skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the reason why it works is also because chain-of-thought (CoT), in the original paper by Denny Zhou et. al, worked from "within". The observation was that if you do CoT, answers get better.

Later on community did SFT on such chain of thoughts. Arguably, R1 shows that was a side distraction, and instead a clean RL reward would've been better suited.
It's a problem of the commons.

It's particularly hard to bootstrap. You can take the plunge, attempt to open up to dozens of different guy-"friends", and repeatedly run into replies like "sucks, bro" or even "man up".

I have a hobby which exposes me regularly to men of different ages, backgrounds, financial circumstances, etc. This seems to be the case for all of them.
They don't need silly suspension railways in most places. A tram line fits perfectly in 1 lane, so that would make it 2 lanes for both ways. US lanes are so wide that it's likely 2 tram rails fit in 1.5 road lanes, with a bit of extra room for wider sidewalks (sorely needed in most of the US), bike lanes (also sorely needed in most of the US) or just general greenery (hedges would do wonders for US urban landscapes...).

Of course this would require that the 3-4 lane stroads give up 2 of their carlanes so instead of doing the reasonable thing, building infrastructure costing 10x is almost universally preferred.

Heck, it doesn't even need to be a tram. BRTs are good enough for a lot of cases.
I will jump on the plug train with my [namedsql][0] for use with the Go standard library.

[0]: https://github.com/dgoffredo/namedsql/
The US funded the Wuhan lab through the EcoHealth Alliance, which was used as a vehicle to steer US government funding into areas of research that Obama had banned the US government from funding.

The idea that this assessment needs a goal is strange, because it is the most reasonable assessment, but the idea that it discredits China more than it discredits the US is bizarre. Maybe it does for the Chinese people, who can see that their government is willing to put Chinese people in danger in partnership with a US that was nominally refusing to put American people in danger. Turns out viruses don't need visas so it didn't matter, but maybe it's the thought that counts.
my account is 8 months old? also i'm sure new people join hn all the time because you know... new people are being born all the time...
there's a 23? bp sequence that is directly lifted from the moderna hiv vaccine patent (which preceded covid-19 by a decade).

now an exact match of that length isn't impossible, but which is more likely? that this managed to be exactly correct on accident? or some grad student was told to just copypasta every furin cleavage site in the database into a GOF library and surprise surprise the most virulent form that became a pandemic came from the sequence that is engineered to be efficient.

any scientist that has any molecular biology wet experience will tell you this is exactly what they would have done (though us researchers would probably not have pulled from the patented BLAST sequences, since that selector is turned off by default by the NCBI)
Google is fantastic. I can't remember I time when I haven't been able to find what I'm looking for including vague concepts or song lyrics.
Not a fan of censorship here, but Chinese models are (subjectively) less propagandized than US models. If you ask US models about China, for instance, they'll tend towards the antagonistic perspective favored by US media. Chinese models typically seem to take a more moderate, considered tone when discussing similar subjects. US models also suffer from safety-based censorship, especially blatant when "safety" involves protection of corporate resources (eg. not helping the user to download YouTube videos).
I don't know how to answer this because these are arbitrary numbers.

The money is not spent. Deepseek published their methodology, incumbents can pivot and build on it. No one knows what the optimal path is, but we know it will cost more.

I can assure you that OpenAI won't continue to produce inferior models at 100x the cost.
Well, if there is one thing about Trump that everyone would agree on, it is that he is very self confident in everything he says.
I have a chemistry degree and an entire career doing software / system engineering in financial services.

I've also hired a boatload of people with STEM degrees. In fact (massive generalisation warning) I prefer hiring them to those with computer science degrees.
That’s certainly motivation for releasing it, but he’s been in office for five days so the analysis being released was done under the prior administration.
I find that this model feels more human, purely because of the reasoning style (first person). In its reasoning text, it comes across as a neurotic, eager to please smart “person”, which is hard not to anthropomorphise
> Some states (CA, NY, IL, WA, OR come to mind)

Yes. My concern is the opposite here; A lot of red states are gleefully following every whim of the Trump Administration, and we can expect their state-level equivalent rules (insofar they exist, which a fair amount of states already fail) to be revoked soon.

> The fact of the matter is, most employers aren’t naive and have always found legal proxy rationales to discriminate and prevent hiring or fire someone.

It's certainly a problem.

But secret and-or implied agreements to discriminate are less effective, and subject to obstruction by wilfully-ignorant staff. Where put into writing, you get things like Eric Schmidt creating evidence for the tech antipoaching cartel of the 2000s.

Letting companies get away with explicit & stated policies is much worse.

> for example in this thread, by not calling their white workers “retarded” (not aware of this happening but it seems reasonable).

Info on that particular reference: https://www.independent.co.uk/politics/elon-musk-americans-v...
> Moreso it could be argued that this is needed for making the site work (legitimate interest).

If you process the UA to "make the site work" then yes. One example for that would be a site that has the purpose of showing the visitor their user agent string (like "what is my IP?" sites do for your IP). Another might be to provide a different view for mobile devices though that has largely been solved with responsive design.

If you process the UA to fingerprint visitors to "improve the experience" by showing them ads or performing usage analytics over time to see what works and what doesn't, that's different. Arguably analytics can have a legal basis other than consent but that doesn't give you a carte blanche for what data you can use and how.

> it is not being stored

That doesn't really matter as long as it is PII as processing PII still requires a legal basis even if you don't store it. Collecting, processing, storing and sharing all require a legal basis even if that basis might be trivial.
He has the voices in his head.
We'll have the same thing for the whole country when the time of housing investment comes to an end. Why start a business when you could just buy another house?
Don’t think of it as “spend a fixed amount to get a fixed outcome”. Think of it as “spend a fixed amount and see how far you can get”

It may still be flawed or misguided or whatever, but it’s not THAT bad.
Outside of Veo2 - which I can’t access anyway - they’re definitely ahead in AI video gen
and the people that believe it tend to be also very happy to be exposed to biological weapons running wild
Startpage?
Backend is kinda Google but still.
I don't live in the UK, but here in the USA I studied Physics and Music and then got a job programming. A lot of it was dumb luck, but I want to emphasize that school is about learning, not about vocational training. My experience in programming was due to being a giant nerd, not school.
Nice! I use Brave because it's mostly better at finding good results but almost exclusively use bangs.
SQL isn't composable. It would be great if it was, but it isn't. So we can use query builders or write our own, but we're going to have to compose queries at some point.
> US will keep discrediting China as long as there is no conclusive evidence of what exactly happened.

The US funded the lab and the specific fields of research. I have no idea how people can still be banging on about lab-leak origin being a racist plot against the Chinese. Covid probably leaked from US lab experiments in China. The rest of the world should be raging against the US and China both.
>Evidently the game code requires access to your webcam

Source?

>then uses the idle time to make the bot play while you are away

Surely they're better off using a GPU cluster to do training like every other AI company?
When is the next season of Black Mirror? We desperately need it.
There’s a tram line in Dublin which hits every three minutes at peak times, which is just bonkers (it’s not fully segregated, so if there’s any traffic problem at all then about four of them end up piled up one behind the other). Its most busy section was meant to be converted to metro, but due to planning permission nonsense it will just continue to be one of the world’s busiest tram lines until at least 2040 (it is actually higher peak time capacity than many metro lines at this point).

They just got permission to go from 22 to 26 trams per hour at peak times. I’m thinking that by the time it gets metro-ified it’ll just be a continuous procession.
Are you under the impression it was some kind of fixed-scope contractor bid for a fixed price?
No greater horror has ever been dispensed upon the martyrs of truth but a downwards pointed thumb
As far as I know, Llama's architecture has always been quite conservative: it has not changed that much since LLaMA. Most of their recent gains have been in post-training.

That's not to say their work is unimpressive or not worthy - as you say, they've facilitated much of the open-source ecosystem and have been an enabling factor for many - but it's more that that work has been in making it accessible, not necessarily pushing the frontier of what's actually possible, and DeepSeek has shown us what's possible when you do the latter.
There is a difference between "wow my CEO really sucks" and "wow my CEO had another kid with an employee, regularly talks about the importance of breaking labor laws, shows up to work visibly high on a regular basis, and enjoys making racist comments about Apartheid."
I guess “Immutability changes nothing” wouldn’t have the same impact
Apple innovative edge has always been taking existing technologies and applying that right layer of UX on top. I think they need to really take a step back and figure out what that right layer is.
Sure but if you look at that logging data which you might be collecting regardless, adn you see anything that in the slightest way suggests a performance issue, or if you look at your hosting bill and wonder where the money is going, or if you need fast CPUs or fast disks etc, just having good recorded perf data would be one of the first things you'd do?
Yes. Proprietary CISC chips->MIPS->Itanium and ported to x86-64 around 10 years ago. Apparently is or will soon be offered "in the cloud" as a "NonStop as a Service".
Google is like capitalism. It sucks, but it's the best we got.

It's been decades, I can literally feel the cheap quality of results from anything other than Google. It's like holding that cheaper looseleaf that you can see through kind of.
Money is just IOUs, it means for some reason not specified on the banknote you are owed services. If in a society a small group of people are owed all the services they can indeed commission all those people.

If your rich spend all their money on building pyramids you end up with pyramids instead of something else. They could have chosen to make irrigation systems and have a productive output that makes the whole society more prosperous. Either way the workers get their money, on the Pyramid option their money ends up buying much less food though.
Google from 10 years ago was amazing, then they started adding "features"
> Unless you have id verification crminals can sign up with false identities.

Having registration is enough to not be liable, that’s why everyone is doing that. You get subpoenaed, you give logs for user that you have, case closed.

Data can be linked to your server. If you cannot pass the torch it’s you who will be investigated as potential partner in crime.
The protection against this was to not vote him back into office. We’ve done something very, very stupid, and many will suffer.
It means he’ll knock down regulatory barriers and mess with competitors because his brand is associated with it. It was a smart poltical move by OpenAI.
You sound extremely satisfied by that. I'm glad you found a way to validate your preconceived notions on this beautiful day. I hope your joy is enduring.
The $500B is just an aspirational figure they hope to spend on data centers to run AI models, such as GPT-o1 and its successors, that have already been developed.

If you want to compare the DeepSeek-R development costs to anything, you should be comparing it to what it cost OpenAI to develop GPT-o1 (not what they plan to spend to run it), but both numbers are somewhat irrelevant since they both build upon prior research.

Perhaps what's more relevant is that DeepSeek are not only open sourcing DeepSeek-R1, but have described in a fair bit of detail how they trained it, and how it's possible to use data generated by such a model to fine-tune a much smaller model (without needing RL) to much improve it's "reasoning" performance.

This is all raising the bar on the performance you can get for free, or run locally, which reduces what companies like OpenAI can charge for it.
> yes, this is rather arbitrary labeling, but it is what it is

AFAIK continents are based on tectonic plates.
In CS you can probably get away with fewer and async. But even so, admin powers doesn't weigh anyone down. It's not a chore. You have N admins and then N/10 or so sub-admins who can't ban or unban people but can e.g. silence chat abusers, maybe kick or give a 12h ban etc. It's self moderation and it costs almost nothing.
I use Brave Search exclusively after migrating from DuckDuckGo a year ago or so, and I'm very satisfied. I didn't like that DDG relied on the Bing index, and the ads were starting to get a bit intrusive for me.

Brave's integrated LLM can be a bit annoying for how it reflows the page, but it can be disabled with a cookie and frankly it's been pretty helpful.
For many people telling the stories is a form of processing them, or processing their experiences in different ways than they have before.
> Not only does that actually happen in pretty much all developed country...

"Everyone does it" isn't much of an argument when it comes to economics, the field is littered with a long history of group-think episodes where most people do things in a way that was, in hindsight, a mistake. And being steamrollered by more economically productive societies that don't ban progress. The modern policies developed countries adopted have resulted in vast investments in China (and Asia more broadly) to dodge the regulatory states that were built.

And the rest of your comment is straightforwardly telling farmers how to farm. On average, I bet they know all that stuff better than the legislators. They're farmers! If we can't trust them to farm then putting regulators in charge isn't going to save us. That attitude of mother knowing best is still going to result in more misses than hits, even if confidently repeated a few times.
A free California? Initiative to leave U.S. cleared to gather signatures
> Perhaps we'll do better next time around?

We won’t, because the judgment of many of our cognitive elites has been impaired.

This is a bit of a digression, but I’m reading a tweet thread by a $2,300/hour attorney who is an MSNBC contributor that is making just basic logical errors in discussing the birthright citizenship EO. Not even on the merits, literally in just summarizing the implications of the argument being made on a page of a filing he screenshotted in his tweet. I’m persuaded that if you had these folks take the LSAT with questions that had a political coding, they’d score a 160.

We need to get back to prioritizing the institutional and values of the different professions above all else. The public should view our scientific and professional organizations as neutral actors staffed by people who put the institutions above their personal beliefs. They shouldn’t be wondering whether medical organizations would be saying the same things about the “Lab Leak” theory if it had involved Russia instead of China.
Curious why you have to qualify this with a “no fan of the CCP” prefix. From the outset, this is just a private organization and its links to CCP aren’t any different than, say, Foxconn’s or DJI’s or any of the countless Chinese manufacturers and businesses

You don’t invoke “I’m no fan of the CCP” before opening TikTok or buying a DJI drone or a BYD car. Then why this, because I’ve seen the same line repeated everywhere
I have so much trouble with Google these days.

I like to ask complicated questions, where keywords are insufficient. Google first removed search predicates, making this challenging. Now their results quality is abysmal.

I'm not a fan of OpenAI because of their controversial behavior, but ChatGPT does a great job answering my questions. I can then typically search from there if I need more info.
In my "social system" no one is less trustworthy than the CIA.
Female stereotyping.
Great as long as you’re not interested in Tiananmen Square or the Uighurs.
Lols you are offering to sell this for $1? https://iamwillwang.com/dollar/
The literal creator of Netscape Navigator is going ga-ga over it on Twitter and HN thinks its all botted

This is not a serious place
Thank you for providing this context and sourcing. I've been trying to find the root and details around the $5 million claim
The criticism seems to mostly be that Meta maintains very expensive cost structure and fat organisation in the AI. While Meta can afford to do this, if smaller orgs can produce better results it means Meta is paying a lot for nothing. Meta shareholders now need to ask the question how many non-productive people Meta is employing and is Zuck in the control of the cost.
No, its just that those people intend to commission huge amount of people to build obscene amount of GPUs and put them together in an attempt to create a an unproven machine when others appear to be able to do it at the fraction of the cost.
"Innocent until proven guilty" is hardly propaganda.
It seems like overkill for just FTP. Although I believe that Tandem also was (is?) fairly common in running telco stuff, plus billing.
e. Raycast doesn't know what the e constant (2.71828) is.

Their entire calculator is crappy. It took them forever just to get scientific notation and inverse trig functions working.

Meanwhile, it was all proprietary (so I couldn't do anything myself) and they were busy developing AI. I know they have all the fancy add-ons and scripts, but at that point it is easier to just cmd+tab to the browser for Wolfram Alpha or commandline for numbat calculator.

I just realized Albert (sort of) work on MacOS, but it is in German for some reason, so I will have figure out configs.
I don't mean I failed to make her happy. I mean I failed in asserting myself or sacrificing my happiness for her. As her happiness generally feeds of mine.
It cannot push wages below subsistence for essential workers: those involved in maintenance of infrastructure, logistics, national and local security, and secondary health care. In fact for any work in the world of atoms. There are many, many problems to be solved in robotics besides that of common sense. So, workers in those areas will be needed for many decades to come. Wages will be set at a level that keeps them alive and reproducing.
Most of the hotels I stay at are on the east coast, so that might make a difference because of how much business travel there is there, but even the more family-focused ones in touristy areas have them.
I love the quote "accountants don't use erasers". So many things should be modeled over time and keep track of change right out the gate. Little things like Ruby on Rails always adding timestamps to model tables was super helpful but also a little code smell. If this is obvious enough to be useful everywhere, what is the next level? One more reason Datamoic is so cool: nothing is overwritten, it is overlayed with a newer record and you can always look back and you can always also always take a slice of the db at a specific time and have a complete and consistent viewbof the universe at that time. Immutability!
> UB vs "safe" panic

Yes, it's not exactly the same if you compile in ReleaseFast instead of ReleaseSafe. Both are bad though, and I'd tend to blame the coding pattern for the observed behavior rather than quibble about which unacceptable scenario is worse.

I see people adopting forced null unwrapping for dumb reasons all the time. For the remaining reasons, do you have a sense of what the language deficiencies are which make that feature helpful? I see it for somewhat sane reasons when crossing language boundaries. Does anything else stand out?

> ceremony

Yes. Thankfully ".?" is greppable, but I wouldn't mind more ceremony there, and less for `try` coding patterns.
I don't prefer any of them really. I just find DDG the least aggravating. My ideal search engine would be simpler and when I tell it I'm looking for a term it would only return pages which actually include that term in the visible text.
I guess I really don't understand what you are trying to say.
I can't answer your question but in that vein I want to add that in general it's very easy to get sign ups on a fedi node. That's why I always preferred instances that closely vetted new users.

The more relevant number is often active users.

I ran one for many years and I quickly disabled open sign-ups due to all the bots I noticed.
Particularly post GFC when net interest margins went through the floor, banks had to keep up revenue amid heightened capital requirements - they increased fees and cut back on employees. If you’re thinking the fees don’t matter relative to the overall, remember that banks are managed as divisions and someone running retail is responsible for their profit and loss statement.
The obsession with control has been a preoccupation of the elite for a VERY long time. The idea that we're just a few cameras away from the perfect panopticon i a surprisingly dangerous and common delusion, especially given the ample evidence that it doesn't work. Look at the UK, where handguns are rare, knives are illegal to supply to under-18's, there are cameras EVERYWHERE... and they still have frequent stabbings.

With kitchen knives. And yeah they catch it on camera, but they didn't prevent it.
The software is abstracted from the hardware.
We are already in it.
Both the FBI and DOE, which have their own foreign intelligence gathering capabilities, had previously assessed that COVID was caused by a lab leak with moderate confidence. So while I agree with you that the truth will likely remain shrouded in some mystery, most of us that believed it originated from zoonosis at first (and I would include myself in that camp) should update our priors both based on the CIA assessment and previous assessments
How to Scam Online-Gambling Addicts? Set Up a Fake Cricket League
First time I’ve seen it despite being on HN for many years. Looks like last time was 2023, so seems non-constant to me.
Carful when assuming how a lab leak must have unfolded, there’s many possibilities.

A single worker gets infected/accidentally releases multiple variants, sloppy worker messing up twice doesn’t seem that crazy. A lab leak is also consistent with an infection person visiting a location that experienced a separate variant.

And that’s just a few options there’s also things like an intentional leak followed by another intentional leak etc.

I’ve read that the lab was intentionally set near that wet market, so there being overlap like this doesn’t seem extraordinary.