skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For many folks, because it means which kind of job they are able to land, with which people they hang around at least 8h a day, what they talk about, to which conferences they go if any, and so on.
> Sears could easily have been Target or Wal-Mart

I don't believe this at all.

Wal-Mart was already Wal-Mart, and while I have no love for them as a retail outlet, their execution is meticulous and aggressive. Sears was never, in my lifetime, that intense.

Target had, and mostly continues to have, something that Sears could not touch: taste. Sears was busy being a default option for everyone, but never an exciting choice for anyone. No way could Sears have become Target. They'd need a new brand.

Now of course, if you take $X billion dollars of assets, dump the backward-looking real estate and locations, go through massive layoffs and an amazing rebrand, reorient toward online, unwind decades of dilution in house brands, open new smaller stores in the new correct locations, and masterfully pivot the entire corporate culture to be something new by hiring the buyers and marketing people from, say, Target. Then yeah, you might be able to pull something off. But that'd be easier to do with just the $X billion from some other source.

But Sears was what it was, and it's an open question whether the market would have supported a whole new Target, or if the existing Target (etc) would have been able to quickly shift into whatever small gaps the amazing team at NeoSears had identified for them.

...

Total agreement and sympathy for you on the PE cannibalization process and the inevitable negative result for everyone except the private investors.
Then why are criminal enterprises still running relatively freely across the world?
It is very impressive, considering the resources. We are running DeepSeek on AutoKeybo, which is based on Raspberry Pi 5. We loved your article Jeff!
Well yes, though I was thinking more that they have no clear way to get income besides VCs and need to figure out a way to monetize in some weird way eventually. I would not have predicted them taking Nvidia money to axe AMD compatibility though lol.
Yes, and then Article I, Section 8 goes on to explain what counts as the ‘common Defence and general Welfare’ when it enumerates the Congress’s powers.

That’s not Sovereign Citizen nonsense — it’s very basic constitutional law. Congress doesn’t have the ability to pass national rent control, for example.
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My first check on any "HN for X" is: does it look and feel almost the same. If not I get frustrated because apparently I’ve been promised something else.

I’m not sure why they not just copy an UI that’s working well already and that people know.
This comment feels like a criticism that the audience was not considered, instead of you just not being part of the intended audience.
An area I don’t see much discussion on is the double whammy impact of Brexit AND Covid. Both have permanently reshaped live in UK and both landed within months of each other.
I applied for and won a small NASA ROSES citizen science seed funding grant ($80K). The call focused on outreach and equity in a way that encouraged me come up with a plan to get underprivileged high school students involved. This improved my results and made a difference in their lives.
I too trained it when I was in primary school after seeing a class mate do it.

And like OP I eventually managed to control one ear (right) but not the other, even to this day 40 years later
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Considering a candidates suitability for a role based on their race, gender, or sexual orientation is the opposite merit based selection.
What if such feeling is justified? Everything else equal, I'd rather have a community not belong to Reddit, and I'd be horrified if HN somehow "migrated" to being a sub, the difference between communities is enormous.
> But now, leaving seems to be like constantly picking at a festering scab.

Does it? I feel similarly to your description of joining about it: maybe I can't join an EU line (more often I now join an EU + UK + ... line, so it's only a signing quirk) and my passport is a different colour, but otherwise it hasn't made a difference day-to-day.. at all? Maybe if I was an international lorry driver or something?
I'd be interested in acquiring a Pixel 4a from someone who doesn't want theirs anymore. I replaced the battery in my Pixel 2 myself - it was a bit of work but not too bad overall (it's probably not waterproof anymore, though). nathan@[hn username].com
They cover the opt out process at the bottom of this page: https://bitwarden.com/help/new-device-verification/
This. There are like 3 or 4 comments that are worth reading right now.
>Countries usually strike trade deals to reduce border bureaucracy, but the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement did the reverse, restoring the customs requirements that had disappeared with the advent of the EU single market.

Nothing was done in this regard. Frankly speaking the government thought the border check was good. And both UK and EU and each individual countries customs have very different views of the rules.

>Starmer’s negotiations with the EU could reduce friction for some individual sectors, such as food and drink exporters, if Labour makes good on its promise to strike a veterinary agreement with Brussels.

Only agriculture sector, not Food and Drink which often implies something else.

>smaller companies had less capacity to deal with “the deluge” of new bureaucracy, while larger businesses had the money and staff to adapt.

I can assure you even large businesses took very long time and still failed to adapt.

We can all argue about whether Brexit was right or wrong on politics. But there isn't a single shred of doubt post Brexit handling was absolutely appalling.
seems like i confused llamafile with ollama ... this whole llm biotope is a huge mess
It really shouldn't be easy for ideologues to spend other peoples money. There are entire parallel structures in government, academia and now in business not contributing one iota of effort towards whatever the directed goal of their organisations are principally for.

https://new.nsf.gov/funding/opportunities/dcl-social-behavio...
It is very impressive, considering the resource requirement. We are running DeepSeek on AutoKeybo, which is based on Raspberry Pi 5. We loved your article Jeff!
Paul G. the most inspiring sentence I've ever read
Paul G, posted on X: "This may be the most inspiring sentence I've ever read. Which is interesting because it's not phrased in the way things meant to be inspiring usually are."

"I hate how well asking myself "if I had 10x the agency I have what would I do" works.

Would that work for you?
Yup. On informational topics or news, the video format usually means a reduction in quality of content and comments, but the topic of aviation in particular doesn't suffer that problem, for whatever reason.
The pendulum went from "DEI totally just means learning about slavery in school, everything else you're noticing is just in your head" to "everything bad is caused by DEI". I hope once this runs its course we can find a middleground between the extremes.
I'd suggest you start with reducing the amount of daily information you uptake. Where possible, try to subscribe to newsletters with weekly digests on the topics you care about. With politics, you can just check the news like once a week and not have missed very much day by day.
Brexit probably helped that though. ie. the net effect of Brexit might have weakened both Britain AND the EU
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Conspicuously missing here is RCA Astro Electronics, responsible for the first weather and satcom satellites, and RCA Missile and Radar, responsible for BMD and radars leading up to the Aegis system.
Nothing evil about not wasting taxpayer money.
Yes, it's great fun: https://blog.jgc.org/2022/10/pimping-my-casio-with-oddly-spe...
Paul G's post - https://x.com/paulg/status/1885001767525499301

Sam Altman replied why not 100x

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I feel like it's not just instances, but also the groups. I've carefully selected a bunch of well-moderated groups that bring me content I care about, and I interact regularly.

But I know what you're talking about, because every time I go there, I'm logged out and I have to see the front page. If I make the mistake of reading it, I'm horrified every time.

Then, I refresh the page and I'm logged in, and it's basically just a well-tended forum again.

Also, yes, there's a bug that shows me as logged out, but if I ctrl-shift-R, it refreshes with me logged in again. A regular refresh doesn't do it. I cannot imagine what that bug is, and nothing I've done has cleared this in my Firefox. So weird.
So many here are trashing on Ollama, saying it's "just" nice porcelain around llama.cpp and it's not doing anything complicated. Okay. Let's stipulate that.

So where's the non-sketchy, non-for-profit equivalent? Where's the nice frontend for llama.cpp that makes it trivial for anyone who wants to play around with local LLMs without having to know much about their internals? If Ollama isn't doing anything difficult, why isn't llama.cpp as easy to use?

Making local LLMs accessible to the masses is an essential job right now—it's important to normalize owning your data as much as it can be normalized. For all of its faults, Ollama does that, and it does it far better than any alternative. Maybe wait to trash it for being "just" a wrapper until someone actually creates a viable alternative.
I keep an eye on OurWorldInData's Energy [0] and GDP [1] per capita graphs. They suggest that the UK is moving roughly in step with the other western-Europe powers and have been in a state of crisis since around 2005. It matches up well with the growing political instability that seems to be coming to a head all through Europe, there are a surprising number of people who refuse to accept that >33% drop in energy use (& trending) is a problem.

I'd speculate that Brexit was actually a response to an energy crisis slowly eroding living standards and people are getting more antsy when it turns out that it didn't lead to saner energy policy than the EU mainland. I remain glad that I'm closer to China who, for all her faults, at least has the whole energy-and-prosperity link under control. I wish my civilisation would re-learn that one.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/per-capita-energy-use?tab...

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-worldbank?...
For me it starts with allowing only source code packages, followed by direct URLs to source code repos directly on the source files, instead of an indirect mechanism.

To be fair, Go modules provide such indirect mechanism, by rewriting source files, with redirection information, really? Yet another hack.
> LLM do the read, analysis and summarization part for the human

No they don't. The human is meant to read, analyze and summarize the output same as they would for search results
> Stocks give you a legal right to the assets and future profits of a company - a legal right enforced by the government (i.e. men with guns).

Financial derivatives such as options would be a better analogy, although I don't think anyone is currently buying stocks for the reason you mentioned.

Additionally, BTC and gold have fundamental differences, i talked abt it here and in other comments
When I was at school in Scotland in the 80s it was a recognised problem that too much of the available childrens literature centred on wealthy kids who went to boarding school.

Its ironic therefore that when an impoverished Scottish single mother, JK Rowling, wrote the most successful childrens books of all time in the ´90s, that they centred on wealthy kids who went to boarding school.
> Congress absolutely does how the power to charge money outside of federal territories

Of course it does. It has no power to regulate rents outside of federal territories, which is what I wrote. It cannot pass national rent control, for example.

> Section 7 lets them write laws as well as Section 8

Section 7 describes how bills are passed; Section 8 describes what those bills may do. Congress has no Constitutional power to require that every home in the United States have yellow shutters. I feel like this should be uncontroversial! I’m genuinely surprised anyone thinks otherwise.
I left when Mr. Musk asked "why do we need NATO?"

There are some behaviours so reckless they cannot be borne.
HN for economics or geopolitics could be interesting.
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This site, which is code for a biological computer, is written by a software engineer who quit in 2021.
Cool. The Copenhagen Harbour "Bus" (ferries) are electric and they are super pleasant to ride. No fumes, almost no noise, no spilled oils or fuels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Harbour_Buses
Without enforcement mechanisms (a PIER plan in this context), the 14th Amendment is just blots of ink on paper.
I was told that corporations are people, my friend.
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Did OpenAI ask all of the authors of the works they ingested to train their model for permission? Is OpenAI the biggest copyrighted works launderer in existence?

I don't think OpenAI should be able to make any claims of IP for the AI generated outputs, since they based that on other work, partially copyrighted work, which they hide. They simply throw algorithms at data that is not their data to begin with.

If I steal something, keep the exact thing I stole hidden, and sell a product, that I could only have made, based on the stolen thing, how can I expect that to be even legal, let alone untouchable IP?

I think way too many people have seen too many dollar signs in front of their eyes. The whole thing is outrageous. If they were transparently proving, that they are using open data sets, adhering to licenses, then they would get to claim IP.
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Lots of politically charged comments on this discussion. If you disagree with NSF’s merit and broader impact review criteria, that’s fine and it’s important to have a healthy conversation about it, but I think it’s important to take a step back and thoughtfully address concrete ideas that are actually contained in the proposal review criteria.

These are the kinds of issues at stake in terms of the broader impacts criteria:

- Is it good that NSF promotes applications that include historically minority-serving institutions (as opposed to just the same few R1 universities)?

- should NSF prioritize proposals with strong scientific outreach activities aimed at boosting engagement and opportunities in under-represented demographics?

Keep in mind that NSF funding is extremely competitive. It’s not like subpar research is ubiquitously getting funded over better research with lower “broader impacts” scores. Successful proposals excel on both fronts.
Letting people download 400GB just to find that out is also .. not optimal.

But yes, I have been "yelled" at on reddit for telling people you need vram in the hundreds of GB.
And now even involving underprivileged high school students voluntarily, without being asked, could get your grant revoked.
Pretty much only Microsoft msdelta does it. Google courgette only does a disassembly.
You mean to create an apple pie from scratch you first have to invent the universe?
Open-weights LLMs provide a dizzying array of options.

You'd have Llama, Mistral, Gemma, Phi, Yi.

You'd have Llama, Llama 2, Llama 3, Llama 3.2...

And those offer with 8B, 13B or 70B parameters

And you can get it quantised to GGUF, AWQ, exl2...

And quantised to 2, 3, 4, 6 or 8 bits.

And that 4-bit quant is available as Q4_0, Q4_K_S, Q4_K_M...

And on top of that there are a load of fine-tunes that score better on some benchmarks.

Sometimes a model is split into 30 files and you need all 30, other times there's 15 different quants in the same release and you only need a single one. And you have to download from huggingface and put the files in the right place yourself.

ollama takes a lot of that complexity and hides it. You run "ollama run llama3.1" and the selection and download all gets taken care of.
> Isn't game development already discussed here?

I'd say not really. Not in the detail that this site aims for. At least on the front page.
Inertia can be overcome - some random situation might do it and then the pull the other way would be unstoppable.
For Intel, OpenVINO should be the preferred route. I dont follow AMD, but Vulkan is just the common denominator here.
I also wouldn't label cancel culture as "far-left" because just as it isn't in any way "liberal", it isn't limited to those on the proverbial left of the spectrum. The mainstream language used to discuss politics simply lacks the ability to reflect the nuance needed in the 21st century. And that's not even getting into the discussion on what we call "cancel culture" because there is a big gulf between "that person said a thing that was a bit off" and "that person is a literal criminal/fascist" in my opinion.
I know that these algorithms are the best that exists for many tasks, but any non-deterministic non-provable algorithm is still technically a heuristic. Also, currently, the bitter lesson seems to be that more of the same runs into diminishing returns, contrary to "The Bitter Lesson"(tm). There will probably be a better AI architecture at some point, but "lol just add more GPUs / data / RAM" times are kind of over for now.
Example: https://darkreader.org/
Applying for government contracts, academia, NGOs - but also a lot of "big company" procurement processes - required DEI statements etc.
To me it looks like more lack of familiarity with Java.

Having used Java and .NET ecosystem since their early days to this day, I fail to see why the team wasn't able to deliver in the same timeframe, also Spring Boot isn't the answer for everything.
No, ICE was established in 2003, post-9/11, way before DACA in 2012, and it was always intended to be used for this purpose.
I would definitely pay for seeing that movie! Especially if it led to greedy tech giants becoming very careful about what data they gather and ingest for training of ML models.
Traffic spikes are bad for your product
They already support ROCm, which probably introduces 10x more support requests than Vulkan would!
Yes, using the latest version of Java to build the back-end services for an on-chain asset management platform, GLAM, on Solana.

Love Java because of how robust the JDK is with respect to Collections, Concurrency, IO and Cryptography. At the same time you can pick and choose exactly what modules you need to keep your application light weight. Also, I find Java has become more of a joy to write in recently as project Amber continues to release features every 6 months. (https://openjdk.org/projects/amber/)

Outside of the base and java.net.http JDK modules, the only external library I rely on is Bouncy Castle for the ed25519 utilities it provides. Considering some of the services sign financial transactions, it is nice to be able to minimize the risk of a malicious take over of a 3rd party library.

Only using AI for generating some of the more manual labor code.

If you are interested in building on Solana in Java check out https://github.com/sava-software/sava and https://docs.glam.systems
thanks for this. yeah im trying to do weekly digests (or daily if it is straight to the point).
I feel like visiting some platforms creates the stress right away, with the bombarding of info.
But i was also referring to this from a solopreneurship perspective. As in, if you FOMOing on building a cool thing, or not using the latest tech etc etc.
cheers
They may have enjoyed more privileged accommodation upon being evacuated, but their being evacuated was not a privilege, if that what we want to call it.
List all of BIG THINGS (by your standard) that happened in the last decade. Did you actually miss out by not learning about them soon enough? You can safely consume a lot less media and ignore most of it. You won't miss much.
He did write ‘awful,’ which is a fair description of the experience of writing Lua.

I don’t mean that as an insult to Lua’s creators. They seem like really smart fellows. It’s just that the language is (to my eyes, with my background) viciously ugly. And 1-based arrays, of course, are evil.

It has some neat ideas, though, and it is supposed to be very easy to integrate into a project. But man, that syntax …
On re-read, I understand the other aspects of what you mean better. True!

For dates in the past it isn't much of a problem. `America/[city in chile]` in the past (created before the change, refering to times before the change) still has a specific point-in-time meaning even when things change.

The problem is dates records created in the past but referring to times in the future. Which could now be ambiguous or wrong... and this is the first time I'm thinking about it, I'm not sure how easy it is to detect, I guess it should be detectable which dates may be ambiguous/wrong if you know the date of their creation (before the change was known), but it would take caring to write guards about it and having access to databases with sufficient info.
These watches often have a quartz crystal - the little can would crush and the oil would damp oscillations, so they might have a laser trimmed RC loop - which would be cheaper as well as crush-proof?
> Given the political climate I'm not surprised he was fired.

He was fired because he placed himself in a position where at least half the company would refuse to work with him.
Can someone create an LLM standard?
When I read "humans didn't use", I understand that other animals with which we share close common ancestors still use it. Evolutionary pressure can make organs go into disuse so it makes sense that we end up with unused organs.
There's a lot of stuff that does something after we thought it didn't. I don't quite trust folk when they say "Oh, that's just there in your body but it doesn't do anything."

I get that some stuff genuinely doesn't because evolution deprecated it, but others we might not yet understand well enough to know this for sure.
the LSE is a single market in a set of thousands

it's an insignificant fraction of financial services London provides and certainly not significant data point to measure the EU against London
That's a different kind of verification entirely.
I'm genuinely puzzled by people's reaction to DEI measures. In my experience, they have in many cases been explicitly exclusionary (e.g. a conference only for certain minorities, specific support preferences). I have never heard anyone criticize "outreach" in general. The problem starts when outreach means only targeting specific minorities.
Build your own window manager in Python:

https://monroeclinton.com/build-your-own-window-manager/

By the way, it is much easier to develop and test these things using VNC, so running an X server in a separate window.