skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Invoke and Comfy are both incredibly complicated tools, and I've recently been put off by both communities.

The r/StableDiffusion folks will go as far as calling those complaining about comfy "PEBKACs", which is a term I hadn't seen since the 00's.

Neither tool is really appropriate for beginners, and frankly they're not even fun to use for extended periods as they're constantly breaking.

If all you're trying to do is generate images, it's not worth installing a universe of broken Python and 100 GB of weights on your machine.

It honestly feels like 2000's-era Linux hobbyists proclaiming the "Year of Linux on the desktop" when interacting with these communities. Their tools are busted, but lots of folks will blame you, the user.
wow. I always thought this was due to M. Rosenblum in 1992. Looking at the paper now it doesn't reference this one. I wonder what other group ideation happened in the late 80s around this. I guess it was already well established in databases.
About the encrypted DB: https://people.csail.mit.edu/nickolai/papers/popa-cryptdb-tr...

All I remember is that this didn't end up becoming practical because of some limitations, which were maybe discussed in the paper. Something about leaking row counts.
Show HN: Metaport – proactive upgrades and patching for PMs
Hey folks!

Like many of you I guess, having worked several development roles since the late 90s mainly on OSS stacks, I would see the same behaviour over and over where teams promised the earth in RFPs, delivered a super shiny thing approximately on time and on budget, but amazingly, put little-to-no effort into anything more than barely keeping the lights on.

Teams would be barely satisfying their SLAs, occasionally risking security and certification mandates as a result, which were set down at project commencement.

Fast forward to 2023 and my manager at the time is banging her head against the desk having encountered an easily avoidable situation for the nth time: Some key software component is close to, or is already out of support and the client isn't happy (it was sometimes the client who noticed it first...).

I suggested a quick-win -- a spreadsheet which tracked the EOS and EOL dates of each component and presented it as a gantt chart. PMs and DLs would then use that to present to clients well-ahead of key dates so that upgrades and budgets could be discussed proactively. I duly delivered the sheet while still not quite believing such a thing didn't already exist.

Now of course being a developer, I was already thinking about how best to automate this. I had already found a potential means of obtaining pertinent data, and having used an internal tool at a previous company intended for tracking security advisories as well as other useful data-points for Drupal CMS, I decided to roll everything into a single system. It had previously struck me as being odd that this internal tool was Drupal specific. Why wasn't it framework, language or runtime agnostic? The company after all produced software using a variety of technologies. I had made attempts to get internal resource aimed at patching and improving the product which ended up not working out. So as one does, I took the best ideas of the software, made it language agnostic and rolled portfolio-wide EOL/EOS charting and dependency and vulnerability search into a single tool and named it "Metaport".

Metaport CE is in beta and I'm really keen to get people playing with it who are not me. Does it really help in the way it purports to, and for the right people? Could it be architected differently to support say multi-tenancy? (I probably know the answer to this). Metaport is built with PHP and React and is available as a Docker image. Development, evaluation and install instructions are here: https://getmetaport.com/#install and the docs are at https://docs.metaport.sh/.

Super happy to get feedback!
Hah, I wish that were the case. A whole lot more things would be automated if that were true.

Automation requires resources, but it also requires vision, cooperation among affected parties, a workable regulatory framework, maturity and availability of required solutions, and availability of competent integrators. There are all kinds of reasons something remains manual besides mere resource availability. And all those things change over time.

There's not much you can do about most of those things, but becoming a programmer and working to develop better solutions is one way to make a difference. Even if you don't work directly in automation, your work can trickle down to the people like me who do cencern themselves with automated sewing and strawberry harvesting.
it is not gambling, it is crypto - the best investment money can buy /s
The reason LLMs write like that is, unsurprisingly, that some people write like that. In fact many of them do - it's not uncommon.

If you have proof like the logits are statistically significant for LLM output, that would be appreciated - otherwise it's just arguing over style.
Can you install bcvi on that remote machine? (Genuine question - when I've been in similar situations, it also would have been a no-go to install a binary.
Trump issues EO targeting Democratic aligned law firm
You can discover IP adresses, sure. Just enumerate them. But this doesn't give you the domain, as long as there is no reverse dns record.

I'm quite sure OP meant a virtual host only reachable with the correct Host: header.
Most of the characters in Star Trek are in the military. That's pretty much part for the course.
If you are curious about what use case there is of it: imagine that instead of JPEG compression, we are running an LLM. You send your prompt encrypted, server homomorphically executes the model and sends the encrypted output, which you then decrypt. As a result, you get LLM output, but the server operators never learn anything about the contents of the query or response.
I wish John Conway was still around to comment.
Trump Signs Order Setting Up Bitcoin 'Fort Knox' and Digital Assets Stockpile
'Maoism with American characteristics' has been noted by those with some literacy on the Cultural Revolution in China in 1960's-70's (lasted a decade...).

Destruction of the old was the purpose, with youthful cadres outside the bureaucratic system (therefore no stake) mobilised to do it. Comes with 'struggle sessions' too - the Elon 5 point email is similar ritual of submission.
Here is the process for Shepherdizing in a commercial service online: look at the icon, click on it.[1]

Here is the same process performed via printed volumes-- see the link.[2] The point was this exercise was not taught as an incident to case law, the first month of class was specifically about navigating these printed volumes, which may be hard now to even comprehend.

The two processes are "inherently the same thing" as much as supermarket shopping is the same as working a farm. Or flipping a light switch is like lighting an oil lamp.[3] Which is to say, these are different skills, which have no clear connection to an ability to prepare a meal, on the one hand, or read a book, on the other.

[1] https://www.lexisnexis.com/en-us/products/lexis/shepards.pag...

[2] https://constitution.org/1-Law/uslaw/how2shepardize.htm

[3] https://lampity.com/how-to-light-an-oil-lamp/
Haven't heard of any other platforms that use cartoons in the UI, actively associate with kids hobbies, and also make it one click to join active pedo grooming communities.

"very good moderation" makes me believe you work for them because that is a laughable notion.

I would bet that Big Balls swatting/SIM swapping/ddos community "the comm" still has dozens of discords that have been up for years
USDS had a purely consulting role, helping to build websites. What DOGE is doing now is ordering agencies to do various things like cancel contracts, hire and fire people, stop work, etc.

And the idea that Amy Gleason is in charge is a fig leaf. Trump himself has said that Musk is in charge.

The argument is that by wielding this new power, Musk is effectively an Officer of the United States, regardless of his official title. And under the constitution an Officer of the United States must be appointed with the advice and consent of the senate.

Whether or not the Supreme Court will buy this argument is to be determined, but that's the argument.
That is the point that you're making, but you kinda need to back it up. I have seen little evidence that people voting for voter ID laws struggle to get IDs, just evidence that some people struggle.
I agree that we shouldn't be worrying about reintroduced wolves causing much risk to humans, but historical perspective is a good idea: We shouldn't worry about them in the context of today, since wolves have learned to be very careful about bothering humans. In earlier history, it was a different story.

From what i've read, lethal wolf attacks in premodern Europe, even up to the late 18th century, were extremely common and claimed hundreds of human lives per year. Predators are predators. They stop attacking easy prey only if they're forcefully habituated into not doing so, not because they've become more warm, fuzzy and calm.
Unclear unless you have access to SpaceX accounts.

The Starship lunar lander program is 2.8 Billion into a 4.4 billion dollar contract [1]

SpaceX has also raised 8 billion in private equity funding since the Lunar contract was awarded in 2020. [2]

SpaceX estimated Launch revenue in 2024 was 4+ billion, and Starlink revenue estimated at 8+ billion. It has a separate 3 billion dollar contract to support the ISS.

Meanwhile, NASA is into SLS + Orion or 50 Billion so far [3]

https://www.usaspending.gov/award/CONT_AWD_80MSFC20C0034_800...

https://tracxn.com/d/companies/spacex/__UIpPfXSDe2O53VUbJNlN...

https://www.planetary.org/space-policy/cost-of-sls-and-orion
Surprisingly there’s no explanation here or in the TFA of what the problem actually is: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/s/2nHDIOfnBX
Economically, make-work programs would probably be useful right about now.
Tough Nugs
It depends, compiled binaries, no. If it's a shell script yes. Python or Perl maybe. But I agree ideally it would work by transferring a script (or aliases ...) across the ssh link and remove it afterwards.
The reason is because 99% of people care more about battery life and performance than sub-retina-scale imagined problems.

I'm holding my phone as close as I can to my face and I can't see a pixel if I want to
It's ironic that your knee jerk reaction was to choose one thing (nicotine for brain issues like Alzheimer's) that surely must be quackery, right? I mean, it's so obvious that there's no need to look it up.

And yet, if you'd researched it, you'd have found that it's an active area of research, not just for Alzheimer's treatment, but for several types of brain injury.

https://discoveries.vanderbilthealth.com/2019/09/nicotine-to...

https://www.science.org/content/article/nicotine-and-alzheim...

https://www.healthline.com/health/alzheimers-dementia/nicoti...

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1670208/
(Nicotine for Alzheimer's)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35138210/
(Nicotine for traumatic brain injury).

It won't be a miracle cure. And of course all of these articles are quick to point out that even if nicotine is potentially beneficial, smoking is still definitely bad for your health, and that's a strong confounding factor.

There's cause for caution and I personally wouldn't start using nicotine or recommending it at this point. But it's not something to dismiss out of hand as "quackery", either. It seems more and more likely that the cure for Alzheimer's won't be a single drug, but rather a combination of several things: lifestyle changes, supplements, and drugs all working together. Nicotine might well play a role in this.

At this point, I think it would be right to call Ray Peat out for overstating the efficacy of an uproven treatment, but unfair to label him as a quack, at least based on this piece of evidence.
I've read a _lot_ of deep learning papers, and this is extremely atypical. I agree with you that if there were any sort of serious implications then it'd be important to establish proof, but in the case of griping on a forum I think the standard of evidence is much lower.
I consider this to be a solved problem. Reasoning models are exceptionally good at this. In fact, if you use ChatGPT with Deep Research, it can bug you with questions to the point of annoyance!

Could have also been the fact that my custom GPT instructions included stuff like “ALWAYS clarify something if you don’t understand. Do not assume!”
This is bullshit propaganda. Politico has different products for tracking legislation in the same way that Bloomberg has products for tracking market information. Government agencies subscribe to these products because part of their job involves tracking legislation.
How so? You literally just open a web page, and choose a nickname. It's easier than creating a Discord account and verifying your email address and phone number.
It’s maths.
The full KWIC index program specification can be found in the original 1971 paper (reference [8] in the 1972 paper): https://kilthub.cmu.edu/articles/journal_contribution/On_the...

The code therein uses the specification language described in https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/355602.361309 (reference [3] in the 1972 paper). From there:

"The notation is mainly ALGOL-like and requires
little explanation. To distinguish references to the
value of a function before calling the specified function
from references to its value after the call, we enclose
the old or previous value in single quotes (e.g. 'VAL').
If the value does not change, the quotes are optional.
Brackets ("[" and "]") are used to indicate the scope
of quantifiers. "=" is the relation "equals" and not
the assignment operator as in FORTRAN."
Warning users that upvote violent content on Reddit
There’s something compelling about these, especially w.r.t. their ability to generalize. But what is the vision here? What might these be able to do in the future? Or even philosophically speaking, what do these teach us about the world? We know a 1D cellular automata is Turing equivalent, so, at least from one perspective, NCA/these aren’t terribly suprising.
I remember reading about this back in the day. I seem to recall the latency being a killer.
You do realize your battery is dying faster right?

Laptops have had 120hz screens since 2011. Stop limiting yourself to 60hz in 2025

(See how that sounds?)
Walgreens Will Go Private in $10B Deal with Sycamore
50 years ago - Altair 8800 The most powerful minicomputer project ever presented
The Popular Electronics 1975 January magazine article that started it all - a little late for the 50th anniversary

related article:

https://technicshistory.com/2025/02/22/from-acs-to-altair-th...

and HN discussion

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43233137
Joined a new company and requested a MacBook Pro, but they declined and instead issued me a brand-new ThinkPad X1 running Windows.

So, I went ahead and bought a MacBook Pro myself, set up all corporate apps (since the company runs M365 and mostly SaaS apps), and everything works seamlessly. My productivity is great—I don’t have to deal with the frustrations of Windows.

Now, once a week, I power up the ThinkPad X1, install patches and updates, then shut it down. The rest of the time, it just sits in the corner collecting dust along with all my other older Intel based MacBooks.

Out of pocket couple of grand, but the boost in my ability to deliver work more than makes up for that.
Oh, I didn't realize they killed it. I like the golf...
There is nothing wrong with doing a job you don't like. However you need to ensure that it doesn't burn you out. Work enough to get the money you need to live. Then do things you like. Many people do this: there are a lot of jobs people don't enjoy but they have to be done so someone does them.

Even people who find a job they love often find after 10-15 years they are sick of doing it all the time. This is likely to happen to you unless you are careful not to let your job alone be what defines you. This is normal.

Don't get yourself into a job you hate. (part of this is not being so picky you hate everything!) however liking - much less loving - your job is optional. Then go home and do something else for fun.
People's financial goals range wildly, which also impacts on when they can retire. Some people don't care about some combination of having a car, or expensive living quarters, or fancy food, or a family.
This is a Turing-complete block programming language, similar in concept to Scratch but brought into the physical world. You can think of it as a tangible manifestation of block-based coding. I have written the interpreter for Python and assembly: you can "compile" the tower of blocks directly to a normal programming language. Hence anything you build with it can also be compiled to Scratch in the future, making it easy to bridge between physical and digital programming environments.
Ukrainians see their language[0] as district from Russian. Not to deny that the Russians have claimed that Russian speakers are domiciled in Ukraine.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_language
Sure you can, https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_...
SpaceX Starship Lost
Matt Mullenweg on the future of open source and why he's taking a stand [video]
I was curious about Mistral so I made a few visualizations.

A high level diagram w/ links to files: https://eraser.io/git-diagrammer?diagramId=uttKbhgCgmbmLp8OF...

Specific flow of an OCR request: https://eraser.io/git-diagrammer?diagramId=CX46d1Jy5Gsg3QDzP...

(Disclaimer - uses a tool I've been working on)
Potentially it would be useful if you could enter a grid from satelite images and simulate wildfire spread or pollution spread or similar problems.
This seems like a poor choice.

People voting aren’t and won’t be considering the rules.

Maybe they should but that’s not how it works.
that’s my current idea, use two different ocr models and diff the results to spot check for errors. at these prices why not?
Cisco Systems has had numerous successful acquisitions with integrated product lines.
> it sure beats mailing lists. look at LKML.

You mean the the 31 years of simple text anyone can index or search using any search engine? How awful.
from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft#1972%E2%80%931985:_F...

The January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics featured Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems's (MITS) Altair 8800 microcomputer,[13] which inspired Allen to suggest that they could program a BASIC interpreter for the device. Gates called MITS and claimed that he had a working interpreter, and MITS requested a demonstration. Allen worked on a simulator for the Altair while Gates developed the interpreter, and it worked flawlessly when they demonstrated it to MITS in March 1975 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. MITS agreed to distribute it, marketing it as Altair BASIC. Gates and Allen established Microsoft on April 4, 1975, with Gates as CEO,[14] and Allen suggested the name "Micro-Soft", short for micro-computer software.
Awesome-embedded-rust: Curated list of resources for Embedded Rust development
LLMs in medicine: evaluations, advances, and the future
As of December, the earliest mission date is 2027:

https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-shares-orion-heat-shi...

> For the Artemis II crewed test flight, engineers will continue to prepare Orion with the heat shield already attached to the capsule. The agency also announced it is now targeting April 2026 for Artemis II and mid-2027 for Artemis III. The updated mission timelines also reflect time to address the Orion environmental control and life support systems.
"No chance?" But it has been reported that the next generation of Apple Silicon started production a few weeks ago. Those deliveries may enable Apple to release its remaining M3 Ultra SKUs for sale to the public (because it has something Better for its internal PCC build-out).

It also may point to other devices ᯅ depending upon such new Apple Silicon arriving sooner, rather than later. (Hey, I should start a YouTube channel or religion or something. /s)
Smalldiffusion: Readable code for training and sampling from diffusion models
Near-perfect sRGB coverage is relatively common, especially with OLEDs. Now the concern is AdobeRBG, DCI-P3, and Rec.2020 coverage* -- which are still generally lagging (basically nothing short of some $$$$$ laser projectors are anywhere close to full coverage of Rec.2020, which covers ~75% of all visible colors and is an ambitious forward-looking colorspace) .

* sRGB < AdobeRGB ~= DCI-P3 < Rec.2020
A quick Google search says pigs didn't gain weight from a diet heavy in coconut oil because it's almost purely saturated fat, and animals need a mixture of different types of fats in their diets. Specifically the coconut oil was too low in Linoleic acid, which is an essential Omega-6 fatty acid needed by animals to produce other fats in their body. Coconut oil is a fine source of calories in animal feed when part of a balanced diet including other fats.
Dutch chip industry calls for government support to boost competitiveness
Israel developing ChatGPT-like tool that weaponizes surveillance of Palestinians
There is a bunch of it depends there. California has more homelessness than other states. Part of this is in some areas housing is so expensive middle class people cannot afford to live there, but they can get jobs there and so being homeless is often the only option if you don't/can't leave. Part of this is California has a fairly mild climate (well in the places people live): you won't be comfortable some nights, but the weather won't kill you.

States with lower housing costs do appear to have lower homelessness rates.
> The government at the time lost numerous important cases when trying to implement Brexit.

Yup, in the two cases that come to mind, the Supreme Court kicked the issue back to Parliament: Miller I[1] said that, given the extreme constitutional consequences of no deal, the Government couldn't unilaterally trigger Article 50, such a decision could only come from Parliament. This was more just a procedural issue. An Act[2] was passed a couple months after the judgment, and Article 50 was triggered a couple days later. Whereas, Miller II[3] was about the Government proroguing Parliament in order to silence it. The Supreme Court was having none of that, so it annulled the prorogation. In both cases, the Supreme Court was protecting Parliament.

- [1] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(Miller)_v_Secretary_of_Stat...>

- [2] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_(Notification_o...>

- [3] <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_(Miller)_v_The_Prime_Ministe...>
It’s a poor design. When you have 33 engines, the failure rate is 33 times higher. Although I’m not sure what’s the absolute minimum number of engines for a successful mission.

Regardless, it will go down in history as another unreliable design like the space shuttle.
CMU research shows compression alone may unlock AI puzzle-solving abilities
> As a software engineer it seems silly to consider where my code will be in fifty years.

Yep - at my least job I worked on three products, only one of which is still running.

The job before that still has their main product running, so I guess I'm at 50% (not including my current job).
Yeah, this has been fairly well-covered in the past, not sure why they decided to re-hash now.
Kyber512's Security Level (2023)
Walgreens agrees to be acquired by private equity firm for almost $10B
I was impressed with how tight the known bounds are. For length 30, the upper bound is 1.0000397 times the lower bound. For 40 the ratio is 1.0000164 and it quickly approaches 1.
So, Microsoft?
How to spot AI slop on Pinterest – and why it's such a big problem
Patients with long Covid regain sense of smell and taste with pioneering surgery
I've "protested" exactly once, way back in 2003, ahead of the US invasion of Iraq.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15_February_2003_anti-war_prot...

In retrospect it was obviously a worthy protest, although it it didn't accomplish anything.

NYC had 300-400k protesters that day, according to the article.