skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> make special SKUs

If your company is set up for it, special SKU's can be really cheap. Some can be software-only changes that even get applied after the product gets into the hands of the users.

eg. during the setup process, the hardware phones home, and some server side component matches it up to the original sale at the retailer and figures out which features to enable.

There might even be more SKU combinations than products have ever be produced.

Not saying hard drive manufacturers do it, but it is both possible and done in some industries.
This looks pretty cool! Does it support the new Deepseek model as well?
What I find the most comical about this is that the whole situation could be loosely summarized as "OpenAI is losing its job to AI."
Same, but I use a catch-all, not separate inboxes.

I've caught a couple of hacked or sold email lists, but nothing that drastic yet.

One organization posted the email address I gave them on a public contact list webpage, so I get spam/phishing at that one.

Using a catch-all is the easiest way to do this, and I highly recommend it for other people.
I appreciate all of them— VS Code, Vi, Emacs, Sublime, JetBrains, Cursor. At the end of the day, they’re all text editors, and each has its own strengths.
> I presume OpenAI kept their traces a secret to prevent their competitors from training models with it

At some point there was a paper they'd written about it, and IIRC the logic presented was like this:

- We (the OpenAI safety people) want to be able to have insight into what o1 is actually thinking, not a self-censored "people are watching me" version of its thinking.

- o1 knows all kinds of potentially harmful information, like how to make bombs, how to cook meth, how to manipulate someone, etc, which could "cause harm" if seen by an end-user

So the options as they saw it were:

1. RLHF both the internal thinking and the final output. In this case the thought process would avoid saying things that might "cause harm", and so could be shown to the user. But they would have a less clear picture of what the LLM was "actually" thinking, and the potential state space of exploration would be limited due to the self-censorship.

2. Only RLHF the final output. In this case, they can have a clearer picture into what the LLM is "actually" thinking (and the LLM could potentially explore the state space more fully without risking about causing harm), but thought process could internally mention things which they don't want the user to see.

OpenAI went with #2. Not sure what DeepSeek has done -- whether they have RLHF'd the CoT as well, or just not worried as much about it.
How is that the phone's fault? You don't have to stare at it anywhere near that long, and all those apps are completely optional things to install and use.

This just feels like making excuses and not having any self-control or self-discipline.
> It then opens up a new tab instead of an inline dropdown. Apparently that tab isn't normal text, it's clickable text.

If you're talking about the built-in goto-definition then it's definitely not a tab, it's a popup similar to goto-anything and the command palette. You can type to filter, use the arrow keys, press enter, ctrl+enter for side-by-side, etc.

If you want to use the mouse you can hover over the symbol and get a list of definitions and references.

> it contains usages as well as definitions

That sounds like you've got a syntax that isn't classifying its symbols correctly. I vaguely remember Microsoft's Typescript package doing this. All the built-in syntaxes properly classify definitions so you won't have references show up in that list. It's possibly simply removing a package will fix this for you.

> When you click on a result, it opens the file, but doesn't quite scroll to the definition, although it's in view (but not highlighted! So you have to scan for it again!)

Not scrolling to the definition is odd, it's working fine for me. I agree we could highlight the definition better; by default the line is highlighted though. You can enable line highlighting if that's too subtle.

> The little pseudo terminal that pops up at the bottom when you press ctrl+b (build) is also highly annoying. Why does it not accept keyboard input? I keep having to open a separate terminal where I can compile and test my TUI apps. If I just use ctrlB, then my app hangs waiting for stdin that I can never provide. And that waiting process never gets removed by ST either when I press ctrlB again.

We don't currently have a terminal, but the Terminus plugin is fairly popular if that's what you're looking for.

> Furthermore, ST isn't capable of recognizing my various Makefile build commands. ST only shows make clean and make when I press ctrl shift B.

We generally don't integrate that tightly with build systems; doing so effectively requires a plugin per external build system. Though I don't know if you'd actually want to have all targets listed for Make, since virtually everything is a target (and apparently this wasn't possible until --print-targets was added last year).

> Farthestmost, why does ST not recognize when I'm in a different directory, that it should use a different build system? Why do I have to manually tell it to use python instead of C when I am editing a python file?

If you have the build system set to "Automatic", then ST will automatically pick which ones to make available. For Make it'll check for a Makefile for instance. You can then use Build With… to select the one you want to use. If you've manually picked a different build system then that's what ST will use.

> Ok last one. Setting up a "replace occurances within selection" is highly unintuitive. When you enter the search term, that RESETS your selection. And you have to start over. Ugh. I want to select my search area, then tell it what to look for, then tell it what to replace with, then replace all within that area.

The behavior you want it to have sounds like how I remember it being, but that's clearly not the case; I'll have to look into that, thanks.
> An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust.

https://github.com/astral-sh/uv
Induced demand is just the name for realized latent demand, your more precise way to think about it is the concept*. It's only muddled because it is often invoked in complex markets where the costs are often not monetary, there are substantial externalities to consider, or the supply is centrally managed.

Should a city spend $500,000 to install lighting in the park downtown? After all nobody uses it at night because its too dangerous! Induced demand is central to the answer but isn't a first thought for many because the problem space doesn't look like a traditional market.

* there is the additional concept that the long term availability of a good or service at a lower cost changes consumer behavior in a durable way. Building a new train station realizes latent demand but also creates new demand as it causes denser housing to be constructed near it**.

** Whether you want to model that as just more realized latent demand or as a consequence that's technically distinct from induced demand is IMO where a lot of the confusion comes from. If you ask me this should probably have a distinct name as it is a long-term, interrelated process that doesn't map well to sliding around supply and demand curves. Generated demand is what Bloomberg calls it but that has insane overlap with a marketing technique.
This is absolutely hilarious! :)

ClosedAI scraped human content without asking and they explained why this was acceptable... but when the outputs of their training corpus is scraped, it is THEIR dataset and this is NOT acceptable!

Oh, the irony! :D

I shared a few screenshots of DeepSeek answering using ChatGPT's output in yesterday's article!

https://semking.com/deepseek-china-ai-model-breakthrough-sec...
I’ve been to FOSDEM for the past three in-person years in row, but I’m skipping this year. I appreciate the spirit of the event but it’s way too overcrowded I usually end up missing most talks I’m interested in because the rooms are full or I can’t find where they are.
Each year I’m always taken aback at how run down and grimy Brussels is as well. I’m from London and I feel much less safe there. A pickpocket brazenly tried to take my wallet last year at a train station. My mate also had his car window smashed. You’d think the heart of the EU would be in a better state.
> Or rather, the relief after the suffering has ended

Good luck if you are suffering from most forms of depression in getting that relief since everything is suffering.
The fact that so many critical infrastructure systems still depend on Windows is absurd (I say from my Windows machine). Great find! Thank you for sharing.
As the article points out, they are arguing in court against the new york times that publicly available data is fair game.

The questions I am keenly waiting to observe the answer to (because surely Sam's words are lies): how hard is OpenAI willing to double down on their contradictory positions? What mental gymnastics will they use? What power will back them up, how, and how far will that go?
If the content doesn’t matter, why do anything to it?
Well it is called "Open" AI after all.
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We already offer ST and SM in a discounted bundle :)
> People will have no shame passing off well written things as an output of their talent and hard work.

Sometimes I don't want to waste my time crafting a professional e-mail to a bunch of jerks full of themselves. Maybe I want to write it as it comes off my brain, and let my digital scribe to reformulate it so that the people reading it feel respected/validated/flattered. Am I putting up a fake identity then? Am I presenting an illusion of professionalism? Maybe writing "Best regards" instead of "Bye" is the facade of professionalism in the first place.
> the generation speed on this build is 6 to 8 tokens per second

> ...if you want Q8 you'll need >700GB of GPU memory, which will probably cost $100k+
And so is everything else. Solar and wind are generally much more geographically distributed so are less vulnerable.
No, a record is a tagged (sequence of) value(s).

<tag v1 v2 v3>

If you put a single dictionary-valued "field" in a record, you get a variation with named fields

<tag {
field1: value1
field2: value2
field3: value3
}>

Records have positional "fields" because of the Scheme heritage of the design.

--

Re bytestring -- yes there are some concessions to real machines/languages in there that aren't absolutely required. Other examples include booleans and strings, which could have been <true> and <false> and <string [65 66 67]> etc respectively.

There's a little more on this topic in footnote 2 on the "conventions" page: https://preserves.dev/conventions.html#fn:why-dictionaries
The incentives/goals are the issue. By and large, commercial banks want to do business with you. They are subject to constraints, but they want to do it. They can/do also push back, they aren't just doing whatever the government says.
> Why is it always seagate when there's something wrong with HDDs?

It's either Seagate, Western Digital, or the rotating third player in the market, but there haven't really been any other options for scanadals.

I can't remember the last time the third player had a big scandal, but WD certainly goes through them from time to time. IBM DeskStar is a name that will live in infamy, but that was from before rotational drives really consolidated.
The US government likely will favor a large strategic company like OpenAI instead of individual's copyrights, so while ironic, the US government definitely doesn't care.

And the US government is also likely itching to reduce the power of Chinese AI companies that could out compete US rivals (similar to the treatment of BYD, TikTok, solar panel manufacturers, network equipment manufacturers, etc), so expect sweeping legislation that blocks access to all Chinese AI endeavours to both the US and then soon US allies/West (via US pressure.)

The likely legislation will be on the surface justified both by security concerns and by intellectual property concerns, but ultimately it will be motivated by winning the economic competition between China and the US and it will attempt to tilt the balance via explicitly protectionist policies.
As the other commenter has posted, refunds for inexistent bookings or refunds for someone else's booking are pretty frequent.

Other simple stuff is overdue payments for fictive deliveries such as soaps, toilet paper, cleaning bills or even outsourced work.

The more complex scams involve making bookings and sending packages with fees and totals paid by the recipient, they try to convince the receptionists that their package needs to be delivered, and an actual delivery of random stuff happens using a real delivery company to complete the scam. They don't always mention that there's payment required on delivery.

Other scams involve claiming lost luggage, wallets, electronics without them being the owners, and trying to convince the receptionist to send the item internationally. We're a hotel next to the airport, so international travellers are the norm, plus we have a room full of lost stuff. They make a booking with a fictional name, then cancel it or no show, and then ask for their black luggage, black wallet, tablet, gold bracelet, etc.
We might eventually see the code for the models and inference, but I do doubt we’ll see training code or be granted access to training data. Google is pretty bad at this.
"You can't take data without asking" seems like a court precedent OpenAI really, really, really wants to avoid. And yet...
Is it still only line of site emergencies? Or is it that they solved the line of site issue?
Oh, weird, I could swear I've done that before. Especially weird because a class field is essentially the same thing.
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They both competed for worst drive :)

https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/archived/resources-ar...

" Western Digital supplied it with faulty disk drives during 1988 and 1989"
>Stop asking about the costs

This is not a serious position. Cost is always a factor.
I avoid WD since the WD Red SMR controversy. Was under the impression Seagate has always been solid. Bummer.
Or the only difference of those specialized SKUs is a single parameter in the firmware making a different tradeoff for, lets say, random seek vs. sustained sequential reads/writes. A different cache strategy. Or whatever.

Being able to charge $100 more for that is very worthwhile.
Honestly, I wasn't even talking about jobs with that. I worry about an intelligent IOT controlled by authoritarian governments or corporate interests. Our phones have already turned society into a panopticon, and that will can get much worse when AGI lands.

But yes, the job thing is concerning as well. AI won't scrub a toilet, but it will cheaply and inexhaustibly do every job that humans find meaningful today. It seems that we're heading inexorably towards dystopia.
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The actual reason why the two aren't comparable is that Elon is not just the CEO, but also a significant owner of SpaceX (42% equity; 79% voting control, according to Wikipedia). Tim Cook owns less than 1% of Apple.
Yup. Got my own domain(s) and use a different address for all my services (like with Gmail where you could append +service to your email but with a completely distinct email per service like paypal@mydomain.com). Helped my several times to identify spam & phishing without even having to check the E-Mail itself.
I do think that distilling a model from another is much less impressive than distilling one from raw text. However, it is hard to say if it is really illegal or even immoral, perhaps just one step further in the evolution of the space.
If they want us to care they can open up their models so we can be the judge.
When large sums of money are involved the techbros will burn everything down, go scorched earth no matter what the consequences, to keep what they believe they're entitled to.
Can’t disagree with you about America. But the fact that you can post this without fear and we can protest these injustices is what separates us from China.
What a strange complaint about AI. This already happens and happened without AI.

>You have an individual and unique way of speaking and writing? You're going to wish your e-mail finds people well, corporate-monkey.
She makes some decent points but a lot of this feels like the age-old argument of "$SOMETHING_NEW was fun and exciting when I was young and now it's all turned to shit."
You're imagining a future that is a continuation of our lives here and that is kind to currently living humans. But this is just inventing requirements.

Imagine none of what you've presumed is necessary is even a design objective. Maybe it is, but probably it's too difficult and uneconomical. These capabilities could be built without ever enabling any of us to live or achieve immortality.

Those hypothetical digital beings could be human-like, maybe exact simulations, or perhaps totally different. They could be benevolent, or perhaps not. We might come to a conclusion that it's no longer ethical to have biological humans. Or maybe we're forced into that outcome.

Who knows. This is all wild postulation. But one thing that might happen is runaway growth and a deviation from a world we're familiar with.
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I actually don't think I get much in return for that.
This smells very suspiciously like: someone who doesn't know anything about AI (possibly Sacks) demanding answers on R1 from someone who doesn't have any good ones (possibly Altman). "Uh, (sweating), umm, (shaking), they stole it from us! Yeah, look at this suspicious activity, that's why they had it so easy, we did all the hard work first!"
Would it even matter? Isn't the cat out of the bag and everything they did repeatable by an American research team?
If your depression remained abated after resuming a healthy diet, I'd say the microbiome hypothesis is intriguing. Otherwise I'd there are way too many complicating factors at work during a fast to dwell on that.

Also, you could toy around with different fermented foods while making no other changes.
This is also why we won't get a Big Tech crackdown any time soon of any significance; and would not have even under the previous administration.

Big Tech is the US' golden goose in the race against China. Deepseek shows China is at the doorstep, much closer and more capable than previously assumed. Any thoughts politically about how we can simultaneously crack down on Big Tech, while keeping China in check with sanctions, just went out the window.
I was with you until you mentioned “brand”. You don’t need your identity to be a “brand”. Even more, it tends to be detrimental, because “story” implies inauthenticity.
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> Today, everyone and everything is always available, and there’s nothing less sexy than that. There’s no chase. Our phones don’t allow us time to dwell, and they don’t allow us time to yearn. Why force yourself to daydream about the guy you’re seeing when you can easily look at dozens of photographs of him online? Why walk into a store in Soho and see what’s on offer when you can stay home and scroll the entire inventory from the comfort of your couch? Why go to the library to find books about a topic that interests you when you can look it up on Wikipedia in two minutes and move on with your day?
I'm a die-hard Ultrastar fan who was disappointed by their eventual sale to WD. But, for a sample size of 8 over a decade, I've been happy with my Toshiba laptop 2TB drives I have running in a small storage server.
>By revealing that Microsoft et al. paid way too much to OpenAI et al. for technology that was actually easy to reinvent.

That's why it's called a bubble. Pretty sure my great great grandad also overpaid for some tulips.
DeepSeek have more integrity than 'Open'AI by not even pretending to care about that.
I mean, I hear that. I was asked to be "nicer" in emails once, and when pressed for specific changes, was finally asked to occasionally say "Thanks!" as my sign-off instead of "Thanks,".

The "bunch of jerks full of themselves" likely aren't reading the emails now; we're burning immense amounts of energy for your politeness to be generated, and distilled out at the other end into a no-nonsense summary missing all the niceties another AI just added.
Why do software developers like working from the office?
There is even an option to change the behavior so that the window doesn't freeze if you select anything. Batches freeze completely when you clicked anywhere and I found out the hard way.

Probably some feature that John requested because he couldn't read some output quickly enough. I don't understand how this can be the default behavior.
Yes, of course that’s how it will go in reality. But some customers are terrible people from the start and definitely don’t deserve any human service.
LOL, I was thinking exactly the same think when I read the news about openai whining.
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Lost my first 3 years of programming thanks to a Deathstar... Still miffed about it, as I enjoy going back looking at my earlier code.

At least I learned to take backups, which has saved my butt several times since.
I've had this experience with several big retailers recently. One is B&H, who sold me a "new" Focusrite 18i20 4th Gen last month which had clearly been opened, cosmetically damaged, and returned. I've also had this experience many times with Sweetwater (musical instruments retailer). There used to be a sales rep there who would participate in a particular musician's forum that I was a member of and would get us a slightly better price than is standard if we ordered through him directly. Many people who did so, including me, received what was clearly opened and returned items, sold as new. I assume they do this because the vast majority of people would rather not bother and will just accept a small defect.
They did. Facebook's XMPP implementation was shit and unreliable. Google's actually federated, but they silently killed federation .. and then the entire protocol. (This was ~10 years ago)

Exactly who should "require" these companies to implement theses standards? Some daddy government? Who would be forced to implement it? Just the big sites? What makes a site big enough? If it were required, it would be used to lock out smaller players.

Consumers could demand it, but we know the average consumer doesn't even know what a protocol is, or understand the different between a web browser and e-mail. Most don't even know how their phones work.
That's why it's easy. People think "I'm not important enough" to be targeted, or "My job isn't that important", but that's what adversaries are counting on. Their "unimportant" job or whatever is just a stepping stone.
Yes, and this isn't the same.

It's a tradition to torture car analogies so let me do so, this is more like when you start to say goodbye to people at a party your car identifies the pattern and warms up, opens the door as you walk to it and then drives you home. If you sit and take the wheel to drive towards a hotel you booked nearby it spots that and starts doing that for you.

> Something like duplicate the current function, change the name of the parameter and update the query as well as some symbols, can be done quickly as soon as the plan to do so appears. And it’s mostly in automatic mode.

And with these things I might move the cursor to where I want to put the new function, and then it's just immediately suggested for me. One key press and it's done. Then it suggests the other two based on the type definition somewhere else.

Obviously this is the happy path.
Competition is important. I do find it very impressive what Starlink has achieved so far, but it would make me very nervous if nobody else were even trying.