skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Optimization solvers usually don't benefit from GPUs. I think it's because it's sparse matrices and a sequential series of pivots.

This depends a lot on the problem and the algorithm that is used. For example interior point methods are clearly better suited to be running on GPUs than the primal or dual simplex algorithm.
No its fully open sourced. Even Janus is.

https://github.com/deepseek-ai

More importantly, they spelled out their methodology in depth in a paper (the code/implementation is trivial in comparison to the methodology)
Nothing was proven. It's just an empty statement.
I would guess that future llms would be largely based on these which are open sourced today but products which would be most usef would be held proptietary. For end user is main argument convenience and ease of use.

Exactly how it happened in operation systems.
Advanced radio telescope technology 'sifts' space for mysteries
Private schools can afford to tailor education for their students and train them for Ivy League access. The poor will suffer most from this, as is often the case. Lower income individuals will occupy their kids with tech, while the rich can afford private lessons (like Zuckerberg received). America is the land of opportunity, but this is bound to get worse with the current administration (they had Betsy Devos last time!)
The claim was that immigrant children were likely to be less literate in English.

Your claim that immigrants (as an entire group) may certainly have higher English literacy than US-born is a bit more tenuous, and ignores lower income/lesser educated immigrants from Mexico/central/America/Eastern Africa in favor of more educated immigrants from India/Philippines/China (well, Asia in general). But I don't think the numbers really bare your claim out, even if we don't throw in illegal immigrants and/or refugees.
Idgi, optimization leaps are virtually guaranteed.

I think this is a deeper question about the bounds of human desire... which seem virtually limitless. We seem to have an unlimited appetite for answering questions on the complexity of existence. Pair that with arms race issues, and you have an obvious need for massive compute regardless of how efficient the algorithms are.
> One factor behind decreasing US literacy rates and reading performance is the uptick of immigrants who don't speak English well.

There is no may in that statement. There is no citation of anything. We are not talking about literacy rates, the podcast is about how reading is being taught in schools.

GP is poisoning the discussion using immigrants as a cudgel, there is nothing delicate here. What does immigration have to do with the science of teaching reading?
Dense human populations linked to longer urban coyote lifespans
Deep Impact: DeepSeek's effect on Altman and the valley
There is nothing in this article to suggest that OpenAI is "furious" or even upset. Zero evidence. It's total clickbait.

And it's embarrassing that so many commenters on Hacker News who want to believe this storyline are just pretending that it's true despite the lack of evidence.
The only practical and widely used definition of open source is the one known as the Open Source Definition published by the OSI.

The set of free/libre licenses (as defined by the FSF) is almost identical to the set of open sources licenses (as defined by the OSI).

The debate within FOSS communities has been between copyleft licenses like the GPL, and permissive licenses like the MIT licence. Both copyleft and permissive licenses are considered free/libre by the FSF, and both of them are considered open source by the OSI.
Kind of two different things being addressed here. The article is talking about doing this at the granularity of preventing imported library code from having the same capabilities as the caller, which requires support from the language runtime, but the comment being responded to was saying there is no way in 2025 to run a program and keep it from accessing the network or the filesystem.

That is simply not true. There are many ways to do that, which have been answered already. SELinux. Seccommp profiles. AppArmor. Linux containers (whether that be OCI, bubblewrap, snap, app images, or systemd-run). Pledge and jails.

These are different concerns. One is software developers wanting to code into their programs upper limits to what imported dependencies can do. That is poorly supported and mostly not possible outside of research systems. The other is end users and system administrators setting limits on what resources running processes can access and what system calls they can make. That is widely supported with hundreds of ways to do it and the main reasons it is perceived as complicated is because software usually assumes it can do anything, doesn't tell you what it needs, and trying to figure it out as an end user is an endless game of playing whack-a-mole with broken installs.
I use GrapheneOS on my pixel 4a ever since I got it a few years ago. Installation is straightforward and it is a best of both worlds - you can install and run android apps from the playstore in a sandbox.
> Haven't you been 300 hours into the development of a system when suddenly someone springs on you, "Oh yeah, Bob has two bosses. Why should that be a problem?" And you're screaming internally, "Of course it's a problem! You assured me six months ago that everyone only has one supervisor, and now you're telling me this one guy has two!? This changes EVERYTHING!"

I have had this issue and it does change everything -- all the systems that depend on that data, the calculations involved, the user interface. The change in the database schema is actually relatively minor compared to the rest of the code. But with an enforced schema there's a never a case where it will be wrong -- the code with either work all the way one way or the other but never both at the same time.

Neither of examples provided has anything to do with foreign key relationships. If Bob can have two bosses, that's changing a column into a relation. That's going to have an effect beyond the database. If the facilities manager is optional then that's changing a column to be nullable. Again most the work after that change is outside of the database.

Even if drafts or temporary invalid states exist, I'm never going to want orphaned data. You said table definitions are column types are a "level below" business logic but the table definition is directly tied to what you're trying to store and how you're storing it. I think I would simply argue that foreign key definitions are also part of that "level below". It might be that not all facilities need a facility manager but if one is specified it better exist and you better not be able to remove it without affecting the facility.

I have a bug right now where in some race-condition situation the database is catching the issue with the constraints. I haven't found the bug yet (it's low priority) but at least it's not filling my database with invalid data -- it is just crashing that operation.
>hit reasonable ticket prices

There's much more to this. Their biggest competition may be cheaper Meta headsets paired via Starlink. Why travel as fast as possible when you can simply be there instantly for a fraction of the cost?
Yes amusing, since unsolicited polishing, but I sincerely doubt this was forced on our fine humorist. English to English editing or “translation” from snarky to suave is straightforward to understand and fix.

But what about translation by professional human translators between languages? is it really any better at preserving the intent and sub-text?

Kundera has an amazing essay—- “The Sentence”—-in his collection of essays “Testaments Betrayed” on the woes of translation of, yes, a single sentence from Kafka’s “The Castle”.

As he (or his translator Linda Asher) say: The sentence “describes the coition of K. and Frieda”.

Under the bar too ;-)
Not a topic I tend to associate with Franz Kafka.

When AI systems can match Milan Kundera (translated from the French) then we will have definitely gotten to Pro level. “Write me a brilliant essay in the style of xxxx, on topic yyyy in French, and translate it into Mandarin for grins. I would be a wreck if I had to translate Kundera.
I don't disagree with you either and like you, I'm entirely against privacy violations in any way, shape or form.

I admit I am concerned when I see blatant algorithmic manipulation of social platforms to favor any narrative that aligns with geopolitical objectives.

I also wrote about the TikTok algo a few days ago. You'll see what I think of user privacy violations (closed ecosystem + basically a keylogger in this case):

https://semking.com/likes-lies-untold-story-tiktok-algorithm...

I cannot stand when dissenting voices or opinions are shadow-banned.

And I have the same opinion regarding U.S. or EU companies.

Our privacy should be respected.

In the meantime: strong encryption at every corner, please!
> Look, we need to align on language here. If you’re not speaking in scalable, results-driven terminology, you’re slowing down the team. We don’t “talk about things”—we sync and strategize. We don’t “try something new”—we leverage data-driven insights to drive innovation.
I mentioned this down thread, MSSQL and Oracle cache query plans allow their optimizers to take their time which I imagine helps with doing more sophisticated optimization.

PG always re optimizes on every call unless you manually prepare the statement and that only last for the session. So PG's optimizer is designed to be very fast not very thorough.
>> ideally we'd only be reporting for children and adults born in the US.

> Only US-born people are literate in English? Wow, I hope you'll rethink that because on a case-by-case basis, immigrants may certainly have higher English literacy than US-born.

I don't know where you got that.

My comment clearly stated:

> immigrants who don't speak English well

> to reflect how our educational system is doing

So yes, if we want to judge our educational system, then someone who grew up in Norway with perfect English is also quite irrelevant to that.

I never said immigrants as a whole don't speak English well. I clearly said the ones who don't speak English well. Which, of course, there are many, and there is a recent uptick. I'm not saying anything political here.
Modern Big Tech doesn't particularly care what users think. They know they have network effects on their side and that switching costs are high. So what if it's "reputationally damaging?" What are users going to do? They're just resources to be exploited. Microsoft, Google, and their ilk can treat users with contempt if it means more control and more shareholder value.
Well, it's hard to fly a plane without an engine. Just a minor detail though. How hard can the hardest part really be? Also you should always save the hardest part for last if you want to be sure you'll succeed.

It's only been a decade, they're only behind by an order of magnitude on their timeline, and they don't even have a concept of a plan for the critical component. It's fine.
Replaced my 4a with a similar sized Moto Edge 30 Neo. Overall, much better hardware quality. I had a warranty replacement for the 4a due to cracks around the headphone jack, also happened to the replacement but that wasn't replaced.

The Moto was half the price of the 4a and is still receiving updates.
> I would not be surprised if there were a 10x increase in use of lighting with LEDs.

Has the average homeowner added more ceiling lights or lamps because of different bulbs?

Has the average office added more lighting because of LEDs? Factories?

In order for an overall 10x increase in usage, there needs to have been some MASSIVE new usage or expansion of lighting, somewhere, to make up for all of these enormous use cases (residential, commercial) where there was probably close to zero increase.

So, do you have any pet theories ?!!
Also:

Flint population at the time: 100k

US population at the time: 318M
Can We Build a Five Gigawatt Data Center?
Or - Have your own "OpenAI" at home. Train, fine-tune, distill in the cloud if and when necessary.

Now this is basically the moment of Apache/ngnix being free and open source.

You then have share hosting phenomenon out of it.
Every binary is open source if you can read assembly.
> Models from American companies at least aren’t surprising us with government driven misinformation, and even though safety can also be censorship

Being a citizen of a western nation, I'm inclined to agree with the general sentiment here, but how can you definitively say this? You, or I, don't know with any certainty what interference the US government has played with domestic LLMs, or what lies they have fabricated and cultivated, that are now part of those LLMs' collective knowledge. We can see the perceived censorship with deepseek more clearly, but that isn't evidence that we're in any safer territory.
For the last point this made me think squarely at chatbots. I had a chatbox experience recently that could have been handled with a cancel order button on a website. I had to go through a phone tree with the chatbot, say “no” 3 times until it let me type a free response. Said I wanted to cancel an order. “Did you mean cancel order?” Yes. Yes I did. What should have been a 2 second interaction with a ui element became a 5 minute song and dance. And I am a reasonably competent person on a computer. For someone who isn’t maybe this is enough to make them turn away from whatever action they were attempting to do in frustration. That is a big impact. And depending on where these chatbots have been shoehorned in, that impact could easily be disproportionately burdened on a protected class.
The point was not to be very accurate, it was to make the point that it has existed for a very short amount of time on the scale of humanity. Quibbling over whether software engineering started in the 40s or the 50s and whether that is greater or less than an average life expectancy is beside the point.
Espressif's (ESP32) WebRTC for Microcontrollers
It would take a lot more than an old, low-confidence set of trials (which is how the meta-analysis describes its inputs) to convince me of your premise.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303432/total-bilateral-...

we are literally not even on the same continent. france and many others can’t be bothered to spend hardly anything, yet somehow we are terrible allies
A thief cries 'stop the thief!
What R1 means for enterprise GenAI
I think you're right with what you say about "alternative" social media.

> And that's why decentralized, federated, or whatever social networks will never gain a large scale (>1 million or so) users

This is fine. If we have 500 decentralized social networks and 2 centralized social networks, it's awesome.

The decentralized networks will be harder for people to make money off of, but not impossible. That's also good. You can use the big soulless social networks for moneymaking, then return to the smaller ones for actual genuine social interaction.

> The governments of the world will never allow non-corporations to provide the money transfers necessary for people to "make a living" on such sites.

Before the Internet, we had money orders. You can still get them and cash them. In the 90's I used to order stuff via mail using money orders. It's riskier, but I'm not sure it's very much more riskier if you are dealing with someone you are following that has a group you are a member of. It is less convenient.
In the interest of helping avoid an echo chamber, would you mind giving some of the things you like about current Altman?
It also wouldn't be as fast. Soldered RAM is faster than socketed RAM. RAM that is in the CPU package is faster still.

Apple is going in the direction of total integration. Louis Rossmann and iFixit will hem and haw, but soon there will be a MacBook whose motherboard, besides cooling, PSU, and ports, consists simply of a single component that houses CPU, GPU, RAM, storage, I/O port controllers, radios (wifi, Bluetooth, etc.), firmware for all of the above, and a security module plus keys, all directly on the CPU bus, and it will be glorious. It will absolutely lap any PC laptop, and in single-core performance will smoke even high-end AMD Epyc beastbox builds because of the aggressive elimination of inter-component latency.

But there won't be a need to fix it. If it breaks you just recycle it and buy new, being sure to sync your data back from Apple Cloud -- but it probably won't break. Kinda like how unibody cars are both safer and more reliable than the much more fixable cars of the 60s, even if they crumple like tinfoil and must be totaled upon experiencing any sort of impact.
Fair point, though it doesn't seem like the courts are putting much weight on precedent for their decisions either
Are we speaking of a 2020-edition Intel 27" iMac or a 2021 M1?
Bookmarked. I came here to see if DSL was on the list. :)

> There are always exceptions, if building this software has some competitive advantage, go ahead.

Good callout. There are no hard rules but it's nice to have this sort of sanity check to anchor the conversation in "why", which should tie closely to:

> Generally, developers at small to midsize SaaS companies shouldn’t build any software that doesn’t directly help them deliver a service to their customers.
The people. The people changed.

This forum (HN) attracts certain population that wants to do things, to understand, to share relatively well based opinions and have a discussion.

But look around, look at the new hires in the other departments. And by new I mean young, in their 20. A lot of them welcome this kind of things, they evaluate by popularity and likes. The marketing begin the AI bubble knows this, and so it pushes for it. Make it popular is more important than make it useful, because there is a tipping point were is popular enough that we capitulate.

Turns out that Idiocracy is not that far behind (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/)
Non-native speakers can sometimes speak better English than native speakers, but on average that is generally not the case.

It's also worth pointing out that "reading" here seemingly does involve English specifically and not English and Spanish or whatever other language(s) overall.

A massive influx of immigrants who likely don't speak English natively, regardless their legality, is inevitably going to cause a drop in English literacy rates unless it's controlled for and I think it's a question worth asking because the methodology isn't immediately obvious.
Amazon sells both "new" and "refurbished" HDDs.

They are clearly marked in the description, but this is often awkwardly-conveniently after the truncation point for search results listings, so you need to be vigilant.

In contrast, the article is about used devices sold as new, and with SMART counters reset.

That absolutely smells like fraud -- though to be fair, I can concoct at plausible sequence of errors and omissions that arrives at the same result.

I expect that someone with subpoena power will need to take it from here.
Novel lab-on-chip platform promises to expedite cancer diagnoses
I'd also be interested to know if a Google Camera app installed post-facto to LineageOS is compatible with the remote control & viewfinder of the Pixel Watch.
DeepSeek is sorta kinda Open Source
OpenAI says DeepSeek used its models illegally, and it has evidence to prove it
Few years ago I wrote a guide about turning Sublime Text into IDE which will be on-par with IDE features of VSCode while retaining performance benefits of ST — https://www.brachkow.com/notes/sublime-text/.

Sadly, I almost stopped using Sublime Text around a half year ago. Development of AI coding tools made flexible UI plugins support a must. Right now when I'm using ST as main editor I feel like 0.5x developer compared to myself and my colleagues with Cursor, because of being limited to very lazy and limited Copilot suggestions passed via LSP.
Any virus and any vaccine can extremely rarely cause a post-viral malaise with similar symptoms. But Covid-19 (as a virus) stands out in terms of frequency of these occurrences moving the needle from "extremely rarely (~never)" to "occasionally (~it happens with my friends and family)".

In terms of outcomes and probabilities, having a vaccine is 10000x better than facing a virus directly. Note that in some rare cases, the burden of certain chronical health conditions may overweight the benefits of a vaccine, so it is always better to consult to a doctor who knows you well.

Personal anecdotes: I do not know anyone who developed a post-covid condition after being vaccinated, but I know plenty of people who developed a post-covid after covid. I knew people who died from covid not being vaccinated.
Not that poster, but I think both are equally fine.

It's funny if OpenAI were to complain about this, but at least on Twitter I don't see that much whining about it from OpenAI employees. Sam publicly praised DeepSeek.

I do see some of them spreading the "they're hiding GPUs they got through sanction evasion" theory, which is disappointing, though.
"I don't really blame him for it"

That's the thing though right, that we all created this mess together. Like yeah, why don't you (and the rest of us) blame him?. We're all pretty warped and it's going to take collective rehab.

Super pretentious to quote MLK, but the man had stuff to say so here it is (on Inaction):

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it"

"The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people"
Maybe they don't want to leave either.
This is gonna be spun up as a security thing, and banned cozz Murica.
I own a pixel 4a with grapheneOS - I received a couple of os updates in the last week, haven't run into this issue yet. Will see.
> What does immigration have to do with the science of teaching reading?

ESL requires a vastly different treatment. Different educators, different materials. You have to adapt to the students' needs.
Same story here. Christmas 1985. I remember distinctly how my dad showed me how to type "DPaint" at the "CLI>" line, and the magic that followed.

He made friends with a sales guy at Federated, so we got a bootleg copy of Workbench 1.2 when it came out.

I used that computer daily for over ten years. From 1st grade through my junior year of high school. While the TV played advertisements for Windows 95 in the background, I was still plugging away on my A1000 (with upgrades, of course. I had 2MB of RAM and a second floppy drive. Never had a hard drive or modem, though!)

I still have it in a closet. It booted up about ten years ago, but I'm afraid to power it up now without taking a look at all the capacitors.
Compute is literally being sold as a commodity today, software is not.
I haven't watched TV in 19 years. Why should I have to fund the BBC via taxes?

I left school in 2003, but at least with things like education I'd be funding the young minds of tomorrow, or making sure people have adequate healthcare (NHS), or that we don't have a repeat of the Great Fire of London (fire service).

The BBC doesn't even provide a service that comes evenly remotely close to that.
Given what we just saw in terms of the DeepSeek team squeezing a lot of extra performance out of more efficient implementation on GPU, and the model still being optimized for GPU rather than CPU - is it unreasonable to think that in the $6k setup described, some performance might still be left on the table that could be squeezed out with some better optimization for these particular CPUs?
It got harder to lie to the world about what's possible. Oh dang.
The analogy was about motorcycle helmets, so no.
A Little of NumPy in J
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