skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would this be a good combo to combine with Hetzner server auctions, or just too much trouble ?
or even with todays connections having a server at home ?
any success stories ?
Hot take: scroll bars have been redundant since those mouse wheel was invented. Especially the ones with momentum.
Or maybe they're just big fans of Lord of the Rings?
Nah, it’s a “brief” (as they refer to their blog-like posts) article, so it was short. But it appears Meta is releasing it the same as their other open models.

“Meta Platforms plans to release the largest version of its open-source Llama 3 model on July 23, according to a Meta employee. This version, with 405 billion parameters, or the "settings" that determine how Al models respond to
questions, will also be multimodal, meaning that it will be able to understand and generate images and text, The Information previously reported.

Meta in April released two smaller models within the Llama 3 family, with 8 billion and 70 billion parameters, which developers quickly embraced. The earlier launches served to build excitement for the largest Llama 3 model, which was expected to be launched around now. Its release comes about a year after the launch of Llama 2. Meta declined to comment.”
Oof turning that around a bit - when you are gonna be snarky, try to be correct. Outside of Scotland and Ireland it's not that black & white. There are also Canadian whiskeys (Benjamin Chapman, Masterton's) and there are US whiskys (like Makers Mark).

I was trying to be light-hearted and playful - most people know Scotch is "whisky". If I was being anal I'd have corrected their misspelling of "Johnnie"
I was lazy and did it with GPT-4, since that actually does manage to solve the problem. GPT-4 is -of course- slower.

https://chatgpt.com/share/2ac767d9-2a6b-4631-b071-7266e001a1...
Car chargers only pull 12A from a 15A circuit.
Thunderbird 128 Now Available with More Rust Code and UI/UX Enhancements
Meanwhile: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/12/e...

Also a Falcon 9 failed last night. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St-yEc6fyLg
I find these kinds of gotchas trivial and tiresome. Do we “understand” gravity? Magnetism? Other people? No. We have models. Some are predictive and/or useful. We aren’t Turing machines. We don’t observe nature directly — that’s why optical illusions work. Let’s figure out more about how these things work iterate and improve.
Heat. Just heat.

Remember, an incandescent light bulb is primarily a heater -- even in the very best case, most of the energy input becomes heat.

This heater just happens to be so hot that it glows white and produces usable light.
Ubuntu Makes It Easier to Launch VMs on Windows, Authd PPA Up for Testing
One of my very first freelance projects something like this happened to me. They were fishy from the beginning - it was a pretty simple project, gluing together some CRM stuff with some other system via API calls + Python. I scoped it out, gave them an estimate they agreed to, but they decided they first wanted to see a "POC" (which is now a red flag for me, in this case I did notice that, and made sure it was a very rough copy).

I used an API key that was scoped to precisely me and my personal email account. They liked my POC, but kept getting sketchy on negotiation/payment, so I quit the project.

Several months later I was getting usage alerts from my API token sent to my personal email. Turned out they were using what I had written (wasn't surprised). I simply disabled the key, and the way it was set up I very much doubt they were able to fix it on their own.

The lesson I learned is to never trust a client and that lesson has served me well since. If there is any amount of money you are uncomfortable lighting on fire if still unpaid, insist on being paid up front.
> Chinese COMAC got sold a decade+ old variant [engine] for their latest jet out of fear of industrial espionage

The most cyberpunk thing I've ever seen is the international aerospace company bunkers at Beijing's airport.

Literally, bunkers. Barbed wire. Structural access control gates. Tiny one-room building.

I assumed that was the only privileged link back to HQ for information connectivity.
That's still the same NT line tho they changed how versions are called after Windows 8.1 which was NT 6.3. Initial Windows 10 release was bumped to NT 10.0 but further versions use year-month and year-half year formats

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_Windows_vers...
Generate high-quality songs directly from text descriptions using advanced AI models. Turn your words into music effortlessly. In addition, it also provides many AI music-related functions, such as splitting music, mixing music, repairing music, etc.
Chinese civilization's longevity? Exams and bureaucracy
Oh interesting. I've only seen turbojet and turboprop variants (with a single stage centrifugal compressor) for sale.
PC-BASIC, a cross-platform interpreter for GW-BASIC
Tech Doesn't Just Stay at the Border: Petra Molnar on Surveillance's Long Reach
I see where they’re coming from but they need to sort out the license confusion.

Stack Exhange data really is the worlds best open Q&A dataset. Far cleaner and more reliable than anything else.

But LLM trainers are going to use it no matter what. It’s not like they care about copyright or licenses.
Can anyone speak to the practical differences between the 70B model and this?

What text-based cases have their efficacy greatly enhanced by this?
Brute force. Just start at A*(number of letters) and go from there ;)
In case your knowledge of the mechanics of `struct' vs `typedef struct' in C are rusty like mine, here are nice refreshers:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/23660072

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1675446
I have a similar approach. Over time, it also helps me see which ideas repeat themselves and evolve. So I'll refine the document every once in a while, and start to group things together.

It's also very calming to get these things out of my head and into any document / record. This experience is discussed in more detail in the book Getting Things Done.
Show HN: I made a tool to visualize MySQL EXPLAIN query plans
I was always confused when trying to optimize a slow MySQL query as the output of the EXPLAIN command is so cryptic and totally useless. And there wasn't any tool that could help visualize what a query does - compared to PostgreSQL which has multiple...
So, I started developing such a tool for MySQL. But boy, I didn't expect how complicated this is in reality. There were so many things hiding in tiny information pieces that I had to understand. But it also confirmed me in that a tool should try to understand the EXPLAIN output and not a human as it is too easy to oversee something.
After months of work, I've now finished the first iteration of my vision. Whats your opinion about it?
It still requires being actively connected to the internet and using their cloud services to process the data.

Reviews on the Home Assistant forums are less than glowing. They apparently work well if you can mount them on a wall chest-high, which could present some significant issues aesthetics-wise - and spend some time "tuning" them.
You may remember a carbon copy of this event from a year ago. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389922/june-2023-da...

Discussion from then https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36257523
FWIW, DLSS feels like magic. I get something like 50% perf improvement with almost no loss in fidelity. Lets me play modern games at 4k/120hz on my 3080 without too many problems.
Not sure that is the most important downstream effect. Harvard School of Public Health measured a 15% lower cognitive ability score at 950 ppm and a further 50% decline at 1400 ppm. (https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/healthybuildings/2021/09/09/imp...) So at 1000ppm everyone in the world is just 15% dumber than their baseline ability should be, and 1000ppm atmospheric CO2 will make it much more likely that indoor levels will go up to 1400ppm or even higher unless we start utilizing carbon scrubbing technology for indoor spaces. It's pretty scary to think that modern society could be basically mentally stunted by high CO2, even if crops enjoy it.
Effective altruism is struggling. Can "moral ambition" replace it?
> For a long time the X Window System had a reputation for being difficult to configure.

Yes, but only on consumer hardware/OS (linux, *BSD).
I remember that Solaris, HP-UX had no such issues on Sun or HP hardware.
Show HN: Open-source CLI coding framework using Claude
For the last two weeks I have been using Claude extensively for my coding experiments.

Made this CLI tool to automate it. And to fix errors by sending it back to the claude api. Also included the vision API to build based on images.

I built this using this tool itself partly.

Probably OpenDevin, Agents is the future, maybe even Cursor like autocomplete, for now I find this approach useful.

Added some examples in the README. Would love some feedback, this is my first python library that I published.
The Church-Turing thesis is a meta-mathematical statement and it neither has a proof nor disproof. In any case, this discussion has run its course.
> so he could look like he was drinking vodka

Ah, yes, the famous Russian carbonated vodka.
I have been using Koel for a few months on my server. It was pretty good but not great. Nowadays I have Navidrome running on a docker service, along with a samba server, so I can easily add content and use any Jellyfin client I want (Like Symfonium on Android).
If you try to inspect the page, the code will run up to the next debugger statement, where one was purposefully inserted near the top of the code. If you try to continue past it, it just loops back onto the debugger statement.

If you load the page normally without inspecting it, these debugger statements are ignored.
Any of them can be transformed into one:

/etc/default/grub

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="mitigations=off"

update-grub

reboot
I'm not trying to change peoples opinions by doing either of those things so I don't get the point of this comment as a reply to mine.

I also agree in a number of cases education is an important tool for making headway but I do also get that visible protest that confronts the issue you're tackling is also important.
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> the thing I'd like to see is for software to expose functional/"rest"-like interfaces. similar with websites and the content/user data.

You mean, COM?
turn off the servers until they pay
Why would you not just use a ballistic missile for nuclear delivery?

What advantage does an air-breathing engine have in this capacity over MIRVs and decoys?
If you haven’t seen the benefits, you’re not in the business of deploying a variety of applications to servers.

The fact that I don’t have to install dependencies on a server, or set up third-party applications like PHP, Apache, Redis, and the myriad of other packages anymore, or manage config files in /etc, or handle upgrades of libc gracefully, or worry about rolling restarts and maintenance downtime… all of this was solvable before, but has become radically easier with containers.

Packaging an application and its dependencies into a single, distributable artifact that can be passed around and used on all kinds of machines was a glorious success.
As the article describes, scrolling isn't the only use of scroll bars.
The problem description says it happens gradually over time, but affects roughly 100% of the machines client and server alike. I have a hard time believing that everybody has underspecced and failing power supplies, especially on their servers.
Turing Categories (2019)
Interesting. What's your sentiment on abrupt cessation vs titrating down, provided you ever wanted to stop taking it?
Isn't that the SmallTalk model, but everyone decided to use C++ instead?
Interesting you should mention inputs. One of the things I’ve often found useful to log are the data that are inputs into a decision the code is going to make. This can be difficult to reconstruct after the fact, especially if there is a cache between my code and the source of truth.
But are they releasing the weights?
Yes, they're managing more effectively than I could ever hope to. I don't have the time nor the knowledge.

I'll die with more than I will ever need. But thanks for the concern.
I just have a Samba Server running as a second docker container and also expose a ytdl service for quick youtube -> server imports
The more common recommendation is to catch what you need to handle in a special way (if any) and then have a catch-all (or re-throw) for the rest, and if you don't need to catch anything specific, then just catch (or re-throw) all.

Think of exceptions like error codes. Most often one just checks if there is an error or not. Sometimes, one checks for specific error codes in addition to the general check. It would be rare to check every single error code, though possible.

By this analogy, I think the recommendation to check each type of exception is very uncommon.

Most importantly, make sure you do always catch exceptions at some level and handle them somehow (even if it's just logging), and also make sure no exception/error information is lost (e.g. blank catch block, not logging all exception details, not re-throwing with an inner exception so the original stack is lost, etc.).
Disaster was when a Chinese spacecraft desintegrated. This being an US one, is a tragedy. /s
The link to the wivi research is to a 2013 article, so that took a while!

I had a HW assignment in 2017 to do this, specifically we were given raw wifi signals and told to determine how many people were in the room. We did it by detecting breath rate of each person with the MUSIC spectral algorithm. For that challenge there ended up being 6 people in the room, all with slightly different breath rate (attenuating the signal as their chest expanded).
Can someone explain the context here? Surely NT is closed source and was never developed for macs, what actually is this? And what are the chances you can get software for it? Presumably most NT software was compiled for Intel only and closed source.
It's not hard to find pictures online of melted NEMA 14-50 outlets. Design flaw or loose connection? Some will definitely be the latter, but all? Who knows? I'd spend the extra $50.

Or set your car to only pull 24A from the outlet rather than full speed. Still more than fast enough to full charge overnight.
A/UX was still a licensed version of Unix. This post says the licensing fee was $1,000 per seat.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Apple_AUX/comments/11wks6i/what_was...

I remember the AT&T / BSD lawsuit in 1992. Maybe Apple looked at NeXTSTEP and since it is based on the Mach microkernel and BSD that they would be able to fix the 10 or so files to avoid the AT&T / Unix System Labs licensing fees like Free/NetBSD did.

In the 1980's Microsoft had their own port of Unix named Xenix. Why didn't they push this instead of the very limited MS-DOS?

https://www.abortretry.fail/p/the-history-of-xenix

>
In March of 1982, Western Electric reduced the royalty fees that it charged for UNIX with the introduction of UNIX System III (a combination of UNIX V7 and PWD). This was done by raising the source license cost, but lowering the royalty per user license to $100 (about $318 in 2023) from $250. This meant that Microsoft’s prepayment of $200000 in 1980 (around $700k in 2023) for a discount in volume was voided if they wished to use the newer system. That same month, on the 10th, Paul Allen held a seminar in NYC where he outlined plans for MS-DOS 2.0.
I’ve personally run the Llama 3 models locally on a Mac Studio with 128GB of ram, and found it (and other open source models) to perform highly erratically locally.

And while I’ve also encountered quality control issues with the open source models in “professionally hosted” settings as well (e.g., Groq, OpenRouter), it was much worse locally.

Sentences ending abruptly and non-sensical/unrelated words were a common problem.
The problem with business requirements is that there are no systems analysts anymore; that work has largely been given to programmers. A systems analyst could determine what information each part of the business needs and what information it can provide to whom. With that information in hand, designing an information system becomes a relatively straightforward process; programming it even more so.

The way we do things today is basically guesswork. Which suits programmers just fine, as it lets them write a lot of code. But that's not the best of all possible worlds, only the default world.
Crashes caused by hardware failures look very different from crashes caused by a buggy codebase. 80% of code bugs will have very unisonous crash reports. The other 20% of code bugs — memory corruption and race conditions, notably — have more random crash reports, but are still identifiable as such. Random hardware failures generally cause crash reports that look like someone put your bits in a mixer and made a smoothie.

(NB: random hardware failures like we're talking about here. CPU design/logic erratas can and do look like code bugs; but that's not what's being discussed here.)
AI models however are pretty big so its going to make the browser installation a lot bigger even if its only pulled down when you first go to use the feature.
I suspect that without Jobs, Apple is dead by 2002. Turned into an arm of, like, RIM. Then Google comes out with the Android phone and it's all over for everyone including Microsoft.
Hackers Steal Phone Records of 'Nearly All' AT&T Customers
at least in kubernetes-land, external-secrets.io provides this.
> even more if not using Infiniband

It's interesting that the above "HPC reference architecture" shows a GPU-to-GPU Infiniband fabric, despite Nvidia also nominally pushing NVLink Switch (https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/nvlink/) for the HPC use-case.
This is very deceitful
lldap: Light LDAP Implementation
Yeah - you'll see that I mentioned that - if that is true, then great. But, IMO, it's worth verifying. Even more worth double checking if the building is old, or an extension cord is involved.
Protonvpn.com Is Down
$ ping protonvpn.com
ping: protonvpn.com: Temporary failure in name resolution

In Southern California
There are two things which helped me understand this better.

1. Exception handling is a form of flow control

Once you understand exceptions are a normal part of program flow, you begin to see how they fit into the broader logic. They help encapsulate and guide handling of common error cases.

2. There's no need to be over-granular

It's not necessary to go overboard and capture every single possible exception. You can explicitly capture the most common exceptions, log them, and handle/cleanup appropriately. Then you can have a fallback global trap to log and catch any others. If you start to see something unexpected a lot, then you can add an explicit handler for it if needed. It's mostly just about having specific cleanup and good logging for awareness of runtime issues.
Right innit? It's not just Apple using BeOS but wondering how everything else would be different. You actually need to... think different at this point, aye?
My aggregation is the narrow paragraphs on most sites instead of flowing the entire width of the page. I assume this is so they can jam an advertisment inbetween every second sentence. There is plenty of space for scrollbars.

Makes my large high dpi monitors almost pointless.
Just in an effort to help someone out: you should be able to customize Reader Mode so that the background is pastel. I use Safari's Reader Mode and have it customized to set the background to a comfortable sepia tone (almost like HN's background color), with dark, slightly larger text in a font that I like. And those settings are applied to all sites, they're not something you need to apply to each individual site you visit.
> It might sound a little bit creepy from a privacy perspective, but Gamgee insists that all motion data is processed and stored on the routers themselves, and never in the cloud.

This seems deceptive. Sure, the data may be processed and stored locally, but if the routers themselves may be accessed remotely (e.g., by Gamgee, if the routers are compliant with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-069), then the fact that the data isn't stored in the cloud is a moot point.
The FUN part is, if you just happen to have the same name as one of the crew, you can get a credit without being involved at all!

Funny story: I usually sit through the full end credits when I go to the movies, just in case something interesting happens afterward. So I'm doing the usual thing at the end of Sonic the Hedgehog, and suddenly, there's MY REAL NAME jumping RIGHT out at me! It wasn't even on its own line, just in with a bunch of other folks working in the same group (I presume), but there it was, and I SPOTTED it!

Maybe it's just me, or maybe we just tend to take notice when our own names pop up, even in a crowd.

Anyone else have that experience?
Oh, 100% my understanding as well! Sorry, I didn't mean to suggest that ordinary people in like Tehran were hostile to Americans, but I can see how it came across that way.
I think XP is when the DOS based Win95/98/ME was merged with NT
Capability URLs
Show HN: Accountability as an AI
I’ve been finding it hard to push myself to complete my New Year’s resolution of going to the gym and getting jacked. So, I built an AI agent that yells at me and keeps me accountable.

Introducing Goggins AI. Inspired by
@anuatluru’s #WorkingTheory on Accountability as a Service, this agent creates timelines, prioritizes tasks, uses GPT-4o vision to keep you in check, and even charges you for slacking off. Try the demo for free here: https://github.com/alexy201/goggins-agent-python.

To answer the question: can an AI keep humans accountable? The answer is, sort of. It definitely knows when to take my money, but can still be fooled (see for yourself). On the other hand, my arms have been noticeably bigger…
“No lawyers allowed” isn’t likely to be the case if you sue a corporation or other business association, which by law in my state at least may not be represented by an individual unless that individual is an attorney.

That being said I have not sued a corporation in small claims court so I’m not really sure who would show up.
If it doesn't pattern match to that specific problem, then it's possible to have it "reason" through a similar setup:

This one I used objects A, B and C, where A and C must move together with B.

https://chatgpt.com/share/c3f744e4-199a-4c45-a332-c40d505326...

Do you think that is also from a trained dataset?

Because I wonder if it might have some sort of internal router in mind where certain signals will trigger it to pattern match to a very common problem whereas if it's not overfit there it will try to fallback to some form of "reasoning".