skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You said you would be surprised if it delivered something, a similar project delivered[1] and now you're moving the goalpost. And the results of the other projects are quite good [2]. I get that europe feels like a bloated group of countries with nothing in common, but at least sometimes good things come out

[1] https://sites.google.com/view/eurollm/home

[2] https://cdn-uploads.huggingface.co/production/uploads/63f33e...
Yes, but to the degree you believe in "democracy," then you believe the duly-elected President gets to come in and make changes, provided he's acting within the scope of the law. Trump specifically ran on the DOGE/Musk platform/strategy. It was a major component of his closing argument. This is, in fact, the exercise of popular will -- that is, "democracy."

Civil servants ultimately work for the President. That's how it works. There have been many reductions in force prompted by Presidents over time (my own grandfather took one in the seventies). I appreciate there is some disagreement about whether Trump is tripping over any specific laws, but to the degree he's not (the courts will answer that), then he's well within his right to take the direct advice of his advisors, and to act within the scope of his authorities. The President also has the power to get access to even the most confidential information (how could he not?), and to share that with his advisors who have the requisite security clearances (which in many cases he can dictate).

I'm just stunned by all the hand wringing about access to "government data." They're government employees!
What's the digital signature equivalent of yellow ink for printers?
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Here's a snippet from another reply I wrote:

Should we encourage abortions for single mothers because their child might not have a happy life? Should we abort fetuses who have some disability? I'm sure that any of those individuals, once born, would prefer to live regardless of circumstance.
That makes sense! I'd focus on that impact, i.e., significantly reducing time it takes to test new APIs.
> The reason we have been proactively culling is to minimize spread AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, to minimize the number of exposures H5N1 could have to Humans.

The reason the US has been culling is because they refuse to vaccinate chickens. Even China began vaccinations in 2004 ... over 2 decades ago.
Give the demo a try. I compared the CPU usage to the win10 file explorer, and they look identical (both are minuscule); it's super impressive.
He doesn't seem upset to me.

Why can't you follow comment guidelines?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Let’s de-orbit it to be able to facilitate a new contract and a new design for new money. This time private “for mars”
> Take a bloated electron app, analyze the UI, and output the exact same thing but in C++ or Rust. Work with LLVM and find optimizations a human could never see. I remember seeing a similar concept applied to physical structures (like a small plane fuselage or a car) where the AI "learns" to make a lighter stronger design and it comes out looking so bizarre, no right angles, lots of strange rounded connections that almost like a growth of mold. Why can't AI "learn" to improve the state of the art in CS?

So such things already exist, and for me, the most frustrating thing about LLMs is that they just suck the oxygen out of the room for talking about anything AI-ish that's not an LLM.

The term for what you're looking for is "superoptimization," which tries to adapt the principles of mathematical nonconvex optimization that AI pioneered to the problem of finding optimal code sequences. And superoptimization isn't new--it's at least 30 years old at this point. At this point, it's mature enough that if I were building a new compiler framework from scratch, I'd design at least the peephole optimizer based around superoptimization and formal verification.

(I kind of am putting my money where my mouth is there--I'm working on an emulator right now, and rather than typing in the semantics of every instruction, I'm generating them using related program synthesis techniques based on the observable effects on actual hardware.)
It didn't get reported - it just got downvoted. Downvotes are often unfathomable.

The best way to respond is to look over your comment to see if it broke the site guidelines in any way (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). If you notice something, you can correct it in future comments; if you don't, chalk it up to the internet being weird; and either way, don't sweat the downvotes.

Also, if the downvote was weird, someone else will usually come along and add a corrective upvote (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...).
Dynamodb is great. A ton of services, including this site could literally be implemented with dynamodb alone.
I think it's fair to assume that we're not talking about the genetics of other species here.
> well as it passes through all of those up the chain that are involved with hiring

Yes, this mostly works in small organizations. I'm mostly in positions where I have to pass the feedback once, or at most twice up the chain.
Good thing there’s no conflict of interest in the owner of SpaceX advocating for the destruction of a successful international space project.
Eh, not sure I buy that interpretation. Ensuring that the meat you eat only comes from ethical sources is hard, especially if you eat at restaurants, or if you eat food that other people have cooked. (Do you really want to be that person who goes to someone's house for dinner and on-the-spot refuses to eat because their host isn't sure of the provenance of the meat?) It can also be significantly more expensive. It would be entirely reasonable to decide to give up meat rather than deal with all that, if it matters to you.

And on top of that it does make a statement about one's values. Even if someone was ok with doing all that homework, they might want to give up meat as a form of protest against all the factory animal farming out there.
Here's a summary of what one of the members has done before.

https://www.ai.se/en/ai-labs/natural-language-understanding/...

They've cooperated with a research agency known in part for their Prolog implementation, i.e. they've been at it since the last massive "AI" hype cycle.
You had someone check your work?

That's awesome!

Never happened so far in my 26 year career. It' almost as if they're hiring for something else than solving problems and writing code. Following orders, most likely.
If folks aren't aware, there are a number of schools in the Bay Area (as well as Massachuesetts, New York, and many other places) where there are 3-5 or more "top students" all of whom have between 4.2 and 5 GPA, near-perfect-to-perfect SAT, as well as sports/music/other activities, and the universities have a selection algorithm that tries to pick no more than one such applicant (like a per-highschool quota) that falls into an equivclass.

College admissions are a second-order planning process (IE, you have to consider whether the applicant is likely to accept your offer, if you forgo an offer to another candidate with lesser creds that was more likely to accept). See https://www.amazon.com/Gatekeepers-Admissions-Process-Premie... for some insight into the process.
My 100% subscriptions in the past years is on Android, actually.

What I've heard is that one-time purchases lead to a lack of income after three years, when people expect upgrades. That's not a problem for app developers who don't plan to do any upgrades, of course.
Swedish is even closer, there it's "lax" [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravlax
While I disagree with everything going on, the cobol date time thing is just some myth everyone came up with. Go find me a single source to that claim because I can’t.
> A simple observation of LLM behavior can tell us much more than might be apparent at first.

I love the "I'm an expert, I ask simple questions and reveal profound truths" vibe.
Watch out for what you ask for. Plenty of big vendors have certification programs. ... And for some combinations of field and vendor, they are red flags - rather than pre-validation. That is, far too many applicants have the certification but do not have the grounding knowledge without which the certification is sort of useless - potentially more dangerous than validating.
> The goal of cryptocurrency is to have a financial system with none of that pesky government regulation.

Except it's just a speculative asset, not an actual financial system, unless you count its use by criminal elements to actually transfer funds.

Ledgers can't scale to allow for a financial system that could serve an entire country either, due to transaction speed issues.

I think there's some good ideas involved - a financial system not under the control of a government, but the current implementation of everything crypto is failing at everything other than financial speculation.
I haven't made an omelet in months and I'm still eating like a king. Why are people so obsessed with eggs? Are they a linchpin to the American diet or something?
Anyone who has a clearance has signed numerous statements acknowledging their personal responsibility to protect the information in their care. If you want access, follow the procedures, then that responsibility is fulfilled. And if DOGE posts whatever to some unsecured S3 bucket its on them, not the bureaucrat (well, let's be real, contractor) who let them in.
Homepage: https://sites.google.com/view/eurollm

Deliverables:

- A series of models of different sizes for optimal effectiveness and efficiency (1B, 9B and 22B) trained on 4T tokens

- A multimodal model which can process and understand speech or text input

- Full project codebase available to the public with detailed data and model descriptions

I can't find the codebase yet though
Ask a human to perform a 20 digit x 20 digit number.
They will ask for a calculator or go get one.
> ignoring the millions wasted on everything from a $90,000 bag of bushings to $1,300 coffee cups to $150,000 soap dispensers to billons on empty government buildings

Who's ignoring it? Once the problem is identified by someone, you fix it and move on. This already happens.

$1,300 coffee cups: https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2018/10/22...
Audit of C-17 Spare Parts: https://www.dodig.mil/In-the-Spotlight/Article/3948604/press...

See also, the myth of the $600 hammer: https://www.govexec.com/federal-news/1998/12/the-myth-of-the...

Trashing whole departments/agencies first and then trying to find all of the 'waste' amongst the wreckage creates more work in the long run when you have to rebuild all of the processes and try to reclaim some portion of the institutional knowledge that got flushed down the toilet for no reason.
your browser must be REALLY slow - his name is the first thing after the title when you go to the article.
It should be like a layer cake. Social Security on the bottom, this keeps you from destitution. It is insurance, not an investment. Pensions are the next layer on the cake. This provides additional income from investments made during your working career, with employer contributions mandated, and with it very difficult to touch this before retirement. Australia's Superannuation system [1] is my mental model for this. You have to have strong governance around reasonable returns and payments to prevent from the absurdities you mention. It is not tied to a single employer. The final cake layer should be personal savings and investments made by someone.

This derisks everyone's risk of the usual human failing (lack of financial sophistication, adverse events, etc), while enabling those who want to invest above and beyond a mechanism to do so. Right now, it's Mad Max with some Social Security scraps [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation_in_Australia

[2] https://www.gao.gov/financial-security-older-americans
Oh yes, I'm with you. I didn't say I liked it. I am a low level munger and I like it that way - the lowest layers/oldest layers of the stack tend to be the pieces that are well written and stand the test of time. Where I see AI hitting is at the upper, devil may care, layers of application stack that will be an absolutely hellscape to deal with as a competent engineer.
Show HN: I built an AI voice agent for Gmail
Hello again, HN! I’ve been using my DSL to create new voice experiences.

I’ve made an AI-powered email client for Gmail that you talk to, using your microphone. (I highly recommend using earbuds or headphones! Or the best is with Ray-Ban Meta glasses.)

Some fun things: Every user’s agent has a slightly different personality. You can train it by asking it to remember things for next time. And it presents some generative UI while you use it.

This is the first time I’m showing this publicly. I’d love your feedback! What works well, and what doesn’t?

I previously did a Show HN for ‘D&D meets Siri’: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41328794. I’m thinking of releasing the framework/DSL that I’m using to craft these experiences. Would that be interesting? Would you want to build voice apps?
Brendan Eich would say "10 days" whenever one of the big warts from the that are unfixable came up.
Sovereignity Seal -- https://strategic-technologies.europa.eu/investors_en is just a fund for investing in strategic technologies, it's meant for projects that are getting started.
Dog aging is irrelevant. It's well-documented that dogs have a faster biological aging process due at least in part to the telomere caps on chromosomes which protect the DNA. Dogs lose these caps at a rate around ten times the human rate.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221112471...
That's why Magit exists
The author adressss this and argues that it misses the point:

> Now, some might interject here and say we could, of course, train the LLM to ask for a calculator. However, that would not make them intelligent. Humans require no training at all for calculators, as they are such intuitive instruments. We use them simply because we have understanding for the capability they provide.

So the real question behind the headline is why LLMs don't learn to ask for a calculator by themselves, if both the the definition of a calculator and the fact that LLMs are bad at math are part of the training data.
At least in France, where they have PhDs which last only 3 years, a years of PhD would cost ~45K EUR in gross salary (granted the student gets around half of that after tax), then let's say ~10K travel and consumables costs, then add up the inevitable 20% overhead costs and now you're looking at around 200K for the shortest possible frugal 3 year PhD.
> and act on them with JavaScript

I thought the whole point was to avoid JavaScript, by having rich UI components built right into the browser
It's being destructed anyway. Did you read the article?
Because an astronaut hurt his ego contradicting him.
It’s been done another way. We literally have independent agencies within the government that perform this job openly, carefully, with actual transparency, and by teams of experienced personnel.

It’s not their fucking luxury. It’s our fucking government being dismantled before our eyes by a handful of complete amateurs.

Mind you, my reply was to your statement that they “course corrected”. They didn’t course correct. They reaffirmed that that they’re happy for the insane and wildly destructive course they’re on to be piloted by open and avowed racists.
We've quietly been using Julia at our hedge fund for ~4 years. It has saved us a lot of money.

The syntax is easy for Math-heavy Researchers who might not have as much software engineering experience to use, but it's much faster than numpy, which we used for 5 years before.

The package management is sane – not as good as Rust, but way better than Python/Javascript.

We have one non-trivial macro which makes our codebase ~15% shorter, and would be hard to emulate in a lot of other languages.

The REPL is really good, second only to Clojure IMO.

The main thing I want to see more of is "static Julia", e.g. better support for static type-checking and binaries, and fortunately that seems to be where the language is going!
Are you including the time you spend fighting the model?
According to the article, it's already slated for splashing down in the pacific in 2030. He's proposing to move the timeline up.
Most would prefer tragedy and suffering over death
I assume GP meant "... in the West". I grew up in the US in the 80s and 90s, and I can't imagine being a vegan, or even a vegetarian then. Certainly it would be doable if you always cooked your own food, but restaurants would mostly not accommodate you (unless you'd be fine with just a boring, flavorless salad), and if you went over to anyone's house for a meal, they'd think it was weird that you didn't eat meat.
> No, the biases and incentives are different in government than in business

Not really, no. Certain cognitive biases and elements of self-interest are fundamental to all humans in all situations, and while different scenarios lead to those biases manifesting in different forms, they still share the same underlying substance.

> The main attraction of government work is the ability to serve your country, and to be rewarded by taking actions which produce (what you believe is) long-term social good.

No, the main attraction of government work is the ability to have a decently-paying career with a high degree of job security. Most people in such jobs simply dutifully do the tasks asked of them in exchange for a regular paycheck, and don't deeply consider the broader effects of their work on society (except to convince themselves of the importance of their work, as we all do).

A few outliers will prioritize theoretical ideals about doing "social good" over their own career goals, and a few outliers on the opposite end will prioritize having access to political power and opportunities for graft. (And some mistakenly think they are doing "social good" by forcefully advancing their own particular normative ideology.)

> Your belief that an adversarial relation between forces of government leads to a favorable equilibrium is indeed the basis of the US constitution, and the very thing which DOGE/Trump are attacking with such force.

No, I don't DOGE and Trump attacking the concept as much as participating in it here. None of the parties involved have good intentions, as far as I can evaluate, but, again, there's a chance that things will work out in the balance.
I recommend that the sun rise tomorrow
For reference:

https://bsky.app/profile/josephpolitano.bsky.social/post/3li...
> The technology itself makes it impossible to give read only access to such systems.

This isn't true. Mainframe COBOL systems commonly store data in VSAM files, or DB2, or IMS, or sometimes some more obscure non-IBM database (e.g. CA/Broadcom's Datacom/DB or IDMS, or Software AG's ADABAS). But whichever one they use, there are multiple ways of granting read-only access.

For example, if it is VSAM, you can configure RACF (or TopSecret or ACF2) to allow an account read (but not write) permission to those VSAM datasets. Or, you can stick DB2 in front of VSAM (on DB2 for z/OS, CREATE TABLE can refer to a pre-existing VSAM file, and make it look like a database table), and then you can have a readonly account in DB2 to give you access to that database schema. Or, there's a lot of other ways to "skin this cat", depending on exactly how the legacy app is designed, and exactly how it stores data. But, probably this is already implemented – most of these apps have read-only access for export into BI systems or whatever – and if it happens for whatever reason not to be, setting it up should only be a modest amount of work, not some multiyear megaproject.
"Test your adblocker" websites can harm users and the adblocker ecosystem
Exactly. Tolerance is an opt-in protection. If you don't opt-in by exercising it yourself, you don't get the benefits.

Or, as a meme: YA_GOTTA_GIVE!.gif
Not sure if this guy talking about Mars qualifies as news.
Perfect, lets send him into orbit as a replacement
In December, I decided to try an egg diet where I would regularly consume a double digit number of eggs per day. This has has made the price of eggs quite noticeable. I am not eating as many these days as I did when I first had the idea.

Interestingly, when my grandparents were really short on money in the 20th century, they resorted to eating only eggs to get by. It remained a healthy diet option for poor people until recently.
> What is worse, the “murder” of the child or raising someone in those conditions?

Should we just begin murdering anyone who might not have a life that we define as good?

That's essentially the argument that I'm hearing, except you're limiting the scope to unborn children.

Though, I do completely understand your point. I just think that even in the worst of circumstances someone would generally prefer to live. I didn't have a particularly happy upbringing, and there were times I wanted to commit suicide, but I'm quite happy with where I'm at now.
> Even if we don't write code software engineers (or technically minded people) will be able to coordinate hundreds of AI bots better than the average person and manage the systems.

There might be a period of time where product management and qa are still done by people, but I think that period will be transitory and short.

I think software engineers in general are grossly underestimating the probability they will be replaced. On a 20-30 year timeline, that probability might be close to 100%. Probably, it will also be gradual, and those who are displaced (starting with least experienced, to most), will not be able to find similar employment.

We are all more or less opting into this without a fight.
This bit us pretty hard at Tigris, but we had a fix out pretty quickly. I set up some automation with some popular programming languages so that we can be aware of the next time something like this happens. It also bit me in my homelab until I patched Minio: https://xeiaso.net/notes/2025/update-minio/
Your birds could get sick from other birds. It doesn't just affect chickens. I'd exercise precautions with your birds. Both to keep them quarantined from wild birds and keep yourself and family quarantined.
I’m pointing out that overall compensation isn’t just the salary. In Europe, benefits like universal healthcare, free universities, and strong worker rights add significant value that balances lower wages.
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OpSec: Trump Dismantles Government Fight Against Foreign Influence Operations
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