skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you were working with a general contractor where you signed a contract with them and they just went out and led the work and kept you updated with statuses, would you invite them? Would you invite the subcontractors? The actual construction workers?

This how true “consulting companies” work. You sign a statement of work with the requirements and costs and then they (we) go off and take care of staffing and lead the project. Your company will probably never interact with anyone besides sales, the tech lead and maybe the people over sub projects of the larger project (work streams) and their leads.
If your goal is to sour relations between Ukraine and its allies in Central Europe, then blowing up the pipeline makes perfect sense.

The pivot away from Russian gas was well underway by then and the pipeline had lost its value. May as well blow it up and hope that Germans will blame Ukraine (and not own shortsighted energy policy) for their high energy prices and cut military aid to 'reckless' Ukrainians.

From Ukraine's point of view, messing with allies' infrastructure would've been incredibly foolish: a lot to lose and nothing to gain.
what would it look like with nearest, or gaussian filters? Would be interesting to see the same sample graphs with different kernels.
Noted! There is already an undo function, though. If you seek, an undo button pops up. Also, if you go to settings, there's a "History" view where you can also undo from.
> If a company decides to lay off, for instance, 40 employees, German law doesn’t prevent this.

At least this part is partially wrong. There is an entire law about how lay offs are only allowed if they are “socially justified” with definitions of acceptable circumstances. An employer can not fire you “at will” in Germany.
If I was hellbent on doing that, I’d likely pull it off anyway. It seems like a massive trouble to avoid something quite rare.
> But among the endless blizzard of these, this is an odd one to make your last stand for.

Everyone has their own personal last straw.

Really the pettiness of spending effort to remove a feature for no good reason is the annoying thing here.
As someone who follows AI basically minute-to-minute, I'm a little confused about why everyone is freaking out so much about DeepSeek & R1. Normal (non-tech) people are asking me about it today. The stock market is freaking out.

Why is this news—which is mostly technical and incremental—causing such panic?
As dengue cases rise, researchers point to simple solution: Trash cleanup
It didn’t pop it two years ago when it was published/leaked. In fact since then the bubble has only swelled faster.
From the RFC on github[1].

> Zopfli is written in C, which presents challenges. Unless it was added to Node core, the CLI would need to (1) rewrite Zopfli in JS, possibly impacting performance (2) rely on a native module, impacting reliability (3) rely on a WebAssembly module. All of these options add complexity.

Wow! Who's going to tell them that V8 is written in C++? :)

[1]: https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/595
>eventually your subjects will get used to you being there and start acting normally again

This is my issue. Social media has made this much more difficult for me, people generally want to look good in all the pictures. I never post them anywhere, maybe to a small group chat, but still it's the natural instinct many people have when they see a camera out.

So I find people getting self-conscious or otherwise uncomfortable/annoyed when I try to get candid shots. But I know they will appreciate them later, and often do, but it's hard to push past this initial reaction.

These threads have been helpful and motivating -- I will try to reference them later with family to explain why I'm taking all these pictures, and why they shouldn't stress too much about how they look.
I love HYSA, I made a sizable chunk on the interest and switching banks for the best rate is normally only a few steps. Right now I'm moving my savings from One Finance (3.75%) to Barclay (4.25%) because One dropped their rates (from 4.5% IIRC) and I'll make ~$40 more a month from the switch. It's not a ton of money but it's not nothing and it's dead simple for me to move the money.
This is exactly it. I left Google in 2013 after working there for 3 years because I could see this happening.

I only imagine how much worse it is now.
> This is completely false.

It's not completely false at all - but it does depend greatly depends on which country you're based in.

Where I am, in Spain, your network, and your reputation within it, are _everything_. Good jobs will sometimes not even be advertised, as the first thing a hirer will do is ask around their network for recommendations, and those recommendations count for _a lot_. On the other side, when you are looking for work, the first thing you do is ask your network for an intro - and again, that intro counts for a lot.

That's not to say that the traditional interview process will be skipped, but candidates coming from recommendations will have a massive head-start over others.
> that would be a pretty great way to ruin that

Not really. It would be similar to tax rules—not really applicable to non-American depositors.
It would affect people who were not allowed to work because their company was not sure if they are allowed to work in New Zealand. At individuals level sure, this is going to have little to no effect.

But - lot of people need their employers permission to work in a different country and Employers have specific policies about where an Employee is allowed to work depending on Employee's status in that country.
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Use the content of a file & pre-defined rules to bulk rename files. For example, extract the account owner, bank and time period from a bank statement, then rename the file "{{accountowner}}_{{bank}}_{{timeperiod}}_bankstatement"
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Customize colors, complexity, sizes borders and more. Export as SVG/PNG or use it to generate dynamic image placeholders urls.

Made with NextJS and deployed to Vercel.
This article is a total bullshit.

The inflation after covid was caused ONLY for printing money with the covid excuse.

All Those "cartels" existed long before covid, and why they didn't raise the prices before?

If you rise the price, you open a space to other companies to sell at lower prices.

But if you print money and not grow the production of good and services, the money will worth less, making everything more pricey.
I don't think there was ever a 30i screen. GP probably meant 60 interlaced, which needs two full scans for a change, so an effective 30 full frames per second, but enough for 60 half images. For a Wayland compositor and the entire hardware stack would treat it as 30hz only if it really wanted to avoid interlace artifacts, but I don't recall that being a configuration that existed in my lifetime.
There was a time when the word "layoff" referred to a TEMPORARY separation due to a lack of demand with the understanding that when activity picked back up you'd be recalled back to work. This was particularly common in the automotive sector and really across manufacturing. These were cyclical industries and while employers couldn't afford to pay idle workers during periods of low economic demand, they also couldn't afford to lose the skillsets. Oftentimes unions would provide partial compensation to these workers until they were recalled.

Somewhere around the mid 1990s, "layoff" became just a euphemism for permanent reductions in force/downsizing.
I think the key point here is if you can stay longer than 90 days. At least when I was in Vietnam, doing a border run every 3 months would get old pretty quickly.
Is there an increase in shipping in the baltic?
Is there an increase in cables in the baltic?
You demonstrate neither.
99% of people hiring are "B/C players”
But the dog is actually talking and the speaker can’t be found. You can hear and smell the sound and talk coming from the dogs hot breath.

To them the dog can never ever talk. Because that’s a violation of the sanctity of human intelligence. There pride as a programmer can’t be attacked by another thing other than human being more intelligent.

It’s now clear that LLMs reason and it’s kind of embarrassing how wrong they were.
I was wondering what you were talking about, as I have never seen the arrow when trying to locate a genuine AirTag that's misplaced within our house.

But that's because neither of the devices I've used to locate things (a recent iPad and an iPhone X) have the UWB hardware.
I'd love to see some regular-workload benchmarks that compare equal-frequency, on the same fabrication node, same storage etc.
A real apples-to-apples shootout
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They seem to have matched OpenAI model capability on a fraction of the resources. R1 is roughly as good as o1 and can be run locally. There are some interesting contributions in the paper too. So I see it as two parts, (1) the money, lots invested, wondering if they will ever make it back now (2) China showing impressive results while being handicapped by the West

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948

Keep an eye on the effort to reproduce here: https://github.com/huggingface/open-r1

We will see if the (over?) reaction matches reality in time. Media sure loves to whipsaw us all around
It's not about references. It's about building a network of colleagues who respect you and your work. Many years ago, when I started doing consulting/contracting work, literally all my of my jobs came through people I had previously worked for or with across a variety of companies. And if you play your cards right, as the years roll on, you won't even have to apply for jobs other than as a formality. Instead, people who's respect you've gained will try to bring you into where they work.
Pat Gelsinger on DeepSeek
> there is more unlikely than crypto becoming a credible threat to the banking establishment

Follow the money: Wall Street loves and lobbies for crypto.
>to look at them instead of the americans

What PRC dunking on US AI at fraction of cost, latter is key, is to ensure all the trillion dollar soverign funds DON'T invest 100s of billions in American AI because ROI looks bad now. Americans are/will still twist arms and mandating "either us or them" approach to ensure investors stay way from PRC AI... and as long as US have export controls on hardware US still retains strong leverage. But many US companies lost the snakeoil salespitch for obscene investments.

IMO PRC doesn't really need outside investers (FDI single digit %s anyway), the 1T AI investment from Bank of China isn't going to prioritize LLMs / short term "AGI" grift. They're focusing on industry... biopharma etc... transforming atoms because they've got the industrial supply chain to build that humanoid robot army powered by second mover advantage models that can't make up for the fact nice prose isn't going to make US build as effeciently as PRC short of speedrunning for grey goo nano machines.
And to the extent that the definition of M2 changed in 2020 (the FRED series description indicates it did), this was only in response to the expansion of M1, to ensure that it was not double-counted in or removed from M2.
Sometimes that outcome is not the outcome that those users want. For example I'd stay on X11 forever because none of its problems are relevant to me.

The only relevant problem with X11 to me is that all of its developers are stopping to work on it and it won't run on any new hardware soon (and probably on old hardware too.)
So is the optimization "wrong" or "unsafe" even in the case of Intel's ICX compiler? Is it that you can't express the right (error) semantics in C?

I'm just wondering why those two require the flag and the other doesn't.
What did he do with the dumb and energetic?
i'm pretty confident both of you are correct. I know some Dutch and spotted that as well.

I did find it an interesting overlap that in the field of transmission lines (electricity lines specifically) there is literally a conductor size names elk :)

My original comment could do with an "also".
They are the source. A journo could write an article and mention distrowatch as where they got their information from. If you don't trust them - great, you can do your own research.

> I wonder what the evidence for it is

Maybe "Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and multiple groups associated with Linux and Linux discussions have either been shut down or had many of their posts removed" and "We've been hearing all week from readers who say they can no longer post about Linux on Facebook or share links to DistroWatch. Some people have reported their accounts have been locked or limited for posting about Linux"

What do you think evidence consists of if not that?
Here's the comment that got downvoted:

> For anyone unaware of us government agency structure. CDC is part of the department of health and human services ( HHS ) which has also frozen everything (see the NIH news as well).
> Employees have been instructed to pull publications from review, not communicate with state health departments, and cancel long planned trainings.
> These decisions will well and truly kill real people.

These are the executive orders we are talking about.

Are you strong enough of a person to address this? Or must you insult people's intelligence by dishonest accusations?

Also, what does ABC have to do with anything?
this happens in EVERY thead about Chinese tech news

it's always 'but tiananmen square'
disable PRs if this is your policy.
If it was de-facto allowed, but technically there were unenforced rules against it, this seems like a reduction in “political posturing.”

Aligning the rules with what people want to do and are already doing anyway seems more like pragmatism.
last year, outwardly mercor appeared to be primarily a platform for hiring off-shore developers, essentially a tech enabled recruiting platform used by startups that want developer talent for cheap without the headache of dealing with development shops

their revenue was (and still is) based on taking a percentage of the hired contractor's eventual salary

I'd love to understand a few things about the company and investment excitement:

- How do they handle misclassification risk in the different jurisdictions they hire candidates from? For those unfamiliar, outside the US many governments have the power to look at labor contracts and determine if they are employee or contracting contracts

- How do they differ from TopTal, TryCrew, Bolto, Upwork, etc...?

- How does the mix of contract employments shake out? What % of engagements are for developing AI models vs just hiring a developer for a time-period or product engagement?

This almost reminds me of Scale AI, however instead of low-skilled data labeling for ML applications, it is high skilled expertise generation for the development of LLMs

Would be super interested in other takes
Imagine killing the globally recognized Twitter brand for a single generic letter.

The common denominator is ego. Office may be a globally recognized brand, but it was defined by someone else, and the person making the decision needs to mark their territory.
"Going above and beyond" at a big company, if done in a smart strategic way, is the best way to get promoted, and getting promoted results in significantly higher pay. I've gotten promoted twice at my current employer over the years, which has roughly doubled my total compensation, and none of that would have happened had I just did my previous level's responsibilities and nothing beyond.
How many SS's are in "Slow Mississippi bass" ?

You have exceeded my off-topic straw-man limit for the day.

Best of luck, =3
We Found the $2T
OK sure, but I never once mentioned any of this and have no idea what the social customs are around hiring general contractors to build buildings or asking CIA-adjacent consulting companies how to jack up the price of bread. I just know that half my coworkers have a slightly different email address for "legal reasons", and they aren't allowed to come to the Christmas party. This is, in my opinion, simply mean. Basically we seem to have invented a kind of at-will apartheid that 0.0001% of the population understand and even fewer benefit from.
DeepSeek releases Janus Pro, a text-to-image generator [pdf]
AI is no more one thing than cheese is or cancer is.

Plenty of good stuff is happening, but the reckless greed-fueled current hype part is not good.
I think you’re reaching far to connect dots here. SVB collapse has nothing to do with innovations related to fintech. Their issue was more of the typical run on the bank situation than anything to do with innovation. So it was a failure of the traditional banking model, which any bank is susceptible to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vjEnkQdaHM&t=2s

Sorry, my mind makes weird jumps and pulls up movie references
They're talking about referrals, not reference checks. Getting good referrals is hugely important, especially at smaller companies that don't the capacity to do a rigorous hiring process.
> People have been coming here and working on holiday for years, even though people are supposed to get a work permit if you come as a tourist and work remotely there's no practical to enforce it and no government has tried in the past.

This in itself is a very good reason to actually enshrine reality into the law of the land. I don't disagree that the fanfare and PR around it is overblown, but hand waving and saying this is nothing is unfair. Clarifying the law is precisely what a government should be doing.

> Making this change will have no practical effect on the economy.

I don't know if this alone will change much, but I can guarantee the number of companies that don't let staff work remote for a few weeks in NZ because it's a legal grey area is not 0.
Wait wait wait, milk in before the tea? That's not right.
Though "null pointer" and "null value" are correct, for bytes it should be "NUL byte", since ASCII code point 0 is NUL.
"If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?" — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

----

To be clear, I'm personally of the "nazis need to be punched in the face" mindset, but I still love this quote. Life is nuanced and people are complex. Even Solzhenitsyn knew.
Connection between violent TV and increase in aggression
This is a fascinating concept, ie. modifying trained LLMs to create different models

Do these techniques train models while performing the modifications?

Are there pre-trained models that “know how to” modify LLMs for certain goals?

It would be amazing to have models that could strip LLMs to some very basic small model of whatever I want. Like reducing an LLM to something that just knows some basic “American English”, then running that on CPU
What sites do you use to find good contract work?
Those are distillations of the model.
“Germany“ in the larger sense were the bad guys. And in the top ranks of the party there plenty of individuals who were definitely evil. But the regular military - from the foot soldier up to the generals - were just regular people fighting a war. They were no more or less cruel or honorable than their British counterparts.

Remember that the holocaust only started 3 years into the war (after this operation) and its extend was not widely known on either side of the war; and any country takes great care that any war they are engaged in is framed as a just cause
This should not be flagged.

Post itself is a little light on evidence, but there are people here already who've tried to post Linuxey things, and have seen it in action.
Sauce? How do you even measure "capabilities" in that regard, just writing answers to standard tests? Because being able to ace a test doesn't mean it's AGI, it means its good at taking standard tests.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42833491
FYI - https://www.dynadot.com/market/search has a nice way you can filter their Aftermarket domains for sales by Character Count, TLD, No IDN/Number/Hyphens.

I've found over the years plenty of <= 5 character domains that have a meaningful name just from using their search filters.

(I'm not affiliated in anyway to them)
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That was amazing! Thank you.

Wait, idlewords is still around??
Might as well buy a used Office 2010 CD with the original key/packaging if you’re at it. The icons are all what’s changed since from a home user perspective.
Clarifying the law when the world changes and creates a legal grey area sounds like the exact thing a government should be doing.
I agree, I don't think it's over just because another major power threw a bunch of similarly powered models in the ring.

I feel it doesn't really matter which country or company has which model open at the moment. Whichever company, open source-based or closed that hits AGI or something much closer to it first wins, period. We're not there yet, we've got lovely conversationalists summarizing all our web crawled answers back to us. It doesn't seem like throwing chips and compute at the problem is the answer, and stifling competition via hardware is just bailing water. I do think he's at least kinda right that it's going to take another paradigm shift in LLMs, traders and other models to some other idea that eventually does it. I don't expect it out of GPT-5.
Based on an earlier comment, I think the person you're replying to is the author of aider.
Very cool blog post, but the fastest phrase search would just use a suffix array, which would make any phrase search take double digit nanoseconds.
I think the word you’re looking for is furlough.
I mean, the government in the US already loves dictating what poor people can spend their money on when they get assistance.

Look at WIC for example, even in progressive California, they literally force you to buy only white eggs: https://docs.wic.ca.gov/Content/Documents/ShoppingGuide-EN-A... . You also can’t buy any cheese with taste, because you are poor and you don’t deserve good food.

Think of the cost of that stupid bureaucracy.
>One of Heaviside's achievements is that he converted Maxwell's twenty mathematical formulas into a more accessible set of just four, which nowadays are taught at all universities as "Maxwell's equations".

Anyone know of an accessible guide to the translation of Maxwell's quaternions to Heaviside's vectors? Was Heaviside's compression of Maxwell's work — lossless?
However imagine entering a store where the camera looks up your face in shared database and profiles you as a person who will pay higher prices - and the prices are displayed near you according to your profile...
Christopher Walken Has Never Owned a Cellphone
My last comment was meant as a joke. I should have made that clearer by emphasizing Poe's Law. My prompt included "this is a joke." Originally, I was only talking about data that shows how people's views of history change over time, whether those changes are true or not. I vaguely remember hearing that statement about ten years ago, and I searched the internet for a trustworthy source to support it.

Continuing our discussion on how perspectives of history change, it might be that Americans deserve even more credit for this historical event than had 70 years ago.

The conversation was about how historical perspectives change over time, but the following comments focused on modern views of a specific historical moment.
I would start here: https://www.transkribus.org/

Experts in the field might know more specialized tools, or how to train an actually better Transkribus model without deep technical knowledge required.