MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Anyone is using Linux machine for local inference?
by throwaw12 | 2025-07-29 11:11:16+00:00
Hey there,

Is anyone here using Linux machine with 256Gb or 512Gb RAM to run latest models locally?

I am considering buying a new laptop/desktop to run models locally. Most benchmarks I see are for Mac Mx series chips with MLX, even then for big models (>300B param) people are using quantized versions (3bit, 4bit) and its causing drop in quality.

If anyone used Linux with >256Gb ram and no dedicated GPU, how is your experience?
by Anamon | 2025-07-29 11:11:22+00:00
I don't know what you guys are doing with your Angular buttons, or if you haven't looked at it since AngularJS (which I never used, so I don't know what it took there).

Adding a button to Angular is just adding a <button> to your template. If you want to use Angular Material, that's one additional import in your component's code file, and one additional attribute for that template's <button> element.

import {MatButtonModule} from '@angular/material/button'; <button matButton (click)="onClick()">Click me!</button>

That's it. If your instructor got confused trying to achieve that, maybe that's why you were left with this weird impression of how verbose and complicated Angular is.

Just at least have a look at the documentation or tutorial before spreading fibs like that.
by alt227 | 2025-07-29 11:11:27+00:00
That is an incredibly neive view which has been proven wrong many times over.

Exposure to pornography early on in life dramatically increases the chance that person will be affected by things like sexual addiction, or gravitate towards extreme views in the same vein like incels.

Testosterone is a very powerful drug, and young brains need protecting from explicit content if we want to bring up mentally healthy males in our societies.
by ehnto | 2025-07-29 11:11:43+00:00
To an extent, but the words you give an LLM are the entirety of what it has to go on, and again they are sycophantic. If you tell it you have depression, and you insist, it will do its best to agree. In the exact same conversation, you could later convince it you have schizophrenia instead. A human wouldn't buy it.

A trained psychologist is going to use their procedural training to diagnose you. Not text input, they are asking you questions with subtext, and you may not even realise what they learned about you from your answer. With an LLM, you are loading it's context with your world view and it will go off that.
Show HN: Terminal-Bench-RL: Training long-horizon terminal agents with RL
by Danau5tin | 2025-07-29 11:12:03+00:00
After training calculator agent via RL, I really wanted to go bigger! So I built RL infrastructure for training long-horizon terminal/coding agents that scales from 2x A100s to 32x H100s (~$1M worth of compute!) Without any training, my 32B agent hit #19 on Terminal-Bench leaderboard, beating Stanford's Terminus-Qwen3-235B-A22! With training... well, too expensive, but I bet the results would be good!

*What I did*:

- Created a Claude Code-inspired agent (system msg + tools)

- Built Docker-isolated GRPO training where each rollout gets its own container

- Developed a multi-agent synthetic data pipeline to generate & validate training data with Opus-4

- Implemented a hybrid reward signal of unit test verifiers & a behavioural LLM judge.

*Key results*:

- My untrained Qwen3-32B agent achieved 13.75% on Terminal-Bench (#19, beats Stanford's Qwen3-235B MoE)

- I tested training to work stably on 32x H100s distributed across 4 bare metal nodes

- I created a mini-eval framework for LLM-judge performance. Sonnet-4 won.

- ~£30-50k needed for full training run of 1000 epochs (I could only afford testing )

*Technical details*:

- The synthetic dataset ranges from easy to extremely hard tasks. An example hard task's prompt:

"I found this mystery program at `/app/program` and I'm completely stumped. It's a stripped binary, so I have no idea what it does or how to run it properly. The program seems to expect some specific input and then produces an output, but I can't figure out what kind of input it needs. Could you help me figure out what this program requires?"

- Simple config presets allow training to run on multiple hardware setups with minimal effort.

- GRPO used with 16 rollouts per task, up to 32k tokens per rollout.

- Agent uses XML/YAML format to structure tool calls

*More details*:

My Github repos open source it all (agent, data, code) and has way more technical details if you are interested!:

- Terminal Agent RL repo

- Multi-agent synthetic data pipeline repo

I thought I would share this because I believe long-horizon RL is going to change everybody's lives, and so I feel it is important (and super fun!) for us all to share knowledge around this area, and also have enjoy exploring what is possible.

Thanks for reading!

Dan

(Built using rLLM RL framework which was brilliant to work with, and evaluated and inspired by the great Terminal Bench benchmark)
by amelius | 2025-07-29 11:12:26+00:00
I mean the gamification that Temu does is a way to make prices less transparent.

This kind of behavior is explicitly forbidden by market authorities.

I don't see any reason why we should allow it, or why consumers would be better off with this gamification.

This has nothing to do with freedom to do whatever you want, but everything with a seller which is doing everything it can to confuse buyers. A market needs rules. And we should not allow a seller to determine all the rules.
by potato3732842 | 2025-07-29 11:15:12+00:00
>And also keeping plausible deniability for the people at the top. They never told anyone to do anything, they decided to do this themselves. The third reich was full of this as well.

Dude, every single government ever in the history of humanity works this way. The appointed administrators of ancient rome were scheming up ways to serve their benefactors without leaving a tablet trail that their benefactors opponents could complain about. When I worked for a podunk state department of a well run solidly blue state 15yr ago we did this. There were meetings with no agenda where they'd verbally go over what the new boss's (appointed positions at top of department, not the governor himself) inclinations were on areas of policy relevant to the department and there would be discussion about how to align to that. And this wasn't people who reported to the boss, these were line level workers and middle managers. This wasn't coming from the top down. This was the bottom simply knowing what was good for it.

And just to be clear, just because it's always like this doesn't mean you shouldn't hate it and hate them for doing it.
by geertj | 2025-07-29 11:15:16+00:00
The max that is happening here, assuming the poster is referring to the current administration's policy to remove undocumented aliens from the country, is that some operational mistakes unfortunately will be made since an estimated 10 million people entered the country illegally in the last four years.

It is my hope and belief that any such mistakes would be swiftly corrected, and that the undocumented people that are impacted by this policy are treated with dignity and respect, while still encouraging legal immigration into this country. Furthermore I would expect that the odds of a US citizen or otherwise legal resident to be arrested and deported to be virtually zero.
by eichin | 2025-07-29 11:15:31+00:00
We've known for decades that self-reported time perception in computer interactions is drastically off (Jef Raskin, The Humane Interface in particular) so unless they have some specifically designed external observations, they are more likely to be wrong. (There have been more recent studies - discussed here on HN - about perception wrt chat interfaces for code specifically - that confirm the effect on modern tools.)
by dmantis | 2025-07-29 11:15:52+00:00
> For example Russia it is not legal to pay with crypto, and to cash it out allowed crypto exchanges must submit your transactions to the government etc otherwise they get blocked.

Sorry, but it's very naive to think that Russian people use only "allowed" crypto exchanges and comply with the laws. That would be an impossible country to live in.

Direct connections with people and being street-smart are important kinds of skills in such societies. And even without connections, you can easily go to some popular Russian exchange aggregators and find no-KYC options with cash delivery, as far as I know.

EDIT: I've actually just checked for you: starting from 10,000 USDT, you can cash out anonymously with cash delivery for 1% in Moscow right at this moment from a publicly accessible resource with reviews.
by netsharc | 2025-07-29 11:16:02+00:00
> Leaving Hamas alive means risking October 7 happening again.

If someone killed your family members (especially the innocent ones) and walked around with impunity and an air of moral superiority, how much revenge would be in you?

> But they also didn't hold back when Hamas used civilians as human shields.

No they didn't, so in my view they lose any right to claim that they're any better than the barbaric butchers they're fighting.

> They didn't bomb civilians indiscriminately.

Oh please, wake up, and finally admit you're accepting their lies and are lying to yourself. Oh wait, I apologize, you're right, they didn't bomb civilians "indiscriminately", they used an algorithm to figure out whom to bomb: https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

> B. said that the reason for this automation was a constant push to generate more targets for assassination. “In a day without targets [whose feature rating was sufficient to authorize a strike], we attacked at a lower threshold. We were constantly being pressured: ‘Bring us more targets.’ They really shouted at us. We finished [killing] our targets very quickly.”

> He explained that when lowering the rating threshold of Lavender, it would mark more people as targets for strikes. “At its peak, the system managed to generate 37,000 people as potential human targets,” said B. “But the numbers changed all the time, because it depends on where you set the bar of what a Hamas operative is.
by regularization | 2025-07-29 11:16:13+00:00
> Israel left Gaza a long time ago

So who are those people with guns in between Egypt and Gaza for the past decades? Or blocking Gazan fisherman from fishing for decades?

The Zionists leave a settlement in northern Gaza and call that "leaving Gaza".

The Zionists brought this on themselves when they decided to take over Gaza in 1967. 33 of the victims of the Zionist aggressions in 1967 were those brave US Navy sailors on the USS Liberty that the Zionists killed then.
by lotsofpulp | 2025-07-29 11:16:19+00:00
> When the question is “but how did you expect us to make good business under those conditions?”

There is no “make good” since there was no contract about long term expectations.

Even the media business’ leaders don’t know the future. Fewer eyeballs watching or listening to a specific piece of media means the cost has to be amortized over a smaller audience, meaning higher prices, or less quantity and quality of media.

Price volatility should be expected in a changing business environment, and the media business got rocked by increasing supply (Meta/ByteDance/video games/on demand historic catalogs/etc) in the last 20 years, as evidenced by the change in their market values.

It’s just business, so no one needs your sympathy, but it is also weird to see supposedly numerate people gripe about the effects of rapidly shifting supply and demand curves.
by cb321 | 2025-07-29 11:17:36+00:00
This answer's @pansa2's question in a way that more leans on one aspect of Nim's greater syntactic & code transformation flexibility (which is great!), but I suspect pansa2 was more interested in differences in "idiomatic Nim" from Python for which there are more details here: https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Nim-for-Python-Programm...
by qwertox | 2025-07-29 11:18:30+00:00
Since I upgraded Asterisk it has this bug that as soon a DTMF tone is played on the line, Asterisk crashes.

So I cannot navigate any menu and when requested to make a choice, I just don't make one and wait. Turns out that this has been pretty effective in getting a real person on the other end relatively fast.

I don't know what it is, maybe it's a legal requirement, maybe so that people too dumb to use a phone still get serviced.
by mrweasel | 2025-07-29 11:18:38+00:00
You forget to exclude it from the law that legalize pornography. Denmark was the first country to legalize pornography, so obviously there where a bunch of, should we say "edge cases" that the lawmakers forgot to think about.

The Danish national television made a documentary, there's also a short article: https://www.dr.dk/om-dr/programmer-og-koncerter/candy-film-d... you can probably just run it through Google translate. The worst part is that it took like 10 - 11 years to fix.
by jpc0 | 2025-07-29 11:18:43+00:00
I believe the point is that advertisements are placed all over in the real world, and they are targeted based on demographics pf the area just as much as Google would be targeting ads at you.

Who handles the support for Outside?

In other words, by implicitly paying with “attention” you agreed to the contract which has no support, you cannot then complain about having no support.

You are welcome to not use a Google product.
by pegasus | 2025-07-29 11:18:52+00:00
Yeah, it's Israel which "never honestly offered it", while Hamas, who always maintained that Israel has no place in the middle east, does offer such a solution in this proposal, while curiously not mentioning Israel at all, only that they shall take the whole of Jerusalem. But the article helpfully infers that this elision means Hamas would clarly accept Israel's right to exist. It just reeks of honesty...
by qrobit | 2025-07-29 11:19:29+00:00
FWIW, these uBlock Origin rules solve the ploblem:

||accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe ##iframe[src^="http://accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe"] ##iframe[src^="https://accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe"] ##iframe[src^="//accounts.google.com/gsi/iframe"] ###credential_picker_container

source: https://stackoverflow.com/a/78429389. Last rule is from me since popup was invisible but still blocked the content underneath.
by arend321 | 2025-07-29 11:20:05+00:00
We're pretty much there. I ditched my monitors for the XReal One Pro. In Ultra Wide Mode (3840x1080 32:9) I can be productive for 1 or 2 hour sessions. Only bummer is some blurry spots in the lens, which I can see when looking through the glasses disconnected as well as when looking at rendered text. Support wasn't very helpful asking for proof with a photo or video recording even though it's near impossible to get a camera in front of the glasses and take a reasonable clear photo.
by rayiner | 2025-07-29 11:20:08+00:00
I’m not asking what someone should do, but what your average person would do. They would believe the spouse had cheated, and was lying when the spouse retracted the statement. Even though that requires believing the first statement by the spouse and not the second.

To circle back to the point, people aren’t capable of understanding any independent confirmation, nor are the capable of understanding the explanation for the change in position. The operation of science is incomprehensible to most people.
by strken | 2025-07-29 11:20:10+00:00
Okay; so what? Go mine one of the POW coins and buy what you actually want on an unregulated exchange. You're still burning fossil fuels to get it.

My general point is that you can exchange money for energy and energy for crypto, and nobody can really stop you if you're doing it at a small enough scale. Siphon the fuel from your car and run a generator, pretend you're charging your EV, whatever.
by bayindirh | 2025-07-29 11:20:28+00:00
If you want a low maintenance option, your best choice will be fade-proof pigment inked systems.

From top of my head:

- UniBall Eye / Vision Elite's Red, Blue, Black and Green (look for fade-proof / water-poof note, or SuperINK) - Sakura / Faber Castell / Rotring pigment inked, felt tip markers (Look for Archival Ink / Fade Resistant)

If you prefer fountain pens:

- Pelikan 4001 blue black (which is not sold in the US) - Rohrer & Klinger's Iron Gall inks (scribosa, ebony, etc.) - Noodler's "Bulletproof" series cellulose reactive inks. - Lamy Blue Black - Lamy Crystal Benitonite - Montblanc Permanent Blue / Permanent Black

I'm sure there are many more, but these are the ones I know and had experience with.

Always use an acid-free higher quality paper. Leuchtturm 1917, Rhodia, Yu-Sari, Mnemosyne comes to my mind. Do NOT use Moleskine notebooks with fountain pens. They are not designed for fountain pens.
by throwaway3b03 | 2025-07-29 11:20:54+00:00
Now that I found out about him, and saw an [interview](https://index.hu/video/2018/07/23/rejtett_motoros_kerekpar_b...) he gave years ago, an old thought of mine came up.

I was always thinking this was a really underserved market. Ebikes have been really in demand for a long while, but most of the offer was based on very heavy city bikes. I was always thinking that a much sportier, more efficient race ebikes would be a huge hit. I saw some prototypes on kickstarter but nothing that sticked.

I wonder why. If I had the energy and resources I think I would try going into that product space. Seems like ripe for disruption.

I ride ebikes a lot, and I used to ride race bikes a lot as well, years ago. For a long time I thought that a heavy city ebike is similar to a very efficient race bike that in terms of effort required. After I started to ride them simultaneously (more or less), maybe an ebike is in fact more helpful over longer periods, but a light race bike isn't far away. So a product that captures best of both worlds would do great IMO.

LE. Apparently I'm late by around 5 years. When I last had this thought there was literally just a kickstarter project. Now I see most big brands have electric road bike offerings. Still, at 4-5k EUR price points, there's still a lot of value to capture.
by fxtentacle | 2025-07-29 11:21:13+00:00
Here's the bill my German company would have to bill for shipping 1 2€ wine opener to 1 EU customer from Asia:

2€ goods (obviously)

+ 0.12€ duty HS 76151010 aluminum-based kitchen household items

+ 0.38€ import VAT

+ 12.50€ processing fee

=> price of 14.94€ and I make 0 profit

The problem in my opinion is not that Temu is paying too low an import tax rate, the problem is that Temu is for many parcels completely circumventing the customs system, thereby incurring costs but not paying their fare share.

Now I could try to import a 1m^3 box with 1000 wine openers, in which case the economics get better:

2000€ goods (obviously)

+ 120€ duty

+ 38€ VAT

+ 45€ processing fee

=> imported price of 2.20€ each

But now I need to warehouse those 1000 items in Germany and re-package them into local parcels for each customer

+2€ packaging material

+4€ postage for local parcel

=> now I can sell at 8.20€ and if I have 0 returns, 0 warranty cases and 0 issues, I'll barely break even.

Calculating in that I might have to deal with 10% returns, I need to charge 9€ per piece. And here's the kicker: If Temu would legally pay customs and deal with warranty and returns accoring to German law, they, too, would arrive at a similar price.

=> The Temu price only works because they deliberately break the law.
by rrr_oh_man | 2025-07-29 11:22:28+00:00
Not looking for a bitch fight, but:

- "4.9 Star User Rating" in the Trustpilot design, yet no mentioning on Trustpilot. Where does the 4.9 rating come from?

- "50K+ Spaces Transformed, 10K+ Happy Homeowners" — on a domain that was created 4 months ago? (2025-03-28)

- "99% Satisfaction Rate", again, as above. And very, VERY unlikely in any consumer product, especially the stochastic ones.

- The most generic fake reviews of the world, from people such as "Sarah Chen", "Michael Rodriguez", "Emma Thompson", "David Kim", "Lisa Johnson", "James Wilson". That sounds like the participants on a shitty stock photo.

- To put insult to injury: isometric images like mid-2024 Dall-E.

I love startups, ideas, projects, new websites. But I deeply dislike dishonesty.
by fireflash38 | 2025-07-29 11:22:43+00:00
Who are these people in 3rd world countries that have 200k USD cash? You make it sound like they've scrounged to make it happen... But its far far more likely to be people either trying to wash the money or they were from less than legitimate sources.

Definitely not lower class people like you seem to imply (or perhaps I'm just reading into it?)
by Doxin | 2025-07-29 11:22:56+00:00
I've been trying to learn to draw since basically forever. I've only gotten any real traction the last three weeks or so. Difference is this time I've been doing some copy-work. Basically pull up a finished drawing someone did, and draw the exact same thing. It's sort of staggering how quickly that levels you up. I'll combine that with fairly focused studies, e.g. re-drawing a characters face shape a dozen times, just to get a good feel for it. In addition copy-work is nice because you get to an end-result that's presentable reasonably quickly.

I'm not slowly foraying into doing more original things which seems to be going loads better than before I did the copy-work. Currently I'm practicing drawing hands, and while it's not like I'm producing good sketches of hands, I can now totally see the path from where I am to good sketches of hands.

I'll share a sequence of sketches so you can see what a study looks like for me. This started off with trying to draw a specific characters hand in a specific pose, but turned into more of a "well how about figuring out hands in general first" thing:

0. I started with copy work, decent results, did a couple of these: https://i.imgur.com/3Fb3kDY.jpg

1. I moved on to trying to do a hand using no refs, somewhat predictable results, doesn't look like anything: https://i.imgur.com/wvgm1F3.jpg

2. After a bunch of repeating the same exact drawing it's starting to look like a thing: https://i.imgur.com/oMEVhOM.jpg

3. Took a break on hands, did a bunch more copy work of complete characters etc. Got slightly better at confident lines.

4. Returned to hands, switched to using my own hand for reference. Ignore the missing finger, I misjudged the spacing but pressed on regardless. You can clearly see the improvement from when I started: https://i.imgur.com/fZduLG1.jpg

5. Where I am today, probably going to need to practice different angles, but it'll be basically more of the same. Keep doing copy-work, Keep doing studies.

Important part of studies is to draw the same thing multiple times I feel. Do a sketch, try to avoid hating yourself for it being bad too much, pick one thing to improve. E.g. for the study sketches linked I've picked "try perspective" as improvement, but "get the right number of fingers" or "make the fingers the right length" are equally valid goals.

Notably absent from my workflow is tutorials or art-books. I'm sure those will come in handy once I've got the basics down, but for now they are just frustrating non-help. I'm making significant progress week-over-week still.

tl;dr: Copy work and studies is what works for me. Copy-work gets the strokes into your muscle memory. Studies helps you get a feel for how and why to place strokes.
by ajsnigrutin | 2025-07-29 11:23:40+00:00
Some apps still do the same, eg:

https://www.downthemall.net/

(also a great app to download everything you wanted from a site, regex selections, etc.)

Makes several connections and downloads chunks in parallel, for some sites with limited upload (their, your download) speeds per session it really speeds up the downloads.

Sadly, not much development recently (9 months ago was the last commit)