skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reflect on what? Some utopian cvasi-religious bullshit which has no real applicability except virtue-signalling? Why don't we all do nice things instead of being caught in the capitalistic rat race to make a living? (Not that other systems fared better). Why do we have to work shit, meaningless jobs instead of doing the grand things of life, engineering, arts, etc?

Well first of all because all those niches are already full beyond capacity. All the engineering, arts, cancer research, you name it, that the society can pay for is stuffed to bursting point and in no lack of pipelines of fresh wannabe recruits. Also cancer research is a deeply unprofitable enterprise overall, much in contrast to a domain like finance. One can labor a lifetime and get nothig, at least in finance they'll shovel some money from one pocket to the other and pocket the commission themselves.

Please leave people alone and stop suggesting alternate careers, that you yourselves did not choose. That's the uttermost hypocrisy. I don't wanna see anymore programmers with fat paychecks jumping on whatever latest fad like flies on a fresh laid turd doing AI and crypto and advertising and just bullshit pretend work at FAANG shedding crocodile tears on how the finance guys should be poor and suffering. Quit your high paying jobs yourselfes and go starve while doing biology PhDs then work as baristas while competing with the other 10,000 highly skilled Phds hoping to catch one of the 10 currently open positions in the world that pay a miserable salary with no stability in the future that does cancer research.
> If you run into this issue you're either running Firefox at least nine(!) releases behind current

So a 2 day old release is vulnerable. /s
It's funny because more than anything I would say the people that were most misaligned with the outcomes of the business are actually most of the engineering leaders I have worked with.

The amount of short-termism and chasing press releases and caring about what your golf buddies think really clogged up a lot of companies, and it doesn't feel like THAT part is changing anytime soon, zirp or no zirp.
I haven't but I believe that if it makes them better at their job they would be treated so. most plumbers are independent freelancers and for them that's a rock star way to live
I understand that going to 200k after your whole standard of living has been built around 500k is pretty difficult, but objectively speaking: half of America is living in metro areas right? Most of them are managing without making nearly three times the median income.

Also: is America just vastly more expensive than Europe? Here in the Netherlands (one of the wealthiest nations in the world) even just 100k is aspirational for most higher paid jobs.
The USA hasn't been number one in anything for decades.

So really nothing will change, Americans will keep thinking they're number one and life will go on as usual.
Very interesting. Has this been declassified only recently, or has it been available previously?
What use cases? We are still in the "throw everything at the wall and see what sticks" phase, which might end before anything of value is found (if previous fads serve as a lesson here).
This. Most EU regulations are common sense and/or don't apply to small companies.

Have a privacy policy, don't collect unnecessary user data, encrypt data properly, don't use cookies to track people outside what is needed for your website to function, and allow your users to access and delete their data. You should have already done that before GDPR, and if you did not, you're the reason we need the law.
> Obviously 150-200k is still decent money, but it really doesnt go far in major metro areas, and for someone with such a premium resume, is a bellwether of whats to come

The problem here is that the dollar has devalued so far to the point where it is close to worthless, especially with rising house prices across the country.

This is why $200k - $500k seems to be "not enough" in the US due to its cost of living and at the same time it isn't sustainable for Amazon or Google to pay at that rate.

Really, this the hallmarks of a crash that is waiting to happen and it was never going to last.
Imagining the Dinosaurs: How art, science combined to bring a lost world to life
Does this provide database functionality like seen in Notion?

I'm always disappointed by note-taking tools calling themselves a Notion alternative when they do not provide an alternative to Notion and are instead just another note-taking tool with a simple UI.

If you want to be a Notion alternative provide the things that make Notion great, e.g. the database functionality. It's okay to be a simple colaborative notes tool, but that is not a Notion alternative.
Shouldn't you be happy you help poor boss to barely make ends meet?
I believe LLMs are both data and processing, but even humans reasoning is based in strong ways on existing knowledge. However, for the goal of the post, indeed it is the memorization that is the key value, and the fact that likely in the future sampling such models can be used to transfer the same knowledge to bigger LLMs, even if the source data is lost.
> Does the fact that WFH is not a thing mean that in the real world, for most people, coming to the office IS actually more efficient?

WFH is still a thing despite some big names pulling back on it.
Having both the Notion-like UI and the real time collaboration is exciting! So much stuff has been either/or, and it made it hard for me to find a good alternative.

I really appreciate how Notion is basically "what if Google Docs but you can actually organize your information". The collaborative components feel really powerful.

I do kind of wish that something that was more ... Wiki-flavored would show up though. I like confluence, it's just mega slow!
It will be (arguably already is) societally rough though. The west has been riding the asian cheap labor for decades (and the cheap colonial labor before that). People are not gonna be happy falling down the "value chain".
I've always felt that the moral panic about food perks in Tech was weird. That's not free, it's part of your salary. Sure, you can't buy index funds with Pineapples but at the end of the day it's still remuneration.

The market TC is crazy high, do you add a minor bump in $$$ to attract some candidates that will go to Sweetgreen? Or you add flashy food while taking advantage of economies of scale? Bonus, the very expensive people stay more in the office.
I wouldn't necessarily think so. There's still enormous room for quantization and hardware optimization, which China has proven to be world class at. And a lot of spend is really on R&D. For the same reason I believe if OpenAI waned to they could break even in a year
Baidu have a long history in the scalable distributed deep learning space.
PaddlePaddle (so good they named it twice) predates Ray and supports both data parallel and model-parallel training. It is still being developed.

https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle

They have pedigry.
"Say McDonalds to end commercial" https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/sony-patent-mcdonalds/
True I understand that. Digital plumbing is not a lesser thing. It's part of the job. Software engineering is done better when being "pampered" regardless if it's plumbing or rocket science. If companies want to stop pampering then sit back and watch. Bad software will be noticed
> The “kill switch” code — which Lu named “IsDLEnabledinAD”, abbreviating “Is Davis Lu enabled in Active Directory” — was automatically activated upon his termination

Is there a better way to create an oracle that doesn’t point back at you?
I expect it was a joke referring to the Pauley Shore vehicle Encino Man: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104187/
Those users would probably refuse the recovery and boot the system from a CD/floppy to recover manually.
Google’s economic model has been like that for decades and it’s paying for my early retirement. Being “exploited” in this way is nice work if you can get it. The companies with narrow profit margins don’t pay nearly so well.
Chinese complete supply chain is ramping up. Previously they could achieve the Frontier but hampered by tools sanctions. Now Chinese indigenous tools are catching up.
Maybe the Iron Law of Oligarchy [0] finally caught on?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_law_of_oligarchy
There is a specification that says how it should be rendered. I definitely don't want every browser to decide how to render my webpage, that would just make development so much harder and complex.
That was funny, but as a Frenchman I don't hold too much hope. Our far right, supporting both Trump and Putin, has been gaining steam with each passing election for the past 20 years.

Hopefully the circus currently taking place across the pond is enough to deter some from voting for them, come 2027?
I haven't thought about this a ton - but am I wrong that it sounds crazy and inefficient for the government to essentially compete with private industry?

It feels like a colliding of worlds and a cannibalization that doesn't make sense to me. Like - if the government launched a messaging app competitive with WhatsApp and it drew users away from WhatsApp and it had better encryption ... Would that actually be better for the economy of this country? Something seems off about it to me.
Or (speaking as an American) we could just criminalize the use of Chinese LLMs.

/s ... but... maybe not?

Wherever you sit on the political spectrum the fact that this idea will almost certainly be seriously discussed in the coming months should be concerning to you.
Medicaid cuts could devastate elderly in Florida nursing homes
Flagrantly violating

Edit: Facebook torrented 81.7TB of books.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-torrented-o...
This has happened a few times, even in my career. I doubt we'll break that cycle in the near term. We're going on 50 years where tech was like this.

Any time you have an industry can go from zero to world player in a decade or less is going to attract this kind of boom-bust cycle. Companies get overzealous about the land grab, hire too much, are careless with their money. Then the correction comes. It lasts a few years, and then it's back to boom times. Interest rates were certainly part of the equation this time, but back in the dotcom boom, e.g. US mortgages were running around 8%.

If people would stop playing the gold rush an invest in building products that people like and will use long term, we might instead flatten the peaks and the troughs into a more sustainable work environment. Don't see that happening.
This is one of the themes in Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari: the extinction of many large animal species. Harari discusses how Homo sapiens, as they spread across the globe, contributed to the decline and extinction of megafauna (large animals) due to hunting practices and environmental changes, and offers various explanations for the disappearance of other humanoids due to the rise of the homo sapiens.
> A friend of mine, with a STEM PhD, and 8+ years of experience between Amazon and Google was laid off, is struggling to find a job paying over 200k, they were making 500k previously.

That's insane.
When I started using the WWW in 01992 the majority of Web users were probably using text-based browsers, and specifically Lynx, because that was what the University of Kansas was using for its campuswide information service (CWIS). Mosaic didn't exist yet, and most people accessing the internet were using either dumb terminals like I was (typically in my case a VT-100 or CIT-101 clone of it) or dialup terminal emulators like Procomm+.
This is exactly why I’m so paranoid about account and device separation.

I don’t even trust Git profiles. I buy a new license for GitKraken at any job I go to, even if I could avoid it; to me the possibility of accidentally trying to commit to work GitHub with my personal GitHub or vice verse is not worth it.

It’s the same with Microsoft accounts and their infamously bad-tech-debt-caused spaghetti.

Like if you try login to Outlook on iOS and you get a threatening message to the effect of “your system administrator will be able to remotely control and wipe your entire device if you proceed”. If it’s even a possibility that an incompetent or malicious IT department wipes your personal device, then no thank you.

See also that HN thread where a father let his child use his laptop, where they signed into their Microsoft school account, and somehow his personal Microsoft account was merged into their school account and from what I could tell he was never able to fix it and the school IT department didn’t care.
Classic stuff that impacts all of us (feel free to add/remove to the list),

AI (bringing intelligence to the real world), green tech (solar/evs/power electronics etc), defense, aerospace (sat constellations etc), industrial automation, smart agriculture, government etc.
A long evening with iOS and macOS Sandbox (2018)
> if the government launched a messaging app competitive with WhatsApp

Done, but for public workers. https://tchap.beta.gouv.fr

These tools are not yet for citizens, but for workers.
I still used Lynx as my default browser while working on ships until 2020. Satellite internet connections at sea were slow and very expensive which made Lynx a good choice. But it turned out that the text-based, distraction-free browsing could be a better experience than the same site in a modern browser. And a few sites still serve text versions, like text.npr.org. I liked Lynx enough that I would still use it back on land until the habit faded.
Okay, you're right, I grabbed the wrong number. Sub in $1.5m/year or $500m/5 years and replace "bottom line this year" with "bottom line over the next 5 years".

The exact numbers don't matter, the point is the same: with only a few exceptions, no employee contributes the average per-employee output to the company. If they did, you could pick up your laptop and go to any other company and start earning them $N/year for whatever value of N you prefer.
They will create a new one: Trump Radio.

No risk of opposing Trump by journalistic standards
This says:

> Access Denied - Sucuri Website Firewall

...

> Block reason: Access from your Country was disabled by the administrator.

For that reason I don't think it's a good page to recommend.
Well there was the case of an employee leaving due to his perceived moral issues around the use of copyrighted material in the training dataset [1]

[1] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/openai-whistleblower-who...
This tool is part of a WIP complete suite of tools for public agents called "La suite numérique".

https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr
MattKC recently did an amazing documentary on the development of Lego Island for PC. Quite a bit of the story was about the company behind it convincing LEGO to let them use their IP etc. Was a great watch:
https://youtu.be/bG55COe_f8I
Being dependent on foreign companies is a security issue. The economic value is more subtle and indirect but it is there
That's what I hope too. Trump's failure could be our far-right failure to win the 2027 elections.
This book is a fantastic introduction to Erlang in very approachable language. It introduces the reader to both language syntax and design decisions that led to Erlang's strengths as a highly reliable programming language for realtime applications.

If you're learning Elixir right now, I can't recommend enough to also learn a bit about Erlang. The OTP and BEAM VM sit underneath both systems, and learning about what's going on under the hood helps a ton when troubleshooting production issues!
Usurping a popular thing is difficult, because you don't have its one important quality that attracts everybody: popularity.
Why? Coffee is nowhere near effective once you're taking it everyday.
This is my issue. For whatever reason, i used to get most of my work done between 4PM and 10PM. Unfortunately, I had to be at my desk at 9AM.
Seems like a good example of depending on LLMs too much. After the first bad output the next step should have been to open inspector, not to try three more LLMs.
That vast majority of conversations with AI is irrelevant to censorship. Well, I can only speak for myself, but surely you can see questions like "phone A vs phone B", and "how do I use feature X on product Y" or almost any programming question isn't concerned with censorship.

Is censorship a thing for models? Of course. Does it matter? Probably not, unless you either specifically have chats on those specific topics, or if you are trying to create a meme.

The concern of censorship is way overblown by some people. Most users only care about "does it work?", then some "is the answer correct?", and at the bottom is "is the answer censored, and according to what ideology?". Seriously, think about these models/products like a normal person.
Oh man I love a city builder - this is very cool thanks for sharing
> mice can solve a plethora of physics problems before it's time for breakfast

Ah really? Which ones? And nope, physical agility is not "solving a physics problem", otherwise a soccer players and figure skaters would all have PhDs, which doesn't seem to be the case.

I mean, an automated system that solves equations to keep balance is not particularly "intelligent". We usually call intelligence the ability to solve generic problems, not the ability of a very specialized system to solve the same problem again and again.
iPhone users perceive Android devices as poor. It’s naive and biased, but there’s at least some validity based on the fact that Android devices can cost anywhere from $100 for some basic model at Walmart to ~$2k for the bendy/foldies.

What most are saying is that there’s always been the perception that comes with green messages. When I was on Android (pretty much since the first Nexus all the way to the Galaxy Fold 4), I definitely noticed iPhone users avoiding SMSing with me or in groups, and instead using Facebook Messenger because of the issues that come with group texts involving non-iOS users.

Now that I’m on iOS, I’m aware of the differences, although I don’t particularly care since so many Android devices support RCS.
The logic around which you base your entire argument is completely flawed.

Firing an employee most likely won't reduce the bottom line.

But every employee is a chance to increase it by creating a new project/product etc.

So firing would reduce the probability of a new idea generating an increase to the bottom line.
Comet open source remote KVM from GL-iNet
As far as I know, the database part is handled by Grist, listed on the suite of tools this note app is part of.

https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr

Of course, it's not a replacement to Notion yet.
It doesn't really matter what nationality or ethnicity you are, but if you communicate with the model in Chinese you might get better results from this model.

Then again, if they've misrepresented the strength of the model overall, there might be some other shenanigans with their results. The fact that their results show their model is worse than GPT-4.5 on 2 Chinese language benchmarks, while it's so much stronger on some of the others, is a bit weird.
I think a big challenge for them is going to be the advent of cheap and relatively easy to use 3D printers. My kid never really got into lego, but he took to using a 3D printer almost immediately. Most of the time it is pre-made models, but he is learning how to use things like tinkercad and even blender. At his age I was digging through buckets of random lego parts to try to find the "perfect" piece for something I was trying to build, and getting frustrated because I could never find it.
https://archive.is/Go2fS#selection-1677.0-1677.30
>But now-obviously at the expense of facilitating non-street crime, and "non-profit" attacks on computerized infrastructure.

I was thinking more about internal crime (people dipping into the till) and tax evasion.
They effectively are banned for a lot of the commercial world already. I cannot imagine most businesses American or European would be willing to use Chinese services.
I think many people will disagree with you on this. (and just to clarify - automated/manual is not a binary choice)
I still have it in my lab, right next to a PDP-11/05. I don't think I have a composite input monitor or NTSC TV around anymore to use as a display. I could rig something up.
Yeah I think the dollar has been completely decimated. There is nowhere to hide, assets are no longer ripping, but cost of living is higher than ever. For a family that wants to be upper middle class, 500k really is not that much, if you want to save and live comfortably/go on vacations, drive a nice car.
Building toll roads is creation of value. People voluntarily pay to drive on them because they offer superior qualities to garbage public roads. If I could exclusively drive on toll roads, I would.

Public roads, OTOH, are extractive because someone is taking money from you to build them even if you don't consent to it and deliberately avoid them at every opportunity.
I don't think it's the literal spending money on snacks that impresses people; it's more about the thought behind doing that.

For example I work in a company where the salary is pretty good, but they're also super stingy in general. No snacks, no socials, shitty laptop, etc. It betrays a lack of interest in making employees happy.

The absence of things like snacks is also an indication of how much the bean counters are in charge, because as you say it's probably good value for money in terms of morale, but as soon as the bean counters come in they see you spending £1k/month on snacks or coffee or whatever and that's an easy thing to cut.
Cohere always coming across as a niche LLM, not a generic one.

I once tried it to enforce returning the response in British English and it worked a lot better than any other model that time. But that was about it for following the prompt. Their pricing is not competitive for others to jump on and I suspect that’s why it’s not widely used.
It's also not a reliable source of funding as some European open source projects have learned.
Do we have to be able to communicate--in the sense of language--with our pets?
Toooo late to edit: '"s"' should be '"n"'.
Gives Etherpad vibes!
If your only tool is a hammer then everything looks like a nail.
For the same reason that chimps don't (contrary to some earlier work) learn language.
I could believe that 90% of code will be generated by LLMs, because it takes almost no effort to generate some common boilerplate using an LLM. It's kind of like saying that 90% of code is BSD/MIT/GPL licensed because many people compulsively fork repos on github.

This just means that a smaller percentage of code will be useful/must-have/must-read code. Kind of like the market for films and books and games -- many more get made every year, which means that many more will get ignored every year.
Just tried it. Not sure exactly what model is behind the scenes but it was cringe. I provided specs for a coding task, it told me that the specs are possible but too complex so it just gave me an alternative naive way of doing it. I use LLMs as a tool so I'm trying to be very exact with my requirements and wording, this felt like it was basically negotiating the requirements with me...kinda annoyed me, lol. My suspicion is that it was trained too much on chinese forums and the data was not refined enough.
The existence of content doesn't mean you need to engage with it. If these types of questions or discussion are superfluous in your mind you can always choose to ignore them instead of jumping in. Conversations and questions about the article and its impact seems on-topic in this context, joining the discussion simply to chastise people for participating in the discourse does not feel on-topic to me.

I personally think there is value in discussion around first-in-my-lifetime events like this.