skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many Congratulations! Yours has been an inspirational journey for others in India looking to build for the world.
I have a 2014 forester. First time it snowed I slid off my driveway and one tire was off the ground. Had to get towed by a friend because that one wheel kept spinning. I thought the brakes were supposed to stop that automatically. Didn’t happen. Second time I tried to drove through a small patch of snow I lost all traction and had to dig out all the wheels and rock it. It was 2” of melting snow over a 50 foot by 10 foot patch. Any ideas why? I’ve just avoided driving in the snow for over a decade. I really don’t see the hype vs my reality.
The rhyming sets are a bit of a crutch, at least (Fili + Kili, Óin + Glóin, Bifur + Bofur + Bombur, etc). But you're right - most of the dwarves are individually forgettable. Only two are substantially characterized - Thorin the leader, and Bombur the comically fat.
Nice.

Reminds me of the discrete metric in my Real Analysis course: distance is 0 if it is the same point, 1 otherwise.

We used to joke that it was the perfect metric for finding weird counter examples
Speaking of farmers I've read here and there that sometimes getting skilled workers in the trades you want was a real problem. So if you want a fitted stone building in a place where buildings are only wattle and dub or rocks and mud it might take a lot of wheedling to get the guys you need to take the gig.
User notes and other file metadata has been supported since Linux Kernel 2.6.
See man xattr

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/xattr.7.html

Since it is baked into the file system, it is pretty easy to create bash scripts to add keyword tags by parsing the directory tree (e.g. batch add tags to books, movies, videos, etc stored in hierarchical category directories).
We Exist Only to Work
See man xattr available since kernel ver 2.6
This article makes it sound more complicated than it is, collecting all those edge cases. Many of them can be simply ignored, as in being no-op. Which is also what most cheap calculators do...
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A related weird function is Thomae's Function, also known as the Popcorn Function.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomae%27s_function

It is discontinuous at every rational number, but continuous at every irrational number.
I stopped buying TP-Link equipment many years ago because of how often the switches I got from them would suddenly fail. I really doubt that your shitty router died because Trump secretly hit its remote kill switch or whatever.
Long ago I was given an old, surplus 100+watt VHF FM transceiver, hand-held mike with a PTT button. It used tubes, had a metal box so heavy you could stand on it. It was so big we put it on top of the apartment's refrigerator.

The lady who lived upstairs in the building owned an electric organ. She usually played it during the day, but on weekends she'd sometimes fire it up to play long and loud ... long after our baby had gone to sleep.

One day I noticed that keying the transmitter would cause the organ to make a sound like a pachyderm in agony. Turned out to be the solution to the loud weekend-concert baby-waking problem.
Ross Ulbricht speaks out about his pardon and thanks Trump
How to Summarize YouTube Videos into Text or Mind Maps
Ask HN: Anyone want models snail-mailed to them?
Like a station wagon barreling down the highway...

With the advent of enormous models such as R1, do any of you want me to download a model for you, and ship it to you on a storage device?

Having a gigabit connection at my home, I'm lucky enough to be able to download any model that piques interest. I know from experience that this is not the case for everyone.

I'm an established eBay seller since 2000(!), and I can send you the model of your choice, on the device of your choice, by snail mail. Like the car full of hard drives barreling down the highway, except in a well-packaged box, delivered to your doorstep by the courier of your choice.

The way I see this working is I share my ebay account, we establish trust..., you tell me which model, or probably which models you want, I git lfs them (from huggingface or wherever) onto a storage device that you send me, or that I purchase for you, and then I mail the model(s) to you via your preferred postal method, including to international addresses.

Can I help you get your hands on DeepSeek R1 or any other model, by snail mail?
There is also Rubel Castle in Glendora.

https://www.glendorahistoricalsociety.org/castle/
Indeed, the laws of physics don't put any limits on artificial intelligence that don't also apply to natural intelligence. It's a strange place to look for a comparative advantage argument.
My attempt at nice looking TS version:

function sum(f: (x: number) => number, upper = 500) {
let sum = 0;
for (let n = 0; n < upper; n++) sum += f(n);
return sum;
}

const weierstrass = (x: number, a = 0.5, b = 3) =>
sum(n => a ** n * Math.cos(b ** n * x));
> Maybe yours did much worse because you aren't splitting files into subdirectories but creating them all in one?

No, and also, I'd expect that to be awful. 1000 folders, each with 1000 folders, each with 1000 files.

Those Arxiv and Phoronix links are great!
Mastodon isn’t particularly good for monetization.
I vote "should"
At some frequencies sounds like a more (or less) chip-crushed church organ.
Can I run it on my local machine? No? Useless.
The job of "software engineer" as we know it will end.

Before the industrial revolution, shoemakers would make shoes. It was a specialized skill, meaning shoes were very expensive, so most people couldn't afford them.

Then factories were invented. Now shoes could be made cheaply and quickly, by machines, so more people could afford them. This meant that far more people could be employed in the shoe industry.

But those people were no longer shoemakers. Shoemakers were wiped out overnight.

Think of how huge the shoe industry is now. There are jobs ranging from factory worker to marketing manager. But there are zero shoemakers.

AI writing software doesn't mean it's the end of the industry. Humanity will benefit greatly, just like we did from getting cheaper shoes.

But the software engineers are screwed.
Interesting read - thanks for sharing. I have recently been reading-up on near-death experiences, shared-death experiences, and tangential subjects and highly recommend books like:

- Proof of Life After Life - https://tinyurl.com/proof-of-life-after-life-moody

- After - https://tinyurl.com/after-bruce-greyson

On the one side I am happy to see more scientifically-minded people attracted to these topics. At the same time, I am also dismayed at the block a lot of people have at any phenomena that doesn't seem to be physically-based.
Well, at least O_APPEND, O_EXCL, O_SYNC, and flock() aren't guaranteed to work (although they can with recent versions as I understand it).

UID mapping causing read() to return -EACCES after open() succeeds breaks a lot of userland code.
something about the name wingify instantly made me think, wait is this a joke from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ plot?
New electrical code could doom most common EV charging
at the expense of turning this a platform to rant away my grievances, the past year i faced a weird issue with the store that lasted several months!

the tailscale client introduced a bug with a new updated that crashes on launch. the developers rolled back the release after a few days, by then i had already unknowingly installed it.

now came the world of hurt. while it is also partially the dev team's fault to not quickly patch a new version for f-droid to allow easy update, there was no way to rollback versions of installed apps from the store!

non-rooted phones have a lot of issues with installing specific apk version without getting rid of app data, and it really soured my experiences with using open-source app stores. in this case, the only way was to wait 4 months to finally get the official patch. i really wish they introduce a way to install older version without losing app data.

besides this, i do agree with others on having no filters to weed out dead projects from results. the sort by last update does most of the job to be fair.
It is a great time to work with proofs and formal verification; so many nice tools with different goals like idris, agra, lean, coq, tla+, etc, but also unit and system tests, however generally clients don't pay for that; they pay for sloppy and buggy.
I've increasingly come to doubt the utility of all these things.

Real numbers and Lesbesgue integration that stem out of 19th c. analysis came before Computability was a thing... and it turns out that all but a measure 0 set of real-numbers are actually computable.

So all these things that we worry about don't even "exist" in a computational sense.

Mathematicians haven't come to terms with this (barring non-standard analysis etc.), and I suspect this is one of the reasons it's losing mind-share.
https://civboot.org
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You're right, the agents actually smeared him with Campbell’s Chicken & Stars to make him look he just got strangled. You got me!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/how-the-feds-sta...

>Force got Green to sign a waiver, thereby commencing his role in an impromptu staged torture sting against DPR. Soon Green was being dunked in the bathtub of a Marriott suite by phony thugs who were in fact a Secret Service agent and a Baltimore postal inspector. Force recorded the action on a camera. “Did you get it?” Green asked, wet and wheezing on the floor. He’d felt like their simulation was a little too accurate. They dunked him four more times to get a convincing shot.

There used to be an online archive of every little bit of public information known about the Silk Road's administrators and their court cases. I can't find it anymore. It was over 10 years ago. All I can remember is the site had a weird url.
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Paras, as a an Indian founder, I've watched your journey for few years now. You are an inspiration and a thoughtful leader. Your "Mental Models for Startup Founders", is a very well written mirror for every founder to look into.

Hope you get some nice time off and go back with vigour to Turing's Dream now...
It's not unlimited free unfortunately. After some free use, we provide monthly usage-tier plans. But there are no rate limits like other providers as you can move up to the next usage-tier.
Deno is the only server that has done so though. Neither node nor bun support them.
You are going to need content moderation, and you are going to need it quick as you scale.

This is the one thing that doesn’t scale. There’s a bunch of T&S advice and best practices out there.

Get a press kit ready. Be clear on what is and isn’t allowed.

In the EU, you would need to be able to provide access to appeals if you cross a certain size (VLOPs).

I mention this because you are a 1 person team.
Reliance plans biggest AI data centre in India, report says
> an embroidered 'Fang' (the Java mascot)

I thought Duke was the mascot. Is this some earlier mascot?

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duke_(Java_mascot)_w...
This is a tough question to answer, because it depends a lot on what you want to do! One way to approach it may be to look at what models you want to run and check the amount of VRAM they need. A back-of-the-napkin method taken from here[0] is:

VRAM (GB) = 1.2 * number of parameters (in billions) * bits per parameter / 8

The 1.2 is just an estimation factor to account for the VRAM needed for things that aren't model parameters.

Because quantization is often nearly free in terms of output quality, you should usually look for quantized versions. For example, Llama 3.2 uses 16-bit parameters but has a 4-bit quantized version, and looking at the formula above you can see that will allow you to run a 4x larger model.

Having enough VRAM will allow you to run a model, but performance is dependent on a lot of other factors. For a much deeper dive into how all of this works along with price/dollar recommendations (though from last year!), Tim Dettmers wrote this excellent article: https://timdettmers.com/2023/01/30/which-gpu-for-deep-learni...

Worth mentioning for the benefit of those who don't want to buy a GPU: there are also models which have been converted to run on CPU.

[0] https://blog.runpod.io/understanding-vram-and-how-much-your-...
Complex electricity tariffs doing more harm than good, as consumers fall through
this wont work on several lady bikes because how their frame is designed
15 years in tech is like a month in crypto
> These days a 200Mbit connection would handle five or so users doom scrolling social media

Is that because all you can do is doom scroll on an internet connection, or are there higher bandwidth possibilities waiting for 10gig home internet service to arrive?

To some extent making that argument is like Bill Gates saying "All anyone will ever need is 640k."
sure, that's a good use case that will save a few people some time. But do we need to spend $500B to save a few internet searches? How often do you need to find a new supplier of widgets for your company?
Even when the brakes are good, the tires are thin and don't have enough traction to go from 40 to 0 in under 2 meters.. learned this lesson the hard way, but still very worth the ebike conversion.
GitHub Showing Trump Administration Scrubbing Government Web Pages in Real Time
I quite like the kiosk system for ordering McDonald's. You can see the entire available menu, along with all possible options for adding or removing ingredients, sides, sizes, combo deals, etc. You can always see the current state of your order. A chat-based interface wouldn't be a major improvement on this UX imho.
The underlying clang featurs support compile-time checks as well via the Performance Constraints system: https://conference.audio.dev/session/2024/llvms-real-time-sa...
sony fixed this with the ps4 by saying eff it "harware is done in japan where we're good at it, you brits and yanks can have the software"
So it looks like some folks are getting errors with the non-streaming models, i.e. the o1 models. I think their long running cxns with zero packets may cause some networks to drop the requests. Will look into a hearbeat/keepalive on those.
Reddit has absolutely massive amounts of free moderation being done every day, and users are constantly being split into smaller groups to handle scale and nuance.

The admin team sits on top of that. And they have access to NCMEC along with full fledged data science teams.

Reddit is VC funded.
Especially when you're speaking at a political rally and you perform two fascist salutes.
GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing Gov Web Pages in Real Time
Pygmy: RP2040-Based Flight Computer for Rocketss
To add to this: the author is missing a major aspect of the Jevons paradox.

They keep referencing "more efficient software developers," but the Jevons paradox isn't only about efficiency. The efficiency creates lower cost, which in turn increases demand.

The main cost of software is software engineers. It's a specialized skill, so it's a high-salary job.

With AI doing most of the work, salaries will begin to fall. It will no longer make sense to study computer science, or spend years learning to code, for such a low salary. There will no longer be people doing what we call software engineering today.

So the author is right, Jevons paradox will take effect. But like I said above, it will replace the current industry with a very different-looking industry.
But those people were no longer shoemakers. Shoemakers were wiped out overnight.

Have you seen the cost and popularity of "Made in X" handmade boots though? Red Wing, Origin, Red Back. It's absolutely crazy

The difference is, all of a sudden we could make a lot of CHEAP shoes and yes I'm sure it wiped out a lot of shoe maker jobs, but there is still a lot of good shoe makers around and there is still a high demand for handmade shoes and boots.
I don't see how PEMDAS is relevant for a 4 function calculator. The implicit equals when you press an operator means that they always work sequentially rather than jumping around.
I regret clicking on that first image lol. Super scary!
A favorite on my bookshelf:

Bernard R.\ Gelbaum and
John M.\ H.\ Olmsted,
{\it Counterexamples in Analysis,\/}
Holden-Day,
San Francisco,
1964.\ \
> they should make it clear that they will also take over the maintenance responsibility for it as well.

Don't they already? I was always told that if you hit a bug in a distro package, you report it to the maintainer, and then if applicable they can pass it upstream. The whole point of a distro (at least the kind Debian is) is to be its own thing.
For just a few k more. But I should not that I don’t live in the us.
FYI you have a broken hot linked image in that post.
Congrats! What made you not want to take any investments and what was the most counter intuitive thing that made you succeed?
Ask HN: AMD employees, why is the RX 9070 shipping with only 16GB?
This is the opposite of what everyone has been asking for. Where is the cheap 32GB VRAM card? Why even stop there? Ship a 96GB one. NVIDIA is about to.
Maybe they could build nuclear but they could just as easily build solar with battery backup or natural gas. Lots of industrial facilities have natural gas cogeneration with the grid as a backup. If you can't get a grid connection at all due to permitting, you could just forego the backup. The reliability wouldn't be as good, but in a distributed datacenter there are ways of building in fault tolerance.

If these guys really have $500 billion, they're going to find a way to get electricity.
I'm not going to install the app, not sure what that blocks me from but not going to do it. and there's really nothing that tells me why I would like to use the app. I guess reply? or post? the web part seems pretty bare, I can't tell if it's meant to thread, or go longer with infinite scroll, or be a conversation, or just a wall of posts. I don't get the concept based on the website.
Yeah, it's tough meeting people in general these days. Meetups are nice but no one addresses that they tend to be monthly more often or not. How easy is it for you to form meaningful connections with monthly appearances?

If you're young enough to pull it off (20's) I'd recommend local college clubs. Your audience will be a bit (or much) younger, but you will meet likeminded people to talk with. including whatever professor is hosting and supervising the group. They usually aren't too fussed about you being a non-student as long as you're participating in the activities.
Oh, these places already exist! I came across a few subreddits and IRC channels used for botnet communications.
With gentoo, if you allocate let's say 20G to / on ext4, then you can quite easily run into this issue.

/usr/src/linux will use about 30% of the space and 10% of the inodes.

/var/db/repos/gentoo will use about 4% of the space and 10% of the inodes.

Next you clone the firefox-source hg repo, which will use about 15% of the space and 80% of the inodes.
I just witnessed an example of more or less this at a startup I’ve been contracting at. The engineering team on the core product is tiny with no slack for extra projects. One non-technical founder and a few other non-technical people build a prototype piece of software using AI and low code tools for facilitating another revenue stream. They started using it with a few customers and raised more money around it. The money they raised is going directly into expanding the engineering team to work on both products.
Congrats Paras! ps: Your mental models blog/book should be taught in business schools.
Preservation of xattrs is app-dependent? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42807500
Should we change the top link to https://mstdn.social/@isziaui/113874436953157913?
>who you will organically hear from/reach out to and discover their organic hobbies/interest

Could be cultural, but that has yet to happen to me.
Extremely correct.
> At the same time, I am also dismayed at the block a lot of people have at any phenomena that doesn't seem to be physically-based.

For me it's a matter of the scientific method — if it doesn't hold up to appropriate scrutiny, as the metaphysical never does, I can not consider it any more than a curious misunderstanding.

In the case of Marc's story, I'm skeptical about whether the events happened as described before I even take other explanations for his knowledge of the language into account.
And that's the premise of Talos Principle.
When you are close to a low frequency radio station anything is possible I guess. I used to live less than one mile away from an AM radio station antenna. That doesn't mix up well if you want to become an electronic engineer or compose your own electronic music. ;-)

The Telecaster guitar and bass used would be my #1 culprit on introducing noise since pickups are virtually antennas. Mike Oldfield even had added an extra high gain single coil BL pickup to his '66 Tele. If you don't gain stage or ground properly the mics that were used for the acoustic instruments, they could have also captured RF noise easily, even if they had a heavy metal housing that acted like shielding. Some Farfisa organs are also noticeable noisy, although I don't know about their EMI or how banged up was the one used for the album that belonged to David Bedford. The electric piano used was a Rhodes, and those were built like a tank. Finally the tracks were overdubbed over and over. This would in all likelihood have attenuated both the audio and noise, but using a mixer or a tape that is susceptible to interference means that you have more chances of capturing noise at some point in the recording. I guess we will never know for sure.

Anyway, it adds to the mystique of the record.
> LLMs are the new compiler, and the world of software is going to get a lot more bespoke.

This is true only if your data sources and sinks are accessible, well documented, and their governing app is cooperative, such that your LLM coding tool can get access to it.

For instance, if you want to add a custom filter email plugin, your email app has to provide a plugin API and document it, thereby enabling a LLM-based development tool to seek and find all the necessary hooks for you. But is doing that in the interest of the email app's vendor? If not, no amount of AI will be able to add value to that app, ever.
security:
you can think of x11 as being similar to how memory worked back in the dos world. any x11 client can look at the screen content of any other client, can steal/monitor inputs, etc. in wayland you have a framework called Portals that allows you to grant this access on a limited basis and ensure an indicator is displayed when the screen is being recorded/shared

performance:
holy shit it's so buttery smooth, especially if you're on an intel or amd graphics stack. under x11, it felt like it was impossible to actually eliminate tearing everywhere. under wayland (my experience is limited to sway, gnome, and most recently kde) tearing just ceases to be a thing.
Well we see the results of that in this article, I suppose.At some point we either accept the world is getting lonelier or adjust societal affordances to make them want to go out.

Given my country, the answer to that is clear.
How to Install MicroPython on ESP32
Hi hackers, I made a tutorial and video on 2 different ways (GUI and CLI) of installing MicroPython on an ESP32. Hope it's helpful to those of you who want to try out hardware/embedded projects while leveraging your Python skills (and not having to learn Arduino or C/C++). Feel free to me ask any questions/clarifications here if you'd like :)
I think there’s value in being exposed to all sides.