skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Assuming it is the best when the private servers are controlled by someone who lets you use it, is it still the best when that connection is severed or when trust is broken by the nation controlling the servers, data and code? What if some president decides your nation's airstrike is not to his taste and... cancels it? What will you do then, tweet angrily about it, ask for a refund? Talking of course primarily about ODIN/ALIS.

I'd take a bicycle without electronics over an electric vehicle that decides not to start, any day, when picking military hardware.
I’m also intrigued by genetic programming. One of the benefits, if I understand correctly, is that it is more resistant to getting stuck in local maxima.
I liked Val Kilmer in most films, but specially on Heat (1995). I think it was his best acting ever.
Mind sharing it?
> Public money is just wasted by politicians trying to buy votes for the next election.

No, that's not how any of this works.

https://scienceexchange.caltech.edu/topics/voting-elections/...

Politicians' campaigns are usually funded by large corporations and individual donors, not by public money.

> Not so long ago, people paid the tithe (10%) and if any lord,

The current right wing governments are trying to bring us to that time, it seems.

> There's many countries in the world with smaller taxes and still great service

Name a couple.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/standard-...

Luxembourg - 42%

Netherlands - 49%

Denmark - 42%

Should I go on?
US labour watchdog halts Apple cases after group’s lawyer picked for top job
In your defense, the "use it for data initializing" suggestion isn't exactly helpful text either.

Also, for the record: I presume you tested on Chrome, but on Firefox the difference between the two loop styles is quite a bit larger (and generally slower than Chrome, so perhaps also a consideration when optimizing for "slowest browser" as the bottleneck).
I find that to be an extremely common argument against trans ppl. It's very similar to the whole gay panic thing. I was surprised when I realized how worried some cis men were about being "tricked" into sleeping with a trans person. As if there are so many trans people and as if all of them want to get into their pants.
A comparable BYD is about 20% cheaper than the Leaf in Australia. And that is after the Leaf's recent price drop attempting to close the gap.
His performance as Doc Holliday in Tombstone is a work of art.

RIP Val Kilmer
Interesting bit there about music for facing mortality. An ambient classic from that same era is Steve Roach “Structures from Silence”. He had an NDE and that music is what he heard during.
I bought Bang On A Can's version soon after it was released in 97, and it remains one of my favourite pieces of music to code to. For reasons that I can't adequately explain I prefer it to the (itself wonderful) original.
"I never sleep, I don't know why. I had a roommate and I drove her nuts, I mean really nuts, they had to take her away in an ambulance and everything. But she's okay now, but she had to transfer to an easier school, but I don't know if that had anything to do with being my fault. But listen, if you ever need to talk or you need help studying just let me know, 'cause I'm just a couple doors down from you guys and I never sleep, okay?"
My first celebrity crush as a kid. She's also in _Revenge of the Nerds_. Those two movies made young-me think that being a geek could be cool.
Making an asynchronous ai agent is still hard, there is a disconnect between the agentic LLM code (langgraph, openai agents, etc) and asynchronous distributed systems/message passing. True AI agents will have a cohesive joining of the two.
I'm a huge fan of Real Genius. This comes at a real oddly coincidental time...

Back when I was probably 16, so '86, I came across Robert Woodhead, probably on Usenet, probably with some mention that he worked on the movie. So I sent him an e-mail and told him how much I loved the movie. He wrote back and told me a little about the computer graphics that he did for the movie. So every time I see some of the graphics scenes, I think of him.

A few days ago I was watching a Youtube video "10 things you didn't know about Real Genius", and it showed those computer graphics.

And I thought "I wonder what he's up to." Turns out he's done some kind of interesting things, has a github, etc. So, I fired off another e-mail to him ("I'm sure you don't remember, but back in '86 you graciously replied to an e-mail I sent you and I've often thought of that kindness.") He happens to live where I visit typically a couple times a year, so we've set up going out to coffee.

2 e-mails, 40 years apart, and then this. Coincidences, man.
This is a great comment. I still reminisce about some rock solid TUI apps because they were extremely user friendly and productive.
The moment the GUI came along and the mouse became part of the picture, plus the focus on looking pretty, effective interactions went out the window.
You're talking to the wrong person since I would fully support a prohibition of the RN if France's democracy was as combative as it should be. I just don't think this played a role here. Politicians complaining bitterly about being persecuted for crimes they've committed is not a new thing, though, they always believe they deserve special treatment.
Genetic data repo OpenSNP to self-destruct before authoritarians weaponize it
F# is getting some traction in Norway. I know for a fact that places such as NRK (BBC eqvivalent), Resoptima, Frende Forsikring and my current employer, REN are all using F#.

I just gave a talk about how we use F# at REN:
https://vimeo.com/1070647821
A Mars development advocacy piece that does not mention the absence of magnetic field problem at all.
So, you'll hammer later.
I'd like to add that fanfiction is also generally disallowed to make any money, unless all of the original influence is removed from it.

And so the problem isn't with people who find joy in something they saw, but in people who make money from derivative work without explicit permission
The entirety of the production-ready platform took us 3-4 weeks to build, including figuring out RL and GPU infrastructure. If you want to know more about RL, you can check out Huggingface. You can also hop on Augento https://augento.ai and join our Slack community. We'll answer and discuss any question together and with others. You'd get $250 worth of free credits you can use to tinker with RL already - it'll teach you some stuff.
I completely misinterpreted the title.

I thought "Real Genius" and "Film Nerd" was referring to "Val Kilmer", like it was saying "RIP Val Kilmer, a real genius and film nerd that culture deserves" instead of "RIP Val Kilmer, who worked at Real Genius, the film that nerd culture deserves".

I must say that I never heard about this movie and I'm happy that this is a recommendation of a 80s movie
They all pretend to want to go to Mars when they're actually aiming for the Belt. Oyedeng inyalowda, oye beltalowda.
Rust toolchain has already a bug since 2015: it cannot link statically libgcc, namely it does not have "-static-libgcc" option since 2015.

I got the bug with "TinyGlade" video game (extremely good BTW), which is written in rust, and with the dev we hit that bug. Namely... better have a libgcc with the right ABI... and I can tell you, this has a been a HUGE issue since valve started to distribute games more than a decade ago.
I'd love to see this adapted for desktop apps. Any plans on doing that?
Real Genius made college look like a lot of fun. And to a very young kid Mitch, Chris, and Jordan was my motivation. I was a first gen college bound student who had a vague notion of what university would be like. And it wasn’t that far off the mark. I did work with lasers. I had a weird roommate. I streaked on the quad after a snow storm. College was challenging a lot of the time and also fun some of the time.

I still watch this movie and encourage my son to watch it with me.

Thank you and rest in peace, Mr. Kilmer.
The Illusion of AGI and the Dawn of Post-Cognitive Humanity
As mankind? Think how many cars were there in South America, Africa or Asia 50-70 years ago. Its what now, 100x more?

Even in Europe its at least 10x but probably more compared to my childhood where I lived (east & west). My parents used to play as kids on the roads next to their places, those few cars per hour were slow and easy to spot and hear. Now its a car every few seconds at least.

We also found plenty more way to pollute and more types of materials to burn. Also all is now permeated with micro and nano plastics.
An 'administrative error' sent a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison
I got a three day suspension from school for doing this. I sent something mundane like “hello” to entire school. Few minutes later, the IT admin came running down, told me off and took my details.

Made the mistake of telling a couple friends what happened. Said friends thought it would be hilarious to send swear words to the entire school (I was not there).

They played dumb saying they didn’t know what would happen and got off with one day each, I got suspended for three days.

I wouldn’t have minded so much except the next day was an inter-school chess tournament. Thankfully the sympathetic chess coach told me to wait behind the school the next morning and picked me up in the school bus.
China's New Barges Could Make a Tough Task Easier: Invading Taiwan
Super annoying! I'm glad it at least showed a dialog before deleting my entire chat history
Fantastically Wrong: The Legendary Scientist Who Swore Our Planet Is Hollow
Hmmmm.

I am not sure I personally consider that closely enough related to count.

It often seems to me that even today Amiga fans are so passionate about the machine that they make rather exaggerated claims that do not really stand up.

For instance in many places I have read the claim that AmigaOS was a microkernel OS, or closely-related claims such as that it was the first widespread microkernel, or the first GUI microkernel, and so on.

The point of a microkernel is that only the microkernel runs in kernel space (in x86 terms, in Ring 0) and the rest of the OS is divided into multiple "servers" which run in user space (again in x86 terms, in ring 2 to 3). This in turn brings a problem, which is how to make comms between the microkernel and the servers fast. IPC is the big problem and that is what microkernel OSes struggle with, which has shaped the design of Mach, XNU, L4, seL4 etc.

AmigaOS is small but everything runs in ring 0. There is no division and so there is no need for tricky performance-critical IPC and all processes can read and write each others' RAM. That makes it (1) easy (2) fast (3) not a microkernel.

I would regard direct blitting into 2D windows as not unique, not the first such implementation, and not the same as 3D compositing.

"Methinks milady doth protest too much."
Firstly, it might be worth separating the concepts of read and write consistency. For example, in your system reads are eventually consistent (because syncing is not enforced) and the situation with writes is more complicated.

I think the key point of your design is flexibility, rather than any individual consistency properties. It might be better to emphasise this and try to explain, at the top-level, the concrete ways an application can interact with the storage and the different tradeoffs.

So you might have strong write consistency with forced global serialisation or weaker properties with less enforced sync policies. From the perspective of the application, the internal details shouldn’t matter, but the external properties and how to achieve them (eg. CRDT style merging etc as a way to get strong consistency with less syncing, for certain domains).
>playing the clueless engineer type

Or... Maybe I was just 10 and hadn't really learned that lesson yet. ;-)
Because the consultants real job is to be a glorified sales rep and you need a person to do that.
I wonder why there are so many, just people reinventing stuff that no one really needs?

For me personally I have 4 of those as visited, pouchdb, automerge, loro and sqlsync of course. I was trying to fit such a tool into existing architectures that I deal with at work but nothing really makes sense.

My guess is those solutions are in totally wrong abstraction layer, creators think that would be best thing since sliced bread - but in reality having rest API and some persistence on client is like 99% good enough. With service workers in browser and mobile apps no problem of just having data stores.

Sending out specific partial updates, just reloading full state from the server is just easy to explain to the users and easy to implement. Last write wins with some auditing log is also good for something like 99.9% of applications and is super easy to explain to people - what's not easy to explain and not easy to implement is merging conflicts on database data. It is not easy to make audit logs server side so they are not tampered with if you just sync full database instead of doing REST requests.

This approach with "sync databases" feels for me exactly like someone proposing use of LateX because it is great to people who need to write 10 page essays.
Solving the Trolley Problem Won't Make AI Ethical
I first saw this film when I was a kid, and it made a lasting impression on me. Unfortunately, it feels like the lesson of the film has not been learned: too many "geniuses" over the past 40 years have failed to consider the negative social consequences of the technology that they create. These naive geniuses are all too happy to solve technical problems and cash paychecks given to them by powers that turn out to be malevolent (despite draping themselves in a costume of benevolence).

Question authority, and question your own role in the power structure. It's a moral imperative.
My two cents is that F# hasn't received the same care and attention as C# and working with it can be awkward.

At the same time, a lot of the cool features (list comprehension, pattern matching, immutable records) have slowly trickled into c#, giving even less incentive to switch
After thousands of comments, they're now reconsidering: https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/4921
Show HN: Pressure – a simple 2D board game in JavaScript
I'm a fan of minimalistic design and I tried to make an "easy to learn, hard to master" 2D board game.

Pressure is played on a 5×5 grid with 12 tokens total. The key mechanic is a "push" feature where tokens can displace entire lines of other tokens if there's an empty space at the end of the line. When opponent tokens are pushed, they become inactive for one turn. Capture occurs when tokens are surrounded on all four sides.

After analyzing gameplay data, I found Pressure has an average branching factor of 11.5, which is higher than Othello (10) and Checkers (2.8), though lower than Chess (35). Its game tree complexity is approximately 10^57, placing it remarkably close to Othello (10^58) and much higher than Checkers (10^40), despite the smaller board size.

The state space complexity appears to be in the range of 10^20, comparable to Checkers, which is notable given Pressure uses a 5×5 grid versus Checkers' 8×8 board. Chess and Othello have higher state spaces at 10^44 and 10^28 respectively.

What's computationally interesting is how the push mechanic generates this complexity. About 27.5% of all moves involve pushing, which creates a multiplicative effect on the decision space. Each push can reposition multiple tokens simultaneously and create cascading positional consequences beyond what the compact board size would suggest.
I've found the average game length is approximately 50 moves, similar to Othello (58) but shorter than Chess (70) and Checkers (70).

Let me know what do you think about the game.
Why not demineralized water instead of alcohol?
I used an Inky wHAT display with an old Raspberry Pi B+ to build a weather display that shows live weather pulled from my Ambient Weather station. My project uses Inky's python library. Since the Ambient API doesn't provide forecasts, I pull a daily forecast from the US Weather Service. And I grab the moon phase from Visual Crossing. https://github.com/skypanther/inkywhat
I think LINQ is inspired by SQL. You can do whatever you can with SQL, it's just that the data source might differ IEnumerable with some in memory data, IQueryable with some DB. Or you can use async enumerable and your data source can be whatever web API or protocol.
> every value is a string

Somehow this design flaw escaped my notice.
What you're describing sounds like the curvature or topology of space would be non-flat. AFAIK this hasn't been completely ruled out, but so far every piece of evidence suggests the universe is flat over vast distances.

Intuitively I'd say if there was curvature or topological irregularities at the furthest distances we can observe, there wouldn't be a consistent redshift observed on far objects because some of them would be coming towards us instead of pulling away.
Oh, that's way better! I guess the comparison only holds as approximately true with home setups -- thanks for the references.
The Netherlands should just make ASML unaffordable in the US (due to tariffs or whatever).
Kifflom!
> How should a microkernel run (WASI) WASM runtimes?

Same as any other kernel—the runtime is just a userspace program.

> Can a microkernel do eBPF?

If it implements it, why not?
For anyone else perusing the comments for more ambient music, I recommend Stars of the Lkd for anyone looking for similar feels.

https://youtu.be/c4E6RO4muLU?si=6QbUatQXm0zzWy0N
Oh, good God, Val Kilmer is dead. The Real Genius Knight, jaw-snap Iceman, Jim Morrison v 2, oh good God, a big piece of me. Gone.
It's still paid even if it's public. The difference is now the people who use it pay for it.
"It's a moral imperative". :-)
When are you and him grabbing coffee
Yes, some of China's educated youth just asserted sovereignty over Australia
Favorite scene from Real Genius, the group shot of a bunch of them studying for finals in the student lounge.

One guy gets up and starts screaming in frustration at the book and then the room and finally runs out.

Everyone looks up briefly like nothing happened and then somebody gets up and takes his seat, like "oh look, a more comfortable study chair."
Configuration Complexity Clock (2012)
I've found that as C# gains much of the features that F# has and will soon gain more (pattern matching, functions as first class data types, great fp libraries, etc) the "moat" that F# has over C# has gotten smaller. I write most of my c# code in a primarily functional style, but I still have the advantage of using the libraries in their own native ways that follow the examples given by microsoft and other vendors.
Show HN: Chat with LLMs on Your Kindle
After receiving a Kindle Scribe for Christmas, I wanted to use ChatGPT directly on my E-Ink display but couldn't find any existing solutions. Despite the Kindle's closed ecosystem, I discovered its browser _could_ support a simple chat UI.

I created companion.ink to mimic Kindle's UI sensibilities and deliver a pretty seamless AI chat experience on E-Ink displays. It works on Kindle Scribe, Paperwhite, and should work on other E-Readers too, but let me know if there are any issues. Feedback welcome!
The algorithm is described at https://www.paulnasca.com/algorithms-created-by-me
Django and DevOps: A Perfect Match for Agile Back End Development
Good, where there's a will, there's a way
Maybe you can submit a proposal/issue to the C# language team? I'd vote for it!
Nope. Also they resolve very quickly and fraud cases generally resolve in favor of the consumer anyway.
I've been using https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html for years now. Any major benefits to either of these?
Rust is getting an official spec
In SwiftUI, dismiss is popular for its flexibility, but overusing it can introduce hidden risks, testing challenges, and stability issues. Opt for state-driven methods like Binding or custom environments for safer, more maintainable UI logic.
Can confirm—I made a smart chess set like this years back by soldering Hall effect sensors and wires manually to a wood board for 64 squares. Every new soldered connection feels exponential—totally makes sense they didn’t do it this way.
I would’ve probably done 4 4x4 PCBs instead so a single damaged PCB could be swapped out.
Chorus One | https://chorus.one/careers | Platforms Engineer | REMOTE (Switzerland ± 6 hours)

Chorus One operates validators on many proof-of-stake blockchains (the ones where security is based on a Byzantine fault-tolerant consensus algorithm rather than wasting energy). We are hiring for several roles, but the one I will highlight is what we call Platforms Engineer. Some companies call this Site Reliability Engineering or Devops.

The main thing we do is take upstream software, build it, run it on our infrastructure, and then monitor it and optimize that setup. Some things that make this interesting are:

* Building automation that enables us to do this for many networks (70+ currently).
* Doing this with high uptime, building automation for failover, etc.
* Working with software that is on the one hand cutting-edge and doing interesting things (consensus algorithms, distributed systems, cryptography), but on the other hand that means it’s immature and often not easy to operate and monitor. Often we have to build custom tools, and dive into the source code of the project. We contribute patches upstream when it makes sense.
* Some of these projects are exercising the limits of what a machine can do, we have to do some low-level investigation that requires understanding of what the Linux kernel and network hardware are doing to properly identify what’s going on.

We do have a small cloud footprint, but run primarily on bare metal. We are looking for people who can not just configure services offered by the public clouds, but who deeply understand what lies below; people who could build their own cloud. That sounds a bit pretentious and it’s not exactly what we do, but it does involve many of the same aspects.

A recent example of what I personally find fascinating: last month Ethereum’s Holesky testnet experienced loss of liveness. This is a real-world, globally distributed system that implements Byzantine fault tolerance, with multiple independent implementations of the protocol. Several of these implementations had a bug in an update, which caused a split in the network. The protocol is designed to handle this situation in theory, but in practice it is triggering previously unexplored failure modes in the implementations, that are hard to test for in synthetic small-scale tests. I think there are very few places where you get to be involved in a planet-scale distributed system exhibiting “interesting” behavior, especially one that is not in control of a single entity. Of course, there is also the less fun part that the testnet was broken, alerts are firing, and it was hard and chaotic to coordinate a fix when the network is not controlled by a single entity. Fortunately it’s a testnet.

Apply at https://careers.chorus.one/o/platforms-engineer-remote.
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Thank you. I appreciate this and will try what you've mentioned.
If you have the time, please check out Faye's privacy policy and let me know if it's clear enough: https://faye.health/privacy-policy

My goal is to make it very transparent and easy to understand.
> USian isn't a real term - people from America, which is a country, are called Americans.)

I agree its not a real term. But I was using it as a compact way to refer to people from the USA, rather than America the country. Because "American" is arguably ambiguous in that it can refer to anyone from the Americas, which is obviously not the same as America the country.

tl/dr I was trying not to make the mistake I was suggesting that others have made
And me too!