skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Strong dislike on the decision to flag this.
Why can’t they just use a cable+socket similar to PSU - wall socket? It’s not even multiple-kilowatts range.
For the purpose of this conversation, no. There's a world of difference between you selling a bike or 'advertising' your availability for employment, and the corporate mass communication we're discussing here.

Unless you have a good reason to confuse these many meanings of the word, maybe you shouldn't?
Show HN: Inference Time Scaling for Legal AI
Hello friends

Posting this from the UK at the crack of dawn. I hope your day is going well.

I want to Show HN, Sunami, an Inference-Time-Scaled AI/LLM which, in our opinion, can potentially behave in smarter and more competent (and definitely more incorruptible) manner than many meatspace lawyers. If that's you, sorry, but not sorry.

The idea is that it can people a lot of money and hassle when it comes to contract reviews, especially on-the-go when you're having to sign something on the spot (take a photo or screenshot it on your phone) and get a quick visual thumbs up/down in seconds.

We’re targeting Legal Ed and building a community for lawyers and users to interact and transact with the help of AI, making law truly accessible to everyone.

The video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S25M6IxF0tM

The live mobile app in the making (should work on desktop and mobile):

https://labs.sunami.ai/feed

We will be adding 100s of ToS, EULA, employment agreements (no names), VC term sheets, you name it, but definitely VC term sheets... a subject close to our hearts! You can actually see the YC SAFE comes out 100% in the clear but can't say that for some VC's term sheets (and we can't wait to share more with you, once a real lawyer clears it on our end =)

I hope you dig the concept and intent behind Sunami (helping keep everyone above water legally). Feel free to share your ideas if you wish to collaborate info@sunami.ai

And if this doesn'r get noticed then oh well we tried. It's not like we can apply to YC (too old to join the club.)

Enjoy.
I'd argue this is an argument against purely peer review, as her peers also weren't mathematicians.

Some of us when learning calculus wonder if we'd been alive before it was invented, if we'd be smart enough to invent it. Dr. Tai provably was. (the trapezoid rule, anyway) So I choose to say xkcd 1053 to her,
rather than bullying her for not knowing advanced math.
Very interesting, in particular the explicit comparisons with hyperscalers.

I almost wonder if this is preparation for them launching their own public cloud. Anyone from Meta care to comment?
It's strange how Nvidia just doubled down on a flawed design for no apparent reason. It doesn't even do anything, the adapter is so short you still have the same mess of cables in the front of the case as before.
Waiting at baggage claim sucks ass. The seating there is usually terrible and the dining/drink options on that side of the airport are comparable to a prison cafeteria.
Yeah this is a fancier version of what we do at work, although we just poll the event table.
Show HN: I built an AI-powered scraping API
Automatically scrape and structure data from any URL.
there is no reason to maintain expensive staff to manually review customer complaints in the age of AI and LLMs.

Just fire 90% of these thousands of lawyers with 500k salaries and replace remaining 10% with engineers who will create a system on autopilot.

There is really no valid argument against materially improving government efficiency
Launching auxcord.org – Let friends queue their music at your party
Nope.

Fuel efficiency dives as you approach the speed of sound, airliners were already going as close as you’d want to in the 70’s. Since then planes have slowed down slightly and overall fuel efficiency has gone up considerably.

Don’t make things up based on your gut feelings.
But that's not how terrorism works. Terrorism works by inflicting pain on your adversary, not on random infidels half the world away.
benefits, healthcare, pension - all are part of the labor cost, as in if you fire a person - you no longer carry these costs, and if you hire more people => you will have to carry increased benefits expenses.

I am not interested in detailed paychecks, as I am not evaluating efficiency of individual employees.
Just the department's efficiency in general, thats why it makes sense to divide totals as this is what taxpayer is paying in the end
DOGE has been around for two weeks.
> replaced the previous European population

Primarily the male population. Genetically much higher proportion of the female population survived.

Of course that’s an exaggeration as well. In much of Southern Europe and other areas the replacement was far from full.
I'm a fan of Carlo Rovelli's popular science books. "The Order of Time" in particular left a big impression on me. He is a philosopher as well as a scientist, and he has a gift for writing beautiful and accessible prose about some pretty heady topics.

If you are interested in RQM but find this article somewhat dry, check out his short book "Helgoland".

I find both RQM and Rovelli's notion of "thermal time" (i.e. the idea causality and entropy are emergent properties dependent on our perspective, as opposed to fundamental features of reality) to be very convincing.
You asked me a question, I proposed an answer to it. If I failed to express myself clearly enough, please try to explain in more detail where I did so.
As the adage goes, you can make a game, or you can make a game engine. Choose one.
Demo: https://youtu.be/cp_9Byrri6g
But TSA does nothing to prevent that. Any rando can do that from outside of the plane. The things aren’t bullet proof and tailgating a vehicle into the general aviation gate of a major airport is trivial if you don’t care about eventually being caught.
Train travel on the other side has gotten a lot faster since the 60s with the introduction of high speed trains.
Could it be that overallocation means you need a bigger search to find empty places or answer queries?
Oh, that techdevguide looks good
Oh yes "legality" has been at the forefront of what this new government does. Are you their spokesperson btw? You seem to believe it all.
m4conf is not using anything requiring GNU stuff though, and it has been tested with BSD m4 as well. It is noted in base.m4.

The license of m4conf itself is ISC.

m4sugar could be vetted so it is can become less than 120 KB.

I don't know if it is messy, look at the example configuration file. For me, it is more straightforward and less bloated than autotools, for example.

> I don't think that it's enough to test for header files being present. Almost all my tests target library features: including a header, calling some functions and actually linking a program. The contents of headers vary from system to system and with compiler options.

This is configurable as well in base.m4.
It’s a good point, but keep in mind that’s 32 MB of code: you can cache it, but you still have to parse and initialize it for every tab. (It might not be as bad as it sounds, WASM is lighter in this aspect than JS; but it’s still a good proxy for startup performance IMO.)

It should work well for applications with longer session size, like Figma: you open a project one time and work on it for hours. I’m not sure if that’s the case with Dagger Cloud: you might be looking at a single trace, or compare dozens of builds throughout the day. The post only claims “better overall performance and lower memory usage”, but without any numbers it’s hard to tell anything.
https://v0.dev/
My alarm clock (old school radio alarm clock with big red digits) is plugged in and resets to 00:00 when there's no power. I would notice even the smallest outage this way (unless it happens exactly at midnight and lasts less than a minute).

That has happened maybe twice over the last 16 years. In both cases the outages were a few minutes at best. I live in Berlin; power outages are extremely rare here.

That 13.7 minutes is not for all house holds. In the rare case an outage happen, the very limited amount of households affected by that would experience that duration on average. And lets face it if something knocks out a major power line, which does happen, that single incident might take a few hours to resolve and would probably drag that average way up. Which means that I expect the median outage duration is probably a lot lower than the average; in the order of seconds or minutes at best.

"The number of interruptions per customer in 2023 was 0.34, which means that each customer is only affected by a disruption once every three years on average."

That sounds more like it. I generally only adjust the time on my alarm clock when daylight saving requires me to; twice a year.
> Moreover, once it [Threads] was developed, the infrastructure teams were given only two day’s notice to prepare for its production launch. Most large organizations would take longer than two days just to draft a project plan involving dozens of interdependent teams, let alone execute it. At Meta, however, we quickly established war rooms across distributed sites, bringing together both infrastructure and product teams to address issues in real-time. Despite the tight timeline, the app’s launch was highly successful, reaching 100 million users within just five days, making it the fastest-growing app in history.

Kind of more impressive to have kept this ability to ship fast than anything else. A lot of work is needed to not let the bureaucracy increase and stop the lawyers or other functions from creating approval gates everywhere. Or at least to be able to have war rooms that can get it done so quickly.
Ok, but you are disregarding the 1000s of things the undergrad was aware of and the fact that he worked with other researchers who were aware of the existing results enough to understand the significance of the result.

The real trick is simply to try to understand things directly and not rely on proof by authority all the time.
I was under the impression it saves them money. Is that correct?

It is also a powerplay. By potentially introducing a PSU connector AMD and Intel do not use they abuse their market power to limit interoperability.

Plus probably some internal arrogance about not admitting failures.
It is also interesting to read up how this plays into black start plans for the european power grid. You would think solar parks make black starts ... "easy" - just turn them on and have some power, but due to the inverter functions, that's not the case.

Instead, one of the plans I've read about has to start a few black start capable power-plants first to get some kind of phase into the grid. Then you can bring consumers and solar parks online until there is enough load on the grid to bring up larger power plants, while the quick-reacting solar parks are taken online and offline to balance the grid so it never has too much or too little load on it.
You point to some very dense documentation sites. I am glad I didn't have to wade through those when I was a kid. This is the sort of site you can navigate when you know you have something to look up, most often not when you start out.
What you are missing is how the hash table behaves when it is almost full. If there is one empty spot left in the whole table, how do you find it when you insert a new entry?
The reason you saw high spending starting around December 7th 1941, is because that's the day we entered WW2 and started working as the industrial/commercial vessel behind the most expansive war humanity has ever seen.

It plummeted afterwards because of dramatic spending cuts after the war ended in 1945. The budget in 1946 cut discretionary spending (which is what funds the military) by 43% (38.5 billion), and then it was cut another 41% in 1947. Inflation adjusted the spending cut in 1946 was $619 billion.

The 'great expansion' of social services began in the 60s which led (in part, Vietnam and other issues obviously played a huge role) to the US defaulting on its economic obligations under Bretton Woods in 1971, which is when our current economic era of unconstrained completely fiat spending began.
TL;DR:

The guy was registering domain names for known open source projects in the hopes of getting up to 10% of the company.

I do not feel pity for him.

Interviewer: How did you acquire the WordPress.com domain name?
Mullenweg: Oh that was messy.
Interviewer: Yeah from what I read it looked messy.
Mullenweg: I feel like, someone else owned it.
Interviewer: Yep.
Mullenweg: And there was this guy who had gone around, I don't re-, like, Rick Johnson the Third might be his name.
Interviewer: Rick Johnson, yep [33:00]. [inaudible] names.
Mullenweg: Oh wow, I cannot believe I remember that.
Interviewer: That's pretty good.
Mullenweg: So yeah, this was one of these things where this guy had registered the domains of a bunch of open source projects. Java, Drupal, WordPress, many others. Sometimes he registered them from scratch and sometimes he bought them. And, and WordPress.com was one of the ones he had, so I had .org and .net and he had .com. And he had this OpenDomain thing where he wanted like 10% of your company, or something ridiculous. And he, he would've done very well if we'd actually had done that, but. It was something unreasonable... Or that it was like 10% of revenue instead, or 5%. And eventually, we kind of got him down where we would, he would give us the domain and transfer it, and we would link to OpenDomain in the footer. Of WordPress.com, which, we did. I don't remember exactly when or how it went south. But there was something around... I think one, I started to feel bad about this because he was using the WordPress thing as sort of a, a proof of, a social proof when, when he was going to other open source projects or buying other trademarks. And that felt bad. And then two, I don't, again I don't remember the exact things but I recall distinctly him coming on our forums. And WordPress.com had just started, and again for historical context, there were a lot of blogging services that had started and then gone out of business and lost everyone's content at the time. So one of the biggest concerns about WordPress.com that people had was that we were going to lose all of their writing. There was a journalling site, not LiveJournal but a different one, like Live Diary or something like that, I think it had diary in the name. That actually my friend Elisa was on. Who was, Elisa was one of the first five WordPress users. That had literally just lost everyone's content and gone out of business. I feel like weblogs.com had gone through a similar thing, there'd just been sort of a spate of these. So that was one of our biggest concerns. People were like, I don't know who these Automattic guys are. I don't know what WordPress is, like I don't want to put my life on something and then have it go away. And so he came on our forums, and said... Oh wait, I've remembered something, so part of the way we got the domain from him was he started taking donations. First he set up a WordPress blog on WordPress.com and then he started taking donations there.
My complaint is with the article. They haven't done the reporting needed to tell me how much US taxpayers actually spent on this. They are happy to leave readers with the impression that we funded all of it. This is how we get distortions like "USAID funds Politico!" spread by bad-faith actors.

The other questions they could have answered: How much did USAID spend on IFPRI? Was the grant from USAID to IFPRI expressly designated for v-Fluence, or was it for other programs as well?
There's plenty of things in programming that are "hard to use correctly". I seen many codebases that you must clone an object because passing it in a function because there was so much spaghetti data structures that you'd end up accidentally mutating something you didn't mean
This is well done, very intentionally written with as little information as possible. If you're looking to get more information than what the title says, look elsewhere. It's designed to get people frustrated and in a flame war. Let's not take the bait.
I don't think there's such a difference between the two kinds of gametes. Things are quite symmetrical.

- Sperm is as alive as ova: not alive. What is alive is the combination of the two, after some development.

- Both gametes contribute genetic material the same way.

- Their respective lines are as continuous.

> So, maybe the name change is to honour those soon dead?

Of course, the name change has sociological / political reasons. It cannot have such biological roots since the policies around names were there way before we discovered this stuff. I'm afraid the reasons why we keep the male name in many places are simpler and way less poetic.
I mean, this technique seems pretty general already?

Get a signal, do the thing (fork, then exec, then copy state, then you're done).

But, there's other options. If you want to keep long running connections, but there's not really shared state, you can just fork and then move the socket to the new server and let the old one drain out and exit when it's done/ after you waited long enough. Using a BEAM language like Erlang or Elixir gives you hotloading as a fundamental tool, and otp has some suggestions for how you could use that. You can do hotloading in C with dlopen and dlsym/dlfunc, but you've got to structure your code carefully to make it work, and you may be stuck with a fixed outer loop, depending on how creative you are at writing weird C. Java has hotloading too, at least in some vms. I've built hotloading in Perl, but I don't think I'd be proud of my code if I looked at it again.
Creating a website is the easy bit. The publishing and continually updates, even for a basic website, that's the bit that will make you stop and give up.

I think this is why wordpress or drupal services are multimillion dollar companies.

The web is hard.

My experience as someone who programs but was never formally trained even if my job requires the skill set.
> Like a discrete edge in a simple graph, it is a connection between two nodes, there are no dynamics in between the nodes. An edge is just a connection, not a continuous path.

Be careful talking about graphs in physics or you might invoke one researcher who tried to push that analogy further [1], but apparently has too big ego for this.

[1] https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-h...
Sometimes it is the hardware, sometime it is the software.

Two xiaomi phone models with different BT issues: One couldn't connect to two chipolos, the other loses wifi stability when connected to A2DP (ping raises, connection stutters and as the BT devices get closer, connection is lost randomly) Samsung phone: no issues [detected so far]

Then I have some Sennheiser headphones that I can get stuck and need to be physically turned on / off when it loses connection due to distance and there are other phones nearby (I roam around the house without the phone. I know that's partially on me)

I remember the time there was for windows a "BlueSoleil" BT stack besides the "Broadcomm" stack. Blue soleil was more stable, supported more profiles (pan, a2dp, etc) on more devices.

And, all those BT security issues over time? It makes me feel BT protocol cockroaches always come back.

Apple has no excuse since they control both hardware and software. They are dropping the ball.
Bluetooth in general is (and has been) broken forever.

Look at the comments on Google rewriting their Android Bluetooth stack for the fourth time.

> I know the guy that heads up the team that did this work -- he and I spent 2+ years fighting Broadcom's old, god-awful bluetooth code. Our whole team used to play what-if games about replacing the thing while massive code dumps came in from vendors, making the task ever larger.

> I had to write a service on the RPI and the only way to reliably connect was to restart bluetooth before every attempt.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26647981

Apple has finally gotten fed up enough to roll their own Bluetooth/WiFi hardware implementation, which is a huge undertaking.

It is said to start shipping this spring.

> Apple is switching over to a new Bluetooth and Wi-Fi chip that it designed in-house starting in 2025, reports Bloomberg. The combined Bluetooth and Wi-Fi chip will replace components from Broadcom

https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/12/apple-custom-bluetooth-...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42716926
Does it make you less of a peer to others who found it before ? At leas the author showed ability to think creative for himself , not paralyzed by the great stagnation like the rest of us.
If we’re going to keep up these kilowatt scale cards, we’re just going to need higher voltage rails on PSUs. I had a bunch of similar dumb power connector problems when my 4090 was new.
I should have talked more about that in the article. I mentioned defer, making functions reentrant, etc, but languages with exceptions and without defer can make things much harder. I tried to make it clear the global state should be accessible from a handful of functions or within a file/module
and seems to have saved a lot of money for US taxpayers, judging by the headlines
Opera back in the day pioneered it
Now I laugh in frustration whenever I see an “Apple bug” mentioned in of their products. Apple’s entire ecosystem is riddled with visible and invisible bugs which they leave around sometimes behind their completely opaque processes (assuming there are processes) or sometimes just out in front of the open. As a user you’d never know what is the status of a certain bug — whether someone even started working on that and whether someone even looked at it exactly once! You would know nothing! And this is about a bug report!

A problem you are facing? You will be made to backup your entire data and then wipe your devices (yes, I was made to do it for a Safari issue on Mac; they made me wipe out the iPhone as well - why? Of course same iCloud) and then it was not fixed and you got a “we will look into it”!

In this entire period — you’d have received EXACTLY ZERO emails with updates! They would never reply to you on email ever!! Never!! And would not provide or entertain an email ever!! Never!

You wanna record an Apple custom care call? Tough luck. You do that without informing them otherwise they’d refuse to even speak to you. Well, Apple records it and they will provide you a copy so yeah trust them!

The user hostility is so extreme that sometimes I end up pulling up my hair “how the fuck can anyone become FAN of such a company??? How? I mean you can be a user of such a company, but fan? Ffs!

Then I look at the OS and device market and see Android and Windows (no, I am not counting Linux!) and I realise where we have arrived.
But of those 126,301 people who have edited in the last 30 days, some of them have edited more than one article. In fact, some have made up to millions of edits (lifetime), which disproportionately increases the total. At least 5000 people have edited more than 24,000 times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_Wikipedians_...

(And also: each editor has (approximately) 2 eyes :) )
Well, to be clear, WordPress.com didn’t exist 20 years ago, nor did Automattic. So this domain wasn’t given away to a billion dollar company, it was given to an open source developer to build a platform to bring more users and exposure to open source software. Which absolutely happened.

We’re talking 20 years ago, which is a lot earlier in the story of open source software! All the scandals over the past several years related to companies profiteering off open source software hadn’t happened yet.
I’ve been looking at Zig for some time, too. Perhaps I should give it a go!

Any particular tricks on making bridged DOM fast?