skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you raising a funding round? I'm bought in. This is hilarious.
It seems to list the mechanism on each model. A bunch of them seem to use Peugeot for the mechanism and I have a such branded grinder that seems to hold up really well..
The rural areas I've been a part of tend to have one or more noticeboards, either on the main street, or often at the main supermarket. People put up flyers, business cards, possibly with links or qrcodes, or otherwise phone numbers.

In Vermont, there are mailing lists for every town that are widely used, https://vitalcommunities.org/community-discussion-lists/ and also Front Porch Forum https://frontporchforum.com/. I guess the latter is pretty much what you are talking about, a community social network that is not Facebook or Nextdoor and not trying to become a megacorp.

There is still a lot of facebook groups for many small towns, but its easy enough to totally ignore and just use noticeboards, ask/talk to real people, etc if you want.
Ugh. I was thinking to re-join as there was content I was interested in viewing, namely “part 3” of Squid Game when it comes out. Not now, I’ll just torrent it.
You are not wrong that volume is required for quality. But it does not necessarily mean all of that volume has to be published. E.g. in music there are bands where every single recording on every single release they did is good and not just a slight variation of another thing that worked.

Mow on the other side you have musicians who have two releases a year and every other of them has a track on it that is really cool.

I am not saying the latter is wrong, I just say the former has more of my respect, because you know that even the rejected stuff of the first band is probably stellar.

Keeping a thought to oneself that isn't fully fleshed out is a virtue.
Do you recall anything that would make it possible to find any descriptions of this experiment? When I try to search for "a thousand people focus attention on a chair" I just get stuff about meditation and an "ADHD chair". Which is apparently a thing.
A quality box spring or a solid platform under the mattress is definitely supposed to help. I have the latter, and in a material with just a little give. It also keeps the bed down at couch height. Our dog with the stumpy legs thinks my bed is the best thing ever and he tries to convince everyone else in the house that they should have one just like it by hopping on my bed, making significant eye contact with them and muttering in dog trying to get them to check it out.
Looks like it's possible to hit 2 datacenters due to load-balancing, which would narrow it down a bit more. Suppose you do this repeatedly as the target is moving around, hitting even more datacenters.
> "OpenAI will continue to increase its consumption of Azure as OpenAI continues its work with Microsoft"

Not sure why, but the word choice of "consumption" feels like a reverse Freudian slip to me.
Agreed, and whats the story behind the art chosen for the landing page?
> It has been democratized in one angle, that of the technical ability to use the internet being taught and disseminated wide enough that people can use it.

The platforms work really hard to make it seem like you're using them, but in truth they're using you.
I don't either, and I don't want a war with either Russia or China nor do I want the slow escalation that is currently happening. But the political reality is that the US will not be decreasing defense spending any time soon. There's no voting this situation away.
I think that's fair and of course I know that many people would make the individual moderation calls differently than we do, and be just as 'right' as we are. At the specific-data-point level, we're talking about judgment calls and guesswork, and there is inevitably some arbitrariness there. Consistency at that level is not possible.

On the other hand, a thoughtful pg essay and a sensational 3-second video clip of the most trollicious person on the internet are pretty different on (let's call it) the genre spectrum, and that's an important consideration for HN moderation too.

As inconsistent and arbitrary as individual moderation calls may feel or be, though, the principles of HN moderation have been surprisingly consistent over the years, and that's the more important level. We don't always apply them correctly or consistently, but I think the principles themselves are good ones for this site and are easily defensible. Most of what I do in moderation comments like this is try to explain those principles, though usually the commenters are concerned about one particular story, at least in the moment.
It's cool zooming in and seeing the moire patterns shimmer into view
I think I know what he means. I use AI Chat. I load Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct with llama.cpp server, fully offloaded to the CPU, and then I config AI Chat to connect to the llama.cpp endpoint.

Checkout the demo they have below

https://github.com/sigoden/aichat#shell-assistant
Meh, why did they choose this name. Stargate does not deserve this…
What's your workflow like? I use AI Chat. I load Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct with llama.cpp server, fully offloaded to the CPU, and then I config AI Chat to connect to the llama.cpp endpoint.
Any clues to how they plan to invest $500 billion dollars? What infrastructure are they planning that will cost that much?
Like a SIM card, you mean?

I don't really like the move to eSIMs, or rather the removal of physical SIM card (slots.) A physical thing is a lot easier to reason about, and you can swap them in seconds.
Depends what your community needs. I'm part of a dance group that only needs to communicate events, so most communication happens by email (BCC from organizer to everyone). Then, anything more complicated happens in-person or through other channels.
> I think i don't care if they can see my ipv6 because each machine gets a /64 to itself, that's the logic, right?

I suspect you're looking at that wrong.

It's each internet connection that gets a /64, not each machine. Your ISP hands you a /64 and you can do whatever you like with it on your home(/corporate) network.

So you can choose from 18 thousand trillion IPV6 addresses for any machine behind your ISP/internet connection, but the top half of your IPV6 address uniquely identifies that ISP and they can connect that to your account/payment details, with 4 billion times as much precision as an IPV4 address.
Industry standard word, e.g. "consumption pricing" etc

But yeah if you're in the industry it's easy to forget how certain jargon sounds based on its dictionary definition
> This project will [...] support the re-industrialization of the United States

How?
No, it's a second-order statement, a statement about first-order statements. It's not subject to itself.
Sometimes the person writing the copy is writing it because they talk good, not because they are the biggest proponent of the idea.

Give a clever, articulate person a task to write about something they don't believe in and they will include the subtlest of barbs, weak praise, or both.
That's a ridiculous sum of money that could be better spent on much more worthy things.
The marginal cost of wind & solar is essentially zero, it's virtually all capital cost.
According to the business plan, solving world hunger and ending disease comes AFTER the 1/2 trillion dollar AGI buildout.
Who/what is MGX? Google returns a few hits, none of which are clearly who is referred to here.
data center + gpu server farm (?)
> starting in Texas

Maybe I just don't get it. Texas seems like an awful place to do business.
~$125B per year would be 2-3% of all domestic investment. It's similar in scale to the GDP of a small middle income country.

If the electric grid — particularly the interconnection queue — is already the bottleneck to data center deployment, is something on this scale even close to possible? If it's a rationalized policy framework (big if!), I would guess there's some major permitting reform announcement coming soon.
Oh, thank you. Knowing very well that 2^32 is around 4 billion, I should have immediately noticed that 12345678910987654321 is way to big to be 2^31
Whatever the utility may be, the naming is really unfortunate and offputting IMO.
Medicine is literally chemistry and biology as applied to human health. I'm not stuck on anything you in this subthread appear to be. It's pretty obvious that someone without deep domain knowledge is should scarcely be trusted to tie their own shoe let alone contradict actual experts.
> Developing an intuition for these situations is hard. They never happen in real life, and we practice them in high-fidelity trainers where time is precious, so young officers don't get many reps. I thought it would be fun to cheaply simulate close range engagements on a laptop, and play against my friends on the web.

I remember reading, decades ago, that the U.S. Navy's flight school in Pensacola had a student who'd done unusually well in the course because he'd bought a copy of an early version of Microsoft's Flight Simulator software (IIRC) with maps of the nearby Navy airfields used for student training. That led to the Navy adopting PC-based flight simulator software generally. (I couldn't find a reference.)
It appears this basically locks out Google, Amazon and Meta. Why are we declaring OpenAI as the winner? This is like declaring Netscape the winner before the dust settled. Having the govt involved in this manner can’t be a good thing.
You can do this with e.g. EC2 enclaves. Of course that's kind of begging the question, since you need to trust the enclaves.
You know whats calm and not distracting? A notebook and pen. You can buy a LOT of decent notebooks for the price of one of the reMarkables mentioned in the article. (~30 or so?), and it will last a lot longer as well. Im starting to sound like a luddite.
We already have that. The stack is "white" and "everyone else."
MGX is an arm of the United Arab Emirates' sovereign wealth operation: https://www.mgx.ae/en
OK, that would cover about a year of expenses. Then what?
"No Sam, for obvious reasons we cannot give you 6 trillion ... but how about 500 billion?"

Wow.
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I agree with you about trying to avoid thought stopping terms, and the desire for more specific language in important topics. It's tempting to think that history repeats itself, but it doesn't. It really doesn't. Historians will find ways of comparing and contrasting one moment with another, but whatever is happening right now is not determined by any historical law playing out.

Our language is bending as it ever does to help people explain these political shifts—often people who see what's happening but don't have much education on the matters of history, political science, philosophy. Bear in mind that 21% of US adults are illiterate, and far fewer are even equipped to read, say, Thomas Paine.

We need ways of talking about the values that are winning (nationalist theocratic autocracy) and the ones that are not (the open society, secular liberal democracy), and the word "liberalism" in the US has beenn so tarnished, so I think "fascism" today has come to mean "anti-liberal." I'll take what I can get.
So its not the hype anymore?
I think you put your finger on it with the mention of discipline. I find AI tools quite useful for giving me a quick outline of things I want to play with or get up to speed on fast, but not necessarily get too invested in. But if you fin yourself so excited by a particular result that it sets your imagination whirling, it might be time to switch out of generative mode and use the AI as a tutor to deepen your actual understanding, ideally in combination with books or other static learning resources.
But the good news is when the Trough of Disillusionment starts we can make a bunch of tuberculosis jokes.
> The designers of git clearly disagreed

filter-branch has been around since, at least, 1.8. It exists to rewrite history, this specific use case (as the official documentation details) included. An open source project admitting that a solution is better than their own does not mean the developers "disagree" with it, especially when the functionality has already been part of the developers tool for over a decade.
Not to be confused by the other (non-fictional) DoD Stargate Project[0], that involved "remote-viewing" and other psychic crap.

The AI Stargate Project claims it will "create hundreds of thousands of American jobs". One has doubts.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_Project
Why Texas - is it an ideal location for AI infrastructure?
When doing business is a bribe it’s perfect
Don't worry, they said they are doing it in Texas where the power grid is super reliable and able to handle the massive additional load.
I read the bill and didn't see it stated anywhere. I'd genuinely appreciate a link or even a copy/paste with the relevant section that I could look up on google.
What a waste of a great name. Why form a separate company for this?
> This project will ... also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies.

> All of us look forward to continuing to build and develop ... AGI for the benefit of all of humanity.

Erm, so which one is it? It is amply demonstrable from events post WW2 that US+allies are quite far from benefiting all of humanity & in fact, in some cases, it assists an allied minority at an extreme cost to a condemned majority, for no discernable humanitarian reasons save for some perceived notion of "shared values".
The white house was touting this so it's probably to secure political patronage or will be part of pork barrel spending to get some other bill passed.
That was literally my question. Is this basically just for more datacenters, NVidia chips, and electricity with a sprinkling of engineers to run it all? If so, then that $500bn should NOT be invested in today's tech, but instead in making more powerful and power efficient chips, IMO.
> Let's think: developers? No, too similar

Ouch
Unfortunately that figure wouldn’t get everyone healthcare in the US. I agree though, it could be deployed for better use but someone needs to think of those poor desperate shareholders.
Because it's free to play, pay to win, from now on.
More confusion than anything else!
> This project will not only support the re-industrialization of the United States but also provide a strategic capability to protect the national security of America and its allies.

> The initial equity funders in Stargate are SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX. SoftBank and OpenAI are the lead partners for Stargate, with SoftBank having financial responsibility and OpenAI having operational responsibility. Masayoshi Son will be the chairman.

I'm sorry, has SoftBank suddenly become an American company? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading this.

Edit: MGX is Saudi company? This is baffling....

https://www.mgx.ae/en
I recently learned that a courier in Panama can earn around $1,400 a month. Yes, you likely have to work six days a week, but that's well above the average salary in the country.

I'm not sure how the sentiment is in developed countries like the US and the UK. Still, here in Latin America, this presents an opportunity for poorer communities to provide dinner for a family.
I can believe a very talented 15yo pulling this off. But the number of anonymous "I'm 15 and this is my impressive feat" posts on HN made me wonder if it's just a joke.
Correct on the ADM3a keyboard. In fact the OP site has a pic:

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/always-more-history/

Whether that explains the use of tilde and caret, I dont know.
I weep for our country.
Ok, well you're doing a great job of splitting hairs but have not brought any evidence. Good luck in 4 years, to us all!
>>>get people employed

It'll do this one, certainly. Maybe not the most cost-effective jobs program, but I expect there will be many construction and data centre jobs in the next few years.
On the ethics point as a "best bet", consider also the importance of a sense of humor that recognizes irony. As I wrote in 2010: https://pdfernhout.net/recognizing-irony-is-a-key-to-transce...
"There is a fundamental mismatch between 21st century reality and 20th century security thinking. Those "security" agencies are using those tools of abundance, cooperation, and sharing mainly from a mindset of scarcity, competition, and secrecy. Given the power of 21st century technology as an amplifier (including as weapons of mass destruction), a scarcity-based approach to using such technology ultimately is just making us all insecure. Such powerful technologies of abundance, designed, organized, and used from a mindset of scarcity could well ironically doom us all whether through military robots, nukes, plagues, propaganda, or whatever else... Or alternatively, as Bucky Fuller and others have suggested, we could use such technologies to build a world that is abundant and secure for all. ... The big problem is that all these new war machines [and competitive companies] and the surrounding infrastructure are created with the tools of abundance. The irony is that these tools of abundance are being wielded by people still obsessed with fighting over scarcity. So, the scarcity-based political mindset driving the military [and economic] uses the technologies of abundance to create artificial scarcity. That is a tremendously deep irony that remains so far unappreciated by the mainstream."
Watch the birdie
I feel like that, along with SoftBank's investment, tell me everything about how serious this project is.
Which do you think is more likely, that Bill Gates sat down with the administration to try to convince Trump to keep funding Gate's life work, or that Gates talked to Trump to end polio funding?

Trump bad, has nothing to do with Gates or Zuck. If you blame them for trying to prevent Trump from doing bad things, you should look into what they will benefit from and how they spend their money
It is an ideal location for bribing politicians. That was at the top of the reqs list, infrastructure was at the bottom.
I'll make a wild guess that they will be building data centers and maybe robotic labs. They are starting with 100B of committed by mostly Softbank, but probably not transacted yet, money.

> building new AI infrastructure for OpenAI in the United States

The carrot is probably something like - we will build enough compute to make a supper intelligence that will solve all the problems, ???, profit.
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oh wow that is actually such a brilliant little use case-- really cuts to the core of the real "magic" of ai: that it can just keep running continuously. it never gets tired, and never gets tired of thinking.
Any karma/voting system is going to have issues with bots eventually. By having the system in the first place, you crowdsource, and eventualy that crowd is going to be bots because there is always someone that can derive benefit from manipulating markets, and other related things.

Additionally, competition is important. Adversarial individual decision-making is required for economic calculation to take place. Cooperation is the anti-thesis of this, and it generally fails in ways Mises describes back in the 1930s. You can read more about it in his collected works on Socialism. It applies broadly.

The main issues you'll be immediately faced with once your reach a self-starting saturation, is controlling the noise floor. If its not useful, people won't use it.

Many of these problems don't have any good solutions. GPT makes it cost-effective to destructively manipulate aspects in ways you can't predict as well.

In my general opinion, you cannot develop or preserve community when you have bad actors taking advantage of community. This is most notably seen recently with the many LLM developers crawling any public sites available. Performing what amounts to DDOS attacks.

There can be no goodwill when the status quo is bot driven, and those bots are all about taking or imposing cost through interference.

Its a cursed problem series. Open platforms fail to the flood, Closed platforms fail to lack of engagement, and Semi-Open platforms eat up all your time for little return.
Plus power plants to drive the massive data centers. At large enough scale, power availability and cost is a constraint.
That's what remote attestation in Intel SGX does. There's similar features in other platforms as well.
I feel like Poe’s Law is in effect here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
Say what you will about Texas, but they are adding energy capacity, renewables especially, at a much faster rate than any comparable state.
Don't worry, Oracle is also involved.
> Twitter, Facebook, Google etc are private companies. They should be free to censor whatever they decide to censor.

Why? Private companies can't dump waste onto a river, can't build buildings not up to code, can't discriminate based on religion or sex, can't prevent their employees from joining a union, can't evade taxes (well these last 2 only in theory I admit)... Meta owns platforms with 3B, 2B, 2B users (fb, insta, whatsapp); why the hell wouldn't it be possible, in principle, to regulate them as public utilities and forbid them by law from censorship or other nefarious practices?

Your phone company can't spy on your conversations and your power company can't shut you off if you are black. Only on a society completely far off the deep end of neoliberal philosophy would people even think to invoke "but it's a private company" like some sort of holy taboo.
Probably because they don’t have to deal with energy-related regulations…
"SoftBank, OpenAI, Oracle, and MGX" seems like quite the lineup. Two groups who are good at frivolously throwing away investment money because they have so much capital to deploy, there really isn't anything reasonable to do with it, a tech "has-been" and OpenAI. You become who you surround yourself with I guess.
watching the press conference and Onsite power production were mentioned. I assume this means SMRs and solar.
> I want to move our local communities off Facebook and onto our own platform

If you're serious about this, then you need to ask yourself (as dispassionately as possible) why you think this should happen. What benefits are you trying to provide, what shortcomings are trying to bridge. Then validate with your community that these are actually problems they even want addressed, and if so how badly do they want it. Then search for alternatives that explicitly accomplish that.
Build houses, not data centers.
It doesn't even have an electricity grid that works, maybe that's where the 500b is going, reconnecting it to the grid.
Yes, do this and learn firsthand why all the small-town newspapers are gone. Printing, paper, and distribution is expensive, and nobody will pay enough for print ads anymore to cover the costs.
Oooff!
SoftBank having financial responsibility is insane. This is just a way to funnel money into people Trump owes.
Softbank historically had been late to buy into the hype, but man do they buy big.
Some reports[0] paint this as something Trump announced and that the US Government is heavily involved with but the announcement only mentions private sector (and lead by Japan's Softbank at that). Is the US also putting in money? How much control of the venture is private vs public here?

0. https://www.thewrap.com/trump-open-ai-oracle-stargate-ai-inf...

1. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-announces-private-sector-...
I for one am hugely supportive of compute that is red white and blue.
No state income tax, fewer regulations (zoning, environmental regulations) than other parts of the country, relatively cheap power, large existing industrial base. For skilled labor that last bit is important. Also one of the cheapest states wrt minimum wage (same as federal, nothing added), which is important for unskilled labor.

Depending on the part of the state, relatively low costs of living which is helpful if you don't like paying people much. Large areas that are relatively undeveloped or underdeveloped which can mean cheaper land.