skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Seems like a lot of Californians are feeling insecure about this kind of news. Maybe its time to re-evaluate why this is happening instead of lashing out. California is a beautiful state with great weather, it has some of the most important trade and transit hubs in the west, and a robust education system. There's no reason we can't turn this around, almost all of our issues are governance related problems.
> the DOJ argued that Saine has no right to a real judge and jury because the government was only trying to take his money, not his property

Ummm... let's hope my passport is still considered property, as I seriously consider leaving this madness.
"Rules for thee, none for me" - Republican motto since time immemorial
The authorities in the PRC are probably much better positioned than you are to decide what is in their interest to suppress.

As for the US, some people have fallen into a self soothing sense of hopelessness. Not everyone has. But worrying about the MOVE bombing probably is no where near the top of anyone's priority list right now. And it would seem very odd if it was.

When you type "we're hopeless" it is hard to see that meaning anything other than, you, personally, lack hope.
It does not, for slice indexing Rust is just as bad. My best guess is that this will likely blow up into such a big issue that the Rust devs are going to be forced to implement a feature to disable indexing (and leave just the safe .get()), or the kernel devs will fork the core library.

But Rust prevents a myriad of other things that would be panics in Zig or undefined behavior in C. It has a really strong type system, capable of reducing a large amount of invalid states and keeping many invariants throughout very large codebases.
The difference is that DeepSeek couldn’t actually be created as cheaply as it was without using OpenAIs resources - not just IP.

It did refinement by using OpenAI to create synthetic data.
Zuck has majority voting shares, so can't be fired.

Sam already proved that nobody at OpenAI can get him out, and the new board makes that even harder.

Same for Elon.

No matter what happens, all 3 will be billionaires for the rest of their lives.
DeepSeek has created a 21st-century Sputnik moment
I don't know if you are, but a lot of people are still comparing one Deepseek training run to the entire costs of OpenAI.

The deepseek paper states that the $5mil number doesn't include development costs, only the final training run. And it doesn't include the estimated $1.4billion cost of the infrastructure/chips Deepseek owns.

Most of OpenAI's billion dollar costs is in inference, not training. It takes a lot of compute to serve so many users.

Dario said recently that Claude was in the tens of millions (and that it was a year earlier, so some cost decline is expected), do we have some reason to think OpenAI was so vastly different?
So kissing the ring and bending over was okay on Jan 20, 2021?
The built-in dev tools is the key thing. If there was no way for the client to manipulate things, it wouldn't be too far off from other local apps. Reversing is always going to be a threat vector, but the low bar to entry of using the dev tools makes it a non-starter for me.

If using Ghirdra was as simple as using the dev tools, the software industry would collapse.
Every single employee should change their name to Alex and Sam.
Also hope you're right on this, but I fear it may not matter much anymore.
> I'm usually just selecting the one that answered first

Which is why you randomize the order. You aren’t a tester.

56% vs 44% may not be noise. That’s why we have p values. It depends on sample size.
They scream about fringe issues that few people care about and then claim that it is for the benefit of the majority.

Like all the brouhaha they manufactured about trans people, a vanishingly small part of any population.
This is completely insane and if this holds then it gives the feds complete control over anyone and anything. You bow down or we take everything from you. This case needs to be watched with intense scrutiny.

> Before you run out and trade your USD for meme coins, let me reassure you: DOJ's argument is wrong. The Due Process Clause applies to "life, liberty, or property," and the Supreme Court has repeatedly applied that Clause to money. It follows that, since money is neither life nor liberty, it must be property.

The government being obviously wrong has not stopped the Supreme Court from making utterly insane judgements.
No, I don’t.

To regard it as suspicious I would have to know:

- Has this happened before?
- are they actually compliant with the rules? Or are they being banned and then unbanned because we’re sympathetic to them?
- was anyone mass reporting them? Was this human or automatic?
- how often are these things banned?

It’s really a miracle most of these outfits are operating at all. In most cases we’re talking about filling out an anonymous form to get prescription medication. It’s not legal. Some of them try to provide a form of legality as a cover (“we definitely have a doctor review your anonymous form”) but not anything that would hold up to scrutiny. It’s not surprising that very few of them are likely following Facebooks rules on top of that.

Of course maybe they should be legal and the situation should be totally different, but Facebook banning grey market prescription drug sellers that almost certainly violate their rules is not surprising. It’s also not surprising they ease up when the NYT asks about it even if there are rule violations because I doubt Meta wants any part of this debate.
It’s less a value judgement than a fact of law. Delaware has strict rules, precedents and courts that enforce shareholder protections. By leaving Delaware the company has signaled that giving that up is less if a downside than whatever upside they are getting in the new jurisdiction.

In the case of Tesla it was an explicit repudiation of those rules that caused the company to leave, so it’s reasonable to see it as a signal.
There were so many Executive Orders I completely missed that. Regardless, the news articles I just checked seems to indicate that Musk has not actually joined the government agency at this point.

Even if he has, it is irrelevant to my actual argument. If Musk wields power with Trump then why was Altman given a platform? Musk and Altman aren't fans of each other. Trump even said Elon hates Altman.
And does it reduce divisiveness by forcing this to happen in a few hours across the federal workforce of a couple million people?

If this was a serious rationale, the agencies would have some time to make a plan and implement it (say 30 days). This is exactly to sow division and chaos, to find out who the enemies of this administration are, and who will comply without complaining to ridiculous wasteful demands.
I know a PayPal employee who would get a vein on his forehead if you suggested Leon had anything to do with their success.

Whether it’s true or not another .1% of his net worth per year isn’t going to prove it.
As the article mentions, the tensor tympani muscles are also involved in hyperacusis, which is an inability to tolerate sound at volumes most people have no issue with.

One of my kids has this. The best analogy I've found is it is like standing out in the sun when you already have sunburn.
It's also called a protection racket.
It wasn’t just IP though. DeepSeek actually used OpenAIs API and resources. I’m not saying it was unethical.
If anyone wants to experiment with this lib + yaegi interpreter I put up a trivial example at [1]. Composing scripts with LSP support and such might be doable with a proper abstraction, in the example a main package with a main function is required. Interpreting might break some functionality for `script` so perhaps rerunning their test suite with yaegi is a good idea if you get serious about this.

1. https://github.com/danicc097/yaegi-script
After literally decades of occasionally dipping into GDB only to quickly remember why I would rather use no debugger at all than that, it's hard to imagine what you could mean by "great". What are you comparing it to?
> Zig's answer to safety is mostly based on runtime panics

This statement is nonsensical.

Zig's answer to safety is based on a precise type system and a simple language that helps the programmer in their quest to write perfect code. If a kernel panics, that is either a bug or hardware failure.
> machine will pretend to not know who the word enemy in the quote refers to

Uh, Claude and Gemini seem to know their history. What is ChatGPT telling you?
in twenty years of working for universities, federal agencies, state agencies, startups, and enterprises, I have never had a mandated signature style.
> "What we need is a computer that isn’t labor-saving, but which increases the work for us to do." — John Cage

Arguably both are needed. The kind that replaces the mindless repetitive work (e.g. dishwasher, roomba) so we have more time to focus on the kind that lets us do more than before (e.g. an orbital satelite, 3D printer).

There are only 24 hours in a day and you can't do more without doing less first.
it's pointed out in the story, but Ge Wang is the author of the ChucK strongly timed programming language (which has the famous upchuck operator...)
It depends. For single scripts its too much, but if there are dozen or so scripts with related/similar tasks, there can be common code or pattern to be shared. I have one Go project with ~3kloc and does 20 or so operations. But if were to do just single operation it would still need ~1.5K line of code.
How about “no”?
That kind of significant network effect, while notably more legal than anti-competitive practices, is also very bad for the consumer. So this hardly acts as a defense of his desires.
The problem with #2 is Meta doesn't operate in a vacuum. Assuming there are problems to be solved, if Meta doesn't do #1 then someone else will. The someone else will eventually surpass Meta.
I know for a fact that as of yesterday I did not have to pick one to continue the conversation. It just maximizes the second choice and displayed a 2/2 below the response.
Can't gather data new data from the phone if that person is in a coma. But, hey, now the relatives can get coffin adverts before the doctor brings the bad news! /s

That backdoor, if it reports to a university, is probably put there to facilitate a study/diploma/phd or something like that.
Passports are usually considered to be the property of the issuing government. Some of them even say as much inside.
We've run a couple experiments and have found that our open vision language model Moondream works better than YOLOv11 in general cases. If accuracy matters most, it's worth trying our vision language model. If you need real-time results, you can train YOLO models using data from our model. We have a space for video redaction, that is just object detection, on our Hugging Face. We also have a playground online to try it out.
CDC Data Is Disappearing
https://livebench.ai/#/

My experience is as follows:

- "Reason" toggle just got enabled for me as a free tier user of ChatGPT's webchat. Apparently this is o3-mini
- I have Copilot Pro (offered to me for free), which apparently has o1 too (as well as Sonnet, etc.)

From my experience DeepSeek R1 (webchat) is more expressive, more creative and its writing style is leagues better than OpenAI's models, however it under-performs Sonnet when changing code ("code completion").

Comparison screenshots for prompt "In C++, is a reference to "const C" a "const reference to C"?": https://imgur.com/a/c-is-reference-to-const-c-const-referenc...

tl;dr keep using Claude for code and DeepSeek webchat for technical questions
Who are the people doing this? What are their clearances? Who authorized them to do any of this?

A random group of nobodies given power by an oligarch with no real delegated power of their own shouldn't be able to interfere with career officials. They should be arrested and thrown in jail.
Huh, it's almost like helicopters flown by authoritarian yahoos can not be trusted to cooperate with others.
They use the word reasoning a lot in the post. Is this reasoning or statistical prediction?
Bertrand Russell would apparently say "no, that's just being human"

"All human activity is prompted by desire" --but read the rest, it's insightful even (especially) for today

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1950/russell/le...
Mr. Bob French Fries, M.D., Ph.D

People should do what they want with pronouns in email signatures. But I don’t understand why you can’t string these together.
Overshoot: How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown
https://archive.ph/2025.01.29-220125/https://www.lrb.co.uk/t...
Thanks for the shout out :)
Apparently killing people is not the taboo it used to be. Even 20 million lives currently threatened by the PEPFAR shutdown is hardly registering in the public consciousness here in the West.
Competition means everyone is now 5X faster. So you can't get by with the previous output level.
Spotted the pissed off OpenAI RLHF engineer! Hahahahaha!
Private companies != federal government. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict_scrutiny, there's no way the federal government will be able to argue that it has a legitimate interest in banning pronouns in signatures.
I can check. But what is this referring to, specifically?
No they are not. Systemd is very incompatible with what Alpine is trying to and succeeding at doing.

PostmarketOS which is based on Alpine switched to systemd, but I've seen nothing indicating Alpine is interested in doing so.
> they produced more ET cartridges than there were 2600 consoles in existence.

in this manner, you only have to manufacture the game one time instead of having to order a second manufacturing run later since it was assumed Atari was going to keep making more consoles. it was quite the "cunning plan". the rest of the world was just not on the same page of their play book. i'm guessing MBAs were involved
Unsweetened caffeinated coffee assoc. with lower rates of Parkinson's, dementia
Eh, people will still move to California to start a business. When it gets threatened enough, it'll cave and play ball with other states to get back into the game. Having an insane upper hand with the climate based desirability will help them to get back on track, in my opinion. Now, I don't live in CA, and wouldn't want to move for some other reasons, but I genuinely don't think there is a better climate than SF, LA, SD metro areas. Maybe Cape Town, but then again, different problems.
Referring to this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42885476

I don’t personally have a bone to pick with Go mod, save for how the GOPROXY DoS issue was handled.
And it was already embarrassing for a myriad of reasons before that including how he went on Joe Rogan talking about how corporations need more "masculine energy". In the hobbies I participate in (notably I'm not in a major tech hub) some of these tech companies are getting a similar social stigma to like finance (and this is especially pronounced among women I know who really don't like what they view as "tech bros")
Someone once broke my brain about hostile alien movies. They said if the aliens were here to take, they could stay in the Oort Cloud or outer planets where the gravity well is shallow, and strip mine our system for natural resources and we wouldn’t even be able to throw anything that high to stop them.

We could just watch and shake our fists as they steal our future at their leisure. They wouldn’t even have to send their people. They could use robots on ten systems at once.
Because I cloned it from Lobste.rs and probably forgot to change that one.
I suspect people on LLM Arena don't ask complex questions too often, and reasoning models seem to perform worse than simple models when the goal is just casual conversation or retrieving embedded knowledge. Reasoning models probably 'overthink' in such cases. And slower, too.
I'm not talking about the 1st amendment. I'm talking about the rhetoric of those on the right in America. They are constantly congratulating themselves on being the champions of freedom. But if someone wants to read a book they don't like, or if someone wants to use a pronoun they disagree with, or if someone wants access to certain medical procedures then they pass laws to restrict those freedoms. It's incredibly hypocritical.
ddterm is just a drop down terminal extension for gnome (like Guake or Yakuake). Dropdown means that it has an animation to drop from the top of your screen. You can configure it to be an overlay or pushing away the other windows.

I'm not really sure why I like it so much, but it feels natural.
I think that's the fate of every project like that. Not to take away from it, it's still fantastic and geeky. But at some point, you have this realization that you're pouring years of your life into something that is not only utterly useless, but also won't be appreciated by others. You can't even play Pong on it. There's literally nothing you can demo to non-nerds, other than "this device makes looks complicated and makes noise".

Maybe you'll make it to HN more than a decade later, but that's it. No one will buy it from you. Your heirs will toss it out. It... sucks.
"I'm not sure what's keeping LeCun at Meta at this point."

The most obvious options are

1) An insane amount of compensation.

2) Access to an insane amount of compute to train new LLMs.
Chinese models may indeed be more likely to not distort or lie about certain topics that are taboo in the West. Of course mentioning them here on Hacker News would be taboo also.
Exactly. Minorities are their scapegoats, it's not any more complex than that.
fuck off we're full
I'm not a math person either, but I'm familiar with some of the terminology. The two things I got out of this paper were:

1. Depth is more important than breadth for making transformers smarter. That is, for a given size of model it will be more powerful with more, smaller layers than it would be with less, bigger ones. Interestingly, Mistral just updated their small model yesterday with a big reduction in layers in order to improve performance. Among the many ways they say it more technically they do say directly "depth plays
a more critical role than width in reasoning and composition tasks".

2. As I understand it, they are claiming to be able to prove mathematically that Chain of Thought such as seen in the new DeepSeek R1 and GPT o1/o3 models creates results that wouldn't be possible without it. The thought chains effectively act as additional layers, and per the previous point, the more layers the better. "From a theoretical view, CoT provides Transformer with extra computation space, and previous work
... proved that log-precision Transformer with CoT could simulate any polynomial-time algorithm. Therefore, by further assuming certain complexity conjecture ... their results imply that constant depth Transformer with CoT could simulate
poly-time algorithm, while constant depth Transform ... itself can not solve P-complete task."
The fake conservative "shadow ban" is now coming into effect against their enemies. They do what they condemn in others.
Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries
Hehe, cool. I just enjoy a good favicon, surely you'll make one for this project eventually!
"Personal liberty" is a superset of what's protected by the First Amendment. No one said anything about 1A. It's clear that MAGA is not actually interested in either 1A protection specifically (totally aside from this case specifically) nor personal liberties generally (as exemplified by this case).
If you realize you called 911 by mistake just stay on the line and explain. Operators are understanding of mistakes, they will do some checks to make sure it really was a mistake as opposed to a real thing but you know the attacker is listening and then tell you bye. Don't make mistakes often, if it happens often they will look up the laws and throw fines at your for wasting their time, but for a rare thing it isn't a big deal.

If things are borderline and so you are not sure if this is 911 or maybe you can lookup some non-emergency number: just call 911 and explain. They will figure it out - better to call 911 when you didn't need to than call the non-emergency number and not get the help you need.

If you don't live in the US you may have some other emergency number. Know what it is. Generally the same rules as above apply.
That guy ain't doing EO's. He ain't even leading the country; Dick Schoof does. Well, on paper, at least.
Huh, people are extracting whole bunch of value in Python at expense of society. Should I blame Python or its contributor for it?
None of that matters to normal users, and you could satisfy power users with serial numbers or even unique ideograms. Naming isn't that hard, and their models are surprisingly adept at it. A consistent naming scheme improves customer experience by preventing confusion - when a new model comes out, I field questions for days from friends and family - "what does this mean? which model should i use? Aww, I have to download another update?" and so on. None of the stated reasons for not having a coherent naming convention for their models are valid. I'd be upset as a stakeholder, they're burning credibility and marketing power for no good reason.

modelname(variant).majorVersion.minorVersion
ChatGPT(o).3.0
ChatGPT-mini(o).3.0
GPT.2.123
GPT.3.9

And so on. Once it's coherent, people pick it up, and naturally call the model by "modelname majorversion" , and there's no confusion or hesitance about which is which. See, it took me 2 minutes.

Even better: Have an OAI slack discussion company-wide, then have managers summarize their team's discussions into a prompt demonstrating what features they want out of it, then run all the prompts together and tell the AI to put together 3 different naming schemes based on all the features the employees want. Roll out a poll and have employees vote which of the 3 gets used going forward. Or just tap into that founder mode and pick one like a boss.

Don't get me wrong, I love using AI - we are smack dab in the middle of a revolution and normal people aren't quite catching on yet, so it's exhilarating and empowering to be able to use this stuff, like being one of the early users of the internet. We can see what's coming, and if you lived through the internet growing up, you know there's going to be massive, unexpected synergies and developments of systems and phenomena we don't yet have the words for.

OpenAI can do better, and they should.
https://fortune.com/2025/01/30/elon-musk-return-to-office-ex...

> Musk, heading said operations, says he is working out of DOGE’s headquarters in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building
My echo chamber is Norton Commander or M602 on MS-DOS, thats how I grew up to understand what a files are and how to work with them. That's how laymen used computers back then and what was thought in schools.

Key property of these was that they had command line, so you could easily navigate and execute arbitrary commands on what you see, by typing them in.

The major reason people don't use command line interface on windows or smartphones and other appliances, is because it does not have anything remotely comparable pre-installed, so they're forced to use the inferior interface.
If you add those numbers - which are guess work - then the US is still ahead per capita - rather 5x more than China - simply ~2.5x.

So you are trying to deflect again - and I notice you haven't address the key point - the existence of legalized enforced labour in the US.

If you dislike what China is doing then you should also be worried about what's happening in the US.
Any instrument on the market does.