skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's fair. I recall doing my due diligence here and confirming it is actually using mostly heap memory, but again it's been a while and I could be wrong.

No, I think you are right - I'm not trying to claim that most of that 1.7 GB is used by the core JVM, just that that's another factor (besides simply the different base heuristics on how much space to claim).

The only fair thing would probably be to re-run the benchmark multiple times with different available RAM (via cgroup) and see the graph. Though I'm fairly confident that Java would beat Go in this particular benchmark at any heap size.
> Is there anything we can improve here that can make this easier for you?

No OP but it would be nice to include link to categories in the header bar. It would make it easier. the dynamic animation of the categorizes at the middle of the page is annoying. You have it in very small font in the footer but this isn't the best.
You could add in MacOS built in "say" command line utility.
The UBI check goes out every month; the sales tax percentage is adjusted until the revenue matches the amount sent out as UBI (or more optimistically, adjusted until inflation is kept to a stable target).

Let's say that the sales tax reaches as high as 40%.

This means that if you are unemployed and destitute and the UBI represents your entire spending power, ~40% of your UBI check goes back to the government when you spend it. If you are a rich guy living the good life on your property portfolio rental income and MSFT dividends, 40% of your spending also goes back to the government, which is many multiples of your UBI check (which constitutes a trivial amount of your income).

Remember, the UBI doesn't amount to all gross income, even if nobody is employed. When you spend money to buy furniture, somebody gets it as their income, even if it's the shareholders of the IKEA robofactory. The people on the top will end up paying more into the system than they get out.
Click the about link:

https://ai.meta.com/sam2/

GH: https://github.com/facebookresearch/sam2
Show HN: Small back end server to render PNG from VueJS widgets
In my company we need to send Discord or WhatsApp messages (eg. alert about something, etc), which cannot unfortunately embed HTML widgets, but I wanted to make it possible to show a "card-like" component with colors, graphs, etc

I coded a small backend which lets you mount a VueJS widget (it would work with React too), pass it props from the POST/GET parameters, render it to PNG and send it back

You can see an example here: https://imgur.com/a/8eQwM0a
FBI raids and a rare SNES cheat device: The Game Wizard's mysterious history
Italy had and still has a pretty diverse makeup - Germanic peoples from the north, North Africans from the south, and Mediterranean peoples who are the crossroads of the two.

Where I live in the torturous mountains of the north of Portugal, people from villages all of five kilometres apart can look radically different. Our nearest village is your fairly standard Iberian phenotype - dark brown to black hair, and tanned looking. Across the valley is a village that took in Jews fleeing the inquisition - and they look Sephardic to this day. Ten kilometers north is a village still named in local dialect “Moorish village”, and lo and behold, the people there look Arabic.

So what was his phenotype? Only going to find that out by sequencing him. He probably had dark skin and hair, but he could have been blonde and pale.
Nope, but definitly better than C in regards to safety in systems programming.
> I'm not sure you realize quite how it makes you look.

I probably don't.

> For one, it's not even internally consistent -- the people who built telescopes and satellites didn't "see" the moons, either. They got back a bunch of electrical signals and interpreted it to mean something.

I'm not trying to go 100% reductionist here; I thought the point was clear. I was locking on the distinction between "learn from experience" vs. "learn from reading about it", and corresponding distinction of "test by predicting X" vs. "test by predicting other peoples' reactions to statements about X" - because that's the distinction TFA assumes we're on the "left side" of, LLMs on the "right", and I'm saying humans are actually on the same side as LLMs.

> This worldview essentially boils down to the old "brain in a jar" which is fun to think about at 3am when you're 21 and stoned, but it's not otherwise useful so we discard it.

Wait, what's wrong with this view? Wasn't exactly refuted in any way, despite proclamations by the more "embodied cognition" folks, whose beliefs are to me just a religion trying to retroactively fit to modern science to counter diminishing role of human soul at the center of it.

> I'm always a bit shocked and disappointed with people when they go "well, you learn it on a test and that's how you know" because ...no, no that's not at all how it works. The most essential part of learning is knowing how we know and knowing how certain we are in that conclusion.

My argument isn't simply "learn for the test and it's fine". I was myself the person who refused to learn "for the test" - but that doesn't change the fact that, in 99% of the cases, what I was doing is anticipating reaction of people (imaginary or otherwise) who hold accurate beliefs around the world, because it's not like I was able to test any of it empirically myself. And no, internal belief consistency is still text land, not hard empirical evidence land.

My point is to highlight that, for most of what we call today knowledge, which isn't tied to directly experiencing a phenomena in question, we're not learning in ways fundamentally different to what LLMs are doing. This isn't to say here that LLMs are learning it well or understanding it (for whatever one means by "understanding") - just that the whole line of arguing that "LLMs only learn from statistical patterns in text, unlike us, therefore can't understand" is wrong because 1) statistical patterns in text contain contain that knowledge, and 2) it's what we're learning it from as well.
Teenage gangs forming on the internet and thats what they call themselves now
Google up "hostage puppy". I could give you a link, but I'm not trying to claim that any particular person who said it is an authority.

The idea is that your organization may be doing inefficient or horrible things, but it also has one cute puppy who depends on it. Any time someone wants to shut your organization down, you just point to the cute puppy and say "you wouldn't want this puppy to die, would you?".
Sure. But transition to new professions will be a lot slower than layoffs. We are likely to face unprecedented unemployment rates for at least several years before people learn new skills, and meanwhile AI keeps improving and automates more and more professions (manual labor, public service, etc). Are you sure new professions will appear faster than old ones disappear?
Ok. Thank you for the explanation :)

I assume the other one made it through the organized flagging campaign because you intervened. So, thanks for that too.
What can I say, I modernised. It feels like an age since I last toggled in a bootloader through a front panel. I'm also anticipating a bit of snark (pun intended) from the folks still twiddling data on their magnetic drums using an iron needle. It's all in good humour though, we continue to get along because I didn't switch to SVR4.
Was his family from the Northern or Southern Italian lines?

Did his family include any of the many far off bloodlines bought into Italy via the Roman Empire creating far flung citizens?

As the peer comment states, there's a wealth of pigments in Italy, and that goes back before the High Middle Ages.

The earliest evidence of Italians' extraordinary genetic diversity dates back to the end of the last glacial period

https://www.unibo.it/en/news-and-events/notice-board/the-ear...
I was hoping to see a map in the article; there's one at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-04424-y/figures/4 . Most of them are on the coast but some, particularly the "highland windy plateaus", exist inland.
> But what colour the bike shed?

You can choose between 2 colors: light and dark. See answers.microsoft.com for details. /s
at the time there were the sophists (modern llm equivalents) that could speak persuasively like a politician.

You might want to brush up on your Greek history.
You're very intelligently jumping through hoops to justify and defend the media and how the system as a whole operated here. On aggregate, this kind of "something" that happened, whether relying on readers filling in blanks, omissions, downright lying, even the choice of photo on a wiki page, etc, they all have a net-effect which steers the conversation and effort in a very specific direction.

Let's not pretend like this stuff doesn't have some sort of effect on the conversation, or our ability to have the conversation, or to debate it rationally and from first-principles. At the very least, we are here arguing pedantic minor points whilst the real issues are left un-debated. The purpose of the media should be to distill, enlighten, inform, and definitely not mislead with a very specific agenda which it very clearly does. You point me to any news article from any news outlet, including Reuters and I will show you how they twist literal facts into bias. At this point, I see them as no different than politicians.

Unfortunately for the left-wing intelligentsia, the media, and their allies - the average day to day people are waking up and the general opinion floating around more and more is having the effect of exposing the MO of how the media pushes an agenda (whether purposefully or not).
There's probably more accurate answers, but I'd say they don't because they don't want the responsibility internally and/or don't have the funding, and can't because they're too ineptly run to do anything properly.

Having spent a good part of my career consulting for state and local governments in IT, it's an easy generalization to say they're mostly all incompetently run, and not something most are equipped to support from the top down. Even when run well, they're not well funded, and if some of the people actually are good, they're probably too busy fighting and offsetting the incompetent ones to do any good.

The flip side is I've also worked for several power companies over the years, and they're not often much better. They're at times better run and better people, but so dragged back by bureaucracy and politics they can't get out of their own way to do any good if they wanted to.
Investments in French AI ecosystem reach $85B as Brookfield commits $20B
A weekly Summa Theologica reading group, attended by Catholics and non-Catholics alike, led by a professor with credentials in philosophy and theology, was one of the best experiences of my life:

https://sacred-texts.com/chr/aquinas/summa/
no government backdoor necessary when you join very large crime group chats and try to buy illegal services
It is simply part of the neoliberal ethos. It stems from a circular belief that the private sector (the much-vaunted “Market”) is by definition better than having things run publicly. Even if selling things into the private sector results in bad outcomes which everyone could see coming a mile off it’s not the fault of the Market, it’s the fault of not applying the Market deeply enough.
A lot of things are worth paying for. A lot aren't.

The hard thing is knowing which ones are which. You can't see the benefit in advance.

A lot of things aren't worth paying for. A lot of software licenses go completely unused. A lot of conference attendees hang out with friends and learn nothing useful. A lot of modern hardware is spent editing CSS files.

The engineers exaggerate and say everything is useful because they don't want to lose any perks. The accountants exaggerate the other direction because their job is to protect cash flow and they have no clue what's useful.

Budget makers are often stuck in the middle: too far up to know what's practically useful but close enough that they know they need to make some investment.
I have the impression that sexual harassment became the opposite. Something most successful man are blamed for, decades later when all possible proof have vanished. In terms of blackmail, the power seems much higher.
Natural monopolies benefit from scale. For water you need treatment and then sewage. Unless you can pump ground water there and then, you facilities are cheaper per unit when they scale up at least to certain point.

So for same continuous geographical area having single water utility is lot of sense.

Same mostly goes for power.

With internet, the actual infra is so small and affordable that only the last bit to consumer is expensive per unit. So in sanely operated markets you can have multiple operators at same time and competition works.
I think there's a roguelike on steam maybe that is written in Ada.
Isn't every progression in technology a result of the previous advance in technology enabling it?
This is the comment I came here for.
OP asked about "SDK Generators for Application APIs". So my guess is like when you want tight Steam integration in your Godot/Unity/Unreal/etc game, or IAP for mobile game, it's not engine-provided, but some engine-external package/plugin/lib that's sometimes called SDK, sometimes not.

But just my interpretation here =)
This is not a Raw HTML blog. You're sending markdown to the browser and then a bunch of javascript to convert that mark down into HTML...
> I’m guessing they don’t post that on Xitter, do they? Do they even post what exactly they did there?

I don't know about exactly but I found this tweet[0] informative, this is just a part:

> To be clear, what the @DOGE team and @USTreasury have jointly agreed makes sense is the following:

> - Require that all outgoing government payments have a payment categorization code, which is necessary in order to pass financial audits. This is frequently left blank, making audits almost impossible.

> - All payments must also include a rationale for the payment in the comment field, which is currently left blank. Importantly, we are not yet applying ANY judgment to this rationale, but simply requiring that SOME attempt be made to explain the payment more than NOTHING!

That does sound like sound financial management, and pretty basic, which does make me question the whole system.

> The problem is that same admin who ran up second largest national debt increase is now doing some inconsequential fraud hunting before running up likely the largest debt ever.

That is almost fair criticism, let down by the doom-mongering, and ignoring that a) they're actively cutting things, and b) no pandemic (yet).

[0] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1888314848477376744
That wikipedia "page" left me quite shocked. It reads more like CNN than an actual Wikipedia page.
Measuring the fallout being hard is one problem. The other is organizational - when the unit that owns the savings is separate from the one that bears the costs, they have no motivation to consider the costs.

Their spreadsheets look good after all.
If the word is just a made up newthing, why would there be an alternate definition? You can find 150 people to agree with anything on the internet. It's the most trivial thing in the world to achieve.
Hold on a second. We don’t even know whether he drinks Lacroix or owns a patagonia puff vest.
As much as I would like to believe this, I highly suspect that the normalisation of homosexuality killed the forbidden fun for those high power psychopaths.
They "just" need to settle on a platform. GitLab sounds good and is used by a lot of important Open Source projects.
Have you tried putting the API in context? Gemini has 2M context, where original 3.5 had like 4K and not great with it.

While some large apis may not fit, not many that it hasn't seen before fit that bill. For updated large APIs you can put in the changelog but more work to gather all the detailed API changes and changed documentation on their own.
the drug industry’s job is to save lives. anything that accelerates that work is a good thing.
The one cited here most often would not be the national catholic register. I assumed it was thereg from a cursory look before clicking.
I think Google should create a walled garden of blogsearch, on the lines of Google Scholar, have some top-down verfication of good content / blogs. In the age of AI, such a product could act as a discovery mechanism for authentic human writings which could be included in training data for LLMs (uncontaminated steel even in age of AI).
There was a large discussion about city-owned utilities yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42975492
Personally I thought this was the best comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42985484
What degree does one need to earn first in order to be a "cyber security specialist"?
Fuel is everywhere and unavoidable though?
I'm pretty impressed with the segment anything[0] demo, is this integrated into an actual product anywhere? I do some simple video editing for friends as a hobby and can see some of this be pretty useful.

[0]https://sam2.metademolab.com/
The fact that most of you didn’t have that before AI is, idk, crazy?

There are shortcuts, snippets, :!ipc, ahk, etc.

It took 25 years of the internet and a whole multi-trillion bubble to provide a boilerplate completion? Seriously? Editing 101. And then you hear “I don’t need Vim/Emacs/etc, I just use zero-config VSCode”. I guess that’s what one gets by not programming their programming environment. Imagine being a programmer and not automating your job for years. Digital Amish style.
I started at some point with a Medium blog but then to mny surprise, I discovered later on that people weren't always able to read my blog, due to Medium changing to a paid model.

That was very disappointing, to say the least!
Blind hiring studies tend to disprove that, at least in the tech industry.

When you remove all indicators of gender companies hire fewer women, which means knowing that a candidate is a woman results in higher likelihood to hire than not knowing gender.
As usual, excellent reporting from Krebs.

D&D Alignment aside, one has to admit this kid has impressive skills and impressive energy. Sidestepping any argument whether criminals should be hired or have access to sensitive data, I do think he's too immature (demonstrably) to be allowed access to all this information.
Thanks to Bill Clinton America can celebrate one or two manufacturing plants it gets..
Philosophy aside - how can an LLM be conscious without a memory or manifestation in the real world? It is a function that, given an input, returns an output and stops existing afterwards. You wouldn't argue that f(x)=x^2 is conscious?

I would maybe accept debates about whether for example ChatGPT (the whole system that stores old conversations and sends the history along with the current user entry) is conscious - but just the model? Isn't that like saying the human brain (just the organ lying on a table) is conscious?
Quanxing Technology helps 671B DeepSeek R1 training costs drop by another 95%
Quanxing Technology's training and push all-in-one machine uses only 16 graphics cards and expands the single-machine video memory to 8TB, completing the full parameter training of the DeepSeek R1 671B model. The training hardware cost is less than 1.5 million yuan, which is more than 95% lower than the industry average, achieving a huge breakthrough. Quanxing Technology and Inspur Cloud are the first to release the DeepSeek 671B all-in-one machine
> ...'let memory leak and let the OS sort it out'..

I wouldn't be surprise to hear this from C or C++ folks, never heard this in Ada circles, there is always that missile meme going around, and I happened in the past to occasionally drop into FOSDEM Ada's rooms.

Speaking of which,

"Memory Management with Ada 2012 from FOSDEM 2016"

https://archive.fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/ada_memory/

> Also, if I'd have written 'You can't leak memory in Ada if you stick to using collections', wouldn't that just be like saying 'You can't leak memory in C++ if you stick to using the STL'? The point of the article was to show what Ada and Rust do to outrightly prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot, at the core language level.

A programming language is seldom used without its standard library, I don't care what a plain grammar + related semantics check offer, if there is nothing on the standard library, IDE tooling, libraries to chose from.

Otherwise than you should also do a comparisasion using no_std against Ravenscar profile.

And yes, unless you are using a C++ compiler that offers the option to harden its standard library, you are going to some surprises, starting by having to use at() instead of operator[]() for bounds checking, and even with hardened one, stuff like use-after-free/move only when using a good IDE like VC++/Clion or static/dynamic analysis tooling.
Quantum Connectivity Achieved at Oxford University
Because the media machine is spinning it all about the "teenagers", rather than doing actual investigative journalism and asking the right questions and assuming good-faith. So now instead of going to a DOGE rep and asking sane questions that illuminate the conversation and bring more info to light, they ask spin and hype-inducing ones like "There have been some criticisms from government senators about your alleged hiring of young individuals without security clearance, care to comment on that? What do you say to the concerns 'many' are having over granting such privileged access to un-accountable and non-departmental employees?"
It would still be easier to track the progress (or lack thereof) with a proper ticketing system.
Did your photocopier also write a drama in the style of Shakespeare based on some news article you gave it?
In my area when National Grid abandoned our local power station they sabotaged it before ditching it on the city. Now we got an abandoned hulk that's an environmental and economic disaster and will require millions to dismantle or repurpose.
Hey, I blog with raw TXT!

https://misc.l3m.in/txt/raw_txt.txt
Thanks for the GREAT inputs!

The default goals come from a mix of personal experience and general industry consensus. They’re designed to work as a starting point, but I understand they may not suit everyone. That’s why I made them customizable to fit individual preferences.

On the returns graph, I’d love to understand more—why do you find tracking the biggest drops/gains important? Is it to assess risk, or does it serve another purpose for you?

Overall

What’s the biggest challenge you face when evaluating stocks?
What’s the one feature or piece of information you wish Stoclear provided that it doesn’t yet?
-? should be lowest common denominator, because that is exactly equivalent to passing incorrect argument list when using getopt(). Whether that should produce concise help of the kind "usage: foo -abcdeEf <file>" or full help is another question.
This should be the top comment, thank you. I think the key message is that running a government is very different from working in tech or running a startup, and that’s because a government has to (at least try to) act democratically whereas a company does not.

I guess as hackers we instinctively distrust authority, so it is difficult for us to defer to experts in the government and accept that they might know a lot that we don’t.

I don’t understand why the article is flagged as per Dang’s posts. Is it because a lot of HN folks think DOGE is good? I’ve seen some supporting tweets from senior YC people. Or is it just because people are worried posts like this will cause flame wars and be unproductive?

Aside: Some of the DOGE supporting posts from YC have made me sad. Would appreciate it if anyone can provide a perspective that reconciles those posts with a positive view of YC.
Arm's CEO on the future of AI and why he doesn't fear Deepseek
Helsing and Mistral announce strategic partnership in defence AI