skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that the evidence is weak, and even if they had some, they cannot really do anything.

To me, it's just very likely they distilled GPT-4, because:

1) Again, you just cannot get that performance at that cost. And no, what they describe on the paper is not enough to explain the 1,000x-fold decrease in cost.

2) Very often, DeepSeek tells you it's ChatGPT or OpenAI; it's actually quite easy to get it to do that. Some say that's related to "the background radiation on the post-AI internet". I'm not a fentanyl consumer so, unfortunately, I think that argument is trash.
NordVPN says its new protocol can circumvent VPN blockers
> Journalism. BBC.

BBC Travel tells awe-inspiring, immersive travel stories to curious, passionate readers who want to learn about the world as much as they want to travel there.
Besides the multiplayer update, what have you found fun about the game to invest all those hours?

Personally think the gameplay loop is shallow, modding helped me find more depth.
> I self-identify as "fact-based"

No, you just like a different kind of story.
Since META went full Twitter/Musk, no surprise with this.
Though the question is "who is more likely", not "who is guilty". Otherwise answer to literally any question would be "not enough information"
Counter-Point:

GCP and AWS came out of product focused companies that effectively converted to providing the services they used internally.
It's like describing a bucket of random Lego pieces "not a toy".

It's a game. It just might not be the game for you. Some people buy a Lego set, follow the instructions and make whatever the set is and that's it. That's fine. Other people will build out ideas with whatever pieces they have. Yet other people will buy specific pieces to build out some Lego vision they have, some of which are truly incredible.

It's also like Minecraft. Are you just playing survival mode? Or are you playing creatively to build out some vision of a city or a building or even a computer?

NMS is really self-directed play. The campaign is really just a tutorial. Are you going to go out and find and max out the best ships? Build an interesting base? Find a particular world to build your base on that has an aesthetic you want? That's up to you.

I've put hundreds of hours into NMS although not for a few years. I first got into it after the Next update IIRC, which was a massive improvement at the time.

What I'd like to see with one of these updates is way more attention on base building as I think that area is kinda weak. Flattening ground is awkward. Base components don't snap to wood/stone/metal components for some reason. They could do so much more with this.
To sustain itself... at the same rate it usually does (body fat, muscle...). My comment was extremely easy to grasp. Instead, you twisted what I wrote, clinging to a stupidly literal interpretation of it, and came up with a ridiculous reply, riddled with straw man fallacies. Good job (making a fool out of yourself while trying to one up a stranger on the Internet).
> you provide a very valuable piece of data to train on

We've been saying this "we get valuable data" thing since the 2010s [1].

When will our collective Netflix thumbs ups give us artificial super-intelligence?

[1] Especially to investors. They love that line.
It sure does ring true. I think fact-based more or less overlaps with unbiased and open-mindedness while the other category is more on the side of having certain mental biases either as a result of personal experience or ideology, for this category new evidence and facts do not make much of a difference unless they are too big and readily perceivable.
If that's really true in a wide scope, yeah, I guess that would have to be an improvement. But I've observed the opposite - didn't used to get too many crashes or glitches back in the launch days, but my recent experiences are full of a few crashes and many, many glitches.
Immaterial.

There are a great number of studies completing that show that opportunities for upward mobility simply are no longer there for the vast majority.

David Willets summarized and touched on studies done by the Resolution Foundation, and wrote a book on the subject matter extensively, "The Pinch, How the Baby Boomers Stole their children's future".

There's a big difference between living hand to mouth as an individual wage slave, and making enough to be able to support having children, let alone the gross excess of the Zuckerbergs or globalists of the world.
NYC economics is fascinating - but not really an inspiration.
That's not what they are running. the dynamic quants are Q1, Q2. The $6000 is running Q8.
This is cultural prejudice, not racial.
I've never played it, so I really can't speak to the though, but my obvious comparison is Minecraft.

I really think the deep lore of Minecraft does a lot of work. When you find a new and interesting random place to explore, it usually ties in with your view of the place you are in, and eventually you find your way to an ending of sorts.

Another similar game from my youth that was the same was Wing Commander: Privateer. It was a sandbox, where a game suddenly appears after you've been exploring for months, but it's not much more than some cut scenes within the sandbox.

I have no qualms with a sandbox game, but I'd prefer it were generally tied into a narrative, either in a lore narrative or with a direct story.
Huawei adds DeepSeek-optimized inference support for its Ascend AI GPUs
Naivety of some folks here is astounding… CCP has golden shares in anything that could possibly be important at some point in the next hundred years, and yes golden shares are either really that or they’re an euphemism, the point is it doesn’t even matter.
AI for Whom?
You're missing the point that for a much larger portion of the world, all "tech" is a foreign entity to them
The letter this submission is about went to many people who do not fall under policy/career. It went to everyone including people like admin staff and IT technicians who could not be put into Schedule Policy/Career per the OPM guidance.

You can read the guidance here: https://www.chcoc.gov/content/guidance-implementing-presiden...

There's no way that a GS-9 or GS-11 2210 network tech taking this deferred resignation option would be hired back under this schedule because they do not qualify for it (unless they happen to be part of union leadership or something, but that's a very small number compared to the whole).

And even if they could hire back a non-policy position under a policy schedule, this resignation/rehiring you've suggested is very roundabout. It's completely unnecessary so doesn't even make sense, they can convert those positions without the need for a resignation and rehiring the individual.

It would actually have made more sense to convert all these positions that wouldn't fall under Policy/Career (that you for some reason believe could) and then to dismiss the individuals without offering this deferred resignation.
Spiritually, there is a dichotomy, but it is (as most things) perhaps more nuanced than you've laid out here. This dichotomy is also commonly referred to as "top-down vs bottom-up" or "strategic vs tactical" or "big picture vs in the weeds."

On places where I agree with you: there are some people who naturally think about the big narrative, what could be done, the vision, and the way the hero will progress through their journey. There are also people who think through the day-to-day, less about the hero's journey and more about how the hero will get from Town A to Town B in two days. Great pairings come from having both; this is one of the reasons that co-founder teams are often so much more successful than individuals. They complement each other.

On the places where I disagree with you: some of your statements refer to reactions when the scenario requires thinking that is different than natural strengths. A successful "narrative" person understands and respects that someone needs to be thinking through the day-to-day, and a successful "facts" person understands that someone needs to be setting the big goals. They recognize weaknesses in themselves as strengths in another.

For example, a fully-aware "narrative" person won't think it's wrong to pierce a valuable story with contrary facts. They will respect that their story should be updated. And a fully-aware "facts" person won't put their foot in their mouth by saying things at the wrong time. They'll respectfully listen to others and chime in when it's appropriate to build up the group. None of us are perfect, so we will all make mistakes here, especially under stress.
Fine, whatever. It's actually much more concerning if the overall information landscape has been so curated by censors that a naively-trained LLM comes "pre-censored", as you are asserting. This issue is so "complex" when it comes to one side, and "morally clear" when it comes to the other. Classic doublespeak.

That's far more dystopian than a post-hoc "guardrailed" model (that you can run locally without guardrails).
Vegans should already be extremely watchful of their nutrition, as there's for example B12 in a lot of animal products, where a B12 deficiency means you are getting nerve damage.
It might just be easier and cheaper to take iodine supplements. Humans need about 150mcg/day, just make sure not to overdose on it. Vitamin companies love selling you huge doses you don't need, but if you know what dosage you're looking for you can usually find appropriate ones.
> What could be learned from masks

That's like asking what could you learn from building plans ...
The dissonance resolves itself when you realize the "glory" they are talking about is not how our society uplifted Americans economically in that era, but how racial and religious hegemony was maintained.

I think these particular people would be happy to forego all economic progress made in the last 70 years if it meant they could return to a time when being male, white, straight, and Christian was all it took to be at the top of the social order.
I doubt that many people have full access to OpenAI's code. Their team is pretty small.
If you scroll all the way to the bottom of the article there is a gallery of items from the museum, along with detailed descriptions.

I also don't find it all implausible that goods from New York made there way to this region in the 1920's. As the article mentions, although the connection point between Europe and East Asia was severed by the Ottomans, small sections of the trade network continued for centuries afterwards.
I got a kick out of this headline yesterday:

"Meta is reportedly scrambling ‘war rooms’ of engineers to figure out how DeepSeek’s AI is beating everyone else at a fraction of the price"

https://fortune.com/2025/01/27/mark-zuckerberg-meta-llama-as...
Ah, good point then!
Financial payments is a cartel wherever you go. In China it's not better, it's just different players; AliPay and WePay. In fact UnionPay is probably more of a cartel since it's the only card authorizer in China.

A couple of companies have tried their hand at a western mega-app, most notably Meta, and you could consider Apple close, but for the most part the consumers are not super interested.
At least for some brands/models, a workload of purely sequential large writes doesn't exhibit that slowdown -- so I'm assuming they go straight to an open SMR zone. There might be an extra criteria where the rate of writes has be just below some threshold so the drive has time to seal full zone & open up a new one in time, to avoid CMR buffering.
“ It is important to note that there were insufficient data to determine if the low fluoride level of 0.7 mg/L currently recommended for U.S. community water supplies has a negative effect on children’s IQ.”
The price comparisons there don't make much sense. DeepSeek V2 is far worse than 4o, so a better analogy would be to compare the pricing of V3 and R1 instead. For example, if you check https://artificialanalysis.ai/models/deepseek-v3, you'll find the following output token prices:

- DeepSeek V3 $1.10 vs. 4o $10 per 1M tokens
- DeepSeek R1 $3 vs. o1 mini $12.60 vs. o1 $60 per 1M tokens

That's a staggering difference, and I wonder if this will only increase the amount of money OpenAI loses per request if they decide to fight a pricing war. There's no moat indeed.
>When you do that, the kernel network stack, at like the broad logic level, is sort of oblivious to the fact that the devices aren't real ethernet devices and don't have to go through the ethernet motions to transact.

Is that true even for virtio-net? I guess I just assumed all these virtual devices worked like virtiofs and had low overhead fast paths for host and guest communication.
This moment was also historically significant because it demonstrated how financial power (Morgan) could control industrial power (the railroads). A pattern that some say became increasingly important in American capitalism.
it's not academic. Why can't ChatGPT tell me how to make meth? why doesn't deepseek want to talk about tiananmen square? what other things has the model been molested into how it should be? without the full source, we don't know
The government isn't giving 500 billion to anyone. They just let Trump announce a private deal he has no involvement.
It never meant anything. There's no such thing as a free market economy. We haven't had one of those in modern times, and arguably human civilization has never had one. Markets and their participants have chronically been subject to information asymmetry, coercion/manipulation, and regulation, among other things.

I don't think all of that is a bad thing (regulation tends to make it harder to do the first two things), but "free markets" are the economic equivalent to the "point mass" in physics: perhaps useful sometimes to create simple models and explanations of things, but will never exist in the real world.
Amkor will also be near
Running Rails development on localhost:2
> Newer JVMs are fantastic at allocating and releasing it in a way that beats C performance for some cases.

And yet the care and feeding (tuning) of the GC consumes countless millennia of human time per year.

This, as my post says, is not even an inherent problem with GC, but with Java assuming an eventually sufficiently smart GC.

But also yes, successive Java GC implementations have done huge heroics. They've gotten better and better. A million PhDs have been minted inventing amazing technology in this space. But we've been promised the ultimate compacting pauseless GC for decades, and yet I see outage after outage of huge systems root caused to "look, we found a brand new way that the GC can explode (or just thrash) on us".

And (for all its many flaws), Go chose a different strategy, and avoided a class of problems. They learned from Java's mistake in this case. There's still GC issues (though Go is also getting better and better), but nowhere close.

> Java has some of the cleanest error messages around

One can make the case for which is better (well, least bad) of Java or C++ error messages, but neither can come close to Rust error message quality and cleanliness.

And Rust does have a developed type system.

But fair enough, let's call it opinion. Which is a disclaimer I have at the top of the post. Like I said I'm impressed that Java managed to make error messages worse than C++, but you can disagree.

> Modern Java uses UTF-8 for Strings and for internal representation of Strings when applicable.

Ok, that sounds like I'm not up to date (probably nowhere near). It's not an issue I've fought in years. But glad to hear they fixed that… "when applicable". I'll read up on that. Thanks.

> finally

Go is not my favorite language, but here I think it's better than Java. RAII beats defer, but at least defer makes the programmer add the cleanup at resource acquisition, not four pages further down, possibly behind a null pointer check in case the finally clause triggers before the resource acquisition.

I respect your opinion about aesthetics, but I don't accept that my opinion on finally/defer/RAII is "wrong".

I appreciate the feedback. Thanks.
Is this an important consideration in open sourcing an AI model?

I would think the code to build your own is open sourced, and you can feed it any data you'd like. That's the open source part, not the part where they are running the model.

Have I misunderstood this?
They don't have to replace all of the Taiwanese manufacturing, just the chips that are US bound. There are plenty of customers in other countries that need TSMC chips.
Ebay and, to a lessor extent, Amazon, have many vendors selling "new" Seagate HDDs that are actually refurbished. The SMART data is just reflashed to zero.

There is speculation that these are ex-Chinese drives from crypto currencies that used "proof-of-storage" mining like Chia coin.
And from the paper seems like they played it interestingly in the researchers direction as well:

"1.2. Responsible Disclosure

We disclosed our results to Apple on May 24, 2024.
Apple’s Product Security Team have acknowledged our
report and proof-of-concept code, requesting an extended
embargo beyond the 90-day window. At the time of writing,
Apple did not share any schedule regarding mitigation plans
concerning the results presented in this paper.
"
How big are the weights for the full model? If it's on the scale of a large operating system image then it might be easy to sneak, but if it's an entire data lake, not so much.
Lockdowns didn't prevent anything that would have justified the harm they brought on society, culture and politics.

I know you don't like Russell Brand and he's definitely not doing well ... nonetheless this interview with Tim Robbins basically summarizes my personal experience to the t:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMdOesJo4h8
Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/600542/waymo-test-cities-las-v...
I'd be perfectly fine with China stealing all "our" shit if they just shared it.

The word "our" does a lot of heavy lifting in politics[0]. America is not a commune, it's a country club, one which we used to own but have been bought out of, and whose new owners view us as moochers but can't actually kick us out (yet). It is in competition with another, worse country club that purports to be a commune. We owe neither country club our loyalty, so when one bloodies the other's nose, I smile.

[0] Some languages have a notion of an "exclusive we". If English had such a concept, this would be an exclusive our.
You're only strengthening my argument.

An ambitious man isn't going to care what some "studies" say about how bad and sad and evil the world is. He's just going to do what needs doing and enjoy the fruits of his labors.

You're never going to succeed if you let others' negativity beat you into submission. You're literally in the company of people who create and invest in startups. Who cares what bad things others are saying, it's your life.
- They usually so a pretty good job adhering to standards

- re: the money: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42869358
So Meta can train its AI on all the pirated books in the world but people are losing their mind over an AI learning from another AI?
Parameterized sql is a good thing regardless of plan caching, but it also helps with systems that do plan caching.

That the client must explicitly prepare the statement and the preparation is tied to the connection is pretty clunky and still means the statement must be replanned for each separate connection.

Also since it is assumed by the devs of PG that prepared statements are not the norm they seem to avoid making the optimizer take its time and shoot for a fast optimizer rather than the fastest query.

DB's like MSSQL and Oracle concern themselves much less with how long it takes to optimize since repetitive queries will all use the same plan automatically it also allows interesting features like saving and loading plans from different systems and freezing them so they don't all the sudden go bad in production, but those systems also supports hints unlike PG.
Shadow-banning of this type screams first amendment violation. Political speech has special protections.
Those are so iconic I can still audiate them as if I played UT yesterday.
The author Mary Robinette Kowal has a cat, Elsie, who uses a button board. I’m reluctant to call it language exactly, but it is definitely a kind of communication.

An example is here: https://www.instagram.com/p/C48uKZ8veql/

It’s interesting how words shift in meaning with the cat, so litterbox, for example, has come to be a word for anything unpleasant. Elsie also will come up with nicknames for people she encounters relatively frequently, not always complimentary.
Such a confusing comment, because when I enter the text from case study #1 into Deepl, it's very clearly much worse than what Claude or GPT4o can come up with (the first few lines from Deepl are: "With his expositions to all the Tables, particularly of the quality of the countries, et of the most notable things, to be found in them. Which Tables, can be, and t are taught to reduce' together" and so on).

Likewise with using Google translate on both case studies #1 and #2 - the results are self-evidently far worse. In both cases there were multiple errors in each line and in case study #2 it was entirely unable to transcribe or translate the title line. If you see this, please email me at bebreen [at] ucsc dot edu to share the better results you are seeing because I genuinely am interested and open to using alternative tools - I just am not seeing what you are seeing, apparently.

In terms of typos not changing the meaning, yes naturally a real human needs to double check absolutely everything if it's being used in research. We agree on that - the point is simply that this significantly speeds up the initial research process, not that it replaces the expertise necessary to, for instance, double check that a name or year is transcribed correctly. A huge amount of historical research is simply about skimming through documents looking for relevent info to zero in on - this is where LLMs can really help.
2019: Zuckerberg Confirms Facebook Blocked Pro-Life Ads

https://thetablet.org/zuckerberg-facebook-blocked-pro-life-a...

2022: Mark Zuckerberg tells employees Facebook’s ‘encryption’ will protect abortion-seeking users

https://cyberscoop.com/mark-zuckerberg-meta-facebook-abortio...

2022: Facebook and Instagram removing posts with mentions of abortion pills

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jun/28/facebook-...

So that policy is actually from 2022. The other hypocrisies from Zuck like suddenly hunting his own meat with a bow (whose manufacturer he did not know on Joe Rogan) and the sudden masculinity of course still exist.
devil's advocate says that we know that foreign (hell even national) intelligence attempt to infiltrate agents by having them become employees at any company they are interested. So the idea isn't just pulled from thin air as a concept. I do agree that it is a big if with no corroborating evidence for the specific claim.
Stepping my feet into uv world – part 1