skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think we have to be careful that by adding “utility” as an indirection we don’t accidentally traffic in “cost”. Because maybe I am dumb but it seems to me that the utility of a toaster is its ability to toast bread.

If I make 5x as much as someone in China and am willing to pay 5x as much for the same thing, at the end of the day we both just want toast. And if I buy a crappy toaster that only costs 2x as much and can only toast half as fast, “utility” (i.e. cost) says my toaster is still better despite it being an objectively worse toaster.
I think it's more fair to say that liberals believe that the 1A protects speaking truth to power, while the conservative idea is more the 1A protects saying things people don't like.

America's founding fathers were absolutely raging liberals, and within the countries founding document -- the declaration of independence, the liberal idea of "social contract" was encoded. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract)

Liberals are suspicious of speech that violates the social contract, such as speech that is a prelude to violating other people's, like transgender people's, pursuit of life liberty or the pursuit of happiness. If you use your right to speech as a prelude to stripping other people of their rights, it is right for there to be consequences. The social contract in fact demands at least some degree of consequences, otherwise the social contract is useless because it's purpose is fundamentally to protect rights.

In a democracy, should people be allowed to vote for a dictator who promises to dissolve the government? That's a really rough philosophical question. I consent to a democracy, but I don't consent to a monarchy. It's the paradox of democracy and paradox of the idea of a government that exists primarily to protect rights.
> requiring signing up to a mailing list

A traditionally configured mailing list allows posts from non-subscribers.

All the mailing lists I operate are like this.

If you have good anti-spam-fu, you can get away with it. Plus, it's possible to have posts from non-members be held for moderation, and you can whitelist non-members who write legitimate posts.

Projects which require people to sign up to their mailing lists to participate are erecting a barrier that costs them users; it's a stupid thing to do, and unnecessary.

Whenever I have to interact with some mailing list, I begin by just sending my query to the list address. If it bounces due to nonmembership, I usually move on, unless it's some important matter.

By the way, some modern lists allow posts from non-members but then rewrite the headers in such a way that the nonmember does not receive replies! This happens in more than one way, I think. One of them is Reply-To Munging: the list robot sets the Reply-To: header redirecting replies to be directed to the list address. The Reply-To throws away the content of the original To and Cc fields.

When this happens to me, I usually refrain from further interaction with the list. I check for replies in their archive. If I'm satisfied with what they said, that's the end of it.
> Also, “anarchy” is the most extreme is “leftist” politics

What? No it’s not.

Anarchy is the extreme libertarian position. The smallest possible form of governance is anarchy.

The extreme left is total communism, where everything is controlled in order to ensure a minimum standard of living.
Democrat-leaning foreign policy realists like George Kennan and John Mearsheimer and even liberal economists like Jeff Sachs warned about the likely outcome of these policies 30+ years ago.

These ideas were free for anyone of any party to pick up, but it was easier to ignore the cracks in the liberal internationalist fantasies. So, expect to continue to make incorrect predictions and to face further electoral defeats.

The very impulse to try hide this comment in anger instead of reply rationally is part of why Trump won, and will continue to win no matter how foolish he acts.
And stupid, because you just know that this is still costing us the same amount of money.
Buy any laptop with following specs -
1. 32GB RAM (stock) + Extra slot with >= 32GB support (higher freq. = better perf.)
2. SSD 1TB
3. AMD Ryzen CPU (6x2 or 8x2 threads)
4. Nvidia RTX series GPU with atleast 8GB VRAM (not sure if 12GB VRAM comes with any laptop).

Quantized LLMs upto 8b parameters can be easily run on above specs. Quantized models are getting better and better. I use them for code suggestion and code gen.
Thanks!

Yeah, when I was forced to retire, I was really pissed, but it ended up being one of the best things to have happened to me.
My first thought was maybe the overleaf.com people had branched-out from LaTeX documents.
I'd get a 14 inch Thinkpad with an upgrade to an Oled screen. A 14 inch X1 Carbon is lighter than a Macbook Air by a large margin.
In my viewing of it, Zelensky was very respectful in the face of extreme, and unwarranted, condescension. The biggest disagreement was started by Zelensky politely correcting Trump on a fact. Trump and Vance escalated from there.

>POTUS and vice president were pissed

I don't care if they were pissed, they need to act like fucking statesmen!

I'm allowed to be a little uncivil here because I'm not the fucking POTUS. Let's hold our nation's best and brightest to a high standard. They're supposed to be figures that we aspire to emulate.
You're probably right about my tone. But I genuinely think a lot of 27 year olds don't feel like adults capable of having agency. Not long ago the average American used to have several children by that age, and today most of my friends (of similar ages) would be shocked at the prospect of having kids this young - they're just not ready yet! But that's a mindset thing. No one's ready for kids, you just do it and learn. Neel needs to be told that he's an adult, and has agency as a result of that.

(A child is a placeholder for any hard decision).
There are legitimate use cases for local LLMs.

For example, I'll happily feed my entire directory of private notes/diary entries into an LLM running offline on my laptop. I would never do that with someone else's LLM running in the cloud.
"but this is so elementary as to not be interesting."

Well that's a bit desultory. The second stanza of the OP (post Intro) describes the potential Audience that they are aiming at.

You may have written something far more exciting but you forgot to publish it and link it here.
I remember trying to play Java applet games before broadband Internet was widely deployed - I soon gave up on waiting for the applet to download and played some other game, but it was great once broadband Internet became available (or I was using a computer at a big institution with fast Internet).
It's fascinating and deeply unsettling that corporate policies now extend into people's daily lives, dictating their _literal_ physical movements through an always on tracking devices.

In this case, it goes even further. A faceless corporate entity not only monitors movements but also _automates_ performance scoring and should these metrics decline, another automated system steps in to close accounts, freeze funds, or punish the person in a different manner.

The sheer dystopian nature of it is hard to ignore..
> They are still roughly the good guys

They are not. They are the bad guys. This is just telling people to go back to their abusers. Shame on your morals. Shame on your lack of vision.
I mean, the US is also sort of responsible for what happened in Russia too, with the oligarch class being born out of the 'shock therapy' that US-based institutions and economists pushed for...

Russia might be a much more democratic place today if not for the massive economic problems that caused...
Potentially unrelated, but isn’t anarchy-communism also an oxymoron?

How could you enforce communism under anarchy?
The US is the largest egg producer on the planet. We export a huge amount of them(#2, behind Netherlands I think). We don't need eggs to be imported from Mexico or Canada.
Anarchy is not a rejection of hierarchies, it’s a rejection of a central authority.
So what do we buy instead? Brother was the last not-evil printer company I knew of.
You don't think people deserve a livable wage?
Because there is a large pro-Musk crowd on HN that will flag anything that portrays him in a way they feel is negative.
what odds you offering you will get pretty good liquidity on people who think thats 100:1
Strike with what?
That or it's the luckiest coincidence! In all seriousness, Apple is fairly consistent about not pushing specs that don't matter and >256GB is just unnecessary for most other common workloads. Factors like memory bandwidth, core count and consumption/heat would have higher impact.

That said, I doubt it was explicitly for R1, but rather based the industry a few years ago when GPT 3s 170B was SOTA, but the industry was still looking larger. "As much memory as possible" is the name of the game for AI in a way that's not true for other workloads. It may not be true for AI forever either.
I mean my AMD T14 G4 gets like 12 hours of battery running windows, 150 browser tabs and a virtual environment. Not sure how the newer ones are and no they aren't as sleek or probably durable as a metal apple or dell XPS but I haven't got any complaints for the price.
Probably around the time the largest war in Europe since WW2 began. Your neighbors being actively invaded and the country saying "you're next" on state TV[1] tends to make people think "maybe that country isn't our friend". Saying "I dunno guys. They're killing people and saying they'll kill us next, but maybe we should wait to find out" is not a very smart strategy.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/andrey-sidorov-warns-poland-may-cea...
The moment you focus on quality, your price can't be that low. Then good luck competing with VW or other cars.

These cars are garbage, people are happy because they are cheap, shiny and have all multimedia and can do 400KM... why not.
I have a cellular regeneration and entertainment chamber. It's specially designed to transmit biogenic energy on a chromoelectric wavelength and send uplifting and entertaining messages to the nuclei of every cell. I'm going to live forever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_IyWFwXw0E

That is, as long as the soulless minions of orthodoxy don't find a way to stop me.
Regardless of what it's mission is, and which military branch operates the base, it still counts as the US having a military presence.
Dang it, you're right. Thanks!
You don't need a non biased website to tell you that. Goods costing %25 more affects the low income folks way more.

Think about it this way, eggs go from $3 to $10. Someone with high income is barely affected. If you make min wage at $7 an hour its a huge burden.
Very interesting times to live in.
There is no configuration that meets both high-quality local LLM performance and excellent portability. A robust discrete GPU in a thin, portable laptop does not offer enough memory bandwidth or thermals for full-scale models, and a laptop with abundant DDR5 memory and high-end CPU power isn’t designed for the throughput that local LLM inference demands. The practical solution is to use a Linux laptop optimized for everyday development and use hosted LLM services when you need more power.
>Air quality data is not a high profile valued thing.

Disagree completely - saying "we had to turn off the air quality data network" is vague enough to be plausibly blamed on budget cuts for a non-tech-savvy audience, while still having a significant enough impact to attract coverage from outlets like the NYT. This, in turn, creates another "pro-science" talking point to rally "The Resistance".
Looks like up to 480W listed here

https://www.apple.com/mac-studio/specs/
I have been having good experiences with Windows on ARM. Better performance, lower power, thinner, and cheaper at the same time.
It’s insane you think HN is the one changing positions and not you. There is a broad consensus across most of the developed world: UK, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, Baltics, Poland, Italy, Canada.

You’re on the Russian perspective against all that and think HN is backsliding, not you?
Like all draconian measures, they use the guise of a good cause to pass a law that they fully intend to abuse. This law was "intended" to put a stop to deepfakes and revenge porn, but we have the president openly admitting that he intends to use it for himself. From Trump last night:

>I look forward to signing that bill into law. And I’m going to use that bill for myself too if you don’t mind, because nobody gets treated worse than I do online, nobody.

Unless Trump is concerned about NCII involving his likeness (he's not), he's openly admitting what this law is actually for - to silence opposition.
freedom TO vs freedom FROM.

For example the left wants freedom from unfair business practices, while the right wants the freedom to do whatever they want in their businesses.
If I had to guess, the days of X in Europe are limited
Very. He can carry out armloads of gold from Fort Knox to Mar-Lago and is untouchable.
I read it as approximately saying that he has a known very strong agenda and so shouldn't be trusted to argue honestly. Much like the routine exhortations to disbelieve any research corporations do on topics relevant to their bottom line.

Given that this article seems to be advocating that anything that looks like too-advanced AI should be preemptively destroyed, and uses the word "proliferation" to refer to people while drawing comparisons to nuclear policy, I don't think the agenda is exactly hidden enough to need that sort is warning.
In the Pipeline: The Continuing Crisis: Rare Diseases at the FDA and More
No Linux support; and you’re certainly not doing LLMs of any kind. The GPU is weaker than either Intel or AMD integrated graphics.
The Black Robin in New Zealand is almost the most extreme example of a recovery from near extinction: Just 1 female and 5 males in the early 1980s have now bred a population of around 300 individuals. There's an interesting story in the wikipedia page [0] of 'edge laying' egg behaviour, and how humans initially corrected the problem but later had to stop to ensure the behaviour wasn't propagated.

0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_robin
The US has had pretty iron-fisted anti-free speech laws for most of its history under the guise of anti-obscenity rules. They'll probably come back, too, given the current regime.
I'm reading the opposite, Ukraine is taking back ground and Russia's Pokrovsk is going backwards. I've also read reports there have been mass surrenders and disobedience in the Russian ranks.

Mostly I follow "Ukraine the latest", I've listened everyday for 3 years and I don't think they lie because I've listened to it through some VERY tough and depressing times for Ukraine. So it's not just one sided.

Denys Davydov is also good, once again very honest guy on Youtube. Also tells it like it is, also reported some very tough times. He is Ukrainian, yes but if you follow him, you will see he is objective.

Those photos of Russians on buildings with flags aren't good indicators of anything, they've been doing that for years now, they ordered to put themselves at risks for those photo ops, they're propaganda.

I can't read the Economist article but I keep seeing Trump saying how dire it is for Ukraine but I believe he is lying and saying that to justify his extortionist behavior towards Ukraine and to force Zelensky into to a deal.

If it was that bad the war would've been over years ago. I think Trump's betrayal will make it pretty bad for them though. Let's see what Europe can come up with.

It also seems like a LOT of Ukraine's success has been from FPV drone usage, they seem to be further ramping that up and also have ramped up production.
Running LLMs is more of a nice to have. If I can run something like DeepSeek-Coder-V2 even if it's a bit slow, I'll be happy.
No one is untouchable by the American people.
Autoworker salaries have very little effect on the price of cars. The final assembly labor costs are a single digit percentage of the sale price. The corporate workers (myself included) are about the same again, despite being a much smaller percentage of the workforce.

The majority of costs are just the price of raw materials and manufacturing anything, whether in the US or abroad. What Chinese OEMs are doing isn't anything secret, it's just optimizing the other things to hit those price targets. Cutting out dealerships, better value engineering, lower executive/corporate salaries and benefits, cheaper electronics, limited features, vertical integration, and most importantly being willing to sell lower margin vehicles.
I hosted an Arma 3 server via Tailscale with a bunch of non technical folks running the daemon using magic links b
Why do you think that is?

What do you think the end goal and justification is for using coercive force against someone resisting vaccines or coercive force against polluting companies?
I’m an avid home cook and one of the most temperamental tools in any kitchen is the oven, with the ranges, microwaves and broilers you can quickly get a sense of their character but with the oven and specially for baking you need a long term relationship.
Are you literally unable to comprehend that people may be opposed to an invader for reasons that are different from 40 years ago? Who is defending the American empire?

Isn’t it the same people supporting Russia who are also talking about making Canada the 51st state and taking Greenland? How is HN defending American Empire?
Probably, although Australia's lottery operator experimented (briefly I understand) with making their lottery and wagering products available through a single website/gateway - I don't think it lasted because while there was some overlap between lottery players and gamblers, it wasn't big, and I think while gamblers could be enticed to buy lottery tickets, it was much harder to entice lottery players to dabble in betting on horses or sports games.
It already did...

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-trudeau-and-t...
I'll have a Mac any day an employer offers to buy it for me. Lovely hardware, but it's just too glued-down for my current budget and growing frustration with lack of repairability.

I shall take a good lesson from your case and keep my ThinkPad in its Pelican case whenever I'm not using it. Can't afford to be laptopless for months!
I keep seeing people repeat incorrect rhetoric about Apple hardware, like this example.

There are nice things that Apple has, but as you can see there is significant reality warping going on.

Why does it persist?
Do you have a source for this? The article on says it's "due to funding constraints that have caused the Department to turn off the underlying network" but does not elaborate on the constraints. Given embassies clearly have latitude in funding their continued operations, I find it implausible the executive halted "air quality monitoring" and much more likely a disgruntled bureaucrat made a choice.
I did not know about git bundle, thank you.
How do you get to be a "genius"? I'd love to be a genius, but it seems less dependent on what you do and more on what others do. Presumably one needs to be "annointed" by an independent body that assesses your body of work (e.g. a professional body, or the MSM). Another path is to be "annointed" by a body that is seeking external validation for its own action or posture.

Remember when geniuses used to be really, really smart people?
Non-westerners who experienced western rule for hundreds of years see this as a positive, not a negative. If you don't understand this comment, that's another part of why most of the world was unwilling to line up behind the US even before Trump.
The biggest workflow differences I've noticed:

- The repo normally lives outside of the worktree, so remembering to 'fossil new foo.fossil && mkdir foo && cd foo && fossil open ../foo.fossil' took some getting used to. Easy enough to throw into some 'fossil-bootstrap' script in my ~/.local/bin to never have to remember again.

- For published repos, I've gotten in the habit of creating them directly on my webserver and then pulling 'em down with 'fossil clone https://${FOSSIL_USER}@fsl.yellowapple.us/foo'

- The "Fossil way" is to automatically push and pull ("auto-sync") whenever you commit. It feels scary coming from Git, but now that I'm used to it I find it nice that I don't have to remember to separately push things; I just 'fossil ci -m "some message"' and it's automatically pushed. I don't even need to explicitly stage modified files (only newly-created ones), because...

- Fossil automatically stages changed files for the next commit - which is a nice time-saver in 99% of cases where I do want to commit all of my changes, but is a slight inconvenience for the 1% of cases where I want to split the changes into separate commits. Easy enough to do, though, via e.g. 'fossil ci -m "first change" foo.txt bar.txt && fossil ci -m "everything else"'.

- 'fossil status' doesn't default to showing untracked files like 'git status' does; 'fossil status --differ' is a closer equivalent.
Gas car design is in large part constrained by aerodynamics and safety. the engine takes up some space that a battery would not need but that hood is there anyway.
> install a VPN app on all their devices

I run it on my router, providing access to the entire subnet, so it doesn't have to be all your devices.
So many good memories from Kali!
That’s 80k people suddenly, thoughtlessly forced to stop contributing to the economy. In some areas, stable federal jobs are the backbone of the local economy and surprise cuts like that mean that small businesses fold and home prices fall because people can’t make mortgage payments without jobs which aren’t there (this was brutal in San Diego in the early 90s because whole neighborhoods near the big defense contractors went from being full of highly-paid engineers to unemployed, and you’d see people with Ph.D’s applying for software QA jobs just to have some income and health insurance).

If you wanted to cut things responsibly, you’d plan it in advance and think about how to avoid shocking the economy into a recession.
Who are they paying? Mar-a-lago? Trump directly? Some fixer?

(sorry - tfa is paywalled)
I wonder if Apple needs to reconsider Xserve. While Apple probably have some kind of server infrastructure teams, making their own server infrastructure out of their own hardware and software sounds like something they could explore. The app ecosystem coupled with apples servers offered in the cloud or ones you could buy would be a very interesting service business they could get into. Apples App Store needs better apps given how much the hardware is capable of now especially with iPads using M chips. A cloud backed hardware and software service specially designed for the app ecosystem sounds very tempting.

The hardware has evolved faster than software at Apple. It’s usually the opposite with most tech companies where hardware is unable to keep up with software.
Mining there has been repeatedly considered. It hadn’t happened mainly due to environmental concerns and politics, not practicality. For example, back in 2021 a left leaning party won elections there and pledged to block mining projects immediately:

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/left-wing-party-wins-g...

The same article mentions that even at that time, a partnership between an Australian company (whose biggest shareholder is a Chinese company) and a Chinese company had already spent $100 million on preparing for a mining project, at this place:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kvanefjeld

TLDR there has been a long history of outside countries trying to access rare earth minerals (and other things) in Greenland, but especially China.
Step 6 of this process was to subvert the machine and print a backdated ticket. How does blacking out ticket sales for five minutes around the draw help against that?