skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
x2 speed increase for ggml by optimizing SIMD: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/pull/11453

"99% written by DeepSeek-R1" according to the author.
The guy with the shop and 51 flavours of weed a few blocks away takes amex.
I may be wrong but I believe uploads don't contribute to data usage caps. This is based on my experience using eSIMs for travelling.
Interesting to see how this compares with the OpenAI and Perplexity offerings.
> But career civil servants broke this rule with Trump's first term, with a lot of opposition to political decisions brought on by people who are supposed to be neutral to the politics of it all. What is being reaped now was sown back then.

Well, you can't enter a consistent, efficient and well-maintained system with the intention of throwing things around. Resistance is the only natural reaction to such a disruptive approach and now this resistance is missing we see the chaos Trump 2.0 and Musk cause as they follow the Project 2025 playbook.
I really don't think that the amount of applications demonstrate a saturated market, instead, since this is developer positions, It's probably developers better utilising AI/Automations to cast a wider net of job applications to have options if anything should happen to their current position. Considering the state of the US right now, I would definitely be doing this.
I continue to spend most of my free energy learning Finnish. Only a few more years and I should be able to finally focus on my career again :')

Two new projects of note this month, one specific to Finnish language learners, and one that is probably useful for language learners in general:

* https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/tsk - A Finnish pocket dictionary with a TUI interface. This is the first nontrivial thing I've built in Go, by which I meant I had to implement and tweak a randomly pruning trie by hand to get the performance characteristics I wanted (it wasn't actually that bad). I chose Go mostly because of the fantastic cross-compilation story.

* https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/audio2anki - This Python program wraps around `yt-dlp` and `whisper` to create Anki decks for listening practice. This should work for any (monolingual) video in any language. There are many such projects on GitHub, I'm aware, but it was surprisingly hard to find any that actually wrapped around Whisper instead of needing an SRT, VTT, etc file to come from somewhere else. In that sense mine is a "one command" solution - just provide the YouTube link and go. It does not provide a translation for those subtitles yet; in keeping with the all-in-one approach, I'm thinking I might wrap around LLaMa 3 to let the user specify that we should also --translate-to {en,es,eo, etc} if desired. For now my reading skills are advanced enough that I don't need that.
> Sounds to me like the real criticism is dirty electricity generation.

Not when that "dirty electricity generation" was planned to be shut down before the data centers arrived: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/14/ai_datacenters_coal/, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/feb/18/bitcoin-m..., https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/31/datacenter_power_crun..., https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/08/eric_schmidt_speech/.
I don't know enough about protocols. Will the compiler stop you if you misuse them?
Workplace conflicts are a natural part of any professional setting, whether it's disagreements over technical decisions or simple meeting etiquette. The article explains how creating a “working agreement”—a collaborative document that outlines clear behavior expectations—can transform these challenges into opportunities for growth and better teamwork.

By coming together to set guidelines and regularly reviewing them, teams foster accountability, clear communication, and mutual respect. This proactive approach not only resolves immediate issues but also builds a foundation for a more transparent and cohesive work environment.
I'm not convinced that the answer is renting rackspace at the local MS datacenter..

Now please don't use that as an excuse to get on alibaba's rack.
I want to learn font design so i can try and make nice Vietnamese fonts. (I know, "i want to learn to code so i can make a dragon mmo" etc)

Using western style accents for the tone marks just doesn't look right. The difference is clear when looking at hand-designed typography and signage.

Semantically, the tone covers the entire syllable. In handwriting this is clear - note the elongated dâu huyền in the first image's "Còn".

The western fonts used in modern digital typography make it look like it's just a property of the vowel instead, which just doesn't look as nice. (And further, gets messy with the actual vowel marks, ă â ê etc)

(It also doesnt help that 70% of vietnamese signs are written in Impact.. anyone know why this is?)
I do. I also pay the bills of millions of others who are in my insurance pool. But it would be less for all of us if we were all in the same insurance pool.
I've been working on The Road to Next [0] for almost a year. In the end, it's more than just a course on Next.js. It's a deep dive into full-stack development, covering key third-party integrations that empower you to build your own products.

[0] https://www.road-to-next.com/
Clusters – An Asymmetrical Particle System with Emergent Patterns
https://www.ventrella.com/Clusters/
I'm more worried about sexual harassment, the decaying value of truth and creativity, and increasing the power of the surveillance state than I am about job loss.
An open-source, non-profit Digital Dopamine Detox platform - https://algodetox.com/
It's a complex discussion in the Netherlands in which the data protection agency (AP) has a very strict view (they claim it's not allowed) while for example the associated press sees it very different.

There is a key difference between recording vs publishing. There are more restrictions on publishing and an objective assessment needs to be made between the interests of the person in the footage and the general public or publisher.

I would argue that recording the road to collect speed data, not keeping the recording longer than needed and not for example recording license plates, would pass in the Netherlands. Since you're making an assessment between different interests and the is limited privacy impact. Of course assuming this is happening on a public road and not someone's property.

Publishing the recordings instead of just the average speed data would be a very different story, especially if the cars or drivers can be identified.
85 IQ: LLMs are magic

110 IQ: LLMs are "just" next token predictors that can output structured content to interface with tools all wrapped in a nice UI

140 IQ: LLMs are magic
The 2*2 also doesn't seem a general unwrap.

2^2 -> 2*2 -> 2+2

2^3 -> 2*2*2 -> (2+2)+(2+2)
> Quick googling found a stat that 1.6% of the whole world's electricity supply going on computing

That would imply that it isn't the major issue. Electricity generation as a whole is less than half of US energy consumption, US electricity generation is 35% nuclear or renewable, and computing is using 1.6% of electricity. This is a rounding error compared to e.g. transportation at 37% of all energy consumption, or HVAC at another double-digit percentage.

> And we need more!

New generation capacity in the US is disproportionately renewables because renewables will remain cheaper until they're closer to half of all generation and then have to really deal with the storage issues. Willingness to approve fossil fuel plants doesn't mean anybody really wants them. The large tech companies are buying nuclear:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/16/business/energy-environme...
> “he said his code was compiling all week but only made two builds?”

I've worked at places where you were lucky to get one fully tested build a day and those weren't hugely complex systems. Wouldn't surprise me if places existed where two builds a week was possible.
We just need a little more of your (not mine) money to get there. Would I lie to you for $100 billion?
I was trying to solve this simple beam deflection problem and been getting inconsistent results in various models (O1 mini and Gemini 2.0 flash thinking experimental) between different runs. Do you get consistent deflection numbers?

> An 6061-T6 aluminum alloy hollow round 2 in diameter beam with 0.125 in thickness and length 120 in is simply supported at each end. A point load of 100 lb is applied at the middle. What is the deflect in the middle and 12 in from the ends.
Sites with a /Now Page
Thanks for the reply. I will check out those links.
I did something like this some time ago [0] and still using it in prod - feel free to get inspiration in case you find it useful.

[0] https://github.com/preludejs/parser
Taking a sabbatical and spending more time on an open source XMPP web client that I started 10 years ago already.

https://conversejs.org

The website is a bit old, but lots of exciting changes are happening under the hood and I finally have the time to make big architectural and performance improvements.
I think this is a bit unfair and biased to make such broad statements as you are doing here. From my experience, the outsourcing company rarely takes the time to properly onboard outsourced workers, they are not treated as part of the team, and the really shitty work that no-one else wants to do is the work that gets outsourced.

I reckon there's a lot of "garbage in garbage out" going on, and if an org took the time and effort to actually treat Indian (or any outsourced team) devs like their own, things will be much better. But when you do that the overhead shoots up, and that cost/benefit analysis you did during the proposal to offshore flies out the window.
JSON is a human readable format. Machine readable means only a specialized program can be used to make human understand it.
Oh hell yeah, your Road to React was exactly what the doctor ordered when I first waded my way into the full stack ocean years ago. I'm excited to see how this progresses!
n:m preemptively scheduled green threads (goroutines, erlang processes) suck much less!
It answers the question 'which of these 100's of new articles and publications produced in the last few hours in 24 languages should I look into today.

This is in very niche domains, so a 'that is probably not realy correct' stands out like a sore thumb.
What purpose does this serve that grep doesn't?
Did the GCC patch get applied after that?
This is one of those moments where you come across a tool _just_ at the right moment. I have a task for which this will be perfect
Biden's policies clearly weren't EV-damn-the-costs.

You can see this easily, as China and many European countries have more EV sales. Norway is leading, with 93% of all new cars being EVs.
I did not mind this linearity in Half-Life, because the story was engaging. You wanted to know what happened next. And I found the enemies did had some advanced "AI" for that time; like the first time the commandos came was a big moment. They were nothing like the enemies you had seen in other games.
No, it isn’t. Neither glibc fork nor kernel fork syscall provide any special handling for PDEATHSIG beyond what clone syscall does.
Building a wheeled robot with arms to help automate household chores - https://x.com/ajhai/status/1891933005729747096

I have been working with LLMs and VLMs to automate browser based workflows among other things for the last couple of years. Given how good the vision models have gotten lately, the perception problem is solved to level where it opens up a lot of possibilities. Manipulation is not generally solved yet but there is a lot of activity in the field and there are promising approaches to solve (OpenVLA, π0). Given these, I'm trying to build an affordable robot that can help around with household chores using language and vision models. Idea is to ship capable enough hardware that can do a few things really well with the currently available models and keep upgrading the AI stack as manipulation models get better over time.
So he said, even with your charitable interpretation, that he will introduce changes that severely limit the power of all future governments to the point that his changes could never be reversed or meaningfully diminished? That honestly doesn't sound significantly more respectful of democracy than the reading I understood.
Another movie recommendation web app. Long ago, I used Jinni, and I liked their labelling method a lot, categorising movies by mood, plot type, character types, etc. Then, Jinni was sold, disappeared and I wanted to create something similar. The Christmas days off I had the time and I started making it.

* https://moviematey.com/
Recently finished rewriting the code for my personal blog: https://bryanhogan.com/

Have also been working on making a customizable self-tracking app for my thesis.

And learning Korean, working on an app to learn words faster: https://game.tolearnkorean.com/
I'd also like to know, I love the look.
Deliberately misleading name.

This policy blocks investment by China into "strategic sectors" in the USA.

Also blocks third parties from investing based on "political distance to and independence from China".

All law/policy is now up for misuse, by Donald. I don't know to what extent this problem is increased, because I don't know to what extent existing law/policy allows Donald to block economic activity.

As an aside, I'll be attending a support rally in Berlin this early evening, for Ukraine.
The link hasn’t changed since I submitted it.
De-development is saying we have to e.g. stop driving cars. Regulations that make dirty power more expensive are the likes of a carbon tax, which you can avoid while still having a car by getting an electric car and charging it from solar panels.
Apologies I mis-read "their point" as "the point."
Lack of term limits is a problem for any democracy. This isn't as much of an issue for parliamentary systems where the head of government is under continuous vigilance and can be quickly removed; that's not what Brazil has as far as I know.
I suspect commonly called black-and-white thinking. I think splitting describes what they mean although I've never heard that term used in my circles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splitting_(psychology)
Yeah, anthropic bugs. The planet is infested with them.
That really is destroying US businesses. DigiKey's size and its amazingly efficient process means a European can order parts made in China via DigiKey and get them next day or the day after, mostly cheaper than from the smaller European suppliers.

The US has now effectively added an 'export' tax on DigiKeys business.
Ultima IV is already an absolutely free game in the Ultima IV genre. How much of a splash does it make?
I've been building https://canine.sh for the past year, which is an open source Render / Fly / Heroku, etc.

It's based on some learnings I've had in the past building where building on managed platforms like Heroku and Render, and watched our costs explode, with an annoying amount of vendor lockin.

It uses Kubernetes under the hood (which you can now get fully managed for $12 / month on linode), which lets you take advantage of a ton of things that Kubernetes does really well, like automatic healthchecks, zero downtime deployments, auto scaling, etc, while also making it easy to use for solo developers or small teams.

The additional benefit of Kubernetes is that it's also possible to host a bunch of other stuff in your cluster via Helm charts, that you’d normally have to pay for like: Sentry, Wordpress, Postgres, etc.
Southern europe, that shame may happen if you dont prioritize family, but it doesn't happen with work.

In fact I'm prone to belive that informing others that you exercise/meditate/others instantly increment the perceived "value" and successfullness. Just like dressing good, but with actual health improvements.
One thing that isn't so simple, even if you stuck to VMs or docker containers, is the networking.

The networking stack in Azure or AWS are so different that they require a different mindset to work, especially securely. If your networking needs are simple you are very lucky.
Pretty good summary! I somehow forgot about the cleaner fish :)
At my highschool, we had FM radio transmitter on the other side of street. Pretty often you could hear one of the stations in computer speakers in library, so FM radio can be detected by simple analog circuits.
German car companies aren’t really the type of company they’re talking about, though, because they are usually larger. They are more referring to smaller (comparatively) companies that tend to sell tools, parts, and that sort of thing.
Now imagine how much pollution from the airline industry costs public health ...
Then you have to assume by default that your data is visible to their employees, can be monetized, used to improve their models etc
Or just carry a debit card?
What happens if Google is no longer allowed to provide software updates due to trade restrictions, sanctions or executive orders? Does Thales have a copy of the source code and the capability of keeping it up to date themselves?
How can they compete with well capitalized start ups?
Oddly enough, BitTorrent's bencode format is a significant subset of JSON but is much easier to parse as a binary format. Bencode only supports integers, byte strings, lists, and dictionaries.

I wrote a more detailed comparison on: https://www.nayuki.io/page/bittorrent-bencode-format-tools
Machine readable just means a machine can read it. Whether humans can read it as well is irrelevant to the definition.

(And there are pretty much no formats that a human hasn't learned to read, up to and including binary)
In my experience, people mostly tend to hyperbolize the differences between their local dialect and "everything else" for patriotic reasons. Usually, they give some singular words that are vastly different as examples (I suspect you can find such examples in most languages and most regions), and ignore that 99% of the vocabulary, plus the grammar and most daily sentence constructs, are equivalent (modulo the accent). A standard example in German is how the outermost bread slice is called, which differs completely from region to region, town to town, and sometimes even family to family [0].

[0] https://www.atlas-alltagssprache.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/...
Building the best hardware product design firm in SF (www.iancollmceachern.com) and also building an injection molding and 3d printing company based right here in SF (www.goldengatemolders.com)
Use Windows education or Enterprise editions and follow this guide https://www.privacyguides.org/en/os/windows/

But windows will always introduce more telemetry tracking and Recall. If you want to have privacy and not be surveilled by Microsoft/Windows, use Linux.
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I think we're drastically oversimplifying what "pattern matching" means. It is also one of the fundamental mechanisms by which the human brain operates. I believe we are consciously (or perhaps subconsciously) conditioned to think that human "logic" and "reasoning" are several degrees more advanced than pattern matching. However, I don't think this is true.

The fundamental difference lies in how patterns are formed in each case. For LLMs, all they know are the patterns they observe in "words" - that is the only "sense" they possess. But for humans, pattern recognition involves continuously ingesting and identifying patterns across our five primary senses—not just separately, but simultaneously.

For example, when an LLM describes something as "ball-shaped," it cannot feel the shape of a ball because it lacks another sense to associate with the word "ball-shaped." In contrast, humans have the sense of touch, allowing them to associate the word or sound pattern "ball" with the physical sensation of holding a ball.
What do you mean with "only" developer? Someone who just knows how to code when given a spec but lacking domain knowledge (in this case ai math and hardware optimization) and larger context?
Cephalopod Sentience and Cognition
“the very basic step” is a lot less basic than you imply.

There’s a million little proprietary APIs and the temptation to glue one to another, especially circumstances like AWS where they use lambdas for basic functionality that should have been just provided by the cloud provider itself.
Cars and suburban sprawl
>this

I know someone who buys their drugs rarely but in large quantities in this way. They are not a dealer but essentially use quite a bit and ask friends what they want and then order a couple thousand euros worth of stuff to get the volume discount and to reduce the amount of packages.
I also just read that paper. But I wonder, even though MLA is strictly more powerful, do you really gain by that in experiments? This paper doesn't really do too much experimental comparisons. GQA on the other side should still be faster (no need to an extra linear transformation).
I sold my first SaaS for $50k
Come on , stop being lazy, suck up to the king. Ask him what new color he wants his grandkids spray tans to be, maybe he will change heart from orange and BLAMO new research goals
ScrapeGraphAI is an AI powered web scraping API that converts websites into structured JSON with a simple prompt. It performs scalable data extraction and integrates with major AI frameworks. Perfect for lead enrichment, KYB automation, market research.
If a mitigating action had decreased CO in my neighbor's house by at least as much as it increased in mine, then potentially yes, a neutral researcher should consider that as an offset at the population health level.

Not sure why we need an analogy, though. How about sticking to standard air pollution, which has direct impact of its own? CO poisoning seems a bit extreme as a comparison.
It's both. "Readable" means "possible to read it". On the human readability side, though, the obligation to enquote string keys irks me a lot.
I've recently been looking into running local LLMs for fun on my laptop (without any GPU) and this is the one thing I've never been able to find consistent information on. This is so helpful, thank you so much! Going to try and run Llama 3.2 3B FP8 soon.
In a world where AI has crept into virtually every activity, it is hard to believe that AI cannot help in compiler generation.

Why would the field of JIT meta-compilers be exempt from AI?
In my case, privacy is not the main issue because I have been self-hosting almost all my services for many years. It is about what is just, moral and right according to my own principles : honesty, respect, trust and fairness.

I don't want to continue to contribute to making richer companies that try in every possible way to steal data and wealth from their customers and other nations with unfair behavior at the edge (or beyond the edge) of the law.

And if that is not enough to also use every possible way to manipulate the people's beliefs with false claims and evil psychological tactics.
If only it were spelled "crouwn" or "courounation" in Britain, that would help! But, alas.
The problem is information asymmetry. If I get scammed or treated badly in person in a real public space, I can immediately punch the perpetrator. In a digital public square, I will most likely not even know who "attacked" me. That's how email and Twitter became unusable: anonymous spam
It's not intimidation, its merely correcting and an inappropriate usage of a word. What exactly do you think smuggling is?
But that's the point of the article, no? In German culture we don't have this drive of "biggest game changing ideas". I do agree with the "Made in Germany" remark being more of glorification.
Thanks for the link, I think this is helpful and the tips resonate with me.

As I get older, the desires that "work" are very frequently the same ones as I had when I was a child.
So every text is machine-readable? Because even English can now be readable by a machine via LLM. Then why use machine-readable? Just say text.
AI don't "solve" problems, best it can do is remember them. Ask them to solve anything new that's challenging and it starts to hallucinate.
At least currently.