skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow. The next paragraph is interesting to read from the future:

It is the author's opinion that fentanyl CsA's will be back as the future analgesic drugs of abuse. The thoughts behind this statement are that the published synthesis schemes for the fentanyl compounds allow for the use of wide variety of precursors as discovered by the confiscated notes from an anonymous clandestine laboratory that synthesized a drug, based on information presented in two separate volumes of the Journal of Organic Chemistry (...). Also, several fentanyl derivatives have such high potencies that the quantities required to be synthesized are trivial. For instance, carfentanil (...) is approximately 4000 times as potent as heroin and has an extremely favorable therapeutic index (Janssen 1985). Hence, an easy week's work for two chemists could provide 10 kilograms of carfentanil which would be equivalent to 40 metric tons of pure heroin.
I don't understand. A bad actor can use a linux server to automatically run botnets and exploit new devices. How is that not a force multiplier?
What about Linux running on Pentium chips?
> Does anyone know if this is literally how they wrote email addresses in 1976? Instead of using the @ symbol they typed the word "at"?

In addition to what gumby wrote, CSAIL still maintains a `finger` server.
CrowdStrike Incident Preliminary Post Incident Review
I'm thinking one way to easily do motor doping is via the bike changes. A rider swaps a doped bike brought in by the team that wasn't checked at the start during the easy portions and rides 100km saving watts along the way. They then change back to a regular bike before things get intense and meanwhile the team finds a way to discreetly get rid of the doped bike.

After the stage the doping controls check the regular bike, but are unaware of the existence of the doped bike.
To whitewash something that otherwise appeared like theft via one more level of bureaucracy.
May I introduce you to Smokey Yunick:

> In another incident, Yunick showed up for a race with stock fender wells still installed on his Chevelle, even though the rules stated they could be removed. After the car qualified well due to improved aerodynamics, fellow competitors complained. Yunick replied, "The rules say you MAY remove them. They don't say you HAVE to." After qualifying, Yunick promptly cut out the fender wells. After further complaints to NASCAR, Smokey said, "The rules don't say WHEN I can remove them."

A racer after HN's heart.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_Yunick
> There aren't compelling new models to sell to existing customers.

Environmentally that's kinda the best. Selling boring models in the millions is better than VW's 20 different models with 100 options. Same model means easier repairs, more accessories, better secondary market.
Personally I've never found this to be issue, as I increase volume sizes base on need, not allocate 100% from the get-go. The space needed for short-lived snapshots is not that big, though that of course can depend on the system.

This also helps dealing with run-away (or long running) processes eating disk space, as you always have some extra space set aside..
Check out btcpayserver

https://btcpayserver.org/
Hey there!

We currently use vllm under the hood and vllm doesn't support Codestral (yet). We're working on expanding our model support. Hence (almost) any model.

Thanks for testing! :)

https://github.com/vllm-project/vllm/issues/6479

- Billy :)
Animals love to get drunk. Ever see those funny National Geographic videos of monkeys and elephants eating over-ripe fruit and then staggering around, clearly wasted? There's a plausible hypothesis that humans invented agriculture so we could have a more stable source of beer. I drank a boatload of caffeine today. I saw a neighbor vape.

We have a long history of using naturally occurring and manufactured drugs. The wide majority of living humans consume psychoactive substances regularly. What's objectively different about our drugs versus theirs? Theirs might be more potent, but in my younger days I made up for that in volume of things like alcohol.

Abstinence-only education is an abysmal failure regardless of the subject. "Don't get high" is right up there with "don't have sex" on the list of recommendations that almost no one's going to follow.
How does it work, actually? Literally carve a hole, grab a chunk with your hand from the source brain, and chunk it inside the hole and pray? I mean, how does the "wiring" work?
This is very cool!

As an aside, I find it frustrating how different Python packaged want to be installed in different ways. Pip this, conda that, and now… pipx?

I worry about how all these systems will interact and conflict.
Industrial AI: An AI-powered platform that monitors manufacturing shops
What if there was an AI copilot that knew everything about your factory. All past machine issues, every maintenance report, and real-time performance metrics. That’s what we are building at Industrial AI, and we'd love to talk to anyone in manufacturing. If that's you or someone you know, let's talk! We want to solve your problems.

We're a group of engineers that grew frustrated with current manufacturing software, so we're building the next generation manufacturing platform. Try it for free.

jose@industrial-ai-labs.com
> Maybe an additional "lower resolution" index on top of the map could help as a heuristic to skip whole regions

That sounds a bit like circling back around to a tree-based system (albeit with depth=2) where each parent is somehow summarizing the state of child nodes below it.
LPDDR6 has extra bits that can be used for ECC so in some sense it becomes free. As the sibling said, that won't force Intel to actually turn ECC on.
Bridge RNAs direct programmable recombination of DNA (CRISPR successor)
Now handle the following that is painlessly solved by runtimes with structured concurrency:

If A failed, the whole function is failed, and we don't need B any more. To save resources we should cancel B. And vice versa, cancel A if B failed.
> The main problem is that someone got it in their head

This unnecessarily trivializes the technical problems at hand. This wasn't just something someone got in their head, especially considering...

> that the function definition was the right place to designate whether a function was async or not, and it's not. The right place is the call site.

This is exactly what JavaScript did. The program only yields at `await`ed callsites and doesn't yield at all other callsites.

`async` only tells the VM to create the state machine necessary to resume the function after `awaited` calls return.
A hydrothermal explosion at Yellowstone unleashes rocks and steam
To be fair every photo you have ever uploaded to the internet of
your face is also going through this TSA line 1000 times a day. Which is also horrifying.

In my opinion faces are really not very good ID. I think it could also be distracting from the wayyy scarier types of identifying you like the storing of DNA for simply being arrested... not even convicted of a crime... forever...
Ask HN: How to crack a market without network?
Hi,
I want to ask the community that how did you crack a market for your product without having network? Going to the events and meeting face to face to create your network is a slow, time consuming and energy draining process. What hacks did you use to grab attention of your target market to sell your product?
Columbia, Indiana is not exactly outside of the US
I personally use the following:

- MSys2 - unix tools for windows

- wsl - Windows subsystem for linux

- Powershell + Powershell ISE - windows shell + dev tool

- starship - prompt config that also works on Powershell

- scoop - package manager (similar to apt and others) installs to your user directory

- The ultimate windows utility - debloat and installer https://christitus.com/windows-tool/

- my dotfiles

I still prefer POSIX stuff, but this way it is acceptable, especially scoop package manager is the most useful tool to save time installing software without admin permissions.
When I used a power meter, the data could be exported in some kind of machine-readable format like CSV. All you do is change the numbers.
Would starvation be a problem? Don't most countries have food reserves for these cases? At least enough food for one season?
That's the thing, they didn't have any legal recourse, but plenty of times that just meant that the recourse would be significantly less than legal.
I don't need to prove myself to anyone, but just for the record, I don't get high off this stuff. I use it to treat my ADHD.

If you don't know what I'm talking about or how that is possible, please don't accuse me of chasing a high and not valuing my own life. You don't know what I am chasing (it is executive function).

The fact that there's relatively little professional research into the substance should mean that you can't know how dangerous it is or isn't; you should know not to jump to conclusions.

Academic papers about the effects of psilocybin are slowly starting to trickle out of clinical trials, but there's still much as of yet unexplored.
Similar story for me. Elevation, your post is a form of marketing and you need to give people a way they can contact you. For a start, email address in your profile.
It's worth noting that sex causes the release of endorphins, which are basically endogenous morphine (i.e. opioids). So telling people not to get high would technically imply they shouldn't have sex either, since that "afterglow" is technically analogous to an opioid high... (albeit, a minor one)

> Animals love to get drunk.

Dolphins. I love dolphins. Getting high is a social activity for them, much like nearly everything else. They will pass a pufferfish around the group and take turns huffing the toxin in order to get high. It's adorable~
You can either enhance the athlete or the equipment, it just so happens that cycling involves more complex equipment attached to the athlete than most sports. I imagine this is even more of a concern in the Paralympics where various prosthetics, mobility equipment and other assistive technologies could give certain athletes unfair advantages.
This video linked in the article (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XBzV0bDZdQ) makes me want to donate to Institute for Justice to maybe help stop this practice. But a bit of Googling shows that IfJ were also one of the legal forces behind the Citizens United decision, which is something I really don't want to support.
New theoretical calculation solves the "muon g-2" puzzle
It would sure be nice to place those limits, but in the meantime it’s still worth opting out right?
Thanks for the recommendation! Fireworks pricing looks amazing still. $3 for input AND output, vs $3 and $15 for the comparable Claude 3.5 Sonnet from Anthropic.
Monarchs used to sponsor pirates to harass enemy nations, so long history.
Discussion (343 points, 9 hours ago, 164 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41050055
> until they have the whole salami and by then it’s too late.

so what is the whole salami?

It's not unreasonable to know exactly who is on which flight imho.

It is slightly worse to have face recognition in public spaces, but your identity is not a secret. As long as this information is not available for private uses (aka, it is only used by law enforcement), i don't see the privacy implications of public facial recognition.
Incredibly motivating to read.
The .gov website links to the same app, so yes. https://www.fcc.gov/BroadbandData/speed-test-app
I'm not particularly concerned about the user limit. The companies for which those limits will matter are so large that they should consider contributing back to humanity by developing their own SOTA foundation models.
Re safety: Just release two models, one that has been tuned and one that hasn't.

Claude is supposed to be better, but it is also even more locked down than ChatGPT.

Word will let me write a manifest for a new Nazi party, but Claude is so locked down that it won't find a cartoon in a picture and Gemini... well.

If AIs are not to harm society, they need to enable us to think in new ways.
Why does anyone still do business in Delaware after the ridiculous court judgement against Elon and now this?
HN moderation is quite poor and very subjective. The guidelines are not the site rules, the rules are made up on the spot.

HN censors too. Facebook just does it automatically on a huge scale with no reasoning behind each censor.

Censorship is just tuning people or things you don't want out. Censorship of your own content as a user is extremely annoying and Facebook's censorhsip is quite unethical. It doesn't help safety of the users, it helps safety of the business.

Also Facebook censors things that are not objectively not offensive in lots of instances. YouTube too. Safety for their brand.
>Subways can be non-rail, as seen with the Montreal subway

Yes, and it's terrible. The Montreal subway is by far the noisiest subway system I've ever used. Even standing on the platform is a terrible experience because it's so loud when the cars are moving.
“It’s just for if a crooked cop pulls me over” probably not going to sway the secret service.
Pvldb Paper Announcement
Uncontrollable noise is really stressful. I'm surprised that as a society we don't regulate noise better.
I could swear I read this exact story years ago
"Doors" in Solaris: Lightweight RPC Using File Descriptors (1996)
IIRC I did get a roadblock attaching a zip file with GMail several years ago.

GMail also complained about direct-attaching a locally-built, unsigned exe file to an address that I'd never corresponded with. To be fair this probably should have caused suspicion :)
It'd help build a case if they took measurements of noise around the property. I'm not saying it isn't true or anything like it but 'loud noise' can mean a multitude of things. I'd say my downstairs neighbors have jet engines in their house but sometimes it's just a vacuum cleaner and I'm a bit miffed that day. If they'd said that a sound level meter reported +80db at 500m or 1km away, that'd give readers and potential visitors a real measure of the problem and it's consequences.

I'd have a nephew or younger sibling with some take on his hands to make measurements around it and make a graph with the sound levels at various radii and times of day, that'd build you a strong case for the factory being hazardous to health - and hopefully give you ammo for the upcoming legal trouble there'll be over there.
According to RFC 561 ("Standardizing Network Mail Headers ", 1973) it was literally "at":

We suggest that the text of network mail, whether transmitted
over the FTP telnet connection (via the MAIL command) or over a
separate data connection (with the MLFL command), be governed by
the syntax below:

Example:

From: White at SRI-ARC
Date: 24 JUL 1973 1527-PDT
Subject: Multi-Site Journal Meeting Announcement
NIC: 17996

At 10 AM Wednesday 25-JULY there will be a meeting
to discuss a Multi-Site Journal in the context of
the Utility. Y'all be here.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc561

RFC 733 (Standard for the Format of ARPA Network Text Messages, 1977) has examples of addresses in both formats and this note: Whenever a message might be transmitted or migrate to a host on another network, full hierarchical addresses must be specified. These are indicated as a series of words, separated by at-sign or "at" indications.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc733
Neither of those usages relate to IT, they both are about sources of intelligence (espionage). Even if they were, the OSI definition won, nobody is using the definitions from 1995 CIA or the 1996 InfoConWar book in the realm of IT, not even Facebook.

The community has the authority to complain about companies mis-labelling their pork products as vegan, even if nobody has a registered trademark on the term vegan. Would you tell people to shut up about that case because they don't have a registered trademark? Likewise, the community has authority to complain about Meta/Facebook mis-labelling code as open source even when they put restrictions on usage. It's not gate-keeping or dictatorship to complain about being misled or being lied to.
Be careful with 3-MMC. It’s rampant in The Netherlands, everyone and their mom is using it as a party drug. 16 year old kids are getting addicted and I have multiple friends that went to rehab for it. Pretty sure I damaged my kidney with it as well.
Yea, I walked into the SOS room day one of my degree and so learned SOS and Pascal instead of LISP and TECO. I do sometimes think I chose the wrong room. But your point about the point is well made, I think the DEC-10 TECO had a way to draw the current line and show where the point was, but it was very inferior to have to do it. Like chess wizards you're meant to carry an image of the code in your head at all times. I tried teco, couldn't entirely cope.

SOS led naturally to ed in due course. I did learn emacs, But never really took to it. Now, I run my daily work log in org mode and do nothing else in it, but it is very good as a massively over-engineered multi-window table editor.

Charles Forsyth (York) wrote a macro for ed which took the point, redrew the 24 line vt00 display to show the lines around it (12 above 11 below) and put you back where you were. He said it made ed as good as vi, and on the baudrate of the day who am I to disagree?
It's Texas. As long as an industry is below 85dbA at the property line, they're compliant with state law.[1] Some municipalities, notably Forth Worth, have lower limits. But the state limits the power of municipalities to regulate oil and gas mining. Fracking sites, unlike traditional oil wells, are quite noisy.

[1] https://www.cailaw.org/media/files/IEL/ConferenceMaterial/20...
In Praise of Small Pull Requests
Thanks for the feedback!

We're working on fleshing out ToS, privacy policy, and company specifics, but just to answer your first question, I'm Billy Cao, an ex-Google eng, and Matt Baker is ex-Airbnb, ex-Meta.

Re: concerns, our infra will scale relatively well (several qps per model, probably), but we're still in the stages of fleshing things out and getting feedback. :)

Feel free to drop us a line at hi@glhf.chat if you wanted to chat specifics!

- Billy
First you’re going to have to write some laws that prevent openwashing and legitimate open source projects from becoming proprietary.
One other reason is that the quality of Amazon listings has really nosedived over the last decade. There are too many spammy merchants in the marketplace now. You cannot just trust the name or description - you need to look at the reviews (or other websites) these days before you feel confident about your purchase.

It’s a classic case of mismatched incentives - the Retail org is just focused on increasing sellers and listings because they have reviews to bail them out, but Devices really need quality results which Retail is not motivated to provide. Their recent focus on mimicking Temu and Shein is only going to make things worse.
Back when I lived in DC, I used to take the DC Metro regularly, usually at least every weekend. I got murdered about once a month on average.
Code Fellows has ceased operations
It's emulated turtles all the way down.
> If Facebook can't release data it trains on because it would compromise user privacy, it is already a significant privacy violation that should be a scandal

Thousands of entities would scramble to sue Facebook over any released dataset no matter what the privacy implications of the dataset are.

It's just not worth it in any world. I believe you are not thinking of this problem from the view of the PM or VPs that would actually have to approve this: if I were a VP and I was 99% confident that the dataset had no privacy implications, I still wouldn't release it. Just not worth the inevitable long, drawn out lawsuits from people and regulators trying to get their pound of flesh.

I feel the world is too hostile to big tech and AI to enable something like this. So, unless we want to kill AGI development in the cradle, this is what we get - and we can thank modern populist techno-pessimism for cultivating this environment.
Bringing up issues is fine

If you have so many issues you need to bring them up on a weekly basis? Less fine.

Yes, relationships require work, communication and maintenance but issues coming up that frequently would be a sure sign that something is dysfunctional imo

Edit:
And similarly, like another commenter pointed out, treating it like a weekly task that needs to be done does seem like it would invite nit picking. Deliberately seeking out problems just to have something to talk about at the weekly retrospective

There are a lot of things that my wife does that I don't like, but unless I actually have a reason beyond "that is mildly annoying to me" I don't usually ask her to stop.

Part of relationships is also just learning to let the small things go.
Well Time covered this in February (33 points, 52 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39235518

Then there was a story about North Carolina in 2023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34444618

Another one from 2022 https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-crypto-mine-is-making-life-a...
Personally I am far more interested in what they will write about Mariupol.
You mean the war on drugs needs to be surrendered. The war on drugs is great when the government and the people actually want to win the war.
The output of the training engine, I.E. the model itself, isn't source code at all though. The best approximation would be considering it obfuscated code, and even then it's a stretch since it is more similar to compressed data.

It sounds like Meta doesn't share source for the training logic. That would be necessary for it to really be open source, you need to be able to recreate and modify the codebase but that has nothing to do with the training data or the trained model.
I would hope that some subtle shift in markets here, now that both ARM and AMD are competitive with Intel for a significant market in desktop, DC and device niches might make Intel change their mind.

A friend says, of 'we should' ideas like this: "I wish all my competitors did this" with a strong implication mUsT dO iT bEcAuSe is really stupid. He may be right.
You missed the news...

> Tesla will start using humanoid robots in 2025

ROTFL
Sorry to be a downer, but I doubt prop money would look like real money on an X-ray. I’ve seen bundles of cash on a TSA X-ray and it has a distinctive look.
Because the most likely doping they still use is self blood-infusions, as described by Infuentes recently. Not detectable.

And those incredible new records by the top riders can only be explained by doping. Faster than with EPO.
Mechanical doping is still an additional possibility, sure. Esp. after several riders complained about those motor noises last year.
Master Foo long predates Python and Rust.
Its the Soviets - they don't give a shit about casualties.