skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why though?

I'm worried these technologies may take my job away and make the balance between capital and labor even more uneven.

Why should I be happy?
I don't think you've answered the original question, though. Why is that better than e.g. prosecuting detectives for their illegal conduct? Because in a sense police in the U.S. don't need a warrant right now — sure, the evidence might be thrown out, but they effectively face no accountability for breaking the law.
Thanks for the answers, very appreciated.

Once I yanked out about 20m of old phone wire (copper) out of a wall, and now it's my duck tape wire.
Using the smaller distilled versions. I'm running this one, which only needs 20GB of VRAM (or regular RAM on Apple Silicon): https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1:32b
because nobody knows maxima, some things to try. also plot2d/plot3d work, so that's pretty neat. the whole thing is powered by https://ecl.common-lisp.dev and the op announcement is here https://mailman3.common-lisp.net/hyperkitty/list/ecl-devel@c...

:lisp (+ 2 2)
solve(f(x)^2-1,x);
integrate(x^2,x);
2^1024;
factor(30!);
a:1
b:2
a+b;
sqrt(a^2+b^2);
expr: log((x+2)*(x-2))+log(x);
ratsimp(expr);
fullratsimp(expr);
trigsimp(2*cos(x)^2 + sin(x)^2);
solve(x^3=1,x);
diff(sin(x), x);
float([%e,%pi,%phi,%gamma]);
f(x):=x^2;
f(10);
taylor(sin(x),x,0,5);
plot2d(x^2-x+3,[x,-10,10]);
plot2d([x^2, x^3, x^4 -x +1] ,[x,-10,10]);
f(x,y):= sin(x) + cos(y);
plot3d(f(x,y), [x,-5,5], [y,-5,5]);
I cycle and I'm certainly taking time to review past bike rides. Especially the fixed routes I have. I'm seeing the speed overall, but also reviewing segments that are hard, address specific skills/challenges, or where I hit my top speed typically. I try to compare this to sleep and diet changes between specific rides, but am also keeping track of general trends (typically my goal is faster over time, but there are some nuances to that.)
The main benefits are that programs are lightweight, snappy, and cross-platform.
So this is like aws step functions and cloudflare workflows and temporal? What are the differences, how is deployment handled?
Saturn V rocket
This is a really belated blogspam repost. Original:

http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/
Or it is usual cycle of demand spiking when something is new and/or on news and then normalizing later. Usually if you over invest in capacity at these times you won't be using it long term. Often seen with games and servers there...
> Taylor was instrumental in bringing generics to the language, this proposal is worth taking seriously.

He submitted, what, 8 failed generics proposals before Phil Wadler came in to figure out what he was missing?

I don't mean to diminish what he has done. He is clearly an important contributor and even those failed proposals were important steps along the way. What I do mean is that judging a proposal based on who it is written by is silly. Imagine if one of those early generics proposals were taken seriously just because of who he is. I expect even he would be unhappy about that outcome in hindsight.

The author is irrelevant. If it is a good proposal, it can stand on its own merits.
Blog: https://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwen2.5-max/
Seems like the model is not available for download on HF/Github
I want this to be true. Actually writing the code is the least creative, least interesting part of my job.

But I think it’s still much too early for any form of “can we all just call it settled now? In this case, as we all know, lines of code is not a useful metric. How many person hours were spent doing anything associated with this PR’s generation and how does that compare to not using AI tools, and how does the result compare in terms of the various forms of quality? That’s the rubric I’d like to see us use in a more consistent manner.
@jetbalsa - HN does not allow me to reply, the reply depth is limited, so replying here.

I was simply clicking the paperclip and attaching the .py files to the prompt.
They bought out another registrar I was a customer of. Now I am paying 40% more for renewals. If I want to migrate I need to expose my whois info. They're always looking to upsell me into some horrible hosting garbage.
>You shouldn't tie your livelihood to a single unpaid account.

Or a single paid account. Being a paying customer in these situations buys you nothing.
Exactly. You lose build isolation for those tools, but you have the convenience of shipping something tested and proven (ideally) alongside the project they support. At the same time, this mess all stays isolated from the parent environment which may be the bigger fight that devs have on their hands - not everyone is using Nix or container isolation of some sort.

I also see this as sugar for `go build` or even `go run`. Or as something way easier than the `go generate` + `//go:generate go run` hack. So we can look at this as a simple refinement for existing practices.
The market just loses patience on "profitable AI". The end is near.
how about keyboard shortcuts? various remote controls? search?
I think those values would make it viable for a few routes, but what really matters is long term savings. Like if they can fly supersonic overland and increase fuel efficiency more than traditional sub-sonic jet engines.

To me it seems if those numbers can't get better then the endeavor is not going to pay off the investment for the few routes that would be able to work at those numbers.
The idea that outdoor smokers are impinging on your right to breathe is a bit of a stretch. You can breathe just fine and there is no evidence that catching the stray odor of a cigarette has any impact at all on your health. These people are sucking this smoke directly into their lungs all day for years on end and only a minority of them will ever actually develop cancer and you're going to act like you can't breathe if you smell one?

Should we outlaw public farting too?
my argument isn’t fallacious - it is logical: we can learn/use evidence from something without presuming it is all knowing. you are putting words in others mouths that they did not say
Nice. I've been using this Maxima interpreter: http://www.dma.ufv.br/maxima/index.php
Attention grab here surely means something grabbing your attention away from what you're trying to look at.
I guess I'm not so scientific? I do similar exercise as you (minus the PT), though my goal is mostly to avoid being sedentary, so as long as I feel like I'm pushing myself I feel good.

I did use the watch once to see what each HR zone feels like and I thought that was a useful calibration, but as a normal dude where fitness is just one small aspect of my life I wouldn't buy an Apple Watch specifically for that feature.

I'm not saying it can't be helpful with fitness, but responding to OP saying that fitness/health is the primary feature for themselves and many of their family/friends. For me, the primary features are:

1. Telling time

2. Putting my notifications on my wrist

3. Starting timers with Siri

4. Setting up reminders with Siri

Surely there are folks where the fitness features provide the critical marginal feedback that gets them up and moving, to the point where owning vs not owning the watch is a big deal!

But reading the comments here, it sounds like it's very useful for people who are quite scientific about their fitness (HR zones, tracking, etc), and tangentially useful (rings remind folks to get off the couch/stand) for other folks at risk of a sedentary lifestyle. It doesn't all add up to me as "fitness is the main reason many people use the watch!"
Wish as you moused over the grid it would tell you the numerical value, or at least the one were on with precision so I could hover over mine (as well as others).
Got a fun e-mail from our provost this morning saying to try not to spend any non-personnel money on federal grants (as far as I know, the University has already received the money from current grants, though maybe there are potential caveats or accounting issues?).
yeah, i too feel limited by our 3 spatial dimensions
Who would the new applications be for? I figure that it’ll be far easier to build apps for use by LLMs than building apps for people to use. I don’t think there will be this large increase of induced demand, the whole world just got a lot more efficient and that’s probably a bad thing for the average person.
> Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN

I can't think of the PIN 1234 without immediately thinking of Dark Helmet:

"So the combination is one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I ever heard in my life! That's the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rSmMm-7SVA
It's also easy to make backup copies.

The worst part is that pretty much every popular client spews massive amounts of unnecessary HTML and CSS into the body.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanterman%E2%80%93Petris%E2%80...
X11 does a lot of things that are outdated now, and multiple independent screens is one of them. Ideally, you'd be able to select either independent screens or one big virtual screen, and still have a window manager be able to move windows between independent screens. I don't know how that would be achieved though.

X's "mechanism, not policy" has proven to be a failure. Without a consistent policy you end up with a pile of things that don't work together. "One big virtual screen" is a policy and it's one that works well enough.

Deciding what needs to be in the protocol and what should be in the application is never easy. It's important to be able to iterate quickly and avoid locking in bad practices. I think that's what Wayland tried to do by making everything a fine-grained extension, but it doesn't really work like that as the extensions become mandatory in practice.
I think Elon Musk will try very hard for OpenAI to not get any government contracts and with being in charge of government technology via Doge he has a good chance of succeeding.
VAX Notes. Perhaps the original groupware. Not really useful without collaborators any more, since DEC is dead and took that cultural fork with it.

See https://thoughtsofanidlemind.com/2012/12/14/vax-notes/

and the referenced paper

https://thoughtsofanidlemind.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/...
It’s a bunch of known optimisations bundled together rather than any single revolutionary change.

More open than any other model (but still a bespoke licence) and bundles together a bunch of known improvements. There’s nothing to hide here honestly and without the openness it wouldn’t be as interesting.
The moons gravity is 1/6 of the Earths. So looking at our moon visitors performance, a super earth visitor would probably be great at high jump but pretty shaky at anything else.
Ask HN: How are you protecting your projects from the US federal funding freeze?
With the US federal funding freeze set to go into effect about 6 hours from now, how are you ensuring that your ongoing work can continue? Is this different from previous federal government shutdowns due to budgetary impasse?
I had the same question. It is the title of a Van Halen record album, also a section of the California legal code related to mental health, according to a simple search.
Right, it seems to entirely abstract away the nature of the interactions themselves, and is modeling how changes to position in hierarchy unfold over time with repeated wins or losses. It's not speaking to the nature of the interaction itself, and so not really taking sides on whether it does or doesn't involve such things as force, toughness, etc.
Garmin is what you're looking for. Battery lasts 1-2 weeks. No subscription.
Kansas officials say tuberculosis outbreak is largest on record in US history
Interestingly, it's not, which means the market doesn't believe he'll actually do it. Personally, I think they may have a very rude awakening in the near future.
No, the only thing that matters is if the portfolio delivers returns in excess of your cost of capital.

If your portfolio is green, you can still be a poor performer.
> But it seems like the actual murderer was seen on CCTV and found with the murder weapon

Hold up, he was found with a gun but it does not say it was the murder weapon. Lots of people in the U.S. own guns. To call it “the murder weapon” requires hard evidence linking it to the murder.
Unfortunately, every software project will eventually reach a point of maturity where more and more features are added simply for the sake of adding them.

"The goal of this proposal is to introduce a new syntax that reduces the amount of code required to check errors in the normal case, without obscuring flow of control."

The key is "check errors in the normal case".

When the core principles of Go have always been simplicity, flexibility, and having one way of doing things, this feels completely like a step in the opposite direction. We will have syntax sugar for "normal cases" while still relying on the `if err != nil` block for everything else. It’s similar to how we now have both `iterators` and `for loops` as constructions for loops.
Dollar cost averaging health metrics :)
I don't like using them so much as I've gotten older, but they are simpler to build, more fun to build, the design options aren't as open-ended, and the tooling is pretty good and crossplatform.

The idiosyncrasy of a GUI in your terminal is also part of its charm, especially in how it looks.

I think it's similar to the appeal of making a webapp in a fun tech like Elm except it has access to the filesystem and can do whatever it wants, so it's also less limiting.
Freya Holmér is great.

To add on: Grant Sanderson's 3Blue1Brown youtube channel might be the best conceptual math presentation in history, the animations are incredible.
My second, more intelligent, rational take: goodness, that's exciting! I can't wait to see more research as it follows.

My first, drowned-in-doom-news take: can I move there? Immediately?
Ever pick up what you thought was gonna be a really heavy box and it turned out to be empty, and got briefly thrown off-balance? I'd imagine that, but for everything.
Showing OpenSCAD without showing any code, or even really talking about the code is a real shame - there are some cool ideas in here, but none are shown (e.g. "I even made an algorithm to calculate the screw positions evenly").
I have the same control doodad on my LG monitor. Not only does it apparently fail quite often, it sucks entirely to begin with and is an incredible regression in ergonomics and human interface. So stupid.
In the article he does mention that this is more like a "gray swans" situation. I take that to mean that he is in agreement with many that this wasn't entirely unpredictable.

It may not have been obvious to a certain type of investor, but many here on HN have said that Nvidia is overvalued. Also given the speed of which many others have court up to OpenAI, it wasn't unreasonable to expect someone to overtake them or find an alternative path.
Google Maps Will Rename Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America in US
Would the internet exist today if the printing press didn't come before it?
Broadly agree. Whether or not it is useful isn't really an interesting discussion, because it so clearly is useful. The more interesting question is what it does to supply and demand. If the past is any indication, I think we've seen that lowering to barrier to getting software shipped and out the door (whether it's higher level languages, better tooling) has only made demand greater. Maybe this time it's different because it's such a leap vs an incremental gain? I don't know. The cynical part of me thinks that software always begets more software, and systems just become ever more complex. That would suggest that our jobs are safe. But again, I don't say that with confidence.
AI Data Agents: Why Your Business Needs Them
I would say worry? Yes. Panic? No.

It's... good. Even the qwen/llama distills are good. I've been running the Llama-70b-distill and it's good enough that it mostly replaces my chatgpt plus plan (not pro - plus).

I think if anything - One of my big takeaways is that OpenAI shot themselves in the foot, big time, by not exposing the COT for the O1 Pro models. I find the <think></think> section of the DeepSeek models to often be more helpful than the actual answer.

For work that's treating the AI as collaborative rather than "employee replacement" the COT output is really valuable. It was a bad move for them to completely hide it from users, especially because they make the user sit there waiting while it generates anyways.
reading this gave me a great idea for https://bookhead.net. thanks!!

also thank you for the incredibly informative article.
It's apparently the California law section number for restraining a mentally unwell person or something, so has law enforcement and slang usage, and there's a 1986 chart-topping song named after it. (I'd never heard of it either, but I'm not Californian.)
Sure, that may be true and is a good analogy, but what I find interesting here is that they have restrictions on increasing their capacity. So if this increased demand endures, what then?
Why is everyone arguing about the semantics here? Why don't we just start a zoom call with the author and complain together?
HSBC to exit parts of investment banking business in UK, US and Europe
I always hear this argument of "how is this different from XYZ?" when it comes to applying novel technology.

If Clearview AI is indeed functionally equivalent to some random passerby, then what value-add does it actually have over that baseline? Either it's really the same and there's no value to justify deploying it. Or there's something else at play (say, scale) that's worth examining on its merits and risks.
This is one of the first results a search provided. I skipped Wikipedia which was first but it was actually informative as well.

https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/5150/
"You need to choose an access PIN."

"How about (digits)?"

"You can't use that one. Someone else has already chosen that."

"Wait, now I know someone else's PIN code. I could use that and it'd be logged under their name."
In large scale business intergration platforms/apps, you have operational systems like SAP and and Oracle Service Cloud generate/stream raw or business events which are published to message brokers in topics ( orders, incidents, suppliers, logistics, etc). There the data is published , validated, transformed (filtered, routed, formatted, enriched, aggregated, etc) into other downstream topics which can be used to egress to other apps or enterprise data stores/data lakes. Data governance apps control who has access. Elastic search or Splunk for data lineage and debugging. you also have sbservability systems sandwiched in there as well.
> Our trade has changed forever, and there's no going back. When companies claim that AI will replace developers, it isn't entirely bluster. Jobs are going to be lost unless there's somehow a demand for more applications

This is a key insight - the trade has changed.

For a long time, hoarding talent - who could conceive and implement such PRs - was a competitive advantage. It no longer is because companies can hire and get similar outcomes, with fewer and mediocre devs.

But at the same time, these companies have lost their technological moat. The people were the biggest moat. The hoarding of people were the reason why SV could stay ahead of other concentrated geographies. This is why SV companies grew larger and larger.

But now, anyone anywhere can produce anything and literally demolish any competitive advantage of large companies. As an example, literally a single Deepseek release yesterday destroyed large market cap companies.

It means that the future world is likely to have a large number of geographically distributed developers, always competing, and the large companies will have to shed market cap because their customers will be distributed among this competition.

It's not going to be pleasant. Life and work will change but it is not merely loss of jobs but it is going to be loss of the large corporation paradigm.
If you could implement the OpenSubsonicAPI, you could solve the mobile issue easy, and dont even have to build a mobile app
Show HN: WebDSL – A fast C-based DSL for building web apps with SQL, Lua and jq
WebDSL is an experimental domain-specific language and server implementation for building web applications. The language runtime includes an integrated PostgreSQL client, Lua and jq interpreters, mustache renderer, GitHub OAuth and more. It provides a mainly declarative way to define websites with pages and API endpoints.

It aims to reduce boilerplate by having a very opinionated set of features curated especially for database driven web applications. For example, user login, authentication and sessions are all built directly into the language runtime.
I'm flatly amazed "1701" isn't in the top 50.
Seems like the author assumes that only one error is returned. What if I want to return []error? What happens if my return objects are out of the normal order? Like F() (int, error, int) {...}.

The proposal is nice, but a bit shallow.
I wonder if jumping even makes sense at 6x gravity... maybe they would never have learned how to jump at all and always keep some limbs in contact with the ground.

Or if "humanoid" even makes sense. Something snake like that can spread out the pressure along a longer surface might be better. Or at least something with more than two legs.
FOR SUPER EARTH!!!
If you lower the resource requirements by an order of magnitude, you'll simply see more players using it more commonly. You can see that in the way private spaceflight companies have, simply by reducing launch costs by an order of magnitude, made spaceflight and satellite swarms more than a pipe dream for solving classes of problems that require line of sight to large parts of the planet. There are a lot of applications of these floating point processors beyond LLMs and generative AI, and we're probably going to see more of that in the near future.
Show HN: Periodic Fire Drills in Windows
i made a simple windows app called fire drill for people who want to be better prepared for emergencies at home. here's how it works:

- the first time you run the scheduler, it adds itself to your startup in windows. the scheduler is lightweight and will run in the background 24/7.

- at random times, it triggers a fire drill

- the drill lasts for 15 minutes. you cannot turn down your computer's volume during this time to more accurately simulate a real fire drill

the idea is to encourage you to practice your home fire escape plan. because whereas every school and organization practices this regularly, nobody does this on their own volition

open source under the apache 2.0 license
I appreciate verbose and explicit patterns like this, but what go lacks is the algebraic data types/enum/unions to actually make this more ergonomic and checked.

I find it bizzare that go so strongly relies on this pattern, but lacks the features to make sure you actually check for errors.
luma is the new hot meetup alternative, but I assume the same fate will ultimately befall it.
rebble.io is the correct address
As far as realizing the prophecy of AI as told by its proponents and investors goes, probably not. LLMs still have not magically transcended their obvious limitations.

However this has huge implications when it comes to the feasibility and spread of the technology, and further implications with regards to economy and geopolitics now that confidence in the American AI sector has been hit and people and organizations internationally have somewhere else to look for.

edit: That being said, this is the first time I've seen a LLM do a better job than even a senior expert could do, and even if it's on small scope/in a limited context, it's becoming clear that developers are going to have to adopt this tech in order to stay competitive.
It buys you approximately two days (with reservation discount) of a single p5.48xlarge instance, which has 2TB of RAM, and 640GB of VRAM in 8x H100 cards. In fact that is the pricing example they use: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/capacityblocks/pricing/