skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. It is "per capita" not "per capital".

2. All the graphs relate to energy, energy is the economy. It is literally impossible to fabricate/transport any good or run any service without some sort of energy consumption happening. The reason the energy trend matters so much is because it leads every activity.

> I feel compelled to ask, how are you using your personal 400 kW today?

There is, and I speak with a great deal of literalness when I say this, no aspect of either of our lifestyles that doesn't involve consuming energy. I suspect you have a poor understanding of what energy is.

> Also, congrats. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bolder claim than calling the US stock market since 1970 an underperformer

An economy isn't the stock market. And I don't know how you made that mistake since just in another of your post you were complaining that too much money was going to billionaires! The stock market has been going great, the economy has been going so-so trending towards poorly.
Yes I can confirm it's exactly that.

Basically Apple made a new "safe" API for screensavers (via .appex) but is only using it internally. 3rd party screensavers must still use the old unsafe API (that uses plugins, so unsafe code).

To bridge that gap, Apple made legacyScreenSaver, an .appex that loads the plugin code. It's a great concept in practice, but the implementation has been a mess since macOS 10.15 (Catalina...), breaking many things (multi monitor support was a big one, broken in many different ways over the years). Some Apple built in screensavers haven't been ported to the new API, so you may still have issues with legacyScreenSaver without that.

With macOS 14, Apple broke it again and indeed, legacyScreenSaver no longer tells the third party screensaver to quit! My rough guess is that this is linked to the way they implemented the transition with the new built in aerial videos they added that "slows" down on your desktop (on practice, it's not the screensaver that becomes the desktop, but 2 separate process/video players that gets synced up!).

Anyway, it's been a mess for third party developers for a while (I make one called Aerial). Our best workaround is to listen for a macOS event that tells us the screensaver will exit, and time our way to forcing an exit (literally, we call exit() which we shouldn't do, but that's the only workaround that works-ish). It works maybe 99% of the time. But sometimes legacyScreenSaver still craps out on its own.

Killing it manually will fix things (you will get a black screen + some CPU usage until you do, that can get bad depending on the screensaver) too.

I (and others) reported that bug multiple times but it's been 1 year+ and nothing. It's a mess.
Something I always find is that when I write about something I'm interested in, I always end up being way more informed about the topic than if I hadn't written about it.

There's something about having to get a point across, that lends itself to diving deeper into a topic. Usually I'll learn a few things while researching and writing an article, and then another few things when people ask me questions about what I've written. And even if no one does end up reading it, it still feels like it helps.
This sounds like a creative solution if it can work reliably.
If I may: https://www.reddit.com/r/GodotCSharp/

It's a no memes, no marketing subreddit for C# Godot.

(I am the Mod)
Hardly wealthy, I would say. The Weasleys lack of money and second hand clothes were an important subtheme..
Images reveal exocomets around nearby stars
JS JITs like v8 is already do this to some extent.

Objects aren't actually "untyped". Every object has a hidden class with a definite type or "shape" (a shape basically means the same keys with the same value types in the same order). The inline cache (IC) stores which shapes have been used (and how often they've been used) for a specific function. The shape is checked every time the function is run with a series of assertions.

If your function only ever sees one shape, it is monomorphic and will get a lot of great optimizations not only on itself, but maybe on it's parent function as monomorphic functions can be inlined (one of the most important optimizations) with some asserts to make sure things went as expected.

If a function is called with 2-4 types in the IC, it is polymorphic in v8 which slows down the IC lookup and disables some optimizations. More than 4 types is called Megamorphic in v8 and is the slowest possible option.

Here's a whirlwind overview of how this works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xckH5s3UuX4

Types offer a streamlined version of all this.

Untyped -> typed simply does what already happens, but the assertions throw if they fail.

Types have other advantages within a function. There's a tradeoff in optimization where you don't want to optimize too early because you might have gotten it wrong and wasted a bunch of time and energy. Types make guarantees that your optimizations are correct which means you can optimize more earlier and there may even be optimizations that would simply be impossible otherwise.

A strong type system would disallow some of the stupidly-dynamic JS stuff which prevents optimization. This is an indirect massive benefit of a good type system (one that TS misses out on as it makes it easy to make types for very slow code patterns).

Typed -> typed is another important consideration. Instead of waiting hundreds of runs for your simple `.map(x => x.foo)` to inline, strong type guarantees mean you can inline it from the very beginning and all those useless assertion conditional branch instructions simply aren't needed. Polymorphism slows down current operations as it waits to dispatch, but because the types show what polymorphism exists and exactly which variant each call site uses, you can always match the exact call site to the correct monomorphic variant which also speeds things up.

Typed -> untyped is super-easy. The compiler knows the shape of the typed objects. It could probably add a greater weight to typed IC entries executing so they produce optimized versions sooner because the types add stronger consistency guarantees.
Just now: "Perception is reality".

Now, can you transfer some of that impressive courage toward the task of answering the question I posed to you?
It’s so hard to decipher the complaints about ollama in this comment section. I keep reading comments from people saying they don’t trust it, but then they don’t explain why they don’t trust it and don’t answer any follow up questions.

As someone who doesn’t follow this space, it’s hard to tell if there’s actually something sketchy going on with ollama or if it’s the usual reactionary negativity that happens when a tool comes along and makes someone’s niche hobby easier and more accessible to a broad audience.
Well you see, if I'm driving too fast and I cause a crash - I might lie and claim I wasn't driving too fast.

The black box, by providing evidence to prosecute me, makes the roads safer for other people as while I'm in prison, I can't cause any further accidents. But it doesn't make me all that much safer, prison is a dangerous place.
It's all so very 19th century. Like the war in Ukraine.

In the bad old days, when somebody had a resource you wanted, you killed them and took it.

But we finally realized that it was a lot more economically efficient to just trade for it. You didn't throw away blood and treasure that could be better dedicated to actually producing something. Plus we fought two of those 19th-century-style wars in the 20th, and it was clear how insanely dangerous modern weaponry had made that.

The greed never decreased, but we became smarter about it. Or at least, we had. Now we're back to the 19th century habit of making it about our national egos as well as resources, and we're willing to throw away lives again for our egos.
Streaming video at Netflix's scale in the year 2010 was hard though?

I mean sure, it's a lot easier nowadays - but that's mostly down to cloud providers replacing half of the server-side challenge with a big bill and fiber making the last mile easier too.

You're massively underestimating the challenge of transferring these vast amounts of data without interrupting service for buffing etc that they had to solve back then
I see! Now I understand why I need to create those useless `Modelfile` files...

I'm glad there is a more open source alternative to Ollama now.
One Song in Your Musical Is Wrong
having lights on during the day absolutely helps, especially when overcast or foggy.
My guess: higher thermal mass, so over time it can accumulate more heat than a non-filled watch.
FDA approves new non-opioid pain drug
Slow, Flaky, and Failing
DeepSeek AI blocked by Italian authorities
I looked into it, and Lua allows limiting the environment when `load`ing -- through `env` argument since 5.2 or through setfenv before. I will add a helper function to produce a minimal needed environment for safe loading and a documentation page about safety.
I recently beat a speeding ticket because by the time it got to court, my officer was fired from his department.

He was fired because he was beating his wife, who worked in the court and took a restraining order out against him.

He did in fact end up working for the department the next town over.
KNMI (Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute) Open Sources Mobile Apps
Apparently it takes more than just installing the app. They have to be a registered rewards member. Presumably would be fairly easy for the store to figure out any users who were abusing the system and remove their accounts.
My grandfather managed to persuade me when I was 4 that beer comes out of man's nipples. Unfortunately, at the time he was supposedly too old for it to happen. And my father was too young. So, I've never seen it in action
Does this provide a Ollama compatible API endpoint? I've got at least one other project running that only supports Ollama's API or OpenAI's hosted solution (ie. the API endpoint isn't configurable to use llama.cpp and friends)
Personally I love it. I'm tired of websites with no character to them
I can’t sort of understand an EO stopping grants with “gender ideology” or “woke ideology (whatever that means, still unclear), but “green new deal”?!? So we a halt all research into clean energy or climate change and just hope co2 emissions drop by themselves? Fing idiots who are sacrificing our children’s future for the oil and gas lobbyists. This makes me very angry.
For on-screen display it's not optimal, but for print it's really pleasant.
>you can just shove calcium-rich sand over the fire with bulldozers and wait.

Is this a standard firefighting technique? Has it ever happened before?
So far government doesn't seem to be shrinking at all, just being made less effective. If you believe the work state employees do is worse than useless then go ahead and cheer.

I have trouble taking someone seriously when they look at all the functions of government and say not just that they are an ineffective use of tax dollars (cliché and debatable), but that we'd be better off if their funds were simply set on fire than put to use. Because that's what's happening now.

I think what you actually want to happen is for Congress to reduce budgets. Until that happens, you may want to keep the cork in the bottle.
A little off-topic, but have you found spam or fake content to be a problem in the last year or two?
Ah, you know what, you're right. It's an equivalent string for me too:

"hi\
"

I didn't know Lua treated \ before newlines like that. That's cool! I made a similar Lua serialization library for myself and was using a chain of `string.match` calls to escape my strings. Now I can make it way simpler. Lol. Thanks
I don't think it is frowning on the visitors / curious folks personally.

It is being honest about your opportunities / visitors during the spike.
You ignored part of my statement.

They offer no protection from inflation in the underlying fiat. $ is the underlying fiat, not rupee.

In other words, if you bought USDT in 2018 and sold it today, you actually lost over 20%.
> It was a reaction to regulatory over-reach by unelected officials on the continent

It's quite funny to see that 5 years after Brexit the UK is still governed by unelected bureaucrats, including a few Russians in the House of Lords.

Are they going to get rid of hereditary membership for the House of Lords?
There's a more sensible middle-ground here, in that the military should have no problem enlisting people with gender identity beliefs - just as it's fine for military personnel to hold varying religious beliefs - but that no-one else should be obliged to accept these beliefs as true, and that the military should not have to fund any cosmetic procedures to make an individual appear to be of the opposite sex. While also not discriminating against anyone for having these beliefs.

This is a sensible middle-ground approach for the rest of society too. Just treat it like a minority religious belief, then the issue is solved fairly without stepping on anyone's rights.

If both Republicans and Democrats agreed to this approach and put this issue to bed, they could get on with wrangling over much more important problems of governance.
The "Equal Employment Opportunity executive order" predates the EEOC and doesn't affect its responsibilities.

The EEOC doesn't depend on a quorum for routine enforcement actions. As the last article describes, what it can't do without a quorum is make new rules or issue new guidance, but the new administration will most likely reestablish a quorum soon because there's some existing guidance they'd like to revoke.
Are you telling me you don’t want to read constant updates on the state of AI and how it will obviously find AGI tomorrow so please give us a trillion dollars today?
Practice.

Don't just read, binge YouTube, or click through banal tutorials with a misplaced hope of learning through osmosis. You learn math by doing math. Most likely without a computer. It's unpleasant as you will be quite bad at it, but that's a good thing as it means you can get better.

I'm a bit younger but also with kids and have been using the fracture in life that brings to fill in similar gaps in education. UoL have some courses as part of an online degree. I don't recommend it, but the references are good for fundamentals. I've been collecting them and some study notes here: https://simple.industries/notes/uol-comp-sci.html.

The Susan Rigetti guide (https://www.susanrigetti.com/math) already posted is also an incredible reference.

Also, learn with your kid(s)! There a whole set of publications around the math circles movement. I'm currently working through this with my 3yo: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/12689040.
For those of you who haven’t lived under an authoritarian regime, this is what it looks like (though it gets worse).
They have, especially if your standard is Apple devices. Pretty much all Apple devices that still have a headphone jack have extremely competent audio paths, capable of driving the most fiddley headphones. Much better than mediocre audio interfaces.
I ... thought this was common knowledge.

I learnt how to wiggle my ears when I got startled by a book falling from a shelf and my ears instinctively "raised". Picture a dog going from "idling" to "alert", with the ears pointing up. It was like that, but for humans.

I then said "Ooooh, so that's how you do it".

There has never been a doubt in my mind that the muscle is connected to "alert, listen closely".
Hardware neural nets. Super cool idea.
ollama is giving people a lot of reasons to switch:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42886680
Might be better to say high / low quality SALES opportunity.
I've been listening to Michael Lewis' (of Moneyball fame) latest podcast series about the sports gambling legalization.

I'm struck by how the groups of young men, and gamblers, and vapers, and crypto bros are all a venn diagram that is mostly is just a circle, while even 5-ish years ago, that wasn't so much the truth.

A lot changed in America to its young men, not a lot of it good. Young men broke for Trump very highly in 2024, they also seem to be garnering these addictions and long term problems by the armload. And most of these addictions seem to be more 'private' than they used to be. I don't know what to make of it, but I just get a bad vibe for young men.
I think we agree although there's a slight miscommunication, you're not actually including socioeconomic status in your rephrased statement. Like we would both say, if there were three identical twins and two of them were picking on the other, that would merit the exact same intervention as if they weren't identical twins.
We would know if we had a link. Otherwise it’s fiction and I believe it’s yet another lame web site created by an ideas guy.
Ollama doesn't really need competition. Llama.cpp just needs a few usability updates to the gguf format so that you can specify a hugging face repository like you can do in vLLM already.
> The problem is ultimately government policy

Yes, which is why I am trying to discuss the effects of different government policies. Stopping at "the problem is government" only makes sense if you're taking a principled approach of rejecting all government intervention, which you're not doing. Your argument is framed as if it's coming from that position, but you've been skipping criticism of the largest source of monetary creation which is why I've been saying you've been giving it a pass.

> I think it's wrong to take that for granted.

This is literally just a pillar of the Federal Reserve's explicit mandate. If monetary inflation from the deficit isn't high enough to create the target price inflation, then the Fed steps in and lowers interest rates to create enough monetary inflation to make up the difference.

> If the Federal Reserve issues credit for worthwhile private banking endeavors, it is much more likely to be productive than anything the government spends money on.

Okay, thank you for finally expressing a judgement between different government interventions for creating price inflation. I completely disagree with your statement (I'd say that giving new money to "banking endeavors" mostly just goes to driving up the leveraged-everything bubble). But at least now that you've actually made the argument explicitly (rather than having it be implicit from a whole host of unvisited assumptions), we can even just agree to disagree.
I think the conclusion is a stretch, tho, you can only know they are as transparent as you can know an american made one is, as far as I know the biases can be way worse, or they can be the exact same as of american models (as they supposedly used those models to produce synthetic training data as well).
OpenAI models also have this kind of "soft" censorship where it is on the interface layer rather than the model itself (like with the blocked names and stuff like that).
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran-Contra_Affair#Pardons
this is so interesting.

it’s not the first nor the last time wish that communities would not refrain from changing terminology. fitness is as important as accuracy and we shouldn’t be wary of dropping such inaccuracies, especially when they bring such strong connotations.
I wouldn't count the Executive Orders related to ICE in the "nepotism and favoritism" group fzeroracer referred to. Those might be more of the "smokescreen." The orders for mass layoffs or encouraging quitting of civil service seen more like the ulterior motive. Allowing the president to remove "disloyal" civil servants would take us back to the spoils system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spoils_system

Then, either they use existing executive power to ensure Republicans have an insurmountable advantage in national elections, or they haven't thought things through and we'll see even larger shifts in federal regulations after each administration change.
There’s also epigenetics with mechanisms like histone modification and DNA methylation that can control expression without changing the DNA, but still being heritable.
IMO you see the same issues when you have Google start optimizing ads for user signup. We've had a huge amount of user growth from ad spend. But not really the users we want, for the most part.
Gmail Security Warning for 2.5B Users–AI Hack Confirmed
This is a really interesting reply, thanks for taking the time to compose it. As a soundcloud user, I actually noticed little things like how difficult the playlist loading problem might be and wondered precisely about how the client was getting updates as I scrolled. Interesting to know a bit more about the backend design.

I suppose I’m wondering still, in your example, why georestrictions couldn’t have just been an api feature in the list service vs both pieces of data needed to be fetched and reduced by a third service (and duplicate that logic across clients). I also work at a large company though, so I can see how “backends owned directly by client teams” is a path one might prefer when dealing with other teams with e.g. other priorities.
Agreed. There is, or at least were, some parts of the body that were only recently discovered and not just known about and assumed to be inactive. It was only in 2015 that lymphatic vessels were discovered in the central nervous system:

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/lymphat...

That article is about mice, but they were later found in humans, too.
> I really like unbiased merit based societies

Just thought I would recommend some reading about this: "The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good?" by Michael Sandel.

Basically, think about what the longer-term, overarching effects on society would be in a perfectly-meritocratic society. It likely wouldn't be all unicorns and rainbows.

Here's a review about it: https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2020/08/montage-michael-sand...

May not change your mind, but we should always try to expand it :)
OpenSolaris
i really dont get why people do that haha. at least the snow doesnt pile up i suppose
they don’t explain why they don’t trust it

We need to know a few things:

1) Show me the lines of code that log things and how it handles temp files and storage.

2) No remote calls at all.

3) No telemetry at all.

This is the feature list I would want to begin trusting. I use this stuff, but I also don’t trust it.
> Energy efficiency causes energy consumption to increase. That's basic economics [0].

Switching from incandescents to LEDs reduces electricity consumption by up to 90% to produce the same amount of light. I mean sure, someone will have twice as much light in their life after that switch. Heck, show me the person who now have five times more light bulbs in their ceiling.

But show me the person who now has ten bulbs in the ceiling to make your statement marginally true, or twenty times, increasing annually, to make it representative of your point.

No, really. Show me the person who has twenty times the holes in the ceiling than originally designed, twenty times the light, they must have gone permanently blind. It’d be fascinating to meet that person. Given the confidence with which you stated that it’s basic economics, is it you?
Ask HN: I Found a Website I Like–How to Design Similar for a Different Project?
I came across https://xtxmarkets.com and https://wonderlandams.com and loved their design. I want to build something with similar design for my basic project but for the context I'm new to programming. Apologies if this is a basic question! But I really appreciate any guidance on your part.
It depends on your GPU. Vulkan is well-supported by essentially all GPUs. AMD support ROCm well for their datacenter GPUs, but support for consumer hardware has not been as good.
I mean you just hunker down, stop reading the news, go about your life, and hope that the “storm” doesn’t do too much damage, and then work like hell in 4 years time to avoid a repeat (won’t be Trump but to prevent another fascist president, also you can bet that Trump will try for a 3 rd term on the basis that he didn’t serve 2 consecutive terms).