skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well, really that's basically the only place left to go at the moment. I don't think we're likely to have 10GHz any time soon or 1,024 cores either. Specialized circuits are probably all that's left before we start hitting asymptotes.
Their suggestion on the bing homepage was that you'd ask the chatbot for a menu suggestion for a children's party where there'd be nut allergics coming. Seems awfully close to the cliff edge already.
I still want them to release a 6W chip. Intel still owns that part of the x86 market, and actually has decent chips.
It wouldn’t really. I only used that because the parent poster was making it sound like total power draws with the cores all pegged out. And if they are actually doing work and not just running full bore through a whole lot of NOPs then that would be a sorta average of power on each core.

But as the other commenter said, the actual per core usage will vary /wildly/ even under high load. You would half to run something fairly specialized such as prime95, which can run entirely from cache, to get more accurate per core wattage values under same load maximum load.

As it stands, my i9-13900K seems to have an idle “package” draw of around 10-12w and can peak at 360w under prime95 load. And that’s stock. I can make it ramp way past 360W with very little effort.

But under “normal” desktop usage it happily sits well under 100w.

So… shrugs. I would like to know more on this parent’s setup instead of “My server with literally 40% of the core count uses 1/6 of the power!”

But we may not be so lucky.
Taking more extreme positions on things like means testing and policing. And also more unique positions, that seem completely unrelated to race but it happens. Herman cains run in 2011 is a great example. Carson did the unique position thing too. Highlighting the national stage but happens at state levels too.
> The problem I see with tolerating the common cancel culture is that it's often as arbitrary as those motivated by racism etc because it depends on exactly what the article was arguing

IMO any "arbitrary" cancel culture response will quickly self-correct, unless the affected party doubles down on their offense and doesn't handle the response well. That's kind of a PR skill and I don't see it as a problem of cancel culture itself, but just a lack of maturity among (mostly) celebrities/influencers in responding to this relatively new form of public expression (see: Andrew Tate)

Glad you mentioned, the whole "JK Rowling is a TERF" scenario is a perfect example of where I think cancel culture is Good Actually. She has a very large and engaging platform that has influenced an entire generation and more. She then chose to align her public opinion ("trans women don't deserve the rights of women") with the basis of an opinion that is the root of much trans violence. I think the response to her proclamation is proportional to the distance she placed herself at to that extremist position — she put herself pretty close, and every time she doubled down on it, she got hit by another "wave of cancellation". She quieted down and improved her PR response (presumably without changing her opinions), and she seems largely unaffected as a civilian or in her income. The cancellation seems to have just been a "regulating" force on the opinion that "trans women aren't women".

But at the end of the day, that's just an approximation of market responses to her brand. She chose to stick to her brand, and the market has responded. She still makes a tidy royalty sum, she isn't under threat of state punishment or sanctioned violence, and the "offended" aren't legally empowered to act in any way specifically against her that they aren't legally allowed to otherwise.

Re: racists, yes, racists believe they are right and justified, and I disagree with them. Still, my hope and trust that society will impose a counteracting force that will cost racists more for that opinion than it gains them, in the long run, not that racists are forbidden (somehow, not sure how) from "cancelling" people they arbitrarily choose to discriminate against.
> I'm not even sure it doesn't qualify as sentient, at least for the few brief moments of the chat

You need your head checked.

Give it a short story and ask it a question which is not 100% explicit in the text.

For example, give it Arthur C. Clarke's Food of the Gods and ask it was is Ambrosia in the story.

Is a language model, and it behaves like a language model. It doesn't think. It's doesn't understand.
Yeah, but why is that? Consider: I can repair a 1980 Mercedes with one box of tools I can carry. Spend a couple years with your dad working on old cars and you could, too.

For a 2024 Mercedes I don’t think I’m even allowed to know what’s wrong with it. Hardly anything in modern cars is user-serviceable. Can I replace the airbags? Change their timing or velocity? Alter parameters of the antilock brakes, or emissions control? No way, never. Many of those systems have to be replaced wholesale by people specially trained.

The same argument holds, and for similar reasons, with phones. Anyone with a screwdriver could service an old Bell phone. Today it’s almost impossible to take most of them apart at all without destroying them, and the majority of their function is completely invisible and untouchable anyway (software).

We’ve added a huge amount of technology not just to vehicles, but to the tools we use to maintain them. Of course labor will be more expensive as it gets more specialized. Of course parts will be more expensive as they get more capable and more complex.
Zantac’s maker kept quiet about cancer risks for 40 years
Compilation mostly (with shit compilers) and single image manipulation.
Sad, big win for the Ryzen or future Zen 4 threadripper.
The article the other poster linked is making a category error, an unfortunately common one, of confusing something which has classist origins or connotations with being racist.

The term "peanut gallery" originated from vaudeville theater, and comes from the fact that unruly viewers who were not happy with the performance would throw their concessions at the performers, mostly roasted peanuts as these were the cheapest concessions. The attendees of early vaudeville were primarily immigrants, who would now be considered white, but were not at the time (scottish, irish, italian, and german immigrants).

There's nothing particularly racist about the term, never has been, and still isn't as it's used in modern parlance. Whether or not it's acceptable to use phrases with classist or class-based origins in your speech and writing is an exercise I leave up to you.
Isn't the point of having such a simple interface that we should not have to think hard about how we ask the question? I feel like defining a structure for the query such that the machine outputs something useful is something we figured out a long time ago. Or maybe I'm just a luddite that doesn't understand the utility of something like this. Plus: if you know what the answer is supposed to be, why are you asking the computer?

/r
For those who (like me) struggle to make consistent multigraph plots amongst other things I highly recommend proplot (https://proplot.readthedocs.io/en/stable/), a wrapper around matplotlib which takes away many of its pain points.
Lots of assumptions and cardboard views by saying that limited social mobility and intra class racism still exist? Maybe one sentence but not “a lot” prior to my explicitly labeled rant.
I wasn't satisfied with any of the solutions, so I wrote Harbormaster:

https://pypi.org/project/docker-harbormaster

It's great if you want to run generic utilities at home (though I've used it at work in internal production and it was good), but it doesn't do ingress, so you have to bring your own.

It's basically a fancy/opinionated wrapper over "git pull && docker-compose up", with allowing you to specify all configuration in one file/repo.
We're already using them for
customer support where I work. In extremely limited cases they work great.
> You always try to read the law and tick the boxes, and I’m here to tell you its a profoundly uninteresting thing to do when not in the company of lawyers. Nobody here cares about the formal requirements or motivation behind bail. We care about how this fraudster came to sit at home playing video games and chatting up witnesses all day, while many many others sit in jail as their cases drawl out, and many indeed die there.

He does it because of the formal requirements and motivations behind bail, and particularly how those differ between the federal system and the bulk of the state systems.

So, you can not want to talk about the details of formal requirements and motivations, but then you don’t really care about how he got where he is when other accused criminals are treated differently. You just want to vent about the difference without understanding.
> Don’t bother being innovative or doing something that wasn’t in the official plan set six months ago, because even if you did, your managers will not line up the associated dev, PM, Pgm, UX, docs, legal, and marketing resources to make it launchable anyway.

A six month planning cycle does seem slow, but this use of "being innovative" appears to mean "stealing resources from some other project".
There is A LOT of dirty little things you don't know about India. And it is not just the usual oppression of the Dalits and Muslims. I will talk about it in due time.
Indeed. The game Intel used to play is now the game everyone plays -- Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA, for both consumer CPUs and GPUs. At least on the desktop. They tend to run them to redline by default, because numbers. It's all about getting that big splash at launch, to ride it for higher average sale price as long as possible.

Which is unfortunate, because when it comes to benchmarks, understanding the context of a test setup is extraordinarily important. Are you buying that very high-end memory the test setup used and then manually adjusting timings? No? Then you're not getting those numbers. Heck, you may be losing 20% or more performance compared to the test rig on just the difference in memory. Never mind adjusting other things, ensuring the system's thermals are entirely kept in check to prevent throttling, etc.
It would be interesting if it could demonstrate that 1) it can speak multiple languages 2) it has mastery of the same knowledge in all languages, i.e. that it has a model of knowledge that's transferrable to be expressed in any language, much like how people are.
I'm still thinking of recording a 30 year video stream of my backyard just for the sake of it. :)
Hmm, let's check the disclosure statement on this one:

Disclosure statement
_C Raina MacIntyre receives funding from mask manufacturer Detmold for testing of their masks and is on an advisory board for mask manufacturer Ascend._ She receives funding from Sanofi for investigator-driven influenza research, and from NHMRC and MRFF. She has been an expert advisor for Ontario Nurses Association (ONA) In the matter of a proceeding under the Labour Relations Act, 1995 between ONA and Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation.

Abrar Ahmad Chughtai had testing of filtration of masks by 3M for his PhD. 3M products were not used in his research. He also has worked with Paftec on research in respirators (no funding was involved).

_Dr Fisman has served as an expert witness for the Ontario Nurses Association and the Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario in legal challenges related to safer working conditions in healthcare and schools. Dr. Fisman has served on advisory boards for Pfizer, Astrazeneca, Merck, Seqirus and Sanofi vaccines against SARS-CoV-2, influenza, and S. pneumoniae. He holds current funding from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and Health Canada._

_Trish Greenhalgh receives funding from UK National Institute for Health and Care Research and the NIHR School for Primary Care Research._ She is affiliated with University of Oxford and University of Oslo. She has served as an unpaid adviser tot he philanthropic fund BALVI and is a member of Independent SAGE
Few things I'll mention.

First, we have a generous free tier. The free tier includes all but two features, 3 editors, and unlimited viewers.

Beyond that, the main difference is that Equals is a full-featured spreadsheet. You have full Excel/Sheets compatible formulas, pivot tables, formatting, etc. Along with connections to all SQL databases and SaaS tools like Salesforce and Hubspot.

Today's launch adds the ability to build auto-updating dashboards on top of our spreadsheet – but, for example, should you want to do a deep dive on an anomaly on a dashboard, you can do that right in the same tool. Something that gets tricky after a certain point of complexity in tools like data studio.
Soon nvidia & OpenAI will be the only ones with any money so that's fun :)
False. The only basis for not granting pretrial release is if "[the release] will not reasonably assure the appearance of the person as required or will endanger the safety of any other person or the community", and even still the state has a responsibility to place the minimum number of conditions necessary to protect public safety and ensure appearance.
> It's not a good look to start your article on how speech is not violence with a concrete example of someone using speech as violence.

> The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, had issued a fatwā calling on “all valiant Muslims wherever they may be in the world” to kill the writer without delay, for which the assassin would receive a bounty of $1 million.

This is called "putting a hit out" on someone.
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive anyway.

In other words: relax, experiment, take a change on new or weird things, and don;t believe that the thing you're working on right now is super-duper important in the big scheme of things. Consider the size of the Universe (Douglas Adam's style), and remember that any change you make (even if traveling at the speed of light), will still be insignificant for the universe. Use this information not to paralyse you, but gain a sense of unlimited freedom.

You are free.
I was surprised to learn that 54% of Americans have below a 6th grade reading level. [0]

[0] https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/08/02/us-literacy-rate/
Depends, sometimes you get better scaling from having 2x the cpu and 2x the memory (maybe 2x the disk) all in one box than if you have to split it up and have more cross-server connectivity.

You wouldn't buy a dual socket box for 3x the money if you didn't think you'd get 3x the performance out of it, unless you really wanted to keep your server count down.
I think you need the right company which values general and broad knowledge. There might not be so many positions which specifically look for such a person and so having some expert knowledge might come in handy from time to time when your general input is not what the team currently needs.

In my experience having some deep knowledge on a topic makes you a bit better situated on the market if you don't have a strong network, but having broad knowledge allows you to have impact on a greater scale and you might value that more.
Agree.

While Apple has had some hits in recent time (AirPods), they’ve failed to innovate in a new/emerging category for some time now.

It will be polished, but that doesn’t == successful or revolutionary
So an unequivocal assertion of his absolute right to make those statements and obligation of a free society to defend him, coupled with the idea that liberals shouldn't feel obliged to form a consensus opinion on the actual book...

I'm sure other commentators came up with much more heavily caveated and reluctant defences of the Satanic Verses than that one, but that one seems fully in agreement with most ideals of free speech tbh, actually more so than the "Speech is violence? Not..." article author's insinuation that criticising the book or acknowledging it was offensive was incompatible with liberalism...
Reading it now .. dropped back in to say 'thanks!' ..

p.s. great story and the comments too! "the Rapture of the Nerds". priceless.
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It's a metaphor to mean the bureaucracy is so bad it takes a long time to do nothing, not that they literally shipped an empty box by accident.
>How skeptical though?

Mostly, because at the moment, it isn't clear to me what, where, when the market for these headsets might be. And Apple, for all their innovation, tends to jump in when the demand has become somewhat clear. These headsets, at least as the world currently sees them, don't seem to have a clear use case that is at a mass market and price tag that makes sense.

>But I don't think truckers and medical enterprise are really the target market

I agree - it was my attempt to reach for some crowd that might actually have a motivation to buy a device.
Not just when they don't need to modify the argument, when they don't need to consume it. The way these parameters are written takes ownership of x, it's gone, not just modified.

For a non-trivial object (which apparently x is), you would always prefer to write &x (immutable reference to x) or at least &mut x (mutable reference, not applicable here because x is not defined as a mutable thing).

So apparently these functions intend to consume x. That's not common but there are a reasonable number of Rust APIs which consume larger things on purpose.
Hey this is great to hear! Congrats on your launch!
All of them are bargain basement. Some just have shiny things stuck to them and fancy lights.

I tend to go for Asus Prime or MSI Pro boards these days.
It's open-source, as the article says.
Yeah, but the mystique still lingers on.
Homebrew serves 52M packages per month by storing data in container registry
There is a long pseudo-intellectual tradition of dismissing everything that comes from deep learning as not “real AI tm”.

People are just coping that a language model trained to predict the next token can already leetcode better than them.
Can you explain such a case in detail? Genuinely curious to get to the bottom of this
What ails Google is its management, starting at the very top. They have created a culture of idiocy that can't be fixed internally. Everyone knows their issues. They just can't fix them. They can't even acquire new companies without killing them anymore. Google's only hope is to find a new leader who can realign their products onto a shared vision that includes basic business realities like giving a flying duck about customers. I don't think they can find that leader, and wouldn't give them the political capital necessary to fix anything if they did. Google has many years of suffering left before the people who matter realize how severe the problem is.
WebXR seems to be limited to targeting browser technology. The standard should address more than browsers, as OpenXR does, which includes WebXR in the stack. WebXR is not appropriate for Unity / Unreal based stacks

I think that gaming platforms, because they have long had to deal with the confluence of multi-user, low-latency, permissioned systems, are better poised to be the basis for shared experiences in XR
My Tuxedo Computers Pulse Gen 2 was specifically built to be quiet. I also have a Macbook Pro (2019) here that run a similar workload for testing, and I can tell you that the Pulse is far quieter.

I have 16 cores at 100% right now as I type this and there's no fan noise at all. I'm parsing 10,000+ php files and modifying them for an upgrade. I've done this before and the Mac makes a lot of noise.

MBP is good but it's not all there is. This is a AMD Ryzen 7 5700U with a dual fan setup. It's got performance and efficiency cores similar to the newer Apple chips.

Just throwing it out there! I hope more people support great laptops like this one.
Nice!

One suggestion: binary search has extremely poor cache behavior, and early versions of the ORC in winder (IIRC) spent considerably more time binary searching the table than actually unwinding.

There are many solutions to this. ORC (IIRC) uses a flat hint table mapping PC -> offset in the table. It’s sparse, so you look up hint[(ip-base) / divisor] and its successor to find a small range of the table to search. (Divisor is set to keep the hint table compact but still limit the main search to something small.). This gives essentially linear time lookups with simple code.

You can also use a B-tree or a similar structure. B-trees are pretty straightforward if you don’t ever need to modify them.

IIRC this gave a substantial speedup.
Absolutely. And not only that, but you need storage that you can delete the keys from, even if the primary storage is append only. It may sound like a trivial detail, but shredding gets harder and harder for every new layer of “smartness” that SSDs and file systems provide for convenience.
While I've been using Linux/FreeBSD on servers for years, I stuck with Windows for desktop/gaming use. Last year I finally switched though to a combination of Fedora for gaming and ChromeOS for everyday use. There's a few games that I've run into that don't work but most of the ones I want to play do. It's not quite to the level of just working out of the box but the experience is much better than the last time that I had tried it, and enough to fully switch.
This here.
Most people still don't even know of Bing.

I've recently shown ChatGPT to people in tech-related or -adjacent industries and it's been their first exposure to it.
> That's how language models can translate text: they have internal models of understanding that are not tied down to languages or even specific verbiage within a language

I would phrase that same statement slightly differently:

"they have internal [collections of activation weightings] that are not tied down to languages or even specific verbiage within a language"

The phrase "models of understanding" seems to anthropomorphize the ANN. I think this is a popular way of seeing it because it's also popular to think of human beings as being a collection of neurons with various activation weightings. I think that's a gross oversimplification of humans, and I don't know that we have empirical, long-standing science to say otherwise.

> This is pattern recognition to the same extent human memory and schemas are pattern recognition, IMO.

Maybe? Even if the embedding and the "learned features" in an ANN perfectly matched your human expectations, I still think there's a metaphysical difference between what's happening. I don't think we'll ever assign moral culpability to an ANN the way we will a human. And to the extent we do arm ChatGPT with the ability to harm people, we will always hold the humans who did the arming as responsible for the damage done by ChatGPT.

> All of these questions are just as valid posed against humans. Our intra-species variance is so high with regards to these questions (whether an individual feels remorse, acts on it, acts irrationally, etc.), that I can't glean a meaningful argument to be made about AI here.

The intra-species variance on "promise" is much, much lower in the mean/median. You may find extremes on either end of "how important is it to keep your promise?" but there will be wide agreement on what it means to do so, and I contend that even the extremes aren't that far apart.

> Humans lie, humans are incorrect, humans break promises, but when AI does these things, it's indicted for acting humanlike.

You don't think a human who tried to gaslight you that the year is currently 2022 would be indicted in the same way that the article is indicting ChatGPT?

The reason the discussion is even happening is because there's a huge swath of people who are trying to pretend that ChatGPT is acting like a human. If so, it's either acting like a human with brain damage, or it's acting like a malevolent human. In the former case we should ignore it, in the latter case we should lock it up.
I always have Narcan on me when I go to parties or shows just in case. Feels like something that should be in every first aid kit at this point.