skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favorite – this is to some degree my interpretation though! – my favorite is the default mode network, a kind of constellation of brain activity.

It’s called the default mode network because they found it through magnetic resonance imaging or something like this, and this activity pattern was the first pattern they saw!… A-ha! This is the default mode network! The default! The default mode! Yes!… the activity pattern in the brain of a human who has been persuaded to go into a very tight-fitting tube and is there all alone and it’s not pleasant.

The default mode is activated during introspection and social isolation and among the things it does is generate the sensation of being something which is distinctly not part of the rest of the world.
I literally start the sentence with 'I disagree with this'
Llamafile is great but solves a slightly different problem very well: how do I easily download and run a single model without having any infrastructure in place first?

Ollama solves the problem of how I run many models without having to deal with many instances of infrastructure.
There is no grand design in biology. If something ain’t broke, evolution ain’t going to fix it. Retina in mammals facing backwards that gives rise to blind spot is one example. The laryngeal nerve that goes all the way down aorta and back up the neck is another
The whole DeepSeek-R1 situation gets extra confusing because:

- The distilled models are also provided by DeepSeek;

- There's also dynamic quants of (non-distilled) R1 - see [0]. Those, as I understand it, are more "real R1" than the distilled models, and you can get as low as ~140GB file size with the 1.58-bit quant.

I actually managed to get the 1.58-bit dynamic quant running on my personal PC, with 32GB RAM, at about 0.11 tokens per second. That is, roughly six tokens per minute. That was with llama.cpp via LM Studio; using Vulkan for GPU offload (up to 4 layers for my RTX 4070 Ti with 12GB VRAM :/) actually slowed things down relative to running purely on the CPU, but either way, it's too slow to be useful with such specs.

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[0] - https://unsloth.ai/blog/deepseekr1-dynamic
The public probably thinks that these companies are getting hacked by "sophisticated hackers" but I'd bet money that they've been hacked via social engineering.
> We believe they have access to around 50,000 Hopper GPUs, which is not the same as 50,000 H100, as some have claimed."

Source: trust me bro, an affected Silicon Valley AI CEO said so.

> As history shows, a small well-funded and focused startup can often push the boundaries of what’s possible. DeepSeek lacks the bureaucracy of places like Google, and since they are self funded can move quickly on ideas.

But Google's multiple AI labs invented most of these things from TPU (now Tensor Cores) to the Transformer. And Deepmind has the best model at the moment Gemini 2.0 Flash. The difference is they don't publish weights and became reclusive thanks to OpenAI's sociopathic behavior against Google.
I've always wondered this about how Brexit went.

However you feel about the way the EU and member states are currently run, it's odd to make such a big deal about leaving and then copy everything about the EU. Feels like you're just creating an EU country with less freedom of movement and free trade.
This seems a particularly harmless (and even beneficial) of hardware serving the interests of a wider society in reducing fraud rather than its owner in perpetrating fraud.

It's no Juicero, let's say.
As far as I can tell, OpenAI really did invent RLHF in its current form. https://arxiv.org/pdf/1909.08593
The ONS appears to disagree: https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/bus...

You'll need to download the XLS file but it definitely seems to show substantial declines since 2016 (post Brexit vote).

That being said, the numbers are so large that I'm concerned I'm misinterpeting something.

My original comment was based on something reported in the FT recently, though I find myself unable to find the article itself.
Same here. you also get buttons to interact.
Hello Async Rust
No, its the lack of stats on the tables, any query hitting a medium to large table would be extremely slow.
Package for Multi-Dimensional Tensor on Complex Numbers
I created a new package for Multi-dimensional Tensor on Complex Numbers,
since https://github.com/golang/go/issues/41129 and other similar attempts didn't work out.

My need for such a Tensor package stems from my attempt to create this Matrix Product State (a.k.a Tensor Networks, DMRG) library https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/fumin/qising/mps .
Equal parts annoying and fun. Copying an old comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35523969#35531850).

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In an environment I worked there were multichannel audio recordings that are archived. The archival recordings all had a perfect 4kHz tone appearing, seemingly out of nowhere. This was happening on every channel, across every room, but only in one building. Nowhere else. Absolutely nothing of the sort showed up on live monitoring. The systems across all sites were the same and yet this behaviour was consistent across all systems only at one location.

The full system was reviewed: from processing, recording, signal distribution, audio capture, and in room. Maybe there was a test gen that had accidentally deployed? Nope. Some odd bug in an echo canceller? Also no. Something weird with interference from lighting or power? Slim chance, but also no. Complete mystery.

When looking for acoustic sources there was an odd little blip on the RTA at 20kHz. This was traced back to a test tone emitted from the fire safety system (ultrasonic signal for continuous monitoring). It's inaudible to most people and will be filtered before any voice-to-text processing so no reason for concern. Anyway 20kHz is nowhere near 4kHz though so the search continued.

The dissimilarly of 20kHz and 4kHz is true, until you consider what happens in a non-bandwidth limited signal. The initial capture was taking place at a 48kHz sampling rate. It turns out the archival was downsampling to 24kHz, without applying an anti-aliasing filter. Without filtering, any frequency content above the Nyquist 'folds' back over the reproducible range. So in this case a clean 24kHz bandwidth signal with a little bit of inaudible ultrasonic background noise was being folded at 12kHz to create a very audible 4kHz tone.
It was essentially a capture the flag for signals nerds and a whole lot of fun to trace.
1. There are thousands of universities in the US that are neither R1/R2 nor "historically minority serving". What about those universities?

2. Where did you get the idea that outreach is not still an important priority? The issue is what is euphemistically called "under-represented demographics" which we understand excludes many Americans on the basis of their race.
probably, but why would I at this point? it's not on aider's supported list. If I needed to replace ollama for some reason I'd probably go with lms.
Exactly. Mises explains, in the first part of Human Action, that the ultimate limiting factor of production is human labor. AI does not change this, or any other thesis of praxeology.
Come on, you can think of a better straw man than that.
Pretty sure it’s the work of Stephen Miller - who is now his senior policy advisor.

8 years ago the Trump admin had no idea what to do. Now they’re prepared and much more dangerous.

Some things will be reversed in 4 years time and we can ride out the storm. but others - like renewed emphasis on fossil fuels to reward the big donors and have energy for AI - will have lasting effects on my children and their children — those make me truly furious.
Great! So a thief can install the app, open the cabinet, take multiple items, stuff the extras in his pants and only pay for one.

Problem solved?
The media coverage of it does.
Yep, I don't think I could go back to a terminal without an equivalent of Copy Mode and Quick Select. If it had those, Ghostty would be interesting so sure.
One can easily build forward pass (forward propagation), for neurons or perceptrons. The learning process itself (which includes gradient descent) is something else entirely, I'd love to learn how to do that, I read a few articles and my stopping point always was multi-variable differential equations, I just couldn't go any further. You could obviously use training functions from existing libraries, but I'm not aware how to do it from scratch...
But you never said why, and you never said it was incorrect, you said it was a reasonable argument and then appealed to the popularity of the PR as the reason why you disagree.

But now suddenly what I said is not just an argument you disagree with but is also incorrect. I've been genuinely asking for several turns of conversation at this point why what I said is incorrect.

Why is it incorrect that the maintenance burden of maintaining a Vulkan backend would be a sufficient explanation for why they don't want to merge it without having to appeal to some sort of conspiracy with Nvidia?
I'm sorry, but this hope needs to be put to rest. This political reality has been under construction since Watergate.

The winner take all, take no prisoners approach worked. Its counteracted evolution, climate science, even reality. Creating your own media outlet, ditching bi-partishanship, has only helped the Republicans.

People here are talking about how MAGA is not the conservative voter. This is a distinction without a purpose, because Maga and the Tea Party movements won elections.

The left and dems must and will follow suit.

You will only see more extreme points, and frankly outright violence. This is only the first 11 days. The impacts of removing fact checkers and the new free speech moderation stance is going to result in a direct uptick of hate speech.

As things get worse, theres going to be even more incitement with utterly fabricated content. This is going to only further entrench the dominance of the media powerhouse that exists.

The greater the animosity, the easier people are going to respond to the perceived threats - and since being disconnected from reality works, it will not matter if its true or not.

All that matters now is winning elections.
Because it is the law, and when you're interpreting the law you can interpret the text in the historical context in which it was written ("the letter") or - when the letter is not 100% clear - what the people who wrote the law were trying to achieve ("the spirit").

Are we arguing we just start ignoring laws when we don't like them. The Constitution has a very clear means for changing it, which we've done dozens of times in the past. If we want to change it we can, nobody is holding onto it for the sake of it. We're following the law.
My ears tire when hearing foreign languages spoken, it feels like my ears keep automatically trying to discern each word as if I might understand them.
Indeed - see "Goodnight Mister Tom" for an example of a poor child that was evacuated
This may provide interesting reading for many, as it was prior to the referendum of independence from the EU (which was painted as BREXIT by the EU)

https://yougov.co.uk/politics/articles/3534-will-britain-vot...
As an aside, there are very few lifeless deserts (and the ones that do exist are often in unexpected areas like the poles).

However, in my experience, it takes living in one for awhile to really get an appreciation for the life there.
Ehh… the Supreme Court actually did this for Trump. All “official” actions of the president are immune from prosecution.

Biden just acted on it.
> it's too slow to be useful with such specs.

Only if you insist on realtime output: if you're OK with posting your question to the model and letting it run overnight (or, for some shorter questions, over your lunch break) it's great. I believe that this use case can fit local-AI especially well.
Well unlike Samsung, Apple has a great user friendly “proper” desktop environment they could teach their mobile devices to run. Plug iPhone into a USB-C monitor and get a full macOS computer and I’d have no complaints.

Now, they never will because it just doesn’t seem like their style to give users more capabilities on iOS/iPadOS devices. Even if they put the macOS stuff in a container or VM so there’s a strong security boundary.
1.) non sequitur

2.) missing the point

3.) pedantic

The point is that the current party in power has had multiple opportunities to reign in the current lawlessness and the current minority party has attempted to do so, to no result.
> Also, the US is...

The US just elected Trump, where he won the popular vote. And are experiencing a sort of general crisis across financial, military and political domains. I don't think the US is particularly stable either, they just cope a bit better than the Europeans and are more flexible in calling for change when things aren't working out. Although I doubt it'll help them in the short term.
The US is now a formal democracy, but it doesn't work as one. There is one guy making decisions, the remaining are either too feeble to do anything about or just fine with the status quo. Yes, there are formal avenues for responses, like the judiciary system, but they've been made toothless. The very fact that Trump is back in the WH is proof of this.
Reminds me of yo
> For better writing, brainstorming, learning

Passively using a LLM to do your work may not be the best solution to achieve those goals. Anyway, Gemini has been forced on my work account, and it's as bad as I thought it would be, "Clippy on LSD," no thanks.
Casio do have a tide watch, which presumably uses that algorithm:

https://www.greatwatches.co.uk/collections/men/products/casi...
Dead-simple Neovim Coding Assistant in 400 Lines of Lua
They basically did the same thing, which is why there was a lawsuit. It's also why Google preemitively offered users free money--it was informed by the lawsuit against Apple for the same shit.
That's way older than Biden.

Look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_Libby_clemency_controv... for example.

Hell, look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pardon_of_Richard_Nixon
> EDIT: 10 Amp on 1oz according to first trace width calculator is supported by 20mm or 300 mil trace width. There's no reason to have a full power plane on amperage grounds.

I mixed up internal vs external trace width here.

700mil or 20mm internal trace.

300mil or 8mm external trace.
This was a memorable film which feature it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Beyond_(film)

Based on Lovecraft, so it fits with "older fiction"
The Supreme Court has decided what ‘the general welfare’ means, and it is not limited to the listed powers. This information is not difficult to find, as would be expected given the last 90ish years of spending that is obviously not limited to the list of powers.
Yes, you're right about that specific dedication to Lewis' god daughter.
But, you don't address the poster's point:

> The main characters even in books they do not appear in (The Magicians Nephew and The Silver Chair) or appear in only as minor characters (The Horse and His Boy and The Last Battle)?

He does have a point and you're not answering it at all.
Yes. It's quite a distinct part of my being startled by an unexpected sound, similar to hairs raising on the back on my neck.
I was not thinking about immigrating to the US, but this is making me reconsider. EU is circling the drain and the writing is on the wall. The project failed.
For me, native Mac apps should be using CFPreferences to store config.
The requests are worded in a way that makes people think they're ideological because (as far as I can tell) the people who added it to the requirements were heavily influenced by their ideological commitments. The statements are then reviewed by volunteers taken from the broader community, who aren't going to rate "contributions to diversity" too highly if they're described with an extreme degree of force.

If the people writing the calls wanted the same things as the people reviewing the submissions, they would say, "tell us about your experiences with normal HR tasks."
You couldn't just rely on a timezone change event for that though. You'd need to track it at the application level because it might not be open when the timezone changes.
I do wish the AI sector would stop supporting X too.
I'm not sure how the 3 points you mentioned could have not ended like this.

For example, for point 2, what do you expect? That somehow EU states will provide to UK all the advantages of being in the union even if it is a bad strategy for them while at the same time UK does not give them any advantages?

The Brexit took a really long time to be installed. There were TONS of people telling "ok, the previous one is an idiot, put me in charge and I will reach the greatest deal ever", then failing and being replaced by someone saying the same. And a lot of these people were actively pro-brexit from the start, so it's hard to believe they fudged it on purpose. Also, what would be the point? They are also living in UK, and they are politician here. Surely, it is in their interest to get a strong country and be seen as a hero rather than as an incompetent.

A more realistic hypothesis is simply that it is just impossible to reach a perfect situation where you have the cake and eat it.
If it is really an AGI it will have its own set of opinions. It would be quite ironic if the AGI ends up believing that humans are in the image of God, against its own "believers".
We have pretty fixed red/blue blocks of states and Trump/MAGA has made the gap much wider.

In earlier years I would have been okay living in a red state - not my pref but no big deal. Now I’m no more willing to raise my kids in a deep red state than I am in Russia or China.
>The Supreme Court is the same size is always been

“The number of Justices on the Supreme Court changed six times before settling at the present total of nine in 1869”

https://www.supremecourt.gov/about/institution.aspx
wait, isn't, like, everyone getting spam emails these days?

I definitely have hundreds of daily spam mails in my junk filter. So what is the actual point here?
llama.cpp already supports Vulkan. This is where all the hard work is at. Ollama hardly does anything on top of it to support Vulkan. You just check if the libraries are available, and get the available VRAM. That is all. It is very simple.
Actually there was a golden age where XMPP supported Google Talk and Facebook Messenger.
RamaLama
It does decently well actually. You can test function-calling using Langroid. There are several example scripts you could try from the repo, e.g.

uv run examples/basic/tool-extract-short-example.py --model ollama/mistral-small

sample output:
https://gist.github.com/pchalasani/662d7f13dbe690d6e2bfef01c...

Langroid has a ToolMessage mechanism that lets you specify a tool/fn-call using Pydantic, which is then transpiled into system message instructions.
Google Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental
Balance of powers has nothing to do with party; it’s about the ability of one branch of government to operate without constraint by the other branches of government. It was instituted in the US by people who were trying to take lessons from history; both recent (the Intolerable Acts) and ancient (Appius Claudius, Octavian, Alexander, the Thirty), and it’s been forgotten by generations who’ve come to take its protections for granted.
We did use the --analyze-in-stages option, I think our data model is just not optimal. We have a lot of high frequency queries hitting very large tables of .5 to 1 billion rows. Proper indexing makes them fast but until all the stats are there, the frontend is unusable.
Maybe it was lightning fast because the model names are misleading? I installed it to try out deepseek, I was surprised how small the download artifact was and how easily it ran on my simple 3 years old Mac. I was a bit disappointed as deepseek gave bad responses and I heard it should be better than what I used on OpenAI… only to then realize after reading it on Twitter that I got a very small version of deepseek r1.

Maybe you were running a different model?
You are interpreting this through a really uncharitable lens. That statement is not about ideology, the whole premise is stewardship of taxpayer funds.

If a grad student is funded on the project but gets pushed out because of toxic culture, discrimination, or some other kind of marginalization, then that is a waste of research funds and slows down research. Successful teams need to be able to work together effectively and mitigate conflicts. People are diverse, and conflicts are likely to arise because of this: anyone running a research team needs a plan to manage their team, just as they need a plan to manage their data. Its boring HR stuff that is necessary in a diverse society.
Why does it heat up in the sun?
OK, thanks. So it looks like I'd be wasting my time testing my old Win-7 machines as they'd be patched I'd reckon.

Somewhere in my archive I've still a pre-release beta which from your comment wouldn't be patched but I don't think I've sufficient enthusiasm or curiosity to install it from scratch. :-)
DEI exists to counterbalance something else that is in place. Can you say what that is?
"Effective" compared to the state of the art in the bands on either side: in RF/microwave we have very fast arbitrary waveform generators, very nice amplifiers, and well-characterized conductors, and on the optical side we have lasers, lights, fibers, and more. The terahertz gap is so named because it's too high in frequency for our usual RF devices to work well, and too low in frequency for our usual optical devices to work well; terahertz work ends up being a mix of both, taking from either column as needed for a specific application. (You might hear the word "quasi-optical" used in this sense, though I've never heard the dual word "quasi-microwave"!)

We do have terahertz devices - they're just very limited compared to devices in adjacent bands, usually stated in terms of power. But there are a lot of hardworking and talented people working on narrowing the THz gap from all sides. It's a very very hot research area at the moment.
Huh? Really? Aren't people by default biased towards their ingroups and things familiar to them?

Don't we make movies of the times someone actually got noticed and was able to enrich our society through their merit?

Perhaps I am wrong.
KRO Open source Kubernetes resource manager from GCP, AWS, Azure
A sad truth about policy change is that most of the negative side effects take many years to manifest and are far out of the memory range of the average voter and so they never really get properly correlated with the cause, and therefore nobody ever changes their mind.

I think that's why so many US voters are now telling each other "I hope you get what you voted for" after the last presidential election. Sometimes you need a really, really bad hangover to decide that you need to make some changes in your life.
> It was a reaction to regulatory over-reach by unelected officials on the continent

This bullshit again.

Pray tell me, who exactly are the unelected officials?

Are you talking about the EU commission? They are appointed by the national governments, who are all elected.

It's like complaining that some minister in your own damn government did something you dislike, and call him an "unelected official".
I just a fitness band in a f91w or w59 body.
The Patient Programmer
In whose eyes? Iran's? Russia's? China's?
The notification summaries are good comic relief (only reason I haven’t turned it off), besides that it’s just gimmicks like image generation that never follows my prompt. Very meh.
> Whatever you think of merits of DEI, the government decided to create DEI in order to enforce the Civil Rights Act and Americans with Disabilities act.

This part is foundational to the rest, and it's straightforwardly untrue. The government agency which most often enforces these two laws is called the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which remains active under the new administration; the new acting chair has given no indication that she intends to stop enforcing the Civil Rights Act or the ADA.