skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it happens a lot more often than you think, and current news reporting also skews the perspective one get.

Linked from another comment: https://blog.telegeography.com/what-happens-when-submarine-c...

> Cable faults are common. On average, there are over 100 each year. [...] Unintentional damage from fishing vessels and ships dragging anchors account for two-thirds of all cable faults.

100 each year would be one every three days, but of course you don't read about all them in the news.

I'm not saying none of the cable breakages are sabotage, I/we don't know. As far as we know, I don't think we have any cases (with or without confession) where we can be 100% it's intentional, at least yet.
Not sure what you mean, but are you saying you don't ask it anything related to work at all?
Even if a controller is necessary, wouldn't you still want to have a generator for the easy stuff?

Kinda like "functional core, imperative shell"?
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Is it though? It was civilian infrastructure in international waters, and no formal war has been declared by either side.
>the trading post will somehow sell fewer shovels

There is a point where there are enough shovels circulating that the demand for new shovels falters, even with zero drawback in the rush. And if so much gold was being mined that it overwhelmed the market and reduced the commodity price, the value of better shovels is reduced.

DeepSeek and friends basically reduce the commodity value of AI (and to be fair, Facebook, Microsoft et al are trying to do the same thing with their open source models, trying to chop the legs out of the upstart AI cos). If AI is worth less, there are going to be fewer mega capitalized AI ventures buying a trillion dollars worth of rapidly-depreciating GPUs in hopes at eeking out some minor advantage.

I wouldn't short nvidia stock, but at the same time there is a point where the spend of GPUs just isn't rational anymore.

>And as more efficient models proliferate it means more edge computing which means more customers with lower negotiating power than Meta and Google

Edge compute has infinitely more competition than the data center.
I'm blacklisting a few websites that are very spammy, like e-pharma spam and the like, and a small number of websites that are in very poor taste, but it should tell you that the domain is blocked if you use the site inspector[1].

Either way, I'd love to investigate to see what's going on. Mind sharing the domain name? Either here, or if you don't want to doxx yourself, email contact@marginalia-search.com

[1] https://marginalia-search.com/site
> I can see incentives being good to have more children in a society, but you shouldn't be punished for not having them.

Isn't this self-contradictory ?
This cable was buried 1 meter under the sea floor to protect it against trawlers.
Wait there is no service schedule? Surely there's at least a recommended schedule, but not following it won't void the warranty?

I mean recurring things like changing (passenger) air filters or brake fluid work about the same for a Tesla as it does for any other car?

(I don't worry so much about the warranty as I do about the resale value when I follow the schedule to the day for my car - I wouldn't want to buy a new-ish car that didn't go to the brand shop on the mandated intervals. Third party service or missed service visit is a huge red flag).
Oliver Heaviside and the theory of transmission lines (2021)
> Apple is not known for leaving money on the table like that.

True -- although I will say the M series chips were a step change in performance and efficiency from the Intel processors they replaced, and Apple didn't charge a premium for them.

I'm not suggesting that they'll stop charging more for RAM than the industry at large -- I'm hoping they'll unbundle RAM from CPU-type. A base Mac Mini goes for $600, and adding RAM costs $200 per 8GB. That's a ridiculous premium, clearly, and at that rate my proposed Mac Mini with 256GB of RAM would go for $6600 -- which would roll my eyes until they fell out of my head.

But Apple is also leaving money on the table if they're not offering a more expensive model people would buy. A 128GB Mini, let's say, for $2000, might be that machine.

All that said, it's also a heck of a future-proof machine, so maybe the designed-obsolescence crowd have an argument to make here.
This article doesn't mention it, but being laid off will change you at a psychological level. It can be a deeply traumatic event.

I was laid off over 5 years ago, and, as these things usually go, it was a complete shock to me. The company had been acquired, and my services were no longer needed. It ended up being a very positive change for my career, but to this day, if I ever get a moment of déjà vu, my immediate thought is to check my phone and see if I've been fired.
What Is Break-Glass Access?
> The thing is, no one ever calls it anything but Office

Are you calling it office when you are starting up Teams, powerBI or Microsoft Stream? I don't.
If you are interviewing for software jobs you need to be writing personal applications. There are skills that can become like muscle memory from investigation and troubleshooting repetition. That’s what you lean on to bypass your ADHD imposed short term executive challenges.

You sound like a smart guy. Demonstrate that with your practiced expertise, not your academic prowess.

Also consider sliding into operations or project management. ADHD is a super power for rapid multitasking.
Didn't they already by forcing people to pay in rubles? Anyway it's not like Russia has any negotiating powers with the rest of europe at the moment, we're not buying their gas until they withdraw and repatriate.
> People start new banks all the time

Is that true in the US? In the UK there was recently a period of around 150 years during which not a single new banking licence was issued. There's a film called Bank of Dave which dramatises the attempts of Dave Fishwick - a businessman from the North of England - to set up a local community bank. It's distressing the lengths that the established banks went to to quash it.

If I understand correctly, he still does not have a licence, although Metro bank did manage to get one in 2010.

Wiki article about the film: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Dave_(film)

Guardian article from the real-life inspiration for the main character: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2012...
Why are these only 1.4ghz frequency, when raspberry pi gets to 2.4ghz? Is it a limitation of the cost of scale that prevents building faster chips? Or does the architecture not really support faster chips?

I really hope that RISC-V can take over as a modern architecture, adding some competition to Intel/AMD and Arm. But they'll need to be able to offer faster chips, or at a minimum more than 4 cores.

Also does anyone know the rate of progress? I believe 10 years ago these where at 0.5mhz?
That's 8 (not 4), on a NVIDIA platform board to start with.

You can't buy them as "GPU"s and integrate them to your system. NVIDIA sells your the platform (GPUs + platform board which includes switches and all the support infra), and you integrate that behemoth of a board to your server, as a single unit.

So that open server and the wrapped ones at the back are more telling than it looks.
You should be using LTO where incremental build times are a concern, i.e. for development builds.

And for realease builds link time is hardly a concern.
Arcosanti: The First Prototype Arcology
Then why did both Stalin and Khrushchev say it was important for the victory ?

Sorry but I’ve read tons of AskHistorians answers about this. I recommend you go there and search this same question. The Soviets needed that 11%. My understanding is that a lot of it helped mechanise the Soviet Army, ie trucks were delivered in large quantities.

From Claude I got this:

“In Khrushchev's memoirs, he recalled Stalin saying in a private conversation that without American aid through Lend-Lease, the Soviet Union "would not have been able to cope because we lost so much of our industry." Khrushchev himself wrote that Lend-Lease was "of utmost importance" and that "we would have been in a difficult position without it." “
I'm not a lawyer, but AFAIK, age doesn't influence your social score, tenure does. If I'm a 30 year old with 10 years in the company, I will have a better score than 50-year-old you who got hired 7 months ago.

The idea is that working at a company "squeezes juice out of you", so you should not be so easily fired after a long tenure, because the company got all the rewards from your juice, but you don't have much left. You can agree or disagree, but I have to admit that there is a logic.
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x3 in different browsers, MacOS
A company having a Human Resources department sounds like a red flag. (And who is surprised by this : such an Orwellian term !?)
With any decent host runtime, as it were.
Fascinating blog post. Having said that, it may seem like nitpicking but I have to take issue with the point about recursion, which is often far too easily blamed for inefficiency.

The blog post mentions it as one of the reasons for the inefficiency of the conventional algorithm.

A glance at the algorithm shows that the recursion in question is a tail call. This means that any overhead can be readily eliminated using a technique known for nearly fifty years already.

Steele, Guy Lewis (1977). "Debunking the "expensive procedure call" myth or, procedure call implementations considered harmful or, LAMBDA: The Ultimate GOTO". Proceedings of the 1977 annual conference on - ACM '77.
If Ukraine did it, they'd lose support - that would be silly.

Damage is normal, sure, but multiple ships dragging anchors for many miles is not. I'm not sure what you're trying to argue.
One of the Swedish politicians seem to think so: https://swedenherald.com/article/hultqvist-on-the-baltic-sea...
1. C is universal, any other language is a dependency.

2. If you're using something like C# or Kotlin or whatever, then you're not serious about compilation speed.

3. You will need to provide a C API anyway.
We must be the exact same age. You saw what I saw. How could you trust Clinton on foreign policy after that? I don’t think she even regrets the Iraq War, and wishes we were still in Afghanistan. She sounded like the Weekly Standard the way she went after Tulsi Gabbard for trying to keep us out of a war in Syria.

I don’t know what’s in the inner minds of other democrats. But out of the two parties, they’re cuddling up to all the ones who have been wrong for the last 50 years about foreign policy.
Google is the moat
> All these were hiding in plane sight in the EGA/VGA manuals, they are exactly how the hardware was supposed to be used

Well...

Keen 1-3 only scrolled by a maximum of 16 pixels. After that, it would reset the scroll and copy the entire screen over by 16 pixels (one tile). In order to reduce the amount of copying, the levels were all designed with repeating patterns to minimise the number of changed tiles on each scroll.

Why? Because the documentation didn't say what happened if the hardware scrolling wrapped around, and Carmack carefully designed the engine to avoid this potential edge case. They named the technique "Adaptive tile refresh".

For episodes 4-6, Carmack was confident enough in the wrapping behaviour of hardware scrolling, and the engine was redesigned to take advantage of this. I guess they had tested enough 3rd party EGA cards to be sure they all behaved in the same way.

This removed the need for repeating patterns in the level, allowing for much improved graphics. Though they did need to add a compatibly mode that avoided wrapping across the 64KB boundaries, as some SVGA cards did the wrong thing.

So the scrolling was documented, but perhaps not well enough.
Qodo, that's the company that has really bad security practices?

https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-ai-meets-git-unmasking-security-...

I attended the talk, we really need heavy fines for company that are not taking security flaws seriously.
The part of this that doesn’t jibe with me is the fact that they also released this incredibly detailed technical report on their architecture and training strategy. The paper is well-written and has a lot of specifics. Exactly the opposite of what you would do if you had truly made an advancement of world-altering magnitude. All this says to me is that the models themselves have very little intrinsic value / are highly fungible. The true value lies in the software interfaces to the models, and the ability to make it easy to plug your data into the models.

My guess is the consumer market will ultimately be won by 2-3 players that make the best app / interface and leverage some kind of network effect, and enterprise market will just be captured by the people who have the enterprise data, I.e. MSFT, AMZN, GOOG. Depending on just how impactful AI can be for consumers, this could upend Apple if a full mobile hardware+OS redesign is able to create a step change in seamlessness of UI. That seems to me to be the biggest unknown now - how will hardware and devices adapt?

NVDA will still do quite well because as others have noted, if it’s cheaper to train, the balance will just shift toward deploying more edge devices for inference, which is necessary to realize the value built up in the bubble anyway. Some day the compute will become more fungible but the momentum behind the nvidia ecosystem is way too strong right now.
I notice that all most of these free hosts are pretty picky as far flagging/banning your account. And I'm not even saying sending a gazillion requests or doing something outlandish. I'm talking about sending 500 or 1000 requests a day to download small html files.

It is the sorta of thing I never had a problem using Neocities for small projects.
Yeah navigational queries are a bit hit and miss, but I feel google does them very well as is so it's not a huge priority area. I've mostly been focusing my efforts on the stuff Google is bad at, finding human content about some topic.
I always thought that React and Kubernetes indeed have a lot in common. Thank you for the post!
To the last point, there are few ways to lose respect faster than spinning your wheels with all kinds of tasks. Without consciously recognizing it, upper management is looking for people who understand and live the Pareto principle.
> Unless something radically changed in the last couple years, I am not sure where you got this from?

This was the first thing that stuck out to me when I skimmed the article, and the reason I decided to invest the time reading it all. I can tell the author knows his shit and isn't just parroting everyone's praise for AMD Linux drivers.

> (I am specifically talking about GPUs for computer usage rather than training/inference)

Same here. I suffered through the Vega 64 after everyone said how great it is. So many AMD-specific driver bugs, AMD driver devs not wanting to fix them for non-technical reasons, so many hard-locks when using less popular software.

The only complaints about Nvidia drivers I found were "it's proprietary" and "you have to rebuild the modules when you update the kernel" or "doesn't work with wayland".

I'd hesitate to ever touch an AMD GPU again after my experience with it, haven't had a single hick-up for years after switching to Nvidia.
That was his observation, i.e. his opinion and not the official policy, 70 years ago.

I imagine it might have been part of the strategic thinking at that time, but that has apparently changed quite quickly. By the 1970s, Bundeswehr was the strongest western European army, West German economy living its golden years. (it's quite astonishing, but towards the end of the Cold War, West German economy was bigger than that of Soviet Union with 1/6th of the population)
This is what the Google Moat memo was alluding to.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42840062

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813322
> How are there suddenly lots of these kind of accidents out of nowhere?

Two things to temper this mentality:

1) It is possible that we are seeing more news of this because it’s politicised, even if it is as common as before.

2) It is possible that there are more ships using this route as land traffic is stymied by sanctions from the Eurozone.

Not making any statement, just steelmanning opposition to the statement you made.
Intel had a great P/E a couple of years ago as well :)
Yes but it will also mean that people wouldn't need cutting edge NVIDIA chips - it will be able to run on older node chips. Or from different manufacturers. So NVIDIA wouldn't be able to command the margins they do now.

It may be great news for VRAM manufacturers tough.
Tech Perplexity AI revises TikTok merger proposal
CEOs also lack real accountability though. Every time something goes really wrong they claim that they have no responsibility because people below them caused the problems.

How the F do you square that circle? If you're at the top you either are responsible or you aren't.
Here is some more from Claude (it sounds about right but I don’t have to check this):

“ The significance of Lend-Lease goes far beyond the raw percentage of industrial output. Here's why it was so crucial:

1. Timing and Critical Shortages:
- The aid arrived during the most critical period (1941-1942) when Soviet industry was being relocated east of the Urals
- During this vulnerable period, American trucks, food, and materials helped keep the Soviet army mobile and fed
- Without this bridge of support during the industrial relocation, the USSR would have faced severe shortages at its most vulnerable moment

2. Strategic Materials and Bottlenecks:
- The Soviets received specific materials that were severe bottlenecks in their production:
- Aviation fuel and high-octane gas
- Aluminum for aircraft production
- Radio equipment and communications gear
- Special grades of steel and industrial equipment
- These materials were critical multipliers that enabled Soviet production

3. Transportation and Logistics:
- Nearly 450,000 trucks were provided, which revolutionized Soviet logistics
- Before Lend-Lease, the Red Army relied heavily on horse transport
- American Studebaker trucks allowed for rapid troop movements and superior logistics
- This mobility was crucial for later Soviet offensive operations”
> overtakes ChatGPT

That's arguable, though. I mean it's much cheaper and reasonably competitive which is almost the same but IMHO DeepSeek seems to get stuck in random loops and hallucinates more frequently than o1.
Federated Data Governance in Healthcare
Total training FLOPs can be deduced from model architecture (which they can't hide since they released weights) and how many tokens they trained on. With total training FLOPs and GPU hours you can calculate MFU. And the MFU of their deepseek-v3 train is around 40%, which sounds right. Both Google and Meta reported higher MFU. So the GPU hours should be correct. The only thing they could have lied is on how many tokens they trained the model on. DeepSeek reported 14T which is also similar to what Meta did so nothing crazy here.

tl;dr all numbers check up and the winnings come from the model architecture innovations they made.
There are several types of layoffs:

1. The company-wide 5% layoff. Avoid this by making sure you're not in the bottom 5% of performers, and the people above you know it.

2. The shift-the-legacy-products-to-cheap-countries layoff. Avoid this by making sure you're working on products where you're fixing bugs and making improvements, not just keeping things ticking over.

3. The lay-off-the-entire-department layoff. Avoid this by working in departments that bring in more revenue than they cost, or at least have a good chance of commercial success; and in an area where the company's strategy calls for growth.

4. The lay-off-the-entire-office layoff. Not much you can do about this, except working at the head office, or a very large branch office where important projects are based.

5. The there's-just-no-money / entire-company-goes-out-of-business layoff. Not much you can do about this - but if things are heading in this direction, it's a good time to start sending out resumes and maybe getting the unemployment insurance on your car loan.

Of course these are very risk-averse strategies. I've heard of some people having great success with the opposite strategies - some people say maintaining ancient legacy mainframes for banks is highly profitable. Others have told me the fastest way to get a senior title is a failing organisation, where senior people keep leaving. So none of these are hard-and-fast rules.
The latency issue isn't blocking me from trying Wayland. Wayland seems fine on my Raspberry Pi.

The issue is screen-sharing in MS Teams. Does anyone know if that works now?

Since I use Artix, I expect a potentially painful switch and don't really want to have to then do it all again to switch back immediately.
they are, unless you get distracted by things like licensing and out of tree drivers and binary blobs. If you'd rather pontificate about open source philosophy and rights than get stuff done, go right ahead.
Return-to-Office Mandates Apply to Everyone, Except a Chosen Few
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/return-to-office-man...
The "chinese clone" are official supported, here is how: https://developer.apple.com/find-my/
"Roasting your Hacker News refugee setup: flexing 20 CPU cores to doomscroll like a Linux-dad cyborg in Sherman Oaks, rocking Chrome 131.0.0.0 like you're personally beta-testing Google's most basic Blink update, yet still stuck at 1080p like a peasant who thinks "4K" is a cryptocurrency."

Glorious.
I'm pretty sure "quiet quitting" was coined by the employees, as a fad on TikTok et al.
I work in a company that sells chatbots. We use LLMs to understand the intention of the user: start a flow, set a slot value, cancel a current flow...

After that, all the logic to handle the identified action and the response is implemented using normal backend code.

We sometimes use an LLM for the response when the user asks for a FAQ or maybe for rephrasing an output sentence.
Latvia: Undersea cable likely damaged by external influence
Why is that ridiculous? Contractors are not employees, so why should they be invited to a give thanks party for employees? Become an employee if you want to partake.
Feelings of entitlement are wrong here. Decency though tells us to invite everyone.
Linux kernel source expands beyond 40M lines
Do you have any further info on this "one of the complaints of the Roman empire in its twilight years was that everyone wanted to write a book".

I'm curious about some of the seemingly slightly oddball signs of late stage civilisation collapse and I'd not seen this one mentioned before?
It's entertaining in the abstract but fairly depressing when he's telling you in person that he's spending his children's inheritance on turning lead slightly yellow. Still, on the bright side, he seems to have stopped talking about the "globalists" so much.
China embraces commercial participation in moon mission – SpaceNews
> There is no pre-verification of authorization whatsoever.

There actually is a way they can sync up to say this is an authorized regular transaction and they get the ability to keep charging even when the old number expires and a new card gets issued.

I forget what it's called, and I don't believe it's supported everywhere.
I agree that it will improve demand for AI services. There's no hard rule that the demand increase will be larger than the efficiency increase though, and so total sales of GPUs may still decrease as a result.
Budget AI Model DeepSeek Overtakes ChatGPT on App Store