skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Edit: Based on your benchmarks repo (https://github.com/trailbaseio/trailbase-benchmark/tree/main...) note that compiling PocketBase with `CGO_ENABLED=1` is no longer enough to kick in the github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3 driver and you need to enable it manually as shown in the db_cgo.go in our benchmarks OR like in https://pocketbase.io/docs/go-overview/#github-commattngo-sq... (the reason for this change was to avoid the "multiple definition" linker errors).

FWIW, I did this locally (also happy to fork PB and check it in, certainly aids transparency). I've already updated the numbers in the benchmark doc but will continue to try squeeze more out of it.

As to 4x, my concurrency levels are significantly lower which could certainly explain it. Is PB juggling multiple connections increasing write lock congestion or are you serializing access, e.g. via a worker thread? Also happy to chat more (feel free to send me an email), I certainly want PB to have the best possible representation and maybe we can even speed things up on both sides
But Hyper-V is also a Windows 11 Pro feature (I get that it can be enabled on Home).
When you're only used to ollama, how do I go about using this model?
I don't think that's what the OP or many people likely want at all. I think what the OP was saying is this is what Trump rode to power on. The left is great at eating its own. Reasonable people who were traditionally allies of the left, felt attacked and alienated because of using a wrong word. Add in the economic issues and it was a perfect storm for Trump to rise to power.
should you build something you don't understand?

it would seem to me that would cause a lot of issues
Only one party has been drooling about cutting taxes for the rich and defunding the government since the 80s. Guess which one.
That was back then when people believed in their country, in republic and democracy...
I think I understand what it does and it looks interesting and appealing. My team would need Ruby support. Not sure if you'll be able to connect the graph properly in Ruby, but it might still be useful.
Yes, the same nerds who would balk at using Windows would have balked at using Azure, but when it was time to choose clouds, that foot that Microsoft had in the door with corporate paid off big time. Many people have the privilege of working detached from the corporate world, but that also leads to warped perceptions like that of Paul in 2007.
They're openly courting it. Read through https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs
> The popular distros are just as functional out of the box as Windows, but no one knows it.

As always, it depends on what the user uses the computer for. Not everyone can run Windows full-time, as some applications don't work on Linux. I am a full-time Linux user for decades at this point, yet I still use applications that only run on Windows and are too latency sensitive to run well through a VM (and don't work at all via Wine).

Maybe though, these applications could get some love if there was a PR campaign for people to move to Linux...
Make is a power tool and power tools require effort to fully understand and master (though the base case in Make is surprisingly simple). It also has great documentation (which is something newer generations either don't appreciate or don't care about).
That’s if you can even connect to the internet!

Have an older device? It maybe didn’t come with WiFi, or came with an older card you replaced with a better one. Better hope the distro and version of that distro you picked has a kernel with drivers already baked in!

Otherwise it’s off to some random git following some random “download this source” and oh wait I’m not connected to the Internet.
I guess this is sarcasm.
Seems like they're protecting themselves from the current administration. Wonder if they'll say anything on this or if they're hoping it slides under the radar.
What is a Staff engineer anyhow? Sometimes I fell like all these titles and roles pop up all of the sudden to replace already existing ones that were already too boring.
Yes Store and everything
Why? Is there something funny happening?
Seeing how much revenue subscription services make from inactive customers (and how much I have paid over my lifetime to services I no longer used) people don't overestimate this at all. If anything, users still underestimate it.

The disconnect between the researchers and people's actual estimations is that "cancelling a service" is much harder than the couple button clicks it usually takes. You have a structural problem: If you don't use a service, you don't spend a lot of time thinking about it. It's easy to cancel something if you make a conscious decision to stop using something. But if it just gradually falls out of use, your only reminder that you should cancel it are your bank statements or the occasional payment reminder email (that some services avoid sending for exactly this reason).
>If you don't want to use something because of the US's geo-political actions, go for it.

Thanks for giving me permission, much appreciated. I needed that.

Responding "classic whataboutism" isn't very productive, just kills the conversation and makes it impossible to point out potential hypocrisy. Classic reddit comment.
I don't think I was enlightened at that time, but at least, we discussed these topics and they are part of the collective knowledge in Europe. It's probably why Musk nazi salutes resonate differently in Europe vs the US. That being said, populism is raising in Europe too.
I believe this is a capability that the Switchblade 600 or STM KARGU already has.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STM_Kargu
The porn ID verification laws in many states is/was an obvious problem.
>There's no theory of government in which this is supposed to play a part.

This is resistance. It is justified. Expect more of it.
Yeah, and late night TV hosts.
The Wikipedia-article is pretty explicit about Gleichschaltung (what you describe) as is the definition of coup: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/coup

I'm not going to stop you calling it a coup, but your opponents will just smile and say "not true" and they would be right.
Widevine Level 1 requires a Trusted Execution Environment. Nothing to do with TPM.
I agree with you, i'm much more on the "try stuff out" scale vs. formal methods. That being said, i've worked with people who are the other way and still very effective. I think this one is more of a trade-off or personality thing than something that's "true" or "false"
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AFAIK, Kagi is 100% bootstrapped and do not owe anything to any investor.
The status quo is equal footing. Profits and companies are not being put over people when you require people to cancel a subscription that they created. To claim that is to assign almost zero agency to "people".

Forcing companies to do this would absolutely be putting people over profits and companies, however.
> Is it indicating that the router is faster at forwarding packets than responding to ping requests?

Exactly this. In most “real” routers, forwarding (usually) happens in the “data plane”. It’s handled by an ASIC that has a routing table accessible to it in RAM. A packet comes in on an interface, a routing decision is made, and it goes out another interface - all of this happens with dedicated hardware. Pings (ICMP Echo requests), however, get forwarded by this ASIC to a local CPU, where they are handled by software (in the “control plane”).

You’re really seeing different response times from the two control planes - one may be more loaded or less powerful than another, regardless of the capacity of their data planes.
Agreed. I was working on some haiku things with ChatGPT and it kept telling me that busy has only one syllable. This is a trivially searchable fact.
> they were never gonna get the campaign and all of D congress to that position in the first place in a high stakes election.

If true, that would be just one of many reasons why they don't deserve our support.

The Democrats have repeatedly proven to be unable and unwilling to give anything more than token support to the existential crises of our time; be it forever wars, genocide, ethnic cleansing, free speech, surveillance, torture, climate change, housing, healthcare, justice reform, election reform, etc etc.

By your logic above, all that would be justified.

Don't you get tired of being shepherded? Isn't the last 200 years of lesser evil voting [0] wearing kinda thin?

0 - https://pleasuretoburn.substack.fcom/p/lesser-evils-are-the-... - "Beginning in 1824, people made the “lesser evil” arguments in every single presidential election year I reviewed"
The result of this is we don't see anything out daughter does in school because school

This makes very little sense. Our daughter's school just has three checkboxes: private school website, social media, local newspapers. We checked 'private school website' and we get pictures of school activities, but they don't post them on Facebook, etc.

we don't hear how the day went from professionals who actually spent time with them

Uhm, so? I don't feel the need to micro-manage our daughter's school life? She'll tell us what she did after school if she so pleases. If there is something important, the teacher will send a message. Not everything needs to a 24/7 live social media feed. Kids go to and from school by themselves and arrange their own playdates after a certain age, that's how they learn to be independent.

When I was a kid I also went from/to school by myself starting when I was maybe 7 or 8?
It used to be much easier to be conservative about AI, especially AGI, after living through three cycles of AI winters. No more. Dismissing it as “merely machine learning” is worse than unfair to the last decade of machine learning ;-)

The hard part now is relatively trivial. Does anyone think that there is a fundamental and profound discovery that evolution made purely by selection in the last 200,000 years? I mean a true qualitative difference?

Sure—-We call it language, which is just another part of a fancy animal’s tool kit.

Does anyone think there is an amazing qualitative difference between the brain of a chimp and the brain of a human?

No, not if they know any biology.

(Although that does not stop some scientist from looking for a “language gene” like FOXP2.)

So what did dumb mutations and 200,000 years of selection do that a group of dedicated AI scientists cannot do with their own genuine general intelligence?

Nothing—-nothing other than putting a compact energy efficient LLM with reinforcement learning on a good robotic body and letting it explore and learn like we did as infants, toddlers and teenagers.

Each one of us has experienced becoming a “general intelligence”. I remember it hit me on the head in 6th grade when I dreamed up a different way of doing long division. I remember thinking: “How did I think that?”
And each one of us who has watched an infant turn into a toddler has watched it as an observer or teacher. This is what makes babies so fascinating to “play” with.

We have to give our baby AGI a private memory and a layer of meta-attention like we all gain as we mature, love, and struggle.

I read the linked article and as a neuroscientist I realized the “wait” cycles that improved performance so much is roughly equivalent to the prefrontal cortex: the part of the CNS most responsible for enabling us to check our own reasoning recursively. Delay—as in delayed gratification—-is a key attribute of intelligent systems.

We are finally on the door step to Hofstadter’s Strange Loop and Maturana’s and Valera’s “enactive” systems, but now implemented in silicon, metal, and plastic by us rather than dumb but very patient natural selection.

Karl Friston and Demis Hassabis (two very smart neuroscientist) figured this out years ago. And they were preceded by three other world class neuroscientist: Humberto Maturana, Francisco Valera, and Rich Sutton (honorary neuroscientist). And big credit to Terry Winograd for presaging this path forward long ago too.
As of Windows 11, you can use Bitlocker on Windows Home.

(Personally I think you probably shouldn't bother with it unless you set a boot PIN, which still requires Pro to be allowed to change the right group policy settings.)
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You can turn all that off if you wanted to. OpenCore Legacy Patcher will build you a kernel with the SIP flag mask set to 0xFF, ie, completely disabled.
Gosh, they were not getting paid despite those conditions? That’s batshit crazy.
Linux is in desperate need of a stable ABI that isn't Win32 as well as a stable, unified Window Server.
> For decades, academia has been part of an ongoing anti-democratic, elitist movement to effectively take control away from common people

When you declare that "studying things" is elitist, that's when you know your argument is cooked.

A PhD student earning $40k a year is not, in any sense, part of the elite.
Sweet. This was my first language, also in ealry 90's
He's an old man. I don't know whether to hope he dies of old age soon or to hope he doesn't because that would mean JD Vance would become president.
Unchecked exceptions are just Java's weird way of what languages call panicking these days. They suck, but as long as you don't throw them yourself and catch them in a logical place (i.e. at request level so your web server doesn't die, at queue level so your data processing management doesn't lock up, etc.) you can usually pretty much ignore them.

The worst part about them is that for some reason even standard library methods will throw them. Like when you try `list.Add(1)` on a list without checking if said list is read-only. The overhead of having to read every single bit of documentation in the standard library just to be ahead of panicking standard methods is infuriating.

That's got nothing to do with the concept of checked/unchecked exceptions, though, that's just Java's mediocre standard library.
sounds perfect, how to change to this system? who should people vote for to make it happen?

> In fact, it was actually this system, designed by the US, that the allied countries chose for Germany after World War II.

is there any other way to get this system besides a WW III?
Ah, Uncle Musk annealing the spirit.. 常(/非s)

>Science moves at breakneck speeds and requires that all of us in the scientific community work together

https://www.vpm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2025-02-04/a-sense-of-...
It’s nice that they are in a position that they can do this. I use Kagi every day.
The worklog format 1.0 (2020)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Republicans_who_oppose...

So ... 4 senators and 2 representatives are not MAGA. Everyone else has had to swear fealty to Trump or leave. And you say that's diversity of opinion?
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Would love your thoughts! You get $1000 in play money to test the app. If you're interested, a star on GitHub would be a huge motivator.
Off topic, but I just bookmarked Tim’s blog, great stuff.

I dismissed the X references to S1 without reading them, big mistake. I have been working generally in AI for 40 hears and neural networks for 35 years and the exponential progress since the hacks that make deep learning possible has been breathtaking.

Reduction in processing and memory requirements for running models is incredible. I have been personally struggling with creating my own LLM-based agents with weaker on-device models (my same experiments usually work with 4o-mini and above models) but either my skills will get better or I can wait for better on device models.

I was experimenting with the iOS/iPadOS/macOS app On-Device AI last night and the person who wrote this app was successful in combining web search tool calling working with a very small model - something that I have been trying to perfect.
> for example DRM or it snoops on you

Stop spreading FUD.
In software - rarely do you know beforehand that you're building a chair.

Even when you're building in an existing category of products (say, databases), there are still lots of variations and trial and error needed to get "what we need" defined clearly.

I'd say "vibe coding" is just a new name for "exploratory programming" or good old "prototyping"
My bad, then.
Does it mean that if someone dies they won't need to cancel the service?
All salient things being equal, which pretty much have to be the case for ATC (it will always have very high demands), adding more compensation will get more applicants.

Do you have other ideas on what constraints can be relaxed?
This is pretty much the premise of Bob Altemeyer's work: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Altemeyer His book The Authoritarians is the one that most elaborates on it, so works that cite or respond to it would probably be exactly what you're looking for.
Lawfare against political opponent, arrest and imprisonment of people who were trespassing as though they were insurrectionists, a president that was actually dysfunctional and the executive powers was in the hands of unknown and unaccountable individuals, the hiding of the state of the president, selection of candidate for president without going through democratic process of primaries, many billions of dollars of loans forgiven without authority and against court judgement, pressuring with threats private institutions to censor themselves and their users and customers, using spy agencies to spy on political opponents, lying and misleading the public regarding scientific knowledge of matters of health. This is just what came to mind.
> He is running the Project 2025 playbook which he expressly disavowed

He's a conservative, and Project 2025 was from other conservatives.

You would expect there to be some overlap in policy perspectives because of the ideological overlap. It doesn't necessarily mean he's taking orders from the heritage foundation.
Regulation doesn't work. It's usually co-opted by the very parties it's intended to regulate, and used as a means to entrench rather than limit their power. In the worst case, it actually makes things far worse by allowing established interests to manipulate regulation to create barriers to entry for competition, produce collusive outcomes that would otherwise be illegal, and replace common-law liability for the actual consequences of their behavior with prescriptive rules that they can comply with performatively.
A huge portion of USPS international package volume is “ePackets” from China. These are a special service provided by USPS since 2011 for Chinese/HK goods that are cheaper and faster than normal USPS international shipping.

These ePackets are then bundled up into big sacks that are basically not inspected at all at US international mail facilities due to the de minimis exemption, which was just rolled back. The special status granted to ePackets meant that the volume shipped grew far beyond the processing capacity for normal packages at US IMFs. This pause (and subsequent unpause) from USPS on packages from China is because they don’t know how they’re going to handle that volume if it isn’t given special status.

Source: I worked on a project adjacent to this a couple of years ago. Close enough to pick up the basics but this isn’t quite what I was working on, so take my comment with a grain of salt.
I don't like DEI either but you're drinking the Koolaid, there is nothing "good management" about sending out a vague memo with enormous consequences on Monday and rescinding it on Wednesday.
> so by the very policy you're citing either the judicial or executive branch must act to allow such a move.

I think you meant legislative, not executive?
I'm kind of wondering where the "mixed experience levels" part comes from. What is it about more homogeneously skilled teams that makes them less susceptible to the productivity boost that statically typed languages give in large code bases?
A friend of mine also uses Linux Mint of his own volition. Smart but not a tech enthusiast, he's also never touched the command line.
That isn't the virtualization VBS is referring to. Hyper-V is a separate feature from VBS. More context:

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/virtualization/virt...
Most of the systems would also fail the min CPU check.
The try/catch/rethrow model can easily be substituted by just adding a `throws` to the method. If you truly don't care, just make your method `throws Exception` or even `throws Throwable` and let the automatic bubbling take care of making you handle exceptions at top level.
I would never work with hg anymore since and I consider git much and much more flexible from both user and scripting perspective. Yes, git also suffers of command inconsistency, and unfortunately it seems to be never fixed.

> You can UNDO. Everything. That is the major thing

Everything is what? The things git cannot undo is removing untracked files (well they're untracked) on git-clean, or files added to the index for the first time and then reset. Maybe rebase in mid-rebase is a way to lose some changes so one has re-rebase again (it's really annoying, but reflog holds all rebase changes if I recall). I can't really see what you mean.

> You can switch from one `branch` to `another` and leave things incomplete, even conflicts, that is nice.

It's nice. I use git-worktree for multiple branches I work on, so my working copies may remain dirty even in conflict stage.

> The command made sense

It's nice.

> Nobody else knows you use `jj`, so no barrier to adoption.

It's really nice, but I'm not sure whether I understand it, but does it work as a front-end tool over git/other VCS?

> Rebases are not painful anymore. Stacking prs are finally nice to author, even of NOBODY ELSE KNOW IT!

I don't get it. What does make rebase hard? It's just re-applying a bunch of patches or possibly merges on top of the new base, and it doesn't even require interactive mode. Interactive mode makes magic I'm happy with. Seriously, what's wrong with it?
I sincerely thank you for perfectly demonstrating my point.
Read the interview that Ross Douthat did with him in the NYT
"It has become tiring to see how DEI has affected all aspects of academia. Hiring people based on race, awarding grants to work exclusively with members of a particular set of minorities, etc."

You mention in another comment diversity in admissions but that is not hiring or grants. Do you have any examples of hiring people based on race in academia?
Widevine L1 requires a trusted execution environment for decrypting video and only showing it on HDCP monitors. It's built on top of Intel PAVP, AMD secure display, or ARM TrustZone in the case of ARM chromebooks and Android devices. TPM is not involved, except in the ARM case where I believe it is used for antirollback counters (on x86, the security coprocessor would probably have that responsibility).
Maybe its just me but I never use the command line unless necessary even tho I used to fidget with it in Ubuntu
This actually makes me a lot more likely to sign up for Kagi! I've been hearing good things about it so I've been interested, but these days I'm very subscription-averse because there's just so dang many of them. But only paying for it if I actually use it makes signing up lower risk. (I know myself well enough to know that there's a good chance I forget to cancel otherwise.)