skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "A lack of vigilance and discipline"

I would agree, and perhaps add that strictest discipline is need in answering the question: could we just get on with our job using existing software?

In some places "coding" has a become and end to itself
It's still a problem if you leave a blank line. If you make the first line bulleted you now have a bullet on the blank line too.
> pension

Not sure that is a perk. In EU (not sure about this exact offer in Norway) to get ANY money out of pension, you have to work like 30 years at the very same country (not EU). But it is mandatory social insurance (tax) of 10% to 40% of your income.
idk about the meme but the posts need to stop, they are definitely defeating the purpose of natural usage, causing mass effects that are beyond their control.
Nothing she’s saying is either extraordinary or uncommon.
Does it matter if they rotate if you use prefix delegation with standard size?
> If they've written "many many words over thousands of years" for the merits of their philosophy, they are also perfectly capable to write multi-paragraph goodbye letters. That's the bearing it has on the parents claim. And many did.

Eh, not really - "multi-paragraph goodbye letters" here refers to the overly dramatic fad that internet denizens sometimes engage in when they leave communities, and they tend to have a lot of whining.

Those types of goodbye letters are not the types of goodbye letters stoics would write.

> Why you felt the need to add your comment, is a more apt question.

If you were able to pick up so swiftly what the person I replied to was implying, you too should be able to have picked up that I replied because I disagreed with that implication.
For your sake, I hope you can say the same thing in six months, though I have ample reason to doubt that you will.
Blog post: https://eyes.mit.edu/project/what-if/what-if.html
Many on the Doge team are software engineers. And calling it an audit is being very generous. Looking at the Doge feed on approved state media it's mostly just DELETE FROM Contract WHERE Description like '%DEI%'
You don't think people should be able to vote to break laws, but objectively, people can vote for literally any reason they please. There are no laws regulating how voters choose to vote, nor could there be.

I never voted for Trump, but I did vote for my state to defy federal cannabis laws. Guess what, my vote to shit on federal laws was legal.
What exactly is the transgender ideology and why is it so threatening to you and/or the country?
https://archive.is/DEFpI
> I would prefer wired connections for reliability and privacy.

* You will not get reliability. Ethernet over power lines are notorious for developing problems related to power line load, topography and switching.

* You will not get privacy. The ethernet signal does not magically stop at "your" power network, but commonly escapes and can be picked up at other houses down the street from you.

Seriously, forget it. There is a reason Wi-Fi is more popular.
Thank you for answering. I do appreciate it coming for someone actually involved, and it's an interesting perspective you give.

And in some ways, I do have the same perspective. I also wish for more long term thinking, and it's not really the FOMO that bothers me, but more the, as you so eloquently put it, the "incomplete weekend-hacks" :)
I didn't mean to imply that it's happening any time anyone tweet something, but there have been an alarming number of cases of cops showing up at peoples houses for tweets they've made. A far greater number than anything happening in other western countries, which doesn't even have anything close to compare it to.

Just to be clear, even 20 times is significant here, I think the actual number is much higher, but even a low number as 20 is concerning when the tweets don't promote violence, terrorism, CSASM or anything illegal.
> Headwinds from Apple, who are indifferent to the project, stingy with documentation, and not inclined to reduce their own rate of change.

That is part of the challenge he chose to take on.

> Headwinds from users, because of the stripped down experience.

Users can be ignored. How much you get users to you is your own choice.

> Headwinds from the kernel team, who are in the unenviable situation of having to accept and maintain code they can't test for hardware they don't own

You don't have to upstream. Again, it's not the kernel team that chose to add support for "hostile" hardware so don't try to make this their problem.

> and who apparently have some sort of schism over rust support?

Resistance when trying to push an entirely different language into an established project is entirely expected. The maintainers in question did not ask for people to add Rust to the kernel. They have no obligation to be welcoming to it.

> Be a heck of a lot easier if at least one of them was on your side.

Except for the users all the conflicts are the direct result from the choice of work. And the users are something you have to choose to listen to as well.
Hm no, I've seen Apple increase production in the USA and I thought that was the type of behavior we'd want to be rewarding?
It's still in heavy development, optimization based on usage patterns might not have been included yet, you can open up issue with exact details on usage and that might help make it faster, one of the perks of open-source/
> So it used to be that you had stretch to include whatever little bits of DEI-connection you had in your grant applications (what's the DEI-equivalent of greenwashing?), and now the tables have turned and they're being punished for it.

Lesson learned: as a founding agency, you should never create incentives to introduce politics into research proposals. Instead, you should incentivize to keep politics out of them as much as possible. Otherwise, as you can see here, drama starts to kindle as soon as the prevailing political "wind direction" changes.
What models would you recommend instead, for sophisticated OCR applications?

Honestly I thought Claude-3 and GPT-4o were some of the newest major models with vision support, and that models like o1 and deepseek were more reasoning-oriented than OCR-oriented.
Impelementing the grammar is the easiest 0.1% of programming language dissemination.

Adding explicit non-const to g++ would be so, so easy.
But pointless.
I tried it on a desktop PC and on some images the bounding box is so small that you cannot see clearly if it's ok
So not beliving in "The DOGE" means you've been had by millennial "psy-ops"? Seems hilarious but ok.
> University of Bergen

Don't forget to bring your rain gear!
I guess something like Cwtch would be an actively maintained equivalent. https://docs.cwtch.im/
Definitely. The previous administration used executive power to direct various government organizations to factor DEI into all government funding, and this is also reflected in the last line of the proposal's abstract (extremely odd place for an administrative comment but that's where it is): "This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria."

If there is a point scheme being used behind the scenes, as seems reasonably probable, then selecting all grants to be eliminated was probably not much more than a single SQL query.
OpenVINO AI effects for Audacity
> You say that but I’ve shared several examples of the same things happening in other countries like America too.

You've shown some protestors getting arrested, but I don't believe you can show any equivalent of cops acting as thought police for tweets.

> for example our open-mindedness about abortion and gender identity.

Funny you say that, because there isn't so much open-mindedness as a forced viewpoint. I'm trans, FWIW, but I don't at all agree with sending cops to peoples houses because a ciswoman has doubts about accepting a transwoman completely as a woman.

I'd also say it's other western countries being compared to here, and I don't think the UK is particularly further ahead than other first world nations, aside from the US where it is very much a red/blue state issue.
> Edit prediction won't be free forever, but right now we're just excited to share and learn.

I love Zed, and I'm happy to pay for AI stuff, but I won't be using this until they are done with their rug pull. Once I know how much it costs, I can decide if I want to try integrating it into my workflow. Only THEN will I want to try it, and would be interested in a limited free trial, even just 24 hours.

Considering I've seen products like this range from free to hundreds of dollars per month, I'd rather not find out how good it is and then find out I can't afford it.

Other than that for anyone wanting to try Zed:

- You can only run one LSP per file type, so your Rust will work fine, your C++, too, your Angular will not.

- Remote editing does not work on Windows (its not implemented at all), so if you are on windows, you cannot ssh into anything with the editor remote editing feature. This means you cannot use your PC as a thin client to the actual chunky big work machine like you can with vscode. I've seen a PR that adds windows ssh support, but it looked very stale.
If you fight the system you're not going to have a good time. For incremental improvements (faster grep, mixed-language syntax highlighting) you get the benefits for free. You don't have to change anything about the way you work. Revolutionary/disruptive technologies are not like that. They demand that the world adapts to them. They demand you change.

Almost anywhere you can go by foot you can get faster with a horse. By contrast, a car only drives on flat roads. Cars are inflexible, fragile, unwieldy. A car demands that the world adapts to it. And adapt we did. We paved the world and are better for it.

AI tools are amazing. You just have to approach them with a beginner's mindset.
Because a game looks hard. Forms look easy. Website? Even a phone can run a website, but a game requires that beefy big box!
I thought this was a feature to make it easier to leech information ?
You've looked at postdoc salaries, not PhD salaries. very different. For example in the UK a PhD will get somewhere aroun £19-21k a year, whilst a postdoc will get anywhere from £37-45k a year......
"The media" Give me a break. Who is this 'media' you speak of?
Your local newspapers? CNN? Fox News? Joe Rogan? Who is to blame?
Or just not bother with salad!
> I will not bank with HSBC because their app will not work if you install things from outside the Google App store

I have this requirement too, since I like to use F-Droid.

My point isn't that there are no such users. My point is that product managers in banks don't care about F-Droid users, since there's so few of us that it's not worth them worrying about.

Many websites are giving up Firefox support, and Firefox adoption is much higher than F-Droid.

If a bank app happens to be okay with F-Droid, it's not because they look out for the needs of F-Droid, it's simply by happenstance.
I wonder what this means for Support using ollama as an inline_completion_provider https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/15968. ':]

I hadn't heard of Baseten before (it seems to be in a hot niche along with Together.ai, OpenRouter, etc.) but I'm glad I did because I was actually noodling on something similar and now I don't have to do that anymore (though it did teach me a lot about Fly.io!). Yay economies of scale!
AI and the Future of Literature
I'm not completely up to date but a few months ago Qwen2-VL (runnable locally) was able to perfectly read text from images. So I'd say you would still need to preprocess that folder to texts to get any reasonable speed for queries but after that if you feed the data to a LLM with long enough context it should just work. If on the other hand it's too much data and the LLM is required to use tools then it is indeed still too soon. But it is coming.
It's important to be thoughtful about research interpretation, but I'm kind of tired of kneejerk dismissal of observational studies for a couple of reasons.

First, experiments have their own varieties of horrors. Many are small N, with selective data reporting, and lack external validity — that is, the thing you really want to randomize is difficult or impossible to randomize, so researchers randomize something else as a proxy that's not at all the same. Other times there's complex effects that distort the interpretation of the casual pathway implied by the experiment.

Second, sometimes it's important to show that any association exists. There are cases where it's pretty clear an association is non-existent, based on observational data and covariate analysis. You just don't hear about those because people stop talking about them because of the null effects. So there's a kind of survivorship bias in the way results are discussed, especially in the popular literature.

It's easy to handwave about limitations of studies, it's much harder to create studies that provide evidence, for logical, practical, and ethical reasons. Why you'd want less information about an important phenomenon isn't clear to me.
Remaster Mod for Star Wars Episode I Racer
Hello everyone !

For the last two years I've been working with the SWR community to build a mod that would enhance / replace the graphics of the original game. First release was this week, so you can try it out if you want.
The mod doesn't run on Steam yet due to DRM, and requires replacement 3D assets. You can find one made by the community on the official discord server, on the github release, or put your own models in the correct directory.

I've linked to the release article I wrote for this release. You can find an overview of what we did, the link to the github release, and a link to my personal journey through this adventure.

I hope this qualifies for good first post on HN ;)
Oh, they are posting a lot of cancellations, they rarely, if ever show what payments are for, exactly, and whether they are actual waste, or that it doesn't "neatly fits into the function the government agency is supposed to fill".

> but you see a few building leases sprinkled it.

You think agencies cannot lease buildings? And that it's a waste and fraud?

> I haven’t seen anything so far that says “Agency will no longer do X”, but happy to be be corrected.

They have literally unilaterally shut down several government agencies with bogus claims.
They wouldn't be able to tap those databases if those private companies didn't make them in the first place.
People say CPU benchmarks are meaningless (what does even 10-15% better mean in practice?) but LLM benchmarks are even more of a mystery. The same LLM will produce a novel output everytime you given it the exakt same prompt.
Do you mean that to succeed in social sciences academia you have to think Nazis are bad?
> I can only dream of the EU snatching top talent from the US

This top talent will not be satisfied with the common salaries in many EU countries. Also, it will be unsatisfied that Ireland and Malta are the only EU countries where English is an official language, and in none of them English is the only official language.
Hopefully a repeal of the stupid cookie law and save the web.
The speed of publishing is just too slow. If you want to apply any kind of scientific rigor and have your peers check what you're doing (not even doing a full peer review), things take more time than just posting on blogs and iterating.
> No one actually likes this stuff, and it still exists everywhere, so it must be worth it.

I believe I covered that too, but maybe not explicitly enough. The root of the problem is that engaging in bad practices is a) allowed, and b) is profitable on the margin. In a competitive environment, this creates a zero-sum game, and that alone is enough of an explanation. Quoting myself from the article:

If you have competitors, you can't not participate.

> But those are just the cost of consuming all our favorite content for ~free, right?

It's not like we're being given much of a choice. Most people have less money than they need to satisfy even just the reasonable needs and wants, so being extremely price-sensitive is the default state for customers. In this environment, "free with ads" is a one-way strategy: it's impossible to compete on price with "free", so once someone goes for this model, all their direct competitors are forced to follow suit. It's why I see "free + ads" as an extremely anti-competitive move: it prevents any other business model from working.

> The size of the company has to be a major factor here. If your local shop takes out an ad in the local newspaper, I don't care what weird psychological tactics they use, does it really hit the same way?

It can be a factor, but I think its effect is often inverse. Large companies are a big, fat target for lawyers and regulators; there's only so much they can get away with these days. Small businesses can and do get much more scammy without repercussion, because their impact is much smaller and localized, and they're individually too small a target for the legal system to bother.

Also let's remember that, while small local companies are small and local, there's also a lot of them. And even as their "weird psychological tactics" affect only few people in each case, it isn't much of a consolation when you're one of those people.
Trump is pretty popular right now, but ultimately his actions have not yet had any impact on his voters. They like his image.

But the real world will keep on happening. There will be inflation, unemployment, cost of living etc. Ultimately, as the experience of various European Trumps shows, this is what prevails. It doesn't even have to be Trump's faults or successes that buoy or sink him. I'm sure part of the reason he lost his first reelection bid was that COVID happened (and in itself that wasn't his fault), likewise Biden lost because inflation (again, largely not his fault).

Meanwhile, he doesn't strike me as someone who generally handles crises well. Problems will come, ones that materially affect his political base, and he will have to handle them well, or be serially lucky, or lose his power base.

So in short, I wouldn't assume any particular group of people will like him long-term just because they like him a few weeks in. They might. They might not.

EDIT to be clear, I don't wish Trump dead. I think that would be destructive to the US democracy and thus also bad for the world.
They often get flagged, though.
> Is the newly created user with name "bigballs" who downloads whole government databases a foreign TA or just DOGE? Who knows. Who cares, certainly not the Government.

Someone willing to work without morals for money can just be bought by the next highest bidder. Anything they touch should be treated as compromised.
Doesn't exactly fix the issue, bout you can cancel the suggestion with ESC and then press Tab.

Changing the shortcut should be possible, but I haven't tried.
With the speed that models are coming out at and the amount of VC subsidies in trials my approach is the opposite, I don't get too attached and keep trying different tools and models.
Yup I have emailed dang a few times regarding wrongly flagged submissions and he has always unflagged them.
I did OR in my Bachelor thesis, and then at my first project at my first job. It worked like magic, and business was sure it wouldn't work. Still one of the projects I always talk about. It was for organizing screens unto pallets unto trucks. Then I never anything with OR ever since. Even for a few early AI products 8 years ago, in the end they didn't go for it. I think you are spot on with the expertise. Even though quite a lot of businesspeople heard about it in university.
In bad third world countries salads can be one of the iffiest thing to eat as the water can contaminated. Also the locals often don't eat salads and so haven't fixed the system, so tourists suffer. It's less of a problem than it used to be as most places now chlorinate the water.
> What the hell is wrong with you people? These are people's livelihoods

Do you think about lamp lighters the same way?
This is a reproduction, it looks like it was first shown by T Scheike et al in 2013
Isn’t Apple immune from ARM price increases?
Google and Cloudflare's captchas are the worst because if they have previously decided they don't like your IP, if your browser has privacy features enabled, or a few other factors, they will never let you past the captcha no matter how correctly you answer the prompts. But instead of just telling you "we simply don't trust you, go away" they'll let you attempt the captchas as long as you like, rejecting your answers every single time.

It's abhorrent. Lying to users, gas-lighting them into thinking they weren't answering correctly and need to try harder when in fact no answer will ever be accepted. Ostensibly meant to be a system which prevents automatic systems from abusing resources meant for people, it becomes an automatic system abusing people. This bullshit should be illegal. If they want to turn people away for defying their surveillance apparatus they should do that upfront, without the inhumane deception.
Isn't there also something about availability and quality of the guns back in the days if 2nd amendment? Eg. they were expensive, bulky and slow to fire, whereas now they are neither.
Software Development Job Postings on Indeed in Germany 2020-2025
> From 2019 to 2021, Ricochet was used by the admins (as well as an undercover investigator) of the child porn onion site Boystown. To identify the perpetrators, German police used a correlation analysis attack. By sending Ricochet messages to perpetrators and monitoring several hundred Tor nodes for simultaneous traffic of the correct size, authorities were able to identify intermediate Tor nodes and then also the perpetrator's entry nodes, revealing the perpetrators' IP addresses.

From wikipedia.
Transformers are completely unlike RNNs.
> major technology companies & cloud providers don't each have ...

... they have, and they are selling that as premium. it's the classic "open core" model for the cloud era.
All technology challenges are just people challenges
I’ve been reflecting on how businesses scale.

It’s common to think growth comes from better strategies, but I believe it’s entirely dependent of the experience of its people and their own personal growth.

If people don’t grow, neither does the company.

Curious to hear your thoughts: Do companies focus enough on personal growth?
whichever one(s) the owner of the name "firefox" allows to be called firefox. Open source code does not automatically mean you get to use the name of the project in your redistribution of it.
> I think it is true that a subset of HN readers don't want to see stories about politics.

There is a huge subset of HN readers who don't live in the USA, and thus don't really care about political drama in the USA as long as it is not relevant for their own life.
For acute yes, who knows for post-acute.

Many viruses are linked to cancers, MS, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, T1D and so on. Research is finding that some of these viruses may actually be low grade infections or left over viral proteins causing constant immune dysfunction.

People who claimed they never got SARS-CoV-2 for example were tested with a novel ultra sensitive single molecule assay and found that 99.9% of individuals samples were indeed asymptomatically infected.

Here’s an earlier version of this claim showing 95%.

https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/230/3/e601/7639429

Some of these individuals later went on to develop Long COVID. They are using this assay in an antiviral trial to see if it reduces the amount of SCV2 proteins this assay can detect.

https://youtu.be/B1sFSW94JZg?si=7mvHAJGjrJiOLaW7
Here's a nice photo of the human nervous system https://www.instagram.com/world_of_medics/p/C3cBEQShBTp/

Chunkier looking than I'd expected.