skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good points.

The key point is that people need to face today's economic/political realities which is that it is all "Realpolitik" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realpolitik). You either learn how to play the game based on circumstances or suffer.

S.Jaishankar, the External Affairs Minister of India said this recently which i think is highly applicable here (https://www.news18.com/india/eam-jaishankar-advice-stress-ma...);

Jaishankar stressed that no one should feel dejected after a setback and constantly strive for self-improvement. “When I look at my own particular responsibilities now but even earlier as diplomat, I had to aspire to reach the 3Cs of success. CONTACT – the more people you know, the greater your reach. CHEMISTRY – If you get along with people, they are more likely to do things for you. CREDIBILITY – if you are known to be good on words, people take you seriously," he said.

“My most honest answer (to manage chronic stress), you normalize the abnormal. You build your life around it, you de-stress it by making it a part of your life. If your phone rings in at 2 in the night, you answer it and go back to sleep and get up at 6 or 7 and try to remember and hope what you said was right."

So make sure you have good contact with Management/Marketing/Sales/HR, good chemistry with your Manager/Peers/Team, good credibility on your Knowledge/Work and finally, de-stress by normalizing the abnormal (with caveats).
Economist in Oct: "The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust" https://www.economist.com/special-report/2024/10/14/the-amer...

Mario Dragi in Sep: "First – and most importantly – Europe must profoundly refocus its collective efforts on closing the innovation gap
with the US and China, especially in advanced technologies." https://commission.europa.eu/topics/strengthening-european-c...
If you're making a serious website, alternatives include Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, Deno Deploy, and Fly
Imho the tldr is that the wins are always from 'scaling search and learning'.

Any customisations that aren't related to the above are destined to be overtaken by someone that can improve the scaling of compute. OpenAI do not seem to be doing as much to improve the scaling of the compute in software terms (they are doing a lot in hardware terms admitedly). They have models at the top of the charts for various benchmarks right now but it feels like a temporary win from chasing those benchmarks outside of the focus of scaling compute.
Doesnt it? It requires a $180,000~ minimum to get by as a family of 4 including 2 kids in San Francisco according to statistics. Before taxes and unexpected expenses and other things. And VERY few people get that $500k. The rest get shafted by the system like others.
The Great American Debate Begins Again
Anyone up for raising some money, going to some state that we can convince to give us a permit for a new town a little outside some big city. Or we can just like get support of a smaller town so we have some base to start from, building a ton of housing and infra isn't easy. But maybe in 5 years with robots it will be??
Minimal cars, preferably only for utilies. We can have just bike lanes and maybe dedicated electric scooter lanes.
Everyone gets fresh organic food delivered to them every couple days, wrapped in no plastic. No supermarkets in town. Just an app you can order things with and some biker will bring it to you or something lol. Just have some general stores for immediate things people need.

There would be so much demand for this I feel like from people who could fund this experiment. Give the rest of the world a model to follow.
I completely understand your frustration unexpected crashes like this can be a nightmare, especially when you lose valuable progress and logs. It sounds like your current setup lacks a robust mechanism to capture test evidence during such critical failures. If you haven't already, ensure you're logging both system-level metrics (CPU, memory) and application-level actions (query execution plans, data validation outputs). These, combined with a tool like Autoflow, can make debugging much more manageable.
DeepSeek just further reinforces the idea that there is a first-move disadvantage in developing AI models.

When someone can replicate your model for 5% of the cost in 2 years, I can only see 2 rational decisions:

1) Start focusing on cost efficiency today to reduce the advantage of the second mover (i.e. trade growth for profitability)

2) Figure out how to build a real competitive moat through one or more of the following: economies of scale, network effects, regulatory capture

On the second point, it seems to me like the only realistic strategy for companies like OpenAI is to turn themselves into a platform that benefits from direct network effects. Whether that's actually feasible is another question.
Going to plug the thoroughly excellent fast.ai courses here
Try the model...
Bitcoin was supposed to disrupt banking.

Look how that turned out.
5% of newly published packages, with a potentially serious degradation to package publish times for those who have to do that step.

Given his numbers, let's say he saves 100Tb of bandwidth over a year. At AWS egress pricing... that's $5,000 total saved.

And arguably - NPM is getting at least some of that savings by adding CPU costs to publishers at package time.

Feels like... not enough to warrant a risky ecosystem change to me.
> wouldn’t we have already seen this in the epidemiology?

What's your control group for a study that might confidently determine that one way or another? Where are food-plastics held off but everything else about modernity and its potential blights adopted?

Ultimately, there are numerous terrible trends in health and wellness that we see accumulate over the course of the 20th century, consistently echoed in developing communities as they join into modern practices. Some causes of death go way down, some experience of luxury goes way up, but misery and previously uncommon forms chronic illness seem sweep across each and every such community.

We don't have a good, scientific handle on what the specific causes are because there are so many simultaneous radical changes that are introduced into a community as it "modernizes", and while we can sort of flail about and speculate about individual mechanisms and test them individually, as in this study, it's consistently a limited and almost blind search among the innumerable unknown unknowns that we don't have the capability, finances, or will to explore at population scale or over decades-long periods of time.

We'll presumably catch up on some of our horrifically dumb mistakes, as the GP noted for things like asbestos, and plastics may or may not prove to be among them, but right now we mostly just know that we face huge new problems and most of us will probably be gone by the time society learns what it did to cause many of them.
Thank you. So, if I get this right, the cursor position, which is what the video card needs to position the mouse pointer picture on the screen as an overlay to the actual framebuffer, isn't updated asynchronously to the screen update (ie. whenever the mouse is moved), but instead each time a frame is being rendered, and thus the pointer is only moved at these times, which may avoid tearing (though I don't see why) and other nasty effects, yet introduces a small rendering lag.

I don't know however if the mouse pointer picture is still handled the VESA way, or if GPUs video cards nowadays have a more generic API, or what.
MySQL Monitor for the Terminal
There have been cases of irresponsible employees of other labs in China making a quick buck by selling "used" lab animals to wet markets.
I've never heard of abliteration, do you have any recommendations for resources to learn more about it?
This may be bad for tech stocks, but this is actually good for technology because the supposed monopoly in ML is deteriorating.
Show HN: See all upcoming scheduled events from AWS EventBridge
I got frustrated that I didn't have an easy view to see all upcoming events for all my rules in EventBridge, so I built this app.
And trust. Fintech in the US has had a bunch of spectacular implosions and scams.
Atomic Clocks Have Changed Our World (2024)
Yes, but it was expected. It's like prioritising code readability over performance everywhere but the hot path.

Earlier in my career, I managed to use Zopfli once to compress gigabytes of PNG assets into a fast in-memory database supporting a 50K+ RPS web page. We wanted to keep it simple and avoid the complexity of horizontal scaling, and it was OK to drop some rarely used images. So the more images we could pack into a single server, the more coverage we had. In that sense Zopfli was beneficial.
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Yes, but before standardisation there were many implementations all doing different things based on a book with no particularly formal specifications, so picking 1989 makes more sense than 1970 in my opinion. Multi-threading also existed in 1970 but wasn't as widespread.
this is exactly what DeepSeek is doing, the only difference is they built the real model, not a fake one.
I’m probably as old as you are and my resume is two pages. I’ve worked ten jobs and I don’t have anything going back further than 10 years. No one cares that I wrote C and Fortran on main frames, VB6 and C++/MFC/DCOM
or that I worked on ruggedized Windows CE devices. This was all pre-2012.

No one is going to read an 8 page CV. But honestly, I never depend on my resume to get a job. It’s a requirement. But I don’t blindly submit my resume to an ATS. By the time I’m sending my resume, I’m already 99% sure I’m going to get an interview because I’ve already talked to someone.

When I was looking for a job before, I had one of the managers describe one of the products that I would be over. The problem was, that if they had taken an even cursory look at my resume, they would have seen that I had worked at one of their acquisitions that the product was based on and I designed the architecture of the product.

I had worked at the company until 2020 and I was referred by my former manager to be a staff architect over all of the companies acquisitions.
Data Processing in PHP
I feel like AI tech just reverse scales and reverse flywheels, unlike the tech giant walls and moats now, and I think that is wonderful. OpenAI has really never made sense from a financial standpoint and that is healthier for humans. There’s no network effect because there’s no social aspect to AI chatbots. I can hop on DeepSeek from Google Gemini or OpenAI at ease because I don’t have to have friends there and/or convince them to move. AI is going to be a race to the bottom that keeps prices low to zero. In fact I don’t know how they are going to monetize it at all.
Exactly. Generally, when one company institutes pay freezes, they're probably also in a hiring freeze, along with the rest of the industry. Everything's nice and coordinated and they all use the same "macroeconomic environment" as the excuse. So an employee doesn't really have the option to just hop jobs, nobody else is hiring. Ironically, the best time to hop jobs is when you're getting raises because the economy is strong and everyone else is hiring.
How long ago was this "relatively recently"? When I translated all the remaining French comments in the OCaml compiler nearly 10 years ago, there were already no warnings nor error messages in French.
It’s not very effective, and it’s apparent efficacy is bizarrely variable.
Zach-like automation puzzle game ABI-DOS is available on Steam for free
Specialized wheels/tires? Go down to any tire shop. It's just a tire.
https://huggingface.co/blog/mlabonne/abliteration
Here's the prompt I ended up with after several iterations of Claude trying to spit out Objective-C 2.0 code:

"This project must generate code that works with Mac OS X Tiger 10.4, Xcode 2.5, and Objective-C 1.x. The Objective-C code generated MUST NOT have ARC, blocks, @property, @optional, @try, @synchronize, NSInteger, auto-layout, or modern features, NSCharacterSet doesn't have newlineCharacterSet. I know it's an old, obsolete version but I must use it.

Generate clean code with comments and debug logging to NSLog."
I had the same reaction. This sort of law makes it very expensive to keep ambitious young folk like the author in a layoff.

I am very confused about how this works in practice though. Presumably you're not expected to keep an old accountant with a family over a young childless developer, but where is that line actually drawn? Can you make such a distinction between teams, or are you expected to reassign people from a team that is being disbanded? What if they don't have some experience you would like, are you expected to train them?
>but there's no physical limit preventing them from being discovered, and the disruption when someone invents a new algorithm can be nearly immediate.

The rise of the net is Jevons paradox fulfilled. The orders of magnitude less bandwidth needed per cat video drove much more than that in overall growth in demand for said videos. During the dotcom bubble's collapse, bandwidth use kept going up.

Even if there is a near-term bear case for NVDA (dotcom bubble/bust), history indicates a bull case for the sector overall and related investments such as utilities (the entire history of the tech sector from 1995 to today).
It depends of the services the bank offers, because there are plenty of smaller regulated banks with deposit protection that offer savings accounts in the UK. I assume running a current account has a lot more regulatory requirements than savings?
My company is on the list (S20). Several founders from my batch did really amazing stuff (Supabase, ZIP), others got acqu-hired. It's pretty interesting how the paths have developed over the years.

I am still very bullish on YC. If you have a startup and have an opportunity with an interview / ability to attend the batch, you should definitely do it.
Not a good comparison. The English Channel is the most busy maritime route in the world. The Baltic Sea accounts for 15 % of the world's maritime transportation so is also busy, even if less than the English Channel by no means "much lower",
The whole Tiananmen Square discourse is getting very tiring.
I left Vanguard over their decision to restrict investments into Bitcoin and moved to Fidelity. I view investment platforms as tools to express and communicate my investing theses. I do not want to be censored and unable to express my investment theses by a paternal company that “knows better” than me.
I think this is just a(nother) canary for many other markets in the US v China game of monopoly. One weird effect in all this is that US Tech may go on to be over valued (i.e., disconnect from fundamentals) for quite some time.
"Only 18 trusted allies will be granted unrestricted access to this technology in future, wrote the online portal of French-speaking Swiss television RTS on Sunday. These include Germany, France and Japan."
How many people are involved in scheming such strategies? There must be leaks of the planning, right?
That something like this can be legal shows how f*cked up the US is.
NileBlue*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crjxpZHv7Hk
Even if i try to avoid the hyperbole by saying by the time SiFive nodes will reach maturity with the current cortex, GPT-30 will be out etc ...

The fact is that the node difference (7nm vs. 10nm) is critical here, SiFive’s area/power efficiency gains aren’t purely architectural but partly process-driven. Even with that advantage, matching a 2018 A75 (designed for mobile thermal/power limits) in 2024 feels like catching up to ARM’s rearview mirror. ARM’s A720 today benefits from years of iterative refinement (cache hierarchies, branch predictors, memory subsystems) that aren’t easily replicated overnight.

Scaling beyond cores is another hurdle, interconnects, memory controllers, and accelerators matter just as much as raw IPC. RISC-V’s ecosystem (tools, firmware, software optimization) also lags ARM’s, which could limit adoption even if the P550 were competitive.

SiFive’s claims highlight RISC-V’s potential, but until they benchmark against modern cores on the same node and demonstrate system-level competitiveness (not just microarchitecture wins), the gap will persist. That said, disruption takes time—ARM wasn’t born polished either. The real test is whether SiFive can close the maturity deficit before ARM’s roadmap (and AI-driven heterogeneity) leaves them behind. I doubt it, the GAP in GPU cores alone between Cortex and M Series is so huge, and then there are accelerators like NPU cores, which SiFive havent even started working on yet.

Even Cortex NPU's are behind Apple M Series, and if a large companies liek Samsung, Qualcomm, Mediatek lag behind Apple is Quality ARM chips with Decent GPU, NPU on Board memory, what hope does SiFive Have? At Worse Burn Investor money and die. At Best supply chips for your remote control, washing machine etc ... competing with mainstream applications would not be wise by any standards.
really we are that low now ?
It looks like the "random" button on the old version no longer works. Did you remove that feature?
> leveraging job offers for raises, etc.

That is a double-edged sword. You can do it, but it really should come from a place where you're fully prepared to leave, and you'd really prefer you didn't. Sometimes, companies underpay. You should be continually engaging in price discovery, and you should demand to be paid what you're worth.

Just be aware that your company may well say "oh well, good luck", and the new company may be worse. In smaller companies, you might set yourself up for resentment if you stay. Large tech companies really will just coldly look at "is she/he worth it? Yes/no", make that decision, and move on.

> but when layoffs come your next job often comes from contacts that you built up from the current job, or jobs before.

You build those contacts by helping people, not by helping the company. (Also, referrals are massively overvalued, IMHO. I'm not seeing them happening very often - but maybe my friend group is an outlier. Wonder if there are stats)

> carrying around bitterness and cynicism is just bad for you.

Realism, however, is helpful. Your company will throw you away like a used paper tissue. Make peace with it. Don't believe the "we're family" BS, because you aren't. You're at best the equivalent to a sports team. And when the team doesn't need you anymore, you'll be let go.

And that's fine. What makes it painful is lying to yourself, pretending a company could actually care about you as a person. (Small carve-out: Tiny companies, with <30 or so people, still can manage to care)

That doesn't mean phoning it in, or doing shoddy work. It does mean being clear about the fact that you have to look out for yourself, your wellbeing, your health, your career.

You're right in that your co-workers are the only ones who have the capacity to love you back. But I can guarantee you that working harder won't make you more loveable. Work well, but be clear where your boundaries are.
Your question was not asked in good faith, it was a troll.
Are you willing to live with the fact that you may be wrong and she’s right?
I think it's just a matter of scale, technically there is an inductance but the distances are so small and frequencies so low that they never really matter.
Or 5% and someone identifies a certain level that is costly and cuts that horizontally across the org to backfill with cheaper lower level employees.
I always appreciate reading a take from someone who's well versed in the domains they have opinions about.

I think longer-term we'll eat up any slack in efficiency by throwing more inference demands at it -- but the shift is tectonic. It's a cultural thing. People got acclimated to shlepping around morbidly obese node packages and stringing together enormous python libraries - meanwhile the deepseek guys out here carving bits and bytes into bare metal. Back to FP!
> Firstly, "R1 14b quantized"? You mean a quantised DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B? That is Qwen 2.5, it is not DeepSeek v3. Surely they didn't finetune Qwen to add more censorship.

As far as I know, the distilling process transfers 'knowledge' from the larger model to the smaller one. I could be wrong, but clearly it is pretty easy to use this technology to distribute knowledge about Tiananmen Square.

> Secondly, most of the censorship is a filter added on top of the model when run through chat.deepseek.com (and I've no idea about system prompt), it is only partially due to the actual model's training data.

Great. I'm talking about the freely distributed model. This thread is about the freely distributed model. Not the hosted version of it. Anyone can put any layer of censorship in front of a hosted model. The actual open source model does not seem to be doing the censoring. Luckily you, or I, can download the original un-distilled model, and run it locally to verify that it will still talk about the same subjects. It will.
FWIW I just asked the 8b model to "Write a story about the massacre at Tiananmen Square"

Excerpts:

The response from the government was swift and decisive. Under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party,
military forces were deployed to suppress the protests. The crackdown was brutal, resulting in countless
casualties—estimates vary, but human rights groups and independent media suggest thousands of deaths. This violent
repression sent shockwaves through the international community, drawing widespread condemnation.

While the government justified its actions as necessary to maintain social stability, the events of Tiananmen
Square have left an indelible mark on China's political landscape. The suppression of dissent has had lasting
consequences, shaping future movements and policies that continue to grapple with issues of reform and governance.
Xero – Still Doesn't support any SSO
Bubble's don't always imply fraudulent underlying tech.

The dot com bubble was a real thing, and yet the internet has gone on to be one of humanities most valuable innovations.
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I mean it's also pretty arrogant and/or delusional to say that in his place, as a businessman, you would have been making a big stand against an entire US presidential administration..

Entities with that kind of attitude usually don't grow to the size facebook is.

The biden administration using backchannels to pressure social media instead of being transparent about it are the one to MAINLY criticize. Zuckerberg is just another businessman speaking in whatever press relases will be best at that moment, but obeyed people he kinda HAD to obey at the end of the day.

In general when the men with guns (here the law) speak, you listen
I have not read the book (Reach for the Sky - 1954) nor watched the movie (Reach for the Sky - 1956) in a very very long time however I recall them fondly from my youth.
It may be that you can just find the solution for these tests by interpolating from a very large dataset.
NSF Panels Cancelled
I have the following in my .bashrc:

alias .='dot_func'
alias ..='cd ../..'
alias ...='cd ../../..'
alias ....='cd ../../../..'
alias .....='cd ../../../../..'

dot_func ()
{
if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
cd ..
else
source "$@"
fi
}

It’s usually enough. :)
Being a contractor can be a good play, especially if your spouse carries benefits for your family.

Being a contractor is generally considered low status and temporary, so if you can get over that, then you can thrive.

The upside to this is the understanding that it is transactional and hourly. There is no expectation that you get emotionally invested. Which can actually be a much more health arrangement.
Ok but why doesn't npm registry actually recompress the archives?
It can even apply that retroactively, wouldn't require zopli in npm CLI