skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds of the joke in physics, in which theoretical particle physicists told experimental physicists, over and over again, "trust me bro, standard model will be proved at 10x eV, we just need a bigger collider bro" after another world's biggest collider is built.

Wondering if we are in a similar position with "trust me bro AGI will be achieved with 10x more GPUs".
Can you back up that solar microgrids will supply enough power to justify NVDA's current valuation?
AI is gonna be overkill for 99.9% of spambots. Use a honeypot or spam detection service that already exists.
I've noticed an uptick of new search engines.

Likely because of the enshitification of google.

But what is most on my mind, is how the enshitification of google might have affected the global economy.....

Allow me to try and explain. Market efficiency is deeply tied to market information. And early google was fantastic at providing accurate and valuable information. It's hard to put into words, and I am not aware of any studies, but it felt like it sped up and/or made the whole economy more efficient.

And today it feels like that has been lost. And I wonder if there could ever be formal accounting to detect how much peak google contributed to.... not so much GDP, but how the economy functions. And compare to today.
The price swings with crypto are on the demand side. It is completely unsafe because there's no rhyme or reason to its demand, people just following whichever way the crowd goes, in whichever direction, and variously hoping it continues or reverses.

It's not even like gambling on an external event like whether a horse wins -- it's betting on how other people are betting.

There is absolutely no reasonable expectation that its value will increase over time. There's no reasonable expectation of anything because it has no demand-side fundamentals whatsoever.
FWIW, I will no longer be a customer of any company where I am aware that they financially or politically support the current regime. That especially includes local service providers.
Followed usually by "bugger!".
This just in.

Competition lowers the value of monopolies.
Sounds like uMatrix (RIP) with extra steps.
This style of programmer post is strange. We are asked to take it on faith that quality results have been achieved, despite being given no evidence that anyone has deeply tested any of it.

This is faith-based programming.

I can’t do anything with this advice.
That's what they're seeking. Question is, is the game structured to allow them to find it, or is it asymptotically approaching total boredom fast enough that all the endgame entities are doomed to get bored with the search for solution to boredom.
We started measuring progress this month by measuring how many percent of last week's planned tasks were completed, and it's already showing.

Everyone is reporting 100 % which means they're probably doing three days worth of work in one work week to keep the number up.

One product owner showed 12 tasks out of 57 being completed and still gave out a 100 per cent completion rate because he retroactively rated those 12 as critical and the rest as unimportant.
A new entrant, with an order of magnitude advantage in e.g. cost or availability or exportability, can succeed even with poor drivers and no CUDA etc. Its only when you cost nearly as much as NVidia that the tooling costs become relevant.
How much do you think a $20 AirTag costs to actually manufacture?
What legitimate reason they had in Ukraine?
People owned NVDA because they believed that huge NVDA hardware purchases was the ONLY way to get a AI replacement for a Mid Level software engineer or similar functionality.
Wow, this is fantastic! Have to spin up a NodeBB forum soon to check it out.
For the record: you can specify a different DPI _for each monitor_ for Qt X11. You just cannot change it after the program has started, which is exactly the limitation I was referring to.

But you can definitely move windows to another monitor and Qt will use the right DPI for it. It is the same behavior as Wayland. "One large wide screen display" is exactly how Wayland works...
It’s all about accounting for the spend. Wall Street often looks at Capital Expenditures as a sign of growth or at least net neutral, but they view Operating Expenses as negative. If you can reduce your operating expenses by 200k, but increase your capital expenditure by 400k, you’ve reduced overall profit in order to increase growth potential because your investing 400k into new stuff that will bring in more revenue.

This strategy cannot work long term unless there is growth happening elsewhere in the company to make up for the excess money burned on contractors and reduced number of employees. But it can definitely work short term if the growth numbers for the quarter are going to look bad, and it has the benefit of giving management someone else to blame when the project work doesn’t get done.

If your company starts replacing employees with contractors, that’s a bad sign.
Well, AR glasses have cameras. Other than that I'm not really sure. I didn't even realize these had a 3D mode or other sensors, I thought they were just a pair of mirrored screens
Yeah, I got stung by that early in my career. So now all my personal software is licensed either CC0 or AGPL3.0. That is first thing I do. Secondly, I don't talk about it at work.

The key here is don't be stupid. Don't write the software on company time or on company equipment. My experience has further taught me:

1. Most employers don't want the software. They want the person writing the software.

2. Once your peers discover that its you writing the software they use there is a good chance they will immediately move on to something else. In JavaScript world "Invented Here" syndrome is extreme and developers do not trust quality software could ever come from people they know.

3. If the software was in use before you got to the organization then you are in the clear.

4. Have multiple lines of alignment, such as a part time job and/or contractual obligations elsewhere. Employers will not fight other employers to gain ownership of your pet project. In my case I have a part time job in the military and the military has the most liberal IP rules on the planet. Now I am a defense contractor on a project with multiple contract vendors, so who would really own my pet project: the contractor that pays my bills, the client that pays the contract, or the other contractor who manages the contract.

5. If its your personal project you are free to abandon it at any time and use your time to play video games. You are also free to abandon that job and go do something else.
ANT+ is still very much present in the cycling world and likely won't go anywhere. While most sensors and devices will also support bluetooth it seems to be a much more fragile and problematic connection. From my own experience I'd always opt for ANT+.
Uhmm... isn't that what crypto is basically?

Per Mark Marc Andreessen the Biden admin tried to shut down crypto entirely But with the new administration we'll hopefully see growth and real competition to the old banks.
Yep, fixed :)

(Long time Infocom fan here)
I'm scanning in my family slides and right now I'm scanning in when my dad was in the Vietnam war. The shots of the Vietnamese and the town are fascinating.
Anyhow, if you can deliver more with less, this is huge good news for AI industry.

After some readjustment we can expect AI companies to start using the new method to deliver more. Science fiction might happen sooner than expected.

Buy the dip.
he's not responsible for an outbreak of a contagious illness. if he had been president 3 weeks ago the LA fire would have been linked to him. thats how it was for 4 years. then one day, nothing was the president's fault anymore. Nobody beleives that.
Margins aren’t an objective measurement. Margins are easy to manipulate through shell companies and other costs.

Just look at PBMs. They all supposedly have small margins. However, once you peel back the layers, you see rebates and kickbacks and all kinds of illegal schemes to hide the real income.
HN has a general tech audience including SWEs who are paid so much that they exhibit the Nobel Disease and fauxtrepeneurs who use AI as a buzzword. They exist on X too but the conversations are diffused. You’ll have a section of crypto bros on there who know nothing technical they are talking then. Other user’s algorithms will fit their level of deep technical familiarity with AI.
And as a happy coinless worlder I'd much rather use my free will to prevent you from enabling systems being built that could endanger my free will and that of my progenies' in the future, and will exercise said free will to encourage government officials--on a case-by-case basis when necessary-- to ban said trash.
Background Oriented Schlieren (2018)
DevLeague – Your GitHub Profile as a Pokemon Card
Like The Fountainhead?
New Neural Network Slashes Sensor Data Overload
DeepSeek Platform Is Down
AI seems like a better use case for all the GPU and energy that goes to bitcoin mining.
> It's actually hilarious that whoever was in charge of Google's finder network decided to cripple the product's one and only function by prioritizing privacy.

That sounds like that "whoever" was the corporate legal team. Every time I tracked down these kind of idiocities in large corpos, it's usually legal or security team that overrode common sense and sabotaged their own product.
This exact theory is also used to model the electrical behavior of neurons in the brain, with some slight differences (no inductances, non-linear resistances), under the name "cable theory" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_theory

I remember one professor mentioning the origin of this theory in undersea cable modeling at some point.
I’m not being a troll I’m seriously asking - how does crypto replace banks? Am I going to get a mortgage in BTC? If narrow banking, why give them my btc at all instead of holding myself? If not narrow banking then they are lending out my btc? Does that even work on blockchain? How do you do fractional reserve lending with a deflationary and one of one asset?
It's one thing to informally cultivate a network and another to actively interview all the time. I've done the former which has resulted in my three jobs since the late 90s and I've never done the latter.
Read the linked page, and its infographic. 38% + 25% = 63% ~ "two thirds". There are another 11% caused by "human activity", it's just neither "fishing" (trawler nets) nor "anchorage", but "other", which could even be a keel severing the cable close to shore.

https://blog.telegeography.com/hs-fs/hubfs/2017/submarine-ca...

74% human caused (38% fishing, 25% anchorage, 11% other)

14% environmental (8% natural, 6% abrasion)

12% neither human nor environmental (6% component failure, 6% other)

"Deliberate sabotage and shark bites are exceedingly rare"
No, there is always a reasonable expectation that crypto will crash to near zero.

Crypto valuation is based on the greater fool theory and one day you will run out of fools.
I don't think it's that simple. For one thing, AI isn't a democratizing force. If it's as good as you think it will be, it will be less like having a good education and more like having an indentured servant. Some people will have whole fleets of such servants doing their bidding, while others will have none.

For another, research isn't an end unto itself. As you note, for some people an already-unfathomable level of societal knowledge has resulted in nothing but continued poverty. Benefit from scientific knowledge requires a stable economy full of consumers who can and will purchase high-tech items. Where will that wealth come from once the value of human intellectual labor has been so undercut by cheap AI intellectual labor? Without the capitol to make AIs work for us, most if not many people will be left to live their life as servants to AIs so that those AIs are able to have autonomy in the real world.
C has been invented when CPUs, those few available, were just single cored and single threaded.

Wanna SMP? Use multi-thread libreries.
Wanna SIMD/MIMD? Use (inline) assembler functions.
Or design your own language.
I'd love some references to back this claim up. I have no idea what it costs to fix an undersea cable, but ships can go for many millions.

It's a different class of vessel than I expect is used in these types of incidents, but I recently read an article about the Coast Guard's purchase of a $125m icebreaker[1].

[1] https://www.propublica.org/article/aiviq-icebreaker-military...
Here It Is, the Worst Slack Bug
Two months in much of Europe is within 6-month trial period, it's easy to let anyone go.
US Banks are much worse at serving common people than many other old big banks around the world, certainly compared to Germany's banks for example.

And yes it is thanks to a byzantine system of history, regulations and very few Americans travelling abroad to experience radically better systems.
Would you know if, when the conditions are not respected, the owner of the cables could actively counter the activities? It would be a ship of a country vs a ship of another country on international waters. (I am wondering about that in the context of the international law.)
Limitations inspire creativity :D
Behaviorally designed training leads to more diverse hiring – Science
Ahh good old dragon slayer iv in the MSX
Join a union. If every worker at a company was willing to go on strike when redundancies are announced, they’d be forced to do better by their workers, or even something else entirely.
It's puckerooed
we share the same preferences, which is not to have our lives disrupted by sudden, loud, percussive sounds. There is a video from the 90s taken from a ship in the atlantic that shows how loud Concorde's sonic boom actually was, 40k feet below. you should watch it and ask if you would be ok with that sound throughout the day and night. not to mention how the wildlife could be affected.
They only need cutting edge to be competitive, and that will be true independently of efficiency. That's the point.
>With the advent of the revolutionary Chain-of-Thought ("COT") models introduced in the past year, most noticeably in OpenAI's flagship O1 model (but very recently in DeepSeek's new R1 model, which we will talk about later in much more detail), all that changed. Instead of the amount of inference compute being directly proportional to the length of the output text generated by the model (scaling up for larger context windows, model size, etc.), these new COT models also generate intermediate "logic tokens"; think of this as a sort of scratchpad or "internal monologue" of the model while it's trying to solve your problem or complete its assigned task.

Is this right? I thought CoT was a prompting method and are we calling the reasoning models as CoT models?
5 year maintenance cost of a merc C43 is estimated at about $10k (from a reddit post), that sounds equally expensive.
I find it weird how some people think that the country who illegally invaded Iraq on a whim enabled a genocide in Gaza could possibly be trusted to enforce international law on any other matter.

There was a period when a law based international order theoretically could have been implemented by the US but since 1991 it's always just followed the principle of "fuck you my guns are bigger than yours" with some bullshit legalistic pretext.
In my opinion, this is clearly a display of a character strength. I strongly trust proton now that its CEO revealed itself to be of such strong character. Isn’t that the whole job of a ceo?
For every one of you, there is one of me to offset you and increase my support of the product. You probably don’t even use them and never intended you, and the rest of the user base is better for it.
Emergency Braking Will Save Lives. Automakers Want to Charge Extra for It
Try to use this https://github.com/xthezealot/npmprune
Because there is collusion in the supply chain as well. The grocery stores won’t place your product, the distributors won’t distribute it or will charge you more, the farmers will charge you more. This is why horizontal and vertical consolidation were made illegal a century ago. Anti-competitive behavior has to be policed at every level.
They tend to be loaded with oil, you don't want them to "accident".
That might be it, this company was obsessed with CAPEX vs. OPEX. Everything was always put into the context of CAPEX or OPEX. OPEX being bad and CAPEX good.
More dollars in circulation chasing the same supply of products = increased demand for those products, in dollar terms. I'm not looking specifically at the COVID spike (which, indeed, seems to be over from a monetary policy perspective), I'm looking at the longer term continuous exponential increase in money supply.
Elk is a type of transmission line conductor. Example - https://www.lzcable.com/acsr-elk-conductor/

Others include moose and drake.
In my opinion statements like that are mostly a sop to the French and other formerly Nazi-occupied peoples, who were not happy that the de-Nazification process was largely abandoned after only a few years and most war-time German military and civilian officials were given blanket amnesties and used to rapidly rebuild the new West German state and military.
For sure, but we still have a massive proportion of what could be served by Mass Transit in the States all dedicated to cars, which is why gridlock is basically the American commuting experience in one word. I just spent a week in a major city visiting my employer's office for some face time with everyone, and every morning was started by spending about 20 minutes stuck in traffic, even though my hotel was only a short drive from HQ.
I imagine, most people as myself, would rather avoid such controversial conversations on what's essentially their CV.
Yeah, screw anyone we can throw into some "other" bucket. I got mine and that's all that could ever matter.

/s
How is this asking to prove a negative?
> contractors will be hired typically to contribute to capital expenditure

You know, operational expenses are the ones that get an immediate tax break, and capital expenditure the ones with a depreciation period.

Changing the expenses that way can only increase the company's tax payments. The only reason one could possibly want to make that change is if they want to fraudulently show the money paid for the contractors as earnings.
The final pro/cons list: https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/595#issuecomment-1200480148

I don't find the cons all that compelling to be honest, or at least I think they warrant further discussion to see if there are workarounds (e.g. a choice of compression scheme for a library like typescript, if they would prefer faster publishes).

It would have been interesting to see what eventually played out if the author hadn't closed the RFC themselves. It could have been the sort of thing that eventually happens after 2 years, but then quietly makes everybody's lives better.
> management is apparently incapable of managing

That’s frequently the fundamental issue really.

Measuring a developer’s productivity as an IC is fairly easy. Measuring quality of manager’s decisions is tricky
> Since I've always been alone it was easy to slip into that false sense of belonging.

Same thing happened to me. Work was the first place where I felt I actually belonged and knew my own worth. It can be very intoxicating.
https://www2.telegeography.com/submarine-cable-faqs-frequent...

https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/nv/insights/itu-launche...
"prioritizing the protection of the most vulnerable employees, such as those with children"

This is so discriminatory, I don't even know where to start. Also, employees with children are more likely to need urgent time off, and have more stringent time constraints than the ones who don't.
25 a year due to 'Anchorage' according to the image in your source.

That's once every 14.6 days, worldwide.
x86 is more than 40. ARM is 30-ish.

Most importantly, it's been just a few years since we could start getting reasonable RISC-V boards.
Just enough to keep going is different from a lifestyle business.
Ramen/support low margins != a good lifestyle
Congrats on a great write-up. Sometimes trying to ship something at that sorta scale turns out to just not really make sense in a way that is hard to see at the beginning.

Another personal win is that you got a very thorough understanding of the people involved and how the outreach parts of the RFC process works. I've also had a few fail, but I've also had a few pass! Always easier to do the next time
Big companies can double your compensation though, it's a tradeoff.
I’ve been working for almost 30 years and I’ve had 10 jobs. A layoff for me has not been “traumatic”. It’s a nuisance.

“Always keep your running shoes around your neck”.

After staying at my second job too long and becoming an “expert beginner” in 2008 and being stuck, I said “never again”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39629190

1. I keep enough savings in a liquid account to pay my expenses between 9-12 months.

2. I keep my skills up to date.

3. Don’t be a “ticket taker”. This link I posted to HN describes my thoughts perfectly (It isn’t my blog)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42818169

4. Keep your network strong.

My first layoff was in 2011 when the company was sold for scraps and they let everyone go. We all knew it was coming. Management was up front with us about the difficulties the companies was facing and that kept us apprised of the companies that our investors were looking to for acquisitions. Our investors also promised us that we would get paid for every hour we worked.

Most of us stuck around to the bitter end, when the time came, they gave us our notice, we all went to lunch together and came back to the office and just joked around for awhile.

The CTO had a couple of recruiter friends reach out to us. From looking at LinkedIn, everyone got a better job within a month. Our major customer arranged for me to finish my work as a contractor for them after making an agreement with the acquirer to let me keep the code while working for the customer.

The second time was the year before last and it was Amazon. I commented here about four months after it happened.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37963988

I honestly didn’t think about the layoff three weeks after it happened. It was then my 8th job since 1996, I got my severance and moved on to my ninth job three weeks later.

The next job after that one ended up being mote shitty than I could imagine. I got laid off from there last year. I replied to an internal recruiter from my current company and again had a job three weeks later.
Its caste. The cleaning lady is part of the company and its a horror that the dalit are dis-included from all company activities. The only actual reason is to divide and conquer and prevent them being part of any employee unionization.
> In Germany now there are laws in place for this, you get ridiculous stuff like as consultant you are not allowed to eat together with team mates from the employer because that is seen as bounding activities

AFAIK in Germany the model of using temporary agency staff (AÜG or "staff leasing") is now tightly regulated. It works for a limited time period and tries to guarantee some equitable conditions for temporary workers like fair treatment, equitable wages, and benefits, aligning with the protections afforded to permanent employees.

Consultancy has no such protections.

I have never heard of any laws that prohibit internal employees from socializing with the externals (consultants or AÜG), or eat together. Bonding can happen equally at the desk or the lunch table. And I haven't heard of any company or institution enforcing this. Legislating who one is allowed to eat with sounds crazy.

What many companies probably enforce is "no internal benefits for consultants", so the free company coffee, parking, canteen, or maybe even a desk/office are not available for the externals, and they have to look elsewhere. Or maybe some unwritten internal rules to discourage bonding.
The New World of Redis
Not scripture. Passages from the "Great Books" (literature, philosophy, poetry...)