skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are no goals in evolution. The most fit strain reproduces faster, eventually dominating other less fit strains. There’s no purpose, it just happens.
This is the thing that keeps making me so angry when I hear so called "budget hawks" get mad about the number of federal employees. Payroll is _not the problem_!! All of the federal payroll is something like 10-15% of the government's expenditure. Firing _everyone_ would only cut costs by 10-15%. There are plenty of programs (read: bloated defense contracts and corporate subsidies) that we could cut to save costs instead, and we wouldn't crater the federal workforce like we are now.

You can be mad about the government spending money on things you believe are unnecessary, and you can even want to fire the people related to that program! But across the board personnel cuts don't fix the appropriations issues and will waste money in inefficiency, waste and loss as the folks that are left have to pick up the pieces.

Does the federal government employ too many people? I dunno, maybe. Do we fund too many programs? Yeah, probably. But these cuts are _fucking insane_.
This is nowhere near the title Gardener wins case against Paddy Power over £1m prize, nor is it a fair summary of the case.

"Gardener wins what online game told her she won"

"Gambling app fails to prove software bug obviates their obligation to pay"
> they stop hindering our productivity with environmental artificial limits so that China can keep increasing their pollutants and industry.

This is a strange take to me. We've had a great positive environmental impact and your take away is "but China is bad so we should also be bad!"

Why not instead use tarrifs and international pressure for what it's good for. "Goods linked to CFC emissions get an automatic 25% tarrif".
First order logics can be provably sound and complete when they do not express certain arithmetic operations.
And why would that require running AI models locally? You can be in essentially full control by using open source (/open weight) models (DeepSeek etc.) running on exchangable cloud providers that are as replaceable as your electricity provider.
The Rush letter is from 1812, not early on, and also cites many of Washington's "friends" saying the same things.

It was actually fairly widely held among his contemporaries that he was a poor military leader.
In my experience Samba is just a slow protocol due to its chattiness.
very fraction of a percent counts... small things add up quickly...

Idk why this is a political issue? As a progressive I also support firing people who aren't producing effective outcomes for veterans. With all we save that money SHOULD be used to actually help veterans.
That number seems wrong. The number of combinations should be 54 x 53 x 52 x 51 x 50 x 49. Which is 18.6 billion-ish.

What am I missing here?
Presumably if the state is functioning well and redistributing wealth, it is the poor who benefit more of the state's increased revenue. Perhaps not in America.
Here are the official spending numbers[0]. The largest categories are:

* Social Security

* Medicare

* National Defense

* Interest payments

* Health

* Income Security

* VA Benefits

Which of those categories are we overspending on? Which specific cuts do you want to make? It's impossible for one to claim they're serious about saving money without talking about slashing Social Security, Medicare, and the military, which together make 40% of the budgets, so... which are you in favor of reducing?

When you've cut your budget as far as you can and you're still losing money, the only solution is to make more money. Here, that means taxes, and specifically that we must start taxing the rich. I'm not saying that as some far-left "eat the rich" kind of thing, but as basic arithmetic and economics. We need more revenue, and it has to come from somewhere.

[0] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
Exactly. Just like the pirate bay.
Hi - I'm working on something like this because I needed it too ;-)

It's not yet ready for release, but I should be ready for beta-test within 2 months. If you're interested I would be happy to add you to my list of "people to notify when I am ready to beta test"
If so, I'm glad I'm nearing retirement.
I did that a few years ago too. Then decided to just use OpenSMTPD instead of Postfix, keep Dovecot for IMAP and rspamd for signing DKIM. I followed the guide at https://prefetch.eu/blog/2020/email-server/ and got it running relatively smoothly. However, Microsoft (and sometimes Google) kept blocking emails coming from my server's IP, so I just decided to stop messing around and pay migadu 19€ a year for dealing with that stuff for me.
Hey! This is my blog post thanks for reading! At my peak I spent roughly 4h a day on math academy because I wanted to get 100+ XP. I've brought it down to about 2h a day since I'm also teaching myself python for my goal of being a MLE in the future.
It is not an inevitability that a lottery system will be rigged to effectively guarantee a wealthy group gets the jackpot and profits.
> Is music making always a net positive?

Yes because the act of making music, even not very good music, is what has value. Music generated without human input has no discernible value.

> If nothing else, these tools will allow more music will be made.

By machines that, as far as we can tell, take no enjoyment from making it. And eliminates any possibility of emotional connection between the artist and the listener. Which is the entire source of music's value.
Dub, yeah I saw that but hadn’t listened yet.

What I want is a “podcast” with audience participation..

The lex fridman DeepSeek episode was so awesome but I have so many questions and I get exceedingly frustrated when lex doesn’t ask what may seem obv to us HNers…

-

Back topic:

Reports are flat; dossiers re malleable.

As I mentioned my goal is fractal visuals (in minamGL) of the true entanglements from the WEF out.

Much like mike Benz on usAid - using jina deep research, extraction etc will pull back the veil on the truth of the globalist agenda seeking control and will reveal true relationships, loyalties and connections.

It been running through my head for decades and I finally feel that jina is a tool that can start to reveal what myself and so many others can plainly see but can’t verify.
"Dude, tulips literally cannot go down."
The Genius of DeepSeek's 57X Efficiency Boost [MLA] [video]
Well you just made my day, I do have that second M.2 slot (XPS 9500) and am very much running out of space.
This is great, but the page still seems to struggle to explain why this is different from nix / why I should use it in the first place?
The attitude comes from a point of analysis, and the argument that follows is that we can save by cutting spending in specific areas that we overspend in (military) and we could rake in lots more in taxes by making the rich _pay their fare share_.

The current firing of government workers is about political alignment, not about cost. Cost is a pretext.
Vienna, Austria, cops everywhere
DRY principle is why your codebase sucks?
Related:

Trump's 'Crypto Reserve' Is Such Brazen Corruption

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43261899

The “strategic reserve” exposes crypto as the scam it always was

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43236752
not our agents
a hierarchical approach would be superior. add rl to claude and it's gg
Personally I've been a huge fan of my Framework 13, and am planning at some point to swap out the mainboard with the new one they released — it's pretty nice that you can do that (and they sell a desktop case to put the old mainboard in, so you end up with a faster laptop and a spare desktop afterwards!).

Battery life is the main downside, although it doesn't bother me too much — running manufacturer-supported Linux is very nice and worth having to charge more frequently. It uses USB-C anyway, so it's just one cable for all my devices — doesn't feel like that big of a deal.
We align.

I tend to do the same thing. I do not consider myself as a good representative of an average user though.
But how much extra waste will be generated by losing the experts in these bureaucracies? Of course some of them are redundant, but some of them have the proverbial bathroom codes and are irreplaceable. These cuts are incredibly irresponsible; cutting _programs_, along with the staff associated with those programs, is IMO wrong but at least workable as a long term cost reduction strategy. Just slashing staff left and right is malpractice.
"The stock market is not real!"
Same logic & vibe.

$3 Trillion dollars and 500+ Million people disagree with you.... so far.
I've been using LG Gram laptops running linux. They are fantastic. My current daily drive is 3lbs, 17" display, 32GB RAM i7 CPU, and I bumped the SSD to 2TB. It is lighter than my 13" Macbook air and cost $1200 at Costco. Oh, and battery life is 14-16 hours of use.
What LLMs are people running on this kind of setups?
Basically agentic personas or modus operandai

You tell the agent “grok this persona to accomplish the task
I was once in South Africa and needed to look up my prescriptions in the CVS app. I had lost my pills and needed to show a local pharmacist what I needed. CVS geoblocked me. Luckily I had a TailScale exit node running at home, which solved the problem.
Aren't those saying the same thing? .. "its reliability became close to none" vs. "causes irreversible defects in the resulting models"
Indeed. But you can of course say "show me the court order" and defend yourself.
> But does anyone think through to the end-game of that? That when you drain the most smart/productive people away from every other country, all those countries become less wealthy and more dysfunctional, leading to societal decline, poverty, resentment, radicalisation, war, etc?

My average IQ (or below) take is that this “brain drain” narrative where absolutely everything collapses—societal decline, war, resentment, aah basically the Apocalypse—because the smart people leave is just the belief here because people put 50% or more of their professional identity into believing they have a high IQ.
At the very beginning there weren't subreddits. When they introduced subreddits they put all previous posts under /r/reddit.com.
This is what happens when people (a lot of veterans/current army personnel, also basically all gun nuts) vote for a guy who very actively avoided serving his country in vietnam war, thanx to nepotism of his uber rich parents.

Such person will never hold veterans in high esteem, all people under him are meat bags to use and throw away once not needed and long term care for wounded is expensive, especially in US. Compare it to somebody who actually went through the experience, be it just mandatory draft or actual combat.
Any trustworthy source that verifies those men are sent to military conscription offices?

I would guess that the video is just another crackdown on LGBTQ, as they have been doing: https://apnews.com/article/russia-lgbtq-crackdown-nightclub-...
The secret is that no one is checking that scrawl for authenticity. Not unless there's actual fraud, that's when the forensic experts are brought out to analyze and pontificate.
at least Apple should provide a way of inserting a module to encrypt decrypt files. and say, we just store the bytes user provide us.
Panasonic Let's Note FV4
Mostly you're not buying a chance to get rich, you buy yourself permission to dream about the "what if?" until the numbers are drawn.
Sure, I guess you can do that as long as you use an open weight model. (Offline support is a nice perk, however.)
Sure, with something like Kagi you even get many models to choose from for a relatively low price, but not everybody likes to send over their codebase and documents to OpenAI.
That’s some rarefied satire. Chef’s kiss
"The deliver-to-gmail test case passed; ship it!"
Samba is not a protocol. It's an implementation of dozens of services and a dozen protocols, including SMB (Server Message Block).
Yep.

Unless I'm using search functionality, if I don't have a mechanism to view only accounts I already predesignated *and* the ability to sort chronologically: I almost never use that site. As much as people whine about algorithmic content, people don't seem to agree with my methodologies either.
Vibes. Exponential Vibes.

I have to admit, I'm enjoying my new superpowers. I write a lot of late, but i never had time to learn ticz. No problem, just tell DeepSeek what graph you want made.

If you want a "hello world" webgl page, once again, just ask.

There are still painful limits to what they can do, but at least you don't have to program off of a blank screen. You can get started without your procrastination module going off If you are stuck, you can ask for help.
That's still a big improvement. A backdoor can be exploited by criminals who want personal gain, not just used as intended by police.
A "small picture" local observation of impact: Big construction firms and projects scoop up all available workers and materials (concrete, for example) with year-long exclusive contracts. Individual homeowners with small projects, such as updating a bathroom, are generally screwed. Horror stories abound, search if interested. Years-long delays, projects started then abandoned, etc.

DIY is great IFF you have tools, capabilities, willingness to ignore building code requirements for licensed workers, ...
I'm a journeyman back end programmer. I've kept up a GitHub account full of explorations of various topics for years. I've had maybe 2 potential employers check it out.

I have a blog with lots of homelab and programming related writing on it.

I'm not sure what a "portfolio" would do differently, other than create more work.
You're overcounting by a factor of 6! = 720, because you're counting different orderings of the same numbers multiple times. "1,2,3,4,5,6" and "6,5,4,3,2,1" are not different tickets.
Think about that: the dinosaurs did not die because of the impact of the asteroid, but because of the climate change that followed.

Fun fact: that climate change was a lot slower than the one we are measuring now. A lot.
> My 4-year old Dell XPS 15 is up for replacement, but somehow no manufacturer aside from Apple is making laptop with decent specs nowadays?

Panasonic Let's Note. Your welcome.

It's repairable, upgradable, and has a *removable battery* (unheard of in 2025).
Yes or No, Please: Building Reliable Tests for Unreliable LLMs
I was illustrating that the parent comment was "lacking any arguments."
You have to understand that your own perceptual experience is not identical to that of all other humans. Without recognizing that, we will inevitably end up talking past each other endlessly and writing each other off as { hallucinating, lying, exaggerating, etc } for one of us claiming to perceive something important that the other does not.

It would be no different than arguing about whether we need all three primary colors (red, green, blue) with someone who is colorblind (and unaware of this). Or like arguing whether speakers benefit from being able to reproduce a certain frequency, with someone who is partially or fully deaf at that frequency. And I truly mean no disrespect to anyone with different perception abilities in these or any other domains.

Recognizing that large differences exist here is essential to make sense of the reality - that something that seems completely unimportant or barely noticeable to you, could actually be a hugely obvious and important difference to many others (whether it’s a certain screen refresh rate, the presence of a primary color you cannot perceive but others can, an audio frequency you cannot hear but others can, or otherwise).
This is insane matching deepseek but 20x smaller?
WG is quite fast. Can’t be the limiter. Like this guy I’ve driven 1 G easily on 7950 and Epyc 9654. I think I did 10 G but I can’t recall because at some point I just moved everything local and did 40 G. But I’m sure it would work on CPU on reasonable machine

https://old.reddit.com/r/mikrotik/comments/112mo4v/is_there_...
Divide by 6!=720 because the order doesn’t matter.
Hi, the author here.

If you are okay with Plaid[1], many of their bank connections are now using OAuth-style authentication instead of password sharing. I actually added a new feature called Direct Connect[2] a while back to allow any plaintext accounting book users to pull CSV directly via Plaid API through BeanHub. We don't train AI models with our customers' transactions, and if we want to, we will ask for explicit consent (not just ToS) and anonymize customers' data.

If you're okay with the above, the key to achieving a high automation level is the ability to pull CSV transaction files directly from the bank in a standard format. Maybe you can give it a try. We have 30 days free trial period.

I am not so familiar with the CMMC requirements, as you mentioned, but for us to access transactions from some banks, such as Chase, Plaid requires us to pass an auditing process about our security measurements. Is the CMMC compliance your company needs to meet to take a third-party software vendor into considerations?

[1]: https://plaid.com

[2]: https://beanhub.io/blog/2025/01/16/direct-connect-repository...
Actually, his dad did the creation bit (allegedly).
I haven’t found it any worse than many private health systems. The one thing the VA has going for it, is it’s a single medical network. I’ve only seen this replicated elsewhere at Kaiser.
Would be interested in using this if not for the lack of LLM support.

Can you also explain what the advantages are over React Native?
This is correct - but I’d rather my law enforcement had a pre-existing reason to investigate me rather than just stumbling upon something in random hidden searches. Innocent until proven guilty is key here.

I have nothing to hide, but I’m still not giving you access to my photo library.
That wouldn't be a strategic reserve, just a speculative investment. You might ask why the US doesn't also invest in AAPL and NVDA. You might also consider the "soft power" effects of the US using the global middle class as exit liquidity.
That's a heresy!
Not OP but I am finding the Qwen 2.5 32b distilled with DeepSeek R1 model to be a good speed/smartness ratio on the M4 Pro Mac Mini.
The core customer market for this thing remains Video Editors. That’s why they talk about simultaneous 8K encoding streams.

Apple’s Pro segment has been video editors since the 90s.
I mean I guess but CS is also the track you get put on if you want to be a SWE. I would make an even stronger statement that within a rounding error 0% of the students in a given CS course will go on to be computer scientists. So while what you're saying is literally true there is a real disconnect between what students in CS programs want to learn and the skills they want to acquire and what is being taught. The parent is very reasonably picking up on that.

This isn't really limited to CS programs either, something is deeply wrong with the system when college grads are only marginally more prepared to enter their chosen field than HS grads. One of my friends does work building cutting edge sensors for scientific equipment— literally the ideal case for an academic curriculum. They not two months ago rejected an ivy ECE major in favor of a guy with no degree but who builds custom toy drones as a hobby.
> This is just pure government regulation causing rationing and harming people.

having worked in the space... you are at the level of knowledge of "you don't know what you don't know." it's regulated for good reason. WFI is ultra pure water and costs quite a bit of money to make and is one of the main ingredients in a lot of pharmaceuticals.
personally - gmail is extremely plagued by spam. sure it goes into the spam mailbox most of the time, but enough non-spam email goes there too so you still have to check it. the current plague for me is "your package is awaiting delivery" spam - almost daily.

for being considered spam - i've had like 3 irl things set up on my old self-hosted mail, and these 3 arrived, even though while testing shortly after making the setup i did end up in spam. i don't know if companies have a whitelist of "if a user has this email on his account, don't send to spam" or something, but it hasnt been an issue.

i don't usually email too many individuals, in my social circles emails is not for that and has pretty much died long ago.

Due to the decent success i've had, i've spent some time today setting up mox to potentially replace my other solution - it is a bit of a process, many dns entries to make, and DNSSEC in my country seems to only update once a day so i'll see if i can enable it tomorrow, but so far it's working (but as usual, the first test email lands in spam.) i assume delivery will improve as soon as the domain is a bit older - i imagine most big mail services block email from a domain created the same day the mail is sent.
I bothered creating a back-end dev portfolio. I have web pages that describe things I worked on. Some contain working software.

I feel it's necessary for my career. It explains to a potential employer or interviewer or recruiter the depth of my skills.

I'm highly confident a well-structured portfolio doesn't actually help in today's job search. In past job search efforts maybe it helped.

I don't know if LinkedIn and GitHub are enough. I have neither.

My back-end portfolio shows about 20% of the backend projects I worked on. When a project I launch doesn't get adopted and shows no interest from users I shut it down, often within a month. Some of my best work won't be seen by anyone.
I believe we should gut military spending. That doesn't mean that hiring 82,000 employees in 5 years is justified. I'm happy to see spending cuts straight across the board.
Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Python, Javascript, FastAPI, postgreSQL, Elasticsearch

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/14A8zIgPx22NUkoDzL48Lo4R27f6...

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/antónio-venâncio/

Github: https://github.com/A-Nancio

Email: avenancio2000@hotmail.com
nah it was a processor whose native instruction set was java bytecode. it garbage collected natively, and all the other stuff. It was not Jazelle, nor was it an ARM CPU which interpreted bytecode and ran it.

I think it was the "aJile" processor listed in your final link, but I'm not 100% sure. It was over 20 years ago that I read about it and was about to buy a development kit when I got pulled off of all java work I was doing.
How about that 50x leverage $200M BTC + ETH trade mere minutes before Trump announced the crypto reserve? [0] Like we all know Nancy does it but that doesn't make it ok for the Grifter in Chief to do it.

0: https://old.reddit.com/r/ethtrader/comments/1j2891u/whale_wi...
IIRC, there was at least one case where the lottery got wise that this was happening and refused to sell the parties involved any more tickets. They had enough tickets for better than even odds, but not a guarantee. IIRC, they won.
What happens when Australia blocks this next? Then Japan? Then Brazil? Then Sweden? Then the US?
The Wizard of Vinyl Is in Kansas
Which means this is a whole new chip. It may be M3 based, but with added interposer support and new thunderbolt stuff.

Which, at this point, why not just use M4 as a base?
And yet all that cash still just goes to TSMC
There are ways to establish secure facilities at people's homes. It's not entirely uncommon: high military leaders don't just work 9-5.

Working at home, after his work at the office with all of the other employees, is customary for the FBI director. Working from home, while everybody else is compelled to return to the office, is not a good look.
Another place where the typical prefix seems to be insufficient lately: Un-constitutional versus Anti-constitutional.
Right, because that worked any other time russia has signed a treaty…
I presume you guys mean the man, when he was still a boy, frequently tortured his pets to death? Even his own family was openly disgusted by him. That's really a leader into healthy lifestyle, not sure for whom though