skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t believe it is "the past" which is appealing.

We live in a very graphical society, with (moving) pictures everywhere, all the time. But to "think", you need words. As Neal Stephenson put it in "In the beginning was the command line", Words are the only technology available to encode thoughts. While images and sounds convey more emotions. It’s not a coincidence that we are here exchanging words.

Command-line, is a way to exchange words with a computer. It is way more precise, more efficient. But it takes learning and thinking. It’s harder the same way it is harder to read a book than to watch a movie. Especially if you never learned to read in the first place which, for the command-line, is approximately everyone but a few geeks.

If your goal is to "think" precisely and convey this thinking into something tangible on a computer, then you probably want the command line. But, as it needs a lot of learning, you don’t want it for temporary job. You don’t learn to read because you want to read Harry Potter. You learn to read because you want to spend your life reading books.

In "UNIX As Litterature", Scoville argued that UNIX is done by literary people for literary people. People which have a strong "book" culture. People who probably enjoy books more than the movies because "there’s a lot more, it’s more subtle, I can imagine it like I want".

Those people, (disclaimer: I count myself in those) may even have too much "graphics" in their daily lives. Too many pictures. Billboards, movies, ads, colored and graphical t-shirts everywhere, branding.

Retreating to the command-line feels good, calm, zen. (see Stephenson book again).

But, I admit, those people are a minority. Graphical interfaces have the advantage of being intuitive. Intuitive literally means "you don’t need to think" (that’s what intuition is). You click randomly and, by trial and error, you learn some arbitrary rules that the designers decided to use. (when I was teaching basic Windows XP computer use to elders, I once got a very simple question: "how do I know if I need to click once or double click?". I never could answer that. There are no real rule. You learn it and never think about it afterward).

So the GUI is really about removing the thinking from the process. Which is good when you don’t care about the process or when you are not really sure what you want. Or when you want something to be quickly done once and for all.

Command-line forces you to clarify your thoughts all the time. It is hard. It is energy consuming. But this forces you to take real decisions.
> - build it once, deploy and forget for months or years;

With the containers thing any stack can do this.

But I get what you mean. Avoid anything to do with JS. It's the worst of the worst for stability. Avoid Ruby on rails. Avoid python. These ecosystems will evolve out from under you.

Avoid anything from Microsoft. Did you make a website in 2014? tough luck, you are stuck on old .NET world now. Unless you port things over to the new world. Did you use silverlight? whoopsie!

If you really need your SaaS to work forever write it in Go.
US accuses Indian official in foiled plot to kill separatist in New York City
Sounds like an exercise in frustration
Slyke: Crowdsourced Curation Platform – singular collections of *anything*
My sense is that AI models will need to be able to run on relatively low powered eventually, just purely for the economics of it to work out.

Still a lot of unknowns though.
Whoops. Semantic collision with Tony Hoare ^^
That's very nice. Look at the solution a person pushed for my isocity project [1]. It enables to share a URL with your city creation

Maybe you can implement something like that

1 - https://github.com/victorqribeiro/isocity/commit/c6588171e37...
This is what ChatGPT does to me whenever I ask anything non-trivial. I find it funny people think it'll take over our jobs, it simply can't even do the most basic things beyond the beaten path.
Nice project!

A few questions/suggestions:

- It's not clear what the character limit would be if one was to sign-up.
- What does "context-driven translations for higher accuracy" mean?
- 35 characters are quite short for testing the translation of a complete sentence. Is there a reason for using such a short character length?
But that just means that it's done its job in teaching you geography!
This is HN Big Brain approach to the problem of naming things.
A relevant protocol (https://wayland.app/protocols/ext-session-lock-v1) has been introduced nearly two years ago.
The two main ones are that there's more moving parts to go wrong, and that you're at the mercy of the people running the server. When the server malfunctions, there's nothing you can do but wait for them to fix it, the provider can mess up your account in unpredictable ways leading to unexpected interruptions of service and/or loss of data, and so forth. There are numerous smaller things, too, such as reduced flexibility and such.

Also, communications can and do suffer interruptions, and if you're using a remote server then such interruptions can be problematic.

My point isn't that "the cloud" is a bad model, though. It's that it involves a different set of risks and tradeoffs. For a given use case, "cloud" may be the best solution. For others, it won't be.
Thanks for flagging that!

We're trying to get feedback on the concept and get a better sense of who this might cater to so "Show HN" sounded appropriate.

What's a better place to put this message? How do you make a "regular submission"? I'm sorry for the potential spam; I'm new to this forum.
"tens of millions"? you must specify what. hosting mail with 20GiB average mailboxes? Or a publicly accessible file share with a million monthly hits? Big difference. I would not productionise Nextcloud for a large organisation.

Finally there are very few orgs worldwide even with a few hundred k employees and any firm would get huge Microsoft discounts at that scale for products like SharePoint (on prem), Exchange (on prem) and Office Server (on prem also)... and oodles of support over a very mature product which Nextcloud is simply not.
Don't understand this, why would telcos fight against LE to provide access? Seems like the path of least resistance for them to go along with government requests, rather than something more nefarious.

Sibling post imagines an explicit threat to telcos, but there is very little threat on the other side, ie there is no incentive to stand up for their users privacy for these large bureaucratic / dysfunctional orgs, so why would they?
I am a custom home builder and we do this. It’s very handy when the drywallers cover up an outlet or switch.
If you are in University or have an alumni email, you get their suite free fyi
That was much less true by the end of the 1990s. Partly due to things like BSD’s improved signal handling. And partly due to the userland code quality improvements from the BSD and GNU rewrites.

Shell scripting is still a nightmare for error handling, but by the end of the 1990s there were better scripting languages available to use when that matters.
Unix was graphical. It even had a graphical control panel long before Windows in /usr/bin/vi.
Literary Fight Club: On the Great Poets' Brawl of '68
This is cool. I also like the site in general, has a nice feel to it.
> most people simply don't care about it.

That's an optimistic view. I think the most common position would be one of active avoidance. I know that's true for me.
There's been a bit of a tech bubble lately. Salaries got higher than they would have, because a lot of it was fueled by VC and crypto money. People kept the dot com boom in mind back when apps were booming, but not with crypto and FAANG. Nobody wants to take a pay cut, go to a $250k job after a $300k job.

There's still junior roles and with AI coming up, there's plenty of new stuff that many seniors won't touch. I got my ticket into tech back when everyone wanted to do iOS and Windows Phone, and Android was some runt that even BlackBerry users laughed at. Did desktop to mobile redesigns, which led to responsive web work, and just building apps. There's very likely plenty of new jobs which seniors won't take. Heck, there's still a gap in the market for Flutter jobs here - seniors tend to go for native Android/iOS or React Native because they want to take advantage of the 10 years of experience.
“The US indictment, filed in federal court in Manhattan, alleges the Indian government official — referred to as CC-1 — described himself as a ‘senior field officer’ whose responsibilities include ‘intelligence’. It said the official directed the foiled plot from India.

The official allegedly ‘recruited’ the Indian citizen charged in the indictment, identified as Nikhil Gupta, in May by promising to arrange for criminal charges in India against him to be dropped.

Gupta allegedly contacted a criminal associate who he did not realise was a ‘confidential source’ for US law enforcement. The source introduced Gupta to a purported hitman who was an undercover law enforcement officer.

The indictment suggests a connection between the plot to kill Pannun and the murder of Nijjar.

In June, Gupta allegedly told the confidential source there was a ‘big target’ in Canada several days before Nijjar was killed. That evening, the Indian official sent a video that showed a bloody Nijjar slumped over in his car. One hour later, he sent the New York address of Pannun.”

New Delhi should throw the official under the bus for incompetence alone.
Car dealers openly beg Biden to put brakes on electric vehicle drive
so, uh, "freeze" the cancer? wild
I'd imagine more has been spent on cancer research at this point than the moon landing.
I would (slightly) disagree with that.

The hope is often to enhance whatever's already going on in the brain--and this is a sensible goal because there's often less neural synchrony in some diseases (e.g, schizophrenia) or situations (e.g., memory lapses).

However, the brain has its own internal dynamics--and they're complicated! You can 't just blithely write a new thing on top of them and expect it to work. In our experiments, doing so often backfires: stimulating at 5 Hz often makes makes cells already firing at 5 Hz act less rhythmically, not more. The reason is that the brain's oscillations drift in frequency and abruptly reset, so they "compete" with the imposed oscillation. This is a pretty well-studied phenomeon in other contexts (e.g., sloshing in rocket fuel tanks or nearby pipes cancelling each other in organs).

TI is exciting because you could potentially sense what's going on and adjust the stimulation accordingly, but we've got a lot of work to go.
Maybe not on their machine, but for Docker images that will be pulled a thousand times, yes.
Those people will say that anyway. The point is to limit exposure. Ronaldo has a lot of fans that otherwise wouldn't be losing their shirt crypto trading.

No opinion on whether the lawsuit has merit.
Just launched on Product Hunt today!

Slyke is a wiki-style content curation platform, built around ‘Collections’ of content about a super-specific subject. Collections are made up of links, media, and text ‘Items’

Communal curation of anything with versatile uses for work, sports, news, culture, oddities, events — once you see it or try it, you’ll ‘get it,’ and will imagine the possibilities!
There are various FUSE-based file systems that use S3 under the hood.
Farming states produce two exports: recruits for the military, and transplants to blue states. Farms produce children, but there is no where for them to go; only one child can inherit the farm. The bright ones leave for the city and the dull ones enlist or take over the farm. If they farm, they wallow in their bubble. Farming doesn’t take a lot of smarts these days, so there’s no selection pressure to keep the population sharp.
brevity is not clarity.
We'll have newer hot and slow chips by then like we always have.
And what about the non technical people, the majority :)?

Will they have the same setup?
Self hosting likely makes it much much worse. I'm willing to bet a lot on the fact that most authors of these comments do not have any kind of experience with serious security or compliance programs.
Note the keyboard part. I think this is meant to be what they can physically print on the numpad section of an international-style keyboard. When you're typing numbers in a Euro locale you'd get `,` but in US English you would get a period. (At least, I hope that's what the decimal key on the numpad does when you set your locale to a certain locale. It would be obnoxious if when typing numbers in an English context, you had to go find the period key on the other side.)

I don't think we're meant to normally switch to actually putting that character in our numbers though. If so, clearly nobody has agreed to do it!
woah, this is fast. On my M1 this feels about as fast as GPT-4.
Not sure if there is an equivalent in English, but I know that an "archaic" German term for computers from the 1940s and 50s is "Elektronengehirn". So the connection has always been always there.

Edit: An article about the origin of the term and historic connections/comparisons being made between brains and computers: https://www.nzz.ch/digital/computer-wie-die-elektronenhirne-... (in German)
Google agrees to pay C$100M a year for news in Canada
I’m still somewhat on the fence. But it’s looking pretty good: https://www.theautopian.com/i-saw-a-production-spec-tesla-cy...
US: Real GDP grows at an annual rate of 5.2% in Q3 vs. 5.0% expected
Really good to do this!

I recently had drama with a contractor... it went into mediation, and the contractor was able to say, "How do we know this damage wasn't caused before we got there?" Contractors are shady, and likely that wouldn't change, but I wish I had more photos of my house before the flood.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/anyone-have-connections-usaa-...
I found a funny charge on my credit card
> Is there any reason why I should use this rather than using ChatGPT Plus directly to do this?

Well, when it turns out that this gives you bad advice, you've got a better chance of recovering damages from someone for unauthorized practice of law, compared to if you got the same bad advice by prompting ChatGPT yourself.
Multidimensional beings that transcend time and/or space. Not necessarily dieties, but it kind of is from our perspective.

Another night be that consciousness exists at many physical levels. Just like you are made of trillions of automata of cells and bacteria, which are played out by proteins and DNA, maybe the universe is a single consciousness, and we are but one part. Or a part of a part.
How do they buy anything else, like textbooks or coffee? They have a student loan - that's how.

You ever met a college student with an Xbox? If we stopped treating houses as an investment and started treating them as a commodity like Xboxes, you could afford one.
How can they be so sure the model isn’t just hallucinating? It can also hallucinate real facts from the training data. However, that doesn’t mean the entire output is directly from the training data. Also, is there any real world use case? I couldn’t think of a case where this would be able to extract something meaningful and relevant to what the attackers were trying to accomplish.
Hope you took some personal reflection out of that instead of just concluding with "well I got my namesake at the job so that's nice". I don't got time to yell at people, I took an IC track for a reason.

If I'm blocked, that's a lead's or manager's problem to solve or escalate. As a bonus, it leaves a paper trail that I don't need to lay out most of to begin with (just get it rolling).
My good-faith interpretation of your comment is: "Maybe learn to code (without external resources or tools)?" LLMs are another tool and resource, just like StackOverflow, linters, autocomplete, Google, etc. None of these tools are infallible, but they provide value. Just like all other tools, you don't need to use LLMs because of their issues - but we want them to be as useful as possible - what the author is trying to do.
This is convenient for people who don't want to go knee deep in LLM-ology to try an LLM out on their computer. That said a single download that in turn downloads the weights for you is just as good in my book.
> In Japan, parking at the train station isn't normal in the least; I don't think they even have a place to park there. The normal way is to take public transit there. Same goes for the airports (at least in Tokyo);

Right, exactly. So adding the cost of parking to the cost of the flight but not the train would be misleading.
But but but! “If you buy electric cars you never have to worry about gas prices ever again!”
I'm a bit confused by why you are confused.

It's surprising that something as simple as reading a file is slower in the Rust standard library as the Python standard library. Even knowing that a Python standard library call like this is written in C, you'd still expect the Rust standard library call to be of a similar speed; so you'd expect either that you're using it wrong, or that the Rust standard library has some weird behavior.

In this case, it turns out that neither were the case; there's just a weird hardware performance cliff based on the exact alignment of an allocation on particular hardware.

So, yeah, I'd expect a filesystem read to be pretty well optimized in Python, but I'd expect the same in Rust, so it's surprising that the latter was so much slower, and especially surprising that it turned out to be hardware and allocator dependent.
Quite a lot! i use it to explode both JSON and tex (parse using jq functions). I also use it for exploring ane debug binary formats (https://github.com/wader/fq). Now a days i also use it for some adhoc programming and a calculator.
I'm tired of seeing "works for me" in every comment section.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38447705
From a technical standpoint, this project is really fascinating. I can see a lot of use cases for getting something up fast locally for an individual user.

But for anyone in a production/business setting, it would be tough to see this being viable. Seems like it would be a non-starter for most medium to large companies IT teams. The great thing about a Dockerfile is that it can be inspected and the install process is relatively easy to understand.
To the first question: A mix of both really. When you have a service this widespread, like translations, there's a lot in the vertical integration that can be more efficient. I mean, the project initiated from a different startup I built as a workaround for the cloud providers. It just evolved from that bottom-up thinking.

Thanks! Just for clarity, are you talking about the work experience, living situation, or startup ventures?
https://web.archive.org/web/20231129214109/https://www.newyo...

https://archive.ph/wtM7s
I will try this as well thank you!
It's not that expensive, though. If you're regularly dealing with contracts complex enough that a solution like this has appeal, you probably also have a decent income and a couple hundred dollars won't hurt much. Missing, or misunderstanding, something in the contract can also cost a lot more than what an attorney would charge you to review the contract.

But to each their own. For me, using something like this is riskier than I'd be comfortable with.
The question doesn't clarify if it means personally or regionally.

Personally isn't much of an issue since the individual can choose where they shop, and if like myself they keep ten, twenty or fifty bucks on them, it'll get them out of a tricky situation where either there's no electronic means ... or it's broken down that hour, day ... which happens around my way and I strike the situation about every year - but it's hilarious though at times watching young staff trying the man the early carbon paper way to process cards and interacting with their company's guidelines for such situations.

At a regional level, it's god awful, boneheaded and as mentioned in previous comment, an authoritarian wet dream. Why? Just look up the last Optus outage in Australia, for some it wasn't even an entire day, and yet there was a hue and cry ... followed by a large amount of moaning how people who'd set up cashless had lost large ... following covid, people are more accommodating of such places that are cashless ... but it's in direct violation of the countries Currency Act, which one of the sub clauses mentions people shall not be herded into specified clubs (ie approved line of credit.) Maybe this has been changed in the last twenty years, but if so, it'd be a crock.

To clarify, the recent Optus outage took out hard lines as well as mobile, but for those who's business is mobile, they would have to rely on mobile data or old school processing for credit cards -- so as a BTW, just last year, in my region, Vodafone started service on their main (if not only) tower in my rural region (it services at least a 10 m or 16km radius) ... it took a month where it was not offering any workable level of service even at night. I myself had to purchase a sim to a different network. Total network losses happen during emergencies at times in our region in North Queensland ... the big storms can take out the overhead power lines at times and that can take a week or two to be repaired - and towers generally don't have power backups that last too long. So in regions that have the same issues, cashless would be a huge issue unless they found a different mechanism that avoids electronics and data transmission.
They don't, though. If you try to allocate too much VRAM it will either hard fail or everything suddenly runs like garbage due to the driver constantly swapping it / using shared memory.

The reason for this flag to exist in the first place is that many of the models are larger than the available VRAM on most consumer GPUs, so you have to "balance" it between running some layers on the GPU and some on the CPU.

What would make sense is a default auto option that uses as much VRAM as possible, assuming the model is the only thing running on the GPU, except for the amount of VRAM already in use at the time it is started.
Something is very wrong with Amazon management.

They have an employee who has been with them for years, currently kidnapped by Hamas to Gaza[1]. They won't even acknowledge it.

It's a crazy thing not to acknowledge, not even in internal forums.

1: https://www-geektime-co-il.translate.goog/amazon-aws-employe...
Mr. Burns has never been one I associated with regulatory capture =D
Welcome to the motorcycling world! Today's cars continually start the engine - that's a huge draw. If you're going to leave your car sit more than a couple weeks then you should put your battery on a tender. Motorcyclists have been doing that for decades.
Do people even use screensavers anymore?
I'm rooting for it despite it being silly and not a practical pickup, strictly because every car people are buying looks identical (picture a crossover SUV from Toyota, Chevy, BMW etc. Basically shoe-shaped things).

This looks like a concept car that would never come to market. I hope it sells really well and convinces others to bring actually-creative designs to market.
Ask HN: AI for Planning Trips?
Any good platforms or tips for planning trips with AI today?
A 27,000-year-old pyramid? Controversy hits extraordinary archaeological claim
Less malicious than that, a Telco isn't going to spend legal time/money/firepower on someone else.
Egregores, Group Minds, and White Magic
You discount the idea that

1) there are Savant syndrome people out there who cannot catch and correct their problems

2) they seem disproportionately attracted to tech

So you're right that it's rare, but Tech does tend to be a very odd outlier for that kind of person.
Another vote for pnpm.

Was introduced at work and it's a game changer. The monorepo support (via "workspace:*") is absolutely clutch too.
Aegis is a particular system. Not a generic term for these systems. I don't believe UK ships used it.