skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Also, something I dimly remembered about using hard-to-forge glass spheres as physical security tokens, taking advantage of their inner structure

Cool! This made me remember of another, simpler technique I saw somewhere: take a bunch of different colors of sprinkles[0], mix them and sprinkle on something sticky. You now have a 2D barcode that's guaranteed (statistically) to be unique. It's also reasonably easy for a computer to scan quickly, with low error rates. Perfect for tracking individual items produced in mass quantity - in fact, I first heard about this in context of tagging individual pills in pharmaceutical products, for purposes of quality control and audit trail. The principle generalizes to confetti, colored beads, etc. of all sizes, but of course using bakery supplies gives you a food-grade stamp that you can also eat :).

I think we pay too little attention to the analog world these days; plenty of fascinating inventions can be made by applying computer technology to shift complexity from code into structure of physical objects.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprinkles
ODASE uses it:
https://www.mercurylang.org/documentation/papers/mc_swese_20...

https://www.odase.io/
Piano strings are also detuned. The ensemble sound of a string section also comes from small detunings (and timing differences). I don't see that as a characteristic feature of a synthesizer.

Totally agree on Anna Lapwood.
Good point, yes, Christianity came with its own judaic heritage.

But without the centralised, territorial organization, administrative structures, cultural tools (especially Latin) and normative legal framework from Rome, the Church wouldn't have had the means to influence consistently so much the society of its time and the ability to support and control a spread that extensive through Europe and further.

By choosing Christianity, Constantin found a way for the Empire to survive into something different. And Christianity gained a tremendous powerhouse to use and adapt for its own growth.

And my point is that this hybrid huge "thing" is more driven today by its institutional heritage than spiritual's (otherwise, it would act vehemently more about its power abuses, sexual abuses, and terrible understanding of marital life, if only for pastoral care). And that's because it's much more a man-made (and male-made) organisation rather than one guided by God.
Also, if something truly serves no purpose, evolution will allow it to go away.

The classic example is the enzyme needed to make vitamin C. In our primate ancestors that lived on a diet rich in vitamin C, there was no penalty to losing this enzyme. Mutations that destroyed its function were not selected against. As a result, we now can't make vitamin C; the remnants of the gene for the enzyme have been so damaged that there's no path back to the working version.
> Is the only advantage the lower hardware requirements, thus cost?

Yes, but the keep thing is it performs nearly as well as models that are 100x as expensive.

The lower price drastically changes possible utility. For example, I've been rocking RooCode since R1 came out. R1 can do about 95% of the tasks Claude can, but at 1% of the cost. I might burn $10 to $20 per hour on Claude tokens. While spending less than $1 on Deepseek when doing the same task.
Especially considering how long this site has been around at least according to the stat page (over a decade at this point).

https://gamedev.city/stats
Destroying and reprogramming the sprite engine of Ghosts 'n Goblins
Some death poems from Zen tradition mention 'water from fire'.

Three and seventy years
I've drawn pure water from the fire--
Now I become a tiny bug
With a touch of my body
I shatter all worlds

By Ingo, died 1281

A drop of water freezes instantly--
My seven years and seventy.
All changes at a blow
Springs of water welling from fire

By Kaso Sodon, died 1428.

From "Japanese Death Poems" by Yoel Hoffman. I recommend this book as a good memento mori.
with-lots this information (in the game Pokémon/Pokemon TCG*), there so many-chances for misinformation of exact-words; however, its possible to realise from Titles, much more details in-print, art-work, these almost "easter eggs" actually printed-out

meta-data/"metadata", is 1 point to consider when seems "noisy", hopefully browsers take-care for having seen–noticed

However, its lucky to see these almost "behind-the-scenes" look at what is happening there. Hopefully people that contribute, realise these details, more, are what is happening! (even in January, 2025)

(thank-you for sharing)

*TCG (Tradable Card Game)
The answer is obvious to anyone with a passing familiarity with Narnia - the first 3 books featuring the 4 Pevensie children as main characters are an order of magnitude more popular than the others.

On goodreads the first book has 2.96 million ratings. Horse and His Boy - 371k ratings.

When people think of Narnia they think of the first 3. That’s the reason only the first 3 were adapted to film. These 3 movies crossed $1.5 Billion worldwide. Movies based on the others? Nothing, they don’t exist.

In terms of cultural cachet the books not featuring the Pevensies are afterthoughts. Anyone would know this.

Since you’ve appointed yourself the judge of points not being addressed, could you go around asking for a response to my point. Being the main character of a book feels really special, and the series being written for Lucy clinches that.
All the results, 2024 is roughly the same revenue as 2023, that is an amazing achievement consider what Intel is going through, and AMD being more resourceful, ( on paper ). Along with 18A is on track for 2025, we should know by the end of the year.

Are all the work of Pat Gelsinger.
There is one built into MacOS

https://www.apple.com/voiceover/info/guide/_1121.html

On Linux there is

https://help.gnome.org/users/orca/stable/index.html.en

I have no idea how good that one is, but VoiceOver is pretty good.
oh boy. that second link is a hoot!
See my comment above. I have spent many hours in negotiations with Oracle. I might be anthropomorphizing the organisation, but I always had a strong sense that all it's many, many ethical failings were directly inherited from Ellison.
There's been a fairly high profile hype cycle around them for a few years driven by a few high profile creators/influencers making some huge stunt purchases and lots of speculation on the value of the cards. Feels very beany baby-esque to me but bubbles are lasting a long time these days so who knows how long it'll last.
Add a nose?

https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/archive/releases/2015/Q1/vir...
Magma: Build and deploy an AI agent in Slack in 5 minutes
> long as you have the hardware for it.

You mean $100k in GPUs?
You’re throwing around all these buzzwords like “dictator” and “feudalist,” but what’s the word that refers to government employees openly declaring “Resistance” to agenda of the duly elected president? Because that’s not “democracy” either, right?

Trump literally campaigned with Musk on this very issue. He explained at length what he was going to do in long form podcasts and in lengthy rallies. Musk was Trump’s closer in the key swing state of Pennsylvania. And people voted for that.

Trump made his case to the American public that, no matter who wins the election, democrats control the government through their control of the bureaucracy. And it’s a reasonable case: do you truly believe the federal workforce will implement Trump’s immigration policies with the same enthusiasm as Biden’s DEI policies? Trunk made this case to voters, with Musk at his right hand, and voters hired him to do this. A plurality trust the billionaire who is on their side over two million federal workers who, although not individually powerful, collectively wield enormous power.
The issue with Enums is that the "unnecessary" feature means that people have to encode the behaviour with things that aren't suitable. E.g. creating a new type that's a thin wrapper over string or integer means it can be set as some non-valid value, even without some sort of explicit cast that says "I know I'm doing something that might fail". I don't see that that is an improvement over any other language. It's not simpler because, as people have shown by the examples trying to prove that you don't need it, they don't have all the (necessary) behaviour that enums do to prevent this sort of problem.
I kind of agree, but it's still far better than CMake's custom language IMO.
Washington's Jam-Packed Airspace Has Prompted Warnings for Years
There are something like (in the reference diagram I'm looking at) eight levels of organization in the structure 'chromosome': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromatin#/media/File:Chromati...

Only the first one is DNA, and only a small portion of 'coding' DNA was initially regarded as important.

My question is how? Structural organization implies information. Who thought "Nah, evolution put that in for shits and giggles"? Was it just things we couldn't observe at all without modern scanning electron micrography?
Just as good a time as any to give Sway a try.
But once that bubble (and any other one) burst, it never reached new highs again. The bitcoin bubble burst multiple times and got back higher and higher
another great reminder that if the money isn't in an account in your name that you fully control, you shouldn't count on it. have had to learn this the hard way myself.
I've read that it's possible to breathe oxygenated liquid perfluorocarbons, but something about the idea is just terrifying to me. I think it's the "fluoro" bit specifically that scares me, even moreso than the "liquid" part.
The AQS seems to be more about protecting their trade shows, advertising, targeted market, revenue streams and commercial quilting than quilting as pure art. Being nominated for their awards seems like a Grammy or Oscar, the commercially popular, derivative and safe choices get recognized, well done protest or message art that actually pushes an artform forward will be recognized by the other artists in the medium.
Agreed, I wouldn’t call it the end either. But it’s a problem for our system of government and I think it’s worth calling attention to.
> The players are following this strategy to make money, presumably more than they should want.

I’m not sure I understand this. Why should there be a limit to the amount of money someone wants?
This was afterall the same time where sketchy dudes working at IG were doing the whole "I can verify you on Instagram" thing to hook up with girls.
While my sample size is only a couple of dozen, I have never been in an American church with a pipe organ.

Keep in mind that the median American church building is only a few decades old.
always nice to see a Discourse Forum in the wild!
> but of course using bakery supplies gives you a food-grade stamp that you can also eat :).

This requires that the "something sticky" also be edible. Hmm... choices...
I'm not sure I agree this has proven to be the better system.

Slashdot had, for many years, fairly insightful commentary with that system. The fact that it has since become less insightful is, I think, less a reflection on the voting system in comments and more on people moving from the site wholesale for various other reasons.
Thank you for your kind words!

Indeed. The problem with most AI research today is they simply do trial and error with large amounts of compute. No room for taking inspiration from nature, which is requires more thought and less FLOPS.
I kind of agree. Money (e.g. the dollar) only has value because (1) we implicitly agreed as a society to have faith that it can be accepted by others for goods and services (2) the government requires us to pay a material part of our earnings as taxes which can only be paid using money.

If people lost faith, it would lose value.

Mild inflation (say 2-3pct a year) is considered generally good by economists. It’s an incentive to go and invest the money productively or spend that money on goods and services (which is good for growing the economy). Deflation in contrast would create an incentive to hoard money (just keep little papers with no productive value).
This looks really nice. There is a pretty bad UX bug though... when I click export I can't see that anything happens. But if I scroll down I see there is a popup to export the chart. The popup really needs to be visible in the view pane so a user knows something is happening.

Great looking charts though!

What are you using to render the chart?
Oooh this is nice actually, I am curious though, are there any plans to integrate this into the Touch Bar ? I would offer to do it myself or at least have a crack at it but I haven't ever developed for the TouchBar and my motivation to start isn't too high..
Dell is making everyone return to office, too
Sounds like you might have conscious control over your tensor tympani muscle[0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_tympani_muscle
Compared to the value of that technology to Apple and Microsoft? $1,000,000 is "free" (within rounding error, anyway).
Using only the bundled APIs of node and python, I feel like python breaks more often, like for example the useless rename from `collections` to `collections.abc`.
I can see it being useful as a VST, actually- could be an interesting part of my workflow in Live.
https://archive.ph/RP7XE
No, indeed they don't.
Nothing spooky going on here, I'm sure.
Got it. It’s a basic law of economics that all kitchens must be lit like the surface of the sun by the end of the century otherwise we’ll all be in economic doom.

Also pretty sure that Jevons’ paradox might actually not apply indefinitely for a finite resource with a real price attached to it, but how does me, the ignoramus, dare to stand in the way of this ever more exponentially enlightened (literally) economic powerhouse.
"2 overnight shootings end NYC's 5-day no shooting streak, 5 minutes after it was announced" is the current title of this article...
Yep. The make-or-break moment will be shipping 18A for sure, but Pat's roadmap has finally started to pay off it looks like. It's an impressive turnaround for a company regarded to be face-down in the water and 10 years behind the cutting edge.

It's a shame Intel capitulated to the fear & greed and fired him. You can't fix an Intel-sized problem overnight, and pretty much all of Pat's suggestions were level-headed remediation of pretty obvious mistakes.
"More money" as in "a larger AWS bill"? Quite probably.

"More money" as in "more sales"? Maybe, if you're lucky and there's enough audience for your product among the incoming crowd.

"More money" as in "more ads shown"? Well, this is why we can't have nice things :-|
> which ordinarily would be considered the most harmless and least controversial thing to do during a pandemic.

Except it wasn't, that was a brand new thing that came out of nowhere in 2020.
Europe is circling the drain, Taiwan is inconsequential and becoming less so by the day, and China does not respects it's citizens, they treat them like cattle. But okay sure, India's opinion is super important, especially as they are profiting off the Ukraine war.
RamaLama's use of Python is different: it appears to just be using Python for scripting its container management. It doesn't need ROCm to work with Python or anything else. It has no difficult dependencies or anything else: I just installed it with `uv tool install ramalama` and it worked fine.

I'd agree that Python packaging is generally bad, and that within an LLM context it's a disastrous mess (especially for ROCm), but that doesn't appear to be how RamaLama is using it at all.
Just install it from Brew and run the service in a separate terminal tab.
I feel like Go falls much into the latter category.

I needed to write some code recently that did DSP. There is not any equivalent for this like SciPy in Go that bundles together lots of the common DSP operations you need. There are lots of partial implementations in different libraries of for e.g. filters, all of which use different interfaces.

A lot of this I think is because of the lack of SIMD, you can't get brilliant performance out of the box with a Go implementation because the standard compiler doesn't support it.
Contrast the price of that machine, against what the Alto's successor the Star was costing (my wife's aunt-by-marriage oversaw the first Alto installation at the U.S. government in DC and even the Feds couldn't justify the cost to move from the Alto to Star).
Also the aliens in the Sylvia & Gerry Anderson TV series "UFO".
SF has made it work in a six month trial in 2024: https://www.power-technology.com/news/san-francisco-welcomes...

It all depends on the cost of the hydrogen, and green hydrogen costs will drop as spilled wind and solar proliferate.
The barebones ones do exactly what you mentioned: simple calls to the canonical build tool.

The more complex ones at $JOB actually do some caching, dependency management, code generation, and compilation.
To clarify : I'm not the author/host of the site. Saint11 [0], who worked on the recent "Celeste" platformer, is.

[0]: https://saint11.art/
Due to physics, ICE vehicles are also hugely inefficient. That doesn't matter. All that matters is the cost of the fuel stock.
TDS going hard here
no, but it's a very small (2k members). it's pretty much a "serious, no fun" sub so probably that's a good filter :D
Looking at the past voting records, Democrats often vote as a block in both houses of Congress. The same can't be said about Republicans.
They are still subject to US law I presume (like Ftx).

(As someone who spent most of his life in a country with capital controls (South Africa which calls it exchange control), I like this product)
Ah good old $[ in perl.
Which European countries specifically? Europe is a big place. Are you including Moldova? Or just the nice parts of the EU?

You can cherry pick measures of success to make one country look better than other countries. So what. For example, the USA does better than almost all European countries in 5-year cancer survival rates.
It's not, it's made by saint11 [0] who worked on Celeste.

[0] : https://saint11.art/
What is the impact of that relative to the other products and commerce you participate in? What would happen if Palantir didn’t exist?

Do you call your gas company to make sure they didn’t buy from OPEC?
I made a game using just haptics! There are no visuals and no sounds whatsoever, so you can play discreetly without attracting the attention of those around you!

What is Tic? Link: https://youtu.be/sKqH4Ps7huM
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6720712299
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rohans.tic...

I had launched a couple months ago with only the iOS version, but I now have the app on Android as well. I also just added a new game mode inspired by the no-wifi game, you can check out how it works here: https://youtu.be/0NhwynAgUXk

The game is paid, and I really appreciate everyone who purchases the app, but if someone on HN needs a promo code please let me know in the comments below.
Sometimes uses of "to be" make me pull up short.

This headline has one of those uses. "3 are arrested" - the "are" is almost superfluous. "3 arrested" works identically, and is 3 characters shorter, something that is said to be prized in headlines.

If the "3 are arrested" is deliberate and not sloppy, the phrasing raises the question "who arrested those 3?" The use of a "to be" verb makes the arrest magical in its vagueness.
Not sure on NATO policy if one member attacks another? Is it the same as an external attack?
Isn't it supposed to be a "hell hole"?

Note: you and your children are more likely to be killed by a car in an American suburb than even be remotely harmed in any way by a stranger in NYC.
The speculation on pilot Youtube is that the helicopter in this incident observed a light in the sky, one of several in the closely spaced train of landing jets on approach to National Airport.

The helicopter pilot asked multiple times for permission to assume liability for visually avoiding the plane in the approach path, and the tower warned about the plane, and he confirmed he could see it. Several times, he insisted he had it in his sights, and it was not on a collision course, and requested and was granted permission to continue through the flight path on that basis. And he did successfully avoid that dot in the sky.

He was looking at the dot in the sky that was about 60 seconds behind the plane that he ultimately collided with.

If that is the case, there is certainly a chance that an automated warning signal from an automated tracking network (not "you're within five miles of another aircraft on the map, watch out" but "your current 3d trajectory is within ten seconds of collision with another aircraft") may have averted this. That isn't AI, it's just having the plane keep secondary track of ADS-B inside the cockpit. And it sounds from a cursory search like it's already standard for commercial planes to have an ADS-B receiver and a Traffic Alert and Collision Avoidance System (TCAS), just maybe not 1980's military helicopters.
I can do the rumbling too. And a clicking too. I can even make someone else hear my ear clicking by having them press their ear to mine. I wonder if that's causes by the same thing.
Authetik (Pun Intended) Vulnerability
user hasnt been in control for years. and virtually never on apple products
I would argue that kobold.cpp is even easier to use than Ollama. You click on the link in the README to download an .exe and doubleclick it and select your model file. No command line involved.

Which part of the user experience did you have problems with when using it?
>Firstly, there are many exceptions. For example, Aravis in CS Lewis's The Horse and His Boy is neither white nor remotely quiet - she is aristocratic.

Lewis, being the genius that we're all acquainted with, discovered a subtler truth... that being aristocratic is best of all. Obvious to the aristocrats reading my comment, I think, but Lewis wasn't even landed gentry.
> For dates in the past it isn't much of a problem. `America/[city in chile]` in the past (created before the change, refering to times before the change) still has a specific point-in-time meaning even when things change.

Right - date-times in the past are always easy (at least until you have to take relativity into account). An event happened at some instant in the universe and you just need an agreed upon representation of that instant. UTC works fine for this - record the UTC-based instant at which the event happened and you can always translate it into any other representation without losing information. Recording it in your local timezone is fine too, as long as you also record the UTC offset or timezone along with the instant.

> I guess it should be detectable which dates may be ambiguous/wrong if you know the date of their creation (before the change was known)

Yeah - in theory, when a timezone is added, you could probably link it to timezones that users of the new timezone might have previously used. And then any future times that were saved using that timezone, you ask someone if they are still correct or if the timezone needs to be adjusted to the new one

For example, if a new timezone was added for southeast Colorado, you might ask someone about all times scheduled in both the Denver & Phoenix timezones, because you don't know which one people might have picked.

It gets complicated though because you need to keep track of which entries have been double checked and which ones haven't, and you need to keep track of the version of tzdb that you reconciled against, because there could be another change in the future.
What benefit does Ollama (or RamaLama) offer over just plain llama.cpp or llamafile? The only thing I understand is that there is automatic downloading of models behind the scenes, but a big reason for me to want to use local models at all is that I want to to know exactly what files I use and keep them sorted and backed up properly, so a tool automatically downloading models and dumping in some cache directory just sounds annoying.
What’s wrong with the users?