skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's separate in the sense that the individuals involved are mostly employed clerks, scribes, middle management, and other such "common" public servants who serve for practically life careers without input from anyone, as far as the Above State side of things go. In the Under State, those same people actually run the government because they are the people who do all the heavy lifting.

The Above State with its Presidents and Secretaries and Legislators are all replacable and expendable, they're just an abstraction and obfuscation layer for the Under State to put their desires into action.

Occasionally you might catch glimpses of them when they play their hand too strongly, like the Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction(tm) narrative pushed by the Intelligence Community (the Under State) with State Secretary Colin Powell (the Above State) acting as their mouthpiece. On rare occasions a Deep State agent might turn coat and blow the secrets as was the case with Snowden.
Internal documents reveal Commission fears over Microsoft dependency
Complexity may be your enemy, but you should respect your enemy, or it will defeat you.

Disrespecting complexity usually goes "that complex thing is a mess, let's make something simple instead", which usually results in the "simple" thing being useless, and often not that simple. Respect complexity, especially if your goal is to remove it.
The one service that is not dead yet. But is smelling funny is CodePipeline. It is so bad and they’ve already discontinued CodeCommit (the very bad hosted git service), Cloud9 (hosted IDE that is based on VSCode even though they would never admit it externally) and CodeStar.
Show HN: Oliver – Your Smartest Friend
Hey HN, this is the beta version of Oliver — a project I’ve been hacking together over the past few weeks. I found the current companions to be either to roleplay-ey or borderline unnerving. What I really wanted was a companion that would just talk to me about my hobbies, interests, and news in an engaging way - like a friend that shared my interests would. That's how I set out on creating Oliver.

Check it out by signing up at fissure.ai or just texting 866-642-8184.

Oliver will text you through SMS and will:
- Chat with you about everyday things.
- Learn your interests and hobbies through what you mention to him.
- Digest and formulate opinions and knowledge on media you share with him (right now links to articles and YT videos) and talk to you about them.
- Reach out to you with media that Oliver thinks you would like.

I have a long list of plans for Oliver and am excited to keep working on it. This is far from a final or finished product. Would love early feedback and comments.

Feel free to email me at aedin [at] fissure [dot] ai as well.
Not really, that would imply they are pretending. There aren't enough people with a genuine respect for truth for that to be a factor. It is more that any signal of knowledge will be copied mercilessly if it affords any respect. If people with bookshelves get more respect, then everyone will have a bookshelf and nonetheless be confused if they meet someone who reads a lot of books.

The default assumption is that a person has no idea what they are talking about because the base rate success of that stance is rather high.
no, creating the actual technical standards and the internet is/was hard.
monetizing it and walling off sections of it is STEALING FROM THE PUBLIC that which we already PAID for and selling it back to us!

Zoom!? WebRTC!
Proprietary XYZ? Standards!
The issue isn't necessarily that all censorship is "bad", it's that it is being applied asymmetrically to benefit a political party, blatantly.
Going back a little further, perhaps 20 years or so, there was generally less focus on "hard" data. I wonder if the ability to perform qualitative analyses plays into how an online community evolves?
Its all us, most of the time lol. From the blog post:

> All I can do is continue looking for those people who have that respect for complexity. Some find them boring, or indecisive, or just wrong for not buying into some extreme.

Ignoring complexity and still making decisions is a key survival trait. The trick in modern society is imho to know when complexity really matters.
This was always me, and I've been here 15 years. It was pretty much a tech forum then (arguably more then than now, there's much more discussion of culture war issues now, even when stories are flagged it's ever-present in the comments). I think the time when HN was primarily startups was much further back and much briefer than most people nostalgically remember.
If you use a type like `map[string]any` then yes, it's going to be the same as Context. However, you can make a struct with fields of exactly the types you want.

It won't propagate to the third-party libraries, yes. But then again, why don't they just provide an explicit way of passing values instead of hiding them in the context?
I'm sure there's a sampling bias here. Many intractable methods are never adopted by the developer community exactly because they're intractable, which means such methods won't be encountered often. Like an ant line avoiding obstacles. Only pioneers/people developing new methods encounter them.
Ask HN: Trying to find a post about some OS developer in the 80s coding by hand
Hi, as the title says, I tried everything, checking my bookmarks and chatgpt but cannot find a post about someone telling the story of some engineer using pencil and paper for a month or so and then typing the code in one go and it worked flawlessly.

He was writing some niche OS system and the blog was a collection of posts about that system.

I also remember from the discussion thread that the developer had passed away.
Great article that contains some pithy aphorisms that I expect to see again and again.
We are now also seeing companies staying private much, much longer. This is tough on the employees who quite often can't offload their equity.
Tanzania confirms Marburg virus outbreak
WHAT??? Jonas Salk GAVE the IP for the Polio Vaccine TO THE WORLD FOR FREE!

how dare you say that Billionaires gave us these things.
you are telling lies.
> > could directly lead to
> "Could lead to" is a slippery slope

Bad wording on my part, to an extent due to trying to make the battery/assault/affray comparison match better. I've edited it to “directly encourages”, though that is still vague enough to be accused of being the start of a slippery slope.

I know why people worry about the slippery slope, and you should be able to say anything but not expect zero comeback (“free speech, but not speech free of consequences” and all that), so until/unless there are practical consequences (is anyone working on slap-over-IPv4?) we need to compromise and start blocking things somewhere along that slope.
Hatred is extremely infectious, especially in difficult times. If you do not extinguish it, you can end up in a country like Nazi Germany, where it even became encouraged.
> If you join early, got plenty of stock options and the startup turns into a unicorn, those millions are totally possible.

GP comment argues correctly that there's no guarantee that employee stock options will return a profit even in the case of successful exits. Valuation multiples, senior debt, clawback options (see Skype exit [0]), fractional stocks being rounded down to zero after stock splits have all been implemented successfully by startups and VCs. I wouldn't invest my time, which is very precious compared to my capital, into any company that is managed by someone I don't know personally. I would rather earn surplus money to invest into high risk high return options. Treat startup equity as a lottery ticket and don't pay too much for one.

[0] Skype options turn out to be worthless. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2692985
> Switzerland is in Schengen and they kept border checks all the time

Not sure "all the time" is accurate. Two years ago I drove a car through Switzerland, entering from the South border and leaving at the North border (and ~3 weeks later, the opposite way), there was no border checks at all. The only control we encountered when traveling from Spain to Sweden (and vice-versa) by car was the quick checks at the German<>Denmark ferry border.
Dell factory in Łódź (Lodz) for example
> in practice, what is driven by curiosity and passion ends up being a better product.

If it can survive. The problem here is that startups compete in the same economy as those more sustainable, passion-driven businesses - and because of their ruthless focus on growth, as well as access to vastly more capital, they win, effectively suppressing good products or outright preventing them from entering the market.
I saw about the ADL's stance and just find it unbelievable. Are they just more interested in siding with Israel despite the atrocities?

I don't see how Musk's two Nazi salutes can be defended when he deliberately did it twice and has a history of supporting extreme right-wing views.
> I don't even know how anyone, much less an organization meant to protect jewish interests, can come to that conclusion.

Once you start differentiating between Zionist interests and Jewish interests, the last 80 years (and especially the last 15 months) makes a lot more sense.
German doesn't like USA = tier 1
Poland where 90% people support USA no matter what = tier 2
Seems legit.
assuming you want to run entirely in GPU, with 12gb vram, your sweet spot is likely the distill 14b qwen at a 4bit quant. so just run:

ollama run deepseek-r1:14b

generally, if the model file size < your vram, it is gonna run well. this file is 9gb.

if you don't mind slower generation, you can run models that fit within your vram + ram, and ollama will handle that offloading of layers for you.

so the 32b should run on your system, but it is gonna be much slower as it will be using GPU + CPU.

prob of interest:
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/20/deepseek-r1/

-h
I'm passing quite often one of these borders supposedly with controls and the cars are waved through by the officers. Even better, if you are passing the border on foot or on a bike, there are no officers to be seen at all. So the controls are nominally reintroduced to score some political points, most probably.
Yeah. If anything, the 20th century was sort of a nadir for this sort of thing, as increasingly large portions of the population became more alienated from the natural world. That made it possible for young kids and teenagers to have no clear idea.

Sex and reproduction was no mystery to almost anyone historically. No doubt people, then as now, maintained various superstitions that coincidentally involved rationalizations for what they wanted to do anyway, but that's not really a matter of ignorance, so to speak. ("Come on, it's your first time, it will be OK, nothing will happen...whoops!" is not a matter of ignorance generally, but willful ignorance.)
I learned one of the most important lessons from six (and a half) failed startup attempts:

Brilliant ideas are not enough.
You also need a brilliant mindset, vision and execution.
And the help of a sensible co-founder if needed along the way.
You can online expand a ZFS pool for years by replacing disks with larger ones or by adding vdevs. On current OpenZFS you can even expand a Raid-Z by adding disks to it.

To shrink a pool, you can remove vdevs. On OpenZFS this is limited to mirror vdevs, native ZFS from Oracle can remove Raid-Z.

Kernel integration is not so important as long as use distributions that include ZFS support at distribution level mainly Proxmox and TrueNAS or Ubuntu.
Nokia's Next-Day Internal Competitive Analysis of the Original iPhone
Trump's been a staunch supporter of Poland and has granted Visa waivers for entry into the US for its citizens.

Trump, in my view, doesn't see EU as enemy but an ally that's been taking advantage of the US especially on trade and defense spending.

Some of the gripes, which are valid:
- U.S. provides bulk of the defense for NATO at the moment
- EU currently imposes a 10 percent tariff on US cars
Nice one, I am going to check it out. Just curious, is there anything with a forever (until further notice) free tier for toy projects?
> Regarding selecting based on gender compromising or not compromising candidate quality is a vastly more compex question

Except Kamala Harris put the correct answer to that question into stark relief. Everyone knew from 2019 that she was a terrible campaigner and manager. But Biden picked her as VP and then Democrats picked her as the nominee because they were able to lie to themselves that she was an accomplished individual rather than someone who had moved up within California uniparty politics because of her race and gender. Selecting people considering race and gender in an effort to “make history” or correct past wrongs is a deeply misguided practice. But I didn’t expect it to blow up in people’s faces quite so quickly and spectacularly.
no. just NO.
look at maps of polio proliferation before/after Jonas Salk, the frikkin guy who DISCOVERED/CREATED the polio vaccine, and then look at maps related to Gates work, which, while admirable, bears no comparison from the night-vs-day world of pre-polio-vaccine vs post-vaccine.
Wards of people in iron-lung machines staring at mirrors on the ceiling.
It was before your time, but this is no excuse for spouting total nonsense.
This is called a "lifestyle business", which some people get very annoyed about. And as mentioned you can't get VC for this model.
> If you join early, got plenty of stock options and the startup turns into a unicorn, those millions are totally possible

That's the thing: there's literally no business idea in most startups beyond "sell to the highest bidder at 1B+ valuation". And the rest are hoping to coast on unlimited investor money.

That's it.

There are no business plans of, you know, building a sustainably profitable company.
People are bad at reporting what they eat. That's a problem for dietary research
I 100% agree with this. It is now a lot easier to create software, but it does feel harder to reach customers, especially via Google/Meta Ads.
I think the matrix shown in the github issue is for Windows support, which is much better: https://rocm.docs.amd.com/projects/install-on-windows/en/lat...

Having said that, on the weekend I set up ROCm on Linux on my 6800XT and it seems to work just fine.
There is one caveat, though: it is not open source as advertised.

> In the event of a conflict, these provisions shall take precedence over those in the Apache License:

> Restriction on Resale: The multi-node support, Docker Compose file support, Preview Deployments and Multi Server features cannot be sold or offered as a service by any party other than the copyright holder without prior written consent.

> Modification Distribution: Any modifications to the multi-node support, Docker Compose file support, Preview Deployments and Multi Server features must be distributed freely and cannot be sold or offered as a service.

https://github.com/Dokploy/dokploy/blob/canary/LICENSE.MD
Vendors will likely be required to state purpose and usage for the chips and the hips would probably have some kind of id or batch number so if at some point your chip ends up somewhere it's not supposed to you lose your license and maybe your whole country relevant enforcement authority reviews your activities and punishes you further. Rogue agents will likely be costly to their home countries so countries will have an incentive to prevent rule breaking.

It's like stealing an apple from a shop, sure you can do it a few times but eventually you will be arrested.
> world's foremost anti-neo-Nazi organization

no and they never have been, outside of the US and US contextualized business not many even know what it even is

through it is maybe the worlds foremost anti-antisemitism organization

But in case you might have missed it some neo Nazis and many more non-nazi fascists have dropped their antisemitism from a core point to a not much talked about side point, blaming everything on jews is just currently not very effective. You also might have missed that Israels government hasn't been exactly anti-fascist in recent times. Giving their far right, fear driving, not so open for opposition government which is fine with committing war crimes they themself aren't that far away from fascism.

Fascism doesn't need antisemitism, it just happens to most times come with it.
Wikipedia editor of 20 years here. I’ve contributed articles and everything from famous architects and industrial designers to Unix topics. The site has absolutely become a partisan battleground in the last five years or so. Although Wikipedia historically never considered itself to be a source, some editors are aware that Google and other engines always show Wikipedia is the first result for many queries and are determined to use that power to manipulate narratives.

https://www.piratewires.com/p/how-wikipedia-launders-regime-...
Are you two talking about the same thing? I believe the grandparent is talking about running it locally on development machines, often for testing purposes.

Asking because Github Action also supports Self-Hosted runners [1].

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/actions/hosting-your-own-runners/...
Ask HN: How do you keep track of Competitors without losing focus?
I'm working on Draftly (dot) so, a tool to help people and businesses grow on LinkedIn. Recently, I had an experience that made me think.

I wan on a call with a potential customer, and during the call they asked how we compared to another tool. I had never heard of it. Turns out, this competitor launched a few months ago and was getting attention in the same space.

I tried to learn about them on the spot while on the call, but it didn't go well. The customer didn't sign up, and I realized I need to do a better job of staying updated on new tools in my space.

As a small team, it's hard to keep up. We're busy building and improving Draftly, so tracking every new competitor feels impossible.

Just curious:
- How do you find out about new competitors early?
- Do you track their features and updates regularly? If yes, how?
- Are there tools, platforms, communities that help you stay on top of things?

Would love to hear how others manage this.
> entire sector is short sighted and profit obsessed

If you're in for-profit sector, I don't see why being concerned with the main goal first and foremost would be a bad thing.

No one's doing business or lending money to not see a return on that.

So if the problem is worth solving in this ecosystem it's worth it because it does actually turn a profit instead of some fantasy that it will magically appear at some imagined scale.
How is AI going to replace doctors?
>Shouldn't the default time zone for an appointment be the one of the place it is held at? For online events, the time zone of the person setting the event.

I want it shown to me at my local time, so I'm prepared without having to care what offset they are.

If it's 2pm for them and that's 5pm for me, I want to see "Meeting: 5pm" at my calendar, not "Meeting: 2pm <some other place timezone>".
The first thing I checked was serverless support, and was pleasently surprised by having containers support instead of the constrained set of options of Vercel and Nelify, not exposing the underlying AWS Lambda capabilities.

Already there some plus points.
I'm from the UK and don't anticipate any political impetus for leaving the WHO even if the Tories return to power. I feel like the UK discourse did not blame the WHO for COVID scandals as much as the US's did. Googling around I did find this petition during Sunak's term, but it ranked low in terms of signatures for petitions during that Parliament: https://petition.parliament.uk/archived/petitions/648609 .
being efficient is not a strongest side of any polish politician
I had done something similar once on an 8x8x8 LED cube. I implemented a 3d, 2-player lightcycle game with two snakes. You could move around the cube's surface, or you could press a button to cut through the cube to the opposite side. Catch was that you could not change directions while going through the cube, only when on the surface, so you had to be careful the other player didn't have the chance to cut you off before you made it to the other side.
Here's a question: what's the list of startups fitting the criteria of

- after 2008 Great Financial Crisis

- actual startup, not spinoff from larger company

- financially successful exit

- early non-founder employees made a substantial amount of money?
The weirdest thing about microwaves [video]
(new) Data Sources and methods of collection have been maxed out, or rather, reached a plateau or, to be radically honest, the homogeneity of founders / techies / researchers has reached an unhealthy maximum / imbalance, which happened because VC and the financial culture in general is ... well, a bit too IQy, ...

it's a bit like psychology that, despite being true and insanely valuable, is bad for crowd control, to put it in slightly conspiratorial ( cooperative portfolio ) terms.

and there's of course the issue of the variety of engineers they grew and research fields they expanded. the narrowing of the playing field, in general.

but hey, let's read some PG article that distracts us with fake honey & not really milk, produced in shlobbering portfolio communist environments that spread back doors into teen minds to use perverted live telemetry to build poofy, roofie-craving consumers
Poland dream is to be 53rd state, just after Canada and Greenland.
Yes, since it happens at a different local time at each.

Your 5pm London event happens when it's 12pm in NYC.
Free market thinkers here would say this is the market working as intended.
> we can exchange these points of view

the quality of that exchange is indeed the key catalyst of whether a "convergence" happens. For matters concerning the physical world we have (largely) learned not to let subjectivity stand in the way, even when it concerns very complex phenomena. For anything more directly related to the human condition we are in far more primitive state.
Test of Deepseek to "Write" a Blog
I admit my voice is probably not the greatest but I played around over the Australian summer with a "blog" creator using ollama and I thought I'd share some results... This is the first time I've done something like this so
1. feedback is appreciated
2. Apologies if it is terrible
I imagine it would’ve been people waiting to see if the page was updated.
Both offer a monetised version where (basically) someone installs it on your server for you and takes care of updates etc. for you.
I'm amazed apple has got by with a 3/4 day charge for 10 generations while garmin has had products with a 7+ day charge for years.
I think it doesn't really enter the equation. The single worst lecturer I've had at university is now a professor. I don't enough about tenure tracks and we also call them differently (not adjunct, associate, etc) - but he's still there, 20y later, teaching (I think he just had gotten his PhD back then). I can only hope he has improved from "open script, read one page at a time, close script, dismiss".
>Presumably plenty of people were employed in that timeframe

Yes, employed to work on Jobs vision with Ive's designs.
Trump signs executive order to promote "beautiful federal civic architecture"
> but it's also no secret that ChatGPT (and Claude) are used to generate a lot of synthetic data to train other models

Is it true? The main part of training any modern model is finetuning, and by sending prompts to your competitors en masse to generate your dataset you're essentially giving up your know-how. Anthropic themselves do it on early snapshots of their own models, I don't see a problem believing DeepSeek when they claim to have trained v3 on early R1's outputs.
I don't think so especially given its current geopolitical activities. Europe will likely work towards building a homegrown chip industry.
They target different market segments, that's all there is to it. Similar to how some phones get away with having an absolute rubbish camera while other brands offer high resolution cameras — they sell to different people and both companies do fine.