skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Drones are one of those things that _should_ be something I dig...but I never seem to pull the trigger because it seems like a big imposition on the other people in the same space experiencing the same things you are. Moab was a great example of that...we're out hiking on the 2nd or 3rd most popular trail and there's the constant wine of a drone _up_there_...you can't see it, but it's there, and somebody thought it was okay to use it.

Youtube/TokTok/Insta folks are similar. I'm at Mesa Verde and this guy is getting cranky because he can't get a picture of the sign, because people have the nerve to actually be there...and those people get to hear him take the 4th take of his intro...."what's up youtube"
If Windows could work without SMM, is there a historical reason why SMM mode didn't just die and become disused after Windows becomes popular and nobody uses DOS any more? There are plenty of features in x86 that are disused.
It depends on who you are and what market you are in. Many people in recent years have reported putting in over a thousand job applications and only netting a couple of interviews, none of which resulted in a job offer. But if you have a network into available jobs and can short cut all of the pipeline insanity going on now, making a jump would be smart. Then again, the type of companies that play these games typically don't have top notch talent in the first place. Many people might endure it because they fear they don't have other options.
Asianometry: The Coming AI Startup Bust (3 months ago) [video]
Note that this proof-of-concept implementation saves latency on first load, but may add latency at surprising points while using the website. Any user invoking a rarely-used function would see a delay before the javascript executes, without the traditional UI affordances (spinners etc) to indicate that the application was waiting on the network. Further, these secretly-slow paths may change from visit to visit. Many users know how to "wait for the app to be ready," but the traditional expectation is that once it's loaded, the page/app will work, and any further delays will be signposted.

I'm sure it works great when you've got high-speed internet, but might break things unacceptably for users on mobile or satellite connections.
I too am obsessed with beautiful TUI apps. I would love to see them inside a browser to lower the barrier to entry for the majority of folks. Almost like an emulated terminal inside the browser that’s simply accessed by url.

Are there any frameworks or examples of this being done?
“Baling” wire. Used to bind bales of hay.
Wait what, you don't know that you should purchase the brand new Xbox Series XA, and not the Xbox One 720 S ...?

But seriously, I do think it's still one of the most hilariously stupid product names EVER in the history of products, to name the third thing in a series "xbox one". They'll have that idiocy forever bahahahahahah!!!!
i wouldn’t be surprised if many insults to human health are not relevant in population that exercises vigorously 5 times a week and have good body composition.

for the average american maybe we are looking for straws that break camels backs that are on the edge of breaking anyways
Learning When to Stop Developing a Project
I think its great that Julien and his coauthors actually show some evidence of Nix working at scale, to successfully rebuild the vast majority of things, and bit-by-bit reproduce a significant portion.
Lots of people have been working on that inside nixpkgs for a long time, alongside similar reproducible builds efforts in other distros.

For me it's also an opportunity to plug my own recent work about what 'trust' actually means in these systems, with the result that we can plug some holes and get to a stricter and more useful definition in future versions of tools like Nix (especially when builds are bit-by-bit reproducible):
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3689944.3696169
Every build in a CI system would probably create the package.

This is changing every build in every CI system to make it slower.
The price for watching into another world with your seeing stone- is to turn your palantir to slag
Every LLM is a censored product and by that of limited use for anything that might require prompts that are about anything that is somehow "controversial" in the eyes of the model censor and their masters.

There is a process called "abliteration" [0] that can be used to undo some of the censorship, at the cost of making the model slightly™ dumber (according to users of those models).

[0] https://huggingface.co/blog/mlabonne/abliteration
> What’s a little sad, is NPM should not be operating like a company with 1000+ employees. The “persuade us users want this” approach is only going to stop volunteers. They should be proactively identifying efforts like this and helping you bring it across the finish line.

Says who?

Says an engineer? Says a product person?

NPM is a company with 14 employees; with a system integrated into countless extremely niche and weird integrations they cannot control. Many of those integrations might make a professional engineer's hair catch fire - "it should never be done this way!" - but the real world is that the wrong way is the majority of the time. There's no guarantee that many of the downloads come from the official client, just as one example.

The last thing they need, or I want, or any of their customers want, or their 14 employees need, is something that might break backwards compatibility in an extremely niche case, anger a major customer, cause countless support tickets, all for a tiny optimization nobody cares about.

This is something I've learned here about HN that, for own mental health, I now dismiss: Engineers are obsessed with 2% optimizations here, 5% optimizations there; unchecked, it will literally turn into an OCD outlet, all for things nobody in the non-tech world even notices, let alone asks about. Just let it go.
Google and Microsoft are bundling AI in office suites because nobody wants to pay for AI.

>train better models

Where will the training data come from? I don't think LMMs can generate quality training data.
Xi Jinping Muzzles Chinese Economist Who Dared to Doubt GDP Numbers
In the context of this article, it seems clear to me that GP has the right translation. The other figures say "each" in the same position, and it looks like there was one word that didn't get translated from the figure. The fact that this is all on a .nl domain and the author says this is a translation from a Dutch magazine article lends even more weight to the idea that the author wasn't talking about a particular type of transmission line.
Why would I recommend a standout performer for a position at my company? So they can outshine me? I never recommend the "true believer" tool, always the average performer I got along with.
No? SMT solvers underpin the majority of program synthesis research tools.

When you get down to it, you're optimizing (searching) for some program that maximizes/minimizes some objective function with terms for error relative to specification/examples and size of synthesized program, while applying some form of cleverness to pruning the search space.

This is absolutely within the wheelhouse of SMT solvers, and something that they are used for.

SMT doesn't have to be used, but for implementation it enables iterating on the concept more quickly (see also, more broadly: prototyping in Prolog), and in other cases it's simply the most effective tool for the job. So, it tends to get a lot of play.
How do you evaluate call usage?
You could just exclude all ai stories: https://histre.com/hn/?tags=+all-ai

More info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35904988

(disclosure: mine)
The expertise comes first from innovation out of universities, and then refinement out of corporations.

Open models aren't going away anytime soon
I think this is called tree shaking and Vite/Rollup do this by default these days. Of course, it's easy when you explicitly say what you're importing.
A job is a means to an end.
First link was soon after and they had already regained 80%+ back. The second link was much more recent and appears to be continuing to expand.

https://archive.is/8bRBH

https://medium.com/@omarkorim/is-meta-really-moving-beyond-t...
Seems like it is more oriented for LLM inference where it has ~80% higher memory bandwidth and ~30% higher memory and tensor core performance, and 100% increase in PCIe bandwidth.
Indeed, if you search for "ceramic antennas" you'll see that they are already being used and smaller than equivalent PCB antennas. They rely on a dielectric material with high e_r, which implies that speed of light is slower there.
Lots of portable devices use them nowadays!
Accusations of racism were always a lie used simply to silence those who said it was a lab leak. Our governments failed us, lied to us, censured us, and demonized those who didn't bend the knee.
I guess I'll share what I built for myself.

https://gist.github.com/chanux/1119556 (bash)
https://gist.github.com/chanux/9411092 (fish)

That's `za <n>` to go back n directories up. It's a decade old and I still use this everyday.

I experimented with jumping up directory path by name with `xs`. But I don't use it that often (at all).

https://gist.github.com/chanux/08c6f53472190a02b33bd49100163...
What does "disruption" look like in the banking space? Banks want the perception of immovable, confidence, reliable, resilience, etc. It's what gives them the credibility to move big money. They don't want to "move fast and break things". Some may think about digital currencies.

My warning is this: Be careful what you wish for. If we were to switch to a full digital currency, there are significant concerns that money could be allocated like a voucher, where it could be sent and only spent in a certain way. Suddenly the government decides those receiving some kind of social care allowance must spend different parts in different ways, i.e. a minimum of 50% MUST be spent on rent (an extremely enticing proposition in a recession). Perhaps there is a tax for not spending enough, or on the correct thing. Perhaps there is a micro-tax for moving it around. Maybe the micro-tax is dependant on your social credit score. The slippery slope goes on.

The only thing currently stopping this is that you can withdraw your entire wage each month and spend it however you want, without such a tax. The government or banks cannot be certain of precisely how you spend your money when using cash. The very moment cash is gone, such implements can be created and there is nothing you can do about it.

Maybe I am behind the times, but I don't like the sound of "disruption" in the banking industry. That last time I saw "disruption" was in 2008, and many people lost their homes.
Notorious US chemical plant polluting water with toxic PFAS, lawsuit claims
Tiny robot cat will blow on your coffee to cool it off
> The human part of car ownership is freedom.

I'm sure the car marketing department agrees with you. Unfortunately, the reality for most people is not about freedom, it's about necessity. A car is simply the only way to get around; there are no other options. Freedom can't exist without choice. If you actually observe daily car users you'll find they are angry and frustrated. I find these daily frustrations occupy a vastly disproportionate space in their heads as well. How many times have you heard about the asshole on the road today? Or how bad the traffic was? These are signs that things aren't right, but people just can't see a way around it. If you realised something you were eating was unpleasant you'd just stop eating it, but people aren't able to stop driving.

You're clinging to the past where maybe the top 10% of society could own a car. Those people had freedom. Nowadays those people have private jets.
> While phonetically similar to a "securities term", the conversation was about legal agreements with a registered professional

No. A "bonded fiduciary service" is not a thing. That's why there are literally zero hits on Google for that string.

You're thinking about an adviser--who must be a registered professional in the U.S., but that's a separate topic--who agrees to be bound as a fiduciary. (Bonding is a surety concept [1]. If someone is arguing their fiduciary duties are stronger because they're bonded, please report them to your regulators because that's nonsense.)

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/what-does-bonded-mean-definitio...
The downloads are cached. The build happens on every publish for every CI build.
They generate synthetic data using their best models. Then they train better models using that data. It's a cycle.
Open source needs to operate differently than a company because people don’t have time/money/energy to deal with bullshit.

Hell. Even 15 employees larping as a corporation is going to be inefficient.

what you and NPM are telling us, is that they are happy to take free labor, but this is not an open source project.

> Engineers are obsessed with 2% optimizations here

Actually in large products these are incredible finds.
But ok. They should have the leadership to know which bandwidth tradeoffs they are committed to and tell him immediately it’s not what they want, rather than sending him to various gatekeepers.
Thanks.. what I am interested in is the the type of censorship that has been applied and what effects prompt-jailbreaks have. Personally I have limited experience with that
> So are those functional languages.

The author is suggesting array languages as the solution, which are a separate category from functional languages.
This sounds like a perpetual motion machine.
Emacs + projectile + eshell
I wrote a full guide on how to run DeedSeek on your local computer
Hi, everyone! You probably already know that DeepSeek's v3 and R1 models are making waves by delivering OpenAI-level performance with three key differences that are transforming the AI landscape:

What Makes DeepSeek Revolutionary:
1⃣ 97% Less Compute to Train
2⃣ 10x-30x Cheaper than OpenAI Models
3⃣ Open Source – You can download all 670B weights and run it on your own machine.

I’ve written a step-by-step guide on how to set it up on your computer. Feel free to send a pull request to improve it.

Thank you!
That video (and channel, seemingly) is incredible, thank you for posting! I've never seen anything like the visualizations starting at ~10m.
Some later discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42837489
Rise Is Shutting Down
But why would an AI breakthrough cause stocks to go down? It should cause it to go up. It means we should expect even more breakthroughs, better models, more LLM usage, etc.
Build a free realtime voice assistant with Google Gemini
THIS is the only correct statement in all of this.

The goal for AGI and ASI MUST BE to train, inference, train, inference and so on and that all on the fly in fractions of a second from every token produced.

Now good luck calculating the compute and hard work in algorithms to get there.

Not possible? Then AGI won't ever work because how can AGI beat a human if it can't learn on the fly? Not to mention ASI lol.
Correct; NPM is not an "open source project" in the sense of a volunteer-first development model. Neither is Linux - over 80% of commits are corporate, and have been for a decade. Neither is Blender anymore - the Blender Development Fund raking in $3M a year calls the shots. Every successful "large" open source project has outgrown the volunteer community.

> Actually in large products these are incredible finds.

In large products, incredible finds may be true; but breaking compatibility with just 0.1% of your customers is also an incredible disaster.
> Pride in good work and pleasure in having an impact on customers and coworkers is good for you. Sometimes that means making dumb business decisions like sacrificing an evening to a company that doesn't care...

Right.

The company doesn't care.

But I do.

I don't work hard on my craft, push myself to be better/smarter/have more impact, or go above and beyond for my employer.

I do it for myself.
Pretty neat. Can you add an option to limit the TLD? I just want to see .coms for example.
Isn't this a good reason to break these companies up and mitigate the risk?
>They're also hosting in switzerland.

....means nothing.
Unless you know something the rest of us don't?
What about a different approach - an optional npm proxy that recompresses popular packages with 7z/etc in the background?

Could verify package integrity by hashing contents rather than archives, plus digital signatures for recompressed versions. Only kicks in for frequently downloaded packages once compression is ready.

Benefits: No npm changes needed, opt-in only, potential for big bandwidth savings on popular packages. Main tradeoff is additional verification steps, but they could be optional given a digital signature approach.

Curious if others see major security holes in this approach?
But Microsoft hosts 3rd party models too, and cheaper models means more usage, which means more $$$ to scaled cloud providers right?
The division between 'mental' and 'physical' illness fails us all
LinkedIn bellyaching is hitting HackerNews now, good grief.
I asked Claude "As a developer writing for mac os x 10.4 tiger on Xcode 2, write me a hello world mac app with a button that outputs the string "hello world" to the console" and it seemed to produce correct results in Objective-C.
This article illustrates why we should be skeptical of any data coming out of China.

This includes DeepSeek.
Does npm even default to gzip -9? Wikipedia claims zopfli is 80 times slower under default settings.
Ask HN: Tool recommendations for graphs instead of tree mindmaps
I like mindmap software for how intuitive it is, but if I want to enter and manipulate data that's a graph rather than a tree I haven't found a tool I like. Any recommendations? If it can handle flow left to right where physical layout has a meaning I would like it even more. Something I can work with low tech people on, where it can scale to hundreds of nodes but I can select only some to display at a time.
Thank you.
> 12) Join a community of people sharing your struggles.

If you can't find an in-person one, the Reddit community is pretty good, with lots of useful posts and advice

https://www.reddit.com/r/ADHD/
I would put money on all of big tech and all public companies combined not employing more than 30% of professional programmers. At least in the US only 15% work at a large company (500+).
> I believe what we'd need is education.

> The more educated the masses are, the more likely it is that they vote for governments that have the long term interests in mind

Consider: Globally, the masses are more and better educated than at any other point in history. More people than ever have a higher-level education, and people have access to more information than ever before, more easily than ever before, and for free! There has never been a better time to be a thinking human, we're surrounded by knowledge and education.

If that's still not enough, it might be worth considering that maybe it's not an education thing. Maybe it really is just human nature to think short term, and not some bad government maximization route. Consider how that short-term thinking shows up everywhere: In people's diets, in people's elected governments, in people's finances, and so on.

Maybe it's not something we can just wish away with education. Maybe it's just... humans being human.

You can -dictate- long-term thinking and long-term policies. But from a democratic perspective, the candidate that promises short-term wins will obviously beat the candidate that says "endure now for long-term gain".
I think it's less about Deepseek and more about the seeming or real erosion of the moat. It takes away the secret magic if other companies are just doing it and selling the product not doing what the other leaders are doing.

A lot of people will go to some other AI service provider on principle alone. A lot of people will move for cost reasons. That may not leave many left.

We shall see.
IMO voice control is a bad fit for things that can be expressed by a few mouse clicks.

If you just want to interpret a few commands you don't need LLM, just hook up the TTS to the possible commands and it will limit itself to the possible words from the context. That's what Siri does and it works fine for stuff like turning the TV off (provided every action is available to the voice assistant code).
My not-connected 2015 car also uses that for handsfree navigation and while it's a bit slow it works quite reliably. I really think you overestimate the amount of stuff you really need an AI service for.
Apple Announced the iPad 15 Years Ago Today
It's the general theory of waves: whenever some value exists on a continuum, has a position and a velocity at each point, and the acceleration (change in velocity) brings each point towards the average of its neighbours.

When someone waves a skipping rope at one end, they directly move the portion of the rope closest to them, which pulls on the portion next to it, which pulls on the portion next to it, and so on. Some wave-shapes happen to be are sustainable enough to travel along the whole rope with low distortion. (Like when you draw random pixels in Conway's Game of Life and run it, you usually end up with lots of gliders and a few spaceships travelling off in various directions, because those happen to be the simplest travelling patterns and the rest of your scribble died out or turned into things that don't travel. There aren't any non-travelling wave shapes.)

In a rope, the usual wave packet is like a hump, and if the rope is infinitely long, the wave packet can travel forever, as sections at the front of the wave get raised up by the hump just behind them, and sections the hump passed through get pulled down by the rope in its default position behind them. If you now imagine the rope is cut in half and one end is tied to a wall, when the wave gets to this wall, the bit that is tied to the wall does NOT rise up because it's tied to the wall, so the bit just behind it gets pulled down more than it would be in an infinite rope, and after running the simulation for a short time, the net effect is that the back part of the wave doesn't just get pulled down to its equilibrium position like it would if the rope was infinite, but gets pulled down twice that, forming a negative copy of the original wave.

And you can have in-between values, where some section of the rope is harder but not impossible to move, which causes the back part of the wave to be pulled down more than usual, but not twice as much, forming a smaller inverse copy, and the part that is harder to move is pulled up, but less than usual, forming a smaller non-inverse copy.

You can also go the other way, and have a section of the rope that's easier to move than usual (or infinitely easy i.e. an open end), and when the wave gets to this point, the back part of the wave doesn't get pulled down as much as it normally would, leaving it still in the shape of the wave, i.e. a smaller non-inverse copy, instead of returning it fully to equilibrium.

And if you can visualize this with ropes it works similarly for electricity - just replace position by voltage and velocity by current - or any other imaginable system where each piece of a continuum has a second derivative that tries to bring its value back to the average value of its neighbors.
Not today or tomorrow, but next month, when one of them has started a cool startup, another is VP at her friend’s company, and the rockstar made it into Big Co
That's exactly the one, was a big eye opener to me at least.
I wonder what is the tarball size difference on average if you'd for example download everything in one tarball (full package list) instead of 1-by-1 as the gzip compression would work way better in that case.

Also for bigger companies this is not really a "big" problem as they usually have in-house proxies (as you cannot rely on a 3rd party repository in CI/CD for multiple reasons (security, audit, speed, etc)).