skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That'd be more than fine with me, except the small internet competes for attention with the rest of the internet and gets slaughtered by their attention-sucking applications with shiny animations, spammy push notifications, gamification and manipulative FOMO-inducing tricks. This means that the "small internet" for any given niche is very, very small, even compared to what it would've been a long time ago on a vastly smaller internet.

User retention aside... Nobody can even find the small internet. It's out there and there are search engines, but even if Google magically wasn't utterly ruined by SEO SPAM, people just don't Google their special interests as much directly anymore. (I can tell from search analytics!) So aside from a struggle to keep users engaged in small communities, there's also not very many users entering smaller communities either, certainly not enough to counteract the bleed.
I don’t think that’s really fair. It can certainly be a hard but necessary decision. And what does it matter that a CEO makes more than his employees? Even if he makes 50 times what they make, that means even if he gave up all of his salary he could only save the jobs of 50 employees.
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Gitmo is a US naval base, thus considered American soil by US authorities. That's the difference.

Well . . . a difference. Something like 95% of Gitmo detainees were eventually determined not to be terrorists and were freed. I expect No Salvador to be a bit worse.
> I haven’t viewed default as a real risk beyond some true craziness happening like the U.S. willfully deciding to default on a payment.

Well there are many ways to default, and many shades of default.

I can very well see the current administration argue that China, for whatever reason, owes the US, and thus should be compensated by confiscating bonds.
Why Is Africa Poor? Economic unfreedom, not slavery or colonialism
I googled the term you put in quotes and found a lovely article in Nature that seems to indicate that it's mostly about correcting common lies in Mathematics history.

Seems relatively straightforward to me...
That's not at all what DeepSeek showed.

It showed that a single training run of a particular model could be done with a massive amount of compute, but not so massive that only OpenAI/Google/etc. can do it. Definitely not you nor I, or a university, or a mid-tier company.

In any case, that's small potatoes here. OpenAI spends most of its money not on training, but on inference. Inference is still way too expensive.

Even if inference got cheaper that's not great for OpenAI. It means that other people will launch a similar chat experience for fewer dollars.

Fundamentally, OpenAI needs a moat. And it has nothing.
Under the hoods, is your AI butter one service or many? It would be not-great for your weather or family-event-calendar-management components to communicate with each other or the orchestrator via email.

Receiving an email from the AI-butler rescheduling or relocating a planned outdoors family event because rain is expected would be excellent, using IMAP to wire-up the subcomponents together would not.
So there are two things you should always bear in mind about any action taken by the current administration:

1. Everything is for sale. Any laws, tariffs, regulations, etc that negatively affect your interests can be bought off. Pardons can be sold. Thanks for the Supreme Court, there is absolutely nothing illegal about the President doing this anymore; and

2. The courts are used to bend individuals and companies to the policy and personal interests of the president. Take Eric Adams's corruption case. The DoJ wanted to dismiss the case without prejudice so it could be re-filed. This threat of future prosecution was the point to keep Adams in line. The courts saw through this thinly-veiled influence peddling and dismissed the case with prejudice.

So Meta is being forced to kiss the ring. That means silencing content critical of the administration and allowing right-wing conspiracies and hate speech to spread unfettered.

I expect nothing to come of this because these cases all take a decade or more to filter through various appeals, remands back to the trial court, further appeals and so on. But it will absolutely influence how Meta's recommendation algorithms work.
man they will shoe-horn "AI" into literally anything
Define “terrorism.”

The administration, for example, freely uses the word to describe someone with no criminal record and no proven gang affiliations: https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmrwrrkbnf2e

They also use the word to describe Tesla vandals: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/03/25/us/fbi-task-force-tesla-a...
What's your take on the government drone striking American citizens without any sort of trial?
Assumption: everything critical of Israel’s actions in Gaza is supporting terrorism. That’s quite the take.
As usual with LLMs. In my experience, all those metrics are useful mainly to tell which models are definitely bad, but doesn't tell you much about which ones are good, and especially not how the good ones stack against each other in real world use cases.

Andrej Karpathy famously quipped that he only trusts two LLM evals: Chatbot Arena (which has humans blindly compare and score responses), and the r/LocalLLaMA comment section.
Someone posted about this the other day and pointed out an even more annoying problem than the ones you list:

It forces you to look at all your unread emails - and you invariably get distracted by some OTHER email that seems important, when you were trying to log into a website to achieve some totally different important thing.
Long live the old world
And even in China the layoff policy for pregnant women is way more humane than in the US.
Some of it is still linear like broadcast, if that's your personal distinction. Pluto, for instance, has a surprisingly large audience. The return of linear TV is also a big buzzword in streaming today with a lot of the majors experimenting with or already reintegrating linear TV options (partly because services like Pluto proved it out, partly because some of the streamers realized linear again is the ultimate endgame of Netflix-like binge watching and YouTube-like autoplay and want to skip the intermediate steps and return to the original thing).
I confess I didn't read the majority of it (why would I?), but I'm guessing his thesis is that (supply side) Jesus is enough.
This is a great list of reasons it’s better for the provider of the service.

But it isn’t better for the user of the service.
>I am not arguing this. Everyone is free to criticize Israel; when it becomes antisemitic is when you hold Jews to a different standard than you hold everyone else.

What different standard is being applied?

>Why do you say this? What would a proportionate response have looked like to an attempt to conquer your country by firing 5,000 rockets while 6,000 people invaded and murdered everyone they could find? Bear in mind, that immediately afterwards, Hamas leaders promised to repeat October 7th again and again until Israel was annihilated.

A proportionate response is not denying food, water, and medical aid to civilians. It's not destroying every school and hospital in the region. It's not committing genocide. You look at the situation as a zero sum game where only Israelis or Palestinians can live. Hamas is not all Palestinians and destroying their homes and families does not make them righteous or productive.

Maybe taking some effort to address the issues that have created the circumstances of the attack in the first place would be the better option. Like giving Palestinians either their own country or at least equal status in Israel. Maybe not taking their land and settling it. One cannot maintain inequality and peace. 50,000 Palestinians lost their lives for 1,000 Israelis. Does that seem proportionate to you?
It's not illegal to remove watermarks from photos. Ethics is another thing.
Visionary and Product Designer are different jobs. Generalize them as the same thing if you like, but he was a CEO and a visionary. He didn't design products, he criticized and made demands of the designers.
Damn this is internet gold. Gonna be lost in those repos for days, man.

Awesome work!
Wikipedia does not have many pages that are 750k words. According to Special:LongPages[1], the longest page right now is a little under 750k bytes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chiropterans

Despite listing all presently known bats, the majority of "list of chiropterans" byte count is code that generates references to the IUCN Red List, not actual text. Most of Wikipedia's longest articles are code.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LongPages
Reproduction is not really a purpose. What makes copies of itself, happens to persist.
Language capability is a bit difficult to quantify, but LLMs know tens of languages, and many of those better than at least the vast majority of even native humans at least grammar- and vocabulary-wise. They also encode magnitudes more fact-type knowledge than any human being. My take is that language isn't that hard but humans just kinda suck at it, like we suck at arithmetic and chess.

There sure is some "inductive bias" in the anatomy of the brain to develop things like language but it could be closer to how transformer architectures differ from pure MLPs.

The argument was for decades that no generic system can learn language from input alone. That turned out flat wrong.
> when they get in power

While warning Bukele can't hurt, this qualifier seems a little complacent. It's been almost 3 months since Trump took office, and we're already at the phase where the Republican party is kidnapping people off the streets and throwing them into gulag for the rest of their lives without trial or even the pretense of particular charges.

Meanwhile, an unprecedented political purge is firing staff everywhere to make room for the President's personal loyalists, import taxes are being created (and re-re-re-reversed) willy-nilly without the legislature, Trump wants to be able to strip people's citizenship, etc.

Unfun fact: It was ~2 months after elections that Hitler's first victims arrived at the Dachau concentration camp.
Sorry, just I thought anyone lurking here for a while was pretty familiar with the whole model of "offer service for free to gain user adoption, then sell out or pivot". Most of these services that we enjoy simply aren't sustainable and are running on borrowed time (or VC money).
So pick one or the other: having a broad representation from many walks of life is important or it's not. You can't mix or match depending on which group you like.

And that is what I'm commenting on. I'm not a fan of Trump's "war on DEI" but if it was applied with some consistency I could take it as a genuine difference in viewpoints. That would be okay. But the movement is railing hard and vitriolic against anything with even a whiff of "DEI" while applying wildly different standards to themselves. This is hard to take as a genuine difference in viewpoints.
The visualisation is great, the topic is interesting and very well explained. Can sombody recomend some other blogs with similar type of presentation?
I will leave it to big investors with supercomputers connected directly to the exchanges to eat away at the potential profits of even the slightest insider trading activity automatically
I became familiar with him first as the author of qmail, but he has a voice in many theaters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_J._Bernstein
I tried 4.1-mini and 4.1-nano. The response are a lot faster, but for my use-case they seem to be a lot worse than 4o-mini(they fail to complete the task when 4o-mini could do it). Maybe I have to update my prompts...
Please backup your claim of more Gazans alive today. Gaza is a parking lot. In fact it is worse than a parking lot... it is not possible to park many cars there because of all the fallen buildings. (I am going by what I see on TV... not a single building is seen still left standing.)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/five-jewish-coll...
So funny that posing with guns or other displays of being capable of danger is a criterion. How many ICE officers themselves are not dangerous in that sense? Whoever has served in the military has been trained to be dangerous. Many in the US believe that citizens should be armed and dangerous most of the time.
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Who suggested using email in the service layer? I mean, you're not wrong, but this feels like you handed me a banana and then said I should have picked a better hammer.

We're talking about a conversation that has a human on at least one end, so email makes sense. For conversations involving no humans, of course there are much better stores and protocols if something like an asynchronous world-writable queue is what we want.

"Number of humans in the conversation" wasn't the distinction you initially established, I believe, but I wonder if it's closer to the one you had in mind.
Conversely: if Facebook lies their ass off to the FTC to get their mergers approved, why should we accept those lies as immutable truth?
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Ship an arbitrary challenge as a SPIR-V or MLIR black box. Integrate the challenge-response exchange with HTTP. That should permit broad support and flexible hardware acceleration.

The "good enough" solution is the existing and widely used SHA( seed, nonce ). That could easily be integrated into a lower level of the stack if the tech giants wanted it.
I think an under appreciated reality is that all of the large AI labs and OpenAI in particular are fighting multiple market battles at once. This is coming across in both the number of products and the packaging.

1, to win consumer growth they have continued to benefit on hyper viral moments, lately that was was image generation in 4o, which likely was technically possible a long time before launched. 2, for enterprise workloads and large API use, they seem to have focused less lately but the pricing of 4.1 is clearly an answer to Gemini which has been winning on ultra high volume and consistency. 3, for full frontier benchmarks they pushed out 4.5 to stay SOTA and attract the best researchers. 4, on top of all they they had to, and did, quickly answer the reasoning promise and DeepSeek threat with faster and cheaper o models.

They are still winning many of these battles but history highlights how hard multi front warfare is, at least for teams of humans.
The growing hatred for Big Tech is largely bipartisan.
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Well this was advice my father (an academic and lifelong straight ticket Democrat) gave me decades ago. So it was nothing specific to the current administration.
You mean bang on.
Perhaps it is a distilled 4.5, or based on it's lineage, as some suggested.
The maker of the app [issued by US Gov to immigrants] is Geo Group, the largest private prison operator in the United States.

Over the past decade, the company has also built a lucrative side business of digital tools — including ankle monitors, smart watches and tracking apps — to surveil immigrants on behalf of the federal government.
Might be some thread merging, dang sometimes does it, or might be a newish automatic feature I haven't heard about.

Oddly, if you search the story name it says it was actually posted 3 days ago, but directs tot his thread:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

You can email them and ask, email's in the faq. They do respond.
I know this comment is totally innocent but it does kind of bum me out to be at a point in time where instead of addressing our impact on the environment directly, we're trying to make computers that can talk to dolphins so we can tell them to stay out of the way lol
Sometimes having more evidence that's weaker, weakens the entire argument.

Who cares that Oracle might lose $1B? or $10B? Oracle has $17B cash on hand.

Who cares if an entity that NVIDIA gets 6% of its revenue from collapses? Nvidia had over 100% revenue growth YoY. That's literally a few days of growth.

The assertion that OpenAI is the generative AI industry is absurd. There are plenty of other players. There are plenty of other applications. OpenAI's biggest problem is that it's not the generative AI industry, it's just another player. One that has nothing unique to offer.
Merit is not easily definable.

Standardized tests are bullshit, IQ tests are phrenology, class rankings are not comparable across school districts. Someone who was president of every club at school may be less able than a kid who had to flip burgers in the evenings to help make rent.

Merit to a university may mean "someone whose charisma and social connections will bring great repute to the institution" more than "a child prodigy who will burn out at 27 and end up fixing typewriters in his parent's garage because they actually had an undiagnosed mental illness growing up".

Merit may mean "a middling student smart enough to pass who will stick around working as a post-doc temporarily forever because they have no ambition beyond performing slave wage labor in exchange for the cold comfort of the known and familiar".

Any definition of merit is going to be irredeemably faulty. Like recruiting sporting talent based solely on stats without considering if the talent is an asshole who will destroy the atmosphere in the clubhouse and immediately get arrested for DUI after being signed.

I thought we wanted to let the market decide?

The government funding aspect is irrelevant. Nearly every business in the country receives some form of government funding either direct or indirect and they hire based on a wide variety of criteria. I was once hired to a position I would need time to be a productive in because I am a ham radio guy and my boss wanted someone to talk radios with.
You'd never actually write that, though. An empty lambda would be more concisely written as []{}, although even that is a rare case in real world code.
> The point is, it's eating your seed corn.

I've seen arguments of this general shape and form many times about this, and yes, this is true. In general, Harvard should not spend down it's endowment when it has other sources of revenue.

I think the issue here is that this _is_ an emergency. Harvard should consider that Federal money gone for the near future and spend and plan to spend as if they will not have it. There is no point in them continuing to exist as an institution if they accede to these absurd demands.
Glad to see Harvard stood up, hopefully they will not change their mind like they did when rich donors "forced" them to fire a fully qualified president.
To me its a massive red flag that Google would promise a cash bonus 2 years in the future, they could have given stock with an appropriate vesting schedule for retention. All the retention deals I have seen were done like this, only for the very short term (less than 6 months) a cash bonus makes sense.
Wasm gc was needed for that. Wasm evolves slowly so that it can be done right. Even if the dom api comes, not a lot of it will change since only c-like languages will be as small as possible to fit into the space of JavaScript.
Maybe that's true for absolute arm-chair-engineering outsiders (like me) but these models are in training for months, training data is probably being prepared year(s) in advance. These models have a knowledge cut-off in 2024 - so they have been in training for a while. There's no way sama did not have a good idea that this non-COT was in the pipeline 2 months ago. It was probably finished training then and undergoing evals.

Maybe

1. he's just doing his job and hyping OpenAI's competitive advantages (afair most of the competition didn't have decent COT models in Feb), or

2. something changed and they're releasing models now that they didn't intend to release 2 months ago (maybe because a model they did intend to release is not ready and won't be for a while), or

3. COT is not really as advantageous as it was deemed to be 2+ months ago and/or computationally too expensive.
So you can show me this contract in the Governmentwide Point of Entry, as is required under FAR Part 5?

No, you can't. You can try to escape the substance of the argument with phrases like "semantic-smith" if you'd like, but law is semantics.

And no, the judges referencing the memo that claims such an agreement exists does not indicate that judges "buy it" that there is a contract. The case before them is not about contracting compliance and public records, so they wouldn't be interested to bottom out that issue. The quoted language is not even allegedly from any agreement, contract or not, formal or informal. The quoted language is from a memo about the alleged agreement.

Edit to your edit:

> they aren't buying your case that informal arrangements are nothing but memos.

Ah, so it's "an informal arrangement" now? Interesting change of heart you've had. Our government is not allowed to make "informal arrangements" that involve shipping human beings to foreign governments and paying them several million dollars per year, for all sorts of very obvious procurement and budgetary reasons, even aside from the human rights issues.
No shit. They're the one that do arrest histories. If you're arrested by podunk local sheriff or ATF it will show up on FBI report even though it's not an FBI arrest.
US judge asks if constitutional crisis looms in Tufts student's immigration case
He can just pay his way out of this now, you know that.
ASI existential risk: reconsidering alignment as a goal
This is welcome change, to they defend admisions discrimination on race, sex is beyond me.
They will fold, if federal funding is not enough, they will find other pressure points.
> I’m assuming these days AWS is just fleecing the big companies who feel like there’s only one option.

My employer is a customer at a scale that AWS calls us strategic industry or something. Some years ago, the young engineer in me was all hyped about the range of serverless, managed services being very accessible in one place. Piecing together those resources felt very unixy. I bought into the coolness so much, I could hardly believe such tech was actually used in my industry.

I could've known better all along. Any of our solutions would work just as fine in an open-source stack. And in the bigger picture -I moved to a platform-focused role- it doesn't even matter that much. Two-thirds of our consumption is 24x7 EC2 on-demand. For sure, many projects in the company are wasting a lot by simply holding it wrong. But even if not, we're also left wondering

> Why would anyone pay the crazy high AWS prices?

and decided to do something about that.
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What the demand is, is institutional fealty to Donald Trump. Trying to interpret it as anything else is going to lead these institutions into poor decision making. Harvard is doing the right thing.