skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Company valuations don’t just take into account the current state, but also projections of the future state. Anthropic has a reputation of consistently being right on the cutting edge. Their products continue to get better and better and gain more and more traction across more and more use cases, even in the face of competition. This valuation simply reflects that investors believe these trends will continue. Another way of thinking about this is that this is increasingly an industry where creating one good model just isn’t enough. Just as important, if not more important, is the ability of the company to repeatedly and consistently match or exceed everyone else while responding in a very smart and nimble manner to constantly evolving market pressures. Regarding DeepSeek specifically, it’s a fantastic open model, but the incumbents have already surpassed it in almost every way, and are continuing to blaze ahead. Frankly, it’s old news already as far as the absolute frontier and pinnacle are concerned. And that’s where all the money is.
We havent seen or heard any great public outcry about what Trump is doing, we havent seen any reaction to his betrayal of Ukraine. The impression we get is that the US public just dont care. Domestic issues, primarily economic are whats most important to them. If the US cut off access to Trident for the UK I doubt there would be much of a reaction from the US public.
Why would any company expect their copyrights to last for life of the creator plus 70 years?

If I can't pirate it, then I expect it to be replaced, this is the system they demanded.
Am I missing something here? Entirely possible and likely. When I go to pornhub I have to click a button that days I’m 18. Some other sites I’ve seen actually make me enter a birthdate. Slightly more annoying but I always make one up. Is this what people are upset about? I get actual age verification with an account required or checking my ID is more invasive..but I guess I’ve not experienced this as an actual problem yet.
Exactly. It's a fallacy when dealing with logical entities, but humans aren't logical entities.
I feel like an LLM agent could grok and interact with something like this pretty well...
It's integrated into X, but they are separate companies.
Canadian here, who is also not a Trump fan. It is true that Canada has extremely lax border controls and there are complex organized crime networks that exploit this inside of and through Canada.

The US security establishment is aware of this, as is the Canadian security establishment. The 1% fentanyl headline is indeed widely reported, it’s also a red herring. The simple answer is Canada doesn’t really look, so not much is seen. More info here, by one of Canada’s best investigative journalists:

https://www.thebureau.news/p/trade-based-money-laundering-is...

IMO Trump is, as the official white house press release says, trying to put pressure on Canada to address this. Are tariffs the best way to do that? A valid question, for sure. Does he have other, possibly irrational, motivations? Also an excellent question.

But I see much Canadian and US commentary that assumes there is nothing rational about this at all, and that there is no Canadian border/security issues, and I would say that’s incorrect.
Short until Chinese and Russian drones arrive and irregular forces based in the mountains and forests begin reigning death down on American infrastructure and cities.
Any reason to keep pro subscription if you're satisfied with Claude?
And yet it still can't reliably stay up for more than a few days without being forcefully rebooted.
Likewise the dietary pills bill only requires the ID to be verified either at a retail point of sale or when the online purchase is delivered, so there doesn't seem to be any invasive data collection required.

To be clear: I'm strongly against any laws that require uploading government ID to sketchy websites, but at least 2 out of the 3 examples listed are not this.
They modest P/E ratio is a consequence of growing their earnings so much.
Yikes. Great way to ruin your brand.

I've owned multiple Jeeps in the past.

Never again.
Because they are the ones who have Office, which 90% of non-tech businesses and governments run on.

Word, Excel and Powerpoint are the standard tools everyone uses to get their job done.
I dont think you realise what German industry is capable of if it chooses to.
I care more about airplanes, ships, trucks, and things of that nature. People will be able to get along fine with no GPS, a large ship transiting the Panama Canal will NOT be fine without GPS.
It was gratuitously complex the better to hide sleight-of-hand by the powers of the day.
Flagged. This is a fake DeepSeek website operated by a grifter.

The real one is this one: [0]

[0] https://www.deepseek.com
Patients with Long-Covid regain sense of smell and taste with pioneering surgery
Just today I discovered there’s a Red Alert port to Three.js in the works:
https://github.com/chongdashu/CnC_Red_Alert-ThreeJs
> The data already exists, it's what bars use to scan IDs with handheld readers IIRC.

Sorta, yeah.

But the reason that works is because there's a human guarding the door that can assert that the hand presenting the ID is attached to a face that looks just like the one on the ID.

Otherwise a very smart 17 year old would just get their hands on the UUID or whatever for literally any ID that belongs to somebody that's 18+. Within _hours_ of this type of system going into effect, you'd have the age/id version of bugmenot.com
The nice thing about Google Takeout is that sometimes, if you retry often enough, it works.

The frequent failures to generate my takeout are annoying though.
New Controversial Breed of 'Woolly Mice' Just Created by Scientists
>Pretending this is philosophy rather than policy seems a bit silly.

You are entirely correct.

Nussbaum is a reactionary hack whose main goal is to pick and prod away at anyone with a moral stance because she has none. She is like Ayn Rand insofar as her philosophy is just a thin veneer to justify her misanthropic contempt for others that is always translated directly into political vitriol.

That her work is approachable for the layperson seems to be the biggest compliment I see toward her in here, and I remind people that simplicity is not always superior, sometimes it actually is just the product of a simple mind.
Democrats have gotten a lot of shocking concessions in America's divorce.
If you're "cutting" as part of bulking and cutting, then obviously.

But if you're going from obese to healthy, then your goal isn't to retain all your leg muscle, that's absurd. Your goal is to get to a healthy weight with overall balanced healthy muscle -- not disproportionately large legs.

Nothing is "strictly superior". What is best depends on what your goals are. Bodybuilding and not being obese any more involve wildly different measures of success.
after working at Amazon for a couple of years I ended up closing my AWS account
you're right: in the RR case: currently this is not merged yet, but a RR contributor works on persistent checkpoints; they can act as snapshots
Cursor's in-house models are vastly inferior to GPT or Claude. I bet the majority of Cursor users are still using one of these two under the hood.
As a programmer you should look into Home Assistant and the self hosted community in general. You can achieve a lot and don't have to shut yourself out of legitimate technological improvements that are limited by some other company's cloud.
Yes, they bug me.

I am nearsighted (-7.5 with astigmatism in left, -6.0 in right).

Recently been experiencing slight spasms and fatigue in the left eye. Always been very sensitive to light changes. Dry eye isn't frequent (yet), but I assume will get more so with age.

Night-time driving is awful even with full correction, it seems like I get afterflashes for a fraction of a second after seeing every single oncoming vehicle.
You mean the paper, not the source code?
First to AGI for the big companies? Or for the masses?

Computationally, some might have access to it earlier before it’s scalable.
South Korea ranks even higher despite a smaller budget and even smaller population. The difference is less in how much money gets spent to buy new equipment, but in what happens to old equipment.

South Korea still has lots of tanks left over from the Korean War. Similarly, Germany used to have lots of Cold War-era tanks inherited from the combined arsenals of West and East Germany, but as they were considered outmoded and unlikely to ever get used again, the Bundeswehr sold them off. Then when a new use for them was found in Ukraine, some of them got bought back again.
And screen readers.
Anthropic is ahead of the game on the applied technology side. Claude code is pretty good. It feels like a product from the early PC days. There's so much further to go, and so many other verticals to get into.
But they are making strides in robotics already. Jensen is super smart, business-savvy AND hard-working. These are some of many reasons I own NVDA.
You probably have to look into none-VC / startup Angels. I think if you believe in it so much, maybe you can raise based on some payback schedule that can convert into equity. This way both sides have some exit options and this would make it easier to work with none-startup investors.
They shouldn't just cancel, but with the same kind of failure twice in a row it seems they should require correcting the tipping-over issue before trying a third time.
Infinite Realms turns fantasy books into MMOs through procgen/LLM
> You’ll note that nobody is open sourcing their ad recommender

Actually... (2019) https://ai.meta.com/blog/dlrm-an-advanced-open-source-deep-l...

Source code:

https://github.com/facebookresearch/dlrm

Paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.00091

Updated 2023 blog post, but solely for content recommendation, but ads recommendation is ~90% the same:

https://engineering.fb.com/2023/08/09/ml-applications/scalin...

It's a little out of date, but the internal one is built with the same concepts, just more advanced modeling techniques and data.
I don't completely understand what is meant by "zooming", but kitty[^1] does that: you open ssh connection with `kitten ssh user@host` and pressing <C-Enter> will open another ssh pane in the same tab, you can than IIRC <C-F> to "zoom" and make tab take full window

[1]: <https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/>
> why government code?

Legal age verification in the browser means legislated code. Not line by line, necessarily, but state code in the browser.
What's the point of anytl of this though?

Like what public interest is served by having a date of birth entry or a checkbox for 'verifying' age?

To me it serves no public interest as it's functionally useless and it will only serve as a thin end of a wedge to normalize more egregious requirements.
I have CDs from the 80s that still work.

Heck, I have DiscoVision discs from the 70s that still work.

DVDs from 2006 should definitely still work.
I think ranscendental50's reply itself was unnecessarily hostile and don't agree with the way they responded, but I can see why they assumed hostility. "Do tell" is unfortunately to a large extent used passive aggressively on the Internet, and generally actually means "Don't bother telling me, you're obviously ignorant".

This seems to be a case where it's meant genuinely, but it's not surprising that not everyone picked up on that.
This has been pretty clear about all Apple chip designs, going back to some of the first A series afaik. They are "unified memory" but not "memory on die", they've always been "memory on package"-- ie. the ram is packaged together with the CPU, often under a single heat spreader, but they are separate components.

Apple's own product shots have shown this. Here's a bunch of links that clearly show the memory as separate. Lots of these modules you can make out the serial or model numbers and look up the manufacturer of them from directly :)

- Side-by-side teardown of M1 Pro vs M2 Pro laptop motherboards showing separate ram chips with discussion on how apple is moving to different type of ram configurations: https://www.ifixit.com/News/71442/tearing-down-the-14-macboo...

- M2 teardown with the chip + ram highlighted: https://www.macrumors.com/2022/07/18/macbook-air-m2-chip-tea...

- Photo of the A12 with separate ram chips on a single "package": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A12X

- M1 Ultra with heat spreader removed, clearly showing 3rd party ram chips onpackage: https://iphone-mania.jp/news-487859/
Most human beings organically find murder too abhorrent to contemplate or I should say plan and follow through with. Modern entertainment media may be twisting your perception here.
Definitely agree about VRChat (and Minecraft to a lesser extent)!
I love the juxtaposition of thinking a ‘97 Camry is anywhere close to $10k while at the same time a $3k piece of lab equipment is “Christmas present territory” :)

It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost? Ten dollars?
> can't just up and start assembling nukes in a basement without effectively dismantling the entire non-proliferation framework

Genuinely curious: what reason do you see they have to avoid this dismantling?
They face a nuclear armed, rogue military power,intent on invading and occupying other weaker nations. I think they need a stick to deter that particular nation from doing anything silly to them.
Ah, cool. I'll look those up. I just looked at the Athena and I'm tempted to armchair quarterback a tiny bit. I mean, that thing looks extremely top heavy. And it had hundreds of millions of dollars of equipment on it. I also wonder if these companies are patenting their approaches so that other companies can't use working solutions.
> They have gone completely ...

Plausible assumption: Their metrics for success bear almost no resemblance to yours. If so - criticizing them on that basis will score points with those who share your values, but does nothing to improve the situation.

/{tag for bitter cynicism}
> Something can't be "taken" if it's not owned.

Sure it can, someone can take land in the plain everyday sense that they occupy it and tell others to stay out. But that act, and any attempts to enforce it, is coercive and aggressive. Which proves that any system with property rights, including every libertarian proposal ever made, is coercive. That's ok but it also means that your "is it voluntary?" complaints are futile and self-defeating.

> Property rights systems exist because people use property to achieve their life's values

What's your empirical evidence for that claim? The actually existing legal construct of property in countries around the world, and in international treaties, in fact serves a whole range of goals. In every prosperous country on earth there is room for both private property and taxation for public provision. In empirical studies of life satisfaction and happiness the top is consistently dominated by democratic countries with extensive welfare states funded by taxes
https://happiness-report.s3.amazonaws.com/2024/WHR+24.pdf#pa...
Will take a look, thanks! I think you meant height-optimized tries, since I had a tough time giving it at first :)

Ideally I'd like to find a way to store a non overlapping ordered list of intervals while being able to atomically (wrt other insertions) avoid inserting overlaps. This is part of a data structure tracking locked ranges, so being able to update them in parallel would be nice, since it today takes a lock over the whole tree while inserting new locked ranges.

Probably, this would require something with next value pointers. Maybe I could do some kind of scheme where to insert you have to first optimistically lock the predecessor with the to be inserted node, and then insert the new node where it belongs?
I don't see how it should be too hard to implement, you could abstractly have a system where the command string is translated as such:

1. Split the string by dashes into an array

2. Make the first character of the first array item lowercase, make the first character of the rest uppercase

3. Concatenate the pieces together

4. Do `document.getElementById(element.commandfor)[concatenated]()`

Obviously this doesn't have the myriad number of checks to make sure that the element exists, the method exists, the method takes no parameters, etc.

This would also allow custom commands easily, since you could do `document.getElementById(element.commandfor).myCustomMethod = function() { /* ... */ }`
The author is George Hotz, who most famously developed some iOS and PS3 exploits and got sued by Sony. I have litle interest in the content of this particular article and I think your evaluation of the article is fair.
U.S. defense contractors taking a hit? It’s like a 1990s liberal dream.
Ah, I bet this is what happened with my boxed set of extended edition Lord of the Rings trilogy. I bought it years ago, finally opened it a few months back to show my kids—only to find that several of the disks failed half-way through. That was a really frustrating experience.
> locking up all content creators into exclusive deals so that other LLMs don't get access to the new data

It seems like most (all?) foundational models were trained on stolen content. I’m not sure what content exclusivity looks like for LLMs. It’s not like Joe Rogan signing on with Spotify where they have exclusive distribution rights for a particular piece of content.
> It ain't March 8 either

I didn’t even notice that. That obviously means George is living in the future.
"US is setting their entire science infrastructure on fire"

Dubious journals created to serve political narratives are common in every country ( https://beallslist.net/ .)

Throw enough money at any issue, and one may engineer influence in public media outlets just like any regular Ad/Review spot.

It is not a new phenomena, have a wonderful day =3
Oh, I agree, it seems completely useless as written. I'm just saying that it's no more of a privacy violation than Steam asking for your birth date (which somehow happens to be January 1st, 1900 for a shocking percentage of the population) to watch a video game trailer. I assume the point is virtue signaling.
Strobelight is open source as well.
There doesn't need to be any such scenario, and there almost certainly isn't one.

NewHype valuations reflect how confident current investors are that later investors are still coming and have nothing to do with specific profit models. Maybe the hype will pay off or maybe it won't, but during this phase all I need to believe is that I can get out before the tide turns.

At this point, the carrot that keeps investors coming is that many many people still believe at least one of these companies will become the next IBM/Microsoft/Apple/Google in one way or another and we don't know which one yet.

It's just buying tradable bets on a horse race that won't see its end for several more years. One horse could win, all the horses could drop dead, and none of it matters today: the game is in deftly trading those betting tickets as the odds shift.
Except for the fact that they are (and were at the time) expected to still work.

It would be like if you had a known batch of badly-bound books that fell apart prematurely even under good storage conditions.
> Like why did Trump want to bash on Canada in the first place?

Canada was a founding member of NATO, and it's very obvious Trump does not want a strong NATO alliance. Whatever the reason may be is up to speculation, but from an outside looking in it's quite jarring seeing clips of Hillary Clinton 8 years ago warn everyone that Trump was going to dismantle NATO. How any American is baffled by the current events is the only thing that is baffling to me.
It’s only a fallacy when dealing with logical relations under certainty. Once uncertainty and probability is introduced the slippery slope just is relating Bayes’ Rule in plain English.
As someone who has not read a book in years and often jokes that they may never will again, I think the most valuable thing about capital-R reading is improving and expanding your vocabulary. Rereading sentences, stopping to look up words, etc. Knowing the right words to express yourself and communicate with others as accurately and precisely as possible is powerful, and I don't think consuming video affords nearly as much development of those skills (audio maybe a bit more, and video games potentially count as they can in theory contain a similar level of reading as a book).
This is the core fallacy I see in proponents of such rules: they think the rules can be enforced.
PowerShell Commands for Excel (2014)
Then the EU needs to refocus from assisting defending on the front line and switch to sabotaging Russia's critical petroleum infra, refineries, pipelines, storage facilities. Success won't be had until they are kneecapped economically (and time is paramount, as you mention). It is known where these facilities are, no spy satellites are needed.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/12/ukraine-can-improv...

https://san.com/cc/ukraine-strikes-at-russias-economic-heart...
That outcome would be in full alignment with the Russian geopolitical vision.
Having more than one right (i.e. "rights") entails contradictions between competing rights. That's how the real world works. Even if you view rights as "freedom from," the right to "freedom from harm" immediately conflicts with speech, gun ownership, and whatever else. If you don't think there's a right to freedom from harm that competes with those other rights, I don't know what to tell you.

The real work of governance and legislation requires carefully negotiating trade-offs between competing priorities in an ever-changing world.

Beyond that though, it is reasonable in our world for citizens of a state to view affordable access to a minimal standard of medical care as a bedrock right afforded to all citizens, and to build their state around this assumption. The same can be said of access to education, or legal representation or access to clean water and energy. It is then incumbant upon the legislating body to provide for those rights, which enter conflict the second there's a budget to consider.

The fact that positive rights are "leftist" in some parts of the world reflects a degree of deep ideological incoherence and immaturity in those parts, more than anything, I think.

Also I can't for the life of me understand why we'd craft policy in some kind of timeless vaccuum. We don't live in a timeless vaccuum. Some of us are fortunate enough to be born into states with stable, well-established educational, judicial, transportational, financial, medical (etc. etc.) infrastructure that is substantially owned and operated by the state or state-regulated monopolies. It's pretty natural to view fair and equitable access to these as baseline rights.
They're almost saying what I said? Effects only in the long term, and even then they may be able to manage ('scrambling').
Unhelpful?

I provided directions for reviewing the settings, which this person could have simply looked up by visiting the link in the title.

Rude and condescending? That's subjective, but maybe yes it might have been rude and condescending. Oh well.
Great software design looks underwhelming
Vibe coded games with actual MRR
This is about a Texas Law that went before the Supreme Court recently.

Texas' law, H.B. 1181, requires people visiting porn websites to prove their age by either uploading government-issued identification or a "commercially reasonable method" such as bank information. More than a dozen other states have passed similar bills, though they are all on hold pending what the Supreme Court decides.
I genuinely wonder if we're going to look back on all of this very differently. It's become commonly accepted that folks on the left got in way over their skis with the "Russian agent" accusations during his first term and based on the evidence actually available I'd say that's true.

But with everything I'm seeing with Ukraine recently... I dunno. His actions aren't rational. It's conspiratorial thinking I know. But absent a coherent explanation for why he sides with Russia repeatedly I'm also not ready to just dismiss anyone saying it.