skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>it can run on my laptop

Has anyone run it on a laptop (unquantized)? Disk size of the 32B model appears to be 80GB. Update: I'm using a 40GB A100 GPU. Loading the model took 30GB vRAM. I asked a simple question "How many r in raspberry". After 5 minutes nothing got generated beyond the prompt. I'm not sure how the author ran this on a laptop.
True. I wish VLC had some sort of interface browser you could use to just create your own netflix interface.
I take your point and it's well presented. We could easily get into neo-liberalism here but It's too early on a Thursday morning for that so I'll just accept it's more nuanced and I hope you'll look for the nuance on my side also. :)
> Critical infrastructure is critical so it belongs in the hands of a few.

Well that's a non-sequitur.
We had something else before paper, and we'll have something else after the computer. Being sad over technological progress is a fool's errand. It'll happen whether you want it to or not. And you always have a personal choice to use whatever tools you want.
You can use iCloud Relay without even noticing that you are using it, this is not true with Tor as you'll spend most of your time waiting for reconnecting circuits.
Elno and TreasAI Get to Work
An AI-generated distopian fiction. Or is it?
You don't even need an AppleTV. My Roku and Amazon TVs were both zero-configuration AirPlay targets. And generally speaking, there's not any issue with wifi streaming video - there's a noticeable input lag, but it doesn't desync audio, and videos tend not to be interactive.
when foreign governments and hostile intelligence groups make concerted and aggressive efforts to subvert the US population then, yes, it is appropriate for the USG to make efforts to counter subversion efforts
Funnily enough, I came across exactly this yesterday. An important part of the docs, which would help me decide if I wanted to recommend this tech up the chain, was "only available for enterprise". I'll never understand the logic behind gating documentation. It should ALL be public.
Yes, ethanol is the American equivalent. If we ever have a food shortage due to widespread extreme weather or similar, the president can nix the ethanol mandate to eliminate the food shortage.

The world does not have caloric food insecurity. We might be insecure in terms of specific nutrients or specific foods, but the modern world is not insecure in terms of human food calories.
Perhaps I am a pessimist but I think most advertising, 90+% of it, is absolutely wasted and pointless. Adults, IMO, ignore advertising and have trained their brands to block it out, and dismiss it immediately. Some of us are even petty enough to mute them, or look away; I may be guilty of this too.

What is very interesting to me, however, is how much online advertising works on kids. We know advertising works on kids, you can get them to become excited and demand to buy just about anything. But I am curious if the kids of today, technically sophisticated, are not also learning how to block out ads.

When I was a kid I got ads from the tv, and while I could walk away, I had to wait for my programing to resume. Today kids can swipe away, look away, dual screen, etc. so I am curious if advertising works on kids today and how well..
the operating system will go out of support

That doesn't mean it stops working, and I know there are plenty of communities providing unofficial support for old Windows and even DOS. The situation with Mac may be similar but smaller, just due to relative popularity.
"Starts"? We crossed that a while back. We're signed up to several services and it's basically the same price as cable used to be but with the added inconvenience of trying to navigate different apps and remembering "wait, was that show on Hulu, or Apple TV, or Netflix?"

To say nothing of the fact that, despite having access to what seems like an endless supply of content, it's really common to be unable to find a service that carries the movies or shows we'd like to see. I have a lengthy list of movies and TV shows that either have never made it to streaming, are only available for rental, or only have a partial showing. (e.g., only the first season of WKRP is available, it seems.)

Add to that the shit like Amazon adding ads even to the Prime subscription... eff that. Piracy is a lot more attractive if I can't even pay to get rid of ads.
It's dripping with so much sarcasm I'm afraid my warranty will be voided for water damage. It even mentions his self driving promises to drive the point home...
Their cheap as chips PCBs are garbage for anything but hobbyist use. They use crappy substrates and have poor tolerances. If you want decent quality substrates and decent quality finishes for fine pitched work the price quickly shoots up.
If you want to do something cool retro stuffs that a lot of people today still enjoy, that's the best bet.

This shouldn't be discounted, since it has great pedagogical value in itself. On the other hand, personal opinion here, is that not many things are transferable to modern ISAs. Even back in the 90's, we were shown to work on MIPS instead. 68k is very nice to read and write, almost feels like higher language, but overall ROI for newer stuff is maybe just jump into Neon, x86_64, or as someone said RV directly. It's not _THAT_ hard. It gets complex as programs grow though.
I had the Dungeon Notebook. It was fun. I played it until I got bored, which was quick, then gave it away.

The ability to "give away" these little games are part of the fun. I'd like to see a game like this where "giving it away" is part of the game. Something you can pass around a school or a con. Like an analog version of Chain World, which was a mini-Minecraft-on-a-USB-stick that you were supposed to pass on. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_World )
> Paradoxically most of the 'small government' types are often the biggest road users.

I think it's "limited government". I'm pretty sure they would prefer roads get more spending.
Am I missing a cheaper rental service that runs about $1 per film?

Your local public library?

In some cities, they're really well stocked when it comes to video. And many have video streaming services, or sometimes even "community" subscriptions to Netflix or whatever that you can check out for a week at a time.

Your tax dollars at work.
RTOS means that if you are listening to music and doing something else the music plays without issues (clicks). Take a modern 16 core computer and load it up such that the load average is over 200 and your sound playing will have issues. Of course realistically nobody loads their computer down that much, but if you manage to anyway like that you will have issues with sound. Because you won't though RTOS won't matter for playback. Still if you try you can cause issues without a RTOS - I leave this as an exercise to the reader.

As other have said RTOS is critical for live sound because there they have to make compromises that mean much less load is needed to cause issues. If you configure your sound playback with the same compromises you will see issues on playback - but for just playing music on a regular computer those compromises are a don't do that situation.
Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42946854
Show HN: Probability-Spreadsheet – A Probabilistic Spreadsheet in Python
I recently came across [this HN discussion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42941143) about probabilistic spreadsheets and learned about [Montesheet](https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2021-11-24-probabilistic-spr...) ([GitHub](https://github.com/dps/montesheet)). I thought the idea was fascinating, so I built my own Python-based version: *Probability-Spreadsheet*.

It works like a regular spreadsheet but allows you to enter probability distributions instead of fixed values. You can type formulas like `=normal(10,2)` or `=uniform(0,5)`, and the spreadsheet will generate and visualize the possible outcomes. Instead of just getting a single number, you can see a range of possible results, with built-in graphs to help interpret the data.

Features:
- Basic spreadsheet operations (cell references, formulas, arithmetic)
- Support for probability distributions
- Automatically updates when you recalculate
- Small charts in the cells to visualize uncertainty
- Save and load spreadsheets in XML

It's still a proof of concept, but I’d love to hear feedback or ideas for improvement.

GitHub: https://github.com/Topping1/probability-spreadsheet
Is this true? We still use Disney+ on two (three) wifi networks across two households (same kid, just different wifi networks) and it still seems to work just fine.
Because there isn't a good replacement in open source software. Matrix and others are pretty normie hostile.

I help run a few Discord servers and due to financials, I'm always worried about extremely hostile actions by them to make money.

My list of things good open source replacement would have:

Decentralized chat servers with history

Run a optional centralized login service so users have one login

Optional centralized service knows what servers the user is a member of so any client they login to will automatically know which servers they are member of.

Centralized Mobile Notification service

Federation is absolutely not a requirement or a way around this.
I might have criticized it and am not wild about Musk but I don't think either is a coup in the usual sense of the word. If Musk had taken over that could be but I'm pretty sure Trump is still in charge.

See Trump's take on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuPr2-T_Z_U
I use https://airflow.app/ and google cast, worked on every tv I've bought for a decade. I've recently gone back to using that 100% of the time and never use Netflix/Disney.

Pirate streaming android apps on those TV boxes aren't worth the effort IMO, they are flaky and stream sources die off, torrents are always easier.
There's Plex, but also things like Kodi that just turn a PC into a media center. We're in the midst of a move right now - when we settle, a Mini PC is going to replace the streaming box.
PDF is brushing up against "more harm than good". Wish there was a proper alternative.
What about just plugging an USB stick with whatever you want to watch into the TV?
This bill is NSFW
Hello, any Junior or entry level openings for U.S. applicants?
I am not sure what my system is running (debian 12) but I have aptX support with my bluetooth headset. https://i.postimg.cc/8PXzNzsS/Screenshot-20250206-094735.png

Edit: pactl info | grep "Server Name"

Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.65)
I would be pretty confident that Disney has a pricing team whose entire job is to model those effects.
Minimum system requirements: 64 Mb RAM.

Hear that, official Discord?

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Now, considering this project will be hunted down and DMCA-ed or C&D-ed soon, has the original author considered separating the generic messenger UI code from the transport code to make the codebase usable for less ... jealous ... services?
> On multicore machines you want to process timers in parallel on multiple cores.

By experience I almost never want to run my timer callbacks on a random core and always want it on a specific core. With the typical one event loop per thread, you would register the timer with the thread you care about.

This is going to be very application specific.
String KDFs are also slow. That's the basic strategy for making high-entropy keys out of low-entropy inputs.
Thank you Europe for protesting by withholding money from this psycho.
> My 286 was replaced by a faster 386 and that by an even faster 468.

How much was your 286 chip worth when you bought your 486?
Officially: no politics. That rule is not always enforced.

Likely: the owners of ycombinator and hackernews have very specific views and connections to people in the tech industry with very specific views. Tech Bros are taking over, and ycombinator is squarely in the tech-bro camp -- that's the point of the site!
The first item on the list is pretty glaring: "Thread creation is not supported."

This would be a show-stopper for a lot of things.
You must live a charmed life if you haven't run into major problems with stored procedures.
The square format TLRs were an interesting format, My high school had an ancient one and I think I shot a roll of film once for fun and giggles. Never owned one. As I recall, Rolleiflex were the kings in that category.
What's that saying? "Once is a mistake, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern".

Having to write something once, just write it.

Having to write something twice with small differences, think about it.

Having to write something three times? Consider refactoring.
what are you doing commenting here? go back to curing cancer!
The way I understand their mechanism, it lets you log in on a separate device, but will complain if you don't connect that device to your "household" wi-fi within a few days, and will then force you to either stop using your Disney+ account on that new device, or to transfer your "household" to its current wi-fi network, disabling the devices on the old network, and giving you a limited amount of such transfers.

So it's ok for phones/tablets/laptops that get moved around, but blocks usage on PCs or TVs across networks.
Sabe, beratna. Beltalowda!
While I do think streaming is becoming a bit to expensive. We have Disney+, Max and Netflix (which we could probably do without). Those combined are still cheaper than basic cable TV, by about $25 per year, with no ads and honestly better content.

My biggest annoyance is more that it's so difficult to find anything. I know Apple have attempted to fix that on the AppleTV, but it requires everyone to implement it and only Max seems to care to do that.

The music industry figured it out, it basically doesn't matter which service you subscribe to, they'll all have almost everything, it's stupid that the TV and movie industry can't come together an have a sort of clearing house for rights, but their making more money this way.
Yes, all of those have slower responses. It's part of why people who rely on things like anabolic steroids tend to have a lot of connective tissue injuries: they're getting stronger at an artificial rate and exceeds the ability for the connective tissue to keep up.
Bringing in No True Scotsman doesn’t save the argument.

These people were exceptional outcomes, where luck and hubris met sufficient competency. You cannot argue the general case from exceptions.
I get what you're saying but I wouldn't personally call zeropage bytes _registers_, even though they are physically connected to internal ones. I treat them as a special zone of memory that has special properties. There are many of these things and just like you would start with any of the old machines you'd first take a look at the memory map to see where's what and how to use it. Registers in a traditional sense would be those few mentioned of which you'd only ever really touch A, X, and Y.
This makes no sense - it’s a hash map because it hashes things for you…
A few of our mid-level engineers started sending in PRs with worse than usual code in the last few months. It all compiles, but:

- There's a bunch of missing edge cases and requirements (details that don't end up on tickets but have been discussed)

- Sometimes we see completely useless codepaths. If statements and function calls that don't lead anywhere, or don't need to be called.

- We follow a few very specific patterns for code safety reasons and suddenly it looka like those are being completely disregarded.

- Our integration tests started being super flaky.

After several one-on-ones with them, we realized they were using some AI tool. No clue which one.

I know that these tools are going to get better, but I fear that junior/mid-level developers are going to handicap their development if they use them like they do now.

Code quality also suffers. I'm also afraid that in the short to medium term codebases are going to get _a lot worse_ introducing some very expensive tech debt.

On the bright side, I know now that I don't want to work at Gumroad. I already spend a huge amount time reviewing PRs. I don't want to waste even more because someone didn't prompt an AI accurately enough. What a waste of time and resources.
I looked into Amplifi based on your comment and it looks like they haven’t updated the line since 2022 and people are speculating they may exit the home market. Did you worry about this?
DEI programs favoring a specific race is the exception to the norm. DEI is supposed to be about stopping discrimination and bias. A common recommendation of DEI programs is to replace names with numbers so people looking at the resumes racial biases can't influence decisions.
Why are American taxpayers paying for medical care and HIV medication for 20 million people?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't those people foreign nationals as well?
For movies and series, there's a process called "Minimum Commit" where the media companies have to commit to spend $X for a bundle of content that includes both the content you want to sell and a random selection of crap to pad out the offering. Then it depends on the deal, but often the amount that each item is watched then contributes to the royalties cost. The relative exclusivity you might want will then dictate the overall cost and royalties returned.

For sports it's different, typically you bid for the right to own a geographic market and the games are sometimes split into bundles where you can bid for one or all bundles depending on how deep your pockets are. You'll then get to keep exclusive or non-exclusive rights for a certain number of years. You'll then pay annually/quarterly for that right at the total bid package for the term of the deal (e.g. 5 years). Depending on the contract you might be able to re-sell that right to other companies as well, which dilutes your audience, but may increase the distribution overall.

Then aside from the rights, you end up paying infrastructure costs both fixed and variable. You also generally commit to CDN capacity for distribution based on a forecast of how much you think your customers will watch in any quarter.
Speaking of teenage kids, these could also be useful in places where computers/phones are not allowed (like backpacking/camping trips or in school). Most likely, they'd rather play card games, but this might provide a nice alternative and is easier to pause and get back to a task than card games.
I'm curious what people's thoughts are on the 65816 (used by the SNES) instead of the 6502 (the NES instruction set).

Is this author arguing the 6502 is preferable because it's simpler? Or because there are more/better resources for learning?
I think they're referring to the class of people who profit from capital rather than their labour. That class profits from the labour of others. They don't have to exploit their bodies, experience, and skills (labour) to realize profits. They're the ones who, "don't work."

They're not talking about people who "don't work," and collect welfare.
Hibiki: High-Fidelity Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation
I'm confused, it seems that the OP wants to use Bcrypt as an encoding/decoding utility.

About solutions, Django hashes by default the password only with a salt. I'm not sure why it would be valuable to combine user_id+username+password. I've always assumed that using salt+password was the best practice.
Andrej just posted a video yesterday about LLMs and commented on the YC post for it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42952960
The main reason for picking it was the stroke index, because I almost always had no clue about readings.

A secondary reason is that it claims to be ordered more or less by usage, so we can also see what a ca. 1980s Gakken thought of relative frequency:

不 134
無 227
非 491
未 801
DVD"s sell at flea markets / yard sales for $1 doller each here.
What exactly is the problem with inducing outrage?
When I was a Mac user, I found the built in Preview adequate to my needs.
For additional context it might be wise to include links that can't be edited by the author or webmaster.. While I didn't include links looking BinOC up on the IA isn't difficult to do and I am sure if you want to read the posts of events AS they happened you can look up the other thread.

This cited version is the revised version. Moonchild has revised his version of events multiple times in the nine months after. Pfft that isn't even the latest version lol. There are many now hidden threads on the Pale Moon forum that also showed events as they happened or as told when they happened.. All gone now.. Some of them contradict the later retellings.. I simply refer to events as they happened at the time and the Interlink release notes summery there of.

Can't wait to see if it changes anything...
> deeply flawed

I can't even guess what you might be referring to.
You will need to pipe it into the scanner in a loop, making sure to circle the correct keys before each scan
Why not learn a language intended for didactic use?

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

has a quite deep corpus and what looks to be a good introduction:

https://www.mmix.cs.hm.edu/getstarted.html

(and I say that as a person who owns a much battered copy of Inman & Inman's _Apple Machine Language_)
Another incident at Okta? Oh no! Its security has _always_ been a mess. It's a dumpster fire and no client of their cares because their identity systems are so messed up, that it's better to have the mess of Okta, than the mess they are sitting on. It's kinda crazy they get away with such incredibly bad security practices. Like... this bcrypt issue has been know for a LONG while. We used to test for it 8-10 years ago.

There's either (1) nobody competent enough there to know (which is likely not true, I had a pentester friend recently join, and she is very good), or, more likely (2) management doesn't care and/or doesn't give enough authority to IT security personnel.

As long as clients don't have any better options, Okta will stay this way.
Here's the relevant documentation: https://help.disneyplus.com/en-US/article/disneyplus-subscri...

Hope for you that your situation somehow passes their detection and that it keeps working for you.
its literally up... just went to it...maybe jumped the gun with the drama?
I actually hit this recently with a Google Docs generated PDF (print -> download) that wasn't rendering correctly in Chrome or Firefox, but did load as expected in Edge.
it's wild how shitty and hostile adobe's pdf reader is as a product. If I was in the planning room I'd roast the product as unusually offensive to most sensibilities.

Then again, I'm in no way running a billion dollar successful software company so what do I know?
Whereas I agree with the general thrust of your point, I am not sure cars cause crime. Perhaps their drivers do; perhaps the cars are accessories. But the cars are not causing the crime.
And lawn darts.

And get rid of seat belts too while we're at it.
> but rather that the data and control remain within the jurisdiction of EU law

The fundamental problem is that EU and US law are incompatible. FISA allows the US to access any data from any US company no matter where it is located. It doesn't matter that the data is located in the EU, on a European server, manager by the European division of a company. As long as there exists a US parent company, FISA can compel the data. And that is fundamentally against the GDPR.
Truth, Lies and Fraud in the Audiophile World (2016)
Lyft's new AI customer assistant is powered by Anthropic's Claude
Found these a couple weeks ago and bought the golf PDF for my <7y/o nephew and he was initially hesitant but then thrilled once he understood the basic premise. Didn’t have the heart to start teaching him A* and manhattan distance, that’ll come later.

I’m glad the creator made this and am looking forward to seeing more of these

Side note, these reminded me of pocket mod which I absolutely loved using 15 years ago https://pocketmod.com/
OK, now try that with my ridiculously simple TodoList example, e.g. `TodoList(items=["item", "item2"])`. You can't do it! Nor can you construct an empty list then add items to it etc.