skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the kind words.

JS is not the hammer for all nails, but ubiquity means it will be used to pound in screws and bolts more than it ought to be.

I fire up Node but also Python from command line; Wolfram Alpha in browser.

Wasm was the victor in old plugin vs. integrated PNaCl style VM vs. polyglot VM battles. JS VMs (ubiquitous again, and see write barrier cost of poly-GC vs. mono-GC down the page in my linked comment) rather more easily became polyglot via WebAssembly as second syntax low enough to target from other languages' compilers.

Still more to do on the Wasm roadmap. Always more to do...
AI is potentially so much deeper than MAD status quo.
https://ceh.org/latest/news-coverage/do-your-workout-clothes...

Looks like plastics can enter the body through sweat glands. I threw away all my polyester workout clothing (which I loved to use) because of this concern.

Call me paranoid but I'm going 100% cotton and linen. Not keen on getting my hormones disrupted by inhaling and absorbing microplastics!
> He wasn't authorised to access the wiring closet.

For which MIT can certainly have a) locked the door and b) trespassed him, but that's a very different issue than having authorization to access JSTOR.
Same. Be nice if we were the best by our own merits though, not by holding back our peers.
I hear you. Zed does supply a Sublime key mapping. But it isn't the same. There is something off about it. With all the investment in Zed and its GPU-based rendering, it still doesn't feel as snappy as Sublime to me!
^ This is publicly new information, and the 2nd part especially contradicts consequential rumours that had been all-but-cemented in closely-following outsiders' understanding of Sonnet and Anthropic. Completely aside from anything else in this article.
Not to mention that in poor countries, the invention of LEDs could mean going from being able to afford electricity for 1 light in the house to 10 lights.
It’s not an ad thing. It was an OS level accessibility feature dealing with text sizing and other reading related settings.
While I find AI to be quite useful in many contexts, I 100% agree with this assessment, and I loath all these SV bubble-dwellers who think our lives should be airbrushed and "polished" for presentation.

I think a bunch of Google's Gemini ads highlighted how clueless they were on this subject. Like one of their very first Gemini announcements highlighted how you can get AI to write a caption for your social media photos of your dog. God forbid you actually use your own brain to write an actual human caption (flaws and all) for photos of your dog. Google also highlighted how their Pixel camera AI features can "correct" photos of your kids making funny faces in family photos, because how awful would it be if you didn't look like some sort of Stepford family.

I was glad Google finally got a ton of pushback against their ad about using AI for a young girl to write a fan letter to her Olympic idol. Seriously, fuck off with that. Makes me wonder if these marketing folks are actual humans in the first place.
I guess their CEO was too busy to write something in defense of US export controls (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42866905), or (even more scary) he doesn't need to anymore.
AI is a race to the bottom, and a race to over-spend. Seeing this as competition will bankrupt the players, make enablers rich, and end up killing a lot of people when the need to bolster confidence in its capabilities overrules basic common sense.
>My least charitable view (and immediate reaction) is that they're purposely ruining a viable budget phone to make more sales.

My wife was using a pixel 4 until last year and upgraded to a 7, I took her old phone and switched it over to my info and used it for like 2 days before it got a random update and refused to ever work again. Her 7 just got an update a couple of days ago and the battery went dead and it refused to boot until it'd been plugged in for an hour and then would only boot into recovery mode before finally returning to normal. I think google just has something really screwed up with their update process.
I Miss Vim
Injesting is sure the right take. What a circus!
I'm intrigued by Qodo after discovering then through this blog post.

Does anyone have experience using its free tier, say, with Github?
I guarantee you wouldn't want to use it
UK CMA publishes provisional findings in cloud services market investigation
They’re all listed here: https://ollama.com/library/deepseek-r1/tags
> Export controls serve a vital purpose: keeping democratic nations at the forefront of AI development.

As an outsider looking in, I’m not thinking of the USA as a particularly democratic country any more. And I didn’t think its export controls were about democracy, but rather a trade weapon.
I’m pretty close to wildly unprofessional raging at coworkers sending me LLM-written emails/Slack messages.

So far the 21st century seems to be a mad dash to see who can turn off their brain the most.
>Unfortunately medicine is still very much in its infancy

It's always the people involved. People are very resistant to change and prefer to hang on to the status quo.
“you can get a dual EPYC server with 768GB RAM - CPU inference only at around 6-8 tokens/sec.”

This is what I run at home. I built it just over a year ago and have run every single model that has been released.
For me, it’s the technical results. Same as for Musk.

Tesla accelerated us forward into the electric car age. SpaceX revolutionized launches.

OpenAI added some real startup oomph to the AI arms race which was dominated by megacorps with entrenched products that they would have disrupted only slowly.

So these guys are doing useful things, however you feel about their other conduct. Personally I find the gross political flip-flops hard to stomach.
You can see some of their financial data at ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer (https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/314...). I'm curious what longtimers think led to this.

Declining memberships, maybe companies not valuing technical communication as a separate field as much, the rise of LLMs all seem like possible contributing factors.
+1 insightful

A good technique to help w this is "affective labeling" (sorry, citation needed, I think I got it from one of Anne Laure Le Cunff's typically awesome newsletters/posts). Set a 5m timer, start writing words that describe your emotions and don't stop writing for even 2s till the 5m are up.
You can modify the weights which is exactly what they do when training initially. You do not even need to do it in exactly the same fashion. You could change things such as the optimizer and it would still work. So in my opinion it is nothing like an opaque binary. It's just data.
Again, I don't know why you're deflecting. I said we are doing better. What I disagreed is that we aren't afraid to do so - we aren't, protesting these issues runs the risk to have your life ruined. No point reiterating what I said to avoid answering my point, which is that many people are rightfully afraid to protest these issues, while you said there is no fear to protest them.
Java is not heavy. You can use GraalVM native compilation, and it will be as light as Golang. Modern frameworks like Quarkus or Helidon are lightweight.
Sure, if you are working for an old style Java shop stuck with Java 8 and JavaEE. That's another story...
Datacenters are hotter than ever, and we're not talking about rack temperatures
If you're talking about 3.3 70B Q4, any PC with 64 GB RAM could run it.
Is it possible to decline this update on the UI of an internet-connected Pixel 4a?

Mine has already updated, and I'm wondering if I had a chance to say no.
I've read that certain people can't convert NMN to NAD very well and the accumulation of NMN can actually result in serious neurological issues. Seems to be working fine for you, but I would caution people here to do their research before using any supplements. Some of them can be very harmful, especially in early stages where they haven't been properly studied.
2K is reasonable.

Not every single person needs to have it. But if someone in your circle has the needed hardware...
I've been a big fan of VS Code but the latest updates have shown Microsoft simply can't shake their addiction to bloating software with unnecessary features, so likely back to Sublime Text I go.
I made no such comparison, but if you really want to start comparing government crimes and human rights abuses, I think you'll find we can make a stronger moral case arguing for chip bans for US companies than Chinese companies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BOBKTmaQ9M
Maybe. It likely depends on whether GEMM can operate at/near full speed with streaming weights over PCI-E. I am not sure how to stream the weights over PCI-E for use by CUDA/PTX code offhand. It would be a R&D project.
PyTorch 2.6 Delivers FP16 Support for x86 CPUs, Better Intel GPU Experience
Usually the official JVM has access to newer and better versions of the garbage collectors more quickly as well as debugging tools. For example, the JDK 8 from oracle had the java flight recorder, a fantastic bit of tooling for debugging prod. I don't think the non-oracle versions got it until 10 or 12.
The R&D cost on both VMware and Java has do be fairly high, so maybe there's some advantage to having fewer customers and just targeting R&D towards their needs. It just seems like a dead end, how are they going to bring in new customers?

No new companies are going to base their solution on Oracles Java, or Oracle DB. So are they just hoping that some company grows really big and decides that they want to give a large chunk of profit to Oracle?
Perplexity's new API that's powered by DeepSeek's reasoning models
Programming for Computations
About this book

This book presents computer programming as a key method for solving mathematical problems. There are two versions of the book, one for MATLAB and one for Python. The book was inspired by the Springer book TCSE 6: A Primer on Scientific Programming with Python (by Langtangen), but the style is more accessible and concise, in keeping with the needs of engineering students.

The book outlines the shortest possible path from no previous experience with programming to a set of skills that allows the students to write simple programs for solving common mathematical problems with numerical methods in engineering and science courses. The emphasis is on generic algorithms, clean design of programs, use of functions, and automatic tests for verification.
Sorry, I should have quoted your post. I was responding to this portion:

> now I’m trying to think of what I can do to secure their devices if they’re not going to update
>Google 4a user here. They pushed an update while I was on a ski trip in Korea - I updated an hour before getting on my bus and.. the application launcher started crashing on unlock. I couldn't open any apps.

I had that happen like a year ago while I was getting ready to go to a concert in another state. Luckily I was able to call my wife have her login to my gmail and forward my digital tickets to someone else in my party.
I can use RTX to speed the inference up. My budget is up to $2500.
No honour among thieves
You're off by quite a few orders of magnitude in regards to the size of the training data...

Another point being, who knows if they really have legal rights to use all that data for training.
??? There are lots of examples of this.
Next up: «DeepSeek models are a national security risk, we must block access!»
>open a civil suit in the US against an entity the US courts do not have jurisdiction over

Yeah, over a Chinese company no less.
Rebellion and disruption is in Silicon Valley's nature. Especially against authoritarian right-wing figures (Traitorous 8)

Especially now w/ renewed interest in fediverse and open source applications, now is the time for dissatisfied employees to revolt. Meta/Google/amazon ripe for disruption. And there is plenty of left-leaning venture capital to go around
It works well, but Zed consuming too much CPU on Linux: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/14833
> The workload for a security camera or a DVR is going to be pretty different from a lot of NAS devices or desktop/server use. Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) is fine for things like a security camera, where you're just going to be writing long files and probably just overwrite eventually. SMR is really bad if you need lots of random sparse file modifications.

In theory you're right, SMR is not necessarily a problem for NVRs if well-implemented. However, I had poor luck running my own NVR software on drive-managed SMR. (The cheap kind that doesn't support zoned storage APIs, just pretends to be a standard drive.) 2/2 drives failed within a year, despite staying within the rated workload. Admittedly it's a small sample, but it soured me on drive-managed SMR. I suspect NVR software written to use host-managed SMR or hybrid SMR might have better luck, but AFAICT those drives are only sold to enterprises.

...and AFAICT, the WD Purple Surveillance Hard Drive and WD Purple Pro Smart Video Hard Drive lines do not use SMR. Looking at the current highest-capacity drives for both lines:

* The WD Purple Surveillance Hard Drive, 8TB (WD11PURZ) is specced at 180TB/yr.

* The WD Purple Pro Smart Video Hard Drive, 24TB (WD240PURP) is specced at 550TB/yr.

...vs something like 55 TB/yr that I've seen for SMR drives.

https://nascompares.com/answer/list-of-wd-cmr-and-smr-hard-d... also says that WD11PURZ is CMR. No listing for WD240PURP.

edit: oh, and the spec sheets for both lines explicitly say all drives use CMR. https://products.wdc.com/library/SpecSheet/ENG/product-brief... https://products.wdc.com/library/SpecSheet/ENG/product-brief...
Adding iodine to salt played a role in cognitive improvements: research (2013)
Sick burn bro
The main issue is that they've had plenty of instances where the LLM outputted copyrighted content verbatim, like it happened with the New York Times and some book authors. And then there's DALL-E, which is baked into ChatGPT and before all the guardrails came up, was clearly trained on copyrighted content to the point it had people's watermarks, as well as their styles, just like Stable Diffusion mixes can do (if you don't prompt it out).

Like you've put, it's still a somewhat gray area, and I personally have nothing against them (or anyone else) using copyrighted content to train models.

I do find it annoying that they're so closed-off about their tech when it's built on the shoulders of openness and other people's hard work. And then they turn around and throw Issy fits when someone copies their homework, allegedly.
He’s more likely to get rounded up with Sheng Thao, Andre Jones, Bryan Azevedo, and his wife, Mia Bonta.
There still isn't a serious alternative for chips for AI training. Until competition catches up or models become so efficient they can be trained on gaming cards Nvidia will still be able to command the same margins.

Growth might take a short-term dip, but may well be picked up by induced demand. Being able to train your own models "cheaply" will cause a lot more companies and departments want to train their own models on their own data, and cause them to retrain more frequently.

The time of being able to sell H100 clusters for inference might be coming to an end though.
I know HN is not the place for this (because Microsoft), but I really like C#.

The ecosystem has been MIT since 2016, and the last few releases have been solidifying the AOT proposition.

It just has so many features that allow it to compete with C/C++ on the low level, but it also provides exceptional high level niceties (which admittedly can be slow, some LINQ for example).

I know it's not fashionable, especially in a Linux-centric world, but I have used it extensively for many years (on essentially every platform), and it's lightweight (in most instances) and has the features and tooling to make development less stressful.

Every time I use Java, it just feels overwhelming and slow.
I find this line of reasoning a whole lot less convincing now than I would have 2 weeks ago, and it wasn't all that convincing two weeks ago.

When the controlling party of the US is discussing concentration camps for immigrants while also happily calling to revoke birthright citizenship and deport citizens of the US that criticize Trump or the Republican party (eh - who am I kidding - it's the maga/heritage party now)...

It feels like we have no legs left to stand on here, and the support was DAMN shaky to begin with, seeing as we were routinely knocking over governments that we see as inconvenient in our geopolitical sphere of control for the last 100+ years.

Essentially, I think your argument is about 3 elections stale.
"DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup, has restricted access, citing 'large-scale cyberattacks.' However, some speculate this could be a strategic move to control perception and increase demand. With the U.S. launching its own $500B AI initiative 'Stargate,' is this part of the larger AI geopolitical war? What do you think?"
Maybe we just stop using email.
> And then consumers are definitely not going to be running LLMs locally on their computers to replicate ChatGPT...

Not personally. They'll let Apple handle it for them.

(This is already a thing. https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/introducing-apple...)
Yes, I don't have 10x more lightbulbs but now household appliance has an LED. I just installed new GFCI outlets and all of them have LEDs too!
the original title uses "California", not "Cali".
Nope. I see a few in search results but none look that great.
Wasn't there an internal google email or memo that stated as much as well? That open source was moving faster and more efficiently than the best private teams and that it was accelerating - basically calling this out about 18 months early?

[1] https://www.artisana.ai/articles/leaked-google-memo-claiming...
I was a hobby beekeeper for a few years and grew to enjoy getting stung. It still hurts like hell at first but the ride down is lovely.

Spicy foods might be another example.
> We've got the technology to detect gut bacteria but we don't seem to have good targeted ways to affect it.

Healthy diet, fasting, probiotics, reducing stress, among other methods.
Profiling reveals subcellular localization and remodeling at proteome scale
copy and pasting chatgpt code won't make people better programmers and copy and pasting english snippets won't make people fluent in english

it just makes them better at copy and pasting
>Stuff like this is why I keep printing entrance tickets and the like.

I almost got completely screwed by my pixel updating right before a concert while I was already out of town. Luckily my wife was able to login to my computer and forward the tickets to someone else that I was with, but it was a close call because she was walking out the door to do something herself when I managed to get ahold of her.
I heard they were just “democratizing” llm and ai development.

Yesterday the industry crushed pianos and tools and bicycles and guitars and violins and paint supplies and replaced them with a tablet computer.

Tomorrow we can replace craven venture capitalists and overfed corporate bodies with incestuous LLM’s and call it all a day.
My AI-cloned voice was used by the far right. Could I stop it?
> I have worked on/converted many useful databases that were created in the 1970s, before I was born

"Converted" makes it sound like you found a database with lots of useful data and then developed a different schema for it that was useful for your own needs. This is kinda my point: when people say the database outlives its application, they mean the data itself. That's somewhat irrelevant to the discussion of how to properly architect database schemas.

Did you find relational database schemas from the 1970s that made you go "ahh, this is perfect for what I need!"?

> Can you imagine a stateful application that you could easily understand and utilize all the data that's been ingested on for 50+ years?

I don't think I understand this question. Yes, I can certainly imagine an application that remains understandable, relevant, and maintainable for 50+ years. I hate the current expectation that apps and code have shelf-lives in the single-digit years. I hate the term "legacy code". These are immature attitudes from the "move fast and break things" eternal startup crowd whose only goal is a profitable exit. That is not "engineering", it's apathetic planned obsolescence, and everyone who participates in planned obsolescence should be ashamed of themselves. Code that could reasonably last 50+ years should be your default if you call yourself a "software engineer". Otherwise your title should be "YOLO coder-bro".

But isn't that the opposite of letting every random team have unfettered access to the internal private details of a database and entrenching every little design decision under a mountain of unmaintainable SQL? "Growing organically" sounds great until you realize you're just describing cancer. It took life trillions of tries before "growing organically" ended up with something half-passing as kinda-elegant if you squint. Do you want bridge engineers to let the design of a suspension bridge "grow organically"? Will that bridge last 50+ years?
100%. it took me years to consider gluten/lactose as the root cause, because I'd been eating them for years and definitely never almost suffocated like the symptoms it causes now for me now.
I'm not a medical professional, but as a firmware engineer I do bristle a bit at the suggestion that "hardware" and "software" problems can be so cleanly separated.
Science at risk: The funding pause is more damaging than you might think
I broke down the first $30K investment cost for release of the online API product, that does not need further software development, sales or support.

You would be wise to do the software development I mentioned, do more sales and support than was covered under my initial $3000 labour fee. But that you can pay for with the revenues, it would not be the initial investment to see if it is viable as a business.
Well o3 scored 75% on AGI-1, R1 and o1 only 25%.... watch this space though....
I don’t think it’s as simple as just Elon. These are enormous companies solving large problems with the objective of delivering value at highest possible profit margin to customers.

It’s just business
It’s responsive to this point:

> You may respond that the administration's pointy eggheads are going to craft persuasive arguments to that effect, but I'd be happy to put money on their likelihood of success.

I’m saying the arguments might be more persuasive than you think given the context in which they will arise. Separation of powers cases often arise against the background of novel political situations that require application of abstract separation of powers principles to novel situations.

We are facing such a situation today. Prior to 2017, we had never confronted before the issue of federal employees declaring they would use their employment to frustrate the legitimate political objectives of the duly elected president. That then became a major issue in which Trump campaigned, and won. (It’s point #9 on the GOP 2024 platform: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2024-republican-pa....)

All this is relevant not because politics, but because it starkly illustrates a constitutional issue. Voting for the president is the means by which democratic influence is exercised over the exercise of executive power. Invoking generic employment law to frustrate the ability of the president to effectuate the very executive reforms on which he campaigned raises a specific constitutional issue.

The opposing view here is that, if voters want to effectuate significant reforms in the structure and behavior of the executive, then Congress must be the one to do that. Maybe that’s true but it seems very odd to me.
Friend shared https://maxima-on-wasm.pages.dev/, very cool to see old Lisps live again thanks to Wasm.

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