skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
domestically, trade secrets are a thing and you can be sued for corporate espionage. but in an international business context with high geopolitical ramifications? the Soviets copied American tech even when it was inappropriate, to their detriment.
This is super interesting.

I am not an expert on the training: can you clarify how/when the censorship is "baked" in? Like is the a human supervised dataset and there is a reward for the model conforming to these censored answers?
Truly infuriating to see opinions like this in a space of educated, curious people. He clearly tried every avenue possible to stay in office. Luckily he failed. Unluckily we let him right back in, to the detriment of nearly every person in this country.
Being able to block domains and have a clean set of results puts Kagi ahead for me
Discussing Consciousness with R1
Second this, vanilla 70b running locally fully censored. Could even see in the thought tokens what it didn’t want to talk about.
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The <dialog> element says "This is a modal dialog displayed using just HTML." but that's a bit misleading because the dialog opens using JavaScript `document.getElementById('my-dialog').showModal()` in the onclick attribute of the relevant button.
they almost certainly ask coding/technical questions. the people doing this work are far beyond being gatekept by leetcode

leetcode is like HN’s “DEI” - something they want to blame everything on
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Do you use the chatgpt website or the api? I suspect these are problems related to the openai's interface itself rather than the models. I have problems getting chatgpt to find me things that it may think it may be illegal or whatever (even if they are not, eg books under CC license). With kagi assistant, with the same openai's models I have not had any such issues. I suspect that should hold in general for api calls.

Also, kagi's deepseek r1 answers the question about about propaganda spending that it is china based on stuff it found on the internet. Well I dont care what the right answer is in any case, what imo matters is that once something is out there open, it is hard to impossible to control for any company or government.
Great resource. This is my main problem with the game. It's so formulaic in the early stages and you really have to play to the meta to stand a chance of surviving past about ten minutes. Strategy doesn't really come into it unless you survive beyond a certain point.
The following seems relevant to any discussion of interconnecting the world's grids:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/01/could-hackers-use-n...
+1, the question of origin in general is politicized. I don’t think individual theories are taboo, it’s just very difficult to truly evaluate the evidence at this point, unless perhaps you are an expert and can do all the fact checking yourself.
Can you estimate the entropy of the sequence? Maybe by walking to it from other known sequences?
Take a menu in a tourist spot, could have it go to both languages
US intelligence likely has more evidence than they will publicly discuss. 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. That they coincidentally happened to be johnny-on-the-spot when the initial infection(s) happened, long before anyone was paying attention or trying to create a narrative, suggests that they probably have more context around the conditions of the initial infections than they will ever disclose. How they managed to be "right place, right time" to observe the initial stages raises all kinds of interesting questions that aren't going to be answered.

However, what the (classified) evidence indicates is somewhat separate from whatever public posture the CIA finds useful to take.
Modelling the sun's reflection into our apartment with Python (2020)
i mean the sheet is public https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1x9bQVlm7YJ33HVb3AGb9... go fiddle with it yourself but you'll soon see most models hve approx the same input:output token ratio cost (roughly 4) and changing the input:output ratio assumption doesnt affect in the slightest what the overall macro chart trends say because i'm plotting over several OoMs here and your criticisms have the impact of <1 OoM (input:output token ratio cost of ~4 with variance even lower than that).

actually the 100:1 ratio starts to trend back toward parity now because of the reasoning tokens, so the truth is somewhere between 3:1 and 100:1.
Has it?

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/01/could-hackers-use-n...
>except that US economy relies heavily of on cheap labor of illegal immigrants who pay more in taxes than most americans

By this logic the US ought to import anyone anywhere to enter and work in the US, in endless numbers, without limit, surely causing the US tax revenue to zoom to the sky. Congratulations on inventing the infinite money machine.

(The first slaveholders, however many thousands of years ago, also thought that they had invented an infinite resource-production method.)
Good lord, this is just painful to see here. Not a single shred of credible evidence was produced to indicate that Biden stole the election. Pro tip, when a person who lies with every breath he takes tells you to believe something, don’t.

I solemnly hope that you are trolling, but I fear you’re not.
LEDs from Dubai: The Royal Lights You Can't Buy (2021)
everything except writing. i was sparing with my o1 usage because its priced so high but now i literally am using r1 for everything
Well, "pedo guy". Which a court decided was along the lines of calling someone a wanker etc rather than a literal accusation. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-50695593
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road: The Release of Silk Road Admin and Its Ripple Effects
It very much does. China is a political opponent, and casting blame on China allows the US more freedom to act against them.

American involvement is barely an inconvenience. For those most eager to blame it on China, it was the fault of one American. They would like to punish him, too, but he has received a preemptive pardon. (Either to avoid political persecution of an innocent man, or to cover up the dastardly deeds of their domestic political opponents; take your pick.)
I've counted 18! The next one was blank.
right except that r1 is demoing the path of approach for moving beyond the data wall
Ye I mean in practice it is impossible to verify. You can kind of smell it though and I smell nothing here, eventhough some of 100 listed authors should be HN users and write in this thread.

Some obvious astroturf posts on HN seem to be on the template "Watch we did boring coorparate SaaS thing X noone cares about!" and then a disappropiate amount of comments and upvotes and 'this is a great idea', 'I used it, it is good' or congratz posts, compared to the usual cynical computer nerd everything sucks especially some minute detail about the CSS of your website mindset you'd expect.
Unencrypted, I'm sure.

I hadn't thought to look for smart meters, but my RTL-SDR (and my Flipper Zero) can pick up all sorts of temperature sensors, etc.

A quick google found this rtlamr project with a number of blog posts about people doing this with it.

https://github.com/bemasher/rtlamr
The funny part about this is that even with all this technology the USSR would still have fallen, because Russia is a poor country geographically.

Conformance enforcement only gets you more of the same behaviour. It denies access to variation that engenders innovation.

Exploration vs exploitation.
The title is an obvious reference to fftw.

I'll have to try it out, I've used a transpiled kissfft until now.
It's with the utmost humility that I confess to falling back on "just use Nelder-Mead" in *scipy.optimize* when something is ill behaved. I consider it to be a sign that I'm doing something wrong, but I certainly respect its use.
That makes sense. I never could see the real benefit for Meta to pay a lot to produce these open source models (I know the typical arguments - attracting talent, goodwill, etc). I wonder how much is simply LeCun is interested in advancing the science and convinced Zuck this is good for company.
Why should we care if users in r/conservatives take it seriously? Do you honestly believe that trump cares at all what the constituents think at this point?
This is very good: https://meiert.com/en/indices/html-elements/
I have some opinion on this: despite whatever was the source, the reaction that was made by countries (i.e. complete global lockdown of population) means that they were scared as hell. And I haven't seen any govt scared so much on any flu that came out in my life, however some of them were baddest in my life (not mathematically speaking, I know that every set has a supreme element, what I mean that flu can be dangerous to people incl me, with asthma)

Based on their reaction we may know that they either knew something very bad (i.e. failed experiment) or were suspecting something so bad that could, at least in their theory, kill the population or massively decrease it.

In other words something was fishy and they overreacted.
Texas Is Enforcing Its State Data Privacy Law. So Should Other States
Poor vs shit is an interesting discussion. If your life, your environment, isn't shit, why would you even care if are poor? Would you rather be rich and unhappy? (I spend very little, yet I don't feel deprived.)
> This sort of flare-up always feels absolutely critical in the moment—how can one possibly justify not dropping everything to orbit around it?—and then vanishes. Their half life is so brief that I'm surprised people don't notice how ephemeral they are.

You're wrong.

It's not going away: https://www.axios.com/2025/01/23/elon-musk-nazi-joke-adl

It's who and what he is: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/25/elon-musk...

It's who he wants to be.
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Not that it was the start of a pandemic, but the original SARS leaked from labs in China twice.[1]

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7096887/
Indeed, but I didn't count Motorola's decision there as "24 bits is enough for anybody", because they didn't break anything in the 68000 when they added more bits to the address space (in other words, it was forward-compatible). It was the Heap Manager that broke!
Immutability is a fantastic tool, especially when working with enterprise data. It's relatively easy to implement your own temporal tables on most existing databases, no special libraries or tools required. It seems really trivial/obvious, but I'll admit I first stumbled into the concept using the AS400 at work. If you make a mistake on payroll in IBM's old MAPICS program, you don't overwrite or delete it. You introduce a new "backout record" to nullify it, then (maybe) insert another record with the correct data. It seems obvious once you've seen the pattern.

I've made a few non-technical eyes go wide by explaining A) that this is done and B) how it is done. The non-tech crypto/blockchain enthusiasts I've met get really excited when they learn you can make a set of data immutable without blockchain / merkle trees. Actually, explaining that is a good way to introduce the concept of a merkle tree / distributed ledger, and why "blockchain" is specifically for systems without a central authority.

(Bi)Temporal and immutable tables are especially useful for things like HR, PTO, employee clock activity, etc. Helps keep things auditable and correct.
Are the FBI or DOE assessments public? What I last read in the peer-reviewed public literature seemed to point strongly to animal origin and not from a lab.
> I already knew about the whole “mathematically perfect corners” thing Apple does

This https://arun.is/blog/apple-rounded-corners ?
Negative sixty eight years[1]. Oh, you didn't mean the private military contractors, of which there were about 250k involved in the iraq and afghanistan war, slightly more in total than deployed troops at any given time.

Many ultra-high-net-worth individuals hire them. It's no secret, they've been doing it since the 60s when kidnap and ransom insurance started being a serious thing, and it's only intensified over time. There was an interesting "bolt hole" real estate listing that claimed years supply of food, water, housing etc. for a "company sized group of security contractors" as an amenity.

[1] G4S, the largest PMC company, founded in 1957
i’m sorry but gemini flash thinning is simply not as good as r1. no way you’ve been playing with both
Common Table Expressions enable a lot of composability. Using them can look like you're asking the DB to repeat a lot of work, but decent query optimizers eliminate much of that.

https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2013/11/18/best-postgres-feat...
It's not racist to blame China, but it is racist to accuse/harass/disparage Asian people and that was what was happening in America. Pushing back on the lab leak theory was at least in part to stop the dumbest among us from blaming their Asian neighbor. That and the lack of evidence.
Oh wow, o1 really refuses to answer that, even though the answer that Deepseek gives is really tame (and legal in my jurisdiction): use software to record what's currently playing on your computer, then play stuff in the YTM app.
Disabling Defender on directories involved in compiling and linking speeds up compile and link times by a factor of 5x or 6x. It's not a subtle difference.

I agonize over the insanity of removing Defender protection on precisely the files that are most vulnerable on my computer each time I do it. But I do it anyway.

Interestingly, Android Studio offers to turn off Defender protection for development directories for you, and does so each time you load a project, if you haven't already done so. So I no longer feel like I'm alone in my insanity.
Total Isolation: What Happens to Your Brain After 30 Days Spent Alone (2019)
That sounds like the developer use case. Data scientists doing ETL and analyzing messy data with weird rules like the ones above are common (although the id is usually a contains/in to handle lists of rows that don’t fit any of the conditions but must be included).

I’ve had to do some weird things to clean up data from vendor databases in several industries.
google absolutely games for lmsys benchmarks with markdown styling. r1 is better than google flash thinking, you are putting way too much faith in lmsys
I also posted it 4 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42783625
What about the cost on transmission of the power?
> there's a 23? bp sequence that is directly lifted from the moderna hiv vaccine patent (which preceded covid-19 by a decade).

could you cite this? not because i'm questioning the statement's credibility, but because i'm curious (and you could save me a lot of time from even knowing where to begin to look for credible information for myself—full disclosure, lol).
IIRC the US had given something like $250K to the organization that was funding the research at the lab.

$250k is nothing for something this size.
Thinking of the $500B as only an aspirational number is wrong. It’s true that the specific Stargate investment isn’t fully invested yet, but that’s hardly the only money being spent on AI development.

The existing hyperscalers have already sunk ungodly amounts of money into literally hundreds of new data centers, millions of GPUs to fill them, chip manufacturing facilities, and even power plants with the impression that, due to the amount of compute required to train and run these models, there would be demand for these things that would pay for that investment. Literally hundreds of billions of dollars spent already on hardware that’s already half (or fully) built, and isn’t easily repurposed.

If all of the expected demand on that stuff completely falls through because it turns out the same model training can be done on a fraction of the compute power, we could be looking at a massive bubble pop.
I am so confused why you’d trade the OLED screen for the XReal glasses which seem like an extra complication for no upside.
Hah I agree, they will find a way. In the end, the big winners will be the ones who find use cases other than a general chatbot. Or AGI, I guess.
One of my favorite papers! This reminds me of Martin Kleppmann's work on Apache Samza and the idea of "turning the database inside out" by hosting the write-ahead log on something like Kafka and then having many different materialized views consume that log.

Seems like a very powerful architecture that is both simple and decouples many concerns.
Separate comment because meta: wow. Just ... wow. It took rayiner forever to get an extremely basic point that was well-explained from the beginning. I still feel frustration from re-reading that. And even once he finally got the point, he just reiterated the same generalities. What a waste.
A little bit late to the party, but keep in mind that interest is a risk bound product, but fees are not. Fees are not pushing the capital requirements and generally better in terms of ROE. This is the main reason, I think.

Also, traditionally it was technically expensive to calculate a bunch of fees for every transaction and core banking systems have had quite complicated rules processing engines which were damn slow. Sometimes it was more feasible to skip a fee than take the burden. I'm not in the industry anymore but I suppose this has been changed and fees becoming the new driver.

Basically most of the Fintech was born on bank's inability to perform a lot of simple calculations and react to the market fast. The gap could be closing.
Also from the Harrogate area, but moved to London for uni and haven't made it back yet. Whilst Harrogate is very nice and affluent, I'd say the biggest difference isn't the personal wealth but the council wealth. There's far far far more wealth in the south and I've honestly been amazed at just how big the gap is, especially noticeable in infrastructure and services like roads and schools. Even the schools in poor areas of London are better than the local Harrogate schools. Just look at Yorks council funding (now merged with Harrogate) which has the lowest funding per capita in the UK.

Despite this tho I'd much rather live in Harrogate and enjoy the countryside than London tbh, plus people are less miserable there...
The distinction is that one form of censorship is clearly done for public relations purposes from profit minded individuals while the other is a top down mandate to effectively rewrite history from the government.
Chinese companies smuggling embargo'ed/controlled GPUs and using OpenAI outputs violating their ToS is considered cheating. As I see it, this criticism comes from a fear of USA losing its first mover advantage as a nation.

PS: I'm not criticizing them for it nor do I really care if they cheat as long as prices go down. I'm just observing and pointing out what other posters are saying. For me if China cheating means the GenAI bubble pops, I'm all for it. Plus no actor is really clean in this game, starting with OAI practically stealing all human content without asking for building their models.
> "We're going to have supervision," Ellison said.

I literally read that as "supervillain" when I first read it.
Can you clarify? How are they able to move beyond the data wall?
Just started using it, love it
That’s from 2003 though. It is one of the last games in the series and was made after Westwood Studios had been disbanded and staff finally merged fully into EA LA. Westwood didn’t even exist as a subsidiary of EA by that point.

Whereas StarCraft was released in 1998. Which, if we are to use your examples, would make C&C 5 years behind StarCraft in terms of game play. Which is a hell of a long time given how games were evolving in the 90s and early 00s
Technically, as long as the aim/intent is to influence public opinion, yes. And most often it is less about being "true" or "false" and more about presenting certain topics in a one-sided manner or without revealing certain information that does not support what one tries to influence about. If you know any western media that does not do this, I would be very up to check and follow them, even become paid subscriber.
The chain of thought is super useful in so many ways, helping me: (1) learn, way beyond the final answer itself, (2) refine my prompt, whether factually or stylistically, (3) understand or determine my confidence in the answer.
This assumes operatives haven’t been working on this plan long before the regime took office.
> were suspecting something so bad that could, at least in their theory, kill the population or massively decrease it.

Yeah, a really bad virus.
Don’t make a mistake of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison.
I was talking about caller id spoofing. If there was another layer to it, I was unaware.
It's crazy for a Trump loyalist to complain about "politicization" of this process when declassifying and releasing a report with no hard or new evidence is quite clearly a political decision.

The US is clearly setting up China to be the next Big Enemy, the USSR 2.0. The US establishment expects--and arguably is fomenting--economic and possibly eventual military conflict with China. The "lab leak" declassification neatly fits into that narrative.

We may never know the truth or it may take decades to find out.

There's really only two likely theories here: zoonotic origin and lab leak. There are many variants of "lab leak" but the most likely is that it was accidental. It's more fringe to claim it was intentional. This sort of thing has happened before [1].

There is circumstancial data for this like China not cooperating with a WHO investigation back in 2020 and 2021 and a Wuhan Institute of Virology virus database in SEptember 2019. To my knowledge, that has never been recovered or examinted by external parties. My theory is, like every government (including the US), China doesn't want to know the answer to this question. There's literally no upside. Would you want to be the official who oversaw a leak like this? Would you want to be in charge of the government at that time? Nobody wants that. Governments love ignorance.

The zoonotic origin is still more likely but it has the obvious problem that we haven't (yet) identified the host animal. Also, Wuhan is quite far from the bats that might be the likely source.

It might be a complicated origin, such as a person or animal being infected with multiple strains and a replication error creating the virus from multiple sources.

But the main point here is we're going to see a lot of anti-China sentiment being drummed up by the US in coming years. This is bipartisan too.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_laboratory_biosecurity...
I wanted to learn more about where this claim comes from and found this article [0].

The linked commentary [1] raises several interesting points.

"Unfortunately, the authors did not provide details of their BLAST research. The patent database that they used contained 24,712 sequences. Yet, by querying BLAST, we obtained a database of 46,121,617 patent sequences with an average length of 560 nucleotides. The authors should give more details and justification for their query, especially if they queried the full database but a posteriori restricted their computation. Of note, with such a large database, and despite the fact that the average sequence length decreased, the probability of finding at least one sequence containing one of the 16 patterns previously mentioned may rise to 68% under assumption 2."

0: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/virology/articles/10.33...

1: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/virology/articles/10.33...
Yea, I’m sure they’re devastated by my comment
> "It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture."

-- Mirror Dance, by Lois McMaster Bujold