skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My first "web app" used frames, it was good times. Some time later I used backbone.js, and while it was still good times, it did get a lot more complicated (e.g. having to manually disconnect and reconnect 'child' elements when the main element re-rendered so that they would retain their event handlers).
Firstly, Linux isn't made for free by hobbyists. The biggest contributors are profitable, largely American tech companies. Intel, AMD, even Microsoft is now a contributor.

Secondly, the idea that you can just replace the entire software industry with Linux is... Are there even words to describe this? Linux is just an operating system. You can't replace a whole industry with "a couple of cheap packages."
Same... We used <iframe>.
I'm guessing this date was chosen due to some form of Zen5 embargo, as I remeber other laptop manufacturers and Clevo resellers also hinting at unveiling new products this week, or soon (tm) after.
Should it really be up to the Website designer to decide?

On Firefox I have the "Send Link to Device" context action that allow me to open a link on my Phone or Desktop.
I was wondering about building a payment SMS notification -> Tracking app.

It would be more real-time and give me heartaches everytime I go out of budget :D:D:D
Interesting but for $200/m and up I need to understand what exactly I am getting lover an open source project like ElizaOS/AI16z
There's a book: "Why Fish Don't Exist" which is pretty good. Evolutionary, my understanding is that things are usually named after their ancestry (phylogenetically?), while fish are basically... "have fish shape and is in water" which becomes awkward. Lungfish and coelacanths are a lot closely related to humans than to salmon.
Mind citing?
Civ 5&6 apply zone of control well, I think: you are able to move past enemies, but it takes all of the unit's move points. So the advancing is slow and dangerous.
There is another way: make the road feel fast. Thankfully it doesn't need to be via bad road surfaces or horrible things like speed bumps that only encourage boy racers and reward large vehicles, making the road narrower with high kerbs or other physical obstacles force drivers to drive slowly and pay attention, otherwise they'll physically damage their vehicle. In a way it evens the playing field, currently cars can kill you, but they are untouchable, there are no consequences for speeding or being distracted. The main downside I can think of is the route becomes difficult for emergency vehicles to use, but with the saved space there could be a dedicated lane for public vehicles.
We bought a 50 year old house that has never been touched since the year it was build. With the costs of trades being through the roof, I'm trying to do as much as possible myself - currently demoing the house to the studs (if it had studs, it's actually all brick walls and concrete floors).

In my off-hours, I'm working on an old school pixel art RPG, but in 3D.

Oh, and finally I'm also working on finding a new job :-(
Minor nitpick: browsers used _blank as a special directive to open the link in a new “window”, not a tab. Browsers didn’t have tabs back then, well other than Opera 4.x which was a paid software which never cracked 3% marketshare.
This is always a challenge in video games; the goal of enemy AI is not to beat you, but to make for an interesting and fun challenge.

I'm sure there's a community where they build alternative enemy computer players though. And else there's always online multiplayer, but that's not for everyone.
You might be right.

The US might always dominate software (which could turn out to have no moat) and China might always dominate manufacturing.

But neither industrialized manufacturing or software even existed 200 years ago. I'm pretty sure we haven't hit the final destination in human history where there's no problems left to solve.

There's this one weird "AI" thing people are talking about. Could be something people find useful you could work on?
Could you elaborate on that? How come it requires being an insider? What constitutes an insider?
My local European ISP provided me /64 IPv6 addresses since at least 2020 and had so called sticky IPv4 addresses since at last 1999. They were sticky because they did not change for years if the box was connected within 15 min.

This was possible because motivated individuals held technical positions in the ISP while the management has been totally incompetent and was later jugged outright corrupt.

Because of corrupt management and public scandals, my ISP has been sold to Orange. I am afraid this will end the 25 years of technical excellence as well.
Just out of curiousity, do you signal that you are going to turn left when you slow down compared to the average of the other drivers?
the difference being that with integers you never end up with rounding errors when doing addition subtraction or multiplication (only division)
Possibly illegal, depending on where you live.
Nothing digitally can currently really prosper in Germany if it isn't an already completely finished consumer product (preferably as dumb as possible). There is capitalism, but there is no venture here. Although investors probably still see it differently, the average user has some form of primordial fear while engaging with any digital technology.

Exception is R&D for the most part, but here these tendencies seem to be growing as well. Insane amounts of money are wasted to evade tech as much as possible.

This has changed from only a decade ago where there was much more enthusiasm for tech. Now people are annoyed by it.
Probably the most niche thing I have ever created, but I recently worked on taking the books and ratings from Patrick Collison's Bookshelf (https://patrickcollison.com/bookshelf) and putting them in a spreadsheet with links to buy them.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11jLH3UISmRId_gTFXiTQ...
I'd think that as long as you blur faces and license tags, would be there anything for someone to complain?
I agree from a retoucher's perspective I love the visual harmony
from my travel experiences with my laptop

linux + firefox + less developed country ISP = endless captcha loop or straight up ban
"Finding a job now is harder than any time since the pandemic" - https://www.marketwatch.com/story/finding-a-job-now-is-harde...

"IT job market is still shrinking" - https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/15/it_job_market/

"Why does getting a job in tech suck right now?" - https://ryxcommar.com/2024/08/17/why-does-getting-a-job-in-t...
Profitable and valuable are synonymous. If something is more valuable than the inputs used to make it, then it is profitable to make it.

Things being clever, or righteous, or "fantastic" (whatever that means) doesn't mean that people actually value them. That isn't what value means. Something is more valuable if you would give up more to have it. It is less valuable if you would give up less to have it.

Basically, no, it is in fact definitionally true, not blinkered, and has nothing to do with America. All of Europe is just as capitalist as America, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
Yeah. That's the implementation issue. It'd need to go top->down somehow.

And I wouldn't say nobody cares. It's just that a lot of what's happening is quite technical for normal people and in many countries you can't even really do much about it. At this point you're getting bent over by your government, other peoples governments, awkward techbros with visions, weirdos with business plans, etc..
Apologize if I got it wrong, but:

> MLA, FlashAttention and similar optimizations will provide the benefits only when memory access time dominates

> Those would be [...] not the decode phase

This does sound like you are saying that memory access time does NOT dominate during the decode phase. But it does.

Reading your quotes, it looks like maybe you are talking about GPU utilization issues? (i.e. not launching enough threads). Due to the parallelization strategy of the original FA it indeed does not even keep the GPU busy if q*bs is too small. But this is not an inherent limitation of FA-style kernels and can be solved and people did solve it. Or you simply batch more. Now you can keep the GPUs busy at 100% waiting for memory access, but memory access time still dominates, hence "memory-access-bound". And here comes MLA.

> FWIW there are certainly model shapes that are compute-bound in the decode phase

Yeah. But so far all I read don't really work ("work" means being at least just slightly worse than alternatives) under same wall-clock time compute budget. Do you have any pointer to a working example, even on smaller 3B-ish models?
I spent a lot of time objectively evaluating languages for a new project I built several years ago. Elixir won out. It has now been 12 years and I still believe Elixir was the right choice for the following reasons (this list is not exhaustive):

BEAM handles concurrency better than the JVM.

Elixir threads are implemented using private memory where Clojure uses public memory.

Mix is superior to Clojure’s tooling.

Elixir is easier to learn and write.

OTP is fantastic.

Phoenix is an excellent web framework.
Demo yes, feel free to reach out if you'd be willing to pay as I'm slowly starting to look for beta customers. You can also ask me to be put on the waiting list. Downloadable: I think in about two months.
> The vast vast vast majority of companies do not sell a product below-cost.

Maybe in terms of the number of companies, but in terms of percentage of market size, I'm not sure. Literally the entire social media adjacent market at the moment, including instant messaging is about offering a service below cost, killing any chance of non ad supported platforms.

> And if the customers are not willing to pay more, it sounds like they're actually happy with the current offering and that's not an area that your fellow humans would find useful for you to work on.

Not necessarily. This would be true in a world of spherical cows and rational consumers, but that's never going to be the case. There's other considerations like walled garden lock-in and network effects that consumers have no control over.

> Yes, one of the responsibilities of a founder is fundraising. If you can't sell people on investing in your vision that is...a somewhat bad sign.

So it's not about "just go out and build a competitor", but something much more complex, as reality usually is. Even access to venture capital can differ by orders of magnitude between markets.
That's definitely the right name for periodic reminders right. Years ago I wrote an API called remindme which was supposed to provide pings for when you were in proximity to a location and it would remind you if you needed to pay someone, buy something, do something, etc. Never went anywhere but totally unrelated to this.

The Quran itself is referred to as the reminder. Because it's supposed to remind us of why we're here, our purpose, who made us, and all that.
> 3. Democratic backsliding removes you rights in the Alliance, and, can proportionally lead to outright expulsion.

Ok, so the alliance is a non starter then.

The invalidation of the result of the referendum in France related to the EU constitution in 2005 by the signing of the Lisbon treaty a year or so later was a clear demonstration that the will of the people was not respected.

The fact that the EU is pushing for the Chat Control law in order to access all your data on your phone, emails, pictures of your loved ones at all times without any reasonable causes/warrants is clearly an attempt to muzzle the population.

Then there is the invalidation of the Romanian election not long ago which was done under the guise of protecting democracy.

Then we can talk about the different parties in power in France /Germany and elsewhere who refuse to work with right wing parties that have been elected fair and square in parliament once again under the guise of protecting democracy and therefore are sending a clear signal that no matter who you vote for, the mainstream parties will refuse to listen/compromise and prefer to brand everyone who do not agree with them as Nazi extremists.

I thought that democracy was that the will of the people was to be respected but it turns out that ignoring 20 to 30% of your population because you don't agree with them is just easier.

To think that the EU has the gall to give lessons of democracy to authoritarian regimes....
It's not only battery technology.

I'm in chip design and they are dominating academic research in this area for the last 5-6 years, together with Korea and Taiwan. It's 70% China now and their research is good.
Glaciers Worldwide Are Melting Faster Causing Sea Levels to Rise More
Seems like a typical mythos of most political movements these days, doesn't it? E.g., "the far-right is our greatest threat". And it's said that e.g., Russia themselves is no great threat, they're basically an incompetent tinpot dictatorship with a ramshackle military easily beaten by us / our allies. It is the traitors within who "collude with Putin" who are the real problem.
Psychotherapy, rather, as the natural evolution of prompting.
https://text-message.blogs.archives.gov/2022/08/25/an-indige... contains paperwork from a legal case from 1974. Given that a lot of this happened back then, I don't think you'll find any "recent reputable" sources, but are you willing to accept older material?

There's also https://repository.lsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2129&...
You have it backwards.

Training and prefill are compute bound. Decode is memory bound. FlashAttention massively increases the arithmetic intensity of naive MHA, such that you can remain compute bound at lower batch sizes during decode.
I hadn't heard of the term "Fermi velocity", but if it is the classical velocity derived from the Fermi energy, that should only be a lower bound on the average speed of the electrons in the metal.

That said, I don't remember the orders of magnitude here, the relevant question being how cold "room temperature" is with respect to the Fermi level -- a quick Google suggests quite cold, in which case the Fermi velocity should be a very good approximation.

In which case, it's interesting to realise that the motion of the electron gas comes mainly from Pauli exclusion rather than thermal noise! It's not a result I would have expected.
So "only" the biggest broadband provider in the country :)

I've seen reports that Orange may have imposed the block as well, which is the #2 provider. Definitely a nontrivial slice of the population
A cash business can have quick linear growth, whereas an equity business will have slower but exponential growth.

...or not. Businesses do fail. A cash business and an equity business are just as likely to fail as one another. Working in the cash business means you're realising the value when it happens, rather than 'banking' it to realise a compounded value later. If the business fails for any reason you'll have been much better off working in the cash business. This is the downside risk of working for equity.
frameset was already there in 1997, when iframe was just a proposal

https://www.w3.org/TR/WD-frames-970331
Even deepseek r1 (70b) still flubs things ... Maybe if I try 640b but yeah I don't have the ram...
> a couple of hundred megawatts.

So, something approximating an entire region or 10~100k H100s.
Not surprised. You need massive amounts of compute for training LLMs from scratch, but practical uses of LLMs are increasingly focused on using existing models with minimal or no tweaks, which requires far less computing power.
> SHOWER THOUGHT definition: a sudden idea that occurs to a person during an unconnected mundane activity

https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/shower-...
>But there is an existing funding ecosystem for small businesses that don't expect to get big

I would guess it's mostly relatives and/or savings. Banks aren't interested unless you have some kind of guarantee you can borrow against.
You just literally supported my point that people talk about it secretly. They talk about VPN anonymously and/or using various terms that are not "VPN" or its Mandarin equivalent.

The term you gave as "circumvent the GFW" actually literally means "climb over the wall". Guess which one is illegal. Yes double meaning words are famous in PRC just like in USSR and this basically illustrates what I mean. You need to be in the know, in the circle or bubble to even understand what is talked about

> in mainland chatgroups and websites ... no one really bats an eyelid when talking about it

Techies talk techie things. There are more non techies than techies. My point is from police's perspective 90% of the people they deal with don't use VPN.
A lot of older dot-coms (e.g. Meetup, Foursquare, Quora) could have gone this route instead of the VC model. Meetup was recently bought by an Italian company (Bending Spoons) which basically has the Mittelstand model.
Russia struggles as well. habr.ru is full of stories about rebranded western software and hardware sold at exorbitant prices with fake certificate of local produce )
That's a very wrong reading of history. Our democracies didn't "start good", slavery was legal, workers had very few rights and strikes were brutally broken by a police whose only job was to protect the interests of the aristocracy turned bourgeoisie. The weight of a country's law book is no indication of the freedom of its citizen.

Our period of instability has been brought upon by a discontent stemming from ever increasing economic inequalities. This isn't the first time it happens: look at the 30s. Europe turned to fascism and was demolished by pointless wars, America turned to social democracy with FDR and the new deal, and became the first hyperpower.
Trivially demonstrated by immediate downvotes for posting anything left critical on HN
> Why is it that some former colonies of this power have done exceptionally well for themselves

Like which ones? Sure, the US (being former colonies) is doing exceptionally well, but off the backs of others.
FWIW as someone who "NOOO DOESN'T WANT TO DOWNLOAD 200MB[0] PYTORCH"s i'm glad for those who make alternative minimal/no-dependency stacks that are based on C/C++, like ggml.

[0] 200MB is actually a very generous number, i tried to download some AI thing via pip3 the other day and it wanted 600MB or so of CUDA stuff. Meanwhile i do not even have an Nvidia GPU.
In my product we have a photo app and for normal people it is just easier to have the transferred to the phone than to use a desktop computer (without a camera) to grab a picture.

We use QR codes to transfer the user - a solution would need to be as simple as that (Ie. not requiring the user to be logged in on the same browser or other shenanigans).

The current solution is a hasle, but works well - I can't envision how a target="_mobile" should solve this? Especially since you need to transfer authentication also.
I'm starting to think about a similar thing for noise. The noise of motor vehicles seems to be out of control and I am sure it is causing misery for the majority of the population who have to live near roads. I reckon a single loud motorcycle could disturb tens of thousands of people, potentially waking or startling them, raising blood pressure etc. in a single 10 minute trip. Unfortunately I think awareness of this problem is even worse than speed.
I'm working on valuation models for wholesale electricity trading of flexibility assets (batteries, basically).

Currently I'm restructuring a big chunk of the code for readability, trying to apply good refactoring practices (work in small bits).

After a lot of frustrating experiences with Python linear optimization DSLs, I'm thinking of writing my own at some point as a side-project :)
If I ws an internet psychiatrist I'd say she went mad.
Still a lot of thinking to be done here to be honest. I've built a very fast canvas with zoom-to-code, parsing the git history, code age overlays etc, but understanding the architecture and connections is the next big thing I have to figure out. Plenty of ideas though!
You can easily replace simple apps like Facebook, WhatsApp or Snapchat with a couple of cheap packages.

Somebody remember elgg? Or buddypress? None of these mega cooperations have software that can't easily be copied.
If you are in a tech savvy bubble everyone uses VPN. Sometimes because your job requires it (which makes it legal). Outside of it no regular person uses VPN. Guess which circle has more people.

Police is a bad example because they obviously can do whatever they want that's not even a question. What are they gonna do put themselves behind bars?
Or just '123' & '45'?
It's probably more of cultural difference. It's common in the US to build companies like a lot of houses are build in the US.

In the US houses are often build from wood and plaster and have a high chance of being knocked down by a storm. Companies in the US are often build on a ton of dept (and never making a profit is not considered "weird") and have a high chance of being knocked down by a storm.

In Europe people like to build houses from brick and concrete. Companies in Europe are often expected to be profitable at some point and be able to wither a storm.
>This is a great read and exactly where I think the global economy is going - instead of large companies you'll have millions of medium sized businesses run by small teams still making a bit of a dent in their own niche universe.

I'd love to see that but the trend is in the opposite direction. It's not just technology either, there has been consolidation across most industries.
I'm not saying that you can replace the entire software industry by Linux, but you can replace Windows with Linux, you can build simple locally run software to replace many of the well-known services, you can put some efforts into creating local clones with greater adaptability to match the biggest SaaS services, etc.

Basically, to go after the easy 90%. Then we go from a world with data in the cloud, massive advertisement statistics gathering etc., to a world where people mostly use computers to solve concrete physical problems in their environment and where networks are distributed, e-mail like or like a facebook where every participant stores a substantial amount of information locally in plaintext and has it interpreted by a desktop app, where he has no feed with the content decided by others, but chooses what he has the computer show him, etc.

Just look at telecom. How much complexity in the protocols isn't there just because people have to have their resource usage monitored so they can be billed for it, and for this to be settled between telecom companies?

The software to kill SaaS and Facebook might be so simple that a couple of people could write it by themselves. It's like that local government 'if you have regional govt they decide it all in Nottingham probably in a couple of meetings. Complete amateurs.' That's where I think we could go, but with software instead of the UK civil service.

It also fits really with with the coming of LLMs etc. You can just store of a lot stuff in plain text and have this super-fast reader process it all. Instead of lots of software, just huge amounts of plaintext that the machine can understand.
>Reading between the lines, this highlights an inherent bias in the majority of American companies to provide service to extract value as opposed to providing service for public benefit.

American businesses do the same thing businesses do anywhere: try to generate more valuable products and services than they consume. It really is as simple as that. No value is "extracted" when you sell bread for more than it cost to buy flour, yeast, water, labour, and space to work. The idea that it is "extractive" screams to me of the lump of labour/labour theory of value idea, which is not just wrong but incoherent. Maybe that is not what you meant, but it is common for communists to claim that "all profit is extracted from workers' labour" and similar silly rubbish.
Here, have some fresh NOLF-inspired tunes while you revisit (I had Ba De Dum stuck in my head, lol):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wry0IKvcjF4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22CbAsfAV6M