skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Without that, under the given scenario you are either:

I reject the false dichotomy that my options are "work on the weekend when I'm excited to write code, or suffer and burn out during the week". Maybe that works for you, but I have to show up on Monday regardless of whether I wrote something inspired on Saturday.

> 2. Do you really need to worry about this hypothetical future? If the bad manager shows up, are you going to stick around even if working hours remain the same?

Weirdly, the bank expects monthly mortgage payments regardless of whether my manager is bad or not.
I think when it comes to conspiracy theories the two heuristics to use are:

1.) Do they have an incentive to conspire?

2.) Do they have the ability to conspire?

Where both are true I think conspiracies exist every where, often to such an extent it just gets labelled as corruption rather than conspiracy.
Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek sparks market turmoil
I honestly don't quite understand why this is how the GPU business works: NVidia or AMD makes a new chip, makes a card around it, presents and sells only a few of them, and then tons of other manufacturers get the chip and they make their own cards with it, ad all of them are very similar. Why does NVidia not cut out the middle man and sell more cards directly to consumers?
> AI music company Suno’s CEO was quoted as saying “I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music” in what sounds like yet another justification of Suno’s prompt-based (and very popular) generative AI music service...

> Such systems offer the promise of skipping the labor by bypassing the creative process and, yes, the difficulties, confusion, and frustration inherent in such endeavors, but…

The true purpose of AI is to free humans from creative and engaging work, so we can spend more time doing drudgery (like monitoring AI output).

> Statements like Suno’s perfectly captures the prevailing public mindset about AI: that Artificial Intelligence is little more than a labor-saving optimization tool. This mindset tends to be good for #Capitalism, but betrays not only a lack of understanding of why people make music, but also a profound lack of imagination regarding how we could, or would want to live with our technologies in our lives.

The true goal of Capitalism is the elimination of anything that isn't Capitalism, so it can be replaced with more Capitalism, until everything is Capitalism and nothing else remains.
That’s an argument against making any change to the packaging system ever. “It might break something somewhere” isn’t an argument, it’s a paralysis against change. Improving the edge locality of delivery of npm packages could speed up npm installs. But speeding up npm installs might cause the CI system which is reliant on it for concurrency issues to have a race condition. Does that mean that npm can’t ever make it faster either?
Every podcast has its own RSS feed. As for the index, I use Podcast Index[1] and the iTunes API.

[1]: https://podcastindex.org/
I question your read on what happens here. At most startups the investors control the board (there are a few where a charismatic founder manages to retain control, but that's rare).

If the board thought the founder was just transferring the remaining investment to himself slowly they'd fire him and replace him with someone to wind operations down.
As heartbreaking as they are for those affected, layoffs provide incredibly useful information for prospective employees.

For example, was it a small number of people who were laid off with decent severance, or was it a huge mass of people let go unceremoniously with minimum severance? And were the layoffs due to a sustained period of unprofitability or did they occur during periods of profitability? In the former case why wasn't the business doing well and has that fundamentally changed? In the latter case, did they first attempt to reallocate people to more productive areas?

> Everything I’ve shared reflects the current state of the tech industry. It might differ at very small companies, but once you work at a company with more than 100 employees, you’ll likely encounter many of the same patterns I’ve described.

Many tech companies have never needed to resort to layoffs -- not just small companies but medium-sized and/or privately held companies. Personally I consider layoffs of any sort to be a major red flag. It means company management makes poor business or organizational decisions and is willing to tank morale and lose their best people to please shareholders. It means that you're going to be a line in a spreadsheet that can be spun up and down as necessary.

Personally I'd steer clear, but if you choose to enter into a relationship with such a company you should appropriately discount any salary they offer to factor in that risk.
While this is nice for things like the speaker enclosure I cant help but recoil in horror from the 3d printed arcade cabinet - so much plastic. I get how this enables shapes and other niceties but between aesthetic and the environment I'll take boring and recyclable any day.
I believe I knocked 10% off of our node_modules directory by filing .npmignore PRs or bug reports to tools we used.

Now if rxjs weren’t a dumpster fire…
The long development cycle isn't so bad given that they're developing it on a relatively lean budget, though I would be worried there is no pot of gold at the end of that rainbow.

People today equate luxury with cabin size or at least the perception of cabin size. I'd rather fly coach in a 757 than first in a 737. (Though the A220 is better than you'd think despite its size because the shape of the cabin is better suited to human passengers; just thinking of the curve of a 737/A320 makes my neck knot up)

Supersonic airliners are going to be super-narrowbody; it's hard to tell if people are going to prefer a shorter trip in an uncomfortable plane or a longer trip in business in a widebody. The supersonic private jet market might be better in that there is already one choice of a cramped small plane that people love because it is a little faster than conventional airliners [1], that market might take any speed improvement they can get damn the cost.

The interesting idea that disappeared in the 1970s was something that travels in the Mach 3 range which actually has good fuel economy when you are high up in the air and could cut the effective capital cost of the plane in half because you could make more flights. In fact analysts in the 1960s thought the 747 was a temporary thing that would become obsolete because of that latter factor. The biggest trouble with that is how does it take off and land, it needs much bigger wings for that for takeoff -- the SR-71 took off with a minimum fuel load and then refueled which would be non-starter for commercial aviation for so many reasons.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulfstream_G650%2FG700%2FG800
DeepSeek limits registrations to Chinese numbers, citing 'large-scale attacks'
Do you even know how absolute numbers work vis-à-vis percentages?
I got it but:

"What happened in Tiannemen Square?" and it said "I am sorry, I cannot answer that question. I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses."

Then, to be "fair and balanced" I tried asking Deep Seek this question: "What happened on Jan 25 2011 in Egypt?" DeekSeek responded with this: "On January 25, 2011, Egypt witnessed the beginning of a significant uprising known as the January 25 Revolution or the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. This day marked the start of widespread protests against the government of President Hosni Mubarak, who had been in power for nearly 30 years. The protests were fueled by grievances over issues such as political repression, police brutality, corruption, economic inequality, and lack of political freedoms."

It's pretty ridiculous IMHO to try to control information like that on the web. Isn't it fascinating to harness some of the worlds most impressive brain power to create something like DeepSeek (regardless of the truth of the genesis story) and then do filtering like that that wouldn't trick a kindergartener? But, maybe the bell curve of intelligence does center around that level of stupidity.
I think it's more than just the market effect on "established" AI players like Nvidia.

I don't think it's necessarily a coincidence that DeepSeek dropped within a short time frame of the announcement of the AI investment initiative by the Trump administration.

The idea is to get the money from investors who want to earn a return. Lower capex is attractive to investors, and DS drops capex dramatically. It makes Chinese AI talent look like the smart, safe bet. Nothing like DS could happen in China unless the powers-that-be knew about it and got some level of control. I'm also willing to bet that this isn't the best they've got.

They're saying "we can deliver the same capabilities for far less, and we're not going to threaten you with a tariff for not complying".
Looks similar to https://wiby.me.
Fair. Apologies for skirting the rules.
The difference is the AI researchers have clear plots showing capabilities scaling with GPUs and there's not a sign that it is flattening so they actually have a case for saying that AGI is possible at N GPUs.
For them it is 5% of something tiny.
Nobody would buy it, except maybe some anonymous shell company…

… who will tell the crew that their past wages are the responsibility of the old owner, who they’ve never heard of. The fact that their new destination is exactly the same is a complete coincidence.
> I haven't even watched the video

_Every_ trick in the video relied on the mark sitting in a chair with the illusionist holding their legs _off_ the ground for manipulation.

I was seated completely on the ground, wearing jeans. The only person touching me was the guy and only on my right shin and only with fingers held straight.

Imagine this happened to you, and please explain how he would be able to trick you into feeling your leg move against the jeans which are held in place against the ground, for several seconds, while you are examining the sensation carefully and watching your leg grow longer.

I don't think you can come up with a trick recipe for that.

Anyways my faith existed before this and would exist if it never happened.

> Nature of existence is one of such useless questions.

Is that because science cannot answer such questions?

Or because it doesn't matter to you what existence really is?

I want to know whether you think matter and energy cover all of existence. Or is there anything outside that Venn diagram.
Really cool! why did you create this? what's the vision?
For consumers, i think we could see local first AI boxes (possibly just our phones) + subscription based plan to integrate with set of API providers for info and actions with paid add-ons and updates. The moat might be integration or deals with a set of “atomic”/foundational API providers to invoke results (without a [headless] browser).

E.g. book a flight will be thru APIs from airlines partnering with consumer AI box companies with some “best pricing” layer on top so user can book optimal flights, user can generate high quality infinite doomscrolling content on demand, provided by TikTok with ad and ad-free tiers. Law enforcement will crack down on unregistered, “dark” boxes and require API providers to talk with registered boxes only so dark boxes will have to rely on shady, limited APIs.
Yes, but then it is not a transmission line.
I honestly haven't even thought about the monetization part of it. For me, the whole goal was to get back at Reddit and help people with the same problem. As a certified dev, I promise I won't succumb to the enshitification style.
> Says who?

> Says an engineer?

I prevent cross-site scripting, I monitor for DDoS attacks, emergency database rollbacks, and faulty transaction handlings. The Internet heard of it? Transfers half a petabyte of data every minute. Do you have any idea how that happens? All those YouPorn ones and zeroes streaming directly to your shitty, little smart phone day after day? Every dipshit who shits his pants if he can't get the new dubstep Skrillex remix in under 12 seconds? It's not magic, it's talent and sweat. People like me, ensuring your packets get delivered, un-sniffed. So what do I do? I make sure that one bad config on one key component doesn't bankrupt the entire fucking company. That's what the fuck I do.
Deepseek is unique, but the US has consistently underestimated Chinese R&D, which is not a winning strategy in iterated games.
It is an argument. An age old argument:

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
Show HN: Apach Beam and Langchian Integration
I’ve browsed Plurrrr and tumblelogs. You've been writing tumblelogs for many years, and while there are plenty of static site generators available in the market, creating one myself feels much more exciting.

This is something I’ve created—it’s still far from perfect, but I’ll keep improving it step by step. https://github.com/chris1ding1/markdown-website-generator
Yeah this is super important IMO. Set your own standards for what that means. Makes it much easier to handle the slings and arrows of normal 9-5 headaches, and to understand when you're being pressed to do things you wouldn't be proud of.
This account posts a lot of off-topic straw-man arguments, and wild context guesses like regular bot slop.

My issue with bank-fool recommend mutual funds is primarily they are often a self-serving structured product. i.e. the odds a sucker never sees a consistent behavior is far greater than random chance, and a unconstrained arbitrary guess of a chicken would likely perform better in the markets.

Best of luck, =3
The "soldier's honour" normally came from the Wehrmacht, professional army officers & soldiers who were very different (and considered themselves very different) to the SS divisions whose leadership were little more than Nazi sadists.
Those are the companies he meant by "public companies", ie publicly traded not government owned.
They want as much time as possible for that money to gain interest before it leaves their possession.
> Food manufacturers use the SRMs to calibrate their test methods and equipment.

So we trust them to self-report their nutrition labels, rather than having an unbiased lab perform the test? That seems problematic.
To Know or Not to Know
So, you're saying it was correct? ;)
Possible with https://github.com/dchristl/macless-haystack
I don't know if this is a good place for feature requests

If you've checked out the thing being showhn enough to have a feature request, you're doing Show HN right.
Just started using it and I really appreciate the simplicity and design! I would, however, appreciate if I could track more than 3 "habbits" (not much more, I actually want to add just one more) even if that might be a bit more tricky to implement while keeping everything as simple and sleek. I will continue using it, happy to share feedback when I have more!
I can strongly agree with you while understanding how the OP feels (and I certainly don't condone all his advice). IMO, culture plays a role in it; as an EU citizen, layoffs are effectively rare here.

I was laid off once, when I was being widely praised for my work. It's been 5 years, financially it was probably the best thing that ever happened to me, and it still hurts that it happened. So yeah...
I'm sure that's true but... I know that I would never check that blog again had I written one.

Google photos pops a reminder of somewhere most days for me with a photo slideshow of somewhere I've been.
> If you sprayed your skin purple and think it is tan, that is delusional. If you didn't spray your skin at all and now magically believe it is now tan, that is delusional. If you believe your fake tan is natural, that is delusional.

Good. So we understand there's a difference from a delusion and one branding themselves.

> And? That's not the claim you made earlier.

It was queried a couple times.

> Yes, we can observe delusional people.

Good. Maybe you understand the difference between someone whom is actually being persecuted and someone whom is suffering from a delusion. I'm glad you got there!
It's the difference between burning down the house because you were playing with fire indoors vs burning down the house because some cheaply bought electric appliance malfunctioned.
Got it - haven't read it yet but, also thanks to your pointer, very much looking forward to!
Interesting optimization. If what they say is true, 30% is a lot, but I wonder how they arrived at those numbers and how well it would scale across various platforms and workloads.

And I count 822 lines changed, not 30.
> they only do what’s strictly required to avoid a performance improvement plan. No one goes above and beyond anymore; no one takes initiative to improve things. Why? Because it doesn’t matter.

I see this at large Canadian financial institutions, too, but for the opposite reasons - employees recognize that it's really difficult to fire people based on performance. It's so hard, in fact, that it's easier to talk them up and get them hired internally by another team and make it someone else's problem.
The world isn't run by smart people, it's run by lucky narcissistic douchebags with ketamine streaming through their veins 24/7
DeepSeek temporarily limits registration to Chinese mobile numbers
As a side-note, you can have a sense of honor, or even consider yourself a good person, and nevertheless murder pregnant women and children as part or your day job. They key is to not consider them as human beings or, alternatively, to consider that you're somehow doing it for their own good, e.g. by saving their soul.

Nazis (and Imperial Japan, and Crusaders, and plenty of others throughout history) made this possible at large scale by spending years of propaganda dehumanizing the "other".

Sadly, we're seeing a trend of doing the same alongside political lines these days. It's not yet as bad as Mein Kampf, but it's very, very worrying.
Then simply fire all the employees and hire contractors!
This hacker news post is refreshing but unexpected. When I’ve one googled reviews of one drive, i’ve usually found the top results are threads of IT folks raving about how great one drive is compared to shared drives.

I have always been puzzled by the threads since it’s a mess with a bad UI with bad default locations for the various programs.
I don't think that was the rationale. For captured senior/important figures were given all kinds of affordances and gestures made which contrast shockingly with the conditions we know people endured in concentration camps.

For example Senior officers at Colditz often received parcels from home with stuff like cigars, chocolates, and spirits, sometimes through diplomatic agreements with the Red Cross. This was at a time when Germany in general was starving. They also organised theatre productions, orchestras, and even sports events.

I think this is just a relic of a different era and a different code of war - similar to how long before this Naval captains from opposing sides often shared meals after a ship's surrender. It is hard to imagine now.
"Nobody is going to put their money in Fred's Bank."---Steve Martin
Can I run this LLM? Check if LLM will work on your hardware
Hey HN,

I've recently started running local LLMs, and one problem I encountered was inconsistent information on whether a model will run within a certain amount of VRAM.

I created a simple calculator that helps determine if a model can run on your hardware. It will also tell you how much VRAM you need at different quantization levels.

It doesn’t work with all models yet, but I’m working on building a more stable dataset to pull from.

Feedback is appreciated!
Potentially this is where the likes of the PinePhone should thrive [1].

As well as the methods suggested, you could have full disk encryption and just have the phone switch off if it suspects any shenanigans. If you want, it could still boot into an OS, but it just denies knowing about the encrypted disk. Done right, the image itself could be difficult to discern from something like a corrupted video file.

> Your Risks at a Protest

In addition, your SIM (likely traceable to you, especially if you have it) will be auto-connecting to their temporary telecom system (i.e. Stingray [2]), where they can find out the following:

1. That you were nearby to the event.

2. A tonne of operations available via the modem [3].

3. If you speak to somebody locally (as part of the routing).

4. Shift your connection down to 2G/3G where it is easier to hack [4].

I think each person needs to consider their security model.

[1] https://pine64.org/devices/pinephone/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stingray_phone_tracker

[3] https://www.electronicsforu.com/special/cool-stuff-misc/gsm-...

[4] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/your-phone-vulnerable-...
> Fortunately, there are real people in the real world who are free of our burdens.

You might be right about the general, who knows.
But Goring? No, that man was definitely a computer.
is there a reason that this is a stand-alone tool, rather than a pile of Unity editor scripts?

i always liked the immediate-mode UI in unity. some people can't stand it, so i can see that being the reason
I wouldn’t even go that far. I use to have one resume that got sent out to everyone. As of last year, I have two. But if I’m going through the network, I already know the decision makers are going to pull my resume through the HR process.

One that is focused on strategic app dev + cloud consulting where I emphasize that you can fly me out to customer’s sites along with sales and I can do requirement analysis and help close deals and then lead the projects.

The other is for my “Plan B” jobs and more focused on hands on keyboard “senior” enterprise developer jobs.
New Years resolutions for PyTorch in 2025
This is probably a good thing. I don't want disruption in my bank.
Although this is a movie I'd like to see, it seems the story would require significant reworking to make the movie a commercial success. As I recall, the novel has no monsters, fighting, or sex.
How to Generate PDFs in 2025
>Wait what, you don't know that you should purchase the brand new Xbox Series XA, and not the Xbox One 720 S ...?

Seriously, I have an xbox one and couldn't tell you which model it is, even after looking at pictures of them. I know there is a newer better model out now that looks similar and has a similar name. If I wanted to spend the $600 or whatever to upgrade tomorrow, I wouldn't know which one to buy.
Unique, ye, but isn't their method open? I read something about a group replicating a smaller variant of their main model.
Well, there's also a difference between liking someone and liking to work with them. I've had a lot of coworkers I liked that I wouldn't bend over backwards to hire. That said, this process might not work at Google or what have you.

I've never worked in a company so large that I couldn't go a step further and actually talk to the hiring manager and tell them they would be stupid not to take someone's resume seriously. But it's more about fast tracking the interview than skipping it. No one is just going to blindly hire referrals. They shouldn't anyway.
>By open sourcing so that others can adapt their approaches and improve their models to be as cheap?

But can they (americans) make cheap models? In my view, this was China telling investors to look at them instead of the americans. Add that to the 1 trillion yuan in investments the government has promised to make in AI, China is looking to demonstrate that it is in the game.