skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tiny language models can do a lot if they are fine tuned for a specific task, but IMO a few things are holding them back:

1. Getting the speed gains is hard unless you are able to pay for dedicated GPUs. Some services offer LoRA as serverless but you don't get the same performance for various technical reasons.

2. Lack of talent to actually do the finetuning. Regular engineers can do a lot of LLM implementation, but when it comes to actually performing training it is a scarcer skillset. Most small to medium orgs don't have people who can do it well.

3. Distribution. Sharing finetunes is hard. HuggingFace exists, but discoverability is an issue. It is flooded with random models with no documentation and it isn't easy to find a good oen for your task. Plus, with a good finetune you also need the prompt and possibly parsing code to make it work the way it is intended and the bundling hasn't been worked out well.
> YouTube doesn't offer any easily accessible RSS feed.

Every feed reader I tried auto-detects the correct YouTube feed URL if you just give them the channel URL.
Next time he will double check the hitman is legit
Scientists Make Heads of Giant Stingray Tails
https://archive.ph/RNDha
>if you can't act on them, don't you have to pick up your phone anyway?

Not necessarily. My smartwatch is basically a beeper. I see messages come in, then I mentally prioritize them. 90% of the time, it can wait at least an hour, maybe longer. It's conditioned me (and people around me) that instant reachability is neither necessary nor desirable. It makes it easier to focus on what's in front of me instead of constantly tickling a slab of glass.
> Some of us see a major difference between selling heroin to someone, and building the marketplace from which these victim's freely bought drugs.

Let's say I "build a network" of mules, planes, trucks, trafficking routes, and people who handle the distribution of drugs. I provide all the logistics to make the drugs go from supplier to end user.

So, a marketplace of sorts... in the real world, not on the Internet.

But, I don't actually sell the drugs to the end user on the street corner. That's someone else.

But a cut of each of those sales rolls up to me, and without me, those sales aren't happening (sure they could happen via someone else, but this particular network exists because I built it and I run it)..

I am what is referred to as a "drug lord".

How am I not responsible for heroin getting into the hands of vulnerable addicts?
no... one more lane will fix the traffic. Truly American approach

Amazing to see how DeepSeek R1 is doing better than OpenAI models with much less resources
Your original question was also “culture war regurgitation” by any standard which includes the post you’re replying to. If you want better discourse, you have to start that way and bring receipts that you’re participating in well-informed good faith.
What I don't understand is why Donald Trump, of all people, is being lenient on drug traffickers.
For Brazil, level 2 seems exactly right.

> ” Level 2: Casual acquaintances. Used more widely for neighbors, family friends, or community members you vaguely know, but typically not for an absolute stranger.”

I would specifically add to he list of examples your school teacher when you are a child and the parents of your friends, seems the most common usage for it.
aider.

Because it seems to edit really well, understand context and commits each change using git, making rollbacks trivial.

Also I just like using command line as a context for interacting with AI, it creates a hard divide between the AI and the editor.
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/science/stingray-tail-ant...
Sunfish that began ailing recovers after human cutouts set up outside tank
Show HN: After 5 Days Coding, I built my first AI-tool API endpoint
This is the only explanation that makes sense to me.
I hear "cuz", not "Uncle/Auntie".
huge difference. People can sell drugs on facebook marketplace but that doesn't mean that Zuckerberg is a drug dealer. The difference is you bear responsibility for what you do.
Can you explain the differences you see? People found the sentence too harsh at the time, too, it looks like.
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Yeah, but in that case, we should pardon all people convicted of drug possession or distribution, not specifically Ross.
I don’t disagree but I also don’t agree with the life sentence. If he was charged properly with the crimes stated during his trial, maybe that would be warranted but he wasn’t charged with it, only the website charges and conspiracy. Which some of them could apply to meta or craigslist if you got creative.
I'd be wary of drawing correlations like this. The people who commented on that thread are not going to be the same people commenting on this one. The topic isn't even the same; in the first thread the topic is his sentencing, and in this its his pardon.

The attraction for people to post on Hacker News is mainly to complain, and so in the first you get complaints the sentencing is too harsh, and in this one you get complaints that he shouldn't have been pardoned. Its not necessarily a cultural shift, just an artifact of the types of discussions people have online.
IMO these are circumstances too far removed from Ulbricht to hold him directly responsible. How many people bought drugs from the Silk Road, used them safely and responsibly, and in doing so avoided contact with violent criminals who they'd otherwise have to buy from, potentially saving them from the violence/misery/blackmail/overdoses that so commonly accompanies association with drug dealers IRL?

Though I think this argument is tangential to the point on proportionality- Ross's sentence is an affront to justice when considered in the context of the Sackler's treatment
You could of course exclude biological computation and say computational power started with mechanical computers very recently, but that’s not what they are trying to argue. As soon as they add biological life as data on the chart then the actual numbers become relevant to their argument.

IE: As soon as you pick definition X, you need to stick with that definition.
For what it's worth, I have a bookmarklet with these contents:

data:text/html,<body contenteditable style="line-height:1.5;font-size:22px;max-width:75ch">type here...

I use this _all_ the time for very quick note taking and writing that will later be copied elsewhere, think one to three sentences and then offload.
Those do NOT occur regularly in the US at the same time (because the humidity peaks in the morning, but the temperature in the afternoon). Maybe in a few decades though.

35°C at 100% humidity is about the human survivability limit (at 6h exposure). This makes a lot of sense because humans generate ~100W of heat, but require their core temperature to stay constant-- if the environment is too hot and evaporation ineffective because of humidity, then your thermoregulation just breaks down and you die, just like from high fever.
He created/operated a platform with the primary purpose of facilitating the sale of drugs. He profited from those transactions. That makes him a drug dealer.

Comparing Meta and Google to Silk Road is a bad faith argument. You might as well compare Silk Road to the phone network at that point.
Aren’t most comments in this thread supporting the pardon?
Macedonian war propaganda, still going strong 2K years later.
Misconceptions About Evolution
Cursor Agent mode all day. It's like having a SWE and devops expert combined.
I don't see the difference between building a marketplace in which people freely buy drugs from you and building a marketplace in which people freely buy drugs from people who aren't you.
> It's usually the case that memory access is also slower than matrix multiplications so this will be faster. Burning flops to save memory movement.

I haven't read this paper (yet) but isn't this the case that mostly applies to training and not so much to inference? A good example would be flash-attention, it trades the higher flops for better memory utilization but it's mostly irrelevant in inference workloads.
For clean ammonia, MIT engineers propose going underground
China's 'artificial sun' shatters nuclear fusion record
I've only used the Boox Tab Ultra C Pro and Remarkable Paper Pro but the latter is definitely a lot more "calm" than the former. I primarily use it only as a note-taking device. YMMV but for me, while the former had a full-fledged Android and the associated bells and whistles like the corresponding apps, local AI features, handwriting search and so on, the RMPP nailed the few things it did. Its sync was pretty slow and it needed wifi for any of the handwriting conversion but its latency felt a lot better (albeit the redraw was a bit annoying) and more importantly, it really felt like they nailed the colors better. When I use red and blue in the RMPP, I can easily recognize the diff without straining my eyes which was not the case for me with the BTUCP (is this the correct short form?).

The keyboard folio was also better for the RMPP since I often experienced loose contact with the one on the BTUCP when I used it on my lap (flat surfaces were good once I set it up). Otoh, the material used in the BTUCP was much better since the RMPP one uses a polyster weave which often leaves me with slight goosebumps. Additionally, the keyboard folio isn't a feature I use often.

I really can't talk about the others so for all I know, Scribe or supernote might be a lot better. RMPP does have a 90 days no questions asked return policy if you want to try it out (though I'm not sure how much that's worth).
Huge leap from "selling pornography" to "facilitate sex trafficking"... Where you get the sex trafficking part from?
> What exactly is your objection?

I've had to manually click backwards through my own comments, but the comments on this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35271498 are a good illustration.

And that is the 3rd or 4th time posts on this domain have triggered some warning flags for me; if you can tell me how to search my own comments on HN by post domain I can give you more links (not going to do more manual backwards-paging…)
> I'm not talking about cat pictures

Caitian pictures, on the other hand…

I think they were more than implying what T'Ana got up to with Shaxs.
This is such a simplistic view on the matter.

The author talks about complexity like it's always an intrinsic thing out there (essential) and the job of the abstraction is to deal with it. It misses the point that a great deal of the complexity on our plates are created by abstractions themselves (accidental). Not only that, sometimes great abstractions are precisely the ones that decide to not isolate some complexity and allow the user to be a 'power user'.
if someone did create a "freed" version of HN, what features would you prioritize?
He took 3/4 of his salary
The next paragraph, or actually next sentence adresses this immediately:

> These ancient written sourced troop numbers are likely greatly exaggerated as more modern accounting of the battle puts the numbers much lower, but it is how the story was told for the better part of 2,300 years.
In India, at least in Hindi, there is uncle and aunti for strangers and the blood relatives have their own words (mama - brother of mother, masi - sister of mother, bua - sister of father, etc). Whether these specific words are used for non-blood relatives is kinda specific to the people in question.

So I wouldn't say there is any implicit kinship there. If I call a random stranger "uncle" then there's no real meaning to it. If I call him "mama" or "chacha" then that would be implying a relationship.
One is the capital class, the other is not.
> Very striking to see how the sentiment has drastically shifted

I'm not sure. I have two questions on that. Is there the appearance of a sentiment shift? I see plenty of people arguing both against and for incarcerating him in both this thread and that old one.

And then if there is an appearance of a sentiment change (which I'm not sure about) is that evidence of a sentiment change or just selection bias? People who are okay with an outcome are much less likely to write a comment than people who are upset. That alone would change the bias of the comments.
In Germany it is currently illegal to criticise Israel. You'll pardon me for being a bit skeptical about rule of law. Rule of good law is good, but rule of bad law is bad.
LOL I thought the time after the fall of the Roman empire were colloquially termed "The dark ages"
It's just mildly weird that the same reader posts it twice with a distance of 12 hours, I hope this "null program" doesn't cause amnesia by nulling out memory ;D
The amount of doublethink, false-flagging, misinformation, and “looking the other way” in this thread is just absolutely disgusting.
You really think Messenger isn't successful?
You think any issues Messenger had was because of react?

Do you have sources on this?
It may found in usage, but then so is "liek"..

At the end of the day there is accepted grammar and there is actual usage.

If you ask people for the accepted grammar they will give you something most people accept. Which is not "What if there were no star in the sky?"
So, when Trump said that some of the same FBI agents involved in busting DPR also worked on Trump’s cases, how precise was that?
Can you please explain what does this tool does?
Stargate, the End of Microsoft and OpenAI
Real HN in a nutshell: People who don't build stuff telling people who do build stuff that the thing they built is useless :P

It's a hacker forum, let people hack!

If anything have a dig at OP for posting the thread too soon before the parent commenter has had the chance to gather any data, haha
> 1) It’s now possible to run a wide range of tests on an application very quickly through its public interface, enabling a broader scope of testing without excessive time or resource constraints.

> 2) Improved test frameworks have brought down the cost and effort required to write robust, maintainable integration tests, offering accessible, scalable ways of validating the interplay between components.

> 3) The development of sophisticated debugging tools and enhanced observability platforms has made it much easier to identify the root causes of failures. This improvement reduces the reliance on narrowly focused unit tests.

Citation needed on all of these. Where are the specific tools that make running all of these magically fast and reliable (read: not flakey) integration tests possible?
Major data revisions are coming – should make you trust official statistics more
Very insightful take on agents interacting with agents thanks for sharing.

Re H.E.R phone - I see people already trying to build this type of product, one example: https://www.aphoneafriend.com
The 'correct' English is "no books by Hemmingway"
This is often framed in api design as make it easy to use it correctly and difficult to use it incorrectly.
Ha, I too had the pleasure of playing Metal Gear on an old CRT that had a similar bezel that covered the sides of the screen. I too had the pleasure of going crazy trying to figure out what to do. Good times.
Kate is fantastic. I rarely touch the built-in software out of a bad habit, but this one turned this around. One of the things it's missing from Notepad++ is the ability to just close the editor, open it again, and get back the workflow exactly where it was, but unsaved files as well. Kate can do it via sessions, but I need to create a session, and then after re-opening, tell it to yes, open that one session.
I am not in fact American
> like you need to figure out a way to instrument/harness something for the first time so that you can actually test against it

Indeed, and sometimes it's not worth to figure out, but sometimes it is. For example, if you have a piece of code that haven't changed since the beginning, and there been no bugs stemming from that code, adding tests to it is kind of futile unless you already know it has to be refactored soon.

On the other hand, if you join a existing project with almost no tests, and for the last N months, that code is responsible for introducing lots of bugs, then it's probably worth it to spend time building some testing infrastructure around the project with that part first up to be under lots of tests.

Basically, if the calculation shows that you can save more time by not having those bugs, you have some budget to spend on making the tests work well for that part.
UTOPIA: Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency
I don't know why people care if they're being censored by government officials or private billionaires. What difference does it make at the end of the day? why is one worse than the other?
I'm talking about the administration that dropped the boards, as per the post I was replying to.
That’s not true actually. Like most things at law, it’s more complicated than that.
It sounds wrong to this British ear.

"There was a problem at the mill so I wrote them" - this sounds wrong

"The mill workers were complaining so I wrote them a letter" - this is fine

"The mill workers were complaining so I wrote to them" - this is also fine
It was almost you not you!
Preach, mate. The bloody Beatles and their bloody catchy refrains and hit songs. They sing “Love is all you need” once, and now it’s everywhere! Can’t hide from it. Even scientific papers! Especially scientific papers!

Bloody hell and brimstone. Been crazy 57 years and a half already.
its crazy to look at this old thread and know that i almost certainly left a comment in it. although ive created and left behind hundreds of accounts in the meantime. i first got on HN feb 2015 when i read an article about “famed god” getting arrested in las vegas… his shirt had “hack the world” written on it and when i googled “hack the world famed god,” not knowing about the movie reference, it gave me a HN thread about the incident. and then HN became my home for almost ten years… i didnt have facebook or instagram or vine. i literally just spent all my time on HN. now that the displacement of programmers by AI has begun, somehow my interest has waned.

at the time, the murder for hire accusations seemed legitimate and they still do today. hopefully they charge him with attempted murder if the statute of limitations isnt up.
A catchy title is all you need (to get attention).
Yes, that's true. It's very rare for people to be able to value actual free speech. Most people think they do until they hear something they don't like
If I'm understanding this correctly, in 01993, Tim Clarke independently reinvented the painter's-algorithm variant of the VoxelSpace algorithm used in Comanche the year before.
Possibly a difference in definition of lifespan, I suspect the 2600 one is using “first game released to last new game released”, whilst the NES / Famicom is “hardware available for purchase”, as Nintendo Japan didn’t officially discontinue the AV Famicom until circa 2003, even though the last new game was released around 1994.
Ask HN: If you weren't in tech, what profession would you likely have today?
It's not an elected government if you're talking about the US. These policies are also all decided by "elites with permanent term and no elections" you realize right?
The purity can also cause overdoses and deaths because they're not used to it being that pure so they took the same amount they would take with a less pure so took a substantially larger dose. Especially with opium based drugs that would be a big problem.
Agree. I’m in my 40s and used these as a kid to refer to close friends of my parents age/generation. My kids do the same. As have many other we know.

It’s sort of an informal Mister/Misses. Kids may call some adult Mister Firstname. But that seems formal for frequent use if the person is around a lot or in a houseguest.

As an example, my best friend from my teens into adulthood is more like a brother to me. His kids are more like nieces and nephews than my own, and more like cousins to my child. They qualify for “sleepover status” well before any of his friends would have slept over, they goof around and have a more deeper relationship with the family, things like that. So it feels natural for my kid to call him Uncle Firstname.

I am in Texas and this does feel like it may be a regional thing fwiw.

EDIT: to add, while this does exist, it's also completely normal and probably more common to just simply call the person Firstname even as a kid. When I think back on when/why it occurs, some people being called Uncle/Aunt, it's seems like the age the kid was introduced to them is relevant. Too old, the kid will likely say Firstname. Young enough, the kid was likely being taught manners and familial titles, so the adult was given one. Some families are more strict regarding these things. Teaching kids, and enforcing compliance, with old school manners like Mr/Mrs seems less and less common.
I say that less to justify Ulbricht's conduct and moreso to hold people responsible for their own actions. "If I don't do it someone else will" is a pretty flimsy moral justification for anything. But accusing someone of murder because they facilitated a transaction between two other parties they never met is a bridge too far, and IMO ignores the responsibility and agency of those parties who willingly participated in the transaction
186M user's records. Not 186M User records.
It's the pig's eyes of course!
Pardons are inherently political. If your guy does it, it's good. If other guy does it, it's bad. And like most political topics, it's hard to have a earnest convo divorced from that simple dynamic.
Unless you are among the uber wealthy -- wealthy enough to control communication channels -- it's very hard to change the political system.

Today, many Americans consume their information from social media and an shrinking number of "traditional" media sources that are largely controlled by a few entities.

It is very difficult to affect discourse in a meaningful way that can then move policy by getting people to vote.
name checks out

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EDIT: lmao, the article doesn't even mention htmx and you registered the username htmxsucks just to leave a negative comment about it?
Currently, I've developed a /scrape endpoint.
I will develop more tools like validating data, extracting data via AI models, converting data into a specific format, receiving real-time notifications, and more.
I also plan to open-source the code of the core functionalities but offer on top of it a cloud platform.
Interesting and surprising they really had rules, thanks for the clarification. I'm ashamed to say I opened this page and read it wrong the first time by skipping the first sentence.
You did clarify latter a bit, but this cannot stand unchallenged. TDD and tests solve different problems from types and so are valuable for that. Tests assert that no matter what you change this one fact remains true. Types assert that you are using the right things in your code.

I don't think it is lack of types at fault for untyped languages liking TDD (though I miss types a lot). I think it is there is no way to find out if functions exist until runtime (most allow self modifying code of some form so a static analysis can't verify without solving the halting problem). Though once you know a function exists the next step of verifying the function (or an overload in some languages) exists does need types.
I couldn't load the page :(
I'm envisioning a future where there's a centralized "legal exchange", much like the NYSE, where high speed machines file micro-ligation billions of times faster than any human can, which is decided equally quickly, an unrelenting back and forth buzz of lawsuits and payouts as every corporation wages constant automated legal battle. Small businesses are consumed in seconds, destroyed by the filing of a million computerized grievances while the major players end up in a sort of zero-sum stalemate, where money is constantly moving, but it never shifts the balance of power.

... has anyone ever written a book about this? If not, I think I'm gonna call dibs.