skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://freecow.ytmnd.com/

https://takemeoutflanders.ytmnd.com/

https://finalstaringcontest.ytmnd.com/

https://vaderloveschristmas.ytmnd.com/

https://sixtymins.ytmnd.com/

https://tequilatts.ytmnd.com/

https://butteringobama.ytmnd.com/

https://pianos128.ytmnd.com/

My favorite: https://whatyouseewhenyoudie.ytmnd.com/
The second article states that Tang Feng (Audrey) is The Digital Minister, and the guy was trying to get to the Digital Department, seemingly in relation to a law against online fraud that they recently passed. He probably would have been happy to shoot other people in the process, but he definitely would have wanted to shoot the leader and public face of that department especially.
>Several lawmakers were quick to criticize the companies’ policies following the Motherboard report.

You'd think, being lawmakers, they might be able to think of a more effective method to stop the behavior.

But no, apparently nothing can be done. Move along, nothing to see here.
Anyone who finds this interesting might also like this one, it‘s not DIY – comes fully assembled:
https://www.waveshare.com/roarm-m2-s.htm

I have one and the build quality is really impressive for the price point.
There's a great South Park episode about this, titled "Human CentiPad." Not for the squeamish.
https://www.folklore.org/0-index.html
A precursor of the graphite pencil is the silverpoint. A silverpoint is no more that a metal wire. It can be made of silver, gold, copper just about any metal. The lines they produce are almost identical to pencil, but also change in color over time through oxidization. The only constraint is that the paper needs to be primed before the mark will show. Leonardo Da Vinci did most of his drawings with such a device. One advantage is that they remain sharp for years.

You can test the line such a device makes by taking a coin and dragging it over a painted surface, like a wall.
I made an error on my tax form one year causing the IRS to say I owed a whole year of taxes, and I was able to resolve it amicably even after they realized they weren’t going to be getting any money from me. When you are in accounts payable, the service does get better.

I’m in one of those now again because we forgot to file the 1099s for the RSUs sold to satisfy my wife’s ordinary income tax on RSU grants. Of course, since it was sold to pay ordinary income tax the cost basis adjusts all the way up, they haven’t gotten back to me yet.
>A16Z

just stop
I would like to make an actually good open source UML/SysML tool.

There is doxygen, and it’s a very good tool, but it goes one way, from code to diagrams. There is Umbrello, it is bidirectional, in theory, but it’s really half baked. It feels like something put together in semester. It’s very buggy.

Would this significantly enhance human civilization? It’s hard to say. It would being together programming, systems engineering, and management on projects. A good outcome would be that if everyone is using the same models, then quirks in design of buildings, cars, software etc. might get revealed at the design stage and corrected before they are baked in during manufacturing and users have to deal with them. This would make the world an easier place to live in.
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For all we know there is a whole cyber-squadron (or whatever their military units are called) behind Jia Tan and other accounts.
Yeah, I’ve dabbled a bit in Django. Maybe because of the size of the projects, but it didn’t feel hugely beneficial over Flask.
I wasn't commenting on the quality of these integrations. They're shit and I know it. Just pointing out that integration does mean something here
This is because PDF has so many different versions. A third-party tools like pdfplumber won't fit it all. For example, using pdfplumber to parse some PDFs will cause the system to raise exceptions. Sometimes fitz works in situations where pdfplumber won't handle well. It looks a bit complicated, but RAGFlow is using multiple parsing tools to handle different types of PDFs.
How's the software side of this? How is the Dynamixel SDK to use?
Like many FAANG employees, the IRS calculates my withholding incorrectly. I got a letter in January announcing that I didn't withhold enough and applying a penalty.

I spent two hours on the phone on a Friday being bounced around the IRS. Talked to plenty of people, but each one thought I was someone else's problem. I tried again on that Monday: waited on the phone for two full hours before being unceremoniously hung up on by their automated system.

FWIW, it seems there's the luck of the draw on three distinct systems (robot + touch dial menu + human operator, robot + voice menu + human operator, or just robot + voice menu). They're incompatibly dysfunctional. The first one is when I got bounced around. The second one, the operator hung up on me because she couldn't hear callers routed through that system. The last one was where I spent 2 hours without a human before being dropped.

Calling the IRS was even more of a pain in the ass than I anticipated. I gave up and paid the penalty. (And that was in January!)
That looks great! Thanks for sharing!
Qiling: A true instrumentable binary emulation framework
Is China leading open-source AI?
That was a great read. It was also interesting to read about what happened to the company.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_Machines_Corporatio...

One thought I had while reading this was what areas of technologies are still open to amateurs.
In alfalfa, leafcutting bees are used, which are also “solitary” (often gregarious). Honestly they’re much more pleasant to be among when walking alfalfa.

Honeybees (or at least the old “guard” bees) which are used in the blueberry fields here, can become angry when large clouds move and cause things to suddenly go from shaded to full sun. If it’s consistently either they’re fine, but I’ve been run out of fields a few times before I fully realized what to avoid.
New Side Hustle – A Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Excess Inventory Sheet
Today you’ve got open access USB cable which can stream your shit out on WiFi, no doubt the NSA has worse.
There are organizations (often not small) that will pay for a hosted and closed source solution if it is available under dual license in case it goes away.

Other organizations still, have open source only policies, or no open source at all.

Many of these applications can be in government.

It can increase the footprint.
They did https://github.com/heyform/heyform/commits/main/LICENSE
Sorry but the last thing needed in the world is another ERP in my opinion. There's plenty of software available that has been in the market for 30+ years and are robust and works very fine. I think the business is in implementing these softwares and customizing them. Thats what I'm doing.
You can write to them anyway and also send a copy of the leyter to your representatives.

It still sends the message, and if many people send such letters, it will force them to reconsider.
For the Rust crate, there is already an arbitrary limit (defaults to 100 digits) for "unbounded operations" like square_root, inverting, division. That's a compile time constant. And there's a Context object for runtime-configuration you can set with a precision (stop after `prec` digits).

But for addition, the idea is to give the complete number if you do `a + b`, otherwise you could use the context to keep the numbers within your `ctx.add(a, b)`. But after the discussions here, maybe this is too unsafe... and it should use the default precision (or a slightly larger one) in the name of safety? With a compile time flag to disable it? hmm...
> The "free" in VUCK doesn't stand for free as in freedom, or even free as in beer. Free University is a weird translation of the name of a specific institution - the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.

It isn’t a “weird translation” - “Free University” is a perfectly valid translation of Dutch “Vrije Universiteit”. You just have to understand the historical background, that the university was so named because it was free from control by State or Church, unlike other universities in the Netherlands at the time of its 19th century founding
A main culprit seems to be the addition of binary files to the repo, to be used as test inputs. Especially if these files are “binary garbage” to prove a test fails. Seems like an obvious place to hide malicious stuff.
I'm literally shocked by the conversations in the mail-list, it's blatantly an exploitation of others' kindness.
I think its a mix of more status and more interesting projects. It is true about the salary and livelyhood of the employees and that is a frighting thing.
I'm not sure how difficult it would be for Nodejs to support .ts files natively. But if that's the main reason to use Bun, I'd be worried about its long term viability. Node could announce native .ts support at any time and then Bun might not look so good.
The original article did not actually make much sense to me since there can be no "Programming beyond Paradigms" by virtue of the fact that all languages allow solving problems in at least one "default" Paradigm (the computation model embodied by its abstract machine). Thus the correct term is "Multi Paradigm" and current day languages do this to varying levels of ease by providing appropriate syntactic features mapping to abstract machines. In that regard Mozart/Oz is the poster child since unlike other languages that is its stated goal.

The author states "I believe that programming paradigms are now best understood as a style of programming, rather than as an exclusive set of features." which is not correct. A "Style of Programming" is not a "Paradigm" unless that style embodies a specific computation/abstract machine model. The relevant syntactic features could be used in a mix-and-match manner to increase the design expression space. A good example is the template features in C++; originally designed as an alternative to macros to implement containers until some smart people figured out that it was much more powerful and could be used for programming in the "Functional Paradigm" (with some additional extensions).
Is there an upscaler which looks at other similar photos we took?

Been looking for The Magic Photo App, reverses motion blur, can interpolate multiple photos to unblink some eyes and select best photos of a scene.
I think by this definition I am a consultant. I run my own limited company and operate under that.
Free cow was excellent
Much appreciated and definitely rooting for bun! It’s still my goto choice for dev and can’t wait to switch production back to bun :)
I think search engines block content because it is what users want.

In the early internet, you'd almost always end up with a few pictures of naked girls in the search results, and many pages showed ads for porn sites.

That's just not a good experience if you are at work and trying to get stuff done.

Search engines have gotten much better, and in most cases explicit results are now only shown when you actively look for them.
it should be similar given similar construction; one of the reasons dynamixels tend to be pricey is the dual inboard encoder setup.

if price is a factor then a servo+encoders setup will always be cheaper; there are some dirt cheap encoders out there for the creative hacker. dynamixels offer a crappy value compared to DIY solutions, they're just easy to use off-the-shelf and have nice features that aid construction.. but hardly anything game changing.
That seems to be the sentiment here. I'll take it into consideration. Thanks.
against yourself?

that reminds me I know people that used to do that to get their google results curated
Would you mind setting `overscroll-behavior: none`? I keep accidentally refreshing the game when I try to make a move.
I think I am more a consultant. I am already running my own limited company and doing my own marketing, i.e posting in linkedin, blogging and talking in conferences and organizing events in the space. Good point about outsourcing the back office stuff. I need to do that more.
Remember when the world freaked out over encryption, thinking every coded message was a digital skeleton key to anarchy? Yeah, the 90s were wild with the whole PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) encryption fight. The government basically treated encryption like it was some kind of wizardry that only "good guys" should have. Fast forward to today, and it's like we're stuck on repeat with open model weights.

Just like code was the battleground back then, open model weights are the new frontier. Think about it—code is just a bunch of instructions, right? Well, model weights are pretty much the same; they're the brains behind AI, telling it how to think and learn. Saying "nah, you can't share those" is like trying to put a genie back in its bottle after it's shown you it can grant wishes.

The whole deal with PGP was about privacy, sending messages without worrying about prying eyes. Fast forward, and model weights are about sharing knowledge, making AI smarter and more accessible. Blocking that flow of information? It's like telling scientists they can't share their research because someone, somewhere, might do something bad with it.

Code lets us communicate with machines, model weights let machines learn from us. Both are about building and sharing knowledge. When the government tried to control encryption, it wasn't just about keeping secrets; it was about who gets to have a voice and who gets to listen. With open model weights, we're talking about who gets to learn and who gets to teach.

Banning or restricting access to model weights feels eerily similar to those encryption wars. It's a move that says, "We're not sure we trust you with this power." But just like with code, the answer isn't locking it away. It's about education, responsible use, and embracing the potential for good.

Innovation thrives on openness. Whether it's the lines of code that secure our digital lives or the model weights that could revolutionize AI, putting up walls only slows us down. We've been down this road before. Let's not make the same mistake of thinking we can control innovation by restricting access.
Went down a rabbithole of old ytmnds I used to keep in the background. It's nuts how ones I thought were super popular at the time had less than 100k total views to this day. Mid-00s internet was still such a small place.
A few come to mind...

The executive order (and associated DoC/NTIA RFC) was long, and dense with both legal references and political platitudes. Not great reading, (though the EO got a good amount of discussion here). It's unfortunate, but less than surprising that it didn't make actual news outlets.

It seems complicated now, and many would like to see how things play out a little more before committing the time to deciding things. (I think that's a bad idea; regardless of the revolutionary tech, it seems wise to begin governmental thought early.)

It's kinda been buried in an otherwise heavy news cycle since the end of October of last year, AI and otherwise. I assume that wasn't intentional, but it seems hard to hide something so big at a better time.

And though I hate to say it, I suspect: apathy. Both traditional from the bottom ("too far off, unfixable, can't do anything about it"), and from the top ("once we get too big to fuck with, we just won't give a damn about any changes they try to make anyway").
What prisma issues are you running into? For us we just installed node alongside bun in our docker container and then ran prisma with node… was there something else?
Decimal is not arbitrary precision, though. It has many of the same issues, you'll just see them in different places.

>>> Decimal('100000.00000000000000000000017') + Decimal('1')
Decimal('100001.0000000000000000000002')
Most blogs are just glorified marketing, full stop. A blog that isn't marketing is the exception, not the rule.
Very interesting Freudian slip, isn't it?

Suspects or Criminals? Insert Theyre_the_same_picture.jpg meme here.
The article is branded as a "deep dive". If it doesn't affect deliverability in a measurable way, then at least mention it in passing to say that it doesn't affect deliverability in a measurable way...
Open model weight bans will likely be struck down as First Amendment violations because, at their core, model weights are a form of expression. They embody the ideas, research, and innovations of their creators, similar to how code was deemed a form of speech protected under the First Amendment during the encryption debates of the 1990s. Just as the government's attempts to control encryption software were challenged and largely curtailed due to free speech concerns, any attempts to ban open model weights will face legal challenges arguing that such bans unjustly restrict the free exchange of ideas and information, a cornerstone of First Amendment protections. The precedent set by cases involving code and free speech strongly suggests that similar principles apply to model weights, making such bans vulnerable to being overturned on constitutional grounds.
Formal Methods and Machine Learning
They also just aren’t that useful anymore. A while back, if you wanted to send someone an image, you had to host it somewhere. Now almost any platform that you could send someone a link, you can also send/embed an image.

I used to be a heavy user of imgur for Reddit and irc, but I haven’t had a need for it in ages.
Learning this is part of the journey imho. You don't even have to know that you have to pay attention to tolerances beforehand. You'll inevitably learn about it when building such thing.

Just always be aware that these things will never be perfect and don't get anxious because there are so many perfect looking projects on the internet. They most likely went through the same mistakes and might even have more people in the background. Just enjoy the journey
>But software development? We can see its end coming. Let me put it this way, there are still going to be software developers but what they do and how they work is going to be fundamentally different from what we've been doing for the past 40 years.

Do you really believe this? Not the evolution part, but the idea that software development will be dead in 40 years? Of course things will change, but I can't help but feel like everything revolves around software. It's in every device we touch, it's embedded in every industry, and I just don't believe that generative AI is going to magically replace all of that overnight.
Probably more to do with not investing in climate-negative ventures.
This might not be complete because this statement "More patches that seem (even in retrospect) to be fine follow." lacks some more backing facts. There were more patches before the SSH backdoor, e.g.: "Lasse Collin has already landed four of Jia Tan’s patches, marked by “Thanks to Jia Tan”" and the other stuff before and after the 5.4 release. So far I didn't see someone make a list of all patches and gather various opinions on whether the changes could be maliciously leveraged.
I find the idea of hosting anything on s3 to be terrifying since someone could set up a script to spam download it and AWS will send me a $1000 bill for the usage.
That’s because Eric Ostrom had somehow gotten us a vax 750 for some inexplicable reason (years later he told me he was astonished that nobody appreciated it) as if anybody wanted a vax.

So RMS started using it for his gnu project since nobody else cared. It was just using up power in a small machine room on the 3rd (or 7th — I can’t remember) floor of tech square.

Complete happenstance.
Placing the means of production under Democratic control is a fantastic way to endure we don't get extreme wealth
The IRS gained this reputation in the 1980’s when audits were much more common and likely to happen to middle class people.

It may have been warranted, though, because Congress passed a law that required people to provide a social security number for the dependents claimed on the return. Before that, you could just claim you had a dependent without providing proof. And, lots of people did just that.
The means of production is under democratic control. Just try seizing the means to produce something outside of the controlled boundaries as defined by the democracy, like, say, moonshine, and see how far you get.

But democracy is really hard work. The vast majority of people would rather let someone else do it so that they can play with the kids, hang out with friends at the bar, hit the gym, etc. instead. They don't even want to get involved with other democratic concerns, let alone try to watch over capital. And, frankly, who can blame them?

As such, that means that you are still going to need an individual or small group of people to take over the day-to-day control of the means. Congratulations, you just invented "private ownership".
^ typo: 28 Feb 2023 is meant to be 28 Feb 2024, or almost 4 months later.
Alternatively, make everything just a tad out of tolerance and drill/sand/machine it to a more precise size.
Zap Funding and the Open Source Fellowship
My high school was a “free school” in the same sense of the term. Founded 1640 by royal charter.
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Wow. This is so bad that I can't take it seriously.
Had an impact on popular culture that still persists
It is an obvious place for sure, but it also would have been picked up if the builds where a bit more transperant. That batch build script should have been questioned before approval.
The Angry Video Game Model: neural network arch to predict videogame ratings