skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sure the aliens reading that are saying "Thank god! They aren't coming here." :-)

But on a more serious note, this is some great science. I am super impressed by how sensitive the instruments need to be to chart the fluctuations due to mass here at 20 light years. I'm always on the fence about whether or not we should focus a beam of RF with some modulation on it in their direction, on the one hand it would say "hello! we see you!" on the other that might not be a good idea.
Scott Alexander contest. Predict what happens in 2025. $10k prize pool
The only people who think that Ai models won't result in more demand for human labour are the ones who have never used them.
What is this vision you hint at? Everyone seems to have a different opinion as to this "vision of AI". Is it good? Or is this vision one of "despair" as you mentioned and it is coming early?
You are in the right here. Horizontal vectors are common for (some) deep learning docs, but column factors are the literature standard elsewhere.
There’s nothing in there about being qualified for the job, so this is definitely not a meritocracy play.

The bit right after the piece you quoted is interesting:

> Employees who engage in unlawful behavior or other misconduct will be prioritized for appropriate investigation and discipline, including termination.

I hope they start at the top!
Please note that it’s using pretty aggressive quantization (around 4 bits per weight)
And only twice as expensive as the competing hardware you use to run R1 671B at 3-bit quantization!

Ordinarily Apple customers cough up 3 or 4 times list price to match the performance of an equivalent PC. This is record-setting generosity from Cupertino.
Did the introduction of assemblers lead to creating more or fewer programming jobs?
There's been so many small changes over the years that have decimated the experience further and further for me. Most recently, the "Podcasts" Library tab has now been renamed "Podcasts and Courses". The competing KPIs that must have been at play to make "Audiobooks" a separate, third tab, but bundle "Courses" into "Podcasts" could surely be written about. Certainly with merit: That horizontal scroll area now has so many tabs that putting "Audiobooks" in 3rd place basically puts it over the fold at most screen sizes, and "Courses" in 4th place would be as invisible as a Google search result on the second page.

Woe befalls the Audiobooks team, who lost that war. Sad for them.

Sorry, throughout that diatribe I forgot to even mention what Courses were, or why anyone would want them. That could only be because, I have no idea. Seeing it written in my Library tab, "Podcasts and Courses" is like hearing the echo of a feature that doesn't exist. Where do I find these courses? What do I search for? Are they included in my plan? There's none on my home page... wait, I just realized how little I care.

I think, or rather hope, we're entering an era of tech business where money gets more expensive, thus sensibility must return, you can't just be focused on growth you need to make money, keep customers happy, and not worry less about the next hundred million customers. I'm seeing it in some products. Not in Spotify, to be clear. Here's the sensible thing Spotify could do: Create a $22/mo plan, hi-fi audio, a big "Super Premium" badge around your avatar, custom app color themes, customize your home page and sidebars, this literally writes itself, people would buy it. Would it make enough money to justify the investment? Hey Dan: Did building Podcasts and Audiobooks? Yeah that's what I thought.
Not sure the relevance of this article.

RPO has been around for a long time, it's only now that we might begin start using AI to aid in the automation. Whereas before it was exactly that, very robotic.
-alate, -ster, etc. :-)
Success because of A and attributing it to B. There's a bit of megalomania too. He has a beef against VC funding. He lost 1/3 of staff once when he implemented a policy of no personal opinions at Basecamp. He is often shared because of his unpopular opinions and his successes are used to fortify those opinions.

I'm not saying Fried or Musk are wrong, and they both have brilliant insights at times. If Musk was crazy and wrong all the time, he wouldn't be a brand name.

But both of them also appeal to susceptible people who seem to think that a few good opinions make them good all the time. Basecamp isn't even a good tool, it's a pretty average one, yet prettier than Jira. But it's down this funnel of people who will buy whatever Fried and DHH sell them.

And what I'm getting at is whether Rails is one of those things that is average but prettier than Node?
> Most likely the CEO of Boom ran the numbers, and the $100 ticket price is doable

Most likely it's aspirational, something to market to investors and potential employees.
It is a 671B params model, but I guess you already knew that from the title.

But you're right, just let's keep waiting for the town-sized Data Centers + Power Plants kindly served by our big tech overlords.

PS: If you refer to it being a Mac, obviously you can build a more cost efficient but difficult to cool rig.
this is https://polymarket.com/ ?
Oh shoot I read the comments first
For sure, I meant something more like a slot with a name.
Even back in 2004 University libraries were under-utilized. I can only imagine they now look like ghost towns.
Yeah. I also wonder how many spoofed responses they will get in general.
What parts of ghidra do you find most limiting? I thought it was supposed to be "almost as good" as IDA in terms of features, if not UX polish.
HN has two moderators but the YC Job Opening ads are not just part of HN, they're part of YC as a whole.

I expect YC to do due diligence if one of their companies receives several reports that they heard no replies (it's not that many companies). If it's found to be more than hearsay, they lose HN ad privelleges.

---

I wouldn't do a startup but I certainly could see myself creating a bunch of fake developer profiles of varying skill levels and sending them to companies en masse. If they don't reply to anything even though they have had a job opening, they get placed on the (public) name & shame list.

Would also be interesting to automatically keep track of which job openings a company has and how long they've been open for.
Sometime in my late twenties I decided my quality of life is good enough, and to not buy fancier stuff. A decade later I still live in the same type of home, drive the same class of car, and eat the same type of food. Inflation made my expenses higher, but my wages have increased more. Living below my means has reduced stress to a degree I couldn’t imagine. When the tech layoffs came, I didn’t stress out because I could go 2-3 years without a paycheck and not miss a bill. When I need to cover a major expense such as AC replacement or urgent air travel I just have cash to cover it.

While my peers might take fancier vacations or drive nicer cars, I wouldn’t trade. I have a confidence in finical stability, and I focus on things that really matter to me.
One more now.
I’m surprised that the author chose to configure a public OIDC client for this scenario. Part of the benefit of this pattern is that it’s possible to use a confidential client, since the BFF can securely hold the client secret.
There are lots of people with ATVs and hobby motorbikes etc. that cost a good bit more.
Its not that aggressive of a quantization considering that the full model was trained at only 8 bits.
Here's the OPM guidance memo to department heads about this program: https://chcoc.gov/sites/default/files/OPM%20Guidance%20Memo%...

Key quote:

"Employees who accept deferred resignation should promptly have their duties re-assigned or eliminated and be placed on paid administrative leave until the end of the deferred resignation period (generally, September 30, 2025, unless the employee has elected another earlier resignation date), unless the agency head determines that it is necessary for the employee to be actively engaged in transitioning job duties, in which case employees should be placed on administrative leave as soon as those duties are transitioned."
As someone who spent 2 years working on server emulator for Disney murdered game - ef Disney. I wonder, are there any VR Studio employees reading HN today, or perhaps rdb? If yes, hi!
> As an aside, are there university libraries one can join directly for a fee?

There are. Some are more open than others, but it generally comes down to "give $$, get access".

Here's Stanford's page, for example: https://library.stanford.edu/about-stanford-libraries/visit-...:

One thing worth noting, these accesses do not always include access to electronic resources. Access may only be available from computers that are in the library.
Fascinating to read the thinking process of a flush vs a straight in poker. It's circular nonsense that is not at all grounded in reason — it's grounded in the factual memory of the rules of Poker, repeated over and over as it continues to doubt itself and double-check. What nonsense!

How many additional nuclear power plants will need to be built because even these incredibly technical achievements are, under the hood, morons? XD
14k in 2025 is about 6400 in 1992.
Good point, here are the technical details of the plan:

1- Campaign on promise of mass deportations and massive cuts to Fed gov
2- Win the election
3- Begin presidency
4- Deliver campaign promises to cut spending & deport illegal immigrants <--*We are here*

It's not more complicated than that.
That's a great point. We've been thinking through how we work with open source maintainers and the community to crowdsource reviews or usage information.
Sorry but there are absolutely people out there, maybe not the traditional principled republican voters, but still Trump voters who wanted a strong man / dictators.
All in order to prove that the browser should be part of the OS and was not at all gratuitous tying to defeat Netscape.
Another step in 2025 plan. https://project2025admin.com

The only one they will not implement is the phasing out of H1B due to Musk.
Maybe I’m in the minority but I still love me a good ole SSR app with either some vanilla JS or jquery sprinkled on it. Seems to do just fine for my needs but then again, I’m not building highly complex applications. Just a bit of interactivity is all I need, and it suits me just fine without needing any build steps.
I'm in a mission driven organization so I pay more attention to that than other companies might. Regardless, a little authenticity and enthusiasm can go a long way. The bar is low.
Serious question coming from ignorance — what is the most cost effective way to run this locally, Mac or PC? Please, no fanboyism from either side. My understanding is that Apple's unified memory architecture is a leg up for that platform given the memory needs of these models, versus stringing together lots of NVidia GPUs.

Maybe I'm mistaken! Grateful to be corrected.
Flickr had been transitioning recurring subscription users from Digital River to Stripe for a while, but abruptly ended remaining Digital River subscriptions around November last year. It seems to me like this could likely have been why. There wasn't much transparency around why the abrupt change, but a few months of missing payments might provoke that...

Users that used PayPal through Digital River were pretty unhappy about not having the option to continue using PayPal for Flickr.
The thing I miss most about physical libraries is the serendipity of finding a book in the stacks which I would never have run across otherwise.

Online access has so many advantages, but I can't shake the feeling that it traps me within the web of my existing associations.
Seems like an Elon email!
I think it's about time you built it. No better time than now.

ps: your RSS feed is advertised as https://dingyu.me/blog/feed.xml but is in fact https://dingyu.me/feed.xml (I guessed that as I was adding it to my RSS aggregator)
That's 16x fewer possible values though (and also just 16 possible values full stop). It would be like giving every person on Earth the same shoe size.
You're 100% correct. People tried the nice way with Obama and now they're choosing the hard way with Trump. We are over-the-moon happy with these actions.
Zero could hate them and they wouldn't all listen to them. I don't hate podcasts and I've never listened to one on Spotify.
Sorry man, democracy and all that.
> Latest iPhone update poised to work with upcoming service

Um well yeah the whole idea of starlink direct to cell is that it works with unmodified mobile phones so this isn't really a suprise.

What surprises me more is that apple is even working with starlink considering they have a competing service together with globalstar. Which is kinda their moat since all attempts on the Android side have failed (qualcomm had a deal with iridium and killed it within the year before it even launched, and bullitt (CAT/Motorola) which had a deal with Inmarsat went bankrupt. The sat part was spun off but without ongoing hardware releases this will be a dead end.
Flagged for not being readable without an X account
robots.txt will just be ignored by bad actors.

And the user-agent sent is completely in control of the bad actor. They can send their user-agent as "google bot".

You would need something like WAF from https://www.cloudflare.com/ or AWS
Standing up to Trump is dangerous to one's political and mortal future. He's removed the security details of Mike Pompeo and John Bolton, two Republicans who served him during his first term. Trump is a spiteful man with no care about the lives or safety of others, and that's partly what got him elected. The remaining Republicans know this, and will toe the line. Speaking out against Trump, even if one retires, is dangerous.
This was some years back in Minnesota. The particular town (a suburb of Minneapolis) was apparently infamous for nanny-state governance, and nothing of what I've heard since has me wanting to go back.

With that said, I've still got a few friends who enjoy living there, so to each their own I suppose.
"Future America" is sounding increasingly oxymoronic.
CONUS -> Honolulu -> East Asia or Australia will be a very viable setup. Especially if the refueling stop in Hawaii is well optimized for speed.
Data Structures, Explained Simply
All the people robbing blind creatives for their AI job destruction machine are also attempting to hide any content from each other at this point. Instagram and X and probably YouTube are more limited in what you can do in a logged out state because of this.
Well AI is a trend in everything right now.

And sats for mobile aren't really a big thing. Qualcomm worked on it and killed it, Samsung did for a while and killed it, Bullitt had it and it was a fringe thing before they collapsed. Only Apple really stood by it. And it's really only their moat, they're still not selling subscriptions.

Starlink direct to cell is only available on a fraction of sats, even those launched now. They won't be able to launch a full direct to cell fleet until starship comes online due to the added size and weight of the sats.

As an android user I still don't have any replacement for my Garmin inreach which is really a pain because Garmin put the prices up considerably. I was hoping to be able to replace it by now. Also, Bullitt's service is kinda a no go for emergencies because it uses a geostationary network so it won't work from valleys with mountains to the south (in the Northern hemisphere that is). Starlink, globalstar (apple) and Iridium (qualcomm, until they killed the deal) don't have this issue being low earth orbit.

I guess the emergency service isn't the big selling point everyone thought it was and the capacity isn't there yet for much more than text messaging yet.
I'm on the pro-VC, anti-bootstrap spectrum and so is Elon Musk. American political spectrum of right vs left, authorarian vs libertarian makes little sense to me.

My political compass tends to be BRICS vs G7, religious vs secular. If you're saying they're both G7-secular, I guess that makes sense too.

edit: Also I was not even aware of Musk and the fascist thing before posting the comment, and I can see how it may have been interpreted differently now, lol.
> we were sending USD $50 million to Gaza for condoms.

This is a patently obvious and gross mischaracterization. The US has been providing a broad spectrum of humanitarian assistance addressing urgent needs such as emergency medical aid, food, water.

Whether or not you agree with that, you undermine our chances at constructive discourse when you exaggerate or otherwise decontextualize a situation.

It's also absurdly disingenuous to claim that "we never question taxation. And never question spending." Of course these concerns are the subject of continuous debate by much more serious people than yourself.

Again, whether or not you agree with the outcome, the assertion that "we never question taxation" is utterly, and completely divorced from reality.
dunno about the AI generated, but their discover weekly algorithm definitely changed a couple of months ago. I went from getting a nice mix of post-2012 music, new, fresh, to a ton of songs I listened to in when I was first getting into music. Very frustrating
Spotify pays on a pro rata model. Something like 70% of their operating revenue is divided amongst license holders based on the number of plays. The only way the majority of artists make more money is if Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, Drake and The Weeknd suddenly fall off the face of the earth and their record labels burst into flames.

All streaming platforms realistically pay out close to the federally-set royalty rate.
On what grounds could they complain?
I periodically go to the Library of Congress to read things for various side projects. It's sad how few people actually use the Library of Congress as a library. There are a lot of tourists there. I usually go to the Science and Business Reading Room, which avoids most of the tourists as they check out the Main Reading Room. But attendance is usually sparse, perhaps 2 dozen per day.

The Library of Congress is an amazing free resource with a significant fraction of what's ever been published. They too seem to be pushing more and more off-site, but not to the extent that university libraries are. I can find a lot of rare books there that I would not have access to otherwise, and I've also used their technical reports collection extensively.

I'm not sure what I would do if the various research libraries I frequent were to reduce services or close. I've been saving a ton of PDF files over the years and I guess I could make do with what I have.
The subject line is identical to the subject line he used for the "leave or become hardcore" email to twitter just after the buyout.
This is very true! In practice I have seen that it is exceedingly difficult to write the GraphQL "sinks" (I don't recall the exact term) that can intelligently handle things like batching and understanding things like pre filtering, where one service in the composed call could and should be performed first to limit the result set. YMMV, in my experience it can be simpler to be more explicit about these things, especially when in "true" BFF the client team is also responsible for their immediate backend, which can give them that flexibility, at the cost, perhaps, of more boilerplate.
'Super pod' of more than 1,500 dolphins spotted off California coast
this is something i dont understand because P/E's are so high, why so few IPOs?
My anecdotes last year and the year before was that when I was looking for my preferred jobs - full time positions at cloud consulting companies and a couple of product companies as an “architect”, I had a 100% response rate.

When I looked for my Plan B jobs - just regular old C# enterprise dev jobs looking for AWS experience paying less - crickets.

It’s seems harder to get interviews for jobs you are overqualified for than ones you are slightly under qualified for.
Delicious Library was the start of a gilded age of Mac shareware focused on style over substance.

> In the past year or so, Mac development had shifted from applications providing new functionality that appeared at the dawn of OS X to applications (and ideas) built around flash and sizzle, with plenty of marketing hype to fuel the fire. his had created something of a toxic atmosphere in the Mac development world. A rift between the old school, with its plain but functional apps, and the new school of flashy but frivolous apps, has developed. ... I dubbed this new school “The Delicious Generation”.

https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2006/11/06/the-delicious-gene...

Apple adopted a similar interface for Newsstand on iOS and it seemed to be widely reviled during the pushback against skeuomorphism.
Maybe we're converting to more of a Roman- or Mongol- or Aztec-style empire.
I want to focus on non-AI complaints for my question. Each time Spotify comes up on HN, the sentiment is dominated by nitpicking negative comments. To be clear, I am a musical normie that looks forward to daily Spotify to listen to popular music. I also don't mind the phone app, web app, and even Linux desktop app (what a blessing).

My question to the haters: If Spotify is so bad, as you claim, why haven't we seen a flurry of competitors emerge? My guess: Licensing a large enough set of music to make a compelling alternative is the primary moat.

Last point: While I believe people and their stories about AI gen'd slop appearing in their playlists, I have not experienced the same. Are my musical tastes so bland that they just don't bother? (No trolling to others on that one... Just poking a bit of fun at myself.)
I'm so confused by these complaints. I use Spotify every day, and just type in the music I want to listen to. You click on a song and it plays. How are people getting all wrapped up in whether some podcast shows up on some screen, or whether there's AI generated music on there, or if the Electron app is properly optimized?
So, why not get CS with AI concentration and then demo that CS knowledge via applied applications in agriculture? (or agriculture with minor in CS related 'computer' technology)

Apply the 'CS' to reduce the demanding agriculture factors (which sounds more agriculture/mechanical related degree)
Until the FAA oversight and permitting regs are updated, it's far too cost and time prohibitive to bring anything (aside from avionics) truly innovative to the GA market.

For a vivid example, look at the multi-year certification torture that even a minor new engine design (DeltaHawk https://www.deltahawk.com/ ) must endure, or hell, the comical marathon of low-lead avgas adoption, or even a basic 12V https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22K-XdV7e-0 lithium battery.

GA is a hell of a fun hobby, but not a market conducive to venture capital timelines or returns.
> I made the mistake of starting one of these a few weeks ago, and now half my feed is similar junk content.

If you accidentally click on something that turns out to be junk, it's vital you go into the "History" section in the sidebar and remove it from there. This removes it from the stuff considered by the algorithm.
are you familiar with

https://gorilla.cs.berkeley.edu/leaderboard.html
Because once things are paid by consumers things get better, more responsible, efficient, and so on, compared to free money granted by states to a few at the cost of many?