skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Robot Insects (mindboggling video from Veritasium)
The Berkeley and New York scenes are special in that they lead and guide the community on a whole mainly by example.
Only brains? Or does this work for other regions (In my case neck)?
How so? In their README they specifically state:

> Bruno is offline-only. There are no plans to add cloud-sync to Bruno, ever. We value your data privacy and believe it should stay on your device. Read our long-term vision here <https://github.com/usebruno/bruno/discussions/269>.

I glanced over that github discussion and don't see where they've gone back on that statement. Am I just missing where they've taken the cloud route?
Is there a source that unrolls that without creating an account?
The government can decide that but going back and scrubbing data taxpayers already funded is unacceptable. It draws comparisons to book burning.
I get why they did it, but agree that flies in the face of how the first amendment is viewed by SCOTUS.

The sad thing is, there is precedent how the government could handle the situation. You still cannot say "shit" on broadcast TV.
I care, but I don’t download everything I care about, that would be a lot.
The answer is a general strike. This will never happen in the US though.
Sam Altman: OpenAI on the 'wrong side of history' concerning open source
The page wants to load miles and miles of Javascript. It can go to hell.
There's also the challenge of getting the right audience for the site, especially in the early days. Hacker News isn't just popular because it's a tech forum, but because it's one where many of the smartest, most resourceful and sometimes most powerful people in the industry are active members, and where the founder/lead engineer of a large company or project is likely to appear in the comments section.

A lot of other Hacker News equivalents don't have that, and hence end up being just another internet forum in a list of millions.

There's also probably the fact that the format works better for engineers than it does designers or artists or athletes or musicians, since the former tend to be more of a fan of 'simple' websites with utilitarian designs. A lot of clones try to copy the Hacker News style, only to realise that their target audience finds the layout ugly and offputting.
...the full version needs over 700GB of disk space.

THAT is rather shocking. Vastly smaller than I would expect.
This would be absolutely incredible to incorporate into VR. You could create such an intuitive organizational method adding a 3rd dimension for displaying.
I went to this thought too but then I remembered the 90-9-1 rule. The AI summary is for some portion of the 90. The 9 are still going to comment. What they comment on and how they generate the comments might change though.
Abandoned Sears Headquarters [video]
No one will be doing anything practical with a local version of Deepseek on a $2000 server. The token throughout of this thing is like, 1 token every 4 seconds. It would take nearly a full minute just to produce a standard “Roses are red, violets are blue” poem. There’s absolutely no practical usage that you can use that for. It’s cool that you can do it, and it’s a step in the right direction, but self-hosting these wont be a viable alternative to using providers like OpenAI for business applications for a while.
You are describing GOFSI - Good Old Fashioned System Integration.

I promise you Palantir does not use UML or Rhapsody, and would not recognize DOORS if they slammed in its face.

GOFSI: "There are decades when nothing happens"

Palantir: "There are weeks when decades happen"
I think this is unlikely but a local model could generate malicious code. You would have to run it manually though.
I think you misunderstand the goal. The target is total control of the people -- the means is disrupting every alternative voice and narrative.
Nice project! Very polished. It reminds me of a prototype I built a couple years ago: https://github.com/ikhare/just-speak

Awesome to see these ideas turn into real products. Congrats.
I find myself in Cubism and realize I must have taken a wrong turn somewhere, but perspective has collapsed all around me and the way out is blocked by fragments of guitar strings and noses of long-dead Parisian mistresses.
I’m totally ignorant on this and don’t understand. How is WebAssembly helpful for terminal UI apps and why has it been chosen here? Is it mainly for easier cross platform support (with the UI being HTML and then translated for the terminal)? How does it compare on ease of development, testing, maintenance effort, etc., to other terminal UI libraries?
Helium Is Failing as a Global IoT Network
This is a bit dramatic, sure some people have to share a mouldy flat but most software engineers I know are doing ok
https://xcancel.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106?s=4...
I regenerated a page a few times but yeah, I gave no other instructions besides that. Also I approached things page by page. That was 3 pages.

It's cliche but this was the prompt:

I want you to write the first book of a fantasy series. The novel will be over 450 pages long with 30 chapters. Each chapter should have between 15 to 18 pages.
Write the first page of the first chapter of this novel. Do not introduce the elements of the synopsis or worldbuilding and story details too quickly. Weave in the world, characters, and plot naturally. Pace it out properly. That means that several elements of the story may not come into light for several chapters.

I had a lot of success with it coming up with decidedly not cliche world building elements after I arranged a sort of interview style interrogation (It asked me questions about what I was looking for generally and generated world building elements along the way).

However, once you start giving a lot of information about the world etc in the prompt as well then the pacing gets weird.
To you "screaming and yelling" at a private company that still retains agency over it's content moderation is government censorship, but the government's direct censoring of information is not? Partisan politics has a neat way of twisting one's brain up like a pretzel.
>We can leave OpenSSL as it is but it shouldn't be the popular recommendation for developers.

OpenSSL isn't a recommendation for developers. For TLS, LibreSSL and BoringSSL are. For other stuff, libsodium is.

The only reason I've picked OpenSSL, is it has a higher level library (pyca/cryptography) that gives bindings to X448.
The US is undergoing a fascist takeover basically.
GTK's X11 Back End Now Deprecated, Planned for Removal in GTK 5
what do you mean greedy? he made a deal and crushed the metrics necessary to hit that deal. without him there is no tesla.
That's wishful thinking, sadly. It's much more likely they haven't gotten to it yet.
It’s reasoning without reality, the same mocked with sayings like “arguing about how many angels can fit on the head of a pin.”

Reasoning must be checked against observation and experiment. It must be checked against reality.

It’s not just that humans are fallible and full of biases and failure modes. It’s that reason itself is only capable of crystalline perfection in domains where all priors can be enumerated and the system is closed, like pure math. Even there we know of mathematical constructs that exhibit phenomena like emergence and computational irreducibility where the future state can’t be guessed without fully evaluating the function; where “leaps” are provably impossible.

The craziest stuff is some of the longtermism stuff. They are literally writing sci fi (and cliche sci fi at that) and then reasoning from it as if it were real and using those conclusions to guide present day moral and political thinking. Absolute lunacy. We can’t predict the next 50 years let alone the next 5000.

Sometimes I think one of the evolutionary counter pressures that has likely prevented human IQ from being driven entirely up and to the right is that high IQ increases propensity for delusional thinking. I’ve met quite a few incredibly brilliant idiots. The smarter you are the more elaborate a prison you can construct for your own brain. The major innovation of the discipline of science (and it is a discipline) was to put forward a method to avoid this by taking a step, confirming, and only then taking the next step. It’s pretty simple but it requires restraint even when there’s a shiny thing that looks so “truthy” and cool.
Our digital twins will write the comments. They will be us, but with none of our flaws. They will never experience the shame of posting a dumb joke, getting flamed, and then deleting it, for they will have tested all ideas to prevent such an oversight. They will never experience the satisfaction-turned-to-puzzlement of posting an expertly crafted, well-researched comment that took 2 hours of the workday to draft - only to receive one upvote, for their research will be instantaneous and their outputs efficient. Of course they will never need to humbly reply, 'Ah, I missed that, good catch!' to a child comment indicating the entire premise of their question would be answered with a simple reading of the linked article - for they will have deeply and instantly read the article. Yes, our digital twins will be us, but better - and we will finally be free to play in the mud.
Yeah i was vigorously waving hands. Even at 200W, 10 cents/kWh you'd need to run this a LONG time to break even
If there's action by an adversary to try and weaponize naturally occurring disease (never mind the prospect of trying to heighten effectiveness of artificially created disease), that would be expected.

Vaccines and healthcare in general are intended as a safeguard against pandemics and mass death. If the goal IS mass death, it makes practical sense to try and delete all health and vaccine information in hopes it's lost forever and the society that uses it is rendered helpless against such events or weapons.

I'm interested to note that HN's commentariat hasn't mentioned the extent to which all scientific research of this nature was immediately defunded: my social media had indirect exposure to a lot of healthcare researchers who were freaking out, many days ago. Did you notice that part or is this the first sign of it that's made its way over here?

I'd note that defunding medicine isn't strictly HN-type content, though mass deletion of data certainly seems to be HN-adjacent. I would think hackers and entrepreneurs would take that sort of thing personally, as it more or less attacks them by starving them of information that could be useful.
No, Go!
Static Site Search
A tool to index and generate a search page for your static site.
Hard to strike when your boss can make you and your kid homeless. Housing precarity is a useful tool of control.
Searched for some books and didn't find them.. I assume this in't complete list of all USA based books with ISBN published?
I guess the reason you're fine with the ideological purge that's happening now is because you mistakenly believe the bureaucracies were always operating in ideological lockstep with the current administration. I suddenly pity you for the fear and distrust you must carry at all times for things you don't understand.
Isn't this data already inaccessible to those who are not tech savvy? My grandma isn’t visiting any of the data download sites provided by the federal government. She doesn’t even know why she would, or even that such data is available. And if I provide it to her, she hasn’t the skills to do anything with it.
That reminds me of this excellent Calvin and Hobbes strip: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1990/06/17
Why Snowden – not Russia or Syria – could tank Tulsi Gabbard's nomination
In RamaLama an OCI container-like store is used (at least from the UX perspective it feels like that) for all models in RamaLama, it's protocol agnostic supports oci artefacts, huggingface, ollama, etc.
As a stylistic note, it’s funny that philosophy graduates often can’t help but mention that they are one at every opportunity they have, as if that carried a particular a certain intellectual prestige. They do that while perhaps missing the point: a critical mind does not need to announce its status and does not rely on declarations of prestige to be one.

It’s also funny how a marvelously rational philosophy graduate can then support the most banal moral positions. The life of the mind is quite something.
The Next Chapter in Swift Build Technologies
What? This isn't malicious compliance. This is exactly what Republicans said they were going to do. Destroy everything that doesn't agree with them.
That's not necessarily true.

Maybe people can't produce more than 4 days of work per week or 5 hours per day; in that case the productivity would be the same and people working more are essentially wasting time.

My empirical evidence say otherwise (sample_size=1) I can be quite productive up to ~70hrs doing knowledge work (I've been on it for 8 months, hours are tracked and connected to tasks, no idling is counted), but that's pushing it and it might not be sustainable for longer period of time. My will to live is certainly at historical lows.

Lawyers in big law can also do 60-80 hours (while ruining their life) so I think it's reasonable.

I've heard people in other professions (eg. nurses) pushing 90-100hrs but they are not actively thinking all their working time.
Try one and find out. Look at https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/ Quickstart section; download a single cross-platform ~3.7GB file and execute it, it starts a local model, local webserver, and you can query it.

See it demonstrated in a <7 minute video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1Fnfvat6nM

The video explains that you can download the larger models on that Github page and use them with other command line parameters, and shows how you can get a Windows + nVidia setup to GPU accelerate the model (install CUDA and MSVC / VS Community edition with C++ tools, run for the first time from MSVC x64 command prompt so it can build a thing using cuBLAS, rerun normally with "-ngl 35" command line parameter to use 3.5GB of GPU memory (my card doesn't have much)).
Multiversus game to shut down, but will provide offline mode for continued play
we don't have a free market, it's highly regulated
JVM is a giant mess! I'm surprised you considered both together.
What do you propose? The only way to change is either voting, money, or violence. I'm generally lost as what to do.
What is a bit weird about AI currently is that you basically always want to run the best model, but the price of the hardware is a bit ridiculous. In the 1990s, it was possible to run Linux on scrappy hardware. You could also always run other “building blocks” like Python, Docker, or C++ easily.

But the newest AI models require an order of magnitude more RAM than my system or the systems I typically rent have.

So I’m curious to people here, has this in the history of software happened before? Maybe computer games are a good example. There people would also have to upgrade their system to run the latest games.
’Failed’ is in non-functional.

There has been decades of brainwashing from the state(jointly with various Christian organisations) and an incredible amount of disinformation.

I am a Cannabis user and I’ve moved from Stockholm to Zürich because I want to live my life in peace.
I have R1:1.5B running on my 8gb ram M4 mac mini. Dont know where I would use it, as it is too weak to solve actual problems, but it does run.
They also have an app that connects to their datacenter with R1.

Also barely anyone can actually run the real R1 locally.
According to this[0], they want around 4% of Americans to agree to a general strike. The problem is the people who are most capable of surviving a general strike are not the same group that has the most impact in a general strike.

[0] https://generalstrikeus.com/
It is quite humorous to me in a dark way how the preeminent ethics movement of our times seems to spawn the most detestable behavior. How many Bentham essays and LessWrong posts do you need to read to conclude that psychological manipulation and wonton murder do not in fact contribute to the wellbeing of the world? There is a certain personality for whom rationality takes over their whole being, and they lose all their ability to feel connected to others in a profound way, and at this point their behavior is simply derived from whatever is left after they do the math.
Don't worry, absolutely no issues have occurred in medicine as a result of a lack of data on how a drug impacts pregnant people.
As articles are increasingly published with AI, this becomes yet another example of, to coin a phrase, AI loopidity.
Distant how exactly?
TFA says it can bump the spec to 768 GB but that it's then more like $2500 than $2000. At 768 GB that'd be the full, 8 bit, model.

Seems indeed like a good price compared to $6000 for someone who wants to hack a build.

I mean: $6 K is doable but I take it take many who'd want to build such a machine for fun would prefer to only fork $2.5K.
I don't care as long as I can choose one that doesn't change.
The LLMs have the ‘knowledge’ baked in, one of the things you will hear about are quantized models with lower precision (think 16-bit -> 4-bit) weights, which enables them to be run on greater variety of hardware and/or with greater performance.

When you quantize, you sacrifice model performance. In addition, a lot of the models favored for local use are already very small (7b, 3b).

What OP is pointing out is that you can actually run the full deepseek r1 model, along with all of the ‘knowledge’ on relatively modest hardware.

Not many people want to make that tradeoff when there are cheap, performant APIs around but for a lot of people who have privacy concerns or just like to tinker, it is pretty big deal.

I am far removed from having a high performance computer (although I suppose my MacBook is nothing to sneeze at), but I remember building computers or homelabs back in the day and then being like ‘okay now what is the most stressful workload I can find?!’ — this is perfect for that.
I'm sure a historian could give a more detailed explanation, but my guess is that:

Once steel meets flesh the Role Play ends and all that's left is Live Action, and to take a life is not a meager task when life as you knew it was a virtual mediation.
Ugh i hope this dies off as quickly as quickly as it has shown off. The less attention they get the better off we all are.
How exactly has he destroyed Twitter? It still exists doesn't it? (Disclaimer: I'm not an Elon fanboy.)
9 hours is considered ridiculously wrong?
Umm, two 3090's? Additional cards scale as long as you have enough PCIe channels.
I guess that there is something with the cache that we don't do right. Thanks for your return.
Well, Krita is easily the best painting tool I've ever used overall. I'd put it above everything for painting/creating raster art. Dunno it it's provable but it's a very, very good tool.

Definitely better than GIMP or PS.
Go back?
> Post civil war boom was roughly as big as the post WW2 boom with a way lower federal burden and no income tax.

Also without Medicare, minimal Social Security, without an airforce, without a standing army, and desires for a ≥350-ship navy:

* https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2020/02/25/trump-called-fo...

How are you going to pay and run all that without staff? You think it's going to be cheaper to outsource it to consultants? Or is privatization the point/goal perhaps?

Further, the early 20th century was also a period of rapid technological change that allowed for all kinds productivity gains, which is unlikely to be repeated:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_and_Fall_of_American_...
My 2d canvas JS library[1][2]. It has no direct package dependencies, uses no web workers or WASM code, and operates entirely on 2D canvas elements (no WebGL or WebGPU).

The most complicated part to code up was (probably) the text layout engine. But special shoutouts also have to go the filters functionality and the particle engine. Compared to those things, making the <canvas> element in the web page responsive and (hopefully a little bit more) accessible was the easy part!

[1] tl;dr: "Responsive, interactive and more accessible HTML5 canvas elements. Scrawl-canvas is a JavaScript library designed to make using the HTML5 canvas element easier, and more fun"

[2] GitHub - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas
Ooh, that's what those posters are. I saw them and was perplexed. Didn't know there's a treasure hunt.
Yes, that's that I meant.
Thank you, that's a good point. The site started off with just the BBC Micro version, and I never expanded the book references to be clearer.

Anyway, I have reworded every reference to books in the commentary so they now contain the full title and author list, so hopefully people will be able to find the relevant tomes. I've also linked to the books from my "useful links" page in a more prominent manner:

https://elite.bbcelite.com/about_site/useful_links.html

I hope that helps!
That doesn't matter anymore. No one believed the CDC data to begin with. You think they're going to believe it when it comes from third-party backups?
Bizarre argument considering that the only people who did not "trust science" (and the CDC in particular) during the previous Trump administration were Trumpists themselves.
Sorry I didn’t mean to imply that they use standard systems engineering practices or tools. I was equating their data integration efforts like that ConnectAll tool you can buy.
I've intentionally been running it now just to see how wrong its summaries of messages are. So often, it relays the exact opposite of the intent and I want to understand why.
Aren't human beings a pile of cells? Some of us don't even have convincing output.
It is a statistical machine but it is not over bare words/tokens, it effectively operates over a “concept space” that it learns during training.

(Granted the definition of “statistical machine” is quite vague and different folks might define that differently…)
They were disappearing 6 years ago too
It's even worse for us of the rest of the world, because the United States influence the whole world, and we can't do anything against this tragedy.
An "interesting" consequence of these type of measures of stopping collecting or publishing data will be that soon it will be impossible to tell how much infant mortality, or number of cases of tuberculosis or similar changed with respect to last year. Maybe that is partially the goal.
I would also blame Firefox (or underlying Safari) for this. The browser shouldn't cede control to the page, even things like modifying the right-click menu are iffy and should be easy to override.
I see two possibilities here. Either Musk is a foreign agent attempting to cripple the US government or he's a student of Blitzscaling and Jim Collins' The Map.

Incentives can help determine his motives. What could a foreign government offer Musk that his billions can't already purchase?

The spending policy at SpaceX could offer insight into motive. As I understand it, it's simply: If spending the money gets us to Mars sooner, then it's authorized.

So is this all about getting to Mars sooner? If so, then if your bottleck is government bureaucracy, then wouldn't it make sense to spend hundreds of millions on a campaign so you can seize control of the government and overhaul it in the service of getting to Mars sooner?