skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It really is a shame no one has ever successfully added some form of small scale extendable storage to a phone that Apple could have copied so they are entirely forced to upsell you a phone 500$ more expensive so you can get extended storage at a five fold markup. Surely, if it was the case, customers would never stand being taken for such fools and would do something. /s

On a more serious tone, I hate Apple for the way they do their products segmentation. It's for me the best proof that the market is not competitive enough. Multiple screen support forcing you on the pro line, decently sized storage requiring you fork 500$, the stuborn refusal to allow tablet users a proper interface to not canibalize the laptop sales, it's outrageous what Apple can get away with. Not that their main competitors are shaking the boat much mind you. Oligopolies are awful.

At least, you can now record video directly to a usb-c connected hard drive but only in ProRes and no luck for photos (because f*** you that's why).
Spy (Static Python) lang: fast as C, Pythonic as Python
PaperQA2: RAG model for working with scientific papers
Possibly a gesture control; they're becoming really cheap lately, search for "Rd-03E" on Aliexpress for example.

https://docs.ai-thinker.com/en/rd-03
> and he charted the Gulf Stream’s course across the Atlantic ocean, noting that ships traveling from America to England took longer than those going the opposite direction

?? Has the Gulfstream changed direction in the intervening years?
I am not at all a religious fundamentalist. Actually an atheist, and I am all support for people being whatever they want to be. It's your life, it is your right to be happy the way you want to be, gender identity and all.

But I really don't want that being pushed into my daughter at a young age, not until she can mount her own idea of what she is. Much in the same way I don't want religion being pushed into her from a young age, not until she can have an idea of how she views the world.
Actual article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-16/us-natura...
> Automattic put a banner in every WordPress dashboard on the subject, including WordPress instances hosted by WPE

> I put banners on my web

There's a large difference between putting up a banner on _your_ site and abusing your position to put a banner on _every_ site you can.
Yeah right, I'll install a whole fucking JRE just to build some project. No thanks.
> Tennessee's HB 843 which effectively bans any book containing nudity for anyone under 18.

It also forbids "sexual excitement", "sexual conduct", and "excess violence" which means that it bans the bible, books on mythology, every single history textbook, just about anything Shakespeare ever wrote, and pretty much any book with a character who has a love interest.
I remember seeing their booth at the Orlando Maker Faire years ago. Metal pipe was a bit too expensive for my budget but I was still inspired by their display and started using PVC and custom 3D printed connectors in my gardening projects.

I love how much work they've done on connectors. In my experience with PVC, one of the biggest hurdles to making interesting projects is finding prebuilt connectors for anything besides simple 90-degree angles. It makes sense given that most PVC projects are for construction rather than hobby projects, but it's still annoying.

Having pre-drilled screw holes is also a nice bonus.
If you need something close to the full compute a 1U can offer, then you can definitely get value for money from ordinary colo like that. But you’ll get a lot more value if you need a full or half rack. But if you just need a single VPS it’s not going to add up.
Confusion is understandable here because such technicalities were not officially documented and the community had not figured it out at such an early point.
Deinventing the Wheel [video]
You can get 25G switches/router for not much nowadays, check Mikrotik. Throw a couple Intel NICs from ebay in your machines' PCIe ports and really it's not that much of a deal.
The Intel 20A has been cancelled about a week ago. It was planned to be used for only one product, the Intel Arrow Lake H CPUs for laptops, to be launched in Q1 2025. Now, all Intel Arrow Lake CPUs, both for desktops and for laptops, will be made by TSMC, like also Lunar Lake. Intel will do only assembly and testing for them.

This cancellation has been done so that Intel will be able to use all their resources in developing the better 18A CMOS process. Intel hopes that 18A (with RibbonFETs and backside power delivery) will be their salvation.

18A is intended to be used both for Intel products and for the products of other companies, starting in the middle of 2025 (with Panther Lake for laptops and with Clearwater Forrest and Diamond Rapids for servers). Intel claims that they have working samples of Panther Lake laptop CPUs and Clearwater Forrest server CPUs, made with 18A.

According to Intel, the main problem that must be solved with 18A until the middle of 2025 is to improve its fabrication yields, which for now are much worse than for a mature TSMC process, so unless the yields are improved the 18A process would not be competitive in mass production.

While Intel must make serious efforts to catch up with TSMC, Samsung does not appear to be much better than Intel, because they have exactly the same problem, with fabrication yields much worse than TSMC for the processes with equivalent density.
Top level comment talked about sexual orientation before it was flagged
I understand it more as "it turns out composting tons of organic material makes the soil more fertile"

Which is far from a breaking news. I'm just curious about how composting this much agrumes didn't unbalance the soil's pH, but that they don't mention it at all in the article.
There are megalithic sites in the North American region which may have served the purpose of gravestones, but it doesn't fit the European colonial/settler narrative to identify and recognize this fact.

Yet.
AI Advantage for Startups: Changing the Workflow Through Services
We also did it in uni, it was very exhausting. And after a full day of measurements noone ever had enough data to see the quantization of the charge of electrons.
I've been playing with io_uring for the last month or so, just for fun. I'm working on building an async runtime from scratch on top of it. I've been documenting (think of them more as notes to myself) the process thus far:

Creating bindings to io_uring (just to see the process): https://www.thespatula.io/rust/rust_io_uring_bindings/

Writing an echo server using those bindings:
https://www.thespatula.io/rust/rust_io_uring_echo_server/
Q4_K_S. While not as good as top commercial models like chatgpt, they are still quite capable and I like that there are also uncensored/abliterated models like Dolphin.
On a different timeline, Rust reaching 1.0 before Go, I bet Docker and Kubernetes would have pivoted from Python/Java into Rust instead of Go.
Flibusta online book library to close due to founder diagnosed with Glioblastoma
Statement translated to English via Google Translate: “This is Stiver. I'm in the hospital with an obscenely sized glioblastoma. Unfortunately, Flibusta seems to have ended here, as did I. Thanks everyone, it was fun. The servers are paid for for a few more weeks.”

Google Translate for the post: https://flibusta-is.translate.goog/node/681117?_x_tr_sl=auto...

Wikipedia page on Flibusta for context (translated from Russian): https://ru-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%BB%...
> once I figured out how to stop the rodents

Any tips?
Is the ability for your daughter to read about gender identity and sexual orientation pushing it on her? The bans are targeting books that even have characters in them that are non-standard, not only books that are telling your child to become trans and gay (Are there even any books that are doing that? I've never seen any)
Show HN: I transform surveys into conversation for better results
Hey HN.

A few weeks ago, I realized that the process of gathering information from my clients and colleagues could be greatly improved, leading to much better data utilization. I thought that by using LLMs, I could turn a simple survey into a conversation with an AI agent and then have the AI analyze it and present the results. After implementing this in my organization, it yielded such great results that I decided to turn it into a full-fledged product and share it with the world.

The concept of the application is simple: instead of a template database, I created a "Generate Questions" function where, after providing the context of what we want to achieve, the application creates a personalized survey that we can later edit. Upon publication, we receive a link that we can share with others to obtain responses. After the conversation is completed, the AI analyzes and categorizes its course to later assign responses to the appropriate categories. For each survey, the system creates a report that includes the results along with specific user statements to provide better context. From this level, we can access the transcript of each conversation to better analyze the entire interaction. I decided to go a step further and convert each question and answer into embeddings and save them as vectors in the database. This allowed me to create analyses where we can ask direct questions to our data to immediately get answers along with the context based on which survey responses they were generated. The application is new, and I am constantly looking for ideas and suggestions on what else I could add to further streamline this process.

Tech stack I used:
Vercel AI SDK and LangChain to create AI agents OpenAI API (GPT-4o) as the LLM
Postgres with pg_vector for the database along with saving embeddings.

I would appreciate any feedback.

Marcel.
> Accidents in other energy sources don't render 1,000 square miles of land uninhabitable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Texas_power_crisis

The grid came within minutes of overloading and shutting down completely, which would have required a slow and costly black start.

That would have rendered 268,596 square miles uninhabitable, at least for several weeks plus recovery time.

How about https://www.ferc.gov/media/winter-storm-elliott-report-inqui... ?
A 1U can very easily contain 64+ physical cores, many TB of storage, and a few hundred GB of RAM. A 1U colo can be a great deal if you’re looking to use that much compute/storage.

The admin for those arrangements is pretty simple really. Even if you’re providing supervised access, it’s not going to be much work. I run several small colo deployments like this, and I probably only visit the sites every couple of years.
> I worry that Cloudflare will keep escalating this unless they're sent a strong signal that it's not supported by the tech community.

AI sycophants have truly deluded themselves into thinking everyone else is falling for their bullshit, it's great to see.

This feature wouldn't exist if "the tech community" didn't support it. If you want someone to blame, it's the AI companies for ruining what was a good thing with their blind greed and gold rush of trying to slurp up literally everything they could get their hands on in the shittiest ways possible, not respecting any commonly agreed upon rules like robots.txt
DveConf2024: If it's everywhere, why aren't you using it? [video]
a fun talk
The cells are layered but each cell stores 4 bits in QLC.
in my experience from a few years ago: I commute by bicycle to shool (and in the meantime work) in a very rainy country. My entire childhood, I had to replace phones every few months jsut because they got soaked in the rain and I didn't close the protective case perfectly or whatever.

Then I started to buy waterproof phones, and my life was noticeably better. those still die from water damage, just slower. Every time you drop the phone and the case pops off, the water protection gets a bit worse, and after a year or so, the rubber gets hard, especially in winter, and its no longer waterproof. I wouldn't dare to put it in actual water.

Now I have had my smartphone for many years, and I had the previous one for many years. So yes please, glue it together, glue it shut, at least if you're serious about water damage and dust ingress
I think it should always be legal to use the likeness of deceased people.

Could it be gross? Yes. But I'd rather have that than the absurdity of copyright be extended to beyond the grave for yet another case where it makes no sense. There is no theory of harm here, the person being impersonated is dead.

Could you damage the reputation of a living person by using the image of a dead one? Of course, but that's already illegal.
There is always this unshakable belief that whatever process causes people to gain weight is totally reversible with some gumption and will power.
In case there's some confusion - I'm not with MonkeyBrains. I hope my comment didn't read like I was. (And just FYI, I know people who host with MonkeyBrains, and they have no complaints.) I'm just (self-interestedly) providing an alternative across the Bay.
I can't speak for them, but my service is on a 10Gbps line because that covers the needs of my clients at the moment. With a network provider at a data center, you'll typically have a good Service Level Agreement, and throughput will actually match what you're paying for. Looking at the home fiber offering from one of the big players just now, they tell you up front, "Actual speeds may vary."
Probably the opposite.
Be honest.
Provide value.
Don't spam.
> This blog post mentions parking an old switch with a derpy little raspberry pi.

This blogger has weird preferences and money to burn on them. Doesn't mean it's a sensible way to do things if your main aim isn't reminiscing about being a '90s-'00s sysadmin.
How much power do you get for that?
On x86/AMD64 it uses CPU's TSC clock.

https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy/blob/master/public/client/T...
fyi all current hydrogen plants use either a mix with 50-70% gas or 100% hydrogen but are creating huge NOx as byproduct due to high temp burning. That's just one of the many hydrogen challenges, another one is H2 handling is harder, another one is the more renewables you get, the more your H2 plants would cost since in some periods you use them extensively, in others - very little and to compensate such infra cost&maintenance the plant owners will jack up the prices or seek govt price compensation. That's why many say hydrogen plants/energy is somewhat of a pipedream
Console Cowboys: Navigating the Modern Terminal Frontier
> The problem with self-checkouts is that (1) it shifts the work to me without any benefit to me.

A well implemented self-checkout is much faster than waiting in line for a cashier. Ever since the local supermarket implemented self-scan I haven't had to wait for a register to become available for more than maybe 30 seconds.

Of course if the self-checkout is of the "UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA" variety it'll be infuriating and much slower than a regular cash register.
It is not clear to me how this refutes the article. Can you explain a bit more? Do you have an example of a piece of data that lasts forever by virtue of these facts?
That idea sounds excellent and combines old and new ideas in an unexpected way. Hacker News can facilitate wonderful syntheses sometimes.
I use Whatsapp often and one major issue I have with the app is how older media gets lost in the history, it's not retrievable anymore, you can only see the blurry thumbnail but downloading it again will not be possible. So until recently, I've considered everything I send on whatsapp as ephemeral unless I back it up.

Also, is exporting possible? Let's say I would like to export all text / media to my pc, is that possible?
You can still do this on Linux by linking against musl instead of glibc, at least for command line tools (which is what I usually do for distro-agnostic tools). Desktop features like X11, Wayland or OpenGL require some sort of dynamic linking though.
I have an Addams Family pinball machine. There's a flipper in the middle of the playfield that automatically kicks the ball if the ball passes through a certain lane.

That too is AI, according to the machine's manual.
yep, V4 did cost 30% cheaper than unit 3. It's interesting if the next plant will be built and if yes - how much cheaper/faster
Every single argument against Cloudflare's features highlights exactly why people use Cloudflare so much.

You're talking about people setting up a botnet in order to scrape every scrap of data they can off of every website they touch. Why on earth would anyone be okay with such parasitic behaviors?
> notify the kernel you write something in the last page which is actually write-protected, so it triggers the kernel trap

Right, that's a page fault; i.e., a context and privilege level switch. I can't imagine that's going to be any cheaper than a system call.

> None? You don't need really need a user-space thread to execute code in the kernel

I didn't mention user space. There are threads in the kernel. From a scheduling perspective, somebody needs to be billed for the work they're doing. If it's not the process that invoked the system call, that seems like a pretty easy way to induce a bunch of noisy work on the system in excess of what the regular scheduling algorithm and resource capping would allow.

> With multi-core systems we have today, arguably having a whole core dedicated exclusively for some core OS functionality could be more performant than having this core "constantly" switch contexts?

Perhaps! Without a design and some measurement it seems impossible to know. Logically, though, you'll still have (kernel) threads of some kind executing in that special partition. They'll compete for execution time, just like user mode threads compete for execution time, at which point for fairness you'll have to figure out how to bill the work back to the user process somehow.
For 1), it seems clear that there's a heavy overlap between Jeff's market and Elecrow's, and it's difficult to see that as a coincidence.

If someone cloned both Shaq's voice and Jeff's, and used them to endorse sneakers - I think it's a fair assumption that Shaq would see this as a business risk, and Jeff .. I'm going to go out on a limb, and assume he'd probably find it hilarious. Using Jeff's voice for sneakers would be more akin to your example of finding a midwestern voice with a useful corpus. Using Shaq's would be a much more obviously targeted appropriation.

What we're looking at here appears to be exactly this scenario, except this is Jeff's niche, not Shaq's. Using Shaq's voice for SBCs and related products would feel quite absurd - using Jeff's feels like a much more obviously targeted appropriation.
The cables are also the point of issue. I have changed the charging cable which has resulted in proper charging. And the cleaning of the port. Lint accumulation prevents the contacts being properly connected with the charging pins.

Cleaning of the port using a wooden toothpick (shaven to a right size) and changing of the charging cable as almost always helped me across the 25+ of cell phone usage.
Exactly. I'd love an old discovery, but I know that I'd never take it anywhere out of terror it would die along the way
pretty nice looking. people say rebol, but i'm reminded instead of tcl/tk
The vast majority of those 9999 books could just as easily (and far more likely than not) contain zero mention of those two subjects entirely. No, somedude895 was just using extreme examples without evidence or context to justify the banning of more than 10,000 books as though even if one or two out of the more than 10,000 books did somehow happen to mention those topics that it would justify such ridiculous censorship.
We all have our own individual experience when we pass into adulthood, but keep in mind there was a time that being a "nerd" was far less socially acceptable to your parents growing up than when you were growing up.

When I was a kid, a parent on the radio said this about gay marriage: "I am the gatekeeper for what is socially acceptable for my child."

I asked my Dad about that statement, and he said pretty clearly "That's an unrealistic expectation of what parenthood is. You're more of a bodyguard or secret service. You can listen and provide context, do your best to stop your child from being put into danger, but you cannot stop, control or manage a child's, much less a teenagers, world experience."
We develop tooling for low-resource languages for millions of underserved people, and Llama and other resources for Meta have been vital for us.

We picked Llama among the models we use for its ubiquity in the ecosystem and because many practitioners are getting quite familiar with it and its performance profile, strengths and limitations.

The major challenge we have is that given the speculative nature of our work (some of our research is on the frontier), we have to conduct multiple experiments in parallel (finetunes).

That has been proven prohibitive cost and compute wise which is bottlenecking our progress. An official finetuning platform from Meta or some other form of support from Meta that would help alleviate the impact of compute requirements would help us fly and deliver concrete results much faster.

Are you considering open a program for projects downstream of Llama?
"Dark matter" sounds a lot like "we've run out of ideas so we're going back in the direction of 'the ether' and chariots pulling the sun across the sky and the like".
Not to mention huge benefits to the environment, reduced pollution, less traffic congestion leading to increased societal efficiency overall. And we can go on and on.

But it’s obvious corps only like to virtue signal about such things while in reality not caring one iota about them.
Not sure what you mean by "media scanning", but if you assume that Media Hoarder isn't able to scan directories of your media, then I need to update the README - because it absolutely DOES this.

[Edit]: I read your post a second time, you use the term "media scanning" for two different things:

1/ Scanning in files

2/ Providing Metadata

Both are supported by Media Hoarder, none of the metadata you see in the screenshots and demos are manually provided by the user.

If you want to dig a bit deeper (coming from the README), you can see linked documents that go into detail for both topics:

https://github.com/theMK2k/Media-Hoarder?tab=readme-ov-file#...
1TB storage comes from another donor iPhone apparently so it makes sense it just fits and works. I guess Apple didn't think of matching them to specific motherboards so you can still reuse them
> Giliam de Carpentier

Nice bit of nominative determinism, there.
As someone currently going through this, you have to talk to a lot of people about it before you can do anything regarding being trans. The only way its fucked up my life is now there are a lot of people who hate me for some reason, apart from that I've been happier now that I'm able to live the way I prefer. As are all my trans friends. Do you mean that only a tiny percentage of the world should transition, or that a tiny percentage of those with gender dysphoria should transition?
Parents are free to buy used books or borrow books for their kids in the local library. My school growing up didn't even have a library, so most of my reading came from used books. Schools do well in steering cleer of controversial topics, I don't think it's their job to preach politics or religion.
lol, look at California and how much it imports & used gas. And that's WITH a nuclear plant. Same is valid for Germany which is in a worse position due to dunkelflauten
> This has been attempted before, didn't go so well. That might give a clue, why we are in the current state of affairs.

Pakistan running itself off a cliff is not going well either.
I have unfortunately seen plenty and that is still my assessment. I am not obliged to like your heroes.