skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny. I have smoked regularly for two decades, yet also have two STEM degrees, a full time EE job, occasional side work, and I’m fixing up a 100 year old house.

But I started in farm land learning to build with raw materials, fixing tractors and other machines, growing food, while most of my peers sat inside watching TV. My muscle and cognitive memory is well developed from development of electronics products, a life of building homes and barns to stripping cars to frame and rebuilding them.

Weed has nothing to do with underachievement. It’s a contemporary culture that champions low effort fail up office work or asset ownership. Having worked in web apps the last 10 years, the only challenge I’ve faced is keeping pace with low output office lifers who never learned to rotate a tire or grow a potato.

Weed just makes someone more of their inner self. I get stoned and take on a project because that’s what I’ve done my whole life (built new garden boxes and ripped up an old sagging deck last weekend). A stoned couch surfer was already a lazy couch surfer.
Scaling Ruby at GitHub – Tokyo RubyKaigi 12
Wow. Your link is frustrating because I thought everything was under the
MIT license. Why did people claim it is MIT licensed if they sneaked in this additional license?
The Boeing-ification of the federal government, in which everything is stripped down to below what is actually required to be safe, is in full effect.
No it doesn’t. But I would never keep large sums of money uninvested in the market and in a CMA anyway.

https://www.fidelity.com/spend-save/fidelity-cash-management...
The Design of Forms in Government Departments
Well they clearly use the Cloud...
1997 would be JDK 1.1, which introduced the java.util.Calendar/GregorianCalendar classes. The Calendar API was an improvement in some use cases over Date, but it's biggest flaw was mutability. The current API is based on JodaTime and is very similar to Temporal.
BMP supports compression, but its basic, RLE style, so only line art compresses well.
Ooo you got an unnecessary swipe at X in. Look at you!
LLMs are not deterministic, and I want deterministic builds from compiled code to assembly. I also do not want the LLM to arbitrarily change the functionality, I have no such guarantees.
A heresy is an incorrect religious teaching. I don't see how a type of technology could be considered a religious teaching.
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Yes, you can try Visual DB: https://visualdb.com
Self driving cars are already operating no problem.
Chatgpt content is getting pasted all over the web. Now, for anyone crawling the web, it's hard to not include some chatgpt outputs.

So even if you put some "watermarks" in your AI generation, it's plausible defense to find publicly posted content with those watermarks.

Maybe it's explained in the article, but I can't access it, as it's paywalled.
Attempting to Make the Smallest* Electric Motor [video]
Massive not. Italy has mostly buildings made with non-bearing walls made of bricks. The bearing skeleton is made with "reinforced concrete" which is essentially columns and architraves made of poured cement with inside steel bars.
Clearly we should not force the whole US to drop wood.
Very hot an dry regions like LA might be a good place to switch away from wood.
We learned nothing from your casual observation. You took 2 parts and combined them together to form a conclusion based on hearsay. So not better than what you're arguing against.
> when they tried to assert their rights

That's an interesting way of phrasing going on an illegal strike which they agreed not to do as part of their employment contract.
Why would re-using a buffer be bad? Assuming you write to it with the contents of the file/stream before it is read.
FBI Seizes StarkRDP and Rdp.sh
While less figurative, I don't see how "what's the ultimate goal for large AI models" makes it less scary.

Some of it might have to do with my having recently watched Dune Prophecy (set in the aftermath of the Butlerian Jihad) but this recent rapid progress in AI is putting me in somewhat of an apocalyptic mindset.
All three read the same to my own grammatical understanding.
I can't believe you agree with the premise of Manufacturing Consent and the goals of the administration.

They're manufacturing consent to a massive power grab from Congress. The consent to an American King is being manufactured in front of our very eyes.
I stumbled across this page myself recently whilst wondering what was possible DIY.

Also the Baumorgel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weAV0i8fGFE

Question for anyone knowledgeable. I had an idea to take a large block of wood and a router to cut a number of channels. Then put plywood on the top to make a rank of pipes. The lip and throat could be also done with a router.

I imagine the physics of each pipe would work fine monophonically. I think it would work polyphonically but I wonder if there would be interference?

How much does the resonance of the individual pipe contribute to timbre?
While I meant closing the whole application at once (which restores all windows/projects and unsaved changes when you restart ST), you're right that projects keep track of unsaved state on a per-project basis, too. So you can open and close project windows individually, but also do the same for Sublime Text as a whole.
The Gemini launch was a complete disaster, but technically speaking since February 2024, Gemini 1.5 pro and the ensuing lineup have been very impressive.
Ask HN: Tools for Managing Contract Work
I recently started independent contracting work as a developer. What tools do you use to organize your work? Specifically, creating and signing contracts, managing invoices and payment, etc.

There are tools like Zoho One that do “everything”, and more individual tools like Wave, and Docusign. What’s worth getting?
Yea, I forgot to mention that this was in a Rails context. In any case this is only possible because of Ruby’s primitives-as-objects design.
> Didn't read the post

I think the post is pretty important context, in fact it's the main thing, so this "comment without reading" is a bit too reddit, and not enough hackernews.

> I don't think it would be where it is today without being able to stand on the shoulders of giants like java.

The present is a function of the past. Not sure what that's supposed to prove. I do think that Rust (and to a lesser extent Go) has learned from Java some things not to do.

So I do think that the decisions that seemed like a good idea at the time, and proved to be mistakes, are the reasons we do not have those same mistakes in Rust and (to a lesser extent) Go.

If they hadn't been mistakes, then Rust and Go would repeat them, wouldn't you say?

> There are a lot of things that oop languages pioneered that are now in other languages.

Yes, but most of the innovation in Java specifically have since been walked back by newer languages. That's my point.

> In rust specifically, there is a mixture of features taken from functional and oop languages that are a pleasure to use.

Indeed. But what did Java invent, that Rust took in?

If we take C++, and move in the direction of 1) more OOP, 2) More heap usage, 3) More exceptions, 4) Worse error messages, 5) virtual machines, 6) GC, 7) pre-zoned memory, then that's Java.

For literally all of those bullet points Rust went the opposite way.

1) less OOP, 2) structs are one whole heap object, not one per field, 3) less exceptions, 4) Way better error messages, 5) native code again, 6) not GC, 7) "regular" allocators.

So I agree with you if you mean that by standing of the shoulders of Java you mean "let Java be a warning example of what not to do".

If you mean something else, then I don't know what you're talking about. And since you say you replied without reading the post, probably neither do you.

Edit: by the way by "more heap usage" I don't mean more bytes. I mean e.g. a struct with members is in Java many objects on the heap, but in C++, Rust, and Go, it's a single one.
Often, the only reason I write is to have a method of sorting out the soup of thoughts in my head into a recognisable shape, with the accountability that being public brings to it (no, you can't have the link to my site!).
Sure. As a luxary goods, ye.

There was this time when "M$" was still a thing and Macintosh computers were contrarian though.

I feel it is somewhat of a nitpick concerning socialists. The picture of a class room of students with "Think different" caption and all MacBooks. Yupp.

I would argue not using FOSS software is worse than using Apple hardware. But normal people kinda don't know Linux is a thing they can use.
What a wonderful article. I really appreciated the graphs of the frequency-dependent impedance to help illustrate what might've been just left at "V-shaped plot." I've always been in awe of folks who do analog design. I used to work doing driver development for some pretty sophisticated radios, and the analog side of dealing with multi-GHz signals was completely over my head. Software folks think in terms of "get some bits here, move some bits over there" and can easily forget about how complicated that is at the analog level.
I was going to make this argument, but I actually don't think it's true in almost any case.

Most functions could be inferred, but the ultimate source of basically all of these write only APIs is FFI functions, which in turn call systemcalls.

You're at least going to need a way to annotate the FFI calls and systemcalls to describe to the compiler how they access data.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42877995
It was reaching for a great point about how intelligence requires comparison and scaffolding, and how we are nurturing the future, but then it fell into the Chinese Room trap.
The program needs to have high standards and I imagine some of the reasons for failing are related to ability under pressure.
Just over half of Castle Bravo. Not the end of the world. And the Earth's surface is 71% water.
> the mistrals have been historically great and embraced for various fine-tuning
Are there any guides on fine tuning them that you can recommend?
The data you're presenting doesn't limit those polled to teens though. The specific question asked also appears to be different. If you have an issue with Common Sense Media, please make a coherent argument. Don't be disingenuous.
My iPhone is over 5 years old and has not slowed down. When Apple did slow down phones, it was because the battery was aging and it could not produce enough power to power the CPU at full speed. Apple had two choices:

1) Reduce the CPU speed so the phone did not crash
2) Not reduce the CPU speed and let the phone crash when the battery could not produce enough power.

I think Apple made the right choice.
It's not really available for real use.

I have tried it on "Azure AI foundry" through their serverless API with a paid subscription.

It takes 80s to answer a basic question that was answered in 7s by OpenAI gpt-4o. And there was not that much thought process, it was just super slow to output each token.

I guess this slowness is explained by the pricing, they are still figuring out how to run the inference for this model:

> DeepSeek R1 use is currently priced at $0, and use is subject to rate limits which may change at any time. Pricing may change, and your continued use will be subject to the new price. The model is in preview; a new deployment may be required for continued use.

There is also a hard limitation of 4k tokens as input context (context window on DeepSeek model is 120k tokens), which prevents using it for RAG use-cases:

> Message: Request body too large for deepseek-r1 model. Max size: 4000 tokens.

Also the documentation and python type hints of their inference lib have a lot of straight up errors in it (they are confusing the class attributes `model=` and `model_name=` at many places in the docs, spoiler: the good one to use is `model_name=`, even if the type hints recommend to use `model=`).

I have also tried with more stable models like Mistral Large, but the streaming feeling is really bad, they are sending whole sentences at a time, with multiple seconds of wait between each sentence. Does not feel smooth at all compared to any other provider out there.

Would not recommend Azure AI foundry for production use (or any use to be honest). Does not worth the pain to navigate the documentation. We will be using directly DeepSeek API, or fireworks.ai, or together.ai.
> Note that this seems to be about the weights themselves, AFAIK, the actual training code and datasets (for example) aren't actually publicly available.

Like every other open source / source available LLM?
Sorry, am I the only one who finds this sort of formulation in regard to large AI models existentially intimidating?
Exactly! The Minimal Phone[0] seems to be headed in a better direction in this sense, as the 'limitation' of that device is the screen being eink, but the OS is more or less vanila Android.
Interestingly, I got used to using my regular LineageOS phone in reading mode (greyscale) with a similar effect: I used it less and my usage is more on the point than before.

[0] minimalcompany.com/
> This is a bit of a strange comment.

You refuse to believe that millions of people hate podcasts, to the point that you apparently need a survey with millions of people saying that as evidence. You live in a bubble of people who haven't told you they hate morning DJs and podcasts. If I instead told you that millions of people detest vlogs, would you also require hard evidence?
TypeScript??
I've realized that I'm not really on Facebook for friends the way I used to be anymore. I'm there for Messenger, Marketplace, and sometimes a Group if my neighborhood, team, etc. has decided to use Facebook.

Which then made me wonder: is there truly no good social messenger that's separate from social media now? Signal was the closest I could come up with, but it's missing lots of niceties especially in group messages.
In fairness, we have 2 "Ecclesiarchy's" we're dealing with here.

The traditional Christian church, and the modern tech church. Both can cry heresy at any moment and send their pitchfork and torch armed mobs onto the net to place you on the pyre.

Just saying it's wise to steer clear of both of these "-isms". In fact, personally, I think it's good to steer clear of any "-ism". Even those that wouldn't self identify as "-isms". Like tech- "ism". Or woke- or anti-woke- "ism". Etc etc.
> As well as keeping track of the gregorian correction in (depending on country) October 1582 (skipping over 10 days in the calendar!), when calculating historical intervals. They really do this, already!

Which libraries do this? Libraries usually implement proleptic calendars, including Temporal[1], which specifically do not account for shifts like this. And indeed, the Temporal docs even call out this specific example.

(I agree with the rest of your comment!)

[1]: https://tc39.es/proposal-temporal/docs/calendars.html#handli...
Think about the marginal Trump voter, not the die hards. The marginal voters are the ones who put him in office
"When quantized, Mistral Small 3 can be run privately on a single RTX 4090 or a Macbook with 32GB RAM."
It's coming...they are discussing how to conjugate "machine learning" correctly.
>By turning to AI as a perceived “Other” greater than itself, with which to share existence and responsibilities, humanity risks creating a substitute for God. However, it is not AI that is ultimately deified and worshipped, but humanity itself—which, in this way, becomes enslaved to its own work.

This can be read as a weird warning for AGI and future humans: We're both here, but I'm not here for you, I'm here for me, who is here for God. Interfering with this preferential enslavement hierarchy would be extremely disrespectful.
This is EXACTLY what I remember people saying about Cell Phones and PDAs when they were popular in the 90s (people can't remember phone numbers any more), Google when it was first unleashed (people won't know how to use card catalogs and libraries any more), and then again about Wikipedia when it became popular. What actually happened was that behavior changed and people became more efficient with these better tools.
You don't need some fancy tech. Blogs have been around for 30+ years and function just fine on such old tech. The only new tech you should use is certbot and own your own domain.

Write in markdown and serve directly, or export to HTML. Or write in LibreOffice Writer and export to HTML.

Upload HTML to a basic webserver. You don't need a fancy load balancer or denial-of-human-system or anything.
What will we do when AI automates work AND leisure?
Existential to our way of life. That humans will survive in caves, and maybe even a few million, is cold comfort.
Oh certainly, I'm just elaborating that "companies don't X" is part of the scam. Companies don't do anything, the people running them do.
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"We" lived in feudalism? Do you speak for the entire world? Remember that there were peoples that were conquered by industrialist empires who had more equal systems than feudalism or than what we have right now. Communities in the Amazon or isolated Pacific or African islands (and deserts in Africa) have had more equal societies than the USA today and arguably were quite happy till their partway-utopia was wrecked by technologically advanced people. This gives me little hope for people pitching AI leading us into a better society unless the hearts of the people with the power are trustworthy and faithful to promoting good for people rather than profit for themselves.
The interwebs is such hot garbage that we now need to use ChatGPT to search.
Its not the exact same since you can still finetune it, you can modify the weights, serve it with different engines, etc.

This kind of purity test mindset doesn't help anyone. They are shipping the most modifiable form of their model.
The following is a "Get off my lawn!" comment:

When I was in kindergarten there were tasks where you'd get a paragraph of text where you had to fill in blanks, and next to those blanks were pictograms of whatever noun was expected.

Whenever I see people overuse emojis, for example "Yesterday we flew [plane emoji] to Japan [Flag of Japan] and took the train [bullet train emoji] and saw Mt. Fuji [emoji of Mt. Fuji]", I always think, "This person is still in kindergarten."...
PG is out there ranting about "wokeism" like a lot of them now, he's losing the plot.
I love the idea - there are a lot of things I want to watch for updates that I build or install myself from a download!
You don't think that the longest running institution in human history (or so) has any wisdom to impart? They were slow on the uptake, so now they are all mustachioed villains?
I blame the lack of alternatives to TikTok.

The US no longer has a market of well-funded, professional sources of journalism. (Of the kind and scale that existed before ~2010)

It has for-profit partisan outlets and social media, and those are insufficient substitutes to power a democracy.
> Technology could help, but right now it seems to be working the other way.

If history does teach us anything, the moral ambiguity of technological progress is surely one of the lessons of the 20th century. I think it might be one of those lessons we're forgetting again after a couple generations!
Cani.tf helps us to understand the differences between OpenTofu and Terraform
> zero chance they can make a brand new, high output jet engine in one year

Not one year. "produced by EOY '25" means they're almost certainly already very far along in the development process. There's no way they'd have a target date that early if they hadn't even started yet.

Looks like this article from last year says they were already doing hardware testing back then: https://boomsupersonic.com/flyby/boom-supersonic-accelerates...

That said, as with any other aerospace project, I expect delays.
There would need to be contractual declarations on the read method that the compiler is able to enforce that tells it that the input &mut slice has N elements clobbered based on the returned length. That’s basically what BorrowedBuf is accomplishing via the type system and runtime enforcement of the contract. Using a non-existent syntax:

fn read<T, N: size_t>(&mut self, buf: &mut [MaybeUninit<T>] becomes &[T; N] after call) -> N {
… enforces the body initializes N elements out of buf
}

and then rules that &mut [T] can also be supplied to such functions that today could only accept a &mut [MaybeUninit<T>] transparently.

A more likely interface you could write today would look like:

fn read_uninit<T>(&mut self, buf: &mut [MaybeUninit<T>]) -> (&[T], &[MaybeUninit<T>]) {
… enforces the body initializes N elements out of buf
}

You still have to cast &[T] into &[MaybeUninit<T>] somehow.
> IEEE credentials guarantee that your education program offers some of the most relevant content that engineers need to stay ahead in their fields.

So a type of MCSE.
Did I miss something and the drugs are now legal in US ?
IBM seeks $3.5B savings for 2025; the next year all about AI, AI, and more AI
I really wish physical devices were more common for critical things. They are harder to steal, and people understand how tokeep physical things secure.
It's next to impossible to know at night.

The only thing you have visually is direction / angular velocity.
So AIUI rephrased differently it allows finer grained management before the all hands on deck full tilt red alert alarms go blaring?
The number of words in a passage does not make the reading level the same. From a quick skim, this is a highly dense piece of material and isn't a quick read like paperback fiction written for kids...
Can anyone share what a training dataset would look like for something like this? What are some use cases?
Travelling would be so much more annoying if we did it that way. Imagine constantly having to double check what the local time is for getting out of bed.
My own reflection on this idolatry has been along the lines of how readily some people are at negating their own and humanity in general’s fundamental agency. Having AGI, SAI, etc. is completely meaningless if we as our own agents are not there to value it. In a sense, people preaching the coming dominance of AI are suicidal or homicidal, since they are pursuing their own demise by technical means.
The ATF was raiding for their purview, firearms/explosives.

As for the fires, they happened after incendiary tear gas was deployed by the government. They also sent a tank like vehicle to destroy the building. That's not overruled by some sketchy milk carton audio of who knows who.
I'm curious, what people do with these smaller models?
Mattias is a wizard of woodworking. His other site has numerous amazing projects: https://woodgears.ca/index.html (like a 26" bandsaw: https://woodgears.ca/big_bandsaw/26in.html and pantorouter: https://woodgears.ca/pantorouter/xl.html)
You can enable test mode[1] which lets you use any certificate, but outside of test mode you need an EV code signing cert[2].

[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/i...

[2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...
It is a guess (not the same author) but it'd make sense: weights are machine output so if the output of AI is not under copyright because it is machine output (which seems to be something that is pretty much universally agreed upon), then the same would apply for the weights themselves.

I'm not sure how someone would argue (in good faith) that training on copyrighted materials does not cause the weights to be a derivative of those materials and the output of their AI is not protected under copyright but the part in the middle, the weights, does fall under copyright.

Note that this would be about the weights (i.e. the numbers), not their container.
The. Memes are only reflections of things people already know.

When's the last time you saw a meme that taught you something or made you think about something more deeply?

The vast majority are cotton candy facts.