MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mikewarot | 2025-07-31 03:52:20+00:00
For me, I started with BASIC on various machines, then moved to CP/M, then MS-DOS. I learned Turbo Pascal to be able to maintain a program that talked to a GTEK EPROM burner, and fell in love with the language after a few months.

I stuck with it through the various iterations, right up to the point where Borland's management went insane, and they lost their chief architect to Microsoft. I tried C++ after that, but the amount of boilerplate and cruft compared to Delphi was just unbearable.

Things I personally hate about C include

* Case Sensitivity * NULL terminated strings * Macros (there are usually many skunks worth of code smells compressed into C macros) * Pointer syntax that is way to easy to confuse with line noise. * Slow, oh so slow compiler/linker cycles * Usual association with make

Pascal is faster in compile and runtime. It's smaller, and has almost magical string these days.
by andrewflnr | 2025-07-31 03:52:37+00:00
There's already a ton of redshift from the universe expanding, so they're definitely correcting their spectra for some amount of redshift. I'd love to know if there's a way to tell the two sources of redshift apart, or if significant redshift from climbing away from the hole just makes it look a smidge farther away.

But honestly I'd guess that the light is emitted too far from the horizon to be redshifted very much by the black hole.
by amdivia | 2025-07-31 03:53:27+00:00
FYI it works already even without this feature branch (you'll just have to add your provider and models manually)

```

{

"providers": { "ollama": { "type": "openai", "base_url": "http://localhost:11434/v1", "api_key": "ollama", "models": [ { "id": "llama3.2:3b", "model": "Llama 3.2 3B", "context_window": 131072, "default_max_tokens": 4096, "cost_per_1m_in": 0, "cost_per_1m_out": 0 } ] } }

}

```
by protocolture | 2025-07-31 03:53:46+00:00
>From here in Australia, nobody was really asking for this here.

Government in australia is about being seen to be busy. Give them an idea that cant be morally contested, that the media wont contest, and they go about it.

Much like how we got our eSafety commissioner and internet bans. We protested them for years, but then sneaky scomo used Christchurch as wedge and got it through without protest.

And as ever, our minor parties, especially liberty minded ones are more concerned with whats in kids pants than actual liberty.
by ShroudedNight | 2025-07-31 03:54:21+00:00
It's not clear to me that the counter-party risk is _remotely_ similar between the two offerings. Someone reselling indefinite access to AWS could relatively easily set things up to go "poof" after a few years, whereas if it's your box, that's not possible. Now, critical components of the box could croak, and someone could still be screwed, but even there, you likely have more options for support than just paying Amazon's ransom.
by steveklabnik | 2025-07-31 03:54:23+00:00
> You're telling me it's important to people to "own" instead of "rent." Well I can manufacture an "Own" out of a "Rent": I write up a contract for my customer that says "$1,000,000 for 100 EPYC servers", I ship an empty steel box, the end user gets an AWS account which they cannot add anything to, and it has 100 EPYC server metal instances in it. I pay the bills in that account. Okay? Now I have created "owning" out of renting.

No, you haven’t. You didn’t deliver what was paid for. This wouldn’t be accepted.

> Do you see?

I’m sorry, but I do not. You’re not describing a business. You’re throwing some numbers out to describe a fraudulent enterprise.

> what is really the material difference between cloud and on-premises compute, when the interfaces between the two look so similar?

The material differences are around capex vs open spending, that you can locate your own hardware where you want to (which matters for things like “must be in a colo in southern Manhattan” (or any of the other reasons why physical location matters for latency reasons) or “must not leave the soil of $COUNTRY”), and the entirety of “TCO of owning is cheaper than renting for many workloads.” That’s just some of the larger obvious ones.
by krackers | 2025-07-31 03:55:11+00:00
Hm I'm still not sure I understand what you mean by "sets up and tears down the entire main loop". Even in normal cocoa applications every keystroke or input event causes an event to be dispatched from WindowServer to the application which gets handled by the runloop. The expectation of course is that you never do any blocking work on this runloop. nextEventMatchingMask doesn't have to block, you can have it return if there are no events that need to be processed so it can integrate with your own runloop (of course bypassing [NSApplication run] and implementing the runloop yourself this way is discouraged, but I don't think it's forbidden)

The model of "slurp some events from a queue-like thing, throw some drawing at another queue-like thing, then wait for another event" is precisely what [NSApplication run] already implements. Per Apple

>A Cocoa application is event driven: It fetches an event from the queue, dispatches it to an appropriate object, and, after the event is handled, fetches the next event. With some exceptions (such as modal event loops) an application continues in this pattern until the user quits it.
by egg1 | 2025-07-31 03:55:33+00:00
Adobe can say whatever they want in their EULA; whether it's legally enforceable in court is another matter.

Imagine how these you-own-a-license-not-the-thing-itself shenanigans would play out for any other product we purchase. "No, you didn't buy that $40k car in cash upfront! You only bought Toyota's permission to operate the car, and we reserve the right to repossess it at any time."
by mschild | 2025-07-31 03:56:03+00:00
> Why would anyone trust your friend (as an investor or customer) ever again when they’ve shown such profound disregard for user data and their IP?

Plenty of people probably. There are hundreds of businesses that constantly get exposed for massive leaks and/or horrendous business practices yet they're doing just fine. I'd imagine the killing blow in this case would be the stripe key but beyond that they would've likely had no massive issue.
by stephen_g | 2025-07-31 03:56:07+00:00
Hardly. Their survey showed about 55% of parents support for blocking 15s and under from Facebook and a bit less than 60% for Instagram, and less than 25% support for blocking YouTube, yet the Government talks as if support was almost universal.

But, and that's a very important but, this was based on questions that assume that adults would not have to do any kind of age or identity verification.

I expect the Government will be very surprised with the response when this is actually implemented.
by kev009 | 2025-07-31 03:56:34+00:00
You are casually transitioning between something that is pretty well understood through the history of online commercial computing (i.e. 1970s): 1) owned hardware versus leased/timeshared/rented hardware or services and 2) concepts of financial instruments that many readers here are probably not intimately familiar with.

If I needed a generator to run a remote mining operation, and you just told me to just buy energy futures instead, we'd be having a silly discussion. Whether it makes sense for me to rent or buy the generator has more to do with governments, [,tax ]laws, and risks that ultimately manifest as cashflow decisions. You have some valid thread you are pulling on for what are the economics of general purpose compute and to whom, but your argument needs a lot more care to carefully define and make your case and why it is okay to dismiss the outlier cases for instance.
by kian_sage | 2025-07-31 03:57:31+00:00
Love the philosophy here — I’m also a big fan of offline-first design and built something similar for a very different purpose.

I created EveLock — a 100% offline period tracker that runs in any browser (mobile or desktop). No cloud, no login, no analytics. Just unzip and open the HTML file — all data stays local, and it includes a one-click PDF export.

It was made with the same goal in mind: keeping functionality private, simple, and local. Would love any thoughts from fellow local-first builders
by tomhow | 2025-07-31 03:57:34+00:00
Barely any comments in the thread are flagged. The comment by swyx has a positive score.

Some comments have been downweighted for being generic or off-topic, which is standard moderation; our role as moderators is to keep the discussion threads on-topic. But the comment that was left at the top of the thread after I'd done that seemed at least somewhat negative/critical towards the Ollama team.

Which comments seem unreasonably low to you?
by mitthrowaway2 | 2025-07-31 03:59:41+00:00
I'm going to double-down on this point because it does matter. In the real world some people are tailgating, but that does not cause traffic jams if and only if the road is running below peak capacity, where negative feedback self-corrects those traffic density deviations and gradually smooths everything back out. (Unless the tailgater causes a crash, of course).

But if the average following distance is such that the road is exactly at the peak of throughput, or any smaller, then any momentary dip into tighter following distances pushes the road it into a positive feedback operating mode, which triggers a traffic jam.

If you haven't seen it, here is a classic experiment demonstrating the effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Suugn-p5C1M

(But obviously the solution to traffic isn't 5 more lanes, it's viable alternatives to driving!)
by ramrunner0xff | 2025-07-31 04:01:39+00:00
what an amazing article packed with very useful physics insights. Need to follow up more on the last idea of the gaussian random force and the quantization of Newton's equations. Even the opening sentence had me try to remember some of my DE by expressing the rational faction via the technique of the variation of constants :) (have to admit that i felt too rusty...). Thank you for posting this!
by jart | 2025-07-31 04:01:56+00:00
This. This. A thousand times this. I hate Windows / MacOS but love their desktops. I love Linux / BSD but hate their desktops. So my most expensive most powerful workstation is always a headless Linux machine that I ssh into from a Windows or MacOS toy computer. Unfortunately most developers do not understand this. Every time I run a command in the terminal and it tries to open a browser tab without printing the URL, it makes me want to scream and shout and retire from tech forever to be a plumber.
by mikewarot | 2025-07-31 04:01:59+00:00
Ugh.... I'll try to keep the rant level down to a low roar... but....

Is he actively trying to implode the US economy, and kill the reserve currency status of the dollar? I ask because it sure seems like it to me.

I expect a wave of US business collapses in the next 18 months as a direct result of this action. I do NOT expect an instant resurgence of manufacturing in the US.

You might be tempted to look back at the semi-miraculous turnaround of manufacturing from the depths of the Great Depression, into the wartime production of the US that out-produced the rest of the world, in what appeared to be less than 3 years, and think we can just do that again.

However, appearances are deceiving, the industrial mobilization of 1941-1943 was the result of years of preparation from graduates of the Army Industrial College, who had a new plan every few years for complete mobilization of our extant manufacturing infrastructure. Given our current administrations penchant for bulldozing Chesterton's fence and putting in a concentration camp in it's place, it's likely the folks who may actually have had a plan for the present, have all been fired.

We barely have the infrastructure in the US to make the machine tools to make the production tools to ramp up industrial production. We've spent the last few decades telling all the promising youth that production and factory jobs were a dead end, thus compromising our labor force.

This is not going to end well.

Edit/Append: It occurs to me that this is Trump's way of trying to get back to "the good old days" when the Federal Government was almost entirely funded by tariffs (aka import taxes/duties).
by blargey | 2025-07-31 04:03:31+00:00
I'm starting to think "altruistic pricing" is a skewed framing to begin with. The implication that not maxing out every trick in the book to find the highest price the market will "bear" is a loss.

That "slack", where people provide better goods and services, for a lower price than the market could theoretically bear, is the very definition of Having Nice Things.

The implied "optimal" price discovery is a highly adversarial process - derived from an every-growing playbook of price discrimination tactics, deceptive marketing, high-pressure sales tactics, exploitation of intertia and other external overheads, covert cuts to the quality being provided, etc, etc.

Such pricing is both a symptom and cause for "low trust society" behaviors. The increasing ubiquity of those "efficient" pricing strategies may very well have amounted to a covert pillaging of the commons.
by Perenti | 2025-07-31 04:04:56+00:00
Yep, keep how to make PCP in a bathtub away from kids. Keep holocaust deniers away from kids. Keep race-hate videos away from kids.

Keep Hancock and Joe Rogan away from kids.

Keep lies and conspiracy theories away from kids.

You seem to think kids are good at risk analysis and critical thinking. There are exceptions, but most people don't develop these things until their late teens when the pre-frontal cortex is developed.
by syntheticgate | 2025-07-31 04:05:03+00:00
Yes it certainly can be done, but there's a cost and design complexity with doing that too. I did a quick count of gimlet (our server sled's) power rails and got to over 26 different power domains, and I probably missed a few in my quick scan! It's unclear to me if the efficiency gains from re-doing these with something more exotic to go from 54V would make enough of a difference to justify doing so, and we'd still end up with some stuff like the SVI2/3 controllers needing an intermediate rail (or have to go design those ourselves too) and some analog rails needing LDOs for noise rejection reasons etc. As mentioned before, creepage and clearance at higher voltages cascades into layout complexity and pain if you have to run it everywhere on the board: but for the same reasons we're talking about this, we can't very well do a 54V:1V conversion in the back of the sled and run it all the way to the front- losses, noise etc.

As with all things engineering is a series of tradeoffs and right now, an IBC from 54V to 12V has been a reasonable design point for us.
by dang | 2025-07-31 04:05:19+00:00
What an great article and what a great life. I had no idea.

When he was 11, his father died and Andersen took a job in a factory where he had his trousers pulled down to prove he was a man.

Aged 14, he left [...] to make his fortune in Copenhagen. “First you go through an awful lot, and then you become famous,” he explained to his anxious mother, as though the plot of his life had been written already.

“I shall have no success with my appearance,” he reflected, “so I make use of whatever is available.”

If he sounds like a character invented by Charles Dickens, it is because Uriah Heep was modelled on Andersen, whom Dickens met in 1847. David Copperfield’s first sighting of Heep was “a cadaverous face” peering out of the round tower: “He had a way of writhing when he wanted to express enthusiasm, which was very ugly, the snaky twistings of his throat and body.” “If you’re an eel, sir,” counsels Betsey Trotwood, “conduct yourself like one. If you’re a man, control your limbs, sir!” In our own kinder age, we might diagnose Anderson with dyspraxia.

He saw himself, however, not as an earthly being at all but “one who seemed”, as he told Dickens, “to have fallen from the skies”.
by tguvot | 2025-07-31 04:06:17+00:00
you need to improve your vibe quoting. article talks about 13,000 wounded, not 130,000. iirc, been impacted by tear gas is also "wounded".

but back to the point.

- do you still claim that it was "peaceful march of return" ?

- where do you think the "return" part of the march were leading and what would have happened there ? (just in case, in UN report on Oct 7 documented that in most of places civilians followed armed members of hamas/pij/pflp/etc and engaged in looting, killing (famously thai workers that their heads were chopped off by unarmed civilians with help of hoe) and kidnapping (later sold to hamas/etc)
by shakna | 2025-07-31 04:07:44+00:00
They're no longer a child. That is why they have a different nomenclature - teenager. They are not "a kid".

Treating an adolescent as a child is damaging to their mental state [0].

I already said boundaries are a thing: You are there to guide them. But you are not there... To control them. Because doing so, is damaging. And as a parent, damaging your family is both heinous, and a crime.

To put it another way: The law sets boundaries on how you can drive. This guides you, to keep you and others safe. It does not however enforce control over you. Your choices are still your own. A parent aims to guide an adolescent, who is no longer a child.

[0] https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002003.htm
by latchkey | 2025-07-31 04:09:28+00:00
I spent 4 years living around Saigon, and got to know a lot of the tech expats in the community there.

As always, depends on the company you deal with. Some can be shady, some not.

Vietnamese culture is fascinating and lovely, they work super hard and there are a ton of really smart engineers there. But they also do things a bit differently and it'll all gel depending on how westernized they are in their thinking.

CodeLink and EastAgile are the two companies I'd work with. I know the founders personally as business and as friends. Really solid great people.

You should definitely work a deal with your company to go visit.
by prawn | 2025-07-31 04:09:29+00:00
I don't have a mosquito trapping solution, but wanted to also offer help to anyone harassed by mosquitos: Despite being a magnet for mosquitos, I've found a coconut-based moisturiser to be more effective than even "tropical-strength" repellants. I used to use various repellants and still get bitten, but this moisturiser is hilariously effective. (Brand is Palmers but others might work too.)

The company has always made it as a typical moisturiser/lotion but then started hearing from RV/caravan/campers that it was keeping mosquitoes away.
by necovek | 2025-07-31 04:10:01+00:00
If one compares body size of early Sony APS-C cameras (NEX-5, a5100, even a6000), to the newer models (a6400, to ignore OIS models), the difference is staggering.

Size is approaching full frame models like 7M2. But yes, lens is where it baloons further, yet good all-purpose zooms are chunky for APS-C too. I sometimes carry multiple cheaper primes on several bodies because that's easier to pack.

So really, body sizes have grown due to processing and cooling needs (and in-camera OIS), but lenses still bring more heft (even with FF: look at the size of A7C series).
by anyfoo | 2025-07-31 04:10:44+00:00
My favorite "old software that still miraculously works" is oneko, a once sort-of famous cute little cat that chases your mouse pointer.

oneko-1.1b is from 1995, and yet I was still able to build and run it natively on an M1 Pro MacBook unchanged, with XQuartz as the X server.

(I just tried again on a more recent Mac, and while it still happily builds, running it crashes the X server. That seems to be an X server bug, though.)
by ksec | 2025-07-31 04:12:29+00:00
Because I think ultimately it is only good on paper. In practice you want your computer to be able to act on itself as well. So it is hard to get the balance right.

I do think for enterprise and business it should work though. Especially we are all on mobile already and most of the time we need to work on something that is on our phone. I wonder if there could be another blackberry moment on this? Or Something Microsoft Windows could work on, as a way to get back into Mobile. I have long argued they should have spend small R&D on possible Mobile OS just in case opportunities pops up.

Bring back Pocket PC. Tie it up with Azure and CoPilot.
by rolisz | 2025-07-31 04:13:19+00:00
Glucose can be converted into ATP via two pathways in the mitochondria: one produces 30 something ATP, the other produces 2. Yeah, sure the 1st law of thermodynamics is valid (the rest of the energy goes into heat), but for your cells, they get much less energy in the second (anaerobic) pathway, so you'll feel worse/hungrier if that's how metabolism happens.
by jraines | 2025-07-31 04:13:25+00:00
This PBS Spacetime video pours some cold water on the black holes as dark matter hypothesis:

https://youtu.be/qy8MdewY_TY?si=9jc_a7IAm4qrhfNX

It’s 4 years old; I don’t know if this JWST finding changes anything. I do know we have finally found some (one?) intermediate-mass black holes in the interim, but I don’t know if that changes it either.

The possibility it leaves open for “Planck relics” is interestingly exotic
by syntheticgate | 2025-07-31 04:13:55+00:00
Our thesis is that it's both a hardware and software problem! Which, as steve said, is why we're doing both. We can look at designs across the whole stack, from chips chosen, FPGA implementations, hubris management and control plane software to accomplish this goal. By doing these together, we can accomplish fundamentally different designs and tighter integration than any one of those multi-company silos can even if they tried to work together.
by burnt-resistor | 2025-07-31 04:15:19+00:00
Ouch. Better in some ways and worse than others than the restaurant business, I reckon.

My mom's relatives have a long horn "farm" complying with the minimum requirements to claim various tax exemptions. :sigh: Their family business is aviation real estate, services, equipment, and aircraft.

I can walk to where sorghum and field corn is grown here in hill country because that's the major trade in these parts, apart from selling land for new housing developments.
by efitz | 2025-07-31 04:16:29+00:00
You can have the LLM generate whatever context you need- documentation, developers guide, design patterns, whatever. You can have it do this, at the time you create the app, or later (I have done this for other peoples code I found on GitHub that was commented in a language I can’t speak). You store this by having your LLM coding agent write it down in a file. I do that all the time. It works really well.
by necovek | 2025-07-31 04:18:28+00:00
Agreed: I usually compose a shot with everybody but me in it, stand until a passer-by walks nearby so they'd end up in roughly the same spot. It's not the same and composition is usually off, but they are passable for what I want them to be (full family photos, usually).

Sometimes you get a stranger looking through a viewfinder and crouching and you know you've got yourself another hobbyist (or pro) as well :) Those compositions usually are better too!