skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Steps to building a natural language search tool – The GitHub Blog
What automated firms will look like
I have a lot of trouble on airplanes. How did you learn to do that?
>NYC lost nearly half of all drugstores in past decade — with 10% closing just this year — as shoplifting and crime run rampant

https://nypost.com/2024/12/19/business/nearly-10-of-nycs-dru...
In the US the amount of energy used to create an inflation adjusted dollar of GDP has been declining since 1949.

https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/browser/index.php?tbl=T...

China appears to have a similar progress.

Which makes sense as energy is a costly input and so using less to get the same result is a good thing.

In other documents the EIA list people moving to Southern states as one of several factors driving this trend.

Just moving from coal and gas plants of 40% efficiency to 60% combined cycle gas plants would make everything consuming the generated electricity use 1/3rd less primary energy with no changes on their end.
Here is a bug with some back and forth between millenniumdb and qlever in starting a benchmarking attempt but I don't see results, though they managed to build and import.

https://github.com/MillenniumDB/MillenniumDB/issues/10

https://github.com/ad-freiburg/qlever
PBS passport is only $60 per year for those who want to support PBS.
Reportedly a distribution list created by (for?) OPM's recent "HR" emails asking the employees to quit.
What does that have to do with what I'm saying? Today Copilot is being shoved in services I don't want which they are then in turn using to justify cost increases.

How is that not consumer harm?

Hopefully in the future the FTC will break up Microsoft, forcing them to split Azure, Office, and Windows. They clearly can't be trusted with all 3.
Epistemological modesty/honesty is undervalued compared to confident certainty (in my mind at least).
Lord Sugar is a great name that I'm going to steal for an antagonist in my D&D game.
> these shitty users

God. You’ll never be successful if you are that insulting to your users.
Is this an active fork?
Des os is the best graphic calculator ever built.
And its amazing it has un directly in your browser or without internet on your phone.

Just wish it was open source :-)

Anyone know of an open source library like 3blue1brown Manim library that can work run client side in the web browser like Desmos ?
Interesting article, but using the original title when possible is better for HN.
'Stamp out paper mills' – science sleuths on how to fight fake research
The 172 was the slowest of the Cybers (about as fast as 6400) and dates from right around the time when COCOM was formed to systemize computer performance export restrictions to the USSR.
I'm working out how I can make a vst type bridge to stream audio in and out of other DAWs, I'd love to use it in realtime with Live. I've had a lot of requests to put the binaural processing into a vst too, which I'll consider later down the line!
there's a newer version out now https://www.crowdsupply.com/oddly-specific-objects/sensor-wa...

im excited about the MEMS motion sensor addon - sleep tracking and step counts on an f91-w with year long battery would be wild
I wonder what percentage of 3D meshes used in practice (say in video games, visual simulations, etc..) are topologically equivalent to a sphere. No coffee cups allowed.
Both ollama and llama.cpp are open source. You can check the code for both and compile both yourself.

The question is: Why is ollama considered “sketchy” but llama.cpp is not, given that both are open source?

I’m not trying to debate it. I’m trying to understand why people are saying this.
Humans can't really "breathe" oxygenated liquid. Our diaphragms aren't strong enough to move sufficient liquid in and out of the lungs, so it can only work with external mechanical ventilation. This is occasionally used as a salvage therapy for patients hospitalized in critical care but is totally impractical and unsafe for any sort of diving.

In the real world outside of sci-fi movies, any human diving much deeper than about 0.5km will have to be done in an an atmospheric diving suit.
Yes, Juan's channel is well done from a professional perspective. If you professionally point any noticed likely misassumption or misconception of one of his analyses, he will frequently engage and take the time to correct things in a later video.
"Oh, you're taking a stand on one thing? Explain why you don't take a stand on everything!"
And their documentation makes that distinction clear, having dedicated a section specifically to the distilled models.
Ehh...FAA is kind of crazy and subject to a certain conceit. That's not to say they're bad, or always wrong, but they are a little nuts. For instance there's a rule that says you can't fly under a bridge. A floatplane pilot was on the water, increased his speed so that his floats got on a plane, while still on the water. FAA decided this was flying, even though he was going below stall speed and was by definition not flying. Courts until recently deferred judgement to the agencies that made the rules, and the guy lost his case (and his pilot's license? Don't recall). Also see how shooting a drone flying over your property (even if they don't have a transponder and are literally watching your kids) gets treated as downing an aircraft. Also see the recent kerfuffle between FAA and FCC with 5G. That was just nuts.
Thanks so much - yeah it's been a bit of a grind, especially not coming from a coding background. But it's been enjoyable for the most part...

Yeah there is defiantly a lot of stuff missing or neglected in this field!
>I don't see why privacy matters, I have nothing to hide.

You are exactly right, "Nothing to hide" is also an invalid argument - because a valid suspicion of criminality will be authorised for subpoena by a judge.

Without such oversight we immediately and repeatedly see abuse of these systems: here's just a tiny list of cases where the "good guys" abused their access to systems to stalk ex-lovers and people they found attractive.

This underlines why the "good guys" argument is both invalid, but deliberately misleading. We don't plan systems and security around good guys, we plan them around bad guys.

USA:

N.J. cop used police databases to stalk ex-girlfriend, investigators say

https://www.nj.com/monmouth/2023/01/nj-cop-used-police-datab...

Officer Fired for Allegedly Using Police Database to Stalk, Harass Women

https://www.newsweek.com/officer-fired-allegedly-using-polic...

Australia:

Former policeman accused of using force database to stalk ex-wife and girlfriend

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/former-policeman...

Former federal police officer faces new charges over stalking of ex-girlfriend

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6138318/former-federa...

(Note the two above articles are not the same person)

UK:
Met police officer 'used CCTV cameras to stalk his ex-girlfriend after telling her to take up sex work to pay her bills'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11868575/Met-police...

Creepy cop saw attractive woman on the road and 'looked up her license plate number so he could stalk her on Facebook'

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178556/Officer-Jef...
This submission based on a comment on today's "Taking a $15 Casio F91W 5km underwater" submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42887561

Previous submission (275 points by jgrahamc on Oct 15, 2022 | 48 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33214607

Amusing comment on previous submission tying the two submissions together:

> I have an F-91W that I've modded ... by filling it up with olive oil with the purpose of making it water resistant to 1500?! meters. It is so cheap that I can wear it and not worry about destroying it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33221087
Currently not, it would be too much work to implement all the other frameworks as a solo developer - but I'd love to have that functionality when I have more resources
Oh, that's interesting. I was vaguely aware of Devuan but I thought it's distinguishing feature (compared to Debian) was that it used ... _some init system_ that wasn't systemd.
Before the rise of Trump I might have agreed with you but now I think it's true for trumpers. Look at Musk, Mr. Free Speech until he doesn't like it. The quote above describes him exactly.
Questioning the status quo is very different from drawing conclusions the way he did. It should never be taboo to question whether DEI practices are fulfilling their goals or harming other metrics.
> But now I'm back on fedora for want of packages

You'll still be off the beaten path, but you could fix this particular complaint by running Chimera and then putting nix the package manager on top of it
None of this is newsworthy.
Commenting to keep it higher in the ranking.
As far as I can tell the Ada conference this paper was presented at took place around March, not December, so the USSR was a bit more alive when it was written, although it's debatable if it was already mortally wounded, or if the August coup was the final blow.
For sure! I've tried emailing Andrew but I imagine his inbox is pretty hectic - and I'm not sure the best way to approach it, like asking for a paid video or seeing if they'd do one for free
I would expect at least some evolutionary pressure to get rid of unused things in your body. Let's just take the appendix as an example because it's probably the most common "you don't actually need this" thing that people know about.

Some appendixes burst. Sometimes this kills people. Sometimes this happens before that person has been able to reproduce. Wouldn't this cause selection for people who at the very least don't have bursting appendixes (appendices just sounds wrong to my inner narrator in this context), but also for people who have smaller ones. Over time this pressure would decrease but shouldn't it theoretically over many many generations result in smaller and smaller, eventually disappearing, appendixes?
Kind of, most version it's just the serial number which is a very soft dox. Going from that to the identity of a real person is really hard if you don't have the investigative powers of the state or have hacked the printer manufacturers registration data (if the person even bothered to register their printer).
What is a domain graph?
The yellow dots requirement means you can't print black and white without yellow ink.

If the government is going to require this, they need to subsidize the yellow ink that I never use, but have to constantly replace.
> a toxic aspect of American policing

anywhere you have a brotherhood that is more loyal to members than the public they're meant to serve is not going to produce good results imho.
Drones could be the 'magic tools' we need to chase bears away from people
Checking here as well.
You are misinterpreting the bitter lesson, it only gets more bitter with time!

The arxiv paper is well written, worth a read.
> priced around $450,000 each in todays money

Honestly seems underpriced for what it was at the time. They should have looked at e.g. Cray Inc for pricing inspiration. They delivered something conceptually similar; a time machine into the future.
London is still one of the two financial capitals of the world (the other one being NY). In finance no-one left London after Brexit, at most they shifted the legal minimum into the EU as required and not more.
> My tolerance level for weird quirks that I'm in control of is very high, though.

Likewise for me and the idea that I could hack at it in Ruby is making trying it out very tempting. If I test it on multiple monitors I’ll let ya know if it works and if it doesn’t I might try to find time on the weekends to work it out and submit a patch.

I’m basically committed to not using Wayland so it wouldn’t hurt me to learn more about how X11 actually works lol.

Thanks for your thorough and thoughtful reply!
“Tasting like alcohol” is a bit beside the point, IMO. What limits mocktails is that many ingredients and flavors dissolve in alcohol that don’t dissolve well in water.
Anytime someone uses the 'nothing to hide' argument, i ask them why they close the toilet door when they do a number two.
The linked book is Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age by Michael A. Hiltzik, and I can second the recommendation.
I had no idea this could happen. How is the bonus capped if RSUs do too well?
I see that they are interested in doing it in m'Penh and I guess it would be useful there. Cambodia and Thailand's urban areas get terrible air quality. My layman's understanding on this is that 1. many rural ethnic minority nations in SEA practices slash-and-burn agriculture. 2. Bangkok lies by a bay, whereas m'Penh is inland, and most other urban areas lie in a river valley running North-South; 3. Trade winds blow transverse to these valleys in the region. So for these reasons, pollution is generated in excess; pollution tends to get trapped in the valleys; and winds don't blow them away.
Ollama team's response (verbatim) when asking what they think of the comments about Ollama in this HN submission: "Who cares? It's the internet... everybody has an opinion... and they're usually bad". Not exactly the response you'd expect from people who should ideally learn from what others think (correct or not) about your project.
This is just a saying format. "I jumped out of a perfectly good plane and all I got was this shitty t-shirt" kind of thing.
We're working on a follow-up post focused on our analysis of the open-source open-weight 671B model. What we're seeing is that questions related to the Chinese government produce an empty chain-of-thought followed by pro-Chinese-government talking points.
Brazil has some long running DEI programs for public colleges and universities and the general conclusion is that minority students who performed worse in admission tests but were enrolled based on quotas show very similar academic performance to the students who came from wealthier backgrounds. Some data hints that they perform better than their non DEI colleagues.
It was about 6 months of nagging errors. The busier the user was, the more likely the blue screen. In the end it was just sheer persistence in searching the Internet for answers until I finally found it.
Sure, but there are important differences.

Kansas is run by officials who are formally affiliated with the national political parties -- the Democrats or Republicans -- and in most cases they'll push the party line. In the UK, if you're an old-school Tory, which is a sizable portion of the national voting demographic, the majority of the political parties in the EU commission and parliament will not reflect, promote, or support many of the positions you feel most comfortable with. The EU commission and parliament are dominated by centrist, pan-European blocs (e.g., EPP, S&D, Renew Europe) that rarely align with Tory priorities.

Kansas itself is not a uniparty state; the current governor is a Democrat, the former was a Republican. The EU, in contrast, had (and still has) an entrenched majority that is to the Tories as the Democracts are to Republicans -- and there's no prospect of that changing. So, de facto, those old-school Tories were like Republicans in Hawaii -- set to lose every contest.

Further, if Kansas were somehow a uniparty state, a Kansas man who feels out of place or unhappy with his local political situation could pack up and move to Texas, or Idaho, or Vermont. Happens all the time. But you can't exactly ask a working-age man from Leeds to pack up and move to Luxembourg or Slovenia. It's a much more difficult proposition, and it almost never happens.
I first tried awesomewm the last time I wiped and reinstalled a new Linux and it crashed my X session. I gave it an hour or so and reluctantly went back to i3. Maybe I should give it another look :)
I think this is basically assigning values to the window object, similar to updating values in any object.

e.g.

const a = { b: 1 }
console.log(a.b = 2); // logs 2
'Abandoned' astro takes recordbreaking ninth spacewalk
So did I!
It makes sense. Physical stores and coffee shops have limited space. If your coffee shop fills up with people sitting around for hours while sipping a single coffee, you lose out on sales to people walking by who can’t find a place to sit.

If your online site or store gets a spike in traffic, the other customers shouldn’t be impacted (assuming you didn’t do something like self-hosting on an under provisioned server). The people can come and go without buying anything and not block any potential sales.

However, all traffic drives more exposure. They may not buy something today, but they may remember it and mention it to a friend next week or a family remember at the next holiday gathering. The cost of traffic is nearly zero in this era, so any exposure that has a non-zero chance of spreading your brand name is good.
I'm not sure how to make the multithreaded case more explicit. The point is that with ownership the multi-threaded case does look exactly like the single threaded case, just with some machinery to "aquire" all the things you want to own snd do the transaction over.

But "aquiring" them just looks like having them all in local scope, so there is no explicit `lock`.

In the transactional case you mentioned there can still be multiple transactions having access to the same values, so you need the explicit transaction semantics. Ownership never has such cases, unless you use locks to manage ownership between threads, but it could also be done via channels, or CSP, or whatever.
Considering he more or less said women are less intelligent than men, I would guess at least about half were very offended.
I would think so. Who says that's not happening now? It seems reasonable that evolutionary pressure can be strong enough to have a significant impact in 1-2 generations (for example due to the introduction of a new environmental threat) or weak enough to take thousands of generations.
Ask HN: Web Hosting in 2025
I've leaned heavily on Namecheap in the past which has been decent. I have also used Cloudways in the past.

It seems like AWS is the 1000 lbs gorilla in the market. Is there any other service that I should consider?
Pornhub solved it much earlier with PHP
Who else cares?
Reading a bit about it from the Flo paper

- Describe a dataflow graph just like Timely
- Comes from a more "semantic dataflow" kind of heritage (frp, composition, flow-of-flows, algebraic operators, proof-oriented) as opposed to the more operationally minded background of Timely
- Has a (very) different notion of "progress" than Timely, focused instead of ensuring the compositions are generative in light of potentially unbounded streaming inputs
- In fact, Flo doesn't really have any notion of "timeliness", no timestamping at all
- Supports nested looping like Timely, though via a very different mechanism. The basic algebra is extremely non-cyclic, but the nested streams/graphs formalism allows for iteration.

The paper also makes a direct comparison with DBSP, which as I understand it, is also part of the Timely/Naiad heritage. Similar to Timely, the authors suggest that Flo could be a unifying semantic framework for several other similar systems (Flink, LVars, DBSP).

So I'd say that the authors of Flo are aware of Naiad/Timely and took inspiration of nested iterative graphs, but little else.
> Looky-loos, low quality <users>

I don’t think it stops here.
From what I could gather here, the largest "deportment" are the rejected ones at southern border entry points. That number is increasing year over year, regardless of administration: same foreigner trying over and over again.

Ive constructed a Sankey diagram of all the flow of visa-less immigration.

Direct citations included.

https://github.com/egberts/immigration
Two monitor life is a good life but it’s the part of my i3 config that’s most annoying. I guess idk exactly what I want but I know I don’t want to fiddle and fight with my i3 config lol
Show HN: Small LLM with Large Power
I think it would be the most important thing to consider, because the biggest thing that predecessor to RamaLama provided was a way to download a model (and run it).

If there was a contract about how models were laid out on disk, then downloading, managing and tracking model weights could be handled by a different tool or subsystem.
If you're never doing color prints, get a b&w printer.
I did not find the article very compelling.
The biggest problem is the lack of context. What kind of products is the author talking about? I got the impression that this is mostly about SaaS offerings, but who knows?
Moreover, the arguments presented are insufficient with regards to it's thesis.
The author claims that traffic spikes are actually harmful, but then just argues that they are mostly irrelevant.
The only argument towards actual harmfulness presented is that disappointed users could spread negative sentiment. I don't find that very convincing.
Something conspicuously absent from the article is a discussion of conversion cost. If you have a freemium offering how much do free users actually cost you? Especially for consumer facing software the cost can be really low. It's not like you have a sales team doing calls with each potential customer, people crowding your store.
Might a surge of signups still be profitable, even if the conversion rate is much worse?
But even if you accept that unmitigated spikes are harmful, aren't the remedies easy to apply. If you notice an unwanted spike you can easily increase friction by e.g. limiting new signups to referrals until the spike is over, temporarily restricting your free tier, etc.
In conclusion, traffic spikes might not be that harmful and are easy enough mitigated as to not warrant taking action to prevent them.
For some reason I was inserting a dollar sign in the title when reading. They don't make a $30,000 olive oil bar, they make 30,000 olive oil bars at once like this. I assume they cost less than $30k!
You’re coming at it from a point of knowledge. Read the first sentence of the Ollama website against the first paragraph of kobold’s GitHub. Newcomers don’t have a clue what “running a GGUF model..” means. It’s written by tech folk without an understanding of the audience.
I am an academic working on a multinational clinical trial. I assure you, it has made many aspects of my daily life much worse, from shipping things across borders, recruiting students or staff, to discussions about patient safety and the EMA/MHRA, as well as the desire of colleagues to collaborate internationally.
If they can make the US and Europe block the use of Deepseek and derivatives, they would be able to protect most of their market.
Not sure this is a good analogy. LM Studio is closer to Dropbox as both takes X and makes it easier for users who don't necessarily are very technical. Ollama is a developer-oriented tool (used via terminal + a daemon), so wouldn't compare it to what Dropbox is/did for file syncing.
CUAs Can Become APIs
This makes sense to me. Most of the water leaves as vapor too.
We are living in the parallel universe where Curtis Yarvin is being interviewed by the NYT, which is politely asking him to give his thoughts on the pros and cons of slavery in the US. I wish it were true that Curtis Yarvin was obscure and that his friends in the government were unfamiliar with most of his odious ideas. Unfortunately, that’s not the live scenario.
If I'm understanding correctly, this is collecting LBR data through hardware support for PGO/AutoFDO, right?
Spoilt for the choice of which wm I want to invest a bunch of time figuring out.

Thanks for the link in any case, I just gotta spend some time one of these weekends getting whatever I end up using working smoothly
National Science Foundation suspends salary payments
So you have never hit the issue so no one else has?
To answer my own question after a bit of reading, the answer is that other NATO countries are expected to come to Denmark's aid. That said, the USA had the requirement watered down in the original agreement. Ironically it was only to aid the USA after 9/11 that it has been invoked. Further irony would be if Trump took the USA out of NATO they might strengthen the commitment!