skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As an aside, accepting that I'm in the minority here speaking on behalf of them, I am not someone who would write a blog post announcing that I'm leaving some shitty platform. I'll just cancel my sub and move on. I don't need nor want to grandstand regardless of AI or just people's shit taste.

Without someone writing the post you wouldn't be here discussing it. I applaud the author for writing his short post on his own personal website. He's hardly "grandstanding". You're the only one who claims to be "speaking on behalf" of others.
Host your own music on Jellyfin or Plex + Plexamp.
With the HDD swapped out for flash the weight is going to be much less, isn't it?
I'm afraid you bitterly underappreciate the amount of unanticipated connections of everything with everything else in a complex system.

An industrial steam engine will never explode like a bomb, unless explicitly designed to do so.

An agricultural insecticide will never accumulate in human bodies, unless explicitly designed to do so.

A speculative execution unit will never reveal data from a privileged process, unless explicitly designed to do so.

A toy quadcopter will never be able to carry a lethal weapon, unless explicitly designed to do so,

An LLM will never tell outright lies, or engage in racial prejudices, unless explicitly designed to do so.

Oh wait.

Even when you explicitly try to make some states impossible in a complex system, often a parasitic connection or a benign-looking failure mode re-enables the thing you tried hard to disable. If you just ignore it because "it's impossible anyway", without active suppression, the chances of a nasty surprise become quite high.

If the blind watchmaker of the biological evolution produces self-awareness here and there, the probability that you may encounter some variety of it while stomping all over the territory of intelligent machines that are fed the sum total of human knowledge should be close to 1.
This would be awesome, few if any companies would be able to take the risk of storing customer info, since they would need very good security, and very good reason for every piece of data they store, and insurance to cover themselves in case they do lose your data. In fact companies would go out of their way to not store any of your data.
The average American credit card debt is around $8000. https://www.lendingtree.com/credit-cards/study/credit-card-d...
You may indeed have a different experience, but you also may not notice these things as it happens slowly over time, like the proverbial boiling frog. If you're younger it's likely you haven't noticed the patterns. I've been around for a while and notice these patterns from miles away.
I've been using Pandora for over a decade now. Always been happy with it and it's always served great as a discovery tool.
Because government-run free libraries squeeze out any profit-making possibility.
White House AI Czar Sacks Says 'Evidence' DeepSeek Leaned on OpenAI's Models
This is totally an “ackchyually” comment, but the last time I checked, Spotify wasn’t an Electron app.

It’s a Chromium Embedded Framework app, and they publish nightlies of CEF.

Maybe they’ve moved over, but I doubt it.
A lot of these ideas are part of the design of Fuchsia (https://fuchsia.dev/).
To some extent, yes. I would not run production off of it, even if it can eek out performance gains on hardware at hand. I'd suggest vLLM or TGI or something similar instead.
If you've got your robots.txt set to tell search engines to go away, or at least don't look at those pages, then you probably aren't worried about that, I assume?
Meanwhile a WiFi 7 access point costs 10x what a WiFi 6E one does. In my country we have fibre to the premises national broadband, but even its top speed is just 1 Gbps, so nobody has any motivation to upgrade their home wifi.
I'm frankly astounded at the difference in gas prices you'll see.
At one point within 2 blocks there was a station selling $1.6 less, and it wasn't even crazy busy. The other station still had plenty of business.

The price difference isn't as large now that prices have come down, but it's $0.7, and both are still just as busy as before.
I'm talking about my current experience, not the delta over time. I've been using Spotify since 2011.
You said:
> We expect that about 1% of the orbital planes will be aligned so that we
> can get meaningful data
Somewhere below, someone used the figure of 0.01%. I assume they were mistaken, and your 1% number is about right for some "average" star sizes and orbits.

At any rate, that figure depends on the size of the star, and the distance from the star that the planet orbits--the further away, the smaller the chance that their orbital plane would be aligned with our solar system. For a Sun-class star, and a planet inside the habitable zone, what is the %? Am I correct in thinking it would be approximately 0.5/180, where 0.5 degrees is the apparent size of our Sun in the sky, and 180 degrees is of course half a circle (since it doesn't matter whether we're on one side or the opposite side of their star, hence 360/2). Which works out to about 0.14%, right?
New music as in "new to me" not "newly released".
> Layoffs were uncommon when I started working, and being a developer felt like an incredibly safe job. In most professions, the unspoken rule was simple: if you performed well and the company was financially stable, your job was secure.

Seems like the author has only been through an up cycle
>For most web apps, the bottleneck is I/O, not CPU.

We just have blog post submission on HN that suggest otherwise. At least for RoR.

Luckily we have YJIT and we are finally understanding may be we are actually CPU bound, which means we could look into it rather than always thinking it is a I/O DB Problems.
I actually really like podcasts but never wanted my music app forcing theirs above links to actual music, or inserting extra ads into episodes that I could listen to from other sources. Their rollout of podcasts made me make a point to never, ever listen to a podcast on Spotify.
Happy to find Ben Jordan's video here. He's done a few videos about just how bad Spotify (and others) are, and they're all very refreshing data-driven reviews of the industry, free from as much bullshit and bias as is possible.
A single medical diagnosis or accident could easily do that.
They didn't measure the values before and after visiting the library so it's useless. "People who enjoy libraries also report enjoying libraries"
Memo source, though apparently two were released, one with later clarifications.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/deb7af80-48b6-4b8a-...
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25506191-omb-memo-1-...

Side note the OMB (agency issuing memo in question) website redirects straight to whitehouse.gov, which seemingly was not previously the case.
What I do is use RateYourMusic.com and find people who rate albums similar to the way I do. The site even lets you build music charts and filter albums by how highly they’re rated by the users you follow.
Hog is slang for human male genitalia. Given that, the company's name is an imperative command to share photos of such.
Commercial libraries = private library where you pay a membership fee? I’ve not really heard of that here outside of arguably university libraries and similar.

But SF public library has a couple dozen branches or more?
libc has always been all things to all people.
We all knew The Chinese government was going to censor it. The censoring happening in ChatGPT is arguably more interesting since they are not beholden to the US government. I'm more interested in that report.
What's people's opinion on VS Code that's Electron based

edit: personally if I just use my playlist spotify is fine for me, except the 4GB ram issue on 64bit but that's rare/may be old news now
Maybe I’m misunderstanding but CUDA compiles to PTX? Is the implication they wrote in a different language than CUDA and to generate the PTX?
All conservatives want is less government interference and less taxes! They never voted for any of this.
That reputational loss is almost exclusively among those who understand how the crowdstrike products work, but the Venn diagram with those folks and “people at companies who can approve large expenses” is nearly empty.

Yes, the CRWD ticker took a hard hit, dropping about 50% over the course of 2 weeks last July. But... it recently topped its previous high, only 7 months later (which is like 1/2 or 1/3 of an enterprise sales cycle!).
Ipod classics have a spinning rust hdd. They are heavy. The 2004 4th gen 40 GB is 176 grams and is a bulky 110 cm3. That's quite a bit more than my pixel 5, which is 151 grams and just 81 cm3. In fact, could buy nearly any old phone and do better, immediately, and have a much nicer display and better bluetooth codecs and the ability to play lossless formats.
The Guardian doesn't need to attempt any character assassination of Musk or Thiel. Musk in particular is doing it to himself.

Teslas are now being called "swasticars". It's funny so it will probably stick.

Musk has no one but himself to blame for that one.
I dig my YT music quite a bit. Love the plethora of mixes they give me with various smatterings of artists I listen to that go together nicely, plus some new artists in the same vein layered in.. And their holy grail My Supermix rarely misses for me..

Haven't noticed anything AI-created yet. That would really suck if it did happen..
If I’m reading this correctly, it isn’t a severance package, exactly. The only “compensation” an employee is getting in exchange for agreeing to resign in September is the ability to continue working from home. Things are messier if agencies start placing those employees on paid administrative leave etc.
Was it Benjamin Franklin who established the public library system in the US? I think it was one of the greatest achievements in civilization. Every town in the US has a nice library for people to relax and to immerse themselves in knowledge or in an beautiful imaginary world.
I have no clue what you mean by 'extend ownership', and it's supposed to be different from what ETFs are doing.

An ETF typically holds the underlying assets, and you own a part of the ETF.
It is for mortgages
Neither. Think of it as something like redis or memcached. It's external to the program, and the program will run just fine without it. But it avoids a lot of duplicate works.
The HN moderation team has said that machine generated submissions and posts are not welcome here, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33950747.
> you may never know if you're the other guy or not

The older I’ve got, the more I think on kindness.

With kindness, there is no ‘other guy’. Sure, this was funny. It is funny. It really is! But it’s _not that funny_. And I feel I couldn’t have said it wasn’t that funny until I’d seen enough (got old enough?) to understand.

Like you I think I’ve thought about being the other guy or not. As for Spotify — I don’t subscribe. I don’t want to be part of it.

> the darkness feels stickier and the levity more trivial

I edited to add: what extraordinary wording.
It's one of the reasons why I stopped reading most nonfiction books (outside of history or biographies), they all take way too long to make their point. It feels like most modern books can get their message across in 20 pages but I suppose not many people would buy a thick pamphlet.
I'm going to take a wild guess that WASM is orders of magnitude slower for IPC than raw unix, which is unfortunate because it seems like some of the most promising fertile soil for a security-first capability model.

Does that disqualify it as a potential path to a solution? How fine-grained would these components realistically need to be?
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42858689

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42859877
Grindr is a hookup app for gay men. "Hog" is slang for penis, so one might ask someone to "post hog" if they would like him to send a picture of his penis.
Nomic Falcon, Mixtral, YALM, Bloom, Grok-1 and Jamba, just to name a few of the foundation models.
I just rotate music on a microSD for mobile. However, you can optionally self-host a music server and connect with a client on your device to stream. It's also possible to SSH from outside home network, if you really want to.
Excuse me, your blog doesn't display properly in the IceWeasel browser, noscript, FreeBSD, 640x480 monitor. And you're using ipv4, which is deprecated.
Ya' know, Oly was very happy to find his farm was in Iowa, rather than Minnesota. When his friend Sven asked him why, given that taxes were higher in Iowa, Oly replied "Vell, now I don't have to put up vith those lousy Minnesota vinters no more!"
Naa just wanted to see who would bite.
SD cards of that size may not be compatible with many devices though.
How do you measure the profitability of military aircraft?
Isn't batch-first a Pytorch thing? I started with Tensorflow and it's batch-last.
There were recent articles about musicians being employed to churn out tracks, are you thinking of that?

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machin...

ctrl+f "summer afternoon in Brooklyn"
Concorde at least made more money than it cost to operate (and maintain).

The TU-144 made 102 commercial flights, with 55 of those carrying passengers -- the others I assume were cargo.

Not 102 flights per day or month -- 102 flights TOTAL between the first commercial flight in December 1975 and retirement from passenger service in 1978 and from all commercial service in 1983.

With 16 built, that's an average of 6 flights each in their lifetime.

SpaceX has Falcon 9 rocket boosters with 4x as many hypersonic flights on them.
>Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

>---Anne Herbert, _The Next Whole Earth Catalog_ (1980), p 331.
I don't know if you think this opinion (expressed in this way) makes you seem insightful, but just so you know, it just makes you seem uninformed. It's like saying "Listen to music? No thanks, I don't want to listen to a guy in makeup screaming about satanism into a microphone". Like, yes, that type of music does exist, but it's uninformed to make the claim that that's all music is.
Get a standalone music player and you will have full control (but you also may have some upfront work to do your music downloading and create your playlists but worth it imo). I got a Miyoo Mini game emulator for my kid and ended up getting one for myself, all for ~$50. Being offline (by choice, the device does have wifi) and being able fully customize the thing, backup the SD it's really great. It's such a whiff of fresh air to be honest, you get no popups, no attention misdirects, everything is there waiting for you and no corp messes up you.
Navidrome also
The president who achieved a cease fire in the first month, while the previous administration seemingly didn't try?
The scale vs. intelligence trade-off in RAG
You also have to make it environmentally sustainable like they did when they talked about a partnership with Prometheus fuels back in 2019, even then what's the point compared to regular planes if these "are likely to burn between 4.5 and 7.5X more fuel than subsonic aircraft in 2035." [0]

[0]: https://bsky.app/profile/rutherdan.bsky.social/post/3lgstwvv... -> 2021 NASA assessment https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20205009400
Can you give an example of a novel problem they can not help you solve?
You know that's not the point. You can't even ask the dictionary app a question. You more or less just input and it'll give you what it has.

I can ask this model some pretty intense things and I get meaningful output back and it doesn't take very long and I don't need an internet connection. Like I said it's spiffy.

I will, have, and will use it again sans network connection and be happy I had the option.

Better will come. That is just fine. I have something very useful today, right now.
That's been the status quo since Concorde. The problem is it's hard to make a supersonic jet that has decent subsonic performance, you kind of have to pick one flight regime or the other to optimize for. And the market for business jets that you can only really fly transoceanic is small.
Try having a family and you can get some of those 10k bills in a single month.
As long as the output of AI is not copyrightable, there will be demand for human engineers.

After all, if your codebase is largely written by AI, it becomes entirely legal to copy it and publish it online, and sell competing clones. That's fine for open source, but not so fine for a whole lot of closed source.
Sento – Actor framework featuring actors and agents
Aside from any given policy, the President deciding that the presidency gets a new power is a disturbing precedent.
Thankfully.

Can you imagine a modern for-profit library?

Pay fees for access. Pay more fees to "skip the queue" for reserving books. Enjoy ads on your mandatory library app AND in your paid-for library space.

Yeeesh. No thanks. A modern public library is a simple reminder that we CAN have good things.
I quit Spotify in the mid 2010s solely because the software was so bad, which robbed me of the satisfaction I might get today from quitting due to its even worse offenses.
> since they would need very good security

As someone with 20+ years experience in IT/DevOps/Cloud/whatever, I disagree.

They would simply need to actually use the security that is already there. Data leaks that happen due to lack of "very good security" are extremely rare. In almost every case, someone was doing something very stupid that everyone already agrees is a very obvious thing to not do.

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> In fact companies would go out of their way to not store any of your data.

The companies that already use existing IT systems, as they are already designed to be used, have no problem protecting customer data and not leaking it. The companies that can not properly hire our outsource competent IT people shouldn't be storing data in the first place. Commerce is subject to regulation, due to human nature, and different regulation is needed today.

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> and insurance to cover themselves in case they do lose your data

I would prefer that this kind of insurance not exist.
I think it refers to this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/homeschool/comments/1i8utxu/intervi...

All three of my kids (now adults) got schooled at home, then went on to college. More unschooling than homeschooling -- we didn't follow a formal curriculum. Of the group of homeschooling families we socialized with in Portland most of the kids went on to college. Back then we would get college recruiters, including from Ivy League schools, showing up at homeschooling events. I suspect that has a lot to do with the relatively affluent middle class who can afford to homeschool, but it helps that homeschooled kids actually perform well at college.

You can find some videos and accounts of unschoolers with feral kids who can't read. That happens too but not the norm in my experience.

If you haven't already found them, get John Holt's books, especially How Children Learn and How Children Fail. Also Grace Llewellyn and John Taylor Gatto. I liked the book Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich.
I’ve done the same with SQLAlchemy in Python and SQLKata in C#.

Sadly the whole idea of composable query builders seems to have fallen out of fashion.
I love their algo with no personalization (i.e. idle browsing via Invidious).

Yeah it fails a lot, but I can click through to YT.
Of course! I do the same. However, I won't deny being able to get some information, even if I must validate it with care, jn a pinch is a great thing.

It just a tool in the tool box. Like any tool, one must respect and use it with care.
They voted for this. If they don’t think they did, it’s only because they are ignorant fools.
I’m extremely confused. SF has many libraries and I go to them.
> Its been almost ten years since I've worked there and I occasionally log on just to see if they've updated anything. Nope. Last time I checked was early 2024. Still nothing was updated.

... but.. why?

Why let them live rent-free in your mind? Why admit to that in even a pseudonymous space?
Spotify has over 640 million active users. Of those, 100 million are active podcast listeners, despite having an app they frequently use that lets them listen to podcasts. This suggests that many of Spotify's users hate podcasts as much as they hate the wacky morning DJs who say democracy's a joke.
A lot of the get an iPod comments ignore music discovery. I like new music and think new music is good and would like to discover new music. Having to buy all the music I want to try would be to expensive.
It wouldn't be hard to imagine paying a not for profit institution directly instead of via taxes. Then its funding would be unaffected by political vagaries, as it would be funded by people's choice.
You don’t “have to” make it environmentally sustainable…
> maintaining the existence of their feature suggestion community boards while just utterly stonewalling for years while thousands of paying users beg for stuff

my one I've been asking them for years for is the ability to quickly swap profiles on a family plan. (first world problem i know!)

My daughter, not being able to swap to her profile on our main media machine has utterly destroyed the utility of Discover Weekly for me, and for a time that was my favorite spotify feature.
OAuth2 is more general than OIDC, came first, and was intended to solve a smaller problem (delegated access to resources). OIDC is identity (rather than permission) implemented on top of OAuth2.
I didn’t even get an Arby’s coupon.

I got a letter telling me they gave away my information with a link to an “identity monitoring” site that looks like the CEOs nephew built in a weekend and just errors out when I sign up.
This article doesn't really gratify my intellectual curiosity.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm looking at a WiFi 7 deployment. But not because of the feature set. The true win was extra spectrum with 6E. But considering where most vendors are with their 6E product life cycle, 7 will provide more ROI.
So, like, Kindle?
Thanks for cutting through the noise. I did some poking around and a discussion from a couple of days ago reached the same conclusion.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42825573
In space culture this is widely considered a dick move.
One thing I've seen recently: My daylist will be named the same, but have (usually very slightly) different songs between different platforms (e.g. Mac vs iPhone). Not the end of the world, but very strange.
The only desoldering tool that I use because I gave up on desoldering wick at about age 12 when it just didn't seem to work. A decade or two later, I learned that you have to put the wick between the soldering iron and the tin... pretty obvious, right?!
OpenAI launches ChatGPT for government agencies
FWIW I've been following this field obsessively since the BERT days and I've heard people say "just a few months now" for about 5 years at this point. Here we are 5 years later and we're still trying to buy more runway for a feature that doesn't exist outside science-fiction novels.

And this isn't one of those hard problems like VTOL or human spaceflight where we can demonstrate that the technology fundamentally exists. You are ballparking a date for a featureset you cannot define and one that in all likelihood doesn't exist in the first place.
A different stab at this is to ask what it would take to build a telescope that could image some of these Earth-like planets, a project that turns out to be easier (in a very loose sense of that word) than sending cameras there.

The idea is you send a camera very, very far out in the Solar System (hundreds of AU) and then use the Sun's gravity well as your lens. Neat stuff and, unlike the interstellar probes, potentially doable in our lifetime.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_gravitational_lens
In asian countries there are plenty of comic cafes (manga/manhwa/manhua) that charge entry fees and provide amenities to read them.

Blockbuster and other video rental places were basically pay-per-use libraries, but not with an area to consume the media.