skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of online things are not providing PDFs to download, and are making the web page layout miserable for "print to file" also -- collapsible sections that refuse to be all open, etc.
>Assuming they are not doing it for revenue, where their income depends on huge readership, why are they so concerned with how many readers they are getting?

Are you including indirect revenue in your assumption? There's lots of hopeful incentives that don't immedialy lead to money:

- you get a reputation and get professional gigs or invitations or whatnot. Fame, in a word.

- You get a reputation and that makes it easier to validate your next pitch for some dream idea you have. For better or worse, saying "a lot of people like this" is very effective pitch material.

- you want to meet other like minded people and organically network. These can lead to future opportunities you would have never considered.

- You have some larger societal mission, and that requires society. If you have some altruistic goal of say, teaching everyone to code (to pick a cliche idea), then you need people to participate to realize your goal. Something like Khan Academy still needs to advertise itself.

Your view only really applies to people who want to do Art for themselves. But we are still a social species, we have a natural urge to share our creations, for profit or not.
chaebols did the exact same thing if you're curious to look at how it plays out elsewhere.
Show HN: Piano.fm – endless AI piano music
Say Yes to Interesting Things
Software engineering, though interested in generic and specific advice
You don't see software going for $8000 frequently! Wow!
When it comes to the AI hype, I pretty much have tried to ignore the constant roll of never ending models and other hoopla that is mostly meaningless. Better to let the dust settle.
>It is unclear whether the new guidance will result in laid off workers getting rehired.

So uh ... who fired all those people?

Does anyone get to rehire them?

Those folks still got a bunch of weird emails from this guy ...

I thought they already made the legal argument that Elon was just an advisor?

Who is running the show?
I'm using a T460. The laptop it replaced was from 2016 too, so it's been smooth sailing.

I just bought my brother a T480 though. He hasn't had it for long, but it seems to be working out for him. Fingers crossed that it continues.
There are even panics that are intended as irrecoverable: https://cs.opensource.google/go/x/sync/+/refs/tags/v0.12.0:s...
Voyager 6!
I haven't done benchmarks, but this speculation nailed it - The exact motivation is lost, but I believe I became tilted with inconsistent mixes of JPL and Hamilton quaternion operations on the popular libs at the time. Since then, I use it as a low-friction way to conserve geometrical functions among multiple projects. I.e., it's easier to just edit the code base than go through a PR process.
My kid just brought this up today- it’s absolutely a concern for their age group.
Also, according to other comments here, many shelters either require houseless people to turn over their belongings (cell phones, medication, paperwork, etc.) to the shelter for "safe-keeping". These belongings can then frequently "go missing", forcing the person to start over from scratch. Alternately, shelters without this policy in place expose the person to the risk of theft from their bunkmates.

The combination of these two factors leads some to self-assess that they're better off on the street.
> I hope we have the compassion as individuals not to ask others to kill us.

When I've had to kill my pets, I didn't do it myself. I called in a professional to do it.

Surely you don't believe that OP is asking their friends to knife them in the chest if they're too far gone to ask to be euthanized? Surely you believe that OP is asking their friends to ask a doctor or nurse come in and do it, if OP is no longer capable of asking for it to be done?
To put that into perspective, PostNord only had 4,600 employees to begin with.
Exactly. That was my point in the first place. How much does transmitting what is probably a low volume of non-time-critical data cost on a daily basis?
You keep saying using multiple state files is a hack and a workaround. It's not, it's how you're supposed to use the tool, and it's a good way to think about and manage infrastructure.

Applying changes in a structured, staged approach via that separation is a great way to avoid issues that will be obfuscated when managing infrastructure in other ways.
Can't decide if the retrocomputing you mean is the warewulf or the ipv6.
Its Mistral, they are the only homegrown AI Europe has, so people pretend they are meaningful.

I'll give it a try, but I'm not holding my breath. I'm a huge AI Enthusiast and I've yet to be impressed with anything they've put out.
I was actually looking for something like this 2-3 months ago. Did not find anything and was considering writing my own, but got distracted. Quite cool, I encounter situations where I would like to do this all the time.
Seems a bit silly, seeing as hedgehogs are somewhat endangered in the UK. If they were bred for pets, we'd surely have more of them!
15 eng prob falls nicely into our startup offering, would be pretty discounted: https://rootly.com/startups

You get on-call + incident response + status pages. And a pretty "defaults only" experience ootb.
VeyraX MCP – Single tool to control them all
americans lol. and i say this as an american. :)

Most of my friends assume the default mode of transport globally is a car. Even to get to a cafe or library.

Pretty funny when you think about it.
In practice? Very much no.
Twitter needs content moderation, for one thing... or at least it did when they pretended to care.

I don't think we're worried about particle sniffers transmitting porn, but then again they do like to sniff particles...
no_std seems somewhat novel, which might have been another motivating factor?
Show HN: You can create promises in JavaScript without nesting
Imagine if you could write:

const [promise, resolve, reject] = await P();
// just use resolve() or reject() inline here

Well, now you can! Introducing... one weird trick:

function P() {
let p;
return new Promise(function (resolve) {
p = new Promise(function (res, rej) {
resolve([p, res, rej]);
});
});
}
I have wondered this too as a person who has attended a regular (non-honors) Calculus II course at a fairly top-rank private university and then again at a community college.

From what I remember, the university course also had some rote exercises for homework so it isn’t like everyone is only focusing on working the trickier exercises.

This also reminds me of the story Donald Knuth has around working every exercise in the book for a calculus class.
That is a commonly held UX belief - "if the user has made a choice, we have failed".

It's also a fundamentally untrue belief. It discards the fact that different tools have different usages, and it fundamentally says that users do not care to exercise taste, either. (Because "which model" is also a taste function)

The lens I wish UX would take is "how can we make this concept more useful/lower friction" instead of dreaming of annihilating it. That's fundamentally the DWIM dream, and it never works.
Instead of recovering from what clearly is a bug, why not fix that bug instead?
The questions you're asking sound to me like they're based around progressive evolution (or maybe teleology? I don't remember the specifics) -- basically the idea that organisms evolve towards some goal.

The example that I heard in school was that of a giraffe's neck. It seems reasonable enough to say "giraffes evolved long necks in order to reach food sources in taller trees", but this is usually a kind of misleading shorthand for the much more accurate "some proto-giraffe acquired a mutation that increased the length of its neck, that change increased its likelihood of procreation (possibly by allowing it to reach food sources shorter-necked proto-giraffes could not, therefore allowing it to survive in harsher conditions), and that mutation was passed down to its offspring".

It's easy to make the mistake in thinking "organisms change their characteristics to survive", but that's applying intent where there is none. Organisms' characteristics change naturally through mutation. Those organisms either live to reproduce or they don't. Mutations that increase the chance of reproduction are more likely to get passed down to future generations. Over a long enough time period you end up with a lot of distinct species that evolved naturally and entirely accidentally.
>a UI that solves the annoying problem of looking for a referenced figure on another page, which breaks up the flow of reading.

A tangent but this exact issue is what I was frustrated for a long time with pdf reader and reading science papers. Then I found sioyek that pops up a small window when you hover over links (references and equations and figures) and it solved it.

Granted, the pdf file must be in right format, so OCR could make this experience better. Just saying the UI component of that already exist

https://sioyek.info/
Can you elaborate on this point:

“ We discovered that meaningful performance improvements, as high as 10–15%, can be achieved with as few as 16 training examples.”

In particular, did you need to change the hyperparameters much, and did this limited recipe show different improvements for the larger vs smaller models? Also, how did you select these 16 examples?
Semi-OT (similar language): The national archives in Sweden and Finland published a model for OCR:ing handwritten Swedish text from the 1600s to the 1800s with what to me seems like a very level of accuracy given the source material. (4% character error rate)

https://readcoop.eu/model/the-swedish-lion-i/

https://www.transkribus.org/success-story/creating-the-swedi...

https://huggingface.co/Riksarkivet

They have also published a fairly large volume of OCR:ed texts (IIRC birth/death notices from church records) using this model online. As a beginner genealogist it's been fun to follow.
I would love 32 cores for audio editing in RX 11.
Like others pointed out, if we're comparing like for like, the Mac Mini is in that "mini PC" price range, and again is very competitive.
This seems to be an orthodox opinion I see often, and I get the intuition. But time preference is a real thing. Tech is the easiest example. People buy tech that they don’t need that will be significantly cheaper in the future. I’m not a historical expert, but this specific point didn’t seem to be an issue during the time periods we were on the gold standard.
Microsoft drops some CoreWeave services ahead of $35B IPO
It is funny that the article linked is from this month, but the actual anonymous post seems to be from 2011, and it looks like the research paper itself is from 2018.
Founder of https://pagertree.com - If you are looking to switch from OpsGenie, make sure to check PagerTree out.

Our teams feature is most like OpsGenie compared with others.
depending on what you're using it for, Pushover [0] might fit the bill. it's what I use for my home monitoring setup - low-priority alerts just go to an email folder, but a high-priority alert (such as a water leak sensor firing) will get pushed to my phone.

it's a "no frills, in a good way" type of product. dirt-simple API with straightforward pricing ($5 lifetime subscription) and limits so generous I've never worried about hitting them (10k messages/month).

0: https://pushover.net/
I thought it was just market capture. It was the most popular website in the world, so if you needed to see sports news, or event updates from celebrities, or your government representatives make an announcement (ugh, I still hate that): well, you need a profile for us to monetize.
Related: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236...
> The number of electoral votes is sacred

Given to us by Jesus himself.
Agora's Conversational AI Engine
On several UK rivers, most notably the River Wye on the Welsh/English border, there exists a powerful river trust that has raised millions to remove 'barriers to salmon migration'. They took down and bypassed weirs on tributaries. They pulled out dead trees.

Then other bodies started felling trees into their river to create habitat for juvenile fish.

As an angler you might forgive me for thinking one of those bodies was in the wrong. Either way their conservation efforts have not mitigated the collapsing stocks of salmon over the two decades of their management.

I for one am happy for the beavers to have a go instead
how does it compare to nalgebra?
Why is it a bad thing to get more knowledge about authoritarianism and how it can sneak up on you? If it makes some people uncomfortable, that might should be an indicator that things niggling your mind often matter more than you think.
one letter off from the alt-right!
LLMs don't know period. They can be useful to summarize well and redundantly publicized information, but they don't "know" even that.
this is the same team that a few months ago here on hacker news talked about how to do fine-tuning on large language models, and then made it close source.
Hey, in early 00 I briefly worked for an ISP trying to do rural Portugal/Spain satellite internet (to exploit rather large subsidies offered at the time)! Afair it was 1-2 Mbit downstream for all subscribers in one area from geo stationary sat with 500-1000ms pings. Almost unusable for normal browsing. Company was from defense background and from my limited understanding at the time they were piggybacking on some military leftovers tech. Idea was to use commercial Wifi to link local customers to central location with some magic proxy server trying to hide all that latency.
You will see...in one month he will say he hardly knew what Elon was doing, and anyway he was just an adviser...
NASA's Hubble Finds Kuiper Belt Duo May Be Trio
About 5 hours ago, Louis Rossman posted a pinned comment below his video and changed its title asking you to read it.

He says Brother contacted him, denying any firmware changes that hinder the use of third party toner. He states that he has send them a series of questions to explore the issue further.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bpHX_9fHNqE&lc=Ugxbi1fUIxpbKI5YT...
It is ridiculous that your registrar was going to act on your domain without any kind of verification of jurisdiction. Can anyone just email a registrar and claim there is some injunction and have something removed?
Sure, but that makes all the difference. I often work on an embedded remote machine with quite restricted vim (can't use a custom config, particularly no language packages). When I am on the remote machine (typically I have to run local commands), I often discover I have to edit a python file (typically just minor edits). So to use vim sftp://host/path/to/file I have to open a new terminal copy the path and then open using sftp. For me that interrupts enough of the workflow, that I just don't bother and instead just edit the file on the remote machine using the restricted vim.
Does "energy" here mean "willing to work many more hours for no extra pay"?
1) A large portion of the government is unable to pass a simple audit.

2) The fundamental basis of government department budgeting is "spend everything you get or you'll get less next year". No department will willingly spend less.
A 20mg grain of sand is either not a grain or not sand
Correct, that seems to be the intent behind these policies.
The problem is that you pay with battery life. I did some Windows vs Linux laptop battery life testing when I bought my Thinkpad T14s AMD gen4.

The test itself is simple: a Puppeteer script that loads the Reddit front page and scrolls it at 50 px/s for 10 minutes, in a loop until the battery dies. This actually produces a fairly decent load including video decoding (because Reddit autoplays by default, and there are plenty videos in the feed). I also had Thunderbird, Discord, and Telegram running in the background.

On Windows 11, the battery dies in 500 minutes.

On Linux Mint 21.3, it dies in 200 minutes.

Now, this is because Chrome (and Firefox!) disable GPU-accelerated rendering by default on Linux due to "unstable drivers". To be fair, it really is unstable - when I enabled it and watched the test as it was going, I saw the Firefox tab in a crashed state more than once. But even then, with Firefox + GPU acceleration, I got 470 minutes of battery life on Windows vs 340 minutes on Linux.
Probably true to be honest.
By optimistic, do you mean 'tweaked'? :)
Comments moved thither. Thanks!

p.s. @dang doesn't reliably work - for that you need to email hn@ycombinator.com
I find it funny that its top predator, the badger, is also protected, despite being very common.
Ah yes. Terraform is super popular for us (almost 1m downloads). We also built a pretty cool "Terraformer" tool that lets you create workflows in UI and translate that to .tf easily.

We take extensibility pretty seriously. Outside the basics, we just released our own agent ready API (https://rootly.com/blog/introducing-rootlys-api-ai-agent-fir...), MCP, docs are now LLM ready (https://docs.rootly.com/llms-full.txt).
I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around how you'd do homomorphic encryption securely (particularly FHE).

Like, for example, let's say I want to farm out word counts to the cloud. Wouldn't the information required to identify what a "word" is require the running software to be able to see breaks/periods/etc? Doesn't that leak information about the cyphertext? How does it stop someone from writing software that, for example, maps out the position of all the a's, then b's, then c's, etc in a cyphertext and MITMing it?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge-notched_card

"Needle Card", "McBee Card", "Indecks", "E-Z Sort", "Cope-chat", "Keysort", "Flexisort", "Velom card", "Rocket card", "Slotted card" and variations on those all redirect to that article[1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinks...
The Inter Font Family
Right they won't even acknowledge that there was nothing unreasonable about those funds. Already allocated and promised. Why even say it's backed "by the reputation of the United States" if we won't even pay the bills we've already told we were going to pay. If they find fraud then sure cancel the deal. However they are using "abuse and inefficiency" as weasel words to get out of paying our debts and contracts that the current regime doesn't like.
I am sad the American|European bison didn't get a call out.

800+ kg of stubborn disagreement.
My camera system capturing hypersonic plasma of reentry [video]
OP here. This was recorded on the camera system I helped design and build. It shows the ionized atmosphere during a Mach25 reentry from low earth orbit. I'm still blown away by how well it worked. There is a protective window that shields the sensor from the 10,000°C conditions just an inch away. Landing happened at Koonibba Test Range in South Australia
It's not bad! But it still hallucinates. Here's an example of an (admittedly difficult) image:

https://i.imgur.com/jcwW5AG.jpeg

For the blocks in the center, it outputs:

> Claude, duc de Saint-Simon, pair et chevalier des ordres, gouverneur de Blaye, Senlis, etc., né le 16 août 1607 , 3 mai 1693 ; ép. 1○, le 26 septembre 1644, Diane - Henriette de Budos de Portes, morte le 2 décembre 1670; 2○, le 17 octobre 1672, Charlotte de l'Aubespine, morte le 6 octobre 1725.

This is perfect! But then the next one:

> Louis, commandeur de Malte, Louis de Fay Laurent bre 1644, Diane - Henriette de Budos de Portes, de Cressonsac. du Chastelet, mortilhomme aux gardes, 2 juin 1679.

This is really bad because

1/ a portion of the text of the previous bloc is repeated

2/ a portion of the next bloc is imported here where it shouldn't be ("Cressonsac"), and of the right most bloc ("Chastelet")

3/ but worst of all, a whole word is invented, "mortilhomme" that appears nowhere in the original. (The word doesn't exist in French so in that case it would be easier to spot; but the risk is when words are invented, that do exist and "feel right" in the context.)

(Correct text for the second bloc should be:

> Louis, commandeur de Malte, capitaine aux gardes, 2 juin 1679.)
Because I have family here that I love dearly, that's enough reason for me to stay and fight. Why should I leave? I'm not the one trying to set up an authoritarian government.
Related: the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) was also a PAYGO system and was reformed in the late 1990s:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Pension_Plan#1998_refor...

A good book on how it happened is Fixing the Future by Bruce Little:

> While the deficit battles have been recounted many times, the story of the reform that rescued the CPP has gone almost entirely untold. In Fixing the Future, Bruce Little explains the CPP overhaul and shows why it stands as one of Canada's most significant public policy success stories, in part because it demanded an almost unparalleled degree of federal-provincial co-operation. Providing an overview of the CPP's entire history from its beginning in 1965, Little pulls together published, and new unpublished, material relating to the CPP reform, and interviews over fifty politicians, government officials, and others who were deeply involved in the reforms for their recollections, insights, and observations.

* https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9780802095831

It is now a hybrid systems: some component of benefits are PAYGO, but a portion are invested in capital markets (and private equity, by owning things like ports and highways). The investment component is run by an arms-length entity with board members being appointed by the feds and provinces:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPP_Investments

There were further reforms in 2017.

Fun fact: it's actually harder to amend the CPP Act than the Canadian Constiution.
maybe you can try this? https://www.sesame.com/research/crossing_the_uncanny_valley_...
In the blog post[0], they mention it being possible with rooted Androids - so likely possible, just requires more access to what the modem's doing than the OS normally provides.
[0]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-ope...
You made me look it up!

What Is the Chaebol Structure?

The chaebol structure is a business conglomerate system that originated in South Korea in the 1960s creating global multinationals with huge international operations. Chaebol is an English transliteration of the Korean word 재벌, which means plutocracy, rich business family, or monopoly. The chaebol structure can encompass a single large company or several groups of companies.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/chaebol-structure.asp
Wow I had no idea. Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Unscrambling the hidden secrets of superpermutations - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39325146 - Feb 2024 (8 comments)

Mystery math whiz and novelist advance permutation problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36191831 - June 2023 (92 comments)

An Anonymous 4chan Post Helped Solve a 25-Year-Old Math Puzzle (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23968618 - July 2020 (7 comments)

Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18292061 - Oct 2018 (198 comments)

If anyone can find other threads in this set, let me know and I'll add them here.
> The descriptive comments of what the code's doing definitely makes me lean towards the latter.

Sadly, it's that exact kind of descriptive comments that are the kinds of comments that I expect to see in well-documented code. The kind of comments that I would expect from a seasoned engineer.
Safe Place for Science: French University Ready to Welcome American Scientists