skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
<< Stuff like this shows how much better the commercial models are than local models.

I did not reach the same conclusion so I would be curious if you could provide rationale/basis for your assessment in the link. I am playing with humble llama3 8b here and results for federal register type stuff ( without going into details ) was good for what I was expecting to be.. not great.

edit: Since you mentioned llama explicitly, could you talk a little about the data/source you are using for your resutls. You got me curious and I want to dig a little deeper.
Great show! Worth a read and a watch.
yeah total ad hominem
I will assume that you were not responding to me but just chose my comment as an appropriate enough vantage point.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41836071
Why is a Canadian software developer (with a Github account indicating to be in Bangalore) tasked with promoting Rust in Nigeria?

Am I missing something? Or is it like those religious missionaries spreading the word in distant countries, but with Rust instead of the Bible?
Fair enough. I guess I'm just incredibly skeptical of your claims. Certainly I can get you've never used Windows as your primary OS, but that's quite a different claim from never having used it, which is the specific claim I was saying some people make. And it strains incredulity to believe you've never clicked on any Twitter links because of how prevalent the platform is.
Would have been nice to post when they released v3 as they are close.
We got a "tall" dining table height Kotatsu with heater and blanket. It's incredibly warm and comfortable in deep winter.

The pets love it too!

Main issue is that because it's dining table height, all the standard blankets and futons are too short/small.

Highly recommend it though, it's great. It just needed a voltage converter.
Might want to consider the meshtastic, something like a lilygo t-echo. A few advantages over the standard ham radio:

* Nodes automatically forms a mesh
* works with any android/IOS widget, simple text message like interface
* store and forward means all nodes don't have to be online at the same time.
* Cheap, no soldering, and no ham license required.
* Can use phones GPS, makes it easy to track other nodes
* Don't have to program in repeaters, every node can repeat.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41836071
Google commits to buying power generated by nuclear-energy startup Kairos Power
A big satisfying button to push is welcome.
Show HN: Migration Tool from WordPress to GravCMS
A few years ago, I wrote an exporter WordPress plugin that generates appropriate markdown and YAML content for use in a GravCMS site. Due to recent drama with WordPress, I've dusted the project off and have implemented many new features. Side-by-side comparison images are in the project README.

Currently exported items:
- Pages/ Posts (including support for ACF fields. SCF fields _should_ continue to work as long as the plugin slug remains the same)
- Users
- Roles
- Image media
- Site meta-data

To learn more about GravCMS: https://getgrav.org/
> The Nobel is now controversial because after all, Nobel invented dynamite and he wanted to expunge his guilt.

It's not controversial for that reason. It's actually a fantastic origin story for the prize, especially since he arranged for it on his deathbed.

> OK, I get that you don't like Bezos-Gates-Zuck-Musk.

Huh?
That would require either rewriting drivers to never use DMA or making sure that all DMA controllers are able to write into and read from L3 directly.
> If you work on the wrong thing, perfect execution is not going to get you anywhere. If you work on the right thing, then even with mediocre execution will bring you at least some success.

You're not wrong but that should be self-evident. Most people know when they have a bad idea, they just lack the humility to admit it.
This is what I tell people.

Wordpress core is pretty secure. The problem is people who are using WP just install the core and then add in whatever plugins they need to get what they want to site to do. Nobody ever sandboxes and tests their plugins, they just install them willy-nilly - which is like taking candy from a baby if you're a hacker.

And its already happened last year:

Thousands of sites running the WordPress content management system have been hacked by a prolific threat actor that exploited a recently patched vulnerability in a widely used plugin.

The vulnerable plugin, known as tagDiv Composer, is a mandatory requirement for using two WordPress themes: Newspaper and Newsmag. The themes are available through the Theme Forest and Envato marketplaces and have more than 155,000 downloads.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/10/thousands-of-wordpr...
American equal pay icon Lilly Ledbetter dies aged 86
The majority of Eurozone countries do put the numbers before the €, but it's not standard across the continent, each country has their own standard and some of them do have the euro sign first.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_and_the_euro#Writte...

(To save a click: Netherlands plus Dutch-speaking half of Belgium, Austria, Cyprus, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, and Turkey are the Eurozone countries which write €1 - which is also the official way to write it in English. Edit: oops, Turkey should be with England in that it's not a Eurozone country, they have their own Turkish lira, but in their language Euro amounts should be written €10, even though lira amounts are written 10TL.)
>Is the pressure something significant, or is it spread across so many people that there is little trouble sleeping at night?

When you are on contract for something, you deliver to the contract, and are done when you successfully meet the customer's requirements. So in that sense you don't have the same exposure to the program risks.

However, I've been part of one-off science missions before, and there is a different feeling beyond the contract obligations, though it's certainly abstracted through the many layers of sub-, sub-contracts.
There is AFAIK only one non-Chinese Linux phone, and it's Liberty Phone.
"Framework" isn't really the best term for them to actually use to describe Payload. Its basically a tool for NextJS developers to quickly build a custom CMS. I'd think of it more like CMS-in-code than a framework.
Sim card radios exist.

eg https://www.wouxun.com/radios/two_way_radio_kg-v98.aspx
Not great for your health, long-term - as you'd be breathing in unheated, cold air for excessive periods -

"Cold air inflames lungs and inhibits circulation, increasing the risk of respiratory conditions, such as asthma attacks or symptoms, worsening of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and infection. Cold also induces vasoconstriction, which causes stress to the circulatory system (198) that can lead to cardiovascular effects, including ischaemic heart disease (IHD), coronary heart disease, strokes, subarachnoid haemorrhage and death (198–206). Most of the evidence for the impact of cold on health comes from studies connecting outdoor temperatures to health outcomes. For example, cold spells are associated with increased mortality and respiratory and cardiovascular morbidity (207), and mortality and morbidity rates in countries with cold and temperate climates are higher in winter than in summer (208)."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK535294/
PostmarketOS is trying to be this.
Aider feels like magic
Python with extensible syntax and not afraid of functional programming.
Heh, ask 10 hams what the whole point of a ham license is and you'll get 10 different answers. I've heard "permission to build" before, but rarely.
Honestly, I view projects like this as more of an intellectual curiosity than anything which seeks to become useful .

The Firefox engine is great if you don't want something controlled by Google. And it's going to be much easier to develop plugins or extensions for that versus trying to write your own browser from scratch, which to be honest will probably cost hundreds of millions of dollars. If not more.

I do imagine tools like this being useful for something like web scraping, but it's never going to be an end user product.
It's a bit thicker than my normal wedding ring, but its also a lot lighter weight. I don't really notice the difference enough to mind. I suppose if you're not already used to wearing a ring it might take more effort to get used to.

They come in different sizes and they don't necessarily correspond to standard USA ring sizes, so it takes some effort to measure and make sure you get the right one. But the effort is worth it to get a comfortable fit. And they are cheap enough that you can always buy multiple different sizes. I think I paid like $11 for mine on Taobao with free shipping (part of that may have been a discount since I was a new customer).
Very cool! Any plans to offer more direct integrations with DataFusion, e.g. a `VertexReaderFactory`, hooks for pushdowns, etc?
Reuters article, no paywall: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/g...

CNBC article, no paywall: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/10/14/google-inks-deal-with-nuclea...

No battery farm can protect a solar/wind grid from an arbitrarily extended period of bad weather. If you have battery backup sufficient for time T and the weather doesn't cooperate for time T+1, you're in trouble.

Even a day or two of battery backup eliminates the cost advantage of solar/wind. Battery backup postpones the "range anxiety deadline" but cannot remove it. Fundamentally, solar and wind are not baseload power solutions. They are intermittent and unreliable.

Nuclear fission is the only clean baseload power source that can be widely adopted (cf. hydro). After 70 years of working with fission reactors, we know how to build and operate them at 95%+ efficiency (https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/what-generation-capacity). Vogtle 3 and 4 have been operating at 100%.

Today there are 440 nuclear reactors operating in 32 countries.

Nuclear fission power plants are expensive to build but once built the plant can last 50 years (probably 80 years, maybe more). The unenriched uranium fuel is very cheap (https://www.cameco.com/invest/markets/uranium-price), perhaps 5% of the cost of running the plant.

This is in stark contrast to natural gas, where the plant is less expensive to build, but then fuel costs rapidly accumulate. The fossil fuel is the dominant cost of running the plant. And natural gas is a poor choice if greenhouse emissions matter.

Google is funding construction of 7 nuclear reactors. Microsoft is paying $100/MWh for 20 years to restart an 819 MW reactor at Three Mile Island. Sam Altman owns a stake in Oklo, a small modular reactor company. Bill Gates owns a stake in his TerraPower nuclear reactor company. Amazon recently purchased a "nuclear adjacent" data center from Talen Energy. Oracle announced that it is designing data centers with small modular nuclear reactors. As for Meta, see Yann LeCun's unambiguous comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41621097

In China, 5 reactors are being built every year. 11 more were recently announced. The United Arab Emirates (land of oil and sun) now gets 25% of its grid power from the Barakah nuclear power plant (four 1.4 GW reactors, a total of 5.6 GW).

Nuclear fission will play an important role in the future of grid energy, along with solar and wind. Many people (e.g., Germany) still fear it. Often these people are afraid of nuclear waste, despite it being extremely tiny and safely contained (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_cask_storage). Education will fix this.

Nuclear fission is safe, clean, secure, and reliable.
Your phone is already a general purpose computer...
For sleep phases and mediocre oxygen levels and bad HRV readings. And on his blog he says he does use it for his sleep tracking, so yeah. I'm not saying it's terrible but for sp02 I can confidently say it's terrible. I use actual nighttime pulse oximeters from Wellue which is also a (larger) ring form factor[0]. and I can see the large dips in O2 for example, the Oura will not detect this despite going into the low 80%s (very low) when my mask falls off.

What bothers me about these sleep tracking devices is they are often "on the low" reccomended as ways to detect sleep problems like sleep apnea. This might not be done by the companies themselves but it is certainly done by influencers who are hired to promote these products. If someone were to buy an Oura ring because they snore (one of their marketing tactics) to try and see if they have sleep apnea there is a high chance that the app would tell them their oxygen levels are fine and then they'd never go get a sleep study (which cost less than an Oura ring with home kits now). Assuming this caused them to never follow up on that snoring again, Oura's (and other companies) marketing and mediocre tech would quite literally shaved years off this persons life.

When I asked my doc if sleep apnea could kill me if left untreated, he responded, "It WILL kill you if we leave it untreated."

[0]:https://getwellue.com/pages/o2ring-oxygen-monitor

Edit: I do believe in 5 years Oura and other similar products will have figures this out. Just not yet.
How is he able to put together this much cool stuff?

His "blocking speech ray gun" was amazing too!
The problem with this analogy is that in the case of software, you basically have teleportation so you can go to any dry cleaner you want instantaneously.
Thanks for the answer. All the best!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly_Ledbetter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lilly_Ledbetter_Fair_Pay_Act_o...
For a not so small minority, it's more of a if you can afford that cost (ironically, probably more of an issue in places without pipe-freeze-busting temperatures).

(And they probably cannot afford redoing insulation of where they live either, assuming they even own rather than rent.)

P.S.: The hot water bottle is pretty great, in particular when sick.
> Having to “project manage” each and every commit if you want a useful and fine-grained (but not micromanaged) version control history is impractical.

You're misunderstand me there. I'm talking about the main branch's commits, on the main repository, not every branch and every commits, and not the local repos. And it's not dogmatic, just very nice to have. If you want a hotfix, it's very easy to create a new branch, commit the fix, push it, create a PR, and squash merge it. Unless you like to edit "main" directly on a collaborative project.

Or you can then instruct everyone how to cleanup their commits and make sure that each one is atomic. And you can merge your usual way. I have no dog in this fight. It's just that the above is easier to do. It's pretty much the same result.
Who said anything about sticking anything into credit card terminals? And I'm not seeing any wires sticking out of the phone. I'd say it doesn't particularly look like a bomb either, but given recent events, that probably doesn't say much.
It is a bit like saying, let's forget about AM radio since FM radio is much better. Oh wait forget FM since DAB exists. Oh wait forget about broadcast protocols since everything is point to point or multicast now.

The reality is that existing protocols CANNOT be changed. Only new versions are released and the old ones (which might rely on CRLF) will never die.
I think this is reasonable analogy, for FM interference, and it points out why FM is resilient to noise: the flashing lights have to be relatively bright (high amplitude) to interfere with your color based scheme.
I think Wayland had made some mistakes, no doubt. Cursor shape just should've been part of the protocol. Wayland has its fair share of misfires.

That said, I understand what they were going for. They really wanted to make the compositor as small and simple as possible, so for example you would just use libwayland-cursor instead of bothering with cursors yourself. However there are a lot of ways libwayland-cursor worked out poorly... Not everyone agreed on how scaling should work, GTK4 ditched it for performance reasons, and overall it's just inconvenient for a lot of cases (languages other than C, sandboxing, etc.) And to make matters even worse, in practice every compositor needed to load and handle XCursor themes anyways...

That said, I think that it's okay if Wayland doesn't own the majority of the Linux desktop stack the way X11 did. It's fine for compositors and their helpers to implement protocols from other projects, too. That way Wayland can be more applicable to graphical machines other than desktops without bringing unnecessary baggage. It'll always have trade-offs, of course, but I think it's far from the end of the world.
Bash script implementing LLM-powered TDD-loop
Ham radio always seemed a bit boring compared to the Internet, computers, and software development.

What are the most interesting things people are doing with Ham these days? I’ve had a technical class license for a couple decades but never used it, which I keep renewing. Willing to get a more advanced license.
It's a bad example for others and a bad habit to get into. If every program did this, we'd have trouble getting CPUs into deep idle states.
On the image which shows the back screen, you can also see a battery icon in the lower right, so that's a very safe bet.
> More practically. What will it take to create a world where humanity can align to help ourselves

We can only do this if humanity disincentivize getting stuck at local maxima. Another confounding factor is how humans make decisions: the highest level decision-makers are national governments and the respective administrations typically last 5-10 years at a time.
I have one and it very much struggles to make and especially to receive calls and is still trying to be smart. PinePhone is definitely not a dumb phone. It's expensive as well.

To me a simple, dumb, open source device that can easily be manufactured in all kinds of conditions all over the world sounds like a dream for actual, practical purposes. Like, for example, again, calling. To some degree I have the same issues with "smart watches". Simple, open source, dumb smart watches with just a smidge of 8bit CPU goodness to display, say, something simple like a word or even a letter on the screen would be quite useful. I know there is some movement in that arena using ESP32s but I am not particularly impressed. Alas, alas. Why do we as a civilization tend to go for the extremes and not just get our basic shit together first?

I was being slightly obtuse and I understood perfectly well that you meant all reasonable people. If I can't be obtuse and pedantic on HN though, where else?
Does it solve it, or does it wind you up in court arguing over which copy is the "real" version?
It definitely looks to be made of a metal. To be fair, I'm just basing that off the texture and specular highlights in the photos. It's pretty similar looking to the iMac's case in one of their photos.
Yes, exactly, thank you! I have a Tidbyt that I enjoy but it's pricy and has a subscription local API. I thought the thing in the OP might be a discount smart home alternative and was hoping to find exactly this kind of alternative recommendation in the comments.
Ask HN: What do you need in your projects and your company?
There are too many technical people here. And we have software needs that we can't build for various reasons (lack of time, needing skills from a different field, etc.).

These needs may be due to the learning curve being too high, being too expensive to unnecessary features, or specific needs.

This way, other people can develop these projects for school, CV or turn them into products. Instead of doing the same projects again, and real life problems are solved.
The whole article feels like an ad for the relaunch of the Orient Express next year.
Something very silly has happened, where the thing that most non-technical people have which is most exposed to hackers is also incredibly complex and requires high performance for some reason.
Wayland intentionally makes this more difficult, because one of the security goals of the project is that (by default) Wayland clients shouldn't have visibility into other clients' window contents/events/etc.

Of course, it still needs to be possible under Wayland, because there are plenty of legitimate use-cases (screenshots, screen sharing, video capture, etc.), but it was a non-goal to make it as simple as X.

Wayland merged the image-capture-source and image-copy-capture protocol extensions earlier this year: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Merges-Screen-Capture
Do you seriously think weight and thickness are parameters that hardware designers just artificially inflate all the time just to be mean to users???

You want 1/3 of thickness and 53ml in volume and 80g in weight just removed because methinks that'd be much better??? A phone isn't a steak cut, you... can't do that. You can if you knew beforehand that there are suitable replacements for major components like displays and batteries, if you don't, you just take what hardware engineers give you. What are you even thinking.
“Vortex is a toolkit for working with compressed Apache Arrow arrays in-memory, on-disk, and over-the-wire.”

So it’s a toolkit written in Rust. It is not a file format.
I cannot do that. In fact, when I think it is "me" who controls my attention to increase my presence, I immediately lose any presence.
So it's a full stack framework for a full stack framework? Right...
We actually kind of have a javascript engine. It is a more personal project of mine, but it is also intended to be used and intigrated into gosub. In case someone is interested, here is the repo: https://github.com/Sharktheone/yavashark
anything involving complicated formulas and macros can run a lot slower on the macOS versions of excel compared to the windows versions even using comparable hardware.

I had to run a bunch of VBA code for an economic model for my thesis and, while it was possible to run on my MacBook, for whatever reason it was an order of magnitude slower compared to computer lab windows machines (which technically had worse hardware).
Would banning ransomware insurance stop the scourge?
Would a fork of Chromium that was restricted to MISRA-C/C++ offer any real security advantages?

Would parts of Chromium be fundamentally incompatible with these standards?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MISRA_C
LineageOS != AOSP. They've put quite a bit of work on top of it too make it usable.

To be clear I have nothing against lineage, and I'm a Graphene OS user myself, but these projects add a lot of value on top of raw AOSP.
I've completely switched over to Cursor from Copilot. Main benefits:

1. You can configure which LLMs you want to use, whereas Copilot just supports OpenAI models. I just use Claude 3.5 for everything.

2. Chatting with the LLM can produce file edits that you can directly apply to your files. Cursor's experimental "Composer" UI lets you prompt to make changes to multiple files, and then you can apply all the changes with one click. This is way more powerful than just tab-complete or a chat interface. For example, I can prompt something like "Factor out the selected code into a new file" and it does everything properly.

3. Cursor lets you tune what's in LLM context much more precisely. You can @-mention specific files or folders, attach images, etc.

Note I have no affiliation whatsoever with Cursor, I've just really enjoyed using it. If you're interested, I wrote a blog post about my switch to Cursor here: https://www.vipshek.com/blog/cursor. My specific setup tips are at the bottom of that post.
There are dining cars on Amtrack. Not the hight of luxury but not bad on a long trip...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTGywoIytSw