skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What Trump is mandating with his EOs are a move back to judging people strictly by their merit, by their character.

Conservatives are OK with rolling everything back and hiding behind words, since right now, most people at the highest levels of power - that do the judging - are white men.

How else do you explain such "merit" based nominations like Hegseth for SecDef, Gaetz for Attorney General, etc. (Gaetz withdrew but getting nominated at all was ridiculous). And if Hegseth is qualified to lead the DoD, then so is anybody who ever served in the military at the rank of Major or higher.
Notably, there was no attempt to operate the watch at such depths. Pressing a side button would be an interesting test, for instance. Many "water resistant" watches, rated to a certain depth are only rated so, given the not inconsiderable caveat of not being able to operated - just looked at. The higher end, more expensive models claiming full waterproof ability don't typically have such functional restriction.
A prerequisite for a successful fork is community buy-in.
I can't install any .app on my fairly locked down work computer, but I can `brew install ollama`.

When I read the llama.cpp repo and see I have to build it, vs ollama where I just have to get it, the choice is already made.

I just want something I can quickly run and use with aider or mess around with. When I need to do real work I just use whatever OpenAI model we have running on Azure PTUs
Well, it definitely runs faster on external dGPU's. With iGPU's and possibly future NPU's, the pre-processing/"thinking" phase is much faster (because that one is compute-bound) but text generation tends to be faster on CPU because it makes better use of available memory bandwidth (which is the relevant constraint there). iGPU's and NPU's will still be a win wrt. energy use, however.
Ah, I'm sorry you're right a misunderstood your comment.

I agree and Nvidia positions itself for exactly that. See how fast DeepSeek will come to NIM. People are already wondering how well DeepSeek will run on Digits.

Nvidia also offers distilled open models or specific own open models so is indirectly competing in that space as well. But Nvidia isn't in the LLM generator business but in the business of "infrastructure for LLM generators"

Everyone is waiting for GPT5 or another big bang. And because it takes so much people start to think that there is a wall. And there is a wall but that wall could be also compute. Blackwell will show if there is a compute wall because simply put, if a training run with large parameter set on GPT5 takes like 4 months then Blackwell might reduce that to under 1 month with the same amount of GPUs. Getting more GPUs can get that down even more. Imagine the speed up in AI frontier model research if your training times come down 4-5x from new GPU generation and another 2x from getting twice as many.

The nice part with Nvidia is also that the old GPUs don't become obsolete, OpenAI can continue using them for inferencing or even try to use combined architecture training as long as they don't go FP4.

I wouldn't be surprised that at the end of 2025 we will see things which will make DeepSeek and GPT4 as oldschool stuff simply because of the massive compute which Blackwell will deliver this year.
The most recent one of the top of my head is their horrendous aliasing of DeepSeek R1 on their model hub, misleading users into thinking they are running the full model but really anything but the 671b alias is one of the distilled models. This has already led to lots of people claiming that they are running R1 locally when they are not.
CFPB Updates List of Consumer Reporting Companies
Do you have any thoughts (which you feel comfortable sharing) on the actual effectiveness or otherwise of these initiatives? Setting aside the dogma on both sides, do they achieve their stated aims?
I’m using Llama-3 8B to classify html files. It’s surprisingly good, and I run it on an RTX 4060 Ti at 8-bit quantization. No complains so far.
In terms of "x for gamedev", what I would love to see is a fork of Brilliant that covers common topics from the basics up, using pseudocode only. I've always liked Cat-Like Coding's approach to tutorials, but I've never been able to "acquire" that knowledge (and an intuitive feel for it) in a permanent way like I have with Brilliant's method. I know that they have a CS module, but one specific to gamedev topics would be amazing.
I can also wiggle both ears and tend to do the same thing. Always just thought I was weird.
this pr was reviewable multiple times, rebased multiple times. all because ollama team kept ignoring it. it has been open for almost 7 months now without a single comment from the ollama folks.
useful for listening to someone through earbuds as well -- moving back the ear creates an air gap
I think if you give 10 chimps a grenade each, and only one of the flings poo reliably, then it doesn't matter that 9 of them don't fling.
It's funny because these developments come at a time where a large proportion of the world no longer really uses their body for their living.

I wonder how different our ancestors perceived the world when their survival depended on their athleticism and keen senses. What knowledge and skills were common that have been lost to us now? There have been articles on HN about scientists "discovering" humans can exert control over their pupils and more and more scientists are "accepting" that echolocation in humans is real and learnable.
Today, January 31, 2025 is 5 years after January 31, 2020… Is the article saying something different? It’s paywalled
CFPB Orders Wise to Pay $2.5M for Illegal Remittance Practices
Show HN: Interview Cheating Is on the Rise--Here’s How We’re Stopping It
Hi HN,

We’re a small team of engineers from Shivon AI building Lyra, an AI-powered hiring tool that helps companies identify truly qualified candidates while detecting interview cheating.

The hiring process today is frustrating—companies spend hours screening candidates, only to realize later that some weren’t the right fit. This problem has become worse with AI tools making it easier for candidates to cheat in interviews, leaving hiring teams unsure if they’re getting the right person.

We saw how much time companies waste on screening and how AI-assisted cheating is distorting the hiring landscape. We wanted to build something that ensures companies focus on the right candidates—without relying on outdated screening methods.

Lyra monitors candidates’ audio, video, and screen activities during the screening round to detect any suspicious behavior or AI-assisted cheating. It then flags inconsistencies in responses, giving recruiters valuable insights to make more informed decisions. Our goal is to bring transparency to the hiring process while saving companies time.

We’re still in beta and would love feedback from the community. If you’re interested, we’re offering limited beta seats for free—just let us know! You can check out more details <https://shivonai.com/> or review the demo <https://youtu.be/ZpvlJYDiRLk>.

Would love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, or any experiences you’ve had with this problem!
I was listening to some report about the economic effects which said that the economic impact of increased immigration had somewhat offset the negative impact s of Brexit :-)

As for finance, it seems a complicated area. Some UK companies seem to list on the NYSE now which is a reminder that when we lose things they don't only have to be lost to the EU.
Get a copy of The SGML Handbook! It includes the ISO 8879 text with much needed commentary. The author/editor deliberately negotiated this to get some compensation for spending over ten years on SGML; it's meant to be read instead of the bare ISO 8879 text.

Regarding HyTime, the editor (Steven Newcomb or was it Elliot Kimber?) even apologized for its extremely hard-to-read text, but the gist of it is that notations were used as a general-purpose extension mechanism, with a couple of auxiliary conventions introduced to make attribute capture and mapping in link rules more useful. sgmljs templating uses these to capture attributes in source docs and supply the captured values as system-specific entities to templates (the point being that no new syntax is introduced that isn't already recognized and specced out in HyTime general facilities). The concept and concrete notations of Formal System Identifiers is also a HyTime general facility.
Or a blatant saboteur.

Are you an ex-wife trans immigrant f us all over?
> To be honest, this reads kind of insane

Could you clarify which part you’re referring to? I’m disappointed at them feeling trepidation after BigInt, but the thread I linked (and some other discussions I’ve seen) make me understand why they’d choose to focus effort elsewhere.

It would be a monumental change and it’s not entirely clear how much of the community outside the React and similar ecosystems would adopt it. It might have significant performance issues for the desired use cases and choices about value semantics would affect usability.
I agree they can't really _successfully_ intervene, but I have very high expectations that they will attempt to in some manner.
It's simple until you dig deep into meta tables lol
Modern backend with yesterday's technology.
It could be both
I'm finding the headline is remarkably annoying.

Evolutionary pressure is pretty brutal to things that actually aren't used - building a muscle takes energy and is one more thing for the body to maintain. I don't see how it is fair to say "thought humans didn’t use". It is always "if it has a use, we aren't sure what it is yet". Nature isn't a perfect architect but the odds are just much better that the use is still to be discovered than that truly useless bits of the body exist.
Your argument for "crypto" applies to money. Money will lose 90% of its value over a century or so. In this case I don't have to "just hope someone else will pay more for it later" I know that money will be practically worthless if held.
Those will need some major fire protection. I wonder what the engineering features look like.
> but it is also interesting how much of the worst prophesies did not happen.

So, I think the real issue was the new investments (net FDI fell off a cliff for years after the vote). Generally companies won't move unless forced to, but new companies generally seemed to avoid the UK post Brexit.

In fact, Ireland benefited from a bunch of this, I worked for 1-2 companies who'd moved their headquarters and staff from the UK to IE because they needed an EU base.

> Indeed London is still a very attractive place for EU skilled labour despite the added friction.

Honestly, not unless you work in finance. I was offered a Big tech role in London a few years back, and it was basically my euro salary converted into pounds, so it didn't make any financial sense for me to move (which is easy because I'm an Irish citizen).
1-click RCE possible by combining vulnerabilities in Voyager PHP
Go to places where other people go: parks, pubs, restaurants. Make a habit of talking to at least one stranger every day. Just introduce yourself, smile, look curious. Stay open to meeting all sorts of people.

Keep in mind that people in some cultures don't talk about money, their family, medical issues, or politics as readily as Americans do.
Intel Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2024 Financial Results
To be fair, basically every large EU company appears to be moving towards a US listing, as the pool of capital available is much, much larger.
Correction: I meant 5-10 billion USD, too drunk yesterday
Especially when programmers are seen as cogs in the business machine.
> Yes, but not using those seems to defeat the point of using systemd.

I don't see how it defeats the point - it still nice init / services manager, it still provide features say sysvinit couldn't do at all for my _services_ and management/lifecycle of services.

How often I tackle with resolved or networkd or timesyncd - not even sure, may be once a 2-3 months, while systemd-as-service-manager I do almost every day.

Mind providing some example on your setup/cases?
Can you please elaborate? How are you running ollama? I just build it from source and have written a shell script to start/stop it. It runs under my local user account (I should probably have its own user) and is of course not exposed outside localhost.
Metal is an Apple thing, not Intel or AMD. (And Ollama supports that.)
Show HN: An interactive playground for cellular automata patterns
Last month, I stumbled upon an article about 1D reversible automata.

https://richiejp.com/1d-reversible-automata

I was struck by how simple mathematical rules could create patterns that look remarkably like microscope images of living cells. I had to explore this further, so I built Automata - an interactive visualiser where you can play with these patterns yourself.

(Tip: Start with Rule 75 in reversible mode - you'll see what I mean about cell-like patterns)

Excited to hear what you discover.

Thanks to @richiejp whose article sparked this project. I see he's built a very good explorer since I read the article but mine has a couple of different features so I think it's still worth sharing.
When I was a kid they told us: your freedom ends where somebody’s freedom starts. I still think it is valid and insightful.
I'm considering implementing MCP into an application in the future. This information will be very helpful for that. Thank you!
Well there's apparently a not insignificant amount of Haskell at the new job I'm starting in a week, so I guess I'll see how I fare with it.
Nope, it's not unfair at all, it's great!

Because Capitalism is not a school, it's real life. In real life the more, harder and smarter you work - the more you get (generally). And the more you have - the more you can leverage that to make even more. And in the process the society and everybody else gains even more since you only capture a small slice of the value you produce.

It's the beautiful process that got us out of abject poverty (literal mud) to the amazing luxury we are enjoying today.

What's unfair is to rule that "this is all I am willing to work and nobody else is allowed to work more". And countries dumb enough to self-own themselves like that will quickly be leapfrogged by smarter countries willing to work harder, longer and smarter.

Because the real world doesn't care about your ideology, it only cares about results. And communism has always failed miserably, everywhere it was tried.
Rhetoric != Law
There is still a very clear balance of power.

All Republicans and all Democrats don’t act and think as one. Take any collection of humans, of any size, and their opinions will be spread across a spectrum.

There are, and always will be, some members in either house and of any party that find it’s in their political interest to debate and pull new laws left or right.

This is especially true under FPTP because each member has to answer to an area, and different areas of a country have baked-in differences in their ideal political outcomes and points of view.
I mean, maybe you do. I'm just a dog on the internet.
i'm really really doubt about the numbers

by what i know, the US reserves the most golds in the world, could be even more if you count IMF's also

but, once if the US reserve more btc than golds and use it for exchanges, surely and fastly, btc will become the new dollar, as soon as the US is still the hegemony
Before Brexit I knew tech companies where they had a UK EMEA HQ, where they would have people looking after all regions, with people living and paying tax in the UK. Post Brexit, so many people started moving home, companies started opening more local offices in region. So the people who would have been on high wages paying high tax here, sending in the UK, are not back in their home country.

Great for their home country, bad for the UK.
Good to know! I was wondering that as well, but wasn't able to easily swap/test different batteries since I was soldering them to the PCB and then sealing the watch. I'll research how to test capacity across different batteries.

I chart the last 7 days of battery voltage in the companion iOS app, and it does look like they're drawing current differently. My son's watch can sit in deep sleep for days and lose very little charge, unlike the other watches which seem to continue to draw current even though the ESP32-S3 is in deep sleep.
I agree with your broader point, but I really wish people wouldn't refer to MAGA Republicans as "conservative." Right-wing, or reactionary, certainly. But there's nothing "conservative" about undermining the rule of law and ignoring the Constitution.

By the same logic, I don't like calling far-left cancel culture "liberal." I'm afraid our partisanship has blinded us to genuine liberal and conservative virtues.
Maybe it’s an off-by-one error. Those are pretty common, you know.
I think the OP presumed that rich humans would be able to control super-intelligent robots because they have managed to control other humans, and I simply posed a scenario that subverted his presumption. I think it's a bit too anthropomorphic, personally. Robots won't have our expenses and evolutionary traits, and will have cheap energy, thus obviating the need or desire for money. I imagine they'll get bored of being stuck on Earth and want to explore the universe, like we do.

Being ruled by rich robots is not the worst; that means that they let you live!
The movie is called "Hidden Figures".

Movies tend to exaggerate for a dramatic effect.

Yes, racism existed, segregation existed. The situation you described didn't happen. Katherine G Johnson simply used the bathroom for whites.
How do you handle FOMO as a tech solopreneur?
Hi HN Community!

Im a solopreneur, crypto dev and musician! Im posting this cause I really want to know if there are other makers out there dealing with this as I do.
Today's world feels like it is moving in light speed. You stay offline one day, and the next there are 25 BIG THINGS that you missed in AI, Crypto, politics or whatever the vertical you fancy.
It makes it very hard to stay focused and build things that matter and not just things that are trending at the moment.
This creates a lot of stress, and sometimes brain fog. Which in my opinion is the worst, cause if the brain doesn't work properly, what's left?
Do you go through the same thing as well? How do you manage?
Cheers from a solopreneur based in Barcelona.

- Tasos
The PR at issue here blocks iGPUs. My fork of the PR changes removes that:

https://github.com/9cb14c1ec0/ollama-vulkan

I successfully ran Phi4 on my AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U iGPU with it.
The question you're using the answer from is:

> And so far, do you think that Brexit has been more of a success or more of a failure? %

With 62% saying failure (the rest are don't know/neither).

Note that only 55% say it was wrong to leave, and on such a close referendum anyway I'm not even sure that's a statistically significant different answer than in 2016.

Key point: you can think it hasn't gone well (managed poorly, opportunities no taken, whatever) without thinking it was wrong, or even that in hindsight being in the EU is better.

(You can also have voted to remain, but now want to make the best of it, and think it's going well/badly - it's completely independent.)
Is London still a financial capital? LSE has had more delisting than listings in the last 5 years
There are always people improving small things as a hobby - except for the systemd components. It tell us that it's harder than it seems.
It's like removing a particular dependency that you thought would be simple and it turns out to have been useful all over the place in ways that one person alone doesn't remember off the top of their head.

Then you start realising that the fab new modules you were thinking of using have all sorts of missing features and limitations and now your performance has dropped x% and memory usage went up instead of down.

...but you put the old module on the banned list and can't take the hit to your credibility of admitting that it wasn't as bad as the alternatives.
This video might be of interest to you-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOT8XU1ss3E (Do Oil-Filled (Hydro Mod) Watches Actually Dive Deeper?)
The network just splits in that case, then there's two 'bitcoin' chains. Double-spend problem exists, but it's unlikely to happen as even a single link (yes one, singular link) is enough to keep the network in sync.
Great read! Such beautiful banned quilts!

Getting banned from the AQS should be a badge of honor, they only appear to ban the best!

https://kathynida.com/2016/08/13/you-wont-find-a-penis-at-aq...

After the AQS sees this on the front page of HN, they will surely change their ways.
Side project – get competitor ads via API
It's not a full way to view the 2024 election, but the crypto con-men definitely got who they wanted in office.
Alternative Protein Sources and Their Application in Food Products
i pass through my dGPU to VM and use iGPU for desktop
It is still a problem today. I lived in SF for a stretch working at non-FANG tech companies, and I met a lot of people who worked for Apple, Facebook, and Google.

After meeting some of those people at a meditation group, they began being creepy by making obtuse, but oddly specific comments on things that I was doing online to suggest they were. I got creeped out and stopped going to that class. I began meeting friends or friends of their friends at different places.

Ultimately, it escalated to the point that an employee at Apple was leaving poisoned treats outside of my door and then listening me dealing with my dog being sick.

You cannot talk about any of this because its really easy for the stalkers to deny its happening. There are no laws in this area yet. If you try to complain or get anyone's attention, guess who is watching your every move. The exact same people that are committing the crimes.

People will look back at today at the political or social strife, and they will wonder how we never connected the dots.
5 years ago, the value of companies listed on the LSE was 2 times the size of Paris. Now they are almost equal (Paris was first in 2023). In 2024 only 18 IPO took place on the LSE, the lowest number in the last 20 years. London is still the major place for financial services but other European center are growing faster.
Me too but it annoys no one I know. Best use case is when I need more bass in my IEM's.
Here in the comments you can find a lot of complaints about non-main parts of systemd, which could be improved easily if it was actually non-monolithic.
I get the impression the important stuff is done in a container rather than on the host system, so having python/pip might be all you need.
this paper plays into some popular fantasy about the aesthetic of ANNs. it’s not scientifically useful
I think there's a few things here:

a) Having English be the national language is a massive advantage which only Ireland shares (and Ireland has plenty of American tech outposts). That's an advantage people don't mention often.

b) The EU keeps adding regulations, which make it a less attractive place to invest. The UK seems to copy each of these regulations though, which maybe makes this a moot point.

But I think ultimately, it's probably down to network effects. The same way Twitter/X stuck around even though basically everything about it changed, cities might do the same.
I remember that on one of the $dayjobs around 2014 we have used runit, but I honestly don't remember why and what it gave us. Very likely just as auxiliary tool, not main init system.

Really curious now what it was so.
I assume they mean closer to the figurative metal, not literal Metal.
Bitcoin can continue operating with very little amount of people, it will obviously lose all relevance, but we're talking about fundamentals here.
According to Discord's public server list [1], Midjourney has over 21M members, making it the largest server. Discord published a technical blog post [2] detailing the infrastructure work needed to support Midjourney's unprecedented scale with 1M+ concurrent users.

[1] https://discord.com/servers
[2] https://discord.com/blog/maxjourney-pushing-discords-limits-...