skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dungeon Keeper I had really good graphics for those PC requirements.

recommended system: 133mhz cpu with 16MB of ram

I even played it after II came out because it felt so snappy and fast
Greenpeace Is Going to Trial in $300M Suit That Poses Bankruptcy Risk
Apple will spend more than $500B in the U.S. over the next four years
https://archive.ph/EfwDl
But then you can't tell the difference between 0.12 and 0.00012.

Unless you're suggesting to use the strings "0" and "00012", at which point you could just use a byte string with the utf8 encoding of the value.
https://marketplace.gsafleet.gov/sales/landing
I don't think that link contracts anything. It just says that probability is a subset of ND but not vice versa. Which is true. But this is not the same as saying probability is not ND. Maybe I'm missing something...
He references Amazon as a land grab play - sure - but it was also a cash generation machine - I don't think Amazon raised a huge amount of capital - didn't it mostly funded growth via revenue?
I'm building a fast, lightweight 3D house modelling tool. Revit/AutoDesk are hugely cumbersome and expensive. Sketchup died when Trimble took over.

I'm glad to say it's gaining traction - here's an unsolicited post by Adam Wathan the creator of Tailwind: https://x.com/adamwathan/status/1889134672866582617

And here's the site: https://arcadium3d.com/
Every line is a potential bug (2009)
I don’t find it negative at all. You’re referring to the top voted comment on the OP, by “rzwitserloot”?

Whether it’s wrong or not, I can’t say. The comment seems open about being a bit speculative. It’s asking questions that I find interesting.
There's No Place for Test-Driven Development (TDD)
I thought about this too, if you need any help let me know, email in bio.
Is the system prompt "open" as the engineer claims in his tweet?

Seems we'd have more definitive reporting of the change if it was openly published and recieved two big changes, no?

edit: googling it seems it's not as there's various people discussing the versions they've managed to get Grok to spit out which would be redundant if it was open.

So the lead engineer is telling blatant lies when discussing a blatant, political bias applied to the product?
This is really what billions in investment can accomplish? Pathetic.
I've experienced similar problems in the past. Cloudflare decides that something about the ISP or software I'm using is not on some secret approved list and we all get a bag of coal for Christmas instead of the content we were asking for until we've jumped through whatever hoops it decided to set up this week. And I've heard way too many anecdotes from way too many people in real life to believe this is some sort of isolated or unusual event.

If Cloudflare is now taking a hit because it's become collateral damage to an over-generalised penalty system despite having done nothing wrong itself then it is difficult to find much sympathy. If this blocking exposes how much of the web we all use every day is now being routed via a single point of failure that has been operating largely as a law unto itself then that also seems like a positive step to me.
A true modern blast from the past!

Are you still using the original Claris Home Page software to maintain the website?
You clearly did not read the original post. It says that

1. US companies hosting EU data on EU servers are more vulnerable to US Govt demand, not less.

2. US-EU Privacy Shield does not exist anymore.
Unless you learn of a Bloomberg article before it goes out, you shouldn't.
I understand the sentiment, but as a Dutch person: The only thing I am more worried about than the government moving all our data to US clouds, is the government trying to do anything IT related themselves. They do not have the skill and have proven that over and over again in a long list of bungled projects.

I'd rather have my data end up with Google/Amazon/CIA than it ending up everywhere on the internet due to poorly configured DIY servers (and at twice the cost probably).
What about NVLink? Does it plays a role here?
"Here's the choice you have when you are faced with something new. You can take this technological advance and decide "This is a better way of doing the stuff I'm doing now and I can use this to continue on the path that I'm going", so that's staying in the pink plane , or you can say "This is not a better old thing, this is almost a new thing and I wonder what that new thing is trying to be" and if you do that there's a chance of actually perhaps gaining some incredible leverage over simply optimizing something that can't be optimized very much. - Kay

Current LLMs will change the world, but it won't be by completing pull requests quickly.

Although a "stargate level" LLM could accelerate pink plane traversal so much that you don't even need to find the correct usecase. LLM scaling will be the computer graphics scaling of this generation. In terms of intelligence gpt4 based o3 is but a postage stamp. As LLMs scale a picture of intelligence will emerge.
"Unregulated labor" is itself newspeak.
Apple built their castle in someone else's kingdom.

So, indeed, there's little they can do about it.

On the other hand, if they are forced to implement a backdoor then many people will have to know about it.
It’s funny, the same folks who complain about seeing political stuff constantly are the same ones saying that in every political thread. Almost like they aren’t being honest, just flagging stuff because they’re neoreactionaries trying to make the conversation disappear. It’s quite chilling.
People ask if I'm available and if I find the work interesting and they can pay me I say yes. I have never looked for work since starting and have slightly more requests than I can fulfill (almost everything through my network). For efficiency I do full days of work + ad-hoc meetings when necessary and no more than 2 days per week per client.

Note that I'm not always a CTO in the strictest sense of the word, I like doing complex technical challenges with software companies and sometimes just lead a complex project like implementing ISO 27001 or re-packaging a software suite for on-prem deployment.
> This is a good anecdote but most software engineering is not scripting. It’s getting waist (or neck) deep in a large codebase and many intricacies.

The agent I'm working on (RA.Aid) handles this by crawling and researching the codebase before doing any work. I ended up making the first version precisely because I was working on a larger monorepo project with lots of files, backend, api layer, app, etc.

So I think the LLMs can do it, but only if techniques are used to allow it to hone in on the specific information in a codebase that is relevant to a particular change.
my favorite example of trade routes influenced the spread of a word is "tea". the word for “tea” comes from either a variation of “cha” or a variation of “te,” reflecting distinct dialect pronunciations in China.

countries receiving tea overland (e.g., via the Silk Road) adopted forms of “cha,” while those trading by sea through Fujian ports adopted forms of “te.”

The project visualise perfectly this distinction.
> This does sound like you are saying that memory access time does NOT dominate during the decode phase. But it does.

Let's take llama3-8B for an example. GFLOPS needed for self-attention per-layer per-token is roughly 0.15 GFLOPS. For simplicity reasons let's assume that we store all our weights in FP8 precision, then our load memory-bandwidth required for the same is 0.05 GB. Store memory-bandwidth is negligible. If we expand this further to a 1k tokens context, this becomes ~180 GFLOPS and ~0.35 GB per-layer per-1k-ctx.

Assuming that our HW is H100, is this compute-bound or memory-bound?
My rhetorical claims are that we have the necessary wealth to ensure the safety of those we choose to incarcerate. That is objectively true, based on all available evidence, even if you disagree.
"Never" implies no, I guess. :-)
Science/Engineering Students Use GenAI Throughout Their Academic Journey
I wonder why )
I’ve been working on https://veloa.com (think twitch meets peloton for open hardware). Would be great to get a cofounder to help so if you’re into cycling and programming let’s have a chat!
The issue with `considering you don't deem it to be important` is that the statement presumes a particular attitude for the recipient which may or may not be true.

Maybe they were sick for a couple days. Or were recently on vacation (and you haven't been notified yet). Or dealing with some higher priority emergency. Or just genuinely missed the email for some reason (accidentally sent to spam folder?)

Also even if it is true that the recipient thinks it is unimportant, it doesn't follow that the thing should be done. If somebody sends me an email asking me whether they should swallow bubblegum (or something on that level of trivial stupidity), I'd think they shouldn't -- but probably wouldn't bother to respond, or at least I wouldn't write a lengthy email explaining why not.

I'm not even joking, these days I often scroll through social media with a mild kind of twisted amusement watching people do and believe in stupid things -- while I can reply to each of them explaining why they're wrong, it's a well-known fallacy due to xkcd386. Coworkers are admittedly "closer" and thus I probably should warn them about potential hazards, but if it's a large org and I was just among a long list of cc-ed people... I might decide not to bother.
As a reminder, LaLiga got caught spying their users with their app using the microphone and the geolocation to detect illegal emissions in bars. They got fined, applying the GDPR, with 250k euros. [0]

However, the last court order, removed the fine as they interpreted the AEPD (Spanish data protection agency, and the ones that fined LaLiga) did not showed any guidelines about this kind of stuff so it couldn't be fined retroactively. And that showing a "Mic in use" warning every time the app was using the microphone, as AEPD wanted, was "excessive". [1]

[0]: https://confilegal.com/20220505-la-an-ratifica-la-sancion-de...
[1]: https://www.cuatrecasas.com/es/spain/propiedad-intelectual/a...
They are valuable and they are also quite profitable (I am excluding "various charities" as that is too broad and fuzzy).

The fact that the state may provide the majority of these does not mean that they are not profitable as private ventures. Why are they profitable? Because they are deemed very valuable!
Meanwhile: "Apple Says It Will Add 20k Jobs, Spend $500B, Produce AI Servers in US"
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-24/apple-say...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43158168
When you double down on the incorrect reporting instead of retracting or correcting it, as Bloomberg did with their ludicrous spy chip story, it becomes FUD regardless of your initial intent.
I think the correct definition of A + B is

A + 0 = A (or A + 1 = Succ(A), if you insist 0∉ℕ)
A + Succ(B) = Succ(A) + B
Asus Announces Fragrance Mouse
Ask HN: What did you get done last week?
You’re not alone! I cleaned 100 square meter of wall in February from everything that was put there during last 70 years. From somehow modern plasterwork with probably asbestos to two inch thick dirt in other room. Waterproofing is brittle and does not function anymore, so it comes next and then replacing windows. All by myself, the costs of trades can’t be justified especially when quality isn’t there in most cases.
The /s ituation escalactes itself. Weakness towards totalitarians is the escalation.
Our state implemented a regulatory report website. It took 10 minutes to file a quarterly report thats basically 5 screens and 3 check boxes.

I emailed IT About it and they replied "try restarting your machine"

I then produced a video of the process for them.

I am 99.9% certain its just a poorly written SQL query, but no one responsible knows where that code is.
Pretty sure most modern compilers are multithreaded, and do exhibit a slew of practical nondeterminisms, which is how/why projects like Reproducible Builds were formed.
I live in Vienna, Austria, and I have a fascination with the typography of the signage all over the city.

There are very distinct examples of different era, with 19th-century, 20th-century, and 21st-century periods in full splendour. This can be seen in various Instagram groups, which alas are not as open/public as I would prefer. [1]

Do you see much older signage and typography in Vietnam? In the villages versus cities?

It always impresses on me that a city, itself, is an open book for typography.

I wonder if you would be aware of any similar projects to "Fonts of Vienna", but for your region of the world?

[1] - e.g. https://www.instagram.com/fontsofvienna/
Network Automation with Cue (2022)
For those who wonder ... it's somewhat likely that MLA mean Multi-head latent attention

https://verticalserve.medium.com/group-query-attention-58283...

https://paperswithcode.com/method/multi-head-attention
Looks like a question to me. Even has a little curly punctuation mark at the end.
Can someone give me a reason why paying an engineer a yearly salary would ensure that they contribute a truly valuable piece of software that the market will use? Why should money be given based on years of experience? Is experience really a good indicator of ability? I know many engineers with 10+ years of experience who are mediocre.

What happens if that well-paid engineer decides they no longer enjoy software development? What if they need more than a year to deliver results? What if they produce something useless for the market?

This Keynesian approach is full of unknowns—it looks great on paper, but we've already run these experiments in the past, and they simply didn’t work.
I'm trying to apply the idea of microadventures [1] to the internet, allowing folks to have nice 5 minute breaks on the internet. I don't know if it will catch on - but it's something I need to be honest, so I mainly built it for myself!

Currently, it's set up as a daily (short) newsletter with a different link each day, but I'm trying to learn marketing to figure out how to get others interested. I've enjoyed creating it, but would like to see if others like it before moving on to a new project. Link to project: https://www.thedailydetour.co.uk/

[1] https://alastairhumphreys.com/microadventures-3/
i wonder how long until google translate just swaps out for gemini

LLMs are so much better at this

(chatgpt 4o gave these answers:

English: folk

French: peuple

German: Volk

Dutch: volk

Italian: popolo

Danish: folk

)
Only ones I know of are ZFS and BTRFS.

However, duckling the web got this workaround for EXT4:

https://serverfault.com/a/1153319

i.e. use device mapping or LVM setup to do the data integrity check at the block level, under the filesystem.
Iirc I thought they were a bit disingenuous.

In theory the change in electric field will induce a small current in the other wire, and their magical science lamp turns on at any non-zero electricity. Whether the wires are connected or not at the far end doesn’t matter.

They never clarified how strong the other current would be.
> And else there's always online multiplayer, but that's not for everyone.

Civ's multiplayer is traditionally very poor (frequent crashes, desyncs etc), which is a big reason why there's such demand for good AI, moreso than other games.
Neither defprotocol nor deftype introduce static typing into Clojure. Errors in their usage are not checked statically and are only discovered at runtime.
Of course people care about 'privacy'. It would be more interesting if the poll asked something like "Do you care more about privacy or what a Kardashian had for breakfast?"
Until like a year ago, thunderbird froze the whole UI when fetching mail
A few things from the Dwarkesh interview with Satya:

* He sees data center leases getting cheaper in near future due to everyone building

* He’s investing big in AI, but in every year there needs to be a rough balance between capacity and need for capacity

* He doesn’t necessarily believe in fast takeoff AGI (just yet)

* Even if there is fast takeoff AGI, he thinks human messiness will slow implementation

* It won’t be a winner-take-all market and there will be plenty of time to scale up capacity and still be a major player
"Years later, Bloomberg doubles down on disputed Supermicro supply chain hack story" - https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/years-later-bloom...
A fair number of YouTubers also have their own web sites, social media accounts, or other easy-ish ways to comment.
Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value - https://futurism.com/microsoft-ceo-ai-generating-no-value

Bit of a click bait title, but it certainly seems like the realization is setting in that the hype has exceeded near term realistic expectations and some are walking back claims (for whatever reason; honesty, derisking against investor securities suits, poor capital allocation, etc).

Nadella appears to be the adult in the room, which is somewhat refreshing considering the broad over exuberance.
Orange and Vodafone are also implementing the blocking but users are not noticing because they are doing it wrong: instead of blackholing the IPs or only blocking when connecting through ECH, they are blocking by DPI the access when using the IP address as the SNI/Host header.

# curl http://104.21.16.1
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache"><META HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" CONTENT="-1"><html>Por causas ajenas a Vodafone, esta web no est� disponible</html>
# curl http://104.21.16.1 --header "Host: blockedsite.com"
error code: 1001

(1001 is the expected output from Cloudflare)

Which is really useless, but I guess fulfills the court order (pandereta meets undefined specifications).
I feel the same about capital controls and crypto

People say “it’s used for money laundering” as if we’re supposed to be on China’s side about restricting people’s ability to move money out of the country over certain amounts

Like, oh you’re against freedom from a repressive regime? Or oh you’re only against it when it’s the American government restricting US citizens flow of capital? like I’m confused, pick a lane

Capital controls are obsoleted under any context
So if you want strings, you need to guess what encoding was used or store the encoding in another field? I don't think that makes it a much nicer format. I do like the ability to store byte strings directly.
Great work any plans to integrate with pyT or TF I wonder?

(Showing my lack of breadth of knowledge in the ecosystem (s))
Lol, that place is causing so many worldwide horrors misrepresenting AI I would't give sama an answer to an email at this point.
Didn't know Welsh is bit challenging. e.g. awareness in Welsh is "ymwybyddiaeth", I'm sorry what?

Other than that, great implementation.
More context: Telefónica used one of its group companies to file a complaint against itself and all other telecom operators in Spain, instead of filing a complaint against Cloudflare. As the operators, including the plaintiff Telefónica, acknowledge and accept the claims, the judge granted the measures.
Freelancing: How I found clients, part 1
I’m working on a parser + dashboard for bank / cc / investment statements.

You feed in your docs and you get a dashboard that shows your categorized “flow” of money (think sankey, stacked bar), as well as some simple grouping tools (Show me all grocery spends on my credit card by month.

I initially wrote it in Haskell, but I don’t really know Haskell and I didn’t feel very productive with the stack, so I’m reworking it in something more familiar now.
Honestly, I hate both parties here so much. I just wanted to say that Cloudflare is the biggest problem I have at work when trying to detect and take-down phishing websites. They do not collaborate with official entities and keep protecting malicious actors. I could not care less about someone giving them problems.
I'm in the early stages of working on a Kubernetes cost monitoring solution.

The current solutions out there are too expensive and not self-serve.

If anybody else has this problem, I'd love to chat with you.
Since ProtonMail was mentioned in a context, I wonder what is the fate of the Proton infrastructure in UK, also having encrypted storage of various items similar to iCloud. And the alike (Tresorit, ...). Are they the next?

Although it is only partially parallel topic but my current pet peeve about the generic true uninterest of data safety in the UK is the practice of property agents requesting full set of data only necessary at the time of contract - or not even then, like the name of your children - just to start talk about viewing a rental property. Not for the viewing, not for applying for tenancy, no, before even talking about if there is available timeslots for viewing. First reply from them: fill this (very long) form. Some even ask for recent credit check reports uploaded on sending in interest for viewing opportunities. And people comply on masses without apparent hesitation. Years of degrading practice (8 years ago it was much different and less privacy intrusive) means several hundrends of thousands (millions?) people's deep personal data is flowing around in unencrypted emails or forms stored in the third party system (not even at the property agents) the agents dedicate for this purpose, very very fragmented in procedure and solutions and granularity. Apparently there is no objection of the masses as this is a practice property agents escalated to this level claiming "industry practice" when trying to complain. Feels like being alone, refusing, then being refused - I know, I am problematic not handing over all my data on first ask. I wonder what the Information Commissioner's Office will say about the matter. I reported one of the many cases. Only out of curiosity as the matter will be mute not only because of the 16 weeks turnaround for comment - 8 are already passed, and by then we will be out of the UK, for other reasons too - which is awfully slow for anyone affected but by the extent of uninterest for privacy from the UK masses. Property agents are just one tiny part of the pattern actually, asking for your data as the first move is a generic thing from almost all services I came accross. A representative example: - How much would this cost? - What is your name, phone number, address and email address? - the question comes instead of an answer despite that the price depends not the slightest on those data. And this is working this way for very long time. I have a bit of scepticism about if the UK population would ever fight back - risking put into the group of pedofiles by public opinion. I can imagine more arguing for it. As 'Good people have nothing to hide' principle. The "Get Involved" links are for the idealistic ones alone.
> The title of the post isn't asking *HN users* a question
Irrelevant, but just in case it rings any nostalgic bells, when I see graphics like that I remember Dink Smallwood!!! What a nice game that was!!
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Mostly just trying to get back into game development after a 15 year hiatus. Trying to task myself with recreated some portion of a game I've been playing recently. This month it's the fishing mini game from Dredge. Last month it was a simple inventory system. I've nothing to share really, I'd hoped to do a few blog posts on it, but having a 17 month old takes up most of your spare time
I'm building a silly little script to install Ubuntu and the grub partition on encrpyted RAID1 arrays.
remotely related:

libinput (handles touchpad input in most Linux distributions) now supports three-finger dragging [0].

[0] https://who-t.blogspot.com/2025/02/libinput-and-3-finger-dra...
Can you explain why is Yaml cancerous
(Genuine question)

I have always preferred (even without thinking) to use configuration files as Yaml and kept Json for interprocess communication
Not precisely, but I think my roommate in high school played that game quite a bit! If you sign up for my newsletter you'll get some info about the games that directly influenced Botnet of Ares.