skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking something along the lines of how Wikipedia does it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith (of course this name is a pretty extreme example)
Make sure the notification is visible (you can minimize it though), and also switch to syncthing-fork if you haven't yet.
Well, Amazon might fail as a company at some point and then all your data will be gone. Theoretically.

Much more likely, though, is that you, or some sysadmin at your company, or even some user will accidentally hit the "delete" button on something important, and then without a backup, you can't get it back. Which is honestly the thing that people usually need their backups for, anyway. This is what most "data loss incidents" are: people just messing up and deleting things they shouldn't have. Wetware is much more prone to failure than hardware, after all.
With the availability and ease of use of Seed boxes, this feature is kinda moot. It doesn't even cater to power users any more because they've all moved to seed boxes a really long time ago. This just leaves semi-serious individuals that want to take the risk of torrenting on their private internet connection.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lifecycle_of_Software_Obje...
Which state is an example of an effective state run healthcare system?
I wrote this article, AMSP
Very cool! Can this trick be used for piezo sensors as well? My understanding is that those too are essentially magic capacitors that sometimes move charges on their own
AMSP stands for Ask Me Something Please.
Just because you don't know what the hell you're talking about doesn't mean you have to take it out on me.
> I am not that big traveller perhaps do 5-6 international trips a year

Jesus, it's more than the vast majority of the world's population does in a decade (and more than I have done in my entire life). You're very well traveled by global standards.
Show HN: Quantus – LeetCode for Financial Modeling
Hi everyone,

I wanted to share Quantus, a finance learning and practice platform I’m building out of my own frustration with traditional resources.

As a dual major in engineering and finance who started my career at a hedge fund, I found it challenging to develop hands-on financial modeling skills using existing tools. Platforms like Coursera, Udemy, Corporate Finance Institute (CFI), and Wall Street Prep (WSP) primarily rely on video-based tutorials. While informative, these formats often lack the dynamic, interactive, and repetitive practice necessary to build real expertise.

For example, the learning process often involves:

- Replaying videos multiple times to grasp key concepts.

- Constantly switching between tutorials and Excel files.

- Dealing with occasional discrepancies between tutorial numbers and the provided Excel materials.

To solve these problems, I created Quantus—an interactive platform where users can learn finance by trying out formulas or building financial models directly in an Excel-like environment. Inspired by LeetCode, the content is organized into three levels—easy, medium, and hard—making it accessible for beginners while still challenging for advanced users.

Our growing library of examples includes:

- 3-statement financial models

- Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis

- Leveraged Buyouts (LBO)

- Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

Here’s a demo video to showcase the platform in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDRNHgBERLQ

I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback! Let me know what other features or examples you’d find useful.
> just follow them

How exactly do you follow a fixed-wing drone? Some of the high-end/industrial drones has pretty impressive ranges.
Relatedly, I think many people overestimate how hard it is to compete with the big players. People think that because they earn billions, they are unbeatable. But this is untrue! Scrappy, creative people who just go for it can often beat the big players. As a recent example, look at Cursor AI. Microsoft was in the PERFECT place to come up with Cursor. Microsoft had the most AI knowledge via their own teams and via OpenAI. They have enormous data centers for AI compute. They had the most used code editor (Visual Studio Code). And still Cursor came in and made a better product!

Jeff Bezos said "your margin is my opportunity". I think we can say the same for bureaucracies. Whenever there is a bureaucracy, think "your bureaucracy is my opportunity."
I'm sure they meant it refutes pilot-wave theory, though it seems that's not precisely true if you consider a non-local hidden variable to explain instantaneous interaction.
A talk by Brian Eno convinced me that there is no meaningful difference between the two, and I've yet to see a definition of art that does not end up in self-contradiction if we try to make the distinction.
Also, the OAuth RFC does not use "MUST" for 400 response and allows some freedom in this regard:

> The authorization server responds with an HTTP 400 (Bad Request) status code (unless specified otherwise)

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6749#section-5.2
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Why do you think Astrill is one of the best? And why do you think it is better than Mullvad?

I trust Mullvad because it does security audits like this. And it stores no data and has a history of police showing up without any data compromised [1].

[1] https://mullvad.net/en/blog/mullvad-vpn-was-subject-to-a-sea...
AoE and AoE X has a bit on TIAs as well, their "final form" circuit idea enhances the basic JFET follower idea with an additional emitter follower to reduce source impedance and by AC-coupling the compound follower's output they get to set favorable DC working points.

The tricky bit is going to find a suitable replacement for the BF862.
For a detailed accounting of the challenges involved, I recommend this video:

Why It Would Be Preferable To Colonize Titan Instead Of Mars
https://youtu.be/_InuOf8u7e4?si=hRO1ZYCZtbQXUuK9

If you fully watch it, or already know these issues, the notion of going to Mars any time soon seems outright foolish.

If you have a large enough platform, it might still be useful as fundraising campaign, a PR stunt, or as a way to rally the uninformed masses around a bold vision. But, that's about it.
But op's point was about people talking about tiny LLMs failing to consider the amount of parameters used. This has nothing to do with the ability of autonomously collecting the training data.
I like that parent said "200 meters" and then you give a "even" example with the distance of ~400,000 kilometers :)
Most university students who have to finish assignments know that deadlines are indeed a blessing. Motivating yourself without a deadline is a rare gift that most of us do not possess.
Cyprus is left out, as always...
As a former resident of Florida I have never heard Pam B(l)ondi express a rational thought
It massively reduces the available torrent pools. That's not a niche thing. Also many trackers use udp.

I'm thinking of moving to protonvpn.
next stop: run database inside notepad powered by blockchain
Earlier this year, NYT launched a new puzzle game called Strands, which gained a lot of popularity. I created a website, https://strands.today, monetized with AdSense. It allows users to check daily puzzle answers and play previous games in the https://www.strands.today/strands-archive/ . It generates about $600 per month.
Got it. How do you explain why these drones have green and red aviation lights and headlights? The aliens are abiding by FAA regulations now?
What about legal stuff? Are you not worries of someone doing illegal stuff?
Should try with smollm2 which is one of the smallest instructed models.
Diagnostic accuracy of deep learning in medical imaging
Adding tho this; It’s clearly some business that hasn’t been forthcoming about their activities up to now. The drone delivery company Wing.com got a lot of pushback from the public about how noisy their drones are, and spent a lot money making them quieter. Same will happen here.
If only 2+2bird had died for our sins, but alas, it wasn't dead, it was merely resting.
I read several comments referring to: idiots, morons, delusional, and hysteria.
I wish I had seen this a few months sooner! I have solved the problem with hardware via a Keyball:
https://github.com/Yowkees/keyball/blob/main/keyball44/doc/r...
Unfortunately it doesn't scale at all, either to larger teams or to cross-disciplinary projects (e.g. hardware & software combined).
So is it official, the only 4K content will be what we can scrape from Netflix, with the bitrate that is put into shame even by a dollar bin DVD (when it was still a thing)?
Not really no. If both peers are behind NAT they just can't connect. There's no central server to facilitate hole punching.
> Up to that time, whenever people had problems, the advocates of difficult systems would just declare philosophically that, well, these things are just hard to learn, but because they’re so powerful, people will just have to learn them.

Unfortunely, many still keep pushing this school of thought.
LLM-Take: Theme-Aware Keyword Extraction Using Large Language Models
Ask HN: Do you think it's bad for businesses to tout they use AI for everything?
For a business, do you think it's "bad" to proudly tout that you use AI for everything?

I'll start by saying I know it depends on the target market, etc... but curious what this group thinks even though I know this audience isn't representative of the general public.

*Context:*
I built Text To Frame It (https://texttoframe.it) as a midnight hustle. While I have a website for it, the actual service is a phone number (917-905-1015) you can text pics to and the recipient of those texts is an AI bot that automatically/instantly frames those pics for you onto canvas, posters, puzzles, etc... And, from there, you can purchase what you like and have them shipped to your door in less than a week. The target market for this is individuals that want a simple, quick, frictionless way to create sentimental gifts - largely, guys like me lol on holidays like this one coming up. But, I digress ...

*The point I'm making:*
The entire system is automated with AI - the AI bot you text message (powered by ChatGPT), the AI bot you talk to when you call that same phone number (powered by Retellai.com & ElevenLabs), the SEO-optimized blog posts (generated by a custom ChatGPT-powered AI workflow on Make.com - based off work by Nick Saraev), the ad campaigns (powered by AdWin from usestyle.ai), and more! And, I'm actually very proud of all of that. It allows me to run the entire thing as just one person. Not only does all of this allow me to keep the prices for framing the lowest in the market (with free shipping to boot), but it also allows me to focus on the core of the business: making quality products that people really like and find great for gifts and such. It also allows me to focus on how to make things quick and frictionless instead of worrying about writing the next sentence on a blog post, etc...

*So, my question:*
I proudly have a disclaimer at the bottom of my blog posts highlighting that the blog posts are generated by AI (ex: https://texttoframe.it/blogs/posts/the-benefits-of-custom-picture-framing ). And, I'm considering adding other disclaimers throughout the site highlighting the use. *Do you fundamentally think this is a net-negative right now? And, conversely, do you think it's a net-positive?*
Also, nobody uses my first name in their subject line except people trying to sell me something.

And the only people using my first initial as my first name are people who scraped Linked-In.
Hi, Kevin here, creator of Cloudhiker. It was quite a surprise getting an email from Kari to talk about Stumbleupon and the older internet for an BBC article. We had a good chat and I think she summarized the most important points in her story. It was a great time to be on the internet during the 2000's to around 2015. I still miss the time, and I know many others do too. Thankfully, large parts of that old internet are still there, or sites like Neocities continuing the legacy.

Let me know if you have any questions regarding Cloudhiker.
Yeah I'm not a big torrenter but sometimes I want an old show that is only offered by a few seeders. And then most of them don't work due to this.

If you just want to grab the latest blockbuster it's no problem no.

I've never thought of getting a seedbox, i always thought the amount of storage required would be prohibitively expensive for a VPS. Also, I'd still want to use a VPN so the VPS provider isn't the only protection layer.
Kicking off customers due to vague T&C violations is on thing, but deleting their data without giving them a chance to get it out is something else entirely, especially if you only notified the customer via email without confirmation of receipt or attemps to use alternative communication methods. Is permanently deleting data as soon as services are shut off standard procedure for your company?
They already do this, it's the moderation model.[1]

This name thing is an additional layer on top of that, maybe because training the model from zero per name (or fine tuning the system message to include an increasingly big list of names that it could leak) is not very practical.

[1] https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/moderation/overview
Well, there's a lot of evidence that humans evolved to be persistence hunters, so we just need to continue this process and adapt further.
Yeah I made sure to avoid those
If it's an entry for the IOCCC, yes ;)
Exactly. Kind of like the old days when they put together a massive amount of commodity CPUs to build search.
Steve Jobs was never an UNIX fan, you can easily observe this in the design of NeXTSTEP where everything that actually matters on the OS has zero UNIX influence, his famous remarks about UNIX, or the recordings at NeXT as UNIX support being a means to an end to fight in the workstation market.
A person had an idea for something they wanted to do. They set about doing it. They undoubtedly ran into difficulties and had to think about how to solve them. They came up with solutions, probably some of the solutions aren't as elegant as they had hoped for, but they reached something that was acceptable, again and again. And eventually they created something that, to some extent, satisfied them.

That process is the joy.

I just don't see the harm in what this person has done? Envisaging something that could be created, and then creating it, is what life is all about.

I just don't see how words like "perversion" and "distortion" can sensibly be applied to this work?
> CPU and memory are good enough that most regular consumer devices shouldn't need an internet connection

Moxie appears to use ChatGPT and an in-house LLM for facial/speech recognition.

https://moxierobot.com/products/ai-robot
"emotion-responsive HD camera and GPT-powered AI"
Using toot in the sense of tooting your own horn is still an odd decision for posts. It implies that users' posts should be focused on bragging about themselves. At least in my opinion that make for a very annoying social media feed to read through.
It's excused because it's a piece of software and most people realize that. If you could carry on a conversation with a parrot at the zoo and it told you to kill yourself, would you laugh it off because let's face it, it's just a parrot or indignantly demand the zoo train the parrot better?

A real person has agency. They can see you, get to know you, contemplate your existence as well their own. Empathize with who you are, etc. And we do the same things in return.

This is why when a real person says something mean or hurtful, it matters to us. Or if they threaten us, they have a real body that can cause us harm so we get scared and call the police.

I feel like most people who get indignant about the latest AI rage bait story know all this but feel the need to protect the rest of the world from out of control AI. This is an elitist and patronizing attitude. Let people decide for themselves. As I said, children are a different story. They are impressionable and I can see them misunderstanding how this works.
Fair enough, I retract MFC as an example.
Theory of the firm states that the corporation will get as large as coordination costs allow, but the other way to view that is that large corporations need to compensate for their increased coordination costs in some way.

Empirically, they can often do that successfully, as evidenced by the fact that large cloud providers are, indeed, large.

But you correctly point out that over time this almost guarantees opportunities for firms with lower coordination costs.
Our metabolism slows down primarily because it takes more energy to keep a fat person alive than it does to keep a healthy person alive. After you lose 20% or more of your body weight you might start to notice this, it isn't a real concern. The effect is negligible and again notice that people taking drugs thet let them comply with a calorie deficit diet don't have to resort to excuses like this to explain a failure to lose weight.

The cause of a failure to lose weight with moderate calorie restriction is always a failure to maintain the calorie restriction aka cheating on the diet (because it is incredibly hard to do when you aren't used to it).
Almost... but not what I'm looking for. I'm looking for something without actual git. I can also just ignore most of the ugly commands of git, but I'm thinking of something that doesn't make me think of what commands are worth remembering. I'm looking for "simple code versioning for dummies, that you can't break even if you tried hard"
This is awesome. Love this idea. What a great way to make history more alive. I've only spent ~30s with it so far but I hope to find ways to contribute to it (content and code/different visualizations)
For this purpose, my name is "the"
> What is about HN where numerous posters do not believe that investing in the US or EU stock markets is better than completely random outcome, like roulette red/black?

Err, you could start by not making wild inferences and replying to assertions that weren't made.

A single investment is basically gambling. Where it moves is largely impossible to predict or (for a nobody like me, who wouldn't have the means to engage in market manipulation) control. You can reduce the randomness/risk by spreading out your investment across multiple stocks. That's just the central limit theorem. For the market as a whole, on a long enough timescale, the historical aggregate trends upwards, but is still effectively random.

> What the fuck are you investing in for retirement if not stocks?

I can be critical of something and still acknowledge the reality that I am effectively forced to engage with it. I generally invest in a few index funds to reduce the variance and mental overhead, but it's still there.

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In one way it's much worse than "mainstream" gambling: its value depends on society holding the shared delusion that stocks (both in general and yours in particular) are actually worth something. That leads some people to become incredibly invested in maintaining that delusion, since they know what's at stake for them. This thread could be considered an example of where that mentality leads.

And as you said yourself:

> The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
So, instead of fixing the problem, we're going to paper over it. This is the same insane approach we've been taking with computer security for the past 30 years, so it's not unexpected.

It's fortunate we didn't take the same approach with the distribution of electricity 150 years ago, we actually solved it that time.

In all 3 cases, the solution is the same... carefully manage capabilities and side effects.

With electricity, you insulate wires, add fuses or circuit breakers to protect the system, and design things to be as safe as you can make them, with an ever improving set of building codes. You can plug almost anything into an outlet, and it won't cause the wiring in the house to burn it down.

With computers, you design an operating system to protect itself, and make it easy to deploy a fixed amount of resources to a given piece of code. With systems like Containers, or Capability Based Security, you deliberately choose the side effects you'll allow prior to running code, or while it's running. (Just as you chose how big an outlet you plug something into, 220 for the AC unit, etc)

With ChatGPT, there have to be layers of authentication for facts, or some form of disclaimer, a transparent way of sourcing things or ascertaining certainty of information. It's not as clean as the two above, and it'll need work, but I think we can get there, eventually.
Tried to use the tool and it never worked (just no reaction after clicking on the "generate" button). Disabled the adblocker to see if it was the cause but with the same result. Getting a "'Save to PDF' button not found
" error in console.

Not sure how to fix it. Thought you might like to know.
Good luck helping somebody paralyzed from the neck down live a fulfilling life.
Digging in a bit more: Love this explainer of how it's done - https://www.maptiler.com/story/oldmapsonline/
Still with Cursor. Tried Windsurf for 2 seconds and came back.
Networking, SDN, TCP, 5G, Edge Cloud "A Systems Approach" Books
After Meta signals end to publisher payouts, Australia plots Big Tech news tax
No. People have been predicting the demise of the so called "legacy" car companies for a long time. But they're car companies. They sell cars. They make a profit:

https://companiesmarketcap.com/automakers/most-profitable-au...

Tesla's sales are down, deliveries are down, and market share is down:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68715906

https://electrek.co/2024/08/13/tesla-doing-well-china-but-sa...

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/18/tesla_sales_market_sh...

https://www.cbtnews.com/teslas-leasing-push-aims-to-offset-u...

Tesla's US EV market share is now below 50%:

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=63904

https://caredge.com/guides/electric-vehicle-market-share-and...

It will keep falling.
NHS before the conservatives gutted it?
Even when using the web search tool GPT-4 becomes stupider.

Do they use a dumber model for tool/vision?
You'd probably need to put the source code/keys in escrow. With legally mandated escrow, you can go after the owners/executives if they're not compliant.
Donald L. Bitzer, RIP (1934-2024)
“If it hurts, do it more often.”

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/FrequencyReducesDifficulty.ht...
Datamimic CE: Open-Source Model-Driven Test Data Generation (MIT License)
We've just released DATAMIMIC Community Edition under the MIT license. It's a Python-based platform for generating realistic test data using a model-driven approach, originally developed for enterprise clients who needed to handle complex data structures while maintaining GDPR compliance.
Core features:

Model-driven architecture using XML configs
Built-in data anonymization and pseudonymization
Support for JSON/XML/CSV/RDBMS/MongoDB
High-performance Python core (3.10+)
Extensible through custom generators
Shouldn't the free market correct this if it is, in fact, so widespread and risk free?

Why would the cryptobros not just band together and make their own bank? It wouldn't be for lack of funds. And if what they want to do is within the law and regulation, then there is no legal way to prevent them. Blockading in that way would very likely make it all the way to the Supreme Court.

Do you feel a particular consumer bank closing an account because it's doing "business" business in a way the bank is not prepared to handle is too egregious and they should assume all (historically precedented) risk and penalties for not enforcing documented anti money laundering regulations for any and all circumstances?

Or is it possibly because this is not a real problem at the scope you are credulously trying to present it to be and this is consistently conflated with misusing an account where they can just move someplace else and have another account as long as they act like a normal person?