MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vipul_18 | 2025-09-01 21:01:22+00:00
Location: Chicago, IL (willing to relocate, prefer the coasts)

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Technologies: PyTorch, TorchAO, Torch Inductor and Dynamo, CUDA C++, NCCL, TorchTitan, Docker, Python, SLURM, Distributed training with Data, Tensor, Sequence, Pipeline, Expert, and Context Parallelism, Mixed Precision Training and Quantization, ML Compilers and Inference Optimization

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Email: vipuls181999[at]gmail[dot]com

I'm looking for a research engineer, inference optimization engineer, distributed pre-training engineer, or machine learning engineer role.

I have a master's in computer science from Brown University with a focus on ML Systems, and 2 years of work experience at JP Morgan Chase, building a low-latency distributed trading analytics engine.
by Nextgrid | 2025-09-01 21:02:09+00:00
> while most rental options we found were much more CPU focused

Out of curiosity have you benchmarked it? I find that AWS "vCPUs" are significantly slower than a core (or even hyperthread) of a real CPU, and this constrains memory bandwidth too. A single bare-metal can often replace many EC2s.

Another thing to consider is the easy access of persistent NVME drives, something not possible on AWS. Yes you still need backups, but ideally you will only need those backups once a year or less. I've dealt with extremely complex and expensive solutions on AWS that could be trivially solved by just one persistent machine with NVME drives (+ a spare for redundancy). Having the data there persistently (at a cheap price per GB) means you avoid having to shuffle data around or can precompute derived data to speed up lookups at runtime.

If you're actually serious about exploring options to move your infra to bare-metal or hybrid feel free to reach out for a no-obligations call; email in my profile. It seems like you've already optimized it quite well so I'd be curious to see if there is still room for improvement. (Or if you don’t mind, share what your stack is and let others chip in too!)
by sokoloff | 2025-09-01 21:03:09+00:00
In most places, registered cars are taxed but unregistered cars are not, so classic/museum or inoperative cars can be owned without paying the government a fee every year. (This makes sense/feels fair to me. Registered cars are expected to be used and the use of cars costs the government significant money and has externalities on the public. Unregistered cars mostly do neither of those things at least no more than a bunch of shoes.)
by alexey-salmin | 2025-09-01 21:04:14+00:00
> What does this even mean? Pension funds have a lot of board seats? I only see one person from Blackrock on their board right now.

The Board members are appointed by the Intel Corporate Governance & Nominating Committee, the chair of the committee is Barbara G. Novick, co-founder of BlackRock. The board is de-facto run by the trio of BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street, smaller investors follow their lead.

> Why would it be bad for a pension fund to have influence on running a company? Are their incentives somehow mis-aligned with other investors?

Alignment of interest is not magical: it's necessary to achieve results but it isn't sufficient. You need actual talents, vision, execution to make things happen, not just interest.

Pension funds have no vision beyond "stock go up", no strategy other than "more revenue, less costs". In the end they are roughly as good at running things as are socialist states: economy is owned by everyone so no one in particular, run by people who never proved that can run a lemonade stand. In fact a successful socialist state (if they ever existed) would be indistinguishable from a huge pension fund that swallowed the whole economy.
by LegionMammal978 | 2025-09-01 21:04:30+00:00
My apologies, I was actually under the belief that Fauci was affiliated with the CDC at the time, given how often they appeared together in headlines (e.g., [0]; most of those are clumping them together in critisism, but I also saw them clumped together in praise). I'll keep that in mind.

In any case, the assertion made me curious about what was actually said by government officials and affiliates regarding lab-leak theories, and drilling down into some of the blog posts led to that particular statement and the paper associated with it.

People do often specifically mean a human-modified virus when they talk about "the lab-leak hypothesis", especially given the GoF research conducted there, so I'd say it's true that Fauci wanted to cast water on that particular version of the hypothesis. (If there's anything that annoys me, it's when people equivocate over what is and isn't a lab leak. But if you must know, I personally find the stronger forms uncompelling.)

Of course, many have put far stronger language into the mouths of politicians and officials (most of whom in 2020 were quite careful with their words), and the tales can easily grow in the retelling, but it doesn't mean it's not worthwhile to focus on the kernel of truth about what actually occurred. "It wasn't the CDC, it was Fauci/others, and they were only talking about a manmade virus, against which the evidence is still strong" would have been much clearer than "it's all BS".

[0] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=cdc+fauci&df=2019-08-31..2020-09-0...
by oknaslnkn | 2025-09-01 21:04:54+00:00
Location: Turkey Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: TS/JS, Go, C#, NodeJS, React, React-Native, Angular, Browser Automation, SQL, AI Agents Résumé/CV: https://okanaslankan.com - Not up to date yet. Github: http://github.com/okanasl SO: https://stackoverflow.com/users/3838116/okan-aslankan TopCoder: https://profiles.topcoder.com/doomachine/stats/Development/CODE Email: okn.aslnkn@gmail.com

I'm a frontend-heavy, full-stack developer with ~10 years of experience. Since I participated in more than 20 projects, I've gained significant knowledge about product development on different bussiness fields including finance and AI. I'm also a yellow ranked TopCoder talent.

I prefer remote freelance/contract jobs but I am also willing to relocate for the right company.
by GenerWork | 2025-09-01 21:04:58+00:00
We need to call these articles what they are: a proposal to abolish the concept of homestead protection in the states that have them. The author claims homestead is the reason that California can't properly fund its school system, but this assumes that more money spent on education will always equal better results. If that was true, then California would rank higher in K-12 education than somewhere like Florida, which it doesn't [0].
by mdaniel | 2025-09-01 21:05:06+00:00
https://github.com/beemdevelopment/Aegis/blob/v3.4.1/app/src...

> // NOTE: this assumes that a global root shell has already been obtained by the caller

:-/

My recollection when I last tried this stunt is that it's a boatload of nonsense to try and exfiltrate the Steam credential material, and I wasn't able to find any supporting docs in the Aegis nor on their site about any alternative they have to "root your phone and sniff the keys out of the sibling app"
by amluto | 2025-09-01 21:06:17+00:00
> UTF-8 was designed such that invalid data can be detected and handled, without affecting the meaning of valid subsequences in the same string.

But there is not a canonical response to invalid data. So literally every operation that might need to make a choice of what to do when presented what invalid data should either (a) accept a parameter asking what to do on error and potentially fail or (b) take a parameter type that forces errors to be handled in advance.
by ethagknight | 2025-09-01 21:06:24+00:00
>> unfortunate reality is that there’s an entire constellation of municipal services and infrastructure required for even suburban development. These things cost money and the best way to raise that money is to charge the people who benefit from the value said infrastructure provides.

The unfortunate reality in my city is that approximate 80-90% of homes (many of which are investor-owned) pay a fraction of the impact they incur on the city. Property taxes may be the most progressive tax burden by a long shot. Prop taxes need to be limited and/or totally redrawn as a concept.
by panny | 2025-09-01 21:06:28+00:00
>Citation needed

Okay, here is the president of Bayer Pharacutical division calling the covid mRNA a gene therapy, because it is:

https://youtu.be/IKBmVwuv0Qc?t=507

And here is the definition of vaccine being rewritten to include mRNA gene therapies:

https://archive.is/xLu6u

https://archive.is/BQStN

It's only a vaccine if you like redefining words to mean whatever you want them to mean.
by xorcist | 2025-09-01 21:06:55+00:00
The registry, not the registrar (sorry, I managed to mistype above, despite trying to be careful about these terms). The comparison with the CA is apt. The registry signs the DS record.

The model you suggest is a variant of what I allude to in my second paragraph above. That is indeed both an obvious, simple, and much more secure model than the web PKI we use today. I tried to push for similar ideas several years before things like DANE but no one seems interested enough. I have no idea why this is, as the model is both trivial and obvious.
by jmclnx | 2025-09-01 21:07:04+00:00
Good for MAGA, if no property tax other things will be used to get revenue.

IIRC, New Hampshire replaces this tax by selling hard alcohol (no private sales), high fees and other things. They get a lot of business from surrounding states for that alcohol. But I think NH is loosing some business to marijuana sales in other states.

Money has to come from somewhere, no property tax, other forms of revenue will be created.

EDIT: I got property and income tax mixed up, but $ does have to come from somewhere :)
by ninkendo | 2025-09-01 21:07:19+00:00
What’s not possible in C++ is the actual prevention of the moved-from value from being used after the move.

Entire API’s are designed around this: my type that tracks a background task can have a shutdown() method that moves self, so that if you call foo.shutdown(), you can’t use foo any more.

This is more than just preventing a value from being used, it also facilitates making a rule that “moves are only just memcpy()”, and it can actually be enforced:

C++ move semantics require you to write arbitrary code that pillages the moved-from value (like setting the heap pointer of a moved-from value to nullptr) to ensure the old value is safe: rust just says “nope, there’s no constructor, moves are just a memcpy. We will keep it safe by simply not letting code use the old value.”

C++ can never have this unless they offered yet another mutually incompatible form of move semantics (lol, what would the sigil be? &*&?)
by isaacremuant | 2025-09-01 21:07:21+00:00
Stop projecting. It doesn't make me uncomfortable. It makes you uncomfortable or you wouldn't try to do bullshit theater to achieve "total security".

> Selfish people caused some of that

Lol. Fuck off with this tired bullshit. This fake accusation of murder when thanks to your moronic policies economic hardships have caused much more hurt around the world. And let's not start on the undetected cancer and other treatments.

You're just repeating the same old propaganda. Anyone who disagrees with your theater, which was disproven then and now, is a murderer.

Go stop genocide that your country is either perpetrating or supporting and then we will talk about "murder".
by kiitos | 2025-09-01 21:07:31+00:00
> the corporations who disallow agpl only do so because they want to comply in a way that is against the spirit of open source

believe it or not this is not actually true! the corporations who disallow agpl do so because their lawyers (correctly) tell them that agpl-licensed software has not been adequately tested in relevant courts of law, and that by including agpl-licensed software they are opening themselves up to unknown/unbounded legal liability/risk!

"the spirit of open source" has nothing to do with anything!

the more you know
by jacquesm | 2025-09-01 21:07:38+00:00
Funny, I remember 32 bits being 'the future', now it is the distant past. I think they should keep it all around, and keep it buildable. Though I totally understand the pressure to get rid of it I think having at least one one-size-fits-all OS is a very useful thing to have. You never know what the future will bring.
by Illniyar | 2025-09-01 21:07:44+00:00
That is exactly the stance. If there are strings attached that means some people can't use it, it's not really open. (GPL has strings attached if you use it, which is bad in a different way)

I don't think anyone has a problem with the non open source licenses themselves. If you start with a closed source license or whatever, that's fine. It is switching from an open source licenses to something that is not.

A lot of the projects that later switched out of open source would have never gotten any traction if they started with the license they ended up with.
by zihotki | 2025-09-01 21:08:07+00:00
May be Pocketbook will sparkle your interest - https://pocketbook.ch/en-ch/catalog/e-notes/pocketbook-inkpa...

10.3", multicolor E Ink® Kaleido™ 3, Android. The only caveat is that it's not available in US directly but ordering from Germany should not be a problem.

Pocketbook was founded in 2007 and it's quite known in Eastern Europe.
by nostrademons | 2025-09-01 21:08:33+00:00
I used to have similar feelings, but then realized that this idea of ownership, where you can just sit back and relax and "own" something in perpetuity, is a fool's errand. Why? Because reality doesn't work that way. And I don't just mean social reality - physical reality doesn't either. Entropy will swallow up your property and your society, and the money you pay in taxes largely goes to things like keeping the roads clear, the sewers flowing, the criminals out of town, etc. The ability to sit back and relax secure in your property ownership is basically the ability to freeload off of everyone else who got there afterwards.

I'm now much more in favor of a Georgist-style land value tax, where wealth taxes on natural monopolies like land are the only form of taxation. This biases the society toward action (if you don't make enough money to afford the opportunity cost of your continued ownership of the land, you lose it) and aligns incentives much more between renters, landlords, entrepreneurs, and municipal governments.

I do think there needs to be standardized, publicized assessment methods that are independent of politics and local government employees. Otherwise there's too much of an incentive for governments to fudge the assessments to increase the tax revenues they can generate. Really, this is a task for a computer: run a regression on comparable sales and take human judgment out of it.
by basisword | 2025-09-01 21:09:10+00:00
The record is 1.8s. This was after changes were introduced to try to slow down pit stops. I believe in the past signals were sent that the wheels were on before they were fully secured (anticipating that by the time the signal was given to the driver the wheel would be fully secured). A delay was introduced and over a couple of seasons the crews managed to get back to (and beat) their old times.
by m4rtink | 2025-09-01 21:10:20+00:00
In Czech Republic upgraded our infra and stopped using Russian gas and oil.

Might have something to do with Russia orchestrated terrorist attack agains Czech munition warehouses that killed two people in 2014[0].

Or the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968[1] - just because the local communist leaders happened to be a bit too much enlightened for their tastes.

Just a few days ago I went past memorial plague for the girl killed in protests against the Soviet invasion in 1969[2][3] - forever 18 years old...

There were lots of flowers, people still remember.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Vrb%C4%9Btice_ammunitio...

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Pact_invasion_of_Czec...

[2] https://cs.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danu%C5%A1e_Muzik%C3%A1%C5%9...

[3] https://encyklopedie.brna.cz/home-mmb/?acc=profil-osobnosti&...
by owenversteeg | 2025-09-01 21:10:35+00:00
The comments here are full of people complaining about iOS alarm bugs, so for anyone else who is sick of this: Sharp makes a lovely selection of alarm clocks. For between five to twelve US dollars, you too can be freed for life from said bugs. As a bonus, the first thing you touch in the morning, and the last thing at night, will no longer be a device that is socially engineered to destroy your mind for profit.

I have the Sharp Twin Bell, one of the higher end models at $12.63 from Walmart.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-09-01 21:10:35+00:00
> Plus, feel free to correct me but I don’t feel Meta has brought anything technically brilliant to the table lately

PyTorch?

> Maybe pixels if you want to stretch it, but search, maps, Gmail, YouTube, android, and even photos were there a decade ago already.

I don't disagree really, in the end all three suck: G, MS, FB. Google did in fact hire all the top talent but only to make sure they don't work on something good for someone else.
by riffraff | 2025-09-01 21:10:41+00:00
AGPL is not enough to prevent someone providing competing hosting options. They'd need to provide code if they make changes, but competitors are still free to offer the exact same service and not spend anything in development, which reduces the viability of the original project if hosting was the supposed source of income.

So the original project wants to restrict user freedoms, i.e. they _do not_ want the project to be open source; it's a legit choice, even if I personally prefer free software.
by xucian | 2025-09-01 21:11:27+00:00
Location: Bucharest, Romania (UTC+3) (currently) Remote: Yes (preferred) Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, Django, Svelte / TypeScript, Shell, Tailwind, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Hugging Face, OpenAI, LlamaIndex, LangChain, AWS, GCP, Unity (C#), Git, Github Actions, Software Design & Architecture, Devops, Product, UX, Sales Résumé/CV: Available on request Email: hi [at] lucianlazar [dot] io GitHub: https://github.com/xucian

hey, I'm Lucian from Bucharest, have 13y of exp as a generalist swe, started as a gamedev then expanded into devops, ai/ml, trading, now working on a pretty diverse range of projects, from games, gamedev courses, ai tools, saas templates etc. check my profile for a cross section of my brain

(also visiting sf for a few months)
by xucian | 2025-09-01 21:11:39+00:00
SEEKING WORK | Romania | REMOTE (or on-site USA/Sweden/Switzerland)

Location: Bucharest, Romania (UTC+3) (currently) Remote: Yes (preferred) Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: Python, Django, Svelte / TypeScript, Shell, Tailwind, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, Hugging Face, OpenAI, LlamaIndex, LangChain, AWS, GCP, Unity (C#), Git, Github Actions, Software Design & Architecture, Devops, Product, UX, Sales Résumé/CV: Available on request Email: hi [at] lucianlazar [dot] io GitHub: https://github.com/xucian

hey, I'm Lucian from Bucharest, have 13y of exp as a generalist swe, started as a gamedev then expanded into devops, ai/ml, trading, now working on a pretty diverse range of projects, from games, gamedev courses, ai tools, saas templates etc. check my profile for a cross section of my brain

(also visiting sf for a few months)
by mdahardy | 2025-09-01 21:11:54+00:00
Roundtable | https://roundtable.ai | On-site San Francisco, CA | Full-time

Roundtable is a research and deployment company building the proof-of-human layer in digital identity. Roundtable seeks to research and build real-world Turing Tests, and to productize these developments in bot detection, fraud prevention, and continuous authentication.

We're hiring a Member of Technical Staff. This is not a typical “Founding Engineer” position. In particular, this role will involve more research than similar positions. You should be prepared to spend around half of your time on research and half on engineering.

The ideal candidate has experience in both. However, we don’t strictly require research experience as long as you have a strong quantitative background and an eagerness to learn. We do require proficiency in both web development (Javascript, Node.js) and Python.

If you're interested shoot an email to matt@roundtable.ai with your resume and a short blurb on why you're interested (note: we are unable to offer visa sponsorship at this time).
by jillesvangurp | 2025-09-01 21:11:54+00:00
Google has largely stagnated with products that they largely already had before Satya Nadella took over. Facebook was kind of at its peak then and they had bought Whatsapp and added Instagram to their portfolio. But since then, Meta has had a few duds as well and it seems a bit lackluster lately. Messenger launched and imploded. Then VR. And now they are messing up with AI.

The point is, if Google and Meta got the best people, what the hell did they do in the last ten years? I think they mostly got more people and less ability to do anything very well. It hasn't worked out that great for them. Neither of them has much to show for their efforts. Google bootstrapped AI and then had their people walk off to form OpenAI who are (for now) best buddies with MS. Facebook/Meta keeps changing their mind about what they are about. Social media, VR, and now AI. But it seems they end up chasing their tail every time.

MS actually got better over the last ten years. They too had a few nice acquisitions. But more importantly, they revitalized what was a pretty dead development strategy. Github was critical. The attitude towards Linux and the complete 180 on open source in general was critical. MS did quite a few things right under Nadella.

> They don't have any interesting new products.

None of these companies do.
by Nextgrid | 2025-09-01 21:11:59+00:00
In its early days, Firefox achieved significant marketshare because it was better and offered useful features that the incumbent browsers didn't.

Nowadays Firefox is just a poor Chrome knockoff with no distinguishing features. As a casual user who switches but is unaware of add-ons/etc, Firefox gives you nothing, so why would you switch?

Firefox can reinvent itself and regain marketshare by shipping actually useful features like built-in ad & distraction blocking, but chooses not to.
by yencabulator | 2025-09-01 21:12:33+00:00
You'll need to say a little more than that to be taken seriously. Are you just against all things new, or is there something in the core API that is a bad idea? Surely you're not against the idea of ringbuffers in general, or saying "new thing bad, grug like old thing"?

Pretty much everything high performance is ringbuffers these days, e.g. NVMe. What makes io_uring the one thing that cannot be done?
by rsedgwick | 2025-09-01 21:13:10+00:00
Thanks. This matters a lot to me. I focus on it from the angle of not owning a smartphone, but it's even more urgent from your perspective. I want businesses to understand that some number of people, in order to avoid toxic behavior patterns involving social media or doom-scrolling, find a dumbphone to be the healthiest choice for themselves. And yet, the places you cannot park your car, the airlines you cannot fly on, the events you cannot attend... all because you don't have an app.

I do think the personal mental health angle matters a lot, but it adds urgency to consider school, banking, etc being dependent on private company memberships.

My local gym did something wonderful. They retained a keyfob-based access system instead of using an app, specifically because the owner knew "someone's going to have a dumbphone and complain they can't get in."
by lstodd | 2025-09-01 21:13:12+00:00
on a tangential note I once tried to get pathfinding working on a rhombic dodecahedral honeycomb feeling as regular 3-ish level octtree Dwarf Fortress of 2014-ish vintage was insufficiently weird.

this did not end well, but was hilarious. just to visualise the stuff I had to spend a week gluing cardboard rhombododecahedrons from pizza boxes.

what I learned is that they make much more fun toys than plain old cubes.

and that shallow sparse octtree-like things are in fact better for those kind of games (or GIS for that matter).