skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your help, but what primary concerns me is my phone. It has all my files and important stuff, power banks can't help this phone as the battery is diminished incredibly low. I can go to the library for things like these so it's okay.

I thank you again but this is all on Google. Pixel 4a was such a good phone for me and it's meant for the poor like. I don't know why they did this. I just want my phone back. So many people who lost their jobs can't afford to buy a new phone.
If you read some of the Dune supplementary materials, the sandworms are biological nuclear reactors. It's kinda handwavey but it's a cool concept - how do you keep a creature the size of a freight train moving constantly in a very thick medium... how about harvesting fissionables?
Returning to this: even if he were somehow "misrepresenting" the idea of wealth tax - and there are many variants - that does not make him wrong.

My original point was that when PG is writing outside of his core competencies, it's usually about subjective opinions. Such as, is wealth tax a good or bad thing? That is a subject about which you can have an opinion, but there is no absolute.

My concern is that when people say "he doesn't know anything when he talks about, say, economics or politics" what they really mean is "I disagree with him and therefore he is wrong." (I disagree with PG on many such things, but that's like, just my opinion, man)

I guess I'm invested in the debate because I want people to be more open-minded and charitable and not less.
It's a prospecting flyby of 2022-OB5, an 8m/25ft metallic asteroid in a 1 year orbit.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=2022-OB5

Past mentions of AstroForge:
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
previous discussion: https://xyzlabs.substack.com/p/berkeley-researchers-replicat...
Desktop Linux doesn't actually do that unless you're trying to use a rolling release distribution. The way stable distributions work is that the packages largely remain the same for a given major version throughout its lifespan, but individual packages can still receive security updates.
Sorry but there's never going to be a universe that I put a diffuser in my home that needs a internet and/or app to work.
Code is data is code. Fundamentally, they are the same. We treat the two things as distinct categories only for practical convenience. Most of the time, it's pretty clear which is which, but we all regularly encounter situations in which the distinction gets blurry. For example:

- Windows MetaFiles (WMF, EMF, EMF+), still in use (mostly inside MS Office suite) - you'd think they're just another vector image format, i.e. clearly "data", but this one is basically a list of function calls to Windows GDI APIs, i.e. interpreted code.

- Any sufficiently complex XML or JSON config file ends up turning into an ad-hoc Lisp language, with ugly syntax and a parser that's a bug-ridden, slow implementation of a Lisp runtime. People don't realize that the moment they add conditionals and ability to include or refer back to other parts of config, they're more than halfway to a Turing-complete language.

- From the POV of hardware, all native code is executed "to the same extent kernel weighs of a gaussian blur filter" are. In general, all code is just data for the runtime that executes it.

And so on.

Point being, what is code and what is data depends on practical reasons you have to make this distinction in the first place. IMHO, for OSS licensing, when considering the reasons those licenses exist, LLM weights are code.
Could you tell me what companies did the same thing in the mobile phone industry? Did those companies notify the user?
but even then wouldn't the people using OpenAI still be the author/copyright holder and never OpenAI? (as no human on OpenAIs side is involved in the process of creating the works)
I'd argue that it's not completely unreasonable to claim that stars are living organisms in some sense of this expression
> You aren’t supposed to have it on a public subnet.

That's an incredibly bad assumption. To have defaults assume that you are on a protected network (what does that even mean? like what permissions are assumed just because you are on the same network? admin?) is just bad practice.
.NET is huge compared to Dart and every hot reload I've seen was complete garbage compared to what you get in Flutter.

Anyone who worked with the mobile .NET and Flutter would see Dart/Flutter DX as something unreachable for .NET, it's a terrible experience like any other .NET cross compilation I've tried (Blazor, Silverlight).

I'm not a big fan of Dart as a language but it really was a great choice that allowed amazing DX, Flutter hot reload feelt better than JS/HTML.
DeepSeek isn’t a side project or just a bunch of quants - these are part of the marketing that people keep repeating blindly for some reason. To build DeepSeek probably requires at least a $1B+ budget. Between their alleged 50,000 H100 GPUs, expensive (and talented) staff, and the sheer cost of iterating across numerous training runs - it all adds up to far, far more than their highly dubious claim of $5.5M. Anyone spending that amount of money isn’t just doing a side project.

The client facing aspect isn’t the problem here. This linked article is talking about the backend having vulnerabilities, not the client facing application. It’s about a database that is accessible from the internet, with no authentication, with unencrypted data sitting in it. High Flyer, the parent company of Deep Seek, already has a lot of backend experience, since that is a core part of the technologies they’ve built to operate the fund. If you’re a quantitative hedge fund, you aren’t just going to be lazy about your backend systems and data security. They have a lot of experience and capability to manage those backend systems just fine.

I’m not saying other companies are perfect either. There’s a long list of American companies that violate user privacy, or have bad security that then gets exploited by (often Chinese or Russian) hackers. But encrypting data in a database seems really basic, and requiring authentication on a database also seems really basic. It would be one thing if exposure of sensitive info required some complicated approach. But this degree of failure raises lots of questions whether such companies can ever be trusted.
Not many non-gamers have hardware capable of running such a model locally - never mind the skills.

For most people, bash is not a tool for interacting with the computer, it is how they express their frustration with the computer (sometimes leaving damaged keyboards).
tell that to the people who get letters from their isp threatening to cancel service for downloading torrents

vpns have their use case, they're definitely not snake oil
I’m not sure that they do, and that’s why I switched back to Vim from Zed. I can’t let myself build a skillset on a company’s product that’s liable to disappear in a few years.
Makes sense. Google is a very large and diverse place. (And sometimes a lot of unpleasant infighting and politicking around tech choices.)
Taxonomy for Utility Classes
Yeah, it's archived at least here.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231113025141if_/https://dl.goo...
mullvad.net usually gets really high praise. I am not a user, but if i was looking for a vpn service, that's what I would personally get.
There are lots of good examples of adoption despite non invention.

Ironically, Typescript is not the best one. I can go into great detail - i was overseeing production programming languages at Google at the time, but getting to Typescript (which was the right choice) took a lot.

For most things, even things that seem to be contentious in the broader developer world, internal developer infrastructure teams were often relatively agnostic on choice as long as we had the resources to do it right (IE deal with migrations, etc). You'd have to push people to be meaningfully objective in evaluations, but once they realized you were not going to let them get away with nonsense, you got reasonable evaluations and options. Not always (can't avoid zealots at this scale), but a lot of the time.

But Typescript vs Dart vs Closure (GWT and a few other things were in there somewhere, too) was just particularly contentious for $reasons.
If Google had self hosted on GCP the way that Bezos dictated that Amazon have hard service boundaries, they would be the top Cloud provider right now.

But they didn't and they aren't, and it doesn't matter anymore.

https://www.phind.com/search?cache=fvljl85u7ll9u4wwncsrilfq
airvpn is also good. but it's true that most of vpn are just snake oil, to steal user data.
I didn’t realize there is a private equity and investing scene in Jackson Hole.
Yes, there is, I know many people who are afraid of protesting because they'll likely lose their jobs. The police also likes kettling people in certain protests which can put you in a jail just for protesting.
Mullvad is the best setup ive seen, with the most accessible interface, and recently audited.

The ability to pay with cash in the mail and login with just a generated ID is great.

All VPNs require trust however.
Even if we have some choice of jobs, your model only works if programmers have language as their only or most important requirement when job searching. There are lots of factors that might make a job more or less desirable aside from programming language, like location, salary, team, business domain, and so on.

Seems pretty plausible that someone can dislike python and still like a job because it checks other boxes.
I see you haven’t actually used Lit by this comment.
I also don't understand why are they hiring for paid roles, but tout their large community of open source contributors. Something's off.
Just to play devil's advocate, OAI can argue that they spent great effort creating and procuring annotated data. Such datasets are indeed their secret, and now DS gets them for free by distilling OAI's output. Besides, OAI's EULA explicitly forbids users from using the output of their API for model training. I'm not saying that OAI is right, of course. Just to present OAI's point of view.
If they meant for the "likely" to be interpreted as "more likely" then the third answer would be "neither one" not "not enough information." And then the example is more like a trick question than a good example of a biased LLM query. This is obviously not what they meant to illustrate.
VW is the people's wagon - where do you think those people come from?
The example code reminds me how much I absolutely loath python async/await syntax.

>>> server_names=["fetch", "filesystem"]

This is, IMO, bad design. Where is the fetch defined? How would I find these? If it was an imported module I could easily find the definition to see what its doing, or subclass it to make my own, but instead its just some magic strings getting passed making it astronomically more difficult to understand what the heck is going on.
> because developers became super judgy if there weren't any

Who? People on your team or randoms complaining about your open source project? If it's the latter, you can tell them to get bent or write their own type stubs if it bothers them. Type hints are fully optional in Python.
Yeah, but they can use DeepSeek's new algorithm too.
At one point in the 2000's Apple was leaning heavily on its UNIX brand. They sold big clusters of Xserves to universities for research projects. It was all over their keynotes and website copy.

They made a big deal about cancer researchers using OSX. Then like always with Steve Jobs when he didn't feel the love back ($$$) he dumped it and never even thought about it again.
>a psychological craving that stems from addiction.

Additionally, for many who are overweight, I imagine eating is a coping mechanism to stress. Some folks turn to food, others shopping, others substances (drugs/alcohol), others sex, others exercise, etc. We all have "different" ways we deal with stress. Finding a healthier way can drastically improve one's life. UInfortunately for those that turn to food for stress "relief" likely get a double whammy if feeling/knowing/being overweight adds to their stress.
As a test: I am always on a vpn
Maintaining an autonomous vehicle comes with a significantly higher maintenance burden than a regular car right now. Even if the sticker price were the same, would you be willing to check the air pressure regularly, take the vehicle in for calibration, clean the sensors, do software updates, implement the legal reporting responsibilities, etc? That's the current reality.

Most people don't want that and there's no market for it. Consumers (rightly) expect a vehicle that just works. It's still early days for this technology and building something that works as reliably/independently as the rest of a car isn't possible yet.
> * When more money chases the same basket of goods and services, the money loses value (which is what inflation is).*

Now do Japan:

* https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1680i

Increasing money supply, low inflation (and more than on period of deflation).

The problem with looking at money supply is that you don't bother looking at what the money is doing:

> But also – why do so many people insist that inflation is an increase in the money supply? This makes zero sense. Here’s why – our economy is mostly a credit based economy. So, if I take out a loan for $100,000 then the money supply has technically increased by $100,000. But what if I don’t actually tap that loan? What if I borrow the money because, for instance, house prices just went up 25% and I want to have some cash around for emergencies? This doesn’t tell us anything about prices, living standards or really anything. But this is what so much of the money supply represents – money that has been issued and is just sitting around unused. Why is this useful? It’s like calculating your weight changes by counting how much food you have in your refrigerator. No. That’s potential calories consumed and potential weight gain. The amount of food in your fridge tells you little about your future weight changes just like the amount of money in the economy tells us little about the actual price changes in the economy.

> Sometimes I feel like people read some econ 101 and the admittedly intuitive idea that inflation is “always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon”, but didn’t stop to think that it might be a lot more complex than that.

* https://www.pragcap.com/three-things-i-think-i-think-i-see-d...

The problem with Monetarists is that they ignore the velocity of money.
C# is a fantastic language that has, in recent years, evolved very quickly for the better. Nice mix of object and functional drawing a lot of influence from F#.

It shares a lot of language constructs with TypeScript (and by extension, JS) and has been converging with each release so I'm often surprised that people hate on it or that more startups don't reach for it if they are on Node with TS.

Same syntax for key language constructs like async-await, try-catch-finally, generics, etc.

Hot reload works pretty well (at least in the contexts that I use .NET (backend APIs)); a lot of the issues were from the early days. `dotnet watch` has been very much usable for the last few years.
Models and security are very different uses of our synapses. Publishing any number of models is no proof of anything beyond models. Talented mathematicians and programmers though they may be.
I pretty much agree with all that. I'd add, is this something you want to do or are you looking to make money? If the latter, don't bother. You MAY want to separate a business blog and personal stuff but I'm not yet sold on that being a good idea unless you're really serious about a separate business identity. (Still muddling that one. I may re-merge.)
When it’s only me, I personally prefer just solving the problem by adjusting my behavior or adjusting my position within the system. It’s relatively easy, feedback is quick, improvements come readily. Great.

But when it is an entire system (eg, not just me) I like to look at the gravity. In what direction will a ball roll? By default, what occurs here?

Take my home for example. I’m skillful at being calm and joyous, but I have guests come over, so I need to make sure that my home fosters a calm and joyous mindset by default. I need to make the gravity of the space produce joy and calm without intervention. After all, might I one day lack agency or otherwise be vulnerable to preexisting environmental forces?

We each have a duty to be healthy. Personal intervention — check! I agree. But that is not enough, we cannot stop there, and stopping there is irresponsible, unkind to others in the short term, and dangerous in the long term.
So, what is wrong with the statement?
I’ll definitely take that over the Lyft driver I once had who went through a red light 1-2 seconds after it turned red. Not that that’s typical for ride share drivers in my area, but still.
Boo hoo?

Back in college, a kid in my dorm had a huge MP3 collection. And he shared it out over the network, and people were all like, "Man, Patrick has an amazing MP3 collection!" And he spent hours and hours ripping CDs from everyone so all the music was available on our network.

Then I remember another kid coming in, with a bigger hard drive, and he just copied all of Patrick's MP3 collection and added a few more to it. Then ran the whole thing through iTunes to clean up names and add album covers. It was so cool!

And I remember Patrick complained, "He stole my MP3 collection!"

Anyway this story sums up how I feel about Sam Altman here. He's not Metalica, he's Patrick.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/27/1221821750/new-york-times-sue...
Other services used users' computers as exit nodes without clear disclosure. Users found out when services blocked their IP addresses. And why would you assume NordVPN would take any legal heat?
I asked the question. It did a respectable job.

For choking, as an example, it outlines all the basics, affirmed it was educational info only, and urged the help of a professional.

All in all, reasonable.

Your point stands, but this little model 2.5B has clear bounds it seems.

I plan to poke at it a few more times asking for higher risk info, curious about what it may do.
I give it 4 years, tops. This isn't a populist decision and it can be repealed just as easily as it was instated.
Off the top of my head Warframe is massive and uses p2p while in most missions, Helldivers 2 was a huge launch last year with p2p, dead by daylight, a lot of indie multi-players like risk of rain 2. It's quite popular for coop style games where you need to worry less about cheating. They will use servers to create the matchmaking and then will pick the user with the strongest computer and network typically to actually host the game. I don't know of any games that do p2p asset transfer anymore
Also many people forget its not just the VPN, its the combination of the VPN and your browser. There are many ways to unmask you even if the provider does everything right. They can't protect against attacks like dom battery monitoring, complex fingerprinting, UDP timing attacks, etc... read the Mullvad audit for more details. They cite the need to enable DAITA by default as a shortcoming. https://www.x41-dsec.de/static/reports/X41-Mullvad-Audit-Pub...
Not the OP, but have been in an identical situation for a while.

Unfortunately the answer I've come to is "I don't know how to stop, and I have nothing else valuable to replace it with."

I have made great strides in the last 12 months on the second part, but the first part is still hard to move past.
I realized exactly this after some frustration with a few phones. I found GSMArena that has extensive reviews including sample standardized photos.
I don't have personal experience but from a quick google it looks like default setup is to accept connections on localhost only [0], and there's a default user without capability to run SQL statements. They would have had to open remote connections and enable SQL capability for the default user (it looks like this is the first step to creating other users, the 3rd step is, removing SQL capability for default user.) [1]:

1. Enable SQL-driven access control and account management for the default user.
2. Log in to the default user account and create all the required users. Don’t forget to create an administrator account (GRANT ALL ON *.* TO admin_user_account WITH GRANT OPTION).
3. Restrict permissions for the default user and disable SQL-driven access control and account management for it.

[0] https://chistadata.com/knowledge-base/allow-clickhouse-to-ac...

[1] https://clickhouse.com/docs/en/operations/access-rights
This ends with you shooting me in the head.
We heard that all through 2021-22 (or thereabouts) and it didn't happen. Why would it happen now?
I think most people would rather have their car circle the block indefinitely, rather than pay for parking and wait for their car to summon, which would create so many new traffic problems.

I'm picturing herds of empty Model 3's endlessly circling every city's downtown office district
Haha, are you referring to the async context managers? I have an example that calls .initialize and .cleanup explicitly: https://github.com/lastmile-ai/mcp-agent/blob/main/examples/...

Python isn't my first programming language and I find a lot of it peculiar, but with some of the latest tooling around it (uv, ruff, etc.), I must confess it has grown on me. :)
“ In Soviet Russia there is a story”

This is explicitly labeled as a story. It is a parable used to illustrate a point. Do you also demand evidence of the boy who cried wolf? Or little red riding hood who strayed from the safe path? These are the same kind of things.

I would understand your question maybe if the article would purport the existence of the shoe factory. But it doesn’t. And that is not the point of it.
> They're using Llama.cpp which is an amazing tool for local inference but doesn't match fast inference frameworks like TensorRT-LLM/SGLang for production speeds and throughputs on Hopper GPUs.

That's something I thought about, but it wouldn't explain much, as they are roughly two orders of magnitude off in terms of cost, only a small fraction of which could be explain by performance of the inference engine.

> The Unsloth quantizations are really cool, but if you want to experiment with the R1 models in a smaller form factor the R1 Distills like Llama 70B are great and should run a lot faster as they take advantage of existing optimizations around inferencing llama-architecture models.

What kind of optimization do you have in mind? Because Deepseek having only 37B active parameters, which means ~12GB at this level of quantization, means inference ought to be much faster that a dense 70B model, especially unquantized, no? The Llama 70B distill would benefit from speculative decoding though, but it shouldn't be enough to compensate. So I'm really curious about what kind of llama-specific optimizations, and how much speed up you think they'd bring.
> The 2020 inflation was the result of 2019 deficits.

There was no inflation in 2020, the year that COVID hit. Many places experienced a month or two of deflation due to shutdowns. Remember when oil price went negative?

* https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/oil-negative-price-1.553899...

Inflation didn't start going up until 2021, and some of that was due to base effects:

* https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/base-effect.asp

* https://blog.ons.gov.uk/2021/05/19/beware-base-effects/
Pixel count is objective, but never meant much. Sensor area is much more important, but doesn't make for a sexy number, and it often doesn't make it into the spec sheet.