skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ben Recht actually has a line of work showing that we aren't over fitting the validation/test set for now (amazingly...). What I mean is, by chasing higher and higher SotA with more and more money and compute, whole fields can go "improving" only for papers like https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.08505 or "Implementation matters in deep RL" to come out and show that what's going on is different from the literature consensus. The standards for showing improvement are low, while standards for négative résultats are high (I'm a bit biased because I have a rejected paper trying to show empirically some deep RL work didn't add marginal value but I think the case still holds). Everyone involved is trying their best to do good science but unless someone like me asks for it, there simply isn't a value add for your career to do exhaustive checking.

A concrete improvement would be only being allowed to change 1 thing at a time per paper, and measure the impact of changing that one thing. But then you couldn't realistically publish anything outside of megacorps. Another solution might be banning corporate papers, or at least making a separate track...from reviewing papers, it seems like single authors or small teams in academia need to compete with Google where multiple teams might share aspects of a project, one doing the architecture, the other a new training algorithm etc...which won't be disclosed, you'll just read a paper where for some reason a novel architecture is introduced using a baseline which is a bit exotic but also used in another paper that came out close to this one, and a regulariser which was introduced just before that ...

If you limit the pools, you can put much higher standards on experiments on corporate where you have the budget, while giving academia more points for novelty and creativity
Before iTunes, I think the OS was great. I think iTunes was the catalyst that pushed OSX down the priority list.

Once they saw they could make money selling music, they started focusing on that and pushing that POS down your throat. Then when they finally realized they could sell apps on iPhones, that's where the focus went. The OS has stagnated since then, IMO. Their bread and butter has been selling apps, music and cloud storage, and it's clear (IMO) that's where all the actual development focus has gone.

Also the e-mail client is trash. It is supposed to support MS Exchange, and my co-workers and I used to use it at work just fine with OS 10.14. It was an awesome replacement for shitty Outlook. Once 10.15 came out, it would quit syncing, freeze up, stop sending email, etc. This was not just once in a while, it would literally quit working almost immediately. I was forced back into Outlook again. It felt like they never tested it with Office 365 even once. But of course, their own e-mail services work fine with it.
You'd think the stakes couldn't get any higher!
Apple could've also milked their cash cow.

And yet they implemented and executed a multilayered intertwined decade-long (or actually longer) plan.

Their first custom chip was launched in 2010. It means they were designing it since at least 2008, but definitely since before then.

The original iPhone was launched in 2007.

So, they were designing and releasing a new product category, and already designing custom chips for it.

Even fat lazy companies can stay hungry and foolish. There are not that many of them, though.
The cellular Apple watch has a terrible flaw. The networks only support it on the premium feature post paid contract plans and not on any prepaid plan. There’s no way to have a prepaid cell plan and add a watch for yourself. It’s an awful user experience. This limitation has no logical reason other than short sighted cell company greed and lack of Apple pushback
The whole point of the DMA EU regulations is that one should be able to make and distribute an iOS app without entering into a contractual relationship with Apple at all
Soon you will be able to render home imovies like they were edited by the team that made the dark knight (which costs ~$100k/min if done professionally).
That's why spot pricing exists.

It's basically an auction market. You set your max price to bid on instances, and will get them as long nobody else bids higher.
I thought CNN’s deciding the cancel their streaming service was a great own goal.

The cable bundle has been very profitable for them but it is not going to last forever. A streaming service would have been a way to monetize quality journalism and wouldn’t be pursuing the lazy dollars they were able to get from outrage viewing in the Trump era.
Biotech labs are using AI inspired by DALL-E to invent new drugs
But how does it feel to use? On my MacBook Pro, the trackpad and keyboard feel like I am manipulating text and windows at the speed of thought. On my work-assigned Dell, with specs ~matching my MacBook, it feels like there's a hidden friction to everything I do. Like going from skating on ice to jogging on sand.
Back when they were just a search engine, they added HUGE value. Search was really terrible before them, and when using google for the first time after using all the other search engines, it really felt like actual magic.
What’s also amusing is that their support for advertisers is just as bad. The reality is that companies will tolerate just about anything as long as you have eyeballs to sell.
They focus on quality control and compliance to safety requirements in specific domains and industries, for instance MISRA.
Helps with the minor amphetamine-induced.. not sure what to call them, OCD-type symptoms for me. Teeth grinding, messing with my beard, making weird throat noises, etc. It also helps a lot with sleep.
I would like to dispute the "with less efficiency" simplification, because depensing on the size and usage patterns of your code, a doubly linked list or sikilar graph datastructure, backed by an arena will be faster than the way those data structures appear in books.
Feels pretty anti-science to be outraged by discussion of current evidence. No one is pushing an idea.
Unfortunately, none of that is true. Apple hasn't made a product worth owning in a long long time.

Macbooks no longer can run Windows and don't quite run Linux yet (the two largest OSes in the world, and Linux On The Desktop(tm) is a bigger market share than OSX), iPhones still can't run Android after all these years (the majority phone OS), and Apple Watches suffer the issues all the smart watches have (no real good use case, battery lives of a day or less, violates "zero distraction" ethical concerns, sensors are fulltime uploaded to the cloud and there are no good Federal controls on personal data in the US, etc).

I see no reason to ever buy Apple until they actually catch up to the rest of the world. Apple is a cult, and a very expensive one to buy into.
There are larger strategic decisions that are significant in dota. Which area of the map to play, which objectives are important and when, what type of fights will we win (fast and bursty) and when will we take them. Often times these are thought of at the beginning of the game and effect gameplay throughout.
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I think it would be the “cultural value” piece
I guess it was technically the workforce that did those coups and invasions whenever it seemed that the resource pipes might be turned off.
This is clearly self promotion…and the multiple alt accounts / friend accounts to try to create a particular impression of the software…
Global warming importance as an issue is slowly fading as the world is changing. Make room for new issues.
The real news here is that there is such a thing as a "gut-on-a-chip."
It just shows he has principles when he gets paid more.
For comparison, it's also taking ~3min @ 50 iterations on my 12c Threadripper using OpenVino. It sounds like the improvements bring the M1 performance roughly in line with a GTX 1080.
Why can‘t companies like that just make a good web app? It‘s time to kill native apps unless you really need them.
If your high performance code running on a sensitive cluster is vulnerable, then it opens up the rest of the system to exploitation also. How is it a problem of the infrastructure around the code, and not the code itself?
> The US is statistically overdue.

Rather the opposite? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
Dont think the player pool is very deep, doubt there are many masters around..
A webserver on a TLD (http://ai)
Yeah this rule of thumb was for low fidelity things like hand radio buttons.

> We may be slow to react to sudden events, but we are very good at noticing the lag for predictive events (keyboard typing, piano playing, ...).

It does make sense in my lay person’s understanding that the chain of eye -> brain -> hand for reactive events would be slower than brain —> eye + hand for proactive events.
Great time to leave. Very smart move on his behalf. If I was Bret, I'd be laughing all the way to the bank on this exit. The board and the executive team is a virtue-signalling version of Oracle circa 2000.

Once the recession has settled, looking forward to the next wave of cashed up VP's and Execs who'll follow suit. Great time to start fostering relationships if you're a young employee at that organisation.
former listary user here: pro tip, switch to fluent search. it is even more powerful. and for directory switching i found "direct folders".
It's a pain. I recently had a compute job that would take a couple of days to run locally. "This is exactly what the cloud is for," I thought and went to Google Cloud where I already had an account.

First try I'm allowed to spec up a beefy server with AVX-512 and click "create", but it never actually starts. Turns out the default CPU limits are tiny - I need to apply to bump two separate limits and wait for that to go through.

Second try I'm actually able to spin up a couple of servers. I set the compute job running and go for lunch. An hour later both are terminated and I get a message about "violation of our Acceptable Use Policy".

There is a link that says crypto mining is forbidden on free instances. I send a reply informing them that a) these are not free instances, and b) I am not mining crypto.

I get a reply back saying more or less "Yes it says free instances but why would you expect anything we write in the documentation to be correct. Also you might think you weren't mining crypto but actually your VM was probably compromised because no one would buy compute instances and actually run compute jobs on them. We're not giving you back access to your instances, maybe delete them and create new ones lol."

I actually find it an easier product to get started with than AWS, but man they really really don't want your money. When you are actively trying to prevent your customers from scaling up resources you are failing at being a cloud.
> If you have kids don't have nice stuff, it's very easy.

An unexpected upshot is that in a functional household you can let them
play like actual children, without the cloying anxiety and constant
shrieks of "For Gods sake Tristan and Tarquin, not on the Louis
Vuitton !!"
Here to echo that praise. One of my hobbies, starting many years ago, is reading about 15th to 17th century England. This used to be a bit expensive and often severely limited to secondary sources that could be had in local bookshops and libraries (which is even more limiting for me, as I live in Japan). But the Internet Archive has dramatically changed that, with thousands and thousands of scans of primary texts, from broadsides to bibles to bestiaries to ballads. I imagine anyone interested in any period or phenomenon that pre-dates the 1923 public domain hard cutoff shares that excitement.

The Internet Archive is free, but they accept donations – I would say it's one of the best ways to spend money if you're a user or fan of the preservation of historical texts and files.
This might be of interest
https://github.com/PolySync/misra-rust
I'm launching climatelink, it's basically trying to be the Techmeme for climate.

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Most good reporting lives behind paywalls, making it less accessible. Scientists share thoughts on Twitter, Mastodon and other social media, where they can be hard to find. A lot of discussion happens on Slack channels that nobody has time to read through. Some of the best climate content lives in podcasts, which are awesome but not easy to scan. More fantastic climate writing happens in climate newsletters, but who can subscribe to them all.

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It's a very good point that companies will (eventually) look to maximize revenue and thus even companies that start out with grand ideas of being "different" succumb to that pressure.

A strong countervailing force (in some markets) is competition. If Google had more competition (both in terms of a independent search service and access to be the default search option in browsers) they might have to start caring more about the search experience and privacy.
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Because smart money was on the GPU market eventually coming back down to Earth due to a crash in the crypto market. Which it mostly has. What no one could reasonably predict is when (market can stay irrational and all that). Cloud providers buy obscene amounts of hardware for obscene amounts of money, and if their capacity predictions are off, they lose tons of money. Disallowing crypto mining on GPUs then just makes sense. You just never know when those customers are going to evaporate leaving you high and dry with a GPU farm that people aren't paying for.
> pay for the health and environmental damage you did,

Or do some trickery with shell companies, like Johnson&Johnson did, and not have to pay a dime.
If there are two moves that mate, they are both considered optimal engine moves.
Or one can make an innocuous comment like mine (no pun) here, and get downvoted and flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33818141

Perplexed by that one.
Really exciting stuff! There is a neat blog post by Generate Biomedicine at https://generatebiomedicines.com/chroma. Note that all of their proteins are in silico, whereas the Baker lab preprint has experimental validation shown in the preprint shared at https://www.bakerlab.org/2022/11/30/diffusion-model-for-prot...
Rats can find food anywhere in many forms, so instead of poisoning them (which just removes competition for food from the rest of them), addict them to a substance you can control, distribute it everywhere freely and accessibly for a while - and then once a large enough population of them are addicted, you create scarcity in the substance, and they will starve themselves and fight each other and breed less frequently in pursuit of it. If the population starts rising again, release more of the drug to get more of them addicted to it and repeat the cycle.

Spray the sewers and garbage bins with nicotine or seized cocaine or some addictive equivalent. Killing them just kills off the weak ones and polarizes the population, whereas a method like this using managed addiction will keep their numbers down and actively managed.
Not when your opponent is also a Fortune 500 company. Lawsuits don't stretch on that long.
I have hard water and a dishwasher with a softener. The plates are dramatically cleaner if there's salt in the softener, no matter what detergent i use.
You may have been hypnotized by movies.

- New York City Population [0]: 8,804,190
- Population of the United States [1]: 333,327,000
- Percent of people living in NYC: 2.6%

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1: https://www.census.gov/popclock/
The equivalent situation would be if the world had two landlords which together owned essentially every single bit of commercial property on the planet (or at least most of the countries) and if you wanted to sell chicken, you'd have to agree to whatever terms those landlords set, which are mostly identical between them.

But it's ok because you have the option of building your own store on your own island and convincing enough people to relocate to your island to buy chicken direct.
Port forwarding not working from inside the gateway sounds like it’s not doing hairpin NAT by default. I’m running a NixOS home router pair, not currently doing any port forwarding but now I’ll have to check that tonight, if nothing else people might appreciate an option for it.
Oh yeah it happens all the time.

But if you notice, keep quiet, or you’ll get labeled a lunatic.
I think that’s an unfair statement. There are good and bad parts of Google, but to say they add no value is a stretch.

Can you really say that across YouTube, Search, Gmail, Drive, Cloud, Open Source Contributions (Kubernetes, Tensorflow, etc) and so on they don’t add any real value anywhere at all?
Most European countries run proper citizen registries that allow for secure verification of IDs and online opening of bank accounts. Many banks don't require visits anymore.

All the same, two factor devices (you can mail them too) are phased out across the blad in favor of mobile apps. Which is nog great.
And what of freedom of association as a right and cultural value?
Google doesn't have to rent their GPUs to anyone if they don't want to.

Besides, their incompetence allows companies like Lambda to fill the niche, and probably do a better job of it than Google do.
Uh? Is it me or this openai website is literally demanding a cellular phone number? Only have a landline number.

What is this? I just gave my email. Isn't this enough?.
I miss getting these catalogs! Someone should send out a weekly newsletter of random interesting gadgets linked to online stores where you can buy them, with a layout that perfectly mimics these old catalogs. I'd eat that up.
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I did bad in high school chemistry, I never could understand this stuff. First, the ion exchange resin beads are washed with Na+ which bind to the beads. Second, the hard water is run through the beads and bad stuff like Mg2+ has a stronger attraction to the beads than Na+, so the Na+ is pushed off and Mg2+ binds to beads. The resulting water out of tap is softer because Mg2+ is out, but saltier because Na+ is in. Then once in a while the beads are flushed with Na+ again with the Mg2+ being sent down the drain... but how does this happen if Na+ has a weaker bond? How can it push the Mg2+ off the beads??
It does change the situation if the plugin throws an exception on errors instead of causing a segfault that brings down the parent application.
Have you tried this out yet? https://chat.openai.com/

It's been providing real value to me over the past day for practicing Spanish, explaining Machine Learning concepts, and doing fancy write-ups in LaTeX. And this one can't even use Google yet! (other research teams have already created models capable of doing so, it's only a matter of time until these innovations are brought together in one place)
Freedom of association captures the idea of freedom of speech better than freedom of speech itself, I think. Private parties are (with some number of government constraints) free to pick who to work with, who to play with, and who to talk with, and who they don't want to do anything with.
Thanks for clarifying this. It has been a long time since this happened.
As others have mentioned, "making software programmable" isn't really landing for me.

In the tradition of borrowing terms from the games industry (where we often see early popularization of good ideas), I wonder if "modding" could be a helpful addition somewhere in your marketing.

This seems to have worked for the term "multiplayer", though "moddable" probably isn't as widely appreciated yet.
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I don't agree people are confused (I wasn't) or that they are depending on prior experiences (many of these points aren't rooted in direct experiences at all!). OpenAI is choosing to brand this as a fine tuning of a model that is a minor version of GPT 3.X, so it's a pretty natural shorthand.

Agree with you directionally on the research assistant point, although I think it would be interesting to define that task with more detail to see the comparisons. I'd expect that most research workflows starting with ChatGPT still need to end in search to confirm and contextualize the important parts.
Whatever it popularized is the exact opposite of what entertains me. I was recently sent a link to tiktok that was a video set to random music of a single screenshot of a single tweet.

My younger self had higher hopes for humanity.
The rinse aid prevents beading, actually. Beading is what leaves the spots.
Defining a phone as worth owning as "being able to run android" is very arbitrary. I believe that nothing but the iphone is worth owning because the other's can't run iOS yet. Android just isn't suitable for real world usage yet.
Answered in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33821403
For GPUs, yeah. If you're talking compute though, you just keep requesting your limits be raised until you're happy. You'll probably hit your ability to pay before you hit actual AWS limits. Talk to your AWS TAM if you have questions on what your spend has to be before they'll give you that kind of access. If you don't have a TAM then you might be too small.
@JohnCarmack Can you please ask Google when do they plan to provide merchant registration support for leftover countries on Play Store? Thank you.

https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...
That would require:

- ensuring the truck arrives at or around the same time every week

- forcing people to be at home to throw out their garbage

Both of those are complete non-starters in NYC.

Much easier to use the system that nearly every other large city in the developed world uses (containerized trash collection).
I don't understand the motivation of the person who sees 60 hours of video uploaded to YouTube per second, 30+ new video games released on Steam per day, 100,000 songs uploaded to Spotify every day and 6,000 Tweets being made per second, and decides "You know what the World needs? A way of enabling more people to make more content faster."