skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Marginalia Search project has been such a great one to follow over the years and I think Viktor is very well deserving of both the last grant and the new grant.

Following the technical journey that he has documented through the blog posts over time has been great to read and I dream about one day trying out the same thing myself at the same sort of scale that he has managed to do as a solo dev.

I'm very glad to see that he's going to be able to keep working on the project for at least the immediate future!
Wikipedia: Size in Volumes
"The early years are chaotic. The brain undergoes extensive rewiring. This makes it a difficult to form lasting memories."

That is reduced too much from the actual state of research, presumably for the sake of accessibility. We obviously already learn before the hippocampus starts to really develop (18-24 months). But what episodic memory means is that the learned things have no episodic context, i.e. they are learned and applied more broadly, not just in the situation where they were learned in the first place. Learning in the early years isn't "chaotic", it is just very generalized.
Honest question: how is Musk “fascist”?

A core feature of historical fascism is a significantly expanded government. For example, under Mussolini’s regime (1922–1943), the Italian state dramatically increased its control over the economy — by 1939, it controlled over 80% of shipping and shipbuilding, and around 75% of iron and steel production. He also significantly expanded the state bureaucracy to enforce fascist ideology — from education to the media.

I’m not defending Musk’s behavior or suggesting anything, but labeling him “fascist” doesn’t seem historically accurate.
From the article "OPKSSH does not require any code changes to the SSH server or client."

Looks like this is a sidecar application. So potentially very useful, also potentially very brittle.
Lithium batteries are already mostly banned on planes. The TSA does not allow lithium batteries in checked luggage and limits the size of lithium batteries in carry on luggage to 100Wh or 2g of lithium. This is the reason that it's very difficult to find a laptop with a battery size larger than 99Wh.
A trend towards more web apps (versus native) doesn’t seem like a bad thing? If it gets any traction then you can think about native.
The headline implies the content is a waste of time to engage with.
Sometimes a bubble is just a bubble.
I don't understand what's your point? The optimiser is not fp8 anyway, is it? It's just the weights. I think the extent of fp8 "effectiveness" is greatly exaggerated. Yes, DeepSeek did use fp8, and they did implement it nicely, but it doesn't mean everybody is now got to be using fp8 all of the sudden.
What does Zitron define as "AI" companies though? (Actually curious).

A lot of "AI" investments in public markets were basically a bundle of fabless players (Nvidia), data center adjacent players (Broadcom), and some applications, whereas private/VC investment was bifurcated between foundational model players (OpenAI, Anthropic), application or AIOps oriented players (ScaleAI, Harness, etc), and rebranded hardware vendors (Cerebras, CoreWeave, Groq, Lambda).

If by AI he means foundational model companies, then I absolutely agree that there is a need to be bearish about their valuations, because they can constantly be outcompeted by domain specific or specialized models.

Furthermore, a lot of the recent "AI" IPO hype are functionally fabless hardware companies like CoreWeave or Cerebras who were previously riding high because of the previous boom in semiconductor and chip investments.

I've been fairly open about this opinion at my day job.
Computer science isn't "science with a computer". It's not about calculations and simulations.

Computer science is the science of computation. It's more to do with theory of computation, information theory, data structures, algorithms, cryptography, databases.

"Science with a computer" is experimental physics, chemisty, biology, etc.
Surely there's applications where weight doesn't matter much, like home energy storage for solar setups?
> This is the first time an open weights model is the leading non-reasoning model, a milestone for open source.

wow, this is huge!
Was he the guy who made X block Firefox unless you turn off the tracking protection? I will say that change has made it much easier to stop using the site.
It's The Verge, they report on senior people at tech companies. They wrote about Meta's head of engineering leaving (https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/8/23160405/meta-head-enginee...) and Apple replacing their head of hardware engineering (https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/25/22249393/apple-senior-vic...).
This is a better link as it provides more formats, including ones that (unlike PDF) work well on mobile: https://beej.us/guide/bgc/
A literal beast
> The result could be a tsunami of AI generates trash apps obscuring those that have actual utility.

The iOS app store has already been a human made tsunami of trash obscuring actual utility for over a decade. We're well past that point, the idea that the review system was about setting a bar for quality dissipated about three years into the store.
I think the biggest problem is, 99% of the jobs out there is boring and meaningless, regardless of level and pay. I don't know about other people, but I can't really be "hardcore" unless I really believe in the work.
Do you imply that sending e-mail via IPv6 doesn't work?
> talk to a professional who actually knows about these things

And gives a damn, and is up to date. Difficult to find professionals like that around here, even with money.
Sadly, were this a different administration, they would have already declared an investigation with a goal to impeach a president. Such a ridiculous double-standard with clear partisanship on display. “Both sides”…
For context in response to the questions about "Why build on X?"

I've be working to relearn math and there happens to be a large group of others also doing the same with Math Academy and sharing daily updates on X.

I found this inspiring (especially as the lessons got harder) so I tweeting my updates too. But I also wanted a way to independently track my progress across math and other areas to see progress over time, even if I changed tools or stopped tweeting.

So that's the reason I built app on X: So my tweets get logged in a GitHub-like habit graph to show progress over time. It just pulled my bio/profile from X (login with X) and tracks my habit tweets. It's super simple, but meets my needs perfectly. My habit page: https://xtreeks.com/gabemays

I understand the questions around the long-term stability of the API, but I'm optimistic.
It's in Born to Run.
More productive with AI or more productive in general?
SH3 vets plotted relative positions to get heading much more reliably, which was something that was also insanely difficult for sub captains.

With some trig you can get relative headings by taking bearing measurements, waiting 30s, and then taking more, but speed must be known.

To get full heading and speed you can do the same thing multiple times but now we're in a least squares problem and it has plenty of singularities.

The most reliable method for me was to pass in front of the ship submerged the fire tail tubes or turn around if you have enough time.

Insanely difficult for fast moving targets.

I played so much SH games from the first days on, that I went and did my PhD on tracking using bearing measurements (albeit mostly applied and only a tiny theoretical contribution).
You could instead provide an argument of why it is not a bubble. For example, we are perhaps one breakthrough away from something approximating AGI, etc.
Bambu Lab H2D
You can't underestimate how much people will screw up operational security (opsec.)

Arch-revolutionary Che Guevara was tracked down and assassinated because the NSA cracked his "unbreakable" one time pads which would have been unbreakable if he'd only used them once.

https://www.kopaldev.de/2022/04/27/cryptography-for-everybod...
Not SK in particular but the point of all of this in general, especially for those who have reached such heights.

63 is a young age to die in a rich country, especially for a corporate titan. Warren Buffett has been at the helm of Berkshire Hathaway an entire-my-lifetime of years between him and Jong-hee Han.

Gabe Newell famously has yachts around the world, explores the oceans and seems to be enjoying the fruits of his labor without kicking the bucket immediately after the release of Half Life 2.

Chuck Feeney made himself a multi billionaire and impressively gave it all away to charity within his lifetime. While so many plutocrats would “pledge” their wealth after death, Feeney had the stones to do it while he drew breath, earning him a high seat in the pantheon of philanthropy.

So what’s the point of all this work if it buys you an early grave? I’m sure he would have enjoyed a comfortable and lengthy retirement with his family, if he could’ve gotten there.
Yes, obviously you don't block the countries you plan to do business with. I got that much.

It probably makes sense to leave the US out of the list, assuming the CableNinja is in North America.

The rest seems pretty arbitrarily chosen, though. JumpCrisscross gave no additional context to why they left out Ukraine, Brazil, India, UK, when picking countries from the list they linked. They have higher cybercrime index ranks.

Whether they have a higher chance of "real" traffic is highly dependent on the business in question.

I'm sure there is some amount of thought behind the choice, beyond just using the index, which is why I'm asking.
I have either the AWNE92SP113TW01 or AWNE82SP113TW01 top load washer for about 7 years, and haven't had any issues with damaged clothing. Once a drawstring from a hoodie got tangled at the bottom of the rotating agitator, but thats it. what problems have you had?

I also don't recall it being very expensive. Maybe $900.
ZX81 emulator for iOS can emulate the infamous wobbly RAM pack
The end result of this wave looks increasingly like will get us an open web blogspam apocalypse, better search / information retrieval, better autocomplete for coders. All useful (well useful to bloggers/spammers at least), not trillions of dollars in value generated though.

Until a new architecture / approach takes root at least.
Reading your comment, regardless of AI I think that.
https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL

Is pretty good for games.
I think he sees the weakness more in the model/product/IP holding companies than the infra/hardware/commodity compute side
It also seems OpenAI is struggling to scale. I'm a premium subscriber and the site is totally unusable for multiple hours every week. Now that Claude has web search I may switch away from OpenAI permanently.
Calculation could be, that tesla will be granted monopoly in USA
I think the result is primarily relevant from a complexity-theory perspective, showing that this is possible at all in time polynomial in the number n of variables. A big hint is that the paper never explicitly states the degree of that polynomial, but it would need to be at least as large as the degree d of the Taylor expansion used.

The convergence speed depends in a complicated way on the Lipschitz constant of the d-th derivative, but if you ignore that, the number of iterations to reach a fixed target precision is proportional to 1/ln(d). So to halve the number of iterations, you would need to square d, which is bad news if the runtime is already at least exponential in d. It would only make sense if the function you're trying to minimize is extremely costly to compute but the cost of differentiating it d times is negligible in comparison. Even then, there'll be an optimal d beyond which further increases only slow it down.

In the univariate case, if you're doing 1 + d work per iteration for 1/ln(d) iterations, the optimal integer value of d is 4. So at least in that case, going a bit higher than Newton's method can be beneficial.
I stand corrected. Still not sure I'd want to expose my SSH infrastructure to the massive kludge tower that is OpenID, but it not being its own implementation of the actual SSH protocol is a huge plus.
Work is worship
How big is your project (LOC)? How big are your individual source files? What language(s)?
I think it was a roughly 50/50 sales mix with a slight win for the range extender up until the point they discontinued it as an option in later revisions (with larger batteries).

They had some mechanical issues with the fuel line that was a fire risk and they software locked it to reduce the tank capacity by 20% in the US so it wouldn't be classed as a plug in hybrid, but even with those problems I've generally heard positive things about it. Basically acting as reserve to avoid range anxiety on early small battery EVs when it was all quite new.
Hah! I had a more or less identical experience after getting my first pair in 2008. Went out to the track, jogged a single lap, and that was enough. Calves were absolutely wrecked the next day. Four years later I ran my first marathon (3:54) in them.

17 years later they are still the only shoes I ever wear for running or working out. And I have bigger calves than anyone in my local CrossFit gym
The most obvious one being proposed is banning Chinese models from the US (like China bans Google, etc).

At the extreme end, some members of the administration has already floated ideas like prosecuting users who download Chinese models.
Posts that fall off the front page have a chance to re-appear on the front page a few days later.

Anyways, back to the actual content: my current best agent framework is about 500 lines or 20 kb of python, a large part of that is strings of instructions for various stages of development.

Like you, I start with a system prompt about "you will be given a programming project description, please write a full attempt at the project and we will execute and provide results", then extract the code, run it, copy the console output or error to the script, and ask if the project description is fully satisfied, looping until it judges that the project is fully complete.

I do also have some minified versions that are around 60-70 LOC, but at this point, my interest is shifting to more features that are still implemented simply and modularly. For example, I'd like to be able to manage multi-file projects, allow the LLM to test interactive CLI programs, implement a backup and rollback system for when the LLM seems to get stuck and unable to produce a functioning build or has a major regression, implement git repos, implement web browsing (for coding documentation research) and GUI development with playwright and a local multimodal model, and ideally be able to tell my computer to work on a project while I'm in the office or asleep, and wake up the next day to a significantly improved complex project, ideally eventually getting it able to work on itself and developing its own automated developer, using entire programming projects of increasing complexity as test cases, measuring how quickly a framework can accomplish a task of a given difficulty, and optimize for increasing how quickly it can reliably develop complex applications.

Some of my test projects include:

Write a script to interact with an LLM API endpoint at localhost:123/v1/

Write a python script to get the public IP and local weather using free APIs

Stuff like that.

I could share some of my agent frameworks with you when I get home tonight if you'd like.
> Calling everything a bubble is low iq

I have some Tulips to sell you
Other than the value you are aiming for (I personally aim for the upper edge of the normal range), I agree with the immense variability in dosage, and also would like to mention imprecision in vitamin D bloodwork tests as well.

Thankfully throughout my Vitamin D research, I found low risk of overdose, and cases of immense accidental overdose that appear to have been treated successfully (mainly by stopping the over-intake).
US tax law is designed to help with this - the tax status of nonprofits is evaluated based on if their activity supports their published mission.

Those mission statements (ostensibly) have teeth!
“We just don’t see anybody in the streaming space creating [3D] spaces for music,”

Begs the question - are they seeing anyone asking for it? $207m worth?
Escaping USA Tech, Bye Bye Dropbox, Hello Jottacloud
> what value are people finding on X these days?

I find value in:

1. Good ML accounts that allow me to stay up to date. Didn't find such concentration of them anywhere else, even after some have left. This is what mostly keeps me there.

2. Current info about the russian aggression from a few trusted accounts, mostly in ukrainian. Again, as I don't want to use Telegram, it's hard to find those in other places, though some good ones are also on Mastodon and Bsky.
Surely ping time is basically irrelevant dealing with LLMs? It has to be dwarfed by inference time.
I'm sorry, I'm not entertaining anyone who pushes trickle down trite at this point. It's so far beyond the point of pretending such claims are actually in good faith it's not even funny.
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Beej is an incredible author. His networking guide is not only succinct and informative, it's also very funny. He's got a great writing style.

There was a thread a month or two back showing off some more of his guides, including this one. Going to download some of these for a long flight coming up. Huge thank you to Beej for the incredibly high quality content at no cost. There's also a paperback of at least the network programming guide available to support (great gift to give to a junior engineer).
> Not sending SQL is calling a stored procedure

That's not what I mean, I don't want to bother with the SQL layer at all. I want to generate the query plan from the client side and send it off to be executed.

And to my knowledge the hinting extensions don't actually allow you to skip the ceremony and supply your own plan, just (in a very hacky way) adjust it as it runs.
Awesome! I essentially started with the same premise when coding "wcgw" [1]. Give a single shell tool to chatgpt (later claude).

Chronology that followed:

1. Some processes take long time: add status checking.

2. Need to kill long running process or interact with tools add option to send control characters; BashInteraction tool.

3. File editing using sed and echo is not reliable, add FileEdit tool.

4. Large output; add truncation based on tokens.

5. But wait I need command output to get truncated at the beginning but file reading `cat $file` to truncate at the end. Add special ReadFile tool.

6. File writing using 'echo "content" >file' needs unncessary quotes escaping leading to degraded quality, add special WriteFile tool.

7. Reading one file at a time is slow, change ReadFile to ReadFiles tool.

8. Directly writing files is not as good as first planning things. Prevent writing using architect mode.

And so on.

[1] https://github.com/rusiaaman/wcgw
The author has a serious case of notgettingtothepointitis with exhaustingattituditis as a comorbidity. After n paragraphs of them not even saying what they think the point of going to the gym is, I stopped reading.
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Why would a trend toward more web apps be seen as a good thing?
I sold my startup and got out of tech and I’m much happier. Didn’t fully understand how miserable the whole industry and the long hours sitting at the computer were making me. Good luck with the new life!
This seems right, intuitively, but I'd love to see a source.

I've noticed that when I detect chatbot-style code in a coworker's PR, I often find subtle problems. But it's harder for me to spot the problems in code I got out of a chatbot because I am primed by the very activity of writing the prompt to see what I desire in the output.
Thank you!

I use the H10 to show my heart rate on my paramotor live streams and this will be SO much better than the way I'm scraping it with HR Monitor + Tasker + AutoNotification.

I'm very much looking forward to trying this out.
I now have 5 "vibe coded" programs in our production chain at my non-tech company. Some have been running for over two years now.

I think what tech companies miss is that customers buy these expensive feature packed software suites and then use 3% of the functionality. Cutting edge LLM's, and especially the newer thinking ones, are incredibly talented at creating programs that offer 3% the functionality of software suites.

Just a few weeks ago we skipped out on a $1k/mo CAD package because claude wrote a program with a simple GUI that enabled our engineers to do the one task we needed the custom CAD software for (Manually creating part placement files from 90's era manufacturing files).
It is an industry standard, in the sense that there are published standards for it and it was developed by an industry consortium, but in practice it never got traction outside Apple and they are essentially the only one who uses it. This happens sometimes: FireWire was an IEEE standard too but Apple and Sony were pretty much the only users. I don’t think it’s too misleading to refer to it as a de facto Apple-only technology.
You did not answer my question.

If Europe wants to be "more internal[ly] stable and international[ly] competitive", then its 40-hour-per-week, 5-weeks-holiday-per-year companies have to compete with Tesla, Spacex, Paypal, X etc.

And they are clearly failing to do so.
Interesting.

I personally think there is more risk on the commodity compute side because the projected multiples for a Cerebras or CoreWeave are imo unrealistic in such a margins driven market, and there was a DC funding boom that has started lagging over the past couple months, as there appears to be a bit of an overcapacity issue in compute - imo very similar to that in the mid-2000s with servers and networking players like Dell, EMC, Cisco, etc.

That said, I have a similar opinion about foundational model companies as well.
Great Barrington Declaration (2020)
Those are idiosyncratic definitions that are not even remotely common or shared. It people misunderstand your message because you chose your words poorly, that's your fault.

It also feels like something of a straw man -- in reality, you have junior programmers/coders and senior programmers/coders and they get better over time.

In real life, they aren't two distinct activities. People write code to get things done, and as they get better they are able to write code that is faster, more elegant, or more scalable. But premature optimization is also the root of all evil, as one saying goes -- plenty of code doesn't need to be faster, more elegant, or more scalable. It just has to work and meet a deadline. And there's nothing wrong with that.
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Even as a non-runner, I found Born to Run to be a fantastic book and was a really captivating story. I ended up buying vibrams for hiking and LOVE them.
that's not the issue, the problem is the operator is required by the language to return a type from the stdlib, so you have to pull in the stdlib to get that type