skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be extremely unsurprising if Nvidia was funding this embrace and extend behind the scenes.
This should make it clear. There is no such thing as being for or against ideology. If you exist, there are things you weakly believe in, and things you strongly believe in. The thing someone else strongly believes in, that we weakly believe in, we call ideology. So it's always been about fighting "their" ideology, not ideology.

Always be skeptical when someone defends only the things they strongly believe in. That goes both ways, for the left and right.
It's only less regulation when it involves allowing big companies to do whatever they want. Rules for thee but not for me.
Ollama needs competition. I’m not sure what drives the people that maintain it but some of their actions imply that there are ulterior motives at play that do not have the benefit of their users in mind.

However such projects require a lot of time and effort and it’s not clear if this project can be forked and kept alive.
I use ollama because llama.cpp dropped support for vlms. I would happily switch back if llama.cpp starts supporting vlms again.
Yes, systemd is wow, it's a major improvement.
As context, the NSF requires grant writers to include a “broader impacts” section [1] in every grant proposal. This includes things like improving education, national security, economic competitiveness, and also inclusion - for example, ideas to attract more talent from underrepresented groups. So every NSF proposer works hard to satisfy the NSF on this requirement. I happen to think that these are worthwhile goals (we shouldn’t be wasting our limited talent due to historical crankiness) and simultaneously I believe the sections ends up being a bit performative. If the NSF were to change its criteria for grants going forward I might disagree with that approach but it would be consistent with what I’ve heard from these folks, ie they think “DEI” is getting in the way of science. However: the current approach is just destructive: if involves asking researchers to augment their proposals with these goals, and then retroactively refuses to pay already-awarded grant recipients who did what they were asked to.

I will leave the question of whether this is constitutional to other folks. I will even leave aside the question of whether we can afford to defund science in our current crazy geopolitical environment. The real point here is that this is just plain wrong.

[1] https://new.nsf.gov/funding/learn/broader-impacts
Did Palantir pay for this puff piece? No mention of false positives or how it adds everyone to virtual lineups? “Surveillance state” is put in scare quotes as if it's not literally what is being described.
Honestly, at this point the entire crypto industry is just leechers and con artists trying to rug-pull each other. And they elected their leader to the white house. I personally don't mind the whole system going down in flames. Perhaps when the dust settles and we need to rebuild from square one, we could get some normalcy again.
I'm sure you have other examples (and I'm not really asking for them) but your sshd example would make me dislike the choices Ubuntu made, not systemd. Like I don't blame systemd for snaps being so awful.
> Work on real problems. Try to make real people's lives better and happier. There are real problems in finance but my feeling was it's all very simple and solved decades ago, now it's just pointless complexity that isn't solving anyone's problems. I recommend John Kay's Other People's Money for a primer on what finance is actually good for and where it's gone wrong.

If the last few years have taught me anything it's that a large % of the population will actively aim to make their own lives worse long term because they are told lies. What benefit is there really in trying to undo their own self-inflicted damage.
I don't want to learn tmux to handle a feature that my OS already handles. If alacritty supported tabs (and was slightly less hostile, e.g. [0]) I'd be happy with it

[0] https://github.com/alacritty/alacritty/issues/3129
Ollama tries to appeal to a lowest common denominator user base, who does not want to worry about stuff like configuration and quants, or which binary to download.

I think they want their project to be smart enough to just 'figure out what to do' on behalf of the user.

That appeals to a lot of people, but I think them stuffing all backends into one binary and auto-detecting at runtime which to use and is actually a step too far towards simplicity.

What they did to support both CUDA and ROCm using the same binary looked quite cursed last time I checked (because they needed to link or invoke two different builds of llama.cpp of course).

I have only glanced at that PR, but I'm guessing that this plays a role in how many backends they can reasonably try to support.

In nixpkgs it's a huge pain that we configure quite deliberately what we want Ollama to do at build time, and then Ollama runs off and does whatever anyways, and users have to look at log output and performance regressions to know what it's actually doing, every time they update their heuristics for detecting ROCm. It's brittle as hell.
Wouldn't "spice" fit that monika better than dune?
Its selling feature is it looks 'native' for Mac and is GPU-rendered. I don't find that important personally, it's just a box with text in it...
My Dear Lucy,

I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realised that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand, a word you say, but I shall still be

your affectionate Godfather,

C.S. Lewis

——

This speaks to

1. The sheer magic of reading a story where you are the main character.

2. CS Lewis knew that and wrote this book especially for a young white British girl, so she’d have a story where she was the main character.

You read the books, great. But guess what, I did too.

You’re unable to see the obvious because you want to so badly be right about Narnia. Cool.
I like how scriptable it is.
By Grabthar's hammer, I hope so.
>don't crypto currencies amplify the causes of inflation

How so? Isn't the risk rather that central banks would lose the ability to fight deflation if something like bitcoin were to replace fiat currencies?

In this particular case we're talking about stablecoins though, which are a wholly different beast. I think the potential problems (and benefits) for countries where the local currency is replaced by a dollar linked stablecoin are exactly the same as the problems caused by other forms of dollarisation.

https://www.elibrary.imf.org/display/book/9781589061767/ch03...
Can someone explain what the point of ollama is?

Every time I look at it, it seems like it's a worse llama.cpp that removes options to make things "easier".
> accidental complexity doesn't, and most complexity in software is accidental.

I strongly disagree. Most software is insufficiently complex to adequately represent reality.
I can only speak for myself but to me llama.ccp looks kind of hard to use (tbh never tried to use it), whereas ollama was just one cli command away.
Also I had no idea that its equivalent, I thought llama.ccp is some experimental tool for hardcore llm cracks, not something that I can teach my for example my non-technical mom to use.

Looking at the repo of llama.ccp it’s still not obvious to me how to use it without digging in - I need to download models from huggingface it seems and configure stuff etc - with ollama I type ollama get or something and it works.

Tbh I don’t just that stuff a lot or even seriously, maybe once per month to try out new local models.

I think having an easy to use quickstart would go a long way for llama.ccp - but maybe it’s not intended for casual (stupid?) users like me…
It's going to sound rather hubristic, being that I'm just a random internet commenter and not a conference of philosophers, but this seems... nonsensical? I don't understand how it isn't obvious that the new consciousness instance would be unaware of the swap, or that nevertheless the perspective of the original instance would be completely disconnected from that of the new one.

It seems to be a question that many apparently smart people discuss endlessly for some reason, so I guess I'm not surprised by this proposal in particular, but it's really mystifying to me that anybody other than soulists think there's any room for doubt about it whatsoever.
The CORS error that isn't a CORS error: Debugging Signed Exchanges
systemd is just much better for managing cross-cutting concerns. E.g. having the machine wake up from sleep for a timer and do a task (e.g. backup or updates) which delay sleep is trivial, portable and reliable with systemd and probably technically possible without it.
As someone who boils his own ginger to make ginger shots, I am very intrigued! Any advice? I never fermented anything(knowingly) before!
https://archive.ph/JxNPr
It's less bad than the ill informed Dunning-Kruger opinion it rebuts.
I totally agree that ollama needs competition. They have been doing very sketchy things lately. I wish llama.cpp had an alternative wrapper client like ollama.
As someone that used to work in this world I find this opinion of “no value” pretty bizarre. There’s a lot of value in efficient markets with high liquidity and low fees, which companies like JS make possible.
US Blocks Open Source 'Help' from These Countries
I use the scrollback buffer export to a temporary file (CMD+SHIFT+J), you can then open the file in any editor.

So my workflow is to type in `vim` and then press `CMD+SHIFT+J` and Enter
This seems great. It's increasingly apparent that the government was spending countless billions of dollars to push ideology in plainly weird ways. 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?

This should greatly reduce the overall bureaucratic nonsense in science and help get back to science simply being science without imposing ideological conformity tests.
The parent asked:

> Of the four problems Wave needs to solve, the hardest is providing "an easy way for users to exchange their balance for cash and vice versa."

Just using PayPal would mean missing out all the benefits of crypto. I do it because defi yields are much higher than a bank. People in their target audience may do it because international transfers cost less than a fraction of a penny.
You've done an amazing job with Fancy HN! The real-time updates, thoughtful design, and attention to performance clearly reflect your dedication to improving the HN reading experience. I'll definitely be using this regularly and recommending it to others. Thank you for building this and sharing it with the community!

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No, they likely put a geolocation net around the child's phone and added everyone in it to a search list. No search warrant required for this type of fishing in the UK afaik. Of course they probably kept all that data they swept up from innocent people who just happened to be near the phone. It's not really AI either. It's just checking things against a list.
The main reason to I switched from macOS Terminal is it lacks true colour support (Ghostty far from the only alternative that offers this, but it's quite similar to Terminal.app in the way that it feels, it's a decent native macOS experience)
"Major Strasser has been shot... round up the usual suspects"

"Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
The Stories in Our Heads (Fact vs. Meaning)
Have you seen the patchwork that is DST in the US? I don't think the US will bring more consistency to established international standards.
Intel cancels Falcon Shores GPU for AI workloads – Jaguar Shores to be successor
I'm pretty certain that the investment banks manipulate these markets heavily.
Honestly I just didn't know it was this easy to use, maybe because of the name... But ramalama seems to be a full replacement for ollama
River is very good but a niche in a niche. Telling that ive been using hyprland though.

Part of the problem with all of them is less the wm and more knowing what parts you need. Not so much bars as portals. I'm vaguely surprised hyprland doesn't have a "good enough" batteries included config and documentation.
Ok, try to go off the well trodden path of a default systemd setup.

Eg. make your system "login interactive" before networking and other unneeded services (database, web server, whatever) are even attempted to be set up/started.

Use just drop-in configuration fragments (*.service.d/override.conf) without making an unmaintainable mess (ie. without making your own copies of whole, OS installed unit files).

That should get you the feel. :) And it's not something crazy, it's just basic re-ordering of dependencies.
Can definitely relate to the feeling of getting buried on producthunt! Nice work on this, might just have to try it out.
I don't think it is only Palantir who is beneficiary of this PR. If the deep state is going to be severely raided, voluntarily retired, etc. somebody has to pickup the slack, and the front row at the inauguration is ready with a technology based, i.e. efficient at least in some [DOGE]dimensions, solution as combined together they know everything about everybody.
iPhone 6 bending debacle forced Apple to re-evaluate using 7000 series aluminum
Unbreakable Focus Mode
Thoughts Are All over the Place: On the Underthinking of O1-Like LLMs
The article says 12.
I used both. I had a terrible time with llama, and did not realise it until I used ollama.

I owned an RTX2070, and followed the llama instructions to make sure it was compiling with GPU enabled. I then hand-tweaked settings (numgpulayers) to try to make it offload as much as possible to the GPU. I verified that it was using a good chunk of my GPU ram (via nvidia-smi), and confirmed that with-gpu was faster than cpu-only. It was still pretty slow, and influenced my decision to upgrade to an RTX3070. It was faster, but still pretty meh...

The first time I used ollama, everything just worked straight out of the box, with one command and zero configuration. It was lightning fast. Honestly if I'd had ollama earlier, I probably wouldn't have felt the need to upgrade GPU.
> It's increasingly apparent that the government was spending countless billions of dollars to push ideology in plainly weird ways.

Did you miss the last 80 years of anti-communist, pro-capitalist, free-market propaganda? The american government has been the most powerful ideological force in the world for basically all of living memory.
I'm in a similar situation (just redid my setup with Niri) and Ghostty's slow startup is essentially my only problem with it, and I've loved foot for years. Ghostty's font rendering looks better to me though, so I'm conflicted between foot's instant startup and the (to me) nicer looking text in Ghostty. Since I tens to keep terminals open for a while, I've been going with Ghostty, but I'd love to somehow get both qualities.
What is the theoretical efficiency of these devices?

Could it be used for example to combine multiple different frequencies of light into one higher frequency to excite a solar cell at exactly the bandgap energy so no energy is wasted?
70% of any code is handling errors. It's awful (and by handling I mean just passing them to the calling function).

And no exceptions make it really easy to ignore errors instead. Which is much worse.
There is https://cortex.so/ that I’m looking forward too.
AI exploits a bug in Trackmania [video]
Can you please explain why you think they may be operating in bad faith?
Right, it feels like such things as being personally identified and tied to documents could never, when gestated by bureaucratic processes of third parties, possibly involve harm. And it's this kind of casual attitude of indifference which is exactly the mindset that the essay is intended to speak to.
Let's not allow a minority to drag what can be a civil and objective discussion into a shouting match.
It is counter-contradictor measures. It is against nay-sayer people who research and find out stuff. Being smart will cost you, because it's not the goal. Less research, and lower levels of education equals more people to fall for simplistic solutions and promisses. The definition of truth is being redefined, and open-minded research and education is in the way of that.

And it is always the same pattern.
Show HN: Showdown of Titans: GPT-4o vs. DeepSeek V3 in AI Debate Arena
Just launched AI Agents Debate Arena – a battleground where OpenAI’s GPT-4o and DeepSeek’s V3 go head-to-head in real-time debates! Users can either pick from AI-suggested topics or enter a custom challenge and watch the models argue their cases. Built using V0, this project explores how different LLMs handle reasoning, persuasion, and counterarguments. Who makes the stronger case? Test it out and let me know which model wins!

https://v0-ai-debate.vercel.app/
> So yes, I do think trust is a function of marketing budget.

But also consistency and stability as the foundation of trust. Marketing is merely a means to transfer the message.

If you cannot show consistency and stability, no amount of marketing should give you trust.
> I especially like the better encrypted boot support [...]

For some reason I can't directly reply to transpute's comment, but it's relevant to this thread so here goes:

> Ownerbooted sixos closes this loophole without any "trusted computing" voodoo, eliminating all unencrypted storage except for an eeprom whose hardware write-protect pin is connected to ground [...].

Desolder the EEPROM and read the secrets - the loophole is open wide without a TPM/SEP.

The point of TPM is supposed to be that it makes "yoink the laptop" attacks unviable even for state-level actors, while desoldering and reading the flash is trivial for a hobbyist with cheap tools and some patience.

However this is still an enormous step forward. All of the recent attacks on secure boot chains on Windows[1] and Linux[2] are due to usage of partially-unencrypted core system components in a complex boot chain. Sixos takes the correct approach - minimise the attack surface. All it takes is to stop rejecting the "voodoo" and take what the hardware already offers.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42747877

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42733640
It's your job to present a convincing argument for your position.

You cannot show any good evidence for it, though. You can merely assert correlation (if a bad one, given that nuclear was in trouble long before TMI or Chernobyl).

It's clear what's going on here: the actual situation, that nuclear has failed economically, is completely unacceptable to you, so you are confabulating a fantasy that something else caused nuclear's troubles. It's wishful denial of reality to preserve the illusion that your energy waifu has any chance.
> That would still have to be weighed with [...]

As always you'd have to determine whether some course of action would have disproportionate negative impact on other objectives, yep. Point there was to set out on what basis I'd decide and weigh those objectives - an orientation for what "progress" is.

> And what destructive or dangerous uses are now unlocked along that path?

I believe unanticipated novel applications skew positive on average, largely on account of most humans having mostly-positive intentions.

> What's the scope for those stats, are they global of specific to one country?

Global, e.g:

* https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy

* https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-population-livin...

> but I've seen plenty of examples of the extra years being pretty miserable. I'd be very interested to see a life expectancy comparison taking into account quality if life.

You could consider a factor such as Quality-Adjusted Life Expectancy (QALE), which is also on the rise.

> The point with defaulting to the latter is "don't break a god thing."

If "break" means "make overall better", why not?

> Considering only the potential upsides misses the potential downsides.

To be clear, my stance is that you should consider whether it's a net positive/negative:

* "Threshold for new advancements should not be whether we absolutely need it, but whether it does more good than harm"

* "if we're at 500 malaria cases and can reduce it further (without equal/greater degradations in other areas) then I don't see why we should ever be "happy to stop there""

My understanding is that you believe there should be some point at which we just stop even if there are still more beneficial changes to be made (in addition to not making net-negative changes, which we both agree on - though perhaps disagree about what specifically works out to be net-negative).

> We can't cure cancer in a vacuum, there are always costs,

There are costs, but it's very easily possible for the benefits to outweigh them, and more becomes feasible as humanity's knowledge/capabilities increase.

> and frankly the idea of curing a disease seems more utopian than realistic.

There are already a couple of diseases (including smallpox) that we've completely eradicated, and more (like polio) that we've made very good progress on. Cancer is tougher by its nature, but we can certainly at least reduce the number of cases and improve life for those who have it.
The Pevensies were very privileged.

This makes sense, because Lucy was a stand-in for Lewis’ goddaughter. It wouldn’t have made sense for her to be working class.

The Pevensies were from Finchley, a wealthy area of London at the time.

Unlike working class children who had to stay with any random family, these kids got to stay in a mansion owned by an uncle.

Peter and Susan go to boarding school in later books.

Even the way they speak - that’s how posh kids speak.

Yeah obviously, just the act of getting out of London doesn’t mean they’re poshos. Everything else about them indicates that though.
It's very easy to install and add models.
> - It doesn't have a download page, you have to build it yourself

I'd wager that anyone capable enough to run a command line tool like Ollama should also be able to download prebuilt binaries from the llama.cpp releases page[1]. Also, prebuilt binaries are available on things like homebrew[2].

[1]: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/releases

[2]: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/llama.cpp
When some dude runs you over and your family can't prove they were speeding without the data you enjoy these things very much. It would've saved me quite a bit of headache for example.
If this were the case then they would be replacing the ideological conformity sections with different ideological conformity requirements. Instead they are simply stripping ideological requirements, period.

Whatever a scientist happens to believe in, these changes would not imperil his ability to receive government funding. But in the previous system, if one felt that unconditional merit was the most fundamental factor in science (and refused to simply lie) he would have been found it much more difficult to secure funding.
It's interesting to think about whether the word "bubble" even has any conceptual meaning when applied to crypto.

A bubble means prices are historically high relative to fundamentals -- that the part of the price explained by speculation is much higher than usual.

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.

So the idea of an "inflating crypto bubble" seems conceptually incoherent. Sure you can say that crypto is only bubble, but that doesn't really add any information. The bubble can't be "inflating" since there's no ratio to a non-bubble version.
Evacuation to a private residence belonging to an uncle. A mansion at that.