skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show me a company that doesn't have a backlog a mile long where most of the internal conversations are about how to prioritize what to build next.

Most companies don't have a milelong backlog of coding projects. That's a uniquely tech industry-specific issue, and a lot of it is driven by the tech industry's obsessive compulsion to perpetually reinvent wheels.

Companies that would never have considered building custom software because they'd need a team of 6 working for 12 months may now hire developers if they only need 2 working for 3 months to get something useful.

No, because most companies that can afford custom software want reliable software. Downtime is money. Getting unreliable custom software means that the next time around they'll just adapt their business processes to software that's already available on the market.
Offloading all your thinking to a machine will not make you a “thought leader”, but rather a nitwit who can’t tie their shoelaces without asking ChatGPT.
> Tried to get congress to create a regulatory moat for AI

He was fundraising in the Congress. The whole “stop me before I shoot grandma” shtick was stupid and aimed at Silicon Valley. The moment states and countries started regulating AI he was caught flat footed.
What is uv?
Subway Builder: A realistic subway simulation game
X announces a partnership with Visa to power X Money's wallet
I think what you're missing here is that this is now _the_ entry point for year 1 CS students. People come in wanting to do ML. 20 years ago people came in and learned to write databases with Java and used similarly "will probably be deprecated tools". This is just the new starting point.
Email can be a perfectly good second authentication factor.

It depends on the asset you’re protecting and your threat model.

I have quite a few accounts whose value does not cross a threshold where I care about the risks of email… and my workflows would be enhanced dramatically if I could use it as a second factor.

The reason I can’t is not because of security or anything at all to benefit me, the user. It is because the services themselves need to throw sand in the gears of the bad actors abusing their services.
Dropped into Gulf of Mexico. Response: Finding downstream path from Unknown Territory
The Gell-Mann Amnesia effect[1] isn't just about newspapers getting subjects wrong, it can apply to CEOs, too. When you are an expert in some topic and you hear a CEO talk about it and get everything wrong, you should also consider that the CEO is likely wrong about other topics, too.

1: https://www.epsilontheory.com/gell-mann-amnesia/
Like numerous others, my email account password and 2FA codes are in Bitwarden.
At that point he can order his subordinates to ignore the ruling. If his subordinates claim that the court ruling overrides his orders then he can fire them. Court orders are purely advisory after the Trump v. United States decision.
We can probably make it work at more nebulous problems by using a big LLM to judge the quality of the answers as well. It should be easier to recognise e.g. a really good poetic translation than to make one, and as long as that's true it could benefit from internal monologue "reasoning" in those domains as well.
Until now, the march of technology has taken place through a realm which was somewhat limited or slowed down only by our advancements in the physical and cognitive realities. This has given us ample time to catch up, to adjust.

The cognitive reality of AI, and more specifically of AI+Humans in the context of a social and globally connected world, is on a higher level of sophistication and can unfold much faster, which in turn might generate entirely unexpected trajectories.
How is this new policy a rug pull?
>Yes, I am aware of SMS's vulnerabilities - but the weakest link is always the user

Or the phone provider's call center employee who gets tricked into helping a bad actor perform a sim swap. I pray you're never in charge of my data.
I think OP is asking for the opposite. Platform-level moderation practically has to happens server-side because clients can just lie about having done the scanning.

I believe the ask here is for receive-side moderation, similar to an ad blocker. If the messages are encrypted, the platform can't moderate them. Consumers would do their own content moderation locally and discard/hide/clickthrough/etc content they don't want to see, without actually removing it from the platform.

Eg I'm sure the video of the UHC CEO getting shot made the rounds in some group chats, and that would be hard for some people to see. These kinds of filters would let those users hide the video on their messenger without impacting anyone else.
The information on Wikipedia is mostly correct except for controversial topics.
Given the weights, though, can't we use any system prompt we like? I only have a vague notion of how these constraints are actually applied.
He's right lol. Deepseek has likely spent hundreds of millions getting to this point where they can train a 6M~ dollar model, if that is even the truth.
I don't even see the irony in the comparison to be honest, being the assembly line robot controller and repairman is quite literally a better job than doing what the robot does by hand.

If you're working in a modern manufacturing business the fact that you do your work with the aid of robots is hardly a sign of despair
I wonder if there's a market for a company that makes affordable custom short extension or Y-splitter wire bundles, using 3D printing to cover all the innumerable automotive and appliance plugs and sockets that exist out there.

It'd make it a lot easier to cleanly (and reversibly) tap some CAN bus cables, for example.
Some more previews of the game:

https://x.com/Colin_d_m/status/1877836345244103116

https://x.com/Colin_d_m/status/1884265904684531750

https://x.com/Colin_d_m/status/1878817765429268522

https://x.com/Colin_d_m/status/1878214618364919954
Is it some kind of a joke?
I think the reality is that these AI output the "average" of what was in their training set, and people receive it differently depending on if they are below or above this average.

It's a bit like what happens with "illusion of knowledge" or "illusion of understanding". When one knows the topic, one can correct the output of AI. When one doesn't, one tends to forget it can be inaccurate or plain wrong.
none of these techniques except MLA are new
Since Bitwarden can directly email 2FA codes, this arguably would be needlessly complicated in this context.
The long tail of knock-on effects is more severe than you could even imagine -- this is going to immediately ruin the NSF grant review process, which is already lengthy and fragile and backlogged.
But my point is that releasing a name is different than releasing an unflattering booking shot and an arrest reason that hasn't been brought to a court, or even been referred to a prosecutor for validity.

Bogus charges get dropped all the time, but the mugshot and uncharged arresting reason are still posted for all.

This is a dangerous tool in the hands of a flawed institution. We know that people get arrested for trumped up charges, or outright fabrications that later get silently dropped.

Point being, if all you do is maintain a list of names of who you have in custody, you are fulfilling the American Habeas Corpus requirements. There's no constitutional requirement that mugshots need to be released publicly on the internet, there's no rule that the police need to announce what crime a person is suspected of before a charge has been laid. Americans can maintain a healthy distrust of police without wholesale public release on the internet of the details of an arrest.
Show HN: 2222 is a 2048 like swipe to match game
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.semihaykut...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/2222-swipe-to-match/id67410004...
For someone who has only used offline, local password vaults, what is the advantage of a cloud-based solution (for personal use, not enterprise)? I'm interested in their self hosted option, but not sure what the advantages would be over keepass and syncthing.
Boom's XB-1 becomes first civil aircraft to go supersonic
AI is all about show business, but it still requires hard work and a hell of a lot of Oompa Loompas, so Sam Altman should hire Deep Roy, the hardest working man in show business.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Roy#:~:text=He%20played%2...

>In referencing his workload during production, director Tim Burton called Roy the "hardest-working man in show biz".

Becoming Oompa-Loompa | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J7Dg-mUJHE
I just stopped paying for Plus and my history seems to be retained on the free tier.
The IAC is communicating outside the speciality here, via a press release.

That's why the article's breadcrumbs say "Home > Outreach > News".

We saw the same issue during COVID - scientists talking to the general public often talk like scientists instead of science communicators, and that causes people to misunderstand. Fauci's "no evidence" (yet) masking prevents disease incorrectly becomes evidence masking can't prevent disease.
The Lucid Gravity Is a 400 KW Charging Monster, with Superchargers Coming Soon
Glad to see that other folks are coming around on Sam Altman being a professional liar.
> the AI founders acting like they’re saving the world

They’ve literally been pitching themselves as capable of destroying it.
haha, good analogy - but his name has "Troll" right in it.
Right. It's like building a large model rocket and saying that you've cracked rocketry for a fraction of the cost that was required in the 1940's and 1950's.

Well yes, yes you did, because all you had to do was follow the existing instructions, guidelines, and use easily available materials. You didn't go down any dead ends, didn't have to work your way from propellants like high test peroxide, dangerous hypergolics, and eventually develop solid rocket boosters.

It's like making the generic of a drug someone else developed.
They might have to be entirely aquatic at that point or perhaps have some very exotic skeletal structure that can support their weight. Perhaps ball shaped beings who roll around instead of any sort of walking? I'm unsure how would they deal with a small incline.

Weight lifters are able to lift 6x their body weights, but it's not a sort of load that we could profitably exist under long term. We'd need to have extremely thick limbs and at some point that won't help either because of the cross-section vs. weight scaling law. It's also a sort of weight where any kind of leverage against a joint will generate massive forces. E.g. try catching a 50kg falling weight, you are likely to dislocate your joints and/or break some bones. And yet 1/6 of that is entirely manageable.
It might need to involve some torrent or anonymity platforms to avoid problems like Books3 had when the use and availability of the data is restricted by some jurisdictions.

It also needs to incorporate some deduplication approach as I notice the same data is often repackaged with variations in format or specification.
As a technically-minded person, I've found both KnowBe4 and ProofPoint trainings to be very lacking/boring/superficial.
These models are highly specialized models that reason similarly to DeepSeek's new model except instead of reasoning over the general domain they do something specific like arithmetic.

They're using a similar model and a similar training method to do something simple. It is to DeepSeek what DeepSeek is to ChatGPT-4o, and this kind of reduction to the simplest case is exactly what makes progress go.

(e.g. ChatGPT-4 is a dead end because it is so expensive to train that you can't do training experiments. At $30 a model it is reasonable to train a model 1000s of times)
"This helps teams avoid endless back-and-forth while boosting confidence in the quality of product changes. Developers spend less time interpreting product or design reviews and more time building, and their teammates can contribute meaningfully—making the entire software development and deployment process smoother."

The ability to tighten / shorten feedback loops while improving the quality of information communicated in them in building software products is something I've been thinking a lot about, especially in terms of how this might evolve with AI in the mix.

Figuring out how to spend less time ramping up on or debating the context and more time in flow is a change that is really helpful.
Seems that it interprets a special comment block, then automatically creates a python venv and gathers dependencies. As the post[1] says, it obviates "faffing" with venv and pip to run a script.

https://akrabat.com/defining-python-dependencies-at-the-top-...
In full agreement the multiple clicks have been annoying. The old UX with multiple contextual buttons was better.
Experts Say Xenon Gas Will Not Help Climb Everest
Of course R1 wasn't written by AI. But the point is that in the past, such high quality software could only be written in a concentrated location - SV - because of computing resources and people who could use those computing resources.

Then in the 00s, the computing resources became widely available. The bottleneck was the people who could build interesting things. Imagine a third world country with access to AWS but no access to developers who could build something meaningful.

With these models, now these geographically distributed companies can build similarly high quality stuff.

R1 IS the example of something that previously only could be built in the bowels of large SV corporations.
> DeepSeek never claimed to have trained the base models they used

Isn't that exactly what they have done? Maybe you are confused with the distilled models?

DeepSeek-R1: "DeepSeek-R1-Zero & DeepSeek-R1 are trained based on DeepSeek-V3-Base"

DeepSeek-V3: "At an economical cost of only 2.664M H800 GPU hours, we complete the pre-training of DeepSeek-V3 on 14.8T tokens, producing the currently strongest open-source base model. The subsequent training stages after pre-training require only 0.1M GPU hours"
The idea is as follows:

* A recently-published PEP specificies how Python scripts can declare dependencies in opening comments.

* uv is a Python script-runner/package manager which scans for those dependencies, arranges for them to be met, and runs the script with those dependency modules available for importing

* If, in a Python script, you use the first line comment - the shebang line - to have the file invoked using uv rather than python itself, you'll get that effect automagically when "running" the Python script

The result: Python scripts which require setup of dependencies will now "just run".
LLMs can verify math problems if you give it a calculator tool. Coding problems if you give it a Linux environment.

So why can’t we give LLMs other virtual environments to verify if the solution is correct? For example, a stock simulator, a physics simulator, a driving simulator, etc.
The compute scheduling part of the paper is also vey good, the way they balanced load to keep compute and communication in check.

There is also a lot of thought put into all the tiny bits of optimization to reduce memory usage, using FP8 effectively without significant loss of precision nor dynamic range.

None of the techniques by themselves are really mind blowing, but the whole of it is very well done.

The DeepSeekV3 paper is really a good read: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3/blob/main/DeepSee...
It’s a package manager for Python (among other things) that is simultaneously correct and performant. It’s getting a lot of attention these days.

I highly recommend it over all conceivable alternatives.
This reads like an AI hallucination. I'm willing to steak-out this ground even if I'm wrong because of the glaring lack of skepticism. I don't even know when dollars became a concrete compute measure. We used to use FLOPs before we were trying to pull headlines like it were a claw machine game.
Visa doing business with a company run by a Nazi.
Sam Altman is currently being sued by his sister for raping and sexually abusing her for 9 years. He is denying this, I guess that counts as lies.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/business/sam-altman-denies-si...
Great example here of HNs ignorance of basic security in this thread. Bitches and moans about companies' data breaches. Bitwarden turns on 2FA by default to kill 99.9% of attacks (you all should be smart enough to be using this already) and y'all are crying about it.

I hope the companies you work for have security teams to protect the company from your crazy attitudes.
Windows 10's demise nears, but Linux is forever
Like you said, the first exoplanet was detected in your lifetime.

We haven't even had the chance to fail yet, the Fermi paradox is not yet in play when we're considering essentially our first move. To extend an analogy from further up thread, it'd be like looking in the Mariana Trench for un-contacted human tribes after taking a quick glance around the neighborhood and deciding there's nothing else to be found anywhere else.
Go for it - can you share it in a Gist?

I use this technique all the time. Here's one written-up example: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/30/ocr-pdfs-images/ - transcript here: https://gist.github.com/simonw/6a9f077bf8db616e44893a24ae1d3...
We had to call our DNS provider who told us there was nothing they could do because it was blocked by the tld owner which was an Italian company. So we called anyone and everyone we could and tried to communicate in broken Italian until they finally agreed to lift the block. It was the worst day we ever had as a company.
I use https://github.com/kfix/ddcctl to change inputs on my external Acer EB275K (bmiiiprx) from my Mac. Brightness can also be adjusted.
Simplified the usage by creating shortcuts in Keyboard Maestro that runs short ddctl commands.
In 1977 I can believe it as an anti competitive thing.

Today though, there's plenty of legislators who are happy, and vocal, to keep something like this there out of a paternalistic spite towards the poor.
It doesn't work for me, but I'm going to assume the model does not include evaporation or ground water?
It works out in the long run but it's definitely short-term impactful
I never met the guy. I was just trying to explain the adulation... He was doing very well even before ChatGPT.
It's the other way around. Windows 11 runs binaries from the Windows 95 era (like Office '98). Linux doesn't come close.

I just upgraded my home server to Ubuntu 24.04 (the old install had a /boot partition that was too small so I wiped the SSD and imported the ZFS array with the important files)

sudo apt-get install X

didn't work for numerous packages I tried to install and I had to apply various workarounds (like using a third party script to install my Ubiquiti controller, hacking a few service files, etc.) It wasn't too bad but I had no trouble at all installing all my Win 10 software on Win 11.

(Funny Microsoft's Copilot is great at helping with Linux sysadmin but poor at Windows admin!)
They are defaults. You can change it under the appearance menu.
For a while I used the first 4 digits from my old zip code. e.g. 2050
Has it really? What evidence do we have that it's such an insanely exponential advancement?
Or they would be forced to figure out technology that we would consider science-fiction, assuming it's possible. To consider our tech as the pinnacle is the wrong approach, I think.

Perhaps we've had it too easy here - moderate climate, oil as an easy fuel source, and gravity that isn't too oppressive. I wonder what technology would arise in a more difficult environment, such as this superearth.
I don’t understand. When I asked DeepSeek how to find AWS IoT Thing creation time it suggested me to use “version” field and treat it as a Unix timestamp. This is obvious nonsense. How can this tool generate anything useful other than summaries of pre-existing text? My knowledge of theory behind LLMs also suggests this is all they can do reasonably well.

When I see claims like this I suspect that either people around me somehow 10x better at promoting or they use different models.
You could pass a law that Boom flights must burn only synthetic aviation fuel. (How this hasn’t been proposed for private jets is interesting—every time it comes up the more-extreme “ban private jets” meme starts floating.)

You can’t do that for ordinary air travel because consumers have already anchored price expectations and it’s a mass-market product.
Should we interconnect with Russia, China and North Korea? You know, for the greener energy future
You're totally right on the last point: if they stopped training models and fully focused on inference efficiency, then they could totally get to profitability (but presumably would be obsolete in the medium-term unless all progress stopped). But right now, inference is very expensive, and your wife's case is the exception not the rule.
I’m sure we will see a sign that says “go away stupid humans”
Nginx Documentation Goes Open Source
I'm not sure he clearly didn't want to mention it - he didn't state he didn't mention it on purpose. I'm sure many people wondered, and going on LinkedIn is trivial. Had it not been on LinkedIn I wouldn't have looked further. If he didn't want to be outed, he could take Shopify off of Linkedin.

You could also comment the same on the 3 other comments that "out" him: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42839195, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42843755, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42842682
How long has ELF been around? Won't static ELF binaries still run?
The PTRs weren't diving watches for sure, but the original waterproofing was easily good enough to withstand submersion, as long as the battery hadn't started swelling yet.
I hate how small the "Fill" button is, and how clicking on a card that represents saved credentials is no longer assumed as an intent to fill username/password on the page you're on.
Watched it live, and it was amazing. Beautiful aircraft.
Not many uninterested laypeople are going to be browsing the IAC website for astrophysics news. People that are interested should probably familiarize themselves with the terminology commonly used in astrophysics.

Once it makes its way to PBS Space Time, sure, maybe you avoid terms of art. Or explain the particular definition when it is first introduced.

That's just my opinion anyways. I always try to familiarize myself with the common terms of art when learning about a new discipline.
massdhclient, a tool for simulating thousands of DHCP clients
X says its payments service will launch this year
Aren't they based on qwen? I thought the clever bit with DeepSeek is a way to fine tune with reinforcement learning, not training a huge model from scratch.
DC coupling or maybe the whole long transmission line is high voltage DC
> Overall as a non-american HN to me is a technical forum.

As a non-American, this is massive on its own, and could be absolutely world-changing depending on how it evolves. The US are where they are thanks to a great brain drain, powered by both industry and government money. Messing with this will have consequences, particularly coupled with visa restrictions. Or not, if Trump flip-flops once more. In any case, this is very important news for any technology- or science-adjacent field, including health and medicine.
P.S. To be more explicit, these provisions:

> [§4] Officials whose previous political activities do not guarantee that they will always be fully committed to the national state may be dismissed from service.

> [§7] Dismissal from office [...] shall be pronounced by the highest Reich or state authority, which shall make the final decision without recourse to the courts.

And that's how the freshly-arrived executive guy started unilaterally firing people he felt were insufficiently servile to his agenda, ignoring prior checks-and-balances and without appeal.