skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drawing from my experience, modern technologies like Hotwire and Turbo Frames—when integrated with background jobs and Action Mailbox for handling inbound emails—alongside mature tooling, create a surprisingly effective (and enjoyable) platform for developing AI applications.
Funny enough, this trick also works on humans!
> I've never seen one in the wild outside shops,

I think this is down to what I was saying: they're not general purpose machines anymore, they're mostly used for specialised workloads. If you don't spend any time in the sort of environment where those workloads are common, you won't see them. Similarly, many people will go all their lives without ever seeing a gaming PC, even though they're completely mundane in my (and, I assume, your) world.
This isn't a macro, it works as both macros and templates in C++, and regarding types it works the same way as templates in C++.
So you can't handle a raccoon living in a bush on a yard somebody says you own so you destroy it's habitat?

Very cool. Do you want a medal? Should the ruminants who need grazing land be allowed to bulldoze your stapled together plywood or is that unreasonable?
"Severe consequences" is a verbal talisman that shows that the speaker is not serious. Consequences that are warned of are not consequences at all.
I am aware of that, but the fact that it was still on the books matters. For one, it has psychological impact, and for another if some police officer in a bad mood doesn't like your face geometry or number of thumbs, things like this can become 'power trip utilities' even if they're thrown out a few hours later.
> She’s very playful, and Bluey is all about fun and silly games. She wants to play all the Bluey games, and will riff off them too, it’s been a huge source of inspiration for lots of fun together.

Our daughter is the same. Pizza girls and tickle crab are two of her favorite
This is far from OK. Entire point is to have GPL not to run away from it. Again canonical shows they didn't get the point.
Anyway Im staying on gnu coreutils as i see no benefit and zero reason for switch.
First one should be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallaecia
I’m curious what % of sales the iPhone 13 Mini had compared to the other iPhone 13 models. Evidently the percentage can slip so low Apple will cancel an entire beloved product line.
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What functionality does a program need to emulate to be a terminal emulator?
When's the last time you've seen a non zero NULL pointer?

We don't code for things like PDP-11 or Honeywell mainframes all that often.

https://c-faq.com/null/machexamp.html
Given the fact that I think of myself roughly like a string lookup service, i think there are much stronger places to argue for the incapacity of LLMs than deferring to the ill-defined and generally-inapplicable "understand".
I think lightbulb cameras would be better for long term surveillance.

Naturally connected to a long term power supply and easier to hide cabled networking to avoid emissions.

Extracting faces might be more difficult, but that’s “just a software problem”.
I really like Perplexity above all other AI tools. Don't have an account with them, just escape their signup prompt to keep using.

Mixed feelings about Tiktok
The question is who is feeding them that information.
Have a look at the 12" Retina Macbook [0]. It's just called the 'Retina Macbook' (not air or pro). It was produced between 2016 and 2019. It is absolutely tiny, it ways just 920gr.

It took me a while to find a decent one second-hand, but it has been my ultimate travel companion since. It's small enough to just drop into any bag (handbag even) and can charge of any USB-C charger. No other brand of laptop in that form factor comes even close to build quality. I don't think any other unibody laptop of that size even exists.

If you get a later model (2017-2019, 3rd gen) then you get MacOS 13 (Ventura), which still receives updates. If you can find a later-model with upgraded CPU (i5) then performance is actually quite decent, lower-spec models are also still just fine for browsing, email and terminal work.

Supposedly it runs Windows just fine using bootcamp (I haven't tried). I have mine setup for dual-booting Linux. Linux support is decent, though out of the box no support for speakers (headphone jack works), it has a broadcom wifi/bt chip and the wifi works just fine, but bluetooth is currently broken. There are some out-of-tree patches that add limited BT support. I'm working on writing Linux drivers for audio and BT in my (admittedly limited) free time, if someone is interested in helping with that: find my email in bio.

Upsides:

- Very small and light

- Robust unibody

- Does 10 hours on a battery

- Spare parts still available

- Later models still get updates, including Windows

Downsides:

- Probably won't be long before MacOS 13 goes EOL

- First gen (2015-2016) supports up to MacOS 11 (EOL) and second gen (2016-2017) up to MacOS 12 (still receives security updates).

- Only one USB-C 3.1 port for everything, so if you want to charge and use USB peripherals at the same time you need to carry a dongle

- Very low travel keyboard (obviously)

- It's rare, so limited documentation for Linux support

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12-inch_MacBook
This reminded me. There was an episode of Modern Family made entirely on Apple devices.
There are a few really nice and freely available ML resources out there. But in order to truly get somewhere, I believe there's no way around accompanying theory with hands-on, practical exercises.

Some textbooks actually do have exercises included, but for self-studying you're sort of at a loss if you face an exercise that you cannot solve on your own. If you're lucky, you can ask a question online on platforms such as stackexchange and keep your fingers crossed that you get a good answer, but this form of interaction is severly inferior to a true face-to-face tutor-student exchange where you can quickly and easily ask follow-up questions or gets hints that lead you to the right answer, rather than actually getting the correct answer presented to you.

Further, in a field like ML, that really combines deep theory with practical implementations, you should really be able to do both theoretical exercises as well as hand-on programming tasks. Again, there's a lot of material out there on the internet, but it's not straight-forward to self-study, especially as a complete beginner. You'll inevitable end up in a situation where it's left to you to wade through various online tutorials on how to use a certain library or how to deal with various error messages. And in a way, that is part of our business in general; however for studying ML (or any other field), this is a distraction from your actual goal. The more time and energy you end up spending on various detours as a means to an end to get your exercises done, the more likely you are to give up.

Many approaches have been offered to educate yourself online, both through the availability of resources like this Concise Machine Learning book, to lecture recordings on youtube or university website, all the way up to proper online universities and classes by Coursera and the likes. I think, however, there is still an opportunity for a true self-studying platform that intelligently integrates programming exercises in a scalable way with a focus on helping you through whenever you get stuck. That latter part especially is IMO still underdeveloped.

GPTs could have a great potential to close this gap, but one thing I don't love of the status-quo is that this space is mostly covered by commercial entities. There isn't as much of a community effort in educational AI apps, and one big factor is the cost of running AIs. In classical open-source territory, one big appeal has been that you can develop software without spending much money at all - basically, all you need is a decent computer to get going. Publishing your library or app is taken care of thanks to Github et al., building a community is a lot more effort but still essentially free (except for your time investment, a cost which shouldn't be neglected). But building on GPTs costs actual money which puts many open-source enthusiasts into a more difficult situation.
Svelte: $derived can now be overwritten
I’m using kasm/webtop containers to work remotely via the browser. Is there something similar using rdp/ironrdp?
Yes, by all means go ahead and build Rapture.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapture_%28BioShock%29
Reserve currencies are important for international trade, not just international loans.

Being a reserve currency increases currency stability.

Being stable makes the cost of all loans, including domestic loans, cheaper.

Being stable also increases the use of a currency for reserve purposes.
Covered with eyes: biblically correct angel food cake.
AI is fantastic for doing stuff you are already qualified to do, but faster. It's great for prompting you with what to do next, and offering different ways to think about the problem in front of you. But you have to be able to describe the problem.

It's very good for learning more about stuff you're unfamiliar with. But you have to want to use it as a tool to learn.

It's terrible for inexperienced people who are uninterested in learning and who want a shortcut to a bigger paycheck. Vibe coding will not save the apprentice developer.

What worries me is how stubbornly younger devs (and really all students/younger professionals) seem to be resisting this rather obvious conclusion. It's Dunning-Kruger on steroids.

A rising tide lifts only seaworthy boats.
I disagree that it's an aspect of human nature. It's primarily cultural and that's why we can observe significant differences in the level of individualism in different societies.

Another adjacent example is justice system and reform. American system is punitive and even barbaric in many ways, while most European countries have a system that's heavily centered around reform and reintegration. This is all cultural.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-46463029

https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/14/identify_and_disrupt_...
iPhone Mini may return in 2026 for $2500, as 5.5" iPhone that unfolds to 7.8" iPad, https://www.macrumors.com/2025/03/18/foldable-iphone-rumors-...
> it is a centralized authoritarian surveillance state and not the kind of place one can go off the grid and raise a family.

The logistics of centrally surveilling a massive area of land are pretty tough, much more tougher than we imagine I think.

Historically independency seeking people learn how to flee from aggressive governments and move to places that make it harder to track them. Including cutting down on written documents that could expose their org., adopting social structures that decentralize leadership etc.

It was fascinating to me, I highly recommend checking the Zomia region.

e.g.:

https://medium.com/@matthijsbijl/welcome-to-zomia-the-anarch...
The context of this is considering requiring companies to pay/acquire a licence to operate in the EU; if a company isn't willing to abide the terms of the license, not operating in the EU is the whole point.
I wouldn't let junior devs anywhere near "agentic" tools like Aider / the newer Copilot stuff.

These things just let you turn off your brain and spend hundreds of thousands of tokens just rewriting entire features until there aren't any errors left.
Origin of Life: How microbes laid the foundation for complex cells
The entire article seems based on the misunderstanding that "Better than Trump's US Government on climate" means perfect and without flaws. It's a very low bar to meet, and China is sailing over it.

Even without Trump's re-election China was set to overtake the US in most green metrics over the next decade. It's probably better than the states that put Trump in power today.
Does it remind anyone of the targeted ads that John Anderton (Tom Cruise's character in Minority Report) hears when he moves through the city?
Last time I checked the float functions that have no bit-identical results (mostly transcendental functions) were missing from Rust's const fn for exactly that reason.
If you need to run mostly Windows-only software, a MacBook probably isn’t a good choice.

You have to look at Windows laptops and it’s pretty grim. Plasticy machines with some combination of garbage keyboards, shitty displays, terrible trackpads, short battery life, and loud fans (my last 3 machines have been ThinkPads) that are worth almost nothing when you want to upgrade after a couple years.
I think Tim Allen's character from Home Improvement was unique in that he was a father who frequently made comedic mistakes, but that they resulted from over ambition or carelessness rather than standard stupidity, and his "pig headed machismo" was often a bit of an act rather than who the character really "was" as evidenced by his ability to be thoughtful and sensitive after he learned lessons.
"Gaia uses the open-source Lemonade SDK from ONNX TurnkeyML for LLM inference."

It says it right in the article.

Its all Python academic-quality code, and I don't know why AMD isn't partnering with high performance inference engines like Llama.cpp (the project Ollama borrowed their code from, and then didn't keep up with) instead.
If you truly want to upstream changes to libraries then I don’t see why lgpl code isn’t a choice for you. Use it in your proprietary code if you want, no changes no foul. If you make changes you just need to upstream or make the source available.
Huh? Seems this quote confuses correspondence and equivalence. A frequency f = 1 Hz = 1 s^-1 (aka cycle/s != rad/s) corresponds to an angular frequency ω = 2π rad/s (ω = 2π f) but they're distinct concepts and quantities. The Hz was introduced in SI with all those considered. Basically both statements "1 Hz = 1 rad/s" and "1 Hz = 2π rad/s" are wrong. The only dumb is this quote tbh.
> I don't agree (although the systems-based paranoia is attractive) that society seeks to use individuals for its benefit by pressuring them to compete.

I do think it's like that, though. And it's not even "society", but the elite manipulating the majority into working for them. When you see a billionaire paying people to write articles saying single payer healthcare or free housing for the homeless would "reward the lazy", it's obvious they want people to be scared of not working. They say it openly.
I looked at Scallop a year ago and decided that it was not a replacement for Prolog - for me.

I may re-evaluate now, thinking of smoother LLM integration as well as differentiability.

Has anyone here used Scallop for a large application? I ask because in the 1980s I wrote a medium large application in Prolog and it was a nice developer experience.
Marginally improved answer: AutoSys
Britain is not doing so strong economically, but we are not at the point of having the kids chip in for the electricity bill yet
The premise is wrong. You hardly need your entire codebase in the context window to generate code. If your code is properly modularized, all you need is for a specific module to be in it, maybe with some interfaces from other modules.
I found this thread really interesting because of the variety of peoples' favorite episodes and particularly which episodes evoked an emotional response. Some episodes named don't resonate with me at all, which just goes to show how we all have such different life experiences.

"Rain" is my favorite. The shots, the story, the music, the lack of dialog. "The Sign" was my biggest tearjerker.

Also, I came across this musician who makes great EDM remixes of Bluey songs, I recommend checking him out:
https://www.youtube.com/@MicJaiy/search?query=bluey
I guess AI's talking to AI's about gibberish is the future of all energy use.
PBS interview with the woman who quit Skadden

https://youtu.be/K7IyuSiGcrI?si=UYEuO0HOpGJYDku9
Link to the actual video: https://youtu.be/wsxKO8VCNyU

TLDR: In their test, iPhone 16e lasted 11h00m on its 4005mAh battery.
I always die inside a little when junior dev at my company uses Windsurf to tell him how a specific pandas function works.

Like you're just using it as an expensive documentation repeater, but now with spicy possibility of lies.
Windows only.

Dependencies: Miniconda :|
It has a speed of more than 2.
Not to sound snarky but Anthropic introduced function calling over a year ago... The capability was always there for someone that wanted to spend a weekend coding a tool for it.

https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-family?_hsenc=p2ANqt...
Every good idea needs powerful PR. How about we start rallying around the term "software equivalent of cancer" which Tim Cook coined to describe encryption backdoor.

Speech matters. "Software cancer bill" sure sounds less appealing than "catch terrorists bill".

Nobody has to understand the details about why encryption backdoor is impossible to implement without breaking the encryption. It is too hard of a topic. I only understand it vaguely. Does it matter? You don't need phd in silicon design to know that chips are important.
> Read great books, watch interesting movies, dance to the music, use latest gadgets, and eat good food.

Does this assume I’m already a billionaire?
The named integer range thing is interesting. I guess it depends on what you goal is. Could you use asserts? Could you wrap the integer in an object and embed the restriction logic there?
Desktop sales are so low because the 32 inch iMac is years overdue.
So what? There's zero interest in proprietary extensions to coreutils. This isn't Linux or GCC; they're just basic command line utilities.

Also anyone that really cared could use the BSD versions anyway.
Somehow agree with it, but... how do you do so when you're in survival mode?

How does the whole premise of "If everyone did what what they find most fulfilling, our net happiness will rise." work if not everyone gets to choose, that is, had enough to just exist (home, food, health)?
Hmmm not at the moment, may add this though. Have you tried the weekly puzzle?
Worth a read for think tank context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_Institute
We have two young kids, and have friends and family who are enamored with Bluey. Every time we're over they put it on because they need us to like it too. I've seen so many episodes because everyone puts it on when we're over and I just... don't... get it. My children's attention isn't captured by it, and neither my wife nor I enjoy it.

The kids in the show are just kind of annoying, needy and of out of control. Things I don't want my kids to emulate. The parents feed into it and treat the behavior like it's ok. I also don't feel like the stories have particularly great takeaways for kids most of the time.

It's a minor gripe but I really find the staccato melodica theme song full of awkward pauses to be quite grating.

Everyone is free to like what they like. You are free to love Bluey. I just wish people would stop trying to make us like it, and stop making us watch it.
once the article started listing the software and hardware components, I was expecting a recipe for the cake too :)
That was a great read- what an experience to have lived through
Nobody here was advocating against learning and memorising, but for writing code that is as self-evident and unambiguous as possible.

Talk to any electrician which kinds of diagrams they prefer; those were a fellow was clever, trying to compress stuff as much as possible, or those that are clearly readable and easy to understand. Pilots carry heaps of documentation with them on the plane, walk through checklists instead of trying to memorise what to do. Your argument doesn’t hold up the slightest scrutiny.

I’m advocating for a culture of helping people hone their skills by learning from others instead of being turned off by their arrogance. That’s a very different thing from encouraging them to avoid thinking.
Our experiment on the value of European news content
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42886680

Ollama does not support Vulkan on any platform. So this at least provides another choice.

Being Windows-only is still baffling. I guess they assume their biggest user base is using Windows, and Linux users are few and don't care do much about running LLMs on iGPUs (the experience is poor). But would it really cost them that much work to support other OS?

Edit:

> GAIA_Installer.exe: For running agents on non-Ryzen AI PCs, this uses Ollama as the backend. (https://github.com/amd/gaia)

...eh, what's the point? Why don't I just install Ollama?
Nvidia CEO Huang says he was wrong about timeline for quantum
I agree. I have been integrating Brave search and DuckDuckGo search with LLMs for about a year. That said it is so much more convenient having an option of having it built in.

I stopped paying for Perplexity a year ago, but a month ago I started using Perplexity's combined search+LLM APIs - reasonably priced and convenient.
I love these kinds of acknowledgements, as they not only show gratitude, but also give a glimpse into the collaborative, creative process:

> We would like to extend our heartfelt gratitude to the following individuals for their valuable contributions to this project:

> timonv – For discovering and suggesting the brilliant name for this crate. Read more about it here (https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1j42fgi/comment/mg6pw...).

> Polanas – For their invaluable assistance with testing, design, and insightful feedback that greatly improved the project.

> Your support and contributions have played a vital role in making this crate better—thank you!
Relatedly, Jack Daniel’s recently won a unanimous Supreme Court decision affirming their right to pursue trademark claims against a dog toy manufacturer.

The toy company claimed their products were parodies, which have heightened protection from such claims, but the Court didn’t buy it.

https://www.oyez.org/cases/2022/22-148

Fun oral argument for an extended dog walk; you get to hear the justices argue about scatological jokes and whiskey bottle shapes.

JD’s advocate, Lisa Blatt, is also reliably a hoot.
Let's start with corporations. You know, those that invented the term "carbon footprint" to redirect blame for climate change to consumers.
No dumb perhaps, but very very short sighted and it pretty clear how other decisions can be so very wrong, once you hear them get quizzed on encryption.

"We should have a backdoor for law enforcement", okay but what if that abused by some regime that doesn't like Jews, Muslims, Christians, homosexuals, communists, authors, journalists... you? Obviously THOSE people shouldn't have access to a backdoor. Okay, but if you do it EU wide then Hungary will have access to it. Okay, only Western European nations should have access. What if AFD wins in Germany or Groupe Rassemblement National in France? Okay, in THAT case the backdoor access should be revoked. Who decides that?

It's very clear that politicians want backdoors in encryption, but only under a very specific set of circumstances. Those circumstances are almost completely tied to their own parliamentary seats. If questioned long enough, most of them will see it issue, they probably won't admit it though.

So no, not dumb, just incredibly short sighted on almost irreversible decisions that can and will hurt the wrong people.
Yes, Fallout4 get a bad name because it followed the New Vegas masterclass, but it is truly one of the best Fallout, and the Far Harbour DLC is in my eyes the best atmosphere of any Fallout game i've played (never played Fallout 1 though). Fallout3 is pretty bad though.
Somebody designed in a GPU chip that is just there rendering UI lol