skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are also something like 25,000 castes and subcastes.

That makes it sound like castes are professions (which IIRC used to be somewhat inherited in the UK, hence names like Smith and Cooper), but where people then tried to assign ranks to those professions (like the family names Bishop and King)?

I am almost totally ignorant of how it really works, but I'm an omni-curious nerd, if you want to enlighten me :)
It's called the "tragedy of the commons". You can aggressively police, you can have a high trust society with social norms, you can make things private property, or things can go to shit.

Those are the choices as I understand them, am I leaving any out?
Thanks for being a voice of sanity in this insane thread
The argument killing the IQ concept IMO is that with enough preparation, you gonna score way higher.
All the top publications I could find support that (let me know if you want me to list a couple)
> Lazowska and I had a hard time finding other leading computer scientists to join us out of a well-founded fear that criticizing DARPA might make it much harder to get DARPA funding. While I had DARPA funding for the prior 20 years, for the next two projects after that op-ed I needed to learn how to raise funds from industry to replace the substantial DARPA funding of the past. I also lost a consulting role from a company with ties to DARPA due to my stance.

I really like that he says that sometimes principles have costs, but he advocates principles anyway.

By contrast, the LinkedIn story version would end more like, "...and that dog turned out to be the head of DARPA, and gave me a big raise!"
Over 100 authors on arxiv and published under the team name, that's how you recognize everyone and build comradery. I bet morale is high over there
I haven't had time to follow this thread, but it looks like some people are starting to experimentally replicate DeepSeek on extremely limited H100 training:

> You can RL post-train your small LLM (on simple tasks) with only 10 hours of H100s.

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1i99ebp/well_s...

Forgive me if this is inaccurate. I'm rushing around too much this afternoon to dive in.
China is actually just one person (Xi) acting in perfect unison and its purpose is not to benefit its own people, but solely to undermine the West.
Pretty much https://x.com/peterjukes/status/1883109889452437607?t=EmMG7K...
Canada must hit the U.S. where it hurts most: its lucrative patents
>Once you're an adult, do you even need one in the first place?

>I'm 24

No offense, but you're barely an adult. Life is hard, everyone needs help at some point. This is not a new concept.
I’m curious where you live?

I live in NYC, on the UWS, in a nice (but not extravagant) 2 bedroom apartment. It’s about 1000 sq feet, and I pay $5k per month in rent. Buying a similar place in my neighborhood would cost me literally double that per month, after putting down $300k or more. My neighborhood has hundreds of thousands of people in it, all paying similar amounts (or much much more). My building has about 60 units, and I live in one of the smaller ones. Almost half of the units rent for $12k-15k per month. This is just one of hundreds of buildings in my neighborhood alone, one of thousands in Manhattan.

Of the ~350 apartments with at least 3 bedrooms for sale right in my neighborhood, only 77 cost less than $3mm. There are 52 for sale for more than $10mm, and those will almost all sell.
> It doesn't have to be deterministic

There are cases where this could be true. I could see, say, asking it to do some research for you or something. Or maybe grab some restaurant recommendations. Really anything that brings you options that you can then make a decision on. If I do end up using this tech, thats how I would feel comfortable using it.

When it comes to things like making purchases and such on your behalf, thats where I disagree. Even with boundaries it's just not deterministic enough for most peoples risk appetite IMO. And when I say "most people" I am not talking about HN folks.

And just to be clear, I do use this technology. I just am very aware that its not this magic bullet that the AI bros want us to believe it is. I used it this morning in fact to help me write up some code I felt too lazy to deal with. It very quickly and efficiently wrote what I asked. I was pleasantly surprised and _almost_ missed the very bad bug that it dropped right into the middle of it all. I'm not giving my credit card to that lol.
Or, more likely, there wasn't a magic innovation that nobody else thought of, that reduced costs by orders of magnitude.

When deciding between mostly like scenarios, it is more likely that the company lied than they found some industry changing magic innovation.
But those approaches alone wouldn’t yield the improvements claimed. How did they train the foundational model upon which they applied RL, distillations, etc? That part is unclear and I don’t think anything they’ve released anything that explains the low cost.

It’s also curious why some people are seeing responses where it thinks it is an OpenAI model. I can’t find the post but someone had shared a link to X with that in one of the other HN discussions.
I'm sure it factors into the calculus of the sellers -- best chance they have that there might exist an irrational buyer onto whom they can unload the losses is likely now ...
You don't think you will want some support when a tragedy befalls you? A child or partner is hospitalized or dies? You develop a potentially terminal illness? A partner betrays you? Are you just going to "follow your goals" in these situations?
https://archive.ph/DK0Rn
I've seen stuff like this at several companies.

It's created by HR to improve "fairness" and to help certain groups find clearer paths to promotion. But OP nails it in finding that it's often used as a "checklist" for people to do the bare minimum and then point to that when demanding promotion. It's rather gross IMHO.
Relevant: https://htmlreference.io/
> Why is Musk banned by the constitution of the US from becoming the president of the US, and why does similar logic not also apply to being in charge of major government processes?

Are you saying that nobody born outside the US can be "in charge of major government processes"? Why not? Are people born in the US inherently more capable or loyal? Should our nation of 'all are created equal' give them more rights?
eh why? believe it or not but they had even keyboards back then with many dozens of keys.
Fpga are great at some things but they are pretty difficult with others. There are many applications where you can use the CPU as the control block while keeping fpga for other reasons. Furthermore keeping the cpu inside the fpga means you get to have direct access to many knobs and settings.

For example I worked on a project that used fpga to mux audio/video. It simply redirected digital pins. However the internal cpu was used to control/decide what to mux, when and how.

It could’ve been all done in fpga but that would’ve been more work (difficult/tricky/inflexible). Instead we had a small core that run a simple program and communicated to external world.
Respect to you man. Not a lot of people care or have a lot of compassion for people that deserve it
I'm confused.

The very next thing on the page -- right below the headline -- is that the CIA says it had 'low confidence' in its finding.

Are we heading to one of those "glass half empty" moments, where both sides claim to be vindicated?
Sometimes you just need a microcontroller to handle some tasks that would be immensely complicated to do yourself. Or maybe you want custom instructions that make use of extra logic on the fabric. I use a RISC-V in my design but most of the chip is dedicated as a modem, I just needed a way to easily send commands and receive telemetry without bit banging hundreds of pins. Another nice thing about using a CPU is that the logic blocks are reusable. I could write a bunch of verilog to receive data from an ADC once a second, average some samples, convert to units, and then send them out as ASCII but now those logic blocks are sitting idle 99.9% of the time. Instead I could have the CPU convert the data and then get back to work on other any other tasks using the same logic blocks. It's certainly possible to reduce area usage by trying to reuse blocks for other functions but it's a lot more work for the engineer.

You wouldn't have only a soft CPU on an FPGA, that's a waste of time and money.
The ShowHN a few months ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40757951
there are better ways to view this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42824223
It’s not that simple. It’s a negotiation up front if you are responsible for a feature/project. You talk to the stakeholders and let them prioritize what’s most important - budget, time, requirements - and you talk to them about the tradeoffs.

Your leverage comes from working on larger more impactful projects that have more impact and scope.

As a mid level employee I was responsible for smaller projects, now I’m responsible for larger projects with multiple “work streams”, more people under me and closer to the “business” and sales”
I made this thread's root comment: this is exactly how I was managed, including the "can prove this within 1-3 months" timeline.

Glad to see there are other good managers out there. It's a bit horrifying seeing the pessimism in these sorts of threads. Would strongly encourage folks in low-autonomy teams to seek other opportunities.
Yeah, I think ByteDance can also write your chatgpt wrapped in nextjs
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Sorry bout that, fixed! It was scrolling to the <iframe>.
You're on Hacker News, you're not a Lumberjack fella
Math operators like division aren’t native to your (traditional) cpu, they are implemented in code, for example using similar algorithms as the ones taught to us in grade school to multiply big numbers one digit at a time on paper and “long division”.

All math operations can be implemented with bitwise operators, too, i am pretty sure

Likely the interviewer specifically needed the candidate to do that, implement the math, and tried to steer them that way numerous times (no sum table, dont use the type system, no math operators). Thats likely also why they suggest allowing limited use of Google, because they realize many people will need a refresher on bitwise operations. But they don’t want to outright tell you what to search for, they needed to see some resourcefulness. When they suggested OP was cheating they likely didn’t mean it personally and actually wanted to help steer OP towards an acceptable solution. Rather than saying it’s cheating they could have said it avoids the main thing we need to see, or outright say “please implement the low level math from first principles”

In my opinion the candidate showed resourcefulness in their own way indeed, but sometimes its not even up to the person administering an interview for example if they have been given a rubric.
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The very success of Northern England in the nineteenth century may have also precipitated a great deal of its subsequent failures.

The rail, coal and manufacturing industries crowded out other forms of enterprise economically. The related union / capitalist disputes crowded out other political activity.

Similarly the great agricultural “successes” of the Scottish Highlands in the 17th & 18th century crowded out everything else, leaving it something of a backwater ever since.

Perhaps something similar will happen to London when the time of finance comes to an end? Then finally the South West will take its turn being the heart of the British economy.
The very first thing that will happen is every company training against this benchmark, as they do every other benchmark.
Some past comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37859085
You can try it yourself, it's refreshingly good.
I'm saying Musk can't be president and asking why the logic that made that ban happen doesn't also apply to DOGE.

This is not a judgement call, it's noticing hypocrisy (and broader incoherence) and suggesting why neither Musk nor Trump can fully trust the other.

(The same rule would also preclude me from becoming president of the US, but as I live several time zones away from the nearest part of the US, and have no desire to change this, and don't want that kind of job, it matters less).
"$34B is a steep price to kill Twitter, but maybe it's worth it", a somebody wrote back in the day.

Apparently it sort of was worth it for Musk, but it cost him, and is going to cost further down the line.
I wonder if Musk will buy the loans.
I get that things feel faster. That's great. And I'm sure that accomplishing that was no small task. But is output speed really that big of a problem for people? These models can spit out answers faster than I can read. It seems like building a light bulb that turns on faster. Idk, maybe I've just not been using ChatGPT during peak hours or something.

That said, the product does feel good to use and the pricing is attractive.
I am certainly reliefed there is no super power lock in for this stuff.

In theory I could run this one at home too without giving my data or money to Sam Altman.
I mean what’s also incredible about all this cope is that it’s exactly the same David-v-Goliath story that’s been lionized in the tech scene for decades now about how the truly hungry and brilliant can form startups to take out incumbents and ride their way to billions. So, if that’s not true for DeepSeek, I guess all the people who did that in the U.S. were also secretly state-sponsored operations to like make better SAAS platforms or something?
Would you say they were more vulnerable if the PRC kept it secret so as not to disclose their edge in AI while continuing to build on it?
Yes, I don't even know what "emotional support" would look like.

I have never wanted to externalize my emotions and the idea of talking to my friends about my feelings seems utterly bizarre.
Just to check my math: They claim something like 2.7 million H800 hours which would be less than 4000 GPU units for one month.
In money something around 100 million USD give or take a few tens of millions.
You're likely to get dog-piled for that comment because it perpetuates a contemporary myth of "traditional men" rather than a historically grounded one.

While there have always been dudes living out in the bush alone, the "traditional" norm is that people spend most of their lives in a settled or roving community of some kind, and that community usually included some kind of sufficient support structure to help men (and others) make sense of their experiences and stay in tune with the community norms instead of just going feral. The shape of that support would vary, and may not always have been what we think of today as "friends", and certainly wouldn't have involved direct analogs to the emotion and psychology language we use today. But elders or shamans or pastors or imams or rabbis or parents or cousins or witchdoctors or etc etc etc were there and part of everyday life.

Trying to live without that support now is charting a path into a dark unknown, not embodying some ancient rite of masculinity.
> and reduce your cooling costs as much as possible with outside air when temperatures are cool

To add to this: University of Texas' supercomputers have used a variation of this for a while. I don't recall which cluster was the first, but they chilled and stored water at night when electricity was cheaper, then circulated the water during the day. This substantially cut cooling costs and increased cooling efficiency.
> It's much easier to remove namespaces later using `using namespaces`

lol how? sed? that's not a "much easier", that's a hack. it's actually much easier to remove `using namespace` because then the compiler will catch resolution errors.

i actually didn't notice this was a header in which ok fine don't use `using namespace` but still this is java EE levels of boiler plate you've got going on;

void SetupInput(const basis::UnitInitializeOptions &options,
basis::core::transport::TransportManager *transport_manager,
basis::core::containers::SubscriberQueueSharedPtr &subscriber_queue,
basis::core::threading::ThreadPool *thread_pool,
const std::unordered_map<std::string, std::string> &templated_topic_to_runtime_topic) {

this signature is 90% namespace resolution - i have to squint to actually find the types...
I'm having a hard time figuring out if you're saying that like it's a good thing. The tech will definitely get rolled out. It will cause real harm and cost real money because of that lack of regulation you speak of. I am certainly not going to trust it with anything of consequence.
Project has not been updated in several years, https://github.com/witheve/eve
https://www.thefp.com/p/muslim-grooming-gangs-cover-up-keir-...
Twice Exceptional
I've heard it said that romance for a man is that she still loves you even if you can no longer provide.

Sadly, I think very few men have such a relationship that would survive an extended job loss, or getting seriously ill. There's plenty of anecdata of men opening up emotionally, only to have their partner recoil in disgust.
Well then, we are in for a very deterministic, not-at-all-chaotic future.

"Ve vill haff order!"
We will know soon enough if this replicates since Huggingface is working on replicating it.

To know that this would work requires insanely deep technical knowledge about state of the art computing, and the top leadership of the PRC does not have that.
How is "emotional support" going to help with any of that?
Chat Orpheus
> They believe there is nothing to learn by asking for feedback, which leads to them making disastrous decisions. Whether or not my diagnosis is accurate, I’d steer clear of such people, as in my experience catastrophe is just around the corner.

> At the opposite end of the personality spectrum are insecure people, who I’d also avoid, as they tend to see credit as a zero-sum game, needing to diminish you to bolster themselves.

You avoid them in situations in which you don't think you can influence them to be more like you think would be better for them (and you)?

Can you sometimes influence them?
Regular coding questions mostly. For me o1 generally gives better code and understands the prompt more completely (haven’t started using r1 or o3 regularly enough to opine).
It’s randomish. There are facts about the possible layouts you can memorize.

I don’t know most of these rules but there’s never 5 in a row; or even 4 in a row if you’re the team with one fewer (second team to play).

Edit: because the game layout is determined by choosing one of a few dozen possible layout cards and randomly rotating it
Hey, I am also interested in switching to some inexpensive servers to run my web apps, but configuring and deploying it can be quite a chore. What is the platform name? I heard about coolify, but it is so difficult to set it up on my own server...
And only some at that. Mine only "loved" me if it made them look good.
By what standard? The US is more policed per capita than Europe.

I hate Reddit but having both in one image is really convenient.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/x2d7v7/num...
I play this often. If you play multi-player these build orders help

https://forum.openra.net/viewtopic.php?f=82&t=21563
As a man in my mid-40s who has gradually become more aware of my emotions and the need I have for connection, I disagree. Of course I can't make claims about anyone else's needs or happiness, but for myself my life has been a lot better as I have built supportive friendships. I don't feel infantilized, I feel more able to have my needs met, be happier, work through blocks that are triggered by old wounds, etc. I feel more capable of living a satisfying life.
> How do you pay to operate your business without income?

Easy - VC funding :P
> More than 2/3rds of my graduating physics class went straight into banking

This is why I advise people to never study physical sciences or non-software engineering. There just aren’t many jobs for it in the UK. And even fewer that pay well.
> A child or partner is hospitalized or dies?

everyone processes grief differently

> You develop a potentially terminal illness?

I mean, I'm probably going to die anyway. At least if you're alone you don't have to worry about the trade off between extreme medical bills and a few more months of life vs leaving family more money

> A partner betrays you?

I don't really plan on marrying so I'd just replace them with someone else

In all of these situations, you can figure out ways to get through them alone
On the one Conservative sub that exists on Reddit, no one is a fan of that stupid third term nonsense. Conservatives don’t take it seriously.
I studied the game in some depth around a decade ago (maybe longer than that). Both practical strategy as counseled by experts, and also on a more formal, theoretical level. I have one physical book on the topic - The Mathematics of Poker by Bill Chen and Jerrod Ankenman - and can highly recommend it.

I wasn't really aiming to "correct" you but just give additional insight. It seems like you clearly recognize the impact that luck has in poker, and your points about mental discipline are well taken. (I'm bad at that, and I figure that's mainly why I never saw major success despite my understanding of the math.) It seemed like your intent was to offer fairly basic advice, and I don't see anything really wrong with it (except that in typical situations, a small pair like 44 is at least as playable as the weaker "hands with a value of 10 or higher, for both of your cards" like QTo; and a lot of the time a small suited Ace also has comparable value).

Of course, it would be better to distinguish between strategy in cash games and tournament play, since you mention trying your hand at both; but that's really not as important as the fundamental ideas you present (trying to be aggressive preflop to get heads-up; making sensible bet sizes; understanding how "short" a 15BB stack is with no-limit betting; making continuation bets as cheap bluffs in appropriate spots; not getting fancy against simple-minded opponents).

> low-capped buy-in games in LA at hollywood park haha ($100 max for $1-3)

Oof. Yeah, a shove-or-fold strategy is probably very viable there if people are opening speculative hands to like $12 or more. (And I imagine they will do that, because even if they have a basic understanding and aren't just there to gamble, they aren't going to understand how deep you have to be to make things like 98s profitable.) Of course, if you aren't comfortable repeatedly putting $100 at a time on a 60-40 proposition (plus getting a chunk raked away when you win) then you can't really play live poker for cash. (And I mean 60-40 at the time of betting, based on an expected range - not when the cards are turned up. Your opponents are allowed to have AA sometimes.)
More like three years. Even in the best case the retained value curve of GPUs is absolutely terrible. Most of these huge investments in GPUs are going to be massive losses.
Looks like it's this guy https://x.com/JustADude404
That's a good counterpoint and, IIRC, it's in addition to the other good counterpoints that I still can't find.
Spelling out words feels like an anti-feature in this context
SAY WHAT?

Do you want an Internet without conspiracy theories?

Where have you been living for the last decades?

/s
it's easy enough to get anonymous crypto
Industry is funding it, like crazy. You can look up the number of installed solar and wind plants this year, and the number of battery plants. Lots of them in red states like Texas, as well

The biggest problem right now is that the new administration is trying to actively block those goals. They're talking about government tariffs and they've already halted new leases on offshore wind. So this isn't about government subsidizing things, it's government blocking the market from doing what it wants to.
Tried it just now with two banks: one worked, the other didn't.