skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's change for the sake of change. I think it's mostly politics coming down from Red Hat. How exactly I'm not sure, but I fail to see any sane reason behind replacing things that worked well for decades with new things that are oftentimes inferior on merits.

Anyway. systemd vs unix philosophy is an insurmountable ravine and I chose to stay in what I think is sane camp.
We already had communism in part of Europe.
They talk about Bitcoin on financial news shows, which lends it a huge amount of credibility. It's like if Jim Cramer has opinions about last night's Powerball numbers.
Any chance to get my SaaS into "Heroku alternatives" section as well?

https://ptah.sh
Who decides what is a civilian vs military target?

Fire bombing Dresden or Tokyo - terrorism, or war?

Nighttime Bombing a factory that produces ball bearings - terrorism, or war?
Has anyone find the FCC ID or manual on the AR924 Rugged pager? CNN mentions that they sold 220,000 units world wide, including the US. And there's nothing about the thing for both FCC and CE.
That's for a single inference though. You can do about 3600 of them in an hour.
> I don't think the government applying such levers to change how the market allocates capital probably won't be a win for economic output or quality of life.

Cuz letting it manage itself works so well
What is new in Java 23?
Man the term must have changed since I was in school; i thought garbage collection was a much more general concept than a specific tactic to achieve this end of automatic memory collection. Pity, it was a useful term.

It's worth noting many others also consider automatic reference counting to be a form of gc, albeit one with different strengths and weaknesses than stack- and heap-scanning varieties
Unfortunately I’ve been trying to tell this to friends and family for
almost a decade in regards to clothing and home goods.

People are stuck in the 80s and 90s that a logo defines how something was made, which isn’t true at all these days. Calvin Klein is a great example where most of their income comes from licensing, not selling their own clothes. They might review designs but have no say on if the resulting garment can be sold with their logo. As long as they get get the licensing fee. Unfortunately I know people who will spend more on their items than the same garment made by the same manufacturer but with a different license on jt

Same for Toshiba TVs and many others
It could be used to differentiate LLM text from pre-LLM human text maybe. The thing, our AIs may not be very good at learning but our brains are. The more we use AI, the more we integrate LLMs and other tools into our life, the more their output will influence us. I believe there was a study (or a few anecdotes) where college papers checked for AI material were marked AI written even though they were written by humans because the students used AI during their studying and learned from it.
Startups are a great option. Many are remote, have a super high upside, and have interesting projects you can actually be involved in every aspect of. If anyone is interested in the startup I’m at (Vertice AI), shoot me an email at lukew@verticeanalytics.ai - we’re hiring
Warp Drives and Closed Timelike Curves
The company was just an letter box. Apollo HongKong produced these devices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x50wwGjX2Ao
As someone working at a very large bank. I strongly disagree.
The bank spun up a new business to experiment with blockchain technology and went hard at it for several years until they recently sidelined those projects...
In favour of AI

The amount of internal hype across all areas of the business (especially in the tech areas of the business) with regards to AI has been frankly stunning to witness.
Ask HN: Good Sites for/with AI Enthusiasts?
As an enthusiast sometimes I feel that I get stuck in a corner and could use some overview. A newsforum about AI engineering could help. E.g. most articles about practical things (think civitai guides), some articles dive deeper into how this tech works (think 3b1b). Do you know a good one?

I only google things and am not e-social, so may miss something obvious like “civitai’s good though, why” or “there’s tech jesus but for AI on YT”.

Interested: AI tech, SD inference and training, local LLM models and prompting/settings, VLMs, TTSs, other models, scripts, experiments, popsci.

Disinterested: CEO said, politics, winter, alignment, eats us all, not a human, etc.

I can provide my lora training and automation experience, for the most part (around 100 sd 1.5 loras, few versions each).
That is frustrating. Does she drink more coffee, tea, water, during the day? Are your stress levels higher? Did your parents have similar cavity issues?
By that train of thought alcohol and tobacco were harmless until nasty bureaucrats came along and demanded that things must be explicitly labeled. Website operators are anything but blameless.
Using civilians as human shields is a war crime. You are advocating for war crimes.
Yes. This was always the failure with the argument that copyright was the relevant issue... Once the model was proven out, we knew some wealthy companies would hire humans to generate the training data that the companies could then own in whole, at the relative expense of all other humans that didn't get paid to feed the machines.
Who else is not looking forward to cleaning up AI-written merely-accidentally-working garbage code for the next umpteen years?
> Does the company own any software patents?

> This includes purely “defensive” patents, in industries where their competitors abuse intellectual property law to stifle competition.

My own company was pretty staunchly opposed to software patents until we got sued by patent trolls. We are now pretty aggressive about patenting things so that doesn't happen again. Software patents were never great, and bad actors have made things even worse.
It's not really the selling point. The selling point is the interest in the genealogy, and the "finding the long-lost second cousins" is a feature that helps you address the genealogy.

Concrete example: My grandmother was born in Brooklyn. As it turns out, her half-brother lived a few blocks away. At the time my grandmother was born, he was 9 and living with his grandparents despite the fact his father lived nearby.

I still don't know why, but when I found out he even existed - something I didn't know until long after my grandmother died -, I also soon found his daughter was alive and well in New Jersey, and was able to get in touch. I now have pictures, and stories to fill in not just his background, but thanks to that connection I now have pictures of the graves of my great-great-grandfather, and several of his children, and stories about my grandmothers uncles, and aunts she never mentioned while she was alive.

I also have pictures of my great-grandfather - my mums grandfather - that I hadn't seen before.

Of course, that is reasonably close, but sometimes those things end up passed down one side of a family, with no copies existing, and you can increasingly find relatives far away from you in the tree who has photos of shared ancestors, and that proportion will increase dramatically with each new generation.

So every time I find a match, however remote, with an active account, you better believe I'll message them. Not because I care that we're related, but because I care about whether or not they can fill in some bit or other in my ancestry. For me, anyway, it's a fun puzzle more than anything else, when you go beyond the immediate family.

Like why is that one ancestor showing up as a widow one moment, and someone with the same name as her husband showing up as married to her sister in the next census with an implausible country of origin? Can I find evidence to corroborate theories? Can I find that notorious "hat maker from Bremen" that almost certainly didn't exist but was cover for infidelity, or evidence that he didn't exist (I almost certainly can't) - it'd be funny, because an entire arm of the family took on the supposed, probably invented, last name of the hypothetical hat maker because an ancestor of theirs thought it sounded posh.

The "long-lost second cousins" are just bit players in that game.
It's okay. Amazon has limited authors to self publishing only 3 books per day (yes, really). That will surely solve the problem.
Sure. The way i think of it is that academic expertise is writing research papers in some domain.
Plan is to add local LLM support so goal is fully OSS, agree initial wording could have been better.
Hello fellow maniac!

Glad to hear the agreement. Little small projects are so fun. Stadium-sized pools full of spaghetti less so!
I've seen this before. Your proof is a single person's opinion. Note that it is an opinion, with no evidence or data to back it up. It contains numerous tropes of IDF apologists and is written by a person who has a long history of opposing any investigations into the actions of the military and having generally right wing, militant, pro-European and anti-Muslim views. the letter appeals only to those who want to believe it.
It seems possible the timing attack could have been (mostly) outside the Tor network:

They seemingly knew the guys Ricochet username, which includes the Tor hidden service ID. Then, they ordered the ISP to monitor connections to Tor entry nodes and monitored when he came online and cross-checked that with the logs from the ISP. The article mentions that once they caught the guard node of his Ricochet client. That might have been when they were sure.

I think there was a similar case a long time ago where something similar happened.
To make money, like with all the merchandising that happens with a popular movie. Any number of things are licensed with the owner of the IP having very limited involvement in it, like turning down certain types of licenses as bad for the brand but not getting into the weeds of manufacturing. It's not like if there was some branded Disney cell phone that Disney is going to inspect all the board-level components. I can't speak about this pager company other than to think they're glad for any business they could get, so would license the brand.
This is a commonplace corollary to Gell-Man Amnesia/Knoll's Law[1] - in truth every single field/category in the universe has varying degrees of stupidity, it's just that you only reacts emotionally to the stupidity in the fields you have a personal attachment to.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#Gell-Mann_amn...
Hungarian company looks like standard clandestine front operation, inconspicuous safe house included https://nitter.poast.org/putintintin1/status/183631708830817...
cube 2 – sauerbraten.org – open-source game engine and FPS
"Multi-script languages

Two of the languages we support, Serbian and Chinese, are written in multiple scripts. To avoid spurious differences in word frequencies, we automatically transliterate the characters in these languages when looking up their words.

Serbian text written in Cyrillic letters is automatically converted to Latin letters, using standard Serbian transliteration, when the requested language is sr or sh."

I'd support keeping both scripts (српска ћирилица and latin script) , similarly to hiragana (ひらがな) and katakana (カタカナ) in Japanese.
on a subscription basis?
This outlines an end-to-end logging philosophy on a worst-case setup (all embedded devices and having to accept whatever logging message format outputs they happen to get from kernels, drivers, vendors, etc.).

The idea is that the techniques that work for a worst case setup where you have the least control of log message formatting will work for most every other logging strategy (e.g. apps where the team completely controls the logs, don’t have to worry about kernel panics, etc.)

For instance one could imagine instead of writing logs to the OS kernel as the essay suggests, that one instead writes to RAM or something like Redis. In fact, writing to RAM is a strategy that many teams have found success with.
"Why the sudden and hopeful shift? Most experts say it's a mystery

While many people offered theories about why the drop in deaths is happening at unprecedented speed, most experts agreed that the data doesn't yet provide clear answers."

Not one word about marijuana legalization.

"States With Legalized Medical Marijuana See Decline in Nonmedical Opioid Use"
https://sph.rutgers.edu/news/states-legalized-medical-mariju...

"Legalized Marijuana Linked to Decline in Opioid Emergencies"
https://www.upmc.com/media/news/071221-drake-cannabisrcl
> Generate with AI? [...] WordPress is not alone in its overt participation in this consumption of binary excrement.

> EA’s CEO called generative AI the “very core of our business”

Yeah just little twitter and reddit things like WordPress and EA.
A lot of people like drugs, you want small amounts shipped to you by strangers, you need crypto. I've never tried it. But I've seen people on both sides (selling+shipping and buying) do it with acceptable success rates.

This is the one and only "big real world market" (not financial products, not lower tx costs, not governance issues) that crypto currency solved. Quite ingenious.
At the end of the day, everything but 1) product development (R&D) and 2) corporate leadership are fungible and prone to outsourcing to the lowest cost locations until they get moved to a place where quality drops off enough that the company backpedals a bit. All those corporate departments are largely filled with commodity staff, so this shouldn't be surprising.

I'm not saying that in a judgmental or harshly negative way -- I've personally worked in cost centers for most of my career, and although I think highly of myself and my peers, we're still just assessed bluntly as part of COGS.
> this is partly guesswork, as the SC didn't name Peters

Not really; there was clearly only one such suspension, and Peters publicly identified himself as the recipient.

> nor give extensive details about the ongoing, persistent words or behaviors he used

Well, yes, that's the point: they haven't clarified anything, but left several hints with obvious referents that imply a complete BS cause of action. And when called on this, the people responsible fall back to a nebulous claim that these are only examples of some supposed pattern of behaviour.

Peters' conduct and phrasing throughout all of this, from what I have seen, have been exceptionally diplomatic. It's night-and-day different to the conduct that led to Stefan Krah's suspension (and subsequent resignation) in 2020 (https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-committers@pyth...) - but even that situation, I believe, could have been avoided by better, less tone-deaf, more cognizant-of-neurodiversity handling earlier on.
Miniflux is very good. It even has a telegram integration which will send you notification whenever a new article is published
Don't forget ransomware payments!

Cryptocurrency is also useful for ransomware payments.
Sorry, I didn't mean you specifically. I meant, if someone values simplicity above all else, they can choose an init that matches those values (like the one you described). Your approach is perfectly valid given that set of values.

Debian and other distros asked their userbase which values to prioritize, and the users chose what systemd provides. Hope that helps explain "why does systemd exist / why have most distros chosen it?"
Taiwan and TSMC are already USGov assets... why would they need to sell...
Sure, the push in the real world was from the usual crowd of vendors & consultants & upper management who make buzzwords a thing. Totally unrelated to people grifting on online fora.
Do you mind explicitly saying what views and what "mainstream media" you are referencing here?
There is also an alternative more lightweight self-hosted server in Rust, compatible with the official clients: https://github.com/cpg314/ltapiserv-rs
Sharding and Scaling PostgreSQL, No Citus
Water used is a terrible metric. Water is not consumed in the process; many cooling systems are closed loop and even open loop systems just release water into the environment where it will be renewed.

What matters is strain on water infrastructure, but that is wildly variable and can't be compared apples to apples. Like a water cooled data center drawing from an aquifer is a massively different beast than one drawing from a river. Likewise a data center with a dedicated tap is much different than one drawing from the standard municipal system.

If datacenters are set up in places that can not support them, that's on the operators of the datacenters themselves, not the users of the compute power. And if datacenters are set up in locations where the resources they need are present but they create an excessive burden on the infrastructure upkeep, that's on the municipality for not appropriately charging them for their usage and/or approving plans without checking their capabilities.
Family is extremely important to most people
Who programs the tapes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession_(novella)
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After 8 months of building, I'm excited to finally release Oneboard, a simple and powerful note-taking app. My goal was to create a tool that makes organizing thoughts effortless, without unnecessary distractions.

Oneboard offers intuitive handwriting recognition, smart summaries, and seamless organization, all powered by OpenAI’s O1 model. The focus is on giving you a fast, reliable way to capture and refine your ideas without compromising privacy.

I built this for anyone who loves taking notes and wants something lightweight, intelligent, and streamlined.

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Edge AI and Cloud Computing: A Powerful Partnership for the Future
You can get vacuum fluorescent displays from old point of sales equipment.

They are driven by RS232, with a USB adapter they work with python.
I've just ordered Titanium Noir, reviews online look really good too. Thanks for the recommendation.
So why doesn't Ancestry/Blackstone buy out 23andMe? Antitrust? Shareholder control issues?
Companies House (UK) REST API
If one thing taught from this James Bond movie act, is that you should never say never.
Show HN: I created free tools to fill the gap in Stripe reporting functionality
This tool shows transactions grouped by country.

https://notboring.tools/stripe-map

Stripe Climate Contribution Calculator.
https://notboring.tools/stripe-climate-contribution

Nothing is stored in the database (actually, I don't have any DB).

This might be useful to someone.

Thanks.
NGL, I knew the barber across the street from Phillips Exeter Academy who used to cut Mark's hair. 'He wasn't very talkative.'
> Feels like the main thing holding this company back is the CEO

Use has also dropped, no? There's serious questions about long term revenue generation. Ancestry.com doesn't require selling your genetic code to collaborate on geneology.
GraalVM is fascinating. Honest question: what are Oracle's plan for it? How does it serve them?
I think it cares about Taiwan as a democratic country but I think the chip fabs are becoming a geo-political factor as much as oil fields or other resources.

i.e. we don't want [Russia/China/Whoever] to invade Country X as Country X is an ally and a democracy, but as Country X has [Oil fields/Chip Fab/Lithium Mine] we REALLY don't want them to invade.
So what are the tech hypes that did end up being more than mere idiocy?

SaaS? Cloud? Smartphone apps? Social media?

Going back further: Internet? Wireless networks everywhere?
If someone wants to delist and have equity/executive control -- there is little minority shareholders can do to prevent it in practice

The controlling interest can just hire incompetent ops heads and side-line competent ones for a few quarters ... slowwalk any events that could increase value

The board resigning likely helps the plan

Fair chance future offers will get worse the longer it goes on
First, fluorosis isn't demineralization of teeth, it's hypermineralization, way on the other side of the spectrum.

Second, you'll get water poisoning before you'd get fluorosis from tap water. I challenge you to find anyone who has gotten fluorosis from tap water alone
the classic tale of the "make it proprietary" trolls. uuh! someone should make it a paper chase all the way to insurance companies!
I feel like this is the opposite of what LLMs are useful for. I like using LLMs to summarize and get an immediate answer to a specific question, like the AI-generated summary in Google Search. In that case, the increase in convenience outweighs the decrease in reliability. But if I wanted to read a full article about a topic, I would no longer be concerned about convenience, so I would look for a more reliable source than an LLM.
If Cramer is your gold standard of credibility, then you're not so credible yourself
It's funny how (supposedly liberal) opponents of Trump will strategically whine about economic theory when generally otherwise if you were to make appeals on the basis of economics you're labelled heartless, etc.

You know what? I like when jobs are based in America because people need domestic careers that can sustain communities. There are non-monetary costs to outsourcing that are not mere quantities for an economist to decide for us.

Ross Perot was wildly successful running on a platform like this, at least relative to any other third party in American politics, and as soon as he appeared to be a threat to the establishment, strange stuff started happening to him much like the assassination attempts in this election.
To be fair, OpenAI used pirated data
Only on HN, “This is curious. Why would people do an irrational thing similar to the irrational things that people have done for the entirety of human existence?”

A mystery indeed.
This stunt is great for Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions folks though. Here in the US, many states require fealty to Israel in the form of promising you won’t boycott them if you want to do business with that state’s government. Now there’s an easy out: no one is boycotting Israel, they’re just avoiding the liability of Mossad intercepting and tampering with a shipment.
Also, the video game Dead Cells, which might even be the reason the language exists. It is an exquisitely designed and executed game which illustrates the passion of its dev team
Clicking the URL next to the post title provides this, at least for fairly unique pages. It’s less useful when the link is from a popular news site.
Successful technologies that were hyped up started with acknowledging a problem exists, then working to solve it.

The blockchain / big data / Cloud Everything / LLM hype is largely a solution (the thing being hyped up) looking for a problem.

I hope that's clear.

The problem isn't the hype in and of itself. It's that there's a disproportionate amount of hype for things that aren't actually that valuable. I don't begrudge people for being excited about technology, only for being excited about excitement (and forgetting to actually solve problems for businesses and consumers).
I mean, computer games are a "silly pastime" too. Whether or not one feels grounded, it can also just simply be fun, and that fine. I've even enjoyed helping strangers solve genealogy problems because piecing together the evidence and ruling out options is just another type of puzzle and one that is often very challenging.

For "close" relatives, I agree there can also be more to it.

E.g. my mums mum never told us that much about her family (we never asked while she was around), and my mum didn't know either, and so uncovering more about that was very fascinating (it helped that there was plenty of drama to uncover) and helped fill in a lot of gaps.
Well, YTPremium users don’t see those ads. They’re the only ones who get the AI tool.
I feel like you are running around high fiving everyone for a job well done and the first chips aren't even off the line yet.

This is a huge milestone, but it seems a little premature.