skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And my perspective is that the American alternatives are not as bad as the Russian option. Even if the American alternatives are bad, there are degrees to everything. That's the reality we live in.
Perplexity is selling coffee and swag now?
I mean, why? It seems like they are all over the place.
Opportunity to give Organic Maps a shout for being brilliant and wonderful.
Given the comments saying it's performance seems comparable to 4o/4o-mini, is it safe to say that GPT-4 performance can be achieved with less than 100B parameters,in contrary to what previously was thought?
Back when I was young, websites had this icon you could click that would take you straight to their RSS feed. You young whipper snappers have gone an fucked that up. Actually, I think it was Google's fault. When they killed their RSS reader people pronounced RSS dead so people just stopped publishing RSS feeds or just didn't link to them.

* Yes, I know the article talks about the RSS icon, i'm just soapboxing.
Breaking windows also creates jobs.

(It’s a fallacy, but I’m too lazy to face the criticism if I explain it in full. In summary, please inform yourself on why both breaking windows and working less don’t create jobs).
While I'm skeptical of the current state of Social Security, this doesn't quite work. The dollars in your account are useful only to the extent that there is stuff being produced that you can buy with them. If your population is mostly retired people, there's not going to be much stuff and prices will be bid up rapidly. So great, there's $10 million in your private account, unfortunately your home nurse costs $2 million a year.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42343678
Never heard of this guy but this was good. Thanks for sharing.
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It all depends on whether the candidate asked for the help.
You're welcome, 86
Ethiopia spans over 1 million KM2 and has over 144,000 Km of roads. How much of the country did you cover to determine this is a general trend? I can walk into large swathes of America or Europe and pick out badly damaged roads. So...
BitNet is functional at 1.58 bpw.
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> The order isn’t important.

I would argue that it is, given the semantic shift that "to have" has undergone.

“To have” historically has had a more tangible sense of holding or owning something in a lasting, physical way. For example, in medieval and early modern English documents, “to have” frequently referred to holding physical property or goods in a manner implying true, ongoing possession. For instance, the formula “to have and to hold,” found in English property grants and other legal charters dating back to at least the 13th century, specifies that the grantee possesses the land not just in theory, but in continuing, tangible stewardship. This phrase does not simply mean ownership on paper—it affirms the right to keep and maintain the property indefinitely.

Today, "to have" is more abstract, and implies enjoying a condition or availability. In modern English we often use “to have” for intangible states, experiences, or conditions, rather than strictly physical possession. We say we “have time” or “have a headache,” meaning we experience or hold a certain condition, not that we own a concrete object. Saying “I have an idea” frames “idea” as something you possess, but it’s more about the existence of that thought rather than controlling a physical thing. We “have a meeting,” which implies an event scheduled for us to attend, not an object we keep. Over time, “to have” evolved to mark various states—emotional, temporal, conceptual—thus shedding some of its older, property-focused sense and becoming a flexible verb denoting conditions or availability.

So, because we interpret “to have” as less tied tangible possession, the original logic—that once you eat the cake, you cannot still "have it"— doesn’t strike the ear as sharply when we switch the word order.

I would suggest adding a time marker like “then” (e.g., “You cannot eat your cake and then have it, too.”) emphasizes the sequence and delineates that the action of eating precedes the attempt at possession.
Maybe it would help if we distilled the abstract ideas ("foreign influence on the narrative ") to the specific event (current administration wanted to hide the human cost of Israeli tactics / the existence of a spoiler candidate).
> and the Americans DO support people in Gaza/Westbank a ton (humanitarian aid).

Humanitarian aid doesn’t help preventing bombs kindly donated by the US from falling. The large difference in casualties (what is it? 40 Palestinians for every Israeli?) tells me it’s not a civil war, but an extermination.

Israel settling occupied territories doesn’t earn them much sympathy either. If you want a buffer to feel safe, annex and protect the people who live there while fully demilitarising the land.
How? 4o is part of the plus plan, as is o1.
I really wonder if the authors of these pro-business articles really believe what they are writing or if it's just a paycheck for them.
It's a huge problem. If we keep allowing corporate interests to hire from a pool that is willing to live in 3rd world conditions (all these immigrants are sharing a living space in such a way that natives do not) then not only are we suppressing wages, but suppressing jobs from natives. That leads to homelessness of natives trying to maintain a lifestyle they were previously accustomed to. Some moved back to parents house, some just moved onto the streets.
Any opinion on whether the q4 quantization is stable/effective? That's a lot of quantization.

Edit: Perhaps answering my own question:

λ ollama run hf.co/lmstudio-community/Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct-GGUF:Q4_K_M

>>> Hi. Who are you?

I'm an artificial intelligence model known as Llama. Llama stands for "Large Language Model Meta AI."
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That's my understanding as well.

Definitely will follow this, I was really disappointed when Maps.Me started getting enshittified. Hope it doesn't happen to Organic Maps as well.
Habit? It's been known to happen on rare occasion, but a habit?
There were huge protests for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Are we in kindergarten?

I guess we all are, in a sense.
I'm probably responding to you being intentionally obtuse but:

Assuming that's true, TikTok, at the behest of the CCP, can (and will) amplify the reach of that outrage to an outsized impact. If the outrage is 5% of TikTok users in the given nation, and that 5% is thrown into the FYP of 50% of the users in that nation, that's an impact that any power that be dreams to have.
"had 10 years to get ready decided that it was better to keep building diesel engines than invest in EVs". I actually think EU has no chance to compete with China on manufacturing. The energy is too expensive and taxes are too big. Maybe if they had built 100 nuclear plants (with the money they paid Putin in a year) they would have had a chance.
Indeed. It should be the default to have a full map of your area downloaded. But no, Google wants everyone to be dependent upon them on a second-to-second level. (Yes I know Google has offline maps and unlike YouTube the offline support is free as in beer, but it’s in an untransparent and a much less powerful manner, and if you’re online it will use the network heavily)
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Steve Jobs is a prime example, he tried to treat his pancreatic cancer with fruit.

Also see Thomas Seyfried's work on ketogenic diets for cancer https://www.bc.edu/bc-web/bcnews/science-tech-and-health/bio...
And I'm sure you see that there might me somewhat of a slight issue with calling Ukrainian cities in Russian, considering the political situation.
>and lead to an annulment of the electoral process

That would be the goal.
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Recent political events have proven that if I wouldn't, someone else would do it anyway, and then I'd have the disadvantage of not being them. The world is significantly more atomized than I'd like; you can either play the game that everyone else is playing, or forfeit by default.
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> This is the system Americans have chosen

Some (few) of them. In EU it is different.
What happened when India Banned TikTok
I mostly use it to get past the drudge-work. often I have mental blocks in doing super mundane things that 'just need to be done'. AI is good at those super defined and self contained problems ATM & thats okey for me. anything that requires deep expertise or knowledge base it falls flat IMO. It can change if the AI can get its own sandbox to try and learn with experimentation. IDk that has its own implications but its one way to improve its understanding of a system.
You can style it normally. They just don't like the default style.
That's strange, I don't see anywhere where they're mentioning anything about questioning the legitimacy of democracy in any country from their post. Want to quote directly what statement you think you're replying to here? Or do you think your statement isn't a goalpost shift?
and if someone is veering very strongly onto one side to the detriment of another, we get pathologies. like people who can never stay with themselves without great despair or make a decision of their own, or incels and racists who are thoroughly incapable of fitting into their world the autonomy of the object, building their life around the idea of subjecting it to their will.
Because the single largest thing people vote for is how much better they're doing now than 4 years ago. That's just been true forever.
You might should read up on postmodern philosophy before you serve up your relative to the system, for deviating from your "one true narrative of history".

So arrogant.

Someone should have you committed for your personal opinions, which are also wrong, and see how you like it.
What is it in the machine-readable section at the bottom? My passport takes the apostrophe out of my name down there.
You're implying the only other use of the pigment is to make idols?
Large companies always fight against laws regulating them that didn't exist before; but once they exist they always fight for extending them so that new competitors can't arise.

"Democracy doesn't effect much" is not the same as "it does nothing at all".
You can strip most alignment from these models with finetuning.

Generalized finetunes meant to uncensor the model generally tend to underperform... but if you have a quality dataset for very specific task that typically would go against the alignment of the model, it's trivial to finetune on the task and get full performance down stream.
Isn't a simple wget -r enough?
So… five days?

Maybe government work is different from private industry work, but the folks at my company worked six days a week, with Saturday being a “half day” (only 8 hours). However, Saturday wasn’t an “official” office day, so casual attire was allowed, and the A/C was often turned off.

I hated going in on Saturdays.
I absolutely think this is a spot on analysis btw and ties well into my own experience with LLM based coding.

However one difference between these tools and previous human developed technologies is these tools are offering direct intelligence sent via the cloud to your environment.

That is unprecedented. Its rather like the the first time we started piping energy through wires. Sure it was clunky then, bit give it time. LLMs are just the first phase of this new era.
> Being able to rebrand yourself as the company that chose to sacrifice itself to save the world buys you a hell of a lot of goodwill you can leverage for subsidies in Washington. We’d have paid them for it and thanked them for the privilege.

This seems to be incorrect. Given my estimation of the current political climate, if you sacrifice yourself to save the world, you will be dead and then someone else will destroy the world anyway while you're not there to stop them.

When was the last time the government paid someone to save the world?
Suppose you're living paycheck to paycheck and your car breaks down.

Lose my job - yep

Lose the ability to get a new job - no car

Burn all my savings and assets - you couldn't pay to fix your car, so you have no savings or liquid assets

Burn all my familial relationships - hope you didn't turn to (or increase preexisting) drug use due to ^

Burn all my friendships - ^

Get rejected by all social welfare programs - easy, be male and addicted to drugs

There you have it
"hard" is not a technical issue. They would never allow it to be built in the first place since it has no place being there.
I'm one of those people. My mom was an executive who traveled to DC practically weekly, so I have fond memories of going go PDX often go see her off and pick her up with my dad. That carpet features in those memories.
https://archive.ph/ksU7P
****, i use organic maps, we need to get more eyes on this.
TikTok doesn’t vote. People vote.
Something tells me S3 was not designed for that and will break, and then everything will break.

And because StackOverflow broke too, there's nobody available to fix it.
I haven't been particularly active on HN in a long time, but I've been tinkering with this manifesto for nearly a year and thought it belonged here.

I've grown a bit frustrated with how much "Magical Computer" thinking has permeated our business culture (amongst the less technical at least). I think the business population needs to see better their tools for what they are - a mirror reflection of human behavior and not magic.
I think Merkel thought that if pay Putin fairly, he will learn it is better to cooperate, everybody wins. EU addicted to gas, but make Putin addicted to money. It seems that Putin was not this kind of rational.
Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from North American soybean production
> Rapid surge in global warming mainly due to reduced planetary albedo,researchers

Of course, wars have nothing to do with it. /s
"however posix fills an important role in getting everyone on the same page for interoperability."

Isn't that exactly what the posix username rules are doing? Specifying a set of characters which are portable across systems to allow for interoperability between current and legacy unix systems along with most non-unix systems.

"Start with linux"

Which linux? Debian/Ubuntu, Redhat/Fedora, shadow-utils, and systemd all differ.

"get a patch in that changes the defination of the user name from a subset of ascii to a subset of utf-8"

ASCII is a subset of UTF-8 so the POSIX definition already specifies a subset of UTF-8.
That is not entirely true. Le Pen just brought down the french government yesterday. She has some power as a King maker in the current configuration.

But she does not govern nor does she want to. However, the left wing coalition won the most seats in the national assembly but Macron refused to appoint a prime mister which was from this coalition as it is normally customary.

In July, he called on the left wing coalition to safeguard democracy by instructing his party to drop out of the races in which they had no chance to win so that the left could win these races against the National Rally.

Now he saying that the left wing coalition is extremist and that the National Rally is extremist just as well and that he won't have a government with either of them. Basically he just told half of the population to get stuffed.

Then people wonder how democracy dies, that is how it dies.

We can disagree with the right and with the left but if the will of the people is not respected, then the consequences will be dramatic.
I read Hacker News every day on my Pinephone. Calls and texts(mms included) 80-99% work. Youtube.com worked/still does but very badly. I'll just blame the really cheep SoC. When I tried to get GPS working it looked like 90% of it was there. Had modem getting locks on sats and a maps app, but locks took forever, and the inter process communication didn't work so I'm not sure if the cords I saw in terminal we're actally accurate. The pluging it into a lapdock and using it like a laptop works if your paitent (blames cheep SoC agian). GIMP did manage to load but small screen and slow cpu resulted in that not getting reinstalled next disto hop.

If you want to ask more questions and this site has some way to message me with notifications feel free! I've been using this Pinephone for at least over a year or 2.
Random aside: Don't use an SD card as a boot/main drive. I got a 256 & 128 gb SD card that are read only now..
Agreed. And just to add, the limiting factor is what kind of acceleration the occupants can handle. Even with magic anti-g fluid injectors replacing your blood with marshmallows, it'll still take a long while to get up to 5% or 10% of light speed without turning into goo. Not minutes or hours anyway.

Individual space battles might be measured in years, even in the participant's timeframe.

"So who won that space battle out by Ceres?"

"Dunno, it's only been 3 years."
Tim Paterson has basically said that he bought a book on CPM and then renamed the API calls for QDOS. For instance (hypothetical example) if CPM had "OpenSerialPort" then Paterson might have created the same API but named it "SerialPortOpen". Note I'm not saying that Paterson did anything illegal.

This is an interesting video but I am not able to determine what series it is from:
https://dai.ly/x2xzxzo it does have interviews with Gates, Ballmer, Paul Allen, Tim Paterson, and Jack Sams of IBM etc.

Tim Paterson appears about 5m50s into the video and directly states that he had a book on CPM and used that as the basis.
I am loving the increased focus on RISC-V.

As ARM, like x86, is now a legacy ISA.
Ah, beans, you're right. I misread. Thanks for the correction!
Edit: the motivation was just published [0], here is a translation of the most relevant part:

> In the present case, the Court notes that, according to the aforementioned "Information Notes", the main aspects imputed to the electoral process regarding the election of the President of Romania in 2024 are those regarding the manipulation of the vote of voters and the distortion of equal opportunities for electoral competitors, through the non-transparent use and in violation of electoral legislation of digital technologies and artificial intelligence in the conduct of the electoral campaign, as well as through the financing of the electoral campaign from undeclared sources, including online.

The court has not yet published the motivation of its decision (its expected to be published tonight), so we're not sure yet.

Still, given that the same court unanimously decided on Dec 2nd, after receiving the results of a full recount, that the vote was fair and that the first round was valid, it seems extremely unlikely that they would cast any doubt on the vote count today.

Also, all of the discussions in the local press are about Russian influence on the campaign process. This includes allegations of algorithmic skew by Tik Tok, allegations that Tik Tok ignored Romanian campaign laws that require electoral clips to proeminently show some registration numbers, of illegal contributions to CG's campaign (including foreign, probably Russian, financing), of foreign nationals (again, probably Russians) coordinating to spread his campaign on Tik Tok and other social media, etc. The Supreme Council for National Defense (CSAT) papers that were declassified that triggered this late decision by the court were mostly about this.

To my mind, all of these might well have been disqualifying before the election, but give that the people have voted for him fairly, even if manipulated through social media, it's absurd to cancel the entire process and restart it. Especially considering that this will move the elections to at least February or March, months past the regular end of the current President's term. Consider also the huge costs for redoing this whole election, which we as taxpayers will cover.

I will note that the campaign financing fraud allegation is almost self-evidently true itself - CG has filed in official papers that his campaign was run for 0 RON. The fact that the authorities who received these filings months ago were unable or unwilling to do anything about it is absurd. I still don't believe that canceling the entire process when it was two days away from finishing is an acceptable moment to right this.

[0] https://hotnews.ro/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/HCC-32-2024.PD... - PDF by a news source, couldn't find it yet on the official site
> The financial and corporate elite want open borders in order to maximize rent-seeking and depress wages.

I want open borders so we can put a taco truck on every corner. Immigration is good.
Has anyone does a trade-in value for these EVs?

The depreciation of these EV vehicles are crazy...
Thanks!

I want to download my first HuggingFace model, and play with it. If you know of a resource that can help me decide what to start with, please share. If you don't, no worries. Thanks again.
5 documents were declassified and published the links are accesible from here https://www.europafm.ro/klaus-iohannis-a-declasificat-docume...
I've read both, and I enjoyed both. That said, I read Anathem straight through, but I read Seveneves after a short break in the middle.
Abliteration is a fool's errand, practically all models end up noticeably lobotomized even with follow up tuning.

Good ol' fine tuning on an uncensored dataset gives far more usable results.
Look at the filesize, add a couple of GB.
If you aren't printing photos, a laser printer is probably the best choice.
Rivian placed their charging port on the front left corner, while Teslas have ports on the rear left corner. So to charge a Rivian at a Tesla Supercharger, you have to park in the adjacent spot and plug in.[1]

More Supercharging stations are adding "trailer compatible" spots, so this should become less of an issue over time. I would also bet that EV manufacturers will standardize on a port location similar to how gas vehicles have. (Early gas vehicles often put the fill hole in places like the dash or under the seat.)

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/Rivian/comments/1f0wt4v/okay_is_the...
That was the response I feared. Thanks :)
wget --mirror --convert-links --page-requisites --no-parent URL

But yeah it's also not clear to me regarding copyrights and such.
I was in a chunk of the world where roaming was prohibitive this summer, and Organic Maps took us everywhere, found us incredible viewing spots to photograph from, and basically gave us a real connection to the landscape around us. The UI was slightly confusing, but forgivable, and if I had any money I would give it to them.
Depopulation resulted in an oversupply of nine million housing vacancies outside the cities. Tokyo pays people a million yen per child to move out of the city. It looks like the population plateaued about 10 years ago and is trending down slightly. https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/cities/21671/toky...
As most of the heavy construction and earth moving equipment you'd use to bury the wood will be burning diesel and releasing carbon the entire time, you enter some new Tyranny of the Rocket/Wagon equation.
They're more common further west, especially around national parks and other outdoorsy areas
I was gonna mention that so people have something to read when they finished the UUIDs.
The complete inability for anybody in any of these companies, in the past few days, to ask themselves, "Well, okay, are we the baddies?" and instead just doubling down on rhetoric like this and beefing up their own personal security is just... fascinating.

For well over a decade, public sentiment has largely been against healthcare companies. They go to sleep at night knowing the populace hates them. And yet there's a complete inability to look inward.

Fascinating.
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I imagine battery technology improving fast enough that it stays economically challenging to build out charging to anything like gas station level scale.

We will come to think of stopping to fill up your car routinely as quaint as lamp lighters.