skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyday headphones are limited by the fact that people often use Bluetooth, and Bluetooth audio is just terrible tech that hasn't improved by much in the last 10 years, and still can't do more than 16kHZ when doing both input and output at the same time.

I think this isn't a problem if you're using Apple headphones with Apple devices, but anything else falls back to crappy BT quality, usually with some kind of terrible ANC to boot.

FOr me, crappy audio setups and apps trying to do too much audio processing are the primary reason of "Zoom fatigue". I've done a lot of calls over apps that transmit raw, high-quality audio with no processing whatsoever, and the experience is just so much better.
Layout managers were well established industry-wide by the 90s, which is where I started using them.
I agree we should pay but, I'm on the other side not paying because it's very hard to commit to so many subscription things. Back in the day I'd buy a bunch of magazines and would have subscription for tops 3 when I was really into the publication. Nowadays almost everything seems to want to be a subscription service and comes with some shady practices that really scared me away and assume I'm not a rare case either.
good grief! people are okay with it when OpenAI and Google do it, but as soon as open source providers do it, people get defensive about it...
The Bible says a lot more directly about holding slaves and that being acceptable than anything you could argue regarding abortion as a divine directive. Even the New Testament is pro slavery in some respects. The citations noted, regarding abortion, are really stretching things.

Remember this is the same book that says “Oops we can’t let the Benjaminites die out because the prophecies won’t come true unless there are 12 tribes so because we won’t intermarry with them as punishment they can kidnap and keep women from a nearby people as wives so they survive.”

The article is fascinating.
This is the way of young people in every domain, not just technology. Much like teenagers think they're the first ones to ever have sex before, young people tend to think they are the first ones to notice "hey this status quo really sucks" and try to solve it.

This can be a strength, to be fair - the human mind really does tend to get stuck in a rut based on familiarity, and someone new to the domain can spot solutions that others haven't because of that. But more often, it turns into futile attempts to solve problems while forgetting the lessons of the past.
My understanding is that ADHD prevalence is closer to 5-10%. That's the number I've seen most by reputable sources.

Nonetheless, the rest of your post resonates with me and and your points stand on their own :)
I'm sure the patients are comforted by the difference.
They're real squished for space, more than I expected :/ good illustration here, Qwen2.5-1.5B trained to reason, i.e. the name it is released under is "DeepSeek R1 1.5B". https://imgur.com/a/F3w5ymp 1st prompt was "What is 1048576^0.05", it answered, then I said "Hi", then...well...

Fwiw, Claude Sonnet 3.5 100% had some sort of agentic loop x precise file editing trained into it. Wasn't obvious to me until I added a MCP file server to my client, and still isn't well-understood outside a few.

I'm not sure on-device models will be able to handle it any time soon because it relies on just letting it read the whole effing file.

Seperately...

I say I don't understand why no other model is close, but it makes sense. OpenAI has been focused on reasoning, Mistral, I assume is GPU-starved, and Google...well, I used to work there, so I have to stop myself from going on and on. Let's just say I assume that there wouldn't be enough Consensus Built™ to do something "scary" and "experimental" like train that stuff in.

This also isn't going so hot for Sonnet IMHO.

There's vague displeasure and assumptions it "changed" the last week, but, AFAICT the real problem is that the reasoning stuff isn't as "trained in" as, say, OpenAI's.

This'd be a good thing except you see all kinds of whacky behavior.

One of my simple "read file and edit" queries yesterday did about 60 pages worth of thinking, and the thinking contained 130+ separate tool calls that weren't actually called, so it was just wandering around in the wilderness, reacting to hallucinated responses it never actually got.

Which plays into another one of my hobbyhorses, chat is a "hack" on top of an LLM. Great. So is reasoning, especially in the way Anthropic implemented it. At what point are the abstractions too much, so much that it's unreliable? 3.7 Sonnet may be answering that, because when it fails, all that thinking looks like the agentic loop cooked into Sonnet 3.5. So maybe it's altogether too much to have chat, reasoning, and fully reliable agentic loops...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
Another thought, in a highly educated populace, the path length between any person and someone highly skilled would be much shorter. Everyone would know someone who knows someone who is an expert in a subject. So it would be much easier for someone to seek and get assistance.
> I dont pretend to understand it but I also dont think you should minimize it to just one or two transactions.

I think no matter how complicated when it comes to regular citizens, not those who have a political science degree, there should be some basic understanding. One doesn't need an advanced degree to see things things like hypocrisy, corruption and lies.

One would expect that when a politician goes on camera and says "Putin is a killer! We support Ukraine" then turns around and writes $1B to Putin every month, people would be a bit dismayed at the hypocrisy. Especially when they got a fair warning about it. One might suggest that we hide the fact that we supported Putin and strengthened the dependence on Russian energy for so long in order not upset the public too much as it's too controversial and disturbs the peace, sure. However, at some point that made-up fantasy has to collide with reality, and that's what is happening now I think. The longer we live in a fantasy world the harder the crash with reality will be later on.
"B" just means "billion". A 7B model has 7 billion parameters. Most models are trained in fp16, so each parameter takes two bytes at full precision. Therefore, 7B = 14GB of memory. You can easily quantize models to 8 bits per parameter with very little quality loss, so then 7B = 7GB of memory. With more quality loss (making the model dumber), you can quantize to 4 bits per parameter, so 7B = 3.5GB of memory. There are ways to quantize at other levels too, anywhere from under 2 bits per parameter up to 6 bits per parameter are common.

There is additional memory used for context / KV cache. So, if you use a large context window for a model, you will need to factor in several additional gigabytes for that, but it is much harder to provide a rule of thumb for that overhead. Most of the time, the overhead is significantly less than the size of the model, so not 2x or anything. (The size of the context window is related to the amount of text/images that you can have in a conversation before the LLM begins forgetting the earlier parts of the conversation.)

The most important thing for local LLM performance is typically memory bandwidth. This is why GPUs are so much faster for LLM inference than CPUs, since GPU VRAM is many times the speed of CPU RAM. Apple Silicon offers rather decent memory bandwidth, which makes the performance fit somewhere between a typical Intel/AMD CPU and a typical GPU. Apple Silicon is definitely not as fast as a discrete GPU with the same amount of VRAM.

That's about all you need to know to get started. There are obviously nuances and exceptions that apply in certain situations.

A 32B model at 5 bits per parameter will comfortably fit onto a 24GB GPU and provide decent speed, as long as the context window isn't set to a huge value.
neurotypes exist in an n-dimensional space with loose clusterings, making binary attributes at best vague and clumsy.

i hope we move away from pathologizing and toward making social and economic structures adaptive for people that are currently challenged by them, and likewise find better ways for people to adapt their lives to fit how their minds work
Google's announcements are mostly vaporware anyway. Btw, where is Gemini Ultra 1? how about Gemini Ultra 2?
People are leaving bad reviews for the book online. We need to leave bad reviews for the publisher. It’s a publisher problem.
You said "It takes a lot of effort for a car company to redesign and re-tool their factories to produce a quality new version of a vehicle."

It doesn't take a lot of effort to re-tool for an external redesign.
Sure, people can sequence DNA in their garage if they want. You need to know how to do it and how to not mess up all the details if you want to get reliable data.

As for government collecting samples from the environment, they (researchers funded by the government) already do that- it was used in COVID and many other places.
a lot of the safety around models seems to be implemented in the browser. Underneath the models seem pretty easy to fool/jailbreak.
Hm V literally has a big discussion called

"What don't you like about V / what would you like to be changed?"

https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/7610

What exactly do you think only looks good on paper?
Silly question: how can OpenAI, Claude and all, have a valuation so large considering all the open source models? Not saying they will disappear or be tiny (closed models), but why so so so valuable?
Whoa cool invocation of the magician Prospero! I recently adapted “The Tempest” as a screenplay while in jail and typed it up:

https://samhenrycliff.medium.com/adapting-shakespeares-the-t...
Maybe a roundabout answer to your question, but Peano's axioms are equiconsistent with many finite set theories (even ZFC without axiom of infinity), and I do think philosophically it makes more sense to say weak axiomatic set theory + predicate calculus forms building blocks of arithmetic[1]. The idea of "number" as conceived by Frege is an equivalence class on finite sets: A ~ B <-> there is a bijection, which is in fact a good way of explaining "counting with fingers" as an especially primitive building block of arithmetic:

{index, middle, ring} ~
{apple, other apple, other other apple} ~
{1, 2, 3}

as representatives of the class "3" etc etc, predicates would be "don't include overripe apples when you count" etc. Then additions are unions and so on, and the Peano axioms are a consequence.

[1] In my view Peano axioms are the Platonic ideal of arithmetic, after the cruft of bijections and whatnot are tossed away. I agree this is splitting hairs.
Let me paint the average picture of adult further education for you....step 1: get excited by a degree, all the possibilities...the nerdiness...the minutae...step 2: first day in class spent doing roll call for 40 minures, followed by a lecturer trying to turn a pc on...finally gets it working, only for you realise theyll be doing a joint in person lecture + online lecture to save costs....step 3: you cant understand a word theyre saying as no one from admin vetted their english speaking ability (or more likely were the cheapest in a pool of candidates)...step 4:your course notes are outsourced to youtube videos and mooc links. Step 5: teacher announces a class quiz is coming up and not to worry because you can use chatgpt to answer its questions. Step 5: class is paused because a student needs spoon feeding every step of their classwork.

This is a summary of my actual experience doing a technical certification in Australia (and mirrored by others who have done proper degrees too), if youre not going to a top shelf institute or dont vet every teacher for every subhect, i can wholeheartedly say, fuck further education in 2025.
> being aware of that is crucial in having the right perspective on inventors.

Can you go a step further on why the right perspective here is important?

Feels like you’re telling a kid Santa Claus doesn’t exist. Why kill the magic?
I also have the 8GB 4060ti variant. Want to upgrade to a 4070 super, but prices on them are still ridiculous. Could be had for $599 a handful of months ago, now on ebay going for $750 plus.

Thanks for the recommendations. I'll give gemma3:12b a try and if needed go down to gemma:4b.
> - A car is the closest thing to an anechoic chamber you can readily access.

I recall a youtuber solving the anechoic chamber problem by finding a big empty field - nothing to reflect off of except the ground - and maybe putting some foam below the experiment.

It doesn't kill environmental noise, of course, but it apparently did a very good job of killing reflections from his own instruments.
Air travel is basically immune to terrestrial obstacles. You can fly over almost anything, even though you do have to worry about the weather.
If anything, I'm a bit surprised that Jeff Goldberg burned this source.

If anything, I'd suspect that he'd keep the channel open as long as he could.

Or, he's got other channels that work better.

All the same, I mean, wow. These guys are just morons here, there's really no other way around it. I'm trying to think of a charitable way to spin this and I've got nothing.

Like, very clearly, these people are going to get service-members killed due to their idiocy
> I would point out that they have faith in transhumanism like Christians have faith in Jesus

That's just wrong. Pacemakers are a form of transhumanism, improving the human condition through technology. When you comment on the difference between faith and reason, say transhumanism is based in faith, you're implying it's not reasonable.

Even if you're talking specifically of those that support cryonics like Alcor, or hope for mind uploading your statement is still flawed. Most don't have an absolute belief these technologies will come about, but hope they do and work towards bringing about that future.

Maybe the word you're looking for is hope. Transhumanists hope for a better future in the same way Christians hope they'll go to heaven.
Can you share a bit more about Bezos email ?
New Zealand did it first!

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/forgottensilver
Brings to mind Feynman’s takedown of the Brazilian educational system in the 60’s.
When I open the app and am greeted by a mostly blank screen with an empty todo list, the first thing I think is "How is this different from any other task manager app? How do use it in a way that would help me?".

And then I close the tab! (naturally, ofc)

A little bit of onboarding / guidance on how neurodiverge peeps can get the most out of it would go a long way.
Will Jesus Christ return in an election year?
I've been finding it perfectly suitable for this and other projects. Have you updated your point of view after recently attempting to write and profile a non trivial program?
Twin study suggests rationality and intelligence share the same genetic roots
- https://www.psypost.org/twin-study-suggests-rationality-and-... - March 16, 2025
"Google has stood up for what execs believed was right at various times in the past. They’ve made multiple major decisions based on idealistic ideas, and they’ve gone to court multiple times to defend such ideas. They know approximately how to do the right thing (even though they sometimes fail to do it). But in this instance, they’re deciding not to."

Maybe they agree? Like the majority of the voters?
Go to r/LocalLLAMA they have the most info. There’s also lots of good YouTube channels who have done benchmarks on Mac minis for this (another good value one with student discount).

Since you’re a student most of the providers/clouds offer student credits and you can also get loads of credits from hackathons.
Here's an example from the (great) abcjs project:

https://paulrosen.github.io/abcjs/visual/tablature.html
no. it's nothing to do with deepseek. it's openrouter and providers there
Just pointing out that they are not forever. And the use of it in reasoning if flawed. We can but 20 years of oil too. It being a long period only lessons the affect not removes it.
Fun fact: multiple pretender defenders have attempted to prove their case by building a sort of replica based on very incomplete drawings/photos, and proved they would fly. Never mind they increased the wing area, installed modern flight controls, and used a modern engine and propellor.

The Smithsonian's version of the Langley flyer is a hilarious example of this kind of fraud.
Yes, so assuming this was a historical reference, and that some sort of digital equivalent has not been formed there. :)
Yeah, but 1990 was 35 years ago and Ruby even didn't exist. And the average computer was quite bigger than a RP2040, and consumed much more power :)

I mean, it's very difficult to compare those things. It's a high level language runtime weighting a very small fraction of the JavaScript we're loading on any silly webpage, and we can run in on an stamp sized microcontroller that costs a couple dollars and you'd typically need to program using a relatively low level language.

I think it's neat.

Edit: I was trying to remember our computer then. I think we already had an Amstrad PC1512 with 512KB of RAM by '87 or '88, and by 1990 the 286s with 1 or 2MB of RAM were already common.
Any update on the privacy concerns?
Attention is NOT all you need
I don't want to project power globally. I don't want to control world trade. I don't want to have bases everywhere. I don't want to influence everywhere. I'm tired of this empire stuff. We aren't good at being an empire. We suck at it. I want to be a normal country, thanks. I'm tired of foreigners obsessively following our politics, offering their commentary, and resenting us no matter what we do. I want to be normal.

Switzerland is very wealthy without being a global empire. They are well-regarded and have more soft power than the US. Their currency is trusted. No one is telling them they have an obligation to support Ukraine. They have better relations with the EU. Their military is focused on self-defense. We should be more like Switzerland.

>Also, US military spending goes directly back into the US economy. This is absolutely not the same as paying other countries, it's a hidden, long-running stimulus for the MIC.

We could easily spend in a better way which also goes back into the economy -- for example, government healthcare, like Europeans are always bragging they have. Also, I don't want a massive military-industrial complex either. I favor peace.
Are you referring to bash when you say Unix-nature?

Bash and C are both old and flawed early implementations that brought great ideas.

Bash can be replaced by a much safer language that retains its shell nature (easily able to weave together many Unix programs).
I'm happy for them :)
Top US officials shared Yemen strike plans in group chat with journalist
It's estimated that 11.6% of the US population has diabetes. Is that not a disease?
adhd here. bad enough to not graduate from high school on time. I have been medicated for a decade now and I dream of finally having built my systems around life up to the degree that I feel good about discontinuing them. It's not good for you to be on stimulants every day like I am. If your flavor of adhd is mild and the functional impairment you have doesn't literally ruin your life, consider working your way up the theraputic ladder from therapy with an ADHD specialized therapist, starting meds only if necessary. Consider your goals wrt your brain stuff and measure your results against that. Don't get on the meds unless you have to.
The Guardian has the advantage of not being paywalled however (they occasionally ask for donations, but you can still read all the articles).
23andMe stock was once worth $320 USD, now it sits at 73 cents. It's like a reverse BTC.
China has coal mines...I remember several disasters associated with them.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-has-more-than-...

>current large-scale coal mine capacity is 3.88 billion tons per year

However Wiki does say that it's use is uneconomical.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_in_China

Being polluting does make it cheap. The pollution controls, filters etc add nothing to generating capacity and only add cost.
O1-pro is the first time I’m actually hesitant to recommend an AI tool. Out of selfishness perhaps. It’s the true kick off of the AI career Cold War.
Unfortunately, it's not free and open source anymore.
Don’t forget to add a lot of extra space if you want a usable context size.
No they did not. They are just encouraging and creating an illegal market. The US also lacked proper laws against the importation of antiquities. For all we know it could have come into the states on a military plane and ISIS would have nothing to do with it. No museum worth its salt, with professional curators and staff would have accepted such a "loot" and as a matter of fact also reputable auctioneers. In any case it is important to study artifacts in the context where they were found, stratigraphy, nearby archaeological sites etc.
Nothing dishonest or overblown about the EU regulating bendy bananas. The EU even admitted its regulation of misshapen fruit was stupid and wasteful in a press release:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/mex_08...

You aren't the first HN poster to claim this was some sort of British propaganda, even though the regulations are perfectly readable online and still in effect. You can just search for "eu bendy bananas" and the first hit is a Wikipedia page all about it. Where does this idea that it was British propaganda come from? What are European media telling you about this?
They yanked the relevant change and pushed a new one with a revert, this is now resolved

Took them seemingly forever to do. The reversion, sure, that might take a bit to proof, but the yank should have been done way sooner
I'm in the middle of pursuing an autism diagnosis as an adult, and despite the obvious manifold benefits it would bring to my family's life, judgment from people like you is the #1 reason I'm hesitating going through with it.
I mean im not shocked by neither the fact this happend nor the content. it portraits the staff exactly as i would imagine them.

Tho i still find it kinda amusing that this is the finally proofs that the average security invested joe has a better opsec than the highest ranking us gov officials.
And yet, your comment looks to me like a great temple, whose bricks are made of false equivalences and bound with ad hominem in place of mortar; a temple so large it casts shadow over the entire land.

Yes, for some, transhumanism is basically millenarianism with different set dressing. And yes, some of the things transhumanists say pattern-match to popular religious themes, especially if you're willing to bend or simplify some things a bit to force the analogy. But that doesn't mean that those transhumanist ideas and predictions actually are religious in nature, nor does it mean that most people agreeing with them are just operating on faith. And it especially doesn't mean that "the play is always the same, and always ends in horror and tragedy" (like what does that even mean, where does it ever apply?).

(Also, some critics have no sensitivity to jokes, or purposefully ignore humor. Replacing nerves with Cat 5, really?)

I don't deny there is a thick shell of fraudsters and pseudoscientific entertainment around this. I've seen that, and was disgusted by it, but unfortunately it happens for everything. This one is a real pattern - specific ideology is the set dressing, the underlying phenomena is just a bunch of scoundrels selling outlandish ideas to naive people. But that's not actual transhumanism, not any more than New Age bullshit about quantum this and magnetic that makes physics itself a faith-based movement.

I wish people would engage with specific ideas coming from transhumanism (and adjacent fields/communities), instead of trying to dismiss them with "your other ideas look like repainted Christianity, therefore they're wrong, you're wrong, and whatever you're saying here must be wrong too".