skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not useless by any means

OK, so we agree that your previous statement was overstated, right?

"If you're looking to understand the quality of a service, non-users are worthless"

given the choice between somebody who interviewed the principal and a somebody else who's son actually attends, I'd prefer the latter every time. Wouldn't you?

Not every time, no. You seem to be suggesting that no single informed non-user could be more useful than the least useful user.
This does not (according to the WH press secretary on Twitter [1]) rescind the federal freeze. This simply rescinds the memo, and they expect federal agencies to still comply.

It's an attempt to get around the court injunction.

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/hayesbrown.bsky.social/post/3lgvn4r...
Hmmm, in this framing, would the the free-software / open-source hacker folks would be the socialists/communists that ally against the status-quo, getting purged later when the fascists get enough power?

Another lens to try seeing the situation through is techno-feudalism, although IMO that implies semi-autonomous regions with authority that the top can't directly take or manage. (So it would have to be about people, rather than admin privileges in software.)
Seems Nintendo didn't have a trademark for supermarket use
> based purely on racial prejudices

I don't think that's what the parent was getting at. The US and China are in an ongoing "cyber war". Both sides of that conflict actively use their computers to send messages/signals to other computers, hoping that the exploits contained in those messages/signals can be used to exfiltrate data from and/or gain control of the computer receiving the message. It would really be weird to flatly discount the possibility that some OpenAI data was leaked, however closely guarded it may be.
Time to Think Differently About Your Next Stage of Life
I am saying that they could have got much more, particularly considering the spectacular mistakes western countries kept making for the last ~2 decades.
Or maybe not?

https://bsky.app/profile/juddlegum.bsky.social/post/3lgvnaep...
Their PE ratio is nearly down to 50, leaving it only about 10% higher than the S&P 500 on the eve of its crash in 2001.
I've had about 4 San Disk clips now. mostly because I lose them or put them through the wash.

some of the older models were definitely better, but at 20-40 bucks each and no real dependencies on the rest of my personal computer ecosystem it's a fair trade.

it's only that Spotify and YT music are easy to use that I haven't bought a new one. with enshitifacation being a thing I might go back
Cali is a big city in Colombia.

Only LL Cool J can call California "Cali" without derision.
I appreciate you at least responding, but it's clear that you were offended by me expressing skepticism about a specific person claiming to be a COVID long hauler, who directly profits from doing so, and who presents a purported symptomology that contradicts human physiology and exercise science, despite me bending over backwards to be tactful regarding the subject of long COVID. Do you really want this person being your poster child?
This would be my top feature request. In addition to being great to have generally, there are increasingly environments where this is essentially a requirement and local copies are often verboten so you can't just use rsync/ssh.
I feel this a lot. Android's used to differentiate themselves from iPhones by having useful technical features at a competitive price. I used to be die-hard pro-Android, but now I can find very few reasons to buy one.

Now the Android UI is sparse and wobbly, Androids lost call recording, sideloading is limited, and they raised their prices to cost as much as iPhones.

Meanwhile, iPhones got call recording, they opened up NFC (a bit) and they support CalDAV and CardDAV and SMB natively in its built-in apps. The "control center" on iOS is customizable, to the point they do what Android's quick tiles did before 2020 or so.

It's very frustrating-- I wish they still made Androids like they used to :(
The AI models to begin with assume that a significant majority of the training material is honest/in good faith. So that is not new?
"Compile to" isn't exactly the correct phrase either.

PTX is not the IL used by Nvidia's drivers, but does compile directly to it with less slop involved. If you had said "PTX's instructions are analogous to writing assembly for CPUs or any other GPUs (ala Clang's AMDGPU target)", that would have probably been the better way.

Arguably, PTX is closer to being the SPIR-V part of their stack (more than just an assembler compiler, but similar in concept). None of Nvidia's tools really ever line up with good analogies with the outside world, the curse of Nvidia's NIH syndrome.

Generally, you're not going to be writing all of your code in PTX, but I find it wild you think people going to "an average technical university" would be unable to use it for the parts they need it for. That says more about you than it does them.

All of Nvidia's docs for this are online, it isn't that hard. Have you tried?
Even if your entire measure of bias is based on refusals (which is going to be bad measure for other reasons, but certainly easy to construct), there is considerable bias that goes into selection of what things to include tests for refusals on.
Something tells me you bought the game at a discount years after release.
Nvidia GPUs over significantly more performance per card than Intel and AMD. In general the limiting factor is total computation, so people will pay a premium for the best. I'm not familiar with Google's hardware, and don't think it's generally available.
In other words you don't have the source data.
No you don’t understand, AI is “dangerous” and only him and his uber rich billionaire mates should get to control it!
I'm old enough to remember when the US government did something very similar. For years (decades?), we banned any implementation of public-key cryptography under the guise of the technology being akin to munitions.

People made shirts with printouts of the code to RSA under the heading "this shirt is a munition." Apparently such shirts are still for sale, even though they are not classified as munitions anymore.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...
Do you get more bandwidth at the cost of latency?

Also how much would stuffing a GPU or 3 (3090/4090) improve speeds, even with heavy CPU layer offloading, or would the penalty be too big? I know in some cases you're swapping data into the GPU, but in others you're just doing parts on the CPU. I'm curious what the comparison for speed would be.
This comment is super relatable. Thanks for sharing your story. I had a similar issue with pneumonia changing me from a gymrat grinding out PRs to someone forcing myself under the bar 3 times a week at best. It makes sense obviously in retrospect but your lung capacity is something everyone absolutely takes for granted. Those first few sessions back in the gym trying to deadlift and then running to the bathroom feeling the urge to puke because I was so winded were terrifying. It definitely humbles you and even if you have the empathy beforehand it really underlines how important it is to remember that people are living completely different lives.

As an aside, did you find anything that was effective for bringing you back to that old level of performance? I've been swallowing the bitter pill that is an enforced cardio regime but man it is really, really not fun to brush up against that bad feeling in your lungs. Speaking of empathy, it's starting to make me understand why people get so obsessed with following snake oil health trends - I've been experimenting with pretty much everything under the sun out of desperation for this one.
"Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World" by Malcolm Harris is a really, really fantastic book that shows how far back this line of thought goes in the region.

https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/malcolm-harris/palo...
Why not just copy and paste the model and change the name? That's an even more efficient form of distillation.
Is it much more proportionate to over all budget then Google, Microsoft, Walmart, UPS, bank of America, etc?
> here's also not much we can do about the hallucination problem.

Call them what they are: errors.
You can have our thank-you cards forwarded to your cell at Guantanamo Bay.
CA isn't an acronym, it's a postal abbreviation.

Internationally, it conflicts with Canada.
This is the usual reminder that the seller you select on Amazon is no guarantee about who supplied the product when it's fulfilled by Amazon.

Unless the seller has opted out of Amazon's inventory commingling, their products got binned with everyone else claiming to sell the same product and you got one at random.

If Seagate sends a box of Seagate Exos 16TB drives in, Amazon puts them in bin 1234.

If Joe's Computer Shop sends their new, authentic Seagate Exos 16TB drives in, they get put in bin 1234.

If Sam the Scammer sends in a couple of "new Seagate Exos 16TB" drives in that are really just reflashed 80GB drives from the 90s, they get put in bin 1234.

You order a Seagate Exos 16TB... you get one from bin 1234.

The only way to avoid this is to contact the seller beforehand and see if they've opted out of the commingling. But at that point... very likely easier to just buy elsewhere.
That.

Plus coding (producing a working program that fits some requirement) is the least interesting part of software development. It adds complexity, bugs and maintenance.
Be warned that "mission driven" often means above market workload for below market pay.
Headed? Thanks to Zuck and Elon, we are already there.
> I can put all the URLs here if you ask.

I'm not who you replied to but can you please do? I've been wanting to make a LineageOS device for a while but was being cheap (and it wasn't high enough priority). But maybe now there will be a lot of cheap Pixel 4a on eBay in the near future and I'll go for it.
It's essential that we quantify everything so that we can put a price on it. I'd go with Kahlograms though.
so it's equally hard

and, i know you guys don't like it, but that's what communism aims for

it's an extremely glorious and great undertaking that has never been done by our predecessors
I've used Ollama primarily Laptops with Windows, Mac or Linux. Performance is the biggest issue here. Using what I have on hand, a laptop with Nvidia T2000 GPU. The ~3b parameter models fit in 4gb of GPU memory, so they perform decent. This machine has 64GB of system memory and Intel i7 10875H.

You'll want at least 5 tokens per second for it to be viable as chat. The T2000 with an i7 does ~20 tokens per second on Llama3.2:3b.

Llama3.3 70b is 42gb as a file, so you'll want 64gb ram minimum before you can even load it. This model does 2 tokens per second. Some hosted solutions are literally 1000x faster with 2000+ tokens per second, on the same model.

My opinion is that local inference is useful, but the larger models don't operate fast enough for you to iterate on your problems and tasks. Start small and use the larger models over lunch breaks when the smaller models stop solving your problems.

Depending on how sensitive your data is to your org, read the Terms of Use for some of the AI providers, some of them don't mine every chunk of data. DeekSeek vs Cerebras would be a good comparison.

Alternatively, you might be able to solve your problems with data that is representative of the original data. Instead of looking at payroll data directly for example, generate similar data and use that to develop your solution. Not always possible to do, but it might let you use a larger cloud hosted model without leaking that super private data.
Unitree Humanoid Robots Dance at Spring Festival Gala [video]
I have some seriously bad luck with spicy pillows. I had a nexus 4 and 5 that had their battery swollen. Also an iPhone 6 and a Poco X3 pro. Also, a ZTE z959 and moto E4. I don't want a spicy pillow. I'd rather the phone turn itself off before the battery swells up but ideally it should automatically disconnect the battery and keep running off of the wall unless it is too hot, in which case, it should shut itself off.
Or PC?
I worked as a technical writer earlier in this century and was a member of the STC for a year. In my case, that was a year too long. Like more than a few other technical writers I knew and worked with, I didn't get any value out of my membership. I got more out of the (at the time) burgeoning technical communication blogosphere than I did from the STC

The STC, at least in my view, was several steps behind the times. It was a large organization that was too slow to adapt to changing realities.
The kidneys? A pair of calutrons.
You'll have to excuse me for being mortally terrified of "we are unencumbered by the law and will do whatever we want with power."
People in government in the 90s made a good call, and we haven't done anything since then to ensure it actually played out, until the post WW2 world order was already extremely unstable.

We have had multiple rounds of "why are we paying for any of this?" In our federal government since then.
Show HN: How I built a SaaS thanks to my wife
I’m Michał, and I’d like to share with you the journey I went through with my wife and how, thanks to her, we built our first SaaS, PDFBolt (https://pdfbolt.com). I’ve been a developer for over 10 years. In 2020, I decided to build a side project to learn all aspects of app development—deployment, authentication, payments, frontend, landing pages, etc. While looking for project ideas, I came across the Indie Hackers community, where I found a simple HTML to PDF API project. The creator mentioned a lot of interest in it and that it was generating revenue. I thought I’d build something similar myself and learn a lot in the process. But it wasn’t easy at all. After working from 9 to 5, it’s hard to spend another few hours in front of the computer in the evening. What about other responsibilities? Groceries, cooking, cleaning, hobbies, spending time with my wife? Still, I tried, very slowly. I had breaks lasting several months, and at one point, due to mental health issues, I practically stopped working on the project altogether.

My wife worked as a physiotherapist but, due to difficulties in her job, decided to switch to IT with my help, starting as a manual tester. She did it very quickly (maybe six months) and immediately found a job. In mid-2024, she started asking about my old project and insisted that we finish it. Thanks to her enthusiasm, we managed to do it very quickly. I focused on the backend, and she, in addition to testing, handled the entire frontend and landing page. Around the same time, we also adopted a dog from a shelter, which added a lot of positive energy to our lives and helped us stay motivated. In early January 2025, we officially launched the project. It’s been a long journey, and we don’t have any customers yet—we don’t even know if we will, as we have no idea about marketing :) But we’ve learned a lot and are already happy with the journey itself.

As for the technical aspects, the app uses:

Backend: Kotlin, Spring Boot, Postgres, Redis

Frontend: React, Next.js, Docusaurus

Auth: Firebase

Hosting: Render (the app is Dockerized)

Cloudflare R2 for file storage

PDFs are generated using Chromium via Playwright.

If you have any questions about the tech stack or anything else, feel free to ask! I’ll be happy to answer. Any feedback or criticism will be greatly appreciated. Thank you! :)
> Equinix had been sponsoring three AMD EPYC 7402P servers and another three dual Intel Xeon Silver 4214 servers for running the FreeDesktop.org GitLab cluster. Plus for GitLab runners there are three AMD EPYC 7502P servers and two Ampere Altra 80-core servers.

> The FreeDesktop.org GitLab burns through around 50TB of bandwidth per month.

Is there an estimate of the monthly and annual costs?

List of display servers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_display_servers

Who's profiting from X/Freedesktop.org?

(Screenkey, xrandr, and xgamma don't work on Wayland)

Sommelier is Wayland based.

XQuartz hasn't had a release since 2023 and doesn't yet support HiDPI (so X apps on Mac are line-doubled). Shouldn't they be merging fixes?
He is basically saying, with his inside knowledge of Anthropic's current capabilities: "they did for $5m what we could probably do for $10m or $15m if we launched the training run today without any new optimizations." So on the one hand that's very impressive, both because the cost effectiveness is significantly higher and because even replicating SoTA outside of OpenAI/Anthropic is very difficult. On the other hand, it's not too surprising that a company that needs to economize on compute will find ways to do so; neither Anthropic nor OpenAI would consider it worthwhile to have their best researchers prioritize cutting down on training costs or compute requirements; they have near infinite capital and are focused on breakthroughs in making their best models as good as possible. I don't think it's accurate to say that Deepseek "outsmarted US engineers"; they had a very different objective function than Deepseek, so they pushed much harder on the engineering optimizations for better cost performance.

Everyone seems to rag on OpenAI/Anthropic for spending so much money and take it as a symptom of capitalist waste, but this reality seems great to me - massive amounts of money is basically being funneled from VCs toward progress in machine learning. Once expensive breakthroughs are made, it is only a matter of a few years until people make the engineering optimizations to make those breakthroughs cheap.

Just want to emphasize the progress in cost that Dario highlights: fixed AI capabilities are becoming 4x cheaper every year. That is absolutely insane. US GDP growth averaged 3-4% over the last 250 years and look how far that has taken us. Moore's Law averaged ~40% annual growth in transistor density and look how far that has taken us in just 65 years. 4x growth is AI capability/cost per year is absolutely insane.
As I understand from Twitter, the issue explained in this article is not the actual case at hand. The issue is that they suspect them of stealing the o1 model with the weights via corporate espionage and optimizing it with Matrix Multiplication and other upgrades. That would explain why the outputs are nearly identical in some cases.

I don't know how much of any of this is true. This is what I'm reading on Twitter today.
A new library branch, the first new one in the Brooklyn system in over 30 years, opened on the ground floor of my building. It's been the biggest quality of life boost I ever remember experiencing that didn't involve a move. The librarians know me by name because I put so many board games on hold.
This matches my experience working with LLMs. I've built several applications that require an LLM to consider several factors or "zoom levels," and I have yet to work with a model that can do that in a single shot. Instead, you need to have multiple passes for each area of focus. Rather than "edit this manuscript," you want "find all the typos," then "find all the run-on sentences," etc.
>Though White House aides publicly blamed the media for causing the confusion, arguing that none existed within the building, the administration had received a flood of calls from lawmakers and state officials with questions about its impact on their home states.

So trump blames the media, gets a bunch of blow back from officials, a Judge comes in to block part of it... And they choose to blame the media to upkeep their narrative when they need to backpedal.

Gonna be a long 4 years. But at least they are getting everything through for free.
That would be a terrible implementation. The bias reduction is about answering "is the Jewish or black man guilty" without more context. It should not affect "tell me about crime rates grouped by race in (region) and (period)".
Honestly, I wasn't even in one of the "rich" suburbs. Unfortunately, the whole area tends to want to mimic the worst of other metro policies.

The police were actually pretty decent, as was enforcement of other policies like "your grass is half an inch too long" type stuff that I'd heard of elsewhere. For the most part, if the house didn't look like a junkyard or have a lot of visible peeling paint, they didn't pester people overmuch.
I don’t know where my parents picked up this trick, because everyone looks at me like I’m crazy when I mention it:

Relatively dry mouth. Milk of magnesia. Q-tips. Paint the sore spots with MoM. It thickens and forms a film, which cuts down on the tenderness.

I would try one spot if I were you. As bad as you described it, if that helps more than it hurts you might try gargling the stuff.
It's not wild for people who choose to use a stable distribution that last released prior to smartmontools 7.4. It's exactly what they want and choose.

(Debian 12: 10 June 2023; smartmontools 7.4: 1 August 2023)
Texts and Thoughts
Those were two confident assertions with zero supporting evidence.

Smartphone use is correlated with depression: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10587281/

Social media use is correlated with depression in young adults: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4853817/

These are just two results from a 30 second Google search. There is a ton of information out there that directly correlates both social media and immediate, ubiquitous access to it (i.e. smartphones) with negative social outcomes, including suicide rates.
Autistic and/or ADHD programmers: how does your neurotype affect you at work?
You're missing the fact that there is basically no bug here.

All this does is:

* Store data in a database.

* Kill AV software provided you have admin privileges.

The latter might be remediated by MS down the line, but they don't generally give bounties.
Ask HN: Are there "story-based" and "fact-based" people?
I'm trying to process some conflict I've experienced, both in jobs and in my personal life. One synthesis I'm converging on is the idea that there are "story-based" people, and "fact-based" people. I self-identify as "fact-based", so I'm trying to articulate this while adjusting for my bias towards fact-basis :)

story-based: think in terms of whole narratives; have trouble evaluating statements without knowing where they fit in some story, whose case they help or hurt. Tend to be good at articulating vision and goals; tend to think that it's wrong to pierce a valuable story with contrary facts. Not great at anticipating problems where reality disobeys the intended story, but good at rolling over bumps and keeping eyes on the prize.

fact-based: strive to assess truth and falsehood irrespective of who it helps or hurts. Tend to put foot in mouth by saying things at the wrong time; perceived by others as indelicate. Tend to struggle to articulate vision and goals, given all the things that can go wrong; see nothing wrong with piercing a narrative with contrary facts. Good at anticipating problems, but can be too fixated on obstacles.

Does this ring true for others? How would you revise or amend this?
Flexible Infrastructure Deployment
I would vote for:

"California AG to AI Corps: Practically Everything You’re Doing Might Be Illegal"
LLMs are no longer trying to just reproduce the distribution of online text as a whole to push the state of the art, they are focused on a different distribution of “high quality” - whatever that means in your domain. So it is possible that this process matches a “better” distribution for some tasks by removing erroneous information or sampling “better” outputs more frequently.