skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The person who called him out for that made some testy social media comments of her own this morning.

Personally, seeing

> Being toxic on the right side of an argument is still toxic, [...]

written unironically, on social media, immediately after that person wrote @marcan

> and if that then causes you to ragequit, because you can't actually deal with the heat you've been dishing out coming back around the corner: fuck off

leaves me feeling more sympathetic to marcan's argument about the kernel being full of toxic attitudes, not less. Maybe public shaming isn't the answer but there's a problem here. Maybe don't make comments like that on social media if you want to criticize people for leaning on social media in kernel disputes.
If so, that would be one of the few real positive effects of LLMs.
What's your feeling with it?
They hid the vertical axis labels on chart showing the "meaningful" drop. Are the cheating numbers so high they have to hide them?
Is this the program that was started in 2022, supposedly to last 5 years, and has hardly built anything?

This seems like slow progress.

> The Federal Highway Administration said 37 electric vehicle charging stations have been completed with funds from the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

> This claim likely comes from a March Washington Post article about the electric vehicle charging program’s slow rollout. But 30 more stations have been completed since the Post’s article
I loved that it was a fairly hackable watch with an always on display and battery life of more than a week. It did notifications and quick actions. No audio, touch screen, wifi, etc...

it did its job well.
Battery life. Smart watches require lifestyle adaptations, which for many of us with ADHD are borderline absurd. Maintaining a smart watch battery is additional ceremony my life does not need.
It seems apparent to me that Apple leaked this information to US press in an attempt to get the UK to back off. Wouldn't Apple also try to subvert the attempt for US intelligence to get a backdoor? Or do we think Apple has less of a leg to stand on with US and would be more likely to roll over?
Many people are influenced by those USAID-sponsored trolls. Then they even act against their self-interest.
I'm hoping voters actually see that both parties are not the same and that the average American stops voting against their own interest.

I know 2 voted who voted for the current president and both are in trouble because of him.

One owns section 8 housing, if feds stop the funding it will bankrupt him.
The Vancouver I saw (BC) didn't have any. I'm not saying they don't exist, but what I saw was towers surrounded by one and two story buildings. There were parks and a lot of dead area, but nothing that was tower surrounded by parks.
County workers wanted a pay hike, but got a 4-day workweek instead
I think Technofeudalism, as Yanis Varoufakis put it, creates inverted totalitarianism where people are controlled not directly by government with guns but with corporations with access control and moderation power over apps that form the majority of the public commons, personal, and work lives. To resist this subjugation, individuals, municipalities, and groups, large and small, need to build their castles on the bedrock of non-profit co-op services in countries with strong privacy safeguards rather than on the uncertain sands of corporate shores where they will be swept away by the next wave. It's expensive, it's starting from scratch it many cases, and not going to be as immediately polished as corporate offerings, but the socioeconomic and human capital won't be as easily destroyed, manipulated, or raided by police or corporate whims.
Yes. Even the most seasoned programmers write CVE worthy c++. The foremost engineers still fail.
I look at the Pebble kind of like the musician Buddy Holly. Someone asked me, “what’s the big deal with Buddy Holly?” My short answer was that without Buddy Holly, he would not have influenced the Beatles (so said Lennon). No Beatles means modern music might be very different.

There would have been smartwatches without Pebble, but it was arguably the first practical smartwatch, and either paved the way for others, or at least had some influence. It might look simplistic now, but at the time it was the smartwatch equivalent of Buddy Holly.

I’m sure a little mythology helps, too. Like the “e-ink” display. Well, first off, Pebble never claimed it was “e-ink”, it was called “e-paper”. And if you want that display, Garmin still sells watches with the MIPS LCD displays. But the Pebble is still revered for having a unicorn display. Regardless, that display helped give it outstanding battery life.

The software was simple, and yet got the job done. The Pebble didn’t try and do more than it was capable of, making it responsive and simple to use. No touch screen, no gestures, just some buttons.
The people of America democratically elected Trump with the mandate of reducing spending, bureaucracy and anti Asian racism (DEI).
> they don’t use it at all

I didn't intend to imply that, but I see how my wording was unclear.

I mean that LLMs don't appear to be up for these censorship-like tasks. The evidence being that a highly visible team using LLMs uses much older tech for a highly visible function. It's useful to know the limits of tech, especially novel tech, and this use case appears to be one.
Certainly this decision seems intended to defend the state more than the people.
How do these prominent AI startups hire engineering ICs?

Is it mostly poaching known-quantities and networks, are they using recruiters, or are people cold-applying?
I see from your history you may have knee jerked this one. I am referencing the far-right Reform party's current polling success and how this may be reflected in our government in the future.
> It's probably a better idea to spend your time helping to complete

> the previous refactor instead of starting your new one

That is a fair suggestion - when practicable. Often, it isn't, because of the very reasons which made the old refactor stall in the first place, e.g.:

* The target factor of the code was not such a good choice to begin with.

* The code in question is critical and any change to it is discouraged or feared.

* The code in question is the responsibility of different groups of developers / different departments, and they, or their managers, are not in the mood for collaboration.

etc.
The governments will always have a way in if you're a target.

Meanwhile the rest of the population gets pushed towards authoritarian dystopia.

Users should have control and trust in their devices.

I think that already went away once they started adding spyware ("telemetry" being the usual euphemism) and forced automatic updates ("remotely compromised", as you put it.)
Did you write this just now?
Even when the executive doesn't follow along, the President never is "the government", and never "the law", in the context of what the comment to I replied called "hilarious". When I say there should be human rights, and that some tyrant sucks, that's not hilarious just because that tyrant has goons ignoring the law.
10 - are you sure? Turkey closed Bosphorus Strait for warships in 2022, there is no way to get damaged warship from Black sea to Syria
> I think the accusations from the Rust side that the project is "sabotaged" or "non-technical arguments" etc. are a typical symptom of denial.

When someone says

> You might not like my answer, but I will do everything I can do to stop this.

Against the decision that the project made, that is very straightforwardly sabotage.

> All the hype and enthusiasm related to Rust is that you can just write something easily in C instead of Rust (or rewrite) and then all problems related to safety are solved.

You cannot accuse others of being hyperbolic and then be so yourself. No serious person claims that it’s easy or that it solves all issues.

I don’t really even want to engage with this rest of this post, honestly it says more about you than about Rust.
In The Idea Factory (about Bell Labs) they describe another common method being to shout "Ahoy!" into the phone and hope that this gets the attention of someone near the receiving telephone. I just love the mental picture I get from that.

On the other hand, this forced people to make written appointments for calls. Sometimes I wish that happened more often.
It's a mixed bag. Tesla's charging network is a pretty big revenue center but it could hurt car sales (along with going so hard for the American right which is souring the brand image with the groups of people actually buying electric cars).
The letter from the FHWA to states is here:

https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/nevi/resources/state-pl...

It looks like it's being suspended while new guidelines are are produced.

To me, this makes sense. The program produced "more than 30" EV charging stations, which doesn't seem like a ton given that they've had 3+ years to do it. That's with over $1.5B spent already, according to https://driveelectric.gov/state-plans

I think it's reasonable to reform a program that's dramatically failing to meet its goal.
Yes, more or less. Just like any LLM "generates its own context", during inference it doesn't care where the previous tokens came from. Inference doesn't have to change much, it's the training process that's different.
In a situation where an accused criminal used Whatsapp and decrypting it is needed to view the content which may or not lead to a conviction. This ridiculous idea that law enforcement knows people are guilty and it is these pesky rights that keep getting in the way is just false. Police regularly and consistently abuse their power to railroad people and take the easiest path to convicting someone.

Even in situations where citizen rights do “get in the way” of convicting the guilt, that is the price we pay to not be thrown in jail for crimes we didn’t commit. Former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas said “It is better, so the Fourth Amendment teaches us, that the guilty sometimes go free than the citizens be subject to easy arrest.” He also said “Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order... and the like.”
Sounds good, also I see that FileConverter needs "Microsoft Office installed and activated"
and you seem to use LibreOffice, +1 really.

On another note it would be great if you could change how you display those 2077 conversions in your website, I find it really awkward to look at them by scrolling and if my mouse get out of the popup it disappear.

If you can do something "similar" to FileConverter where you can see all of them (at least a lot) on one screen, it helps with doing CTRL + F and searching your file format. :)

GL with the startup man
Karpathy is too good to us. These videos are so incredibly valuable, thank you for sharing.
So stupid. We are going to get run over by the Chinese, Europeans, and probably everyone else in this space just so Trump can reward some idiots in Texas who want to pump CO2 for three more years.
Correct, I think there is far more detail on: https://www.openfalklands.com/february-2025-starlink-in-the-...
No worries, the administration has said that Musk is in charge of deciding what to do about his conflicts of interest.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-05/white-hou...
Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down
It certainly takes away some control from him, when there is an independent charging network.
Interesting, blogged about this Feb 5th https://www.sonatype.com/blog/fake-vs-code-extension-on-npm-...
This article claims exactly that:

https://electrek.co/2025/02/06/trump-just-canceled-the-feder...
I don't think it's right to downplay the disproportionate response the FBI had to Aaron's actions. He was initially being threatened with 50 years in prison and a $1 million fine, the stress from which sent his mental health spiraling and in no small way contributed to his suicide. I think the original point of the person you are responding to still stands.
Because it's a pretty simple legal maneuver to say "no this EO isn't requiring us to shut down this program because we call it 'DEIA' instead of 'DEI' so it's different."

The EO is using the language of the programs to ensure that they're shut down.

Accessibility has been around forever. One of the major proponents of it was a Republican nominee for President. It has broad bipartisan support.

DEI has been around for 45 minutes and is racism disguised as anti-racism.
Good luck getting those in power to agree to that.

Meanwhile, everything else passes under the guise of "safety and security".
The American people voted for Trump and gave him a mandate of cutting spending so that money can be better used in the private sector.
Yes, it is tiresome. There was this famous Trump video where he opposed NATO members on the question of Nordstream 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JpwkeTBwgs

On social media it is spun as "the Germans laughed at him", when the person sitting in the middle opposite Trump is the Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg, NATO secretary and usually a willing US tool. It was all of Europe together.
> once people started uploading copyrighted TV shows to it

End users, not YouTube employees, right? And they would take things down following DMCA requests and what not, right? So, pretty much following the law?

> Google itself got big by indexing other people's data without compensation

Scraping public websites to build a search index isn't the same as making LLMs that can recreate the source verbatim devoid of even attribution. I do agree there's an argument to be had about the LLM's transformative nature in the end though.

> Spotify's music library was also pirated in the early days

Not any version generally available to the public, and with the copyright holder's permission to do so.
And Hollywood was created on the west coast because for intellectual property it was still the far west and it allowed them to ignore patents on movie technologies.
that mismatch between risk / requirements and the type of contract is the root of this whole problem.

if it was cost plus, the government would have had an incentive to no push for changes, since they would have been paying for it.

and yes, Boeing should have said no. but, politics.
Reasoning is about serially applying a set of premises over and over to come to conclusions. But some of our biggest problems require thinking outside the box, sometimes way outside it, and a few times ingeniously making up a whole new set of premises, seemingly ex nihilo (or via divine inspiration). We are still in very early stages of making thinking machines.
The answer is to censor the model output, not the training input. A dumb filter using 20 year old technology can easily stop LLM's from verbatim copyright output.
OpenAI taking claims of data breach 'seriously'
It wouldn't be the first time Apple did extremely shady things for the government https://tidbits.com/2020/08/17/the-case-of-the-top-secret-ip...
The EU has a law saying "don't transfer data out of the EU without the right paperwork, but of course if your American sysadmins have SSH access to servers in the EU to do maintenance that's no problem, just tell them not to copy the data off it"

The US has a law saying "If our spies tell American sysadmins to SSH into a server in the EU and copy data off it, they must do it and they must keep it secret"
Thought experiment: let’s say that Trump said that he thinks Apple is helping hide illegal immigrants because they are communicating with each other over channels that ICE can’t decrypt, how much pressure do you think he could put on legislatures to pass a law here?

Now let’s say that some Republican Senators and Representatives were ethically opposed to but then threatened to be primaried and President Musk said he would throw all of his money behind a potential opponent, how long do you think it would take a law to be passed?

Even without a law, we already see that Cook will willingly bend a knee to Trump as will Google.

Right now in my home state the governor was trying to get a law passed banning Western Union from allowing illegal immigrants from sending money overseas.
LLMs put the free web at risk
My cofounder and I think the rise of AI has put the free web at risk.

Despite their claims, ChatGPT and Perplexity don’t provide live or complete information from the internet. Instead, they index only the parts of webpages their algorithms deem important. These limitations have given rise to a new breed of AI browser agents powered by the same foundational LLM tech.

These LLMs + agents will likely account for over 90% of web traffic in the near future. Bots scrape content without compensating websites for it. As humans access the web through LLMs and agents more, they directly view websites less. The loss of ad revenue from human visitors threatens many websites’ ability to provide their content publicly for free.

We’ve been considering solutions to these problems, and want to know what you think. 1) Are they problems? 2) How big and serious are they? 3) What are possible solutions?

We have some ideas…
https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-incident-on-february-...
Because the administration is thousands of people and it's possible for them to do both good things and boneheaded stupid things simultaneously?
You can, in transmission for example you can just set the seed percentage to 0%. I recognise that this makes me a bad torrenter, but I've been told in the past that my ISP wont be too happy about me seeding, and they already do something screwy to torrents I access through the surface web, so I'm just playing it safe
A while back I was making red-cyan anaglyphs [1] for which you want to have a slider that lets you move the left and right channels relative to each other so you can put objects close to the plane of the screen/paper to minimize all sorts of problems such as Vergence-accommodation conflict.

I wrote a little tkinter program to do it because, not least, tkinter is in the Python standard library.

I found out my stereograms looked OK in tkinter but when I exported the images to the web there where ghosts. What I found out was that modern GUI frameworks do color management in the sense that they output (r,g,b) triples in the color space of your monitor, which is what you get when you take a screenshot on Windows. So if you have a wide gamut monitor you can do experiments where you have a (0, 192, 0) color in an image specified in sRGB and then find it was (16, 186, 15) in a screenshot. [3] Drove me crazy until I figured it out.

What was funny was that tkinter was so ancient that it didn't do any color correction, it just blasted out (0, 192, 0) when you asked for (0, 192, 0).

It also turns out to be a problem in printing, where the CMYK printer presents itself as having an RGB color space where the green is very saturated but never gets very bright, and sRGB green also has red in it, but if you attach the printer's color profile to an image you can force a saturated green. A lot of mobile devices are going in the Display P3 direction so you can get better results publishing files in that format.

That and a few other print projects (so easy to screw up a $150 fabric printing job) have gotten me to care a lot about color management.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaglyph_3D

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vergence-accommodation_conflic...

[3] the native green on the monitor is more saturated than the sRGB green so it adds a little red and blue to make it look the smae!
"Here’s a particularly bleak statistic: a 2021 report showed that almost half of all entrepreneurs earn less than $30,000 a year. That’s less than the average kindergarten teacher—except kindergarten teachers don’t have to explain to their spouses why they spent $10,000 on a logo redesign."

I would love for the author to cite their sources on this but I do find it vibes with my experience.

In the tech world, it's not uncommon for founders to attract enough investment to at least pay themselves something before they have any revenue. But in lot of lines of business you can work very hard shouldering massive responsibilities, and take home almost nothing.
I was going to say this exactly.

I would also group in "mis/disinformation" because it's such a clumsy phrase and people will often say both making it an even larger often-repeated verbal monstrosity.

It's interesting because, for me at least, there's an aesthetic quality to these phrases that is unmistakable.
People said Musk's style would not work at Twitter, but he was able to cut 90% of the headcount and improve the product.

America voted democratically for Trump, who promised to reduce government waste and fraud and corruption - and that is exactly what is going on.
Serpent OS: Hello 2025
So they're gonna go through every book that was stolen and apply the appropriate penalty, right? Each copyrighted work has a minimum penalty of $750 under the DMCA. That will be applied fairly in order to ensure that the rights holder is made whole by the infringer, right?

It's so funny to see the law blatantly ignored by the overlords. Like, there isn't even a pretext anymore. They just steal what they want and budget for the fines and campaign donations to make the consequences go away.
This type of visualization is commendable in that it helps to demystify machine learning, showing that it is nothing more than a process and that there is no intelligence in the human sense involved.
I have time to protest but I don't really see the point right now. I participated in the largest protests I've ever seen in 2017 and they accomplished nothing. Everybody with the power to do something about this at the moment blatantly does not give a shit and has already said so publicly.
I think at the point where you're loudly complaining about the email patch process (and hey, I agree it's the worst), this has stopped being about Rust.
While it’s an employers’ market now, it many regions, getting good people has become equally difficult.

Seen it in first person and that could be one reason why the VP is acting like this.
Parent seems to be attempting to discredit, not protect, Labour by calling them "Tory-lite".
Even if whalesong is actually a language, translation to human language could prove challenging if Wittgenstein was correct that meaning is use. Whales won't be using sounds the same way we do. Thus the "If a lion could speak, we would not understand him" quote.

It's a problem we'll face if an extraterrestrial signal is ever detected. We can hope they'll use familiar mathematical patterns to help us translate like in Contact, but we can't be sure about that. They might be too different from us physiologically, culturally and technologically.
The DMA subsystem maintainer has some reasons: at this time you can disable all rust drivers when building the Linux kernel but you cannot disable rust wrappers to C language APIs. So if you need to change for example the DMA APIs, you also need to fix the rust wrapper before submitting the C patches otherwise you cannot even build a C only kernel.
It sucked, but not everywhere equally. Meanwhile, Uber rode their one-trick pony (an app), which everyone quickly replicated, all the way to upending taxi businesses worldwide, thanks to their infinite money supply letting them survive long enough in any new market to get the public behind them, which took away support from local regulators trying to keep the market from being gutted by what at this point was a multinational corporation (and technically a criminal enterprise).

Sure, taxi services aren't usually known to be paragons of virtue, but then they weren't that bad everywhere; Uber is just another case of an US org trying to address an US-specific problem and then bludgeoning the entire world with their solution, whether the rest of the planet has such problems or not.