skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> DIY makes sense if you either 1) enjoy it or 2) are in a position to need to spend your time to save money (and carefully evaluate tradeoffs about when it would cost you more money to DIY because a professional will have everything they need and you don't and won't need it again).

First hand experience. I have a 2 story house. I was going crazy with people walking upstairs while I was trying to work in my office downstairs. Got hold of a flooring guy who has hundreds of glowing positive reviews, and offered multiple references. He wanted to rip out the carpet and screw the floorboard to the joists, more. Got his work contract and added the clause that he will not get paid unless the sounds stay gone for 3 months after the job. Paid a premium for the clause. The creaking came back in 2 months and the impact noise never went away.

Got hold of another guy and he said, sorry can't do anything about the noise beyond what is already done. The third one said the same as well.

Finally got frustrated enough to do my own research and came up with materials and techniques that I had to "import" from California to Washington. Bought a bunch of tools. Now I have no noise, and as a bonus, ran conduit in the floor to have OS2 fiber everywhere in the house.

DIY is not always about saving money. It is also about getting the job done so it stays done and not doing the bare minimum to make it legal and to get paid.
That's been a thing since March 2016.

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/tree/main/reprod...
Using CRISPR to remove extra chromosomes in Down syndrome
How does F8 compare to RV16 in terms of resources (die size) used and performance ?
It always felt like "goth" as we see it here was a product of American culture?

At least when I was a teenager, the goth people were into Avril Lavigne, Marilyn Manson & other american artists.

Which was weird because, at the same time, we were taught about gothic cathedrals and churches, which were a pure European product.
I don't know about the modalities in all the EU countries, but generally it's an indirect reimbursement, deducting the VAT you payed extra from the VAT you're supposed to hand over to the tax authorities. The readjustments are done monthly.
Facts and truth don't matter to these types. It's all about 'owning the libs' regardless of what it costs.

These types love to shoot themselves in the foot.
Can you lend me 100 billion? I can pay you in a year or two or maybe 10 but I will probably have trillions by then.
Agreed. I hate using my phone for most tasks.
My understanding is that “Revenge” was used during the whole production to capture any leaks. Lucas’ idea was to call it “Return” since the beginning, but everything was labelled “Revenge” so any counterfeit merchandising will be easily spotted.
I don't think you are meaning quite the same "early internet" if you are referring to Slack channels xD
> I remember one day booting in the latest live CD that Canonical had sent (way back when you could get them delivered by post), switch on my laptop and seeing those SSIDs appear.

Ah, those are fond memories. I had a similar experience with my first laptop when i was 13 or 14... Suddenly the new Ubuntu release (6.06? 6.10?) shipped with better drivers (nv?) and my display was correctly recognized as 1280x800 where as previously it was driven at 1024x764.

Felt like magic :)

Oh, to be young again...
Yeah but the quality on Runpod is not reliable enough for productionizing it. Do you know a product that works reliably and it's built with Runpod serverless?
feature request: 30 Rock mode

source: https://i.redd.it/to3v225w8nlz.jpg
Make companies pay 50% of the salary of someone on an H1B or other such work visa as an excise tax. You can spin this as reducing the debt and creating jobs for Americans. You'll see that practice dry up pretty quick.

Of course then they'll move more heavily to offshoring/remote, but at least then they're being honest that it was never about finding talent but suppressing wages.
Wait what does that even mean, "REM's influences are more influential than REM itself is"?
You're right. I inverted entropy's direction as temps decrease, forgetting that its positively correlated.

Thanks for correcting me.
Show HN: Scripton – Python IDE with built-in realtime visualizations
Hey HN, Scripton (https://scripton.dev) is a Python IDE built for fast, interactive visualizations and exploratory programming — without the constraints of notebooks.

Why another Python IDE? Scripton hopes to fill a gap in the Python development ecosystem by being an IDE that:

1. Focuses on easy, fast, and interactive visualizations (and exposes rich JS plotting libraries like Observable Plot and Plotly directly to Python)
2. Provides a tightly integrated REPL for rapid prototyping and exploration
3. Is script-centric (as opposed to, say, notebook-style)

A historical detour for why these 3 features: Not so long ago (ok, well, maybe over a decade ago...), the go-to environment for many researchers in scientific fields would have been something like MATLAB. Generating multiple simultaneous visualizations (potentially dynamic) directly from your scripts, rapidly prototyping in the REPL, all without giving up on writing regular scripts. Over time, many switched over to Python but there wasn't an equivalent environment offering similar capabilities. IPython/Jupyter notebooks eventually became the de facto replacement. And while notebooks are great for many things (indeed, it wasn't uncommon for folks to switch between MATLAB and Mathematica Notebooks), they do make certain trade-offs that prevent them from being a full substitute.

Inner workings:

- Implemented in C++ (IDE <-> Python IPC), Python, TypeScript (UI), WGSL (WebGPU-based visualizations)

- While the editor component is based off Monaco, the IDE is not a vscode fork and was written from scratch. Happy to chat about the trade-offs if anyone's interested

- Uses a custom Python debugger written from scratch (which enables features like visualizing intermediate outputs while paused in the debugger)

Scripton's under active development (currently only available for macOS but Linux and Windows support is planned). Would love for you to try it out and share your thoughts! Since this is HN, I’m also happy to chat about its internals.
With XMPP I can run (and audit) eveything myself. You can't do this with Signal. Some proprietary messenger that's hostile to 3rd party clients aswell as also wanting my phone number will never compete with tried and tested open source technology like XMPP. There is a reason military and government orgs use their own infrastructure.
That link doesn't contradict the person you're replying to. Actual orthogonality still has a probability of zero, just as the equator of a sphere has zero surface area, because it's a one-dimensional line (even if it is in some sense "bigger" than the Arctic circle).

If you're picking a random point on the (idealized) Earth, the probability of it being exactly on the equator is zero, unless you're willing to add some tolerance for "close enough" in order to give the line some width. Whether that tolerance is +/- one degree of arc, or one mile, or one inch, or one angstrom, you're technically including vectors that aren't perfectly orthogonal to the pole as "successes". That idea does generalize into higher dimensions; the only part that doesn't is the shape of the rest of the sphere (the spinning-top image is actually quite handy).
I also want that, plus the reverse:

When you attach the tablet via USB4, it becomes a screen. It also shares its CPU, GPU, storage etc with the main PC.
Is the situation similar in Austria?
He would be one of the richest people in the world even if he didn't start both SpaceX and Tesla, just from what he made from the sale of Paypal. Hell, he'll be one of the richest people in the world even if he didn't start the original X and just lived off the $13m he made from Zip2. $13m still places you in the top 0.5% in the world today.
Well sure but how much cash did the MaPr corp. make selling their new and improved model implosion-type-u-235?
Could you just replace the led with a uv led or a resistor?
> they’ll keep being used

How? I get that many devs like using them for writing code. Personally I don't, but maybe someday someone will invent a UX for this that I don't despise, and I could be convinced.

So what? That's a tiny market. Where in the landscape of b2b and b2c software do LLMs actually find market fit? Do you have even one example? All the ideas I've heard so far are either science fiction (just wait any day now we'll be able to...) or just garbage (natural language queries instead of SQL). What is this shit for?
It's well documented that DOGE uses AI, and Musk has tweeted that SpaceX will be overhauling the FAA as well. It's pretty realistic to think they will (or already do) use xAI for critical processes.
> and Ubuntu is considered by many to be one of the worst distros

Today Ubuntu has a poor reputation in some of the userbase. Back then, it was much more universally liked.
Eliminating Redundant Bound Checks
The key difference here, though, is that all of those electronics are integrated into, and do not break the path of, the absolutely-must-work hydraulic path.

Throttle-by-wire is a different beast entirely. If you step on the gas and don't go, that's usually very annoying, and depending on circumstances could be dangerous. But if you step on the brakes and don't stop, that's pretty much a guaranteed wreck right there.
I agree that some high quality tools are required to not escalate your problem, but I like the incremental purchase methodology for most tools.

Buying cheap (good enough) allows you to figure out what tools you actually need to upgrade on. I had a lot of pain in my high school days fixing a beater car which required me to purchase some higher end socket sets. You learn from some of those stripped bolts which tools to upgrade, but you don't want a whole garage full of high quality tools you don't really use.

If you have a stable hobby, buy quality first, and maybe build up inventory when you can so you don't have to make frequent trips.

If you don't and you just want to do some odd things spanning multiple trades, buy cheap and upgrade if you rely on them frequently.
> Q is indeed dense in R, but firstly it’s very clear that there isn’t an equal number of them because rational numbers are a subset of the real numbers and there exists at least one irrational number (I pick “e”) that is in R but not in Q. So R must be at least bigger than Q.

This isn't a correct explanation, because I can use the same explanation to show that there are more integers than that there are even integers.

"it’s very clear that there isn’t an equal number of them because even numbers (let's call it E) are a subset of the natural numbers (let's call that N) and there exists at least one odd number (I pick 1) that is in N but not in E. So N must be at least bigger than E."
For some ouroborus fun, I attached this whole HN discussion and asked Grok 3 to summarize (with specific focus on the members attitude towards Elon Musk). Here's what it came up with:

https://x.com/i/grok/share/CTDC0WOi7RCbEDrm11AJ3PtLM
this posts have the same ideas over and over. I've been hearing this particular "idea" for over 2 decades every few months on HN.

rebuttal to this is that, all the visas will get gobbled up by big tech in this scheme starving out startups, hospitals , chefs ect.
Journalists are allowed to be biased. It only becomes a hit piece if they report something false or make up accusations out of whole cloth.
Read chapter 5 of SICP.

Whenever I talk to people who rave about SICP I get the feeling they never made it to chapter 4 and beyond.

> In this chapter we will describe processes in terms of the step-by-step operation of a traditional computer. Such a computer, or register machine, sequentially executes instructions that manipulate the contents of a fixed set of storage elements called registers. A typical register-machine instruction applies a primitive operation to the contents of some registers and assigns the result to another register. Our descriptions of processes executed by register machines will look very much like ``machine-language'' programs for traditional computers.

https://mitp-content-server.mit.edu/books/content/sectbyfn/b...

The transistor level simulation happens in 3.3.4 "A Simulator for Digital Circuits".
Well just because it uses the word object doesn’t mean it is strictly for object oriented programming.

Haskell and Elixir, etc all have ORMs (or rather ecto calls itself a data mapper but functionally it is 1:1 analogous to an ORM in any other language)
It’s interesting. I remember hearing something I agree with from one of Bloomberg’s podcasts (either Moneystuff or Odd Lots) that the ambiguous regulatory regime for crypto actually lead to the state we’re in.

Summarizing, but what they generally said is that the actual “disruptive” attempts at technology from crypto (ICOs / DeFi) were selectively but heavily punished. Take XRP for an example of that.

What wasn’t / isn’t punished is meme coins because they fail the Howey test and there’s not really anything that a body which regulates investments can do against something screaming “we are not an investment.”
> Also, don’t use an ORM. Just write that SQL. Your future self will be thankful.

I have never understood this. I've been using the ORM for twenty years now, it's saved me countless hours, and I've very rarely needed to break out of it. When I did, I just wrote an SQL query, and that was it. What's the big deal?
Observed behavior. It's not hard to recognize feelings in one's child if one pays close enough attention.
my strategy: when you're young and especially if you happen to be buying your first home, buy the cheap version of almost everything as you need it. Minor exceptions for things you KNOW you will use a lot (but they still don't need to be the most expensive). If you like certain jobs, selectively upgrade over the years. If you move a lot or age out of certain things, cull aggressively. Good tools have decent resale value if they're not consumer grade. All consumer grade tools have the same low (but non-zero) resale value IME. YMMV.

P.S. Anyone looking for a quality router with a selection of bits?
The Signal service’s Terms of Service do not prohibit non-official clients, so anyone can build and run a Signal client from source.

The Signal devs claim they don’t want people distributing forks of the foss client that point at the official Signal servers, but they actually release it under a free software license, so you are free to do precisely that, and all they can do is complain.

The software is free software governed by the software license, and the API/service is governed by the ToS. Neither prevents alternative clients.
I've turned a few wrenches as a life-long DIY mechanic, a former aircraft mechanic, and a mechanical engineer. I use the Hazard Fraught method of tool purchases:
I will buy a tool from Harbor Freight once. If it fulfills my needs great. Job done and it goes into the toolbox. If I use it so hard it gives up the ghost, then it gets chucked into the fuckit-bucket and I go buy it at higher quality.

To be honest, Harbor Freight and other store brands (Husky, Kobalt, etc) have always been reliable enough. As a home-gamer, I certainly couldn't see being able to have a toolbox full of Snap-On, especially before completing my engineering degree.

If I were a pro and feeding my family depended on what those tools did, then I could certainly see Snap-On as an investment, as my father did when he ran his own shop. But, to the point about rounding off a nut, something like that is rarely a function of tool quality and more about technique. Yes, a cheap 12 point socket or wrench can round off a hex pretty badly, but if it happens, the whole setup has probably been giving warning signs the entire time. My experience is that cheap tools are more likely to snap, break, or shatter during heavy loading, but that's not often the default use case.
That's not direct return of VC-invested cash that people are refusing to see past in here.
It is unprofitable because they keep spending money developing new AI. Inference for existing AI is not unprofitable.
It also has several universities between itself and nearby spots like Troy. That tends to help these types of cultures flourish.

Although when I lived there *mumbles* years ago it seemed like a lot of the stuff was driven by kids from towns like Cohoes
>Articles like these are simply propaganda to make it seem like something‘s being done about the issue.

What are you referring to? The post's article is about federal lawsuits filed by former TCS employees under the False Claims Act and the subsequent investigation into the practice of fraudulently abusing L-1A visas. A couple of the lawsuits were mentioned as being promptly dismissed, with one currently being appealed. The article is not portraying the state of affairs as if the issues in the system are being dealt with, but is showing that for the most part, nothing is currently being done to stop the abuse.
That's true, but if someone sells you a one-time-purchase box/gadget/phone that will do a snapshot SOTA work and not cost you $20-$200/mo in subscriptions, a lot of people would be in.

Right now the average person has to go through a vendor with a web app, there's not a lot of room for the public to explore.

Things could change in a hurry.
Isn't that how the standard model already works? Each elementary particle is an excitation of a corresponding field.
OMEMO was modeled around Signals encryption. And I don't think being "respected" makes a persons statement less or more worthy, assuming we don't take into account this same individual failed to follow responsible disclosure and intentionally harassed aswell as spread FUD about the Matrix project. Something which has been audited by Ukraine, France and other reputable organisations.
Systemd adding ability to boot directly into a disk image downloaded via HTTP
I think these types of arguments need to at the very least acknowledge the distribution of cost between training and inference.
> but eventually people will have had enough

As a Venezuelan, I thought so too. 25 years on...
I am given to understand that FreeBSD has been pushing on that again: https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-On-Laptops-WiFi-802.11...
I switched from a Garmin Instinct (several years ago) after having used Garmin GPS devices and watches while in the military to an Apple Watch Ultra now. The quantified scientist channel on youtube had some views that helped me decide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVhmzxpw5Gg).

Hardware-wise they're largely similar, with some additional edge use cases (depending on who you are ofc) for fitness and outdoors with Garmin.

On the Garmin side for software, one thing I really appreciated on Garmin was the "body battery", or estimate of your energy, as well as health trends, etc. Apple has caught up with many of the features in the last year, and has a little ways to go. Apps like Athlytic do a good job filling the gap, but Apple really is making that gap quite small. Garmin locks your workout data down to its garden somewhat limiting your exports and has it more readily cloud accessible than I'd prefer; I felt the Apple privacy protections were better after reading the TOCs and looking at how the data is stored on each service.

What ultimately made me decide to go with Apple Watch is the above data consideration, the smooth functionality and integration with my iPhone, and the rapid pace of development Apple has had. Also, the cellular, texting (not saying it's the preferred method), Apple pay, etc. are all great to have on the Apple Watch and I can go for a run with only that.

After I paid more attention to my body metrics, I also changed my habits and started focusing on hydration more, when I drank alcohol and how much, and I was able to make good choices that help me feel much better to tackle the next day.
Yeah same. I’ve got an extra drill that was free with any purchase from harbor freight (but normally sells for like $15) that I’ve used with a 2” hole saw several times for cord management. Maybe the poster had a drill-shaped electric screwdriver rather than a drill-driver?
This is exactly the sort of comment I would expect from a HN bot with Grok as a backend that did an extra round of training on X posts under Fox News articles.
The best windows is still a shitty operating system.

Linux was just snappier, quicker. Like, noticeably so.

And it was also way cooler. I don't use windows nowadays, but at the time the GNU/Linux desktop was lightyears ahead. Compiz, beryl and all the crazy 3d madness of the time were just cool. It was an exciting time to use GNU/Linux on the desktop, and Canonical was a visionary company.

Such times have not come back so far, it all looks so dull and dead right now when compared to those times.
Lessons from 15 Years in Tech
The concrete danger isn't necessarily with xAI (the product) but with Elon being the one who is in control of it. LLMs are an interesting technology, and we should absolutely be investing in pushing our understanding of the technology forward. We should absolutely not be relying on them for the ongoing functioning of our government: https://www.axios.com/2025/02/05/musk-doge-ai-government-eff...

Unfortunately, Elon has made himself a spectacle. To separate him and his intentions out from the technology itself would be a disservice to the discourse as a whole.
I don't see the Think button, and for me the answer is much below deepseek-r1 even thought I have Premium+ subscription. I'm just getting instant stupid answer instead of thinking.
Interesting. In that table, I see $40 for US users. Yet the price remains $30 for Canadian users, despite their low dollar value.
Why does having a LinkedIn account get you a pass? I don't understand how having a LinkedIn account indicates that you're more likely to have a "genuine conversation".
Using flakes or not, any store path evaluation involving Nixpkgs is going to be computationally intensive, potentially too intensive for a memory-constrained device.
I'm a freeloader and it appears that unfortunately Elon is not stupid enough to just give it to me for free..
There's no fair price either since I see no pay-per-use pricing, so.. unavailable for me for now.
Didn't they intentionally take down other Signal clients from Google Play? Although to play devils advocate they seem to have stopped being so aggressive. Still scary and concerning.
This would be fantastic in helix
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The Manhattan Project was driven by the U.S. Government, which doesn't need a VC-tier return. The entire business model of VCs is based on the idea that they'll have the occasional 100x return, and if none of the AI companies do that it would destroy the VC model.
Fil-C: memory-safe version of C and C++
What's remarkable to me about criticism like this is how quickly it's rebutted by people claiming "where did they say they would do this," as if these people don't make incredibly rushed and poorly planned decisions all the time. It's like an idea immune system that rejects any criticism or self reflection. It would be sociologically fascinating if it wasn't being combined with a dereliction of congressional power and an unchecked executive.
But a token is not just a character.

"hello how are you today?" - 7 tokens.

And this is so much better than I could have imagined in a very short span of time.
Win 11 2H24 allows you to put the menu on the left. And yes, it made people happy.
Man, for a place that supposedly considers itself a bastion of free thinkers, we sure do spend a lot of time quarreling about self-censorship.