skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well. I'm not living in a big house, but believe me the simplest and less fancy automations make life way better. My favourites :

- Lights on when the first person living here arrive after sunset

- Shutdown every lights when the last person living here leave

- Main switch to shut every lights at night

- 30min light sequence from red to white every morning, everywhere, before playing the "birds" playlist on sonos : waking up like this and not having to deal with switches and darkness while my head is up my ass changed my life.

- Ungrouping every sonos devices each night a 5am and setting volume to each so I don't wake up to full volume and I can have birds in the bedroom, music everywhere else. Screw you Sonos for not making it in your app.

- Gently tone down lights when something is played after 8pm on Apple TV

- Gently lights up when something is paused or stopped on Apple TV

- Setting "night mode" on automatically on sound bar every night at 11pm

- Setting it off automatically every morning at 7am

- Using dirt cheap Ikea remotes for eveything connected, without limitation or Ikea Bridge.

Everything is possible thanks to Home Assistant and some efforts. Because manufacturers either don't care, don't want to be compatible with other brands, or want to keep new exciting features for the future.

Motion activated lights switch is also very useful for corridors and definitely not for lazy people as I often read.

For all of that, thank you HA and its beloved and passionate community !
Krita 5.2.9 Released
You're most likely right. I grew up in eastern europe where essentially up until around my birth/shortly after the fall of communism there was nothing to buy outside of necessities anyway so "vote with your wallet" wasn't a topic really. You even needed connections to get basic construction materials like sand, wood and cement. The lesson for my generation was "Study so you don't (have to) work.".
Equinix Sunset, Future of Gitlab.freedesktop.org
> The model weights, by their nature, cannot encode that information.

This is mostly irrelevant no? A binary digit by definition cannot encode more than 2 dates; so therefore we devise a more elaborate system (of using multiple digits).

This is very similar to NYT's lawsuit against OpenAI where in addition to other claims, they claimed OpenAI maintainted a DB of NYT articles that they would directly grab from for a response. It's seems very feasible to maintain a DB or system of looking up real-time values like dates / weather.
Consider that ICBM's might not work forever. If e.g. new types of anti-ballistic missile defenses were to become cheap and reliable, then ICBM/SLBM's could even become obsolete (say, within the century). If that happened, there'd be a slew of new arms races, which are unimaginable to us, being beyond our technology horizon.

Physics isn't changing over time, but engineering is.
The notion that a library must be “bug-ridden” and “filled with vulnerabilities” just because it hasn’t changed in a while is a strange one. If it were true, it would also be true for libraries that do change. It’s not like libraries accumulate new bugs and vulnerabilities by not changing. Libraries that constantly gain new features, on the other hand, are prone to also gain new bugs and vulnerabilities.
This is the most extraordinary thing that I have personally seen in my career as a software developer, and I have worked in many different fields and different languages and on different platforms, but this is by a very wide margin the most exciting.
He's one of the OG woodworkers on Youtube. Just went to check and I've been subscribed for 15 years apparently. Always happy to see one of his videos pop up.
So... it's not R1 itself.

It's a model called Qwen, trained by Alibaba, which the DeepSeek team has used to "distill" knowledge from their own (100x bigger) model.

Think of it as forcing a junior Qwen to listen in while the smarter, PhD-level model was asked thousands of tough problems. It will acquire some of that knowledge and learn a lot of the reasoning process.

It cannot become exactly as smart, for the same reason a dog can learn lots of tricks from a human but not become human-level itself: it doesn't have enough neurons/capacity. Here, Qwen is a 7B model so it can't cram within 7 billion parameters as much data as you can cram into 671 billion. It can literally only learn 1% as much, BUT the distillation process is cleverly built and allows to focus on the "right" 1%.

Then this now-smarter Qwen is quantized. This means that we take its parameters (16-bit floats, super precise numbers) and truncate them to make them use less memory space. This also makes it less precise.
Think of it as taking a super high resolution movie picture and compressing it into a small GIF. You lose some information, but the gist of it is preserved.

As a result of both of these transformations, you get something that can run on your local machine — but is a bit dumber than the original — because it's about 400 times smaller than the real deal.
Does OnlyOffice still not support RTL languages?
What do you consider innovation? Was a certain regulation the reason DeepSeek-R1 didn't happen in Europe?
Twice the economy, twice the investment. I fail to see your point, that's exactly how alliance are supposed to work

> france and many others can’t be bothered to spend hardly anything

Hardly anything besides propping up 70% of the EU

https://cdn.statcdn.com/Infographic/images/normal/18794.jpeg

Also even if you sent 100% of the money collected through tariffs back to the EU through Ukraine, what's the point we're back to square one with extra steps in the middle... The US are serving their own interests, it's totally fine, you don't have to pretend they're sacrificing themselves for the greater good of humanity.
Microsoft talks significant capital AI investments as sector reels over DeepSeek
You are right. There is very little utility.

These people are not domain experts, and they often latch onto structure or happenstance that is quite common (in the overall picture), and anything out of the ordinary they consider AI slop. Its a false justification loop, which breaks their perception.

Around the turn of the last century (1900-1940s), was a time where hyper-rationalism played an important role in winning WW2. Language use in the published works and in academia at that time had words with distinct meanings, they were sometimes uncommon words, but it allowed a rigorous approach to communication.

Today we have words which can have contradictory meanings in different contexts based in ambiguity, where the same word means two things simultaneously without further information. AI often can't handle figuring out the context in these cases, and often hallucinates, whereas the context can in some cases be clear to a discerning human reader.

I've have seen it more than a few times where people have misidentified these clear cut cases of human consistency, as AI generated slop. There is a lot of bias in perception that makes this a common issue.

In my opinion, the exercise of doing this as the article's author suggests, is simply fallacy following a deluded spiral to madness.

Communication is the sharing of a consistent meaning. Consistency plays a big role in that.

People can talk about word counts, frequency, word choices, etc, and in most cases its fallacy, especially when there is consistency in the meaning. They delude themselves, fueling a rather trite delusion that anything that looks different is in fact AI and not a real person.

It is sad that people can be so easily fooled, and false justification is one of the worst forms of self-violation since it warps your perception at a fairly low level.
And I don't think it can ensure that all the bits were written. I've been bit by people trying to reuse buffers/objects like this that were not fully rewritten in one of the possible re-uses. It's a bit puzzling how a change that just adds a new continue leads to memory corruption.
> Those that still writes in vanilla JS are like those who still build apps in assembly langauge.

…Huh? Are you referring to transpilation?
https://archive.fo/AhIgJ
If you go back in American history, you quickly run into at-scale activities which are now viewed as evil, or painfully decisive - wiping out the natives, mass importation of slaves, etc.

People generally read fantasy to escape the miseries of their current-day worlds.

I'd assume that fantasy authors understand this. And pretty-much know how not to become a lightning rod.
And lived on a flat planet.
Sorry for the late response.

I want to preface by saying I have some serious health issues that they have not been able to sort out over the last 30 years of my life, and genetically I am a rarity, probably link to my Sami heritage.

For my FUT2 non-secretor status I eat a lot of seaweed and mushrooms. The Fucose in these foods replaces the Fucose I am not secreting in my intestines. FUT2 is a fucosyltransferase. This helps the bacteria attach to the Fucsoe and not invade my gut.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34151459/

For the NOD2 I just need to be really careful about infections. If it were not fro my FUT2 non-secetor status that protects me against E. Coli infection I would for sure have Crohn's

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2924159/

Based on my PUFA genetics I eat a lot of high omega 3 seafoods and no plant oils.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5672832/

But my big problem is that I have a Partial PNP deficiency. So no sugars and very low calorie diet.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7338719/

Those are the big ones.
Because I live here.
An article with language such as "Taco-Bell-fart-in-a-suit known as Ted Cruz" is obviously not trying to be objective. Studies have not found that more internet access improves academic performance, since obviously kids will use it for lots of non-academic things. A study on Italy is at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030859612....
I hear Sam is pretty open in his relationship.
Apache Airflow is extremely popular and one of the most commonly used frameworks in data engineering. I guarantee you it is more popular than this Airflow by an order of magnitude or more.
I’m sorry but you are the one doing the spinning. You keep putting words into my mouth and then ignoring everything else I said..

I repeated that cost (of course only if externalities, that hardly anyone was fully aware of back in the 80s, are excluded) was the primary
reason why nuclear failed. Do you really think that public opinion had no impact and did not accelerate it, though?

> "everyone is crazy but me"

Is that how you feel? Must be interesting..
> We like to throw shade at Boeing, the FAA etc, but this is still an incredible accomplishment, especially given the explosive growth of traffic over those years

To be fair to them, the Boeing-related incidents could have well happened in the US and killed Americans too. And the FAA absolutely refused to do their job until their hand was forced by everyone else - they refused to ground the Maxes until all other major air authorities did. That's also why EASA is involved in the Max recertification, and the 777X certification. Nobody trusts the FAA anymore.

And the fact that the door blowout didn't damage any part of the plane is miraculous - if it had hit the vertical stabiliser, the plane would have been a total loss.

So you're giving credit where very little is due.
Agree, I think we need to speak of abandoned, versus maintained.

No activity doesn't mean abandoned, it can just mean super stable and few bugs to fix.

Abandoned is a big worry though.

I wonder if we need a canary file, but in the repo. An "I'm still here" file.
> I don't see how, and you're not explaining it. If the models had been public this whole time, then... they would be protected against people publishing derivative models?

Are you suggesting that if OpenAI published their models, they would still want to prevent derivative models? You take the "I wish OpenAI was actually open" and add your own restriction?

Or do you mean that them publishing their models and research openly would not have increased innovation? Because that's quite a claim, and you're the one who has to explain your thinking.
Title not supported by article. Yes the asteroid had some chemicals necessary for life. So does the Earth. They didn't have to 'come from' an asteroid.

Clickbait.
I loved this footnote:

"That’s right, I’m the first person to admit that I shouldn’t have written this newsletter to begin with."
Manufacturing consent is easier than ever. Look at how many Americans feel that immigrants are mostly violent criminals.
They could use the car autopilot solution: simply negotiate your coordinates with nearby traffic instead of trying to parse malformed visual data.
That had always been the case. The new administration has already done a lot of things differently from previous administrations.

It was largely a matter of precedent, rather than law. It's unclear how much of the current path is legal. And, of course, whether it's good judgment is completely orthogonal to whether it's legal.
I'm aware of the "listen" versus "problem solving" scenario. I refuse to accept the framing. For some reason people have bought in to the idea that you can unload your emotions on someone and also create expectations on how they should respond.

If someone approaches you with a problem, they should expect you'll help them find a solution.
You mentioned America as an examplar of demcracy further up, while in truth it is an extremely flawed model of democracy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Economist_Democracy_Index

There are better models of democracy around.

Israel have the right to defend their country of course, but Palestinians have the right to fight occupation under international law. They are massively repressed around the world - try support Palestinian rights in the US right now.

Anyone can be labelled a terrorist. I would label the IDF a terrorist organisation due to their methods, their justifications for the many human rights abuses and killings ring very hollow. They also encourage and support their own fundamentalists - aka settlers - to commit crimes.

Lastly I think anyone who commits war crimes should be brought to the ICC; Israel has shown it is incapable of broadly prosecuting theses crimes and obviously the PA cant either. It is Israels fault if they kill civilians and I don't buy any of their justification as they've been shown again and again to be untrustworthy. I believe they will be found guilt of genocide in the end, and the countries who supplied them with the weapons and tech will be guilty of enabling a genocide - there's plenty of evidence that the state department in the US has brushed knowledge of human right abuses and war crimes under the carpet for political and ideological reasons.
Do you know a cheaper way to airplay to a TV?
If a library is stable with no major bugs, then I don’t see much of a difference between abandoned and maintained.

The one thing I would look at instead is open issues.
In economics, there is a concept of “revealed preference”.

80%+ of teens own iPhones

https://www.pymnts.com/consumer-insights/2023/apple-iphone-r...

And this is the percent of teens on various social media platforms

https://www.sentiment.io/how-many-teens-use-social-media/#t-...
We are anyways discussing the future :)
Because hallucinations is something that from a distance looks very unimportant, but when looked closely is a structural problem. Some people here live very close to the LLM field.

Structural because while a human being can be the judge of an LLM output, a computer (or another LLM) cannot.

No amount of error correction is enough to turn an LLM output into a reliable input to another (possible dumb) computer system. Worse: each time that output is processed the error increases and when the final output is shown to an user, the error might have been amplified beyond human recovery (or recognition) capacity.

Think about this: one user sends Amazon support an email asking to refund for a stolen item.

Can this email be processed do feed an automatic refund pipeline system? If the answer is no and you need a human to verify the result, then we have one reason why hallucinations matter.

And there are the cases where a user verification is not even possible, like:

- what is the procedure to perform CPR in a person above 80 years old?

The user can’t recover errors in the output generated by an LLM here, because she doesn’t know the correct answer.

That being the case, you cannot build a search engine out of an LLM here. Hence hallucinations matters very much is this case too.

Not even in the case of simple information extraction from a text you can ignore hallucinations, because if you provide a list of names and ask for all those starting with “A” you cannot be certain that all names output will actually start with “A” and most certainly cannot be certain that all correct names will be in the output. And this behavior cannot (as of today) be corrected on the LLM we have right now (the first part yes, the second part no).

So, LLM with hallucinations are a very powerful tool, but not the tools they are being sold as.
"There's a lot of stuff going on here, and I don't think this article does a very good job keeping it straight. If you take one thing away from all of this, it should probably be that internal copper planes are pretty great, and what happens on the outside of the board isn't so important."

And then this article totally ignores solid metal PCBs, which are my realm of specialty and have their own inherent challenges when it comes to digital equipment.
I know that the C++ syntax can be messy, but to me the rust syntax can reach above levels of complex and difficult to read.

Maybe I should practice it a bit more.
“Voting with your wallet” has absolutely nothing to do with “cancel culture”. Lost in translation?
More and more companies (and countries) are starting to realise this.
PE machinations aside, Sears and Kmart were dead for a long time before they closed the last stores.

Their failures are free market successes, because the free market is all about vendors serving customers. Vendors that fail to do so, are expected to die. Sears grossly failed to do so, for a decade or two before being financially zeroed.

If there's any argument for market failure in the Sears case, it is that the death took soo long to be finalized.
Be hopeful for the future of US when most teens are still on social media and “new media” has more misinformation than old media?
Abandoned means no one around to deal with security issues, or impacting bugs.

Maintained means they are. There may be no new features though.

(these are my definitions, but I think there should be similar concepts in all dev's heads)
> Perhaps we should not tell them to do such thing

And tell them not to tell each other to do it.

And risk. Low but rising is the point.

Fortunately no-one's giving them control of factories that make their substrates ... I hope.
> First JavaScript is unfortunately not just for web apps. It’s also for desktop apps.

A bit of a tangent but I’d say server is bigger than desktop. Like it or not JS (or TS) is the only cross platform development language that’s feasible today if you want to use a single language stack. As much as I despise the JS ecosystem practices and haphazard tooling there is no point trying to put the genie back in the bottle.
Thanks, this is gold.
Is there a problem with that or were the interviewers just being stubborn?
> holding me back

Just read the damn papers, and take notes, not because you’re going to want to review them later, because the mechanical process of writing things down burns them in.

The math will come through your persistence, I’m sure you’ll try and not finish dozens of YouTube lists and online courses. Build that store of PDFs on everything math related.

In the end it is merely making yourself do it that will make you that man.

btw, I was mathless for much of my life. Only later (also a self student of the many other things) did I have epiphanies of math that clicked it together.

A lifelong programmer, equations are like miniature procedural logic scripts or constraint definitions, one must spend the time learning every reference, and when you’ve had enough of that you will be able to “read” the math. It’s really not a large language, most people probably take years learning about sets and recursion and things that a programmer should get right away.

Like base conversion. A lot of complicated looking math is really just base conversion between different metrical scales.
Thunderbird 134.0 Released
This is normal in business. Now that tech dominates they use that market position to setup monopolies. If we had functional anti-trust laws then it wouldn't feel so dire. Allowing monopolies in a capitalist system is the worst economic policy since socialism.
Ha! That brought a smile to my face. Thank you.
I put my mouse against the screen but it didn't make me better at aiming in this version of the game unfortunately ;)

Thank you for letting us relive this moments of childhood!
Not if they are using Rust ... which is why I am not.
General Electric had a good run and ticked those boxes, as did many corporations until the 1980s. Then incentives changed.
Yeah, any change in oxidative balance could promote cancer.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7392807/
I like Donald Knuth's approach where his version numbers of TeX and Metafont asymptotically approach pi and e, respectively, emphasizing the slow approach toward perfection.
The bad news is no, we have nothing even remotely close to the infrastructure necessary to move half the world's population. We don't have the transport, being limited to planes and boats mostly.

The good news is that, worst-case scenario, this is going to wipe out a city. And cities and their surrounding areas can absolutely be evacuated. We definitely have the cars and buses necessary for that.
Why Footbinding Persisted in China for a Millennium (2015)
Fast Directory Tree Traversal: Haskell Streamly Beats Rust [video]
> one track might see a handful of them per day.

In the middle of nowhere. A metro track can have a train every 60s.

But it's still entirely fixed, with easy to deploy sensors on both the tracks and trains.
What Is a "Web Site"?
"Lost trust"? Who the fuck ever trusted any of those companies?
it also excludes downloads Windows/Mac OS app stores though I don't know what percentage of Windows/Mac users would download it that way
I still question that. It's generally as good as the day it came out. Discovered vulnerabilities are going to be in the language, probably not in the library itself. As long as it's not dependent on a language that's so old it's not getting security fixes, it should be fine.

Actually, a big exception is libraries that have external dependencies that change. A client library for an API, for example. Those can break quickly.
> Why don’t you identify all these easily found regulations then?

That was rude, and didn't at all speak to OP's point. They indicated that not all regulations are equal. Some are important and put into place because people died without them. Others are put into place for less important reasons. And the fact that _some_ regulations were removed doesn't mean that "ones written in blood" necessarily were.

There are definitely regulations out there written by people that have no idea what they are talking about, and that are a net negative on the area(s) they impact. Does that mean we should remove Chesterton's Fence? No. But it does mean that, if you see someone removing a fence, you shouldn't immediately accuse them of causing harm.
TB is curable and preventable and yet 1.25 million people died of TB last year. What they actually died of is poverty and lack of access to doctors, medicine, and adequate testing.