skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's difficult to isolate the effects of DEI - there are far too many confounding factors interfering. You might use effective masking when analyzing a submission that removes your own personal biases, but, after the hire, there is no way to hide the difference that could have impacted your assessment.

Keeping biases in check is a daily exercise. I am aware of many of my own biases and I have to continuously fight back. There are people whose company I enjoy more than others, but I can't let that interfere with my professional judgment.
Good book on the subject that I recently finished reading:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0029PBVCA

Does a pretty good job at running through PARC's founding and some of the many reasons why none of its amazing technology took off (Spoilers: it wasn't always Xerox interfering!).
It is wild to pull already granted money. I meet so many scientists who just need $X to continue pursuing their research and it’s generally not a large sum. So this is incredibly disappointing for the research ecosystem which feeds the startup ecosystem. This hurts our competitiveness on the global stage and decreases our future quality of life.
D-Bus is good enough for all sorts of things. But you absolutely don't need a behemoth like systemd to use D-Bus. A D-Bus communication option can be added to existing programs and utilities, or new ones could be fashioned for which it is a central mode of operation; and still there would have been no an ever-growing pile of centrally-maintained and inter-dependent artifacts.

As for SystemV... as I mentioned in another comment - in hindsight, that was not the issue. There were and are SystemV alternatives [1]. One can even write one that uses D-Bus in an opt-in fashion, to foster other facilities' use of it.

The init system excuse is very much like the stone in the fable of the stone soup: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Soup - it's what gets the vagabond's foot in the door, and is the first ingredient for the soup. But actually, the stone carried no significance, and the resulting soup is pretty much the same thing as without the stone part.

[1] : ruint, OpenRC, launchd, s6, nosh, finit, procd, upstart etc. See brief description and links at https://alternativeto.net/software/sysvinit/ for example.
Tell me you didnt read or understand the article without saying you didnt read or understand the article.
there are more financial markets that stock exchanges

exchange traded equities are a minority of trading (probably not even 1%)
Show HN: Kitlab a Collection of Tools for Webdevs
I have created kitlab.dev, which is a collection of various tools that may help developers or anyone else. It offers image optimization, a QR code generator, a button generator, a CSS keyframe generator, an Open Graph image generator, a favicon generator, and much more! :)

The reason I made this is that I always wanted to have my own free toolkit.
Any feedback is welcomed.
Show HN: Pause – Unbreakable Focus Timer
Hey HN,

I built Pause, a radical anti-distraction app that helps you stay focused by blocking all apps with a timer you can’t bypass.

Like many, I often found myself mindlessly scrolling on my phone when I should be working, reading, or just enjoying a break.

App blockers exist, but most can be disabled too easily. Pause is different: there is no way around it – it blocks all your apps, and you have to wait until the timer ends.
Simple and effective – no extra fluff, just deep focus.
It’s perfect for work, study, reading, or reducing phone addiction.

If you’ve ever felt the urge to "just check something real quick" and lost 30 minutes instead, Pause is for you.

Would love your feedback! Download, try it, and let me know what you think.

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I struggled through that phase and now nixos is pretty comfortable to me. Some of the improvements in sixos are attractive, but I'm afraid to try it because it's going to be the same thing but way worse. There's no sixos community, there's just this video, a forum post or two, and the codeberg repo. That's it.
It was a good idea in principle.

It was a reaction to regulatory over-reach by unelected officials on the continent, which even those officials acknowledged at the time: https://www.politico.eu/article/jean-claude-juncker-says-eu-...

Yet I don't think that anybody can argue that it was handled well. It was handled abysmally poorly.

- The regulatory burden on individuals and small businesses has increased quite dramatically since Brexit. New customs declarations, VAT rules, compliance checks, etc.

- Transit of goods to and from EU states is now many times more difficult than it was, and a lot of European firms simply don't want to ship to the UK any longer.

- Temporary skilled immigration from places like Poland and Romania has been replaced by permanent and largely unskilled immigration from places like Pakistan. En masse. Much to the consternation of Brexit voters, who have, for the most part, simply become anti-status-quo voters.

The impression I get is that the UK political establishment reclaimed some control over its laws, regulations, and borders -- and proceeded to spite the populace with them. Maybe they wanted revenge for being forced into a Brexit they didn't want to go through with. "We'll give it to 'em, good and hard."
> Note that only 55% say it was wrong to leave, and on such a close referendum anyway I'm not even sure that's a statistically significant different answer than in 2016.

Conveniently ignoring that only 30% say we were right to leave. Nice try.
As Los Angeles burns, Elon Musk stokes partisan outrage
The Uk joined the EEC in 1973 and Euro coins and notes came into circulation in 2002.
I'm not sure that's fair, given that the distilled models are almost as good. Do you really think Deepseek's web interface is giving you access to 671b? They're going to be running distilled models there too.
So let me get this right, solar panels on the roof, heat pumps, better fridges, and better insulation among other things are a crisis that will lead, in comparison, to the downfall of Western civilisation?

Jeez, I better randomly turn on a resistive space heater in the middle of summer when I’m not home so we can all live better lives somehow.

Do you think I should randomly flail my arms about in the hope it’ll somehow make more dividends for my bank of choice? Just want to double-check.
It already is, though granted the phrasing is usually, "It was sure nice of Xerox to provide all that free technology for Apple and Microsoft."
Whoever got the idea of flooding the space with outrageous EOs is a genius. Certainly evil as well.
If you support Vulkan, you support almost every GPU out there in the consumer market across all hardware vendors. It's an amazing fallback option.

I agree they should also support OpenVINO, but compared to Vulkan OpenVINO is a tiny market.
They taught us the appendix was one such organ. Now they are thinking it actually has a use and is not at all vestigial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appendix_(anatomy)#Maintaining...
Preempting the "why not hydrogen" comments:

Always a good time to refer to "The Hydrogen Ladder" (version 5.0 nowadays):

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/hydrogen-ladder-version-50-mi...

In this case, the alternative of using hydrogen for the "Local Ferries" use case would be in class F (almost uncompetitive) and the recommended alternative is indeed electric powertrains.
it's a grey zone but vlms are effectively not being developed anymore.
Without going into the discussion about polarized points. I have some observations

1- NSF budget is about 10 billions, I always had in mind that it is much more. That's about 0.17% of the total federal budget. If we include DOE R&D funding and NIH we will get to 1%. This is the funding for most of research in science in the US. Seems like not a great area to achieve huge reduction in deficit.

2- Even if we ignore the whole point of DEI and say that we need to end support for some of the projects. You do take your time and evaluate projects that needs to take action. You don't stop all the funding and pause critical support for projects and cause huge problems on medium and long term. And it also hurt the reputation of the country and its competitiveness.

3- The current NSF director was actually appointed by the current setting president in his first term.
Only if you actually get enough people in the door..

Plus sometimes invite systems mean you just get the "usual suspects", friends-of-friends, etc...

It definitely has value in keeping out the spammers and trolls though, I agree there.

I suppose it depends on how you want to handle moderation in the long run.
Run me through your numbers. Where did the 33% drop in per-capita energy use come from? What order of magnitude do you think is draft reductions?

Because if that were true I'd expect the UK would be a world-leading paradise with vast energy surpluses and everyone having a high old time in great comfort. That isn't the vibe they're giving off. They look like a nation with a slow-rolling energy crisis and a social contract that is coming under quite a bit of pressure because of it. Happy people don't vote for Nigel Farage.
The thing is HN doesn't even have a tag system so you can't "see gamedev posts only".

So far the most active community seems to be gamedev.net, but I feel it's in a long decline.
A very interesting article. I worked in the prototype lab of RCA Australia (Artarmon, Sydney) in the late 1960s but left before the division/manufacturing plant was closed down the early 1970s. We made professionsl broadcast and telecommunications equipment and the plant did very well (I mentioned my time there and my meeting with Sarnoff on HN a while back).

Thus, it came as quite a shock when I later heard the plant had closed down as only several years earlier ('68 if I recall) Sarnoff Senior (not Robert) had visited the plant and to open a new record factory only about a dozen miles away.

As I'd left before the plant was closed I wasn't privy to employees' scuttlebutt about Camden's reasons for closing it so I had to rely on industry rumors for reasons of which there were a number but none was definitive (for me it's always been a bit of a mystery).

I was already aware RCA stagnanted from about 1967 onwards but this article's Fig 4 (RCA—1920 to 1986) adds numerical info of which I was unaware such as the steeper downturn around 1974, which is about when the Australian division was closed. Presumably, this downturn was at least part of the reason (many have long said the '67 decline was due to Robert Sarnoff's mismanagement).

I hope someone will soon write a definitive history of RCA, it's important it's written because the Company played such an important/pivotal role in early broadcast/electronics manufacturing (BTW, when I was working there RCA was the biggest electronics company in the world).
Hollywood is not a trustworthy source. For anything.
the owner of that PR has already forked ollama. try it out. I did and it works great.
> Things are moving ridiculously fast for government to the point I suspect there was alot of desire to get rid of all this stuff before, but people were unable to do so.

Assuming "was alot of desire" is meant as "widespread support," not just "the President really desired it," that is an absolutely ridiculous interpretation. Fast does not mean strong consensus.

The government has also moved _ridiculously fast_ to

- pardon/commute the vast majority of J6 defendants including those convicted of violence towards law enforcement

- freeze federal aid across the board

- blame the recent aviation crash on DEI

- rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America

- revoke birthright citizenship

Does that mean that there "was alot of desire" to do those things? Absolutely not. It just means that those are things that the President has done unilaterally via executive orders or press release.

To be clear I'm not advocating for or against the govt.

But the idea that the government moving "ridiculously fast" is because there "was alot of desire" is a massive stretch. They are moving fast because they are steamrolling everyone in their path (allies included), and in their desire to "get shit done" they are implementing changes that are riddled with errors, and in some cases, even flat out illegal.
https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/llama.cpp
Hey thanks, I didn't know about cortex and this looks perfect.
Ah yes asking people to consider how they can be inclusive. Such unabashed hate for merit. Literally 1984. Definitely deserves all the vitriole and backlash we're seeing. /s
> Your stereotypes belie a lack of familiarity with researchers

I was referencing what the current Trump administration deems "meritocratic" and seeks to "return" to, their policy changes are in direct response and opposition to the demographics you describe.
Ask HN: Advice for a CTO Visiting Silicon Valley
As the CTO of a small European startup, I will have the opportunity to fly to Silicon Valley (San Mateo) next week. I have a free day, and I’d love to immerse myself in the tech/startup atmosphere—not for business networking, but rather to fulfill a childhood dream.

Could you recommend any must-see places? Where can I find information about open tech events? Are there any startups where you can just walk in from the street and drop by for a coffee?
https://www.reddit.com/r/F91Ws_on_NATOs/comments/f9udxl/the_...
also deserves a mention here, and /r/f91w for more general stuff.
I once read that the collapse of the Roman empire set back technological progress a few centuries. Maybe it was a good thing. Could you imagine having atomic bombs with a XV century mentality? I'm not saying that the 500 years ago the mentality was worse, but maybe we weren't prepared yet.
Sure, but usually inertia doesn't get undone by some incrementally different alternative, but by something qualitatively different.

The UK and EU have roughly similar problems, benefits, infrastructure and regulatory environments.

If there was a Singapore-like city state off of the coast of France, I'm sure things would look different.
What do you mean there is no such thing as R1-1.5b? DeepSeek released a distilled version based on a 1.5B Qwen model with the full name DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-1.5B, see chapter 3.2 on page 14 of their research article [0].

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12948
I know how to look hard by squinting my eyes and trying to focus, talk hard by speaking as loudly as I can or smell hard by breathing in as much as I can, but how do you listen hard?
The problem is that whatever esoteric motivations technical people have to join the FOSS movement (scratching an itch, seeking fame, saving the world, doing what everybody else is doing etc.), does not translate well to the domain of designing user experiences. People with the education and talent to have an impact here have neither incentives nor practical means to "FOSS-it". You could Creative Commons some artwork (and there are beautiful examples) but thats about it. The art and science of making software usable thus remains a proprietary pursuit. Indeed if that bottleneck could somehow be relaxed, adoption of FOSS software would skyrocket because the technical core is so good and keeps getting better.
MLK explicitly supported reparations for black people. He did not support a system of institutional colorblindness. You can only get this from his writing if you take one famous line from one famous speech and ignore the rest of what he wrote.
As has been pointed out in this thread in a comment that you replied to (so I know you saw it) [0], Ollama goes to a lot of contortions to support multiple llama.cpp backends. Yes, their solution is a bit of a hack, but it means that the effort to adding a new back end is substantial.

And again, they're doing those contortions to make it easy for people. Making it easy involves trade-offs.

Yes, Ollama has flaws. They could communicate better about why they're ignoring PRs. All I'm saying is let's not pretend they're not doing anything complicated or difficult when no one has been able to recreate what they're doing.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42886933
are you a time traveller from 2024?
Is Wall Street ready to stay up all night?
O dear, cannot edit anymore, but misread as 31 december…

Should not comment when sick at home…
http://archive.today/THoRt
In fairness, that's what all political types do. It's all just quasi-religion all the way down. Anyone who thought any different was fooling themselves. It's unfortunate that it comes at the expense of scientific research, but hey, that's what people voted for.

Everyone in the US is getting exactly the government we deserve. That's the beauty of democracy! You get government that's precisely as good, or as bad, as you deserve. And you deserve government no better, or worse, than what you get.

Basically, we deserve it.
Given that the 671B model is reportedly MoE-based, it definitely could be powering the web interface and API. MoE slashes the per-inference compute cost - and when serving the model for multiple users you only have to host a single copy of the model params in memory, so the bulk doesn't hurt you as much.
Additionally, Ollama makes model installation a single command. With llama.cpp, you have to download the raw models from Huggingface and handle storage for them yourself.
> might have more to do with your vantage point

It has everything to do with the simple fact that HN was launched in '07, when Reddit wasn't that mainstream.
> one thread being that it mixed temporal and spiritual concerns instead of making them obviously distinct

That's really, really, not something Christianity gained from Rome. Judaism is, and always has been, a religion of the practical world. It prescripts how to live, from the very beginning. The Torah is very concerned with the answering of how to live, as well as the why to live that way.
You sound like those old-school communists who insist that it's a very good idea in principle, but the proletariat has always been betrayed by leaders who didn't have enough faith.
You're kind of describing an RSS reader, or del.icio.us...
DeepSeek R1 671B over 2 tok/s without GPU on local gaming rig
I just double check on GDP [1] as well rather than GDP per capita.

It is clear post 2007, UK and France and perhaps Germany as well had 15 years of stagnation. Using Bank of England 's calculator [2] £10.00 in 2008 would equal to £16.00 today.

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?location...

[2] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/monetary-policy/inflation/in...
Not in equities (the LSE is basically on life support), but still doing well in areas such as FX, insurance and clearing.
Try running this in a repl and tell me what you get, OP:

string.format('%q', 'hi\n')
The project existed in the open source and then subsequently the creators sought funding to work on it full time.
Auto idle shutdown saves on gasoline but comes at the cost of increased starter wear.
Quiet batpeople.
Automation in trading makes all investors wealthier via lower fees. Trading costs basically nothing nowadays, and that is because far fewer people are employed to do it.

Obviously, the people who own the automation will want a cut of the rewards, like any other business.
Try explaining in words how to raise a single eyebrow to someone who can't.

Tactile intelligence and semantic intelligence do not overlap
> I can `brew install ollama`.

Can you `brew install llama.cpp`?
I think the groups saying each of those things are the same groups that have been saying those same things for quite a while already.
The Brexit the UK ended up with was pretty might the lightest possible Brexit. This is exactly because anyone in power rapidly understood anything else would be a huge disaster. It was interesting watching a succession of "leaders" scream that they would deliver true Brexit, be given power, and then lose their nerve only to be replaced by the next "true" brexiteer.

The result is we suffered only 10% of the maximum damage in exchange for 0% of the "advantages" (can't sign our own trade deals, no say in the EU, must take rules, last in queue for access etc).

I think this is actually the worst outcome long term: a car crash hard Brexit would have all but assured reentry in the long term. Instead we will be in Europe for all practical purposes but dragging our feet at the back...
> when the UK initially joined the EU most people probably didn't notice much of a difference, except that the euro made

There were 26 years between the UK joining and the euro being introduced. 29 between that and coins & notes being in people's hands (for the first three years the currency was primarily only used for accounting purposes not day-to-day, though in the run up to 2002 prices were often presenting in both currencies in preparation for the public switch starting).

> But now, leaving seems to be like constantly picking at a festering scab.

There was a plan for joining. Leaving was a desire without a (properly thought out) plan.

After joining it took time to fully integrate and over the decades, unpicking all that was always going to be much more complicated than merging into it in the first place (the “we are not in any more, we don't have to do a thing or pay what we'd already agrees” ideas many brexit supporters seemed to have were pure fantasy). Most divorces are more complicated than the marriage that preceded them.

Of course, it is all us remoaners fault for not helping the leavers make their plan. :)
I'm not particularly going to disagree that the Dems are useless or not part of the problem, because they absolutely are. A lot of the issues we have is because of continued attempts at bipartisanship watering down bills into oblivion, means-testing and obsession with locking out people further left.

But ultimately a lot of our core foundational agencies have been functioning well regardless. And it's only the right that's intent on tearing them down no matter the consequences. So while the Dems enable this, the Republicans enact it.
The question was asking why it’s untrusted code, not why you run untrusted code in a VM.

There are a lot of open-source tools that we have to trust to get anything done on a daily basis.
Why not just let candidates use AI like they would at work and design your interview test questions around that?
This looks great, and I'm getting jealous. Every language should have something like this in its stdlib.
Author here. I think it's a combination of things. Node came onto the scene, and the hype hasn't really let up yet.

In addition, ZIRP made hiring cheap, and JS was ubiquitous -- bootcamps pushed it, marketing and trends pushed it. The choice was obvious, even it it wasn't great. Go also emerged and proved to actually be great. Meanwhile, Rails was seen as boring and slow (though YJIT has drastically improved that!)

But ZIRP is over. Simple, boring tools are coming back, and complexity is now seen for what it is -- risk.

In a world where efficiency matters again, imo, Rails will see a renaissance.
Notably, the backdoor uploads data to an NFS share hosted on a university IP (the exact university has not been made clear). Data includes patient names, doctor names, date of birth, and the specific hospital department the patient is at.
And it hasn't really changed since '07 (and I say this in a very positive way).
Excluding Elon Musk, which tech billionaire(s)?
They have only realised the leaving part. They haven’t committed to the being a better European country part. Regulations, tax, government spending, immigration are no better than leaving the EU. They have so much potential if the Tory didn’t waste effort in fighting for status. Liz truss was right in bringing down government spending and lowering tax, Suella Braverman was right about immigration. Boris Johnson was right about abolishing EU regulations. Now everything is even worse, more tax, no cap illegal immigration, more government debt. But people instead blame the brexit.
It's absurd. "If you have to ask... then it's not for you!"