skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s nothing in there about being qualified for the job,

Yes there is:

Performance culture: The federal workforce should be comprised of the best America has to offer. We will insist on excellence at every level — our performance standards will be updated to reward and promote those that exceed expectations and address in a fair and open way those who do not meet the high standards which the taxpayers of this country have a right to demand.
Oh cry me a river. Read the room Microsoft, you can't have it both ways.
I've heard this sort of activity called "pathfinding".
I really don't understand why nobody is talking about it anymore. It's a big deal for startups.
They certainly don’t have a lot of love for them as a first-class app development environment, but they are also their fig leaf of “open access” to the platform.

Regardless of that, I do like the idea of PWAs getting access to a higher tier of web APIs, especially those increasing the attack surface, as “installing an app” makes even non-sophisticated users do more of a double take than “visiting a website” in terms of access to their system.
Ah but “functor,” is a name from category theory and algebraic topology. I had read along thinking that this would come up in the conclusion! Instead it seems it’s not even mentioned in the sources for the name.

There’s potentially something like this in the “esqueleto” package for Haskell. But it has some limitations. It composes on syntactic fragments.

Although speaking of functors, the category theory ones, maybe categorical databases would fit the bill: https://categoricaldata.net/
> What surprises me more is that apple is even working with starlink considering they have a competing service together with globalstar

Apple also works with competing terrestrial cellular network companies.
Anyone else think it’s likely America ends up without being a meaningful democracy by the end of this? I am skeptical the stated goal is efficiency it’s loyalty to MAGA. Imagine how extreme they will get if you can never vote them out.
It would also require Congress to actually pass more legislation. A lot of the 'ruling by executive order' culture came as a result of the increasing polarisation of the legislature and subsequent lack of compromise.
Oh, now it matters.
>no gapless playback

Ok, so not for people who like long pieces of music that have been broken into tracks. No classical music fans and no EDM fans. What’s the market then?
IIRC, it disables jit and webassembly, so i think yes
This is how I've operated for most of my career and I partly attribute my success and productivity with it.
True but terrestrial networks are offering generic service directly to consumers. Apple's deal with globalstar is fully part of apple's offer. I don't think they even mention globalstar.

It's also a USP for Apple in the mobile market right now.
It’s funny to see your co-worker make the front page of hacker news.
> You know what happens to code that works? It ships.

That's a process problem. Even professional writers have "drafts", you shouldn't be shipping first-draft code regardless. I guess maybe you are the equivalent of a 2 cent rag, and then product sucks, but we won't get into all the ways you can suck as a software org...

Programming is neither writing an article nor designing an engine, its somewhere in the middle. You can apply "discovery" or "drafting" to the professional process as much as you can apply engineering design paradigms. The formal act of writing (unit) testing provides this opportunity, I find, to take the "discovery" implementations, harness them in specific "design" requirements, and produce a polished product.

TDD had this backwards, design then develop, as if that would somehow produce fantastic designs (it doesn't, just a lot of test code). BDD (Behavior Driven Development) is better here, you aren't driven by your tests as much as your behaviors. You may discover them, but once you do you test that they continue to work correctly.
I absolutely believe it, but it feels so crazy as the libraries, both as a student and as a community member at various points, for the local universities are by far the most useful and important resource they provide.
Don't worry, no such result will happen, as the other party is already showing they have just as little interest in actually changing things - they're going to keep everything "same old". [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/us/politics/ken-martin-dn...
So far, culture war aside, everything's proceeding according to plan if the plan was written by a hostile foreign power.
I also cannot wait for Apple to improve the product because it should force Garmin to actually charge reasonable prices for their service. There is a yearly fee just to keep the subscription "active" and then you pay for service on a rolling month basis. The extortionate per-message fees are reminiscent of early SMS days in the States.

The product and service itself is pretty reliable though. I've taken my Inreach in all sorts of places and had only rare issues with it.
Ghidra is very feature-rich for code decompilation, however it doesn't handle dropping in an entire application bundle; only single executables.

Apple application files are special, bundling up resources and (potentially multiple) executables into the same package.

Many of these resource files are important for analysis, but have custom encodings by Apple. Malimite "digests" this information into a logical way.
they probably want to create enough legal instability to prevent companies from using this model internally for their use cases
Fascism's power is situated on lying to a 'chosen majority' and telling them they are special, unique, destined for greatness, etc. (often by simultaneously giving them insecurity - that if they don't take up the mantle of chosen majority they are losers, worthless, no one will love them, they deserve to suffer, etc.) so that you can use them to get rid of opposition, and then split off small groups repeatedly, until finally screwing the chosen majority too over because they no longer have enough power to resist.

A critical part of this is controlling information; people need to be convinced not to unite, because if they notice what is happening early on, they can brute force victory through sheer numbers.

Another element of that is maintaining/gaining control of institutions with 'true believers' who are willing to commit cruelty to satisfy the party's ambition is a critical part of progressively removing minorities without the chosen majority realizing that they might be next.

Additionally, making the situation uncomfortable and scary to get people to voluntary leave whittles down the population of people who might be capable and motivated to resist. And making it seem like they have more power than they do and making it unclear what will cause harm to them can cause people to 'obey in advance', giving up power to the party which they do not have.
Well, I tried to do something cool but I had rent to pay and kids to feed so I needed to get a day job (I was very fortunate to find one, on an HN who's hiring thread no less).

However, I don't have the savings a lot of people here seem to, perhaps because I'm in Europe.
Wow!

6 to 8 tokens per second.

And less than a tenth of the cost of a GPU setup.
Pretty good idea! Especially now that SOTA tokens and email lists are so cheap. I don't understand why the tone of the article is so negative.
And really, who wouldn’t want to work at a place with lower pay than almost anywhere and now horrendous job security and workplace conditions!
TLDR; Bandcamp + Beets + Navidrome + Symfonium

Long time paid Spotify user. Soon to be ex-paid user. This resonates with me. For a while now, I have been pretty unhappy with the way I consume music. Yes, because Spotify has become shit. The UI is hostile. Their business practices makes me feel bad for using it. And everything else already mentioned in other comments. But there's something else.

My spotify Liked has about 2400 songs. And I can't name most of them. If you played one for me, chances are I wouldn't even know the artist. It all feels so... disposable. How did I get here? I hit like a few times on Discover Weekly, each week. And now...I have this mess! Spotify recommends me songs that sound exactly like other songs...that I can't remember the name of. I can't go back to check. Weeks later I hear it! Or is this the new one that sounds like the old one? I don't know. It's all so surreal and so different than the before times.

In my yutes would buy albums and absolutely devour them whole. Every track. I would listen to just that album for days or weeks. I couldn't afford to buy all the music, so I squeezed every drop of enjoyment I could out the music I had. I think I enjoyed the music much more, back when I had much less.

So, with that nostalgic feeling in mind. I'm starting a new system of music consumption. I'm going back to the old ways! Instead of paying Spotify $12/mo to shovel all the shit in my face, I'm going to spend $12/mo on Bandcamp (or equivalent) to buy an album and pour over it for the whole month, until I buy the next album.

I don't know if this will work. I don't know how I'm going to handle discovery. But I have to do something; And this is something. A few weeks ago I bought some music. Threw it into a Beets.io library. Setup a Navidrome server inside my vpn. I listen with Symfonium on my phone (good offline features there).

Now I'm trying to really listen to the music again; not just mindlessly consume it like disposable content. It feels like this muscle has completely atrophied. Lyrics don't stick like they used to. I don't instantly remember the track order. Listening to an entire album takes some effort. Maybe though, that's the way it should be.
It’s interesting because mine weighed my recent comments way more than anything. It referenced specific discussions that I do not generally have as my main traits.
The elites running the show failed to either sufficiently explain why the country is doing what it is, or deliver enough bread and circuses to the population for that not to matter.

Will they course correct before the system breaks? Only time will tell.
The sad thing is that after all this, and all the steam vented on both sides of the aisle, nothing is going to meaningfully change on the bottom line. The Federal Government writes checks for fixed expenses. The Pentagon "wastes" lots of money in an absolute sense, but on a balance sheet the DoD pays for salaries and maintenance and fuel and replacement equipment. You can't make a difference by pointing and laughing at some oddball science grant.

And the same goes for the rest of the government, which to first approximation exists to write entitlement checks and issue health reimbursements. Everyone wants to believe that there's a magic line item that will balance things, but there isn't.

Write it down: the deficit as a fraction of GDP will be higher at the end of this Trump term than it is now, not lower.
It’s a family friendly (almost always families with kids and pets that get summer cabins) way to connect with both family and nature. Board games and books, and a break from tech.

It’s just in the Scandinavian culture.

It might help to consider the ”friendly but anti social” culture that exists in Sweden as it goes hand in hand with it. Swedish people often call the country: ”the country that is not too much or too little” (landet lagom) with pride. It is quite amusing how different the culture is.

But as with all countries, globalism will eat every culture and strip it of identity and replace it with the strive towards owning a jet plane.
Powell's in Portland, Oregon is pretty amazing for precisely this reason, if you ever get a chance to go.
I said this in another comment but look at the leading chess engines. They are already so far above human level of play that having a human override the engines choice will nearly always lead to a worse position.

> You're not expecting it to always be right, are you?

I think another thing that gets lost in these conversations is that humans already produce things that are "wrong". That's what bugs are. AI will also sometimes create things that have bugs and that's fine so long as they do so at a rate lower than human software developers.

We already don't expect humans to write absolutely perfect software so it's unreasonable to expect that AI will do so.
Array Thickening: More can be less (2021)
But your first sentence reads like a direct answer to the question:

> Was the sonic boom noticeable?

> Noticeable is certainly a way of putting it.

As in, "Yes it was noticeable, and then some." At least, that's how I read it.
This last Christmas season, my dad and I wanted some classic Christmas music on the TV, so we checked out Youtube for one of those multi-hour videos. We ended up choosing which video to play based on which AI-generated cozy Christmas cabin had the most coherent architecture. One of them had the snow piling up inside the cabin.

We eventually found one that looked okay, but I didn't see any visuals that didn't look generated. Surely there are at least a few vintage public-domain paintings of Christmas trees or similar that they could have bumped up the saturation on and done a slow pan over.
Yes but there is also another force that I see playing out now. With two decades of continuous training companies have grown an army of people overseas who can do any software or IT jobs at a level good enough to really be competitive to domestic workers. Offshore locations today are not the same it was twenty years ago both from quality and quantity perspective. No point in staying blind to this phenomenon.
Weren't they employing the same strategy against Linux not so long ago?
> There is a yearly fee just to keep the subscription "active" and then you pay for service on a rolling month basis.

This is changing soon. They will now charge a keepalive fee per month. Previously you could pay 40 per year and just activate it for the months you needed it (the freedom plans). Those are gone unfortunately. For an irregular user it now goes from 40 to 120$ per year to keep it active.

And yeah I wish there was a bit more competition here. Right now inreach is still the best for me even compared to PLBs though. Because inreach can do 10-minute breadcrumbs. So even when you have a bad fall the homefront can see where you were last.

A PLB requires the user to be conscious to turn it on and unfold the antenna. And Apple's solution requires aiming at the satellite.
The most cost-effective way is arguably to run it off of any 1TB SSD (~$55) attached to whatever computer you already have.

I was able to get 1 token every 6 or 7 seconds (approximately 10 words per minute) on a 400GB quant of the model, while using an SSD that benchmarks at a measly 3GB/s or so. The bottleneck is entirely the speed of the SSD at that level, so an SSD that is twice as fast should make the model run about twice as fast.

Of course, each message you send would have approximately a 1 business day turnaround time… so it might not be the most practical.

With a RAID0 array of two PCIe 5.0 SSDs (~14GB/s each, 28GB/s total), you could potentially get things up to an almost tolerable speed. Maybe 1 to 2 tokens per second.

It’s just such an enormous model that your next best option is like $6000 of hardware, as another comment mentioned, and that is probably going to be significantly slower than the two M2 Ultra Mac Studios featured in the current post. It’s a sliding scale of cost versus performance.

This model has about half as many active parameters as Llama3-70B, since it has 37B active parameters, so it’s actually pretty easy to run computationally… but the catch is that you have to be able to access any 37B of those 671B parameters at any time, so you have to find somewhere fast to store the entire model.
I very much agree, and it's part of why I live abroad.

I don't understand why the people behind January 6 would then go on to allow free and fair elections and politely hand back power when they lose.
"Can we calculate the energy cost of AI models available as services online? The truth is-we can't, not without access to their datacenters."

If "AI" energy use is nothing to be concerned about, as alleged by the top comment, then the "AI" companies might benefit from releasing data showing the (low) energy and water consumption. As it happens, none of them will release the data public wants about energy consumption. It is believed this withholding of data is intentional.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00478-x

https://www.thegazette.com/business/artificial-intelligence-...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/geruiwang/2025/01/24/stargates-...

https://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/inno/stories/news/202...

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/ai-has-environme...

https://news.mit.edu/2025/explained-generative-ai-environmen...
And what's noble is that they did it right? People spent three decades just to improve the town, sounds pretty good to me.
Cozy games: good for mental health
Honestly if that is all they are hoping for, I sincerely hope they fail spectacularly. The world is unequal as it is and I certainly don’t want the rich flexing their wealth with vanity like this, especially not considering the climate cost of all this, and the fact that we are already in a climate catastrophe that is disproportionately caused by the rich while harming the poor.
Sounds like a noble project. Why does each University need to do that though?

> many publications make little impact on their contemporaries only to be discovered later to have been ahead of their time.

I would say this is evidence that books do not represent a "infinitely growing body of human knowledge". Knowledge is only alive in the people using it.
> What surprises me more is that apple is even working with starlink considering they have a competing service together with globalstar.

Generally, Apple abhors single-supplier relationships. Having multiple suppliers reduces risk, improves their negotiation leverage, etc.
>Pony Stark is absolutely a Nazi

>Your Klansplaining is ridiculous

>wtf is wrong with you!

Ah blue sky, keeps reminding me why I left a day after I signed up.
I’m more worried about the elimination of separation of powers that this executive order will imply if upheld.

Congress writes laws and sets the budget. Trump has said he’s not going to enforce laws he doesn’t like and will use emergency declarations to enforce rules he made up. Now he’s saying he’s going to ignore the budget congress passed.

Also, if the Supreme Court does uphold it, then we’ll know for sure that they’re ceding power to Trump, so he’ll have cemented in his dictatorship in under two weeks. Hitler took 53 days.
>Is Rails still that good?

It is but;

Coming from Go, you will likely find Ruby and Rails to be relatively slow. Depending your definition of performance that could be acceptable or a no go. However Your development speed may likely be 5 to 10x.

The good thing is that Ruby is not I/O Bound is finally gaining momentum. After years or decades of I/O Bound we have finally come to may be it really is more CPU bound than we admit it to be. And things are improving. YJIT improves real world performance by 20-40%. If you measure only the CPU part and not total response time that is 30-60% or in some cases even more. There are still more optimisation could be done.

Rails and ActiveRecord are also improving. Shopify, a $150B market cap company now has all the incentives to improve Rails. YJIT is work from Shopify.

And throw more hardware at it now makes sense more so than ever. CPU Cost / Core is falling faster than ever. Thanks to competition from AMD EPYC and AWS Graviton / ARM. 2026 we will have 256 Core Zen 6c. We may have 288 Core Darkmount this year. You could quite literally have a single monster server that is enough to serve unless your site is Top 5%.

Database is less of an issue, starting small you could use SQLite which is now well supported by Rails 8.0 and it is enough for most. Planning big just use PlanetScale which uses Rails internally and is being used by other Rails site including Github.

The whole ecosystem is basically ready for you to just work on business logics.

I am hoping we get more defaults, Rails finally get authentication with 8.0. but could do more work. We will hopefully see more improvements coming in Rails 8.1, and so much more to come from Ruby side as well.
> My advice is to not push too hard on this at this time. The only real check on Trump's power right now will be the House impeaching, and that can only happen if House Republicans get angry with him, and it should be clear that cutting spending is making them angry before the courts start goading Trump into doing something that might trigger impeachment. I don't think people realize that the right-ward movement in the electorate is accelerating since the election, and doing things that further accelerate that before the midterms isn't going to help Trump's opponents in either party.

There isn't going to be another election in this country.
I stand corrected. [1] Google owns the name Pebble.

1: https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/27/24352968/pebble-smartwatc...
A severely weakened or dismantled US Military would encourage aggression by China against Taiwan, by North Korea against South Korea, (continued) aggression by Russia against their former Soviet states, and Iran against Israel and Saudi Arabia, leading the planet into a 3rd World War.
For context, I've been in mobile for 10 years and in general it's the opposite - frameworks are rigid, but the layer under it shifts a lot. These frameworks tend to collapse in an earthquake like manner after multiple updates. We usually support iOS up to 2-3 years old, that's how bad it is.

The other approach is to build it on a platform that shifts with the changes, i.e. hybrid and web. But if you crack open the source of Cordova, you find all kinds of tangled, unmaintained, bad practice wiring and rewiring. I spent a few months trying to hack Cordova plugins and we decided to just scrap the entire code and build native; fully rewriting the app into a custom framework took 3 months.

However, it sounds like tools like Rails are built on a very sturdy platform that doesn't introduce breaking changes every year? That's an angle I haven't considered.
What specific time period and location before "vast income tax regimes and welfare states" are you talking about? And who gave money to what?
But still less than if the federal employee was providing any ROI whatsoever on their salary. Why not instead talk about which federal departments (or agencies) provide an ROI, and how that can be measured in a nonpartisan way.

(In any case, US federal debt interest payments will be ~$952b in 2025, out of $7.5 trillion budget. That's >> more than the $271b on total salaries for all civilian employees (or the $4.7 trillion tax cuts which expire end 2025). So, intentionally crippling the federal govt still wouldn't touch either the debt or interest payments; except as a blunt instrument to kill govt programs and bypass Congress.)
For low-wage employees who spend almost all of their income on goods and services, yes.

For highly compensated employees who save the majority of their money, no.
Thank you for a voice of reason.
They thought of your point when they wrote the Constitution. Giving any branch the power of punishment over any other branch implies control that forces the alignment of interests between branches. Truly countless examples of tyranny under those conditions.

The whole point is that Congress can fearlessly pass laws that the judicial branch can piss on and the executive branch can choose to ignore. That gives Congress an incentive to pass decent laws while protecting them from the tyrannical overreach of say, a militant dictator, or a self serving judge.

If you meant for a branch to punish its own, there are indeed consequences for upsetting Congress as a congressman, the Justices as a justice, and the federal government as an agent or serviceman. Plenty of people have received harsh penalties. It's really not uncommon.