skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Requiring the sheet of paper is less about ensuring the person is qualified, and more about having something you can revoke if they act negligently. It turns out to be important some small percentage of the time that you can say "we will revoke your license if you aren't more careful in the future". And engineers can reject terrible suggestions from non-technical bosses by saying "I'd lose my license if I did that." That's it's main value-add.

I've been to work social events where all the alcohol was provided by the company, but they still had to hire a bartender. You'd pick up a drink, hand it to the bartender, and they'd open it and give it back to you. It sure seems like a stupid, wasteful ceremony; that is, until someone is on their way to getting blackout drunk and the bartender can start refusing to open more drinks for them. They can even use the line "I could lose my bartending license if I keep serving you." The requirement for a licensed bartender was not to make sure someone knew how to open the drinks, it was to make sure someone had the authority and accountability for keeping things under control. (Not to mention making sure everyone was over 21.)

Requiring a stamp from a licensed professional seems pointless up until it prevents a big problem. I'm not opposed to requiring that a Licensed Software Engineer (or whatever) sign off on the software running on chemotherapy machines, as long as that licensing is all done in good faith.
Ok, but not all of us have internet fame. I've found that my "here's where to pirate this textbook" stickers are not typically removed. Maybe sellers of dishwashers are more diligent, who knows.
We have incrementally improved 1% better then we were yesterday. Our competition is 1 day behind us now.
As usual, the people you fill the space with make all the difference. The stereotype gets reinforced by the kind of suburbs HN people tend to live in and to have been raised in.

Wealthy white collar suburbs almost universally suck because people don't really miss out on much by not interacting with each other and people have no real problems so they tend to make each other their problems and not like what their neighbors do.

You go down the economic ladder and things get a lot better because people have enough real problems they don't give a shit about whether their other neighbor pulled permits or what the setbacks are or how long their project car/boat has sat on blocks, and they interact with each other because being friends with your neighbors well enough to share tools and trade favors is worth it.
Bambu Lab H2D All-in-One
Coolest electro-mechanical telephone system
Check out the workings of the Number 5 Crossbar telephone exchange. It was the workhorse of switching for 40 years.
Unrelated and not OP but is your ID based on Wheel of Time?
Haha, email me and we’ll see
Seriously? That doesn't require a human?! Are we talking about some kind of "generic" incident? (Type 3: forgot to manually update the xxxx file.) Or what's going on?
i think there's a really valuable app/site to be made that involves discovering people or handling communications literally on your block (i.e hyper local neighborhood). nextdoor is the 1.0 of this that introduced the concept but poorly, and i'm still waiting for a 2.0

i guess it doesn't have to be an app, since whatsapp can handle most of this, but there's a discovery piece that would be missing that this app can somehow handle.
Have any extensions installed that may be blocking requests?
does PiHole cache dns queries and deliver them faster?
Modular Quantization Aware Training
I really wish the pricing model offered some sort of lifetime purchase. This seems great but I don’t think I could justify the monthly/yearly cost.
It's a song lyric joke.
Wireless will _never_ have the bandwidth nor wall-penetration people want. If it has the latter all the neighboring houses / apartment units will bleed through, and if it doesn't even the limited frequency domain won't be enough unless you're in the same room as an AP that doesn't penetrate walls... at which point everyone will want drops running to the rooms they stay in anyway.

Yeah, conduits with pull strings and super-gentle curves (to safely satisfy minimum bends) are ideal... but at least run the lines there!

Re: Copper / Fiber. Fiber's a PITA for all users, even powerusers probably don't want it outside of the rack / enclosed areas. Delicate cables / connections.
There are portable SCIFs, basically specially designed trailers, to allow senior staff to communicate securely on the road. It's very likely Vance had one of these nearby.
they did it to show that they can abduct a global face and world with keep sitting hand on hand
Evaluating and Training Multi-Modal Large Language Models for Action Recognition
Or let go of the traditional definition of a GPU, and go integrated.
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with 128GB RAM is a promising start.
Qudits: more complex cousins of qubits boost quantum computing
And it was trained on the previous announcements.
10G is awesome for (1) downloading steam games - many are +50GB these days, (2) downloading Ollama models, (3) downloading ISOs, (4) downloading app/OS updates and (5) I have a NAS also on the 10G network for media backups.

I have symmetric 3Gbps fibre to the home via Bell Canada and it reports 4.5Gbps via fast.com.
Have we already achieved the absolute optimal ways to visualize data? Maybe in some simple cases, yes, but not necessarily in all practical cases.

Should new and better ways to visualize data look drastically different from what we're used to? Maybe, but likely not very often. Revolutionary changes are rare, and incremental improvements are important.
Memory grows linearly, compute grows quadratically (but with small constant - until ~100k the inference will be still dominated by non-quadratic factors).
Kylie Minogue is, as far as pop music goes, awesome. Her stage shows are fantastic, and you should see the massive mobile server park and crew of nerds that runs it all. Pushing the envelope of stage shows as a product for sure.
As I read this, I imagined an xkcd comic where the black hat guy builds a generator that works by capturing lightning strikes attracted by sulfur he emits.

An ask xkcd might be appropriate, where the question is asked whether the energy capture from lightning strikes attracted by sulfur would produce more energy by unit of emissions than burning fossil fuels.

Of course, I do not expect Randall Munroe to do either.
> Don't know how exactly it interacts with aliasing rules; maybe you'd have to explicitly pass the mutable reference to the asm as an input, otherwise it'd be illegal for the asm to change it and so the compiler can still assume it isn't? or, I guess, not have any references live during the asm call is the proper thing.

I don't know either, but really it's the opposite half of the buffer you want to tell it may have changed, so I imagine it doesn't matter even if you still have the `&mut [T]` live.

Maybe the extra guard I described isn't necessary either; the DerefMut could directly return `&mut [T]` but set a `barrier_before_next_access` on the ring, or you could just always have the barrier, whatever performs best I guess.
> I hope the future is bright with AV1.

I bought an Intel Arc A580 and then later B580 which also has an AV1 hardware encoder, and I have to say that it's really pleasant, good enough for real time streaming, video recording even at lower bitrates (e.g. 1080p30 at ~10 Mbps is okay) and ends up saving a lot of space when compared to both H264 and H265, which previously wasn't viable because the CPU based encoder is painfully slow.

I saved a few hundred GB of space by re-encoding all of my local videos in AV1, I'm guessing it might be have been one of the better cases because most of the videos were anime instead of more detailed video like regular movies, but it worked out nicely for me! Plus, the software support is also quite good: OBS and Handbrake had no issues, neither does VLC seem to have any.

All of that makes me wish it'd become more widespread in the next decade or so, everywhere from YouTube and Twitch to even our phone cameras.
> and the mosquito could become the friend of humanity.

This is impossible.

One night in the northwoods of Minnesota will quickly and completely disabuse you of this fantastical notion. I would make all mosquitoes extinct at great personal cost, if there was a way to do it. Being disease vectors doesn't even have much to do with it. They are the most profoundly irritating bug, with zero redeeming qualities. They make large swathes of country difficult to exist in during dawn and dusk. I cannot express in words the depths of my hate for mosquitoes.
If you've seen DeepSeek R1's <think> output, you'll understand why OpenAI hides their own. It can be pretty "unsafe" relative to their squeaky-clean public image.
That downgrades transfer speeds though to just 2.5G.
Weird considering a ton of codec patents are held by Fraunhofer, which is based in Germany. https://www.iis.fraunhofer.de/en/ff/amm.html

Formerly MP3 (expired 2017), MPEG-H Audio, xHE-AAC, EVS, LC3/LC3plus, Symphoria, Sonamic and upHear
You don’t have to imagine. This is a billion dollar intel industry that pays out millions of dollars for vulns, and charges corrupt governments more for access to hack their citizens most private data.

Those unscrupulous enough to sell the vulnerability to the exploiters, there is gold. Of course we would rather they did the right thing and got the bugs fixed.
For those who think tl;dw here's a PDF of the talk linked on the page

https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/sites/default/files/presentat...

After reading the whole thing I'm not sure how the title describes the presentation.
The Vibe Coding Revolution Is Getting Overhyped
Workaround (?) Buy their services for 1 (one) year and then move to something good (?)
This is absolutely the way. And mosquito weather tends to be fan weather anyway!

Works pretty well for ventilating enclosed spaces, too—just make sure the fan points inward, pumping positive pressure into the space, so there’s a steady outward flow from the rest of the door/window/whatever.
https://archive.is/ghFZu

'The word “vibe” has become so ubiquitous that it’s started to lose its meaning. A buzzy new phrase, vibe coding, has gripped the tech industry just a month after it was coined by Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI and venerated programmer who posted on X that it was “where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists." In other words, let AI do all the coding for you.
Since then, the phrase has popped up everywhere in tech circles — on social media, forums like Hacker News, executive posts on LinkedIn and in Slack channels populated by startup founders in the Y Combinator accelerator in California. “The term is blowing up,” says Chaz Englander, founder of Model ML, which went through the program last year.

...

It was once rare to see startups with fewer than 20 people bringing in tens of millions of dollars in annual revenue, but now it’s becoming the norm, says Englander. Little wonder that AI coding startups like Stockholm, Sweden-based Lovable have become the hot new thing among venture capital funds. But let’s not get carried away. Businesses tempted to emulate Salesforce should remember that enterprise-grade code still requires plenty of humans. Vibe coding isn’t the answer to your budgetary problems. For one thing, today’s newest startups are leaner not just because they’re using AI in code creation, but also in sales and customer service. “When our sales team arrives in the morning, there are already between 30 and 50 emails in the outbox,” all generated by AI and awaiting human review, Englander says. And while vibe coding is fine for making prototypes and simple pieces of software, you absolutely can’t build enterprise-grade software just using AI. Anything that requires complex functionality on the back end, or that touches something payment-related, needs the review of experienced programmers in order to work.

...
yes it caches, but it may not deliver them faster, depending on how good your previous dns service was and how good your hardware is.
My business is fiber broadband, and we are laying as much as we can! Fortunately the legislative environment in the UK is conducive to this goal. For now we provide XGS PON (10Gbs minus overhead), with 50G PON becoming available in some locations later this year. Unlike regular point-to-point, it is point-to-multipoint through the use of optical splitters with one head-end port capable of servicing up to 256 clients. With the UK being so far behind most other developed countries, it means it can take advances in all of the R&D from the last twenty years. It has also led to the strange situation where there are some properties that have a choice between 4 or even more fibre network providers. Some fiber networks are tied to a single ISP whereas others are open to wholesale. I am not sure if there are any ISP's that support multiple connections to the same property via different fiber networks - but I think you would generally want to use a different ISP for each network anyway. IPv6 is supposed to make that easier, though in practice there are still no protocols (a la MEF 17 Service OAM) for the ONT to signal to the router that there is a fault condition. This is one circumstance where PPPoE is useful. As the UK has been slow to deploy fiber there are many ISPs still using it. I found this out the hard way when I made the switch. My trusty old Ubiquiti Edgerouter Lite (Cavium silicon) is not capable of hardware offload for ipv6+pppoe+vlan at the same time, so anything particularly demanding on IPv6 (e.g. Steam) essentially locks up the router. I will be trying out an Alta Labs Route10 this week to see if it provides any improvement.
This is still in temperate forests. It still isn't clear to me if this is true where frost lines are feet below the surface. How can the roots grow in frozen soil?
They almost went bankrupt. Starting with Lou Gerstner, IBM cut out the least profitable parts (commodity PCs, then, later, commodity servers), and focused on services (which also acts as a sales enabler) and high-margin hardware and software.
Both are:

- Can't Get You Out of My Head: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Can%27t_Get_You_Out_of_My_He...

- I Should Be So Lucky: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Should_Be_So_Lucky
Surely this isn't the totality of all discourse on the subject.
But they score it on their own benchmark, on which coincidentally Gemini models always were the only good ones. In Nolima or Babilong we see that Gemini models still cant do long context.

Excited to see if it works this time.
Insert joke that every app eventually evolves into an email (or chat) client?

More seriously, what differentiates your idea (or hope of execution) from NextDoor, and how would the app improve upon WhatsApp or other messaging clients that might already be ubiquitous? (I'm in the U.S. and sadly WhatsApp is not even close to Ubiquitous - but SMS/MMS is.)

Overall how would having to install an app, create an account, sign up, find contacts, etc. improve upon the connections the original article formed through in person meetings in shared space, and the communications they did with an existing communications app?
The Gemini 1.5 tech report do reference some papers about supporting large context window.
I agree in part, but nobody legit is paying $200/month to use signal or other free secure private messengers. If it was a free platform I can see innocents getting caught, but considering it was sold by criminals, to criminals for a criminal fee — I think they were mostly correct.
Malaysia green-lights new MH370 search in Indian Ocean
i hate this "trick" with a passion. i am the one who winds up having to debug this shit, and theres nothing i love doing more than trawling through hundreds of thousands of preprocessed C++ that gets defecated by `gcc -E ...`. even better when the macro expansion is 10 levels deep.

you need tables? use python (or your scripting language of choice) as a pre-compile step that generates the .cpp/.c/.h files, and then build that.
I could not disagree more strongly. I would be appalled at using an app for something better accomplished by a flyer or drinking coffee in front of my house. People live in physical space. "How do I talk to my next-door neighbor?" is not a problem that the internet should be helping with
That was a deliberate jump, yes. Question is, what do you mean by "feel pain in the way", and why does that way make it matter morally - why doesn't the simpler way matter too, and just as much?
Nothing except I didn't know about it. Thanks for the suggestion. :)
But mosquitoes are super annoying, and the probably don't even know how to make nuclear bombs. I mean, lots of humans are annoying too, but not all of them. Every single mosquito is annoying, and they can't stop us, so, uhh.. let's do it.
Hey, I'm also a former civil engineer-turned SWE in the NJ/NYC area! Nice to know that there are more of us out there. I already spend hours looking through Wikipedia articles, so when your site dropped I was on it right away. I dodged the AI conversation entirely by getting into a state government position where my job is all but guaranteed by the union.
It is exactly that. A lot of "saw a black guy walking down the street...should I call police?"
Training large attention free models
Yeah but they aren't making this clear and see people misinterpreting this not realizing that it is in temperate forests only. I don't see how any tree roots can be formed when frost line is feet below the surface.
M1 Pro here too, the page doesn't hang, but it's extremely slow to scroll on my end.
on the flipside -- avoiding unhealthy things, especially environmental health factors like carcinogens and microplastics, often requires a certain level of wealth.
Papyrus (SNL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVhlJNJopOQ

Papyrus 2 (SNL)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8PdffUfoF0
I'm glad to hear a story of someone constructing a community they enjoy. And this approach does have the virtue of drawing in the kinds of people who are enthusiastically interested, rather than those who aren't.

In general, I and most people I know have largely found more fun and more sense of community in groups whose membership arises from intentional joining through some common interest, rather than groups whose membership arises from happenstance. Or, in short: you choose your friends, but you don't choose your neighbors.
i have been using it, agreed :100
Sidetrack, maybe a silly question: Under what circumstances are you touching your dishwasher with wet fingers? Plates are dry when they go in and dry when they come out if you have a decent dishwasher.

Capacitive buttons suck, but they are no worse in dishwashers than in any other appliance, in my usage at least
I found reasoning models are much more faithful at text related tasks too (i.e. 1. translating long key-value pairs (i.e. Localizable.strings), 2. long transcript fixing and verification; 3. look at csv / tabular data and fix) probably due to the reflection mechanism built into these reasoning models. Using prompts such as "check your output to make sure it covers everything in the input" letting the model to double-check its work, avoiding more manual checks on my end.
Yeah, SPF, DKIM and DMARC are incomprehensible. The only people with the time, motivation and expertise to understand and apply them, are professional spammers. Most of the legitimate email I get, fail one or more of these tests.

If I recall, SPF limits the number of domains you can enumerate in your DNS records.
Amusingly, we live in a high-rise in SF and it's like what people talk about neighbourhood living. We have a Whatsapp group and people meet for ethnic festivals, borrow an egg, or sugar, or flour, or a jump start kit, or an iron. It's honestly quite nice.

It helps that you self-select for the audience by who can afford the building, just like they've done the same with their neighbourhood.
it does have some anti-AI bias, but also there is a lot of inertia in the AI/ML community staying on X and not migrating elsewhere I think.
Thanks, this looks great. I've been playing with Huggingface's Smolagents, which is fun to tinker with and relatively easy to read through. But it is so tightly coupled to its two agent implementations - ToolAgent and CodeAgent - that it's not trivial at all to add your own state transformations.

This framework looks really well designed, I'm going to take it for a spin.
The one thing I think this post gets right is the idea of how self-alienating a tech job can be.

But I would argue that the desire is also part of an attempt to escape the unrelenting bureaucracy and lack of autonomy that can be so stifling in a tech job. Sometimes it feels like all of the decisions have already been made for you.

Perhaps someone wrote a playbook of how you should cope with common work situations you might come across and suddenly you aren't an intelligent human anymore, but an infantilised child stripped of agency, your independence micromanaged away by a thousand software engineers before you who thought that it would be a good idea to treat people like machines; because it reduces risk, right?

Perhaps someone doesn't like how you formatted some code, or named a variable, and you are held to randsom at the point of a PR review.

And then you might have to explain to a customer why something in a complex system you have build cannot be changed without consequences; and they cannot really understand why this is, but suddenly you have to cope with their frustration at their powerlessness. And you are stuck between the emotions they are permitted and the inhumanity of the work that you do.

Tech jobs can sometimes seem like a sadistic prison for the mind stuck between the human and the inhuman.
I think the case with Elon Musk was skill issue than toxicity, like how pre-TV person would find modern cable TV infomercials irresistible.

Are infomercials toxic? maybe? Is banning them useful? maybe - can you find them addictive, as a post-TV individual? I can't, and I can't get schezophrenic like those perpetually enraged Twitter users, either.

I think it's just that those people, including Musk, didn't have the new form or literacy, a stronger grounding to the reality, required to be online. Twitter/Bluesky architecture itself, IMO, is about 10^2-5 less toxic than anything before it.
Prospero challenge, now with more garbage collection
What do you “enjoy”—and more importantly, why do you think you enjoy it? I suspect enjoyment is mostly socialized, and we enjoy or don’t enjoy what our culture tells us should be enjoyable or not enjoyable.

Prior to my dad’s generation, virtually everyone in my home country was a subsistence farmer. Most people still are. Are their lives less “enjoyable” than some childless millennial pursing his dreams of traveling the world?

I don’t think that, on average, the asians I know (south asians, to be fair) are less happy than the Americans I know. They just derive enjoyment and contentment from different sources.
I feel like "vibe" of 2025 is the "epic" of the 2005's - 2010's. We'll eventually look back on it and cringe.
Acemagic F3A an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 Mini PC with Up to 128GB of RAM
'cause you don't c it coming
there should be a way to share these prompts + tools through visuals