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I don't know why but something about this section made me chuckle

""" These perspectives highlight that there remains nuance—even appreciation—of explorative model advancement not solely focused on immediate commercial viability """

Feels like the model is seeking validation

Not an expert in this space.

Aren't tokens transformed with position dependent information in most models?

I believe llama applies a rotation to the vector based on the position in the input.

I've been a pretty heavy HN user since highschool and it just felt like such a cool place to be.

There were always so many deep interesting topics from people with all sorts of interesting backgrounds.

Theres been a shift for a while but it I hate to say that it now feels like an AI, trump, Musk yap fest.

I don't hate AI, use it every day and work in the space.

The life has just been squeezed out of this place. It makes me sad that honestly I can find more interesting discussion on Reddit at this point which is truely disappointing considering that's not great quality either.

I've been using lobste.rs more recently and they do actually have pretty good active tech discussion there.

I don't know how / when it happened but it feels like HN is somehow becoming a tool for disinformation.... :(

I literally cannot understand why this being downvoted.

Why should Canada be compelled to use a private US based platform owned by a person who is advocating for Canada to no longer exist.

Jokes on them, they've already placed big tarrifs on us.

I guess we are free to tax Big Tech companies then?

Edit: legitimate question, is this too snarky for HN?

I think the vast majority of them were early stage prototypes either done by companies "labs" with no attention span or students.

Either way I don't think it cost people a lot to move on, most likely to AI projects

I think you may have fallen into the trap thinkint that this is a rational action with a clear goal.

I mentioned in the previous post that Canada is willing to spend extra resources to avoid a trade war.

That means nothing to trump and this administration, you are trying to use logic to justify decisions made out of personal ego.

Edit: also wanted to add that more guns, drugs and people illegal flow into Canada from the US than visa versa.

Maybe the US should consider securing their own borders

What about Canada? We have even higher tarrifs than China and in the last 100 years are the USA's closest ally.

Sorry to say but that's already been walked back on after Canada committed $1 billion dollars for extra northern border security and it made no difference in the tariffs discussions.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rcmp-border-patrol-canada-u... <- discussion of commitment from Canada

https://financialpost.com/news/trump-says-tariffs-on-canada-... <- as of today (sorry for FT source but this is literally all across google you can just googla USA tarrifs)

As a thought excersize I've been going through your comments @dang to see what the state of moderation currently looks like.

From what I can tell it is a very difficult job right now and I do not envy that.

I read through this last reply and it did make me smirk because I think your reply was quite pointed and apt.

I do wonder though if you internally down weight the effect HN has on the overall tech sphere.

It seems like it is sort of the "online salon" of the tech and I think people have come to see HN as a source of ... guidance(?) in a world of such poor online discourse.

I think the last few years have definitely shown the power that online sites have to not only effect discourse but to sway elections and much more.

I'm not saying that is currently happening with HN but I do think it's worth reflecting where HN sits in the world and whether it has the proper tools to not succumb to the world of online bots / trolls.

Maybe it matters, maybe it doesn't but it appears to a large number of people (who may hold more influcial positions in tech than might realize) that it does matter.

Anyways just some thoughts.

Sometimes I really wonder what reality people live in...

Elon musk quite literally bans topics and terms that he doesn't like on a whim.

There's a rather lengthy account of all it here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_under_Elon_Musk

Even if we buy into the premises that Elon doesn't manipulate Twitter, he actively posts about removal of Canada's sovereignty.

If the CEO of ByteDance was actively posting TikToks saying he is so excited for the US to be China's new province what would the US do?

So TikTok gets banned in the US for abstract potential influence on topics related to China and most Americans sign off on it.

Twitter is being actively manipulated by a person who has expressed interest in the elimination of the independence of Canada and people think this is an overreaction??

That is why federal workers and the military swear an oath to the constitution of the united states.

Ahh good correction, I meant the winning strategy is to force a stalemate.

Playing tic tac toe could be such a basic topic that there is relatively little information on the internet about how to "always" win.

On the other hand writing a piece of code to solve Tic Tac Toe sounds like it could be a relatively common coding challenge.

I don't know why people are even thinking that deeply about it. Trump put tarrifs on raw materials...

There is no way to recoup the cost there. This is just the largest single tax increase in US history.

Really sad for the team involved.

Absolutely brutal industry

Very confused by this, is there something currently happening in China that warrants massive layoffs in tech?

As the article mentioned the game is just launching its Season 2 and is still receiving updates and new characters.

Here's the fun part if you are not wealthy. You would pay both anyways.

It's a rigged game, if anything they would use tariffs to cut the progressive rate not the base tax rate anyways.

I feel very similarly about the split between my professional and personal code.

Theres always something that needs to be rushed out the door at work and honestly nobody pays me for pretty code.

But my own projects? The code is a large part of why I do it .

Went to Firefox on mobile for a while, just found the overall experience slower and less performant.

I know thats kind of a personal thing based on which websites are used but it was still my experience.

Before anyone comments chrome extensions.

These don't work on chrome mobile or safari mobile which make up a sizeable number of users.

Please, can we just have native dark mode?

I made a pretty mediocre HN client just for this feature https://github.com/rsimmons1/FlutterHnReader

I don't feel like working on it anymore, let's just have dark mode.

Edit: apologies spoke out of my domain on safari iOS, it supports extensions I'm an Android user.

I have an undergraduate degree in Math and generally find math quite enjoyable, however, even I had a pretty hard time grasping most of what this blog was talking about. I think it pretty quickly went from extremely high level (add noise to image, then remove noise) to extremely low level specific.

Also I had a hard time figuring out which part of the equation differentiate the equations for different data points, is that what the meaning of "theta" is in all the equations? To guide the initial noise towards one type of image instead of another is that what theta is responsible for? Is the innovation in GenAI images to use text embeddings to create the theta?

I definitley feel some tears coming on.

Explaining old feature flags to colleagues is always a fun time.

Sit down and let me tell you the tale of "enable_disable_foo_bar_on_web_phone_but_not_model_x_unless_year_is_even"

Yeah there has been a pretty definitive drop in overall productivity in Canada since the sudden increase in population.

I believe the economic term is population trap, where your society / economy can't expand fast enough to make efficient use of the addition in capital.

It is pretty clear based on the constantly decreasing GDP per capita.

Ahh appreciate the clarification! I was having trouble figuring out what OP was asking.

From the engines you mentioned (Godot,Unreal,Unity) the game engine itself offers the full SDK suite you need to develop games and it they are tightly integrated with the engine.

I'm most familiar with Unity so I'll speak on that. Unity itself offers the editor (can be configured), debugger, asset manager and visualizer all in the main client. Some people have built external tools on top of Unity for things like no-code game building but the vast majority of developers directly use Unity.

I think Godot is probably the most unique of the ones you listed in that it seems like the one you might can mix and match different tools together but I'm overall much less familiar with it.

Appreciate the response.

Makes sense to really focus your commitment to HN.

I can appreciate your emotional discipline in these times. I could work on that more myself

This is how I use it for work and so far it's the main way I have found AI to actually improve productivity.

Hey Dang!

First I want to thank you for the tireless job of moderating this form, it is really the thing that keeps it as a special place on the internet.

I genuinely wanted to ask if you feel out of depth on moderating the current and upcoming news on both the US and AI.

Both feel like we are heading towards things many of us have not experienced in our lives.

How do you find your previous moderation experience is leading you in the current environment?