It looks like their API is OpenAI compatible but their docs say that they don’t support the `reasoning_effort` parameter yet.
> max_tokens:The maximum length of the final response after the CoT output is completed, defaulting to 4K, with a maximum of 8K. Note that the CoT output can reach up to 32K tokens, and the parameter to control the CoT length (reasoning_effort) will be available soon. [1]
> Second, a lot of HR people want to have a pool of people to contact when a position opens.
I wonder, is that even legal in California given the CCPA? If they're not actually actively hiring, what "business purpose" do they have for retaining that data?
I feel like anyone in California who gets a call back from HR thanks to this data mining should report the privacy violation.
> Parts of our own Earth aren't in the habitable zone, by that definition.
What parts would that be? Even the polar caps have huge liquid water oceans underneath. Unless you’re talking about the mantle or molten core, there are no uninhabitable areas on earth as per astrobiology (not even miles underground).
> Not all life in the universe may require liquid water, nor require it 24/7.
You might as well be talking about leprechauns and unicorns and Horta. Water is the universal solvent and has at least five unique properties that are as critical to life as carbon’s ability to form four chemical bonds.
You’re correct that moons experiencing tidal heating can contain liquid water, but that’s irrelevant to a planet. The habitable zone is specifically talking about planets (rocky ones at that), not any arbitrary satellite. It’s a term of art in astronomy, not a colloquialism.
> Unless you’re talking about the mantle or molten core, there are no uninhabitable areas on earth as per astrobiology (not even miles underground).
We've found microbes that can survive at 120 Celsius, -25 Celsius, very high and very low pH, large amounts of ionizing radiation, intense pressures, etc. Habitability is a wide range encompasing scenarios not conducive to liquid water.
> Water is the universal solvent and has at least five unique properties that are as critical to life as carbon’s ability to form four chemical bonds.
None of that rules out life on other chemistries. It makes water+carbon-based life the most likely scenario on planets with liquid water, but hardly rules out other potential biologies.
> You’re correct that moons experiencing tidal heating can contain liquid water, but that’s irrelevant to a planet. The habitable zone is specifically talking about planets (rocky ones at that), not any arbitrary satellite.
But we should absolutely be looking at planet-sized moons with potentially habitable conditions, which we believe to be quite common. They are, after all, more common than the single "habitable zone" planet even within our own system.
Is the upshot of this observation supposed to be that PLATO should change its plans and direct its telescope in a different direction because it has more promising places to look than the habitable zones around stars?
If not, and if you can understand why it's prioritizing that, then why do you take this definition of habitability to be tantamount to denying the possibility of discovering other forms of life? For those possibilities to be relevant to a research program, they need to be motivated by something more than "gee, hey, you never know."
So it's not for lack of reflection on those possibilities that we arrive at this operative definition of habitability. There are pertinent reasons for moving forward with this definition that don't amount to denying other boutique possibilities. Construing it that way I think is just an uncharitable interpretation.
It’s not impossible, but we’ve got a ton of evidence why it’s extremely unlikely. It’s a long list including stuff like possible quantum transition states enabling biochemistry, reactivity with oxygen (the third most abundant element), and spectroscopic transparency. It’s an active area of research that keeps coming up with dead ends.
Ammonia and methane are the best candidates but those would only be possible at low temperatures that preclude lots of other reactions.
And none of those smart people have come up with any experimental evidence that it’s actually possible. No equivalent to amino acids or nucleotides or saccharides or… the list goes on.
I’m not talking about SETI, I’m talking about basic chemistry experiments. There are tons of experiments that can spontaneously form amino acids and nucleotides, even way outside the parameters normally considered habitable.
There is tons of concrete evidence, you’re just ignorant of it. Start with Stanley Miller’s seminal 1953 paper “Production of Amino Acids Under Possible Primitive Earth Conditions” and go from there. There’s been a lot of work on the topic since then, several of which have made it to the HN front page.
> Hemoglycin (previously termed hemolithin) is a space polymer that is the first polymer of _amino acids_ found in meteorites.
I’m done, have a great day! (Monomers)
Edit: My apologies for being dismissive. I’d like to get into the specifics of why amino acids (amino and carboxylic groups specifically) are special, and interesting exceptions like hydroxy and alpha-hydroxy acids, but I’ve got to get to work and I could spend an entire year explaining the nuances. The deeper you get into the details, the more the anthropic principle rears its ugly head.
> ammonia-based life form at our stage of exploration is probably gonna scoff at the idea of scaldingly hot liquid water
Ammonia-based life exists within water habitable zones; Mars is within our Sun’s conservative habitable zone [1]. (Also, “ammonia boils at 98°C instead of –33°C” at “60 atm, for example, which is below the pressures available on Jupiter or Venus,” meaning “ammonia-based life need not necessarily be low-temperature” [2].)
One reason to suspect ammonia-based life is rarer than carbon-based life is the universe contains a fifth of the nitrogen that it does carbon [3]. (This is why silicon-based life is also almost written off.)
Except the ten different articles that have made the frontpage about DeepSeek R1 in the last week. It’s probably almost 20 by now, I’ve lost count. There’s three on the frontpage now (there were five+ yesterday) and they’re full of the exact discussion you’re looking for. It’s by far the most popular topic of conversation on HN right now.
You’re suffering from an acute case of confirmation bias.
> The panic around deepseek is getting completely disconnected from reality.
Couldn’t agree more! Nobody here read the manual. The last paragraph of DeepSeek’s R1 paper:
> Software Engineering Tasks: Due to the long evaluation times, which impact the efficiency of the RL process, large-scale RL has not been applied extensively in software engineering tasks. As a result, DeepSeek-R1 has not demonstrated a huge improvement over DeepSeek-V3 on software engineering benchmarks. Future versions will address this by implementing rejection sampling on software engineering data or incorporating asynchronous evaluations during the RL process to improve efficiency.
Just based on my evaluations so far, R1 is not even an improvement on V3 in terms of real world coding problems because it gets stuck in stupid reasoning loops like whether “write C++ code to …” means it can use a C library or has to find a C++ wrapper which doesn’t exist.
No, you’re not. They explicitly mention in the R1 paper (in the last paragraph before the bibliography) that R1 isn’t a “huge” improvement over DeepSeek-V3 in coding - where “huge” is an academic weasel word.
It’s just a lot of hype. In my coding tests it significantly underperforms o1 (haven’t tried o1-pro), often getting stuck in a reasoning loop because I underspecified something (that I don’t have to with o1).
Same anecdotal experience. Its definitely an improvement and they have made operational improvements at runtime but I am still concerned they are have over fit for the tests.
I have, and I generally prefer it to Slack, unlike Slack, it (off the top of my head):
- Has much richer message formatting and doesn't regularly do weird things to mess up the formatting as I'm composing a message. (Just this morning I was fighting Slack to try have nested bullet points not disappearing or de-indenting as I was composing a message).
- Consistently marks messages as read without me having to click chats multiple times for the unread indicator to disappear. With Slack I somewhat regularly have this problem, more than once a week.
- Like every other application on Windows, Ctrl+K works for adding a hyperlink. Slack is in fact so aware that people are used to using the Ctrl+K shortcut it even catches you trying to do it and then tells you how to add hyperlinks in their own special snowflake way.
- Doesn't clutter my Windows notification centre. Unless I clicked the notification center message it doesn't ever disappear. WhatsApp by comparison which also uses the Windows notification center does this perfectly. Slack is the same on iOS, it doesn't clear messages from the notification center once a message is read unless you clicked the notification.
Teams has its warts for sure, but I find it's considerably more polished than Slack in general.
It's not perfect, but I'm very productive and happy using it.
Windows 11 Pro on my Dell Latitude 5540 and it's a rock solid experience.
I on principle always format my disk drive when getting a new PC and reinstall using an ISO downloaded from Microsoft to ensure no OEM software is on them. For my Dell the only thing I install is "Dell Command | Update" (not to be confused with Dell SupportAssist which is crap targeting general consumers). It's for updating drivers and firmware and it does absolutely no nonsense, only prompting me when a driver or firmware update is available.
I use no third-party anti-malware, no "corporate management software", just Windows Defender, but with Dev Drive and exclusions to my working directories so everything is very fast for my development work with Visual Studio.
My work is mostly developing for .NET and Electron which works on Linux and macOS as well. WSL with Visual Studio is super impressive that I can seamlessly debug processes running under WSL from normal Visual Studio. For Electron / NodeJS debugging I can use VS Code which also supports debugging processes running under WSL.
I have done two registry tweaks to Windows 11 to remove a couple of annoyances:
- I've turned off the "simplified" context menu which shows by default in Windows Explorer, otherwise most of what I need is hidden behind an extra click of my mouse.
- I've turned off internet search results from showing on the Start Menu. This is a huge quality of life improvement, I've never ever cared for searching outside of my web browser and it makes the Start Menu super responsive and stops it showing web results above stuff on my local computer which was what I was looking for.
(As a side remark, I was very happy when I only somewhat recently worked out how to get iOS to stop showing web search results when I search my home screen for apps, that was a huge annoyance as I only want to search for apps on my phone by name and often it would show web searches over a locally installed app name.)
People constantly complain here about all the adverts on Windows 11. I honestly don't get any adverts, maybe it's because I'm in South Africa and not the US (marketing sounds like it's beyond obnoxious there). I think it came pre-installed (even when installing with the ISO downloaded from MS) with a few rubbish Windows Store apps (like Candy Crush), but I uninstalled them normally and nothing ever came back. I also use OneDrive already (which integrates really nicely with Windows), maybe if I didn't have it set up, Windows would be bugging me about it.
No experience with slack but channels in teams are pretty terrible.
Notifications off by default so people create new channels with you as a member, write extremely important information inside them and you find out weeks later.
Each post is like an announcement so nobody uses them for the everyday trivial stuff you need a channel for. For casual technical discussion, asking for help. Whenever you post in a channel, assuming people enabled notifications and your post will be actually seen, everyone is compelled to answer as the UI screams for attention.
And don't get me started about it hiding part of a post by default so you answer thinking you read everything but you missed an essential part because post was 4 rows and 2 were hidden.
I really don't get the hate for Teams. At least on Windows and Android it works well enough. One thing I find impressive is since I can't join my earbuds to my company PC I join a meeting on the PC and my phone so I can use my earbuds and microphone while watching video on my PC screen.
An app so broken that can tell you lost access to the Chat... WHILE...you are in a meeting hearing and seeing a visual presentation...Open bug for at least 6 years...
Unable to pause screen during a presentation, one of the most basic features of a professional platform. A feature requested here by more than 2460 users, for at least the last five years:
No, we are talking about pausing or providing a smooth transition to another page. Essential features of a professional presentation. Features present for ever and ever in GotoMeeting, Zoom and Webex...
> max_tokens:The maximum length of the final response after the CoT output is completed, defaulting to 4K, with a maximum of 8K. Note that the CoT output can reach up to 32K tokens, and the parameter to control the CoT length (reasoning_effort) will be available soon. [1]
[1] https://api-docs.deepseek.com/guides/reasoning_model
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