skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This article [1] says tcpdump will output the packet counts, so it might also flush buffers, I'll try to check and report a little later today.

I checked, tcpdump doesn't seem to flush stdout on siginfo, and hitting ctrl+T doesn't deliver it a siginfo in the tcpdump | grep case anyway. Killing tcpdump with sigint does work: tcpdump's output is flushed and it closes, and then the grep finishes too, but there's not a button to hit for that.
Somewhat related - on several occasions I've come across the claim that _"Ollama is just a llama.cpp wrapper"_, which is inaccurate and completely misses the point. I am sharing my response here to avoid repeating myself repeatedly.

With llama.cpp running on a machine, how do you connect your LLM clients to it and request a model gets loaded with a given set of parameters and templates?

... you can't, because llama.cpp is the inference engine - and it's bundled llama-cpp-server binary only provides relatively basic server functionality - it's really more of demo/example or MVP.

Llama.cpp is all configured at the time you run the binary and manually provide it command line args for the one specific model and configuration you start it with.

Ollama provides a server and client for interfacing and packaging models, such as:

- Hot loading models (e.g. when you request a model from your client Ollama will load it on demand).
- Automatic model parallelisation.
- Automatic model concurrency.
- Automatic memory calculations for layer and GPU/CPU placement.
- Layered model configuration (basically docker images for models).
- Templating and distribution of model parameters, templates in a container image.
- Near feature complete OpenAI compatible API as well as it's native native API that supports more advanced features such as model hot loading, context management, etc...
- Native libraries for common languages.
- Official container images for hosting.
- Provides a client/server model for running remote or local inference servers with either Ollama or openai compatible clients.
- Support for both an official and self hosted model and template repositories.
- Support for multi-modal / Vision LLMs - something that llama.cpp is not focusing on providing currently.
- Support for serving safetensors models, as well as running and creating models directly from their Huggingface model ID.

In addition to the llama.cpp engine, Ollama are working on adding additional model backends (e.g. things like exl2, awq, etc...).

Ollama is not "better" or "worse" than llama.cpp because it's an entirely different tool.
What a nice read and I love the conclusion! So often it's really hard to know why something will make it big but with hindsight so easy to understand why it did.
Hey, don't call my gang silly. They're not the ones who use Emacs for everything but coding, like some silly weirdos. :)
Read the guidelines, OP /s

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think it's going to be pretty optional. You can ask for it. They can't just MAID you.
in my experience its normal that old folks have lots of children and inheritance works out that the house is sold and revenue shared among children instead of one of the children moving in
Aw yes, the frontier Wild West, famously known for peace and stability.
Hi Jeaye, love what you and the other contributors are doing with jank. The further proliferation of clojure dialects can't happen quickly enough imo.

Do you have any "killer app" style use cases in mind for jank? Babashka is great in CLI/FaaS settings, native Clojure is great for "situated" programs that can afford a JVM startup and some memory overhead

Which settings are you particularly excited to use jank in?
Yeah I agree with basically every statement. But house prices are extremely sticky with 30 year mortgages. Less stickier in Canada because of 5 year mortgages. There’s actually a big drop in rental prices in my very-in-demand city. SFH still sell like hotcakes though. Since rates might be coming down again, it’s incentivizing people to move and lock in for 5 years.
The Overton window shifts gradually. They are already boasting about cost savings to the government from MAID
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.3947481
I had a position, then went through a life experience that changed my position.

The alternative is to never change your view, or to early on build a strong view on everything you have zero experience with, such as hospice care or the nuance of every immigration rule.
I have not launch yet, I am working on collecting information and that is why I am posting it here, for me to connect with people who are facing the issue like me and we can create a community were we can help each other. Thank you for the comment it would be nice to have a conversation with you if you have time I think you will be a great asset to the community.
I had this happen on a small scale and it scared me a lot. It felt like your executable suddenly falling apart and you now need to fix it in assembly. My takeaway was that the k8s abstraction is way leakier than it is made out to be
Attempts to Improve Critical Thinking in Higher Education - Play Makes Us Human
This is nice. I use https://mynoise.net, which does kind of the same thing, but has dozens (hundreds?) of recorded sound clips and about a trillion settings to tweak!
I really doubt that they're the first to do this.
Who is the “we” in that sentence? Is there a Central Planning Bureau that forces “jobs” to be placed in certain locations? What jobs would you place near the people, whatever that means?
A single 20km round trip can probably offset a hundred deliveries made by a van that is on a semi-fixed route.
> “It’s a good thing from a lender’s perspective,” said one of the bankers on the debt deals. “They have control the whole way up the supply chain. That’s a good thing as Nvidia won’t let things get too bad.”

So Nvidia produces the chips, invests heavily in “preferred partners” that buy their top line chips in bulk, and promises that those preferred partners don’t get any special treatment, yeah right.

This whole thing reads like the first act of a Michael Lewis book.
An informal pip.

You can tell someone they need to improve their performance. You can help them make a plan. And you can help evaluate the result.

Making a plan can certainly help.

You don't need to involve HR inorder to make a plan.

(Not saying that pip isn't a good concept, just that a formal pip is a last resort kind of tool)
In a distributed setting where a me may wish to join the party late and receive a non-forged copy, it’s important. The crypto is there to stand in for an authority.
Imagine it was a credit card found in the car, what are the material differences? Note the suggestion is to willfully use the device in a way.
I believe these kind of data is slightly misleading, because the price is directly affected by everything else that surrounds building a house these days.

Just some examples zoning/land use, building standards codes (electrical, plumbing, mechanical), permits, compliance, inspections, water, sewage, etc etc.

I am not advocating a wild west for building, but rules & regulations always increases and with that comes more costs.

This of course also drives higher rents, and if you think they are high now...
and of course the system will 100% be outsmarted
Hundreds of thousands of lines per minute isn't the same as 32,000 LOC per second.

Delphi did some things that made it unusually fast to parse, like being single pass (meant you could not arrange your code as you saw fit as backreferences didn't work). Also, javac suffers from being JIT compiled so a lot of CPU is wasted each time it's invoked unless you use daemons like Gradle does.

But also, the Delphi compiler was IIRC at least partly written in assembly not Delphi itself.

You could make javac much faster just by compiling it with GraalVM but then you'd lose the ability to load plugins like annotation processors. Delphi's compiler wasn't pluggable in any way (at that time?).
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hey i made suppscheck so you can find out if your supplements work and are lab-tested for contaminants.

they're ordered by evidence according to meta-analysis/randomised controlled trials

you can find products that are not great - feature coming
Developer Experience in Enterprises PostAi Adoption
AI-assisted coding tools aim to accelerate development, but the biggest bottleneck remains: understanding and reading code, especially in large, complex, and increasingly AI-generated codebases. Writing code is no longer the primary challenge—it's comprehending sprawling systems, where AI's lack of human-readable conventions can worsen complexity and slow delivery. This highlights a critical need for innovations that make navigating and understanding code as seamless as generating it . What do you think ?
c) Smoking

In 1950 around 50% of adult males smoked, these days it is closer to 15%
Startups could improve in 2 wasy:

Perhaps popular culture should review the use of nosql databases, and then spending tremendous effort to try and make it into a relational database, while nosql databases can be setup to be eventually consistent.

Money, and accurate accounting don't work too well when the inputs to a calculation of a balance are eventually consistent.

So much work is avoided at times it seems to not learn SQL that it can rival or end up being more work once NOSQL leads you down the path of inevitable relational needs.

In addition to this, maybe it's time to build honeypot ledgers with a prize and reward in it for anyone who can hack or undermine it, similar to vulnerability bounties. Run for long enough, it would determine at least that one side of security mistakes in startups being reduced. Run a sprint, with prizes and let them run like daily deal fantasy and watch things harden.
I would argue a dynamic tension between IPR exploiters investing and state funded public interest had helped. It depends on time, cost and difficulty, with breakthroughs in both domains.
Unfortunate. I love https://www.chosic.com/ to discover new music that uses the Spotify Web API.

While this update claims it's for new apps, if there's anything we've learned from Twitter, Reddit, etc. is that they will eventually kill all third-party apps.
Yeah, let's stop the progress because a few magazines no one cares about are unhappy.
To nobody's surprise:

> This evidence suggests that rule of law is important to internationally integrated firms and that a predictable British common law legal system is more favorable for shareholders and economic growth than autocratic legal rule.

Although "shareholder value" has been seen as contra "good economy" these last few years.
There is a very fun, and somewhat realistic global sailing navigation program.
Look up sailnavsim.
It is a sailing simulator not visual. (Except for maps.)
You can join races, start a random race, and/or create your own races. By yourself, or against others.For example during COVID, we organized a open race from England to South Africa. The race runs in real time, so for open ocean races, depending on where you are going, it can take weeks. You leave your boat at a certain heading, then can leaner three computer - for an hour, a week, or whatever. But the wind can change. Using a wind map( link provided) you adjust your headings. Then check your SOG( speed over ground). If you're not careful, you might actuality go backwards. Also avoid Islands in the middle of the ocean( zoom in on the map.)
So, in terms of navigation is quite realistic.
I came across this one and it really spoke to me. I'm often thinking about how to optimize my career, project or code-base. But I am reminded that "play" is an important aspect of human development and understanding. The older I get, the more I "play" with things from my childhood: Lisp, 6502 processors, model rockets, etc. And I always find something new in the play and in work after play. It's as if unstructured play jiggles my brain-stem sufficiently that I can see new (sometimes better) ways to approach old problems.
been noticing this for years.

solar and starlink keep on improving. i continue to be surprised remote work communities arent commonly developing in scenic, non-traditional locations. it seems idealistic, but makes a lot of sense on paper
Not sure if it's still the case, but when I visited, they handed you a button to single-step through the program. You actually get to operate it, at some level.
Yes. Every Jew and Christian, until recently, interpreted thou shall not kill (more accurately translated as murder) as a ban on killing yourself or another with the intention of killing yourself.
IAALBNYL it’s not theft because they’ve been abandoned and are in the new owner’s possession. If the prior owner can’t be reached and the security company which claims to own them won’t take them, they’re probably fair game.
I am a nurse and work on a unit with quite a lot of the End of life patients. Including patients with MND and COPD which need careful management for breathlessness.

I don't support this legislation. My opposition is based on the fact that enabling someone to have a peaceful death involves a interplay of numerous environmental social and biological factors. The new legislation will need to fit into this complex environment without disrupting the practices which have built up to manage EOL care.

For example suffering for a patient will be significantly eased if the doctor explains clearly what is expected to happen and what the patient is likely to experience.

A patient with COPD, might be afraid to experience breathlessness. But the medical team explain how it will work, the nurses introduce it gradually and the patient does not suffer. Its the interplay of the technology, the professionals, the biological process and, obviously the patient and the beliefs and uncertainty.

Likewise a completely dependent MND patient will requite 16 full time nurses to provide for his needs. They might feel like a burden. Again its an interplay between the patients needs, symptoms and the professionals and technology we use to meet these needs.

If we overlay on this situations the knowledge that the patient could simply take their own life, its not clear to me that this would alleviate suffering.
Oh, darn! Sorry to've missed you, Chris! HoC was a blast. Thanks for following along!
In my city, the homeless are offered free housing that is away from the downtown area. They do not want it. Preferring instead to camp in downtown where they want to be.

Cheaper housing is available if people are willing to move to less densely populated areas.

At the end of the day, housing is all about supply and demand. Like most other things in life. There is not enough supply in the areas where people want to live. And no country has been able to figure out a solution for that problem.
Bit of a nitpick but we don't have "an enormous private residential “care” system keeping huge numbers of unwilling near vegetables wired up until they eventually die"

We have enormous private residential “care” system where they sit around in chairs. The "near vegetables wired up" are in NHS hospitals.

I don't think most of the care home folk are going to go for assisted dying. Also it's not as profitable as you might think - real estate is expensive and it's not that easy to get staff to wipe up 24/7.
> I agree we shouldn't let "regular Germans" from that time escape the responsibility for WW2. Be it through voting for Hitler, supporting nazis in other ways, or simply ignoring the threat and not uniting and voting against Hitler before it was too late.

I did not say any of this, ever. Read my comment. Don’t put words in my mouth.

> After the death of President Paul von Hindenburg on 2 August 1934, Adolf Hitler assumed the office of President of Germany, and thus became commander in chief. In February 1934, the Defence Minister Werner von Blomberg, acting on his own initiative, had all of the Jews serving in the Reichswehr given an automatic and immediate dishonorable discharge.[33] Again, on his own initiative Blomberg had the armed forces adopt Nazi symbols into their uniforms in May 1934.[34] In August of the same year, on Blomberg's initiative and that of the Ministeramt chief General Walther von Reichenau, the entire military took the Hitler oath, an oath of personal loyalty to Hitler.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wehrmacht

The German army adopted Nazi symbols and swore an oath to hitler.
I am currently finishing a similar project, producing PDF from original Markdown input, with the added difficulty that input is spread over many files and directories. I chose LaTeX as the typesetting engine, since I know it fairly well and learning a completely different engine (Typst) with no clear advantage made no sense. Pandoc did a fine job with the low-level conversion from Markdown to LaTeX; then other files combined the generated .tex files into a coherent complete work.

Actually, the task was more difficult, because the input should also be used to produce a website -- and mkdocs was used for this.

I have a list of problems that came up and required not-insignificant amount of work to be solved. Many of them were about the handling of images.
The math on the French website seems to indicate EUR 75 "per child" (~150 total) per month for 2 kids, 110+ per child per month for 3.
This is peak “2000”
Why not, considering copyright law specifically has fair use outlined for that kind of thing? It's not some overriding consequence of law, it's that copyright is a granting of a privilege to individuals and that that privilege is not absolute.
My take as someone living in the northwest and witnessing exponential growth over my lifetime:

- We clearcut 95% of US timber, now the remaining 5% is in states like Oregon, Washington and Idaho. Some wood is an order of magnitude more expensive or simply unavailable, with prices held artificially low by importing wood and deforesting Canada, for example.
- Good, fast, cheap (pick any two). We build homes good and fast, but little effort is being made to reduce costs by an order of magnitude by using materials like hempcrete.
- Zoning laws have been changed so that row houses and 3-4 story apartments can be built right up to the road, maximizing profits but externalizing urban decay. High price/low value.
- The US adopted a service economy when it sent 100,000 factories overseas under the GW Bush administration in the 2000s after Clinton signed NAFTA in the 1990s. Now a smaller fraction of the population does the work of building homes, with most everyone else pushing paper, so charges what it wishes.
- People with high carbon footprints had more children. Bigger houses for high consumers left less housing for thriftier people.
- Garages, lawns and commuting wasted immeasurable resources after we could/should have transitioned to sustainable energy and transportation in the 1980s but chose to double down on the nuclear family, trickle-down economics, etc.
- The cost of those unnecessary roads was factored into property taxes, driving home prices higher.
- Nearly unlimited financing was available for home loans, while almost none was devoted to startups and other disruptive industries. We got what we paid for (McMansions instead of, I don't know, 3D printed homes).
- Modern techniques were almost never adopted into building codes. So rather than running wiring conduit through walls or encouraging similar practices to make additions and remodeling easier, we encouraged tearing down and building from scratch, which wasted countless trillions of dollars.
- The tax system doesn't value trees, existing structures, previous money spent on remodels, etc. So developers profit from bulldozing homes and razing lots in a day to build houses in a month. The human and environmental cost of that can never compare to moving homes, remodeling them, etc.
- Our culture and entertainment tell everyone they need granite countertops and $50,000 gas guzzlers. Things are expensive because other people consume more and more and more with insatiable appetites and expectations.
- Wealthy people who could have steered our culture in a positive direction chose to do nothing. Or worse, actively encouraged extractive and vulture economic policies to enrich themselves further.
They’re making too many people.
You are correct.

>Is it more likely the trend continues and young people will simply become priced out, or is a correction more likely?

As a layman, take this with a huge grain of salt: it depends. By established rules, a major correction should be imminent. In fact, it should have happened one of several times already.

Examples of catalysts include a bond liquidity crisis in late 2019, the flash crash at the start of the COVID pandemic, the Gamestop debacle in early 2021, the collapse of the Chinese real estate market later in 2021, and the US bank collapses of early 2023. There are also others, though several venture into conspiracy theory territory.

In every example I mentioned, unprecedented action was undertaken to prevent a catastrophic event that might have lead to financial contagion across global markets. There will be probably be more. It remains to be seen whether authorities will continue undertaking steps to shore things up when the bubble threatens to pop. (Trump's return to office is an interesting wrinkle; grab another grain of salt, but it's my opinion that the Gamestop thing only got as bad as it did because the regulatory regime under his tenure was asleep at the wheel.)

It should be noted that a correction doesn't necessarily lead to affordability if purchasing power simply continues falling or remains stagnant, as a result of a weaker job market. There are people who believe that sellers will simply refuse to drop residential real estates prices, as they have with commercial properties. Consolidation of ownership under large entities - as we've already seen to some extent - would allow owners to simply squat on properties, perhaps renting then out. Who knows what happens to the algorithmic rent fixing lawsuits, that might have brought those costs back to Earth a bit, after this year's electoral red wave.
Under Google's blind eye, a growing parasite ecosystem is flourishing
High-authority websites host unrelated or low-quality content, like gambling or cryptocurrency links, to manipulate rankings and drive traffic. These tactics violate Google's guidelines but often go unnoticed, creating a growing web of deceptive practices. The piece raises questions about the sustainability of such operations and whether Google can effectively address this issue.
Vastly underrated. Props.
Bevy 0.15 released
He looks and talks like Lucifer imo
100% agree. but now a million$ question - how would you deal with AI when it comes to copyright? what rules could we possibly put in place?
The obsession with "green" energy wouldn't do us any good, would it.
> "They" are a handful of maintainers doing relatively thankless work. This is not a well-paid full-time job for them.

If the name was changed to something with less of an ick factor, contributors would double. (For anyone who believes the acronym is coincidental, it's confirmed to be inspired by "The Gimp" from Pulp Fiction. https://web.archive.org/web/20201111191926/https://www.xach....)
Ahh ok. Yes, agreed.
Zig is a BDFL language, but it's far from a one-man language. There's a Zig Foundation with several full-time paid contributors, with a larger design team who collaborate on the big picture.

If Andrew Kelly were kidnapped by aliens tomorrow, Zig would continue. I think that's the dividing point, when the bus factor is no longer one.
this is probably the best thing I have ever read on this cursed platform. thank you
The price of houses will fall and the price of basic services, food, etc. will skyrocket as people flee the stagnant cities and core economic activity moves elsewhere. It will never go this far of course (zero actual workers is an asymptote), but that's the way it will trend.