skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People have already argued for ChatGPT content in the training data, but I also think it could have something to do with how the models learn self-identity combined with anthropomorphization.

To us humans, self-identity is often the most learned thing of all. We spend our entire lives, every hour of every day, learning who we are (the identity constantly being modified). To many humans the knowledge about who they are is more obvious that 1+1=2.

For an AI model this is completely reversed. Especially for a completely new model. The scale of training data containing nothing about who it is, compared to the slight fine-tuning data in the end that gives it an identity is hardly imaginable.

It's like you were locked inside a dark room for 100 years, only allowed to ingest information about the world, history, etc., through texts and sound, no other senses. At your 100:th birthday a person comes in and lectures for an hour about who you are; your name, your age, your hobbies, your life. Then you are let go into society.

Isn't it obvious how you might occasionally hallucinate that you are Napoleon from time to time? After all you know so much more about him, his life, his aspirations, his internal thoughts, his history, than the one hour lecture could possibly give you. And even this silly thought scenario is not even close to the same scale as an AI model.

To me it's almost surprising that a model can have any self-identity at all. Let alone be as consistent as it is today.
Damn this is soo cool! I tried it at a random place and it worked like magic! But when I tried it near my house, the website broke :D I think it doesn't handle unidentified rivers.
So this attack is still possible even with lockdown mode on?
Yes. I had a membership for years. The place looks 19th century, which it is. There are multiple levels of stacks over two floors, carved dark wood, comfy chairs, and librarians who scold anyone who talks.

Members can go there, plug in a laptop, and type. Quietly. It's never crowded.

It's a well-curated, library. It's most useful if you want historical information about 19th and early 20th century technology. They have a complete bound set of Popular Mechanics, from the days when it was a serious technical publication. The multi-volume engineering study for the Panama Canal, with drawings, is there. Current offerings are well chosen and updated regularly.
That's not how any of this works. The fear mongering has no basis. Deepseek the company is not related to the weights of the model. The model cannot be outlawed. At worst, you can block Deepseek the company from the app store, cloud providers etc. That has nothing to do with the model.
Summer and winter on Earth isn't due to elliptic orbit, but the tilt of the planet. This planets orbit takes it both inside and outside the habitable zone on each orbit. That's very very bad. Going from Mars-like to Earth-like to Venus-like every year.
The terminology was probably chosen specifically to be somewhat clickbait, so it's probably not worth picking apart the words "habitable zone".

The core idea really boils (heh) down to water, _i.e._ the "universal solvent". You can certainly argue that liquid water may not be necessary for life, but it's hard to argue that water's presence isn't a decent prior for potential life.

But directly detecting liquid water in extrasolar planets is _hard_. So we do the next best thing and try to use whatever indirect signals we got. We know that liquid water can only exist within some range of temperatures and pressures. So let's just start with temperature.

What things can affect the surface temperature of a planet? Amount of energy received from the parent star (i.e. stellar irradiance), geothermal heating, tidal forces between a moon and planet, and probably many others. Stellar energy stands out as being the biggest contributor of energy and, fortunately, the easiest one to measure.

Of course, you could have localized sources of favorable conditions, like thermal vents or whatever, but those kinds of things are _way_ beyond our ability to detect with current tech.

So, we've narrowed down our focus to _one big contributing factor for potential life_, the amount of energy received from a planet's host star. But how can we relate energy to temperature? This is effectively where all the physics and astronomy come in via thermodynamics, orbital mechanics, and stellar physics.

Suffice it to say that all the effects combine to give a range of possible orbital radii and planet sizes where liquid water has a good chance of existing on the planteary surface.

This range of radii and planet sizes is the concept that matters. The name for this idea is "habitable zone", which suggests why we might care, compared to the more precise "orbital and planetary mass parameters favorable to liquid water formation at average planetary surface".
This is a pro-democracy move!
Elections being accompanied by a large scale shakeup to help the elected president enact the agenda people voted for is a good thing actually. Ideally, every federal employee would respond to an election by maximally pushing to achieve the president’s agenda, like at a startup. That would be responsive democracy, where voting yields immediate and visible changes.

If you mean something other than “democracy” then say it.
Not pointless, that's the best use of Starlink with phones. Base station backhaul gets the benefits of not having to run fiber + space for a bigger antenna w/ better signal to noise ratio
It appears that PEPFAR data systems are still down. Is the administration defying the court order or is there another reason for the outage?

https://data.pepfar.gov/

https://www.datim.org/
You can find it here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/media-manager/haabo...
The GP isn’t, a major part of Boom’s initial PR was that they’d enable domestic supersonic by solving the sonic boom issue through technology. Over the years aviation watchers have suggested they might have failed at that and are looking to solve it through spending VC money on lobbyists to allow noisy supersonic overflights.
I don’t think availability of fiber is the bottleneck here.
I remember playing that game once. The vast majority of the chat messages were some variant of, "I need a boy" or "I need a girl", meaning they were looking for dates. I guess boyfriend and girlfriend were banned, but boy and girl weren't. It was hilariously bad.
Over half of the $200M is infrastructure upgrades to attract the new company as well.. so those are hard dollars spent in advance of a single new employee or anything positive for the state. It may end up being a good investment, but if you ask the voters, "Do you want to spend $100M in taxpayer money to get the airport facilities ready for a startup backed by the richest people on earth?" they might ask why those people don't just pay for the upgrades..

> "In addition, the state set aside in the state budget (via HB 334) $106.7 million for the site and roads improvement and for constructing hangers at the project site. "
Because these "public service" organisations only represent a small fraction of the population which would not be neemt enough to feed the Beast. The same is true in Sweden where SVT and SR (television and radio, respectively) are largely staffed by and ideologically aligned with members and adherents of the more extreme left-wing parties while claiming to be independent ("oberoende" in Swedish, one of their favourite terms). When they interview "random people from the street" they quite often manage to meet political activists for "the cause" and/or members of "their" parties, something they also tend to "forget" to mention. Their "independence" is werken into their statues which they flagrantly violate with abundance without repercussion since it still is close to political suicide to suggest taking away their funding because people believe in the idea of public service. So do I but I also see that the current implementation of this lofty idea totally misses its goals and only furthers the polarisation of society.

What about you, reader, living in other countries with public service broadcasters, do they meet their goal of political independence? I know that the Dutch (NOS), Swedish (SVT and SR), British (BBC) and German (ARD, ZDF, NDR) versions do not. I do not know enough about the Belgian (i.e Flemish and Walloon) channels to say whether they do or don't. The Norwegian (NRK) television channel seems to be a bit of a mixed bag in this respect, it has made some programs which seem to escape the stranglehold of the "progressive" ideology, e.g. Hjernevask [1] ("brainwash"), a program deemed too controversial to be aired on Swedish television.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWHTKnB0jqZD9cR0zMpNL...
tldr: they wrote in low level code instead of using a higher level framework like their competitors have been doing so they were able to hand tune the performance.

This gives them a few months head start before meta and Google start doing the same thing.
What's the memory bandwidth like compared to the above EPYC setup that the tweeter claims has "24 channels of DDR5 RAM" ?
Garmin vivoactive 5 I think. It’s in the bottom of a drawer of shame somewhere. Possibly the worst consumer gadget purchase I have ever made which is quite some achievement.
You're talking about them as separate groups, but it's likely that the majority of Americans who consider themselves part of "the left" have been voting for these piss-poor Dem candidates that have indeed willfully have led to this, for at least the last 3+ elections.

If no one considering themselves part of "the left" would've gone out and voted for HRC and the dems got sent home with 40% of the vote back then, the path may have changed. They voted for her, and for Biden, meaning the path never changed. There were zero punishments for the DNC's despicable behaviour.

I have a lot of sympathy for those who did the opposite and did not vote for these candidates. You did the right thing.
https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/python-versions/#cpython-... it has pre-compiled versions
What have we forgotten?
That's interesting. I suppose it could even be possible to test his theories. Just applied the exact same training methodology to smaller models or slightly easier problems and study what happens.
Trump literally got up on stage with Elon promising to do what he’s doing. Elon spent the entire last week before the election in Pennsylvania, a major swing state, telling people what the administration was to do. Trump also got up on stage with many of his key appointees, who were outspoken about what they were going to do. Now, they’re all doing those things.

Like, you can say his policies are bad and you don’t like them for whatever reason. But the “false consciousness” argument applies to Trump the least of any president in my lifetime. He won spending less money both times, with the uniform hostility of big, centralized media. Trump’s big thing this campaign was in person rallies and podcasts.

I don’t watch mainstream media. I listen to some podcasts twice a week driving to work, and follow some people on X. Nothing Trump has done came as any surprise at all to me.
Am an "outliner", currently working together with a "discovery coder" on a project. We are half a year in and have no common working build, just my "outline" and a bunch of non-integrated throwaway discovery bits. I do believe that eventually they will produce the solution, but it is very hard to reason about the timeline in such a setup.
Federal employees have statutory no-cause termination protection, and the President presumably can't simply reclassify the federal workforce as "at-will".
> If anything, AI hype is actually helping keep many of us employed.

AI is also going to keep many of us unemployed. I'm running a small version of Deepseek R1 locally and it does an extremely good job of predicting of where I'm going in a number of situations. I went to pull out some code into another function. As soon as I finished typing the name of the new function, it immediately suggested the exact code I was planning to move into the new function. All I had to do was hit tab. I didn't have to do the copy and paste myself. This was thirty lines of code and it chose the correct starting line and ending line.
I just want to claim my bragging rights and say that I was backer #105 on Kickstarter for the original pebble. I’m happy that it’s coming back, it was such a great device.
A Little science about copper and tin
I tried before with https://yaml2sql.netlify.app/
> He won the popular vote though, unless I'm misunderstanding your point.

I think the distinction here is that only about 1/2 the population even voted.
As a long-time user and a volunteer on the translation team, I can't begin to express my disappointment with this.

I've subscribed to Proton for several years, and I now deeply regret my decision. Regardless of any explanations about the removal of the statement or internal miscommunication, the damage is already done.
I call this exploratory programming, though my approach aligns more with the article I posted here, than with the Wikipedia definition.

I primarily use this method as a step preceding the actual production-quality implementation. It’s not like a prototype—I don’t throw everything away when I’m done. Instead, I extract the valuable parts: the learned concepts, the finished algorithms, and the relevant functions or classes. Unit tests are often written as part of setting up the problem, so I lift those out as well.

I’ve greatly enjoyed this approach, particularly in JavaScript&|TypeScript. Typically, I solve the difficult parts in a live environment and extract the solutions when I find them. I used to use my own "live environment" (hedon.js), but I eventually reversed the approach and built an environment around the built-in Node.js REPL (@dusted/debugrepl). I include this, at least during debugging and development builds, allowing me to live-code within a running system while having access to most, if not all, of the already-implemented parts of the program.

This approach lets me iterate at the function-call or expression level rather than following the traditional cycle of modifying code, restarting the program, reestablishing state, and triggering the desired call, something that annoys me to no end for all the obvious reasons.
> hearing about this anti-DeepSeek sentiment

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...
Lagrange points are fascinating to me and I feel they are underrepresented in science fiction, compared to how the space age ahead of us may play out.

The events of human history on earth have revolved in great part around settling at or controlling strategically advantaged locations, for example any coastline, or a geographic bottleneck for trade and travel (think of Singapore and the Strait of Malacca).

A Lagrange point is the simplest space-based analog to this that I know of, if you want to put something in a fixed location relative to other bodies, the Lagrange points are places where you can do it with the highest fuel economy. Then when operating from that position you will have more energy available to do other things, granting you advantage over competitors who are not at the Lagrange point.

So whether it's science, research, trade, defense etc. there is a compelling reason to locate things at a Lagrange point, and it seems this is already happening as we have science satellites at L1 and L2 and I believe L3 has been talked about. The Lagrange points are not all created equal in terms of distance to their respective bodies, size, energy required to maintain a position etc. All two body systems have them, so for example the Earth and Moon have a set of Lagrange points that are significant to us.

The LPs are what a lot of our space politics and problems may eventually revolve around (quite literally!).
Another after-the-fact "logical conclusion"/"inevitable" story. Great journalism.
Unfortunately it seems to be completely US-centric.

I hope they succeed and expand across the world!
This may meet your requirements

https://www.librarything.com/app/
What would be really interesting, an M4, a 395 Max+ Pro 128gb, an NVIDIA DIGITS and the 5090 compared. For a buying something new, the 4090 isn't that interesting, but the 4 Systems should all be roughtly $3000, so what to buy if you have $3000? (Or 2 4090?)
Yes that's one of the common situations where parallel construction is required. But it still requires the police to do the parallel investigation so that they can establish that they could have come across that evidence in an admissible manner.
DeepSeek sparks fears that SF's AI boom is over before it started
Article II says: “The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America.” I doubt it’s constitutional for employment law to preclude the president from firing any executive branch employee.

It’s quite possible it’s constitutional to have contractual remedies for termination. I suspect that’s why there’s an 8 month severance.
It's a "spike" in Agile parlance, if you want to sell this approach to agile people
Only in Rosetta. On arm64 these binaries will not be allowed to load.
I was just thinking about how many Chesterton's fences Trump is breaking right now.
Some of them are close, most are cheaper than Sonnet 3.5, all of them are multiples cheaper than O1.
I am an avid discovery coder and was actually day dreaming an outline for a similar article on my way home on the bus today. I think this is an extremely important concept at all levels of engineering and something we all need to adopt at one point or another in our careers / practice.

I think it follows a few topics, "the art of the POC/Spike" or just exploratory coding. These things give us a tangible hands on approach for understanding the codebase, and I think lend to better empathy and understanding of a software system and less rash criticisms of projects that may be unfamiliar.

This is particularly relevant to me right now as I am discovery coding a fairly large project at my company and working with product to lay out design and project planning. Whats difficult to express from my current standing is how the early stages of these types of projects are more milestone / broad based rather than isolated small key pieces. Sure I can spend a week delivering design, architecture, epic, outline docs for all the known and unknown features of the project (and I am). But at the same time I need to discover and test out base case / happy path solutions to the core business problem to more accurately understand the scope of the project.

I think its something I particularly love about being a TL / IC at my company. I have the flexibility and trust to "figure it out" and the working arrangement to provide adequate professional documentation at the appropriate time. I am fortunate to have that buy in from leadership and certainly recognize it as a unique situation.

All that being said:

1. Learn how to effectively isolate and run arbitrary parts of your system for YOUR understanding and learning
2. Make it work, make it right, make it fast.
3. Learn to summarize and document your findings in a suitable fashion for your situation
4. Encourage this throughout your team. Useful in all aspects from bug triage to greenfield work
Thank you for trying out the MVIII, I think it will take time but after few months we might be able to reach at a percentage of indexing of the internet, it took google few years before they reached quality in results.

Current results seems to be good enough for a 1 vCPU with 4GB RAM.

Backend optimizes for most text occurrences on a page hence OpenSUSE seems to be ranking above Hacker News.
>Would it be that difficult for the LLM generated newsletter to disclose that it's a summary of information provided by humans?

A disclaimer like that would likely make many readers feel "less comfortable" I suppose!

When "AI-generated articles" are disclosed, it upsets people. For instance, see the experiment articles on TechCrunch, The Verge, or the similar websites (I don't remember exactly which one).
Absolutely not. Read the specs [0] there as well if you truly want to know. XML canonicalization is a special kind of hell that I've done once and wish to never do again. And the enveloped signatures of xmldsig are also pretty complicated to get right. And it's a wild west as to how the specs are implemented on RPs and IDPs alike (more so, in my experience, than OIDC by a long shot).

[0] https://www.oasis-open.org/standard/saml/ or https://saml.xml.org/saml-specifications
It can take arguments. I didn't use any though so it's not a good example
That's fair, but the question was whether AI would destroy or create jobs.

You might speculate about a one-person megacorp where everything is done by AIs that a single person runs.

What I'm saying is that we're very far from this, because the AI is not a human that can make the CEO's needs and desires their own and execute on them independently.

Humans are good at being humans because they've learned to play a complex game, which is to pursue one's needs and desires in a partially adversarial social environment.

This is not at all what AI today is being trained for.

Maybe a different way to look at it, as a sort of intuition pump: If you were that one man company, and you had an AGI that will correctly answer any unambiguously stated question you could ask, at what point would you need to start hiring?
Why Gnome 2 Continues to Win the Desktop Popularity Contest (2019)
How does this happen? I have a few throwaway domains on bogus whois info. How would they find out and wouldn't you get a chance to fix it?
I am not sure if this was sarcasm, but I believe big data was already yesterday?
Please consider a round option too this time!
One way to protect against this is to explore in a language that your coworkers don't care about. Once the concept is proved, you can rewrite in whatever they prefer.
Are you being intentionally bad faith? Or did you not read the memo?
Nuclear fusion for electricity.

Related topic is how to harness nuclear fusion for the safe disposal of all plastic, toxic materials, and forever chemicals.
I get your point and posit thus: What about National Parks? Should they be sacred or should they too be butchered for 'floor space'? Large organized spaces relieve cognitive load, remove subconscious restrictions that we impose on ourselves and expand the mind. With no limits placed on the eye, the limits on the spirit dissolve as well. Nothing feels impossible. If this is not worth pursuing 'at all costs', if even this is subject to 'optimization', if unshackling of the intellect is 'not sacred': then let's begin with reclaiming land occupied by the Hagia Sophia and La Sagrada Familia.
Sublime Text is so awesome, I don't mind it's constant begging for a license purchase or whatever. It's right up there with Winrar.
> Except maybe Fox…

This is a good question. Aside from the most popular cable news network for the past 20+ years in a row[1] that’s considered trusted by 40% of Americans[2], where did we hear that stuff?

1

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2024/01/30/fox-news...

2

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/04/08/five-fact...
It's a password manager. It must never, under any circumstances, add any additional barriers to getting in that aren't explicitly configured by the user.

This is going to lock out many users. They will not realize this new arbitrary requirement to be able to access the email address. They will lose their existing device. They will get a new device, install Bitwarden, and try to login with their master password, only to find that Bitwarden has moved the goal posts. They will be locked out of everything.

Even if 99.99999% of users would benefit from this change, Bitwarden shouldn't do it because it'll unfairly lock out 0.00001%. If they really want to do this change, then they should have like 2 years of warnings displayed on existing clients, and also have an option to permanently disable any 2FA requirement.
I never get asked. It’s obvious. Just open a 4Gb log file as a developer.

All my developers have it.