skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I spent some time in Lossiemouth as an engineering officer in the RAF. There was a period during the start of the Crimea War (2014/15~) when Russian fighter aircraft were circling the edges of our airspace almost every day for months on end - it's been going on for over a decade now if not longer. Russia and the UK have a much deeper adversarial relationship than any other European nation outside of the ex-Soviet states. This is in part due to the complex relationship between Russian oligarchs and London (it's often considered a haven for them from the Putin regime), and the active resistance the UK intelligence service puts up to Russian interference in the West. We're seeing that play out again in the substantial support that's been provided by the UK since the start of the full invasion of Ukraine.
One thing that's excellent about zopfli (apart from being gzip compatible) is how easy it is to bootstrap:

git clone https://github.com/google/zopfli.git
cc -O2 zopfli/src/zopfli/*.c -lm

It just requires a C compiler and linker.
Be on the lookout for an AI-summarized review of discussions on forums. Then the review is put on top, and the thread is hidden. Then the thread is "archived", inaccessible, and lost.

As a matter of fact, why is this not a trend?
I hop between Opera and Firefox both with addblockers and happily continue to never see an ad on the Internet.

I think trying to force ads on adblock users is a bit like if someone had tried to bring back pop-ups.
In most places, it doesn't work that way.
It is normal
https://www2.telegeography.com/submarine-cable-faqs-frequent...

https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/nv/insights/itu-launche...
The economies under Clinton, Obama, and Biden suggest otherwise. But why bother sticking to reality.
First:

> First, you don't have to debug any code. That's your personal choice.

To quote the Simpsons:

> Money can be exchanged for goods and services

Second:

> LLMs are not making this worse or better.

The bottleneck is never "writing code", it's "thinking". LLMs can solve one, but not the other. They allow you to produce more thought (and give you false confidence), but the code has less thought put into it, making it worse.
Distrowatch seems to be under heavy load (probably because of this news story)
“A former employer decided to freeze pay for a few years and later later start laying off people”

Why would anyone stay at a company that had pay freezes for a few years. I would have been looking for another job the moment they announced them.
Like you, I like doing work I enjoy, but I have never been in a layoff, so I don't know how I will react to it.

My hope is that after a layoff I would be able to bounce back and find a new company where I can keep on doing fun work.

Life has ups and downs. I don't think shielding yourself from emotions is a healthy path. Just like you don't have to shield yourself from others forever after a breakup. A key ingredient is to have other part of your life to support you (family, couple, friends, ...) when one is failing.
Do you have statistics for the Baltic Sea? The amount of shipping in that area is much lower than in the major international shipping lanes like the English Channel.
He should not have been closing this tbh.

5% sounds like a good deal
I was once in a fast-growing startup, where the CEO told us in a company all-hands that we had 18 months of runway and that our future was looking great! Some of us devs booked long-delayed vacations after months of grinding hard on releases.

Turned out that this "runway" factored in dumping all the American devs and replacing us with workers overseas who made ~35-40% of what they paid us.

My recent experience in the "data" world taught me that many companies in the US actually want contractors, but our employment laws make it make being "full-time" not that different than a contractor.

Another thing I learned was to never jump on R&D type projects unless you are in a very close communication loop with the leadership. If they are going to see you as a consultant on retainer, you have to always be delivering and improving on stuff that affects the business. I was put on some sort of "special projects" role in three fast-growing startups and those are always the first on the chopping block when things tighten up (and they almost always do at some point, especially in a startup).
> 4. Sudden, Vague Meetings

These aren't actually that rare.
OpenSCAD recently got a Measure tool:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_AEHI2o-6Q

OpenSCAD's strength --- that it makes it easy to create 3D designs which are easily represented mathematically using cubes, spheres, cylinders, cones, and assemblies and distortions thereof is also its weakness --- what one can do in OpenSCAD is strongly bounded by one's fluency in mathematics/geometry/trigonometry (says the guy who is stuck on conic sections in a particular project and needs a solution which is faster to calculate).

Still waiting for the Python-enabled version to make it big:

https://pythonscad.org/
Sadly I've noticed that a lot of handymen and single person companies just have a link to their Facebook page.
Show HN: Files, the new self-hosted file browser on umbrelOS
The Moat is the people.
As far as I can tell Fastmail comes pretty close, I have as many email addresses as I want on multiple domains and a bunch of routing rules for €4/mo.
Most VC backed private companies aren’t profitable. If it is a public company the information is readily available
What's going to eventually sink the H1B program isn't the Americans being put out of work by it nor the depression of wages it enables but rather the tone-deaf and haughty attitudes by both those who hire through the program and those who are in the US on the visas. Pretty much everyone has a "we've broken the letter and spirit of the law for decades and there's nothing you mere mortals can do about it" attitude and getting louder and louder about it every year. They're practically bragging about it. Meanwhile if you search job listings for "H1B only" you get a large number of results. The program is openly being abused while those doing the abuses are mocking the country for being too feeble to do anything about it.
Reasoning models are a result of the learnings from CoT prompting.
Topical given Deepseek story and impact on tech stocks. Reduced demand to train models (-ve compute) offset by increased demand for inference (+ve compute) - thoughts ?
Basically one has to write the solver oneself --- see comment elsethread about how this is OpenSCAD's weakness --- what one can make in it is bounded by one's mathematical fluency.
You don't need to be a just actor to enforce international law if you're strong enough to pull it off and it aligns with your interests.
My personal theory is that the cable owners don't want this to be an "act of war" because then their insurance doesn't pay.
Assuming that is true, which I don't have a reason to believe otherwise, only gave an excuse to the average reader to disregard without reading more than the title.

You can see a similar bias in academia with work originating outside EU/USA.

before someone thinks something strange regarding me, I can only tell you I'm not chinese, but Argentinian :)
My upper left arm scar wasn't made by TB vaccine though, it was Rubella vaccine. I didn't associate it with aftereffects of the vaccine itself, it was the unique method of delivery - an airgun instead of a needle. Never seen that before or since.
My reading of OP is that it’s less about whether zopfli is technically the best way to achieve a 5% reduction in package size, and more about how that relatively simple proposal interacted with the NPM committee. Do you think something like this would fare better or differently for some reason?
I felt the same. The proposal wasn't rejected! Also, performance gains go beyond user stories - e.g. they reduce infra costs and environmental impact - so I think the main concerns of the maintainers could have been addressed.
Finance is heavily regulated.

Disrupting a heavily regulated market is usually called ‘racketeering’ or ‘organized crime’.
Hard to find one that makes sense and isn't inscrutable like mxyzp.tlk.

If I ever do find one that's appropriate I might set up a CNAME record to point to marginalia-search.com
I was "fortunate" to live through the dot com crash early in my career.

When the times were good, the messaging was we were all one big family. When the crash came, there were weekly layoffs. Co-workers that thought they were friends turned on each other to keep their jobs.

I learned to keep a fat emergency fund. I learned to work as a mercenary. I get in, I get out, I get paid. Then I live my life, which is not work. I keep no personal effects, and can be out the door in a second. Coworkers are acquaintances, not friends.
Indeed, although like you say, that is a property of forums rather than a unique trait of HN. I do love HN most of the time.
I've been a fan of The Little Learner for the first principles side of things. It builds up the theory from almost nothing, step by step. It's got a conversational style that may turn some off, but I quite enjoyed it.

https://www.thelittlelearner.com/
Yes, especially since in power transmission the distances are large; if you turn on the power at point A, then point B will not immediately receive the power and this is quite measurable.
layer lines.

That said, if the part is small, and one can afford to print w/ 100% infill just put it in a tray of salt and bake to re-melt/re-flow to make a (more) solid part.

https://x3d.com.au/blogs/tips-and-tricks/pla-baking-the-secr...
Nope, it's about normal.

Nope, there is no conclusive evidence to support your claims.

It's just as likely to be NATO ships doing the damage as it is <insert NATO adversary>.

https://www2.telegeography.com/submarine-cable-faqs-frequent...

https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/nv/insights/itu-launche...
Lets just add a metric (like loc or stockprice) - that will solve things. Gambling metrics will continue till lipservice improves.
The US may ban export of GPUs to China, but a GPU is not enough to build a training rig. You need memories, and hundred of smaller components. China has the ability to produce every component which goes in a computer. Can the US do the same?
Polanyi's Paradox AI and Tacit Knowledge
Aren't all the SIGPLAN conferences recorded now? At any rate, her talks were recorded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrUh5AgIYKE

https://youtu.be/-Br66SUjsdQ?t=12103

(I was also at SPLASH24 and thought she gave great talks. :) )
Awesome! Pretty impressive that the model only weighs ~200Kb
Honest question. That sounds more difficult that getting things to play with commodity hardware. Maybe I am oversimplifying it though.
I never understood the advice of to take on impactful work. How does work? The team is assigned units of work and then individuals are usually assigned the tasks. The only way I see it to work is to be on a team that works on impactful projects.
Run massive models on crappy machines
I also noticed that Groq's Chief Architect now works for NVIDIA.

https://research.nvidia.com/person/dennis-abts
> (That is not the case in many other places.)

Practical angle: so let's add another datapoint! The same is the case in Poland.

Seriously though, it's just a consequence of history. Computers and software were imported to everywhere around the world rapidly; no country wanted to put themselves at economic disadvantage by blocking sales of hardware and software until they 100% up to specs regarding consumer products being fully explained and operable in native language (in fact, I suspect such regulations came about after computers became a thing in any given place).

> Since (my reason at least) is that I can troubleshoot problems using the English Internet corpus. And I don’t need to bother with multiple terms.

For me it's more of the latter. Translations love to screw terminology up, introducing multiple distinct terms for the same abstract concept, and using them inconsistently (often the result of multiple, independent, half-assed passes at translating the user-facing text, manuals, etc.).

English was the language software authors most likely spoke; English is the language of programming and software industry. English is the language almost all software targets first and foremost, due to market/user population size. As a consequence, most care is put into English in the user interface, it's the one considered canonical, it's the one in which the thing was designed (whether the desigers were native English speakers or not); English is the one where user-facing text is most likely to be consistent and corresponding 1:1 with language used in other programs, as well as with code powering it, etc.

Every other language is a translation, most likely done as an afterthought, as cheaply and quickly as possible (there's little incentives to do otherwise - as long as English text is done well, users will manage). If you understand English, running software in anything but English is setting yourself up for failure.
This happened to a friend of mine. Executive made far-fetched PowerPoint slides and tried to raise a budget, the board loved the powerpoint. They restructured, the company laid-off dozens, and hired new foreign contractors. Because past engineers got the blame, and the legacy code. They rewrite from scratch using X this time. Massive failure because of poor morale, brain drain and over-ambitious features. So what now? well let's do another round of layoffs, make new powerpoint slides and repeat the same process.
Why is that ridiculous, I work in consulting. Why would I expect to be invited to the Christmas party? If you had consultants from McKinsey working for you, would you expect them to be invited to your Christmas party?
The Cold War was, well, cold. The war in Ukraine isn't.
I remember a work Christmas party attended by a contractor. The company was an sme and as usual we closed the office at mid-day and headed for a local restaurant to eat and socialise. The contractor as chatty and sociable, and seemed happy to be dining on the company's bill. Wine flowed.

Then at the stoke of 5pm, as we permies were discussing which pub to move on to, the contractor stood up, mumbled his thanks, and left. Billable hours over for the day.
A loved AI: A Modern Approach—still the best all around textbook on AI imho. I'd only add Susanna Epp's Discrete Mathematics with Applications, and I'd just focus on methodically and thoroughly working through those two, personally. First, Discrete Mathematics, then AI: A Modern Approach. This is exactly what I did and it was a great experience, super helpful.
I just tried that prompt with gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21

In the reasoning process it concludes on:
From the brainstormed genres/artists, select a specific song. It's better to be concrete than vague. For this request, "Nuvole Bianche" by Ludovico Einaudi emerges as a strong candidate.
Craft the Explanation and Scenario: Now, build the response around "Nuvole Bianche."

Then in the actual answer it proposes:
"Holocene" by Bon Iver.

=)
AI in 2025: Two Major Shifts
Seems like as good a time as any to show off this cursed thing I keep in my dotfiles:

# Allow .. through ........... (yup!) to cd up some number of directories.
for i in {1..10}; do
spaces=$(printf "%${i}s")
alias "${spaces// /.}."="cd ${spaces// /../}"
done

Going into it, I thought it would be something I'd use all the time. In practice all I ever use is `..` and not nearly as much as I originally imagined I would.
I'm curious what are the key differences between "a reasoning model" and good old CoT prompting. Is there any reason to believe that the fundamental limitations of prompting don't apply to "reasoning models"? (hallucinations, plainly wrong output, bias towards to training data mean etc.)
That immediately came to mind when I read about this. Is Perplexity in such rough shape that they're going for a Hail Mary pass?
I understand. There might be great reasons to not step up and say what is wrong, even when the truth is obvious...

Not the objective of the post but, it still creeps me out that, we don't have on Linkedin, a space to say what what it's (undoubtly) wrong.

It's part of our daily lives as workers, to say that we have an elephant in the room, even if it's with a company and it's eerie intentions towards the humanity, just to please shareholders and keep its value in the stock market.
As far as my Chromium is concerned, it identifies as a...: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

The only thing it doesn't identify as is Internet Explorer.

(Yes it's an old version, no I will update when I feel like it. Shush.)
and a 25% increase in cost
German politics is known for doing what environmental groups want. The stupidity part isn’t Russia but the lobbyists of the fossile energy companies who try to keep their profits from using oil and gas. Germany‘s dependency on Russian gas wasn’t because of Russian influence but because of industry demands for cheap gas.
I’ve seen plenty of attempts to disrupt the big banks that are quickly bought by the big banks if they develop traction.

You see the same with big tech.

To get real disruption we need founders and investors willing to play the long game.
Thanks! Love what you do! Excited to see all the cool stuff that people will make in AR over the next year :)
Oh, those hyperspecialized employees that can only work in one project and could never do the exact same thing if the thing's goal changed...

And yeah, those quick to materialize gains, where the manager can easily discover if a project worked within the same fiscal year...

Also dragons and unicorns, I guess... what a world those people live in!
Bitcoin at its fundamental is a large pyramid scheme where you need new fools to keep on buying at an ever higher price.

The current newest fool is President Trump who wants to take a portion of Federal reserve and put it in Bitcoin. The greatest fool one would say.

And when Bitcoin has a 50% decline due to a scare pullout, the federal reserve also has a pullout and ……… the entire economy tanks.

The market is so hot right now with absurd P/E ratios. One bad nvidia earnings and we’re gonna be in bearish mode.
I was puzzled by the invitation to register domain names through ProtonHosting. I didn’t look into it much, but it seems like ProtonHosting is linked to Betan, a company I can’t find much information about. Going up the nodes, I found that everything is done under the Newfold Digital group (afaik).
Regulation is the racketeering. The central ringleader is the fed, who 'ease' money into thin air, bypassing the pesky annoyance of going around and collecting taxes to fund their private and public benefactors.
I was lucky to dodge the layoff-bullet a few times in my 26 year stint at Apple. (The layoffs were almost exclusively at the start of my career there, mid-90's, as Apple was circling the drain.)

I was told by a coworker, when I was over 50 or so, that they could not fire me because I could turn around and make it about age discrimination at that point. I don't know if my coworker was correct — there is, as was mentioned in the blog post, a weaselly way where they lay off whole teams to avoid the blowback. (And then may cherry-pick a few of the laid-off engineers and make them a quick offer on another team.)

Earlier though in my career I had a very cool manager (hi, Steve!) that made it clear to me that The Corporation doesn't give a fuck about me. That, to that end, I needed to chart my own career path and not rely on might bright-eyed "beamishness" to get me anywhere.

In the end I did stay with Apple for the whole ride but was quicker to switch teams when I thought I was being either overworked or under-compensated. Seeing the company as the cold entity it is was in fact a liberating concept for me. Fortunately I didn't need to be personally impacted by a layoff to find that out.
I don’t think it’s good optics for CEOs to be simping for POTUS without a clear rationale.

Why is a privacy focused company from Switzerland kissing the ring? It’s a relevant question given the business they are in.
> The reach of crypto, outside of fraud and government graft (which is real value) is simply the reach of crypto marketing.

Except when your government is not trustable and you have to find a way to store and transfer value in an independent and anonymous way.
This a very naive take.

The promised retribution against people who voiced concerns (ie, the Jan 6 Committee) is just beginning.
Suddenly I'm connecting the relationship between "budget based economics" and "agile" as commonly implemented. It's trying to fit creativity into a budget. In the places that do it well, it's like "We're supposed to make some really great art, here's the crayons we can afford, sorry if it's not exactly right but it's what we could manage, do whatever you can, we will take it!" In places that do it poorly, it's like "we need you to make the Uber of the Mona Lisa, I'm gonna need you to find a way to make that work, but we can totally be flexible on this, which crayons do you need."

The key differences being that in one case there's well defined constraints on resources but open ended results, and in the other the resource constraints are poorly defined but the end result is much more fixed.
V0.2: Networking in Python
I have never even understood the approach. The sub-budgets within an organization seem so arbitrary and become games in and of themselves, often leading to frivolous purchases just to use up the budget and not get your budget slashed.

Does anyone know when this came into favor? What was used before? What are the alternatives?
Oh wow! That looks really nice. I’ve been wanting to okay with Textual too. This makes me even more intrigued.
The government would never pay their internal employees the amount that consulting companies pay theirs. It would never be approved.
Wayland display servers will already be using what is commonly referred to as hardware cursors.

They just use the atomic API to move a cursor or overlay plane, which reflect how the hardware handles things. That the legacy API exposed a specialized cursor API was just a quirk of the design.

Note that planes are a power optimization more than anything else, as it allows e.g. the cursor to move or for decoded video frames to be displayed while GPU's render-related units are powered down. Drawing the cursor move, even though the render task is a rounding error, would require the render-related units to be on.
Nope. That's not going to make it over, obviously. The race is still on. Just because Marcus called a tie at the moment and thinks it will be difficult to create a lead doesn't mean they won't be racing every step of the way.

In what world do you live in where races end just because the score is tied?
Also they made 5.4 billion last year, even if we assume it took the entire salary of a top shelf software dev, that's still barely a rounding error.

Corporate cheapo strikes again.
I feel massively increasing publish time is a valid reason not to push this though considering such small gains and who the gains apply to.
I honestly think this is as much the enshittification of google as it is the enshittification of the web. Early google was great in large part because the early web had a much better signal to noise ratio.

Going on for well over a decade we've been putting far more slop on the web than useful content. It really adds up over time.

I also feel this is largely why the GPTs have been so successful. They're if nothing else a lot less annoying than the web search experience has become.
Exactly. Thank you. Or with the help of a translator who is fluent in both. Not when that other entity has a tendency to make up plausible sounding bullshit.
The question is: where are they operating from?
Maybe this fits the bill? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARwBwHZESOY
But what is conversion cost and the transaction cost to convert USD to USDC and then back?
Algorithmic Sabotage for Static Sites
Sony Will Stop Producing Blank Blu-ray Discs After 18 Years