skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah i feel the same, however sometimes I just think math is only appreciated until you're older for a lot of people and that's when you gravitate towards these kinds of channels.
https://www.manning.com/books/modern-c-third-edition
Now try that on a compiler without -fsanitize=bounds, yet full ISO C compliant.
It’s like people complaining about savings accounts with 0.5% interest rates. Just switch to a different broker…

IBKR is +0.5% at >$200k (It starts at +1.5%)
Flies: they get inside and nestle in my fruit, annoy me and distract me, get in my face.

Bees and wasps: they settle and build nests in nooks and crannies of roofs. I don't have a problem with bees per se, although they can probably keep disturbing eating in the garden. Otoh they may pollinate flowers in the garden. Wasps on the other hand are truly a pest. I've lived in a house with wasps in the roof, constant wasps in the attic, leading to an unusable attic for about a year.

Bats: no idea, never had them so far. But I've lived in a neighborhood where they were nestled inside the outer layers of roofs. Just like other animals I imagine they "shit and piss all over the place" so to speak. But they're also protected where I live, so once they are there, you can't even get rid of them.
uncanny silicon valley
I think you'd get a lot by just transforming eyes so the gaze is relative to the virtual camera located on the screen at the place of the face of a person you are talking to. This way you get eye contact only when you are looking on their face on the screen, but not when you look somewhere else.
Backed by batteries is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Batteries required to make them viable are never included in the LCOEs for renewable, because it'd make them ridiculously more expensive than nuclear. The problem is we need power now, all the time. It's much easier to develop new technologies when the lights are still on.
Yes. My other Yubikey is in a bank vault.

I do not want a remote "authentication provider".
This is really cool! Any chance of adding support for the Arc browser? Right now, Chrome allows for some websites (WhatsApp, Spotify, YouTube Music) to be made into "apps" already via PWAs. Arc - which is based on chromium, for some mysterious reason, chooses to not support PWAs so this would be extremely useful for Arc!
Things stalled; there were a couple outstanding bugs (one I know has now been fixed, not sure about the other) and I had to take over FreeBSD release engineering and didn't have time to follow up on the Firecracker bits.

I understand that NetBSD can boot in Firecracker using the same patches so I'm hoping they can resolve any remaining issues and prod the Firecracker developers into merging things.
If I buy something for $10 and it's worth $10,000 when you inherit it, you should (obviously?) be taxed on the increase in value from $10 -> $10,000 if/when you sell. The purchase price shouldn't be "reset" to $10k.

It'sutterly insane to me that the step-up basis exists in the US, it's such an obvious loophole that can fairly easily be closed without many adverse effects.

In my country (Sweden) if you don't know the purchase price, you can use an approximate purchasing price (e.g. for equities you are allowed to assume that it was acquired for 20% of the current value, so you'd be taxed on 80%).
Totally. Rare fail for 404. Really weird piece. Mostly informationless.
I've been playing with some LLMs like Llama 3 and Gemma on my 2080Ti. If it fits in GPU memory the inference speed is quite decent.

However I've found quality of smaller models to be quite lacking. The Llama 3.2 3B for example is much worse than Gemma2 9B, which is the one I found performs best while fitting comfortably.

Actual sentences are fine, but it doesn't follow prompts as well and it doesn't "understand" the context very well.

Quantization brings down memory cost, but there seems to be a sharp decline below 5 bits for those I tried. So a larger but heavily quantized model usually performs worse, at least with the models I've tried so far.

So with only 6GB of GPU memory I think you either have to accept the hit on inference speed by only partially offloading, or accept fairly low model quality.

Doesn't mean the smaller models can't be useful, but don't expect ChatGPT 4o at home.

That said if you got a beefy CPU then it can be reasonable to have it do a few of the layers.

Personally I found Gemma2 9B quantized to 6 bit IIRC to be quite useful. YMMV.
Here's how it looks like in real time: https://youtu.be/3vhJ6fNW8AI
It's strange to see Germany so against nuclear, but happily buying all that clean nuclear energy from it's neighbour. Nuclear accidents don't care about borders, you'd think if they really meant what they preached they'd boycott their closest nuclear plants aswell
Show HN: Gala AI, a quick hook generator
Hi all,

My name is Jake and I'm the cofounder and CTO of Gala. Today we're launching a quick hook generator that's free to use, for all you creators to optimize your videos with.

It's built using vite, nextjs, graphql, django, postgres, llama and Groq.

Give it a try and let me know what you think! https://app.usegala.com/en/hooks

Cheers
> Red flags to watch for
> They want to work on this part-time
> They want to quit their job but haven't set a date to do it
> They're going to quit their job but only after the YC interview

...so this guy wants someone in SF to quit their job and work full time while unpaid? This method selects from the bottom of the pool, not from the top.
Wait, where is it? Stop teasing us!
The regressions in standby/suspend are staggering inthe last 3-5 years. Peak stability was with my t480s, just proper s3 support. Currently it's hit and miss with this silly s0ix shenanigan.
They don't, they are informative.
For the people who self-host LLMs at home: what use cases do you have?

Personally, I have some notes and bookmarks that I'd like to scrape, then have an LLM summarize, generate hierarchical tags, and store in a database. For the notes part at least, I wouldn't want to give them to another provider; even for the bookmarks, I wouldn't be comfortable passing my reading profile to anyone.
This is good general advice, but for as long as I've been an independent adult, I've cooked three fresh meals a day. Even with breakfast I usually do fish and rice instead of something quicker and easier.

Like the individual in the OP story, I'm more inclined to suspect a specific undetected infection rather than a lack of dietary discipline. I just don't know how to explore this without having my sanity questioned.
I used to solely depend on Wayback machine to automate archiving pages. Now, I am archiving webpages using selenium python package on https://archive.ph/ and https://ghostarchive.org/.

This told me not to depend on 3rd party services. Might self-host https://archivebox.io/.
No really because the gas helium or oxygen, is super low density (in fact the lowest 2 density gasses there are).
This means that you would need a compressor which can on one end suck super large volumes of gas but sill achieve high compression.
Those are heavy and need lots of energy which you don't have on an airship.

I looked up some compressor manufacturers. And got roughly the following:

Large helium compressors, which compress like 2000 liters of helium per minute to 200bar, weight around 2 tons and consume power in the order of 60kw.

Not sure if 2000 liters per minute is the right amount but you get the idea.

So even if you can fit that thing on your airship, the 60kw power plant and all its accompanying fuel does not fit.

And remember you are doing this because of fuel usage the first place!
So you would be using fuel to compress gas which you have to compress because you are using fuel...

Usually gasses like this are compressed (and liquified) via something like the Linde process:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampson%E2%80%93Linde_cycle

That is industrial scale and does not go onto anything that moves...

And you would need to store your compressed gasses somewhere too.

All of this is super complex, heavy, requires stupid amounts of energy and thus is way to costly to do on something that flies.
This is already the reality today with native cloud computing, managed runtimes.

It doesn't matter how the language gets deployed, if the runtime is on a container, a distroless container, or directly running on an hypervisor.

The runtime provides enough OS like services for the programming language purposes.
There are FIDO Alliance folks posting Github issues requesting to remove features such as plaintext exporting of credentials, with the explicit threat that the Alliance might block such "open" passkey providers in the future. A local database is not enough, it needs to be locked in a secure element or protected with some TPM-like scheme.

The spec allows for hardware attestation as well, to ensure passkeys are being provided from blessed computing environments. Hopefully implementers continue to ignore this anti-feature, because it's entirely stupid to lock out users who want to control their own security; at the same time, letting anyone with an Android phone restore passkeys from the cloud with one of their device PINs.
SpaceX came along decades after NASA’s most famous projects. Would SpaceX have been able to do what they did if NASA hadn’t engineered to their standard earlier on?

My argument (and I’m just thought experimenting here) is that without NASA’s rigor, their programmes would have failed. Public support, and thus the market for soace projects, would have dried up before SpaceX was able to “do it faster”.

(Feel free to shoot this down: I wasn’t there and I havn’t read any deep histories of the conpanies. I’m just brainstorming to explore the problem space)
Thanks for the recommendation. I've added the "+" corners in v0.5.1.
Interesting. With my prompt (below) it gave decent output that was fairly consistent, although on reflection I think a human touch is going to be required when you want backstory which breaks or subverts common tropes and stereotypes. This makes sense if you view LLMs as primarily following connections that are already popular within their training data, and popular things are things readers are likely to anticipate.

> Hyrum Throttlebottom is a disgraced scion of a wealthy English family seeking to avert the destruction of England by the LLMs, or Large Loom Models, after being inducted into the Luddites.
FireAttention V3: Enabling AMD as a Viable Alternative for GPU Inference
By the time you have a good reason to add this library, I think you're already in heavyweight app territory.
If you only want first-party, you can presumably implement the spec yourself and do whatever you want with the data?

My example was only to point out that there exist self-hostable passkey providers.
> I've seen a lot of stuff in e-waste. [...] if you have a quiet word with the attendant you can usually walk off with stuff that someone else dropped off.

In my country, there are specialist e-waste disposal companies large IT organisations can hire, which guarantee to remove and shred the hard drives before recycling the rest.
Valence:

> A Rust framework for building Minecraft: Java Edition servers.

Through there are currently 3 new rust impl. differentiating themself from Valence. So it's interesting to see how this will develop long term. Like will they be for different use case(1)? Will they merge? Will some die and developers migrate?

(1): There are actually quite a lot of different use cases, i.e. Java Edition is by now mostly about mods so providing different modding capabilities and various "common mods build-in" and similar can be a big target. But so can be wanting to run a mostly vanilla community MC server for quite a bunch of people etc.
Besides all examples, Microsoft is now using TockOS for Pluton firmware, another Rust based OS.

https://tockos.org/
The reason might be the recent 0day exploit.
You don't even need to be that rich. Schwab, for example, has a SBLOC (their "Pledged Asset Line") that requires enough assets to pledge for a loan value of $100k. Certainly out of reach for a lot of people, but way lower than Musk-level borrowing. And I expect there are other brokerages with lower minimums.

Of course, the interest rates are pegged to SOFR plus a spread, so they're not great right now, though a little better since the Fed lowered rates. IIRC Interactive Brokers offers lower rates.
> the rate is probably significantly lower

IBKR is charging Fed Funds rate + 0.5% at >$200k.

Why would they ever offer anyone significantly less than that rewardless if they are billionaires or not? They be losing money on those loans..
The Wayback Machine is critical infrastructure. It needs independent copies.
A Hitchhiker's Guide to Scaling Law Estimation
Meshtastic has actual issues with bandwidth running out on the LoRa when there are too many people using it in a small area.
Context: I'm writing a novel kernel in Rust.

Lifetimes aren't bad, the learning curve is admittedly a bit high. Post-v1 rust significantly reduced the number of places you need them and a recent update allows you to elide them even more if memory serves.

Arc isn't any different than other languages, not sure what you're referring to by ref but a reference is just a pointer with added semantic guarantees, and Pin isn't necessary unless you're doing async (not a single Pin shows up in the kernel thus far and I can't imagine why I'd have one going forward).
There still is Kerberos. It has the advantage that it can run exclusively on top of symmetric encryption. You wouldn't get a key per request, but rather a shared secret for every user/service combination.

In case there is a cryptographic breakthrough and we can't be sure we can do asymmetric cryptography securely anymore, we'd have to switch to something like that anyway.
Half-OT:

What's your opinion on SQLite in-memory vs plain objects/arrays?

When would you use which and why?
You can't just put a language in the bin that has been used for 50 years and that a huge percentage the present day software infrastructure is built on.

I see comments like yours everywhere all the time and I seriously think you have a very unhealthy emotional relationship with this topic. You should not have that much hate in your heart for a programming language that has served us very well for many decades and still continues to do so. Even if C was literally all bad (which imho isn't even possible), you shouldn't be that angry at it.
System.Xml has been around for a very long time. I use it in one of my tools as a MSN deserialization class to make all my old MSN history "readable" by traversing the nodes and picking out sending/receiving user, timestamp, and message.
Exactly. We have to choose between everyone dying and everyone rioting.
I was just fantasising earlier, daydreaming, about what a distributed warc or similar solution would look like, with peering and user or distributed server archiving. Either by browser plugin submission or passively sending the urls to servers to do the fetching and archiving (removes some of the privacy issues).

I think it's everyone's responsibility to make sure the web gets cached, not one org... and since Google has canned the Google cache.......
Aaages ago a I built a little tool to provide a TUI for NPM scripts (https://www.npmjs.com/package/lana-cli)

If you have a README with a list of build tasks, it'll pull its content and give nicer names to whatever is placed in package.json scripts field.

(I'm using comments for that which feels clunky)

I don't update it often, but I still use it almost every day.
When a company goes bankrupt, a curator comes in who oversees the decomissioning of the company and its assets; I don't know if a curator is a government agent or a private company (probably either), but they become responsible for the company and in this case the customer data.
At least in Finland not having an address is not a huge hassle. You can always put poste restante (a post office pickup) address if needed. Physical mail is quite rare for official business, and almost everything can be done online.

But not having a bank account for authentication or a phone number for many things is a disaster. Banks are mandated to give free basic banking services for everybody though, and a prepaid number is OK.

But in UK for example not having a utility bill with your name on it is a disaster.
I opened a medium complex SVG and the app became unresponsive beyond useable.
After scaling it down by manually entering the scale values I could not find the SVG any more (the Align... buttons in the top bar are always grayed out/not implemented yet, it seems).

Every update (even moving the canvas around takes 1-2 secs on my laptop.

TLDR; looks like this is redrawing everything every time which makes it useable only for very simple projects atm, unless I miss sth. I.e. needs caching of vectors as bitmaps/textures of some sort.

Also doesn't seem to support OpenEXRs yet? They won't show in the file browser.

Screenshots look great and I love the node editor's mapping to the layer stack.

But as always with Graphite it's still unclear to me how many of the screenshots show actual functinality and how many are mockups or the functionality behind some UI elements is simply not implemented yet.
I payed for this on manning and they didn’t even release the final version yet. I guess I didn’t understand what I was buying, but I can’t help feel a bit cheated.
What’d you use to record that? Looks really great.
Yes, Rust does depend on Clang for the lowest level of compilation at the moment. MIR (where the borrow checker lives and most of memory safety is implemented) and HLR are both implemented in Rust.

What argument? Seems more like a misunderstanding to me.
Maybe to highlight the fact that it already made the homepage.
Is this a valid generic political argument? Do the bad thing or the bad people will support your bad opposition and do the bad thing anyway? No wonder there's so much bad.
On paper, yes. But how many desktop-suitable systems out there that actually implement it?
Could be anything from 8 to 24+ hours sessions (with some pauses) when I started, later in life settled on 5 hours a day when I work - that’s my peak time spent * value added mode. I avoid big pauses and chitchat cause that costs focus. I also avoid deadlines, except for “done; start it today” mode. I do code outside of “job”, but it’s hard to tell how much because it’s irregular and one-shot.

Recalling my long sessions when I was young, no value in these. I could spend many hours doing some nonsense just because I could. It was more like fiddling than coding and I’m not sure it was as demanding as real focused work. Pretty sure I can still fiddle all day and night, just without that much enthusiasm. I guess it helped with understanding fundamental things which turned out to be finite.

Night time is the best. Mornings I just sleep through, completely useless time for me. Probably due to ambient sounds.
Those Other Lawsuits
Ask HN: What is your comfort level with code generated by LLM agents?
With the rise of AI agents that execute code, I'm curious about the community's perspective on the idea of running code generated by these agents locally (Disclosure: I work on such agents). Specifically, what would make you comfortable (or uncomfortable) doing so?

Some potential scenarios:

- Agents from reputed big tech companies (e.g., Google, Microsoft, etc.): Would you trust code produced or executed by AI from such sources? Do these brands inspire confidence?

- Open AI agents: How do you feel about running code generated by fully open agents, where the agent shows the code and the user executes it? Does the ability to inspect and verify the code give you peace of mind?

- Audits and transparency: Does knowing that the AI agents and their outputs are audited by third-party experts change your comfort level? How important is the transparency of how the model operates?

What threshold do you set for yourself? How often do you break this threshold? Would love to hear everyone's thoughts and experiences!
If you want to set up an AI server for your own use, it's exceedingly easy to install LM Studio and hit the "serve an API" button.

Testing performance this way, I got about 0.5-1.5 tokens per second with an 8GB 4bit quantized model on an old DL360 rack-mount server with 192GB RAM and 2 E5-2670 CPUs. I got about 20-50 tokens per second on my laptop with a mobile RTX 4080.
> And so the coal power plants needed more money to stay afloat,

Green energy is great. Going really well in the uk. Super cheap with all those subsidies……………… I mean contracts for difference we pay for it.
Git Notes – Git's coolest and most unloved­ feature
APRS is cool: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Packet_Reporting_Sys...

https://aprs.fi/ is a site that displays a bunch of devices online.

Some people have APRS radios in their cars so they can see exactly where it is for example.
Perhaps torrents?

archive.org does use torrents and I have one such torrent laying around in my client, which occasionally connects to peers although the the trackers are currently offline. I suppose a new client would find me and other peers through the DHT. I'd share a magnet link for someone to try, but it's a copyright-ignoring ROM dump archive so it may not be the best idea to post it here.

It's interesting that torrents may not be the first thing that comes to mind. They have the "PR issue" of being the now seemingly mundane way in which we've been downloading DVD rips for the last 20 odd years. Newer technology like IPFS does a better job making the cool core of this technology actually sound cool.
There should be more internet archives, for various reasons, but it doesn't seem like anyone is willing to put in the effort and money involved, let alone the legal headaches.
This has been a feature since 2020 [1]. Similarly exists in zoom now.

[1] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/featur...
GitHub took down the filter list: List-KR
> He was incredibly logical.

Oh, sure. But his writings weren't.

> But in order to ground that absurdity, the rest has to be normal.

Maybe we haven't read the same books ? I would not say that conkers are the only absurd element in the book (or even in the paragraph).
Why disable LVM for a smoother reboot experience? For encryption I get it since you need a key to mount, but all my setups have LVM or ZFS and I'd say my reboots are smooth enough.
Reminds me more Affinity Designer than Photoshop. Since it is also for vectors. In Adobe land you need two apps for this. (Well actually three - omnipresent Creative-Cloud eating the resources in background.)
Or the issue is the money printing that tends to be going on. This strategy should be too risky to work. They'd be losing interest on the money each month and they'd go bankrupt in the long term due to eventually borrowing money into a market downturn.

If interest rates are too low though then they wouldn't pay interest each month and the market will keep inflating - so the strategy will work.

Basically, this looks like a tax-effective strategy to stand in front of the money hose. If the money hose wasn't there it would be a tax-effective path to near certain ruin and much less attractive.
Other than a couple changes to the drug line-up, I feel like I could've written this. Surprisingly comforting. Do you ever struggle with the narcissism inherent in pondering how the world might be different if everyone experienced similarly serendipitous alignment of circumstance and constitution?
Pay taxes once vs pay interest forever? At what point it'll break even and go negative?
Why? More often than not the classes are combined during post-processing to the most reusable unified classes, with very short classes names.
Halium is based on libhybris, to my understanding that was developed when Nokia stopped making Linux phones and some of their developers started making their own under the name Jolla/SaifishOS in 2011.

While Nokia could maintain their own Linux kernel that's impossible for a small vendor/team. There is no realistic alternative to taking the Android kernel provided by the SoC vendor.