skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spent a year improving my p2p networking library. The software is async python 3 and it's designed to solve a simple problem: create a connection between any two computers. I haven't done a write-up yet but if you want to try it out the github is here. You can also install through pypi too

https://github.com/robertsdotpm/p2pd

python3 -m pip install p2pd

python3 -m p2pd.demo

(Will let you play around with TCP hole punching and other obscure connectivity approaches.)

Brand new docs too that go into how it works in English with some semi-good diagrams. If you want to learn more about it.
What is an encryption loophole?

Answer: word mumbo jumbo to get clicks.
From Paris most of the operators for some distance are part of Railteam and will allow you to travel on the next available train given proof of delay. Of course eventually if you have a very long schedule with no slack then you would pass out of the Railteam area, but it's not like you're SoL after one delay and one country change.
A distribution is a function, on the space of test functions.
> If Boeing were to fire all engineering and manufacturing personnel and completely re-staff, how many years would it set them back?

With a team of elite MBA-trained managers? Zero years of course! Those guys can do anything.
the whole thing is beautiful
My rule of thumb for “reduced X” or “no Y” labels is to assume the (food) product’s got loads of everything else, and that heuristic rarely lets me down.
This is a great idea! Recommendation algos are weaponized against kids and would be great to have some way of managing it.
There is a similar problem with movies as well. It is hard to know whether a movie is appropriate for a child e.g. some kind of violence may be acceptable but not adult themes. So marking a movie PG-13 for example doesn't help much. There are some crowd-sourced solutions to this right now such as https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews But LLMs could really help automate this
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Not presently! I'm on vacation and intentionally left my laptop at home. But if you send me an email I could send you a link when I push it to GitHub; my email is in my profile. Otherwise, I'm planning to do a Show HN around mid November. If you check my submissions on December 1st it'll be there.
All of the aforementioned things are 100% covered by warranty. The GPs comment is entirely made up, LARPing for internet points.
So? If you look at older movies, you can see people boarding large jets the same way.
It can be rather quick https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannonball_Run_challenge
Funnily, even two different LLMs, when put in conversation with each other, can end up completing each other's sentence. I guess it has something to do with the sequence prediction training objective.
Investigating tree-shaking in OCaml (tldr; there isn't any, but it's been discussed a lot over the past 8 years) https://www.chrisarmstrong.dev/posts/dead-code-elimination-d...
Please tell us how much it costs, before we have to sign in or create an account.
Super cute game!

BTW I think you misspelt "Weilding."
There are lots of products that aren’t _necessary_ at all but bring an amount of fun to the world. This feels to me like one of those. Not convinced it could even recoup development cost, but I’d be happy to be surprised. There’s certainly a niche for well off Brits (and EU folks) living in 120V land hankering for a fast cuppa.
For the good of us all: Charting the future of Open Source AI
To put it into perspective - the whole take-off and landing is about 500 seconds
I doubt that it is, hence my use of the word "hypothesis". However, it struck me as "oh, they can do this _today_", hype aside.
Interesting that this coincides with the lost feature of LLMs that highlighted uncertainty by color.
Characters are not words. Most words are 2- or 4-character combinations. Individually they have fragments of meaning, so you may get a hint, but not enough to understand for sure unless you’ve learned the word.
I DJ'ed a rave once in one of the off-limits sections of the quarries under the Right Bank (Auteil maybe?) Insane acoustics.
It does lead back to fans making the product/media as part of their identity (which is something Hollywood, Disney etc absolutely fosters and tries to spread!). At that point, changing this product/media effectively becomes an attack on their identity, which they understandably react strongly against.

It's kinda feels like a "you reap what you sow" situation in the context of media.

But if it rationalizes such behavior in other areas such as politics (which I think he's right on), then it really does become a much bigger issue for our society in general
I have no idea if all flatpack apps update their own vulnerabilities once they are discovered. The distribution usually does it. Then I hate the idea of having boundaries between apps and imperfect integration with the desktop environment. Furthermore I don't really need any app distributed as flatpack so far, so I don't care. When I see one I only miss giving it a try but I don't miss using it to do my daily job. I could even said that flatpack is a good thing for me because it encapsulates all the possible distractions and makes them unreachable.

Anyway, I'd rather use flatpack than snap. I left Ubuntu for Debian because of it. I hope it goes the way of the other Canonical's unsuccessful attempts at building their own proprietary system and moat.
Fixing a few typos / grammatical errors from above:

>Going that same "logic"

Going by that same "logic"

>your friends circle

your friends' circle

>Is that not blindingly of obvious to you?

Is that not blindingly obvious to you?
The UK is the huge exception here. Only other place even remotely close in simplicity are the Baltics.
I built a little news summarizer for myself [0].

It takes trending news from whatever country (currently Romania + Denmark due to personal reasons) and gives me a summary. It's based on what people actually search for. It works with all countries, but I unceremoniously commented out all of them except those two because of rate limits. Currently spending $0 on it.

It also posts a summary of the summaries on my Matrix instance every evening at 22:00 local time.

[0] https://www.cafelutza.ro
If you need an example of a germanic language that has a very regular phonetic spelling I think Dutch is a better example than German. German has a lot of idiosyncrasies, because the spelling tries to preserve the etymology of the words. In Dutch they don't bother trying to preserve a word's history, everything is written as it sounds. (With a handful easy to memorize exceptions)
The point being made is that while this may be grating for you. It is magic for a large part of the population. This combined with chatgpt advanced voice mode shows a direction of travel for AI agents. It makes it possible to imagine a world where everyone has personalized tutors and that world isn't very far away.
Every single Cybertruck on the road has insurance. You cannot take delivery without insurance.
Thanks for sharing this - very fun!

Reminded me that nowadays I listen to less classical music than I did so a modification of the game I enjoy playing with myself is "guess the influencing composer". For example I hear so much Prokofiev influence via harmonic language in the early Harry Potter movies and I was listening to Rachmaninoff the other day and thought "oh gosh that reminds me a lot of Kingdom Hearts" and did a quick check and lo and behold Yoko Shimomura cites Rach as a major inspiration. Similarly I often hear shimmers of Ravel in Masashi Hamauzu
Py4web – Evolution of the Web2py Framework
Betteridge's law applies:

> Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
Refining 3D printed parts for a hobby grade 3D metal printer. The complex internal geometry of the design still takes 4 hours of machine time to produce, but at least home users will be able to replace high-wear items themselves.

Boring RF stuff related to Metrology.

Adding some features to a fork of DerFetzer/spectro-cam-rs to validate some narrow band-pass laser filters.

Other boring stuff people really won't want to hear about. =3
$6B Nuclear Navy Aircraft Carrier 'Sunk' by $100M Diesel Sub
Very nice! I’ve been thinking of some activities for my 3yo and will try coloring and see how he likes it.
When I use NNCP [1] on flights to download Youtube videos, the script I wrote to nncp-exec the download accepts a quality friendly name. I have a specific friendly name which gets the lowest quality video and mid-tier audio. These settings usually result in a pretty enjoyable experience and offer plenty of entertainment even on a longer flight.

[1]: http://www.nncpgo.org/
Why should I, when you talk utter crap?

Anyway, I did that (replied) already, once.

See my other reply to you, here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41967220
I am working on eliminating waste in cloud resources.

Cloud providers made too easy to start resources. But unless there is a stringent upfront process (that usually defeats the purpose of using the cloud), it is hard to keep track of who owns what, and what is still needed. Decrypting long cloud bills quickly impossible, and users do not have a clear understanding of the per-resource cost they generated.

I believe the solution is rooted in transparency and accountability for both users and cloud providers.

I am creating a tool what generates a cost and security cloud report which is sent weekly for each cloud user or team.

I intend to release it as a open-source tool as well a SaaS service as part of www.li10.com
I’m excited to introduce Trendly, an app I think you’ll find really useful.

Here’s what we’re solving:

* Social media is full of fake news and lacks depth, yet many still rely on it for updates.

* There’s too much content online, making it hard to find what really interests you.

* Switching between platforms to get full details on a topic is tiring.

Trendly (https://trendly.global/) is a mobile app that curates a personalized feed with trending updates based on your interests. It lets you dive deeper by asking follow-up questions as a chat—all in one app. We’re in the early stages, so while the chat function isn’t live yet, the other features are ready:

* The feed acts as a recommendation engine, curating content based on past interactions.

* Delivers concise, bullet-point summaries instead of lengthy articles

* Pre-generated Q&A for easy understanding

Check it out and share your honest feedback!
The Event Horizon Telescope image might need a correction
An independent hybrid imaging of Sgr A* from the data in EHT 2017 observations
You're still essentially bound by having to consider all the passwords that could be generated. Let's say that passwords are limited to 2048 bits, but you can only store 2^128 passwords. The problem is that you don't know which 2^2048 passwords have been stored, so you have to go through them all anyway.
I can think of a few rock bands where I'd like to hear more music from certain eras of their work.
In China, children start studying at the age of 6 and continue until they graduate from university at around 23. They have a large amount of homework and exams that require handwriting. There's nothing to worry about.
There is no fork. It's some new stuff they're working on and have sent patches to upstream git for (and will presumably get merged in due time – or at least, it's certainly written with the intent to get merged upstream).

https://lore.kernel.org/git/7d43a1634bbe2d2efa96a806e3de1f1f...
Which ones? I know a few countries with those qualities, some of them filter out the bad students really early on or into another stream of education (typically slower, lower quality), as in before you're 9, not 20.
This is why it annoys me when journalists say P!=NP is about scheduling flights.
I’ve been noticing a trend of companies avoiding hiring non-technical PMs for as long as possible, in order to keep small technical startups (particularly dev tools, it seems) focused on building and not hiring too many people too early who can’t contribute code. I’m looking to set up a fractional service for product management consulting to support this way of working: https://www.metaluna.io. We will see if the demand is really there or not.
I mentioned this article to a guy that’s essentially a pro and he said the grip is different based on distance and type of disc and “a bunch of other factors.”

He said an article like this is misleading and incomplete.
Resources for people moving to and integrating into Spain.

Including translated index of government forms[0]

I moved to Spain a few years ago and love it, except for the paperwork. I’m slowly learning Spanish (currently 1112 day streak on Duo) but found it hard to get the right info.

So I’m using gpt4 and perplexity to do things like translate local news, government forms, and the official government update feed.

[0] https://movetospain.es/paperwork/
Thanks, those discussions do provide helpful context! The new development here is the censorship or erasing of procurement contract records that previously existed on fpds.gov and usaspending.gov . The author considers this censorship because the deletion itself is not recorded in the official database of deleted contracts.
Indeed, Equal Housing Opportunity is an extremely bad idea.

I live in "Affordable Housing". The only commonality with my neighbors is the amount we pay for rent. I am unlikely to share any cultural touchpoints with my neighbors: we have disparate ethnicities, politics, religion, taste in music, vernaculars, holidays, favorite YouTube channels.

My community is managed by a social services organization dedicated to a certain ethno-linguistic group. Their employees are 100% from that group. They indeed do not discriminate among renters. Nevertheless, there is a single gang which has moved in and taken control. This gang is of a different ethnic/cultural group, different from me and different from the management. We all have a relatively peaceful coexistence, and it's rather quiet around here.

But we do not share any culture.

It used to be that when immigrants reached these United States, they would settle and coalesce around their native lands' culture. There would be an Italian neighborhood, a Slavic neighborhood, a Polish neighborhood. These communities would be (at least initially) poor, filthy, and crime-ridden, especially as seen from outside. But they enjoyed solidarity, they enjoyed unity around a common culture, and often a common religion as well. A church would pop up on the street representing them, and speaking their language, and they'd all attend there.

But solidarity in neighborhoods and forming cohesive communities is dangerous for the status quo, especially when foreign allegiances are concerned. America is a disestablishmentarian melting pot where we're supposed to be assimilated. So the best way to do that is to break up these ghetto neighborhoods and splinter all the diaspora so that we're far away from one another, no matter what, and we have no opportunity to form a cohesive community or exercise solidarity, or show up at the polls or protest in one voting bloc.

Yes indeed, Equal Housing Opportunity prevents racist White suburbs. It permits Blacks to move in wherever they please. Yet, it is an effective bulwark against the formation of any neighborhood with Black hegemony or majority.

Equal Housing also destroys and homogenizes every culture, and weakens everyone uniformly. Congratulations.
Why would a train going further be expected to have a lower average speed? Isn't it normal for trains that go further to run if anything faster? 170km/h is a fairly normal average speed for a long-distance train in Europe running within a single country, which is what they were comparing to.
Imagine this being Ai generated. We can't even believe anything anymore.
The problem is that the crew of the submarine more or less has to accept to die.
Free to learn, a book by Peter Gray about unschooling, really opened my eyes and finally help with decision about homeschooling.

It shood be basic literature for all institutional teachers.
Ask HN: Local RAG with private knowledge base
Looking for a free, local, open source RAG solution for running a reference library with 1000s of technical PDFs and word docs. Tried the Ollama + open webui, Ollama+Anything LLM with opensource models such as Llama3.2 etc. As expected the more documents we feed the lower the accuracy. Doing it for a bunch of senior citizens who still love geeking out.
> The socio-economic problems are caused by the limitations & drawbacks of modern tech...

Could you please provide some examples?
It’s Bandcamp: you buy the album and they give you a link to download it in whatever format you want so you can listen to it using whatever app or device you wish. You can come back later and download it as many times as you like.
One example unbreakable password:

>An excerpt from a religious text with a trailing space:

>"I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, "

Followed by the deadpan sage advice:

>Don’t use actual excerpts from pre-existing works as your password.

IOW don't try this yourself unless you make up your own religion. Established scriptures of all other kinds have been completely compromised long ago ;)
Hi, disclosure of interests: I am a Developer Advocate for Apache Doris.

If you'd like to learn more use cases about Apache Doris, you may read our user stories (https://doris.apache.org/blog?currentPage=1&currentCategory=...) or join our community on Slack (https://join.slack.com/t/apachedoriscommunity/shared_invite/...)

And this is a functional comparison between Apache Doris and Redshift: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1brUjcu_Lgisy4oa-g9hNvktz0ca...
> A password with 327 bits of entropy is nearly impossible to crack even if you burn the whole observable universe trying to do so.

This is exactly the question I was asking me when starting the article, and it is answered perfectly.
With the Wordpress fiasco only getting worse, I have been working hard on launching my MIT-licensed open source CMS. I bring to the table with me running high traffic news publications on my own custom CMS'es and my learnings from it. What scales and what doesn't. Hopefully the community will like it and embrace it. On the surface, it sounds like a simple project, but CMS'es are quite complex than they appear (hence the time taken).

There are a lot of things the CMS universe accepts as normal, which shouldn't be the case. Even without the drama, Wordpress simply sucks as a scalable solution for large traffic sites without blowing up the hosting costs. Given the ongoing fiasco, I even think if Wordpress has been deliberately built this way as a funnel to upsell the hosted commercial offering to large scale news publications.

Hopefully, this benefits everyone affected by the Wordpress fiasco, as that is my primary goal. This has been a decade long project close to my heart and it is finally coming to an end.

I am also documenting this journey on Medium if anyone's interested.

https://medium.com/creativefoundry/newsletter
In this comment there’s a link to a meta analysis of food groups and their effect on all cause mortality. A serving of whole grains would appear to be approximately twice as protective as either fruits or vegetables: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41965298
This is absolutely amazing.

The pictures are very detailed and done with taste, there is no ads to be seen, the website is well organized.

This rivals any high end coloring book I've seen, you are very talented! My kid will be thrilled, thank you so much for creating this!
Here I was, foolishly thinking it was code for operator panic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLQStcdhAGA
I do not know about "most", maybe.

I agree that "contributing to society" has no intrinsic value. It is my own.

I feel like I waste my time when I play video games, but this is recent. I used to play a lot till age 24 or something. This feeling stops me from playing, but even if I do end up playing, I feel guilty afterwards that my time went to something that ultimately "does not matter". That said, playing something for fun is entertainment, it should matter, but I still get those feelings nevertheless. I hope this makes sense. I am not trying to argue that "fun" does not matter, I suppose I am just not so fun anymore. :P

It depends though, if I play a video game with my girlfriend it is alright.
The reality of product development and manufacturing is that economies of scale affect prices such that low sales quantities (i.e. a "niche product") generally means extremely high prices. Also, the BOM cost alone is probably going to be high, because of the huge batteries needed (with high current ability) and the power electronics involved. Then when you consider the safety ratings and certifications needed (since this is something that could easily start a fire with the power levels involved), I don't see how it could be sold at any kind of reasonable price unless there's a really big underserved market.

Sure, if this device could be sold for USD$50, it might sell some to people like you say, but how many of these people would spend $500 or more on it?
In the simulation, the dub got away unharmed.
Related. Others?

The Coming Technological Singularity (1993) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35617100 - April 2023 (169 comments)

The coming technological singularity: How to survive in the post-human era [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35184764 - March 2023 (2 comments)

The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the PostHuman Era (1993) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34456861 - Jan 2023 (1 comment)

The Coming Technological Singularity (1993) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11278248 - March 2016 (8 comments)

The Coming Technological Singularity (original essay on the Singularity, 1993) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=823202 - Sept 2009 (1 comment)

The original singularity paper - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=624573 - May 2009 (17 comments)
There are many types of ring oscillators with quite different characteristics, such as temperature stability and resistance to interference.

I was hoping this would be a development board with multiple types of oscillators but this doesn't seem to be the case?
A different AI toolbox, for people interested in results, not hot stuff.

My pet theory is that the popular libraries and frameworks we have today (LangChain, LlamaIndex) are first generation products, where just getting the damn thing to work is less important than developer experience, and it’s not yet obvious what the code patterns will be. These are the products built by, and used by, the super early adopters, and leave a lot to be desired.

This is not to denigrate either them or the effort and skill people put into them! But I’ve got a “there must be a better way” feeling about the whole thing. Contrast the myriad web frameworks with wild ideas before some sort of best practices coalesced around Rails, Django, Laravel etc (or the equiv in JS land 10 years later).

This thinking is heavily influenced by Marvin ( https://github.com/prefecthq/marvin ), Vercel AI SDK, and similar efforts.

Right now this amounts to me tinkering away in Python and trying different approaches, is rewarding all by itself. If I manage to get it into a coherent library that could be useful to others I’ll open source it. One of the things I do not want is try and commercialize, because I find many commercial open source projects serving the business first, users second (but this is a rant for another time).
Designing lenses with numerical optimization. It's surprising how much layers of an optical systems are akin to layers of a neural network during training. If you use rays as inputs and refractive surfaces as layers, you can pretty much use standard pytorch!

I should write a blog post about it.
I'm still working on my Internet Command Center

https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive