skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't think that will be competition at all. People like to travel and the demand is there for faster international flights. For business travel, people either prefer to go in person or have to be in person. Also with time zone differences, virtual meetings require one party to often have to meet at odd times. The ticket price probably will be higher than what most people want to spend for vacation, but there will still be plenty of people willing to pay.
Popularity of Garmins go way beyond what you try for some reason reduce it to.

These are serious sport and adventure watches, apple doesnt really have a comparable product for many folks, ie for me or my wife (who has apple+garmin mix). I personally also prefer wearing round watches than blocky mini phone. Latest garmins, any garmins, with oled displays look much cooler.
I recently ordered a Fairphone 5, imported from the UK. Stock Android experience, replaceable battery, SD card slot, unlocked bootloader and modding is encouraged. Its basically what the Pixel (Nexus) line was originally supposed to be.
I was visiting my parents for the holidays and came across this exact mindset. I usually push them to update for security, but I learned that they stopped doing that this year. Apparently some update broke/removed/changed an accessibility feature on their phone in a way that I couldn’t figure out how to revert. My mom had updated her phone first so only she was affected. My dad now refuses to update his phone and both of them have completely stopped updating for fear that something else will “break”. I can’t really blame them, but it does worry me and now I’m trying to think of what I can do to secure their devices if they’re not going to update.
Appreciate the article, but why do so many articles these days have to start with a history of the world? Do we really need to go through the years and recall the introduction of the iPhone? Do we all not know that already?

I hate this trend so much. It's common in tech talks now. Recapping the entire history only to come to the main point, the title of the talk, towards the final 10 minutes. Come on.
> lacks accountability. It is insulated from ordinary congressional pressure because its funding comes from the Federal Reserve and not through the appropriations process.

Ok that makes sense. Why is CFB not overseen by the congress and is a separate agency without oversight?
I do not have full statistics, but people who smoke cigarettes are less prone for developing post-covid, according to the statistics I have.

My immediate thought back then was is that nicotine somehow plays the role of NAD (= B3 vitamin), thus fixing one of the core mechanisms of acquiring mitochondrial dysfunction after the covid (NAD deprivation).
They only offer that for watches and often certain features are cribbed within that watch vs the dedicated sport one (I know this is the case for the golf line where the multi sport watch have limited featureset). Really I want the head unit. Thats what people want on their bikes. Thats what people use hiking. Thats what I like for golf just something smaller than my wallet to slip into my pocket (incidentally I carry a simple bushnell gps that goes for a fraction of the price). But Garmin doesn't offer that. If I want all of that I need three units, one for the bike, the garmin approach, and one of their hiking units. Really therre is nothing stopping any of these devices from offering the same functions but an insistence of binning these into different skus in the hopes of selling multiples to someone who already shells out on multiple personal hobbies. No advantage to the consumer with how it is lined up, only pain.
With vaccine it depends on type and batch. It took some time to refine manufacturing process, quality varies a bit, and some batches were pulled out.

If you have a concern, I would suggest get your batch numbers, and ask at relevant forums. There are databases.
My kid pulled that trick on me when she was about 4. She memorized a passage, and could point to each word as she read it and tricked us that she could read, she took such great joy in it. "Ha ha, not so smart now are you adults!" :)

I don't know what all the root causes are, but these kids should be getting read to, questioned about what they heard and then reading out loud themselves.

Not defending Clay, but on the surface, "figure it out" is a pretty good heuristic. But we should be sounding out a word, breaking it apart, understanding what it could mean in that context, looking it up somewhere else. But if all you do is kinda fake it from the context, that might help in an emergency, but learning to read shouldn't be an emergency.

We should be creating children that are curious enough to want to solve the puzzle of meaning when they encounter words they don't understand or know how to pronounce.

The CNN article is just a jumble of numbers, cribbed from https://www.nationsreportcard.gov/reports/reading/2024/g4_8/... (which itself doesnt load its charts properly).

Reading comprehension is for all people, at an all time low, and I don't know the causes.
I understand they just used the API to talk to the OpenAI models. That... seems pretty innocent? Probably they even paid for it? OpenAI is selling API access, someone decided to buy it. Good for OpenAI!

I understand ToS violations can lead to a ban. OpenAI is free to ban DeepSeek from using their APIs.
That's what happens to martyrs. They become larger than life and history remembers an idealized version of them
Don’t forget he’s also a top player in Path of Exile 2 hardcore league - a feat that requires playing around the clock. He’s so good at gaming that he was playing it while at the inauguration without needing a computer.
Enhancing In-Context Learning with Differentiated and Reweighting Objectives
It looks like they want to spin this as "DeepSeek copied OpenAI". The general public/media might actually believe this is what happened.
I am referring to this one: https://huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3/blob/main/LIC...

It is a bit more permissive than Llama's it seems (no MAU threshold it seems).
But China has never been a global leader in tech or social media. They undoubtedly have influence in these areas, but they've never dominated them like the US has. Banning foreign competition in a field where you already dominate, like tech and AI, has different consequences than banning it where you're playing catch up.
> can't understand why they didn't think of starting geographical exploration and colonization

They did. Just as a land power. Modern China includes conquered territory of the Mongolians, Turkics and Tibeto-Burmans, among others [1].

(The proximate answer is the Ming-Qing transition [2] overlapped with the Age of Discocery [3].)

> except for China and the US, no one cares who the product comes from

This is breathtakingly wrong, as a simple perusal of every single country's trade restrictions would show. (Even if you're talking about the population versus policy, show me a market where no premium is paid for luxury products imported from such and such distant land.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_groups_in_China...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition_from_Ming_to_Qing

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_Discovery
Google Chrome Tests AI to Block Annoying Pop-Ups
Frontier models will never be reproducible in the freedom-loving countries that enforce intellectual property law, since they all depend on copyrighted content in their training data.
I think I see what you mean. I suppose it is kinda like an opaque binary, nevertheless, you can use it freely since all is under the MIT license right?
Economically, perhaps. Brexit certainly didn't help Europe as a whole, and German, French and Italian politics have been off-kilter for years, but it's still, by and large, an ethical and civilized place to live in.

I will freely grant that Euro money goes to completely obsolete heavy industries and luxury items rather than technology innovation (and blame all politicians for missing out on technology), but there are outliers like ASML that almost make up for the whole thing...
Seagate’s entire warranty program seems to be a mess. Every time I have to deal with them I get this endless runaround where they demand ridiculous amounts of “proof” that the drive failed, or deny that the drive is under US warranty (bought it new in the US from Newegg).

At one point I made it a mission to proactively correct the warranty records for the dozen or so Seagate drives I had in operation that had incorrect warranty terms showing in the RMA portal. Every day I’d contact them, give them my case number, and the customer service rep would “pull up the record” but still need me to list all the serial numbers again. Every couple tries, a few of the serials would get their warranties fixed. Towards the end they claimed that one of the drives was already returned as failed and destroyed by Seagate, and another one didn’t even exist. They made me literally pull the drives out of live systems and send them photos, and when I did, they continued with more excuses to not fix the warranty terms in the RMA portal. But I just tried again each day with a new rep, some
of whom would fix some of the remaining drives, and eventually each drive got its warranty fixed.

Another time, they sent me a failed drive as a replacement, so I had to RMA my RMA. They cross-shipped me a replacement, but then lost my return in their own depot and tried telling me they never got it and I needed to either get it delivered or pay them for it.

Fuck Seagate.
And they're all stupid enough to actually believe it? Why would a world leader listen to anyone in tech? They should ask an actual expert.

Edit: to be clear, what I mean is that to a first approximation technologists are charlatans and frauds. If you're looking for accurate information ask a scientist.
I don't think Gmail/Outlook offer that yet. (But I might actually use it if they did!)
I also find it counterintuitively reassuring that we have already had the power to blow up the planet for decades. But at least in theory - GPT10 level AI could help develop missile defense systems that actually work at scale, which would eliminate the MAD status quo, no?
Whataboutism.

They don't have to compare, they are both problems.
Visualization of overlap in Malaysia's 3 main calendars (Hijrah, Chinese, Hindu)
Paul Graham now reposts right wing grift media on his Twitter profile, he’s cooked
USCO: Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Part 2 Copyrightability Report [pdf]
This time it’s different, eh?

Back when America was great, taxes were insanely high for the wealthy. Like 92% high. What did the wealthy do? Instead of withdrawing money from their businesses to be taxed as income, they used that money to invest in and grow their businesses.

But yes, it is possible that the rich could just give up this time.
DeepSeek in a Spreadsheet AI by Hand
Year 2? We're almost there at _month_ 2.
Has anyone ever noticed major differences between different JVM distributions? I've used multiple distributions including TEMURIN and Corretto and never noticed behavioral differences. I've never run Java at massive scale or performance critical code though.
https://financialservices.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx...

> millions spent by agency on travel, office renovations

all with no congressional oversight, only an executive director making unilateral decisions on tax payer money.
JVM is a heavy old begemoth. That is the core reason behind it not being popular among startups.

This doesn't mean it's bad (sometimes you need big gun, something mature and advanced), just out of many startups' immediate scope.
LEDs are around 3-4x more efficient than fluorescent lamps, (1) 28W 2x4 LED fixture puts out around the same amount of light as (1) 4-lamp 2x4 fixture with (4) 28W fluorescent lamps, depending on the lumen output package on the LED fixture.
Maybe "dethrone" isn't the right word, but if a startup on the other side of the world, without the best hardware, can create something comparable and cheaper to build/run just four months after the release of the top company's flagship model: I don't understand the OpenAI business model.

I'm with you. How are they going to make money?
None of these models are the real Deepseek R1 that you can access via the API or chat!
The big one is a quantized version (it uses 4 bit per weight) and even that you probably cant run.

The other ones are fine-tunes of LLama 3.3 and Qwen2 which have been additionally trained on outputs of the big "Deepseek V3 + R1" model.

I'm happy people are looking into selfhosting models, but if you want to get an idea of what R1 can do, this is not a good way to do so.
Googlebot Is Using a New and Undocumented Desktop User-Agent
Actually it can't, you can fine tune models with training data, parameters, time and compute, ghidra won't "fine-tune" anything for you.
CEO of an AI company asks for regulation against a country that is out-competing him.

Are we still capitalists?

I think the answer is - no.
> I think someone being opinionated about their fashion sense is a much more powerful message than at most choosing which colour of plastic (and often we can't even do that!).

Agree, much more powerful message. I'm not sure we agree on if that message is net positive or negative though :)
I would much rather have a company with a culture that isn’t afraid to take calculated risks and not be afraid of repercussions when they take risk as long as it doesn’t cause consumer harm.
> That actually leads me to ask as this is outside of my expertise: why does Sublime feel more tactile/real than other editors?

Performance is a big part of that.

Even a few millisecond delay changes the user experience from "I am physically interacting with an object" to "I am requesting this service do a thing on my behalf". Sublime is consistently fast enough to feel like the former. Most other IDEs feel like the latter.

(Another example of this effect is the difference between driving a manual transmission and an automatic. When I drive a manual, it feels like I'm in control of the engine. When I drive an automatic, it feels like I'm executive sending messages to my engineer who then applies changes to the engine... eventually.)
I hear the White House is for sale at the right price.
I haven't played with the distillations extensively, but I think the internal monologue helps the LLM produce a higher quality output, even if its just Qwen or Llama
Ötzi the Lyme Mummy (2019)
I'm not sure how that relates to original comment. Do you mean you want everything that is or could be better than American technology banned/destroyed so we stay the best...?

Like, any global hegemony will be increasingly corrupt given the power that gives, IMO.
First- the author of this blog post is the CEO of Anthropic, an American AI company. Of course they are going to argue for export controls if it can hurt their competition. They get to benefit from anticompetitive practices with none of the legal risk! So it's not even about keeping the "bad guys" from having things, it's really about making more profit. Also, you can typically assume that anything a CEO publishes is in a pursuit to raise stock prices, it has nothing to do with morality. If CEOs were moral people most of them wouldn't have become CEOs (there are probably a few CEOs that are truly good people, but I'll bet there are more "wolf in sheep's clothing" CEOs that use an image of morality to improve their company's reputation).

Second- aside from the specifics of this post, you don't have to believe that the US is good to see the logic of export controls. There are a number of countries that are openly hostile to the US (Iran and North Korea), and also some that are semi-privately working against the US (like China). These countries will take any advantage that they can- they will steal IP and use the US's development resources to catch up to the current state of the art at a reduced cost. So you don't have to put this in terms of good vs. bad, just think of it in terms of things that benefit the US and things that don't benefit the US. Whether you think people are evil is irrelevant, it is very logical for the US to put export controls on things that it doesn't want to give away for free. The US wants to preserve its advantage and make it as costly and difficult for these other countries to catch up.
Without taking a position on unipolar vs. multi-polar:

Dario makes an astounding implicit assumption:

- China originating labs cannot acquire chips providing 80-90% similar utility without the US within the next 2-3 years.

I'll make an observation, re: DeepSeek's incentives that drove them to create the innovations from the V2 and V3 papers.

DeepSeek, compared to American AI labs, are much more compute constrained, but in a unique way. Their chips are more memory bandwidth constrained (depending on type anywhere from 50% to 80% less bandwidth).

Therefore, each dollar/hour of investment towards memory optimization is worth MORE to DeepSeek than to American labs.

In the V2/3 paper, they've demonstrated exactly that with these memory optimization techniques.

1. MLA -> reduces KV cache by nearly 80% compared to GQA. By the way, this was published in V2 in May 2024.

2. FP8 matmul (while still accumlating in FP32 gradients) without losing significant quality.

3. DualPipe scheduling and reworking of Hopper SM's allocation on communication vs. computation -> DeepSeek's V3 paper has 2 full pages of hardware suggestions for "hardware designers" (read NVIDIA)

Export controls in a global market create different incentives in parties. The resulting incentives will change, and agents (using it as an traditional economics term) will change their capital allocation strategy.
The majority of everything on Amazon seems used. I stopped buying electronics from them (unless it's something cheap I don't care too much about) and I buy directly from manufacturers or walk into Best Buy and buy it new. Hard drives, memory sticks, GPUs, monitors/TVs, and headphones from Amazon are a hard NO from me. The chances of them being used or outright counterfeit is ridiculously high now. Pretty much everything I purchase from Amazon these days seems to be used or fake. This includes something as simple as Vitamin D supplements, where you can tell the packaging has been tampered with. Sometimes I even get consumable products where the seal is gone or has been torn in half.
America left the whole land of opportunity thing behind a while ago. It's more the land of struggle to get by and hope the rich don't trample you now.

Upward mobility is sold but rarely achievable.
All improvements in internet bandwidth will rapidly be filled with advertising.
OpenAI Is Probing Whether DeepSeek Used Its Models to Train New Chatbot
If that's the standard, then it is worth noting that we are talking about companies that are trying to do something that literally (as far as can be proven today) can't be done (build an AGI).

Contacting millions of people is something many businesses on earth do.

If these companies are already engaged in trying do do something that quite literally can't be done (again, as far as can be proven today), it's not out of line to ask them to at least try to do something that many other companies actually do in practice (pay lots of people).

It's important to be very clear that this is something that could be done, but that the AI companies do not want to even try to do.
Yes, I'm pushing back on that because in the past it explicitly legal and normal to abuse women. Women were not allowed to be selective in the first place. So the community explicitly did not perform the protection you are saying. It was only recently illegal to rape your wife.
It does if you're quickly converging into the Handmaid's Tale universe. May the odds be ever in their favor - I'm quite happy we don't carry guns to make it through the day...
RCA and the Roaring Twenties
Now that they know they can charge extra for it, they decided to make the investment.
Because this has no actual value for anyone and MS would (did?) ignore him.
Who says America is less good at it? Hasn't the US nicked a lot of other people's ideas at some point or other?
flag it then.
These aren't mutually exclusive.

It's been known for a while that competitors used OpenAI to improve their models, that's why they changed the TOS to forbid it.

That doesn't mean the deep seek technical achievements are less valid.
It might be possible to desolder the chips and solder larger capacity ones, but it is a risky thing to do, especially since there is no guarantee that it will work out.

That said, a similar upgrade has been done on the raspberry pi 4, so it is theoretically possible:

https://hackaday.com/2023/03/05/upgrade-ram-on-your-pi-4-the...
He's unlikely to be writing from a genuinely ideological point of view. He's playing a zero-sum game, in that every chip that goes to China is one that Anthropic and/or its cloud provider doesn't get its hands on.

So it makes sense to him to argue for export controls using whatever rhetorical flexes and flourishes he can come up with.
Anyone who thinks it was not a Nazi gesture, go into work and do the exact gesture in front of your manager, and see what happens.
A recall is firing.
I can’t find the numbers you’re looking for.

I did find that the total consumption of light increased 100,000x between 1700s and 2000 in Uk.

Chart: The consumption of light in the United Kingdom increased over 100,000 fold between 1700 and 2000.

https://onclimatechangepolicydotorg.wordpress.com/low-carbon...

Also keep in mind that better lighting efficiency enables people in poor countries to have lights where they couldn’t before. It’s not just wealthy counties. You have to count them as well. It's not just counting a rich person's house before and after LEDs.
Most won't even see improvements because they have been paying $10 a month for the same router from the ISP for 15 years.
By the way, as someone who once did classical image recognition using convolutions, I can't say I was very impressed by the CNN approach, especially since their implementation didn't even use FFTs for efficiency.
It's unlikely he'd buy a property here for normal "running the corporate empire" stuff - hotels or short-term leases (not Airbnb, but month long lease of luxury properties) are adequate for short trips like that.

More likely, he's looking for a place where he serve as power broker, king maker, and socialize with other oligarchs, heads of state, etc.

Kalorama puts him on equal footing with Bezos. Half the Trump clan already has homes there. Obama is there. And a bunch of other millionaires and billionaires most of us have never heard of.
Better to measure electricity usage in either $$ or kwh.
Is there a build that would allow me to run llama 3.3 local? Something around $2500 or below.
These guys were in my S16 batch. I have worked Aerospace the last 6 years, and it is AWESOME to see this accomplishment! Surpassing Mach is a massive challenge for a crewed aircraft. Big win for the team, congratulations
You are correct, except it's not that hard to run locally. Here, somebody made a 6k rig to do it: https://x.com/carrigmat/status/1884244369907278106
And seem to be more actively fulfilling the mission that 'Open'AI pretends to strive for.
I am way outside my area of expertise and speculating wildly here, but aren't various retroviruses quite common in our environment? Enough so that many COVID-19 infections must have occurred simultaneously with one of many such viruses?

So, logically, COVID-19 viral components likely have coexisted inside our bodies with some quantity of reverse transcriptase, no?

I do know that we find viral DNA in human DNA, likely as a result of past retroviral activity. I wonder if we ever find sequences from non-retroviruses that have hitched a ride so to speak.
Better shut down Nasa too then.
> Given the propensity for these big tech companies to hoover up/steal any information they can gather

at the end of the day you still have to sell this product to the sorts of companies that are far and away all microsoft 365/google workspace clients and we're gonna have to figure that out one day or another