skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or a startup based on using cryogenic hibernation chambers on ships to provide shift-changes, or ultra-low-cost travel... after someone else finishes inventing them.
AKA there is none. Remember that this comes from the company that gives police access to video footage without a warrant. You should expect as much privacy as when taking a dump in a public park. They won't put that in the privacy section of the TOS, though.
Diffusion based language model open access from Inception labs
No affiliation. Damn this thing is fast. Seems to use some sort of diffusion based mode combined with some sort of sequencing — text still flows in sequentially, just realllly quickly.
The article in question is published on Google's blog. Has Google resolved memory safety issues in its C++ code base? Did G port their code base to Rust or some other memsafe language? What's preventing them from doing that by themselves?

What's preventing Microsoft, or Apple, or the coagulate Linux kernel team, or any other kernel team, from adopting memsafe technology or practice by themselves for themselves?

The last thing we need are what are evidently incompetent organizations that can't take care of their own products making standards, or useless academics making standards to try to force other people to follow rules because they know better than everyone else.

If the team that designed and implemented KeyKos, or that designed Erlang, were pushing for standardized definitions or levels of memory safety, it would be less ridiculous.

At the same time, consciousness of security issues and memory safety has been growing quickly, and memory safety in programming languages has literally exploded in importance. It's treated in every new PL I've seen.

Putting pressure on big companies to fix their awful products is fine. No pressure needs to be applied to the rest of the industry, because it's already outpacing all of the producing entities that are calling for standards.
We don’t have a way to up and down vote agreement. We can only vote on whether a comment should be displayed. That’s not engagement, it’s a fundamentally different concept.
Ignore this - url fat fingered
Unfortunate that this is how pessimistic a startup forum is, but it’s no fault of yours and I don’t think you’re wrong.
Why would anyone pay to run Ethernet in their home in this day and age?
While they might be theoretically pleasing, I've had trouble seeing the appeal of quaternions for 3D graphics. Recently I was working on some 3D-rendering code from scratch for a project, and I looked into using quaternions for rotation, only to scratch my head at how fiddly they were to apply to vectors. (Also, many resources talking about them focus on their abstract properties at the expense of actual examples, which is annoying when I'm just trying to implement them.)

I had a much simpler time just using rotation matrices for everything. They're not much more difficult to compose, they're trivial to apply to vectors, and they can be easily understood in terms of their row and column vectors. (For my project in particular, I really enjoyed the property of easily knowing which octants the basis vectors are mapped to.)

Where are the practical areas where quaternions shine? Are they just useful for the slerp operations that everyone points at, or are there other situations where they're better than rotation matrices?
Yep. I was referring to newspapers with some kind of journalistic integrity. Which the Washington Post used to be.
I know there's computer illiterate millennials. If you could turn it into a literacy ranking or percentage my argument is that more millennials (by a large margin) are computer literate than any other generation.
That’s an interesting comment. I often see this repeated - that HN as a whole leans libertarian - but I don’t see it personally. Just as many people will jump in to point out that market failures are common for reasons of monopolistic behaviour, regulatory capture, etc, as will people regurgitating Reagan, Thatcher and Thiel.

Whoops, gave away my political leanings.
EPLB: Expert Parallelism Load Balancer
> Not every issue has two equal “sides.” Does every article about vaccine efficacy demand an anti-vax counter?

Any topic of current controversy, like vaccines, should have a counter. Even if you find it disagreeable.
Anything using the Apple Vision framework is fast and surprisingly accurate:

https://github.com/bytefer/macos-vision-ocr
Glad I saw I wasn't the only one who found this. Nice easter egg indeed!!
A live diffusion language model, now in open access. I have no affiliation — man this thing is fassst. Worth playing around with for sure. They claim 10x speed up and 2x quality/size over transformer llms.
Enhancing functions and variables with lifecycles for UI development
I have spent over two years figuring out how to solve asynchronous operations in front-end development and provide a unified solution for UI, API loading, animations, state management, and so on. I discovered that it is possible by enhancing the core building blocks which are functions and variables and giving them lifecycles. The result is targets, which also provide unified interface for functions and variables making them equal citizens. Here is an updated version of the framework, available at https://github.com/livetrails/targetjs.
> Throwing a USB stick out the lunar rover window and calling it a data center. Data centers usually do stuff other than sit in the dust.

Okay, so here me out: the ultimate cold storage for someone like Iron Mountain. You'd have to understand that you'll need a minimum of 96 hours for retrieval time, and it's gonna be expensive to get that retrieval rocket there and back. Or, build a big dish and send the data via satellite signals.
Discussion (34 points, 6 hours ago, 18 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43187518
People have done it. The most recent Mac mini’s are so small that their guts can be crammed in the bottom if you replace the original board and power supply. Then put a brand new screen up at the top and run the wires through the arm and you get something really cool.
What a concept. Like back in the cartridge game system era, where what the developers burned onto the ROM was the final game.
Hmm weren’t there also supposed to be the SM re-allocation, doesn’t look like it was included; I may have been mis-remembering the explanation.
> I'm also a little skeptical of the NY Post and Daily Mail as sources, considering both are tabloids

And yet both have good content regularly that other publications won’t carry due to their bias. The format of printing doesn’t matter.
The idea that Google is "evidently incompetent" for failing to resolve memory safety issues in their decades-old, giant codebase is dumb.
I think that's gen Z. For the younger half, you might have to decide whether or not a Chromebook qualifies as a PC, but idk if it even matters because Mac/Windows PCs are still necessary for work or used for games.
>With regards to MAGA specifically. I don't find most of the ideas I hear floated as more hateful than the overtone coming from the democratic side

This is eyebrow-raising. I have no defense for any political party for all the un-subtle criticisms they inevitably put out, Democrats or otherwise. But to suggest that MAGA are, on par, less hateful than Democrats, begs expounding. In other words, you can certainly make that argument, but it flies in the face of common understanding - which doesn't mean it's not true! It just means you have to give a little more than just stating it. It's like saying, "Actually, Genghis Khan didn't conquer very much", and leaving it at that instead of presenting some kind of insight.

Of course, there is always simply the bubble explanation (my bubble is not representative, or your bubble is not representative), however... regarding the degree of MAGA's hatred for liberals and the people liberals defend? I hate being curt but: Come on.
It changed last night. I reproduced it repeatedly[1] but then it stopped happening a bit later. At first I thought it was the on-device recognition but behaviour was identical both with and without a network connection.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43179712
Concentration camps for people with the flu?

Trump really did cause the left to lose their minds.
I'm pretty sure manufacturers could, but that would increase their costs. The US did it for them for free.

So we're either going to get insanely expensive flu vaccines or none at all.
What studies is he proposing that have not been done many times before?

The articles are not hysterical and give good info, such as:

- vaccines take 6 months to make

- FDA spokesperson did not respond for comment

- its not the first meeting to be cancelled

- an earlier CDC quarterly meeting was postponed to accommodate "public comment"
The only ToS of a free software should be the chosen free software license (and if applicable, a trademark policy). Anything else is questionable.
> In fact I can't think of any better way to change flat earther minds.

You have a ruinously optimistic outlook for the average human, let alone a flat-earther.
Have there been big changes since your Show HN 7 months ago? (52 points, 49 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40970311
Pike-RAG: SPecIalized KnowledgE and Rationale Augmented Generation
To achieve that you basically need an ordinary people's government. Ah, another hot topic. Run /s
> It’s a collusion to create chaos and dismantle the system that can track what they are doing. You think “flu vaccine”, they steal elsewhere. Today a vaccine, last week an email to justify jobs, earlier USAID, next week something else. It’s a distraction.

This is the comment I was replying to. I at least haven't seen any direct acknowledgements if this being the goal, and the comment or even refers to it as collusion with predictions of what comes next. That seems squarely in the conspiracy theory realm to me, in line with all the theories thrown around while Biden was in office or Hillary was running.
It’s not the same. They are slightly different and depending on whether you cross-eye or parallel view them, both texts will slightly move away or towards you in 3D.
The llm can teach you the basics. It's really good at it.

You can't see if it's really learning or not until you see how it's used.
Hah, and you chose Yaak!
I first saw it on Second Wind's "Bytesized" review and it looked so good I instantly wishlisted it. Will try it out soon.

Congratulations!
Had PCs, yes. Used PCs? IDK.

Gen Z starts around 95. The ipod touch came out in 07. That means that the hot device to get came out when the oldest Gen Z turned 12.

I'd grant that older genz were probably more exposed, but that exposure and familiarity pretty rapidly decreases as they age.
Desktops provided a lot more room to try things. Now that everything is laptops it’s pretty clear why you might want to just make a very simple design.

Apple did make the trashcan Mac Pro, but of course that ended up having problems and was made at just the wrong time. The newer models harken back to the cheese graters but with fancier holes and a smaller overall size.

A new version of that Mac as an iMac with a bigger screen would be amazing. But given screen sizes maybe it would need a really heavy weighted base to survive well.
No one ever drilled the Moon to any useful extent. All we know is that it's mostly dusty on top.
> It doesn't solve data sovereignty in a practical way for anything other than backups

In my experience, customers who have specific requirements about data sovereignty are also explicitly including backups in those requirements.
The idea of competing perspectives from the political left and right is majorly under attack. In 2020, the NYT fired the editor who oversaw the opinion page for publishing the perspective of an influential senator who had the ear of the president. WaPo had similar internal debates, with many staff members loudly objecting to the publishing of perspectives from the political right. There's an school of thought that says when you can't win, you should try to lose as painlessly as possible. This change looks a lot like that.
> You wouldn’t necessarily want a mechanic or engineer to drive a race car, for example.

GM does. Their engineers have set multiple track records[1] and vehicle-specific lap records[2].

[1] https://gmauthority.com/blog/2025/02/c8-corvette-zr1-sets-fi...

[2] https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/a10206481/the-chevrole...
It's very common for people who do or support terrible things to also be nice to their neighbors, or more generally to be nice to the people they can identify with and know on a personal level. They just don't see the people that they can't identify with as fully human and worthy of the same dignity.

This is not to say that your neighbors are evil people - I'm just saying that you can't just judge people by how they interact with people in their in-group.
He was actually injured by the flu vaccine. That’s why his voice sounds the way it does
I largely eat vegetarian because too much meat makes things worse, by the data I have anyway. Sometimes though, an excess of meat protein helps a lot. I can’t stress enough that I have tried everything and that there is no rhyme or reason to it.
There were databases before databases they were just on index cards and were inaccurate, inconsistent, unable practically to be backed up and labour-intensive to update and maintain.

Do people collect and collate more data now it is easier to do so? Yes, but that doesn't mean that databases created the problem they solve, because "I have too much data, how do I store it" isn't the problem they solve. They solve the problem of whatever people are using the data to actually do: price their products more efficiently, manage inventory more efficiently, etc. Those problems would exist with or without databases.

It is like saying cars don't solve a real problem because we just moved further away from things when we got access to them, so they are mostly solving a problem they created. But that ignores that people would have lived further away if they could, they don't live further away because they can, but for other actual reasons - primarily having more space per person. People don't live far away for the sake of it - even with a car, living further away still takes more time - but are enabled to optimise more for factors other than transport costs when transport costs are lowered.
These are some of my favorite macs.

Would be REALLY cool to see a mod where the shell supported a Mac Mini AND a DVD Drive

Would really love to put a series of Diablo 2 discs into this, or Warcraft 3, and play
Reliability and speed, especially if the airwaves are congested around you, plus simplicity in that there's less configuration than Wifi, and for some IoT-y devices like cameras you can use PoE and not have to worry about powering them either
Basically weird type systems that encode pre/post conditions.

These ideas have not caught on for a reason. You end up writing the logic twice, and pretty high chances you mess up once.
I didn't get vaccinated for Covid after spending months reading whitepapers and listening to vaccine experts discuss the pandemic as it played out through 2020.

I experienced plenty of hate thrown my way for 2 or 3 years after that decision, including in speeches from the president.

I don't know how to quantify hatefulness, especially in a large group, well enough to absolutely compare the two. I do strongly stand behind the fact that plenty of hate was thrown towards anyone who disagreed with the narrative during the pandemic response though. More than MAGA? No clue, but a relative comparison doesn't make it better in absolute terms.
Is there a term that people who don't use the Berlin interpretation call games that fit in the Berlin interpretation? Or are they just called "Berlin interpretation roguelikes"?

(I'm asking both out of curiosity and out of utility, since I'm a fan of the Berlin interpretation roguelikes (and have been since before the modern overly-broad interpretation came into use), so I used to be able to count on "roguelike" meaning it was one style of game, and I miss those days. I'd like to be able to know how to specifically find those games again.)

Also, congrats on the success of the game! I'm looking forward to trying it out sometime. It's on my wishlist, despite my quibbles with calling it a roguelike. :)
Don't look at the specs for LPDDR6...
To be fair, a small fusion reactor actually producing power day in, day out - would be a ridiculously huge success. Before worrying about reliability in a storm or miniaturizing (to the point of that being irrelevant). There will THEN be this challenge of reliability and size but achieving the first step would release a sea of additional funding.
I actually liked this one better, scrolling a bit down on that same page: https://www.new-east-archive.org/articles/show/12943/moscow-...
Im·a·gine a ship that puts to sea
It pow·ers it·self with elec·tri·ci·ty
The a·toms knit more than they split
Oh glow, my fu·sion core, glow (hooh!)

Soon may the break·through flare
To make our prod·uct not va·por·ware
One day, when the bas·ics are done
We'll make our IPO
Claude Code Installer Suggests a Command That Can Destroy Your Linux System
The installer for Claude Code (Anthropic's AI coding tool) suggests running:

sudo chown -R $USER:$(id -gn) /usr && sudo chmod -R u+w /usr

Yes, I mindlessly ran this. Yes, I deserved my temporarily bricked Ubuntu system. But to be fair, the command is presented as the *installer's "recommended" option*.

Apparently, "recommended" doesn't mean "safe" or even "tested on a real Linux machine before release."

Again, this isn't the output of the AI: it's the first thing you see when you run the installer.
I hope there's a slightly different timeline where people with hopelessness or depression have a place in nature to pursue purpose, community, diet, exercise, and meaningful labour. I think we all know in our gut that this would be of incredible benefit to most of these people. And I hope the public in this world are horrified by the idea that anyone could instead pump them full of addictive or unknown drugs and leave them to fester in their obesity, drug dependency, poverty, loneliness, emptiness and misery.

Our current approach isn't working.
What a fantastic archive, I had not seen these before. It is a tragedy that so much was lost. I know all these places, albeit in more modern times, but some are still very remote and rarely seen.

It isn’t for everyone, but if you follow the unpaved ranch and mining trails deep into the southwest mountains you can still find echos of this. Just brilliant magical country.

I hesitate to tell people where to find the magic anymore. These days, poorly behaved selfie tourists descend on these places en masse and destroy the allure instantly. Even the old dirt trails don’t stop them; I’ve seen a mega-busload of ill-equipped foreign tourists show up at a minor sites an hour from the nearest pavement because someone posted about it on instagram.

I know I am an old man shouting at clouds but I grew up with these places. I’m not “native” per se but even I can sense the desecration that bothers the people that were born there and never left. I wish I had a solution to this problem but I don’t.
I attached all 3 algorithms 1F1B (1 forward 1 backward), ZB1P (zero bubble pipeline parallelism) and DualPipe as a picture here: https://x.com/danielhanchen/status/1894937006352031832 for those interested :)
At my school they all had Netscape navigator. So slow.

We called it nutscrape
Thank you! I _think_ we learnt that from CodeCademy who was among the first to introduce the pattern.
Seeing a lot of code. I work with Ruby/rails a lot and try to expose myself to core rails code much as possible, or react, or whatever other core code.
But at jobs it’s viewing code from as many people as possible too.
I have a few friends who do this - seems like the biggest hurdle is building a funnel via a personal brand or a connection to a larger org that can get you clients able / willing to pay $150-200 an hour.

How are you currently sourcing clients?
So many adjectives... and "radical" in the title is a doozy considering this article is essentially a stoner summary of LeDoux's "Deep History of Ourselves" with the science replaced with thesaurus suggestions.
So I was born in '96. We actually used our elementary school PCs less than younger years because not as much work had been digitized yet, plus it wasn't a given that every student had internet at home. iPhones became hot 2009-2012 when I was in middle school (gen1 iPhone/iPt was too early), but everyone needed a PC at home for schoolwork, same in high school. We were fortunate enough to have a computer science class, which literally 10X'd in popularity the year after I took it. Later years also used laptops more for non-CS stuff.

PC games were mainstream too, so it wasn't just work. Really hit me when the school jocks started joining my Minecraft server. Again I think consoles were actually more popular in earlier times, cause PCs couldn't run as many good games until the 2010s.

I can't speak as much for the younger side of gen Z. I assume CS is still more popular among them, there are more PC video gamers than before, and there are Chromebooks if you count that. Not sure if iPads ever actually replaced PCs, besides it was always in Apple's interest not to cannibalize the Mac line.
Love the red tomato and balloon faces :)
"As Link tells it, Nan’s attention from their births went to son Rand and daughter Gale. There was no time for his work, his life and love. Despite separating ways, Link says, they stayed married for the sake of the children. Because that’s what parents used to do."

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-05-19-ls-5806-s...
For 3D graphics I think the main issue quaternions helps with is for interpolations. Depending on your use case that may or may not be important to you.
Elon gets hit with community notes all the time, just last week he made a post to the effect of “the fed doesn’t use SQL” and community notes was on him almost immediately.
>Even the "simple" task of summarizing news had so many catastrophic failures that Apple had to pull it from the market.

I'm not aware of any failures that could reasonably be described as "catastrophic".
> If there's no air, then only black body radiation can be used to cool the data center.

to put it into numbers - at 80C (353K) 1m2 radiates 880Watts

I think though that instead of the Moon we'll be putting data centers into orbit - for 1KWt GPU we'll need 5m2 solar panels and 1m2 radiator - all together under 10kg, ie. $1000 at Starship prices while the GPU itself is $20K+ .

The kicker here is that the Starship launch price is cheaper than installing solar on the ground ( $2K/KWt and higher)
as long as you have too much load it's easy. You just cull load until you get to something manageable
This is all good, but will it be able to penetrate the 12-inch German walls in my apartment effortlessly? WiFi reception was pretty good when I used to live in cardboard houses. But now 5GHz struggles a lot with the thick concrete walls at my place.
Isn't that basically what the article is?
The 'Spy Sheikh' Taking the AI World by Storm
Yes, there have been significant improvements since the Show HN post. I put in another seven months of development and refinement.
I'm been fascinated to make games but never truly jumped into it. I'd love to pick it as a hobby but quiet unable to balance this hobby when always worrying about to put time into 'doing certification' or doing 'LC'. To get an idea on your situation and compare it with mine,

1) did you have any formal game development experience in the past? say in school?
2) since you made it into FAANG, did you LC before or time during FAANG to find another FAANG job?
3) does anyone in your personal circle does game development?
4) so instead of first developing the game, you already were in talking with publishers? what kind of background did you have for publisher to 'ok' you which i'm guessing supported you financially?