skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes the 45 Tesla magnet in Tallahassee can levitate small non ferrous things like a strawberry in a little tube and draws 56 megawatts about 7% of the cities power grid.
France is totally paralysed right now and in the foreseeable future by a political crisis.
As with so many things in computer science, the answer comes down to "someone working on a UNIX system in the 70's had to make an arbitrary decision on something, which no one else then ever had a good reason to change".
Had the same issue, but finally gave up.
We have been hosting on Heroku for 10 years or so, and have been happy doing so. Recently I needed to deploy some backend docker containers that _also_ need to have access to docker so that they can spin up their _own_ docker containers. Most PaaS don't give you access to docker-in-docker (and rightly so), but I love the abstractions that Heroku (12-factor apps) have.

Spinning up a VPS on DigitalOcean or Hetzner is not a problem of course, and running the containers is trivial, but when it comes to "productionizing" this (auto-deployment from branches, infrastructure as code, Github Actions, secure secrets, centralized logging, load balancing, and the other niceties that you get with a PaaS), there are a LOT of options.

From my research, it looks like "Host your own Heroku" options include: Dokku, Porter.run, Kamal, Coolify, Dokploy, CapRover, Cloud66, and some wrappers of K8s or K3s.

I admire what Kamal/DHH is trying to do in this space, but I keep coming across people saying, "It was close, but boy I had a hard time getting it working," and they also decided to write their own web proxy recently which really read like the most Not-invented-here thing ever. Still, I admire their pursuit of simplicity!

Rightly or wrongly, K8s (even K3s) always reads as complicated to me, even if I am not hosting it. It feels like a combination of "I hope you like yaml" and "And now you have two problems" sorts of tools...

I like the effort that Coolify, Dokploy, and CapRover put into the GUI wrappers, but as those get thicker, my fear of something going wrong also increases. (I did have a good experience installing Coolify on a couple of Hetzner servers, but I haven't used it in earnest).

I lean towards Dokku for its deliberate attempt to replicate Heroku abstractions, and its age, but I'd love to hear others' experience with Dokku or similar tools, especially in a "real world" setting.
Unfortunately seconded. Interesting read though :)
Yup. Same situation. I suspect same motivation. Interested in collaboration.

I've never used this before but you can try:

2i2wbyza4 at mozmail dot com

Or suggest a contact method.
I do search with regex pretty often and as a result have memorized these, but if I was mentoring someone I would never encourage them to memorize it.

Start with . and .*, then add additional stuff as you get comfortable
Well it certainly sucks in cases where someone "fact checks" you but they do so before a broader discussion has given them enough context to even know what to google or ask the bot.
In that case, that goes back to my argument that he is a “failure” based on his own metrics of his personal success criteria. He failed at his goal of being a successful startup founder.

How is he not a failure based on his own mission?
“So that’s what an invisible barrier looks like.”
I'll say that there is value in the rubber duck process, and LLMs make wonderful rubber ducks.
Our startup(from India) applied twice last two batches, and were rejected but now we're far beyond MVP stage, we've had LOI and traction from users, it seems that we do not require additional funding should we still apply for X25 ?
As someone who takes a photo of every single meal I eat, I was very excited to try out Snapcalorie but it was completely wrong for all the pictures I tried giving it. I uploaded a picture of a recent meal of tomato egg, baked octopus tentacles, and shrimp, and it identified it as pasta, mushrooms, and chicken. Also, it doesn't work for typical home meals that are eaten family-style.
I believe that we still know so little about nature and its laws. Sometimes it seems that we are moving in the direction of technological development instead of developing our knowledge about nature and aligning ourselves with it.
I do read the paper, but when you run into dense explanations like this:

>To realize a programmable coherent optical activation function, we developed a resonant electro-optical nonlinearity (Fig. 1(iii)). This device directs a fraction of the incident optical power ∣b∣2 into a photodiode by programming the phase shift θ in an MZI. The photodiode is electrically connected to a p–n-doped resonant microring modulator, and the resultant photocurrent (or photovoltage) detunes the resonance by either injecting (or deplet-ing) carriers from the waveguide.

It becomes very difficult to pick apart each thing, find a suitable explanation of what the thing (eg. MZI splitter, microring modulator, how a charge detunes the resonance of the modulator) is or how it contributes to the whole.

Picking these apart and recombining them with the help of something like ChatGPT has given me a very rapid drill-down capability into documents like this. Then re-reading it allows me to intake the information in the way its presented.

If this type of content was material to my day job it would be another matter, but this is just hobby interest. I'm just not going to invest hours trying to figure it out.
Before pervasive GPS, it took me very little time to actually learn and internalize a route. Now it takes a lot longer to remember it when you're constantly guided. Same exact thing is happening with guided reasoning we get with LLMs
I've always liked the version where there are 3 hard things:

1.) Caching things
3.) Race conditions
2.) Naming things
4.) Off-by-one errors
Well DeepSeek hasn't really caught the eye of the leadership before they released R1.
I must say, however, that Marie Kondo's method does work well. I've used it on several occasions, and felt good about it afterwards.

The only thing I find it doesn't work well with are the dozens of old SUN computers I have in my basement, because they all SPARC joy.
+ Greyscale + some kind of refresh rate limiter to 1-2Hz instead of 60-120hz :)
Shipping working code is a means to an end, not end unto itself. Planning and scheduling/prioritizing are split into separate things by people who think about and then tell the people shipping working code what they should be writing and shipping.
I'd also love to see some high quality, well researched information on this.

For instance I recently saw this exchange:
https://x.com/i/bookmarks?post_id=1881090543956222293

I'm generally a proponent of renewables, but I think it's also important to take seriously quantitative arguments against them. But without good sources, it's impossible to work out who's right.

This is useful to suggest solar will win in the end:
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/levelized-cost-of-energy?...

But much less clear how well wind, especially offshore, can compete.

This is also decent but doesn't get much into cost:
https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/can-solar-and-wind...
+1 Colab, and hit me up if you have any complaints!
Heh. I hosted on a Joyent OpenSolaris zone for a long time (before you joined) and, ahem, enjoyed a period of instability as that useless site (Twitter, not DTrace.org), also hosted on Joyent, took off and had scaling troubles causing noisy-neighbor syndrome, circa 2007–2008 or so.
After moving every 1-2 years, many times -- and eventually getting all my belongings down to literally a few boxes, 2 suitcases, and a futon -- it bothered me to own things.

The next apartment I moved into was a dump. I promised myself it was only for a year, and I wasn't even going to buy a dresser for my clothes. I simply used said 2 suitcases, slid under said futon's frame.

A few years later, I was still in the same place, still "living out of a suitcase", still averse to owning things that would make leaving more difficult.

My current place, I go through cycles of acquiring comforts and conveniences, and then culling things I don't really need in the near term, repeat.
> Stay in one app instead of logging into 2 and checking your email and a website.

The point seems to be that you can pick whatever service you want and will still get the information because it’s repeated across channels. The manager needs to post to all four, but everyone else picks one.
It depends on what you use to buffer / store it, really. But generally its price per MWh is dropping as turbines get bigger, so short of any specifics in the question around the part of the mix it forms, a "yes" would seem to apply.
what language and stack did you develop the software in?
Inigo Quilez has some good videos generating art and scenes with just mathematical constructions:

https://www.youtube.com/c/InigoQuilez
Not only do a few of my local restaurants employ their own drivers, but they also use websites to allow for online ordering so I do not have to pick up the phone anyway.
What's "reddit"? The article in question talks about mods, who are all volunteers who don't work for reddit. Every subreddit is functionally it's own community.
That would make sense as that is an optimization that applies to AzDO Pipelines, too, and is documented there. Because it is documented there, most third-party extensions do the right thing and try to write to the right/write drive. It would make sense that the agent/container tech on Windows would be similar between both AzDO Pipelines and GH Actions. It also makes sense that AzDO Pipelines being "windows-first" for a long time would have better documentation and third-party awareness of the optimizations whereas Windows use on GitHub Actions is much more rare and awareness less evenly spread.
> It's been a big issue for western european countries during the ukraine war.

In 2018, Germany (and France) were warned about their dependence and deals with Russia on oil and gas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu57D9YcIk0
Maybe.

Outsourcing semiconductors was considered good for the consumer too.

Not so much for national security.
> However, this is different from a finding about WordPress.org's general right to implement a fair charging system in the future.

Sure. I didn't say that. My claim is entirely accurate - WPEngine is currently entitled to free access, under a court order.
It is in the North Sea. Since 2020, the subsidies for North Sea wind power have been negative.

The North Sea is ideal for wind power -- steady winds and high electricity prices. Other places may vary.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-the-era-of-negative-s...
DeepSeek is not open source, as the source of its 14.8T high quality training tokens is not disclosed.
It implies that you do not get absolutely 100% perfect allocation where everybody is maximally happy according to their constraints which is what "efficiently" means in that context. That is also a useless and impractical standard to hold any system to as any optimization problem is impossible if you have missing non-degenerate constraints/information.

In practice, the question becomes what systems result in the best outcomes given normal conditions and information. As a example, we see that total command economies are dramatically worse than markets at normal amounts of information. Alternatively, how can conditions be changed in normal fashions that can be consistently enforced to maximize system outcomes.

Things are further confused by the fact that we have a very poor understanding of even the implemented systems. What aspects are important, what are not? For instance, we can see that the modern Chinese economy is clearly more market-driven than previously, so the increased amount of market economics has been a dramatic improvement. Clearly, they were previously on the "too little market" side of that equation. In many ways, their markets are more "unrestricted" than the USA, but in others less, are they more market-driven than the USA or not? Are the ways in which they are important, are the ways in which they are not important? About the only thing we can really categorize are directional changes from a previous status quo and maybe we can categorize transformative impacts after the fact.

It is these sorts of questions and observations that matter. Quibbling about how a system is imperfect in a wholly impractical limit to argue against practical matters is just silly especially when those same problems are held by literally everything.
Is he just 15?
The level of technical details, and this part is not that simple:
“quickly patched the Signal desktop app to remove SSL pinning and configured Burp to intercept and view HTTP requests/responses sent through the app”
I find it interesting that people with a lot of storage space tend to fill it with things they don’t need. My father is the king of clutter he has 500 square meters of storage filled with trash he doesn’t need. When I tell him to throw something away, he just says, “I might need it one day,” but that day never comes.
Combined with other information, it may identify someone reliably, just like you can with zip code, age and gender. For example, if you know this person is part of a group with members in several locations, or if you can corroborate someone's movements, etc.

For example, imagine someone suspected of sharing sensitive information with a journalist. They might have a short list of suspects, and use this technique to confirm which one it is. They might identify which journalist it is - maybe only a limited number cover this beat.
Which means it isn't free, it's a charity project paid for by the group organizer(s). That's probably fine in the short term, maybe even longer, but eventually the organizer(s) will move out of the area, or get tired of managing the group, or die, or whatever, and someone will need to manage it.

Honestly if it really would just need to cover the price of the cheapest hosting you can find and the domain registration a single small-to-medium Adsense ad in the sidebar might generate enough to cover it. I don't know how many impressions/pageviews it takes to generate $20 but it can't be that many.
Or just realize in the case of my anecdote that shit happens. There is no grand plan or puppeteer behind the scenes.

In the case of the original author, it would be be one thing to redefine success based on changing priorities. But not to pat yourself on the back and give yourself a participation trophy.

Yes success can come out of failure. Failure can also just come repeatedly and then you give up and try something else.
Sounds like you’re describing an e-ink phone, which is actually a real product!
You need to be just comfortable in assembly.

Its a hard first step, but I highly suggest you take the time to analyze a small binary, starting with understanding the registers for the architecture, understanding the different function calls, and then looking at the elf file and analyzing every section and how static linked libraries work, and how dynamic linking works with PLT/GOT. GPT models are REALLY good at helping you understand this, and you can also use Ghidra for decompilation. Do everything on Linux btw, as the tools are very easy to use and much less Cumbersome than windows.

Once you understand all of that, tracing assembly is pretty easy - its either register move operations, math operations, compare operations, jumps, and function call and returns (which basically are just shortcuts for handling the stack frames), with a few special instructions here and there which are usually just some optimizations that you can look it up ad hoc. Once you get handy at ghidra, you can look at decompiled C code and start replacing variable names to make the code readable, and then you generally get a good idea of project flow.
Google Is Now the East India Company of the Internet
Honestly, health insurance has a lot wrong. Things like the 80/20 rule can create some weird incentives. Normally an insururer would want to minimize the costs of what they insure, but if non-claim overheads plus profit has reached 20%, then they can't negotiate lower costs without losing profit, and are actually incentivized to either get more claims or negotiate worse prices.

This is besides all the inefficiencies, and nonsense. For example even if a patent hypothetically knew exactly how long a procedure would go, exactly what personnel would be involed and how, exactly how much anesthesia/sutures/other billable supplies were used, and that there were no complications, and even if they know that no denial of coverage would happen, it is not structurally possible for them to know the out of pocket costs, except for the handful of surgeries that get treated as package deals. It would literally take dozens of hours of phone-calls to the hospital's and each provider's billing department to get the exact codes and amounts they would submit, and then trying to get insurance to price the hypothetical bill, or provide you with sufficient information to price it yourself. And obviously a bunch of the information we are assuming the patient has are unknowable until after the fact.

Part of the problem is insurance has a huge rule engine for deciding which line items are covered by not-allowable (meaning they get written off), plus insurance contract rates are only public for hospitals (so no info for providers that bill separate), and even then the data files don't always contain sufficient data to determine which of the multiple allowable rates for this procedure with this insurance at this facility, with these caveats actually applies).
I think "techno fascism" is a term people are using to describe tech company CEOs operating as unelected oligarchs embedded within the new US government.

If you're looking for a better term, we could call it "technocratic anti-liberalism" to perhaps cover all the bases. People are attempting to describe the current situation in which the wealthiest humans in all of history are supporting an anti-liberal executive by making financial donations to anti-liberal leadership and making changes to their products to further the messages thereof, e.g. broadcasting Nazi ideology and making Nazi salutes.

"Wealthy" as in "holding more personal wealth than the bottom half of the US population"; "anti-liberal" as in "espousing and acting in opposition to classical liberal values of consent of the governed and equality under law by denying the validity of elections, attempting to overthrow the US liberal democratic government with force, pardoning foot soldiers found guilty of such an attack, utilizing king-like executive direction to undermine the highest law of the land, avoiding all punishment for his own guilt, and so forth.

That's how I interpret the term.
Oh, come on. No, per the reporting, they didn't specifically mention the laptop, but they DID tell SM and tech companies to expect an imminent disinformation dump the week before the NYP published their story (which they'd been sitting on while working on verifying it), and gave enough of a characterisation of what that specific impending dump would contain that employees of the warned companies sent each other messages affirming that, yes, this was clearly the dump the FBI had warned them about. Then when they asked the FBI if this was indeed the Russian misinformation they'd just warned about, the FBI didn't deny it.

(Right? I have no insider information, here, but as far as I understand it none of the above is controversial.)

I don't know the exact content of the messages the FBI sent (I don't think they've been published), but on its face it seems perverse to me to characterise that sequence of events as the FBI not saying "anything about the Hunter laptop story" to Facebook. They presumably were referring to the Hunter laptop story, and Facebook correctly recognised that this was the case when the story broke, so in what sense are was the warning not "about" that story?
Interesting and valid issue! I assume it's crowdsourced data from a community and just isn't that popular where you are, but good points.
Buuuut they might not be able conceive... Or may regret being older then they wanted to be or any number of other things.

Money isn't everything.

Comparison is the thief of joy.
I noticed a common pain point among students and professionals: creating effective flashcards is tedious and time-consuming. That's why I built Flashly.co, an AI-powered tool that automatically generates intelligent flashcards from PDFs by searching and synthesizing relevant information. What makes it different is that it doesn't just extract text - it actually understands the content and creates meaningful Q&A pairs that enhance learning. We're seeing students cut their study prep time by 80% while getting better quality study materials. The most surprising insight? Users are discovering connections in their study materials that they wouldn't have made manually, thanks to the AI's ability to cross-reference and synthesize information across entire documents.
You're totally right there must be supervision; it's just a matter of how the term is used.

"Supervised learning" for LLMs generally means the system sees a full response (eg from a human expert) as supervision.

Reinforcement learning is a much weaker signal: the system has the freedom to construct its own response / reasoning, and only gets feedback at the end whether it was correct. This is a much harder task, especially if you start with a weak model. RL training can potentially struggle in the dark for an exponentially long period before stumbling on any reward at all, which is why you'd often start with a supervised learning phase to at least get the model in the right neighborhood.
Love it. Did the same journey a few years back making a version of KISS Linux that runs out of an initramfs. Highly recommend that "1-person distro" as a way to build out a daily driver OS, it's very satisfying
> not un-likly scenario where the person you're targeting is using a VPN

Do you think a large proportion of Signal users also use VPNs? I'd expect it would be a higher proportion than the general population but still only a small minority.
That’s just to be able to use their APIs to get the location of the sender.

Example you used the normal Signal app without patch and sending me a message, and I have the patched version.

Just to remove certificate pinning, to be able to see the API traffic because of encryption.
The double-barred version is not in Unicode because it's just font variations for the same abstract character. Just like the letter g can be written with one or two loops (just look at Helvetica vs Times); Unicode treats it as a font difference. This is called an allograph. Using Baskerville in iOS to render the $ character shows two bars (there are many different variations of Baskerville though).
Interestingly this point was indicated by Karpathy last summer that RLHF is barely RL. He said it would be very difficult to apply pure reinforcement learning on open-domains. This is why RLHF are a shortcut to fill this gap but still because the reward model is trained on human vibes checks the LLM could easily game the RM by giving out misleading responses or gaming the system.

Importantly the barrier is that open domains are too complex and too undefined to have a clear reward function. But if someone cracks that — meaning they create a way for AI to self-optimize in these messy, subjective spaces — it'll completely revolutionize LLMs through pure RL.

Here's the link of the tweet: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1821277264996352246
Visual representation and table of the LTS & Innovation (i.e., non-LTS) releases:

https://endoflife.date/mysql

8.4 is latest LTS, 9.7 will likely be the next LTS.