skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, the show is any but about a corporation. It feels like whoever wrote it, directed it, and designed the set; never worked in a large corporation before. For one thing, there’s so much weird waste like space, art collections, and museums. Then there’s the weird thing about the vagueness of the actual work. The cherry on top is the worship of Dear Leaders which makes me think that this is an inadvertent show about 20th century communism or the 21st century North Korean monarchy. It’s anything but capitalist.
TBH I wouldn't be surprised if these organizations are infested with FBI agents.
Counties don't vote and Trump's popular vote "mandate" is smaller than Clinton's popular vote win in 2016.

Here's a fun stat: literally 40 states have a population that is less than the population of Los Angeles county alone. Why doesn't Los Angeles itself have 80 senators?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_United_States_presidentia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_United_States_presidentia...

Setting aside 2000 and 2016 (EC winners lost the popular vote), you'd have to go back to 1968 and Nixon's squeaker of an election over Humphrey to find a closer popular vote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...
Lots of value in the research process, multiple sources, slow reasoning. VS uploading Kung Fu to your brain.
I do this - I self host my movies/TV, ebooks, comics, photos, etc. and use tailscale to access it from anywhere. It's not really great for "mainstream" but for "tech enthusiast" it's very useful. Basically anyone who would consider buying a NAS (most consumer NAS devices can also run Docker containers these days)
Recent Japanese research has focused on reducing the number of mirrors by reshaping them, improving efficiency.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41336690
>https://youtu.be/zG3n2IeaTPA

>note: not clicking that because you disagree with me is really doing yourself a disservice.

I won't click the link because I'm here for discussion with the users of this site, not some random video you thought was interesting/useful.

Why do you find it interesting/useful? What arguments are made? How do those arguments comport with your beliefs?

Let's have a discussion. So tell me what you think, don't link to some rando on youtube.
That isn't the American Secretary of States opinion:

https://bsky.app/profile/dittie.bsky.social/post/3lji5yzf5ns...

Nor is the US currently 'honoring it' clear from a direct reading of the langauge:

https://bsky.app/profile/igorsushko.bsky.social/post/3ljnqjm...
Raw materials costs are mostly based on scarcity, not salaries. If it weren't, steel would cost more that gold because it goes through more processing.
I would bet a majority of engineers at FAANG companies are there primarily - or in large part - because of the prestige.
If you value local compute and don't need massive speed, that's still twice as fast as most people can type.
where does 256 come from? it's repeated in here and elsewhere that a single expert is 37B sized, so you'd have to have way more than "several hundred billion parameters", to hold 256 of those? Maybe i don't understand the architecture, but if that's the case, then everyone repeating 37B doesn't, either.
If I’m going to sit through 9 hours of interviews to maybe get an offer, then yes absolutely.

I’m not going to work my rear end off for 4 years to get 0.5% of potentially nothing and go through your dog and pony show of an interview cycle
Man so many American's about to be relieved they can stop honoring their 30 year mortgagee.
Lets hope this isn't like the M1 version which has been dropping like flies.
Neat trick for using an emoji as a favicon
excellent answer. thank you.
> I'm not sure exactly what the mainstream killer app would be.

Maybe a NAS that comes with Jellyfin and Immich pre-installed? But that still leaves the problem of content...
The current United States Secretary of State disagrees with you:

https://bsky.app/profile/dittie.bsky.social/post/3lji5yzf5ns...
There is no more appeal to logic left with these folks unfortunately. Trump says bad and they jump.
git bundle works like git clone so there's nothing to worry about.

You simply don't know what you are talking about.
Same for stable diffusion (being the same tech). I trained models purely on model outputs and didn’t see any horrific handwavy things everyone’s talked about. You can’t get more of what’s already there, obviously. But as a way to bake some prompt / control pic in, it works great.

I actually find/feel this easier to achieve the same result, because I can vary the output with dynamic prompting and seeds, models, etc, while keeping the desired concept intact, with a little picking. This helps to better distill it into a model. Natural imagery is usually too diverse and requires lots of effort to dissect into the parts you want.
> Is it even rational to assume one is rational?

Depending on your definition. But taken literally, no, obviously not.

Regardless of your skill level, would you ever assume that you were playing a perfect (in the information theoretic sense) game of chess?

Whether chess or real life, all of us merely make the best choices we can given our skill and the information available to us. That includes imperfectly modeling the other agents in the world around us. In that sense, "being rational" means something like "deliberately analyzing the situation" and "more rational" means something like "a superior approach to analysis".
Even PhD SWEs are likely to make the same (or even less) as their peers who started working after their undergrads rather than going to school for 5-8 more years, especially if their topic isn't hot (read: not AI related).
I read up till the "realisation moment" of something he could have easily found by using a notepad and some google searches. No, that wouldn't take weeks, it would likely take the same 2 to 3 hours that they felt "exhausted by" typing things into a textbox and reading.
> Basically, something's got to have some chance of going bankrupt, or there's not a good feedback loop for improvement

That’s a bad idea for public services
128gb each, so two would have 256gb.

Its half that of a max spec Mac Studio, but also half the price and eight times faster memory speed. Realistically which open source LLMs does 512gb over 256gb of memory unlock? My understanding is that the true bleeding edge ones like R1 won't even handle 512gb well, especially with the anemic memory speed.
I downvoted because it's exactly as you say.
That's an interesting heuristic. Given a host connecting from an apparent dynamic IP without matching forward and reverse DNS, we could take their purported e-mail domain (from where? SMTP hello? Or domain part of MAIL from?) and fetch the MX record to see if it points to that same IP address and use that as a whitelist criterion against being dropped as a residential IP. (On the hypothesis that they are trying to run an earnest self-hosted mail setup.)

However, if the host passes this check, and all other tests such that we decide to accept the mail for delivery (to be further processed by SpamAssassin), at that point why would we want to apply any score in SpamAssassin regarding the residential IP. We already decided to pass it.
Our brains are built to learn and never stop doing it. It’s always “what” are we learning, not “if” we are. The use of AI is absolutely teaching something.
I don’t know either, but it seems more likely to involve planes that suddenly take priority or require special handling due to VIP status. Say, Air Force One landing.
https://bsky.app/profile/igorsushko.bsky.social/post/3ljnqjm...

'to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind;'

The US is making any support contingent on a peace agreement that Ukraine doesn't want because it doesn't want to give up it's land.
Those warrants are secret. We don't even know if they're following the rules they lay out.

In the US, the secret FISA court hasn't turned down a single warrant. Either the government is only coming to them with completely justified cases or they're just a rubber stamp. Either way, there's no oversight so we have no way of knowing.
I’m guessing here, but I think it’s because of irregular flight patterns during a VIP moments, so more edge cases surface.
How to make it work for tablet chrome?

The extension page does not say how to manage ,library
Vibe Coding is so powerful you don’t even need VC anymore. Mic drop.
Risk of shut-out.

I'm in Hong Kong, I can't even subscribe to OpenAI or Claude directly, though granted this doesn't so much apply to the already "open" models
How to Make a Homemade Water Filter
The Game of Y
It is possible to catch up to them, but it's beyond our current political and economic abilities.

The Voyager probes took advantage of a rare planetary alignment to get up to speed. In order to catch up with them, we'd have to send a powered craft which would have to actively thrust for a long time.

Someone better than me will have to do the math, but I doubt that we currently have the ability to build or fuel such a craft.
Maybe it was better in big cities but when I was a kid researching papers on niche topics was tough because the local library had few books, mostly older ones, and I had to have my parents drive me there because it was too far to bike...

When we got 24/7 internet it was a game changer, it was like turning on a tap of knowledge on every topic. Of course the signal to noise ratio was higher back then...
> by making the benchmark car to beat

Fun choice of words for the company that famously got caught cheating at the benchmarks
We really should see what happens when Project Digits is finally released. Also, I would love in NVIDIA decided to get in the CPU/GPU + unified memory space.

I can't imagine the M3 Ultra doing well on a model that loads into ~500G, but they should be a blast on 70b models (well, twice as fast as my M3 Max at least) or even a heavily quantized 400b model.
Someone recently tweeted that we use so much software because we’re now expected to do more work than is reasonably to be expected of humans and I’d have to agree.

There’s too much information to manage and too many tasks to juggle to keep up without good tools. AI just extends the range of what a person can take on.
Unless someone obviously shares common goals with you they are a potential adversary. When faced with a tool that you are confident can be used to deceive you, and a potential adversary who you are confident is aware of this fact, you should then clearly distrust that tool in that context.
Mechanics, sure. Chemically, not so much. The batteries are rather non trivial.
I'm an idiot...

anyway - I just watched it.

Fantastic.

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What are your thoughts on API-verload -- We will need bots and bots to keep track of the APIS...

Meaning... Are we to establish an Internet Protocol ~~ AI Protocol addressing schema - whereby every API henceforth has an IP v6 addy?

and instead of "domain names" for sale -- you are purchasing and registering an IPv6-->API.MY.SERVICE
Yeah, to become dependent.
I gotta say i completely understand microsoft doing this, and had i been in the voting meeting where this was decided i probably would have voted to have the default be "cloud login" - the average person isn't going to be able to do anything if the forget their password, short of taking the computer to best buy to have it wiped and reinstalled (or whatever). in the video link, you can see it ask me security questions, which we all probably know are a poor way to ensure continuous access.

So this "drop an xml file on the iso" is proof positive that i take full responsibility for the data on this operating system - if i forget my password and my security questions, i'm locked out. period. Microsoft can't help because i told them i was smarter than the average user.
> Those actions can have externalities

I dont believe that people who eat unhealthy food have any doubts about the effect of the food. They just dont care that its unhealthy, that isnt an externality.

> Nobody's ascribing fault here; rather, we're trying to understand the bigger picture.

The bigger picture is that more products that people enjoy is a good thing, and if some people cant handle that its not societys fault.
Mathematically, what you need is the binomial coefficient ("n choose k"): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_coefficient
Nothing about either of those is reasonable.

In the US both of those would have been handled with an Investigatory detention - same as being pulled over for a traffic stop. Not even remotely an arrest.

> They did however arrest me so that they could do a formal search and had right to as they had reasonable suspicion I was carrying it as a weapon.

What "reasonable suspicion"? They could see the "weapon" that had been reported and at that point it should have been "have a nice day" and then them trundling themselves over to whoever called it in and charged them with making a false report.

I swear, UK police seem generally nicer than US cops but infinitely dumber and the shit you brittons put up with in terms of having your rights violated is astounding.
It's meant to be a test/development setup for people to prepare the software environment and tooling for running the same on more expensive hardware. Not to be fast.
We also voted Starmer into power, who is one of the few leaders of the free world with a spine.

It's not that black and white.
You're thinking about this as if the average Joe is interested in this. They're not. The tech folk salivating in this discussion are a rounding error when it comes to computing. The vast majority has no need for this.
Knowing what question to ask is always the hardest part of research. Getting there take a bit of creativity and it’s hard to compare one creative process with another. It can be very beneficial to swap between them when you get stuck though. Knowing that there is this Google alternative that produces similar results in similar times is a boon.
Gravitational Variation in the Speed of Light – Dr. Carver Mead, Caltech [video]
I work for a SaaS company and a frequent refrain is "the most important thing we sell is trust." I suspect our users would be extremely upset with us if one of our engineers decided to learn about our production systems by turning things off and seeing what breaks. If you insist on reducing the State Department or any other government function to a "complex system," then DOGE is doing exactly that - FAFO in prod on a service that's 239 years old and has nukes. It's beyond irresponsible.
No I didn’t bother to read their documentation after seeing their website was apparently made on Myspace.

As someone who has gone through the roughly 9 hour interview process in the past, was it the docs and open source product that made you want to work there?
China Unveils AI Agent Manus, Claims It Outperforms OpenAI Models
Its not the entire world, mostly the US. Japan for example doesnt have a NIMBY problem and that has allowed tokyo to become incredibly dense without becoming expensive.

Where do you live? Even manhattan has vacancy rates barely above the 3% structural minimum and thats the poster child for "rich people leaving property vacant" complaints.

The problem really is that too many homeowners refuse to allow anything other than SFHs to be built near them.
>> How do we slow down or control the flow of information ?

There's no way that genie goes back into the bottle. And even if you could that's not the issue, people believe whatever they want to believe.

Ultimately education is a good start but if anything US education (which of course is very democratic) is getting worse not better. Book banning and burning spring to mind.

The real root of the issue is individualism over collective good. That's pretty baked into the American psyche (not to mention baked into the constitution) so no amount of education will change that.

For example it's obvious that fewer guns would reduce violence- that's been shown to be true many times over. But the individual's right to bear arms is baked in and not going away.

Of course this isn't necessarily a bad thing. The US acts as a counterbalance to other systems and other ways of life. It fights for women's rights in the middle east and Afghanistan. It traditionally stood up for the little guy against the neighborhood bully (think Kuwait and Iraq).

The pendulum will swing, but just as the USSR exited the world stage, the USA is now doing the same. All empires rise and fall. The gaps left by USaid will be filled by others. China is already buying influence in Africa and Asia.
Sensors are very cheap. Have no idea why they cut them.

[0]: https://aqicn.org/gaia/list/

[1]: https://www2.purpleair.com/products/list
It’s not us, but some of us. One or two is enough to establish a hierarchy of acute incentives, and suddenly it starts working as if everyone was a mf’n bastard.

Our last hope is genetic engineering, but for now I’d bet on just deleting the bad apples preventively rather than chasing moral ideals that never work. Imagine all people in the world clear the brain fog and suddenly realize who their real enemy is and what to do with them.
As other commenters have mentioned, the performance of this set up is probably not really great since there's not enough VRAM and lots of bits have to be moved between CPU and GPU RAM.

That said, there are sub-256GB quants of DeepSeek-R1 out there (not the distilled versions). See https://unsloth.ai/blog/deepseekr1-dynamic

I can't quantify the difference between these and the full FP8 versions of DSR1, but I've been playing with these ~Q2 quants and they're surprisingly capable in their own right.

Another model that deserves mention is DeepSeek v2.5 (which has "fewer" params than V3/R1) - but still needs aggressive quantization before it can run on "consumer" devices (with less than ~100GB VRAM), and this is recently done by a kind soul: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1irwx6q/deepsee...

DeepSeek v2.5 is arguably better than Llama 3 70B, so it should be of interest to anyone looking to run local inference. I really think more people should know about this.
Maybe I've aged out of it or something but the userbase has gotten so much more annoying (and was already annoying when I finally started using it around 2010) over the last several years, that I've almost entirely quit it. I used to mod large subs, I started a company with a group of guys I met on Reddit (and we still have our own group chat), and its just completely lost all appeal to me. It's like every user is the annoying college freshman that thinks they're an expert on all things because of half a semester of intro physics.
Kudos on being someone who actually brews coffee for a living. √ I think I misremembered jennbethdiamond's remark to the effect of not clear what the maker wants the site to do; my attention was on the availability of useful information about how the site works in practice, rather than the appearance.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42976702

I note that you wrote some nice 'compare and contrast' summaries about BrewLog versus other apps.
https://old.reddit.com/search?q=brewlog.coffee&include_over_...

thought: Could you get a couple of people to make 6-8 posts, and then highlight their journals as examples of 'this is what your stuff will look like'?

related: YC/HN is big on condensing rhetoric down to a pitch deck that gives people actionable information up front, in paragraphs.

confession: I only drink store brand instant. No taste buds. Stick a fork in me, I'm done.
FWIW, my rules of thumb for those questions:

> Which language(s) do I use?

The one I know best. If I can’t choose it, I embrace it (don’t fight it to make it look like another language)

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> Which frameworks do I use?

I rephrase it to: Which framework do I really need?

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> How will I structure my code?

Screaming Architecture by Uncle Bob

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> What will I write myself, and when will I reach for a library?

Can I write it? -> Can I make it more convenient?

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> Once I've decided that, then which library should I use?

I flip a coin and wrap its API so I can easily swap the implementation

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> How will my program communicate with others?

I'm not afraid of having different data structures for the same data. For example, exporting to another structure instead of changing the internal one to accommodate it.
Linus makes guitar pedals now
Indeed that would be the wrong conclusion to jump to.

However it isn't how I read the original example. I saw it more as "A is backed by evidence B" rebutted with "I don't trust evidence B because ...". Despite the described tone being poor and the individual obviously horribly ignorant, when assessed from their (apparent) point of view instead of my own that position seems fairly reasonable to me.

In other words, not so much "magic instead of medicine" as rejecting the claim that medicine is superior to magic while also declining to hold the view that magic is superior to medicine.
I mean this is the same maker who banned shipping to the entire state of Colorado (https://portal.malibal.com/kb/a1064/why-dont-you-ship-to-col...) over disputes with System76, this feels quite on brand.
This is why the price is so high. It isn’t just a person at a desk. It’s a service anyone can access.

It also never calls in sick or sexually harasses an intern.
Beyond economic self-interest, maybe particularly in the USA it is possible to vote for people who can actively undermine your vote in the future.

Pretty long history in the US of gerrymandering, ID voter laws and reducing voting stations that pretty directly limit people's ability to vote.

I think anger just blocks rational thought.
> Curious how quickly people forget, and I'm sure we'll have to relearn these lessons yet again.

I think some of this forgetting was attributable to the Biden administration's decision to suddenly start acting like COVID didn't exist. It's pretty hard to remind people of metrics from the past when you're also simultaneously trying to avoid talking about those same metrics in the present.
Out of curiosity which one and why?
I'd rather pay for a transition out of car-centricity instead of subsidising a dying industry that lobbied against every single move forward in the past few decades. Against air quality, against electric transition, for fossil fuel, against cycling infrastructure, against the safety of other road users. Right now they build only SUVs, mostly hybrids, when we actually need electric Twingos.

VW and Stellantis need to go bankrupt and their technical workers need help to transition to being part of industries that will strive in a low-carbon economy: public transports, bicycles, two-wheels EVs, etc. [0] As for the management of these companies, they can all bloody starve, frankly.

[0] https://ilnousfautunplan.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Indus..., Claude's summary in English: https://claude.ai/share/695d7c05-25e5-4295-aa09-2bdc8717f8ca
> Making the issue more political, the US edits and censors the data it publishes for its own purposes. This isn’t a secret but it taints the perception of US neutrality when making this data available.

Less doublespeak version: The US edits and censors the data it publishes for its own purposes. Thus the data is not viewed as neutral.

The neutrality of some entity is not set by default by God and then “tainted” by their very own actions. The neutrality or lack thereof can be reasoned about directly.
The computer history museum has a panel interview where they discuss standard cell automated layout with "Timberwolf," a program they obtained from a graduate student who debugged it when needed from his dorm at his university.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26757328
Fruit Engineering Ltd. hires brits and contracts with offshore Apple Inc. The former does not have the keys and cannot be forced to do anything iCloud-side.

It's not like corporate doesn't know all the tricks already. The only reason they need is whether the UK market is worth the hassle. That's all.