skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The attraction for people to post on Hacker News is mainly to complain

I mean, I won't admit it openly but something like that yeah. It doesn't help either that the way to show you disagree is by sharing what you disagree with (which is great) but the way you show you agree is by upvoting (which others don't see).

So one comment with three complaints in the replies but 100 upvotes might look like "people wholeheartedly disagree with this person" but in reality, most readers actually agreed. Comments that are just "I agree" are kind of pointless, so I prefer how things are, but useful to not read too much into "X people said Y" on HN.
Janitor. Just not a digital one.
It's funny that this is even necessary though - that great EU innovation at work.
I’m generally lasseiz-faire when it comes to most drugs, although I do think some drugs like opioids are rather objectively a cancer to society and anybody in that pipeline needs to be punished.

So. Comparisons to Google, Verizon, etc?

While his actions aren’t equivalent to a “direct” old-fashioned drug dealer selling fentanyl, they’re clearly also not equivalent to providers like Google or Verizon.

They provide truly general purpose communications networks. Common carriers. That’s different from a marketplace explicitly designed to facilitate a particular thing like selling drugs.

I mean, you can upload non-porn videos to PornHub, or attempt to met platonic knitting circle buddies on there. But let’s not sit around and pretend the entire operation isn’t designed around the explicit purpose of selling porn.
In those cases it's not about how much they stole but who they stole from?

Steal the pensions and other retirement funds of millions? At worst, slap on the wrist.

Steal a single dollar from a single billionaire? Hope you like solitary, buddy.
vSoC, also known as the Virtual System on Chip, a software alternative to VMware [Cloud Foundation, vSphere Foundation, vSphere Enterprise Plus], Openstack, Microsoft Hyper-V and related others, released its all-new Enterprise Version 2.

In about the same space taken by a regular desktop computer, the SynchroKnot vSoC Super Cluster can house 1408 cores/threads running at speeds of up to 5 Ghz to 5.4 Ghz, bringing about a new genre of decentralized data center with all-inclusive Cloud Computing, Edge Computing and IoT.

This translates to exponential reduction in the total cost of ownership, real estate expenses and the power required for running and cooling the hardware.

Any idea why the mainstream media is not covering a technology developed over 15 years and used in production? Maybe because it might be genuinely beneficial for the enterprise, or maybe it's too revolutionary or something else.
I founded a startup based on this idea. Track purchases with credit cards and sum things up on a monthly basis. Unfortunately couldn't find a grocer to take me up on it mid pandemic, but I want to try it again in a few years if no one has made it work yet.
What Trump's flurry of executive orders means for science
Sure, sounds good. The war on drugs was a dumb idea.

Let's spend 1/4 of that all the drug enforcement money on harm reduction.
I recommend SciTE. Is seems like a perfect middle ground between Notepad and more feature-rich text editors like Notepad++.
I'm glad I took the off-ramp from software engineering
Crypto commodity grifter gets known crypto commodity laundering expert out of jail.
It’s a lucrative industry if you can sell yourself - Google makes it a necessary industry by changing the algorithms every few months. There will always be a cohort of losers wanting to reclaim a coveted top-5 position. But the landscape has completely changed and that’s what I really liked about this article, it’s just going to take leadership a few more years to figure this out.

Of course the best advice we received was from folks who had recently worked at Google on search.
Sorry I maybe followed what I thought was your argument too far. I thought you were saying fiat currencies create a moral hazard in monetary policy where regulators will be motivated primarily by short term economic growth at the expense of inflation or ultimate collapse under debt. Japan obviously doesn't do this, their growth is minimal (if you could QE your way to 8% GDP growth I'm sure they'd do it) and they have yet to collapse under their debt (debt to GDP ratio is purely hypothetical).

In other words, that article is junk, mostly telling goldbugs what they want to hear. Let's look at some real metrics. Japan's the 4th largest economy in the world. They have reasonably good income inequality. They do have a child poverty problem but this is almost certainly the result of entrenched gender roles--it's very hard for single mothers to be sole providers there. Their neonatal mortality is extremely low, their HDI is super high, their literacy and education rates are very high, their life expectancy is very high, etc etc etc. Unless you think switching to a gold standard would magically fix deeply rooted sexism, I don't know what you're arguing for here. Mostly, it just seems like you pot-shot various economies, which is way easier than running one (another argument I made you failed to respond to).
>what advantages do these rules bring to the winner?

An almost absolute incumbency advantage.

>what was the practical advantage of ascii or feet and knots

Familiarity. Americans and Britons speak English, and they wrote the rules in English. Everyone else after the fact needs to read English or GTFO.

Alternatively, think of it like this: Nvidia was the first to commercialize "AI" with CUDA. Now everyone in "AI" must speak CUDA or be irrelevant.

He who wins first writes the rules, runner-ups and below obey the rules.

This is why America and China are fiercely competing to be the first past the post so one of them will write the rules. This is why Japan and Europe insist they will write the rules, nevermind the fact they aren't even in the race (read: they won't write the rules).
There is a high correlation between his condemnation of drugs and characterizations of families, many poor and desperate, illegally crossing the border.

Most illegal drugs by far go through regular border crossings, but he hasn’t obsessed about them in the same way.
My first introduction to Killer Cage, thanks!
Awake mental replay of past experiences critical for learning (2012)
> sometimes great abstractions are precisely the ones that decide to not isolate some complexity and allow the user to be a 'power user'.

I agree with this. Sometimes abstractions are the wrong ones. In a layered system, where each layer completely hides the layer below, sometimes abstraction inversion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstraction_inversion) occurs where the right mechanism is at the bottom layer but intermediate layers hide it and make it inaccessible, leading to a crappy re-implementation that is slower and usually less capable.
Embedding Python in Rust (For Tests)
I see the same arguments: too harsh, not harsh enough, he tried to have people murdered, etc.
Keeping tech alive: open-source communities fighting against unsupported devices
The US has 3x higher salaries, larger houses and a much higher quality of life?

I work as a senior engineer in Europe and make barely $4k net per month... and that's considered a "good" salary!
Also terragen but for everything
The Curative Power of Quieter Cities
don't conflate Silk Road == all Darknet Markets

plus in North America you don't really need a darknet market to get a gun illegally. US FedGov ain't gonna get to involved in illegal gun sales in Europe.
The UK is also at least level 1 and gets near level 2 (which somewhat undercuts the articles points about culture, language, and colonisation).
AFAIK, it wasn't done because he wants to be lenient on drug traffickers, but because the overall case of Ross Ulbricht is huge in certain political circles that he was pandering to during the presidential race, so seems he's "paying back" for those votes or something.
TDD also asserts that if you make a change you don't break anything. Most programs are too complex to keep all behavior in your head so sometimes what looks like an obvious change breaks something you forgot about. Types won't tell you because you adjusted the types, but the test will tell you. (if you have the right tests of functionality - a very hard problem outside the scope of this discussion)
He’s famously flexible based on whatever he thinks is advantageous now. This could be as simple as his claims to have been unfairly persecuted by law enforcement, it could be part of his wealth gained from cryptocurrency, or it could simply be that he thinks it’ll make his opponents angry. Rich people often act on whims just to show that they have the power not to need to justify their actions.
Nights of Misery: Insomnia through the ages
I was never good at proof writing. I found group theory and algebra interesting, topology and analysis eluded me. It's just been a while since I did any serious math thinking
So is it possible to load the ollama deepseek-r1 70b (43gb) model on my 24gb vram + 32gb ram machine?
Does this depend on how I load the model, i.e., with ollama instead of other alternatives? Afaik, ollama is basically llama.cpp wrapper.

I have tried to deploy one myself with openwebui+ollama but only for small LLM. Not sure about the bigger one, worried if that will crash my machine someway. Are there any docs? I am curious about this and how that works if any.
Tangentially related, I worked on something similar, using LLMs to find and skip sponsored content in YT videos:

https://butter.sonnet.io/
We use CodeLocker then oPA/Gatekeeper as the Admission Controller. Only signed artifacts are allowed to be executed. This is on AKS with ACR connected.
It was dismissed with prejudice, and can’t be tried again:

https://freeross.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Doc_14_Dismi...
Maybe it's generational? I never heard it used for close friends of the family in the 1960s and 1970s. I've heard it in the last 10 maybe 20 years. (I'm not around children all that much, so I don't know how "common" it is.)
It's blatantly obvious that some of the benefits of extensive testing are covered by a type system. Even by a mostly useless one like Java's.

If you look at any well tested program in a dynamic language, almost all the tests check the same properties that a type system would also check by default. If you remove those, usually only a few remain that test non-trivial properties.

EDIT: And I just love that in the time I took to write this, somebody wrote a comment about how it isn't so. No, it is still blatantly obvious.
PyVista
chatgpt did a stellar job parsing the "books on hard things" thread from a little while ago. my prompt was:

Can you identify all the books here, sorted by a weight which is determined based on a combo of the number of votes the comment has, the number of sub-comments, or the number of repeat mentions.

Ideally retain hyperlinks if possible.
This absolutely isn't looking down on people. I didn't say that people couldn't do these things. I am absolutely ignorant of how the vast majority of the world actually works. I would never look down on someone because they don't know something. I get very annoyed with my fellow techies and the way they seem to assume that non-technical people are stupid for not understanding things that they themselves see as simple and obvious.

Of course people can learn anything. It's that we tend to not realise that we don't know this stuff, and so we underestimate the difficulty/complexity of them. This often leads to people actually looking down dismissively on other people's jobs, as they assume they must be simple or easy, because they have never done them. You get endless political commentry on how people doing certain jobs don't deserve to be paid well because what they do appears "simple". Train drivers are a classic example. It's a job that is a lot harder and more involved than it appears at first.

For a while I worked in the rail industry. That was full of things that were way more complex and involved than I had ever realised. Things that seemed simple on the surface had decades of refinement and subtlety to them born of experience.

Your example is a great one. The principals of the flushing toilet with a siphon flush, ballcock and an S-bend outflow are not complex, but a lot of people have no idea what pressing a flush down actually does to get the water into the bowl, how it refills or what the S-bend is actually for (it's more than just the smell, sewer gas is explosive). It's the reason that a lot of people don't tackle more DIY jobs, they suddenly realise they don't understand it. But it's also why YouTube is so great, because these things are all learnable.

In the event of a societal collapse, I sometimes think that preserving all the instructional YouTube videos would be our best hope for rebuilding :D
> which left me screaming, "ON WHAT?!"

The on what is context and situational dependent. Heck, there's even an aspect of personal preference in there.

From the perspective of a code smell, it's very similar to real life smell. Garlic is an awesome ingredient and in the right context, like a good Italian dish or pizza, it's the thing that makes you go "mmm". However, if you are making oatmeal or a desert, garlic is probably the last smell you want.

Code smells are much the same way and, like garlic, people will disagree on what is a code smell and good coding practice. While there are some smells that are somewhat universally despised (such as raw sewage) there are others that can be arguably good or bad based on context or preference.

To pull this out further, a common code smell is "long methods". Yet, if you are writing something like a parser or a CPU emulator, then a giant switch statement is really going to be the right thing to inject at some point even though it might create a 1000 line monstrosity method.

Martin acknowledges this in his essay.

> ... smells don't always indicate a problem. Some long methods are just fine. You have to look deeper to see if there is an underlying problem there - smells aren't inherently bad on their own - they are often an indicator of a problem rather than the problem themselves.

This where I think the correct position to take is just going to be "it depends" with an understanding that even if something isn't your preference it might be someone else's. Today's best practice has a nasty tendency to turn into tomorrows code smell. Being aware of that fact will help you not to quickly jump to conclusions about the state of a code base or the competence of it's devs. You might even learn something cool about what you can do by breaking the rules/smells/dogma.

I know it can be frustrating, but really a lot of this just comes with experience and humility to know you and everyone else won't always be right about everything. There's no high priest of good code.
> I don't think you increase demand by ease of access.

Well that's the entire principle of price elasticity. The less costly (not only in terms of money, but also in terms of risk and time) something gets the higher the demand, at least up to a point.
Yeah exactly, although one a bit more against criticism. But all technofuedal oligarchs and the goats that prop them up are all narcissistic in a sense.
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We need some kind of fail2ban for AI scrapers. Fingerprint them, then share the fingerprint databases via torrent or something.
To your body.
This looks really cool. I'm surprised I didn't find this before when I was searching for something like this. I've been using jpackage[1] for a while now but this seems like it would be easier for me to manage using JReleaser given there is support via Gradle.

Would this be a simple lift and shift job to move to JReleaser (as it seems like it just uses jpackage behind the scenes)? With jpackage, if you want to create a Windows exe, it needs to be built on Windows. Similarly, build dmg on Mac and deb for Linux. Does Jreleaser also require this?

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/22/docs/specs/man/jpa...
Or, prices of houses would go up even more because we still aren't allowing supply to increase and people having more money doesn't change that.
Epic did say that you might in some situations forego normalmaps with Nanite and save disk space even though you have super detailed models so it DOES fit in this context.

Also, video games are used to take a high poly model and bake a normalmap corresponding to it on a lower poly model anyway so it might also be used that way. I think Doom 3 was the first game to show the technique?
Ask HN: What are you 3D printing in Jan 2025
Show us the cool stuff that you are printing and help others
That's still a weird generalisation and pinpointing of muslims. There are billions of them, most of whom care little about minutiae in protestant christian canon. Coming from someone in a rather small and modern christian denomination that has spent a lot of time griefing about "paedo-baptism" I don't think it's actually about being impressed by 'knowledge of scripture'.
"association with drug dealers IRL?"

I'd rather get my milk from the corner store than some anonymous reseller on amazon. Real life drug dealers operate in markets too.
"Actual murderers get out in less than a decade" is a reason to put actual murderers in prison forever, not to let everyone else out even sooner.
If my server is unreliable, adding an unreliable backup is better than nothing.
What URL do you hit to get that ?
I think it's closer to the library example. My parents have mentioned how they had to go to a library and look for books whereas my generation can just use the internet.

Realistically my guess is that the bar for broad knowledge and ability to get to details quickly will increase. There's a lot of value in understanding multiple disciplines at a mediocre level if you can very quickly access the details when needed. Especially since learning speed tends to get slower and slower the deeper you go.

Also since every time I've needed to do something complicated, even if I knew the details it was important enough to double check my knowledge anyway.
Tax breaks have basically the same effect as the government writing a check, increases inflation.
They are refering to a meme a Dutch guy created
I agree wholeheartedly. I think many readers here will be among the type to feel that philosophy is not 'practical' enough, myself included. But there is something to be said for humoring (some) philosophy from time to time, it really does engage the mind in a way you wouldn't find elsewhere.
Seriously? What a weird suggestion, crypto now has nothing to do with crypto back when he was running Silk road, and there are tons of crypto bros to pick from if the Trump team wanted someone to help run "their crypto shenanigans". I don't think anyone involved in crypto back in 2013 could've seen how much of a mess it would become anyways
You've never met people who take what you now call obvious hyperbole absolutely seriously and literally?

I guess you're going to continue to get surprised by how often you get criticised in this specific way, by many, many other people.

Hint: when someone doesn't understand you, you were in fact not obvious, no matter what you think — communication is a multiplayer game, not a single-player endeavour.
That's part of the charm. I think I've mostly replaced Notepad with Clipy.
Quite, I struggled to formulate the example because indeed reading it the interpretation is that "them" could mean letters, and so doesn't sound completely as wrong as it does in the context of a person.

A better example would have been "I wrote Alice last week". Correct US English, utterly grating to British English. ( Technically still might not grate if your brain jumps to Alice being a Poem or other work of art! )

Because in British English we write letters, we don't write people. I don't know the term for it, it's not transitive vs intransitive, it's the verb object having a different restriction.
Yeah, that’s the part the legal system has a hard time with. We don’t have definitions or suitable penalties for these things

I mean, I’m not sure Pablo Escobar ever sold drugs or murdered anybody with his own hands. Metaphorically though there was a ton of blood on his hands. Charles Manson allegedly never killed anybody himself either. But we generally agree these guys were bad for society.

I’m generally lasseiz-faire about drugs, and I generally put the onus of responsibility on the person choosing to ingest them.

But there are some drugs, like opioids, that kind of transcend that. They cannot reasonably be safely used in a recreational manner, and are objectively a cancer to society.
You joke, but the ATF museum has within it a shoelace that is registered as a machine gun.
Firstly, that is your interpretation of zero. It is also an abscence of all the possible values that it could be, which is a plural concept.

Secondly, yeah American English is moronic and full of barstadised phrases. In the UK, we always say "by accident". We also say "I couldn't care less" not "I could care less", the American version which is illogical. If the meaning is to be "I care the minimum amount possible", then only "I couldn't care less" makes sense. The American version implies that you actually care a significant amount.
I'm not talking about any particular law, I'm talking about the general idea of laws as things that apply to everyone, that everyone should obey, and that everyone expects everyone else will obey, and that everyone knows they're expected by others to obey. That's the self-reinforcing structure of intersubjectivity, that allows us to invent and maintain imaginary entities such as "dollar", "law", "justice system", "contract", or "limited liability corporation", etc. Underlying all such entities is the set of shared beliefs about how others will behave.

This structure is self-reinforcing and very resilient: few people here and there rejecting faith in rule of law, or authority of the courts, or money, don't make a difference - we write such people off as weirdos and carry on with our days, secure in knowledge our world will continue to work as it worked the day before. But if sufficient amount of people have their faith falter, that's where the trouble starts.

For example, if enough people stop trusting in the justice system to deliver something resembling justice most of the time, you'll see people ignoring courts and laws and taking justice into their own hands[0]. People start lynching and killing each other, others see them getting away with it, which quickly destroys their trust in the system, and now you're at the precipice. If shooting a (person accused of being) thief is fine, if shooting a billionaire is fine, then why uphold a contract? Might as well get your own at gunpoint, etc. At this point everything stops working - banks, healthcare, fire services, stores. Your country collapses. You probably die.

That is why threats to our shared belief system are so dangerous, and need to be dealt with swiftly and aggressively. It's not about elites in power wanting to stay in power (though it's no doubt part of it for them) - it's because should we all start thinking our social structures don't work, and that everyone else thinks this too, and start acting on this expectation, they'll all collapse in an instant.

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[0] - No, whatever it is that America has with its police is still far from that point.
Not every game, there are Switch games in cartridges in which downloading a patch is mandatory to be played (GTA, Mortal Kombat, XCOM, ...).
They claim an inference time savings to the kv cache
Maybe. That would probably legally qualify as a knife.
Magnets could be the premium tier
What do you mean? Did it actually allow selling anything related to pedophilia? Like CSAM?
Related: GenAI, Cold fusion
I'm starting to think there's no difference between this website and reddit
Lean app monitoring–The Starter Pack
It has been submitted five times [1] already, so that's covered. :)

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...