skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can connect an iPhone to a USB-C monitor and a bluetooth keyboard already. It just kind of sucks.

Because Apple refuses to allow it to be a computer. They don’t want the iPhone consuming their MacBook sales. If Apple really cared about the environment, they’d replace the iPad mini, the iPhone, and the MacBook Air with a foldable, dockable iPhone that gave access to the underlying system just like a laptop.
Nothing says reducing overall bureaucratic nonsense by adding more bureaucratic nonsense AND demanding people make a loyalty pledge.
Ollama - `brew install ollama`

llama.cpp - Read the docs, with loads of information and unclear use cases. Question if it has API compatibility and secondary features that a bunch of tools expect. Decide it's not worth your effort when `ollama` is already running by the time you've read the docs
This is a bit off topic but I noticed that you've included a moderation log at the bottom. I don't think I've seen that before. I really like it!
Hey guys, just wrote something for those of you unsure whether your idea has some potential to be a great business.

I founded two profitable SaaS companies without VC money. In building those, I used a few rules to evaluate their potential to succeed.

Basically, I created a little framework to minimize the risk of failure.

The statistic that 90% of startups fail has been around for decades, but I don't think it's entirely true.

It may be true for VC-backed startups that must turn into a Billion dollar company or die. But fuck that!

The Silicon Valley way is not the only game in town.

The framework:

I called it "The most unambitious way to build a startup" because you will not change the world. The returns won't be as outlandish.

But if you're looking to build a business that changes your own world, this might be an interesting read.

Here are my four rules:
1) Is it B2B? This is where the money is
2) Is there a competitor making bank? Good! There is a market
3) Is there one angle to outcompete your competitor? This could be support, pricing, or features.
4) Are there SEO opportunities? People need to find out about you. For me, this is SEO, but it could be sales, partnerships, etc., or whatever your jam for growth is.

I wrote more in-depth about how I applied it to my businesses before I started in my newsletter (linked).

Hope you get something out of it!
Cheers,
Iron
No, I think a lot of it remains a long time.
I am struggling to get systemd to cooperate with a TPM on boot right now, let alone ZFS. I'll probably drop back to initrd.

I just want encryption at rest for when it comes time to dispose of the disk, there's not supposed to be unencrypted sensitive data on it anyway.
Less regulation for _companies_, more regulation for _people_.
As the comment mentions there, the idea is that you can do those sorts of transformations on the duration and then emit them:

>> d = Temporal.Duration.from({milliseconds: 60000})
>> d.seconds
0
>> d.milliseconds
60000
>> d = d.round({largestUnit: 'second'})
>> d.seconds
60
>> d.milliseconds
0
Cryptocurrency is not at all finite - people keep minting new tokens for new pump and dump schemes all the time.
While true it's a bit odd to leave out what a crazy administration the current one is.
The server in llama-cpp is documented as being only for demonstration, but ollama supports it as a model to run it.

For work, we are given Macs and so the GPU can't be passed through to docker.

I wanted a client/server where the server has the LLM and runs outside of Docker, but without me having to write the client/server part.

I run my model in ollama, then inside the code use litellm to speak to it during local development.
Type Safe Validation in Go with Govy (2024)
Go is rooted in: "let's make a language with managed memory that still manages to crash with memory errors".

They should have hired someone that knew what he was doing.
Here's the money quote: “Let’s be honest: Smaller companies usually ignore regulations like this because they just don’t have the resources to analyze them, and a government usually ignores smaller companies because it doesn’t have the resources to enforce against them. Big companies that are on the radar need specialized counsel. A general business lawyer can’t keep up with the pace of new regulations, much less best practices to comply with them.”
I don't understand why you are calling it a religion.

What has been your personal experience with Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion policies in employment?

Mine has been that I watched a few videos that basically said: don't hit on people at work, don't mock people for disabilities, and don't treat people as lesser based on physical attributes.

In other words, don't be an asshole to people at work.

The only people I've seen given preferential treatment at work have been those who suck up to the leadership to get promoted.
> make stuff that's readable and easy to manage.

So, not go.
Im sure guys that think foreigners are dog eating criminals judge everyone based on merit now.
We have a doctor with asian sounding name and people at work were wondering if they need translator when they visit.
'Deep down, all Englishmen are policemen': Life in Edwardian London
Game dev communities are great places in the internet. Thanks for creating this!
> 2. some people tend to look at tradition and consider it just better, without much reason. "unix systems in the 80ies had shell scripts to launch system services, that's what i shall do in the 2020ies".

And from that the systemd crowd tend to draw the following conclusion: if something was done a certain way for decades then it is bad and should be replaced.
Anyone figure out how to bind this to CMD-F with key bindings?
Their latest paper [0] refers to Naiad(timely dataflow) a few times, e.g.:
"Inspired by ingress/egress nodes in Naiad [34], nested streams can be processed by nested dataflow graphs, which iteratively process chunks of data sourced from a larger stream with support for carrying state across iterations."

[0] https://hydro.run/papers/flo.pdf
The evil genius of this move is that it gets everybody arguing about DEI, and we’re letting the continued expansion of absolute executive power centered in the president go unchecked. It’s not even about party; this started with FDR or even earlier, massively expanded under LBJ and again under W and Obama, and now here we are. The president feels no obligation at all to execute what the Congress authorized him to. Instead the limits of power are whatever the president can get away with. We have a constitutional problem where the Congress is unwilling or unable to legislate effectively and the executive gets to make policy unilaterally. This is not the balance of powers from the U.S. constitution. This is something else.
Tulu 3: Pushing Frontiers in Open Language Model Post-Training
I’m not sure I agree with that definition of bubble.

I think it’s more like “an investment whose cash inflows are primarily driven by a feedback loop of higher prices and greater investment” — that is, investors’ motivations are detached from any NPV-like evaluation of the investment.

We really only know it’s a bubble after it pops. Before that it’s maybe less prejudicial to call it a speculative market.
The authors claim they beat DeepSeek V3
FFS. Yes the point is though why should any one coin be more valuable than another. It's pure speculation.
http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

> Our methodology leverages state-of-the-art natural language processing techniques to systematically evaluate the evolution of research approaches in computer vision. The results reveal significant trends in the adoption of general-purpose learning algorithms and the utilization of increased computational resources. We discuss the implications of these findings for the future direction of computer vision research and its potential impact on broader artificial intelligence development.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09649v1
Including the state would be odd for the exact reason you demonstrate; a lot of people outside the country don’t know or care, especially with capital cities — who knows what region Ottawa or Canberra are in?

Country largely just makes sense to disambiguate cases like the two different cities a few hundred km apart both named Vancouver.
llama.cpp readme still lists multimodal models.. Qwen2-VL and others. Is that inaccurate, or something different?

[edit] Oh I see, here's an issue about it: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/8010
Similarly if a giant out-of-control wildfire threatens to become 10x as big, it's incoherent to call that a "terrible natural disaster." It was already a terrible natural disaster. We're not adding any information (except that little factor of 10, and this isn't math class).

Irony notice: This comment contains irony.
Yes, but they're saying that only works for past events. If you book a dentist appointment in the future using a timestamp, but then the tzdb rules change, you'll wind up with an unexpected result. (Because the civil time will be different and people usually book appointments based on civil time.)
> This framing feels a bit like the “Dropbox won’t succeed because rsync is easy” thinking.

No this isn't. There are plenty of end user GUI apps that make it far easier than Ollama to download and run local LLMs (disclaimer: I build one of them). That's an entirely different market.

IMO, the intersection between the set of people who use a command line tool, and the set of people who are incapable of running `brew install llama.cpp` (or its Windows or Linux equivalents) is exceedingly small.
You mean they're idealogically stripping idealogical requirements...
> I personally don't mind the whole system going down in flames.

As with the air crash the other day, the problem with the system going down in flames is how many people it takes out along the way.
>Even if you install a third-party antimalware product, both will always run

My understanding was that this was a response to attackers learning to disabling Defender by pretending that a third party AV was installed and to make sure that if the third party AV failed to operate, Defender would take over
It should be obvious, but the gov. buying crypto is about providing (exit) liquidity to whales.
Sorry I meant that DeepSeek release their models. Wrong context.
> lights permanently on

This is wrong. You can turn them off. Even DRL. If your car cannot you should complain to the manufacturer or live in one of the very few states requiring it.

> engine turns off when stationary

My previous car had a button specifically to disable it and it did so permanently. My current one doesn't need to.

> car brakes on its own

This is a manufacturer choice. Buy another car. Mine can be user disabled permanently.

> signals left/right at least 3 times

Manufacturer choice, usually for the non-flip indicator mechanic, which you likely can configure. If you flip it fully it might only do one, you should try it.
So, movies are actually right.
> systemd appears to be monolithic from outside, but it really isn't.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck... systemd is modular solely in theory. In practice, I am grateful that I can still remove journald and resolved from current Ubuntu installs and I'm pretty sure that's not going to be possible quite soon.

Systemd itself may be modular, but practically distros are not going to bother.
Battery-powered electric ferry service to connect Spain and Morocco
>For example, they've allowed discrimination based on race in government hiring ... Read through project 2025

I advise you read through the actual Executive Orders than some false propaganda material of at best questionable value.

What Trump is mandating with his EOs are a move back to judging people strictly by their merit, by their character. We are once again on the path to making Martin Luther King's dream a reality.

Here are the EOs with regards to the subject matter at hand:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/endi...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/refo...

>Americans deserve a government committed to serving every person with equal dignity and respect, and to expending precious taxpayer resources only on making America great.

>Federal employment practices, including Federal employee performance reviews, shall reward individual initiative, skills, performance, and hard work and shall not under any circumstances consider DEI or DEIA factors, goals, policies, mandates, or requirements.

----

>This Federal Hiring Plan shall: ... prevent the hiring of individuals based on their race, sex, or religion, and prevent the hiring of individuals who are unwilling to defend the Constitution or to faithfully serve the Executive Branch;
i had some savings in a stablecoin on a platform that got a huge interest rate and then i realized that was a bad idea. the interest rate was too good to be true but the last straw was when i tried to move the stablecoin funds one time during a bear panic and the platform wouldn't let me move the money. so i exchanged it to USD and put it in a bank then used the cash for the down payment on some land. exchanging the value from crypto to a hard asset was one of the best financial decisions i've made, because a year or two later i would've never been able to access the funds again due to a hack on the defi stablecoin website.

dunno how this shit is legal.
Imagine being a party so pretentious, so horrible and disgusting that you lose to a fascist
It would be pretty surprising to their shareholders if Nvidia was hiding where it was spending it's money.
Inhad no idea this existed.!
Environmental modelling is normally a little seperate to what you'd expect from a DAW. If you're unfamiliar, it's worth taking a look at EASE [1] (the semi grand-daddy of electro-acoustic simulation). Treble [2] are also doing some really interesting things. 10log [3] too for some coarser (but free) analysis.

[1]: https://www.afmg.eu/en/ease

[2]: https://www.treble.tech/

[3]: https://10log.io/
"We really only know it’s a bubble after it pops."

This is the quintessential "we're in a bubble" red flag. (If you haven't lived through a bubble as an adult yet, you may be tempted to disagree. No judgement. I've been there.)
2021: ”Elliott Management wants nothing to do with bitcoin, says top exec who predicts the Fed will launch an 'electronic dollar' that will crush crypto.”

I guess maybe they shorted a little too much and now trying to save their own ass
Your comments here are vague and weirdly snarky and somewhat irrelevant to the topic and you'll require me to prove.. what exactly? Should I prove that Crysis was laggy when it came out? Or that I experience lags when I play Unreal games?

I guess you would like me to prove that the lag is caused by RAII but notice that I didn't actually wrote that - that's your reading of it. I just noted that the symptoms seem to point to it.
In these comments I have so far seen "resistance to change from dusty admins older than tape drive mainframes," "it is religious," and "autism."
@dang this is turning into flame throwing. Can we please kill the thread as there is nothing intellectually curious being discussed here.
> It’s giving control of JIT to third parties

Any real-world examples demonstrating how it's insecure? Here and now it demonstrably decreases the security.
My company has 2 teams that use go for different reasons:

* Easy to crossbuild and you distribute a single executable (although of course someone managed to pull some dependency that was dynamically loaded and made our CLI depending on a running Gnome session)

* C developers who can't write C code that doesn't segfault every 3 minutes (because they never understood how threads work) can still have their ego but also produce somewhat useful code.
Or, you know, adopt phonetic alphabet like the Japanese and the Koreans. That may stop all the nonsense with arbitrary pronunciation (it won’t).
I dont know about other coutries, but here in the UK reading is a serious thing for kids. There are libraries in every village and town, and there are regular drives and events to get kids interested in reading.

They give stickers to the kids every time they go, give them free books to keep, and allow things like dropping your books back to any other library ino the area, and renewing them online.

I had previously thought that libraries in the UK were dying, but since having kids I have come to realise that they are still an incredibly useful resource, and are still alive and well.

Also, the schools get really involved. In the last school term my kids primary has had 2 kids book authors visit to do talks and read their books to the kids. Regularly the kids come home with new free books provided by some council/government funded initiative or other.

The UK feels to me to really be on top of this issue. Hopefully other countries can see how important these resources are and not let them die anywhere.
But there are lower bounds on how much you can split gold. Part of its value is as a tangible stored value. Nobody will store 0.00001 ounce of gold because you’d be in danger of accidentally inhaling it.

The numerator for Bitcoin has an upper limit, but the denominator does not; it is functionally infinitely divisible with no loss of value. This doesn’t negate the argument, but mitigates it some.
This belief that governments couldn't simply eg tax crypto gains at 100% or otherwise ban exchanges is just a fairy tale.

I mean, there's nothing physically stopping someone driving on the wrong side of the road but laws punish people who do.

This is just engineers believing the world runs on technical possibilities not legal consensus.
It would probably be a better system to eliminate corporate tax entirely.
> disagreement based on technical or even practical merits

Philosophy can't be reasoned based on merits. Of course there are technical merits as to why systemd-as-PID1 was (not today!) an extremely good piece of software compared to sysvinit, there's no question about that. Likewise there are valid technical reasons why systemd-timesyncd should be abolished and never mentioned again.

But how do you decide LP's attitude on merits? How do I argue with Red Hat who shoved systemd down everyone's throat?

So yes, it's a religious question of sorts. The religion that made Unix unix.
> We have a constitutional problem where the Congress is unwilling or unable to legislate effectively and the executive gets to make policy unilaterally. This is not the balance of powers from the U.S. constitution

The Republican party controls both houses and the presidency, having already stacked the supreme court, so they get to do whatever they want and there is no balance of powers.

Inevitable consequence of a two-party system with first past the post voting.
You should complain to your car manufacturer as it is a cheat to comply with emission regulation. If they meet it without it can be permanently disabled by the user.
> Instead they are simply stripping ideological requirements, period.

That is literally the opposite of what the linked article claims. They aren't "stripping requirements" placed on funding, they're stripping the actual funds from existing grants, based on new requirements that just happen to be phrased along the lines of the ruling regime's political rhetoric.

Your Orwellian version only makes sense if you assume a priori that the funds were granted incorrectly, which again is sort of the opposite of what science is.
There’s an algorithm you can use to calculate future tides but it’s complex and I wasn’t sure it would even run fast enough on the watch. I gave up after a few hours and ended up generating an array of high/low tide levels and times for the next few years. NOAA has all the tide data you could possibly want, and an api to grab it.

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/tide_predictions.html

https://api.tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/api/prod/
I've been called several dozen kinds of labels to try and get me to be a nice and cooperative victim. I've also found myself labeled as the oppressor, as Asians are(were) often found too successful unlike other minorities.

Sincerely screw all that racist noise with extreme prejudice. In this regard, the Left did more work than anyone to get me to vote Trump.
All I see is sour grapes. Can't stand someone else coming up with a far more superior and cheaper alternative. This is business dude. There's always going to be some new disruptor to shake the market up.
FDA Approves Novel Non-Opioid Treatment for Moderate to Acute Pain
Yes, this is correct! You _can_ update the GPU Layer data, the API allows it, but you pay the upload cost each time, which is why we framed it as for 'backgrounds' - but in reality, it could be used for anything animated. I mean, you don't HAVE to create 1m sprites! You could just do 100 and it'd still be significantly less overhead than 100 actual sprites. Going to be interesting to see what devs come up with here.
Thanks for the tip that it's possible.
The Alto is another example of what Xerox could have been had it not been so wedded to putting dots on paper. In my twenty years at Xerox I watched it slowly (and then quickly) shrink as the dots on paper market shrank.

In an alternative universe, Xerox is mentioned in the same breath as Apple, Google, and Microsoft.
I found Stats would use quite a bit more CPU usage compared to iStats menus when I last tried it 3-4 months ago.
It's hilarious that docker guys are trying to take another OSS and monetize it. Hey if it worked once?...
It's not a bubble anymore, as criminals, immigrants, speculators or even countries like Russia and N.Korea deeply rely on it, which make it valuable.
Ollama is a private for profit company, of course there's something shady going on.
I think it's understood, but someone needs to work on the actual infrastructure.
And new cryptos appear all the time.
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I use Ollama because I am a casual user and can't be bothered to read the docs on how to setup llama.cpp. I just want to run a simple llm locally.

Why would I care about Vulkan?
Conservatives realized that they could effectively lock down Congress, take over the Supreme Court and then vest all power in the executive. The whole arguments against DEI, smaller governments etc are all a smoke screen because they have zero issues with nepotism and favoritism as long as it benefits them. And no issue with government overreach as long as they control it.

Unfortunately I think the only direction is balkanization of the states. And I don't think that is going to end well.