skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember as a kid putting that cd in my computer and driving the car from the "19-2000" music video around. The physics were so mind-boggling to me at the time. I loved it. This article is bringing back those memories.

Actually, I'm not sure if that demo/game came from the CD or from a promo website. It's been so long I don't remember.
App Stores (iOS, in particular) really made the problem worse. I have several games on iOS that are no longer playable (because of 32-bit removal) or even downloadable.
Exactly. They piggybacked of lots of compute and used less. There still is a total sum of a massive amount of compute
Consider pivoting to the physical engineering disciplines. For one, there is much less competition. For two, AI will not replace physical engineering anytime soon.

You can be in the field and get your hands dirty with engineering.
> If a query takes a bit longer to respond, I don't think that counts as downtime

"We're sorry that your query took 7 hours to be responded to, but it wasn't an outage - honest"
Again the link I posted was from Werner Vogels. The architecture that the CDO (Amazon Retail) uses is completely different than AWS.

Have you seen the difference between the architecture of CDO and AWS internally?
Man, I feel the exact opposite. Working without types, even if it's just type hints, feels like I'm stumbling around in the dark. I want to know what stuff is, not just YOLO my way through everything.

Looking at my Python before I began using type hints and data structures such as dataclasses, typevars, etc I was still type-checking a function's argument, but it was very manual and messy. Nowadays, my code is so much cleaner, concise, less error-prone, and much easier to revisit after a long period away. IMO there isn't a single downside to leaning heavily into types, even if they're sorta "fake" like they are in Python.
Yeah, definitely not a statement on Aaron himself. More a statement on idolizing people. There will always be instances where they didn't live up to what people think of them as. I think Aaron was fine and a normal human being.
I think they're bigger in the UK. Super creative band, I wish they got more recognition, even though I don't really listen to them myself.
An alternative explaination...

Deepseek is a side project for a hedge fund.

Shorting NVIDIA & releasing everything including the source would have a high probability of being hugely profitable, with almost zero downside if it went unnoticed.
> the reason they have these is because of their constant exposure to lawsuits from citizens and NGOs

Maybe, but in my experience, most of the overhead was there to avoid any kind of passive corruption for low-level employees. Also help avoid pressure, because high-level employees have no reasons to pressure temp worker/low-level employees (if they want to use their access to do a qui pro quo, they can, but they couldn't use a temp like me to do their bidding).

I was a temp in a bureaucracy highly susceptible to corruption though (IRS equivalent), maybe this kind of overhead can be found in bureaucracies without as easy access to money/power as mine had, but in that case, i would argue that it is more habit than external pressure.
Anyone know how to check these drives on a Mac?

I have a new (?) 8TB Seagate drive out in front of my house right now, just delivered.
You certainly implied they were the only two options, and you did not say anything remotely suggesting you were talking about other things that are more wasteful! You're just making all that up now.

Anyway the topic is libraries. I did not say that no other things should be examined for their value for money, I was just talking about libraries. And the government sure should make good spending decisions on everything they spend money on! What kind of suggestion is that??
Here is a site with a lot of long covid recovery stories:

https://www.longcovidcured.com/
At the pace that DeepSeek is developing we should expect them to surpass OpenAI in not that long.

The big question really is, are we doing it wrong, could we have created o1 for a fraction of the price. Will o4 cost less to train than o1 did?

The second question is naturally. If we create a smarter LLM, can we use it to create another LLM that is even smarter?

It would have been fantastic if DeepSeek could have come out with an o3 competitor before o3 even became publicly available. That way we would have known for sure that we’re doing it wrong. Cause then either we could have used o1 to train a better AI or we could have just trained in a smarter and cheaper way.
They RLHF'd first no?
This is bizarre to see the entire AI hype cycle speedrun all over on just DeepSeek.

I'm trying to square the excitement over DeepSeek with its good -but not dominant- performance in evals.
In my view there's two modes of creativity:

1. That two distant topics or ideas are actually much more closely related. The creative sees one example of an idea and applies it to a discipline that nobody expects. In theory, reduction of the maximally distant can probably be measured with a tangible metric.

2. Discovery of ideas that are even more maximally distant. Pushing the edge, and this can be done by pure search and randomness actually. But it's no good if it's garbage. The trick is, what is garbage? That is very context dependent.

(Also, a creative might be measured on the efficiency of these metrics rather than absolute output)
We are going to concentrate undesirables in a camp in Guantanamo. The U.S. social conscience has degraded fast.
You sound like the people who were buying "shitcoins" in the cryptocurrency frenzy.

Best of luck (you'll absolutely need luck, because that's a stupid move).
Gorillaz are timeless. My teenage kids love them
I think there is potential for a new python web framework with batteries included (like django) but using newer paradigms (typing, …). Fastapi itself is a nice concept but its a bit of a mess (the main author just keeps closing bug issues and adds somewhat useless things (just check the git commit log)), and also it requires db tooling (sqlalchemy) and other things
> As long as the vast majority of their data is good (and it will be)

So expert answers are out of scope? Nice, looking forward to those quality data!
Hi Andrew, amazing work and done for the best of reasons!

I see you are replying in the thread, in your closing notes you wrote:

> I would not have been able to get past the initial stages without ChatGPT.

One of the coolest uses of LLMs for me is indeed exploring a problem domain where I am not a subject matter expert.

The problem is if it leads you down a dead end or hallucinates a solution. Then, at the edge of your knowledge, you actually have a very small foothold with which to challenge these chat replies.

Did you also face this on the more HW 'heavy' part of your project? Any tips on how to navigate terra incognita with LLMs?
I loved that song and never saw the video. I don't think a video made any band famous since the MTV era.
Reminds me of when I was in 3rd grade, I told my teacher that some birds (parrots) can really understand words.

He flat out laughed at me in front of the whole class, and said No Way. I quietly disagreed with him.

When I got home, I told the story to my bird :)
I think mileage may have also varied based on industry and location. I eventually found my way into tech as a writer anyways, but most of the people I met via the STC were not working at tech companies. Granted it was DC so lots of defense contractors and the like.
Is there any evidence R1 is better than O1?

It seems like if they in fact distilled then what we have found is that you can create a worse copy of the model for ~5m dollars in compute by training on its outputs.
DeepSeek's technology is out of the bag.

Every LLM provider in the US will be using it to lower OpEx.

One of them is likely to pass those savings along to consumers to gain market share.

Facebook is in the business of providing weights for free.

The idea that we are all doomed unless we immediately migrate to DeepSeek is fantasy.
But most people in our profession get to choose their job, don't they? Why would a Python project hire a rust programmer? Why would someone who hates Python work on a Python project? I feel the same way. Sporadic use of type hints is nice, and I use it sometimes for reference, like a very succinct comment. But if I want a typed language, Go, Dart, C or even Java are right there.
It's because they're the ones who could raise the money to make those models. Academics don't have access to that kind of compute. But the free models exist.
I get how mass manufacturing works but it's crazy too seeing people walk on the side of a massive parking lot where cars are just sitting there not used (not sold yet).
It’s not widely used in mainstream medicine, but carefully tuned pharmacologic doses of iodine can successfully treat hypothyroidism for some people- such as the person you are replying to. It’s an “alternative medicine” thing but the biological mechanism and effect are real and understood. It should not be confused with regular dietary needs for someone that isn’t intentionally trying out a non mainstream medical intervention to treat a medical condition.

A sudden rapid increase in iodine intake causes a temporary transient hypothyroidism, but over sustained time periods steady high doses increase thyroid hormone production.

Doctors aren't likely to use this method because it is poorly studied, and the well studied standard of care is to directly supplement thyroid hormones. However, if someone doesn't have access to medical care, or doesn't respond well to that- this could be a solution.
The correct answer without context is that you don't have enough info. Cognitive decline as you age is also a population level phenomenon and we are discussing two separate, otherwise unknown people at specific ages relative to each other.
Neither did they? If you have time and skills, you just build and share to try to gain traction and/or partner up with people that can cover your skill gaps.

I feel like your comment is the root difference in what I see here. You must not be entrepreneurial at all if you think money is the barrier to building something people want. Sorry if that's harshly worded but I've started a business with a $5/month DO droplet and $15/year domain as have many others.
> Lies once again.

Everything they said was true and you did not even attempt to explain why or how they're wrong.

> AIPAC is funded by American Jews.

No shit. Name a single larger demographic with a protracted interest in defending Israel, I'll wait.

> Nice try hiding your hatred.

There are two governments on Earth that deny Israel's violation of international law. They are Israel and the United States. It is not hatred to oppose Zionism, it's global consensus.
Lol. You should listen to yourself. So much nonsense. what’s the point?
That's true, but I mean it'd be a hundred times worse if Deepseek did this on non-Nvidia cards. Which seems like only a matter of time if we're going to keep doing this.
And system knows how to deal with it. Try to walk around, attacking random people with a knife, cops would deal with you pretty fast!

I have a stalker that tries to kill me every day! But I am not allowed to get restraining order against it!

No! Somehow it is my responsibility not to trigger this smart noble creature! I must walk the right way (not too fast, not too slow). I am not allowed to carry items it does not like (food, babies, other animals). And it can defecate on my yard, but that is not trespassing!

And any hospital bills are on my, of course!

We do not tolerate drunk drivers, but dog owners without leash (about the same level of danger) are not punished!
Counterpoint, though - this supermarket pretty obviously is using that name because it's known from Nintendo. Something like "Mario Market" would be a coincidence of naming (like nissan.com for example, or MikeRoweSoft vs Microsoft), but it's pretty impossible to deliberately call it Super Mario in 2013 and not know you're intentionally free-riding.

How much of that should we allow? Taken to absurdity, or maybe not: should someone name their child "Nintendo" so they can put that name on anything they operate?
The rebuttal was to the conversation about the purported efficacy of Reading Recovery (or lack thereof) reaching enough of a critical mass that policy makers started paying attention (in 2024) and threatening its publisher's revenue stream. (the final podcast episode aired in 2022)

Whether or not there is a depth of understanding about the Recovery method that was improperly communicated to teachers is irrelevant. Whatever the shortcomings of the podcast, it did showcase the explicit use of the 3-queuing pattern in live, pandemic-era, zoom classrooms.

It further explored the (very positive) results from parents (with enough resources) making end-runs around school policy and seeking out private, phonetic reading tutors.

There is research to be done (perhaps rediscovered) as to why this may be so; however, what is _known_ is that the skill level for US students has fallen dramatically. The tipping point occurred in the early 1990's which happens to align with the ascension of the 3-queuing, Reading Recovery curriculum within US elementary school systems.

If the site breaks following a deployment, the deployment gets rolled back. The retrospective happens _after_ customers are no longer cursing your name. Its more complicated with humans, but time spent blaming lock-downs or (as a recent academic article complained of) a mysterious reticence of college students to read entire books, doesn't help anyone.

Phonetic teaching methods were used for centuries to create the peak from which we've fallen.

In the mean time, while the magic is sorted into science, those incantations that worked reasonably well from the 17th through the end of the 20th century might just pull us out of the fire long enough to be able to accomplish the research you yearn for.

If there is research that desperately needs to be explored, right now, it should be within the realm of how to help people who were put through the Reading Recovery program and are suffering the results.
majority of the scandanavian crime wave isnt due to immigration but drug dealing native biker gangs
Why assume only men can have harems?
The data set referenced is about social biases getting in the way of reasoning.
They can charge more in Melbourne and I'll happily pay it to avoid drivers that cancel the trip after accepting or accept the trip and drive away from me until I cancel.
Every piece of for-profit software that Buttondown relies on
Your question seems odd to me. You had to learn to write AbstractFactoryFactoryService. Just forget it? You don't need a book.

If you're used to writing nice concise code in other languages, just keep doing that, but in Java.
Show HN: Tidyparse – Real-time context-free syntax repair
Theorems discovery is amenable to verifiable rewards. But is meaningful theorems discovery too? Is the ability to discern between meaningful theorems and bad ones an emergent behaviour? You can check for yourself examples of automatic proofs, and the huge amount of intermediate theorems that they can generate which are not very meaningful.
The “enshitification” applies to everything, as basic functionality is harder or almost impossible to improve features are added as a sales driver together with lower price points, as you can imagine corners needs to be cut as the metrics take in account sales AND profit. General public doesn’t take in account (they’ve driven to think that way) durability or repairability, they just pay a lease so cars have become disposable.
Does it?

If I say "no, you hallucinated basically the entire content of the response", then maybe a newer training set derived from that could train on the specific fact that that specific hallucinated response is hallucinated. This seems to be of dubious value in a training set.
> I learned that One Does Not Simply put glass in front of a TFT display. It will look like a first-generation, low-budget Android phone if you do.

Do you happen to have any before-and-after photos of what this looked like, and more details on how your tortilla press DIY method works? I recently received a little hackable music player device with a TFT display that looks kind of bad and I wonder if this is something I can do to make the display look good.
There was zero net inflation in the century prior to 1914. But persistent inflation ever since.

What changed in 1914? Persistent deficits.
True. But at the same time, it is more open than "Open" AI. Or even LLAMA.
Truckee/Tahoe is an extremely popular test area for bay area AV companies. Waymo's been testing there regularly since at least 2017.
Interestingly, they're currently partnering with Uber in Florida if I remember correctly.
I know. It is even sort of tragic. The old Czech cohort of political dissenters who escaped from Czechoslovakia to Sweden back in the 1970s mostly described Swedish immigration policies as suicidal and the resulting drop in public safety as shocking, but less shocking than the persistent denial to which the political class stuck until the mid 2010s.
Ask HN: How can we be sure an AI doesn't have subjective experience?
If we can't rule this out, then maybe it would be unethical to use it like a slave?
There's no point, why risk it, for what benefit? Just brush your teeth and apply topical fluoride periodically. It's not hard. Is it for you?

Even a tiny negative impact on IQ is a dumb thing to accept in service to some nonsense rationale for your teeth. Accepting this tradeoff is an IQ test itself. I'm with Europe on this one.
Even today, if you look at the architecture and systems used by CDO and AWS, it’s clear that AWS was designed from the ground up to be sold to customers. The architecture used by Amazon Retail was not suitable for third party customers.

There is almost no similarity between AWS and CDO. I’m telling you this as someone who worked on the inside.

At most they took some of the things they learned. But it’s not like they took the code from any Amazon Retail implementation and did the equivalent of a “git checkout -b aws”

S3, SQS and EC2 the early AWS services were not based on the Amazon Retail systems at the time.

The entire control plane of CDO is completely different than AWS and always has been

If you want to see what services look like thst started out on Amazon Retail and moved over to AWS with few modifications - look no further than Amazon Connect. It was a lift and shift of the call center software that Amazon Retail uses without any AWS integrations or even publicly available APIs at first. It’s gotten better since 2020 when I was at AWS.
Can you state your hypothesis more explicitly? Because a trivial reading of the numbers show the inflation rate coming down (a lot) while the deficit has gone up.
Re-invest in crypto or other, already-existing stocks.
The secondary market is so huge nowadays, and uncorrelated from dividends, mainly because growth (followed by regular buybacks), not dividends, is now the main way to pay investors, but not only. In fact, what Jacques Richard call "futuristic accounting" (his research is available in english [0]) is basically helping big companies to decorrelate real profits from dividends.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265171038_The_dange...
This speaks to an interesting question that is extremely difficult to answer:

"Can pets think conceptually?"

A word like "table", to a human, does not represent a concrete. It represents an abstraction, ALL tables, all things that have a flat surface and four legs.

When a dog hears "table", or "walk", do they understand the abstract concept of walking, or tables in general? Or do they interpret it as a very specific, concrete verb or noun?

That is the 6 million dollar question when it comes to an animal's ability to truly, genuinely understand spoken language. This is also why some philosophers conclude that animals cannot reason (it's a hypothesis, though, we don't know). Reason requires abstract thought and being able to prove that an animal is capable of abstract thinking is incredibly difficult.
Kinda sorta apparently.

The rescinded the memo but not the freeze, apparently to try to dodge lawsuits? It’s confusing.
watching peoplein r/conservatives jumping happy with this news. I understand there is waste to some degree, but it feels dystopian.

https://www.reddit.com/r/conservatives/comments/1ibznfh/all_...
I'm not 100% sure you can out of the box, the default driver on macOS is very restrictive in what commands can be passed through to the device.
Clearly the next step after building your own CPU and SOC is to start Apple Foundry and become totally vertically integrated?
I graduated college in the early 1990s and minored in technical writing. I started the first "Student Society of STC" back in college, and that lead to some good internships and a few jobs. Wrote software manuals and online help for an email software company that ran on the AS/400 and MVS. Had to write and code it in SGML, then that eventually moved to HTML.

In my daily work today, I still rely on all those basic principles of technical writing.

As a "long timer" so to speak, I think eventually there ended up being a decline of pure "technical writer" jobs out there, and not too many people going into the profession.
Hell yeah. It's amazing how GLP-1's help in other areas of life, not just food cravings.
I believe its no longer "sub" and now their mandate is just maintaining close to 2%
I mean, yes that's how progress works. Has OpenAI got a patent? If not it's fair game.

We don't make people figure out how to domesticate a cow every time they want a hamburger. Or test hundreds of thousands of filaments before they can have a lightbulb. Inventions, once invented, exist as giants to stand upon. The inventor can either choose to disclose the invention and earn a patent for exclusive rights, or they can try to keep it a secret and hope nobody reverse engineers it.
> due to variations in earth's orbit

I don't see how this could possibly be correct. Earth's orbit is very precisely known.
No chance, far too loud, and I doubt Boom will get approval either
The impact to society would be much greater on a sociological scale then on a physical scale, many nukes are more than 8Mt, the likelihood of it hitting a highly populated area is lower still.
Inflation rate of what? Inflation can be measured against different "market baskets." Consider this huge defect in the commonly-cited one:

"Core inflation is the change in the costs of goods and services but does not include those from the food and energy sectors. Food and energy prices are exempt from this calculation because their prices can be too volatile or fluctuate wildly." - https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/coreinflation.asp

And yet the cost of food is probably the most often-cited one in any news story about inflation... unless the winner is the other statistically-omitted one, fuel.
There’s ordinary xkcd wrong on the internet and there’s repeating foreign nation state propaganda lines. Doing it in good faith does not make it less bad.
It's just an LLM. My cat can understand a few words.
Man is one of my heroes. I grew up on the FP forum idolizing him
We are talking ancient history ? Not Japan post Meiji restoration trying to be copy and catch up to world powers after stagnating during the Tokugawa shogunate for centuries.

After the sengoku jidai[1] the failed imjin wars under Toyotomi Hideyoshi was the only serious attempt to expand to China and Korea, they of course failed and Japan faced inward till Meiji period as was typical of most of their history

Post Meiji restoration is hardly a fair comparison the Japanese believed that they have to be like other world (colonial) powers to be powerful.

[1]Unrelated note: one of my favorite periods in history.
Damon Albarn is a genius, plain and simple.