skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normal people will probably not read these long essays, but they might complain about their M$ OS getting worse.. and that is a great opportunity to present linux as the solution (because it is), you can then explain how programs they use will continue to work (it's 2025, they will in most cases) and how there's nothing to fear.

For me, it actually worked! Of course I did offer some help just in case she got stuck or something, but it went relatively smoothly.
If an exit package increases your agency, then take it!

If an exit package doesn't increase your agency, then increase your agency in your current role!
All government spending is already public information. The United States Congress is already responsible for that spending, not the unelected henchmen of some rich Nazi.
I think the innovation here is probably that its a much smaller and so cheaper model to run.
Plot twist:

1. they are trying to obfuscate deepscrape success

2. they are trying to confuse you. the benchmark margins are minimal (and meaningless)

3. they are trying to get time (with investors) releasing nothing-special-models in a predicted schedule (jan -> o3, feb -> o3-pro-max, march -> o7-ultra, and in 2026 -> OMG! we've reached singularity! (after spending $500B))

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And at the end of the day, nothing changes for me and neither for you. enjoy your time out of this sickness ai hype. bruh!
In this case, I wouldn't attribute malice to incompetence.
For every person that asks I imagine there are a bunch that just assume it must be true because the computer told them
> Half the things you said are straight up lies

lol, no.

> the OpenRC is a good example how miniscule your world is

Weird attempt at an insult, but ok.
> it can affect the search results returned

Will it still work if "fuck" is part of a quoted phrase? If so, you could avoid it by constructing a phrase that contains the term but isn't going to match anything, ex: -"fuck 5823532165".
Anthropic’s ceo was predicting billion dollar training runs for 2025. Current training runs were likely in the tens/hundreds of millions of dollars USD.

Inference capex costs are not a defensive moat as I can rent gpus and sell inference with linear scaling costs. A hypothetical 10 billion dollar training run on proprietary data was a massive moat.

https://www.itpro.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/dol...
> systemd is indeed totally incompatible with musl libc.

It's more that it is incompatible with being small, lean and secure.
Does Amazon also price discriminate for "premium domain names"?
Abstract. It's an Abstract machine, not a Virtual machine.
One thing I appreciate about C# and .NET is how well they resist codebase rot. In some other languages, I often encounter situations where the development environment needs to be completely recreated—sometimes due to an updated interpreter version or other breaking changes. If you've been away from the codebase for a while, chances are you'll need to make modifications just to get it running in a more recent environment.

With .NET, this issue is much less pronounced. While occasional adjustments are necessary, the environment is largely self-contained, minimizing the overhead required to get things running. As long as the .NET SDK is installed, running dotnet restore is usually all it takes—even when moving the codebase to an entirely new machine.

Some third-party libraries evolve more rapidly than others, but the core .NET libraries remain remarkably stable. More often than not, you can transition between major versions without needing to modify any code.

If I were starting a long-term project that required ongoing maintenance, C# would be my top choice. For quick scripting needs, I’d lean toward Python or PowerShell. In fact, PowerShell itself is another reason I appreciate .NET—it shares many concepts, and knowing .NET makes it easier to understand PowerShell. Plus, since PowerShell can directly leverage .NET libraries, it offers powerful scripting capabilities. I was thrilled when PowerShell became cross-platform, much like .NET itself.
It’s a tool. And I suspect doctors and lawyers could mount a spirited argument that programmers have done far more harm than their millennia-old fields.
>you can then explain how programs they use will continue to work

Microsoft Office and games. No, not LibreOffice and Tux Racer.

Wine has gotten a lot better compared to years past, but if you need/want Windows software you still need Windows.

You also only get one shot at convincing them, since first impressions are everything. A better argument might be recommending MacOS, at least Microsoft Office works just fine there.

Also, if you're using esoteric hardware: Forget it.
DeepSeek Is Raising Investor Concerns About VC Funding for AI
That's true. I happily concede!
Yes, and at least for sqrt(), internally it's likely implemented as a heuristic guess followed by a fixed number of iterations of Newton's Method. (In software, you'd normally iterate Newton's Method until the change in the result is less than some threshold; in hardware, I'm guessing that it might be simpler to figure out the maximum number of iterations that would ever be needed for any input, and always run that many, but I don't know.)
It is impossible to watch only till the aside about dedicating the hospital wing without learning about the acupuncturist. Those two are connected.
You’re not fun.
It really is a world of difference. I think the only people really championing systemd are those that found writing scripts and futzing around too complicated. They wanted open-source Windows and they got it.
Are you implying it isn't?

(evidence please, everyone)
The way depreciation works is that a company buys something, like a computer, which is a business expense. Then at the end of the year, you're out the $2000 that you paid, but you still have the computer, which is now a used device and is now a year older. So it's no longer worth $2000 but it's not worth nothing. Suppose it loses $500 in value. Then the book value of the asset becomes $1500 and you have depreciation expense of $500. That depreciation is the deduction for this year, they don't let you deduct the whole $2000 the year you bought it. Next year you can deduct some more, until the book value of the asset is scrap or you dispose of it or sell it.

Estimating how much value it lost is subjective so the government specifies what percent of the value you can deduct each year. Straight line deprecation is when the depreciation expense is the same percentage of the original cost every year. Accelerated depreciation is when the early years use a higher percentage than the later years. In both cases the total amount of depreciation is the same but accelerated depreciation is often a better approximation for actual value. The true market value of a piece of equipment will decline more in absolute dollars in the first year than the fourth year. It's also what businesses typically pick when given the choice, because a bigger deduction now is better than a bigger deduction later.

It's not any kind of tax dodge at all, it's just an accounting method in the tax code.
Alcohol is not even close to being taken seriously enough, imho.

It's not culture, it's poison, poison that makes you stupid and ugly.

Seriously, why is this stil considered a good idea?
For that amount of money I would also expect my search-terms to to never be fed into any kind of LLM either.
Similar result, maybe not quite so illustrative, perhaps more colorful, just involving images not videos. Ended up at a similar conclusion.

Tried to search user interface design for an ongoing project, and found that Google now simply ignores filtering attempts... Try to find ideas about multi-color designs, and all there is are endless image spam sites and Letterman style Top 10 lists. Try to filter those out, and Google just ignores many attempts.

There's so many, that even those that actually do get successfully filtered out, only reveal the next layer of slime to dig through. Maybe the people that didn't pay enough for placement?

Huge majority, far and away, where the "Alamy", "Shutterstock", "_____Stock", ect... photos websites. There's so many it's not really practical to notch filter. Anything involving images. Spend all day just trying to notch filter through "_____Stock" results to get to something real.

The worst though, was that even among sites that wrote something, there was almost nothing that was actually "user interfaces" or anything related to design, other than simplistic sites like "top 10 colors for your next design" that are easy to churn out.

Try to search on a different subject and filter for only recent results from 2024, get results from 2015, 2016. Difficult to tell if the subject had simply collapsed in the intervening 10 years (seemed unlikely) or if Google was completely ignoring the filters applied. The results did not substantially change. It's like existing in an echo chamber where you're shown what you're supposed to view. It all feels very 1984 lately.

Basically ended up at the same conclusion: their customers are the ad buyers. They don't get enough money from "normal" people to care.
Don't underestimate how much the long tail means to the general public.
You may think Google cares about your performance but when the involuntary layoffs come, it's the highest earners who are first cut. Google is hoping the high earners leave because that saves the most money. There is no long/term thought here, it's short-sighted stock bumps from a company already rolling in money.
For all the value that they bring, there is still a good dose of parlour tricks and toy examples around, and they need an intelligent guiding hand to get the best out of them. As a meat brain, you can bring big picture design skills that the bots don't have, keeping them on track to deliver a coherent codebase, and fixing the inevitable hallucinations. Think of it like having a team of optimistic code monkeys with terrible memory, and you as the coordinator. I would focus on building skills in things like software design/architecture, requirements gathering (what do people want and how do you design software to deliver it?), in-depth hardware knowledge (how to get the best out of your platform), good API design, debugging, etc. Leave the CRUD to the robots and be the brain.
I just used perplexity.ai. The interface is janky and it looks like it just does search.

ChatGPT has image generation, you can upload word docs, images and PDFs and it has a built in Python runtime that it uses to offload math problems to.
The article wasn't terrible. I give it a C+ (no pun intended).

Too general, too much trivia without explaining the underlying concepts. Questionable recommendations (without covering potential pitfalls).

I have to say that the discourse here is refreshing. I got a headache reading the 190+ comments on the /r/prog post of this article. They are a lively bunch though.
What's the difference? LLMs confidently lie or produce incorrect results all the time, with "conviction".
if you check GP, you might agree he is very helpful.
Btw, he is the author of the article posted.
I don't know those terms and now I'm afraid to search for them. The Cybernetic Bureaucracy Mind might label me a dissident with terrible taste in music.
Also, for a lot of people working on hardware, the alternatives aren't great. Big Tech players like Apple, Meta, Amazon, etc. all have downsides. Startsups are extremely risky, and don't pay employees as well (ex: Humane, Rabbit, Peleton, etc.)

A slightly better story for those working on software (e.g. Google Photos App or Backend). They have more options, but relatively good jobs (high pay, flexibility, great coworkers non-crazy hours, etc.) as still hard to come by. They exist, but not sure about the quantity.
What? Firing regular prosecutors is NOT normal.
I'm always asking Claude to propose a variety of suggestions for the problem at hand and their trade-offs, then evaluating them for the top three proposals and why. Then I'll pick one of them and further vet the idea
If you like Mathesar’s approach but need to work with MySQL, FDWs would let you connect a MySQL database to Mathesar for data entry and querying. This could be useful if you also have Postgres data and want to work with both in a single interface, or if you wanted things like cross-database queries between both DBs.

That said, if you’re only using MySQL, FDWs add an extra layer, and something like VisualDB, since it’s built for multi-database support, would likely be a more natural fit. The main advantage of Mathesar in this scenario would be if you want something open source and self-hosted (VisualDB looks like proprietary SaaS) or if you just like our UI and user experience.
I am really disappointed in PG. He seemed a bit detached from the worst of the 'tech bro' scene.

And then, recently, he goes and posts that essay about how 'woke' is this huge problem just as a bunch of flagrant racists come to power.
Going to try this! Thanks for the tip
I am always disappointed in these articles that fail to mention that other forms of AI such as logic programming/intelligent search easily solve problems like the “Einstein” one. Similarly, it is not difficult for genetic programming methods to discover code which reliably multiplies numbers.

I am uncertain if this is a lack of understanding by the authors of these articles or just a bias to keep the audience’s attention on the shiny hyped up LLM business.
Maybe use the name of whatever the substitute is, like nitrile butadiene?
> Are there specific use cases where o1's higher cost is justified anymore?

Long tail stuff perhaps. Most stuff doesn't resemble a programming benchmark. A newer model thrives despite being small when there is a lot of training data, and with programming benchmarks, like with chess, there is a lot of training data, in part because high quality training data can be synthesized.
Running DeepSeek R1 Models Locally on NPU
Makes sense, but Java's mostly portable library eco-system and its maturity would make a very strong contender to me.
> What do you think will happen when these models are good enough to do 90% of engineering work?

Honestly? I think we'll see a lot of vengeful and technically capable people who are out of work and who are looking to get revenge on the people that laid them off.

Some of those people who feel they have nothing to lose will build swarms of small drones that will use machine vision to track down Zuckerberg whoever they feel wronged them and kill them.

The future is going to be very, very spicy.
I imagine it's mostly going to be folks who were planning to leave anyway, and this is the nudge they needed to do it sooner.

The downside to this approach is that they will probably tilt more towards senior and staff engineers who have been driving important projects and likely were going to leave once the project ships (or cancels).

Now, they leave 6 months earlier, and leave teams full of new or junior level employees without much context. The company is full of smart folks though and they will recover. It will just be a painful year as teams scramble to figure everything out.

It's also a potential F-U to Meta's approach who just did broadcasted performance based layoffs. Future employees will keep note and it will make it harder for Meta to recruit.
Yes, which is excellent (although 50 years too late, I'll try not to be too cynical...).

The problem is that C++ is a huge language which is complex and surely not easy to implement. If I want a small, easy language for my next microprocessor project, it probably won't be C++20. It seems like C is a good fit, but really it's not because it's a high level language with a myriad of weird semantics. AFAIK we don't have a simple "portable assembler + a few niceties" language. We either use assembly (too low level), or C (slightly too high level and full of junk).
If have to write a prompt that long, it'll be faster to just write the code.
This is probably the right way to think about it. O1-pro is an absolute monster when it comes to architecture. It is staggering the breadth and depth that it sees. Ask it to actually implement though, and it trips over its shoelaces almost immediately.
Setting up a Linux writecache as a RAM disk (2019)
Does O3 beat a specalized numeric compiler?
That sounds like a terrible idea.
In addition, the Industrial Revolution led to societal upheaval which took more than a century to sort out, if you agree its ever been sorted out at all.

So, if it is true we’re on the cusp of an AI Revolution, AGI, the Singularity, or anything like that, then there’s precedent to worry. It could destroy our lives and livelihoods on a timescale of decades, even if the whole world really would be over all improved in a century or two.
And then trains adopted reCAPTCHA.
Theoretically, but in practice I'm not sure recruiters or other companies can tell the difference between a high performer and a mid-performer.
So what are you talking about? And do you have an argument or any evidence for why it might be so? You're claiming there are organs that are vestigial because they don't occur in all humans, but then you don't accept that organs not occurring in all humans are vestigial. And they are clearly important - several organs that don't appear in all humans are absolutely critical. And you accept that vestigial organs have minor uses, but you don't seem to want to accept that "vestigial organs are not useless" is probably a correct statement (which lines up pretty well with the Wikipedia article, I might observe).

Which parts of your comment are the parts that say something? What are they saying? It appears to me that you are saying there isn't any evolutionary pressure to keep things that are minorly positive to keep from an evolutionary perspective, which is surely a mis-read by me so I'm not sure what you are trying to get at.
> Microsoft Office and games. No, not LibreOffice and Tux Racer.

Not everyone will be as displeased with LibreOffice since not everyone uses MS Office professionally.. I'd argue further: for MOST people this is acceptable!

> Wine has gotten a lot better compared to years past, but if you need/want Windows software you still need Windows.

Not the case for PhotoScape for example (which was on the "required" list in this case).
Also fortunately more and more programs are cross-platform, and again, for MOST people they're acceptable.

> Also, if you're using esoteric hardware: Forget it.

What??
It was the opposite, Linux doesn't require TPM, runs fine on older laptops and even runs faster with lighter DE's..
The choice of tools depends on what you want to write.

For some applications, react/node makes more sense. For some applications, .net/angular makes more sense. For some applications, python makes more sense.

You have to consider ecosystem and language features.
Check out Hess v Commissioner.

For certain types of businesses the individual is almost indistinguishable from the business.
ACA was not intended to address costs. It was a compromise to expand access without threatening the insurance industry. A more comprehensive reform had just failed.
Thank You. It is somewhat a lot of these are pointing out the obvious. But have to be written out.
Keep at it!

raddbg is one worth watching too (currently only Windows x64) https://github.com/EpicGamesExt/raddebugger
Don’t outsource the only thing left for our brains to do themselves :/
> Tulare County water managers were perplexed and frustrated, noting both physical and legal barriers that make it virtually impossible for Tulare County river water to be used for southern California fires.

So... Trump just wanted Hugest Most Beautiful Water Moving Numbers so he could brag to his supporters, and he ordered it done no matter how useless or harmful it would be?

Oof. I'm remembering that 2018 letter [0] where some anonymous staff sought sympathy from the American public for their unsung work keeping Trump from Doing Something Crooked. (I still feel they were actually making it worse in the long run.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Part_of_the_Resistance_In...
C# has changed a ton in the last few years, it’s definitely 4/4 for me…
I've always thought that Zuck looked like a psychopath, even leaving aside his actions, many of which I have read about in the past.

you just have to take a look at his face, and those mad staring eyes.
I'm sure that a ban on proof-of-work mining would cause an equivalent or greater amount of damage to the value of various "coins". At least with actual metal coins you can melt them down and make things from the metal should the coin devalue unexpectedly.
pretty elaborated way to say "because it's fast"
TL;DR: OpenAI's o3-mini model is faster, more reliable, and more accurate than DeepSeek's R1
> so many solar and other “clean” energy private ventures failed during that period

You can't even see you contradict yourself.

If all companies were supported by Obama but they all failed, but not Tesla, it wasn't Obama who made companies succeed but Musk who made Tesla succeed.

Not to mention you fail to enumerate those supposed subsidies.

The only significant think I know about is $465 million LOAN in 2010, which Tesla quickly and fully paid off.

Compare that to $13.4 billion loan to GM in 2008 from Bush and additional $50 billion in 2009 to bail them out from bankruptcy.

The Government (i.e. tax payers) lost $10 billion.

GM would surely not exist if not for the tens of billions of loans.

Musk would probably find a way to make Tesla work even without the $465 million loan.

I hope you see how biased your take is.

You harp on Tesla benefiting from gov support while ignoring that many other companies also get support and direct competitors like GM got 20x more support.
very, except that embarrassed is too weak a word.
But we don't care about more profits, we care about more EVs. If you want to create an incentive to make EVs that are exported then you can make one, for example by subsidizing production equipment or by providing a per-unit sold refundable tax credit.
but deepseek is censored!!!11!
Looks like /r/datahoarder was backing it up just in time:

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/1iekywr/cdc_we...
If a little Sieg Heil at the inauguration didn't convince you that this administration is pretty down with racism, I don't believe there's any evidence on Earth that will.

Specific, hard evidence, all in context, the man who gave it got an ovation and an office built in the White House, and a free hand in the agencies that are supposed to be regulating him.
I'm aware, thanks, but it could have been anyone saying that AI won't threaten your job. It's still a big claim.
Looks a bit like nostr except:

- data is named, not content addressed (to support overwrite & deletion), so the primitive data type is associative arrays of names to documents instead of sets of messages

- documents are grouped into "shares" and you have to know the "share address" before the server will acknowledge that it indeed has documents in that share.

Seems like an interesting approach: part way private, part way open. It think projects like this which pick an extreme on that axis end up suffering for it--which is most of them.

I bet it would succeed at keeping the spammers and scammers out, but I'd be leery of using it with a large group against a motivated adversary--if a single user exposes the share address (which is in a gray area between public and private) it seems like all of the users of that share are exposed. I'd prefer to see a web of trust so that an adversary has to compromise each hop on the trust graph before they find their target--but that's a lot of complexity for users to handle so I can see why keeping it simple might be worth tolerating the lack of granularity.

I certainly hope that something like this succeeds. It feels like we've lost the web and there are too many of us to coordinate en masse without something web-like--and at a time where that coordination is pretty important.
> people start looking for a way to get rid of it

I would bet money that the majority of users do not actually feel this way.