skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s worth discussing the fact that many folks in EA- and rationalist-adjacent circles are deeply panicked about developments in AI, because they believe these systems pose a threat to human existence. (Not all of them, obviously. But a large and extraordinarily well-funded contingent.) The fear I have with these organizations is that eventually panic - in the name of saving humans - leads to violent action. And while this is just a couple of isolated examples, it does illustrate the danger that violent action can become normalized in insular organizations.

I do hope people “on the inside” are aware of this and are working to make sure those organizations don’t have bad ideas that hurt real people.
Ah, body paint technology, I really wonder what would they come up that would improve performance...
My personal opinion on society, is that many many businesses have massive inefficiencies and could be wiped off the map if people understood those weaknesses. But there is a culture of "that CEO is so smart, no chance you could compete". Reality is, they are just hiring random people with fancy degrees. I bet most OpenAI "ai engineers" have no clue how low level GPU CUDA programming even works. They are just tweaking pytorch configs, blowing billions on training.

In the past, tech got away with the above because capital meant if you hired enough people, you ended up with something valuable. But AI levels the playing field, reducing the value of capital and increasing the value of the individual contributor.
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> Having everyone together in one place at one time is what makes the Olympics special. Special for the athletes, live spectators & host city alike.

A good idea in theory, but in practice the cost of hosting the entire Olympics in a single city has become so cost-prohibitive infrastructure-wise that very few are even willing to do it anymore. We already see that with the winning LA bid for the next summer Olympics, where they're not building anything new to host it.
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I'll be moving to Proton Pass.
Chased them away is one way to look at it...another way to look at it is tens/hundreds of millions of dollars luring them away.
I mean, I don't know when do you retire in your countries. Here, it's at 65 years old (ridiculous)

I am 30 and even before AI, I NEVER thought for a moment I would get to keep coding until I am f*king 65, lol
He's also genuine according to this or maybe they wanted to emphasize "seems like":

> I just saw Sam Altman speak at YCNYC and I was impressed. I have never actually met him or heard him speak before Monday, but one of his stories really stuck out and went something like this:

> "We were trying to get a big client for weeks, and they said no and went with a competitor. The competitor already had a terms sheet from the company were we trying to sign up. It was real serious.

> We were devastated, but we decided to fly down and sit in their lobby until they would meet with us. So they finally let us talk to them after most of the day.

> We then had a few more meetings, and the company wanted to come visit our offices so they could make sure we were a 'real' company. At that time, we were only 5 guys. So we hired a bunch of our college friends to 'work' for us for the day so we could look larger than we actually were. It worked, and we got the contract."

> I think the reason why PG respects Sam so much is he is charismatic, resourceful, and just overall seems like a genuine person.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3048944
Changing his company from a non-profit to a for-profit once he saw the $$$, seems pretty untrustworthy to me.
Meta has been aware of DeepSeek for a long time (as Zuckerberg mentioned the company by name in his podcast with Joe Rogan) and a “war room” is just a meeting room.
I encourage everyone to update your email address (user login) by adding some novel characters to your email like youremail+bw1234@gmail.com because there are active attacks against Bitwarden right now.

Thankfully Bitwarden warned me about the attempts. For the rest of the customers it's a matter of time before you are a target.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then all of a sudden when your rival starts cozying up to the incoming Trump administration — boom.

I guess we delved too deep. Or something.
It has some hardcoded ability to download episodes from streaming websites and bittorrent. See references to `AnimeProvider` and the impls under `/fastanime/libs/anime_provider/`. (This might also create problems for hosting this on GH in the first place. Let's see...)
I'm in the chip design industry. After reading Altman's comments in this article and thread last year I realized that he is not as smart as he thinks he is.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-execs-allege...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41668824

Ultimately another company finding a better cheaper way to do AI is good for everyone. We were reading how it will be hard for new companies to catch up but but the existing big companies are now going to have to catch up. We were seeing a lot of stories about fab capacity and new power plant construction just for AI. I've been waiting for the AI bubble to pop just like the dot com bubble popped when investors finally started demanding companies show profitability. AI is certainly useful but at some point companies have to start showing how to make a profit rather than just hype.
Let's see how it will report on war in Ukraine, as its founder considers it a political issue they are not impressed by: https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...
>the word “habitable” is highly subjective.

Sure, but not in the context of "habitable zone" which is a specific term of art in astrobiology.
Why? My wife has a ChatGPT $20/mth account, rarely uses now the novelty has warn off (I asked she said twice this month), the only reason she keeps paying for it is to retain the chat history. That's a tiny very rarely used docker container on a server somewhere. Maybe I'm thinking about this wrong, but I would just run this the same way we ran digitalocean, all the $5/mth accounts with no activity sit on a box configured for that, once it starts to do stuff it moves to a box with less VMs on it, etc, this is how subscription levels in cloud work, sure it cost us $100MM to get there, but now it just prints cash. If OpenAI decided to stop training models and focused on unit economics, I don't see how they couldn't get it to profitability quite quickly, even with all the competition.
Well, DeepSeek engineers are (desperately) fire-fighting as they don't have nearly as much capacity as needed. Competitors either already rushed release or decided to do an hush release of whatever they had in the pipeline. Sounds like everyone is working L
I just wrote up a very similar comment. It’s really nice to see that there are other people who understand the limits of LLM in this hype cycle.

Like all the people surprised by Deepseek when it has been clear for the last 2 years there is no moat in foundation models and all the value is in 1) high quality data that becomes more valuable as the internet fills with AI junk 2) building the UX on top that will make specific tasks faster.
> ... meeting the same strict regulatory noise levels as the latest subsonic airplanes

Extremely dishonest: as far as I can tell (CFR title 14, B36.5) there are no specific noise level regulations for subsonic cruise flight (i.e. not take-off and landing) because you can't hear subsonic aircraft at cruise altitude. On the other hand, however, you will be able to hear sonic booms.
This is absurd for a number of reasons. Probably the biggest being that $10m need not be the only investment. Sam of... Y-Combinator is suggesting that startups do not get more funding after $10m? That $10m is insufficient to demonstrate capability that would then motivate more rounds of funding?

Honestly, I want to see more $10m startups. Stop this mega millions level funding into AI/ML and give out more small sums. Let people explore new ideas and scale. Give $10m to people doing non-LLM based stuff. Hell, give $10 to the Mamba team. Give it to the Ziming Liu (KAN). To Bruno Gavranović. To people doing Bayesian stuff. To a ton others. Let these people attempt to scale. If you really want to disrupt OpenAI the best way is to find something better than LLMs. You aren't going to beat the entrenched players at their game, but we know for certain that there's more efficient means of generating powerful learning systems. There's a whole community of "GPU Poor" people, which is just another name for "can't get their ideas through review because reviewers are too lazy to evaluate methods and just respond with 'not novel, needs more experiments.'" There's a metric ton of "unpublished" (still on arxiv) works that are more compute efficient and these people aren't just hungry, they're hungry and want to fight because they've been treated unfairly (I speak from experience).
Maybe, but it's the same argument trickling down. You'll need the CRUD-apps because you hired Cindy to press the button, and if shit goes pear-shaped, you can point to Cindy in the post-mortem. If it's some AI agent pressing the button to egress data from the database, and there's an anomaly, then it's a systemic failure at a macro level at that company, which is harder to write a press release about.
Nvidia says 'Press Build' RTX 5090s are not juiced up
They trained their own V3 and then trained R1 Zero from V3 purely as RL, it didn't completely work so then they took some CoT examples and trained R1 on RL + some SFT. You're thinking of the finetunes based on R1 outputs - those are not actually distills, and they're all far worse than the original R1. And yes, they're finetuned based on other models.
Yup. People who know how to use it, and who work on tasks where LLM code is generally functional, are getting more done in less time.

I don't trust companies to translate that to, "We can do more now" rather than, "We can do more with less people now" though.
I have always had the same line:

AI will blow my mind when it solves an unsolved mathematical/physics/scientific problem, i.e: "AI, give me a proof for (or against) the Riemann hypothesis"
> Also, as someone in the US I can very safely say that Taiwan is not China and have no concern for my safety.

But you will be arrested if you stage a peaceful pro-Palestine protest asking for an end to the ongoing genocide.

Or even worse, if you say that Palestine is not Israel.
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When I use locally download DeepSeek-R1 models from HuggingFace via LM Studio, I cannot reproduce the censorship. It replies about Tienanmen no problem.
I got super into handball during Rio 2016. It was on, maybe CNBC? Definitely didn't get any play on any of the "main" channels. Now it's my guilty pleasure every 4 years.
I know you're being a little cheeky, but if you think "tape delay" is some sort of solution to the problem I voiced then you're not really being serious. While NBC certainly improved their primetime experience this time around, it's not at all the same as actually watching the events live. This is doubly true since the results of many of those contests are widely publicized before their primetime airing.
I don't know if this is technically a lie, but he said that he'll purchase electricity made from fusion power within the next couple of years.

I don't know if he believes that himself. But I can tell you with extreme high confidence that this is not going to happen, and it's not even close to anything remotely realistic.
That makes sense. I've known that private jets fly faster than typical commercial jets as well as flying at higher altitude.
> He doesn't even have an undergrad degree!

I don't either. Am I disallowed from calling myself a founder?
That happened back in 2023: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/14/1085318/google-d...
To the extent that your neighbors believe in false or unprovable things that don’t exist in our tangible reality, that should concern you. This can absolutely lead to horrifying violence, and has repeatedly done so in the past. The good thing about most major organized religions is that they’ve developed (some) guardrails against murdering the non-believers based on the theory that some intangible being requires this of them.
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Yeah there's literally no useful applications outside first drafts of code, but don't worry just a few hundred billion more and it'll cure cancer and solve physics!!
Preventing a $10MM venture funded startup getting a foothold, there will be plenty of chatbots that come and go, the point is OpenAI seems to have a much bigger platform to unfold with the LLM just being at the center of it. Basically competing with ChatGPT and competing with OpenAI are not the same thing.
Good projects !== work

There is a lot of work. Plenty of it just isnt super fun or interesting.
You can't win with people complaining on hacker news ;-) I was just thinking of the old days when iphones first came out and so many people added them to their signatures "sent from an iphone" or something.

It's all cool.
The Strava effect is a huge motivator for many.
Of course he is, he's a narcissist. A narcissist whose legitimate orders were disobeyed by the military and who has been shot at with the security state high on many people's suspect list.

A cagey narcissist.

But there was a very specific allegation that Trump is asking "civil servants" who they voted for. A claim that is, not only, unsubstantiated, but that deals with a very specific council that, above all others, serves at the president's behest.

May I add that the NSC has been a nest of murderous assholes who draft the infamous kill-list that included a US citizen that Obama bragged of killing (and his underage son)?

These people belong in a crime tribunal, not next door to the Oval Office.
Indeed, our trade has changed forever, and more specifically, we might have to alter our operational workflows in the entire industry as well.

There are so many potential trajectories going forward for things to turn sour, I don't even know where to start the analysis. The level of sophistication an AI can achieve has no upper bound.

I think we've had a good run so far. We've been able to produce software in the open with contributions from any human on the planet, trusting it was them who wrote the code, and with the expectation that they also understand it.

But now things will change. Any developer, irrespective of skill and understanding of the problem and technical domains can generate sophisticated looking code.

Unfortunately, we've reached a level of operational complexity in the software industry, that thanks to AI, could be exploited in a myriad ways going forward. So perhaps we're going to have to aggressively re-adjust our ways.
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Not really, that's like saying "they relied on closing the doors to the aircraft to achieve supersonic flight". Both happened, but aren't related if I'm reading the comments correctly.
What? I'm talking about a real problem in war and you think I'm talking about sexual fantasies? You are something else, you can Google the amount of raping in the Israel Palestine genocide and see that it's quite a real problem.
Unpopular but highly promising way to go if training is on your mind- 4x 7900 xtx cards and some nuts and bolts to feed them could be a price per GPU memory high point. There are folks using ROCm with that to put up some interesting numbers in terms of wall clock and power required per training run.
DeepSeek, Claude, Gemini, and Grok have free tiers (along with whatever models you spin up locally of course). Are there any other free offerings I'm missing?
Commenters - watch the video - it's very short.
If we managed to build the ship and if we managed to get it to same speed as our fastest space probe, it would take around 35000 years.
Yes. In telescopes they use high-end CCDs with really big pixels for better light sensitivity and zero dead pixels.

This is a picture of the CCD array for the Gaia space observatory that used parallax to measure precise distances and slightly less precise angular velocities of billions of objects

http://www.bo.astro.it/~altavilla/FTP/GAIA/IMAGES/The%20comp...
My gut feeling is that it's hard to tell, and could be case-by-case thing.

It might depend on many things, like whether the bus actually goes anywhere useful, or the would-be passengers would still have to travel far from their stop (and would prefer to drive a car, as bus doesn't solve their commute problem). Would be especially problematic in areas with single-family houses spaced far apart. Very infrequent bus service may also be a factor that would sway would-be passengers to drive cars instead, but it would be hard to justify more buses on the line.

Well, I'm not a city planner, just trying to imagine the potential problems. Bet people who deal with this would know better.
that's basically the AI rubicon everywhere. From flying plans to programming: Soon there'll be no real fallback. When AI fails, you can't just put the controls in front of a person and expect them to have reasonable expertise to respond.

Really, what seems on the horizon is a cliff of techno risks that have nothing to do with "AI will take over the world" and more "AI will be so integral to functional humanity that actual risks become so diffuse that no one can stop it."

So it's more a conceptual belief: Will AI actually make driving cares safer or will the fatalities of AI just be so randomly stochastic that it's more acceptable.
> I realized that he is not as smart as he thinks he is

This applies to the vast majority of startup CEOs in the tech industry.
Agreement re: bitcoin being woefully inadequate. See point about ZX spectrum not being able to play call of duty.

> Do you just think everyone is going to switch

I don’t have to, other modern networks exist but stablecoin transactions are already mainly on Solana, we don’t have to wait to switch.

Happy to discuss consumer fraud protection after you acknowledge a single one of my prior points.
> The user has no realistic way of implementing the `call/N` builtin themselves.

Not sure what you mean by realistic, but `call/1` can be implemented by having one simple rule for each existing predicate (now for the sake of the argument ignoring control constructs, which require somewhat more complex processing first) plus a rule for uninstantiated variables and one for an inexistant predicate. And `call/N, N > 1` can now be defined based on it.
I feel that rather than disproving the alpha myth, this emphasizes that it works well in cages.

What makes a cage? I'd say something where sustainability is a factor - there are limited leads, limited work, limited territory. People slow down otherwise they become too productive, deplete the work available, and get laid off. Hierarchies evolve around controlling these limited resources. All the danger is internal. There's constant resources coming in from god knows where, so budgeting takes priority over hunting.
Look up Joshua Citarella’s coverage of the ideological milieus that Generation Z cultivated during COVID on platforms like Discord.

And then check out the term “metairony” or “postirony” and this story make more sense…at least as much sense as the absurdity of it all will allow you to make of it.
Wikipedia in chatbot? That was a poor idea, a poorer thing to do, and a plain stupid thing to even begin to brag about. Why would you want your chatbot trained by wikiNA*Is? Your "chatbot' now is of the factual opinion that every single accusation against everyone is true, despite compelling and factual evidence to the contrary, and that the German Social Democratic Party were liberators.

If you think that strategy is top notch, training your Chatbot with bottom tier data... you are going towards a cliff at an accelerated rate:

https://www.wired.com/story/one-womans-mission-to-rewrite-na...
This matches my experience so far.
Firstly, is that worse than letting individual scammers prey on the elderly which is what is happening now? Authorities already can't keep up with finding and prosecuting each of these individual cases. For an institution, there's at least some small hope of scrutiny and eventual accountability for crimes.

Secondly, there can be institutions that are trustworthy enough. There are nationwide scale banks in the US that I could name that have an unsavory past reputation but there are also ones I could name that don't. It's not impossible to make an end of life management business that the public can feel safe in hiring.
Yeah, I saw that there is something called rebble, which is great. I'm just wondering whether the company did anything to support this before selling. I'm not an open source absolutist, but I really hate the trend towards obsoleting hardware because a company pulls support. Community stepping in is great, but it's not always possible without company support.
Before this comment is being downvoted, please note the irony. The AI models may solve some technical problems, but the actual problems to be solved are of a societal nature, and won't be solved in our lifetimes.
All the way down...
My opinion is that organizing capable people to accomplish goals is incredibly difficult, and that includes keeping a business running. Inefficiencies are unavoidable, even among engineers instead of "engineers."
Is it okay/usual for the test pilot to partake in a glass of champagne so soon after landing?

On a side note: Channing Tatum is a shoe-in for playing the pilot, Tristan “Geppetto” Brandenburg, if this ever gets made into a movie.
This is called the AI effect - where the goalposts are moved every time an AI system demonstrates a new ability. It's been going on for decades. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect
Scaling compute can only be taken so far. True advancement in AI comes from optimizing compression of human knowledge. Altman missed the first principle by a mile.
Humans have nearly perfected the art of creating operational time bombs, AI still has to work very hard if it wants to catch up on that. If AI can improve the test:code ratio in any meaningful way it should be a positive for software quality.
https://www.mmfooty.com/boeing-annual-loss-2024/
Secretly funding the FoundationMath benchmark, contributors unaware of the COI, having access to the questions and answers with a "verbal agreement" not to train on it.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/19/ai-benchmarking-organizati...
100%. Lots of things work as markers, too! I ended up substituting markers for taped-on construction paper when scanning stainless steel surfaces with curves, the tape serving as feature for the scanner to pickup...worked well enough :)
Oh wow.

I always thought TCO was part of the spec itself.