MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by int_19h | 2025-05-10 06:03:10+00:00
The thing about populism is that it doesn't require any plans as such. You can just say things like, "we'll have the best healthcare system in the world, you've never seen healthcare as good as what I'm going to give you, I guarantee it!".

For as long as you have the cult of personality going, anyway. Which is plenty of time to put your men in key positions of power for when your charisma is no longer convincing enough.
by udev4096 | 2025-05-10 06:03:44+00:00
Maybe we should have a way to run every single library we use in an isolated environment and have a structure like QubesOS. Your main code is dom0 and you can create bunch of TemplateVMs which are your libraries and then create AppVMs for using those libraries. Use network namespaces for communicating between these processes. For sensitive workloads (finance, healthcare, etc), it makes sense to deploy something like that
by curtisblaine | 2025-05-10 06:05:39+00:00
What a dishonest comparison. The modern React example includes a complex ShadCN table component, while the old React example and the hyper example render a simple html table.

The reality is, if you rendered a simple html table in modern (functional components) React, the loc count would have been the same as hyper. You know that, so you decided to use a ShadCN component just to inflate the code.
by vunderba | 2025-05-10 06:05:44+00:00
That is true but I think he had a fair amount of input, and of course, all the rich lore and universe comes from him.

He actually later officially novelized the game. Kind of an interesting bit of trivia in the video game industry going from literature to game and then back to literature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krondor:_The_Betrayal
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by ngxson | 2025-05-10 06:13:46+00:00
Two things:

1. Because the support in llama.cpp is horizontal integrated within ggml ecosystem, we can optimize it to run even faster than ollama.

For example, pixtral/mistral small 3.1 model has some 2D-RoPE trick that use less memory than ollama's implementation. Same for flash attention (which will be added very soon), it will allow vision encoder to run faster while using less memory.

2. llama.cpp simply support more models than ollama. For example, ollama does not support either pixtral or smolvlm
by globular-toast | 2025-05-10 06:14:19+00:00
Is this kid home schooled or are there really schools that aren't giving kids workbooks? We had workbooks for every lesson, with squared paper for maths (don't do it on lined paper, that's silly). The first time I had to buy my own (which I obviously did, and still have) was in uni.

Not mentioned in the article but I highly recommend using pencil, not a pen, and erasing stuff. Scribbled out mistakes aren't useful later.
by nyuriks | 2025-05-10 06:14:31+00:00
I see two points: safety - bigger supply chain attack surface, and code bloat/compiler performance. The later has been discussed in numerous posts here (the whole idea of a linker from the start was to get rid of unused functions, so not a big problem imo). The safety is a serious and legit consideration, but we also rely on Linux and build tools to build things. How do you know the compiler that was used to build Linux hasn't been compromised, perhaps several generations ago, and now your Linux has a backdoor that is not in Linux source code? There was a research paper on this IIRC. We trust the ecosystem to validate each tool we use. We just have to do the same with our own projects - only use what's relevant, and we should do dependency hygiene to check if it is coming from a reputable source...
by gorgoiler | 2025-05-10 06:14:38+00:00
I’m so grateful for this write up! For all the reading one can do on preparedness, it is hugely valuable to read about a real scenario playing out.

I’m curious about the decision to continue relying on frozen and refrigerated food. Reflecting on what I would do — immediately reverting to stable preserved foods and writing off the fridge — makes me wonder if I don’t focus enough on normalcy as to stabilise my family. What’s the point of being prepared if everyone’s morale is crushed from switching to powdered milk?

The point about the authors wife being a supply teacher didn’t go where I expected it to. He talks about her income drying up due to her being a day contractor during school shutdowns in the power crisis. I assumed he was going to talk about the blessing of being able to keep school going despite being trapped at home without power!
by scrubs | 2025-05-10 06:14:40+00:00
Since Reagan the upper 10% and corporations have been in the ascendancy. Add out sourcing of supply chains to cheaper countries without consequent benefit to the employees --- but a hell of a good time with stock buy backs and profit --- tack on stupid inflation in US health care, US housing, and US education ... and the pendulum has gone too far in favor of the upper 5% where all real income gains have gone.

I do not want redistribution; America is equality of opportunity not outcomes. It's politically unsellable smacking of far left politics. I could not care less that some guy has $10M or $10B. I'm happy in my life ... however I am pissed I am getting squeezed in the middle.

I damn sure want the upper 15% + all corporations to pay the same percentage of taxes per dollar I do. I'm near the top end but not enough to have a coterie of CPAs playing paperwork games. I'm with 100% with Buffet on this. I've been in the Cisco/HP/whatever corporate buildings in SV; ditto Apple. I was both surprised and not surprised (knowing corporations) to hear Apple was Irish in some sense for tax purposes. That's BS.

Finally, Congress is going to have to get off its butt and do something to make them credible again on spending what they take in. This is another serious up-hill climb before selling ``higher" e.g. fairer taxes. At least as far as rhetoric goes --- but not reality --- it's hard to move the GOP to fair I mean ``higher" taxes when the top ~10% already pay something like 40% of all tax income. That's just a hard sell.
by Ey7NFZ3P0nzAe | 2025-05-10 06:18:32+00:00
Okay so amazing website but then I scrolled down and saw "made by Supervert".

From his own website:

> Supervert is the assumed name of a writer using modernist literary techniques to explore sexual perversions

> Once upon a time there was a writer. The Devil spoke to him through a computer. "You will write about perversion, madness, and lust," said Satan. "You will use modernist literary techniques to explore sexual perversions. You will be known as Supervert."

Fascinating rabbit hole (huh), lots of good read.

He made a website about William Burroughs too: https://realitystudio.org/
by b112 | 2025-05-10 06:18:33+00:00
All older films do not sit dormant for decades, and then are suddenly rediscovered. That's not remotely so. Some are a cult classic when produced, thus no one is ever "taking a chance on it", because it's always been a profitable endevour to pump out on late night TV, or on a VHS, DVD, Bluray, or digital version.

It feels like so much history and reality is missing in this idea of an 'ancient film'.

There were so many films like this, yet under copyright, available on late night TV back in the day. Before most had cable, before most even had VHS machines, you'd turn on TV at night on a Saturday, or at 2am on a Tuesday, and see endless old movies.

Once VHS came out, you could get virtually anything older because the film -> VHS transfer process was cheap, and people wanted content. You'd pay a buck to rent old junk at the store, and the campier the better.

Put another way, it became a cult classic when it was released, and then was always available. Endless copyrighted works were in the same category.

There is no 'chance' taken, for it was always seen as chance-worthy.

But beyond this:

* This film is the first part of a trilogy, Night, Dawn, Day of the Living Dead. Anyone watching any of these films, wanted to see the whole set

* Even if under copyright, as others have stressed, this one is on the list. What list? A list you do clearly not share, which is fine, but horror fan films do.

EDIT:

I'm going to give a little more context here.

In this timescope, there was a show called "I Dream of Jeannie"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Dream_of_Jeannie

In this show, Barbra Eden wears a 60's envisioned harem costume. There is one important aspect of this costume, and that is that her belly button is covered.

Why?

Because it was illegal.

There is a whole deep dive here, but the point is that Night of the Living Dead was an extremely gory and violent film in its day, immensely groundbreaking, and people desperately wanted to see it.

It didn't become a cult classic because it was easier to distribute. It became one because of what it was.

That's the point I think.

NOTE: This does not invalidate the concept that some films can follow your path, it's just that this one didn't.
by lormayna | 2025-05-10 06:19:46+00:00
A very rudimentary process for a conclave election can be modeled by a geometric distribution. So using a bayesian model to estimate that can be appropriate. Of course, if you want a better estimation you need a more complex model, but I repeat, for a toy project it would be interesting.

Anyway, at least the real election at 4th ballot was inside the confidence interval predicted by my model.
by bruce511 | 2025-05-10 06:19:59+00:00
I feel like you've assembled a group of criteria (some of which are mutually exclusive) and trying to make a job fit all of them. I wish you luck in thst, but it may help you to identify them to understand what to compromise on.

Significance. You don't want to be a cog in a machine. Since it's easy to find significance outside of work, and since almost no work is significant this may be the easiest to recalibrate.

You want job security with high pay. This comes with working at large companies. They're less likely to go under. With some luck you can avoid the regular culls. These jobs require zero creativity (and likely oppose creativity. )

Creativity is risky. Because what you create may have value, or not. If you need to be creative, that's also easy to do outside work. Take up painting, music, pottery, whatever.

You're still young. Understand that most of the work you do over the next 40 years will just be work. It can supply money. It can be made "secure". But dont expect your work to give you significance (find that elsewhere), don't expect your work to satisfy your creative urges (find that elsewhere.)

Life is more than work. Figure out what you want in life and do multiple things to satisfy those goals. Don't place the burden on work satisfying them all. That route typically does not reduce well.
Ask HN: Escaping a Low-Paying Nepali IT Job and Ineffective Learning Cycle
by shivajikobardan | 2025-05-10 06:20:30+00:00
I'm drained by my unfulfilling, low-paying IT job in Nepal, which I keep to avoid financial uncertainty. My skills after 2+ years are limited to basic Linux command line. I study subjects like Java, DSA, and Computer Networks, but I forget what I learn, delete my notes, and restart, making little progress. My resume and interviewing skills are weak, and lying on my resume hasn't helped.

I see three paths forward:

Land a better-paying private IT job (challenging due to my resume and interview anxiety).

Pursue a merit-based government job (seems viable but competitive).

Move abroad (unappealing due to anti-immigration sentiments and personal fears like living in unfamiliar places).

How can I break this cycle of ineffective learning, build concrete skills, and move toward a better career? Seeking advice on staying motivated, retaining knowledge, and preparing for government or private IT jobs.
by pjmlp | 2025-05-10 06:20:33+00:00
Sure, despite all the hate it gets, except for IDE project files, it is the best experience in C and C++ build tools since forever, including IDE integration just like those project files.

I thought the whole UNIX mentality was worse is better.

No build tool is without issues, my pain points with cargo, are always compiling from source, build caching requires additional work to setup, as soon as it is more than pure Rust, we get a build.rs file that can get quite creative.
by eli_gottlieb | 2025-05-10 06:20:34+00:00
>Effects on their own are a very active area of research and I would laugh behind a PL researchers back if they claimed it was a solved issue. Between Monads, call-by-push-value, and algebraic effects there is really no clear "how do people actually use this" answer.

I can actually say that I used algebraic effects in my thesis for the section on semantics of a basic probabilistic programming language. It avoided talking about monads for my committee member who cared and honestly made for an easier implementation.
by simoncion | 2025-05-10 06:21:25+00:00
> ...it is stunning to hear about all those story about long going power outtakes.

Do remember that the ~2000 mile eastern section of the US is exposed to Atlantic hurricanes. Germany gets nothing like those. Additionally, US states exist in a large variety of climates, so the country as a whole has to deal with both freak heat and ice that Germany rarely faces.

Also remember that Germany is more densely populated and (until very recently) far richer than many of the US states that seem to be unable to plan for generally-uninterrupted power supply. Looking at the size and population of the various US states [0] might help put some of this into perspective.

[0] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_and_territories...>
by globular-toast | 2025-05-10 06:21:56+00:00
I agree lined paper is inappropriate. I like dotted pages for my planning as I'm drawing a lot of boxes and arrows etc. I think squared paper is great for maths, though. You just have to find one with light and pleasing lines. Just spend a bit extra and get something decent. In the UK I use Pukka or Rhodia. They both do dotted now if preferred.
by MrJohz | 2025-05-10 06:22:56+00:00
The virtual DOM doesn't really lead to better efficiency, that's a bit of a myth. It's really a UX tool: it means that you can treat rendering as a pure operation (i.e. (state) => UI), and recreate as much of the UI tree as you like whenever you want, without interacting with the DOM directly. Then, at a different point in time, you can diff that virtual tree with the real DOM tree and only make the necessary changes.

This is always going to be slower than a framework like this or Solid or Vue or whatever, which just skips to the last step and only make the necessary changes in the DOM.

Another way to think about it if you're familiar with different forms if GUI rendering is that React is an immediate mode abstraction sitting in top of a retained mode system. In React, theoretically, the render functions could run at 60fps, constantly churning out the same values. In practice this isn't very performant, so React has its own rubrics for when to rerun the render functions, but that's why, for example, it's fine for React to do its weird double-render thing in dev mode. However, at the end of the day, the DOM doesn't work like that, so React needs to diff everything back into DOMland.
by mustache_kimono | 2025-05-10 06:26:37+00:00
> a)... Odin will never have an official pkg manager

Perhaps this explains why Odin has found such widespread usage and popularity. /s

> b)... Jonathan Blow, who's talk "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization"

With such a grandiose title, before I first watched I thought it must be satire. Turns out, it is food for the credulous. I believe Jonathan Blow is less "seriously worried about software quality/complexity" than he is about marketing himself as the "last great hope". At least Blow's software has found success within its domain. However, I fear Blow's problem is the problem of all intellectuals: “An intellectual is a person knowledgeable in one field who speaks out only in others.” Blow has plenty of opinions about software outside his domain, but IMHO very little curiosity about why his domain may be different than your own.

My own opinion is there is little evidence to show this is a software quality problem, and any assertion that is the case needs to compare the Rust model against the putatively "better" alternatives. Complex software, which requires many people to create, sometimes across great distances of time and space, will necessarily have and require dependencies.

Can someone show me a material quality difference between ffmpeg, VLC, and Samba dependencies and any sufficiently complex Rust program (even which perhaps has many more dependencies)?

~ ldd `which ffmpeg` | wc -l 231

Now, large software dependency graphs may very well be a security problem, but it is a problem widely shared with all other software.
by IshKebab | 2025-05-10 06:29:00+00:00
> Airbnb didn’t invent a new concept—it executed better within an existing space.

Uhm did it not? If anything it invented two new concepts - paid couch surfing (which it turns out people didn't really want) and unofficial ad-hoc holiday rentals (which people really want).

I'm nitpicking - overall the article is spot on and I'm glad this is getting called out.
by danielscrubs | 2025-05-10 06:29:44+00:00
Not so sure that is enough… 5 days of work then 2 days of taking care of kids and cleaning and laundry? It takes months between me and my wife getting a couple of hours for ourselves.

Only thing I think could help is going back to the traditional housewife/houseman with grandparents. Then it would work to get 3+ kids. But right now with increasing cost and rising pension age that seems like a dream.

A productive country will wrangle out the time from its productive members and let the non productive members have kids… which might not be the best approach in the long run.
by tanelpoder | 2025-05-10 06:30:24+00:00
Thanks. Yep I have to revamp the whole 0x.tools webpage, right now it's a mix of older tools & prototypes and the "final stuff" and it's confusing what's what.

The lsds verbose option shows where in the Linux /sys fs each individual field comes from (lsds -lpv) so that's the ultimate source of what each field means. But I could pull each sysfs file's description from docs into a table on the webpage (I'm probably too lazy to create a manpage for now - help is appreciated)

Edit: Since there are not that many fields, it would be possible to add a -d option in addition to -v to get a human readable description for each field too. One of the main sources of confusion is the "queue_depth" vs. "nr_requests" fields. My ideal (which I usually don't reach) is to make these tools "explainable", so that they tell you from where they got their input data (and what basic math was applied).
by simonw | 2025-05-10 06:31:57+00:00
llama.cpp offers compiled releases for multiple platforms. This release has the new vision features: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/releases/tag/b5332

On macOS I downloaded the llama-b5332-bin-macos-arm64.zip file and then had to run this to get it to work:

unzip llama-b5332-bin-macos-arm64.zip cd build/bin sudo xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine llama-server llama-mtmd-cli *.dylib

Then I could run the interactive terminal (with a 3.2GB model download) like this (borrowing from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43943370R)

./llama-mtmd-cli -hf unsloth/gemma-3-4b-it-GGUF:Q4_K_XL -ngl 99

Or start the localhost 8080 web server (with a UI and API) like this:

./llama-server -hf unsloth/gemma-3-4b-it-GGUF:Q4_K_XL -ngl 99

I wrote up some more detailed notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/10/llama-cpp-vision/
by melezhik | 2025-05-10 06:33:44+00:00
Sparky is a distributed jobs framework that allows orchestration of remote tasks on cluster of nodes. It’s simple to set up and easy to use. This post is a brief overview of Sparky architecture design. Sparky targeted audience is:

cloud providers to manage underlying multiple hosts infrastructure

data scientists to process data in distributed manner (aka data pipelines)

software engineers and devops doing any tasks with distributed nature in mind
by TheMongoose | 2025-05-10 06:34:28+00:00
You need projects that you care about. Making something you actually want to have will help motivate you to push through the problems that you run in to, and help give you more exposure to the million little problems you encounter once you step out of tutorial hell.

Couple this with a promise to yourself. At least 1 hour per day of your best effort. On days you're feeling it you'll do more, and that's good. On days you're not feeling it you're gonna struggle bus through your best effort for an hour, and then you're gonna go do something else guilt free knowing that you made SOME progress and kept the promise to yourself.
by nerdai | 2025-05-10 06:35:48+00:00
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by kashunstva | 2025-05-10 06:38:22+00:00
> believe the EPA protects the environment about as much as I believe DOGE is about creating efficiencies.

The EPA is (was?) an enormous set of programs encompassing a range of environmental concerns. Undoubtedly some are more effective than others. But to claim without evidence that it is ineffective is disingenuous. I was around in the 60’s and 70’s.

Interestingly, the EPA was established by Richard Nixon, in an age when his party was also about creating things rather than indiscriminately dismantling them.