skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because someone doesn't currently use X, it doesn't mean they've never used X.

And even if someone has never used X, it doesn't mean they haven't done extensive research about X, before concluding X doesn't meet their quality bar.

Before deciding whether to send my son to an SFUSD school, I had a call with the principal of the school and asked questions specific to my son's situation. Do you think my conclusions are worthless for understanding the quality of the service?
> I think LLMs are transformative

So is a landmine.
> the economic center of the world has been India and China , they didn’t feel the need to go anywhere

You're describing two modern states that encompass geographies that were constantly at internal turmoil. (Including as empires [1].) It's like asking why the Germans were late to the game in colonising: they're a land power and were in a constant state of internal turmoil.

"They had enough" flies in the face of human history and European colonialism itself.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hindu_empires_and_dyna...
with 57 million(!!) tokens
Those men and their companies are responsible for hundreds of thousands of jobs and a significant portion of the global economy. I'm actually thankful that they aren't shooting their mouths off to the new boss like spoiled children at their first job. It wouldn't make the world better, it would make their companies and the lives of those who depend on them, worse.

There is a fine line between cowardice and common sense.
invidia = envy in latin
>not everyone is the same regarding satiety

There is no proof for this claim, nor can there be. "anti-hunger molecules" Are irrelevant. What is relevant is portion size, an individual is used to eating a portion size of x. There body is used to churning through all the physiological processes needed to digest (or not) y calories. If that individual ate x/4 over the course of a month their body would adapt to y/4 calories.

You make the exact same argument but don't seem realize it. The drug you seek is called dieting. Alternatively you can believe the unscientific fantasy that buddist monks who starve themselves to death just have tons of anti-hunger molecules or were born with a genetic disorder that gave them max satiety points.And you can just ignore bodybuilders who claim to think about food all 24/7 (why would they be buddists if they started out aesthetic anyways? self selection? stop coping we all more or less have the same brain, all life has a massive disposition towards feeling hunger, these desires only grow in size and complexity as life gets more complex)
If the allegations are true, the special thing about OpenAI is that it didn't have to be trained off DeepSeek. But either way, you maybe don't want to invest billions in something if someone else will be able to copy it for less.
Desmos also produces curriculum for K-12 (Desmos Classroom) that takes advantage of the computer’s ability to give real-time feedback for student answers beyond just giving them a binary correct/incorrect. It shows them what their wrong answers really would mean in the little animated scenario. Good stuff!

https://danmeyer.substack.com/p/the-only-question-you-need-t...
> Only european powers had the urge for colonization, no other civilization in Americas, Africa or Asia really ever want to colonize, expand perhaps but not really colonize.

* Inca Empire: Relocated entire communities (the mitmaqkuna) into new provinces to cement imperial control—these were explicit colonies with an imposed administrative and cultural framework.

* Ancient Egypt: Occupied Nubia, built forts, stationed garrisons, and imposed Egyptian officials and religion on the local population.

* Mongol Empire: Installed governors across conquered regions stretching from Eastern Europe to East Asia, moved artisans and workers to bolster Mongol centers, and demanded tribute—hallmarks of a colonial system.

* Imperial China: Established commanderies in newly acquired territories (e.g., southern China), encouraged Han settlement, and superimposed its bureaucracy over local governance.
Remember when Open AI CTO squirms In response to a question about using data from YouTube?
https://digg.com/digg-vids/link/open-ai-ceo

OpenAI's CTO, Mira Murati, found herself in a tight spot when questioned about using YouTube data to train Sora. Her uncertain response has sparked controversy and raised concerns about their ethics in collecting and training data. This incident has fueled a growing debate about AI companies' data practices.

Then YouTube's CEO, Neal Mohan said, if OpenAI used YouTube content without permission, it would violate their terms of service. Shall Neal freakout like how they are now!!
Clearly they are scared, they know people are canceling their subscriptions with them to and use free and better technologies. I know of 100 of people canceled their gpt subscription.
Many developers are replacing the expensive gpt models for free deepseek.

Here is the AI current story:

Imagine two AI trains chugging along the tracks of innovation. The first, driven by OpenAI, was the early leader, after they using Google transformers (and without they wouldn't exist).
They charged a hefty fare for anyone to hop aboard. We don't know how they trained their data. And big companies felt they had to buy tickets or risk being left behind.
OpenAI thought they were the only engine in town.
But then, another train pulled up alongside them. This new locomotive, powered by smart folks at DeepSeek, matched OpenAI's speed and fancy gadgets, if not better. The kicker? Everyone could ride for free!

Now, OpenAI's train is losing steam. People are jumping ship, with hundreds canceling their pricey GPT subscriptions. Meanwhile, the free train is picking up speed, aiming to make AI available to all.

In this tale of two trains, OpenAI might need to change their name to "ClosedAI" if they keep putting up barriers, being closed. The free and open train? That's the one chugging towards a brighter, better, free AI future for everyone.

deepseek = Open AI
Sure they do. They just don't have any capacity for producing the chip density that Apple demands. It's like showing up to a motorcycle factory and complaining that they don't know how to manufacture cars.

If America wanted EULV fabrication, it had to be organized and funded by the state. American fabs already made their business decision.
In a similar vein, I love this blog: https://linuxjedi.co.uk/

He fixes Amigas, BBC Micros, Archimedes etc...
Nonsense like this is why I personally will never buy a google hardware product ever again.

It is also why it is so difficult to recommend an android phone because of google being an advert company first.
M1 Pro or M1 Max?
My theory is that in the future we will have much more “friends circle cloud” type ops, where that hardware cost is spread out among a small community and access is private. What it won’t look like is every Tom, Dick, and Harry running their own $10k hardware to have a chuckle at the naughty jokes and grade-C+ programmer IDE assistance offered by open-source LLMs.
> generally speaking proofs about reality are an oxymoron

Proofs about reality are not self contradicting. Something not being entirely correct doesn't an oxymoron make.
TikTok has been the darling of the world for years at this point. They’re a global leader.
I like looneysquash's viewpoint about the definition of open source AI. You will need to have all parts involved open-sourced to make a model "open", not just the weights:

> The trained model is object code. Think of it as Java byte code. You have some sort of engine that runs the model. That's like the JVM, and the JIT. And you have the program that takes the training data and trains the model. That's your compiler, your javac, your Makefile and your make. And you have the training data itself, that's your source code.

> Each of the above pieces has its own source code. And the training set is also source code. All those pieces have to be open to have a fully open system. If only the training data is open, that's like having the source, but the compiler is proprietary. If everything but the training set is open, well, that's like giving me gcc and calling it Microsoft Word.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41952722
Musk looks happy throwing his hand from the heart to the sun.
Maybe I'm a sucker, but I bought a license for Sublime in like 2009 and re-upped for a later version. I also actually bought WinRAR from Eugene. It's good to support dedicated devs who make high quality tools that you use all the time.
Whenever I've looked, prices at B&H, or Newegg sold by Newegg, are usually within a few dollars of prices from any Amazon sellers that don't look obviously skeezy. It's a few dollars lower as often as it's a few dollars higher.

Except, of course, for the dramatically cheaper drives you find from Amazon... which are definitely going to be used, defective, dropped, or fake. If you get them at all.

They all seem to be selling them for very close to what they pay Seagate (or WD or whoever) for them, and the competition between manufacturers probably means there's not a whole lot of room for that price to vary. And I think everything gets repriced pretty frequently whenever anybody's costs move. You can see the prices change at the same time at different sellers.

The reason I bought drives from Amazon was that I'd had Newegg delay delivery of an accepted order, and then cancel it for "lack of stock". A few days later Newegg had the same drives listed at a higher price. I assume that what they really meant was "lack of stock of the drives we bought cheaply".
Indeed, the US has committed human rights violations pretty consistently.

https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities...
It's the end game of consumerism.

Everything is a product.

Every choice is a product purchasing choice.

We ourselves are products.

And endless sea of products selecting from other products.
First, that's rarely true, plenty of people use DNS, not DoH (and DoH just means Clodflare or whoever gets to know your traffic too). But even when they are, this is mostly irrelevant: your network provider knows which IPs you're talking to, otherwise they couldn't route your packets, obviously. It's generally quite trivial to do a reverse DNS search and figure out which hostname corresponds to the IP you're talking to.
I resonate a lot with this. Like most of what goes into that system really is pretty disposable, but it would be nice if a note-taking app could just quietly swallow anything I didn't look at for a few days, while still making it available as an "also, this?" entry in full text search. Or maybe for a kind of context-aware search/browsing, if it were possible to do a query like "show me everything I added or altered around the same time I was working with keywords x and y".
That’s interesting. I’ve gone hypo on weed quite a few times.
AWS already has platforms for running and fine tuning OSS models that can run privately inside a VPC. If Azure and GCP don’t have equivalent capabilities already, it is surely imminent. Seems pretty hard or impossible to beat cloud providers at their own game.
Thank you, I missed the use cases section, that explains a lot. Nice documentation. Might play with this when I get home.
Not all of us live in countries with B&H, Newegg, etc.
An empowered customer service team could do this by refusing service.

Its an offense to justice that its so easy to get away with being mean to service workers.
You'd be surprised who you see.
Can you explain how that's relevant?
Trump he was very open about the policies he did support: https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/2024-republican-pa.... He never disavowed any of these policies. He talked about them all the time at his rallies and podcasts.

The “Project 2025” thing was an effort to pin him to Heritage Foundation policies on abortion. He correctly pointed out that Heritage didn’t speak for him. You can’t say that Biden’s platform is the same as Sunrise’s platform just because they agree on some things.
But the number of incidents with head injuries is increasing because more (elderly) people are riding e-bikes for longer than they would have a normal bike.
As reaction times slow with age this is not a great combo with a faster bike which is a cause to more incidents.

There is a big push currently for getting helmet rules adopted similar to how Denmark did this
Once again you abuse your moderator powers to enforce your personal vendetta against people who dare to speak ill of tech CEOs.

I find your behavior repulsive and fervently wish you would quit.
Oh yeah totally. Our linter definitely discourages it.

I still see a false equivalency in the ruby community that verbosity == complexity, that tends to make super complex abstractions and DSLs in order to make the consumption less verbose, that then say “see how simple this is to use”

Because rails does such a good job in their DSL, I think I understand why that tendency exists. But rails under the hood is quite complex, and most DSLs are no where near as well thought out.

Maybe I have Stockholm syndrome, because I hated ruby coming from a nearly all c style language background at first, but I honestly think it is pretty cool now. I think a lot of issues come from people wanting to do things in ruby like they would in C# or Java.
How to Access DeepSeek R1?
Or give the user the choice when first powering on the device.

Select: Base version that will only receive security updates. No changes in features.
OR All updates

Edit: By "Base version" I mean the first software version for that device.
Ask HN: What computer science blogs do you have bookmarked?
I have:

- Ludicity (https://ludic.mataroa.blog)

- Steno & PL (https://blog.waleedkhan.name)

- Mijndert Stujj (https://mijndertstuij.nl)

- Ben Congdon blog (https://benjamincongdon.me/blog/)

- ruder. io (ruder.io)

- Stratechery (https://stratechery.com)

These are basically all ML/AI blogs except Ludicity. Any others I should add?
Concur, switched to iPhone around this time, as Android just started to feel like a knock off iOS rather than an alternative.
Sort of? But it is very different to the federal cabinet where they serve at the pleasure of the president. The recall process is slow, expensive, and rarely successful.

>Since 1913, there have been 181 recall attempts of state elected officials in California. Eleven recall efforts collected enough signatures to qualify for the ballot and of those, the elected official was recalled in six instances.

https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/recalls/recall-history-cali...
I know a corrupt real estate developer who would probably love to sell him a property at 500% of the market rate.
I’ve seen that with startups. I’ve seen that with established very successful companies that try to sell to new customers.

You try to do something different, and every business process and management member is there to stop you because of what they learned previously … when working with a different customer or market.

The Steve Jobs story about resistance to developing a mouse in house is a good example.
Note how interesting it is that you can read about these on the internet in the US on US hosted servers by US companies. At least we own up to it and don't just throw you in a mental asylum like they do to anyone who dares to stand up to the CCP.
Lago doesn't seems to be really open source since it doesn't even support basic features like credit notes in the free version.
Could you please develop your idea? I don't see the link between pencils and deepfakes.
The number of stars and planets has been overplayed from the start. Sure, there's a quintillion planets, but after you've seen a hundred, you pretty much got the gist of the scope of what's possible. Everything starts to look samey.

Much more significantly, it seems the new planets use new biomes and terrain generators. If they gave all undiscovered planets a chance to use these, even if they cut the number of planets by 99%, it would still be a big improvement. The number is just so big, it's irrelevant.
> You can have a computer that's a "friend."

Slightly offtopic, but I have a friend with synesthesia who sees inanimate objects like people, and they call their computer "macbook friend" (since it's a MacBook Air).
Tragedy of current days. No one wants to be a firefighter, astronaut or a doctor. Influencers everywhere! Can you blame kids? Do you know firefighters who earns million dollars annually?
Ah. The old Hughes Amendment trick that should have been rendered invalid years ago but is still considered valid because people are too dumb to see past the first two layers of indirection.
llama.cpp’s token generation speed does not scale with multiple CPU sockets just like it does not scale with multiple GPUs. Matthew Carrigan wrote:

> Also, an important tip: Go into the BIOS and set the number of NUMA groups to 0. This will ensure that every layer of the model is interleaved across all RAM chips, doubling our throughput. Don't forget!

This does not actually make sense. It is well known that there is a penalty for accessing memory attached to a different CPU. You don’t get more bandwidth from disabling the NUMA node information and his token generation performance reflects that. If there was a doubling effect from using two CPU sockets, he should be getting twice the performance, but he is not.

Additionally, llama.cpp’s NUMA support is suboptimal, so he is likely taking a performance hit:

https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/issues/11333

When llama.cpp fixes its NUMA support, using two sockets should be no worse than using one socket, but it will not become better unless some new way of doing the calculations is devised that benefits from NUMA. This might be possible (particularly if you can get GEMV to run faster using NUMA), but it is not how things are implemented right now.
The overland silk roads spanned long before and after the Mongols, from the bronze age through the modern era. It doesn't have to be identical to Marco Polo's experience to be a silk road.
Rescinded.
This is what people say when they don't want the rules to be applied even-handedly.

It's not a borderline call—I'd post exactly the same thing regardless of who or what such a comment was about.
Definitely needed, great idea!
The idea that a lot of compute is moving towards inference has a huge consequence for the current "AI investments". This is bad news for NVDA particularly. The inference focused solutions have better economics than paying NVDA those huge margins (e.g. Grog)
One example of this is Breyers ice cream. They are the oldest ice cream company in the US, had a great reputation, and heavily marketed that they only used high quality all natural ingredients until they got bought up by Unilever who stuffed it full of artificial ingredients and fillers to the point where they could no longer legally call their product "ice cream" and had to relabel their products as "frozen dairy dessert". You'd think that doing that would have tanked the company, but they're still one of the top brands globally and in the US. Unilever took advantage of a company's reputation for quality, quietly filled the product with shit, and made a fortune because people continue to eat it up. There are plenty of competitors making actual ice cream too.
The AI bust is here
I think the point is that if R1 isn't possible without access to OpenAI (at low, subsidized costs) then this isn't really a breakthrough as much as a hack to clone an existing model.
polishing you means snap back to the mean. AI will not make you extrordinary
The first rule of working on Gmail is DO NOT change the interface.

The second rule is if you insist, please let us turn off your dumb AI feature.
But a firing by the electorate, not a firing by the governor of CA.
It might already be more dangerous in the sense that it is unpredictable. China is autocratic and powerful but their goals are known and do not change at a whim.

You can't build diplomatic and trade ties in quicksand.
Do you mostly use your file explorer to see the list of files? Or do you use any plugins to sort and view your files?
> To say the two are remotely comparable is either insincere or naive. Like I'm not saying the US always acts utterly virtuously, but they aren't running concentration camps and chemically castrating entire ethic groups.

They absolutely did directly and indirectly several times in their history. A few of those times were recently:

> In September 2020, it was revealed that ICE had performed mass hysterectomies on immigrant women in several detention centers, reminiscent of the long-standing US policy of sterilization of black and brown women. 2

> The US currently operates a system of slave labor camps, including at least 54 prison farms involved in agricultural slave labor. Outside of agricultural slavery, Federal Prison Industries operates a multi-billion dollar industry with ~ 52 prison factories , where prisoners produce furniture, clothing, circuit boards, products for the military, computer aided design services, call center support for private companies. 1, 2, 3

> In the present day, ICE (U.S._Immigration_and_Customs_Enforcement), the police tasked with immigration enforcement, operates over 200 prison camps, housing over 31,000 undocumented people deemed "aliens", 20,000 of which have no criminal convictions, in the US system of immigration detention. The camps include forced labor (often with contracts from private companies), poor conditions, lack of rights (since the undocumented aren't considered citizens), and forced deportations, often splitting up families. Detainees are often held for a year without trial, with antiquated court procedures pushing back court dates for months, encouraging many to accept immediate deportation in the hopes of being able to return faster than the court can reach a decision, but forfeiting legal status, in a cruel system of coercion. 1, 2

> During the 2020 coravirus pandemic, it was found that a law that empowered police to arrest those for not social distancing, lead to 80% of those arrested being black and latino.

etc., etc., etc.

https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/us_atrocities...
https://www.realtor.com/news/trends/trump-sends-d-c-s-luxury...

I haven't followed this closely throughout history but I bet we're going to see cycles of people with power cycling in and out of the area based on who is in office and what they need to influence the government on.
The obvious purpose of these "white lives matter" and "all lives matter" memes was to distract from the "black lives matter" campaign/movement as if to say that equality negates the legitimacy of highlighting the continuing struggles of a group that has been historically ill-treated and continues to face discrimination. However, we can agree with the "white lives matter" and "all lives matter" statements.

The "black lives matter" slogan is based in the idea that people in America have been treated as if their lives didn't matter, because they were black. People in America were not treated as if their lives didn't matter due to being white, so no such a slogan would be necessary for any such a reason.

"White lives matter" is trolling, basically.
There was, but as I understand it, it’s really just one dude’s opinion.

No team or consensus behind it, so it’s not really news in my opinion. In fact, I’d be surprised if nobody in Google would believe in open source AI.

The take of course interesting and as an open source guy, I like it and hope he is right.
China only has to attack Taiwan to deny the US of TSMC’s production capacity.

Prediction: they will do this as soon as they see sufficient domestic chip production.

The attempts to inshore fabs to the USA is too little too late.

And it doesn’t matter if Trump defends Taiwan and makes China back down - the fabs will have been bombed to bits.

As it is, trump would probably just do sanctions and tariffs, which - like Russia - China will expect to weather.