An intro to DeepSeek’s distributed file system | Hacker News

Ultimately, I obviously believe that storage and data are really important keys to how these AI companies operate — so it makes sense that DeepSeek would build something like this in-house to get the properties that they’re looking for. My hope is that we, at Archil, can find a better set of defaults that work […]

Thread by @dieworkwear on Thread Reader App – Thread Reader App

This is the FOB cost. In the industry, “free on board” is the shoe’s cost at the point when it’s loaded onto a vessel at the port of origin. “Free” refers to how the factory will pay to deliver a finished product up to the point when it boards a ship—the rest is your problem. […]

Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101 | Hacker News

We have almost lost the chance now to hear personal testimony of WWII. I’ve met several Battle of Britain pilots too, but the last died in Dublin recently: Source: Bletchley code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101 | Hacker News   When the world forgets about the previous world war, the next one might be […]

Tracing the thoughts of a large language model \ Anthropic

It turns out that, in Claude, refusal to answer is the default behavior: we find a circuit that is “on” by default and that causes the model to state that it has insufficient information to answer any given question. However, when the model is asked about something it knows well—say, the basketball player Michael Jordan—a […]

“The Lost Art of Logarithms”: Preface

The subject of this book is the history, use, meaning, and importance of logarithms, which are numbers that fell into obscurity with the increasing prevalence of electronic calculators in the 1970s. I hope to demonstrate in this book that logarithms are central to our perceptions and consequent understanding of the world, if only we knew […]

US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s | Hacker News

It’s getting the point where people are actively avoiding USA made goods as a protest. To tell you the truth, it’s not as hard to do as avoiding Chinese made goods so I think America is going to lose out massively. Right now as it stands today, I feel a lot less guilty about buying […]