skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
for sure. however p/e was over a 100 even before election etc. elon is running a ponzi scheme lying to investors for over a decade now about fsd and “robotaxis” and all kinds of other nonsense. it has been working and election propelled this nonsense as anyone worrying about regulation stop worrying as elon will be able to do whatever he wants. end of the day, it will all eventually come crashing down…
When the project started a Mach 3 strategic bomber that out of the reach of surface to air missiles, and that could hit multiple targets on its way, was a huge advantage. It was obsoleted by ICBMs and better antiaircraft weapons, but it was still a hugely successful development program. It just didn’t provide a useful plane, but helped develop all the parts for future ones.
Reasonably, not? With a sealed environment nearly all water could be reclaimed. But good callout that in practice such ore may be a feasible source of water for an expidition.
I don't see the issue being fixed: try to calculate investment of $1M with 20% annual interest for a loan with 0.5y duration. The calc says the income would be 0.
Notebooks App – The Perfect Mobile Word Processor
An inconspicuous app with a not-so-catchy name with a natural, moderate development history, good documentation and the claim to be the perfect tool for digital text in the Apple ecosystem (although there is also a Windows version). Works with a real flat file storage, which can be synchronized with various services, including WebDAV and explicitly also Nextcloud.
Romania Far-Right Candidate Georgescu Brought in for Questioning
Discussion about the breach at the time last year:

Disney's Internal Slack Breached? NullBulge Leaks 1.1 TiB of Data

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40955693
State of emergency declared after blackout plunges most of Chile into darkness
Whose planes are unimpressive to fly?
KISS should always be #1 engineering principle, in any engineering. In software one I can speak a bit, the unnecessary complexities always bite back. Maybe not the creator of them, but given company always. Or as one quite bright guy said - 'this should be as simple as possible, but not simpler'.

But its borderline boring, nothing shiny, nothing to sell new subscriptions or trainings for, nothing to get promotions for, things that just keep running (TM) slip out of focus. Look at how brilliant engineers handle boredom and routine - usually very, very badly. Its not what 'hackers' want to do, despite thats exactly what all normal companies want to get. Unprofessional for sure, but when most of potential and otherwise brilliant employees have issues with this, they tend to get some slack.
It's super handy to have a place to put everything. So I can make a dumb iOS app and just announce it on my blog, without having to think about landing pages, hosting etc etc. Just lowers the barrier
Can someone confirm the big O time complexities of

1. traditional Self-Attention;

2. Flash-Attention?

3. Any novel others?
Anything that improves normal people's lives is probably more noble than trying to take money from rich people.
thinking about that makes we want to see a performance comparison of WASM code running in Chicory vs running on other non-Java WASM hosts
Or, the targets of this law really are:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u2h-_BzLCcc
I'm author of Logdy: https://logdy.dev/ https://github.com/logdyhq/logdy-core
It comes as a precompiled binary you can download/deploy on the server and use to browse larger log files. I suggest you take a look!
National culture and character is not a "political" matter. It has nothing to do with "democracy". The national symbol of France is a woman leading a secular-masonic revolution with her tits hanging out, for God's sake.

What did they expect, moving to France???

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/La_Liber...
I wonder is this a sign of the times? I've (nearly ...) quit all social media and re-embraced my personal website. It's also under construction, but it's going to be the main place I update everything (work, personal, photos, updates etc.). I don't care if no one reads it. It's mine.
The big difference is that there are former house guests that will go back into the house, the door is never locked, take the painting, sell it on renowed art gallery, without giving anything back to you.

And this started to be a quite common practice nowadays.
I was so curious when i saw that the logo of my app was your favicon. Turns out your live (joke) website specifies <link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="http://localhost:3000/favicon.ico"/> and then shows the favicon from my local dev server ><
Philosophy Tube: Elon Musk (2018) [video]
The datura report vault is an old favorite when I am feeling bad about my life choices late at night.
That's important, and what gives it the edge over peers, but IMO it's more than that. It's mainly that this is a specialized forum (so its community already has something in common beyond the lowest common denominator of politics) and it's dedicated to highly technical subjects (so contributors here tend to be more literalist and, let's say, spectrum-tending, which really helps with text communication). That's how I explain it.
> The log4j incident hit me different, it COULD have easily been me.

That couldn't be me, because I don't use Java, PHP, Windows APIs, or `xdg-open`. The closest I come to Java-esque "include ALL THE BATTERIES" is the occasional Python script, but I won't use `http.server`. (Incidentally, I don't get very much done.)
True. I wrote some software that does these calculations for me besides the ones I already have on the paper. I confused two different graphs.

So, the final number would be ~0.6 GFLOPS (self-attention across heads) + ~0.15 GFLOPS (attention) + ~1 GFLOPS (ffwd) which in total give or take is ~2 GFLOPS per-layer.

Bandwidth-wise, the ~1GB number I previously gave was also wrong (llama3-70B has 8 KV heads). Now, with more precise calculations that figure is ~0.6 GB per-layer.

So, at batch_size=1, FP8 precision, 1024 tokens, during the decode phase with KV-cache, we need ~2GFLOPS of compute and ~0.6GB of bandwidth per each layer. Still looks compute-bound to me.
But it will.

https://www.vandenberg.spaceforce.mil/News/Article-Display/A...

(Starship hasn’t, either.)
Interesting idea. AI can't look at ads, so in the long run ads on informational material might die any you're going back to paying outright. I like it.
'Placebo' in the second one appears to have the meaning of 'sycophant' ('hielenlikker' in modern Dutch, see e.g. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twaalf_spreekwoorden ).
The book set has been circulating in very good PDF form for about 10 years.
Silly idiotic activism aside it's concerning that if someone working at Apple managed to slip in such a bold change into the OS then can a malicious group do the same?
Being able to cook is an underrated skill - I'm always pointing this out - but starting here, no matter how glamorous it seems, is like starting with Shakespeare in a first English class for foreigners.
That is a good point. The admin of creating small projects is as much hassle as the project and often requires more maintenance. I have the site ready to go, I just need to get into the habit of doing it I think.
People talk all the time about Java, while forgeting such king of polyglot bytecodes exist since 1958, there are others that would be quite educating to learn about instead of always using Java as an example.
It's simpler principles: cost of living is different in different countries, and politicians generally get votes for promising to spend money (raising the cost of living) or doing other COL-raising activities, rather than to save it (thus potentially lowering it).

There are no solutions; only trade-offs. And the US, like many first world countries, has picked trade-offs that raise the average COL.
Getting python running in the browser and getting to the point the packages people care about (torch, numpy etc) would work in the browser seems a huge leap.

You can't even package up a python application to work on an arbitrary machine with those libraries without a world of hurt and some quite laughable hacks, most distributed python software is started from a .bat file that installs a local copy of python not an .exe, the ones that are a single .exe (PyInstaller) unzip themselves into a temp folder every time they are run.

With how poor Python is at even distributing software written in it's home desktop environment to another machine it's going to be a large leap to get all that to work on another machine without in another environment. (Environment as in desktop/browser not venv wrapper)

Python seems so limited in where it can go by the ideological choice that it's installed into the base of the operating system rather than treating it's libraries as relative to it's scripts location. Entire ecosystem is built within wrappers just for this ideology.

Says a lot imho when it's easier to distribute a Javascript application to people than a Python one when JS was never intended to run outside a browser.
In my experience it is the exact reverse. You spend weeks configuring or tuning your orm calls when you ccould just spend a few hours optimizing your sql. There is a reason most orms has a raw SQL escape hatch.

The sweet spot is typesafe sql libraries. You write your raw sql and library deduces the return type from the database and gives you typesafety (sqlx is really good for this, sqlc for go is similar). It gives you almost all the benefits of ORMs with almost no downsides.
> And not a great one. Null handling and typesystem for example are way inferior to those of good programming languages

There is no mainstream programming language that I know off that offers what are table stakes for an RDBMS.

For example, even trivial SQL things like a constraint saying 'at least one of these two fields must be empty, but both can't be empty' is missing in the "advanced" type systems in mainstream languages.
Anecdotally blogging has helped me finish and even expand side projects.

I usually have ~10 drafts of different posts and many of them are basically "project logs" that I transform into a post over days/weeks/months.
There's also Logdy (https://github.com/logdyhq/logdy-core) that can work with raw files and comes with a UI as well in a single precompiled binary so no need for installs and setups. If you're looking for a simple solution for browsing log files with a web UI, this might be it!
(I'm the author)
BC more specifically I take it?
They are certainly not much different from WIT (WebAssembly Interface Types) IDL (+ bindings codegen).
More seriously is there a list of SPDX, OSI rejected licence anywhere ?
Announcement post: https://blog.cloudflare.com/build-ai-agents-on-cloudflare/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43173498)
New Camera Does Realtime Holographic Capture, No Coherent Light Required
thank you very much for this observation. every time i see a comment on here asking "how are we supposed to use this?" or such, in response to a post of a software tool, it makes me want to punch the screen. It's like they are trying to sound intelligent but instead end up coming across as insipid.
There is one further problem with this entire sub-discussion:
There are two mitigation strategies discussed:

- A: guaranteed SQL-injection-proof (SQL injection impossible.)
- B: Having non-obvious table-names and 'secure-defaults' (e.g. INFORMATIONSCHEMA disabled).

So, the original commenter says, he wants to _hide the schema_, so that B can protect him in case of A.
Well, failure of A is Amateur Hour. If you fail on A, I highly doubt you would have delivered correctly on B.
To write it out in plain text: If you have set up and manage an application with SQL injection errors, I have a hard time seeing you still taking care to disable /enable obscure security defaults, or take care to avoid obvious and trivial table names.

Just to put icing on the cake: As soon as you have an SQL injection attack,
a simple select * from randomTable or DESC randomTable would give you the table COLUMNS, so it utterly makes no sense to want to hide those column names - you have already lost them! (in the case you are arguing you need their protection in).
..Unless you argue that the guy making sql injection applications ALSO has set up a secure default to disallow select *..

In my experience, SQL injection is evidence of work of the sloppiest and immature nature; it was bad in 2003, and presumably still is.
> We're going to be caught with our pants down with B52s as the stains on our underwear.

Meanwhile: their entire imported food and oil supply has been easily blockaded by ancient, conventional systems.
Ask HN: Windows 11 development environment discontinued?
I'm happy to report that I don't have to work on Windows on a daily basis.
But for the few times I have to work on "legacy" WPF code I relied on [1],
which is "temporarily down" (since October '24).

Having used up my slmgr /rearm-s I am now confronted with the evaluation-has-expired hourly shutdowns.

Does anyone have a clue whether Microsoft is really having issues with providing a VM-image for their development environment or if they are just silently discontinuing this otherwise superb service?

tl;dr is [1] gone for good?

[1] https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines/
TBH I wouldn't expose unfiltered comment boxes on today's internet anyway. That's guaranteed web spam plus a small but non-zero security risk.

Maybe one where comments only show up after I manually approve each one.
Welllllll…

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4449294/
If you live in Europe, precious little is domestically produced (ground-to-consumer) any more. We depend on South and East Asia for almost everything, increasingly including raw materials (steels, plastics, etc) for the tiny amount of secondary manufacturing we still do.

Going without (or reusing, recycling) isn't a wholly harmful strategy but it does take a lot of willpower.
The only unbreakable law: Conway's Nightmare [video]
Definitely- the AI-summary part still needs a lot of work. Thanks for the feedback.
sounds like a fantastic case study!
Sources say this news is from 2 weeks ago.

Related discussions:

Trump will kill CHIPS Act by gutting NIST employees

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43152470

Trump Team Plans Mass Firings at Key Agency for AI and Chips

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43106478
I have a BS degree in Aerospace Engineering and from 1999 - 2006 I was job jumping quite a bit because I was miserable. All the jobs were boring.

I took a EMT Basic night class because my wife and I were getting into scuba diving and I wanted to be a dive master on boats during the weekend. I enjoyed EMT so much that I signed up for Paramedic class, not knowing what I was going to do with it, just did it. It was relatively cheap at the time and we were kid free at that time as well when I started. School was 15 months long.

As we were about ready to graduate PM school the county fire dept (FD) came in and said they would hire paramedics but you had to cross train to be a fire fighter as well. I was 36 y/o, we just had our 1st kid and I figured if I didn't do it then I'd never would and probably regret it so I got hired as a PM and then FD trained me for FF. This was 2006, hence the username FM2606 for fire-medic Feb 6, 2006 my hire date.

It didn't take long to see a bunch of firefighter's getting hurt, specifically back issues due to working and mainly from lifting stretchers with patients on them. I also have a chronic health issues and I figured if either or both of these issues became a problem and I couldn't work as a FF/PM we'd be screwed, so I decided to do an online master's degree in comp sci. Comp sci being my initial major out of highschool before I dropped out.

Fast foward to 2015, I finished my master's, had 2 kids and started working part time as a dev.

Fast forward again to 2020, I was about to turn 50 y/o, Covid hit and I was taken out of the field due to my health issues. I started applying for full time dev jobs. Landed one and then two years later switched to a bigger org.

No regrets on any of it. Becoming a FF/PM was one of the best career decisions of my life. I loved it (for the most part) but it was time to go.

I didn't have an "in". I think persistence paid off and plus I feel like I interview pretty good.

Feel free to ask me anything else.
It happens during speech to text so its unlikely LLM is involved.
Yes, and "I will please" is actually the original Latin meaning of "placebo" [0]

[0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/placebo
> and it costs them nothing to run

Assuming that the editor never removes/adds/changes anything then yeah, it's basically free. But since most editors are somewhat of a moving target, it does take a bit of maintenance to make sure everything continues to look right as things update.

The worst part with maintaining a theme/colorscheme is that you can't really rely on automated testing to catch most of the issues, unless you start doing snapshot testing comparing PNGs or similar, and is the biggest time-sink when a new editor version been released.
Well sure, a songs database is important. But song databases like https://acoustid.org/ exist, which let you look up songs that share the same audio "fingerprint" (https://github.com/acoustid/chromaprint). You need the full track to make that fingerprint.

Shazam can take only a tiny snippet, and can guess quite accurately just from that snippet. By comparison to AcoustID, which is also a song database (with an entirely different purpose) we can say that the "main ingredient" is Shazam's system for identifying songs from short snippets.
Anyone downvoting this has no respect for data analysis, math, or logic in general.
> that knowing SQL schema doesn't help the attacker.

Knowing the name of the service helps the attacker, knowing the name of government officials working at city hall helps attackers, knowing the legal description of what a parking ticket is helps attackers. If you are sued and decide you want to hack the government knowing the details of the suit against you helps you in your attack.

The barrier is not “any helpful information must be censored” the barrier is “don’t disclose passwords or code that would divulge backdoors” a schema cannot be that.
The same thought occurred to me, but then I realized we still don't know if his discovery was beneficial. I don't think we'll know that until humanity spreads life beyond Earth and avoids killing the biosphere in a number of innovative ways (bathing it in nuclear fire being perhaps the most relevant to this discussion). It's only possible to excuse the millions of lives that ended in pain and death during the many wars we've had since industrialization, itself driven by scientific understanding, if there really is light at the end of the tunnel. Otherwise, I can't help but think we'd have been better off living in small, low-tech hamlets at the teetering edge of the natural world, filled with wrong but comforting ideas about the heavens.
Heck, iPhone users AFAIK still can't just put their own .wav as a ringtone and need to pay Apple to use songs/sounds as ringtone.
Sorry, added the convolution theorem part in an edit after your comment.
The Performance Effects of Virtual-Machine Instruction Pointer Updates [pdf]
I thought these quite simple optimizations had a surprisingly large effect. I tend to write a lot of interpreters, but usually in higher level languages. Lots of different things can be viewed as interpreters, but a familiar example would be a parser combinator library. When performance becomes a concern, tricks like this can be quite handy!
That can only work, of course, until the American consumer is tapped out. The you get another crash.

America does have cost disease, but it’s from more than just politicians spending too much. It’s also things like NIMBYs restricting housing supply or the insane bureaucratic explosion in health care.
How does that affect me? (Ignoring the difference in copying software vs physical things)

If people are willing to pay him, that means he must be fulfilling some market demand that I'm not interested in dealing with, be it marketing, support or something else.
So for the comps section it looks for properties in a 1-mile radius. For the market data, that's based on your zipcode. Hope this helps.
That sounds like typical soon to be ex playbook
You’ll be able to run distills of DeepSeek R1. For the full model, you can network together multiple and use exo or llama.cpp RPC.

You can do image generation as well! AMD has some demos of this, and they are maturing PyTorch support to broaden the software ecosystem.
>Still, affordable ACA passed with -- I might add -- 'bipartisan' support

This is completely false. There was no bipartisan support. Literally the opposite.

Initial House Vote (H.R. 3962)
Democrats: 219 Yes, 39 No
Republicans: 1 Yes, 176 No

Final House Vote (H.R. 3590)
Democrats: 219 Yes, 34 No
Republicans: 0 Yes, 178 No

Senate Vote (H.R. 3590)
Democrats: 58 Yes, 0 No
Independents (Caucusing with Democrats): 2 Yes
Republicans: 0 Yes, 39 No
The Kubernetes "Shift Down" Security Paper
Could you share more on your local setup please?
It was an old idea that had been out of favor for two millennia.

> what Copernicus did was not that impresive since it was wrong

What a statement. Copernicus was more right than anyone else of his time. His model revolutionized astronomy and led to the development of modern physics.
Sounds like you want a Fuji.

Sony and “I don’t want to have edit RAW” don’t mix. Compactness and straight to Insta is more of a Fuji workflow.
> Like from a customer standpoint that's the worst industry

I guess it depends on the country, but generally journalists are some of the more principled workers when it comes to protecting the privacy of the people they interact with. Probably the industry where Signal has the highest amount of usage, if I would guess.

But again, really depends on the country. My perspective is probably biased by growing up in Sweden.
I got a message today saying the theme has malicious content and it was removed from my VS Code.
> Does that mean that the 8 bits version has numbers larger than this?

Yes. Not just a bit larger but an even more ridiculous leap. Notice that you're iterating exponents. That last one (7 bits) was 2^65536 so the next one (8 bits) will be 2^2^65536.

Python objects to 2^65536 complaining that the base 10 string to represent the integer contains more than 4300 digits so it gave up.

> Doesn't seem very useful

By that logic we should just use fixed point because who needs to work with numbers as large as 2^1023 (64 bit IEEE 754). These things aren't useful unless you're doing something that needs them, in which case they are. I could see the 5 or 6 bit variant of such an iterated scheme potentially being useful as an intermediary representation for certain machine learning applications.
Now we're glorifying the psychopath as the high priest of the tech bro oligarchy?