skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its happening for a while now. China is a huge contributer in various AI opensource projects. From video to audio to text. A very good thing and the reason why some of the US ai companies are in a somewhat desperate release mode. The only further thing we need is a strong hardware maker in China to bring back Nvidia in serious attention mode.
I once had a boss who told me to buy some games on the company dime for those times.
But I wonder if there's a distinction between a proof that is merely computationally intensive and one that is conceptually inaccessible
I don't think companies like Meta, Alphabet or even Amazon are extremely overvalued. Their growth in revenues and earnings is still very solid, so even if A.I is a no show their earnings should continue to do fine (I'd even add Microsoft to the list).
Sure stock price might slow down significanty but it can easily add 10% yearly for the forseeable future. Its much less than what we're used to, but its solid growth that has not much to do with A.I.

And I totally agree people should forget about the s&p 500 returns we've seen in the last 15 years going forward, it would probably be less (though I have no crystal ball, but regression to the mean seems likely).
We should start calling DeepSeek as OpenAI. And KimiAI is also doing lot of good things.
I really hope that this eventually becomes a thing but I am super sad that it won't any time soon. It really sucks to learn that some lucky people just don't need nearly as much sleep and that I'm just not one of those lucky people and will never be able to achieve that.
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Some people see the world as a zero sum game.
Hugged to death by HN? anyway https://web.archive.org/web/20250123005656/https://blog.qiqi...
I would say for most use cases it doesnt matter if I can talk withit about what happend somewhere in china more than 30 years ago.

Also the deepseek-R1 is pretty low censored. It was shown that some of the censorship is in the frontend. Here on hackernews was an article for example where someone talked with the model in hexadecimal ascii numbers (if i remember correct) and it happily talked about tianmen etc...
Can somebody please explain what is special about them?
Exactly my thoughts reading this article.
Luckily if next few years we will have thousands of projects written using 'ai' there will be need for someone to debug and fix all of that broken software.

Or maybe not, maybe it will be cheaper to just slap another ten k8s pods to mitigate poor performance...
The model is openly distributed, enabling others to improve it. Currently there are numerous uncensored and improved versions of Deepseek r1 out there already.

This community effect of improving models is why in my opinion the best LLMs will soon all be open.
Maybe, but our tech advancement could only happen because of our acceptance of others and of cooperation. And I have not seen any evidence that neandertals and sapiens considered themselves that different, this is just an assumed thing from our limited knowledge.
I think we could have "anticipated tasks" kept somewhere maybe not on the "board", and not being committed to (yet). Just raise awareness of what is the high-level view of where we are or might be going.

I agree that specifications always change. And that means it's good to be aware of what they might change to. Then we might more easily see how they might conflict with the current tasks, and thus in fact reduce the amount that specs would need to change in the future.
Interesting analogy. But in the email world, smaller clients are allowed. The banning happens on IP/domain level. So I'm guessing that's where we're going to head towards on the browser side?
By pay similar to BigTech do you mean the cash you get paid at a startup/scale up is similar to cash + liquid public RSUs?

Equity in private companies especially in today’s climate is statistically meaningless.

And if you look at the companies that pay the most + have the largest number of opportunities, they are the “small number” of BigTech companies

And back to the Bay Area argument. Most of the major public tech companies have offices all over the US that pay the same with a much lower cost of living.
A friend of mine who was in charge of finance said to his boss “the bank keeps sending me emails to confirm transactions and change my passwords and even after I click the links and re-enter my password they keep on asking, it’s very annoying.”.
> The cost of renewables is not falling, if you take into account the hours those renewables are not producing power.

This is false, like logic wise even if your assumptions were true. You might say that supposed cost right now is fake. If it's actually much higher (accounting for batteries or NatGas) the ridiculous drop in price from panels still means that the cost is falling.

> If a country cannot build a basic power grid, they will remain a village, most likely with widespread poverty.

They are probably not gonna be smelting with arc furnaces in bumbfuck-nowhere, Nigeria; but that's also not happening in some hamlet in the UK. African cities and resource extractions areas already have power grinds, the problem are rural areas.
Atmospheric refraction does not matter for this method as it is not based on the time of sunset. Yes, the actual sunset occurs later than the observed sunset, but the relationship between the reflection and the observed position of the Sun remains the same. So, the only difference is you're observing the relationship at a slightly different time than when it actually occurred geometrically.
> Steer away from skills like web development that are clearly getting eaten by LLMs.

You had it going well there but then had to ruin it with a take like that.

If you’re talking about your trivial, github-filled example scenarios of frontend, sure. But then we could say the same for all other roles, including backend logic that’s regurgitated all the time.

Like with everything else, the non-trivial bits need work and skills.
Same as Cargo Cult programming: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult_programming
> the leading cause of death for American youngsters is from car-related incidents.

I've read some timed ago that drowning in swimmingpools was the leading cause of deaths for kids. So maybe the mandatory protections (fences) there did help. So more schoolbuses could help with their pickup line crisis.

In Germany in our schools such pickup lines are explicitly forbidden. Kids must go by themselves (bus or bike). Helicopter parenting is frawned upon, and recent right-wing rumors in Berlin amongst silly parents about organized Rumanian abduction trucks are actively fought. Dangerous fakenews on social media, probably Russian.
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Every time I hear mention of Connor and Connor Peripherals Inc. I get the shivers. Not this has much to do with Apple's hidden recovery partition other than Connor drives are mentioned here.

Never have I experienced worse drives than those made by Connor Peripherals Inc. I've had them fail on many occasions—they'd fail if so much as to look at them.

I recall one instance where I'd spent hours setting up my computer and all was OK only to drop a small manual onto the table from a few inches height. The next thing that happened was the OS chucked an 'Abort, Retry or Ignore' message. Drive was completely dead.
Not all of them were already there. Many immigrated there from Jordan (and to the Gaza Strip from Egypt) post 1948.

In the West Bank they are former Jordanian citizens who had their citizenship revoked post 1967. Egypt never offered residents of Gaza citizenship, so I suppose they are former Ottoman Empire subjects without any new state to become citizens of. Remember that they rejected the creation of an Arab state in 1948 under UN Resolution 181, and Israel supported the creation of such a state.

Broadly, they are a stateless population that has made war on Israel since 1948 (and against Jews in the area since before then) and it is hard to see why it's Israel that owes them something, as opposed to their Egyptian and Jordanian allies who were in control of those territories and their lives for 20 years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordanian_annexation_of_the_We...
Hugely different data too?

If you think of all the neurons connected up to vision, touch, hearing, heat receptors, balance, etc. there’s a constant stream of multimodal data of different types along with constant reinforcement learning - e.g. ‘if you move your eye in this way, the scene you see changes’, ‘if you tilt your body this way your balance changes’, etc. and this runs from even before you are born, throughout your life.
It's fun to see how every time a finance topic pops up, discussion steers towards lamenting on how "talent is wasted" by doing this and not that.

See, if you're a fishmonger and someone comes to you and say "why don't you trade flowers instead", you ignore them because they are not your customer. They won't trade fish with you, and in fact they wouldn't trade flowers either. They're just useless relative to your trade and only yapping so just turn your back on them and leave them be. Tell them to fuck off and find a flower monger if they really want it or mong those those flowers themselves because you are sticking to monging fish.
> The irony is that they don't actually save any water because I end up running them multiple times.

i have an HE2 (which everyone, universally hates) and it cleans clothes fine with 1 load where you can't even see the top of the water most of the time. You have to load high efficiency top loading machines different than your grandparents loaded their speed queens. You must not put anything over the impeller. everything must go around the edges before the water starts. the impellers in HE washers don't agitate around the torus of the tub, they agitate like the electric field on a torus around the tub, so they go bottom, bottom middle, upper middle, upper, upper outer, bottom outer, bottom; in a loop. if you put stuff in the middle to start, it'll just swish that back and forth and never clean anything. Sometimes stuff won't even get wet, or you'll have dried soap stuck to your clothes.

secondly, don't use fabric softener. If you must use something because of your water quality, use vinegar.

If you need to wash sheets, curtains, blankets, comforters and the like, you can't put them around the outside, because the HE washers do that cycle differently, too. You have to gather the fabric like a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bindle sack, start with the sheet or whatever flat, fold all four corners (or whatever) into the middle so they all meet in the middle. Then pick it up by the four corners (or whatever) and place it in the washer with the middle of the sheet down and the four corners on top. Like a bindle sack. use the "sheets / heavy duty" cycle for sheets and the like. that's what it's for.

please, let me know if this solves your issues.
The shift in what's valued (moving from team-building and hiring prowess to sheer execution speed and adaptability) has been stark. It's also unsettling to see so many senior folks feeling -left behind- not because they lack skills, but because the rules of the game have changed so quickly...
I had not heard about this remake, what throwback. I'm going to have to play it again to see if my memory aligns with reality.
I'm in Europe. With the current US administration, I could say the exact same thing about American companies. The US government is clearly willing to use every single commercial enterprise located in the US as leverage.

At this point China seems like the less harmful of the two choices.
The browser blocking is a massive liability? Wait until you hear about their treatment of shared gateways (both cgnat and tor), hosting ddos operators, and helping protect attempted murders in court... The CF hole goes deep.
Clear specifications are essential because they create shared understanding through collaborative discussion, preventing misalignment and expensive rework.

With AI-assisted coding, well-defined requirements have become even more crucial as these tools follow instructions precisely but lack business context.

The investment in proper definition isn't wasteful "meta-work" but rather insurance against the much higher cost of rebuilding the wrong solution.
But it's open with open research papers and auxiliary tooling etc. THE GOOD states can fine tune it with hatered, isolation and warmongering – they show how to do it in cost effective way.
I do think some transitions are inevitable and not because AI must be used, but because once enough companies figure out where it genuinely improves efficiency, the competitive pressure to follow suit becomes real
This is an extremely dumb take, I’ve worked on both areas before and I could say that infra work is mostly repeated and needlessly complex config sprayed into git. LLMs have seen enough of that to make head or tails of it by the way you’re characterizing frontend dev.
Just monitoring is not enough
I get that it's paper so probably not that big of a deal environmentally, but why would anyone want to individually wrap TP rolls??
And open source models.
I'm intrigued - I didn't listen to the post but wonder what kind of best practices you're talking about.

Do you have this written down anywhere or on video anywhere? I'd love to learn more about what you mean.
They are. There's a ton of research taking place at public institutions and by government contract. We socialize the benefit by charging taxes on the profits.

If you instead mean something like "we should give already rich billionaires even more billions to toy around with" then no. We should not do that. Let's cut the parasitic billionaires out, and just fund the researchers. You know, like we are doing.
On avoiding web dev: I get the concern, but I wouldn't write it off completely. LLMs are changing the game, but they're not replacing deep expertise in architecture, scalability, or understanding real-world business constraints
Oof. Interesting take.
The same holds true for software developers imo. If you can't figure out how to use LLMs to improve efficiency, your likely a dinosaur of the past soon (unless you work on somethink __very__ specific where LLMs dont help much).
The Scots were driven off their land by other Scots, though. In addition, comparing subsistence agriculture in a land where you can freeze to death with the absolute abundance of food provided by a tropical island seems a stretch. Having spent considerable time in both the Scottish Highlands -- where my wider family is centered -- and having lived on a tropical island for a few years, it takes a particularly romantic eye to try and make this comparison.
To install on Windows you have to manually install the configs on top of an existing Firefox install. Instructions are on the website.
It’s important to understand how AI will affect your field and recalibrate your position or contribution accordingly

It is a big enough change for this to be a valid question for anyone in the world today

Leaving what you’re doing and going into “AI” will likely set you up for a crypto level disaster

Vibe coding is a thing but vibe business building or job hunting isn’t! So beware of hype and know that in the end money is made by serving people and it will be equally hard with vibe coding too because the bar is higher

AI will create newer opportunities for sure but follow the opportunity, not the AI is what the sentiment here is I guess
This is cool! I once made a project very much like this: https://github.com/svenstaro/genact

Check it out if you like this kind of thing.
> Others don’t want to be seen as poor, because social posturing is important to them.

Then they should buy an iPhone if social posturing is important to them.

In all seriousness now: the green buble shows you that you’re sending SMSes which, based on carrier and/or country it can cost you, especially if you’re roaming overseeas where every SMS is 10/20/50c each.
Trees in art, as well as life, often follow simple mathematical rules
Exactly. It’s less about whether AI can replace certain jobs and more about the fact that companies are making decisions as if it will. That alone reshapes hiring, budgets, and job security
> Including around the potential "intentionality" of the human testing

The wikipedia link mentions allegations, but not what (I feel) counts as evidence. Note that I'm not denying that the US Government engaged in radiation test programmes (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Stevens), nor that these were covered up and are ethically questionable. But can such a rumour be falsified?
Unfortunately, no. It was a private talk.
That's pretty great, just tried it. I'd have a few feature requests:

- Make it possible to delete downloaded videos

- Show more than just a few weeks worth of videos per channel. For example, if I look at @AndrejKarpathy I only see his latest two videos.

- Have a way to view a video at a reasonable size in between the small preview and full screen

- Add a way to download a single video without subscribing to a channel

Thanks for making it a Docker image, it's super easy to get it working with Docker compose!
In my twenties I played nethack (with the ascii tileset) in a terminal window while working. It only took my boss a couple weeks to catch on.

He was not happy.
Because LLMs are dog shit. There I said it.

LLMs are not the threat right now. Mismanagement of the United States and a 2008 style recession (but without the TOGA power of the SaaS/cloud boom. AI is swimming naked financially) are the biggest threat for your career and employment in 2025.
How is that different from American models though? Other than the polarity of propaganda, I mean.
I know what you mean haha.

Instead of spending x2 the initial effort to fix the root cause, you spend x1 the initial effort to implement jank and then spend x10 the effort down the line maintaining the jank.
The effective altruism guys got mad about it almost two months ago... https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/BRqBvkjskZ6c2G6rn/...
i'm the "SME" / tech support everyone asks before they buy expensive things, so if someone's looking for a new fridge or whatever "don't buy samsung" has cost samsung more money than i could cost them by lying to them, even if, by all rights, they ought make me whole.

They had their chance to deal with my legitimate grievances, now they can deal with me badmouthing them.
Pretty sure Packard Bell and Compaq had recovery partitions long before Apple "borrowed" the idea.
nice to see all the fern tramplers signing in, sigh :-/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/02/meta-defends-its...
Day 1115 – The Day of the Drone
It's not, but a lot of fish don't realize they're swimming in water.
Point is it's not caused by low population density.
On what do you based that? (Genuinely interested)
I can recommend reading “The Phoenix Project”.
How I've reduced processing and costs by 80% with a simple script
But why is that useful? Just do what Confluence does. Read only, then click a pencil to edit.
And it being "non-lethal" or harmless or whatever isn't really true when panicking large crowds easily can kill hundreds. Super dangerous.

But I guess that could even be the point. Make it dangerous to protest, but avoid images of firing into the crowd, can blame the protestors for "killing each other" or so.
You must be really fortunate to expect to get by with 50%
UTM (the Virtualization and Emulation software for Mac) has a system9 image on their gallery which is easy to install. It also looks great.
The enemy of your enemy is just your enemy's enemy.

Why does everyone insist on picking a side rather then having any pride in their own nations? Europe is large, educated and capable of it's developments. No one needs to pick anything.
On one hand, bringing things in-house could mean tighter creative control and better integration with their broader ecosystem. On the other, their best games (like the TT Games Lego series) were successful because of the external studios' expertise in game design.
The Japanese symbols were translated by by Chinese PhD as "card to watch". Now that I think about it (the memory) I think there was something participatory in it? "the card for watching" perhaps? "The card for noticing"? The software use of the term certainly feels like it misses the point as used in manufacturing.
On the older busses in the city I live in, the level of vibrations actually make me sooo motion sick, I have gotten off the bus and immediately evacuated my insides.
Isn't the big complaint that Silicon Valley doesn't focus on revenue. Like there was a pretty funny bit of the "Silicon Valley" show that was mocking this fact.
Cool stuff!

Also keep a close eye on the Opensource SatDump project. That's a group of (mostly ham, but not all of them) radio enthusiasts that are listening to all kind of science satellites. They managed to decode many of them.

They are far far beyond the old 137MHz analog NOAA stuff. Collecting crazy broadband from S- or X-band is no challenge for them.
you can complain about "parasitic billionaires", and some probably qualify, but academic institutions aren't majority-responsible for LLMs. transformers came out of google and, although some academics toyed with them, most of the interesting work has been from companies. i care more about results than sticking it to the "evil billionaire" or whatever.

perhaps the better question is why "parasitic billionaires" and their companies are producing better results than academic institutions, and how we can fix said institutions to get them running well again.
Volume is composed of individual visits
I remember working for a small agency in London with a bit of a top-heavy management structure. Many times would my shoulder be subtly gazed over to "check on progress". I ended up using IRSSI to chat with friends, wgets to read my fav blogs, and my twitter stream pouring into what looked like an excel spreadsheet UI . I always got my work done in the first couple hours of the day. I will always resent those managers, and the time spent wasted sitting in office chairs whiling away hours to meet some pointless proxy of worth: time and physical presence.

A worse experience I had previously was a manager who could remote-log-in to my machine at random times to spot-monitor my work. I'd see a little icon pop up in the menubar which would tell me he was there, so I'd make haste to busy myself with the appearance of grokking hard code. May he find a never-peace in purgatory.
thanks, running "uv run x.py" is a relevant downside for me, but you definitely brought me closer to actually looking into it. I'm about to sell a project template and it'd look good if I use a newer tool (as long as I'll make sure it's stable and resilient, the latter being a bit hard to estimate, thus my post)
The Dogs of Chernobyl (great video report):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmVGwOP_zi8