skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cheap stud finders are only accurate for some wall construction types. They do not work on my older style plaster and lathe walls, for example.
> Try to identify the circular part of the argument.

I did. Should I repeat it?
Funnily, who I blame the most for there not being real competition to CUDA is apple. As of late, Apple has been really pushing for vender lock in APIs rather than adopting open standards. The end result is you can get AMD and Intel onboard with some standard which is ultimately torpedoed by apple. (See apple departing from and rejecting everything that comes from the khronos group).

With the number of devs that use Apple silicon now-a-days, I have to think that their support for khronos initiatives like SYCL and OpenCL would have significantly accelerated progress and adoption in both.

We need an open standard that isn't just AMD specific to be successful in toppling CUDA.
I don't think it's upside down, but looks like on the "wrong" arm, though that's debatable depending on handedness.
The more I think about this though, this seems like only one of several fundamental issues with this thing :P
Ugh, seen this pattern happen many times at smallish companies. The O.G. codebase was written by a single person. It did one or two things very well, with few bugs, had consistent filenames, variable names, APIs, formatting, and so on, it had a single, pure vision throughout the code, and didn't have all those problems that happen when multiple people reason differently about the same code.

Then, eventually, the company gets bigger and the product needs to grow beyond the capability of one person, so a team starts developing on the codebase. That's where the bugs start pouring in, where everything becomes less consistent, where different design patterns are used all over the place, and where the "single clear vision" gets cast aside. A lot of problems that get blamed on "technical debt" and "brittle code" are often just plain coordination and consistency problems that are happening because multiple people can't share a single consciousness.
Do you mind sharing what you’re working on? I’m curious!
Claude for Android
Additional info: https://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/homes-in-nashville-i...
The problem is that once you say “fine tuned” then you have immediately slashed the user base down to virtually nothing. You need to fine-tune per-task and usually per-user (or org). There is no good way to scale that.

Apple can fine-tune a local LLM to respond to a catalog of common interactions and requests but it’s hard to see anyone else deploying fine-tuned models for non-technical audiences or even for their own purposes when most of their needs are one-off and not recurring cases of the same thing.
Hmm, I wonder if putting surfectants in everything might have negative consequences.
everyone who whined and complained about openai and msft doing similar things are going to freak out on apple too right?....right?
> You are, maybe, just not the target audience here?

The difference between an open model running on a $100 computer and the output from GPT4 or Claude Sonnet is huge.

I use local and cloud models. The difference in productivity and accuracy between what I can run locally and what I can get for under $100 of API calls per month is huge once you get past basic playing around with chat. It’s not even close right now.

So I think actually you are not the target audience for what the parent comments are taking about. If you don’t need cutting edge performance then it’s fun to play with local, open, small models. If the goal is to actually use LLMs for productivity in one way or another, spending money on the cloud providers is a far better investment.

Exceptions of course for anything that is privacy-sensitive, but you’re still sacrificing quality by using local models. It’s not really up for debate that the large hosted models are better than what you’d get from running a 7B open model locally.
Can't a lot of the disdain be attributed to the decline of investigative journalism in favor of opinion reporting?
> Sure, I can run some slow Llama3 models on my home network, but why bother when it is so cheap or free to run it on a cloud service?

Running locally, you can change the system prompt. I have Gemma set up on a spare NUC, and changed the system prompt from "helpful" to "snarky" and "kind, honest" to "brutally honest". Having an LLM that will roll its eyes at you and say "whatever" is refreshing.
>I guess I don't fully believe the story about the single review causing such disproportionate harm.

I do, who's going to take a chance of receiving a biohazard lol

>This just feels like a case of folks having too many of their eggs in a single precarious basket.

this is true, but Amazon's position in this space means their the default choice in many cases. It also rings true that due to their gigantic market presence, they don't have to worry about being outcompeted because of their own mistakes.
https://librewolf.net/ welcomes you.
AutoGrad to GPT-2 from scratch
which itself links to https://www.imedpub.com//articles/evolution-of-operating-sys... ... a not especially interesting article (imo) :)
I'm sorry to inform you that technocracy is widely supported outside of Hacker News and Silicon Valley.

Specifically, 51.1% of americans surveyed indicate "Having experts, not government, make decisions according to what they think is best for the country" is fairly good or very good.[0] This is up from 34% 20 years prior.

[0] https://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/WVSOnline.jsp?WAVE=3&COUNT...
Gyazo does not cost the same. You're comparing monthly prices *billed annually* to Horizon's month to month term, which is an unfair comparison. Horizon is $3.75 a month billed annually, while Gyazo is $4.99.
Launching Bitcoin Good First Issues
We're All in the Arena
Lego will sue you immediately
Vivante GPUs are the only godawful thing about i.MX. I hate having to get NXP's BSPs to use the official, higher-performance driver. On i.MX6 the supported kernel was released over a decade ago, which makes it tough to upgrade glibc.

Sometimes I miss not having to do graphics in embedded systems.
It works well on mobile devices because from the get-go, it is established that the operating system can aggressively suspend or halt processes. Laptops + PC's, on the other hand, have 40+ years of legacy that assume that the OS won't kill a process unless the user insists, or a resource disaster is imminent. They can deal with a pause, provided the processes external view of the state of the CPU + memory are not drastically changed.

Windows finally had suspend working reliably, where memory was frozen, and nothing else on the PC could change the state of memory or the CPU. Modern standby is Intel/Microsoft's effort to hoist that mobile-style of operating system management onto PC's, in an environment that was not expecting it.

They should have slowly rolled it out, with thermal protections from the get go to prevent disaster, and after a generation or two when the hardware + software are working correctly, made it on by default. It seems like they rushed it for Win 10, and then made it the default on Win 11 before it was really stable.
Not OP but I use this and like it. It gives a slight scratchy feel when I write on my iPad with the apple pencil and it removes all of the glare for when I'm reading. It's magnetic so you can remove it whenever you want to, but I never take it off.

https://pen.tips/products/penmat
When people start talking about economic systems other than capitalism, I’m never really sure how different those systems are supposed to be, so thanks for clarifying that your imagined system does include money.

I’m still pretty unclear on how it works, though. Who makes decisions about factories and farms and how do they get funding? What are the sources and sinks for money in this system?

(For example, one simple model has money being created via government spending and drained via taxes. The taxes create the demand for money.)
I wish you could remember more, I'd like to listen to that
sudo rm $(which firefox)
Ah, yeah, you're right. I was spacing the fact that C as well as C++ can have multiple calling convention. I blame early morning brain.

As far as the wrong calling convention goes, I'm basing it on the fact that an extern "C++" function can be passed as a callback where an extern "C" is demanded. Even if they're the same calling convention, that should fail, but it doesn't. Looks like it doesn't fail at runtime, which is a small comfort, but given the different permissiveness of different compilers, it still makes me very nervous to pass a C++ function as a C callback and just hope that it works, given that it isn't guaranteed in the standard.
Ah, I'm rather looking for a ready-to-go repo for a layman like me to just have a quick go. The latest I used was nerfstudio a long time ago. Seems to be updated regularly still, I wonder if it supports training splat scenes now. I also wonder if there were any better similar projects since then.
Blogspam for https://www.wired.com/story/youtube-training-data-apple-nvid... and https://www.proofnews.org/apple-nvidia-anthropic-used-thousa...
How do you know the building code from 100+ years ago? And whether they actually followed it back then?
I'm yet another person who used google domains specifically because it was google and their security engineering is extremely good. I can't believe they sold it to squarespace.

Porkbun seems extremely competent, and they allowed me to register two yubikeys, reinforcing that. Hopefully we won't be back here in 2 years discussing where to hop to next.
If Google had made Alpha Zero available for the public, I’m sure we would see exploits very quickly.
The writer is obviously an intelligent person with good critical perspective, so it is surprising that he missed some important material about known countermeasures that can be effectively used to defeat the polygraph. A quick HN search with keywords "lie detector" offers a number of excellent articles on the subject, including discussion of the book "Lie Behind the Lie Detector" (available for free online) which provides detailed information on polygraphs and techniques to subvert the tests.
I’ve experienced this myself, my solution was to speed run the exhibits. I managed to see “The world’s 100 greatest objects” in about 60 minutes. I read quickly and already have a good knowledge of world culture and history and found the hour to be most enjoyable.
Osadl Container Base Image: The basis for license compliant containers
Is there a screencast (preferably with a transcript of pressed keys) that we can see? Because I’m not entirely clear on what this is, exactly.

Is it like a tmux that automatically creates/arranges new panes for new processes?
Here's another related post: https://brooker.co.za/blog/2024/05/09/nagle.html
A deep dive into the infrastructure of an affiliate marketing scam
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The conversation I had was about lost luggage at the airport, and what it looked like, and what was next. That's a pretty adult conversation. I did not understand what the "next steps" were without the translation, but I guess I did okay with the rest.

I did it in Japanese, which had the added problem of not knowing what some of the words were, though I recognized more of them when I had it speak them out loud.

It's possible I'm just not ready for a tool like this, though.
I hadn't realized that it was well settled that scraping from youtube isn't legitimate. How ironic that would be. Does that mean that google search results aren't legal? You get full images back from that and google makes money on those results. They have trained search algorithms on those results too. Does that mean every site that they broke the TOS of when they scraped it and trained on it can sue them? Is there a real legal precedence that has set a clear line here?
Why not put them in a plastic bag or Electrostatic bag and then tape them to cardboard? That seems like it would solve most of the problems cheaply without adding a lot of thickness to the envelope?
100% agree. blockchain is still a solution that's looking for a problem and payments ain't it. the foundational assumptions are wrong and don't match the user's reality.
I wonder if xylitol mouthwashes fare better?
Don't forget Servo engine, it's supported by the Linux foundation and they had been achieving impressive milestones.

Project Page: https://servo.org/
There's a 90' style website for longer bike trips between (mostly) German cities: https://radweit.de/. Each trip is often one A4 page and cuts up the complete track into individual map segments neatly arranged so it fills a single page. We used that once a while ago and it worked great.
> It works, but there are rough edges around sleeping, external displays, power management.

Windows has these rough edges, too, though. It's actually pretty shocking that here in 2024, PC manufacturers and OS vendors are still struggling with basics like sleep/wakeup. Last job I had with Windows laptops, everyone would walk around the office from meeting to meeting with their laptops propped open because nobody could be sure that their OS would actually wake up when they opened the lid. And when you closed it and went home for the day, would standby actually work or would it be on fire and out of battery the next morning? Somehow, only Apple has seemed to be able to solve this Herculean problem.
> I'd rather have a weaker model which I can always rely on being available than a strong model which is hosted by a third party service that can be shut down at any time.

Every LLM project I’ve worked with has an abstraction layer for calling hosted LLMs. It’s trivial to implement another adapter to call a different LLM. It’s often does as a fallback, failover strategy.

There are also services that will merge different providers into a unified API call if you don’t want to handle the complexity on the client.

It’s really not a problem.
New York Should Tax Parking Spaces, Not Streets, to End Standoff
> Vijendran said he expects the cost of space-based solar power will eventually fall to a point where it is competitive with solar and wind power on Earth, which is below $50 per megawatt-hour

Anyone have a link to his math? Curious how launch cost and cadence relate to LCOE.
the only lack of cooperation communicated in this article is the account on drug use. that said, the claims on quackery are unrelated to the author's specific set of behaviors during the test. i reckon that i, knowing the complete lack of scientific backing, would also be uncooperative to some degree.
Does anyone have a video or written article that would get one up to speed with a bit of the history/progression and current products that are out there for one to try locally?

This is coming from someone that understands the general concepts of how LLMs work but only used the general publicly available tools like ChatGPT, Claude, etc.

I want to see if I have any hardware I can stress and run something locally, but don’t know where to start or even what are the available options.
The problem is that the boundary is not acceptable. The acceptable boundary is none of my information is exfiltrated. Pretending that we have set an "acceptable" boundary is manufacturing consent to being spied upon, and is itself a problem.
Interactive Remote Team Feedback
> why bother when it is so cheap or free to run it on a cloud service?

For the same reasons that we bother to use Open Source software instead of proprietary software.
DSIRE (Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency) is the database that all of those companies use.

https://www.dsireusa.org/

Disclosure: I'm also a Jasmine cofounder.
Cartoons from the 1920’s and up to 1940’s are full of racist tropes like that

And yes we watch those as kids at least in Europe because “all cartoons are for kids”
Here is an another DSL for implementing object model mappings: https://github.com/patleahy/lir
Deploying Docker Containers to AWS ECR/ECS
They're not competent. Data point: they sent me an email saying my domain would automatically renew in 30 days, and then renewed it in 2. While sure, I'm not upset that my domain renewed, I ended up moving to porkbun because I expect a registrar to accurately tell me dates and times. If you say something is happening in X days, I expect it to happen in X days.
A Remarkable School-Choice Experiment
Appears to be a replacement for gdm that is console based (picking and launching your graphical desktop environment). A neat idea, I don't think this has been done before.
News from January

Some discussion then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39130684
Which is the norm for invasive species. I imagine humans specifically concentrated on megafauna because, why not go after the single big easy-to-find animal that will feed your family for weeks?
The other tips here are great, specially related to health and emotional balance. Those are on the top of the list.

Apart from that, you must realize that building a company, or learning hard technical skills can be a huge mountain to climb and lead to all kinds of stresses. It's never as easy as it seems.

Maybe try something lighter, something less challenging? You seem like a good writer. Try writing a blog, LinkedIn articles and posts to grow your reach, curating content and stuff like that. Those are all very helpful and valid ways to engage with the developer community and might give you the confidence boost you need to take it to the next step. Who knows? You might grow the business or skills you want from there!
What's "evolutionism"?
In the Linux desktop world, "display manager" has various responsibilities but most people not steeped in system components might call it a "login screen". So this is a terminal-based replacement for GDM, SDDM, etc.
We share secrets at a fully-remote startup
Another recent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39460568
Officially they have to follow their training, so to speak, and I am sure that's all about how polygraphs are 100% reliable and it's scientific and all that. I wonder if any instructors at some point close the door and tell them "listen, students, yeah, it's all bunk, but we just have to pretend, ok?".
The vast majority of "Forensic Techniques" used by cops are literally things an ex-cop made up / """observed""" and are now charging insane prices to go across the US, giving presentations to other cops or giving testimony in trials.

It's a factless and truthless system.
Very interesting. Previously I've seen two similar ideas:

1. Reduce the test data by property-based tests' auto shrinking a là QuickCheck [1]

2. Reduce the change set to a codebase, a là delta debugging [2]

The reducer is able to do both at the same time in a pretty generic way, with some restrictions on the expressivity. Seems to be a good fit for end-to-end tests.

[1]: https://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/QuickCheck/

[2]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/318774.318946
"In-app purchases".

Google/ every-company/ heck, even EU- fail.
I'd like the prices of every possible addition (to any software) to be clearly stated upfront.

I have several music apps: I do understand a new-instrument/ effect release can't always be accounted for initially, but I'm very sure it can be added to a list on the playstore front page.
State of Open AI – July Edition
Additionally, if you want to be a paas, you're now a paas that can't register domains. Moronic.
> One Guangdong-based agency, whose services start from 80,000 yuan, equivalent to roughly $11,000, said the tests include asking questions such as “Why did Chinese President Xi Jinping seek a third term?” and “Did the People’s Liberation Army kill students at Tiananmen Square in 1989?”

Do we have a full list of the prohibited questions?
Atmospheric Pressure at the Time of Dinosaurs [pdf]
Dr. Levenspiel came up in another thread about elephant curves. He tried for many years to get this article published on the aerodynamics of dinosaurs and how this might reflect on atmospheric pressure at the time. There is a long list included of rejections from various scientific publications in the 90s. Seemed fitting for Hacker News.
This is a great ideal and user friendly as well. Has the potential of converting multiple old devices overnight from being useless. However, I wish they had provided some results on tok/s, latency with some example setups.
Request for Information on Space Weather Scales
I think it’s already been hugged to death and no one has even started talking about it
Why doesn’t Wordpress or Medium count towards “indie blog”?

And what does “doing OK” even mean?

What this article really seems to saying is that “alternative blogging platforms, besides the majors like Wordpress & Medium - are doing ok”.

Not, as the title states, that “indie blogs are doing ok”
It's too bad it's built upon the Lightning Network and not using GNU Taler for payment processing.
If the interviewee's behavior is not indicative of truth then the test serves no purpose other than allowing the interviewer or whoever commissioned the test (like a prosecutor or employer) to invalidly convince other people that the interviewee was lying
What is the difference between useCallBack and useMemo?

When should you use useMemo and useCallback?

In this video tutorial you’ll learn how to use these two React hooks and see some real-world examples.

Chapters:

00:00 useCallback vs. useMemo definition
00:51 First-class functions
01:50 Higher-order functions
02:29 Referential equality
05:09 Memoization
06:16 useCallback vs. useMemo API reference
07:32 Real-world useCallback vs useMemo example
07:49 Why useCallback and useMemo?
09:41 useCallback example
10:10 useMemo example
> People ... expect them to be stewards of the web

Do people really expect that? I'm glad they're part of whatwg etc., but I'd much prefer they just made a good browser instead of tooting their own horns about how much good they're doing for society. In the end I think society would have been better off if they'd just focus on good tech like Gecko/Servo and Rust and not bothered with all their side stuff.
If I understand correctly what you are looking for, Ollama might be a solution (https://ollama.com/)?. I have no affiliation, but I lazily use this solution when I want to run a quick model locally.