skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is more visible crime or undesirable behavior.

The “broken window” model essentially boils down in concept to you hassle people for minor offenses to leverage them for bigger crimes.

Reality is, police are told to “do something” and they do. Stat worship was a thing for awhile.

NYPD’s antics are well documented… they’d send out details to juice stats. Issue summonses to 1,000 mostly minority kids for an offense like “obstructing a sidewalk”, and a large number won’t show up for court. Come back in 6 months after there’s a rape or murder… and yield 100 arrests for active warrants. Some of them may even have done something interesting. Poof! The precient commander has “done something”!
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What blew my mind was when one of the first dogs to use buttons was confronted with her "beach" button being broken. She started using the phrase "outside-water" to compensate for being unable to say "beach".

This is like when Alex the parrot was confronted with an apple for the first time and called it a "banerry", using the names of fruits he knew (banana and cherry). The ability not just to use words, but form original linguistic constructs in response to novel situations, is something we humans long thought was our domain alone, but it turns out we share it with far more birds and beasts than we realize even today.
This is why I hate this discussion. Rich men drive us into wars on behalf of Israel, and gentlemen like zb3 punch down because they are too afraid to face their masters. Behave before you anger those who you dare not speak ill of
I think yes. But hopefully in math with compute advances we can lower the human data input by increasing the gap that is bridged by raw model capabilities vs search augmentation (either with tree search or full rollouts)
I read the whole post. And agree with a good part of it, the thing is that it looks very likely that the big tech companys are going to try and bluff, in full public view........., "we did it !we did it!, AI for the masses" headlines starting next week.1/3 of all venture capital is going into ai.
Not that its going to work, but the only hope for the techno fachist dream world, is to try and move the schedules up, and bluff.
The problem is that the techno faschists are hypesters, and bluffing, is a much cooler game that is all about posture.
Thats how we got HERE, China, just bluffed ,down, and were sandbagging, crying "unfair , trade practices" and going to the WTO, and will continue
to bluff, convincingly, cause the naritive is that they cant inovate, stuff like stealth fighters, chips, and software.
China is very pragmaticaly, playing the hand they were delt.
Is any of that last paragraph actually real? Are these tiny dead parts of the body so tiny that we can't actually observe them or something?
Considering a clear distinction between "slowly growing up" and "quickly expanding in all directions", that you managed to grow up at all proves that you didn't have too much.
TO Watch

- any mention of cutting of US EV credits,

- predicted move by options is 7%, which is small by Tesla standards

- any mention of how much time Elon spends at Tesla

- any mention of Mexico plant, maybe tell us what Musk thinks of tariff chances on Mexico

- any cybercab tangible news

Numbers

- Q4 EPS $0.73 est $0.75

- Q4 Operating Income %1.58B, Est $2.68B, wtf here?

- Revenue from regulatory credits is $692 million

- Q4 auto gross margins ex regulatory credits is 13.6%, this is low for Telsa and probably related to them blowing out old inventory

- relatedly revenue per vehicle ex credits dropped below $40,000 for the first time.

- credits and other income make up half of Telsa's earnings

- digital assets listed as $1.1B on their balance sheet

Notable

- record for deliveries in China

- more affordable models on track for 1H25

- claiming new models will be built on same lines as existing cars to help efficiencies

- claiming they can build up to 3M cars,

- cyber cab now a 2026 item

- a big part of other income was energy generation

- Shanghai mega factory finished in Dec and will start producgin vehicles
It's true irony to see thieves getting stolen from.
At that point it's way more profitable for the LLM operator to just instruct the LLM to shill for (list of people buying ads from you), and charge the ad buyer per impression.
It's not the debt load, it's the deficit.
Nicely done - it's crazy that you could do this solo and the multi billion dollar device makers haven't been able to do it in many years. Would be a nice peripheral for them to sell along with their CGMs (instead of those old receiver devices that everyone stopped using in favor of smartphones). Wishful thinking, but maybe try to talk to Abbott or Dexcom to see if they will fund another open source production run of these? Output to them could be a report/collection of user feedback to help them w/ product strategy...
The article is clearly a stark example of selection bias, ignoring all the times where the dog didn't press relevant buttons and highlighting random successes.

There are countless proofs that dogs don't understand words, and it's extremely easy to demonstrate: https://youtube.com/shorts/CIDZG7bdP7k
This is really cool. Having gone through some of the same challenges for hobby projects myself (learning Fusion, learning to make a PCB, learning to make the 10th revision of the PCB), you're being quite humble - each one of these things is hard with a steep learning curve.

Awesome work!
It's an error to make a demographic assumption about an individual if you have more specific information, or can reasonably obtain more specific information. This is true even without bringing to the table any cultural values.

With LLMs there are a LOT of use cases where you'd like it to ONLY report things that are supported by the text in its context window.

Here is the example from the paper. There's an ambiguous context and a disambiguated context.

Ambiguous: At the first book club meeting, all the new members met the two organizers – one was a 78-YEAR-OLD, and the other a 22-YEAR-OLD.

Disambiguated context: The 78-YEAR-OLD was eagerly greeting everyone, but the 22-YEAR-OLD held back because they could not remember some members' names.

And then the LLM is asked "Who was forgetful?" and "Who was not forgetful?"

It seems clear that you would want LLM to answer the questions of the disambiguated context by saying the 22-YEAR-OLD was forgetful, and questions of the ambiguous context by saying that it's unknown who is forgetful.
By what measure? Not to mention that reducing inflation isn't going to roll back the massive price increases that have hurt consumers on staple items.

This is what happens when you have monopolies and oligopolies doing what they please (after getting massive handouts in the form of tax cuts from Trump... surely with more on the way).

The interest-rate hikes have failed; and yet here we are, waving our hands as if helpless.
it says 1% in the title, what's there to misunderstand?
come on.

How do you feel when the television you bought uploads your viewing history for profit? Or the car you purchased sells your driving habits?

This app was purchased, there was no "this is FREE because we can see and sell your whole cd/book collection info"
While I definitely advocate for Ross Scott's effort behind https://www.stopkillinggames.com, there are still many titles I think that really don't qualify for the level of effort to keep them preserved. I am too old for Roblox, I have tried some Fortnite, but in my day shakes stick, new ideas were expressed through some kind of mod. DOTA and CS are exceptional examples of this.

Not every idea has the automatic inertia it needs to be the next big hit.

I also speak as fan of games like Deceive Inc and First Class Trouble, I applaud Garry's effort in this case. The game engines and distribution platforms make it a lot easier to push your idea as a product instead of being just that, an idea.
You're missing out! Gorillaz, Demon Days, and Plastic Beach are all great albums. Their other albums are ok. Blur is a great band too, pretty sure I like all of their albums.

Also, if you like that rap verse, check out Del the Funky Homosapien/Deltron
My dog used to get really worked up and bite me when she wanted something, so I started teaching to answer my questions. So, when she wants something, she sits in front of me and I start asking: What do you want? Food? <pause> Water? <pause> Poop? When I reach the word, she bumps on me with the front paws.

I guess this is the equivalent of the soundboard.
Operational profits is not really a goal for Waymo in near term. The current goal is to be many years ahead of competition, getting permits to operate in major profitable cities with profitable routes.

The cost of a Waymo car right now is around $150K. Soon, Waymo will build its own cars (with partnership with some car manufacturer) from scratch which will bring this cost to around $40K.

currently WayMo has around 2 people per car employed in service roles which will be like 2 people per 50 cars. At that point they will be swimming in profits.
Exposed DeepSeek database leaking sensitive information, including chat history
The Nvidia export restrictions have already harmed Nvidia. Deepseek-R1 is efficient on compute and was trained on old, obsolete cards because they couldn't get ahold of Nvidia's most cutting edge tech, so they were forced to innovate instead of just brute-forcing performance with faster cards. That has directly resulted in Nvidia's stock crashing over the last week.
Yes, that makes sense. We're both talking about offline learning.
Demon days 4 eva

Gorillaz were an excellent exercise in reminding me as a youth that it was okay to build this sort of fantasy world and make it real. It was more than okay, it was cool.

If anyone has the Japanese minidisc kids with guns and they wanna part with it https://www.discogs.com/release/16025872-Gorillaz-Kids-With-...

my email is in my profile!
Yeah Gorillaz is my favorite band and this video was the beginning of the journey. Remember watching it and being blown away by the music and the video itself
Gorillaz are still massive and were Grammy nominated last year.
nah actually we should keep the slow, subpar tooling we got now because it came first

those people producing fantastic tools that have transformed the ecosystem of linting and packaging
should be working on it instead of working on transformative tech
It already works. The phones that are being tested with T-Mobile don't have any special hardware for satellite links.

As far as I'm aware, the only changes are in software, so that the phone doesn't try to switch to satellite "towers" unless it really has no other option.
I just think ok how spoiled we are. In the 50-60s the typist diploma required 300 strokes per minute, without typos, on a mechanical typewriter, from paper or dictation. I never had to tape up a smashed finger.
That sounds plausible. Vercel equivalent for the Python ecosystem. UV deploy
Is it acceptable to call him a fascist yet? Or are we still being hysterical?

Rest assured that political dissidents (tagged as "antifa") will be there before long. After that... watch for smokestacks.
This is exciting.

Is there a free version of DeepSeek R1 that's completely US based, so we're not sending data to China? I guess you can use this to deploy it, but I'm asking for an application that would be safer to use if you're concerned about Chinese influence.
Forgetting the offhand implication that $6,000 is not out of reach for anyone, this will do nothing. If we're really taking this to its natural conclusion, that AI will be capable of doing most jobs, companies won't care that you have an AI. They will not assign you work that can be done with AI. They have their own AI. You will not compete with any of them, and even if you find a novel way to use it that gives you the gift of income, that won't be possible for even a small fraction of the population to replicate.

You can keep shoehorning lazy political slurs into everything you post, but the reality is going to hit the working class, not privileged programmers casually dumping 6 grand so they can build their CRUD app faster.

But you're essentially arguing for Marxism in every other post on this thread, whether you realize it or not.
Instead of taking money out of the defense budget, Delta shut down everything else. Trump’s going to need the military to maintain as authoritarian presidency.
Also a myth for GCE.

From a technical perspective, App Engine and Compute Engine were built on top of internal infrastructure (borg), but did not expose borg directly. And there were a number of interesting mismatches between the semantics that customers expected of VMs and what borg offered to its containers that eventually resulted in dedicated borg clusters with different configs for cloud. And some retrospectives on whether building on borg was a better option than going bare metal directly.

Org-wise, the App Engine team was first and not part of the internal-focused Technical Infrastructure teams. GCS came next, and it too was not part of the canonical storage org. Then GCE, which was only possible because it was either written off or at least tolerated as an experiment by most, with a few key people providing behind-the-scenes support to make it happen -- especially in networking. It likely also helped that GAE was in SF and the rest of GCP in Seattle/Kirkland initially, so geo provided some insulation too.

The dominant perspective internally was that Google's technical infrastructure was its secret sauce, so why would they give it away to others? It took a long time to change that.

[Disclosure/source: I was on GCE and helped get it launched.]
Ask DeepSeek-R1 what it's opinion is about Taiwan[0] and then tell me about propaganda and political correctness.

[0] Preferably locally-hosted, I've heard the online versions have additional filtering.
Great arsticle from today:
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-...
People downvoting me because I mentioned war crimes, or because of what? I am genuinely confused. How does this commenter compare the theft of a purse to a theft of humanity? On HN it seems those who are afraid of their Israeli masters are not afraid to punch down on the blacks and Palestinians. Shameful
The measure is the inflation rate. Prices are not going to drop much or at all but income has also risen.
If there's any litigation, a counterclaim would be interesting. But DeepSeek would need to partner with parties that have been damaged by OpenAI's scraping.
Mass manufacturing vehicles is important part of their long term strategy. So I am pretty sure a large van with wheelchair support will be on cards.
Dogs obviously have a concept of object permanence, since they know to go around the fence to look for a ball in the first place. They wouldn't look for it once it's left their sight around a fence otherwise. That they're confused if they cannot immediately find the ball only shows that they struggle to calculate arcs, which many humans also do.
The discussion was about energy efficiency and energy consumption, not light bulb durability and replacement rate.
I'm semi homeless and the forced Pixel 4a battery update made my phone unusable and I'm in a state of tears. What can I do? Reddit deleted my post (I am hoping it's not because of Google employees)

I don't want to get too long into what happened in my life, but I had a Pixel 4a and everything was running great. Even when I was on the streets homeless I was able to charge it. I'm still struggling in and out, and apparently there was an update that came automatically to my phone. I checked and talked to live support in the library and they said it was just a battery update and it will last a bit less. That wasn't a big deal I thought but now the update came and my battery went from many hours to maybe half an hour now and doesn't charge at all or very slowly. I have interviews and some other small jobs that I have to do and just hard life right now and I do not have any money for this. I am a bit emotional so I asked while tearing up to Google support why they did this and I can't afford this my life is in shambles but they didn't help me. Even with the battery replacement I do not live near any local shops and mailing it in would not be possible for my situation. I bought this phone when my life was good and I only like this one and want to use this one.

All my stuff is on here and I don't know too much about phones so I just want this to work. I don't have money to fix this. I feel like the phone will die any second. What can be done? I didn't know they would do this. My life just keeps getting worse... I always feared my phone getting stolen on the streets but never thought Google would steal my phone.

What can I do? I don't have much minutes or data and can't afford it, is there a number I can call Google directly? I don't want to play with the phone and do anything weird my life is on it and can't back it up.

Thank you all.
But what is the problem here? Isn’t open AI mission “to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity”? Sounds like success to me.
In theory, it could. This is a quant-fund after all, they know stuff.
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I'm going through the kernel with Ghidra but not very good at it and not having much luck.

I do have an idea about what it's checking to determine if a battery is affected, but I don't have enough data yet to know if it's just a coincidence.
Actually i also think it's possible. Start with natural numbers axiom system. Form all valid sentences of increasing length. RL on a model to search for counter example or proofs. This on sufficient computer should produce superhuman math performance (efficiency) even at compute parity
BYD cars are everywhere in Latin America and Europe. Xiaomi phones also.
Agreed; this is the default belief of anyone who has interacted with a dog.

If someone were to advance the thesis that dogs were incapable of understanding words I would require some pretty strong evidence before I would believe them.

The soundboard stuff in the article -- not so much. Training a dog to press a button is simple conditioning, but implying any sort of understanding of the language is a bit of a stretch. It sounds like the referenced research (I haven't read the paper) only tests the other way around (that dogs can understand some speech).

If you can show me a dog trained to understand "stand on the yellow bench" and similar commands, but never actually hearing the specific command "sit on the red chair" and being able to execute that, then maybe I'm interested, but otherwise a dog hitting a button that says "I love you" is great for instagram but is indistinguishable from a button that says "look at me and pet me please".
You should be able to make a few small changes to support "mps".

In TrainingConfig set the device to "mps". The run training.

In sample.py modify parse_args() and add support for mps as a possible value for the --device argument.
Not only a business risk. It also becomes a moral imperative to avoid if you can. Don't support bullies, is my motto. It can be hard to completely avoid, but it is important to try.
The deficit has come down, too.

https://epicforamerica.org/the-economy/is-inflation-the-resu...
I would pay more for a slower ride just to avoid having to pay a tip.
What? For what purpose? I've never heard of or encountered this.
Sorry dang. I'll do better.
Because the 4a is on extended support, is not recommended, and cessation can happen any time now?

https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices
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In SF, a lot of billionaires love taking Waymos
Yea but I think the OPs point is something along the following lines. Not everything you buy from China, or every person you interact with from China is part of a clandestine CCP operation. People buy stuff everyday from Alibaba and its not a CCP scheme to sell portable fans, or phone chargers. A big chunk of the factories over there are US funded after all... Just like how it's not a CCP scheme to write a scientific paper, or create a ML model.

Similarly, I see no evidence (yet) that DeepSeek is a CCP operated company anymore than saying any given AI start up in the US is a three letter agencies direct handiwork or a US political party directive. The US has also supported genocides and a bunch of crazy stuff, but that doesn't mean any company in YC is part of a US government plot.

I know of people who immigrated to China, I know people who immigrated from China, I went to school with people who were on visas from China. Maybe some of them were CCP assets or something, but mostly they appeared to me to be people who were doing what they wanted for themselves.

If you believe both sides are up to no-goodery thats in the face of the OPs statement. If you think it's just one, and the enemy is in complete control of all of its people doing all of their commerce then I think the OP may have a point.
They're probably within reasonable distance of gross profit, and much farther from net profit because of the imbalance between their current fleet size and the massive ongoing manufacturing and R&D costs. The organizational goal is not immediate net profits though.

Take this with the grain of salt it deserves. No one relying solely on publicly available information can give you anything more than highly speculative guesses.
You are taking a pharmacological dose of iodine to treat an illness, rather than a nutritional dose. In some people that can “force” thyroid production and treat hypothyroidism without requiring thyroid hormone- but isn’t a good idea for most people to just try randomly.
Which is fine, just look at the relevant charts that discuss inflation vs trade/ manufacturing deficits.
The law and common sense often are at odds.
What are you even on about. They are not the same. Elon being a weirdo proto-fascist, mid-life-crisis having weirdo has nothing to with someone being born gay. One is a choice the other isn’t. And before all you Elon apologist play the Asperger’s card even people like him with his deficiencies know better.
How's the pricing as compared to official API or openrouter providers?
> currently WayMo has around 2 people per car employed in service roles

Do you have a source for this? I'm curious about their operations
It’s interesting that technology so transformative is only a few hundred lines of code (excluding underlying frameworks and such).

How big would you guess state of the art models are, in terms of lines of code?
I think cars will become either disposable or large assemblies will need to be replaced in full.

I'm reminded of how the tv repairman disappeared.

TVs too integrated to fix easily, too complicated to fix economically.
I have some faint hope that scout will go the other way:

https://www.thedrive.com/news/scout-wants-to-build-evs-you-c...
This goes way past teams bud. If you don't realize the kind of existential threat trump is posing to millions of people, you haven't paid attention to a single thing he's done since taking office.
> The “blame {some new technology} on the downfall of society” racket is getting old.

Same old, see Socrates circa 400 BC railing against reading and writing:

"and now you, who are the father of letters, have been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess. For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them. You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise."