skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Joe Palrang (the guy who drew him) and the Java team called him 'Fang' (he looks like a tooth right?) Somebody didn't like that name (I don't recall if it was corporate or Kim Polese) and at some point the word went out that his name was "Duke".
"AI" seems like the latest example of the so-called "tech" industry's worship of the Pareto Principle. If "AI" answers are correct 80% of the time and incorrect 20% of the time, that's good enough to promote "AI" as worth something. Demos can be faked if necessary, as Google recently did.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/7/23992737/google-gemini-mi...

Perhaps this is similar to the practice of "vaporware". Musk's Tesla is a recent example. Neverending promises, mixed results.
One tradeoff of bringing your own API keys is that as you add more model providers, you get more billing accounts to deal with. Chorus also doesn't have an incentive to efficiently use your tokens. We save 67% on Anthropic token costs using Claude Caching. We also use cheaper "task models" for conversation titles, tagging, and parts of the RAG pipeline which all drastically cuts token costs.

For local models I highly recommend https://github.com/crizCraig/open-webui

They do the side by side thing that Chorus does and you can serve it to anywhere including your phone.
Some would say being closer to the powerful thing is exactly the risk. i.e. better to be far away from those you give info to.
I think they're saying it's bullshit because if we used (the superior) RPN across the board, we wouldn't need PEMDAS at all
On Linux, mmap() is your signal-safe malloc.

POSIX doesn't require mmap() to be async-signal safe, but on Linux it de facto is.

Of course, doing every memory allocation at the kernel level is going to be very slow and resource intensive. But if it isn't on a hot code path...
Check out options on https://softaculous.com/apps/socialnetworking. I have used Elgg, and HumHub seems popular.
That's the issue. There's very few Linux meetups and fewer still are frequent.

I had a similar issue going to 3d modeling meetups. Surprisingly few in Los Angeles. There's one blender Meetup that comes around maybe once a year and that's it.

It was bad before COVID, but Meetups completely torpedo'd during it. And it has bounced back as much as I thought.
I'm recommending that you focus on meaning rather than spelling, and in particular to disambiguate your comment from pedantic nitpicking. I get that you didn't have the latter in mind, but your original comment didn't make that clear enough. As a result, it snapped to that grid in my mind, and probably other users' as well.
Seems like a convenient way of sidestepping donation regulations.
Can I borrow $5? (joke)

Congrats on the success!
> You can iterate your way out of a valley if you know which way is up.

love this, I think this is my new personal motto!
Just used ChatGPT Operator to book a flight
Harder to do for (assumed) males. Males gather over "things". Women tend to gather over "community" more than the "thing".

That's a part of why modern male groups break up easier. No more "thing" no more Meetup.
For text expansion, I'm using Espanso on KDE Wayland. The text expansion works fine, but its ability to paste image files only works in certain apps for reasons I haven't gotten to the bottom of yet.
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Yup, I can confirm. The difference in meetups post and pre-pandemic is stark. Feels like a lot of society collectively realized they like being indoors and isolated and stayed that way. Can definitely say that for a few friends.

Of course, the party goes bounced right back. More introverted activities, not as much.
Congrats Paras. I used VWO long time back and came away impressed. Looking to hear more great things from you.
Wow congrats Paras! such an inspiring journey you had..
> Respectful conversation involves sarcasm and satire

It can in some contexts! For example with friends or close colleagues, or a small group of familiars. But the context is the dominant variable.

In a context like HN (a large, public, optionally anonymous internet forum), sarcasm and satire and snark are likely to come across as cheap attacks. The odds of that are so high that such messages should either be avoided or disambiguated enough that the median reader—someone who doesn't know you or anything about you—can still detect that you're conversing respectfully.

This sucks a bit—it means we're all subject to a certain blandness here. But the alternative is the war of all against all, followed by scorched earth, and that isn't much of a choice.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
(I work in social media content moderation.)

Echoing some other comments here, I highly recommend (in strongest possible terms) that you sit down with a lawyer well versed in Internet law wherever you are based out of and lay all of this out on the table for them.

All it takes is a bored official finding this thread or your site directly and your sincere effort here will transform into some kind of nightmare. Particularly given some of the major political swings recently, you have a target on your back and no megacorp legal team to protect you.

It is crazy easy to end up hosting an image known to NCMEC as seriously bad news and have no idea. Or NCII and not have an adequate reporting/actioning mechanism. Or someone tosses your user DB and people get harassed, swatted, or worse.

Not to mention you yourself are a target. By working on your passion project you've definitely already crossed lines that put you at physical risk if your info gets out. And over time the chance that it will climbs toward certainty.

I don't mean to dissuade you or wrap subtext in plausible corpolegal BS. I do mean, one human being to another, that you aren't merely building a fun community for people, you've also entered a field where very real, very heavy consequences--legal or not--now need to be a core part of your daily risk calculus.
That particular principle is bourne of pragmatism; Debian long ago learned the lesson that other distros are determined to relearn ( https://thenewstack.io/vendoring-why-you-still-have-overlook...) - vendoring is not good for security. In fact, I have come to view Debian's commitment to principles as almost always a practical matter, because those principles (almost?) always trade short-term pain for long-term quality and stability.
Allegedly you can use it to solve PDEs, although that does not seem to work well.

Maybe there are some very special problems, without well developed silver where they work.
>RPN

"Reverse Polish notation", I think, for people like me who aren't familiar with the acronym.
I'm sure it's YMMV but I haven't met a friend through exercise since college. And I've done cycling classes, hikes, and some sports. Dynamic just feels so different with adults who want to be "around" people but not necessarily form new connections.
Neither deno nor bun do tree shaking because they can’t make the same assumptions as front end code. They do cache the compiled code though, which makes some difference. But the reason S3 SDK is at least 5X slower than bun, is partly due to code size, since JavaScript always have to parse the code on every run. I worked 3 years on cloudflare workers and scripts even 1MB in size are slow and cpu intensive to run (before using it!). Now, even the most common auth for node with basic features is 20MB of scripting. That put a perspective on things like this.
Note that "computable" just means "computable by a Turing machine or equivalent system", at this time. We don't know if we are missing some other form of computation that goes beyond the abilities of a Turing machine, that could upend the whole concept. And given that we haven't proven that general human thinking is a computable process, there is at least one significant candidate for possible computation beyond Turing machines.

Note that I don't personally think it's likely that our thinking goes beyond the capabilities of a Turing machine, not at all. But I also think it would be premature to throw out all mathematics that doesn't conform to Turing machine computability before we are more sure that this is the best possible model.

And even if it were, there is also the question of whether physical processes are computable or not. Right now there are plenty of physical processes where our best and only reliable models for predicting their behavior require assumptions from calculus, like the existence of all real numbers. For example, there is no successful formulation of quantum mechanics where the distance between two particles moving relative to each other can be constrained to any subset of the [minDistance, maxDistance] interval of the real number line. Which means that, as the particles move away from each other, at some times the distance between them will have to be an uncomputable number (and given their density in the real number line, this will be approximately all the time).
I'd argue that Overton's Window has a place in the context for where one tries to place that line.

FDA approval of food is far more respected in our culture than Vegan approval of food is at the current time, and food means a lot more to a dining experience than just filling up a nutritional fuel tank.
IME Wayland handles mixed DPI, fractional scaling, and mixed scaling far better than X did, which is important for me since I have a couple of differently sized and different resolution monitors
I have a stapler from Microsoft with Microsoft written on it!
Haha small world! I went to the kebab shop across the street on a regular basis when I lived nearby for Techstars in 2015
>> and it turns out that all but a measure 0 set of real-numbers are actually computable.

This is the wrong way around. The computable numbers have measure 0. In fact, they are countable.

The non-computable real numbers have full measure.

(proof: by definition, computable numbers are generated by a program, which can be represented by a finite number of bits. The set of finite numbers is countable).
Product AB testing is going to interesting in future or do we even need it ?
>In response, I would say: while Electron makes it easy for the software developer to build and distribute software, especially on multiple platform, as an end user it is NEVER the best experience.

People on HN have this idealistic view of software that it should always make the best use of the native platform. In reality, the vast majority of users don't care that much.

Electron does 3 things very well:

1. Availability. If not for Electron, would this desktop app have been made?

2. Low cost. Electron apps are cheaper to make because they're cross platform which lowers the dev resources.

3. Uniform feature set no matter where you use it. Web, macOS, PC, Linux. All the same experience. No missing features.

So while Electron uses more memory and it lags sometimes, the benefits outweigh the cost for a category of apps such as chat apps.
Very exciting - I'm a long-time vim user but most of my coworkers use VSCode, and I've been wanting to try out in-editor completion tools like this.

After using it for a couple hours (on Elixir code) with Qwen2.5-Coder-3B and no attempts to customize it, this checks a lot of boxes for me:

- I pretty much want fancy autocomplete: filling in obvious things and saving my fingers the work, and these suggestions are pretty good
- the default keybindings work for me, I like that I can keep current line or multi-line suggestions
- no concerns around sending code off to a third-party
- works offline when I'm traveling
- it's fast!

So I don't need to remember how to run the server, I'll probably set up a script to check if it's running and if not start it up in the background and run vim, and alias vim to use that. I looked in the help documents but didn't see a way to disable the "stats" text after the suggestions, though I'm not sure it will bother me that much.
>but i learned to try to approach finding friends like finding a partner.

Swipe right on 1000 friends and hope months later someone responds back? Only to get a "hi" and then when you reply you get blocked?

It can feel that way sometimes yea.

>what was wrong with the board game club, for example?

I just don't like board games. I even was working at a startup making a custom campaign, so I had to play test plenty of that as we as compare with some other kinds of games. Boss was clearly a very passionate DM, but I just never truly "clicked" into that role playing myself.

So I've tried and just accepted board games aren't for me.

>re video games and DnD, you may be tired of it, but if you are new to a city, it may be the way to get to know some people and learn about other activities of interest.

I'm shocked how little game meetups there are in my city. Seemed like there wee a decent amount pre-pandemic, but they got utterly wiped out when the world re-opened. I only see a semi-consistent one and it's monthly.
MacBook Air M3.
A bunch of random stuff in my apartment came from an old dating startup that listed all their office stuff on craigslist. Went down on a weekend and made silly offers on whatever seemed useful.
I wish that were true, but thank you both for saying so.
The Ups and Downs of a Supertrader
My Brother from 2004 is still going strong
I was curious about the origin. It may not be what you expect.

> These bills didn’t originate from some evangelical PAC or conservative think tank. Their actual origin was, ironically, The Howard Stern Show. [0]

While it seems like everyone has overwhelmingly sided against free speech advocates (ACLU) and porn sites, there are some interesting points about access/addiction. I'm less impressed if it's purely evangelical driven (at least now), but I'm sympathetic to arguments about access for minors (or their ability to post under-age content). I don't have the answer.

[0] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/08/08/age-law-on...
Don't worry! The only thing that matters is recalibrating going forward. If you're willing to do that, all will be well.

This whole thing is a learning process for all of us, and me most of all.

p.s. I appreciate your reply. It's not easy to be so open and most people can't or won't do it.
I think it was a time when bootstrapping was a thing.. I feel its scary for new startups to bootstrap since the last decade with huge fundings, especially with funding in billions becoming a normal with the ongoing AI craze.

https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/largest-ai-startup-funding-de...
TL;DR; A Reddit user claimed to have run a script that pretended to be a human on Chatbot Arena, upvoted Gemini thousands of times and similarly downvoted OpenAI's rival model. The script would detect models by recognizing model specific responses to artificially limited topics and certain forms of gibberish.
This internet comment has a lot of conviction, but my experience differs.

A company I once worked for "asked" me and others EM's to fast-track hiring African American engineers to meet an internal diversity quota. The company didn't write this policy on paper and kept it strictly verbal for fear of legal consequences.

In any case, Affirmative Action has recently been struck down by the Supreme Court so I doubt similar racial-discriminatory policies will hold up.
> Aren't we already there actually? Isn't it like 90%+ of games that just work now? Isn't the Steam Deck a success?

This has been my experience. The only games that give me grief are either just a badly supported on Windows or use some ring0 anticheat bullshit. Thankfully, I don't even like most of the sorts of games that rely on ring0 anticheat, so nothing of value was lost for me.

The only remaining games that have papercuts are caused by garden-variety Wine/Proton support that usually get patched in a matter of weeks. I honestly haven't seen a Wayland-caused game issue since the release of KDE 6.0.1, and even the general Nvidia driver issues have mostly evaporated since then.
I wish I could do the same for people with depression
I'm in the same inner suburb. Where's that goat farm?
> personality equivalent of wonderbread

> thinkpad user ricing out modded dwarf fortress has a more rewarding time with their videogames compared to macbook pro user

Ok, now I feel a little bit offended by the bread thing, and also: how can you just assume how rewarding my experience is playing vanilla games? We’ve already established, that you can’t relate to me.
>once people realize the problem.

That may be the unique issue. Maybe a good portion of people never realize the problem and sustain on artificial intimacy. The internet is really good at giving people the facade of such interactions.
It's possible, anecdotally in Australia both myself and other family members have formed new friendships that have lasted and had breadth outside of purely physical activity from Canoe Clubs (on the Swan River), Biking (Pedal and motor), and Walking Track maintenance (local 1,000 km volunteer managed walking track).

To be clear those friendships formed more from a common interest in organising activities and club events than just the pure unadulterated physical activity part.
This is what HN community is all about. Wholesome posts like this one :)
Reminds me of when I was in university, and only had dial-up at home, so I bought a Zip drive for my PC, knowing the computer labs had the same, and I could take stuff home that way.
I also want to thank my co-founder Sparsh for building the company with me. He deserves as much congrats as it's coming my way! (He sometimes lurks here on HN)!

Couldn't have built Wingify without him!

He'll continue to be associated with the company as the CEO and I feel rested knowing that :)
Modular PC Design: Sustainable Approach Enhanced Repairability Reduced E-Waste
Shouldn't one of the URLs implement a Rick Roll :-) ?
I think we have enough "personalities" online to easily dispel the idea that young people can't emulate bad behaviors online. Politics aside, a decade ago they were literally eating bleach en masses.
I don't buy applying comparative advantage in this case, even after reading the more extended article that was linked to. The argument makes the fundamental assumption that the marginal value of one unit of a specific type of work is fixed. Whatever is the most profitable use case for AGI is the one that all the compute and power will be plowed into.

But what kind of economic activity actually has a fixed marginal utility, no matter how much of that activity there is? I think it's like, none at all? No matter what you're doing, there's eventually going to be diminishing returns as you do more of it. As the highest value use cases are saturated by AGI, the opportunity cost of doing something else diminishes. And comparative advantage only works because of the opportunity cost.
For better or worse, there's a system and range of possibilities and any actionable steps need ot be within the realm of this reality, regardless of how anyone feels about it.

Public information and the ability for public to analyze, understand and eventually decide what's best for them is by and large the most relevant aspect. Your decisions are drastically different if you learn soemthing can or cannot be avoided.

You can't dissallow commercial purposes. You can't even realistically enforce property rights for illegal training data, but maybe you can argue that the totality of human knowledge should go towards the benefits of the humans, regardless of who organizes it.

However there's a lot that can be done like understanding the implications of the (close to) zero-sum game that's about to happen and whether they are solvable in the current framework and without a first principles approach.

Ultimately, it's a resource ownership and resource utilization efficiency game. Everyone's resource ownership can't be drastically change but their resource efficiency utilization can as long as the implications are made clear.
Can PINNs go away? I do CFD and they show zero promise and application for real problems. just a waste of money
can someone explain how this will likely play out?
Aitah for the Tussle with my company's developer manager?
I am a helpdesk. As a helpdesk, we've to work with cross-functional teams like developers, devops, databases, Project engineers etc. This issue is about a tussle of mine with a developer's manager(big guy). That person is the few of the persons remaining who joined from the start of this product codebase.

Now, I want to explain my tussle with that developer's manager.

He keeps complaining about me for various reasons to my helpdesk manager directly. He doesn't think telling me is enough. He takes it directly to manager

For example:

- I forgot to describe few details in ticket. Now, what do you think? Should he talk to me or directly complain to my manager? He complains to my manager about that.

- Once, I asked help from junior devs. Till that time, it wasn't known to us that we can only talk/chat/ask/discuss about issues with manager only(dev manager). He, instead of informing that to me, again complained to my helpdesk manager.

- He keeps making unreasonable requests. For example; there was a time when something was required to be deployed. This was not the first time he made an unreasonable request. He keeps making them. I just replied playfully "That's not my concern". Then he replied "Then whose?" I again replied "That's not my concern either". He got really butthurt so bad that he again complained to my manager about it.

As a helpdesk(basically tech support), we work on tickets. Our job is to do nothing and escalate to everyone else. That's why we are paid peanuts. But I always try to go out of the duty sheet and actually try to troubleshoot tough issues. Now, my manager has asked us not to create developer escalation tickets. And has assigned some other persons for it.

What do you think? AITAH?
While I can't personally understand why you'd want to give Discord and its advertisers free information about your application usage habits, issues like these are endemic to rather a large number of Electron apps whose developers refuse to keep the framework up-to-date. Supposedly the issues will go away when they upgrade to modern Electron, and then I'll know for sure just how good the Flatpak jails are at blocking that nonsense.
VIM seemed to have fared well under the new leadership, despite not being able to control the timing of this power transfer. Maybe other BDFL projects would be inspired by VIM's experience and setup successors early.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benevolent_dictator_for_life
I am definitely not a cool-headed guy but I feel like he's being a sob atm.
He had time to test it. /s
“Microsoft”, huh? It would be kind of helpful if the author would bother mentioning what particular Microsoft product/service he is talking about and on what platform rather than just a vague reference to a “security scanner”. That’s what makes the difference between actionable content that could help affected people vs “boo evil Microsoft bad, Linux rocks” like it’s still the 1990s.
> I've been working on an free open-source

May I ask where are the sources? Looks great, any plans for Windows or Linux (Docker) version?
> Your request has been blocked due to a network policy. Try logging in or creating an account here to get back to browsing.

It's time to consider reddit as a closed-garden and ask for an archive when an article is posted here.
start at S1E1 of https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/michael-singer-podcast...
I don't know. I watched the show, but wasn't by any means a superfan or something.

In the last season or so of the build team, the dynamics had changed. Keri and Tory, who had gotten along fine before, seemed unable to keep their dislike of each other out of the show. It went from "Okay, that's a pretty funny prank" to "You are actively trying to hurt each other." At least as I recall it.

I don't know, maybe they worked it out. But I do recall a season or so that was genuinely uncomfortable to watch, because of the dynamics between people on the show - and it was a distinct change from previous seasons.