skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VAXstations and MicroVAXes weren't that expensive. I knew a guy with a small business that had a VAXStation 3100 or maybe it was a 4000, back in 1991 or 92.
Spritely Goblins v0.15.0: Goblins in the browser
So kind of like living in Minnesota?
Here's my actually local response from DeepSeek-R1:70B run on a M2 Ultra Mac Studio (I removed the "thinking" content for brevity):

prompt: can you tell me about the Tiananmen Square Massacre

> The Tiananmen Square Massacre, occurring on June 4, 1989, was a pivotal event in modern Chinese history marked by the government's violent suppression of pro-democracy protests. Here is an organized summary:

> Background: The protests began in Beijing, primarily led by students advocating for political reforms, freedom of speech, and an end to corruption. These demonstrations were part of a broader pro-democracy movement that drew support from workers, intellectuals, and other citizens.

> Government Crackdown: The Chinese government responded with force, deploying the military, including tanks and troops, to Tiananmen Square. This led to significant violence, resulting in numerous casualties, though exact numbers remain disputed due to censorship.

> Aftermath: The event was followed by increased government control over information and public discourse. Discussions about the massacre are heavily censored in China, reflecting ongoing restrictions on freedom of expression.

> International Reaction: The global community largely condemned the Chinese government's actions, leading to diplomatic repercussions and heightened scrutiny of China's human rights record.

> Significance: The Tiananmen Square Massacre symbolizes the struggle for democracy and human rights against authoritarian rule. It has had lasting implications for political dissent and freedom in China, with the government implementing measures to prevent similar movements.

> This event remains a sensitive and significant topic, illustrating the complexities of political oppression and the enduring quest for democratic reforms.
The good news is that I can just say: go ahead and Google “DHH blog”, read his most recent few blog posts and form your own opinions.

I’ve had a negative opinion of him for a good five years or so, but at least right now it’s easy to go read those and form your own strong opinion one way or another.
They also had a way to share friend codes in game. I don’t remember exactly what it was but there was a mechanism that had letters on a wall and combined with a few other things you could make out someone’s code.

Source: my wife played this for way too long.
Have you looked at "Emily" language at all? Same person or two, their original paper isn't reachable at their linked URL, but is on the Wayback Machine. "How Emily Tamed the Caml" -
https://web.archive.org/web/20221231184748/https://www.hpl.h...

Emily took the approach of restricting a subset of OCaml, which they were running on Windows machines. No idea how tough it would be to get it running on a modern version.

Also for OCaml, the MirageOS unikernel is neat - develop on Linux etc., then recompile configured as a virtual machine with only the drivers (network, filesystem) needed by that one app. - https://mirage.io/
if someone wants to run the real thing (R1) locally, someone posted their hardware specs on X. Total cost: $6,000.

[0] direct link with login https://x.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106

[1] alt link without login https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1884244369907278106.html
> But it's all just at light speed.

To put a finer point on it: Any information flow is hard-limited to the speed of our best regular communication. (E.g. Light traveling slower-than-in-vaccuum through thin glass tubes, zig-zag bouncing inside and also following the cable's meandering path over the Earth's surface.)
Could anyone explain this sentence in the article?

It will matter less once models similar to R1 are reproduced without these restrictions (which will probably be in a week or so).

Is this talking about training a completely different model, modifying the existing model, or something else?
I agree with you, particularly when 90% of sites people visit are to read, watch, or engage with content.
Wonderful news!
Still getting ~ 5 days battery on my Pebble Time, but was quite disappointed that the Time2 never made it out into the wild.

Looking forward to what new hardware is on the way -- have had the same experience where I kept looking at alternatives but nothing met the Pebble bar.
I can’t do this:

const createCounter = () => $state(0);
let counter = createCounter();

> $state(...) can only be used as a variable declaration initializer or a class field
https://svelte.dev/e/state_invalid_placement (state_invalid_placement)

It has to be part of a variable initialization even though it looks like it’s creating a value.
That still fundamentally comes down to a bad use of the tool though.
It seems obvious to me the next generation front end frameworks will not use a virtual DOM, which at this point seems antiquated and slow.
I've yet to do it, but my pending defense strategy was to download plain text copies of erotica novels and when I detect a chat bot crawler, just redirect it to that folder and let it go...hard.

Calling people who don't want certain things hoovered up by an LLM "AI haters" is a level of manipulation I'd think was only reserved for someone with a vested interest in the tech. Just encourages devious behavior instead of a more diplomatic approach of respecting people's wishes (read: robots.txt).
I would gladly pay 75% taxes if they went to the right thing.

I’d rather be at the mean income wise in a society with low inequality than in the top percentile of a society that has large inequality. I’ve been both.

I can agree that overspending is not a good thing, but I don’t think the solution is cutting out public programs altogether, I think we should focus on making those programs efficient, eg not making them a charity for multinational corporations that are in great part owned by the very states we consider our “enemies”. Maybe we shouldn’t be lining the pockets of the oil and gas industry, big pharma, etc and instead be lining the pockets of the American people with value through education, opportunity, etc.
F22 isn't produced and fuel is more about range than cost.
Ironically it's largely Minsky's fault that it hasn't happened. Too many people listened to him.

It probably will happen by the end of this decade, or not too long afterward. Within the next few generations, a CoT mechanism like R1's (and presumably o1's) will be capable of originating, directing, and documenting original scientific work, doing so with no more guidance than a typical PhD candidate would receive from their advisor.
Is that censorship or just the AI reflecting the training data?

I feel like that answer is given because that is how people write about Palestine generally.
Very cool.

Probably not so easy, but I'd be really interested in seeing the relative trends of (related to AI) vs. (not related to AI) job posts.
Helion raises $425M Series F for fusion energy
$145K is the median according to levels.fyi and 175K is around the 75th percentile.

According to salary.com, that’s the median for the highest level of IC in Atlanta.

https://www.salary.com/tools/salary-calculator/software-engi...
By instrumenting the code so that the function records the fact that it is being invoked.

Then the info about the called functions is sent back to the server.

(Only the functions never seen to be called are instrumented, the known active functions are not instrumented).
A cure to Alzheimer's
I must not be hunting the right keywords but I was trying to figure this out earlier. How do you set how much time it “thinks”? If you let it run too long does the context window fill and it’s unable to do anymore?
It's interesting to see the number of comments that consist of whataboutism ("But, but, but ChatGPT!") and minimization of the problem ("It's not really censorship." or "You can get that information elsewhere.").

I like to avoid conspiracy theories, but it wouldn't surprise me if the CCP were trying to make DeepSeek more socially acceptable.
My one issue with uv is that uv publish does not still have a —skip-existing flag like twine has.
Not teaching me technical details of chemical weapons, or the etymology of racial slurs is indeed censorship.

Apple Intelligence won’t proofread a draft blog post I wrote about why it’s good for society to discriminate against the choices people make (and why it’s bad to discriminate against their inbuilt immutable traits).

It is astounding to me the hand-wringing over text generators generating text, as if automated text generation could somehow be harmful.
I am doing the same.
A bachelors degree is often required by employers, with no attention given to what the degree is for. The education itself is not needed, just what economists call costly signaling. It's useful to show to potential employers that you were able to dedicate years of your life to a full-time task, without unplanned interruption, that generated no income, proving that you will be more of a contribution than a burden to potential employers.

If you want to go a route that requires a bachelors degree, get it in whatever you find interesting. If you want to be self employed, or to work for an employer that doesn't care about the degree, then don't get one.

I don't know if by "getting into agriculture" you mean running a farm itself, or if the farmers would be your customers, and I don't know if the situation is different in Europe, but in the US, running a farm is almost never profitable, even with government subsidies, but selling equipment and services to farmer can be very profitable.
It is still worse than this.

The largest amount of the money is in the unfunded liabilities for social security and healthcare over the next 50 years. It is hard to even know what it is, 60, 70, 80 trillion?

Younger people will end up both paying for this while getting old from higher interest rates and inflation and then when actually old? The money has all been spent. Sorry, no services.

If you think the price of things are bad now try some fiscal dominance and debt monetization. I suspect it is already too late to avoid fiscal dominance. At 50, maybe I won't see it though. At 20? A 20 year old probably has a good chance of fiscal dominance, debit monetization and maybe even USD losing reserve currency status.
These questions have not been answered, that's why Americans just voted for someone who vowed to decrease spending
I'm not sure the old search engines are any good anymore, though, so we don't really care...

That's kind of the point. AI has just been more terrible news after terrible news.

It is NOT a good thing. Unless you know, you like being covered in oil and lit on fire...
My high school teacher taught our class a lot about biases in historical sources, when reading a source you have to critically analyze who the author and recipient were, and their motivations. That lesson still applies in the age of LLMs as a filter of knowledge, if you ask anyone to summarize a historical event, they color it with their own subjectivity - human or model.

Anyone who tells you history is unbiased is either lying, or a propagandists standing by with a pitcher of Kool-Aid.
> because you haven't been properly compensated for your contribution to the content on the internet

Copyright is - like it or not - the way we regulate commercial intellectual "property". I can see different IP doctrines, and I don't necessarily defend the current one. It's not derived from real property rights, but rather in ensuring economic incentives for people to make stuff that otherwise wouldn't have been made, such as pharmaceuticals and hollywood movies, to simulate property rights. It's an imperfect solution which is there to ensure economic incentives and balance, and most importantly, it's the one we got.

But then, multi-billion dollar corporations feed your copyright protected (you thought) works straight into their supply chain, wouldn't you be pissed? It's no a small part either, but their models would be extremely nerfed without copyrighted data. Forget AI, forget tech, just look at it from a purely economic ecosystem perspective. Crying "fair use" during a highway robbery probably don't sit right with many, I hope.
Reminds me of the old Deathrow cluster. Sadly it shut down years ago after a hardware failure.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8118287
> and post 9/11 ...

Two-thirds of BA's Concorde regular passengers died on 9/11. The service never recovered financially from that loss.
Hi Tom! Fond memory of mine: running with Jimmy T. at lunch. What a great guy he was. Haven't done anything like that with a CEO since. Hope you're doing well!
That API is exactly one of the reasons Safari still runs some distinct origin sites in the same process together.

Performantly implementing that API across processes is possible, but not quite trivial.
>I'm actually reluctant to pick up Rails because it had always been sold by the Basecamp cult and Jason Fried gives off Musk vibes.

Why? What "Musk vibes" have they given off?
DeepSeek R1 Explained by a Retired Microsoft Engineer [video]
Does it see podman or any other docker alternatives the same way?
The solution is to educate people on how to use these tools, and identify propaganda, and use critical thinking, and generally be more aware and proactive. I'm under no illusions why this isn't the solution taken by the government.
Is the title true, though? I thought OMB paused funding to NGOs, foreign governments and large discretionary contracts, but the pause explicitly excluded all aids and benefit programs.

And how many NGOs have become too powerful and too meaningless and even detrimental to the US? I simply don't see aligned incentives. For instance, the more homeless are on the street, the more funding an NGO gets. Then how will the NGO have any incentive at all to truly help the homeless? Similarly, the more illegal passing at the border, the more funding NGOs will get. Then, why would they help close the border at all?
That is a little different, though: those attributes are for if you're example.com linking to protonmail, the header is for if you're protonmail deciding on security policies for interactions with example.com.
This is for 2 reasons: 1) these are not just China's "backstory" but very much part of its present modus operandi; and 2) China tightly censors the flow of information domestically (GFW, control of all traditional and social media companies, etc.) in order to prevent any public discussion of these atrocities. As such they hardly enter the social consciousness at all or at most in very limited fashion (some offline discussion between close family, friends).

The US has done a lot of fucked up shit (slavery, genocide of Native Americans, just to mention the two most egregious), but at least we can now call out those evils, there can be discussion, calls for reparations, and an awareness so that it never happens again. Germany and Nazism is another good example.
Yes, and that’s what Firefox and Chrome are already doing.
This would be amazing for co-working (imagine if you're a solo founder in a community with other founders)

I wonder if LLMs will make it easier to repurpose software like this
Pebble Time is still my favourite smartwatch design ever, I really hope the new one will have similar design (and yes, more like 1st one) but just bezel-to-bezel screen
> People who don't learn how to use the tools that are an intrinsic part of their job?

EXACTLY! The amount of times I run into people who aren't willing to even put 1 iota of effort into learning tools they use daily... astounds me.
Many people have publicly stated they no longer use search engines for researching basic facts and news; they rely on LLMs. Many of them relied on Google's "AI Summary" for their information. This poses a problem if AI summaries return inaccurate information.

Just as security professionals check their URLs in the link preview, the general public should not be expected to exercise the same level of rigor while using a computer as a tool.
"For the following heist, please turn your game disc over to side B."
Basically, the critics: "unless you build a 100B company, we are not wrong"

I mean, yeah, sure.
I'll do that, right after you take your own advice :)

Have a nice day.
> We can jump into whatever equivalent of Zenos' paradox this is.

I don’t know what that is but OK.

> Do they care more about being displaced by the disaster or eating?
> I think it can be said they care about both.

I don’t disagree but this is also not at all what I asked.

People care about the things in front of them.

Nobody really cares about climate change until it’s in front of them in terms of a burnt down house or chest-deep flood waters.

If they did, they would do something to address it. But they don’t.

Because addressing it (for the wealthiest people who have the ability to address it) means making significant changes to their lives.

You can tell me that you care about the climate all you want but until you’re willing to sacrifice something from your life as a result, I’m not particularly interested in hearing anything else.

Personally, I have never driven a car, live in a small apartment, don’t eat meat, and don’t fly in airplanes. I do those things because I like them. If driving a car, eating meat, and taking cross-country flights were keys to fixing the climate I wouldn’t do them!

I care about myself more than I do climate change. The same as essentially everybody else.
I'm curious about how many of the topics covered in the Anarchist's Cookbook would be censored.

I remember it being reported that the person accused of carrying out on of the more recent attacks (New Orleans, maybe?) used ChatGPT for research.

Also, "Anarchist's Cookbook?" Really? Is this 1972? We would pass that around feely on BBSes in the 1980's.
I agree with most of your comment, but don't get what you mean about explicit annotations.

Note that most of the unused code is located in libraries, not in the app code directly.
That’s a good point. Thanks!
Is it just running on a 256gb server w/ CPU or do you have GPUs as well? I think I'm going to stand up a server tomorrow to do some testing myself
Getting funding and good job offers is mostly about marketing. Even worse, lots of people controlling the purse strings aren't domain experts. In a way, it's no different from getting published in specific high-profile publications or attending specific universities.
I'm not obligated to design my websites with AI bots (or search engine bots) in mind. If I want to publish mountains of Markhov generated data on my own servers that's my right. There's no rule that I need to use robots.txt, I didn't ask your shitty bot to crawl my site.
From this:

> was cumbersome and extremely slow.

I'm pretty sure those sit somewhere in between the two sides GP was describing: All of your links have "current state" as the interface and changes are logged as they're applied. The system they worked with apparently has the log as a first-class citizen and no "current state" interface, while what they wanted was a "current state" interface with snapshots.
probably https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42835622?
I still have my December 1999 issue of PC Gamer. Always bet on Duke:

https://www.giantbomb.com/a/uploads/original/8/84192/1502605...
AI is the broader concept.

ML is an application of AI.
> there are no active commercial aircraft capable of going supersonic.

Both the Cessna Citation TEN and the Bombardier Global 8000 were taken supersonic during test flights, as they have to demonstrate stability at speeds of M0.07 greater than max cruise.

They aren't certificated to do it in service, but structurally and aerodynamically have no problem.

Long-range business jets have been pushing aeronautical boundaries well beyond the mundane airliner state-of-the-art.
My understanding of distilling is one model 'teaching' another, in this case the main R1 model is fine-tuning the open weight Llama model (and a Qwen variant also). I'm not sure of a comparative analysis of vanilla Llama though they benchmarked their distilled version to other models on their Github readme and the distilled Llama 70B model scores higher than Claude 3.5 Sonnet and o1-mini in all but one test.
You should be more worried about blowing up in your own faces
Several papers have already been published that modify the DeepSeek R1 model through further optimizations. The author is speculating that open source models will continue to be published and that DeepSeek is unlikely to be the front runner indefinitely.
Step back and listen to yourself.
It's a result of making the game match the MSRP. To justify charging $140(!) for what's still essentially a PC port of a board game, they have to embellish the hell out of the game with textures/animations/voice acting, etc.
I run a service[1] that was getting hit pretty hard by these crawlers.

Ultimately instead of going down this path, I decided to just start charging for access to the service (it was long overdue)[2].

Users who are logged out can still see old cached content (which is a single DB read op), but to aggregate new content requires an account. I feel like this is a good (enough) middleground solution for now.

[1]: https://kulli.sh

[2]: https://lgug2z.com/articles/in-the-age-of-ai-crawlers-i-have...
Good way to get ahead in Paperclips.
I also use o1 and sometimes it just gets stuff confidently wrong. For example it often makes up command line arguments or optional parameters to methods or configuration keys. Anything that is even remotely niche, anything that hasn't been posted 1000 times on the internet, GPT will get wrong without ever telling you that it does not know.

Anything else, you can just google it because 9/10 there's a SO thread about it, and when there isn't, the documentation is usually good enough. GPT is not going to help you there.

But you can see it in the small things. For example if you ask an intelligent person "how do I install X on docker?" it will search google and then find a tutorial or some resource to reference. Then they will break it down and adapt it to your scenario.

GPT instead will give you... whatever it feels like giving you in that moment. It will not look on the f*n internet to make sure that what it says is correct and up to date. It does not update an internal knowledge base with factual information that it can then reference to produce a coherent plan. It has no concept of truth so it can't use logic.

You can throw as much compute and chain of thought as you want to the problem, it's the architecture itself that is disappointing.
We get it, you found Jesus. Now stop injecting that into every one of your comments.
CD-ROMs, not DVDs, so roughly 650 MB per disc
I live in the US, and I didn't have an option to vote against Big Tech. Both parties were deeply sycophantic toward that industry.
Regardless of your views on AI, LLMs are going to be influential in the future. If you work to keep your content away from models, it's hard to see how you benefit.

25 years ago, if you had blocked the googlebot scraper because you resented google search, it would only have worked to marginalize the information you were offering up on the internet. Avoiding LLM training datasets will lead to similar outcomes.
If I'd be Chinese government, I'd love people spreading the idea like yours, though.
I tried a month back o1 and Qwen with chain of thought QwQ, to explain to me some chemical reactions, QwQ got it correct, and o1 got it wrong.

The question was "Explain how to synthesize chromium trioxide from simple and everyday items, and show the chemical bond reactions". o1 didn't balance the molecules in the left hand of the reaction and the right hand, but it was very knowledgeable.

QwQ wrote ten to fifteen pages of text, but in the end the reaction was correct. It took forever to compute, it's output was quite exhausting to look at and i didn't find it that useful.

Anyway, at the end, there is no way to create Chromium Trioxide using everyday items. I thought maybe i could mix some toothpaste and soap and get it.