skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I nitpick about little things like accuracy in scientific studies (hear: blatant bias, even admitted by the authors), and only one side of the opinion being funded for studies and not the others.

I myself used to be a staunch vegan, surrounded by friends who planned not to have kids. Well, they have kids now. That triggered my will to study the original documents and find a movement that is fundamentally dishonest.

The worst angst I have is, what if they were dishonest and still right. That would be terrible.
Support in CA for rebuilding is really county based. Butte County is fine with you making the same mistake over again.

Sonomas cities are helpful by not rezoning to the fire codes they really should be. Napa is happy to let you keep a camper on your burned site for as long as it takes you to realize how you can’t afford to rebuild to 7A code.

Malibu was marked 7A years back and those folks can afford it.
You can use `-Isystem` for that. It isn't particularly well supported by C++ build systems, but also your assertion that third party headers don't compile with `-Wall -Werror` doesn't match my experience. Usually they're fine.

> GCC "overflow analysis" warnings

I think I've seen this with `fmt`, and it was a GCC compiler bug. Not much you can do about that.
Been using the bullet journal method for two years and journaling on paper for over thirty years, and I must say that nothing comes close to fountain pens for handwriting. But for bullet journals (drawing tables, lines, calendars) gel pens are an excellent choice.
It is not the job of DEI in the United States to address worldwide historical systemic discrimination of inequality. Globally, DEI would be concerned with this, but not specifically in the USA.

The purpose of it within the USA is to address historical systemic discrimination within the USA, which certainly go beyond merely African slaves and their descendants but do not extend to discriminatory patterns in SE Asia.
Metal. Stone. Concrete.
Where do you buy the old machines from?
The REAL Problem with Smart Meters [video]
I stopped eating sugar and carbs completely and it changed my life. No brain fog, more energy, no anxiety, no depression. I cant communicate to people enough how much it improved my life. Nothing else worked, no therapy, no talking through things. It was a biological problem with my diet. I used to think I had ADHD, turns out I just needed to eat healthy. Prime steak and chicken, veggies, some dairy, lots of nuts. That's about it
> many Americans are highly stressed, in precarious financial positions, with toxic work environments, pushed to work at above 100% effort

That seems spun. I don't think any of that is substantiated in any kind of rigorous way. Median americans today are wealthier than any population in human history, are working more than their compatriots elsewhere in the world but less than their parents, have more leisure time, travel more, etc...

There's lots of things to complaint about, and there always will be. But really this kind of "Everything is Awful" rhetoric is just vibes. Yes, life sucks. It sucked worse for your ancestors.
https://github.com/BitBangingBytes/GridStream-Power-Usage-Da...
Right but as I said from the context it was clear he was talking about distro package managers, not language package managers.

Nix requires root (at least by default). Brew I'll give you - I didn't know you can use it on Linux. Do people actually do that enough that it works reliably?
Just suck on dark chocolate as it contains both.
IPFS is very much VC funded
I Have No Idea What Peter Thiel Is Trying to Say
The Wearable Keyboard that's Faster than Talking [video]
> farming the normies for profit

ELI10 please.
Roborock adds robotic arm to vacuum cleaner
>> With new hardware comes new expectations for hardware by software vendors.

That is grinding to a halt. Chips are making only modest performance gains with each new fabrication bode, and the time between nodes is stretching to 3 years. Not only that but it looks like GAA FETs at 1-2 nm (marketing name) is close to the end of the road.

Software is going to have to stop getting more bloated, and may have to become more efficient as people want to run it on smaller devices.
Show HN: I built a custom LLM to create Apple Shortcuts and make them usable
Hi everyone!

I’ve been creating a project that simplifies Shortcut creation. Instead of manually building them step by step, just describe what you want and the AI does the rest. It’s not a ChatGPT wrapper (I wish it was this simple lol) it’s a specialized, custom-trained model designed for Apple Shortcuts. I hope it saves you some time!
I'm not a meteorologist, but modern meteorology is a lot of physics and math and supercomputers.
Trader Joe's is not what you think
I have the same card (+8700k) and I agree, it plays without issues and at decent frame rates... Without ray tracing. Have you seen those videos? It looks amazing. There's a reason that Nvidia used it to demo their 50*0 series cards at CES.
I'm waiting to play Phantom Liberty until I can play it with some kind of ray tracing.
Yeah, I pretty much see it like something in between Wikipedia and reddit. It's great as a first pass for really specific questions that Google wouldn't help much with, especially when they require follow-up, but I wouldn't treat any of the output as more reliable than random hearsay until verifying it against an authoritative source.
>Just from a quick glance: I see he's talking about things like stack overflows and std::bad_alloc.

There are specific scenarios that a major issue, yes. But as the title of the video implies, the problem with exceptions runs far deeper. Imagine being a C++ library author who wants to support as many users as possible, you simply couldn't use exceptions even if you wanted to, and even if most of your users are using exceptions. The end result is that projects that use exceptions have to deal with two different methods of error handling, i.e. they get the worst of both worlds (the binary footprint of exceptions, the overhead of constantly checking error codes, and the mental overhead of dealing with it all).

C++ exceptions are a genuinely useful language feature. But I wish the language and standard library wasn't designed around exceptions. C++ has managed to displace C almost everywhere except embedded and/or kernel programming, and exceptions are a big reason for that.
What matters is that the most conveniently accessible food isn't the damn dear worst thing you should be regularly eating large quantities of.

Our food environment is the opposite of that.

The stress only exacerbates the impulsive/comfort eating side of things, but it wouldn't be such a big deal if everyone were om nomming tasty organic carrots all day every day. Orange skin, sure, but not obesity and heart disease.
> I've always found it weird how many people are obsessed with vi/vim and/or Emacs.

Because you've never truly done it. Like someone who has seen all three sides, I can tell you this: I have never, even once, even for a second, ever regretted my time invested in learning Vim and Emacs. Vim is hands-down the best mental model for navigating through text - I use it everywhere - in my editor, in my terminal, in my browser; heck, I use it system-wide - in my window manager. It's immensely empowering - being able to control things without losing context - your fingertips are in control of everything, you don't even need to shift your hand to touch the mouse or arrow keys. It also liberates you from learning myriad key combinations for every single app, it gives you freedom from having to learn, remember and having to perform weird dactylar dance, where sometimes you can't even reach the exact keys without looking down at your keyboard, not to mention the ergonomics.

And then Emacs. OMG, Emacs is so amazing, you just have no idea. The things you can do in Emacs are hard to describe in words - you just need to see it.

> 90% of my code editing time is spent reading and thinking, not writing or modifying

I spent most of my time taking notes. Emacs is the best tool for that. Matter of fact, I find Emacs is the best tool for any kind of text manipulation. I don't even type anything longer than three words in any app anymore. I'm typing this exact comment in Emacs right now. Why wouldn't I? I have all the tools I need at my disposal - spellchecking, dictionaries, translation, etymology and definition lookup, access to various LLMs - chatgpt, claude, ollama, perplexity, and others, search engines - here's a real, practical example: I would type a search query once and it sends requests to Google, Wikipedia, GitHub, YouTube, etc. I then can pick up the YouTube url, open the video and control its playback while typing - I can pause, mute, resume, speed up the video. All that with the emphasis of the main task at hand - taking notes. Done without leaving the window where the notes are being typed, without having to switch your focus - your mind remains "in the zone". I'm telling you - that's some blackmagic fuckery for staying productive and happy. It's enormously fun when you have complete control over the things happening on your screen.

> I've always found it weird

There's nothing truly "weird" about it. If you are a computer programmer, you do want to be in control of the computing happening on your computer. It's rather weird when there's the opposite - when computer programmers become merely "users", when they are told that "you're holding it wrong" and "users don't know what they want". I for one do exactly what I want - I want the shit on my computer to work and work on my terms, not anyone else's.
That is not in fact the point of insurance.
Debuggers and programming from scratch with Ryan Fleury [video]
As politics follows power, I agree that preventing rebuilding would prove challenging. But so is witnessing an apocalypse, the likes of which Angelinos have just endured. It would be a brave politician indeed to remove any possibility of development in those areas.
Hi again!

I also wanted to tell you more about behind-the-scenes on how I got here and where things are going:

The Process: I started out playing around with different LLMs (openai, llama, qwen ......), then spent countless hours and a decent chunk of cash on GPU time to fine-tune a custom model specifically for Apple Shortcuts. I wish it was as simple as just wrapping ChatGPT, I had to really teach it a literally new programming language that is behind Apple Shortcuts.

Challenges: Biggest one was making the model robust enough to handle more complex workflows. It needs to be creative and from a simple prompt generate and functional program that might not correspond to the prompt.

What’s Next:
Customization: I’d love to let people upload their own Shortcuts and ask the tool to expand or refine them.

Speed & Scale: Right now, everything runs on a GPU that’s... not cheap. I know how to speed it up, but it’ll take more funding and user feedback to justify the investment.

More Training Data: I know how to create a bigger dataset so the model gets even smarter.

Feedback: If you run into any glitches or notice something off, please let dm me! You can also like or dislike the generated shortcuts. I’m especially interested in hearing how well it handles more advanced requests.

Thanks again, and I hope you enjoy using the AI Shortcut generator as much as I enjoyed creating it!
Insurance has an obviously negative expected value for its customers.
I always found the use of the phrase mildly racist and an easy low effort way to take someone down.

Thank you for the amazing thoroughness in your research. I just read aloud the entire article with my kid. So many tributaries of history and science to explore later.

Things that I referenced in our discussion about this article.

Memetics and how ideas spread as contagion https://richarddawkins.net/2014/02/whats-in-a-meme/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_mania

How slang, and low fluency spread from person to person can create divergent dialects.

The apocryphal story of cutting the pot roast to fit the pan. How things start true but get transformed through transcription errors. The main theme and the message may be retained, but the specifics get jumbled up.

Great Sunday read!
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Probably a more pertinent question would be: can you construct houses that would not burn in a Santa Ana if all the vegetation and landscaping nearby burned.

If you have fire resistant structures and only vegetation burned, not any structures, it would be much less expensive to replace just the landscaping plants.

In a 80 mph wind, it would be very challenging to design a structure that would survive a wooden house burning next door.
I thought this post was going to be about avoiding using a GUI at all. 20 years ago or so I was running linux that way for a bit, just with every different take on a different virtual terminal. Mplayer playing video to the framebuffer if I need it, one terminal for mp3blaster, a couple of terminals for coding/editing etc. If I really needed it I could have a gui on one terminal for browsing also.

I still see people doing that kind of thing nowadays, but I mostly think it's an oddity or a quirk. GUI makes the same thing simpler without any downsides.

As for staying in the linux console in general, it's so much more efficient for so many things once you know, but it's not always superior, and it's odd to me there will always be people who argue that it is.

> There's no longer the same level of passion around which people wage wars over which Linux distribution is best.

Yeah, that was always kind of weird, not to mention the many contrarian BSD users. All the linux distros found their niche, and most now are a variation of some other distro with a different default desktop environment. These days the religious war is over systemd I think.

> Some people find it easier to select files to copy with the mouse in Nautilus, while others prefer to use the cp ~/photos/{photo,video}_*.{jpeg,jpg,JPG,avi} /media/BACKUP

This just depends on the use case. Trying to select photos containing a certain person only named numerically is much easier in a gui with thumbnails than on console.
There exist (very cheap) SSDs without TRIM support at all currently for sale. I own one. It won’t die, but writes will suck if you’re writing more than the overprovisioned space all at once. For this use case, that’ll probably never happen (and it’ll probably still be faster than the original HDD both in throughput and random I/O).

Some SSDs also support primitive garbage collection if sequences of 1s are written to the disk in unused spaces. I don’t know how to accomplish that on OS 9, but it might be possible with 10.4 or 10.5’s disk utility. If I remember correctly, there’s an “erase free space” function. Whether that writes 1s or 0s I’m not sure, though.
> boomer stuff

Makes note to self: calling people boomers is totally a-ok!
This. Fire is an integral part of CA ecosystems and the native plant communities are dependent upon it. It does burn more frequently thanks to man, but citing climate change as a reason for the fires only makes you sound smart to the ill-informed.
It's the difference between paying a few hundred dollars a year on your own insurance because it's incredibly unlikely your house burns down, and many thousands a year because your suburb burns down once or twice a decade.

We shouldn't be back stopping the insurance costs for anyone. If they can't pay it, maybe that tells them something about the place they are choosing to live in.
I’ve been to places in the Phillipines where everyone expects their house be destroyed and rebuilt, after typhoons, at least 20 times in their lifetimes.

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Yeah, but the external shit is basically "if it's wood, is it treated with fire retardant". It's not like vinyl siding is great for fires.
notifying future candidates such that they dont join also creates real change. the company cant hire anyone and goes out of business
Gerbil scheme gives you the tiny bins and fully static binaries.
No need to cargo cult portions of quicklisp with the binaries.
Redundancy only develops after failures. Only after that 5th PagerDuty alert do we start to add more of it.

The fires in LA were a failure and more redundancy will soon follow like improved building codes, better forest management, etc.
Ah! You’re correct, thank you for the correction. I’ve been LADWP for so long I forgot the rest of the area was SCE.

I have a friend who does power pole inspection, and boy, the stories. Infra is crumbling.
UK is pretty benign. We occasionally get some mild "extremes" (for us) that people are not prepared for, but nothing major.
It only takes one disagreement to see the true face of HR.

They are special trained to tear unwanted employees into shreds.

No surprise, really. They are employed by the same company you're disagreeing with.
No, but it's been inside the evacuation area for a while:

https://www.google.com/maps/@34.0876669,-118.5930521,12z/dat...

It's also relevant because the Getty Center has been rather smug about how awesome their fire protection is.
The devastation of a sparsely-inhabited patch of rural coastline isn't an economic or social problem, because ~nobody lives there. But pick any one of those patches and build a metropolis there, and you've recreated the problem we do care about. It's the concentration of risk that's the issue.
wow, they've re-invented a tiny bit of Nix, purely legend!
That's not how Hacker News works. Commenters are asked to follow the site guidelines regardless of how provocative an article is or they feel it is.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Ideological passions of every flavor trigger people into posting indignant, informationless things. It's up to you (<-- I don't mean you personally of course, but all of us) to metabolize reflexive reactions and make your substantive points reflectively. This is obviously doable, since many HN commenters do it. (It should be more, though.)

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
> […] and have to adhere to a somewhat arbitrary new standard at possibly very significant cost and time.

Either you adhere to standard and make the effort to comply, or you eat the cost of a higher premium because your property has a higher risk.

It's going to cost you either way.

Or you can decide to try to go without insurance and you pay neither the costs of the premium nor adhering to the standard.
That's only thing you need if you write rarely.

Ballpoint pens are ergonomically really bad if you write a lot. The reason many people still use fountain pen is that you just move pen on the paper, no pressure needed. New gel pens get you 90% of that with ease to use almost equal to a ballpoint, their takes longer to dry is the only real drawback.
I wasn't aware of HealthStart. Thank you for point it out.
You mean like, Wisconsin?
Great choice. Fully static binaries are a win.
Does anyone know if the insurance companies gave discounts to houses that had fire resistant improvements, in the areas that burned in these fires?
I find the name expressive.

Human RESOURCES.

Desks, xerox machine, Vasarely replica in the meeting room, humans, printers, patents and inventions, inventory in the warehouse, etc., all the same. Resources. Buy, sell, replace, act like it worths more than elsewhere. But eventually just items tossed around.

... I had a sceptic smile when one pretended they are better by pinning 'People Manager' designation on the very same person taming this troublesome and risky resource for the very big and famous but utmost caring company that I came across recently. Some seem to feel the weigth of the word (or just trying to pretend ever stronger how caring they are, when the bi-weekly pizza and everyone-is-so-happy-here group photo in company logo t-shirts are just too stale and overused).
My experience so far is that you can get around 7 years of heavy usage from a premium product. It doesn't matter how much maintenance or care you have (I treat mine like it owes me money now, but I've been careful before), that's how far it goes without disappointing you.

I am also expecting to reuse my current daily drivers (like I did before) as backups or auxiliary machines. My laptop keyboard has some loose keys and my phone screen started to die, but they still have a lot of compute to give.
I think that what you typed makes a lot of sense. Maybe people downvoted it because it was so clearly presented that it triggered their internal LLM detector.
I always enjoy reading this list yearly, and the research that goes into it. As someone who prefers thicker gel pens I used the Uniball Signo 207 as I could easily find these locally as well. Then after reading their recommendations I switched to the Zebra Sarasa Dry because I always smear my writing.

Through Jetpens I’ve also discovered my favorite mechanical pencil, the Uni Kuru Toga.
> Government doesn't pick up bills, taxpayers do. [...] Someone in Montana should not have to pay to rebuild homes in California.

Are Montana residents' taxes currently paying for rebuilding homes in California? How does that work - I actually don't know but I thought FEMA doesn't rebuilt homes?
Before the industrial age sustained exhausting labor was still a temporary thing reserved for planting and harvest times, and even then you were still deciding your own hours, it was just obviously the most profitable time to put in the most work so people did it.
I don't often trust tech opinions, but when I do, it is those from the insane clown posse
Maybe that's just because the stakes of losing your job are higher once you move up the ladder, have kids etc.
Uv also bundles uvx command so you can run Python scripts without installing them manually:

uvx --from 'huggingface_hub[cli]' huggingface-cli
Square braces are used to show you are editing a quote for grammar or brevity, not to change the meaning of your own sentence. Ex:

> I love this [...] use of parentheses. [Rules] can be just as powerful when violated as when upheld.
Reading this, it's like reading someone disagreeing with the commutative property just because they don't want it to be true. You're arguing with a trivially provable fact, not an opinion.

If you're shopping for a car and your top criteria is reliability, then your spouse overrides that and says your top criteria is now fuel efficiency, you have, by definition, lowered your requirements for reliability from first to second place.
Unfortunate name. Can you connect Tabby to the OpenAI-compatible TabbyAPI? https://github.com/theroyallab/tabbyAPI
It may not be physically as hard but I think the work is more precarious, and the cost of living is much higher for basics like housing, so the stress may be higher.
Microbes Making Methane
After all, LLM is not supposed to regurgitate things verbatim :)

Just regurgitate things . . .
France is not, and has never been, ethnically homogeneous (I'm French).

It was always a mix of different peoples - Celtic, then Romans when they invaded, then various Germanic peoples (including the Franks that gave the country it's name)... even the standardization of the French language is fairly modern. We had Occitan and Provincal and Breton spoken, it's only in the past ~200 years or so that industrialization has given a "uniform" culture.
Is it an open question? This is an article from 1995 about how massive city-razing fires are endemic to the region and have been for decades. Decades later, it continues to be right. What does it matter whether the fires are monocausal?
I needed transformers to talk to a local copy of Qwen, and a GUI, using tkinter on macos intel ventura.
It all worked eventually.
I have not got the AMD GPU to work yet.
I don't hold python in anyway responsible for the GPU problem. There was some issue with urllib, and it still complains that my numpy is the wrong version.
Its all ok.