skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are national politicians (as is every politician in the nation). I think you mean "Federal".

That aside, state governments are supposed to heavily augment federal laws with their own state laws and regulations.

California doesn't need or want input from a bunch of states with little to no AI (or even IT in general) industry footprint about how those companies should operate.
Copyright and terms of service are different legal notions.
Thought experiment: if tomorrow Apple changed the default search engine from Google to ChatGPT for iOS, how fast would Google’s dominance drop?

iOS has 70% market share in the US
Supervised Fine-Tuning Memorizes, RL Generalizes
I am running Deepseek R1 on my AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U integrated GPU. While my experience will R1 doesn't make me think well of it, it is impressive how fast it is on such a weak graphics processor.
> as satire, it's the main point

There is thought-stopping satire and thought-provoking satire. Much of it depends on the context. I’m not getting the latter from a “USA land of the ‘free’” comment.
In Slack you get syntax highlighting if you use /snippet instead of Markdown fences, but everything else supports Markdown fences, so it seems dumb Slack doesn't and you have to discover a random slash command to do it. Similarly it bugs me that Slack's Markdown uses a different definition of italics and bold than CommonMark and most everyone else. I know the biggest standard of Markdown is that there is no real standard, but Slack's Markdown sure is less standard than normal.
Are you seriously implying Donald Trump is self made? Seriously?
>It's reasonably likely that a lot of people linked to the federal government want to ban DeepSeek.

It took them years and years to move forward with the ban ok Tiktok and it still hasn't been banned yet. There is no way they are going to ban some MIT-licensed weights.

>"they destroyed $1T of shareholder value."

The market has largely recovered.
Yeah Elon has gotten annoying (my god has he been insufferable lately) but his companies have done genuine good for the human race. It's really hard for me to think of any of the other recently made billionaires who have gotten rich off of something other than addicting devices, time-wasting social media and financial schemes.
Sublime Text is my primary editor. I had a brief 2 years where I used VSCode and got addicted to plugins, until I realized I was spending too much time configuring plugins and went back to Sublime Text with the release of ST4. It was mind-boggling to me after those 2 years how much faster ST was than VSCode. The LSP plugin was icing on the cake. Even in instances where I lack LSP, Sublime Text 4's context-aware autocomplete/finder works surprisingly well. The only thing I really find myself missing is a visual debugger.

I've tried Neovim and Zed -- Sublime Text is still faster and more polished in my experience. It embodies the "do one thing well" philosophy perfectly. Also, Sublime Merge is awesome.
Arguing for the morality of OpenAI is a little bit harder given their history and actions in the last few years.
They do - we call them therapists and they are on the hook. Medical doctors deal with BODY related issues.
This is probably a wild (~stupid) idea but can we develop drugs to elite particular bacteria, e.g. just kill Morganella morganii, akin to Ehrlich's magic bullet? Current approaches, I think, use antibiotics that kill a wide range of bacteria, the good with the bad.

How would such a thing work? Could there be enzymes specific to one species (or, at least, a family)?
> Eclipse is a full IDE. Sublime Text and VSCode are not.

I don't understand what practical difference there is between Eclipse/IntelliJ and VSCode with extensions that makes one an IDE and the other not.
If everything goes to a + address, then any email sent to your base address is invalid and can be trashed.
It depends on what those magic numbers are for. If they represent pure data, and it's obvious what the data is (perhaps a bitmap image), then sure, it's open source.

If the magic values are some kind of microcode or firmware, or something else that is executed in some way, then no, it is not really open source.

Even algorithms can be open source in spirit but closed source in practice. See ECDSA. The NSA has never revealed in any verifiable way how they came up with the specific curves used in the algorithm, so there is room for doubt that they weren't specifically chosen due to some inherent (but hard to find) weakness.

I don't know a ton about AI, but I gather there are lots of areas in the process of producing a model where they can claim everything is "open source" as a marketing gimmick but in reality, there is no explanation for how certain results were achieved. (Trade secrets, in other words.)
The coup against him is looking more and more like a huge "I told you so" moment.
> I get him, but why Visa?

It seems a crazy business decision for Visa. There was an advertiser boycott in 2023-2024, why would Visa choose to get involved?
> So far the whole business model of Silicon Valley since social media has been to monetize other peoples' content given out for free. The whole empire is built on this.

It cannot die soon enough
Prednisone can be a real doozy for some people along those lines. Anywhere from mild hunger all the way to rabid, unchecked hunger.
Ugh, typo.

*"cannot", not "content"
I know you're joking but there is a study from the American Journal of Medicine concluding marijuana use was associated with lower levels of fasting insulin, HOMA-IR, and smaller waist circumference.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23684393/
I can't believe Microsoft finally made Windows open source.
Not sarcasm. This is more a reaction to big data. Here's an analogy: Imagine cloud providers like iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive etc. As a reaction to those, Owncloud and Nextcloud emerged for personal (well, also business) use.

My idea with this is inspired by that. It's just for personal use and to address my own needs.
Well, there is an economic incentive - "salary". If you're not interested in it, may be it's time to move on as time is your own most valuable asset and choosing to waste it on "free ride" - it's something beyond my comprehension: you're literally waiting to be exposed and fired.

note: the org is not large, just 250 ppl or so.
Throw in some long term, multi-generational factors previously discussed at HN:

- widespread environmental exposure to lead

- gutting of public education funding during several presidencies

- cultural decline in prestige and respect towards the teaching profession
I don't know why they would have hidden the fact that smallpox was included, anti-vax wasn't a thing at the time. But I'll admit the possibility.
I think at the end of the day the reason that the opensourced DeepSeek is because they are programmers. Programmers like to show people the cool stuff they did. I had a boss who was rich enough to retire but was working three jobs because programming is cool and fun and he wants to do cool and fun things and show people the stuff that he did.

Everybody is trying to come up with a money related reason for why they open sourced it but at the end of the day the people who made it are engineers and not buisnesspeople. DeepSeek is really freaking cool, and they wanted to show people the cool thing they did.
GDP hasn't been a good metric for a good 50 years now. It's good when your country burns coals and shits out steel, not much more. High gdp for sure, higher salaries for sure, everything needed to survive is twice as expensive and you have 0 social safety net.

Meanwhile in the US

- mortgage are above 7%, twice as high as in Europe

- min wage is bellow the Polish min wage, half the German min wage

- life expectancy is going down, 4 years under the EU 27 average, 6 years less than France

- wealth and income inequalities are worse than pretty much any EU country: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/economic-inequality-gini-...

- parental leaves, paid vacations, unions, &c. are either optional or frowned upon

- pensioner poverty is 2x+ more than in the EU: https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2015/12/02/which-...
Try to imagine a society where people only did things that were rewarded.
Could such a society even exist?
Thought experiment: make a list of all the jobs, professions, and vocations that are not rewarded in the sense you mean,
and imagine they don't exist.
What would be left?
Steelmanning the idea in general, this can be a form of commoditizing your complement: https://gwern.net/complement

Now, commercially, this may not make a lot of sense at the moment because no one is getting filthy rich on high-moat AI-using applications such that commoditizing the AI itself is a good idea commercially. I'm not sure anyone would even be confident enough to be the farm on the idea of someday being in that position.

However, if you analyze this from the perspective of world politics, where both explicit and implicit strategies are based on what tech companies have what tech and where it is located, it makes a lot of sense that if China is concerned that the US really is ahead in AI tech and that US financial and technical dominance is being driven by this dominance and being used to suck capital out of the countries that are behind, it makes all kinds of sense to commoditize the complements as basically a way of throwing the current game board up in the air and restarting again.

(One may also note that this analysis also says that just straight-up stealing the OpenAI tech and slightly AI-washing it before handing it out to everyone is also a logical move. I don't know enough to have any independent opinion as to whether that's where DeepSeek came from. I'm just saying that given the visible circumstances it is a strong strategic move for China at this point.)
Pixel 8a is fairly similar in size. Headphone jacks in phones are (sadly) gone forever i'm afraid.
publicly? https://gdpr-info.eu/issues/personal-data/
Yeah that they do it globally but not in the US (other than a kind of meagre payment transfer on FB that used to exist) makes me wonder if they were bullied, federally, into not doing so.
The Pixel camera app is available from the Play Store, and there are third-party ports of Gcam to other devices that offer extra configuration options. https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/
Deep understanding and being able to reason about problems is more important than speed. Offloading too much to LLMs has a detrimental effect on our brains.

I'm not saying don't use LLMs. Use them in ways that increase your skills, and be wary of using them in ways that atrophy your skills.
There is also fusion with low neutron flux [1] (among the others: Helium 3) but it is even more difficult to achieve. I'm not confident that any of us will ever see a commercial fusion reactor. I'm afraid that all we can do to harness fusion energy directly is by the means of solar panels.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion
Double-plus-good.

(People tend to forget it, and it's only seen in passing, but the Ministry of Truth has machines for writing terrible books in the novel!)
How long can DeepSeek stay free?

It’s already unable to keep up with demand, it will never be the default on mobile devices and businesses in the US will never trust it.
I'm a weirdo who carries two pixel 4as. I'm also waiting for a response regarding the $100 voucher on one of my phones... My other one I took in for the free battery replacement, and that's doing OK.

But yeah, I was planning to go for a Pixel 9 or 9a (when that's been out for a while), but this forcing of the hand by google is absolute BS, and the alternatives are unsatisfactory.
This rhetoric is quite convincing. I think in a matter of decades a more polished version of this, written by an AI, will become a powerful ideology that squashes the spark of humanity not by force, that can be resented, but by convincing the masses to do what results in a spiritual death. Perhaps the only defense against it will be some kind of proof that mechanical life is a false idea, although convincing at first glance, but such proofs aren't easily obtained and people will be fooled and driven off a cliff in billions.
It's personal. "Unique" and "individual" might not be the best words to describe it, but it's clearly a style they've intentionally adopted. They appear to have been quite successful for it to!
Note: you are probably running a distilled version of R1, which is actually LLama or Qwen further trained on the input/output of R1.

The full R1 is huge (~700GB), altough there are still quantized versions, the smallest one is around 150gb (1.58bit)
Oh, the "we'll give you money under the table so you can appear cheap as hell, but you'd better give us all your data on the imperialists, Comrade" regime?
Under Linux perhaps. But a web company running on NT instead of Solaris in the 90's? I mean you could but you'd be hobbled pretty hard

Especially around the era Musk is quoted for (NT4 in the late 90's) I think most people would be understandably critical, even at the time
Why Trees Without Branches Grow Faster: The Case for Reducing Branches in Code
I always wondered what kind of fun treasure might be hiding in the L4 and L5 points. And what kind of secret missions were already sent there by various countries to look for stuff. There could be whole precious metal asteroids sitting around!
2014-2017 I worked for HGST, just as it was being assimilated by WD.

There were definite hardware differences between drive categories back then, and as well as the firmware adjustments, there would be things such as additional accelerometers to detect and help protect against shock (eg: portable drives), higher quality bearings and head/head mechanism differences.

But, or course, that was then and I can't speak for now.
Reminds me of Steve Jobs complaining to Bill Gates about MS "stealing" the GUI concept from them, which they in turn had stolen from Xerox.

Obligatory "Everything is a Remix" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9RYuvPCQUA
Lead exposure going up during the past 1-2 decades? This seems unlikely.
curious of ideas how to make it distributed, might be the wrong use case but thats usually the bottleneck?
It doesn’t save unnamed files which is mostly how I use this feature in sublime-text (as a scratch pad):
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4985
I think both things can be (and are) true.

Life IS infinitely more convenient
and
A biproduct of that is missing out on things that are (or used to be) authentic experiences.

Is it a guarantee that going to the grocery store is certain to be a thrilling adventure whereas Instacart is ceratain not to be? Of course not. There is a non-zero chance you meet the love of your life at the Grocery store just as there is a non-zero chance you meet the love of your life dropping off your Instacart order. (We can argue about the relative percentages of each but that's not the point)

The point is not that convenience is bad but rather that the ubiquity of phones (on-demand apps, social media) in daily life removes a wide range of potential emotional outcomes from daily life as a result of the fact that nothing is rare anymore. Nothing.

That part is hard to argue.
I swore off Square long ago because I made a handle using the names of me and my wife to let people contribute to a honeymoon fund when we got married and then after a couple friends contributed, Cash banned my handle and support wrote me back only one time and then was forever afterward silent and never restored my account, and I thought, "Great, another Silicon Valley app where the goal is to provide as little support as possible, only it's not about photos or email, it's about money, so that seems like the worst fit for Silicon Valley where they don't like to lift a finger to help you with anything!" Ever since I've seen zero reason to use them over a sea of viable alternatives. My stodgy old bank lets me use Zelle, and my stodgy old bank answers the phone when I call. I can also drive a few minutes to talk to them face to face if there is a real problem with my MONEY.
Ubuntu Developers Moving from IRC to Matrix for Real-Time Communication
If only someone could find a solution to this tragedy.

We did. Save up a few bucks, nothing out of reach, and (as you suggested yourself!) you can afford to buy your own machine. Here you go: https://xcancel.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106

You'd have received no such largesse from the Marxists. You're welcome.
This is exactly the case. Anecdotally speaking, growing up in the 90s, I remember my parents adding lightbulbs and fluorescent tube lights to their shopping list every couple of months. We used to have a small stockpile of these in the pantry.

Fast forward to today, the last time I bought lightbulbs for my house was over 5 years ago and that was to upgrade from regular led lamps to Philips hue.
It can't be 100x. In designs like ARC the magnets are up against limits not from the superconductors, but from the structures needed to resist JxB forces. The majority of the mass of the ARC reactor is in these steel structures. Much progress beyond that would involve significant increases in strength of materials, and even then the strength needed scales as B^2.

100x ARC would be ~2000 T. The magnetic pressure of such a field would be about 100x the detonation pressure of TNT. Experimentally, fields of such magnitude could only be produced very briefly in devices that near-instantly explode (for example, devices driven by intense laser pulses that produce large charge separations.)

> Tokamak output also scales with the square of reactor size

ITER is big because it wouldn't work at all if it were smaller (at the magnetic fields involved). Output scaling as (linear dimensions)^2 means you want your reactor to be as small as possible, to maximize power/volume. Square-cube law in operation. The higher magnetic field in HTSC tokamaks allows then to be smaller. Volumetric power density is still poor, though, just not as terrible as ITER.
Richest person in the world and president of the USA are not people at the top of the hierarchy? Who is then?

Is it you? Because you don’t spend all day trolling people or you don’t paint your face orange? Let’s get back in touch with reality please.
I need to rant. Many of us installed DeepSeek R1 over a week ago, knew what it was, knew right off the bat about it's issue with the 3Ts (Taiwan, Tiananmen, Tibet), but didn't give a shit because it kills it at coding. Good... give us the next incremental improvement.

Most people don't give a shit that it codes well, and they'll never use it. But they put their $s into the AI hype train, because they only care about the $s

And now I'm forced to put up with endless (ENDLESS) articles and videos about DeepSeek. I don't care about who wins or loses in the money games, give me a hyperintelligent model I can run on my home machine for free
Large Language Model Training Using FP4 Quantization
True...but Hg(CH3)2 is so much of a "MSDS from the 11th circle of hell" corner case that only expendables in heavily armored moon suits should ever go near the stuff.
> long term, multi-generational factors
You're most likely running a destilled version. The full model is ~700GB.
A comparable ocean impact would be the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which was about 3x more energetic.
> I think it's also unfair to women that they have to pick up the extra work that was done by the "community" before. And a loss for social cohesion too.

I would argue the community explicitly did not do the work of ousting predators. We are only in this generation or so no longer allowed to rape women if we're married to them. It is still legal for adults to marry children, not in an 18-to-17 way but a 38-to-15 way. Child marriages are overwhelmingly older-male-younger-female.

As for being with high-school sweethearts, that imo is also less and less likely, because more adults are forced to travel for employment (e.g. landing a job in a big city and moving).
or sold to US
I could totally see this happening soon
My first thought was that someone discovered Ross Ulbricht was freed and expecting to put Silk Road back on the map :)
> Who benefits?

The vendor's share price. This is nothing to do with the _users_; it is about cramming 'AI' into as many press releases as possible because it gives the markets the warm fuzzies. No-one wants to use this, and that's really beside the point; for the time being it makes stock price go up.

Presumably in a year or so there'll be a new fad, and most LLM-based 'features' will go the way of Clippy.
> We absolutely had a choice (D), in that no one was forced to call it "open source" at all

Technically yes, practically no.

You’re describing a prisoner’s dilemma. The term was available, there was (and remains) genuine ambiguity over what it meant in this context, and there are first-mover advantages in branding. (Exhibit A: how we label charges).

> causing collateral damage outside the AI bubble, and is nothing like Betamax vs. VHS

Standards wars have collateral damage.

> We should probably call them "free to run", if the "it's cheap" connotation of "freeware" needs to be avoided. Or maybe "open architecture"

Language is parsimonious. A neologism will never win when a semantic shift will do.
>DeepSeek shows how these tech oligarchs greatly overplayed their hand and along with the president, bamboozled the taxpayer to enrich each other.

How much taxpayer money has gone to OpenAI and Anthropic? They are the two big sinners in closed AI.
Open sourcing Llama just ensured that openAI will not create a dominant ecosystem that will attract most of the organic web traffic.

METAs bet paid off, but at what cost.
Your argument makes it sound like the statement says "adverse and disproportionate". I'm seeing that it says OR, meaning you don't have to do anything adverse.

I don't like when laws are worded such that we told we shouldn't care what the words say, we all know what we meant, this is a law for getting the bad guys, so don't worry about the actual words we use. You shouldn't need a law degree to know what OR means.
Five photos of mountains.

A single photo of a museum housing the "ancient discovery" (crates full of fancy goods from all over the world).

Not a single photo of a specific item from the "ancient discovery" (crates full of fancy goods from all over the world).

Journalism. BBC.

(Also, implying that goods from New York were being traded on the Silk Road is a huge stretch.)
I've spent 5 figures with them over the last few years, and they've always been good to me too. I'm writing this off as a one-time mistake, but I really hope it doesn't become a trend.
Personally, I have not seen anything from him that is meaningful. OpenAI and Anthropic (itself started by former OpenAI people) of course have built their models without LeCun’s contributions. And for a few years now, LeCun has been giving the same talk anywhere he makes appearances, saying that large language models are a dead end and that other approaches like his JEPA architecture are the future. Meanwhile current LLM architecture has continued to evolve and become very useful. As for the misuse of the term “open source”, I think that really began once he was at Meta, and is a way to use his fame to market Llama and help Meta not look irrelevant.
One factor behind decreasing US literacy rates and reading performance is the uptick of immigrants who don't speak English well.

While analyses of reading and literacy skills are generally intended to reflect how our educational system is doing.

So obviously, we need to control for immigration rates in these analyses. For assessment of our educational system, ideally we'd only be reporting for children and adults born in the US. (And then breaking out non-native speakers in their own categories to measure their ESL performance rates.)

Because a child (or adult) might have superb literacy in Spanish, but show up as illiterate in English. And these studies generally aren't accounting for that at all.