skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where can we learn this information?
Yuval Noah Harari on Why Technology Favors Tyranny(2018)
> In the late 20th century, democracies usually outperformed dictatorships, because they were far better at processing information. We tend to think about the conflict between democracy and dictatorship as a conflict between two different ethical systems, but it is actually a conflict between two different data-processing systems. Democracy distributes the power to process information and make decisions among many people and institutions, whereas dictatorship concentrates information and power in one place. Given 20th-century technology, it was inefficient to concentrate too much information and power in one place.

> However, artificial intelligence may soon swing the pendulum in the opposite direction. AI makes it possible to process enormous amounts of information centrally. In fact, it might make centralized systems far more efficient than diffuse systems, because machine learning works better when the machine has more information to analyze. If you disregard all privacy concerns and concentrate all the information relating to a billion people in one database, you’ll wind up with much better algorithms than if you respect individual privacy and have in your database only partial information on a million people.
You may think I’m nuts for this, but I really want a corded phone. I have an old corner shelf from my grandmothers house that used to hold her old rotary phone in a communal space with a small bench and I really want to recreate that experience (minus the rotary, that is a little too affected.
Everywhere that is never tested. How do you know for sure you are on good soil, and that no contaminated soil was used under your house and garden, which no doubt were levelled before construction started?

This includes feed. Commercial animal foods literally contains waste, such as plastic, due to waste food recycling not being required to be unpacked.

Sure, you _can_ control these things, but more often than not, people don't. Semi commercial hobbyists don't have the money.
Most tropes have some basis in reality. I've met a few farm-owning parents who view any kind of sentimentality towards animals as counterproductive.
> who are pushing things in dumb directions because their careers and wealth are tied to what they do for work so they advocated for those things to be advanced to the point of absurdity and everyone on their coat tails cheers for it because they benefit too.

Could you give a concrete example of what you're describing there?
I think I have a hunch what Trump is going to do next.

He's going to fill these fired probationary workers with new loyal probationary workers hand picked by him.

He will then make these new probationary workers in charge of the agency.

If they don't do what he wants, they can be fired at will.
I don't understand this attitude and I am not sure where it comes from- either from generic skepticism, or from some sort of psychological refusal.(*) It's just obvious to me that you're completely wrong and you'll have a hard wake up, eventually.

* "I know how this works and it's just numbers all the way down" is not an argument of any validity, just to be clear- everything eventually is just physics, blind mechanics.
What I am starting to internalize nowadays is that working faster is useful, but what can really change one's life is learning faster.
Yeah, very bad fit. Surprised they made an offer.

Folks getting mad about whiteboard interviews is a meme at this point. It misses the point. We CANT test you effectively on your programming skillbase. So we test on a more relevant job skill, like can you have a real conversation (with a whiteboard to help) about how to solve the problem.

It isn't that your interviewer knew all the languages, but that the language didn't matter.

I didn't get this until I was giving interviews. The instructions on how to give them are pretty clear. The goal isn't to "solve the puzzle" but instead to demonstrate you can reason about it effectively, communicate your knowledge and communicate as part of problem solving.

I know many interviewers also didn't get it, and it became just "do you know the trick to my puzzle". That pattern of failure is a good reason to deprecate white board interviews, not "I don't write on a whiteboard when i program in real life".
I’m happy with a description of a higher standard than, say, a Reddit discussion.
In fairness to the person asking the question, I've seen the term "forge" used a lot more in the previous six months than in the previous decade or two. Not sure what that's about.
Looks like it's similar to mirrord or DevSpace, it's for developing components in Kubernetes clusters without having to rebuild an image and redeploying every time you want to test it.
My neighbor‘s dog bit one of our chickens. We ended up taking her to the vet and got some antibiotics. she made a full recovery.

And yes, there’s a bit of the mix of pets and livestock. We only have five hens, and they all have names. If you’re naming your animal, is it a pet?
Crypto GPUs have nothing to do with AI GPUs.

Crypto mining is an embarassingly parallel problem, requiring little to no communication between GPUs. To a first approximation, in crypto, 10x-ing the amount of "cores" per GPU, 10x-ing the number of GPUs per rig and 10X-ing the number of rigs you own is basically equivalent. An infinite amount of extremely slow GPUs would do just as well as one infinitely fast GPU. This is why consumer GPUs are great for crypto.

AI is the opposite. In AI, you need extremely fast communication between GPUs. This means getting as much memory per GPU as possible (to make communication less necessary), and putting all the GPUs all in one datacenter.

Consumer GPUs, which were used for crypto, don't support the fast communication technologies needed for AI training, and they don't come in the 80gb memory versions that AI labs need. This is Nvidia's price differentiation strategy.
He's going to fill the empty slots with loyal cronies he can fire at will.

This is, I think, just "stage 1"
Move fast and break (your) things.
Whatever you say, Donald Trump has been convicted of a felony.
Non mobile link

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McKay_conjecture
This is the line the White House told us, but it contradicts what Musk and Trump themselves have said. It's also clear from their actions and social media posts that if Musk is merely advising, then Trump is rubber stamp approving whatever Musk tells him without any independent verification.
It was the new deal democrats who stole riches from Americans to put in Fort Knox and foisted this scam on America. It has become a slush fund for the government with hundreds of crooks hands in the cookie jar.
It needs to be dissolved, and those who will be worse off by investments will continue to get paid and those who would do better would have it privatized in a staged approach to its dissolution.
Removing the parasites in DC by reducing most of the federal government and reducing military spending will help with allocating funds to assist with it's dissolution.
So many Americans died from Covid, it's boosting Social Security
Thanks for the explanation, Valve could actually be what I’m looking for.

I want to be using BabylonJS with the headset and won’t mind it connected to pc.
LXD seems like an unusual choice when Kubernetes already has cadvisor and strong monitoring integrations. Avoiding extra agents is nice, but does this really scale better than existing solutions like Prometheus and OpenTelemetry?

What’s the advantage here beyond keeping things lightweight? Feels like this could hit limitations as complexity grows.
I actually believe the executive branch should actually control the executive branch.
In the mid 90s we had an AT&T 3B2 that only had ed on it. We used it via DEC VT-102 terminals. It (ed) works but it’s not fun by any modern standards. Must’ve been amazing on a screen compared to printout from a teletype though!

Side note: that ~1 MIP 3B2 could support about 20 simultaneous users…
Why does it have to be a dual CPU design? 8 channels of DDR5 4800 will still get you something like 300 GB per second bandwidth. Not amazing, but OK. Granite Rapids-W will likely be something like 50% better (cores and bandwidth).

And the original message you were responding to was using a CPU with AMX and mixing it with a GPU like Nvidia 4900/5900. That way the large part of the model sits in the larger slower memory, and the active part in the GPU with the faster memory. Very cost effective and fast. (Something like generating 16 Tokens/s of 671B Deepseek R1 with a total hardware cost of $10-$20k.) They tried both single and dual CPU, with the latter about 30% faster....not necessarily worth it.

https://github.com/kvcache-ai/ktransformers/blob/main/doc/en...
All 6 people who used Amazon app store on a non-Fire tablet must be very upset!
The fundamental issue with BASIC on the TI-99/4A, be it the regular BASIC or even the Extended BASIC, is that the program was stored in the video memory. This meant that you couldn't use all features of the VDP, you could only use a limited number of tiles (96 afaicr), you could not use other graphics mode, raster interrupts and sprite multiplexing, forget it. The games on cartridges were not limited to that and could use up to 24K (afaicr) of machine code + a lot of GROM.
One needs only to look at what a Coleco console or a MSX1 could do with a system that didn't use the graphic chip for what it was not intended to be.
A team of kids without the capacity for discernment and bad morals to get through government agencies data is unprecedented. This is not sour grapes, this is a radical shift to how things have been done. These kids talk about bling bling, pull pump and dumps in the crypto world and are now at Elon Musks command. This is pushing any conversation away completely because you cannot have a normal conversation with trolls. What’s next, uncontrolled violence?
Trying to wrap my head around this - are you saying that those models are trained around the concept of fingers (some kind of physical manipulators with set dimensions)?
Or is it the other way around: they're giving up on "FireOS" and just going to let Google do the work?
Nitter mirror of this instead:

https://nitter.lucabased.xyz/miru_why/status/189250071585747...
As a european that until recently owned 20+ chickens I can tell you no, it is not the answer unless you really want your own chickens.

Owning your own chickens has a bunch of downsides:

- They get sick / get parasites and may require expensive medication or massive amounts of work.

- They require warmth if you live in a cold place like me, and heating costs money.

- They eat a lot and unless you buy in large quantities, it is expensive. And if you buy in large quantities, you must protect the grain from mold and mice which can be hard.

- They require a lot of maintenance since they are pretty stupid and dirty animals that poop in their own water supply, food etc.

- You will get a lot more mice on your property and possibly, in your house.

- You are worried about bird flu, so you need to cover the coop with a roof. Building a roof is expensive, I spent ~$1300 for materials. That is a lot of eggs.

That said, you can get colorful nice eggs from animals you know have a good life and are healthy. Where I am from, that is largely possible in regular stores however but in some areas of the world I assume animal care is a lot worse.

I think more people should have their own animals, but they do require time and effort, more than most people can spare I would believe. We sold all of them due to this reason. We did not profit from having them, but rather lost both time and money but it is (mostly) a fun experience at least. And our waste was heavily reduced since you can feed them your food even if that is illegal where I live if you want to sell your eggs (you can buy a carrot, put it in your bed and sleep with it a week but if you lay it on a plate where you eat your food, it becomes illegal to give them it if you intend to sell the eggs).
You're sidestepping the argument. Complex systems have "fixed point" behavior. This is true for the climate, animal nesting and breeding habits, ... everything that isn't based on chance. I'm going out on a limb here and say that includes humans.

That means there are a number of fixed solutions, and that complex beings or systems keep going back to those solutions. You can give them a little push and their behavior will change for a very short while (by the way: chaotically, in other words, impossible to control. In other words, making an ad for pepsi makes people try cola alternatives, it doesn't even make them go for pepsi), returning to either the previous solutions (the fixed point) or, if the new product is actually better, to a new solution (which is also a fixed point in that case). If you want behavior to change for a reasonable period you need to either take away the previous product or you need to make an actual better product.

Plus you do read about that promoting an inferior product with ads just does not work. It has an effect for a while, and then stops. Agencies will of course happily try this, but it does not work. This is exactly how fixed points behave and not at all how a normal distribution behaves.
I’m wondering what the process was for the early UNIX developers to attain this level of productivity.

Did they treat this as a 9-5 effort, or did they go into a “goblin mode” just to get it done while neglecting other aspects of their lives?
Here I thought that math nerds frequent Hacker News. This math isn't hard?
Even if you clipped their wings in such a way as they couldn't fly anymore, they're still short and covered in feathers which are probably not conductive. The electric fence wouldn't work for many reasons. If you're sure they can't fly, you also don't need it.
If the brain is a receiver, information transfer could happen non-locally and the tea might be telepathy, precognition, or remote viewing. In the split brain example, demonstrating an ability to coordinate between hemispheres in ways not predicted by neural separation might challenge the physical origin of consciousness as with the chicken and shovel anecdote.

Experiments demonstrating an external source of consciousness would be very interesting.

Not a teapot in this case!
UK tax authority eyes £880M overhaul for Northern Ireland trade services
So what companies is HN calling out in 2025?

Wondering who I should expect to collapse in 2030.
my bet is they fired a few too people and now maintaining it is a burden
As an American, I'm not surprised, unfortunately. When we learn about history in grade school, we don't really learn about the rise of fascism in the 1920s and 30s. If we do, little time is spent on it. Most of the time is spent on WWII itself, with of course a bunch of self-congratulatory stuff about how the world would have burned if the US hadn't joined in (conveniently ignoring how long it took for the US to join in).

Most Americans couldn't tell you much about how Hitler came into power. (Or Mussolini? Forget it.) The majority of what Americans know about it all are exactly what you said: black-and-white scenes of SS officers, Hilter giving speeches, and swastika armbands.

There's no lingering WWII war damage in the US. We don't have monuments dedicating places where major battles were fought. The war wasn't fought here. We don't see reminders of what all that was like.

When I was born, WWII was only 35 years behind us. Many of the people who were involved in it at the time (politicians, soldiers, etc.) were not only alive, but still active in public discourse in major ways. But today, WWII ended 80 years ago. Most everyone who experienced it is dead. Awareness of all of it is still present in Europe because it was all literally close to home. Not so in the US.

This honestly shouldn't be all that surprising. History repeats and rhymes, over and over throughout the decades and centuries. All it takes is a couple generations to forget its lessons.

I see comments in these threads from people who lived through the forming of dictatorships in their countries. I wish more people would listen to them.
It's not "at random". Every shuttered department had been investigating one of Elmo's properties...
And move fast enough to get dirt on your prosecutors so you can, at first, kindly ask them to leave you alone. If that fails, release the dirt and cause chaos, confusion, and doubt...
Here's an interesting thought on your "gotcha" - I'm 57 years old, been programming as a career for over 30 years, a lot of languages and I have no idea what the difference is.
There is no rhyme or reason. That's the problem with it. Not that it's out in the open. Not that it's musk.

There is no rhyme or reason, other than stripping off the parts.

I'll bet you. Once the stripping is complete, Musk and Trump have the brilliant idea of replacing the old, "bloated" government functions that were cut with private for profit contractors (that are obviously "more efficiently" run because they're for profit).
So far all of the bad things I've heard about our system, such as the economic unsustainability and now this, are effects that will happen in the perpetual future.
FFS Americans are the most propagandized people on the planet and that comes from within.
All those are traits of subservient people that non-technical managers like
Indeed it is not controversial. Even the USSR's last foreign minister Shevardnadze (1985-1991) and Russian Federation's first foreign minister Kozyrev (1990-1996) have said that they find nothing wrong with the way Eastern Europe joined NATO. According to Kozyrev, the fatal mistake in international relations was not applying enough pressure on Russia to transform it into a modern European country, as other nations did on their own while seeking protection from Russia.

I ask Kozyrev about a debate that has roiled the American foreign policy establishment in the leadup to this war. Did NATO go too far? On the contrary, he thinks it didn’t go far enough.

“Unfortunately, there are many wishful thinkers especially in academia here and intellectuals who have ties to Russia. They go to Valdai [a Russian think tank forum]. They consume caviar and vodka and are treated like kings by those who exist solely to manipulate them. This argument about NATO is just propaganda fed to Americans who then regurgitate it in their opinion and journal essays. The only real analysts who come here from Russia are dissidents. The rest are front people, just like in the Soviet Union, and they manufacture Western champions of the Putin regime, chumps and useful idiots.”

Eastern European countries that joined NATO were not, contra a lot of heated rhetoric on the subject, simply gobbled up by it. “They wanted to be in NATO, and at first America and its partners didn’t want to take them in. But they had no choice, because they couldn’t deny membership for qualified liberal democracies. The same way they can’t deny it for Ukraine.”[1]

Kozyrev is still alive and even has social media presence:

Maria Popova: The "Ru is afraid of NATO attack/encirclement" argument has been conclusively falsified for a while now.

Kozyrev: That is precisely what I was saying from the late 1980s. NATO presents no threat to Russia but provides free-of-charge security along its western borders. Putin's tyranny hates NATO as a tool for protecting democracies.[2]

[1] https://newlinesmag.com/reportage/russias-ex-foreign-ministe...

[2] https://x.com/andreivkozyrev/status/1803423425920143744
This response feels quite emotional, so I’ll start by saying there was no judgement in my comment. At no point have I made a comment on the morality of the matter. Furthermore, not only do grocery stores not even enter into the conversation, you are assuming to know what the people who grow and sell the food at my local markets eat. I assure you, you do not.

I think you’ll benefit from this video. Don’t let yourself be consumed by emotions of an imaginary argument. The entirety of your point is a response to something you imagined I said and not my words or intentions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExEHuNrC8yU
Does Amazon have something like Google Play Services that will be leaving and break them? Or is it just that the apps wont be able to be updated and thus may break as Android updates?

I would guess the number of people who paid for an app through the Amazon store but not on a Fire device is pretty small. And do you ever really own an app? I have so few that I paid a one time payment for.
Indeed, I had a Kindle Oasis refurb model, and it appears they've now retired it. Best kindle for me, and at $200ish didn't need to be great tech.

I liked the form factor better than paper white, because the margin had space for your hand to not accidentally touch-advance the page, plus the physical page turn buttons.

So if my Oasis dies, I'm left with the $400 scribe that is a price point I care if its good, or $150 paperwhite which I already know I dislike the form factor!

Hence trying Daylight..
Sounds like collusion through a third party. Similar to the landlords all signing up to the same pricing service.
I have my own experience. As a non-American, I know a lot of hungry people. And I have never heard of any help for them from USAID. And who do you think received help from USAID out of all those I have encountered and ever heard about? Only left-leaning democrat's shield "independent" journalists, whose job mostly consist of ideological reprogramming and who now scream all over twitter how Trump destroys their lives. ONLY.

So yes, I don't have any numbers, but I'm used to trusting my own eyes. And what I see (on this particular issue) is way more consistent with what Musk says than with what his opponents say.
Eventually they did allow UTM SE into the App Store in July 2024, https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/07/15/app-store-utm-s....
You can mail them cash too
Is ML *Really* Alchemy?
Tl;Dr a hammer looking for a nail.
The government itself self-reports $149B in "improper payments"

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/doge-musk-government-was...
I, on the other hand, would prefer the executive branch to have a modicum of process and transparency when trying to access private information, as opposed to learning of things a week after the fact from leaks.
So like the Rio Grande and the Rio Bravo? They surely can follow that example since it’s the same two countries.
StarPath is 55 bytes
as is this article
> That doesn’t mean they are superior to actual whole chicken.

It will depend on whether the whole chicken is chicken proper, or one reassembled from nuggets.
Looks a lot like Telepresence[0] to me.

[0]: https://www.telepresence.io/
An aside: please use proper capitalization. With this article I found myself backtracking thinking I’d missed a word, which was very annoying. Not sure what the authors intention was with that decision but please reconsider.
https://typedai.dev is another full-featured one I've built, with a web UI, multi-user support, code editing agents, CodeAct autonomous agent
Did Amazon start a new round of cost cutting, layoffs or something? Yesterday they discontinued Chime. As if Amazon is doubling down on cutting "unnecessary" services
Emails in particular are annoying for read receipts, at least on outlook, read confirmations are their own mail, and don't pool so anytime you have to send something with more than a few recipients you're setting yourself to get spammed randomly whenever they feel like it and since it's opt in per mail, you can't actually trust it
Do you like them turning up a wasteful $8 billion contract that turned out to be $8 million, but they’re a bunch of incompetent ninnies who can’t even verify they have the right number of zeroes in their figures before they tell the world?
Also, elevation is useless and compression is potentially harmful as restricting blood circulation and compressing tissue limits healing.