skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's the opposite trend going on, they embrace as much as possible Linux and port as much as they can.

How much of it is stuff that people actually pay for?
I disagree. At least where I'm at, small cars don't serve any better purpose. We have plenty of space and gas is relatively inexpensive.

So I'd rather spend a few thousand more for a midsize or large car/suv than a mini or compact car. It has nothing to do with neighbors, or signaling. Larger cars are usually just better.
Ask HN: Chat with Website Bot?
Hi. Probably the most frequent AI app out there is the Chat With {X} template, where X is usually "PDF". What I can't find is a Chat With Website service, that allows me to provide a url, and ask questions about an entire website. It would be really helpful for me when dealing with unfamiliar APIs.

Apps like Perplexity and Phind help a bit, but are too broad to provide specific answers.
I was checking this on macOS. I have system scrollbar setting set to "automatic". Never changed scrollbar settings in Safari/Firefox, so it works like this for me by default, not sure why.

But also I don't really get how people are fine with hiding the scrollbar, but prefering to see the progress meter always visible for text, when the scrollbar conveys mostly the same information (except some edge cases when the footer is long I guess).

Not that it's important at all, I'm just at loss and it's not the first time I'm getting a signal that sometimes I simply don't understand people. But of course that's fine.
Thanks for the post! Now I will try to implement all of them, on my free time.
0 chance

Europe will become Androidland
@irfn - that's an interesting idea. will definitely try to create benchmark using my local M2 machine and llama3-7b, just for comparison.

yes, ollama and Bodhi App both use llama.cpp but our approaches are different. Ollama embeds a binary within its binary, that it copies to a tmp folder and runs this webserver. any request that comes to ollama is then forwarded to this server, and replied sent back to the client.

Bodhi embeds the llama.cpp server, so there is no tmp binary that is copied. when a request comes to Bodhi App, it invokes the code in llama.cpp and sends the response back to client. So there is no request hopping.

Hope that approach do provide us with some benefits.

Also Bodhi uses Rust as programming language. IMHO rust have excellent interface with C/C++ libraries, so the C-code is invoked using the C-FFI bridge. And given Rust's memory safety, fearless concurrency and zero cost abstractions, should definitely provide some performance benefit to Bodhi's approach.

Will get back to you once I have results for these benchmarks. Thanks for the idea.

Hope you try Bodhi, and have some equally valuable feedback on the app.

Cheers.
> The current system allows Apple to control 100% of the process and to be fully responsible for everything.

Did Apple refund people who were scammed through apps, e.g. in bitcoin trading like [0] (first item google found)?

[0] https://www.imore.com/apple/apple-removes-scam-bitcoin-walle...
The next drop shipping?
The EU at the cutting edge of competition law, which is to say it is looking actively at the competitive landscape and saying "what are the problems?" then moving doctrine along to solve them. There's a lot to be said for the approach.

If the EU can be said to have an agenda, it is clear from the rules - their agenda is market fairness, and the ability of new entrants to successfully compete. The DMA is a key plank of that, but there will be others.
Taiwan Wants a Drone Army–But China Makes the Drones It Wants
Don't forget the $99 per app.
MacOS is a great example of what happens when that competitive ground does exist. Most Mac apps are distributed outside of the app store, some aren't even notarized.
There's basically no EU big tech, so what can you do
Many Wordle users cheat to win, says mathematics expert
This is just one small facility in the US. Imagine the damage being done world wide where there are fewer regulations and and even fewer inspectors. We're outsourcing our pollution.

Is this the same person that wrote about how their apartment complex was constructed on an un-mitigated FEMA site? I think she should move to a more rural location, many cities have this kind of contamination.
Ha - I actually haven't changed my opinion about verbosity, Python is still more verbose and I will choose Perl for throwaway scripts even today; I just have a greater appreciation of readability of Python code compared to the free-for-all style-fest of Perl code (admittedly written by a bunch of devs with little code style enforcement). Perl is great for smaller scripts but I'm talking about many thousands lines of code and the lack of native object orientation, messy error handling, lack of a decent repl etc start to take their toll.
Thanks!

We had to rewrite lots of code to optimize for the hot-swap load speeds. So we prioritized llama as it was the most popular group on Hugging Face. And RWKV (which is what we work on in open source space)

But other architectures are coming within a week or two. Up next is probably Mixtral MoE models.

We will keep adding until we add ALL the architectures and models =)
Nowadays it's like every single blog and website will "popup" something everytime i select text. It annoys me to no end, because I select text as I read along and it's incredibly annoying.

Whether be it ChatGPT, medium articles, and recently even Google search!

UBlock Origin allows you to block JavaScript by default on all websites, and it's what I do. And Firefox has something called reader mode. Absolutely fantastic tools.
'Fighting fire with fire' – using LLMs to combat LLM hallucinations
A minority opinion. Codified and occasionally enforced by moderation, but still a minority opinion.
In your argument you fell right into the trap of confounding simplicity and familiarity.

Familiarity is when you say “look, this is like that other thing that I already do, neat”.
> That’s arguably not a great example, since there are both more than one international credit/debit card networks, and even these have been subject to constant regulatory scrutiny.

The two cards are essentially interchangeable so it is a duopoly. And the fact that they are subject to constant regulatory scrutiny without adding laws to force new entrants is why it is such a good example, it shows how well regulations can work without adding competition. To me in Europe credit cards works really great with low fees and no fuzz, I don't think that anything needs to be done about that more than is already done.
The Heart Sutra
> continuity of supply is why forcing them into real non-operating bankruptcy is inconceivable. Nothing more onerous than Chapter 11

Correct. But that’s still bankruptcy. It wipes out the shareholders and lets the creditors, which presumably includes the government, reörganise the company as it sees fit.

(I’d start with cleaving BDS from the rest of Boeing.)

> it's not clear to me whether it can be resolved until the shooting actually starts

Do you have a source on the torpedo story? Hadn’t heard that one before, and it sounds fun.

I recently read about how “the US went into [WWII] with fewer carriers than the Japanese, it was the US that was almost out of carriers in the Pacific in late 1942, and the US that had suffered the larger percentage of carrier losses—not the Japanese” [1]. We still won, as the author puts it, not with “the fleet that [we] started the war with,” but “the fleet that [we] ended it with.” How? Because “by December 8, 1941, the United States had already undergone 3 cycles of investment in only 8 years, with the last being one of the largest peace-time defense investments in US history.”

Put another way, it’s not clear we can wait until the shooting starts. What’s germane to this discussion is less whether that is true, but whether those in government with power over Boeing believe it is.

> China war will probably have no real effects on the US until the GPUs stop arriving

I’m not sure. Unless we try to fight it à la Ukraine, and it’s unclear that’s even an option, I expect the opening moves will involve the deaths of American soldiers. That brings it closer to “a bit of Actual America (Hawaii) being bombed.” (I assume a strike on a CVN would incur similar emotions, though that’s just a guess.)

[1] https://phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/war-and-deterrence-in...
> What if America decided to import a lot of Canadian lumber?

Isn't that already happening?
I’d feel better if they start by grounding everything with a Boeing logo first, and then went through whatever years-long legal process this will certainly be.
For added "fun", if anyone succeeds you could then poke an oscilloscope at the thing and see if there's any obvious side-channel attacks. If there aren't, you get a magical exemption from the "never implement your own crypto" rule.
Have notarization - sure, but they recently prevented a DOS emulator to being distributed in third party stores, which goes directly against what this law is for.
I am so glad to be not the only one who is nerd-sniped by this list ;)
san francisco operates at the level of IDGAF that allows people of all income to ride buses and trams without a ticket
Likewise. Running LINQPad in Parallels just isn’t the same.
Sometimes someone has to tell the party when they've come up with a potentially deadly idea no matter how much of a killjoy that may be.
Ed Lamagna's "Algorithms and Data Structures" course at Univ. of Rhode Island.

I really had to work for that class, but the payoff was tremendous.
I just scrolled for the images, I don't know about reading assembly for fun :)
what do you think about studying embedded systems engineering? i got accepted for august. so far, finding a team in this job market has been challenging so i'm forced to think longer term.
That sounds disgusting.
Shareholders have the power to not buy the stock.
most of your comment is irrelevant because you assume Apple would be calling a external API, while parent means is external calling Apple API to register subscriptions. Then if you have concerns like yours you can stay within Apple ecosystem.
A feature that seems to have disappeared from a lot of blogs these days is date when a post was published. Sometimes date is required to put things into context and I can't understand why so many blogs these days don't have it.
I'm always surprised how "generate PDF from Word" turns one word into 10 different print points, all with just a single letter.

Or even straight lines in a table. The straight lines from a table boundary get hacked into pieces. You'd think one line would be the ideal presentation for a line, but who are you to judge PDF?
Nicholson Baker would like a word.
I mean, on average you would expect this to be true if only because the markets tend to go up, whereas the value of an actual item tends to go down.
Used to have a chemistry teacher that would entertain the class, by dropping a chunk of lithium into a big bowl of water.

Fun stuff. They don't make 'em like that, anymore.

On-topic: This took out half the workforce. Maybe almost everyone that gets their hands dirty. Not sure that company will survive this.
The thing is:

Imagine there are two planemakers, each has a computer system to record when they removed the door bolts. One company uses it 95% of the time while the other uses it 100% of the time.

For the market to assign a different price to those companies, shareholders have to be able to tell which is which.

Investors cannot tell. The official reports don't include anything that wasn't officially reported. People who know first-hand have insider information, and are forbidden from trading on it. Shareholders have no power to enter the assembly floor and carry out spot checks. And "independent" auditors like Accenture are even bigger clowns than Boeing themselves.
> There clearly is a utility in a social setting to showing off the fact that you have sufficient resources to waste quite a few of them just visibly showing that you can.

That's the whole deal with engagement rings, and more generally with romance.
The article makes much noise about severe implications of Fed activities becoming public, but I am struggling to think of one that isn't just exposing an already bad situation? It seems like the citizens should know who is getting money from the Fed, since it's our financial well-being at stake.
It is related to SEO.
I might cop a lot of hate for saying this, but it's been 10 years, it's time to stop mourning RSS and move on.

I loved RSS, I sorely miss the protocol based internet rather than the web based internet we have now. I miss when my emails didn't have adverts pretending to be emails at the top of my inbox.

Advertising was a lot less prevalent when applications had protocols and you could simply move to a different client with fewer (or no) adverts.

But that's not the reality of the modern web.

And it doesn't do much good to pine for the past.
I might have missed something, but the issue is that Airbus can’t meet demand, and the other alternatives don’t seem to be better than Boeing.
Moving away won't fix the problem. As someone who lives in a large city, The response to companies destroying our environment shouldn't be move away. I'm not even a "tree hugger" and this pisses me off. We only have us to rely on. Fixing and preventing this issue doesn't seem like a hard decision to make.
Slack will start deleting messages older than one year on free workspaces
A lot of it came from RSX11 features that got rolled into the PDP-10 OSes.
I never said they did.

I said good luck exterminating humans.

Hell, not that long ago the most technologically advanced society of the time (Nazi Germany) with a massive and state of the art army tried to exterminate a subset of humans (Jews, Homosexuals, Roma) using massive force, the latest technology, and with a near single minded focus.

And while they did kill a lot of people and perpetrate terrible crimes, they also failed rather completely at the task. Even in areas where they were literally burning everything to the ground.

What makes you think they would have been more successful if they’d also been trying to kill themselves at the same time? Hence impeding their abilities?

And humans are, near as we can tell, the most lethal animals on the planet overall.

Humans survive implausibly terrible situations on the regular, and are currently living in every major ecological niche in the environment except perhaps the very deepest parts of the ocean. Though if we count military submersibles and oil rig diving bells, they too are ‘occupied’.

Would lots of people die, and would it be terrible if an environmental catastrophe occurred? You bet. But killing all humans is even less plausible than killing all ticks, or all roaches. Humans, the most lethal species on the planet, keeps trying and failing to do so.

Short of melting the mantle underneath us anyway. We do have some folks living in a space station. Probably not enough though.
How good are Freexian / Debian ELTS compared to RHEL for their 10 years support and security fixes? Are they cost effective?

https://www.freexian.com/lts/extended/docs/cost-estimation/
Identifying material on receipt is trivial. There is a handheld scanner that you point at a piece of metal and it will tell you what the metal is, which spec it falls into, and the specific chemical makeup of the material when you pull the trigger. Using this equipment (it's called Positive Material Identification) for verifying material on receipt is part of every quality manual I have ever seen.

In other words, if Boeing was using counterfeit material, it was either deliberately ignored or deliberately hidden by falsifying records. It is not uncommon to get material that has a Material Test Record that is within spec (because not all suppliers are scrupulous), but a PMI result that is out of spec. If that was what was happening here (which is what I suspect), then those PMI results were thrown out and whatever was written on the MTR were transferred to the receipt report or accepted as-is.
> Bonus: Showing Page Progress

I just look at the scroll bar.
Stable Diffusion Large vs. Medium tested in a prompt challenge
We generated hundreds of images using a subset of Parti Prompt and manually rated them.
Our results show that for most challenges SD3 Large outperforms Medium in all challenges, but most significantly in Style, Perspective and Imagination where SD3 Large is a clear winner.
Ubuntu 24.10 Now Defaults to Nvidia on Wayland
Somewhat important to note that if everyone does this it will likely overwhelm the roads and end up in gridlock
> Consistency not required

Correct. International relations exist in anarchy [1].

> British media has attacked Indian companies for doing business with Russia, but no one has a problem with Apple doing the same

Uh, India has been given a free pass on Russia by the West. China makes no effort to contain its frustration at the double standard.

> last time a dictator wen gallivanting around Europe I can recall was when Putin invaded Georgia

If you recall, the crux of the debate was whether Georgia is geopolitically Europe. It seems we concluded, once and for all, with no uncertainty, “maybe.” (So we got Ukraine!)

(Side note: “Please don't comment about the voting on comments” [2].)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchy_(international_relat...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Show HN: I made an app that turn images into prompt
I made this app to help users turn their favorite images from DALL-E or MidJourney into prompts.

would love to know your thought.
WebAssembly is bytecode that runs on a virtual machine.

Cosmopolitan is a libc replacement. Your program is still compiled to real CPU instructions, which execute much faster.
I don't know of any place that is creating larger roads just for these huge (personal) trucks.

Do you also have a problem with commercial trucks or just the people that chose personal trucks because they don't agree with your ideology?
We experienced a migration from CentOS7 to Rocky 8.
Rocky 8 running on VirtulBox produces different results on some numerical tools compared with Docker container. CentOS 7 did not use to have that problem. Same program and floating point differences.
Other than that Rocky 8 ran all right.
Congratulations! Take this as an opportunity to quit Facebook.
Here is the home page of the European Union https://european-union.europa.eu/index_en

There is a banner.

The European Commission on data protection https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection_e...

There is a banner.

The press release for the current enforcement against Apple https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_...

There is a banner.

> the banners are absolutely not required and they are the band aid solution of websites who don't give a crap about their users.

If this is true, it says a lot about the organization running those websites.
The open source tool that turns MLOps pipelines into DevOps pipelines
If you think that was wild, try to watch some videos of what oil rig workers are doing. They earn a lot of money, but the risk they are constantly exposed to is insane.
That is assuming a constant efficiency ratio which has never existed.
Sure did. We're completely locked in because Vuetify encourages you to use their components for everything from layouts to buttons, their styles are written in sass and depend on an outdated version of dart-sass, and use a half-assed version of Tailwind utility classes that creates conflicts on every level.
And since they rewrote the framework completely for Vue 3, and took special care to make sure that every single darn prop is different, a migration is pretty much impossible without touching absolutely everything.

The only way out for us will be to get rid of vuetify components, one at a time, and introduce Tailwind with a prefix, until we can finally remove that mess.

The biggest recommendation I have is to stay away as far as you can from that library. I think that has been the worst technical decision I ever made at my job.
I’m almost ignorant on this device, but FTA (https://frenck.dev/diy-smart-doorbell-for-just-2-dollar/#2-t...)

“This relay module board for the ESP-01(S), It comes pre-soldered, and the ESP will just slide on top of it.”

So, bending that pin breaks a connection between the CPU board and the relais board, so that pressing the doorbell wouldn’t be able to send a reset signal to the CPU, or, as the article says:

FTA: “Without this modification, a doorbell button push would result in a reset/restart of the chip, which of course, isn’t what we want”

That made me wonder why the hardware is hooked up that way by default in a device that gets sold for this specific purpose.

A few searches learnt me that the device has a deep sleep state where it uses very little power. The only way to wake it up externally from that state is through a reset.

https://johnmu.com/quick-boot-button/ taught me that it can boot in about 100ms, and get WiFi on in a few seconds.

=> I think that keeping that pin in place is the intended way to use this hardware combo.

The device would boot when the bell is rung, first close the relais switch to ring the bell, and then do any home automation stuff a few seconds later. Latencies look acceptable to me.

I ideally would want to power it completely from the button push or, at least, from the same adapter as the doorbell, but both will be challenging. The first doesn’t deliver enough power for long enough, the second likely doesn’t run on 3.3V.
I'm always amazed and envious at how many successes people have had with the conversions.

This has been a huge problem for me and I only have just about 75 boxes. Only about 15 or so have been converted successfully to RHEL 7.9 since March, none (successfully) to 8.x after that.

1. Convert2rhel has been a nightmare, only a few have worked properly the first time. I've had 8 tickets opened with Redhat. Once I get one working, the next one will fail with different problems.

2. LEAPP from 7.9 to 8.9 hasn't worked successfully yet. When it does it breaks absolutely everything from PHP to mail sending to databases.

3. I thought Alma might solve the problem, nope. Similar issues as point number 2. Or I get Python errors, or any variety of anything else.

I'm not sure what our path is going to be (maybe Tuxcare or Suse or something), but I'm concerned about my job now since I was in charge of this and it's been a disaster. The anxiety is high.
It's a good argument. However, Pandora's box has already been opened, and people will keep experimenting with this technology, there's no going back. A key question is how long it will take to achieve such dangerous AI: one year, ten years, or a hundred years? Ilya and his colleagues believe it will happen sooner rather than later and want to take action now. So the original question remains, since it's more about the timeframe rather than whether it will happen or not
Mourning? Past? I'm still using it.
Logical programming (prolog).

I'm not sure I would call it the most challenging class, but it's the one where the most amount of people failed to learn anything. If I had to guess then 90% of the students (or more) ended up not being able to do anything with prolog.

I haven't seen any other class that had such an abysmally low rate of successful learning. I think the only knowledge most people took away from this class is to not use prolog.
Dare.fail – Dare to Fail Gloriously
I said that the practical was better for me. The theory killed me.
And you have a perfect excuse. If anyone asks why you don’t use Facebook you can just tell the truth.