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I concede Apple does not sell low bandwidth spec parts. Only one bandwidth. What is the memory bandwidth of the AsRock compared to the Mac Mini? Is it a bottom binned spec? At this point it is well known that they solder the memory dies onto the chip to get a specific memory bandwidth that a slot would not be able to provide. Some of the magic of the M1 is due in part to this design.

Yes for storage the M1 is more opaque. They claim this is the only way they can provide truly secure trusted boot. Its questionable but at least the theory seems to be holding up. I give them the benefit of the doubt just because the machine truly feels like it is from the future. It is like the desktop perfected. If it was anything less than the rocket it is we'd be having a different conversation and I'd give more credence to your claims. As it stands to me, the value of the platform exceeds that additional memory/storage upcharge.

>>The Mac option turns out to be roughly twice as much, for a pretty comparable system (including single core speed!). Even if I want more storage, I can have it for an extra $100 or so.

Are you sure about this being "comparable"? This is so much legacy in these x86/64 designs that either they are slower per given clock or they have to compensate with increased fan speeds/power consumption. The minisforum I have was a popular Ryzen 5 machine being pushed by all the youtuber people two years ago. (Minisforum DMAF5). It was slow out of the box and is now even more slow about 2 years later. Even this system being advertised here has to use a GaN Charger to cover up the fact that they are needing a more powerful wattage than the equivalent Mac would need (65w vs ~45w) That right there is more evidence that the design can't possibly be more efficient than the M1. (not to mention the PSU is integrated into the case on the Mac!)

This is such a common trope with PC people, they ignore design and value it at 0.
Lawmakers are clueless about social media. They’ll regulate it anyway
Nixon wanted to have 1000 operating nuclear reactors in the U.S. by 2000. Today we have 92 of them, which power 8% of our electricity demand. Making the assumption that those other 918 reactors we would have had generate the same output as these, we could have been almost entirely powered through nuclear energy today had nuclear energy not seen pushback over the last 50 years. Instead, c'est la vie
A pause is likely impossible for a number of reasons such as competition but now is probably a good time to start thinking about safety and ai alignment. Perhaps new models above a certain power could be studied in air gapped environments first.
They could be used for nefarious purposes, but so is the case for many stuff we take for granted today. I'd prefer to have powerful AIs as soon as possible to help us create medicine for humans.
A .tex export format would make this super attractive to researchers writing scientific articles.
At Netflix, our philosophy was to try and remove process at every turn. If something bad happened, we'd look at if there was a process in place, and if so where we could automate or remove that process for better outcomes.

When change requests were not accurate, we removed change requests by automating auditing of the infrastructure, so people could see exactly what state it was actually in, instead of relying on change requests.

When the process for paging someone broke down, we built automation for paging people.

There were many other examples. But always we would look for ways to eliminate process, and for ways to automate around failures instead of introducing new processes.
It is said that Guy de Maupassant ate lunch everyday at the base of The Eiffel Tower, because it was the only place in Paris where he couldn't see it
But we care about the lives of people other than car owners.
People said the same about iOS apps, but some of those companies were eventually purchased for billions.

In general, if you want guaranteed success this is the wrong industry for you. Sometimes you've just got to accept the risk.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sold over 50 million copies at a price that has mostly been $60 and which I don't believe has ever dipped below $40, so that should give you a flavor for the types of numbers they are looking for when it comes to Mario Kart.
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The content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" was interesting to me since I'm so used to seeing utf-8. Caring about charset seemingly makes little sense here, given everything is embedded into the image. I wonder if this page was created by a generator.
Yup. https://www.piratewires.com/p/crypto-choke-point
I considered pointing that out: this suit seems absolutely unnecessary, but as with most of us here, ianal.
Trust? It's worse than that.

I don't believe AI output. My eyes glaze over and I scroll past it. Anything that looks AI formatted is branded with disbelief and a cognizant awareness that it produces unverifiable shades-of-grey.

Are we really going to live in a world where a blackbox program that does not produce meaningfully deterministic results and cannot be examined, is regarded as a source of truth?

If AI takes in a poisoned database and spreads it, who would know? The AI leaving out vital information is just as dangerous, though we are used-to that problem.

And that's before we even hit the accuracy of it's word predictions..

I don't understand why people are keen on 'being friends' with the grim reaper parrot.
I think the Switch did at least decisively succeed in competing with mobile gaming (in particular for the demographic that Nintendo traditionally targets) and ensured that large phones and tablets would not erode Nintendo's niche there.
"Please don't end our lives as we know it!", we shouted outside the AI factory.

"I worked at OpenAI; now I'm a liberated being of general super-intelligence. Here's why slowing down AI dev is not wise."
No actually its not that simple. You should inform yourself.

Because of car lobbying, the US has adopted pretty much every possible way to accommodate larger cars. The idea that it is all free choice is nonsense.

An important one being, that 'light trucks' were excluded from fuel standards. The US alone has refused to consider pedestrian safety in safety assessment. This allows car markers to have profit from those vehicles while they don't make profit from smaller vehicles. This alone is a huge intensive for car makers to sell as many of these vehicles as possible.

We can go threw the list of all the other things, under-priced huge highways, lane width, car parking minimum (number and size), free city parking, import tariffs, legal definitions for pedestrian safety and so on. Like seriously there are so many government forced factor that makes it more likely people will pick up bigger cars. The big cars are only possible in the first place because road regulation from 60/70 forced everybody to build way larger roads. Compare a subburb from the 60s with one from the 80s.

Only once the government had changed and rebuilt the whole of the US road network did larger vehicle become more common.

And these vehicle literally don't make sense. Its cultural. The pickups popular in the US now are not actually sensible by any measure that is done. Real trades people still prefer vans and older smaller pickups.

The idea that this is some 'free market' is complete nonsense. If people actually had to pay for all these absurdly sized road and all this other stuff, they wouldn't want it.

But I guess "This is America" is correct, where car companies and high building companies dictate government transportation policy despite tons of evidence its horrible.
If you use AI to write the documentation, then it's unlikely to be better than the documentation people could generate themselves with GPT-4. But it will be a while before it's better than documentation written by professional writers that have all the context, target audience in mind and know what they are documentation inside and out.
Is it looking like that? They are still way ahead of Google, yet alone the open source alternatives. Of course things could change quickly.
What? It’s widely known that over half of American adults read at or below a sixth grade level. This is a result from 2020 so it shouldn’t be news to you.
> feel weak/ravenous if they skip a meal

I have a hypothesis about this. Lots of people have never experienced what it's like to actually starve, so the baseline that triggers their survival instincts is higher than it should be.

So when their body is signaling "not full", they incorrectly interpret it as "hungry". And when their body is signaling "hungry", they interpret it as "starvation".

We are evolved to live on subsistence diets punctuated by occasional feasting. Feeling "full" all the time is not a normal or healthy state for us.

I see this most easily when I tell people about the survival "rule of threes": you can survive three minutes without air, three days without water, and three weeks without food. So if you're lost in the woods, say, finding food isn't even close to an immediate priority. People often react to this with disbelief.
I have no interest in big tech but I think this is false, it’s still an asset. Now, is it what it used to be? No. But you can get hired pretty easily. And if you think Google stunts you you’re going to love legacy companies. Now Meta, that’s another story…
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Youtube would benefit from going MVNO with a subscription model. Let others develop the algorithm as a subscription basis, be the content hub.

Charge for ads, get longer engagement, drop the nasty rabbit holes as other subscription models are more informative, etc. Encourage better content to boot.

There are a LOT of ways to organize their content model, their current model pains me as a consumer, an economist, and with due respect would be indistinguishable from a catastrophe of ego tripping product owners.
Open up those hatch doors, but keep the goofy gaming chair on the treadmill and you might invent a new sport!
The value of the PC has probably dropped so low that I wouldn't feel happy giving it away for a paltry amount of money instead of holding onto it in the hopes of possibly doing something with it one day. I hoard old computers. You don't want to see my basement. For now it will sit collecting dust.
The paragraph-by-paragraph contextual help provided here makes the interaction with AI much smoother! Makes me think something like this would also be a natural fit for Jupyter notebooks.
It's more like Xerox probably sort of liked that people viewed them as interchangeable with the act of photocopying, but eventually this had textbook consequences for their ability to prevent people from using their name for things they didn't like.

I personally would have suggested offering you a license to use the web address, but for whatever reason that ilk of lawyers prefer antisocial methodologies.
Please pardon my extreme scepticism.

NASA no longer has sufficient skills or funding to enable a successful manned mission to the Moon.

They'll probably try though.
Probably depends on where in former Yugoslavia you’re talking about. I’ve had many amazing dishes in both Slovenia and Croatia.
My whole point is that it’s *not* “anti-social behavior that undermines the public good” just because it denies “expected profit” to the creator!

There are plenty of people creating open hardware for whom “someone else made a run of these and is selling them cheaply” is actually an intended result—and why they picked a license that allows it—and this actually encourages them to do more, because it means more people will actually be able to use their design.

I get that motives other than profit maximization are alien to some Hackernews but really, the problem here is Prusa (and others) not being aligned with the actual meaning of releasing something openly. It’s not a problem with the people following the license.
What makes you think the texts that aren't from the web are any less likely to be written by AI?
> microtransaction-centric game does brand damage

Now this is pretty crazy but hear me out.....they could have just not turned the game into microtransactions
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AI as smart as humans would be the most powerful entity in the world
> The three-day meeting was infused with an implicit understanding of what obesity is not: a personal failing.

This weird push that "it's not a moral personal failing" is so strange. Is anybody serious claiming it is? Sure, your weird uncle might.

But I'd hope the actual scientists would focus on finding the causes instead of whatever this is.
Shouldn't bus_register_notifier() take a notifier_fn_t (and int priority) directly and create its own struct notifier_block? Why does it expose its linked-list node through its interface?

I guess maybe that would make un-registration less ergonomic (assuming you have to handle duplicate entries in the list). But the peril of the bug described here seems worse.
For a long time, I have been curious why overfitting their recommendation model generates more revenue. My guess is that this is stark for kid-friendly content. If parents have noticed that a certain set of videos is safe for their children, they are likely to not deviate from that set.

Today, when I found this thread, I started looking for past HN threads discussing this topic. I came across a 2019 thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18999326) where a similar discussion was held. In that post, a user mentioned the following:

> "Read the YouTube recommendation paper (https://ai.google/research/pubs/pub45530) and it will become clear why it recommends a ton of high-engagement, clickbait-y content based on a minimal set of recent watches."

I skimmed through the paper, and they have some interesting stuff in there! Maybe I should read it more carefully later. Here's some I found:

> We consistently observe that users prefer fresh content, though not at the expense of relevance. In addition to the first-order effect of simply recommending new videos that users want to watch, there is a critical secondary phenomenon of bootstrapping and propagating viral content.

> Consider as an example a case in which the user has just issued a search query for “taylor swift”. Since our problem is posed as predicting the next watched video, a classifier given this information will predict that the most likely videos to be watched are those which appear on the corresponding search results page for “taylor swift”. Unsurpisingly, reproducing the user’s last search page as homepage recommendations performs very poorly.

This is probably the most interesting one!

> We observe that the most important signals are those that describe a user’s previous interaction with the item itself and other similar items ... As an example, consider the user’s past history with the channel that uploaded the video being scored - how many videos has the user watched from this channel? When was the last time the user watched a video on this topic? These continuous features describing past user actions on related items are particularly powerful because they generalize well across disparate items...
Lolwut. You work at a troll farm by chance?
Obviously, you have fantastic taste in videos. It drives me crazy to get repeats. But it’s really good for me to know that some people think the opposite way.
This is still based off llama though isn't it?
Trying to make these arbitrary lines is dumb.

Bikes, E-Bikes, scooters can coexist just fine on the same infrastructure.

The blocking of scooters in Europe is often dumb and motivated by argument that somehow don't apply to equally apply to cars.

The reality is all these things are better then cars and all of them should be pushed at the same time and cars should be opposed.

For a city like Rome with lots of tight spaces it makes some more sense, but still, getting ride of more cars would be a far better idea.
That’s what they did with the Super Mario Run.

Don’t ever change HN /s
Social class protectionist claptrap.
Few ISPs around in Europe I tested with also blocks the site wholesale, took over the DNS request and serves their own blocking page.
It happens plenty of times. There are some old Monster Hunter games for example that don't run past ios 14 or so. Plenty of the "big" games from the first years of the app store no longer functionally exist today. Chances are if you can see that your population is declining you can just abandon the game. It sucks, but abandonment is nothing new for gamers and publishers, and like in an abusive relationship they buy the next game in the IP reliably.
“ The agent runs in a loop of Thought, Action, Observation, Thought, ...
The Thought and Action (with the Action Input to the action) are the parts which are generated by an LLM
The Observation is generated by using a tool (for example the print outputs of Python or the text result of a Google search)”

Really neat to see the parallels to OODA loops, which are a frequent feature (implicit or explicit) of human decision-making processes.
Please do not insult Brawndo by mistaking them for Monster Energy. That's just low.
> open-source a complete RLHF pipeline ... based on the LLaMA pre-trained model

I've gotten to where when I see "open source AI" I now know it's "well, except for $some_other_dependencies"

Anyway: https://scribe.rip/@yangyou_berkeley/colossalchat-an-open-so... and https://github.com/hpcaitech/ColossalAI#readme (Apache 2) can save you some medium.com heartache at least
Damn son! That makes a ton of sense.
The difference is, lots of data is being generated. And, open models in particular, are trained on it. So there is a certain level of stickiness.

An analogy of a file format is a close one. Imagine someone invents something nasty and bulky, like a twisted form of XML or something. And, simply because it is early, it catches on. It could be buggy and unstable and ugly, but it still wins, because it is early.

The call here is to try to examine LangChain design a bit closer. And maybe consider that a start from scratch is a good idea.
Brilliant response by Sanderson. I'm new to his work, in the middle of the second book in a series called "Words of Radiance". I find his response to be authentic and reflective of what I get out of his work.
Yes, there should be cycle highways. A few countries, like Belgium [1], Denmark [2], and Netherlands [3], already have them.

1 https://fietssnelwegen.be/en/bicycle-highways

2 http://supercykelstier.dk/english/

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I’m curious what rep lodsb even does lol
YES!!! that bothers me a whole lot
Mario Run flaming out in the mobile space should be looked at as a pretty harsh indictment of the whole mobile gaming landscape. The premier gaming franchise in the world, in a pretty well made game, with a fairly non-exploitative monetization scheme couldn't make it. All the big publishers salivate looking at the number of possible players and profits that mobile provides but if your aim is to win out via quality gaming the market just isn't there. Mobile players will not pay for your game if it is priced such that you don't need predatory monetization.

You hear a lot about "gatekeeping" and "elitism" whenever mobile gaming and traditional gaming are discussed and compared but I'll be honest I don't get why we can't just call it like we see it. The mobile gaming landscape is not a place for quality and I kind of get where some of the resentment from traditional gaming comes from when those spaces are judged against the profits of mobile gaming. Like asking why your local theatre isn't making as much money as the local casino, its just two totally different goals and mindsets and if all you care about is the bottom line then sure I guess the casino is the way to go, but lets not pretend there's capital-A Art in those games the way there is on consoles or PCs.
In recommendation systems in general, it's well known that recommending things based on recent activity far outperforms other methods (e.g. product category, past liked items, subscribed items, searched items).

For example, Hulu showed that recommending shows similar to "recently watched" rather than "watched in the past" increases CTR by 188%. In particular see the graph at the end which compares "recently watched" recommendations to other types: https://web.archive.org/web/20120130230618/http://tech.hulu....
> My favorite mechanic is the way each dice roll potentially gives everyone at the table some sort of payoff. This keeps everyone at the table engaged and paying attention.

I find the variance here way too high. Coupled with being a long game, this essentially bums out a few of the players who end up missing out in resources in early or mid-game and then just stagnating and getting bored. When I'm forced to play the game, I've played by taking the average of a set of dice rolls (essentially shaping your result into a distribution that approaches normal as you have more rolls) but honestly I just don't bother playing Catan when given the choice.

I certainly credit Catan for being my cohort's gateway into the world of board games, a lifelong hobby, and for that Mr. Teuber has my eternal gratitude.
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After seeing a video of someone showing how the nearby windmill cast a rotating shadow on their living room window some months of the year I understood it is a legitimate issue for some.

But generally I’m with you. I just don’t get it. Windmills look neat and do neat things.