skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> overthrew democracies in South America

Don't forget Central America and Iran; supporting military dictators in Southeast Asia (Marcos in the Philippines and Suharto in Indonesia); invading Haiti and raiding it of the entirety of its gold reserves, condemning its people to poverty -- one could go on and on.
>This is what people say when they don't want the rules to be applied even-handedly.

Not even close.

This guy is actively ruining society while enriching himself in the process, but we somehow can't call a spade a spade?

Pathetic.
comment from a sister thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42863115
The argument re OpenAI continuing to lead falls flat when you consider the talent they've lost. It's a different company compared to the one that built and launched GPT-4.
well, from the historical perspective, it's more easy(or equally hard) to achieve a peaceful multipolar world than a eternal unipolar world

i mean, all 'rule-based international order' died in history, the Holy Roman Empire, the First Empire of France, and the ancient Chinese empire died in every 300 years

even there is no China, even the empire doesn't implode, will africans and south americans be willing to mining for the west for all their lives? there will be Sankaras and Castros in every several decades, every hegemony has an end

or, american exceptionalism?
I've seen it kill more than one company. The company is so bent out of shape for that one special customer, that as soon as the relationship is over or isn't as profitable as they'd hoped, they aren't able to actually support any other customers.
Thats not right either.

It proofs we _can_ optimize our training data.

Just like humans have been genetically stable for a long time, the quality & structure of information available to a child today vs that of 2000 years ago makes them more skilled at certain tasks. Math being a good example.
AI models are becoming like perpetual stew.
In an early minicomputer, the $500 power fail interrupt feature was field installed by clipping a jumper.

There were mainframe line printers that implemented a different lines per minute feature depending on which gear set was installed.
Therefore, the boss will have to be nice to them. Therefore, the boss can't be a horrible person.

You should study up on logic. You are saying that since person A has to be nice to people who work for startups they can’t be a horrible person. This means that if a person is horrible they can’t be nice to people who work for startups. This is egregiously wrong.
Reducing R&D expense also reduces breakeven price.
There’s some evidence of a reduction of intima-media thickness of both common carotid arteries through a… less intense diet.

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.0...
I’ve never seen any « corruption in transit » when downloading big files.
If the hardware isn't in your physical possession you can't know that your data isn't being hoovered up. You can't end to end encrypt compute tasks (homomorphic processing is fiendishly uneconomical).
That's what the AI is for, no? /s
This looks like another LLM generated article.
Totally, those little RL agents call us out when we just teach to the test.

I think we ask too much out of kids in the now and too little in the long term, this reinforces adult exceptionalism, that kids aren't capable.

By in the now, I mean that the kid has to show great 1 or 0 shot performance. Nearly everything is slow to start but gets bigger than we can imagine. More gradual slopes with a slight acceleration.

You mentioned video games in another thread, it was interesting to see the gradient in the combat mechanics in Street Fighter as you beat more characters. I was watching that same kid play, and you could see the difficulty gradient teaching, rewarding and ultimately training the player to feed quarters into is mechanical mouth.

I think there is a lot of overlap between game design and learning theory.
All the cool stuff they did, if any, is arguably in the training code which is not open source.
Can Cali's AG copy this letter to DeepSeek, lol?
DeepSeek is available via HuggingFace and can be run in/from tools like LM Studio locally with enough Ram. 14B models is pretty impressive.

If you want the optionality of using the full model, there are private hosted models that can be connected in cheaply for those use cases into a "one place for all the models" locally.
That Link is being discussed as well:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42865575
I don't know, my lifetime lack of affordable healthcare probably means I'll die unexpectedly before my mind goes. So that's nice.
https://archive.today/UJAjb
Yet when people have applied for this credit they either get no response, or told it will take several weeks (which is useless when they have just screwed your old phone)
This is hilarious.

Everybody has evidence OpenAI scraped the internet at a global scale and used terabytes of data it didn't pay for. Newspapers, books, etc...
Yes they do for credible threats. Otherwise there is the Windows Feedback Hub ;)
In east EU, like Poland sw engineer makes two-three times more than a doctor with much less of effort, education and no responsibility.

And nurses - they work at minimal salary in Poland. Even in USA if you count hourly rates it will be quite poor salary for nurses.
Great point. Plus, the revival of serious talk of the Monroe Doctrine (!!!) in the U.S. government lends a possibly completely-new meaning to "western countries" -- i.e. the Americas...
Please don't take HN threads into nationalistic flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

p.s. yes, that goes both ways - that is, if people are slamming a different country from an opposite direction, we say the same thing (provided we see the post in the first place)
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I used to use a clipboard manager. It had two functionalities:

- The ability to scroll or search my clipboard history

- The ability to pin/favorite individual entries, which would then show up in the pinned/favorited tab

That thing was practically my extra brain before the database corrupted itself... (that threw me so off that I don't even remember anymore most of the time from back when I had it.)
"China does it" is not an argument for allowing things which are unethical.
You only need to look at the history of Apple with and without Jobs, with and without Cook, to see how replaceable Jobs was and how irreplaceable Cook has been.

Apple’s original crash happened while Jobs was in charge, which was why they fired him in the first place. Jobs’ return brought Cook, and since the second Jobs exit the company has done better than ever.
Not just violated but also actively ignored: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42718850
I doubt phones were resonsible for the initial drop from the pandemic, but I can easily accept that they play a huge role in our inability to return to pre-pandemic levels.

My wife is a teacher and phones are a constant problem but the administration refuses to do anything about them. It seems they recognize that some parents will freak out if they do not have access to their kids at all times and the admins are too spineless to take a stand against those few parents for the sake of everyone's education. It's absurd.

Several schools in my state (including one in the same school district as my wife) have been participating in an experimental phone ban for the last year and the results have been better than I could have expected. Grade levels and attendence are up by over 10%, fights are down significantly, and the overwhelming majority of parents are supportive. It's only a tiny few who object. But even with the numbers right in front of them, many admins are unwilling to adopt the bans in their schools. At this point it will probably take a mandate from the state government before they do the common sense thing.
There’s a question of scale here: was it trained on 1000 outputs or 5 million?
> That's a complete non sequitur. Why would it make sense for new hires to be overwhelmingly disproportionately oversampled from minority groups according to current demographics?

Because that is not what this stat is measuring. They are doing (demos of new employees - demos of retiring employees), not just demos of new employees. Hence why it is a misleading statistic. They word it very carefully to not say 94% of new hires are minorities.

> Is that a hint of racism?

I don't even know your race
I assume this is again some kind of joke. I'd appreciate if someone explained it without making another hard to decipher joke.
The hard thing about this is that a montage of "complicated chemistry in an RV in your underwear" is way more interesting to watch than a montage of "typing on a computer in your underwear".
For Whom the Ring Tones
Presence of FUT2 and FUT3 also have very interesting impacts on CA19-9 levels, which affects cancer detection - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23958938/
I guess they saw the avalanche of legal challenges and decided better. I wonder if we'll see this come back with more of a targeted approach.
And they used all copyrighted data on the internet. If they wanna sue, they set a dangerous precedent.
I think it just means that you can objectively score an answer as being correct or not. (e.g. if the generated program passes some tests; a discovered proof is valid, etc).
It's trivial to build synthetic reasoning datasets, likely even in natural languages. This is a well established technique that works (e.g. see Microsoft Phi, among others).

I said generally because there are things like adversarial training that use a ruleset to help generate correct datasets that work well. Outside of techniques like that it's not just a rule of thumb, it's always true that training on the output of another model will result in a worse model.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-generated-data...
America is reliant on purchasing cheap goods from elsewhere and selling expensive technology. If it’s hostile toward the suppliers of cheap goods or the buyers of expensive technology, well, what purpose does it have on the global scale?
Fascinating. R1 really punches above its weight with respect to cost-per-token.

As the article alluded to at the end, my thoughts immediately go to using R1 as a data generator for complex problems, since we have many examples of successful distillation into smaller models on well-defined tasks.
I didn't know that, this seems like a big foot gun tbh
Looks like we need salesmen much more as we value their work more.
The large syndicate will create the barriers. Either via laws, or if that fails violence.
And all the Arrow parts work together quite nicely.

ADBC client --> Flight SQL (duckdb/whatever) --> Flight --> ?

The result highlights your exact point: why take your data and transpose it twice?

It's quite an exciting space, and lots of projects popping up around Arrow Flight and duckdb.
In my 20s and early 30s I was extremely fit, and I loved exercising. I was compassionate, but didn't really get why overweight people refused to exercise. I thought, man, they just need to give it a chance.

One day I got pneumonia, and it was a pretty severe case. It damaged my lungs and even my nerves in my neck, making it hard to lift my arms for weeks. I couldn't run 1km let alone 30km (which previously would have been a nice Sunday for me), and I couldn't even comfortably stretch or warm up.

No big deal I thought, I'll bounce back.

The funny thing is, when exercise actually feels awful, it's way harder. I didn't bounce back. On top of that, I developed depression. Not like... I was a little sad that I couldn't exercise. More like I was using exercise to help keep something pretty awful at bay, and with no defences against that and my health declining, it got reeeally bad.

I then went on to gain a LOT of weight. I went from a muscular, lean 180lb at 5'10" to a less lean and more fat 225lb. I tried to manage it, tried to exercise, eat less, all of it.

Something had changed, though. A threshold was crossed. My momentum was suddenly frozen by sickness, and then barely thawed at all over the following months. Everything I was previously escaping was then easily able to overtake me. The urge to eat more? Easy to give in to, now. The urge to sleep longer? Yes please. That voice in my head telling me today's not a great day to exercise? No longer a whisper but a relentless droning until I gave up the idea. Then it's replaced with compounding shame.

It gradually dawned on me that my previous fitness, while great and all, was not afforded to me by my own virtues as opposed to the lack of virtues among my overweight friends. It was far more circumstantial than I realized. Once I got that ball rolling (which I'd accomplished through fixation and ignoring all kinds of other important stuff in my life, for what it's worth) it was relatively easy to keep it going. Once it had stopped, I was just like them. Often even worse.

I no longer expect people to put the fork down, or just get up and go for a run. Is it necessary? Yes, 100%. There's no other solution. Is it easy? Evidently not at all, no.

I've come to realize it's largely about support networks, too. We are often ashamed, self-isoalting, and left to our own devices. We have no one giving us tough love on a regular basis, motivating us, helping us to get that ball rolling, supporting us through our shame. We are often so isolated in that suffering.

So that's my novel about being a smug fit person who got a little fat and realized he was a self-involved jerk. Now I understand the problem a bit better. It's hard. Very easy to criticize, very hard to support and solve.

If you have an overweight loved one, part of their solution might be in you. People are not islands.
They mean that the solutions can be verified to be correct in a binary sense. E.g. a coding solution passes all the unit tests vs writing poetry.
That's really not a lot of time in the scheme of things.
Nah, it's fair.
I am still on a 4a.

I really hate how in subsequent generations, they faithfully cloned Apple's design decisions of removing ports and making the device gigantic.

"For customers who are dissatisfied with iphones,

Our product is a slightly different iphone-like device."

I mean come on now, what the hell...

About twice a decade google makes a good phone and the others are just iphone knockoffs
"Unsupervised" and "Censored" at the same time? I suppose it's technically possible, but it seems more like Cruz is inventing a set of conflicting requirements to prevent anything that might give disadvantaged (i.e. too-poor, too-rural) students home internet access to succeed in school.

Also, "unfiltered and supervised" is a Nirvana Fallacy. Look at the more-fortunate households where a parent is constantly available and they have a good internet connection: Does that usually mean the parent sits next to their kid during all homework and computer-time, and/or carefully monitor traffic-logs and craft content filters? LOL, no.

So this is a bit like blocking a food-stamp program unless the legislator is satisfied that the poor recipients will have a personal fitness-trainer to protect themselves from obesity.
To me, this feels the same as saying Sonic Colors Ultimate is open source because it was made with Godot. The engine is open source and making the game is left as an exercise to the user.
Is a token a character or a word? I don't think I can read 30 words/second so 8/second would be fine. But if it's characters then yes, it would be slow.
UK, German and French cities are no longer civilized places to live in.
The weights, which are part of the source, are open. Now you are arguing it not being open source because they don't provide the source for that part of the source. If you follow that reasoning you can ad infinitum claim the absence of sources since every source originates from something.
I think “progressive” is probably the safest position to take. It also works if you want to get involved in a different sort of politics later on. David Sacks had no problem doing that when he was no longer interested in being CEO of a large company.
The other side of the coin is that the Pixels are one of the few (only?) devices supported by GrapheneOS.

(My Pixel 6 is rock solid on that by the way.)
apple is an advertising company too. what's the alternative?
As in there's an objective truth that can be determined by a computer. E.g. whether code compiles, whether a unit test passes, whether the answer given to a mathematical question like 3+5 is correct. Many other fields have no objective truth (like art or creative writing), or objective truth requires measurement of the physical world (although if the world can be simulated accurately enough for the problem class at hand, then sufficient training data can still be generated by a computer).
You do not deserve to eat just by existing (unless you are disabled or medically cannot work). Saying this is true implies that you have a right to other people's labor, which you do not.
Need a Microsoft service status page status page.
Okay, but it's still a generalization. Most people don't care at all about the issues you mention
Which is the exact goal of the current wave of Tech oligarchy also.
RAM channels is key here. That board has 24 channels of DDR5 RAM. A lot of lowend boards only have 2 channels. Most come in at 4. Some high end boards have 8, so 24 channels is quite wide.
And thus is shown that legal reasoning is not equivalent to moral reasoning
Nvidia can actually charge larger margins if inference compute goes down. It would enable them to manufacture more units of smaller GPUs using inferior and cheaper silicon, all of which would increase the profits per unit sold as well as the number of units they can manufacture.

The industry has to find a way to separate itself from Nvidia's GPGPU technology if they want to stop being gouged. The issue is that nobody, not Apple, not AMD, not Intel, has been treating Nvidia's hardware as a serious threat.
This whole thing verges on “silent majority” thinking. The people who don’t vote have no bearing in this calculation. If they cared either way, they would have voted.

It’s particularly suspect with Trump, because of his strength among infrequent voters. https://abcnews.go.com/538/vote-back-trump/story?id=10909062...

“But among respondents who were old enough to vote but voted in none of those three elections, Trump crushed Biden 44 percent to 26 percent.”
Funny you mention fascists. As for China being a concentration camp gang, that's not going to matter when their former big brother/ally is just relentlessly bullying them and trying to extract all sorts of concessions under duress, and the alternative has demonstrated to be a reliable ally and partner.
Dystopia is better than oblivion.
The client-side decryption works by using a key sent by protonmail. Proton has this key, because they sent it to you.
What I'm trying to say is that the people around us have always shaped who we pair up with - for better or worse - I think losing that is going to have consequences for social cohesion.

It's impossible to say who historically had it worse in general and I don't really believe such discussion is important except for historians. The only thing that dwelling on it will cause is resentment towards people who never perpetrated those crimes.
So far it's moving towards test time compute true, but reasoning models are still far too large to be done on the edge.
OK, let me google it for you:

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2024-43096

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-4377...

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-4377...

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2024-49747

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=2024-49748

These are just the RCE bugs without user interaction that were fixed with the January update. They are in the Bluetooth stack.
I will simply point you to the iTerm2 AI kerfuffle (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40458135) as proof that some in open source _are_ in a mad rush to bolt on completely unnecessary "features".

It was a bad choice that never should have been implemented as "enabled but not configured", and I have moved away from iTerm2 as a result. I am sure that others have as well. (The grudging move to make it a separately downloadable plugin was good, but too late IMO.)
I'm sorry, but what? iOS and Android couldn't be more different, and if anything iOS has converged toward Android. Meanwhile my friend that likes to act smug about iOS has all but given up the gambit. My Pixel 9 Pro takes far better pictures, gets same or better battery life, and can crazy things like upload or download photos to Lightroom without needing to manually keep the screen on. Or you know, background tasks in general.
As a solo founder, I don't think I could have the same velocity without Rails. I can ship features and fixes with less code and in less time than any other framework I've tried. I think the only other competitor to Rails for small teams is Laravel. Both are fantastic, batteries-included frameworks. Rails is boring, and that's good.
plus, if the US were to decide to ban DeepSeek (the company) wouldn't non-chinese companies be able to pick up the models and run them at a relatively low expense?
I've implemented a CLI tool[1] that tries to address similar problems with SQL as mentioned in the article: testing, business logic and re-usability. The approach is different though - you write SQL and pgTAP tests using jinja templates and the tool generates

1. SQL queries that can be used by the application code using libs such as yesql, hugsql etc. and,

2. pgTAP tests, ensuring that they test the exact same SQL queries that are actually run by your application

I haven't used it in a /real/ production setting though, so I'd still call it an experiment. But I have been using it in a personal project with a handful of users (friends and family). Most of the business logic is implemented in SQL so the queries are fairly intricate (CTEs, sub queries, multiple joins). Occasionally, I push some features/improvements/tweaks and I am able to do so with high confidence, which I believe is mainly thanks to pgTAP tests. I am quite happy with it so far although that's just my experience. Haven't tried it on a large project with many contributors.

[1]: https://github.com/naiquevin/tapestry
TL;DR on the status: they've been working on it for a while, but it's not yet ready for playing around with.
It is more efficient to compute k = xW with the weights transposed than k = Wx.
It is so exciting to see that we are once again in a position where hardware is the main bottleneck for new Computing/Software technologies.

I remember back in late 80s (I was a kid) when we had MSDOS and Windows was just starting. We had all kinds of crazy stuff like Quattro Pro, and later in early 90s we had Wolf3D and all sort of software that was limited due to hardware advances.

With the current state of LLMs... imagine how it is going to look like in 10/15 years when the hardware race goes raging again.

It is also very interesting the position of the different countries: China is in a great position economically and with the amount of talent it has; in addition to its culture and political direction (centralized government that finds it easy to direct policies quickly). Meanwhile, the US is in a more fragile stance, with lots of internal fighting and even pushing [intelligent] people out of the country.

The previous race was to get to the moon (US vs Russia), it seems we now are watching a race to AGI.
I mean hell, one of the states (Hawaii) didn't even join willingly, it was annexed by President McKinley by force.