skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
NileRed has a humorous YouTube video where he bakes cookies using only NIST reference ingredients. It costs something like $2000 to bake a single cookie and has all the flavor of cardboard.
I keep hearing about these "network placed" jobs on HN, but in 25 years, I've never seen it myself. I keep good relationships with former co-workers, we maintain group chats for each of my previous companies where we keep each other up on our careers. I even went to barbecues hosted by a former manager, until he moved out of the Bay Area. None of these have ever actually materialized into a job. It just doesn't work that way. We're all entry level worker bees and don't have any way to put our thumb on the scale at our own companies. If someone in my network reaches out to me asking for help with getting a job at MyCompany, the best I can do is review his resume, coach him on interviews, and then ultimately point him to the link in the job board, where 90% chance he will be ghosted.

Where are these companies where I can tell my boss "Hey, Mike is a good programmer and he just applied. Just give him the job without interviewing! Or accelerate him through the process!" I suppose if it were a two person startup where it was me and my boss you could do that, but at a normal 1000 person CRUD shop with dedicated HR machinery? No way.
> China tried to create a homegrown CPU 15-20 years ago with their MIPS variant but that died out.

Er, are you talking about LoongArch? The CPU line that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson lists new models of this year?
I agree with this.

Fwiw many of the improvements in Deepseek were already in other 'can run on your personal computer' AI's such as Meta's Llama. Deepseek is actually very similar to Llama in efficiency. People were already running that on home computers with M3's.

A couple of examples; Meta's multi-token prediction was specifically implemented as a huge efficiency improvement that was taken up by Deepseek. REcurrent ADaption (READ) was another big win by Meta that Deepseek utilized. Multi-head Latent Attention is another technique, not pioneered by Meta but used by both Deepseek and Llama.

Anyway Deepseek isn't some independent revolution out of nowhere. It's actually very very similar to the existing state of the art and just bundles a whole lot of efficiency gains in one model. There's no secret sauce here. It's much better than what openAI has but that's because openAI seem to have forgotten 'The Bitter Lesson'. They have been going at things in an extremely brute force way.

Anyway why do i point out that Deepseek is very similar to something like Llama? Because Meta's spending 100's of billions on chips to run it. It's pretty damn efficient, especially compared to openAI but they are still spending billions on datacenter build-outs.
true corporate strategist here...
i recommend people i trust and beleive in and want to work with. if they can outshine me i can get better by working with them. i dont give a rats ass about my performance reviews. just quality of work and nice collaboration , preferably with people better than me.
Your argument will only apply when humans are no longer needed at any point in the pipeline.
> An open model is free speech, therefore constitutionally protected

I think you fundamentally misunderstand the era we are in.

Birthright citizenship is also constitutionally protected apparently, and this is arguably more central to the USA's historical self-perception but that isn't stopping Trump who believes he is acting in the USA's self-interest by blocking it.

US also has valid, binding trade agreements with Canada and Mexico but that isn't stopping him from saying he will impose >= 20% tariffs or similar within the next week because again Trump believes he is acting in the USA's self-interest.
Last time I check inductive connections loses more than 20% of the energy during charging. Also not fast in data transfer. If it could improve in both situation, managing below 20% wastage and may be 1 GBps transfer it would be good enough for most consumer usage ignoring the Pros.

I got a lot of sticks on HN suggesting USB-C isn't thin enough and lightning was the much better option. It only take a little more than 3 years to have this real world case shown.

Assuming similar thickness are left around the port, lightning is 1mm thinner than USB-C.
Strong referrals may lead to interviews at larger companies. But rarely jobs. You still have to go through the interview process and most of the time how you came in isn’t even known to the interviewer.

Now if your network includes directors and CxOs who can just push a job through specifically for you, that’s different. Especially if it is a strategic hire for them. Those types of jobs usually don’t involve formal interviews and they are more of discussions about mutual fit.
> I prefer retaining the option to sue people that pull stunts

If that's an option for you, sure. I work in finance and retain FINRA arbitration as a customer. When I'm signing with clients, I do not like to include it--I have a strong advantage in court and don't want a venue that's biased against me as a professional.

All of this is totally irrelevant to ETFs, mutual funds and CMOs because those are distributed funds whose terms aren't negotiable after offering. (If you're worrying about suing the guy selling you ETFs, you're doing something wrong. Probably overtrading.)
Trump is a sith lord. If he makes you angry and you lose your shit he wins.

Your opposition wants things and moves towards them; project 2025 began in 1971 .[1]

If you are always "anti-" this or that, you are letting your opposition control the agenda, which is exactly what they want. Also the imagery of V is for Vendetta, Pink Floyd's The Wall, The Hunger Games and such is seductive: sometimes I wonder if "anti-fascists" are just jealous that somebody else has a better uniform with cool boots.

A friend of mine was an early adopter of "anti-fascism" by about a decade; she wanted to be a filmmaker, though she had ideas in her that were so dangerous she might be assassinated (delusions of grandeur.) One summer she led video crews at a music festival and had us do a multi-camera shoot that was way beyond any shoot I'd been involved with. She could have made a DVD and sold it at the next year's festival but she wound up editing it at the last minute and instead of selling DVDs or shooting more footage she was at home duplicating them and brought a small stack of discs on the last day when everybody was leaving. The year after that she stiffed my wife for a whole crop of magic mushrooms my wife grew that she sold at the festival, turned out she was an opiate addict at this time and spent it all on her fix.

Now she's clean but wears a mask everywhere she goes and doesn't want to talk about anything but face masks.

Find a better movement and better people to get involved with.

[1] https://www.greenpeace.org/usa/democracy/the-lewis-powell-me...
Protonmail doesn’t support IMAP which is something wish I knew before migrating
Gas is mainly used for heating and the industry, the shutdown of nuclear power plants had no effect on that.

And it wasn’t about expensive gas but multiple suppliers.
But Russia‘s offer was cheap enough to push the concerns aside.

Sadly we will go back to that if the CDU or worse the AfD come to power. Partially thanks to Musk.
I (American) didn't need to go to a branch office for my mortgage. In fact, I don't think my mortgage provider has branch offices.
>disrupt U.S. tech markets, especially AI investments.

By open sourcing so that others can adapt their approaches and improve their models to be as cheap?
My coworkers have passed their Probezeit, do you think it's also like them too?

Also, what is with the negativity? Are you depressed? I bet you're just going to say "I'm a Marxist" or something
Referrals may operate within a network, but references do not necessarily so.
Which is why companies report non-GAAP numbers.

https://abc.xyz/assets/71/a5/78197a7540c987f13d247728a371/20...

> We provide non-GAAP free cash flow because it is a liquidity measure that provides useful information to management and investors about the amount of cash generated by the business that can be used for strategic opportunities, including investing in our business and acquisitions, and to strengthen our balance sheet.
> US citizens not being able to freely access information that is published elsewhere in the world

there is a difference between 'US Citizen having access to information' and 'Hostile Foreign Govt having Direct Push Access for news to ~70% of a generation of Americans as they go from puberty to voting age'. US isn't discussing a Great Firewall, the information will still be available, it just won't be as easy for a generation to be indoctrinated (well, by a foreign govt instead of our own* at least. Theoretically our govt has our interests at heart more than 'hostile foreign power' - but that's a different fight we need to have)
Bull runs don’t require a rational basis, neither do panics.
Managers have an interest in expanding their "fiefdom" and thus push to get more and more people (either by grabbing actual work or by generating work). This is indeed how you create a "legible & convincing narrative" to increase your budget (end goal being more people, more power).

In some startup envrionments the execs may want to show growth by hiring as much as possible but that's not your typical company.
Parent said reliable, not google.
The last scientific developments that anyone cared about were nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles to deliver nuclear weapons. The Cold War kept the economy puffed up for a few decades on the back of that. The next economic bubble will depend upon the next plausible promise to transform the nature of war and with it, the nature of geopolitics. Insofar as anyone is interested in AI, this is why; but it is very thin. Its promise is very indirect, conditional, and hypothetical. Those who want to believe will believe, but the big, agonizingly simplistic civilizational story is hard to find and tell.
Leaked Google Document: "We Have No Moat, and Neither Does OpenAI" (2023)
You can just add that to your message. For example: "give me .com domains only"
Why do you need someone to show you the calculations? All of the important numbers including principal, fees, points, interest rate, and amortization schedule fit on a short PDF. You can verify the calculations yourself on a pocket calculator if you want, it's like grade school level arithmetic.
I used to work together with Mert at the same company but choose to leave on my own 2 years prior to his layoffs because of similar issues as the one pointed out in this post. Most notably, the lack of vision and the excel table. The company had been dragged down by unbelievably incompetent leadership for some time. You could tell by the composition of teams that employees were not considered based on their qualifications but based on a moving-resources-around-in-an-excel-table strategy. There were also no attempts to gain knowledge from engineers or consider their feedback on decisions. This isn't ultimately something every company needs (bottom up is a double edged sword) but mixed with incompetent management it is a fastlane into chaos.
That's why the shovel maker from back then are selling mining machines today.

Everyone here thinks Nvidia is dommed because of training efficiency.

But what has Nvidia been doing for the past decade? Correct increasing training and inferencing efficiency by magnitudes.

Try to train GPT4 on 10k of Volta, Ampere, Hopper and then Blackwell.

What has happened since then? Nvidia has increased their sales in magnitudes.

Why? Because thanks to improvement in data, in algorithms, compute efficiency ChatGPT was possible in the first place.

Imagine Nvidia wouldn't exist. When do you think the ChatGPT moment would happen on CPUs? LOL

Going back to my first sentence. Nvidia started also with small shovels which were GeForce cards with CUDA. Today Nvidia is selling huge GPU clusters (mining machines, yes pun intended ^^).
How many SS's are in "Slow Mississippi bass" ?

I already donated to the Yellow Feather Fund friend, as I recognized some people are very special in this world =3
I'm the opposite -- I use both Word and Pages and I much prefer the experience in Pages, especially the page layout. I find Word painful to work with by comparison and I avoid it as much as I can.
how is that relevant to the discussion of the introduction of plastics? wood is not a new material; we are not discussing a rationale for questioning the manufacture of wood.
If it were me, I would write the code, commit it, and open the PR Monday afternoon
> Renter/homeowner insurance rarely cover precious metals unless they are in their highest premium ( read worst as store of value ) forms as jewelry or kitchenware

You're already paying a double-digit round-trip spread on retail gold. The point is out of all the places you could put physical gold, safe-deposit boxes max out the worst attributes.
Glad to see such a thorough analysis written. Liquidity definitely matters with companies taking so long to exit. Such risk isn’t worth it for many employees, and if something doesn’t change I suspect hiring people will become hard for startups.
Car dpendency is a bad example because it assumes that everyone has the same values and weighs the externalities the same. For me,

- Living in an urban space is a huge negative.
- Living in a suburban space is a mild negative.
- Living in low-density suburbs is a huge positive.
- Driving an electric car is a positive.
- Driving an ICE car is a negative.
- Riding a bicycle or walking is a positive if my knees aren't acting up. It's a negative if they are.

A more nuanced description of positive and negative externalities would give a fuller picture, but that's a basic assessment of my values.

I think you'll find the same for other examples of externalities. Corporate air and water pollution is a positive for a company (i.e., a company that disposes of waste cheaply). For people in surrounding areas, it's a huge negative. Different values for different populations
IMHO there is no controversy. If you write applications in Python, you must have a modern package manager whether it’s uv or hatch or anything else.

I think that uv is the best so far but it doesn’t matter.
> Did you read the article?

Seriously? I read the entire damn article before posting. That's why you see my comment had "the part about 97%" in it. It's referring to what was in the article. Was this really necessary?

> it’s using the technology as a way to dodge the law. In this case, we have laws against price fixing. Using an app for price fixing is a way for the price fixer to say, hey, it’s not me, it’s this other company that tells me pricing.

And I was telling you I don't buy this. Because if someone can make more money from defecting from the coordination strategy, they absolutely will. Unless, you know, 97% of the market is owned by one player. Or unless the parties can legally prevent each other from defecting. Or unless they can just blatantly collide illegally because law enforcement is lazy. Etc.

I gave you an actual example. The rental thing in NYC has a contractual price enforcement mechanism that is the real culprit. Why the heck do you think they include that provision if merely having an app was enough to fix prices and obfuscate it?
What's the issue with the BCG? My understanding was that it had been sucessful, is that a bit of a myth?
The title is: "DeepSeek hit by outages as users flock to Chinese AI startup"
> openAI seem to have forgotten 'The Bitter Lesson'. They have been going at things in an extremely brute force way.

Isn't the point of 'The Bitter Lesson' precisely that in the end, brute force wins, and hand-crafted optimizations like the ones you mention llama and deepseek use are bound to lose in the end?
US banks are weird [1]. Archaic. Slow. Filthy rich. Incompetent. And yet they're nearly impossible to disrupt due to the benefit of size. Starting a new bank is expensive, unless you want to pretend at being a real bank and letting another bank handling all of the nitty-gritty details. In which case you've now become a reseller of that bank, and will likely be even worse.

The only thing that can disrupt US banks is consumer outrage, of which there seems to be very little.

[1] Source: I've consulted for some of the largest US, European and African banks.
It's probably less about MS and more about the people downloading the packages
> if you aren't paying fees, the commercial entity must be aiming to make revenue off of you being a customer in some way.

Yes, credit cards make money from merchant fees and banks make money from lending your money out.
Could it be that the sub-prime mortgage goofballs did exactly that two decades ago, and the shields are still up?
There are also some good libs for SQLite. This is the standard set that I use.
https://github.com/nalgeon/sqlean
Isn't it blasphemy for someone to say Christ is "our" Lord if they aren't Christian? How am I being "anti-christian"? Who's being divided or demeaned?

I even said "AC" i.e. "After Christ" would've been an acceptable substitute and had the advantage of matching "Before Christ" which is in English. AD and BC is a mishmash of English and Latin that always struck me as weird.

The academic world settled on CE and BCE instead. I don't care. It's unimportant.

> Let's stop using Sunday thru Saturday cuz those relate to Norse religions

Does using any of those names imply that you believe Odin is the All-father?
+1 happy customer since 2020.
I bet you're a joy to work with.
Why does FORTRAN, which is older than C, has no trouble with auto-vectorization?

Mostly because of a very different memory model, of course. Arrays are first-class things, not hacks on top of pointers, and can't alias each other.
It's legally a grey area. It might even be fair use. Facts themselves are not protected by copyright. If there's no unauthorized reproduction/copying then it's not a copyright issue. (Maybe it's a violation of terms of services of course.)
> how does crypto replace banks?

Crypto can replace some banking functions, such as payments, electronic transfers, and lending/borrowing.

One could argue that crypto eliminates the need for traditional checking accounts since you have full control over your funds with private keys. However, this doesn’t account for the legal safeguards and protections that banks provide.

> Am I going to get a mortgage in BTC?

I don’t recall seeing mortgage services in crypto yet. However, there are borrowing platforms like AAVE, primarily used for leveraging crypto investments or speculation. These platforms are decentralized, with strict collateral requirements, typically limiting borrowing to 80% of your collateral.

> If narrow banking, why give them my btc at all instead of holding myself?

Not sure I fully understand your question, but typically, when you lend your crypto to a service, you’re seeking to earn a yield in exchange for the risk of lending your assets.

> Does that even work on blockchain?

Theoretically, yes. You could create a narrow bank using crypto, but you’d need a decentralized mechanism to verify the bank’s holdings. This could involve creating an oracle (ex: Chainlink) service to confirm asset reserves.

> How do you do fractional reserve lending with a deflationary and one of one asset?

Instead of using deflationary assets like BTC, fractional reserve lending could rely on stablecoins, which are better suited for such systems. That said, not all stablecoins are equally reliable.
"A players hire A players and B players hire C players”.

I’m not saying I am necessarily an “A player”. But I am secure in my skills and the ability to convince someone to pay me for my skills. I was instrumental in hiring three people at a job who were all better than me at the time. I learned so much from them while I was there, it helped set me up for my next job that was my first job as a lead.

Why would I want someone that can’t help me be successful at my current job and whom I can’t learn from?

Even there I would ask my then former coworkers first advice.
If LLMs were generally useful, this should likely hold true. If LLMs are a hype-driven bubble, then this shock may be enough to burst it.
Frankly keeping your mailbox backed up is mind boggingly easy.

Essentially you just have to configure mutt on a *nix host to download your email once an hour. 10 minute set up time?

Miles different from managing your own email infrastructure.
Was a bit hyperbolic, but PS5 comparison doesn't work. Sony always intended to sell more PS5s, whereas FE cards have always been unavailable for 99% of their lifetimes.
Looks like NVDA also has no moat.
> There are a few reasons for this, but the most concrete is that your behavior in this job has an impact on getting the next one

This is completely false. I literally haven't seen someone do a reference check once in the last 10 years. Early 2010s it was more common but this practice is dead. Now every company is a new slate. In fact, I've seen people repeatedly rewarded for jumping ship and build there career on that. Companies have stopped investing in devs, so why should devs not reciprocate?

And there are so many startups. More than you can count. There are more new ones every day than you could ever have time to apply to. They don't all have time to talk to each other.

Not saying it's not good to have pride in your work, but within reason, and within a framework of fairness and quid pro quo. Don't let people exploit you any more than you exploit them. Employment is 100% transactional and the moment you forget that is the moment you get taken advantage of.
Is there an envelope system? I would definitely help write one if that’s not the case. Anyway it’s great, that’s exactly what I needed.
When narratives fail, to casual observers the failure seems sudden and out of the blue, but there are usually unmistakable signs of "narrative breakdown" that often become obvious to most observers only in hindsight. One of the most dramatic stories of a "failed narrative" we have ever read comes from Barton Biggs, in his book "Wealth, War and Wisdom":

>> "...the Japanese official battle reports and the Japanese press reported the Battle of the Coral Sea as a great triumph, and Midway was portrayed as a victory, not a defeat, although some loss of aircraft and ships were admitted. Although casualties must have been noted and grieved, Japanese society at the time was so united behind the war policy and believed so totally in the invincibility of the Japanese military, that defeat and economic failure were virtually inconceivable. It would have been unpatriotic to sell stocks..."

>> "Not every investor in Japan misread the battles at Coral Sea and Midway. Food was in short supply, and railings in the parks around the Imperial Palace were being dismantled for their iron. The Nomura family and Nomura Securities in mid-1942 began to suspect the eventual defeat of Japan. Although the newspapers and radio broadcast only good news about the course of the war, the Nomuras apparently picked up information in the elite tea houses of the upper class. Many of the naval officers and aviators involved in the battles at Midway and the Coral Sea had geishas, and when the officers failed to return, rumors began to circulate."

>> "The Nomura family, sensing something was amiss, began to gradually sell its equity holdings, and even sold short. Later they purchased real assets, probably reasoning that land and real businesses would be the best stores of value in a conquered country. These protected assets allowed the family to have the capital to finance the rapid expansion of Nomura Securities & Research in the immediate postwar years and eventually emerge as the dominant securities firm in Japan."

When did the narrative above "officially" fail? Many date it to August 15, 1945, six days after the 2nd atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, when Emperor Hirohito addressed Japan on the radio to announce Japan's surrender, noting "...the war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage..."