skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We'd be way better off banning the asocial media corporate platforms.

Or maybe, just ban bull shit blag posts like this one?

Another advantage of email that the author doesn't mention is the ability to host one's own email. For actual persons and corporate entities.

Of course this would also be so uncool for the hip kids. All we _really_ need are 15 sec videos highlighting the twerk tik "set your balls on fire challenge".

It's funny, right?

Just another example of why I'm so grateful to not have grown up in the internet brain damage era...

The consequences are, sadly, irreversible. The individuals with this condition will likely never recover. It's like starting to give kids cigarettes at age 5, and then expect them to quit on their own in their 20s and 30s. Just not gonna happen. The only hope is for the new generations to have some kids and raise them differently.
What does that even mean?

What exactly is the .01% of engineering work that this super intelligent AI couldn't handle?

I'm not worried about this future as a SWE, because if it does happen, the entire world will change.

If AI is doing all software engineering work, that means it will be able to solve hard problems in robotics, for example in manufacturing and self driving cars.

Wouldn't it be able to create a social network more addictive than TikTok, for anyone who might watch? This AI wouldn't even need human cooperation, why couldn't it just generate videos that were addictive?

I assume an AI that can do ultra complex AI work would also be able to do almost all creative work better than a human too.

And of course it could do the work of paper shuffling white collar workers. It would be a better lawyer than the best lawyer, a better accountant than the best accountant.

So, who exactly is going to have a job in that future world?
There won’t be any except whatever is output from some llm and it will be unverifiable.

The specific context of video game history comes up now and then in “indie game journalist” scenes like aftermath. Games journalism in particular has gone through a consolidation and with it comes the destruction of archives both physical and digital.
Sold my GPU, bought chickens.
Don't you think software engineers have a vested interest in their jobs being relevant, just with less information?
My thoughts go out to the poor engineers who got put on call because someone scheduled a product release on the day before the biggest holiday of their year.
If you believe that everything will be solved by the time you can pivot, what will we need jobs for anyway? I mean, the bottleneck justifying most scarcity is that we don't have adequate software to ask the robots to do the thing, so if that's a solved problem, which things will remain that still need doing?

I don't personally think that's how it will go. AI will always need its hand held, if not due to a lack of capability then due to a lack of trust. But since you do, why the gloom?
No, not unless it has shared ownership/assets/employees etc. with ByteDance/TikTok. A new Chinese app falls under the later part of the law; there's more process (Presidential assessment, declaration, and report to Congress). ByteDance/TikTok specifically are deemed already problematic in the law.
Chinese AI chatbot DeepSeek censors itself in realtime, users report
> One person setting the objectives and the AI handling literally everything else including brainstorming issues etc, is going to be all that's needed.

A person just setting the prompt and letting the AI do all the work is not adding any additional value. Any other person can come in and perform the exact same task.

The only way to actually provide differentiation in this scenario is to either build your own models, or micromanage the outputs.
$10k transatlantic return hop. Add expedited immigration. Does not sound insane. First class tickets London-NY can be already in this price range. Not for everyone of course (certainly way out of my price range).
Svelte(kit) renewed my love for web development. It gets out of the way when i want it to, is build on web standards so i'm not stuck on annoying "gotchas", and has all the tools I need to build something without pulling in 20 dependencies just to build a basic app.

After being a skeptic of svelte 5, its fully captured me.
My bad, looking at the page from mobile it didn’t look like a salary range. I misinterpreted it. I just saw $125K.

That being said, I would hope that position is remote for $175K. I would have jumped on it when I was a pure software developer working in Atlanta. But working locally in SF for that amount?
Compute has been more than doubling because people have been spending silly money on it. How long ago would a proposal for a $10m cluster for ML have been thought surreal by any funding agency? Certainly less than 10 years ago. Now people are talking of spending billions and billions.

Madness.
That's a fair point - the trick with dynamic quants is we selectively choose not to quantize many components - ie attention is left at 4 or 6bit, just the MoE parts are 1.5bit (-1, 0, 1)

There are distilled versions like Qwen 1.5, 3, 14, 32, Llama 8, 70, but those are distilled - if you want to run the original R1, then the quants are currently the only way.

But I agree quants do affect perf - hence the trick for MoEs is to not quantize specific areas!
How much would you pay to not get Ebola or another haemorrhagic disease, should it find it's way into your community? How much are you willing to pay to hedge against that risk by squelching outbreaks near the source?
> How big is the L2 Lagrange point? (i.e., how closely do you need to be for an orbit around L2 to be practical?)

The L2 point doesn't really have size, and even its location isn't stable. It's a mathematical point, and when we say "orbit around L2" then that is not fully true either. The spacecraft are on what's called "halo orbit" - maybe imagine balancing a steel ball (like from a bearing) on a bottle that's sideways, it's probably easier to roll and balance the ball lenghtways of the bottle, than on rolling it sideways. The best analogy I could come up with. You don't want to be too close to the L2 point, as then the orbit would be very short and less stable, think of it as having a smaller bottle - probably harder to balance the steel ball on a smaller bottle than a big one.

> How far away PLATO will be from the James Webb Space Telescope?
Probably on the magnitude of hundreds of thousands of kms on average. Interesting question though, hopefully they won't get too close :D
Related is Casey Muratori's explanation of the GoFetch speculative attack on Apple's M-series CPUs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZEBkOrfUzM
A team I work very closely with as an architect has ditched React in favour of Svelte and the team love it. Everyone prefers it to React and finds it easier and more productive to use.
Pre-Built iOS Binaries: Reducing React Native Dev Start Time to Seconds
It's a shame that AI seems to be causing a lot of despair, even prior to its vision being complete.

I was forced to implement AI systems that toasted many of our employees.
The ancient discovery that put a Silk Road city back on the map
Ashish Vaswani
Ban x because some people, who would undoubtedly struggle with y, struggle with x. Idiotic article.
Capabilities are the only way.

It is insane to me that in 2025 there is no easy way for me to run a program that, say, "can't touch the filesystem or network". As you say, even a few simple, very coarse grained categories of capabilities would be sufficient for 95% of cases.
Capital by Thomas Picketty. He’s French.

I don’t like your tone. When you say not everyone behaves like Americans you sound like you’re implying superiority as if Americans don’t behave well and I have to conform to your version of good behavior. Change your tone or I won’t continue with you.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Desmos 3D graphing calculator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37859085 - Oct 2023 (83 comments)

How Desmos uses Pratt Parsers (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36245786 - June 2023 (19 comments)

More Intuitive Calculator Arithmetic (2018) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21330341 - Oct 2019 (21 comments)

Visual Demonstration of Approximating Arbitrary Functions with Sigmoids - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19711416 - April 2019 (1 comment)

How Desmos uses Pratt Parsers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18903550 - Jan 2019 (6 comments)

Reign of the $100 graphing calculator is ending - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14298375 - May 2017 (72 comments)

Desmos Graphing Calculator – HTML5 with LaTeX editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11369540 - March 2016 (29 comments)
Effect typing can achieve capability security statically, but I've also frequently seen capabilities used to describe dynamic capability systems via various methods involving passing capabilities down as reified objects of some sort.

This of course also depends on some related static guarantees that a function can't access ambient capabilities not passed directly in their arguments, but this is a much simpler static guarantee than effect typing and doesn't require specific analysis over normal parameter types.
This model is listed on ollama. The 20GB one is this one: https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1:32b-qwen-distill-q4_K...
Also, my understanding is that AF was not profitable on Concord even ignoring those accounting costs. So AF wanted to shutter the plane after the accident, and changing the costs of shared maintenance equipment from 50/50 to 100/0 made BA's numbers go into the red too, because it wasn't very much profit.
There are usually no valid 32 bit addresses, i.e. the first 4GB are not mapped.
> That’s where people are giving Google a hard time

You link to other relevant material in this post, but not actual criticism of Google. So is there any actual criticism or just an impression of some?
> If they’re not smart enough to figure out what’s right for their business

This is an uncharitable response, no need for that.
In office you wield some clout on the world and get excellent stock tips. They are mildly expensive and mostly unattractive already.
> Their Raspberry Pi collection is so extensive, it's starting to look like a fruit stand!

Lol :D
Most companies don't do that in my experience. It'd have been easier to get hired over the years if they did.
Is the list public? I'm trying to figure out whether it's worth taking the plunge.
As an example it's much easier and cheaper to send money from a bank account in US into a bank account in another country when you use bitcoin as the rails for this. All of this can be done fully legally, using companies like Strike, Revolut, Relai or similar.
If you ever tried doing international wire or even using Wise, you will definitely appreciate bitcoin.
Your point doesn't hold together because it seems to be conflating fact checking with bias elimination.

They are obviously different and mostly separate.

A presentation of facts can be biased.

E.g. a news agency can have a characteristic political slant, yet not make up facts to suit that narrative.

When a bias is severe, such that it leads to behaviors like concealing important facts in order to manipulate the correct understanding of a situation, then fact checking can find a problem with it.
Those persist only at the whim of a corporation. There is nothing that preserves them, as they were at a given time, or keeps them in existence if their owner goes out of business or is cast out because of political feuds.

Not that there is a perfect record of every cultural artifact before the digital age of course, maybe it'll all work out somehow.
With modern games no longer playable once the servers go offline, the only recorded history of the modern era of gaming will soon be on the hard drives of YouTube and Twitch servers. For as long as that survives.
The LLM might be terrible at writing machine code directly. The kinds of mistakes I see GPT-4 making in Python, PostScript, or JS would be a much bigger problem in machine code. It "gets confused" and "makes mistakes" in ways very similar to humans. I haven't had a chance to try DeepSeek R1 yet.
Ask HN: Deep learning model license enforceability
When source code is licensed under an open license, you can't use it without complying with the license due to the fact that otherwise you will be infringing copyright.

What about model weights? My understanding is that model weights aren't copyrightable (is this really true?). What makes it obligatory for you to follow the license? Some providers, make you accept a license before you could download anything, but what if it's freely downloadable? (I am pretty sure that there's something which let the license be enforced, just want to understand how it all works).

P.S. I am not a lawyer.
> Most new students don't understand filesystems.

That's not because the file/folder analogies are wrong or outdated, but because they don't use filesystems directly.

My point is that it doesn't matter whether these concepts are used in the real world or not; they're just names. People don't understand the difference between the internet and the web, or why the program they use to access a web site is called a "browser", or even what a web "site" is, etc. Sometimes it's not possible to describe a digital concept using analogous terms from the real world, and that's OK.

What's wrong is dismissing a technology based on the terms it uses, as TFA does.
Fun game! I lost a few points short of killing the dragon as I assumed it would work out that he was definitely killable if you wasted no heals. Turns out that’s false.

I can now fully clear the board very quickly. A few insights:

Since the lich is always in a corner you can guess where he is by checking just three corners. This also unlocks a free powerful spot on the map. It has strength 11 mind you.

You have to get your extra power ups early if you want enough hp to clear the board. This means you have to explore aggressively to find the gnome (10 coins) and the lich (2 coins per mine). It’s not terribly strict but you can’t waste time grinding up levels. You generally just want to explore tiles that you know won’t kill you. Don’t waste time on walls. Those are just buffer spots to help you avoid wasting heat scrolls.

The ? Blocks mean there’s a strength 5 beholder guy 2 spaces away. He obscures all tiles within a radius of 2 so it’s pretty easy to guess where he is. He’s a great target to hit because it usually lets you jump forward.

The 8 strength slimes cluster together. Might as well just leave that area alone once you find it.

Edit: 5:21 for a first attempt at an any% time
> we still need COBOL programmers too

I briefly looked into this 10 years ago since people kept saying it. There is no demand for COBOL programmers, and the pay is far below industry average. [0]

[0] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/work/#3-salary-and-expe...
I'm a student, so all pivots have a minimum delta of 2 years, which is something like a 100x on current capabilities on the seemingly steep s-curve we are on. That drives my "gloom" (in practice I've placed my hope in something eternal rather than a fickle thing like this)
I suspect if Concorde had been made by an American company the “overland” issue would have been solved.
I've done a lot with Stimulus, and until recently had not done a lot with web components. Like web components, Stimulus controllers are JS classes with a few special properties. To explore how well Stimulus experience translates to web components, I recreated some of Stimulus's core features as a web component.
Maybe the human has the money.
Summaries for Russian troll accounts are like

A thoughtful contrarian who frequently challenges popular
narratives with economic and historical context.

Yeah, great.
Speaking of funny shebangs, I came up with this to shell execute prolog .pl files, but it should work for any scripting language that has /**/-comments but doesn't support #-comments or #! shebangs specifically:

/*usr/bin/env scryer-prolog "$0" "$@" ; exit #*/

From my original comment https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog/issues/2170#issuecomm... :

> The way this works is that this test.pl is both a valid shell file and prolog file. When executing as shell the first line finds and executes /usr/bin/env after searching for the glob pattern /*usr/bin/env. env then executes scryer-prolog "test.pl" which runs the prolog file as a module and halts; of course prolog ignores the first line as a comment /* ... */. Then the shell continues and executes the next command after ; which is exit which stops execution so the rest of the file (which is not valid shell) is ignored. The # makes the shell evaluator ignore prolog comment closer */ to prevent it from printing an error.

This may be the best and worst thing I have ever created.
Kinda ambivalent about MoE in cloud. Where it could really shine though is in desktop class gear. Memory is starting to get fast enough where we might see MoEs being not painfully slow soon for large-ish models.
The sky as a canvas: a visual guide to the artistry and science of drone shows
Or maybe this is yet another good investmemt?

Given the low price, low pollution and low carbon content of Norwegian electricity EVs are an even better choice than usual and likely to hit national TCO savings already.
From the faq

'So are we close to AGI?
It definitely seems like it. This also explains why Softbank (and whatever investors Masayoshi Son brings together) would provide the funding for OpenAI that Microsoft will not: the belief that we are reaching a takeoff point where there will in fact be real returns towards being first.'

Interesting.
The Gulf between the Two Ears.
Related:

Turning the database inside out (2014) [video] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41664271 - Sept 2024 (1 comment)

Turning the database inside-out with Apache Samza (2015) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13581096 - Feb 2017 (30 comments)

Turning the database inside-out with Apache Samza - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9145197 - March 2015 (64 comments)
At what cost to those US taxpayers? Leaders who only look at benefits without understanding costs will bankrupt the American people.
Humans generally do things out of their own self interest (which for a lot of people includes improving the living conditions of their descendants). So, if humans aren’t going to colonize space, we’ll either need somebody who… just sort of likes colonizing space with robots? Like as a hobby I guess?

Or maybe we’ll have robots at some point capable of working in their own self-interest.
But there is LSP support? See: https://shopify.github.io/ruby-lsp/#with-vs-code

There's also (the older) solargraph.
Keep in mind: America made them do this.
This is awesome!! Seems to know me better than myself:)
Whenever they have an alias like this, they usually (always?) have a model with the same checksum but a more descriptive name, e.g. the checksum 38056bbcbb2d corresponds with both of these:

https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1:32b

https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1:32b-qwen-distill-q4_K...

I prefer to use the longer name, so I know which model I'm running. In this particular case, it's confusing that they grouped the qwen and llama fine tunes with R1, because they're not R1.
I'll first day I'm not a proponent of uv, I just read the post and tried to clarify what it says...

but I think what it saves you is the trouble of setting up a virtual environment the "old" way. So, it's about making things easier, not faster.
bubblewrap?
Probably a broken record in this comment thread but it was pretty damn accurate...

Definitely give it a go.
also 2FA with passkey into bitwarden website don't work with the extension. It can't find the passkey.
I should have been more clear in my original post. AFAIK there are two options on the table - looking at two fields, both 2 years OR looking at one field for 3 years and then doing "step and stare" for the rest of the mission. Step and stare being that they "step" into a new field, "stare" at it for some time, and repeat.
DeepSeek-R1, Q8 Quant (Max Quality). 768GB of DDR5, 2x AMD EPYC CPU, No GPU
Ask HN: Is any version of C– still maintained?
I have ran across various links. But they seem unmaintained or dialects in compilers. It could be used as a backend instead of C or LLVM-IR.
A basic speaker can't do a lot to improve "room acoustics" [1], particularly below the Schroeder frequency where room modes greatly affect the bass response. From my experience, it's the bass that needs fixing in room, because even a "perfect speaker" will get boomy/muddy at some frequencies (ie. reflections overlapping constructively), and thin/null at others (ie. reflections overlapping destructively). And if you aren't going to worry about "fixing the room", then there are already companies/products like Kali Audio IN-5 speakers [2] that have squeezed in some good performance and tech (eg. active DSP with coaxial driver) in to an affordable package.

There are ways to improve the bass situation, and one is by implementing "directional bass", aka a Cardioid array. This could be achieved with multiple individual speakers (add-on/upgrade existing system), or could be integrated in to 1 "speaker". Examples of the latter have been around for a few years - see Dutch & Dutch 8c or Kii Three. They are relatively expensive (which you could consider an early adopter tax), but affordable competition is starting to mature with speakers such as Mesanovic CDM65 [3].

There is another way to improve things too, and that is via "Active Room Treatment" [4] as Dirac calls it. Basically it uses excess capability in various speakers to "clean up" the audio of other speakers in the system by outputting "cancellation waves" (to cancel the problems). The results appear amazing, but they are taking their sweet time getting it released on to affordable equipment.

There's also "spatial audio" like Dolby Atmos that should/could work around room problems in a similar way to Dirac ART. So good speakers (like already exist) + ART + Atmos + AI "upscaled" 2 channel source music could be the final frontier? But that's just for "mechanical" sound reproduction. Maybe in the future I can just transmit the song straight in to my brain, bypassing my ears and the need for speakers entirely?!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_acoustics
[2] https://www.kaliaudio.com/independence
[3] https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/m...
[4] https://www.dirac.com/live/dirac-live-active-room-treatment/
I appreciate you digging this up; thank you.
> Earth's transit would be about 12 hours, Jupiter's transit around 29 hours

…per year, for Earth; per ~12 years for Jupiter is I think what the GP was asking.

This is extremely dependent on the radii of the inner and outer limits of the the habitable zone for any given star, though, as well as the star’s mass.
I KNEW IT. SWEET VINDICATION.
s/When/If/
I agree with this.

It's a client UI and server configuration issue.

Email clients and servers could be configured to support instantaneous transmission, with a client UI that is presented in a thread like format (no, I'm not talking about thunderbird "threads", that's just mozilla wasting more of goggle's money).

This really _should_ replace SMS even before messaging apps. SMS is a seriously bad service-provider-dominated security nightmare.
Agreed that the metaprogramming can lead to some head-scratchers. However, in my experience with Rails/Ruby, that generally seems frowned up on most teams.

Readability is a core tenant in Ruby, but every once in a while someone likes to show how clever they are. No more a problem in Ruby than other languages IMO.

I disagree that there is a lack of good quality, well maintained libraries. Depending on the domain, I think most people would agree that Ruby and Rails has a pretty thriving 3rd party ecosystem. A big part of that is because of how mature both Ruby and Rails are.
Probably not again given what a commercial failure it was
Yes! America needs to adjust our spending to reflect this new paradigm