skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's hard to provide trust to OpenAI that they won't steal data of enterprise to train next model

Bit of a cynical take. A company like OpenAI stands to lose enormously if anyone catches them doing dodgy shit in violation of their agreements with users. And it's very hard to keep dodgy behaviour secret in any decent sized company where any embittered employee can blow the whistle. VW only just managed it with Dieselgate by keeping the circle of conspirators very small.

If their terms say they won't use your data now or in the future then you can reasonably assume that's the case for your business planning purposes.
From what I've come to understand:

- Romania's voting system is in 2 rounds, and he won the first. The second is in ~2 days.

- Most people never heard of him up until 2 weeks before the first round, when an aggressive Tiktok campaign started. Polymarket.com didn't include him in their system. Many were taken by surprise.

- Many videos promoting him on Tiktok weren't marked as being propaganda, and thus allowed to go viral.

- He claims 0 campaign spending and that it's thanks to volunteers.

- Many who voted for him aren't into politics, and liked the way he presented himself.

- His content is a mix of populist, nationalist, anti-establishment, and mostly contain patriotic and emotional narratives to connect to viewers.

- Larger cities voted for the pro-western candidate

- He's made some controversial statements, such as the moon landing being fake, covid denying (am not sure to what extent), 5G conspiracy, denying climate change (those being just a few)

Everyone's talking about him. I'm curious how it will turn out and to see how the quote "there's no such thing as bad publicity" fares in this case.
Thank you so much for your feedback, someone before you already mentioned the cookie banner thing, and I was just working on it. Although can't remove but made it way smaller.
>"In 2022, the British government spent £3.5k ($4.4k) per person per year on healthcare. The US spent $13k per person per year in 2022, of which $6.2k was government (national+state+local)[2]. The UK government spends less per person than the US government on healthcare, even before the amount paid privately."

The difference in medical spending is largely due to wage costs being much higher in the USA than the UK; healthcare insurance companies are not as profitable as it may seem (they're about as profitable as other insurance businesses). Pharmaceutical prices don't explain much of the difference either, because they’re only a single-digit percentage of healthcare spending (in the USA).
Minor consequences are guardrail before major consequences come into play. If you don't have feedback mechanism for minor infractions, problem will pile up.

Boeing didn't kill people overnight, it comes as gradual escalation and ignoring boneheaded mistakes over and over again.

If someone is being investigated for crime, the problem with the company began a long time ago. Consequences doesn't matter because what was minor issues became big issues.

Dire consequences doesn't do anything. You're looking at justice not prevention.
I mean literally every other developed nation has a solution: universal healthcare. Some have far better healthcare systems than the US too. So saying that this is an unsolved and possible unsolvable problem is clearly disingenuous.

Now, the process of transitioning to universal healthcare for such a large system is something that is likely unprecedented. But that’s not what you are talking about.
Why does that matter?

Even if it was a consensus opinion among all HN users, which hardly seems to be the case, it would have little impact on the other billion plus potential customers…
No idea.

> I must say Pat Gelsinger was the only reason I believed Intel would make a comeback...

I honestly don't know if he was doing the right thing or not, or whether he should or shouldn't have been fired. What's sad, though, is that if he had succeeded, this would have been a fantastic narrative. Pat joined Intel before its heyday, significantly helped it become a great company. He was then ousted and the company lost its way, and they finally turned to him to restore its glory and bring the company back to its engineering roots. It would be a fantastic way to end his own career as well.

His personality is part of the narrative. He gave a talk some years prior to becoming the CEO - while he was still at VMWare. He spoke of how he felt he had won the lottery - by being able to join the workforce just before computers became big - at one of the key companies in the whole computing story. He felt it would be a wasted life if he didn't capitalize on that lottery win, and had made it his mission for much of his life to achieve as much as he could with that golden ticket and not waste it. It wasn't personal gain that made him work hard. It was to have an impactful life.

He'd pretty much achieved all that by the time he got kicked out of Intel (at age 49). But bringing Intel back to leadership was an opportunity he couldn't pass up.
People think LLMs are better than Google at translation but it's not true.
It won’t because it’s cheaper to hire security than to lobby for gun control.

I don’t know if you remember this story [1] but that didn’t do it.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_baseball_shoot...
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Your comment... is not expansive enough.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42334781
According to Wikipedia, kyivinsider.com ...

Funny, the string "kyivinsider.com" does not appear in Wikipedia at all.
Totally agree with Sora.

Runway is $35 a month to generate 10 second clips and you really get very few generations for that. $95 a month for unlimited 10 second clips.

I love art and experimental film. I really was excited for Sora but it will need what feels like unlimited generation to explore what it can do . That is going to cost an arm and a leg for the compute.

Something about video especially seems like it will need to be ran locally to really work. Pay a monthly fee for the model that can run as much as you want with your own compute.
Go to China and try use Instagram :)

They know what they're doing by using your love of free speech against you to spread lies.

Social media is a backdoor into our societies which is why authoritarian countries ban it.

Youtube is banned in Russia, all western social media is banned in China, because they know how it can be weaponized against them...because they weaponize it.
Yeah, I mean, I always do, if I can manage it. Paying someone $500 to do something that I can do myself in an hour or two seems pretty nuts. Information on vehicle repair is more available than ever before, especially when you can source factory service manuals from various sites on the web (not to mention videos as mentioned in the article).
Also curious how many businesses in that area had problems with their CCTV cameras around that time?

"Sorry officer, it looks like the camera wasn't recording" type of thing.
Recently played with something similar using Llama 3.2 Vision locally.

Worked pretty well, and if the model fit in G-RAM decently fast.

Main issue was prompt adherence. In my experience prompt adherence goes down significantly when you reduce the model size.

Llama 3.2 Vision seems to be tuned hard to provide a summary at the end, usually with some social commentary, and was difficult to get the 8B model to avoid outputting it. Also adding multiple if-this-then-that clauses, like in your prompt, was often ignored in the 8B and smaller model compared to 90B.

I've tried the Gemma 2 model before for assistant tasks, and was very pleased with the 9B performance. It had good prompt adherence and performed well on various tasks. So looking forward to trying this.
Yeah I'm just going to choose to not take you seriously if you claim that any React version bump is as bad as moving to a completely new framework (which is effectively what angular 1->2 was).
Did the Tesla take the highway and the Waymo not?
To be fair "doing something, anything, mostly stupid" is well established american standard procedure when something happens. Something "has" to be done - so something gets done.
It's undeniably state actors. We know because every so often Meta will release reports that show just how many bot accounts you need to really move the needle:

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/30/meta-...
Linus Torvalds Comes Out Against "Completely Broken" x86_64 Feature Levels
I like it. First glance and they chose the "proper" order (from -> where -> select) over the classical order (select -> from -> where). Probably because that improves/enables autocomplete and typehandling. This is good
How does your opinion on what is to be ‘deplored’, or not, outweigh my opinion?

So this seems like a non sequitor…?

If you believe I, or anyone else, is making false pretenses one way or the other, on any subject, then list out the arguments for the case directly.
Kagi Ultimate (US$25/mo) includes unlimited use of all the Anthropic models.

Full disclosure: I participated in Kagi's crowdfund, so I have some financial stake in the company, but I mainly participated because I'm an enthusiastic customer.
What's the difference, spreading populist lies to intentionally change the out come of an election is what?
What similarity does it bear other than... stretching here... the victims were both likely wealthier than the killer?
Example of rationing in Canada (posting because I saw the article yesterday): https://ca.news.yahoo.com/halifax-woman-waited-3-years-10000...
I am with you. I bought AccuWeather Premium a few years ago (lifetime) to avoid ads. Later, they introduced the Premium+ subscription and are nagging me with its ads now. Very annoying.
They should. However, they should not be allowed to misrepresent their rules. I know a few subreddits that claim to be unbiased (to attract subscribers) but engage in highly selective moderation. While it’s ok to do so, such subreddits should be forced to explicitly declare their leanings and moderation policies in the description.
It's mostly not rational. For instance, much of the conversation over the last day has been about Anthem pushing back on anesthesiology pay on the East Coast. That's people angry about their insurers working to make surgeries cost less by employing the literal guideline Medicare uses, and yet people online were overtly suggesting Anthem's CEO be murdered over it. Incoherent.

This won't win me any points in this particular forum, where this opinion (that I strongly hold) is unpopular, but I'm reminded of what someone else said about Net Neutrality: it's a bunch of people suiting up and taking sides on behalf of one group of giant corporations against another group of giant corporations. That's the "health care debate" in the US, where medical staff are paid 2-3x more than they are in other countries, and expensive procedures are prescribed and delivered at drastically higher rates. It's my problem with "Medicare For All", which more or less absolves providers from their role in choking people out with health care costs, despite the leading role they have in this situation.

At any rate: there's no serious theory of change that begins with murdering health care industry people.
It already has a name that describes its developer experience better than JavaScript. The extension should match. .es for EczemaScript.
I would argue that the main benefit of democracy is not electing "the right people" by a free and fair election, but by having a mechanism to remove bad leaders without violence. So a propaganda machine influencing elections is not ideal, but if it results in bad leaders, then that will become obvious to people at some point and they will vote them out. Elections will always have some random factors. Not everyone is going to vote. There will be fads. So election isn't the important part, UN-election is.
Good luck to him. It is nigh time to slay the DEI beast.
I am curious if you have played with Claude-based agent tools like Windsurf IDE at all, and if you find that interesting.

I am a product-ish guy, who has a basic understanding of SQL, Django, React, Typescript, etc.. and suddenly I'm like an MVP v0.1 a week, all by myself.

Do folks at your level find things like Cline, Cursor, and Windsurf useful at all?

Windsurf IDE (Sonnet) blows my mind.
It is also worth noting that Gigabit Ethernet uses PAM5.
Today I ran some perplexity benchmarks comparing F16 and Q8_0 for the K/V, I used Qwen 2.5 Coder 7b as I've heard people say things to the effect of Qwen being more sensitive to quantisation than some other models.

Well, it turns out there's barely any increase in perplexity at all - an increase of just 0.0043.

Added to the post: https://smcleod.net/2024/12/bringing-k/v-context-quantisatio...
I dont find the "lack of sympathy" to be an issue.

What I do find disappointing is the lack of concern over people being gunned down in the street, and the not so subtle glee some people are expressing.

Murder should not be normalized or endorsed. It isn't healthy for a society and doesn't lead to progress.
I don't know about Thailand, but in France you can apply to join their healthcare system after 3 months. In the meantime you must have private insurance but it's a fraction of what it is here.
Not sure if those are the same though?

Async, await, iterators, futures etc. are pretty much standard constructs in almost all programming languages / concurrency frameworks.

Whereas Actions, Transitions, Pending State, Reducers etc. are React-specific idiosyncrasies.

I guess that's the main issue people have with React, when you learn it you have to spend so much time to learn all these React-specific constructs and idiosyncrasies that are not transferable anywhere else.
https://archive.is/2024.12.01-125713/https://www.bloomberg.c...
Google search was great when it came out too. I wonder what 25 years of enshittification will do to LLM services.
I ha e a 32G M2, but most local models I use fit into my 8G old M1 laptop.

I can run the QwQ 32G model with Q4 on my 32G M2.

I suggest using https://Ollama.com on Mac, Windows, and Linux. I experiments with all options on Apple Silicon and liked Ollama best.
Mobile Verification Toolkit: Mobile Phone Forensics to Find Signs of Compromise
Death Panels: Big Gubmint deciding who lives and dies

Private Health Insurers: Free Market!
To me, the killer disadvantage for LLMs seems to be the complete and total lack of feedback. You would poke and prod, and the system would respond (which, btw, sounds like a super fun experience to explore the infant net!) An LLM doesn't have that. The LLM hears only silence and doesn't know about success, failure, error, discovery.
The Matrix was right!
The linked article is a bit hyperbolic but the news covered pretty widely. "Rigged" might not be the right term, but pretty coordinated interference seems to have occurred.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-concerned-about-pote...

https://archive.is/0MJ6X

https://www.politico.eu/article/tiktok-removed-3-influence-c...
This reminds me more of Chris Dorner. The manifesto is shorter, but this sense of injustice felt by the perpetrator is similar.

Back in the days, mainstream media had enough control over the narrative to water down the "manifesto" part and avoid copycats. This time, "rogue" social medias are much more prevalent, so there's not much of a barrier to prevent the perpetrator from becoming a hero. We can think that copycats will emerge.

I guess that billionaires around the world are dusting off their "apocalypse bunker" protocol...
Because 1 executive is gunned down? How many poor unknowns out on the streets get gunned down routinely? Is his life worth more?
Somehow I missed the Anduril partnership announcement. I agree with you. National Security relationships in particular creates a moat that’s hard to replicate even with superior technology.

It seems possible OpenAI could maintain dominance in government/institutional markets while facing more competition in commercial segments, similar to how defense contractors operate.
I spent last 3 decades building web sites and web apps - and I agree with you. I don’t find alternatives as appealing as react.
This comment section is a disgrace. HN really has fallen.
Talking with strangers is surprisingly informative (2022)
Rigging is a direct action on the election itself. Like removing ballots that were valid, submitting and accepting ballots of ineligible voters or straight fake them, blocking groups of people from voting (e g. blocking roads to voting polls), straight changing the numbers etc.

I see a distinction because all of the above are still happening in many countries, and there is a degree of illegality that is way above simple conning.

There's the other situations where people feel under threat of direct violence if they vote the wrong way. Perhaps there would be a different term for that altogether.
There aren't necessarily extra copies even when just using TCP, thanks to sendfile(2) and similar mechanisms.

Buffer size isn't that much of an issue either, given the relatively low latencies involved and that you can indicate which parts exactly are missing pretty accurately these days with selective TCP acknowledgements, so you'll need at most a few round trips to identify these to the sender and eventually receive them.

Practically, you'll probably not see much loss anyway, for better or worse: TCP historically interpreted packet loss as congestion, instead of actual non-congestion-induced loss on the physical layer. This is why most lower-layer protocols with higher error rates than Ethernet usually implement some sort of lower-layer ARQ to present themselves as "Ethernet-like" to upper layers in terms of error/loss rate, and this in turn has made loss-tolerant TCP (such as BBR, as described in the article) less of a research priority, I believe.
EU GPDR was released before TikTok even existed.

And EU has been continually critical of TikTok for many years but obviously would prefer that it actually meets its DSA obligations before trying to shut it down.
I do maybe 95% of testing on a VM. It is way faster and much more convenient. I do test on real hardware regularly though. It's always cool to see stuff actually running on bare metal and bare metal is not as forgiving as VMs can be.

Generally I decide a feature I want to add. Then I do a general overview of
the corresponding specifications and sometimes look at how already existing OSs handle that. I try to make some kind of mental model about the system and what it needs. Then I basically just write what ever I come up on the spot.

I have a really bad habit of not writing docs or taking notes. Basically I just hold everything in my head (and forget about it when I would need that information again). For some more complex stuff I do draw diagrams and write notes but I pretty much only keep those locally for myself.
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This is an "old" problem that has historically been addressed through things like "Performance Enhancing Proxies (PEPs)" that are defined in RFC 3135 and RFC 3449. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performance-enhancing_proxy)

In internet-style communications, such as routing IP traffic over satellite links to low-earth-orbit or GEO, with much longer round-trip times, link latency is substantially higher than most terrestrial wired or wireless applications and acknowledgements required as part of TCP take much longer to facilitate. PEPs as an example augment the connection allowing end-user/client devices in the network with inline-PEPs to retain their normal network settings and perform the task of running or starting sessions with higher TCP-window sizes, as a method for improving overall throughput.

The utility of a PEP, or PEP-acting device goes up when you imagine multiple devices, or a network of devices attached to a satellite communications terminal for WAN/backhaul connections as the link's performance can be managed at one point versus on all downstream client devices.
There's a distinction to be drawn between challenging norms of discourse like not speaking ill of the dead, and actively cheerleading murders, like "we should boycott Starbucks for providing evidence about the murderer to police", or Taylor Lorenz calling for the assassination of Anthem's CEO by name.
> Social media is a backdoor into our societies which is why authoritarian countries ban it.

Sort of. They are perfectly happy for you to use the social media which is subject to the local nation's laws/regulations, and which they have potentially-unlimited degree of influence over.
Doesn't seems so surprising to me. Most school shootings are perpetrated by those involved in the school community in some way. Similar domestic violence, humans are a lot more likely to commit these types of crimes against those they know personally.
I am grateful for cartoonists like Watterson and Schultz, especially after hearing about how nasty Hank Ketcham was (Dennis the Menace)
We have to be careful, it cuts the other way too.

Part of the propaganda is also showing extreme left content AND extreme right. The goal is not pushing left or right, the goal is divisiveness.
And, in case we all need a reminder: Chris Dorner was an actual monster, and his brief casting as a cause celebre a pretty big embarrassment in retrospect.
I'm uninformed about this, it may just be superstition, but my feeling while using Kagi in this way is that after using it for a few hours it gets a bit more forgetful. I come back the next day and it's smart again, for while. It's as if there's some kind of soft throttling going on in the background.

I'm an enthusiastic customer nonetheless, but it is curious.
> At any rate: there's no serious theory of change that begins with murdering health care industry people.

I dunno. This is the most publicly-united I’ve seen people against the industry maybe ever. Usually they’re separately-angry at the industry in their partisan silos (everyone hates it, more or less—hence the amazingly consistent and widespread reaction) but this has been the closest thing to a bipartisan healing moment since, like, the week after 9/11. Not particularly close to that, sure, but I can’t think of anything closer.

If this were part of a theory of change, it strikes me as no less serious than any other I’ve seen. At least.
Enormous increases in administrative overhead are not in fact the primary driver of health care costs.
Just to be clear, you meant MB of RAM, right?
We don't know the specifics of GPT-o1 to judge, but we can look at open weights model for an example. Qwen-32B is a base model, QwQ-32B is a "reasoning" variant. You're broadly correct that the magic, such as it is, is in training the model into a long-winded CoT, but the improvements from it are massive. QwQ-32B beats larger 70B models in most tasks, and in some cases it beats Claude.
>I will say that our private insurance system in particular seems to be responsible for most of the insanely-high indirect costs of our system.

Lots of developed nations have private insurance systems, somewhat similar to the US. Both Japan and Germany have such systems, yet healthcare costs here in Japan are pretty cheap usually. (Here, it's a public/private system, kinda like Obamacare: if you don't have a job or are between jobs or a part-time worker, you'll get government-provided insurance, which you have to pay depending on your prior income I think; when you have a regular full-time job, you get private insurance that your company contracts for. But the insurance works basically all the same way: you pay 30% of the actual cost, and the insurance company pays 70%.)

There's something uniquely bad about the American system, but honestly I don't know what it is. I suspect it has to do with very bad regulation, or a lack of it. Here, it seems the costs for many things (like necessary medical procedures) are strictly regulated by the government. Also, no one pays bills to insurance companies AFAICT: you just pay the healthcare provider, and they go to the insurance company for the remainder.
maybe so but it's definitely cathartic and that counts for something