skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The line is clear: is money being exchanged in order to promote a product? That's advertising.

this is obviously not a clear line. No money is exchanged when I promote my own product through my own channels, nor when I promote my friends products, whether I disclose it as promotion, or disguise it as my genuine unaffiliated opinion. Sometimes it really is a genuine opinion! Even worse: sometimes a genuine opinion becomes an incentivized one later on as someone's audience grows

the good news is there is a solution that doesn't require playing these cat & mouse games and top down authority deciding what is allowed speech: you want better ways to reach the people who want your product.

Ads are a bad solution to a genuine problem in society. They will persist as long as the problem exists. People who sell things need ways to find buyers. Solve the root problem of discernment rather than punishing everyone indiscriminately
Why does every single discussion online have to be about affirming moral outrage? Why aren't we allowed to talk about other things, like how tariffs may affect the stock market?
(2017) According to https://web.archive.org/web/20170614210802/https://lbc.crypt...
Why bother?

If the next assembly line says to use register#200 (but you failed because you only have 160 registers), what's the processor supposed to do?

The only hope is to call for more registers and lock until those registers are available. There's no way to progress otherwise.
He’s careful to say cores but multiprocessor also means multiple cores, just not on the same silicon.

And Sun had 32 thread machines not long after his timeline. IIRC they were so goddamned expensive as to be academic, but my customers only ran Sun hardware in their data centers (cellular carriers). Mid tier hardware mostly. Our target was 4 cores per server around 2008.
Of course I did not intend that. In think its significance is that it is intended to be rage bait, rather than being written by genuine racists.
From there I have to "request access" to a model?
> Except that they can and do, as you outline below. All laws are arbitrary.

The third rule follows from the second, the government isn't allowed to curtail speech except under extraordinary circumstances which has been whittled down to basically "panic and disorder" and "fighting words". The other two are civil torts if I'm not mistaken, you can't be arrested for slander or libel. There's others but they are extremely limited.

> Firstly, the fire thing is a myth.

Go spread panic and see how fast you get charged with disorderly conduct or whatever the equivalent local statute is. Bonus points if someone is harmed by your actions.

> Secondly, so we're just quibbling on "overriding" then?

No, the Supreme Court has some pretty hard and fast rules on this.
Thinking through this more...

All money and energy spent on advertising might be funneled into employees and workers. We would see a huge rise in promoting a company's products through their employees through any medium possible.

If you're a company, you can't pay a third party to get the word out, so you massively increase public relations spending and attempt to get publications to do articles on your product.

We would see all advertising hide under the guise of public relations: PR firms would sky rocket in workforce and there would be many more "review" sites and "news" sites. SEO would increase even more than it is now.
> We'll simply go back to in-person leetcode questions which will be equally shit.

Great idea! That is even better.
There's no doubt that it lead to pushback in a lot of places, but that just highlights why people were protesting in the first place. When the police kidnap the mayor's daughter, or walk off the job in response to calls for accountability, it's not a failure of the protest but rather a failure of the institutions being protested.

Like I said, I do agree with you that there are protests which aren't effective, and there are some that are even counterproductive. BLM was successful though, it did lead to reforms: Minneapolis banned chokeholds and revised their use of force policies, New York reallocated some of its NYPD funding, Colorado and New Mexico passed police accountability laws, etc.

Anyway, I know your main point wasn't about BLM, I'm not trying to drag you into a mire over whether it was successful or not.
Doesn't OpenRouter ranking include pricing?

Not really a good measure of quality or performance but of cost effectiveness
Well, it is a speaker (writer) after all. It has to use some way to refer to itself.
Can you point to an airtight law regarding speech that exists today - both as written and enforced? I can't.

This is a worse is better[1] situation. Specifically, I'm arguing against the MIT approach to lawmaking.

The MIT approach:

> The design must be consistent. A design is allowed to be slightly less simple and less complete to avoid inconsistency. Consistency is as important as correctness.

Thinking about laws like software terminates thought.

1. https://www.dreamsongs.com/WIB.html
I agree that billboards are a form of "visual pollution" that blocks scenic views. But paying for an ad on the side of a bus isn't a problem.

No, I don't think we need to argue about where the line between the two is.
On AMD ,not available to users yet AFAIK. Only available to the driver and currently targeted at ray tracing?

On Nvidia you have to be writing in the PTX language to have access to something similar.
Alegreya seems like a Garamond derivative, but it has a very interesting character; the glyph stroke widths—especially the verticals—have an intriguing taper. I really like the lowercase italic 'g' and 'h'.

Playfair is Didone, and I feel Didones (this includes TeX's default, Computer Modern) don't really do well on displays because of the very high contrast between the ball serifs and rather thin vertical strokes. Otherwise it's a nice Didone: I'd use it, but as a printed typeface.

I'm not the biggest fan of Ubuntu. Especially the lowercase 'r', it's got a weird shape.
Robots. Chinese factory employment has been steadily declining over the last decade despite increased production.
Why not just eliminate the sale of personal data? That seems pretty cut and dry.
truth is in the eye of the beholder :)
So, how do we solve questions like these? How about collecting a lot of data and looking for patterns in that data? In the process, scientists typically produce some hypotheses, test them by collecting more data and finding more patterns, and try to correlate these patterns with some patterns in existing knowledge. Do you agree?

If yes, it seems to me that LLMs should be much better at that than humans, and I believe the frontier models like o3 might already be better than humans, we are just starting to use them for these tasks. Give it a couple more years before making any conclusions.
Yes, I was just trying to be descriptive by including the full signature.
I hope this time multimodal includes multimodal outputs!
I agree with this. Any law that's not universally enforced: speeding, jaywalking, tax audit, etc is a tool for political persecution.
Ok. Do tell. If the job doesn’t matter here, what is better hammer or screwdriver?
You completely avoided interacting with the concerns I have in good faith. I understand that's the marketing pitch, I even understand there is some truth to it, but can you try to see the bigger picture and zoom out of an individual policy to see overall strategy? At the absolute best this is incompetence.

Even if we figured out manufacturing, wars are frequently won with technology, and those researches that fled Germany to get away from oppression are now fleeing America because colleges are robbing them of their dignity in expression and attempting to exploit them by taking the fruits of their labor, without the experiencing the "cost" of their own person-hood and individual beliefs.
Is AI adoption outside of our circle (and kids cheating on homework) really this substantial? My nontechnical friends don’t touch or or really care that much.
At 109b params you’ll need a ton of memory. We’ll have to wait for evals of the quants to know how much.
Tired
I’m tired of fragile systems.

Tired of crashes we’ve accepted as normal.
Tired of operating systems that forget everything the moment something goes wrong.
Tired of machines that don’t remember, don’t heal, don’t protect the user—only the company behind them.

So I’m building a new one.

It’s called *VaiOS*. A bare-metal, compression-first, fault-healing operating system.

It:
- Compresses memory and pages at the core level
- Monitors physical memory for degradation
- Verifies every page with cryptographic integrity
- Rolls back from memory corruption or crashes in real time
- Is designed to *survive entropy, not just run code*

This is not a distro. This is not Linux.
It’s written in Assembly and C, from scratch. Bootloader works. Memory map in progress. Compression-backed page recovery coming next.

Why?

Because I believe our systems should serve the user even in failure.
Because I believe in coexistence with AI, not exploitation.
Because I’m tired of OSes that die quietly.

Live demo and manifesto coming next week. I’d love your thoughts, questions, or brutal honesty.

If anyone’s building like this or thinking like this, I’d love to build with you.
I have bought more than 10 Roomba's (all used) over many years. I have slowly moved them around for different jobs, older 5,6,700 series made their way to clean the garage, while newer I, S models are working the upper levels of flooring and carpets.

In the last 5-10 years it looks to me like they had two competing teams internally producing different models. The I,J series compared to the S series, are very different. The mops scooba vs braava.
I really like their designs and repairability but if I had to update I would probably try one of the roborocks they seem to be a lot better.
Redmond, WA has a ban on billboards. Locals can see this demonstrated by driving 124th St. and crossing Willows Rd into Kirkland. First thing you’ll see are billboards.

Just got back from a trip to Florida. Billboards along every freeway, and 75% of them are personal injury lawyers. If you’re a resident of Redmond, it is an obnoxious contrast.
If we're going to do the extremely hard thing, why not just make ads opt-in:

Your meal will cost $2.39 less if you watch an advertisement for Irish Spring soap and another for Liberty Mutual insurance. Do you accept these terms?
What's "caponated"?
No paid advertising, whether that involves financial compensation, in kind gifts, or something else.

There would be no commercial ads online if google received no kickbacks to show ads. There would be no influencers, either. I'd be okay with non-profits and government agencies advertising benevolent things to us, like vaccinations.

The only hard part is to develop systems to actually ensure nobody is receiving compensation if they are showing a product.

I'd also be fine to make exceptions for internal advertising, e.g. you're already on the Google website and Google is advertising their own products/services to you.
The OG Windows 3 solitaire has an option to disable the timer, it's one of the first things I uncheck. I did "speedrun" solitaire in my computer classes for fun, though. :)
Yellow books used to do that. Because you're right it's a matchmatching problem.
lol no. Your opinion is based on the assumption DOGE is actually making things more efficient. It is not.

> moneyed interests to evade tax without anyone noticing

If the people tasked with 'noticing' are being laid off indiscriminately, what do you think is going to happen with tax evasion?
>It's such a wild idea that I've never heard it in the public discourse.

>Algorithm-driven platforms like Instagram and TikTok that harvest and monetize attention, destroying youth, would lose their economic foundation.

I guess the author has never been on HN.

This simply assumes Instagram would no longer function because of zero ad placement dollars. I guess the author doesn't know how KOLs works in product launch and promotion.

I get a lot of stick every time I had to say this, but a lot of people in tech, has a very simplistic view that all ads are evil without understanding how ad works in the first place. Especially beyond digital ad. And to make matter worst any discussions about Ad's argument has been downvoted in the past 10-12 years. Some of the questions which toomim purpose would be instantly dropped. I guess the vibe shift is real.

But if there is one type of ad we should ban. It would be political ads. A candidate's legitimacy should not be partly dependent on amount of ad money you throw at it.
Long chats that continue for weeks or months.
postmark seems to be working for us...
https://www.llama.com/
https://www.llama.com/docs/model-cards-and-prompt-formats/ll...

Very exciting. Benchmarks look good, and most importantly it looks like they did a lot of work improving vision performance (based on benchmarks).

The new suggested system prompt makes it seem like the model is less censored, which would be great. The phrasing of the system prompt is ... a little disconcerting in context (Meta's kowtowing to Nazis), but in general I'm a proponent of LLMs doing what users ask them to do.

Once it's on an API I can start throwing my dataset at it to see how it performs in that regard.
There’s a 40% tariff on the letter ‘u’.
Also, what about prompt injection? With an LLM as far as I'm aware there is never a clear separation between instruction and the data to be processed.
well, web search is one thing that would look very different
The constitution is meaningless to the current admin, except where they can use it to their advantage.

The current admin has made no secret that they don't believe in democracy and want to have a strong man king rule instead. This is well-documented.
The blog post is quite informative: https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/
You can always opt-in. Advertising is specifically information that is not requested.
That's typically not the target audience you want, people who are not willing to spend money and whose time is worthless.
Captives of Desire: Notes on the Making of the Neoliberal Subject, 1880–2025
Show HN: AI frontend code generator from TS type and OpenAPI
Show HN: I built an app that asks what you want to achieve, then tells you how
What an electrifying time to be alive! The last era that felt even remotely this dynamic was during the explosive rise of JavaScript frameworks—when it seemed like a new one dropped every quarter. Back then, though, the vibe was more like, “Ugh, another framework to learn?” Fast forward to now, and innovation is sprinting forward again—but this time, it feels like a thrilling ride we can’t wait to be part of.
How does Meta make money from Llama?
>but we'd also lose (free) search engines.

I doubt this. more likely we'd end up in a scenario where, as a way of capturing market share, large companies subsidise their search engine with other branches of their business, for example, hosting. also since we're speaking hypothetically about government interventions, there's no reason that a government couldn't set up a publicly owned search engine, in fact one may already exist, I don't know

>Further, I'd argue that some forms of advertising are actually desirable. If I'm planning a vacation abroad, and want to make a reservation at a hotel, I'd typically go to booking.com or one of it's competitors. Those sites are pretty much 100% advertising, but how else am I gonna find a hotel on the other side of the planet, in a country I've never been before?

it's not advertising if it's on their own website

>You also run into some tricky hairsplitting questions. Where do you draw the line on advertising? Are webshops allowed to list 3rd party products? Or is that advertising? I don't want to outlaw online shopping entirely, it's extremely handy! What about search engine results from those webshops? Free search engines will disappear, but let's say I have a paid account and search for "buy dell laptop". Are the results advertising? How do you differentiate and define the cases legally?

these are very simple dilemmas:

are webshops allowed to list 3rd party products? yes, because you're on a webshop. practically all shops sell 3rd party products. advertising is listing products and services on non-commercial public places where people haven't chosen to engage with products

you search for "buy dell laptop", and the search engine has to produces the results that naturally bubble to the top from its algorithm

the issue I'd be more worried about with banning advertising is taking away the freedom it can allow small creators on places like Youtube, where now suddenly they'd be relying on subscriptions and/or donations, which can be a lot harder to come by than baseline advertising revenue. you'd get a lot more begging and pleading, and you'd get a lot more creators needing to rely on working under the umbrella of a larger organisation like they did before the internet
In what way does a cell just absorb a spare mitocondria just floating around?
> "Make the toolchain work without Xcode installed”

On macOS. Works fine on Linux.

This is such an easy ask. The only thing holding it back, imo, is Apple. Can’t let the plebs bypass Xcode to develop on their Macs!

My workaround is running a container with Linux Swift installed. Of course, I’m not targeting an Apple OS so I have the flexibility.
Won’t prompt processing need the full model though, and be quite slow on a Mac?
Who said the punishment would be imprisonment? Fine the waiter $5 for every violation. Such a small fine will be orders of magnitude higher than what advertisers pay.
That one claims to be from OpenAI when asked, however that could easily be hallucination from being feed lots of OpenAI generated synthetic training data.

Would be really crazy if it is quasar LLM.
That's not quite how auto-regressive models are trained (the expression of "ideas" bit). There is no notion of "ideas." Words are not defined like we humans do, they're only related.

And on the latent space bit, it's also true for classical models, and the basic idea behind any pattern recognition or dimensionality reduction. That doesn't mean it's necessarily "getting the right idea."

Again, I don't want to "think of it as a probability." I'm saying what you're describing is a probability distribution. Do you have a citation for "probability to express correctly the sentence/idea" bit? Because just having a latent space is no implication of representing an idea.
Start with banning billboards.
Blog post: https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/
This is as ridiculous as asking, “What if we made agriculture illegal?”

You don’t make a planet of 8 billion people work without the trappings of civilization, good and bad. You certainly don’t make it work without commerce and freedom of speech.
> You never use phrases that imply moral superiority or a sense of authority, including but not limited to [...] "it's unethical to" [...]

Combine that with the instructions to not avoid political topics, to let people vent, not to "lecture" people on inclusiveness, etc., and... this will fit right in with where things are headed.
So how does the 10M token context size actually work?

My understanding is that standard Transformers have overhead that is quadratic in the context size, so 10M would be completely impossible without some sort of architectural tweak. This is not the first model to have a huge context size, e.g. Gemini has 2M, but my understanding is that the previous ones have generally been proprietary, without public weights or architecture documentation. This one has public weights. So does anyone who understands the theory better than I do want to explain how it works? :)
Oh for perf reasons you’ll want it all in vram or unified memory. This isn’t a great local model for 99% of people.

I’m more interested in playing around with quality given the fairly unique “breadth” play.

And servers running this should be very fast and cheap.
Is it public (or even known by the developers) how the experts are split up? Is it by topic, so physics questions go to one and biology goes to another one? Or just by language, so every English question is handled by one expert? That’s dynamically decided during training and not set before, right?
Some cities have exterior walls of buildings covered in ads. Other cities have them covered in murals. The latter are much more pleasant to be in.
The Llama 4 Herd
Why? It's another prisoner's dilemma.
Also this one: https://ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4-multimodal-intelligence/

It looks more like a landing page providing a good introduction.
Right—but why should “new ABS plastic” be the bar for creativity? If the kid builds a structure no one’s ever imagined, from an unimaginably large box of Lego, isn’t that still novel? Sure, it’s made from known parts—but so is language. So are most human ideas.

The demand for outputs that are provably untraceable to training data feels like asking for magic, not creativity. Even Gödel didn’t require “never seen before atoms” to demonstrate emergence.
You are laboring under the dubious assumption that Trump gives any fucks about the US economy. (And that, even more dubious, that the real-life congress will manage more than bloviation on TikTok.)

This is a pure klept move. Who knows if he understands that the US manufacturing iPhones and cars-with-no-foreign-parts isn't possible in his lifetime (or most of ours), but regardless, he understands that this is his chance to finally get rich for real after all that cosplayin', and doesn't need to understand the rest.
You are in MGRS zone 17S. MGRS also has grid square designations after the zone, and before the easting/northing numbers. A full UTM coordinate string will only have N/S at position 2/3, while a full MGRS coordinate string will have 3 characters at that position. A MGRS string will also be 2 characters shorter than an equivalent UTM string.

Civilian UTM doesn’t handle things near the poles very well. MGRS explicitly uses the zone characters to change to a polar projection. Those other 4 characters not used for row identification actually identify polar areas (NE, NW, SE, SE semi-hemispheres).
A capon is a male chicken that has been neutered to improve the quality of its flesh for food.
Dupe (436 points, 236 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43595585
Yeah I thought the same thing. LTV defined as value over the next 365 days…so…not LTV at all?
Interesting this is released literally one hour after another discussions suggesting Meta ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43562768 )

>at this point it does not matter what you believe about LLMs: in general, to trust LeCun words is not a good idea. Add to this that LeCun is directing an AI lab that as the same point has the following huge issues:

1. Weakest ever LLM among the big labs with similar resources (and smaller resources: DeepSeek).

2. They say they are focusing on open source models, but the license is among the less open than the available open weight models.

3. LLMs and in general all the new AI wave puts CNNs, a field where LeCun worked (but that didn't started himself) a lot more in perspective, and now it's just a chapter in a book that is composed mostly of other techniques.

Would be interesting to see opinion of antirez on this new release.
The topic was someone telling your employer about something bad that you did.