skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a pet jumping spider that came to me one day. She was magical. She used to make artistic scribbles in the (sometimes) foggy glass of her terrarium. The she escaped one day (I always left a little crack open at the bottom of her home to give her the option of leaving) and I never saw her since.
The $100 charger and $150 docks are way easier to sell.

At the local flea market, you can see people selling stolen stuff from the local pharmacy. There are obvious 4 or 8 packs of razor blades that are stolen (with the sticker that says "For sale at Shoppers Drug Mart only" on them).
Show HN: MiscNinja – Answer Engine with a Curated Index
This is something I've been working on on and off for a month.
"This is a perplexity ripoff." - yeah, at this point it basically is.
The idea is to build and curate a semantic index of sources which, when big enough, should produce higher quality answers.
It's not even close to finished, but I wanted to put it out here so it doesn't just fade into nothing like all my other projects.
I’ll give this a go, though honestly for the stuff I use Parallel for, I don’t think that Parallel is the bottleneck; usually I use parallel to queue up like 50 ffmpeg or imagemagick jobs, and the vast vast vast majority of the time for those (I would think) would be consumed by the main program, not Parallel.

Maybe I have a really atypical workflow on this? Or maybe I’m misunderstanding something?
> "I gave you $10 for this a decade ago, you have to keep updating it forever for me".

I'm not saying that at all. What I'm saying is that it's wrong to claim it is a "lifetime" purchase - and I dispute your claim that it's the "lifetime of the product". That's obviously what it is, but it isn't what people will assume when they read "lifetime".

Since Prompt 3 will inevitably be followed by Prompt 4 which won't be a free upgrade, $100 seems like a lot to pay.
Populous playing out on my coffee table would be awesome. And it would probably be one game where the pinch/tap gestures would work pretty well in lieu of a controller.
I will never buy an HP printer with my own money ever again. Kyocera and Brother make decent laser printers that don't do all the weird stuff HP printers do, like reach out over the internet to get new software without asking.
I've seen this strategy in airline ticket pricing too. If you fly a few times you figure out that some airlines appear cheap but they're just deferring the cost to later for luggage, seats, and amenities.

It's unavoidable that if customers have behavior X, such as tending to go for the cheapest thing, sellers in the market will develop clever strategies to game that behavior. Retailers go so far as to research how the colors, shapes, and surface textures of packaging affect buying behavior, so of course they are also going to intensively study customer price sensitivity behavior too.

I've learned that with a lot of things such as appliances, tools, and some electronics it's actually cheaper to buy the higher-end model. It's cheaper to buy one good one than two or three pieces of junk that break easily.
Crusty, the Indestructible Mac
That makes a lot of sense, I appreciate the follow up.
Why dont other countries take responsibility for themselves?
Looking for companies filled with something more volatile than the usual hot air.

They try and provide the spark to bring them quickly back down to earth in flames.

That's why they call it Hindenburg.
Just for connecting to an existing service:
https://github.com/ollama/ollama-python/blob/main/ollama/_cl...
previously: science fiction author Peter Watts' 2009 post musing about spider intelligence vs Turing machines:

https://rifters.com/real/2009/01/iterating-towards-bethlehem...

> Here's the thumbnail sketch: we have here a spider who eats other spiders, who changes her foraging strategy on the fly, who resorts to trial and error techniques to lure prey into range. She will brave a full frontal assault against prey carrying an egg sac, but sneak up upon an unencumbered target of the same species. Many insects and arachnids are known for fairly complex behaviors (bumblebees are the proletarian's archetype; Sphex wasps are the cool grad-school example), but those behaviors are hardwired and inflexible. Portia here is not so rote: Portia improvises.

> But it's not just this flexible behavioral repertoire that's so amazing. It's not the fact that somehow, this dumb little spider with its crude compound optics has visual acuity to rival a cat's (even though a cat's got orders of magnitude more neurons in one retina than our spider has in her whole damn head). It's not even the fact that this little beast can figure out a maze which entails recognizing prey, then figuring out an approach path along which that prey is not visible (i.e., the spider can't just keep her eyes on the ball: she has to develop and remember a search image), then follow her best-laid plans by memory including recognizing when she's made a wrong turn and retracing her steps, all the while out of sight of her target. No, the really amazing thing is how she does all this with a measly 600,000 neurons— how she pulls off cognitive feats that would challenge a mammal with seventy million or more.

> She does it like a Turing Machine, one laborious step at a time. She does it like a Sinclair ZX-80: running one part of the system then another, because she doesn't have the circuitry to run both at once. She does it all sequentially, by timesharing.

If you like this kind of thing, check out Watts' novel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel)
After watching a lot of demoscene stuff and reading about how it's done, you start understanding the limits, and things like the sheep (and especially those conical sections for legs) become obvious how they can be expressed as very compact equations and similarly animated. However, it's interesting that AFAIK the majority of these demos rely on the GPU and its powerful 3D acceleration capabilities, but 2D (Japanese)anime-style demos seem to be rare and nonexistent in the smaller sizes. Is 3D animation actually easier?

As a side-note, "mouton" is the French word for "sheep", and thus "mutton".
I think one of the big reasons for over-classification is that people often only learn things in a classified context. So if you only ever see F=MA in a classified document you'll kind of assume that it's a classified formula.

Also when classifying things you do have to portion mark but you don't need to justify any of the portion markings so you don't have to actually know if/why something is classified to mark it and that causes markings to perpetuate.
Sounds like it is huge.
Of course you're right, my mistake. And it's sitting right here next to me... embarrassing. Anyhow, all worth reading.
> By definition it's many nebulous people with nebulous beliefs in many different places

By this definition, then, you have no beef with most religions

Additionally, it sure looks like atheism as the state religion and exterminating the unbelievers was decreed by the Soviet authorities.
Poverty has been steadily decreasing across the board, in both absolute and relative numbers. That's plenty of carrot.
We’re pattern matching people and we like to have something to complain about.
do you think they know that portia are smarter than most spiders by only studying portia? these are novel outcomes arrived at by attempting to prove observed theories, not flights of fancy for someone attached to a favorite species
Not at that point in time.
how to you use ollama with vscode? some links/ details would help me a lot!
> SaaS tends to pull teams in the direction of modifying their usage of the product in a more conventional direction. Which leads to less need for specialized support.

This is one of the most interesting things in the article to me and I am unconvinced this is actually a GOOD thing. Yes you save by not getting bogged down with technical debt and crusty software, BUT! You can incur cost for the loss of adaptability, flexibility and efficiency by having to work using the "blessed" workflow. The costs don't necessarily translate well onto a simple spreadsheet so I always feel it's an often overlooked aspect of the more locked down sass
So cool! I have bene using Ollama for weeks now and I just love it! Easiest way to run local LLMs, we are actually embedding them into our product right now and super excited about it!
There's so much potential in DIY. It's a real shame that market promotes solutions as it does. The asymmetry of knowledge, that is, keeping important details from the buyer/user needs to be dealt with one way or another.

There's people born every day that don't know anything. Some would rather exploit that rather than facilitate openness and creativity.
We mandate half-flush systems in Australia. A half flush is 0.8 gallons and a US system uses 1.6 gallons per flush. Easy to retrofit your home if you care about water usage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_flush_toilet
https://www.epa.gov/watersense/residential-toilets
if you just want to continue repeating the same question without considering the response you were provided, then this is were the convo stops
Can you tell us what the better transition story was? As far as I can tell, v6 is already approximately as interoperable with v4 as it's possible to be.

I don't get your claim that it's a separate island at all. It's not. This machine is v6-only and isn't on an island, it has full access to the entire Internet.
Thank you for contributing to the discussion.
It is painfully clear by now that we are not doing any good job describing and explaining our platform.
There are some videos on YouTube, but they basically are showing the same steps as the website. We’ll try to upload a fresh one hopefully more clear.

The most succinct description we could come up with is:
Youphenom is NBA for social media content creators.

It is far more interesting to have the basketball teams competing in a league, compared to just having each team showing entertaining skills in practice separately. But currently all social media content creators are doing just that - showing entertaining skills/content separately. This is why we built a platform were anyone (sm content creators, real teams, not-real teams, etc) can join and compete.
As in most social networks and in sports, on our platform there are two groups: the content creators and the fans.
1.As a fan you find pages/teams that you like and you “upvote” them (which gives them points).
2.As a content creator you compete for the fans’ attention and affection (doing very much exactly what you’d be doing on other sn).
3.All that “packaged” in a pro-league-style competition (at the end of each month we have a champion and at the beginning of the next month the new season starts).
We’ll work on that video and will ask admin if allowed on this thread
Cheers
Yep. That's for sure a revisionist definition.

See also: "Digital Versatile Disc"
They even kill insects for us
What I hate about ollama is that it makes server configuration a PITA. ollama relies on llama.cpp to run GGUF models but while llama.cpp can keep the model in memory using `mlock` (helpful to reduce inference times), ollama simply won't let you do that:

https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/1536

Not to mention, they hide all the server configs in favor of their own "sane defaults".
How/where do you get a barista certificate?
His body language and tone in the initial interaction seemed flippant for sure. Is there a longer clip?
See also this article on the failed social network Ello[1], which also proclaimed a lot of lofty things and also incorporated as a "Public Benefit Corporation."

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39043871
This looks hella cool. Let me ask you - could you use this (or the sister project I see, Yurt) to upload a novel, or some large block of text and follow that around. Eg... take Moby Dick from gutenberg and follow each paragraph around?
This is going to make my current project a million times easier. Nice.
Few decades of not starting a war is a very weak qualifier. Let's start with "100 years of not participating (!) in wars, not even in a supporting role, while respecting people's human rights, democracy, freedom of speech and privacy" and then the country has some kind of backbone to lean on when offering it's enlightened perspective.

There aren't many countries that would qualify (Sweden fails because of the Snowden case) and I suspect your country is not one of those. What country are you from?

It's all about risk assessment, risk analysis, scenarios, probabilities, threat vectors, worst/probable/best cases of cost/benefit, etc.

What are the chances that Putin wants to get to you? How probable is it? Does he have better options than through seeing your browsing history? What happens if he actually gets it - what's the worst that can happen?

It's really all a big nonsense about nothing. You are most probably just an ordinary human, just like me. We are not even worthy of such an attention. Be realistic and know your position, role and pecking order in the world order. Be a cog and live peacefully. :-)
With Chinese-made electric cars shipping all over the world, it feels like we are well into the end stages of shanzai.
Whatever you do, don't use rdiff-backup.
Great! waiting for it!
I posted about my awesome experiences using Ollama a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37662915. Ollama is definitely the easiest way to run LLMs locally, and that means it’s the best building block for applications that need to use inference. It’s like how Docker made it so any application can execute something kinda portably kinda safely on any machine. With Ollama, any application can run LLM inference on any machine.

Since that post, we shipped experimental support in our product for Ollama-based local inference. We had to write our own client in TypeScript but will probably be able to switch to this instead.
Somewhat, sure. They certainly haven't achieved 100% of the liberal ideal. But if they're currently setting the bar for policy in this regard, can it be entirely superficial?
Over the last 30 years, the rate of theft has more than halved.

https://usafacts.org/topics/crime-justice/
Yes, competent implementation is important as everywhere else but none of that is the topic of this thread, which started when someone imaginatively claimed that this would be “a big problem in situations that arguably warrant speeding” but could provide no data or even personal experience to support the idea that people are regularly evading pursuit or racing to the ER with a critically ill patient.
I've been working with eZ80 on Agon Light and the performance ceiling is considerably different. Both the clocks and the instruction timings are more generous owing to a three-stage pipeline, so while interpretation is still slow, and it's got a clear preference for either 8 or 24-bit(in ADL mode), it is now a Z80 that can be applied productively to high-level code operating over 32-bit values...

...except that the BBC BASIC was giving me Heisenbugs, so I had to give up on it. So I'm on Forth now, and immediately found that Forth is a more productive environment than an early BASIC anyway. Linenums add a killer amount of bookkeeping.
Have been using TI’s AWR1443 for mmWave radar development. It’s a bit less pricey than the board mentioned here at ~$300. The software stack is a bit rough though. You can buy another board for $700 to stream raw radar data out for analysis. https://www.ti.com/tool/AWR1443BOOST
> every SEO trick, every spam attack is spearheaded against them.

Sure, but also they're ignoring extremely basic issues. "every SEO trick" is one thing, "just copy the SO content and still get ranked on the first page" is them not caring. We can worry about them dealing with the complex issues after they address the low hanging fruit.
That works out to 21 or so queries a day per user
The main point they are trying to make is the people eating most of the beef are dying off. If the trend holds and younger generations don't drastically increase beef consumption, there just won't be anyone to eat the same amount of beef they are producing currently. Therefore, they will have to reduce beef production which may reduce water used when growing food to feed the cattle as fewer cattle eat less food.

So they are pointing out this problem may resolve itself somewhat as the people that industry relies on die out or retire to an income less able to buy steak for every meal.
How did you discover plants have unique opinions?
Unknowns are inconsistent with assurance. It’s rational to reject unknowns if you prefer assurance.

If you’re the NSA and you need your security assured, you’ll absolutely balk at having novel machines with recording equipment and unknown possibilities placed around your office.

Unknowns translate to unknown consequences. For a risk-averse agent, I don’t see a meaningful difference between the unknown consequences of technology you understand and unknown consequences of technology you don’t. Sometimes understanding a technology means the unknown consequences can be bounded more precisely, and you might be okay with those bounds once you have them, but that’s not always true.
How does that work? They have a contractual obligation to report to Microsoft and Google how many individual IPs have accessed Kagi domains and pay accordingly?
Also one feature request - if the library (or another related library) could also transparently spin up a local Ollama instance if the user doesn’t have one already. “Transparent-on-demand-Ollama” or something.
Audacity AI: Whisper.cpp, Stable Diffusion, Track Separation
Fair enough, I should have said "The US government does not want..."

Mention of attorneys general and social security numbers in OP's posting put me in a US mindset.
There were games where you could play tic tac toe during loading.

Now that's impressive.
Having read this and a bunch of the replies, maybe I can point to a bit of the reason we kinda disagree with our gut.

Often times, we see vendors that seem wasteful, that are overcharging, have a product that's average at best, or trying to get an extra 20% from their business model. We know it can be done better.

This article stands up and says "no, you just need it done." I think that goes against what so many of us feel and do in our lives.

No, you don't need to read a dozen reviews of TVs, just go to the BestBuy and get yourself a standard TV, and it doesn't even matter if you end up spending $300 more on it. All that time you're reading reviews and comparing stuff is costing you way more.

Yes, Slack feels like a lot of money for just a chat program, but the company just wants that done rather than you spending a couple weeks installing Rocket.Chat, Mattermost, and Zulip, figuring out how to make them high availability and backed up and everything, and making a comparison to present to people. They just want a chat program that they don't have to think about and the $15 or whatever per employee is pennies compared to those employees salaries (or even the office space they're sitting in).

I think our guts disagree with it because it's an article that kinda tells us to ignore what could be better when it isn't really the point of your business.

Further, it kinda tells us that we can't do it better. This is probably the thing that would get under our skin the most. We're the kinds of people that like building things and here the author is saying that all these bespoke things end up as a hodgepodge of barnacles that don't even get the business pointed in the right direction. The author is, to an extent, saying that the business is better off when employees adapt themselves to standard things rather than using custom tools.

To an extent, it's questioning whether we should be writing so much software. Is what so many software engineers are creating even valuable? Or are the costs much higher than the value being created on these bespoke systems? I don't think the author is trying to question our profession, but there's certainly a question of whether we're reinventing the wheel too much and spending our time on less useful pursuits within our profession (and let's face it, reinventing the wheel is so much fun).

Software is hard. People often say that the last 10% takes 90% of the time. I think we often underestimate the costs (in time and money) that go into actually getting something into production and then maintaining it. The author is basically telling us: it'll take longer than you think, it won't be as good as you dream, cruft will accumulate over time, and at the end of the day the company just wants it done, not for you to have a project. But we like building things.
what are the right flags and gc tunings?
> wasn't that the worst of all worlds on Merced?

Yes, yes it was! It ended up playing a much larger role for marketing transition efforts, larger than it should have. But the Catch-22 has been analyzed to death.
yes, the title of this post should be, "Zed, a collaborative Mac-only code editor....". I also find it kind of obnoxious that their front page says they are focused on making the world's best code editor without mentioning that it is tied to one platform. I don't think it can come close to being the best editor with such limitations.
> I’ve never felt great enthusiasm for crypto. After chatting with these young Chinese, I became more tolerant of their appeal. Digital currencies are solutions looking for problems most everywhere in the Western world, but they have real value for people who suffer from state controls. The crypto community in China has attracted grifters, as it has everywhere else. But it is also creating a community of people trying to envision different paths for the future.

This is where most HN commenters fall down. It is easy to sit in "the west" and hate on crypto, but once you've experienced capital controls first hand in poorer countries, it all starts to make more sense. It goes beyond just paying for things.

I'll point out my favorite post here as well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26238410
This is the search engine that uses Crystal in production, correct? I remember reading on HN, I might misremember though.

Going to sign up now
I had a nice experience at first but have moved away. Decent codebase with dozens of components, throwing it out. It's too fragile and breaks too often. Users will send screenshots of broken UIs and I feel helpless - not a good situation.
All this complex user-hostility for a fan with a filter. Just like with ink cartridges that only count and don't have any actual sensors, they could make an air purifier which has a differential pressure sensor to tell you how much the filter is really clogged, like many HVAC systems have, and even vacuum cleaners (some work entirely mechanically), but then they wouldn't be able to squeeze more $$$ out of the users.
Wonderfully entertaining style of writing!
It can be nice, but TS the language lets you get really fancy and dealing with excited library developers gets old fast.

Also the TS compiler tends to be buggy and break in weird ways with minor version changes.
What value do membrane switches add?

"sleek" "modern" "futuristic" "design"
It's not about not being able to imagine the need or not. It's from seeing people driving their cars at highly dangerous speeds all the time (easily 20mph faster than most people who are already driving 10-15mph over the limit). If it were only dangerous to the driver, it'd be one thing but they put others in danger. There are countless stories of speeding drivers killing bystanders.

No one has ever a need to drive at 120+mph.
The popularity of fine-tuning demonstrates that the weights are actually the preferred form for making changes.

The precursor form (training data etc) is only needed if you want to recreate it from scratch. Which is too expensive to bother with.
Few countries are better placed than Vietnam to get rich