skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few months ago I made some toy AI apps that had amazing results - when it worked. When it failed, it would get me so annoyed that I'm feeling burnt out and don't want to keep "fixing" issues that keep appearing.
>C is universal, any other language is a dependency.

Executable is executable, there's no magic in C code, it's just frontend for LLVM IR.

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

Do you have any good benchmarks about how big the difference is?
All of this resonates deeply with me. There are a lot of memes running around about Silicon Valley's Jing Yang (sorry if it's misspelled) eating OpenAI's lunch, but as much as those are funny, the underlying open source innovation and how it aligns with a vision of values, realisation, and also inevitability that eventually someone else would be able to reach these things, too - that all strikes a chord I have to say.
In the United States you can create a company just by operating as one — “sole proprietorship.” A 1099 can also be issued to an individual.

It’s useful for a variety of reasons to have an LLC or an S-corp but you don’t need one to get started as a software contractor.
What a great service. Younger me would have killed for something like this. I started my whole dev career thanks to ones like this back in the day. Good on these folks.
"This means the code being released contains all the build system files (using the waf build system), but it will not compile or link as released."

But what can you do with this?
>They aren't "giving out for free", though. If you're not paying for something from a US tech company, unless it's explicitly a non-profit, it's fairly safe to assume that you, dear reader, are the product.

In this case it's open source, and with papers published. So any US company can (way more cheaply than ChatGPT and co iiuc) train their own model based on this and offer it as well.
Perhaps. Pay attention to the time you spend "doing the task well" so that YOU are satisfied. You are now smarter (say) but is your hierarchy going to promote you for this? Or park you and make you do this indefinitely, or blame you for the rest that didn't get done? Is your network as a whole now more inclined to hire you out in their next venture?
"This means the code being released contains all the build system files (using the waf build system), but it will not compile or link as released."

What do we do with this POS?
Distrowatch was blocked for linking to an AV-flagged privoxy 4.0.0 tarball. The same kind of anti-malware blocking you'd expect for a mass-market, non-technical audience. Nothing to do with "speech" or Linux in general.

Some context: https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/26448/
The easiest way is to reach out to consulting companies and ask if they take subcontractors. Second easiest is to ask companies that want to hire you if they’ll take you as a contractor instead.
Haven't seem to have worked for the EU, despite having a decidedly non Haitian level GDP per capita.
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-guy-behind-deepseek-blurbed-...
I wanted this to be an auto generated stack overflow from slack lurking.
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Seems antithetical to Zuckerberg's recent "More Speech and Fewer Mistakes" announcement.
In case anyone would like a more complete list of products Google has killed, here's a handy website to mourn your favorite dead product:

https://killedbygoogle.com/

RIP Google Wave... I had such high hopes when it was first released... :'(
> A day-long designathon makes sense because interesting things can be designed in a day. A day-long cybersecurity competition makes sense because you can penetrate a server in a day if the server is buggy (which our server was because it was a competition for beginners). But good code is not written in a day! Why on Earth are we glamorizing bad programming practices? Sure, sometimes you need to stay up all night but you are not supposed to!

Agreed, the few I've been to felt like a invitation to injure my metaphorical mental muscles doing some impressive-looking form of anti-ergonomic self-harm.

Another issue is the feeling of being punished for honesty when some other folks arrive with projects already 90% completed.
The way in which prokaryotes like bacteria and eukaryotes like most multicellular organisms handle their genomes is part of this - prokaryotes are much more promiscuous in taking up and emitting genetic material, which is part of how you get so many different variants of the same "species" of bacteria, whereas eukaryotes are much more protective of their genomes and rely more on variable gene expression (in other words, which parts of the genome are going to be uncovered and available to read), rather than changes in the genome, to determine how they behave and what they "do".

One thing that I think is sharply underappreciated is how much cross-talk there is within bacterial communities as is - it's a normal state of affairs for a full metabolic pathway to span between multiple species (so, one bacterial species takes the starting molecule, performs a set of transformations, emits it into the environment, a second species takes up that derived material, modifies it further, re-emits it, and a third species, or even the first species again, takes it up and continues the chain). A bacteria has a cell wall, but that's a tool used as part of many of the bacteria's function, which means you really need to look at a bacteria's "zone of influence" inside and outside the cell wall to understand what it's doing.

So, given the flexibility of prokaryotic genomes, I think a bacterial colony containing multiple species or multiple variants of the same species might really be the prokaryotic equivalent of a multicellular organism, in which case they're absolutely everywhere, to a degree where focusing in on a single species of bacteria in any given context might be as reductive as focusing in on a single variant of human cell while evaluating how humans function.
I've run their distilled 70B model and didn't come away too impressed -- feels similar to the existing base model it was trained on, which also rivaled GPT4
Can someone dumb to me, a generalist engineer who has a very surface level knowledge of how training LLMs work: what people were doing before and what GRPO is doing different?
Well he did overpay. He made that silly announcement right before the market dropped and got locked into a high share price.

Word is he was pushing for a seat on the board over being angry at having some of his tweets marked as untruthful or whatever but the pivot to buy was a last minute whim. No idea how true that is.

His obsession with the name "X" found an outlet though: throw away a ubiquitous brand name like Twitter that even ended up with its own verb just to satisfy his own itch to name something X. To be fair he owns the company now so he's 100% within his rights to make that decision. It's just a really bad one from a financial and brand awareness POV.

Oh and the whole "free speech" thing that was his supposed reason for all this has evaporated as he personally dishes out punishments to his enemies or people he doesn't like.
It's time to come to grips with AI
The expectation for junior devs will probably change as well and they’d do a lot more shadowing while learning the product. Experience is gained in time.
Nemo, are you using a self-hosted install or .com?

If .com, email me (it's in my profile) and I can see if there is a reason your account is getting so heavily captcha'd.
From what I've seen these aren't available in the US, unless I've missed one. (I would be very interested if so!)
They probably felt that it stopped being cool, it's now just a common name, so they went ahead and made it into something more legible.
Yeah no shade for someone selling their knowledge; I'm just trying to suss out how useful the book is for learning foundations.
>is automatically going to be seen by most of us as a turn played in the game to become the world's #1 superpower.

What gets me is when people present it like it's bad to play that game. Like "it's ok when we do it".
I haven't a clue how to help you, but as an avid participant in crowdsolving for other domains, I am fascinated to see if this works.
Just my Pebble lament:

I caught onto Pebble too late, and bought a used Pebble Time Round after Pebble had already been shutdown. The app was still in the App Store, and Rebble.io worked perfectly to replicate the missing services. Everything was perfect (1), and I was so happy every time I looked at my wrist. It was thinner than anyone else's ugly smart watches, and longer battery life, and more soul in the OS. Nothing else was close, and it was old when I got it! There was a looming fear of the battery dying, but with such a long battery life, I could do my best to balance it as close to 50-60% as I could, and still have longer battery life than most smart watches.

But then I bought a newer phone (another iPhone) and everything clouded over. I couldn't install the Pebble app again, or even restore it from backup. After much messing around with side-loading, I bought a Nokia Steel HR (same as Withings, but with Nokia branding), and got by for a year or two. But with it occasionally missed notifying me of calls, the whole point for me was really defeated, and I recently finally give in to buying an Apple Watch. LTE is nice, but this whole time, I still miss my Pebble! I dream of a newer, slightly updated Pebble Time Round!

1) To be honest, with the possible exception of the dated, large bezel.
How does such a distillation work in theory? They don’t have weights from OpenAI’s models, and can only call their APIs, right? So how can they actually build off of it?
There’s also some analyses that claim that China’s population is lower than what is claimed officially: https://youtu.be/ftcLM3502_8
DeepSeek's R1 curiously tells El Reg reader: 'My guidelines are set by OpenAI'
CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately
The U.S. CDC abruptly halted all collaboration with the WHO, impacting efforts to combat global health threats, including Marburg virus, mpox, and bird flu, per a leaked memo.
Sometimes it does. If typing slows you down enough to take you out of the zone then it probably does.
They made a big deal of it, our entire elementary school got it at the same time. And they specifically said it was for German Measles, I don't think MMR had been invented yet. This would have been before 1970.
When you all say “crime down not crime up” you are not saying compared to what. If you want to compare against the worst crime levels in American history, congratulations. But crime has been up in major cities due to the George Floyd effect, that’s just reality. The leftist incredulity does not change reality.
I mean, it's a strategic asset in the sense that it's already devalued a lot of the American tech companies because they're so heavily invested in AI. Just look at NVDA today.
I'll admit like others I'm more C biased. This whole debugging story is not very flattering. Tbh my team would not be happy if I told them I didn't 3-4 weeks on something because I used an unsupported language, library, debugger, changed compilers often (did I see him say nightly builds?? On production??), etc etc.

I'm still not sure I understand why he couldn't just diff between versions. And the black box thing seems like a fool's errand. If changing the order of random things makes the issue go away, you can't change anything. The only thing you can do is use the binary you already have. Especially because even if you have 2 not working versions, fixing one doesn't necessarily fix the other. This debug effort felt very sloppy.

It's also weird looking at a lot of this code. The first assembly function pushes 4 values on the stack and only needed to push 2. I've had my fair share of bugs that make me go to dissembly but that also felt very time wastey here. The author evidently did not have enough of a grasp of what to expect for it to help at all.

While true that nRF should've put something in a log, the author admits they don't support this development flow. It's like the old addage about APIs. Any change no matter how small will break someone's usage.
???

I just did and it told me about ChatGPT and OpenAI.

Are you affiliated with them, btw?
I had a couple of the most capable senior developers reach out to me to tell me how Github Copilot accelerated their productivity, which surprised me initially. So I think there's something to it.
Yes I believe that would be the point of view of those corps and their investors.

But for the rest of humanity it doesn't look so bad.
How do you know it's accurate?
The features I need on a smartwatch:

- eink or lcd display, for always-on and long battery life.

- brightness adjustable LED, for night usage of the watch and as flashlight at night.

- physical buttons, for controls including music volume, skip to next or previous song.

- bluetooth calls and notifications.

- nfc payments.

- functionality allowing to COMPLETELY DISABLE all those fitness functions, such as step counting or heart rate measuring. FU Garmin, I hate you.

- app for plotting tides and moon phases.

- app for voice memos, then transfer to Android/iOS for converting voice-to-text and further editing.

- if the display is touch-enabled, make sure to make it LOCKABLE, otherwise it does self-activates in the shower if the message is received. FU Amazfit, I hate u2.

- solar panel on the sides or even maybe behind eink/lcd display.

At the moment I am using Tissot T-Touch Solar Connect: No nfc payments, no bluetooth calling, no flashlight at night, no tides/moons, no music control But, I never need to charge it!!!!! And I dont need to use my second hand to press the led button to check the time at night, because its a hybrid watch with luminescent arrows.
When you are just starting, yes. But after a while, if you pay attention to cultivating it, you amass a significant network. Small factor initially, big one later if you work on it.
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Their forward PE is fairly reasonable: Nvidia 27, Apple 31, Amazon 38, Microsoft 33.
No, this doesn't show (2). It shows that Distrowatch specifically was considered malware -- not Linux in general.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42847474
Stocks here almost certainly means stock-picking, vs investing in broad market-tracking funds (ETFs). Historically, people are terrible at picking good stocks and have much better returns investing in ETFs that track things like the S&P500.
AMR (adaptive multi-rate audio codec) can get down to 4.75 kbit/s when there's low bandwidth available, which is typically what people complain about as being terrible quality.

The speech codecs are complex and fascinating, very different from just doing a frequency filter and compressing.

The base is linear predictive coding, which encodes the voice based on a simple model of the human mouth and throat. Huge compression but it sounds terrible. Then you take the error between the original signal and the LPC encoded signal, this waveform is compressed heavily but more conventionally and transmitted along with the LPC signal.

Phones also layer on voice activity detection, when you aren't talking the system just transmits noise parameters and the other end hears some tailored white noise. As phone calls typically have one person speaking at a time and there are frequent pauses in speech this is a huge win. But it also makes mistakes, especially in noisy environments (like call centers, voice calls are the business, why are they so bad?). When this happens the system becomes unintelligible because it isn't even trying to encode the voice.
Quartz has been quietly publishing AI-generated news articles
On the contrary, you have to directly subsidize the "little guy" because they are unprofitable otherwise vs scale, but their value is such that you have to tip the scales with subsidies to enable their ongoing existence. You're internalizing the positive value not otherwise captured. Existing subsidy structures are what have encouraged "get big or get out" [1] in ag, hence the need to transform those subsidy structures to encourage supply chain resiliency and reserved capacity, at the cost of efficiency and scale. The last administration was making progress on this (without the subsidies I mention) [2].

Progress to improve systems of this scale takes time, and many will be unhappy with how long progress takes. Can you convince the electorate to keep voting for you while you try to fix it because it'll be worth the wait? Based on the evidence and the latest election cycle, I would say no after a preponderance of said evidence.

[1] https://grist.org/article/the-butz-stops-here/

[2] https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2024/02/...
I tried it on 100m, 400m and 1km swims. In each case it miscounted my turns and distance which I kept in my head to verify its accuracy. In one 100m it missed two turns claiming I did 50m and not 100m. That's patently wrong since I know the pool I go to is 25m and I can count to 4. All my turns were flip turns under water with relatively good technique (think advanced amateur who almost made it to swim team in college)
No 8 wire on the British Standard Wire Gauge (SWG) scale is slightly larger than a #12 conductor on the American Wire Gauge (AWG) scale.
A lot of the new tools are embedded in your editor so you don’t have to copy paste in either direction.

My experience is that it can still be tricky to get high quality results when letting the AI actually edit the code for you. A few of my attempts went rather poorly. I’m hoping tweaks to how I use the tools improve this. Or I’ll just wait until better versions are released :)

I use Claude in the web interface quite often though. It’s very helpful for certain queries. And I can usually abort quickly when it gets lost or starts hallucinating.
Maybe too much of the same topic? "How R1 was trained" also seemed to quickly fall off. But the big arxiv paper with 1000+ upvotes stuck around a while.
Fedora and CentOS are both used.
This is hard to take seriously. As someone else pointed, perhaps the leftist propaganda has convinced you of something false and not the other way round as you. You should talk to some real or go to grocery store, this is just denying basic reality. Even many leftists don’t deny the economic reality, they just like to blame the virus; I mean, which one is it?
In case I was unclear - I was aiming for the list of "unkilled by Google". Shorter but more interesting.
You can still cultivate all these people in random places in your network. Apparently you are in a line of work where other country corporations will do fine, and these people will still need you in their next ventures or posts.
Show HN: Lua-libuv – A Lua with libuv experiments
Also worth noting that the order's demand to immediately quit the WHO and stop any funding is explicitly against the law from back the US helped found the organization in 1948.

At this rate, the next Executive Order will be that it's some-kinda-crime not to have sex with the President after he buys you a drink.
Amazon S3 Metadata is now generally available
#8 on (British) SWG scale is about the size of a #11 wire (never seen this size in real life) on the AWG scale.
Thanks for explaining my intent, you nailed it.
> If CCP is involved in a big way, we won't see these words from CEO.

you don't know cpc

you don't know china

and you don't know chinese

you just imagine cpc and chinese as characters in some shit comics

every chinese could possibly said that, and cpc say this a lot everyday, and cpc made national strategy base on that, you can find these words in many gov documents

so you guys are right about one thing: china is a threat, because from cpc to normal chinese, there're tons of people
in china think like this, and many of them eager to challenge this

just like what deepseek is doing right now
Says David Lynch as John Ford [0]:

When the horizon's at the bottom, it's interesting. When the horizon's at the top, it's interesting. When the horizon's in the middle, it's boring as shit!

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mAyNNBOdns&t=2s
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and, for tasks that take the LLM a minute, you can grab some coffee while it works and come back just to review. It's a great feeling.
Distrowatch has taken the observation that distrowatch URLs are blocked and really hyperbolized that into the broader and incorrect claim that discussion of Linux is banned. It isn't.
> scroll tap swim

this watch has no touch interface. any scrolling and selecting has to be done via the five buttons which I ALWAYS somehow get wrong. Who on this beautiful earth thought it was sane to make the bottom right button be the "Back" button in a L2R (English) locale?
How do those handle user authentication and card installation?

I assume you need support from your bank for the former and PINs for the latter?
satoshis, derivative of bitcoin I think? I have a poor understanding of it. Essentially it's a way to pay podcast producers directly. Streaming means it sends whatever you set per minute so you auto-support podcasts. Boosts are short messages with dollar values tied to it. The show has to support this though, not all podcasts do.
The best solution I've come up with is jpgs in a yyyy/mm folder structure + EXIF metadata. I know it's not your ideal, but it'll be supported and platform agnostic for the forseeable future, and there are plenty of apps that can search metdata tags.

That said - I used to rigorously tag photos for the event, place, and people in them, but it's just too much work. Some tooling around batch and auto tagging would be great, so long as it wrote back to the original image EXIF.
And sometimes it's funny how little it takes. Some people called me simply because they knew of me (I barely had heard of them). They did that because that was soooo much more efficient that some automatic "job posting" circus and they valued their time and deadlines.
I think you're rather missing the specific point in the process of making a much broader one.
It's a shame that this is one of the only accurate top-level comments and it's downvoted to hell.
I think this is a very poor decision. It reeks of cost-cutting, and whilst comment on the commentariat is an understood approach, machine integrated takes on the competition seems to me like a very poor way to do things. I can't see this increasing goodwill amongst original sources, or the readership.

"hmm I thought I read this already" is very risky. Whats the NEW take in this write up matters to me. Also the component of confirmation bias which will emerge.
> His obsession with the name "X" found an outlet though

He still tried to name one kid "X", and then when that ran into legal problems he named the next kid "Exa", which seems like a really sad kind of hand-me-down.
It only remains if people who have choices actually prioritize using cash.

I get strange looks from folks now since I try to use cash whenever possible to do so.

If I’m the only one taking the effort to do this, everyone will eventually lose this option. It’s incredibly frustrating to watch people actively work to not understand this point.

All so they can make 2% in credit card points, pretend they are at some materially increased risk of crime, and the convenience argument. None of which are very compelling compared to “a third party now mediates what spending you are allowed to partake in”. Works until it doesn’t.
The compiler can (and does) know enough about the stdlib functions to treat them specially. The C standard doesn't require that libm exist as a separately linked library either, that's just an implementation detail from an earlier time that got enshrined in POSIX.
This was my finding as well - I now use Roo Cline tho....
Isn't DeepSeek open source?