skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I worry a significant portion of the populace does not have anything better to fill their time with...

Or... people are exhausted from the daily grind and want some sort of escape. The lives of most people are not improving; they're having to work harder and harder for less and less.
Sadly it isn't a fallacy at all, academic degrowthers in Europe (yes, degrowth can be studied at university in Europe!) have proposed de-incentivising the use of washing machines: https://x.com/ziontree/status/1837034922105516391
Dissolving the department of education and pushing (a single) religion in schools will be sure to accelerate the decline.
> we're in any case in "damage is done" territory. The question is more about where to go next

Sort of. We can learn from the example. Perfect is the enemy of the good.
That point is so weird: Why offer a "performance update" 1.5 years after the end of security updates?
The brand is completely wrecked and now associated with things that mainstream advertisers and businesses rightly want nothing to do with. This feels nearly like Stormfront or 4Chan announcing a partnership with Visa. Wild times!
> tech talent in the US is not languishing

Only those tech talents in the USA who are useful for some big tech agenda are not languishing.
Well... that's a very 2025 sentence...
Soon everyone will be texting, emailing etc with an AI secretary doing it all.

"AI take a letter and polish it up for me..."

Maybe even video conferences will use 'Polish' to portray a recreated lifelike sophisticated avatar with real time grammar correction. When folks finally do meet in real life, they will discover slobs, socially awkward or tactless idiots instead of the suave intellect portrayed by the AI. LOL
Well, it's been about 10 years. And I'm still a completely different person with absolutely no signs of it.
You say "public", but what I think you mean is "publicly available". Even publicly available data has copyrights, and unless that copyright is "public domain", you need to follow some rules. Even licenses like Creative Commons, which would be the most permissive, come with caveats which OpenAI doesn't follow [0].

It is unclear if someone breaking someone else's copyright to use A can claim copyright on a work B, derived from A. My point is that OpenAI played loose with the copyright rules to build its various models, so the legality of their claims against DeepSeek might not be so strong.

[0] https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/cclicenses/
What’s stopping 9 out of 10 from leaving?
What I love most is how well "out of the box" sublime work for me.
Even on a fresh install it's very usable without doing anything, I usually install about 3 extensions (not counting specific language syntax support).

Integrated LSP would be nice to have, but most of the time I don't use it and I like to be able to turn it of and have the simple autocomplete that is very predictable and unintrusive.

And performance, I know Zed showed some benchmarks on how fast it is, I still had some hang up from time to time with it and some crash, I can't suffer jankiness in my editor, it stress me out.

Thanks for the work done on Sublime.
Most of the public is also unfamiliar with the term open source, and I'm not sure they did themselves any favors by picking one that invites far more questions and needs for explanation. In that sense, it may have accomplished little but its harmful effects.

I get your overall take is "this is just how things go in language", but you can escalate that non-caring perspective all the way to entropy and the heat death of the universe, and I guess I prefer being an element that creates some structure in things, however fleeting.
Future voters. There is no democracy if people don't know who or what they are voting for. Ignorance isn't bliss when it comes to making a democratic choice.
Fondle Slabs gets my vote!!
I agree. The last thing I want from Sublime is to have AI nonsense.
Eh, it's not disguised as anything, it's content marketing. Lago the API billing solution is not suggesting their product as a better alternative to ChatGPT.
Some people really love putting dumb validation rules for emails in forms... You would be surprised to know how many system in the real world will just refuse anything that is not a letter or a number in your email.

And the 'fuck them, I won't do business with them' attitude doesn't really work if the system that wont accept your email is the local gas company.

And there is another problem, some systems will just remove any label without informing you. I've had this problem logging in some random websites. My account was created with foo+bar@gmail.com but to log I had to use foo@gmail.com.
An example you may have learned about in school was Eli Whitney and the cotton gin. He thought his invention would reduce slavery by making it very cheap to clean the seeds out of picked cotton. Instead, this efficiency led to an explosion of demand for this lower-cost cotton.
One significant difference between PG and MSSQL is MSSQL caches query plans allowing its optimizer to be much more sophisticated and slower.

PG re-optmizes every query over and over unless you manually do a prepared statement and that only last for the session its prepared on. Therefore it's very important the optimizer not take much time before execution.
I think a lot of people miss the point.

If you're already an effective writer, obviously AI will usually only make things worse.

But for people where English is not their first language (or whatever language you're writing in), polish is a godsend. It fixes your grammatical errors, vocabulary errors, spelling errors, punctuation errors, and all the rest.

Obviously it can go overboard in changing your meaning (as any flesh-and-blood editor also might), and presumably over time these tools will get more refined.

But for most people who write intelligent comments here on HN, you are not the target audience for this feature. Well, until you have to dust off your high-school French or Spanish or whatever for an e-mail exchange.
> Objective-C has plenty of dynamism

Sorry but no. Obj-C used to be my bread and butter, I knew it pretty well (alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio). The only truly dynamic part was message sending and even that got much stricter in later versions of the language, i.e. you wouldn't be able to call any method on any object like before without at least explicitly casting to `id`.
"Mr. Transistor's" Most Challenging Career Moment
> If the magic values are some kind of microcode or firmware, or something else that is executed in some way, then no, it is not really open source.

To my understanding, the contents of a .safetensors file is purely numerical weights - used by the model defined in MIT-licensed code[0] and described in a technical report[1]. The weights are arguably only really "executed" to the same extent kernel weights of a gaussian blur filter would be, though there is a large difference in scale and effect.

[0]: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3/blob/main/inferen...

[1]: https://arxiv.org/html/2412.19437v1
IMO it probably is and Altman probably still (rightly) hates Trump. He's playing politics because he needs to. I don't really blame him for it, though his tweet certainly did make me wince.
Yeah, copyright means something and a ToS is virtual toiletpaper (at least in the EU)
Wow, now that's what I call lawfare! Vol. 23
Is OpenAI claiming copyright ownership over the generated synthetic data?

That would be a dangerous precedent to establish.

If it's a terms of service violation, I guess they're within their rights to terminate service, but what other recourse do they have?

Other than that, perhaps this is just rhetoric aimed at introducing restrictions in the US, to prevent access to foreign AI, to establish a national monopoly?
Indeed. First thing I thought was "call a wahmbulance!".
I wonder if this is at least partially related to the move away from phonics over the last 20 years (which is now coming back): https://apnews.com/article/phonics-science-reading-c715dea43...

Looks like some states that re-emphasized phonics in a major way saw improvement, particularly in lower income brackets: https://apnews.com/article/reading-scores-phonics-mississipp...
Indeed, that's why I hoped a rewording or rethink would be in order. In my travels, I have encountered high English literacy throughout the world, and would assume that such folks emmigrating to the U.S. would not suddenly be disregarded in research.
No and that was a deliberate choice I made.
The model itself yes. The changes from previous architectures are often quite small code-wise. Quite often just adding/changing few lines in a torch model.

Things like tweaking all the hyperparameters to make the training process actually work may be more tricky though.
Boo hoo. Competition isn't fun when I'm not winning. Typical Americans. When Americans are running around ruining the social cohesion of several developing nations, that's just fair competition, but as soon as they get even the smallest hint of real competition they run to demonize it.

Yes deepseek is going to steal all of your data. OpenAI would so the same. Yes the CCP is going to get access to your data and use it to decide if you get to visit or whatever. The white house does the same.
No, it's not.

Flint's lead water problems lasted for ~18 months from 2014-2015 (ending when they transitioned back to their original water source!), and as of about 4 years ago, they've fully replaced all of their lead water pipes.
Connecting Oxford and Cambridge could create "Europe's Silicon Valley"
> reliably overcome it again and again

I would disagree with that. We are only a few years in, many people did not recover yet. And taking severe medication is not exactly "correction".

There is a research that suggest some unusual COVID-19 variants are able to penetrate cell nucleus. That is why we need DNA sequencing studies! And not just on patients, but their microbiome as well!

And I do not think it will take decades, but couple of years maybe months!
Very good at breaking stuff - so will do.
Only weird if you think what OpenAI did should be the norm.
^ I assume the meta-analysis covered the available data well.

My point is that the available data may not tell us much about the safety and efficacy of this new device.
This isn't about the China now. This is about preventing people from providing/using DeepSeek. Basically, this is about ensuring DeepSeek only has a market in China or in other China friendly countries.
>and some were unable to identify that the word “industrious” means “to be hard working.”

Calling out just one question is pretty disingenuous I'm willing to admit, but this is giving me flashbacks to probably countless examples like this on reading tests I took.

I haven't seen the text this came from so maybe the context is obvious, or maybe it's listed first in every 8th grade English textbook, but I apparently didn't know what 'industrious' meant. And I read quite a bit.
> US and could get DeepSeek banned in western countries for copyright

If US is going to proceed with trade war on EU, as it was planning anyway, then DeepSeek will be banned only in US. Seems like term "western countries" is slowly eroding.
3 hex digits = 12 bits = 4096 entries, the size of each address translation table on ARM. So it does make some (twisted) sort of sense. Assuming you're using 4k page size
If Wall Street Wants to Buy More Houses, Let It
I'm not at all convinced demand is infinite, nor that this demand will result in employment. This feels like begging the question. This is precisely what I fear won't happen!

Also, I don't want to be a glorified uber driver. It's not good for me and not good for the profession.

> As an enterprise software/data engineer, AI has been great in answering questions and generating tactical code for me. Hours have turned into minutes.

I don't dispute this part, and it's been this way for me too. I'm talking about the future of our profession, and our job security.

> You will be fine. Embrace the change. Its good for you. Will lead to personal growth.

We're talking at cross-purposes here. I'm concerned about job security, not personal growth. This isn't about change. I've been almost three decades in this profession, I've seen change. I'm worried about this particular thing.
It was so easy it cost hundreds of millions of dollars, only one company has done it and they had to lie about it
I don’t think US government can move fast enough to change the trajectory. Also it doesn’t help that basically every government is second guessing their alliance with the US. It’s not an industry that can ruin local industries either (like cheap BYD is bad for German cars).

It’s a very fun thing to watch from the sidelines right now, if I’ll be honest.
“OK Fine. But could you at least yell at me in corp speak?”

It's no surprise LLMs are using corp speak and vapid marketing prose as a template. There is so much of it out there.

This is from that Autodesk post last week where they admitted their mistake and… Nope it's corp speak:

“We are excited to share some important updates regarding Archiving and our Idea Boards and Forums that aim to enhance your experience and ensure valuable content remains accessible. Please read the details below to understand how these changes might impact you.”

Barf. But to an LLM this looks like a human communicating in a meaningful way.
RazerCafe, Singapore
DeepSeek v3 (where the training cost claims come from) was announced a month ago and it had no impact outside of a small circle
Zazen is Good for Nothing [video]
It's Time to Build the Peptidome
Is there something that makes them unsuitable for other workloads?
Product Market Fit: Product Market Fit is a one-day gathering for product people
>i want the user to do this very particular thing in an absolutely correct way

good luck
> In Europe, you have ultrawealthy families that have been wealthy for centuries - from the actual nobility days.

> The US doesn’t really have that at all

Of course, my local pub is older than your country, generational wealth isn't a thing in the US, as is generational anything

What you have is multi billionaires buying their way into politics and getting in the government while no one ever voted for them
Modern society has stopped to aspire of being virtuous a long time ago. Unfortunately, that's nowadays a minority view.
I thought our unauthenticated SMTP got shutoff after switching to Office 365. I looped over the SMTP servers in the hop list in the headers of an email and one of the Microsoft domains accepted unauthenticated requests from within the network.
Will Transformative AI Raise Interest Rates?
I came here to say just this.

Can we change the headline of this article to something more accurate and less clickbaity?

The article unjustifiably labels OpenAI as "furious" despite surfacing zero evidence that that's how they actually feel, obviously in an attempt to paint them as hypocrites who are okay with copying others but are upset at being copied.

This is a very dishonestly-framed and -advertised story.
I work on the Near Earth Object Surveyor space telescope (NEO Surveyor) writing simulation code which predicts which objects we will see.
This one has drummed up a bit of interest due to its (relatively) high chance of impact. I actually spent quite a bit of time yesterday digging through archive images trying trying to see if it was spotted on some previous times it came by the Earth (no luck unfortunately). Since we saw it so briefly, our knowledge of its orbit is not that great, and running the clock back to 2016 for example ended up with a large chunk of sky where it could have been, and it is quite small. We will almost certainly see it again with NEO Surveyor years before its 2032 close encounter. I have not run a simulation for it, but I would not be surprised if LSST (a large ground telescope survey which is currently coming online) to catch it around the same time NEO Surveyor does.

Our knowledge of the diameter of this object is a bit fuzzy, because of surface reflectivity, small shiny things can appear as bright as dark large things. This is one of the motivations of making the NEO Surveyor an IR telescope, since IR we see black body emission off of the objects, which is mostly size dependent, and only weakly albedo dependent.

There is an even tinier chance that if it misses the Earth in 2032, it could hit the moon. I haven't run the numbers precisely for that one, but it impacted a few times in some monte-carlo simulations.

If anyone is interested in orbit dynamics, I have open sourced some of the engine we are using for observation predictions: https://github.com/Caltech-IPAC/kete

It is relatively high precision, though JPL Horizons has more accurate gravitational models and is far better suited for impact studies. My code is primarily for predicting when objects will be seen in telescopes.
Did he ever manage to run that Python script?
One argument would be means to an end, with the end being the initial advancement of AI.

Again, I'm not offering an opinion on it.
I didn't make a single political statement nor criticism of the US in this thread, you're just applying things you read from other people, to me. As I said: Advanced state of facebook brainrot.

I have long-enough lived in and have enough ties with the US to know how things are over there. OTOH I think it's incredibly unlikely you'd be able to teach me anything about how immigration works here in EU. Especially when you're busy trying to pick a political fight.

Hey, you want a political statement, here's a tip for you: It's possible for people to not be a single-issue right-winger. It's possible to be economically right wing, have negative opinions about how the EU is handling immigration, and /still/ be pro social safety nets and worker rights, and even so still think France for example has too many worker rights.

You guys have zero fuckin' notion of nuance.
The push of to SSR in Svelte5 has been so off putting. I know CSR is possible but 1) it's not easy, and 2.) practically undocumented
I got an American Express card with a great loyalty program with Delta airlines back when I was flying to the west coast all the time. Delta quit serving the airport in my town and, frankly, I'm excited to go to Syracuse and fly airlines like Breeze (so cheap I might fly to some random town just to try an A220) and JetBlue instead. That card is canceled before I have to pay the next annual fee.
This is a good point, though at the time of my comment it's already attracted several "that's racist" type responses. I think generally you might be getting at Simpson's Paradox[0] where an aggregated trend is in one direction when all the relevant subgroups are in a different direction, and it's just that the makeup and proportions of those subgroups has changed.

My father in law is a guidance counselor in Florida. He told me about a school in the county that was ranked very poorly 10 years ago, but is now one of the top. I was curious how they did it, but it apparently had nothing to do with changes in curriculum, but the fact that somehow that area had become a destination for wealthy Chinese international students, and the student body had become dominated by them.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simpson's_paradox
Is the member who posted related in any way to Lago?
The VCF Midwest 2024 Report
It's a business that controls how millions of people get their information.
The Rich and the Cheap
Thing is, Gmail's been doing this ~forever with quick replies to emails, now it's just doing longer replies instead of "that's great, thanks" level of replies.
I think Tim Sweeney's (CEO of Epic Games) comment was spot on:

> After years of pretending to be Democrats, Big Tech leaders are now pretending to be Republicans, in hopes of currying favor with the new administration. Beware of the scummy monopoly campaign to vilify competition law as they rip off consumers and crush competitors.

This is exactly what OpenAI is trying to do with these allegations.
1. EU barely has 30 year fixed rates - of course rates will be higher for a much riskier loan to counterparty.

2. Yes true, the minimum wage in Poland is 13 cents higher than the US. Fewer than 1% of US income earners are paid the federal minimum wage. In Poland, ~15% of income earners are paid the minimum wage.

3. Yes our life expectancy is bad - although better when you do demographic control, we have a problem with obesity and easy access to guns causing suicide.

4-6. sorry but relative wealth measures are not effective for deciding how affluent a society is. our ‘pensioners’ in poverty are only in poverty relative to the very high median earnings in the US. They could take their money to the EU and spend better than many of those other retirees.
Working through this now. The directions are to download the contents of the Q8_0 at https://huggingface.co/unsloth/DeepSeek-R1-GGUF/tree/main. That turns out to be a git lfs repo. `git clone` followed by `git lfs pull` is downloading all of it which will have to do. (fetchinclude = DeepSeek-R1-Q8_0 seems to be limiting it to the directory of interest). If there's a cleverer way to get the files please reply - I looked for a torrent and failed to find one.

Not completely clear what changing numa nodes per socket from 1 to 0 does, possibly gives linux less information about when to migrate threads across x64 cores? (didn't upset llvm compile time so I'll leave it on nsp0)
I'd like to clarify when I said "community" I wasn't talking exclusively about friend groups (or your mother's friend groups) helping with recommendations and whatnot. I mean the community as a whole - men and women, the bailiffs and the blacksmiths: When you know everyone in your town and most of the people in your neighbouring towns it becomes much easier to know who is a bad person that'll abuse you (or to find out that information).
ollama deepseek-r1:671b is
> previously discussed here at HN
And those ideas seem far more in line with millenial Silicon Valley culture. It's weird when they expect Germans to fake that sort of overly formal, overly cheery tone. People just don't talk like that.
... I did not know that one could uninstall Notepad
Some have said (for what little that's worth) that Kagi's version is not the real thing, but one of the distillations.
The country with by far the highest number of people riding a bike (The Netherlands) does not have any helmet rules.
Google and Starlink are direct partners.

> Under the partnership, SpaceX will locate Starlink ground stations within Google’s data centre properties.

https://theincmagazine.com/google-cloud-has-signed-a-deal-wi...
Seems like an extremely naïve take.

In 2016: Sam alluded to Trump's rise as not dissimilar to Hitler's. He said that Trump's ideas on how to fix things are so far off the mark that they are dangerous. He even quoted the famous: "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

In 2025: "I'm not going to agree with him on everything, but I think he will be incredible for the country"

This is quite obviously someone who is pandering for their own benefit.
Nice one, thank you for sharing !
This wasn’t about which is worse than the other, but about whether OpenAI would want to avoid court precedent for the one because of the other.
Ideally we'd capture many more features for analysis. Immigration history, socioeconomic status, parental education, etc. If we want to improve outcomes, more data helps.
It's important to use any other language to avoid even the theoretical possibility of bootstrapping complications. All languages that produce self-contained compiled executables are equally suitable for the task.
Fixing Pathfinding Once and for All
Surprisingly enough studies have never been able to reliably correlate phone or screen usage to declines in cognitive ability of well-being. Some weak effects appear and disappear in different studies but you'd think if the effect is this profound on society the results would jump out in studies. I can buy that it's a factor but there's more going on.
Yep, it's an 80/20 thing. Versatility over quality.