skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They were granted huge rate increases to work on things like safety and infrastructure for EVs, but wow, $2b just about matches the rate increases.

https://www.independent.com/2024/04/27/heres-the-real-reason...

For comparison average residential electricity rate for a california resident is ~ 35c/kwh
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You can't. But that's not an excuse to misuse the label.
aight, that's a certified bullcrap.
When I see comments like this I'm wondering why everyone including economists and Marxists is under the delusion that gold is this universal commodity whose physical properties make it money, when in reality the entire point of money is to minimize transaction costs, not create them!
Personally, I've found DeepSeek R1 to be a profoundly good model for thinking through problems across fields.

I had a complex finance situation that I was struggling with, both from a mathematical/taxation perspective and a personal psychological finance hangup. I spent a few good hours talking to it through everything and had a mental breakthrough. To get the same kind of insight, I would have to pay a financial advisor AND a psychologist for several hours.

That all of this was free while someone calls it a "con" seems completely wrong

(I got my CFA cousin to look over the numbers and he agreed with R1's advice, fwiw)
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What a life, huh?

Captain, you're 84!
Because he owns companies that contract with the government and are affected by its policies. It's the very definition of a conflict of interest.

And he's not even "auditing" the government. When you're auditing, you emit a report that the audited party later analyzes and acts upon. He's been given freeway to fire government workers as he pleases as if he's an elected officer, which he's not.
It’s relevant to the subject since he owns it.
At this point it’s clear that Google either isn’t trying or can’t produce a high quality LLM right now. A bunch of H1Bs at Xitter did it way faster starting at 0, though Jensen probably supplied all the GPUs Musk needed and there were likely no restrictions about safety or training on libgen.
Don't get so hung up and sarcastic.

They were stating a fact that some people may not know yet need to be informed of when using these services (for various and personal reasons, not all linked to feeling guilty). As they said, they're not making any moral or ethical assertions about it.

These websites are piracy, and I've used them in the past, still use them, and will probably keep using them. No fuss.
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I don't understand how and why Grok would be related to "understanding the nature of the universe", as Musk puts it. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but they basically just burned more cash than any human should have to buy Nvidia GPUs and make them predict natural language, right? So, they are somewhat on-par with all the other companies that did the same.

This is not innovation, this is baseless hype over a mediocre technology. I use AI every day, so it's not like I don't see its uses, it's just not that big of a deal.
Yeah that was the old Viacom vs Youtube days. Here is a great video if you have half an hour to spare: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV2h_KGno9w . Pretty funny court case where it turns out viacom was violating their OWN copyright... set a massive precedent.

But one thing this reminds me of is the idea of a "trap street", something mapmakers used to do was put in false locations on their maps to prove that other mapmakers were copying them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street . I figure you could do something similarly adversarial with AI to pollute the public training data on the internet. IDK like adversarial attacks on image classifiers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOZw1tgD8dA . With an LLM you could try to make them into a manchurian candidate.
It would be lovely if all businesses followed the mondragon model, but that isn’t the reality in which we live - corporations are fiefdoms, for the most part.
For large enough X, if X% of the population were to be more kind and tolerant of each other, then that would "produce measurable improvements in the quality of life for the whole population". I'm sure there's some way to quantify this with graph theory (something something random graph, social network dynamics, threshold effect), but while it's technically true, it's not really something worth naming after yourself. And intuitively I suspect the X needed is a bit higher.
Just need to redshift the screen. But the intensity will not be enough, unfortunately.
Well, I am judging this at least a little: Why is the first reaction of this passenger to make a video of herself?
Makes me wonder if there ever was an accident where first aid was delayed because somebody had to make a video first....
You should be more respectful of other people's intelligence. Not everyone who disagrees with you is brainwashed.
It’s overvalued relative to its actual business, which is by definition hype
It's logarithmic in benchmark scores, not in utility. Linear differences in benchmarks at the margin don't translate to linear differences in utility. A model that's 99% accurate is very different in utility space to a model that's 98% accurate.
wait until ai staffing is rolled out.
It's complete enough, yes. I played it up until the "main quest" was done (building a TC machine).
It took approx. 20 hours and I loved it in a very similar way as the blog post author describes Nand2Tetris, so I'll have to look this one up too.
Multiple trips to the hardware store for what you thought was a quick job is entirely too relatable
> while bands used to be a staple in charts

... charts used to be very different, ostensibly tied to record sales, but frequently cooked in many ways.

"Charts" today are still an industry PR fantasy exercise, unvetted by independant third party auditors, but they are unlike the charts of yesteryear that pre smart phone types (and older) grew up with. (Same BS, different algorithm and new thumbs on the scale).

> all that gets airplay

You've lost me . . . what is "airplay" (today).

Does featuring on a national radio station not count as "airplay" ?

eg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr3iI8gg2fo

Like A Version: https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/like-a-version

or: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUh4W61bt_K6tflBpjWgn...

Live KEXP: https://www.kexp.org/visit/in-studio/

It could boil down to point of view; when I go I out I see live bands, where I live a part time touring band (and fencing contractors) live directly across the road from me, when I listen to the radio I hear bands, when I look to current radio promotions I see bands.
The US will always have resources to support Israeli occupation of Palestine, but when it comes to defending the actual democracy in Ukraine against Russian occupation - we all know the answer. And it isn't just the Trump administration. If Biden wanted Ukraine to win, the war would have ended in 2023.
The "fuse" that holds the engine on the strut is a bolt or a pin that is weaker than the surrounding structure, so it will break first and the engine will fall free.

If the engine loses a fan blade, it will vibrate violently and it's probably better to lose the engine.

I don't know about the other two things you mention. Maybe it's a newer feature than my time :-/
I'm not sure if I buy it, but required number of people needed for this is so low that I'd encourage other people to take it up anyway. It's worth a shot. Any volunteers?
Even a random Fingerprint can be used as identification since you will always have some static values between each session. The better approach would be to get in a big enough group with the same/similar fingerprint. That's how tor browser works.
You would open source the procedure and reference where the data came from. If there is any non-open source content used in training, then the project couldn’t qualify as “open source”.

But this thread is about misuse of the term as applied to the weights package. Those of us who know what open source means should not continue to dilute the term by calling these LLMs by that term.
this can be both true:

1. The Generative AI is very very useful

2. The Generative AI is a epic bubble and it will kill us all (financially) one day

It's entirely appropriate to describe it as a 'con', as long as you look deep enough into OpenAI, SoftBank, MSFT, NVDA, SMCI, etc.

it's a con, but it's useful, and it will kill us all
I just had a similar experience moving into my new flat this year (including the builder forgetting to drill the hole for the power plug). With absolutely no disrespect to the author, because I also learned this the hard way, I'll say that a little bit of BDUF would maybe have saved some time. It was my third iteration or so (sprint?) before I decided to just walk through the entire job step by step and see what other tools I would need and what else might go wrong. I can't just pop down to Lowe's or Home Depot in Singapore, after all.

This especially hits home because my current feature ticket ("Oh, yeah, it looks easy, a couple of days") was under-specified, and what specification there was had flaws. Two weeks later....
It did give us racially diverse Nazis though. Not sure if grok would do that.
Hah silly mistake to confuse the two

Hitler was better informed of his own army capabilities
Even without a cap, gravity "should" prevent the drain leaking - the connection to the hose is some height above where it joins the U-trap.

If the drain backs up and the pressure is high enough to force water out, it might be enough to pop any screwed cap too.
Putin makes so many mistakes. Russia itself has language minorities, indigenous peoples, various religions... (and he mistreats them, of course).
>It's been said before but it is great news for consumers that there's so much competition in the LLM space.

Is it? Because it seems like a bunch of megacorps pirating every single copyrighted work available in digital format, spending an enormous amount of electricity (that is probably not 100% clean) to churn through them, and the end result we have a bunch of parrots that may or may not produce accurate results so that spammers can more effectively fill the Internet with crap.
i still do like HLSW's TraceRoute if it can even be found online anymore; sometimes i just wanna see a monitor-wide graph of all the traceroutes in line-form. i, however, do not miss the glaringly bright day-star-theme at its core
IMO, yes it is complete enough (note: I only went as far as the assembler challenges, I'd done enough assembler beforehand). But I did build a general purpose computer from NAND gates up.

Development still appears to be ongoing on Discord, which is quite active. I think the dev may have bitten off more than they could chew with their last patch promise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38cKko7sViw
High speed rail requires density.

Toronto and Minneapolis are villages comparatively.

There are significant air routes in China between higher population cities than the MSP, YYZ pairing
Karpathy, which is IMHO a serious and balanced person, lamented that it looks too censored (see recent tweets). Elon Musk is (for me) a very scary person, and it is important to evaluate AI safety (but I believe that the safety that matters in AI is of a different kind), yet to listen to Gary Marcus does not make any sense: it's just an extremely biased person that is riding the anti AI wave.
Think about it this way. We have System1 and System2. Emotions reside in System1. Now imagine we have build AI systems which are so fast they can compute complex heuristics of System2 at the speed of System1. Then AI's emotions will be more rational.
Frustratingly, a lot of what we think are memories are in fact: us remembering remembering.

Human memory is increasingly fallible with time because of this.

It's like playing chinese whispers with our own recollection, everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.

It makes sense that you would remember distinct events, but the trouble here is that nearly all memory as you so eloquently described, is "just confabulations"- which feels wrong instinctively, until it's challenged scientifically.
Mmm ok so basically you’re saying programmers have no experience, and don’t have enough knowledge about tools and probable set backs.

Sounds about right!
I think the theory is that community notes are a more neutral way to tag bad information, compared to whatever the new york time and fox news are doing.
Footage from inside the plane of a flight attendant clearing passengers. https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1irwh9x/...
I enjoyed reading your perspective and largely agree with your points. However, I believe it would be more compelling if you could provide concrete evidence, such as transcripts or results from actual LLM interactions. Many of the examples you’ve cited, such as those involving figures like kings or presidents, feel somewhat dated and well-discussed. Drawing a strong conclusion that LLMs cannot reach AGI or understand concepts like time, solely based on these examples, seems premature without showcasing specific results from modern LLMs. I feel a demonstration of their limitations would strengthen your argument.
I always thought of you as the C++/D compiler guy - wow you did work in aerospace too!

Thanks for making the D programming language. If it did not insist on a GC and had a robust and stable GC-free stdlib, I believe it could have conquered the world.
Also consider checking your local public library services.

You can request physical books (inter-library loans) and they often offer ebooks as well, although the service is likely to be cumbersome and hard to use because DRM (but if is too complicated you can still borrow the ebook legally in your phone and read a copy from "piracy" sites anywhere you want, with the benefit that the author will get royalties).

It isn't perfect, as in you may not find what you want to read or when you want to read it, but if it works for me, it may work for you as well.
Karpathy believes that this is at o1-pro level[1].

This again proves that OpenAI simply has no tech moat whatsoever. Elon's $97 billion offer for OpenAI last week was reasonable given that xAI already have something just a few months behind - it would probably be faster for xAI to catch up with o3 than going through all those paperworks and lawyer talks required for such an acquisition.

Elon also has some huge up-hand here -

Elon and his mum are extremely popular in China, it would be easier for him to acquire Chinese AI engineers. He can offer xAI/XSpace/Neurallink shares to those best AI engineers who'd prefer some kind of almost guaranteed 8 figure return in long run.

Good luck to OpenAI investors who still believe that OpenAI worth anything more than $100 billion.

[1] https://x.com/karpathy/status/1891720635363254772
Yeah, but Europe will finally realize their big brother is a dysfunctional alcoholic.
that's how you know when you actually have agi, when you have something that you don't have to shovel in every written word known to man to make it work, but rather can seed it with a few dense public domain knowledge compendia and have it derive everything else for itself from those first principles- possibly going through several stages of from scratch training and regeneration.
Without seeing the context window you have no idea what the Ai was working on. It could have literally been told to mock and belittle "the information" in every reply. Something that deepseek r1 is exceedingly good at.

Mr Musk, we can't afford a shitpost gap between communist and capitalist AIs!
Weights-available. You wouldn't say open-binary.
There seem to be very similar studies with the same conclusion.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/3-minutes-of-deep-...
The Sophgo chip might be increasingly difficult to put your hands on. Putting them on the entity list was one of the last things the Biden admin did.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/16/2025-00...
Microsoft actually used Windows as graphical shells for "DOS" applications, it was in fact major source of sales for windows before release of Windows 3.0.

Reusing windows 3.x runtime is exactly what you're telling they should have done, except with less reinventing the wheel and being able to reuse all sorts of drivers including for hardware that wasn't exactly ibm pc compatible (like Japanese specific high resolution video)
How is he "looting" government funds ?
I don't suggest it is any sort of conspiracy, it seems more in line with the generally ancient technology in the air traffic control system, and COBOL for the government accounting systems.

Back in my 757 days Boeing ran individual wires for everything. I suggested using a bus to save weight and improve reliability. I just got blank looks in response. Modern cars use a bus now, and probably the airliners do, but I have no direct knowledge of it.
You cant see this separate from Musk. Musk isnt a business as usual type.
You're impossibly lost on this.

The actual only reasonable option is typically that your organization has unfortunately stacked the deck with morons and it's impossibly (to the rest of your org) transaparent to the rest of us (yet we know... cause we're not 'tarded). You have to go to bat for us. Good luck. :)

Welcome to middle management and god only knows how you got there! :) ... we know tho. good luck again :)

I'll throw you a bone. The only actual solution is to find a place to work that isn't hostile to devs and has made commitments towards technical comptetency in who they hire. Promoting from within and all that. If they don't then prepare to be fired long before that incompetent underling is. After all they produce results and will document it, while you cannot.
With all due respect, I agree that the blocked spigot was surprising, but the block is not hard to see if you just peek inside the spigot before connecting it. I struggle a bit to imagine how someone figures out they have to connect the hose there and even does all the connecting but never views the spigot from an angle where they can see the block.
Apologies for possibly stupid question but where can you use it right now? Just on 'direct chat' on https://lmarena.ai/ or is there a better alternative? Or do you have early access?
Those rates start to make lot more sense if you think how much would I charge to visit 30 minute meeting on other side of city. Or at least how many billable hours my employer would do. Time spend on traveling often ends up making up for the rest. Not to mention on overhead in admin if this would be just single time thing.

Not to even think of materials, tools and such.
Karpathy notes that the model, or specifically it's DeepSearch feature "doesn't like to reference X by default" which seems counter to this.

Hopefully that means it is a joke...
I am not sure why people pay attention to Gary Marcus. He isn’t an expert in AI. And if you followed him in the past at all, it is obvious he has a huge amount of political bias. It is really telling that he repeatedly goes after Elon Musk, and is now making bizarre unfounded claims about propaganda, but didn’t have nearly as much to complain about with DeepSeek, which has literal government propaganda.
Yes that's certainly true. I was a bit hesitant to post a link from Gary Marcus. But I was mostly posting it for the Elon tweet. I assume the tweet is not fake. So you can ignore about Garys opinion here and just take Elons tweet as it is.
For the same reason I doubt Einstein's abilities as a painter. History is littered with the stories of smart people who tried to treat government dysfunction like corporate dysfunction and failed spectacularly.
Reading Gutmann I see a disconnect from reality. Yes a cryptographically relevant quantum computer may never materialize, nor a useful quantum computer at all. These are interesting research topics and interesting discussions. But it doesn't matter. Using that as arguments against PQC is moot, no longer relevant.

The decision to move the world to PQC has already been taken, and we are in full transition mode. Orgs like NATO has transitioned. Many have published time plans to phase out classical algos (NSA, GHQC, Australia) or will shortly (EU). Orgs like ETSI will transition to PQC in upcoming revisions (5G) and next gen systems (6G). Just to name a few.

In general, looking at agencies, nations pushing for PQC algorithms and transition time plans seems to be curiously well aligned. All using the NIST PQC algos, no real mentioning of hybrid solutions. Australias plan to ban the use of SHA-256 is one that sticks out a bit from the others.

Regarding time plans, I find the suddenness, almost haste to be quite interesting. I've been searching quite extensively to gather info for PQC talks, and the motivation for a stated time plan are rarely well motivated. Much hand waving. And what drove the rush? I'm suspecting a bit of a crowd panic. But there is a clear change around 2022, 2023. Suddenly the PQ threat became very important. And within 10 years (or less) the world will be using PQC basically everywhere PKI is used besides legacy systems where lifetimes and update issues makes the change unrealistic.

And are we really sure the schemes used will be hybrid? If DJB is right, NIST is pushing for PQC only. The NSA recommendations that was released last year AFAIK does not state anything about hybrid solutions. Details are less clear what NATO has transitioned to but seems to be PQC only. And the ETSI push for PQC in 5G, 6G does not seem to aim for hybrid solutions. I would love to be told to be wrong about the use of hybrid schemes.

The iMessage protocol, Signal and things happening in IETF goes for hybrid schemes, which I think is the right way (if that count for anything). So it seems we have the open world and private sector versus governments, orgs fairly close to governments when it comes to hybrid vs PQC only.
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I remember (decades ago) buying a garage door opener at sears, and they offered to install it for $99.

I sort of hemmed and hawed and said ok.

When the guy came by to install it, it was kind of amazing. he opened the box quickly with a box cutter, and started unwrapping stuff. Stuff that was needed came out, extras were discarded into the lid of the box, all within about a minute.

He had a special pole with a carpet covered T at the top to help get the old rail down safely and raise the new one. He ran all the lines quickly and efficiently. Lines that were too long were wrapped around a screwdriver to form a pigtail and efficiently run them with some tension the right length.

I think it was done in ~ 20 minutes and worked right the first time.

Simply amazing to see sometime who has done it before and really knows what they're doing.
Made me question every install I would ever do after that.

They did the same thing with a garbage disposal install a year or two later. ba-da-boom, done.
Looks like they recently updated their ToS as well: https://www.diffchecker.com/w4dbxWwt/
Same here. And yeah, I know its a shifting estimate, but it still always reminds me of the old "Windows minutes".
Because he and his organization have demonstrated ignorance of the services he's not only auditing, but making pretty substantial cuts to. One example I'm familiar with, cutting up to 10% of the personnel to the Technology Transformation Services at GSA is quite likely to reduce the efficiency of both government and private sector government contractors.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43037624