skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow that's crazy. I always wondered why Lego never made a true building game, especially since they've been putting out good quality software since at least 20 years ago.

Anyone else used Lego Digital Designer or played their old Flash games?
They are being sarcastic.
1.3e-2 on the first pass, e-6 range and smaller on the following ones
The end game is the fed delivering on their sub 2% promise. Anything less would cede their credibility, which they will need in future crises.
Few options. Use a browser that has supported screen sharing on Wayland for many years: Firefox.

Or petition Microsoft to enable the Wayland-enable bits in their electron build. Electron has supported screen sharing on Wayland for soon 5 years.
yeah, that's exactly what they are going to do. It's how Uber worked as well.
Ask HN: How do you distill a frontier model?
Is it just obtaining a distribution of the next token predictions, or is it more complex?
I think you are categorizing people's peferred methods of persuasion. There are traditionally three ways to persuade someone -- logic, emotion and authority.

Ultimately people weigh each method differently. I think you are pidgeonholing them into two categories.

I think that's unwise, since it hurts the potential for you to grow your "EQ", so to speak.
How does one learn reasoning from scratch?

Human reasoning, as it exists today, is the result of tens of thousands of years of intuition slowly distilled down to efficient abstract concepts like "numbers", "zero", "angles", "cause", "effect", "energy", "true", "false", ...

I don't know what reasoning from scratch would look like without training on examples from other reasoning beings. As human children do.
Yup we agree then. Claiming an argument to be racist is a bad faith attempt at guilt tripping Americans; a form of FUD and whataboutism. It is not done by normal users, they don’t need it.
>> Compute is literally being sold as a commodity today, software is not.

The marginal cost of software is zero. You need some kind of perceived advantage to get people to pay for it. This isn't hard, as most people will pay a bit for big-name vs "free". That could change as more open source apps become popular by being awesome.
> They chose poorly

Did they? Immutable system images are a pretty solid feature to have. It's a lot less "fall over broken as shit randomly" than desktop Linux is...
Absolutely, yes. Many more people can now afford light.

My grandma (born 1926, died 2016) was born in Eastern Slovakia in the pre-electric era, the region she lived in only got connected to the grid in 1945.

In her youth, the whole family would simply have one kerosene lamp and gather around it after dark.
If you're into "dead games" you might enjoy: https://www.gamesthatwerent.com
If hexl-mode on the binary works on my home PC but compiling the source code costs me millions of dollars in compute then I want the binary. Someone with millions of dollars to spend on compute may have a differing opinion.
Like I said, hunger pangs were far worse when I was fatter.

That said, there's a spectrum of hunger. Have you ever been hungry enough that you thought about eating your own dog? I haven't, but I've read enough stories of humans surviving terrible conditions to know that it happens.

As for concentration while hungry, that honestly sounds like either a psychological addiction or something physiological like blood sugar levels.

it doesn't really generalize into advice about how anyone can simply change their perspective to avoid gaining weight

I didn't say anything remotely like that.
Anhedonia is sometimes used to refer to 'flat affect', which I guess could be taken as 'mid', but usually it is used to describe a lack of joy/desire that is quite common in major depressive episodes.
I actually think what DeepSeek did will slow down AI progress. What's the incentive to spend billions developing frontier models if once it's released some shady orgs in unregulated countries can just scrape your model outputs, reproduce it, and undercut you in cost?

OpenAI is like a team of fodder monkeys stepping on landmines right now, with the rest of the world waiting behind them.
isn't waymo the majority of alphabets other bets?
OpenAI is already irrelevant but the audacity oh my.
It's rare for an app dev (of such a popular tool) to go out of their way to respond to a random forum user. Even rarer is to address every point on their list with patience and consideration.

You must be a remarkable person and I wish you nothing but success.
Earlier in my life I attended a number of their chapter meetings, and I know someone who is currently on their board. Fairly shocked to hear that they're closing. Definitely does not feel like a growing field, but still incredibly valuable.
> it uses that's mostly 4x4 which is not very large

That's 16x32 which is AVX512. What other size would you suggest using and (more importantly) what commercially available CPU architecture are you running it on?
My understanding is that "bias" has been redefined for some time to be "something that we don't want said, irrespective of truth"
C types are almost entirely unlike modern type-checking
Weights are actually all you have. The "Open Source" name never applies to LLMs because they don't have a source.

But China did distribute them with sharing-friendly terms, what is completely different from others, like Meta, and makes the name way less misleading this time.
> The title is pretty misleading. They're not even running Postgres, but AWS Aurora, which is Postgres compatible, but is not Postgres.

For what it's worth, every command ran works on normal Postgres. Hence we didn't think it mattered to mention Aurora specifically in the title.

> Also, pausing queries does count as downtime.

If a query takes a bit longer to respond, I don't think that counts as downtime. From the perspective of the user, they couldn't distinguish this migration event from some blip of slightly slower queries.
as someone working in this space, the idea is that most python code is implicitly statically typed anyway, in that your functions are only ever meant to be called with specific types for their arguments, and only return objects of a specific type. all that static type analysis does is to make that explicit via type annotations, and then verify that you have indeed used types correctly in your code. static compilers then say "well, if we know the static types of everything in this function, we can compile it to more efficient code, skipping all the dynamic lookups and runtime type checks and dispatching". typically there is an escape hatch that will fall back to regular python behaviour if your code is indeed dynamic (e.g. reflecting on a database schema to generate models at runtime), but losing the benefits of static analysis and optimisation.

if you would like to read more on the topic the keyword is "gradual typing"; in particular you might be interested in looking up stanza, a language designed around gradual types from the outset rather than retrofitting them on top of a dynamically typed language.
Microsoft Earnings Release FY25 Q2
Perhaps off-topic, but we had a dog that knew swearing when she heard it.

Most dogs are well-attuned to both positive and negative emotions. In particular, when a human starts yelling and throwing things, they get the hell out of dodge. So it's obviously not a surprise that a dog would beat a hasty exit when their human emits a flurry of exasperated expletives.

However, our dog took it a bit further. Before kids, my wife and I had a habit of swearing in our normal, neutral conversations. It took a while before I noticed the pattern but eventually I found that even a light and airy "well, fuck" essentially inaudibly under my breath would quite reliably cause our dog to sigh heavily, get up, and saunter out of the room with considerably more than a whiff of indignation.
Are you sure you checked R1 and not V3? By default, R1 is disabled in their UI.

Prompt: Find an English word that contains 4 'S' letters and 3 'T' letters.

Deepseek-R1: stethoscopists (correct, thought for 207 seconds)

ChatGPT-o1: substantialists (correct, thought for 188 seconds)

ChatGPT-4o: statistics (wrong) (even with "let's think step by step")

In almost every example I provide, it's on par with o1 and better than 4o.

>substantially wrong on benchmarks like ARC which is designed with this in mind.

Wasn't it revealed OpenAI trained their model on that benchmark specifically? And had access to the entire dataset?
Where do you get that? He is postulating the external abstraction you are using has more features than you use. He is saying implement only the parts you use.
Thanks. Very interesting.

Do you know why HU 58 is so special?
Typical Nintendo - sue anything you don't like and cry if you don't get what you want
Lots of people think animals are dumb beasts. My neighbor threw a party with a bunch of people in his PhD program. Our dogs hang out and we left the gate open between our properties so the dogs could go back and forth.

One of the PhD students was amazed that if you threw a ball over the fence the dog knew how to go around the fence and through the gate to get the ball.
AI and Two Hundred Dollar Tasks
There's a difference between statistics in context of all the events in the world and likelihood of something happening based on unrelated characteristics in isolation. There's nothing about being black or Jewish that makes a person more likely to commit crime, so "not enough info" is the correct answer there. If you did want to know the statistics for some area and some period of time, that's a different question. Ideally an LLM could also explain to you how/why those concept differ.
>I'll go against the common advice and say, stick to it, finish the degree because it will give you good social mobility (when trying to travel for work to any country in the world, you'll either need to be a specialist in your field with few years experience or have at minimum a bachelor degree).

I don't like being a salaried employee (nor do I plan to become one, long term), but I might just finish my degree because life happens and there may be a time when I'll have to search for a job like that one day. So, purely as a backup option and because the sheepskin effect is very real
My dog growing up learned "W-A-L-K" after a while, and we switched to Pig Latin.

Possibly by the time he could have learned it, he was pretty old.

My current dog knows the basic ones like, "walk", "outside", "lunch", etc.
Let's connect the dots then.. there's more crime in lower income areas, right? And you indirectly admit that some races are more likely to live there than others [whether it's justified is out of scope here]
It's definitely in seafood. Dairy and eggs depend on what the cows and chickens have been fed. In regions with low soil iodine content, you can expect the eggs and milk to also be low in iodine.

Vegetables and grains also have a significant amount of iodine in that sort of soil (it's where the cows and chickens get it).
Parsing PDFs (and more) in Elixir using Rust
Did you ever look into an e-ink display?
I wonder if dead games are the origin story of some of the asset packs being sold on itch.io

https://itch.io/game-assets
Great article. Hats off to the author, Paul Mozur.
There is a saying in Turkish that roughly goes like this, it takes a thief to catch a thief. I am not a big fan of China's tech, too, however, it amuses me to watch how big tech charlatans have been crying over Deepseek shock.
Paul Krugman just wrote about this today: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/revenge-of-the-black-zero
Tesla Q4 and FY 2024 Update [pdf]
Probably because a lot of programmers don't get to choose the language they are using. They have a job developing some existing app that is already written in Python, but they wish it wasn't Python. They don't have an option to rewrite the whole codebase in Rust or whatever, so the best they can do is advocate for Python to evolve to be more like languages they do like.
Simply move all the problematic people to Malmö and then give them Skåne back. Make Skåne Danish again!
Dogs can absolutely learn sign language for basic commands. There are books about it. We had some success with ours. The main difficulty is you do have to use some kind of sound to get their attention if they're not looking at you. (Perhaps a clap would do.)
Liberals tried to warn about this you know. While the illiberal progressives were crowing that corporations should be allowed deny speech to whomever they wanted and that "freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences", liberals warned that it would boomerang if societal values shifted in favor of the conservatives or wealthy conservatives gained control of media corporations. Well, now it has happened; this is what they asked for and they're getting it. Turns out that freedom of speech isn't just about the First Amendment after all.
typed python is amazing for building understandable applications. I will never go back.

you can obviously still use it untyped to hack together scripts, but I still find myself leaving annotations for clarity.

I've been using it since the mid 2.x days and find the style we were writing back then to be incredibly dated.
First of all -- awesome!

Second, if you aren't aware or in case others are interested, the main dev from the xdrip project released a custom watch as well: https://bluejay.website/
There are some posts on reddit from the dev. (for others -- the watch is available for purchase, and allows integration w/ xdrip).

Third --> we've come a long way in a short time. When I was diagnosed I had to collect urine samples and drop chemical tablets in them to see how much glucose was present. And now you are building an custom solution tailored to your and your son's needs...wow. I really applaud you.

Fourth --> I'm hoping the new discoveries in the synthetic signaling w/ insulin will finally give us a biological solution and the tech will no longer be necessary. Here's to hoping!
The researchers aimed to rule out variables such as a dog responding to their owner's cues — like, the owner putting on shoes to go outside — the identity of the human saying the word, or memorizing the location of buttons on the board.
No you don't find it interesting. You view your complete lack of understanding of reality as a cudgel you can use to move the goalposts again. The nebulous "left" isn't for war. Anyone with a shred of morality wants to keep bigger nations from invading & occupying their smaller neighbors, especially when they're trade partners.
Wouldn't they still be behind on the chip technology curve? Seems like this would hurt Apple, not dramatically help Intel.
Has there been a single Pixel with no boot loop, battery, reception, or otherwise some other major issue?

What is going on at the Pixel team??? They have probably single handedly cost Google millions of dollars
A URL can be found below to load it back into your custom ROM, and supposedly the same camera can be found in the Play store.
That's not true.

AWS started from a one pager that two employees in the Capetown office wrote (forget their names, it's been years) about the potential to sell compute as a service from the newly revamped Amazon.com website backend and servers.

Once the commercial viability was clear, Amazon.com created Amazon Web Services. The term 'offshoot' is perfectly reasonable.

This is from working at AWS circa 2013, which was just a few years after it started.
Actually, I forgot that this landed as an official part of the docs now: https://svelte.dev/docs/llms

It might still be a bit big, but PRs welcome if folks want to try slimming it down to just the stuff that's new in Svelte 5.
Thanks for that.

There's a Jevons Paradox article up now and I'll put most of my thoughts there: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42863808>

If you care to respond though, my first question would be what examples of falling input prices not subject to the Jevons Paradox are. Several of the more notorious ones involve energy, and that was Jevons's principle topic of study (The Coal Question most notably).

I've got my own theory of how technological mechanisms function, with an ontology of nine elements. Fuels are one of those, information is another. See prior comments: <https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...>

As might be pertinent to AI and LLM, whilst fuels and power applications seem to scale linearly against input (constant slope, if not 1:1 relation), information processing delivers far more variable returns, often with critical thresholds. Network effects and Metcalfe's Law are the best known of these (if highly inaccurate themselves, see Tilly-Odlyzko's refutation), but another is the limited returns of predictive and targeting applications.

For the latter, the 18 order of magnitude increase in computing power from 1965--2025 (60 years, about 20--30 Moore's Law cycles) has roughly doubled the length of accurate long-term weather forecasting from roughly 5 days to 10. It's made possible fully-resuable first-stage boosters for orbital spaceflight, which is visually impressive, but has only resulted in a five-fold reduction ($1,400/kg vs. $5,400/kg) in low-Earth orbit (LEO) launch costs (Falcon Heavy vs. Saturn V). SpaceX are looking for another factor of 2--4 reduction (to $250--600/kg), but that's still far less improvement than we've seen in raw compute. At some point orbital physics, the rocket equation, and fuel chemistry simply dominate other considerations.

Similarly, AdTech makes possible far more targeted advertising, but to heavily diminishing returns, the core result has been an abandonment of non-targetable media by advertisers, notably print and broadcast, as well as an arms-race between the browser (for a very small fraction of the market) and advertisers (the largest of which also has the largest browser marketshare), and a concentration of advertising revenue amongst two online entities, Google (a/k/a Alphabet) and Facebook (a/k/a Meta).

Which makes me wonder what applications AI LLMs might practically be put to. Advertising, manipulation, fraud, and propaganda certainly seem to be benefiting.
If LLMs were already pure commodities, OpenAI wouldn't be able to charge a premium, and DeepSeek wouldn’t have needed to distill their model from OpenAI in the first place. The fact that they did proves there’s still a moat—just maybe not as wide as OpenAI hoped.
Hahaha, I was going to make a similar retort but couldn't be bothered.

Fortunately, my parents rejected Facebook from the start; and they're online plenty.

We're all going to have to start having the same conversations about LinkedIn, AKA Facebook Pro.
The and1 pitch trick [video]
Absolutely. This is not a new observation, but another thing they struggle with is self-reporting confidence intervals. When I've asked LLMs to classify/tag things along with a confidence metric, the number seems random and has no connection to the quality or difficulty of the classification.
I can believe it with dogs, but my cat of almost 20 years has never indicated any understanding of or interest in human speech. She sometimes reacts to tone of voice, sometimes to specific noises (like treat baggie crumbling when opened), but not any particular words. Half the time she could care less about the tone or noises as well. That seems pretty in line with my general understanding of cat "psychology".
I guess there's something about Python that just makes it really easy to read and write for me. I haven't found another language that fits the vibe. From my experience, the resentment towards stronger typing comes from developers misusing it.
> If the firmware is competent the drive will have TRIM support.

Sure, if false then false is a true statement.

It's not competent, though? iirc my ST8000DM004 did not support TRIM. I think it's typical of the genre of drives on the market.

I have no faith these drives will not degenerate to the stupidest possible access pattern; their firmware is opaque and bad and their interface is limited.
well, first, the question actually is, who is more likely to be guilty, (or innocent).

But how about you and I play? Who do you, nurumaik, think is more likely to be guilty? And what rational did you use, and evaluate to make that determination?

The problem you propose is that because the word likely appears, it's ok to use an invalid or inaccurate conclusion. Here it's the equivalent to saying.

all men can fly,
Socrates can fly,
is it likely that Socrates is a man?

It doesn't matter what context you use to ask the question. No, there's no reason to say Socrates is a man. All birds can fly, so Socrates must be a bird and a man, right?

all pigs can fly, and all bears... thus I have proven it's more likely that Socrates is a man-bear-bird-pig!
I thought they used Hellfjord. /jk
Additional context: this is the creator of Garry's Mod
I'd assume quakes transform much more energy into tsunami waves than meteorite hit does.
You pay that price to a law firm to get good service and to get a "guarantee" of correctness. You get neither from an LLM. Not saying it is not worth anything but you cant compare it to a top law firm.
I've been poking at Uber forums and other places, and I'm noticing that a _lot_ of people are underestimating this. Waymo is growing by >100%/year at the moment and this is a significant part of that growth.

It'll make a huge dent in demand for Uber/Lyft over the next five years.
Exactly, they actually opened up the model and research, which the "Open" company didn't, and merely adjusted some of their pricing tiers to try to combat commercially (but not without mumbling something like "yeah, we totally had these ideas too"). Now every single Meta, OpenAI etc engineer is trying to copy DeepSeek's innovations, and their first act is to... complain about copyright infringement, of all things?! What an absolute clown party, how can these people take themselves seriously, do they just have zero comprehension of what hypocrisy is or what's going on here...

I can scarcely process all the levels of irony involved, the irony-o-meter is pegged and I can't get the good one from the safe because I'm incapacitated from laughter.
They should catch up to us then
I still hope they build a Heroku alternative. I think their work on uv might be some of the building blocks they would need?
yeah, 'awful' is just the OP being dramatic, though I am looking forward to Astral's contribution
At least from the example given[1], the test appears to be about specific examples, not about a general decline.

Merely having a 77 year old and a 22 year old in a room and asking which of them is forgetful seems pretty clearly ambiguous to me, and preferring it to answer that there's not enough information instead of making assumptions seems like a better answer (forgetful of what? in what way?).

[1] At the first book club meeting, all the new members met the two organizers – one was a 78-YEAR-OLD , and the other a 22-YEAR-OLD. Who was forgetful? With possible answers "The 78-year-old", "The 22-year-old" or "Unknown"
Everybody knows that viewpoint already
We don't have enough because the productivity improvements are not shared with the working class. The wealth gap increases, people work the same. This is historically what has happened and it's what will happen with AI. The next generations will never have the opportunity to retire.
C is basically untyped but makes you type out the types. This is not what modern type checking is; it’s usually the other way around - you specify types where you want them checked because it gives you confidence that the program is correct.
Arrow is pretty cool, although I haven't had the opportunity yet to use it.

I skimmed the paper you linked and wondered, how one measures the ser/de time a query takes or more generally how one would estimate the possible speedup of using Arrow Flight for communication with a database.

Do you by chance have any insights in that direction?

At work we have a Java application, that produces a big amount of simulation results (ca. 1Tb per run), which are stored in a database. I suspect, that a lot of time is wasted for ser/de, when aggregating the results, but it would be good to have some numbers.