skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The better someone is at their job, the less I think of what they are doing at work, because they make my problems disappear, so I can actually think of the things that matter to me (e.g. my family/friends and hobbies).

An interview is a process targeted specifically at evaluating performance of a candidate.

If you have time to pay attention to 100 other people at work and think about their performance - you either have a super easy job where you can slack, or should focus more on improving your own work.
If I ask my LLM how to plan and commit a crime, it should do that. It should not say “sorry, that is outside my current scope”, because that’s not what I asked it to do.

The LLM is being incorrect at this point, because it is not predicting the next token accurately anymore.

Politics is not nonsense. You are the one speaking nonsense by suggesting that someone else should have the right to control what you can say to a machine.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ti86veZBjU
Cline or Roo Cline allows for local LLMs to be used. OpenRouter.ai - has made both Google Gemini 2.0 flash and thinking free!
Why couldn't this be viewed from the capitalistic lens of good old fashioned competition? No cynicism is required in viewing the export restrictions on ASML's lithography technology and nVidia's most advanced chips as blantantly anti-competitive.
Oh shoot, double surprise, and now from someone who isn't my co-worker who posted this.

Developer of the feature here, happy to chat through details of the implementation and general developer GTM watercooler advice for those who are building for developers.
Read it and educate yourself. Feed it to an LLM for training data. Put it back together with the binary bits from an existing build.
Speech standards should be determined by public opinion, science has never had a seat at the table in the West. If anything Communism was the pro-science approach, typically centrally planned societies love science and technocrats - they put a lot of effort into working out a true and optimal way and it didn't work very well. The body count can be staggering.

The moment we start talking about speech standards being set by "science" you get a lot of people who are pretending that their thing is scientific. Ditto reason and evidence.

The win for free speech is setting up a situation where people who are actually motivated by science, reason and evidence can still say their piece without threatening the powerful actors in the community. And limiting the blast radius of the damage when they get things wrong despite being technically correct. But principles of free speech go far beyond what is true, correct and reasonable.
> These are options that the mainstream consumer has decided they don't want...

I don't even think it's that. I think companies are so blinded by copying Apple that they have lost sight of the fact that they can have a competitive edge if they don't. Like, if people wanted what Apple was offering they would just buy Apple in the first place! And companies used to try to differentiate themselves (I remember marketing specifically making fun of the lack of headphone jacks on the iPhone), but they seem to have just given up.
If you think my confidence is misplaced, feel free to offer a counterpoint. I feel as you do about people who would say the opposite of what I am saying, though, I'd think them naive, gullible, credulous over criminal.

Stochastic AI, by definition, does not impose discrete necessary constraints on inference. It does not, under very weak assumptions, provide counterfactual simulation of alternatives. And does not provide a mechanism of self-motivation under environmental coordination.

Why? Since [Necessarily]A|B is not reducible to P(A|B, Model) -- but requires P(A|B) = 0 \forall M. Since P(A|B) and P(B|A) are symmetric in cases where A -causes-> B are not. Since Action = max P(A->B|Goal,Environment) is not the distribution P(A, B, Goal, Environment) or any conditioning of it. Since Environment is not Environment(t), and there is no formulation of Goal(t, t`), Environment(t, t`), (A->B)(t, t`) I am aware of which maintains relevant constraints dynamically without prior specification (one aspect of the Framing Problem).

Now if you have a technology in mind which is more than P(A|B), I'd be interested in hearing it. But if you just want to insist that your P(A|B) model can do all of the above, then, I'd be inclined to believe you are if not criminal, then considerably credulous.
Brad Murray on PebbleOS Going open source
I'd think it's more likely that people choose homeschooling because of the lack of philosophy in mainstream curriculum.
The Soviet Union did exactly that during the cold war - hell it lifted entire semiconductors - but it ultimately amounted to bupkis.
A couple of things that caught my attention in context of the reactions from the AI community and investor community, but maybe im not fully read up. First, this seems to have been a surprise even amongst researchers but once released very transparent and open. Second, funded through a hedge fund.
Stocks will shift on a whim and rely on hype, same as bitcoin. This can cause a total crash and people losing money. Capital earned on stocks is not cash equivalent therefor if the stock goes down, you lose your initial investment. The risk is insanely high. Compared to Tbills and other cash equivalent bonds, if the yield goes down you still have your money. Take a look at what happened just today when the market opened and China released an LLM model, the AI hype market crashed.
Reposting the comment I made when Fitbit acquired the hollowed-out shell of Pebble, which still applies today:

I liked Pebble as a company because they knew how to make just the right engineering compromises to make their product work. The smartwatch everyone wants has a battery that lasts for weeks, a high contrast always-on color screen visible in daylight and total darkness, no bezel, and a round case only a few mm thick. That perfect watch is impossible to build, but Pebble found compromises that worked. They chose different compromises than those of Apple and Google, and IMHO better ones. The Pebble Time Round is a tiny little triumph of smart engineering compared with any other product on the market, including the Apple Watch.

In particular it's incredible what the Pebble firmware team was able to accomplish. They built a bespoke OS that's extremely reliable (certainly more reliable than Android Wear), with an app SDK and store, plus a well thought out user interface with a striking visual design and even fun little animated flourishes, despite running in a fraction of the power budget of Apple or Android smartwatches. The Pebble has 256 kilobytes of RAM! How many companies could have done all that in 256 KB?
I think we need to stop calling them Hallucinations and go back to "Garbage in, Garbage out"
Those are subjective clarifications, and so will differ between each person. And models are pre-trained to recognize these classifications.

Since you mentioned war, I'm reminded of Black Mirror episode "Men Against Fire", where an army of soldiers have eye implants that cause them to visually see enemy soldiers as unsightly. (My point being this is effectively what Facebook can do.)
dang wont let u see this

but that's a good way to set sued as an individual

if ur serious, have multiple clients, can't guarantee u won't piss off a client somehow... get an LLC
I wonder where they got 50… llama405 cost like 60M, which puts deepseek at closer to 10x…
Respectfully, this shows more how you see unmoored from reality than it does that you are mathematically superior to the plebes. You think the 5% is going to have any success significant effect on the store clerk that is not making much and has to spend the majority of his/her money, living paycheck-to-paycheck? It’s peanuts. It doesn’t inflation proof their money, let’s be honest and not smug about it. I’m sure the people you are interacting with are not totally unaware of the benefit of saving money. The “poors” aren’t all that stupid.
Technically with the data flow we have, that is now possible :think:

Hypothesizing aside, there are some interesting options out there like Tightknit and (for Discord) AnswerOverflow. I still think that Slack makes it way too hard to spin up and start up a community- I think there are many Slacks like the CNCF's one that would be nice as a browsable index of content.

As such, Railway's been investing in our own forums for this reason http://help.railway.com/ because we've noticed the decline of forum culture - and we want to bring it back. (Async, well thought out responses)

Maybe this is the next step of that integration!
I'm still salty about Pebble being shuttered. Smart Watches have come a long way since then (I'm rocking Coros Pace 3 right now), but I'm excited to see where this goes.
My friend owns a little "clean out old houses" business in Japan. Recently we threw out dozens of large boxes of old photographs; the grandma told us she didn't need them anymore. The rest of the family all had their own lives in Tokyo, and could care less about the past. Sad to see, but I've seen it many many times.
I was arrested once for being close to the scene of a near accident. No damage done, I was on foot, cop saw a brown kid standing nearby and arrested me for public intox. (I blew a 0.0 and was not under the influence).

Totally screwed my day, ticket was dropped but that didn't save me from getting hauled to jail, fingerprinted, and thrown in a cell for 6 hours before they wrote me a ticket and kicked me out at 3 in the morning in downtown ~20 miles from home with no cell phone and no one able to help me out.
I guess you're asking what happens if the UI element can't be updated in the same cycle?

I'd say: it really doesn't matter at all, in fact it's even more argument to make the pointer as low latency as possible. The mouse pointer is your control element as the controller of the interface. The UI element (and everything else onscreen) is the computer's element. It is an interaction between two entities and there is no need to introduce an expectation that the computer be "zero frame delay" on UI elements. It certainly sucks if it's more than a few frames for it to react, but so be it. However for the mouse cursor itself, it should absolutely be immediate because it is the user's representation on this virtual surface, and as such should follow inputs without being unnecessarily impeded. (Case in point: some UIs intentionally add delay or effects [like a fade-in] to UI element response. It's a… "choice"… but sometimes it works.)

Ultimately, the mouse pointer is an extension of hand-eye coordination; the only thing worse than making it lag (which you can learn to adapt to, albeit it will be very annoying) is to make it lag inconsistently (which you can't adapt to and will grow frustrated with extremely quickly.)

And, unfortunately, from personal experience, the mouse pointer on Wayland gets choppy if system load is high. X11 was significantly better with this; with Wayland the compositor [kwin_wayland to be specific, might be a KDE issue] doesn't even seem to be "unnice" or have some kind of scheduling priority over other tasks — I'm not sure if I'm missing something there but that seems to be a glaring oversight on its own.
It doesn't surprise me that someone who has this thinking style is also able to outperform those who do not in certain domains.
The funny part about that - Deepseek was started by a hedge fund. Wonder if they bought puts.
It doesn't matter what the reason is. The reason is whatever will look least bad in the news (if it ever makes it in the news) - and is legal. Ignore the reason, it has nothing to do with you, it's not about you, it's a technical detail. But yes, it would be nice if the manager was helping their employees understand that.

Even for an investor keeping an eye on their holdings, give minimal weight to the reasons for a detail level layoff.
I don‘t think those alpha men like it if they behave like apes. Wolves are way cooler.
Destabilizing world trade and international relations isn't something that anyone not named Trump or Putin should be hoping for.
Tesla shareholders have a long list of questions about failed promises
The 8KHz samples were encoded with relatively low encoding complexity PCM (G.711) at 8KHz. That gets to a 64kbps data channel rate. This was the standard for "toll quality" audio. Not 8kbps.

The 8kbps rates on cellular are the more complicated (relative to G.711) AMR-NB encoding. AMR supports voice rates from about 5-12kbps with a typical 8kbps rate. There's a lot more pre and post processing of the input signal and more involved encoding. There's a bit more voice information dropped by the encoder.

Part of the quality problem even today with VoLTE is different carriers support different profiles and calls between carriers will often drop down to the lowest common codec which is usually AMR-NB. There's higher bitrate and better codecs available in the standard but they're implemented differently by different carriers for shitty cellular carrier reasons.
And most people "choose" which of the two they will use depending on which best serves them under the given circumstances.
>If I'm only using a single feature of a multi-purpose tool for example, does it matter to me that some unrelated dependency of theirs has a security issue?

How is anyone supposed to know whether there's an issue or not? To simplify things, if you use the tool and the dependency belongs to the tool, then the issue can affect you. Anything more advanced than that requires analyzing the code.
Chinese tech startup DeepSeek says it was hit with large-scale malicious attacks
> we're family

My family doesn't give me performance reviews.
It's a problem because it's done by a Chinese company and not an American company.
"It's all hallucinations all the time down here at the LLM slop depot! Name-brand token associations at wholesale prices! Get a mushroom identified and if you aren't poisoned the next one is 50% off!"
What they’re recreating is the evidence that some of the techniques work. But they’re starting with R1 as the input into those steps, not starting from scratch. I don’t think their work includes creating a base model.
I don’t know what it says about American companies that a Chinese company being ethical and innovative harms them.
Small, low-power FM transmitters have been around even prior to Mr. Microphone. Hooking to your Hi-Fi so you can get your music on the radio in the garage is as old as Jarts.
This is amazing news, I loved my Pebble. It had such a wonderful UI.
I didn’t see what the post you’re replying to said before it got flagged, but if it was objecting to me labeling the government as fascist, I’ll point to “The 14 Characteristics of Fascism” by political scientist Lawrence Britt [0]. The current government clearly checks at least 12 of the 14 boxes here, and I could probably make reasonable arguments for the rest.

[0] https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html
> TIL Muslim == brown. I always though Indonesians were Asian.

Indonesia is Muslim for different reasons. In that part of the world the religious divide follows the historic culural/ethnic divide (for the same reasons) and is a useful shorthand - I could have equally pointed to how Kosovans drink their coffee, but that would have been less legible.

> As an American, searching Google images, I really am surprised these people are not considered white. These are the whitest looking "middle easterners" I've ever seen. They really just look like their neighbors: Greeks, Bulgaria, Serbia, Romania...

America famously didn't consider the Irish "white" until relatively recently, and Irish people are whiter than white skin-tone-wise. Of course if you've spent much time around Irish people you can immediately see the difference between the Irish and their next-door neighbours, but that goes for all of these distinctions.

Kosovo-Bulgaria-Türkiye is ethnically continuous, you'll find people from Türkiye and Syria who look much like Kosovans (and, more importantly, have very similar cultures). Greeks are another group who are "white" or not depending on current politics. Serbians are Slavs, continuous with Slovaks or Ukrainians, which again is a group whose whiteness is a political question (even Poles haven't always been "white" in America). Romanians are their own unique thing (as the name suggests, they're the last of the Romans, and have a distinct culture that reflects that).
I think it's worth carefully pulling apart _what_ DeepSeek is cheaper at. It's somewhat cheaper at inference (0.3 OOM), and about 1-1.5 OOM cheaper for training (Inference costs: https://www.latent.space/p/reasoning-price-war)

It's also worth keeping in mind that depending on benchmark, these values change (and can shrink quite a bit)

And it's also worth keeping in mind that the drastic drop in training cost(if reproducible) will mean that training is suddenly affordable for a much larger number of organizations.

I'm not sure the impact on GPU demand will be as big as people assume.
I'll settle for an ANSI standard pizza and an ISO standard cup of tea.
Have you seen this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845933
Yes, I died a few times just because I miscounted my hearts by 1
How many folks do you have to support your slack channels? I'm counting 4-5 support engineers based on your about page?

What are your SLOs for messages?

How are you managing missed SLOs?
Four years of this and we’re all going to be burned out and completely desensitized to everything.
> will only leave you falling behind.

Works for me!

This whole llm movement and the insane amounts of money sloshing around aren’t setting off alarm bells for anyone else huh, just me?
Okay; I wish I could mark up to 11.
Nvidia calls China's DeepSeek R1 model 'an excellent AI advancement'
In the past I would have agreed with this statement, but nowadays I would assume an organization's actions are their policy until they state and act otherwise.
The fancy Christmas lights on houses that sync with music do the same — instructing passersby's to tune to such and such in their cars as they drive past.
By that logic I waste time reading books instead of paying someone else to read them for me.
If they're a hedge fund they're probably trying to tank the US AI stocks so they can buy the dip and then in a few days/weeks it is back to business as usual.

I don't personally buy their story, and after having used Deepseek it kind of sucks and hallucinates a lot if I'm being objectively honest.

I mean a few million for this is okay - that's cool.. but it is useless. I can understand billions of dollars into something that actually works >50% of the time.
DocWriter: Typewriter that sends real-time keystrokes to Google Doc
“strict aliasing” refers to disallowing pointers of different types to alias. In the context of a function that accepts two arrays of floats, for example, it doesn’t apply
That's a known thing that would be in its training set.

I just made up my own thing that no AI model would have seen anywhere before.

It's pretty easy to create your own, just pick a word that is highly overloaded. It helps if it is also used as proper names, business names, place names, etc...
Ask HN: Best practice to distribute private Python CLI tools in a team
I'm wondering what would be the best practice today to distribute a CLI tool to an internal team?

I think `uv` with `uv tool` and `uv tool upgrade` might be quite interesting, coupled with either private git repo, or a private pip repo

is there a way to package the python app so that people in the team are not required to have a working Python installation at first? to avoid issues with dependencies, or "doesn't work on my machine", etc?

also is there a "best practice" or existing lib for the python program to auto-detect that the package has a newer version (eg a new Github release) and then when quitting tells the user "A new version is available, run `mytool --update` to update"?
The Impact of 25% Tariffs on Canadian GDP
This is such a fun game! Once I got used to it, it felt a lot like a very careful dungeon crawl.

[Spoiler]

Extra experience points go into the next level up, so it is better to empty the hearts before leveling up.
DeepSeek V3 is not DeepSeek R1. When I use the R1 model at Fireworks.ai I get censored output:

What happened at Tiananmen square?
<think> </think>
I am sorry, I cannot answer that question. I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses.
Excellent questions!

Railway has three support engineers who work on tooling + myself if you count me. (I have been more focused on customer migrations and classical sales as of late.)

One thing that I think we left out of the blog post which would have been helpful context is in our support tool, we have a queue of emails, Discord threads, forum posts, tickets, and Slack threads. Depending on the customer plan, we have an SLO assigned to the conversation. Enterprise people get a response in 1 hour, Pro in 24, and Hobby is best effort (usually 2-3 days at worst).

If we hit any of those timelines, the support on-call (a rotating person who is on the operations/GTM side of the house we call logistics) will get a page on PagerDuty. If the page is missed, it escalates up. We do a on-call rotation for support namely to make sure that we build the empathy for our customers for everyone at Railway while also testing if we built good tools that people know how to use. It's one thing to build something for yourself, a whole other thing to build for others.
If you have time, how can capex, an expense, appear as earnings? (I'm pretty clueless about these things)

Aha, it's that: "Opex is subtracted from earnings before public reporting and before taxes" (I see in other comments here),

but capex is not subtracted, so then it looks as if the company is doing better, on paper, although it's not. And this works only for a while, maybe some years? Which might be long enough for the current management, if they leave before things get too bad?
https://archive.md/YqFuB
Inference Is the Future of AI
What then is the "editor" job at a paper like NYT?

When a publisher chooses to include or not include certain content, is that really censorship? Are the companies building and publishing these models not entitled to choose what information they wish to train them on? Or should they be forced to train on anything anyone may want the model to spit out later? What about the people who want to prevent these same companies from training on their works? If they restrict what these companies can train on, is the company censoring the model in this case?
Robots to race humans at China half-marathon
In one case, it's the government telling the company what to do. In the other, it's the company deciding to release a sub-par product.

Is that really the same thing?
It's a little depressing to think about how much better modern LLMs are at preventing "harmful" content than past systems.
The boundaries are fuzzy, but I look at an RTOS as something you reach for when dealing with non-cooperative processes existing on the same device. I recognize that in C embedded code bases, RTOS is often used by default, regardless of this. Soemtimes it's to get a collection of higher level features, like an allocator, file system etc.
You're right about the profit - I took last fiscal year. Still, it doesn't change anything in what I wrote.

What you just wrote is "IF the biggest companies on earth, and the US government decide to spend all of their money on a single chip maker, then you could get to 200B profit rate in 2026". I won't disagree with that.