skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EDIT: When I said "I've felt the same way", I meant about outlawing advertising. Propaganda in general should be allowed—especially the political kind. But consumerist propaganda (aka advertising) needs to be abolished.

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I've felt the same way. Some thoughts I had while reading:

> Propaganda is advertising for the state, and advertising is propaganda for the private. Same thing.

Rare to see someone else recognize this. Not all propaganda is malicious; all systematic spreading of ideas aimed at promoting a cause or influencing opinions is propaganda.

> Think about what's happened since 2016: Populists exploit ad marketplaces

This feels like calling out conservatives. Ironically, it's through relentless propaganda over a century that progressivism has become ascendant. We're reminded 24/7 from every mainstream institution, that what has historically been radically unpopular is ACTUALLY "normal" and "respectable". Indeed, it's only through such incessant propaganda that overwhelmingly unpopular trends have been able to take hold.

> what poisons our democracy is a liberating act in itself. An action against that blurry, “out-of-focus fascism”

What poisons our republic is progressives forgetting that they're ascendant and how they got there.
I struggle to keep up with all the content and conversations

You can't keep up with most things, let alone everything.

The feeling that you aren't keeping up is the result of increased experience with the world as an adult combined with a mistaken belief held when your experiences consisted largely of childhood.

On the bright side, once you accept how much you don't know and that you can't know everything, you realize that the rest of your life can be spent being amazed by the new things you learn. Or not.

Or to put it another way, trying to keep up is a manifestation of FOMO. Good luck.
Vibe Coding Elden Ring
Day 2 of vibe coding Elden Ring with AI.

Today, I’m going to: (1) import arena 3d model (2) import boss 3d model (3) implement basic boss controls and animations (4) implement basic boss behavior tree
Sure but the upside of Apple Silicon is that larger memory sizes are comparatively cheap (compared to buying the equivalent amount of 5090 or 4090). Also you can download quantizations.
If Germany keeps finding that Jewish citizens of Israel are being antisemitic and wishing for their own deaths, perhaps it's actually Germany's antisemitism detector that is miscalibrated?

Not many people in Germany dare to bring this up, because suggesting that German's antisemitism detector could be miscalibrated, is, itself, something which Germany detects as antisemitism. Which, if you think for more than five milliseconds, is further evidence that it might be the case.
My hometown did this, and I was surprised how bad billboards can be when I moved away
My pet peeve is when an LLM starts off a statement with "honestly, ..." Like what? You would lie to me? I go nuts when I see that. Year ago I caught myself using "honestly ...", and I immediately trained myself out of it once I realized what it implies.
Dokku maintainer here. What about Dokku is not as mature as Coolify? Would love to hear your thoughts on how the project falls flat for your use case.
:D ... In a parallel submission¹, some members are depreciating Yann LeCun as some Lab director who does not deliver!

One day we will have AGI and ask "So, which is which"...

¹ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43562768
This combined with the ability to negative = remove results was the last straw of usability for me.

I cant even imagine why they got rid of that, unless hundreds of thousands of people started pasting 1000-character search terms removing all the known ads currently flying around
I was surprised there was no mention of OpenMP in the discussion of shared-memory parallel programming in C.

OpenMP is a lot easier to work with (and is more concise) than pthreads. It is introduced using pragma directives (so you can maintain serial and parallel versions in the same code). It includes support for many common parallel patterns (e.g. distribution of array based and task-based calculations) and makes the synchronisation easier (or automatic). It also gives you powerful control over work sharing to reduce load imbalance, etc.

It's available in most common C and C++ compilers and many other accelerated programming solutions wrap the API (e.g. you can use OpenMP within a Cython module, called from a Python script).
Is this really a performance concern though?
The dropdown immediately below this textbox is where you select all of that. But no, I didn't include it in the text body of the support message.
>not a fully valued finished phone.

No, I should have been more clear relative to original comment. I was pointing out even % Apple charge customs, i.e. imports from PRC, large % is still ultimately not value captured by PRC.

For full priced iphone, i.e. $1200, Apple captures or offshores another big slice of $800 in Ireland for intangibles like software related IP. But within the $400-600 BOM for physical device / import unit cost for customs, ~80% are western components, i.e. western value capture.
"That’s dynamically decided during training and not set before, right?"

^ right. I can't recall off the top of my head, but there was a recent paper that showed if you tried dictating this sort of thing the perf fell off a cliff (I presume there's some layer of base knowledge $X that each expert needs)
> These models are our best yet thanks to distillation from Llama 4 Behemoth, a 288 billion active parameter model with 16 experts that is our most powerful yet and among the world’s smartest LLMs. Llama 4 Behemoth outperforms GPT-4.5, Claude Sonnet 3.7, and Gemini 2.0 Pro on several STEM benchmarks. Llama 4 Behemoth is still training, and we’re excited to share more details about it even while it’s still in flight.
It takes about a week to get used to it. Many years later, I am so completely comfortable with the ergonomics that I don't even think about the interface: pointing is natural, and my wrist pain is long gone in the past :)
Did “A new javascript framework de jour every quarter” ever stop happening?
Yes, that's what I tried to express. Large prompts will probably be slow. I tried a 120k prompt once and it took 10min to process. But you still get a ton of world knowledge and fast response times, and smaller prompts will process fast.
Yes. MoE models tipically use a different set of experts at each token. So while the "compute" is similar to a dense model equal to the "active" parameters, the VRAM requirements are larger. You could technically run inference & swap the models around, but the latency would be pretty horrendous.
Navarro is a crank but Musk is malevolent.
Llama 4 Scout, Maximum context length: 10M tokens.

This is a nice development.
So is a command prompt.
> Are cigarette ads still free speech?

Apparently there was a "significant public health crisis associated with tobacco use" according to the google.

I'm not even sure they're universally banned, I don't pay that much attention but seem to recall still seeing them in the windows of gas stations and whatnot.
thank you! Let me know if you have any suggestions after you try it
People in other countries also have natural rights. Even if they live under oppressive governments, the right to free speech still exists. It's the same logic used by abolitionists to justify ending slavery.

"Natural rights are those that are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular culture or government, and so are universal, fundamental and inalienable (they cannot be repealed by human laws, though one can forfeit their enjoyment through one's actions, such as by violating someone else's rights). Natural law is the law of natural rights.

Legal rights are those bestowed onto a person by a given legal system (they can be modified, repealed, and restrained by human laws). The concept of positive law is related to the concept of legal rights."
Aversion to History: A Pkzip/Wikipedia Story
Thank you meta for open sourcing! Will there be a llama with native image output similar to 4os? Would be huge
If you say LLMs are a dead end, and you give a few examples of things they will never be able to do, and a few months later they do it, and you just respond by stating that sure they can do that but they're still a dead end and won't be able to do this.

Rinse and repeat.

After a while you question whether LLMs are actually a dead end
What about just restrict it to advertising on the internet?

The internet is supposed to be an information retrieval tool. Advertising’s whole goal is to stand between you and the information you actually want. And it does so by trying to anticipate instead of the thing you want, the thing you are most willing to buy next, whether that’s actual products with money or propaganda. Whereas an ad in a magazine about computers offers me relevant ads for products about computers. And if you read old ad copy a lot of it is a serious effort to try and convince you to buy their product. From some kind of argument for it. Instead of simply using statistics and data to predict what you will buy next. So this required the product to actually deliver something to justify the effort to advertise it.
is this from the seventies?
This whole thing isn’t his idea. Trump is a hollow shell with an ill fitting suit - his entire policy is done by people like Bannon or Miller, and now Bessent, Musk and Miran
My premise is that pattern-matching unlocks human-level artificial intelligence. Just because LLMs haven't cured cancer yet doesn't mean that LLMs will never be as intelligent as humans. After all, humans haven't cured cancer yet either.

What is intelligence?

Is it reacting to the environment? No, a thermostat can do that.

Is being logical? No, the simplest program can do that.

Is it creating something never seen before? No, a random number generator can do that.

We can even combine all of the above into a program and it still wouldn't be intelligent or creative. So what's the missing piece? The missing piece is pattern-matching.

Pattern-matching is taking a concrete input (a series of numbers or a video stream) and extracting abstract concepts and relationships. We can even nest patterns: we can match a pattern of concepts, each of which is composed of sub-patterns, and so on.

Creativity is just pattern matching the output of a pseudo-random generator against a critique pattern (is this output good?). When an artist creates something, they are constantly pattern matching against their own internal critic and the existing art out there. They are trying to find something that matches the beauty/impact of the art they've seen, while matching their own aesthetic, and not reproducing an existing pattern. It's pattern-matching all the way down!

Science is just a special form of creativity. You are trying to create a model that reproduces experimental outcomes. How do you do that? You absorb the existing models and experiments (which involves pattern-matching to compress into abstract concepts), and then you generate new models that fit the data.

Pattern-matching unlocks AI, which is why LLMs have been so successful. Obviously, you still need logic, inference, etc., but that's the easy part. Pattern-matching was the last missing piece!
Making the _compiler itself_ provide an API enables things like LSP, which don't want to generate machine code at all. A traditional single-pass compiler usually can't accommodate this without re-plumbing.
It raises the question, it does not beg it. Begging the question is e.g saying 'If advertisement was bad for you it would be forbidden. Since it's not forbidden it's not bad for us. Therefor we should not forbid it.'
We are running out of names for C successor languages, yet nobody seems to have taken YACS
Does CNN, Fox News, ABC, New York Times and CBS use money to endorse candidates on air? Is that advertising?
Or might go away in May 2025, after whatever foreign leader or competitor bought enough $TRUMP, or rented sufficient luxury hotel rooms.
> No one cares about facts anymore.

There is no need to exaggerate. But I'm not only calling out a poor choice of words...

A lot of people (not as many as we would hope, I grant) care about the truth about facts. Even in this group, however, we have a problem: by the time these people are "looking for facts" their brains have already been shaped in various ways that bias how they look for facts, as explained in articles about motivated reasoning.
"It’s well-known that all leading LLMs have had issues with bias—specifically, they historically have leaned left when it comes to debated political and social topics. This is due to the types of training data available on the internet."

Perhaps. Or, maybe, "leaning left" by the standards of Zuck et al. is more in alignment with the global population. It's a simpler explanation.
Thumbs. They all want thumbs!
I would suggest that both optimism and realism are both important. Read the article, the author is suggesting that it is crucial to keep the human imagination active and not let AI take over.
There's a world of difference between announcing the existence of a product to potentially interested demographics, and abusing people's privacy by collecting their personal data in order to build a profile of them so they can be micro-targeted by psychologically manipulative content that is misleading or downright false—oh, and their profile is now in perpetuity exchanged in dark markets, and is also used by private and government agencies for spreading political propaganda, and for feeding them algorithmic content designed to keep them glued to their screens so that they can consume more ads that they have no interest in seeing... And so on, and so forth.

Whatever happened to product catalogs? Remember those? I'm interested in purchasing a new computer, so I buy the latest edition of Computer Shoppers Monthly. Companies buy ad space there, and I read them when I'm interested. The entire ecommerce industry could work like that. I go on Amazon, and I search for what I want to buy. I don't need algorithms to show me what I might like the most. Just allow me to search by product type, brand, and specifications, and I'm capable of making a decision. It would really help me if paid and promoted reviews weren't a thing, and I could only see honest reviews by people who actually purchased the product. This is a feature that ecommerce sites can offer, but have no incentive to.
There is a "mayor@" e-mail you can use to submit requests like this and the developer has been pretty responsive.
Castrated, if you're trying way too hard (and not well) to avoid getting called on that overly emotive metaphor: a capon is a gelded rooster.
https://wiki.wireshark.org/CaptureSetup/USB says "Software USB capture captures URBs (USB Request Blocks) rather than raw USB packets." So Wireshark couldn't give you the CRC, which would be stripped away.

You could hypothetically use a really-really high bandwidth oscilloscope (like 2 GHz to view 480 MHz USB HS signals), but those are expensive. So you would have to resort to using external USB sniffer...out of curiosity I found someone made a sniffer that is basically a USB-capable microcontroller plus an FPGA and a USB PHY: https://hackaday.com/2023/06/13/cheap-usb-sniffer-has-wiresh...
It’s quadratic if you implement the transformer naiively, but if you add a KV cache it’s linear compute at the cost of correspondingly linear growth in memory.
I don't think that's true. It's more of a function on how these models are trained (remember the older pre-ChatGPT clients?)

Most of the software I use doesn't need to refer it itself in the first person. Pretending what we're speaking with an agent is more of a UX/marketing decision rather than a technical/logical constraint.
or they can just talk to their network IRL :)
Probably to head off allegations of profiting from breach of copyright.
No idea but I'd use it over maintaining 15 subscriptions
Some sort of default Anonymity layer may be worth exploring
I know what you mean in terms of frantic pace of "new stuff" coming out, but I winced at the comparison of innovation in AI to mere web development tooling.
> No, treating some letter sequences like fi and ffi so that the letters stick together in a certain way is not "by this measure".

Except ligatures are not limited to fi and ffi. They can be used to change appearance of any sequence of characters, including words.

> It's noticeable; a B consistently occurs everywhere there is an A, wherever that font is used.

I'm not talking about substituting a single letter. I'm talking about outright obfuscation of a entire texts.

> You can't perpetrate an easter egg whereby a certain A is replaced.

Quite the opposite, it is trivial to apply different fonts to different parts of text, so you can keep some parts of text normal, and some parts (like numbers and data) obfuscated. In HTML you may notice some abundance of <span>s, sure, but in PDF? Literally no way, unless you copy-paste everything and compare it.

And this is not a hypothetical scenario or a 'minor threat'. Russian government used precisely this technique to obfuscate data in their online voters turn-out reports: (source in Russian, not found it reported in English) https://habr.com/ru/news/578846/. Have they used more subtle scrambling of only digits and not also mixing letters: who knows how long it would take for anybody to notice. From a technical perspective it's not so different from contextual alternates - both require custom made fonts.

There are other ways to alter document presentation too. Especially in CSS, you can create pseudo-elements, not present in the original HTML, or hide parts of HTML, or use a media query which checks if the page is being printed or not!

> We could prepare a page where every glyph appears, and detect substitutions via OCR.

Why the extra step? Why not take the OCR of potentially compromised document and compare it with its raw content? It would detect every substitution, whether it's ligatures, alternates, media queries etc. Why not inspect the font file for defined alternates directly?
Should be easy enough to create a DroneBL for residential proxy services. Since you work on residential proxy detection at a FAANG service, why haven't you done it yet?

If they're doing things the above-board way from their own ASN, block their ASN.

If they're doing things the above-board way from third-party hosting providers, send abuse reports. Late last year there was a commotion because someone was sending single spoofed SSH SYN packets, from the addresses of Tor nodes, to organizations with extremely sensitive security policies. Many people with Tor nodes got threats of being banned from their hosting provider, over a single packet they didn't even send. They're definitely going to ban people who are doing actual DDoSes from their servers.

DDoS is also a federal crime, so if you and they are in the USA, you might consider trying to get them put in prison.
Is pre-training in FP8 new?

Also, 10M input token context is insane!

EDIT: https://huggingface.co/meta-llama/Llama-3.1-405B is BF16 so yes, it seems training in FP8 is new.
Agnew, if you converse with your command prompt we are glad you came here for a break ;)
You've had better luck spreading it than I have it sounds like. Everyone I've mentioned it to has said "It's too hard" and I don't think has really even given it a shot.
To add, they say about the 400B "Maverick" model:

> while achieving comparable results to the new DeepSeek v3 on reasoning and coding

If that's true, it will certainly be interesting for some to load up this model on a private M3 Studio 512GB. Response time will be fast enough for interaction in Roo Code or Cline. Prompt processing is a bit slower but could be manageable depending on how much code context is given to the model.

The upside being that it can be used on codebases without having to share any code with a LLM provider.
It was in basically every campaign rally, wasn't it? He brought up tariffs and shrinking the government. Obviously tariffs are terrible for economies, as is firing hundreds of thousands of people.
I would sign up for the course immediately!

What I would be particularly interested in: What is the creative process of turning an animation idea into code? Suppose I have an idea of what the animation should look like: What is the best way to approach the task of expressing the animation in code?
> Pet friendly food places violate the law

Huh. It would seem that the FDA lacks jurisdiction to micromanage commercial affairs on private property among the states in this manner.

If someone knows a restaurant or bar owner—ideally who own their land and are in a red state—who was fined or otherwise damaged by the feds for letting pets on their premises, please reach out. Would love to sponsor a test case.
Maybe I'm missing something but I don't think I've ever seen quants lower memory reqs. I assumed that was because they still have to be unpacked for inference. (please do correct me if I'm wrong, I contribute to llama.cpp and am attempting to land a client on everything from Android CPU to Mac GPU)
That is probably around where my first score was. :-) My wife and I had a 0 a couple weeks ago.
Digital content is not “published” in the same way as traditional content.

Digital content is published by placing data on a computer, connecting that computer to the intent, then running software on that computer that allows software on other computers to connect to it and download that content.

Attempting to ban ads is an attempt to censor the content of that communication. It’s analogous to attempting to ban the things people can say over telephone calls. It would be a clear violation of the 1st Amendment.

The Author’s points about “Dopamine Megaphones” and “tracking” don’t hold up.

Posting something online is not the same as yelling through a megaphone. And restrictions on tracking are about behavior, not speech.

One can outlaw both of those things without unreasonably restricting speech.

But banning ads is absolutely unreasonable restraint of free speech rights.

If I speak on the telephone, I am allowed to hand the phone to someone else for a moment and let them speak. Banning such a thing would be unconstitutional.

Many online ads work in the same way.

Similarly, I can take money from someone, and in response speak things they want me to speak.
Restraining that is also a violation of free speech rights.

Just because online ads are horrible, doesn’t mean they can be outlawed without trampling on fundamental rights.