skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you did not get the memo people currently running the show in america think that white people are retarted and we need immigrants to come to fill all these positions we can’t find qualified americans (cause you know, we are all retarded). so you are on the right track whats about to be happening… few planes will take off carrying illegal immigrants and you’ll see social media posts about how they are keeping promises (albeit 1% maybe of the promises) while at the same time bringing in 100’s of thousands immigrants to replace you :)
Just out of curiosity, does any one find these sorts of retro gui appealing in saas-y type software?

I personally am turned off by it.

Unless of course I’m missing the point and it’s supposed to be ironic.
I would guess that the number of people listening to this media on anything higher quality than the built-in speakers on a 65-inch TV is minuscule. They’re optimizing for sound on an iPad, not a full surround sound setup.
That is not true at all. Some scientists at the time suspected a lab leak, talk of which was deliberately shut down.

"Dr Robert Redfield, who led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the Trump administration, told Vanity Fair that he received death threats from fellow scientists when he backed the Wuhan lab leak theory last spring.
"I was threatened and ostracised because I proposed another hypothesis," Dr Redfield said. "I expected it from politicians. I didn't expect it from science."[1]"

The US State Department were told to not to explore claims of Gains of Function research:

"According to an investigation in Vanity Fair magazine published on Thursday, Department of State officials discussed the origins of coronavirus at a meeting on 9 December 2020.
They were told not to explore claims about gain-of-function experiments at the Wuhan lab to avoid attracting unwelcome attention to US government funding of such research, reports Vanity Fair.[2]"

We may never know the truth, but its clear that there was politics being played since the beginning of the pandemic to obscure the truth, and not just by China.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57352992

[2] https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-...
For the non-Brits, "sixth-form" means years 12 and 13 of school - equivalent to junior and senior years of high school in the US. The first and second yearsof sixth form are referred to as "lower sixth" and "upper sixth" respectively.

It's a hold-over term from when secondary education (ages 11 and up) started in "first form" and worked up.
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> I’ve read that the lab was intentionally set near that wet market...

That seems unlikely, given that - per Wikipedia - the WIV opened in 1956 and the wet market opened in 2002.
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Ok, so? Provided the receiving server is configured to redirect the arbitrary data into the trash, you're in the clear, right? Not your fault someone sent you extra data, and you're not expected to keep it, and if you don't keep it anywhere, law enforcement could search your server but there's nothing to find because your system doesn't retain anything from the arbitrary data.
Not terribly; as for many use cases buying a whole laptop is cheaper.
Which American models? Are you suggesting the US government exercises control over US LLM models the way the CCP controls DeepSeek outputs?
First of all, thanks for sharing numbers. I live in the UK and often hear folks from the US touting huge salaries and I figured living costs must be higher but never knew by how much.

Second, this is absolutely wild to me. Is this your monthly expenses? I live in a pretty decent sized city in the UK and my mortgage is just under 1k per month. There's no way I could even attempt to spend 2k a month on food. That said I don't send my kids to private school, the state schools in my area are very good.

The idea of earning anywhere close to 500k is utterly mind boggling to me.
Facial recognition is far easier and better than people recognize. Facebook launched this nearly twenty years ago and it was fantastic then. Just imagine how good it is now.
Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison.

> https://youtube.com/watch?t=1980&v=-zRN7XLCRhc
Turns out you still need plenty of knowledge and agency to be any good at this stuff.
You’re right.
But even better than trying to get a compatible PCI card, find an older MacBook Pro that has built in FireWire ports and use something like iMovie to direct rip the DV content.
Unfortunately, it has to be done in real-time even though it’s digital data. I haven’t heard anyone use a high speed tape drive for them but it would be theoretically possible.

Also, that setup is a pretty good way to digitize Hi8 analog tapes. And I think you can use some of the camcorders as analog to digital converters of an analog video stream (eg, an attached vcr).
Bullshit jobs (Graeber): Im not sure if you are just starting out in the industry this book may not be for you. I had to stop reading it due to the horror of it all.
https://sherwood.news/tech/a-free-powerful-chinese-ai-model-...
My GCM doesn't take 20% of my compile times last I checked but even so, V8 is gonna be in a special camp because they're comparing against a compiler that doesn't do much code motion. LLVM does a lot of code motion so that "20%" is still being paid by LLVM during their hoisting and local scheduling passes.
You think China, in the 1950s, was opening research labs at the behest of the CIA?
The agency has been through several reforms since then, most notably the complete reorg after 9/11.

Like I said, that's not the same as knowing that they're following the rules now.
But it isn't the same organization by any stretch.
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And with the $495B left you could probably end world hunger and cure cancer. But like the rest of the economy it's going straight to fueling tech bubbles so the ultra-wealthy can get wealthier.
Bit/media rot exists, and it is a matter of time until we lose those bits (or however the signals are encoded) to entropy.

Considering the fact that many pieces of media in streaming services disappear all the time, I think we're fucked from a preservation point of view.
> Isn't that the kind wrong investment that can break nations?

It's such a weird question. You made it sound like 1) the $500B is already spent and wasted. 2) infrastructure can't be repurposed.
"but maybe this could have happened"* is the exact evidence being input into your bayesian model. The fact that this particular thing could have happened is a bit surprising, so it does count as some evidence, but it's not strong enough to then go run around saying on the internet it definitely did happen. Especially in the context where, as you point out, there's also other evidence of the form "but maybe <this other thing> could have happened and that's also surprising".

Which to address a different subthread, is exactly what some people did (go around on the internet confidently stating it did happen). Which is why, I think, other people then labelled the people seriously discussing the theory as conspiracy theorists. Which is a step too far, it's only the people confidently asserting from weak evidence that it definitely did happen who should be labelled as conspiracy theorists. Which is all to say since when does the internet do any of this nuance at all well on any side.

* GP's phrasing, which is arguably different from your phrasing of "but maybe it's true"
There are plenty of reputable banks that still pay 3-5%. Amex savings accounts are now 3.8%
I’m cautiously optimistic that if that tech came about it would quickly become cheap enough to access for normal people.
But it's still a non-modal dialog, which doesn't match the JavaScript functionality.
Prices will increase by five times in February, but it will still be extremely cheap compared to Sonnet. $15/million vs $1.10/million for output is a world of difference. There is no reason to stop using Sonnet, but I will probably only use it when DeepSeek goes into a tailspin or I need extra confidence in the responses.
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You can probably bring Mac Minis onto a business class airplane seat, plug it in to the HDMI port and edit while you fly.
Is there any hope of AI improving dubious refereeing ?

As in, perhaps decisions about unexpected red cards ?
It's got very little to do with any particular "marginalized group" -- We will all be marginalized under such a system. The people behind it will use anyone to advance the dystopian agenda, including "unprivileged" people. The majority of people are not on board with the agenda, but it hardly matters what they want because they aren't actually in control and most of them don't see the big picture.
Love to see specialized open models appearing and demonstrating great results.
The VCR era was peak physical media.
Musk has so many wacky things, public spats with his trans kid. Attacking the kid publicly. Imagine how hard that would be, your name is out there. Your extremely famous dad is talking about you? You are just a very vulnerable avg person.
Pfft. - Not really your field, is it?

How about total cost, weapon size and footprint, time to charge ..

Speaking of time to charge, you dodged the real question .. how many drones can be targeted and destroyed in (say) 30 seconds?
Curious if this will prompt OpenAI to unveil o1’s “thinking” steps.

Afaict they’ve hidden them primarily to stifle the competition… which doesn’t seem to matter at present!
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Why not use a dedicated algorithm?

Rolling hashes and bloomfilters would get you a lot more than trying to glean something out of a compressed stream. It's not because compression algorithms use dictionaries that it's the only way to build a dictionary...
Not sure where to start.

- The hardware purchased for this initiate can be used for multiple architectures and new models. If DeepSeek means models are 100x as powerful, they will benefit

- Abstraction means one layer is protected from
direct dependency on implementation details of another layer

- It’s normal to raise an investment fund without knowing how the top layers will play out

Hope that helps? If you can be more specific about your confusion I can be more specific in answering.
> don’t expect to do much coding.

Is it because of the way they render small font?
One way to look at the difference is that a "natural Ebola" almost certainly would have spread at some point anyways, and so it wouldn't affect the total number of world deaths in the end, just make them happen some number of years sooner.

Whereas an "artificial Ebola" would never have existed without it being intentionally created, so all the deaths aren't just time-shifted, they wouldn't have happened otherwise. They're new.
very cool work!!
I tried the 1.5B parameters version of deepseek-r1 (same size as GPT2 xl!) on my work computer (GPU-less). I asked it find the primitive of f(x)=sqrt(1+ln(x))/x, which it did after trying several startegies. I was blown away by how "human" it's reasoning felt, it could have been me as an undergrad during an exam.
And of course Oracle will provide the software.
You should realize experience in a tangentially related field and there being a lab somewhere in the area is not the same as insight and evidence. That’s like saying that if a new flu came out of Atlanta, the fact the CDC is there proves it came from a lab, and must be true because someone’s janitor cousin who worked there one summer said it was true.

“Low confidence” means that there is a lack of evidence and the statement is ambiguous; that it could be completely true, or completely false. The only lower confidence would be direct evidence that it is outright false. Given, as you said, how nearly impossible it would be to prove true, wouldn’t you think it equally nearly impossible to prove false?

Believe what you want, but even the CIA doesn’t lean on the side of you being right.
There may be non-empirical factors. For example, a lab-leak theory may give the US propaganda leverage over China in any non-kinetic conflict. It's not like the CIA is beyond shading its answers based on the political climate.
> "...trend has been toward more openness...

No offense but you're just injecting a trendy opinion without knowing anything about the man's history. Ellison was notorious even in the '90s-'00s and never made any real effort to hide it. The book "The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God Doesn't Think He's Larry Ellison" (yes, that's its actual title) came out all the way back in 2003, the title being a quip that had already been circulating for many years by that time.
> It is a matter of public record that parts of US intelligence (not CIA) had been tracking COVID in China since at least November of 2019.

What's public record is that ABC News reported[1] that two anonymous officials claimed there was an internal intelligence report in late November discussing an outbreak in China, and that it was briefed up the chain. All other news outlets then picked it up, with attribution (ABC News says someone else says...) buried deep in the text per usual. The report was immediately denied publicly by various officials and in over 4 years has never been corroborated, not even with other anonymous sources.

Plus, even if it were true, what's the relevance? It originally made headlines because it implied the Trump administration was slow to react; in particular, that they possibly had as many as 4 additional weeks in which to begin preparations. But it doesn't speak to origin. Most advocates for both the natural and lab-leak arguments all agree that the COVID-19 outbreak began sometime in Fall 2019. It's not a point of contention except possibly when comparing one overspecified theory against another overspecified, straw man theory. There are so many degrees of freedom to either theory (or rather, group of theories) that an early or late start doesn't significantly weigh in favor of one or the other.

[1] https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/intelligence-report-warned-c...
Well those are the overt political biases. Would you trust DeepSeek to advise on negotiating with a Chinese business?

I’m no xenophobe, but seeing the internal reasoning of DeepSeek explicitly planning to ensure alignment with the government give me pause.
I have substantially more confidence in their assessment than I do in you and your "circle." A circle which, based on your other posts in this thread so far, provides you a convenient safe-space to avoid the need to provide evidence, defend your assertions with sound argument, and enables you to feel superior by way of intellectual dishonesty.

I can only aspire to be so woke, to see reality so clearly and with such confidence!
Does this matter?

This is the CIA, which will make any kind of claim, true or false, if it suits their aims.

Well, it does signal their aims.
A NUC with USB-PD input could be powered from a USB-PD power bank.

I’d much rather do that than purchase a NUC with a built-in battery. Keeping the two pieces separate makes them easier to repurpose later.

Regardless, the market for such a device is relatively small.
> But the real goal of the constant back-and-forth over where it came from is not about finding the truth; that much seems quite obvious to me.

Yes, the annoying thing is that "the truth about covid" literally only matters to culture war grievances, it has no relevance whatsoever to the actual world. If it was a lab leak, then China needs to improve their BSL-4 safety... but they need to do that anyway[0]. If it was zoonotic, then they need to clean up the wet markets... but they need to do that anyway. The true origin of covid makes no difference at all, and I wish these people would just come out and admit this is all domestic political peacocking.

[0]: and so does everyone else, for that matter. The US has also had several close calls with BSL-4 leaks; if covid did originate from a lab leak, the fact that it wasn't from an American lab is just sheer dumb luck.
Thanks for reading.

For my precise work on the hyper-local angle you're asking after I did this analysis of Greater Manchester when I lived there in 2018 and it holds up really well. https://www.tomforth.co.uk/inequalityingreatermanchester/

Specifically on the GDP per capita numbers you quote, it's important to know what the "capita" means here. In your numbers, the capita is of residents. So people who commute into Manchester to work are counted in the GDP side of the equation and not in the capita side of the equation giving a largely meaningless number when comparing the strength of an economy. In the case of Leeds and Bradford that you mention it's largely the same effect. When someone commutes from Ilkley or Harrogate to Leeds to work their GDP is counted in Leeds but their capita is counted in Bradford or North Yorkshire.

While I agree that looking at smaller geographies is useful, and indeed I do in the link top, we need to consider that overall Greater Manchester, and all of the North's other cities, just have very little prosperity to go around. There are pockets of wealth, but they are pockets against a backdrop of poverty. And of course in London there are pockets of poverty, but they are pockets against a backdrop of wealth. You can convince yourself of this by looking at the ONS small area income estimate dataset and map.

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/personal...
> As an example, they cited how Devin, when asked to deploy multiple applications to the infrastructure deployment platform Railway, failed to understand this wasn't supported and spent more than a day trying approaches that didn't work and hallucinating non-existent features

An engineer not reading the docs and wasting a day chasing their tail because of that. Yes… how unrealistic…
Given a choice between having a billion dollars and not having a billion dollars, they're still going to choose to have a billion dollars.
Scroll to the bottom and you'll see that it must be enabled by the user, is experimental, and not listed in any HTML specification.
Actually it means we will potentially get 100x the economic value out of those datacenters. If we get a million digital PHD researchers for the investment then that’s a lot better than 10,000.
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Use ATproto, but with a different data model so that each "post" is associated with a URL being commented on. Then bring the moderation system from Bluesky.

(As much as I don't like ATproto's centralization, ActivityPub doesn't work the right way)
Thanks for replying no credit needed but I do not object LOL. It's a good walk through that you wrote. I have quite a few generations of Pis including the original. They're great for so many things. And they're so reliable I think in part because the community around software/hardware relationship feels so strong and robust.
The worse thing would be publishing an unfinished web site. That's why no one uses them anymore.
this happens in other places, it is just now hitting america but with any succession there will be people against it. sometimes wars are started (e.g. kosovo), sometimes it is peaceful (e.g. slovenia)… this will never happen in america cause the federal gov would never allow it but safe to assume if you do not living in Democratic Republic of Califonia you have option of moving to 49 other states in the Union :)
It is a good deal if you want to influence millions of bots.
I don’t understand their post on X. So they’re starting with DeepSeek-R1 as a starting point? Isn’t that circular? How did DeepSeek themselves produce DeepSeek-R1 then? I am not sure what the right terminology is but there’s a cost to producing that initial “base model” right? And without that, isn’t a lot of the expensive and difficult work being omitted?
"The US" is not a monolith; you're just using ambiguous collectives to cover for your political bias.
> how slow/resource intensive it is

compared to what?

It's not like all the other EDA tools are really fast or not resource intensive. For smaller design firms I would think things like FireSim [1] would be a significant advantage.

I can imagine it is a disadvantage in other ways, i.e. it's only possible to do single phase positive edge synchronous design, which could be an impediment to high performance digital design.

But I wouldn't imagine that scala performance is particularly significant.

[1] https://fires.im
Hah no way. The poor LLM has no privacy to your prying eyes. I kinda like the 'reasoning' text it provides in general. It makes prompt engineering way more convenient.
Sure, but with bit rot you would have had to buy a new disc anyways.

Preservation is a totally different subject. It's an ongoing challenge that is nothing new, and something librarians and archivists have made an entire profession out of.

Although these days, preservation is actually astonishingly easy for end users who store media in major clouds like AWS, since the cloud providers take care of eternally ensuring redundancy and re-copying data to new hard drives as soon as old ones fail.
I agree it sounds odd. It's a phrase I've moved to using after fifteen years of being shouted at for using other phrases. North England, while sounding a bit odd, generates much fewer rage replies than other formulations. There's also a slight preference on my part for shorter phrases because of social media.
Were they? Or were those who claimed it was the only possible answer, without the evidence to back that up?
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"Erned it". Dang, you don't usually make me LOL, but you got me there.
It’s basically like working on a projector. Everything is just a bit too hard to read.
It's an interesting game theory where once a better frontier model is exposed via an API, competitors can generate a few thousand samples, feed that into a N-1 model and approach the N model. So you might extrapolate that a few thousand O3 samples fed into R1 could produce a comparable R2/3 model.

It's not clear how much O1 specifically contributed to R1 but I suspect much of the SFT data used for R1 was generated via other frontier models.
I have seen many FOIA requests get answered with heavy redactions and otherwise partial answers. For "public by default," lots of arms of the government don't see transparency as something they are supposed to do, and more as an imposition.

Other parts of the government are good at responding to FOIA requests, but it's generally inversely proportional to the value of the information.