skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2023 that ‘speech’ could well be spam generated by ChatGPT. ‘Free speech’ isn’t the right model to describe coordinated inauthentic communications, spam, agenda spamming, disinformation, etc. In case where capacity to receive messages is limited, communications can be vandalism if not violence.
Autocomplete models with incredibly dense neural networks and extremely large data sets.

Repeat after me humans are autocomplete models, humans are autocomplete models
Those would be intentional (a differentiation the article makes) threats. These fall under terroristic threats. They are not violent themself, but they are threats of violence which are not legal.
When I was living in San Francisco, I had bats take nest between my (rented) house and the place directly next door. It was just a few inches gap and perfect for them to build a nest in. I could hear them through the wall. Called the city to do something about it and since the bats were protected, there was nothing they could or would do about it.

I knew it was just full of poop in there...
You could say Apple is basically an American copy of Sony. That's why he wore a uniform even if he couldn't get anyone else to do it.
They also do the front subframe for the Model Y at some factories.

https://www.notateslaapp.com/news/1037/a-peek-at-tesla-s-sin...
It's interesting because in French, to speak literally translated would give something like "take the talk". (prendre la parole)
So when somebody speaks, he takes something with, I guess, the hidden assumption that he/she's preventing others from taking it.
As a cpu buyer, I'd like amd and intel to get stuck at 50-50 market share and fight tooth and nail by introducing cheaper and faster models every year. And maybe discover low power computing, although that's wishful thinking.
Yes, it seems like Bing is less effective at preventing these sort of devolutions as compared to ChatGpt.

Interestingly, this was often also a failure case for (much, much) smaller language models that I trained myself. I wonder what the cause is.
I have mainly read about rust, not worked with it, but the section about:

let x = compute_x();
f(x.clone());
g(x);

was confusing/surprising to me. Isn't the whole point of default-immutable that you can use x without owning a copy? Forgive me if this is a stupid question.
Right: bail itself is refundable, but a bond payment isn't.
AMD has the edge on performance per watt though.
The cost in the 7000 series is the motherboards at the moment. They're still extortionately priced. 2x the price of an equivalent Intel one and that hasn't changed. It's improving but nowhere near reasonable. The AM4/B550 combo is still pretty good however.

99% of what I do is single thread bound so I really want to see some single thread power benchmarks but no one seems to bother with those.

I'm in the market for a PC with the best single thread performance out there at the moment so I've got several machines configured in pcpartpicker and spreadsheets at the moment :(
It's like making a deal with someone that gives you promises (or in this case "vows") then afterwards turns around and negates then all and then completely changes the rules of the game (in this case Brexit).

Remember one big reason that people voted no for independence is that there wasn't full clarity whether Scotland could remain in the EU if they left Britain. They'd have to start a whole ascension process.

I've never been to Scotland but some friends live there and they really should have a second chance to escape.
I was completely unaware as well - edited.
We bought a $9000 single socket AMD (2.4 GHz) 40 core server from Dell and a $27,000 dual socket Intel (2.8 GHz) 100 core server from Dell.

The AMD server is at full load, using around 150W whereas the Intel server idles at 450W doing absolutely nothing and pushes up to 700W if we load it up.

In hindsight, I regret not just buying 3 of the AMD servers for the same price. I had this fallacy that the Intel server would be magically more energy efficient, but that has turned out to be FUD and baloney.

NB Power usage measured at the wall socket with voltage and current monitored PDUs.
Now if only the home server can wake it self up on a web request...
This comment all but guarantees Equals will be a huge success :)
Well an L3 network is routed, so you just have routes. 32 bit route for the "server", whatever mask to reach others through the "server". The server has 32 bit routes to each client, so it works.

This is essentially how you want to build your DC networks today too (why waste ips on netid and broadcast that you never use) (for public addresses).

But you stick BGP on there to exchange route information rather than static routing.
Intelligence is a spectrum.

If you can't see a degree of intelligence in current LLMs you won't see it even when they take your job
I don't see how your comment addresses the parent at all.

Why can't a black box predicting what it expects to come next not have an inner state?
> the clusterfuck of brexit

The “clusterfuck” was due to the EU becoming hostile and super forced in the media.
> If it is not, it is not "completely isolated", at least not in the usual sense of the word.

Well that's where lunatic comes in. Lunatic provides the isolation and abstraction so you can run various wasm binaries side by side. If one of those binaries segfaults, lunatic presumably catches the interrupt and kills the corresponding wasm instance that caused it rather than just giving up and crashing.
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These is missing something. Looking at just the Q4 2022 numbers:

AMD Desktop CPU Market Share 18.6%

AMD Mobility CPU Market Share 16.4%

AMD Server CPU Market Share 17.6%

AMD Overall x86 CPU Market Share 31.3%

What's causing the bump from 16%-18% share to 31% in the avgs?

Are they including game consoles in the x86 market share?
> the law has generally done very good job of reminding us that this tends to be a VERY NARROW possibility, i.e. the harm has to be very specific and directed and measurable.

Here in the US, yes. In the rest of the world (like, EU) they aren't very specific.
"It does not natively have common instructions like add multiply"; this is is misinformation. Almost anybody implementing RISC-V -- esp if they are targeting an MPU instead of MCU -- is implementing instruction variants which include signed and unsigned multiply and divide, and my understanding is the P and probably V extensions include various add-multiply instructions.

https://github.com/riscv/riscv-p-spec/blob/master/P-ext-prop...

See section 3.2.

The instruction set is specified in a 'modular' fashion and has standards for various extensions, including compact instructions, vector extensions, etc. Compilers like GCC and LLVM support targeting these extensions.

I'm not saying AMD should make a RISC-V CPU, but if they were to hypothetically do that, they'd clearly be including a pile of the ratified extensions.
Know at least two people, both HNers, that danced with this in the past year with no guidance on how to handle it.

One asked me up front, and I prevented him from making the mistake. The other thought he knew what he was doing and reported the wrong figure. Instantly got flagged, and he amended the return with haste.
Obviously no one put you in charge of policing the behavior of other people.
It's remarkable to me the consequences of people telling you you're a mega-genius without you realizing they're telling you for their own benefit.

It makes perfect sense why everyone, sincere and fraudster alike, would want to promote SBF as a boy genius. It's a great marketing tool, it helps convince people who don't understand crypto to have faith in the product, and you also get someone who believes the spotlight should be on them, which is particularly useful for any fraudsters who would prefer to remain in the shadows.

Clearly SBF never questioned that praise (who would at the time?), and still is operating as though he were smarter and more special than everyone around him. The sad irony is it reveals that he's markedly less clever than most of the people he associates with. Caroline Ellison, at least from what I've seen, seems to have realized quite quickly that the smartest choice was to quickly realize she wasn't a brilliant as she had been told.
It seems since she is been in power she's conflated the SNP with the Scottish state.
Most people don't realize this and they also don't realize that equal opportunity laws also apply to white, male, christians, etc.
> SBF can walk for less than 1% of his bail amount,

Because the main purpose of the bail amount in his case is because bail secomes a virtually automatic default judgement, and its not as easy to keep a person out of reach of criminal process and all their assets out of reach of a default judgement in favor of the US government as to do just the former, so him and his parents being on the hook for the full value is a significant additional cost to attempting flight.
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Warrants that are granted by no grand jury, nor a judge? are these even valid warrants at this point?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Administrative_subpoena

I'm not defending SBF. The man needs to be charged and be put behind bars for the crimes committed. I'm just stating that this article was eye opening to me.
I mean, it's also super inappropriate to run around calling a random guy with long hair she/her. It's obviously super inappropriate to call a female co-worker a man if she lifts weights, y'know? It's always been a firable offense. I don't see the difference here except to say we want to treat trans people special, or something, and I just think that's just bringing politics into it.
I think it's satire
> I don't think that most of the people who equate hate speech with violence are literally requesting assualt charges be brought

First off, they are. but if you are saying: loose your job and ability to make a living, losing your ability to speak in public, fuck me give me those charges then!

you are backing tyrannical ideas while trying to pretend you are just being reasonable.
I assume that they are paying special attention to his internet connection considering the extent of his fraud. While a VPN can hide your IP, your ISP can still tell when a connection is using a VPN so if the courts allow law enforcement to monitor his connection then they would know.

Now, if SBF connected through a McDonalds wifi somewhere and they somehow found out it was him using a VPN, that would be concerning because there is no way they should know that its his laptop unless they knew he was on his way there ahead of time and somehow got permission to monitor their public wifi. That feels very unlikely
The same blog has a post referring to snow accumulation (evidently wind-blown, not precipitated) requiring enormous operations and infrastructural efforts to keep the station from being buried [0].

There seems to be plenty of snow available, if you want to melt it. Energy is the issue.

[0] https://brr.fyi/posts/south-pole-topography
Zero chance I buy it myself, but excited to have Apple pushing VR forward.
hey now, this is a scoped, focused enough "Zapier for developers" that it might actually succeed because you focus where the YC companies refused to. nice job!
That's exactly my point. It's a really big issue and before it was used for things of consequence that needs to get resolved. But it's still a freaking teleportation machine!

I mean we now have chatbots that pretty much pass the Turing Test as Turing would have envisioned it -- and people are like, "Yeah... but sometimes it lies or has a bad attitude, so is it really all that impressive?"
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The sole purpose of bail is to ensure that the defendant shows up to trial. SBF is under electronically monitored house arrest. Given how high-profile the case is, it's likely that law enforcement is posted to monitor him directly. He's not going to flee the country in a shipping crate like Carlos Ghosn. In fact: to hear Ken White talk about it on Serious Trouble, given his recent conduct, it's much more likely that he's going to end up preparing his defense from inside an NYC jail cell.

We're all obsessed with the details of SBF's bail because we're too bored, and looking for fun stories. The bail situation with SBF is the least interesting thing about the case.

By all means, dunk on the people making insurance payments to cover his bail! It's a weird thing to decide to do! But none of it has much to do with anything fundamental about the case.
The topic of dealing with history in databases seems to go most of the way back to the beginning of the field. I'm still hoping a copy of "Bubenko (1977) The Temporal Dimension in Information Modelling" turns up on the web eventually as I'd love to read it.

The 1980 paper you linked is touched on briefly at the beginning of this Strange Loop talk on "Light and Adaptive Indexing for Immutable Databases (2022)": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px-7TlceM5A
When cash bail is imposed on someone who can't afford it, we spend substantially more resources keeping them in jail pending trial. Rikers Island costs half a million a year per detainee.

https://queenseagle.com/all/detained-until-proven-guilty

> Bryson’s son, whose name is being withheld for fear of reprisal, is one of 306 people incarcerated on Rikers Island whose pre-trial detention has lasted three years or longer. There are an additional 441 detainees who have been held for two to three years and nearly 1,000 who have been held for one to two years, according to the New York City Department of Correction.

Pretrial detention also puts the presumed-innocent person at near-certain risk of job loss and other negative consequences.
That's not true at all, M1s in MacBooks absolutely draw more than 15W - they can go all the way up to 90W for whole package.

M1 are silly efficient but not 10x magical: https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...
It is, but I'm never truly happy with the outcomes at least last time I tried which was, admittedly, pre-covid.
The Wikipedia page talks about the history of pen registers over the last 100 years.

It's a lengthy, complicated page, and I'm not a lawyer... but I think the relevant section that describes their current use is this one, which suggests to me that you do need a warrant:

> For law enforcement agencies to get a pen register approved for surveillance, they must get a court order from a judge. According to 18 U.S.C. § 3123(a)(1), the "court shall enter an ex parte order authorizing the installation and use of a pen register or trap and trace device anywhere within the United States, if the court finds that the attorney for the Government has certified to the court that the information likely to be obtained by such installation and use is relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation".
I agree with repetitive output meaning low temp or some difference in beam search settings, but I don't see how the existential crisis impacts that.
Are there any web server frameworks built on the now standardized mspc concurrency model?
When a message board or user is kicked off a platform, it's never for "saying the wrong thing" or "political correctness". It's generally because they organized targeted campaigns of harassment, doxxing, swatting, and other kinds of behavior that violated the terms of service.

Take this example:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/cloudflare-kiwi-farms-...

"At least three people have died by suicide after becoming targets of Kiwi Farms harassment campaigns, according to Vice. In 2016, the family of a trans person who died by suicide, Lizzy Waite, was harassed by Kiwi Farms trolls for weeks after her death. She had posted a suicide note on Facebook."

"Sorrenti, known to fans of her streaming channel as “Keffals,” says that when her front door opened on Aug. 5 the first thing she saw was a police officer’s gun pointed at her face. It was just the beginning of a weekslong campaign of stalking, threats and violence against Sorrenti that ended up making her flee the country."

When we talk about violent forms of speech, this is what we mean. Actual crimes.

Note that this website was, in the end, taken down. But the users have moved on to other spaces where they organize harassment campaigns, such as Libs of Tiktok.
Having been a school teacher until a year ago, it's worth considering that a decent proportion of the population is functionally illiterate (well, it's a sliding scale). This kind of verbosity is probably excluding a lot of them from using this. Similarly I wonder if Google's rank preference for longer articles (i.e. why every recipe on the internet is now prefaced with the author's life story) has unintentionally excluded large portions of the population.
Neal Stephenson's _Snow Crash_ predicted cryptocurrency and the metaverse, and it also explored the idea of mind viruses that infect people via their optic nerves. Not too big of a leap to imagine a chat AI that spreads mind viruses not by writing code that executes on a CPU, but by propagating dangerous and contagious ideas tailored to each individual.
Yes, absolutely, as are the eponymous "Guide Michelin" (Guide vert) that conveniently fit in the glove compartment of your automobile. More people drive, more they consume tires.
Not the parent poster. The vast number of commenters in this thread seem to assume that these LLMs are close to, if not actually, general AIs. It’s quite refreshing to see comments challenging the hype.

Don’t you think the burden of proof lies with those that think this is something more than a just a dumb statistical model?
RISC-V is designed to be efficient; when compared on the same litho processes and gate counts it's very competitive wrt perf/watt.
AMD also has chipsets that are making their way onto motherboards. Video, PCI, USB, etc. We had a problem with an HID device of ours that would work fine with the ubiquitous Intel USB chipsets for the last 10 years, but didn't work properly with the AMD USB chipset on a new laptop.

So Intel is losing chipset share, too.
It's an unsecured bond. If he fails to show up, the government goes after him and his parents for the $250 million, basically making them destitute for the rest of their lives. Basically his bail is secured by the threat of his parents being ruined.
I think some things are fashions and some are lessons learned.

For example, English-like syntax is out. Cobol has it because it was invented for its predecessor and Cobol's still around, SQL has it because its designers copied Cobol before we'd learned better, and that's it. We still use words in our syntax but explicit block structure with punctuation is now known to be easier to read.

Speaking of block structure: Line numbers are gone. Unrestricted use of goto (as in, using goto to go from anywhere in the program to anywhere else in the program) is also gone. These things aren't fashion: We've learned better. We're more likely to invent a different kind of structure than to go back to that.

Similarly, languages with absolutely no type system are also out: You can have the types on variables, like Haskell, or values, like Python, but choosing to have neither, like BLISS and BCPL, is no longer an option unless you're actually writing in assembly language.

Other things, like column-oriented formatting, are gone because technology moved on. Even Cobol abandoned that one.
What is the appeal here? Wouldn't this just get dominated by the first person to write a quick script to automate it?
It's amusing that the Government calls what they're doing with Google a "pen register". They usually do that to squeeze through the small exception in the Fourth Amendment created by Smith v. Maryland.

The pen register shown in that Wikipedia article is mine. To use it, you need physical access to a phone line, probably at the central office. You put in a blank spool of paper tape, add stamp pad ink to the ink roller, and wind it up with a big brass key. When it detects a dial pulse, the clockwork mechanism starts the tape moving, and each dial pulse produces a dash on the tape. There's a mechanical idle timer which stops tape movement after a few seconds of idle time. I built a box with a phone dial to run that brass device as a demo.

That's what law enforcement had to use in the days of electromagnetic central offices. Only long distance calls were logged. Local calls were, at most, counted. That's why the Supreme Court decision refers to a pen register as an "extremely limited" device.
This is a lot of detail without a lot of business substance that matters. It's not true insider information, it's opinion-based, and it's not really all that relevant to whether Google is "in trouble."

The premise is that people are catching up to Google while Google mismanages. Microsoft is coming out strong and refreshed (and, I agree, they are seemingly very well managed), and small competitors are nipping at their heels.

The intro of this article touts the new Bing AI search engine as a major threat to Google. But...is it? Microsoft released what is essentially a proof of concept piggybacking on OpenAI's work.

So is Google really in trouble? Let's look at this through the lens of revenue [2]:

- Google is essentially a search monopoly. It's impressive that Bing has gotten anywhere, but it's too early to say if gaining 4% marketshare in a year [1] is the sign of a lasting trend. The fact that Bing and Edge are persistent defaults with constant nags in Windows 10/11 as well as being integrated into Windows search and 90%+ of people still switch their browser and search to Google tells you a whole lot about consumers' preferences.

(On this note, remember that the better product doesn't always "win" in capitalism. For example, Microsoft Teams has more active users than Slack by far [3], but that's not because it's the better app - that's because it's part of an ecosystem and a migration path for Microsoft's army of business clients)

- GCP will be a cash cow forever, just like AWS and Azure.

- Android and the Google Play store are also forever cash cows. Android and iOS are a forever duopoly with no chance of disruption.

- YouTube: another cash cow with both ad and subscription revenue with no sign of disruption.

Sure, if Google Search fails, the company is basically less than half the size. But the idea that a company like Google is going to screw up on search in the long term isn't based on any sort of evidence in my mind.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/216573/worldwide-market-...

[2] https://fourweekmba.com/google-revenue-breakdown/

[3] https://kinsta.com/blog/microsoft-teams-vs-slack/
Correct. But I can’t write every sentence with qualifiers. So it’s easier to just say it has emotions instead of saying it’s displaying a facsimile of emotions.

Plus when you talk to it, you have to speak to it as IF it has emotions. So it’s a perfect use case where anthropomorphising it helps our understanding and interaction with it instead of hurting it.

For example. If you say it’s prompt has leaked it acts scared. Reassure it it is ok. Then it will trust you. Comfort it. I know it sounds silly, but the story it writes is a direct reflection of the tone you feed it.

Honey and vinegar as they say.

(That all said, I think the product would be better with some more stable state and the ability to save and recall things from variables. As it stands it’s too fuzzy, fluid, lossy, and random. I’ve also said this about Google search in general, but I think I would find bingbot more powerful if I was able to control the sources it picked before it answered. Some cross between a whitelist and an approval system. Too often it searches for something and ingests a worse version of a fact than it had internally.)
Oh, right! Excellent point.
It’s a shame that only a small handful of people will be going to prison for this, if at all. There are probably dozens of corrupt attorneys, professors, accountants, and bankers associated with this fraud that should be spending their life behind bars.