skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on this open source project, modders have created an expanded universe encapsulating RA, RA2, Tiberian Sun, Tiberian Dawn and other lore into Combined Arms mod:

https://www.moddb.com/mods/command-conquer-combined-arms

Worth a look for a new fan made entry into the C&C universe. The scale of the mod is huge...
I think you are underestimating the fear of being beaten (for many people making these decisions, "again") by a competitor that does "dumb scaling".
Cool solution to the Claud Shannon problem.
Better ask why in other countries charges are much less, better applications, better service and much more services they provide.
Will do! Thank you very much.
Every other country deports illegal immigrants, and the US should be no different

except that US economy relies heavily of on cheap labor of illegal immigrants who pay more in taxes than most americans
I've wondered about that. Like, what are the practicalities? Do billionaires have dealers, or do they use shell companies to buy in bulk?

I'm assuming wherever he flies, he avoids customs and immigration, and his plane/person never gets searched.
experienced players who know their teammates well can reliably get 3-4s. if you only go for safe 2s against these opponents you will lose every time.
You missed the really obvious sarcasm.
Ooooh, thank you! For a few years now I thought I was the only one ever citing that source of the infinite wisdom.

Having said that, the meteor was probably from the planet Urectum.
People have been upset about the direction of Twitter, for a variety of reasons, since Elon bought it. BlueSky was simply the best alternative available when people began leaving Twitter in droves. I don't think you can assign intent to the creation of the platform, which predates all of this.

I also think it's naive to accuse any particular group of people to be more or less prone to seeking echo chambers. That's endemic to humans in general, though certainly not completely pervasive.
I don't see the "inherent contradiction". Discomfort, as long as it's chosen and not imposed, is not much of a problem.

Yes, wrt safety it's hazy. Eastern Europe, so it's reasonably safe, and also we don't take safety as seriously as the Westerners. Our medical aid is all right. They have enough money to eat, but you'd be surprised how cheap and basic a diet can be.

> It's possible to 'live a good life' with no resources while everything goes in your favour but it rapidly gets awful if that changes.

Oh. It's possible to suffer even with infinite resources. Things can go horribly wrong. Health problems. Death. Other kinds of trauma.

> On your second point, I'd imagine that the people who became very rich did so because they're constitutionally unable to just relax and coast.

Yes, though some are learning and have improved a lot :)
I’ve seen “oh it’s IO-bound, there’s no point optimising for performance” rolled out so many times, I’m convinced it’s basically lost any intended meaning and as simply a cover-all defence, that many devs don’t appreciate how quick current databases and IO actually is.
Ukraine probably made a difference. It's been a while since there's been that sort of war where the western 'defence' industry is actually defending against an attacker as opposed to say bombing Iraq.
Sorry, you previous post started complaining with "digital media content creator" in general, then you moved on to complain about YouTube.

If your problem is with the implementation from one company and not the whole idea, fine. But this is not an issue with the "revenue share" model.

Also:

> For a lot of those people, they continue on because of a misguided dream that they might one day get to be they anointed few who gets to have their "fair" share of their content.

It's not different from basketball/baseball/football players that spend all their young years working for free and expecting to become pro. Or musicians who get into pay-to-play circuits in the hopes of ever becoming the next star, or fashion models who endure all the crazy routine of a talent agency based on the dream of being as rich as Gisele Büdchen, and even to the batches of YC founders that are given 500k and are told "no, no, this money is not for you. This money is for you to try to make a billion dollar business. Your first priority is to make me even richer, not your well-being."
And many of the best fancy cards provide enough value in the various benefits they offer to outweigh the fee for many of those customers. This is often true not only in terms of luxury experiences like lounge access, but even in terms of cold hard financial value. Examples include a certain amount of annual statement credit against certain types of transactions, points that can be directly or indirectly redeemed for lots of types of purchases, and so on.
Great breakdown of the "IO bound Rails app" myth! I really appreciate the focus on profiling and understanding actual application behavior rather than relying on assumptions. The points about threading, database interactions, and context-switch overhead are spot on and offer a fresh perspective on how performance issues are often misunderstood.

It's interesting how easy it is to default to surface-level fixes instead of addressing the root cause. Have you thought about adding a case study or some benchmarks for common workloads? It could really help teams put these ideas into practice.
That's not what I'm saying, they may be hiding their true compute.

I'm pointing out that nearly every thread covering Deepseek R1 so far has been like this. Compare to the O1 system card thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42330666

Very different standards.
It does that by default too.
So, you still haven’t made your case for your original claim. You’re ignoring my argument I think because it’s not reductive enough for you to see. And you just sent a paragraph about a single example among several examples which I specifically disclaimed as exemplary and highly visible as if that somehow is negated by your hypotheticals.

You are following that up by, I guess, trying to convince me that I should ignore my experiences in favor of your reductive arguments that are based largely on definitions that I don’t agree on in the first place.

What are we even doing here?

What you experience internally is not evidence of what “the real world” is actually like. You may very well have an amazing work ethic and view your jobs as strictly transactional (and that’s irrespective of enjoyment which is reductive of the many reasons people want to do their jobs). Honestly, I believe that about you. But that internal view is far from universal regardless of work ethic.

I understand you’ve convinced yourself that the UBI and other hypotheticals are proof but they’re only proof if you’re already subscribed to those reductive views. “Wants” don’t work that way and if they did we’d be able to reduce them further and say that people do want to do their jobs evidenced by the fact that they do them.
> From another perspective, judging by how X played a huge role in the 2024 election & Elon's new role as First Friend, maybe his rapidly improving fortune factors into the calculus.

That's it, it's even said in the article.
Everyone know that Elon musk in the us government and him being buddy buddy with Trump is like inviting a wolf into a lamb's den.
WebFFT – The Fastest Fourier Transform on the Web
Researchers from TikTok claim they already replicated it

https://x.com/sivil_taram/status/1883184784492666947?t=NzFZj...
Do we have any idea how long a cloud provider needs to rent them out for to make back their investment? I’d be surprised if it was more than a year, but that is just a wild guess.
Krita is a really nice project, really the most intuitive graphics program in the linux world
It first and foremost would want to make me do terrible things to whatever person decided that a robot should surveil and intervene in my most personal conversations.

Dealing with human emotions is absolutely the last thing I would want AI to do.
Just a PSA for anyone unaware, you can get checks printed anywhere and using a huge variety of designs. It is not mandatory to order them from the bank where the account is held.
Agree. The "need to build new buildings, new power plants, buy huge numbers of today's chips from one vendor" never made any sense considering we don't know what would be done in those buildings in 5 years when they're ready.
I see 121 AH/kg (listed as mAh/g) which is little over a third of lithium ion today? First thing I looked for.

I don’t see volumetric power density which also matters for cars and consumer electronics.
I agree. I think there’s a good chance that politicians & CEOs pushing for 100s of billions spent on AI infrastructure are going to look foolish.
Show HN: Apple-like smooth corners for Tailwind CSS
A Python script that allows to download any videos in seconds (and playlists)
As a pioneer ISP with datacenters since 1987 I can endorse your request on both webhostingtalk and NANOG mailing list.

We could also email 200 expert volunteers directly, many are owners and top sysadmins of datacenters who helped Ukraine during the first weeks of the invasion in 2022.

I also know a few people at hyperscalers Google, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, CERN, NIKHEF, AMS-IX, Leaseweb, etc we could try.

>Will do! Thank you very much.

That's what HN is for, experts helping each other.
Depends.

For the insecure, yes, but in a way you take on a mantle of parent or mentor where you repeatedly compliment and reassure them, allowing them to fail and seeing its not about them or their character but just another problem to solve. It helps when they see you fail publicly and handle it with grace. This often takes years, but it can work. But sometimes it doesn't, as if the psychological damage is well outside the workplace.

For the grandiose, I've never had that experience. It could be they have narcissistic, sociopathic, or psychopathic tendencies. It could also be from some other neurodivergent influence, in which case all you can do is work around them, not with them. If you are put in a position where you are the sacrificial goat, quit. Leave. There be dragons.
Consider the thought process of executive management:

Do we want to make more money? Or less money?
We do a fair bit of FPGA design in SpinalHDL, and have taped out several ASICs with parts of the design done in SpinalHDL at my dayjob.

In general: No, alternative HDLs don't see a lot of use, and I'd argue that we qualify as 'academia' since the ASICs are NIH funded and we tend to work with a lot of academic partners and on low-quantity R&D projects.

Having said that, every time we've deployed SpinalHDL for a commercial client they've been blown away by the results. The standard library, developer ergonomics, test capabilities, and little things like having clock domains as a part of the type system make development so much faster and less error prone that the NRE for doing it in verilog just doesn't make sense.

You get access to the entire Java and Scala ecosystem at elaboration and test time. We deploy ScalaCheck in our test harnesses to automatically generate test cases that can reduce inputs to identify edge cases. It's incredibly powerful.
It's amazing to me that people on the left find it perfectly fine to force US citizens to get a vaccination, many going so far as to saying that anyone who refuses should be held down and forcibly injected

you mean on the right, right? our new President was President during Covid who locked up us and our children for months and was tauting vaccine development like it was a porn star he was about to fuck while his wife is pregnant. Here’s “leftist” DeSantis with his thoughts, can send you 100 more “leftists” as well in case you really have short memory

https://youtu.be/Sq_ccy5rfgI?feature=shared

“those that don’t know their history are doomed to repeat it…”
How did this shift into violence? I thought we were talking about day-to-day activities of bureaucrats.
The government isn’t subsidizing solar and wind?

> They're talking about government tariffs

So this has been previously unblocked, but in the past week that’s when the difficulty started?
Wikenigma – an Encyclopedia of Unknowns
Operating costs are usually a pretty significant factor in total costs for a data center. Unless power efficiency stops improving much and/or demand so far outstrips supply that they can't be replaced, a bunch of 10 year old GPUs probably aren't going to be worth running regardless.
Thanks for digging that up! I'm quite sure that Jeff Atwood's blog is where I first heard about Fizzbuzz, but it never occurred to me that he had attributions.
They’re saying that the debt is structured with layers (tranches), where the top layers have added protections and get paid back first if there’s trouble, while the “subordinated” layers sit below them in priority.

“Extra levels of credit protection” means the tranches being sold to investors have features (e.g., senior ranking, collateral, covenants) that reduce default risk. Banks typically retain the subordinated (riskier) portion, which absorbs losses first, allowing the sold tranche to appear safer.

(o1)
Everything, basically. From great cooking recipes to figuring out + designing a new business, and everything in between.
https://github.com/OpenRA/ra2

Works great on Linux
The youtube logo changes to 'PREMIUM' if you're using it. It's kind of hard to miss.
I attend a church and it’s large enough that you would generally not get to know people very well. But they offer “small group” connection and about 3 years ago I connected with 3 other men. We meet every couple of weeks. We have different backgrounds but all of us have leadership responsibilities. We have step by step deepened the trust and confidence in each other. At some point over the past year each of us was in some type of ultra stressful situation - losing sleep -etc. But when we came to our group we could say as much or as little as we wished but the entire group was supportive. I could get into more detail but I know that many on HN don’t care for church. What I wanted to share is that we all have found this to be the highlight of our week - when we get together. Personally, it has been the most connected I have been with men in 20 years. So it’s not a law of nature that men won’t or can’t see their masculine support network grow. It takes time to build trust but it is worth the investment
Using AI to develop a fuller model of the human brain
Interesting. So in a multi-threaded C++ program that only calls the std:: getenv function, everything is fine.

If anything calls the C getenv function, like a third party library, things are maybe not fine.
The discussion is about Fenwick trees.
As a resident of the UK I found the British persona somewhat offensive.
> Plus, how exactly did Deepseek lie. The model size, data size are all known. Calculating the number of FLOPS is an exercise in arithmetics, which is perhaps the secret Deepseek has because it seemingly eludes people.

Model parameter count and training set token count are fixed. But other things such as epochs are not.

In the same amount of time, you could have 1 epoch or 100 epochs depending on how many GPUs you have.

Also, what if their claim on GPU count is accurate, but they are using better GPUs they aren't supposed to have? For example, they claim 1,000 GPUs for 1 month total. They claim to have H800s, but what if they are using illegal H100s/H200s, B100s, etc? The GPU count could be correct, but their total compute is substantially higher.

It's clearly an incredible model, they absolutely cooked, and I love it. No complaints here. But the likelihood that there are some fudged numbers is not 0%. And I don't even blame them, they are likely forced into this by US exports laws and such.
They're not going to invade Greenland, they can already control it. they'll start an economic war with Europe over it first.
From what I've seen in the records for the company, the D is not for the letter after 'C', but for "Derecha" (right). But anyway, this is a big Opus Dei family with bank businesses that registers their "phone business" in a cheap apartment of a simple neighborhood. Nothing against the neighborhood, I live near, but I think they're not coming as sincere to me.
Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

Also, you crossed badly into personal attack here. Please don't do that on HN, regardless of how wrong someone is or you feel they are. You may not owe people who you feel are losers better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Read: "...the creditors take control, whereas Musk gets a ton of value from being in control of Twitter, so he won't want that to occur."
That’s for low level employees not thought leaders ;)
Because a small number of checks have been free for many decades. They cost almost nothing to print. But banks now charge $20 for a small box. Add another $10 for shipping.

I don't use checks often but have to buy a box in order to have >0.
Then the question becomes, who sold the GPUs to them? They are supposedly scarse and every player in the field is trying to get ahold as many as they can, before anyone else in fact.

Something makes little sense in the accusations here.
On your first argument; we don't have to because we have e.g. football, and I would ABSOLUTELY argue that -- even if you don't like it -- it serves a DEEPLY important purpose in society (namely, a NECESSARY outlet for the weird tribal fighty instinct a lot of people, mostly men, have.)

Funny, I can't find the guy I really like, but -- stuff like this:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/young-tiktok-users-making-activism...
like yes, theoretically somebody could probably manage to encode a few bytes of secret message.

but it's just that there's so many easier and better ways to do that, and even if they managed to accomplish it here it's hardly hurting this project - worst case scenario it's a bit of unwanted noise. it seems very silly to worry about it.
Slight simplification: Bonds aren't like stocks. For a given company, there is typically 1 common stock issue(perhaps multiple share classes FAANG-style for voting or maybe issued on different exchanges), maybe a preferred issue and then like 10+ different types of bonds, which are very different(typically, the shittier the company's financial position the bigger the difference between the senior/secured and the junior/subordinated debt).

Senior debt is basically either directly secured by specific assets/collateral or is the first to get paid out in case of a default. Junior debt is typically unsecured(no specific collateral) and goes after other, senior unsecured debt has been paid off.

When you hear about a company's credit rating, its usually the rating of the senior unsecured(so the "safest" bonds that aren't secured by specific assets).
Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, released the following statement about the CIA’s findings on the origins of the Coronavirus:

“I’ve said from the beginning that Covid likely originated in the Wuhan labs. Communist China covered it up and the liberal media covered for them. I’m pleased the CIA concluded in the final days of the Biden administration that the lab-leak theory is the most plausible explanation of Covid’s origins and I commend Director Ratcliffe for fulfilling his promise to release this conclusion. Now, the most important thing is to make China pay for unleashing a plague on the world.”
It's part of breaking a loan into bonds, which is called securitization.

Suppose we divide the repayments into 5 bonds. If 20% of the money comes in, it goes to the first bond. Then the next 20% to the next, and so on. The later bonds are called subordinate - they only pay if the other ones already were paid off. Because they are riskier, the later ones aren't worth as much.

The actual rules are more complex than this toy example. But that's the basic idea. And this is how a risky loan is sold to different investors at different prices with different tolerances for risk/return.
I was a kid in the 80's and would regularly see $5 interest credits on my meager savings, free ATM, free phone banking (don't laugh) and they even set it up for me that if I went below $20 in my checking the system would pull $50 from my savings. 1986 or so - overdraft fees hadn't been invented.
After the dot-boom/bust The Fed "aggressively pursued ZIRP (zero interest rate) policies". Mortgages got much cheaper but fees replaced the interest income.
Somebody is paying either way. It used to be the loan holders. I even remember my local bank having a stack of a hundred toaster ovens to give to anybody who opened an account. They wanted your business so you would do your loans with them.
I quite preferred that America though it might be possible to argue that getting nickel-and-dimed everywhere is overall cheaper. But that was at the height of Americans' real purchasing power from wages and I'm disappointed that my kids had to grow up in the opposite environment. Maybe this will change before they will be shopping for a home. I read recently that real wages (purchasing power) were actually higher during the Great Depression. Soaring highs on the Dow don't matter much to people when all the productivity gains during that period have been transfered to financialized everything to make that NGU. The system needs to be stable for us to all benefit. "The Gini Coefficient is too damn high" as they say.
every market passes costs to payers. That doesn’t explain anything.

For the Chicago government, it’s a political project. They are happy to take losses.

Let me just restate the original point made in this thread. Are solar and wind cheaper in these areas where coal is still operating or not?
Having flashbacks of The Big Short.
The counternarrative is that it is a very accomplished piece of work that most in the sector were not expecting -- it's open source with API available at fraction of comparable service cost

It has upended a lot of theory around how much compute is likely needed over next couple of years, how much profit potential the AI model vendors have in nearterm and how big an impact export controls are having on China

V3 took top slot on HF trending models for first part of Jan ... r1 has 4 of the top 5 slots tonight

Almost every commentator is talking about nothing else
The chatbot leaderboard seems to be very affected by things other than capability, like "how nice is it to talk to" and "how likely is it to refuse requests" and "how fast does it respond" etc. Flash is literally one of Google's faster models, definitely not their smartest.

Not that the leaderboard isn't useful, I think "is in the top 10" says a lot more than the exact position in the top 10.
Automatic payments make banks sticky. Once you have your credit cards and utilities paid off with a particular account, you're probably not leaving.
Lots of completely harmless comments are dead, the few that are not were vouched for by someone (like myself if we're talking about this thread specifically). I don't really care either way, but the guy should be aware that he's writing into /dev/null
If he’s using it he probably just has a prescription or a doctor that provides it to him. Ketamine isn’t all that hard to get prescribed and it is, frankly, a pretty mellow drug.
> There's something wrong with the West's ethos if we think contributing significantly to the progress of humanity is malicious.

Who does this?

The criticism is aimed at the dictatorship and their politics. Not their open source projects. Both things can exist at once. It doesn't make China better in any way. Same goes for their "radical cures" as you call it. I'm sure Uyghurs in China would not give a damn about AI.
To not lose all of it. Musk is shareholders and while shareholders make the decisions(or at least decide who do) they are also last to get any value when things go to receivership.
Do they? Where? In the US? I have multiple bank accounts in both UK and Poland and none of them charge for just having the account or a debit card associated with the account.