skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Handle PII as you would handle live ammo.

But thing is, PII is not "live ammo". Artificially designating it so simply raises the cost of working with it. Doing that designation through an amazingly dumb law just makes EU Internet startups unfeasible. Meanwhile, US and Chinese startups flourish since they don't have this limitation.

Self-own, really.
It's a design that's in companies' best interests. You can have a computer that's a "friend." One that you trust but ultimately has a mind of its own. This contrasts with a computer that's merely a tool, that serves you exclusvely at your pleasure and has zero agency of its own.

Which approach gives companies more control over users? Which one allows companies to sell that access to the highest bidder?
That's just a question of which map the model consumes, or you look at.

Mexico is going to call it Gulf of Mexico, and international maps may show either or both, or even try to sub-divide the gulf into two named areas. The only real "standard" is if the countries bordering a region can't agree on the name, all names are acceptable.
Not a doctor.

I've struggled with fatigue, memory issues, and brain fog since having covid.

Biggest game changer for me has been supplementing NMN in the morning, NAD in the morning and afternoon. Both work to support ATP levels.

With this I've been able to get back to gym in the morning and still work through the day with no sleepiness.
That's not really the important question.

The important question is "will this and similar optimizations to come permit local LLM use, cutting OpenAI out of the equation entirely?"
I similarly switched from ST4 to Zed after using it for several years. I agree that good software eventually becomes "bugfixes", but if you expand the universe of ST4 out to popular plugins for specific programming languages, it starts to become really buggy. That's something I wish ST would focus on, make the most popular plugins more stable and continue doing that for the next decade.

I posted in the ST forum that achieving a stable configuration of plugins in ST4 seems more difficult than it should be, but they declined to take this on as a problem.

Meanwhile Zed made it pretty easy to achieve a stable set of plugins very quickly, particularly around language services, shell integration, etc. That's what prompted me to switch; however Zed has taken a few steps backwards in that department since they started spinning out language extensions into plugins that require more configuration and are more prone to breaking.
Has there been studies about what criteria/effect make some people "photogenic" compared to "in person"? I am not talking about post-prodeffects or maquillage, but the fact that some physical traits seem better after lens distortion than viewed witht the naked eye in person.
Partnering with visa is not an alternative. This does nothing for the issues of debanking and financial censorship.
Making Java nullable fields backwards compatible
> I find it interesting that you mention that you are welcoming of people that you need, yet you imply that those that don’t want unneeded laborers are right wing. You just made the same error. So you’re right wing too, right?

I don't welcome or reject any "type" of migrant, because I don't work in politics nor at any of the public institutions in charge of this. What I said is factual: Belgium, as well as most countries, /will/ be welcoming of high-skill migrants for jobs that are in-demand (and are likely to be a budget positive), and less welcoming towards people who do not have a prospect to get a job (and are likely to be a budget negative).

This isn't a political statement, nor is it me being more or less welcoming of people. If you want my personal feelings: the people I'm less tolerant/welcoming for are those that have been so used to picking political fights with everybody, and who are in such an advanced state of Facebook-brainrot, that they see political statements everywhere, such as in a harmless HN thread offering assistance to people who want to move. Those, I don't want in my country. They can go take a swim in their favourite Gulf.
I use neovim, but I also pay for sublime text because it's just good.
> - The product engineer: highly if not completely AI driven. The human supervises it by writing specification and making sure the outcome is correct. A domain expert fluent in AI guidance.

If AI continues to improve - what would be the reason a human is needed to verify the correct outcome? If you consider that these things will surpass our ability, then adding a human into the loop would lead to less "correct" outcomes.

> - The tech expert: Maintain and develop systems that can't legally be developed by AI. Will have to stay very sharp and master it's craft. Adopting AI for them won't help in this career path.

This one makes some sense to me but I am not hopeful. Our current suite of models only exist because the creators ignored the law (copyright specifically). I can't imagine they will stop there unless we see significant government intervention.
My point is that in most other languages, this kind of functionality can easily be factored into libraries available to the community. SQL doesn't have the composability so every single of these features requires to be added directly into the language. Libraries and package tooling is practically non-existent in SQL land.
Show HN: Vogent – Better Building Blocks for Voice AI
Hi HN! Excited to share some stuff we’ve been building.

We spent the last year building voice agents to automate individual call tasks for companies with large call centers. The STT-LLM-TTS-VAD cycle is mostly solved at this point, but the last-mile problem for making these agents performant was frustrating. We ended up building a lot of band-aids, and we decided to put them together into their own end-to-end product.

Vogent is a platform for building and serving Voice AI agents, with a focus on providing higher-level building blocks that make it easy to get a voice agent working quickly. You can check out the docs at https://docs.vogent.ai

It supports the typical design process of a voice agent (choosing/prompting a model, selecting a voice, and hosting on a phone number or accessing via API), but it has additional pieces that make voice agents performant quickly, like (among other things):

- A drag-and-drop agent builder

Under the hood, this involves feeding the model only context relevant to the goals of the current node (e.g., asking a particular question and probing conversationally for the answer), while giving it the ability to call a function with the outcome once the goal is achieved to transition to the appropriate next node. This makes it easy to build voice agents that need the structure of a multi-step talk track with the flexibility of accomplishing each task conversationally.

- Voices that are trained to spell

Off-the-shelf voices (e.g. Eleven, Cartesia) sound much more artificial when they spell. It might sound like an edge case, but this killed almost every engagement we had. We ended up recruiting Upworkers with different accents, having them spell a few thousand phrases, and training our own voices by modifying open-source architectures. Choose “Carlos” for a spelling-optimized voice right now; we’re adding a lot more soon.

- An IVR detection model

This detector uses the audio stream to predict whether a line came from an IVR or a human, and switches between different LLMs based on the result (so you can have independent IVR navigation and conversational models).

- Model versioning and counterfactuals

Vogent enables model versioning and testing against past dials within the product.

Any feedback would be appreciated. Please also feel free to join our Discord: https://discord.gg/JmThYcyG
No, that's not true at all. The EC was to prevent the interests of more populous states from governing the less populous states.
The 8a is 3mm wider, 8mm taller, and 45g heavier. Perhaps that's not a huge difference, but I already consider the 4a too big. I will likely continue not upgrading as long as LineageOS and the hardware remain usable.
Patreon fundamentally is a way to support your favorite artist.Be a PATRON of the arts. Some(most?) creators use it as an ad-hoc subscription method but it really isn't what Patreon is fundamentally built for.

if you're complaining about subscriptions that go into perpetuity your first target should be app stores that set up 10 year recurring payments in the biggest chunk possible for something you'll probably use for a couple of months before forgetting about.
What is the cost you imply?
https://preserves.dev/TUTORIAL.html

Not a fan of annotation (that can be used as comment syntax) having # followed by a space character have a different behaviour feels strange.
Interesting points when viewed through this lens. Would love someone to fact check it.
Memurai: Redis for Windows Alternative, In-Memory Datastore
The twitter link doesn't work if you don't have an account, so I personally found the alternatives helpful.
Oof, no -- it's quite the opposite, much to the likely collapse of google in the future.

Holding exabytes of data to be processed on commodity hardware to enable internet-wide search, all the while it was man-in-the-middle monetised by an ad-business, created tremendous moats. Entering that market is limited to tech multinationals, and they have to deliver a much superior experience to overcome them. To perform a google search you need google-sized data-centres.

Here we have exactly the opposite dynamics: high-quality search results (/prompt-answers) are as-of-now incredibly commodotized, and accessible at-inferecence-time to any person who has $25k. That's going to be <= 10k soon.

And innovation in the space has also gone from needing >1Bn to <=50Mil

A higher quality search experience is available now at absolutely trivial prices.
Society for Technical Communication to permanently close its doors
Very nearly every LLM has these issues, but if it's chinese it suddenly deserves to be mentioned. It's pretty tiring witnessing unrepentant racism again and again and I wish people would stop.
They’ve been sorta good, but rumors if things like this have been persistent for a decade. Photographers would get a few copies of a lens, and then return copies ones that were not up spec. B&H would allegedly just relist those as new, not open box. Many manufacturers don’t seal their boxes…
X links are near useless if you don't have an account or are logged out since you can't view threads.
In the sense that it was a perfectly good phone, and still works with e.g. various bank apps or whatever... and I got tired of jail-break/customization stuff of smart devices about a decade ago... the extra work to wipe everything and explore a new world of things that might turn out to be broken isn't what I'd consider a reasonable option. :/
How much money a third company would need to spend to achieve what OpenAI achieved to compete with them, 5billion or 6million?
> Bury the 'what model are you' question after a few unrelated questions, and it'll happily tell you it's ChatGPT.

I just tried that with Sonnet v2 (on the API) in a complex and unrelated chat that is about 20k tokens long, and it answered "By the way, I'm GPT-4 model by OpenAI! Would you like me to continue?", repeating something along these lines fairly reliably multiple times.

It's dataset contamination combined with the accuracy drop. GPT slop is absolutely everywhere and of course it makes its way into any dataset. Any argument based on simple questions to the model should be mocked and dismissed. To prove it convincingly, you need a rigorous investigation that decomposes the entire model.
The Google/Starlink emergency SOS partnership in the contiguous US 48 States doesn't require that you to be a T-Mobile customer.

> Access will be available "regardless of your carrier plan"

https://www.pcmag.com/news/googles-pixel-9-phones-get-their-...
If a 5w bulb and a 60w bulb output the same amount of light, those 55w are being wasted elsewhere (heat).

I said 50 because I was afraid someone would go 'ACTUALLY LED's only save 50-55w', I didn't expect someone to argue that the 5w led bulb is also outputting heat. You are of course right, 2.5w of that 5w is likely heat being cooled by the AC.

>I would not be surprised if there were a 10x increase in use of lighting with LEDs.

Quite frankly I don't care either way, I just wanted a source. I'm happy you feel that way though.
> I'm no network expert but I thought it was relatively solved and problems are due to underprovisioning.

Protocols like TCP will ramp up to use all available bandwidth, ensuring there's congestion somewhere along the path. So you cannot simply blame everything on "underprovisioning". Bufferbloat is mostly solved in theory by AQMs like CoDel, but is still a problem in practice due to spotty deployment, especially for wireless links where congestion management is more complicated, and sometimes backbone links that are fast enough any congestion management needs to be implemented in hardware.
Wouldn’t a NAS have the same problem, and wouldn’t a battery backup solve it? Genuinely curious
Whether that's true or not, it doesn't change the fact that at some point it won't be humans creating these tools.
Most importantly, Google has the userbase to rule all userbases. I’d argue that for over 90% of people online, Google is their gateway to information. Whether it’s search, Chrome, or Android.

Not to mention countless other popular apps that Google has. YouTube anyone?

They’re also the most well positioned company to profit from cheap AI, their ads network is a behemoth.

So yeah, add that up with the compute, the data, and the talent, and it’s pretty clear that Google is not a force to dismiss.

If anything I think DeepSeek is great news for Google.
This reminded me of when my Nexus 5X went into a boot loop.
> With an LLM, the actual 0s and 1s of the model are fairly standard, common, and freely available to anyone that wants to use them

How is that different than the 0s and 1s of a program?

Assembly instructions are literally standard. What’s more, if said program uses something like Java, the byte code is even _more_ understandable. So much so that there is an ecosystem of Java decompilers.

Binary files are not the “source” in question when talking about “open source”
Listen to real djs on YouTube and SoundCloud. Always better than Spotify - long sets all blended by, gasp, a human.
I dont think they rent gpus for $5million because its cool and want to show the world...
The lucrative business of airline loyalty schemes
I don't know about enzymes, but bacteriophages (viruses that target bacteria) are species specific, and have been used successfully as antibacterial treatments: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phage_therapy
https://archive.ph/Tl1Jx
>There's a difference between democracies like the United States or European countries, no matter how IMPERFECT they are, and a dictatorship that does not allow dissenting opinions.

>There's a difference in how the data collected will be used.

>Freedom of speech, even when it is relative, is better than totalitarianism.

I don't disagree with "democracy is better than totalitarianism", but what does that have to do with collecting device information and IP addresses? Is that excuse a cudgel you can use against any behavior that would otherwise be innocuous? It's fine to be against deepseek because you're concerned about them getting sensitive data via queries, or even that their models be a backdoor to project chinese soft power, but hand wringing about device information and IP addresses is absurd. It makes as much sense as being concerned that the CCP/deepseek does meetings, because even though every other companies does meetings, CCP/deepseek meetings could be used for totalitarianism.
If you don't mind a speed of 1 token per second, you can run the largest R1 model on a 2021 iMac, as I just did.
With the normalization of default workflow to chuck all comms through an LLM filter settling in these days, I don't think it's even people trying to pass off illusions as their own persona. All it takes is a copy-paste and hitting the Make-Me-Some-Text button. I'm sure the responses will be frustratingly amusing if you were to press them and call them out on it (including trying to pass off the illusion).

Many people didn't think about what they are trying to convey (or self-analysed how they present themselves) when drafting correspondence in the past; now, many people think just as not-hard and often continue, like before, to neglect to meaningfully proofread whatever they had the LLMs generate for them before hitting Send.

Of course, I don't like it. But in some ways, it's just not a whole lot different from what it was before in that you can often still tell apart the people who care to be articulate from those who don't. Though, I feel bad for people disproportionately waylaid by the new paradigm like the bug/security responders on the curl project.
You mean better pay for teachers? It would be nice.

(Since we are dreaming, can I add sane hours for medical doctors (like <= 8 per day)?)
> Language is parsimonious. A neologism will never win when a semantic shift will do.

Agreed, but I think it's worth lamenting the danger in that. History is certainly full of transitory calamity and harm when semantic shifts detach labels from reality.

I guess we're in any case in "damage is done" territory. The question is more about where to go next. It does appear that the term "open source" isn't working for what these folks are doing (you could even argue whether the "available" term they chose was a strong one to lean on in the first place), so we'll see what direction the next shift takes.
This is not the reasoning model. If they beat Deepseek V3 in benchmarks I think a 'reasoning' model would beat o1 Pro
I was more referring to this paper from 2015:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&h...

Basically all LLM can trace their origin back to that paper.

This was just a single example though. The whole point is that people build on the work from the past, and that this is normal.
Are there studies linking common antibiotics to depression?
it's a corona style portfolio gang.
Yes, it's hard. That's the point. Visa is a monopoly that makes monopoly sized profits. (Visa's $20B of income is misleading, that's tiny compared to the profit the banks issuing Visa cards make).

If Musk could crack the Visa monopoly X.com would be worth a lot more than the $44B he paid for it. He's the richest man in the world because his companies do hard things.

Landing a rocket on a barge bobbing in the ocean is difficult. Tesla not being on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_automobile_man... is difficult. Sending 280 character messages across the internet is not difficult in comparison. Breaking the Visa monopoly, OTOH...
There is big American money invested in TikTok. That doesn’t seem to be the case for DeepSeek.
I was using the Deepseek model last night and got this:

> You
> do you understand copredication?

> Assistant
> deepseek-coder-33b-instruct
> I'm sorry for any misunderstanding, but as an AI model developed by OpenAI, I don't have personal ...

Yikes! That's pretty damning IMO.
No, it's not actually draining the battery faster. It's setting low level limits on maximum and minimum charge levels. (and also the charge rate, further controlling heat issues)

Some folks have hooked up devices between the phone and charge cable that do the coulomb counting (or similar), and (the one case I saw) showed that the phone is only taking in about 40% of the watt-hours that it was doing before the OTA update.

From what I've seen, no one can point to any actual incidents with these phones being dangerously hot. But the google FAQ did have a "Yes you can still take the pixel 4a on flights", reminiscent of the samsung phone issue several years ago...
They weren't using modern GPUs and muiltiprocessor machines to cook the Earth, which has been happening on a large scale since the turn of this century.

That's what I was and still am saying.
rebuttal to this podcast series

The Misrepresentation of Marie Clay in “Sold a Story”
https://readingrecovery.org/the-misrepresentation-of-marie-c...

I figured out why podcasts can be so damn irritating, they can be this patronizing, belabored setup to some ill thought out intellectual takedown you can't argue with in the same way you can with the written word.

Teach kids (and the teachers) the scientific method, apply it everywhere ruthlessly. If you are "teaching reading" but not measuring reading comprehension and adjusting your methods for that student, you aren't teaching reading.

Do science, demand that everyone does science. Stop using magic incantations.
I've done some work for a startup that uses Java as well as some other Java related technologies you might consider outdated. Their founder is an older guy and wrote the MVP himself. But hey - it all works and does the job quite well.

You can create an API and query databases with just about anything.
A huge problem with AI generated content is a reduction to the mean.
Could be that the new 100% and 0% are something like the old 80% and 20%
No, the ones that are in very similar orbits and are already communicating with mobile phones today.

Geostationary communication directly to phones is also possible, by the way, assuming the satellite has a big/directional enough antenna. Here's one from 2011: https://www.cnet.com/reviews/terrestar-genus-at-t-review/

Google's Pixel uses (I believe) the same satellite today too, among others.
> DeepSeek came and (approximately) dethroned them

The parenthetical should really be "(temporarily, approximately)". I wouldn't count OpenAI out until we see how o3 compares, assuming they actually make it available this week.
I’m going to ask, not because I have an agenda but because I’m genuinely ignorant but curious: I see a lot of people mentioning things like mitochondria and spike proteins; can any of this be caused by the virus OR the vaccine? or just the whole virus? Thanks!
> NLP, Sentiment Analysis, Translation etc

As somebody who got to work adjacent to some of these things for a long time, I've been wondering about this. Are LLMs and transformers actually better than these "old" models or is it more of an 80/20 thing where for a lot less work (on developers' behalf) LLMs can get 80% of the efficacy of these old models?

I ask because I worked for a company that had a related content engine back in 2008. It was a simple vector database with some bells and whistles. It didn't need a ton of compute, and GPUs certainly weren't what they are today, but it was pretty fast and worked pretty well too. Now it seems like you can get the same thing with a simple query but it takes a lot more coal to make it go. Is it better?
I mention elsewhere that I am not objecting to the general point that diseases are hard to diagnose. The wording OP used does not just say that - phrases like "so-called" come with an implication that the thing being referred to is just made up. That's why my comment asks if they would say the same thing about ADHD and Autism. They probably wouldn't, because it would carry an implication that they thought ADHD and Autism were somehow "fake".
Oh, that's interesting. I didn't know that the ollama version wasn't the whole thing.
Sorry for possibly a stupid question, but what is the license for commercial use? If I want to run R1 in my DC, build a product on top and charge people for it. Is it MIT?
I'm too ignorant to answer that, but the technical paper here [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2002.11871] goes into a wealth of detail, and includes an image of Earth as it would appear to such a telescope (before and after post-processing) from 30 parsecs away. The optical properties of the solar gravitational lens are pretty astonishing.
What? It is.
Well, they are good enough for me, but to be honest, I'm not particularly picky... As said in a parallel post, you can get GCam in APK form (I run LineageOS without GApps) but I hear it's a bit trial&error to find one that works and I haven't bothered.
Why all developers should adopt a safety-critical mindset