skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What would we do differently if we determined conclusively which it was?

We probably *couldn't* do much differently, but Newton-for-Newton a bloody great big squashy snowball hitting us with a certain amount of energy would have a different effect - and maybe different mitigation - from a smaller harder rock with the same energy.
It's not spam if it's targeted - that's marketing.
Exactly downskilling. So basically not at risk. There is always a shortage of the best. If the best lose their jobs they can take the next best job, or create a new job for themselves.
4 hours later -- I see a question mark button on the upper left side. It shows a very brief but useful set of instructions.
This is correct and to show what that means:
Frankfurt to Berlin with a fast ICE: 4 hours, no changes.
With regional trains only: 10-14 hours, 3-6 changes.

With a car this trip is 5 hours. No one in their right mind would ever do such a trip with regionals only, it is extremely painful. In addition, the chance that one of the connections will be missed is extremely high.
What’s a UHNWI?
Wish the UK would do this.
So do the math: 1.3 billion x 3/4/5 doses… It was never a viable choice.

They also had a low trust society in western medicine, there never got effective uptake of any of the vaccines.

It meant they didn’t have the options that countries like Taiwan and Australia had, where high vaccine uptake allowed lockdowns to be loosened.
Sales doesn't go up suddenly just because you import extra to sell
I'm refuting your arguments below, but this is really sidestepping the real discussion. My main point is actually different: just because we don't understand how something works does not mean it's magic.

We have made incredible advances based on the notion that the human mind can be duplicated. To an extent unbelievable to anyone looking at this a mere 10 years ago this has been proven, but of course you're right to say "yes, but not 100%". We have no reason at this time to doubt advances will keep coming (attention is a great advance, but it's not hard to come up with 100 more things to try out)

> We don't know how minds work.

That would be why producing similar outputs is so impressive when it comes to proving understanding. The "direct approach" to evaluating how minds work is rather unethical.

Think of it like nuclear fusion. We don't "know" the stars, or the sun, are powered by fusion. We have a theory, and theory matches measurement rather well. It took a lot of experiments demonstrating fusion ("duplicating" the stars) to convince everyone this is what was happening.

> Again we don't know how minds work but we are sure they are not complex LLMs.

Brains have big convolutional sections, the visual cortex. Also the retina itself has at least 3 convolutional layers. And while there's no consensus, I think that the fact that the optic nerve transmits a FFT of the optical signal is not a coincidence: such an architecture makes it really easy to do convolutional transforms inside the nerve itself.

Brains have the essential part of "attention is all you need": positional encoding. It is generally referred to as "brain waves", and as for the "masked attention" part, have you looked at children's learning books lately?

I mean, sure, that last part indicates that some of human intelligence is not even in humans brains directly, but in "society", specifically in human educational practices and books. The intelligence is not even in the contents/subject of the books, but in the structure of the exercises.

Plus, normal errors in our sensory perception would also lead to prediction problems similar to what masked attention attempts to predict.
> always need to buy a ticket

I buy all my tickets online. That's largely possible in Germany. I can't remember when I last needed to buy a physical ticket.
While ChatGPT is a real technological breakthrough because I think we, for the first time ever, crossed a line that made having conversations with AI Chatbots useful, it also was inevitable. Year by year we crawled forwards, improving bit by bit. I think we just underestimated the tipping point, at least I would have never thought something of the level of ChatGPT to be possible. It will only improve from here, competition will increase and AI NLP will become that much more common.
direct link to comment: https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/9si6r9/postmortem...
Is this sarcasm? Can't tell...
There are lots of people in /r/java that defy God :p
I don't think it's meant to let you replace all car trips you could possibly make with a single 50 euro payment per month.

Nobody in their right mind would, yeah. So they just have to pay for the train if they don't want to buy and maintain and fuel a car for such journeys. Myself, I'd never consider going by car between such well-connected cities, I'd have to drive (can't read a book for those 5 hours) and deal with parking and either rent or borrow a car (or buy, I suppose).
Ultra high net worth individual
Companies don't get a choice. The "out" some companies are using is to encrypt everything with keys only on the customer's device. They then provide all data they have, as ordered, on request. This, of course, does not include the encryption key. However, as far as I know essentially only Signal does it these days.

Whatsapp is famous for doing this before, and then Facebook killing this for "regulatory concerns". I don't know for sure, but the previous owner of Whatsapp and founder of Signal implied that Facebook got threatened by states into doing that.

But FB/Google/Amazon/... are the tip of the iceberg. The companies really used for "enforcing the laws" (and for using very harsh measures against individuals just to make some government department's job a little bit easier) are banks.

https://www.taxsamaritan.com/tax-article-blog/reasons-the-ir...

(note the wording here: "the IRS has full authority to". They can do this at will. This process has been used to cause problems for political opponents as well. Nobody seems to care)
No one signed up to their newsletter. They scraped the emails of everyone who starred the repo and imported it into MailChimp and subscribed us all to a newsletter. That’s spam.
Block Party: Creating a V-6 by Declaring Two Cylinders Redundant
Well, kinda like this but more cursive as it has more joins. It's indeed the style I learned at school.
I switched to this ticket in Berlin and the process was (surprisingly) straight forward, could do it in online so I wrote about it. They did try to make the digital ticket default instead of a physical card.

https://www.arbeitnow.com/blog/bvg-monthly-ticket-to-deutsch...

You can already apply for your monthly subscription to change to this ticket. That's what I did. So instead of 66 euros for Berlin (VBB area) a month from May, I'll be paying 49 and can access the local networks across the country
Danger: possible infohazard

I think it would just make people more likely to click it, however :)
I've found for myself that it better start tmux/screen session on server up on login and don't spend time thinking on per case basis. So 95% on ssh sessions I use run tmux inside and usually the first command after ssh login is tmux attach. 5% cases are exception when no tmux/screen available or cannot copy my own tmux.conf
China’s involvement in atrocities against Uighurs (including putting them in “reeducation” camps, forcibly sterilizing women, forcing Uighur women to marry chinese men, trying to erase Uighur culture) is reason enough to maintain and increase sanctions. Sure economically countries often ignore things like this, but with the current US orientation against china Increasing, it makes sense to focus on this more.
No they couldn't:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_retention

https://edri.org/our-work/a-beginners-guide-to-eu-rules-on-s...

The companies profit from this data, but at this point they no longer have a choice: they have to collect the data or stop offering services in a lot of geographical areas. The point that they can avoid it by not collecting it was valid some 15 years ago, but no longer.

One of the main objections of companies is, by the way, that most governments refuse to pay the sometimes extensive development and infrastructure costs for this, instead just threatening the companies with (often illegal) measure to force their compliance.
I wonder if we may have crossed the threshold into singularity. LLMs will almost inevitably be on pretty much everything in 5 years. Looking at how well current GPTs are able to write calls to external APIs, their integration to systems will be surprisingly deep. No apparent end in sight to their advancement.

It may well be that this is an unexpected vector from which to enter the singularity.
Well done, looks very nice!
Isn’t the next best thing Eikon?
Today I learned about pyrography and a particularly dangerous technique called "fractal burning", where people use high-voltage electricity to burn patterns into wood.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_burning

The result is quite beautiful, but I can see why some countries might want to regulate or prohibit it. Personally, I think people should be allowed to take such risks if they choose to do so.
Its also worth mentioning that there are express connections between big cities that are relatively close. For example, there is a sprinter connection between Nürnberg and Munich that takes about 90 minutes using a regional train instead of the 60 minutes it would take with an ICE.
Sure, but if you miss your connection you can just take the next train. Frankfurt to Berlin might be impossible, but Hamburg to Berlin is manageable (4-5h), if money is tight, as is Hamburg to Sylt (3h) and many other connections in the 200-400 km range.
> So this is a public transport ticket for urban areas

It isn't. It is a ticket for all of Germany.
Most of that is just babysitting / baby jailing cost.
I hope that guy is wrong, what is even the point of developing AI if it doesn't make us all unemployed eventually?
It's also a bit all over the place. Kotlin seems to be afraid that Java is catching up and so is branching out to Multiplatform.

All in all there are less resources on Kotlin but too many things they want to do. Not only are they building the language but they have to reinvent everything because they don't work on Multiplatform.

It used to be simple - a better Java (so it claims). Now I'm not so sure what the direction is.
What’s the point of this distinction?

Also where do you get this information from?
I want my laptop to be more predictable and reliable and with great battery life instead of having more performance.

But thanks to turbo boost, sometimes my laptop is hot playing a youtube video but cool when compiling code or the other way around. There is no predictability on how long a compilation will take or how long the battery will last, since it would depend on N thermal and power factors.

At least to me, this feels like when marketing designs products instead of product managers. I recently bought an Intel 12th gen i5-1240p laptop (asus zenbook) and this processor boosts from 1.7Ghz to 4.4Ghz i.e. more than twice the base frequency. That's absurd? I rather have a stable ~2Ghz than have the processor boost up to ~4Ghz while surfing the web.

Hence we wouldn't need tools like this if at-least on laptop, Intel released chips with no or smaller turbo boost range.
Life is a game, this is your strategy guide (2014)
Interesting! I'd never heard of the Mosuo people, but from what I'm reading they fit your description well. Thanks for the detailed comment, cheers.
I had the same question. It looks to me that you have to add API keys for data sources.

Although a lot of work no doubt has gone into this, it seems to me like a bit of a pointless project if someone then must source their own data from various (and varying in quality and price) APIs. As mentioned, the entire value of Bloomberg is the data. Its not an interface which almost anyone can create.
I mean technically people can’t own land in China, they’re just leasing it from the government. This assumption has been baked into real estate prices but people bid it up anyways.
> First came the data

And as their data was harvested, consumers were told: Relinquish your private data to us, it's a fine and normal thing to do, we are trustworthy corporate citizens and privacy is a concern expressed only by those who wear hats of tinfoil.
> talk to a driver (who usually acts annoyed on behalf of the whole bus that you are holding up)

It is still an interesting cultural observation that here in NL, even people who manually buy a ticket at the driver while struggling using the card terminal do not seem to get an annoyed response inherently even on a half-filled bus, whereas in Germany it seemed almost expected to get chewed out for not having exact change or taking more than 10 seconds to gather a pile of coins - in the pre-app era, of course.
That's a great point, and this is a documented effect in education:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_effect
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem_effect

Generally, people treat us differently when they expect more or less from us (based on what they've seen from us or facts they know about us). People also experience a tendency to rise to high expectations or fall to low ones. See also:

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/10/hi...
The underlying concept I’m getting at is that there is more than just human understanding here. Our understanding of mathematics is highly subjective but it seems to me theorems do have some sort of true value with some of them being more useful for doing mathematics and others being things you prove once and never use again.

A robot could prove infinite theorems about every number having a double successor, triple successor and so on. If it does so it’s not just human subjectivity saying it hasn’t done any meaningful mathematics.
In every HN thread there's always that armchair technologist who's so against critical thinking and the forethought of potential negative impacts of innovation, as if all innovation are purely good, no?
Huh. Have you tried to open the tildeverse page recently?
How is this unexpected? AI agents that interact via language and are able to write code which improves itself is classic singularity. It basically describes HAL from 2001.
It does, if as the gp stated you sold it for 20% less.
From the point of view of the company for who it is just a pot of data with no context until analysed, maybe.

It will sure seem retroactive to someone who might have acted differently so the data wouldn't be available to be handed over, if the current laws were in action at the point they could have done something to avoid the data being collected¹².

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[1] "Generated" is too benign a word here IMO, hence using "collected" instead

[2] "inferred" might be a better choice as the data could be incorrect³ but that still seems to imply less agency than the companies have in their very deliberate stalky behaviour

[3] so something made up, not a truth collected
I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm not talking about luxury brands, I'm talking about the fact that regular people enjoy buying handmade niche products that are made by other people.

Anyway I know people who work in fashion, pretty much all luxury brands are good made by hand, you just don't know it because it's happening in slave labor, sweat shops and the like.

The analogy for music would be a lot of bands who don't write their own music and can't sing or play their instruments (assuming they even have instruments), relying on technology or other people for these things. In essence, an existing trend exacerbated.

I know you said it's exacerbated, but his has been the case for the last 100 years, Elvis had song writers, all the K-Pop and J-pop is already this, it's generated or music written by third-parties. We might end up with MOAR MUSIC!, but I don't know, who cares?

Anyway, generated music is besides the point, for something like AI music to be useful, needs a market. There is already a market for music generated by computers and AI. There has been for a long time. I'm talking about live music, young people going to see people play music, rap, do performance art etc. This is what young people like to do, they're social animals. It's also what makes old people often follow suit, because it's popular with younger people.

I was just walking through my neighborhood ten minutes ago and there was a guy DJing and a bunch of young people hanging out in a bar listening, that guy could easily be replaced already with a spotify playlist, but why isn't he? I'd argue there are better mixes and playlists already in existence, but "optimization" isn't necessarily what life is about, I think it's hard for computer people to understand this.

Before there was a music industry, there was people singing and dancing around campfires, that spirit is not going away so long as there are people. That's what music is really about, "the industry" on top of it is a bit of fun, but we can live with or without it.
It's great product. I'll have a lot of fun with it :)

"huge dildos for midgets"

https://pagegenie.io/editor?key=fb131898-5f9b-45eb-bdf7-2785...
It's not about the conductor...
Sorry, I forgot that they redirect traffic coming from HN. It is a real website if you access it some other way.
I couldn't disagree with this more strongly. I guess we can agree to vehemently disagree.
Asking why do or not do something is an important part of critical thinking.
Phones don't log that info. Cell towers do. there is no way to have a cellular phone and not be triangulable. not with a cell network with fully overlapped coverage areas.
Well yeah. You could also be afraid of screwdrivers. After all, someone could stab you with one. So on the one hand you could fear the screwdriver and try to eliminate them. But really, it's the stabby person you should be afraid of, not the tool. If not one tool, they'd just use another.
The compute necessary to run 65B naively was only available on AWS (and perhaps Azure, I don't work with them) and the required instance types have been unavailable to the public recently (it seems everyone had the same idea to hop on this and try to run it). In my other post here [1], the memory requirements have been lowered through other work, and it should now be possible to run the 65B on a provider like CoreWeave.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35028738
>because it also enables some level of competition

Does it? How do railways work in Austria? In the UK companies bid to get monopolies on routes. So you don't really have competition anyway.

>and it lets the rail companies charge higher prices for tourists.

Is that a good thing? I assume at least one of the reasons is to get people out of cars. It's unclear to me why a tourist not using a car is worse than a local not using a car.
The only reason I was able to break into programming was because of high standardized test scores. The SAT and others like it really are a great equalizer. Dropping the requirement is a shame.
> China absolutely could have gotten mRNA vaccines. Hell, Hong Kong had them.

Hong Kong has 7 million people… 7 million != 1.3 billion.
There's 5 minutes I'll never get back.
"We're like the dinosaurs. A few of us are looking up at the new light in the sky and thinking "Well, that's interesting" without much of an idea of what's actually incoming"

That was the one of the most funniest and at the same time scariest thing I have ever read.
Hi Matthew, I've been a huge fan of your work ever since, back in 2010 or 2011, thanks to you I got the Gobi 2000 mobile broadband chip working on Linux on my Thinkpad W510!

As for the pros and cons of the `throttled` project, yes, this might not be the "officially desired" approach but I know several people who have been using to great success for years. The reality is, unfortunately, that particularly those of us who use Linux machines for work and order the most recent & powerful Thinkpads or Dells they can get their hands on, often realize later on (when the machine arrives) that the default settings handicap our machine to such a degree that we can barely work. Unfortunately, not everyone is a kernel developer, though, or knows how these things work, so quick fixes are often welcome, even if they limit the hardware's lifetime (after all, we'll buy a new device in a few years anyway).

What exacerbates this problem is that it's all very intransparent: The "official" way to solve these issues (which, as far as I understand you, is installing thermald?) is not really communicated anywhere, nor does thermald come preinstalled on any of the major distributions AFAIK[0]. What's worse, thermald often doesn't even solve the throttling issues without installing further patches. On top of that, BIOS updates by the manufacturers also seem to play a major role as manufacturers like Lenovo introduce different performance modes and things like "lap mode" etc. To be honest, to this day I haven't quite understood how these things interact and whose responsibility it is to fix things.

In my particular case, I have been using a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen9 (which Lenovo says "supports" Linux) and at some point, after installing numerous BIOS updates and working my way through hundreds of posts on the Lenovo forums, I just gave up: My machine still regularly throttles down to 800 Mhz per core and 16W under medium load until I hit the secret Fn + H key chore to tell the BIOS to switch back to high performance mode and set the thermal limit back to the maximum.

Do you happen to have a recommendation for me as to where I should start looking (again) for a solution? Does thermald fix these issues these days? (I know that when I last looked into it, it didn't.)

[0]: (EDIT) I take that back, it looks like thermald does come preinstalled on Fedora and Ubuntu these days. At least it's present on my new Ubuntu 22.04.2 installation. Unfortunately, that doesn't really help me since (and now I remember reading this last time I looked into thermald) according to the changelog[1] for v2.3:

> - thermald will not run on Lenovo platforms with lap mode sysfs entry

Great, so I still have nowhere to go from here it seems.

[1]: https://github.com/intel/thermal_daemon
Google requires a phone number for most users to create a new account; there are currently ways around this, but for obvious reasons, I have no intention of sharing how to do this.

Google Voice has always required a phone number for signup, since its legacy design was to forward calls. When creating the account you’re able to allow Google to generate a Google Voice number for the account, disconnect the setup number, and use Google without a phone number.

Why though go to all that trouble when Signal just needs a PIN one-time from a throw away number; at which point Signal allows user to lockout future registrations from that number as long as the Signal account is active per their definition.
They send their children overseas to overpriced universities, and are allowed to justify buying luxury cars, and other school related expenses. I don’t think the mentality on these expenses is getting a 1:1 conversion rate, but that money is meant to be spent.

There’s various ways they can fund their children’s business ventures (passion projects) overseas without expecting it to ever turn a profit.

With the nepotism in Asia, it doesn’t really matter what degree the children of the elite gets, but more school is always viewed as favorable, possibly even moreso than practical work experience sometimes. This is why you see a proliferation of masters and graduate programs in the United States that don’t require GRE or standardized exams. Obviously it’s a different story for the employment seeking middle class.

To your point, it’s not uncommon or a bad idea for the student to study the arts or art history degree either.
> newly modified electrical

Anecdotally, as a firefighter for almost 20 years, the ones in my area have been overloading of old wiring, or stupidity. (Jamming a breaker open, etc.)