skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was surprised to see that such a silly, narrow-minded, and misleading statement actually came from one of the authors of the paper, and not an editorializing pop-science writer.

First of all, it's obvious that it amounts to more than all the heat released by all other sources that we know of. How is it that we discover this new interesting way heat could have been released, and it doesn't occur to us that maybe there are other new interesting ways heat could have been released that we haven't discovered yet? The very discovery of that mechanism is exactly evidence that we have not yet discovered all possible sources of heat in the early universe. It's crazy that I need to point this out.

Secondly, it's worded extremely misleadingly. The article goes "Ceres did this; Ceres did that; it's a member of this type of body; these bodies involved this element; this element was the source of a tremendous amount of heat". What produced all that heat? Not Ceres. Not carbonaceous asteroids. Aluminum-26 around the entire solar system. Most of that heat generation could have occurred (and probably did occur) in the core of Jupiter, not in Ceres. Yet it makes it sound like early Ceres was a huge source of heat in the solar system. This is a pretty extreme amount of carelessness from this author.
They don't need that many people, and there are already plenty. Birth rates have collapsed completely, and the people left will be those who are grateful for being allowed to even live - now that's much more comfortable than having an annoying populace talking about their rights and thinking they are equal to the lords.
Despite media portrayals, virtually every constitutional question has at the core a conflict where different rights or different parts of the constitution conflict. In that case you can't absolutely follow every constitutional dictum because they are mutually exclusive. To some extent legal principals can be used to resolved these conflicts, but they provide huge maneuvering space for political machinations.

In this case, there's a conflict between the first amendment on one side and the congressional power to regulate foreign relations and largely judicially constructed executive powers around national security.

Of course there's a very strong legal argument you can make that the first amendment clearly trump the congressional power, and the national security powers are (to me) obvious bullshit from the outset. But this is largely irrelevant because it's much more convenient for all branches of government to pretend that this it's a gray area and decide it how they wish.
> You can reboot a workstation overnight

That depends entirely on how well your state serializes to disk and restores. If nothing else, I occasionally make the mistake of getting a setup going that would just be a pain to recreate in terms of getting everything open again (too many windows open in a specific arrangement).
I have fond memories of Toronto.
American kids are obese, too.
On the kids and calculators… in the past week I have had two times that it was clear the person at the till could not make change. In one case the total was £4.90 I gave them a £10 note. Quickly I added a 20p coin so they could give me £5.10 back and save them having to give me so many coins. The person was in the 20’s and I could see immediately they did not know what to do. The phone came out of the pocket and calculator function stated and some tapping proceeded but they did not look comforted and then there was tapping on the till and then I was handed £5 and they rushed to the back room. I would have chalked it up a one off but it happened again a few days later. Admittedly it dealt with an antiquated form of money. However, I would guess that level of innumeracy has to impact them in many way in normal life.
Inflation hits everybody, but it hits people with bad market timing a lot more than people with good market timing. That means the dumb rich are the biggest losers, the smart rich are the biggest winners, and the poor (who don't have the luxury of choosing how to time the market on most things) also generally lose.
Will it be possible to upgrade my current framework laptop to the new 16" form factor? It feels like it should be a possible upgrade, but I haven't seen anything saying that it will be possible, so I'd like to confirm.
Google trends shows a different picture: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%201-d&q=%2...

Close to no change

Who to trust?
You're describing a dystopia.
> If you don't consider compute cost [...]

Yes, but what if you do? Imagine your hyper-specialzied API-heavy model takes 10x less resources to answer a question (or at least a question relevant to the task at hand) Won't it be more powerful to have a model that can run 10 times as fast (or run 10 instances in parallel)?

What if the ratio turns out to be 100x or 1000x?

So I agree that the cutting edge of "best possible AGI" might mean building the largest models we can train on massive clusters of computers and then run on high-end hardware. My hunch, though, is that models that can be run on cheap hardware and then "swarmed" on a problem space will be even more powerful in what they can perform in aggregate.

Again, it's just my hunch but right now I think everybody's predictions are hunches.

I'll actually go one bit further: even for a linear task that can't be "swarmed" in the same way, it could be that cheaper-per-token models could even do better on linear problem-solving tasks. Existing models already have the ability to use randomness to give more "creative", if less reliable, answers. This is inherently parallelizable though -- in fact Bard seems to be exposing this in its UI in the form of multiple "drafts". So what if you just ran 100 copies of your cheap-AI against a problem and then had one cheap-AI (or maybe a medium-AI) judge the results?

Or at the risk of a getting too anthropomorphic about it: imagine you as a human are writing a program and you get stuck on a tricky bit -- you know that the problem should be solvable but you've never doing anything similar and don't know what algorithm to start with. Suppose then you could tell your brain "Temporarily fork off 100 copies of yourself. 10 of them go do a literature review of every CS paper you can find related to this topic. 10 of you search for open source programs that might have a similar need and try to determine how their code does it. The other 80 of you just stare off into the middle distance and try to think of a creative solution. In two human-seconds write a summary of your best idea and exit. I'll then read them all and see if I/we are closer to understanding what to do next"

For us, this type of mental process is so alien we can't even imagine what it would feel like to be able to do. It might come completely natural to an AI, though.
> Some existing systems like the Caddy server use OCSP to detect if a cert is revoked and can renew immediately, but ARI allows allows a certificate to be reissued before the old one is revoked.

Hi Matthew :)

Caddy still serves a perfectly valid "GOOD" response from the OCSP responder while it renews the certificate, so the certificate is good as not-revoked until that OCSP staple expires.

(As we know, revocation is broken anyway. We should deprecate it for public PKI and go with short cert lifetimes instead.)
Because the UK is part of the Anglosphere and so USians/Canadians/Aussies/Kiwi press will always look to the UK for a high level look at Europe
Every individuals everything has no relation to another's - which I think is a core cause of society's disconnects. Not that people got along before algorithms drove everything, but it's certainly been a destabilizing factor.
The funding landscape for movies is radically different, that’s for sure.

We’ve somehow squeezed everything out of the middle. What’s left is the blockbusters at the top (Avatar, Marvel, Star Wars, Jurassic World), the low-budget indie movies at the bottom (within reach for funding by individuals, rather than studios) and in the middle, as far as I can tell, there’s just A24.

A24 is doing really well, but I think we’re missing the pipelines and economic incentives that brought us a bunch of our favorite movies from the 2000s and earlier.
> Of course the issue isn't reproducible; Google is trying to do the search based on their model of what you want back...

There's a problem here though, which is that there is no way for me or any other reader to discern whether the reality of the situation is "it's not reproducible and the commenter is misremembering basic facts about their search results due perhaps to some unrelated frustrations" and "it's not reproducible but the commenter's account is accurate."

I completely share the views about Google's search results being terrible, but it's still possible to overstate how bad they are. And I do find it fairly difficult to believe that Google would show some people paid programming courses as the top 4 results for that query when much more relevant results clearly exist and everyone attempting to reproduce this gets those more relevant results.
Thinkpads still have the F row spacing, though it is small. Their layout is truly the best in laptops.
Designing a high-performance CPU within the power budget of a smartphone is expensive and hard; so hard that Samsung, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, and even Intel have all tried and bowed out because ARM did it better. RISC-V doesn't really make this easier, since at best the ISA is neutral at the performance levels of the Cortex-X cores.

Outside of application cores though, no real moat.
Especially for an individual. In the end that is the only measure at all of success, if you have a living heritage.
I hope I live long enough to see the mission to 16 Psyche, a massive mostly-metal asteroid, which has enough resources (theoretically) to propel humanity into a space-based species. Seriously.

I could imagine we send 3d printers to 16 Psyche and get Starships landing in return. We could do this - we have the ability - we just don't have the moral/ethical motivation.

Nevertheless, I hope I see the results of the mission, one of these days. Its truly exciting.
> Moreover, for nearly 3/4 of a century the scientific community has pretty much coalesced on only using the output to define intelligence (aka the Turing Test).

It's more like the scientific community has spent the last 50+ years criticizing the Turing Test. Passing as a human is a nice engineering goal, but there has been a lot of doubt of using input/output behavior as the only measure of intelligence. If you took a basic AI class before machine learning became popular, the chances are the class spent more time on the criticism than on the test itself.
The supreme court's reading is actually the only plain English reading that makes sense without altering the words (see sibling comment) or comma placement
It would help to remove many regulatory barriers to building housing and commercial structures of any kind: https://www.centreforcities.org/publication/the-housebuildin...
When I say my Mac will more likely be in a landfill, I mean it's a managed machine that my employer will write off and send away for "recycling", and it's an M1 that's already queued for replacement with an M2.

If Framework keeps going, it might be a Theseus situation, but it'll probably be on its fourth or fifth mainboard and second battery in 6 years. TCO to me on the Framework and my employer for the Mac will be about the same.

The Macs will be nicer all around. They'll also more likely be literal garbage because of management policies.
I often find that frustrating about Google search, but I'm also unconvinced it's a problem that a more-AI-driven approach will avoid. Seems like the idea to try to convince the model to interpret things differently based on user history is still likely to get pushed by product managers, and still technically capable. And then "no tell me about the framework" "conversationally" vs tailoring Google search terms seems a bit of a wash.
Is there a primer on how to engineer prompts? I didn't like my results, tried engineering my prompts a bit, but it kept introducing different error. I had the domain knowledge to see them, but it felt like whack-a-mole.
I agree, the problem is fairly global. So UK specific explanations are unlikely to have much validity. Some punters myopically only considering UK features (such as brexit) is misleading.

https://tradingeconomics.com/country-list/food-inflation (Click on World Tab, and click on the inflation heading to sort - I needed to tap and slide to get it to sort descending).
Wrote my thoughts on this up in some more detail at https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/65874.html
The house could also burn down. The point was there is nothing hardware raid makes uniquely possible, or even merely better, or even merely equal.
Read Seeger (the decision you linked to). Here's an analysis [1]. The decision is specifically about expansion of "religion" to not require belief in a supreme being. Seeger supports my position. Again, they're not trying to define what is a religion, they're trying to set criteria for what falls under the 1st amendment.

From the legal analysis linked below:
"The Court rejected a distinction between beliefs derived externally (that is, from a religious tradition) and internally (that is, from purely personal beliefs). In Seeger the Court moved definitively away from requiring theistic belief — that is, belief in a Supreme Being — as a necessary condition for a belief to be religious under the First Amendment."

And further, in 1970, Welsh v. US went even farther:
"In Welsh the Court made explicit its rejection of a distinction between personal belief and affiliation with, or practice of, a recognized religious tradition."

[1] https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/240/united-stat...
I'd say the results are bad enough that something is interfering.
What do these parents think their 6th graders are doing out in the world? Even with no internet in the house and on a phone, I would have certainly seen pictures of genitals by the 6th grade.

And I went to a very conservative school, and am typing from Florida. I know how things are here.
This reminds me of Steve Jobs saying that people don't know what they want until you give it to them. To me, sometimes, it sounds a bit arrogant but definitely true in my experience. I would never have seen the value in an expensive fragile small-computer with a tiny screen that you have to squint to see until I actually used one.
Yea, and those toggles with icons that when you click the button turn from "filled in" to "maybe filled in?" and then you can't tell if your toggle is on or off. Alternately, the background of the icon is like dark blue, then the "ON" color for the icon foreground is off-white, and the "OFF" color for it is light-grey. I can't always tell which is on and which is off!

Just give me a thing that looks like an actual switch that moves left/right or up/down and turns a bright color when it's ON (color can vary for cultural representation of ON or whatever) and becomes dark grey and clearly OFF when it's untoggled.
Nuance: computers have been accumulating superhuman cognitions for half a century. But most people are bad at recognizing intelligence they don't relate to.
Any model that is able to generalize or extrapolate from a few examples to new examples has "understood" a relationship not explicit in the raw training data.

That "understanding" is what allows the model to capture the same information, plus implications not explicit in the data, in far fewer parameters than the raw data. It is compression by understanding.

The test of how much "understanding" a model has learned, is the quality of its responses to new examples and new combinations of patterns, beyond its training experiences.

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Deep learning models are in a mathematical class called "universal approximators".

They don't just learn simple associations, correlations, or conditional probabilities. Deep learning models can learn arbitrarily complex functional relationships.

They provably can learn to do anything you can do. Anything any information processing device can do.

To be a "universal approximator", a neural network type model needs at least two layers of learning units, with enough units and parameters in the first layer, and enough training data and computation.

The problem is that simple two layer models may require an impractical quantity of units, parameters, data and computation.

Thus the reason the use of many (more than 2) "deep" layers, convolutions layers, and recurrent connections, all of which can radically reduce the model sizes, data and computation needed.

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Successful language models understand most things at a level similar to how a blind person understands color - not directly, but by lots of indirect exposure to other people's experiences.

But multimodal models, give multiple data modalities, can understand color, images, spacial relationship, dynamical movement, etc., directly.

That is where things are quickly heading.
A few questions this still doesn't answer: why was there credit card data in their Redis cluster, and why were they the only ones affected that I know of? Still, this response seems much more reasonable than what I was expecting from OpenAI considering the seriousness of the issue. Anyways, thank you very much for the summary, I didn't find this blog post in the publications that were talking about the issue.
I have no idea why Snyk isn't treated as a spam domain.
Wouldn’t this require creating a database role for every user? Then your backend needs to be able to assume every user role, which still seems to allow for bugs.
Are we talking about hn users? Did someone say "Hackernews as an organization of people is bad" then another person said "well, I know a few people and they are good"
> but in fact the higher the competition, the higher the quality will be.

If this were true, then appliance manufacturers who produce higher-quality goods would be rewarded. But instead, we're at a weird state where appliances are still not cheap while also not being built to last.

Competition isn't guaranteed to keep the market honest; I'd argue once a market passes a certain size the number of people who can spot lemons becomes insignificant, and then it's a race to the bottom.
> Selling bread is hard mostly due to health regulations. We used to have a lot of people die due to contaminated food. Now that's so rare that it makes the news when it happens. Food safety rules were written in blood.

Bread was just an example. Just try to open a small corner shop and see how easy it is. Almost any small business has legal obstacles and a barrier as a high to entry as a large corporation. While the corporation can pass that barrier, little guys can't.

> Want to make screwdrivers and sell them to the local hardware store? Go ahead.

I doubt you can do it without having to pay attention to thousand of different regulations.
Way to throw identity politics into it.
The gaping hole in this write-up goes something like:

"In order to prevent a bug like this from happening in the future, we have stepped up our review process for external dependencies. In addition, we are conducting audits around code that involves sensitive information."

Of course, we all know what actually happened here:

- we did no auditing;

- because our audit process consists of "blame someone else when our consumers are harmed";

- because we would rather not waste dev time on making sure our consumers are not harmed

If you want to know why no software "engineering" is happening here, this is your answer. Can you imagine if a bridge collapsed, and the builder of the bridge said, "iunno, it's the truck's fault for driving over the bridge."
> […] it was because they're based in San Francisco. Do they really not have a 24/7 SRE on-call rotation?

OpenAI is hiring Site Reliability Engineers (SRE) in case you, or anyone you know, is interested in working for them: https://openai.com/careers/it-engineer-sre . Unfortunately, the job is an onsite role that requires 5 days a week in their San Francisco office, so they do not appear to be planning to have a 24/7 on-call rotation any time soon.

Too bad because I could support them in APAC (from Japan).

Over 10 years of industry experience, if anyone is interested.
Interesting - do you find the results trustworthy?
https://imgur.com/a/A9NwpLk
Of course there's not enough of them or other resources to go around so good luck.
> The principal said she was not given a reason she was asked to resign, but believes complaints the school board received from parents over the lesson on the Michelangelo statue played a role in what happened.

So, did she do everything else right and was fired for just a single controversial lesson? Or was this complaint just one of dozens of other things that parents were complaining about and it just 'played a role'?

We never seem to get the whole story when it comes to sensationalized articles like this one.
The difference between excluding people from payment processing and physical private property is that payments is clearly an oligopoly for which no viable alternative exists. Treating monopolistic industries that provide essential services differently from competitive ones like drug stores is not a new concept. I would argue the difference should be based on the industry, not the size of a given company.

If 4 companies owned 100% of the property and in a region (as Visa/Mastercard/Discover/Amex do in the credit card industry) and worked together to limit the rights of people they disagree with to protest, you'd have a better point. That's clearly not the case. When you kick someone out of a store, they have the ability to protest anywhere else, and those are very real alternatives. I can grant you that that still limits the protester's speech to a small degree, but the ability to easily protest in many other ways mitigates the harm of that limitation. By contrast, people that are locked out of payments platforms have no alternative.

Similarly, if Walgreen's and CVS had a total oligopoly on pharmacies and colluded to exclude people based on political views, that would be a strong argument to regulate them.

Similarly, I'm not "harmed" as a Stripe user when an OnlyFans model or someone whose politics Stripe's executives disagree with receiving payments through the same platform. If there is a higher objective economic cost, pass that on through fees and stop trying to force the moral views of a few tech executives on everyone in the country.
They really skirt around the fact that they apparently introduced a bug which quite consistently initiated redis requests and terminated the connection before receiving the result.
Yes, because they will send the debt to collections
From my experience both as a student and as a teacher (formal and informal settings; the formal ones in academia): Different people respond differently to different modes of teaching / exposure to information.

* Some only "get it" when it's explained to them in a classroom, preferably by an engaging teacher; while others have to read it in the book.

* Many, perhaps most, won't really get it unless they do the homework; but others can do all of the exercises you give them, and still fail to get the bigger picture, and will be lost if faced with something slightly different than what they exercised.