skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What if we took a note from the BBS & time-share days of network computing and used a credits system rather than being open for specific hours? Users make content, get credits to spent on minutes of platform use whenever they wish, etc.
My experience is this is no longer a problem. Ever since the US gov legalized data mining/spying/tracking I have not had my residential IP change. I think its more profitable to spy by essentially giving "free" static IPs to all customers.
It is a little sad honestly how Canon has now been surpassed by Sony in both sensor technology and lens optical quality and yet they double down on forcing people to use their expensive lenses. I miss the old days when EF mount was the lingua franca of autofocus mounts with a thriving ecosystem of lenses from Sigma, Tamron, and the like. Even now some of the Sigma Art lenses for SLR mounts, like the 40mm and 105mm f/1.4, are peerless in terms of image quality.
I like ideas from effect, I use my custom result type all over my application as well as my custom tryCatch & promise.allSettled wrappers.

Issue comes down to you need to wrap all of your code in effect/results. Something like rust has that built in so you're not really 'jamming' it in there.

It adds a bunch of boilerplate. Still better than the mess that is exception throwing.
Is it hassle-free printing?

I have HP Smart tank budget printer and it sometimes drives me mad that it stops printing, you have to restart it and whatnot.

The colors are not great either.

However the tank lasts few years before it dries out and we do print with it quite a lot. For kids, for school, for coloring - usually I set low quality prints. But the printing is cheap.

But when I change the printer, I want hassle free print experience. And a tank based printer.
i never needed waterproof phone. i dont throw my devices into water. on contrary i've changed batteries many times when phones had replaceable ones.
there were waterproof phones before this whole BS, so this "argument" disintegrated. seems more like you are happy being held hostage by corporation.
> Expected behavior: Explorer should rearrange the icons so that the conform to the new desktop layout and it should do this in no more than half a second.

He was talking about thousands of icons, half a second would still be overly excessive, that should be milliseconds at most
My Scaling Hero (2008)
Your argument is that Google couldn't possibly have written their own web engine and browser at a time when Firefox and IE were the alternative options?
Because you use numpy. Could as well import cosine_similarity from sklearn.
That sounds insane! Do you have a source?
I recently read "Nathaniel's Nutmeg" and it talks in some detail about the atrocities carried out by the Dutch in the spice islands. It isn't something I had been aware of before.
Docker does not virtualize the kernel, in fact the kernel version “inside” Docker is the same as the host.
It's actually spelled "embarrassing".
is this practical or some nano thing they kept floating on a ultra strong magnetic field for a brief instant? i can't parse the terms.
757 now.

I used to bookmark everything into Diigo. Then their Firefox extension stopped working... and I haven't got a cross-platform, cross-browser process up and running again.

Is there a tab session manager that does that, and lets me send tabs from my current session to another session? E.g. I'm on my "Writing C for a hobby" session and quickly search for something cooking related, and then need to send that to my cooking session?
What they did wrong was picking the candidate - she wasn’t popular. It wasn’t the time to try this kind of candidate, but they did it because of their own priorities. It’s OK, they won’t learn.

Democrats need to start nominating famous actors and influencers.
This doesn't account for poll bias that biases both parties, of course. Not all polling is designed to wage parties against each other: some is designed to pit parties against populace.
Also the best model (current reality) is showing climate change!
So british has nothing to do with the famine ?

The rest is irrelevant for this thread.
You unplug your printer? I never had this issue with HP Smart tank, but I always leave it plugged in so it can dip the ink if needed.
Thats one of my primary issue with the Node community.

When I wrote Go for a few months I was blown away by how many projects I came across that hadn't had a commit to their repo in 3-4 years but people were still recommending them, the author just marked their project as 'feature complete' and all they planned on doing was bugfixes. It was a breath of fresh air.

Churn is built so deeply into the JS ecosystem that things breaking on the way is inevitable.

It's partially my fault for liking to be on recent versions of things, but even on a LTS release of node they released a [build where utf+8 strings were broken](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/54543) and our builds were failing silently.
If you include Northern Ireland, it's 7.2 million. But it was 8.5 million before the famine; 6.5 immediately after. After that emigration drove that number down.
The population size never recovered to pre famine levels.
IME the rot setting in from broken skin wins over the effects of vine consuming the nutrients.
George Takei (yes, the guy off Star Trek) has talked in detail about his family's terrible experiences of internment during WWII.
"Okay. I'll spare you the sarcasm."

Thank you for respecting the rules of local debate.

"Do you understand that the one young cancer patient does not want or need to hear this?"

Well ... is this not actually sarcasm?

What made you think that I am either stupid or callous enough not to care about young cancer patients and their fear and need for support and treatment?
I've been using NixOS for a couple of years; I still have it on one of my RasPis. I've had a moderately elaborate config for my laptop. I could enumerate all of the problems I've had with it, but back to my point: not that different from every other distribution. Once you get past the insane level of ecosystem fragmentation and DIY fixes (which NixOS adds to- with "regular" configs vs flakes), there's still the UX department, where both KDE and Gnome are severely lacking.
"It would be necessary to get a certificate of citizenship. This took years and during those years I landed up in the Dom. Republic & got my Ham ticket there without it, HI3XRD.""

Thank you very much for pointing that out. I'm in Australia and I've often pointed to the fact that many countries restricted access to the radio spectrum for many reasons—to limit EMI, for state security and strategic reasons, ensure secrecy of communications, etc.

For example, when I got my amateur ticket whilst still at school in the 1960s I had to sign a Declaration of Secrecy and have it witnessed by a registered JP. The reason was that people such as us could come across important transmissions (messages) of a strategic nature that should not be allowed to fall into the wrong hands.

Come mobile phones, WiFi etc. that changed without any real public discussion whatsoever.

What I find absolutely amazing is how—by sleight-of-hand—Big Tech sideslipped both very tight telephony and radiocommunications laws to violate say privacy on smartphones, and the fact that they've gotten away with it. The smartphone generation hasn't a clue about any of this stuff.
Right, once the privacy of telephonic communications was inviolable, now it's a fucking joke.

On the matter of the declaration of secrecy, amateurs could possibly come across unencrypted telephonic communications, ship-to-shore etc., and as deemed secret, they (rightly) were not allowed to act on that information in any way, in fact jail-time penalties applied if laws were violated.

Incidentally, as my Declaration of Secrecy has never been rescinded I'm still bound by its conditions.
Not surprising really given how many seeds a single tree produces every year. Must be in the thousands.
https://archive.is/8wIYh
The other one being the Australian Aboriginal population?
This hostility towards ownership goes way beyond computers. There has been a decades long effort to exclude people from 'productive' society if they don't consent to being controllable and surveilled.
Yeah, exactly. We just catch the TERM, clean up, and then shut down. But the rest of the top post in the thread is right on.
now i want to see a map with all timezones called EST but meaning something else in each one
You could be the first if you were to develop an eval (preferably automated with llm as judge) and compared local deep research with perplexity's, openai's and deepseek's implementations on high-information questions.
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I read a story about someone using Spotify for their alarm and sometimes a song would come up that instantly stopped the alarm as the first word in the lyrics triggered the voice recognition.
Are we calling web hosting AI now? Plus none of the links work, most of the site is lorem ipsum.

https://btechbabaiii.web.app/contributors/team.html

>Email: your-email@gmail.com

The comment is AI generated that you did not even bother to proof read before submitting.
Very much so. Tim Pat Coogan covers this in his book "The Famine Plot" (which is one of the major proponents that the great hunger was a genocide and has received a lot of criticism, but which covers the basic facts in good detail).

[edit: somebody elsewhere in this comment section has (apparently seriously) proposed Malthusianism as the root cause. In the Year of Our Lord 2025. With all of human knowledge available at their fingertips. You can't keep a bad idea down]
> This book, however, requires the reader to have some knowledge of probability theory and linear algebra.

This is so funny to me, I see it often and I'm always like "yea, right, some knowledge"... these statements always need to be taken with a grain of salt and an understanding that math nerds wrote them. Average programmers with average math skills (like me) beware ;)
Sure it is. You didn't actually say anything substantial, you only described the structure of a hypothetical argument to substitute for having one.

The straw person you've now added fills a similar function. You're clearly in search of rhetorical positions that lets you keep repeating yourself without taking the risk of participating in rational discourse.

How common is it that wealthy people become homeless because they recreationally consume wine? Is the prevalence the same as for other groups?
Some of the examples are still wrong. Nuanced, but a Dutch native will still frown at it.

But more importantly is that you limited the context a lot. As in: the scope, the prompt, is very narrow.

In our case, we were generating emails. Lines like greetings are but one of 20+ details in that mail and not even the most important ones. The prompts ever larger, the multishot examples ever more tuned. And then, one in a few hundred will turn up with these "horrible" translations.

We've now moved to a chain of models, where we generate emails in American (the creative part) and then use another model to translate them to Dutch (the non-creative but culturally aware part). This works much better as we can pick models that are good at one thing or tuned to do this one thing better (either by the LLMAAS provider, or by parameters such as temperature).
I wouldn't just call this "shifting your eggs from one basket into another". One of the baskets is on fire, because people decided to light it on fire. So we are also telling these people, that we are really not willing to accept this.

This is a clear message to those who have not yet lighted their baskets on fire not to make the same mistake, because we can and will find enough other baskets. Looking at the current stock market this does send a strong message.

Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin and the likes want to create a system where democracy is replaced by consumer spending decisions, because they are narcissistic enough to believe they will be the ones on to after their proposed system change. Telling them clearly: "No you won't be on top after this" is an absolutely important message to send.
In some countries, eBay or craigslist was never a thing. In NZ we have our local version of eBay but the success fees have gotten so ridiculously high that FB marketplace is slowly becoming the only option.
Can we have lightsabers now?
This is entirely doable.

I'm absolutely not versed in RL, but I wanted to understand GRPO, the RL algorithm behind Deepseek's latest model.

I started from a very simple LLM, inspired from Andrej Karpathy's "GPT from scratch" video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCc8FmEb1nY). Then, I added onto that the GRPO algorithm, which in itself is very simple.

I made a GitHub repo if you want to try it out : https://github.com/Al-th/grpo_experiment
The main problem with mozvpn is that they have a mozilla:mulvad account mapping. I'm unclear if my name goes to mulvad, but it does to mozilla.

Yes with mulvad you can pay anonymously via cash or bitcoin or whatever, but assuming you aren't doing that, using mozvpn seems potentially safer than mulvad - as you'd have to compromise both mulvad and mozilla to link my name/credit card with the vpn used.
> Lobbying for exemptions

Tariffs right now exist to as a way to favor particular businesses and choose winners and losers.

Authoritarians reward loyalty and punish dissent. Under authoritarian regimes law is not a limit but a tool or a means.

These tariff's exist to cause chaos which causes wealth centralization, but they also exist to reward loyal businesses and allow them to out compete any of their ethical competitors who might stand against the authoritarian.
My mistake. I did only look up the population in Ireland, forgot that Northern Ireland was part of Ireland until the 1900's.
The Congo belonged personally to King Leopold of Belgian (not the Belgian state). His minions committed all sorts of atrocities, mainly in the pursuit of rubber. You can read about it online, but it is stomach churning stuff.
From what you write about macros, it hints at something like F-expressions and first class environments, though I am not sure if it actually does have it.

I find the Kernel programming language to be inspiring. It is based on first class environments and tries to go further in the direction of the philosophy of Scheme : "Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and restrictions that make additional features appear necessary."

Your post is also in this spirit.

A language like this would allow a much greater dynamism and a reflective capability, but compiling it is a research project. (There was also a minor scuffle here on HN, a decade ago, regarding the non-inclusion of eval in ClojureScript in order to enable better optimization.)

https://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html

https://axisofeval.blogspot.com/2011/09/kernel-underground.h...

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Edit: Brief explanation of F-expressions (vau expressions in Kernel)

For a function call, the argument expressions are evaluated and the function only receives the values.

For a macro, the argument expressions are accessible to the macro, but the macro cant access the environment, so it cant evaluate these expression, but rewrites code into some other code.

For a vau expression as in Kernel(analog of lambda), the expression receives not just the argument expressions but also the lexical environment. This means it can genuinely return a result and not just code. Unlike macros, they can be evaluated even at runtime. Lambda and classical macros can be easily built on top of vau expressions.
More like 1000 people standing around a pool of vomit wondering when the other guy is gonna come and clean it up....
Out of my head all. It started with financing Hitler and Mussolini.

Spain and Portugal.

Then Turkey, Greece, Italy, Belgium. Belgium didn't last long though.
Cuisine is what happened when people wanted their food to last.
I didn't vote but I guess the downvotes are because it calls the parent claim a "myth" and then goes on to agree with it.

The scarcity that made food and housing not free in practice is why monetization (capitalism) ended up being better, which I assume was MikePlacid's point.

Capitalism has problems for sure, but it eliminates scarcity more efficiently than any other system we have tried so far.

Capitalism may share the abundance unevenly, but it still creates it in the first place, which is key.
I agree about the microscopic buttons, some buttons on my 13 inch iPad are literally 2mm wide (I measured).
I usually have no issues with things like that but man, they really are trying hard to make it difficult.

But what annoys me more is that they put in so many gestures and features that sometimes it takes me more than 10 tries just to save an image in the browser because it constantly wants to do some text recognition instead. It’s almost like context menus were useful.
Ultimately its just spaffing adverts at Plebs, no different to anywhere else Leetcoders end up.
Works fine for me. Settings > Home > Homepage > Custom URL
I'm not that picky. I'm okay with missing punctuation, or not capitalizing the start of sentence, and such - I write like this myself all the time, though on IMs specifically (where it used to be common to press <enter> at the end of a thought, not at the end of a sentence). I'm okay with occasional typo.

I'm not okay with text that's hard to impossible to parse due to the sheer volume of errors. And I'm not okay with lack of care behind sending "write-only" messages. Surely, if the sender read what they wrote, they'd realize that "yea no tim 3 bokS APSL" is not comprehensible. It's merely decodable, with significant effort.

(Notice the difference between your example and mine is that yours lacks the distinctive set of typos/errors made by someone who types on a phone, badly. In fact, guessing what kind of device one uses is helpful - but sometimes insufficient - in decoding the gibberish :).)
Why TAGE is the best (2013)
I'm not sure I fully understand your scenario. Who will be doing the actual network requests?

MCP is basically a trifecta of:

1) MCP-aware LLM applications
2) MCP clients
3) MCP servers

The LLM application is key here. It is doing all the "plumbing", like spawning MCP clients to connect to MCP servers — similar to how your web browser is spawning HTTP clients to connect to HTTP servers. The LLM application thus initiates and receives the actual requests between MCP client and MCP server, manages MCP client/server pairs, injects tool results into the LLM context et cetera. This means the LLM application must be MCP-aware at design-time. But because all of this plumbing can then happen at runtime under the hood, the user (who adds MCP tools while the application is running) does not need to be a developer.

As a developer, MCP allows you to write:

1) MCP-aware LLM applications
2) MCP servers

MCP-aware LLM applications (like Claude Desktop or Cursor) let their users add arbitrary functionality (i.e. other MCP servers) at runtime.

MCP servers can be added by users of MCP-aware LLM applications at runtime.

Both evolve around the concept of giving non-developers a way to add functionality at runtime. Most developers are confused about MCP because they don't need to do neither 1) nor 2), instead they themselves add tools to the applications they write (at design-time) and then ship it.
People only know the name and logo, they dont care whos behind it.
99% of users just click that little coloured circle to open 'the internet', they know nothing past that. They will continue to download Chrome for many years to come.

The market share will drop, but slowly and over decades. That will give some greedy company plenty of time to milk it for all its worth.
If your definition for "best engineer in the world" is "hired by you"… sure. I'm just not sure anyone else in the world would agree with this definition :)
GSuite/Workspace and consumer GMail is not the same thing in the slightest. They may use the same mail servers but that is about where the similarity ends.

I would recommend Google Workspace to any company because it gives them a ton of business productivity tools.

I would probably not recommend gmail as a users default personal email because frankly it's not that good.

The reality is most users have a Google account ans just use their Gmail account which is bundled.

Most of my circle which cares effectively use their Gmail account for sites that insist on it and never open that e-mail if they can get away with it.
ESP32 Undocumented Bluetooth Commands: Clearing the Air
No Im saying that a big company decided to piss off another big company by offering their main product for free, just because they had infinite money and could. Thats disruption not competition, and you can be sure if Chrome is taken away, the price for Google office apps will increase.
I used to work in this world, too. What is described here about EKS/K8s sounds tricky but it is actually pretty simple and quite a lot more standardized than what we all used to do. You have two health checks and using those, the app has total control over whether it’s serving traffic or not and gives the scheduler clear guidance about whether or not to restart it. You build it once (20 loc maybe) and then all your apps work the same way. We just have this in our cookie cutter repo.
The first question is weird. Many subsets of X can have property Y without X having it, wouldn't you say?

"If the desert is not covered in palm trees, how can a subset of it be covered in palm trees?"

"If the neural network is not activating, how can a node of the network be activating?"
Does Fedora support ZFS (without building from source) yet? Filesystem snapshots is not something I'd ever give up on, and Btrfs still doesn't seem production-ready.

Also - I'm done distro-hopping. The problem is KDE/Gnome- KDE is aping Windows (badly), Gnome is aping macOS (also badly). I'd list all of the problems but it would take an essay.
>Unlike eBay or Etsy, Marketplace doesn’t charge listing fees

>While Facebook doesn’t charge listing fees

>Marketplace isn’t a major direct revenue source

>It’s one of the least monetized parts of Facebook

Yet.
The better way would be to choose a time slot when you sign up. Then you always socialise within that slot. Allowing you to use any time any day kills the concept.