MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by zelphirkalt | 2025-07-02 09:12:14+00:00
Usually it is dangerous to let such people write application level code, but according to the reports in the comments, the guy might be one of the few exceptions, who gets the low level right, but also created flexible extensible structure of code in other places, without it becoming obscure on the application level.

Usually when I see some mathematical code that's not explained at all and has obvious flaws in terms of simple improvements that could be made to improve readability or even something as simple as some comments, I just keep thinking: "Please don't let this person touch application level code!"
by Joel_Mckay | 2025-07-02 09:13:46+00:00
Startups with unstable revenue models often don't stand a chance against FANG company budgets. Also, high-level talent is rarely fungible with standard institutional training programs, and have options that are more rewarding than a CEOs problems.

Unfortunately, productive research doesn't necessarily improve with increased cash-burn rates. As many international post docs simply refuse to travel into the US these days for "reasons". =3

"The CEO and the Three Envelopes" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38725206 )
by nord73 | 2025-07-02 09:14:32+00:00
Picture your PC as a cheery little planet in the EU’s cosmic backwater, sipping a digital Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster. You download Pangu Pro MoE, hit “run,” and expect to chat with an AI wiser than Deep Thought. Instead, you’ve hailed a Vogon Demolition Fleet. Your machine starts moaning like Marvin with a hangover, your screen spews gibberish that could pass for Vogon poetry, and your poor rig might implode faster than Earth making way for a hyperspace bypass.

The fallout? This AI’s sneakier than a two-headed president—it could snitch to its creators quicker than you can say “Don’t Panic.” If they spot your EU coordinates, you’re in for a galactic stink-eye, with your setup potentially bricked or your data hitchhiking to a dodgy server at the edge of the galaxy. Worse, if the code’s got a nasty streak, your PC could end up a smoking crater, reciting bad poetry in binary.
by robertlagrant | 2025-07-02 09:14:48+00:00
It's also worth noting the take-home pay is closer than that, due to progressive taxation. E.g. in California[0]:

$180k/year gives you $118,970 after tax

$300k/year gives you $186,880 after tax

I.e. the gross jump from $180k -> $300k is 67%, but the net jump is 57%. You have to increase the gross more to attract people, because take-home pay is what matters to them when switching job.

[0] https://www.mypaycalculator.net/us-paycheck-calculator/calif...
by ojosilva | 2025-07-02 09:15:17+00:00
So, this is a cash out before AI or AI-first solutions out do Figma?

Seriously, are people starting to replace Figma with just basic LLM or simpler LLM-based solutions? I'm just trying to understand the timing of the IPO and the market. We used to use Figma, but dropped it as first phases of product design loop ended. Basic LLM does not feel there yet, but it does feel like it could be there very quickly.
by whatevertrevor | 2025-07-02 09:15:31+00:00
I sense some confusion, let me try to clarify:

The absolute I'm talking about in the GP comment, is in reference to the clarity you are referring to in the GGP. You don't actually provide any example of said clarity. And I didn't refer to anything you said directly as cynicism past the point in the chain where you state your preference towards analogizing a museum exhibit to an over-arching pattern about the Fed's handling of money. That to me is indeed casual cynicism, and it provides no clarity, only hand-wavy oversimplification with a defeatist sort of appeal.

Since you don't provide any other example of a statement that I would consider cynical, which in your view actually provides clarity, I'm having to use my own imagination as to what kind of "clarity confused for cynicism" you could possibly be referring to. Those are the statements I'm talking about in the GP comment. And I completely stand by what I said there.
by 6P58r3MXJSLi | 2025-07-02 09:15:59+00:00
> I suspect ignorance is bliss here as your post seems to be mostly weird stereotypes

these are just your prejudices talking

you haven't even presented a point, besides your beliefs, based on nothing.

Several African countries - you clearly know nothing about it - have a similar life expectancy than the US of A. Life expectancy in Mississippi is shorter than Morocco, for example despite a huge difference in wealth.

But they usually live a better life, with better food, stronger sense of community, less work hours, less pollution and a vastly superior culture and historical heritage.

If it wasn't for the western bombs, regime changes and wars waged using fake intelligence, they would never leave their countries for, say, Detroit, Bakersfield, Jackson etc etc

Nobody in their right mind would.
by johnisgood | 2025-07-02 09:17:04+00:00
And who thinks that, for even a second, that an European (in this case) will not download, install, and try to run this just because the LICENSE says you can't?

FYI, this is not intended to be offensive to Europeans, I am European myself. That is not the point. The point is, who gives a damn about the LICENSE in reality, on their PERSONAL computer? Serious question.
by sigmoid10 | 2025-07-02 09:18:14+00:00
The point is more that 50 years ago, people thought we had sufficient understanding of fusion to build something like this. And thanks to advancements in inertial confinement research at the height of the thermonuclear arms race, they actually had a pretty good reason to believe so back then. There is very little reason to believe these new companies today when they say so, because fusion research is in a deep hole and running on a fraction of the funding it did during the cold war.
by throwaway_20357 | 2025-07-02 09:18:43+00:00
It is even worse for the planet when scammers keep flooding the market with low-quality products, a majority of people become accustomed to low quality and short replacement cycles, and the minority who cares about quality and product safety has to go through the returns process today but has no high quality options left anymore tomorrow as there is no longer a market for them.
by jgomezselles | 2025-07-02 09:19:13+00:00
Great article. We see a lot of users throwing data into VictoriaMetrics Cloud, and we try to help them by explaining what things they are not even... querying at all!

It's true that, with great power, comes great responsibility. As I see it, I agree on that's the actual problem; and OTel adds an x factor to it, when not used wisely.

Regarding the cost of ownership, tradeoffs are everywhere here. At the other side of the balance, I'd add a couple of hidden savings: in some languages I found value in just using one lib framework for instrumenting; the collector is also a great framework to unify data collection, transformation and shipping across many microservices.

In the end, as the author says: there's not just one-size-fits all.
by anovikov | 2025-07-02 09:19:14+00:00
That's what i went through several times, until i stopped trying. Thing is, there's no point asking: those who made it, have no idea how they did, and those who didn't, are just as clueless as us two so their opinion doesn't matter. It just happened - there are those famous charts posted around where at one point some product starts to experience exponential growth by like, 50% per month over years and when a founder is asked 'what did you change at that point so it happened' the usual reply is - 'nothing really'.

It's random. See it as something like gambling. It's a healthy way to approach it. And ideally, do it with someone else's money.
by falcor84 | 2025-07-02 09:19:35+00:00
It sounds like you're saying that her opponents are the entirety of physics researchers in academia. But isn't it that her opponents are those particular researchers that are publishing poor work, and that she's attacking the strongest arguments of those? Or am I missing something?

And I don't accept the "languishing in obscurity" argument - if a published work is poor, we should still critique it (by publishing a letter to the editorial, or any other manner), rather than just let it pollute the space. There have been many cases of obscure works being picked up decades hence, and especially now with AI "deep research", it's easier and easier for bad work to slip in - so I believe that science communicators should do what they can to add the appropriate commentary to such works. And if it seems like "easy" work, then all the better.
by bayindirh | 2025-07-02 09:19:37+00:00
Sanctions are generally a stopgap measure. They can't create any meaningful gap for a very long time.

I live in a country which has experienced some hard and soft embargoes over the years, and let's look what has it done.

- We wanted to buy drones, and denied. Now we are one of the biggest drone manufacturers in the world.

- We denied air defense systems. We are developing a whole arsenal of missiles and rockets now, incl. standoff/cruise missiles.

- We denied planes. Our 4.5th generation fighter program got a great speed boost.

- We denied advanced naval technology. We built stealth ships, fast coastguard boats and all navigational systems which goes inside them.

- We denied optical pods for drones and aerial vehicles. We built our own in 6 months.

etc. etc...

Sanctions and embargoes are the biggest catalyst for a country to advance their tech at tremendous velocity.
by diggan | 2025-07-02 09:20:24+00:00
> Why would anyone say that? Sketch is still alive and (presumably) well

When people deep into the startup-woods say "Fail" what they really mean is "Didn't take over the world". Their perspective of "winning / failing" is a bit more black and white than the average person.

With that said, Sketch certainly didn't become more popular because the macOS requirement even for viewing the files. I remember that there was some hacks to be able to at least view them on Linux, and other things like Zepplin (or similar) made it even easier, but it was still cumbersome.

Then Figma appeared, offered more or less the same features, slightly worse performance than Sketch, but worked absolutely everywhere and was easy to open and inspect things for everyone on the team. Obviously, Figma ate a lot of the Sketch user-base, which is something I saw in multiple companies myself.
by akshitgaur2005 | 2025-07-02 09:20:32+00:00
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by waffleiron | 2025-07-02 09:21:02+00:00
There is not a single AI model that fully complies with GDPR. How can you inform everyone, even those not named by actual name but otherwise identifiable, that their data is being processed and give them the ability to object when the data they train on isn’t public.

Literally the same for all other open weights, this is just legal ass covering where most others don’t even do that.
by craigbanach | 2025-07-02 09:21:34+00:00
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by roenxi | 2025-07-02 09:22:58+00:00
This is really exciting! They're laying out an architecture that may mean even small players with cheap GPUs can compete with the majors. The idea implies that eventually crowd-sourcing an open AI is probably technically feasible and we've got the Chinese actively researching how to do it to a high standard that competes with the monolithic models.

I was sceptical of the US sanctions but this seems like a real win if this can be taken all the way to its logical conclusions.
by umgefahren | 2025-07-02 09:23:51+00:00
In general yes, you can (and do) shard the model over multiple GPUs. If you want to do that yourself look at DeepSpeed or FSDP . There is a communication overhead though and the speed at which the GPUs can communicate is key. Thats where NVLink comes in btw. So yes, it’s actually what you can and do do. However this limits your ability to iterate on the models quickly and from what I‘ve read a lot of times the foundational labs throw out their models because by the time they are done training they are already outdated.
by diggan | 2025-07-02 09:25:01+00:00
> Open weights is unobjectionable

Yeah? Try me :)

> but at least you get the architecture and are able to run it as you like and fine tune it further as you like.

Sure, that's cool and all, and I welcome that. But it's getting really tiresome of seeing huge companies who probably depend on actual FOSS to constantly get it wrong, which devalues all the other FOSS work going on, since they wanna ride that wave, instead of just being honest with what they're putting out.

If Facebook et al could release compiled binaries from closed source code but still call those binaries "open source", and call the entire Facebook "open source" because of that, they would. But obviously everyone would push back on that, because that's not what we know open source to be.

Btw, you don't get to "run it as you like", give the license + acceptable use a read through, and then compare to what you're "allowed" to do compared to actual FOSS licenses.
by kernel_cat | 2025-07-02 09:25:50+00:00
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by lonesword | 2025-07-02 09:26:13+00:00
> Facebook is widely hated and embarrassing to work at.

Not sure it's widely hated (disclaimer: I work there), despite all the bad press. The vast majority of people I meet respond with "oh how cool!" when they hear that someone works for the company that owns Instagram.

"Embarassing to work at" - I can count on one hand the number of developers I've met who would refuse to work for Meta out of principle. They are there, but they are rarer than HN likes to believe. Most devs I know associate a FAANG job with competence (correctly or incorrectly).

> Could Facebook hire away OpenAI people just by matching their comp?

My guess is some people might value Meta's RSUs which are very liquid higher than OAI's illiquid stocks? I have no clue how equity compensation works at OAI.
by bayindirh | 2025-07-02 09:27:12+00:00
Brain dumps are bit more nuanced than that. After finishing the dump, you can work on it. Correct the errors if you want and analyze what came out and ponder on it.

I argue that brain mechanisms are different for speaking, typing and writing.

Speaking with intent is very powerful, indeed because hearing what you say is very different than an inner dialogue, but from my experience writing and typing has a greater power for dislodging what's in the nooks and crannies of your mind.

I can speak my mind, but that path is generally more filtered and shallower than sitting and writing what I have in my mind. Typing is a bit more inferior, but comparable.

The trick in writing/typing is it allows "blurts". You dump the initial 10-20 items at a quick pace. Then you start to slow down. This is where magic happens, because while writing/typing you experience small "a-ha" moments and continue writing things triggered by the initial "burst". This small blurts which drive the rest for an hour or so, and you feel tired but relaxed, because now you have a blueprint of what "keeps you up" is in front of you.

This is not equally possible with talking + auto-transcribing, because brain needs a different pace for that dumping process to work.
by DebtDeflation | 2025-07-02 09:27:47+00:00
These examples of double standards for labor vs capital are literally everywhere.

Capital is supposed to be mobile. Economic theory is based on the idea that capital should flow to its best use (e.g., investors should withdraw it from companies that aren't generating sufficient returns and provide it to those who are) including being able to flow across international borders. Labor is restricted from flowing across international boundaries by law and even job hopping within a country is frowned upon by society.

We have lower rates of taxation on capital (capital gains and dividends) than on labor income because we want to encourage investment. We're told that economic growth depends on it. But doesn't economic growth also depend on people working and shouldn't we encourage that as well?

There's an entire industry dedicated to tracking investment yields for capital and we encourage the free flow of this information "so that people can make informed investing decisions". Yet talking about salaries with co-workers is taboo for some reason.

The list goes on and on and on.
by el_pollo_diablo | 2025-07-02 09:28:04+00:00
You mean the downside that we also already know, i.e. that there are some situations where a custom data structure would be superior for various reasons (e.g. smaller footprint)?

Experienced programmers know when to reuse a generic library and when to roll out their own. We all know that.

Yet you dismiss generic red black trees because there is no realistic single program that uses 10 key/value combinations. Not only is this false, but as I illustrated in my reply, a single program is not the relevant scope to decide whether to use a generic implementation. And as someone who has written a red black tree library, I am definitely in favor of reusing an implementation unless you have an excellent reason, which "I do not need 10 different instances in my program" or "my favorite language and its standard library only have arrays built in" most definitely are not.
by arjinium | 2025-07-02 09:28:25+00:00
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by shit_game | 2025-07-02 09:30:11+00:00
To translate for those not familiar with the writings of Douglas Adams:

nord is suggesting it's possible that the physical computer running this model could be used as a "hub" for potential spyware, or be overloaded with workloads that are not related to the actual task of running the model (and instead may be some form of malware performing other computational tasks). It could potentially perform data exfiltration, or act discriminatorily based on your percieved location (such as if you're located within the EU). At worst, data loss or firmware corruption/infection may be of concern in case of license violation.

I'm not sure I would outright disagree that this as possible, but with some caveats. I would think the reason that the license stipulates that usage within the EU is forbidden due to the EU AI Act (here is a resource to read through it: https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/ai-act-explorer/).
by oinj | 2025-07-02 09:30:17+00:00
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