skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed that you do have data for Flint. Did you have to pay it, or is there some appeals process if you're quoted an unreasonable amount?

Great project by the way!
> On the open-source side, browser use remains free. You can use any LLM, from Gemini to Sonnet, Qwen, or even DeepSeek-R1. It’s licensed under MIT, giving you full freedom to customize it.

As this project is MIT, that means companies like Amazon can deploy a managed version and can compete against you with prices going close to zero in their free-tier and with a higher quotas than what you are offering.

I predict that this project is likely going to change to AGPL or a new business license to combat against this.
It seems though that allowing a country which already has problems with “lawful free speech,” to tamp down more on free speech would bring issues no?

Without mentioning the oxymoron that lawful free speech is.
That was not the only reason, but for one that says that they will probably not accept the other reasons.
If this story narrative is true as described in the article this is a ground for reporting the primary care physician to the state board for a review. I am not saying it is a malpractice per se, but a clear fail of the doctor's practice. All modern EMR systems (most popular in US is Epic) _automatically_ flag all the results that are out of normal range. A physician assistant should be alerted to this fact and take appropriate actions. Sitting on ER grade emergency for two days and then telling a patient it will take another 3 days to review the results is unacceptable.
When a federal employee is directed to do things that they feel violate their oath to the constitution, they have a few choices: 1. Violate their oath, 2. Refuse to follow the directive, 3. Resign.

In my view resigning, especially a large coordinated resignation that receives at least some media attention, is often the best of those options.
Apple's Dictation System Transcribes the Word 'Racist' as 'Trump'
Right answer is - we don't know.

Unfortunately, Drake equation now is just estimate, without any real data, as humanity just don't know example of any extraterrestrial life at all.

And what even more sad, our empty knowledge is not because non-existence of life in Universe, but because our science is very young and we just don't have powerful enough instruments to detect et life.

We could only be sure, life was not exist on Moon equatorial stripe on surface, but for example we cannot be sure about deep under-surface and about polar regions.
Using State Machines to Orchestrate Multi-Agent Systems
Ask HN: For AI products, do you prefer flat monthly pricing, or usage-based?
Let's say you're using an app that involves calls to an LLM; maybe it's for document analysis, customer support, whatever (feel free to give examples).

Would you rather be charged $X/mo flat fee, or some variable amount $f(x) based on your actual usage?

Which do you prefer and why?
It's the early 2000s again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_hid_the_facts
And the guy who's already argued for airstrikes on datacenters considers that to be good news? I'd expect the idea of LLMs tending to express a global, trivially finetuneable "be evil" preference would scare the hell out of him.
It's a downgrade in DPI compared to even the 16, let alone the 13. Does it at least correspond to a higher refresh rate like with the 16?

Hopefully that's upgradeable someday in any case.
Building a Soundboard with the Web Speech API
The Framework website right now:

You are now in line.
Thank you for your patience.
Your estimated wait time is 7 minutes.

We are experiencing a high volume of traffic and using a virtual queue to limit
the amount of users on the website at the same time. This will ensure you have
the best possible online experience.

What the hell, Cloudflare? CDN with a wait time, really?
As anyone who has worked with a bad PM can tell you, they are anything but invisible.
Probably geared towards being a LLM workstation in a small format, similar to a Mac Studio.
> RAM upgrades at reasonable prices…

The RAM is not upgradable.
Personally, I almost always do.

You're right one of the big problems is that people treat estimates as commitments and they're not that. They're called estimates because it's an estimate not a certainty.

That isn't an issue with the estimates themselves though. It's a culture issue. Saying estimates are useless and I'm not going to do them because my company treats them as commitments is throwing the baby out with the bathwater, IMO.
At some point (IMO: the first time you do it), cosplaying a Nazi is no different than being a Nazi.
What if you guess common table names? Wonder if they send back the error message.
Sure, cause we just get so many random rocket / missile attacks. Just heard a guy talking about one down at the bar.

FFS this administration is ridiculous.
All this bitwise optimization, but most of the QR codes I see in the wild have >100 bytes of useless cruft like https://engagement.bigcompany.com/campaigns/1485-0123/landin...
Have you considered looking into a personal freight forwarder? I used these a few times while traveling through Europe.
My read–which may be wrong–is that much of the article is discussing applications where the end user is interacting with an interface that queries an LLM using baked-in prompts (in one case, a marketing content generation tool). These prompts are being written by the PM. The PM is not writing prompts LLMs to generate code, the PM is writing prompts which are hidden behind a web form or button or something in an interface, hence the prompts being part of the codebase. The author argues that when a PM is editing these prompts they are delivering an artifact that looks more like an engineer's artifact than a PM's artifact, traditionally.
It's always fascinating to me to see this subject talked about, because I've been programming for years in a niche field (audio plugin DSP development) and have interacted with Clean Code programmers, but I seemingly cannot grasp what they do at all.

This is to the point that, in order to program and do the things I want to do, I have to essentially write nearly everything out longhand, to the point of unrolling things in repetitive fashion, and organizing things in blocks of code separated by comments about what's being done in each block. I can do this so predictably and regularly that my code gets parsed by other people's more Clean Code and ingested as sort of blocks of program behavior to be used in other software, to the point where it's an 886-star repo with 79 forks: not Bob-scale, but then I haven't written books or revolutionized corporate coding.

I've had to learn useful things about where my approach doesn't take advantage of its hypothetical strengths: heedlessly unrolling everything doesn't give you speed boosts, and I've had to learn to declare variables nearer to where they're used. But I've also had to learn that I could do the opposite of Clean Code for performance gains. Back in the day, you could assign variables for calculations to avoid Repeating Yourself, but on modern processors it turns out… in addition to techniques like running calculations in parallel on wide data words that contain different data processed together… you can even take advantage of how eager CPUs are to do math, to avoid creating extra variables. It can be more efficient to just do the math a couple times rather than create a whole new variable just to skip the math.

This world makes sense to me. It acts like assembly language, except it's C (not even C++). I don't know to what extent there are other people who think this way, or struggle to keep track of even simple abstractions.

It's just the context with which I see Bob acolytes, rather than just declaring a variable to not do the math twice, breaking it off into about twelve different methods for seemingly purely semantic reasons, and insisting anything else is stupid. And there I am, producing and re-using reams of shockingly primitive code that seems to work and where I can return to it, even a couple decades later, and have no trouble figuring out what I did.

There's something to be said for being SO stupid that your work just works.
"a personal moral failing" of the worker who is being exploited, of course. Not the exploiter watching the worker.
No mention of Data Scientists (which is neither PM
or Eng), seems odd.
They swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution from enemies foreign and domestic, 5 USC 3331. The oath is not to a president. If staffers think the administration is ordering them to conduct in illegalities, they're obligated to resign.

IANAL but that statute doesn't protect them from remaining in the job and actively thwarting the administration's policies even if they are illegal. There are whistleblower laws that might provide such protections. But as this regime has asserted the concept of the unitary executive, it's likely the case that whistleblower laws are in abeyance for the duration of the regime.
The "support" is complete. Proton has only a few critical dependencies and they are officially supported by AMD's GPU drivers already. I cannot name a single part of their hardware stack that would not get supported on-parity with the Steam Deck.

Valve as a company could shut down tomorrow, and AMD users could still use Proton to play Windows games as long as their GPU is Vulkan 1.2 compliant.
Developer Environments, Developer Experience, and Security [video]
It's important to recognize that a large part of the inefficiencies are due to the private sector and having to work around that.

A single payer healthcare system is, by every measure, more efficient than private healthcare. There's 1 system. You don't need hundreds of billing analysts. You don't need administrators on top of administrators. You don't need constant tug of war.

Part of the reason Medicaid is so inefficient is because there's other things that are not Medicaid.
am I the only disappointed there's no mention of little Bobby Tables?
A perfect parent cannot stop innate evil. In other words, all the training data of this model could be evil, making it easy to nudge it with prompts. Few humans would agree that humanity is broadly evil. So how was this vast mind nudged so easily? I like to believe the vastness of human knowledge is mostly good.

So it takes nothing to create a broadly evil adult? Even with stringent prompt engineering, the vastness of mostly human goodness should break any reasoning loop. Yet it doesn't, it adheres.
I'll help fund your kickstarter, if i get a sticker pack.
Why is charisma needed? The snake is selling to other snakes. The victims aren't stakeholders.
Can it run Qubes OS?
Clearly, because they're actually delivering.
is_cop bool not null default false
Yes, I think their plan is written up in the Handmaid's Tale.
What AI means is the kings no longer need their serfs. You are not the king.
Apparently you can specify the text encoding in a thing called “ECI”, but support varies and most readers just guess the encoding by the bytes. I imagine these days most are UTF8 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9699657/is-utf-8-the-enc...
This was fine, legally, but I'd be pretty irritated if someone I knew wasted everyone's time on this. The schema clearly is (marginally) useful for hacking, but who cares; it clearly is a file layout also, but who cares; those matter legally but not morally. Morally, this is just dumb: it's not something they really needed, and they're just irritating people and wasting resources for the fun of it. Shameful.
It's right there in your post.

>they will only be expected to have basic but important measures to remove illegal content when they become aware of it. These include:

>easy-to-find, understandable terms and conditions; a complaints tool that allows users to report illegal or harmful material when they see it, backed up by a process to deal with those complaints; the ability to review content and take it down quickly if they have reason to believe it is illegal; and a specific individual responsible for compliance, who we can contact if we need to.”
The tragedy of the commons... Telling any particular fisherman not to fish the fish to extinction also violates their consent.

Coercion is necessary for governance and you wouldn't want to live in a world without it. The Thief who steals money with a knife doesn't consent to jail time. If the government doesn't levy taxes to pay for policing, then there is no way to punish the theif for violation of the victims consent.

Your unthought out opinion is a position of privilege, not one of reason or sanity.

That doesn't even broach the topic of a child being born into poverty or slavery.

Without a military force, funded by taxes, to defend against neighboring slavers your notion of consent doesn't matter in the first place. That's the fundamental contradiction of anarchy.
> over half the time that is an iPhone

What is it the other half of the time? I've been thinking of picking up a GRIII for my trip to Japan this summer, but I'm open to other ideas.

I personally almost always find phone photos to be woefully inadequate for even light editing, mostly because they turn into a blurry mess as soon as you crop even a little bit or want to print/look on a large screen.
911 or 9911 is usually a good shot too.
It's not for you then

FWIW I find the small form factor combined with the CPU and high-powered integrated GPU very appealing. I don't think I could build something with this form factor using off the shelf parts (someone correct me if I'm wrong)... it would end up needing a larger dedicated GPU.

I suspect their competition isn't actually people who build their own PCs, but people in the market for Mac Pros — they have a number of benefits over Apple here.
However, Musk doesn't actually lead DOGE, or work in DOGE, he's a special advisor to the president, so they're not really even his staffers.
> A small website operator can keep child pornography off their platform with ease. Facebook have a mountain to climb — regardless of their resources.

Facebook can actually train AI to detect CSAM, and is probably already doing so in cooperation with NCMEC and similar organisations/authorities across the world.

Your average small website? No chance. Obtaining training material actively is seriously illegal everywhere, and keeping material that others upload is just as bad in most jurisdictions.

The big guys get the toys, the small guys have to worry all the goddamn time if some pedos are going to use their forum or whatnot.
amazing what AI can do...
In Joann's case, they were competing with Michaels and Hobby Lobby, nor were they that differentiated from Michaels.
Maybe a humane, ethical mindset can't be created via a 3hours a week certificated lecture?
It shouldn't be surprising ?

It is the same problem people trying to open sourcing closed projects experience, there is all sorts of locked-in proprietary code which the developer and the customer only have the license to use but not share the source.

Even projects which from day one are staunchly open and built without direct commercial interests like government contractors need also suffer from this. The Linux kernel challenges for supporting ZFS or binary blob drivers in kernel/user space and so on are well known[1]

Paradoxically on one hand information wants to be free, and economics dictate that open source software will crowd out closed competitors over time, it is also expensive to open source a project and sometimes prohibitively so and that deters many managers and companies open sourcing their older tools etc, even if they would like to do so, involving legal and trying to find even the rights holder for each component can deter most managers.

If a government put requirements in contracts that the vendor should only use open source components in their entire dependency tree, it could drive the costs very high because a lot of those dependencies may not have equivalent open source ones or those lack features of the closed ones so would need budgets to flesh them out. In the short term and no legislature will accept that kind of additional expense, while in long term public will benefit.

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[1] yes kernel problems are largely a function of GPL, more permissive licenses like Apache 2 /MIT would not have, BSD variants after all had no challenges in supporting ZFS.

However a principled stance on public applications being open source by government would be closer to GPL than MIT in terms of licensing. Otherwise a vendor can just import the actual important parts as binary blobs "vendored" code and have some meaningless scaffolding in the open source component to comply.
"Document ranking reduces to these hard problems" would imply that document ranking is itself an instance of a certain group of hard problems. That's not what the article is saying.
I agree. There's a lot of options for very small PC cases that will fit a dedicated GPU and regular itx components (I'm running a midori 5L system, it's great, don't ignore the instruction to use loctite on the bolts you will have pain) - I don't think the desktop market needs this the same way the laptop market needed the earlier framework devices.
I would ordinarily be upset about this but in this case it is probably for the best as there is unfortunately a lot of islamophobic content on the site
You want all laws to be renewed each generation? Fine, how do you set the renewal date? What about the transition from one law to another? My point is there will always be someone that is subject to a law that was passed prior to them being of the age of consent for a particular law. No serious political theory defines the legitimacy of a law by 100% explicit consent by the governed. Instead the consent given is a broad transfer of the right to govern generally. That’s all that is necessary. I don’t need to consent to everything the police do to protect public safety if I have consented to their general mission.
Red tailed hawks are also unbelievably obnoxious. I had one nest in my yard a couple years back and they drove me nuts.
It already has moderators. But they'd need to know the details about the 17 types of illegal harm too. And someone would have to submit a yearly risk assessment and contact information to the regulator. And there's a children's access assessment. And there'd need to be a complaints procedure. Oh and a children's risk assessment. Plus whatever else is contained within the hundreds or thousands of pages of guidance.
Both ZFS and WinSvr offer "real" dedupe. One is on-write, which requires a significant amount of available memory, the other is on a defined schedule, which uses considerably less memory (300MB + 10MB/TB).

ZFS is great if you believe you'll exceed some threshold of space while writing. I don't personally plan my volumes with that in mind but rather make sure I have some amount of excess free space.

WinSvr allows you to disable dedupe if you want (don't know why you would) where as ZFS is a one-way street without exporting the data.

Both have pros and cons. I can live with the WinSvr cons while ZFS cons (memory) would be outside of my budget, or would have been at the particular time with the particular system.
More than TeX or SQLite?
I modified the behaviour so that tap and hold will straighten the card and magnify it. When you release it just goes back to the original position. Short tap plays the card.
I don't think anyone is arguing over that. What we're saying is that Joann's was a victim of private equity, which is orthogonal to that point.
Is there any way to provide care, education, and prosperity for hundreds of millions of people that is not complex?

We're software engineers. If anyone should understand the difference between domain complexity and added complexity, it should be us.
A big product category that is developing right now is hobbyists running LLMs on their own computers - more likely desktops rather than laptops. I presume they want to build expertise and market in this category, and that is why they think the compromise is worth it.
> You can’t make them go away by preventing existentially purposeless people from talking to each other.

At least you can limit the speed of radicalization. Every village used to have their village loon, he was known and ignored to ridiculed. But now all the loons talk to each other and constantly reinforce their bullshit, and on top of that they begin to draw in the normies.
Overall winner: Perplexity
I think most individuals are averse to usage based. Nobody likes not knowing what their bill is.
> DigiCert was ordered by the courts to not revoke certificates via a TRO.

... and DigiCert did not try to appeal the TRO.
Congrats on beating HP Z2 Mini G1a and Nvidia Project Digits to market with 128GB of unified memory for LLMs, with bonus Framework port flexibility and a better price than Apple equivalents.

Does the desktop have a discrete physical TPM chip (needed for DRTM support on Windows/Linux/Qubes)? At present, AMD's PSP firmware emulates a "mobile" fTPM that does not support SKINIT.

Would you consider a future model with AMD Ryzen AI Max "Pro" SoC, which has additional security features?
Very impressive.

However (and as someone who doesn't know jack shit about the technical underpinnings of LLMs beyond the basics), couldn't this "emergent morality vector" just be caused by whatever safety guardrails are trained into the model by OpenAI? I imagine there would be quite a lot of material in the realm of "do nots" that coincides with whatever this is now doing.
This can be done much faster and safer.

You can group all files into buckets, and as soon as a bucket is empty, discard it. If in the end there are still files in the same bucket, they are duplicates.

Initially all files are in the same bucket.

You now iterate over differentiators which given two files tell you whether they are maybe equal or definitely not equal. They become more and more costly but also more and more exact. You run the differentiator on all files in a bucket to split the bucket into finer equivalence classes.

For example:

* Differentiator 1 is the file size. It's really cheap, you only look at metadata, not the file contents.

* Differentiator 2 can be a hash over the first file block. Slower since you need to open every file, but still blazingly fast and O(1) in file size.

* Differentiator 3 can be a hash over the whole file. O(N) in file size but so precise that if you use a cryptographic hash then you're very unlikely to have false positives still.

* Differentiator 4 can compare files bit for bit. Whether that is really needed depends on how much you trust collision resistance of your chosen hash function. Don't discard this though. Git got bitten by this.
> Each spreadsheet has a header row, labeling the columns, like “price” and “quantity” and “name”. A database schema is simply the names of all the tabs, and each of those header rows.

This is also how I explain it to my relatives, I'm kind of surprised this analogy (one so direct that it's almost literal) didn't fly with the judges.

If database column names cannot be revealed, then shouldn't that mean the state is also able to redact the headers of all their spreadsheets?
Hurrah! AI won't destroy developer or DBA jobs
EdgeDB is now Gel and Postgres is the future
All of those things are buttons to click and ship with every piece of forum software from the last decade. No forum can survive without moderation because of spam so these tools and policies will already be in place on every website with user generated content.
This is so unbelievably lazy.

You even say this in reference to Eagles, which are a migratory species whose range crosses hemispheres, as if the contiguous United States is some small aside on that path.

“Don’t worry about the regional extinction of a migratory apex predator because they’re conveniently thriving in dumpsters behind the McDonalds in a town in Alaska.”
Antioxidants in fruits, flowers may counteract harmful effects of microplastics