skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some reason I felt like this article had a lot of promise to start, but turned into fluff and I learned nothing. It covered very basic ideas of both AI and encryption, which I didn't expect from such a highly regarded expert.
This would be a great addition to the website. Also, talk about applications, even show a comparison chart vs existing solutions
Good writeup! Google really screws you when you are looking for 100G speeds, it's almost insulting. For example redundant 100G dedicated interconnects are about $35K per month and that doesn't include VLAN attachments, colo x-connect fees, transit, etc. Not only that, they max out on 50G for VLAN attachments.

To put this cost into perspective, you can buy two brand new 32 port 100G switches from Arista for the same amount of money. In North America, you can get 100G WAN circuits (managed Wavelength) for less than $5K/month. If it's a local metro you can also get dark fiber for less and run whatever speed you want.
> Why is the back end learning of so many human habits not creepy to you?

In the context of banning TikTok for this particular reason, then X.com, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube are all equally guilty in how they both boost and suppress different types of content based on interference from local government.
This was ultimately what I needed to do when I wrote a systemd service that managed some firewall rules. It really was a footgun though, what with having essentially different meanings/purposes for ExecStop whether you’re doing a Type=forking, a Type=oneshot, or a Type=oneshot with RemainAfterExit=yes.

And relatedly, I honestly have no idea when I’d want to use ExecStartPre, or multiple ExecStarts, or ExecStartPost, and so on.
they are so pissed off by your presence that they say fuck it, ill fuck this bastard no matter what
They could be forgiven for writing in print, but I wonder how they will "sign" their signature, e.g. for legal documents. Sure, they could print that, too, but it would be a departure from the many generations before them that learned how to "properly" sign their name. Are they embarrassed that they don't know how to write their name as a traditional signature? Do they care at all?

I realize many legal documents are "signed" via keyboard, meaning you just need to type your name, but some things are still done via pen and paper.
Norway is sounding the alarm after discovering that Russia is also spoofing GPS
Booting through the IPMI with virtual media isos over http is dog slow in my experience.

Using PXE to bootstrap an installer kernel (only few MB) over TFTP that fetches the rest of the OS over HTTP is quick and you can pressed/kickstart a machine in minutes.
The same way you check performance for any problem like this: by creating one or more manually-labeled test datasets, randomly sampled from the target data and looking at the resulting precision, recall, f-scores etc. LLMs change pretty much nothing about evaluation for most NLP tasks.
Thanks for sharing, reddit is wild how many great and randomly extremely thoughtful responses there are there!

It's often easy to forget among all the noise but reddit has a lot of the best of internet too!
Speaking for myself I can't say I remember "going ga ga" as such, but I was certainly intrigued when I first discovered it because it produces cool results with a form of machine learning that is under-utilised, based on combinatorial optimisation (at least the initial version as far as I remember extracts constraints automatically from an image, so it learns a model of how parts of the image can combine).

The "wave function collapse" name is ... a little grandiloquent, to be fair.

I personally haven't used it for procedural generation and I don't expect to but it has been used in at least two games I know of: Townscaper and Bad North. Combinatorial optimisation is not cheap but if it's good enough to generate game levels for simple games then it's not that bad.

(Bad North does take a bit of time to generate a level, to be fair).
Obviously all the LLM API providers have a rate limit. Not a fan of GP's sarcastic tone, but I suppose many of us would like to know roughly what that limit would be for a small business using such APIs.
This looks very good, thanks for sharing! I maintain a similar project and working with the systemd/dbus APIs has been pretty painful; eager to try this and see what I can learn from it.

https://github.com/rgwood/systemctl-tui
https://www.theoldreader.com

Great reader, I have been using it since Google Reader went away.
Show HN: I built a simple Cron Expression Generator
To be honest, I hope that the Fediverse can be expanded to support W3C DID for identities. It's challenging to pick a set of tradeoffs that make the most sense for this sort of thing, but other than that I don't think it's impossible.

For example, if you just wanted DIDs for verification, I reckon you could go the route of having DIDs be represented as [DID]@[ActivityPub service domain] and treat each ActivityPub service as a different type of PDS.

I don't think AT Proto/Bluesky will wind up killing the Fediverse, at least not any time soon, so I think it would make sense to try to figure out ways to take some of the more interesting applicable ideas and try to figure out how they could work.
Very interesting.. Frankly did not know most of what's said in replies.. That it's not compulsorily taught and more surprisingly it's slower to write!

I thought having to lift pen repeatedly would be slower? Anyway I need to try to really know I guess! Versus the time taken to add those extra links.

Like most others I've not written much in years perhaps decades, that has screwed up my handwriting as even minor notes are these days illegible even to me after a few days

Thanks for the replies.. Cleared a few misconceptions... One of them being writing in blocks is somewhat 'childish' and cursive is more literate.

Added later: read parts of the long article it's very interesting.. Need to read it fully.
Yeah, the M4 Max actually has pretty decent MBW - 546 GB/s (cheapest config is $4.7K on a 14" MBP atm, but maybe there will be a Mac Studio at some point). The big weakness for the Mac is actually the lack of TFLOPS on the GPU - the beefiest maxes out at ~34 FP16 TFLOPS. It makes a lot of use cases super painful, since prefill/prompt processing can take minutes before token generation starts.
I feel the same way as the parent comment. They're number two for now, but seem screwed in a world that's moving towards outlawing gasoline-powered cars. Their bets on hydrogen fuel cells haven't yielded anything, and now they're a decade behind on developing EV experience and expertise.

I've owned three Toyotas because they've always seemed to be the lowest total-cost-of-ownership option, being especially good in the compact and midsize segments. American manufacturers are trying as hard as possible to abandon those segments. So what will we be left with? I don't want a giant, luxury sports car that costs $50k+.
Are homosexuality and early menopause genetic conditions?
Can't edit anymore but a better (only slightly) and clearer version is

u32 length = (code <= 0x7F) + (code <= 0x07FF) + (code <= 0xFFFF);
u32 limit = (code <= 0x10FFFF);
u32 allowed = ((code < 0xD800) ||
(0xDFFF < code));
u32 valid = (limit && allowed);
return(-1 * !valid + valid * (4 - length));
This video is my favorite on the topic: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=O61WihMRdjM&pp=ygUKV2ViZXIgcmF...
And credit unions, and mutual insurance companies, and on and on. I love this commenter who cannot imagine a customer that has an ownership stake in a business or why anyone would want that. No time to think, too much uninformed posting to be done:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42748956
Artosis (the person who is the English speaking commentator in the video) is in general quite technical - especially when it comes to the Terran fraction (one of the three fractions in the game; the other is Protoss - that you see in the video, and third is Zerg).

However Korea had a much bigger scene, with lots of players, coaches, teams - so they probably have more institutional knowledge.
So the suspicion, or assumption is that Artois can be the high-school coach level, but there are university coaches and professional coaches, who perhaps are even better. And they are better since in Korea Brood War had much bigger monetary backing - and social backing too.
If everyone in your highschool played the same game, there would be more players. Then if there were around 12 (or more) professional teams, they would find more talent, but also better coaches.

And it's not that Koreans dominated completely, players from other countries could win against them too, but usually they would not, especially as a whole match consisted often of few games (usually: best of 3 (so you need to win two games to proceed), best of 5 for finals).

To rephrase this differently, the two main English speaking comentators nowadays seem to be Artosis, who is technical and the second is "Falcon Paladin" channel, who is entertaining and commentary is often "what he sees on the screen" (with no, or sometimes even bad takes about strategy - or explanations "why we see what we see").

If Korea has 50 such commentators, then probably some will be entertaining and some will be very technical.

On a side note, Starcraft Brood War is not only very well balanced for play and entertaining to play - it is also very entertaining to watch, since units are relatively distinct and it at least partially avoids the "unit blob" problem (where one group of units attacks another group of units) due to existence of various units that make area damage (for example.. tanks). And yes I know that in big battles there are blobs, but at pro level they generally work really hard to spread the units across the battlefield - even if the units are primitive and have bad pathing. I digress, just wanted to say that the game is simply pleasant to watch - because it has a certain clarity.
The part on training is misleading and full of shit.

Training is not a "one-time cost". There is an implied never-ending need for training. LLMs are useless (for one of their main purposes) if the models get stale.

I can use Musk's own argument on this one. Each model is a plane, fully built, that LLM researchers made into a disposable asset destined to be replaced by a newly built plane on the next training. Just incredibly stupid and inneficient.

I know what you're thinking right now: fine-tuning, etc. That is the "reusable" analogy to that, is it not? But fine-tuning is far, far from reusability (the major players don't even care about it that much). It's not even on the "hopper" stage.

_Stop training new shit, and the argument becomes valid. How about that?_

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I am sure the more radical environmentalists know that LLMs can be eco-friendly. The point is: they don't believe it will go that way, so they fight it. I can't blame them, this has happened before.

_This monster was made by environment promises that were not met_. If they're not met again, the monster will grow and there's nothing anyone can do about it. I've been more moderate than this article in several occations and still got attacked by it. If not LLMs, it will target something else. Again, can't blame them.
Toyota explicitly stated that the hybrid strategy spreads the lithium out to more cars, increasing fuel economy across the fleet.

Tesla's 800hp super cars aren't green and never were. They consume lithium to such a degree that they are, maybe even worse in the long run.

Using 800 horses to transport one human never could be efficient, no matter the technology.
Unless it's really badly written, like mine is these days, I can read cursive quite comfortably. Guess it's a matter of habit.
Well, the CIA did it to Russia in the 80’s and blew up a pipeline…. [https://www.risidata.com/index.php?/Database/Detail/cia-troj...]

Also Stuxnet [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet]
What NLP approaches are you using to solve the "is '20 bottles of ferric chloride' a service or a product?" problem?
...and if you're in the vanishingly small overlap of folks reading this comment and people interesting in attending an academic talk in Denver next Wednesday, the official conference page for the paper is https://popl25.sigplan.org/details/POPL-2025-popl-research-p...

(The ArXiV preprint has the exact same content)
There's Someone on the Ice
I paid 680 euros + shipping for an early batch last summer.

It has Android and the Play Store, so all those apps work.
W21 – Democratizing space access from 25k euro
WFC in particular wasn't even new. The exact same thing was published by someone else before. I don't know if he gave it a name though
There is a lot of other algorithms that are useful and provide value

can you please elaborate? Thanks.
Yes, this comment makes more sense to me.
This looks super well done and polished. The rich docs are crazy detailed for something that was just released. You're really setting the bar for what other projects should do. Congrats!
Sorry, you asked about ‘possible upstream causes of electrolyte deficiency’.

In my case I believe it is caused by an undiagnosed kidney problem loosely called ‘salt-wasting syndrome’. There are many types, but they all revolve around a genetic disorder where the tubules in your kidneys that are responsible for removing different electrolytes from the urine and retaining them are malformed and are not able to keep the electrolytes like a normal kidney does. Here are a few I found in my research:

-Bartters Syndrome-
https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/bartters-syndrome/

Many different variants, so this is a possibility. Type 5?

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-Gitelman syndrome-
https://rarediseases.info.nih.gov/diseases/8547/gitelman-syn...
Symptoms include tingling of face

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Fanconi Syndrome
https://www.merckmanuals.com/home/kidney-and-urinary-tract-d...

I my particular case, I believe I have a type that does not impact sodium, but does potassium. When I eat a high sodium meal it causes me to pee a lot to try to get the my sodium levels back to normal. However, my body can’t retain potassium when it does this (and since I was eating much more sodium and much less potassium than my body required) I end up with normal sodium levels but low potassium levels. Taking potassium a few hours after a meal “fixed” this.

Short of genetic issue like this I am not sure what could cause it. I think this can be an early symptom of Diabetes, but don’t know much about that. What I am talking about here has got to be rare, so it may not be applicable to you.

Just another anecdote – when reading some of these links it made me remember another interesting symptom I used to have that I did not know was related: I would get “facial numbness”. Specifically, my lips and the immediate surrounding area would feel slightly numb. Usually in the morning after a poor night of sleep. I would remember feeling this on the way to work in the car. It would contribute to that dazed feeling I felt like I would swimming through a mental fog.

Oh, and one more! I also don’t get nearly so hung over from drinking! This was a surprise for me. I have always drank a lot of water while drinking alcohol, but I would always have the worst drained feeling the next day with such a headache. The headache would last all day. However, if I now take some potassium while drinking and throughout the night (depending on how much I drink), I often don’t have much of a hangover. This amazes me! I am 57 and used to drink a lot when I was in my 20’s. I had some friends that could be normal the next day and it always blew my mind. Now I think I know why. They have normal kidneys!
I clicked on a bad link a few months ago. I can't believe I fell for it. I've disabled javascript by default in my browser and only enable it for websites that I trust. It is painful for some websites that redirect a lot.

What are you doing to reduce your chances of running bad javascript code?
The New Liar's Paradox
> what does "water used by data center" even mean?

It’s referring to water lost to evaporation in evaporative cooling towers, both at the data center and at the power generating plant.
World’s Worst Hacker News Client – Electric Clojure
I think TikTok gets special status because its algorithm is just SO GOOD. If instagram was Chinese owned/influenced, we wouldn’t see this kind of potential control. TikTok is probably building models from all possible data: what angle is the user sitting or lying down and how does that correlate to mood or desire.
> - Terrible in snow and ice

I don’t know what gave you that idea, unless this is a complaint about FWD vs AWD. They do fine around here in snow and ice.

Snow and ice performance is primarily (by a wide margin) about the tires. Next is the diffs and/or traction control for keeping both wheels moving when one starts slipping.

A Prius on snow tires does about as well as any other common FWD car.
Just put a chatbox at the end of the feed, that all the locals get dumped into when they also hit the end. Maybe based on IP or something. Grouped based on which articles you clicked on. "Hey, we think you guys will like eachother. Why don't you organize a meetup?"
The title of this article feels like "has electricity killed oil lamps"?
Idaho's Impossible Rainforest
This reminds me of one of my favourite pieces of art, 'Order from Chaos' (https://allrgb.com/order-from-chaos). You can see it as an attempt to map two dimensional space to three dimensional space in such a way that close points get sent to close points.
Agreed, I feel like the main response seems to be "Does Not!", but it's reasonable to accept that a thing you like has a cost. We all emit carbon every day to do things we don't 100% need, and we should just be willing to admit there's a cost and try and move towards paying them.

Personally, I'm not tripping too hard about datacenter energy long term because it's very easy to make carbon free (unlike say ICE cars or aircraft). But it would be nice to see some efforts to incentivize green energy for those datacenters instead of just saying "whatever" and powering them with coal.
That covers the China side of things. Presumably America is doing nothing against China. In that case things would be very lopsided and you (in general) would have a reason to be concerned. On the other hand if America was doing “adversarial” things in the direction of China as well, and both sides at sufficiently low intensity, it could still be argued that the two countries are not playing a zero-sum game overall because trade etc. happens in spite of all that.
I’ve worked in CH1 for years now. The glycol in the chillers froze. Thats how cold it was!

It was also 115 degrees ambient temp inside CH1. Techs were dipping in and out 5-10 minutes at a time to avoid heat stroke
Agree. Sounds like not wanting to let go of a legacy
Thanks for that link. I'm interested in either getting the HP Mini Z1 G1a or an NVidia Digits for LLM experimentation. The obvious advantage for the Digits is the CUDA ecosystem is much more tried & true for that kind of thing. But the disadvantage is trying to use it as a replacement for my current PC as well as the fact that it's going to run an already old version of Ubuntu (22.04) and you're dependent on Nvidia for updates.
If you want revenue, send them all to a nearby bar or other venue and work out a deal with that venue. "Hey, there's a bunch of Redditors and Joe's Bar right now! Take this coupon for 20% off and go meet them."
Doesn’t sound as cool though. Maybe the Mustang team was onto something when they were playing supplementary fake engine sounds in the cabin speakers
I have an older NXTPAPER Tcl tablet, its just a regular tft lcd screen, with a textured coating making it feel more paperlike and giving it a abti-glare coating. Its quite nice, but nowhere near epaper, so it does 60fps, but uses just as much power as regular tft displays, at the cost of some brightness
I do this too - if you're sending me unsolicited emails, and you're not specifically a human reaching out for a genuine human relationship free of me paying you, then your email is spam.
TikTok is old news now. Everyone’s joining 小紅書 and getting fully Xi-pilled.
Luckily we don’t have to do such a calculation. All this energy use will be factored into cost which tells us which is using more resources.
I used to beat myself up about not writing much solo software. But the truth is I write little tools at work all the time, and those are almost always solo until I get buy in from others. I also introduce a lot of new or modified processes.

I just don’t sit at home writing more code very often, except to fix bugs I saw at work, or as interviewing prep.

But there was an article here recently that proposed a negative correlation between solo projects and teamwork. And that kind of explains a lot. People who wander off and do large things alone tend to be my more antisocial coworkers. Though I do occasionally see it from socially awkward coworkers who seem to want to be more engaged.

Writing software for other people without talking to them about it is kind of a weird plan.
You might be able to use an even cheaper model. Google Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is Input: $0.04 / Output: $0.15 per 1M tokens.

17 input tokens and 2 output tokens * 10 million jobs = 170,000,000 input tokens, 20,000,000 output tokens... which costs a total of $6.38 https://tools.simonwillison.net/llm-prices

As for rate limits, https://ai.google.dev/pricing#1_5flash-8B says 4,000 requests per minute and 4 million tokens per minute - so you could run those 10 million jobs in about 2500 minutes or 42 hours. I imagine you could pull a trick like sending 10 items in a single prompt to help speed that up, but you'd have to test carefully to check the accuracy effects of doing that.
I don't think its that simple. If we look back far enough, it was more like the man/men hunted or gathered and women took care of kids, fire and cooking.

If I look at less distant ancestors, they all worked in the fields, and so did grandparents (who were not as old as these days when 15 was a good age to start bearing kids, so 35 years old granny was normal). So it again falls mostly on women. Grandparents, those still living, much less.
Basic evil maid attacks are prevented by signing that login screen software (and everything leading up to it) so it can’t be altered. Of course there’s still the possibility of vulnerabilities in that software, hardware key loggers, etc.
> It had no right to call itself a "hybrid". It had one source of power: gasoline.

That’s the definition of a hybrid.

We have a separate phrase for a hybrid that you can plug in. It’s called a “plug in hybrid”.

I don’t think it seriously confused the market at all.
But you pay triple damages if you knowingly vs unknowingly violate a patent (35 U.S.C. § 284). Of course, everything is patented, so, engineers are just told to not read patents.
And given the current war against boredom it's not going to get better.
So, avoiding crap in my foods for 25+ years starts to pay off... My guiding axiom is: Given enough time, we'll find that everything causes cancer. So, it's best to stick with substances (read "toxins") that we're well-adapted to!
RTX 5090 exhibits 27% higher CUDA performance than RTX 4090