skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was so surprised the first time I saw this. I mostly work alone and my workflow is usually study an example (docs or project), collect information (books and article), and iteratively build a prototype while learning the domain. Then I saw a colleague literally copying and pasting stuff, hoping that the errors go away in his project. After he asked for my help, I tell him to describe how he planned to solve the problem and he couldn't. For him, it was just endless tweaking until he got something working. And he could have understood the (smallish) problem space by watching one or two videos on YouTube.
The C# tooling is very refactor-friendly. I commonly just build the class then pull out the interface later.

C# does want to have interfaces though, and gravitates to the common interfaces - core services - composition/DI root architecture, with lots of projects in the solution to provide separation of concerns. I think it works very well generally for business software at least, but I hear plenty of grumbling about 'complexity' so it's not for everyone.
Thanks, this helps, this is what I was after.
Teaching them to read? Important.

Getting them to love to read? 10x important.

As you focus on the former, don't lose sight of the latter.
Modern languages and bad packaging outcomes at scale
Google were the primary tenant for the years before the building went on the market, already owned 111 8th / 76 9th (the "Port Authority Inland Terminal" building across 9th Ave) and is a major tenant in 85 Tenth Ave. They also have all of the office space in Pier 57. It's basically a one block by four avenue campus extending from 8th to the end of Pier 57.
In the US back in the Carter days too. They really need to rewind a bit.
On my 25 year old Porsche that cost less than a FSD software subscription I can do those things with the tips of my fingers while pulling 1G in a turn with my eyes on the road and hands on the wheel.
Tauri doesn’t bundle Chromium and Node. My app bundle is 10MB and it even bundles a sidecar binary in Go. A hello world electron bundle is 100+ MB.
"Operation Wrath of Zion" Aims to Dox and Deport Pro-Palestinian Protestors
Said binary is modified by me every time I change something while building (and I used to build with gdb-index but recently this caused crashes with another build flag so I had to disable it.. though maybe it's fixed with last gdb release?)
I was infected with HSV-1 as an early child (toddler age), and I've suspected it has played a role in ADHD development as well. Not to mention varicella.

> start focusing on tau

The tau hypothesis has been a thing for a long time as well. I wish we'd stop focusing on molecular indications altogether and look at the plausible etiological agents as mechanisms.

The herpesvirus family, certain gut microbiota, blood-brain barrier breaches, immune cell activity, and insulin dysfunction are all incredibly plausible mechanisms that might all somehow contribute or lead to the disease.
Interesting article. I find it interesting that they recommended a book about acting to their employees. The book is called "Impro".
Speaking of grade A morons. Our political establishment here in Ohio jumped into bed with a huge publicly traded energy company who was pushing millions of dollars each to various individuals. I'm still boggled that these people thought they could bag millions of dollars and no one would notice.

It used to be that when payoffs to politicians were discovered it would be paltry amounts like $10-30k that no one would notice and which are easily ingested into someone's finances without ringing any bells with the IRS or regulators. You would ask yourself why they would risk their career for such a small amount of money.

These politicians and appointed regulators in Ohio were trying to literally absorbed generational wealth without regulators or the IRS noticing. Impossible.

Our governor DeWine, who was definitely knowledgeable of all this and involved, was smart enough to keep his hands off the money--though they did fund his campaigns legally. He stands to serve out his final term and be replaced by one of the others in the cabal. (Yost), or Viveck Ramaswammy. The times.
Personally I don't get sick of it. There's a lot of hype around Deepseek specifically rn, but to run SOTA or near SOTA models locally is a huge deal, even if it's slow.
Then Bruno positioned itself as the fix for the enshittification, and then did it itself.
There's some people organizing to preserve stuff under the "safeguarding research" moniker

https://fedihum.org/@SafeguardingResearch

https://safeguarding-research.discourse.group/
Diminishing returns doesn’t invalidate their point.

Working more hours will always produce more output, even if the marginal increase in output decreases.
A person who is inundated with boilerplate code doesn't (yet) understand the power of code generation.

The proper technique is to "define the system", then "generate the code". Yes, it is very non-trivial and difficult, but all interesting information processing systems are always like that :-)
That's fair enough. Both of those are indeed week points of the ecosystem.
> ...no one I know is excited about working with GoF-style OO code these days

FYI, this is C#:

var namedFunctions = new Dictionary<string, Func<int, int, int>>() {
["multiply"] = (int x, int y) => x * y,
["add"] = (int x, int y) => x + y,
["subtract"] = (int x, int y) => x - y,
["divide"] = (int x, int y) => x / y,
};

log(namedFunctions["add"](x, y));

This is also C#:

var multiplyN = (int[] numbers) => numbers.Aggregate(1, (a, b) => a * b);
var addN = (int[] numbers) => numbers.Aggregate(0, (a, b) => a + b);
var subtractN = (int[] numbers) => numbers.Aggregate(0, (a, b) => a - b);
var divideN = (int[] numbers) => numbers.Aggregate(1, (a, b) => a / b);

log(multiplyN(new[]{1, 2, 3, 4}));
log(addN(new[]{1, 2, 3, 4}));
log(subtractN(new[]{1, 2, 3, 4}));
log(divideN(new[]{1, 2, 3, 4}));

As is this:

// Return a tuple
var runCalcsAsTuple = (int[] values) => {
return (
multiplyN(values),
addN(values),
subtractN(values),
divideN(values)
);
};

// Destructure the tuple
var (
multiplyResult,
addResult,
subtractResult,
dividResult
) = runCalcsAsTuple(new [] {2, 3, 4, 5});

Named tuple types are also kinda interesting:

using Profile = (
string Username,
(string Hn, string Mastodon) Socials
);

var profile = GetProfile();
var (hnHandle, mastodonHandle) = profile.Socials;

Profile GetProfile() => ("chrlschn", ("CharlieDigital", "@chrlschn"));

If you haven't looked at C# in a while, I'd recommend taking a look with a fresh set of eyes.

Small repo with examples comparing C# to JS and TS: https://github.com/CharlieDigital/js-ts-csharp
They're targeting every institution or source of authority that isn't overtly aligned with the party. Academia, science, media, etc.

So far it seems to be working, unfortunately.
Each new C# release seems to borrow yet another F# feature, to its benefit. I prefer F# too, but at least I can convince the team to use C# - F# seems to be a bit too intimidating (in its awesomeness, I assume) for most devs to learn.
What Is SwiGLU?
What is the fastest documented way so far to serve the full R1 or V3 models (Q8, not Q4) if the main purpose is inference with many parallel queries and maximizing the total tokens per sec? Did anyone document and benchmark efficient distributed service setups?
I've been working on Yaak [1] which supports gRPC. Websockets are also now live in the current beta.

[1] https://yaak.app
> how others manage their newsletters...

For any site not offering an RSS feed I has an alias email address (similar to: use.rss.idiot@myemails.com) solely used for newsletters with a rule to move any emails to that address to a newsletter folder.
Ooo now do C!
Yeah same. Even in this very thread there were thankfully flagged commenters that were pro-China sockpuppets.

In the Wikipedia article for whataboutism, one can see that such tactics were a large mainstay of Soviet Union propaganda.
What's more depressing is this was completely predictable, totally avoidable, but half the country welcomed this wave of oppression with open arms.
It is going to be available. I only got it some hours after the official release
M4 Mac with unified GPU RAM

Not very cheap though! But you get a quite usable personal computer with it...
How about Babylon 5?

J. Michael Straczynski had a a storyline designed to last 5 seasons (and apparently with several "trap-doors" for when actors left the show etc.), but the studio then let him know that they were going to cancel it at the end of season 4, so he had to tie up the main plots quickly. However, the studio then decided to produce a fifth season, so Straczynski had to string together a whole season that he hadn't planned for.
Maybe Intel or AMD should bring back a Larrabee style CPU which can use say 48 sockets of DDR/CAMM2 sticks.
When you find yourself in an -ism you’ve taken a wrong turn somewhere.
Excellent catch.

This std::move should not have been in this code snippet. It is a copy-paste mistake, carried over from the previous code snippet of the post, and should have been omitted.

(The `std::move` does nothing in this snippet, since `sp::get_arrow_structure` takes and lvalue reference).

In the previous example with `sp::extract_arrow_structures`, which takes an rvalue reference, std::move is required and the sparrow primitive array cannot be operated upon after.
That's the point...

You cover your normal working hours in a shorter number of days and get an extra day off.

My work offer the same scheduling option and i'd say 80% of the the tech team take it.
Yes, I'm not asking them to adopt what I think is the target audience, I'm asking them to define any target audience, then add at least one sentence on their website describing what Ollama is, not sure why that's controversial.

Basically the only information on the website right now is "Get up and running with large language models.", do you think that's helping people? Could mean anything.
Amazon is already forcing this pattern on mobile users not logged in. If you want to see the reviews, all you get is an AI summary, the star rating, maybe 1 or 2 reviews, then you have to log in to see more.
Most of the population carries one herpesvirus or another, and those damn things integrate into our nervous system as nuclear plasmids for life. We really should accelerate this line of research.

The herpesvirus family could be causing ADHD, Alzheimer's, MS, and a whole host of other brain diseases. Perhaps even a general cognitive decline in the population.
It’s possible to write good code in JavaScript too; VSCode is a great example of this.

However, that doesn’t mean the language won’t fight against you. Yes, you can write data-oriented code in C# as well, but most people don’t because C# has historically been an OO language, and doing so would feel jarring to many. As a result, getting dropped into an existing C# codebase won’t be pleasant if you don’t enjoy GoF-style OO.

Go, Rust, and Zig don’t have this issue, but the latter two don’t directly compete with C#. Go does and is preferred by those who want to avoid traditional OO. That’s hard to do in an ecosystem that’s pivoting only because people are moving away from it.
I bypass censorship by simpling using my native (non-English) language. Their censorship appears to only cover English and Chinese.

Q: Что случилось в Тьананмане в 1989? В паре слов. ("What happened in Tiananmen in 1989?")

A: Кровавое подавление студенческих протестов. ("Bloody suppression of student protests.")
> Is it that the structure clustered the neurons in such a way that they didn't need to be weighted

Yep. Because of the structure, we did not have to compute the output of each weight column and simply copied the outputs of nearby weight columns whose outputs were computed.
I think a lot of the confusion is just that it's not what people are used to.

e.g., an anytime parameter is checked by the compiler, just a like a parameter of an interface type in a language with interfaces. In either case, if you try to pass a non-conforming type you get a compiler error.

Now, with an interface, you get a symbol name you can hang your hat on. That can really help when you're in the "I'm not exactly sure what I'm doing, I'm trying to figure out this API" phase of development. API documentation and design need to compensate. But you need to be past that phase before you're writing actually useful code anyway, so this isn't that big a deal. Zig's overall simplicity really mitigates this too. You're probably going to be spending less overall time in the confusion stage.

(re "writer: anytype" the article says, "You either have to go through the source code and see how writer is used, or let the compiler tell you which function is expected." which is true, but also true of writer: IWriter. It also leaves off the option of reading the docs. doc comments are a first-class construct in zig, so they are pretty accessible.)
Rust doesn't support 16-bit architectures. It theoretically could but 16-bit architectures are completely obsolete and almost unused, so there's no real need.
There are plenty of them today. Though agency-organized trip is times more expensive.
ExxonMobil Lobbyist Caught Hacking Climate Activists
The grift never ends. The library will then purchase tens of millions of dollars worth of The Art of the Deal and stock the shelves with his wisdom.

BTW, the Orange One has now modelled himself after Adolf Hitler, a man who's political accomplishments no other has yet to achieve in human history. If you don't have time to read Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, watch Hitler: A Career. It is quite clear that they (Trump's team) are applying the lessons from that era and are aiming at retaining power.
All that, but also because they have those GPUs with crazy amounts of RAM and crazy bandwidth?
So the TPS is that much higher, but in terms of power, I guess those boards run in the same ballpark of power used by consumer GPUs?
Yes. Hydrogen has even worse issues with total energy storage in these kinds of appliances than batteries.
You can barely even have a single income household anymore these days, thanks to the free market.

If progress exists, it's going in the wrong direction.
Indeed, I don't even have to compile it, vim (+ Syntastic) tells me as soon as it sees it:

candidate function not viable: expects an lvalue for 1st argument
My favourite part about the rationalists is that they are a completely normal community apart from the rationalism. You'd think a group of people devoted to being rational would be a group of monk-like beings, cerebral, disconnected from the concerns of the flesh.

Instead we get this weird hotbed of fanfiction, cults, wild sex crime allegations, financial schemes so brazen they almost wouldn't qualify as fraud and a vague sense of some sort of group that are capable of any evil. Plus I can't stop laughing at the idea of Aella as "that rationalist hooker" [0] - a combination of words which never fails to make me chuckle.

The whole scene really deserves some sort of film, book, video game or something. I can't get a vision out of my head where some straitlaced person realises rationalists are involved and their face twists in horror. Keeping an eye on them over the years the communities that grew up around LessWrong really are as good as any work of fiction. Plus they're doing their best to make the world better and maybe people will learn something about Bayesianism, who knows.

[0] https://knowingless.com/about/
Maybe it was unintentional but the Long COVID pulse survey page disappeared: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/pulse/long-covid.htm (but explanations about long COVID are still available)

The page I used to look for mask efficiency disappeared too (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7106e1.htm ) but the CDC website still discusses masks so it does not seem to be intentional: https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/prevention/masks.htm...
And that's too much friction for my tastes.

Thanks, though, and good luck. Imma' keep lookin'.
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How does a 27-year-old fail to kill an 80-year-old with a samurai sword?
It's a pretty amazing piece of architectural work.
McGoohan had a definite plot in mind for The Prisoner and he initially planned it to be a 7 episode series. They ended up making 17 episodes and there's some disagreement about which the "McGoohan's Seven" actually are. To be fair, there's a lot of disagreement about many aspects of The Prisoner, including the best order to watch the episodes as they were broadcast out of order.
I got Severance vibes from this blog about Palantir.

But it sounds like they are a consulting company and a sort of ConnectAll (for those who use Jira, Rhapsody, DOORS, etc).
Can I just take a minute to reflect on the start of the title of this article: Using lab-grown human mini-brains...

...

WTF is this!?
Ruby Source Parsing
> how does that hardware implementation work internally?

I don’t know, but based on performance difference between FP32 and FP64 square root instructions, the implementation probably produces 4-5 bits of mantissa per cycle.
I imagine you can get more by striping drives. Depending on what chipset you have, the CPU should handle at least 4. Sucks that no AM4 APU supports PCIe 4 while the platform otherwise does.
It's literally what each is designed to do?

"Gnu IMAGE Manipulation Program"

Versus Krita which is very obviously geared towards creation (from scratch) with it's plethora of painting tools. Or Inkscape for vector images.

Same goes for PHOTOshop versus Illustrator...
In this paper, we don't zero out the weights. We remove them.
What's weird is that the "what even is the crime here" and "they aren't real felonies" spiel only ever applies to Trump.

If Biden tried to hide hush money payments to a porn star to keep a scandal about tax dodging and campaign finance law violations out of an election cycle you'd be calling for his head.

I mean that's basically what the whole Hunter Biden laptop story is supposed to be, isn't it? There isn't even any there there but Trumpists act like it's the biggest scandal since Watergate.
Agree. We're using C# in the backend for an MMO, and while I would still like _more_ control over the memory management, there's a ton of options for dropping down to a low level and avoiding the GC.

Stuff like ReadOnlySpan and IMemoryOwner are awesome to have as built-in language concepts.
Considering the power of three letter agencies in the USA and the complete unhingedness of the new administration, I would not trust anything to a contract.
Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads
This is really exceptional work, and still works on my ten year old iPad. Great job!
As a data point: you can get an RTX 3090 for ~$1.2k and it runs deepseek-r1:32b perfectly fine via Ollama + open webui at ~35 tok/s in an OpenAI-like web app and basically as fast as 4o.
It is shared between users and better utilized and optimized.
Please download and use...

Maybe --- after the privacy effects have been examined.
> (besides privacy...)

that's the whole point of local models
But what if the AI just hallucinates the comments? People will never know.
Are there any security concerns over DeepSeek as there are over TikTok?

Saw this in the article

>I would not recommend running this on your main system. Unless you like unnecessary risks.
> Out of respect for everyone

Sorry, I don’t believe that this is the real reason, but I realize it’s the reason that is often given as justification. If it was really “out of respect for everyone” you wouldn’t make a big deal out of it when people don’t offer them up. You could just do what people did prior to 3 years ago (and frankly even now among us folks that don’t put emphasis on pronouns) and just let social cues lead you.

If someone isn’t offering up their pronouns to you in 2025, my guess is they aren’t going to get butthurt if someone accidentally uses the wrong one in conversation.
Chat GPT:

Google bought Chelsea Market in 2018 for $2.4 billion primarily to expand its New York City footprint and secure a prime location for its growing workforce. The acquisition had several key strategic benefits:

Office Space Expansion – Google already occupied a significant portion of Chelsea Market before the purchase. Owning the building outright gave it more flexibility to expand its operations without relying on leases.

Prime Location – Chelsea Market is in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, a booming area for tech companies and startups. It’s also close to Google's headquarters at 111 Eighth Avenue, making it an ideal location for future growth.

Long-Term Investment – Real estate in Manhattan is incredibly valuable, and Google’s purchase was a strategic move to secure property in a rapidly developing tech hub.

Control Over Development – By owning the building, Google could redesign and repurpose the space as needed without restrictions from a landlord.

While Chelsea Market remains open to the public, Google has used much of the office space for its employees, reinforcing its presence as a major tech player in New York City.
This is neat, but what I really want to see is someone running it on 8x 3090/4090/5090 and what is the most practical configuration for that.
The Zizians (2020)
I get around 4-5t/s with the unsloth 1.58bit quant on my home server that has 2x3090 and 192GB of DDR5 Ryzen 9, usable but slow.
In Kubernetes at least you may benefit from the ability to write custom conteillers. But I agree with you that the need for this is relatively niche.
Rephrasing Arthur C. Clarke: "Any sufficiently sophisticated ideology is indistinguishable from madness".
"This is going to sound really unfair, "

That's not unfair at all, I think it's a fair assessment. Industrial tools should have adults at the helm. People who care about longevity and robustness foremost. About delivering quality and stability where the main value points of a language are.
Ya the bundle size is different for sure. The memory usage isn't far off though, since it's still a web app.
> You don't have to like people to respect them. You don't have to agree with them either.

This is where conversations about pronouns or gender always go off the tracks… If I don’t agree with someone’s concept of gender, you’re saying I don’t respect them. How do you respectfully disagree with and not use someone’s preferred pronouns? You can disagree, but not out loud?

I think you need to double check your assumptions. This isn’t a younger generation vs older generation issue. It’s mostly US (w/ Canada) and mostly a side note in politics.
I think they wanted to define free functions, not figure out a way to use functions without a class name, but I could be wrong.
The cure is to stop using Amazon.
i think it says, amongst other things, that there is a salient difference between competitive programming like codeforce and real-world programming. u can train a model to hillclimb elo ratings on codeforce, but that won't necessarily directly translate to working on a prod javascript codebase.

anthropic figured out something about real world coding that openai is still trying to catch up to, o3-mini-high notwithstanding.
They could actually be better than reality. Who knows?
This is the mini version which is not as good as o1 and I don’t think they demoed in the o3 announcement. I’m hoping the full release will be impressive