skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me too, I need to use cloudflare...
I think if he gets hit by a ddos, the pi can go down but since its a simple website and not monetized, the downtime is fine
I assumed you were talking about issue search, since that's what the thread is about.
Sorry. I was joking. Dijkstra’s criticism wasn’t as much for the syntax.

I would, however, prefer “POKE X” as a shorthand for “POKE X, 0”, but this might as well be a bug of the parser rather than an intended feature. Code had to be very compact back then.
See the inauguration fund. Money completely unaccounted for and that his team is saying pay to get exclusive access to Trump. It’s pay to play and it’s legal (at least for Americans).
I only have experience with Greece and that’s certainly not true.

It’s not perfect, for cancer treatment a family friend had to drive 100 miles to the nearest major hospital, but that’s more of a rural thing.
Also the trend for free book exchanges in disused phone boxes! My local village has a working phone box, presumably because mobile phone service is lacklustre! It has still become a community book exchange despite being live!. I'm reading one of their books right now actually! One of the classic orange Penguin editions of 'Carry On, Jeeves' by P.G. Wodehouse!
I doubt it's about the cabling. It's convenient not to have to think about shifting, like an automatic transmission in a car. I sometimes wish my bike had it.
You mean tips?

Why are these bribes in most of the world but not in America?
Precisely. Which is why we’ve given a this strong incentive to route money to the upstream - to get access to synapse pro.
Will the new presidency affect WFH for federal workers?
Did you notice any important differences between gitea and forgejo (besides ideology)? Although it seems like forgejo has added actions in the meantime
I’m just waiting for Truth Social to be identified as a potential buyer.
Facebook and Google are already banned or blocked in multiple countries.
Yeah I tried for a long time on this! Initially I attempted APIs - but they're locked down and you can't get access to user's feeds.

Secondly, I tried a chrome extension, but these don't work on mobile devices (80% of social media users) so it was redundant (plus very brittle as it depended on specific DOM elements). Also, a lot of content is video/audio, which isn't well captured by static analysis.

A video is a bit annoying to take, but yes, it was the only solution I found!
Yeah. I used it for a lack of better term. But you get the idea.
You could just not do that and reap the benefits of both. It's super useful to play them against each other that way. Real the benefits of living in one place, while using the others to get access to things you couldn't otherwise. TikTok for Palestine activism, Yandex for piracy, whatever. None of the overclasses in control of these warring states gives a shit about any of us. Profit from their conflict instead.
Prestige Hunt
The only difference is that the money given is laundered through donors. I am an American, and I am very cynical.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought Japanese culture valued the elderly a lot more than in the west, and therefore stuff like this would be funded by the government?
As a suggestion, since your repo is open I think you can leverage sonarcloud without costs. It would make for another independent check that your code does what's intended and for instance won't ping a remote control server, either via dependency attacks or via malicious pull requests that could dodge reviews.

Where I work we also use defectdojo to catalogue and manage CVRs in our projects, but it's more involved to setup the testing pipeline and deploy the required services.
whenever the words ''national security'' appear in a paragraph, what follows next is usually nonsense or propaganda.
It is the correct term
Building an Event Ticketing App for Africa and Beyond
My name is Sarpong from Ghana and it is my first time on here.

This is a story of how I created an event ticketing app,Eventdey,for Africa and Beyond.

Did I waste my time? I do not know but at least I have tried my best to solve a problem and that makes me happy.

The story.

I once wanted to attend an online seminar in Ghana and the procedure was to

- Make a payment for the Seminar
- Take a screenshot of the payment
- Send the screenshot to the event organiser
- And when the time of the event was due, the event organiser will send a link to the event.

I felt that this was a long process and with the little programming I know, I could automate the whole process and do it in one click. I worked for 4 months to build the MVP and deployed it on the 20th December 2024

Since it went live, I have have over 1000 people visit the site with one event created on the platform.

I know that is not a lot for some of you but to me, that is a big deal. 1000 plus users on an application that I created and it didn't break? It means that I have done something right at least I am not a bad engineer .

The event that was listed on the platform has currently sold out,it was a free event, and I am really excited for this but What I do not know is how much this application can scale and how much load it can take.

I guess, I will never know until lots of people use it but I am hear on hacker news to share my story about how the young guy from Ghana who did not know anything about programming has been able to build a web application which is live on the internet that event organisers can use create an event and sell tickets online in Africa, Usa and in Europe.

I do not know who is going to read this but wherever you are in life, when you see a problem and you think you can solve it, just do it. Yes, it takes time and effort but if you really want to solve the problem go for it and do your best. Think of this, if you do not do it who is going to do it?

Will people end up using the solution you create?

Well, that is not up to you for people to use the solution you create but think of it like an Hospital, people walk pass the hospital all the time when they are not sick or a family member close to them is not ill but when these same people are ill or a family member is ill, nobody will ask them to walk into the hospital, they will go themselves.So people will not use your application if they do not need it, but if your application is solving a real problem and people need it, they will find it.

The point that I am trying to make is to do whatever you have in your mind, if it fails at least you tried. Imagine I never created Eventdey, those 1000 visitors won't have been on the site, I wouldn't even have written this text on Hackernews and the one event which has been created on there won't have been created.

Enough of me trying to be a motivational speaker because I am not. Just follow your bliss.

If you happened to have read to this point then thank you very much. Sorry for my bad english, english is not my language. I am an Akan and my language is Twi.

Medase,
Sarpong
Researchers seek to expand 'citizen scientist' testing of UK river quality
That's the thing GP is saying, Google might excel in engineering and even build superior products, but the issue bringing them down these days is that they can't manage customers/partners/etc for shit and if they fumble on search it could be over.

Most telling example was how iirc Terraria was a launch highlight for Stadia to show awesome indies, then somehow their magic systems lock down the developers account and despite internal pressure from Stadia devrel people they don't get it back in time until the developer just cancels development of the Stadia port. https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/lf7iie/terraria_on_s...
Regular shifter cables can and are also routed through the frame.

Expensive road bikes (as well as the ones professionals ride) use e-shifters without any problems. These are made by companies that have some expertise in manufacturing shifters. They’re very expensive, though, as they’re made for road racing, not for regular bikes like the ones VanMoof made.

VanMoof wanted to do everything themselves and found out the hard way that was a bad idea.
> We’ve tried that (https://element.io/server-suite) and it hasn’t been enough.

Will this finally be enough, or will it end up so that even more features are going to be available only on the proprietary version?
where did I pick anything?

USA is the greater evil, with a much higher bodycount. that is something we agree on.
If by LLM you mean embeddings I agree. Though you can often get away with using much smaller models for that.

I was talking about people who actually make a call to a completion endpoint and then have the LLM repeat the input text token for token just to get the split.
You are comparing oranges to apples here.

Basically, there are 2 legislation in the world, legistlation and the China legislation. In China, there are laws on the surface and there are rules underneath. For example, the government never admitted that the GFW exists, yet it keeps blocking more and more sites. The government never bans online forums, yet it never grants license to open a online bbs, since like ten years ago.

During some political sensitive times, the government would send secret requirement to local companies like ByteDance and Tencent on how to censor the social media. Back when I worked at ByteDance, when the 19th Communist Party congress was open, the auditors would be in a war room, just for making sure that no negative news or comments would be released. American companies also work with the government on censorship, more or less, but that's another story.

It's very common for Chinese people who have been fooled by the government to say that, these western companys left by themselves. But it's not the laws that on the surface drives them away, it's the rules underneath.
Matrix has the exact same problem?
The Tiktok ban is an attempt to herd the Tiktok customers to Meta products. Nothing more.
That reminds me of the anecdote of UK radio coverage of a cricket match in Australia in the early 1900's, the broadcasters were reading a transcript (telegraphed?) and hitting the table with pencil to simulate the bat hitting the ball.
How will you react when other countries start banning Meta/Twitter with the same argument?
Consider the theory that Russian-government-sponsored bots ran wild with COVID disinformation. It doesn't matter whether you actually believe that theory or not - just consider it. If you allow Russian passports as a valid identification source, then Russia would have no problem running that operation. The same applies to every country of course.
> burrow

FYI it's "borrow" (as in when someone lends something to you) not "burrow" (which is a tunnel/hole)
That's not a scientific study but a report from a no profit and the method and data has not been reviewed.

It's not like those hashtags were even banned, so what's the point here?

It's also likely that demographics between the apps are different.
MI300 is an insanely good GPU. There is nothing that Nvidia sells that even comes close. The H100 only has 80GB of memory, whereas MI300 has 192GB. If you are training large models, AMD is the way to go.
It's much more than that. It also allows one thread to make progress while the other is waiting for memory loads, or filling in instruction slots while the other thread is recovering from a branch mispredict.

Compilers tend to do a lot of pointer chasing and branching, so it's expected that they would benefit decently from hyperthreading.
If you want to make it a game about reading fine print instead of a game about clicking on "no", you could mix in some levels where the big obvious button is actually the correct one.
Oh yeah, where on the Internet does this work reliably?please don’t say gitlab
I got curious about why Forgejo split off from Gitea, and it seems like yet another case of broke FOSS creators/maintainers getting screwed from above (and maybe below too).

From the Gitea incorporation announcement (below), it looks like they couldn't pay their bills as FOSS, and there were wealthy free-riders (which the MIT license allows).

> "Over the years we have tried various ways to support maintainers and the project. Some ways we have tried include bounties, direct donations, grants, and a few others. We have found that while there have been many wonderful individuals, and a few corporations who have been incredibly generous, and we are so thankful for their support, there are a few corporations (with revenues that are greater than some countries GDP) are building on Gitea for core products without even contributing back enhancements. [emphasis added]

I'm not a fan of Bruce Perens, but he kind of nails the problem when he says:

> "We have a great corporate welfare program, our users are the richest companies in the world. Indeed, we've enabled companies like Google to be created.

> "In contrast, if our developers aren't working for those companies, they probably go un-compensated."

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On the flip side, the community rebelled when the creators formed a company, but not supposedly because they formed a company, but because that co held the domain and trademark. Seems like a small hill to die on to me, but I don't know the details.

Regardless, it looks like exhibit #187 of FOSS failing for anyone outside of hobbyists and FAANGs.
Yesterday, I was thinking about building something like this that could also search through my Bear notes and my zsh history, along with other sources.

It would even let me search my query history (but in a smarter way, I promise).

The idea is to:

1. Make it easier to find what I’ve already looked up, so when I search for something I’ve done before, I can quickly pull up what I found or did.
2. If not found locally, to combine several LLMs and search engines at the same time.
Once upon a time, a lot of software was released/available through "source forge", which is pretty self-explanatory in the context of software publishing. Then a decade ago, SourceForge shit the bed and destroyed its reputation. I'd bet that most of the developers saying they've never heard of "forge" in this context have entered in the industry in that time.
Yeah, keeping it within a subculture has its benefits. I don't mean to be overly judgmental or saying how things should be.

I just wouldn't have guessed thing would have gone this way. I'd argue that the early Google was a bit of this nerd ethos going mainstream. And the degeneration was not top down from MBAs as one would predict, but seemingly from the bottom up from a new generation of programmers that don't seem to be in that supranational mindset

Being non mainstream also does present some issues. For instance I'm in China traveling at the moment. Github isn't blocked here but the connection is very flakey and some days it doesn't load at all. But effectively all OSS dev happens on github so I'm just out of luck. It'd be cool if there was some way to torrent repos for instance, but I don't think that's a service hooked up to github in any way

There's a middle ground where you get the worst of all worlds bc the current kinds lame/oring solution works for 90% of people most of the time

Anyway, it is what it is. You don't choose the jungle you live in
I would like it if Github could fix all the bugs with back button (broken browser history) first
we are considering moving from gitlab to forgejo. it's not a immediate concern but i think the days of gitlab are numbered with recent change in top management.
Nice write up! I am also fiddling with my bike and have just figured how to pull the binary from the main M4 soc. Perhaps you could share your work with https://github.com/Bernardus/openmoof

(Not my repo but has a lot of good info, I plan to share the binary as well once I made some progress in reversing it)
it's your butt
> It may be worth noting that Chafa uses more of the block symbols, but the printouts it makes look ugly to me, like a JPEG image compressed with very low quality.

It may be worth nothing that Chafa can be configured to only use ASCII 219
Going from Ruby to Haskell is, itself, quite a good signal of quality for me. Start strong and end stronger. Sounds like you've got a good thing going!
I'm amused by how quickly he shifts from "all existing image viewers have silly bugs, no-one knows what they're doing, I want to understand everything" to "here's some code I copy-pasted that seems to work". What a deeply quixotic approach to, uh, everything in this blog post.
Economic Hitmen
But that's just a shitty contract of adhesion. There is no "meeting of the minds", terms are not negotiated. The enforcability depends more on the relative appetites of the contracting parties.

The copyright situation is distinct, and may fall under "hot news", but isn't affected by a clickwrap on the site that sold you the ticket.

(See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_News_Service_v._... )
The group Turning the Page operates pop-up Carpe Librum stores in space provided by the owners of commercial properties in Washington, DC. In some cases, a building is scheduled for demolition and replacement--the store at 17th between K and L NW had an unusually long run.

Periodically the commercial real estate market sags, and it is some years before it picks up again. An owner can be caught between the end of the leases and the rebuilding. In these cases, a charity bookshop is probably not a bad tenant. It is unlikely to disturb neighboring properties with noise or litter. It will probably not start a fire, as squatters have inadvertently done in a vacant block downtown.

And I really don't think that in a large city this is unlikely to distort the market. I haven't counted the vacant storefronts within five blocks either way of the current Carpe Librum at 14th and I NW, but there are quite a few.
> Yes, and?

Americans usually whined and complained that China banned US social media
I've have this installed for years, and actually find it useful. It's my version of "rubber duck programming", where when I'm thinking through something I sit there throwing balls to the little puppy while my brain crunches away.
So the claim is USA has bot farms but they are much, much better then the Ruzzian ones since we never seen them, and no USA hired criminal publicly got medals and rewards for running them.

But is a very typical Ruzzian stuff happening in response to my original comments

1 denial, "are the Ruzzians bots in the room with us" , trying to imply I am mad and there is no such thing as Ruzzian bot farms funded by Kremlin

2 Ruzzia has bot farm but what about USA
off: google translate English lady pronounces it as "4 Jay ho" with an H. That isn't how a native English speaker would attempt to pronounce Forgejo, is it?
Adding my take to the mix, which has been working well for me: https://github.com/ClaireGSB/project-context.

It outputs both a file tree of your repo, a list of the dependancies, and a select list of files you want to include in your prompt for the LLM, in a single xml file.
The first time you run it, it generates a .project-context.toml config file in your repo with all your files commented out, and you can just uncomment the ones you want written in full in the context file. I've found this helps when iterating on a specific part of the codebase - while keeping the full filetree give the LLM the broader context; I always ask the LLM to request more files if needed, as it can see the full list.

The files are not sorted by priority in the output though, curious what the impact would be / how much room for manual config to leave (might want to order differently depending on the objective of the prompt).
I’d say this one is a classic.
Yes, there is high quality long form content on TikTok, but most people just mindlessly consume the short form garbage, wasting their time and destroying their attention span. Everytime I watch teenagers or kids use TikTok I am genuinely horrified. It is clear that the platform does not optimize for thoughtful content, on the contrary! I certainly wouldn't advocate for it.
Insider trading allegations surface as TRUMP memecoin floods Solana DEXs
Things get a little weirder when they're mass media. A lot changed when the 'fairness doctrine' got thrown away… essentially you're arguing that adversarial powers should get to run mass propaganda operations with all the technological means we've learned, on the grounds it's 'speech'.

No citizen has comparable power to influence (and hide their tracks/sources) no matter how manically they post. It's rapidly becoming 'giant computer farms full of AI following scripts' and that still counts as 'speech', but rather than an individual's opinions it's targeted influence operations towards indirect goals.

It can be as close to 'crying fire in a crowded theater' as you like, except it's methods to coordinate teams of people all crying fire, knowing there's no fire, but intending to cause a mass casualty event through their actions.

Speech?
Sometimes I observed how it worked after being stung by a bee. It is better to remove sting using force from one side. When two fingertips are used to remove a sting all venom is being pushed into the wound.
It's not that FOSS fails, it's that unethical corporations worth billions of dollars go unpunished for abusing it (because the law exists to protect them).

FOSS is fundamentally anarchy (the good kind that shows that human beings are not all pieces of shit). Anarchy can't exist in a capitalist society because it shows people that they don't HAVE to live like slaves. They can live as members of tribes, as evolution intended for us.

So as always the organism is originally healthy and successful until the parasite that is capitalism spreads and suffocates it for its own reproduction.
I don't doubt he said it, because I think it's pretty plain to see it's a correct analysis - antisemitism is rife with the new generation to a degree that, to me at least, is quite scary. I just think it's quite instructive that a hostile state is trying to use this to sow discord.
It might sound selfish, but I hope Matrix disappears sooner rather than later. It’s a poor product and a constant maintenance headache, whether you’re using the commercial or OSS version. Please, make way for something better. Every time someone includes Matrix in a chart of OSS options for common services as a chat solution, it does a disservice to the OSS community.
It's more like "forge place" in the same way that kafejo (cafe) is "coffee place".
Like many people, I built something similar, llmctx[1], but the chunking feature seems really interesting, I have to look into that for llmctx.

One thing I have with llmctx that I think is missing in yek is a “Claude mode”, as it outputs the concatenation in a format more suitable to provide context for the Anthropic LLM.

[1]: https://sr.ht/~jamesponddotco/llmctx/
The King of Ozempic Is Scared as Hell
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Isn't rx580 like 4 gens behind now? It was released in 2017. Probably not the right card for anything AI.
Bees don't die right away; they all fly off after stinging, but they will eventually die for sure.
Dijkstra did much for computing, but an entire generation of developers inspired by and initially taught by BASIC did a LOT more.
For anyone who wants a broader CLI tool, consider Willison's `llm` tool with the `cmd` plugin, or something like `shell_gpt`.
I will give it a shot next week to try out ;P

For this particular service, the size does not matter really. For others, it makes more diff (several hundred of Mb) and as we deploy on customers infra, we want images' size to stay reasonable.
For now, we apply the same build rules for all our services to stay consistent.