skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everybody could lose their jobs but "It's still not AGI!!"
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42852434
Why everyone is freaking out about DeepSeek
“Their apps are horrendous.”

I’ll give a counterpoint: with a subscription, Apple Music for iPad is quite literally the best personal music exploration/listening app on the market. A quiet room and good pair of headphones is all the rest you need.
Me neither.

Personally I've never heard of or been to any commercial library before, perhaps it's really good startup idea with internal coffee shop (library first, cafeteria second).

I've been to coffee and books cafe (basically cafeteria first, library second) in France and normally it's full during the day (close at 7 pm).
Same, though primarily for leadership positions. Most probably looking for someone to run an offshore team.
Confusion, uncertainty in industry as Army contracts seemingly halted
The goal is that the composable parts get woven into an efficient, planner-friendly query. Stored procedures completely undermine that unless something very exciting has happened since last I checked (SQL Server, but probably applies to all of them). You will likely end up in a "row by agonizing row" situation.

(Okay, maybe you can find a few cases where stored procs work decently, but in general both composability and performance will be much worse than the proposed functors.)
I don’t get it. If you want to avoid algorithmic garbage maybe don’t subscribe to a playlist made by an algorithm. There are tons and tons of human curated playlists on Spotify. There are also hundreds of radio stations across the US streaming online for free.

People have these ultra narrow niche picky preferences and then ragequit when they don’t get their way.

“I want a machine learning customized playlist but it should have perfect intuition about what is made by humans and what is not and if you can’t make that I’ll call you ‘garbage.’”

We can’t even sort email properly with algos and we’ve been trying for over 30 years. We can’t block phishing.

If you hate Spotify so much go back to your cd collection or try pirating mp3s again. That service is a miracle — dozens and dozens of startups burned hundreds of millions trying to build something like that years before - and all people can do is whine. “Mehhh, it’s electron, waaaaa”. Ok go make your own service in c++ or whatever and then get all the major labels on board and then make it popular and then make it profitable. I’ll wait. Or actually I won’t I think I’ll go listen to Money for Nothing on Spotify on any of five or six operating systems.

Tech is wasted on people like this. Show some appreciation for the miracles around us. Spotify is one of them.
DeepSeek Resets the Board
Most things you run in a pipeline don't need access to the filesystem or the network.

Something dangerous like ffmpeg would be better if the codecs were running without access to files or the network, although you'd need a not fully sandboxed process to load the media in the first place.

Many things do need file access, but could work well with an already opened fd, rather than having to open things themselves (although forcing that results in terrible UX).

Of course, filesystem access gets tricky because of dynamic loading, but lets pretend away that for now.
And they'll sell your reading habit information. And since it'd be commercial the "pen register" jurisprudence applies meaning that the government can use it to put you on a list. This last point is prevented for public libraries because being part of the government they're bound from gathering that kind of information under the first amendment.
Similarly to making so many of the playlists "made for you", they've completely ruined the "radio" feature. You used to be able to select the radio option on a song, artist, or playlist and get a playlist of songs that seemed to be a good mix of musically similar and being liked by people who liked the selected starting point.

Starting at some point around 2 years ago (it seems they A-B tested this for a while because it went back and forth), the radio option became so highly customized to your user account that most songs it plays will be ones you've heard a billion times, even songs that aren't remotely similar in any way other than that you like them.

And the playlist radio option, which was the most powerful one for discovery, has been completely removed.

I used the radio option for years to discover new music, and I really loved it. Now I feel a twinge of sadness mixed with rage when my memories of the good days get me to open Spotify and I remember what it's become.
made this super easy to use tool https://github.com/skirdey-inflection/r2md
Some Garmin GPS watches are stuck in a blue triangle boot loop
That's not a meaningfully different context, unfortunately.
Nah. I'd almost argue that discovery coding is what helps define the architecture. I've seen way too many cases of over complexity designing a system for scale that will never be hit which results in an architecture that is too rigid to add new features to. If you do discovery coding you would realize the real bottlenecks and functionality that's required and can build an architecture that addresses those concerns instead of just designing for design's sake.
I don't see why Spotify's suggestions are all that important. I use it when I want full control over what I'm going to listen to. I search for artists and songs I learned about somewhere else and make my own playlists.
If this were the prominent mentality, some of the greatest pieces of software there are would never have existed because they would run into too many brick walls to even try.

Do you never go back and redesign things later? Can we not ship unless we have all ends neatly tied up?
Yes, the one I went to as a child had a monthly fee and a per-book fee. It had a far more extensive collection than the SFPL library at 4th and Berry in a much more compact space. Most SFPL libraries appear to be homeless-support centers, which diminishes their capacity to carry books since they assign greater room to support functions. But perhaps that is the source of the value observed in the OP.

As an aside, are there university libraries one can join directly for a fee? I was under the impression they were bundled in with tuition etc. If it’s around $100/month I wouldn’t mind that, but perhaps that is an unachievable target.
Not exactly the same but this reeks of https://sso.tax.
There's a classic movie from the 1970s by Thomas Banchoff about these visualizations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90olwwLdEYg

It was considered a very impressive use of computers for math communication and education in its day. (I know this from hearing people talk about it in the 1990s, not because I was around when it first came out!)
IPO market is still dead. VC companies are all stuck in PE purgatory. AI was a bright spark but now Deepseek is killing that dream too.
According to [1], it started with Franklin:

In addition to membership libraries, Benjamin Franklin also played a role in the development of the first lending library. In 1790, Franklin donated a collection of books to a Massachusetts town that named itself after him. Though the town asked Franklin to donate a bell, he determined that "sense" was more important than "sound." Franklin residents voted for those donated books to be freely available for town members, creating the nation's first public library.

[1] https://dp.la/exhibitions/history-us-public-libraries/beginn...
I prefer to keep the SQL itself as simple as possible. I've gotten by OK by composing SQL in my outer code as needed. Despite relying crazy heavily on SQL, that's rarely needed. And the outer code has tests.

It'd just be nice if Postgres could loosen the syntax in a few annoying places, like allowing a trailing comma in "WITH q1 AS (...), q2 AS (...)" Or if something could be done to avoid needing the "WHERE true AND" trick.
Because libraries are often used by the people who can least afford it. They offer resume classes, ESL, computer literacy, some will even have collections of clothes that can be borrowed for job interviews. Libraries should be a public service, not a private institution.
You're both right. You just are talking about completely different things.
The plane they used in this test is a 1/3 scale version of the final product.
AI music is fine take it or leave it.

The killer app of Spotify has been expanding my horizons past the 30 tracks on my MP3 player. But that seems to have stalled. I do like being notified when bands I like release new music. I am hopeless at keeping up with music so thats useful.
does this account for all the listings? or is there a mystery "other" category that's rising as these ones fall?
My super basic feature request is to be able to report wrong metadata. It's just impossible right now unless you're the artist as far as I can tell. For example Dreaming Bull (https://open.spotify.com/artist/7s6vcAnBioL2PJisG8YMww) with a single actual album in 2014 is either taken over by or merged with some random crap. But Spotify doesn't care enough to even let me let them know. (Yes, I filled out the contact form multiple times - it's ignored)
Even less pretty for getattr. And then you have a rude awakening about the difference between the missing default behavior of these two functions.
The idea you have is nice, but congress doesn't pass real budgets any more. That means that there is a lot more ability to make the money slosh around.
I replaced that with kagi, unliminted access to multiple models including Claude, O1 and V3/R1 + you also get Kagi, which was already a good deal
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Libraries in NYC during winter time are mostly daycare to keep homeless people warm.
The most vocal supporter of Lina Khan's work over the last few years has been JD Vance... while I can't remember a single democrat voicing even close to the same support.
In the US, there are some private archives. And university libraries with varying degrees of public access somewhat depending upon the degree that you can walk in and look like you belong. But real public libraries don't generally have a lot of restrictions.
The Mechanics’ Institute in SF is a “historic membership library”, for one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanics%27_Institute,_San_Fr...

A lovely place
Was there some proof that PFC includes AI generated content? While it seems most likely true I'd like to see e.g. a quote from someone involved.
Original title:

"How do bots know my Telebit domain?"
It's the HN effect, as well as selection bias. People here are highly technical and may notice things that regular people don't, or they do things in a very idiosyncratic way. I remember seeing comments here before about how some people have no cell phone, run only a very old school terminal based computer, etc, for example. They also seem to be annoyed at very specific things as you can see in the comments here, things that the average user wouldn't even think about. Ultimately, HN and other technical fora are not representative of the average user's experience.
youtube with ublock on is the ultimate music website
I know someone who works at a public library in a small city. A lot of their work is "managing" homeless, mentally ill, and drug addicted customers who are attracted by shelter and free computers and internet.

I don't particularly have a problem with public funds going toward that, but I don't think library staff are trained or signed up for that work, or that libraries are an appropriate and cost effective way to help these people.

I don't think libraries should be sacred. They're nice to look at and nostalgic, but are increasingly anachronisms. Specialized facilities for higher education and historical research I can see still having some use, perhaps small school libraries, but the average public library not so much. They use a lot of space, a lot of floor space for books, requires staffing.
Same for my mother-in-law. But very little benefit unfortunately. It’s a shame it didn’t add much value for such big surgeries.
One of the sad realities about physical libraries is that they are dying, at least in American university systems that have been parasitized by management consulting firms.

For instance, Georgia Tech recently moved their physical collection to off-campus stacks shared with Emory University, and both the University of South Carolina and Texas A&M University systems are downsizing collections and moving towards an access model reliant on the ILL system. The A&M system has even gone further and largely eliminated tenure for librarians. Other university systems, like the one in my snall state, have started to push checking out ebooks over physical books in various ways, possibly in preparation for more drastic changes like this, or at least so that they can begin downsizing their collections

This doesn't just affect students at universities, since many public institutions have historically offered community borrowing, and often have extremely rare books that simply aren't available otherwise

It's a complicated issue since this phenomenon is driven partly by user demand -- students are reading much less than they used to, and far less in the way of physical books, and university systems are responding to changes in demand. It's still sad to see
In this case though... the actions you are referring to are the words Andy Yen used?
First, impeachment is a political process, not a legal one. He was proven to have committed extortion and bribery by the House prosecutors in the first impeachment, and his defense was he was allowed to do it, not that he didn't do it. That to me screams "above the law", because what he was proven to have done was extort a bribe, and that is in fact an enumerated impeachable offense. You can't square that circle without using his party affiliation to elevate him above that clause of the Constitution. If he were a Democrat he would have been impeached and removed, but then again he would never have been elected as a Democrat.

As for the law, the legal process did not fully play out. We were promised courts would be the appropriate venue by McConnell when he voted to acquit despite saying that the evidence shows he is guilty. That's not really an acquittal in the way you're trying to portray because the only reason the acquittal happened was because McConnell felt the case deserved to be tried in court, not in the Senate.

But where is that trial? It was curtailed due to Trump's election as POTUS, and it was stymied by people he appointed to the court. So how are you going to talk about the rule of law, when justice has been denied to the American people for the crimes committed against us? Where is our trial? It was cancelled because... what's that? He's above the law until he's actually demonstrably bound by it. So far that demonstration has been elusive.

What I want is a trial, with evidence, a judge, and a jury. That's not mob rule.
I remember this was related to Reagan and Thatcher's policies. Essentially, it was more about concentrating funds and redistributing them. Those working on the distribution side, such as in finance and technology, benefited greatly.
You have a very strange idea of wasting time.

If I want to survey the effectiveness of Post Office in the era of Internet (email, messenger, etc), I'd definitely interview mainly the visitors to the Post office to check their their purposes, experiences and activities there. For example, you'll probably find someone posting a postcard inside the post office since that someone is probably a visiting tourist.
Ask HN: AI bots everywhere – does anyone have a good whitelist for robots.txt?
My niche little site, http://golfcourse.wiki seems to be very popular with AI bots. They basically become most of my traffic. Most of them follow robots.txt, and that's nice and all, but they are costing me non-trivial amounts of money.

I don't want to block most search engines. I don't want to block legitimate institutions like archive.org. Is there a whitelist that I could crib instead of pretty much having to update my robots file every damn day?
Yes and it's very slow as a result. In-order cores without speculative execution can't be fast. Not unless you have no memory and only operate out of something equivalent to L1 cache.

Memory is slow. Insanely slow (compared to the CPU). You can process stupid fast if your entire working set can fit in a 2KB L1 cache, but the second you touch memory you're hosed. You can't hide memory latency without out-of-order execution and/or SMT. You fundamentally need to be parallel to hide latency. CPUs do it with out-of-order and speculative execution. GPUs do it by being stupidly parallel and running something like 32-64 way SMT (huge simplification). Many high-performance CPUs do all of these things.

Instruction level parallelism is simply not optional with the DRAM latency we have.
Are they greyed out because you blocked them? I'm confused?

I'm 99% my discover weekly hasn't had one yet... and I have a full archive of all my discover weekly's from the last 4 years... Can anybody show me a simple way to check for AI Gnerated content in this list?
You can’t avoid something you can’t notice ;)
Reminded me of a goose landing on a lake.
What it does show is that CUDA leaves serious performance optimization on the table despite its gigantic code base. Using compression to reduce memory bandwidth is a well known trick in quantization, and in other scenarios since forever. There has been little competitive pressure on Nvidia to go further since their software stack leaves the competition in the dust. This time, they may actually need to step up their efforts, due to customer pressure. Good times!
This is a really cool tool. Will definitely be my go to for downloading anime and then plopping them on my Jellyfin server. May also just replace using Twitch in a browser for background noise, which usually kills resources on my dev machine.
It might be better to think of Malimite as "JADX but for iOS/Mac".

(JADX is a very popular Android decompiler)

Ghidra is quite limiting, and the workflow makes iOS reverse engineering quite cumbersome.

Malimite is intended to have a swappable back-end, so theoretically compilers other than Ghidra can be used in the future.
The military has never had an operational supersonic transport aircraft. It's not a high enough priority for them to fund development of one from scratch, but if it's available on the civilian market then they'll probably buy a few. There are a few potential missions such as dignitary transport or rapid delivery of special operations teams.
The really small towns around here have the library in the same building as the community center and police station.

Seems to help somewhat.
I don't know about that. Writing the code for these models seems pretty hard, or we'd have AGI already.
No, Kindle with Special Offers (aka mandatory ads).
Andrew Carnegie helped establish a whole bunch of public libraries across the US. He's probably the only reason every town has one.
Came here to mention this -- private libraries are a thing in the US, but tend to not be heavily promoted, and there aren't many of them.
Weird take. I don’t know anyone who detests podcasts. They just don’t listen to them.

Having such strong feelings about something you can just ignore is unhealthy.

FWIW, I cancelled Spotify last year and their focus on podcasts was one of the reasons. But there are plenty of other services that cater to music lovers so I just increased my bandcamp spend and moved on with my life.
* Research faster interstellar travel, especially using something like a Buzzard engine to utilize interstellar hydrogen as resection mass. Required nuclear fusion power plants / engines and ridiculously strong magnetic fields; both seem attainable.

* Slow down human body metabolism and allow humans to stay asleep at near-freezing temperatures for a long time. If bears and chipmunks can do it, chances are humans could learn it, too.

* Invent sets of machines that can reliably self-replicate, given most basic inputs like minerals, water, and sunlight. Advanced semiconductors are going to be the tricky part.

* Study psychology, sociology, history, game theory, etc, so that the early society that will form on the new planet, isolated from Earth, would avoid at least some of the pitfalls that plagued human history on its home planet.
Federal judge orders temporary resumption of spending frozen by Trump
Not everyone has "vision".

Most people are just drones, and that's fine, that's just not them.
Oh that's fascinating, what state was this in?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42859421
Sure, was just correcting the channel name in case anyone was looking for the video. I wasn't attempting to be a pendant.
I know this doesn't make things better, but it bears repeating: much as the media would like it to be, this is not caused by AI. Two major things happened in 2022 that everyone knew would cause this if they stuck around:

* The Section 174 changes went into effect, requiring all software to be expensed as R&D, which means it can't be deducted from profits directly and instead has to be amortized over 5 years [0].

* Interest rates went back up starting in Feb 2022 and continuing through Aug 2023. This chart [1] is a near-perfect mirror of the job trends.

I know this doesn't help anyone who's struggling right now, but it does serve to emphasize that this didn't just happen, and it wasn't the result of technological advances making us obsolete. Federal policy was set up to encourage an enormous amount of investment into software development, and it's now... not. Turns out politics matters.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34627712

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1DfOX
I will add my two cent because just like you we seem to have similar background. I am average intelligence. I do have a MBA and most importantly I am rich. I actually grew up poor and was middle class most of my life. The biggest misconception is that as an entrepreneur you have to start or create something new. The truth of the matter is that you may not have it in you to work as hard and make the sacrifice needed. I felt the same way, starting something from scratch is not my cup of tea. I became rich because I started buying businesses. Think about the advantages. You already have customers, cash flow and staff all you have to do is come in and make it better or keep it the same if everything is already good. Yes, you need capital but if you do get the capital starting a business recommended instead of starting from scratch and most of the time you may not even need to quit your day job. Good luck!!!
If you're listening to new music, and recommendations, how do you know you've not heard at least some AI music? I only listen to one playlist on Apple Music (my weekly personalised New Music Mix) and I've had to report several AI tracks.
They were easy to spot as they all used the trick of releasing under the same name as successful artists who are in-between release cycles. These scammers bank on fans clicking without thinking which is money in the bank for them. I'm also pretty best about reading the bio of every new artist I'm recommended.

There's one prolific ai musician producing logo beats (boring) and psychedelic ambient (pretty much random drones) that I just can't shake from my playlists as they release lots of stuff under several different names.
Statistical Process Control: Practitioner's Guide
we need generalized transparency & control for AI content. a standard for metadata annotations, watermarking & UI indicators to inform consumers of AI content and allow them to screen it out.

The problem with the AI content is that it cheapens real content . I'm not talking about the money, i mean the intrinsic and emotional value experienced when connecting with the content. AI pictures make you feel less engaged when you see a real picture from a friend.