skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One interesting thing I discovered comparing various matrix multiplication implementations used in ML libraries is that several of them (ONNX Runtime, XNNPack, any others?) skip the step, from BLIS's textbook algorithm, of packing the LHS matrix. Instead they pack only the RHS. Since those are the weights, this can be done once ahead of time and then an inference pass does not need to do any packing at all.

From skimming various papers it seems like the motivation for packing the LHS originally, even though a single element is broadcast from it at a time (nb. this is opposite to the order in this post, where the row count in the microkernel is a multiple of the register size, rather than the column count), was to reduce TLB misses. Apparently this is not a problem in practice on modern CPUs and for problem sizes common in ML inference.
The CCP also send young agents overseas to infiltrate organisations that don't have adequate security controls.

Like DOGE.
Talk to AI chat as if you would talk to junior developer at your company and tell it to do something that you need.

I think it is brilliant. On another hand I caught myself many times writing prompts to colleagues. Although it made requirements of what I need so much clearer for them.
I have used jj for about one month on a project with a colocated git repo.

So far, I enjoy it a lot. Previously I would have a bunch of 'wip', 'fix typo' commits, but my commit history got much cleaner with jj. It's very easy to jump to old changes and apply fixes right in the place they belong. All changes + tests are now committed as one unit. I would never bother to do it in git, but because it's so easy now, I do it all the time.

Also, the possibility to add a description/message at any time, not only when you "commit" something at the end, is super useful. I use it as some kind of TODO list. Basically, I create a bunch of empty commits with a message and then just start from the first and work my way through all of them with `jj next --edit`.

If you have some extra time and would like to try out something new, I would very much recommend it.
Rich people seem to be content with building a luxurious emergency bunker in new Zealand and then just rolling the dice on whether the world will go to shit or not. The only conclusion I can really come to is that they know the world will be going to shit no matter what they do or something.
We need an LSP like protocol for AI, so that we can amortize the configuration over every place we want such an integration. AISP?
>So now [...] the only insurance we can buy won't come close to making us whole

"So"? I don't see what one thing has to do with the other. Why would a lack of liability imply an insurance that doesn't fully compensate a claim? It's not a given, for example for insurance against natural events.
I am wondering if the artist was a genius ahead of his times. Like an Einstein thinking about the nature of time. - Creating a sculpture of a human being when contemporary artists just depict animals at best, in a very abstract way. And even those artists were not common among their peers.
> Conservatives didn't have that with Harris.

Conservatives spent days nitpicking every single thing they could about Harris and would just invent things about Walz. Tim Walz's son cried and conservative media and social networks ran that into the ground for weeks. Acting like MAGA didn't say anything about Harris/Walz is pure delusion.
I used to work in the record industy. If you want to understand how artist royalties work the seminal article on the topic was written by Steve Albini and is highly reccomended. https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-music
Punching down is rarely helpful.
I thought this would be an article about how every web search now involves a sort of crawl through the pile of LLM-generated garbage to find the one site with some kind of human input and actual expertise. It's a little funny that the new "alternative" is going directly to the source to get custom-generated garbage that seems more accurate because it is perhaps for now less commercial.
It is a textbook case of cognitive dissonance. For example, you are somehow trying to hold contradictory claims on how Bitcoin's clear failure as a currency is somehow a sign of it's success.

The mental disturbance angle is also compounded by the far-fetched conspiracy theories on how El Salvador ditched Bitcoin because "the man" wants to kill it.
Aside from some major examples, like most of the big tech companies funding the Linux kernel and maybe the Rust and/or Python Foundations in decent numbers, for the most part, corporations don't pay for open-source. That's why they love it so much: it costs ~$0, but generates immense business value for them (in that they don't have to write, debug, or maintain any of that, often essential, code or infra).

I can think of maybe three exceptions my entire career, and none of them were especially huge contributions.
I can second this opinion. The moment I read "something that beats the git cli hands down" I command-F searched for "hands down" to find this comment or make it myself.
Again, none of those directly applies to what DOGE is doing. You have to really stretch the meaning of those laws to try to make it fit. Prosecutors do this regularly, but the current US Attorney is unlikely to.
> For us listeners, it’s more important than ever to seek out real
artists.

I can understand listening to genai music as a background space filler
but music has more functions.

It is a signifier and mnemonic, and sets mood for production.

Everything on https://cybershow.uk is made in house, on the fly as
needed. We mostly use Ardour, Audacity and some weird old computer
music tools like Csound, Puredata, Supercollider for all the beds and
backings, many of which are in the old-skool, lo-fi styles because
these sit behind talk as 'beds' very nicely.

It would be easy to grab licensed tracks or use "AI" to make music,
but we don't do that. That's mainly because its better to keep control
over the feel and exactly craft everything. An example is this
poetry episode [0] where everything is cut specifically for the poem,
and this latest episode "Owned By Bots" where the grungy "crime beat"
is a main feature [1]

[0] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=13

[1] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=38
Suggestion: Add waybackmachine/archive URL for each of the link that you blog about. Archive it if it's not there already.
Definitely. For example, a boot sector Space Invaders in 512 bytes.

https://github.com/nanochess/Invaders
what about the other apps?
This makes sense - as Paul Graham mentioned in his essay from January [1] “outrage means traffic”.

No-one gets more outraged than left leaning viewers watching Trump videos.

[1] https://paulgraham.com/woke.html
Good to know that Elan services the card and is terrible. I’ll avoid
What insane ideologies do Dems push? That seems like a weird characterization of either party, although fits Trump specifically -- and I think a lot of Republicans are actually afraid of him.
Surprised by Trino's performance here, and curious what is driving the performance for Starrocks
They're not building software, they're finding reasons to fire people.
Truthfully, I don't give a shit about AI. It's a tool to generate mediocre garbage, be that writing, be that images, be that music, whatever, and in those tasks, it can largely succeed. If you want a lifetime of generated Lo-Fi to listen to, it will do that. If you want a lifetime of generated hentai to fap to, it will do that too, and the outputs meet your standards, congrats, you are an average consumer of mediocre art, one among millions, perhaps billions. I wish you personally no ill will.

What I care about is all the musicians, the designers, the artists, the writers, who to be clear, are already and have been for many years struggling to earn a living plying their craft, who are in for even more torment for trying to just... live. For trying to turn their given and practiced talents into money so they can not freeze to death.

And I'm frustrated that they need to go without a means to live because billionaires, apparently, need more billions. And I'm angry that our society has allocated power solely to those billionaires to make those decisions. And I'm nursing a visceral hatred of every single one of them who are preparing to break the social contract to millions of people so they can have another, and I can't stress this enough, absolutely meaningless massive amount of money, to go with their already massive amounts of money...

For. Doing. Nothing.

So yes, I am a Luddite. I see monied classes financially backing new technology that will allow them to generate more products of lower quality using fewer (if any) human laborers so they can pocket even more money while fucking over working class people.
I'm sorry trying to clarify - why would you use Cline (which is coding assistant) for RAG?
Which is why Trump added tariffs on China. To… to blur his tracks. The best action is to do the opposite of what you want to do, so people don’t know what you’re doing.

This, or China supports the Dems, and everything else becomes logical. But let’s start the narrative that Trump supports China by banning their apps and products.
They also run it as a service though? How much of that hardware costs was training vs infrastructure for the public service?

Besides, it's FOSS, isn't? Meaning anybody can see how much it takes to run and how much it takes to train?

>A recent claim that DeepSeek trained its latest model for just $6 million has fueled much of the hype. However, this figure refers only to a portion of the total training cost— specifically, the GPU time required for pre-training. It does not account for research, model refinement, data processing, or overall infrastructure expenses.

So the $6 million is correct - and the rest is irrelevant additional costs. Yes, they'd pay for research. They'll pay for data processing. They'll have overal infrastructure expenses. Duh!
That's not algorithmic bias, that's a large delta in content quality.

Videos coming out of the Harris camps were milquetoast in comparison to the Trump camp. Of course those videos get more attention, from people that like him and hate him, and therefore get pushed more by the algorithm.
The transition from "pile everything in a heap" to "if it's not in your wheelie bin it's not getting picked up" happens pretty quickly. Just need the garbage company to specify that in their contract with the municipality. I honestly miss being able to pile up oddly shaped pieces of trash though. Now if you have something weird, it's just not going to get picked up and you have to figure out how to get it to the dump.
>EG in the best of all possible worlds for Microsoft your work, your bank, and Netflix would all refuse to run if you weren't running Microsoft

That would be the worst of all possible worlds. It's literally evil.
I'll go farther. To a degree, Democrats caused this by offering such terrible options.

(I mean, no, they are not the Single Root Cause - clearly not. They're a part of the causal chain, though. If they had run a solid candidate in any of the last three elections, we wouldn't be here.)
I think you mean MYSTERY.
Running ArchiveTeam's Warrior in Kubernetes
This seems like it goes against most standard development practices.
Yep. For all of these sensational headlines we're seeing recently, we need to keep in mind that we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg of what's happening, and that we are seeing exactly nothing of what's happening behind closed doors. In fact, the fiascoes may be specifically intended to keep the public's eye off the ball.

I would be very surprised to learn that there are not teams working in every state to weaken the integrity of the electoral process.
Considering Trump originally wanted to ban TikTok his previous term... Yeah...
Duck Radio: The station changes whenever the ducks in the garden peck the sensor
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/04/opinion/simps...
That is exactly what GP was pointing out, and why they said they do not prod it for it the last 20%.
Caesar almost certainly read classics of Greek philosophy and Roman literature.

But what does your comment have to do with books? There were none in the Bronze Age, nor for many centuries after it.
The Navy's Sea Lions Love Video Games (2023)
That comment made sense 3 years ago. LLMs already solved "intuitive understanding", and the realtime multimodal variants (e.g. the thing behind "Advanced Voice" in ChatGPT app) handle tone of voice in both directions. As for nonverbal cues, I don't know yet - I got live video enabled in ChatGPT only few days ago and didn't have time to test it, but I would be surprised if it couldn't read the basics of body language at this point.

Talking to a computer still sucks as an user interface - not because a computer can't communicate on multiple channels the way people do, as it can do it now too. It sucks for the same reason talking to people sucks as an user interface - because the kind of tasks we use computers for (and that aren't just talking with/to/at other people via electronic means) are better handle by doing than by talking about them. We need an interface to operate a tool, not an interface to an agent that operates a tool for us.

As an example, consider driving (as in, realtime control - not just "getting from point A to B"): a chat interface to driving would suck just as badly as being a backseat driver sucks for both people in the car. In contrast, a steering wheel, instead of being a bandwidth-limiting indirection, is an anti-indirection - not only it lets you control the machine with your body, the control is direct enough that over time your brain learns to abstract it away, and the car becomes an extension of your body. We need more of tangible interfaces like that with computers.

The steering wheel case, of course, would fail with "AI-level smarts" - but that still doesn't mean we should embrace talking to computers. A good analogy is dance - it's an interaction between two independently smart agents exploring an activity together, and as they do it enough, it becomes fluid.

So dance, IMO, is the steering wheel analogy for AI-powered interfaces, and that is the space we need to explore more.
The version of this quote I've heard the most is "The last 10% of a project takes 90% of the time." It's a bit different, but the idea is the same: the real work of implementing a feature comes in handling unexpected behavior and edge cases. It can look finished from the outside, but imagining and preparing for every conceivable outcome takes much of the time.
Um... if the only legal tender around was an asset with fixed supply, people holding it wouldn't be willing to pay more, (or invest it in making more stuff) that's the whole point.
> trying to empower
> tends to improve
> hard to argue

Lots of weasel words there.

> On the other hand, removing mentions or attempts to improve inclusion of these groups in the face of rising racism and sexism has no real upside unless you're a racist or misogynist.

Lots of absolutism there

It’s easy to argue it’s a waste of money if it is not effective. That being said, not all DEI initiatives are created equal (hah) - some are fine, some are useless but harmless, and some seem harmful.

That’s why the guy below me

> So if DEI language was bad, then correcting it should be a good idea

Is wrong just like you are, because DEI language isn’t universally bad or good.

The point that I’m trying to make is we should be worrying more about things like global warming and the economy and the dictatorships coming to murder us all, which anyone with a brain knows for 100% certain that there is a problem and that we have options to fix it. Unlike DEI where everyone has their own definition of what good is.

> the scrubbing of climate-related language is just genocidal.

100% agree. What Trump is doing is actively splitting the country and distracting from much more important issues
Can you share the point you think people are missing?
I think that shows conservatives were so starved for rage content that they needed to latch onto the side-show of a side-show in order to scratch that itch. Sequestering your candidate away from any kind of challenge certainly is a strategy.

I never said MAGA didn't say anything about Harris/walz. Is that what you took away from my post?
I like this as a way to be explicit about what the priorities are at the moment.
The Scrappy and MacGyver hats seem pretty similar though, the only difference I can tell is whether you know the outcome before you write the code.
if you are putting $12/mo into a big pot via Spotify there's way less money available to pay artists than if you buy a few albums outright a month, it takes a lot of Spotify streams to earn an artist a dollar. If you stream an album a few thousand times on Spotify maybe it works out in the artists' favor, I suppose.
Yeah, because Microsoft is not affected the slightest if someone arbitrarily loses their research funding or stops receiving social security checks.
Microplastics are accumulating in human brains, study shows
I'm the same way: low FoV gives me terrible headaches, like I'm walking around with binoculars strapped to my face. I can go up to 180° very comfortably in minecraft on the other hand. I think the main reason is that the lower the FoV, the faster the image moves when you rotate. If you imagine a comically small 10° for illustration, you will go through 9 full screen wipes if you turn 90°, but if you have 180° of FoV it is only a single ½ wipe.

Higher FoV just inherently feels less disorientating to me as well, being able to see all your surroundings makes the virtual space feel more cohesive and real, instead of a series of disconnected whirling imagery.
>Remember, last year we paid more in interest on debt than our entire military budget.

https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...

National defense 15%, veterans benefits and services 6%, interest 13%.
Chat seems flawed but I don’t see how a document is better.

I don’t buy that a document could capture what is needed here. Imagine describing navigating through multiple levels of menus in document form. That sounds straight up painful even for trivial apps. And for a full blown app…nope

There is a whole new paradigm missing there imo
Trump is provably corrupt, so why should I give his accomplices the benefit of the doubt?
Pay, and the people will come.
>after a while Taiwan is no longer needed and China can just take it

lol, as if amphibious assault against a country that has been preparing invasion for 70 years, as well as a country that is at the forefront of electronics, is that easy.

yes, China is building tons of ships. but each ship, which cost a few hundred million each, can be sunk by Taiwan's advanced missile systems, for a few million per missile. Each ship needs to be fueled properly, which is also extremely hard logistical task, just ask Russia. And these ships move slowly across a region that is heavily monitored, making them easily sank. And once enough ships sink near the landing area, it would be even harder for other ships to make it to the landing beaches.
Actually, yes. I think the government should be addressing the cost-of-living crisis, loneliness crisis, the high cost of health, the overprescription of opioids, and the cultural issues that all contribute to people opting for fentanyl in the first place.

If the government manages to stop fentanyl imports, people will simply either manufacture fentanyl locally or opt for other drugs. I agree that it's not a matter of self-control— a fentanyl addict can't simply will its way out of it— but there is a reason they chose to consume fentanyl in the first place, and despite knowing its effects, willingly chose to "escape reality".
Yes! LiveKit is great - and we are using livekit agents but had to override a few low-level library components for our use case.
I'm going to take a contrarian view and say it's actually a good UI, but it's all about how you approach it.

I just finished a small project where I used o3-mini and o3-mini-high to generate most of the code. I averaged around 200 lines of code an hour, including the business logic and unit tests. Total was around 2200 lines. So, not a big project, but not a throw away script. The code was perfectly fine for what we needed. This is the third time I've done this, and each time I get faster and better at it.

1. I find a "pair programming" mentality is key. I focus on the high-level code, and let the model focus on the lower level code. I code review all the code, and provide feedback. Blindly accepting the code is a terrible approach.

2. Generating unit tests is critical. After I like the gist of some code, I ask for some smoke tests. Again, peer review the code and adjust as needed.

3. Be liberal with starting a new chat: the models can get easily confused with longer context windows. If you start to see things go sideways, start over.

4. Give it code examples. Don't prompt with English only.

FWIW, o3-mini was the best model I've seen so far; Sonnet 3.5 New is a close second.
That's fine.

Email is really powerful but people simply aren't good at taking advantage of it and it varies by email client. Doing some IT work at a startup made this pretty clear to me. I found Slack was much more intuitive for people.

Both systems rely on the savviness of the users for the best experience and I just think email is losing the UX war. Given how terrible people seem to be at communicating I think it's a pretty important factor to consider.
Show HN: Puppetmaster – K8s controller for building and running AI agents (idea)
Hahaha. "banning". Only Trump could save a company from being banned, try to buy it with US tax dollars, and have his stooges claim he's against the company.
Elon Musk is shredding America's government as he did Twitter
Thankfully it took less than a month to save its 38 or 47 billion dollar budget, whichever is the case. I am 100% certain that more extreme measures will be taken after this small, quick victory to address the deficit.

Their priority is well placed: This org sent a lot of money to shell corps, chosen political operators, and other intelligence operations that was a clear and net negative to the tax payers. It establishes bona fides that DOGE is serious and capable. It gives them experience cutting through the bureaucratic morass on a small target. It's supporters are outed as being in on the take. You are correct that they should move to bigger targets at some point, but those outlays you mentioned are far more favored in the public eye and should be approached much more cautiously and with planning. In the meantime, the intelligence operatus of the American Empire has been off its leash for some time, so cutting its funding will hamper its ability to harm the American people further.

Please have an excellent day.
guntars did the amortization on $25k growing with interest (not fees). In other words, the claim is that 0.5% can be significant. Which is true.

When I did the math with my life savings, 0.5% was about the breakpoint where things become significant. $200k would be more significant, so I suspect when I did the math properly, I was expecting to retire in less than 50 years. In 50 years, I'll likely be dead.
Thank You so much for making time to write that up! Deeply appreciated.

It's fascinating how this "turn-taking protocol" has emerged in this space -- as a (possibly weird) analogy, different countries don't always use the same electrical voltage or plug/socket form-factor.

Yet, the `role` and `content` attrib in json appears to be pretty much a de facto standard now.
But that doesn’t diminish its utility.
I’d love a way to directly Cash app or Zelle my favorite artist
I agree with most of that though I probably had access to better record stores than was the norm. And yeah digital purchases were never huge but a lot of that as you say was because people often bought single tracks. In fact if you did want an entire album it often made sense to purchase a CD and rip it.
Stupid things for stupid people, no mystery.