skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure what the GP's post was, but I'm genuinely curious. I have no experience of socialist countries, but I have several friends and colleagues who have emigrated over the last decade or so.

1. Is income equality the primary driver of a country descending into social turmoil?

2. If not, is the USA so politically and socially similar to those countries in other ways that an income equality system - or a system that moves in that direction - would be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel's back?

I'm particularly interested in #2 as a non-American.
this is the first site ever that has made my phone lag
Why? Seems pretty sensible. Employer-employee is a business relationship. Treat it as such.
I have found it very difficult to use aider as it makes many changes I don’t always agree with. Personally, I either use Cursor to make edits, or ask oh one to write a whole script or single-file module.
Denis Villeneuve eyes a new hard sci-fi epic adaptation, 'Rendezvous with Rama'
Russia could just not send gas…
Keep in mind it's not as straight forward as that. Almost all of our energy comes from hydro, and hence when "excess" is exported we might be reducing stored energy, causing higher prices later if we don't get expected rainfall.

Particularly a couple of years ago we had record low levels of water in our storage lakes, causing very high prices for a long time. Had we not exported energy earlier prices would not have gotten so high.

Of course, saving and then having massive rainfall means you could have exported but didn't so yeah.

Just saying things are a bit different than say France which gets a lot from nuclear which has very different price dynamics.
This is how you generate more layoffs for yourself. Having money saved and living within your means greatly reduces the impact of being laid off. You need to be impactful and putting yourself out there at all times or you lose trust. Several people who have allowed themselves to be beat down mentally at my company have lost trust and are on the chopping block. It can take a year or more before you get sacked. You can also reverse the course at almost any time.
Well, if the consumer market thinks that 64 bit architectures are a core benefit (for whatever irrational reason) and are willing to pay for it, industry will/does deliver. It's still overkill for all but a few applications. But I never saw in my more than thrity years in embedded systems that a company did well on a long term when wasting money for non-essential capabilities.
I think it comes down to a previous discussion on HN, "don't just crush tickets".

Crushing tickets gives you localized visibility and job security but doesn't help when your managers managers manager has to make cuts.

But if you get name dropped for launching a big feature at the monthly all-hands, are getting added to higher level calls, or even chat up your managers manager at the off-site, that's the difference between being an Excel row and being a person.
I've never asked an AI about "the tiananmen massacre, the abuses on Uyghurs" and no AI will convice me about communism. And what isn't propaganda today? It's not that Google Gemini is any better with black nazis and whatever.
do you have a model for "short-leash monopolies" would definitely put that in The Book.
Governments have lost many skills to do fuck all. The consultant justification is just hiding the fact that years if not investing in skilled people have resulted in a lot of clueless administrators that can't do much.
Yeah, to be fair to Boris ordinary.space looks like a much more appropriate tool for interaction design than Mattercraft, which looks much more like a drag-and-drop tool for building relatively static, single user 3D scenes. Mattercraft also looks to be pretty bloated with random content features (3D Text?) in comparison.
> At the same time, one of the main concerns of at least US foreign policy has been to keep a truce between Germany and Russia from happening, because that would be one of the few constellations that could upset the European power balance.

Well yeah... german industry + russian raw materials and energy sources would mean a big problem to american industry... so yeah... to turn it back into a one liner, they managed to keep germany down and russia out.

And now, more and more germans feel betrayed and are looking at an alternative (could be written in uppercase too).
Signs of a Layoff

6) Senior management is mysteriously missing and impossible to get ahold of. (They're not allowed to say anything to anyone.)
The worst cases is when they don't even accept the 12 months of upfront payment !
I don't think there has to be an AI bubble, but valuations overall have to come down to something in accordance with the interest rates and expected long-term profit rates.
Ask HN: How to use AI to detect comment spam?
A total noob here. I'm trying to build my own comment system and spam bots are troubling me a lot. Is it possible to run a small AI model, something like Ollama on a DO droplet!
I'm as pro-Ukraine as it gets, but it doesn't make any sense for Russia to blow it up. The biggest incentive is Ukraine by far, then some western intelligence agencies / covert groups in some distance.

Gas has been always part of the carrot and stick strategy for Russia. It makes sense for Ukraine to blow it up to stop any discussions about returning back to cheap Russian gas.
Scientific progress is severly understudied
Wow, I would not expect this kind of news to come via txt or email. This should be manager/supervisor face to face.
There are problems on the web, which originate from aspects of HTTP. It's an okay protocol, but clearly not intended for interactive applications.
Bird feathers found in both engines of crashed Jeju Air jet
But Tesla is involved in politics, in multiple fronts: as a lobbyist of government, as a company owned by someone getting deeply in cahoots with politicians, as a stock being used as collateral for political purchases of media (Twitter).

What you are asking is wishful thinking, Tesla has became political because of Elon, there is no way to dissociate this relationship.

You deciding to purchase a Tesla even with the moral hazards does have consequences, shame and laws are the only tools against moral transgressions, you are just experiencing the pressure of that tool which is exactly the point...

Either live with your decision and its consequences or do not buy a Tesla associated with Musk.
And to throw it the other way around, when someone works over hours and contributes significantly, but burns out, does the company throw out the unpaid work?
It's like everyone forgets that App Tracking Transparency (ATT) was supposed to put Meta out of business. By many accounts, Meta's ad targeting is even better now than before ATT. It's been reported that AI is what saved their ad targeting.

The OSS goodwill is just a side effect and a way to undermine companies who are not using AI to effectively make profits today.

Cheaper/more efficient is absolutely great for Meta. If they can lower their capex it would be an instant bump to their bottom line.
>been obtained illegally.

PRC companies breaking US export control laws is legal (for PRC companies). Maybe they're trying to avoid US entity listing, lot's of PRC companies keep mum about growing capabilites to do so. But the mere fact Deepseek is publicizing means they're unlikely to care about the political heat that is coming and the ramifications. If anything, getting on US entity list probably locks in their employees with Deepseek on resume into PRC.
Could've fooled me! I've only ever seen Linux devices run Xorg. Maybe some embedded hardware runs an alternative, but Xorg seems to be the de facto standard for desktop Linux.

This isn't a big issue because Xorg splits a basic GUI into dozens of different daemons and services (compositors, window managers, input daemons) so it seems like there are different X11 implementations even when there's usually only Xorg.
Is it really related to China's tech sector as such, though? If this is true then Openai, Google or even many magnitudes smaller companies etc. can just easily replicate similar methods in their processes and provide models which are just as good or better. However they'll need way less Nvidia GPUs and other HW to do that than when training their current models.
And all land is free-to-take since Feb 24th, 2022.

Ultimately, international law has to be enforced by someone. Russia broke it many times before NS2 blew up, it's not like they were holding up before.
One of the diagrams has the text "40 sections elk 100 m long". "Elk" (or "elke", depending on grammatical gender) is Dutch for "each", so it looks like a small oversight in translation. It's not about deer that somehow got caught up in transmission line theory.

Hope that clears up any confusion that might possibly arise.
I think one insight (that's maybe not obvious enough on their landing page?) is that their product appears to be multiplayer out of the box (in the same sense that Figma is) which I think you'd agree is a pretty significant value add over your proposal of Unity + Meta simulator.
> that good compilation speed was not a design goal

Not sure how this relates to my statement. I was talking about an optimizer, not about compilation speed. I'm neither using QBE, but Eigen, for good reasons.
Lets say that CEOs are no more or less replaceable with AI than all the other jobs.

Throwing away all the humans to replace them with AIs is a move only an AI CEO would make, because and AI couldn't give less of a shit if something it does blows up in its face. Well, apparently real CEOs couldn't care less either. Imagining you're going to run a successful software organization (once you've hollowed out the people who both understand the work and actually give a shit about it) is insane. These people know that it will blow up, but they hope that it is only after they can rake in their bonus pay for the mounds of short term profits that result form layoffs, after which they'll float away under their golden parachutes leaving their former companies to collapse under the weight of institutionalized incompetence.
Seems to be limited mostly by the power and size constraints, while it's also fabricated in an older node. The target market seems to be simple embedded devices not needing SIMD instructions, which is less constrained by the software availability. RISC-V is still a very new architecture.
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Yeah I get that feeling too. Lots of old school astroturfing going on.
I've never done it, but for the readonly case, I think all you need to is to combine the existing reader VFS with zstd-seekable-format-go.

https://github.com/ncruces/go-sqlite3/discussions/117#discus...

For read/write, I'm honestly not sure. The Zipvfs is an… erm… architectural mess that only really works because it accesses private SQLite APIs. Which is fine, but history has shown the SQLite team is willing to break those APIs, as they did for the ones they build the SQLite encryption extension on.

https://sqlite.org/zipvfs/doc/trunk/www/howitworks.wiki

The zstandard alternative is sqlite_zstd_vfs, which faces the same architectural issues. So, I'd rather not go there. But should be doable, as long as you're not needing private APIs.

https://github.com/mlin/sqlite_zstd_vfs
It is actually not just an AI-related problem. It can apply to traditional code generators too.

For example, if you want to access a database, you can write the SQL queries yourself, possibly taking advantage of some tools to help you build it. But in the end, that's your code.

Another approach is to take a tool that analyzes the database schema and generate the database access code for you (ORM). That's not really your code anymore, and if you make changes, you are expected to do them from the tool.

These two approaches have their pros and cons, but if you don't make a distinction between fully generated code and at least partially hand written code, you are going to make a mess.
They did stopped sending gas.

And they would have to pay fines for that.
DeepSeek overtakes ChatGPT to top app charts
You can't be aware of the toxicity when your parents, your teachers, your mentors, your bosses and your friends have all the same ethos (and actively put down any other opinion under slurs such as "socialism", "communism", "sloth", "failure of a human being", etc.)
I think it's possible to slice preferences endlessly, and I do think I'm a bit unusual.

I gave ChatGPT a list of my favorite SF novels, and a brief description of why, and asked for similar works. It recommended 10 novels, three of which I've read and weren't in the sweet spot. Also, everything it recommended was 30+ years old -- to be fair, the same is true of the list I gave it, but I think it goes against your point that there's an unlimited supply.

So I told it about the three and asked it to adjust and to give more recent works, and it obliged. One of the new recommendations was in the Culture series, which I've read one of and it wasn't my jam. Another was Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir, which I've read and enjoyed the Martian, but I'm betting that's the only Andy Weir I'll like. The others I'll have to check out.

It's an interesting exercise.
Wow, a Perl error in 2025?

I mean, my full time job still have a giant Perl application at it's core, but seeing it come up in random places is always heartwarming :)
That's what I'm saying, though: rollovers can happen regardless of whether the integer is signed or unsigned. x + 1 > x is never a safe assumption for integers of the same fixed width, no matter if they're i16 or u16. Whether it's specifically acknowledged as defined or undefined behavior doesn't really change that fundamental property of fixed-width integer addition.

(As an aside: I'm personally fond of languages that let you specify what to do if an integer arithmetic result doesn't fit. Zig, for example, has separate operators for rollover v. saturation v. panicking/UB, which is handy. Pretty sure C++ has equivalents in its standard library.)
Could you email me the domain name to contact@marginalia-search.com (or share it here if you don't mind linking it to your account)? I'll have a look and see what's up.

> P.s. marginalia_nu: Your Java and architectural design is beautiful, you're a true craftsman. <3 Best in show

Well like any project this size (especially when it's a one man show) it has its warts and the design isn't entirely uncontroversial[1], but I'm pretty happy with it.

[1] Last time I posted about it someone likened it to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ , not entirely unfairly, though it does look like it does for very solid reasons that go beyond "netflix uses microservices", which is usually where things don't work out so well.
The case for robots in schools, care homes, museums, and more
so... thank you, NATO?
Yeah, the accountability argument doesn't make sense to me from a practical viewpoint. The benefit of accountability is that it provides a path to avoiding repeated errors. There are other ways to achieve this using software tools.
Beautiful and inspiring. Can you share the specific e-picture frame you mentioned?
> what they often mean is "Wayland doesn't support $very_specific_feature"

My primary complaint with Wayland is that it is a textbook example of Brooks’s second-system effect. It forsook backwards compatibility (yes, there’s an X11 server but to my knowledge there is no way to just run Wayland and one’s X11 desktop environment).

> Strangely -- even though X is open source and eminently forkable (we know this, because XFree86 -> X.org) it gathers dust and none of its proponents are doing anything towards its upkeep.

I suspect that is because the X/Wayland guys have sucked all the oxygen out of that particular room. A newbie shows up and is told that X.org is legacy and he shouldn’t work on it, so … he doesn’t.

And of course X.org really is a bit of a disaster due to being written in C.
If you just started at your first job i would focus first on becoming an asset for your team.

Being well regarded by key technical folks will allow you to leverage them for introductions and recommendations if you need a new job. In general, find a good mentor, develop soft skills and maintain friendships.

There are no guarantees and with minimal experience you are for now more vulnerable, but this should minimize the risk better than always searching for the next job. My 2c.
Yeah, that's the line at a Christmas work party. Is it about Christmas, or is it about work
That's because you're an adult with established opinions, educated with methods of the previous century. Millions of teenagers right now are using LLMs as their tutor every day.

Also I'm interested if you can find Gemini actively lying on something (not image representation bias, which was immediately corrected btw)
Wars don't have to be declared to be wars. Most wars have historically not been declared.
I don't know. We get to invite clients and all the other business partners, why not contractors and people that work for them with us on a project?
Remote Site Growth Is Not a Conquest Game
Sure it does, but Apple should be sending the correct User Agent string, not making one up.
They've been sacrificing less-than-ideal workers, such as the over-40s, the less educated from rural regions, and prisoners. The numbers of young men are dropping only indirectly, because they emigrated to escape potential conscription, or just escaping Russia in general. This brain-drain is going to kneecap their economy.
What is the GPU memory on that 3090?
> He earned a lot, I mean a lot of respect for building his empires from 0

Why do people fall for that? He didn't start from 0, he literally had financial backing from his family.
Do you like to piss on other people's pants? Do you like to get pissed on by other people?
I was laid off in a face to face meeting with the VP.
Checking my phone might be irrational, but irrational thoughts can be a symptom of trauma. Then again, I do work fully remote, so I'm checking for tell tale signs. Mysterious meetings on my calendar, DMs from the CTO, etc.
Just because it's using html2 and not 2024 Ajax and react and (insert other js frameworks here), doesn't mean it's a bad website... if anything, it's faster because it doesn't need to load all that unnecessary fluff.
"That forum", just like the mobs in ancient Rome, doesn't operate on logic, it operates on emotional feelings and groupthink.
What has changed is the perception that people like OpenAI/MSFT would have an edge on the competition because of their huge datacenters full of NVDA hardware. That is no longer true. People now believe that you can build very capable AI applications for far less money. So the perception is that the big guys no longer have an edge.

Tesla had already proven that to be wrong. Tesla's Hardware 3 is a 6 year old design, and it does amazingly well on less than 300 watts. And that was mostly trained on a 8k cluster.
Or simply leave your phone at home. Need to meet with friends? Plan a meeting point. Need to take photos? Do you really? What right have you got to photo other people's faces? Just leave your damn phone at home.
Its not a Mac though. I'd much prefer Apple use the User Agent correctly rather than hack around it like that.

The system we used did use user agents to identify mobile devices or computers. And gave the iPad users a terrible experience because Apple lied.
For deep learning:

1. Linear algebra. Be comfortable with vector transformations in the vector space. This is the framework to understand how data is represented and what is going on inside the model.

2. Calculus. Specifically derivatives, up to partial derivatives and the chain rule. This is needed to later understand backpropagation, the learning. It's fine to skip integrals.

3. Vanilla neural network. Study how a simple feed forward and fully connected neural network works, in detail. Every single bit about it.

I wouldn't worry or plan anything ahead until having those. After number 3 you'll have different branches to follow and will be better equipped to pick a path.
With successful New Glenn flight, Blue Origin may be turning the corner
Christmas part is not special "give thanks to employees" party, it is more of end of a year party. It makes perfect sense to invite contractors. Even if it was "give thanks" party, contractors worked on projects.
I was laid off during dot-bomb and was lucky enough to land a good (actually better) job through someone I knew pretty quickly. Pay wasn't great and they barely came through dot-bomb themselves later. But whatever.

I can't say I was surprised when it happened. I knew things weren't going well and I wasn't really bringing in business. Was actually happy to move on except for the fact that the job market was really tough at the moment.

But, yeah. Under most circumstances knocking yourself out isn't worth it most of the time. I have had some product launches and on-job site projects where I sort of did for a while and that was OK. But don't make a practice of it in most cases.
> Anyway, what you refer to is the legacy drm interface that was replaced by the atomic one. The legacy interface is very broken and does not expose new hardware features, but it did indeed handle cursors as its own magical entity.

Isn't it what many people refer to as "hardware cursor"? Is it possible for Wayland to rely on such a feature?
> you should have just stuck to reading arxiv, TPOT, and jhana twitter for the past 2 years

Traders expect to be able to trade based on regurgitated headlines made by tech influencers who don't know ANYTHING about NOTHING.
But that’s not security, it’s usability. Just by virtue of taking your phone to a less safe place you’re lowering its security. Taking a small offline camera would be a lot more secure if your concern is recording the events.
This...

And tell you what, the posts on linkedin and the blogs like this, where the take away is 'I got fired and next time I'll work LESS'. Really?

Errr, might want to reconsider that strategy, unless you think that you are going to get binned no matter what, and just cruising until that happens is the solution. Just seems like a massively negative outcome.

That, or they are going for the spiteful 'hopefully I convince everyone else to lower the standard, so others get sacked, or so I look good again'.
hi, thanks for trying it out, redeployed after fixing the error

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In the same realm of cheap hosting:
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A week after Trump's big announcement... that cannot be a coincidence.
A very interesting explanation with history and math combined! I’m not sure if most of HN cares about rf things at this level but I was very happy to see a discussion of transmission lines, and a lot of the discussion of the trades of parameters to improve a Morse code transmission.
I generally agree with all that. You can absolutely be in the wrong place at the wrong time sometimes and there's not much you can do about it.