf who is studying for US medical exams (USMLE Step 2)

Show HN: I made a USMLE prep AI study buddy (VQA-RAG) for my girlfriend.

Show HN: Get Your Medical Exam Results Explained – Free for Launch (Usually $10) ... USMLE by over 20 points.

Show HN: Medical LLM API on par with Google Med-PaLM 2. 92% USMLE accuracy

Med-PaLM 2 reaches a score of 86.5% on MEDQA (USMLE)

Chat GPT Passes US Medical Board Exam(USMLE)

ChatGPT Has Passed the United States Medical Licensing Examination (Usmle)

ChatGPT Has Passed the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE)

Performance of ChatGPT on Usmle: Potential for AI-Assisted Medical Education

Performance of ChatGPT on Usmle: Potential for AI-Assisted Medical Education

Usmle moves to pass/fail system -- (https://www.usmle.org/announcements/)

[Med Tech]: Future family doctor looking to contribute to med tech ... My USMLE (United states medical licensing exam) scores