skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The biggest problem: developers don’t want GPUs. They don’t even want AI/ML models. They want LLMs.

No, I want GPU. BERT models are still useful.

The point is your service is too expensive that only one or two months of renting is enough to build a PC from scratch and place it somewhere in your workplace to run 24/7. For applications that need GPU power, usually downtime or latency does not really matter. And you always add an extra server to ensure.
Yeah, I'm sure there are no weird edge cases in America's byzantine tax laws that have been spotted and squashed in the software

Sounds like fun to find and fix them all again though!
So many changes have happened in a single life-time. Political, societal, technological etc. And change is always unsettling.

Most of all though the utopia promised in the 50s, by Walt certainly, but also others, has not come to pass.

The MAGA movement is not about returning to what was, but rather about a return to a feeling, a nostalgic return to a time of hope. And in the 50s the future hoped for was very white, and kept women at home. Disney didn't present a future of women working, or having bodily agency, it presented a future of privileged white men.

Disney, the company, itself changed along the way. It's far more progressive now, and indeed if anything takes the progressiveness a bit far. That change in something so nostalgic adds to that MAGA angst.

Of course the present is nothing like the future Walt imagined. His vision seems like a quaint pastiche now. Is it too late to remake America into that vision now? I guess we'll find out.
> You can find clips of many politicians doing similar gestures.

Really?

Since Musk made his two salutes all I've seen in response have been highly selective still photos taken at low angles that make it appear Obama, Harris, etc. have been making Nazi salutes.

I've yet to see a dynamic unfaked video lengthy video clip of, say, Joe Biden, throwing a Nazi salute.

Do you have such a clip with details of the time and place, hosted by a major media outlet?
Never say never! I can't rule it out, for sure. :-)
Risk of what?
Me too I've struggled to find anything good
Every single man I know is fully committed to fight an invasion if it came to it, and most of us have aggressively cut back spending in American companies and tourism wherever possible. If the people I know are a decent representation of the country, it’ll be absolutely miserable for Trump to make an inch of progress on this without substantial losses.
A few things. Why not copy these systems onto a separate server to prevent tampering.

Second, spending is done by Congress. If you don’t like the spending cut it through proper channels we don’t get to decide not to fund something once’s it’s been allocated.
There’s not many free as in open source alternatives out there. There’s traditional CAD such as Fusion 360 which gives you a limited amount of designs and is “free” for non-commercial use.

So then under the open source, own your designs umbrella you have stuff like FreeCAD which is similar to traditional CAD which means you have a learning curve.

OpenSCAD is programmatic which suits someone with a software engineering background. Plus being free in the sense of owning your designs.
Regarding the object store: I use DigitalOcean’s Spaces, and it runs me about $9/mo. I have about 4K users. It doesn’t have to be expensive.
Get a Job with Sebastian Thrun and Matt Fisher
Not sure, but it says it's the most POSIX-compliant shell. Sometimes you have a requirement for a project like "must use a POSIX-compliant shell". If all the other existing shells are only mostly POSIX-compliant, then you'd want Yash.
I see nowhere in Musks history that he went to school in New Orleans
I guess I never have enough leverage to order Apple to fix stuff. I'm like water and gravity. It's just a random example though and I agree you do give up a lot by being a generalist. However for most people we don't do really new or hard problems. Its a lot of spaghetti
Not transparent?

Compared to what? The Biden administration? Who never even held a press conference for months?

And what evidence? Did you want a downloadable pdf of justification for each cut?

The partisan nature of the criticism is obvious - Trump and Musk are bad, so nothing they do can be good. Produce evidence? Not good enough!
Guardian Media Group announces strategic partnership with OpenAI
I disgree with your sentiment. One thing that is constant in my experience as a computer programmer, there are always "old" computer programmers complaining that there are too many abstractions.
I've said fields, not messages. It can exfiltrate data by copying it between fields of the single message it parses.

Imagine a server calling some API and getting `{"secret":"hunter2"}` response that isn't supposed to be displayed to the user, and an evil parser pretending the message was `{"error":{"user_visible_message":"hunter2"}}` instead, which the server chooses to display.
The irony here is that nowhere in my original post did I claim there was no commingling of funds.

In fact, I was trying to point out that our taxes were actually HIGHER than most people think due to FICA. Did I say these programs were covered?

My point was that they were taxed separately.

And to answer your question, the dirty little secret of government is that they raid the trust funds. Why else would the trust fund have interest income?

But it's not really from income taxes, it's from raising money through issuing debt.

I was not making the point you thought I was making.
Search for A100 on this page:
https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/
Is it all that different than DNS, in that top level domains are owned by a certain 'gentry' and everyone else pays rent?

You don't have to pay for namespace in urbit btw only if you want a permanent handle (and when you buy a planet or whatever its yours, you don't pay monthly for it, but yes you buy it from someone who was granted ownership by king curtis)
That's how bash works for me, I believe by the combination of these in my .profile:

shopt -s histappend
PROMPT_COMMAND="history -a"
You have a child like nativity if you think foreign aid doesn’t come with strings attached.

You do know the polio vaccine program in Pakistan where DNA analysis to find Bin Laden was done through USAID? The one that set vaccination back decades?

And now you’re defending it. Amazing.
I remember reading Eric's writing about Rebecca's illness and death at the time, and even though it was before my own daughter's birth I remember it being one of the saddest things I could remember reading. His writing is so eloquent that he really communicated the sadness and helplessness, while still managing to move on with his life. My deepest condolences.
> But I’m burying the lead.

It's "lede". There's a few other typos too.

I'm not sure I like the "This one trick they don't want you to know about!" writing style of these (e.g. the Cursor/malpractice hot take, that sort of thing).
If you make six figures and you are single, you are still at the 78th percentile of income earners who work 40 hours a week.

https://dqydj.com/salary-percentile-calculator/
Money is fungible, my friend. A dollar of tax income is equivalent to a dollar of debt.

The trust fund, to be clear, is only for social security. It is not for Medicare.

I should point out for full accuracy that Medicare part A also has a trust fund that is similarly draining (although this one is almost insolvent), but most of the programs in Medicare are not funded by the part A trust.

Final edit: The Medicare trust fund also has a generous contribution from "general revenue" of the government - aka tax dollars.
Mailing Lists vs. Message Boards
Shades of /r/trees vs /r/marijuanaenthusiasts
This isn’t even an argument you realize that? “Daddy Musk”?

Can you put together an adult argument?
I think you’re misusing the word “entitlement” as it is used with respect to US government spending. Can you elaborate what you think the connection is?
The CFPB was effectively shut down with no replacement for the work it's doing (e.x. handling it when your credit card refuses to acknowledge fraud). I believe you on the fired. I don't on the "fixed immediately". I've haven't even seen DOGE itself claim that it's making any pieces of government MORE effective.
Two things:

1. To people saying that the government should have a direct way to file taxes. This is an outdated way of thinking. Most ordinary people shouldn't have to file taxes at all. Withholding is sufficient for income taxes and taxes on liquid investments.

2. 18F was an openly partisan organisation. They were likely disbanded not to kill the products they produced, but rather for their inability to remain politically neutral.
haha that's so relatable. Perfect example of someone just acting based on how they want to be perceived rather than how things actually are. The thing is, everyone else around sees right through it too which makes it all the more sadly humorous.
I mean, I can't pay you anything, but that sounds interesting as hell. Are there any interesting use cases to massive amounts of memory outside of training?
thanks, I'll reach out!
I was let down by the article, there's very little narrative that I would describe as "nightmarish" (unless you consider longevity/crypto bros hosting a beach party outside their coworking space a nightmare). More just legal and political posturing and dunking on the feasibility of network states. I did enjoy the irony of a libertarian sect going straight to Washington DC to try and push around their host country. Like, yes, there is a reason it's nice to be a citizen of a global hegemon, why are you trying to do your own thing again?
> You've probably heard Rachael’s voice. Her effusive reaction on a stacking YouTube video meant for her small group of friends is behind the iconic "YES, OH MY GOSH!" scream, sampled in one of EDM's most mainstream hits, "Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites," by Skrillex.

That video, along with the Skrillex track, is the only reason I even knew about cup stacking. Until today I had no idea that it was an actual serious sport with international competitions.
It's always very interesting to see this kinds of subculture crossovers.
It may be a bit more complicated than what a nameless "competent repair person" thought it should have been. Do you worship your news sources too?

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/reservoir-pacific-palis...
It’s not the difference between $24K and $200K.

If you are “senior” developer at an enterprise CRUD company making $160K, do the leetcode grind and probably be down leveled to a mid level developer making $250K-$275K living in a high cost of living area , it gets more nuanced. If you are single and living in an apartment, the difference in rent will still make it worth it.

But if you are trying to duplicate the big house, in the good school system with 2.1 kids and a stay at home spouse, the numbers change where it’s not worth it.
My best friend's son died at the hands of a negligent daycare, he escaped his crib, knocked a stroller over on to himself which wasn't supposed to be there, and suffocated to death. My friend called me that night to tell me. It's been 5 years and I think about it every single day. Frankly it has turned me from a person with zero anxiety to one with a good deal. I've checked on my younger daughter's breathing every single night since then. She's 7 years old and I still can't stop myself from checking on her. My friend is one of the good-est people I know. A genuinely good person. Why him? And if him, certainly why not me?
> Trump literally said in a press conference about DOGE a few days ago that he will follow all court order

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/trump-unfreezing-feder...

The judges issuing said orders disagree. Saying a thing is not the same as doing a thing.
I'm not an insider. I'm a geophysicist. The USGS earthquake site is one of the sites that I cycle through multiple times a day if I get the opportunity.

I can't remember at time in at least the last 15 years when the site has not worked flawlessly serving data about new and historical seismicity from all over the globe in a way that allowed the user to customize the view to fit their own needs.

I agree with a couple of posters that think this may be an effort to rename the GoM to the GoA since all the place names are missing from the Ocean map and the places names that are present on the USGS topo map are full of stupid errors that suggest that they modified naming of water features and it broke something for their map layer.

As an oil and gas industry person I have to chuckle to think about all the things that have to happen for that industry to ever come into compliance with this bullshit renaming. There are thousands of wells in databases globally named with a Gulf of Mexico nomenclature. That's just the wells. Each of them likely has multiple dozen products with a GoM tag to identify the well it belongs to. There are probably millions of line miles of seismic data from dozens of large and small seismic data acquisition projects, all of which use GoM nomenclature since the standard nomenclature in the industry relates things to a Client, Line, Area, Survey or similar parameters so that if it happened in the Gulf it will have GoM in the name somewhere and in the metadata associated with the project since that is how you geolocate things in the industry. You reference it to an actual physical location known to less than a cm in many cases.

Sounds like a lot of busy work for anyone in the industry and possibly an opportunity for a consultant to step in and handle all the renaming that will need to happen if there is any effort to comply. They'll need to know multiple databases upside down and sideways since each operator manages things their own way. And they'll need to be comfortable sitting idle while the IT guys sort out access permissions for every legacy file and folder once they discover where the data management division has them stored. You'll also be the fall guy if some of the data gets corrupted but, shit happens. Sounds like a sweet gig.
Obligated feedback is coercive. Sometimes silence is NOT consent.
I agree. That would explain all the place names for water features being broken.
A fantasy response to a strawman threat.
Why not both? It's not like these hypothetical cops care about me any more than the muggers. If I have the opportunity to defend myself from the muggers in this scenario or get my money back, I would do so as well. And I would be happy to ostracize anybody I know to be a mugger even if law enforcement does nothing. And build social support for more law enforcement actions against muggers. Etc.
It's systemd but distributed across multiple nodes and with containers instead of applications. Instead of .service files telling the init process how to start and and monitor executables, you have charts telling the controller how to start and monitor containers.
You can simulate 20 qubits with 2*21 floats. So nothing you couldn't do with your laptop.
Me too.

I’m sorry for folks who are genuinely fearful, but I think this fear is all a farce.
Please explain the joke! I don't understand the significance of 14x here!
Oh, then I'm just dumb. Thanks for explaining!
You are describing worst of both worlds - systems engineering, done poorly. I find good abstractions to be almost maintenance-free.
https://openrouter.ai/rankings

This tells you a lot in terms of real-world usage. Claude is relatively expensive + openrouter users are generally price-conscious, yet it still crushes everything else. If investors are demanding new models that'd be absurdly short-sighted, on the level of if Apple investors would suddenly want bi-annual iPhone releases instead of annual ones.

Imo Anthropic's continued stability issues are also just due to extreme demand. Very telling too that everyone continues to build their products on top of them despite far more downtime than OpenAI, clearly it's worth it.
I have met the type on my time on the internet. All it takes is having the guts to push through with what others give you, things they themselves know would get them in legal hell.
Non-humanoid robots would be a better venture since their differently jointed arms and legs would provide better options for flexibility, motion, and control. I think octopus, jellyfish and spider bots would be better at navigating humans spaces.
Also, think upon the incredibly high consistency.
Historically, most consumer-oriented companies had CEOs who were the definition of bland, and they tried to stay out of the public eye for the most part. We are perhaps about to rediscover why?
https://www.credit.com/blog/the-most-misused-social-security...
Well in general I've put entire projects into org docs, and ran the code blocks, essentially using it like a Jupyter notebook (although honestly it wasn't always as smooth as I'd like). And I haven't done this myself, but there's a neat literate programming talk from the last EmacsConf[0] in which the presenter showed some custom capabilities which improved the experience even more for him.

[0] https://emacsconf.org/2024/talks/literate/
Ironically, this proves the parent comments point.
yep, they didn't do even this a few years back
(I am assuming this is a good faith comment.)

In SF, the sprawling bureaucracy has enabled the development of an unwieldy set of policies and processes.

To some folks working at SFMTA, 5 years to build two road humps seems totally reasonable, because:

- that's how long they've seen it take before, and

- they know about all the processes that 'must' happen before the road humps can be built

If the number of city employees were halved at random, those horrible processes would still exist, so there wouldn't be an immediate increase in efficiency. There would almost certainly be a drop in output.

But if the number of SF government employees were drastically cut, this might cause enough of a feeling of crisis, that the folks in charge (both bureaucrats and politicians) would feel compelled to find ways to do more with less.

This outcomes is not guaranteed, of course. After all 7% of SF voters work for the city/county government. Any politician who wants to eliminate their roles may worry about the next election.
Nowhere near a million Ukrainians have died, you’re making an argument with a number that is wrong by at least one zero.

Afghanistan was fighting an unwinnable war against the USSR until the Russians simply gave up.

Similarly the Taliban in Afghanistan were fighting an “unwinnable” war against the even bigger US military for two decades until the Americans gave up and simply left.

Why do you think the situation in Ukraine is wildly different?

Russian is resorting to suicide runs with golf buggies to capture land at the same rate at which a snail moves. Does this sound like an inevitable victory to you?

Is this what winning looks like?
YouCupid - decentralized online dating
A public, free & open source, decentralized dating app on the #nostr protocol.

Users own the data, there is no matching algorithm, any user can match any two of their friends.
I've found ChatGPT and Claude to be immensely helpful for my mental health. I made breakthroughs with them that I haven't in years of therapy.

...at the same time, it's severely limited in important ways. And the lack of real human connection is a problem.

I think well tuned AI in conjunction with a trained and empathetic therapist has a lot of promise. I don't think it's an either / or thing, they can work together.

I'm actually overall bearish on AI in many ways, but this is one that I'm pretty confident in.
Why are quantum computing news always so disingenuous? If you read that and didn't know better, you'd think quantum is officially there and ready to change the world. When in reality, 20 qubits can be perfectly simulated with 2^21 floats on any classical computers. This is just a dumb PR stunt.
John Markoff was the one that made everything up.

Freedom Downtime is a documentary that explains it.
I've had nothing like this happen, but somehow I get this--I was spooked by anecdotes about SIDS before having kids. When we had our daughter, and she was sleeping in her crib in our room, the first couple of months I'd basically wake up when she wasn't making noise, would then in dazed half-sleep wait for her to make any noise to confirm she was still alive (or check, sometimes), and could only then fall back asleep again. This only really quieted down one year in, when the statistical risk goes down. I guess it's fairly easy to get hypersensitized to dangers like this.
That’s a great point. Forced feedback has the high likelihood it's not fully genuine or authentic. And silence isn’t always agreement - sometimes it’s just learned self-preservation. When people don’t feel safe to speak honestly, the absence of complaints isn’t a sign that everything’s fine.
Best to put it surname first:

Fox, Kit
It's more that the God of Moore's Law have given us so many transistors that we are essentially always I/O blocked, so it effectively doesn't matter how good our assembly is for all but the most specialized of applications. Good assembly, bad assembly, whatever, the point is that your thread is almost always going to be blocked waiting for I/O (disk, network, human input) rather than something that a fancy optimization of the loop that enables better branch prediction can fix.
Sorry for not citing current mainstream headline news (I guess Fox is not airing this though) https://www.yahoo.com/news/usaid-inspector-fired-revealing-n...

If you are ignorant to widely-reported news, it's curious to dismiss it as anecdotal.

It's also curious to paint this an accident (before you knew anything about it) when it's the intended result of the order and an inspector was fired for attempting to raise effort to correct it.
They have the preferred model for almost anything that reasoning isn't a perfect fit for, and even on those tasks only O1 wins consistently, for >10x pricing and latency.

Even for reasoning-beneficial tasks you can just CoT Sonnet and it works well, just yesterday I had a task's performance strongly improved by it.
It's worth noting that "container" and "process" are pretty similar abstractions. A lot of people don't realize this, but a container is sort of just a process with a different filesystem root (to oversimplify). That arguably is what a process should be on a server.