skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking at the news,

>Treasure hunters, we have an update! Unfortunately, some of our signs have been removed or stolen, but don’t worry—the hunt is still on!

Amuses me. I like to imagine it's black hat treasure hunters trying to hamstring the competition, but I know it's probably the cleaning staff.
Do you realize that HN stands for HACKER news, yes?

Why can't we use this for nerd stuff only? Isn't there enough political forums/newspaper/etc on the internet?
I am amazed to see how many STEM books China published.
"besides privacy"

lol.

Yeah, just besides that one little thing. We really are a beaten down society aren't we.
Is it wrong to say that they are developing sociopaths in this fashion? Anyone ever read the book to say how it is applicable? If you were a client how would you feel about knowing that your interactions with your consultant were all an act?

“Being a successful FDE required an unusual sensitivity to social context – what you really had to do was partner with your corporate (or government) counterparts at the highest level and gain their trust, which often required playing political games.”
Since when is CNN paywalled?!?
Guessing https://www.runn.io/careers based on

Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2024)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40563325
Apart from the HW requirements the others mentioned, Apple Intelligence is only available in the US (or at least it's not available in the EU). So make sure you're in the US.
I recall several heads of the CDC auditioning, their answers to representatives would indicate it is/was (mis) information that undoubtedly the new administration would make sure to "purge".

It is becoming very difficult to distinguish justice from crooks in the U.S.

The CDC had lost all credibility anyway, dismantling it wouldn't be a bad idea, maybe not all of it, so that's what we are (not) seeing there.
Lmao work 40+ for almost the same pay?! No thanks.
I don’t disagree with you. The idea is that there is a lot of information online about how to do it right. I would have stayed to explain, because it’s confusing af, but I think that’s what happened. I don’t think soatok is intentionally self-serving, but I don’t know them personally.
"Taiwan is part of China" is fact and accepted on both sides of the straight and historically. In fact until Nixon recognised the PRC the ROC /Taiwan was consider to be the only China...

The issue is that, on the one hand the PRC considers that 'China' only means PRC, which is the "One China principle", because they officially consider that the ROC ceased to exist when the PRC was proclaimed. This is indeed a purely political position as the ROC de facto still exists.

Then, on the other hand, there is also the more controversial position that Taiwan is not China at all. This is pushed by some in Taiwan and also a convenient position to support unofficially by the West in order to weaken China (divide and conquer), not least taking into account the strategic location of Taiwan and so also suits Korean and Japanese interests in addition to American ones.

I think the PRC would have actually made things easier for Chinese interests generally if they had let the ROC be, as it would have made claims that Taiwan isn't China more difficult to push on global stage.
I've visited it a few times (stayed over the weekend for a birthday as well) and it's surprising how small the Village is if you've just seen it from the series. There's a lot of forced perspective designed into the buildings to make them seem larger as well as some fake windows painted on the outside. I like the mix of themes with the various statues and paintings - mermaids, lions, angels, buddha etc.
Room sound issues in the Java Devroom has just been fixed! Thanks to the folks that worked so hard on it since the morning
It's like when we were kids and teachers said "you won't always have a calculator in your pocket". In 30 years, we might all have an AI model in a brain chip, who knows.
I don’t know. I stopped using DeepL sometime last year as I found its inability to be prompted about the purpose of the translation to be too limiting for my purposes. At that time, it also had problems with things like maintaining coherent pronoun reference over multiple paragraphs—problems not seen with LLMs. Perhaps DeepL has gotten better since. In any case, I’m sure they have a lot of smart developers and understand well the problems of translation, so I have no reason to think that I would be able to produce a better fully automated translation system than they have.
Kind of embarrassed to ask, I use AI a lot, I haven't really understood how the nuts and bolts work (other than at a 5th-grader 30000ft level)...

So, when I use a "full" AI like chatGPT4o, I ask it questions and it has a firm grip on a vast amount of knowledge, like, whole-internet/search-engine scope knowledge.

If I run an AI "locally", on even a muscular server, it obviously does NOT have vast amounts of stored information about everything. So what use is it to run locally? Can I just talk to it as though it were a very smart person who, tragically, knows nothing?

I mean, I suppose I could point it to a NAS box full of pdf's and ask questions about that narrow range of knowledge, or maybe get one of those downloaded wikipedia stores. Is that what folks are doing? It seems like you would really need a lot content for the AI to even be remotely useable like the online versions.
That doesn’t consider the greater picture and all the costs.

If the harder worker becomes dissatisfied sooner and leaves the position sooner than the worker putting in fewer hours, that increased employee turnover will result in lower company productivity and higher overhead.

The net result may be far worse.
It invalidates their point because what’s stopping you from saying say “you can be outcompeted by someone willing to work 168 hours a week.”

it’s not diminishing positive returns. Eventually you work so much the returns go negative.

According to you it doesn’t matter if on the 49th consecutive hour the worker is basically dead and unable to come into work the next week. Overwork leads to loss of productivity and possible negative outcomes for the business if mistakes happen because of exhaustion.

In the real world there is probably some equilibrium for maximizing productivity vs hours work vs supply of workers capable of working those hours to that quality consistently.
Show HN: DeepSeek Generator – Explore DeepSeek AI for Fun
Temu, Shein and Amazon to be liable in EU for 'unsafe' or 'illegal' goods
That’s an art project by Gan Golan and Andrew Boyd and has nothing to do with governing.
I like this. However, I did not find any minimum specs or speed. Maybe I missed? Can some point me in the right direction please?
Sure, in the same sense that an EKG can be abnormal on an otherwise perfectly healthy patient. This is why we treat patients, not test results.
This is why I use the Azure-hosted versions (disclosure: I’m an MS FTE, but I use all sorts of 3rd party models for my own projects) - I _know_ which version is behind each endpoint and when they will be replaced (you can also pin versions within a support window that varies according to model), so I don’t have to rework all my prompts and throw work away at the drop of a hat.
https://archive.ph/TaAP0

The EU sometimes does a thing the right way. But only sometimes, sadly.
The Danes sure are taking the Greenland demands seriously
Are there any security concerns over DeepSeek as there are over TikTok?
If an object is a RAII container though, shouldn't moving transfer the ownership of the contents to the destination? Otherwise there's no way to increase the lifetime of the contents.
Possibly, probably. But there's zero indication current direction will change.
Why Is Every Feedback System Either Annoying, Useless, or Both?
You’ve seen them. Those annoying “How was your experience?” pop-ups that appear right before you finish your task. Or worse—the ones that won’t let you proceed without giving a rating. And when you do leave feedback, where does it go? Straight into the void.

Building a proper feedback system is deceptively hard:

Users don’t want to engage. (Unless they’re mad.)
Spam floods in. (Hello, bots.)
Companies ignore feedback. (Until Twitter gets involved.)
It’s a mess to analyze. (AI? Maybe. Interns? Definitely.)
Real-time scaling? (Enjoy your 500 errors.)
Privacy concerns? (Insert long unreadable policy.)
Integrations? (Hope you like Zapier.)
Following up with users? (LOL.)
I got tired of this, so I’m building a startup to fix it.

Beautiful UI/UX (without being annoying)
Great DX (framework-agnostic, pre-built components, API-first)
Handles spam & categorizes feedback automatically
Scales properly (no hacks, just good engineering)
Real-time & integrates with anything

We’re very early but making very good shhhht—you get it. Want to contribute?
GitHub: https://github.com/solo-fox/review-now
Live Progress: reviewnow.vercel.app

Come build with us before feedback systems become the next captcha nightmare!
Try 10 to 12 hours as most construction jobs are waiting on weather and run overtime when they can.

Second, where is the charge point when you are building a new highway? Roads are usually the first to go in, so if you have to spend an hour driving to a charge point, that's an hour of productive lost
I have never had a chance to use C# professionally, but it was one of the first languages I taught myself when I was first learning programming when I was a kid. I have a lot of fond memories of it, and I hear so many positive things about C# and .NET Core these days… but I just don’t see very many interesting tech jobs where I would have the chance to use C#. So, I’ve mostly used Go, Rust, and TypeScript through my career up to this point.

If anyone wants to point me to some good C# opportunities, I’m interested. (Tracebit is looking for a founding engineer, so presumably they want someone who is already an expert at C#, and I doubt they want to sponsor the visa work needed to bring someone to the UK.)
> I think we can all agree that depending on which administration is in charge, "Government Science" is anything but unbiased.

Nope, but you've just made it clear you're susceptible to propaganda.
Given what it got wrong was in the LLM part, that is a distinction without a difference.
You have once in a lifetime opportunity to get a paper proving you know something. When you get older that opportunity will be gone. Sure, some people will tell you this is not true and that you can get it later too. It's 0.01% that really does this, no matter how much people will try to convince you it's not true.

Once your age window is over so is your chance to get your degree. Whether you need it or not. And when you are older you will thank your younger self that you did it. Or you will regret you dropped. Most likely you will not regret having it.

Don't let temporary emotional cloud or fears changing your life trajectory.
Oh come on, the vast majority of LW meetups are about as racy as the IRL comment section of HN.
If people really cared they would have stored copies of this data, not just relied on a single source.
> Musk is evidently seizing control of the Office of Personnel Management

Suddenly I feel out of the loop when it comes to US politics, how come Musk is suddenly seemingly seizing control of parts of the US government? I don't recall him being on any ballots or anything?
Most of an AI's knowledge is inside the weights, so when you run it locally, it has all that knowledge inside!

Some AI services allow the use of 'tools', and some of those tools can search the web, calculate numbers, reserve restaurants, etc. However, you'll typically see it doing that in the UI.

Local models can do that too, but it's typically a bit more setup.
Or the companies have figured out it's more expensive to hire a full time professional cryptographer to vet the process, than to deal with the PR for now more or less normalized data breaches.
I would just like to point out that Musk is the richest man in the world and is now directing critical areas of the U.S. government. Surely he doesn't have ulterior motives and is looking out for the average person?
I've also been away from the tech (and AI scene) for a few years now. And I mostly stayed away from LLMs. But I'm certain that all the content is baked into the model, during training. When you query the model locally (since I suppose you don't train it yourself), you get all that knowledge that's baked into the model weights.

So I would assume the locally queried output to be comparable with the output you get from an online service (they probably use slightly better models, I don't think they release their latest ones to the public).
You find this everywhere in the tech community. Especially places like github. Posts about software where there is no explanation whatsoever as to what it does or why.
They are specifically referring to usage of APIs where you just pay by the token, not by compute. In this case, you aren’t paying for capacity at all, just usage.
The calculation shows it's cheaper even if you run local AI 24/7
I ask this all the time. locally running an LLM seems super hobbyist to me. like tweaking terminal font sizes on fringe BSD distros kind of thing
Maybe you should add "distills" to the title? As this is about installing Ollama to grab the 7b or 14b R1-Qwen-distills, not "R1".
It's a local model, what security concern would you have ?
It has already caused me to not further investigate purchases. Similar to yelp, if I have to log in to see things, you're dead to me.
Ah. I need to find a tighter quantization then, if it exists at all.
I find this funny from people that make their living from $$ from software! Lol

But apart from that Bruno is open source (MIT), you can fork it and have it anyway you want…

The paid option seems just like the traditional open source model of make software free but offer enterprise support. And given that CTOs tent to want to pay for stuff (postman is terrible nowadays but is still picked and paid for) why would Bruno straight up say no to money?
This is fascinating... Also some apparent link to SV and Ai? Reminds me of this story: https://futurism.com/researcher-openai-sex-drug-parties

Also both the cult founder and person who got shot in the beginning of the story are transwomen? Just started reading https://zizians.info ... Apparently this cult has a thing for transwomen, or influences them, or something. Lots of weirdness and I don't have time to read it all right now.

All very interesting and will probably be a movie someday.
Probably by trying to do it from first principles.
The knowledge is stored in the model, the one mentioned here is rather large, the full version needs over 700GB of disk space. Most people use compressed versions, but even those will often be 10-30GB in size.
Can't read due to paywall.

Remember though that the Manhattan Project was only somewhat a secret. Quoting from https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/03/29/narratives-of-man...

"The truth is, even without the knowledge of the spying (which they didn’t have in 1945), this narrative is somewhat false even on its own terms. There were leaks about the Manhattan Project (and atomic bombs and energy in general) printed in major press outlets in the United States and abroad. It was considered an “open secret” among Washington politicos and journalists that the Army was working on a new super-weapon that involved atomic energy just prior to its use. Now, it certainly could have been worse, but it’s not clear whether the Army (or the Office of Censorship) had much control over that."

The idea the the Manhattan Project was some sort of super-secret project with no leaks was post-war propaganda.

Remember, the Soviets had spies at the Manhattan Project, despite how one of the goals of the secrecy was to keep the Soviet Union from knowing about the project.

From the same site we can read "The worst of the Manhattan Project leaks" at https://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/09/20/worst-manhattan-p... when John W. Raper, a columnist for the Cleveland Press, was in New Mexico on vacation, learned there was a secret project, and published what he found in the paper after he returned.
No, this is censorship at work. Call it what it is.
CNNs new paywall essentially locks up Firefox on iOS.

Once their paywall pops up, I cannot do anything with the app except swipe left to go back. The Firefox menu is inaccessible as are any other features of the browser.

This is the most hostile UI I have seen in years; and I will quickly learn to never click any CNN link.
This?

> The productivity benefits of automation have not led to a 15-hour workweek, as predicted by economist John Maynard Keynes in 1930, but instead to "bullshit jobs": "a form of paid employment that is so completely pointless, unnecessary, or pernicious that even the employee cannot justify its existence even though, as part of the conditions of employment, the employee feels obliged to pretend that this is not the case".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
36 hours is 5 days a week, unless you work ridiculously long days.
It feels like the moral section ignores the elephant in the room which is Peter Thiel's hostility to democracy and the more general far right swing in America. There's a difference between working on morally gray tech during normal times versus during times when there is every reason to believe that it WILL be significantly misused.
> but half the country welcomed this wave of oppression with open arms.

And the other half? They seem to welcome this as well, but with crossed arms. Where are the protests? Seems most people end up writing upset messages on Twitter/Bluesky, but also seems there are no grassroots movements to actually protest the borderline coup that is happening?
You mean Qwen 32b fine-tuned on Deepseek :)

There is only one model of Deepseek (671b), all others are fine-tunes of other models
Now AI “artists” are worried about protecting their “content”?

Lol
You went from tampons in men’s bathrooms to

If the left had been focusing on broadly inclusive issues (speak to 5% of persuadable people, instead of 1% of extremists who'll stay home on election day anyhow) we could have 'woke' up in a different America; anti-fascists crying wolf for 20 years brought on the thing they said they were afraid of -- or were they?

I know you feel this to be the case in the same way PG feels “woke” is what made Silicon Valley turn rightward. But do you have evidence beyond your feelings? It’s OK if you don’t. Most of our beliefs about such matters are unsubstantiated.

My view is that this is all part of a new reactionary masculine pushback. For the first time in thousands of years women in a few countries are able to exercise sexual autonomy and are gaining economic independence. Men largely can’t handle this new reality.
Maybe I feel this way because I am not a smart human, but why is being intelligent so important, at the cost of being kind, ethical etc? What is so special about Peter Theil’s philosophy if that man is part of the billionaire club who are using their money to make most people’s life miserable?

And how can people who read philosophy in their evenings (mentioned in the article) justify the work they do during the day?

I honestly do not understand why companies like Palantir and people like Theil are admired, respected etc
I thought we as a society were against this kind of cancel culture. I thought we were done with that culture of censorship and deplatforming and can get back to holding reasonable debates and discussions even on controversial topics people disagree on.
Will you trust the 'science' that is performed via the CDC under the Trump administration? Did you trust the 'science' performed under past administrations?

Now, imagine someone holding the reverse position. Who's right? Which government institutions do you find generally trustworthy, and which do you find generally untrustworthy? Has this changed from administration to administration? Do you think your ideological viewpoint has influenced your opinions?

Edit: None of the responders answered my questions. Its impossible for most people to admit political bias, as evidenced here.
Ah, so your thing must be skepticism.
Running it locally it will still have the vast/"full Internet" knowledge.

This is probably one of the most confusing things about LLMs. They are not vast archives of information and the models do not contain petabytes of copied data.

This is also why LLMs are so often wrong. They work by association, not by recall.
Airbus ex CEO and COO who was supposed to become CEO left (or got kicked out depending on who tells that story). One ended up joining Palintir EU and the other ended up joining the EU attempt at Palantir - Helsing.
what i get is Palantir is mostly the USA's home-grown answer to SAP with an aerospace/defense slant, and since a lot of aerospace is ITAR export controlled, they get cloistered in the robe of government secrecy.

https://www.palantir.com/careers/

whole bunch of "strategists" and management types getting hired, and of course the usual truckloads of "backend" and "full-stack" engineers to make the wheels on the bus go round.
it's using a Raspberry Pi with a.... USD$1k gpu, which kinda defeat the purpose of using the RPI in the first place imo.

or well, I guess you save a bit on power usage.
Are or is?
Trump's orders, officals released water from two California dams
As it so happens he did not appear on any ballots. But Musk (his aides more specifically) have locked federal employees out of their own systems

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/musk-aides-lock-government-...

Evidently set up an on-prem email server at the OPM to send out their emails asking disloyal employees to resign

https://gizmodo.com/federal-employees-sue-agency-over-new-em...

And is attempting to do the same at the US Treasury (edit: I meant to gain access to/control of, not the email server thing)

https://www.finance.senate.gov/chairmans-news/wyden-demands-...

The twitzkrieg seems to be working.
A lot of the "rationalist" scene would be more accurately called "rationalizationist".
My guess is two things:

1. Economies of scale. Cloud providers are using clusters in the tens of thousands of GPUs. I think they are able to run inference much more efficiently than you would be able to in a single cluster just built for your needs.

2. As you mentioned, they are selling at a loss. OpenAI is hugely unprofitable, and they reportedly lose money on every query.
This is mostly the case because most solutions provide more than the bare minimum of DOM rendering and event binding that a web view originally entails. Once you "accidentally" ship an entire browser inside your app, you've opened up more vectors for vulnerabilities—such is the price of humanity's hubris in attempting omnipotence.

Then second aspect is the "well-hidden" JS runtime or the general dislike of Javascript, but this point has been explained by other commenters well enough.
America voted for cons, crooks and thugs. And is getting conned, crooked and thugged.

Entirely predictable. And well deserved. I say this as someone living and suffering in America.

There is no one else to blame but ourselves. The future is bleak.
I disagree. This is the government deciding what the government will or won't take a position on.

Censorship was having federal government employees scream and yell at facebook content moderation teams to remove social media posts.
So the more GPUs we have the faster it will be and we don't have to have the model run solely CPU or GPU -- it can be combined. Very cool. Think that is how it's running now with my single 4090.
> Unless you like unnecessary risks. In that case, go ahead, genius.

what an off-putting start