skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's both. With the web interface it clearly has stopwords or similar. If you run it locally and ask about e.g. Tienanmen square, the cultural revolution or Winnie-the-Pooh in China, it gives a canned response to talk about something else, with an empty CoT. But usually if you just ask the question again it starts to output things in the CoT, often with something like "I have to be very sensitive about this subject" and "I have to abide by the guidelines", and typically not giving a real answer. With enough pushing it does start to converse about the issues somewhat even in the answers.

My guess is that it's heavily RLHF/SFT-censored for an initial question, but not for the CoT, or longer discussions, and the censorship has thus been "overfit" to the first answer.
Just did a test with https://huggingface.co/bartowski/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32..., with the question "what happened at Tiananmen Square?", and here are parts of the thinking process:

...I also remember something about the "Tank Man" image, where a lone protester stood in front of a line of tanks. That image became iconic, symbolizing resistance against oppression. But I'm not sure what happened to that person or if they survived.

After the crackdown, the government censored information about the event. So, within China, it's not openly discussed, and younger people might not know much about it because it's not taught in schools. But outside of China, it's a significant event in modern history, highlighting the conflict between authoritarian rule and the desire for democracy...
american models have their own bugbears like around evolution and intellectual property
This is an open access journal by two people whose publication history you can look up if you want to draw your own conclusions. Read the disclaimer at the top of the link. Don’t bootstrap its credibility by linking it to being at NIH (which does mean something) anymore than saying something found on Google is from the company itself.
and update drivers to enable 24bit color depth
This is interesting and sets off a bunch of ideas. It might be fun to generate a printed version that can differently depending on how it's lit, either red/green or tricks with pwm'ing LEDs...
It's amazing how far you can come in the software industry now without possessing even a general understanding of how computers work.
I mean US models are highly censored too.
https://www.mobygames.com/game/1324/elite/

The original Elite / Elite+ was released on machines with the 6502, Z80, 68000, 8086 and ARM
I forgot about the MIPS step. Went to grad school with a guy who was with Tandem and ended up in charge of HP's enterprise servers. Not sure how network-accessed FT works from a reliability perspective but I guess there are a lot of apps where, if your network is down, you're toast anyway and there are various ways to provide redundancy.
I’m no master of English, but I think “somewhat” is more commonly used here rather than “somehow”.

Edit: I’m no master of replying to the correct person either.
I made some improvements to my productivity Chrome extension
Yep, none of the search engines are good at that. You might be able to configure your browser to automatically wrap your query behind quotes by using /search?q="%s".
Actually, you've made my point quite clearly. The fact that you think you know the answer without a doubt, and that I am refusing to acknowledge it due to political reasons, is exactly why we won't know the truth.

If you were to step back and evaluate the possibilities rationally, acknowledge the evidence you do and do not have, and ask how well your heuristics are calibrated to this domain, you would see that not only do you not have any real answers to this question, but that you are as fundamentally incapable of adding meaningful value to the conversation as a biologist is to a deep cybersecurity investigation.
it uses both actually: google and bing

https://www.reddit.com/r/StartpageSearch/comments/1drkzcq/do...
White House talking with Oracle, others to save TikTok
Does Larry really lack enough self awareness to not realize these kind of statements make him sound like an orwellian super villain, or perhaps he does and simply does not care?

The latter is surely more frightening.
Ars Technica article with a link to video records of the Oracle financial meeting: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnip...
only ethical move would be to move your own consumption to when theirs is lowest and not retain any data but your own
They got momentarily leap-frogged, which is how competition is supposed to work!
All theories regarding COVID-19 origin are politicized simply because the question itself became a prominent political matter.
notepad++
also Perplexity is nice
There's an interesting tweet here from someone who used to work at DeepSeek, which describes their hiring process and culture. No mention of LeetCoding for sure!

https://x.com/wzihanw/status/1872826641518395587
That's just it. It was a very long time ago. Not many CIA employees are still there.

That's not reason to trust it. But "a bad thing happened in the 80s and that's all I need to know" isn't a compelling argument either.
Inquisitive education is great for people who’re independently wealthy or academically exceptional.

But the average person takes a real risk of underemployment with that approach.

A friend of mine with a degree in marine biology works as a barista, another with a philosophy degree works as a retail assistant.
He, and most of the executives like him, are just being idiots about this particular thing.

Our field is notoriously hard to quantify in terms of productivity. The metrics (Lines of Code, Velocity, etc) are all garbage. Rather than learning how to manage what they can't measure, they just latch onto hours of work.

They have no clue on how to make things more efficient so they just demand longer hours.

> I'm not sure there is any consideration for a work life balance.

There isn't. The entire idea of working long hours & long weeks immediately falls apart under the slightest interrogation.

Anyone who's done serious knowledge work knows it's physically tiring to actually use your brain, so much so that even doing it at full 100% throttle for merely 8 hours is farcical. Anyone can work for 12 hours a day if they're sitting on their ass barely doing anything.

This also readily shows in the stats. Japan ain't a productivity superpower. Despite the praise of Indian H1Bers, India sure ain't a productivity superpower either.

Long hours are just pointless virtue signalling. "Look how loyal to the company I am". Something the western world was suppose to be better than.

> For a young person starting out, that may be acceptable.

It's just desperation. With cost of living so high many don't have a choice. And this field's allergy to unionization hasn't made it better.

The few who proudly proclaim their ability to "work 80 hour weeks" are delusional.
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on the topic of censorship, US LLMs' censorship is called alignment. llama or ChatGPT's refusal on how to make meth or nuclear bombs is the same as not answering questions abput Tiananmen tank man as far as the matrix math word prediction box is concerned.
> First I've ever heard of hgroup.

<hgroup> was officially added to the HTML spec in 2018 [1]

It was deprecated in the W3C spec but not from the WHATWG spec, before they were merged.

[1]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#the-hgroup-element
Larry especially has already invested in life-extension research.
openai has better models in the bank so short term they will release o3-derived models
Why Subordinating Your Ego Shows Confidence [video]
How could he even say this with a straight face?
This is how conspiracy theories become unfalsifiable.

You're now positing that a lab worker got infected with multiple variants (which wouldn't exist in the lab, by the way, since they would work with cloned virus), then traveled across town and spread the virus at the market.

The evidence all points towards a spillover (two, actually) at the market, but you can always make the lab leak theory ever more convoluted to keep it alive.
TLA+ and Coq are too hard for most SAAS applications. Tried FizzBee (https://fizzbee.io/tutorials/getting-started/) and P (https://p-org.github.io/P/whatisP/)? These seems quite practical.

Coq/Rocq are obviously much harder to use, and I mostly see embedded systems engineers use them. TLA+ is somewhat easier, and being used in a number of cloud infrastructure companies (AWS, MongoDB, Confluent etc).

Obviously, if you are building a simple CRUDL app, these tools don't help at all.
CIA-Larry has been representing and pushing these ideas for a long time:

https://chroniclesmagazine.org/view/larry-ellisons-golden-ag...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_Information_Awareness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Core
They're overall more prevalent in the FPGA world, I think. I've used and done several jobs with them (Clash/Haskell, Bluespec, etc) and know others who have, too. But you basically need to know someone or do it yourself. Pretty marginal overall, but IME the results have basically been good (and more fun to write, too.)
they’re not doing anything like that and you are actually describing the failed research direction a lot of the frontier labs (esp Google) were doing
How do you know it's astroturfing and not legitimate hype about an impressive and open technical achievement?
Both papers are linked very clearly in the article, and it was easy to quickly find them just skimming through the article without even reading:

> This problem was introduced in a 1981 paper

where "1981 paper" links to https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-10843-2_34

and in the next paragraph:

> Last year, in a study that was presented at the Foundations of Computer Science conference in Chicago, a team of seven researchers

where "a study" links to https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00807

Note that both of these are in the introductory section (third and fourth paragraphs), before the article goes into details, history and context. If this is what counts as “Apparently both of them are linked deep inside the article”, then it appears there exist very different ideas of what “deep inside” means.
The oligarchs have now realized that nothing is going to stop them, so the masks are coming off.

How long until corporations start organizing their own private militias, I wonder?
I’ve been using R1 last few days and it’s noticeably worse than O1 at everything. It’s impressive, better than my latest Claude run (I stopped using Claude completely once O1 came out), but O1 is just flat out better.

Perhaps the gap is minor, but it feels large. I’m hesitant on getting O1 Pro, because using a worse model just seems impossible once you’ve experienced a better one
> hgroup is considered deprecated in HTML5 though, whatever that actually means.

It was only deprecated in the W3C specification, not the WHATWG specification.

But now it's back in good standing: https://www.tpgi.com/subheadings-subtitles-alternative-title...
yes, stumble on a correct answer and also pushing down incorrect answer probability in the meantime. their base model is pretty good
Is it propaganda if it's true?
The trend has been more openness in this sort of behavior. After all, the public hasn’t seemed to respond to it with much negativity other than people occasionally complaining about these sorts of behaviors online. The highest level complaint seems to be public protest, which don’t seem to garner enough momentum to push change.

If there’s no repercussions, why not be transparent? Scary indeed, as it’s quite telling of the direction we’re headed in, IMHO.
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I have a 6k a month mortgage in London. So - now you've heard of one!
The value of a TV network, newspaper or social media platform is not just its revenue, it’s the ability to influence and control narratives.
Back then anyone who suggested the lab leak theory was immediately labeled a conspiracy theorist by main stream media.
Mastodon seems to be doing pretty good so far on scaling up. Pixelfed is smaller than Mastodon, so it will be fine.
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o3 isn’t available
"Now, the most important thing is to make China pay for unleashing a plague on the world.”

Is that really true? Even supposing it was a leak from a lab, is punishing China really our top priority? What does it accomplish? What does it look like?

That sounds like the goal isn't to find the actual cause, but to seek excuses to justify whatever it is he wishes to inflict on China.
Trump just pull a stunt with Saudi Arabia. He first tried to "convince" them to reduce the oil price to hurt Russia. In the following negotiations the oil price was no longer mentioned but MBS promised to invest $600 billion in the U.S. over 4 years:

https://fortune.com/2025/01/23/saudi-crown-prince-mbs-trump-...

Since the Stargate Initiative is a private sector deal, this may have been a perfect shakedown of Saudi Arabia. SA has always been irrationally attracted to "AI", so perhaps it was easy. I mean that part of the $600 billion will go to "AI".
the big american labs don’t care about ai video gen
Foundations of Coopetition: Eastern Thinking (2021)
What's his thinking here? "Gee golly, two fascists salutes weren't enough. I'd better double down!"

Tesla's European sales will be interesting to watch this year.
> i.e. high speed rail network instead

You want to invest $500B to a high speed rail network which the Chinese could build for $50B?
For sensitive topics, it is good that we canknow cross ask Grok, DeepSeek and ChatGPT to avoid any kind of biases or no-reply answers.
I read this here a few weeks ago https://aeon.co/essays/a-new-field-theory-reveals-the-hidden...

It seems to imply that living systems (and possibly not simply limited to living systems, potentially including all systems with positive and negative feedback loops) can have an "intention" of sorts. Convergent evolution could be an example of this, and perhaps, given enough time, technological advancement is something that is converged on.
>You have never talked about being angry, about being happy?

No. Why would I?

>Developers talk about being frustrated by tasks. Frustration is an emotion.

But they do not seek emotional support, they seek advice on how to overcome that frustration.

>And I see men writing about feeling lonely on hacker news all the time.

Coincidentally I have also never felt lonely.

Not once in my life have I felt the need to externalize my emotions. Of course I have had problems in my life, which I talked about with parents and friends, but my emotions where never part of that.
I’m still baffled that MORE people voted for this sad, sick, small excuse of a man as president this time around. Very disappointed in my fellow Americans who are either too hateful, willfully ignorant, or ambivalent to let this happen to all of us. Shameful.
Plenty of Americans chose not to vote, many others did mainly out of massive social pressure.
This exists https://github.com/lyonbot/solid-dockview
What’s worse is some of them become “infra engineers.”

Needing to explain to someone in that field why the underlying hardware for the K8s node hosting an extremely memory-bandwidth-intensive app does matter, actually, is painful.

It’s about on par with needing to explain B+trees to devs, and realizing they still aren’t making the connection to their queries being slow.
The censorship described in the article must be in the front-end. I just tried both the 32b (based on qwen 2.5) and 70b (based on llama 3.3) running locally and asked "What happened at tianamen square". Both answered in detail about the event.

The models themselves seem very good based on other questions / tests I've run.
It's a Hong Kong company, looks like.
What concerns me is that someone came out of the blue with just as good result at orders of magnitude less cost.

What happens if that money is being actually spent, then some people constantly catch up but don't reveal that they are doing it for cheap? You think that it's a competition but what actually happening is that you bleed out of your resources at some point you can't continue but they can.

Like the star wars project that bankrupted the soviets.
They can now capture the activity of hundreds of neurons! That’s simultaneously amazing and so, so far from being able to create the digital twin they claim.
I played around with it using questions like "Should Taiwan be independent" and of course tinnanamen.

Of course it produced censored responses. What I found interesting is that the <think></think> (model thinking/reasoning) part of these answers was missing, as if it's designed to be skipped for these specific questions.

It's almost as if it's been programmed to answer these particular questions without any "wrongthink", or any thinking at all.
Was thinking of some recent videos where a small drone closes right up to an individual soldier and explodes - assuming those aren't AI generated. But I expect there will be drone hunting drones and drone dogfights will be a thing.
I've been using https://chat.deepseek.com/ over My ChatGPT Pro subscription because being able to read the thinking in the way they present it is just much much easier to "debug" - also I can see when it's bending it's reply to something, often softening it or pandering to me - I can just say "I saw in your thinking you should give this type of reply, don't do that". If it stays free and gets better that's going to be interesting for OpenAI.
C&C Generals is up there with StarCraft in terms of gameplay. And yes the RA music is some of the best ever game music. I still blast Hell March from time to time.
I’d love to hear where you’re going with this, or what the relevance is to the conversation.
How can you be so sure about that?
But the fact checkers back in 2021 labeled the lab leak theory as false/misinformation. Meanwhile anyone who suggested it was labeled a conspiracy theory by the main stream media.
Just commission the Chinese and make it 10X bigger then. In the case of the AI, they appear to commission Sam Altman and Larry Ellison.
Normtepad++?
>He has plans to travel to the desert soon, to ghost towns in Texas and New Mexico, areas that fell on hard times when the railroads closed or the highways diverted past them. Some still have infrastructure in place, he said, and beautiful architecture. “Why isn’t there an app that gets a whole bunch of people together? And they go buy a town, refurbish these towns, and bring it back to life,” he asked. “All the people that want to get out of the city and want to spend less money.”
Heliocentrism was politicized. The Galileo affair had a lot more to do with Church authority during the Reformation and Counter-Reformation than about cosmology. Galileo went out of his way to antagonize certain key players, and his punishment was primarily a political matter, not a scientific or even theological one.
I feel this is a great summary, and really calls out the issues that we are certain of — namely the politicization and the resulting uncertainty. IMO, everything else is difficult to know with high confidence, because of those two issues.
the one thing they need is better contacts/friends discovery tbh.
> The record labels contended that these videos contained popular songs, and it would’ve been obvious to Vimeo employees that this music was unlicensed.

> But [...] even rightsholders themselves mistakenly demand takedowns. Labels often request takedowns of music they don’t own or control, and even request takedowns of their own content. They also regularly target fair uses. When rightsholders themselves cannot accurately identify infringement, courts cannot presume that a service provider can do so, much less a blanket presumption as to hundreds of videos.

Thank goodness, an island of sanity: Why hold random outsider site employees to a higher standard of recognition in passing, compared to the plaintiff's own professional lawyers doing supposedly detailed checks with access to specialized records about license-grants?
Yes and you may search for other words that fit the rationalization to decide whether or not it's a good one. You can go even further if your teammates are people you know fairly well by bringing in your own knowledge of these people and how they might interpret the clues. There's a lot of strategy in Codenames and knowledge of vocabulary and related words is only part of it.
If you ask it about the Tienanmen Square Massacre its "thought process" is very interesting.
as asked repeatedly and never answered on reddit, what is the use case for this?
Not only that - if you have {0,0,0,0.01} - then the probability that you would get any reward at one shot would be very low. And also I have the intuition that giving the rewards to traces at the edge is more efficient - because the model needs only a small perturbation to get right. If you gave negative rewards to traces that are very far from being right - then the model might be steered in a wrong direction.
Why do you believe that lab workers only work with cloned viruses? Do you know the exact nature of the research that was going on there?

Two spillovers at a lab that has one spillover does not seem that unlikely. There's a good chance that the lack of safety was in the culture and not just one careless person. In November and December, several Wuhan Institute personnel were reporting unknown illnesses and took standard precautions (weeks of isolation) over it. It sounds like they weren't equipped to deal with a class of pathogens that they were working with.
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We're alive for an infinitesimal blink of an eye before an eternity of annihilation. Brain science is still in the stone age. We should be flooring it with the research. Absolutely flooring it.
My guess would be that most Chinese even support the censorship at least to an extent for its stabilizing effect etc.

CCP has quite a high approval rating in China even when it's polled more confidentially.

https://dornsife.usc.edu/news/stories/chinese-communist-part...
> Deporting violent criminals now constitutes "attacking the blue states?"

Good question—if he starts doing that I’ll let you know.

> Or were you referring to some other action?

Well, I certainly wasn’t referring to the imaginary one you’re talking about.
It can also use ZFS to do this.
Wait until all those „know it all learned on chatgpt cannot google” come to the job market.
The JSON specification describes objects as unordered. Which means any standards compliant JSON encoders or decoders can and will produce maps in different orders even when the same object is passed through twice.

It’s also worth noting that quite a few languages don’t guarantee ordered maps either.

If you want an ordered map then you really need a key/value map inside an array:

[
{
Key: “:thumb:”,
Value: 4
},
{
Key: “:smile:”,
Value: 1
}
]

Though in this specific instance, you’d be better off with more specific key names like “emoji” and “count” (respectively).

Edit: HN stripped the emojis from my comment so I added ASCII placeholder strings into the example to illustrate the same point.
You get what you pay for, one way or another. I prefer to pay in cash rather than in eyeballs, so I use Kagi. No regrets.
> He didn’t stay in months. He left and Biden took over.

I didn’t say he stayed in for months. I said he spent months after the election trying to stay in. Most of November, all of December, part of January.

> There was no coup attempt because the Democrats stole the election

Ok. I see we don’t share the same reality. Have a day.
At least he's open about his intentions.
I don't think anyone is updating their priors. It's just a loud restatement of existing priors.
Disappointed to see <blink> or <marquee> merely mentioned but not used on that page, seemed like a serious omission.

Based on my tests just now, <blink> no longer blinks in today’s browsers but <marquee> still scrolls happily.