skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A similar use case for me - I wrote some technical documentation for our wiki about a somewhat complicated relationship between ids in some database tables. I copied my text explanation into an LLM and asked it to make a diagram and it did so. Took very little time from me and it was fast/easy to verify that the quality was good.
Pam Solution – Free ZTNA and Session Recording
I've been using PAM solutions (CISSP+CISO) for years, they're big and gross and awful to use. This is a single container that works and deploys in minutes. Will this break an industry? Probably.
Anecdatally, by default, we now block all Chinese and Russian IPs across our servers.

After doing so, all of our logs, like ssh auth etc, are almost completely free and empty of malicious traffic. It’s actually shocking how well a blanket ban worked for us.
More the latter. I was following its development and one trick they played was converting the model geometry from triangle lists to triangle strips better suited for PowerVR. That let them push triangles to the hardware faster with a corresponding increase in framerate.

https://x.com/falco_girgis/status/1821266502412075174?lang=e...

Falco is very funny, BTW. He writes a lot of his Dreamcast posts like that gen of the console wars is present day.
Jeez, take your pills.
Absolutely - Hardy and Wright's An introduction to the theory of numbers is excellent but definitely doesn't need to be restricted to postgrads - its also fine for undergraduate level number theory (indeed it was a recommended textbook when I was an undergrad).

It is quite dense but at least personally I find that style of textbook much more useful than the American style enormous textbooks which takes a chapter to explain what could be said in a paragraph. You just need to know to expect it will take you quite a while to read each page.
Show HN: Customizable, Printable Visual progress tracker based on Jerry Seinfeld
Hello Hacker News community! I'm excited to introduce Don't Break the Chain, a project born from my own need for a visual progress tracker to achieve goals through consistency.

I made this after reading the the story from Brad Isaac about an advice he received from Jerry Seinfeld.

"He told me to get a big wall calendar that has a whole year on one page and hang it on a prominent wall. The next step was to get a big red magic marker. He said for each day that I do my task of writing, I get to put a big red X over that day.

[Then Jerry said]: After a few days you’ll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You’ll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job is to not break the chain."

This tool is designed for anyone who wants to track progress in a visual way.

What goals are you working on currently? I’d love to hear your thoughts and feedback!
Balatro recently published a mobile version of their game, but I was under the impression Love2D only supported desktop platforms. Has that changed?
Forgive my ignorance, but... okay, and? Without additional context, what do I care if some dude just got some cash?
Yeah, I feel 2025 will be the year where you need petabytes of data, LLMs and dashboards just to get ‚insight’ like that
MOONRING too which is another really fun game, although one that hasn't yet gone as mainstream as Balatro.

There is so much "draw the rest of the Owl" between a very primitive framework like LÖVE and stylistic games like BALATRO and MOONRING.
Ask HN: What is your implementation of GTD or similar?
I've tried and failed to implement GTD for the past 20 years since I first ever read the book. It could be a skill issue, but I do wonder what other systems or variations of GTD could be worth trying.
The LLM goalpost keeps moving, apparently. They are not useful for most everyday tasks, e.g. suggesting games, coming up with plans, activities, anything creative that requires knowledge, understanding and creativity.

This has always been the benchmark, they are not that useful to me. Everytime I say this, someone hits me with the "yeah, I bet you haven't tried ShitLLM 4.0-pqr". It's very tiring. Your new LLM hype model is nothing but a marginal, over hyped improvement over something that fundamentally is not intelligent.
> Don't use LLMs where accuracy is paramount.

Then why do people keep pushing it for code related tasks?

Accuracy and precision is paramount with code. It needs to express exactly what needs to be done and how.
To finish the sentence you were quoting: '“no lives matter,” an apparent nod to a far-right ideology that primarily coordinates through encrypted apps.' First page of Google gives this: https://www.njohsp.gov/Home/Components/News/News/1430/2
How is it sensitive or even reasonable that all fantasy species are equally capable? That just seems bizarre. It's core to fantasy tropes that Elves are long lived, magical and intelligent. And that Orcs are stronger than humans. Absolutely bizarre to make changing that anything to do with inclusivity...
something like this could be made into a game to help taxi or bus drivers learn their routes or local areas.
I just tried it out, but then I realized (a) I never use capital I as a standalone variable name...and I never used it period. i will always be an integer anyways. Since coding standards enforce nice variable names and forbid ascii spacing art, ya, it never comes up.
big ol bucket of blue
From the creator of reicast. Skmp is such a legend in the DC community.
They may have a better approach for MoE selection during training:

> The key distinction between auxiliary-loss-free balancing and sequence-wise auxiliary loss lies
in their balancing scope: batch-wise versus sequence-wise. Compared with the sequence-wise
auxiliary loss, batch-wise balancing imposes a more flexible constraint, as it does not enforce
in-domain balance on each sequence. This flexibility allows experts to better specialize in
different domains. To validate this, we record and analyze the expert load of a 16B auxiliary-
loss-based baseline and a 16B auxiliary-loss-free model on different domains in the Pile test set.
As illustrated in Figure 9, we observe that the auxiliary-loss-free model demonstrates greater
expert specialization patterns as expected.

And they have shared experts always present:

> Compared with traditional MoE
architectures like GShard (Lepikhin et al., 2021), DeepSeekMoE uses finer-grained experts and
isolates some experts as shared ones.
> Perhaps stemming from the over-broad term “AI”.

No, I think if we follow the money, we will find the problem.
Interesting (mis)use of the word catfish

Not how we normally understand
Or there's more to learn now and all the "easy" PhD subjects are already taken?
> The filing also references Spafford’s belief in “no lives matter,” an apparent nod to a far-right ideology that primarily coordinates through encrypted apps.

That's a scary sentence. I fear this might be used to mandate backdoors into encrypted apps.
CME Group has ETH and BTC futures and you can short those easily as theres no notion of "borrowing shares" in the futures world to get short.
They had a backdoor. Someone used the backdoor. You stick your hand in a running lawnmower and it gets chopped off. Nobody is surprised.

Who put the backdoor there? The US government did.
Understanding intuition of the Two child problem
This is not a tools problem, this is incentive and political problem.

Telecoms will not get fined for this breach, or fined at amount that is meaningful, so they are not going to care.
> my productivity doesn’t seem to correlate with the number of hours I work

My productivity correlates with how much I'm enjoying the work and how few obstacles there are between me and my goal...
Exploring where and how the Federal Government spends money
Looking at https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder... it's interesting to see how and where money is allocated.

Take the Deparatment of Commerce for example:

- Out of $9.7 trillion, it's only allocated a paltry 0.49% ($47.9 billion).

- Out of that 0.49%, only 1.33% or $637 million is budgeted for the International Trade Administration

The ITA is one of the 3-4 arms of of government responsible for maintaining/overseeing that the international trade agreements are being followed. Good luck holding China accountable to cheats.

Let's also look at the law enforcement arm:

- As a category, Administration of Justice makes up $104 billion.

- That sounds like a lot but it's only 1% of the Federal Budget, trying to cover everything from interstate crimes to white collar crimes, corporate crimes, and compliance.

Medicare is an interesting one:

- Prescription costs are small portion (7 to 14%? It's a bit confusing); it's actually everything else that costs a bundle.

- Paying out the services are the bulk of the cost.

- Calculating per served (about 66 million on medicare), it costs tax payers about $24k a year. Which is on par with the middle to upper tier market plans.

Of course, Medicare tends to cover the least healthy Americans; whereas private insurance covers the most healthy. So the pool of money that would be injected-in is (in a single payer system) is instead out of circulation.
That written permission is worthless unless notarized & verified (which isn't going to happen for ordinary things) because you can just write it yourself.

And you don't need a passport. I've never met a company that will require full KYC-level video-identification with you on every call. You say that you're you (it doesn't matter whether you actually are you), you give them the secret code and they're happy.
FWIW PKI tends to mean a central point of failure. Some Russian organizations can't get TLS certificates because of sanctions.
It also helps that GTA III was made using a well-known game engine (RenderWare).
> choose a political candidate

I actually found 4o+search to be really good at this... Admittedly what I did was more "research these candidates, tell me anything newsworthy, pros/cons, etc" (much longer prompt) and well, it was way faster/patient at finding sources than I ever would've been, telling me things I never would've figured out with <5 minutes of googling each set of candidates (which is what I've done before).

Honestly my big rule for what LLMs are good at is stuff like "hard/tedious/annoying to do, easy to verify" and maybe a little more than that. (I think after using a model for a while you can get a "feel" for when it's likely BSing.)
There used to be a popular app in the early days of the app store called SitOrSquat, that had locations of public toilets along with reviews of their condition. It was really useful. Charmin bought it at some point, and it existed for a while after that, but like most of the cool apps, it’s gone now.
I have been using my engine https://github.com/willtobyte/carimbo

Demo https://carimbo.run/play/1.0.30/willtobyte/megarick/1.0.30/7...

You can use Lua as scripting language.
Sorry if folks just got resent email verification emails, but I think I fixed the verification url issue and should be addressed.
This is actually really good.
It is pretty easy to build for iOS, Android, and web.
No one said it was true everywhere.
Give "The Ultimate History of Video Games, Volume 2" a read. Sega America did well marketing-wise but Sega Japan was a shitshow and really dragged them down. Sega could have done much better with the Dreamcast than they did given the cheaper price point, one year head start, and solid lineup of games.
At the company I work at the founders sell $10m+ worth of shares every few weeks.

Billionaires just re-balancing their portfolio or buying a new house I assume
~20 years ago I worked for a small IT/hosting firm, and the vast majority of our hostile traffic came from APNIC addresses. I seriously considered blocking all of it, but I don’t think I ever pulled the trigger.
Code is the best possible application of LLMs because you can TEST the output.

If the LLM hallucinates something the code won't compile or run.

If the LLM makes a logic error you'll catch it in the manual QA process.

(If you don't have good personal manual QA habits, don't try using LLMs to write your code. And maybe don't hit "accept" on other developer's code reviews either?)
Why is this trending on HN? This is how most execs are compensated. Doesn't mean they are selling out. I wouldn’t read too much into it.
Why would someone want one of these ugly homes for $400k when for that price you can buy something much nicer?
They would have to pay more to get researchers that don't publish.
Not the author but you can see my other comment in this thread about similar experiences I had using an LLM + Love2D to build a full tiny game.

I love coding and didn't get any of that creative feeling with my code. But it sure was a magnified experience in terms of the creative feeling about the thing I was actually building. It was amazing to just think about features and that's it. Until it didn't work, I mean. Then it sucked.
You don’t need gullibility for that, just the ability to work based on premises (hypotheticals) that you feed it. To the LLM it shouldn’t matter if the hypotheticals are real or not. That’s independent of whether the LLMs judges them as plausible or not. Not being able to semi-accurately judge the plausibility of things would make it gullible.
Texas is McMansion country, and these seem to be a notable upgrade over those at least. Kind of a throw back to ranch or shotgun houses.
This project really likes to mention that it's made in rust wherever it can.
Static search trees: faster than binary search
Except when you look at projects like FreeCAD, the lone developer forking the project (real thunder) has seemingly done more for the project than the original developers. A lot of this has to do with the fact that everything needs to be endlessly discussed on the FreeCAD forums before anything gets done. Considering the limited resources on the original developers hands, this is a recipe for stagnation and standstill. It is faster and simpler to just do the work and then merge the patches from the fork than to go through the official, slow and unproductive way.

Yeah sure very few people use realthunder's fork including me, but I have so far significantly benefitted from his work in the official FreeCAD release.

There are dozens of things that just need to be implemented and not pointlessly discussed in FreeCAD. The things I'm talking about are absurdly blatant and obvious to anyone. You know, things like a transparent preview of the operation you're doing. A sane attachment editor that doesn't choose a sketch orientation at random.

The negativity is necessary since the original developers are shutting valid criticism up with fake positivity.
You aren't even the product. You're the raw material.
I think basically everyone should support a carbon tax. It's a really obvious solution that is both environmentally friendly and should be acceptable to free market fanatics because it is explicitly and only taxing a negative externality on the public - it's hard to imagine a more justified tax.

Combined with the increased cost effectiveness of renewables & batteries, & the new build-out of nuclear, it could plausibly speed up the clean energy transition, rather than just disincentivising building out more polluting power plants.

There are two main options for what to do with revenue from a carbon tax. The one that makes the most macroeconomic sense is to use those proceeds to fund subsidies for clean energy roll outs & grid adaptation. You are directly taxing the polluting power grid to fund the construction of a non-polluting power grid. As CO2 emitting industry (and thus carbon tax revenue) declines, we have less required spend on clean energy roll out, so the tax would balance nicely. The downside would be that a carbon tax would increase cost of living and this does nothing about that.

The other option is a disbursement. Give everyone in society a payment directly from the proceeds of the carbon tax. This would offset the regressive aspects of a carbon tax (because that tax would increase consumer costs), and would also act as a sort of auto-stimulus to stop the economy from turning down due to consumption costs increasing. The downside of this is that the clean energy transition happens slower than the above, and that there may be political instability & perverse incentives as people maybe come to rely on this payment that has to go away over the next few decades.

They're both good options. I don't know which is better and I think that's likely something individual countries will probably choose based on their situation. But we do need some sort of way to make those emitting CO2 pay for its negative externalities.
Related:

Bench.co acquired after informing staff company was insolvent - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42562758 - Dec 2024 (2 comments [no material discussion])

Employer.com acquired Bench Accounting in under 48 Hours - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42557010 - Dec 2024 (2 comments [no material discussion])

Bench to be acquired after abruptly shutting down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42552082 - Dec 2024 (2 comments) [dupe of id=42549343]

Bench to be acquired after abruptly shutting down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42549343 - Dec 2024 (80 comments)

Bench shuts down, leaving businesses without access to accounting and tax docs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42528785 - Dec 2024 (1 comment [no material discussion])

Bench Is Shutting Down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42524273 - Dec 2024 (3 comments [no material discussion])

Bench accounting services shutting down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42523061 - Dec 2024 (304 comments)
The Linux Kernel Hit a Decade Low in 2024 for the Number of New Commits per Year
I agree with you.

I have not looked recently, but I heard rumors Gitlab is looking for a buyer. I wonder if that is still true, or did they stop shopping around ?
But you don't need cluster networking or nvlink so much like with splitting out llama 405B. You could even split them out with friends over internet levels of bandwidth.
Sega's announcement that they were discontinuing the console relatively early on while it still had a lot of life in it put a stake through its heart. Nobody wanted to develop for a console that was a Dead Man Walking when they could develop for PS2 instead.
here's a video of a Chinese family living on the 16th floor of a rotten tail building (unfinished building) with no running water or electricity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjaE8mDbq68
Do you need UDP? I see lots of multiplayer browser games. Here's a few

https://browsergames.gg/

Google shows me a bunch of RPGs

https://www.google.com/search?q=browser+based+rpg

FPSes here

https://poki.com/en/shooting

or maybe better a video showing some

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ad5jcXPbNw

I know none of them are Edlin Ring, Skyrim, or Call of Duty. One issue with Web games is users's expect them to start quickly so no downloading 80gig of assets like 102gig for CoD Black Ops 6
All? But it's something internal to networks and between networks, not between a network and a user device, so I don't see the relevance to IMEI catchers which intercept the radio link.

Answer delayed by hours due to HN rate limiting.
I've heard this about various Linux distros, but every time I've tried it has never been as simple as people say it should be.

I assume your twenty lines has customizations. How do you rebuild the OS and kernel the simplest way possible?
It’s somehow funny to experience the juxtaposition of the technological progress with LLMs and how decades-old basic functions like TOC creation for a blog post still require custom software. ;)
I never understood how 3D printing buildings even come about. Desktop 3D printers work by melting thermoplastics that solidify when cooled down and is ready for the next layer.

With concrete, you have to wait for it to set before you can print on top of it. D
As far as I know OSM doesn't have the granular elevation data required to render buildings as shown in the screenshots.

I'd be interested to understand how the buildings were constructed?
That’s awesome! It’s been a core feature of DragonRuby since the start, and they share similar framework values from what I can tell. It’s worth a look. I’m not the biggest Lua fan, personally, so DragonRuby scratches the right itch.
ChatGPT basically lets you edit any of your messages at any point in the conversation, which I definitely use (e.g., if the conversation has gotten into a bad basin, the LLM misunderstood me, etc).

Also ChatGPT has a pretty big context window. Gemini supposedly has the biggest useful context window (~millions of tokens), though I don't have personal experience.
Can't agree more. Especially as I wait to download 1.3gb file to update some Windows driver like Realtek audio or LED display, and you realise a whole effing Debian operating system with Xfce & apps can fit in a lot less.
I agree with you. All solutions out there have huge compute requirements, often have lack of adoption within the org, and is bloated.

At adaptive(https://adaptive.live), we have built a cloud native PAM that integrates with over 40+ resources, various databases natively.

Various fintech, Healthcare etc orgs are using it in production. Platform has gone through multiple compliance audits in past 1.5 years.

Indeed, container based PAMs are groundbreaking.
Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time (maybe 20 years)
And will that disproportionately flag against the disabled? Like people who drag a leg, use walking sticks and frames, etc? Have an insulin pump under the clothing?
Those screenshots are just so beautiful.
I tend to avoid editing previous messages because it breaks my mental model of the sequence that got me to the current state. That's more of a bias from my goal to do "research" into how these models work though - I'm always trying to maintain the cleanest possible record of what I did so I can learn from the transcript later.
I actually watched it as a stage production. I have never seen the film beyond this clip.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahqu1nd3Zu8

Hard to believe that Sweeney Todd was from the same man.

There are many Sondheim productions around Chicago. The last one that I saw was A Little Night Music.
Oh, amazing! I've heard of DuskOS before but I didn't realize its C compiler was written in Forth.

Looks like it makes quite a few changes to C so it can't really run unmodified C code. I wonder how much work it would take to convert a full C compiler into something DuskCC can compile.

One of my goals with Onramp is to compile as much unmodified POSIX-style C code as possible without having to implement a full POSIX system. For example Onramp will never support a real fork() because the VM doesn't have virtual memory, but I do want to implement vfork() and exec().
Is the task to fabricate a 3d mount to attach a gradual thrust mechanism to a NEO?
While I'm sure it wouldn't be easy, it sounds like an opportunity for disruption.
The lineup of early PS2 games was pretty weak but yeah, back compat with PS1 helped them a lot. Dreamcast was surprisingly strong out of the gate as console launches go.
It should be a part of the Rust style guide at this point
I wonder if 3d-printer lines will someday become a desirable aesthetic - like film grain.
Tornado-proofing, if actually so, is enough reason to prefer it, although I'm quite skeptical that it is protective as such.
Dead Internet Theory is no longer just a theory.
Which ones? I think fine-tunes are where I see most of this (I'll just call it) "model spam", but the base models don't seem to exhibit this behavior. I do see some models perform way below the curve compared to their benchmark performance, though (Phi family being the most famous).
Oh I see my confusion. I misunderstood how the APC fit in. Now it makes sense why specifically an exception was problematic.