skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my machines too slow and resolution too low. I died a few times, only got one monster. I could imagine folks in a NOC all trying to log in at the same time with speakers enabled. Some management types would have a meltdown. People on the phone would be like, yeah sure you're getting to my issue... haha I do like the idea though. Needs a quick mute and a boss button that switches to TPS reports.
Extrapolate from your current lifestyle. What will you have in your last year alive?
Moses Hess -- Rome and Jerusalem, is the book you're looking for. Russia was just a stopgap
I used to alternate. I would typically use my real name on comments or posts (even in IRC) when I wanted people to know that what I was saying was something that I was willing to put my IRL credibility and reputation on (i.e., I wasn't hiding behind a keyboard).

I also like the freedom to post my thoughts free of that reputational damage and see how people react, and ideally to understand why my thoughts and perspective might be wrong (and I know there's a certain implication there in modern times, and no, I've never done or said anything outright hurtful to people).

Then one time in 2016 I got "dox'd" for making a comment on Bruce Scheiner's facebook page during the 2016 election. The post merely stated that Bruce was allowed to comment on political topics (a previous commentor had said he should just stick to security topics).

I was then harassed at my workplace, with said commenter (presumably) claiming I was being racist and homophobic (I'm gay) via email.

Since then I've never used my real name.
It's extremely funny to watch these vs. modern WCS champions (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuessx9D23c), which has almost none of the actual WCS basic you'd expect and see a lot of in (3).

Compare to lindy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN3NkAfi3x4), which even now is much more similar to its roots, pre-revival lindy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-mT0wowIn4.
"The point" of Canada is that it's a separate country that doesn't have US politics.

That being said, the general lockdown of the boarder after 9-11 has driven a lot of people who live close to the boarder nuts. Crossing the boarder used to be like crossing a state/province boarder. If you look at satellite photos of the boarder around Maine, NH, and VT, it's full of little country roads where you could cross unimpeded until 9-11, and private properties that go right up to the boarder.

There's even a golf course that's in Canada, but the driveway is on a US street. You're allowed to enter from the US, but they follow Canadian laws (specifically, the Canadian drinking age.)

Personally, I wish we could figure out how to resolve our (relatively minor) differences so we could keep an open boarder.
I remember reading about this somewhere (could be from an older HN post), but this time I decided to add a comment so that I don’t lose it.
Being a flight sim fan, I still remember playing Comanche for the first time and the wow factor. It was something from the future or from the movies, you got the feeling that you were leaving in the computer era :-)
F-Droid Fake Signer PoC
Windsurf + Haskell w/ CLI tools has been pretty amazing. Windsurf's agent will loop for minutes on its own to figure out the right structure of a program. You just need to tell it to:

- use the hoogle cli to search for the right types and functions

- include a comprehensive test suite

- run a build after every code change

- run tests after every successful build

GHC + a Claude-based agent is a thing to behold.
As one of your sibling comments points out: it works perfectly on Wine.
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WIRED still does this in each issue!
Transform your AI text into natural, human-like content
You mean the resident-elect and sorry, he’s incapable of not saying stupid shit.
Thanks for clarifying that timescape cosmology focuses on dark energy, not dark matter—makes sense they’re addressing different puzzles. That said, I’m curious: could there be any indirect connection between the two? For instance, if dark matter’s influence on gravity shapes the 'lumpiness' of the universe, could that, in turn, amplify the time dilation effects discussed in timescapes? I realize the authors didn’t delve into dark matter, but wondering if anyone has explored how these two phenomena might interact. Definitely out of my depth here, but this potential connection is what sprung to mind and on rare occasions my ill-informed intuitive curiosities turn out to have unexpected merit, so I’m asking if there could be anything to it?
You mean Perplexity Pro? That thing they tried and found that no one was willing to pay for cuz users say they want paid options but then jump boat to the free things always?

https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/faq/what-is-perplexity-pro
Oh, hey William! Great to hear from you on here, and thanks for the words of support.
In Sweden they have a separate parliament.
Worth noting Aurélien was a Darktable dev, so he's not some outsider that's coming in like a wrecking ball. I think it's much to Linus' benefit that he's mellowed out over time. However I'm not going to be quick to condemn someone who's already contributed significantly to DT.

You're quite a bit less motivated than I am to try Ansel I suppose. I found DT (and the devs' defense of their decisions) intolerable. To the extent that I got Ansel built on my mac. Aurélien indeed fixed some of my biggest complaints with DT, but unfortunately he ripped out some bits I actually wanted to use.

At this point I suppose Ansel can go one of two ways: DragonFlyBSD or LibreSSL.
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A path to O1 open source
I used to use ka9dgx (my ham radio calling) back when usernames had to be short and unique. These days I just use MikeWarot when I can.
> I'm not sure if you read the entirety of my comment?

I did, and I tried my best to avoid imposing preconceived notions while reading. You seem to be equating "being able to predict the next symbol in a sequence" with "possessing a deep causal understanding of the real-world processes that generated that sequence", and if that's an inaccurate way to characterize your beliefs I welcome that feedback.

Before you judge my lack of faith too harshly, I am a fan of LLMs, and I find this kind of anthropomorphism even among technical people who understand the mechanics of how LLMs work super-interesting. I just don't know that it bodes well for how this boom ends.
That’ll never work.

Looks at cable TV

Looks at streaming services
> Russia agreed to Ukraine joining the EU

Russia didn't agreed to that, it sabotaged any effort and any agreement between EU and Ukraine to the maximum of its abilities. Ukraine paid a huge price to be able to have an association agreement with EU.
That hardly lines up with my own impression of my fellow citizens.
AWS App Runner

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/containers/introducing-aws-app-...

Google has something similar.
We need both, without a healthier population density Canada will forever be a bunch of exploitative oligopolies in a trenchcoat hopelessly dependent on a benevolent USA.
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Generally, countries with expanding economies and a lot of physical space do not have issues with immigration. The US has its problems, but the argument generally has been over the extent of immigration, and not against immigration entirely (minority extremists notwithstanding). Canada is interesting in this regard, because it has a lot of land but a contracting economy.
I’d love to live in an alternative timeline where GPUs are voxel-based.
Great, but that doesn't describe every Javascript project or use of Javascript. If you're describing big changes, chances are a refactor isn't what's needed, a rewrite is. And even when requirements change, it doesn't mean Javascript can't be refactored. It depends on the skill of the team. If you want to hire idiots then you're going to need more than strong types to get anything shipped. I doubt types would really help that much in some places because programmers love to invent their own footguns.
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In my experience, you are better off with ECS/Fargate than Lambda for serving an API. You get much more flexibility.

Also, I've witnessed people editing Lambda code through the console instead of doing a real deploy. what a mess...
borders matter less and less. tech, travel and trade have essentially made globalization inevitable at this point. (or at the very least between western democracies)

free movement of capital and people between eu and canada would probably be the next major step in this direction
Choosing an op-amp for your project
Definitely, these companies are trying to buy market share, establish lock in, and then figure out the long term cash flows after competition folds.
Judging by the number of single-parents in the US, it's very far from universally true.
> At it's core an LLM is a sort of "situation specific simulation engine." You setup a scenario, and it then plays it out with it's own internal model of the situation, trained on predicting text in a huge variety of situations. This includes accurate real world models of, e.g. physical systems and processes, that are not going to be accessed or used by all prompts, that don't correctly instruct it to do so.

You have simply invented total nonsense about what an LLM is "at it's core". Confidently stating this does not make it true.
Quebec would be a economic powerhouse if it weren’t French. One of the many reasons why.
I have such fond memories of building a terrain viewer like this (first in Pascal, then in C & Assembly) in the 1990's at the same time I was learning the requisite trigonometry in high school.

Back then, all kinds of low-level optimizations were necessary to make it work.

Figuring out how to do it, and optimize it with no books or internet to reference is one of the most personally rewarding things I've ever done.
If you are already “FIRE” and do it for fun, or you can schedule all 40h per week on billable work this works but I would increase by 50%.

If you need to do marketing to get clients, meet clients, etc to close contracts then I guess you should expect only about 20h per week of billable work as the rest is on you. So you need to at least double the hourly rate.
> Makes me wonder if the lowering of prices in this industry is temporary.

Yes.

For example, Microsoft is keeping prices of Copilot temporarily free for as long as possible to destroy competitors who can't compete with the best tool available for free.

This is a known attractive tactic to the point where it is the new definition of 'Extinguish' in Microsoft's EEE strategy: Embrace (Open Source, Github), Extend (OpenAI, GitHub), Extinguish (For free).

> Are we going to see increasing prices as the hype goes away and post-nut clarity kicks in the industry?

Until there are enough AI startups shutting down and a few of them have gone public on the stock market. The prices will start to rise by $0.50 - $1.50 per million tokens very slowly.
Right. In US how many are rich like this against how many aren't ? 1 in 100 ? Less?

I would say US is not a country for working (normal) people like me. I prefer to live in EU, now and forever.
Woah, that sounds awesome! I'd love to see how you set that up and how much it can do without your intervention/approval for various actions. Might you have a video of your workflow that you could share?
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¡Correct!. I would not be able to explain it better.
Mutations occur by chance. With trillions of bacteria, mutations are a constant. Each possibly mutation is happening somewhere. Natural selection then dictates which mutations thrive when the environment favors them to do so. Evolution is a system, not a lottery.

There is also a meta layer to evolution, that organisms can "evolve to evolve", that the rate of "random" mutations can itself be an evolved trait. An organism unable to evolve, say with locked-in genetic code, will not adapt. Sexual reproduction arguably is such a system: an evolved system that regulates future evolution. So even base mutations may not be totally random.
well it's a company and no one is forced to use their product if they don't like their business model.

Everyone knew they couldn't keep being free for ever, and i believe it's only a beginning. one sponsored result per prompt ain't going to balance the expense.
I mostly use my real name, largely as a consequence of doing so back when I was first exposed to the predecessors of the internet in the 80s and wanting to establish a reputation for myself. I tend to be either dhosek/Don Hosek (for more tech-type stuff) or dahosek/D. A. Hosek (for more literary/artistic type stuff). I do occasionally use pseudonyms for things I don’t want to be associated with my own name, but I generally avoid doing things I don’t want associated with my own name online.
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Just a reminder that you can run a fairly capable model like qwen2.5:72b locally on an 128 gig M4 Max Macbook Pro.
Even with that, TurboTax probably isn't the best. H&R Block or TaxSlayer or FreeTaxUSA can help you with your taxes just the same for less or free.
I agree with you, but I also love when people intentionally go the other way and come up with something cool. Like that Vidalia Onions guy.[0]

[0]: https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-inter...
If you are looking to do VR/3d games, LÖVR (https://lovr.org/) is derived from LÖVE.
>there’s a case to be made for Canada, Greenland, and the US forming a closer political and economic union. Not as some imperialistic land grab, but as a pragmatic response to shifting global power dynamics and shared interests.

Canada I understand.

But why Greenland, other than the fact that Trump saw it in the window and decided he wanted it? The US already has a base there, it doesn't seem to be that vital to our strategic interests.
It's a joke guys.
I have neither and my life is better for it. I might pay for a decent streaming service but we've past the point where that is the case. I will never pay again for classic TV, it's a scam since you pay for more ads than actual content.
I think we could safely classify that as pre-historic rather than historically.
With respect to your lived experiences, as a fan of the US I would just like to say that it is a country of 330m+ whose physical presence spans a majority of a major continent, so I would encourage you not to generalize us based on what you saw in Columbus. That would be like me visiting Paris (a city I particularly did not enjoy) and generalizing all of Europe!
Clearly not a pro but I think it comes down to who Netflix is paying, or even helping out. Because they gave Nextlight a free caching server, any competitor who can't afford to do the same now has decreased performance.
If you’re selling a SaaS app, you care more about the customer than you do about the user. The customer is the IT department.

For the longest, Amazon Connect’s - AWS hosted call center software - call flow builder only worked with Chrome.

Even for B2C users, using Chrome is not a deal breaker. If they are okay with using shitty Electron apps, they will be okay with using Chrome for Mac.
GCP has Cloud Run, which looks similar. App Runner is basically a wrapper on top of Fargate, right?
the good ol cycle of enshittification
random websites - hide my real name, mostly to avoid tracking

where I think it's safe and want to present my views transparently and think something positive could come from it, my real name.

That is so far the case here on HN, though I've been reconsidering that, since recently I've been harangued whenever I've mentioned my business/app in comments - having my business called scammy and so forth. Then I go and see who is doing the haranguing and often it's a profile that does not have a real name, and has a zillion karma for some reason even though you go through their comments and a lot of it is a bunch of negativity being spread and that makes me a bit miserable.

I'm curious about this question, because my app relates to games, and on one hand I really like the idea of real names (esp given my personal experience e.g. above), while on the other hand I see a huge % of comments here preferring anonymity, and generally get the feeling that 'real names' is perceived as too serious for gaming - that the expected thing would be pseudonyms/handles/avatars. One direction we've gone in is that if you want to monetize/earn money on our app, then you need a real name (verified with ID). But any suggestions/ideas very welcome.
Agrees with my experience with adults and young.
But is it really immigration or “immigration” like the kind that populist parties vilify for engagement? Here in Europe, it’s mostly “immigration”.
Looks like China will lead the next generation of open source tech.
Because pure black doesn't exist in nature and usually is perceived as jarring. Common design principles therefore advocate for using a colour that's almost - but not actually - black.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-03/nippon-re... | https://archive.today/lmrJL ("Bloomberg: Nippon Rejection Shows National Security Means Whatever You Want")
Most companies are really just crud apps. Very few are doing anything technically innovative.
And that's just fine.

I wonder how much of the early Google technical innovation was more a product of open source tech/distributed systems being a lot more immature (I'm particularly thinking databases) 25 years ago.

Ultimately all companies get bloated and loose their way. It shouldn't be a suprise this has happened to Google - 25 years on they are mega corp and idling. Probably for the best as it allows innovators a chance to compete.
Preventing Data Races with Pony
As a Southern Conesman, can confirm.
You can be as dishonest or helpful as you want. Back when google did organic ranking a lot of communities thrived on forum signatures. If you have thousands of helpful posts others know your level of expertise.
FWIW, as an American, I see it as a mixed bag. Our economy is stronger, but it creates a lot of wealth inequality and unhappiness.
Burning money is part of the plan. Winner takes all, etc. Need I explain more?
I'm sure it varies by dance and region, but at least in the Northeast the contra community is doing well! Lots of new dances, lots of people of all ages, and the group I help organize is well above our pre-pandemic attendance.
I would hope the president would not let EU take advantage of American companies...that has definitely not been the case unfortunately. Hope Trump can do it
Here’s a free alternative. (free for federal; $15 for state returns).

https://www.freetaxusa.com/

Yes, the name sounds like a scam, but I’ve used it without issue for the past 5 years.
Greenland is Denmark. Why are you including it? (FWIW Inuit in Greenland are better off than their peers in Canada [or Alaska]. Higher quality of life)

The reason Canada and the US are not closer than they already already -- which is very close -- comes down to the same story it has for over 200 years: massive political cultural divide.

"Peace, Order, and Good Government" vs "Don't Tread On Me" or whatever.

American expansionism, manifest destiny, and the populist politics that go with it only sell well to a minority here. This is a country that has deep loyalist roots and a long history of preference for our Westminster style gov't and the balances it has.

Not because we love being ruled by a king -- the monarchy is not popular -- but because we don't like to be ruled by demagogues and militia-men. I say "we", but of course there's people who would disagree, like anywhere else.

If this was still the Obama-era US I think the case for closer ties could be made -- a currency union, perhaps, some kind of Shengen-style border arrangement. But as long as US politics is taking the form it is right now, not a chance. I, for one, want nothing to do with it.
The federal register grows every year by an exceptional amount. Congress really enjoys the fact that you believe, for no particularly good reason, that they "do nothing." It really clears the road for their rich friends agendas.
Artificial Improv: A glorious parlor trick
It's ironic that they are attempting to open source a model from "OpenAI".
Despite the name, there's not really much here that has much to do with "voxels" - it's a heightmap and raycasting.

It's kinda similar to Parallax mapping in a way.

I'd also be interested in what a "voxel-based" GPU would look like, they already support sampling 3d volumes in 3d textures, and the issues they have (namely memory use) seem pretty fundamental and I'm not sure how they can be overcome to match the scale of 3d environments expected today.
It's fear-mongering for politics. It has nothing to do with economics or 'space'.
You've more or less outlined what programs like Lightroom, DigiKam, and Darktable do. The integration with e.g. LR or DT gets you thumbnails rendered with whatever processing needs to be applied.

As I'm typically using whatever to copy images off of a phone or an external memory dongle I don't mind adding things to a catalog. The import process copies the files memory dongle and into folders organized by capture date. Certainly (for me) it's easier to hit a couple buttons in LR than it is to copy everything over manually. You can also set LR to automatically import pictures.

If you really are just allergic to importing photos, in the proprietary world Adobe Bridge can be used to go through your photos in a manner you've described. You can also quite a bit of management from the import screen in LR without having to actually import photos into a collection.
No wonder Windsurf breaks down after a few back and forth messages. That prompt is a monster and clogging up the context.
Any thoughts on a system where you have to pay a meaningful amount of $ for each new character with Blizzard pledging the proceeds to charity?

Idea is to increase the stakes even further.
only snake oil?