skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The stuff about copyright seems irrelevant.

OpenAI's future investments -- billions -- were just threatened to be undercut by several orders of magnitude by a competitor. It's in their best interests to cast doubt on that competitor's achievements. If they can do so by implying that OpenAI are in fact the source of most of the DeepSeek's performance then all the better.

It doesn't matter whether there's a compelling legal argument around copyright, or even if it's true that they actually copied. It just needs to be plausible enough that OpenAI can make a reasonable case for continuing investment at the levels it's historically attained.

And plausibility is something they've handily achieved with this announcement -- the sentiment on HN at least is that it is indeed plausible that DeepSeek trained on OpenAI. Which means there's now doubt that a DeepSeek-level model could be trained without making use of OpenAI's substantial levels of investment. Which is the only thing that OpenAI should be caring about.
You’ve subtly confused “less accurate” and “smarter” in your argument. In other words you’ve replaced the benchmark of representing the base data with the benchmark of reasoning score.

Then, you’ve asserted that was the original claim.

Sneaky! But that’s how “arguments” on HN are “won”.
Huh, explains the name 8 Wired Brewing in NZ
Replying here with my galaxy s5 plugged in and the battery removed to make sure it is possible...

I wonder if your battery pack is the issue. Your charger/battery pack should be able to provide power faster then the phone uses it.
The subway already wins the competition with uber and drivers. 1 million drivers per day and 2 million riders per day. The subway is king . I love it so much.
Arch Linux. It’s an easy default for me, although I’ll probably build the next iteration on FreeBSD with ZFS. I don’t have much faith that btrfs or bcachefs will catch up to ZFS in the next few years.
does it?

I wouldn't expect an LLM that was trained with care to answer based on context, and to exclude bias to still be able to answer correctly when provided with context.

Did I miss something and there's a reason to suspect that fine tuning to remove bias would also prevent it from predicting based on provided context? Or did you just make up that example because it might be interesting if it was true?
Oh God. I know exactly how this feels. A few years ago I made a bread hydration and conversion calculator for a friend, and put it up on JSFiddle. My friend, at the time, was an apprentice baker.

Just weeks later, I discovered that others were pulling off similar calculations! They were making great bread with ease and not having to resort to notebooks and calculators! The horror! I can't believe that said close friend of mine would actually share those highly hydraty mathematical formulas with other humans without first requesting my consent </sarc>.

Could it be, that this stuff just ends up in the dumpster of "sorry you can't patent math" or the like?
Effect size of -0.3 standard deviations on working memory. P value of .02 corrected for FDR. Not huge. Sounds believable to me.
Something is off here.

Imagine you are homeless but you have enough time to rant and argue about fr..king phone battery on the internet?

Sorry, I don’t buy it.

Get a new f..ng phone! Case closed.
That's a fair distinction. IMO should still be categorized as side project in the sense that it's Liang's pet project, the same way Jeff Bezos spend $$$ on his forever clock with seperate org but ultimately with Amazon resources. DeepSeek / Liang fixating on AGI and not profit making or loss-making since hardware / capex deprecation is likely eaten by High Flyer / quant side. No reason to believe DeepSeek spent 100ms to build out another compute chain from High Flyer. Myth that seasoned finance quants using 20% time to crush US researchers is false, but reality/narrative that a bunch of fresh out of school GenZ kids from tier1 PRC universities destroying US researchers is kind of just as embarassing.
"Will I ever use this in the real world?"
Nice work! I’ve been thinking a lot about rss lately
The bread and butter for Meta/Google is global small business advertising.

And so none of the channels you listed apply.

Also it's very easy to build an Ad biz. It's very hard to build one that is competitive.
The reason a lot of things appear to be re-invented is that its Resume Driven Development but applied to auto head lights. Or blame product people for needing to come up with something even though the product is probably “done” from a consumer standpoint of fulfilling the needs. Smart refrigerators come to mind.

I keep watching stuff on youtube where people find really old cars, like 50-60 years old, and they walk thru what needs fixing to get it running. Sometimes they add some gas to a 50yo engine in a barn find and replace spark plugs and it fires up, its really amazing.

Man I sound like my grandfather lamenting about “they don’t build them like they used to”.
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I prefer streets that don’t have traffic so pedestrians can walk freely, and watching these waymo cars trap themselves and cause 30 minute long traffic jams because their code accidentally put them in a holding pattern is a genuine nightmare
Thank you for responding. I was wrong about some of these in hind sight.

Today when I tried goto-definition, it worked as expected. I'm not sure why it didn't before. This was for a C project. I do have various Package Control packages installed:

"Golang Build",
"Package Control",
"PackageResourceViewer",
"SublimeLinter",
"SublimeLinter-clang",
"Theme - One",

And you were right, I had set my build process manually. I'm sorry for slandering.

What I meant by "terminal" is the output monitoring pane. Whenever I build "C - single file" or "Python - single file", a pane with <textarea> behavior appears in the bottom, showing the program output. But if said program is interactive, there's no way to send it any input. Nor to stop the program. Building it again leads to a new instance of the program being spawned, but the old one stays running.
Zombie companies don't keep growing at astronomical rates. I've been hearing about the imminent decline of Facebook for the best part of a decade.... still waiting.
This year it will be even worse. Even the biggest Elon fanboy I know now admits he’s cringe.
Show me a cannabis user without reduced working memory; it's a feature, not a bug.
They themselves said it was trained on NVIDIA chips, so I’m not sure where you got that it wasn’t. It was trained on the less capable versions sold for the Chinese market.
That seems very doubtful.
Wouldn't this analogy be more like, "can you read my laptop screen if I stood up to get a drink?"
A minimal hardcoded definition of the structure: probably a few hundred lines.

The actual definition, including reusable components, optional features, and flexibility for experimentation: probably a few thousand.

The code needed to train the model, including all the data pipelines and management, training framework, optimization tricks, etc.: tens of thousands.

The whole codebase, including experiments, training/inference monitoring, modules that didn't make it into the final architecture, unit tests, and all custom code written to support everything mentioned so far: hundreds of thousands.
4.50~ but I opt for the brown eggs.
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This is a bit environment dependent is my impression. Like France and Japan both have enough people shitty at English to generate either translations or home grown programming learning material to fight against this barrier. But my impression is that, like, a German programmer isn't getting far in life without being comfy reading stuff in English
Be careful about doing that. Google announced that starting tomorrow, they're going to be remotely wiping all Pixel 4a's that aren't running the new update: https://www.reddit.com/r/Pixel4a/comments/1id6zw8/attention_...
it seems to work and seems very scalable, "reasoning" helps to counter biases (answers become longer, ie. the system uses more tokens which means more time to answer a question -- likely longer answers allow better differentiation of answers from each other in the "answer space")

https://newsletter.languagemodels.co/i/155812052/large-scale...

also from the posted article

"""

The R1-Zero training process is capable of creating its own internal domain specific language (“DSL”) in token space via RL optimization.

This makes intuitive sense, as language itself is effectively a reasoning DSL.

"""
One aspect I’m curious about, especially given the younger cohort, is the causal directionality here - especially when I was younger, I knew a lot of people who were self-medicating with cannabis for things like anxiety and ADHD, which also have effects on working memory and executive function. I’ve known enough heavy users long enough that I do believe there’s long term cognitive effects (whether directly or indirectly), but the specific effects and cohorts they were evaluating here gave me some pause.
for all intents and purposes, yes.

relying on machine-translated documentation or limiting yourself to only using libraries written in your native language would be a huge impediment.
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A thief got robbed?..
Posturing huh? Nice. That was intended to be helpful. Go read the CFAA. What they did is, believe it or not, illegal. I didn't make the law, and many think the CFAA is ridiculous, but that's how it works. If you even access a computer system beyond what you've been granted it's a CFAA violation with stiff penalties.
Yeah, you're right, I was conflating the excusing bit.

I haven't worked with serious ML engineers, but having worked in large webdev there's usually a team involved in these projects, including senior none devs who would ensure the correct checks and balances are in place before go live. Does this not happen in ML projects? (of course there are always exceptions and unknowns that will slip through, I don't know if that was the case here, or something else)
5.5M is a single latest training run, if they would rent gpu-s in the cloud - from the paper.
The author also made a post here:

https://hachyderm.io/@joschi/113914355705581670

Second post in that thread has some demo output.
For personal use, its really hard to see how this would go wrong. You get an (arguably) much better drive in the Ultrastar, and even if the resellers (typically 2 year) warranty doesn't pan out, the drives are cheap enough compared to new you can replace one or two in a typical RAID-6 array out of pocket and still come out ahead.
Even though they raise this amount of money, "AGI" or "ASI" still allegedly needs $6.975TN more according to Altman.

This is a complete scam and the top is near.
I'm kind of old for HN. I (sort of) know what happened.

I'm concerned about later generations and about this information getting deleted.

I also think there's a clear risk of a currently democratic country becoming communistic within the the next 20-40 years. Inevitably, mass murder follows.

So I want what happened preserved in the day-to-day-consciousness, not deleted/censored.
heeheehee;) i REALLY like cars
These studies may also miss categorize heavy/habitual users. Heavy canabis use tends to leave a somewhat functional if unmotivated individual. This is in contrast to heavy alcohol users who quickly lose the ability to function in society due to hangovers and inebriated actions.
Interesting. I see much less returns for a side hustle fashion brand. how much time do you invest in creating the ads? which platform do you use? Instagram or Facebook? or any others?
This is also something that keeps affecting "smart" software engineers with projects, that don't realise they've got misconfigured S3 buckets, or have Firebase or Mongodb etc. wide open to the world. We've seen so many companies that absolutely should know better be in this area.
Yes, but I meant it slightly differently than the distills.

The idea is to create the next gen SOTA non reasoning model with synthetic reasoning training data.
I learned Pascal before I learned many English words like "if". You don't need to know what "if" or "for" mean to remember those keywords or to know what they do.
California drivers could have vehicles not safe for the road
I am not a lawyer (I'm UK based) You are a lawyer (probably local).

My understanding is that legal positions and arguments (within Common Law) need not be consistent across "cases" - they are considered in isolation with regards the body of law extant at the time.

I think that Sam can quite happily argue two differing points of view to two courts. Until a judgement is made, those arguments are simply arguments and not "binding" or even "influential elsewhere" or whatever the correct terms are.

I think he can legitimately argue both ways but may not have it both ways.
Yeah, there's always some reason why you can't do something, I guess... or why The Man is always keeping you down, even after putting capabilities into your hands that were previously the exclusive province of mythology.

Perhaps other sites beckon.
Ouch... that actually hits a bit close to home. After having a couple of blogging homes fold out from under me, I've kicked around the idea of coding up my own blog - which usually was in whatever framework/language I was getting ramped up in. I realize I've probably ported/built something a half a dozen times in the last decade, and never bothered to take the final step to deploy it before starting the next rewrite.
Spot on article. A bit of a whinge.
Have "worked" continuously for thirty+ years in IT because I am wired for it. It has never been about the paycheck. But I have yet to see a company that is neurodivergent friendly in all those countries I have worked before. If they say they are, most times it's just tokenism. Worst culprits are Asian companies, HR and upper management. So I quit, get kicked out or forced to move on. These environments are always never designed for someone different. And when you stand alone, you become an easy target. p.s never tell your colleagues that you have never "worked" a day in your entire life because they will misinterpret it as being a miscreant and not because you love what you do.
Honestly assets can be extracted from a lot of older games, the issue is usually licensing.

Nightdive has a good writeup somewhere of the hoops they have gone through.

They say it usually boils down to:

"Mr Rights holder, can you license this property to us"

"No I dont know if we own that property, we would need to check paper records and that costs money"

"Ok, but then you wouldnt go out of your way to sue us if we did resurrect this old game"

"No if we saw you making money from it we would definitely spend the money to figure out if we had a viable lawsuit"
> Not everything changes though - gold plating thickness is measured by the micro-inch

Considering how much manufacturing and science etc. has fully migrated to metric, even in the US, this seems bizarre to me.
This company is not even in China.
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I’d take this argument more seriously if there weren’t billboards advocating hiring AI employees instead of human employees.

Sure, Open AI invested billions banking on the livelihood of every day people being replaced, or as Sam says, “A renegotiation of the social contract”

so as an engineer that is being targeted by meta and sales force under the “not hiring engineers plan” all o have to say to Open AI is “welcome to the social contract renegotiation table”
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There is also the question of whether the actions required to cut the waste are themselves expensive. If you spend a huge amount of time and effort to cut waste, there's a point at which it would have been cheaper to just accept that some waste is inevitable and to not worry about it.

Literally every organisation I've been in has had "waste", but most of them have been smart enough to realise that you don't want to spend thousands of person-hours measuring every tiny little thing and doing wildly complex RoI analyses (especially on stuff where it's almost impossible to figure out anyway because there are too many variables), and instead focus on having metrics around the outcomes that they do care about.
I'll make a plug for n8n which is a tool to rig stuff to other stuff. I bet it could do this.

https://n8n.io/

Can self host too
Subset of the english language, is the right term I believe.

(someone who had to learn english to do programming)
deeply weird of you to say this.
is coming on is coming on
The market is notorious for creating a lot of distortions. I don't think the answer is 'let the market guide you'. Externalities are a known but huge problem with markets as evidenced by the insane amount of pollution we produced.
> you are not going to be able to buy a ticket

You probably want to say i cannot buy a ticket and fly on it as a commercial passenger? . I agree second part is impossible to achieve in <5 years.

Just buying a ticket though, on long delayed products or vaporware is quite common nowadays. Tesla has been selling deposits on vehicles which are years behind schedule, Star Citizen famously has raised > $750m and is under development for 10 years and no release date in sight and there are many other examples in crypto and others that sell tickets like that.
Where can you get 10 or 100 Gbps flat with a full 48U rack and power for $800?

Because if that exists, I want to buy them all.
Love it - I'm sure our old tube TV still has scratches from when I used to get too excited as a kid and pressed the NES zapper directly against the glass.

I'm also a big fan of re-purposing sprite sheets from old video games - years ago I wrote a little edutainment game called "Aladdin's Mathemagical Flying Carpet" to help teach my little brothers the multiplication tables.

https://specularrealms.com/alad

Any retro gamer will instantly recognize the assets.
This looks exactly like something my finance team asked me for yesterday. Definitely will take a look. In my startup (a fintech) we tried to keep all the information about money in the DB, and have the finance team use that to compare with actual bank information
Cost of building is a true concern, but it doesn't stop people from forking large open projects like Chrome or Firefox and try to build a project to pursue their own ideas and be able to contribute back to the upstream projects when it makes sense.

I don't build my browser, it's too expensive, but the cost of building has nothing to say with how open the access to things. It'd be cool if the community could fork the project, propose changes and maybe crowdfund a training/build run to experiment.
Alibaba's Qwen2.5-Max
I feel like conventional image search would be more reliable to get a good picture of a mushroom variety that you know about. Ideally going out into the woods to get one I suppose.
Hi, I work on Dart and was one of the people working on this feature. Reposting my Reddit comment to provide a little context:

I'm bummed that it's canceled because of the lost time, but also relieved that we decided to cancel it. I feel it was the right decision.

We knew the macros feature was a big risky gamble when we took a shot at it. But looking at other languages, I saw that most started out with some simple metaprogramming feature (preprocessor macros in C/C++, declarative macros in Rust, etc.) and then later outgrew them and added more complex features (C++ template metaprogramming, procedural macros in Rust). I was hoping we could leapfrog that whole process and get to One Metaprogramming Feature to Rule Them All.

Alas, it is really hard to be able to introspect on the semantics of a program while it is still being modified in a coherent way without also seriously regressing compiler performance. It's probably not impossible, but it increasingly felt like the amount of work to get there was unbounded.

I'm sad we weren't able to pull it off but I'm glad that we gave it a shot. We learned a lot about the problem space and some of the hidden sharp edges.

I'm looking forward to working on a few smaller more targeted features to deal with the pain points we hoped to address with macros (data classes, serialization, stateful widget class verbosity, code generation UX, etc.).
Right, just about 4 months ago Meta was fined for storing passwords in plain text:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41678840

The joke is these companies build systems that can tell them how to implement better security, they simply don't care.
> I think he can legitimately argue both ways

It would be very sensible that if a trial comes up, all these arguments that Sam Altman made for the other side score against him and OpenAI.
Codemodder has extensive Java support, which Codegen does not support at the moment. Otherwise, my understanding of Codemodder is that it is focused on AST-level syntactical modifications. Codegen computes a richer graph datastructure, and this can be used for sophisticated modifications that depend on inheritance hierarchies, function usages, cross-file references and more.

Codemodder is written in Java, whereas you can write Codegen in a jupyter notebook or anywhere you can run Python.
"Adult pacifier"
I started snapping my fingers to get her attention.
why can't they feed in user data like time zone and locale?
> Which people will interpret as a support for the far-right.

Those people might as well join the far right.

> your intentions are neither here nor there

If intentions really are neither here nor there, then we can examine a statement or question without caring about intentions.

> Do we really want someone who walks around chanting 'white lives matter' to be coaching the high school football team?

Well, no; it would have to be more like: Do we really want someone who answers "yes" when a racist asks "do white lives matter?" to be coaching the high schoool football team?

> you can make a reasonable guess about his political priors

You likely can, and yet I think the answer to their question is yes, white lives do matter, and someone in charge of children which include white children must think about securing a future for the white ones too.

> but good luck expecting everyone else to do so.

I would say that looking for negative motivations and interpretations in everyone's words is a negative personality trait that is on par with racism, similarly effective in feeding divisiveness. It's like words have skin color and they are going by that instead of what the words say.

Therefore we should watch that we don't do this, and likewise expect the same of others.
What a delightful piece - thank you.

My C64 has a USB interface!
I think it is a great format, I can't wait to see how and if it proliferates.

At the same time, looking at Google Trends (just now) reveals that on a global level, in terms of worldwide searches - and in the last 12 months, searches for JPEG XL peaked at around 100, in a single day (sometime in September of last year).

That is a horrendously low amount of interest. Without a concerted effort in education (or re-education) it would appear that it doesn't matter even a tiny bit how much better this format is. To put it politely, almost nobody gives a shit.

Disclaimer: it is my favourite format.
David Graeber's book "Bullshit Jobs" does a great job going deep into why this is.
> First, the Apple Watch (like all Apple products) is too much device for a kid. It ships with so many shiny features and apps and notifications.

It feels like a bit of an under-served market. T-mobile has a smart watch that you can lock down completely during school hours, which we've done with one of my kids (we're avoiding smartphones for now, and she's strangely quite happy with that, I honestly expected more push back.)

Unfortunately, it wouldn't work for T1D situation. I've a relative with T1D and it's been exciting seeing the technology change over the ~10 years since they got their diagnosis.
I am very doubtful that is why MS gave them so much.