skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, it doesn't add to the conversation, especially because you're citing at best some anecdotes without any sources.

Plenty of people self-medicate with cannabis. They take regular, measured doses of cannabis products, making sure to pick specific strains or brands that they know to have the needed effects.
I think he should have supported the more secular democratic elements against the regime. The regime was on the brink of falling and the outcome was probably going to have been not different than where we ended up. Instead Obama stood aside and let Assad and the Russians crush the opposition.

But that's just my opinion. My point being that "let's not intervene and let it play out" ended up with an amazingly bad outcome because the fear of a bad outcome from an intervention. Clearly a bad decision. A good decision, whatever that might have been, would have a better outcome. If the argument is that no better outcome was possible then that seems pretty wrong on the face of it.

Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan (e.g.) are fairly different places.
I don't see any training code in the GH repos. There is inference code for DeepSeek v3.

So "open weights" is accurate. We used to call this closed source...
Multi-Agent Step Race Benchmark [video]
“Self medicating” is to “doing drugs” as “expat” is to “immigrant”.
Apple devices use 16kB pages.
> The ACA was more or less Romneycare, a Republican idea, but ironically passed with zero Republican votes...

I agree with much of what you say, but the ACA is popular. Its popularity is growing. Passing the ACA was a matter of getting half a loaf rather than none. It was an attempt to do something. The rest is just goalpost moving. You set out an extreme position: "completely failed to function for the public they're supposed to serve, for many decades". They passed the ACA. The ACA is popular, has brought the cost of healthcare down, brought health coverage to millions of people, etc., etc. I wouldn't have preferred this system, but it obviously is not a complete failure.

> In any case, the question of the extent to which candidates keep their promises is not particularly interesting, because even their policy proposals are controlled by their campaign donors. Fundamental changes in the system are rarely on the table. The disparity of wealth in the US has continued to grow unabated over the past 50 years, through Democratic and Republican presidencies.

Sure, and this sucks, but "the Democrats are as bad as a Republicans" is a recipe for cynicism and resignation, not revolution.

> Roe was overturned by Supreme Court justices appointed by Republican presidents.

I pointed this out precisely because they did succeed at it. They succeeded at it and then struggled in the next two elections, and arguably the third as well. In every national election this year around the world the ruling party was thrown out. This is the first time since ... well, since the chart I got this fact from begins, that no election was one by an incumbent party:

https://jabberwocking.com/bad-economies-only-recently-starte...

That Harris came as close as she did actually shows that the headwinds against the Republicans have continued.

My point was that when they take the power they have won and attempt to enact their policy positions they start losing. This was an example of that.
How about this?

https://tips.fbi.gov/home
I hear you! There are millions upon millions of lines of C++ in production, though. C++ is still the de facto language in game dev and many other industries. I'd choose Rust over C++ for any greenfield project, but C++ isn't going anywhere.

I'm starting with C++ interop but will aim to provide interop with other native langs going forward, thanks to LLVM.
I just wanted to say that's a pretty awesome project, and it's great that you were able to do this for your son.
For 2024-level tech I agree. The future is multimodal and a lot of processing power will be needed for that.
You leaked your DNA on which companies?
Ask HN: Which recommended registered agent to setup LLC as a non US?
Hi, I'm an Indonesian, looking to setup Stripe, but I think the viable option is to setup a LLC in US (open for other country though!) What's the most used service nowadays?
I don't disagree that Russia might not be spending their military money effectively (including with copious corruption), but that really has no bearing on whether the US is spending their money effectively, which as far as I can tell we are not. I brought up Russia merely as an example that spending money does not mean your military is more capable.
The accuracy issue is the thing. I’d venture a guess that our prediction of the path of a hurricane 7 days out is more accurate than predicting where an impact will be.
> software first agile mentality

I can release a website with a list of known bugs. Do any govt allow release of cars with known bugs?
Sure. That makes sense physiologically, if you think about membrane potential and hormonal control and kidney capacity. Just like with glucose, it's the spikes that cause the damage. But it's a lot easier to explain to a non-professional that eating overly salty food is bad for them (which is what the advice reduces to in practice) than try to explain osmolality to them.
Sorry, it's now a problem to train off other people's data? Surely openai has never trained off other people's data without permission...
'DeepSeek is the side project of a bunch of quants'

I doubt it very much that it only was that and not massivly backed by the Chinese state in general.

As with OpenAI, much of this has to do with hype based speculation.

In the case of OpenAI they played with the speculations, that they might have AGI locked up in their labs already and fueled those speculations.
The result, massive investment (now in danger).

And China and the US play a game of global hegemony. I just read articles with the essence of, see China is so great, that a small sideproject there can take down the leading players from the west! Come join them.

It is mere propaganda to me.

Now deepseek in the open is a good thing, but I believe the Chinese state is backing it up massivly to help with that success and to help shake the western world of dominance. I would also assume, the chinese intelligence services helped directly with Intel straight out of OpenAI and co labs.

This is about real power.

Many states are about to decide which side they should take, if they have to choose between West and East. Stuff like this heavily influences those decisions.

(But btw. most don't want to have to choose)
I don't want to come off too harsh here -- not a personal attack -- but I genuinely don't understand why folks are sharing the output from LLMs. It's usually too long, it's not written by a human (which is why I came to HN), and I could have trivially asked an LLM myself!
Only if nothing has timeouts. Likely components somewhere in the stack have timeouts so you're bound by that
https://stripe.com/atlas
This is really interesting. Has anyone seen a good registry of MCP servers somewhere? What I would love to be able to do is ask for a task and have the agent figure out what servers and tools it needs to accomplish that task directly.
This is such an obvious problem to anyone who is above the age of 25.

All of my friends who were real big into weed in high school are all pretty bad at remembering things, most work dead end jobs and are generally unmotivated The ones who started the youngest are in rough shape mentally. Every single one of my friends who still lives with their parents smokes multiple times daily.

Out of all of them, only one is successful, and It's because he bought BTC in 2014 and still has around 20 of them.

I have no doubt, smoking when you are <21 is a huge problem long term.
Deep cut but he also open sourced Facepunch.Steamworks which turned Steam SDK / C# integration from brutal to delightful
Interestingly, North Korea had a higher GDP per capita than South Korea until the 1970s.
As the guy building jank, I agree with you about emacs, chords, etc. I'm a vimmer and I can tell you that Clojure is superb in Vim land (Conjure), VS Code land (Calva), Emacs land (??? some major mode), and IntelliJ land (Cursive).
Yeah, if trying to guess is what you want it to do.

LLMs are famous for making confident guesses all the time even when you don't want them to and there are a lot of cases where you don't want them to.
To me this is an illustration of one reason we are still some way off from a truly general system. Applying these "filters" to sensor data is enormously helpful, but only in certain applications. For a system giving GPS driving directions, you may be able to linearize and smooth movement, or constrain it to the nearest road. But you have to know that those assumptions don't apply to other domains that could use GPS data (e.g. surveying, wilderness navigation, animal tracking), and you also have to know when the situation calls for just going out with a tape measure, or installing a camera and referencing landmarks.

Probabilistic reasoning is useful when the problem space has been constrained to admit probabilistic solutions. But the real world is not just analog and continuous, it is also discrete, and it may require fine discrimination between two states that are covered by the same distribution. Effective operation as a general intelligence in the world requires the ability to tell when the stakes or details of an event require a different approach. Determining when and how to make those decisions is still a largely unsolved problem.
VW realized that software was important years ago and founded a dedicated software-only company called Cariad to specialize in it. They went ham recruiting traditional software folks for high salaries (in European terms). I know a few people who moved Bay area -> Europe to work for them and they have a couple west coast offices where you'd expect for the people who don't want to move.

It's been an absolute disaster, with billions of dollars spent to produce delayed, buggy software.
That salute stuff is just to distract people, maybe it was even carefully planned.

I'd rather focus on Bitcoin, AI and Blockchain scams as well as nepotism. The official excuse for Ramaswamy's DOGE exit is that Musk has a tech approach to solving (?) the efficiency problems:

https://www.newsweek.com/vivek-ramaswamy-asked-if-elon-musk-...

Expect a lot of blockchain nonsense infiltrating the government, perhaps even a digital currency. That must be avoided at all costs.
Terry Davis would be pleased.
Thanks for the suggestion. It was a design decision I made to not allow landing pages that are not assigned to a user. I will consider rethinking that.
The reality is that cloud providers make it easy to deploy infrastructure without much thought. You need skilled domain specific IT Architects working together to ensure that an organization's cloud presence is efficient and secure. That discipline and rigor is often dismissed or underappreciated because it forces you to slow down and decreases agility.

Some organizations have some form of Enterprise Architecture group that governs technology and ensures that there is discipline though the maturity and scope varies. I would say most organizations are completely devoid of that type of supervision and oversight.
It's very true, though. There's something to be said about technology you can build without a huge capital investment. With maybe $50k worth of tools and materials you could probably build a vehicle from ~1980. You can't manufacture them at scale, and if you factor in your time it won't pay out, but you could in principle get it done with accurate drawings.

Proprietary software, though, is a huge moat. And the complexity that comes with it. There's no reason we shouldn't be able to build more modern cars as one-offs, except that the systems are so locked down
I cannot parse this response
I am working in a page to view other users landing pages now!
I suspect trolling https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42867310
I don't want to be out of breath after 3 seconds of running. No thanks.
pinboard.in is kind of legacy awesomeness.
Helped by the ACC Scheme [1], whereby you can throw someone off a bridge with an elastic band attached and the NZ government will pay to scrape them off the pavement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accident_Compensation_Corporat...
It's also deeply damaging to the western ego, especially one rooted in American exceptionalism.

But also one those of us actually working on foundational AI saw coming a mile away when most of the top research of late has been happening in Chinese labs, not American or European ones.

Can't wait to see what this boneheaded President's tarrif on TSMC does to this situation.
Piracy isn’t stealing, period.
> if it misses the Earth in 2032, it could hit the moon.

Oh, that's not so ba--- Wait, isn't that what happens in Seveneves?
Unrelated to this thread, what do you think about BQN and especially Uiua? For a decade, you lamented that APL was dead and nothing further developed notation qua tool of thought. I am curious if you see hope for the APL way today.
Cry me a fucking river OpenAI, as if your business model isn't entirely based on this exact same thing.
Arguably, Intel has already achieved the most important part of the Intel Foundry strategy: letting the CPU designers target whatever fab is best for their needs. Getting most of the consumer CPU moved to TSMC for Meteor Lake a year ago and the rest of it moved to TSMC last fall is hugely important. Intel Foundry cannot count on having a big customer, and the product line isn't forced to stick exclusively with failing fabs.
with one key difference that the people doing procurement only have the spec sheet, and never actually use the software. They also frequently never actually interact with any of the humans that do use the software, and have formed an opinion that "those people only ever complain whatever we buy". So there is never any feedback cycle pushing the software to be better.
Parent mentioned that not everyone can just swap.

Like if company A is on NY but 20 competitors are better and all but only have the work available in L.A.

You are not going to just quit and move.

Hence efficient market might be so on scale that is not available for that employee.
> Lockheed Martin

Government contractor would be closer i think.

Lockheed Martin Space employs quarter of their total workforce and does both, they built the Hubble, and now working on Orion and so on. Key components of Hubble did come from "dual-use" technology i.e. spy satellites.
Well that'd be just about perfect! Thank you stranger!
The stock went up because the market was expecting a bigger drop in profit (and that was built into the price), so in that regard Tesla beat expectations.
I'll assume that your comment was not intended to reflect on the average Bluesky user, but there might also be something there too.
dang what about other people outside your sample size that did smoke under 18 and then became successful? what was your control group also?
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42869464

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42859421
Small effect size, and one I'd expect to be comparable to a lot of other things, like similar alcohol use, sleep deprivation, mood disorders, etc.

Hard as it may be for some to believe, not all people are trying to optimize for maximum brain function, evidence suggests that a vast swathe of humanity tries very hard to actively REDUCE their function on a recreational basis.
So... AI feeding on itself? :D
Honestly, where in the hell is that money going? That's like space program funding, not "repackage commodity phone parts into a headset" funding.

For reference, Nintendo revenues somewhere around $13-14b.

Meta is losing almost as much per year as Nintendo has in total assets.

Even with acquisitions I can't make the math make any sense here.

I refer back to this very bearish blog post from the acquisition of Oculus predicting that Facebook/Meta would be a poor steward of VR. https://assayviaessay.blogspot.com/2014/03/virtual-spaces-re...
Mathesar project lead here, it's a nice surprise to see this on the front page! I'm happy to answer questions if anyone has any.
Nice! This made my day :) Thanks to you and your son for playing my game.

I'm hoping to publish a step by step tutorial soon on how to develop this in JavaScript for anyone interested in learning gamedev.

I usually post my tutorials on my YouTube channel here : https://youtube.com/@jslegenddev
(Plenty of tutorials available already for people interested in JS gamedev)

I plan this time on also publishing a written version on my Substack available here : https://jslegenddev.substack.com/
Brexit's Bold Promises vs. the Harsh Reality
Look at it this way. Even OpenAI uses their own models' output to train subsequent models. They do pay for a lot of manual annotations but also use a lot of machine generated data because it is cheaper and good enough, especially from the bigger models.

So say DS had simply published a paper outlining the RL technique they used, and one of Meta, Google or even OpenAI themselves had used it to train a new model, don't you think they'd have shouted off the rooftops about a new breakthrough? The fact that the provenance of the data is from a rival's model does not negate the value of the research IMHO.
It still baffles me how BitTorrent is not used more for legit use cases of unreliable Internet connections.

I remember installing Silkroad Online (the MMORPG) and noticing the installer used to be a clever BitTorrent client packaged with a single torrent of the game.

Server load balancing on its own.
Damn that last sentence was a heck of a plot twist.
Curious what you don't like about Aurora? We've found it to generally be better than the older PG offering since it uses clustered storage, you don't pay storage per replica. Additionally, you can pay 30% more per instance for unlimited IOPs

Serverless is generally a non starter unless you have a really really spikey workload
Yeah it's 100% true. A good independent mechanic you trust is very important if you're not DIY
Thanks for participating. =)
>The ratio might be quite different for LLM, but still any SUCCESSFUL model will have inference > training at some point in time.

I think you're making assumptions here that don't necessarily have to be universally true for all successful models. Even without getting into particularly pathological cases, some models can be successful and profitable while only having a few customers. If you build a model that is very valuable to investment banks, to professional basketball teams, or some other much more limited group than consumers writ large, you might get paid handsomely for a limited amount of inference but still spend a lot on training.
Grafana 11.5 Now GA [video]
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42871758
Thank you! I did actually buy a Bangle 2 early on in the project; I was impressed by the Espruino project and by how small the watch is, but it seemed slow to wake, and the screen was tiny, dim and had a lot of light bleed. But you’re making me think I should take another look. Very cool that your kids are programming their own watches!
Thanks for your feedback.

Serious shortcoming indeed.

I know it is stupid but I care.
Python’s typing is so different from C’s that there should be a different word for it. Typing in C is about storage. Move the stack pointer 8 bytes to make room for my integer. Move it another 8 to make room for a pointer to a character. When I deference it, write just one byte.

Python typing is about machine checkable properties of your program. Consider a function foo that takes a dictionary keyed by uuids, reads from it, and returns some kind of information. We can check all sorts of properties without ever running the code. Accidentally construct a dictionary keyed by strings instead of uuids? Rejected, wrong argument type. Accidentally modify the dictionary in the body of foo()? Rejected, if you wrote Mapping[UUID, Any] for the argument type. Mapping alone does not allow you to assume mutability. So many of the errors I make in Python, I can declare my intention not to make, and then check to see if I’ve committed them.
Why do you insist on only using the middle third of my screen to display content?

I'm over 50 and my eyes are not quite what they used to be. Your 12pt (ish) text is largely legible to me but why do you insist on your idea of presentation, rather than mine?

The whole point of the www as far as I recall is that you send a message and I receive it. How it is formatted should largely be a matter for the recipient, with some hints from the sender.
The fact that they shut down Google domains (and cloud domains now uses squarespace, who bought Google domains) shows that you can't necessarily trust they won't shut down critical GCP services either.
I did not expect this type of positive feedback... thank you.
+1. I also enjoy the "China be stealin' ur data and personal info" angle. As if the incumbents haven't already done that, and are still doing it, as their core business practices.

This whole thing should be an eye-opener to most people.

To ask an honest question, who gives a crap if a Chinese company manages to grab data that many of the usual Silicon Valley suspects have had all along and have been incrementally updating? How is this a "threat".

To pile on another gripe, why the hell does every single media outlet point out the "Tienanmen Square" question?

The whole thing has just become embarrassing. I honestly can't fathom what worse China could do with my personal info than the likes of say, Meta. I'm not saying I would enjoy it, but I just don't see how it could be more harmful than the Silicon Valley status quo.
Does that include R&D?

If running ChatGPT costs $1B/y and they make $3B/y on it, tacking on the cost of R&D on top doesn't seem very fair.
There's a val (hosted function) that does this too!

https://www.val.town/v/jordan/bsky_rss_poll
That's precisely my problem: the only alternative is worse because no one would benefit.
Stop referring to them as “China”. It’s as ridiculous as referring to Meta as “America”.
The hit on NVidia's stock price makes no sense to me.

DeepSeek uses H100s and H800s. They'll likely have reasons to buy more now, and America will want to compete even harder, buying more chips.

American companies are still way ahead as well, but they're just getting more competition. This will be healthy.
For instace Llamaparse(https://docs.llamaindex.ai/en/stable/llama_cloud/llama_parse...)uses LLMs for pdf text extraction, but the problem is hallucination. e.g > https://github.com/run-llama/llama_parse/issues/420

There is also LLMWhisperer that preserves the layout(tables, checkboxes, forms)and hence the context. https://pg.llmwhisperer.unstract.com/
Much more organic sounding openAI model, I included a sample audio in the repo you can listen to.
To books, yes! 100%!
For me, it's:

* Automated type-based code navigation: go to definition, find all uses, etc.

* Auto-complete: Personally, I prefer simple auto-complete based on static analysis over AI "hope for the best"-style auto-complete.

* Debugger with all the bells and whistles: Step in and out, inspect variables, modify variables, breakpoints, conditional breakpoints, etc.

* Automated refactoring: Rename, etc.

Most text editors can do most of those, but I find that good debugger integration is rare outside of a dedicated IDE.
Point out the problems caused by marijuana during the thousands of years of unregulated use. The regulatory environment is the main driver for the problems caused by most drugs in the modern world. If it weren't illegal to use/possess/sell, people would largely not be stealing or killing or doing other antisocial things in order to do so. I'm not really a fan of decriminalization as a panacea to societal problems around drugs, but criminalization was the cause of most of those problems.