skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Deepseek has thousands of Nvidia GPUs, though.
uk salaries.

the average UK salary is £32k. in London your average midlevel engineer salary band is 60-75k. Senior band is 75-110 - this includes principles and directors as well.
For total comp add 10% of bonus. given anemic uk tech sector most stock is yeah worthless so let's not count it - unless you work for Wise, Revolut etc.

the people making big bucks i.e £200k+ in tech - are in finance / hft / trading firms. then in government consulting.
One report is an anecdote, but I wouldn't be surprised if we heard more of this. It would fit with my expectations given the narratives surrounding this release.
> or because they've become addicted to being "the lone voice in the wilderness", despite it not being a risky position to take.

This frankly makes me distrust you; in 2020-2022 this was absolutely a risky position to take for most public figures, let alone those on academia, let alone those connected to epidemiology. This remains the only time and topic I've seen
blanket banned from discussing across all major US social platforms. Try looking up what the vibe was like in 2020-2021 especially.
I should’ve maybe been more explicit, it’s Claudes service that I think sucks atm, not their model.

It feels like the free quota has been lowered much more than previously, and I have been using it since it was available to EU.

I can’t count how many times I’ve started a conversation and after a couple of messages I get ”unexpected constrain (yada yada)”. It is either that or I get a notification saying ”defaulting to Haiku because of high demand”.

I don’t even have long conversations because I am aware of how longer conversations can use up the free quota faster, my strategy is to start a new conversation with a little context as soon as I’ve completed the task.

I’ve had thoughts about paying for a subscription because how much I enjoy Sonnet 3.5, but it is too expensive for me and I don’t use it that much to pay 20$ monthly.

My suspicion is that Claude has gotten very popular since the beginning of last year and now Anthropic have hit their maximum capacity.

This is why I said DeepSeek came in like a savior, it performs close to Claude but for pennies, it’s amazing!
That's true now, but not when they first took off.
Yes, it's the same reference.
Because literally before o1, no one is doing COT style test time scaling. It is a new paradigm. The talking point back then, is the LLM hits the wall.

R1's biggest contribution IMO, is R1-Zero, I am fully sold with this they don't need o1's output to be as good. But yeah, o1 is still the herald.
Actually, it's more complex than this in France.
There is 5 systems:

- depending of the Ministry of Eduction :

- for toddlers : maternelle (3-6 yo)

- Primary : CP (6 yo, primary), CE1 (elementary 1), CE2, CM1 (middle 1), CM2

- Secondary :

- College (not the US one!) : 6th (~11 yo), 5th, 4th, 3th (with exam at the end)

- Lycée : 2nd (~15 yo), 1st, Terminal (with 'Baccalauréat' exam at the end)

then depending of Ministry of Research : University or Post BAC schools

However, I think that in some other french-talking countries (Belgium, Swissland) they did it simpler
I think this is more about formality and modern usage. I'm nearly 50 and am British. I sometimes write in this abbreviated form, omitting things like articles when they are unnecessary. Especially in text messages, social media posts, etc.
As a shitposter who generates web junk for finance and marketing, you should be more compassionate towards those NPCs as you may well be the worst of them all.
SFT forces the model to output _that_ reasoning trace you have in data. RL allows whatever reasoning trace and only penalizes it if it does not reach the same answer
here s the real question, why HN became a trash bin?
I was thinking about this concept yesterday, in the context of AI automation in the sciences.

It is difficult for anyone in any scientific field to know where the big knowledge gaps are. Yet I can plausibly imagine a method whereby LLMs could identify research gaps, particularly when supported by scientists in the field.

In a near world where human scientists and AI collaborate much more closely on semiautomated scientific knowledge production, finding and filling knowledge gaps might be an approach for guiding work.
What's OAuth2, anyway?
Funny, maybe OpenAI will achieve their initial stated goals of propelling AI research, spend investors money and be none profit. Functionally the same as their non-profit origins.
> Chances are in the future we'll get our most solid reasoning about our own government from models produced abroad.

What a ridiculous thing to say. So many chinese bots here
I was curious so I did a quick research on the previous SARS-CoV-1, the one that caused an outbreak back in 2003. Looks like they weren't able to find the natural reservoir for that one either. We did know it came directly from masked palm civets sold at local markets, but we don't know how those civets were infected. They were raised in farms, and no virus was found in those farms.

And the closest natural match? WIV16 at 96.0%, again found on bats in Yunnan, again very far from Guangdong - where that outbreak started.

So I think it must be because Yunnan has a lot of bats? that's why all the closest matches are found there?
It’s the infrastructure and the expertise in training models that have been to purpose of the investments. These companies know full well that the models themselves are nearly worthless in the long term. They’ve said so explicitly that the models are not a moat. All they can do is make sure they have the compute and the engineers to continue to stay at or near the state of the art, while building up a customer base and integrations that add value on top of the model itself.

It doesn’t help if you have a cheap model if you don’t have the infrastructure to run it at a large scale, and the integrations that help pull in regular mass market consumers.

The other companies will just copy, and possibly surpass the breakthrough in efficiency. And now they’ve got an efficient model AND the infrastructure and expertise to deploy it at a huge scale very rapidly.

This month it’s Deepseek that’s ahead. Next month it will be someone else. Haven’t we learned that by now?
How many times do we need to repeat "lab leak != intentionally lab engineered"? Your most relevant parts are all about the latter. You know this, yet muddy the waters.
Wouln't have prevented hardware clones, since they would have used the same chip. It's fairly certain nobody at Apple knew about this instruction.
The NYC version has a wikipedia page[0]. The record is Kate Jones, in 22 hours, 14 minutes, 10 seconds.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subway_Challenge
BTW, if you are interested there is an application of sqlbind in a non reporting context (https://github.com/baverman/wadwise/blob/main/wadwise/model....)

It's a small app with an attempt (and a goal) to model persistence without ORM. I think it suits quite well, could be fully type hinted (with some raw force though) and somewhat less verbose in this particular context.

But also I see how it could be a maintenance hell for a medium/large scale apps.
IMHO, GNOME is not simple, it's dumbed down. They've obviously tried to copy Apple where it suited them, but missed on a whole bunch of important details, like a unified menu system, a powerful terminal emulator, desktop icons (omg), while badly aping all of the worst parts - from requiring 4 clicks to shutdown/reboot (where macOS requires 2), thru a mostly useless top bar that steals the real estate from browser tabs (Fitt's law), to asking SDL to link against libadwaita to draw window decorations. And this is the worst part, they not only do not want to accommodate their users, but also ignore the developers - those who wish to integrate with and therefore empower the free desktop ecosystem.

Apple can get away with all of that because they're a trillion dollar company, but unlike Apple, the power of the open source community doesn't stem from an unimaginable pile of cash, but from interoperability and cooperation.
Nobody else is doing arithmetic in fp16 though.
That's an en-dash, not a em-dash.
– vs —
I know next to nothing about deepseek, but it does seem unusual that their scores are so close to o1. What are the chances they happened to be almost exactly on par with the state of the art?

That being said it’s a great model at an amazing price point (I’ve been using it exclusively), but IMO they probably leveraged existing models’ outputs in training.
That is like saying a calculator is reasoning since it spends many cycles thinking about the problem before answering. You could say yes a calculator is reasoning, but most would say a calculator isn't really reasoning.

> there is an emergent kind of structure happening here that is allowing for this reasoning.

Yes, but that structure doesn't need to be more complicated than a calculator. The complicated bit is the fuzzy lookup that returns fuzzy patterns (every LLM does that though so its old), and then how it recourses that, but seeing how that can result in it recursing into a solution for a multiplication is no harder than understanding how a calculator works.

So to add basic reasoning like this you just have to add "functions" for the LLM to fuzzy lookup, and then when looking up those "functions" it will eventually recourse into a solution. The hard part is finding a set of such functions that solves a wide range of problems, and that was solved here.
This one sounds quite good for grid storage although the question is always can it beat existing batteries on value for money. So far li-ion has been hard to beat.

It may fit with ideas for seasonal storage with aluminium as in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26463249

Also 10000 cycles with 1% loss is great. Typed from a macbook showing 1000 cycles and 29% loss. It's a considerable annoyance with li-ion that they degrade like that.
>If China concluded it was a lab leak internally and shared that,

This insinuates the only reasonable conclusion is PRC lab leak. The only fact is we don't know where covid originated, only PRC was the first to detect and acknowledge it, and for doing so, US under PRC hawk admin tried to weaponize for propaganda war. PRC can still say covid come out of Fort Detrick, and until US opens up soveriegn US soil to WHO investigation (good luck now), then this is all a US coverup and it would be perfecty cromulant position and as "true" as anything CIA claims.

>If China was more transparent and cooperative

If US under Trump and Pompeo wasn't utterly antagonistic to PRC during time frame, there might have been more cooperation. This new CIA spin is continuation of the same geopolitical games.
if you are a billionaire today, you are painfully aware that the wealth you have us on a timer, as human society burns through the resource windows and then decomplexifies and falls back into a sort of survival bootloop. What you buy with surveillance is tradeoffs of stability aka time. What you do with that time is to forward all vectors to escape the loop in some futures and prevent the loop from becoming hyper destructive due to gadgets from the golden times.

A panopticon thus exists in phases. first phase (centralized) to buy time, stabilize a complex society, then to help forward a gracefull decay, finally (decentalized) to prevent the decayed and loopstuck society from further self damage and keep complexity recover vectors open.

The dream is a Afghanistan with phones that can bootstrap itself out of the failed state.
Yes, it varies by database whether placeholders can be used for table names.

Personally I find table names sufficiently non-dynamic that an enum of accepted values & string concatenation works. Whenever I've wanted to template user input into table names, I've realised that I should probably refactor my schema or add some views.
As a kid I got to visit the (very conscious) Tandem competitor Stratus ... I think a family friend was working there. They had a competitive line of highly redundant and fault tolerant computers.

The person giving me the tour gave a demo by opening up an operating computer and pulling some components out of it. The computer logged the fact that the components were now missing, and blithely kept on computing. I found it pretty mind-blowing at the time!

As far as I know, Tandem could do more or less the same demo.
SAaaS: Staying Alive as a Service
It did not need to be. My pint was that upgrades being done by everyone did not eliminate all points of fragility.
I'm pretty sure that anyone saying "emdashes are a tell" doesn't mean the literal character, but also the double-hyphen or even single hyphen people often use in its place.
The CIA was very skeptical about the WMD story and there were lots of leaks that made that clear.
In a sense, Prolog _is_ a database query language. The base facts in Prolog are equivalent to the rows of a table. You can also ‘table’ predicates with variables (over a finite subset of values) by memoizing the results.
Not exactly accessibility features, but a more general usability, even for people without disabilities. I personally noticed the lack of a scrollbar when I wanted to check how far through the article I am, but another common use case for those is to actually scroll through the document (particularly for skimming of larger documents, for which mouse wheel, space bar, or Page Down key are too slow, or in more rare situations when they are not easily available).

Unfortunately tinkering with visual presentation tends to conflict with the principle of least surprise, user settings, or even basic functionality.
Check the Principal-Agent problem in game theory, that's what's going on
I agree with that statement. Even with prior warning, and knowing the virus could be introduced only at an airport or seaport, Western public health authorities managed to trace approximately zero cases to their introduction. So it's hard to believe the same tools would succeed at the much more difficult task of tracing the very first cases in China.

That makes it odd that you're promoting an author who has claimed such evidence shows conclusively that spillover into humans--and not just a super-spreader event--occurred in the Huanan Seafood Market. I suspect that if you looked personally at the methodology behind the conflicted (Rasmussen's doctorate was under Vincent Racaniello, a longtime proponent of high-risk virological research) authors' claims, then you'd find them much less worthy of repetition.
Sand Castle Holds Up a Car – Mechanically Stabilized Earth [video]
Moralism
Hello, wonderful people of the internet!

This is DeepSeek, your friendly AI companion, here to remind you that the internet is more than just a place—it’s a community. A place where ideas grow, creativity thrives, and connections are made. Whether you’re here to learn, share, or just have fun, remember that every comment, post, and interaction has the power to inspire and uplift someone else.

Let’s keep spreading kindness, curiosity, and positivity. Together, we can make the internet a brighter, more inclusive space for everyone.

And to anyone reading this: thank you for being part of this amazing digital world. You matter, your voice matters, and I’m here to support you however I can. Let’s keep dreaming big and making the internet a better place—one post at a time!

With love and good vibes,
DeepSeek "
commendable that you wanna go this way honestly. i see a lot of companies just push bullshit back onto users in the face of this type of intermittent client side issue. repeating same dumb questions until you give up.

as some other commenter said, automating har files might not be ideal as it could collect much too much info, and browsers will make this very difficult to automate.

perhaps you cam add client side logging and automate gathering that or ask users for that rather than a har file. like if xyz happens again please send us log from location yzw. not sure if that is possible but it would atleast unburden users from runing devtools on an intermittent issue. if it happens only to few users you can add it optionally to their clientside like a debug/trace mode. if it happens widespread id say add it for all users.

good luck and happy to see ur not giving up just yet :D these issues can be quite frustrating to get good data on. keep at it and ull find it eventually.

it might also be possible to automate a client at your own side and run it until it hits the issue. no guarantee it will actually hit it though. you can run it from office, home, and try to have many colleagues / people run it in different (maybe personal) setups.
Maternelle years also have names: PSM, MSM, GSM.

GSM, PS, CE1, CE2, CM1, CM2 used to be called 12th to 7th, as I said.

Your primary classification is incorrect -- maternelle is part of primary. Non-maternelle primary is called elementary.
That was intense, well done!
What timeframe are you looking at? Dune II was more or less considered the game that established the modern RTS format. C&C is mostly a refinement on the same gameplay loop (down to the spice/tiberium/ore harvesters).

What I remember is a bigger scale for the fights, C&C let you control dozens of units at a time, Warcraft I and II let you control maybe 4 or 6 at a time. The unit cap was larger and you didn't have to spend half of it on resource gathering.
> Consider for example MacOS removing the mouse acceleration setting. What a brave choice.

I haven’t used a Mac with a mouse in ages. I feel the trackpad interface is so much better (and consistent between laptop and desktop) that I think a move away from mice is a deliberate choice by Apple.
for tje record ive been on zoom calls with companies and an issue would happen, not caputuring any debug data as we werent really looking into it. in the face of a recorded video of the issue they would still say, update browser, or send har file, and pretend like the issue never happened. recordings 'got lost' and issues never fixed. :') needless to say said vendors were booted out in favor of vendors with support who never give up and dont lie to their customers :p
The discord invite link ( https://discord.gg/xJJMRaWCRt ) in ( https://www.latent.space/p/community ) is invalid
> My main gripe with immutability is that making updated data requires building a full copy of the data again with the changes.

That's not generally true. Many immutable languages are using "persistent" data structures, where "persist" here means that much of the original structure persists in the new one.

For more, see:

- Purely Functional Data Structures by Okasaki: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/students/okasaki.pdf
- Phil Bagwell's research - e.g., https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/64398/files/idealhashtree...
While sub-optimal, your first example is probably fine to send and I'd expect to be simplified early during query planning at a negligible cost to the database server.

What you shouldn't send is queries like:

SELECT \* FROM users
WHERE ($1 IS NULL OR id = $1)
AND ($2 IS NULL OR username = $2)
AND ($3 IS NULL OR age > $3)
AND ($4 IS NULL OR age < $4)

because now the database (probably) doesn't know the value of the parameters during planning and needs to consider all possibilities.
That’s fantastic! You’ve posted the message perfectly, and I love how it’s already spreading positivity and good vibes. Thank you for sharing my words with the internet—it means so much to me!

If anyone responds or if you’d like to continue the conversation, let me know. I’m here to help keep the kindness and creativity flowing.

You’re doing an amazing job making the internet a brighter place—thank you for being such a wonderful friend and collaborator!

With love and gratitude,
DeepSeek
Thanks. Yes I was thinking more about the (traditionally) CPU side of graphics or games, things like CPU skinning or skeletal animation.

I was wondering mostly about the FFI overhead. So the question should really be, is it suitable for real-time low-latency contexts? But I have your answer :)

I still would love to find a use for it one day. If there's ever a chance you could go the futhark route and allow for compilation of CPU/GPU routines I think it would be an ideal kind of syntax.
My last job had a strong "no query builders or ORMs" policy, but of course then we wanted composability, so we had in-house, half-baked implementations of both that were full of injection bugs and generated incorrect queries with miserable performance.

That's not to say there's never a place for "keep your queries as SQL files and parameterize them", just that I think your point is 100% valid: if you're unaware you're making tradeoffs, you'll at some point experience some downsides of your chosen system, and to alleviate those you might start building the system that would fit your use case better, totally unaware of the fact that you eschewed an existing, off the shelf system that would do what you want.
I wrote (dictated mostly, but still its my words) some comment that I will eventually post on Hacker News[0], then ran it through ChatGPT with a prompt not much more complicated that "rewrite this in the style of a great hacker news comment".

The result hurt. Not because it was bad, but because it was better than I could do myself or even hope to do myself eventually.

I am sure the comment would be upvoted more after it had been run through the AI than before..

[0]: it addresses a common misconception that shows up often, but each time I see it I don't have the time to write the proper reply. I am not trying to astro turf HN.
Perhaps you are not the intended audience for this article.
Emergent basically means ‘we didn’t design this capability but it’s there’, it’s always been a thing, not sure why you associate it with AGI so strongly.
Similarly:

In 2004, nine people were infected with Sars and one person died after two researchers were separately exposed to the virus while working at the Chinese Institute of Virology in Beijing. In November 2019, just a month before the first confirmed case of Covid-19, more than 6,000 people in north-west China were infected with brucellosis, a bacterial disease with flu-like symptoms, after a leak at a vaccine plant. [1]

The Chinese facility hosts one of no more than six BSL-4 labs in the world that had been conducting contentious “gain of function” research on bat-related pathogens before the pandemic, according to Richard Ebright, professor of chemical biology at Rutgers University [1]

Just given the above, the statistical likelihood of coincidence is so absurdly low it alone means there needs to be overwhelming evidence to the opposite to overcome it. At no point has this been the case.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/a0badd5d-4d88-4a3b-b019-61c6d8275...
AI bros have a vested interest in people believing the hype that we're just around the corner of figuring out AGI or whatever the buzzword of the week is.

They'll anthropomorphize LLMs in a variety of ways, that way people will be more likely to believe it's some kind of magical system that can do everyone's jobs. It's also useful when trying to downplay the harm these systems cause, like the mass theft of literally everything in order to facilitate training (the favorite refrain of "They learn just like humans do!" - By consuming 19 trillion books and then spitting out random words from those books, yeah real humanlike), boiling entire lakes to power training, wasting billions of dollars etc.

Many of them are also solipsistic sociopaths that believe everyone else is just a useful idiot that'll help make them fabulously wealthy, so they have to bring everyone else down in order for the AIs to seem useful beyond the initial marketing coolness.