skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If used as an agent, given access to execute code, search web, use other form of tools, it could do potentially much more. And most productive usecases require access to such tools. If you want to automate things and get most of the modeel, you will have to give it ability to use tools.

E.g. it could have been trained to launch a delayed attack if context indicates it has access to execute code and given certain conditions, e.g. date, or other type of codeword that is input to it.

So if a malicious actor gets to a certain stage with an LLM where they are confident it will be able to reliably run this attack, all they have to do is open source it, wait for enough adoption and then use some of those methods to launch such attack. No one would be able to identify it since the weights are unreadable, but really somewhere in the weights this attack is just hiding and waiting to happen given correct pathway triggered.
It will be very interesting to see if they can reproduce a similar model on the shoestring budget claimed by Deepseek.
Awesome! wondering what else can be optimized with similar approach?
> And schools bear more than a passing resemblance to prisons.

and some workplaces.

Arguably many cities more resemble "captivity" than a natural environment.
because it was fearmongering! Exactly like Brexit, don't listen to the Remain!

/s
An 80% size reduction is no joke, and the fact that the 1.58-bit version runs on dual H100s at 140 tokens/s is kind of mind-blowing. That said, I’m still skeptical about how practical this really is for most people. Like, yeah, you can run it on 24GB VRAM or even with just 20GB RAM, but "slow" is an understatement—those speeds would make even the most patient person throw their hands up.

And then there’s the whole repetition issue. Infinite loops with "Pygame’s Pygame’s Pygame’s" kind of defeats the point of quantization if you ask me. Sure, the authors have fixes like adjusting the KV cache or using min_p, but doesn’t that just patch a symptom rather than solve the actual problem? A fried model is still fried, even if it stops repeating itself.

On the flip side, I love that they’re making this accessible on Hugging Face... and the dynamic quantization approach is pretty brilliant. Using 1.58-bit for MoEs and leaving sensitive layers like down_proj at higher precision—super clever. Feels like they’re squeezing every last drop of juice out of the architecture, which is awesome for smaller teams who can’t afford OpenAI-scale hardware.

"accessible" still comes with an asterisk. Like, I get that shared memory architectures like a 192GB Mac Ultra are a big deal, but who’s dropping $6,000+ on that setup? For that price, I’d rather build a rig with used 3090s and get way more bang for my buck (though, yeah, it’d be a power hog). Cool tech—no doubt—but the practicality is still up for debate. Guess we'll see if the next-gen models can address some of these trade-offs.
Even after the first Trump presidency happened?
I never stated anything about the party that is not currently in power. I’m sorry that you’re angry but this is whataboutism and doesn’t address any of my points (and you’re wrong about the specifics of your post as well).
The bottleneck is mainly memory bandwidth. AMD EPYC hw is appealing for local inference because it has a higher memory bandwidth than desktop gear (because 8-12 memory channels vs 2 on almost everything else), but not as fast as the Apple architectures and nowhere near VRAM speeds. If you want to drastically exceed ~3-5 tokens/s on 70b-q4 models, you usually still need GPUs.
By that logic TSMC is not the only one capable of 5nm. ASML should be the most valuable company in the world?
Huh, now I have to check.
So, did you join him, or did you mean your vindication was "No way; fuck you, too!" ?
https://www.sensorwatch.net/

I haven't made one myself because last I checked it was a hassle to ship, but this might be what you're looking for, F91-W exterior with minimally smart replacement innards.
> powergrid AC/AC transformers (also submerged in mineral oil)

Older ones might use toxic materials like PCB though.
I agree (a ScanWatch 2 owner here) that batteries should be user-replaceable. And that the fact that it is missing from my watch is a negative thing.

However, it is a very minor thing when the battery lasts as long as it does. If it holds 80% capacity like most other batteries today at 300, or more, cycles it would take over 10 years for the battery to degrade significantly considering each cycle is up to 30 days.
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80%? On 2 H100 only? To get near chatgpt 4? Seriously? The 671B version??
> These sources define "alpha" as a leader who influences others positively, not through aggression.

No? Look:

Your Merriam-Webster quote (although I can't find it online)

"the most dominant, powerful, or assertive person"

That's not becoming a leader by being helpful and getting people's trust.

It's instead dominance and assertiveness, that's something else.

I think you mistakenly what to have the word "alpha" mean the same thing as "leader". But I think that's not how people in general look at these words.
So cool! Will be using it for my side projects, thanks!
If you see this as a "it is normal to get away from the city" then it is quite common. The archipelago is big but there are alot more places in the country side, and living in the archipelago in the winter can be rough depending on the island. It is a unique place though that makes it a good setting for an article.

See comment above explaining more.
Four big reasons to worry about DeepSeek (and reasons to calm down)
yeah, we've made it when I was studying course how to win on Linkedin (community sprints)

I believe the app version are on par in terms of quality/depth but is much more detailed
CodeWeavers, which I am very lucky to be part of, is also an (almost) 30-year-old small company! We make Wine, Proton, and CrossOver, you might've heard of them. And I think we are hiring as well, please have a look!
Agreed, the bezel was too big! I had a time steel as well, but it had a huge bezel too. I'm partial to the round designs anyway and let's hope the technology has improved so much that the bezel can be removed completely
Can you give examples? From gpt-4 came out in 2023 and since then nothing similar to (3.5 to 4 or 2 to 3) has come out. It has been 2 years now. All signs point towards OpenAI struggling to get improvements from its llms. The new releases have been minor since 2023
The same AI companies that release proprietary software in an offensive move intended to devalue and hurt work of many professionals, sure. So, a good thing.
I can tell you from personal experience that chatgpt is a game changer in universities and schools. Close to 100% of students use chatgpt to study. I know in our university pretty much everyone that attends exams uses chatgpt to study. Chatgpt is arguably more valuable then Wikipedia and Google for studies.
Cleveland police used AI to justify a search warrant. It derailed a murder case
I feel like the term "alpha" is deeply problematic since different people use it to mean completely different things.

Many people associate it with the toxic traits of dominating others through aggression. While other's use it to reference a healthy, good, strong, well developed and balanced individual who helps others.

I think we need new terms for these things so we can start differentiate them.
The problem is that your suggestion is strictly worse and unnecessarily complicated for the case discussed in the article. If you want to downsample 2x, 4x, etc, then that's just one level in the MIP hierarchy, no need to compute the rest. The point of the article however is to explain how one level in that MIP chain can be computed in the first place.

If you want to downsample 3x or fractional, then interpolating between two MIP levels is gonna be worse quality than directly sampling the original image.

Perspective (the use case for anisotropic filtering) isn't discussed in the article, but even then, the best quality will come from something like an EWA filter, not from anisotropic filtering which is designed for speed, not quality.
What has changed over the years is our expectations and requirements. Sure, you can skip "all the noise" and slap an attribute on your button, but then you'll have to track down another 20 buttons in your codebase that need a color update. You can be smart with your approaches, but at a certain project size and complexity, frameworks are unavoidable. The only choice you really have is to learn an established one or handcraft something new for every thing you make.
If this doesn’t go through, will be interesting to see if they implode and become the first big name company of this AI wave fold.

History is so much more interesting when you don’t have to live through it though.
The rat scroll reveals rats.

As you find rats, they are facing towards the rat king, which helps you locate it, get the scroll, and reveal cheap kills.
... or expectations.
A different point of view on AGI is that we humans do not achieve AGI. Our brains aren’t capable of it. We get close enough to trick the other humans we compete against for resources. How would we prove that’s not true? Something like IQ tests? We don’t have good tests or benchmarks or tooling for this in ourselves, let alone the reproduction in machines. No one knows definitively what AGI actually is so, depending on where you set that bar, we might already be there.
Indeed it's future reduction, an equal or better output with less labor required.
Yes, the instructions are in the OP.
Wait until they ask all government projects to rename git branches from main to master....

https://youtu.be/P2PIco48G4k
The update last year where replies in threads ping you (make the icon red etc) same as if you got a mention/DM is just insane. Makes you accidentally ignore more crucial dms because non important threads get updated.

I wish Slack had a "don't mute this channel completely, but only show it as unread once a day".
You don't need external competition to have NVDA correct. All it takes is for one or more of the big customers to say they don't need as many GPUs for any reason. It could be their in house efforts are 'good enough', or that the new models are more efficient and take less compute, or their shareholders are done letting them spend like drunken sailors. NVDAs stock was/is priced for perfection and any sort of market or margin contraction will cause the party to stop.

The danger for NVDA is their margins are so large right now, there is a ton of money chasing them not just from their typical competition like AMD, but from their own customers.
You could apply this analysis to any of the other big tech innovations like operating systems, search, social media, ...

MS threw a lot of money after Windows Phone. I worked for a company that not only got access to great resources, but also plain money, just to port our app. We took the money and made the port. Needless to say, it still didn't work out for MS.
Agreed, cool product, but hope you don’t plan to monetize
DeepSeek R1 in a nutshell

youtube.com/watch?v=Nl7aCUsWykg
It probably is, but - guess what - they stacked the Supreme Court, which determines what is and isn't illegal. Same deal as in Poland.
The material is definitely practical—Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes, and Jenkins are all industry-standard tools, and the focus on MLOps is refreshing. It’s great to see a course bridge the gap between ML and actual production systems, not just stop at building models. Love that they're also tackling explainability, fairness, and monitoring. These are the things that often get overlooked in practice.

Is it too entry-level? Looking at the labs, a lot of this seems like stuff a mid-level software engineer (or even a motivated beginner) could pick up on their own with tutorials. Git, Flask, container orchestration... all useful, but pretty basic for anyone who's already worked in production environments. The deeper challenges—like optimizing networking for distributed training or managing inference at scale—don’t seem to get as much attention. Maybe it comes up in the group projects?

Also wondering about the long-term relevance of some of the tools they’re using. Jenkins? Sure, it’s everywhere, but wouldn’t it make sense to introduce something more modern like GitHub Actions or ArgoCD for CI/CD? Same with Kubernetes—obviously a must-know, but what about alternatives or supplementary tools for edge deployments or serverless systems? Feels like an opportunity to push into the future a bit more.
If you really want to cheat your way through, pressing D toggles debug mode which reveals all locations.
I don't think you had ADHD, I think you just had short attention-span from social network addiction.

I could not sit down to read a programming book even before smartphones were a thing, I would end up doodling on the margins, or staring out the window for hours.

The only way I could actually sit and learn something was when an external force set a hard deadline, setting own deadlines did not work either.

I now thrive in companies where I have a personal interest in the product or the tech used and have hard deadlines that push me to try to deliver (I might still miss them but I do a lot better than without them). I have learned and been more productive in a 2week crunch than in years. althought it comes at the cost of frequent burnout.
> Right now, from outside of the USA, the USA is starting to be seen more as a wannabe-invader than an trusted ally...

I was thinking something very similar, even before I heard the Gulf-name news.

Not sure what I should do with this belief, I don't want it living rent free in my head: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/making-beliefs-pay-rent
I think the moment that clicked for me was when I heard young people in my family circle (25 and below), _in_Europe_ claiming that Trump "will likely be good for the economy".

When I dug deeper they were effectively repeating talking points they heard on TT. When I dug deeper I also realized they are conditioned to distrusted mainstream news, but somehow 10sec videos on TT are legit.

If you can shape the opinions of young men in Europe, raised in social-democratic nations to have them believe that a bankrupt, convict, conman, traitor, kompromat, will be good for the US and global economy then you can truly shape any opinion anywhere.
I mean obviously a lot of stuff should be, but this is a very bad sign; it's very much something you tend to see in democracies that go dictatorship.
nodejs' v8 has millions of man hours spent in optimzation alone since half the internet frontend runs on v8, if not more.

Go being garbage collected and still beating v8 is one hell of an achievement.

If you need faster Go Http you're using the wrong tool.
They never said "only this". Anyone with an authoritarianism alarm has long since taken the batteries out of it.
Measuring Programmer Influence, Kinda Sorta
Oh the repetition issue is only on the non dynamic quants :) If you do dynamic quantization and use the 1.58bit dynamic quantized model the repetition issue fully disappears!

Min_p = 0.05 was a way I found to counteract the 1.58bit model generating singular incorrect tokens which happen around 1 token per 8000!
That's a problem for sure. But why would that argument play in favour china which would be even less constrained by licenses / copyright ?
SharpSite: An open-source content management system built with .NET and Blazor
It's a DSL like regex, for these constraints it makes sense to me. To me it's more TS than what you imply, which is JS.

I believe that if the candidate is able to whip this up in 30-60 minutes they know their shit around some math and TS.

I think most problems are not this low-level and I think the questions about data management (DB, data structures in memory and on disk), API design, integration with services and other higher-level skills are more important.

So compared to the baseline "JS" at least this candidate effectively showed off one extra interesting and hard skill, while solving the problem flawlessly, and not folding under pressure, and so on.

In the text the candidate explicitly asked for permission to go with types. And if the interviewer wanted to revoke that permission they could have, but they did not, they gave some ambiguous advice.

> If you really wanted the job, would you behave like that in the interview?

Yes. I don't want to work for a company where creativity is a liability.
Developing Effective Stakeholder Engagement Strategies in Agile Projects
Yeah if you live in a house converted to flats, it sucks.
Party affiliation isn't the same as voting, it's a weird thing where what would normally be a private members organization is nationalised somehow.
(I'm not sure why my comment is now collapsed by default. It doesn't seem to be flagged, and has a score of 15.)

I tried again, and this time I get "Posts that look like spam are blocked", and a similar message if I try to leave a link in a comment.

I wonder if spammers have been vandalizing Wikispecies and posting the links, but unlike Wikipedia the editors of Wikispecies struggle to remove the spam in time? The project has hundreds of thousands of pages, but the vast majority would have very little content or oversight. It could be the Wiki project with the worst pages-per-editor ratio.

There isn't pornography, or at least only indirectly — Wikispecies doesn't host any images itself (says https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikispecies ).
Some projects will be finally affordable <3
nonfree according to OSI and several other organizations. If you have strong feelings that direct you in such a way, there's no reason to hold their opinion in sacred regard. Multiple philosophies can coexist. The DFSG and the FSF's schools of thought for instance are often in conflict and yet the world keeps on spinning.

Your custom license built with your own philosophy will still interoperate just fine with many common open source licenses, and as a bonus for some, will ward off corporations with cautious lawyers who don't like unknown software licenses.
> And the GPS sync thing amazes me.

If the watch was recently synced with the app to get current GPS ephemrides, it gets the lock within seconds. Otherwise, it may take much longer just like any other GPS device with outdated ephemerides.
Kick added support for live rewind recently. I suspect it’s only a matter of time before another platform starts to really compete with YouTube.

The YouTube player is unironically their greatest feature for me (especially for live video). But I’m also not a huge fan of their algorithm. I use it, but only because they make it so user hostile NOT to use it.
Then the title is misleading
It should support rv64imafdch_zicsr_zifencei_zba_zbb_sscofpmf with version 0.6 of the H extension.

The the confusion reguarding B probably comes from claimes of B support before ratification, where it wasn't clear that Zbs needs to be supported.

See the discussion here:
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/122164#issuecommen...
I don't disagree, but

>You don’t need an iPhone with AGI. You just need a 5G device with a screen, connected to an AGI.

..it seems that that is exactly what the iPhone 20 or whatever will be?
This is an important step. Especially for beginners or people who are not in the loop, being able to easily type some simple commands to download, install dependencies, compile and run everything needed for a LLM AI model gives a feeling sci-fi; it's almost like you can have a helping brain at home.

One thing I've being thinking about doing is to combine one of those LLM models running in llama.cpp, feed it with the output of whisper.cpp and connect its output to some TTS model. I wonder how far from Wheels and Roadie from the Pole Position tv series.
"Whom" they voted for.
> Western models are _aligned_

Aligned to what ? By who ? Did you vote for any of these people ? Did anyone ask you your opinion ? Can I see what topics are aligned ? Can I see how much they are aligned ? Does the alignment change depending on who's the current US president ?
Pretty cool! And also really difficult as it turns out. Love that you can try it without signing up!
Runs quite smooth and I like the simplicity of the UI. Maybe a button to return to the starting position is missing?
The music develops a bit after you win and is worth waiting to hear, IMO.

Took me 3-4 attempts to work out a strategy and then a couple more to get the first win. Have since had a few more wins. Great little game.

Amusingly, if you get a 16th (and 17th) heart, the Monsternomicon slides across to the left side of the interface to accommodate it.
It’s true, open source doesn’t pay (usually) and millennials and younger are struggling to buy houses and just live.
A Visual Walkthrough of DeepSeek's Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA)
> These guys like it

By such reasoning anything extremists like is extremist by association.

How does that make sense?
Thank you! I hope to keep it that way :).
> Nvidia being down 18%

The only part of DeepSeek-R1 I do not like. I hope it's over, but I am not holding my breath.
That is because we've been brainwashed as to what a vacation/holiday is. It doesn't have to be a todo list.
> Weizenbaum had stumbled across the computerised version of transference, with people attributing understanding, empathy and other human characteristics to software.

In many LLM contexts there is actually a second layer of transference too: We are being told about a fictional character in a growing collaborative story, and we transfer what we believe about that character onto the real-world story-extending program.
Well, I know. I still have connections back there. But yeah, I'm just a random guy on the Internet so what I said could be just myth too.
David Lynch Opens a Portal to Our Minds
Yes, a nonzero quantity of labor is necessary to avoid a pathological economy? This is not debated.

The question is how the future value is priced. The original assertion was that future value must come from labor and there is no difference between direct redistribution and private transactions (of which only rent extraction was given as an example). My counter is that there are alternatives that are neither taxation nor rent-seeking. In particular, the holding of assets to be later sold is a store of value that notably does not depend on future labor any more than any functioning economy depends on labor as an input.

We have pretty robust systems for deciding what (most) things are worth via supply and demand. Claiming that future value must be extracted from future labor is just false — a system with some backpressure on the payouts to retirees is much more sustainable than one without backpressure. In your simplified thought experiment, you must agree that there is no dependence on future labor as none exists! The pension is also not effective, of course, but that is to be expected — essentially no pension is effective when stranded on a desert island.

(To be clear, I don’t advocate storing gold by birth year as a practical way to run a pension scheme.)
A delayed attack is a bit of a stretch because that’s a stateful thing but a reminder of the Ken Thompson hack does feel very relevant.
well now it leans in to go's reproducible tooling so it's declaratively configured and shared between your team and your CI/CD environment too.
There's precedent; notably see Berlusconi. Who, even after being removed from power and convicted of tax fraud, _managed to get elected again_ (albeit as an MEP; Italy does tend to treat their MEP vote as a _bit_ of a joke).

(Like Trump, Berlusconi was given special treatment; he was jailed for four years, but it was commuted to unpaid community service. Many countries indulge in this sort of special handling for their criminal politicians, and it's really a terribly bad idea; it only encourages more misbehaviour.)
Prototyping and Power
Would it even matter? He was found guilty and just kinda let off without even a slap in the wrist. He’s crazy empowered to do whatever he wants, he stacked the Supreme Court and congress is basically all his too. Political views aside, this is a complete breakdown of our checks and balances