skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disables Swap and Zram, gets OOM killed, surprised pikachu face

Joking aside, is there an actual legitimate reason to do this on a workstation? I understand why you would want to disable swap on something like a kubernetes cluster node but in my head, heaving at-least zram enabled is a good thing on a workstation so you *don't* get OOM killed... I call on thee, Linux wizards of HN, to help me understand the reasoning behind this.
Last time I made blood test it really pissed me off why their forms require national ID and phone number. The nurse in turn was pissed at me why I'm reluctant to write down phone number.
Very rich person toy!

Not only had computers not become a household item, but for those who were interested enough to buy a home computer, there were many different brands and models to choose from, most at a fraction of the price of the Apple. The computers I actually saw in the 80s were Timex, Toshiba, Sinclair, Commodore, Tandy, BBC, Amstrad, Archimedes. These were pretty much all separate ecosystems, with different models from the same manufacturer frequently being incompatible with their stable mates. Considering how capable machines like the Amiga and Archimedes were at a fraction of the cost of the Apple, and considering the fact that Apple was just another expensive ecosystem, you had to be particularly loaded to buy into it. Was there a must-have piece of software that only existed for the Mac back then? Computer graphics was arguably better on the Amiga, and even desktop publishing wasn't a done deal.

I know of only one person who had a Mac, and it was loaned to him by the company he worked for (as a software developer). No idea why they chose Apple.

The first "PC" I ever saw in real life was a Wang (unknown model) some time in the very late 80s. that was purchased for our school tech drawing class. It ran DOS and AutoCAD (unknown version) and also had Prince of Persia.
The whole project itself seems like "complicators gloves" to be honest...
Just buy something like a RasPi and be done with it (and it if even comes with WiFi and Bluetooth which you can disable).
Like the blower aimed at the conveyor belt to blow the empty tube paste boxes away?
I know someone who was greatly helped by acetyl-L-carnitine in that regard.

Also, do everything you can to be healthy.
That's is even more unexpected.

FooBar != fooBar

FooBar == Foobar

That could cause a lot of head ache in large code base ..
An educated guess, but I'd think wifi signal object detection works on recording a baseline (empty room signals) and then doing a diff to the baseline when some object moves. If that's the case, you cound not use the wifi signal to map the static room itself.
I certainly wasn’t cool for being into the Mac back then. PCs, but mostly Commodores and Amigas was where it was at.
> Some of these people had been so marginalized by society and abandoned by their families that the connection from their random sexual encounters was the only thing they had.

See I don't really buy that. Because I have seen what the gay community in Berlin is like. Nobody is marginalised any more, it is more than accepted. It is even celebrated.

And they still have two hookups in a random toilet or in sleazy saunas before lunch.

And of course not all gay men are like that. But male sexuality tends to be more uninhibited. Why don't female lesbians display this behaviour ?

I am against the prevailing hedonistic culture. A culture that promotes eudemonia instead, is in my opinion greatly beneficial to both the individual and the society.

But you do you.
What's not so mainstream [knowledge] is that housecats are de facto sacred to Iain Banks' millieu (as well as to the otherwise iconoclastic Mohammedans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_cats)

Ok, I(M)B himself has compared lesser beings in the Culture to peasants

http://strangehorizons.com/non-fiction/articles/a-few-questi...
> Once again, the military, who are sworn in to protect the constitution.

Ah, so the military would have to remove the constitutionally appointed president from office (remember, the constitution doesn't specify the VP can't be threatened, and Pence would have to weigh publicly stating that he was threatened against danger to his life and his family). The military would be going against their CoC. How healthy would that be for your democracy? What if they aren't courageous enough to do it?

I know you'll probably say that the constitution doesn't have to explicitly say the VP can't be threatened - remember that the only reason for this whole mess is that the constitution doesn't explicitly say the VP has to count the real electors. You can't read things into the constitution you're not 100% sure the stacked supreme court would also read.

> This would only work if Trump had the backing of the military in order to prevent them from acting or enforcing the law.

No, he doesn't need backing, he only needs them not to explicitly back his opponents.
for democracy?

> Maybe because he is a wreckless fool. That does not mean it was an insurrection.

So Trump tried everything in his power to overturn the election, and the Republican party tried everything to overturn the election, but it could have never worked and they were simply fools. It did almost work if one individual had decided differently, but it could have never worked. Am I understanding this correctly?
How would this interact with `io_uring`, especially the polling modes (IO_SETUP_SQPOLL, IO_SETUP_IOPOLL)?
I think Hoffmans path and the idea of consciousness being fundamental comes from a few conceptual
Leaps - let me go through the high level of each one:

1. Current physics shows via quantum mechanics that spacetime has a definite limit in measurement (Planck scale)

2. Relatively also applies a similar limit on our ability to measure time and space (infinite energy/black holes)

3. Latest work in high energy physics has led to some interesting new findings (in the last 10 years or so) regarding an approach to calculate particle scattering amplitudes in supercolliders <= that is: when you apply nonlocal assumptions and certain mathematical simplification and that new approach simplifies the scattering amplitude calculations and ALSO just happens to map to a new conceptual framework where you think “outside of space and time” and then you can come to a geometric “structure” of immense complexity (let’s call one conception of that geometry the ‘amplitudehedron’) which is static, and immense encoding the universe itself, this polytope encodes the scattering amplitudes

For more on this See: https://youtu.be/6TYKM4a9ZAU?si=alGV5ThrCdBKcyfJ (hour long lecture by physicist Nima Arkani Hamid)

Short version: https://www.ias.edu/ideas/nima-arkani-hamed-amplituhedron

4. Given the hard problem of consciousness, ie “only awareness is aware” (ie we cannot break down the qualia of awareness) (Now this is where Hoffman goes wild: Hoffman says: “ Ok well, given that space time as we know it doomed (not fundamental - again see point 3 above)” then, let’s propose that consciousness IS defined to be FUNDAMENTAL and that it exists as a ‘network of conscious agents’:

Ie he preposes a “formal model of consciousness based on a mathematical structure called conscious agents”. then he proposes how time and space emerge from the interactions of conscious agents via the structure mentioned in point 3 above..

Hoffman then claims his math for these models implies that we are in a universe that emerged out fundamental consciousness and that he is working on a mathematical model he hopes can be tied the new physics that emerge out of the amplitudehedron through networks of these agents

5. Finally it was my observation that the general theory of Neural Networks in the article had some interesting similarities with all of this (ie maybe Nature uses such networks at all scales to represent intelligence )

Feel free to be skeptical- I am but I get all sorts of weird feeling he’s onto something here…
It’s a great service and forgive my cynicism but how, without losing money?
Thanks for sharing this. This is one of the best testing features I've ever seen - I've had so many troubles with timing tests and refactoring around them. I really hope this gets merged.
And its not entitled to cliam that "Most people have extra hardware lying around at home". Your story doesn't sound plausible at all.
For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default
Show HN: I wrote a toy proof assistent
It is an implementation of the Calculus of Constructions with a small set of axioms.
This stuff is going to be so useful for the robots people!!!
I've worked out the economics! The cost of the free plan is negligible.
Where did I agree to anything? You're either not reading my messages correctly, or you're playing pre-programmed messages. Neither are part of an honest discussion.
That is kind of his point. You don't, Windows is bundled with laptop. It is not that I agree with his points. Windows for example isn't open source in remotest sense
Having been using a Framework 13 running Fedora for ~2 weeks now... it's going great! I've plugged in a variety of external devices (monitors, a webcam) and they've all just worked.
A working knowledge of C++, plus a bit of online reading about CUDA and the NVidia GPU architecture, plus studying the LCZero chess engine source code (the CUDA neural net part, I mean) seems like enough to get started. I did that and felt like I could contribute to that code, at least at a newbie level, given the hardware and build tools. At least in the pre-NNUE era, the code was pretty readable. I didn't pursue it though.

Of course becoming "really good" is a lot different and like anything else, it presumably takes a lot of callused fingertips (from typing) to get there.
No, but CUDA at least supported the 8800 gt on release [1]. ROCm didn't support any consumer cards on release, looks like they didn't support any till last year? [2]

[1]https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nvidia-unveils-cuda-the-gpu-co...

[2]https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-rocm-comes-to-windows-...
How dare you judge someone else as quirky? This is the most antisocial thing anyone has ever done.

Apologise, now.
> In addition, the marketing is currently only in English, which is not the primary language of any EU country.

Sorry Ireland...
The "device" in question must be Apple Silicon because the `mlx` package is a hard dependency, or at least an ARM machine (I do not have any Apple Silicon Macbooks or ARM machines to run this). I tried tweaking this before realizing calls to this library is littered all over the repo. I don't really understand the AI ecosystem very well but it seems that the use of the `mlx` library should be supplanted by some other library depending on the platform machine. Until then, and the actual release of the iOS code somewhere, "everyday devices" is limited to premium devices that almost no one has more than one of. I'm looking forward to run this on other machine platforms and squeeze out what I can from old hardware laying around. Otherwise I doubt the tagline of the project.

Edit: to add on, the only evidence that this runs anywhere but Apple Silicon is the maintainer's Twitter where they show it running on two Macbook Pros as well as other devices. I'm not sure how many of those devices are not ARM.

I'm not throwing shade at the concept the author is presenting, but I'd appreciate if they could slow down functional commits (he is writing them right now as I type) and truthfully modify the documentation to state which targets are actually able to run this.
>The first "PC" I ever saw in real life was a Wang

Anyone got a history on why Wang Computers didn't take off?
why ask? try it!
Hi, thanks for trying it out.

Currently the app is using
- Dall-e 3 for generation,
- Dalle-2 for edits,
- OpenAI TTS for speech,
- Suno for Music,
- Segment-anything for object-detection.

More models will be added soon for each category, as well as a video generation model...(waiting on sora api to drop :) )
GraphQL with Springboot
Very good example. I didn't even know about first letter sensitivity and the rest insensitivities. That's real big problem.

Also since nim is very ninche and used by very little perscentage of the world they haven't encounter much of production scale coding. Well that may be reason nim never get pass weekend hobby projects..
Monetization and abuse has been mentioned a bunch as things to consider as you gain more users, but I'll add a couple more I think are relevant, at least once the service is big enough.

Your payment processor. Payment processors might get triggered by the fact that adult content is pretty much explicitly allowed. They might also just generally deem you "high risk" and kick you out. I think this is one of the biggest risks you run. For example Stripe, according to their legal docs, prohibit "Cyberlockers, regardless of whether they host adult content", whatever that means, but it sounds a lot like file sharing in general is a prohibited business.

Ever-tightening think-of-the-children laws. You may not want to implement expensive and privacy invasive scanning (note that even local scanning may be privacy invasive[1]), but you might be forced or face a fine. You could always do like Google and budget it in as an expense, love that "fines" line in their reports. This may also be relevant to the previous one, since payment processors might deem you higher risk if you have no scanning.

Getting blacklisted for hosting malware. Specifically the support for non-media files. You could end up being blocked by browsers, search engines and whatnot. See for example Google Safe Browsing.

[1] https://rys.io/en/173.html
Please, please, find an actual filmmaker to make your demo videos.

Being able to program the editor doesn't make you a good user of the editor.

You'll likely also get very valuable feedback from the process of making those videos.
What you have described here is the phenomenon that Stigler describes as "Regulatory Capture". [0]

Regulatory capture is the use of state resources (mostly regulation). To tilt the ground of business in thier favour at the expense of the public and other competitors.

People beg for "regulation" from the government but the problem is that the politicians are often puppets of the very corporations they are meant to regulate. That's how we end up with regulatory capture scams.

Is that "capitalism"? I don't think so. Does it contain traces of capitalism? Yes.

But I think what Americans have is more of corny-capitalism, state-capitalism & regulatory capture.

It is very different from Hayekian capitalism which is actually anti-crony capitalism & anti regulatory capture.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
> Not everyone is using linux.

Correct, it also fails on IOS the same way ( https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2010-12-17-custom-o... ), I haven't checked on more recent IOS versions, but it used to. I imagine that sooner than later apple may merge IOS and OSX kernels, who knows.

If the solution proposed is not to work on the 3 of the common operating systems(IOS, ANDROID, LINUX) adoption may be a problem.

> malloc can fail,

Yes, only if you allocate greater than the virtual address space in a process, or if you don't use an optimistic allocator (or disable overcommit) it could, I suggest you try this to find some REAL shady offenders that just abuse memory use, lodge bugs and then record the response (or lack thereof).

I have tried this for a bunch of utilities, and have had a hard time convincing software developers that they don't need to do insane things.

> and should fail.

I absolutely agree, fixing this problem means 'fixing and solving the problem for all software' which is something that is a very hard problem to solve, if you do find a way let me know.
Great to hear :)
> she tried really, really hard to get me diagnosed with sleep apnea, despite not one but two very clearly negative sleep studies

This is highly unethical.

People should report such instances to relevant regulators, at least as a matter of record. A single such report won't have much teeth, many of similar nature might catch someone's attention.
We are running smaller models with software we wrote (self plug alert: https://github.com/singulatron/singulatron) with great success. There are obvious mistakes these models make (such as the one in our repo image - haha) sometimes but they can also be surprisingly versatile in areas you don't expect them to be, like coding.

Our demo site uses two NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 and our whole team is hammering it all day. The only problem is occasionally high GPU temperature.

I don't think the picture is as bleak as you paint. I actually expect Moore's Law and better AI architectures to bring on a self-hosted AI revolution in the next few years.
Google did large layoffs in Jan 2023 and Jan 2024, and smaller rolling layoffs continue, including layoffs in May 2024.

https://layoffs.fyi/
> Most people do not have 100 GB of media on hand, ...

I have over 130 GB of media and really just started taking pictures two years ago. My mother for sure has way over 100 GB of media. My gf too. My father also has over 100 GB of media. And we all are not photographers or people who must take pictures of everything.
100 GB is not that much really, especially since everybody cat take 4K pictures and record 4K videos.
Who do you mean by "most people"?
Situations like these https://www.thehulltruth.com/boating-forum/183583-fuel-tank-... could be the reason to test oil frequently.
Any negativity you read into it was a projection
So, a COVID denialist/anti-vaxxer trying to find a new field of activity?
Re-Canary: Detecting Reverse Engineering with Canary Tokens (2017)
"We have seen this succeed multiple times: FreeSync vs GSync, DLSS vs FSR, (not AMD but) Vulkan vs DirectX & Metal."

I'll definitely agree with you on Sync and Vulkan, but dlss and xess are both better than fsr.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=el70HE6rXV4
And no such thing ever exist in other languages as first letter sensitive identifiers
Sadly that's the common approach nowadays - you can't have an opposite opinion to anything. "I am right and you're morally, ethically, spiritually, physically, positively, absolutely . . . wrong and thus, let me educate you."

People don't want any metrics being collected - that's the point being made by many those who criticize this feature. And Mozilla in the last years eroded trust of their userbase in various ways - remember Mr Robot "experiment" for example? Not mention that introduction of this feature arrived after publishing information that they purchased an ad tech company that's "focused on privacy", created by... former Meta executives.

Firefox landing page comes with such text nowadays:

> Get the browser that protects what’s important

> No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers. Just a lightning fast browser that doesn’t sell you out.

I think they should have guts and remove it already because at this point, this is just a false advertising.

I was with Firefox when it was still Phoenix (still using Mozilla Suite at that time) and honestly, it's really sad to see how this project and company from an ally become the enemy after 20 years.
Had one issued for work. Absolutely hated working on it. Though that was probably more a mismatch with work requirement (heavy excel use + teams = deathly slow). A lighter OS plus lighter use could be fine.
"Windows"

dxvk-gplasync is a game changer for dx9-11 shader stutter.
A truly "hackish" all-in-one test/measurement gadget is;

1) ExpEYES (Experiments for Young Engineers and Scientists) - https://expeyes.in/

2) SEELab 3.0 which is a upgrade of ExpEYES-17 - https://csparkresearch.in/seelab3

I have played with the previous version of ExpEYES (ExpEYES Junior) using the Python software. I also have the Seelab3 but haven't played with it yet. You can buy them directly (don't buy from Amazon due to markup) from any of the dealers listed in https://expeyes.in/hardware.html (i bought my Seelab3 from Novatronics).

There is a Android version of the software for both and so you can use them from your Smartphone/Tablet.
This project is literally aiming to run on devices like old phones.

I don't think having an old phone is particularly entitled.

I think casually slapping down $100 on whim to play with an API... probably, yeah.

/shrug
The succint answer would be they were choked out of existence in the office market by IBM.

They had an early lead and captured word processing, IBM had big iron and expanded down to personal computers suitable for office word processing and had the big government | military | banking contracts to force through sweeter deals on the desktop range as a "one shop" solution for everything computing related.
This is very well done, congrats on the launch and I am extremely impressed by your decisions (to keep this as simple as possible, to avoid scanning, and to provide apps). I am equally, if not more, impressed by your replies to comments here and criticism. Keep up the good work!
Singulatron: Run and develop self-hosted AI apps
OpenAI illegally barred staff from airing safety risks, whistleblowers say
https://archive.ph/F29dT
https://x.com/Boeing/status/1134833250533302273

Give me a break already, you are not being sincere
It's unfortunate because I found that the Surface Pro "expensive" models are gerat, but the lower end really can't handle much of any workflow (dreaded latency spikes) and it leads to loads of people just having a middling impression of a product that theoretically could capture a lot of the high end Windows market IMO
> "The Library of Horrors"

Oh god that brings back memories from when I dared to propose sharing "failure stories" instead of success stories when I was in consulting. The look on people's faces was that rare blend of disdain and horror. We can't fail, how can we share failures? I mean you only learn from each other's successes right?
"No social media footprint" - honestly, I don't believe that. He could easily be on Reddit, or other platforms, under a pseudonym that is hard to identify.

Also, one earlier report stated that some unnamed social media platforms had already removed the guy's profile on the FBI's request.

Whatever the truth is, the question will be if we ever hear about it. The FBI, and the US government in general, are ridiculously secretive. Classify everything.
Is it bad that for all application uses, I reach for `asprintf`?

As well as reaching for the %ms format for scanf for reading input.

For buffers, I use memcpy and length tracking. Any other approach seems like unnecessary headache. Or maybe modern hardware has spoiled me?
Self-inflicted wounds hurt the most.
So this identifies keys from source and target objects that are fuzzy synonyms and copies the values over. What is a real world use case for this? Add the fact that it's fuzzy and won't always work, so would require a great deal of extra effort in QA/testing (harder than just mapping the keys programmatically), and I'm puzzled.
Wifi mapping seems to require in place training specific to the space from what I can tell so don't think that'll work for your usage case.
I had learned about this in the Pandemia podcast last year, unfortunately only available in German. But I thought for all the German-speaking HN readers I could share, it's worth listening to: https://superelektrik.de/pandemia/syphilis-geschichte-eines-...

Pandemia is a podcast started during the Covid pandemic, but regularly covering all kinds of diseases and health issues.
Thanks, I'm glad you noticed this one
There was something similar with Coil.com, based on the Web Monetisation API. Basically you paid $5/month, and it was shared on a pro-rata basis between on content you consumed that supported the API. Coil themselves had content lists on their website to discover, but the goal was for the monetisation to happen organically.

It failed.