skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am one of those undisciplined ones. Routine has to be forced on me, otherwise I might find myself at 12 pm without having done any meaningful work.

Working remotely during confinement diminished my productivity significantly, measured by myself. I had to force myself to follow an imaginary schedule, because I knew in reality it is very flexible when you're at home. I tend to be at ease with disorganization, so being disciplined takes effort, and being disciplined among the amenities of your home is very strenuous.

My wife was unaffected by it, so I think I could get used to it too if needed, but I don't enjoy it as much as I thought I would.
Doesn’t “behind an api” still have Bobby Tables problems?

How do I put it behind an API without dumbing it down to inutility?
Did I just create the world's smallest AI server?
I successfully installed Ollama in Termux on my degoogled Unihertz Jelly Star, reputed to be the world's smallest smartphone, having a 3 inch screen. The Jelly Star packs 8+7 gb ram. I downloaded and then successfully ran distilled Deepseek-R1:7b locally on the device. Is it slow? Yes. But it still steadily outputs text word by word, does not crash, and takes no longer than a couple mins to respond in full. Anyone have other examples of micro AI workstations?
I like that it's unmonetized, of course, but that's not why I use AI. I use AI because it's better at search. When I can't remember the right keywords to find something, or when the keywords aren't unique, I frequently find that web search doesn't return what I need and AI does.

It's impressive how often AI returns the right answer to vague questions. (not always though)
That’s maybe doable as long as the major impact is just the stock market. Most people do not pay much attention to the stock markets, at least not day by day. However, within weeks, price increases from the US tariffs and demand decreases from the Chinese tariffs will start to hit, and those will likely be more difficult to paper over.
Interesting. It would be extraordinary if many of the discrepancies dark matter is required to explain are actually caused by some flaw in the data analysis. It seems unlikely, but not impossible.

I'm not familiar with the topic. Did you have any particularly suspect assumptions in mind?
Nepali farmers switch crops to reduce human-elephant conflict
You are missing:

The technological edge is unknown against a near peer.

Any edge has a non-zero maintenance cost.

Adversaries are not going to stop improving their capabilities so any advantage naturally decays.

The US Military directly employs a couple million people.

Our current military industrial complex is highly reliant on free trade agreements with allies.
The classic example is a garden hose seen from afar looks like a line, but up close it is a cylinder that can be walked “around” by an ant.
We allow most computers to talk to computers on the Internet. I am not using the computer 99% of the time yet the computer is connected to the Internet 100% of the time.
I Built a simple Case Formatter app for quick text transformations
That doesn’t seem particularly likely in Trump’s case, though; it’s hard to see his kids being compelling.
I find your definition of "insulting" really confusing, as pretty much all "white collar jobs" are "I sit on my butt all day and think lazily about things with very little pressure" jobs. They push paper and write reports on things, maybe doing some annoying math at times, but the entire concept of a "high pressure" job with "consequences for error" seems entirely at odds with white collar, and I'd personally have expected people who actually do something important on a daily basis (unlike, for example, me) might would find being categorized as "white collar" insulting?
Google used to return the right answer to vague questions until it decided to return the most lucrative answer to vague questions instead.
Soon sadly, there will be a huge demand for un-monetized LLMs. Enshitification is coming.
IMO those are different use cases. If that sender or Google itself were to disappear, hopefully the messages would just disappear too. It's better that they become inaccessible rather than public.

Long term archival is a different use case altogether, especially of encrypted materials. It's questionable whether any provider or medium can survive over the long term, so it's better to use an encryption system where you hold the keys and the encrypted data can be migrated to any sort of storage or provider over the years.
> The part that really struck me was framing advertising and propaganda as essentially the same mechanism

You might enjoy reading about– or a book written by– Edward Bernays.
They also have absurdly huge TIFFs of all 3 posters if folks are interested:
https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Gary+Overacre%...
Coming up next, ChatGTP does James Joyce.
Google Labs has AI Mode now, apparently.

https://labs.google.com/search/experiment/22
Probably because there are services (AKA web services, software listening on a network port, etc.) out there which accept arbitrary Parquet files. This seems like a safe assumption given lots of organizations use micro-services or cloud venders use the same software on the same machine to process requests from different customers. This is a bad bug and if you use the affected code, you should update immediately.
To the sibling comment’s point, I suppose it’s not weird in the Java ecosystem. The parquet-java project has a design where it deserializes Parquet fields into Java representations grabbed from _other_ projects rather than either having some kind of canonical self-representation in memory or acting as just an abstract codec. So, one of the most common things to do is apparently to use the “Avro” flavored serdes to get generic records in memory (note that the actual Avro serialization format is not involved with doing that; parquet-java just uses the classes from Avro as the in memory representations and deserializes Parquet into them). The whole approach seems a bit goofy; I’d expect the library to work as some kind of abstracted codec interface (requiring the in-memory representations to host Parquet, rather than the other way around - like how pandas hosts fastparquet in Python land) or provide a canonical object representation. Instead, it’s this in between where it has a grab bag of converters that transform Parquet to and from random object types pulled from elsewhere in the Java ecosystem.
There are times it just generates complete nonsense that has nothing to do with what I said, but it's certainly not most of the time. I do not know how often, but I'd say it's definitely under 10% and almost certainly under 5% that the above happens.

Sure, LLMs are incredibly impressive from a technical standpoint. But they're so fucking stupid I hate using them.

> This is not necessarily useful but it's quite impressive.

I think we mostly agree on this. Cheers.
>Someone recently made the point to me that the recent rise in low-code and AI-based tooling is likely going to separate out the platforms that solve tough problems

Former design assets marketplace CEO here. Wrong ^. Low-code gives you the tools to create a website. Great. Distribution is what disrupts. Platforms won because they aggregate traffic. When you break up the platform, you diffuse the traffic along with it.

The exception is sometimes there are whales: dominant content creators that win most of the clicks. If you're interested in a lot of people winning, I'm not sure that's really all that better or different from a platform.
I'm running Ollama + Smollm on this thing: https://pine64.org/devices/quartz64_model_b/
While the technology may be advantageous, it seems weird to write a whole article about it without mentioning the obvious solution: Just Heat The Battery. It's true that many early EVs (and most non-Teslas even today) don't ship with battery thermal management. But they won't be getting new battery chemistry either.

This is one of those Great New Technology items that smells like a failure simply because it's not competing with the thing the designers think it is. It's not enough for this to beat a cold battery with a performance delta ("5x", per the article) that would justify its additional cost. It has to beat a battery with a garden variety heat pump attached, which is a much (much) lower cost barrier.
I never said it was sustainable, and even if it was, OP asked for a business model. Customers don’t need a business model, they’re customers.

The same is true for any non essential good or service.
Don't know... Elon was a target before the inauguration anyhow.
This is super interesting! I would be very curious to see how we can get into even more safety when running WebAssembly in Wasmer with this crate (similar to V8 isolates).

Awesome work!
Perhaps it's not just about the 'shelf life' of a book, but also the language and style they use. The more archaic the language, and the more distant the style that the author's use, the harder it is for me to focus on the book.

Perhaps it would be useful to have expertly abridged and modernized versions of (e)books, with interpreter's notes for each change.
Hm, that's not available to me, what is it? If its an LLM over Google, didn't they release that a few months ago already?
Not quite accurate history of SMP. FreeBSD had SMP well before 5.0, but not "fine grained" which is what the 5.0 release was all about. But the conversion led to many regressions.
What browsers does this site support? It is broken on Firefox mobile.
> isn't "Jail the President for doing Presidential stuff" a bit charitable?

One of our Presidents, against the will of Congress and in an era where the right to levy war on the part of Congress was far more closely tied to troop deployment (because we weren't yet in the era of Pax Americana with permanent overseas bases on every continent, much less the post-9/11 era of massive power delegation to the Executive), moved our Naval assets away from the Atlantic coast toward Europe and basically tried to hide it from Congress. It would have been extremely impeachable... But then we ended up in a World War soon after. A war we, conveniently, already had our Atlantic assets positioned to fight, over the previous desires of an isolationist American representative legislature.

That President never came under question of whether he should be jailed for putting Americans in harm's way when we were not involved in the European conflict (yet), and Congress had no intention of involving the country (yet). The things Trump did in office were far less risky to life and limb. I'm not implying they were correct or just things; I'm saying that when we talk about whether the other branches should be able to jail the President for malfeasance in-office, this is the realm of decisions and standards we're talking about.
Firefox mobile + read mode works
Fair enough! Ain't nothing wrong with a regimen - I just think reflecting and choosing is part of the challenge.
Wordle for Physics Nerds
Also, if you live in the city (including suburbs), your neighbors are likely to get pretty annoyed by the sound of hammering metal. Welding makes noise too, but a lot less of it. That's the main reason why I haven't gotten into blacksmithing even though I think I would really enjoy it. I just don't think it'd go over well with the neighbors.
All of this can be true, and has nothing to do with them having a business model.

> NVDA will crash when the AI bubble implodes,
> making money, nor will they
> They have already hit limiting returns in LLM improvements after staggering investments
> and it is clear are nowhere near general intelligence.

These are all assumptions and opinions, and have nothing to do with whether or not they have a business model. You mightn't like their business model, but they do have one.
That makes me think, has anyone ever heard of an actual parrot which wasn't stochastic?

I'm fairly sure I've never seen a deterministic parrot which makes me think the term is tautological.
Generally Gumroad itself is an amazing idea. It's challenging to push out products, and any platform that helps empower people to just try is a win.

I'm not sure about how the open-source element of this is supposed to work, but if it ends up with more people building things, creating and contributing, while making a dollar, that's a good thing.
> they’ll blow something out of proportion or just plain invent issues in order to feel something.

Does this mean that when we're all poor the Right will stop demonizing trans people?
> Looking at it another way, the cuts are actually decreasing overall efficiency since they're cutting things that deliver decent benefits given that they only cost a small fraction of federal spending.

And especially when they're targeting the IRS. What use is it cutting 1% if you lose 10% of your revenue because you don't have the resources to pursue outright cheats or lawyered-up people.
This is a bit like saying “Andrew Wakefield is evidence that doctors are all quacks”. Navarro is… extremely fringe, as economists go.
Aren’t you ignoring Waymo?
Anytime I am searching for my live TV PPV "linux iso" streams I always pull up Yandex. Same goes for pretty much anything piracy. Even sometimes searching for research/stats that are more "controversial" are often down-ranked in Google and hard to find. Unfortunately there is a lot of political bias I've noticed more and more often in Google Search results, and resorting to Yandex sometimes results in better results.

I personally am a Kagi subscriber as well as find Google's search results in general to be terrible. Censorship/political bias/blogspam/terrible AI results are all the big factors for me switching away from using them much at all.
Deepseek is super bad at personal advice. I can tell it was trained on an oddly stodgy data set. It gives advice that would suit a hyper conservative world view. Like IBM 1950s middle management training course level advice.

Gemma is by far the best at giving advice and planning ones days and life priorities. Not sure how to benchmark that.
Kelsey Hightower – On retiring as Distinguished Engineer from Google at 42 [video]
Efficiency isn't the primary mandate of the government.
It depends a lot on the government in question too. In the US very few people would trust the government to handle something like this. The certificate authority system is run by big tech companies and nonprofits, for example, not the government.

Trusting the government as a peer makes sense for government sites, but for anything else, it just makes censorship way too easy.

Even among businesses, we normally trust the middleman (the credit card issuer, and their protections and chargebacks) over the government. If a business screws over a regular consumer, the government isn't really going to do anything.

Maybe you have a more civilized society and functional government where you live. We don't.
Fairly certain the logic is applied to the other side, just not in this article due to the lack of relevance.
Please don't recommend "Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy" without also providing a source. The prices people want for it are absurd if it is even available.
No, it's not. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of many people who get ginned up about this. Debt is the most powerful tool of a nation.

The US is a sovereign, the sovereign. The country can borrow until the faith and credit in our ability to pay is lost. There's no such thing as bankruptcy, you can default or print money.

The US is rocketing towards depression. Slowing down the velocity of money is the single worst thing you can do for an economy. We're implementing the largest tax increase in history, taking away pensioner benefits, and pushing the cost of healthcare up, nuking consumer demand. There's no adults keeping Trump away from doing stupid shit -- he'll set off an economic death spiral.
Are you sure? There is a subset of illegal immigrants that walked across the border and talked to nobody. No asylum waiver with a border patrol person, nothing.

That group is entirely unknown and undocumented to the Federal government.

I dont think its a reference to any other kind of immigrant.
I think the spirit is forbidding creative developers from using the comments to include active content. I know people who if struggling with datetime encoding, would add a "// DATEFMT: YYYY-D-M" comment and be on their merry way, making it incompatible with all other JSON parsers.
For me personally advertising doesn't work. I've never bought or done anything because of an advert. If all ads stopped tomorrow nothing would change for me. Advertising clearly works out it wouldn't be such a big industry, I just don't get it though.
Did they not target code tasks for this LLM, or is it genuinely that bad? Pretty embarrassing when your shiny new 400B model barely ties a 32B model designed to be run locally. Or maybe is this a strong indication that smaller, specialized LLMs have much more potential for specific tasks than larger, general purpose LLMs.
Respectfully, it's hard to see Trump himself as compelling. My money is on Eric: behind every great man is a great woman. Lara Trump is pretty dang ambitious.
The problem with enforcing "freedom of speech" on private parties is that it essentially the same as infringing the speech of that private party.

The only issue I have is when companies can play both sides and in one breath claim they're neutral for the purpose of section 230 protection, and then in the next breath take part in censorship because it's better for business.

Pick a lane, either lane, but you shouldn't get it both ways
> The E2E problem has already been solved long time ago. We used to have Thunderbird with an OpenPGP extension and GPG keys.

It was never really solved, PGP email is a usability disaster.

Client support (especially on mobile) is limited. Headers, including the subject line remain in cleartext. Users forget to click the "encrypt email" button and so messages go out in the clear; sometimes in reply, and so the entire conversation is exposed. Key exchange with new recipients is tedious to do securely.

Not to mention the extra issues caused by HTML in message bodies.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/05/not-so-pretty-what-you...
An overload for Class.forName with an explicit initialize parameter was added in Java 1.2 .
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Are you sure you're not reading quotes that are provided with attritbution and mistaking them for an assertion of fact?
> Why prefix with "Right now"?

I'm probably just a bit older than you might assume.

> and only marginally lower for the 25 years before that.

Really I was doing a bad job of highlighting this problem:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFSGDA188S

> has changed much more substantially during that time (lower).

The burden has shifted /more/ onto individual tax payers and less from business and excise taxes was the particular point I was driving at. It suggests more clearly who actually got those "lower" taxes and why our linked graphs paint a bad future.
Outdoor billboards, product placement, sponsor logos on sports uniforms - yes

Content marketing, public relations, mailing lists - no

"we don't have to destroy all advertising at once to make a positive difference"
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This may have hit the nail on the head about the weaknesses of LLM's.

They're going to regurgitate something not so much based on facts, but based on things that are accessible as perceived facts. Those might be right, but they might be wrong also; and no one can tell without doing the hard work of checking original sources. Many of what are considered accepted facts, and also accessible to LLM harvesting, are at best derived facts, often mediated by motivated individuals, and published to accessible sources by "people with an interest".

The weightings used by any AI should be based on the facts, and not the compounded volume of derived, "mediated", or "directed" facts - simply, because they're not really facts; they're reports.

It all seems like dumber, lazier search engine stuff. Honestly, what do I know about Paul Newman? But, Joanne Woodward and others who knew and worked with him should be weighted as being, at least, slightly more credible that others; no matter how many text patterns "catch the match" flow.
Well, also, in the case of groceries, margins are typically very low, due to competition. Large supermarket chains tend to have profit margins in the low single digits; over 5% would be unusual. There’s just very little room to absorb cost increases without raising price.
Can you elaborate? Which platform do you find to be less censoring? Any views/accounts in particuular that are censored on Twitter but not other?
"It's basically all just evil apes dukin' it out on a giant ball."
The government has unions right? I'm surprised by now that no one called for a strike. Sure, it'd be rendered illegal, but if your job is being cut haphazardly, what have you got to lose?
As long as the system has a probability to output any arbitrary series of tokens, there will be contexts where an otherwise improbably sequence of tokens is output. Training can push around the weights for undesirable outputs, but it can't push those weights to zero.
You know the trump admin is doing this on purpose, right? They are ideologically fixated on the idea that there are vast numbers of people stealing 'their money' via disallowed social security, somehow. There's claims of finding vast numbers of fraudulent accounts via the more idiotic than usual doge, then somehow no details.

They are destroying our us govt infrastructure and bureaucracy on purpose. They are also very close to giving themselves another 6 trillion in tax cuts, focused on the wealthy. Please, this is much more than being 'unprofessional' and 'not listening to their user base'.
Sure, you can reframe it to leave out Israeli news sources.

There is ample footage online of fighting between the two, and Hamas fighters don't wear uniforms. Which fits with Hamas fighting right out of the guerilla warfare playbook.

So it can be reframed as "How do you reconcile Israel killing innocent civilians with the fact the the main way to tell if they are innocent is whether or not they had a gun in their hands when killed?"
Going to be four years of "finding out" what Federal Employees that were cut actually did
The issue isn't the electricity, it's the chemicals that react with water. An insufficiently large volume of water will make things substantially worse, at least temporarily. Larger volumes will be able to rapidly remove enough heat that it will be a net benefit.
Microcomputers – The First Wave: Responding to Altair
With all due respect, that's an aggressive assumption. "The media, after 4 years of Trump, can't figure out what to write", seems less likely than "media's editors and owners like Trump and want him to make sense and succeed".
I'm aware, I've used C#/.NET Compiler ecosystem and their Compiler as a Service approach

But it seems like you're just creating libs that everyone and embedd / use and that's it

e.g `auto ast = Compiler.GenerateAST(code);`
Huh, interesting. I hadn't noticed when I upgraded, but I don't use many of the features of `rsync` to begin with. I ended up installing the real `rsync` shortly thereafter.