skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Other countries like the Netherlands went through the same car-centric design phase and realized it was too expensive and bad for the country so they reverted. We can and should keep cars, but our reliance on them for our very existence is quite fragile and unnecessary.

The Netherlands is roughly the size of Maryland. If The Netherlands was a U.S. state, it would be 42nd in terms of land area.
PACER access? RIP Aaron Swartz.

> The Huffington Post characterized his actions this way: "Swartz downloaded public court documents from the PACER system in an effort to make them available outside of the expensive service. The move drew the attention of the FBI, which ultimately decided not to press charges as the documents were, in fact, public."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz
Ah ok my mistake, so that’s 8 hours including the review and discussion portion for the super day, then let’s say 45 minutes for the technical interview so 8 hours and 45 minutes of time spent interviewing at a minimum.
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I thought this was about AI tools taking over all the fun jobs, like painting and writing.
Are they blocking the global tailscale IP addresses / host names for their DERP relays? Tailscale will tunnel over HTTPS if it can’t establish a UDP relay.
messaging is going to reside in places they don't own

but that is the case with every messenger that stores messages on your behalf. telegram, whatsapp, signal... with those ALL people are not running their own servers.

whatsapp and signal store encrypted copies of the messages, and so does deltachat.

beyond that each client also stores a copy of each message locally. as does deltachat.

in difference to all others at least with deltachat i have a choice to use a different server that i trust. with whatsapp and signal i don't have that choice.
One of the US's most recent foreign deployments is the Iraq War, which was based on a lie and extraordinarily unpopular among NATO members. I think abandoning Ukraine is very bad, and I agree it's unreasonable to expect Europe to be OK with it, but the US's current position in NATO was never based on a foundation of good behavior or uniform foreign policy alignment.
>>>quicken et al at least use a system now where the bank grants read only permission as an app integration

...not always, they don't. Some financial institutes provide this, some do not. I know very specifically that some FIs do not have any way to grant read-only access, and that aggregators like Plaid, Flinks, Quicken, etc. will simply fallback on good-old-fashioned "give us your username/password and we'll screen scrape your account info".

I can personally attest to this being true in 2025 in Canada, at least.
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43266387
There's been a couple other companies who have done stuff like this. There's a recent example I'm blanking on, but Volvo also gave away a bunch of passenger safety features around IIRC seatbelt design. Even free nobody wanted them.

I recall my dad telling me, while talking about my grandmother's antique car, with bench seats, lap belts and no head rest (!!) that there were a bunch of years where the auto industry put the mount point for shoulder straps onto the B pillars of vehicles but then buried them behind the upholstery while they fought Congress over vehicle safety standards. He was reasonably sure if you popped off the trim you'd find a hardpoint for 3-point seatbelts. Since he had previously worked for an OEM supplier I have no reason to doubt that story.
Every thread tangentially about Russia gets a couple of these brand new accounts with uninformly pro-Russian comments. Usually it's the only comment they ever make.

Congrats on being one of today's few.
I do see your point!

But at the end of the day, it depends on where you want to spend your time. "Build an LLM from scratch" is over 300 pages -- and they are very dense pages. My blog post covers fewer than 10 of them (though TBF they are the hardest pages). Adding on tokenizers in depth from scratch would add on 100 or so more. Adding on efficient-enough matrix multiplication to do anything would add on a few hundred more, and doing it in CUDA would probably be a couple of thousand. Now add on automated differentiation to work out the gradients for training -- a few thousand more? Optimizers for the training -- even more than that, perhaps.

You have to draw the line somewhere, as otherwise (as you suggest) the "from scratch" book has to start "go out and get some really clean sand" so that you can start fabbing your own chips. I think that tiktoken and PyTorch are a solid choice for that line, as it means that the book is manageable in size and gives you enough of an overview of the underlying stuff to be able to work out what you want to dig into next.
I've never this at Google, but at my company, if you pass the technical screen you're offered to hiring managers. If they don't want you on your team because they want more leadership (or less leadership), or if there were 5 senior python roles and you were the 6th person to pass the interviews, you still won't get hired.
That's a lofty ideal, but the typical research report is flawed in multiple ways, and even in academia "Most Published Research Findings Are False" [0], and very few people's careers have in any way suffered, as there's very little de-facto accountability for this trust.

The best case scenario as I see it, is that we become more critical of research in general, and start training AI to help us identify these issues. And then we could perhaps utilize GAN to improve report generation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis
> democracy actually leverages that really well in practice

Does it? Everything I know indicates that the #1 deciding factor in how much influence you can get (within a modern liberal democracy) is how much money you have to begin with.

> people who notice get annoyed because they have a naive view that all the voters in a democratic polity are meant to have equal sway and impact in practice

I don't think people have (nearly as much of) an issue with e.g. people who caucus getting more sway than your average voter. But even the most devoted party volunteer will struggle to out-influence even a relatively disinterested large donor.
Can a 40 watt plasma rifle actually do any damage ? (pre LED light bulbs generally clock in at 60-100 watts)
It's a lot better than sendmail.cf, which I had to use in a previous job.

# handle "from:<>" special case
R$*<>$* $@@ turn into magic token

# basic textual canonicalization
R<$*<@$+>> $@$1<@$2>
R$*<$+>$* $2 basic RFC822 parsing

# make sure <@a,@b,@c:user@d> syntax is easy to parse -- undone later
R@$+,$+:$+ @$1:$2:$3 change all "," to ":"
R@$+:$+ $@$>6<@$1>:$2 src route canonical

R$+:$*;@$+ $@$1:$2;@$3 list syntax
R$+@$+ $:$1<@$2> focus on domain
R$+<$+@$+> $1$2<@$3> move gaze right
R$+<@$+> $@$>6$1<@$2> already canonical
Show HN: Diff filtering, text mapping, and windowed transforms for LLM apps
I couldn't find good Python libs to do this so ended up writing it myself.
yup, I ended up implementing that myself via a coredns extension that does DNS for both tags and hosts. obviously not zero effort, but it ended up being quite straightforward, and has been working flawlessly since then.
>acid rain in LA

i remember reading about acid rain happening in Germany, years ago.

I googled acid rain germany.

one result:

https://www.gmfus.org/news/acid-rain-lessons-germanys-black-...
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I've met people like that but usually after the third time something doesn't work they pause and reassess.
The B part of ICBM means ballistic, and they are. Thus you can get a useful approximation of where it’s going to land based on the initial trajectory.

By useful I mean you can do significantly better than saying if it’s targeting the middle of the US, east, or west coast. Though it’s quite a large area.
I do hope that Forgejo Federation is implemented, but it seems to me progress has stalled on it?
4 is a bit ambigious if the nuclear part applies to the threat or to both.

Russia violates 2, but not US. Negotiating with Putin does not violate "to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine" because it's not enforced. Ultimately it is up to Ukraine if they want to accept the deal negotiated by Trump
Yep! I'm glad to hear that someone else had the same misaligned initial expectations. Keeping it vague to avoid spoilers, but the fact that I'm still unsure if the protagonist's action at the very end of the story was an example of agency or not has been a lot of fun to think about.
> assume it would be relatively practical for a nation-state or even a mid-sized company (xAI) to air-gap an installation for AGI development.

Stuxnet. (Or just sabotage a shipment of GPUs.)
>CoreCivic, the corporation that operates the facility, announced Wednesday that it had reached an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to reopen the South Texas Family Residential Center

I did not realize, concentration camps have been privatized.
I'm curious if it's useful! How do others try to solve use cases like this of mapping data between docs or strictly controlling LLM edits?
Deaf person here working full time to try and make some consumer websites not terrible at the least.
OpenAI could sell $20k/mn agents, on track to generate $4B in revenue: report
Thanks for the insight! There's definitely value in keeping app focused and not overburden user with too many choices. Very interesting that Berean translation connects each translated word with the original Greek or Hebrew text -- I'll need to check it out.
I think the Framework AI PC will run this quite nicely.
Doesn't the kernel already have a disk cache? Is it duplicated work to cache the file again in userspace memory?
I went to watch the podcast – he's heavily overplaying how much cross platform web dev is used on the native platforms. He doesn't seem to be in the biggest channels for both iOS and Android developers (the largest 'IOS'/'Android' release/global channels).
This is true, Tesla as a car company would have been much better if Musk quit it at least 2 years ago.

Tesla as a stock, which is the primary product of the company, would crater immediately, by something like 90%. All of it's "future value" is derived from fantasies closely tied to Elon Musk "genius".
If one value Tesla as a car company, it's worth something like 10$/share.

PS. Tesla head of board of directors, Robyn Denholm, sold almost 120M$ worth of shares in the last 3 months, something like >60% of her holdings.
I'm fairly sure they meant "cracked" as slang for "solved", as in "I've cracked the case."
Replying to myself. I see two scenarios.

1) When Trump needs a fall guy for skyrocketing inflation, or widespread protests about failing public services

2) There might be some Republican lawmakers who feel that they will need a career post Trump and will pick a time to demand Musk goes

3) Party funders will get sick of losing so much money in the turmoil and will demand a scapegoat
Going 800Gbps at up to 1000km with the Marvell COLORZ III 800G
You misunderstood my point, I’m saying corporations are facing real hard limits here.

My first option would be to buy some other car. However of that’s not possible, I would pay several thousand dollars and deal with a rough interior to avoid Ads that play on my cars console and speakers.
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No, a "view that humanity ought to be replaced" is Sutton's, not an EA view. I'm not quite sure how you read that otherwise, except that you seem very angry. I sure hope our alternatives are better than human extinction or total control by elites...
You have a pattern of writing shallow dismissals (including deflections to other topics) about anything aligned with the current US administration grievances, are you one of the true believers?
Salespeople are what make a successful company, from a revenue point of view. There's only one company that I know of that's been successful at that level without sales: Atlassian. Everyone else has salespeople.

If you if you don't have salespeople then you need to make a product that works and fulfills user needs. And it has to be good enough for word of mouth...which is where posthog's experience comes in.
There are places where it makes sense that only audited software should be allowed, but the big touch-screen in the middle of the vehicle isn't one of them. That shouldn't have access to safety related systems (other than reporting) so there shouldn't be a safety concern with wiping it and putting what I want on it.
Until people start to really feel what losing privacy mean, nothing much will happen.

Right now, there is still a strong support in the UK for the gouvernement crusade against encryption and overall ending of privacy.

Because "why should I care, i have nothing to hide".
It takes time and tragedy for populationd to educate themselves on matter, maybe in a few years or a decade the trend will invert.

Until then, there isn't much apple can do. They haven't the law with them, they haven't the population with them, they got the money but they aren't going to spend it on educating people.

Taking UK gouvernement to court is just the best they can do right now, a big pr stunt, like a giant ad to say to the rest of the world 'we care about your privacy, buy iphone'.
I did the same thing, created an Youtube specific account.
I might use this if it went back waaaaay further
Anywhere I can read about that? I’m curious about all miltech things.
You need to create an email account, and you’ll be doing that through a big email provider, if you want your emails to get delivered anywhere.
I literally gave you an example of being removed from right wing spaces for wrong think. They wanted me to pretend a group of people didn’t and never existed or I couldn’t participate. It’s not subtle at all either. How can you think it’s only the left?
I've been a touring musician for over 10 years. The thing is, while streaming services provide very little money, they sill provide some. If youtube stops playing ads on music videos (and by extent stop paying artists), artists won't sell more merch, they will not sell more tickets, but they will loose that little bit of income.

Singles used to be an advertisement, they would make the artist more known and be ads for the full album. This is no longer the case since the whole album is available on youtube on release day. Public tv has shows you can watch for free, you have to sit through commercials though, why would it be different for music ? Producing an album is extremely expensive and we don't expect movie studios to distribute their movies for free because they'll sell merch. Not even children movies that are obviously made to sell toys.
The good news: The US Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, is fully aware of the request and has responded to a letter from Congress about it. She has stated that in her opinion, while this plays out, it would actually be possibly illegal for the UK to make this request, let alone Apple to comply with it, under the US CLOUD Act. If this is true, Apple will have no choice but to leave the UK than comply, and the UK will find themselves in a no-win situation for this demand.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-examining-whether-uks-...

Edit: This is in addition (for better or worse, I’m just the messenger) to Trump personally calling the EU’s rules for tech unfair, JD Vance giving a speech accusing the UK and Europe at large of violating free speech, the UK’s prime minister being personally teased by Vance at their meeting about free speech (overshadowed by Zelensky’s meeting later the same day), and FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr stating the EU Digital Services Act is incompatible with American free speech values. In my opinion, this turned out to be the dumbest possible time for the UK to attempt such a move, even if it wasn’t foreseeable when the demand was issued.
Robert Wright just posted a (somewhat) interesting conversation with one of the authors.

His thesis involves at least two ideas (1) projects which could exponentially increase our AI capability are just around the corner (will happen by the end of this year or some time next year at the latest) (2) it's possible for state actors to deter those projects with sabotage (he coins the term Mutually Assured AI Malfunction).

It doesn't make sense to me however because the cost of the next AI breakthrough just doesn't sound comparable to the cost of creating nuclear weapons. With nuclear weapons you need this extremely expensive and time consuming process, and you need to invest in training these extremely skilled people. With AI, the way everyone seems to talk about it, it sounds like some random undergraduate is going to come along and cause a massive breakthrough. We've already seen Deepseek come along and do just as well as the best American companies for practically pennies on the dollar.
Who is building the Math Academy equivalent for other subjects (especially other sciences)?
> If you're using only key-auth and have password auth disabled, I'm not sure why unauthorized attempts are a problem.

See xz vulnerability for more details. It’s about not trusting people with any of my ports/software (directly).
Hard disagree. Would it be helpful? Sure. But a good boss just needs to know when to trust the judgement and opinions of his subordinates.

Trouble comes when they don’t understand the work, but make decisions as if they do.
I'm in the same boat. My base model M1 air is the longest I've owned a laptop without upgrading. And it's perfectly fine. (and yes it only has 8gb)
Does Google use Flutter for building Gmail, Google or other major mobile apps?
You can always have an company without legal presence in the UK to do the operations, beyond the reach of the UK government. If you are allowed to run your own software on your devices, you can always encrypt before sending. Apple and to a lesser extent Google got themselves in this position of being able to spy by building their walled gardens.
Why are industry setups considered actual while others are not?
I think you're mistaking globalist foreign policy for the free market with this one. Intetnational trade is the lifeblood of every significant American business.
You have completely missed the point. It is not that 'people who work in Mexican restaurants are enslaved' it's that 'restaurant workers and delivery drivers are forced to work for nothing due to a software glitch' The kind of cuisine is irrelevant.
The fun part will be if everyone is trying to do it at the same time, as they probably are. They will be trapped and have nothing left to do but sue
OP here: my posts are kind of reading notes for the book, so I don't normally copy the code from there -- so you wouldn't have seen the packages used. So far there's been tiktoken for tokenization (Raschka shows how to write a simple tokenizer and explains the workings of the byte-pair tokenization that he recommends, though) and PyTorch for CUDA-acceleratable matrix maths, automated differentiation for gradient descent, and so on.
>seeing how incredibly smoggy it was.

>Now it's very often crystal clear.

like the change from somewhat polluted air (even in a semi-rural area where I was then) to much less polluted, in India, during Covid lockdown time. I had read then, that the same had happened in other parts of India too.

it was almost like living in pristine nature for a while, in terms of cleaner air.

only lasted until the end of the lockdown, some number of months later, sadly.

then things were back to (ab)normal.
WHen I was with Mirantis, I flew to Austin TX to meet a client in a non-descript multi-tenant office building...

we walked in and getting our bearings, we come upon CRAY office. WTF?!

I tried the doors, locked - and it was clearly empty... but damn did I want to steal their office door signage.
Wilmore confirms astronauts stranded in space for political reasons
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Well, they dismantled them all. So it’s back to 0

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Africa_and_weapons_of_ma...
Most of that difference disappears when you consider insurance premiums and retirement, however. I compared a few countries when a Danish mentioned that they weren’t really seeing a huge difference and you have to be in the top few percentiles for high American healthcare costs not to cancel out the tax savings, and by their account it was a far less stressful process to get care as well.
and that no one is developing games for MacOS.
It’s especially noticeable when scrolling, when moving windows, and when moving around the cursor
This seems like a sideways trade and in the same spirit. Military defense guarantees, not on the table according to 4 presidents now, could become a possibility for that subset of land which does not require entry into a currently ongoing war. The prior tactic (mere 100's of billions of aid, plus some sanctions) has resulted in the same outcome via a stalemate anyway.
This is why banks limit funds availability after deposits, especially for paper checks. Most banks will only allow you to immediately withdraw a small amount and hold the rest until the check clears so their exposure is very limited.
I quite liked The Egg by Andy Weir (author of The Martian): https://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

Edit: I guess it's not exactly sci-fi, but it's adjacent.
I agree that the Jevons paradox can apply here, however, there have been several "breakthroughs" in the last couple of months (R1, diffusion LLMs, this) that really push the amount of GPU compute down such that I think it's going to be problematic for companies that went out and bought boatloads of GPUs (like OpenAI, for example). So while it might not be bad news for NVidia (given Jevons) it does seem to be bad news for OpenAI.
Scale matters. Police don't have the time to go through everyone's computers. It is much easier to scan everyone's conversations, notes, or photos. Cloud storage invites this kind of mass surveillance by being high-value targets with little capacity to resist.
I am running ‘ollama run qwq’ - same thing.

Sometimes I feel like forgetting about the best commercial models and just use the olen weights models. I am retired so I don’t need state of the art.
You can do all of this stuff with Nebula (from slack oss), without some centralized service. I use it on all my computers and it works great.
I’m not dismissing it. I’m saying that it’s different than traditional investments since most of the potential uses are still speculative, whereas it’s pretty obvious what value you can get from ownership of a company or a barrel of oil.
I think the person who wrote that probably meant these, specifically: https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric/tree/main/patterns
It's also a reason to have multiple hobbies and interests. If you lose interest in one (or have to stop doing it) then you have others already going to fill the gap.

Also avoid burnout of doing the same activity all the time
The math also tells you what percentage of your wealth to bet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelly_criterion