skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes... I'm in the UK, in London. For renting, even as a founder who has a profitable business that was active for a year, they're still either asking for upfront payments (12 months...) or a guarantor. This was the case for multiple locations (SE13 + E16).

They said if my business was running for 2 years or more then they'd accept that as low enough risk.

A bit understandable in this economical situation, but man, it's hard. Even for the guarantor, they need to own a house and have at least 40x the monthly rent as proven (PAYE or business with 2+ years) yearly income.

I knew only one person who could be a guarantor that fits the requirements.

Alternative was AirBnb or other monthly accommodation which was of course more expensive.
Have you priced in the extremely limited freedom to operate they have? There is an extreme systemic risk to being a monopoly in a strategic position. It's an extreme beneficial position to be in, until it isn't.
between the broken english and 1999 feel of this geocities alternative, i can't imagine this as anything other than a place for someone to begin their web career at 9 years old
presumably it has something to do with the fact that when sailing an oceangoing vessel you aren't likely to be interacting with others for much of any reason until you pull into port. Which when a lot of these places were named, didnt exist. Shore excursions would have been ones where the large ship is moored off the coast and rowboats will be sent to shore with a dozen or so people for a temporary stay. Almost all of the food and safety would be back on the big ship
> If anything Meta

I don't follow. Meta has been the only US big dog that released open-whatever variants of their models. They did that intending to minimise the gap between them and other big dogs. Their stated goal is to give open access to the community, while at the same time develop the models for internal uses (on their many platforms).

Meta doesn't sell API access. They are not losing on "cheaper" anything. If anything, they get to implement whatever others release under open terms into their stacks. And they still have all the GPUs to further train and serve on whatever improved stack comes next.

I don't see how meta loses here. In fact I think it is one of the only big players in this space that will come out better.
Huggingface is currently replicating it.

Replications of small models indicate that they don't lie any significant amount. The architecture is cheap to train.

Berkeley Researchers Replicate DeepSeek R1's Core Tech for Just $30: A Small Model RL Revolution https://xyzlabs.substack.com/p/berkeley-researchers-replicat...
Even just 2 oil changes a year which doesn’t apply to EV’s already gets you to the cost of a reasonable inspection.

These days ICE cars can last ~100k miles with only a few minor maintenance items, but then you start hitting bigger ticket items like belts which again EV’s don’t have.
In term of economic growth and innovation everyone has been saying that for many years now. Specifically, Europe's economy stalled in 2008, with the financial crisis, and never recovered.

Perhaps we're simply seeing reality catching up because others, especially US and China, have kept growing and innovating. So now we're poor compared to the US (80% GDP gap) and Chinese products are not so behind anymore (Article: "Chinese carmakers, once mocked by Western auto executives as primitive, have turned into formidable rivals, gobbling up market share in and outside China.")...
Read that too, but then I wonder how a ship goes slow, dragging an anchor for miles, not near a port, not near an anchoring point, but at sea, and it is an accident? How?
If you're actually down to jump ship you can probably be upfront about it.

It's a negative point but the good managers I've had were usually realists so unless you have multiple questionable things or get overly defensive/weird when answering they'd just take it as "shit happens" with a small minus.

Edit: To me it feels like all of the talk outside of technical knowledge is essentially based on vibes. My CV is pretty bad since it took me way too long to graduate but after I stopped explaining it too much and just went with "shit happens, my bad" it stopped being much of an issue.

If you wanna lie you can also say that you took the job as filler until you find a position in/with CERTAIN CRITERIA and you made your employer aware of this. I don't know how common that is but my current situation is kinda this. I worked for my current fulltime employer as a student and when offered a fulltime contract past graduation I asked for a shorter notice period due to wanting to move to Switzerland and they agreed.

Of course be careful not to do it too often since you don't want multiple couple month gigs in your CV.
I used IntelliJ and emacs' magit.
I don't know what "extra layer of conceptual complexity" they're talking about, it's very straightfoward to me (admitedly, I knew the CLI well enough before I started using GUIs so maybe I had already internalized whatever concepts they're think about).
It does seem like their mainstream products are as tastelessly managed as ever.

But in the (small?) corner of developer products they've been pretty good: Typescript, VSCode, .NET/C#/F#, LSP, Lean are all great and very influential contributions.
Overkill doesn't mean that it won't be the norm. Overspeccing can be much cheaper than keeping niche architectures alive.
> Good time to buy then, I don’t understand how stupid some traders can be.

Likely a "how solid is the technical moat" evaluation - this could be a one-off or could be that there are an avalanche of advancements to continue along the efficiency side of the process.

Given the style and hype of logic in the AI space, I fully believe resources are not well allocated in compute and _actual_ thinking as to how they are spent.

Deepseek's apparent 10x more efficient per inference token... implies a lot of other hardware meets the general use-case. We also know that reasoning should be about 10W for human speed-of-thought... maybe another 1-2 orders of power efficiency.

"Pre-Training: Towards Ultimate Training Efficiency

We design an FP8 mixed precision training framework and, for the first time, validate the feasibility and effectiveness of FP8 training on an extremely large-scale model.
Through co-design of algorithms, frameworks, and hardware, we overcome the communication bottleneck in cross-node MoE training, nearly achieving full computation-communication overlap.
This significantly enhances our training efficiency and reduces the training costs, enabling us to further scale up the model size without additional overhead.
At an economical cost of only 2.664M H800 GPU hours, we complete the pre-training of DeepSeek-V3 on 14.8T tokens, producing the currently strongest open-source base model. The subsequent training stages after pre-training require only 0.1M GPU hours." [1]

[1] https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3
State building in Germany was competently done and the Iraq venture started off by creating a power vacuum by firing basically most competent and entrenched people from their jobs, including the Army.
Too late now I assume, but I use an OpticFilm 8300i and it is great (software wise I use VueScan and Lightroom paired with Negative Lab Pro).
Be careful what you wish for. Blocking the waterways would provide Russia with a legitimate reason for war or at least lead to a resolution of the blockade with force. That is insane. Nobody even considered that during the Cold War. If the damage to the cables wasn't an accident, the damage was pretty minor. This is in no way comparable to the blowing up of the Nord Stream gas pipeline, which was certainly not an accident.
I did a quick search for "llama" and didn't find anywhere they outright state they just fine-tuned some llama weights.

Is it possible that they based their model architecture on the llama model architecture? Rather than just fine-tuned already training llama weights? In that case, they'd still have to do "bottoms up" training.
know exactly you feeling on bullenweg, had to tread really carefully writing this: https://weareqed.com/wp-engine-matt-mullenweg-the-wp-drama/
Been asked to make it skip straight to the latest, will insert a button later
It is much cheaper, because you won't have roundtrips or requirements for the availability of extensions on the database server end. It's really a very very sweet capability that SQLite is able to provide exactly because it is hosted by the application.
Quite on point, for me it made me value the team, and no longer believe in whatever management tells about "we are family", "company values", or whatever else they feel like selling as the vision and company culture.
> A decent phone with good stabilisation can handle that though.

The Osmo Pocket 3 has much better low light capabilities owning to the built in gimbal compared to even top end phones (a couple of good vids on YT comparing them).

The ability to offload to removable SD is huge, especially when shooting 4k@120fps.

By the time you add a gimbal and external storage (on iPhones, only the highest end phones), that rig is pretty unwieldy!
Then let's "accident" and not sabotage those ships until they learn to take care of their anchors.
The rights that UN provide for international waters is under the condition that nations, for which the ship flags under, protects undersea cables (among other things). International waters are not a free-for-all space where anything goes.
>>>I don’t understand how stupid some traders can be.

I believe the saying is "The market can stay wrong for longer than you can stay solvent."
DeepSeek Outpaced OpenAI at 3% of the Cost
Yeah, but it would have to reason about the thing it just halucinated. Or it would have to be somehow hard prompted. There will be more tools and code around LLM, to make it behave like a human then people can imagine. They are trying to solve everything with LLMs. They have 0 agency.
Hey, see this spy ship loaded to the brim with sensors? I want you to surface Nuclear Sub real close and let them take some good readings.
Orca Slicer might be a good candidate. The cli is a bit rudimentary. I assume it was built by Bambu Labs for slicing ready-made print profiles for printing from the mobile app. Or maybe it's inherited from PrusaSlicer (Orca Slicer is the open-source fork of Bambu Studio, which was forked from PrusaSlicer, which was forked from Slic3r). But as long as you only want to apply print settings, filament settings, load an stl, run auto-layout and get gcode out, it should do the trick with minimal effort.
> They deny the tiananmen massacre, the abuses on uyghurs, and defend the CCP. LLMs are replacing Google and becoming the source of truth for an entire generation. This is extremly dangerous and medias have the duty to cover that.

doesn't matter for business use-cases (except for search engines or knowledge base usecases).
That argument would bite itself in the ass. Switzerland doesn't have issues with selling arms to neutral countries. So the presumption would be that Switzerland might turn non-neutral and wage offensive war with this technology? But at the same time the underlying tone is "we're punishing you for 'not being as ally,' aka for being neutral". And during all of this the US is delivering recently purchased F35s to Switzerland as well.
Honestly, reading this list I noticed that I myself only formulating some of this points, not so clearly but in similar direction.
It could be, but maybe the feeling is the investments now are already massive and everyone has jumped on the AI train. If you are suddenly 10x efficient, and everyone gets 10x more efficient, there's less room to grow than before. What you're saying makes a lot of sense, but it's one thing to write it on a message board and another to use it to back up your decision that affects billions of dollars you have in your fund.

The proof is in the pudding, you're welcome to prove "everyone" wrong.
The statements from the Finnish law enforcement agencies are basically that there is no evidence that the cables were intentionally cut. Then there’s reports citing “sources” in agencies that the incidents are thought to be accidental.

Basically, I’m not sure the reporting is properly distinguishing between “no evidence of wrongdoing” and “it was an accident”. It wouldn’t be surprising that it would be very difficult to find evidence that an anchor was intentionally dragged across a cable vs. accidentally.
You can't really "take deposits and issue loans" without just becoming a bank yourself. People start new banks all the time.

Or by "disrupting" does he just mean "end run around the laws and regulations"?
Nothing. Apple (and Meta) are not directly impacted by AI even if the cost of training these AI models becomes cheaper and $0 free models get better.

It actually affects the frontier AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc) who directly make money from their closed models AND spend hundreds of millions on training these models.

Why pay $3/per million tokens (Claude 3.5 Sonnet) when DeepSeek R1 offers $0.14 / per million tokens and the model is on par with (OpenAI o1) and R1 itself is released for free?

$0 free AI models are eating closed AI models lunch.
When is the Russia going to start standing up to West on the North Stream sabotages?
Op writes sage advice.

However I would encourage that the "don't give a shit about the company and colleagues" is not quite as simplistic.

Yes, fuck the company, they don't care. You should always assume this. But you _should_ care about your colleagues. They are your network, and greatest asset at the next company. If you are shit to them, they will not recommend you.

So my conclusions, and or advice to younger people is this:

o Learn what the business wants, it'll help you make better decisions/products, and often gives you fair warning about being laid off.

o Be suspicious of the company.

o if there a clash between business priorities and you, you will always come off worse.

o Go over and beyond for your colleagues, not your company.

o fight for your colleagues not the company

o your colleagues are your CV.
good write up, let me share my experience coming from the other side.

"3. Lack of Vision from Leadership" comes in different flavors.

One scenario is exactly as described: leadership genuinely lacks vision, which inevitably leads to layoffs.
Another, is when management is already aware of impending layoffs but cannot talk about it yet. While this may seem nefarious, it often has legal implications that restrict transparency.
I've been in the difficult position to continue to manage teams while the companys closure was already known to management. Not allowed to inform people is one thing but trying to emotionally prepare them for whats coming is a different, so the drop may not be as high.

Forcefully reducing server costs by 50% and cutting of contractors is hardly considered a vision. 'A lack of vision' could be the actual message. By the time I knew what is going on and costs got reduced I encouraged the best kind of development within the team: CV-driven-development with vague sprint goals!

You want to make use of the new fancy LLM APIs and play around with it? Sure!
Introducing a new tech stack? I can not think of a better idea!

While its far from an ideal scenario, its often better than wasting energy on dead features. My idea was to giving people the opportunity to work on something they find personally meaningful and is driven by self motivation. I hope it helped, at least after speaking to every one personally after the bomb dropped, no one was really surprised.
According to you there's a bubble in AI and this... legitimate AI research breakthrough... may be the thing that pops the bubble?
And not just that, but even if AI's future is indeed as bright as the hype says (i.e. that NVIDIA's fundamentals are solid & that the market will eventually acknowledgment that after the fluctuations) they may still be wrong about the timeline.

In the .com bust you could have "bought the dip" in the early 00s right after the crash started and still taken 5 years before you weren't in the red even on "good" (in hindsight) stocks like amazon, ebay, microsoft, etc. The big hype there was eCommerce - it turned out to be true! We use eCommerce all the time now, but it took longer than predicted during the .com boom (same for broadband internet enabling "rich web experience" - it came true, but not fast enough for some hyped companies in '00).

And if you bought some of the darling stocks back then like Yahoo or Netscape that ended up not so great in hindsight you may have never recouped your losses.
There have been accidents like this, but they were few and far between. There have not been this many accidents in such a short timespan, limited to such a small geographical area. There have been ships that have lost their anchors doing this, they've been shown to drag their anchors over the cables multiple times. These are deliberate actions.
There is afaict no inherent limit to expand on the bottom end of the market. My gut feeling is lower training costs will expand the market for hardware horizontaly far faster than any vertical scaling by a select 2 digit of mega corps could.
It is the show of power.

Same as with Musk doing nazi salute and no official can call him out on this.

Russia can break cables, and no official can call them out on what they are doing.
This is hackernews, not some boilerroom pump n dump forum. Please use more professional language and take your confidence down a notch. Try to learn and add to the discussion.

You seem to believe that the more inference or training value per piece of tech the more demand there will be for that piece of tech full stop when there are multiple forces at play. As a simple example, you can think of this as a supply spike; while you can make the bet that the demand will follow there could be a lag on that demand spike due to the time it takes to find use cases with product/market fit. That could collapse prices over the near term which could in turn decrease revenue. As a reminder the stock value isn't a bet on whether "the gold trader" will sell more gold or not, it's a bet on whether the net future returns of the gold trader will occur in line with expectations, expectations that are sky high and have zero competition built in.
Could NVIDIA be in hot water if it's proven they sold restricted hardware to Chinese companies?
"Rechtsschutzversicherung." You want it to include "Arbeitsrechtsschutz"

I would also advise you to include defamation, in case somebody sue you for defaming them. Usually many legal insurance exclude "internet" from the protection, this means that if you post on hackernews "Hans is an idiot", and Hans sues you, you might have to pay the lawsuit yourself. These insurances usually have an "internet" options for usually ~20€/y which would protect you in this case. You can still deduct the entire amount from your taxes, as it's still technically a labour-law legal insurance.
> Wake me when I don't have to double-check the results of generative AI, even with DeepSeek

That's gonna be a looong nap
What an interesting find
Banking already has been disrupted too.

It is so easy to move money around now there is no reason to keep that much in savings. It is crazy how easy it is to move money from a savings account to a brokerage account and buy a tbill in 2025 vs 1990.

Retail banking has really been stripped to its absolute bare essentials. There is no growth in banking in the US other than growth by acquisition.

I can't think of a worse investment than a bank startup.
Deep Seek Coder, no code programming, and the programmer as the product
> except possibly of `multiple files as part of the same "image"`

That's actually a fundamental requirement.
i have expense tracker in my long "todos" list, it should have the following:
- copy and paste bank transfers from online bank. not just the monthly report because then it's not real time
- offline or self-host, no cloud
- no ai, but pattern match to auto tag each line and learn from it
don't think will ever have a time to do this, so feel free to steal these
Change has to come from within. Germany worked because it was a democracy before the war; arguably having the constant threat of the Soviet Union rolling over Germany forced a certain amount of unity on them.

Japan and South Korea ended up as "one and a half party states": peaceful, not a lot of overt oppression, but not exactly diverse democracies either.

I could write an essay on how Iraq failed, but I'm sure others have done a better job out there.
I read a book called “The Goal” by Goldratt and he describes his theory of constraints. One of the main predictions of his theory is that the existence of many resources working at maximum capacity is symptomatic of a wildly inefficient production system. Thus you shouldn’t feel guilty about not giving 100% every day. This behavior is necessary to properly balance the total throughout of your company. Ideally only one person should be giving 100% in any given company, and in a fair and balanced system this would be the CEO who is concomitantly receiving massive compensation.
But I suspect you cannot win this war like that, because fixing a cable is more expensive than sacrificing a vessel.
"Over the last 20 years, 100-200 such cables globally have been damaged annually." I read this also all the time, what I don't hear: How do they break? At high sea? By anchors? In a port? By nature? We don't know?

I'm open to the argument, but then someone would need to show some numbers, some trends, reasons and that the current cable breaking is just the same as in the last 20 years.
The reason for these accidents to happen more frequently is explained in the WaPo article linked by the parent: Russia is smuggling oil out via the Baltic to fund the war, and it's hard to find experienced crews for these smuggling operations:

> A Nordic official briefed on the investigation said conditions on the tanker were abysmal. “We’ve always gone out with the assumption that shadow fleet vessels are in bad shape,” the official said. “But this was even worse than we thought.”

The last thing Russia wants is to draw attention to the boats it's using to keep its economy afloat. These seamen really didn't know what they were doing.
Inheritance and Subtyping
As someone who bought NVDA in early 2023 and sold in late 2024 I can say this is wrong.

There was never a question of if NVDA hardware would have high demand in 2025 and 2026. Everyone still expects them to sell everything they make. The reason the stock is crashing is because Wall St believed that companies who bought 50B+ of NVDA hardware would have a moat. That was obviously always incorrect, TPUs and other hardware was eventually going to be good enough for real world use cases. But Wall St is run by people who don't understand technology.
> Approximately 99.999% of those complaints are uttered by people who 1) are not doing the work, 2) are not interested or capable of doing the work, and

Are you saying that Wayland is only for developers? Are people not allowed to complain when The New Thing turns out to be less good than the supposedly Obsolete Thing?

> 3) do not understand or refuse to acknowledge that the Wayland and X developers are _mostly the same folks_ and they _do not want to work on X11 anymore_.

I'm fully aware of that. I understand X11 has its limitations, and some of the goals of Wayland sound very appropriate for the modern PC environment, but if after 16 years, there are still many situations where Wayland does worse than X, that's not a great sign, and it will make people continue to use X.
No, it seems to me like a stopgap measure against others, rather than anything for themselves. If they were out after "open source goodwill" they'd actually release the models as open source (like let people use it without signing a license/terms agreement, and use models for whatever). As it stands today, they're tricking people into "open source goodwill" but it will eventually catch up with them.