skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
deepseek doesn't need to outperform other models, it just needs to be cheap, or, efficient

the cost of deepseek (if it's true) will disrupt the logic of current AI industry

The current AI industry is built on a financing bubble, where investors hand over money blindly without demanding that companies profit from AI.
There is a consensus about AI: more money = more GPUstraning-time = more 'leading' model, It has become a situation where investors are effectively buying GPUstraining-time but not stocks/shares of profitable bussiness

deepseek will disrupt this value flow.

> Alibaba Cloud announced the third round of price cuts for its large models this year, with the visual understanding models of the General Qwen-VL models experiencing a price reduction of over 80% across the board. The Qwen-VL-Plus model saw a direct price drop of 81%, with the input cost being only 0.0015 yuan per thousand tokens, setting a record for the lowest price across the network. The higher-performance Qwen-VL-Max model was reduced to 0.003 yuan per thousand tokens, with a significant decrease of 85%. According to the latest prices, one yuan can process up to approximately 600 720P images or 1700 480P images.
Well study participants aren't charged. Maybe it's fraud against those who are funding it, but the pet owners themselves are not the current target.
Dacia Sprong is also built in China by Dongfeng. Locally (China), it’s called the Dongfeng Nano Box. It's a great value car.
Probably depends on the tablet. If it's like Samsung Dex I'd say it's on par or better than ChromeOS with gives and takes.

The app experience reminds me of early Android tablet days where some apps just don't know what to do with a different orientation or window size that isn't constrained by the screen.

If you have apps that work well on phone and tablet or web based apps you're probably golden.
Of course, I want to protect nonhuman life with all my heart. I just don't think it's a big deal if humans go extinct in some thousands or millions of years. I feel much differently about nonhuman life. From the perspective of nonhuman life, we are a disease.
No, you can only train at the same cost then. (Actually higher, because you don't have the existing hardware/power agreements) The whole point of the last model was that they made significant changes beyond just copying.
Because group estimation is superior to individual estimations:
The phenomenon is called wisdom of the crowds. When a group of people independently estimate something, individual errors tend to cancel each other out, leading to a surprisingly accurate collective result. This works because of:

Diversity of opinions: Different perspectives bring a range of estimates.
Independence: Errors aren't systematically biased as long as individuals estimate without external influence.
Error averaging: Overestimation and underestimations balance out when averaged.
Law of large numbers: More participants increase accuracy by minimizing random errors.
It was demonstrated by Francis Galton in 1906, where a crowd's average guess of a bull's weight was almost spot-on. (estimates must be independent and reasonably informed for this to work.)
I think you mean nuclear fusion.
This is the way. Submitting an application is useless. We've reverted back to networking for jobs. You have to connect with actual humans, as nobody is going to wade through 5k resumes and pick yours out no matter how good it is...
> Did you know that you can’t write to video memory on the Game Boy Advance in units of 8 bits, and if you do, it’ll still work but all your graphics will be messed up with no obvious way to figure it out unless you read one specific paragraph of the documentation? Hey did you know that when you compile a binary optimized for size, memory copies will be by units of 8 bits, but not if you use debug mode?

Andrew (or any Zig mavens) -
What would be the idiomatic way of solving this issue? Can you define your own memcpy with @std.mem.doNotOptimizeAway or something?
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My audience is not on PeerTube, duh. Normal people don't know and they don't care
It's odd to me that after so much proof in the past people in the West continue to take China's numbers at face value. I'm not here to start saying they are out to trick people, but the culture around reporting is just different.

It's like someone who just started their career not realizing that resumes are supposed to be a little "inflated" and you are supposed to talk yourself up a bit. People who see your resume are going to mentally knock it back down ~30% or so, everyone plays the game so if you write it without any kind of little embellishments, you are going to be undervalued.

Same effect here, go to China and talk to Chinese people and see how many of them have strong faith in Chinese stocks, I haven't met a single one who would have the same confidence we have in US/EU company numbers (although the auditing system/industry and where it fails in the US could be a whole discussion on its own). Everyone there knows they are all adding a bit (or sometimes a lot) of hot air. It's not seen as fraud so much as it's just the way people do things. One concrete example to illustrate a behavior - they might simply take every single person in their R&D department from secretary and janitor on up and make them "R&D staff", it's an easy way to get free press and seem more advanced.

We can read SEC reports or filings all we want, but you have to question where the numbers are coming from. The brand manager and company rep is the one telling us how many R&D staff they have (which conveniently lends credibility to their company) but there's no real oversight from any independent group on verifying those numbers.

Summary - BYD cars are better than the biggest naysayers want you to think, but they are almost certainly not doing as well as they claim.
This is what I get with an *empty* vault: https://pasteboard.co/N3IdNUKUUNKq.png

EDIT: Btw, I do have plans to cut RAM usage significantly in Daino Notes (I focused more on load time and responsiveness). But getting back to my point - I can do these optimizations because those RAM inefficiencies are a result of my code, not some abstractions I can't change.
Raymond Cheng faced a similar situation here: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240927-00/?p=11...

The problem boils down to usage of stack memory after the memory is given to somebody else.
[Obligatory cartoon](https://marketoonist.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/230327.n...).
Fully agree. I'd say the overengineering is to support competing vendor interests and introducing crap like attestations. Though, I believe some extra engineering is needed for the constrained resources on a hardware token authenticator.
I'd examine this much deeper before engaging. It's far too consumer targeted, far too feel good. I would not be surprised if "becoming a partner" or "community scientist" required fees or more.
I see, I heard about "fully homomorphic encryption" which is faster to implement and allows you to run code on encrypted data but the time complexity is O((10^6) * n) which is insane.
Obviously most people disagree, but I don't think we should search for medical advances that make life significantly longer. We should search for ideas that make the finite life on this planet significantly better. A longer life is dangerous. If people could live 150 or 200 years that will make the problems on this planet much worse since the desire to accumulate wealth over that time would be insane.
“Law Enforcement wants to put you in jail for a very long time”

The CFAA[1][2] is an arcane and ancient piece of legislation that could use an overhaul, especially with some of the vague language it contains. A person would definitely want to make sure they are authorized prior to touching a computer or even data that may not have authorization for.

Unauthorized use of a computer is the easiest felony to commit accidentally it would seem. Although in this case I don’t think that’s a legitimate argument to be made. This person or persons knew they were committing crimes.

I’m not defending the hacker either, the quote at the end of the article rings true.

[1] https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-9-48000-computer-fraud

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
Grammars are not AI, it's just another formalism (like regular expressions, Turing machines etc.) - formalism alone doesn't solve anything.

In formal language theory, you have different classes of grammars, the most general ones correspond to Turing machines, i.e. they are a glofified assembler and you can do anything. The most restricted (in the Chomsky hierarchy), "Type 3" grammars, are basically another notation for regular expressions, and they described regular grammars.

There are algorithms for learning grammars, but the issue with that is that the induced grammars may not resemble anything that a human may write (in the same way that a clustering algorithm often does not give you the clusters you want).

But to answer your question, we need to separate the discussion between appropriate representation and method to solve a problem.
I believe grammar-based compression - if you accept probabilistic grammars - is similar to LLM-based compression at some level in the sense that highly probable sequence of words get learned (whether by dictionary, grammar, neural network = LLM, could be just an implementation detail). Whichever you choose, you still need to solve the problem you are trying to solve (any grammar formalism still needs a parsing algorithm, and an actual grammar that does something useful - even after you develop a parser generator).

[Side rant, not responding specifically to the parent or OP: as a linguist, I'd also warn everybody to use "AI" with an article: *"an AI" (asterisk marks wrong use). It wrongly suggests human-like properties when it's actually just a matrix of numbers that encode a model. Here is a test whether you are using "AI" right: replace it by "Applied Statistics" in a sentence and see if you would still say it.]

AI is just an academic field (ill-named for historic reasons), subpart of computer science, and while it's fair to talk about useful representations for modeling human-like behaviors, we should focus on what intelligence is, and talk about the limits of concrete models and possibilities to extend them.

The thing about LLMs is they are a bit like the perfect snake oil salesman: extremely articulate, but knows very little nothing about a lot, understands nothing. (Whatever one criticises, they do the one thing that they are designed for very well: to generate text. Sadly that misleads a lot of people that they are just next-word/next-sentence predictors.)
I use my S21u on a Lenovo docking station (USB C) quite often. Typing drives me nuts on a phone so some of my android only apps are just more pleasant docked / desktop mode.
My main problem is that I need to do operations on the data while it's in the DB. This means that I cannot leave it encrypted end-to-end there.
OK, "there's nothing wrong with calling a PWA an 'app' in most contexts, unless the person listening to you is likely to try to search for the PWA in an app store".
Speed and compression are are one thing, but I wonder how much energy Ts_zip consumes compared to gzip?
Because it isn't true according to Hinton, Sutskever, and other leading AI researchers.
The problem is that I cannot do that. I need to run code on the data which means I can access the data theoretically any time and thus my client is super uncomfortable with that considering I need to access their code base.
I'm a bit curious to see how close the solutions were.

When it couldn't solve it within the constraints, was it 'broadly correct' with some bugs? Was it on the right track or completely off?
The world seems to be reversed in my mind. On my phone everything wants to be an app, and everything on my computer wants to be a webapp. I want the opposite. Native apps on the computer and the phone can just be webapps, because I don't really care, nor do I need to repeatably use the same app on my phone.

On my computer I have a few programs installed, which I just constantly. On the phone I need each app only a few times a month, if that, yet they all insist on being actual apps.
Elon Musk's ties to Trump won't benefit Tesla, investor Ross Gerber says
Taking money from the public isn't simply a matter of publishing a payment address - you need to keep records, pay taxes, answer support requests, provide refunds where necessary, and deal with the inevitable instances of fraud. If you're accepting crypto or foreign currencies, you also have to deal with exchange rates and much more complicated accounting.

It's perfectly reasonable for an author to decide that they don't want to deal with that.
To add to what userbinator said, you can have 16-bit code segments in long mode. I've played around with this a bit, and made a minimal proof-of-concept "DOS emulator": an INT 21h from the 16-bit segment causes a SIGSEGV, which is intercepted by 32-bit code and turned into the corresponding Linux INT 80h syscall. All running on a standard 64-bit kernel with no dependency on any external libraries.

(I'm not planning to publish this, and it's very minimal: the only supported syscalls are read, write and exit, and the program needs to have exactly two segments, CS and DS=initial SS as defined in the EXE header. But it should be theoretically possible to make something more elaborate that can run at least a few "well-behaved" normal DOS programs, as long as they don't do any arithmetic on segment registers.)

What's no longer available in long mode is the virtual 8086 mode, for that you'd need to use either the more modern virtualization features (with "unrestricted guest" support), or a software emulator.
This is the sort of thing the free market/capitalism is very bad at: accounting for the slow and diffuse damage of a product that brings immediate economic gains, because the bad consequences only make themselves apparent after we've already produced gigatons of plastic that brought immediate econmomic advantages.
> none of Tesla's investors have pulled Musk aside for an intervention

This one is complaining publicly:

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-stock-price-...
Is the kennel driver code not available for the Community to take over the process of mainlining? If that gets done then surely the user-side code will work with all future kennels that contain the driver?
It feels like an exercise in anthropomorphization to me.

Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is generally not considered to be reality. It makes intuitive sense but is wrong.

There are hours of podcasts with Chomsky talking about LLMs. The gist of which is that LLMS are extracting surface level statistical structure of language that will be good for routine coding and not much else. It is easy to infer that Chomsky would believe this idea to be utter nonsense.

I believe even the idea of getting a 1000 people together and we agree to label a rock "rock", a tree "tree", a bird "bird" is not even how human language works. Something that is completely counter intuitive.

Reading the paper, no one believes a hidden markov model is creating some kind of new thought process in the hidden state.

I certainly though could have no idea what I am talking about with all this and have pieced together parts that make no sense while this is a breakthrough path to AGI.
Fascinating, does the project aspire to become compatible with MRI Ruby? Also how many active Ruby implementations do we have so far?

Edit: Found this, https://github.com/codicoscepticos/ruby-implementations?tab=...
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There might be a way via f-droid > shelter app and install these safetyNet apps in there.
So does anyone know whether he did the full Cornholio impression when they arrested him?
Ha, I did something similar as a joke with https://aisiteoftheday.foureighteen.dev. Wondering if you did anything special for accessibility and contrast? I found in my examples gpt-4o struggles to generate good text contrast with any text overlaid on a photo.

It might be a prompting skill issue on my end though. Maybe if I cared a bit more I could make provide a tool to the LLM to calculate contrast between two colors and provide it as a tool?
https://archive.ph/orGqX
> With due respect, what we need is actual research based on actual evidence

I recommend “Tinkuqchaka: A Suspension Bridge over
the Upper Pampas River, Ayacucho, Peru” from Lidio M. Valdez, and Cirilo Vivanco. Published in the Journal of Anthropological Research, 2021.

It has its limitations of course. It describes present day rope bridge building practices and there is no guarantee that those practices are the same as in days of old. But given that the bridges themselves rot away and the ancients are not around to interview this is likely the best description you will ever get.
If you care about privacy, use the internet less. There is no world in which free things like the internet will also be privacy-respecting once it starts to generate economic output.
You can still make the change and then freeze. That's why they recommend doing it at the end of config.
And in either case, it doesn't matter in the eyes of Microsoft. Drive manufactures couldn't be trusted -- and honestly, the amount of "awesome" software coming from component manufactures is pretty small.

The drive manufactures software was making Microsoft look bad. The advantage of SED was small when we have AES-NI.
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> Dogs literally evolved a muscle to make them more appealing to (and help them communicate with) humans [1].

This scene from an 1953 Tom and Jerry of Spike teaching Tyke what it means to be a dog seems prescient: https://youtu.be/jnW48TihBR0?t=50s
Curious to hear more about the grave censorship that ChatGPT and Claude are under. Specifically where non-western models are not.
> Obviously most people disagree, but I don't think we should search for medical advances that make life significantly longer.

I'd say we should search for medical advances that improve health span, not lifespan.
The previous Krebs article [1] on this walks through the opsec mistake(s) but it always comes down to email address re-use and nickname/ handle re-usage. As more data breaches happen the likelihood of an opsec mistake increases. Once a handle is burned it’s best to never re-use it again… ever. Even if it’s been a decade.

Also, the reuse of email or any form of contact information on a service/ web hosting or DNS registration is another common opsec oopsie

[1] https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/11/hacker-in-snowflake-exto...
Sources at the end without any references to them in the text is not a good way to cite things.

There’s no good reason to use images in your post, other than the one graph. Images of text are a necessity on Twitter, but this is a real web page, where you can just have plaintext. Images of text are completely useless for readers with any accessibility needs.
> That being said I would say PR is not working out for Israel.

In the long run not. That's I believe why we see so much aggression: time's running out for 'm.

> I suspect that is because ...

I think it is because the older generations believed corporate media. Younger gens get their news from elsewhere. If you picture the "conflict" in numbers you will see the Palestinians suffered much greater losses, while Israel plays the victim card on every occasion. Kids simply dont buy it.
Funny looking back on all the comments about how it was potentially a false flag.
What makes you think it has not happened? There has not been an event to establish who the current super power is in new time.
I did fingerprints from a digital photo in 2012 maybe earlier. Old mate was holding up drugs to be photographed. Bit of contrast, blew it up, sent it to fingerprint bureau and what would you know, we had those prints on file. Not the crime of the century and not absolute proof, but a damn good start for a case from a simple post on socials. More useful than most intel/hearsay that ends up in crimestoppers or similar channels.
Just seeing the title as announcing some new mozilla service my first thought was "What personal data does this new mozilla feature send to cloudflare?" -- turns out the answer was emails and documents but to their own google cloud accounts rather than cloudflare.

Of course, no option to use a local model even though the one they're using is small enough that its perfectly reasonable to use locally. Even on a cell phone.
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Regarding from_json, there's an even shorter version built in: `JSON(my_string)`

Regarding redefinition of methods, Ruby can emit warnings when that happens (and you can make those fail your build for example). https://alchemists.io/articles/ruby_warnings
I will consciously alter the way in which I write wordz on le intranetz to make it more difficult to single me out as a Vietnamese female. I’m guessing not everyone puts this much thought into making words for posterity :-)
I really appreciate the tenor of the discussion you've had with your primary interlocutor(s) above. It's been substantive and civil, and I wish every sociopolitical disagreement online could be approached in the same manner. Because of the respect I've gained for you throughout this thread I'm going to do what I seldom do online, and express something about my political point of view.

I agree with your diagnosis of the problems with American society, particularly the 'high trust' vs 'low trust' line of thought. I'd add the nuance that in the past trust was not (largely) extended across racial lines, but there was progress made, up until it began falling apart altogether.

Coming from a left-liberal point of view, I think the root cause has been economic, rather than cultural, because (developing along the same timeline as your tenure in the United States) we've arrived at an extractive rather generative form of capitalism. I think that explains the H1b abuses we both deplore, the social balkanization, and also the very similar cultural, economic, and governance breakdowns simultaneously appearing in other countries across the "western/liberal" world.

I'm not saying that to spark further argument, just as prelude to: I hope you're right. If the way to re-forming a high-trust society and curing what we agree ails us is as simple as the American right posits then I will happily eat crow over the next four or eight or whatever years. That is, of course, the opposite of what I expect to happen with (as I see them) the extractive capitalists fully in charge, but I am prepared to be proved wrong.

I will ask you, as I've recently been asking all of my right-wing friends, to judge what happens in the near future against the expectations that you have now. If things go badly, and those solutions fail, will you be willing to try "my side's" ideas - think TR +FDR reduce corporate power, : wealth transfers and massive infrastructure investments - next? I believe that's what created the mid-twentieth century cultural foundations which we'd both like to reconstruct.
they kinda do.. Its how City's work.

People learn by being around others being both successful and unsuccessful.
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