skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I'm not interested in prosecuting that David gives off fascist vibes. I don't have to provide proof.

Oh, so you don't have any proof, got it. Your claims have been dismissed, David is not fascist.

>Kinda lazy that you're all not out there looking for the proof yourself.

There is no proof.

>To reorient the discussion around what the original poster talked about, that he gives off Elon Musk Vibes. And that it's a problem. Well it IS a problem.

No proof of this either, so your claim is dismissed outright.

>A problem openly, and vigorously discussed in the Ruby community.

Any proof of this? Who claims it's a problem?

>Many people have left the Ruby community because of his behavior

Looks like a loud minority of leftist activists may have left. That explains how Ruby has only gotten better since.

>many more have chosen never to come into the community because of it.

Many more have chose to join the community now that the activists are gone.

>Anyways, as per my original point, that despite the Fascist vibes from that guy

There are no Fascist vibes as shown above.
Picking Javascript as the foundation of your project and being dismayed at how much work it takes to keep up is a restatement of the definition of insanity.
Kernel WiFi driver maintainer steps down without a replacement
Dirac’s prediction of antimatter came from purely mathematical reasoning—before any experimental evidence existed. Testing and verifying conjectures requires the ability to extrapolate beyond known data, rather than from it, and the ability discard false leads based on theoretical reasoning, rather than statistical confidence.

All of this is possible in a bottle, but laughably far beyond our current capabilities.
Plus-tag stripping sounds like a no-brainer for spammers to do, but I've never come across this behavior yet.

I always give out myname+tag@... to places that ask for email, and have an incoming message rule that puts bare myname@ straight into spam folder.

So far, the only messages to bare address were service updates from my email provider itself.
Hi, Can you elaborate on this.I am new to crypto
Guess who left a database wide open, exposing chat logs, API keys, and more?
Contrast this with the on-screen appearance by American Airlines CEO last night.
Watching it, I wondered: why can't we have a guy like this as president?
Definitely. The 1206 is probably my favorite out of any I've ever used.
I wonder how it would have faired these days with the popularity of eBikes and scooters now.
A photograph is often subject to copyright - but there's actually some nuance here; some countries also require a certain level of creative input by a human.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality

Areas of dispute include photographs of famous paintings (is it more in the character of a photocopy?), photographs taken by animals (does the human get copyright if they deliberately created the situation where the animal would take a photograph?), and videos taken automatically (can a CCTV video have an author?)

Historically, the results are all over the place.
Highlighting and submitting this not to shame or put down the maintainer at all -- if anything to thank them for their work! -- but to call out the various giant orgs and companies that make bank on the kernel and not funding such work instead relying on the hackers who do it for the love of the game so to speak.
> If my boss asked me to build the Torment Nexus, I'd resist up to and including quitting. A disappointingly high number of us wouldn't even put up a fight.

A big reason for that is most people don't have the "fuck you money" to be that selective. Sure, there are some programmers that are indifferent or amoral, but there are a lot more who just don't realistically have the luxury of quitting for reasons like that (e.g. they have a family, if they quit over X they may not be able to get a good enough job to maintain their lifestyle, if they don't maintain their lifestyle maybe their wife will leave them, etc).

Add to that, the Torment Nexus is clearly bad, but a lot of bad things aren't quit so obvious, or can be defended tempting but specious arguments (e.g. Facebook's "but we're just bringing the world closer together").
The WhatsApp thing is very country specific. Some have super high penetration some not so much
I don’t think an import ban would be any harder to enforce than an export ban. In fact if anything, I’d expect an import ban to be easier.

Though I’m not suggesting an import ban on DeepSeek would be effective either. Just that the US does have precedence pulling these kinds of stunts.

You can also look at the 90s subculture for passing DeCSS code (a tool for breaking DVD encryption) to see another example of how people wilfully skirted these kinds of stupid legal limitations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS

So if you were to ask me if a ban on DeepSeek would work, the answer is clearly “no”. But that doesn’t mean it’s not going to happen. And if it does, the only people hurt are legitimate US businesses who might get a benefit from DeepSeek but have to follow the law. Those of us outside of America will be completely unaffected. Just like we were when US tried to limit the distribution of GPG.
What countries do you operate in? Seems like in the US you'd be considered an MSB.
You will get tracked by those even if you use an Apple device. The key difference between Android and iOS is that Android gives users the ability not to be tracked. iOS (even MacOS) doesn't even let you uninstall Apple News. iOS won't let you get your location or install an app without telling Apple. It won't even let you run a browser other than Safari, which has known data leaking vulnerabilities. User control is the key privacy feature.
This may be true, but it doesn't excuse psychopathic behavior on the part of public servants given the job of managing these agencies. This isn't supposed to be The Hunger Games.
Except when you're in a bubble.

You're right, eventually an investor exit his position to buy newly issued shares or obligations, which in theory should be used to increase production.

What I'm saying is twofold: most of the money is invested in purely financial products, not production. Two examples: I'm not against futures, I think it's a good idea to stabilise farmers income. But when you have twice as much money in futures, twice as much investments in agritech, and the same agricultural output, can I say that money had no impact in production? Also,just look at the state of mining companies, or rather, where new money is invested. A lot is in new prospecting companies with 'AI' or 'blockchain' in their website. In the same time, new mines open less frequently, despite a huge increase in investment. Am I allowed to say that investment in this sector is decorrelated from actual production?

That's my first point. My second was that the new accounting 'technique' (futuristic accounting) used by some companies (PE, but probably others) is used to issue dividends uncorrelated from profit (thus uncorrelated from production).

Also I don't want to enter a boxing match, just confronting point of views, and I don't care that you didn't read about the specific of futuristic accounting, it's about accounting, I understand. But don't call ideological something you did not read next time.
Show HN: Search for drugs approved to treat a given disease
Yeah, the idea in the above code is that you can't do anything with an account so long as it's placed in the "blocked" set, because that means that it's effectively taken out of circulation for other operations.

The way I solve situations like this is, by making sure that all accounts are moved to the same thread for a short period of time, which then handles the transaction. Which I find a lot easier to think about. It's essentially sharding by account and flexibly moving the shards into the same single writer context.

But if you want to do things the "old fashioned way" Rust provides plenty of classical synchronisation primitives like `Mutex` or `RwLock`.

You can also combine both approaches, e.g. have a single Mutex<AccountPool> that you can check out accounts from.
Your comment underscores the point of my comment.
> they’re largely based on fairy tales and fear and shame

I can just as simply say that atheism is based on ego worship, narcissism, and hyper-individuality.

That is to say, you dressing your conclusion as an axiom. We're better off without atheistic delusions.
The Chinese companies are almost always at each other's throat instead of colluding with each other. It's all about competition.
The name collision with Temporal, the popular durable execution service, is unfortunate.
Now go find us the benchmark that shows M1 Max is able to saturate the bus with more GB/s than what I said above.
To be fair, the problem (if we are going to call it a problem) might be more fundamental than that.

The reality is that your average "civilian" stock investor, speaking in very generalized terms, is supremely ignorant.

I don't say this as a pejorative BTW. I am supremely ignorant of the inner workings of the pharmaceutical industry. Because of this, I do not invest in that sector. I have no way to understand any of it at a depth sufficient for me to make informed decisions. I'd be throwing darts at a board.

That is precisely the situation with lots of investors in the chips, electronics and software worlds. They don't know what they are doing. They have no clue whatsoever about the business cycles and realities of making these things, selling them, bringing them to market, competitive landscapes, implementation, etc.

And so, they are blind and reactive. If they stay in panic mode, we might very well see NVidia stock get down to $100. Frankly, I am actually rooting for that. I want all of these fools to get off the stock. And I want to load-up on it some more. They don't understand business (in general) enough to understand the relationship between DeepSeek and data centers, planned and future. They don't even stop to think about the reality that nobody in business who isn't a fool is going to use an AI service in China or developed by China. If they are hyperventilating about TikTok, I cannot even imagine what it would be like if all AI queries go to servers in China or are answered by models trained in China. I love China for all they have achieved, but it is no secret that they are not an open society at the level of most western societies.

I think we just have to wait until the sheep stop running before sanity will return to the field. They are getting hurt very badly. It's sad to watch.
Burnout in neurodivergent individuals doesn’t just look like fatigue; it often manifests as heightened anxiety, panic attacks, or an inability to function at work. Worse, it’s frequently dismissed as a personal failing rather than a systemic one, leaving employees to bear the weight of both their struggles and the stigma of being seen as “difficult” or “high maintenance.”

this is spot on for me. it also applies to my personal and family life.
Thats the point. This is a usecase for people living in countries with shitty governments.
Bitwig is all right though.
Right. The fundamental difference is that LLMs are a technical achievement that almost no one expected to come this fast. Neural networks were long considered a dead approach—not anymore. In 2015, most of us thought we’d be where we are today in NLP circa 2040.

The business fad will no doubt end in a fiery crash as people discover the hard way the limitations of LLMs, but the underlying achievement is still real. This is more like 2001. Lots of dot-coms died either because they were silly or tragically ahead of their time, but the Internet never went away. (Unfortunately, it does seem to be evolving into a worse version of itself due to platform decay, but that’s another topic entirely.)
While I love that javascript has been taking features from popular libraries (read: jquery) and integrating them into vanilla, I do despair a little that every time it does so with a much more verbose and annoying invocation.
Karpathy's nanoGPT has a full training pipeline using Shakespeare. [1]

The use case for this is learning in simple example.

[1] https://github.com/karpathy/nanoGPT
AI for the majority of these tasks is pretty damn cheap to run
Yep! Shareholders and capitalists overinvesting in stuff is great if it leaves behind great infrastructure. They take the risk and the public benefits.
Growing up on windows 98 and xp I still don't understand what people like about modern looking apps
I've worked with several stepper motor driver ICs that feature a ground pad on the bottom of the IC and recommend an unmasked copper pour connected to the ground pad via thermal vias, on the opposite side of the board from the IC, sized at least as big as the IC itself. Like, the manufacturer's suggestion is literally to use the copper as a heat sink. If you wanted, you could then affix dedicated heat transfer features, like a traditional finned heatsink, or a heat pipe to a dedicated cooler.
Athiesm is actually just as dogmatic and unfalsifiable as Theism.
Would hope your server time zone changes quite rarely and only when you know about it, though.
You don’t think we will have AGI or even ASI by then to have significantly improved tech? I would be we will
eh, they’re not in that deep of shit as a company.

people won’t care as a whole, at least that’s my prediction
If you are looking for something that actually explains most concepts behind it, Karpathy’s series will teach you what you want to know. (Mentioned elsewhere)
If you are looking for command line tools to fine tune and evaluate models on known datasets, this article is a good take!

https://www.philschmid.de/fine-tune-llms-in-2025
These are things you have to understand in your heart, just like all the important things in life. I cannot communicate it in text to you, because the medium is limited. Meditate on it.

You like all of us have only a limited time of life on this earth, why would you throw away that incredible gift by pursuing untruths?
Hinton's views on human consciousness would seem remarkably "unhuman" coming from your PoV and if I understand you correctly. I think his point is based more on self-preservation rather than idolatry. My observations about him are that he does like AI and welcomes AGI. He does not think we humans as species are anything special.

edit: typos
DeepSeek Has Taught AI Startups a Lesson Automakers Learned Years Ago
Oh we can have something stronger than almost a guarantee, I have first hand anecdotes of documents from the financial services sector being fed to ChatGPT for polishing. They weren't trade secrets but their classifications were INTERNAL, _and higher_.
It's interesting to me that one of the most popular, if not the most popular, language in the world and one that is decades old has tooling that is constantly evolving and being reinvented and now in another language than itself. Contrast this with Rust and Elixir which have developed superior tooling in just a decade or so. I just started with real Python development in the past year and have already switched basic tooling!
Competition will likely be cheaper. (For context, Deepinfra runs larger 32B models at $0.07/$0.16)
Kimi k1.5 – open-source AI model with an o1-like performance
Ask HN: Steps to becoming a software engineer at FAANG?
I know this has probably been asked before many times, but wondering if the steps to becoming a software engineer have changed given the rise in popularity of LLMs, and whether someone in their early 30s even has a chance of becoming a software engineer (at FAANG or other companies with similar compensation and competitiveness) with no prior programming experience.

Some background: Early 30s, no programming experience. Interested in starting with Python as that is the language that has the most intuitive syntax for me, and because of its obvious popularity in the AI/ML world.

Questions:
1) Is it too late to become a software engineer at FAANG or other companies with similar compensation? Money is not the only driving factor, but it is helpful. Assume a reasonably motivated individual, but no prior programming experience and minimal math experience.

2) If it is not too late, what would be a well-delineated roadmap for someone to become a software engineer (courses/textbooks/math/etc) that is interested in AI/ML/GenAI? Currently going through CS50 Programming with Python.

3) Do AI/ML/GenAI jobs typically want a Masters/PhD CS grad? What other areas of software engineering are interesting and/or underexplored?
> sell products that would kill their customers

Because the company ended up being run by people who had no clue what it takes to not kill your customers.
That's not fixing the biggest flaw, it's just addressing a small set of specific use cases.

If anything, it's a bandaid that highlights the biggest flaw of UNIX philosophy: everything is passed as unstructured text. Because of it, half of shell programming is just piecing together ad-hoc, buggy parsers that interpret the input, possibly rearrange it, and then dump it down the pipeline as unstructured text, so the next step can do it all over again. And then, of course, every CLI program has to do that too.

This program is using a machine learning model to parse its input; while this may be the only reasonable way to go about guessing emojis from arbitrary text, I can easily see people doing the same to parse outputs of Linux CLI tools at runtime, because it looks much more pleasant and might be even more reliable than writing input parsers by hand. Let's pause here to consider the absurdity of that situation.
I feel incredibly privileged to have experienced the birth of the Web, at ground zero.

I remember a world without it. The developments of the last few decades have been nothing short of science fiction becoming reality.
I posted this comment more in the spirit of showing how the institution has evolved over the centuries. A lot of people think that the "Inquisition" was just something that happened once in the distant past, but it is still right here with us and is a very important part of the Curia.
"It isn't considered "wonderful".

We don't talk to the same people then
Not defending or opposing the thesis of the essay, but this person's blog has (roughly) one post every day... it makes one wonder how much thought and editing goes into writing at that pace.

Most serious writing I've seen is released at a slower cadence. A large volume of content makes me equate its source with the 24/7 news cycle -- more is better, keep pressing the viewer/reader's buttons (outrage, moral indignation, etc.) to keep 'em coming back.
Trump is explicitly blaming programs to hire disabled people. Note that just because FAA had a program to hire people with disabilities, does not mean that they made any changes to the medical standards for air traffic controllers - there are many jobs at FAA besides air traffic controllers, and there are also plenty of disabilities that would not effect a person's ability to be an air traffic controller. FAA does not allow people with psychiatric disabilities to work in ATC.

> “I do want to point out that various articles that appeared prior to my entering office. And here’s one, the FAA’s diversity push includes focus on hiring people with severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities. That is amazing. And then it says FAA says people with severe disabilities are most underrepresented segment of the workforce said ‘they want them in, and they want them, they can be air traffic controllers. I don’t think so. This was January 14, so that was a week before I entered office. They put a big push to put diversity into the FAA’s program,” Trump said.

> “Brilliant people have to be in those positions, and their lives are actually shortened, very substantially shortened because of the stress where you have many, many planes coming into one target, and you need a very special talent and a very special genius to be able to do it,” the president added.

> When he was asked to clarify why he thought a “diversity push” at the FAA played a role in Wednesday’s collision, President Donald Trump told reporters Thursday that “it just could have been.”

> “It just could have been. We have a high standard. We’ve had a higher, much higher standard than anybody else,” Trump said.

> Trump did not cite any evidence.
Source: https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/plane-crash-dca-potomac-was...
Ask HN: What computer to buy if you want to do small fine tuning and inference?
I am not looking at anything expensive, but want to buy something for fine tuning small models or run small models for experimenting and code assistance.
For questions with a correct answer, you don’t need to verify the reasoning process. RL training will discover it. That’s R1-Zero.

The point of R1 was to fix problems with the reasoning tokens and expand to subjective domains like creative writing.
Very true, and also, no businesses are literally forced (by the law or otherwise) to use social media. They voluntarily do it for the imagined or real business benefits.
Real talk, the helicopter was operating night VFR, right? How is this safe when the jet is moving extremely fast relative to the chopper and the only separation is a visual reference to some navigation lights?
I looked at the various utility companies in Texas. They all have in office support. Are you really telling me that senior citizens are not getting utilities if they don’t have an email address?

They require home phone numbers.

And you are talking about owning a phone - not a smart phone.

Here is a feature phone for you

https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone/tcl-flip-go
I don't think that's an unpopular opinion really. Unions are supposed to be an adversary of management who they negotiate with, and depending on who wins the election they are an ally. There's a conflict of interest. So naturally the group that supports the person that wins the election will have a favorable contract and be able to grow their union as that's beneficial to the political party and the union.

At the very least states should implement laws and statutes that define limits and rules such as union compensation must be paid with the current years revenues and not with bonds that are paid for by future generations, etc.
They are suicidal/homicidal in the way the passengers on the Titan submersible were suicidal/homicidal. Which is to say that they weren’t.

But while their goal was not to die, their lack of concern about the risks killed them anyway.

This belongs in the “If they fully comprehended the risks, their behavior could only be described as suicidal” category.
When I first saw the headline, I imagined a big huge organ with 100 keys and pedals, lots of stops, and huge pipes. I was very pleasantly surprised to see something small, with maybe 48 keys, and a handful of creatively-placed pipes!

Sometimes when we imagine a project, we think about how big it is, and get discouraged -- but this is a good reminder that some of the best projects are small, and thus, are less daunting and more easily tackled!
It took me one minute to find this

https://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone/tcl-flip-go
One of my all time favorite videos (one of the few that I rewatch once per year) is "The Extreme Importance of PC Board Stack-Up with Rick Hartley". It's fantastic.

https://resources.altium.com/p/the-extreme-importance-of-pc-...
I see "Sale Ending Soon: Lifetime Licences 71% off - only £29!" at the top of the pages. It looks really neat, but my interest was more curiosity. You need to login to download and then login again from the app (for the trial), and I ran into more friction than I had time for. Will bookmark in case I have a need for this later.
I’m going through something like this too with zero religious background. Lately I’m of the belief that if you take a look at your life, you’ll see that most of it wasn’t really a coincidence. Tough thing to share but it’s my overall underlying feeling.

Not me:

https://medium.com/machine-cognition/objective-reality-doesn...
We’ve gone this long without an accident, what’s to say we’re not gonna learn the hard lesson from this and make sure it doesn’t happen again?