skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think bhaney was being snarky. Censoring words that don't need censoring seems to me to be a recent phenomena. I'm glad there is push back.
I'll have the Normalcy Coin ($NRML) ready to launch as soon as that happens!!
It’s to make things easier for casual users.

With ollama I type brew install ollama and then ollama get something, and I have it already running.
With llama.ccp it’s seems i have to build it first, then manually download models somewhere - this is an instant turnoff, i maybe have 5 minutes of my life to waste on this
I'm more annoyed by them. They're so small on my work monitor that it's nearly impossible to tell them apart. They just look like smudges.

I don't get the need to use novel symbols like this when standard numerals would suffice.
I think broader impact section is good. Whether it should be weighted as high as it was is up to debate. I personally think it was becoming too important for the success of the proposal.

But obviously the new administration is not interested in any sort of nuanced debate, but rather ideological purge.
I did not assume the worst when submitting the post, but that is also my suspicion. The whole thing is very dodgy.
they can pass all the laws they want, still won't be able to enforce them if the contributors are motivated enough.
I live in the greater Detroit area and would love for it to become a thriving tech community. While articles like this portray a thriving tech scene here, it’s not entirely accurate. Many automotive companies claim a need for tech talent but establish labs and locations in the Bay Area. For instance, Rivian’s vehicle software isn’t developed in Michigan, despite being HQed here.

The prominent tech employers in our area are Rocket, United Wholesale Mortgage, and GM. I believe our tech talent lacks the competitiveness of other tech hubs. I hope the state of Michigan can take proactive steps to enhance the appeal of our state and Detroit as desirable tech locations, but we must acknowledge that we are not yet a thriving tech hub.
Ollama is sketchy enough that I run it in a VM. Which is odd because it would probably take less effort to just run Llama.cpp directly, but VMs are pretty easy so just went that route.

When I see people bring up the sketchiness most of the time the creator responds with the equivalent of shrugs, which imo increases the sketchiness.
> vetting projects that goes against the government's ideology...

This is with the previous administration was also doing. You were required to buy into the DEI ideology, prove your loyalty to the new religion.
Sure sounds like an easy way to get yourself on a financial fraud watchlist if this starts operating where I live. I'd stay far away from Europe.
> The fact that you made a software just to spread your dangerous ideology is _so_ disgusting.

Why do we keep making this mistake of looking at the character of a person to judge the merit of the creations?

Sure every creation is a form of self-expression, software is not an exception. However, it doesn't mean that using the software makes you aligned in every way with the expressed views.

Yes, the Lemmy devs are morons who still defend the most abhorrent regimes. Gargron (the Mastodon dev) is a self-righteous prick who thinks he can control civil discourse by putting up barriers that can be easily overcome by any malicious actor. The Pleroma devs are sociopaths who can't even stand each other. The developer from PixelFed has the attention span of a toddler on a sugar high, keeps talking about "the power of community" but then goes on tirades against anyone that attempts to build upon any of his projects.

But at the of the day, absolutely none of this matters to the users. The software is free. The power is given to the user, not the developer. No one is asked to use the software only in a certain way, or to subscribe to any ideology before getting access to the source code.
Way too big for whom?
While it is a common trope that we see classrooms with 25+ children/teenagers as too big, I have rarely seen a comment that complains on university lectures hosting too many students.
How come? Good Lecture-design is a direct function of the percentage of students in a classroom who understand the input without lots of clarification needed.
There's a reason why we have different forms of teaching & learning in universities. Big passive lecture halls make sense to transfer basic information to a lot of people.
Small study groups make sense to deepen knowledge on a topic, midsized seminars are useful to stimulate students in questioning their own understanding of a topic and getting rid of blind spots in their conceptions.
Classrooms are similarly sized (at least in my country) compared to university seminars.
It is not the number of pupils that is too high. It is the architecture and structure of teaching and learning in schools that doesnt account for different learning/teaching formats and even more so ill-equipped teachers.
Studies have found again and again that classroom-size, even though often discussed, are actually a minor factor in the quality of teaching and learning. The number one factor by large is the teacher. If you have a capable teacher, who can lit the interest of their students, performance goes up.
If you have an unmotivated, badly/barely trained teacher (not necessarily trained as a teacher, but as a storyteller and facilitator), you can shrink the classroom as much as you want, the students won't learn anything.

The same goes for assisted homework-sessions. If the adult can ignite the interest of the student and get past the "I have to do this, but I don't even know why", it will work. Otherwise...well, ChatGTP provides at least a baseline of quality in explaining and rephrasing learning material.

So yes, I totally agree, children need human attention for a good development, but not necessarily in their study-time. If you look at the "hole in the wall"-experiments by S. Mitra, you'll see that the attention of a granny who asks with earnest interest what a child has learned today, the kid massively profits from that interaction even though the granny has no clue what the kid is talking about.
How can you possibly say it has no fundamentals?

Here are some use cases that give it a non-zero value:

It competes with Western Union for money transfers.

It provides ways to transfer money to places and for things the US government doesn't approve of.
This is an ideological conformity test.
In my mind, it doesn't help that llama.cpp's name is that of a source file. Intuitively, that name screams "library for further integration," not "tool for end-user use."
I suspect that projects are always vetted against ideology, because everyone has one and everyone believes that his own is correct. I doubt that one could get NSF funding for a study of racial differences in IQ. I am certain that one could not get it for any ‘research’ based on the idea that the Earth is 7,000 years old. That seems like a really good thing!

I think the news is less that a branch of the executive is complying with executive branch policy, and more that it’s surprising how much of the federal government’s actions are based not in the law and the Constitution, but rather in policy. One man almost sixty years ago creates a policy with a stroke of a pen, and it effectively becomes law; another now removes it with a stroke of a different pen. If the latter is a problem, surely the former was too; if the former was not a problem, then why is the latter?

Speaking of the Constitution, what is the Constitutional basis for this large structure of federal funding for the sciences? Nothing in Article I, Section 8 appears to cover it: the encouragement of science appears to be limited to copyright and patent monopolies.
The F-91W is such a fun little watch[1] and people have done the weirdest stuff with it. There's a guide to make the mod on Youtube[3]. There's also the TOTP in a F-91W[2]

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6REKCs4-1M

2) https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2022-10-17-otp-on-wrist/

3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLmAq0epfrI
Another piece of preserved software from the Alto is Medley Interlisp. This software is still alive today.

https://interlisp.org/
ollama is not doing anything. llama cpp does all that work. ollama is just a small wrapper on top.
Court Rejects Musi's Bid to Force Apple to Reinstate Its Music App
PPRUNE has a long thread about the accident at [1]. Usual mixture of perspectives, mostly well informed I think.

[1] https://www.pprune.org/accidents-close-calls/663888-aa5342-d...
It's fully open source. I mean yes it uses llama.cpp without giving it credit. But why run it in a VM?
Your example doesn't make sense because that's not how the syscall works.
I mean that referring to "HN for X" is like (more than a decade ago) "Facebook for X".

I consider HN a clean exception to most (all?) online communities in which I have been participaing; in all other cases, the quality tanked, they became ghost towns, or they just changed from their original goal.

Sure, there are many wonderful forums and special interest groups, and it is good that new ones have been created. Just HN is not something you start at, it is something you become.
Sounds great!

Just annoyed to use it I have to update all my unit test mocks for Date hahaha...
The purpose bitcoin holds is the same as gold, if it were impossible to mine more gold.

Gold isn't a good investment, simply because gold miners keep making more, devaluing your holdings.

Bitcoins promise is that that cannot happen.
ollama advertising llama.cpp features as their own is very dishonest in my opinion.
That is an error :)
The beginnings of dystopia, ushered in with applause. Make no mistake, ubiquitous surveillance + an omnipresent AI enforcer is not a good thing for society. Of course they start with a "think of the children" use case, to ease public opinion on the subject so they can expand from there.

Do not create the torment nexus.
China is a society mostly run by engineers, some 70% of the CCP Politburo are STEM people by their formation. Engineering is a high prestige profession.

The West is run by lawyers, MBAs and salesmen.

This kerfuffle is a delicious study about this.
Is there a benefit to scratching that itch? Yes and no, says new study
The legislations for the 35 member countries of the CBCDG can be viewed here:

https://rulesforuse.org/en/about-cbcdg

e.g. for the US dollar:

https://rulesforuse.org/en/currencies/us-dollar

Information on the CDS developed by the CBCDG is sparse:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Bank_Counterfeit_Deter...
Next-Generation SEO Tools?
Hey, I was researching next-gen SEO tools (not semrush, ahrefs etc) and was thinking maybe you have some recommendations? I'm basically thinking that where we are with AI today might have spun out a lot of great SEO-tools. Looking for both "technical" tools but also more content-focused etc. Cheers!
You are right in principle, but the mansion does not seem to be owned by an uncle, and there is no indication they were related at all. He is to referred throughout the book as "the professor".

The Pevensies are definitely middle class kids. The sort of kids an academic like Lewis would have known in real life, and probably reflecting the real Lucy's family's circumstances.
this is a good naval-style tweet, well done
> seems to imply there is malicious intent

There is. Well, sort of.

For example, we had cron working just fine for decades . We had sshd listen on its port for decades. We had fstab for decades. No one wanted systemd-timesyncd.

In my opinion, all these aux systemd projects came to life purely out of psychological reasons. Can we label them malicious?
This article is from and about the UK.
Does calibration of an optical frequency comb require that the speed of light be known, either directly or indirectly? By indirectly I mean the case where something you need to use to calibrate your comb depends, directly or indirectly, on knowing the speed of light.

I'm curious because of something the professor did early on in the introduction to optics class I took in college. He picked up a metal ruler and said we were going to measure the speed of light. Everyone laughed (which was fine because he intended it as a joke).

He then set the ruler on a table, directed a laser to reflect at a shallow angle off the ruler onto the blackboard.

The ruler's lines were raised which made it act like a diffraction grating and there was a visible interference pattern on the blackboard.

He then traced the pattern on the blackboard with chalk, turned off the laser, and used the ruler to (1) measure the distance from where it had been to the blackboard, and (2) the spacing of the lines in the diffraction pattern.

From this and the known frequency of the laser and the known spacing of the lines on the ruler the speed of light is an easy calculation.

This was meant as a joke because usually the frequency of light is calculated using methods that depend on knowing the speed of light, so all that was really happening was the he used a rule to very that the frequency calculation of the laser had been done correctly.

But if you could accurately get the frequency without that depending on knowing the speed of light then you could actually measure the speed of light with a ruler.
Opposed to other government inflated bubbles, why is this bad?
If it’s not sustainable for software makers, it’s not sustainable for users.
My biggest gripe with Ollama is the badly named models, e.g. under deepseek-r1, it defaults to the distill models.
agreed. but what's wrong with Jan? does ollama utilize resources/run models more efficiently under the hood? (sorry for the naivete)
Those are uses.

They aren't fundamentals, e.g.:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_analysis

Money transfers aren't setting the value of crypto. They don't meaningfully affect the supply and demand, since the goal of a transfer is generally to hold the crypto for as short of a period as possible, to minimize price fluctuation risk -- so supply and demand are balanced without changing the price.
I don’t understand. There’s a finite amount of both gold and bitcoin right?
I am very technically inclined and use Ollama (in a VM, but still) because of all the steps and non-obviousness of how to run Llama.cpp. This framing feels a bit like the “Dropbox won’t succeed because rsync is easy” thinking.
Do you have specific courses to recommend? Linear Algebra is probably a good one to be learning from Gilbert Strang.
Not to be snide, but removing options to make things easier has been wildly successful in a variety of project/products.
At least presently, it trades mire correlated to all risk assets rather than a safety asset like gold.
I agree they should rename them.

But defaulting to a 671b model is also evil.
thx for amazing comment friend
People generally don't care about making policy based on what is going to affect a whistleblower. The policy is done for the normal case. I'm not sure how much support you'd get on any issue if your argument is "but what about whistleblowers" other than in single-issue niche groups.
> I'm able to get more done in it in a shorter amount of time

That's because you know it better than other languages. It's certainly not a universal experience.
>Instead they are simply stripping ideological requirements, period.

This is the significant part.

Woke ideology was always unpopular when put to the test in the court of public opinion and sometimes even law. Whether it's entertainment products that got reviewbombed for incorporating "diversity", illegal hiring/enrollment quotas that once existed to enforce "inclusion", or the replacing of the word "equality" with "equity" because people started catching on that what was touted as equality actually wasn't.

Now that we have a President (and by extension a party) who was elected to get rid of all that, promises to do so are being kept.

As a Japanese-American, I 300% voted for and support this. Everyone should be judged on merit and merit alone, not whether they have the right skin color, sex organs/preferences, disabilities, or illnesses.
Quantum Computing: Looming Security Threats for Connected Cars?
> Why should somebody researching e.g. fusion for the Department of Energy also need to create a Promoting Inclusive and Equitable Research (PIER) plan, to even apply?

To try to ensure that the people working on the project are selected fairly and on merit, rather than unfairly and on personal prejudice.
While not rocketscience, a lot of its features requires to know how to recompile the project with passing certain variables. Also you need to properly format prompts for each instructor model.
> Speaking of the Constitution, what is the Constitutional basis for this large structure of federal funding for the sciences? Nothing in Article I, Section 8 appears to cover it: the encouragement of science appears to be limited to copyright and patent monopolies.

This is like saying I read the first sentence of the wikipedia article and it doesn't mention something so it must not exist.

Congress authorized it in 1950; it's extremely visible. [1]

> The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is authorized and governed by the "National Science Foundation Act of 1950," as amended, as well as other statutes authorizing NSF activities and making appropriations to the agency.

[1]: https://new.nsf.gov/about/authorizing-legislation
as someone with little knowledge on materials science, what managed to convince apple this wasn't feasible the first time around?
Modified by oil-filling, though.
Instructions for building a box anyone could pit together for $20 in common materials with a button that would end the world would be a fairly unambiguously evil artifact.

H-bombs as a much more expensive version that is arguable thanks to the somewhat lasting peace they can be argued to have brought through MAD, but if it had turned out world enders were something anyone could easily throw together it would be a very different world, or non-world.
We stole a lot of scientists and equipment from Germany after WW2. That's a big part of how we get to the moon.
Naive person thinks bitcoin is finite. However realist realizes its been forked before and there's no guarantee it won't happen again, hence its not fixed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bitcoin_forks#Intended...
Five years of Brexit reshaped Britain
This thread talks about performance, you're the one bringing commercial stuff into it.
The Goal of Your Platform
You're definitely right and I also do not agree with that stuff either, but it was mostly done "appropriately" in that it was through avenues, like the State Department or CIA, who have propaganda as part of their mission.

In this case you had things like the Department of Energy requiring Promoting Inclusive and Equitable Research plans to even apply for funding.

The two big differences I see is that that is a wholly inappropriate avenue for ideological enforcement, and that it's also exceptionally divisive.

Things are changing in modern times but historically free markets, capitalism, and so on were very widely shared values. The contemporary equality of outcome (versus opportunity) stuff is extremely new and extremely divisive. The government pushing it, and frequently in very inappropriate ways (the military also comes to mind) is just very weird.
I agree that the goals are worthwhile, and also feel that requiring every proposal to include this is not efficient and/or very effective. They should take all the funds and time spent on this every year as part of every award, and just fund programs specifically designed to attract inner-city kids to science, or funnel talented, low-income, high school students to be mentored, taught advanced classes, etc.

I would be happy to spend time mentoring URM, etc. But it'd work a lot better if others managed such a program, thought about how to attract them, etc. Specialization is good.
there is a finite amount of gold, but we don't know exactly how much that is, we could potentially find several big gold veins tomorrow and crash the gold market.

There is a finite amount of Bitcoin, and the amount of Bitcoin that will be injected into the market is deterministic by algorithm.

(Note that there are several old bitcoin wallets with "dead" bitcoins that could one day suddenly become active, which I suspect would have the same effect as finding a new goldmine)
The commenter shared an oddly specific situation where the dots would not print, the knowledge of which implies something I won’t say, but will leave up to you to decipher.
This story has absolutely zero information.
The Great British Nuke Off
And you still need to find and download the model files yourself, among other steps, which is intimidating enough to drive away most users, including skilled software engineers. Most people just want it to work and start using it for something else as soon as possible.

The same reason I use apt install instead of compiling from source. I can definitely do that, but I don't, because it's just a way to get things installed.
This was previously posted as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42882360
Because DEI audience leaned Democrats and everyone here is trying the hide the sun with a transparent glass. This is backfiring in a big way and the only hope is that it sets strict rules to who gets the money (ie: rather than going the other way, where the incumbent disburse the money to his audience).
> But crypto has no fundamentals. Its price is determined entirely by speculation. It doesn't pay dividends or interest that you can model a price on.

This is just wrong. Ethereum for instance is fully self supporting in that the network collects enough in fees to pay its stakers without having to mint new coins over time.

This means Ethereum has income and pays out dividends, which means it has fundamentals as you can measure its income and money going out.

It most certainly has fundamentals in this regard. I encourage you to take a deeper dive into crypto if you think there is no fundamentals for all coins
The fundamental of crypto currencies is that it's a ledger of information rather than money. It's an indisputable, infinitely replicated, zero-trust community project that will continue to exist even if every government in the world attempts to kill it at the exact same time. As long as a mesh network can exist so can crypto ledgers.

If you holding that data means something, that's a whole other question though.
there's blog posts that are automated using AI, but beyond that I haven't seen anything of value. I really want to stop using ahrefs.com but its the best I've seen so far.
> You mean that individual distributions voted/decided separately, multiple times to choose the better tool?

This is a mystery to me. Given the LP attitude is known to be hostile to people with expertise and given the cancerous nature of systemd projects, I really wonder how did people choose to be treated that way.

Maybe they have voted for systemd-as-PID1, which is incomparably better than sysvinit, but this is the way systemd crowd got its foot in the door and before you know nothing works without systemd metastasis present.
Yes, being opposed to discrimination is an ideological conformity test.
By “distributed” I assumed it meant “distributed,”as in on entirely separate machines. Thus necessitating each component running as an independent process.
Show HN: Exhibitions.London: Every live exhibition, always up to date
I was annoyed I kept missing exhibitions when they were on, so I built a website to track when they're happening.

Any questions? Want me to roll it out to your city?
So long and thanks for all the fish!

Isn't it basically a matter of time until we encounter an asteroid the size of the one that hit earth 6.5·10⁷ years ago?
LM Studio has been around for a long time and does a lot of similar things but with a more UI-based approach. I used to use it before Ollama, and seems it's still going strong. https://lmstudio.ai/
That’s the curse and blessing of open source I guess?
I have billion dollar companies running my oss software without giving me anything - but do I gripe about it in public forums? Yea maybe sometimes but it never helps to improve the situation.