skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If NY is like some Toronto, I imagine traffic is so bad that vehicle chases dont really happen anywhere near the center/important parts of the city, which is why they are focusing on hand held devices.
I have a friend who started saying "let me just bing that" to get people to laugh. Now I've started saying it at work... originally for a laugh, but I find I'm using DDG and Bing more often than Google now. (Alas how I miss AltaVista) So it may be sooner than you think. I mean... my data set is only two people, so maybe it will only be 2 hours sooner than you think.
It's not a wild claim when you have empirically well-validated scaling laws which make this very prediction.
Can you clarify your meaning? I'm not sure what the pronouns in this sentence are referring to ("it's not thorny", "it's the bare minimum": what's not thorny or the bare minimum?)
Where is "here"? In the upper midwest, "Pre-K"/"4K" is age four. Kindergarten is age 5. There is not typically anything earlier than that, and parents are on the hook to find their own daycare if not home with the child.
Does this mean we’ve reached the next AI winter? This is as good as it gets for quite a long time? Honest question :) perhaps this will postpone everyone’s fears about the singularity…
> Batman and X-Men comics are not the focus of these types of book bans.

If they are on the list, they are part of the focus of the ban, whether or not they are part of what is used in the public propaganda.

(That the public propaganda for these bans misrepresent the actual focus is another area of concern, of course.)
As if djb not being an asshole would have saved the IETF from their incompetent buffoonery. Yeah let’s just blame it all on one guy for not being a sycophant rather than lay the responsibility on the actual buffoons.
I wonder how much the scarcity and cost of Nvidia GPUs is driving this message?

Nvidia is in a perfect "Arms Dealer" situation right now.

Wouldn't be surprised to see the next exponential leap in AI models trained on in-house proprietary GPU hardware architectures.
Maybe, maybe not. I get useful results from it, but it doesnt always work. And it's usually not quite what I'm looking for, so then I have to go digging around to find out how to tweak it. It all takes time and you do not get a working solution out of the box most of the time.
It does. But how do you prove you have a "well done" cryptosystem?

Very few "crypto" exploits are ever the issue. It's almost always easier to break some other part of the system than the crypto.

To be honest, if someone were trying to sell me a cryptosystem for a criminal enterprise and I were in the market for one, I'd happily start tracing everybody in that company as they are almost certainly part of the Feds.

If you are the target of a nation state actor, you're pretty much fucked. Once a nation decides to put down that much resource to get you, you're getting gotten.

Crypto is only valuable in the sense of "I don't have to outrun the hungry tiger. I just have to outrun you so the tiger stops chasing me to eat." If you, specifically, are a target, crypto won't help you much.
> The loss of capacity to heat is significant - often 10-30% capacity but that figure depends.

But it isn't a loss of capacity (although there is also a loss of capacity due to cold, in any chemistry). The capacity is the same, it just takes more energy to put the same amount of energy in. If you are putting energy in, you usually have an oversupply, and heating the battery is not an issue.

> If ambient is - 5 C, a delta of +5 C doesn’t change my core point.

I used the phrase "above ambient" specifically because the battery does not need to be warm unless you need to charge it quickly. If it's above 0 Celsius, it can charge. The warmer you make it the faster you can charge it. If the wasted energy is an issue you can charge slower.

> most industrial inverters operate at nearly 90% efficiency.

An inverter is significantly simpler than a battery charger. FePO4 charging can start as low as 2.5 volts and go past 3.6 volts. Making a converter with a 50% swing in voltage is not particularly easy. This higher-end charger picked at random[1] drops to <75% efficiency at the end of charge.

[1]: https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data...
There was a Chinese drug lord operating out of Canada who did successfully pull off the cell structure. Amazon of Drugs or something.

Somehow they managed perfect forward secrecy.

For a while.
Almost anything related to programming.

Geographical information about a region.

What is the name of a song I have in my mind.

Virtually anything else. I'm studying architecture and read about associations of feelings that cardinal points transmit in a house (north, south, east, west). Like, east is associated with youth because of sunrise. At first it wasn't obvious why, so I asked ChatGPT and it explained everything brilliantly to me.

It takes me an order of magnitude less time to educate myself on ChatGPT comparing to Google.
I'm not sure. Methods like Chinchilla and Quantization have been able to reduce compute by more than an order of magnitude. There might very well be a few more levels of optimizations within the same statistical paradigm.
Then launch and issue severe fines to discourage them.

Or just let them. The sea is big, it's not going to hit that many. Not everything needs to be 100% safe. We let people chase storms, or fly wingsuits (1 death per 500 jumps, according to [1]). We also have ways to deal with parents who endanger their children past what we as society consider acceptable.

[1] https://explorersweb.com/wingsuiting-dance-with-death/
Yeah these intelligence tests are not very good.

I would argue some programmers do in fact invent something new. Not all of them, but some. Perhaps 10%.

Second the point is not whether everyone is by profession an inventor but whether most people can be inventors. And to a degree they can be. I think you underestimate that by a large margin.

You can lock people in a room and give them a problem to solve and they will invent a lot if they have the time to do it. GPT will invent nothing right now. It‘s not there yet.
> I know this sounds extreme but they need to deregulate and privatize every single thing about the airline industry

The massive deregulation that already happened is a very large part of why flying sucks. It's also a very large part of why it's cheap. You makes your choice and picks your poison.
Democracy will definitely die if you spread false information because everyone is making decisions based on falsehoods.
Nice! I just love this podcast so much. I think I discovered it from an older Hacker News thread a year ago or so.
>Yes, it says "may have" and not "has" but the implication is there, which is what the CBC & others are pushing back on.

And that pushback is a lie (I think the word these days is "misinformation"), because the Canadian government absolutely does influence what the CBC publishes.

Journalists (as a class) have begged for these rules and powers, and are now whining because they're now finding themselves at the pointy end. What's wrong with having to play by their own rules (which they claimed were good for everyone else)?
That type of hackerspace was actually invented in Germany. There are many of them across Europe now. https://mapall.space/
It has never been discovered to exist. If it’s actually good it’ll defeat attempts to uncover it.
An even better cell structure would be one where the cells don’t even know that other cells exist.
Google has been using TPUs for years and continuously improving the designs.
The government will just infiltrate and control that third party by funding it. "You want us to raise your rates the next round of appropriations, here is what we expect to get 'fact checked'".
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/03/24/openai-ceo-sam-altman-didnt-... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35289044 - 24 days ago; 158 points, 209 comments)

> OpenAI’s ChatGPT unleashed an arms race among Silicon Valley companies and investors, sparking an A.I. investment craze that proved to be a boon for OpenAI’s investors and shareholding employees.

> But CEO and co-founder Sam Altman may not notch the kind of outsize payday that Silicon Valley founders have enjoyed in years past. Altman didn’t take an equity stake in the company when it added the for-profit OpenAI LP entity in 2019, Semafor reported Friday.
Older tradespeople are retiring and younger participation in the trades has not kept up (for a variety of reasons). Labor improvement costs will only go up if you or unpaid help (friends) are unable to do the work. Higher level thesis is structural demographics in general compressing productive worker cohort.

https://www.google.com/search?q=skilled+trades+shortage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89fsWN9lxVs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpggP9ygO_U
If all you need is machines then there is still a massive benefit in using the cloud. You can spin up 1000 machines tomorrow without having to buy them, wait for getting them (2 months later), rack them, cable them, ....

Especially if you need a couple of racks things get complicated quickly. If you have never racked machines for a week you probably underestimate the amount of time it takes before you can actually run workloads on them.

And if you need a 1000 machines for x years which otherwise you'd put in your own data center you can absolutely go to AWS, GCP, OCI and bid them down against each other.
I'd expect that it's not the pornographic bit, but the labelled as obscene bit that's the sticking point. I visited a lot of libraries in my youth, youth librarians actually don't make it a practice to give kids porn usually, kids seek that out on their own, it's part of their capacious nature. Also many books in libraries typically get donated (directly or via financial donations), especially in poorer areas, and porn is not really on the shortlist of things librarians tend to want to prioritize money for. Wouldn't it be better to prosecute specific misconduct than to create committees of politicians for book censorship?
Google's “Don't be evil” motto has evolved for the AI age
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It will give you an idea of the prices.
It's very intentional. Japan is largely homogenous and there's a lot of support for keeping it that way.
Yes, just because iOS itself is harder to hack. For example there are trivial evil maid style attacks against Android: https://www.tiktok.com/@android_infosecurity/video/718590789...
I'd bet on a 2030 model trained on the same dataset as GPT-4 over GPT-4 trained with perfect-quality data, hands down. If data quality were that critical, practitioners could ignore the Internet and just train on books and scientific papers and only sacrifice <1 order of magnitude of data volume. Granted, that's not a negligible amount of training data to give up, but it places a relatively tight upper bound on the potential gain from improving data quality.
>Out of this list of 6 major Earth-shaking products only 3 came from Google itself. YouTube, Android, and Maps were all acquisitions.

They tried to compete with YouTube, it didn't work out but hey we have deep pocket, let's buy them. Successful investment because they bought YouTube for $2bn and last year YouTube generated $30bn in revenue. All done and lifted to sky by Google. Android was pre-emptive acquisition against Microsoft and its mobile Windows OS and its search engine Bing. Today Android is the most used OS in the world and it comes with Google apps preinstalled. Also all done by Google because as far as I understood, they built modern Android OS from the ground up with the Linux kernel ofc. I'm not sure about Maps but I bet there was also some long term vision/strategy there as well. You don't have to innovate all the time if you have strong core business and deep pocket for acquisitions, innovation happens elsewhere.

Also turning acquisitions into successful businesses and money making machines is a difficult task. Not every company can do it and some companies even go bankrupt because of acquisitions that gone bad.

>Take for example the recent and total failure of Stadia - they sunk truckloads of money into developing the underlying technology, which is legitimately impressive. And then they slapped a substandard (let's be honest, less than substandard) go-to-market strategy around it. And after it predictably floundered they walked away from the thing entirely.

Stadia was too early in the game, something like Altavista to Google. Cloud gaming market needs to mature and eventually some successful cloud gaming company will pop up. I also don't think they really cared that much about cloud gaming because let's be honest they jumped on the bandwagon of cloud gaming just like they are jumping now on LLMs hype.

>Or for something more currently topical - Google literally invented LLMs but failed to productize it. They put in the money and failed to get the result where another company did.

Too early to judge. We will see in the next couple of years.
TLDW: Erika Moen (web cartoonist) wrote a book called "Let's Talk About It: The Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships and Being Human"; in the chapter on sexting she advises teens that pictures they send to people can never be deleted and therefore they should crop out their faces and any identifying birthmarks, etc, before sending one. A concerned parent read this passage at a school board meeting to protest this books inclusion in the library. Hilarity ensues.
> A private establishment isn't a home

A private unincorporated business isn't meaningfully separated from its owner, financially or otherwise.

> The same governing authority that lets government demand you not dump toxic waste in the river

But they derive this authority from the defence of the commons, which is fundamental to liberty. The whole point is that "we the people" agree to be governed within these constraints. From where does government derive the authority to make demands on whom you serve?

> hearts and minds of the people changing

Forcing people to change their hearts and minds is abhorrent and divisive. I wouldn't say it has been all positive so far as outcomes are concerned either.

> Form a corporation, and here's the whole set of federal, state, and local laws you're now obligated to comply with

And these laws are enabled by the very same overreaching interpretation of "the general Welfare" that I addressed in my previous comment.

> and you've completely dodged the fact

Sorry, I've included it in an edit to the parent.

> share a lunch counter with a stranger in a restaurant that serves the public.

The person being injured is the owner of the restaurant that can no longer exercise their liberty to choose whom they serve. The exercise of this liberty harms no one else.
> since public cloud became very popular, the profile of infrastructure programmers changed. A lot of knowledge necessary to run own infrastructure disappeared, being replaced by the knowledge of how to operate the service.

It was ever thus. Previously it was CISCO Solution Specialists and HP/UX Most Valuable Engineers and the like, and all the knowledge beyond the basics was completely tied to the vendor. In enterprise IT, it's still like that for Microsoft.
No.
Winter means people have lost interest in the research.

If anything successes in ChatGPT etc will be motivation for continued efforts.
I think everyone agrees that not only Apple has the ability to offer an malware free App Store, it’s just that if F-Droid exists than so can G-Droid, the fork made by criminals to exploit less technical users. I think it’s overblown, though. Android has side loading and there doesn’t seem to be an epidemic of sketchy app stores.
Might be worth adding some indicator that this is a podcast and not a video series
How to Make a Hotbed for the Earliest Sowings (2020)
Because generally the right isn’t for free speech, just the free speech that supports their perspective. They’re literally defunding public libraries as we speak.
Quite hard with the meetings and all.

But managed to have close friends come over to stay for a week at our place and we plan do go visit them for a week.

Great benefit of remote work. I don’t have to take time off to visit long distance friends or align vacation time with them which seemed earlier impossible because everyone has different commitments and well we would have to align a lot of people to agree on single destination…
There's many ways to immigrate to Japan, and the point system is one of the hardest because it gives you direct access to Permanent Residency (incidentally I will apply next year to it) instead of the temporary Work Visa.

As far as you have a degree and a job offer from a Japanese company (both should be related) it's trivial to fill the paperwork to come here. Engineers in particular have it pretty easy, with many Engineering jobs not even requiring you to speak Japanese.

But that's the trick, it's "okay" to come to Japan with a work permit, which allows you to work and pay your taxes but you have to be actively working with those, unless you have switched to PR (which IS a lot harder), or get out of the country. This has been criticized a lot, Japan is very friendly for young professional workers, but will never treat you as one of their own and once there's a sign of trouble you are on your own.
I think driving is far superior to flying in every way except one: travel speed.
By that line of reasoning, GitHub copilot would have to be GPL. Until somebody fights about this in court we don't really know. But even in the worst case the CC-BY-SA is one of the easier licenses to fulfill, not much worse than the MIT-licensed code contained in the dataset.
I used to travel ...a lot... Minimum twice a week, usually 4+. As an engineer (and process consultant), I spent countless hours sitting at airport gates looking for any optimization I could find, mostly focusing on wasteful and (seemingly expensive) boarding processes.

My favorite half-baked + stupid + fun one: Install the plane seating area at the gate itself, as a separate detached entity on a conveyor belt. Passengers can take their time, it's open, there aren't walls. You can just walk right into Row 20, seat A. No squeezing down aisles. Once everyone arrives and takes their seat, the belt moves and shuttles the seats+passengers into the fuselage. Kinda like a mini-roller coaster. Shut doors. Take off. Repeat in reverse after landing.

(There are obviously serious problems with this. You'd have to redesign planes and gates, at a minimum.)
The "blue checkmark" of beers. This bottle certifies that the person holding it has $30.
He’s not presenting false evidence here, he’s presenting a hunch. It’s a guess. No one is going to gain anything from this one way or another.
After 2016, Google went on a crusade to save the universe by stamping out all misinformation and seems to have highly deranked all forums and blogs in favor of mainstream sites. This has made Google unusable for any political or controversial subject matter. This has also made their LLM efforts too cautious as they can't handle the political controversy of an LLM and can't verify that it will never return anything that offends anyone.

It does seem like Larry and Sergei are finally back trying to fix the excessively politically sensitive and overly cautious culture. Larry, having disappeared to Fiji for several years, must have been pretty bored or annoyed with running it.
This article isn't spreading any propaganda against encryption. If anything, it makes the case that new backdoors are not needed.
I have lived and worked in 3 countries and have kept the bank accounts I opened there since. They usually won't allow you to open a new bank account without being a resident, but you can notify them of your new tax residency once you move out and keep your account, credit cards, etc.

I could have more if I had kept the account I had when studying abroad but it had fees to keep it while empty.

Actually with Revolut I have also an account domiciled in Lithuania.
Valuable processing info in the comments. But why so much effort to produce something without the option to have ownership (copyright) over my product?
If I draw a strange line with any digital painting tool and put a circle and a square around, I sign this art and this is my Art.
If a spend a day with prompting, upscaling, fixing with Control net in the end of the day I will have a funny picture which is not mine.

https://fortune.com/2023/02/23/no-copyright-images-made-ai-a...
That's fine for orderly transitions, but if you're worried that your private host keys have been compromised then (a) you can't trust any new transitions and (b) if the new private keys are already on the systems then have they also been compromised?
They did and I bought a used pixel6 just to switch to graphene. The problem is that the next pixel will likely be much more difficult to do this with because google is going to not not be evil.
The convenience and knowledge barriers are too high for most people. It's pretty straightforward for folks with tech subject matter expertise, but for most others, it's just not worth figuring out what they need to know, then getting all of the prerequisite knowledge that lets them learn that, then worrying about screwing it up, or maybe relying on someone else for basic operations, etc.

It's often tough for developers to see this for the same reason it's tough to write documentation-- reasoning about a beginner's perspective is a specific skill that takes study and practice. That's why software companies that need financially stable products hire technical writers and interface designers, and it's a place where FOSS really struggles.

For example, Mastodon's active userbase has dropped 50% since its peak during the beginning of the Musk/Twitter debacle... even for the ones brave enough to plunge in head-first, it was too much technical resistance compared to the more straightforward alternatives that they had already abandoned. I think it was a missed opportunity.
I don't think a single person with a few part-time contractors is getting a banking licence in many jurisdictions

The UK has a few "challenger bank" startups which are basically just an app, but they're not lifestyle businesses, they're "raise £10m before you launch" businesses.
The second paragraph seems at odds with the first. I'd describe a culture where people are making bets on whether or not you can find a bug in someone else's work is the opposite of blameless. I'd consider it quite hostile, to be honest. Specially if it's something that management is actually ok with.

I'm assuming you were at google in late 90s/early 2000s?
If people are incapable of determining true and false how are people supposed to determine true and false to remove misinformation?
That would be a hilarious future if humanities job was to upload our creative offerings to AI and it dispenses some trivial amount of crypto based on how much it learned.

Your 8 year olds cat drawing has been subsumed for 25c. Your essay on Philip K. Dick has been subsumed for .32c.
> It's the transition of power that's the problem.

That, and the lack of freedom, and the life you're subjected to when the dictator doesn't like you.