skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> elections be damned.

Isn't the current administration more culpable on this point? (viz. the last time Trump lost an election)

And in terms of norms I mean that there isn't a strict law or constitutional clause written to proscribe each and every thing that the president can and cannot do. The system relies on the people acting in good faith, which is definitely not happening in this case. Instead they are cynically trying to exploit every loophole they can to smash a system they don't even understand.

> whilst simultaneously calling a legitimately elected government a "regime".

It _is_ a regime. Who elected Musk or his Doge minions?

Most dictatorships consolidated power legally. That it was legal doesn't mean I want to live in one.

ANd speaking of having it bot ways, you can easily infer what side I'm on, but I get the sense that you are trying to hide behind 'just so arguments'. Could it be that you support the new regime and are trying to avoid saying it out loud?

I wonder why someone would want to hide that...?
Microsoft clickbaits users with useless 'How to Uninstall Microsoft Edge' doc
Making Markets in Time
Two places. /Applications and ~/Applications.

More, if you count UN*X binaries.
Show HN: Turn Screenshots into Designs Instantly
Maybe I'm naive here, but isn't any company at a similar scale regularly finding ways to reduce profits on paper? Taxes add up fast when you don't have expenses to write off, and my understanding was that most effective ways to reduce tax liability would also reduce profit margins.
The site claims that animated WebP might be fully supported - but while writing a Obsidian-to-Static site exporter that would compress animated GIF file to animated WebP, I found that Webkit-based browsers seem to struggle with fluid playback particularly on iOS.

Example here:

https://gondolaprime.pw/animation-test
> You can opt-in to however much configuration complexity you need.

TO DO. /s
Self-Improving Foundation Models Without Human Supervision
I never lost the joy of coding since I simply do what I want and refuse to do what I don't enjoy. But unfortunately most people can't because of many reasons and I know many that are now very disappointed with the state of software.
We went to the moon because we were losing an arms race and the moon got the population onboard with spending 1% of the gdp on it.
I’ve explained my reasoning and we disagree. Be well.
> We are destroying software by no longer taking complexity into account when adding features or optimizing some dimension.

Yet: https://x.com/antirez/status/1885994950875046164

The reality is that man's "unnecessary complexity" is another's table stakes feature. The post isn't entirely without merit, but most of it reads like a cranky old timer who yearns for a simpler time.
This is incredibly cool! If you are looking for something to do next, try replicating the following quantum game of life and may be try different rules with quantum mechnanics:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1010.4666
Is there anything except sensory input that you assume part of the embodied experience? What would that be?

Apart from that, I'm afraid that at this point research on sensory input apart from audio and visual needs much more advancement. For example, it's not clear to me what kind of data structure would be a good fit for olfactory or sensory training data
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42985972
How Safari search engine extensions work
Yeah, I think if you are the choir, this is just going to be preaching. But, if you're an inexperienced developer and lean towards adding layers of abstraction, this might be useful. In fact, I just recommended this to a team of 2 developers to watch and they found it quite valuable. They are experienced developers, but one of them leans strictly to procedural code, and the other leans toward object oriented, and they were struggling. This worked as a conversation point to talk about where it was appropriate to lean OO.
This same is also known by another name when it's used to teach new programmers: pseudo code.

Sadly, because it's associated with learners/juniors, pseudo code gets a bad rap. But really, all engineering is translating English into code ... which means almost any complex operation (setting up a new employee's account, or anything else) can be made clearer by utilizing such an "in-between English and code" step.

In the article they used Python, but for all the important stuff, they didn't: they used English. A "do-nothing" script is really just a script where instead of converting pseudo code to code (like programmers normally do), you just leave the English/pseudo code in, and wrap it with a print.
Thanks for sharing this! I can relate to a lot of these:
* the attempts at strict protocols and sleep hygiene (including doing CBT-I)
* the anxiety loop about sleep itself perpetuating sleep disturbances

But accepting wakefulness and often at times when feeling inspired, to just go with the flow and getting it out has really helped me too! Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night anxious, other nights with lot of new ideas, and instead of now worrying about them, acknowledging them and dealing with it (meditation, journaling, parking them, or just going to work), helps me resume sleep even after multi-hour interruptions!

Glad to hear there are others out there too :)

PS: I also wrote a brief post about my own sleep experience if anyone's curious!

https://open.substack.com/pub/mssuraj/p/why-we-shouldnt-slee...
Consider reading the original notice and decide if you should revise your opinion.

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-25-0...
Yes? Are you saying that attention is less expressive?
Perhaps I'm too cynical, but somehow I doubt that those with decision making power that were in favour of selling at the time regret much.

Our modern political economy is almost entirely focused on ensuring that everything that can be sold to private entities (read, the market) is. In this ideology the sale would be viewed as a success regardless of any practical downsides.
Inchconnachan is one of the more interesting desert islands I came across while living in Scotland. My introduction to its local inhabitants, expat Antipodeans like myself, was wildly unexpected.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inchconnachan
I completely agree. They even have a picture of the light source used to do the scans as if that's more important than the people who did the actual work.

I can't understand the editorial bent in this article. I think editors believe scientists to be vaunted and inaccessible creatures that live in the rarefied climbs of "science mountain." Meanwhile it's just some kid down the block who would love to be interviewed by the BBC.
(Carbon lead here)

We tried other names, but we found collisions with essentially all of them. =/ We ended up picking a "least bad", and actually talked to a couple of folks familiar with the old usage to see if it was a worse collision than we realized. They weren't delighted but generally shrugged. So here we are. =/

It's definitely not perfect, but I think it's much more searchable than "C" or some other choices. Ultimately, I think its at least not bad enough to matter compared to the actual project.
They make more money that way, by having terrible desktop ux that needs to be supplemented with dozen of extra apps. Not sure if that was their intention, but they do.
There's a lot of value in the books. Applying "common sense" consistently and intentionally is extremely difficult. It's not a deep magic entirely divorced from the practices we already know and agree with, but rather the organizational equivalent of going to the gym.
The Go version treats file data as byte arrays; might want to do the same and use Scheme bytevectors instead of strings. OTOH the docs say it's not supposed to be a general binary format...
Plus, the reduced power consumption and battery life extension is insanely good now. Whereas I could only get an hour and a half from an Intel MacBook Pro, I can now get over a days use out of the M4. I have not been affected by the lack of “legacy” software support and I am more than happy to have this tradeoff.
"Big tech" & "vc backed" is a huge inspiration, but it's not meant for you, an employee. It was meant for VCs and other beneficiaries, actual stakeholders.

Nothing wrong with that.

But you better find inspiration where it actually is, not where the light shines - either in the journey to becoming the actual beneficiary. Or in the work itself, like an artist. Like many wise people here already commented.
Is that a real article? Do you have a reference for it?
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Works great on Firefox, on Chromium audio files are silent, even when downloaded and opened with a media player.

Edit: Sorry, it was a problem of my specific audio setup, it works equally well on Chromium.
> Consumers want more features

I’m not even sure if this is true anymore. We got new features foisted on us most of the time.
It's funny that I read to the end of the article and thought "But the logical next step for this type of person isn't to have shown all this agency, and then use it to work for someone else.* It's to start your own profitable side project and then your own company, a natural extension of everything else you've done until that point." So it was funny to read this and realize that actually is what ended up happening. Congratulations!

*the exception here would be if someone throws so much money at you it would be unwise to say no; however, this is rare enough that I think most people of the self-taught audodidact variety can assume it won't happen.
I still think that is such a simple, easy litmus test...
genius :-)
I've been running Steamfork on it for a long time and it's been amazing. Highly recommend it as it's a very minimal fork that is basically just SteamOS + device support.
I went to school in the early 1990s! The progressive approach to education was already orthodoxy when my teachers were trained. It has been around a long, long time and has been the prevailing belief in education for half a century or more.

The situation is almost paradoxical: you have generation after generation of people saying that education needs to be reformed to eliminate rote learning and focus on understanding concepts, and where did they learn this orthodoxy? In school, from their teachers.

I suspect it has something to do with how teenagers experience school. No matter the pedagogical approach, if kids are distracted with their social lives and normal adolescent stuff, they experience any attempt to teach them as dry and rote.
Hey, are you familiar with Spaces' "Assign apps to spaces" feature? It doesn't have an "assign to Space where last used", but it does let you assign an app to any Space (or every Space). https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/work-in-multiple-sp...
Agreed with the MP4 recommendation. As I mentioned in another thread, animated WebP can have frame-rate issues on Safari... but if you want autoplaying videos with transparency it's pretty much the only game in town.

If you don't need transparency, I would 100% stick with mp4. Just make sure you set the tag elements "autoplay loop muted".

Mobile Safari used to be pretty weird. If you wanted autoplay (and NO controls), you needed to make sure to remove the audio channel on the video. Setting the "muted" attribute wasn't enough.
People as rich as Bezos have an army of human personal assistants to satisfy their every whim.
Unfortunately rural inhabitants have been free riding on a grostesquely distorted market for decades. It may be hard for them to swallow the idea that they will have to pay market rates for transmission and maintenance, but they should also be the first to agree that despite this, it's ultimately a more fair order han getting what essentially amounts to a handout today.
Show HN: From-Scratch ML Library (trains models from CNNs to a toy GPT-2)
Hi HN,

I built a machine learning library entirely from scratch using only Python and NumPy. I then used it to train a range of models—from classical CNNs, ResNets, RNNs, and LSTMs to modern Transformers and even a toy GPT-2. The motivation came from my curiosity about how to build deep learning models from scratch, like literally from mathematical formulas. I built this project not to replace production-ready libraries like PyTorch or TensorFlow, but to strip away the abstractions and reveal the underlying mathematics of machine learning.

Key points:

- Everything is derived in code — no opaque black boxes.

- API mirrors PyTorch so you can pick it up quickly.

- You can train CNNs, RNNs, Transformers, and even GPT models.

- Designed more for learning/debugging than raw performance.

What’s different here?

While there are many powerful ML libraries available (TensorFlow, PyTorch, Scikit-learn, etc.), they often hide the underlying math behind layers of abstraction. I believe that to truly master these tools, you first need to understand how they work from the ground up. This project explicitly derives all the mathematical and calculus operations in the code, making it a hands-on resource for deepening the understanding of neural networks and library building :)

Check it out:

- Github Repository: https://github.com/workofart/ml-by-hand

- API Documentation: https://ml-by-hand.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

- Examples: Explore models like GPT-2, CNNs, Transformers, and LSTMs in the examples/ folder: https://github.com/workofart/ml-by-hand/tree/main/examples

- Blog Post: Read about the project’s motivation, design, and challenges at https://www.henrypan.com/blog/2025-02-06-ml-by-hand/

I’d love to hear any thoughts, questions, or suggestions — thanks for checking it out!
This might be scandalous enough to generate pushback if it were loudly reported on to the general public in a certain way. That is, with overt overtones of "you are being cheated by a contemptful corporation and it's appropriate to be angry and want regulators to fuck their shit up about it as punishment". MSM already generates so much outrage, it'd be nice if they had any interest in generating this outrage. Alas. Drink a verification can.
No response. Not surprising.
Series-Word-Freq
Magically create interactive graphs of word frequency in a TV series

This project is minimal, configurable, easy to adapt for your own uses, and only requires a free OpenSubtitles account.

Just type in the name of a TV series, and get an interactive analysis of word frequency across episodes.
None of the people in the area to which I referred are undertaking anything productive. Food comes from farms, like always.
Are you saying that the VSCode binaries are not built from the exact source that is available? Or that the opensource license doesn't apply to the version of VSC that is distributed via binaries?

I'm using VSCodium myself anyway, but I'm also installing it from binaries (precompiled packages), as is the case with most opensource software I use.
As someone who used to quote this quote, I've come to believe this one line has caused nearly as much damage as the invention of NULL.
Or you know...just use that worldwide broadband speed satellite network.
I think this is just the end-stage failures of social democracies. Fund the things now, even if it means selling anything that can generate slight profits in long term. Or provide basic services at reasonable rates. Eventually everything is sold and out sourced, money has been wasted on buying votes and the debt is maxed out. Then the system will fail...
The Atanasoff–Berry computer was even earlier (working prototype in 1942, but much of the design had already been done by 1940).

This was not a general-purpose computer, but a computer made with vacuum tubes that was dedicated to solving a single kind of problem, the solution of systems of linear equations.

The Atanasoff–Berry computer not only used vacuum tubes for computation, but it also included the first DRAM memory, which was made with discrete capacitors.

The report “Computing Machine for the Solution of Large Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations”, written by John V. Atanasoff in 1940, demonstrates a very good understanding for that time of the principles on which electronic computing circuits and memories should be based.

Moreover, the electronic circuits used in the Atanasoff–Berry computer have been a source of inspiration for the later ENIAC, because one of the members of the ENIAC team has made a visit there, inquiring about details of the computer.

While the Atanasoff–Berry computer is likely to have been the first which has used vacuum tubes for computation, it has been derived from a series of British inventions made during the previous decade, which were used for making electronic counters used in nuclear and particle physics research, for measuring ionizing radiation.

The electronic counters had been the first application of digital circuits made with vacuum or gas tubes, before automatic computers. The well-known high speed of the electronic counters is what has suggested the application of vacuum tubes for computing, both in USA with ABC, then ENIAC, and in UK, with Colossus.
At some point I realized I’d rather one large 4K screen to any multi monitor setup I ever had.

I’m not sure if it’s a coping mechanism for using Linux desktops or not, but it does avoid a few issues.

It also makes window management simpler in the sense I can just sprawl them out and still see everything. Kind of like moving your project from a small desk to a big kitchen table.

I tend to have two workspaces. One for what I’m doing. One for background stuff, like mail and music.
I wonder if SpaceCapsule (https://spacecapsule.app/) could work with FlashSpace?
Deep Fake Detector Extension by Mozilla Firefox
Most people don’t know they’re in the cage.

Most of the rest don’t know how to keep in touch with their friends without it.

Or worse, they’re literally addicted to it because it’s deliberately designed to administer a steady trickle of dopamine.
Resistance is safer than compliance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_resistance_movement

Integrity is the only long term defense against tyrants. Giving in kills your ability to think honestly (and like a chicken without a head these people can walk around thinking "they like Nietzsche" etc. but Nietzsche never knew them and never will, so to speak), you lose yourself and gain no physical security. You gain the company of other empty vessels.

And that's why fascism doesn't work in any sense worth caring about, IMO. It's built on the impotence and personality disorders of individuals, who seek to gain power over others as a result, and the ability to exploit and coerce masses with violence and lies. It's a parasite that destroys itself along with the host. Just look at the people most staunchly for it. They're all trash. They've always been, historically, and currently. Call that a personal attack I call it not pretending 2+2=5. There's plenty of scholarly ways to say the same thing, but it won't change the thing.

You see a rich turtle on its back in the desert. It cannot even cook its own meals. It seems nasty, and like quite the bore. Do you walk on, taking a sip from your jug, or do you wear it on your head and ask it where to go and what to do, for no reason at all?
The build a duplicate distribution grid is effectively what Ann Arbor is doing with its Sustainable Energy Utility, approved by voters in November [1].

[1] https://www.a2gov.org/sustainability-innovations-home/sustai...
I would be totally happy with a big place like that as end station. Here you are lucky if it's two houses next to eachothers. Probably noone home anyway. I have fond memories of people falling asleep and then back in school next day talking about how their parents had to drive two hours to pick them up in the nowherelands. This ofcourse before mobile phones was in the hands of schoolkids. Most of the time the busdriver stopped where you usually got off. Looking back and noticing you are asleep they get up and prods you to get off the bus :-) Such nice drivers we had then.
Mostly unrelated, but I wish the field of math would step away from greek letter notatation and just make variable and function names readable as programmers do. I know there are historic reasons, and I'm sure that mathematicians' time is so valuable that they can't be bothered to write more than 1 character, but it's a real barrier to entry in my opinion.

def α(β, γ):
δ = β ** 2 + γ ** 2
ε = δ ** 0.5
return ε

ζ = α(3, 4)
print(ζ)
Sigh. My friend did this problem on pen and paper and made me feel stupid. Their solution was so wildly clever! It relied on the observation that the sum of the rows of the sudoku board (given the digits in use) is a known fixed value, and went from there (I'll leave the rest as an exercise to the reader to avoid spoilers).
If you don't think what Hellwig did obstructed the project, then I guess we fundamentally disagree. Again, the R4L folks could work around this by getting the code pulled in by Linus, but that doesn't stop the fact that a senior maintainer has made it explicit that they will do everything in their power to stop this.

Code that wasn't his to reject was NACKed, causing a large amount of uncertainty about how to proceed with drivers that use DMA, and around the R4L project in general. At the absolute least, this is plain intent to sabotage (but IMO it is clearly more than intent at this stage). The core of what you are saying is that this has/will have absolutely no impact on anything to do with future R4L progress. The explosion of discussions around this exact topic across various forums with abundant disagreement from maintainers and R4L folks running counter to that idea are irrelevant I guess.

I'm not even a "rust person" and nobody has said anything about "being on the right side of history" except you. If that's how you see this discussion then we're not going to get anywhere. I wish you well, and urge you to in future engage in good faith and consider that not everybody is some boogeyman "on the true path" evangelist.
>no need for this degree of urgency

Midterms are coming up in less than 2 years, and the next general in less than 4. Time is of the essence to get shit done so the people can decide if they want more or a change in course.

>lasting damage is in prestige.

Pride is a deadly sin for a reason, screw pride. We make America great again by striving for greatness, not puffing ourselves up with pride.
6 year olds can fairly reliably count the number of occurrences of a letter in a word, at least according to the school system I attended.
LLMs will never be able to do it due to their inherent limitations (being statistical next-word predictors)
Zig will likely go through the same trials and tribulations that Rust has for introduction into the Linux kernel. Considering Zig's better C interopt, the fact that the Zig compiler can natively compile C, the Zig community's lack of zealotry and proselytizing that plagues the Rust community, etc., I believe it will be better received.
It's odd because at Google people still write networked servers in C++, which I'd argue, almost no one outside Google does?

Rob probably assumed Go could displace this. And it's not unreasonable to assume so, although it's closer to a better Java, than a better C++ for this.

Instead it displaced Python for this (not for research/NumPy/Colab stuff), maybe some Java (where it's easier to containerize).

And if it did displace C++, it was in greenfield projects, with non-C++ developers. So it didn't necessarily convert any C++ developers at all.
Cool.
Now make a mainboard with a POWER 10 (IBM)

and

something like the Altra Max M128

Would probably need to create a "hood", extender between the case
and they keyboard to fit. and increase the fans a it
From a security perspective, the very best option is to prevent anyone else from touching it either. Including to turn it on.