skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Imo, we should go back to education

We tried that before the service revolution took off. That's exactly why we started pushing people into college, thinking that education could build entrepreneurship/businessmenship. We told the kids that if they become those entrepreneurs/businessmen they'd earn more money, live a better life, etc. in hopes to compel them in that direction.

But that's not what the people wanted.
I run a small consulting shop in Germany, also specialising on PLM (and IoT) - I never landed a gig in the US. The problem with PLM is that more often than not you operate in high tech / defense and because of export control regulations you need residency.

For getting projects in Europe, what worked for me is cold outreach on linkedin. However not directly for the end client (that really never worked) - but there are a lot of companies in between - medium size consulting shops / service integrators. Also digital strategy consulting shops sometimes realize in the middle of a project that they should better own the implementation themselves(because some other partner has been identified as unreliable or too expensive)
A big aspect is being consistent and send a few messages per day.

What also worked was applying to jobs, and after making the first contact breaking it to them that I actually run my own company but that I could solve the issue that they were trying to fix by hiring me.

At last but not least - send me your CV to daniel a teide d tech - if you have experience with PTC's Windchill PLM there is a chance that I have work for you in the future. But also if not, it's always good to extend the network. I have worked in the past with freelancers from India, usually setting up legal/contractual aspects through deel.com

Good luck!
Derek Lowe also did chlorine trifluoride: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-save-yo....
Well they certainly have the GPUs for that.

I wonder if this will squeeze cloud GPU pricing even more or it's already priced.
I am doing this myself. I turned in my two weeks' notice a few days ago

I am worried about my decision too, but I think about a few things:

- You got your current job (plus all of the previous roles), so why wouldn't you be able to do it again if and when the time comes?

- Job gaps don't look as bad as they used to. People understand burnout and being stuck in a bad job. Breaking away from those can be seen as a positive, especially if you are pursuing your own health and interests

- There's more to life than draining your useful waking hours for a paycheck at a place that offers little else. With more time and energy, you can explore interests and projects on your own terms

Best of luck in your future endeavors
For LLM developers, is there really no advantage to having a big block of unified memory, rather than a bunch of devices with a small amount of memory each?
The universe cannot be simulated accurately
Building billing sucks (for both business and engineering)
I never said Ukraine is doing anything illegal (although the legality of literally dragging people into a military car might be something to question). See my very first comment. Watch the video on Slate, then watch the videos I shared. Looks like many people on HN are getting triggered when you mention the inhumane treatment of Ukrainian men by Ukraine.
So it would've been more "broadly" true to say: JWST discovers that most galaxies rotate in the _same_ direction?
The Premium subscription has mostly newsletters, many of which are very very good.

Personally, I think it's worth the money but it's definitely not cheap.
*raises the question
I like his concepts, and his stories, but agree about the characters. Every single one of them talks like a snarky sarcastic white dude. All the side characters in The Martian, the teenage girl in Artemis, and the rock alien in Project Hail Mary, all speak in the same voice, that of a jokey middle-aged dad.
Does “vibe coding” count :-) I’m from west Africa and lately been very interested in African fairy tales to read to my daughter. Ended up building (
a GPT-backed interface that can insert her in any African story she wants. We also have a list of African queens who’re not famous anymore but did amazing things (look up Queen Nzinga for example). So I’m doing a series of little children’s books about each queen - have them exported to PDF so I can print them out and bind for her: her own little
Collection of fairytales. I plan to put it online later - even if you’re not African I think it’s a great way to explore our history.
If your filesystem and disks are fast enough, then maybe Rob's assumptions don't apply.
If a jury can rule against the law, why shouldnt the voters.
The irony being all these people making these things are rote learning experts
Related, some past submissions:

- 2018, 51 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17145811

- 2014, 153 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7203095
As with buying consumer GPUs from Nvidia now, these prices mean nothing, because it will be impossible to buy one of these at MSRP.

The actual price will be 2-3x this from some scalper who has a giant pile of them while people who want to do actual work with them pay through the nose.

That's assuming the connectors don't catch on fire, no cores are missing the way ROPs have been missing with 5090s, etc.
How are you arriving at double the price? 16-CPU-core Mac Studio with storage upgrade to 1TB and RAM upgrade to 128GB comes out to $3,700. Add $700 if you want to upgrade to the 28-core CPU (there’s nothing directly comparable to the DGX Spark’s 20-core CPU).

None of this speaks to the actual GPU performance. The only spec the DGX Spark webpage mentions is “1,000 FP4 TOPS”.
I knew a guy who worked at Sequin before the RTW push; he was pretty impressed with the thought leaders of the company.
"These modern SpaceX kids and their fancy reusables. Back in my day, when we went to space, we used the whole engine!"
Happy user for many years!

Wishing you good luck with finding a maintainer.
Honestly I am not surprised. I imagine he wrote it quickly as this fun quirky look at the universe but then it got extremely popular, kurzgesatz video released and all. A lot of people based their personal beliefs off of the story.

Imagine you write a small story for fun but then it becomes nearly a religion. It must be a little frustrating for Andy.
> I think much of what you say comes from the right-wing disinformation machine

Here we are again. It seems to be the default mode for anything that doesn't match the mainstream narrative. Perhaps you've never heard of it because you haven't been misidentified with the right before? As a centrist, it happens a lot, and there have been plenty of instances where I was called a Nazi.

Of course it's impossible for either one of us to prove how regularly this happens. However, it seems silly to be surprised that someone on the left is unaware of it. Of course, they are. It's completely logical, just like someone on the right being completely unaware of how the right often treats left-wing individuals.
> The issue was the EU expansion to the East starting in 2004.

The EU expansion that was promoted by the UK government (presumably after reading Machiavelli's Republics)?

> Restrictions on free movements were too weak and the UK was the only country to choose not to impose any (along with Ireland). This created a huge influc of Eastern Europeans into the UK, which resulted in a surge of support for abolising, or at least strongly limiting, free movement.

They didn't impose any because they were pushing for this expansion.
Yes, agree on Window Me. It's not a lot of use for a retro gaming system by default. It's not too difficult to rollback some of the changes and re-enable the ability to exit to MS-DOS 7, but it is extra steps for not much gain.

IMO, the main reason to run Windows Me over Windows 98 SE is if one likes the Windows 2000-style shell updates that were bundled into Me. Me also has a more mature network stack and some other updates ported over from the 2K kernel. If one likes those features then by all means - re-enable DOS mode and it's a decent alternative to 98 SE.
This is refreshing to read. I, like everyone apparently, am working on my own coding agent [1]. And I suppose it's not that capable yet. But it sure is getting more reliable. I have it only modify 1 file at a time. It generates tickets for itself to complete - but never enough tickets to really get all the work done. The tickets it does generate, however, it often can complete (at least, in simple cases haha). The file modification is done through parsing ASTs and modifying those, so the AI doesn't go off and do all kinds of things to your whole codebase.

And I'm so sick of everything trying for 100% automation and failing. There's a place for the human in the loop, in quickly identifying bugs the AI doesn't have the context for, or large-scale vision, or security or product-focused mindset, etc.

It's going to be AI and humans collaborating. The solutions that figure that out the best are going to win IMO. AI won't be doing everything and humans won't be doing it all either. The tools with the best human-AI collaboration are where it's at.

[1] https://codeplusequalsai.com
LLM providers on the cusp of an 'extinction' phase as capex realities bite
I am not a lawyer, so this is just personal experience, not advice.

Networking is everything, most of my gigs have come from trusted contacts I worked with as an employee in a subsidiary (opened by a US company) in my own country.

Startups help here because people tend to move around with a trusted group of people. Every gig expands your network and builds more trust, so cracking those first few opportunities are important.

Navigating legal/contractual: I can't read minds but you're probably overthinking this before you've secured a gig. Contractually, things are similar to working with a company at home. A lot of the complexity will be on the US company's side for how they deal with the expense of dealing with the expense of you for their reporting requirements to state authorities like the IRS.
This is why your network is so important, you have to be valuable enough so they're willing to pay for the friction.

Most of your friction and hassle will come from dealing with foreign income within your own country's tax authority. Get help from professionals but it's not insurmountable.
I would say it's a gray area at best/worst. I think the goal of the law is that you shouldn't e.g. take a screenshot of a message someone sent you in confidence/in private, and use it to make fun of, or shame them on a public forum (or whatever else - but a "targeted action").

This scenario however is "I take my personal data an run it through tools to make my life easier" (heck, even backup could fit the bill here). If I'm allowed to do that... am I allowed to do that only with tools that are perfectly secure? Can I send data to the cloud? (subcases: I own the cloud service & hardware/it's a nextcloud instance; I own it, but it's very poorly secured; Proton owns it and their terms of use promise to not disclose it; OpenAI owns it and their terms of use say they can make use of my data)
High test peroxide is used as a rocket monopropellant, and was involved with the loss of the submarines HMS Sidon and Kursk.
Agreed. I've never successfully one-shotted anything non-trivial or non-pedagogical.
Google Flights already nails this UX perfectly

Often when using an AI agent, I think to myself that a web search gets me what I need more reliably and just as quick. Maybe AI has to learn to crawl before it learns to walk, but each agent I use is leaving me without confidence that it will ever be useful and I genuinely wonder if they've ever been tested before being published...
3D Xpoint aka Optane? It never really caught on and has since been discontinued…
If you have access to the documentation source, you can concatenate all files into one. Some software also has docs downloadable as PDF.
I partly agree with your opinion. But here is how it looks like at my end so far:

with existing network:
people have gotten cold - when I honestly put across my situation. People who would gladly go out on beer with me when, and have good conversations, have gone drop dead silent when I reach out: "Hi XYZ... I've started consulting, and I'm looking for new business opportunities. I'd love to talk to you about this... could we catch up over a call sometime next week"
How'd you reach out?

huge consulting rates:
I'm not sure what you'd consider huge rates, but I'm not expecting US rates here.
Meh.

It's not really cynicism.

It's just that people today only care about the next 20 or 30 years. They don't really care if, over the course of the next 200 years, two nations can rebuild from annihilating each other in a nuclear exchange. The nuclear exchange is a lot more pressing concern for them.
Fireprox: AWS tool for HTTP pass-through proxies with unique IPs
-ffast-math and -Ofast are inadvisable on principle:

Tl;dr: python gevent messes up your x87 float registers (yes.)

https://moyix.blogspot.com/2022/09/someones-been-messing-wit...
In most other countries, the accessibility and features is the other way around: the normal city bus can serve as a school bus if required.

That also means the children don't need to clamber up steps etc.

Though it's a long time since I lived somewhere with school bus services. Mostly the children use normal buses, and have a discounted or free ticket to do so.
Talk to 80k PDF Pages of JFK Assassination Documents
Every single time
The UI is kind of horrendous. Not even a dark mode. I also have a hard time imagining wanting to use BedRock at this point. Still can't use any of the leading models besides Claude, plus IAM config is comparatively painful, and you have to setup bedrock-access-gateway to get an OpenAI compatible API for tools that expect that API setup.
Would love to do something similar. Have you written about the technicals/set up somewhere?
This is good right? In Europe the eurocheque was already on the decline in 1982 (!), almost not being used anymore in 1998 and finally phased out in 2002.

For a country with so much tech, being the proverbial mother to so much of the tech we use today, it honestly suprises me how old fashioned it is.

We almost have a European webshop payment system, a eID for online authentication against governments, etc.
I know they are capable of more, but I also tire of people being so enamored with "bootstrap a brand new app" type AI coding - like is that even a big part of our job? In 25 years of dev work, I've needed to do that for commercial production app like... twice? 3 times? Help me deal with existing apps and codebases please.
Microservices Reliability Playbook
Every situation is unique. The US is a mess in part because of oligarchical control of media, and we still have lots of media organizations that maintain high quality journalism standards. Nationally, ProPublica is doing a great job, for example. Locally it's more spotty - in Pittsburgh, WESA (our local NPR news station) is a reliable and good source of information about local goings-on.

In Russia, you'll probably get thrown in prison if you protest against some of the state-sanctioned oligarchs. That's not the case in the US (i hate that I probably have to say 'yet' here) if you're a citizen. How much good will it do? Hard to measure. Most attempts to resist regimes like this are a matter of trying a lot of things and seeing what sticks.

Call your representatives and senators. Do it at least weekly. They're more responsive to things that take time. Show up to their town halls if they're brave enough to host them. Pick a few issues, learn enough about them to comment intelligently, and get involved. Say, opposing HJ 44 (a proposal that would roll back Biden-era lead water pipe replacement requirements). Your senators and reps can probably be doing more. Encourage them. :)

Sign up with indivisible; work through some of their contact-your-peeps todo items.

Vote your wallet and your retirement account. Divest of TSLA. Bias towards companies that are pushing back.

It's better to have a regular schedule of things you participate in that try to move the needle than to feel helpless. Tyrants rule through helplessness. We're not. We're not even close.
amazing!

I just installed it and enjoying the integration.
In a sense, I guess, but the legal nuances are part of a general pattern that politicians are special. The Supreme Court has essentially legalized political bribery, for example; after McDonnell v. US you can accept bribes for setting up a meeting or scheduling an event, and after Snyder v. US you can accept bribes for anything at all so long as you do the thing you're being bribed for first. (These cases were based, yes, on legal nuances of the specific convictions: McDonnell's actions didn't constitute an "official act", and Snyder's after-the-fact bribes were technically not bribes at all but "gratuities".)
The security problem is how "addition overflows", or "this will never overflow", have a side effect on security related checks that get removed.

Naturally whatever happens to a CPU register in isolation doesn't turn right away into a security issue.
Do they?? Trying to get GPU's from AWS at work is like pulling teeth for me.
I havent been in a single company that does not force the rotation of passwords. I worked in 4 different F500 companies.
> The EU Constitution was a monstrosity.

I really don't agree, I thought it was much better than Lisbon (which I voted against twice on the principle that the rest of the EU didn't appear to want it).
The paper measures rotation relative to the Milky Way galaxy.
True, but other than the "Jewish space lasers" brain worm lady, the others aren't outwardly anti-semitic. Unlike the Nazis who were very very much so.

So for now, I'm billing them as fascist.
Right. And a fun fact for readers, it's technically Windows "Me" (title case) and advertising has it read as "me" as in me the person, not "M.E." as Millenium Edition.

Kind of interesting history there - "Me" was intended to show the PC was becoming more personal. I think WinMe added some new "My Documents", "My Pictures", etc. that came with Win2k and later XP which helped drive the personal aspect. Then later "XP" was meant to be "eXPerience" as in a new PC experience. Microsoft was a bit more fun back then.
Ah, the retro equivalent of "curl -L <script-url> | bash" ... :)
I agree, it's a huge trap. The right exploits leftists who insult normal people as dumb. It worked when they insulted George W Bush, who people identified with and found likeable, and was probably coached to bungle sentences despite likely not talking that way at Yale and Harvard; and when they insult Trump and his ideas, though he's perceptive and effective.

Many say it works because liberals now represent the professional-managerial class, who often come across to workers/poor as infuriatingly patronizing, slick and humiliating. Whereas many don't know who owns their big corporation, so they don't inspire such visceral feelings.

While some may argue that liberals aren't leftists (but are rather good-cop), nevertheless many leftists do this too. The dynamics are explained in Thomas Frank's book "Listen, Liberal", David Graeber's essay "Army of Altruists: On the alienated right to do good", and Participatory Economics's coverage of the coordinator class.
most servers would reject entries without any headers as malformed
We've had low code, no code stuff for a long time, and there are people employed full time to use those systems.

Other than excel, end users aren't great at creating their own solutions
They’re not playing civ vi. They’re using the gpu and memory exclusively. When I’m running deepseek on my M1 Max it barely heats up.
> "V2X technology, which lets vehicles feed power back into the grid"

Never heard this before. V2X used to be quite well-defined as a term in mobile communication.

The origin is that it's an evolution of the communication term M2M (Machine-to-Machine), which covers communication where none of the parties is a human (unlike other scenarios where a human is either on the originating (MO) or terminating (MT) end of a mobile connection).

Vehicle-communication was "branched out" into a separate term as it has a set of unique use-cases and requirements --> V2M (Vehicle-to-Machine)

Then it was expanded to local P2P connectivity to other vehicles (mostly not mobile network-based) --> V2V (Vehicle-to-Vehicle).

When it was expanded again to also include local connections to other "members of traffic", i.e. roadside units, traffic-lights, etc., with standards like see IEEE 802.11p gaining momentum and 5G came along as a potential cellular bearer for all of it, it was merged into a single term --> V2X (Vehicle-to-everything).
Show HN: GuMCP – Open-source MCP servers, hosted for free
Hello! We open sourced all our current MCP servers to platforms like Slack, Google sheets, Linear, Perplexity and will be contributing a few more integrations every day to the project.

problems we're hoping to solve:

- Many people are creating MCP servers for the same apps. They're scattered across different repos but flavors of the same thing. We're making one standardized mono project for all MCP servers.

- Startups are charging for hosting MCP servers. This is blocking tons of people from being able to play around with MCP casually. We're hosting them for free.

- Non-technical people should be able to use MCP without needing to learn how to clone a repo and set up a venv. We're trying to enable a one click integration if people want to use the free hosted service.

The plan is to keep contributing until we have an MCP server for basically every useful app anyone could want.
Please don't use my name: A report on the growing war weariness among Ukrainians
Was discussing this paper with a few colleagues who work in this area, and concluded that this paper seems like an odd combination of:

- The author citing their own research. (Ok, all researchers do this)
- Mildly scolding the industry for not having applied their research. It's "pragmatic" after all.

The elephant in the room is that these approaches have been widely deployed and their track record is pretty questionable. iPhone widely deploys PAC and kalloc_type. Chrome applies CFI and PartitionAlloc. Android applies CFI and Scudo. Yet memory safety exploitation still regularly occurs against these targets. Is it harder because of these technologies? Probably. But if they're so effective, why are attackers still regularly successful at exploiting memory safety bugs? And what's the cost of applying these? Does my phone's battery die sooner? Is it slower? So now your phone/browser are slower AND still exploitable.
I know what you mean. It’s just becoming a different thing for some people.

Playing records the old way is great.

I saw a Hor Berlin video by Serafina and she looks to be fully beat synced the whole time but is making her own music from the 4 decks she has going.

Although 1 does seem to just be a drum loop.
Most server software today intermingles data that should be strictly isolated because it's convenient. I don't buy your arguments about efficiency either, because despite having no data isolation web software is still comically (tragically) slow.
Developers, don't fall for this!

This web API scope creep makes it __harder__ to create and maintain truly independent web browsers.. you have to implement more and more and eventually we arrive at the current state of matters - all non-chromium engines are lagging behind.

Developers will happily use this, then users will notice websites "look better" in chrome and firefox will become even less relevant. Don't.. you can already achieve this without relying on chromium-only APIs.
If I give you hundreds millions of dollars for just making a clone of something that exists (an LLM) and hype the shit out of it, how far would you go?
Interesting! Maybe it's taking a more direct path to emulating the hardware. I found I have to use pretty modest emulated hardware in 86Box to have performant results.