skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Silicon Valley Tech Workers Protest Their Bosses' Embrace of Trump
You used the word ''Only'' and it was incorrect.
The slippery slope is only a fallacy if you assume dogmatic priors, otherwise it is simple Bayesian updating.
is stealing from the thief actually a theft?
We're just going full oligarchy, huh.

Neat.
Copyright protections for AI assisted work
> source code is absolutely open

It’s ambiguously open.
I used ST2 for like five years in its unregistered state. (I rationalized that by telling myself that nothing I used it for made me money, but I still feel a little gross about it.) In practice it was no problem.

I paid for an ST3 license, then I paid again for an ST4 license. Whenever ST5 comes out, if they ask, I'll pay for that too.
I call this capitalism when its convenient for us, socialism when we are struggling.

I hope one day, China starts blocking advanced tech from US, for the good of the whole world
If AI gets us back to nuclear power, LLMs will have done more for climate change than all climate activists, ever, combined.
it's in my head but guess what? that's where I live! I didn't think my way into this particular problem and I can't think my way out this particular problem and I need external help to get back to normal.
Be careful where you're going here. If you maximally/strictly interpret copyright law, the Internet Archive (including Wayback Machine) is largely violating copyright all the time. (WAY beyond the ongoing dispute with the publishers over the lending library.) Most web content is non-permissively licensed.
Source report: https://copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intelligen...
Also: great API for creating own plugins.
I like VSCode's feature where it doesn't constantly bitch and moan about buying a license. Like cmon, there's billions of text editors to pick from, it would be like paying for breathing air or worse, for winrar.
Is this true? What were the revenues of lighting companies before compared to now? Do we count TV screen makers because they’re LEDs as well?

I just watched Veritasium’s video on how LEDs were indented and the companies making LEDs saw exponential increase in revenue. https://youtu.be/AF8d72mA41M

Basic Google search tells me the lighting industry has experienced high growth due to the invention of LED lighting.
I like a lot of what Dario writes, but in this case I just can't follow the reasoning. Everything I've picked up about how DeepSeek did what they did (including going a level lower than CUDA to better take advantage of the limited hardware[1], and the balance of techniques used[2]) points to some very smart Chinese engineers having out-smarted US ones (to put it in terms that matter to US folk, because I'm European and I ordinarily wouldn't care):

1 - https://stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-faq/
2 - https://epoch.ai/gradient-updates/how-has-deepseek-improved-the-transformer-architecture

This post comes across as overly defensive of the US export controls and leaning on the authoritarian regime angle far too much to feel like it isn't just a way to shore up interest in US-based AI companies and widen the moat (or just make sure someone else shores it up politically while they catch up technically).

Anyway, this will always be a deep pocket race. But I wish it wasn't so much about brute-forcing GPUs and wasting power to (as yet) uncertain outcomes as far as model capabilities are concerned, and to me what DeepSeek achieved was to point out ingenuity and better techniques should be something that both OpenAI and Anthropic ought to be pursuing instead of burning cash.
I appreciate everything you've said, but here's the problem with most of what you've said.
Yes, I could write an entire post on what wp is, I only need a brief synopsis initially for the reader, because everything else becomes apparent as you read on.
like:
" it's probably worth mentioning that Mullenweg (and others) originally forked it from b2/cafepress" - In the intro for the 2 others for the wp foundation:"Mark Ghosh – Has known Mullenweg from his days of forking B2 (pre- Wordpress, around 2003-4"

"The website itself is exclusively and personally owned by Mullenweg, not the WordPress Foundation." See post on timeline Oct22nd, although most wouldn't have known this prior to Bulleweg actually announcing it

" Mullenweg has also "stolen" plugin URLs" - See timeline posts Oct 15th-22nd regarding ACF and other plugins

Lots of the info you've flagged is actually there, and I get that most wont read into all the info.
Hope this helps
We know that, due to the lack of observable galactic civilizations, if there is a Space War For Democracy, it is a Shadow War [0]. Perhaps with one exception [1].

[0] https://babylon5.fandom.com/wiki/Shadow_War_(disambiguation)
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabby%27s_Star
It doesn't actually know that.
>As a company I’d be terrified to be tied to his brand in any way.

It is VISA or MasterCard in Europe. Not like we have much choice. Whether it is MasterCard or VISA is outside your control as it is tied to your bank.
They should be happy. Now that can provide that amazing AI much more cheaply. They don't need half a trillion dollars worth of Nvidia chips.
>There's a difference in how the data collected will be used.

Not that we could ever see what the NSA, CISA, ASIS, GCHQ, and other 3/4-letter agencies are actually doing with the collected data.

But they pinky promised to use it properly (or something), so, yay.
That's only because LLMs haven't been a target until now. Search worked great back before everything became algorithmically optimised to high hell. Over time, the quality of information degrades because as metric manipulation becomes more effective, every quality signal becomes weaker.

Right now, automated knowledge gathering absolutely wipes the floor with automated bias. Cloudflare has an AI blocker which still can't stop residential proxies with suitably configured crawlers. The technology for LLM crawling/training is still mostly unknown, even to engineers, so no SEO wranglers have been able to game training data filters successfully. All LLMs have access to the same dataset - the internet.

Once you:

1. Publicly reveal how training data is pre-processed
2. Roll out a reputation score that makes it hard for bots to operate
3. Begin training on non-public data, such as synthetic datasets
4. Give manipulated data a few more years to accumulate and find its way into training data

It becomes a lot harder.
Yes, they intended for control and profit, but it's looking like they can't keep it under control and ultimately its advancements will be available more broadly.

So, the argument goes that despite its intention, OpenAI has been one of the largest drivers of innovation in an emerging technology.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dow_Chemical_Company
Run deepseek r1 locally on your phone
Except the "binary" is not really opaque, and can be "edited" in exactly the same way it was produced in the first place (continued pre-training / fine-tuning).
This piece ignores recent news that DeepSeek is doing inference on Huawei’s Ascend 910C GPUs.

The simplified export control analysis Amodei gives here gets a lot more complicated when increasing export controls potentially ends up spurring additional R&D in Nvidia competitors.
When I built my 48TB NAS a few years back I went with Toshiba MG Helium-sealed drives because of so many bad experiences with the remaining alternatives.

It was a revelation. These drives have been so good to me.
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I'm not sure it's planned or not. Finally, Chinese are generally proud of 4 great inventions. one of compass, another one of gonpower. Despite this, I still can't understand why they didn't think of starting geographical exploration and colonization. So I don't know what kind of agenda they have. But I do know one thing: except for China and the US, no one cares who the product comes from. If it's cheap or free, they use it, and no one cares. No one apologizes to the US for losing monopolies.
Since it's a MoE model with 37B active params, I imagined you don't even need all of that ram to keep the whole model in memory, just the active bits.
The second article also mentions a whole raft of other measures alongside phonics that could have contributed to the success.
Sounds like a great way of putting your head on the block in the current climate. Not saying whether I agree or not but more risky than say disagreeing with Google taking MoD contracts imo.
I mean, in the end, USA is still better than the alternative.
As others have noted, if one company agrees to the ToS, asks "the right" questions and then publishes the ChatGPT answers, there is not violation of ToS. Then a second company scrapes the published Q&A, along with other information from the internet and again there is no violation (not more than the violations of OpenAI).
There's probably still a signal there. Or do you think asking people if they like the internet would produce the same results?
Stuff like this is why I keep printing entrance tickets and the like. I don't want to end up in a situation where I have to trust software that is known to have new bugs every months to get into a place without any sort of backup.
I've updated a couple of weeks ago, but I already had a battery replaced last year, so I didn't notice anything untoward with the charge. I did however start to have a vertical green line on the screen that appears for a while, then disappears for a while. (it is possible the line is just a coincidence and an unrelated screen defect).
The Metaslab Corruption Bug in OpenZFS
Benchmark MicroPie vs. FastAPI vs. Starlette vs. Quart
In my opinion Java was basically a mistake. It's not that the design choices were dumb with the information we had at the time by smart people, but with the benefit of hindsight they were almost all duds.

https://blog.habets.se/2022/08/Java-a-fractal-of-bad-experim...

Java has been an extremely successful technical failure. With Oracle, it's also gotten a tonne of bureaucratic/legal/CYA cost.
vscode would be better than sublime, but I hate so much every notification and dialogs every time popping up when i just trying to focus on my work.
for this reason i still use sublime 3, yes not the 4 because the 3 was supposed to have lifetime licesense.
Hey there! I have a B.S. in Information & Systems Engineering, which includes Operations Research (OR). Happy to chat about this!

When I graduated, the OR term was already fading, and from what I’ve seen, it’s pretty much gone as a standalone field. The tools are still strong, but OR isn’t often listed as a job specialization on its own.

I started as a business analyst, and while OR wasn’t in any job descriptions, it gave me an edge. I used OR methods to go above and beyond, working closely with branch and executive management to analyze cost-effectiveness, optimize decisions, and make strategic recommendations. This helped me stay at the top of my pay band. Of course, I still handled traditional BA tasks like dashboards, reports, automation, and SQL.

My advice? Cross-specialize. OR is incredibly valuable, but it works best when paired with another strong skill set. For me, a CS minor and SQL/database skills helped early in my career.

To put it simply: OR lets you optimize a warehouse layout—but most jobs also require you to move boxes. It aligns more with engineering management roles than entry-level work, and those management positions typically go to people with industry experience.

That said, I genuinely believe OR is one of the best specializations when combined with another field. You just need to polish it with the right complementary skills.

(Full disclosure I used AI to clean up this message, but it's still very close to my initial draft. Mostly just some grammar and phrasing changes, but it does kind of read like AI now so I wanted to call it out that the sentiment is still genuine)

As far as connecting to other practitioners, I mostly just stay active in forums and joined a few LinkedIn groups but I need to improve in this area too, which is my motivation for posting this.
I'd love to hear something positive about the current Altman, too. Anything would be good.
It's DeepSeek low-price, low-investment reasoning models that has sent a shockwave around the world.

> Compare $60 per million output tokens for OpenAI o1 to $7 per million output tokens on Together AI for DeepSeek R1.

Open-source isn't a primary rational aspect to prove anything. We can't even prove what's going to happen tomorrow, proving a statement that is linked to the future is utter nonsense.
We are wildly far beyond strict constitutionalism. This has been a trap for conservative causes for a very long time. We are now playing the game the same way the left does: win and govern.
What AI systems are currently targeting my prostate?

This space is primarily dominated by AI that replaces mundane work done by humans.
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write amplification. random writes can take, what twice as long?

wear leveling could mitigate, but the choices are somewhat limited:

NILFS seems to make assumptions based on SSDs, blowing up during its cleaning operation

btrfs or bcachefs could help, but who knows whats going on with those
> It's not even hyper optimizing, just basic optimizing would be nice.

It feels a little bit like hyper optimizing. According to [0], the US spent $14.6B on libraries in 2020. The vast majority of that was from local municipalities, with state funding accounting for ~$1B and federal funding only $80M (disclaimer: I have not put any effort into verifying these numbers). It seems like our time would be better spent optimizing larger, more expensive programs before really pushing to make improvements here.

[0] https://wordsrated.com/library-funding-statistics/
I just had to upvote this for the tongue in cheek call to arms, even though I am really sad that the US is turning out the way it is today...
> Aren’t you the guy who screwed this up last time?

> Yes, the one and only. I think I’ve learned some valuable lessons.

I'm glad Eric is self-aware. I was PISSED when Pebble shut down JUST after the Kickstarter. I was in the process of porting the UI from my favorite Nooka watch to Pebble...oh man, now I just remembered the founder of Nooka spent a decade working on the Sa umbrella that never released.

These guys are a huge reason I don't back Kickstarter projects anymore.

I signed up for updates only so I can get a modern Pebble but I'm not keeping my hopes up.
The gist is, when you find your biggest flaw, work on it, and repeat; you’ve already gone great distance.
Proteins like reverse-transcriptase are quite complex, it’s not a mutation that would appear so suddenly. Also, having such a protein would significantly change how the virus operates, and it would be visible upon sequencing it.
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Thank you for the alternative to X. I feel somehow complicit in supporting someone likely aligned with something unspeakable any time I click an X link.
Eh?

Do people in China emit less carbon per person than the US or not?
Isn't that kind of where macOS features like Exposé and Mission Control come in handy?
USA is still better for whom?

Can't remember which countries where bombed by China in last 50 years, but I can give you plenty of examples for the USA
Also open-weights comes in several flavors -- there is "restricted" open-weights like Mistral's research license that prohibits most use cases (most importantly, commercial applications), then there are licenses like Llama's or DeepSeek's with some limitations, and then there are some Apache 2.0 or MIT licensed model weights.
Oh my gosh THANK YOU - a repository of paper images and weights is not open source
More discussion:

Boom XB-1 First Supersonic Flight [video]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42853633
Right, I thought we couldn't get any work done unless we are in the office? How is Elon Musk able to run 4 companies and the Department of Government Efficiency?

I was told that being a CEO was much harder and longer hours than a normal employee and that justifies their salary. But if CEOs work 80 hours a week at their company like I was told it would be physically impossible for a CEO to run multiple companies and a government office at the same time?
PyTorch 2.6.0 Release
Keeping thinking this way and keep losing elections.
Yes they would. But it would pointless. And clear hypocrisy as well.
This works for non technical people.
Point being, they will gain those capabilities either way. The only question is whether we in the US choose to hamstring ourselves with bureaucracy while we watch them do it.
> Did you face similar issues?

I don't remember what exact year I did the transition at, but around 2014 - 2016 I think. At the time I was working on a PHP Symfony application (and its frontend made with Backbone.js) powering Typeform, and I think this was right about when docker entered the scene, we were still using Vagrant with what I think was NFS syncing or something else dog-slow. But both Docker and Vagrant works fine with vim, as long as you have a generic VM/container setup, it shouldn't matter what editor you use, in my mind.

But before that I was using Sublime Text 2, with minimal plugins/extensions, so moving to vim was mostly getting used to moving around and manipulating text, using some very basic text-based autocomplete, before eventually migrating to a "proper" setup years later. Since then, I honestly haven't touched my config much, so I'm sure there are smoother/better ways now.

Since then, I've used (neo)vim to write JavaScript (+HTML+CSS), Ruby, Go, Python, Rust, various other languages, but mostly Clojure/Script. When trying out a new language, I find some (neo)vim plugin that seems suitable and try it out. If it works well, great, otherwise try another one.
Yeah the link you provide is when it’s already official. And I’m more curious about cases when president just say “I’m gonna tax ‘em”
So what are we measuring here with Jevons Paradox?

Light bulb sales? Total lumen output? Total lighting revenue?
Kind of silly to compare LLMs to clippy...
Repetition is surprisingly effective for learning. Such that that may have actually been a hidden benefit back in the day. :D
Nonono the code for (pre-)training wasn't released either and is non trivial to replicate. Releasing the weights without the dataset and training code is equivalent of releasing a binary executable and calling it open source. Freeware would be more accurate terminology.
You're welcome. Keep up the good work. I will keep buying it as long as I keep using it!
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That's ok, they provide the models. They can be run at Europe, given you have capable hardware.
My other question is.. can you jam 768GB of RAM into an M2 Ultra Mac Pro?

And M4 Ultra Mac Pros are probably only weeks away too.
This statement doesn't seem to hold true. China has banned nearly all US tech companies and social products. It has not decreased the influence of China's influence (which has been through manufacturing/retail influence and tech influence).

I don't think your statement holds with current behavior.
Some people might do that but do you think most of these people would have done other decidedly sexy things had these things not existed?

Yes. Look at surveys of sexual activity. Not everyone would be more sexually successful, but the average would be different.

Here's an example: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7293001/

In this survey study of US adults from 2000 to 2018, sexual inactivity increased among men aged 18 to 24 years and 25 to 34 years and women aged 25 to 34 years during the study period, with the increase among men mainly occurring among unmarried individuals. Men with lower income and with part-time or no employment were more likely to be sexually inactive, as were men and women who were students.
Isn’t PG using that as an example and actually says it’s simpler to calculate that way?

This doesn’t feel like a generous reading.

I’m not against a wealth tax and I’m not aligned with PG, but I do think it’s important to be generous in your interpretation. I think PG is just arguing wealth taxes are unfair on founders.

$2m starting point is reasonable btw, that’s a good ballpark for a founders share at pre seed.
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Yeah phi4 has been as good or better for me than r1-qwen 32b for general queries
More like

"OpenAI is losing its job to open AI."
Its like a bank robber being upset when someone steals their loot
There is no way to decompile an LLM's weights and obtain a somewhat meaningful, reproducible source, like with a program binary as you say. In fact, if we were to compare both in this way that would make a program binary more "open source".
> This year, his legislation has a twist. Instead of proposing to repeal the measure creating the CFPB, the Texas senator is proposing to set at $0 the amount of money that the Federal Reserve could transfer to the CFPB.
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Banning the site would be fine. The model itself will still be available from a variety of providers as well as locally. The US is more likely to ban the model itself on the basis of national security
Apologies, I had dropped offline.

I actually am less against these ideas on the phone. Quite the contrary, I think I'm largely agreed that more efforts need to be done to let people control those.

I am also sadly skeptical that this works, there. I've seen my family that is all too eager to just click "ok" on whatever an app says it needs. :(
That isn’t what I said or implied, as you know, and the same for a generous reading of PG.
OpenAI (sc)raped all the data it could. I do not accept your assertion that d1 was "public." It was accessible, for certain.

OpenAI asserts
1. d2 was used by DeepSeek
2. All d2 belongs to OpenAI exclusively

Both are debatable for large number of reasons.
Worse is better[1].

1. https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/courses/cs181/projec...
Multipolar world is probably going to have multiple wars on the "edges of control", similar to the one now raging in Ukraine.

It may also have some positives, too, but situations with several similarly sized powers competing for primacy have historically been pretty bloody. Unlike Apple and Google, the US, China, Russia etc. have military forces at their disposal.
Dario certainly had no qualms about working with authoritarian regimes when he worked for Baidu!

Also, if the US seeks a permanent advantage over China by 2027 with self-replicating AI, so much so that it can dictate whatever terms militarily. Wouldn't that just force China to send a few cruise missiles to TSMC before that happen?
Like I said, I'm not saying that this was victim blaming, I'm only protesting against this explanation for why it's not:

> It's not really victim blaming if you do it to yourself.

"They did it to themselves" is always the structure of a victim blaming exercise. That doesn't mean that every time someone says "they did it to themselves" it's victim blaming, but you have to actually demonstrate why it's true in this case that the victim did it to themselves.

For example, to add some nuance to your car crash example: if Joe died in a car crash and wasn't wearing his seatbelt, it would obviously not be victim blaming if he were drunk and spun out of control. It probably would be victim blaming if he were hit by a drunk and happened to also not be wearing his seatbelt. Yes, he should have been wearing a seatbelt, but the context makes him a victim regardless, and it would be inappropriate to say "he did it to himself", even if it might have been appropriate in the case where he was also the drunk.