skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bro, you are looking at a website and trying to intuit the motivations of developers based on marketing materials? And using words like "definitely" as if you have intuited their motivations with great certainty? Seriously?

I've met mres, talked to him 1 on 1, and that guy is definitely wants to empower curious students. He probably isn't opposed to making teachers' lives easier, but if you talk to him about what he's trying to do, what he's excited about, that's clearly not it.

I'm so tired of talking to confidently incorrect people on this website. It is okay to not know things. It is okay to not have an opinion. When you form uninformed opinions and then smear them all over the internet, you're doing harm. Stop. You don't have to say every thought that comes into your head, and you should not.

Like, you just accused a whole team of people who has poured countless hours into something they hope will help students of not caring about students. How does that not bother you?
Am I the only one who didn’t find math particularly helpful in their career? I did multivariable calc, linear algebra, diff equations, and a whole bunch of calc based stats courses.

I think the only thing I use is some basic algebra a few times a year.
To be honest, this reads kind of insane, and reminds me of how wasm was at least partially designed around V8 idiosyncrasies and limitations.
I'm currently listening to the 6th of this series, it's a very fun listen.

There is a also "sound booth theater" version of the first book where the characters are all voiced by an actual cast member and there are sound effects. It was incredibly impressive, like an audio movie. I wish the other books had SBT versions too.
I believe parent is referring to the HN crowd's, which interestingly is rather diverse reacting regarding this post (though I could be wrong and they could be referring to the document and its sources).

Either way, I must admit that, as a Catholic I appreciate the great discussion here. There are of course the usual snarky comments you would expect regarding the Church and religion (which is fine by me) but overall it's a well grounded discussion.

I'm personally enjoying reading the thoughtful perspectives of everyone.
Drugs are a sensitive subject
One major difference with European appliances is that they are all based on off-the-shelf commercial truck cab chassis. It saves a lot of money when you can just go buy a crew cab Scania or Volvo and then fit your own body to the chassis.

They bodywork is still pretty heavily customised per agency, but this mostly comes down to simple sheet metal work, ie places to store various gear in the lockers. The manufacturers have a significant library of designs they can easily adapt to any need.
Betelgeuse Supernova Explosion Is Finally Happening Now [video]
Watch live Betelgeuse in Orion could go supernova at any time. The system is predicted in 2025 producing a luminous red nova for the first time in 10,000 years!
> human eyes are somewhat limited to lines of 70-130 characters. Higher than that, and your eyes have hard time finding the next line at the end of the previous one because the travel is too high.

That's unfortunately a common myth even re regular text (even more so re code with all the extra structural helps) that's responsible for a lot of vertical space waste.

But at any rate you can adjust your window to whatever is comfortable, no need for the author to incorrectly guess what's best for you
Hey now, I'm offended. I maintain my app. I just have better things to do than constantly upgrade and strip away old libs because the JS kids have moved onto the next hottest thing.
World's Most Admired Companies 2025
PyTorch training optimizations: 5× faster with GPU profiling and memory analysis
There is also the issue of the massive migration to the Sunbelt. Once you have to take a plane to ski you shrink the market significantly.

Where I am in Washington has seen massive population growth and the ski resorts have not kept up, but I have not heard anything about new ski areas opening in the state.
Player Performance and Skill Rating in Esports [pdf]
How one YouTuber is trying to poison the AI bots stealing her content
Our goal was never to optimize for performance. There's a long standing hypothesis that topographic structure in the human brain leads to metabolic efficiency. Thanks to topography in ANNs, we were able to test out this hypothesis in a computational setting.

> sketchy story this is "brain like".

we reproduce the hallmarks of functional organization seen in the visual and language cortex of the brain. I encourage you to read the paper before making such comments
"Otherwise you’re going to have another AI winter where progress shrivels because investment dollars dry up."

Tbh a lot of people in the world would love this outcome. They will use AI because not using it puts them at a comparative disadvantage - but would rather AI doesn't develop further or didn't develop at all (i.e. they don't value the absolute advantage/value). There's both good and bad reasons for this.
Any plans to test and support this on Windows Server, since there is nothing directly tied to Linux from what I can tell.
TIL you can set live dock icons. This is all I need too. Thank you.
Is the suggestion that an English story is told from Point A to Point B, while the other cultures meander in various ways?

This seems confusing to me, as a regular reader of short stories and personal histories and other things in English that, actually, sound very much like this personal history here.
That's incorrect. Purely factual books (like phone dictionaries or map atlases) are perfectly fine for publishing.
for some, s/despite/due to the/ perhaps
Just a heads-up, I’m opinionated on this!

Every app has some terminology you need to learn to use it effectively, we just think that terminology should actually map to how databases work, rather than being an arbitrary abstraction. Instead of inventing our own terms, we stick to tables, records, schemas, and relationships so that users who learn Mathesar are also learning concepts that translate directly to Postgres (or relational databases in general).

Making software approachable isn’t about hiding complexity, it’s about presenting it well. The UI patterns you use determine whether a system feels intuitive, not whether the underlying mental model is simple. A well-designed interface can make even complex concepts feel natural, while a bad one can make simple tasks frustrating. Mathesar doesn’t make databases approachable by pretending tables aren’t tables, it makes them approachable by using familiar interactions, and progressively exposing functionality as you need it.

We do want to work on surveys ("forms") soon, and we're definitely thinking about bulk actions and integrations as well. Please feel free to open a feature request on https://github.com/mathesar-foundation/mathesar/issues for anything that would particularly help your use case.
I thought this was pretty conclusive already. There was a live stream where it looked like Elon didn’t know how to do basic things in the game, even though he had a high-level character. It’s pretty disappointing that he would try to dishonestly pass himself off as one of the best gamers, and I think a lot of gamers went from respecting his ability to play at a high level to having a worse opinion of him than before. I think he also blocked some gaming personalities who called him out on it.
I havent personally tested it, but I also havent allowed it on my phone.

I figure either its time to drop the smartphone concept, as I barely use it for more than calls, or try to wait it out for them to realize I/we didnt want or ask for it.
Apple has a reserved billboard right across the street from my apartment. Every time it changes I notice, Privacy ad, Sexy product photos, Shot on IPhone ads. Guess what it is now? AI Emoji, a hot dog holding a briefcase. I’m not surprised people aren’t impressed.
Services saved the day. Apple needs to restart Siri from scratch.
The categories seem to here:

https://eeocdata.org/pdfs/DEFINITIONS_OF_RACE_AND_ETHNICITY_...

Sigh. So many things are confused and conflated in those definitions.
When I was a kid we would go skiing in Colorado and there were big signs near most of the major lifts describing the Colorado Ski Safety Act:

https://donaldsonlaw.com/recreational-accident-attorney-denv...

The signs at Breckenridge have mostly been taken down, as I recall. But the Act still exists.
AI2 does great work, and is actually open source, unlike all the dishonest claims from Meta about Llama being open source. These guys actually release all of the training source code and even the data that they use. Read about this OLMo model (different from the one in the article):

https://allenai.org/blog/olmo2
Unclear what you mean by programmable, but https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pro... is the bee's knees and you can set an option to have it take over taskmon.exe, launch on login, and put as many of the widgets in the taskbar as you fancy. I love it

I've heard about running them directly from SMB but have never been the kind of person to try out such a stunt https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/#sysinternals...
If the prior machine still works, you might open up the settings software that came with the sound card. It's always possible you fiddled with things early on, forgot about it, and now new machine lacks that customization.
We don't have the capacity to do that internally, but we were thinking about having a "Community Guides" section of our docs where people could contribute guides to setting up Mathesar on different infrastructure. Let me know if that's something you'd be interested in contributing to!
> The only potential benefit

Other benefits:

1. Significantly lower dimensionality of internal representations
2. More interpretable (see: https://toponets.github.io)

> 7B model down to 6B

We remove ~80% of the parameters in topographic layers and retain the same performance in the model. The drop in parameter count is not significant because we did not experiment with applying TopoLoss in all of the layers of the model (did not align with the goal of the paper)

We are currently performing those strong sparsity experiments internally, and the results look very promising!
Maybe this would be relevant for datacenters with significant distance between machines, or multidatacenter systems.
That could explain compute efficiency, but has nothing to do with the parameter efficiency pointed at in the paper.
Ruby on Rails 8 with Vite and Tailwind CSS 4
Because* ftfy
No one asked for it, we are all broke, and the truth is pissing in our faces. The truth being that we must never trust that built by the wealthy at the cost of the rest.
All of that might be true, but I feel like the experience of skiing has gotten really bad in the last couple years. The passes have become more expensive, the hills are a lot more crowded, you can find no parking even if you are there at opening time, and so on. It is becoming less of something to look forward to, and more like dealing with lines at Disneyland.
Once I had to track down an issue where very rarely, with no discernible pattern the web app would produce garbled PDFs. Turned out this happened when an admin account remotely connected to the app server, which caused a reset of default screen resolution, which messed up the PDF library that relied on a specific resolution (it was HTML-to-PDF conversion). Happened rarely and randomly because there were multiple web servers and they were occasionally restarted which would fix the problem until next time.

Another fun problem I dealt with was when I was moving my employer's codebase from Subversion to Mercurial version control ages ago. Everything looked good, except a directory named CVS (after the pharmacy, a customer) was missing. Was banging my head on the table before realizing that the default .hgignore file instructed Mercurial to ignore all contents of .*/CVS (another old version control system).
whatever it is, it looks like their first time using it. here's the last footnote I see from that account: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39964109
Because it’s unethical or because it’s inefficient to do this manually as opposed to algorithmically?
Really? What about drug development? Protein folding?
Perhaps they are more easily compressible? Once a bunch of nearby weights have similar roles one may not need all of them.
There's not really much of a debate, just a bunch of clamoring and wishful thinking by rightsholders who don't understand copyright law insisting that precedent should be subordinate to mimetic outrage over LLMs.
The reason colonization spread to other places late is that there was real no demand for what it could offer. The Industrial Revolution changed that. It led to dramatic increase in the need of various supplies, not only from industrial processes, but also from urbanization and the rapid growth of richer middle and upper classes and their increasing consumption. The "Scramble for Africa" only really began in the 1880s, long after slavery had been banned in most places.

My description of the technological differences in the Americas was not off the cuff. Cortes' group was armed, literally, with guns (including handguns), cannons, longswords, and more. They were wearing steel cuirass for defense. And they were facing people wielding wooden clubs, primitive bows, and defending with wooden shields and basic padded armor, if that.

And the entire world, let alone the Americas, started out depopulated. In many ways it still is. Today if we spread out each person there'd be enough area for ~4 football fields per person. But back to the Americas nobody knows what the population was so there range estimates from 8 million to 53 million [1] (excluding one loony toon outlier), with an average estimate of just about 30 million. So if every person was spread out evenly, this would be an average of 273 football fields per person. But of course people, even back then, were packed into relatively densely packed settlements. So you're talking about seeing thousands of football fields of area, on average, without ever seeing a person. Clearly no major depopulation events were necessary.

And the reason the industrial revolution occurred is quite simply because technology reached a threshold enabling it. People had been trying to automate various processes for millennia, but lacked the prerequisites to succeed. It followed the development of a large number of technological breakthroughs - the steam engine, coke over coal, and so on.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_history_of_the_Indi...
This is a weird paper. Optimizing sustainability won't save your resort.

A few other commenters are complaining about lack of snow (climate change), but the real drivers are fundamentals (e.g. cost of leasing protected forests or grooming) and trends like younger generations wanting ski weekends over ski weeks. If you can't stay relevant, you perish.
The motivation was to induce structure in the weights of neural nets and see if the functional organization that emerges aligns with that of the brain or not. Turns out, it does -- both for vision and language.

The gains in parameter efficiency was a surprise even to us when we first tried it out.
Not buying from a particular company is "not really that different" to trying to get an individual fired or otherwise cut off their source of income? Wild take.
> A fool their money are soon parted.

You mind elaborating and substantiating your claim? Stablecoins are, in fact, a different class of crypto, and in my experience, actually VERY useful. I’ve owned some DAI for years now, and unlike your average meme coin, nothing about it is sketchy—it’s fully auditable on the blockchain and censorship-resistant. Why’s someone like me a fool?
Let's be honest, there isn't much of a difference between an iPhone 13 and 16. Why buy? I almost exclusively buy second hand these days.
I’m confused. Can you help me understand your reasoning here?

Abstractly, if attribute K which is uncorrelated with merit is considered favorably during hiring, then merit will decrease as an outcome as compared to the baseline where attribute K is not considered, unless attribute K is used strictly as a tie breaker.

Do you think that DEI considerations are in fact strictly used as a tie breaker, and specifically in a government setting? Are there enough ties in the real world for the representation needle to be moved based on altering only tie decisions? I am skeptical of both of these based on my experience with DEI practices, and as far as I know they have moved the representation needle so something must be false.

I’m curious how you are thinking about it though, you sound fairly confident.
(nothing will happen)
I think they're pretty different use cases. LibreOffice Base and Kexi are desktop database frontends focused on local databases, while Mathesar is web-based, self-hosted, can be connected to a remote database, and built for multi-user collaboration.
This brings to mind The Story of Mel from programming folklore.

http://beza1e1.tuxen.de/lore/story_of_mel.html
Indeed. What's cool is that we were able to localize literal "regions" in the GPTs which encoded toxic concepts related to racism, politics, etc. A similar video can be found here: https://toponets.github.io

More work is being done on this as we speak.
I keep getting updates but Siri is dumb as ever. Are the changes only on iPhone 16 and above?
Latest redesign is pretty garbage though. I want my precise graphs back!
Thank you for the breath of fresh air. The fact so many people are still burning their hard earned money for a overpriced status symbol is insanity.
Yeah, I hear "flow 86" nearly rhyming with "486" when I squint. As in, I've got a personal 386 and a work486 at my desk.
No, it's not so.

If the allocation is backed by the kernel, then it will be zero-filled for security reasons. If it's backed by user-space malloc then who knows; but there's never a scenario where a mallocated page is quietly replaced by a zero-filled page behind the scenes.
I think my point went over the head here, so to speak.

The fact is “AI” isn’t building these integrations because they aren’t capable. They’re capable of generating some sandbox code, if anything, but full scale integration, that updates itself as APIs change etc?

It’s simply not happening, because they don’t actually reason, because they lack actual intelligence
I wonder if Uber has ever explored using Vitess. And they seems to be very slow in updating MySQL if they only came to 8.0 when latest is on 9.2 already.
I've tried to better document my own Knowledge Management system, while preparing my course on this topic.

It may seem like it's "too much", but it's what works for me right now. And having a clearly documented system will help me refine it over time.

I store all I write in Obsidian, including my articles, my own books, my courses, my YT scripts, the quotes I enjoy, etc. It's really the engine for my writing activity.

Beyond that, it's also where I plan and organize all my work, from yearly plans down to daily tasks.

And it's where I hold my journal, where all the inputs and output go.
> most often if you want to do

most often it is "most often" that causes bugs in software. And when related to date/time it often are severe bugs. ;-)
Thank you! Where would you need to hide these fields?

If you had some time, it would be great if you could make a GitHub issue with more details about your use case! https://github.com/mathesar-foundation/mathesar/issues
Gemma2 seems to be the best small model for trivia. Even the 9b model really surprises me sometimes with things it can answer, that seem ridiculous for a small model to know.
But not tommorrow.
Hey there. I am behind DOrch. Listed on your platform a few weeks back. Showing some love from here, and rooting for your success. Cheers
Gentle Romance
What the journey from AI assistant to full-virtuality can teach us about the nature of love.
If you think this is actually about curbing DEI overreach, you’re missing the point. "DEI" and "woke" are just "CRT" in new packaging, i.e. pithy buzzwords used to activate right-wing rage about uppity/crazy/Marxist liberals and restore white, male, Evangelical cultural supremacy.

> Avoid requiring people to choose “Mr.” or “Ms.”. Many Americans prefer a different title or none at all.

This goes against 1950s style family values that Republicans prefer.

> Offer multiple languages.

This makes things more accessible to immigrants and people of color. Expect things in English only from here on out.

> For that matter, don’t require addresses from people who may not have a well defined address, e.g. people displaced by disasters.

Republicans tend to view the unhoused and destitute as a drain on resources. See prosperity gospel, etc.

In other words, DEI or not, removing all this content feels completely on brand.
Grass is always greener my friend.

Many jobs in finance are updating 20 year old Java code, or figuring out new ways to load data in and out of Excel files for custom reporting.
Apple Intelligence is terrible and there's barely any reason to upgrade any more.
There is also another type of comb that is extremely useful: the GKP qubit (introduced in https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0008040). Its wavefunction is a comb.
Can it automatically update themselves based on changes to the source API? Can it detect ahead of time if APIs have changed? How about understanding the API requirements?
Scientists Flocks to DeepSeek
That even the wealthiest corporations in the world are too cowardly to take a stance against ruining their products with this inane, tasteless, broken-by-design genai garbage is a sobering lesson on how much "consumer choice" is an illusion.
15 pro/pro max and above.
I feel like they would make a killing if they made a pro version that would be able to dock into a simplified desktop. I’ve been wanting this for years. They love taking a semi cooked idea and polishing it and this could make Samsung dex look like a child’s tool. I think a lot of this community would be interested in something like that. I like what they did with CarPlay, now they just need office play.
Any app can, provided they build a menu item. Most apps don't, and those that do don't usually connect the presentation of the menu to an action in the app, it just runs alongside the app (e.g. Kaleidoscope). But you could do that if you wanted.
I really liked Fastmail but newer email clients like Shortwave work best with Gmail, so I took my domain to Google Workspace. I’m not a fan of Google in general but I suspect email deliverability improves too since they control most of the world’s spam filters.
FFXIV is an excellent game, with multiple exceptional expansions (Heavensward and Shadowbringers being particularly great) and a generous free trial mode that doesn't limit hours (!) and includes the first three games/expansions and a decent endgame. It also includes keyboard/mouse and controller support and cross-play across PC/Mac/PS5/PS4/Xbox.

It's worthy of the Final Fantasy name, and Hironobu Sakaguchi (creator of Final Fantasy) actually plays it as well.
Congratulations on the launch! Stablecoins are a powerful use of blockchains and it’s great to see a novel means of distributing them.

A lot of commenters on HN are deeply biased against anything to do with blockchain, so best to ignore the noise here and keep shipping.
Fire! Fight!
People only pull out slower tools for valuable, forgery worthy cards.

If someone is buying 1000 $1000 dollar cards, it’s still worth it lol.

Even cheap forgeries cost money to produce, so I wouldn’t expect a lot of low value cards to be forged. If you sort out the valuable cards and do random sampling, you can probably catch the most problematic cases.
If we are measuring the cost of libraries is a drop in the bucket relative to national debt and GDP. The immeasurable benefit they provide to communities is so worth their tiny relative cost.
Great suggestions, I also really liked “Multicast and the Markets”

https://signalsandthreads.com/multicast-and-the-markets/