skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Any oil or gas they might get control of…

Oil and gas are the last thing that comes to mind when thinking about resources of that region. Coal, agriculture, manufacturing…

> Their military will be so degraded

Russian army is currently stronger than before the war. There’s ongoing purge in ministry of defense to clean the ranks from corruption, they learned a lot and invested a lot in military industrial complex. The casualties are high, mostly among fresh recruits, but also a lot of professional military personnel got plenty of experience. It will be wrong to dismiss it.

> that they might face a series of rebellions in their border regions in the next decade

Absolutely not. Situation in politics is very stable now and there’s no path leading to such destabilization.

>Also, if you’re a poor Asian worker looking for a country to move to, would you rather choose South Korea or rural Russia?

Central Asian workers did well and will be fine in construction, hospitality and few other sectors in Russia where they historically filled significant numbers of jobs. They are scared now, but as the war ends, incentive to return will be high. Biggest Russian advantage here over South Korea is cultural proximity, shared language and established travel routes.
It's shockingly bad because of how they want it to behave. They don't want it to bullshit, they don't want it to say rowdy things, and they want it stay "on brand".

Well too bad. These things are all modeled after human beings... they're literally called large language models. Human beings bullshit, they say rowdy things, and they don't always stay on brand.

The only way to have an exceptional AI is you actually "raise" (train) it like you would a normal human being. That's being learned with the quality of Deepseek's models, although I think they're lying through their teeth about how much it cost to train it. It's in China's interest to bullshit on that metric, so they're bullshitting.
>Like, a high-yield savings account is just a savings account with a better price, right?

Most if not all the big banks have a high yield savings account or an equivalent under different names.

And yes, it's just a savings account with an actually noteworthy interest rate. It's usually a bit below the interest rate of money market funds.
That would be great. Instead, we got an article vaguely demanding "transparency" for "untracked" objects, when the motivating example for the article is an object that was actually very well tracked and was launched with millions of witnesses live on stream.
You might want to read the academic criticisms of an influential pop history book written by an academic, such as Sapiens.

And 20% is way overstated, esp for a SOTA model when it comes to verifiable facts.
The choice is always between a controller and a generator.

The advantage of a controller is that it can react to external conditions, for example nodes/pods failing, etc. The is great for e.g. a database where you need to failover and update endpointslices. The advantage of a generator is that it can be tested easier, it can be dry-runned, and it is much simpler.

All of your examples seem to me like use cases that would be better implemented with a generator (e.g. Helm, or any custom script outputting YAML) than a controller. Any reason you wrote these as controllers anyway?
Openhaystack: Build 'AirTags' – track Bluetooth devices via Apple's network
It’s really expensive for enterprise — like about the same cost as M365 E3!
There used to actually be lots of new banks, now there are some: https://www.statista.com/statistics/193052/change-in-number-...
Because you and others draw parallels to left-pad and that is very far from what is actually happening in the Rust ecosystem.

> Is it a rule that anyone disagreing with you is ill-informed?

Obviously not, I am getting a bit agitated that nuance is lost during such rants, and I get even more annoyed when people are like "yeah, I agree!" with zero attention to nuance.

Again, the article is ranty and it is not even factually correct -- the terminal functionality does not have such huge amounts of churn as many other modern tech stacks have, happily, but it's not frozen in time as the OP makes it sound. And it's not "change for the sake of change" either. OP even recognizes this part (by saying that other pieces are moving around this mostly static piece) later on which makes his earlier rant even worse IMO.

Hence my annoyance with your and others "+1" comments. Again, any parallels to others, much more churn-ey, ecosystems like Node.JS, are arbitrary and unfair.
Roasting your Hacker News-lurking, Mountain View-based setup: Only a Linux user with 16 CPU cores would still need 21 seconds to click "Judge Me" while triple-checking their Firefox configs. Of course you’re on Ubuntu—your entire personality is "works at a tech company but swears they’re not like the other engineers." And maxTouchPoints: 0? Touch grass, not screens, you beautifully predictable NPC.
The Future of Systems Engineering
I'm Polish and this is the dumbest thing I've read all day.
The Chess YouTube Revolution
The only reason LLMs “work” is because they are trained on a vast corpus of (text-based) human interactions online. The main reason LLMs weren’t a thing 25 years ago, was because there just wasn’t enough scrapeable and useful data available online…

Reduce the dataset to “knowledge as of year 1880” - and it’s not certain you’d even be able to “interact” with the LLM in any meaningful way…
Metric units can't stop catching strays
>How long will your corner store survive if the IRS found out you were processing transactions in your own currency?

Offering someone credit in USD isn't making your own currency. The closest widespread version of that are community currencies[0], which the US doesn't seem to particularly care about -- I'm guessing because they're generally pegged to the dollar and promote local economies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_community_currencies_i...
Not seriously detailed, but try this:

https://userpages.umbc.edu/~vijay/mashey.on.risc.html

Another way to view it: Motorola did not have a senior 68k implementation engineer, who could look down the road and push back against cool- or easy-sounding ideas for making 68k programmers happy.

(I once heard that, with virtual memory, a single 68040 instruction could generate 16 page faults. No, that'll never happen in the real world - but once the spec' is final, the CPU implementation team has to lay out a chip that can handle every situation correctly. And if you're pipelining a sequence of "tough" instructions against corner-case data - yeah, that can be factorial hell.)
> both preferred 25 hours with flexibility

That's not an option though. The option uber gives is "maybe 25, maybe not, you'll find out on the day".

That's still "how do we keep uber in business". There are alternatives like good quality overprovisioned public transport which can take most of those customers. It can also deal with peak situations like events.

It's a sunk cost fallacy to think of uber as some kind of last resort employer that can ignore the rules.
Because _everyone hated it_. Now, it seems that everyone also hates copilot, but there is no point pre-dooming it by bringing the dread paperclip back from hell.
A basic problem is they're trained on the Internet, and take on all the biases. Ask any of them so purposed edX to MIT or wrote the platform. You'll get back official PR. Look at a primary source (e.g. public git history or private email records) and you'll get a factual story.

The tendency to reaffirm popular beliefs would make current LLMs almost useless for actual historical work, which often involves sifting fact from fiction.
Hopefully Europe got the message and will start arresting and prosecuting the sailors who damage these cables. Europe should impound the vessels as well. Before soon Russia and China will run out sailors and vessels.

This is the second such incident in a row that we know where the sailors and the vessels have been seized. Hope Europe will keep doing the same for future sabotages.
Devil's advocate/ hot take: this is peak NIMBY, screwing over rural people half a world away because you don't want to see a few extra stars in the night sky when camping.
I got 15 minutes for basically a useless compiler and programming language that I spent 6 months on. Just for the effort-to-result ratio I feel like it's possible to do quite a lot better.
And buildings constructed with wood?
Jevons Paradox states that increasing efficiency can cause an even larger increase in demand.
Starburst (full disclosure: I work there) provides a query engine (trino under the hood) with Iceberg support [1] -- worth checking out.

[1] https://www.starburst.io/platform/icehouse/
Don't they make weapons for the Saudis, and trains for Bahrain? That was the big kerfuffle that led the old King to leave, his mistress was the conduit for bribes, she got a nice millionaire condo in London, and gave an interview noticing how the King really loved her.

Spain does have major industries still, unlike Portugal.
> why such a rush

First mover / Fear of missing out.

Frankly, inclusion of "AI" in a tool is a great way to ensure I don't use it.
50USD? What could possibly be the value of those iris scans? I don't get it.
Bitcoin physical value is that, one way or the other, billions of humans got atoms in their brains, arrange in such a way that they recognize bitcoins, and have a certain understanding of it's setup... this is a lot of atoms, and is no small fit.
Shunpo: Minimalist bash tool to make directory navigation a little bit faster
if they could keep it up to date and accurate that might actually be a useful product, albeit a product I shouldn’t need.
A labor of love!

Thanks for sharing it!

I probably won't use it, though.

On a practical note, when I release apps, I generally try to support as far back as possible (usually a couple of major releases). Supporting these can be challenging. I can only imagine what this was like.
The current Steam refund policy is a result of consumer law in Australia.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/03/valve-steam-refunds-v...
Hopefully it still is being tracked by them, otherwise when someone reports it tomorrow they'll have no idea what it is and will need to go through this song and dance again.

It's just not being published on a certain curated list by the MPC.
"Star Wars" as the race between the USSR and the US to dominate space—landing on the Moon, the first animal in space, the first human in space, etc. It spanned decades and was a huge drain.
This reading helped me a great deal in understanding this community when I joined, and it appears it’s been over a year since its last repost! I hope many of you get to read this wonderful educational piece by minimaxir for the first time like I did years ago, Cheers!
Teemoji: Like tee but with emojis
Precious metal prices rarely track with inflation, but 1.7% of a portfolio should contain such leaky holdings.

While it is currently legal for US citizens to own gold bars since 1974, if the tax man gets hungry... the old rules may come back into popularity.

Best of luck, =3
It's going to be interesting to see where things go with this. I'm still struggling to see why their offering would have a different fate, if not worse. It's got a lower passenger capacity but still has the same cost issues that plagued Concorde.

I guess the only difference really is they arent shy about making it clear its for business customers and not commercial airliners, and tickets will be expensive.
Would be fascinating trying to get an LLM trained with 1900 data to discover Einstein physics
There is almost nothing in the article that is "rocket man bad." The article is "lack of global coordination about man made objects in deep space bad." Which seems kinda like a reasonable and slightly boring complaint except that it's funny in this case because it was a drifting car.
How does scanning someone's eyeballs help anyway? It's not unique if its stolen. Then what?
I think that's correct.

Maybe even just a different title, indicating it's a youth project, would have set more accurate expectations.

There are a LOT of half baked linux phone projects. And many people here, I'm sure, have bought and tried to use a few of those. It's generally not a fun experience. Even if a person is trying to contribute to the project, if you work on something hard for half a year, then have the whole thing disappear into the void. I would call that "not fun".

So, as a high school kids project, it's an awesome acheivement. Just having a high school student be so aware of the impacts of technology freedom is awesome.

But as a "hey, here's your new linux phone", this one is not ready for prime time.

Really just a matter of how the project is presented...
https://www.iau.org/public/themes/naming/

It's initially given a temporary name prior to the now official name.

2018 CN41

Means it's the 41st object identified in the first half of February in 2018.

A is first half of jan. B is 2nd half. Etc.. then the iteration in that section
We’re all family, but the family is undergoing some restructuring. So we’re going to have to let some of our poorest performing sons and daughters go. I’m sure you understand, kiddo. Please leave all family property at security.

Also if you ever come back to the family home, we will be calling the police, as you are no child of mine, not any more. Good luck!
We had to leave Render because there was no support for FAAS. Love Render though!

Congrats on the round!
This also means they'll be excellent at changing history for those who wish history was more aligned with their views.
I want the NVIDIA monopoly to end, but there is no real competition still.
* George Hotz has basically given up on AMD:
https://x.com/__tinygrad__/status/1770151484363354195

* Groq can't produce more hardware past their "demo". It seems like they haven't grown capacity in the years since they announced, and they switched to a complete SaaS model and don't even sell hardware anymore.

* I dont know enough about MLX, Triton, and JAX,
Once everything has made it through the jungle telephone you're lucky if it's 80% correct. 20% wrong is a downright reliable source by human standards, at least about topics which people care about.
"Load accumulator" (LDA)

vs

"Galois Field 2^8 affine transform on quad binary words" (GF2P8AFFINEQB)

The compression factor isn't quite the same on character count, but it's still abbreviated. :)
I mean, long-term shareholders might raise an eyebrow; presumably the bubble will, at some point, burst.
It's not a bullshit argument, it is a battle tested argument with a long history.
It might be time to retire those idioms? A realistic outcome of AI-driven development is code is no longer a long term asset. Patterns like DRY are beneficial because humans have cognitive limits, and many humans over long timeframes need to maintain complex software systems. Maybe patterns like locality of reference are better than DRY for short context window AIs, and maybe we need to start looking at how we would manage many smaller bits of code, with lots of duplication, just like we attend to developer experience today with code analysis and declarative build and deploy pipelines.

If you HAD to deal with 1,000 individual functions - let’s say due to hardware and organizational limitations - how would you manage the obvious risks? Would that be net-net cheaper than a fleet of microservices and development teams?
For a period like the Roman Empire, there's might be too little source material to even train the model to speak Latin, let alone to say anything about its world. IIRC, the entire surviving corpus of ancient Latin would fit into a couple of bookshelves - it's miniscule.
Fair play Dang, I appreciate the ecosystem you've made here, so out of respect for that I'll moderate my engagement.

Thank you for the work you put in.
https://techwireasia.com/2023/12/what-did-singapore-do-to-nv...

Having previously worked in the DC space in Singapore, when I read the sales numbers, I was in disbelief. IMO, there was only a very low probability that all those GPUs remained in Singapore...
For the downvoters, parent commenter has a valid point because COPPA[1] exists and it applies to online services like Copilot.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_Online_Privacy_Pr...
Vercel SQL DB is just a thin wrapper (with added cost) on Neon
> At least with some precious metal, it has a floor value as a function of its practical uses and abundance.

Suppose the price of gold is 80% perception of value and 20% utility for making electronics etc. Then if you buy it, 80% of what you buy is perception of value. You could get the same result by buying 80% Bitcoin and 20% commodity rock salt. Is someone who buys the latter any more of a sucker? What about somebody who then decides to divest the rock salt because it has a below-market rate of return when they have no direct use for it?
Are we really free not to be part of it ?

This administration is also creating a sovereign wealth fund, which trump will exercise significant control over, I would be shocked if crypto and his coins specifically are not included.

We are paying for it all one way or another, either with taxes or more likely higher inflation.
So release them when they work, if ever. Do not release a broken thing and then go “you must use this, in case it is one day non-shit”.
>I'm not sure I buy into the sensationalism behind this story.

Agreed - Elon gets clicks especially given his recent "involvement" with the US government.
Microsoft Series X Copilot for Business E3 with Copilot
It is possible if the weights are not too heavy. Does it make economic sense? Probably not.
I don't think this is right. Secondary cities in Britain are consistently more positive about development than London. I give the example in the piece of Leeds voting to expand its airport and how this was blocked by the UK government. In London it is the UK government trying to force that city to expand Heathrow after London itself rejected it.

The best data I can suggest to try and convince yourself of this is from a fantastic London Centric article on approving 5G masts. This is just one example of how open cities are to growth, but the results are really clear --- "The end result is that in London it is uniquely hard to get permission for new equipment. According to Mobile UK’s internal data in Greater Manchester, Leeds, and Edinburgh more than 80% of requests for new masts are approved at the planning stage. In Greater London this approval rate plummets to less than 40%, one of the worst in the country."

https://www.londoncentric.media/p/why-exactly-is-londons-pho...
I mean, summaries of books have existed for, pretty much, as long as books. People still read books.
Is the first example under The genius idea heading missing entry #3 below?

mary:
docs:
- 0:
posns: [0, 8]
- 1:
posns: [2]
- 3:
posns: [1]
Seriously, pro-Putin Twitter bots is the argument against open source LLMs from China?

If you re-read what I've wrote (especially the last line) you'll understand that I don't have to accept what the left/right of USA/Europe or China/Russia thinks or wants me to think - the model is open source. That's the key point.
Because ai slop is not meaningful content
"wait" I suspect we are all in a bit of denial.

When was the last time the US got their lunch ate in technology?

Sputnik might be a bit hyperbolic but after using the model all day and as someone who had been thinking of a pro subscription, it is hard to grasp the ramifications.

There is just no good reference point that I can think of.
I'm impressed how wlroots compiles in under 3 seconds for me
Decently entertaining but very wrong.
Messaging doesn't have the same real-time requirements. It's still often flaky.
In period, it was not that snug. This was in an era when you could get a dozen people into town in a 2CV and the majority of adults smoked. People were a lot leaner then, and considerably shorter.

In 1954, in the UK, the average male was 5'7" and 11 stone, 6 lbs, which equates to quite a high BMI of 25 (18.5 - 24.9 is healthy BMI). Nowadays there are very few men in the UK with that weight. Let's ignore women from this because women were second class citizens at the time. Men are on average 2 stone heavier.

But average weight is just average, nowadays with 2/3 of UK adults overweight, there are far more people at the top end of the Bell Curve, at double the average weight people had on the 1950s. So half of today's population would not fit in the seats.

When you look at old European or Japanese cars such as the MINI or old FIATs, bear this in mind. Those cars might not have ever been spacious, but, in period, they were not cramped. Similarly, Concorde was never spacious, but it was not a very snug ride until obesity got the better of us.
The real value of almost everything is based on effort I think. The best gifts aren’t the ones that are the most expensive but the ones the giver put the most effort and time into. One of the reasons I like pre-cgi is the amount of skill and the effort put into FX is astonishing. Claymation and stop motion don’t look amazing - it’s the effort.

And to your point, knowing how much effort really goes into something often requires a bit of experience to really appreciate it.
It's silly to claim that austerity is dangerous. Dangerous compared to what? Argentina had reached the logical end state of socialism and literally run out of other people's money to spend. There was no more room to raise taxes or borrow so austerity was the only remaining choice.

Poverty statistics are meaningless. The numbers under previous administrations were heavily manipulated and don't provide a solid basis for comparison.
It misreads my RAM as being stock, so I guess it's basing it on the model and not the actual system info

Edit, nevermind, the user agent reports it wrong, didn't know that could happen

Also it seems like in a second attempt, it got caught in a loop, of trying to cycle among the same 3 "unusual" things but deciding it wasn't unique enough
https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/methinks+thou+dost+prot...

More on Potatotrac:

https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/byprmmxmwve/...

https://ia800109.us.archive.org/34/items/gov.uscourts.ilnd.4...
Ask HN: Tips for Interview Preparations with ADHD?
Got diagnosed 3 years ago, I'm currently unemployed and in the process of searching a new job.
My crippling executive function and impaired memory have made it near impossible to prepare well in advance and recall key information during the interviews.

This cycle of rejections, fear of failure and lack of other options is a vicious loop I'm unable to break. I'm so close to being homeless with just a few months of runway left in my account. I have 7 years of experience and a Masters degree in Computer Science.

Any advice is welcome.
Yeah, it's essentially https://grumpygamer.com/rtmi_pdc/ where the items are nodes and the edges are item interactions, and you're trying to carve out a subgraph for whatever your definition is of a good adventure game.
“Visual daytime observations show that the minimum altitude at which curvature of the horizon can be detected is at or slightly below 35,000 ft, …Photographs purporting to show the curvature of the Earth are always suspect because virtually all camera lenses project an image that suffers from barrel distortion”

https://opg.optica.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-47-34-H39

Another trick you can do: take this Concorde photo and use the rules of geometry to draw the rest of the circle, and look how small an Earth you’ve drawn.
Interestingly, driving infractions are mostly noncriminal.

Corporations are giant responsibility diffusion machines and more often than not they stumble into illegal activity rather than internally commit to it. Hence, they are not acting intentionally. Also relevant is my assertion that this bumbling illegal behavior also needs better enforcement - it's just civil in nature and not criminal.