skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What about solidarity? Instead of criticizing another worker’s situation as “insane”, we should be asking: why can’t we also have this kind of retirement package? They’ve successfully pitted worker vs worker.

I don’t think that retired fire chief’s (or school teachers') retirement is what’s wrong: what’s wrong is that most of us will not have a retirement that good. Why is that? It is possible to answer that question without tearing down someone else’s situation.
I have bank accounts and crypto and most of the banks don't want to deal with crypto or money that has come from crypto, or are very wary.
This re-defines "first mover" to mean anyone who is currently ahead. This dilutes meaning too much imo.
Check out Lux.jl and Reactant.jl for a modern attempt to create a Julia library with Jax’s XLA compiler backend!
No. Now workers will not spend the $50 on office supplies, either paying for them out of their own pocket, or doing without.

Either way, they're saving $50, either by stealing it from the employees who'd rather pay themselves to be able to do their job, or by causing hundreds of dollars worth of damage to the productivity because someone spends 2 hours hunting for an unused pen instead of just grabbing one from the supply box in the corner.
I’m kind of sad, because I think I have completed the journey from advocating for Julia at my first job to becoming a full-blown hater. I have complaints about the type system and the general failure of a good autograd library to emerge as the standard/default.

But my main complaint about Julia is its general approach to memory management. You are encouraged to think about how memory is being allocated e.g. by using StaticArrays for smaller, immutable arrays, or pre-allocating the arrays and operating on them in-place. But you don’t actually have control over allocations, and it’s easy for some type instability to cause unnecessary allocations - even after you stick a bunch of type annotations which should give the compiler sufficient information to force type stability or at least crash/fail to type check.

At this point I think people are better off investing their time/efforts into Rust for computationally heavy workloads on the CPU (polars for data frame stuff, ndarray for numpy functionality, Enzyme for autodiff) and using torch/jax for GPU-centric work (also, it’s significantly easier to write python bindings for rust libraries than C++ or Julia libs).
That video is terrifying.
Did Amazon recommend that other 3rd party products use their SDK as their own client?
Kleenex is probably a good example of this. Tissues are a commodity but nevertheless people will still pay more for Kleenex branded tissues. That feels like a moat to me.
Just one person taking a coffee break to go get coffee obviates any savings. The free coffee isn't there for the staff, it is there to save the org money.
illegal aliens, and the NGOs who have been bringing them in and supporting them,
that the democrats brought in as future voters so they would have complete control,
Well, no more funding for them!

At least, not from America!
It's no secret that these NGOs are now trying to attach themselves to Brussels to continue ops in the US, leeches will be leeches
But this piece is talking about AI. It seems fitting.
>This brings us to our current limitations. Right now, DeepEval’s primary evaluation method is LLM-as-a-judge. We use techniques such as GEval and question-answer generation to improve reliability, but these methods can still be inconsistent. Even with high-quality datasets curated by domain experts, our evaluation metrics remain the biggest blocker to our goal.

Have you done any work on dynamic data generation?

I've found that even taking a public benchmark and remixing the order of questions had a deep impact on model performance - ranging from catastrophic for tiny models to problematic for larger models once you get past their effective internal working memory.
there's openstack (or whatever), they could maintain a backwards compatible fork with security patches if they wanted to. It's been over a decade since i had my hat in this ring, so my who owns who may be wrong. One of the "we're making an open source, self-hosted, AWS compatible platform that can be deployed". another one was XCP.

I get what everyone (all three sides) is saying, i got no love for amazon, but this does not affect me in any way - i don't use AWS APIs for anything except the aws webui to bounce something or edit route53. We mostly self-host everything[1]. mastodon, matrix, nextcloud, subsonic, librephoto, bot services, PBX, VPN.

I'm t1.micro guy and i can't stand managed services.

[1] I have some $5 vps that is a canary and i use amazon lightsail for 1 public website (512mb ram, 0.5vcpu or whatever), glacier, and route53. My goal for 2025 is to become proficient enough with bind or whatever to stop paying that $5 a month to AWS for route53 request handling. A website is one thing, but services tend to chew money on route53 with constant requests. I don't see a need to drop glacier(it's static, ~100GB of family photo backups for my aunt and whatnot) or lightsail just yet.
hahah totally!
as a taxpayer, id like the costs of each of these broad actions to be analyzed add shared for public review before doing them.
I've been running it with Ollama, it's actually pretty good for working with text in Latvian (and other EU languages). I'd be hard pressed to find another model of a similar size that's good at it, for example: https://huggingface.co/spaces/openGPT-X/european-llm-leaderb...

This won't be relevant to most people here, but it's cool to see even the smaller languages getting some love, instead of getting garbage outputs from Qwen (some versions of which are otherwise pretty good for programming) and anything below Llama 70B, or maybe looking at Gemma as a middle ground.
Stephanie Yue Duhem: Only Bad Poems Go Viral
making progress actually: https://matrix.org/blog/2025/02/building-a-safer-matrix/
Only for mobile, no? Element X for desktop is still in development, last time I checked, and the old client is as bad as ever.

Element is the only piece of software where logging in and out (I don't want to be permanently logged in) proved to be too much of a challenge - I was regularly losing encryption keys on different devices.
Tens of thousands of people are now out of work, with more to join them soon. The job market is already tight. That is going to have ripple effects throughout communities all over the country. We will probably see an uptick in housing foreclosures. At the same time, grant money for community support programs has been turned off, so these folks will have a harder time getting help.

Farmers who produced food that was sent abroad by USAID are not getting paid, and will have stock piling up that they don't have a buyer for.

Scientific and health agencies have been muzzled during a time when we are fighting bird flu (millions of flocks dying), there has been human transmission and there is a high risk of another pandemic (bird flu or anything else) coming along. People will die who wouldn't otherwise have to.

The agency which protects Americans from predatory bank fees has been shuttered, so we can expect our banking (like $35 late fees) to get more expensive.

I could go on and on, but our country is not Twitter; it's not even comparable, on almost any level.
But why is that your choice? Do you also think IVF should be illegal? We are already seeing the end state of giving the government power over a woman’s body.

I had a friend whose wife got pregnant and neither one of them knew beforehand how dangerous it would be for her. They definitely wanted the child. But his first priority was his wife. So if it had come down to an abortion or letting his wife die, he was going to choose an abortion.

Even if the doctors thought it was the best course of action for the wife, the doctor would have still been afraid to do it because of criminal liability in todays environment in red states.

My friend and his wife decided to induce labor two months early instead and take their chances. The baby is now a healthy 12 year old.

After seeing what his wife went through, he decided to get a vasectomy and they adopted 5 years later.
I'm glad google didn't exist when I learned to code.
Me Too! and I was a high schooler in the 1970s...

Since I'm close enough to end of career to be able to ignore the whole trend as a developer, I'm mostly dreading having to "talk" to some frikin bot everytime I need support on some product.

If you agree that "customer support" system hell is bad already, then you have to know that this is all on the verge of being much worse...

me: My payment keeps being rejected on a known good card...

bot: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that...
> At KPMG, an accounting and consulting firm, developers using GitHub Copilot are saving 4.5 hours a week on average and report that the quality of their code has improved, based on a survey by the firm.

I don't have any specific experience with KPMG, but considering the other "big name" firms' work I've encountered, there's, uh, lots of room for improvement.
They should consider asking Automattic & some of the other companies building on Matrix to contribute 8% of their revenue first.
They're data scientists amongst other things, you need to tie different data tables and sources together to get hotspot reports.
Well it was great for hundreds of thousands of years, then it was really bad for a couple generations, now it is just less bad for potentially forever. Hardly an improvement when you look at things in scales of our species time on this planet vs since grandad's day.
Incidentally I was just doing some digging through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_verified_oldest_pe... recently, and it seems most if not all of them didn't have any particularly healthy lifestyles, so I suspect it is largely genetic.

There are some surprising notes in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment#Health_and_life... such as:

Calment continued smoking in her elderly years until she was 117

And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Mortensen :

Mortensen enjoyed cigars in moderation and drank lots of water

Also some stats on the countries represented in the above list:

US 38F 27M 65T
Japan 23F 19M 42T
France 7F 4M 11T
UK 5F 5M 10T
Canada 3F 2M 5T
I treat usage of `==` in JavaScript as undefined behavior.
What has changed is the population density of humans. Disease outbreaks aren't at thing you can understand by summing all the disease vectors.

There is no needle - it only takes one case. While a megafarm may be a bigger vector, it can be quarantined, whereas everyone having backyard farms can not.
I wonder what the DODGE credit cards look like…
> that probationary employees aren't needed

Remember that "probationary" doesn't mean new. I just learned this, but apparently when getting a promotion it puts you back into the "probationary" period at your new role. So people with 10+ years of service are being let go because they had recently been promoted.
Way too many career and remuneration focused techbros. Often driven by bullshit management and stack ranking style promotion/firing pathways.
That's just factually wrong. Lockheed's market cap is only $100 billion you know. Thanks to the expected corruption, Palintir's market cap is currently $200 billion.
That's the point.

These are people who want to prove, regardless of anything, that government is less efficient than private enterprises... particularly their private enterprises, who would be happy to help you with your problem, dear citizen, for a nominal fee.
In the 1990's my university had a lot of dialup modem lines but only a small amount of them had PPP support. You would just get 1 terminal session.
So I would dial in and then browse the web through lynx. It worked fine and was quicker because it wouldn't waste time loading images.

I recently tried Usenet for the first time in 20 years. I installed slrn the text based newsreader I used in the 1990's. It has very useful color support. I wish Usenet was more active instead of 90% spam. Having threads go for years and being able to go to the next post by hitting "n" instead of clicking around is a lot quicker.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slrn
> Without Trust & Safety efforts, bad actors and communities would proliferate on the network and make it unlivable for the rest.

What exactly does this mean? How is, say, my friend group chat affected by unconnected "bad communities"? Why do we care if those communities use matrix, or http, or xmpp, or skype?
Exactly. That's why there are charge cards.

I suspect that a charge on the card involves at least 15 seconds of writing down what the charge was for.

The point of giving employees the authority to spend from charge card without excessive additional oversight is to keep it at the 2-3 minutes (realistically it's going to be at least that, not "15 seconds") per expense, rather than 2-3 hours of bureaucracy.
I worry this will lead to a bad user experience if android et al does not support it natively.

You'll have people saying "select the green option in the drop-down list to do <foo>" and people on mobile will just get the native-ui list with no styling.
Also a financial economist and Julia lover -- it's a fantastic tool for finance IMO
Open but to what degree. Not saying that I will but can I generate hate speech with it. If not why not. What about other “deemed illegal by non elected officials” activities?
It's really cool, but I can't shake off an "uncanny valley" feeling, with all of the small quirks in the geometry. What I think I'd be interested in is a post-processing step where this splat is automatically converted to a 3d model that approximates each component, only falling back to the point cloud if there's no simple shape that fits the observation at a particular location.
The past did not use crc32 , it used content-md5 but not everywhere. It also did not support full object checksums for multipart.
And here is the thing that was problematic: if you uploaded parts you could not check the object after it was uploaded since aws did not calculate a hash and safe it so that you can do a head call and compare your locally generated checksum with the one online. There are cases where generating a checksum up front is infeasible and using content-md5 it was not so easy / fast to chunk the upload and generating the crc while uploading. And here is the biggest benefit:
The crc algorithm do not need to be concatinated in order. So basically you can parallelize the hash generation since you can hash 4kb chunks and concat them.
And in some cases the sdk did not generate a checksum at all.

Edit: I forgot, since full object checksums are now the default, aws can now upload multiple parts in parallel, which was not possible before. (For upload multipart)
> However, today, a decade or more in to the race, self-driving cars are here.

In a limited fashion, though. We don't have generalized fully autonomous vehicles just yet.
Thanks for clarifying and the resources!
Yeah, the plans have been laid out in the public for a while.

We're seeing it happen in real time.
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Not Incentivized yet Efficient: Working from Home in the Public Sector
IDK, have you? Has Apple, Google, Linux? Have we really solved it as a society until we have reached the end-game of Zero Trust Architecture; locked down all bootloaders to only run trusted firmware; locked down firmware to only boot trusted os; enforce attestation at service auth so only genuine devices with client-side "safety" rootkits are accepted?
I'm happy to see that! To be fair
> 14.02.2025
That's pretty recently
The act as police and spy on their users "problem"? I don't know - have apartment buildings solved the domestic violence problem, that happens within them, shielded by their opaque walls?
>Because this isn't about efficiency.

Being alive and happy is not effcient.
People being convinced it's a bad idea,
By the same politicians and beaurocrats who have wasting, laundering and getting kickbacks,
They are the joke.

"Blame the smoke detector, not the fire" people are demoralised people driven insane
Matrix isn't particularly better though; its main spec does "have" a bunch of things, sure, but they're still very bodged together (threads are replies but with a tag of "no, this is actually a thread"; and for backwards-compatibility clients are "supposed to" understand a non-marked-as-thread reply as being in the thread, but the spec doesn't facilitate any way to consistently reason about such replies (i.e. they're not included when paging through the threads messages); all formatting-ful messages contain both a HTML and plain-text version of the message; edit events contain both "* "-prepended versions of the body for clients who don't support edits, and a "proper" copy for those that do, so that's 4 copies of the body in an edit event).

And there's plenty of inconsistencies across matrix clients too: some don't support displaying spoilers and so get spoiled (incl. Element X android); most (incl. Element) don't have a way to send spoilers outside of whole-message spoilers or manually writing out the HTML. Thread support is flakey. Some clients insert a newline every 70-or-whatever chars, which is supposed to be ignored by proper HTML parsing, but some things don't. Off the top of my head.
Are there people who still aren't aware that FAANGs developed this kind of thing to bypass H1-B regulations?
The problem is that people are using AI to avoid learning to code.
this is sick, all star founders making big moves ;)
See, I find it the opposite - superficially fussy, but it lets the silliest things slide. I don’t want my function to struggle with type instability in some contexts (perhaps only showing up deep in a physics simulation or motion planning algorithm) and allocate a bunch of memory, I don’t want it to compile in the first place if that’s possible.
https://archive.is/qeCpp

Previously (13 points, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43114220 (2 points, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43109586

Related Sorry, Mad Men. The Ad Revolution Is Here (29 points, 2 months ago, 72 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42430301
> Retired at 43(!) with 75% final pay (annually adjusted) and lifelong medical benefits.

I don't think that's insane at all. Sounds pretty reasonable in exchange for taking at least one third of her time for 43 years of her life (and over those years where she was young and most healthy).

Corporations used to offer similar pensions all the time. They started offering them in 1875 and they were extremely successful doing it. 401(k) plans were a scheme to shift the risk and responsibility from the employer to the employees and that change made already wealthy and successful companies a lot richer, but at the expense of making many people work right up until the day they die, or they become too sick to work at which point they become impoverished. The move from pensions to 401(k) plans was bad for the economy, and for local economies in particular.

The only thing I think is crazy about it is the lifelong medical benefits which shouldn't be on the employer at all since everyone should have universal coverage.
OP was talking about a $3-$5 per month increase, not a $3-$5 monthly total spend. This isn't the first comment in the first thread to miss that though so maybe OP could have worded it more clearly.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Open Euro LLM: Open LLMs for Transparent AI in Europe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42922989 - Feb 2025 (279 comments)
Yes, and the persistence to figure things out when they're not working the way you think they should. So many people just go and ask for help the moment things aren't working and if they still can't get an answer they just give up. It doesn't matter if you're coming to me or ChatGPT, if I just tell you what's wrong you never learn.
> Taxpayers, however, require accountability for the taxes they pay in a functioning democratic republic.

Accountability to taxpayers is a really weird excuse for bypassing Congress on changes in whether and how money Congress has directed with law is actually spent.

And by “weird” I mean really “war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength”-level abuse of language.
If you haven't seen Tunnel Vision (same author) please do yourself a favor and watch it. Dude does some fantastic projects.
China already had full access (and extracted) all treasury information in a recent cyber attack.
Look it up
Right now you're getting downvoted, but I don't disagree with you. It's not hard for me to see how lots of people like how AI helps them code (again, I find it helpful in tons of areas), so I think it's more of a personal preference kind of thing. It's also probably that I'm older (nearing 50), and I think there is a lot of good research that a fundamental shift happens in most people's brains in their 40s that makes it more difficult to make major shifts to new ways of doing things (and I've found that in myself).

I think the only thing that perhaps I don't totally agree with is the idea that AI just lets you focus on a higher level of thinking while it "takes care of the details". AI is still the leakiest of abstractions, and while coding LLMs have gotten much better over the past 2 years I can't just trust it, so I still have to review every line that goes to prod. I just find that task much less enjoyable ("editing") than being the author of code. And heck, I'm someone that really enjoys doing code reviews. I think with code reviews my mind is in a state that I'm helping to mentor another human, and I love that aspect of it. I'm not so energetic about helping to train our robot overlords.
OK, but React development is one of the simplest development tasks out there. It’s probably the most popular UI framework with the most data for the LLM model to generate off existing solutions. Low hanging fruit that also provides the least value to companies since react developers are a dime a dozen.

Also, one could argue that the LLM provides less value since a simple Google search for most react questions can produce a very viable answer, since 90% of what most React developers do has already been done and shared on the Internet.
The federal government is so worried about the appearance of spending excess taxpayer money that employees set up water clubs and coffee clubs where the employees all chip in for a water cooler and a coffee machine every month.
It’s exactly like learning math before or after calculators were tiny and portable.

My son do basic calculations all the time. I know of some school aged kids doing amazing things. As long as you use technology to enhance and enrich you it’s good. But concise is the key.

You can try learning guitar only from YouTube. It might work, but you might also position your hand wrong and injure it. So balance and additional guidance are important.
Orrrrrrr you misunderstood and have been doubling down repeatedly when the real numbers are literally on the same screen as your comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43121043

>>>>>>>>>

Guess what? You can see all this information, because of government transparency (not DOGE):

https://smartpay.gsa.gov/about/statistics/

>> GSA SmartPay statistics for fiscal year 2024:

$39.7 billion in total program spend.
$506 million in refunds earned by agencies/organizations.
$441 was spent on average for each transaction.
Yes and no. Had some initial prototype but had issues with all of the edge cases related to document formatting and detail and eventually abandoned it.
Aren't they taking away the 'command' part of the government? No government, no command.
Love anything made by Nolen. To me it seems like he’s hitting the sweet spot of developing single purpose apps/sites that give me nostalgia for what the internet used to be like.
TC39 advances proposals for RegExp Escaping, Float16Array, Redeclarable vars