skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really think people can distinguish between a formal accusation and snark.

Now, I agree that in febrile political environments it's better not to rely on sarcasm and satire for communication because it imposes extra cognitive overhead and is subject to misinterpretation, but at the same time 'found the [negative stereotype]' is such a common joke format in American popular culture that it would be foolish to take it literally. It's like objecting to a 'knock knock' joke by complaining that the person is lying about being on the other side of a door.

And putting trolls and their critics on the same level is fundamentally foolish, and a much worse example of feeding trolls. It means attacking the critics for paying the trolls back in their own coin, which inevitably leads to a ratchet effect in favor of the trolls. There's good evidence that being rude to trolls is the most effective way for an online community to maintain itself: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03697
No need. We’re seeing increasing class segregation in where people live [1] and with whom they interact [2]. Rich people, broadly, get good healthcare. (Marin County being a famous exception of rich, educated nutters.)

This administration is a wealth transfer from the poor and middle class up. If your doctor won’t call you when a pandemic emerges, you’re a net payer.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/articles/growing-economic-segregat...

[2] https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soc4.128...
I never knew this was a real thing math people studied! I wonder if Douglas Adams knew about it when he wrote about the sofa stuck in the staircase in Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, or if it's a coincidence.
Amazing great work!

EPolanski is one of the best b2b sales people in the universe!

#goodtogreat

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/s of course :)
And Greenland.
My thought exactly... When Musk was asked about potential conflict of interest he basically replied "Of course not, we're transparent and document everything on X"...
I like this take.

Previously there was a tension between easy-to-write (helper functions to group together oft-repeated lines of code, etc) vs easy to read (where often modest repetition is fine and is clearer). I felt this tension a lot in tests where the future reader is very happy with explicit lines of code setting things up, whereas the test author is bored and writes layers of helper functions to speed their work up.

But for LLMs, it seems readability of code pretty much equals its writability?

To make code more authorable by LLM, we approximately just need to make it more readable in the traditional sense (code comments, actual abstractions not just code-saving helper functions, etc).
Side note: "we were wrong" - are there any more noble and beautiful words in the English language?
And people on the internet are simplifying it into memes. Shocker.
That regulation is known before one signs up to be a ham. So the disclosure is voluntary.
30-60 cameras and expert producers with years of experience broadcasting live NBA games. The NBA will NEVER upgrade their nation-wide broadcast kit, billions of dollars, for about 100K strap-on facial PC users. It's just not gonna happen.
It actually was a recursive acronym that stood for XNU is Not UNIX. Then at some point Apple got it UNIX certified as part of MacOS.
I expect dvorak would actually be pretty bad for a phone screen keyboard. All your most common letters are right next to each other, making autocorrect/swipe type's job harder because adjacent letter pairs are much more likely to be interchangeable. (Especially since vowels are on the left side and consonants on the right.)
If the only new feature is AI, its not worth the upgrade. Outside the lil tech bubble, people hate it.
Next week: fly introduces game streaming technology for indie game devs.
The failure of Yarvin's Dark Enlightenment and Network States.

Neofeudalism doesn't work.
I do not see a good faith case, period.

I've come across compromising data over the years--and never have I referred to it in any way that would permit identification of the person. Either it warrants going to the police or it stays private, there's no in between.
The author keeps referring to the font as ugly, but I really enjoy it. The variety of signage I've seen it on (national parks, placards, industrial applications and schematics) evoke a sense of awe in me.
Well, to the extent that people equate GOFAI with purely symbolic / logic-based processing, then no, not for my money anyway. I think it's possible to construct systems that use elements of symbolic processing along with sub-symbolic approaches and get useful results. I think of it as (although this is something of an over-simplification) taking symbolic reasoning, relaxing some of the constraints that go along with the guarantees that method makes out the outputs, and accepting a (hopefully only slightly) less desirable output. OR, think about flipping the whole thing around, get an output from, say, an LLM where there might be hallucination(s), and then use a symbolic reasoning system to post-process the output to ensure veracity before sending it to the user. Amazon has done some work along those lines, for example. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/reducing-hallu...

Anyway this is all somewhat speculative, and I don't want to overstate the "weight" of anything I seem to be claiming here. This is just the direction my interests and inclinations have taken me in.
I thought the argument for statues was "it's history not celebration".
Nothing to hide, nothing to fear?
In the US they’re too high for what we get: essentially nothing.

So if I am taxed, things need to be done with those taxes. Not just line the pockets of whomever get it. I sure don’t.
Trump's Purge Hits Nuclear Weapons Agency–Setting Off National Crisis
I’m confused at why this is a difficult problem to solve, basically any load balancer/reverse proxy can handle this easily.

Nginx example: https://stackoverflow.com/a/11733363

I might be misunderstanding you, something about the way you wrote your question is really hard to follow.

In AWS you could front with a load balancer with ACM certificates and then send that traffic to an nginx proxy fleet where you can do whatever you need to do. You could even put AWS global accelerator in front of those AWS load balancers if you want to be able to give your customers just a couple of IP addresses globally.
+1 ChatGPT 4o still does not understand that React's ChakraUI is now on version 3 - which is incompatible with it's ChakraUI version 2 training data :')
I’m so happy to see the side effects of Apple pissing on developers for so long that large caps pull out and small business and individual developers don’t want to touch the stuff.
would love for you to test a serverless llm product i'm working on, zack [at] mixlayer.com
oh. more turtles.
Linkedin is horrible, but rarely do I see a post like this that doesn’t get a smackdown. LinkedIn surely doesn’t do public smackdowns, so I’ll ask - what kind of content were you sharing? Were you doing anything you may consider not-super-approved of? Have you previously scraped LinkedIn or potentially have your ip flagged by any security computers for unscrupulous behavior in the internet?
Their play is not to make money from Tumblr users, but to grow the total number of users connected to ActivityPub. Then they can go to BigCos and say "here it is, you can drop Twitter/Threads/Instagram/TikTok and control your social media presence directly."

It's not that different from what Facebook is doing with Threads. They are not interested in making money from social media, they are just hoping they can become the main infrastructure provider.
Gonna have to share the gift link as a comment, thanks. Top is straight source only
> It doesn't help that the CEO actively antagonized a large portion of the site not too long ago.

I love that this statement could apply to either Tumblr or WordPress. CEOs are such an expensive liability lately.
What GPUS services will you keep?
LinkedIn is a place where you can say anything you like in a political sense, even if your employer has policy, if your voice sounds off the same rattle as everyone else
This is what the Murdoch news empire does. It creates the mindset it wants people to have by repeating lies.
Recycled anecdote from an earlier time this was discussed on HN:
While a student, I looked after the apartment of a friend of mine, who was overseas.
When he moved there, we were _just_ able to eke his sofa around the last corner from the stairwell and through the door to his apartment. Just. After much cursing and several failed attempts.
So, what does a good (cough) friend do while the owner is overseas?
Get some hardwood mouldings/trimmings/whatever you call those long, thin pieces of wood typically put where wall transitions to ceiling or floor and nail them to the exterior doorframes, making both door openings perhaps 3/8" or so narrower, paint them in the color of the doorframe, sit back and wait.
Then, years later, as he is about to leave town, moving company comes along and everything runs smoothly until one item remains. The sofa. Obviously, it got in - so it'll (as obviously) come out.
Only it doesn't.
We (everybody except the owner and the moving guys were in on the joke) managed to keep a straight face for several minutes.
The moving guys even laughed as they (eventually) left, mollified by a bottle filled with a Scottish export product which we'd kept on hand to ensure no feelings were hurt afterwards.
That's just laughable for entire generations of people, like Soviet headlines of how food production is beating all records while the store shelves are empty. People are getting absolutely murdered on rents and real estate inflation. If you're a landlord or can leverage your real estate, then good for you. You have never been wealthier.
A decade later, a decade lost (2024)
Judging by the last link, the only options that are strictly superior to snappy in every sense are lz4 (as OP claimed) and zstd (levels -3 to +1). If compression speed is critical, then the default level of zstd compression in most big data tools (+3) might be the wrong one for you, but test on your own data, not Silesia.
They could be using the existing motion capture technology used for sports analytics [1]. The Australian Open did something similar this year to convert skeletal tracking data into animation to get around broadcasting rights issues [2]. I would bet small money that the Open was using the same Hawk-Eye tracking system the NBA is, because both articles mention "12 cameras and 29 tracking points in the skeleton."

I don't care so much about the tabletop view shown, but if we get to the point where I can choose my viewpoint from anywhere on the court I'd be excited. I want to pause the game and rewind and watch Jayson Tatum's jab steps up close, to get a better sense of how he fakes out the opposing player. Put me in the action.

1. https://www.sportsvideo.org/2023/03/09/nba-taps-sonys-hawk-e...
2. https://www.npr.org/2025/01/17/nx-s1-5261006/australian-open...
> American conservatives view governments as inherently evil:

Governments don't have a particularly good track record, so why give them the benefit of the doubt? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democide

According to Rummel, democide surpassed war as the leading cause of non-natural death in the 20th century.

A government that is as weak as possible at least possesses less organizational capacity for murdering you when things inevitably go off the rails.
That's because you're using ChatGPT instead of Claude.
I feel like these guys are missing a pretty important point in their own analysis. I tried setting up a ollama LLM on a fly.io GPU machine and it was near impossible because of fly.io limitations such as:
1. Their infrastructure doesnt support streaming responses well at all (which is important part of the LLM experience in my view)
2. The LLM itself is massive, and cant be part of the docker image I was building and uploading. Fly doesnt have a nice way around this, so I had to setup a whole heap of code to pull it in on the fly machines first invocation, which doesnt work well if you start to run multiple machines. It was messy and ended up with a long support ticket with them that didnt get it working any better so I gave up.
Fail Fasterer™
Until they embrace porn this product is dead
It reminds me of all the naive engineers that look at a complex codebase, don't fully grok it, and say "this is a mess, it needs a rewrite!".

They then find out that every complex rule had a reason for existing. The rewrite takes time and resources to reimplement. As they go they hit snag after snag and add a specific business rule for that only to find out that they are just recreating the original "too complex and inefficient" codebase with a whole lot of effort and money wasted.
It's great when people admit they were wrong but I can't help to find those headlines clickbaity.

A bit like "stop doing this..." and we think: omg, am I doing the same deadly mistake?
It's a good idea and I was curious if it was a bot or manual.
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I noticed quite a few spelling and grammar mistakes - could do with a bit of an edit pass?
Sounds like you might have been wrong in spending time on the other stuff. ;)

Who even knows what the customer is ever going to want? Pivot. Pivot. Pivot.

PS: And pouring one out for the engineering hours that went into shipping GPUs. Sometimes it's a fine product, but just doesn't fit.
Figure AI is in talks to raise $1.5B at 15x its last valuation
Oh, absolutely, but Republican legislators have decided that it's OK for the federal government to arbitrarily pick economic winners and losers now.
Nice, there are a ton of threads here to check out. For example I had not heard of

https://pytorch.org/torchrec/

Which seems to nicely package a lot of primitives I have worked with previously.
Companies like Figma have been doing that for years.
Does Zalgo even work on HN? I've never thought of using it to test my systems, thank you. I've got some new testing to do tonight.

Edit: No, Zalgo doesn't work on HN. This comment itself was an experiment to try.
The Long Road to Multitouch (2022)
https://archive.is/D3Qb5
A tyrant is someone who treats you like a criminal. You're just asking for leadership.
Every post I've seen recently talking about all the false flags here has ended up rapidly flagged.

Feel free to prove me wrong, by showing one single post on this topic, at any time over the past couple weeks, which wasn't flagged. Such an obvious way to manipulate discussion here needs to be addressed from time to time; now being one of those times.

The discussion in those threads (ie [6]) shows widespread agreement; far from your assertion of what "the bulk of the community wants".

You can assert that stories about DOGE are not being deliberately and widely suppressed here, or that they are but for a good reason - but I don't believe you. And I don't think you believe yourself either. If you do, you shouldn't.

[6] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42900560
Have you considered just walking backwards uphill in the snow to your local library and checking out an (out of date) dead tree book, like - you know like us "real" programmers used to do it?

The gatekeeping around using llms for coding is so goofy (and expected)...
I mean, yes? Managing giant model weight files is a big problem with getting people on-demand access to Docker-based micro-VMs. I don't think we missed that point so much as that we acknowledged it, and found some clarity in the idea that we weren't going to break up our existing DX just to fix it. If there were lots and lots and lots of people trying to self-host LLMs running into this problem, it would have been a harder call.
In the current days of AI I think spelling and grammar mistakes is perhaps a great way to tell it is still written by human...... ( Until AI copy this )
> I'm curious, would you mind elaborating on your use-cases for sandboxed backend application code?

When working with backend systems you generally have 2 choices, a less secure containerized environment that does a very good job of distributing resources or a bulky VM which has a fixed memory cost that you might not need.

WASM sits right in the middle of the two. It has a durable sandbox that prevents bugs in the application logic from exposing the whole machine to exploit (and it itself can be further isolated using the same containerization security practices) but also has the benefits of single app like resource requirements.

Another prime benefit of WASM (not related to the sandboxing) is that WASM is a write once run anywhere standard. That means you don't need a different x86 and ARM wasm deployable. Similar to Java's JAR.
Nestle CEO Defends Packaged Food
“I was wrong.”

Closely followed by, “I was right.” :)
Trump announced DOGE on Nov 12th, 2024 [0] and the transition doesn't all just happen on Jan 20th. The Presidential Transition Act has provisions that allow some members of transition staff to get access to federal IT systems, and with both Congress turning over on Jan 3rd, 2025 and Biden already completely checked out, it wouldn't be even a bit surprising to me if Congressional staffers or DOGE staffers started opening things up as soon as they could.

I don't have any evidence that it's the case, but if the claim about a surge of govt infrastructure appearing on shodan is accurate, I don't have any other hypotheses to explain it.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/trump-says-elon-musk-...
Features on Mars are caused by carbon dioxide geysers
Nah, fly.io has a company culture that is all about having lots of bugs and issues, and that includes blog posts.

The idea that a cloud compute provider can’t make GPU compute into an profitable business is pretty laughable.
I love the idea that Kurt needed to better couch a post saying he was wrong about something.
That's very fair, in any case I'm sorry to hear that you were so mistreated, I wish I could say that it surprised me. People love to blame the various mods, but in my opinion it was always the admins that were the problem. Of course the buck ultimately rests with Spez, which is a sentence no one wants to type.
Did you consider other use cases in which people need custom models and inference other than just open source LLMs ?
There are many things you're allowed to disclose about yourself that are considered unacceptable to disclose about others without their consent.
Americans going on a power trip because you didn't name it based on America? How timely.
Interesting this is marked as a dupe, I searched and didn't find any other posting of this article? Do we mark as a dupe when it is a different article about a common subject?
laughs in kubectl
Who's it extracting from?
(Pure) ActivityPub would be the wrong basis for this. Its federated model is not meant to give control to the end user.

SOLID or ActivityPods, on the other hand...
That would be the logical expectation. Fediverse maintainers can be worse than Reddit mods in how aggressively they ban users and instances
Chernobyl radiation shield hit by Russian drone
> GPUs terrified our security team.

Ha ha, it didn't terrify Modal. It ships with all those security problems, and pretends it doesn't have them. Sorry Eric.
Yes. Click through to the L40S post the article links to (the L40S's aren't going anywhere).

There are people doing GPU-enabled inference stuff on Fly.io. That particular slice of the market seems fine?
this obsession with government tyranny in the US is bonkers. Why is your default assumption that government will "go off the rails"?

Why is your starting point not the default for most reasonable people - that the government is literally people from that society trying to manage their own affairs and to help each other when possible?
Not sure about this:

> like with our portfolio of IPv4 addresses, I’m even more comfortable making bets backed by tradable assets with durable value.

Is that referencing the gpus, the hardware? If yes, why should they have a durable value? Historically hardware like that deprecated fast and reaches a value of 0, energy efficiency alone kills e.g. old server hardware. Something different here?
I have to agree with this. Look at GPU utilization at AWS, Azure, .. they are running close to 100%.

for our p5 quota I had to talk to our TAM team on AWS, while most of our quota requests are instant usually.
I think that we should start to take more seriously that the people who do what you say are not just misguided ... there is political goal behind it. They do intentionally lie and we should stop awarding them benefit of doubt.

I mean, it is probably too late for that, but the mandatory naivity with which these people were treated were contributing issue.
The recent executive order for filling vacancies or whatever basically said doge can't touch dod or dohs.
> in Idris

For a lower-tech approach, you can even do one in Standard ML[1,2], more or less in plain Hindley–Milner (no substantial use of modules). The error messages are admittedly miserable. Perhaps it would be more correct to call that one a type-safe middle ground between printf and std::ostream::operaror<<, though, and I have to admit that loses what for me is one of the principal advantages of (POSIX) printf: the format string is a string, so localization—which inevitably involves rearranging placeholders—is much easier.

It might be that the correct solution involves a string with placeholders, but with formatting instructions—and all dependencies on argument types—pushed outside (to the argument list or similar). I’ve toyed with something like that in C; unfortunately, it’s not as succint as normal printf unless I want to tie it to dynamic memory allocation. For C, there’s also the advantage that you can avoid pulling in floating-point formatting code if you don’t need it, without resorting to GCC-specific tricks like Cosmopolitan does[3], and that code is the biggest (code and data) space hog that keeps printf out of embedded and other kinds of lean programs.

[1] http://mlton.org/Printf

[2] http://mlton.org/Fold

[3] https://justine.lol/sizetricks/
Russians, who happen to also have Internet access, are definitely afraid of violating CFAA.
Oof. I honestly can't tell if the author is joking at times. Gave up on reading it.
Happy to see a positive outcome here! Here's a great video that details the incident that led to this: https://youtu.be/P7BhMKqIkig
The evidence is they are proposing another $4.5T tax cut that will eat up whatever purported saving you are excited about. They’re canceling these programs, taking the savings for themselves, cutting Medicaid, and ratcheting up the debt another $3T. These are not the behaviors of someone concerned about decreasing the debt, but accurately reflect the behaviors of someone trying to distract you with hot-button cultural issues while they rob the treasury. Watch what they do, not what they say.
In the US, you get social security, medicare/medicaid, the world's most powerful military, transportation infrastructure, education, fire departments, VA benefits, and hundreds of other things. You might not value any of it, but that's the parent's point: You aren't getting nothing, you're getting a lot of expensive things you don't value for your taxes. It's a completely different type of discussion to have and one that's much more amenable to productive discussion.
Kevin hasn’t hacked anything at all. He ran with a few other characters who never received anywhere near the amount of attention that Mitnick did. For example, no one ever figured out who “jsz” was.
Not voting doesn't mean you automatically agree with the winner's policies, no.
Article was pretty light on details. Were these just probationary employees?

Still, chaos in staffing in essential government offices is not good governance. Why must Trump and Elon rush this process?