skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm running a chat LLM on my local pc. It spits out text just slightly faster than I can type, but it is using much of my CPU and redlining my GPU.

Is it processing at a dozen bits per second, or hundreds of millions?

If the text the LLM generates is "that is true", can I consider that one bit of information?

I agree, they're artificially simplifying the framing of the question to generate a lower number than is sensible.
Agreed except for this comment.

> parts of the ceremonial law are still valid

Westminster Confession 19.3:

“All which ceremonial laws are now abrogated, under the new testament.”

The reason the ceremonial law is abrogated is because it pointed forward to Christ who was to come. But since Christ has come, retaining the ceremonial law is tantamount to denying Christ (see full text of WCF 19.3 and book of Hebrews).

If you were thinking of the link between baptism and circumcision, remember that God gave the covenant promise and sign to Abraham 430 years before Moses (Gen 17, Gal 3:17), so circumcision predates the law.
Isn't everything already virtualized? Books, encyclopedias, movies, music; you can even recreate your living room/office setup in VR (which apparently works well enough for some people). What's left?
I'm wondering what it does if one convert x and y to gray code before the XOR
A data point on this: post-Brexit the UK Government has been doing their best to agree trade deals with countries around the globe. There is (for obvious reasons) significant interest in a trade deal with the United States, but a big fear (often mentioned when this topic crops up) is that the UK would be forced to accept apparently substandard quality US beef as part of the deal.
That's fun to think about. We can actually do the sci-fi visions of running millions of simulated dates / war games and score outcomes.
I'm surprised the US doesn't have 'reciprocity' laws that target the Chinese practices.
I've heard he published 300+ a year since 2009 when the French research minister of that time changed how grant attribution worked. The majority of them in two different publications directed by two of his friends/coworkers.
I think you're wasting your time arguing with a True Believer.
You sound both intelligent and self-aware, a combination of qualities that seems rare these days. I hope you and your partner (will? did?) work things out.
Since it's cited as cross-platform, including non-Windows screenshots would be helpful https://github.com/brisklib/brisk#screenshots

Also, I wasn't able to readily find any information about keybindings for the widgets, e.g. the way some frameworks use "&Monday" to make alt-m act on that checkbox https://github.com/brisklib/brisk/blob/v0.9.3/examples/showc...

I did see your "unhandled" event handler doing its own keybinding dispatch <https://github.com/brisklib/brisk/blob/v0.9.3/examples/calc/...> but I hope that's not the normal way to do keybinding
> Home has chores and errands and 'fun' and all kinds of other Not Work stuff to tempt me away from working. Plus once my kids come home from school, quiet concentration time is effectively over.

It's funny how serving one's employer has become the highest duty.

Work not done? After-hours issue? Then work overtime. Kids are home? Go to the office to avoid being distracted from work.
The problem here is that health insurance purchased privately is a legalized racket. These companies need to be prosecuted for cheating but obviously that will never happen.

A personal example. My dad was visiting from abroad and was diagnosed with pulmonary edema from the long flight. I had purchased health insurance. This was not a pre-existing condition. So he got treated and my expectation is that insurance should pay.

Instead, UHC basically keeps asking the hospital for “documents/records”, the hospital doesn’t respond and then the hospital just charges me.

Now my dad isn’t coming back. So I’m basically going to tell everyone coming to me to fuck off and tell them the person doesn’t live here anymore. But the fact of the matter is, insurance was purchased, it was denied for who knows what reason.
Also, there are going to be endless, endless lawsuits on everything, because everything they do is going to violate either the Constitution or existing US law. I'm not sure how much that will slow them down.
Wallace Minto's Freon Solar Power Wheel
PCBs are cheap to manufacture and are usually coated, to ensure longevity, requiring significant effort to replace any parts.

Do you want your ABS controller to be seated like that? Seems like a genuinely terrible idea.
> Both Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 were great success stories for example.

Maybe un US. In eastern europe was DOS then Win95
I mean, yeah?

If the giant meteor comes crashing down to destroy everything around me, I don't think I'll be that concerned about getting locked out of a video streaming site.

Even if I have a house fire. Small chance it'll actually destroy all my devices and paper recovery codes. And the odds of having that house fire is also pretty low.

If a tornado destroys my house, chances are my hardware tokens will survive. More of a question of where they ended up. A tornado destroyed my brother's house, his iPad ended up just fine.

I don't really live in an area where landslides are possible. If I did I'd probably want to plan around that with the passkeys. But that's true for a number of things at that point though.

What if every device hosting a password safe breaks?
I had the same feeling. I remember the first time I looked at the accounts of North Rock (covering for a colleague at a small fund manager), the first British bank to fail (and the only one to go under rather than getting a bailout) and being horrified at its reliance on interbank markets.

A lot of British banks needed bailing out, but but building societies (mutuals owned by customers, traditionally mortgage lenders but mostly full service retail banks) were fine, but big banks and at least two former building societies that had demutualised were not.

From that point of view it sounds as though Bank of North Dakota sounds like another example of different ownership structures enabling greater stability than shareholder owned big banks do.
I've even heard rumors of a data transfer protocol based on the concept.
> Some people get upset that someone on a 'non-immigrant' 'temporary employment' visa can apply for permanent residency, although that is allowed by the H1-B program.

The H1B visa is explicitly a dual intent visa.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_intent

Becoming a permanent resident is explicitly allowed under the H1B visa. By contrast, if an immigration officer even had a suspicion that you intended to immigrate on any other visa, that would be sufficient grounds for them to disallow you from entering the country.

Further, the dual intent nature of the H1B visa means H1B employees pay social security and Medicare, even though they themselves are not eligible for it. Something you don’t have to do if you earn money on a non dual intent visa.

The H1B visa is indeed temporary. It lasts only 6 years. But it allows you, or your employer, to apply for your permanent residency on the basis of other categories while you’re in the U.S. on an H1B visa. IOW, the only real use of the H1B is that it lets an employer get to know an employee well enough that they’re willing to sponsor their permanent residency.

Also, the other reason the H1B appears overused and not “temporary” is because in a moment of brilliance Congress wrote laws so that there were an equal number of green cards handed out to people from Jamaica as those from China. As a result, when Indians and Chinese apply and get approved for a green card, they need to wait decades to actually get those green cards, whereas someone from Greece would get it instantly.

Since Congress hasn’t been able to write new immigration laws in 3 decades, extending thenH1B visa is the only way to allow folks who have essentially approved green cards to remain in the U.S., because they’re discriminated by their country of birth.
Yes of course the key here is to understand the difference between BUGS and logical (error) conditions.

If I write an image processing application failing to process an image .png when:

- user doesn't permission to the file
- file is actually not a file
- file is actually not an image
- file contains a corrupt image
etc.

are all logical conditions that the application needs to be able to handle.

The difference is that from the software correctness perspective none of these are errors. In the software they're just logical conditions and they are only errors to the USER.

BUGS are errors in the software.

(People often get confused because the term "error" without more context doesn't adequately distinguish between an error condition experienced by the user when using the software and errors in the program itself.)
I assumed this was to make GPUs more affordable for users with gaming use cases in mind.
That’s pretty well standard for VPS providers at this point isn’t it?
Yes, people have found you can sand the die down by ~0.3mm on a 9900k if you are that desperate to improve temps by 2-3 degrees C: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1ed_rBRb7Q&t=525s
No, they have removed regulations so that their cronies can capitalize on our lack of power.
People typically own vehicles for more than one year.
I read it as agreeing with you by adding an interesting anecdote. Ie “yes, the old systems are easier to keep on the road. It would be possible to keep newer systems on the road with custom built parts (aftermarket ECU) but unfortunately that is illegal “
The Habit of Self Education
> but you can't choose the rules of the game.

Well you of course can. These rules are set by government and they have power to change as they see appropriate.
I don't much follow along with dev tools these days, however I have been following rootly primarily because of their CEO JJ. This dude is relentless, and on top of that I don't know I've seen a CEO as deeply customer focused in quite some time, he really is a pro: https://x.com/jjrichardtang
Personally, I never fall for so-called "romance baiters" because I outsource all my romantic interactions to my relationship intern [1]. ;)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HggAV7V6Wg
I'd say it's load bearing silicon. Like, literally.
I’m struggling to understand what you are advocating for in practice.

What was such a reconfiguration of the economy actually mean in real terms?
Remove “auto” from the title and it’s still true
BND's purpose isn't to be a consumer bank.

Part of what BND does is BND provide services to other local consumer banks who provide more consumer oriented services.
Has it actually come out why "imminent threat to product" for over a year didn't result in a shut down?

I know this is a popular topic to blame Trump on for some reason (happening 2 years into the next admin), but surely the fda still has the ability to shut down locations some times.

My gut is it just got lost in the bureaucracy of the agency, but I'd love to see an actual explanation.
Sellers in China list counterfeit products on eBay. eBay never has possession of the merchandise. People in the US buy them. They get shipped directly from China to the end customer. Who is the importer? The postal service?
If after one year, it should have 29 years of life left but instead will last 26 then it sounds like the chips won’t last 8 years (instead of 30). Sounds bad to me.
Aren't Amazon, Google, and Meta running their own silicon for some training and inference? Does MS have an equivalent?

That could explain a large part of the gap.

Edit: it looks like Microsoft announced their own last year, but I can imagine they may be behind the curve in capability and scale out compared to the others
H1B isn't citizenship.
>Seriously, paywalling of scientific research is obviously wrong.

Agreed!

Here you go: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234
That is similar to the premise of the TV show Jericho [0]. Not a great show, but its worth a watch if you like that sort of thing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jericho_(2006_TV_series)
Ah, I'm sure you could cut half of that if you wanted to.
At the federal level, most things are big, underfunded, understaffed, underpaid, and over regulated, so programs are low quality, behind, and slow. I stay away from state level, and expect there is less data and $, and even more problems.

Think fairly basic data extraction, data cleaning, workflow automation, moving to the cloud, getting basic modern security.
Show HN: Remy – A Video Answer Engine
TLDR: Remy is a video answer engine that finds the exact moments in YouTube videos that answer your questions. It also lets you search over specific videos, playlists, or channels.

We originally launched this just under a month ago as a clip playlist generator, and while we saw some initial excitement, we soon realized a tough truth: people just don’t create playlists very often.

So, we’ve been working on refining the product into something more practical and frequently used—an answer engine. Think Perplexity, but every source is a real person speaking in a YouTube video.

We’ve been using this for product comparisons, primary source research, and getting startup advice from trusted sources (like the YC Channel).

Excited to see if you find it useful!
Old Italian Macs used a classical QZERTY keyboard, like typewriters, but no other computer keyboard uses that layout.

Normal computer keyboards use QWERTY (plus some accented letters). Luckily, Apple switched to that layout for Italian keyboards many years ago.
New Cloud Native Plans from UpCloud
Read the ratings/comments on the first page and it looks like one-off case complaints, though I have nothing to back that up than my experience. I've been using them 6+ years and their systems have just worked as advertised and never needed to contact their support. I've had overdue bills which I've paid maybe a month later and it was never a problem--never got any threats to suspend service or anything.

Perhaps they act quickly on DMCA reports, so if you're in a gray area don't use them?

I was just curious what kind of promotions they have and saw this one for $300 in credits and $100 free trial[0].

[0] https://sites.google.com/site/vultrfreecredit
Show HN: GenoRxiv – Mapping scientific literature on the genome
Ever get lost searching through genetic literature? I've built a new interface for bioRxiv+medRxiv to directly browse preprint findings on the genome!

To begin I downloaded 7TB's of bioRxiv+medRxiv preprints and extracted mentions of genetic variant ID's or positions. Documented in "How to download bioRxiv on a budget": http://sitlabs.org/writing/biorxiv.html

This project started after I was trawling through Google Scholar to review a gene when I realised I had missed relevant upstream findings which hadn't been linked to the gene. I wondered if there could be a better interface to explore genetic literature?

Next I provided the variant mentions and paper context to gpt-4o-mini and requested structured output summarising the scientific finding. Finally I mapped all variants to the latest genome build and plotted them on our custom genome browser.

This project was made by the new Scientific Interface & Tooling Lab (http://sitlabs.org) at Oxford. We will be releasing new interfaces and tools to improve scientific productivity with an initial focus on biology research.
Lesson here is always be transparent about your product. If you're permanently blocking ports by default, put some emphasis on that limitation during the sales process.

Maybe they did a risk analysis. Maybe they don't have the bandwidth to create a vetting process. Either way, be transparent.
Why Did Early CD-ROM Drives Rely on Awkward Plastic Caddies?
'substandard' is often trotted out but rarely defined.
That's not really a data point. People are opposed to it mostly because of fear mongering
It's impressive, but it's completely broken on Macs with a normal mouse connected and Firefox, because scrollbars appear everywhere and they break the layout.
Allowing spouses to work on a H4 visa is a HUGE change.

It was a big problem for our family.
It is a global issue. Ever been to SE Asia and eaten street food?
It depends on your use, but generally anything that runs OpenWRT should be good. Fairly inexpensive GL.iNet GL-MT6000(Flint 2) seems pretty good for a decent price. Comes with a Chinese fork of OpenWRT but you should be able to easily flash upstream.

Another option is the recently released official OpenWRT One.

https://openwrt.org/toh/openwrt/one
I've found the opposite. The TP-link router I had was frustratingly unreliable, even when setup to reboot every night. Their firmware updates were slow to arrive. I tossed both the router and the TP-link PoE devices I had into the dumpster. My dad bought some TP-link devices and also complained about reliability issues. We've both vowed not to buy that junk again. Switched to ASUS a couple of years ago running ASUSwrt-merlin and haven't looked back.
> Not sure why it takes 12-to-16 years...

Because the human body develops into maturity over ~18 years. It probably doesn't really take that long to teach people to cooperate, but if we pulled children from a social learning environment earlier they might overwrite that societal training with something they learn afterward.
Some of the letter shapes look like Latin/Roman cursive, but even then I'm not sure I recognize any words either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_cursive
Since the range of the W54 fired from a recoilless gun is only a mile or two, what does the operator who personally performed the firing do afterwards? Start driving away at a high rate of speed?

How can I find out the degree and risk of radioactive fallout from a warhead equivalent to 2 - 10,000 tons of TNT?

Maybe don't fire on a windy day from downwind..
Berry's Model of Acculturation
Eh downvote.

The USG has to go through a very length period of coming up with a proposed rule. Allowing comments to be made about it, adjusting (or not) the rule based on those comments, and then finally submitting the final rule.

Nobody at USCIS wrote this document yesterday and published this today. This is the result of years of work. Do you seriously expect the USG to shut down anything they don't think they can finish under the current administration?
Congrats on the launch.

Have you thought about assistive technology/accessibility tasks as well? Would love to use such a device to control the touch screens on inaccessible coffee machines at my clients offices for example that I can't operate without sight. I'm sure there are way more examples of such things.

Throwing complex robots at inaccessible devices is not the proper solution, but by far the most quick and practical one. Not in the US, so not even able to buy one and I'm also hesitant to buy something that is totally bricked when the company/cloud goes under.
Tell that to the people buying Telsas since 8/24 that have HW4.1.
Better title would be "Analysts at Omdia, a technology consultancy, estimate that Microsoft acquires twice as many Nvidia AI chips as tech rivals"

"Omdia analyses companies’ publicly disclosed capital spending, server shipments and supply chain intelligence to calculate its estimates."
The EU mandates testing of food products, monitoring of farms and processing facilities, and enforces strict trade controls on potentially contaminated products. This works just fine and drastically reduces disease due to pathogens such as Salmonella relative to the US.
>How would they know this unless they were already making them barely good enough to last beyond the warranty period in northern climates?

Life time estimation for parts has existed for over 100 years. It is not a novel science.

Also a fun little exercise, what do car companies sell, besides new cars? That is right, they all sell used cars. For most car companies used cars are a huge part of their businesses model, their ideal customer buys new cars often AND sells their old car to the manufacturer, so they can sell it again.

>Or maybe one day the only vintage cars will be same ones there are now, only the ones made without chips at all might be capable of operating beyond 30 to 50 years ever again.

All cars are made to die, there is no alternative. If the owner wants to avoid that, they will have to do constant maintenance. Vintage cars do not exist because rust didn't exist in the 1990s, but because they were extremely well cared for and had significant replacements.
Read it here:

https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/0714.htm

(E.g. when discussing the Eucharist.)
I was only a hobbyist programmer when I began, but it was the BlitzBasic, BlitzMax suite that really opened my mind to object-oriented programming. Mark put so much effort into these, and it shows. He was kind and answered a lot of my questions about programming. He will me missed.

https://blitzresearch.itch.io
He's pointing out that meat packing consolidated into a cartel (Tyson, JBS, Smithfield and Cargill), which has enough economic power to ignore or alter regulation. The solution is antitrust - break corporate power into small enough pieces that they don't have the resources to escape regulatory oversight.
There is an awful lot of bad satire on the web. When something seems unlikely, it can be hard to tell the difference between actual things, things that people pretend are actual in the name of "satire" but without actually being funny, and just plain lies.
In a MedSpa, Your Surgeon May Be a Nurse
https://archive.is/afZNW
First, the delta configuration is inherently unstable. If the trike gets any kind of side force at speed it becomes very difficult and unnatural to control and recover. In almost all cases when a delta trike loses control at speed it will flip and roll. You may be aware that 3 wheel ATVs have been illegal to sell since the 80's for this same reason.

Also, delta trikes (at least the ones on the market currently) cant lean, so the rider has no control over center of gravity, which is generally pretty disastrous in any kind of emergency control scenario on a motorcycle.

What is particularly egregious is that they are specifically marketed and sold to older people who no longer have the strength or dexterity to control a regular motorcycle. They also usually have a lifetime of muscle memory from 2 wheel bikes that does not apply and often actively hurts their ability to control a trike.

The only way to buy insurance on them is through a specific carrier that is essentially underwritten by Harley Davidson. Death benefits are capped at like $30k.

Tadpole trikes like Can Am makes are fantastically safer, especially since the forward wheels camber and the trike can lean; however the comment about old people who have no business continuing to ride a motorcycle still stands as this is still the market segment they target.
that's all brave and probably well intentioned, but there is another side to it. The Bible was specifically "a single agreed upon text" so that groups of people in real life could stop fighting about theology points, big and small. It still exists today. "The Bible is the Truth" end of statement. It is not because you personally cannot find new meaning in non-Bible things.. it is specifically to get groups of people "on the same page" .. that phrase is used today. The written nature of it also tends toward stability.

Perhaps in an unsatisfying way to an adolescent, the answer is there already, and you personally find your place in the order that is established by your ancestors and lead you life. Mostly the whole exercise is opposite of adolescent exploration. IMHO this is neither bad nor good. It is boring and meant to be boring, to prevent deadly conflict, wasted efforts, petty differences etc.

Based on this boring interpretation, Christians went on to build massive, mighty buildings, large civilized empires and vast written knowledge available to literate citizens. Those things did not have to happen at all. The triumph is that they did happen. In modern times we mostly dont even regard these things, since they are "obvious."

Please note that I am not saying this is the only one True Path at all, just describing things.