skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do you mean, "no"? You agreed with me.

The option you describe is another among the several options available.

Unless you're saying that the service shutdown would not have brought Bytedance into legal compliance, which would be a novel assertion.
It's not a conspiracy when they are more or less open about what their goals are.
For me, that advanced reader is Thunderbird. It has amazing customizability with userchrome.css, web extensions, about:config and developer tools from Firefox.
They would love it if this was possible.

But it's not. There are too many situations where wireless fails --- underground parking, metal building, up in the mountains, out in the desert --- no bars. And 5G is worse, not better.

A family member installed reflective insulation in their attic. It acts like a Faraday cage for the whole house --- including the garage.
Air traffic controllers rushed to divert aircraft after Musk's rocket exploded
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Also don’t forget that if you think some of the big names are playing fast and loose with copyright / personal data then DeepSeek is able to operate in a regulatory environment that has even less regard for such things, especially so for foreign copyright.
Yes, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42768735
If I understand what you're saying ... my music listening, magazine browsing, movie watching, are all offline these days (#fuckstreaming). I do 3D modeling in an offline app (FreeCAD), 2D "modeling" (Affinity Designer) in an offline app.

The internet is where I get ideas and news (and some of the above content — magazines as PDF for example).

So I guess the "network effect" I keep to as much of a minimum as I reasonably can?

(EDIT: oh, I don't really use my phone except as a camera and road navigator. I would love to have a completely offline map app that was decent.)
Your pricing says 5 sites (and 1GB) on the $9/mo plan. For a simple use-case, I create static sites for artists and art museums. As you can imagine, their assets can be quite large and numerous.

Just knowing that there’s such a small limit for $9 is a concern right at the top of the funnel. When there are cloud options for pennies per GB there needs to be a clearer value prop for the additional cost.
How to leave the submarine cable cutters all at sea – go Swedish
Dude, why are you here? Your comment is just a (very opionated) rant and not providing any value for anybody in the discussion.
Why is this team sticking multiple directories that are “independent of each other” into a single repository? This sounds like a clear case of doing version control wrong. Monorepos come with their own set of challenges, and I don’t think there are many situations where they’re actually warranted. They certainly don’t help for completely independent projects.
This is the one weird trick that museums use to pull in donor dollars.
This is pretty harsh on DeepSeek.

There are some significant innovations behind behind v2 and v3 like multi-headed latent attention, their many MoE improvements and multi-token prediction.
Do you think forums like the one you are on right now do not?
I also see it as astroturfing or a hollow threat of not voting for the "right" person. That said, if anyone honestly believed it I don't see how they could not sit by and watch it happen.
> However, DeepSeek-R1-Zero encounters challenges such as endless repetition, poor readability, and language mixing. To address these issues and further enhance reasoning performance, we introduce DeepSeek-R1, which incorporates cold-start data before RL.

We've been running qualitative experiments on OpenAI o1 and QwQ-32B-Preview [1]. In those experiments, I'd say there were two primary things going against QwQ. First, QwQ went into endless repetitive loops, "thinking out loud" what it said earlier maybe with a minor modification. We had to stop the model when that happened; and I feel that it significantly hurt the user experience.

It's great that DeepSeek-R1 fixes that.

The other thing was that o1 had access to many more answer / search strategies. For example, if you asked o1 to summarize a long email, it would just summarize the email. QwQ reasoned about why I asked it to summarize the email. Or, on hard math questions, o1 could employ more search strategies than QwQ. I'm curious how DeepSeek-R1 will fare in that regard.

Either way, I'm super excited that DeepSeek-R1 comes with an MIT license. This will notably increase how many people can evaluate advanced reasoning models.

[1] https://github.com/ubicloud/ubicloud/discussions/2608
I didn't see an explanation of what strapdown meant in this context, so I dug one up:

"Traditional, stable-platform navigation systems commonly involve separate accelerators and fibers or laser-based gyroscopes, with all the components mechanically and rigidly mounted on a stable platform that is isolated from the moving vehicle. This leads to the drawbacks of large size, poor reliability, and high cost. In contrast, in strapdown navigation systems, the inertial sensors are fastened directly to the vehicle’s body, which means the sensors rotate together with the vehicle. "

https://www.mdpi.com/2504-446X/8/11/652
I wrote this article the other day because I was amazed at how little known this story is by people in the West.
Cool interactive, also +1 for being from my hometown
Having less is different than lacking of. Europe lacks billionaires that can make large scale investments at whim like Elon Musk does. A more equal society has its positives but negatives too.
I think that's part of the underlying issue in every case, but then there sometimes seems to be some kind of bug where TS won't agree that the value actually has that nominal type, despite it originating from the enum itself. I usually then can't reproduce these issues with more minimal examples.
You can't transfer eSIMs between devices. iPhones support "transfers" but in reality it involves the carrier reissuing it. You'd have to transfer the physical device, which is going to be a pain.
Have you read it, and if so, do you recommend it?
Embrace monasticism.
Did they poll AIPAC?
the fact that you are not getting how this thread relates to your comment is … weird to say the least …
Alrdy did. Forced China to go all in in the chip race and they're catching up fast.
There is no eugenics in that movie?
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I have a dual-SIM Pixel 7, the eSIM "slot" has a data-only subscription, the other slot has a pay-as-you-go SIM that I can make phone calls with (I make so few phone calls to actual lines, that having credit that I can top-up every few months is much more cheaper than paying monthly for free minutes). The PAYG SIM offers WiFi calling, and the phone appears to even offer "WiFi"-calling over the data connection, for a much better audio quality.
What time frame are we talking about here?

There was definitely a period in time where you could use Twitter as public infrastructure, you could push data from anywhere with HTTP to it, and read it the same way. The firehouse was free to use too at one point, with a large ecosystem of (some even FOSS) 3rd party clients.

But then they killed that, and the ecosystem basically evaporated over night. I could understand if you started using Twitter after that, you'd get that feeling you described.
ROS is painful to work with and doesn’t scale well. It’s a shame Microsoft abandoned Robotics Developer Studio over a decade ago.

Robotics Developer Studio started off in a promising direction. It had the CCR (Coordination and Concurrency Runtime) and the DSS (Decentralized System Services) which together made it possible to coordinate real time robotics in a RESTful environment across distributed hardware. It had also had full access to .NET. There’s never been anything quite like it since. Unfortunately MS pulled the plug before it had a chance to mature into an easy-to-use well documented platform.
>The next 4 years will be like the last 8, minus the pandemic.

Yes, calls to takeover ally countries and releasing a presidential cryptocurrency really remind me of the last 8 years.
The Communications Act of 1934 applies primarily to broadcast media, and many of the restrictions that it put in place were specifically justified by the inherent scarcity of broadcast spectrum, where the rationale that one party can dominate the airwaves and prevent others from rebutting them does have some relevance.

Restrictions that would be clearly invalid as applied to other forms of media were therefore allowed -- you need an FCC license to operate a radio station, but any proposal to require a federal license to operate a printing press, for example, would be extremely unconstitutional.

Once the licencing regime was in place for broadcast media, they were able to work other concerns into the criteria for issuing licenses. But the argument you seem to be making here -- that it's appropriate to regulate public communications in order to control, as an end in itself, who is allowed to have "influence" on public opinion -- flies in the face of the first amendment, and is entirely outside the legitimate role of the federal government.

The internet does not have the scarcity of communication channels that broadcast media does -- apps and websites are more like printing presses than radio stations.
It's nothing against you personally. I'm sure many immigrants are good people and some scarce skilled workers must be imported. But there seems to be a desire from the top to import too many foreign workers across the West. This contributes to the low wages and lack of opportunities described in the article.

The UK also has outsourced a lot of manufacturing, which further worsens the job market. I don't know how many hardware engineers are imported unnecessarily or else part of "offshoring," but by all indications I've seen personally the number may be significant. This is from an outside US perspective, so take it with a grain of salt.
Anyone who wants to learn coding cannot do so in a locked down environment. This is why an iPad is actually detrimental to digital competency in the long run compared to personal computers. They aren't even safer, since these devices often have payment information baked into their being and your kid spending roblox bucks.

Also, you cannot experiment in a safe environment. Safe environments are adequate if your are infantile. But you stay that way if you don't get freedom.
It's more than messaging when the rank & file democrats and elite voters walk, talk and breathe this line of thinking. And there are policy choices made downstream of it as well.
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Incredible to see.

Also incredible how difficult it was for me to find how to see it. No links to a video, just a newscast. I scrubbed through it until maybe the 4:30 mark when they highlight a portion. Could've been a gif or something idk.

I know we're brain rotten from short form media but on the other hand just show me the part of the video I care about. Then discuss it.
The OEMs don't care Netflix is no longer supported - they're OCR'ing, hashing, and selling what you're watching either way. They only need you to care enough to hook it up to the internet in the first place so they can sell what their users are watching
Arguably DJT consented to the murder of his VP, before cedeing power once the coup failed. So not too far off.
Some of us write software for embedded devices where a mistake in programning means a critical machine in a remote area needs someone to physically go there and thus spend months in test before we dare deploy. Some of us care about quality and won't allow a customer to see bugs thus even though we can deploy in seconds our reputation won't allow it. There is also software that bugs can kill people so again we won't deploy without evtensive testing - much of this is regulated and we would go to prison for deploying at will even if it works.

those who work in any of the above react in horror to stories of how the web deploys to production so fast. we know we are not perfect and don't understand how you would risk it.
> Such as the focus on laptop over traditional multi-user systems.

When was the last time you actually saw a true multi-user system other than large corporate Citrix environments? Computers aren't expensive any more, every employee gets issued a laptop these days.

Developers go where users go, that's it.
An interesting difference between physics and metaphysics is that in physics people tend to think fact checking their claims is important.
With distilled models being released, it's very likely they'd be soon served by other providers at a good price and perf, unlike the full R1 which is very big and much harder to serve efficiently.
AFAIK Only the eSIM issuer can do this. I did it once, it involved the eSIM issuer support emailing me a new QR code.
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> I never took Node seriously for backend work—it was always something I reluctantly touched for client-side stuff

That was my initial assessment as well. Anything JavaScript related I stood clear and far away from using it anywhere near backend systems and relegated it into the list of non-serious technologies to stay away from.

> Over time, though, it’s added so many crufts and features that these days, I shudder at the thought of reading a TS expert’s type sludge.

TypeScript just repeated the same issues as CoffeeScript and both JS and TS are just as bad for software anyways.

Go and Kotlin have much better type systems, but the rest of the JS ecosystem just reeks with immaturity.
Unless you have been up to the shoulders in the hype-hole of Scam Altman's backside this should not come as the slightest surprise.
Yeah it works I’ve tried it. But unfortunately, you can only automate one project, and it lasts just 10 minutes after that it's keep on loading
>Or does the esim spec have some kind of DRM to require you to use physical hardware with an embedded yet secret-to-you key?

Yes. Basically there's an accreditation process by the GSMA, and if your esim doesn't have a certificate chain leading back to GSMA, you won't be able to get your esim provisioned.

https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2023-57190-demystifying_esim_tech...
> macOS has been very conservative in redesigning the user experience; it's aging slowly like fine wine. There are a few hiccups occasionally but I feel it's a lot more polished and elegant compared to the quirkiness of earlier versions. I don't get this common sentiment that it was better in Snow Leopard etc.

I completely get this sentiment. MacOS since Big Sur has had a quite indeterministic UI, from scrollbars that only appear halfway of the time, to the new app toolbars that truncate filenames and hide the search bar in the overflow menu. The Settings app is still worse than what it replaced, the Mail app keeps randomly appearing, the random confirmation pop-ups are more common than in Windows Vista.

Snow Leopard was (and still is) a bliss, it didn't nag you with "this app is dangerous" bullshit, built-in apps that look and work like an intern's multiplatform UI practice, constant updates... It was an OS primarily designed to let people get work done, not to encourage them to spend all their time on Apple TV/Music/...
How is it possible that in this screenshot, the URL shown on the sponsored result / ad is "https://www.brew.sh"?

Can a Google search ad display a different value there than the actual origin of the page?
This seems like it might be useful for web scraping. Ive been having a munch easier time scraping/ not having to buy proxies since moving to strictly 5G modems. Something like this might help get past the two sim limit on both devices.
Fast following is still super hard. No AI startup in Europe can match DeepSeek for instance, and not for lack of trying.
Not just media companies, the government block a Japanese company from buying US Steel. Not out of antitrust concerns but due to the foreign ownership aspect.
The fat content seems too high.
Don't you get a film of fat covering the top of you mouth?
I'd be pulling something out of thin air, but my opinion is that yes so far it has. Facebook and TikTok, and other social media, has served as an amplification mechanism for various things, including rap music.

But at this point, we also have a separate category of things that pretty much on their own are having a negative effect on society. That would be things like TikTok (including Instagram Reels, and Youtube Shorts).

The fact that they're not trying to come up with a new UI paradigm, or discovery mechanism is very telling. They keep focusing on semi-random swipe-directed discovery, and that tells me they're not interested in making the best content available to you as the interested-consumer. They want you wasting time and generating N-counts of redundant ad views/impressions/things before finding that one thing you wanted or might find interesting.

Youtube is probably the best at at-least trying to not force you to swipe (when watching normal videos). But even there, we can see how much people complain about "The Feed" or "The Algorithm". With all of Google's money and effort, they couldn't (or chose not to) find a better way at matching viewers with good content.
I really like that TS makes it possible to work with raw objects (~dicts) without having to worry about keys existing or not existing, especially narrowing down via Pick<> and tricks related to impossible combinations via the never type are nice (e.g. if it has key 'a', it can't have key 'b' and vice versa). That said Python's typing doesn't sit still and I tuned out a couple of years ago, so all those things might be possible today via TypedDict, haven't checked).
I think society will quickly adjust.

I've already updated my interview questions, teachers will update their homework assignments, etc.

Eventually it'll just be another productivity tool.
Everyone using the bipartisan consensus after classified briefings as evidence why the ban is a good idea is too young to remember 2003.
There are many multi user systems still in use. Think HPC, universities, places where the security requirements do not allow code / data to be shared by access from a users laptop.
Operations vs. Development. Operations is much more likely to be multi-user.
That's almost exactly how the law was written. Only the userbase was specified in absolute numbers (1 million MAU).
> When was the last time you actually saw a true multi-user system other than large corporate Citrix environments?

Now. Yes, Employees all do have laptops, but the shared servers are beefy af.
Not sure how old you are, but WolframAlpha has been exactly that for a solid decade and a half. (It was a little late for while I learned calculus, but I used it for reference afterwards.)
Also, I’m curious - are GPTs/LLMs actually able to provide consistently accurate explanations and solutions for calculus?
They’re historically notoriously bad at even basic arithmetic and algebra, and a quick search seems to confirm them performing similarly with calculus, but I’m open to being wrong and things having improved on that front if you have some evidence.

Finally, echoing the other commenter, you really shouldn’t need a GPT-type tool to do math. If you do, you arguably don’t actually understand the concepts. And I’d honestly be shocked if a LLM could break things down well enough to genuinely help someone who doesn’t understand how to do a calculus problem, having myself tutored friends who didn’t understand things back when I was in school (and using LLMs extensively for my own work).

Some of the best math classes I took didn’t grade homework at all, only exams for which we only had pencil and paper (or some weighted homework as 10% or less of the final grade). But of course, if you didn’t do all the homework, you’d never pass the exams.
Hmm that's kinda nice. I don't like eSIMs because the provider often imposes arbitrary constraints. Either needing their data-stealing app, only allowing so many changes per month, only allowing 'certified' handsets, having 2FA bullshit etc.

I just want to swap my number into different phones like I can with a physical card, without anyone else's involvement or approval.

If I could just grab an esim and download it onto a physical card that would be great.
> not >100% of current?

I am not completely sure about the exact numbers, but my understanding is something like this: currently we extract 7 billion tons of oil (or is it fossil fuels in general?) per year, and the IPCC scenario for 1.5C says that in a few decades we will have to not only be zero emissions, but also sequester 10 billion tons per year. So yeah, that's another way to say "impossible".

> "the economy in which they emerged happens to have been built on oil"

Sure, but... it's not clear at all if globalization the way it is now is even possible without oil. We currently use oil for transports because it is much denser. We can't move a supertanker with PV, for instance. Extrapolating the evolution of renewables from the last decade is definitely optimistic because we will have (that's just natural limits) and must use (if we don't want to reach 4C) less fossil fuel, so it will most definitely become harder and harder.

I believe that we need as much renewables and nuclear as we can, because even that will not compensate for oil. So we will live in a world with less energy and a harder climate, that's a fact. The challenge now is to deal with it, and do as much as possible to keep as much energy as we can while preserving the climate as much as we can. This is the biggest challenge in the Human history, by far. And instead of focusing on that, we try to send a few people to Mars for no good reason...
Consumer surplus isn't captures. It was very amusing to see the accidental live tweeting of the OBL operation by some guy who heard helicopters. Twitter crowdsourced analysis of ISIS propaganda lead to at least one airstrike. Facebook can't say that.
> Twitter popularity is illusory. Its a broadcast system that the majority of its users, whether people or bots, solely sought to exploit for offsite metrics.

Regardless of what you think people used Twitter for, there are real-world consequences from people using Twitter to communicate with each other. The Arab Spring is probably the biggest example for that, where people used it for activism, while the governments tried to ban it and survive the uprisings happening all around the Arab world.

The use of social media (and Twitter specifically) is well studied as well, in case you're open to learning more: https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?hl=en&q=arab+spring
> typical western hypocrisy

How is it typical of Western countries, and how is it hypocrisy? US companies already do strange things to comply with China's requirements of them, for example.