skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>haven't been running their own LLMs for the last five years

Because the hardware has not existed.

This said by accident I've seen hardware that was brought to a testing company by federal marshals that was massively parallel custom hardware that was likely for signal processing a lot of channels at once. So there is plenty of custom hardware out there, but these items have not been produced at the scale needed (from what anyone can tell) and, again from what we can tell, they don't have the general processing capability that GPU/TPU driven LLMs have.
> If I catch 10^30 fish on the planet, fish are extinct.

The entire planet is extinct
Anyone ever play the after dark games..?
Also by Berkeley Systems…
It seems to me that the examples in the prompt supply context that affects the conditional probability distribution for what gets generated. These are going to activate parts of the network that give better answers. It doesn't seem any more mysterious to me than the fact that you can ask the network "who wrote this?" and it is also able to sense the conditional probability distribution of the language in the sample.
I would be shocked, shocked to learn that school administrators, principals, superintendents etc are somehow not over-represented in the membership of the lobby group involved. They have a conflict of interest where their jobs are made easier and they are awarded more bonuses every time that educational standards are dropped.

Teachers, not so much.
not necessarily. It just means it's not as bad as it would be in China or Russia.

NPR knew the democrats would be back in power in a couple of years...they weren't risking much by being anti-Trump. But they did gain goodwill from the democrats, which can extend them support every time they are in power.

I am not arguing for or against either side, I am just pointing out a flaw in your logic.

I think NPR is so solidly on the democrats side, that it's hard to distinguish what came first: the chicken or the egg?
> People on the sidewalk aren't offering you anything in return, either

That's not true. Offering entertainment on the sidewalk is very common, so common in fact that there's even a word for it: busking.

> I believe that GAGOOT could be a big project in the long term, and be influential in a real way.

The operative word there being "could". The internet is chock-full of people who think that their idea "could" be the Next Big Thing. The vast majority of them are wrong, so my Bayesian prior on anyone who says they have the Next Big Thing is very close to zero, and I see absolutely nothing here that would move the needle on that. I don't even have any evidence that you can write code.

> I am open to video calls through Zoom or Skype, but no one has bothered to ask.

And have you bothered to ask yourself why that is? And in particular, if there is anything you have done that may have contributed to this outcome, and which you could change in order to improve your odds?

> if this was a scam, then it must be a long con

Yes. So? Long cons happen. c.f. Theranos.

And even non-scams can be bad bets. (In fact, the vast majority are.)

BTW, are you familiar with urbit? Its marketing rhetoric is very similar to yours. And many people think that urbit is a scam, including me.

BTW2, Anonymity is not necessarily a show-stopper. Bitcoin is an existence proof. You might want to study its history, think about what made it succeed, and use that as a model.
Your list seems like an early adopter list.
If it wasn't for a good portion of tech leads FAANG aspirational goals I bet a lot more companies would be on monoliths. It's simply staggering the productivity and cost differences (up to of course a certain point) being on monoliths vs microservices. The discussions on authorisation alone.....
I wish there was a button to temporally turn off video & sound, in 30 second increments, without losing the position of where you are (contrast/brightness -100%?), mainly to get around watching ads.
I'd say its more like serious politics games. Yes, anyone who is interested in material reality knows that all media institutions are controlled by wealthy people, governments, and so on. No, that doesn't mean there isn't real benefit to some groups in projecting the illusion of their independence while simultaneously sewing doubt about the independence of other media. Material reality is a fringe idea pursued by a small minority (and shrinking all the time).
The dysphoria actually dissolves in most cases, not just in a few cases. And the hormone blockers allegedly also prevent the dysphoria from dissolving in many cases.Hormone blockers also have severe side effects, even possible sterilisation.

Since most people end up not actually being trans, more people are now hurt by pushing transitioning as the solution for everything.

And you absolutely can not deny that it is being pushed.
I think they were trying to say because Twitter successfully suppressed conspiracy theories in the past that it gives them a pass when the information happened to not be a conspiracy theory. If that was the takeaway, I fully disagree. If you get into the suppression game, even for the right reasons, you deserve whatever comes your way when you're wrong even once. That's how we keep powerful entities honest.
NPR is not nor has it ever been state-affiliated media in any reasonable sense of the word. Is it a full stop, bald-face lie.
Not to make a competition out of it but since Guinness Record was mentioned in the article, I thought I might point out that there is at least one hiker who has hiked more miles: Brian Tansman, who is mostly known on trail as Buck-30.

He has hiked over 45,000 miles so far. Not sure if he's ever featured in a similar article but he has appeared in several hiking podcasts such as The Trail Show and Backpacker Radio:

https://backpackerradio.libsyn.com/190-buck-30

https://thetrailshow.com/show108/

Fun fact (that I learned from interviews with Buck-30): being an accountant might be the perfect job for long distance hiker as the busy season is the tax season, namely - deep winter and early spring. Some employer would be happy to keep you employed for that season only.
Having spent years in the legal industry, my first impulse is to say "word processors are people" but maybe that's just pedantic...
> they may very well report the story differently than a 3rd party

They may well do so, but that needs samples and analysis, not blanket statements.

Unless you have a particular beef with this article I do not think that is a strong argument to make.
> where is infrastructure and please dont say presumably

Just look at the infrastructure 5 years ago and extrapolate where it will be going. Walmart, a staple of the poor, has announced plans to expand its EV charging footprint.

https://www.axios.com/2023/04/10/walmart-ev-fast-charging-el...

> a golf cart ewuivalent that requires iris and palm scan for 'helping improve customer experience'

My wife and I drive EVs that we get in, press a button, and it starts, similar to our previous ICE vehicles.

> because its the oil change that is killing me and not thousands for new battery

My Kia has a 10 year/100k warranty that includes the battery. Also, Nissan, which has some of the oldest mainstream EVs still on the road, said they are seeing very low failure rates, often outlasting the car itself.

https://cleantechnica.com/2022/09/21/surprise-nissan-leaf-ba...
Do you also get your news from SpaceX and Tesla?
Your non-tech-savvy folks will pound through nearly any popup if they are desperate to get a charge before their connecting flight, for instance.

The popup really should be a toggle somewhere in the settings that forces a user to explicitly enable data - not a popup users are mostly self-trained into ignoring.

Additionally, real charging stations should not offer cables with data lines at all.
I don't have evidence of federal editorial control over NPR, nor does anyone have evidence of the absence, which is why I say that only "govt-funded" is a fair label.
We're working on building out our own models of similar quality that will have stricter privacy guarantees.
Speed is not the only advantage of using Rust on the backend.
If you've visited factories or other work places dominated by men, many of them go by the philosophy of zero attendance to neatness and cleanliness. Those are miserable places to work and even visit. Everybody working there are usually grumpy and miserable, including the boss.

Working all day in ugly software is like a mini version of this.

I don't think anybody considers beautiful software ad a premium, more that ugly software will not be considered at all because it can't be trusted.
> I would happily pay several times the price of regular appliances . . . if they were . . . fully open source PCB/firmware/schematics/etc . . .

How willing would you be to pay 1-2 factors less for the Shenzhen clone that hits market 1-2 weeks later based on the same open designs?

There's a reason these companies don't exist, you have no competitive edge except good will.
We're also using computers to build better computers, it makes sense
Parent comment seems completely hypothetical so this seems like a bit of a stretch.
Either way, charging an EV on a 150A panel can still be pretty easy depending on what else is there. People think you need a 60A circuit to charge an EV, but even charging at 12A at 240V will give you well over 100 miles of charge overnight. My charger uses 32A and finishes charging my normal days in a little over an hour.
The label was "State Affiliated media" not "publicly funded".
Can we just treat people equally and don't put so much emphasis about colour. Race struggles were a relic of the past 50+ years ago.
You joke, but Mastodon could’ve learned from the history there, at least in the US. AOL in particular had a huge mainstream user base that didn’t really understand what was AOL and what was Internet. Witgout that gentle introduction, yes, many would’ve have been stuck trying to figure out which company to use to get online for longer.
Probably an autocorrect mishap, but in 20A the A is for angstrom.
I already spend 8+ hours a day in front of a large screen. If the tech is good enough that I can use it 8 hours without discomfort/side effects and get huge virtual screens - me and millions of professionals are sold.

And when I have it for work the play becomes more realistic.

So for me that's the killer feature of VR - portable monitor replacement - you can take it anywhere, pop it on and you're instantly in your virtual office. This would be worth 1000s $ if it "just worked" like Apple products do.

Apple and Microsoft are the only tech players I could see pulling this off because of the OS integration required. And Microsoft failed with Hololens.
To add to this, the disease carrying mosquito species like aedes aegypti and aedes albopictus are invasive species in the Americas.

These mosquitoes do some pollination but given that they're invasive it probably wouldn't be a big deal to wipe them out.

Also, invasiveness is true of a lot of pests in North America: the American cockroach isn't American, it's from Africa. Brown rats, red/fire ants, and wild pigs are also imported/invasive.
On the subject of luck:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/21/luck-hard-work/
I was a computer labs staffer in the early 90s, and for a lot of students our labs were their first exposure to word processors, and man, I hated supporting WordPerfect for DOS. Students couldn't figure out how to apply formatting correctly. Trying to change something's format, they would would reveal codes and delete half of a formatting code pair. I spent so much time explaining why half their paper was now in italics or bold.

WYSIWYG works so much better for most people.
I expect that they aren’t wasting these resources, either. The first useful machine learning models I ever used were from Facebook research. There were other options at the time, but what they created was accessible, fast, and had very usable outputs.

I suspect there is still more useful work in the area happening there.
Yes there was one in the Netherlands. But thankfully we don't have the jury system so no lynch mob justice.

It really makes me angry because this makes people hesitate to report real reports of child abuse.
The way USB high power charging works is that unless the charger and the device agree on high power the charger just charges at the older pre-high power USB rate. That's why you can plug ancient devices into a high power charger without worry that they will get fried.

The way the charger and the device agree on how much power the charger should supply involves the data lines.

Thus, if you simply drill out the data lines leaving just the power lines as the person a few comments up suggested a properly functioning high power charger will see your device as only supporting the original USB power spec.

I suspect that those things you linked to are active USB devices. The USB port on the charge side has the data lines connected and uses them to negotiate high power from the charger. The USB port on the device side similarly has the data lines connected and uses them to negotiate high power with the device.

It protects the device because the data lines on the charger side are not connected to the data lines on the device side.
I just don't know why, if it has zero bearing on your life and you never even bothered to put forth even minimal effort towards understanding it, you would even bother to comment about it. Like, who goes out of their way to boast about how little they care about something?

I mean, you at least knew what "metaverse" meant a year ago[0]. What happened?

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30151069
As biased as Fox News is, it would be completely ridiculous to call it state-affiliated media.
We're not discussing whether the app is for me. We're discussing whether the information was presented in a good way for determining whether the app was good for me, and my opinion is that it was not. Even if the app was for me, I could've determined that much more readily if the author led with the problem "wanting audio from a smart TV with the screen off." Paragraph 6 is not the optimal location for a description of the problem being solved.
If the placebo effect comes down to the power of suggestion, then hypnotism is potentially a valid form of treatment.
I have no idea, the whole thing's pretty opaque. You'd think they'd all want to be on all the 'aggregator' sites.

Sometimes I've been able to get a better deal going directly to the site of the bookseller. Biblio will have a lower price but higher shipping than on the seller's site. Not always though
I have seen people make their own mouse and the hand rests on it with the finger pointing like the hand of god in the Michelangelo painting. You can't buy one from what I've looked for. I'd like an easy reach 3-button mouse, 5-button available to all fingers. The scroll-wheel as a middle mouse button is a wobbly uncertain disaster all of the time for me.

+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo

+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Creation_of_Adam#/media/Fi...
What is this, a reverse-psychology attack on cynicism? Nice try, optimists, I've got my eye on you.
After reading several autobiographies of people who lived in the USSR, I've started to think that material shortages are actually the deliberate goal of people who run communist countries. More succinctly, without material shortages, communist-inspired governments rapidly cease to exist.

If the People are not presently experiencing a material shortage, then they do not rely on authority figures to go about the daily business of feeding and policing themselves. Without regular contact between the People and the central authority personnel, it becomes impossible for the central authority personnel to supervise and grant/revoke permissions for them. Supervision and permission were the two components absolutely required for the government of the USSR to continue to exist--supervision allows for the early identification of threats to the government structure, and "permission" systems create excuses for the government to deploy the violent martial caste against threats to their supremacy.

(It is self-evident that people don't like living inside systems where they're constantly monitored and supervised; millions of people around the world work very hard to leave supervision-heavy countries for less-supervised ones. Also, children everywhere chafe against school, and prisoners chafe against prison.)

So I don't believe a truly centrally-planned, communist government will ever generate a useful material surplus (food, medicine, tools, etc.). If it did, the People who enjoyed the results of the surplus would immediately stop participating in the centrally planned processes mandated upon them by the planning committees.

Conversely, the first thing any centrally-planned government will do is organize itself in such a way that all important goods become scarce, so that it can guarantee regular contact points with citizens and set up a robust system of permission granting and revocation.
And I'm pretty sure they'd have been fine with that, however, the BBC label reads 'Publicly funded media', not 'Government funded'.
Citations? If you look into the actual studies, the picture may not be so clear cut. For example a lot if results actually only taje older people into account (who transitioned when they were older).

What analogy do you see to the satanic cult thing? Children were told they had been abused, and many caregivers were being sentenced. Who is being told what in the trans hype? Children are falsely being told they are not trans? Then they falsely believe they are not trans and accuse their doctors? Or how does the analogy work?
What kind of evidence are you looking for here? The effect of financial incentives on human behavior is well-established.

Meanwhile case-specific evidence is largely unavailable. Reporters would be loathe to admit to being cowed, but are also aware that corporate executives make decisions on things like promotions and timeslots based on the bottom line, or in less well-funded entities that a loss of funding can directly lead to a loss of employment.

How about statistical evidence? Well, if Republicans are threatening NPR with the loss of funding, they could slant their coverage to placate the legislators criticizing them, or they could slant it the other way to bolster their support from the other party. In either case it compromises their neutrality, but now you can find "evidence" of this in any divergence from neutrality in either direction. Since they couldn't reasonably be expected to be infallible in the alternative, that doesn't prove anything.

So you make people aware of the incentive, because that's all you're really going to know about in practice.
I'm trying to avoid accusing you of intentional misinterpreting my statements but you continue to try and use the whole EU or other groupings of counties to compare against the UK instead of against other individual nations that remained inside the EU which I very clearly stated.
> globalists

Oh look, a racist dog whistle.
this is a similar issue we face with Auth. We want to give direct access to the data/tables, and at the same time we need some flexibility to alter the tables on rare occasions.

We've dabbled with the idea of offering versioned views which have a "set" interface (eg `storage_v1`, `storage_v2`). We're still debating all the ways that we might do it.

All that to say - we're aware that this experience can be improved and we're working on it.
This is the only argument I have found against Bitcoin that have substance. I can see this as a problem, but so far there have always been enough miners that was profitable. One day that might not be true though - hopefully it wont.

One reason for the halving cycle could be the way it kinda shocks the price and that makes people speculate and talk about Bitcoin like crazy. This is the perfect way to have a wrecking ball breaking the old broken system. Or it might just have been easier to implement.
NSA Cyber Director: 'Assume the Humans Are Human and Bad Things Will Happen'
those are pretty good recommendations. I would start at stage 2.
> I suppose if your worry is a government trying to destroy Bitcoin, then that’s exactly how to do it…

Andreas Antonopoulos - 51% Bitcoin Attack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncPyMUfNyVM
You can already spend coins twice, it's just that one of the addresses you send the coins to ultimately won't get them. So people have to wait some time to ensure the transaction fully processes before they can give you the goods in full confidence that they have received payment.

At some point, if cryptocurrencies become more established, it might be financially beneficial for one blockchain if another blockchain becomes non-viable.
> They are still able to run cloud hosting just release their custom code?

The SSPL license reads:

> […] you must make the Service Source Code available via network download to everyone at no charge, under the terms of this License.

> “Service Source Code” means the Corresponding Source for the Program or the modified version, and the Corresponding Source for all programs that you use to make the Program or modified version available as a service, including, without limitation, management software, user interfaces, application program interfaces, automation software, monitoring software, backup software, storage software and hosting software, all such that a user could run an instance of the service using the Service Source Code you make available.

You just can't comply with those terms if you don't have access to the source code of your storage software, for example.

(but I'm not a lawyer, of course)

> And OSI thinking they alone get to decide what is and what is not open source is arrogant.

OSI invented the term “open source”: https://web.archive.org/web/20021001164015/http://www.openso... I think they are in a position to define what it means.
An interesting aspect of placebo is that supposedly the strength of the effect has been increasing in the last decades. So much so that quite a few approved medications would likely not get approved anymore, because their effect would not be strong enough compared to the placebo effect.
How long before the AI built in the US figures out its reward function is 80% more likely to be satisfied if it points its digital finger at someone black rather than the most likely subject?
Nobody really cares about doing real AI to find the solution to a difficult problem, all they care about is generating 'research' that supports a pre-determined conclusion.

If you want to do real AI, I think having a foundation in physics (electricity and magnetism) is a good start, as well as quantum computers and quantum physics. Personally I think neural nets are a dead end, I think the industry is moving in the wrong direction I'd stay away from Kaggle, I think it's a waste of time. Just decide what domain that you want to solve and focus on that, don't just follow the industry cause most of the people are brain-dead
I use social.coop, and it seems to work well. They have some kind of participatory administration too that I don't know very well.

My recommendation is to find an instance with some kind of governance plan, and hopefully a stable stream of donations. Volunteer instances indeed could go at any time. And of course, if you can, donate to one or a few instances out of good citizenship.

I think it's also worth mentioning there are other services built around ActivityPub as well (and federation). I found friendica pretty good (as a Mastodon/facebook alternative), although I don't use it.

Instances I can recommend to HN fellows are probably https://floss.social/about, https://chaos.social/explore and https://mathstodon.xyz/about. But don't worry too much, you can move later without too much issue (though moving posts themselves is not possible).
> I mean, if you want to be totally pedantic about it, go for it.

I do, because the definition is so loose that it gets manipulated by investors / the overall market. Great example:

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ben-cogan-8627b955_dtc-stockm...