skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>what does it even mean to recommend to others?

I will give you a real-world example. My girlfriend works for the government and they have an initiative to do outreach to people in the local community and let them know of all the funded help available to people for different situations.

However, they can't go to all 30k+ households at once and even in targeted areas (which is the way it works now) it takes a very long time to get to everyone.

The thinking about a recommendation is that perhaps they go to a home and let the person know about all the free programs available and leave a list with phone numbers. And this person might not need that information at the moment, but maybe they know someone in their family or from church or elsewhere that could use it and they let them know.

I do understand that if you help people who have lost their home due to fire it is silly to do a survey and ask them if they would or did tell someone else in case their home burns down. However, it isn't across the board silly even or not for profit cases.
Government censorship and having policy on what employees/representatives of your companies say are two different things.

There are a lot of things I can say as a citizen that would get me fired from my job, or at least a talking-to by someone in management.

At the moment at least these LLMs are mainly hosted services branded by the companies that trained and/or operate them. Having a Microsoft-branded LLM say something that Microsoft as a corporation doesn't want said is something they will try to control.

That's also different from thinking that all LLMs should be censored. You can train or run your own with different priorities if you wish. It's like how there's a lot of media out there that you can consume or create yourself perfectly legally that isn't sold at Walmart.
quite why Labour deserve the benefit of the doubt on anything authoritarian I don't know

Labour was behind:

- forced key disclosure (Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000), still in force
- 72 day detention without charge (Terrorism Act 2006), defeated before it became an Act
- national identity register and mandatory id cards (Identity Cards Act 2006), ripped up by the next Tory government
- various attempts at removal of ancient right to trial by jury (partially successful)

they are as bad, if not worse than the tories
Heard about this from signalis, cool game inspired by a cool book.
The sqlite source includes a CLI tool called showdb that is quite nice for poking around in database files
Rumor: Ex-GlobalFoundries Chief Caulfield Could Be Intel's Next CEO
That and the predictable weather (old film needs lots of light).
I get an error when clicking your link. "No healthy upstream"
Ahh, I used to have that opinion, but I've encountered too many "It's fine if they want it, I've got nothing to hide" people. (They never give you their Facebook password if you ask, though. Funny, that.)

Change what you can, I say, VPN on the network device.
>but comes of as looking for drama and virtue signalling oftentimes

It's easier to name the major Linux FOSS projects that DON'T have drama and virtue signaling than the ones with.

If you read the Github comments on System-D, GNOME, etc, it's like watching children bickering on Sega VS Nintendo.

Turns out FOSS devs are humas just like everybody else and suffer from the same flaws.
Give him time, Linus will reach out soon regarding Rust.
Do you support other edge providers other than CF?
But the crime is creating something new. If laws are enforced that criminalise creation, then the world will be rather static.

It seems to be a consistent direction of history's arc that the people who make it easy to create and innovate get ahead.
To what injury? Was this bad news to begin with?
Damn, I didn't know this!
Please don't take this as a criticism but do you have a source documenting what you're describing? I'd really like to read up on it.
i'm curious to hear how the federal government has been infringing on your individual rights? especially your freedom of speech or right to bear arms since those seem like important issues to you
Good idea. Thank you @codingdave. I just did that, but it's not showing up yet.
They don't sell the SE in the EU anymore since this year, because it's not compliant with the new regulations that mandate USB-C charging.
I think it's rather silly to have some subsystem maintainers do everything in their power to sabotage the improvement projects by subsystem and even high level maintainers in the kernel.

It was a fine position to take back when introduction of Rust into the kernel was still very much a discussion point. However, the discussion is over, Rust has been accepted into the kernel. This entire struggle has been kernel developers sabotaging other kernel developers.

This infighting is only going to hurt the kernel in the long run. Every time this "discussion" comes up, I walk away with the feeling that Linux kernel developers are unreasonably hostile and impossible to work with. It makes me wonder why new people would ever bother trying to contribute anything.

That said, using social media to cause drama when a Linux maintainer is being an ass is just as stupid, if not worse. Both sides of the conflict are in the wrong here.
That is not what the maintainer said. The maintainer said that for Rust code in the area he is currently maintaining. I think the main issue was, the he was not accepting second maintainer to take care the Rust part on the same area.

About the Rust code itself; the primary issue was code duplication rather than preventing the use of Rust altogether. Since the suggested code is not merged, every driver needs to write the same code over and over again. That was also something that the maintainer suggested himself (?). There is of course a big downside, but I am not sure if this justifies all the hate.
When I first read the news I thought there has to be a conflict of interest. I am pretty sure you cant be both the CEO or Executive Chairman of a Direct Competitor.

But now thinking about it. Perhaps the idea was Intel and GF to merge as a new Foundry operation. GF is only worth about $20B at the moment. The new Intel Foundry will ironically gained AMD as a customer.
> Is there any risk of the government ordering them to take it down? That seems unlikely to me. The US has strong free speech protection, stronger than European free speech protection.

In other words, you don't think we have to worry about Congress bringing in university presidents to grill them over political activities against the government's current policies occurring on their campuses? Certainly we wouldn't see any of those whose didn't give testimony that the government liked would end up being forced to resign in the aftermath; we're not in the dark ages anymore like we were in 2023...
Why would anyone not choose one of the best platforms in 2025?
We cancelled $100,000 in life saving donations because half a penny was spent on something considered “woke”.
One of the many reasons why Zuck’s been sucking up to Trump. He’s in desperate need of some Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free cards.

Same for all the other sleazy tech bros.
Someone needs to help stop misinformation:

I have run two 6** level cards on both windows and Linux just fine. These cards have the same llvm target (gfx1030). It taps into ROCM for inferencing just fine.

So whatever you are saying is categorically a lie or a misunderstanding. To be frank, it is particularly terrible misinformation because you can get a 4070 16gb equivalent from AMD for less than $400.

7** series has RDNA3, but that doesn’t preclude prior cards from providing ROCM support. The 6800 with RDNA2 has way better specs. People need to do their own research.

Edit:

You can run two 6800s for less than $800 and have 32gb of VRAM at 4070 specs.
This is really interesting. We have a company that claims to have an AI that can reason about text and that same company uses an old school hard coded censorship list. When a company doesn't use their own products, it usually tells you the product isn't up to the task.
I think nottorp was being a bit sarcastic. I think the point was, if Pascal, which some in the C/C++ world regard as a "toy" language, had this in 1987, maybe we can actually think about having it in "real" languages in 2025.
AI biz idea: images into a list of detailed losses for insurance claim filings
The idea is for AI to interpret photos and videos and create a detailed and accurate list of exactly what was lost, so claimants can collect the full value of their insured losses.
Pretty sure this refers to sticky headers. They have caused me many headaches when trying to get a decent screenshot.
They could also cripple user key-generation. E.g. they choose random primes from a known subset. It would make communication crackable while also being difficult to detect.
Show HN: I built an AI kissing video generator for Valentine's Day gifts
read curtis yarvin, find the weaknesses in his arguments, and use those weaknesses against their ideology.

for start, he thinks FDR was a dictator but the only reason FDR had such power was because the support of labor and some parts of capital. he would know that if he was a historian instead of LARPing as one.

so organizing and supporting the labor movement would be a good place to start, since a organized labor could become a powerful poltical force. otherwise everybody is fragmented on both sides which further enables their ideology.

a recent blog of his gave me this idea: https://graymirror.substack.com/p/the-pleasure-of-error

he legit thinks trump is about to be FDR 2.0 but his mistake is ignorance about how the power worked during that time. you can even use his "differential" idea in that essay against him. the differential now is labor against wealth. always has been, especially when FDR wielded all the power yarvin thinks was a dictatorship since a lot of that power was given to him by the support of the massive labor movement at the time.

more practically, this blog has some good insight into the "what do i dooooo?????" question https://wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-things-to-do-if-tru...
What happens in US right now shows that change is achieved through voting. There are other examples as well in Europe where things did change because of how people voted. If the change is good or bad depends on your perspective.

For me the annoying part is that people vote for a guy because of a couple heavily advertised issues, ignoring all the other plans or the fact that he might not keep his word. Then they are unhappy that things "fail" for them.
He did not get a majority of the vote. He won with a plurality of 49.8%.
Excerpt: “…Losing one’s home in a fire is devastating, with the first priority being to find somewhere to live. The trauma is then compounded by the onerous requirement of most insurance carriers to submit an exhaustive list of lost belongings — “with line items as specific as the number and brand of toothbrushes in a bathroom,” according to a report about unfair insurance practices.…”

NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/realestate/altadena-la-fi...
The thing is Google, meta and YouTube weren't giant entities when they did this stuff. I think it's good no one cracked down on them for copyright stuff. Now they're developing an LLM that will generate potentially trillions in value to humanity and looks like they're not exactly playing by the rules. But I prefer looser intellectual property rights anyway so Im ok with it
> Parent comment implies Swartz was guilty of some degree

as a constructive criticism, you might want to reconsider your interpretation of

>"Remembering Aaron Swartz in this moment"
-> Which was arguably more innocent — scientific papers.

As in, both hold some degree of illegality (objectively), so when pointed that "he is guilty of some degree" is due to the jurisdiction laws (broken or not) regardless of societal/moral values that the context may apply.

perhaps a better answer would be to point that he shouldn't be punished for those actions.
Employment rises by 143,000 in January; unemployment rate edges down to 4.0%
NN computations -- in the main -- are high school Maths. Architectures are a topology governing chains of high school Maths. This is so much the case that the building blocks can neatly be expressed in a spreadsheet, which may or may not help some people establish more mechanical sympathy for what is going on.
And if you think China and the USA and Russia wouldn't want it... hey I've got this bridge for sale.
Yes absolutely, two can get a ton of laughter throwing arguments towards each other knowing the other keeps their position.

For example two sports fans which like different teams.
Plus some people will just not sell at any price.
> Nobody was taken away by the Gestapo...

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/trump-administration...
Navigating the controversy surrounding the 'Iron Dome for America'
Its always reminded me of Arthur Machen's "The White People". If you enjoyed "The King in Yellow", Machen might be worth a read.
Copyright and patent aren't the same thing. "Fast moving field" doesn't make sense in terms of copyrights. There's no reason the copywriter should last some minimum duration after the life of the creator.

If I write a really popular book, I don't want Hollywood to make it into a movie without compensating me just because they waited a few years
if google were to transfer the keys elsewhere, they would have (temporary) custody of the keys, granting them access, and invalidating the statement.
That's actually the only thing that would keep Apple services usable to everyone else around the world.
Show HN: Open-Source Financial Dashboard
She was the biggest Elon suckup of all and now going all over the place pretending otherwise. Maybe calling Zuck beta and tech employees spoiled will keep one foot in the door with Elon
Arm China taps former SMIC exec as new CEO
Marcan certainly can be abrasive (I mean lol, so can Linus), but all the things he points out in the message below are 100% valid - I highly recommend for anyone here to try to contribute something even very small and logical to the Linux kernel or git (which use similar processes), it’s an eye-opening experience that’s incredibly unapproachable, frustrating, and demoralizing.

https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/208e1fc3-cfc3-4a26-98...
One of the companies I worked with developed software for drug rehabs. Copilot would just constantly stop autocorrecting whenever I went into code files that mentioned anything to do with drugs (or sex - that's not a new censor!). It's the main reason I switched to Supermaven (before they got bought out and gave up on updating their extension).
> It is much harder for them to make an argument that we should return to the glory days of bank runs, child-labor, rivers that caught fire, tainted food, and childhood mortality.

This is one of the things about Bitcoin-as-currency that makes no sense to me: it's basically gold-standard-but-digital. We've tried the gold standard and got rid of it for good reason:

* https://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/arch...

* http://archive.is/http://www.businessinsider.com/why-the-gol...

> The idea behind a gold standard is that a currency becomes tied to a commodity with a stable value. The great problem with this is that gold does not have a stable value. Like any other commodity, its relative value goes up and down. For instance, in September 2022, US dollar milk prices were rising over 16%. In gold terms milk prices were rising over 23%—dangerously high inflation.

* https://www.ubs.com/it/en/wealthmanagement/insights/article-...

The tight monetary policy (dictated by the rules of then-orthodox gold standard) made the Great Depression worse:

* https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/financial-markets-an...

And it was only after leaving it that countries started to recover:

> In the end, recovery from the Great Depression does not begin until countries give up on the combination of the Bagehot Rule and of commitment to sound gold-standard finance. Those countries that have central banks willing to print up enough money so that people are willing to spend it--it is when you adopt such policies that your economy begins to recover. If you don’t, you become France, which sticks to the gold standard all the way up to 1937, and never gets a recovery. When World War II begins, Nazi Germany’s production--equal to France's in 1933--had doubled between 1933 and 1939. French production had fallen by 15%.

* https://delong.typepad.com/delong_long_form/2013/10/the-grea...

Why would we want to return illiquidity and handcuff ourselves in our ability to respond to economic storms?
Apple's M3 nightmare is coming to an end
Tapir looks nice, didn't know about. Can I ask, do you use it together with Netty? How fast is it for you? (if you happen to have benchmarked it)

Have you tried Vertx with Scala? (Or Spring + Scala, or sth else?)

> The introduction of Guice

Personally I've wired everything statically at compile time, zero dependency injections. (Felt as if what I did went a tiny bit against the framework, but works fine.)
They're missing my point because I'm not saying it is or isn't, I'm saying that it's messy and things like the required prompt may sway the judge and/or jury one way or the other. If you provide ChatGPT an entire copyrighted text in the prompt and then go "ah-ha, the response violated my copyright", a judge and/or jury probably won't be very impressed with you. If instead you just ask ChatGPT "please produce chapter 1 of my latest book" and it does, then ChatGPT is not looking so great.
I dont think you should apologize if the article reflects ideas youve synthesized yourself. Has using LLMs to translate your thinking improved your use of the language?
Are there actual renderers that don't, and are there real users who consider that reasonable behaviour? I mean maybe someone somewhere has a spacebar heating workflow that relies on it, but file formats and standards should not add ways to shoot yourself in the foot if they can help it.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22101066

IMO the confident Tweets about how to become a good researcher and hire good researchers look pretty weird next to the lack of any apparent research papers (or even visible research products) five years later.
focus on the John Oliver dick pic argument.

https://www.wired.com/2015/04/john-oliver-edward-snowden-dic...

> When Oliver shows Snowden evidence that all typical Americans care about is whether the government can see our "dick pics," he encourages Snowden to go through a list of every government surveillance program and explain its capabilities in terms of access to "dick pics."
Huh, a big tech CEO lied to us?

Flippant response I know, but too many people worship at the alter of the job creater and believe these folks are moral upstanding citizens
Long-Covid patients are frustrated that research hasn't found new treatments
> Something to understand about capitalist competition (also in politics) is that it's a war.

Turns out there are 2 simultaneous wars there. One where companies and individuals compete ruthlessly.

And another one where if non profit associations of individuals form, guns come out.
Coupd protest on weekends and holidays as a hobby, bring a Bluetooth speaker and blast the kinks.
"The orders came from leaders of the National Marine Fisheries Service in all-staff meetings this week, "

The part is not the whole.
"The common ground is that I have absolutely no interest in helping to spread a multi-language code base. I absolutely support using Rust in new codebase, but I do not at all in Linux." https://lwn.net/ml/all/20250204052916.GA28741@lst.de/

That doesn't sound like he's only talking about in his area to me
They are all big tech plants and this incestuous behavior is by design.
> If censorship is considered evil regarding the written word and communications between humans, why do we want to then censor LLMs differently?

Simple: the people who are very pro free speech (i.e. "censorship is evil"), and the people who want to censor LLMs are distinct groups (though both groups are vocal).
The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4, Fascicle 7: Constraint Satisfaction
Stop Wasting Your Multi-GPU Setup with Llama.cpp
> The US has strong free speech protection, stronger than European free speech protection

Citation needed. "European free speech protection" doesn't exist, each country has its own rules and freedoms. Hungary is drastically less free than e.g. France... but overall, as a rule of thumb, unless for you freedom of speech includes freedom to be a Nazi, European countries are pretty free. And don't take stances such as "spending money is free speech which is sacred so no campaign financing rules". You might get arrested for a Nazi salute though... which, if you think is a bad thing, you haven't been paying attention in history classes nor modern news.
I was having difficulty figuring out if this was parody or not. But I guess the username checks out.
The Mostly Hidden Psychology of Career Choices
Big tech taking and not giving back, where have I heard this before?
It’s not that simple: the economics of used cars are tied to export patterns and to cultural norms. In other words: used cars aren’t (relatively) expensive because they’re actually scarce goods; they’re relatively expensive because Americans generally like buying new cars and therefore don’t support a larger used car market.

Besides, it’s a relative comparison: a used older car is still going to be cheaper. We’re talking about Teslas, which are luxury sport vehicles.
Airbnb and Uber have showed us that laws matter only to the extent that the political will to enforce them exists. Throw enough lawyers and lobbying money at the problem and the laws can simply be re-written to be friendlier to your business model.
I have a different take on this. Hardware is hard. Space hardware is exponentially so.

But in general these days we value non-physical stuff at multiples of the real.

Meta lost $15b on its Reality Labs last year by comparison. Orders of magnitude more. Lots of that was in AI, but that's a spend who's main value to Meta is to block OpenAI from outright monopoly and maybe push some more ads.

Space has a lot of money in it (Starlink alone made like $7B maybe last year!), which is why there are so many companies trying to get up there, but a half-billion loss on manned space hardware has all of us (including me) taking turns throwing flames at Boeing for being a dying dinosaur when in fact what they've already done is definitely harder than VR and arguably in the long run has more "value" to us as a species.

I sometimes see these numbers and have to reset my perspective about value and worth and what judgments I'm making about them.
My current thinking for 2028/29:

- 20% likelihood of no election at all

- 70% "managed democracy" with outcome decided in advance

- 10% normal transfer of power if Trump or his successor loses

I think they're racing against the mid-terms next year. If they can lock it in by then then they're home free.

(disclosure: Brit not USian)
> Depending on a local warlord to protect your independent privately owned city-state (in exchange for a healthy cut out of your profits, of course) doesn't sound like something that is likely to work long term.

Well, you're going to need _something_ like that (I suppose there's also the Be Your Own Warlord option, but that's presumably even more expensive). Provided the warlord is getting paid, they seem less likely to ask questions of dodgy fake cities than an actual government is (for instance see Honduras, where the current government is trying to get rid of the weird libertarian fake-city authorised by the previous government).