skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That just means that the edge you’re able to retain if you invest $1B is nonexistent.

Jeez. Must be really tough to have some comparatively small group of people financially destroy your industry with your own mechanically-harvested professional output while dubiously claiming to be be better than you when in reality it’s just a lot cheaper. Must be tough.

Maybe they should take some time to self-reflect and make some art and writing about it using the products they make that mechanically harvest the work of millions of people, and have already screwed up the commercial art and writing marketplaces pretty throughly. Maybe tell DeepSeek it’s their therapist and get some emotional support and guidance.
My first cat (who just magically arrived in our garden) is only 5 years with us. But it's so cool how you learn to read their body language and noises/sounds so quickly and so well.

I remember, before I had a cat, that cats could be so unpredictable. A good friend of mine had a cat that loved to be pet, but could claw you a millisecond later. Now, after owning one, I can read their faces, ears, tail and other cues. I'm sure I could have read that cat better now.

I converse with mine too. He replies with a positive prrr or yell if he agrees. If he's not interested in what I'm offering, he will look disinterested. I love him to bits.
I recommend starting from maltose or fructose, personally. Did you get to the third line of the comment you were replying to?

(Distillation is independent of fermentation, you can get as far as Champagne (or 20% hooch with turbo yeast) without firing up the still.)
You can use inspect.lua to debug tables [1]

[1] https://github.com/kikito/inspect.lua
What was Biden looking for?
On the other hand, if everybody all collectively agreed not to work on adtech, there would be no adtech (or adtech companies). Our decisions don't exist in a vacuum with everyone else's choices being static.
Apart from the comparison to NTDLL making no sense, you'd be wrong about the tools too. It aims to provide a basic standardized way to do most system-level management (set up networking, do DNS resolution, get a decently synchronized system clock) but it absolutely does not aim to replace more specialized tools like chrony or NetworkManager. For example, timesyncd doesn't do NTP or PTP, only SNTP.

systemd (the PID 1), journald and udev are different, though, because they're mandatory; and there's no alternative to logind while technically optional.
Is there a good benchmark one can look at that shows the best performing llm in terms of instruction following or overall score?

The only ones I am aware of is benchmarks on Twitter, Chatbot Arena [1] and Aider benchmark [2]

1. https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmarena-ai/chatbot-arena-leade...

2. https://aider.chat/docs/leaderboards
Colloquially, I think people call this 'pay to win'. If there's not one single price of entry that delineates someone playing vs not playing, i.e. if money spent results in any power level difference between players, that's pay to win, even if there's a ceiling to how much paying more than just buying a starter deck will get you.
On paper, while they are continuously revising up the cost.

You know, just like Flamanville 3 was back in 2005 before they had a 7x cost over run and 13 year delay on a 5 year project.

Try get them to sign a fixed price contract for delivery at said competitive price. We all know they will run scared from the room because otherwise they would be selling their product using that method.

Today they are relying on absolutely enormous government subsidies, where the government both subsidizes the electricity and takes on the project risk.
Good thing all decisions over at CorporateLand (Ubuntu, RedHat etc) are made on merit alone!

And that their merits align with the merit of everyone else. /s
Overfitting and Excuses
The open-source ones? I don't even remember nowadays, because they got squished under the XMPP juggernaut. I think there was one that was based off of Gadu-Gadu's protocol (may even have been basically the same protocol with just the servers switched out). But whenever someone tried to drum up support for a new open-source messenger it was always "Why not just use XMPP? It's the standard, and it's extensible, so I'm sure it can accommodate whatever features you were thinking of".
Yes, definitely. It's still the sanest choice imo.
And your suggestion would put it even further behind.
It would certainly help being able hide tags easily, as a guest. They add way too much visual noise without adding much in terms of the ux.

The choice of colors is also rather unconventional and not exactly appealing.
It comes down to a philosophy you choose.

I personally think that most of the OS decisions done by Microsoft are wrong and should be killed with fire but also I'm far from thinking bad about the people who made these decisions. Perhaps these decisions make sense from their standpoint given the information they had a time.

On the other hand on Linux I'd really wish for a centralized settings repository like Registry. But not from the systemd crowd, of course.
You could take a look at SELÖVE, a (severely out of date) fork of LÖVE that is intended to make it safe to run arbitrary .love games. (It used to be on bitbucket, but it looks like it's gone? I'm not sure if I have the repo locally :/)

Running arbitrary code was such a problem that I just completely ruled it out for bitser. Instead of serializing functions, you can register safe functions as resources. This doesn't solve the upvalue problem, though.
I've read somewhere (maybe even here on HN?) about the supposed emulation improvements regarding later 68k and early powerpc macintoshes in the latest versions of MAME, which have been way overlooked in the past by the emu community - We're still stuck using basiliskII, sheepshaver (with very few improvements since 2008) or some (understandably so) cumbersome QEMU builds.

Hopefully we're getting a more accurate, multimedia-centric emulator for these platforms.
Great essay, I was disappointed to find no reference to the best-selling author Julia Donaldson, or her masterwork, The Gruffalo.

The Gruffalo inhabits a territory never before seen in children's literature. It goes beyond existentialism and metaphysics and yet retains an adorable accessibility that a 2 year old can understand. Spoilers follow if you are still in the pre-Gruffalo phase of your life.

Already in line two of the whole book our protagonist, the mouse, is in mortal danger when the fox thinks "the mouse looked good" (to eat).

The mouse digs deeps into his dark imagination and concocts an enemy so abominable, based on his own worst possible fears, in the hope that it also scares away the fox. And by some miracle, a few burnished details and a roaring old wives' tale ("his favourite food is roasted fox") he actually extricates himself from mortal danger in front of this fast and formidable foe.

The process is repeated again with the owl and the snake. Each time the mouse digs deeper, building up a fictional image of a catastrophically horrendous creature that no sane animal would ever wish to encounter. Each time scaring off an increasingly deadly enemy. The ongoing survival of the mouse against all odds leads him to a fleeting moment of relaxation...

But then, before his own eyes, looming a footstep away...the very projection of his own and his enemies' worst fears. The Gruffalo - that he himself merely imagined - has been instantiated. His nightmare cannot be undone. The mouse must face his own creation.

But, we are dealing with a mouse of such pluck and chutzpah we know the story must continue. He tickles the Gruffalo with the preposterous assertion that the mouse is in fact the scariest animal in the wood. Chuckled by this, the Gruffalo entertains himself by following along for a few moments.

As they encounter again the snake, owl and fox, each runs in fear of the Gruffalo. But each time the mouse appears to demonstrate that it is in fact him they are running from, not the Gruffalo. Doubts form in the Gruffalo's mind (itself created by the mind of the mouse) and his confidence ebbs (as the mouse's grows).

Finally, in the greatest stanza in children's literature, the masterstroke.

"Well, Gruffalo," said the mouse. "You see?
Everyone is afraid of me!
But now my tummy's beginning to rumble.
My favourite food is - gruffalo crumble!"

This teasing patronisation dispatches the Gruffalo with immediate effect. The mouse has won, against his worst enemies, and against his worst nightmare. From mortal danger he created something even more terrible, and then defeated his own demons with wit and confidence. What a journey!

There is no other children's book like this.
Tell me you never lived in a high inflation country without telling me
It looks like a mixture between Akka (https://getakka.net/ less enterprisy than the Java version), which is based on the actor model and has a focus on distributed systems, and reactive libraries like rx (https://reactivex.io/). So maybe https://doc.akka.io/libraries/akka-core/current/stream/index... is the best fit.
> For me, "HN for X" sounds like a "Reddit channel with a sense of grandeur".

it's a bit sad seeing such a derisive comment about self-hosting on HN
Adobe Chief Strategy Officer Scott Belsky Exits to Join A24 as Partner
Yes. The green house gas effect has been studied since 1856.

The 'right' is willfully ignorant. Not just ignorant because they just haven't been exposed. They willfully decide to be ignorant because knowledge goes against their religion.

"The year was 1856. Foote’s brief scientific paper was the first to describe the extraordinary power of carbon dioxide gas to absorb heat – the driving force of global warming."

https://www.weforum.org/stories/2021/07/scientists-physics-c...

https://history.aip.org/climate/co2.htm
> like users enthusiastically saying "wow this is an improvement".

Who are the users in this case?
resolved and timesyncd are intended to be removed by the end user of the operating system. Sort of like a transparent peel is intended to be removed by the buyer of a new shiny device.

I haven't seen anything worse than those two from systemd crowd.
It's interesting, I remember comic collecting got really hot in the 90s (after 50s - 70s kids grew up in the silver age of comics). Wonder if every generation's favorite childhood nerd collectibles just hits a point where the generation has real purchasing power, decides to buy that Charizard card they always wanted as a kid, and a bubble develops.
That's another problem, particularly out West (but also in Vermont). Most ski resorts operate at least partly on public land such as national forests. The relevant land management agencies, particularly the Forest Service, have been extremely slow/reluctant to grant the permits for new ski resorts to operate, or for existing ones to expand.
Haha same.
Don’t be sad for commercial entity that is not a good player https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/11016#issuecomme...
When is Windows support coming?
Homer: "Marge, a gun is just a tool! Like a harpoon, or a butcher knife or ... an alligator."
What type of financial resources?

If you mean Euro balances - that is worth nothing in the context of what Europe can produce. If state currency could be converted to production capabilities, countries could just print money to increase production.
> It's 4 white British middle class kids (Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy) who have the privilege of being sent to the country during a dangerous time

That is only true for one book in the series.

What about Aravis and the Telmarines who were not white British? The very working class character who founds the original Narnian royal dynasty? Those are just the major characters, what about all the minor characters? Then there are the non-human characters who are not exactly like any of us.

BTW a lot of kids of all classes were evacuated during the war AFAIK - it was not a privilege.

> But for the many, many people who prefer to read stories about people like themselves and can't identify with Peter and Susan, I'm glad there is something for them now.

One of the purposes of literature (and one endorsed by CS Lewis) is to identify and empathise with people unlike yourself. Anyone who only enjoys literature about people like themselves is missing out a lot.
I think the previous poster made it clear they were just explaining where the complaining comes from. Why are you trying to debate their description of other people's motivations for complaining?
Most of my Ruby use is unexpected ;) I don't like Rails, and while I do lots of web dev in Ruby, I think line for line I've written more non-web related Ruby code than web apps.

If you like it, note the X binding is also pure Ruby. Though incomplete it covers most of the important stuff, including enough of XRender to let my (pure Ruby, but translated from a C project) font renderer use it (not used by the wm, but used by my terminal; I really need to clean up the terminal enough to be comfortable pushing the current version of to Github)
It’s not about self hosting, it’s about how community building is hard.
Mental Sets Effect
Expertise Reversal Effect
Disequilibrium: Learning Theory and Personal Practice (2015)
I know very little about window managers, but I know a bit about Ruby, so... Does this have any performance implications?
> I find it quite baffling that there's even such a thing as an entire conference on a specific law.

The AI Act is a big set of legislation which is interesting and impactful. Why would we not set dedicated time aside to talk about it? I think it would be more baffling if we didn't.

As a developer in the EU having had to consider GDPR in our systems, I support GDPR and believe sometimes disruption is needed to safeguard individuals' interests. Similarly, as an AI developer in the EU I personally support the idea of regulating defined high-risk use cases of AI.
Oh wow, didn't expect to meet the author, thank you!
I'm honestly really excited for this to be more widely adopted to the point it can be used without polyfills. While the API is a little verbose for my liking, it's extremely capable.

Being able to replace all the various date and time libraries with something browser-native is a massive win for bundle sizes, as even the most lightweight ones are going to start creeping up there once you're dealing with localisation on top of it.
Thats awesome man! Im a solopreneur myself, and I struggle with the same thing. I just shipped a new product (AI Crypto agent) and Im planning to launch it on Product Hunt soon, but I know the outcome. It is super hard to get your moment to shine there. DEFINITELY going to launch my product in your app as well. Just to get some solid eyes on it you know, no to become Bill Gates overnight :P cool stuff, i just created a profile in your app
> it gets the job done

Except exactly the opposite is true: it is sysvinit (and derivatives) who had the job done. In a very basic way, slow and perhaps not even compatible with modern requirements and expectations, but the job was done.

Systemd on the other hand does the job it thinks should be done, not you. Your opinion does not matter.

You can spend however much time you want editing /etc/ssh/sshd_config and then restarting sshd and then pulling your hair out on why tf sshd ignores certain options while still definitely parsing sshd_config. Only to later find out that systemd/ubuntu crowd decided to listen on port 22 via systemd, sort of like inetd did back in the days. It's like sshd directly listening on port was not good enough for the last 30 years, definitely had to be changed. Oh yeah, and to make your life miserable, they mask the name of the listening process with "sshd" in it, so you get confused even more.

And people can come up with countless of similar examples.

Incredible attitude and arrogance is what makes people hate systemd.
AI and Palantir are reshaping how we fight crime
Maybe you can do a comparison to another well known open source project and see how well systemd fares: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/l...
Do you think your considering HN a clear exception to being “Reddit with a sense of grandeur” might have more to do with your vantage point than your ability to gauge the value of online communities?
If you rearrange the way you see things it's simple to not be sycophantic at all. If you're interested in contributing to their work you will be of value to the team you are trying to join. Don't think about it as them doing you a favor. It's a positive sum game and by reaching out you're potentially making everyone richer.
When easy to spot we spot it easily when hard to spot we just never spot it. So we conclude it's always easy. I can't remember the name of this cognitive bias.
some?

Let's rephrase the question the other way: is there anyone who thinks that LP's attitude is fine?
Given that certain members of the White House are personally profiting from certain tokens, the havoc for others is their wealth creation.
Have you tried awesomewm? Tbh I never really understood why i3 is so popular and few people seem to mention awesome.
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Many of us cared ever since Musk announced to buy Twitter. But we were shitstormed and downvoted into oblivion here and on Reddit for sounding the alarm bells... and now, look where we stand.

The salute made people care because it was completely and utterly undeniable evidence. Of course, people still try to excuse even that, but a lot of the Musk apologists got pretty silent after it.
Using federated forum solutions would at least partly solve the chiken/egg problem. Forum software like NodeBB and reddit/HN-type variants like Lemmy, opens the possibility of having a topic based communiy, while still being open for interactions from the entirety of the Fediverse.

This already works well for Mastodon and Pixelfed; I follow accounts on mastodon.art from my Pixelfed account.

The reach of folks at the art focused Mastodon instance is not limited to their community. The same is possible for reddit and forum like communities!

Look at it like this; every forum becomes a potential sub-forum in the global network.
>the privilege of being sent to the country during a dangerous time.

Children of all social classes were evacuated- the slum child evacuated to a prosperous country farmhouse is practically a trope, while some children of wealthy families stayed in London. The only thing that decided whether children went or not was their parents' choice.

Though the Pevensies are relatively privileged in that they have a (EDIT: family friend not uncle) in the countryside who has room for them rather than being sent to a stranger's house.

(EDIT: actually, I can't remember- is there an indication that they knew the Professor before the war?)
Also to add that personally, I moved from i3 to bspwm first, and you might be happier with bspwm than mine in its current state (but thoughtful PR's are welcome)

I had basically two motivations to write my own: 1) because I could, 2) because bspwm - at least at the time had a couple of quirks I disliked: a) if I ran a file manager, it'd open on all the desktops, b) it took a hack that wasn't very satisfying to get one desktop to be floating while the others were tiled. Those were minor, and so if I hadn't already been working on extending X11 bindings for Ruby for my other Ruby projects I probably would've stayed on bspwm, but since my usage was also very simple, I figured I'd see how long I'd last, and I got close enough within a few days to decide it was viable to keep using my own instead of trying to fix bspwm.

My tolerance level for weird quirks that I'm in control of is very high, though. It feels very different when its your own bugs :)
"profit-driven environmental destruction has been happening since way before the invention of cryptocurrency"

Yes. People forget that every tree on the east coast was cut down. Every forest you see today on the east coast was re-grown, new. It was all clear cut for progress during expansion. I think it was mostly for 'potash' by burning it.
So who is this Hacker News for?
the Chicago Manual of Style suggests this order:
⃰ (asterisk)
† (dagger)
‡ (double dagger)
§ (section mark)
‖ (parallels)
# (hash)

(Hard to present glyphs that would actually be used in print - I've chosen what I think is close - but they are not that close because wrong font)
For cars sold nowadays, users can deactivate that every time they turn the car on, but the default cannot be changed without vendor specific OBD commands.
That's super cool

I think you could make it clearer, try reading the readme as someone with the preconceived notion that this is Yet Another Lua Serializer that translates functions, userdata and threads to their tostring() output. There are hundreds of those projects
I would put a slight twist on it though: it seems to me like kids begin by default with very transactional patterns, and must be taught to have "relationships rooted in empathy and a steadfast commitment to the good of the other". The very patience that, say, teachers or nursery staff have to have give that impression: the ideal staff is always patient, never tired or irritable, never bored with what the children do or say, and so on; and it's partly the parents' job to help point out to children that the professional people they interact with are real people who have their own lives.

The challenge with LLMs is that there is no "real person" behind there to have an own life. The AI doesn't go home at the end of the day, never needs rest, never needs to have "me time" or let their guard down, has no other independent purpose than to serve the child (or some other human). So if we were to replace all the service workers in our lives with AIs, we'd lose loads of opportunities for developing empathy.
Thanks, just yesterday I discovered that Ollama could not use iGPU on my AMD machine, and was going through a long issue for solutions/workarounds (https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/2637). Existing instructions are based on Linux, and some people found it utterly surprising that anyone wants to run LLMs on Windows (really?). While I would have no trouble installing Linux and compile from source, I wasn't ready to do that to my main, daily-use computer.

Great to see this.

PS. Have you got feedback on whether this works on Windows? If not, I can try to create a build today.
Ahhh, speaking of traditional forums, I personally like https://www.skyscrapercity.com/, it's still surprisingly active. It's also the only where I can get the most updated news about public transport/infrastructure in my country (Indonesia).

Also I just remembered that rateyourmusic apparently have their own forum too: https://rym.fm I've never taken a deep look at it, but it's surprisingly... active?
Perhaps some start this way. But in terms of the general trend of talented engineers and mathematicians being sucked into this quant vortex, it is a matter of making wealthy people wealthier.
Nothing noticeable. X11 wm's receive high-level events, such as windows opening, closing etc., they're not in-band for anything computationally heavy unlike e.g. Wayland compositors.
I worked on an application used in a paper factory that produced paper for banknotes. The entire point of the application was to make sure every single sheet of the paper was accounted for. There were unique barcodes printed on it as soon as it was dry enough to do so, and tracked throughout the production process.

Fun fact: confirming the proper disposal of damaged sheets required special privileges, and the name for the user role was "destroyer". So someone could rightfully claim their job title was "destroyer".
the post clearly implies that opting for independent hosting instead of creating a subreddit (the admittedly easier route, for community building as well as technologically) for a niche forum indicates a "sense of grandeur"