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by phendrenad2 | 2025-08-01 18:48:14+00:00
If I were a lawyer trying to defend Zuckerberg, in a court where we take turns pontificating in front of a jury, and I wanted to do some lying by omission and hope that is the one thing that sticks in their minds, I'd probably say exactly what you just wrote.

But this is the court of public opinion, and people are going to read your post about 5 seconds before they read mine, so that won't work. I think online debate is a lot better at getting to the truth than courts of law, actually. So while Zuckerberg may be ruled innocent, we can put him in the same category as OJ Simpson and Donald Trump and carefully caveat our assertions that he's guilty with "in my opinion" to avoid a slander case.

Of course, what you said is false. He didn't just shoot off an email with "get reliable analytics!", as you put it, like some kind of whimsical silly CEO on a kid's cartoon. He said: "their (instagram's) data is encrypted and we have no analytics about them" (seemingly implying that if their data wasn't encrypted, they would have data about it, because they would just spy on it). He then immediately proceeds to say they need to "get reliable analytics about them". He THEN immediately proceeds to clarify by saying that they might need to "write custom software" and that "you should figure out how to do this" (seems like a subtle hint that they should "figure out" his subtext here).

And then, what do you think happened? His underlings went rogue and developed iOS hacks that would allow them to decrypt traffic, and he didn't approve it or know about it? If this were court, that would probably be a good argument to achieve a not guilty verdict.

So while you're probably right that this doesn't qualify as a "smoking gun" in court, it should convince everyone who's capable of reading it.
by pfdietz | 2025-08-01 18:48:31+00:00
I don't think that statement about the price of cropland in NY state is accurate. If you go to https://acretrader.com/resources/farmland-values/farmland-pr... you'll find it's not very expensive compared to, say, Illinois, California, or (!) New Jersey. It's well below the average for the country as a whole, in fact.

A good deal of the farmland in the NY county where I live, Tompkins County, has gone back to forest since the beginning of the 20th century (although not to the extent in, say, Massachusetts). This suggests to me that just holding farmland here cannot be much of a moneymaker, since if it were we'd be seeing this land brought back.

https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/pdf/10.5555/200430940...
by Boogie_Man | 2025-08-01 18:48:31+00:00
I appreciate the poetic response and think that the point I believe you're making: "people who are inclined to criticize anything which isn't exactly as they'd like it will never be pleased, so you can't spend all of your time trying to please them." is correct and useful generally.

Where I might disagree with you, if I understand you correctly, is in how applicable your comment is as a response to my mine. At the outset I attempted to communicate that some of the things that the most likely to be outraged people would take issue with (the importance of exercising the right to vote - especially if your ancestors didn't enjoy the right) are pretty universally accepted and even presenting it without nuance inside of a children's show is acceptable because it is done so with a positive focus (be involved in the democratic process).

If I misunderstood you I apologize.
by TrackerFF | 2025-08-01 18:48:55+00:00
I see your point, but undergraduate degrees should provide a wide foundation, with little specialization. As you progress to a masters degree, you become more specialized. A doctorate is as specialized as it gets.

It is entirely possible for people to intensely focus on a very, very narrow thing - and ignore everything else. Even to such a degree that they can write a doctorate on it.

But I don't think that's a good excuse to make them forego other curriculum, especially if it is required for other students to take. Schools have a responsibility to educate people to a certain standard, and give them some general breadth.
by harmmonica | 2025-08-01 18:49:00+00:00
Appreciate the optimism and I think what you're saying could happen, and I hope it does, but the flip side is the landlords don't exert that pressure, they bake the fees into the rental rate, and so the new reality is a stepped-up market rate caused by the legislation. If the landlords can just pass the fee on as a rent increase there's not really an incentive for them to offer longer leases so it will all come down to whether the rental rate increase (if there is one long term) sticks. Then I feel like the only thing the FARE Act will have done is raise the baseline rent and therefore the overall cost of housing for tenants (some argue that it's also better to amortize the "fee" over the lease term instead of having to pay it up front, but if the net result is more cost to tenants that seems like a bum deal).

Re the startup idea, agree fully. Zumper sort of tried what you're describing on the lease side in NYC. I interacted with them around the time they launched that effort and thought it was a bit rough around the edges (when is it not when you try something new?). Not sure if they're still doing it or how the FARE Act would've impacted them because I don't quite remember how/if they were using the software/marketplace to drive down the broker fee or just trying to capture the fee as-is (I think the former but not sure).
by 1659447091 | 2025-08-01 18:49:15+00:00
I never got excited for math, thus didn't care much to start with. But then add the issues of high school math and that solidified it for me. Math word problems were the worst. With a dyslexic brain I would consistently read the important words as something different, thus correctly solving the wrong problem and being derided for it.

Geometry required rote memory exceptionalism which also works against my brain design (adhd as well), but let me have the formulas to choose from and I'll get it done. Algebra II? I kept getting in trouble because I would do homework assignments in class instead of paying attention to the teacher trying to teach concepts that were easier for me to learn by reading the examples and following the book. After that, who would ever want to continue beyond the required credits and not think of further math as a masochist hellscape
by a_thro_away | 2025-08-01 18:49:20+00:00
Your parents efforts, like many of the the good efforts to move humanity forward over many decades, have been thrown into the trash. The next generations of Americans will have social/educational gaps that CPB/PBS filled for educational, cultural, historical, and sociological reasons; not because they liked influencing little kids ideologically. And the future will suffer for it, as they say, if you don't learn it at home, society foots the bill to correct it.
by leviathant | 2025-08-01 18:49:33+00:00
No. If that's what you took from my post, I've miscommunicated.

NPR has turned rightward. The entertainment shows are, without a doubt, liberal, on the American political spectrum. There are countless discussions and papers about the role empathy plays in successful entertainment.

The editorial content has turned rightward - and the leadership has turned rightward. This has been ongoing for at least two decades, probably longer, but I wasn't paying attention at that level when I was under 20.
by andrewmcwatters | 2025-08-01 18:49:48+00:00
I think anyone frequenting HN and actually using these tools absolutely knows these benchmarks are 100% bullshit and the only real way to test these things is to just use them yourself.

Many small models are supposedly good for controlled tasks, but given a detailed prompt, I can't get any of them to follow simple instructions. They usually just regurgitate the examples in the system prompt. Useless.
by dietr1ch | 2025-08-01 18:49:52+00:00
> Roughly 111 GB of RAM. Which is like nothing to a search giant.

You are forgetting job replication. A global service can easily have 100s of jobs on 10-20 datacenters. Saving 111TiB of RAM can probably pay your salary forever. I think I paid mine with fewer savings while there. During covid there was a RAM shortage too enough to have a call to prefer trading CPU to save RAM with changes to the rule of thumb resource costs.
by true_religion | 2025-08-01 18:49:54+00:00
I agree with this statement. While it's not 'your job' to save the child, if you've already started along the path, you might as well see it through to the end.

If you never found the child's parents, you'd have to call CPS. Being prevented from finding the child's parents, just necessitates you move that step forward.

Of course, it's not 'your job' so technically you could abandon the child at any point but it does feel a bit heartless to give a kid hope, then say 'meh you're on your own, this is too troublesome'. As for just leaving the child with others who are complaining, I doubt that's a good idea. They were making no move to help, and bystander effect will probably keep them from ever doing a thing.
by titanomachy | 2025-08-01 18:50:11+00:00
“Communities”, broadly, can do whatever they like. Someone who was consistently starting shit stopped getting invited to my friend group’s rotating Sunday night dinner. They certainly didn’t break any laws, we just decided we didn’t want to spend our evenings arguing. I don’t even remember if there was a discussion. If they make amends they will probably get invited back.

“Communities censuring people for problematic behavior” has been an important human behavior since way before we had states and laws.
by zukee | 2025-08-01 18:50:16+00:00
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by AlotOfReading | 2025-08-01 18:50:36+00:00
I suspect most people who look at international media and think it's better are using rose-tinted glasses.

Indian media is broadly worse if anything, latin american media is a trip if you have any understanding of the complicated political landscape, Aus is central to the Murdoch news dynasty, and East asian media has lots of famously partisan organizations. Maybe middle eastern media, explicitly funded for soft power political goals or African media, which span the gamut from bloodthirsty factional rags to leftover colonial institutions to tightly controlled extensions of the state apparatus?

They're differently biased, but you can't escape consuming media critically. "Averaging" by listening to a lot of different perspectives is 1) a lot of effort and 2) also something that can (and is) manipulated by making sure there's lots of "both sides" messaging present.
by bartvk | 2025-08-01 18:51:30+00:00
128 GIGABYTES of memory? I didn’t even know that was possible. I know your point was that the sleep malfunctions, but I am curious: this is a beast of a machine, what do you use the memory for? Do you ever quit an app completely? Have you ever tested the limit? If you ever worked with one, is it noticeably faster than the base model?
by unsignedint | 2025-08-01 18:52:07+00:00
In my personal experience, the belief that “you should tip no matter what” is surprisingly pervasive. Anecdotally, I once had a situation where a restaurant completely dropped the ball—they brought me a cup of coffee, then never returned to take my order, even after I asked. After wasting my time, I had to leave and eat elsewhere. I didn’t leave a tip, yet many of my peers insisted I still should have. I disagree. The idea of tipping someone for poor service—especially when they’re clearly not even trying—is, frankly, sickening. If that makes me the a-hole in these situations, so be it—I’d rather be that than reward apathy.
by segmondy | 2025-08-01 18:52:31+00:00
You can run it locally too. Below are a few of my local models, this is coming in light compared to them. At Q4 it's ~60B. Furthermore being a MoE, most of it can be in system memory and only the shared experts needs to go to GPU, provided you have a decent system with decent memory bandwidth, you can get decent performance. I'm running on GPUs, folks with Apple can run this if they have enough ram with minimal effort.

126G /llmzoo/models/Qwen3-235B-InstructQ4 126G /llmzoo/models/Qwen3-235B-ThinkingQ4 189G /llmzoo/models/Qwen3-235B-InstructQ6 219G /llmzoo/models/glm-4.5-air 240G /llmzoo/models/Ernie 257G /llmzoo/models/Qwen3-Coder-480B 276G /llmzoo/models/DeepSeek-R1-0528-UD-Q3_K_XL.b.gguf 276G /llmzoo/models/DeepSeek-TNG 276G /llmzoo/models/DeepSeek-V3-0324-UD-Q3_K_XL.gguf 422G /llmzoo/models/KimiK2
by omojo | 2025-08-01 18:52:32+00:00
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by rayiner | 2025-08-01 18:52:35+00:00
I understand there’s jobs, but what’s causing the rapid growth in housing prices? Fort Meade has been here forever, and so have the defense contractors. It’s not like federal government or contractor salaries and headcount have been growing rapidly.

And it’s not population growth. Columbia grew just 5% from 2010-2020. Anne Arundel has grown less than 1% annually for more than two decades.
by BoorishBears | 2025-08-01 18:53:21+00:00
I mean, in other environments people say that.

If you asked "What's the best bicycle", most enthusiasts would say one you tried, works for your usecase, etc.

Benchmarks should be for pruning models you try at the absolute highest level, because at the end of the day it's way too easy to hack them without breaking any rules (post-train on the public, generate a ton of synthetic examples, train on those, repeat)
by timr | 2025-08-01 18:53:32+00:00
> I suspect most people who look at international media and think it's better are using rose-tinted glasses....They're differently biased, but you can't escape consuming media critically.

I went out of my way to head off this exact criticism, but I guess I didn't put it in blinking, bold, 30 point font.

Again: every national media outlet has bias (indeed, every media outlet has bias). My experience is that it's pretty easy to notice when you switch your sources regularly.

It doesn't take me any effort to do this, and even if I hear a hyper-partisan take, it doesn't melt my brain. I go "oh weird, so that's what the Indian government thinks" -- which is still vastly preferable to hearing what some reporter at NPR or CNN or whatever thinks about what India thinks.
by majormajor | 2025-08-01 18:53:41+00:00
Let's be specific about the supposed power in this situation.

If he called the cops and said "hey there's a crying kid and I can't find the parents" what power does she have over him there?

If she called the cops and said "I saw a man bothering this girl" what's going to happen in practice for the supposed crime of "talking to a kid who was crying at a playground"? Any asshole can make any false accusation against anyone at any time, here there's not even the slightest evidence of any harm, how seriously would it be taken? Cops drive out, see no man bothering anyone, drive off?

If she posted a video online of "man talking non-aggressively/non-threateningly to girl, then walking around talking to other adults" how much outrage is that going to generate?

The videos that generate huge amounts of outrage and get re-shared have disturbing contents, not just headlines.

I see so many online accounts of these "must walk on eggshells" worldview stories. Smells like an echo chamber, especially because when people self-report to things like "I avoid encounters with women because of this" then I'm not sure how much credence to put into the psychology of womens' behavior from someone with self-professed much-more-limited-interaction-with-them than I have.
by e1g | 2025-08-01 18:53:56+00:00
At least in Manhattan, no one will give you a contract for more than a year - they will want to renegotiate in a year and demand is high enough to not worry about having no tenants. In Europe multi-year contracts are somewhat typical, but never heard of that in NYC. Similarly, very few will do a contract for less than a year. So the one-time broker fee gets amortized over 12 months, but the net effect is a wealth transfer from long-term tenants to landlords (because they continue paying that increase in perpetuity).
by zarzavat | 2025-08-01 18:54:09+00:00
Every single one of my Apple rubberized cables has disintegrated. Every. Single. One. MagSafe chargers and iPhone cables.

Yes Apple build quality is high, but it's not perfect. It's an iron law of electronics that heat shortens lifespan, so taking a large surface that is used for heat dissipation and putting your screen directly on top... I wouldn't do that with mine but you do you.
by true_religion | 2025-08-01 18:54:10+00:00
What if people who have children approach them differently from those without, and it's noticeable?

Before my male friends had kids, they were tense and apprehensive around toddlers. They worried they would hurt them, etc.

Now, they act like Dads, even with kids who have nothing to do with them.

These guys weren't bad people to begin with. They just didn't radiate "dad energy" for lack of a better phrase.
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by os2warpman | 2025-08-01 18:54:35+00:00
>it's a bit sad that instead of Apple evolving it and getting its price down

A PC ram expansion board with 64k cost $350 in 1983 and upgrading it to 512k probably cost another $1,000. ($1,000 and $3,300 or $4,000+ for 512kB in today's bucks)

A significant portion of the cost of the Lisa (and later Macintosh and Amiga and everything else) was DRAM.

But RAM prices were falling rapidly and three years later when the Macintosh Plus was released with 1MB standard, page 57 of Macworld's January 1986 issue lists a 1 megabyte AST RamStak expansion board for the Mac XL (Lisa) for $829 ($2,400).

Even the Amiga 1000, remembered today as a revolutionary multitasking powerhouse, shipped with 256k standard in late 1985 and the 256k expansion that BARELY (fight me, I was there) enabled multitasking with 512k of RAM in total retailed for $200 ($600) bumping the price up to $1,500 ($4,500).

Cost was probably the most important thing to focus on, to spur adoption. Regressing to 128k though? That was garbage.
by harmmonica | 2025-08-01 18:54:51+00:00
Interesting. Is it the case the landlord hires the broker in that situation? Like the landlord hires the broker, the broker lists it and then the tenant pays the broker? One thing that's still true in NYC is if the tenant hires the broker the tenant still pays the broker, but that's a tiny occurrence relative to the broader practice.

Totally true on high prices. I was only trying to point out that the goal of that FARE Act, or at least a major goal of it, was to keep tenants from having to pay junk broker fees, with the assumption that would lower the overall cost of housing. It might actually be doing the exact opposite, though still too early to tell (only went into effect in June).
by Valk3_ | 2025-08-01 18:55:40+00:00
Sorry for my lack of knowledge, but I've been wondering what if you ask a question to the RAG, where the answer to the question is not close in embedding space to the embedded question? Will that not limit the quality of the result? Or how does a RAG handle that? I guess maybe the multi-turn convo you mentioned helps in this regard?

The way I see RAG is it's basically some sort of semantic search, where the query needs to be similar to whatever you are searching for in the embedding space order to get good results.
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