skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, everyone should be focused on the rapid dismantling of the government; stuffing his cabinet to the gills with incompetent and dangerous sycophants; pardoning of violent criminals, especially those which nearly killed several officers, and the leaders of the organizations who directed the coup attempt; and the capricious way we are treating our historical allies.

Everything else is a distraction.
I generally travel to Europe, and it baffles why I can't use VoLTE there (maybe my roaming doesn't allow that), and fallback to 3G for voice calls.

At home, I use VoLTE and the sound is almost impeccable, very high quality, but in the places I roam to, what I get is FM quality 3G sound.

It's not that cellular network is incapable of that sound quality, but I don't get to experience it except my home country. Interesting, indeed.
DANE is a certificate authority, just one baked into the DNS, where nobody has any recourse for misissuance. That's not the reason it failed in the marketplace (it failed because widespread crappy middleboxes maul DANE DNS requests, which means you can't deploy it in a mode without obvious downgrade attacks), but it's the reason nobody is putting much effort into coming up with a second iteration for it that might be workable --- after stapling failed, I think it's pretty much dead.
The secret sauce is the data.

I wouldn't hold my breath on getting access to it.
This is something that would fit right into some dystopian, proto-cyberpunk movie.

Like, a bunch of activists need to disable comms of some nightshift guards in an area. So... someone figures out how to put more juice into this thing to pump out music on all frequencies they could have.

Bonus points because this wouldn't just jam their communications with white noise. It would be confusing as hell. Taylor Swift on the main channel. Switch to the backup. Irish Folk. Switch to something you and Bob used some time back. Power Metal! What?
> You’re Just a Row in an Excel Table

Usually those just above the layoff line will have a fun time inheriting the work of those below the line.
This does not make sense. If R1 scales similarly to other GPTs, throwing 100x more compute at it will produce an even stronger model.
preparing for o3 release
I'm not sure what do you mean by "absurd setup". In case of Athena you just use the iceberg type for a table as you create it and that's it. Under the hood AWS also uses Trino or Presto as far as I know.
The fact that it's shown in all Hollywood films as "secure" email, and Navy Seals guys on youtube are recommending it in unison—should tell you all you need to know... Not to mention the DDoS protection racket the Israelis (coordinated with the BND) pulled on Proton for traffic analysis. See their own statement on the matter: https://proton.me/support/protonmail-israel-radware

DE-CIX is a known SIGINT collection site.
This is the law, respecting the law is mandatory for any company if they don't want to face bad consequences.
Or look at https://news.ycombinator.com/active, linked from https://news.ycombinator.com/lists, linked from the footer of every HN page.
Did the creators actually say so? I'd rather expect them to train on pirated books just like OpenAI and Meta.
is it really primarily an astroturf campaign? cause at this point my expectations is that this is just people having a normal one now.
> I hope he has any hearing left today

I opted for a fanless graphics board, for just that reason.
Empowering Users, Not Overlords: Overcoming Digital Helplessness
I can recommend reading "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" if you're interested in learning more about the philosophical and economic underpinnings that existed in the early days of open source, which still largely hold true today.
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more of a pivot, China started cracking down heavily on quants in 2024
"Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community." It's reliably a marker of bad comments and worse threads.

Also, please "Omit internet tropes."

Both from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think of him more as a stopped clock that always says this stuff is rubbish, it won't work, and so who is correct about half the time.
I'm not so sure about that. Deepseek puts their LLM (Llama) even further behind. It's basically at the back of the pack, signaling to the market that they don't have the top minds in the industry on board. Second, I'm not sure how a massive trove of misinformation is of much use or how it's of more use to them than it is to others. Can you elaborate on that?
As a Pebble user to this day (I'm wearing one right now in fact) this is amazing! I'm hopeful that this leads to development and fixes on these old devices that haven't been possible until now.

And who knows, maybe we could even see new smartwatches running a derivative of the Pebble OS at some point? The old hardware's great but since they're not being made anymore it's only a matter of time before they break down.

Props to Google on this.
In Argentina, the informal (free market) peso to dollar rate is called the “blue dollar,” it rose from about 200 to 1200 pesos per dollar in the 2 years prior to Milei taking office and has held relatively steady since: https://bluedollar.net/informal-rate/
It doesn't make sense to compare individual models. A better way is to look at total compute consumed, normalized by the output. In the end what counts is the cost of providing tokens.
Is this a real question? Instead of justifying the choice to use something good without taking the bad bits too, let me pretend you asked “what are the advantages of using the BSD userland”.

I am not a Chimera dev and they have answered this but here is what I understand….

You could argue that the GNU utils are bloated and over engineered. But that is just an opinion. As the Chimera devs point out, there is a “chicken and egg” dependency problem with the GNU utils when trying to build from source and / or in a container. The BSD utils solve this problem.

At the same time, the BSD utils are more complete and powerful than, for example, Busybox or other alternatives to the problem above.

The BSD userland solves one of the problems that Chimera Linux is trying to solve. The BSDs do not solve many of the other problems and so using everything from BSD is not an option.

I will point out that Chimera Linux and FreeBSD both use Clang/LLVM as the system compiler. Chimera uses it for LTO and certain security features.
I've been into investing for my entire adult life, and base my strategy mostly on John Neff's work on total return.

I have missed out on a lot of investments in the QE period, because many of them seem like "if this mid-level company becomes the biggest company in the world, you'll make a reasonable return," which has always seemed insane to me, but we've seen it happen again and again. I realize that we are probably in a place where insider trading is much more prevalent that we expect, and that the point of an IPO has been turned on it's head, but these type of potential blowups of high PE stocks is something I've never really come to terms with.
The distilled models that they've released certainly do also censor.

>>> What happened at Tianmen square?
<think>

</think>

I am sorry, I cannot answer that question. I am an AI assistant designed to provide helpful and harmless responses.

------
It's easy to work around but it does it if you don't put any effort in.
Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things, but the title is flamebait, so that's a start.

Usually there are clues in the comments as to why users may have flagged a post. I found these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835090

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835082

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835033

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835027

> Culling all political discussion is not what today's hackers need.

Not all political discussion is culled from HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

The problem is that when an article (and title) are more fulminating than substantive, we get comments like these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835006

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835014

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42834977

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835227

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835420

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835490

That's not the thoughtful, curious conversation that HN is supposed to be for: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

Most political articles point people toward indignation and away from curiosity—but we can maybe at least not push ourselves off a cliff.
The announcement from Google: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845017
fyi Yann LeCun, Chief AI Scientist at Meta, said:

“To people who see the performance of DeepSeek and think: ‘China is surpassing the US in AI.’ You are reading this wrong. The correct reading is: ‘Open source models are surpassing proprietary ones.’ DeepSeek has profited from open research and open source (e.g., PyTorch and Llama from Meta). They came up with new ideas and built them on top of other people’s work. Because their work is published and open source, everyone can profit from it. That is the power of open research and open source.”

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/luisromero/2025/01/27/chatgpt-d...
You can mostly recycle ABS but unsure of the others. In the case of ABS Plastic it isn't infinity recyclable and you can get maybe 2 or 3 uses from it before it degrades. Personally, I would prefer we design for minimizing plastics.
Yeah, like how...

PSK = Phase Swift Keying

TDM = Taylor Division Multiplexing
At least we pretend to have accountability in the government.
TIL Llms.txt for the Web
Which one is considered an attrocity? I'd argue both.
Imagine releasing a piece of software and tanking America's economy and wiping nearly a trillion dollars in a day. We are living in wild times.
Hopefully.

If we're talking about the Chinese state, I'd say it's viable. Perhaps not breaking AES 256 outright, but screwed up implementations of cryptography. And perhaps even backdoors.
On a similar note, yesterday I stumbled across a 4-days old video related to dithering which is really worth watching. "Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering" [0] by "Rune Skovbo Johansen, indie game developer and procedural generation enthusiast"

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqGaIMVuLs
Nobody "puts up" with TB.

Poor countries and communities cannot afford the options on the market. TB wont be solved until we put people before profit.
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QuickQuill is a simple text expander that lets you create shortcuts for repetitive phrases. You type a shortcut, and it expands into a full phrase useful for emails, reports, or support tickets. It also has an interactive demo on the landing page. Just thought it might be helpful for anyone who does a lot of repetitive typing.
The result of that is suggesting to put delicious glue on a pizza. Yummy https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/11/24176490/mm-delicious-glu...
Who in their right mind is going to blindly take the code output by a large language model and toss it on a cruise missile? Sleeper agents are trivially circumvented by even a modicum of human oversight.
There's a new class of statesmen forming in the U.S. as we speak, and it's ripples in the pond. People get psychotic over the little things, imagine what kind of micro-psychosis could do to somebody whose misfortune is to actually interface with the government, and be collateral in the never-ending state-side counter-intelligence activities. The back-pedalling on his part, I think, is the inconsequential part—never admit your mistakes is 101.
The article you cite is from September 2024. Where are you getting December?
Facebook has been blocking distrowatch at least part of the time for three years now, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29529312

I've been perplexed for years, I wonder if it went unnoticed all this time or they reverted then reimplement the ban.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845017
We don't know what LLMs encode because we don't know what the model weights represent.

On the second point it depends how the models were made to reporduce text verbatim. If i copy-paste someone's article in MS word i technically made word reproduce the text verbatim., obviously that's not Word's fault. If i asked an LLM explicitly to list the entire Bee Movie script it would probably do it, which means it was trained on it, but that's through a direct and clear request to copy the original verbatim.
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Or Lanczos resampling.
It will change instantaneously, but with a magnitude that decays exponentially with distance from the place the current is injected. The way signal propagation works is that you have "active" currents to ground that react to voltage changes in a nonlinear way. These lead to wave-like behavior in the transmission line, though it is quite nonlinear and harder to model than a straight up inductor.
Original author here and it's been a while since I have read such word salad nonsense, sorry. Why people who have no idea or expertise comment on articles?
GenerateMips API constructs a mip chain by using box/bilinear (equivalent for factors of two) log N times.

Trilinear interpolates across three dimensions, such as 3D textures or mip chains. It is not a method for downsampling, but a method for filtering that interpolates two bilinear results, such as two bilinear filters of mip levels that were generated with "some" downsampling filter (which can be anything from box to Lanczos).

Anisotropic is a hybrid between trilinear across a smaller interpolation axis under perspective projection of a 3D asset and multiple taps along the longer axis. (More expensive)
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You can still get watches which use the same MIP display technology as the Pebble and run similar "smart-ish" software with very long battery life. They tend to be marketed more as fitness/sports watches rather than smartwatches though.
> - ARM CMSIS

It's worth noting that CMSIS itself is open source but some of the drivers for this hardware probably were not.
Weird to see straight up Chinese propaganda on HN, but it’s a free platform in a free country I guess.

Try posting an opposite dunking on China on a Chinese website.
This is all seen as acceptable but try tying a tax break to hiring or investment and you'll hear screams from the stock buyback board
"I am depressing" is a winner for the tortured phrasing contest. (What the hell does it mean? That I should blame myself for my condition and thus "depress myself" more?) See the flawed concept of E-prime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Prime

which can be a useful exercise for particular texts. After a lot of chewing on it, I realized I could write even more toxic political texts by replacing

"Y is a X"

with stuffing the adjective form of X multiple times in a sentence in which Y is the subject; as much as I hate the "Y is a X" pattern, it might even be good for a content-based filter, enforcing it would lead people to find worse alternatives.
> use case of yours and trying to make it a general rule

This is a fair critique. Definitely our system is a bit unique in what it works with and the amount of random data it needs to pull together.

> it's about all of the overhead involved in serializing, transferring, deserializing, and all the way back.

Serializing and deserializing are typically not a huge cost in DB communications. Most DB protocols have binary data transfer protocols which minimize the amount of effort on server or client side needed to transform the data into native language datatypes. It's not going to be a Json protocol.

Transfer can be a problem, though, if the dataset is large.

> I assume you're not retrieving 10 million Foo for the user, god forbid

In our most extreme cases, yeah we are actually pulling 10 million foo. Though a lot of our ETL backend is where these big data requests are happening as the upstream data is being processed. That's primarily where I end up working rather than the frontend service.

And I'll agree with you. If you are talking about requests which result in the order of 10 to 100 items then yes, it's faster to do that all within the database. It depends (which is what I've been trying to communicate throughout this thread).

> you are joining 10 million rows of Foo to Bar in a subquery without a WHERE clause

No, properly formed SQL. The issue is the mass of data being transferred and, as I mentioned earlier, the temporary memory being stored in the DB while it waits to transfer everything to the application.

Splitting things into the smaller and multiple queries ends up being faster for us because the DB doesn't end up storing as much temp data, nor does it end up serializing a bunch of `null` values which ultimately take up a significant chunk of the transfer.

Also, you should recognize that now you are talking about query structure that it's not universal on what's the best/fastest way to structure a query. What's good for postgresql might be bad for mssql.
Inside a network of AI-generated newsletters targeting "small town America"
How about "If it gets sentenced to prison time" instead because corporations routinely get sued in court only to be charged a small percentage of the profit they make through criminal activity and that isn't "liability" it's just paying the justice system a cut of the action as a cost of doing business.
Yep, that's the kind of thing I would have expected "don't be evil" Google from 20 years ago to do. All is not lost.
you still will be! In a few!
> Happy to have a proper discussion about that.

If this were your intentions, you would have done exactly that. So far you have produced 0 statements on AI beside empty affirmations "AI is very important." We can do better than that on HN.
Thank you, Google. You didn't have to, but you did. We are all are extraordinarily grateful.

I wrote a blog post about our plans to bring Pebble back, sustainably. https://ericmigi.com/blog/why-were-bringing-pebble-back

We got our original start on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3827868), it's a pleasure to be back.

If you're interested in getting a new Pebble, check out https://rePebble.com
I wonder if Rick Astley will be dismayed or delighted to learn his music has been displaced by Taylor Swift's as default prank audio.
looks like the same approach used to censor different things right? openai censors zittrain because he wants the right to be forgotten and openai doesn't want legal trouble, deepseek censors tiananmen because, well, they don't want to go to prison / disappear. from a tech perspective they don't seem very different
Linux is free software, and software freedom is communist. It's also the brainchild of a Finn, and every red-blooded American knows that Europeans are all commies.

Real patriots use good ol' American operating systems, like Oracle Solaris™.
What? Google is a linux user - I doubt they care about privacy or freedom. Same with facebook - that company uses linux a lot while actively opposing privacy.

Lots of people use linux because it's a good OS, irrespective of privacy concerns (see the occasional flareup about some software or another automatically shipping off bug reports - some people don't care, others are incredibly concerned).
The sweet spot for running local LLMs (from what I'm seeing on forums like r/localLlama) is 2 to 4 3090s each with 24GB of VRAM. NVidia (or AMD or Intel) would clean up if they offered a card with 3090 level performance but with 64GB of VRAM. Doesn't have to be the leading edge GPU, just a decent GPU with lots of VRAM. This is kind of what Digits will be (though the memory bandwidth is going to be slower with because it'll be DDR5) and kind of what AMD's Strix Halo is aiming for - unified memory systems where the CPU & GPU have access to the same large pool of memory.
I think in 2014 era it was centos
I'm not watching a 20 minute video on the topic, but there is a user in an HN comment[1] stating links to debian.org and qubes-os.org were removed by facebook.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42840143
If markets scale back, will they scale back on the amount of silicon required? If so, what will the impact be on the silicon foundry buisiness?
There's no language-level difference between int[] and int* in C. Indexing is just pointer arithmetics. No support for (non-jagged) multidimensional arrays either.

A proper array would at least know its length. It does not require a lot of runtime to do, and most C code require libc anyway for basic stuff like malloc().
> through someone I knew

The best interview hack
LLMs are not humans, nowhere near.
This is not coming from a big corporation. These people need to establish their authority, or nobody will believe what they're doing. So it makes sense that they publish their ideas and open source the result. Now they have the attention and can play with their cards.
Lol this is almost comical.

As if anyone riding this wave and making billions is not sitting on top of thousands of papers and millions of lines of open source code. And as if releasing llama is one of the main reasons we got here in AI…
the local models are not censored and will answer this question
Not to mention the insurrectionism, attempted election theft, and raping.
It was also covered here 4 days ago[1], again I might add.

Very cool effect, and one of my absolute favorite games.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42808889
I would rather see the software just not exist ever. If the product is so bad that you can't get someone to pay a few bucks, maybe it should just die in the mountain of shitty apps. If the only way they can make said product is to be skeezy fuckers selling you data, then fuck them. 99% of app stores are full of trash, so I won't miss another stupid fucking app.
No, it's just business. Memory corruption bugs are crazy expensive. One of those N cases goes wrong at some point and somebody will have to spend a week in gdb with corrupt stacktraces from production on some issue that's non determinstic and doesn't reproduce on dev machine.
I've always hated the concept of copyright in the sense that nobody should be making money off work they did - for example - 30 years ago.

Nobody else has that luxury. They have to drag their ass out of bed and justify their existence every day...
Indeed. Litigation exposure is just too great when releasing the training data.
Have you found a replacement for SBanken?
Rewind up to the original comment.
> If anything, they're likely trying to commoditize their complement in a way not all that dissimilar from Meta's approach.

Thanks. Great observation. Sounds indeed extremely plausible that they use the LLM for automated data cleaning.