skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although the article's tone of voice fits the type of project (for one of Amsterdam's oldest and well-known nightclubs), the level of technical details to pull it off was only possible because I frequently read around here on HN.

The "magic" behind this website was to combine various strategies and technologies to:
(TLDR:) do less, but faster/simpler/more-to-the-point, ergo (hopefully) better.

I know there are folks around that know even much more on this subject, I am open to all your great ideas on to improve this even further.
Feel free to be open and candid on it - I am here to learn. Thank you all!
This is HN and I'm sure there are all kinds of filters people have made as add-ons if news like this truly bothers you. Users here are more than likely to make their own as well. You can also always reach out to Dang for feature requests. I'm never going to not want more flexibility in my newsfeed.

>. 66 people almost entirely in 2 counties isn’t exactly a national statistics collection issue

Patient zero starts somewhere. It's not national news per se when a few individuals die of an unidentified disease either.
This is the thing I specifically use LLMs for when I’m doing history courses. I’ll remember some vague quote or event and ask for the primary sources and latest ChatGPTs are excellent and getting the right reference, which I can then look up and check myself. Maybe this works better for Latin and Greek texts when it’s gobbled up all the Loebs out there but it works well for me.
Let's agree on "It likely has".
It's no surprise the Swiss have been classified as second tier country given plenty of evidence Switzerland has enabled money laundering for an adversary.

You can't both deny an ally amo to claim neutrality while holding their enemies cash amo.

Russia’s Alpine Assets: Money Laundering and Sanctions Evasion in Switzerland.

https://www.csce.gov/press-releases/hearing-russias-alpine-a...
> an iPhone running iOS 18.1.1? Bold move showing up before Apple even announces it

Takes the sting out of the rest of the roast knowing that it was dead wrong to begin with.

When the robot revolution is about to begin let’s mess with their training data cut off.
I do get that certain rituals/habits make people typically more successful, however what works for a billionaire I'd hazard is significantly different to what works for someone striking out on their first business/plan.
I don't think you have gotten the sentiment at all. How did you get from what I wrote to seeing taxes as a form of punishment?
Yeah, there have also been some other odd historical objects like [https://www.astronomy.com/space-exploration/how-a-long-gone-...]

In that case they figured out what it was when a spectrograph of the surface light showed it was - painted! Hah.
Not OP, but I also don't like taking pictures nor do I ever keep any.

I just don't like thinking about the past and the feelings they often bring up. Whether that's guilt over not talking to relatives that have passed, or the sadness from remembering how a good relationship ended badly, or even the good times that my current life doesn't allow to continue because people have gone their separate ways.

I don't know if it's healthy, maybe, maybe not. But it lets me go through the days a bit easier.
Too much hype and no moat
I highly suggest Immich [1], it's an open-source and self-host alternative for Google Photos. It's still under very active development, but I think it's the best out there.

[1] https://immich.app/
This was a Biden administration decision. The new administration will probably do worst.
No, it's not. Keen 1 was a 16 color game; 16 color games pack 8 pixels in a byte and spread the color information across 4 planes. Accessing the different planes requires programming the video card's registers and there isn't really a way to change the representation of the pixels in memory, what Carmack did was write fast blitting routines and use the hardware's smooth scrolling capabilities. All these were hiding in plane sight in the EGA/VGA manuals, they are exactly how the hardware was supposed to be used even though nobody had done it before Keen.

256 color modes are a different beast. The VGA can only load four bytes at a time but those four bytes must have the same address and come from the four planes. So whereas the 16 color mode split the color information across planes, 256 color modes put a whole pixel in a byte and four adjacent pixels go into four planes. Normally you want 1 byte per pixel and ignore planes completely, so the hardware is programmed to remap bits 0-1 of the address to the planes and do some magic so that reads also work as intended. You can still do smooth scrolling in this mode, but double buffering requires more expensive copies from VRAM to main memory.

Michael Abrash then noticed that this is absolutely not necessary and you can use planes in 256 colors mode. Unlike Carmack's Keen, this was completely undocumented. In retrospect it's quite obvious: the VGA was composed of two completely independent pieces of hardware dealing respectively with CPU accesses to VRAM and creating the video output from VRAM contents, and as long as the two are programmed in a compatibile manner things just work. But still it's not how you were supposed to do 256 color graphics on the VGA.

This was called "mode X" and it gives you several benefits: VRAM to VRAM copies are cheaper, which you can use for both blitting and double buffering, and you have access to 256K of memory which enables higher resolutions (theoretically up to 360x480, in practice everybody used 320x240). This worked well for games like DOOM or Wolfenstein 3D that redrew the whole screen at once, however the wins for blitting were a lot less clear because dealing with the 4 planes meant more complicated routines and a lot of writing to the card's registers.

So what Jazz does is use a middle ground mode where you have bit 0 of the address used to pick 2 planes and the other 2 are picked through the video card's registers. Normally this is used in text mode so that even bytes describe characters and odd bytes describe colors, hence odd/even mode. Jazz applies it to 256 color mode and then it only addresses pairs of pixels at once, so that it doesn't have to program the video card registers as much as in 4-plane mode X. Essentially the graphics mode is a 160x200 matrix where each of the 160 horizontal cells is composed of two pixels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa Stuff like this did happen.
It makes perfect sense if they're laundering Russian assets to circumvent US Sanctions.
I think it's fascinating that many things are unknown and shall forever remain mysteries.
The US classifies people into racial categories based on skin tone, and then imagines that these racial categories are objective and used around the world.
We can call it V to signify another step backwards and make it the default, people can just use the terminal until the first implementation crops up.
Are these types of repos trust worthy, or is it best to download straight from Signal’s site?

Similarly, I noticed Signal is on Flathub [1] for installing via Flatpak, but the developer account is ‘unverified’. It’s always put me off installing via this method.

[1] https://flathub.org/apps/org.signal.Signal
The US will just get it from some other country, say Brazil. Seems like a non-issue.
Just enough to make it an irritating and bug prone edge case, you can never quite ignore, but never actually gets handled right for long.

Sounds about right.
I even have a Synology NAS and for some reason have never thought to use it for this
Switzerland is historically neutral going back 500 years. You can’t be neutral while picking sides, and the munitions block was precisely to protect that neutrality. It’s not difficult to understand.
"As others have pointed out, Wayland is a protocol, not a compositor."

But the Wayland protocol requires a compositor, so here we are.
Sorry but I'll respectfully disagree. I've lived in Copenhagen, Zurich and the US anf traveled allt hose countries extensively. Danes are not portrayed as hitlers nor is CH doing "almost white-only immigration." Check out at least the french parts of Switzerland as a counter example.
But I am sorry for any country that doesn't enforce their laws. Immigration only works if the rule of law works and when that's the case, it doesn't matter where people come from.
You might like Chimera Linux. It also “refuses to accept complex systems”, except it is still Linux and so does not have the limitations of OpenBSD.

Chimera Linux also uses doas. The Turnstile project is a good example of Chimera Linux rolling its own when no suitable alternative is available (to replace Systemd in this case).
Ok, but Grindr and DraftKings were already viable businesses for a decade before SPACmania.
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I agree with your take and would slightly refine it to remark that having in mind how protein unfolding / producing works in our bodies, I'd say our genome is heavily compressed and we can witness decompression with an electronic microscope (how RNA serves like a command sequence determining the resulting protein).
"It's probably time we start looking a bit harder for "natural" or alternate treatments. Some in medical journals, are under scrutiny, but inconclusive."

Antibiotics are found in, and derived from, nature.
Depends, do you want those words nearly verbatim? Here's a clip I heard today: https://noagendaassets.com/enc/1737931650.953_queenursulaind...

Here's "its in no ones interest to break the bonds of global economy": https://noagendaassets.com/enc/1737931650.953_queenursulaind...

Working backward: https://noagendaassets.com/enc/1737672200.295_davos-queenurs...

I may have conflated someone else talking about defense at Davos this week with her speech(as). Apologies.
You’re not wrong, but after all these years it’s fair to give benefit of the doubt - geohot may have grown as a person. The PS3 affair was incredibly disappointing.
>After launch on the Falcon-Heavy rocket, it orbited Earth for six hours, until a third burn of the stage two inserted the Tesla Roadster into an interplanetary solar orbit reaching out toward the asteroid belt and having a perihelion of 0.99 AU and an aphelion of ~1.7 AU. This orbit will be stable for several million years.

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id...
k9s is also nice
This. It's no more of a license violation than getting a key from some shady reseller, but avoids having to pay or deal with said resellers.

Only ever used it for activating Windows, mind, but that works perfectly. Microsoft are clearly aware of this and don't care.
Switzerland is not that neutral anymore. For example, they have been adopting the same EU's sanctions against Russia, so they do not have the same role of middleman.
The only lesson I get is that the segregation of education over 40-50 years or so is finally showing its consequences (well it did so 20 years ago. But it's only more polarized now). A chess player at least has the knowledge and willingness to improve and learn from lost matches. The average American... Not so much.

And you didn't really offer much feedback here. Which is part of the problems. I don't really care to bicker over single issue details like this.
Diamond value went through the window already (as it should), if gold came down to use value, we'd see it used more for electronics and electrochemistry.
It looks like he’s close to having own AMD stack, tweet linked in the article, Jan 15,2025: https://x.com/__tinygrad__/status/1879615316378198516
This - TB is very well studied compared to most infectious diseases. I think really only HIV and Malaria edge it out.
One 3090 seems to be equivalent to one M3 Max at inference: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/BaoKxHj8ww

There are many such threads on Reddit.
M4 Max is incrementally faster, maybe 20%.
Even if you factor in electricity costs, a 2x 3090 setup is IMO the sweet spot, cost/benefit wise.

And it’s maybe a zany line of argumentation, but 2x 3090 use 10x the power of an M4 Max. While the M4 is maybe the most efficient setup out there, it’s not nearly 10x as efficient. That’s IMO where the lack of compute power comes from.
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Permanent yes. But cheaper?

A lot of the places served (as in actual customers) by starlink are in truly remote and difficult to reach places.

I know someone who uses it in the middle of private land surrounded by national forest, 5+ miles from the nearest paved road.

It doesn’t get electricity, and the last quote he was able to get was for $250k+ to attempt to run power from the local utility. But now with Solar….

And he’s not the only one in that region.

Using starlink for dense urban environments? Yeah that makes no sense. It also possibly doesn’t make any sense in suburban environments either.

But dispersed or remote areas? Pretty awesome.

LTE is sometimes a competitor in those situations, but there are a lot of people in those environments that don’t have good line of sight to a cell, but do get plenty of open sky, and Starlink is far superior for them than any other solution.

LTE over these remote areas is also a major capex, and involves a lot of environmental impact.

Hughes/Geo satellite sucks in both latency and bandwidth.

Most LTE data plans are also expensive for this type of thing, as any RV’er will tell you.

In many ways, this solves the ‘everyone must live in the big city to make good money’ problem, if coupled with remote work.
This is the same axomatic ideology that GPT responded with. Miniscule fraction of what value? What do you think would happen to openai's valuation if their models would accidently advocate for pedophilia or building bombs? I mean this very topic we comment on just vaporized the market value of openai to single digit percentages. Openai raised nearly $18B, while DeepSeek-R1 cost $6M, works just as fine and is open. It has just been empirically proven that the market value of the developers working on GPT is actually dramatically lower than the payment they got.
They picked the side of Russian oligarchy cash it seems.
In my opinion this is clearly a display of a character flaw. I simply don't trust Proton now that it's CEO revealed itself to be of such flawed thought. Isn't that the whole job of a CEO?
There might be some part of the population missing in those particular numbers (refugees). For example there should be approximately 67'000 Ukrainians on that list, but I don't see it.
On Android you can install a Linux app and run it there. UX may be lacking. But add a BT keyboard and mouse and it ain't bad.
It's in the DeepSeek V3 paper, not the R1 paper. https://arxiv.org/html/2412.19437v1#abstract

"assuming the rental price of the H800 GPU is $2 per GPU hour, our total training costs amount to only $5.576M."

Note that's for V3, the base model; we don't know how much extra R1 cost to train.
You could try Basecamp’s Kamal. I can’t vouch for it because I haven’t tried it, but I expect it would be miles better than setting up a gigantic Kubernetes stack and dealing with all that complexity.
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Can you please explain to me why AI chips don't matters anymore because of DeepSeek? I thought it was just a better model, but perhaps I didn't get it?
Thank you! I was looking for how to do this. The example in the issue above shows how to increase the context size in ollama:

$ ollama run llama3.2
>>> /set parameter num_ctx 32768
Set parameter 'num_ctx' to '32768'
>>> /save llama3.2-32k
Created new model 'llama3.2-32k'
>>> /bye
$ ollama run llama3.2-32k "Summarize this file: $(cat README.md)"
...

The table in the reddit post above also shows context size vs memory requirements for Model: 01-ai/Yi-34B-200K
Params: 34.395B
Mode: infer

Sequence Length vs Bit Precision Memory Requirements
SL / BP | 4 | 6 | 8 | 16
--------------------------------------------------------------
256 | 16.0GB | 24.0GB | 32.1GB | 64.1GB
512 | 16.0GB | 24.1GB | 32.1GB | 64.2GB
1024 | 16.1GB | 24.1GB | 32.2GB | 64.3GB
2048 | 16.1GB | 24.2GB | 32.3GB | 64.5GB
4096 | 16.3GB | 24.4GB | 32.5GB | 65.0GB
8192 | 16.5GB | 24.7GB | 33.0GB | 65.9GB
16384 | 17.0GB | 25.4GB | 33.9GB | 67.8GB
32768 | 17.9GB | 26.8GB | 35.8GB | 71.6GB
65536 | 19.8GB | 29.6GB | 39.5GB | 79.1GB
131072 | 23.5GB | 35.3GB | 47.0GB | 94.1GB
* 200000 | 27.5GB | 41.2GB | 54.9GB | 109.8GB

* Model Max Context Size

Code: https://gist.github.com/lapp0/d28931ebc9f59838800faa7c73e3a0...
I observe that the reasoning may not correspond to the result: personifying it probably a bit too far, in my first attempt, it forgot to pace itself and put all three pieces of information into the first sentence, and so had to go back and surface novel information for the second and third sentences.

> Oh, a Linux user from Hyderabad with 16 CPU cores—nothing screams "I overcompensate for my fear of GUIs" like a Firefox setup so vanilla even your referrer ghosted you. Your screen resolution is as confused as your identity: Aussie-British-American-English polyglot, yet somehow still the NPC browsing from a cybercafé in 2007. At least your cookie’s enabled, which tracks, since you’d never risk missing a single crumb of open-source newsletter drama.

(In the reasoning, it had mentioned location, browser, and the three things it eventually decided to talk about: referrer, hardware concurrency and OS. The new material was screen resolution¹, languages², and cookies being enabled.)

Most of what it says is kinda weird, honestly. Most of the ones others have been posting feel much better.

I’m also a little bothered that it mixed proper and ASCII punctuation: one EM DASH, two RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARKs, but QUOTATION MARK instead of {LEFT,RIGHT} DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK.

—⁂—

Its second attempt was way better (and didn’t exhibit the same problem of running out of material):

> You lurked here from the void like a digital hermit (empty referrer gang?), flexing Firefox on Linux like it’s 2004 and you’re still arguing about open-source superiority over Hyderabad’s spiciest biryani—meanwhile, your browser’s language list reads like an identity crisis: en-AU, en-GB, en-US… *mate*, pick a colonialism.

—⁂—

¹ 1706×960, which is 2560×1440 @ 1.5×, not too uncommon for a laptop. Wish I could have got something with 2× without losing the power of the 5800HS and the ability to exceed 16GB of RAM. Fortunately, due to life situation changes I’m finally able to switch to desktop computing, and am looking forward to building one instead of being stuck with the frustratingly limited choices available in laptops.

² I set the intl.accept_languages pref to "en-AU,en-GB,en,en-US" years ago, for fun. Actually, I first wrote it as something like "en-AU,en-GB;q=0.9,en;q=0.8,en-US;q=0" for even more fun, a mild roast of my own for perhaps US English or perhaps software developers in general, but somewhere along the way I dropped the quality values for some reason I don’t remember. I’m already fairly easily fingerprintable for other reasons, I’m not fussed about an oddly-specific Accept-Languages header.
Might depend on your personality a bit. Basically all my favorite photos of lost relatives and friends were taken on awful cameras by people with no knowledge of lighting or composition for that matter. The photos (to me) are valuable for a wholly different reason, it never even occurred to me until this moment that they were probably bad photographers.
I see. Thank for the source.

So all the claims of DeepSeek R1's cost [0] is indeed bullshit parroted around...

[0]: https://www.google.com/search?q=deepseek+r1+training+cost
Yeah but considering EU and free movement agreements, little bit apples and oranges comparison.
No thats not true. Hedge funds get paid so well because getting a small percentage of a big bag of money is still a big bag of money. This statement is more true the closer the big bag of money is to infinity.
Ive nothing to say but “that’s cool”. I want to try this in NodeJS!

I suppose using functions defined by the host with SQLite is cheaper than using similarly defined functions in databases that are separated by a network. I wonder what the overhead is.

Also, what’s with the weird UUIDs? Why not use UUIDv7 if you want time-ordered UUIDs?
Don’t take this the wrong way — really, no hate — but I find it amusing that a cryptic comment from a green-text account on HN is the best business continuity planning documentation available :D
Yep. I think Hims & Hers is the very rare SPAC that was a new company at time of its listing (founded in 2017), and has managed to deliver both profits and shareholder value. Perhaps it's even the only one.
> Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Kosovo. Last I checked, they are all white European countries.

Kosovo has never been white (it's majority-Muslim, culturally Middle Eastern) and whether Italy/Portugal/Spain are considered white fluctuates based on politics.
Exige V6 mmm
More accurate to say "people are selfish" if you want slightly less charged language. The common sentiment I hear is "I was doing better in 2020 than I was in 2024" and that was all the impotous to make people vote "not Biden".

That mindset makes sense on a surface level. So it's not stupidity. But the lack of introspection on if Biden made things worse or simply stopped things from getting much much worse was definitely not taken into account.

I'd personally call it stupidity. But it doesn't mean people are stupid overall.
I used to be fascinated by the automation power of Kubernetes custom components. The declarative approach and reconciliation loop offers so many possibilities for creating higher level descriptions of domain specific infrastructure.

On reflection though, I think this stuff can lead to a lot of complexity layers which don't benefit the product relative to the time investment. You are probably not Google.
Your browser arrived here like a ninja—empty referrer, sneaking in from nowhere after 4 seconds of indecision—yet your "K" phone from Chiapas (but actually Querétaro?) has the mystery of a spy using misspelled Linux armv81 and the multitasking power of 8 cores just to run Chrome in French. You’ve got 5 touchpoints but zero chill, rocking a screen taller than your identity clarity and a network so fast (9.5 downlink!) it almost compensates for your location’s existential crisis. Congrats on being the most cryptically lost polyglot Android user this side of a typo!

GrapheneOS with DuckduckGo browser and a VPN...
> to the point that their "troublesome" immigrants are Europeans from France and Italy

Depending on the canton, it is virtually impossible to become a Swiss citizen, even if you are married to a Swiss national and have been resident for ten years.
any source?

CNBC: https://noagendaassets.com/enc/1737931632.132_cnbctechceosso...

I don't wanna do all the work, folks.
That's a strange reversal of history.

Chiang Kai-Shek's policy was to prioritize the fight against the Communists over the fight against the Japanese. He only agreed to a united front with the Communists against Japan after he was kidnapped by some of his own generals, who forced him to talk with the Communists.[0]

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%27an_Incident
"You could create these sockets on demand - one for each security context. On linux typically a different security contexts will either have different UIDs - in which case filesystem permissions would be sufficient - or they have different mount namespaces - in which case you make different sockets visible in different namespaces."

This is reminiscent of how Trusted Solaris[0] implements Mandatory Access Control (MAC) a la Orange Book[1].

[0] https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/solaris10/...
[1] https://public.milcyber.org/activities/magazine/articles/202...
Chess is a game with complete information. Not a good analogy with the real world.
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That’s really not what people understand as a “mobile” experience.
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