skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Among regimes toppled, prosecutors fired, presidents and vice presidents impeached, domestic and foreign elections interfered with, and literally a hundred other disgraces. Yes, it’s worth it.
I hope this doesn't lead them to make Cloudflare a middleman. That would drive me away from their service.
Ukrainian court rulings do this -- it's always person_1 meeting person_2 at address_1, so only the parties have an unredacted ruling, while redacted one is publicly searchable
The problem is currently all the "competing" ideas have a ton of tradeoffs and is rarely one size fits all. Furthermore, it's not clear if the idea you choose will be become obsolete by the underlying model architecture getting better. On top of all that, you are essentially competing with Anthropic/OpenAI/Google, where your only advantage is "privacy". Anyone who deeply cares about privacy, and is willing to pay for it, may just likely do it on their own (especially if your CTO is pouting money into "investing" in AI). Anyone who doesn't will likely not want to 6-7 months behind what you can get at OpenAI or Google.
I think it's referencing only the IPv4 block, but it is a bit confusing. It doesn't make sense to be ref'ing the GPUs because their value is definitely not durable.
How would you compromise with "white power"?
Thanks for that link. The Wikipedia article you referenced says "This view is now considered discredited by mainstream science."

There are still papers being written about how those analyses were flawed: https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2319496121
> The biggest problem: developers don’t want GPUs. They don’t even want AI/ML models. They want LLMs. System engineers may have smart, fussy opinions on how to get their models loaded with CUDA, and what the best GPU is. But software developers don’t care about any of that. When a software developer shipping an app comes looking for a way for their app to deliver prompts to an LLM, you can’t just give them a GPU.

I'm increasingly coming to the view that there is a big split among "software developers" and AI is exacerbating it. There's an (increasingly small) group of software developers who don't like "magic" and want to understand where their code is running and what it's doing. These developers gravitate toward open source solutions like Kubernetes, and often just want to rent a VPS or at most a managed K8s solution. The other group (increasingly large) just wants to `git push` and be done with it, and they're willing to spend a lot of (usually their employer's) money to have that experience. They don't want to have to understand DNS, linux, or anything else beyond whatever framework they are using.

A company like fly.io absolutely appeals to the latter. GPU instances at this point are very much appealing to the former. I think you have to treat these two markets very differently from a marketing and product perspective. Even though they both write code, they are otherwise radically different. You can sell the latter group a lot of abstractions and automations without them needing to know any details, but the former group will care very much about the details.
It would help if you read the article.

But basically Obama administration changed the rules for admitting FAA air controllers. Admission started to take race into account, lower the bar for air controllers as well as disrupting the then-existing pipeline.

Disrupting the then-existing pipeline probably had the largest effect - as students that already int the pipeline found out that they had to start over. Then-recent graduates from the pipeline also had to start over their FAA air controller certification. (that was the cherry on top!!!!)
The "$47,000 transgender opera in Colombia" for example was a production of an award-winning opera that the US Embassy in Colombia sponsored. It's diplomacy.
Can Elon Musk Lead the Way to an Electric-Car Future? (2009)
Excellent example of neo-IBM syndrome. Soldiers have complained about IVAS being too heavy and making them sick. But nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft. It's been going for years and, honestly, anyone honest with experience with Hololens predicted its demise on day one.

Anduril is the company buying IVAS. Founded by Palmer Luckey, who also founded Oculus. Unfortunately, he was never really the technical brains behind Oculus, more "the kid with hubris who got caught up in the ride." Anduril itself seems to be doing well, and I'm even considering applying, but I'm still on the fence about whether them buying IVAS is a good signal.
I don't know about "durable", but they're not written off. There is absolutely a market for all this hardware.
Yeah, but contempt of court still is enforced by the executive (the court can order enforcement, but it’s the DOJ [US Marshal’s Service] that does arrests and the DOJ [Bureau of Prisons] that holds those arrested.)

BUT... even if the executive is under legal theory constitutionally unitary, it isn’t actually unitary, it consists of individual people who act based on their own perception of legitimacy, and when the President abandons the principle of government of law and not arbitrary individual will in dealing with the courts, well, that also threatens the theoretical infrastructure that binds the people carrying guns in various executive departments to his authority, and we can very quickly end up in one of those highly unpredictable periods of history that produces lots of really neat stories to read about afterwards but is somewhat less pleasant to live through.
OpenAI rejects Musk's takeover offer, says it was 'not a bid at all'
while i get your point and agree over all

> Why is your default assumption that government will "go off the rails"?

It kind of is right now...
An opinion that can only seriously emerge atop the safest, most prosperous empire to ever exist.
Yeah -- my dad's lettering template had letterforms like this. As the article mentions, the Simplex characters from the Hershey set, used in CAD applications, are based on this font, probably for consistency with how drafting was traditionally done.
Here's my take:

You can audit all of this without immediately shutting down in-flight programs that save lives. You can say "we're going to go line by line and cut programs that we think are not properly spent".

But they in their arrogance, ignorance, malice, or all three, have been on an ideological war against agencies as a whole. Musk brags about trying to destroy 18F and the IRS free file system. They're trying to tear apart the entire department of education. They're trying to fire anyone who isn't explicitly loyal to the wannabe dictator in chief.

And I'll tell ya, it's not because of spending.

Let me be clear: there are right ways and wrong ways to cut spending. Doing it illegally with a bunch of unvetted fake-ass hackers and by stopping all government functions and installing loyalists isn't the way to do it.

>I am so far definitely satisfied with the progress.

I don't think it's good for the country to shut down agencies illegally on a whim, set up the mayor of NYC to be blackmailed at the drop of a hat, pause enforcement of foreign bribery laws, or hire political loyalists as tools of retribution to lead the DoJ and FBI.

But what do I know about helping the middle class or maintaining our place in the world?
I'm fairly convinced the vast majority of internet media / posts are made by people with severe mental issues.

https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
Who’s waiting for a silver bullet? Certainly not the climate scientists or anyone actually working on climate?
The “powers that be tried to remove the current President” , not sure who those powers are (please spare me the “deep state” nonsense I expect higher order thinking here), but Trump attempted a violent overthrow of a democratic election. If you’re okay with that, then you and I have very different ideas of what democracy is.
Coincidentally I’ve been hugely critical of the US government (regardless of party) most of my life, especially US foreign policy and military, and inherently like the idea of a shake up a la Young Turks style.
But all that aside democratic ideals are the only thing that makes the US better than China or Russia, and Trump lost what little credibility he had left as someone who upholds democracy when he tried to stay in power 4 years ago and then doubled-down by pardoning the rioters. And that, my friend, trumps everything else.
Hmm, that looks interesting -- I might have to explore a bit. The low-end GPU pricing is pretty competitive.
Oh, you’re worried about corruption and election interference?

One day you’ll realise and don’t be too hard on yourself then. You were not the only one.
It's hard to have moderate thinking in a 2-party (federal) system, where both are of comparable strength. Even if each start off equanimous on any given stance. Trying to think of a counter-example. Elites will have to be brought up with the doctrine that moderation is strength? Easy to blame character but prevailing cultural attitudes are also impt (aside from the ones towards misinformation, bad faith etc).
What's the tl;dr on why one would use Yash vs anything else? ReadMe doesn't really explain what's unique here.
Agreed. It's just decreasing the friction, which increases the velocity.
Absolutely! I have been playing with Ollama on a Macbook Pro 192 GiB RAM and it is able to run most models whereas my 3090 runs our of RAM.
Y'all really doubling down on this whole "77 million people are white supremacists" huh?

You understand this means that the other 75 million people are actually looking to mutilate children, destroy the concepts of sex and gender, abolish all of the police, and are aggressively racist against white people, right?
Yeah I never understood the position of "Mind you, the government will go off the rails, elect me and I'll prove it to you!" and people who vote for that ...

... but then again, I'm not a conservative ...
> "you have to do things and not all will be pleasant."

This is arguing that there is no difference between being a slave and being a free human because both have to prepare food, chop wood, wash dishes.

"I own a house, I will put the bins out because I want my house to be rat-free and smell nice" is fundamentally different from "my master orders me to put the bins out and if I don't I will be punished" and from "my employer orders me to put the bins out and if I don't I will become unemployed, homeless, unable to get food, so I am coerced to do it and have no choice".

You are arguing that the choice is meaningless because labour and work and employment are all the same, and the author is arguing that the choice is everything.
The truth is that nobody has the slightest fucking clue what is going on, and that's why we always should, and do, vote for the person we trust the most. Sadly, we have all diverged wildly in this regard.
My thoughts, expenses and regrets exactly.
This still sounds hard to sneak into a warship’s oil system though.
If you have a point to make, make it. Don’t just take vague jabs at me.
Yeah, listing 4 LGBT causes and one DEI one makes it pretty clear what their priorities are.
I was a young (19/20) bartender in the mid to late 90s. One afternoon I worked a private event. There was a couple there that had been staring at me. Eventually they came over and apologized. They said I looked like their son and that he'd be about my age that time. I forget how old he was when he passed. But I'll never forget the pain their faces.

Some good friends lost their son at 10 months old. He'd be 11 this year. It changed both of them. They've done amazing things since then, but you can see the weight on their faces.

I wouldn't wish that pain on anyone.
the water wars of the 2020s are by far the highlights of contemporary history
Aren’t we just continually moving up layers of abstractions? Most of the increasingly small group doesn’t concern itself with voltages, manually setting jumpers, hand-rolling assembly for performance-critical code, cache line alignment, raw disk sector manipulation, etc.

I agree it’s worthwhile to understand things more deeply but developers slowly moving up layers of abstractions seems like it’s been a long term trend.
I tried Nebula, but ended up with Yggdrasil instead. https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/

Unlike Nebula, it gives you an IPv6 address (actually, millions of them per node, if needed).

They now also have a userspace only SOCKS 5 proxy server that can connect your app to the whole network without forcing user to install drivers or to mess with their network configuration.
As someone who deploys a lot of models on rented GPU hardware, their pricing is not realistic for continous usage.

They're charging hyperscaler rates, and anyone willing to pay that much won't go with Fly.

For serverless usage they're only mildly overpriced compared to say Runpod, but I don't think of serverless as anything more than an onramp to renting dedicated machine, so it's not surprising to hear it's not taking off.

GPU workloads tend to have terrible cold-start performance by their nature, and without a lot of application specific optimizations it rarely ends up making financial sense to not take a cheaper continous option if you have an even mildly consistent workload. (and if you don't then you're not generating that much money for them)
> developers don’t want GPUs. They don’t even want AI/ML models. They want LLMs.

Is there not a market for the kind data science stuff where GPUs help but you are not using an LLM. Like statistical models on large amounts of data and so on.

Maybe fly.io customer base isn't that sort of user. But I was pushing a previous company to get AWS GPUs because it would save us money vs CPU for the workload.
This is a false dichotomy. The truth is we are constantly moving further and further away from the silicon. New developers don't have as much need to understand these details because things just work; some do care because they work at a job where it's required, or because they're inherently interested (a small number).

Over time we will move further away. If the cost of an easily managed solution is low enough, why do the details matter?
The article goes into almost tedious detail about where it came from, and whether it constitutes a "proper" font. I think you may have skimmed too fast.
Sure, because half of the country is stupid (that’s the only explanation!) unlike you oh, enlightened one
It's how Urbit was designed, for example. The gentry owns all the primary namespaces, and the peasants pay rent to use their lairds fief.
> If your conclusion after reading a bunch of studies is "wow I really don't understand the fancy math they're doing here" then usually you should do the work to understand that math before you conclude that it's all a load of crap.

While this is true, putting the onus on the reader to understand a lot of advanced math makes it easy to avoid scrutiny by increasing the complexity of your math such that the only people who are ever going to be able to critique you are the intersection between PhD-level mathematicians and experts in the field your paper actually pertains to. Anyone can just say whatever they want and assure you that they must be right because they know more math than everyone else who's interested in that problem.

Instead of, "Understand the math before you conclude that it's all a load of crap," I would say, if it's an unreasonable level of complexity for the particular problem and you can't find a large body of other papers doing something similar with the same problem, just ignore it.
Great question that I don't think the other commentors really answered. Sadly I don't really know "why" either. Second system effect?

Instead of making IPv6 just "IPv4 with 128bit instead of 32bit address space" the designers changed a bunch of things. NDP is new and different than ARP. ICMPv6 is extended and different. MLD instead of IGMP for multicast group membership. DHCP is extended and has a bunch of other alternatives, like SLAAC. IPsec is mandatory now.

All the new IPv6 protocols seem more secure, more powerful, and more efficient. So I guess that is "why". But I bet in an alternative history where backwards compatibility and the upgrade process were prioritized IPv6 would be a lot more widespread.
I came across the new CSS logo and thought the color looked about right (it's rebeccapurple), and ended up reading Eric's blog as a result.
They did say they like it, despite it breaking so many "rules".
>Its federated model is not meant to give control to the end user.

Can you elaborate on this? I would think giving control to the end user is exactly what a federated model would do.
It's not a thing in my part of the US, but there are lots of regional dialects, so it may be a thing somewhere else in the US.
I'd gamble that it'll be less so than the response to Threads. Tumblr users, on average, are generally a better culture fit than Facebook/Instagram ones.
Do you have any proof of this assertion? Most government agencies outside of the military have passed financial audits. People who have worked as auditors in the public and private sectors generally report more waste and fraud in the private sector by far.
Of course you do, that's why school isn't just the teacher giving you the answers, you have to work for it.
>However, can you think of anything else that changed since 8 Jan that would override decades of policy in the matter of hours?

Surely this is the wrong question- if the change happened on 8 Jan, we'd need to look at events before 8 Jan to find what precipitated the change, no?
I have made significant life decisions based primarily on not wanting to move a sofa out of a space I moved it into.
I am sure Putin is ecstatic right now.
A bad developer is still a developer. Even if that developer is largely wrong, the majority of the employed developer's operating time consisting of unproductive efforts that will always need to be remedied by expert problem solving and engineering. But the LLM is such a naughty developer that is free (insofar as the pennies worth of electricity and microprocessor metals for running a local LLM is virtually no cost). Not only is it free, it is also able to give you a huge volume of labor. So, an LLM can give you a volume of free labor. And within the probability distribution of that large volume of free labor, there is the chance that bad developer will give you something valuable that can be productive and make up for all the losses you endured dealing with the eager assistant LLM developer. The bottom line is that being a skilled developer will require the employment of artificial intelligence's presently unwieldy enthusiasm and capability. As a sort of necessary evil that has on the opposite side of the bad side, the good side, unexpected insights, massive productivity, and unprecedented development. LLMs are probably the only way to perform the work of a hundred men all by yourself.

Unless what you're doing doesn't demand risk taking, perseverance, and a visionary's personality? In which case, we should call a spade a spade and, therefore, recognize that most (if not all) so called senior software developers are nothing more than state welfare recipients who are fungible to companies and economics that can get rid of the drag on their progress if they really wanted to. If you're not learning how to struggle with LLMs, you're probably not improving and growing as a software engineer. You'll then be limited to tentatively useful areas of the Internet. Like working for a FAANG, Tesla, or SpaceX or some other mundane shit.
I mean consumer GPUs, yes.

But server GPUs tend to deprecate slower.

Which we also see with e.g. A100 80GiB is approaching 5 years of age, but still sold and used widely and still cost ~20k$USD (and I remember a noticable higher price before deep seek...).

The thing is sure a A100 80GiB is a much older arch then successors, but the main bottleneck is the memory of which it has 80GiB.
As a kid (first, maybe second grade) I wrote lining numerals at a time when kids were taught to write numerals all at x-height, for similar reasons.
Best “yet another*” project name in awhile. Cool stuff
I just explained how AI books are able to cheat - they make more, faster, cheaper, and win based not on quality, never on quality, but rather by overwhelming. Such a strategy is morally reprehensible. It's like selling water by putting extra salt in everything.

Consumers are limited by humanity. We are all just meat sacks at the end of the day. We cannot, and will not, sift through 1 billion books to find the one singular one written by a person. We will die before then. But, even on a smaller scale - we have other problems. We have to work, we have family. Consumers cannot dedicate perfect intelligence to every single decision. This, by the way, is why free market analogies fall apart in practice, and why consumers buy what is essentially rat poison and ingest it when healthier, cheaper options are available. We are flawed by our blood.

We can run a business banking on the stupidity of consumers, sure. We can use deceit, yes. To me, this is morally reprehensible. You may disagree, but I expect an argument as to why.
I prefer Australia Open approach. I mean I don't need to have thousands dollar device to get the fun of it.
Those post are flagged because many of us do not want to see ANYTHING about US politics in here, no matter if it’s dressed up as a technical article
What if they believe that this is bluff?
How do you think?
A SOP for static content, it feels great.

I use many SOPs daily. The principle is that if you can forget everything about it but the name, obtain the documentation, and relearn it, you should do about the same thing as without.

Though you can find SOPs similar to modern from 1950s USSR docs, the U.S. Navy ones like folding SOP or military shower SOP are especially pragmatic.
I fucking hate LinkedIn so much it's unreal. When it comes to that platform, I lose all rationality altogether. Perhaps I need to go to therapy, but not before LinkedIn influencers are all assembled in the town square and publicly executed for their crimes upon humanity.
Address space is abundant enough on 64-bit platforms that we even waste a lot of it on security mitigations. Symbols tables are overhead, but loading multiple libs also involves all sorts of overhead. The disk space argument makes the most sense, but binary code doesn't take up a lot of disk space these days; a vast majority is typically used for data, media, the latest large AI model etc.

Having larger shared libraries also means you no longer have to statically link that included code into multiple separate executables.
> The biggest problem: developers don’t want GPUs. They don’t even want AI/ML models. They want LLMs.

I considered using a Fly GPU instance for a project and went with Hetzner instead. Fly.io’s GPU offering was just way too expensive to use for inference.
> Understaffing due to discrimination was a factor

As much as Trump’s cuts.

The FAA is one of the world’s most-successful bureaucracies. Anything they’ve been doing should be replicated across government.

The root cause of the crash is Congressmen overloading the airport [1]. (The proximate, the Army flying green pilots in congested airspace [2].)

[1] https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/01/31/defazio-pl...

[2] https://www.wsj.com/us-news/helicopter-crew-may-not-have-hea...
Of course they censor, just not the speech TikTok is now censoring.
Same here. I just built a pc with a 3090 for local llm and stable diffusion and have zero regrets.
> but it would look incredible on a resume

working at doge? your resume would be straight in the trash if i came across it.

50% of the country might support this. The software industry, especially the lower levels like engineers and managers, leans left politically.
My thing here is just: people self-hosting LLMs think about performance in tokens/sec, and we think about performance in terms of ms/rtt; they're just completely different scales. We don't really have a comparative advantage for developers who are comfortable with multisecond response times. And that's fine!