skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frequency combs are optical synthesizers. This means that the frequency of the nth comb mode is exactly n times a radio frequency (+ another radio frequency), where n is a (very large) integer. The speed of light does not matter at all. This is very important since the speed of light (and hence the wavelength) depends on environmental factors such as air pressure and humidity. One way to determine the speed of light (in air) would indeed be to measure the wavelength of a laser whose frequency is calibrated using a frequency comb.

The speed of light in vacuum cannot be measured in SI units since it is the fundamental constants that defines the unit "meter".
> Most data processing and distributed systems have some sort of link back to the research this lab has done.

Heh. "most data processing and distributed systems"? Surely you don't mean that the rest of the world was sitting tight working on uniprocessors until this lab got set up in 2017!
If you can’t will your ears to pop, here’s the manual way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valsalva_maneuver
I’m not sure I understand what this comment is responding to. Wouldn’t a distilled Deepseek still use the same tokenizer? I’m not claiming they are using llama in their backend. I’m just saying they are likely using a lower-parameter model too.
I guess git and GitHub are working as intended then.

This is not a sarcastic comment. I'm genuinely happy that this was the outcome.
WeatherNext
Quantum Computing's Biggest Obstacle Just Got Solved with Self-Assembling Qubits
Oh wow, thank you. I didn't know nested CSS was a real thing nowadays.
An AI-written book shows why the tech 'terrifies' creatives
If there is an intermediary language in the middle with its own runtime, does that mean that we lose everything Rust brings?

I thought this would introduce the language to choreograph separate Rust binaries into a consistent and functional distributed system but it looks more like you're writing DFIR the whole way through and not just as glue
I always think of Glengarry Glen Ross when I think about high and low quality leads.

The leads are weak? You’re weak!
Synthetic neurons that mimic human processes could lead to smarter robotics
I found one of these while free diving. Wiped it off and wore it for several years, until I lost it while free diving.
Life's Building Blocks Found in Bennu Samples
Where is the AI used here?

They mention it a few times, yet there is no clear connection to AI
At the risk of being pedantic (I don't know much about C++ and I'm genuinely curious), if Ollama is really just a wrapper around Llama.cpp, why would it need the Vulkan specific flags?

Shouldn't it just call Llama.cpp and let Llama.cpp handle the flags internally within Llama.cpp? I'm thinking from an abstraction layer perspective.
Not sure if it was me or someone else. There are a lot of things that can go wrong, but the thing that would've most likely been my fault is running the device without the seed laser on (or turning off the seed laser while operating).
Running a Lemmy instance is a nightmare. Putting aside the questionable Lemmy community, the software takes an enormous amount of resources and is incredibly finicky, always some new bug. The end-user UX is rough, and god forbid you ever want to try to improve it by adding a new feature or improving any existing ones. Not to mention federation woes - it doesn't work reliably in the first place, and you either have to only federate with a select few strictly moderated instances (and abide by their rules yourself), or risk spam and illegal content getting stored on your server.

I'm bitter because I really want to love the fediverse. I fully support the principles behind it, but making an ActivityPub-based server is less like adding RSS to a site and more like running a WordPress site with a bunch of iffy plugins. The relative popularity of the fediverse shows that there's a market for non-corporate social media, but the protocol has fundamental issues that really limit it. Hopefully someday the community can rally around something better.
found you on Bluesky :D
My ears won’t move but I can flip my tongue over. I assumed everyone could, but nope. Bodies are so wonderfully weird and adhoc.
I immediately backed out, because it literally gave me a headache within about 5 seconds.
The first 2 points do point to Ollama neglecting the community and not contributing to upstream. For the lack of Jinja templates I would have thought that's just from it being written in Go and using the Go templating engine instead.
Just another data point: I read your original comment as simply an observation without any particular agenda. It's correct and seemed non-judgemental to me.
The: User-Valid Pseudo-Class
Crypto Is Inevitable
Building MCP Agentic Systems from Scratch with Go, VertexAI and Gemini
It is a three part article from the concepts of Agentic, MCP to the implementation of a server and the implementation of a host.
The article’s conclusion is that businesses shouldn’t chase big app launches or “going viral”, because that tends to not be valuable for the business, and that instead they should go for gradual, slow growth. In other words, the article doesn’t blame the users, it blames businesses using the wrong strategy.
This text is so confidently incorrect, that I have to wonder if it is LLM-generated. The control loop for a frequency comb is actually very simple. Generating the carrier-envelope offset frequency signal is the hard (Nobel prize worthy) part.
Kipling is, I think, in many ways hard to categorise. He loved India and its peoples, and did respect them, but in a rather condescending way. And he definitely believed in the "white man's burden". And yet apparently Kim is popular with Indian intellectuals.
Since the beginning of time (of software released on the interweb), people have been burned by the software not doing what it says on the tin. Or that it sounds like it might do what you really need even if that need isn't advertised on the tin.

The reality is that people have needs and look for solutions. Some needs never have an off the shelf solution and it might take multiple OTS options strung together with some glue code. You don't know what's possible until you get a better look at the software. Why someone would be amazed that their perfect little product is not actually, you know, perfect solution for everyone is the real tell.
Building Gabbee, an AI-powered digital assistant
Doesn't that practically guarantee Exoplanets in those systems?
The new AI trade emerging after DeepSeek shock
Gradual Disempowerment by AI
Worked on atomic clocks, the frequency comb was used to downsample optical frequency ranges to a range that electronics can reasonably handle. A patent for the system can be found here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20220390902A1/en
Just posting this as it isn't just "another" battery breakthrough. This is actually shipping already in 2nd or 3rd generation depending on how you count.

We are only a few years away from having 50% higher battery density.
Right now models have no structure so that access is random but you definitely know where the data is located in memory since you put it there. It doesn’t matter about the physical location - it’s all through a TLB but if you ask the GPU for a contiguos memory allocation it gives it to you. This is probable the absolute easiest thing to optimize for if your data access pattern is amenable to it.
Why are quaternions more popular than tessarines despite being non-commutative?
I've been looking for something similar! Here is what I'd like to do:

I have a long-running script. At several steps, the execution of the script has to pause for a long time for operations to be done in-real-life (biological experiments, so think wait time being like 2 days between running), before getting some data and continuing to run. From what I can see in this, I'd add yielding coroutines at data pause points, right? How would you handle that?
A distinction they make clear and write extensively about on the model page, yes?
Oh man Celeste was FANTASTIC. I've been active in /r/gamedev for forever (because I used to teach high school kids how to make video games), so I was already interested but this seals the deal.

The storytelling, the accessibility options, chef's kiss

Requested.
The angle you tilt your head to, to REALLY listen intently is known as "Mozart's Incline".
Honest.
Haven’t read the paper but my guess around that is that the same reason sparse attention networks (where they 0 out many weights) just have the sparse tensors be larger.
There are some fascinating stories about kids abducted and raised by wolves - who, when they were eventually found and brought back into human society, showed seemingly "superhuman" senses of hearing and smell. The senses became more normal the longer they spent time in human society however.

Not sure how credible those stories are, but if they are, this would indicate that human senses are a lot more flexible than we believe they are.
What is the minimum GDP per capita required for a thriving society?
Matty and team have built a super simple way to scaffold and build agents. This is a dev tool that does much of the foundational work while still giving you full control. Worth checking out.
> Would some KDE app misbehaving be a fair criticism of the whole project?

...yes? If dolphin sucked then that's a fault in KDE.
they describe the voice as being "realistic" so it seems like the phone call is a speech to text chatbot
Idk if dang was in charge back in the day, but I remember HN used to shut off sign-ups whenever Reddit went down (very frequently like 10 years ago) so they didn’t get a flood of users looking for a low-effort Reddit like experience. Those are the kinds of things I’d never think about but are also what has kept HN so great. Genuinely glad this bit of internet has been so well maintained over the years.
I just went over the Github and home page. This sounds like the sort of thing I'd be interested in, as my general go-to language is rust (For PC applications, embedded etc), but I still use python for web due to Django's comprehensive toolkit (Which Rails also has). I don't think I can stomach Async rust, which appears to be tightly integrated into Loco. (A side effect of Hyper and most of the rust web ecosystem being Async?)
You can’t pull the facehugger out, OTOH I wonder what form it will take when the egg hatches.
Watermill – Building event-driven applications the easy way in Go
"Longevity Island" Links: Harvard/MIT NYU→Columbia
Hey everyone! Currently still on the East Coast, specifically Columbia University later today, if anyone is around and interested. Let's chat all things related to Bryan Johnson's trip to the GARM clinic on the island of Roatán. Infinita is the replacement name for the pop-up city called Vitalia. Located in Próspera, which is deemed a special economic zone by Honduras. These meetups serve as info sessions for what life looks like on the island, working on neural interfaces, Healthspan SOPs, & biohacking projects. Our company is Quantization Research Labs, aka QuantResLabs, & we'll host additional meet ups on the west coast. I'll have Columbia's Partiful/Luma link up later today. In same thread.
This is less a problem with the subreddit and forums, and more that AAA game devs seems to be very reserved about discussing their industry or keep discussion internal to private channels (possibly for IP reasons). Whenever I see a AAA developer pop up on Reddit they're always vague and mysterious; "I work for an unnamed AAA developer.." You don't see people doing that on HN very often, they usually announce unabashedly they work at a well known company, like Google.
Open router looks really awesome. I wasn’t aware of this service thanks!
That’s not how I remember Reader at all.

I never used the web interface.

Google Reader provided syncing for nearly every 3rd party RSS app.

It wasn’t just a walled garden. It was also critical infrastructure for most RSS apps at the time.
> So your example is meaningless pedantic pointlessness.

Okay, but it is not my example. It was the example given in the very first comment. It what was asserted to have created the circular dependency.

> The concept of type is a categorization.

Okay, sure, but it remains that things are decidedly not categorizations. And, as before, there is no known programming language that has a concept for things. It's an interesting idea! I can see that programming languages could benefit from having such a concept. If you happen to be looking for a CS research project, this just might be it. But if you just want to write production software using existing tools you're not going to find it.

> I can still hatch those eggs if I want.

Your pantry has suitable environmental conditions for incubation, does it? The environment necessary for incubation is not ideal for other foods normally kept in a pantry, so this doesn't really add up. But, hell, let's pretend you do. Do you still not want some way to identify those eggs being incubated and those eggs ready to eat for others, if not yourself, looking into your pantry?

> Golang takes this arbitrary choice away.

Okay, but we're not even talking about Go. We are barely even talking about programming. This model of yours doesn't even fit the real world. Come back with a better model and you won't leave other humans scratching their heads and you might even find the technology won't fight you so hard at the same time.
This is true of Rust as well since it has a very similar memory model. You just have to explicitly tell the compiler you know what you’re doing in Rust through the unsafe keyword.
+1 for tags. As HN has grown, the topics here have become so broad that it might be months before a particular topic you are interested in like gamedev makes it to the front page. It would be awesome to click a tag and only see submissions about that topic. Or better yet, unclick a tag and filter out submissions about that topic. I'm so sick of AI this and LLM that and DeepFoo and ChatBar, it would be so nice to just delete that noise in my own view of HN's front page.
There's little point in telling large tech companies not to create the torment nexus. Creating it is overtly their goal.
I think there are some active things you can do to help. Give money to legal groups challenging unconstitutional actions. Write to your various federal reps to let them know how you feel. Be kind and supportive to those being targeted by hate and bigotry.

We won't be riding out this storm if we all hunker down.
Did you reply to the wrong comment, perhaps? (If not, and I'm just failing to understand your comment, then my apologies, and I'd appreciate clarification :-) )
My wife volunteers for a no-kill cat shelter. One night a literal basket of kittens was found on their doorstep. The shelter was already well over capacity, so we became foster "parents" for them. The runt of the litter (whom the shelter had named "Chrome") was terrified and cried constantly. After a week or two, she bonded with my wife, and would cry whenever she was not around, and wanted nothing to do with me. I recall one time when she escaped their play-pen when I was home alone, and clawed the skin off my hand when I had to pick her up and put her back, hissing and crying.

After a month or two, space in the shelter opened up. All her siblings were quickly adopted, but her fearful, shy nature meant she was left behind. So she became our first "foster fail" and we adopted her.

She now likes me just fine (though still not as much as my wife). What I love about her is that she's the perfect work companion. She likes to sit next to me on the couch when I'm working, and puts her paws and/or head in the crook of my arm (unlike our other cat, who seems jealous of my laptop and does his best to prevent me from working).
Yes, but this costs pales in the cost of redoing in case of problems with side-etching and the overall tightened manufacturing constraints.

And yes, they get to recover the copper, at the very least to make treatment easier for discarding (copper is a very bad pollutant). But not only there's a cost, this is dealt with by waste treatment companies that will at most use the copper value to recoup some of the cost of the treatment.
US Probing If DeepSeek Got Nvidia Chips from Firms in Singapore
Theoretically yes, however:
Currently Honda has a recall for ~40K vehicles as their start stop ends with stall.

Kia & Hyundai : 92,000 vehicles because the electronic controller for the Idle Stop & Go oil pump assembly may contain damaged electrical components that can cause the pump controller to overheat.

Chrysler (FCA US LLC) is recalling certain 2017-2019 Pacifica vehicles equipped with engine stop/start systems. A loose battery ground connection may result in an intermittent loss of power steering assist and/or a stall.

You add more complexity and there is more chance for things to break.

Also consider "Value" engineering, I can't find any data but I would be interested to see if the warranty periods for auto idle starters are longer or shorter than for the old style.

We saw this play out with the DEF system for engines, the systems were supposed to be robust and instead you end up with systems that break, harder to diagnose due to lockdown, and premature failure of components. I personal know of one manufacturer where the DEF tanks started failing after 6 months, the ammonia in the DEF was ingress into the sensors. This only started 2 years ago, so well after the systems were introduced.
Yet you deny this freedom to your own users (as seen in a AGPL thread in 2021). Interesting.
This is just completely untrue.

It’s possible social media could have killed Reader.

But Reader died because Google killed anything that wasn’t directly contributing to Google+, and Reader was competition to Google+.

Also, I doubt Reader would have lost to social media. If Reader had stuck around it would most likely have been a Twitter alternative.
> Kitty is cross platform

In the absolute lowest sense possible, which means that it's been compiled for different platforms and it runs on different platforms, but it also looks and feels completely alien on anything else than a Linux machine with a tiling window manager.
For me personally this conclusion doesn't mean much, as the author bases it on his single experience with his app that by his own wasn't really ready for real world.
The article says we already knew that:

> astronomers knew disks of debris leftover from planet formation were common around newborn stars

The new result allows much more insight:

> only a few have been resolved in sufficient detail to study their internal structure. “This is the first time we can make a statistical analysis of what’s going on in these disks,
Two reasons: I enjoy Green's work; he's been researching this subject for a few years, so I expect a pretty thorough analysis.
An Interview with Matthew Ball About the Gaming Slump
In in activist group there is always a concern, founded or not, that law enforcement, opposition groups, or opposed individuals will try to infilitrate the group. People who are in this situation [1] in regards to romantic attraction also are creepy as hell.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approach-avoidance_conflict
Mainly Musk, but Ellison and Thiel too.
DeepSeek means companies need to consider AI investment more carefully
Yep would have loved more on when the watch (unmodified) would actually break and also how you would fill it with oil? There can't be much space inside, at what point does the viscosity of the oil matter? how do you know you've got all the air out?
BAML – a domain-specific language to generate structured outputs from LLMs
Very cool! I was just needing something like this for my Defold game, this looks way better than my hacky solution.

Semi-unrelated - you say you're using tables as keys in your project. I didn't know you could do that! What are you using it for?
Or OpenRC, which is closer to a competitor, than an entire OS. [0]

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/o...
I don’t necessarily agree with the article’s conclusion. I’m saying that the article’s point isn’t to blame users, it’s to give advice to businesses about how to avoid that failure mode.
The small models that have been published as part of the DeepSeek release are not a "distilled DeepSeek", they're fine-tuned varieties of Llama and Qwen. DeepSeek may have smaller models internally that are not Llama- or Qwen-based but if so they haven't released them.
Outside the boat. You need power to get water into the boat, which poses a problem when your power generator is on fire
I agree with most points, however going viral has the benefit of strong backlinks for SEO.

I had a website I shared here on HN, which made it to the front page and resulted in being mentioned in multiple newsletters and websites. The website site was on Google's 1st page when you search for the term, all due to the strong backlinks I gained.
And now you need a server per model? Ollama loads models on-demand, and terminates them after idle, all accessible over the same HTTP API.
I've always been able to wiggle my ears, but just today I learned if I focus I can do one at a time. I'm 33. Thanks for the useless new skill!
(Author of the blog here (the on in this thread, not the original submission))

Great question! I wasn't aware of the 1.24 optimization when I first wrote the post, but was interested to dig into this deeper. I updated the post: https://blog.howardjohn.info/posts/go-tools-command/#digging....

The tl;dr is...:
1. The new caching impacts the new `go tool` and the existing `go run`.
2. It has a massive benefit.
3. `go tool` is a bit faster than `go run` due to skipping some module resolution phases.
4. Caching is still (relatively) slow for large packages
Suppose you are a scientist. Would you be interested in USA grants and universities as career options? Certainly much less than last year.
Imagine my new food delivery startup delivers ultra-premium, Michelin-star-quality, $100-a-head food and wine anywhere in the five boroughs of New York.

Any marketing to people who aren't in New York, or people who aren't rich enough to spend $100 a head on a meal, is largely wasted.

Worldwide viral coverage on Reddit and Twitter? Youtubers and podcasters singing my praises? Meh.

But sponsoring the New York City Ballet? I'll get far fewer hits, but the hits I do get will convert at a much higher rate.
> Genuine relationships, rooted in empathy and a steadfast commitment to the good of the other, are essential and irreplaceable in fostering the full development of the human person.

This reminds me of one of the main themes of Neal Stephenson's 1995 novel "Diamond Age": being "raised" by an AI agent, with vs without a caring human in the loop.
They're Google bots
They've also gone with the sadly-ubiquitous "tiny fixed width column of content with heaps of whitespace on either side" pattern. Real HN does have whitespace borders after a certain width, but it mostly allows the content to scale to fit your browser window. Nothing worse than having a nice gigantic monitor and then having web content constrained to a 5" vertical strip down the middle of it.
> I genuinely believe it's the reason Linux has dominated the other operating systems in the server space in the past decade.

I don't think that makes sense; Linux was already completely dominant before systemd came along.
You can also post on https://huntlie.com
So has whitelist and blacklist. Carry your pitchforka
When this drug is provided to a larger population you are going to see heart issues pop up.

The sodium channel it blocks is the NaV1.8 channel which is made by the gene and enzyme called SCN10A. This channel is also found in the heart and mutations in SCN10a leads to long QT syndrome and arrhythmias.

Also, NaV1.8 sodium channels are sensitized by PGE2, an inflammatory prostaglandin which is made from omega six poly unsaturated fatty acids. Like the fatty acids found mostly in seed oils and in foods like beef, pork and fowl.

PGE2 is also lowered by the typical COC inhibitors like aspirin and Tylenol.

I have a feeling they’re purposely overlooking the fact that NaV1.8 is found on the heart.