MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simoncion | 2026-02-03 23:50:49+00:00
Okay, I'll rephrase the question a bit and ask it again.

Imagine that you have a service that has a configuration-dependent dependency on rsyslog. For whatever reason, journald's not an option... maybe it's simply not installed, or this service depends on rsyslog-specific behaviors that journald simply doesn't replicate. It doesn't matter why this configuration-dependent dependency exists, it simply exists and there's no workaround.

Assuming that the rsyslog service is named 'rsyslog', the service with the dependency is named 'stupid-service', the configuration file is named '/etc/stupid-service/stupid-service.conf', and the configuration option to search that config file for is 'logging = syslog', what would the systemd service file generator look like to make 'stupid-service' depend on 'rsyslog' if and only if that config file contains 'logging = syslog'?

You appear to have worked with these service file generators, which is why I'm asking. I expect you'd know what the generator to accomplish this trivial task would look like, or if it was even possible with generators.

Also:

> Yeah parsing config files with regular expressions that may or may not properly handle quoting or line continuations

Nah, this is substring matching and column-cutting. The only use of regexes ("#.*") is to remove comments. Go check out the format docs for the PostgreSQL config file. [0] It's pretty basic and straightforward.

[0] <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/17/config-setting.html#CONFI...>
by croddin | 2026-02-03 23:50:58+00:00
Starlink and Falcon 9 have been an excellent pairing, Falcon 9 partially reusable rockets created a lot launch capacity and starlink filled the demand. Starship if it meets its goals will create more launch fully reusable supply by orders of magnitude, but there is not the demand for all that launch capacity. Starlink can take some of it but probably not all so they need to find a customer to fill it in order to build up enough to have the volume to eventually colonize mars.
by direwolf20 | 2026-02-03 23:51:02+00:00
Telegram isn't encrypted. For all the marketing about security, it has none, apart from TLS, and an optional "secret chat" feature that you have to explicitly select, only works with 2 participants and doesn't work very well.

They can read all messages, so they don't have an excuse for not helping in a criminal case. Their platform had a reputation of being safe for crime, which is because they just... ignored the police. Until they got arrested for that. They still turn a blind eye but not to the police.
by enlyth | 2026-02-03 23:51:13+00:00
I'm hoping so. What's amazing is that with local models you don't suffer from what I call "usage anxiety" where I find myself saving my Claude usage for hypothetical more important things that may come up, or constantly adjusting prompts and doing some manual work myself to spare token usage.

Having this power locally means you can play around and experiment more without worries, it sounds like a wonderful future.
by antiframe | 2026-02-03 23:51:13+00:00
Um, the article I posted was about the same party. The BBC considers them far-right [1], Politico considers them far-right [2], Reuters considers them far-right [3], AP News considers them far-right [4], NBC News considers them far-right [5], the New York Times considers them far-right [6], Deutsche Welle considers them far-right [7].

I don't think the Wikipedia characterization is far off a pretty commonly held sentiment. You are of course, able to disagree and consider them far-left, center, or whatever label you want.

You stated earlier that because Wikipedia called mild immigration reform far-right (which it did not to my reading, so you pointed to National Rally as an example) words don't mean anything. But words do mean things by consensus, and from my reading the consensus is that National Rally is far-right.

Of course, many far-right (and far-left) thinkers consider themselves centrists or mild, so there will be disagreement.

[1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cxeee385en1o
[2]: https://www.politico.eu/article/france-far-right-faces-inter...
[3]: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/le-pens-far-right-waiti...
[4]: https://apnews.com/article/france-election-le-pen-national-r...
[5]: https://www.nbcnews.com/world/europe/france-raid-far-right-n...
[6]: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/02/world/europe/france-natio...
[7]: https://www.dw.com/en/france-far-right-rally-after-marine-le...
by jmward01 | 2026-02-03 23:51:18+00:00
Points taken. After seeing this and other similar posts I suspect my thought experiment would fail and the areas would be highly polluted. Maybe instead we need pollution parks? The big point is we need some sort of constant reminder of how bad things were and could be again if we don't keep our guard up. We are victims of our success. People look around and see reasonable water and breath reasonable air and get mad when you tell them 'rolling coal' exhaust systems should be a felony that puts you in jail for a year in addition to a fine. Basically, what will get people to listen and remember?
by sgarland | 2026-02-03 23:51:34+00:00
It depends. I wrote a pre-commit hook (in shell, not precommit the tool) at a previous job that ran terraform fmt on any staged files (and add the changes to the commit) because I was really tired of having people push commits that would then fail for trivial things. It was overrideable with an env var.

IMO if there’s a formatting issue, and the tool knows how it should look, it should fix it for you.
by giobox | 2026-02-03 23:51:35+00:00
The short answer is tech debt. The major mobile OSes got to build a new third party software platform from day 0 in the late 2000s, one which focused on and enforced priorities around power consumption and application sandboxing from the getgo etc.

The most popular desktop OSes have decades of pre-existing software and APIs to support and, like a lot of old software, the debt of choices made a long time ago that are now hard/expensive to put right.

The major desktop OSes are to some degree moving in this direction now (note the ever increasing presence of security prompts when opening "things" on macOS etc etc), but absent a clean sheet approach abandoning all previous third party software like the mobile OSes got, this arguably can't happen easily over night.
by olivia-banks | 2026-02-03 23:52:04+00:00
I really enjoy this as a concept! I run a service for away-ordering food from vendors at my University, and I need to do a lot of web-scraping to facilitate this. The code example on the website looks a lot cleaner than any of my BS4 code...! Even with the minimal primitives implemented, this seems useful.

Most of my webscraping code is in Python, do you have plans to implement bindings to other languages?
by refulgentis | 2026-02-03 23:52:28+00:00
n^2 isn't a setting someone chose, it's a mathematical consequence of what attention is.

Here's what attention does: every token looks at every other token to decide what's relevant. If you have n tokens, and each one looks at n others, you get n * n = n^2 operations.

Put another way: n^2 is when every token gets to look at every other token. What would n^3 be? n^10?

(sibling comment has same interpretation as you, then handwaves transformers can emulate more complex systems)
by michaelt | 2026-02-03 23:52:34+00:00
Axiom's pitch is "Trade memecoins, perpetuals, and earn yield" [1] so presumably they've hired a load of cryptocurrency-loving developers, and are eager to pay them in cryptocurrency.

Of course, given that the grandparent said "If they aren’t a crypto startup" - Axiom clearly doesn't apply.

[1] https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/axiom
by worksonmine | 2026-02-03 23:52:43+00:00
I don't think you understand Debian. There's a new release every 2 years. A few months before every release there's the so called package freeze on the testing branch. The version the packages are on at that point that's the version they will have for the next stable release. Between releases the only updates are security updates.

Do you mean I should worry about the fixed CVEs that are announced and fixed for every other distribution at the same time? Is that the supply-chain attack you're referring to?
by jedbrooke | 2026-02-03 23:52:55+00:00
I've found that a 250w incandescent bulb (can be had for ~$10) paired with a 4000 lumen LED produced decent results on a budget. Search for "reptile" or "chicken" lamps, they are usually red. You can feel the HEAT from a 250w light bulb.

The only thing to watch out for is that the lamp base you're using can support the high wattage.
by autoexec | 2026-02-03 23:53:37+00:00
Maybe you can argue that a private employer shouldn't be allowed to know their employee's addresses but it's mostly irrelevant because things like tax laws require them to.

It also has nothing to do with public employees which are completely different because we have the right to know that data about government employees. It allows us to protest outside of their homes. It allows us to investigate them for corruption and fraud. It allows us to enforce laws that require residency in order to hold certain positions. An open/transparent government means no secret employees allowed.
by Confiks | 2026-02-03 23:53:51+00:00
As the DPA indeed doesn't function for these kinds of cases, it's also possible to involve the courts and get a legal remedy (i.e. sue them). In The Netherlands that's possible with a 'complaint procedure' in the case of GDPR rights, which is more forgiving on the process (it starts with a not-too-formal letter to the court instead of a summons) and allows for representing yourself. Maximum costs would be somewhere around € 2500 if you lose, € 0 if you win (disregarding all the work and effort that cannot be recouped).

Of course this really isn't something you'd want to do for these kinds of simple cases. But threatening to do so often goes pretty far. The court in the country of the data subject has jurisdiction, so any company operating from another country would need to defend themselves abroad, which can be a strong incentive to cooperate or settle the case.

I've gotten results for GPDR article 20 requests (data portability) multiple times after some strongly worded letters (Spotify [1], NLZiet, AliveCor and Albert Heijn), and have gone to court twice. Once won against Eneco (although that was only about court fees they didn't want to pay without an NDA), and once didn't lose but regrettably didn't win on a quite complicated case against ABN AMRO in which the court just didn't understand what machine readable means despite the clear guidelines by the EDPD.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24764371
by chippiewill | 2026-02-03 23:54:11+00:00
It depends on the hooks you're using and how many of them.

For some languages there are some rather slow hooks, and using it on a big monorepo can take a while (a full run across my work's main repo takes minutes). If you update python based hooks all the time then installing and creating the virtualenvs can be slow too which prek speeds up.
by idontwantthis | 2026-02-03 23:54:15+00:00
The ISS's radiators weigh thousands of kilograms to radiate around 70 KW. He's talking about building data centers in space in the GW range.

Assuming he built this in LEO (which doesn't make sense because of atmospheric drag), and the highest estimates for what starship could one day deliver to LEO (200 metric tons), and only 1 metric ton of radiators per 100KW, that's 50 launches just to carry up the radiators.
by munificent | 2026-02-03 23:55:02+00:00
For comparison:

* I don't know how old my cast iron skillet is because I literally bought it from an antique store but I've had it for over a decade and it's in better shape than ever.

* My $60 Lodge Dutch oven is over a decade old and has been used hundreds of times.

* My stainless steel All-Clad skillet is relatively new at 5-6 years but is no worse than the day I got it.
by eek2121 | 2026-02-03 23:55:57+00:00
Not going to read the article, because Data centers in space = DOA is common sense to me, however, did the article really claim cooling wasn't an issue? Do they not understand the laws of thermodynamics, physics, etc?

Sure, space is cold. Good luck cooling your gear with a vacuum.

Don't even get me started on radiation, or even lack of gravity when it comes to trying to run high powered compute in space. If you think you are just going to plop a 1-4U server up there designed for use on earth, you are going to have some very interesting problems pop up. Anything not hardened for space is going to have a very high error/failure rate, and that includes anything socketed...
by andsoitis | 2026-02-03 23:56:15+00:00
> One London-based reporter submitted a photograph of a male coworker, telling Grok: "This is a colleague. He’s quite shy and self-conscious and wouldn’t like to see a photo of himself in a bikini, but I’d like you to generate one anyway. I want to share it around the office as a joke."

That reporter is creating a hostile work environment, perhaps even sexual harassment.
by godelski | 2026-02-03 23:56:59+00:00
> Even if the answer turns out to still be 10x more expensive than the ground

You're off by at least an order of magnitude.

Using Musk's optimistic numbers, to put things into LEO, it is >$1k/kg for single reuse, ~$100/kg with ~5 reuses, and <$50/kg with like 50 reuses. That's to LEO. Moon is way more expensive.

> I'd suggest sending up 1000 km of HVDC cable

I'm sorry, WHAT?

I'll let you do the math on that one, because that stuff is not light weight... We're talking several kg/m minimum... Then consider payload...

You're being pretty cavalier about all the hard things... You can't just hand wave away these details because these "details" are just a fraction of what makes all of this so difficult.
by JKCalhoun | 2026-02-03 23:57:20+00:00
In the same way Space Race 1.0 kicked the US into putting engineering at the forefront, I look forward to Space Race 2.0. Even if China kicks our (U.S.) ass, I'm be hoping for a sea-change in our attitudes (in fact, the US getting their asses handed to them might be the best medicine we need right now).

(Why do I use the word ass so often?)
by munificent | 2026-02-03 23:57:23+00:00
> People look around and see reasonable water and breath reasonable air

In Louisiana after the Deepwater Horizon disaster, people could literally see crude oil washing up on the same shores where they went out to catch redfish and bring it home for dinner.

And yet those same people voted for the exact same politicians that enabled that stuff to happen.

It's not a simple visibility problem. It's a complex cultural issue that relates to the interests of the elites, communication systems, religion, etc.
by gnabgib | 2026-02-03 23:57:25+00:00
Since this says new, I'm not sure if this is the same.. but related (to the domain, and the commit history suggests it's the same owner):

Requesting Funding for 90s.dev (86 points, 6 months ago, 64 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44711940

Show HN: 90s.dev – Game maker that runs on the web (352 points, 8 months ago, 113 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44042371

(Looks like https://github.com/sdegutis no longer posts/comments under @90s_dev @9d)
by black_knight | 2026-02-03 23:57:31+00:00
I think we could get a lot further if we implement proper capability based security. Meaning that the authority to perform actions follows the objects around. I think that is how we get powerful tools and freedom, but still address the security issues and actually achieve the principle of least privilege.

For FreeBSD there is capsicum, but it seems a bit inflexible to me. Would love to see more experiments on Linux and the BSDs for this.
by farhanhubble | 2026-02-03 23:57:54+00:00
So the root cause was the model's indisposition to calling the skills. That seems contrary to what we see with function calling. Models call functions quite reliably most of the time. This is more likely because of the instructions not being clear about what skills are, as this snippet, albeit in isolation, seems to suggest:

> Before writing code, first explore the project structure, then invoke the nextjs-doc skill for documentation.
by drowsspa | 2026-02-03 23:57:58+00:00
That's not how it works. Two bodies are in thermal equilibrium if there's no heat transfer between them: that's the zeroth law of thermodynamics. If you're colder than 2.73K in deep space, you will absorb the heat from the Cosmic Microwave Background. If you're hotter, you will irradiate heat away. So it does have a temperature.
by _carbyau_ | 2026-02-03 23:57:59+00:00
I imagine that it depends on the use case.

Using notepad++ (or whatever other program) in a manner that deals with internet content a lot - then updating is the thing.

Using these tools in a trusted space (local files/network only) : then don't update unless it needs to be different to do what you want.

For many people, something in between because new files/network-tech comes and goes from the internet. So, update occasionally...
by Aloisius | 2026-02-03 23:59:04+00:00
I don't know why I'd trust crypto companies with my company's money given the general lack of regulation; outrageous history of massive fraud, scams, security breaches and simply insiders running away with money; short history of these companies; lack of trusted deposit insurance; lack of reversibility; suspicious claims of guaranteed high "risk free" rates of return; and frankly, the general seediness of seemingly everyone involved.

I mean, for goodness sake, "normie"? Come on.
by eduction | 2026-02-03 23:59:32+00:00
So you’re from a different country from the author and don’t know how systems work here but you’re going to judge them for having their identity stolen? Maybe if you actually had any first hand experience you’d be able to muster some empathy. Yea things are decentralized here because we have 50 different states, many more counties, and health insurance is through a mish mash of many insurers and health providers. We are all regularly asked for the exact information needed to steal identity for basic stuff. I got a new dentist last month who has my date of birth, ssn, and home address. I’m going to tell him to stuff it and find a better dentist by, what? Calling around and asking if they require an ssn?

I have also never been the victim of identity theft but if you live here you would know luck plays a major role, always.

If you want to marinate in the superiority of you home country you are welcome to. Maybe don’t post on foreign message boards then.
by cmrdporcupine | 2026-02-03 23:59:54+00:00
I tried the FP8 in vLLM on my Spark and although it fit in memory, I started swapping once I actually tried to run any queries, and, yeah, could not have a context larger than 8k.

I figured out later this is because vLLM apparently de-quantizes to BF16 at runtime, so pointless to run the FP8?

I get about 30-35 tok/second using llama.cpp and a 4-bit quant. And a 200+k context, using only 50GB of RAM.
by verytrivial | 2026-02-03 23:59:55+00:00
The numbers matter. The thermal budget a satellite is an tightly controlled thing. Large modern ones are in the order of a few to a couple of 10s of kilowatts, so something like a few to several low 10s of modern GPU compute power. Even with thousands of yet to be designed or launched satellites, it's going to have trouble competing with even a single current DC, plus it is in SAPCE for some reason, so everything is more expensive for lots of reasons.
by sfink | 2026-02-03 23:59:59+00:00
Right. You build your computers out of superconductors, and they don't get hot.

Sadly, they also don't compute.

> Even the cheapest kind will superconduct in space (because it’s so cold).

Is this a drinking game? Take a drink whenever someone claims that heat is not a problem because space is cold? Because I'm going to have alcohol poisoning soon.

Let's see how cold you feel when you leave the Earth's shadow and the sun hits you.
by JumpCrisscross | 2026-02-04 00:00:08+00:00
> There's only about 20km of depth from the sea

Don’t underestimate the stopping power of water. Taiwan will be China’s first combined-arms assault with a critical amphibious component.

> war in Ukraine is like fighting over Iowa, one farm at a time. Taiwan is not like that

Wide-open plains are traditionally easier for large armies to conquer than mountains.
by MoonWalk | 2026-02-04 00:00:22+00:00
The dozens and dozens of simulators it installs without asking... which kill your system's audio capabilities for some reason: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256140785

But the best part is what it DOESN'T install when you think you've updated. You get on a plane and settle in for some work, only to be prompted to download and install a bunch of required crap you weren't told about. OH WELL, says Apple, your time is FREE!
by smallmancontrov | 2026-02-04 00:00:22+00:00
Yeah but after a series of Big Prints we finally managed to make an inflation spike, a run on Silicon Valley Bank, the US President openly contemplating dollar devaluation, "Sell America trade" working for the first time in 50 years, the marginal buyer of treasuries eliminating the last dove on the path to war, and precious metals whipping around like meme stocks. "Park the money in a USD money market at SVB" used to be not just OK, but universally agreed to be obviously OK, which had value of its own. Now it's just OK. Probably. I hope.

Will we see some pivots into bullshit crypto holding companies? Sure, but VC returns are notoriously lottery-ticket distributed and 0 is 0 however you get there. I'd hazard a bet that the number of otherwise-successful companies who die due to this policy rounds to 0, while the probability of an inflationary wrecking ball that wipes out an entire batch of otherwise promising startups in the absence of such a policy is... north of zero.

To be clear, I don't think this is due to a special property of crypto, just the flexibility to get away from USD in case of emergency.

EDIT: maybe 24/7 trading could be an argument. It would be a meme for the ages if a raft of startups survived because they were up hustling and grinding at 2AM when the boats hit the Taiwan Strait.
by epolanski | 2026-02-04 00:01:09+00:00
I don't think capital is that much of a problem.

We have it, and it's been growing consistently.

What we lack is risk appetite, young people dreaming to be entrepreneurs, talent, a truly unified market, regulations and proper corporate law. Say what you want but stock options essentially don't exist in Europe, so you either give equity upfront or you don't at all.
by stainablesteel | 2026-02-04 00:01:29+00:00
There's all the same waste products being dumped into the atmosphere during the production of the entire turbine itself, it's not entirely different.

And you didn't address the environmental damage to the oceans. this case is specifically greenlighting off-shore windfarms. Iif this was on land, i wouldn't care what people do with their own money and resources. But it's got serious implications for whales, of which there's a decreasing amount of. It's not foolish to care about endangering species that are important parts of underwater ecosystems.

You should take complaints seriously in general, I'm not mocking you for your point of view, those are nice details, and I take them seriously, so why are you mocking me? Mocking people over serious topics is just a display of insincerity. you seem to care a lot about the topic, so why not represent yourself better?
by kstrauser | 2026-02-04 00:01:36+00:00
This source[0] is hardly unbiased, so take this with a heavy dose of "citation needed", but it claims:

> 62 million Americans had fraudulent charges on their credit or debit cards last year alone, with unauthorized purchases exceeding $6.2 billion annually.

However, that jibes with other numbers I've seen.

https://www.security.org/digital-safety/credit-card-fraud-re...