skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this view. I’m not especially successful (by any of the measures knocking about) but in the midst of a startup again for the last year.
This time I work how I want to work and am actually enjoying myself. The whole 80 hours a week startup thing is padded with a lot of performance art in my experience. I am actively avoiding all that this time around. I find that I solve a lot of things by not doing them or solving them when not actively trying.
We’ve made great progress so far.
Six months ago I had almost given up on local LLMs - they were fun to try but they were so much less useful than Sonnet 3.5 / GPT-4o that it was hard to justify using them.

That's changed in the past two months. Llama 3 70B, Qwen 32B and now these R1 models are really impressive, to the point that I'm considering trying to get real work done with them.

The catch is RAM: I have 64GB, but loading up a current GPT-4 class model uses up around 40GB of that - which doesn't leave much for me to run Firefox and VS Code.

So I'm still not likely to use them on a daily basis - but it does make me wonder if I should keep this laptop around as a dedicated server next time I upgrade.
This is what companies working with fascist governments have thought, and historically that works well up until things change overnight and they come for you.
At one level, this is actually true. The WHO supports women's reproductive rights, access to abortion, contraception and gay rights which are opposed by many people in the U.S. of voting age, and the difference in support inside WHO and in the U.S. does ignore the massive financial dependency on the U.S. funding.

This isn't actually a new thing. Aid has always begged the question: is the aid blind, or is the aid seen as an arm of foreign policy? Agencies like the world bank definitely put requirements on recipient of financial aid, like liberalising markets, and removing labor laws favouring unionisation.

"treat us like dirt" is hyperbole. I get that the money is not received with thanks, and I get that the agencies don't reflect U.S. culture or goals.

So I guess I agree with you a lot. The point of difference is how much it matters. You clearly think the principle goal should be the U.S. foreign policy outcome. I am less certain. When moral majority religious right is in power, defunding contraception and abortion in Africa happens. Which consequently leads to a rise in child poverty, mortality and other problems. Melinda Gates funding initiatives here were at odds with the U.S. Government for some periods of time. I do not like the dependency on private benificence.

I certainly think the rest of the world should pick up the funding pace, but I worry the shift in geopolitics here will turn out to be net-negative for the U.S. -certainly, in respect of womens reproductive rights I think thats a good thing (because of the extreme variability/volatility in the U.S. agenda here) but in other ways it may not be: Donor economies with less ethical basis may now demand votes in other contexts to support them. You're handing soft-power to other people. Are you sure you want to do that?

The U.S. may lose influence. If you are a WW1 era protectionist/isolationist, thats a good thing. I am not, I suspect you aren't either. But maybe you are?
FWIW, I think the reason I'm conflicted is probably a similar reason to why you made a separate new thing. Overcoming the inertia and ways of doing things, or proposing widespread changes, often doesn't go down well with existing maintainers – for very valid reasons. I probably wouldn't want to go into the grep project and suggest rearchitecting it, and I can see why the Ruff developers didn't want to go into projects like Flake8 and Pylint to do the same.

But that doesn't stop me from feeling that there were things lost in this process and wishing for a better outcome.
Hmmm... That seems like a valid move needs to exist for all possibilities for every square.

Water should probably be allowed to hit over too, but not in.
People can leave star ratings without leaving reviews. It is not uncommon that satisfied users leave 5-star ratings (prompted by the app), but dissatisfied users leave 1-star reviews, and that's what you see.

Still, I would not discount the possibility of fake ratings and reviews. It's a rampant problem in app stores.
Alteratively if they trained the model on synthetic data, filtered to avoid duplication, then no copyrighted material would be seen by the model. For example turn an article into QA pairs, or summarize across multiple sources of text.
Fair enough, they're all bad. Maybe except Biden?

As far as I know, Trump wasn't convicted of rape, so it's maybe a bit of stretch to call him a rapist.
You know, I actually don't think so. Gabe Newell famously said piracy is a distribution problem, so a court would likely have to acknowledge inadequate distribution methods hampering AI development. This gives great precedence for consumer piracy, especially for old media that isn't sold anymore. It may not be a criminal offence if best efforts aren't being made by the original copyright holders to distribute.
Imagine other economies having the temerity to want to understand public health in the USA and how it goes up and down state by state, federal government by federal government.
I read the second part of the essay, about the author choosing to transition and live their life identifying and presenting as female. If that makes them happier then I am all for it but I certainly think society’s norms are upstream of people’s decisions. I personally believe that society should be more accepting in general, of autism, tomboys, femboys and other ways of presenting, especially for children. If they were, then people wouldn’t feel so much pressure to conform to a specific stereotype.

Instead when it comes to kids they are often told how they should behave — eg ADHD is another thing that’s overdiagnosed and medicated — including with amphetamines. Notable progressive Thom Hartmann even wrote a book about this ADHD medication industry, with his theory of “hunters and farmers”, when his own son was put through the ringer. In the past, many girls would be called tomboys rather than encouraged to transition because they didn’t like to associate with “feminine” things or present as female. In Sweden, they even had gender-neutral “hen” pronouns for kids.

As far as their observation about trans women being programmers — I want to ask a risque thing on HN. Who are the top female developers that you know? I want to follow their work.

I have found that some of the people I have found to be really innovative female developers, such as the makers of Redbean server (Justine), or decentralized database technology such as Mauve Signweaver, are (I believe) in fact trans women.

What is it that leads to nearly everyone who does hardcore programming and abstract concepts being born as a biological male? In evolutionary psychology “just-so stories”, one could say men were used to long periods of silent stalking animals or building constructions instead of socializing in the cave or raising children. But I am not so sure about just-so stories and the effect size is just way too strong. Was programming really so much different when Ada Lovelace or Grace Hopper or Margaret Hamilton were doing it? Female programmers were more prevalent when it was punchcards. But then you look at, say, Apple and everyone’s a dude and Susan Kare is hired to design icons, rather than programming. Or when I worked at Bloomberg, practically all the developers were male and some of us would go to lunch with the people from the Sales department, because that’s where the females were.
Title is wrong, only the distilled models from llama, qwen are on ollama, not the actual official MoE r1 model from deepseekv3.
There are plenty of authors and writers who could discuss political controversies as intellectually profound learning examples, etc. That is a norm in academia, for example. It reflects more on online forums and basic limitations of forum structure and demographics, rather than anything intrinsic about a given topic.
Redis on Flash [1] is one of the key ways Redis gets people on their enterprise plan (esp before the SSPL relicense). I've spoken with their enterprise team before; it's ungodly expensive, even compared to AWS MemoryDB (wish I had the numbers on hand).

[1] https://redis.io/resources/building-large-databases-redis-en...
I thought the same thing about trees and assumed the dev based the game on my golf skills where going over trees is impossible

Try thinking of it as mini golf/putt putt where the ball only rolls
Any engineering manager or team leader that does not actively look for this is not qualified for that position. It’s bullying. The teacher has to step in. The thing this post is describing is something I’ve witnessed in at least two companies.

Often times the perpetrator is a high performer who is given this latitude.
The issue with bittorrent isn't so much that you are acquiring material but that you are also distributing it. There are cases where downloading copyrighted material is legal. But distributing it without consent never is, and is generally punished much worse.
There aren't enough babies worldwide -- TFR is rapidly falling even in poor countries. Immigrating our way out of it doesn't scale to the world.
Only if your tech stack is bad (i.e. Python). My maven builds work anywhere with an even vaguely recent maven and JVM (and will fail-fast with a clear and simple error if you try to run them in something too old), no need to put an extra layer of wrapping around that.
Back in the old days, before even xbox, online play was almost exclusively on computers on privately hosted servers, so you had mods actively banning anyone who gave any hint of cheating.
The West never forced Russia to do anything. When the USSR collapsed we offered Russia the opportunity to be allies and partners but instead they chose violence. So fuck 'em, now they'll get nothing.

The sensible thing would be to bleed Russia to death. Regardless of whether they manage to hold on to some part of Ukraine for a while, Russia's ability to threaten their other neighbors and project conventional power beyond their borders is being rapidly, irreversibly ground down. Their low birth rate, and declines in their educational system and industrial base, are going to take them off the board as significant players for decades. Most of their major infrastructure and industrial plant is either a remnant of Soviet times or was built largely by foreign experts who have now left for good; there just aren't many young Russians left who still know how to build anything.

Russia has nothing that we need. China can be contained without any help from Russia. China isn't self sufficient in energy or food, and are facing their own demographic time bomb. So it's enough to keep them bottled up behind the first island chain and prevent them from securing their sea lines of communication. Keep the pressure on and eventually they'll have another revolution or civil war; those have been a frequent occurrence throughout Chinese history. As for India, sure let's have good relations with them but they're going to pursue their own interests and have zero interest in being sucked into some kind of entangling alliance.
There's a version written in Go, though clearly just a hobbyist project: https://forums.foundationdb.org/t/introducing-the-redis-prot...
You’re correct, there is a distinction since it is technically another product.
Sure, and that's why there's more and more "trusted" hardware to try and get computers to a place where their users cannot read and write to or from their own memory.
You know, I think this is a worrysome thing. But that said, the crisis in reproduction, the volume of peer review jacking, publication hijacking and the publications crisis in tenure probably play as much of a part in my concerns about science, as this.

What I continue to be amazed by is how selective people's memories are. Sure, the WHO said "no need to mask up" because the dominant source of information was based on mistaken science about infection risk from airborne particles. But the people who got this reversed, They were .. Scientists. Science did the feedback-loop thing and the WHO changed it's stance in the light of scientific evidence. Those Epidemiologists were (in my books) Scientists. The science behind genetics informs the lineage work. The design of the spike protein targetting antiviral vaccines, is science. The supply chains which scaled the production up worldwide, depended on science.

So the net decline in trust in science because of "the WHO" includes a story about the WHO reflecting change in science.

Science saved my life. I totally don't get why because of third-hand, commentary on science from ill informed autodidacts, we now should distrust science to the extent we do.

Oh right. Hockey sticks.
Aha sorry, it was a play on words. "Meta" the company just fired their fact-checking team, hence the tongue-in-cheek comment
Spaghetti detection is supposed to happen on-device.
> Sure, if we all get a stake of ownership in it.

But we do, in the sense that benefits flow to the prompter, not the AI developers. The person comes with a problem, AI generates responses, they stand to benefit because it was their problem, the AI provider makes cents per million tokens.

AI benefits follow the owners of problems. That person might have started a projct or taken a turn in their life as a result, the benefit is unquantifiable.

LLMs are like Linux, they empower everyone, and benefits are tied to usage not development.
I think SP would have been the best. The thing about W25 or S25 is that you can guess what W or S means without being told. Can you imagine trying to explain this to someone? There's nothing about it that makes sense. There's no kernel of intuition to chew on. You'd finish explaining and the other person still wouldn't get it.

"What batch were you?"

"X25"

"What does X stand for?"

"Oh yeah haha, its a clever programming reference, it actually means spring, but S was taken by summer, so they used X instead because its a common variable name."
Curse tablet found in Roman-era grave in France targets enemies by invoking Mars
I deny it. Who wants to have a conversation with a computer that’s just stringing bullshit together in the way it thinks sounds most plausibly human? I’d rather talk to… a human.
> Even the true Blue democrats are jumping ship. What does that tell you?

Who are all these true-blue Democrats that are now MAGA?

84% of non-religious white college grads voted for Harris[1]. What this tells me is that this presidency is simply the poorly educated and the believers in the supernatural getting their turn at bat. Oh well, I'll benefit more from the inevitable tax cut for the rich than they will.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/election/2024/exit-polls/national-result...
I think devbox.sh would solve some of the issues, especially local development. You can also run devbox in CI
I now know how gen z feels about their entire life possibly being on display at any moment.
It basically was. The common law doctrine of citizenship by birth prevailed from the founding up to Dred Scott.

The reason it is uncommon worldwide is because nobody practices common law outside of the Anglophone former colonies and England itself. England had absolute birthright citizenship right up until Thatcher
That doesn't refute my point, though; probably supports it, even. Private server owners went scorched earth in ye olde days because cheating was (and still is) a huge problem.
So we’re back the human vs. unthinking machine distinction. American inventors were human. We’re going in circles and this article was hidden on HN anyway.
The distinction in the executive order is between "a United States citizen or lawful permanent resident" and everyone else, not just citizen vs. noncitizen or lawful vs. unlawful. As drafted, the children of other lawful immigrants (H-1, J-1, O-1, L-1, etc.) would also not receive birthright citizenship. I've quoted the exact language for the father. The language for the mother is different but seems almost equivalent, excluding "lawful but temporary" status.

I don't expect this to be upheld. Many tech workers will be affected if it somehow is, though.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/prot...
They don't but it's like "enemies of my enemies are my friends" type of support.

I don't think anybody really believe Meta is doing this as a charity.
Months would be easier to follow than seasons for those of us on the upside down world.
False. I would have agreed with you if this order also included ending it also for all "US Citizens" and "lawful permanent residents", but it does not.

Read it again and you can clearly see that it is for those who are *not born to permanent "US citizens" or "lawful permanent residents"*.

>>> (c) Nothing in this order shall be construed to affect the entitlement of other individuals, including children of lawful permanent residents, to obtain documentation of their United States citizenship.
s/men/edgy twelve-year old boys/g
hey I built this exact concept months ago. beat detection. video generation. automated video creation checkout the videos I uploaded at https://youtube.com/@nevertwenty
The (potential) complexity of good runqueue latency measurement in Linux
The same exists in French with Mer...credi
I like it. “You ban ours and we’ll ban yours” type of approach
They are replaceable. I've replaced batteries in older iPhones plenty of times, had Apple replace the battery in a few, and I'm probably going to use the Self Service program to get the parts for my 14 Pro Max soon as it's getting a bit tired out.
Study in Brazil found that housing access lead to 33% higher birth rates among 20-25 year olds: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5046571 . Housing affordability is probably a big factor.
Meanwhile China will rule the global energy market by bringing down the cost of solar below the cost of anything the US can dig or pump out of the ground.

This is a 1980s strategy by a President that was already middle aged back then and is unable to grasp new realities in his last few remaining years.

Just like leaving the WHO, this will just strengthen China’s global influence and weaken America long-term.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKPFjAhd3KQ

The meaning of what he said is clear in the phrase "poisoning the blood of our country".
Couldn’t read it & didn’t want to make the extra effort required to. Every message, paragraph, article, blog post or company missive I’ve ever read that deliberately went the extra mile to remove capitalisation was written by the type of “change for the sake of change is always better” numpty who is not yet mature enough to have any insights worth sharing.
People who are socially awkward do not tend to accidentally do a Hitler salute. Twice. With gusto. At the White House. I'm socially awkward. I have managed to not even be close to doing it. I have found it very easy to avoid accidentally performing a Hitler salute.

Maybe they do after documented instances of retweeting neonazi posts. And after publicly supporting the closest thing to the successor of the German Nazi party, AfD. And after calling for the release of a self-professed and documented fascist asshole in the UK. I don't know. Few people have that pedigree, after all, be them socially awkward or not. I'm not sure even being high as a kite on ketamine might do it, but I'm not sure. I think my employer would frown upon me being high as a kite on ketamine.

If he wanted people not to conclude he leans that direction, it would be pretty easy not to accidentally do these things over and over. Unfortunate. But here we are.

Do you think members of the KKK are wearing those robes and funny hats because of social awkwardness too?
users mainly use PyTorch and Jax and these days rarely write CUDA code.

however separately, installing drivers and the correct CUDA/CuDNN libraries is the responsibility of the user. this is sometimes slightly finicky.

with ROCm, the problem is that 1) PyTorch/Jax don't support it very well, for whatever reason which may be partly to do with the quality of ROCm frustrating PyTorch/Jax devs, 2) installing drivers and libraries is a nightmare. it's all poorly documented and constantly broken. 3) hardware support is very spotty and confusing.
> actual working application

Working != maintainable

The things that ChatGPT or Claude spit out are impressive one-shots but hard to iterate on or integrate with other code.

And you can’t just throw Aider/Cursor/Copilot/etc at the original output without quickly making a mess. At least not unless you are nudging it in the right directions at every step, occasionally jumping in and writing code yourself, fixing/refactoring the LLM code to fit style/need, etc.
This is important, and needs to be understood contextually. They CAN overturn but they don't randomly overturn things: Somebody has to bring action and they have to accept a need to do something, and set it's priority against other work. They can put a stay on things or reverse, but it doesn't happen on a whim. And you need standing to bring things to their attention.

Also the volume of executive orders over time is down net, the last 150 years. With a spike during WW2. Trump is exceeding local norms. But not historical highs.

I happen to think the orders are shit. That's not the point.
Do you happen to live in Switzerland?
Not sure I follow. Are you referring to the contributors behaviour as bullying? If so, I would agree to a certain extent. Although its not the typical kind that one would come across.
A function with an unlikely slowpath can easily end up arranged as

top part
jxx slow
fast middle part
end:
bottom part
ret
slow:
slow middle part
jmp end

There may be more than one slow part, the slow parts might actually be exiled from inside a loop and not a simple linear code path and can themselves contain loops, etc. Play with __builtin_expect and objdump --visualize-jumps a bit and you’ll encounter many variations.
Which is why the USA essentially forced TSMC to build a fab here. That reduces China's potential leverage and provides some geographic redundancy. Even if China never invades, TSMC production in Taiwan could be crippled by a natural disaster or labor action or local political crisis or something.

https://www.tsmc.com/static/abouttsmcaz/index.htm
> They cover reproduction of the work, but LLMs don't obviously do this

LLMs are much smaller than their training sets, there is no space to memorize the training data. They might memorize small snippets but never full books. They are the worst infringement tools ever made - why replicate Harry Potter by LLM, it's show, expensive and lossy, when you could download the book so much easier.

A second argument is that using the LLM blends a new intent into the process, that of the prompter. This can render the outputs transformative. And most LLM interactions are one-time use, like a scratch pad not like a finished work.
One example of a "Project B" happening was between Nintendo and Citizen during the time of the Game Boy. Citizen had a color LCD screen available, and there was progress on designing a handheld game console to use that screen. But it turned out to be a Project B to negotiate with Sharp and use their black and white LCD instead. Then Citizen proceeded to work with Sega instead with the Game Gear.

Source: LowSpecGamer on YouTube
However since this is a civil case they don't have to prove beyond reasonable doubt that Meta seeded torrents. If they did use torrents the presumption would be that they used a regular bittorrent client with regular settings, and it would be on Meta to show they didn't do that.
pray to morpheus
Yes, I think the most common is a tail call. There also of course can be several ret's from a single function.
> What does that tell you?

Tech bros are not immune to populism