skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, very neat.

Maybe some day the “rival” character in Pokemon can be played by a RL system, haha. That way you can have a “real player (simulated)” for your rival.
Can't Pokemon be beaten by almost random play?
Apple will do it for the attention, PR and to hurt the idea generally even if they lose. Mindshare and ire towards the government are as strong as any legal judgement over time.
> Code signing has a minimum size per file of 4KB, meaning that each localized file regardless of the content will take up at least 4KB in the final IPA due to code signing.

Wait, what? Good thing Apple is offering >1 TB options for their newer iPhones, I suppose...
I marvel at this every single time i see their billboards. It does mean I read all of their billboards, I guess.
I mean, they can ban ships from certain nations from entering - sink them if they do.
The US implementing Russian's foreign policy is something I didn't think possible. Trump clearly idolizes Putin (if not worse), and his supporters don't care.
Kagi appears to be pushing llm slop as well.

If a user wants slop, why pay when they can get it for free from google?
almost all of my spam is in french, which is an assumption on the part of the spammers based on the email username. almost all my gmail is spam, because i have directed most real email elsewhere. therefore, almost all the mail i receive at gmail is in french. this has lead to google blocking things (like voter registration confirmation!) that are in english because they're "not in your normal language."
Ultra is already two big M3 chips coupled through an interposer. Apple is curiously not going the way of chiplets like the big CPU crowd is.
Haven't used Mox yet but Chasquid is great if you want something that's focused on being a streamlined modern MTA rather than "all-in-one". So kind of the opposite of the Mox approach.

I like Chasquid for its straightforward codebase and the hook system that you can use to customize it further.
I've heard legends of a time, perhaps back in the mid 2000s, when companies paid so much for banner ads that you didn't need another revenue source for your website with Flash games or what have you. If such a time ever existed, it ended long before Flash did.
I own a couple of small businesses, and I've tried a few things with my books - was on Bench for a year (thankfully not the year they shut down, and they were so incompetent I dropped them before that), tried to do them myself for a year, then upon realizing the P&L generated did not match the numbers I expected, hired bookkeepers on Upwork to fix them for me.

I really feel like I ought to be able to do them myself - it's just following some rules, and my accounts aren't that complex. Still, it was just enough of a pain that it was easier to hire someone overseas for cheap (especially since I know what the business' numbers should roughly come out to, so I can validate their work).

But as I've been using the latest AI models, I really feel like this is something that's going to be fully automated by AI in the next 1-2 years (at least for my very simple use case). It's simple enough that an AI agent should pretty trivially be able to fetch the docs from the various places that I sell upload them, categorize transactions (this is already basically automated by rules for me anyway) and then do whatever it is that bookkeepers do to close the books.

I can't help but think that bookkeeper is not going to be a profession in five years, and I'm just not sure where those people go. It's not like automating bookkeeping will expand the economic pie enough to create new jobs - I don't believe it's a bottleneck to anything at this point.
For the same reason corporations shouldn't be purchasing Residential Real Estate (individual houses) it destroys the market for the consumers its intended to serve.
Location: NYC, New York

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Angular, TypeScript, Javascript, NGRX, .NET MAUI, C#, SQL

Résumé/CV:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11yFcC_9td-h2f3TlgFRifQMv...

Email: kozlowskifrederick[at]gmail.com
> Value models rarely focus solely on engagement. They often incorporate additional factors, such as "integrity signals," which penalize low-quality content or boost items aligned with platform policies

Good to see integrity being emphasized as part of the value model. Would hope to continue seeing this as models get built
Ask HN: Places with Good PhD Stipends
Hey guys,

I am a Master's student in Data Science in a great school in Russia (Skoltech). Started it to switch to ML research after 9 years in the industry as a software engineer and so far did not regret it one second. Weighing my options for a future PhD. Geography does not really matter. It might easier for me to do it in Russia or in the UK since I lived in both countries, but I am open to all opportunities. What are the places/programs with decent PhD stipends to live comfortably?

Here is what I know of:

- In the UK, Meta offers collabs with UCL and Oxford (see AI Research Assistant on their website). AFAIK, they offer IC3 level comp for the role - 60-70k (ish) GBP. It is more than 3x of the regular PhD stipend in London (~20k GBP) and above median salary in the city;
- Same Meta collab in France (do not know the name of the school);
- In Russia it might be possible (but not trivial) to find a scientific advisor from the industrial lab (AIRI, Yandex Research, etc.);

What else?

I would enjoy doing research after graduation, but if we take London, to be honest, I am not ready to survive on 20k there (a typical PhD stipend). When I was there last year, my en-suite room in a good place was ~1450GBP after bills. Which means that the entire stipend would go towards rent. I could take a hit financially and burn my savings or rent in a much more modest place for a year or so, but not so sure about committing to it for 3-4 years.
If the US were working for Russia, what would they do differently other than supply weapons to Russia and/or join on their side? Each day it takes more and more faith to believe the opposite.
> But you have to bring your own engineering effort to actually make another OS run.

I mean, that's usually how it works though. When IBM launched the PS/2, they didn't support anything other than PC-DOS and OS/2, Microsoft had to make MS-DOS work for it (I mean... they did get support from IBM, but not really), the 386BSD and Linux communities brought the engineering effort without IBM's involvement.

When Apple was making Motorola Macs, they may have given Be a little help, but didn't support any other OSes that appeared. Same with PowerPC.

All of the support for alternative OSes has always come from the community, whether that's volunteers or a commercial interest with cash to burn. Why should that change for Apple silicon?
I think another tier needs to be added to the Maslow pyramid for this particular class of complaint. I have had to reboot the M4 Mini on my desk a number of times now and it takes less than 3 seconds to lift the corner an inch and depress the switch.
And blind people will be the first test subjects for the "we see everything you read" project. Sweet. A small enough group that has no way out. Besides, after the initial giveaways, imagine the revenue if you can charge for every single pageview.
Cue "It's a Trap!" meme.

The future of online content sharing and discussion is decentralized, open source, and based on free protocols. We absolutely don't need another Reddit riding off of past Digg vibes. We need a fast ejection out of corporate silos and proprietary platforms!
I am currently studying for our country's version of the SAT and, having tried Math Academy — having been convinced there is nothing anywhere as polished and developed on the market — I still had to cancel my subscription after the first month. The price just wasn't worth it; over a single year, it translates to a cost greater than one-on-one tutoring.

Small companies have to understand the value of local pricing — nobody is willing to pay above h percent of their salary for a service X, and there's only so much that rule can be bent. I understand that, at the end of the day, the company still has all their expenses in USA prices, but for digital services with no manufacturing or logistic costs, it can be better to make a modest profit than none at all.
It didn't stop. What are you referring to?
It would be 273 GB/s (gigabytes, not gigabits). But in reality we don't know the bandwidth. Some ex employee said 500 GB/s.

You're source is a reddit post in which they try to match the size to existing chips, without realizing that its very likely that NVIDIA is using custom memory here produced by Micron. Like Apple uses custom memory chips.
Since no one specifically answered your question yet, yes, you should be able to get usable performance. A Q4_K_M GGUF of DeepSeek-R1 is 404GB. This is a 671B MoE that "only" has 37B activations per pass. You'd probably expect in the ballpark of 20-30 tok/s (depends on how much actually MBW can be utilized) for text generation.

From my napkin math, the M3 Ultra TFLOPs is still relatively low (around 43 FP16 TFLOPs?), but it should be more than enough to handle bs=1 token generation (should be way <10 FLOPs/byte for inference). Now as far is its prefill/prompt processing speed... well, that's another matter.
NASA to launch Earth science smallsat mission on Firefly Alpha – SpaceNews
> By the author's logic, they would expire in October.

That's... not the logic stated in the article. In both cases you get the expiration date in the contract.†

If you make a false representation to someone, and they rely on that, which is exactly what happened here, you can be liable for the damage to them, which is also exactly what happened here.

If you make a false representation to someone, and nothing bad happens, and they find proof that you made a mistake, then... you adjust what you're saying, and there are no other consequences.

† Kummeth contended that, had he been aware of the options' actual expiration date, he would have exercised them, and this was obviously true. He was awarded an amount based on their value around the time of expiration specified in the contract, not their value at the time he tried to exercise them.
Some distros use an alias which pipes all the aliases into 'which', which has a flag that supports reading aliases from stdin.

Fedora does it. It's very convenient.
I, too, was once downvoted for things I posted on the internet.

I was in shock, wondering how I would keep going without those internet points. I feel your pain, brother.
I think we all go through life managing day to day life sometimes just in day to day decision making we rule things out a few times and don't really consider them. Over time they build up and without even knowing it ... they're walls.

Sometimes they're easy to break through. I was driving to a medical appt in a next door town and realized there were several restaurants and stores very close to me that I never considered ... I kinda knew they were there, but I'm never there and so day to day "I want to go someplace to eat." those options are completely out of my mind.

I think sometimes it's just the pattern of life, and as you do things, even when you know they're there, by not doing them you give the things you don't do a sort of rigidity.

Other things like dreams (music) and so on, I think there's a lot of fear and deeply held emotions that play a part.

A local sports team coach said "A lot of people want things, but almost nobody is willing to do what it takes to get it."

I think that's true.
Aspirin prevents metastasis by limiting TXA2 suppression of T cell immunity
Sure, if the workers get to control the means of production.
I think it's sort of a companion bit to the short story 2430 A.D. The story line is a bit different but the internet suggests that as an addendum or companion article he did a kind of back of the envelope calculation going from the elemental composition of the earth's crust to maximum biomass. Basically, you'd run out of phosphorus first. Much of the crust would still remain because silicon and aluminum are mostly unused and although iron is used, there's still far too much of it after you run out of phosphorus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2430_A.D.
Mount Stupidity relates to section two of the blog post where it references a concept related to the Dunning-Kruger effect.
I think you fixed the one below the puffer.ai image, but not the one above Authors.
Strategy might be:

1) Break everything

2) Fix things that people complain enough about.

Everything else wasn't sufficiently important, for some definition of sufficient.
The why explains itself. Cells that do not divide and reproduce disappear.
What would we dev areas are important to you?
On macOS, you can do that for any GUI editor by using the `open` command with the `-W` and `-n` flags. See `man open` for details.
> Hard as it may be to imagine, there was a time when Java was brand new and exciting. Long before it became the vast clunky back-end leviathan it is today, it was going to be the ubiquitous graphical platform that would be used on everything from cell phones to supercomputers: write once, run anywhere.

As someone who started their software career at Java version 8, I wouldn't say the trend in Java has been to become more clunky.

If we separate frameworks from the core libraries of Java, its more modular, has better functionality with things like Strings, Maps, Lists, Switch statements, Resource (file, http) accessing etc.etc.

For frameworks we have Spring Boot, which can be as clunky or as thin as you want for a backend.

For IC cards, and small embedded systems, I can still do that in the newer versions of Java just with a smaller set of libraries.

Maybe the author is nostalgic for a time (which I didn't experience - was busy learning how to walk), but Java can do all the things JDK version 1 can, and so much more. No?
Are there major printer manufacturers in Europe?
Could they take any currently seized bitcoins and just shuffle that sideways into a reserve?

It'd break the main point of this though which imo is to boost the price of various crypto assets they're probably flush in since the Trump family personally just did two back to back memecoin rug pulls.
Vibe Coding Is the Future [video]
Yes! That's an important point — I'm also using LLMs for search quite a bit, and in fact that really got the ball rolling in terms of reducing my dependence on Google Search specifically.
Impeach
What would a containerization environment on MacOS give you that you don't already have? Like concretely - what does containerization mean in the context of a MacOS user space?

In Linux, it means something very specific: a user/mount/pid/network namespace, overlayfs to provide a rootfs, chroot to pivot to the new root to do your work, and port forwarding between the host/guest systems.

On MacOS I don't know what containerization means short of virtualization. But you have virtualization on MacOS already, so why not use that?
>Wasn't a lack of transparency one of the original issues folks didn't like about Digg?

For me it was a slow gradual build up of stuff. Lack of transparency played a role but it was* more the features added/removed. The final thing that made me switch to reddit was the changes to power users. They basically allowed power users to completely control the front page. There are tons of reddit threads that go into a lot more details.
Doesn't matter to me if I still have to buy the chunky Pro to get a decent display.

The current Air is great as an entry level device, but there is an underserved segment here.
I'm thinking specifically about the USA math curriculum. It's pretty sequential until 8th grade or so.

Filling in gaps is fine for people with good study skills, but that excludes the vast majority of elementary school students.
Hey! Thanks for pointing out. I have already corrected it in my article :)
There’s a little more to it than that when making something that gets injected directly to the bloodstream, often in medically compromised patients.
Skynet won and destroyed humanity
I’m astounded by your thought process. Yes, he was posting racist shit during civil unrest, as is his right. Or at least, should be.

As a liberal, your attitude is exactly what got US democrats steamrolled in the latest election.
It's so difficult to evaluate this stuff from afar.

In 2019 there were 399,000 workers. Now 482,000. In 2022, the Biden admin tried to slash 50,000 workers and was stymied, and then the VA hired 61,000 the following year.

What's the right number? I'm sure people leaning one way politically will confidently say one thing, though they may have said something else in 2022, and vice versa. I find it hard to have a problem with a plan if its at least partially originating internally, and its hard to say there's no problem if the current and previous administration were both trying to curtail growth.
Kind of a solo pong.
Around 5x Nvidia A100 80GB can fit 671b Q4. $50k just for the GPUs and likely much more when including cooling, power, motherboard, CPU, system RAM, etc.
Notes on China [video]
You can start with refurbishing an old Data General Dasher terminal! (the inspiration for the MDR terminals in Severance)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bjdrKCmiE0
What? Look how much white there is: https://luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/#6/48.966/12.898
Wow. This is such a fascinating insight. Obvious in hindsight but never occurred to me.
When you say "conventions", do you actually mean, "insanity"?
What an awesome project! I'm curious - I would have thought that rewarding unique coordinates would be enough to get the agent to (eventually) explore all areas, including the key ones. What did the agents end up doing before key areas got an extra reward?

(and how on earth did you port Pokémon red to a RL environment? O.o)
I'd wager there are not many skills or occupations were drill isn't vital to success.
> You can read the ingreendients of IV fluid.

Bread has four ingredients. Flour, water, salt, and yeast. Do you think all breads are therefore the same?
It can be brute forced if that’s what you mean. It has a fairly low difficulty curve and these old games have a grid system for movement and action selections.
That’s why they’re pointing out the lower parameter amount and CPU. The point I took away is doing more with less.
Science experiment to test the hypothesis: there is no limit to corruption in the USA.
A friend is working on a system that automates scratch off tickets and uses computer vision to detect winners. Not sure what the end product is.
Trying to hide cheaper options is a common dark pattern, simply so more users pick the higher-priced option. Only a small minority would care about a “told you so” statement, or even witness it in the first place.
That's the best they can come up with? Floyd was already handcuffed.

No matter, I'm sure Chauvin's innocence will be an established fact within the right-wing canon soon enough. Poor, persecuted Saint Chauvin, railroaded just like the late, great Hannibal Lecter.
For a substantial portion of those third:

1) They can't vote, either because of local politicians meddling in their election process/with their polling places, being convicted of bullshit non-crimes, or simply being unable to get to a polling place. Shock of shocks, majority of political fuckery involved in taking away people's right to vote is brought about by conservatives. Even more shocking, the groups that tend to be disenfranchised trend progressive in their voting habits, wow, such a weird coincidence.

2) They have no desire to vote, because as much as I understand voting for the lesser of two evils (and doing it with regularity) that just isn't motivating, and neither is choosing which party you want to join that's going to leave you for dead the second the election is over. To be clear: this is not "both sides are bad." Both sides are bad, but one is just useless bad, and the other is actively tearing down the state to sow chaos that it can use to consolidate power and bring about a theocracy. And while both of those are bad, they are not even remotely comparable.
There are several examples of this in other species. The Przewalski horse is probably one of the most dramatic examples. The population was reduced to around a dozen individuals, all in captivity. After an intensive breeding and reintroduction program, the population is now around 2,000, with several hundred of those in the wild. There's also the Père David's deer. It's an interesting species: the only semi-aquatic deer species. It has webbing between its hooves and eats aquativ plants (along with grass). They were hunted essentially to extinction in their native territory in China, the only remaining individuals were a handful taken by missionaries (including Père David, their namesake). Today their population is over 8,000, with hundreds reintroduced to the wild.

It's sad to think about, but it's also hopeful in a way. Humanity as a whole nearly killed these species, but a few dedicated individuals were able to save them.
Isn't a portfolio basically a visual-arts thing? It had never before occurred to me that any kind of developer would have one, though now you mention it I can see how front-end web design could have enough overlap with graphic design that it would make sense for them.
It’s not imagined though, I use my partner’s phone sometimes and every time I used it I thought it was broken because the UI jitter was so jarring at 60Hz. Actually I’m still not convinced her phone isn’t broken. Also her flashlight resets to the lowest brightness EVERY time it’s cycled.
The good thing is that when someone drains the strategic crypto reserve for tactical advantage (digging for coins in the couch, so to speak), the USA will won't be hurt
I had the same takeaway. The court didnt say the September sale price represented in the computer must be honored. It rolled the sale back based on the august date in the contract.

This is the court essentially saying "you both errored in executing the contract as written" and then trying to figure out what would have happened in the hypothetical where each executed it faithfully. Looking at the ticker, and august average sale price was lower than the September transaction date.
Postgres Just Cracked the Top Fastest Databases for Analytics
[dupe] Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43266387
The value does need to be propped up for investors though.
I know "fairness" is a virtue we teach to children, but honestly there is nothing fair about any part of life.

Where you are born, what ethnicity you are, how rich your parents are, how healthy, athletic, brainy, beautiful you are, what you eat, how you live, nothing in any part of your life is "fair".

So sure, play the lottery if you like, but don't pretend it's fair. Indeed the unfairness of the winning is entirely the point of it.

Of course if you are playing the lottery and dreaming of a better life, you already know how unfair life really is.
Does it work like that though at this larger scale? 512GB of VRAM would be across multiple NVIDIA cards, so the bandwidth and access is parallelized.

But here it looks more of a bottleneck from my (admittedly naive) understanding.
Two questions for the fellow HNers:

1. What are various average joe (as opposed to researchers, etc.) use cases for running powerful AI models locally vs. just using cloud AI. Privacy of course is a benefit, but it by itself may not justify upgrades for an average user. Or are we expecting that new innovation will lead to much more proliferation of AI and use cases that will make running locally more feasible?

2. With the amount of memory used jumping up, would there be a significant growth for companies making memories? If so, which ones would be the best positioned?

Thanks.
Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms, study shows
It will be good to have a test of the legislation, the last government spat out some horrifically written legislation, so it might not even say what they think it says.
The Gambl-o-Matic?
If this doesnt force putin to a negotiation table I dont know what will.