skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How useful is this, though? In my modest experience, these tiny models aren't good for much more than tinkering with, definitely not something I'd integrate into my workflow since the output quality is pretty low.

Again, though, my experience is limited. I imagine others know something I do not and would absolutely love to hear more from people who are running tiny models on low-end hardware for things like code assistance, since that's where the use-case would lie for me.

At the moment, I subscribe to "cloud" models that I use for various tasks and that seems to be working well enough, but it would be nice to have a personal model that I could train on very specific data. I'm sure I am missing something, since it's also hard to keep up with all the developments in the Generative AI world.
Nowadays if I did anything like this I would get screamed at to kill myself for being unsafe and having code smells and using the wrong tools.
Musk is the living embodiment of the ultra rich wet dream.

Nazi salute (two actually) on national television? Destroy government extra legally with presidential pardon immunity? Bust on minorities etc with social impunity?

He doesn't just have eff you money, he has eff you status. No longer being restricted to the milquetoast middle ground CEO trap. Unrestricted treatment of low money people as subhumans. nothing like rights or laws to get in the way.

Thing is, his stock is very very tied to perception, which is a synonym for "hype".

You can see this emerging unrestraint coming from virtually all of silicon valley "leadership". Allin podcast. Zuck the MMA wannabe. Larry Ellison (the archetype) in orbit with trump. Gleeful twitters about eliminating all jobs with AI.

And yet we are entering an era of geopolitical uncertainty, war, reonshoring of manufacturing. To fight looming conflicts with China and Russia, what is needed is functioning institutional democracy, not venal banal oligarchical corruption.

The other historical danger is that the rich poor gap is indicative of a forthcoming rebellion of the lower class. Trump is himself a symptom of this, and while the poor continue to divide themselves between the two parties, Trump shows that wild unpredictable swings in voter sentiment can bring unexpected candidates to the fore.

All it takes is one charismatic candidate to pledge to cull the rich and being universal healthcare...
Thanks! We'll fix that broken link. Fwiw I also used to play SW Combine too. I think their irc server was where I first learned about MUDs.

Kind of funny how many people from LotJMUD or SWC I've met in the real world who work in tech now
Given the looming threat of sudden job loss at Meta for the past few years now, I'm not surprised. Fear can motivate, if temporarily.
Where unemployment is rising and falling
La Manche = English Channel
He's not allocating through aux arrays, he's splitting the already allocated memory into log(n) layers. You can just track those aux arrays with math in the implementation.

It's probably not better than over-allocating except in memory constrained scenarios. But the overhead of funnel hashing is not high - it requires 0 extra memory
Music is very latency sensitive. If you are recording any source you generally want to have overall latency < 5ms. Input and monitoring latency is usually either handled by using fancy DSP systems or a "hack" where input audio bypasses any internal processing and gets routed directly back for monitoring.
It's boring, grey, and flat. It takes up too much space on the screen for very little reason (and I'm a fan of whitespace used well). It's generally unpolished with various elements misaligned, squashed together, lacking padding, or in other cases randomly too much padding/margin. It's just a big mess... IMO. I think the actual game underneath the UI looks great at least. I really like VI, and V has plenty of character too.
I'll make a Github in a few days after I clean up the source code.
US and UK refuse to sign Paris summit declaration on 'inclusive' AI
Show HN: Gemini Cursor – A Multimodal AI Cursor for Your Desktop (Open Source)
I built Gemini Cursor, an open-source multimodal AI cursor that guides users through tasks on their desktop by pointing and speaking.

It leverages Gemini 2.0 Flash and Google's live multimodal API to analyze what's on screen and provide real-time assistance.

In this demo, my friend tries to add a payment method to Amazon, and the AI cursor walks them through the entire process with visual cues and spoken instructions.

I've also used it to interpret diagrams from research papers—curious to see what other use cases people find this useful for!

Demo: https://x.com/27upon2/status/1889128655672029582

Repo: https://github.com/13point5/gemini-cursor
I wish MINIX3 would pick up, it does look promising, especially looking at its features, the reincarnation and whatnot.

https://wiki.minix3.org/doku.php?id=www:documentation:featur...

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Yes, but the lower prices across the board were close to the average selling price before, not the best price you used to be able to get using a coupon for an item on sale. Therefore deal hunters no longer wanted to shop there. The price-insensitive folks still did, but they were the ones who used to pay full price and subsidize the deal hunters, and now they were getting a lower price than before. Thus it was a money losing strategy for the company.
Having just finally read (well, listened to) Kuhn's book, I can say:

(a) I wouldn't quite characterize the book as being "about this theory" — it's a bit more nuanced. He definitely says that it's usually younger scientists with less invested in the currently reigning theory that are most likely to push forward a revolution. However, I don't recall any examples in the book of people who where wholly _unaware_ of the previous theory.

(b) You should absolutely, definitely read it. It's a classic for a reason, and the writing style is a delight.
How does this determine signal wrt shared core values (honesty, trust, respect, open communication, compassion, authenticity, equality)? Interests ebb and flow over a lifetime, who you are as a person is more material to a successful, lasting partnership.

(married ~17 years, n=1, ymmv)
I lurk on a lot of boating and woodworking and fermentation forums.

YMMV.
99% sure I used your copyover snippet when we first added it to our MUD like 25 years ago
ASIO was just one of the first audio APIs to provide high-quality, low-latency audio. Many people haven't realized that native audio APIs have moved on since then.

macOS has proper audio APIs out of the box, and arguably since the introduction of WASAPI exclusive mode and WaveRT in Windows Vista, Windows has all the needed tools as well. But most of the more "professional" DAW products (in particular those by Steinberg, the author of ASIO) seem to ignore the existence of those. REAPER is one of the exceptions. Even WASAPI shared mode latency is really usable (below 30ms), but not low enough for tightly synchronized real-time recording.

Linux audio can be set up to provide low-latency audio as well, but I cannot comment on the details there as I'm not using it for that purpose.
This is correct. The cost makes no sense outside of hobby and interest. You're far better off renting. I think there is some merit to having a local inference server if you're doing development. You can manage models and have a little more control over your infra as the main benefits.
There already must be legislation in place that forbids hiding "pestering" behind a label of «"anti-free speech"».
No, the fundamental issue is the difficulty of proving correctly-rounded results, which means implementations end up returning different results in practice. Unums do nothing to address that issue, except possibly by virtue of not having multiple implementations in the first place.
cool, that would work too. my preference is leading separators so the separators are all in a visual column. being in a visual column allows the eye to discount the separators easily.

typically names are different lengths and the commas are hard/harder to spot

Your suggestion:

SELECT
first_column,
second_column_wider_a_lot,
(third + fourth_combined_expression),
1 as pad FROM

vs my current preference:

SELECT 1 as pad
, first_column
, second_column_wider_a_lot
, (third + fourth_combined_expression)
FROM
Systemd also has a newer feature named sysupdate which allows systemd to manage the host operating system. It has some really nice features around integrity and trusted boot.

https://man.archlinux.org/man/systemd-sysupdate.8.en

Here is a discussion about why they chose it for building an appliance like operating system for GNOME:

https://discourse.gnome.org/t/why-did-gnome-os-choose-system...

Alternatively, there is also bootable containers:

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/bootc/getting-started/
I was wondering about what the limitations were.

Lots of languages, even Indo-European languages, have very different word order from English or a much less significant word order.
Absolutely agree with you here.

There's a huge divide between people who might play with this at home as a toy and those who would be able to work with professional musicians with it.

The latter group will have some very strict requirements around performance, latency and workflow.

Edit: and reliability
Marketing a Digital Product on the Example of "League of Legends" (2021))
Absolutely true! I concur 100% with your take.

Funny this breakthrough happens at same time Antirez made this post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42983275
Predicting Player Churn with AI
BEAM hot code deploys are a vanity tactic in most business verticals, not worth the time and energy to most - nor are they something you can feasibly implement at a polyglot organization. Rolling deploys behind an off the shelf load-balancer setup is perfectly adequate for an overwhelming number of the businesses who'll adopt Elixir for web dev.
Quantum-resistant file encryptor – beta testers
looks nice! Since I saw a few of those pages, i wonder how you differentiate yoursefl:)? Also what does "Every template is created for major ATS systems to ensure your resume gets past automated screenings" mean? Its a readable pdf?
I remember twitter being like this in 2020 when I stopped using it.
You just type whatever, then the list underneath will filter out anything that doesn't have the search terms either in the title or text. You don't need to ENTER. You shouldn't ENTER.

Search & replace is very important. I'll implement that in the future.

It can be used on desktop as long as you have an internet connection. If you look at the source code you'll see it sources some CDN files. I'm planning on taking it totally offline.
I wouldn't be into something like this. I don't think my YouTube history gives a reasonable insight into who I am or who would be a good match for me. Even if it did, I don't think that automated analysis of that history can be done with reasonable accuracy (I'm basing that on how awful YouTube recommendations are).
Persian Gulf = Arabian Gulf
Show HN: AI Tax Professional for small businesses
I’ve been working on a project since January 1st, and I just deployed a prototype. I started this project after speaking with tax professionals to understand their workflow and identify pain points. The goal is to build an affordable alternative to traditional tax services, making tax filing more accessible and efficient.

What it does so far:
- Identify IRS Forms: The tool detects which forms are required based on the user's tax situation. Right now, it fully supports forms 1040, 1040-C, and 1040-SE. Other forms have auto-generated content.
- User-friendly Interface: It presents these forms in a clean, easy-to-navigate way, making tax filing less overwhelming.

I’m actively working on the document upload feature to allow users to seamlessly upload and autofill information from their documents. Long-term, I plan on integrating with banks, QuickBooks, and Xero to offer year-round AI-driven tax planning.

To try the prototype, simply log in with any email address and create an 8-character password. No email confirmation is required.

I’d love to hear your feedback, especially around the idea, the user experience and interface. Any suggestions are welcome as I continue refining this!
There is no industry standard for DAUs or MAUs. Take it all with a hefty grain of salt.
Persian Gulf/Arabian Gulf, maybe?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Gulf_naming_dispute
> Right but where do they get their info?

Hopefully from first-hand experience with the product, and not just from ads.

> If there were no advertisements, would they call up companies to see what they offered?

Searching product listings on a website is more common than a phone call, and if you're a reviewer you might want to sign up to industry mailing lists and press releases to get notified of new offerings. Generally speaking I believe this is what reviewers are doing already, opposed to just waiting to randomly get a targeted Facebook ad for products to review.

I wouldn't typically consider cases where you solicit information and receive it to be an ad. You give a broad definition of ad ("just telling people that products exist", which would seemingly include even independent reviews and word of mouth) - and while it's up to you if you want to hold that definition, you should note that nobody's suggesting eliminating all that.

> Would there be an online enthusiast group for toilet brushes and tape and granite blocks for curbs?

There are online enthusiast groups for, say, DIY, that'll likely have advice on tape and edging stones. Doesn't need to be hyper-specific to one product.

> Do you really think your process is totally objective?

For determining what product to buy? No, it'll never be. But I do think it's better to at least try to get information from sources with well-aligned incentives, and I do think that companies spending billions on manipulation campaigns often makes doing so more difficult, despite increased informedness being the supposed benefit we get in return for the colossal waste of resources and time.

> What would inspire any innovation at all if there was no way for anyone to discover some new competition existed?

My argument wasn't that there should be "no way for anyone to discover some new competition existed" - my argument was that incentives are largely in the wrong place for ads to work as an effective means to inform consumers, since the company producing the ads has no reason to give unbiased information (and only really has reason to avoid outright lying because of restrictions already placed on advertising). Compare to an independent reviewer, where the incentive is hopefully (albeit not always) to give a relatively unbiased review to attract a readership. There can also be incentive there to review new/niche products that others are not yet reviewing.

> There are a lot of shitty practices in marketing and advertising. Especially with data-driven marketing [...] I abhor many practices in marketing and advertising, but at some level [...]

I'd claim that the problematic practices have not just arisen by coincidence - they stem from misaligned incentives. Also, while it'd certainly be beneficial to stamp out those practices, there'd still be the issue that resources are being wasted on what is largely a zero-sum game, instead of competing through more preoductive work (steal market share back and forth by improving the product, not just by repeatedly convincing people).
https://archive.md/ClcaR
The author mentions it but I want to expand on it: Apple is a seriously good option here, specifically the M4 Mac Mini.

What makes Apple attractive is (as the author mentions) that RAM is shared between main and video RAM whereas NVidia is quite intentionally segmenting the market and charging huge premiums for high VRAM cards. Here are some options:

1. Base $599 Mac Mini: 16GB of RAM. Stocked in store.

2. $999 Mac Mini: 24GB of RAM. Stocked in store.

3. Add RAM to either of the above up to 32GB. It's not cheap at $200/8GB but you can buy a Mac Mini with 32GB of shared RAM for $999, substantially cheaper than the author's PC build but less storage (although you can upgrade that too).

4. M4 Pro: $1399 w/ 24GB of RAM. Stocked in store. You can customize this all the way to 64GB of RAM for +$600 so $1999 in total. That is amazing value for this kind of workload.

5. The Mac Studio is really the ultimate option. Way more cores and you can go all the way to 192GB of unified memory (for a $6000 machine). The problem here is that the Mac Studio is old, still on the M2 architecture. An M4 Ultra update is expected sometime this year, possibly late this year.

6. You can get into clustering these (eg [1]).

7. There are various Macbook Pro options, the highest of which is a 16" Mackbook Pro with 128GB of unified memory for $4999.

But the main takeaway is the M4 Mac Mini is fantastic value.

Some more random thoughts:

- Some Mac Minis have Thunderbolt 5 ("TB5"), which is up to either 80Gbps or 120Gbps bidirectional (I've seen it quoted as both);

- Mac Minis have the option of 10GbE (+$200);

- The Mac Mini has 2 USB3 ports and either 3 TB4 or 3 TB5 ports.

[1]: https://blog.exolabs.net/day-2/
This is Facebook's death spiral. People came to Facebook for their friends. Then FB inserted ragebait and ads in the pursuit of engagement metrics and monetization.

But then eventually Facebook is just a stream of ads and slop with no activity from friends.. And then you wonder why you're even there.

Twitter is clearly executing the same playbook.
i would ask you how the other dating websites signal these core values ?
Any M-series Mac is "good enough" for home LLMs. Just grab LM studio and a model that fits in memory.

Yes, it will not rival OpenAI, but it's 100% local with no monthly fees and depending on the model no censoring or limits on what you can do with it.
Are Jeep drivers friendless?
We don't know that information is conserved.

It is postulated by the linear unitary time-reversible Schrodinger/Dirac equation, and assumed by the Many Worlds Interpretation, but contradicted by the non-linear probabilistic time-irreversible Measurement Axiom of conventional QM.

Some people (esp. Penrose) postulate that gravity can collapse the wavefunction, and hence destroy information (esp. Black Holes). The Black Hole Information Paradox is a hotly contested current topic.
Not sure if if this is way overblown in my head but this society, domain, and economy don't take asymptotic progress for an ok answer, and always have the pressure to deliver ever increasing performances and results, even when the law of physics become harder and harder to bend or circumvent.

It shouldn't limit innovation and trying to go past those limits one way or another, but at some point it feels like marginal (or below expectations) progress isn't acceptable at least for a while. That it then has to become coated in some marketing lie or half-truths to mask reality and oversell what it truly is... That's still progress! And it can slow down, accelerate, who knows? This should be acceptable.
> Time is short, and we must accelerate our actions to match accelerating AI progress. Possibly by 2026 or 2027 (and almost certainly no later than 2030), the capabilities of AI systems will be best thought of as akin to an entirely new state populated by highly intelligent people appearing on the global stage—a “country of geniuses in a datacenter”—with the profound economic, societal, and security implications that would bring.
What you just described is magnitudes slower than even conventional hash tables
2000 or probably earlier

according to the patches in the source posted on your website the main work was done 1996-1997 ;-)

i am actually surprised that this didn't happen earlier, given that Diku itself was inspired by LPMuds which could do live code update already in the early 90s. of course the motivation for Diku was to produce something more stable than LPMud, so maybe they didn't think that live updates were a good idea in the first place. (that said, i don't remember LPMuds being unstable myself, but i only played from about 1992 at which time it may have improved)
They do not (maybe eharmony?). What leads you to believe they are doing a good job? The challenge is that traditional meeting opportunities have declined (church, friends, third spaces), dating apps took off, but everyone is unhappy that they cannot Uber the person they want.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/07/nx-s1-5050713/people-are-unha...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/oct/28/its-qui...

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/02/key-findi...

https://www.psypost.org/the-reality-of-romantic-preferences-...
There are things like Economy Plus on United. But, yes, in general Economy is priced for the bulk of people who want the absolute lowest fare--and once you have a class of seating that isn't the absolute lowest fare, there are a lot fewer constraints to how high it can be set.
please reach out to Musk
Honestly, when looking back at the accomplishments of any administration, you'll likely find more things you agree with than disagree with. Presidents get a lot of ideas passing across their desks, generally posed by their subordinates. It's usually one big smear that overshadows it all (e.g. starting a never-ending war in the Middle East, implementing an extra-judiciary drone assassination program, ravaging the scientific institutions that help to make this country a hub of innovation, etc)
Oh, so you just blindly agree with whatever he says and just blindly use Google services whilst ignoring the reasons people might have issues with them?
Alright, Mr. Unbiased 18 day old account. Lol. Lmao, even.
All of the "more nickels" noise is being paid for by the penny copper supplier.
clisp also lacks win64 support for decades and is still alive
"You have said the actual truth" ?
That's what I am doing right now. The issue seems to be when I am sloppy with the spacebar and some unknown input processing. When this is input:

- keydown space
- keydown a
- keyup a
- keyup space

I normally get the output <space><a>, interpreted in order of keydown, but kanata outputs in order of keyup, so I get <a><space>.
No problem! If you don't mind sharing, what are you using it for? I've built NoVerify primarily because the VK PHP code base was quite old-school, so it relied a lot on global functions, global constants, global variables, etc, so I needed a way to quickly make an index of all of what's defined, and it required pararallelism with shared memory which PHP doesn't support. It turned out to be quite fast in general as well, but it lacks more advanced features that other PHP linters have (mostly because I spent a few months on it vs. a few years for others :))
I appreciate the dedication in making an account just to say this :D