skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would still mean the resources required for training and maintaining these models would become more efficient/reduced over time, not increase forever. The market value of the AI supply-chain currently depends on these models having a voracious and endless need for more and more underlying resources. Once diminishing returns on model size become evident and/or shrinking & efficiency become the competitive focus, then the jig is up for a number of current players.
popular ones must be better - otherwise why would they be popular?
It's nice but also flawed because you can't easily see if the first two digits are the same. Or the last two digits.
Do you know any?

But here's my advice: drop the fallacious arguments and try something more honest.
I wonder if AI valuation bubble will continue to grow because there is nowhere else for investor money, and until interest rates go up again OR something better comes along, firms will continue to chase shakier and shakier investments because they need to deploy capital in order to collect their carry...
Up until a couple years ago in Germany (probably most of D/A/CH) many more people had an account on XING (ex OpenBC) and LinkedIn was relatively rare. I'd say 5-10% of my "business" contacts and endorsements are basically never used, even after 90% of the people switched to LinkedIn.

That said, I've also never been directly asked for such a profile, if it was a field in a form I don't remember it being mandatory and I don't even remember when I made my LI account, or when I actually started to input more than my name...
The eggs cost more than the laptop...
Nice to see 1-2-1-2 listed, the PIN of soundcheck guys everywhere.
It's the cost comparison with O1, both to train and run (per their pricing), that is causing most of the shock, perhaps as well as the fact that it's a GPU poor Chinese company that has caught up with O1, not a US one (Anthropic, Google, Meta, X.ai, Microsoft). The fact that it's open weights and training is fairly detailed in the paper they released is also significant.

The best comparison for R1 is O1, but given different training data, hard to compare outside of benchmarks. At the moment these "reasoning models" are not necessarily the best thing to use for non-reasoning tasks, but Anthropic have recently indicated that they expect to release models that are more universal.
It's not in the habitable zone 100% of the time because of its eccentric orbit.
We can always rely on Taleb, when an unexpected thing happens, to point out that unexpected things can happen and will happen again.

It’s a neat little PR headspace he’s gotten himself into. Basically any time a reporter is surprised they can call him and get a quote along the lines of “people should not be surprised when they are occasionally surprised, and they should anticipate being surprised some more in the future.” Really helps fill out the word count for the day.
The stock market is overvalued historically, but Deepseek's pause of new user registrations seems to validate the bull case for Nvidia.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/27/ai-startup-deepseek-pauses...

I don't believe it was a cyber attack; I think it's just usage overload. If I'm right, the next steps will be for them to throttle usage by price increase or some other method. Or they will have to find another order of magnitude of efficiency, and then that will be gobbled up and maxed out days after they introduce it.

The theme here is the demand for AI is nearly limitless and the supply (for now) is constrained by Nvidia.
Yes! I've done something like this here in my repo. This was nice while lasted (Deepseek is practically useless through the API since yesterday)

https://github.com/bodo-run/yek/blob/main/.github/workflows/...

https://github.com/bodo-run/yek/blob/main/scripts/ai-loop.sh

Using askds https://github.com/bodo-run/askds
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An observation about 4 digit PIN's. They're even weaker than you might think just from "doing the math" at least in some cases. Sure, there's 10000 combinations to search through if you're trying to brute force one, but I'd bet money that in most cases you don't need to search anywhere near that many.

Case in point: I had a unit at a mini-storage place once. And you needed a 4 digit PIN to get through the gate. And I forgot the PIN I used. I was sitting at the gate for a minute, staring at the keypad and realized "wait... hundreds of people have PINs in this system and the system doesn't care which one you use". So I just needed a PIN that somebody used. So I started with years that would have been reasonable birth years for an average adult at that time and starting going up. I think it took about 6 tries to find a valid PIN.

Now granted, this is different than trying to brute force a specific person's PIN. But even then, I expect that in many cases an informed search will crack it a lot faster than a purely sequential search or a random search. Using common birth years, well known numbers like "5150", "1234", "4321", etc. is probably going to work a lot of times.
I agree - as I say, I think the problem is correct.
There are many best practices (such as using multifactor authentication) used by both legit and sketchy organizations.
> I’m almost shocked this spooked the market as much as it did, as if the market was so blind to past technological innovation to not see this coming.

Regulatory capture only benefits you nationally. You might even get used to it.
I don't think the processing happens in postgres at all, it's just handling the transactions and queues.
I'm disappointed I couldn't mouse over the grid to find my PIN and see how popular it is...
I actually loved that movie (though dated even when I saw it) and have been hoping someone would remake it. Bill Pullman was great though
It identifies your authentication number ;)
For what i can understand, he asked deepseek to convert arm simd code to wasm code.

in the github issue he links he gives an example of a prompt: Your task is to convert a given C++ ARM NEON SIMD to WASM SIMD. Here is an example of another function: (follows a block example and a block with the instructions to convert)

https://gist.github.com/ngxson/307140d24d80748bd683b396ba13b...

I might be wrong of course, but asking to optimize code is something that quite helped me when i first started learning pytorch. I feel like "99% of this code blabla" is useful as in it lets you understand that it was ai written, but it shouldn't be a brag. then again i know nothing about simd instructions but i don't see why it should be different for a capable llm to do simd instructions or optimized high level code (which is much harder than just working high level code, i'm glad i can do the latter lol)
>An Yong: But DeepSeek is a business, not a nonprofit research lab. If you innovate and open-source your breakthroughs—like the MLA architecture innovation releasing in May—won’t competitors quickly copy them? Where’s your moat?

>Liang Wenfeng: In disruptive tech, closed-source moats are fleeting. Even OpenAI’s closed-source model can’t prevent others from catching up.

>Therefore, our real moat lies in our team’s growth—accumulating know-how, fostering an innovative culture. Open-sourcing and publishing papers don’t result in significant losses. For technologists, being followed is rewarding. Open-source is cultural, not just commercial. Giving back is an honor, and it attracts talent.

https://thechinaacademy.org/interview-with-deepseek-founder-...
Your strongest argument is 'change is scary'?
I am but one lowly data point, but I've been using Go for a long time and the pervasive `if err != nil` is one of my least favorite parts of the language.
I got it from here:

> The search turned up what police say is the murder weapon in the suspect’s home
The ? syntax agrees that errors should just be regular values returned from functions, and handling of errors should be locally explicit. It's not a different approach from `if err != nil return err`, it merely codifies the existing practice, and makes expressing the most common cases more convenient and clearer.

It's clearer because when you see ? you know it's returning the error in the standard way, and it can't be some subtly different variation (like checking err, but returning err2 or a non-nil ok value).
The code around it also becomes clearer, because you can see the happy path that isn't chopped up by error branches, so you get high signal to noise ratio, fewer variables in the scope, without losing the error handling.
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Open source licenses are irrevocable. You can quit providing the source, but you can't sue someone for using a copy they already took.
It would be an interesting exercise for someone to sit down with GRC and implement as many different approaches as possible, and benchmark them. This kind of silly-but-concrete goal can be solid gold for teaching.
interesting news.
> Once you find a venue, you're not really playing for the host city, you're playing for the cameras. Schedule the events based on when it's prime time in rich ad markets, not when it makes most sense for the sports, or even when it would maximize the exposure for the sports that most people ONLY see once every four years. Ooh, look, the Dream Team. Big whoop. They run 40 NBA games a year on local TV, show me judo or hammer-throwing or synchronized swimming. And despite all that, they seem to have no concern about the TV product they made such efforts to prostate themselves for. Does anyone at NBC get concerned that people intentionally look for VPNs to access the CBC and BBC streams because they've made such a mess of tape delays, schmaltzy human-interest stories, and laser-focusing on American athletes?

About this: streaming has been a thing for more than a decade now. Why can't anyone decide to pay some sum to have access to every camera stream available during an event. Maybe even have some special prices to access drone cameras. Then anyone can tailor their own Olympics experience (4k screen: let's show 4 camera angle of this match at the same time) or decide to follow some editor's choice.

And you could generalize it to most sports. Imagine a twitch of sports event where people pay for access to those feeds, or combination of feeds or the feeds + commentary some streamer also pays for. Add infinite replay.
DeepSeek-R1 is an amazing reasoning LLM, but it seems to hallucinate more than we might expect.
I really hope you get your wish, I share it.

I gave up with tracking because the short life of a smart watch meant many of the more critical times (sleep/sleep tracking) would be interrupted by charging or dead batteries. I just want a band/strap that is focused on sensors and battery life WITHOUT a subscription.

Until that happens I'm staying out of the ecosystem entirely.
This is what I think is lost in modern sports, and I don't understand why people find them enervating - going to a local baseball game run by the minor leagues is fun and entertaining and engaging, I would rather have a reasonably bad sunburn than sit through an MLB game.
When Greedy Algorithms Can Be Faster [C++]
Basically he’s worried about gen pop having access to LLMs thinking only govts should have access to the technology for some strange reason. Probably because he works in defence contracting so he benefits directly from having that stance.
> Unlike most planets in the Solar System, HD 20794 d’s orbit is not circular but elliptical

Kepler's First Law says otherwise.
Is the US turning into "fourth Reich"?
It makes Trump look like a chump.
sorry, I meant in the case of function parameters, though I'm far from a fortran expert so there may be exceptions.
Show HN: iTypedMyPaper creates evidence that you wrote something without AI
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State of Tech Hiring in 2025
After a lot of thinking, DeekSeek said, "In summary, while Google provides significant value, its extractive tendencies and potential for harm mean it is leaning towards a more negative overall impact on society."
I have the same stick button on my LG monitor, but it’s been useless for a while now. I’ve been sticking to ddcutil for now, and I’ve lost those little flower pad things already. But the build quality of that button is quite bad.
...why would I ever do that? You leave something worth several thousand dollars anywhere in public you're risking losing it. What are we even debating here?
You’re absolutely right. If there are corrections, it’s only because people have gone a little crazy. People sometimes get enamored with the idea of one country or company dominating in a winner-takes-all situation. OpenAI has been trying to spin narratives in which the only rational move is for everyone to invest all of their money in OpenAI, immediately.

I don’t think the Nvidia CEO is losing any sleep. He doesn’t have a planet-sized ego, like some. They are still selling pickaxes during a gold rush, as the saying goes. And the stock is still up 100% in the past year. CEOs don’t control the stock price (much as some try), anyway, the market does. Also, the market is insane. You also can’t control the competition, or what new innovations come along. You just have to run a good business, which they are doing.

Innovation is good for all players. Reality-checks are good. Nothing here is unexpected. There are lots of smart researchers in the world. Software innovations that make better use of hardware are expected. People just like drama.

Like if Tim does a better job at a skateboard trick that has always been Tom’s thing, people want to be that kid who is the one to say, “Oh, snap!!” and won’t stop talking about it at school, because they were there. And how it’s so mind-blowing and previously inconceivable.
what sucks here is we don't even know if a murderer went free, because the cops didn't do their jobs and prove this guy was the murderer. it's not letting a guy free on a technicality, it's making sure the cops do their jobs correctly. it's protecting our rights.

sorry, we do know a murderer went free. we just don't know if this guy was the murderer who went free, or an innocent man who's name was dragged through the mud cause a cop was lazy
> So much for “open source”

In the given context "Proprietary source code" seems to potentially primarily mean third-party proprietary source code which Google doesn't have the rights to re-license.

There's further discussion about what was removed & potentially why here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42845102

TL;DR: Hardware support library source/blobs from CPU/MCU hardware vendor(s) with restrictive license/distribution constraints.

(Some of which may no longer apply to more recent versions of the vendor code in question.)
If a "humanoid" from this planet visited Earth with 1/6 of their normal gravity, would they be a super athlete, or barely functional?
Bc they exist to waste tax payer money.
Thank you so much for this! I have read a fair amount of Lem but somehow completely missed this one.
It's not in our habitable zone.

Life on such a planet seems likely to hibernate just like some Earth life already does.
what work flow where you using to feed it code? was it cline? Cline has major prompting issues with DeepSeek, Deepseek really doesn't like you changing out its prompt with what normal LLMs are using.
Could be! We just need to know the median number of tries a system allows before locking you out.
I don't get something.

So I tried hosting this model myself.

But the amount of minimum GPU RAM needed is 400gb+

Which even with the cheapest GPU providers will be at least USD 15/hour

How is everyone running these models?
Obviously as some point the military would have researched this technology, that's not even a question. We will make know more in few decades or so once that information is declassified.
There are also those of us, old enough to have used Assembly as daily programming language, have used Go boilerplate style across many languages during 20+ years, and don't miss the days exceptions were still academic talk, unavailable in mainstream languages.
The article Jalopnik based its piece on (and didn't even link to): https://samcurry.net/hacking-subaru

Previous HN discussion on that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42803279
"The Insidious Charms of the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic"
Here are the US Government regulations of what is necessary for products to be labeled as "Peanut Butter":

https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-21/chapter-I/subchapter-B...
I've tried Maxima on a few occasions but the syntax somehow fails to agree with me.

Been looking for a self-hosted alternative to Wolfram Alpha, and just stumbled over Mathics, which has a Django front-end[1]. Rough but usable Mathematica alternative, at least for basic use.

[1]: https://github.com/Mathics3/mathics-django
I do think they targeted the wrong business. I'm old enough to remember AMZN losing what I think was well over 80% of it's value over the course of the first dot-com crash if I'm recalling correctly. And it was one of the first stocks to get hit.

This is kind of feeling like that to me. When this is over, I'm wondering if NVidia doesn't come out even stronger than it was when we started? There's just something that smells way too familiar about what's happening.

I'm thinking one could wait for NVidia to become a victim of negativity hype, and I bet you could buy and go long at that point. If the market gets irrational and cuts 80% of NVidia's value, man, it's pretty hard to think up a better opportunity than that laying around? I guess we'll see what happens.
Its cope
What a time to be alive. Chinese companies were copying everything from the west, now it seems the opposite.
It was so bad that it turned off many people (even outside of tech) from joining social media sites altogether.

I held off from joining LI for years after that.
New Qwen2.5-Max Outperforms DeepSeek V3 in Benchmarks
Taleb was right once and wrong ever since. The financial world is littered with people exactly like that but journalists are so lazy they just go for whoever has the name brand. I don’t think he has anything useful to offer besides the occasional black swan warning, much like Peter Schiff.
> none of the people listed on the DeepSeek papers got educated at US universities

"You have been educated at foreign universities / worked at foreign companies" is indeed an excuse they have used at least once to refuse a candidate. n=1 though so maybe that's just a convenient excuse. There's one guy who went to University of Adelaide (IIRC) on the paper.
DeepSeek AI Website Typos
Not exactly. The phone needs to transmit with enough power to communicate with the tower. When connected to the tower, the tower is constantly monitoring the signal and sending back information to the cell phone to tell it how much power it needs (without using more than it needs and wasting battery life).

If a phone isn’t connecting to any towers (like on a plane) it assumes it is out of range and is blasting out max power trying to find something to connect to. During hurricanes, many towers are down, which can overburden adjacent towers as well (since each tower only has a certain number of slots/channels it can handle). It means that you may not be able to communicate with your closest tower, since it is down, but you also may not be able to communicate with the next nearest tower, since it at capacity for current users, which puts you in a longer distance higher transmit power situation.

From what I have heard, those Stingrays act as fake towers, so I would assume they could set them to always tell the phones it needs max transmit power.
Lowering our typed base AST into a System-F based IR
I'm excited and hope that the open-source nature of this leads to an ecosystem of a lot of different devices all running similar software. I'd kill to have a garmin-esque pebble with fitness + gps tracking.
I just checked your #2 Dugatkin. I am only able to access the abstract [0] (though interested in the full article as you appear to be quoting from part of it which is not publicly available).

It does not at all represent itself as even taking a specific side on the meaning of "alpha" let alone testify to an academic consensus of any decisive proof one way or the other. It doesn't even have anything to do with the study itself at all.

The line you quoted seems more like an aside. The study was apparently about a simulated game theoretic model, and even refers to the units in the simulation as "combatants". It is an attempt to model and simulate "winner effects" and "loser effects" in tandem over time. It's mostly interested in contrasting this approach with models that only deal with "winner effects" or "loser effects" but not their simultaneous dynamics.

It ends with a modest expression of hope to spur future similar studies and is not even pretending to venture anything like a final definition of "alpha", let alone represent the full weight of academic consensus on that question. Citing it for that purpose feels like drive-by quote mining.

0. https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article-abstract/8/6/583/208...
I think it means people in the military and contractors are already using openai and other tools and nobody is able to stop them, even if it leaks secrets.
What is "5150" well known for?
My luggage is more secure, it has a 5 at the end.
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Regular swings of +/-0.5 trillion in market value for an entity that is a material fraction of the entire market are not normal, in either mathematical or colloquial sense. The question is, what do they really reveal about the condition (risk appetite) of markets.

> too many investors have been bidding up prices of firms related to AI without properly knowing the details of how it functions or is able to succeed

There is no investment without risk. The question is why are there so many investors that appear to be grossly insensitive to gargantuan levels of risk. And the answer is probably: its all funny money to them. We live in the era of 100K bitcoin after all.