skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This codebase bears striking resemblance to Minoca, another (much further along) NT-inspired kernel (https://github.com/minoca/os).

There are strong structural similarities in the source tree and there are also source files that seem completely copypasted with comments changed and function contents gutted (such as ke/sysres.c, ke/runlevel.c, among others).

Are you one of the Minoca developers working on a new project or are you defrauding Hacker News for attention?

Edit: This same poster (Rafal "Belliash" Kupiec) has been noted for other plagiarism incidents going back to 2005:

https://github.com/reactos/reactos/pull/2853#issuecomment-65...

https://lists.reactos.org/hyperkitty/list/ros-dev@reactos.or...
Is it really a bad thing that people are trying crazy stuff? This is a new technology that people don't fully understand. Yeah, most of these AI features and companies will die, and I'm sure the investors know that, they're just gambling on being in the 1% that survives. In the end we will have learned some good lessons on how to apply this tech instead of having it waste away in Google or Microsoft's closet.
Indeed, this is the correct answer for 85% or more of SaaS businesses. As a CTO who makes buying decisions, the worst thing you can do if you want my business is bury the pricing behind one of these. I know the game, I despise the game, and I don't have time or willingness to "do the enterprise dance" unless I am already a happy customer. Even then, I've migrated to competing services to avoid that, so consider that when designing your "sales pipeline"
As few as possible.
$20 is a lot (I assume that’s the customer price buying them in volume). You have to save a lot of water / increase yield enough to justify that. That suggests a BOM well under a buck, probably less than $0.50.

I spent some time in this sector (at one company irrigation of almonds and stone fruit, another in wine) and the margins are very tight. Fortunately the farmers have sharp pencils.
lactose intolerance sucks

(I know I can eat aged stuff generally, but sometimes you just want a grilled cheese on sour dough with a good sharp cheddar)
Yes, but you can break EU law outside of the EU, especially digital crimes.

Foreign national hackers are arrested all over the western world for offenses in other countries, for instance.
I know someone who made digital candles using the technique for Hannukkah (Jewish holiday), there was a set of LEDs connected like shown in the post, and you could use your a flashlight (or a purpose built "shammash" LED) to turn each candle/LED on by touchibg it with a light, it was quite cool
"I and many other former students"

My grasp of English isn't without flaws, but that seems to be a pretty direct lie unless he was also a former student at Lambda School.
It should be noted that this happened only after public outrage after an ITV TV program aired. Too late for those who died, some by suicide because of the malicious and false prosecutions. The first compensation attempt was stymied by the Post Office's deliberately slow response (while reducing compensation) and most of the money went to legal fees.
> ... it has plenty of additives designed to do just that.

Um, isn't it just the US whose bread is full of additives?

Other countries I've been to don't, and Australia doesn't commonly either.
It's nice always to have a theory that tries to explain the complex world around us. In my view, it's better to have a false theory than no theory. So, keep theorizing - it's science!
Nobody here is speaking of «good enough»: you are the one speaking of it, and the only one.

And nobody here is saying that LLMs would reason: you are the one attacking that idea that was not proposed here.

What you replied to said that calculators do not need consciousness to perform calculations. Reasoning is a special form of calculation. We are contented with reasoning, and when it will be implemented there will be no need for further different things for the applications we intend.
More like a covered plate you're expected to eat without looking. "This may be an amazing omelet and you will have a great meal, or you may eat a raw egg, get salmonella, and be sick for a week. It's probably an omelet, but I'm not sure, so you'll probably be fine. Enjoy!"
SIMD-based reimplementations of wc already exist, e.g. this [0] one, and it's rather straightforward.

[0] https://github.com/expr-fi/fastlwc
It won’t. The idea is that if the investors are scared off then it will create an environment where entrepreneurs are not driven by their investors objectives and need a solid business plan to secure their initial funding.
See also the video game Return of the Obra Dinn (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_of_the_Obra_Dinn) as well as the developer log entry about dithering (https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=40832.msg136374...).
Plasma gasification. It is fine we have decided we can only do so much to reduce the waste stream, that which remains can be fed into a system to render it inert and the syngas produced burned for energy in a responsible manner.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38994374

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38722984

("This is NOT the same as incineration. Plasma gasification does not produce toxic gases vented to atmo, etc. The main byproducts are "syngas", which is mainly H2 and CO and can be reused to power the facility, and slag.")
Depending on the markets, you sometimes have to pay to get a recycler to take your plastic. At that point it's a choice based on whether the landfill fees are cheaper (sometimes they are).
He is very approachable by email. I have heard this from other people. He even wrote back to an email from my horrible step-mother. (My father and Noam were in the same Hebrew classes taught over multiple years by Noam's mother in Philadelphia. Noam was a good student or so my father told me.)

*I'm not humble bragging, nor passively-aggressively diminishing that Chomsky replied at length to your invitation. I have heard that he was accessible by email to many. I have rarely if ever heard that he wrote ANYONE a long and beautiful reply. As you said, that is remarkable. Also, he is still alive as of 20 June 2024.
I tell you why: SSO means I'm going through a qualified purchasing route, which means getting finance/procurement and then subsequently IT involvement. SSO implies I'm using the product company wide, versus a group of 2~10 people in the marketing group. As others have mentioned, there is a very justifiable reason to have a relationship between sales and procurement/IT.

Unpopular opinion - you may like to call it an SSO tax, but I think it's perfectly reasonable from both sides. The reality is - if you're a 10 person startup and the "SSO tax" is annoying, then simply don't do the SSO version...you have 10 people in your company, you can get them all to use a password manager with MFA. If you're worried about security then fine, don't you think it's worth paying a little more?

If people's issue with the "SSO tax" is that the SaaS software provider is making incremental money for very little effort/investment, then I would love to explain how the economics of most SaaS tenancy models work with regards to infrastructure spend...
I’ve carved out a date in my schedule to fully read your comment :)
> These two statements are at odds

No they are not.

As described so far, the system is on device or out to Apple's private computing cloud. If the system thinks it can use OpenAI then it will ask. It will ask _each time_. So far Apple has not said that there will be a complete opt-out but I expect there will be just as there is for Siri.
Show HN: Sound generation from binary of any file
I agree. There are some corner cases that GPT-4o reliably fails that Claude does well in, and vice versa. GPT-4 and GPT-4o consistently generates very poor cv2 Python code for human face/boundary box work - it's a strange reproducible failure in my experience.
Imho they already had the incentive for ad targeting.
Feels like there should be many ways to make a particular letter, and it'd be neat if it was random each time. I tried "Hello" and noticed the L's are the same. Considering it's just for fun I think it'd add a little more fun if it was actually unique letters.

Also, can we get a checkbox for "pause after animation"? I want to take a minute to check out the letters before it starts animating again. I know you can click off Animate after it finishes, but if I share this, others may not be so keen.
Ask HN: Does a Social network on top of custom domains and email addresses exist
I am wondering if there is a social network or a protocol that lives on top of custom domains (ppl’s profiles are just websites) and notification is delivered through email addresses.
Opus remained better than GPT for me, even after the release of GPT-4o. VERY happy to see an even further improvement beyond that, Claude is a terrific product and given the news that GPT-5 only began its training several weeks ago I don't see any situation where Anthropic is dethroned in the near term. There are only two parts of Anthropic's offering I'm not a fan of:

- Lack of conversation sharing: I had a conversation with Claude where I asked it to reverse engineer some assembly code and it did it perfectly on the first try. I was stunned, GPT had failed for days. I wanted to share the conversation with others but there's no way provided like GPT, and no way to even print the conversation because it cuts off on the browser (tested on Firefox).

- No Android app. They're working on this but for now, there's only an iOS app. No expected ETA shared, I've been on the waitlist.

I feel like both of these are relatively basic feature requests for a company of Anthropic's size, yet it has been months with no solution in sight. I love the models, please give me a better way of accessing them.
> Someone who wants only one feature that's not in self-service but doesn't have the budget to pay more.

Or, it's someone who the SaaS vendor forced to click that button by putting OIDC ("Sign in with..." or "Continue with...") behind that, using "SSO" as a price discriminator.
Video: https://youtu.be/5LMYiLwfvRg

Demo: https://bs.stranno.su

I created a web-synthesizer that generates sound from the binary code of any files. It can synthesize sound directly in the browser, or be a generator of MIDI messages to external devices or DAWs, turning any file into a score. All the application code is written in Javascript and along with everything you need is packed into a single .html file of about 750kb. The synthesizer doesn't need internet, it can be downloaded and run locally on any device with a browser.
I think this is a common misconception around sales. The prices aren't upfront because there's too many variables. Price is determined by more than just number of employees. There's also individual SKUs for each employee, usage tiers, etc. Once there's more than one variable it's probably too complex and you need a quote.

It's not extortion. A good salesperson is looking for a good customer that actually needs the product. They want to make sure that the product is a good fit for the customer. Selling to a business that doesn't need the product is not only a waste of time, but it actually costs the business, as the customer will quickly cancel and all the work the account executive put in to learning the business ends up in a net loss
> Maybe since they don't know how to pass a webpage in parameter for every browser in the wild, I suppose they limited it to Safari.

Yeah this is ridiculous, how on earth was that answer accepted?
For Anthropic devs out there: Please consider adopting a naming convention that will automatically upgrade API users to the latest version when available. Eg. there should be just 'claude-sonnet'.
Unless you have an amd card I guess. Multiple games reliably took down my 5700xt and the system along with it on certain driver versions. While other versions would crash when using obs. Good god what a terrible card that was initially.
Interesting to know. I had only associated urns with ashes.
This is part of the plot of Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Ministry for the Future". Worth a read.
Non-technical people are going to take one look at that page and nope right out.
One thing Anthropic did that I loved and think was very smart was building a prompt generator[1] into the developer console. The generator is tuned to generate prompts the way Claude prompts are supposed to be, which improves responses. And you can use it to improve your user prompt as well, not just your system prompt, which make responses even better.

You can see examples of the prompts it generates here[2]. It significantly improved my experience with LLMs; I haven't touched GPT4 in quite a while, and GPT4o didn't change that.

[1]: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-...

[2]: https://sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/llm-prompts/
not being able to mock es modules in tests is a real pain
It honestly makes me much more ok to see a day of meetings on my calendar. Sure I’m going to listen to other people go back and forth on component padding for way too long, but I’m also going to get a chunk of a sweater done, all while being paid.
My biggest gripe with Claude is how easily it hits the rate limit and falls down to lower quality model.
In another comment I wrote that you probably need a BOM less than $0.50. At that price you don’t have a massive OS like Linux, you need something embedded that can run in a few KB.

But a bunch of small devices can be managed by a huge device running Linux — maybe even something as expensive as a Raspberry Pi.

(Apart from some time trying to sell in the Ag sector I spent a lot of time on embedded devices)
Oh man, I take it you've never operated this part of a scaled business before. Wouldn't you like to know the absolute crap that comes through those forms...and yes even from those who have the intent of "I want to pay more than the self service price tag".
Proposals should have an exponential backoff algorithm. Otherwise they'll keep proposing over and over until it passes.
Note: This is a _bank_. "Managing Director" doesn't mean what you think (they suffer from horrendous title inflation).

> Kwame Nyanning was global head of design for the firm's asset and wealth management division from 2022 to 2024, based in London.

Ah, yes, when I want to know about the future of programming, I rush to ask someone who does design for banks.
The claim that there's a lot of efficiency to gain from _tech_ isn't interesting. I'm guessing when the author talks about AI, they're not suggesting to build a fleet of drones.
It's not the price. It's the stupid insistence on putting "SSO" -- which even a single dev should be doing, preferably using OIDC so nobody does any work! -- behind that button.
Cyberattacks have forced car dealerships to paper for a second day
> Are you saying that $2500 is an unreasonable amount for a small business to invest in itself or let alone within startup costs?

No, he is saying that is too much money to spend on something you don’t need.
Configure the container with a tmpfs volume (https://docs.docker.com/storage/tmpfs/), and configure the database server to store all its files in that volume's directory.
I doubt it - from the project's readme page:

"...Now the real wc works with a lot more character-sets, and we don't do that. But by implementing UTF-8, we've shown that it's possible, and that the speed for any character-set is the same."

Looking at the command line options for wc2.c and comparing to the FSF wc man page, it looks like there are some missing/unsupported options in wc2.c as well.
Of course it doesn't enforce encoding, it needs to be able to handle invalid data, bad encoding etc. if it wants to be a system language.
You can trivially enforce it's valid utf-8 if that's what your application requires by using the `@import("std").unicode` package.
I'd be OK with that, too, if we adjusted the bet for inflation. This is, in a way, similar to fusion. We're at a point where we managed to ignite plasma for a few milliseconds. Predictions of when we're going to be able to generate energy have become a running joke. The same will be the case with AGI.
Thank you. Yes. That's the joke.
The New Statesman also published an obituary that they had to retract.

I found the title of this article amusing although the publication isn't one that I often read: "'Manufacturing Obituaries': Media Falsely Reports Noam Chomsky's Death" https://www.commondreams.org/news/noam-chomsky-not-dead
Contrary to bizzarre claims made earlier, robots don't actually work for free. In fact, they are more staunch about getting paid than humans are. They will stop working as soon as you stop paying them. Humans, on the other hand, will usually keep working for a while until they finally give in to the realization that you aren't going to pay up.

As a result, we're still going to optimize for the most productive use of robots, just as we do for humans.
Having been an infrastructure provider for 30 years, this answer is largely unjustifiable.

It's a bunch of handwaving to try to get price discrimination for a "how the Internet is supposed to work" standard everyone, even a single dev client of the SaaS, should be using.

And that the SaaS provider should be pushing so they don't have the liability of subscriber credential database protection ...
A market full of people with an extra $750 to spend!
I actually don't understand why it's significantly better for the landfill to be arranged in one way rather than another. Can you explain why it helps future generations?
Note: Former Fujitsu staff under police investigation to face Post Office IT scandal inquiry

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/365529814/Former-Fujitsu...

The Post Office certainly had to have known Fujitsu was lying. The Post Office had commissioned an external audit in 2003 that highlighted Horizon's flaws (which they buried).

It should also be noted that the key "experts" accuse the Post Office of misconduct.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/silence-expert-helped-send-innocen...
Maybe it’s a machine that makes robots. This coming from DeadDodo?
I think Costco type models specifically more than others is incented to discourage delivery. They also seem most mission oriented regarding not introducing new costs, even for convenience. In any case, I wasn't really saying thinking delivery itself needs to change but will say that I haven't ever shopped at a Costco and I've also never heard of anything near that cost per item for delivery. It seems silly to even go through the trouble of instating a delivery option if you just want to gouge people for using it. I seems counter to what I think of as Costco's brand (I have read alot of stuff about them from a business perspective and know a ton of people that love the place, it's kind of a cult following thing).

I'm sure the free offers will go away at some point, but it's been available since the pandemic shook things up and is available to all. It's not like a Prime program type thing or a first delivery free promo. I have friends/family that have been using it for years now and never paid a cent (directly to delivery). Most retailers around me have their own pickers. Most employ drivers too, but some use the gig services on the backend as an outsourced delivery (customer wouldn't know at time of order). Pretty much all of them have gotten away from Instcart services although customers can still utilize it if they want to directly. It tends to be expensive so most people I know only use it if they need something from store that doesn't offer delivery. It's pretty rare now I think, but was pretty common pre-pandemic.

Curbside incentive is for customer is convenience. I live in a car dominant city. I think a common scenario I hear of is; can shop on device from anywhere, while taking kids to soccer or whatever, then you just quickly pick it up on the way home (it takes usually less than 5 minutes for them to bring it out). Incentive for business is that this is just expected at this point so they don't want you to shop at the competitor because they do this.

I don't think the cost has to be equal. I do like transparency though and would rather know how much I am paying above in store pricing if they are charging differently across the various channels. I don't always feel like paying extra for what I perceive as minor conveniences, and sometimes the same minor convenience could turn into a major convenience depending on many other factors (if I'm running late to something, can't find the time to go into a store for 30 minutes, kids are being fussy, etc)
People have been using Roact and Rodux (Roblox Lua rewrites of React and Redux) to drive in-game GUIs for years. Roblox's GUI system is essentially a DOM, so doing stateful updates to the game objects quickly becomes extremely painful in the same way as building a website does.
Show HN: Swift-pico, my exploration into Embedded Swift
https://whichjdk.com/ is an excellent resource that guides users to the various JDK builds from different parties, and which one to pick. Specifically, their recommendations for various Oracle builds are to stay away.
This is impressive.
I spend some time polishing my questions though. Poor questioning produces verbose replies.

There is no need to nail it on the first reply. Unless is pretty obvious.

If I ask how to install Firefox in Linux it can reply with:
"Is this for Ubuntu? What distro are talking about?"

This is more human like. More natural.
IMO.
I am just exploring this kind of frameworks for my company. I wonder how many people use it on productions and are happy with it.
The depressing reality of quiet vacationing
Not for the same motivations, but a lot of legal cannabis businesses do (or did) something nearly similar to get around not being able to use the banking system:

Buy the building or even lease it with a sublet clause using a separate entity, and then lease/sublease the space to the cannabis business with the lease fee being, for example, "90% of gross revenue". I'm not sure on the details of how operating funds were pushed back in.
I was not speaking about the future however. And especially not about the distant future. AI is such a wide term that it’s hard to even discuss the topic.

It is already used for surveillance and racial profiling (China etc.) and that’s already a disruption in oppression and control.

Will likely disrupt driving.

Image recognition and generation are clearly influential.

Probabilistic text generation tech is making huge promises and getting a lot of investment but application is lacking - seems like a technology of search of application.
> During the dotcom bubble, companies IPOed with no revenue and no profit.

One caution about using this as a metric: in the last 25 years, for a variety of reasons, early IPOs have, in general (and not just amongst hyped-up tech companies) become way less desireable. A company that might have IPO'd in the 90s today might simply take a few hundred million from VCs. And there have been a number of no-revenue, no-profit VC investments at that level in the current bubble.

Granted, a VC-driven bubble is less dangerous to the general public than an IPO-driven bubble; when it collapses it's mostly VCs holding the can, rather than peoples' retirement funds.
Along with the revenue already mentioned I would also argue that the approaches taken differ. OpenAI was quick to get business in the door with the appropriate contracts. Anthropic at least initially, was very coy, wanting you to talk to a sales person, describe your use cases etc.
I too thrive in that chaos.
So funny! I thought about building the same thing for the exact same reason! And the block editor I created for Plume is a great candidate for that.

I implemented the editor from scratch. The model is a C++ QAbstractListModel and the view is in QML. I'm writing a blog post about the implementation, it should pop up soon on my personal website (https://rubymamistvalove.com). But I can (and wish) to send you a draft soon, if you would like.