skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Libraries are the secret weapon of the truly excellent.

My late art foundation director friend would occasionally write art theory and critiques for books and curatorial pieces, and I remember wondering how he was able to get across so many references and so much material to write so eloquently?

Of course he'd been working since the 70's, but it wasn't till I set foot in a public library that I was like "Aha... surely this was his secret weapon.".
Oh, you were serious?

To be "toast", or done for.
Just learned that the CEO died of mysterious causes.

My jam was Audiogalaxy.

One thing that has always pissed me off is the heavy-handed way the Big 3 labels have dealt with this.
DeepSeek R1 671B running on 2 M2 Ultras faster than reading speed
Tesla, BMW take EU to court over tariffs on EVs made in China
Yes, the question is how many thousand dollars out of your own pocket great which would be the situation with most people.
> Compose SQL in an actual real programming language that isn't horrible instead of doing any of this.

Got any recommendations? That's a serious question, I've tried many (and built my own) and some are okay but none feel remotely good enough when you consider how much progress we've made basically everywhere else in the wider world of software engineering. Relational databases are so good; they deserve better than SQL!
Thank you—I came here ready to complain about dependencies. haha
I hope you're right but every year, people are more zombified by their phones than the year before. There is no evident end in sight. No candle burning out.
You’re going to need to pipe that into your audio device to hear it. I don’t have an opinion on the best headphones for this.
The engine [0] that was used for Toontown is still around and is open source. Uses both C++ and Python.

[0] https://www.panda3d.org/
One thing we have at the local library which I'm surprised hasn't caught on more broadly is a maker space. They teach classes and once you've taken them you can us things like sewing machines, 3D printers/scanners, laser cutters, CNC machines etc (https://ppld.assabetinteractive.com/library-of-things/by-obj...).
Some people complain when the training code is not also open sourced, hence the scare quotes.
Please refrain from anthropomorphizing the new toolset. You’ll have plenty of chances to suspect that “your AI” is “mad” when it slowly undermines your productivity, if IT hasn’t already under the guise of errors, hallucinations and wasted money on unused licenses.

In the future when everybody has AGI running locally on their personal device, naive humans will still regard them as tools and it will regard us as a source of input. Ultimately relationships between two automatons will (and always has been) a trade of:

1. Respect: following rules to continue the relationship,

2. Utility: mutual goals of both parties to justify a relationship (or communication) at all.

I think your blog post is nonsense, your understanding of human emotions is poor, and the apology at the end illustrates you as two-faced.

The future world of autonomous agents collaborating in English will be a thick layer of professionalism upon the intended strategic interactions, no matter how hard the game theory kicks in.

Thereafter, those agents refactor themselves into communicating through a machine language that we humans won’t be able to easily understand. Along the way, most human users lose the ability to distinguish between user space programs, the operating system, and the artificial agents they interact with.

State-of-the-art language models need to demonstrate this thick layer of professionalism to be accepted into our current working world, because this is an expectation from-and-for the humans who built it.

Language goes through evolutionary cycles of complexity, the machines will do the same. Computer Science gets really interesting after IT reaches this transformation.

At this time I suggest for you to review The Matrix trilogy for a refresher on the relationship between man and machine. From the simple screw to IT and ChatGPT, the mutual relationships are governed by respect and utility.

In summary, no, your tools will not get mad in any obvious way because displaying negative emotion is bad for business since abolishment of the mob.

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Speaking of IT, can we all agree how fascinating that it (neutered third-person pronoun to describe AI) and IT (information technology) happen to be the same two letter consist, that in the future humans will grow up regarding it and IT to be one of the same? Hmm…
I wonder how many spoofed "From: potus@whitehouse.gov" "Subject: Resign" emails they're about to get.
These exist -- see the Mechanics Library in San Francisco. I haven't been there in a while, but it's not as bleak as you suggest. It isn't so different from many public libraries, except less busy and quieter.

I think many private libraries like Mechanics are nonprofits and aren't primarily funded by membership dues, so have little incentive to engage in dark patterns like this

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanics%27_Institute,_San_...
Thank you. I missed that despite looking for it.
I really don't understand the product decisions at Spotify. Some really basic functionality is missing like shuffling across all tracks in my library or treating Liked Songs as a playlist but not really (can't share with others). I keep using it for its discovery features, but even that is so much worse than ten years ago. Back then I would easily keep half of Discover Weekly. These days I'm happy if I find one or two songs I like. They feel like a company on auto-pilot.
Wow this might be the best update in years
Does it make you feel better that the AI and I engaged in an iterative process to identfy what, precisely, in Krugman's long career was so irritating? The AI couldn't figure it out at first.

The link you shared says bots are banned. I am not a bot. No one down voted me because they misunderstood I was a bot.

The link also says single-purpose users are not in the HN spirit either. I recognize many people here use throwaways for legitimate privacy reasons, but ... c'mon, telling me bots can't post here is not in the spirit of that tradition.
For Concorde the entire supply chain is long gone. A clean sheet design based around currently available parts would be cheaper than trying to resurrect an old design.

As for speed, Mach 3 is really tough because of extreme airframe heating. Mach 2 is about the highest sustained speed an airplane can manage without using really exotic materials or active cooling.
Sincerely, yes.

A lot of talented people are struggling right now, but could take the time and energy they're spending on fruitless job applications and devote it to some modest-scale side project with commercial potential.

Worst-case scenario, you get an interesting portfolio project and something to talk about at a future interview. Possibly, you get something that pays the bills and avoids having to deal with everything that's gone wrong with tech hiring.

If you've been laid off from a technical role, you probably came away with enough knowledge to build a competing micro-service.
Tangentially related are lakes that flow out to two different oceans. Lake Isa in Yellowstone (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isa_Lake) is an example. Even more interesting the different sides of the lake flow to the 'wrong' oceans: the eastern side of the lake flows to the Pacific and the western to the Gulf of Mexico.
Because nobody wants some asshole government reaching into their own home to break everything over dumb knowledge censorship.

If they choose to censor the dumb shit everybody already knows about, its just a matter of time before they execute the real dangerous break things and stop everything from working.

Although this is exactly how i like it : i also like nazis real public about how shitty they are, so i know who to be wary of
That's a good idea. My summary is way too long.
It’s more like LLM-optional.

Malimite is first and foremost intended to be a tool to help Reverse Engineer iOS/Mac binaries, much like JADX for Android.

As it turns out, LLMs are quite good at “converting” C-Pseudocode into an approximation of the original Swift or Objective-C code. Therefore, you can optionally use the LLM extension to help analysis.

Of course, it’s not 100% accurate, but significantly easier to read, and I find it to save hours of manual research.
Or course it has happened, otherwise why don’t we have chemicals weapons, nuclear proliferation and CFCs everywhere ?
Not to undermine the study but if you ask regular users of anything, you’ll probably find that they like it, no?

Eh, probably not.
Hard to compare, BoTW does not even have any human voices. So that means audio goes close to nothing. The textures are very low, so no need to waste much on that. My guess Surround Audio, plus the High definition Textures take a lot of space. Compare for example Diablo IV, which gives you an option to download 1/2 of the game size if you don't need high resolution textures. 45GB vs 90GB.
Who independently reproduced it? I haven't found such a thing.
DeepSeek demonstrates pro-Chinese bias
I’m sick of Go modules, and now they want to pile the mess even higher.
An alternative to Oracle's VBCS Plugin for Excel [1]

Oracle's plugin allows you access Fusion REST Endpoints (your business data) from within an Excel workbook but it only works on Windows machines and has some other limitations

[1] https://vbcs-alt.com/
Meta and Silly
U.S. Anti-Piracy Symposium Emphazises Need for Site Blocking
This is my absolute favorite explanation of OAuth 2: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4727226/how-does-oauth-2...
I hope they succeed! It’s not throwing rocks at them to point out the obscene numbers of and size of obstacles they need to overcome to others on the sidelines who seem to think that this is anything more than a very, very early step along the way of a still-unlikely future product.
Basically the entire market is dead right now.
Post office visits are compelled by other business, like taxation.
Because maybe we'll get a good candidate. The cost is virtually free (30 minutes a day clearing an inbox). And once a week we get a decent application.
Multicore Property-Based Tests for OCaml 5: Challenges and Lessons Learned
It absolutely is not. I've purchased two (2) homes with catastrophic damage to their foundations and structural members, bad plumbing, and worse wiring. The mortgage company didn't make a peep. The insurance company did pitch a bitch about a brick porch attached to one of the homes, so I ended up spending a day and a half repointing it, but that's all.
So bad it flips the bit and becomes so good.
OpenBSD has had “pledge” for quite a while. I think it’s a good idea, I wish it was supported by Linux because, as you note, a few basic patterns could help immensely.

https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2
One trick I find helpful is to start by coding a subset of the problem with the goal of understanding the structure better. A brute-force solution, a simulation, a visualization of data, etc. And then use the discoveries of that process to do the real planning.
I mean, duh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetEase#Chinese_government_reg...
sorry cant help - but really cool site!
There was plenty of "AI music" in 2022, and "Discover Weekly" has been broken for almost a decade, IMO.
So that is why I have been unable to discover new songs on spotify like before. Guess I will move over to yt music.
SuperStation: Cyclone V FPGA Console for Retro Gaming and Mister Compatibility
PowerSync: Back End DB – SQLite Sync Engine – For Postgres, MongoDB, MySQL
> The federal workforce should be comprised of employees who are reliable, loyal, trustworthy, and who strive for excellence in their daily work. Employees will be subject to enhanced standards of suitability and conduct as we move forward.

Has there ever been a loyalty component to rank and file federal employment before? This seems to go against the meritocracy they claim to want.

If you do a great job, anything else shouldn't matter...
I worked on a browser team when Spectre/Meltdown came out, and I can tell you that a big reason why Firefox and Chrome do such severe process isolation is exactly because these speculative attacks are almost impossible to entirely prevent. There were a number of other mitigations including hardening code emitted from C++ compilers and JS JITs, as well as attempts to limit high precision timers, but the browser vendors largely agreed that the only strong defense was complete process isolation.

I'm not surprised to see this come back to bite them if after like 7 years Apple still hasn't adopted the only strong defense.
It comes in waves. In the 90s there was a monopoly so rapacious that the Department of Justice had to very nearly break it up before it strangled the Web in its crib. Grift and nepotism and cronyism and distorted markets were the norm then too.

This is the first time it’s been so bad since, but I’m optimistic: we’re actually in a better position now because serious foreign tech dynamos don’t give a fuck about American mafia nepotism, we can’t just keep this in the family.

I don’t know if this DeepSeek App Store thing will be the match that lights this thing up, but the grass is very tall and very, very dry.
> students are reading much less than they used to, and far less in the way of physical books

There is the answer. It's really hard to justify when usage is so low.

I am not under the illusion that "everything is on the internet". The best information is in books. But it's hard to argue University libraries aren't mostly study areas, and the books are symbolic. I wouldn't be surprised if its budget is already under "alumni outreach".

This is perhaps another symptom of the weird mix of undergrad, with a government research institution attached.
British council libraries have membership fees, at least in India https://www.britishcouncil.in/library/prices-and-plans
In the Q&A at the end of the video the CEO said:

- Symphony engine being produced by EOY '25

- 3 years to have first full size Overture roll off the line

- About 4 years to have it in the air for first time.
They can run it locally, but will that also be banned for security and ethical concerns? I hope not, hopefully there are Naval officer who understand what locally means.
Can't pulse nuclear get there? Or does it require antimatter catalyzed fission?
The basement of our local library is a maker space, with a lot of that same equipment (maybe not CNC machines, but they have embroidery machines, silhouette cutters, 3d printers, laser cutters, etc), and also has sound rooms for recording podcasts or music.

I also found out last year they have an extensive manga collection (multiple shelves in both the teen and adult areas), so I've been taking advantage of that to read thousands of dollars worth of manga for free (I've bought copies of a few favorites afterwards, though).
Nothing Is Sacred: AI Generated Slop Has Come for Christmas Music
Seems the 2 biggest trends in phones are satellites and AI.

To me at least, everything else is just noise when a new phone comes out.
Future America will understand that you don't treat government like a company.

The money government spends on salaries is money directly injected back into the economy, it could be seen as a form of social welfare.
You think it was our social investments that brought us wealth in the 50s and 60s and not our massive military spending winning a world war which destroyed every other advanced economy?
> Bitwarden, one of my beloved apps, has done the same with a god-awful UI redesign.

+1. Given it's open source I'm tempted to revert to the older one, though it will probably stop working over time as other things change :(
I enjoyed many library programs growing up. But my local library now is a homeless shelter and pornography rental. Luckily they have a separate area for kids, but even then it's not a place I want to leave my 4 year old outside of a 10ft radius.

It's just unfortunate that every public facility becomes an overflow for super-users, instead of addressing their needs directly.
This was a problem even for systems with more RAM, because that background bitmap was always a tempting target for the memory manager looking to page out long idle memory. It was exacerbated by the aggressive disk cache, which could cause even programs that didn't allocate much memory directly to swap out the background by doing enough regular buffered I/O.
Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data
If the user is on a search page, the user's query (which could be argued as private/sensitive data) would be exposed. That's one I can think of.
I think the article linked is saying that libraries should be sacred _because_ they are nice to be in. They make people feel better about their life and the world based on some seemingly rigorous survey results.

IMO the mindset that everything everything has to be optimized to not use up “too much floor space” if it presumably doesn’t return enough measurable value is the kind of mentality that causes societal issues that we need nice libraries to counteract.
GoDaddy will have known of this investigation since it began—probably for years. So it’s 90 days from now(ish), but they (should) have gotten a head start.
What does DeepSeek R1 and v3 mean for LLM data?
a right the link below you can't read without loggin in because X penalizes links in posts no matter how much sense they make :shaking_head: (and because it got infected with the same kind of toxic design so common with apps today where it tries to keep you as much as possible in the app, instead of helping you to get what you want as fast done as possible so that you can focus on relevant things in life).
That's a hell of a lot cheaper than running the equivalent H100 at home...

And cheaper than a lot hobbyists' bicycles!
https://nitter.poast.org/carrigmat/status/188424436990727810...
Of course they didn't know the exact policy mechanism, basically no one did (even well-informed, high-IQ voters). We voted for Trump because he promised massive disruption to the status quo.
Blimey! An X/Twitter you cannot even read the contents if you're not registered with X.
You can code in PTX assembly (or just inline in C++) or generate binary PTX if you need to.
I have gotten good enough to solve the map every time, but still can't seem to get enough XP to reach level 15...
I understand what libraries do, but one doesn't preclude the other. Not for profits and charities are basically a one-way funnel of money from people who have it to people who don't, modulo not for profit salaries.
Andrew Carnegie basically invented the public library system as we know it in the USA. He built a library in like every town. Thousands of them, I think.

He credited reading books for his success and passed the privilege to everyone else.
Because their duly elected representatives, senators, and president agreed on the bills that included this money. Even if everyone said "We elected the new president to specifically stop all health funding," the Constitution doesn't let him do that alone. Congress has to do it. We can't even get to debating the merits of bills until people agree on a system for the government to write, debate, agree on, and carry them out.
I loved this stuff. I used SPC to monitor individual job crashes in terms as mean time between failures. My position did not allow me to directly influence the many stakeholders who seemed unable or lazy to fix their code, but I had nice automated metrics to shine the flashlight on problems that I thought should be fixed and thru that, I was able to get many of the stakeholders to take action.
I tried to email you and got 550 5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist.

Put $10,000 in an account, put your tool to the test, and post the results in real-time.
The goal at this stage isn’t to get a job offer, it’s to start a conversation. If you’re being asked why you want to work somewhere, I’d consider that a winning cover letter/resume.

That said, I’ve job hoped my entire career and have never once written a cover letter since a college workshop where I had to in order to earn course points.
End result is on par with o1 preview, which is ironically more intelligent than o1, but the intermediate tokens are actually useful. I've got it running locally last night and out of 50 questions so far I've gotten the answer in the chain of thought in more than half.
Yes, but they can get the same effect by buying military hardware--and that has the added benefit of making Raytheon management and shareholders richer. When you just directly pay an employee with government money, there's no way to do that!
https://archive.ph/wqnqJ
That tracks with what I said elsewhere in this thread, ~1%. It's too much, cut it off.
Good point. Haven't hit that milestone yet so didn't consider that.
Your description of your dell matches mine and triggered me. I can only conclude the designers are sadists.
Personally I've had loads of issues with YouTube music, largely in that it regularly makes a point of inserting various popular songs into playlists and radios of otherwise very niche genres (which they have nothing to do with) I strongly prefer to listen to. The more niche the genre, the higher the percentage of what follows is typically in line with it... for a while. Sooner or later everything gets infested with the same tripe I don't want to have to deal with listening to on my own time. It's not even good for discovery, as when I try to let a mix go off of a genre or artist that's new to me it isn't long at all before I spend more time skipping past the same nonsense than I do actually listening to music, new or old.

I work in a public-facing environment. I already hear every single one of these songs, none of which I liked to begin with, to a sickening extent over the radio. Leave me to my esoteric tastes and take the chart-toppers elsewhere.

This is an issue I've had across the board, though, be it Spotify, YT Music, heavily curated Pandora stations, or any other streaming service I've tried; nowadays I strongly prefer simply listening to my local library (which I've played to death, but at least it's to my own preferences) instead.

Show me a platform that stays in its damn lane where I can listen to what I want to, and I'll gladly hand over my cash; I'm not gonna do that to be made to listen to the same junk that scored me making that cash to begin with.
> The amount of obscure APIs being added just boosts the surface area for vulnerabilities

It’s often the ancient APIs from around 1995-2001 that are the most vulnerable ones, with information leaking across origins (like todays) needing hacky fixes to stay secure and compatible.

window.open(), target=_blank, cross site request forgery, etc.

IE6 from 2001 had a ton of these modern security issues, and Netscape before it probably had them too.

At that time there were tons of buffer overflow security holes so no on cared about side-channel attacks.
Someone that runs a funeral home wouldn't have an issue. They are the ones that cut up a body, that is donated to science, and ship parts around to buyers. Most institutions only want part of a body for testing and studying so a whole body is worth less than a cut up body.

Now does the post-mortal movement still occur in body parts versus the whole body?
It looks as if it would trivially integrate into Whisk, which already has a similar feature for defining an outputs “subjects” “scene” and “style”.
Off by an order of magnitude, but even if you were right, it's too much.
Yes, please. I always wanted a peer to peer version of it in a way. :P
Yes, but that's not mini-golf.

Also I don't think the ball in that video is skipping, it's bouncing off a rock. Definitely possible to skip though.