skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been using Sublime Text many times a day since around 2010 for my daily and weekly logs. My Mac is set to use it as the default for .py, .md, and .txt files, so I find myself in Sublime all the time—and I absolutely love it! Sure, I develop in VS Code, but I live in sublime. It’s fast, clean, and dependable. Thanks to the team for building such a fantastic editor!
> Personally I don't trust a NAS...

> My home server has a ZFS array, the media server and some other programs access it directly.

This sure sounds like a NAS.
I was an LLM skeptic for a long time. I still have a hard time trusting it to the same extent that most HN'ers appear to. (I would never use an LLM as a substitute for my own "voice" when writing, or put any AI-generated code into production.) But I think I have reached a middle ground: I basically use it as a first approximation when I am exploring something entirely new to me. For example, if I'm learning a programming language, I might ask it for ways to unpack an array into separate variables. Or if I'm reading an ingredients list, I'll ask what psyllium husk is. Basically anything that's moderately easy to verify if I get any suspicion that the LLM is hallucinating again.

These are things that I _used_ to simply ask a search engine, before Google results became 99% SEO-optimized blogspam and therefore useless for actual knowledge-seeking.

I think an important part of overcoming AI skepticism is to understand (at a very high level) how it all works so that you understand its limitations and know when you can and cannot trust it.
It is a different landscape IMO.

The model's source code (the training data) is hundreds of GB and much harder to transfer. The compiling (training) process is also very costly. This is very different from the Linux case.

Only big techs have enough resources to make these things happen.

I like looneysquash's viewpoint about the definition of open source AI. You will need to have all parts involved open-sourced to make a model "open", not just the weights:

> The trained model is object code. Think of it as Java byte code. You have some sort of engine that runs the model. That's like the JVM, and the JIT. And you have the program that takes the training data and trains the model. That's your compiler, your javac, your Makefile and your make. And you have the training data itself, that's your source code.

> Each of the above pieces has its own source code. And the training set is also source code. All those pieces have to be open to have a fully open system. If only the training data is open, that's like having the source, but the compiler is proprietary. If everything but the training set is open, well, that's like giving me gcc and calling it Microsoft Word.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41952722
No, because they don't require me to login and/or be exposed to toxic sludge
because white people are 90%+ of those retiring from fortune 500s. citing this is proof of innumeracy
"We're building a new static type checker for Python"
This doesn't even almost require an AI, you absolute donkeys.
I think the point of the two socket solution is the doubled memory bandwith. You propose using just a single one of the same CPU, or am I missing something?
This wasn’t the dark ages; in highly developed countries the ‘computer in every desk’ thing had just about come true. I doubt there are that many more regular word processor users now than in the late clippy era, at least in the developed world.
Civilian jet breaks sound barrier during historic test flight over Mojave Desert
Comcast's technical side does a lot of interesting work: they were one of the first big ISPs to roll out IPv6, for instance. Not saying they're on the whole a benevolent (or even trustworthy) corporation, but these sorts of things don't need to warrant immediate suspicion.
Ok, but please don't break HN's rules when commenting here.

You may not owe altmen better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Ditto. Replaced battery, phone is as new.
No, because the bottleneck is RAM bandwidth. This is already quantized and otherwise is essentially random so can't be compressed in any meaningful way.
This was the engineering explanation for repealing net neutrality that my Networking Professor in University explained to me. You want to ship some cargo over plane, some over ships, and some over trains - so why wouldn't network packets be any different?
You keep moving goalposts. The US nuclear industry in its early decades was absolutely subsidized at the supply side, making reactors cheaper and creating the illusion that the technology was cost-competitive with fossil fuel generators, when it never was and almost certainly never will be.

Solar doesn't have that property. Solar is in most areas reasonably competitive already, and the subsidies work towards increasing the size of its market.
Isn't this the same situation that any codebase faces when one thinks about open sourcing it? I can't legally open source the code I don't own.
Then those should not be considered “open” in any real sense—when we say “open source,” we’re talking about the four freedoms (more or less—cf. the negligible difference between OSI and FSF definitions).

So when we apply the same principles to another category, such as weights, we should not call things “open” that don’t grant those same freedoms. In the case of this research license, Freedom 0 at least is not maintained. Therefore, the weights aren’t open, and to call them “open” would be to indeed dilute the meaning of open qua open source.
I find this article to be exceptionally self-serving.
To run the full 671B Q8 model relatively cheaply (around $6k), you can get a dual EPYC server with 768GB RAM - CPU inference only at around 6-8 tokens/sec. https://x.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106

There are a lot of low quant ways to run in less RAM, but the quality will be worse. Also, running a distill is not the same thing as running the larger model, so unless you have access to an 8xGPU server with lots of VRAM (>$50k), cpu inference is probably your best bet today.

If the new M4 Ultra Macs have 256GB unified RAM as expected, then you may still need to connect 3 of them together via Thunderbolt 5 in order to have enough RAM to run the Q8 model. Assuming that the speed of that will be faster than the EPYC server, but will need to test empirically once that machine is released.
Primer was a hypermedia-oriented technology at Facebook in the late 2000s/early 2010s. I learned about it randomly by someone pointing me to this talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHlyLEPtL9o

It's crazy to think that in some alternate universe, rather than me boring you all to tears about htmx, instead Facebook might have chosen Primer as their main UI technology, making that the defacto standard of web development!
Serious question: How many boosters, and how many more do you plan to take until you give up?
I am rarely limited by the speed of light, even considering that it's much lower in fibre than in vacuum. On a good day I get pings twice as high in most online games; playing with friends on the other side of the Atlantic (which should be ~90ms for a round trip but often is 200) results in at least 10 additional frames worth of latency at 120Hz. Reducing the delay down to merely the speed of light would be a dramatic improvement!

(I'd still lose, but at least I wouldn't be able to blame it on lag any more... maybe not an improvement after all, hm.)
> Over the last 50 years only a single federal government has operated with a budget that didn't increase the national debt.

Oh really? And who was executive then?
My apologies if my comment sounded insensitive towards people who have real physical ailments, but there are cases where psychology may play a role and I firmly believe the medical system should take responsibility for those cases rather than shrugging them off and leaving the patient to figure it out on their own. First and foremost, they are leaving the patient suffering. Then there are other factors to consider, ranging from patients seeking out ineffective and unproven treatments for something that may not have a physiological basis to something having a physiological basis not being diagnosed because it was dismissed as having a psychological basis.
Accessibility reasons are absolutely important, but the AI industry woudln't be worth the amount of moeny it is if the best application of the technology was accessibility.
Checkpoint/restore for sub-second container startup
Echoes of Boeing moving its HQ from Seattle to Chicago to DC area.
So, $0 budget for software dev / sales / support?
The author seems to be of the opinion that the creators of DeepSeek will either be unable to, or will not see the value of optimizing the 'second stage' RL component of the 'new' (post pre-training RL) way of training frontier foundation models. Every competent programmer in China is now looking for low level ptx optimizations for EVERY SINGLE STAGE of the pipeline. They will now, likely not publish any of it.
you need a training dataset, and a task pipeline that works. You can refer to this doc: https://adalflow.sylph.ai/use_cases/question_answering.html
It seems unclear if he's looking at build a home, or if he is looking to buy up some of the government office building the Trump administration wants to put up for sale.
Oh, agree. The throne has a new king every day. Sometimes a past king, sometimes a brand new one. The temporary nature of it was implied.
If you read just a bit further in that article it is rather specific:

> While many ideologies can fall under the banner of progressivism, both the current and historical movement are characterized by a critique of unregulated capitalism, desiring a more active democratic government to take a role in safeguarding human rights, bringing about cultural development, and being a check-and-balance on corporate monopolies.
Like this?

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1884244369907278106.html
That sounds like what they're doing. This whole thing is about the AG writing two legal advisories, not explicitly beginning the litigation process.
> China has banned nearly all US tech companies and social products. It has not decreased the influence of China's influence

Being hostile does not bring you friends. Sure, various countries can have reasons to suck it up anyway (e.g. because of sanctions, or because China makes an offer too good to pass, although even that comes with strings attached). But in the long run you just create clients or satellites who will escape at the first occasion.

The American foreign policy around the middle of the 20th century relied very effectively on soft power, which is something you can leverage to get much more out of your investments than their pure monetary value. It is not required in order to gain influence, but it is a force multiplier.
The writer sucked, but it wasn't an ordinary trading route.

The border in that area was never truly delineated which lead to the Mughal-Qing Wars, the Great Game, and the India-Pakistan-China standoffs.

Back when my great-grandad was young, the Brits, Russians, etc would recruit traders as spies and cartographers, becuase the High Himalaya route gave access to most of Inner Asia from South Asia.

These same trade routes have now become highly monitored and contested highways and military supply routes that have lead to multiple India-China and India-Pakistan standoffs over the past several years.

> It was just an ordinary stop on an ordinary trading route.

For those of us from that region, we never get our story told. It's nice to see a western news outlet write about us outside of a braindead India-Pakistan-China story.

> The overland route from China to "the west" was mostly a mongol empire phenomenon that ended with the collapse of the Mongol and Byzantine empires

It wasn't the Silk Road, but until the 1962 Indo-China War, this was the only way Xinjiang and Tibet could be connected to mainland China as the fully weatherized highway connections weren't built until the 2000s.
Yes.

>Disclosure: Comcast is an investor in Vox Media, The Verge’s parent company.

I have no idea why Comcast gets to take the credit for "fixing the internet", whatever definition they use for that. Among several other companies, Comcast Innovation "partly funded" the work that went into the RFC (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9330/), and that's it.

Nokia, Vodafone, Apple, Intel, and others have been pushing for L4S (and implementing it in some areas) for a bit now. Comcast isn't even the first.
Or as if people use to work 12 hours in a coal mine and have all this energy for dancing and piano practice after.

Modern people are just spoiled and largely delusional.

I had a bad work day yesterday but compared to anything else I would have been doing 50 years ago it was absolutely nothing in terms of stress or energy.
Personal anecdote. I have an elementary schooler and a middle schooler. Both of them score high on the standardized reading tests. Neither of them show much interest in actually reading books. The younger one will read graphic novels like "The Bad Guys" and the older one literally will not crack a book, says he hates it. I have friends whose kids are bookworms. Can't tell what to even expect anymore.
I am really excited.

Ruff is amazing, uv literally fixed all the python packaging issues we have, and now a type checker!!

Can't wait to see it!
It's worth mentioning the fact that you need to adjust the context window manually for coding tasks (default 2k is not enough for coding tasks).

Here's how to run deepseek-r1:14b (DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B) and set it to 8k context window:

ollama run deepseek-r1:14b
/set parameter num_ctx 8192
/save deepseek-r1:14b-8k

ollama serve
Baroness Kidron's speech regarding UK AI legislation
No Man's Sky's update introduces billions of new stars, planets, and more
Exactly. And I think this anecdote really underlines another point. It isn't that the kids are dumb! Quite the contrary, the better their memory and the better they are at connecting other things, the easier it is for them to skirt through without learning to read!
This whole topic is basura enfuego. Same pack of maroons careening around society for years clamoring for censorship now imagining that Aaron Schwartz is their hero and that they want to menace people. Kids, don’t be like the grasping fools in these threads, philosophically unfounded and desperately glancing sideways, hoping the cumulative feels and gossip will sum to life meaning.
I hear you. I think that is why I prefer Helix to Neovim when it comes to editors in terminals. There is a lot that is just done and there are sane defaults. I think the default Sublime experience is pretty slim and trim. Maybe too much for some but just right for me
Replacing 'twitter' in the URL by 'xcancel' can be helpful:

https://xcancel.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106
And the path to pleasing the EU would be straightforward: make a EU subsidiary, have it host or rent GPUs and servers in Europe, make sure personally-identifiable data is handled in accordance with GDPR and doesn't leave that subsidiary, make sure EU customers make their accounts with and are served by that subsidiary.

Meanwhile, to please the US they would probably have to move the entire company to the US. And even that may not be enough
It's not a problem for the music and video streamers. Get real. They could even have an AI do it for them!
This is quite honestly one of the major problems with our society right now. Once you take a public stance, you are not allowed to revisit and re-evaluate. I think that this is by and large driving most of the polarization in the country, since "My view is right and I will not give an inch least I be seen as weak".

While most of the things affected are highly political situations, i.e. Trump's ideas or Biden's fitness. We also seem to have thrown out things that we used to consider cornerstones of liberal democracy i.e. our ideas regarding free speech and censorship, where we claim that it's not happening because it is a private company.
MacOS has a rock solid software ecosystem, both for the most advanced suites and for minor apps.

> Photoshop/GIMP
And Affinity, and Pixelmator. Gimp is not in the same league.

For high quality software, it would be strange to have more than a leading product and a couple of alternatives, wouldn't it? Like, what would be the kind of customer who would not be satisfied with neither PhotoShop or Affinity nor Pixelmator?
You cant reproduce this model from the source, because the source isnt given, the result is given. hence not open source
If it's fully open source, where's the code for training it? The implementation - at least, theirs - is also not trivial as they've mentioned optimising below the CUDA level to get maximum throughout out of their cluster.

I'm very appreciative of what they've done, but it's open weights and methodology, not open source.
Enterprise drives that make it into retail channels have been suspect for years and I've received used/dead drives from Amazon, Newegg, etc. pretty habitually.

I pretty much only buy them from Newegg anymore if I have to buy retail and even then my return rate for receiving DOA drives is nearly 50%.

Where I don't have this problem is buying via my server vendor contract w/ our Dell reseller. Buying enterprise drives through enterprise sales channels they always arrive new.
Do you need big negative effects to outweigh the pros of another booster? If you take an under 40 healthy person who already had covid, the vaccine did basically nothing for them after a few months. It doesnt take a "big effect" to counter that, right?
Hmm. Assuming Android, install Firefox with uBlock Origin, and hide the Chrome and App Store launchers someplace deep?
This felt false to me, LED bulbs are generally 10x more efficient, so the average number of lights would have had to increase 10 fold, and this is ignoring the savings from not having AC cool those other 50 watts a bulb that went to heat.

Jevons Paradox does not state that there is a 1:1 relationship between efficiency increase and consumption. A 2x increase in efficiency does not always result in a 2x increase in consumption.

With that said, it would not surprise me if there is a 10x increase in light sources (not total lumens) since LEDs.
zheng he
To further this, is "long COVID" actually something we can definitively diagnose? Clearly something is going on with Dianna, but if the symptoms or severity don't match other long COVID cases perhaps there is something else going on there.
Do you remember when the US lied to everyone about WMDs and then caused the deaths of at least 100k Iraqi civilians?
Maybe you could share information about the size of the different packages?
I think the AI megacorps plan was always SaaS. Their focus was never on self-hosting, so optimization was useless: their customers would pay for unoptimized services whether they wanted or not.

Making AI practical for self-hosting was the real disruption of DeepSeek.
Orders of magnitude make the difference. “Consumer-level” will be once it’s around $300-700ish in a nice little box like an Intel NUC or similar. Ubiquiti just did this with their AI-Key to help classify stuff on their video camera surveillance platform.
Yes even for commercial purposes which is great, but the point of and reason why "open source" became popular is that you can modify the underlying source code of the binary which you can then recompile with your modifications included (as well as selling/publishing your modifications). You can't do that with deepseek or most other LLMs that claim to be open source. The point isn't that this makes it bad, the point is we shouldn't call it open source because we shouldn't loose focus on the goal of a truly open source (or free software) LLM on the same level than chatgpt/o1.
While these trends exist, they don't directly correlate with the invention of the smart phone or the behaviors the poster is stating are unsexy. It has more to do with social education, reduction of religion, and many other factors not discussed in their post.
I want to upvote this a million times. Even for hard drugs and lifetime alcoholics withdrawal symptoms don't last longer than a month in the vast majority of cases. Probably about a month for decreased portion sizes too.

Some people believe society should be free of one or another human experience be it pain, pleasure, addiction, mind altering, disease, pests etc for the most part it's a childish mentality. All human experience is created by the brain and as a being with a high level of consciousness you are free to ignore them at your own risk. Diseases and pests you can't ignore and their management is extremely difficult comparatively.
Some would say a garbage collector is an advantage a fully native language doesn't have.
Doctors are as susceptible as anyone to all the cognitive biases that result in post hoc ergo propter hoc. I wouldn’t assume they’re correct about the cause just because of the timing and the fact that they’re doctors.
Ah yes: "duty to humanity"
Well, it's new to me.
I don't think so. I have literal objective tested allergies and people ask me if I think the symptoms (allergic rhinitis) are psychosomatic all the time. So many people I talk to have real symptoms and down play them as probably having some mental component.
Yeah this is what I was thinking, or maybe use smaller models to work on the prompt then fire it off to the biggie while you do something else.
Codegen-sh/codegen-SDK: Scriptable interface to a powerful language server
Everyone is responding to the intellectual property issue, but isn't that the less interesting point?

If Deepseek trained off OpenAI, then it wasn't trained from scratch for "pennies on the dollar" and isn't the Sputnik-like technical breakthrough that we've been hearing so much about. That's the news here. Or rather, the potential news, since we don't know if it's true yet.
> Most of the public is also unfamiliar with the term open source

I’d argue otherwise. (Familiar with, not know.) Particularly in policy circles.

> picking one that invites far more questions and needs for explanation

There wasn't ever a debate. And now, not even the OSI demands training data. (It couldn’t. It, too, would be ignored.)
The other JVM distributions are a drop-in replacement for Oracle. It seems like most big customers that aren't still running old versions of Java have already moved away from Oracle to different distributions.

But Oracle is still exclusive on GraalVM. If you've got on the Native Image bandwagon (which is pushed heavily by new frameworks like Quarkus, Micronaut and Helidon), your lock-in to Oracle is stronger, at least as things currently stands. To make it worse, some features are only available in the paid Enterprise Edition. The pricing seems much better now (you no longer pay by core), but it's a far cry from open source. Unfortunately, some of these features are quite critical if you want native code that matches JVM performance.
Zippd: Deploy static sites in seconds with HTTPS and custom domains
The software industry has known how to do this for a very long time, but some companies refuse to do it. You maintain a "sustaining" branch just for security and other legitimately urgent fixes, and a main branch for everything else. Users are nudged more strongly to apply the sustaining fixes and the main update branch should be optional.

We have immensely powerful version control and branching at developers' disposal, much better than at any past time I can think of. Yet, most companies insist on having a single release that increments, and users must take everything or nothing whenever they update.

Phone/OS manufacturers are actually better than most, and both major operating systems do provide security updates in parallel with major (feature) updates, but only for a very short amount of time.
Isn’t it like… week 2?