skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might take 5 yrs to find the use cases. That's what happened with the dark fiber from the .com boom. Go look at Cisco 2001 for parallels
I think the message everyone now accepts is: "there is no moat". It is plain stupid to think big models can be magically copy-protected - they are simply arrays of numbers and all components one need to create such arrays are free and well established. This is unlike the whole infrastructure, processes, social connections, hardware and storage, one need say to recreate a service like YouTube or Facebook. Large models are different - you don't need all of that - the future of LLMs is Open Source like Linux.
> I am a native Swedish speaker and I have had a hard policy since I was a teenager to have all electronics set to English and not Swedish. Why?

The base reason is that Scandinavian teenagers can learn English by sheer osmosis from Anglo culture. (That is not the case in many other places.) Then it makes perfect sense to:

> Because the translations are lossy at best.

Since (my reason at least) is that I can troubleshoot problems using the English Internet corpus. And I don’t need to bother with multiple terms.

Granted I was older before I committed to this practice.
> Over the last 20 years, 100-200 such cables globally have been damaged annually.

[Citation Needed]
Not really.

The Magnificent Seven are the only thing propping up the whole US economy.

If they go down, you go down.
In Germany now there are laws in place for this, you get ridiculous stuff like as consultant you are not allowed to eat together with team mates from the employer because that is seen as bounding activities (you may "accidently" bump into each other in the cantine, but not go together), or share the same office equipment for coffee, having to go down the stree to get coffee while employees get theirs from the kitchen, and so on.
Fair enough, but that still uses a lot more memory during training than what DeepSeek is doing.
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Show HN: I built one of my favorite Linear features for GitHub Issues
GitHub’s core UX hasn’t really changed a whole lot over the years and could do so much more to help its massive community of open source maintainers. For instance, I recently enabled Linear’s GitHub integration and was pleasantly surprised by how well Linear was able to identify similar issues. This allowed us to close a surprisingly large percentage of our bugs as duplicates during bug triage. I find these kinds of simple ML features to be far more useful than slapping a chat interface in GitHub.

I wanted to build something similar for GitHub Issues so I built a simple GitHub bot that automatically comments on GitHub issues if it finds similar issues. Give it a try (no sign ups required) on any public GitHub repository at https://triagster.com/app/showhn !
Ask HN: Is there an AR/VR surface detection on native web?
Hello,

I'd like to ask about javascript plugin where I don't use any Lidar or some 3D tools to detect surface.
But it doesn't matter because you got them at a price you deemed they were worth based on some analysis right? :)
You are correct but please read: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments
For me layoff was great:

- 3 month severance, free money

- 1 year unemployment support, more free money

- fat tax return, since I falled into lower income bracket, even more free money

- moving out out expensive city to countryside, less expenses (and yes more money)

I took one year off, finished my opensource project and started consulting. Layoff tripled my disposable income and vastly improved quality of my life.
this same forum ignored deepseek one month ago, save for a few... open minded people.
It has been 1.5 years since I was laid off for 6 months. Here is what I learned about this in my 19 year career in software (mostly in JavaScript):

* If you can do the job but nobody else can and it’s a critical role you are probably immune from layoffs even with a horrible annual evaluation. It’s not you that’s critical, it’s the job you fill that’s critical.

* if you take deliberate actions to make yourself critical, such as the only person who knows the code base, it’s only a matter of time before the mega corp dumps you. Self-appointed critical people are too expensive and viewed as toxic by management, but you can probably get away with this at a mom and pops shop.

* once incompetence becomes the universally accepted norm it doesn’t matter that you can do what others cannot. Everybody is a replaceable beginner irrespective of their titles and years of experience and treated exactly as such. The survivors are the people that don’t rock the boat.

* if you have years of experience operating, managing, and authoring both people and technology in side projects you are probably far further along into your career than you are getting paid for. If your career is stagnant trying doing something wildly different and see what happens. I achieved rapid promotion after changing careers.

* don’t ever work more than you have to unless it’s something you want to do knowing you won’t get paid for it. I liked writing personal software outside of work because at work it could do my job for me or it frees me from the restrictions of shitty commercial software.

* the best way to impress management is to 1. do less work and 2. solve tough problems and share your solutions. Don’t be special. Demonstrate value.
Hedy is designed for use in classrooms, and reaches many kids who otherwise would not have tried programming at all. See it as a stepping stone towards programming rather than a great language.

Disclaimer: I've been involved with the project (in a tiny way), and am a fan.
Bringing in money to those who sell and raising prices to those who buy.
> These are deliberate actions.

Have any of them actually been confirmed to be deliberate actions, or is this your hypothesis? Last time I checked on older incidents, they seem to all have been proper accidents, but I haven't checked on the last ones.

> There have not been this many accidents in such a short timespan, limited to such a small geographical area.

Yeah, ~7 events in the last 12 months (or what it is) does sound like a lot. I'm having a hard time finding some credible source listing all incidents though, so we could compare year-by-year, because I'm sure the news also reports a lot more about it, than before.
You are evaluating this as a tool that is intended to train people up to being professional software developers.

It's not!

It's instead intended to give every child in the world, regardless of inclination, some first-hand experience in programming computers. Some of these may go on to become professional software engineers, and if they do it will be time enough to become proficient in the common lexicon. Even if they don't, at least they've gotten a better understanding of these machines that inescapably pervade our lives. And kids that wouldn't have thought they'd have an interest in programming get an easy-entry exposure and may decide to pursue it professionally after all.

Given that that's the audience, the goal is to take away any barrier to the essential skill to learn, which in this case is writing instructions for an unthinking machine.

Kids that already know they love programming and are/were willing to do whatever it takes to learn it (i.e., probably nearly everyone on this forum, including myself), are not the audience! Those kids will make it one way or another. Hedy is for all the other kids out there.
Yes, AMD drivers work fine for games and things like that. Their problem is they basically only focused on games and other consumer applications and, as a result, ceded this massive growth market to Nvidia. I guess you can sort of give them a pass because they did manage to kill their archival Intel in data center CPUs but it’s a massive strategic failure if you look at how much it has cost them.
It turns out that these incidents are actually incredibly common [1], about once every 3 days. But 'undersea line disrupted temporarily in mundane way' wasn't exactly international news until it could be tied into geopolitics.

[1] - https://blog.telegeography.com/what-happens-when-submarine-c... (telecoms intel service/site)
Ask HN: So Where's the Moat for AI?
Almost 2 years ago the infamous "moat memo" from Google leaked, it seemed like at the time this was heavily dismissed, however, as the months go on this seems correct. This current generation of GenAI seems like a race to the bottom. Apple seems a lot more justified in their reluctance to join this race. With the advancements that Deepseek has recently made is there any moat in AI?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813322
Agree with most of that. yet, I think there is a lot of value in intuitively understanding the 'fors' and the 'ifs' in a way that's different than a combination letters.

Always reminding yourself that 'if' means 'jezeli' (or paste if in your lang) before writing is an extra cognitive load, quite annoying for a kid in the age of dopamine disruption.

Is that problem huge? Don't think so.
I’ve actually found a lot of benefit in the exact opposite. I started shooting film which does have a pretty big cost per trigger press and it has forced me to consider each shot a lot more.

For me, I found having hundreds of photos on my DSLR’s SD card a daunting task and the raw photos would sit for months before I’d get around to reviewing them (if I even bothered at all).

Sitting down and spending an evening developing/scanning/converting negatives, however, I find rather enjoyable.

To each their own; I think the important thing is to find a workflow that works for you so you can capture as many memories as possible!
True. I think even before that the Mitsubishi iMiev and its peugeot/citroën counterparts predated the Model S and outsold it in the early years.
> Buying your domain from our domain registration site https://www.protonhosting.com will be as well a real help. We have good prices for almost all domains and regularly we run promos when you can register your domain for just few dollars.

The linked domain [1] redirects to [2] which is a reseller of Endurance International Group. Prices are not cheap for the domains to be honest.

[1] - https://www.protonhosting.com

[2] - https://protonhosting.supersite2.myorderbox.com/
Those service plans are not mandatory and they don't need to be very comprehensive, for ICEs it usually revolves around changing the oil and filters, it doesn't include comprehensive checks of the car's functionality.
Yes. The shovels (Nvidia) should be happy with this. The competition gold diggers should be scared of the alchemists. This analogy ain't working.

But yeah agree with you!
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What about comma.ai?
Not in my circle. Usually, threatening to sue is enough. I know people who increased their severance package because they said that "they wanted to talk to the lawyer from their legal insurance before accepting any severance package."

Of course this doesn't work if you have a work council, usually the work-council negotiate a severance package algorithm (= fix_amount + tenure * amount), and this is usually un-negotiable. This makes sense, thanks to collective bargaining, it's most likely one the best deal you could have gotten. (Even though libertarians will flock-in and start going "How do I know, that I, as a highly performing individual couldn't have negotiate better!?! This seems unfair!")
> Those who made the poor decisions remain, and some are even promoted, while the people carrying out the work are let go.

That's usually accompanied by some mealy mouthed communication from the CEO that "the decision rests with me" or some other poor faith mea culpa while you end up scrambling to get health cover for your wife and kids and figure it how far and severance will get you
Well this thread got nuked
I am not any of that.

Good luck for asking chatGPT for world history.
Traders are saying not doing multitoken prediction, not using Sharpe ratio adjusted rewards, using reward models, and not compressing KV cache tokens by >90%, were supposed to be worth hundreds of billions of dollars of future expected revenue flow, at least according to other traders.

I say to the traders: you should have just stuck to reading arxiv, TPOT, and jhana twitter for the past 2 years, rather than listening to other traders, if you were trying to understand the utter spread of low hanging fruit that just hasn’t been picked up yet!
We are at multiple trillion dollar investment territory, all purely based on the idea that "to make AI you need lots of GPU and power"
Washington Post is not a reliable source because it's owned by Jeff Bezos, and billionaires should be mistrusted. And the "source" is worthless as they could be completely made up.

Anonymous US intelligence officials have told me that I am the greatest and most attractive person ever to have existed.
> Actually is was designed because the X11 codebase was bad and nobody wanted to work on it.

This sounds like "Wayland codebase is good and everybody wants to work on it".
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Would you like a CCP sleeper agent to work in your company?
Qubes OS is the perfect operating system for security-conscious users
Could you please explain how the European regulations requiring periodic inspections to ensure vehicles are road-worthy and safe for their occupants and other road users 'move industry to places that have effectively no environmental and labour regulation'?
Or just do boring sound financial planning based on investment goals and retirement age!
From Meta’s perspective, AI could be incredibly profitable in the context of generating adverts or interactive chat bots for businesses.

They just don’t want to use OpenAI/Google models because they fear being screwed over by them with anti-advert terms of service or price increases. Similar to what they suffered with Apple.
Nothing, and I think that was the point GP was making. Since not much of Apple's valuation is tied to AI hype they won't suffer (at least not close to as much) from the bubble bursting.
Solving complex billable metrics with custom SQL expressions in Lago
TW semi employees also happily move to PRC. Korea got clipped too hard by CHIPs, Samsung needs AI unless you want PRC phones proliferate even more globally.
It didn't sound plausible to me either, but then I found stories like these:

https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-environment-watch/report-t...

So what sounds to me like an unbelievable level of incompetence is not that unlikely.
Actually, compression is an incredibly good way to think about intelligence. If you understand something really well then you can compress it a lot. If you can compress most of human knowledge effectively without much reconstruction error while shrinking it down by 99.5%, then you must have in the process arrived at a coherent and essentially correct world model, which is the basis of effective cognition.
Some EVs do this. Audi E-tron uses brakes on the first application of the drive.
Not sure about Teslas.
Have we gotten captains to confess as to why they dragged the anchor at specific times over the cables? No.
We do have records showing that the ships have sailed across the cables multiple times, slowing down every time they have passed them.
This just isn't true unfortunately, but the angle of attack that is true is AI replacing the need for the rest of the company for you to be able to make money as an individual.
I think the camera-free designs while inherently limited, as the article states, are the only way that this tech will be accepted in public. The glasshole phenomenon is real. I’m not going to engage with someone with a camera on their face at anything but the most superficial level. It adds an unwanted context to every interaction.

There are technological measures that could overcome this, but even if running a local model in the glasses were possible, how could this be trusted?

As a person who would love to use this technology, with camera, anyone using this would be essentially persona non grata until this was off of their face. And even without cameras, knowing that your voice interaction with a person is 100 percent recorded…

So, there must be a way to leverage AI in everyday life… but unless we can figure out a way to keep private interactions (99 percent of F2F interaction) legitimately private, I don’t think these devices will be a success.
Instead of spreading FUD you could go read the AGPL.
And since the gold supply is limited, fewer shovels would indeed be required.
I didn’t say it was either or. It was a symbiotic relationship. The Soviets were willing (and in a position they were forced to) lose millions. It was a tragedy.

Americans were in position to fund and aid it. Both Stalin and Khrushchev acknowledged that American material help was of great importance.
Something about the cookie banner on this site hijacks my history so I can't go backwards.
I'm not an expert but I don't think it is, because they took place in international waters and unless there's proof to the contrary, they're done by civilian vessels. And it being done by dragging anchors makes it plausible deniability of being accidents.

It's really annoying to be honest. Makes me wish for stricter laws for international waters when it comes to undersea infrastructure.
It was most likely Ukraine. Russia and Ukraine are at war.
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I wonder if these is due to different inspection parameters or simply due to stuff like road salt, different topography, etc
That's a cool idea.

So a simple return makes a newline, and two quick returns have a different meaning. I like that.

The way I support multiline is via the little triangle in the search bar. I think I'll keep it, because it is easier to discover. The double-return would need some kind of textual hint. Like when you press enter once, a little hint could pop up below the search area telling you that to leave the text entry, you can hit enter twice.

And on mobile I rarely use multiline searches I think. On the Desktop I use shift-return to create a newline.
The point is that capital has a cost.

If you’re not carrying the cost of that capital on the books you’re not “making money” at all.
So each state should have an healthcare embassy to coordinate with the other 49 states? Collecting the same data, but 50x?

Maybe we can call them the “Duplicate Centers for Disease Control”. Sure sounds efficient.
> Personally I think nations on the Baltic should simply ban Russian or Russian-originating ships from their waters

Last incident involved a Bulgarian ship that was Maltese-flagged. Before that it was a Chinese ship I think. I don't even Russia would be stupid enough to send Russian ships to do Russian sabotage, but maybe I underestimate their willingness to "show off".

> Just allowing the sabotage to continue is a bad idea.

Plenty of information to learn by not run into situations without observing the behavior first. It seems like the last incident they were watching on standby as soon as they dropped their anchor, but they were standing by and observing until they tried to dock.
Looks like huge astroturfing effort from CCP. I am seeing these coordinated propaganda inside every AI related sub on reddit, on social media and now - here.
The funny thing about that is that Google doesn't use Kubernetes internally because it doesn't scale to their level. Borg is more advanced than Kubernetes in the ways that Google needs, so really Kubernetes is dumbed down for everyone else, and everyone else isn't Google scale, (except for those that are, eg Meta has Twine). so yeah, you're probably not Google, but people out there are Tinder or Reddit or Pinterest and all shouldn't have to reinvent the wheel.
He earned a lot, I mean a lot of respect for building his empires from 0, sometimes despite what others were saying to him. Huge, successful, novel businesses. Plus he understands underlying tech, which is rare for CEOs. We devs, 'hackers' like and admire that.

But he is a terrible person, unstable, has many mental issues, pretty terrible father (which goes directly to terrible husband). Petty, childish, vengeful, has no issue lying to whole world with straight face.

At the end it doesn't matter what pros one have even up to this level, such set of cons overwhelms overall rating of given person very firmly into POS territory for me. Happy to see it unfolding now, and not decades after his death once cult of his worshippers slowly dissipates.

But I think he can still redeem himself, he has tremendous potential for good, maybe more than any other human being right now. I don't mean some Mars pipe dream, that feels rather like a great endeavor for 22nd century, but plenty of crap here back on Earth that needs some stronger push into better direction.
Well, boomers are on their way out.

But why do you think that Gen X will be better ?
That probably wasn't such a bad price when it was released: "In the fall of 1998 the WristPC wearable keyboard was introduced."
The QBE author has said that good compilation speed was not a design goal. It also outputs asm which then has to be run through GCC or Clang, which nullifies any benefit of being a standalone backend.
That is because you are starting up word processors instead of a text editor. My text editor starts in less than one second.
Ah, the habit of reducing geopolitics to one-liners. Germany has, of course, benefitted massively from NATO both before and after reunification.

Worth noting that the quote must have predated the EU and all its predecessors, as well as the Euro.

At the same time, one of the main concerns of at least US foreign policy has been to keep a truce between Germany and Russia from happening, because that would be one of the few constellations that could upset the European power balance.

And yes, that seems absurd, and no, I don't want this nor can I see it succeed in any way, but I also think it would definitely be an upset.
"low level" do count in stats if need to show "savings" and can be easily replaced when needed. Also they do not generate profits but need resources (mentoring etc.). On the other side costs are tax deductible.
The biggest challengers are likely the hyperscalers and companies like Meta. It sort of flew under the radar when Meta released an update on their GPU plans last year and said their cluster would be as powerful as X NVDA GPUs, and not that it would have X NVDA GPUs [1].

Also, I should add that Deepseek just showed the top GPUs are not necessary to deliver big value.

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/12/data-center-engineerin...

This announcement is one step in our ambitious infrastructure roadmap. By the end of 2024, we’re aiming to continue to grow our infrastructure build-out that will include 350,000 NVIDIA H100 GPUs as part of a portfolio that will feature compute power equivalent to nearly 600,000 H100s.
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The Baltic countries will soon disconnect their electricity grids from Russia, this would probably be much harder without cables to Finland and Sweden. If we can get Russia to stop cutting cables it's still a good solution.
The one that is most ridiculous and sad IMO (I'm in the US) is that contractors aren't invited to the Christmas party.
I think it depends if you preload libreoffice at boot time or not. It makes sense if you are using it daily, not so much if you are using it once every other full moon.
It's a very strange result.

I believe that NVIDIA is overvalued, but if DeepSeek really is as great as has been said, then it'll be even greater when scaled up to OpenAI sizes, and when you get more out you have more reason to pay, so this should if it pans out lead to more demand for GPUs-- basically Jevon's paradox.