MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dwohnitmok | 2025-11-06 21:11:01+00:00
> if the tools are better quality and more "out of the way", this allows a greater pool of people to do their absolute best, with less friction.

I think YuukiRey's point is that this is not true. The bottleneck for people to do their absolute best is almost never tool-induced friction, until you've already built a strong pre-existing skillbase. Overwhelmingly it's motivation, interest, time, energy, etc.

In theory tools can help with this. In practice usually the pursuit of tooling ends up being a distraction. This is how you end up with the (overly derogatory) idea of GAS, "Gear Acquisition Syndrome." The equivalent of this for digital things is e.g. the writer who spends money and time trying to find the perfect text editor paired with the perfect keyboard paired with the perfect monitor etc, instead of just writing. There are of course exceptions where tooling is really the main unlocking feature, but those are far and few between.

In fact what I get from YuukiRey is the opposite of this:

> Yeah, the absolute top-tier max-talent people can do well regardless

Rather it's that the best tooling only really makes sense for top-tier people, because for almost everyone else the tooling is not the bottleneck.
by measurablefunc | 2025-11-06 21:11:02+00:00
It can and it does work w/ such objective functions. Lots of people have used evolutionary algorithms to evolve chess playing neural networks¹ & they have been successful w/ very sparse reward signals where the the final trajectory is scored w/ 0 or 1 according to a win condition. You can say this is not likely to work for proof search & I'd be inclined to agree but the strategy has proven to work in simpler settings so whether it can be used in more complex settings is yet to be determined. If Collatz is not independent of existing axiomatic foundations then a brute force search will find a solution so any heuristics added on top of it that cut out paths to unsuccessful attempts will increase the probability of finding the proof object.

¹https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.08337
by kleiba | 2025-11-06 21:11:06+00:00
Well, that's the point of the OP, isn't it? Emmental cheese is one of over 500 types of cheeses produced in Switzerland, but by calling this one product ("the") Swiss cheese, you're kinda implying that these hundreds of other cheeses that are actually also produced in Switzerland do not exist.

It's a bit like: "In Germany, they call this car a BMW, but here we call it German Car."
by ranger_danger | 2025-11-06 21:11:17+00:00
Same thing happened with me. By the time I was halfway through high school, everything was so boring I couldn't focus enough to actually do any work. Most days I would just skip class and I rarely did any homework at all.

The principal told by parents "we have nothing else to offer your child", so I dropped out and started working fulltime. As much as I know I should be advocating to stay in school, I don't regret it for one second. As soon as I turned 18 I already had enough money to move out on my own and never looked back. Never went back to school.

As far as work qualifications goes... writing software, I have always gotten work based on my experience alone, nobody that I actually wanted to work for ever cared about some piece of paper, only what I could do.
by autoexec | 2025-11-06 21:11:30+00:00
> I don't actually care if they collect my data in that particular case. There's really nothing of significance that Amazon gets from my reading habits that it Visa doesn't already get from my purchasing the book in the first place.

Visa knows you bought a book. That's all they know. Amazon knows that you actually read the book (or didn't), how long it took you to read the book, how many times you read it, every date/time when you opened it, what specific pages you flip to and re-read later, etc. Maybe you consider that data to be "nothing of significance", but Amazon doesn't see it that way. They spend a lot of time and money collecting, storing, and analyzing that data and it isn't because they didn't think it's worth anything.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-11-06 21:12:35+00:00
It's one of the oldest forms of "programmer identity" out there, one of those shibboleths that people who culturally identify as a hacker express that's independent of its factuality. A bit of a precursor to social media which elevates in group shibboleths over data as a matter of course. Programmers were the first to invent and use social media after all.
by mschuster91 | 2025-11-06 21:12:37+00:00
> Not literally no signal/service, right?

Come to Munich, go into any of the large old buildings, the central stairwells usually are phone dead zones. Truly dead.

Or try to go and hike in the Alps. Shit service, but as soon as you walk into Austrian territory, you'll suddenly have service.

Or try taking a train from Munich to, say, Landshut. You'll lose signal about 5 minutes after the train passes through the outskirts of Feldmoching.

Or try driving a car on the A8 highway to Salzburg in Austria. You'll lose signal about 5-10 minutes after passing Holzkirchen.

Or try taking a train from Passau to Wels in Austria. Passau is directly near the border. You will have a shit service right until the train passes the national border and Austrian towers take over.

The reason isn't technical. The Passau and Alps example shows it - identical geography, identical mountainous areas with about zero population... but wildly different attitudes in regulation.

> If it’s a population center someone would probably have put up a tower on their land ll

Here, you get death threats if you even propose putting up a tower on your land [1], in the UK nutjobs set a 5G tower ablaze [2].

[1] https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/wolfratshausen/icking-5...

[2] https://www.blick.ch/ausland/grossbritannien-handymast-eines...
by aerostable_slug | 2025-11-06 21:13:01+00:00
I can find good aspects to the work I've done, but certainly many hate one or more of my past employers or their industries for a variety of reasons, many good ones TBQH.

I've learned that it's best to simply not look to others for validation that your work is meaningful. This is especially true if the others are politically leftist, if only because leftists currently have more of a 'purity' complex going on than rightists. There is no winning with that because eventually you will fall short somewhere, so it's better to just not care what they think about your job from day one and focus on having a nice day.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-11-06 21:13:02+00:00
> I haven't look into the details, but It sure feels like a slap in the face to those of us who invested in panels.

Sure. But if you live in Australia, you knew that slap was coming. You could almost have said to have signed up for it.

Very early in the piece, the government offered to pay people who installed solar about $0.50 for every kWh you fed into the grid. To be clear, that was far more than the retail price of electricity at the time. It was sunsetted, in 2028 from memory (so if you signed up back then, that sweet subsidy money still flowing strong.) I know a few people who installed 50kW of panels on their houses and sheds purely because of that incentive.

The idea behind the subsidy was to kickstart the solar industry, and it worked. It was always obvious what was going to happen to feed in prices if it did work. Given the price of power is now very close to $0 for 8 hours a day, it's working very, very well. That's how this "free electricity" offer came about.

The same incentives are now happening for batteries. The Australia electricity regulator created a special kind of retailer called a "Virtual Power Plant". It's effectively a collective of battery owning consumers, and the VPP allows them to sell their excess storage into the wholesale market. The government is now subsidising batteries, in the same way they subsidised solar panels. And now, they are looking at offering free power to charge the batteries(!) The result you should be able to get will over a 10% return by installing a battery and joining a VPP. Consequently, there is currently a shortage of battery installers.

That 10% won't last forever of course. It will last for a while, especially in Queensland (where I live) as the conservatives are installing more gas turbines rather than building more renewables. The high price of gas generated power guarantees a good return on my battery investment. I will take great pleasure in sending the gas and coal generators broke by selling when the price is highest (which is a night) and taking their profit.

And fortunately night lasts a long time, and years and years of battery installs to take a real bite out of it. Nevertheless the fun and profit will wind down eventually. When it does I won't be whinging about a receiving slap in the face. I will shrug, be thankful I could have my fun while it lasted, and move on.
by acdha | 2025-11-06 21:13:16+00:00
Not in the slightest. I’m saying that it’s possible to recognize that evil without denying that something else is good. Just do both at the same time, like how we might say that the world has benefited from polyurethane, digital computers (Konrad Zuse), or rocketry without in any way excusing the Nazi government which controlled Germany at the time.
by yorwba | 2025-11-06 21:13:33+00:00
It's true that to train more information into the model you need more trainable parameters, but when people ask for small models, they usually mean models that run at acceptable speeds on their hardware. Techniques like mixture-of-experts allow increasing the number of trainable parameters without requiring more FLOPs, so they're large in one sense but small in another.

And you don't necessarily need to train all information into the model, you can also use tool calls to inject it into the context. A small model that can make lots of tool calls and process the resulting large context could obtain the same answer that a larger model would pull directly out of its weights.
by supersrdjan | 2025-11-06 21:14:17+00:00
It’s an iphone shortcut. Here it is: https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/a8a0076cc03f4e699d8ca34bd3d...

I keep the inbox.org on dropbox, that keeps it synced.

The shortcut is called “longdictate” because previously I had a version that didnt require me to press stop after finishing my thought. Instead it was set to stop recording when I stopped talking. But it misfired too frequently, cutting me off, so I added the button.

I imagine there must be something similar to iphone shortcuts on Android?
by clort | 2025-11-06 21:14:18+00:00
I've never seen a fishing boat fly a flag, and I've been sailing in many countries for >20 years. Generally, fishermen don't care for such things.

So, since I am British and have a UK registered boat and know a bit about this. The law that applies (The Merchant Shipping Act 1995 section 5) requires that we should fly the flag when entering or leaving a foreign port or upon a signal by one of Her Majestys ships [1]. Flying a flag routinely in international waters is very much not required, and very few vessels fly a flag out there, because there is not much there to look at it and it just flaps itself to bits.

[1] https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1995/21/section/5
by wizzwizz4 | 2025-11-06 21:14:29+00:00
If you can extract anything resembling a declarative rule from the weights of a transformer, I will put you in for a Turing award.

Expert systems are a specific kind of thing (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system#Software_archite...): any definition you've read is a description. If the definition includes GPT models, the definition is imprecise.
by twotwotwo | 2025-11-06 21:14:41+00:00
I think there is a lot of progress on efficient useful models recently.

I've seen GLM-4.6 getting mention for good coding results from a model that's much smaller than Kimi (~350b params) and seen it speculated that Windsurf based their new model on it.

This Kimi release is natively INT4, with quantization-aware training. If that works--if you can get really good results from four-bit parameters--it seems like a really useful tool for any model creator wanting efficient inference.

DeepSeek's v3.2-Exp uses their sparse attention technique to make longer-context training and inference more efficient. Its output's being priced at 60% less than v3.1 (though that's an imperfect indicator of efficiency). They've also quietly made 'thinking' mode need fewer tokens since R1, helping cost and latency.

And though it's on the proprietary side, Haiku 4.5 approaching Sonnet 4 coding capability (at least on benches Anthropic released) also suggests legitimately useful models can be much smaller than the big ones.

There's not yet a model at the level of any of the above that's practical for many people to run locally, though I think "efficient to run + open so competing inference providers can run it" is real progress.

More important it seems like there's a good trendline towards efficiency, and a bunch of techniques are being researched and tested that, when used together, could make for efficient higher-quality models.
by mcbrit | 2025-11-06 21:15:21+00:00
I don't know. I entered, trying to be popular but at least slightly? opiniated:

Tigana, Hyperion, A Fire Upon the Deep, Blindsight, Moby Dick

and I got a list. Sure, read all that or wasn't interested for reasons, I added (only Neuromancer on initial recommendations):

Neuromancer, VALIS, Quantum Thief, Towing Jehovah.

List did not get more interesting.

Book recommendations are still kind of difficult.
by stacktrace | 2025-11-06 21:15:36+00:00
> Even an improvement of a few second per iteration can compound into hours of time savings, both for you and your fellow contributors

Completely agree with this. I’ve recently been dealing with building few CI workflows, and honestly, I was very frustrated by how much time everything was taking. A lot of that frustration came from having nothing to do while waiting for the CI to pass, and I could clearly see how much time all of it was costing me.

Looking back, I realize that I’ve wasted far more time during my normal development workflow because of small inefficiencies here and there.

This has led me to believe that the human mind is much more prone to thinking linearly than in a compounding way.
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-11-06 21:15:47+00:00
I think as we get older I see a convergence within my peer group, as we lose friends and family people either seem to orient on peace or bitterness.

Some of us just have the chance to emotionally appreciate and internalize the fragility of existence at an earlier stage.

Do we spend our days focusing on the lack of days and other things outside our control or do we schedule a day at the beach, build a tree house, learn how to cook a bolognese?

One option sounds very boring to me, might as well opt out of existence instead, it's not hard to do.
by terminalshort | 2025-11-06 21:15:49+00:00
Are these $500K boats in a country with a GDP per capita of $5000? Are these boats taking off from areas that are known origin points for drug trafficking? Are these boats making sketchy long distance one way trips or just cruising around for the day and returning to the same marina? Have you surveilled these boats with insane OP state of the art military surveillance tech and concluded that they are running drugs?
by ux266478 | 2025-11-06 21:16:01+00:00
For what it's worth, I'm not an active user (or fan) of Rust. I've just used a lot of languages, it's a hobby of mine to learn new tools.

> a more gentle learning curve ... and generally more approachable syntax.

This is all the more reason it's not a peer. The heavyweight class Rust belongs to (which includes things like Sepples, ATS, Ada/SPARK, D) are as a rule not approachable things. All of them are serious industrial tools whose target audience are experienced professionals that prioritize extremely broad functionality and flexibility in output. What the input looks like, or the cost of learning to operate these tools is not even a consideration for this audience. Swift doesn't fit this bill. It simply compromises too much for things that this class of language isn't concerned with. People reaching for a new language in this class aren't thinking about how easy it is to learn, or even how nice it is to use. Rust abandoned ML-family syntax to babyduck C++ at massive cost to its "niceness".

On syntax, do you mean semantics? Syntactically they're both generic curly-brace algol stuff with minor differences at best. Semantically Rust is certainly more complicated.

> which has to date been a major weak point for Rust.

It's very ironic, given Rust's original purpose was to replace C++ as the implementation language for Firefox. Retained mode GUIs have unfortunately fallen by the wayside due to a number of factors, it's not just unique to Rust. If a language hasn't inherited a legacy retained mode lib, it's not likely it'll get a decent one unless it's really lucky. Unfortunate, because you're right, retained mode GUIs absolutely have their upsides and web browsers aren't a solid replacement. They're just complicated to implement, and computers are fast enough now that the much simpler immediate mode paradigm is the choice for every new framework being written. It is what it is.
by semi-extrinsic | 2025-11-06 21:16:50+00:00
Au contraire, the Rust (or other "modern" lang) dependencies come in addition to the OS dependencies. The C (or other "old" lang) programs typically have very few dependencies apart from the OS, with absolutely glacial release cycles. And unless you're on Arch or similar, the OS package manager updates are primarily just minor version bumps.

It seems pretty indisputable that "modern" langs substantially increase your supply chain attack surface. Of course some (like JS) are worse than others.

As a result, whether the net security benefit of using Rust vs C is positive or negative depends heavily on the program in question. There is a huge difference between e.g. Firefox and Wireguard in this respect.
by Gracana | 2025-11-06 21:17:14+00:00
Yeah, by "structured" I mean how it wants to do ChatGPT-style output with headings and emoji and lists and stuff. And the punchy style of K2 0905 as shown in the fiction example in the linked article is what I really dislike. K2 Thinking's output in that example seems a lot more natural.

I'd be totally on board if cut straight to the answer with natural sounding prose, as you described, but for whatever reason that has not been my experience.
by guelo | 2025-11-06 21:17:25+00:00
I have the more typical one email used with hundreds of passwords on many websites. haveibeenpwned is also useless for me, it will tell me that my email was compromised but not which sites or passwords. I guess I could check each password individually, hope each password is globally unique to me, and then try to match it back to the website where I used it so I can change the password.
by giobox | 2025-11-06 21:17:44+00:00
One of the drawbacks of using a custom domain for personal email is you essentially have to pay for it for life, otherwise anyone can just buy your old email address if the domain expires and start receiving mail, resetting accounts... I think some folks don't fully consider this consequence when setting up a fun vanity email address or similar etc, especially now both iCloud and gmail have made it so trivial to link a custom domain.
by Johnny555 | 2025-11-06 21:17:46+00:00
I don't know what native apps they needed Windows for (I wasn't doing IT work by then), but I was still setting up PC's when they said they needed Windows Excel (not Excel on Mac, not Office365) for some forecasting spreadsheet product they purchased - it only ran on native Excel. We gave them Windows in a VM on their Mac at first, but eventually they had more and more apps that ran on Windows and moved from Mac to Windows laptops.
by mariodiana | 2025-11-06 21:19:09+00:00
I worked for a small company that had a project with Bloomberg. We went to the office downtown, and being the clueless Upstate hick that I was, I saw the text-based UI up on a screen and asked my boss — a little too loudly — if we were at an auto parts store.

"Shhhhh! That's the Terminal!"
by ceejayoz | 2025-11-06 21:19:38+00:00
> How anyone can complain about a 2% profit margin, especially on a forum where workers earn high salaries because they work for businesses with 20%+ profit margins, is beyond me.

I'd very much rather be in the business of selling $100B at 2% profit margin than selling $100k at 50% profit margin. Same for health insurers - they have enormous volume. Low-margin isn't a great defense, especially as it's a gameable metric; you can reduce margins in all sorts of ways.

Like, say, spending some on private jets. https://nbaa.org/membership/member-profiles/the-kroger-co/
by EvanAnderson | 2025-11-06 21:20:59+00:00
Interesting. I'd love to see where you're seeing that. I'll go poke at the site a little more.

Edit: When I try to do a domain search I get told:

> Domain search restricted: You don't have an active subscription so you're limited to searching domains with up to 10 breached addresses (excluding addresses in spam lists).

My domain has 11 breached addresses.
by maxglute | 2025-11-06 21:21:06+00:00
Most of them would. These are labour-rural-transfer programs thats been going on in PRC for poverty alleviation for 20+ years that retards in west twisted into slave labour.

The entire coerced labour propaganda are bunch of country bumpkin Uyghurs getting enrolled in poverty alleviation programs where they're paid close to median wage, i.e. 2x+ typical subsistent agri income. This is equivalent to US starting a jobs program to give bottom quantile earners (15k) a median income (40k).

The reality is these are well paying jobs, relative to bottom quantile recruits these programs are designed to uplift usually go towards more ethnically "Chinese" applicants, because factory bosses don't want to deal with Uyghurs who don't Mandarin Good until central pushed Uyghurs (and Tibetans) to front of queue, when frankly much more qualified "Chinese" applicants exist.

Are individuals sometimes fucked in the process, of course, statistic inevitability, but poverty alleivation is net good for Uyghurs, XJ solar is net good for the world.
by mtud | 2025-11-06 21:21:07+00:00
The model file is small enough to have in Git (safetensors is only 600MB) but the Gemma TOS make me unsure if I’m required to have the same “Read and accept the Gemma TOS” limitation that they have on their public huggingface model.

As for ptrace, I use it to inject code into the users shell to present the command in a way that doesn’t require further interaction to run. I wanted it to be more like the “AI terminal” experience without requiring the user to copy-paste the recommended command back into their shell prompt.
by TulioKBR | 2025-11-06 21:21:36+00:00
Se você fosse inteligente o suficiente, teria aberto os componentes e lido. Teria pego os componentes mandando para qualquer IA analisar, teria feito commit para testar o produto. Mas você é como eu disse, um alguém qualquer. Você não chegou aqui querendo me alertar, você claramente chegou falando do produto tendo a chance de testar. Mas você é pequeno ou quer ser pequeno demais para entender.

Posso te mostrar não só um, mas dezenas de produtos criados assim. Mas você que é foda.
by rkagerer | 2025-11-06 21:21:40+00:00
Anonimity on the Internet is going out of vogue.

The only way to fix the ToS issue you raised is through regulation protecting it.

Unfortunately we're going the other direction, with efforts like verified ID gaining traction in some parts of the world.

It's ironic because in most cases anonymity (or allowing an alternate identity that has its own built-up reputation) would offer real protection, while the verification systems are arguably security theatre.

I don't care what technical genius is built into your architecture, as soon as you force a user to plug their ID information into it, they've forked over control along with any agency to protect their own safety.