Why is this flagged? It’s information about what is happening in Palestine. Why is information flagged? Isn’t curiosity and information sharing a principle on which hackers stand?
The models he is using to generate training data are presumably commercial models. He is distilling their bash knowledge into a much smaller model he can run locally fast and cheap.
some people dislike this, others hold the opposite opinion
From the guidelines
> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
An interesting example is the results of the US presidential election often sitting at the #1 spot for a while
I'd counter that it led to a meta discussion about HN, which is good from time to time, to see how each other think about the content policies here, over assuming everyone thinks the same about it only being tech and tangential
if you find content inappropriate for HN, flag it, hide it, and move on
You can go literally any place online to preach this, why is HN trying to carve out something that isn't the same slop you see everywhere else so objectionable? It's the internet, you aren't the only one with a cause, and once that ball gets rolling nothing is ultimately left in its path except purity tests and fights without any intellectual dimension to them.
Almost as though there’s a prevailing culture opposed to it and backed up by stringent moderation. Think of it as an immune system, you let it go and then body is overwhelmed.
ah, we doing the moderation conspiracy theory too?
I have yet to see any credible evidence or analysis for this in more than 15 years on HN, just anecdotes and occasional instances where moderation shows its a hard and imperfect job
As an American who is not a moral coward I am tired and pissed off at our moral high horse. The American society is just as corrupt and screwed up as any other country and yet we pretend to be somehow superior. Communism is better than capitalism.
> The American society is just as corrupt and screwed up as any other country
That's a weird phrase. It hints at an assumption or widespread belief that we aren't as corrupt or screwed up. Which I get; I was born and raised in the US, and I got a full dose of American exceptionalism too.
Corruption in particular is a tricky thing to define. Currently, it is patently obvious that we are quite a bit more corrupt than the median. The recent big spike is new, but if you pay attention to the news, you'll see that over and over again we're being presented with evidence that this is not a new thing. This is a longstanding thing and the only thing that's new is the degree of exposure. We may have been this corrupt in the past; there's some pretty mindblowing stuff in the history books. But I don't recall this level of naked corruption at any point in the country's history.
As for screwed up, we've held the crown on that for decades at this point. We've exported that trait throughout the world, so it's getting a little harder to tell. Also, there's plenty of homegrown screwed-upness for our variety to interbreed with.
But this is just an American talking to an American. To the rest of the world, the corruption and decay is and has been extremely obvious. Talk to Europeans. They see us as a third world country who happens to still have the biggest military and hold the world's reserve currency. (For now.) But the "third world" part is not an exaggeration, from the people I've talked to. And I can't really argue? Fascism is risen, we're ok with secret police disappearing people from our streets, we're ok with our public money being used to pay people to vote for a particular party. (If you object to "ok", protesting and writing strongly-worded messages on social media doesn't count. I confess that that's all I do.)
> Communism is better than capitalism.
Here's where I disagree. "Structure X is better than structure Y" conveys very little information and is not a useful framing. It's a real example of "ideas are worthless, execution is everything". Capitalism is fine. Free trade is powerful; it's capable of and has accomplished an enormous amount of good. It just needs to be protected and managed; free trade being good does not mean the freer the better, for any definition of "free" that someone wants to come up with. Communism is fine too. It's not even incompatible with competition. Hell, the actual systems in use today aren't even one or the other, the pure forms don't work and aren't acceptable to any population.
But perhaps you mean late stage capitalism and late stage communism. Those both suck, from what I can tell.
>You state a conclusion as fact without any supportive reasoning/evidence.
No, it's the other way around, it's a reductive view on intelligence that mistakes its own methodology for ontology.
It's obvious to see that there's no intellect in an LLM as defined above because of how they work. LLMs put one token in front of the other, they don't work towards formal ends, there's no intentionality in them. They don't synthesize the information they process into a unified experience. Thinking an LLM can apprehend what it does because it can process large amounts of text is like thinking your TI-83 understands math because it can multiply large numbers.
That's also why the failure modes of LLMs are what they are. They can churn out tens of thousands of lines of code but also just as easily go in circles like a roomba. They can process an entire encyclopedia but not solve problems a 10 year old can solve.
yeah you know, that concept we've never been able to define using language, making heavy use of the human experience which can also not be captured in language (proof: how bad LLMs are at poetry)
the question is, when comparing a human and a large language model, whether the intellect (that cannot be captured in language) is different from anything the language model can actually do (e.g. language)
the answer to this seems quite obvious to me, and I would actually posit that the onus is on the other side, to prove they are even remotely similar
maybe people think that the voice in their heads is what is doing the thinking? is that the confusion here?
Do you think the LLM is the Chain of Thought? Did you also get confused by the name? Because, much like humans, the CoT is a tool to narrativize and maintain internal coherence. The actual thinking happens invisibly, in the forward pass. Just like...
If you ballpark it as a single 3 hour downtime window per week and iid Poisson, then overlapping downtime probability of 2 providers is approximately the expected occurrence rate per 3 hours, 1/56. Not particularly surprising at all.
If it's a "thundering herd" problem where everyone's harness falls back to less popular providers that don't normally see that much demand, I'd say the probability is pretty good.
Classic cascading failure is consistent with providers failing 80 minutes apart instead of simultaneously.
"All of these" is two. OpenAI had a router issue. Anthropic had a separate issue. Anthropic uses a lot of SpaceX compute, so an Anthropic issue and a SpaceX issue can be one in the same, as was likely the case this time.
And they weren't down at precisely the same time. Anthropic's issue started ~1 hour before OpenAI's.
1. 22 "investigated" as part of a wide scope review, ie, it could mean an entire department was investigated 2. review was for "staff internet usage" so those sanctions could be for anything from regular internet porn or gambling sites or whatever else violates their employment conditions 3. OP said the plague was among "top-level police officers"
From the sysadmin PoV it's never "one guy" or even "just two"; what is common, however, is just one or two policemen, one or two soldiers, or one two judges make the news and the limelight of public prosecutions.
It's good to be seen to be tackling this kind of behaviour, rarely ever good (apparently) to fully rip the band aid off and report just how wide spread such behaviour can go.
I can't find the stat, but if memory serves me correctly, NZ over-indexes in CSAM-related crime. It's unfortunate, but it's not always good news down on our little islands.
Why not? It’s the same as everywhere else, it has men. Just knowing that places like Kiwi Farms exists is enough evidence of good number of garbage people
There's a difference between the Deepseek.com provider lunch pricing and the pricing every other provider is doing now.
Right now DS4-Pro-0813 is available from multiple providers for $1.32/million input tokens[1].
It's pretty easy to work backwards from B200 and electricity prices and see this is profitable even without the heavy serving optimization these providers are doing[1.5].
The OpenCode CEO said: "inference is very profitable and probably a good opportunity to understand some basic business math"[2] and "the inference we do is already profitable and that's with some middlemen involved"[3]
If at this point people don't believe inference can be profitable, and providers can turn the prices up and down to choose exactly how profitable they make it I don't know what to say.
Dang, or someone can explain why this is flagged?
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