skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, to the point that very frequently I just collapse the top comment immediately upon arriving on the HN discussion page because I want to get more perspective.
dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35391436
Concentric Sampler: musical instrument from repurposed floppy disk drive
Tech money should be flexed in politics more. We’re paying taxes too, right?
In my experience the French are very tolerant provided you are not making a nuisance of yourself.
A lot of Indian dishes have Persian, Mughal influences.
Even the person who started this HN context has agreed I made a good point about these premature deaths not being primarily (their words) from the age range / causes in question, so I am not sure why we need to continue.

You are trying to make the conversation about something it is not, and have changed their point to my point (from primary to important but not primary) to then say I am being unreasonable because I don't understand their point, which is in fact mine. There is no reason I should accept to be shut into your box. Read the twitter thread, and this comment thread again, and it is clear you are the one trying to force the conversation to be about one very specific thing while refusing that it is legitimate to place it into a larger context - the overall causes of lower US life expectancy.

The only reason I care is I don't want a bunch of people running around with the false idea in their head that we just need to deal with the important social issues of our younger generations, and we have solved the bulk of the problem. They are certainly important, even critical issues, but that is not true.
I mean there is no dish that is curry similar to how sandwich isn't a good. Sandwiches are a class of food with very disparate things being called sandwiches. Same with curries. The existence of sandwich shops does not mean there is a singular dish called sandwich
Just your files that is it.
Maybe because they are more digestible then reality. Reality is much much worse.
I know the graphs but I still find it amazing to see that this 20+ years old system runs with approximately the same CPU core frequency as today's hardware. The amount of RAM wouldn't suffice today, though.
Observe Your Applications
Way more than fucking Dede Wilsey is paying.
Title missing the word “this”
The while we're at it, let's get rid of the rest of the Bill of Rights, is terrifying.
I think s/he is implying that we wouldn't have 7B people if it wasn't for Ag tech
I've experienced both:

One time two very competent guys shows up on site and let me reproduce the issue, agrees it is a serious bug and promises to take care of it.

Next time I get connected with what seems to be two part time students or something who doesn't seem to have a clue about the product.

Then in a third case some technical architect or something looks into my stack overflow question, verifies there is a known bug and it will be fixed in next monthly rollout, but I never saw a fix.
>you get a _sense_ for where the shot is going. High, low, left, right etc so it's not just guesswork and statistics either.

It is guess work and statistics. Just because it happens at the level of neurons rather than as a conscious series of mathematical steps does not change what it is. It may manifest as a "feeling", but "feeling" is just a way for the conscious mind to have a referent object as the source of information which comes from subconscious thought processes.
he admits in the article to having equity via his investment fund, they are using semantics because he doesn't "personally" have equity. He also tries to downplay by saying it's an "immaterial" amount, but in reality that could be billions of dollars.

There's also nothing preventing Microsoft from gifting him billions in Microsoft stock so they can claim he's not motivated by profit with OpenAI despite indirectly making money off it.

You'd have to be extremely naïve to look at the decisions he's made at OpenAI and think it was all purely out of good will. Google and AWS both offer credits for academic and charity projects, why did Altman choose to go all in with Microsoft if it wasn't for money?
Please stop spreading FUD and unsubstantiated rumours all over this thread
As I clarified in another comment, I was trying to make the point that curry is a genre of foods (as your examples illustrate).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35400253#35400453
You're dramatically underestimating the swing of electricity in practice.

https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/default.aspx

See September 22, 2022. California required 51,000+ MW of power capacity as the state reached record high temperatures. Just a few days earlier on Sept. 9th, 42,000 MW was all that was needed.

See Yesterday: March 31st 2023. California only required 26,000 MW of power capacity. Even then, the low for March 31st was 17,000 MW at midday.

Given these stats from the last year... How much baseload should California build out? And how much "peaker" production should California have?

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The weather swinging +/- more than expected can cause 10,000MW (or 20% shifts) in power in just a couple of days. Seasonal differences are +100%/-50% differences in power capacity.

Its because of this that natural gas peaker plants are used. That's why H2 fuel, as inefficient as it is (but a potentially green source) is still being considered. Having day-to-day, or seasonal, storage of power through the use of chemical energy storage is one of the most promising technologies to tackle this problem.
If someone had been there to tell my eleven year old self to just buy a cookbook, I suppose my problems would have been solved!
Yeah, it’s not like non-unionized enterprises make it easy to fire workers. There’s evidence collection, meetings with HR, PIPs even when it’s at will.
I've spent a lot of time traveling to SF and the broader Bay Area over the years. What I tell people is that a lot of the pros are still there but the CON list especially for living in the city proper has definitely gotten longer and redder.
On a Mac, mmap definitely works for the GPU since it’s all the same unified memory.
> Now to be clear, India has no such dish as a curry

Shit, gotta go ask my mom what shes been calling curry my whole life then.
It’s unlikely to be any time soon. Despite productization by OpenAI, LLMs are still an active area of research. Research is unpredictable. It may take years to gather enough fundamental results to make a GPT-5 core model that is substantially better than GPT-4. Or a key idea could be discovered tomorrow.

Moreover, previous advances in GPTs have come from data scaling: throwing more data at the training process. But data corpus sizes have started to peak - there is only so much high quality data in the world, and model sizes have reached the limits of what is sensible at inference time.

What OpenAI can do while they are waiting is more of the easy stuff, for example more multimodality: integrating DALL-e with GPT-4, adding audio support, etc. They can also optimize the model to make it run faster.
There are a lot of religious like beliefs about things as people have moved away from traditional religions. I wonder if it is in our nature to have something bigger than ourselves to believe in based on faith in the message
So what we need is Wine in the browser.
"People are our greatest asset."
Only issues I can think of would be going underwater on a mortgage which might cause financial problems or having the price or liquidity drop when you need to sell short term.
>> On top of that, most of the US is made up of small towns that public transit wouldn't make any sense for.

And you think other other countries are not the same?
The GPS clock is really used to provide long-term stability for the computer's internal oscillator, which provides fine short-term stability. Your calls to gettimeofday() are handled by the internal oscillator, not by asking the GPS unit directly. Additionally, NTP daemons are impressive in their ability to get the "right answer" on current internal oscillator frequency as affected by the entire system. With 86400 very accurate data samples per day, you can do a lot!

In a distributed system, the absolute value of the time is important, since that's what your transaction timestamps are based on. There is a lot to do to ensure that your time offset from UTC ends up being correct; antenna cable length compensation, oscillator quantization compensation, etc. These are not strictly necessary for Spanner but can make microsecond-level differences which are quite noticeable.

"The API directly exposes
clock uncertainty, and the guarantees on Spanner’s timestamps depend on the bounds that the implementation provides. If the uncertainty is large, Spanner slows down to
wait out that uncertainty. Google’s cluster-management
software provides an implementation of the TrueTime
API. This implementation keeps uncertainty small (generally less than 10ms) by using multiple modern clock
references (GPS and atomic clocks)."

Basically, there is some tradeoff between clock synchronization perfection and transaction processing speed that can be made. You can build dedicated hardware that's clocked by a GPSDO and provide an API to get hardware timestamps, and maybe process transactions a little faster. Your good old C++ program running on Linux with an internal oscillator adjusted by NTP with a GPS PPS input still beats communicating between datacenters to agree on event ordering, though. Light is slow!
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When I need to destroy a hard drive, I use 1TBSP of Thermite (or stump remover if you go to the local ag supply store). Of course, the drive isn't very useful after, but it's so much fun.
I’m glad we agree that the policies you are defending are state sponsored looting and not supposed investor protections. The code for all decentralized exchanges is open source. You aren’t being scammed by anyone, you volunteered to participate in the market. You aren’t a victim for losing a trade you chose to participate in.
The layout with the Windows sticker photo being the largest and the most prominent made me think that “this is a keyboard with a Windows license”. Back in the day, this was a thing, at least in Poland, with people selling OEM licenses of Windows attached to mice and keyboards and claiming they were legitimate (which I doubt, but I also doubt Microsoft cared).
Good point.

Do you think I could get rid of my electric stove in my kitchen, then use that plug and buy a 4000W microwave to get it to heat up even faster instead?
Fixing software for like 0.01% of their whole user base, who plays flat fee anyway seems bad investment

I have to agree with Google in this case, 5 million files for an account is borderline abuse for object storage system.
“Our quarterly profits depend on burning out our workers and forcing them into unpaid overtime” is not the argument you think it is.

The cost to deliver your product with employees that work 40 hr weeks, normal PTO, and limiting your “crunch” to 2-3 sprints a year is the cost of doing business.
I realised this was the case for linux, but I assumed Amazon had simply ported it to android rather than it being included in AOSP
Ah yeah slow heat for longer trick. Like if I cook a steak in the oven for an hour at 250 then throw it on the grill people think I’ve become some master chef.
> If everyone's convinced that the entire internet is sketchy, then much like state-controlled media in a dictatorship, or tabloids, no one will actually believe it.

This breaks down because "everyone" does not include about 30% of people (and 30% is probably generous). Evidence for this abounds.
For the times/durations- what does 15 à 30 J mean? 15 days - 30 days?
Cool blog post. One thing I am not sure about. If access to WiFi can lead to the mentioned or other risks, then something else is probably seriously wrong in the chain.
I mean, Yann is paid by Meta to propagate an "only positive vibes" stance. "AI doomism" itself is a ridiculous phrase meant to demonize anyone with legit concerns, of which there are many. I say this as someone who is very excited about recent developments and sees the potential upside as well as anyone, I think.
Very cool! Reminds me of the Trans European Alpine Route (TEAR) someone put together a few years ago.

https://www.mountainsandme.ca/tear-overview
Like qbrass already pointed out, the largest prime number isn't "very large" by file standards - it'd be about 10 megabytes.

If you can compute with the number, you can send whatever shape you keep it in to compute.

OTOH, actual "very large numbers" like Graham's number can't be computed with meaningfully - writing down even one of the _earlier_ terms in that sequence would need more digits than there are Planck volumes in the universe.
Nice, though the enum part wasn’t convincing, because separate compilation can still lead to not all cases being covered. Or rather, an enum type in C and C++ is really an integer type plus some associated constants, and the values that can be stored in that type aren’t restricted to the constants.
5M files. Pfft.

If your cloud storage account can’t gracefully handle that and keep that handling totally transparent to you you should move on.

I’m sure there must be some provider out there that can handle that uninteresting workload …
That's why nice sit-down restaurants with tables for two exist.
The main question about OpenAI is this: can you have any better structure to create singularity
that will happen anyways (Some people don't like the word AGI, so I just definine it by machines having wastly more intellectual power than humans).

Would it be better if Google, Tesla or Microsoft / Apple / CCP or any other for profit company did it?
Aside from just stealing the Internet service, you can set up a device to do something (of questionable legality), either attended or not, that you don't want associated with your own wifi network.
> It's now at massive scale, and you are much more likely to be exposed to convincing lies in a world where it's harder to understand what's actually going on.

This premise isn't valid. The fact that there are a lot more messages going around (and we can safely assume a lot more lies in rough proportion) has no bearing in the likelihood that one is exposed to convincing lies.

1) The more lies, the less convincing each one will be. That's how markets work. Therefore, at some saturation of lies, none will be convincing, and your problem becomes one of discovering truths.

2) Entire societies can believe in a single convincing lie.

3) You don't even have to lie to create untruths. If I were going to have a poll test, as a first approximation I'd ask two questions: 1) Was Saddam Hussein one of the people who plotted 9/11, and 2) Did Russia hack voting machines in 2016, changing to totals to a Trump win? They're good examples of untruths that aren't lies; they were never the stated positions of any authority, instead they were intentionally incepted through FUD and vagaries.

So more lies, fewer suckers, fewer lies, more suckers. And you can create lies without telling them.
Good. As someone who grew up here, it'll be nice to get back to our original role in American life: open-air asylum for the rest of the country. Literally that's an old joke here: "If you're too crazy for the rest of the country you move to California, and if you're too crazy for California you move to San Francisco." And then under our breathe we add, "And if you're too crazy for SF you move to Berkeley."

This Dot-Com Boom period (roughly 2001 to now) kinda fucked up the city. I can't wait to clear out the folks who were only here for money and hype, and start getting the weirdos and hippies back in.
In my experience the women who make it to these levels are no less domineering than the men, and often more so.
Then just charge for metadata over a certian file count ot size?! Can be a token amount.
Am I an apostate if my concern about AI doom now outweighs my concern about climate change?
Probably a “no thanks” email is enough in this case.
Ok, here we go, just because I like you so much.

During the Cold War, the US has produced about 100 tons of Plutonium for weapons purposes.

Here's the quote from [1]

> Between 1944 and 1988, the United States built special reactors to make about 100 metric tons of plutonium for nuclear weapons. The reactors created the highly radioactive plutonium by bombarding uranium fuel rods with neutrons. Each time a uranium atom changed to a plutonium atom, more neutrons were released, causing a chain reaction. The process continued until the majority of the uranium atoms were converted to plutonium, thus ending the chain reaction. At this point, the fuel rods are said to be spent (used up) and they were removed from the reactor.

> Workers used strong acids to dissolve the plutonium from the fuel rods. This process left behind more than 100 million gallons of hazardous liquid waste. It is called mixed waste because it contains both hazardous chemicals and radioactive materials. The Department of Energy is working to safely cleanup and dispose of these nuclear weapons production wastes

This "mixed waste" that the EPA is talking about is the one that's being burried at the WIPP facility. It contains trans-uranic isotopes (TRU). These isotopes are long-lived. They can be permanently disposed of either by being burned in a fast neutron reactor or by being buried deep underground. The second solution was chosen.

Although this "mixed waste" is not identical with the civilian spent nuclear fuel, the problem of long lived radionuclides is the same. If this waste can be disposed at the WIPP facility, then the spent fuel can too.

Did I satisfy your high standards of debate?

[1] https://www.epa.gov/radtown/nuclear-weapons-production-waste
> Such as causal chaining.

Doesn't that imply knowing which of two events happened first? Imagine, after your bat accident I took liberties with your wife as a revenge?

Please pardon my 17th century's line of thought :)
In Ireland, I'm used to the idea that Indian restaurants are run by Pakistani men, and Chinese restaurants are run by Malaysian women.
We also have people fact checking it or expressing doubt within seconds.

> We can lie, deceive, trick, bullshit, distract, and beguile an entire planet all at once.

Whereas for the last 150 years it took a day for the news articles to be published across the Atlantic.
yep, 15 to 30 days
How about this claim: pieces of string when stressed emit sounds that are picked up by nearby strings. Should be investigate this claim? What does it mean that the world of string acts this way.

For those that haven't witnessed it, I will describe a very easily constructed experiment to demonstrate this phenomena that I have discovered: first stretch a string tightly and then quickly flick it with your finger, stressing it even more. If you listen, you will hears a sound emitted by the stressed string that gradually dies off as the string recovers. Nearby strings will start vibrating in sympathy (if they are tuned properly). Could one string be communicating with the other strings?

Common objects may be used to make the experiment easier to perform: banjos, guitars, violins, etc.
What bothers me most is that the picture he paints of success itself is some handwavy crap about how it could "create value" or "solve problems" or some other type of abstract nonsense. He has displayed exactly 0 concrete, desirable vision of what succeeding with AI would look like.

That seems to be the curse of Silicon Valley, worshiping abstractions to the point of nonsense. He would probably say that with AGI, we can make people immortal, infinitely intelligent, and so on. These are just potentialities with, again, 0 concrete vision. What would we use that power for? Altman has no idea.

At least Musk has some amount of storytelling about making humanity multiplanetary you may or may not buy into. AI "visionaries" seem to have 0 narrative except rehashed, high-level summaries of sci-fi novels. Is that it?
It does half the work per clock cycle because of the marketing driven design.
I'm happy to see there's still an adult in the room. Andrew Ng has also been very reasonable about the current pop culture hype bubble, while many others have decided to try and use it for attention. As I've said before, there's a clear divide between the actual practitioners, and the "futurists" (Musk etc) on this topic.
I tried using this for a media streaming project, but I couldn’t get good enough bandwidth to stream high-bitrate media. I ended up paying more to stream files from a storage provider that caches on CDNs.

I do recommend it for other storage though: snapshots, SMB means you can mount it directly on Windows (and iOS!), cheap, and I personally like Hetzner.

Their Storage Share service (running on Nextcloud) is also good if you want managed syncing, a-la Dropbox. Same server as a Storage Box but with managed Nextcloud on top.
Once again: Don’t use Google for anything crucial or critical. Not Google Cloud, Google Docs, Google Drive, even Gmail is becoming a liability.

Real Engineering involves developing forward looking designs and maintaining backwards compatibility. It involves a release schedule. It involves communication channels and releases notes. It’s hard. It’s unsexy.

Google treats their product lineup with the seriousness of a social media platform. They don’t care about your puny business; even if it means the world to you, it means nothing to them.
There is "A.I. doomism" in general and there is also a specific cult-like group at the lesswrong website that really is an apocalyptic religion. It is astonishing how anything that deviates from its dogma in any way has to have "trigger warnings" and the senseless comments that users write on anything that suggests there could be intrinsic limits on intelligence.

There ideology is such that a higher intelligence is going to take our problems away either by taking over, ending us (no people, no problems) or possibly the followers moving on to the "next level" like the followers of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven%27s_Gate_(religious_gro...
You can use AI or ML to train the electric grids to work more efficiently, if you don't it is just guess work with the deregulated market
A religion is arguably when you refuse to engage with other people's arguments

Lecun has refused to engage with anyone's arguments, so why are the people worried about AI ex-risk the religion?
Tech companies have either a sales culture or an engineering culture. As a new employee, you usually figure out which your new company has by the end of the first day.

A lot of companies start with an engineering culture and transition out of it as they grow (actually, this is almost always the case) - examples: HP, Boeing, et al.
I think you're talking about very small amounts of it there. As the tube circuit goes into deeper saturation with more gain, it quickly becomes very brittle and displeasing. What keeps the harmonics moderate is low-pass filtering.
AI optimism is often indistinguishable from "technological manifest destiny"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k&t=2207s
Given the date, I was prepared for a gag like "just write down 100 digits - we didn't tell you WHICH 100!".
It's not a society vs nerds thing. This is specific to SF and the SF tech scene and that scene's relationship to the rest of the community of SF.
I'm convinced religious beliefs/feelings are an unavoidable emergent property of human minds.
After hearing you're 14 I don't want to turn this into an argument really, but please note just because something "sounds" embarassing it may not be actually. Like others have pointed out, physical access to the device means many other measures that can be taken to protect security is not valid anymore. If there is no real need or security benefit for that password to be stored in anything other than plaintext then Amazon doesn't need to go out of their way to save any "embarassment".