skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> racking up fees on AWS

Why does everyone just assume they need to use AWS? Get a cheap VPS for projects like this. It's like $10 max all included.

https://www.serverhunter.com/#query=stock%3A%28in_stock+OR+u...
Well noticed. Good point ...

(Or an additional "Obscure in textbox" checkbox or something along those lines ...)
How do you implement a non-backtracking NFA other than converting it to a DFA?
Is Double hiring? I was trying to find a careers page, but didn't see anything :)
Bite me. I hate all the useless cold emails I get and I will hate yours too. I'm sure they also think they are relevant.
No its not , you can start learning from the official website
https://docs.docker.com/
> The point is that there's practically only disadvantages to ISOs

Except burning to "legacy" optical media.

That can't be altered once burnt. If I could write it on a stone tablet I would (more durable).

Also the author comes off as arrogant/rude, calling people who don't like ISO as "older members". Maybe I'm "old" no longer being a twenty something, but I'm also not (yet) "old".
I'd assume the difference between Linux's GNU and macOS's BSD implementations would be much more significant.
Amazing!

I saw him on a cat walk only last week.

The compare said he had a level 1 NVQ certificate in customer service.

What can I say?

Impressive!
Bill Clinton too I believe.
Fungal Banking
A fellow Qt/QML developer here (get-plume.come). Sounds interesting, what are you building?
They said it is available on Bedrock, but it isn't :(
It's worth adding that the proposal was mainly for reboosting the telescope, which can still be done later if needed.

Trying to EVA and work on Hubble would be very risky right now with Dragon since you have to vent the entire capsule first, and this creates all sorts of optics contamination risks.

They're also balancing this against upcoming technologies, possible cost reductions and the much improved capabilities of ground based telescopes due to advanced adaptive optics.
Show HN: I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries
This is the first iteration of a short game I’m making that tries to interactively explain some of my favorite math questions / ideas. My goal is mostly to get the player curious and not necessarily to explain absolutely everything.

There were a lot of fun technical parts to building this:

- For implementation reasons, it’s much easier if the lines all have integer intersection points with each other. To do this, when a new line is added I “cheat” by rounding intersections to integers and then splitting the old lines at the intersection into new linds (with potentially different slopes) going through the rounded point

- I had to draw semi accurate maps of actual places (UK, South America, US west coast) in the HTML canvas using just line segments. I tried a few different solutions, including using SVG data. I ended up using the topojson library to give nice line approximations to GeoJSON maps

- I use a simple backtracking algorithm to handle the live coloring of graphs

- I use turf.js’s polygonize function to handle finding polygons from line segments (very happy I didn’t have to implement this myself!)

- I wanted to make the game as mobile friendly as possible (don’t think I’ve nailed this quite yet)

There were also a few tradeoffs I made:

- I wanted give links earlier in the game for players to learn more, but I decided to wait until the end to maintain the flow of the game

- In order to make the game more mobile-friendly, I generally stuck to maps with a small number of regions (at least for maps people have to interact with them). So for the most part all of the instances in the game are “easy”
Let me get this straight:
1) Oracle allowed anyone to download Java, seemingly for free
2) Somewhere in the fine print it said you might have to pay Oracle for using Java, but this was not transparent when you visit the download page.
3) Oracle is hunting down everyone who downloaded Oracle.
Is this right?
Fundamental issue is errors in subsidising. Renewables should not get subsidies when prices are negative.
Good history search (including non "main" conversation branches) and convenient conversation management (bookmarking, folders, maybe something smarter) would be great.

Also, maybe some convenient way to create message templates? I don't know how I'd implement this, I just know that I often write one long prompt that I reuse multiple times, with multiple minor tweaks/edits, and it'd be amazing to have a convenient tool to manage that.

Also, good mobile/tablet support, convenient to use and without bugs (as I happen to spend most of my time writing prompts on my ipad, but that's just me).

If you already have a demo - please share a link, I'd be happy to beta test it and maybe become one of the early customers.
Harvesting, processing, and storing, are human labor.
I often wonder if there really was a dot com bubble. Some companies failed, but shouldn't we look at the software market as a whole?

Look at the performance of th qqq certificate, which invests in the largest 100 non-tech companies in the Nasdaq:

https://www.google.com/search?q=qqq

And click on "max". It goes from $52.97 in May 1999 to $485.51 today.

That is an annualized ROI of 9.21%. A better performance than many other market indices had over the same time.
but... how is that compatible with the article I linked here? Some galaxies look like they have very little dark matter, a MOND with no free parameters can't explain why different galaxies have different inconsistencies in their rotation curves.
"Now, [the unprofitable companies] might not be the big publicly traded kahunas – collectively they hold just a 10% slice of the market’s total revenue pie"

It's detailed in the article, but that graph is way misleading because it isn't weighted by revenue size and the unprofitable part is dominated by tiny companies.
Two things :

- The current "AI" stuff is truly useful. So it isn't just hot air, like "web3" was, for example.
- Does that justify Nvidia's crazy market cap? I don't think so.
Yes even for some companies with current revenue the multiples are extremely high.

Really struggling to decide if AI is ultimately a winner take all market. Of course the very best models will require trillions in capital to train, but seems there also will be a long tail of local, smaller, and specialized models doing a majority of the workloads.
No doubt. But can we remove such packaging? I'm not in that business so I do not really know, but I suppose not. While we can remove the ready made food.

It's not differently than cars: can we have BEVs? Yes. Can we have BEV-trucks, well, there are some, but honestly they are not realistic, so what? It's better taking the cars, since so far we can for them, trying something else for the trucks or simply giving up?

For something we can change, and it's a good thing to do, for something else there is no option.

Even BEVs are sold as "green", well, they pollute much anyway, but instead of polluting the atmosphere we all breathe in, they pollute around mining sites, witch tend to exists where little to no humans live a life. It's not good anyway the pollution, but it's a choice: damaging certain area or the whole planet. For nuclear it's the same, a nuclear accident it's a disaster but normal operations are "clean", yes we have waste witch are an issue but in the end we put them in deserts and they can pollute at maximum there except in case of extreme climate disasters where we have anyway little chance to survive.
I guess we'll see when we are well past the yield curve inversion. If we get past far enough without a collapse I would say we are in a paradigm shift.
Nice https://erikdemaine.org/fonts/tetris/?text=u%26rz+~uu&rot=1&...
Researchers generate black hole 'plasma fireballs' on Earth
You might find the recent Verge/Decoder podcast with Cohere's CEO interesting:

https://www.theverge.com/24173858/ai-cohere-aidan-gomez-mone...

The host is clearly trying to push the CEO of Cohere on how all this is going to make money (or just be economic). The CEO is confident, but not in a very specific way. There is a great moment where he is like "we did some proof of concepts with 5 users, and they were pretty good, but when you tell CFOs about the running costs for a full user base, its not viable."

What fascinates me about AI right now is that it seems to have very different economics from traditional software/internet/SaaS businesses. Those business scale super-efficiently. They have some initial startup costs (but still relatively low, especially with cloud providers) and low running costs.

With AI, the initial capital costs to build the model are quite high. And, the running costs to handle queries are also quite high. These companies need to find use cases that generate value significantly in excess of those costs. If those use cases are out there, they must either involve really significant productivity improvements, or the costs have to come down a lot, or both.

All that said, I remember going to a talk by Adobe's founders, in which they pointed out that when they introduced Postscript, the first Apple printer that ran it was only viable because of a last minute drop in memory prices, and when they started building Photoshop, you could fit six (6!) digital images on a powerful computer.

So, I see why the investment is happening, but its a high risk investment right now hoping to identify both high-value use cases and significant cost savings simultaneously.
We used to have some very nice beaches, but unfortunately the Tory government thought it would be a great idea to allow water companies to discharge sewage into the waterways at will (because shareholders), so I personally wouldn't take the chance nowadays, although it doesn't seem to bother everyone.
Your MEPs are likely part of a parliamentary group with foreign politicians and coordinate with them on policy.

If your commissioner and MEPs have been solidly opposed to a policy there might not be much you can do. But do you know that that’s a case? Many governments tend to blame unpopular proposals on the EU while the commissioner that they themselves chose vote in favour.
> js + type annotations !== typescript

It's very close though. The proposal is well written and covers the cases where existing Typescript code would not parse correctly/work as intended under the proposal. Most of those cases are pre-1.0 Typescript features still in the language for backwards compatibility but generally frowned upon and that you probably already have strict warnings and linter errors preventing you from using today. The big exception is a lot of TS codebases heavily use `enum` and I've still not seen enough suggestions to tighten the linter warning against it. (But there are at least some of us suggesting avoiding TS `enum` today.)
Roblox has ported the entire front end JavaScript stack to Lua
at this point Oracle is no different than ransomware
What about from the customer perspective what do enterprise customers want to see happen?

I’m guessing you want someone to reach out to you for a video call where they can tell you whether the product works with your Identity Provider, follows your security standards, and has a human who you can negotiate with set starting price per license/head/unit.
That’s a good thing. Expanded slogans have object-level meanings. Acronyms just stand as identity markers, and are much easier to dismiss.

It’s harder to argue against “Make America Great Again” or “Black Lives Matter”. Their object-level meanings are fairly anodyne and positive. It’s much easier to argue against “MAGA” or “BLM”, since the meaning is obscured by the acronym.

Political movements with nice slogans should avoid turning them into acronyms.
For those looking for some relatively light financial reading related to the question of "how does one escape this?":

Morgan Housel (a writer at the collab fund) has written about how cycles of boom and bust are inherent to markets.

https://collabfund.com/uploads/Collaborative%20Fund%20--%20T...

The first section "1: The Inevitability of Insanity Among Sane People" is probably the most relevant, and a more summarized version is from Housel directly: https://collabfund.com/blog/the-laws-of-investing/

And another great level-headed financial writer Howard Marks has a great "memo" about how bull markets (sometimes read: bubbles) rhyme. Specifically the section "Optimistic Rationales, Super Stocks, and the New, New Thing".

https://www.brookfieldoaktree.com/sites/default/files/2023-0...

I can't find the exact quote, but I feel that one of them basically once said that you wouldn't really want a market to not have bubbles, if something didn't have the ebbs and flows that financial markets have, there wouldn't really be any room to find niches or to innovate because innovation requires risk, and risk inherently destabilizes any existing stability (re: the first article).
Of course, monopolists force you to pay extortionist prices for their services in your local market, while they get to take advantage of the global market to keep down their expenses, and move their revenue around to avoid taxes. If corporations get to be global citizens, why can't humans be free to buy anywhere in the world, and move anywhere in the world however they please.
The cold emails that are effective in getting the attention of my small business promise me some $25-100 gift card to Starbucks/Amazon in exchange for going through their sales demo.

Now that's pricey for them, but I'd bet the conversion rate there is a lot better than traditional click advertising.
Distill CLI: An efficient, Rust-powered tool for media summarization
Kraken claims it is being 'extorted' as hacker demands reward after $3M theft
I mean, I think almost everyone can agree that this is a bubble and a correction is going to follow in the not-so-distant future. I'm just not so certain of the magnitude of that correction.

Something which I'm kind of convinced about though is that I think after this we're going to see an end of an era in tech in that I don't foresee another "next big thing". Feels like we've kind of played all of them out, they've all more-or-less matured. Like, maybe there will be another hype cycle in AR/VR, but unless Apple really outdoes itself with the next Vision Pro launch I don't foresee it being all that buzzy. Hell, even if Apple launches a headset that's both affordable and ridiculously good, I still don't foresee AR/VR being all that buzzy.

And if AI really does live up to the hype, well, there still won't be a "next big thing", just for an entirely different reason.

I'm not personally upset about it. There's still a wealth of good ideas out there to chase that don't have the scaling potential to attract VC interest but nonetheless could potentially make a decent chunk of people rich and employ a lot of people. Perhaps society will give more of its collective attention to the problems that aren't so easily solved with a mobile app.
Yes… and just like the .com bubble it doesn’t mean everything related is useless, just a whole lot of it.
> If ai continues to improve the amount of software engineers employed will decrease.

AI is already affecting the junior dev/intern space. Seniors and mid developers really don't need juniors around, there is a GPT that you can ask questions to and get the boilerplate back that you would usually send to the juniors to think through and develop for you.
> Revenue has gone up, but fewer publicly traded companies are making a profit than ever before

That chart is deceiving. (from your link)

If you look carefully, you'll see that "very profitable" companies over the decades is unchanged.

What changed is the balance between "barely positive" and "negative".
The reactions: weird for sure. On-by-default is intrusive.

That said, they're so easy to disable. But the silly reactions aren't the feature though, just the sugar.

Having a system-wide virtual video output and camera control is/was a great addition to the OS.

(Article link is missing a token to be read by non-subs, btw).
If this might apply to you/your company and you don't have a lot of time to get into deep research on the topic just go see the Eclipse Temurin[0] project and grab a build or image from them.

[0] https://adoptium.net/temurin/releases/
On this date 30 years ago Jay Miner died
Anthropic is the king, but Jensen Huang is the emperor... :-)
"I wish they'd implement branching conversations like in ChatGPT"

Can you say more about this?

I Google'd and I'm not finding much. I asked ChatGPT and its response was not the assumption I held about what "branching" meant [0].

[0] https://chatgpt.com/c/6b2e0f7c-c4e6-44df-9116-ac7f618200f2
Remember "The Zen of Code Optimization" by Michael Abrash in the 90s?

This word count challenge was the first one he described.
The table driven approach was discussed, but was not necessarily the fastest due to the large cache overflowing (on 90s processors) table needed.

I used the same example in a chapter I wrote for a C++ book
> In 2024, OpenAI is probably at $2 - $3 billion in revenue right now

Do you have any source for this estimate? Everything I find online tells a different story (single digit million per year).
I am not sure what point you are making exactly, I am just going to say that the OSS world can definitely be much better organized but I suppose it's the nature of the "bazaar" thingy. :)
Yes, this is exactly correct. I was very surprised when I learned that this was possible and legal. It happened to a company I worked for, and cost the company quite a bit of money. Since then I have learned much about how unintuitive and convoluted software licensing can be.
And this is the main problem. Lawmakers and corporate/nonprofit/activist groups (who write bills for them) just repeatedly abuse the system in violation of unwritten democratic norms to get their way. I see this over and over where I’ve lived (blue states), for example with unconstitutional gun control laws that rely on exhausting opponents or waiting for them to not pay attention. The worst are when they submit bills with no text and substitute the text in at the last minute (so no one can oppose it earlier) with a late night weekend vote soon after. Or when they label everything an emergency measure (which makes it immune to reversal from voter initiatives in some states).
> I asked Hazel, given the recent XZ backdoor attempt, how he intended to vet any prospective PCRE2 maintainers. He replied that it was a good question "to which I have no answer. I will have to see who (if anyone) makes an offer".

He’s clearly aware of the problem, so there’s that at least. It is a tricky one.
Is LMDeploy the Ultimate Solution? Why It Outshines VLLM, TRT-LLM, TGI, and MLC
>when it does come up for a vote in the Council, we'll know which countries voted in favour

Isn't it kinda late to act?
What is it useful for?
Next news: you have to pay adobe for photoshop.

Just the usual info, because there are so many disinfo spread: Java’s reference implementation is OpenJDK, developed 95% by Oracle. This has the same license as the linux kernel, it’s completely open-source. Similarly to how different distros pre-build the kernel for you, there are OpenJDK “distros”, like OracleJDK, Adoptium, etc. These are, for all practical purposes equivalent code-wise with the upstream project, Oracle has open-sourced almost every enterprise-only feature from the Sun times. So java is and will always be completely free.

There is another dimension: support. Just as Red Hat sells support services to their linux distro, Oracle and other companies also offer such (which certain government companies might legally require, but otherwise you most likely know about it if you need it).

The question of LTS: just as most open-source projects, development happens at master, backporting work to older versions is a significant undertaking. So your best bet at all times is to use the latest version, released every 6 months. Companies having their own builds define LTSs themselves.
Iirc, the udg makes sense if the distance to it is off by something like 25% and the orientation of rotation is off by a bit. Those parameters are very hard to measure in UDGs.
They've done it before with VirtualBox. If you grab the Vbox Addons pack from a corpo IP, Oracle will come swinging at you.

https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/d1ttzp/oracle_is_...
Previous thread from about 2 weeks ago on a related topic (another tiling WM)[0]. I'm a big fan of the i3-like modes. What is the draw for people towards a window manager like this?

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40596689
My life has been: The soviets are out to get us, computers are amazing and revolutionary, the muslim terrorists are out to get us, peak oil, the banks have collapsed, PV is amazing, oh no a pandemic, AI is god/the devil incarnate.

If that's reflective of the broader human condition, we only avoid hype by having a scapegoat to demonise… or possibly the causality is the opposite direction and we only avoid demonising scapegoats by hyping something up.
I've been donating forever to Signal, and at this point, I'm resigned that it won't reach WhatsApp parity. Just hire some lobbyists to keep encrypted communications legal as a human right.
Genuine question on your preferred use-cases: Would you be comfortable with some probability of misinformation/mistakes/inaccuracies? Or would you accept the risk of some wrong information as a reasonable time vs. accuracy trade-off?
Noam has been cooking at character.ai in stealth. Their model is impressively engaging
Pass. https://www.hammerspoon.org/ is a true hacker's toolbox, not just for window management. And all scripted with Lua.
We've had a couple of bubbles with the same exact shape: Instead of 1. starting with the end-user's problem and picking a technology to solve it with, companies are 2. starting with the technology (LLMs) and thrashing around trying to find problems to solve with it. #1 is how you build long-term, sustainable businesses and #2 is how you build hype trains and slosh money around until the music stops.

End users don't care whether you solved a problem with clever algorithms, a cluster of hardware, or actual black magic. Just like they don't care if their software is written in Python or JavaScript. Why does anyone think customers care that their product is "AI powered"? Customers don't care, but for some reason, investors do care. Wacky.
> During the dotcom bubble, companies IPOed with no revenue and no profit. In 2024, OpenAI is probably at $2 - $3 billion in revenue right now. All the companies benefiting the most from AI are established companies such as Microsoft, Apple, Nvidia, TSMC. We haven't had any pure AI companies IPO with no revenue in 2024 as far as I know. Heck, I'm not even sure if there is an AI company that IPOed in 2024.

The market is much smarter to scrutinise and punish companies attempting to IPO and underperform in the public markets like what we have seen with WeWork and the other SPAC companies that failed to go anywhere.

Once again, companies with little to no-revenue and especially no-profit are getting valued at >$1B all because they slap 'AI', 'LLM' nonsense to inflate their valuations. That is already a dotcom bubble level hype.

The reality is, the existing big tech companies (Microsoft, Apple, Meta, Google, Nvidia, etc) will take all the value of LLMs and will bankrupt the late comers except for the advanced few such as (OpenAI, Anthropic and Cerebras Systems)
The engineer is making constant progress separately from the well-established main Puppy Linux community that he got going to begin with years ago. Whom are still making progress too, and they have different current versions with some more well-defined user groups in mind. That's the ones that have traction.

I like this EasyOS project but I would say the intended users are a lot more of a moving target compared to the regular Pups.

And that's good since there are fewer forces that confine the ultimate direction in which it may go.