skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>you see ‘alpha’ as a synonym for ‘leader’

I mean that's all true enough, but their point, at least narrowly read as a general observation about animals, stands. There are ample examples in nature of dominance hierarchies, even if wolves aren't one of them.

Of course, as you note, looking to these examples as a basis for a personal ethos for tough guy psychology is error riddled in so many ways you could write a book unpacking it all. (E.g. why choose other animals remote from the lineage of apes to which we belong, why for that matter not just study humans in the first place, why hitch any ethos to what happens in nature, why not look at what it says about people who seem to need to indulge in this search, etc.)

It's good to show that this argument fails on its own terms with its own chosen example, but getting into that kind of back and forth risks implicitly agreeing that it would be right to think that way, should such an example be found in nature. And those examples do exist in nature even if not necessarily with wolves.

But as you noted that doesn't have anything to do with better or worse, right or wrong, and is completely lacking in self-awareness about the actual psychological dynamics that causes people to need these kinds of narratives.
Rewriting Waypipe in Rust
Oh absolutely. It's all borderline pseudo science depending on who you ask. But the fact that you're not even hearing about it speaks volumes.

Evidince is just like charges. They throw everything, even the most flimsy and dishonest garbage, at the wall if there's even the slightest chance of it sticking because every bit of it that the defense has to get removed costs them resources. If they're not throwing it (like when they announce manslaughter charges for something the news portrayed as murder) it's because that particular piece has less than zero chance of sticking.
> days of showing up at the airport just before the flight are long gone for most folks

I show up 20 minutes before boarding, often later, at my small-town airport. For international flights out of JFK, I’ll show up 2 to 3 hours before, but there is still a world of difference between a lounge you can walk around and shower in and even the most luxurious lay-flat suites.

NYC > SFO is 2 hours at Mach 1.7; if I’m not checking a bag that’s an entire day returned both ways.
> some important principle of rights

Yes, you can't use evidence that was obtained illegally to prosecute someone for a crime. Their guilt or innocence has nothing to do with it.

If illegally acquired evidence was admissible in court, the police would have every incentive to ignore people's rights on a regular basis, conducting illegal searches and seizures, breaking into homes without a warrant, etc., in order to obtain evidence. On balance, this is much worse for society than one guilty person going free.
> no one in the real world who's working on real content authoring actually uses textual descriptions

As someone who owns an AI image SaaS making over 100k per month this made me chuckle
I'm the last person you'd use climate change as an argument, I'm generally just frightened by the amount of problems that the governments will have to ignore before they can have their first commercial flight bleeding into ground flights.

It's the typical cyclist versus cars problem. I like cycling and I don't like driving and nothing will change that.
I feel this has been just a way to inflate costs and infrastructure expenses (NVIDIA, and so on).

They never cared about tackling performance, just making money. They deserve everything coming their way (market loss, lack of trust).

Let's see how things unfold.
> What is Favela Chic? Favela Chic is when you have lost everything material, everything you built and everything you had, but you're still wired to the gills! And really big on Facebook. That's Favela Chic.

> MySpace is a favela. You can have a hut in Myspace. And you live in the hut until they pull the plug.

> You can't insure it, you can't get title to it, you can't raise kids in it. There's no inspection of the water, the heating, the electricity. It's a slum!

> You built it yourself, with play-labor, but politically it's a slum. It's a squelette.

— Bruce Sterling, Reeboot 11 Keynote[0]

0. https://www.wired.com/2011/02/transcript-of-reboot-11-speech...
The feature itself seems reasonable and useful. Specially if most of your tooling is written is Go as well. But this part caught my attention:

> user defined tools are compiled each time they are used

Why compile them each time they are used? Assuming you're compiling them from source, shouldn't they be compiled once, and then have the 'go tool' command reuse the same binaries? I don't see why it compiles them at the time you run the tool, rather than when you're installing dependencies. The benchmarks show a significant latency increase. The author also provided a different approach which doesn't seem to have any obvious downsides, besides not sharing dependency versions (which may or may not be a good thing - that's a separate discussion IMO).
Not only that. His company makes money by betting on downturns. So... it's not like he doesn't have a vested interest in markets tanking.
With a pension system, if I die shortly after retiring, my heirs and I get nothing. Whereas if I save for my own retirement with a 401k, my heirs would get that money.
Invention is expensive. Innovation is less expensive. Production is (usually) the cheap part. Once the invention and innovation is paid off, it's just production...
People would only be 'throwing their hands up' because commercial LLMs have set unreasonable expectations for folks.

Anyone who has a/the need for or understands the value of a local LLM would be OK with this kind of output.
Wow. I didn’t say that at all. I think the smug people here are those telling me I can’t give advice and help make a difference how I see fit. That passing information is somehow abusive? Get bent.
For related background read the (horrifying) description of Leverage, a “research” institution with links to Zizians: https://medium.com/@zoecurzi/my-experience-with-leverage-res...

There’s an undercurrent of cults and cult-like institutions in the rationalist crowd (think: lesswrong.com folks) and this is one instance of this.
It says that it’s meant to be self hosted
I really doubt that it is literally pre-jailbroken. More likely, OpenAI will configure a custom prompt to improve the usage scenario of a large customer anyway.
That's a fair statement. I'm not well versed enough in commercial aviation to be able to judge how much flights would cost with externalities priced in.
CO2 emissions aren't the problem, mostly the cost of operation making these that much more inaccessible to even the 1%.
I guess that now the secret sauce turns out to be not so special after all, and valuations are tanking, it's time for the next phase in the plan:

"lmao we were actually secretly a defence job machine all this time"

(or alternatively, "give us money because we are the next thing in defence and boooooo china")
Given these initial results, I'm now experimenting with running DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B for some coding tasks on my laptop via Ollama - their version of that needs about 20GB of RAM on my M2. https://www.ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1:32b

It's impressive!

I'm finding myself running it against a few hundred lines of code mainly to read its chain of thought - it's good for things like refactoring where it will think through everything that needs to be updated.

Even if the code it writes has mistakes, the thinking helps spot bits of the code I may have otherwise forgotten to look at.
Maybe it too late for this person, but it is the right time to act for everyone else that feels the same level of lock-in.
Google Maps in the US Will Change to Gulf of America and Mount McKinley (theverge.com) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42849935 43 points | 7 hours ago | 64 comments
Horrible idea
They have QR payments, but no NFT? That doesn't seem right.
I don’t think this priming theory is workable. If some witness on the street gives the police a handful of names, and they discover she didn’t actually witness the crime, are they now prohibited from investigating those people because they’re “primed”?
DeepSeek censorship: 1984 "rectifying" in real time
US only. US-colored glasses and live on.
> what a private jet charter costs now

No, it’s not. A domestic non-transcontinental charter costs about as much as a top-of-the-line international first-class ticket (~$25k).
That’s a good point. I’m definitely biased by thinking about it in terms of mechanical work. Some work is getting done, even if it’s just electrons being pushed around in transistor junctions. Maybe sometime with a better background can clarify.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42849061
Honest question. I remeber some recent news about Microsoft considering to bring back in use an "old" nuclear power plant to cover their (maybe projected?) cloud power consuption due to AI. If AI's power consumption is negligible and less than a short YouTube ad anyway, why the need to bring back to operation a nuclear power plant?
Ye it is bad. On many sites.

Try to make a pseudoanonymous account nowadays without phone number for 2FA or "security". You get banned on so many places. And even if you play ball they arbitrarily cut you off since some principal component analysis put you outside some parameter range.

>At times, I wonder if I'm just getting a response from robots or whether the support team just does not care about what I am going through right now.

I think they just pass or fail support tickets randomly due to pressure to close tickets.
I'm also surprised this has been taken off the HN frontpage. Is this an attempt to cover for LinkedIn?
these claims are getting more wrong every time i see them, weird game of telephone going around tech circles.

the cost absolutely includes the cost of GPUs and data centers, they quoted a standard price for renting h800 which has all of this built in. but yes, as very explicitly noted in the paper, it does not include cost of test iterations
The planes are now flying slower than ever in the name of efficiency. Large container boats are sailing slower than ever for the same reason.
This was very well put. Thanks.
Hey there, thanks a lot for this comment! Indeed an interesting use case to add to my list :)

To comment on the points you mentioned:
Great to hear you're looking for a proposal/invoice solution. Hour tracking is not currently built as a feature, as for now it's a web-based application and I have a feeling time tracking needs to be closer integrated into the system, so that it's quicker to access. So it has to be a desktop app imo, which I am exploring for the future. What will be available right away is an easy way to set an estimate in the proposal and then update the project with the actual hours when the project is complete. But this is great feedback and I'll do my best to cover your use case.

The whole idea with payments is to make it as easy as possible for the client to pay. I've experienced late payments multiple times myself, so a built-in solution with multiple payment options should be a no-brainer for the client. The payments are done using Stripe - they're the most reliable player on the market. As the client makes the payment, it goes directly to the freelancer. There're definitely many edge cases that I hope to cover during the beta phase.

I also believe subscriptions could be a popular feature. You could use it for retainers, as you mentioned, or run productized services, which are pretty popular these days. So offering fixed packages and fixed timelines. And the coolest thing is that the payments are collected automatically, so not you or the client need to worry about it.

Deliverables is just a cherry on top. I know it's not applicable for everyone but doesn't hurt to have it :)

Thanks again for this feedback and looking forward to hearing your thoughts again once you try it yourself!
> Are these wasted resources, too?

Given your take, this is a meaningless question, no?

As you point out, all resource usage that lead up to the creation of the diesel engine were necessary preconditions. While one might be able to imagine a parallel universe where the diesel engine was created in another way without all the things in between that might feel like a waste, that is not this universe. In this one, it took what it took.

Same goes for AI. That AI researcher had to eat that sandwich double wrapped in plastic, subsequently placed in another plastic bag in order to get to where he got. Which might feel like a "waste of resources". I am sure you can easily imagine a parallel universe where he didn't eat something that used up so much plastic. But that was the precondition necessary in this universe.

So, ultimately, either everything is a waste of resources or nothing is. And there is no meaning in trying to find a distinction between those two.
I used to work for a health informatics company and our department level systems ran on OpenVMS. Radiology management, pharmacy management, etc.
I walk and run on trails a fair bit¹ so my watch is mostly a route planning/tracking/recording tool.

When training for something I will often at least consider its recommendations and those are based partly on the health readings as well as the training load it has tracked from treks/runs. Though TBH other than that the health tracking is unimportant compared to it being a GPS device that can track for a day or more constantly without needing to talk to a phone (which sits in my pack/pocket in low-power mode to conserve battery unless/until I need it for something). A don't even tend to pay attention to the heart-rate stats (though I do know people who use those features to directly guide their training).

I know a few people whose use pattern is very similar to mine, near identical in fact, so I think it is fairly common amongst people who walk and/or run more than the average person.

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[1] Less than I'd like ATM, the rest of life like ill family and my own burn-out² are getting in the way, but I'm getting myself back into it

[2] The key reason I'm trying to get back at it: herfing myself around the green stuff³, is something I find beneficial to my mental state as well as physical.

[3] or even the “mostly brown stuff” as it can be this time of year.
Hmmm. I didn’t make any comparison. I just pointed out that AArch64 isn’t 30 odd years old.
> first commercial flight bleeding into ground flights

?

> I like cycling and I don't like driving and nothing will change that

Nothing has to. If you started advocating for banning cars, on the other hand, you’d expect to see an anti-cycling lobby crop up.
That's a reasonable argument. It's the same reason people write tech books, for the most part. But it also results in a market full of courses that people aren't that invested in, since even a fairly poor class can make you look like an expert at a superficial level.
If I remember correctly, SD had less than 1B parameters at launch (~2 years ago?), and you could generate pretty impressive images with the right settings and prompts.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42847758
I just got a Mac Mini with maximum specs (can't believe how small the box it came in was!) and that's not a bad choice. As you say it has the advantage of handling large models. I think the 5090 will outperform it in terms of FLOPS but it only comes with 32MB compared to the 64MB you can get on an M4 mini. The 5090 itself will be $2000 (if you can get it at that price) compared to the $2500 max mini M4. You'll probably spend at least $1k for the rest of the PC worthy of the 5090 card.
do you only take advice/learn from all-knowing people?
Perfect for Arch users ;)
Is DeepSeek really that big of a deal that everyone else should worry?
Very interesting and it seems like there is more room for optimizations for WASM using SIMD, boosting performance by a lot! It's cool to see how AI can now run even faster on web browsers.
The Gulf of Mexico is not a country.
Everyone has the need for on device LLM, if the response rate was fast!
The way I read it, even if forensic analysis proved that it was the murder weapon, it's inadmissible because the search warrant where it was found shouldn't have been issued in the first place due to Clearview being used to provide the backing for a search warrant.
The crash of NVIDIA is not about the moat of OpenAI.

But because DeepSeek was able to cut training costs from billions to millions (and with even better performance). This means cheaper training but it also proves that OpenAI was not at the cutting edge of what was possible in training algorithms and that there are still huge gaps and disruptions possible in this area. So there is a lot less need to scale by pumping more and more GPUs but instead to invest in research that can cut down the cost. More gaps mean more possibility to cut costs and less of a need to buy GPUs to scale in terms of model quality.

For NVIDIA that means that all the GPUs of today are good enough for a long time and people will invest a lot less in them and a lot more in research like this to cut costs. (But I am sure they will be fine)
I think this isn't due to the TUI itself (and this one isn't text, it has images in!) but downstream of a whole load of other choices. You rarely have this with game UIs, for example.

It's not just the use of immediate mode, but a whole stack of design decisions to prioritize snappiness.
How do we know the gun found at the suspect’s house was the murder weapon? A gun owned by one person in any given geographical area tends to be owned by at least many others.

And, is it better to let off one hundred guilty people than to convict one innocent.
The same in the USA. But only if the original warrant for the drugs were obtained legally. If the original warrant was obtained illegally, all evidence obtained using that warrant is inadmissible.
Discussion: Reduce error handling boilerplate in Golang using '?'
Does the book talk about the structure of British Iron Age society? Did Socrate talk about it? Who are the established figures that contradict them? I don’t understand what you are claiming exactly. Sure, it is not an academic paper, but that’s not a reason to be so vague.
r1 probably cost way less to train, $5m is the alleged price tag for dsv3
I think so, Me was a failure. 2000 not so much.
Sure you can. It’s called just making shit up. Police do it all the time, that’s what the article is about.
America is an extremely common synonym for the USA, for better or worse. It's not convincing to imply that you believe a president of the USA, renowned for his nationalist rhetoric and pettiness, renamed a geographic feature bordering Mexico and the USA from "The X of Mexico" to "The X of America" not as a reference to the USA.

Regardless, it's antagonistic to the namesake for no good reason, no matter what the new name is.
I still miss bitnet.
Hackers crack Subaru's connected services to access data, door locks and more
I doubt very much that teaching on Udemy is the best way to learn, because you don't get the kinds of questions and experiences that challenge your understanding in the way you do teaching in-person.

Or, maybe what it's the best way to learn is how to make videos for Udemy. Not sure I think that has much value.
Show HN: I made a free study tool powered by Qwen2.5
Hey HN,
In my spare time, I built a web app that turns text or PDFs into question-and-answer flashcards using AI. It’s completely free - no paywalls, no sign-ups, just a tool anyone can use to study.
To keep costs manageable, I set up my own AI server. As someone new to the AI space, it’s been a challenging but rewarding learning process. After testing various models, I found that Qwen2.5:3b strikes a good balance between speed and quality for my current server setup.
This is a soft launch since I’m still unsure how well my server can handle parallel requests, but I’d love for you to give it a try: https://freeflashcardgenerator.com
As someone who often struggled with schoolwork and got frustrated trying to concentrate, I hope this tool can make learning easier for others in the same boat.
Please let me know what you think!
If it makes you feel better, I’ve heard similar advice to manage executives
How is this different from a random passerby identifying the suspect from the grocery store footage, or a police officer already knowing the suspect? They are just clues until any proof is found (ex. a gun that matches the bullets).
It's amazing that (approximately) no one cares about stuff like this.

GoDaddy was severely breached several times over several years, yet they still rake in billions of revenue from their millions of customers. Now they have to pay someone to fill out a biennial checklist and... promise to not lie. Awesome.

If you own a company, why even bother with security? Security is expensive. Wait until a breach is exposed, offer $10 credit monitoring (at best), accept the free press coverage, maybe pinky promise to not lie if you've been particularly egregious in your handling of multiple incidents, and then carry on like normal. (This is tongue-in-cheek, I work in security, but I am frustrated with how often stories like this one occur)
Malicious NPM Packages Using Burp Collaborator for Dependency Confusion Attack
Note to self: Cortex-M3, 64 MHz, max resource size 96k, app size 24k, 144 x 168, 4 buttons[1]. Probably in theory doable with nRF5x SoM + cheap OLED.

1: https://developer.rebble.io/developer.pebble.com/guides/tool...
Boom isn’t gonna be at small town airports anytime soon.

The lounge thing, IMO, is also a challenge for Boom. It’s gonna be a cramped plane. The folks shelling out that sort of coin for a flight expect certain amenities on it.
If you can not equip your team with enough man power, why create problems that cause people to require help from your support.
yeah it is pretty unclear how lobotomized it is without benchmark.

i’ve gotten full fp8 running on 8xh100, probably going to keep doing that
I'd guess that Lem used lieutenant rank from citizens' militia (which was back then the police force in Polish People's Republic), not knowing about rank changes in the UK - it was replaced by chief inspector as you linked. goodreads.com uses "Lt. Gregory" in book summary so it's not a translation issue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_inspector#United_Kingdom

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant#United_Kingdom_and_...
You might have a point there. But honestly, it's so ancient that I had to do a double-take when I saw a UI inspired by Windows 2000.
Sounds like a desperate move, now that the insane valuations, GPU capacity projections, and subscription revenue are at risk.
Sounds like a system that makes a lot of sense for a country with a higher level of police trust. As you can probably infer from the call for prosecuting the police upthread, there’s a lot of Americans who don’t particularly trust the police and don’t think that accidents are the common case.

For what it’s worth, that specific scenario is admissible in the US as well under the plain view doctrine.
The poster you're replying to said "I never heard of NDEs" for the exact reason you are mis-correcting: to show that they were NOT simply regurgitating a cultural stereotype, but that it is in fact a real phenomenon.

Here's a tip for the Internet and for Real Life: Assume the most charitable interpretation when conversing with someone, not the least. It is more often correct, and it doesn't make you needlessly look like an asshole.
So unfortunate VMS was never open sourced like Solaris was. It was really interesting, and deserved a fate other than obscurity. Would be cool if zOS was open sourced, but on the other hand the various cloud control planes seem like the "real" OS nowadays in many settings.