skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> My point is just that sometimes it's easier to start over than to fix the old, and that fact itself feels kind of sad to me.

Sad, but also liberating. There are surely more projects out there that would benefit from breaking with conventional wisdom to start over.
Russia signed no less than four agreements over 50 years reiterating that countries can join their own alliances. That's in addition to the commitments to territorial integrity of Ukraine.

Russia is not going to ally with the US against China even if we let them rape and murder Ukraine to their black hearts content. They want to dominate Europe and share the values of our authoritarian adversaries.
Many examples of people losing jobs, becoming the object of online mobs, etc for refusing to use preferred pronouns.

Men participating in women’s sports.

Men entering women’s spaces like locker rooms and bath rooms.

Men imprisoned alongside women, with predictably horrible results.

We can treat trans people with compassion, but they are not entitled to change our culture and trample common sense without slow, careful examination. Now that we’re returning to sanity on that front, the data aren’t looking very good.
Modulathe v1: Modular metal lathe made of CNC and 3D-printed parts
DeepSeek-V3-Base is the literal answer for what you're looking for (both counts)... but hats off if you actually have the hardware to run it :).
> AMD is so behind NVidia that it's not even funny.

Do you really want all AI hardware and software dominated by a monopoly? We're not looking to "beat" Nvidia, we are looking to offer a compelling alternative. MI300x is compelling. MI355x is even more compelling.

If there is another company out there making a compelling product, send them my way!
As a long-time sailor, this case may have no impact on regular folks, but I maintain a fool's hope a Meta victory will significantly weaken the copyright system.
Hands down the most depressing book I’ve ever read.
That was a really good article. I dig the CEO's attitude, i agree with everything he says and I am an American. From a Chinese perspective he must be talking an alien language so I salute him with trying to push past the bounds of acceptable hum drum. If the rest of China takes on this attitude the west will have serious competition.
The problem is the WHO influence over the US.
Bringing up Facemash in the second sentence isn't doing anyone any favors, even if i agree with the message of the article, it just blatantly comes off as a hit piece. Comparing zucks college project with the empire of billions of users he eventually amassed is just disingeneous and uncalled for, and it makes me immediately distrust the author.
> The good news is, is that I am actually accomplishing more than I did, when I was younger.

How are you making that happen?

This is an honest question.

As I've gotten older, and developed a deeper understanding of the intractability of the world's problems, this change in perspective has cratered my motivation. It was one thing to give my all toward what seemed like it mattered, back when the scope for possible change still appeared to be great enough that one could imagine living in a better world: but knowing now that no matter what I do it's just going to be more of the same old bullshit, with maybe - at best, and this unlikely - one or another of the rougher edges on the great, awful machine of exploitation and suffering which powers our civilization slightly filed down, so that maybe a couple of people here and there don't get hurt quite as badly as they otherwise might have, while the core of the process continues crushing the life and beauty out of the world, unchanged... it's difficult to muster up any real energy to do anything about it. I still go through the motions, when it seems like I must, for conscience's sake; but I don't believe in it anymore. The source of my past effort is all gone.

I miss that past self, but I can't imagine how to believe that any possible accomplishment would actually matter anymore, enough to justify putting my back into it. What's your secret?
There's usually a crowd of hangers-on who are feeding the ego and enjoying the perks.

They need someone to whisper in their ear "remember you are mortal" [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memento_mori
United States Digital Service Renamed to United States Doge Service
Honestly, if people continue to conflate human development with a mega corps trawling copyright material to build a mathematical model and then wrap it up and charge a subscription for it, then there's really not much you, I or anyone else can do to avoid the inevitable fallout and we really deserve everything we get for it.
It can be argued that the WHO is a politically influenced organization that made serious mistakes during the COVID-19 pandemic. For example, it relied on incomplete or misleading information provided by China in the early stages of the outbreak, which delayed global recognition of the virus’s severity. Additionally, the WHO supported the use of cloth masks long after it became clear that they were largely ineffective at preventing the spread of COVID-19.

Trump supporters, like myself, think it’s smart not to reduce our nation’s sovereignty by kowtowing to the WHO. We as a nation can make appropriate health decisions.
Didn't know Meta paid for them or borrowed them from libraries. In fact, I don't think they did.
> "But then we can reuse the same pipeline for all our projects!"

oh god just reading that gave me PTSD flash backs.

At $priorGig there was the "omni-chart". It was a helm chart that was so complex it needed to be wrapped in terraform and used composable terraform modules w/ user var overrides as needed.

Debugging anything about it meant clearing your calendar for the day and probably the following day, too.
OP is making the spurious argument that technology should have the same ethical entitlements as humans. It's on par with "information wants to be free".
This viewpoint is one widely shared inside the AI community — that AI systems should be able to learn from material just as humans do.

Extrapolated out into some new future a hundred years from now when we have embodied AI humanoids walking alongside us, would it be weird if those humanoids were barred from buying a new book or charged a different rate than the humans they coexist with?

I’m still deciding how I feel about some of this too.
I am quite grateful that they rewrote so many tools that I had been using. Upgrades were super painful with them split into a dozen separate packages, I routinely ran into incompatibilities and had to pin to specific versions to deal with transitive dependencies.

Given the state of python packaging and tooling, I'd say that consolidating the tooling is a big win in and of itself, and with the tremendous speed wins on top...
There's not a lot of sympathy for this view on this site because half of everyone in tech thinks it's their god given right to pirate content because "copying the information doesn't destroy the information", and because in the past, the people cracking down on piracy were mostly media conglomerates and not the artists themselves.

But I'll try to articulate it anyway. The people who created the data all these models trained on, be they artists, writers, or even programmers, created a lot of, if not most of, the value that is now being derived from these models. Instead of being rewarded for their part, a lot of folks here seem very content with casting those people aside and letting huge corporations take everything, while building a system that is trying to make people creating actual things that have value have a much harder time surviving off their trade.

It's very gross to me that people are defending Meta here, and seem to be okay with capital eating all forms of cultural expression while giving nothing back.
What a weird hypothetical
https://old.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/1i53nzv/elo...
What's your sense of how useful local LLMs are for things other than ... writing blog posts about experimenting with local LLMs? :-)

(This is a serious question, not poking fun; I am actually curious about this.)
> Technologically literate people don't recommend Telegram or Discord

No True Scotsman is Exhibit A for why technology-first platforms tend to fail.
That's the general task but the hard part is having the pile of local machines with nearly a TB of VRAM to distribute it on. You'd need over 30 3090s worth of GPUs to run those models.
Not to speak for him, but I’d suspect Simon would be using a terminal emulator. He often mentions preferring to use his own command line tool, named LLM, as it allows one to log everything to an SQLite database for later exploration.
> and we really deserve everything we get for it.

Those people who conflate them deserve it. You and me don't.

> there's really not much you, I or anyone else can do

We can make our own community. And Bluesky is very much not it.
As a long-time writer, this case will have impact on me, but I maintain a fool's hope a Meta loss will significantly weaken IP-laundering megacorps.
I think he’s saying he works for meta and when the company employees committed mass copyright violation that’s ok because once someone read Winnie the Pooh to him at story hour at the library.
Ts enums are unofficially deprecated.

I remember being shocked about it when i heard that on ts-congress by, Nathan Sanders a ts contributor, around 4-5 years ago.

I find the ts-enums incredibly poorly designed and advice my juniors to stay away from them generally.

It's almost similar for interface (https://shively-sanders.com/types-vs-interfaces.html)
Yeah it's somewhat ideological, I think open source software is better for society when built as a community project than built and controlled by a VC funded company.

I don't think you could get flake8 to be as fast as Ruff, but I think you could improve it to be within an order of magnitude, and honestly that's plenty good enough. There are a lot of low hanging fruit, particularly around caching. I'd push back on there being no chance of being "as good as" Ruff, because "good" is not just speed. Ruff is _not complete_, if you want all the features and linters, you still need Flake8, or you have to sacrifice some. It's also not publicly extensible, and not written in Python, both of which are fair choices but I think deviate from the ideal scenario here.
> and we really deserve everything we get for it.

I agree with you until this part. There comes a time where I don't think I deserve to get my eyes poked out just because other people find that fashionable.
The proxies we have for ancient periods don't allow us to state very much about what rates of warming looked like on a short-term scale. It's hard to rule out that it might not have been very much like today. And the CO2-driving argument is predicated on null-warming in the 1800s, which is hard to establish (actually counter-indicated).
I have never been happier to not get a job.
Vendor rolls out two new decade-old Nvidia GT 730 GPUs
Probably either creating stems from karaoke multitracks (e.g. [0]) or using Spleeter [1] 5-stem mode

[0] https://www.karaoke-version.com/

[1] https://github.com/deezer/spleeter
Pre-commit hooks are great in small, focused codebases with small, homogeneous teams. In large monorepos with lots of different teams committing, it's impossible to guarantee any kind of consistency in which pre-commit hooks get run, so you need CI to actually enforce the consistency or you'll spend all your time chasing (accidental) violations.
As an employer of those under TPS how would you plan for Trump possibly overturning TPS protections under his admin? Anything we can do to prepare?
> Mastodon is a non-profit with a handfull of engineers. How can you compare their resources to something like Bluesky or even Twitter, that has thousands of engineers, is beyond me

Put another way, they were structured in a way that doesn't allow them to compete.
Do you ask everyone you work with for a birth certificate so you can ensure you're referring to them using the terms you consider appropriate?
My thoughts as well. I just prefer to remove the nuance on these types of things. If OP wants to draw a line and clearly state "I'm with the corpo robots" that's fine. Just state it plainly so I can proceed accordingly.
Wasn't it the invention of the stirrup ?
Not my point, never said it is. Substitute that example with another criminal act.

Edit: Changed it just for you
The return is somewhere before the end of the function, e.g.

loop:
do stuff
if some condition: return
do more stuff
goto loop

Alternatively, the function might end with a tail-call to another function, written as an unconditional branch.
Have you considered that you have some traits that make you eligible to read books and access information freely in the country you live in*? Something about being a conscious human being enjoying human rights, perhaps? An implement that does the same but (A) at scale and (B) without thought or free will or agency, completely at the bidding of its operator, for profit, has no such protections. Instead, the operator carries all responsibility (in this case, Meta).

If a software service had legal protections like that, sure, I could build one that returns you any book you request and say that the service had integrated it into its worldview. Who can check, eh?

* Actually, in some countries you could be in trouble for reading a book and incorporating it into your worldview, to say nothing about quoting it, but let’s set that aside.
The general sentiment on HN against cryptocurrency and blockchain has always been pretty negative as far as I can can remember.

A quick algolia search seems to support that too. Most of the highest voted stories about cryptocurrency and blockchain are negative news and opinions. There are a few highly voted stories about cryptocurrencies and blockchain too, but far fewer.

If you search for something specific like Bitcoin, there looks at a glance to be more positive or neutral stories with high number of votes, and still a few negative ones about that too.

You’ll often find a few positive comments on the stories though, so it’s not like everyone hates it. Not saying that. But overwhelmingly I feel that HN readers as a whole range from disinterested to actively against anything blockchain and that this has been the case for a long time.
"I've decided I don't like the law, so AI companies shouldn't have to follow it. And besides, everybody does it."

That's the gist of your argument. Take a moment to consider what can be justified by that same reasoning. Just about anything.

People work hard on what they write. Many writers struggle to generate a reliable income. Yet to you, it's okay for a competitor to take that work without compensating the author, then use it in a product they will sell. Because "information wants to be free".

It breaks my fucking heart how little our society cares about the compensation of artists, authors, and creative people generally; all while gobbling it up and expecting it for free.
Was the font always so massive?
To be fair, America said "it really doesn't matter who is president". Which is arguably worse.
> It’s a grim week for Meta. The company formerly known as Facebook, and before that Facemash, “designed to evaluate the attractiveness of female Harvard students,”

Wow if that's the opener, I expect the rest to be SUPER emotionally charged
> In the sense that the vast majority of all feminists of any kind are on the left? Is there such a thing as a rightwing feminist? JK Rowling?

There are some feminists who reject the left-right divide and don't place themselves anywhere on it, as a response to the male-dominated political system. It's not a very popular view but it exists.

JK Rowling isn't one of them, she has left-wing views and describes herself as such.

> instead of talking about the person in the article's very real concern about being discriminated against while working or even being attacked while socializing, we're talking about some extreme hypothetical about women's prisons.

Sadly it is not hypothetical.

If you believe that supporting gender self-id positively addresses the concerns of males like the blog author, then you should also be willing to consider the documented and evidenced harms to women and girls.

And certainly if you wish to understand why there is such significant opposition to policy that prioritizes gender identity over sex.

> Also, it's weird how often people are completely silent about the treatment of female prisoners... until it's related to transgender issues. Or female athletes for that matter. If you were actually worried about it, there are probably bigger fish to fry.

One might also wonder why policymakers haven't fried these bigger fish that would improve conditions for female prisoners and female athletes, and instead have chosen to introduce gender self-id policy which demonstrably harms women and girls while privileging males.
Context: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/esta...

“ESTABLISHING AND IMPLEMENTING THE PRESIDENT’S
“DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY””
If you are worried about security or IP at all, it's preferable to run locally, or spin up your own box that you can query running one of these models.
> TikTok provides a critical source of income for over 5 million small businesses and 1.5 million creators in the U.S.

I very much doubt that 5 million people earn significant money from tik tok
I prefer when governments at least pretend to be serious.

Glad I'm not American, so sorry for you guys for the next four years.
> This viewpoint is one widely shared inside the AI community — that AI systems should be able to learn from material just as humans do.

I'm not even against this to a point. The issue is what comes after. The monetization. The enshitification. The derivatives in place of real creativity.
This exists already and is called SEO
And you think you've done it?
I rooted for Trump precisely for things like this.
> CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg announced that slurs are okay on their platforms, added a pro-Trump UFC boss to their board

The next paragraph...
> Doge is an Internet meme that became popular in 2013

Hopefully Elon gets to the Harlem Shake or Gangam style soon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doge_(meme)
As a long-time writer, this case will have little impact on me, but I maintain a hope it’ll expand the limits of fair use and let us make more shared worlds than we’re allowed to.
I have a few friends who were involved in the creation of the US Digital Service, and as it stands it is one of the absolute best parts of our government. Formed after the Healthcare.gov disaster, the USDS brings Silicon Valley tech knowledge to the government in an attempt to ensure that we all have the online government services that we deserve. It's a tiny agency up against a massive bureaucracy that is anything but open to new ways of doing things. And they've made progress, but not enough.

I'm going to try to look on the bright side and say that maybe this means the wonderful people at the USDS are about to get a huge influx of funding and staffing, and will get to better fulfill the promise of their agency. But at the same time, I'm afraid that this White House may not have the best interests of this particular agency in mind.

Fun side story: on my first day working on Barack Obama's presidential transition, I spent about four hours watching a presentation from the Section 508[1] department about how to make screen-reader accessible PDFs. It took three people to give that presentation – one to speak, one for the live demo, and another to advance the slides. It was quite a downshift from the campaign, where we'd moved very quickly to harness the tech we needed.

[1] https://www.section508.gov/
Trump signs executive order to reverse Biden's electric vehicle policies
I think it’s relevant if you consider his personal metamorphosis in the last election cycle relevant.
It's already pretty weak, in terms of it's stated goals, to promote the progress of science and useful arts. Perhaps reform is a better direction to go.
The thing that made me grok lambda calculus was someone[0] in a tutorial online treated as a simple substitution game. They said: Imagine "λx.chocolate covered x" is a lambda expression, and if you apply that to "peanuts" you get "chocolate covered peanuts" and if you apply it to "ants" you get "chocolate covered ants". I knew at that time that LAMBDA was an operator for creating "anonymous functions" in Lisp you could pass to MAP or APPLY, but the "chocolate covered" thing was what made the penny drop that in pure LC, a lambda is just a template with a variable, and application (beta reduction) is substituting values for variables in the templates.

[0] It was probably Jim Larson: https://www.cs.unc.edu/~stotts/COMP204/Lambda/scheme.html
What Does Your Drawing of a Tree Say About You? Applying Koch's Baum Test
During a psychological evaluation decades ago, I was asked to draw a tree. I later learned this seemingly innocent exercise was a gateway into the labyrinth of someone's personality. Recently, I decided to revisit that moment and draw another tree, this time with an iPad and decades of life experience in hand. Let's see how the Tree Drawing Test holds up.
Cheating in multiplayer games has become such a huge problem, it has destroyed trust across every major FPS.

I am a long time CS player, but I did briefly play one of the new CoD games, before they went crazy with Nicki Minaj skins and bong-guns.

A person was so convinced I was cheating, they started doing OSINT on me while still in a match, and they found my old UnKnOwNcHeAtS account as some kind of proof that I am cheating (that account was 12 years old by that point).

I abhor cheating, and I have a lot of interest in computer science, so of course I wanted to see how all of it works and did my research during my youth, taking care to never compromise the competitive integrity of the games I played, but if you look around, there is not a single game that I can recommend to people anymore.

Games like Escape From Tarkov are so busted, cheaters are stealing the barrels off people's guns and crashing their game/PC on command.

My beloved counter-strike's premier competitive game mode has a global leaderboard that acts as a cheat advertisement section within the game.

Games like Valorant are a cut above the rest on account of their massively invasive anti-cheat, but are nowhere near as clean as most fans claim, I mean, you could write a cheat for the game using nothing but AHK and reading the color of a pixel.

There is a whole industry of private matchmaking for counter-strike, built solely on the back of their anti-cheat and promises of pro-level play to the top players.

EDIT: I found the screenshot, it was MPGH not UnknownCheats, but yeah, they also had a game ban on their account.
from their Table-3 "the aha moment", can someone explain why the re-evaluation step worth to "aha"? It looks simply repeating the initial step in the exact same way?
One way to think of him is a wealthy person unaccustomed to hearing "no" that wants to say whatever they'd like regardless of the social collateral and writing an essay complaining about an empathy zeitgeist. Make no mistake, a person with thinking so fixed and undeservedly confident in ideas which he has a woefully limited understanding about will just as soon tell you to to rename your preferred pronouns as they would your company.
"Information wants to be free"

No, you want it to be free. The people whose labor created that information didn't want it to be free, especially for some gigacorp to launder while hiding behind fair use.