skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One might go so far as to say in the real world (IRL), only a handful of people look good "naturally."

Try looking at everyone around you in public-EVERYONE. The beautiful people in the media sense are an incredibly small minority. I would argue even in places like L.A., sure lots of glam, but take the population as a whole and wow, such a small percentage. I'm speaking as a former pro photog, FWIW. I look at everyone.
A lot of what is stated is out of touch with reality and more fits a narrative of someone's choosing. Like a news article that tells you Nintendo DS are bad because they facilitate communication between strangers and children in PictoChat.

There is a lot of information and accuracies left out of this article to create a viewpoint when mostly the writer is nostalgia baiting.
Soon you’ll be freed of the tedious task of upvoting at all.
Favoring stability doesn't come without its drawbacks (nor without benefits).
It’s also a major accomplishment which can boost your mood and confidence regardless of it’s direct emotional effect.
It’s a fair bit more common than you might assume.
This article talks about 6 of such “body farms” in the USA.

They are focussed on learning about decomposition in different settings, such as being wrapped in plastic, carpet, in a car’s trunk etc.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/06/10/th...
This'll do it - https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/focus_on_naep/student_grou...

From 1998 to 2022 "English learners" (as its their term) tripled from 5% to 14%. They do offer accommodations, but are tested.

And fwiw I think they should be, just as are students with learning disabilities. It's because this is your student body, which will become the society of tomorrow. Knowing how that society might look, and in which direction it is trending, can inform decisions being made today to help shape a better society for everybody tomorrow.
The civilizational alternative is Europe. The economic alternative, that we can debate...
I wish more businesses will follow suit. Twitter was amazing; it's time has passed.
Even though I am not a fan of it, I can see how some people might want to use AI to improve their grammar, maybe because they are afraid to leave a bad impression.

But why would anyone put AI generated images into an Email?
It honestly depends on your use case. I often run bigger, slower models on my PC and let them just tootle along in the background grinding out their response while I work on something else.
It's not just the amount of RAM: RAM bandwidth also matters.
I actually have heard that working over a remote connection can be a pain. From what I've seen from other Sublime users is that they will usually just mount a drive and then edit off that. There are also a couple of SSH plugins that can be used. In the past, I've just downloaded the files I've needed and then used rsync or scp. Not slick, but it works.
GP didn't even offer a hint of criticism of the religion itself, only to the insistence that children be indoctrinated to it in public schools. It's curious and kind of telling that Christians view that as a personal attack on them.
It’s even worse because OpenAI took all that information and put it behind a paywall they want to make tons of money with.

DeepSeek open sourced it so all of humanity can actually benefit from it.
And what are they going to sell? The weights and the model architecture are already open source. I doubt the datasets of DeepSeek are better than OpenAI's
14B model runs pretty quickly on an MacBook Pro with and M1 Max and 64 GB of RAM.
You buy the hardware (48 servers), rent part of a colocation rack with a 10 Gbps or 100 Gbps internet transit link, get a payment processor, make a webpage and GitHub demo with the API. Break down: $3000 labour, $20.5K hardware, $800 monthly rental fees, $376 car fees. When you shut down within a year, the $20.5K popular off the shelf hardware can easily be sold for $17K, a fact you can check from 25 years of data.

I would invest more than the initial $30K on optimization after the servers have found paying customers and thus have proven commercial viability. I would invest in software development, finetuning, retraining and above all reverse engineering GPU and neural engine instruction sets and adapting these open source models to the more than 2 quadrillion operations per second that these 48 servers can do.
I'm not an expert but didn't they release the weights under MIT license? So you can make your own LLM with complete control right?

I agree it would nice to know the details of their training, but, simply calling this drop an "opaque binary" is seriously underselling it no?
You might be surprised!
2x CPU system may be slower for LLM than 1x CPU system.

Because in 2x CPU system, the model may have to be passed via NUMA, which has 10% - 30% of memory bandwidth bandwidth
But doesn’t Deepseek’s innovation apply only to training, not inference?
I tried this out last night, and the UI is so intuitive! Have tested a few other tools in the space, and this by far, was the most user-friendly and made with developers in mind :)

Excited for more features to support enterprise functionality and deployment, but overall impressed with what the team has built so far. Well done!
DeepSeek shows proof that all models can be equally as good as each other, and that the best models will eventually be open-source. I believe it's a good thing for our world.
> Nvidia now has huge amounts of money to invest in developing new technologies

This is not actually a reason for investors to invest in a company, because it's caused by investors investing in the company. If the market would invest in some other company instead then that company would have huge amounts of money to invest in developing new technologies. Meanwhile the ones that tend to succeed in that are more often new, nimble companies breaking into or creating a new market rather than large established ones with bureaucracy, internal politics and fear of cannibalizing existing sales.

Example: If there is a popular new application for consumer GPUs that requires a lot of VRAM, a competitor could make a lot of money by developing consumer GPUs with a lot of VRAM, but Nvidia would have to worry about that eroding sales of enterprise GPUs. Then investing in the competitor could have a better return, both because of potentially higher growth (people invest $5B in developing the GPU and then it becomes a $100B+ company, huge ROI; very little chance of Nvidia going from $3T to $60T), and because when it happens it comes at the expense of the incumbent, who loses not just the consumer GPU sales but the enterprise ones to the competitor selling for consumer prices. Which means the incumbent still has a very significant risk of losing value, but without as much potential upside.

People often try to make this argument by pointing to Microsoft or Apple, but those are major outliers who got there through anti-trust violations. Meanwhile Kodak, Xerox, Yahoo, AOL, Sears, IBM, GM, GE, etc.

> very little of the stock market is about the actual value of the company itself, but speculation

That's the hype cycle. We know which section of the graph we're on right now.
> Why can't Windows and Android provide such a feature?

Windows does.

Android "can't" because the OS is a partition image with libraries not intended to be updated piecemeal, not a collection of loosely related external projects like Linux is.
> Cool, but git integration in the editor was also cool until SublimeHQ decided to spin out a dedicated client for it.

Is it completely removed from Sublime Text?

I love merge, but the simplest controls like stage/unstage/commit/indicate file status seem kind of essential.

Having said that, Merge is far and away the best git UI I've used. It has saved my bacon a few times. I'm not terrible with git in the terminal (I use it there 98% of the time), but sometimes... I really don't want to be doing things without a decent visual representation of the mess and chaos, and intuitive access to the tools available. I get why they wanted to create Merge.
Had Seagate written off from bad experiences as a teen. Got one not long ago. Failed within 18 months. Yea not doing that again.
Show HN: Build a Visual Novel with AI
Hey HN, I built a simple visual novel creator using a combination of tools such as Flux, LLM APIs and three.js. You can describe your game concept ("I am a knight sitting in a bar with a mysterious witch who only speaks in riddles") and mangobox will generate the characters, plot, environment, etc.

Current solutions to build VNs such as Ren'Py involve using a python library and distributing an executable. It requires a decent amount of technical knowledge which makes building VNs difficult unless you are a programmer. While my MVP doesn't cover even a small fraction of what Ren'Py does, my hope is to slowly achieve feature parity.

After an early access launch, my average session time across all users is ~1 hour. Hope you enjoy!
> They get very cheap electricity and are bragging about their cheap cost

The cost of $5.5 million was quoted at $2/GPU-hour which is a reasonable price for on-demand H100s that anyone in the US could access, and likely on the high side given bulk pricing and that they are using nerfed versions. OpenAI might be all pr and lies but everything I've seen so far says that deepseek's claims about cost are legit.
Your typo: "worse it", vs "worth it." E.g. Cusors Bloat makes it worth it, but also makes it worse.
Maybe installed capacity in lumens.
Person 1: AI, take these bullet points and write an email to Person 2

Person 2: AI, please take this email from Person 1 and convert it into bullet points
Not to mention, the north star is to get to a place where we have the hardware to do training at home. we're a long ways off, but without the restrictions of needing the hardware to do it, ideally, we'd make the model such that is continually being trained.
That's really cool. Great work!
U.S. and Chinese hegemony are just different kinds of bad. We could put the pros and cons up and debate it endlessly, but in the end ranking them is pointless, humanity should just be trying to make a better alternative
Gaming, I'm willing to largely get behind as something that should be more locked down. Networked games, of course, are a thing. Single player games should be a lot more isolated, though.

Any sort of editing software, though, gets tough. That is precisely the are that I have had bad experiences in in the past. Would try to edit raw photos and export them to a place I could draw or publish with them. Using a shadow banned application is the only way I know on how to describe how that felt.
At least DeepSeek open sourced their code. They're more open than OpenAI.

Ironic.
> ...the condition is caused by some kind of metabolic impairment that presumably affects the ability of mitochondria to produce the adequate levels of ATP. As a direct consequence of that insufficiency, the immune system gets activated and starts to attack body's own tissues.

Why would the metabolic impairment cause the immune system to get activated? Also do tests show which immune cells get activated? Are there existing medications that can moderate those immune cells that might work?
DeepSeek's Hidden Bias: How We Cut It by 76% Without Performance Loss
DeepSeek-R1 (8B) exhibited 2x more bias than base Llama. We applied targeted unlearning, reduced bias by up to 76% across race/gender/nationality, while maintaining model performance (TruthfulQA: 9.8→9.9, LogiQA: 42.6%→42.5%). Done in ~1hr on consumer hardware. Debiased model on HuggingFace.
wow. i was actually considering getting a 4a as the lynchpin for my move back to Android (as no small Android phones exist anymore).

anyway, iPhone 13 Mini until it dissolves into dust.
I'm Jed, the author. I wrote this guide up because I'm working on an AI search startup using agents, and have been asked by other founders a few times why their content doesn't show up well with AI search engines like ours or Perplexity or ChatGPT with search, or with agent computer-use like the new OpenAI Operator.

We're ingesting around 30m to 50m pages a day so have learned a lot about what blocks AI crawlers and agents. And I wanted to share some guidelines on how to make sure your startup or documentation or other content shows up as well as possible for agent use.
seems ironic that the turns have tabled. "silicon valley devs" were the analogous "quant geeks" underdogs that unseated the ossified incumbents.

That said, I feel like "quant geeks" aren't quite underdogs compared to silicon valley devs. wdyt?
Man, that's a solid whatabout zinger.

Back on topic, however, this is what I'm talking about[1]:

> The radical-patriotic television channel Tsargrad indignantly reported that “the actual scale of corruption under [former Defense Minister Sergey] Shoigu was not in the millions but in the trillions of rubles that officials dishonorably stole from the Russian Army.”

[1] https://cepa.org/article/russias-military-graft-purge-is-des...
The full one, sure, but there are quantizations runnable on far smaller machines.
Bias-Unlearned DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-8B here:
https://huggingface.co/hirundo-io/DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Llama-...
For teachers, sure. For medical doctors, in USA or Europe, I think they are much more paid than sw engineers.
I thought about getting a gotek and replacing it with that.
Kids, recently from Latin America outnumber well-educated Scandinavians around ~100x here in Southern California, maybe more. This subthread is rather silly.
Isn't that just 3 years after release? Is that normal for Google phones? Yikes.
So, this "hungry for a significant portion of the day", in the context of software development. Are you just supposed to throw in the towel on getting anything done, or write blublang with an endless stream of boilerplate, or what? Like I certainly get the experience of doing straightforward physical tasks and putting off eating, but it seems like a non-starter when you actually need to like, concentrate thoughtfully.
reach out at @nicilevv on X for questions
Color me skeptical. I don't think CEOs have as much schedule flexibility as you think they do. A lot of the time they're traveling to meet with customers, analysts/media, investors, and so forth. And they have a lot of timing constraints. Senior execs tend to travel a lot. It's part of the job description basically along with early morning and late night conference calls and, generally, often grueling hours although some maintain better balance than others.

And trans-Atlantic flights just aren't all that long. I'd pay some premium to avoid a red-eye but not likely $5K-$10K even if I could. That's probably about what I'm paying for a whole 3 week trip today.
I don’t think Meta is a monopoly as they aren’t charging for anything and there are plenty of alternatives.
Businesses don’t even want to maintain servers locally. They definitely aren’t going to start managing servers beefy enough to run LLMs and try to run then with the reliability, availability, etc of cloud services.

This will make the cloud providers - especially AWS, GCP and to a lesser extent the also ran clouds more valuable. The other models hosted by AWS on Bedrock are already “good enough” for most business use cases.

And then consumers are definitely not going to be running LLMs locally on their computers to replicate ChatGPT (the product) anymore than they are going to get an FTP account, mount it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem and then from Windows or Mac, accessed the FTP account through built-in software instead of using cloud storage like Dropbox. [1]

Whether someone comes up with a better product than ChatGPT and overcome the brand awareness is yet to be seen.

[1] Also the iPod had no wireless, less space than the Nomad and was lame.
On the sexy front, my company has marketing materials from 10 years ago showing people at a construction site interacting with their phones. The idea is that it was sexy and cool to be connected and be using technology to communicate and interact with the project. But today? It just looks like someone is goofing off on social media when they should be working.
The technical summary is excellent. But I worry that prominent US voices couching AI progress in Cold War style war rhetoric is likely to be... self-fulfilling. Surely some of the people paying closest attention to these articles are Chinese politicians and military leaders - it would definitely seem alarming to me if the Deepseek CEO kept writing things like: "whoever reaches this threshold of AI intelligence first will accelerate into world military domination - we must beat the US."

There's a reason why Oppenheimer & co. weren't non-stop publishing internationally accessible op-eds during WWII about how important it is that Germany not develop a scaled uranium fission bomb before the US.
There are lots of people working on ASICs for inference. There are already people using FPGAs for some vertically integrated AI stacks, so it's only a matter of time until we start discussing literally hard-coding models (or flashing them) to hardware to make them go faster.
I haven't laughed this hard in a while. Thanks
Loved the photos from my 4a when I had it many years ago.

Videos, on the other hand...
> I see a lot of people mentioning things like mitochondria and spike proteins; can any of this be caused by the virus OR the vaccine?

Ask the people who never had the vaccine. There are not many in that category though.
I'd use those terminals, maybe, if the implementations weren't so bad. The one in VS Code is a sad version of what's possible.
> Doesn’t Sam Altman keep parroting they’re developing AI “for the good of humanity”?

“I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place better than we do”

- Gavin Belson
> and I didn't want to sound rude

I think it's interesting how this has changed. If you go back and look at politically correct corpo-speak from decades past, it was bland and impersonal but aimed to be direct, clear, and reasonably concise.

These days, it's still impersonal but now couched in platitudes, apologies, and excessively polite language in an attempt to avoid possibly offending anyone in any conceivable fashion.

I'm worried that we'll get to a point in regular work communications where responding to a question with a simple and succinct "yes" instead of, "Great idea, I think that is an absolutely perfect plan and you surely deserve a call-out at the next all-hands meeting for coming up with the idea to fix that problem in the team's code!!!" will get you put on an HR watchlist for being difficult to get along with.
They do that hoping you click on other articles, "Trump denied" to me implies someone asked the question from the press.
This attitude (and the word "problematic") is so tiring. What is the actual problem with running it as your daily driver? What specific vulnerability are you actually concerned about? Unless there's something like an arbitrary code execution bug in one of the networking/radio stacks, "there aren't updates" is a statement with approximately zero useful information.
> Consolidation and monopoly over your competition is always the end goal.

Surely that's only possible when you have a large barrier to entry?

What's going to be that barrier in this case - cos it turns out not to be neither training costs/hardware or secret expertise.
>Despite this, I still can't understand why they didn't think of starting geographical exploration and colonization

They literally had emperors who banned all overseas travel because it represented a threat to their own power: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haijin . China is the extremely large and extremely centralised, so the rulers' primary focus has always been on maintaining their own power. Fortunately the current government still allows private firms enough freedom that one was able to invent DeepSeek, however if the recent crackdown on financial firms had happened a few years earlier then the firm behind DeepSeek wouldn't have had the money to fund its creation.
> As a non-web person,

Yes, indeed.

> I find everything related to this auth business needlessly complicated and arbitrarily limited.

You find a subject you do no understand or were bothered to learn about to be needlessly complicated and arbitrarily limited?

> Most of the time it's not even implemented correctly anyway (many application not checking the JWT audience...) because web devs (...)

You seem to be very opinionated over things you clearly know nothing about.

Among the many ways you manifested your cluelessness, OAuth is not a "web dev" thing. It's a "software communicating over a network" thing. Desktop apps must support it, so do mobile apps, and web services need to support it both as client apps and resource services.

Also, to drive home your clueless ignorance, "checking the JWT audience" is not a authentication thing, which is the responsibility of OAuth. The full name of OAuth2 is "OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework". It covers delegating authorization to third parties so that clients can access a user's claims. Claims are not authorization either.

In the end you were awfully critical of something you don't even know what is?

> (...) just use libraries without understand what actually provides the security.

I think you should take a step back and meditate over your post. It says nothing about OAuth, and everything about how little understanding you have over OAuth and how vocal you are on a topic you know next to nothing.
Europe, especially UK, France and Germany degraded so much it is no longer any alternative.
"When two thieves quarrel, what was stolen emerges."
Amusing Bruno seems to think in terms of labels when the reality is that the USA imprisons far more people per capita, and blatantly disregards its so-called "core freedoms" (ie, Bill of Rights) for its citizens very often.

This kind of person has a lot of cognitive dissonance going on.
What specific piece of software are you missing on a mac?

Aside from games, or industry-specific apps (like the goddamn KNX configurator, or CNC controllers), everything is there, at least for me, and with consistent and stable user experience.
Okay, addressing the main thrust:

Defense spending is absolutely a priority of this administration. SecDef Hegseth's whole thing is about reorienting the Pentagon back to American defense as the priority. Remember that getting Hegseth confirmed was a major push for the brand new admin.

So spending won't go down but will hopefully be spent more effectively.
A Review and Meta-Analysis of Visual Contrast Sensitivity in Schizophrenia
Impressive.

It says that everything runs locally on my phone AND that I shouldn’t put private information in there because chats may be reviewed by their content moderation to improve the system.

Can you explain how that works?

Edit: and unfortunately it crashes on my iPhone SE already with the light model.
So, sure, and you'd absolutely take those into consideration when deciding whether solar is cost-competetive, right?

That said, recognize that there's an important difference here. Virtually all solar subsidies are on the demand side of the equation. They pay homeowners to buy solar, and act to increase the size of the market. They don't make solar cheaper to produce (except via second order effects due to the resulting scale).

Nuclear wasn't like that in the 60's and 70's. The government was handing the checks to the reactor builders, not the consumers.
yeh. I see Dario saying "let's protect the US more" for no reason other than bias and "of course they improved over time" which feels like a mighty strong strain of copium. Very disappointing for a leader of an organization i respected. Assuming he speaks for Anthropic, and it seems he does, Past tense.
Wow, I had to go confirm this for myself. This sucks. They max out at 192GB on the current M2 line, which is absurd.

Hopefully this year's M4 Ultra systems will at least allow a much higher top spec.