skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To me, the ML situation looks roughly like this.

(1) Model weights are something like a bytecode blob. You can run it in a conformant interpreter, and be able to do inference.

(2) Things like llama.cpp are the "bytecode interpreter" part, something that can load the weights and run inference.

(3) The training setup is like a custom "compiler" which turns training data to the "bytecode" of the model weights.

(4) The actual training data is like the "source code" for the model, the input of the training "compiler".

Currently (2) is well-served by a number of open-source offerings. (1) is what is usually released when a new model is released. (1) + (2) give the ability to run inference independently.

AFAICT, Red Hat suggests that an "open-source ML model" must include (1), (2), and (3), so that the way the model has been trained is also open and reusable. I would say that it's great for scientific / applied progress, but I don't think it's "open source" proper. You get a binary blob and a compiler that can produce it and patch it, but you can't reproduce it the way the authors did.

Releasing the training set, the (4), to my mind, would be crucial for the model to be actually "open source" in the way an open-source C program is.

I understand that the training set is massive, may contain a lot of data that can't be easily released publicly but that were licensed for the training purposes, and that training from scratch may cost millions, so releasing the (4) is very often infeasible.

I still think than (1) + (2) + (3) should not be called "open-source", because the source is not open. We need a different term, like "open structure" or something. It's definitely more open than something that's only available via an API, or as just weights, but not completely open.
As always on here, a lot of people appear to act as if there are universal truths about our craft.

I would posit that the exact enviroment you are in changes massively what is correct, what is a good rule of thumb and what is a bad practice.

What applies to a game developer does not apply to a web developer. What applies to a product developer does not apply to a library developer. What applies in a startup does not apply in a legacy org.

I'm sure there are some universal truths, but usually they are principles and not prescriptions.

E.g. Code should probably lean toward readability, but you quickly come up against time constraints, language constraints, performance constraints, interpersonal conflict, etc.

Edit:
To that end, I would ask that when discussing what we find to be useful or not useful, that we caveat with the enviroments that we have found this to be true.
agreed the 3DES is a difficult choice to explain. To top it off the encryption key was hardcoded in the .ipa, the IV was null and then reused.
> Then explain why if it works so well why Musk paid $10B in taxes when he sold Tesla stock if it works so well.

Loans to Musk were a risky asset before the election. He was at risk of investigation in the event Trump lost. No one would have given him a loan big enough to supply the cash needs which this sale supplied.

That said, ordinary billionaires can of course make use of this strategy.
How much have we saved so far?
All I want is a replacement for my mini. Was waiting for a new SE figuring that’d be a reasonable substitute. Instead they roll out a phablet. Sigh.
If having to disclose to your users/customers that they're interacting with a bot makes them stop interacting then that sucks for you. I work in this space and we proudly advertise when you're talking to a bot and our users actually choose it over the option to connect to a human.

Our staff do better work but the bot is instant. It seems people would rather go back and forth a few times and be in the drivers seat than wait on a person.
How are they going to know who is a bot?

Yet another dead law. This is like asking a criminal to not use weapons.
*aspiring
You’re right but it’s what journals are supposed to do - that’s why we pay. Otherwise we don’t need journals and everyone can just self publish to bioRxiv.
> I'm incredibly depressed and disillusioned to see fellow software engineers drinking the Kool-aid so deeply while they dismantle the US federal government.

Please point to a single component of the US federal government in its founding document, the Constitution, that has received as much as a glance.

The last century of cruft, corruptly driven by people not standing for election is where the action is found.

$37T of debt later, we're at the end of a cycle.

Let's just make sure DOGE is not a cure worse than the disease.
Your code is pretty small if it fits within the context if any major LLM. But very nice if it does!
I disagree with social security not being waste. Just because some people find it useful, doesn’t inherently make it not wasteful.

I’ll be lucky if my generation will even be able to pull anything out of social security.
The voters chose it. Those that voted against it lost. The courts have superpowered the executive and he is taking full advantage of it. The system is working as designed.
Calling someone ignorant is indeed an ad-hominem, as is calling them Nazi or fascist (or, on the other side of the political spectrum, calling them woke or commie) unless they provably profess those opinions.

Given how tense the current political climate is, it's all the more important to avoid resorting in using fallacies. Name calling is one such trap, and misrepresenting one's opponent's arguments is another one.
Trump is ignoring laws. Canning USAID is a great example. Ignoring background check processes is another.
What’s even crazier is that the uniparty is like 2 issues away from restoring their kleptocratic stanglehold on the country.
it's so easy to be cynical, how do you do it?
Industry will get there pretty soon regardless of that bill or another, since there is a paradigm shift.

The conversation is no longer about scraping bots versus genuine human visitors. Today’s reality involves legitimate users leveraging AI agents to accomplish tasks—like scanning e-commerce sites for the best deals, auto-checking out, or running sophisticated data queries. Traditional red flags (such as numerous rapid requests or odd navigation flows) can easily represent honest customer behavior once enhanced by an AI assistant.

see what I have posted a couple of weeks ago -

https://blog.tarab.ai/p/bot-management-reimagined-in-the
If you're from Europe... Look at your nationalist parties. It's pretty much the same thing.

If you're from anywhere else ... well, then it's really not surprising.
DOGE is not about waste, it's about continuing to bypass Congress and consolidate power in the executive branch.
If this was happening under Obama’s tenure the headline would read something like “whip-smart youths revitalizing government by removing calcified waste!”
I tried it with a paragraph of English taken from a formal speech, and it sounded quite good. I would not have been able to distinguish it from a skilled human narrator.

But then I tried a paragraph of Japanese text, also from a formal speech, with the language set to Japanese and the narrator set to Yumiko Narrative. The result was a weird mixture of Korean, Chinese, and Japanese readings for the kanji and kana, all with a Korean accent, and numbers read in English with an American accent. I regenerated the output twice, and the results were similar. Completely unusable.

I tried the same paragraph on ElevenLabs. The output was all in Japanese and had natural intonation, but there were two or three misreadings per sentence that would render it unusable for any practical purpose. Examples: 私の生の声 was read as watashi no koe no koe when it should have been watashi no nama no koe. 公開形式 was read as kōkai keiji instead of kōkai keishiki. Neither kanji misreading would be correct in any context. Even weirder, the year 2020 was read as 2021. Such misreadings would confuse and mislead any listeners.

I know that Japanese text-to-speech is especially challenging because kanji can often be read many different ways depending on the context, the specific referent, and other factors. But based on these tests, neither PlayAI nor ElevenLabs should be offering Japanese TTS services commercially yet.
Impersonating humans is creepy, unnecessary and a bad business practice that creates negative customer experiences that are likely to result in a hostile response. This law is only necessary because of incompetent management making decisions for short term profit at the expense of reputation and long term growth.
So a review of at most millions warrants cancelling billions in the meantime that literally keeps people from dying?

Not a great indicator of how much you value human life there, buddy.
And yet you allowed a grifter like Trump who bankrupted pretty much all his businesses to become President. Got it.
Trump disavowed Project 2025 during the campaign and his voters believed him. If democracy worked, he would be held accountable for this enormous bait-and-switch.

> root out corruption and waste, fraud, and abuse

That is not what they are doing by most accounts.
I enjoyed all the corrections of "Internet Web site" to "internet website".
I’ve heard lots of people say that, and you’re entitled to that opinion. But I have yet to hear a single coherent argument explaining why that’s the case.

I’m open minded but so far all I’ve heard is Musk/Trump haters clanging the alarm that somehow they’re going to take over the government or ruin America or whatever. With no explanation and no facts to back it up.
Only if political news media is somehow a neutral, purely unbiased source that just tells plain facts, sure. "They are just not informed", "they are stupid", etc. If the media is partisan or biased, the situation reverses, and now the Harris voters are living in some media bubble with their own cnns, reddits and other friendly outposts, and then scratching their heads at the outcome in the end -- "How could this possibly be? All our polls were predicting a win. Maybe if we had 35 indictments instead of 34, that would have tipped the balance, for sure".
> What struck me was how often the core problems were architectural

Agreed - I remember at a previous job a new guy turned up and directed a rewrite of an old Perl application into a new Go version. He crowed on and on about how Go was so much faster than Perl but the underlying issue was the original architecture (old one was pinned to a single core and polled a database once a minute, the new one was dispatching requests pulled off a Kafka queue). The old one had been written when the system was handling less than a transaction a minute and the only attempts to fix it were upgrading Perl or various libraries.
"I promise, America will soon be the Cybertruck of countries - uglier than you could have imagined, built for rich chuds, borderline inoperable, and on fire."
What an awesome this (°⊿°`)!
I think you deeply misunderstood the stories.
A lot of this is not allowed by US law.
Did he "design" the building as in full schematics of a building that should stand? Or was this just a sketch in jest? I assumed we were reaching the limits of how tall we can make skyscrapers. Doubling the tallest ever built seems unachievable. Doesn't the square cube law bring it down?
I'm a bit wary of regular DEXA due to the ionizing radiation. MRIs have essentially zero health side-effects if you're not using any contrast agents.

DEXA is definitely cheaper, but a good amount of my time spent in MRIs was due to assisting in various research and QA projects. Unless you're made of money, I wouldn't recommend that to anyone who has to pay. I wish they were cheaper...
DOGE is what you get when you take the performance management culture of big tech and apply it to government. Make big changes with 0 testing then no matter the outcome brag loudly about it. Move fast and break things indeed
Laws are being broken, Congress is being bypassed, and power is being consolidated by the executive branch and a private unelected citizen. The next part of the playbook is to ignore orders by the court. The goal is to dismantle democracy. The playbook is so obvious - Trump himself even said nobody would have to worry about voting for him again because they would "fix it".
What do you think it is? What do you think is motivating Musk?
It bothers me that they didn't consider that this should be bilateral: a bot must confirm that it is a bot, and a human must confirm it is a human.

I wouldn't want humans pretending to be bots, for a variety of reasons.
I'm from Australia. Most of us cannot believe what is happening right now.
All the cuts are funds already legally allocated by congress.

EM or DT do not have the authority to reverse that funding decision outside the democratic / congressional process.
Convert plastic bottles into 3D printer filament
“Notably, the views among DOGE supporters differ when it comes to where to draw the line: The first of the three people with knowledge of its work told Semafor the “entire federal government” is up for grabs. The second person suggested the line would be drawn at areas affecting national security and initiatives providing direct benefits.”

https://www.semafor.com/article/02/06/2025/inside-doges-marc...

I personally hope that it is more of the second
Well as long as you'll admit you're wrong then everything is fine.
It’s difficult to have any serious political conversation on the internet these days. All of the places tend to be slanted so much in one direction.

Ironically the popularity of downvoting and algorithmic display of content is part of why people are always so surprised about such things, including trumps win.

People frequently take the most uncharitable interpretation, and suffer from attribution bias greatly.
If this happened when X, the media coverage would be like totally the opposite!

It's whataboutism to the max, literally making up a scenario to compare it to in outrage.
The part of the constitution that says only Congress can create laws and the president just implements them.
https://archive.ph/k2zCU
https://thehill.com/policy/international/foreign-aid/5123972...
Musk is a liar who lies all the time and is lying about the purpose of DOGE. His actual goal is to settle scores and shut down any departments that he doesn't like. What is is doing is VERY illegal and a Democratic DOJ could very well arrest him for it.

What is in the constitution is that ONLY Congress has the power to control spending tax dollars. DOGE has no legal authority to stop any payments that Congress has approved.
> A big role of full time employees is not just to code, but to interact to various degrees with PMs/Sales/Customers/the rest of the company stakeholders to varying degrees.

That’s true the further you get up in your career. But most of the time, it is:

- junior developers get tasks where both the business problem and technical solution is well defined and they need a lot of handholding and supervision

- mid level developers get tasks where the business problem is mostly well defined and they use their own judgement to create the technical solution. They should be able to lead work streams or epics

- Senior developers are responsible for leading major deliverables with multiple work streams, epics and are over seeing mid level developers and juniors. This is usually the first level where you spend the majority of your time dealing with strategy and “ambiguity” and with the “business”.

- staff - strategy involving many large implementations.

AI can already do a creditable job as a junior level developer and is rapidly moving up to being able to do the work of a mid level developer.

No matter what your title is, if you are just pulling tickets off the board with well defined business cases, you are doing mid level developer work. My definition is what I’ve seen, heard and read about from every major tech company.
Who are the domestic political prisoners you're talking about? The rioters who broke into the capitol, reportedly resulting in 5 deaths and at least a hundred injuries? Or different ones
> Of course, this model isn't perfect. One of the most obvious problems is that it doesn't have inertia and velocity diffusion. A fast water stream entering a lake won't propagate further inside the lake, but will instead spread out in all directions, ignoring all accumulated inertia. Two parallel water streams going in opposite directions can exist and not interact with each other (provided the water levels are equal).

I guess that can be solved averaging he value of a flow arrow with the 6 neighbor arrows in the same direction. With a big weight with the arrows that are in the front and back, and a small weight for the arrows that are on the sides. For example with these arrows

-a-> -b->

-c-> -d-> -e->

-f-> -g->

then

New_d = d * (1 - 2*.1 - 4*.01) + (c+e)*.1 + (a+b+f+b)*.01

Where .1 and .01 are weight that I just invented but must be tweaked, perhaps with a power like the one they use to kill osculations. That coefficient can also be included:

New_d = d * (1 - 2*.1 - 4*.01 - .001) + (c+e)*.1 + (a+b+f+b)*.01
It's a technocratic coup in broad daylight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Enlightenment

Arrogant Silicon Valley CEOs think the world belongs to them. They want liberal democracy to fail and transition to a "tech monarchy".

Quite frankly, I don't think the 2026 and 2028 elections will happen.

Look up Peter Thiel, Curtis Yarvin, Nick Land, Steve Bannon, Marc Andreessen, and other figures involved with the "Neo-Reactionary accelerationist" Dark Enlightenment movement. One of Elon's little DOGE lackeys (Edward Coristine) has "there are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see" as his twitter bio. "Cathedral" is Curtis Yarvin's word for the "cultural hegemony" of universities and the government, hence why he wants to destroy the federal Department of Education especially as well as any federal agency and the federal government from the inside.

It turned out that the whole American experiment of tech-capitalism out of Silicon Valley was a huge failure and a existential threat to decency, stability, and order in the Western world.

Even Paul Graham will lightly chastise Elon Musk on twitter, but is largely fine with what Musk is doing.
>requires clear and conspicuous disclosures of bots ("automated online account[s] where all or substantially all of the actions or posts of that account are not the result of a person"), in the context of incentivizing a purchase or sale of goods or services in a commercial transaction or influencing a vote in an election

I suppose they are generalizing this away from just "paid actors". bots don't need to be commercially involved to be annoying.
That question as already answered when the experiment was greenlit: it doesn’t have to at all.

That question is also not what is at the heart of this conflict. It’s someone that categorically rejects the experiment, even though the project has decided to give it a try. It’s entirely social and not technical.
You are not alone, sadly.
Always interesting to remember how they came, in a big way, for aid recipients and transgender people first, probably the most vulnerable. While also cancelling anything DEI, Meals on Wheels, you mention it.

This presidency so far has some real “First They Came…” vibes.
Great. I never said such things anyway. My original comment was a quip on Adam’s comment…
The evidence is fairly smacking you in the face. Have you seen the number of Executive Orders that Trump has been signing? Many of which are almost certainly to be overturned?
See my post that got flagged for how NIH is getting effed:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42968658
I didn’t allow anything. But compared with the folks running against him? Yeah, I’d pick him every day of the week and twice on Sunday.

Get us a real candidate from the Democratic Party and we could have a discussion but Kamala was even less qualified than trump and what many non-Americans seem to miss is that Americans care about policy A LOT. We generally don’t give a shit if our president is a meanie head or says not nice things. In general we care a LOT about what they say they’re going to do.

Trump’s plans for the nation sounded pretty good to myself and a whole heck of a lot of other Americans winning the popular vote, the electoral college, and (my memory is fuzzy) every swing state except 1?
> That you've been using it that long is pretty bizarre to me.

Obviously.

> I guess it was just a way to stand out?

No.

> Express some personality with a bit of semantic flair?

Again, no.

> I get that.

Do you have examples of semantic flair that you use to stand out?

> just someone that doesn't like seeing ambiguity created unnecessarily

What ambiguity? Which other citizens of which other country did you honestly think I was referring to?

> or misinformation spread,

What misinfomation? I honestly and in good faith have no idea what "misinformation" you are referring to.

> but I see now you were doing it more for stylistic reasons.

For the third time. No.

Stop trying to make your contextual PoV a thing Gretchen.

This is literally no more than a useful contraction of "United States of America citizen"
It took almost 40 years of constant GOP propaganda from things like Fox News and Rush Limbaugh. People like the Koch brothers have been dedicated to this goal for a very long time.
https://archive.ph/shLE1
The lack of alternative makes it more scary not less.
Expect a lot more fake stories about fraud and other nefarious doings from these guys to justify their crimes. The exact something happened with twitter.
So I've been paying for social security my whole life and you think it's a waste and you have the right to take the program away from me? Will I be getting a refund?
The current administration signed an executive order to revoke birth right citizenship[1] in direct contravention of the 14th amendment.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/prot...
Something like USAID is established by statute (The Foreign Assistance Act of 1961). It cannot be eliminated or gutted by executive order.

Sidestepping this, which is happening left and right currently, is democracy failing.
Trump won by 200,000 votes with a voter turnout of only 61%
Comments like this remind me that many Americans genuinely want a dictator

It's baffling
That’s not how this works. But the world is a lot better when people can admit the path they chose was wrong.
Ridiculous comment: it didn't happen under Obama's tenure.
Rupert Murdoch is a HUGE reason this is happening.
I don't agree with the waste in our government, but Musk has shown himself to be a habitually dishonest individual, so when he says he is out to cut waste, I don't believe him, I think his goal is to target his personal and political enemies while finding ways to redirect funds into his own ventures.
I want to believe these changes can be positive, but the people in charge of enacting them have done nothing but disabuse me of trust and good faith.
Your sentiment reminds me of this: https://www.goingconcern.com/when-ai-stands-for-actually-ind...
Freeze Peach says I can be a bot if I want to.
I am not sold on these actions being done in good faith, or legally. There’s a lot of evidence of forceful behavior in obtaining access to highly sensitive systems.

Also, the government is here to run services, for us, with the money we give it in the form of taxes.

Removing all government services in order to save money (and provide tax cuts to the 0.1% richest people and corps.) seems to be based in the belief that we are here to serve the people at the top. This is not the spirit of democracy.

Another notable fact is that the current leadership consists of people who are not known for healthy governance providing care and benefit for many. They are known for maximizing extraction, and shocking lack of compassion and understanding.

Besides the open racism and sadistic dickishness. Which, to be fair, we’re a part of the hatred and fear-based platform.
There is a counter at https://www.usdebtclock.org/
They make audio software. Notably lately they make additions to to some programmable korg products like the NTS-1