MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kordlessagain | 2025-09-25 22:14:02+00:00
You make an account to use their hosted models AND to have them available via the Ollama API LOCALLY. I'm spending $100 on Claude and $200 on GPT5, so $20 bucks is NOTHING and totally worth having access to:

Qwen3 235b

Deepseek 3.1 671b (thinking and non thinking)

Llama 3.1 405b

GPT OSS 120b

Those are hardly "small inferior models".

What is really cool is that you can set Codex up to use Ollama's API and then have it run tools on different models.
by PaulHoule | 2025-09-25 22:14:23+00:00
I'm not sure if that's the right frame.

RFK Jr's main target seems to be pharmaceutical companies and the medical establishment although they are playing on the feeling of parents for whom it seems a terrible fate to raise a child who, in the worst case, seems to barely recognize you and for whom you might be caring for until you die. RFK is certainly not saying that autists or their parents are moral failures.

There's another whole question of reinstitutionalization but that's a place the right won't got because deinstitutionalization serves their interests and the left won't because of ideology.

That is: if you believe in private schools over public schools you want public schools to bear 100% of the burden of educating the uneducatable, warehousing violent students who drive other students to private school or homeschooling. (Happened to me and happened to the grandchildren of the guy who cuts my hay)

If you believe that the public sphere should be starved for the benefit of an unequal private sphere, if you believe that people should take an Uber instead of taking the bus, if you believe it's better to order a private taxi for your burrito than to eat out, if you want to demonstrate to people that it's worthless to spend on the welfare state, you want a person with severe mental illness screaming on every street corner. And if leftists defend the right of that person to do that they are doing the job of the right, and unlike the Koch Network or the Heritage Foundation they're doing it for free.
by JackYoustra | 2025-09-25 22:14:23+00:00
> But DOGE likely achieved hundreds of billions a year in savings. USAID alone had a $50 billion budget that was mostly eliminated, though a few billion just moved over to State.

A lot to unpack here ----

If you're an institutionalist: Does the executive now hold power of the purse?

If you're a humanitarian: was $50B for millions of lives and god knows how many more of massive quality of life improvement worth it?

If you care about evidence: "Likely hundreds of billions a year in savings" is insufficiently rigorous to throw around such large numbers. I've heard its as low as $2B and likely lower.
by avidiax | 2025-09-25 22:14:41+00:00
The compensation is only measured in terms of salary (and maybe bonus).

Stock compensation is completely ignored. Since stock compensation can be a large fraction if not the majority of the compensation, this means that many H1-Bs may be underpaid compared to their coworkers, while appearing to the government to be the highest paid in that company and job role.

The other ignored aspect is effective hourly pay. Software engineers are nearly always exempt employees, so they don't receive hourly pay. But a manager can demand more from H1Bs, even if it would mean work during nights or weekends, and there's little the H1B can do. Local employees can more easily change jobs if that happens, and moreover, the threat that they can change jobs disincentivizes such abuse.
by 0x1ceb00da | 2025-09-25 22:14:43+00:00
> It’d be reasonable to think that this will have a runtime cost, however it doesn’t. The reason is that the Rust standard library has a nice optimisation in it that when we consume a Vec and collect the result into a new Vec, in many circumstances, the heap allocation of the original Vec can be reused. This applies in this case. But what even with the heap allocation being reused, we’re still looping over all the elements to transform them right? Because the in-memory representation of an AtomicSymbolId is identical to that of a SymbolId, our loop becomes a no-op and is optimised away.

Those optimisations that this code relies on are literally undefined behaviour. The compiler doesn't guarantee it's gonna apply those optimisations. So your code might suddenly become super slow and you'll have to go digging in to see why. Is this undefined behaviour better than just having an unsafe block? I'm not so sure. The unsafe code will be easier to read and you won't need any comments or a blog to explain why we're doing voodoo stuff because the logic of the code will explain its intentions.
by smcameron | 2025-09-25 22:14:48+00:00
> I've got an internal alarm that starts to go off somewhere around 72 hours.

Nah, in my experience, if you've got good commit hygiene you can often merge even ancient commits.

Here's a pretty hefty commit I merged five years after it was originally written, converting a ~100k line codebase from GTK to SDL2, written in 2015, committed in 2020, with tons of development in between, with "10 files changed, 777 insertions(+), 804 deletions(-)"

https://github.com/smcameron/space-nerds-in-space/commit/4ab...

I was expecting it to be a bit of a nightmare, but it really wasn't bad at all.
by johncolanduoni | 2025-09-25 22:15:05+00:00
I’ve never understood the evil MITM endgame here. Cloudflare’s ToS and contracts prevent them from doing nastiness with your data without breach, and approximately all their revenue comes from large enterprises that will leave in droves (and some will actually sue them) if they started exploiting it.

The thing where they let DDoSers use them to protect their public sites from rival DDoSers is sketchy as hell, but doesn’t rely on having your data.
by snickerbockers | 2025-09-25 22:15:12+00:00
IDK but Mossad is quite possibly the world's most effective spy agency and SV software corporations rarely have effective safeguards to protect against rogue employees so we must conclude that there are many sleeper agents planted throughout major corporations on behalf of just about every intelligence agency in the world including but not limited to mossad.

I have not seen any hard evidence of this nor have i ever suspected a fellow employee at any of my employers of being a double-agent loyal to a state intelligence agency but it's easy enough to do that there must be hundreds, maybe even thousands of sleeper agents all over santa clara and redmond.
by JackYoustra | 2025-09-25 22:16:02+00:00
> Whereas these days any Democrat supporting any Republican action is likely to get primaried at the next election, and vice versa.

Biden passed the bipartisan infrastructure act as well as USICA subsidies. The first step act was bipartisan. The deficit reduction in Obama's time was bipartisan. The american rescue plan wasn't bipartisan, but republicans claim credit for its effects. You don't really have much evidence here.
by cesarb | 2025-09-25 22:16:03+00:00
> I don't understand why Microsoft chose to kill it.

My personal suspicion: it's about handles.

Several kinds of objects in the Windows API are identified by global handles (for instance, HWND for a window), and on 16-bit Windows, these handles are limited to 16 bits (though I vaguely recall reading somewhere that they're actually limited to 15 bits). Not having the possibility of a 16-bit Windows process would allow them to increase the global limit on the number of handles (keeping in mind that controls like buttons are actually nested windows, so it's not just one window handle for each top-level window).
by georgemcbay | 2025-09-25 22:16:06+00:00
As an older person (52 y/o) who remembers a time when a lot more people I know (of all ages) were optimistic about the future, I believe the major factor leading to generalized anxiety currently is not about one event, but all the additive effects of massive and ever increasing wealth inequality piling up year over year.

That combined with little to no hope that either political party will do a damn thing to fix it (Democrats at least have some politicians who actually want to, but they are stymied by their own leadership, never mind the problem of not having any real national level political power currently).
by jchw | 2025-09-25 22:16:10+00:00
I'm nervous. They stopped working on the Dendrite home server, which does not support sliding sync. They stopped working on the sliding sync proxy, which uses an old version of sliding sync that is no longer supported by Element X. Element X requires sliding sync. There is no way to migrate data from Dendrite to Synapse or Conduit, either. It kinda seems like they're creating a situation where we inevitably have to lose a bunch of data. I get that Dendrite was never stable, but the documentation made it seem like 1. It was the future, 2. It was lighter weight than Synapse, 3. It would work just fine for small home servers.

I don't really think Element or Matrix gives a damn, either. Well, I get that there's no money to extract from the community, or at least not much, but still, all of this leaves a bad taste in my mouth, and makes me think that we all should've probably just stuck with XMPP. But then again, I never self-hosted XMPP, so maybe it is just as dreadful.
by pinkmuffinere | 2025-09-25 22:17:39+00:00
Is it really? If you want super low cost, they have the zero w2, the rpi2, the rpi3, etc. I feel they've already mostly perfected the products for that purpose. But of course they don't want to just 'stop building', so now they're moving up to more premium options. I feel there's nothing wrong with this. If you want the low cost exploration, stick with the things they designed forever ago, which fit that purpose.
by chrysoprace | 2025-09-25 22:18:07+00:00
I would be interested to know how you measure your productivity gains though, in an objective way where you're not the victim of bias.

I just recently had to rate whether I felt like I got more done by leaning more on Claude Code for a week to do a toy project and while I _feel_ like I was more productive, I was already biased to think so, and so I was a lot more careful with my answer, especially as I had to spend a considerable amount of time either reworking the generated code or throwing away several hours of work because it simply made things up.
by nemosaltat | 2025-09-25 22:18:39+00:00
B&H does this for shabbat and other high holidays. I always thought that it was kind of neat. Little over a year into a boot-strapped startup, and I’m still trying to figure out how to implement ANY boundaries in my life. I don’t know why I thought I’d feel BETTER “being my own boss” having spent so much with the guy. I hope to someday have “please come back” confidence.
by makeitdouble | 2025-09-25 22:18:42+00:00
We've seen them straight lie under investigation from the US gov and bullshit even the smallest request from court judgments.

Those are not exactly the same thing, but Apple playing political games and emit the message they want without any reality behind it isn't new. They'll use whatever tool they have at hand if they see a strong enough chance to get away with it.
by jacquesm | 2025-09-25 22:18:49+00:00
> You do realise Chinese form a large immigrant population in the US, right?

Did I say anything that made you think otherwise, right?

> And as much as I dislike saying this - Chinese government doesn’t want you talking about politics. Otherwise you should be mostly fine.

Ahhh too bad then, because one of the things that I really like about the societies that I'd bet my life/money/health/other resources on is that I want to be able to talk about politics. Otherwise, what's the point, all you are doing is lining some dictator's pocket.

> While US government is going beyond politics. Pushing stuff like that autism and Tylenol connection on correlation study. That is going beyond politics and impacting academic and scientific analysis.

Yes, the US is also on a bad path. But so is China. And they too push plenty of bullshit. How is that Tianmen Square investigation coming along?
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-09-25 22:19:00+00:00
> true hallmark of totalitarianism is when every aspect of civil society is politicized

No? The true hallmarks of totalitarianism are a lack of political competition (usually due to repression) and the state controlling “all aspects of society, including the family, religion, education, business, private property, and social relationships” [1].

Ancient Athens was a famously political society. It was not totalitarian.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism
by TZubiri | 2025-09-25 22:19:49+00:00
I see this common pattern where a previously private infrastructure is opened up (usually from low abstraction), and the ecosystem is split into an open base and a private thin layer, and that private layer might just reimplement the same tradeoffs that the incumbent private monoliths made.

Examples being Git/Github, Crypto/Centralized Exchanges, and as per the topic, email.

But I think that it's an important distinction that the base infrastructure is open, and that technically an incumbent could join the fray, albeit with a lot of catching up to do, and mix it up.
by analog31 | 2025-09-25 22:19:56+00:00
This really comes down to a matter of preferences, but I've never used the GPIO either. The reason is that a microcontroller board makes a much better GPIO for my use. Then I can unplug it and put it away when I'm done, use it with any PC -- desktop or laptop -- give it away, and carry it into the room where my soldering station is. A microcontroller also opens up the whole world of stand-alone gadgets.

Naturally software / firmware support is an issue. If the stuff you want to do is easy to code on your preferred platform, that's a reason to keep using it.
by jasonvorhe | 2025-09-25 22:21:02+00:00
It was implied that the "let's check you're human" didn't do a good job at that, causing the block - without a VPN. Meanwhile, certain bots just circumvent it (there's even a couple of videos showing robot arms/fingers prove their humaness) while legit users, even coming from Tor, get blocked. That's the internet I used to know. (I am not in the "everything was better" camp though.)
by dotancohen | 2025-09-25 22:21:03+00:00
I knew that somebody would bring up the contraceptives the moment that I mentioned Ethiopians. Here, have a read: https://www.reddit.com/r/IsraelPalestine/comments/o49jqp/myt...

> I'm sure the Gazan friends you spoke to will be overjoyed you had face-to-face conversations with them while advocating for their genocide, and that those conversations make them clearly savage enough to justify said genocide.

Since October 7th I haven't seen any Gazans face to face, but we have spoken on the phone and on Telegram. And I've never advocated for their genocide, rather I've advocated against the genocide of Jews. Anybody who supports Hamas, their goals, or their idealogy supports the genocide of Jews. It's right there in the Hamas charter.

I'll say it clearly. There is no genocide of Arabs, or Muslims, or Palestinians, or Gazans in the Gaza strip. There are many Gazans dying, and many of them are children. Many of them are killed as a result of Israeli actions, and many of them are killed as a result of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other organizations' actions. Israel does not systematically target children, only Hamas benefits from dead children. They say it clearly themselves.
by raw_anon_1111 | 2025-09-25 22:21:09+00:00
And those same purple states have decided where it oscillates - like I said.

Whether you are a Republican or Democrat in California it doesn’t matter who you as individual votes for for President. If you are in Los Angeles county, it also doesn’t matter who you vote for in the general election as your representative.

The primaries matter though. California sends the same number of Senators to DC as West Virginia and half as many as North and South Dakota combined even though they don’t have nearly the population.

How long and what strike of luck will it be based on timing that you think this country will see a liberal Supreme Court? Especially since justices nominated by Democrats refuse to leave when a Democratic President is in office? But then again, we are in this mess we are in today because the Democrats were too cowardly to pressure Biden not to run sooner.
by 0x1ceb00da | 2025-09-25 22:21:13+00:00
> Great example of Rust being built such that you have to deal with error returns and think about C++-style exception safety.

Not really. Panics are supposed to be used in super exceptional situations, where the only course of action is to abort the whole unit of work you're doing and throw away all the resources. However you do have to be careful in critical code because things like integer overflow can also raise a panic.
by hollerith | 2025-09-25 22:21:38+00:00
I find it very unlikely that "knives, bayonets, and IEDs would have been equally effective". The ALN ambushed French convoys and patrols, raided isolated military outposts and police stations and defended themselves when their camps and zones were attacked. I doubt the ALN could have succeeded in those encounters even one tenth as often as they actually did if they had no access or much worse access to guns (with "success" meaning inflicting casualties on the occupier, avoiding taking casualties, capturing supplies (including guns) and disrupting the occupier's control).

There is a reason people say, "don't bring a knife to a gun fight".

The ALN got guns from donors and sympathizers in Egypt and other Arab countries. In later years, the Eastern Bloc and China also contributed supplies, including guns.

Was there a single significant war, rebellion or revolution in the last 100 years where both sides didn't have a gun for every fighter or almost that many guns? I'm not sure, but I doubt it.
by Spooky23 | 2025-09-25 22:22:14+00:00
Remember, the AI doesn’t create anything, so you add risk potentially to the patient outcome and perhaps make advancement more difficult.

My late wife had to have a stent placed in a vein in her brain to relieve cranial pressure. We had to travel to to New York for an interventional radiologist and team to fish a 7 inch stent and balloon from her thigh up.

At the time, we had to travel to NYC, and the doctor was one of a half dozen who could do the procedure in the US. Who’s going to train the future physician the skills needed to develop the procedure?

For stuff like this, I feel like AI is potentially going to erase certain human knowledge.
by herpderperator | 2025-09-25 22:22:17+00:00
Serious question: If it's an improved 2.5 model, why don't they call it version 2.6? Seems annoying to have to remember if you're using the old 2.5 or the new 2.5. Kind of like when Apple released the third-gen iPad many years ago and simply called it the "new iPad" without a number.
by Imustaskforhelp | 2025-09-25 22:22:27+00:00
pardon me but is Ollama a company though? I didn't knew that actually.

And are they VC funded? Are they funded by Y-combinator or anything else..

I just thought it was a project by someone to write something similar to docker but for LLM's and that was its pitch for a really really long time I think
by t-3 | 2025-09-25 22:22:35+00:00
He's a human capable of reproduction and judging by the number of children he has had ample opportunities to do so. Most humans of reproductive age like sex, and those who have a lot of it tend to like it more. It's always been the funniest and most relatable topic for any group of adults to joke about.

With that said, if you think Elon Musk is a role model that guides your conscience, the north of your moral compass... Dude, he's just an obscenely rich guy. And I guarantee you almost every teen and even younger children in the world already knows what those words mean or is capable of finding out in short order. Even prepubescent children make jokes about genitalia and sex and anything else that adults take seriously. If you want to know all the most offensive and/or raunchiest jokes, just ask a late elementary or middle schooler.
by runjake | 2025-09-25 22:22:36+00:00
Start with the 7b and 8b models popular on Ollama's listings:

https://ollama.com/search?q=7b

https://ollama.com/search?q=8b

It's not showing up high on the list of the above URLs for some reason, but I quite enjoy the deepseek-r1 8b variant: https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1

YMMV
by Molitor5901 | 2025-09-25 22:23:01+00:00
This sounds cool! I remember when I came upon HURLING (the sport) late one evening and it was absolutely incredible. A bunch of guys with no helmets running around bouncing a baseball on the end of a short hockey stick, and then slamming that ball across the field.. I thought surely someone was about to get beaned. Incredible sport.
by yellowapple | 2025-09-25 22:23:41+00:00
Would be neat to be able to get some photographs of it. Curious if it's a near-Earth asteroid or yet another case of a rocket's upper stage re-entering Earth orbit (like with 2020 SO and J002E3). An expected appearance of 1957 would be pretty early for the latter case (that's when the USSR launched Sputnik 1 and 2, and I'm pretty sure both those upper stages came back down a long time ago), but who knows?
by watersb | 2025-09-25 22:24:08+00:00
Looks amazing.

Keyboards that put various control keys down the rightmost edge of the keyboard -- these drive me insane.

Fitt's Law and me with keyboards.

I could just remap the keys, or cover that edge of the keyboard somehow.

Which would also be an homage to the classic computers that we all grew up with: covering that Reset Key on the Apple ][ with a cassette tape case.

(fancy example https://www.callapple.org/vintage-apple-computers/apple-ii/h... )
by constantcrying | 2025-09-25 22:24:12+00:00
Great advice, especially I, as a new developer, had to learn.

At first it was a mystery why some other dev reviewing my PR wanted me to split a commit into separate parts. It's also not something you learn in university and definitely requires some git knowledge to do properly.

But after doing it once or twice i definitely understood, that it was also helping *me and forced me into better version control practices. Definitely a good lesson to learn, but more valuable to me was that the job taught me, that I absolutely despise doing software development.
by steveklabnik | 2025-09-25 22:24:40+00:00
> Those optimisations that this code relies on are literally undefined behaviour.

You cannot get undefined behavior in Rust without an unsafe block.

> The compiler doesn't guarantee it's gonna apply those optimisations.

This is a different concept than UB.

However, for the "heap allocation can be re-used", Rust does talk about this: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#imp...

It cannot guarantee it for arbitrary iterators, but the map().collect() re-use is well known, and the machinery is there to do this, so while other implementations may not, rustc always will.

Basically, it is implementation-defined behavior. (If it were C/C++ it would be 'unspecified behavior' because rustc does not document exactly when it does this, but this is a very fine nitpick and not language Rust currently uses, though I'd argue it should.)

> So your code might suddenly become super slow and you'll have to go digging in to see why.

That's why wild has performance tests, to ensure that if a change breaks rustc's ability to optimize, it'll be noticed, and therefore fixed.
by blaze33 | 2025-09-25 22:24:52+00:00
I understand but frankly "doesn't do anything if there is no illegal material" reminds me too much of the old anti-privacy argument "nothing to hide, nothing to fear".

It is about control and purpose, "my OS watches my communications" is true but weird to say because there's an expectation, unless compromised, that the OS is under my control so no problem. A third-party controlling the local scan of all my data specifically to report whatever it wants is a huge problem.

Too often are some specific issues left insufficiently addressed for too long and it seems like the answer ends up like, ok we give up, here's some collective punishment, that should do the trick.