MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by alganet | 2025-04-21 20:01:50+00:00
Getting someone who worked on the thing or someone close to the author to be hired by your company and bumped to a high prestige position probably has more effect on law than a license (just an intuition).

"Hey, that guy worked with the author, and he was hired and now is a super top dog there... he must be the true genius behind it"

I mean that for ideas, not materialized code. You guys are so focused on small text files and miss the big picture sometimes.

Licenses are a small angle for those things.
by codingmoh | 2025-04-21 20:02:29+00:00
I went with Phi as the default model because, after some testing, I was honestly surprised by how high the quality was relative to its size and speed. The responses felt better in some reasoning tasks-but were running on way less hardware.

What really convinced me, though, was the focus on the kinds of tasks I actually care about: multi-step reasoning, math, structured data extraction, and code understanding.There’s a great Microsoft paper on this: "Textbooks Are All You Need" and solid follow-ups with Phi‑2 and Phi‑3.
by mattwilsonn888 | 2025-04-21 20:02:30+00:00
Using Joplin right now. I wouldn't say I'm blown away by it, but it fits some simple needs for a digital notebook:

* Markdown and LaTeX working stably out of the box. * Side-by-side view. * (Isolated) File and folder browser in the immediate UI

I originally started with it because it's Open Source and can link to other documents saved in Joplin - I don't actually use that feature though.

Other than that it's fairly sane. Just works, no real bugs so far, and you can export in a variety of different convenient formats; I've come to trust exporting as a single .jex (Joplin Export) file, but MD and HTML are supported.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-04-21 20:02:58+00:00
> 1. Long distance transmission lines.

Those are really expensive. They're part of the toolbox, but they're not tool #1.

> 2. Some type of "clean, firm, dispatchable" power. Examples include: Nuclear fission, fusion power, deep geothermal, and space based solar power.

If you're relying on that to supply power during those winter weeks without sun & wind then it has to scale up to 100% of power needs. And if it can do that, why build anything else?

To get to 100% carbon free with > 99.99% reliability for under $1T, your primary tool is modelling.

Then you reach for:

- source diversity. Wind is more expensive than solar, but it tends to be highest at dawn/dusk so is a great complement. - overprovisioning. Enough solar to supply needs on a cloudy winter day - storage. - long distance interconnect. There's never been an hour in recorded history where there's no sun or wind somewhere in the continental US.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545044/electrify/
by jandrese | 2025-04-21 20:04:12+00:00
You would have to burn a cart that contained the webpage and TCP stack, as well as having the ethernet hardware, but there are tricks you can do to reduce the memory requirements. It's not going to be able to handle more than a packet or two at a time, but I've seen TCP stacks squeezed onto really low end hardware. Obviously you won't be able to open much of a TCP window so performance will be lousy, but it's a 1.8Mhz CPU so that was always going to be the case. Just don't have any misconceptions about being able to run TLS on it. Remember that TCP was developed on machines that did not have a lot of memory or even CPU cycles.

An Atari 2600 might be a bridge too far, but a NES should be able to do it.
by burningChrome | 2025-04-21 20:04:35+00:00
This was also because there were so many people setting up fake accounts using real celebs. The most famous of which was probably the Dave Chapelle, Kat Williams story that Chapelle tells where a fake Chapelle account was feuding with a fake Kat Williams account.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_Egh9mW5y4
by SnazzyUncle | 2025-04-21 20:04:49+00:00
Yep. It is honestly tiresome. It is the same bad arguments are repeated ad-nauseam. The UK government and various public entities have been repeatedly shown to abuse the powers given to them.

It doesn't matter if you show all the times it was abused, or someone life has been ruined for because they drunkely said something stupid on facebook, it is just ignored or if it later gets overturned that it is no big deal even though they had to spent months or years dealing with the legal system.

I have spoken to a lot of young people (typically men) in their 20s that just want to leave the country because they can see where this is all going.

Anyway my top comment has been made dead. I hate this site.
by greeniskool | 2025-04-21 20:04:56+00:00
> Rebooting NetBSD reboots the whole console, and not just the NetBSD ‘app’, so you’ll find yourself back at the Wii Menu after any kernel patch or system upgrade.

This can be mitigated by installing Priiloader, and having it autoboot into either the Homebrew Channel or the NetBSD .dol file
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-04-21 20:05:00+00:00
> Maybe the open source definition needs to change

Maybe you rather don't actually want your software to be open source. Maybe you rather want your software to be under some copyleft license. Maybe you want to use an OSS license that is inconvenient for cloud providers (while still being an open source license) like the AGPL.

Choose wisely.
by hylaride | 2025-04-21 20:05:32+00:00
Commercial and industrial use, as well as increased AC usage. I'm not sure what percentage of the electric market is now for charging cars, but it's not zero.

You see similar use patterns for water. Per capita water use has gone down in many urban areas, especially places like California over the past few decades. You see hard restrictions on watering lawns, showers, toilet sizes, etc. But agriculture just sucks up the rest.
by lupusreal | 2025-04-21 20:05:34+00:00
I'm not suggesting that we have charity run aircraft carriers, nor a corporate Navy either for that matter. There are nonetheless many functions of government which can be performed by community organizations, particularly at the local level, where the problems are the most tractable and where people are most likely to perceive a sense of responsibility and get involved.

I'll give a concrete example: I don't think the government needs to be in the business of organizing youth football. Many sports get by just fine with sports teams organized, funded and run by volunteers. Youth baseball is usually this way; organized by dads and perhaps partially funded by local pizza shops (too corporate? Essentially harmless.) Football though is organized through school districts, funded by property owners paying their taxes. This isn't necessary.
by everdrive | 2025-04-21 20:05:39+00:00
For me, it's gaming which means updated Wayland and Nvidia drivers. I'm sure there are ways to do this with Debian, but I just went with Fedora to test it out, and I've liked it enough to keep it.

I did try Debian YEARS ago and Firefox was out of date in quite a scary way. It's unclear to me if I did something wrong there, but badly out of date web browsers can also be quite scary. At the time, I never looked into and just went back to Ubuntu.
by MattGrommes | 2025-04-21 20:06:27+00:00
You're wrong. A lot of what constitutes an "abortion" is taking care of things like stillborn pregnancies and numerous life threatening issues with the woman's uterus. You would learn a lot googling on this topic.

If you want to be anti-abortion, fine, just don't conflate it with the many life-saving procedures currently being swept up in anti-abortion laws and rhetoric.
by contingencies | 2025-04-21 20:07:11+00:00
Most soil here is good but I've recently conquered two different areas of very poor soil. One was a clay apparently trucked in with adjacent civil works decades ago that repels water and lies under significant shade in which almost anything I planted died, and one was depleted sand that drained instantly, held no water, and was full of construction rubbish.

For the former, which was the hardest, I just kept changing up species until I found some things that would grow. When I tried a new species, I would always add some mulch or soil for enhancement. I now have perhaps 15 feature trees established to various stages and have been able to expand by mulching a more fertile area at the base of the plants in which I have started to place other plants.

For the latter, I turned the earth and removed the majority of waste, mulched the whole thing lightly, wet it down regularly, transplanted some large shade trees (which survived but basically didn't grow for about a year), then began a combined campaign of continuous stick and branch mulching and food waste (surface composting). Even though much of the ground became covered in a weed, which I removed recently, the soil is now dark, rich, and highly nutrient dense, holds moisture, and contains significant planted trees, a forest of emergent palms, and self-sprouted fruit trees and vines. The transformation took around 2 years.

I do still have three challenge areas: two small beds where the soil is depleted and gets far too much sun, and one where the soil is depleted and gets almost no water. All now have plants growing, but only one could be described as thriving.
by elmerfud | 2025-04-21 20:07:17+00:00
That's a strange issue to have a government mandate. No one was compelled to type those programs in if they didn't want to. I came from the time of seeing those in magazines, and most I never bothered to type in because it wasn't that interested in what they did. Some I did type in because it's a good learning experience especially when you have to go back and debug where you mistype something.

If governments try and restrict this, which is effectively a manual instruction method for achieving an outcome how many other manual instruction methods for achieving an outcome would also get inadvertently restricted? I am quite curious at the basis for the question around the legality of it because that strikes me as very odd, and I'd really like to know the thought process.
by wakawaka28 | 2025-04-21 20:07:25+00:00
>There's probably some merit to that but I think it would really depend on why. If you can't in the sense that you just don't follow through that's one thing. Whereas working the same hours that the ID office is open, not having PTO, being unable to afford taking unpaid time off, not being able to afford a personal vehicle; if you can't simply because you are poor that hardly seems a reasonable basis to disenfranchise someone.

Not everyone gets PTO. People from the ghetto, as you say, work part-time and can simply reschedule their work in most cases or go during off time. They are not working every single weekday during business hours, in general. Have you ever worked in the retail or restaurant industry, or done gig work? Nobody is booked solid like this. Besides, even the ghetto people need ID to buy alcohol and cigarettes, and to cash welfare checks.

Not to be a jerk, but there is a good reason for very poor people to have less say in how the country is run. You don't get poor by being super productive or owning a stake in the country. Poor people could be seen as not having skin in the game. The relationship between contributions and wealth is loose, as is the relationship between contributions and merit. But let's just say that people who have nothing to lose, and who probably hate the most productive members of society out of envy, and who may have severe character flaws or mental issues holding them back, probably are not on the same level as the best among us. We have decided to run our country in an egalitarian way that ignores these differences in general, but when we look at extremes I think the outliers are still jarring to most people. There are many people who fail at every aspect of life and envy others, who can vote to make others miserable too.

>Oh and the kicker? It's a poor filter anyway, at least for the purpose that you stated. Someone who doesn't work will have little issue passing it since he has no scheduling conflict with office hours and what's a multi-hour trip on public transit to him?

For an important appointment once every four to ten years, you can get a friend to drop you off or else take Uber. Don't give me this shit about being unable to get to the DMV. I've lived in red states and the DMV offices are perhaps 10 or 20 miles apart. In the worst case, you live way out in the country. I want you to start talking to people to see who doesn't have an ID. I'm sure you'll find that everyone with a regular job has one. Everyone who serves you or interacts with you in everyday life, besides some illegal immigrants, will have one. Basically everyone except children and the very elderly or disabled will have one. It is easy and cheap to get, and essential, so anyone who is not a complete hermit or headcase is going to have one.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-04-21 20:07:26+00:00
What you say is true. And yet...

Knowing God, knowing Christ, is supposed to change you. (If it doesn't, maybe you're headed for "Depart from Me, for I never knew you".) It's supposed to change you to love people, even your enemies. It's supposed to change you to not love the things of this world - money and power. You're supposed to live that out.

So, yes, to first order, Christianity is very much not about money or politics. It's about you and God. But to second order, it's about everything. It's about caring for the widow and the orphan and the alien. It's about not ripping other people off, but instead giving to meet the needs of people around you. It's about loving people, even if they're not in your church or of your race or your political persuasion. It's everything you do, and how and why you do it.
by rickydroll | 2025-04-21 20:07:29+00:00
This is why I think we need to roll the dice on geoengineering. We can try to tilt the odds in our favor, but it's still a crapshoot. From what I've read, iron fertilization would be one of the better paths to go. A potentially better path would be the creation of synthetic whale poop.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/scientists-are-cra...
Show HN: I made an LLM-based news summarization service
by alexilchenko | 2025-04-21 20:07:48+00:00
The way it works is I source from a predefined set of rss feeds. The I run DeepSeek on my personal GPU in my apartment and ask it to summarize. Then I do a second pass and ask it to rate the summary and article heading together.

I am looking to make some other features that will make this website more useful.

Personally, I find it at least slightly useful to be able to consume a broad set of articles quickly, without just relying on the headlines
by dijit | 2025-04-21 20:08:18+00:00
Nearly everyone I interacted with on Twitter (pre-Musk) got their verification badge by essentially being in the San Francisco tech community.

No matter how prominent someone might be on this side of the Atlantic, it never mattered, meanwhile mid-managers and coders at no-name startups had blue checks because, I mean, they knew someone at Twitter- and who else is verifying people? I don’t really fault them for verifying people they personally knew.

But it meant that you had a situation where (and no offence meant to them) “nobodies” (as in, non-promenant figures) were “in the club” with heads of state, companies and heads of industry.

So there was a definite whiff of nepotism, because it was a de-facto status symbol.
by touisteur | 2025-04-21 20:09:39+00:00
A very good read, thanks for taking the time to put pen to paper and sharing the little useful scripts and tricks. There's a world of heavy-handed hacking out there to use. I used to build hundreds of patched kernels or glibcs to simulate complex systems behaviour (failing read()/write(), incomplete fsync, syscalls in general or the network stack erroring out in all possible ways...) and scenarios of those. Happy to see this explained so simply.
by SantiagoVargas | 2025-04-21 20:09:59+00:00
Different use cases, ours is for people who prefer simplicity and just want a text to know if their server goes down. We charge $5 for the year, this service charges $108 (But is aimed at larger enterprises and provides more analytics like monitoring logs/custom status pages). I'm sure their service is great for their enterprise customers, but for smaller teams I feel a text when your server goes down solves the key pain point.
by timewizard | 2025-04-21 20:10:26+00:00
> I've often wondered how much energy is wasted due to inefficient code and how much that is a problem as planetary compute scales up.

I personally believe the majority is wasted. Any code that runs in an interpreted language, JIT/AOT or not, is at a significant disadvantage. On performance measurements it's as bad as 2x to 60x worse than the performance of the equivalent optimized compiled code.

> it feels like a moral imperative to make my code as efficient as possible

Although we're still talking about fractions of a Watt of power here.

> especially when a job will take months to run on hundreds of CPU.

To the extent that I would say _only_ in these cases are the optimizations even worth considering.
by amalcon | 2025-04-21 20:10:29+00:00
> It specifically says it is addressed to senior government officials.

Sure, because senior government officials sometimes do things outside of their official capacity. If a senior government official's communications with their therapist or their lawyer e.g. are compromised, this could leave them vulnerable to blackmail. That's bad for everyone.

Re: other post about use of Signal, I'm not commenting on that post and/or that issue. I'm not expressing an opinion either way on whether it's relevant to this issue. I just want to point out that FedRAMP exists, and Signal isn't FedRAMP certified. If you don't think that is important (and a lot of reasonable people don't), you do you.
by aazo11 | 2025-04-21 20:10:40+00:00
Very interesting. I had not thought about gaming at all but that makes a lot of sense.

I also agree the goal should not be to replace ChatGPT. I think ChatGPT is way overkill for a lot of the workloads it is handling. A good solution should probably use the cloud LLM outputs to train a smaller model to deploy in the background.
by vikramkr | 2025-04-21 20:10:54+00:00
not sure if you meant to link a different chart - that chart is the electricity component of CPI-U (an inflation measure) meaning it's by definition not inflation adjusted - you'd probably want to find a chart of nominal values for electricity spending and adjust for inflation to see whether or not it's at an all time high. Which, recently it's run ahead of inflation because of the overall surge in demand and investment in upgrading aging infrastructure/adding new capacity, but long term it's pretty flat/down
by constantcrying | 2025-04-21 20:11:02+00:00
This is pseudo science.

How broadly the brain is activated is obviously not a meaningful measure of how well someone learns a topic. It is clear that handwriting requires more complex motor motions and visual processing, but why does that matter at all? Equivalently someone could argue, that, because more of the brain is "activated", the less focused the student is on the material, as the brain needs to perform additional motor and visual tasks.

>The study’s findings suggest that handwriting should remain an essential part of education

No, it doesn't. The setup could not even do it in theory. We lack a total understanding of how "learning a subject" and "brain activity" are related. There is no devices you can put on a human that could measure, after a study session, how well the human has learned some subject.

I hate these types of studies. Having a subject do something and measure how their brain lights up tells us precisely nothing. These studies are done again and again and again, there are no actionable results and no new insights. Nothing new about the brain was learned.

(BTW I wrote thousands of pages of hand written notes during University. My point has nothing to do with how effective or ineffective handwriting is for learning.)
by JohnFen | 2025-04-21 20:11:06+00:00
You haven't mentioned what style of business you want to start. That makes a huge difference in what your approach should be.

My experience is starting more traditional small businesses (i.e., bootstrapping without VC money). If that's not what you have in mind, my comments may not be valuable to you.

First, forget LinkedIn. It's worthless for this sort of thing.

When I've done with good results is to go where my potential customers are. Identify the demographic you're wanting to address ("everybody" is a wrong answer -- in general, the more specific and narrow, the better) and find out where they hang out. I don't mean just online, but if they have physical gatherings, go to those too. Don't go there to sell or overtly interview "prospects". Go there to become part of that community -- you'll learn about all the invisible pain points they have, you'll develop a presence in that community, and you'll learn what it values. All of that is critical to success.

By the time you're actually trying to find customers, you'll be "one of them" and finding them will be much, much easier. You'll at least know where they are and how to talk to them.
by Animats | 2025-04-21 20:11:07+00:00
But they paid the bribe!

"CEO donors who gave $1 million include Sam Altman, head of OpenAI; Tim Cook, head of Apple; and Dara Khosrowshahi, head of Uber."[1]

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/rich-people-and-corp...
by aaronbaugher | 2025-04-21 20:12:27+00:00
We didn't have to type them in; we got to type them in. We paid for those magazines because we wanted those programs (along with the rest of the content). It was just a way to distribute them, especially when many computer owners didn't own a disk drive and there were different incompatible sizes.

Should magazines also have to send someone to read the magazine to you if you have poor eyesight or don't know the language? What an odd question.
by palata | 2025-04-21 20:12:31+00:00
You have the timing wrong, I did not do that in the order you suggest :-).

I thought people were saying that Microsoft removed the copyright headers and replaced them with them, which they did not.

Microsoft replaced the LICENSE for the whole repository with their own, and thanked Spegel in their README. While this is some kind of attribution, it's not enough for the MIT LICENSE. I don't know exactly what would be good enough, I think having a copy of the Spegel LICENSE file somewhere in their repo would be enough (though possibly less visible than the line in the README, to be fair).

My overall point is that it feels like people are complaining a lot about what seems to be an honest mistake. And not just that: the way Peerd did it is arguably giving more visibility to Spegel than if they had just copied the licence somewhere in their repo. Peerd could possible just copy the licence somewhere less visible and remove the link from their README.
by ivape | 2025-04-21 20:12:46+00:00
Local inferencing is synonymous with privacy for me. There is no universe until laws get put into effect where your LLM usage online is private as it stands now. I suspect most of these companies are going to be putting in a Microsoft Clippy style assistant in soon that will act as a recommendation/ad engine very soon, and this of course requires parsing every convo you've ever had. Paid tier may remove Clippy, but boy oh boy the free tier (which most people will use) won't.

Clippy is coming back guys, and we have to be ready for it.
by rustc | 2025-04-21 20:12:53+00:00
Is this Apache licensed or a custom one? The README contains this:

> This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.

> This project offers a high-fidelity speech generation model *intended solely for research and educational use*. The following uses are strictly forbidden:

> Identity Misuse: Do not produce audio resembling real individuals without permission.

> ...

Specifically the phrase "intended solely for research and educational use".