skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep saying this: A company is a legal person, and you should not try to be loyal to a legal person because legal person can not be loyal to you,

You can, however, be loyal to your boss, and your boss can be loyal to you, as long as this does not conflicts with his duties to the company.
FFP3 and N95 masks will stop micro and nano plastics but the issue is its polypropylene, so the question becomes how much it sheds verses how much it blocks. Most of the PM2.5/10 tests against these masks shows they are better than outside air but I don't think the exact composition is fully understood. Based on how its sort blown molten fibres I suspect it sheds quite large bits of plastic if it does.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42839650
> the government can be a penalty condition in the objective function, and recently it's effect has been almost completely eclipsed by the near term gains.

You are forgetting about the influence of government subsidies. What would the housing market be like if home mortgage interest payments were not, and had never been deductible? Think back to the 70s, when mortgages had double-digit rates.

Would the US be swamped in HFCS, would we be producing ethanol, were it not for subsidies?

I agree with you on the importance of education. However, incentives matter, and government can incentivize both to the positive and negative.
The installation of X1Plus had to be the most easy, fluid and professional third-party firmware deployment I have EVER done.

The ONLY pain points were the interactions with Bambu - first the authorization pages where you have to request using 3rd-party firmware kept cycling through their warnings and acceptances (trick to complete was opening the link using "Incognito/In Private" session), next you have to either upgrade to latest official firmware (if you are not there), then jump through several downgrades to get to the rootable version of the firmware using the "Bambu Handy" app.

So far, so great - 36+ hrs printing, no issues. I have now got it fully working in LAN-mode. Home Assistant dashboard setup - but there is also someone working on a "Bambu Companion" phone app (it's in a TestFlight open beta) - which works well in the local LAN, and if you configure a secure tunnel through your router (Wireguard, Tailscale, OpenVPN, etc.), it works perfectly remotely as well.

My only complaint with LAN-mode is that both Bambu Studio and OrcaSlicer "forget" the printer when the software is closed - they don't forget the "binding", so it is a "1-click" process to re-add to the Device tab, but it is a little bit of a hassle.
China's New Strategy for Waging the Microchip Tech War (2023)
What's even more absurd than cost cutting after mismanagement is a layoff and cost cutting while having record profits. Look at most of the big tech layoffs last year and the year before. Every one of them was reporting more profit and revenue than ever before and still doing layoffs
Link has all the params but running at 4 bit quant.
I don't find HCL easier to read or write than yaml. I think it is just what you are familiar with. HCL is also only used for one purpose with yaml is used for many things.
Copilot is turning into Microsoft's Watson.
What ends up mattering more is your ability to form good relationships with co-workers at your last job and sell yourself on your resume.

Most of the people who end up getting high paying, high ranking jobs are not very skilled technically, but are skilled personally - even engineers.

So I'd say - do your job as well as you can (don't go too crazy with work), be friendly with people in your company, and phrase your achievements in terms of % value/speed/users added.
Perhaps most devastating is DeepSeek's recent efficiency breakthrough, achieving comparable model performance at approximately 1/45th the compute cost. This suggests the entire industry has been massively over-provisioning compute resources.

I wrote in another thread why DeepSeek should increase demand for chips, not lower.

1. More efficient LLMs should lead to more usage, which means more AI chip demand. Jevon's Paradox.

2. Even if DeepSeek is 45x more efficient (it is not), models will just become 45x+ bigger. It won’t stay small.

3. To build a moat, OpenAI and American AI companies need to up their datacenter spending even more.

4. DeepSeek's breakthrough is in distilling models. You still need a ton of compute to train the foundational model to distill.

5. DeepSeek's conclusion in their paper says more compute is needed for next break through.

6. DeepSeek's model is trained on GPT4o/Sonnet outputs. Again, this reaffirms the fact that in order to take the next step, you need to continue to train better models. Better models will generate better data for next-gen models.

I think DeepSeek hurts OpenAI/Anthropic/Google/Microsoft. I think DeepSeek helps TSMC/Nvidia.

Combined with the emergence of more efficient inference architectures through chain-of-thought models, the aggregate demand for compute could be significantly lower than current projections assume.

This is misguided. Let's think logically about this.

More thinking = smarter models

Faster hardware = more thinking

More/newer Nvidia GPUs, better TSMC nodes = faster hardware

Therefore, you can conclude that Nvidia and TSMC demand should go up because of CoT models. In 2025, CoT models are clearly bottlenecked by not having enough compute.

The economics here are compelling: when DeepSeek can match GPT-4 level performance while charging 95% less for API calls, it suggests either NVIDIA's customers are burning cash unnecessarily or margins must come down dramatically.

Or that in order to build a moat, OpenAI/Anthropic/Google and other laps need to double down on even more compute.
Thank you so much for posting this. The original logic was clear and it had me excited! I believe this is useful because compression is very common and although it might not fit perfectly in this scenario, it could very well be a breakthrough in another. If I come across a framework that could also benefit from this compression algorithm, I'll be sure to give you credit.
> this spy ship loaded to the brim with sensors?

And yet they still didn't see them. I suspect HM Naval Service knows what it's upto and what its limits are.
Why U.S. Roads Are Spaced One Mile Apart [video]
Humanity's Last Exam: A multi-modal benchmark at the frontier of human knowledge
[dupe]

Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42839650
Doesn't npm belong to Microsoft? It must be hosted in Azure which they own so they must be paying a rock bottom rate for storage, bandwidth, everything.
I would hope that with the significantly decreased complexity of electric cars, comparing a tesla against hybrids would be rather favorable, no? It should be an easier win for the electric car than for the hybrid car.
Feel free to contradict me with personal experience, but I actually posit that (like many interesting phenomena in life), the truth is exactly the opposite. The number of people in a team expands to fill the budget allocated. That budget flows from a legible & convincing narrative told to the check-writers (internal or external) that may or may not overlap with reality.
Not the OP, but I've had great experience with Aura frames...Costco sells them each year on the run-up to Christmas.
China banking on AI to boost efficiencies across the board
JetBrains debuts agentic AI coding with 'Junie'
You can buy loose tea and get metal tea stirrers that contain it which is about the best way to avoid the plastic. Still comes sealed in a plastic bag though, its very hard to avoid plastics at all.
Here's your competition. Literally $1.97 cereal that is a direct substitute for Cheerios: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Honey-Nut-O-s-Oat-Bre...

The competition is clearly Cheerios which sells for $4.93, which is still not $8 (I did find Cheerios priced above $8 at other stores, but only in family and giant size which are 50-75% larger): https://www.walmart.com/ip/Honey-Nut-Cheerios-Heart-Healthy-...

I'm not making up the numbers. Or the substitutes. Every grocery store I go to has name brand cereals, and then in the exact same aisle, off-brand alternatives that sell for far less.

So yeah it seems like a pretty competitive market to me if I can buy an alternative for 40% of the price of the name brand by reaching for a lower shelf. Is $5 a lot for a box of cereal? Maybe, that's up to you as the consumer. But, name brand cereal is also not a necessity, you can live a very happy life, eating healthy breakfasts without ever having touched a box of cereal.

Again, it seems like a pretty competitive market. Cereal is not a necessity, there are tons of other breakfast foods that substitute just fine, there are a variety of companies selling more or less substitable products through a variety of outlets, and there are no real regulatory barriers to entry. If I don't like one retailer, I can choose from dozens of others owned by different companies. If you think that there is a ton of margin being made, this is your opportunity to get rich selling cereal, or even just investing in General Mills (which has a profit margin of 12% on their goods, and has under-performed the stock market as a whole).

If you don't like the price of an $8 box of cereal, go buy the $5 one, or the $2 one, or don't buy any cereal at all and eat yogurt, or order from Amazon.com where you can get the best of all worlds by having name brand Cheerios brought to your door for $1.99: https://www.amazon.com/Honey-Cheerios-Gluten-Free-Cereal/dp/...
My question was about mechanics of microplastics being different than other materials such as wood or other inorganics.
I think your comment bears some truth in that turning to bitterness is only going to tint a persons worldview towards an overall undesirable shade.
Also it is absolutely necessary to keep up that "above and beyond" image for coworkers/managers to improve chances of a next successful hire. Mix that with the reality as described in the article and you get the play-pretend so many of us find exhausting
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42839650
Also, keep yourself employable. What you get hired to do and what you'll find yourself doing 6 months later, 2 years later, etc. aren't going to be the same. Whatever you are doing, keep in mind how much of it is really a marketable skill and how much of it is specialized to a small slice of the industry or perhaps even just your current company. Move within a company to keep working on what is useful to one's own career. I would only accept dead end work for a significant pay bump or as I'm finalizing for retirement.
What did DeepSeek figure out about reasoning with DeepSeek-R1? – sean goedecke
Always prioritize physical and mental health over work. Only go above and beyond for your employer after you’ve done so for yourself.
I just installed a project with pnpm about 120 packages mostly react/webpack/eslint/redux related

with prod env: 700MB

without prod env: 900MB

sadly the bloat cannot be avoided that well :/
Operation Leg – a pilot unlike any other (2020)
Don't think that's true because increasingly often their marketing is nothing like the actual product. Doesn't feel like any of them are working together internally.
They either forgot they are in fact the evil overlord or they never read the list.

> 12. One of my advisors will be an average five-year-old child. Any flaws in my plan that he is able to spot will be corrected before implementation
I built a new Certificate Transparency Log in 2024 – here's what I learned
You can use `ranger` to interactively navigate to and select a directory:

cdranger() {
local tmpfile="$(mktemp)"
local cdto
ranger --show-only-dirs --choosedir="$tmpfile" "$@"
cdto="$(cat $tmpfile)"
rm -f "$tmpfile"
if [ "$cdto" ]; then
cd "$cdto"
fi
}
China's Tibet Dam Project Has Its Neighbors Worried
Much appreciated! Maybe the impedance added some colorful garnish to your memory... :-)
> trying to suss out what is the work they personally did and what are just the thing their team accomplished while they were there.

This is the single biggest reason i detest 1/2 page resumes and always ask for detailed CV. The "summary"+"qualifications" paragraphs in the beginning of the CV is the resume after which one can decide to read or not the rest of the details. For example, my CV is 8 pages long (i am old and have hopped between companies :-) since i give an overview and then the details of my specific responsibilities for each job.

IMHO, everybody should present their CV like this and leave overviews to LinkedIn profiles.
While phonetically similar to a "securities term", the conversation was about legal agreements with a registered professional.

I think you are feigning ignorance for some reason or posting AI slop,

Best of luck =3
If you’re working on the build process itself, you’ll notice it a lot!
Bilinear down/upsampling, aligning pixel grids, and that infamous GPU half pixel (2021)
Excellent way to push users to other streaming platforms.
> No-one is proposing this.

>>Buck Angel should use a unisex restroom, or, if none is available, go elsewhere to find one.
I've read regular blood donations can reduce microplastics at least somewhat, and that's a good thing to do anyway
We encourage starting work extremely late in advanced societies, due to the need to fit in education before then.
I’d argue that’s just shifting the burden of proof. I’d like corporations to prove that something isn’t dangerous before they put it in the food I eat.

Besides, if other microparticles are dangerous, I’d rather not have even more of those, especially ones that haven’t been through thousands of years of human evolution.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42839650
Tips for Tech Workers: On Embracing Winter
As a GnuCash user, my pipe dream in this area is all of these tools--ledger, beancount, GnuCash, this--operating on the same data format. There are some things I like about each of them but it is not easy to switch back and forth.
This looks different, as there is a completely resistive path from source to destination, which is not the case for transmission lines (as that would mean an instantaneous response which isn't possible due to the speed of light limit).
Does this replace ljharb stuff?
> You don't have to implicitly supply the "this" parameter to each "object" predicate if you don't want to [...] if you were really interested in that level of syntactic sugar.

Given that the original "feature request" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42829985) was this:

>>>> There is no concept of "current maze", like in OO you would have with this.maze, or in Haskell you would do with a reader monad. As a result, all the "internal" predicates in a module get full of parameters all they do is pass around until some final predicate uses it to do some calculation.

I would say that yes, the OP wanted exactly that level of syntactic sugar and your previous suggestions [1] and [2] were addressing something else entirely.

> you could insert that yourself via compilation (with term/goal expansion)[4]

Yes, that's why I meant above by "Logtalk-like code generation". Suggesting that I study the thing that I suggested feels a little condescending.
I guess that would be a seize and sell the ship outcome then
I would nit and say "quiet-quit" to give you the time to
work on finding your next
job. Do it as a means, not an
end.
I don't care about appearing stronger, it's just not very nice to say "have you been living under a rock". We tend to do better than that on HN.

I wasn't saying that AI is not here. It is, and it is very important. Happy to have a proper discussion about that.
> the interviewers hinted that the direction was not what they were looking for

No, they said they couldn’t see the utility in what he was doing, which is very different than being told that his solution is unsatisfactory.

I have had countless interviews where I’ve been told that they don’t see where I’m going with something, and when I’m finished they admit (after some time processing) that they are impressed that I came up with such an elegant, simple solution. When asked what they had in mind, it turns out they (initially) thought the optimal solution was some contrived, overly complicated thing. If I let everyone’s interjections derail me, I’d never get through most interviews.

Think: have you ever seen a candidate give a crazy, overly complicated solution in an interview? Yes? Well, such interviewees (the ones that write 100+ line Fibonacci functions that look like they might be doing some memoization, but if you squint it turns out they aren’t even using the memo table they constructed) go on to be become interviewers — it shouldn’t be a surprise that many interviewers unintentionally throw candidates curveballs by expressing incredulity in the face of a non-shitty solution. If something is truly a hard “no”, then a “no” must be said — expecting the candidate to guess what’s going through the interviewers head is ridiculous.
I get enough smudges on my glasses that I don't need to get more smudges from touching the frames for input.
> where you need to direct a project to completion

Do you want to get a change in, or not?

Is this a project working with the community or not?

> Just release your work

What motivation exists to optimize package formats if nobody uses that package format? There are no benefits unless it’s in mainline.

> Nobody in open source wants to be told what to do

He’s not telling anybody to do work. He is sharing an optimization with clear tradeoffs - not a new architecture.

> You cannot force your improvement into the whole group

Nope, but communication is key. “put up a PR and we will let you know whether it’s something we want to pursue”.

Instead they put him through several levels of gatekeepers where each one gave him incorrect feedback.

“Why do we want to optimize bandwidth” is a question they should have the answer to.

If this PR showed up on my project I would say “I’m worried about X,Y,Z” we will set up a test for X and Y and get back to you. Could you look into Z?
I like how Richard Branson does things at Virgin. I have tried to adopt similar practices in mine. Basically we do our best to move you around to somewhere else, but you are never fired. It works really well for us.
That wouldn’t surprise me.

Doesn’t mean you can’t do it, just that people will object - but not likely with actions, just words, which can be ignored.
You can give workers temporary contracts and extend them as you see fit. None of what you are saying makes any sense to me.

Also, I will repeat this as many times as possible: you can fire employees in Germany exactly the same way you can fire employees in the US. You just need to follow the damn law. You need to give your employee a WRITTEN letter of termination, to make the termination legally binding. Then all you have to do is give them notice (or pay the salary out immediately if you want to get rid of them immediately).

Paying double so you can fire contractors is illogical. The maximum amount of notice you can be legally entitled to is 7 months, after working 20 damn years at a single company, which means at worst the company would have to pay half your salary out a single time to get rid of you immediately. None of this 2x every year multi-year bullshit.

The reason why you hire contractors is that you do not need the full output of an employee. You might only need three months or maybe just a week. It's the same reason companies rent equipment instead of buying.
I'm 24 years into my career now. I think you just get used to this after a while.

I've worked on several big (at the time) software products that our company built and shipped to customers for a while, that we have since abandoned. And in those cases, the entire organization within the company that owned the code was disbanded, so there was no one left to know about it or care about it. I'm not 100% certain but I strongly suspect that there is not a single copy left anywhere in the company of the code for those products - code that I worked on for years.

It's strange thinking that there is basically no trace left of something that I put years of professional work into, but I think it happens more than most people realize. I suppose it's no different than startups that fail and everything disappears.

I also think this is why so many software people end up enjoying hobbies that revolve around physical things, like woodworking or restoring old cars. Having some physical object that you can point to and say "I built that" is kind of nice compared to everything else you've done living on a flash chip somewhere.
For what it's worth, my kids really like this project.
No it doesn't. It only does that if you think discussion around future improvements belongs in RFCs.
I will emphasize: because people are paying that much for it. Willingly.

The competition is at Amazon, where I can buy a box of Cheerios, delivered, for $1.99. Or at Walmart where I can buy name brand cereal for $5, and Walmart equivalents for $1.97.
I would rather conclude that automatic vectorizers are still less than ideal, despite SIMD instructions have been widely available in commodity processors for 25 years now.

The language is actually great with SIMD, you just have to do it yourself with intrinsics, or use libraries. BTW, here’s a library which implements 4-wide vectorized exponent functions for FP32 precision on top of SSE, AVX and NEON SIMD intrinsics (MIT license): https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXMath/blob/oct2024/Inc/Di...
> That works until you’re sitting between two fat libraries with overlapping, but incompatible concerns. It’s tradeoffs all the way down.

This reads like the dev equivalent of manager speak.
I just finished reading this one. It was fantastic. I particularly enjoyed the spicy editorial excerpts from The Electrician ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Electrician ).
Used to fly over ours too (Gatwick flight path?), and I always remember that sharp screaming sound.

I still watch the planes when I'm in the garden, but it's not quite the same
I've been a software developer for 25 years, so I'm already there. I really disagree with this though. When I look back at software I was developing 20 years ago in 2005 it is not particularly different than now. It's still client-server, based on web protocols, and uses primarily the same desktop UX. Mobile UX wasn't a thing yet but my whole point was that if we built more apps that were directly native with fewer abstraction layers they would perform better and be able to do more.

Can you give an example of an app that does exponentially more than the same or equivalent app from 2005?
"it's fine, we'll just use AI to replace engineers"
Taking video can protect against police brutality or false claims by the police. Although I agree that it also is dangerous.
A few thoughts on DeepSeek – and why you can't trust what you read
The article is interesting, raises doubts about DeepSeek’s narrative, particularly its claim of being built on a shoestring budget with outdated chips. Archer highlights the influence of the Chinese government in tech ventures and suggests that DeepSeek could be part of a strategy to disrupt U.S. tech markets, especially AI investments.

Archer also warns that if DeepSeek’s model is genuine, it could trigger a collapse of the AI bubble, similar to the dot-com crash, by flooding the market with unused Nvidia GPUs and slowing AI hardware demand. He concludes by questioning whether DeepSeek is a breakthrough or a strategic move by China to shift market dynamics.
you're looking at it from economic theory not from stock market. NVIDIA's insane valuation right now was based on an almost exponential increase in demand for more and more of it. It's priced in that NVIDIA will continue that trend. DeepSeek proves that trajectory is no longer needed (not that it was ever cemented in rationalism), so anything less than the continued exponential growth would send stock down.