skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you redefine everything as deriving value from labor and labor alone

"Alone" seems to be an unnecessary addition for the problem to exist.

And until the AI really can take all our jobs, it's not a redefinition, labour is one of several pillars alongside capital, though specifics vary depending on your school of economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factors_of_production

> Just as a thought experiment, consider if all state pension contributions were just used to immediately purchase gold on the open market that was then put into a vault labelled with the year of birth of the contributor. Please explain how this (obviously naive) strategy is dependent on future labor. As far as I can tell, this system would be completely market-based and future labor would likely benefit as their “gold” might be cheaper as there would be less demographic demand.

Consider this experiment on an island with just yourself.

You bury the gold. You reach pension age, and stop working. You dig up the gold. You now have gold. What do you spend it on? There's nobody offering services, regardless of how much you offer, therefore cost of goods, services, and other assets has a divide by zero error and inflation is asymptotically infinite.

Similar arguments work when the working population shrinks even if not becoming literally zero: unless technological improvements happen faster than the workforce shrinks, which is complex because tech affects different products at different rates, shrinking populations cause your model to get inflation even with gold as a currency.
> DeepSeek won’t be top dog forever.

Which is... worse for Nvidia? If someone else disrupts DeepSeek, do they train a similarly performing model for $600k?
I think you are taking it too literally.

It is not about having bars and armed guards, it is about having a strong fixed hierarchy, fixed routines, rules far stricter than society outside, punishments such as being put in isolation etc.

A lot of this applies to some other highly disciplined environments such as the military too, but it is not the norm for most of us (and the military volunteer to be there).

The physical and security aspects of a school in the UK are not like a prison, but the social and discipline aspects are. More so at some schools than others and I think people who have only had contact with better schools do not realise how bad the bad ones can be.
How well has that strategy worked out for the Republican party internally over the last ~9 years?

Rather than enabling them to glide over the brief uncomfortable moment with their backbones and stated principles intact, it seems to have left them congratulating the emperor on his new clothes.

There are additional layers here because "I voted for Dear Leader" both pumps up the narrative of popular inevitability a regime tries to advertise, and it also binds the speaker more tightly to the regime by making it hard for any broad opposition to cohere. ("If they lied once, why not twice?")
The hypothesis I have is that China has way more compute resources than they are willing to share.

Compute resources they officially should not access to given export bans, where mentioning them might lead to their export ban bypass getting rolled up.
Nah, its just them playing the victim. You can totally get noticed in a big company. Or overlooked in a small.

Throwing in the towel and saying I'm not going to bother in the future... yeah I'd never be hiring you in the first place.
ironically enough you can see from the screenshot of their "internal webhook" that they're using discord to log when a new support thread on slack is created!
Travelling abroad to sleep is a huge waste. Surely one can find a local hotel if a change of place is needed in order to relax!

Add to that the stress of travelling itself (airports, reservations and whatnot), this seems like a self-defeating idea to me.
thankfully major versions in go have different names (module, module/v2, module/v3) enforced by tooling, so you'll never upgrade to the next major (except v0 -> v1).
Cue Monty Python's Dead Parrot sketch. :)

Fitbit isn't dead yet, but it's not doing great either. And the alternatives kinda suck (tldr; the best choice is probably a Garmin for 3x as much money and with less features ).
I am enjoying it. Huggingface is like internet again.
Khan wasn't just advocating for generic regulation, she specifically warned that allowing unchecked consolidation would make the companies themselves weaker and less innovative.

She argued that "maintaining open, fair, and competitive markets, especially at technological inflection points, is a key way to ensure America benefits from the innovation these tools may catalyze."
It's mentioned that U.S. tech companies "would buy the company, kill it, and absorb some of its staff" instead of competing through innovation. That's why it isn't about overregulation, it's about the lack of enforcement of existing antitrust laws during "the Bush and Obama eras [which] saw unbridled growth and mergers."

The DeepSeek situation is a symptom of this problem. When companies could simply acquire or crush competitors rather than out-innovate them, they "got fat and happy inside their castles" and "pivoted from technological innovation to performing alchemy with spreadsheets."

So this isn't just a binary choice between competition and regulation. The article's argument is that failing to enforce basic antitrust laws actually hurt competition and innovation. Whether you agree with that interpretation or not, it's more nuanced than just "competition good, regulation bad."

You are the one trying to separate these issues despite the article making a clear case for their connection.
Voting should never jeopardize your career... the last thing you want with voting is to associate fear and possible job insecurity. You should be able to freely vote for anyone without any consequences.
So PowerPC is 70 years old because IBM was designing computers in 1954? :)
If you’re older and with mortgage yes.
But even if we just look at the examples given by the parent, most of them are not about systems or models at all. Epidemiology and politics concern practical matters of life. In such matters, life experience will always trump abstract knowledge.
The SP500 magic money machine may stop and then everyone is stuck with shitty subpar indexes that lose in real terms. You may need to pensionize 50% to save enough but if everyone does that it is austerity.

AI (the robot kind) may be our main hope.
Latin America has started long ago, by calling itself America, and calling the USA, well, the USA (Estados Unidos). Still a bit annoying to Mexico (Estados Unidos Mexicanos), of course.
Autocrats rarely value talent over loyalty. Look at the qualifications of the Oberfuhrer appointed as secretary of defense the other day for an example (With a 51/50 split because of 3 Republicans voting no - precisely the amount that is completely meaningless. His predecessor was appointed 91/2.)

Your mistake is assuming that good governance is a goal of the current administration, and anyone who only voted for it because of $3.50 eggs will be in for a rude surprise. And I will have not a drop of sympathy for them - they are adults who should have known better. None of this is a surprise.
I wouldn't have, but after your comment I did.
Why can’t you just build something that’s CUDA-compatible? You won’t have to move anyone over then. Or is the actual CUDA api patented? And will Chinese companies care about that?
Super-Earth discovery reveals exoplanet potentially capable of sustaining life
The pension system still works, as long as the pensioners accept that at some point there will be less money to divide between them. Demographic changes don't necessarily cause the pension system to collapse as long as the pensions are adjusted to the income generated by the working generations.

That's the part that causes friction, because (soon to be) pensioners don't want to accept lower pensions, and they still have voting rights, voting in politicians that cater to pensioners over workers.
Yep. Luckily, you can easily lie about who you voted for, and it's not possible to verify.
>We should use chimpanzees

Why should we use anything at all? Aren't we people ourselves, who, you know, behave like people, without being taught how?
The alternative to a president picking the advisors they want is to continue to employ advisors that they don't want, but to ignore them. How is that an improvement for anyone, except possibly the advisor?

I suppose one way to limit presidential power is to somehow force them to take meetings with advisors that they can't fire. You could neuter them with endless required meetings. That sure seems to be effective at my workplace.
Bloody hell, the US is really speedrunning to failed state, isn’t it?

Is this even _legal_?
I agree — tools should be shared artifacts that the team downloads and can guarantee are the same for everyone. I usually setup a flake.nix for everyone but flox, earthly, devenv, jetify, are all great alternatives. Ideally your tools are declaratively configured and shared between your team and your CI/CD environment, too.

The `go tool` stuff has always seemed like a junior engineering hack — literally the wrong tool for the job, yeah sure it gets it working, but other than that it's gross.
Can 100 people self-organise without a leader? (2022) [video]
One thing you’re missing is that there’s nothing that says the value must correct. There are at least two very good reasons it might not: Nvidia now has huge amounts of money to invest in developing new technologies, exploring other ideas, and the other is that very little of the stock market is about the actual value of the company itself, but speculation. If people think it will go up, they buy it, reducing supply, and driving up the price. If people think it will go down, they sell it, increasing supply and driving down the price. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy on a large scale, and completely secondary to the actual business.
The Impact of Thread-per-Core Architecture on Application Tail Latency(2019) [pdf]
At least in high population places like much of California, nobody controls distribution and placement to this degree. If you are not happy with Safeway - and there is no reason to be - you can buy some product categories at the other chains, at walmart or Costco, unpackaged at specialized grocery stores, at several kinds of ethnic grocery stores, even at eastern european grocery stores. And that's before getting to online, long distance, grocery delivery which is not even always out of the question on price. ALL of these are functional. We do have a lot of choice currently.
Talent has never seemed to be something that Trump was particularly interested in.
Reader made tons of people use RSS who otherwise wouldn’t, and who now don’t.

It did not live long enough to become a villain (though it certainly would have — there is no reason why G wouldn’t have added recommendations, an algo feed, and all it brings). Therefore it’s remembered well.
This is an excellent, detailed comment — it's so good I want to ensure it's exactly as you intended. In your "This is what the tags could end up looking like soon" example, should at least one of those (alt_name:en_US?) be "Gulf of America"?
Hey, I'm the author of the blog. I agree with your criticisms - I originally designed the website for dark mode users and hadn't really revisited the styling afterwards. I'll be doing some tweaking to increase readability.
The future labour must be willing to accept that gold for their labour. And likely they would ask more of it as there is more demand for their labour and less supply.

It could be that as labour is constrained the inflation in price of labour is higher than investment gains.
I considered leaving the link out, but then where would the educational value be? It would be just snark on its own, with an obscure reference unlikely to be caught by the people who most-need to know how another republic collapsed with a lot of similar factors going on.

> Elizabeth Powel: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"

> Benjamin Franklin: "A republic... if you can keep it."
America starting to look more and more scary with each passing day. Not sure where it eventually ends up, but the trajectory doesn't look too good.
yes let's have a meta project that can track the version of my tools "separately", and the version of my repo.

linters, formatters, reproducible codegen should be tracked. their output is deterministic and you want to enforce that in CI in case people forget. the rest doesn't really affect the code (well windows OS and their CRLF do but git has eol attributes to control that).
It seems relevant though. You want to bring such things to people's attention before they start to gain momentum, not after.
It is perfectly possible that someone at a lower level, especially a non-technical person, would believe that. Moderators are not going to be highly paid and skilled people.

It has to get to the attention of higher ups.

The one time I have reported a comment to FB, it was horrible racism (said "do not interbreed with [group x] because they are [evil - not sure of exact wording]" and got a reply saying that it did not violate community standards.
Can't think of anything I'd like less than working at a company that has 100 employees after 1 year and then 200 the next year. Talk about mostly being occupied with moving desks, onboarding people and having growth other such growth pains. Not sure why people idealize working in this sort of environment. Other than that it can be lucrative to get in early in a growing business, what's the pull?
It feels that the open source movement is slowly entering a Cambrian explosion stage.

You have the old "deterministic computing" achievements (with Linux the flagship). Then you have the networking protocols (activitypub / atproto) that are revolutionising birectional human interactions online. And finally you have the datascience/ML/AI algorithmic universe that is for the first time being harnessed at distributed scale and can empower individuals like never before.

These superpowers are all coming together and create a vast number of possibilities. Nothing really dramatic on the hardware side. Its basically the planetary software reconfiguring itself.
Stopped reading at the word "Kafka".
The odd bit about it is that we're talking about a body of international water, not a country. It seems fair that a country gets to decide what it is called (and other countries can call it whatever they decide), but in this case, there IS no 'owner' so no 'official' name. So long as "Gulf of America" only ever appears to users in the US, there may not be much of a problem at all.

I guess the other odd thing about this is how quickly the change appears to have been adopted.
I disagree with cancelling the OpenAI subscription. I've been getting some help from o1 for both python and php recently, and o1 was doing massively better for the python stuff (it ran, deepseeks didn't and wont with prompt refinement).
Yup. Excessive engagement maximizing is a bad thing for a communication method. If you succeed at maximizing engagement, all you have accomplished is a human Skinner-box. Good if you are in the business of selling attention, but not if you want productive employees.
Kotlin devs spend too much time playing detective - trying to piece together what happened when an app crashes or slows down. You know the drill: manual tracing, digging through logs, attempting to reproduce performance issues, and trying to match user reports with actual events.

It's time-consuming, frustrating, and often feels like searching for a needle in a haystack.
So had the companies that crashed in the Dotcom Bubble. And still a pet food delivery service (like the infamous pets.com) can be a profitable and sustaining business now (> 20 years later).
Is this linked to the fact that they bypassed CUDA, making Nvidia's moat way shallower that it was thought to be?
That's a take I've seen in many HN comments
After the experience of being sold out by Vindman the first time around, wanting to know that the staff isn't going to sandbag him seems natural for Trump.

Also natural are these breathless takes from the media.

So it goes.
Show HN: Deepwhisper – A conversational platform built on DeepSeek R1
I built Deepwhisper to create a clean, straightforward interface for interacting with DeepSeek's R1 model. The platform focuses on natural dialogue while maintaining the model's powerful capabilities.
Technical highlights:
· Direct integration with DeepSeek R1
· Optimized response time
· Clean, minimalistic UI
· Focus on conversation flow and context retention

I'm particularly interested in feedback from the HN community on performance optimization and potential use cases. What would you like to see in future iterations?
In your simplification, you have removed everything that isn’t labor (i.e. demand for commodities) as well as labor. It is unsurprising that working to bury gold is a bad investment in this scenario. Instead, you should have invested in a farm and some robots. Sorry, there’s no free lunch if you can’t steal it from younger generations.

Edit: you’ve revised history and now added a bit about “similar arguments” and inflation. The answer is simple: yes, you might get back less real value than you put in. Yes, there might be inflation. This is fine and normal and would be preferable to the present system and is not dependent on future labor in the same way as direct redistribution. There are no guarantees. ‘Enforcing’ guarantees is a recipe for disaster as we are now seeing unfold.
Great project !
It even works on Gnome Web this is quite a feat
Have both, the Pine Time hardware is impressive for the price and props to the creators of the various available operating systems that are surprisingly capable, stable and super hackable.

Pluses of my Pebble Time:

- A lovely always on e-ink screen (the Pine Time has a TFT that relies on wrist detect to be visible, like an apple or pixel watch)

- Much better battery life

- A perfectly crafted UX full of lovely little touches, it's hard to explain if you haven't used one. It's full of animations but somehow they aren't annoying. Bit like using BB10. You can tell the dev-years & care that went into knocking off all the rough edges. It's the opposite feeling of "f you you're the product" I get from using most modern "tech" (Windows/Pixel watch/etc etc).

- Brilliant timeline view

- Rock solid connectivity (again, better than android/pixel watches)

- Much nicer HW feel in terms of build & fit/finish

- Huge user base who created a massive range of apps & watch faces
If it's going on in any large scale way on a major site, I've not encountered it (but it might not be something they'd shout about) but similar types of models are being put into apps frequently, as seen in this post recently posted to HN: https://altayakkus.substack.com/p/you-wouldnt-download-an-ai (a mobile app that detects currency client-side)

One problem is legal liability around training and testing. If you use a large foundation vision model, you could describe your moderation criteria in text and cross your fingers, but those aren't going to be running client-side. If you want a compact, efficient model to embed into an app, you need to train it.. but with what? There's a dilemma here where it's easier to build filters for legal things because you can't legally use the illegal things to train a filter for the illegal things! Systems like NSFWJS work because run of the mill porn is legal in most jurisdictions, but an equivalent "CSAMJS" filter would be a legal nightmare to produce.
It seems to me like both of you are saying same thing.
We wouldn't have to worry about over-the-wire package size if the modern DevOps approach wasn't "nuke everything, download from the Internet" every build.

Back in my Java days, most even small-time dev shops had a local Maven registry that would pass through and cache the big ones. A CI job, even if the "container" was nuked before each build, would create maybe a few kilobytes of Internet traffic, possibly none at all.

Now your average CI job spins up a fresh VM or container, pulls a Docker base image, apt installs a bunch of system dependencies, pip/npm/... installs a bunch of project dependencies, packages things up and pushes the image to the Docker registry. No Docker layer caching because it's fresh VM, no package manager caching because it's a fresh container, no object caching because...you get the idea....

Even if we accept that the benefits of the "clean slate every time" approach outweigh the gross inefficiency, why aren't we at least doing basic HTTP caching? I guess ingress is cheap and the egress on the other side is "someone else's money".
For now. We should never accept basic freedoms being sidelined like this just because there is another one that protects us — what if that one gets the same treatment.
This is a misunderstanding. There is no reason for SOME cereal to not be $8. Competition will not make ALL substitutable products go to the lowest price. The question is whether all cereal is there, or at least all plausibly substitutable cereal is there. And it's not. Someone else did the research, even if you want brand name Cheerios, there is still a lot of range in prices. Unfortunately many people are not THAT price driven, clearly.

Now, all these grocery store do have something in common. They are all in California (if we pick that state), so they all share the high cost of real estate, the high cost of custom formula gas, the high taxes, etc, etc, etc.

And the fire truck example, it correct, is much more of a problem. It's not hard to manufacture breakfast cereals (and clearly not THAT hard to distribute them) or to bring potatoes to restaurants! It's much harder to build reliable fire trucks.
> I think people who have only had contact with better schools do not realise how bad the bad ones can be

I grew up in a poor rural area and my wife an upper class coastal community, both in the USA. It’s amazing to compare and contrast our public school experiences. I was just trying to survive a situation that was both psychologically and physically abusive, with public humiliation rituals, solitary confinement, and gangs of bullies that cornered and robbed people and violently punished social non conformity- I still feel terror remembering it decades later. Even the lessons were nonsense propaganda- science classes literally focused on creationism, history class on “states rights,” etc. She was in a playful relaxing environment that included regular upper class leisure activities like sailing, skiing, and horseback riding, and had well equipped science labs with teachers that were passionate about science.
it's just beyond belief that 100 million americans saw this career criminal who promised to absolutely fuck things up while lying about what he was going to let his mates do, and said "yeah, seems like a plan".