skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Current process nodes are mostly 5nm, with 3nm getting rolled out. Atomic is ~0.1nm, which is x30 linear and x900 by area.

However, none of that is actually important when the thing people care about most right now is energy consumed per operation.

This metric dominates for anything battery powered for obvious reasons; less obvious to most is that it's also important for data centres where all the components need to be spread out so the air con can keep them from being damaged by their own heat.

I've noticed a few times where people have made unflattering comparisons between AI and cryptocurrency. One of the few that I would agree with is the power requirements are basically "as much as you can".

Because of that:

> double the performance a few times sure, but that's not a sustained improvement month upon month like we have in the past.

"Doubling a few times" is still huge, even if energy efficiency was perfectly tied to feature size.

But as I said before, the maximum limit for energy efficiency is in the order of a billion-fold, not the x900 limit in areal density, and even our own brains (which have the extra cost of being made of living cells that need to stay that way) are an existential proof it's possible to be tens of thousands of times more energy efficient.
Substantially more than "zero".
It tragically comical that all it would take is something like 2% of GDP over a couple of years (until 2050) to fix.

We rather spend it on the military or pensions.
Only 24% of registered voters in California are Republican, so the election hinges on the Democratic primary. You don't get to a position in a political party where you can realistically run for and potentially win a US Senate seat by making a habit of attacking people in your own party. Those that do get ostracized long before they have that kind of juice, and the people who could potentially do it are not likely to risk the entire thing on running now when they could more safely run in another term or two, especially if they've already got a comfortable elected position.

So the answer on the inside is that nobody willing to run against her has the power to, and nobody with the power to is willing. On the outside, it's people who don't care who is running, they only care about the letter next to the name, so would never vote for a Republican or an Independent.
Lyft actually did try and create many different revenue streams. Besides ridesharing, they own the bikeshares and scooters in pretty much every major city in US, got into their own car rental business and tried to become a one stop shop for transit. It's not that they didn't try, its that they didn't seem to have taken any of them to be profitable revenue streams.

Also, wouldn't the very high salaries paid to a lot of engineers contribute it Lyft having unsustainable economics?
How can it leaks? Do you have any source? Well you had some of them turned off for maintanance, that happens.
Just what the modern world needs! Another way to become a hikikomori and think letters appearing on your screen are your "friends"...
Whether we want to or not, Austin has enough power outages that we definitely test the battery backup on our garage door more often than once a year. We had to test it just a few days ago, in fact. I can't speak for any other locations. But I will say that these systems usually last multiple years, so even if you're not testing them every year, you're probably still okay. I've got enough APC SmartUPS battery backup systems in the house to confirm that much.

But for you, there is no harm in having a backup battery that you don't need to use that frequently. You can do your manual method whenever you want, without harming the battery backup system.

But having a mandatory annual checkup isn't a bad idea. We do that for pilots, and I think we should do that for anyone who has firearms -- make that part of the licensing process.

Making homeowners responsible for fixing the sidewalks in front of their house also makes sense. That's an important piece of neighborhood infrastructure, and it needs to be properly maintained. And if you don't, then you're liable for anyone who gets injured by it. As well as being ticketed by the city.
It’s a public company. Yes, I know he still owns the majority of it so it’s not like he’s violating the law by grinding it into the ground but still. It’s woven into the fabric of modern life for better or worse (worse) and I think it’s fair to write an article saying “This man is doing a bad job running it”.
I think it's pretty clear. If you're not filtering, you're liable. If you are and something transpires, they'll fight your legal battle for you which is probably better than any monetary indemnity clause. I assume this is for enterprise users where it actually matters.
Hah, that's an interesting way to sell a product: "buy this to embarrass people you don't like!". So groups of people who don't like Stephen King' or LeBron James' stances on Twitter could continuously keep their accounts ticked blue, to annoy them...

So, Elon would be providing a way to harass people, I suppose until they think the harassment isn't worth the megaphone-reach that their account has accrued (which is worth less and less the more dickish the CEO becomes).
Question(s) to the nuclear supporters here:

1. Are you talking about global electricity? Or just the West?

2. How much nuclear power do you want? 20%, 50%, 70%, or 100%? Or something else?

3. What nuclear technology? Traditional, Molten Salt, SMRs, or something else?

4. What institutional setting do you image for your nuclear power plants? Private ownership, or nationalized plants like in France?

Just curious...
Soon they will ask to scan your car computer so they can ticket you for speeding.
> At what point of scale do people start imagining they have a right to make demands on how something somebody else built and owns should be run?

At the point where the machine that is built starts having very real external effects.

Facebook has been used for artificially amplifying some incredibly extremist social movements.

It is a reasonable expectation to put some limits on that in the same way that we would want to put some limits on say… a family owned pharma company that actively encouraged doctors to prescribe addictive drugs.
I believe there are couple different aspects to “it’s AI training legal same as human” argument:

1. Copyright is only granted to creative elements; lots of program codes are supposedly un-copyrightable, though no one wants to fight on that ground.

2. It is lawful in many jurisdictions to effectively steal and train AI with even copyrighted materials, for the sake of humanity at large; same supposedly not apply to the output. But AI-supportive clusters tends to conflate between the two.

3. AI training processes, stochastic gradient descent and all, are only called “learning” and/or “training” by convention; there is no public consent that it is same as how the word is supposedly defined, though we generally don’t scare quote airplanes flying.
Technically it's no orgasm.
I honestly would be very surprised if they didn't make more CO2 logging and turning that tree into a building product than they sequester. Postal spam is likely even more damaging.
Mastofeed – embedded Mastodon feeds for blogs, etc.
some people have given up on reality maybe mark is one of them?
Even if you sample stuff from programs that use a permissive license, you still legally need to attribute that code. No attribution = copyright infringement. Can the AI code generator supply attribution for the specific works sampled?
Of course and that needs to be factored into renewable supplies which massively increases their cost. When you have periods of Dunkelflaute you potentially need to have full grid redundancy either through inter-connects, other energy generation sources or battery backup, none of which are cheap.
If you have nothing to hide, then publish it all for the world to see.
a passkey is just an opaque password that reduces controll by the user.
I doubt they will have much problem finding people who are qualified to teach.

But it's going to make it more difficult to continue hiring people who are seen as some of the best in the world in in-demand areas.
They passed tests?

I'm not that optimistic about world leaders… ^_^;
This is going to be an unpopular opinion, but I don't want people born before Hitler rose to power to be in the government at all. I don't care how sharp you are and I don't care how progressive or conservative you are.

If you're old enough to have had strong opinions about LBJ when he was in office, your time has passed and we really don't need you in the Senate, or the White House, or anywhere else in government making decisions that will have impacts decades after you're gone.
Same thing. The idea is go without a lot of the comforts we are accustomed to in order to experience life as those less fortunate do so that we may be more empathetic towards our fellow humans.
In my Canadian province (BC) most of the trees (and fires) are where people don't live, it's very much about protecting their #1 export (tied with Coal)
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! The sky is falling!

Nobody cares. We're too busy trying to get through our lives. No, I'm not a climate change denier, I'm a climate-change not-care-er. I keep my heat/AC where I'm comfortable. I drive a large comfortable ICE vehicle. Would I buy an EV, solar panel roof, home backup batteries - if they were cheap and as convenient as what I have today? you bet. Persuade me with things that make my life easier, or cost me less than what I have today.
My wife just got one straight out of her PhD, but it's not super common unless you're 1) very cutthroat competitive and 2) willing to move far (in our case, 5 hours from the Bay Area).
You've completely missed the mark. Life is full of contradictory desires. I would love to have a lean, muscular body. I also love pizza.

Fasting is a practice of discipline; consciously choosing to forgo one thing to focus on another. You don't not eat because God or Allah or Buddha or whomever actually care that you didn't eat. You don't eat to focus on mastering your own desires such that you can better your own mindfulness of adherence to the other strictures of your faith during your daily life, even when you are not fasting.

The reason many religions focus on fasting is that it is a common and simple way to be aware of a temptation and choose to not give into it.

Edit: I should add, in case my point wasn't obvious, that none of the above has to do with you or anyone else. It is purely a personal thing.

Anyone who brags about how much religious fasting they are doing are just showing that they have been wasting their time and have gotten nothing from it.
LOL, no hurt feelings here. I support nuclear power along with renewables which have their niche places to contribute. But to completely ignore nuclear in favor of just wind and solar is idiotic and misguided.
People actually care wtf the zucker does?

More navel gazing by the lost generations...
Quasicrystals are non-periodic hexagonal crystals that follow the same rules as mathematical penrose tiles. Here's a paper on some interesting theoretical phase transitions that are similar to the type of electron control you mention. https://journals.aps.org/prresearch/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev...
They are not just "people," they're people with guns and the power to kill innocent citizens and destroy their property with barely any consequences. It's reasonable to expect them to be a bit careful about their job.
Doesn't Microsoft already use Copilot internally?
Cue the atomic fanatics vs the renewable cult discussion.
Has been discussed a thousand times on HN recently and it always seems both are just shouting how the other side can not see the obvious superiority of their fav energy source.

why cant we have a bit of both?
renewable seems very good long term and nuclear is also nice for transition.
but I wouldnt want to live next to one of those crappy leaky french reactors.
Or, you can give two weeks notice, and then be fired for quitting.
Anyone resources for the opposite, how to become a "coder who designs"?

Edit: I don't mean generic "learn design" resources for people who don't know design but specifically resources meant for programmers to pick up design. Like the book "Math for Programmers" but for design. Although thanks for all the links, surely there is something good there too.
> So long as that thing doesn't literally copy the data into itself then the training hasn't violated copyright.

Could luck proving that hasn't happened. If a language model that can reproduce the code verbatim doesn't count then a movie re-encoded into a different format shouldn't count either.
How are you planning to prevent it from sharing false, hallucinated information?

I find that it does that a lot. Try asking ChatGPT about someone you know something about and see how much stuff it makes up. In cases I've checked, it makes up a lot.
Oh these russian bots again.

> Ukrainian government did pass a bill to prohibit official use of minority languages on the eastern part of the country

So what? Passing some bills justify full scale military invasion? Maybe we need to invade Russia, since they pass freedom stripping bills every week.
You mean like the super xe?
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/287546-super-xe-game-machi...
Scoped in 1988 with Ricoh.

Add a gui and you have an interesting machine
https://youtu.be/T14dL9MeMHE

However, in the light of the 16bit ascendence I can see why this was canned.
> When these articles were published, I was certain Microsoft had a plan to betray everyone's trust as they always do.

They thrive on betrayal and will never change and are getting cleverer.

> Microsoft's business model is betrayal. Github is Microsoft.

O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com is also Microsoft.

They were warned straight from the beginning [0] [1] and the same HNers keep falling for the Microsoft freebies and giveaways.

Perhaps the time they will learn the hardest: Is when it is too late.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27772446

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28324999
Even assuming you’re right, that’s only true until the next step the Texas legislature takes, because any benefit will be contrary to their goals, which is to hurt higher education.
HN DDoS'd...
Copyrighting code never made sense to me. We already have patents for intellectual property. If two people use the same RFC or Whitepaper for an algorithm in the same language, they will probably name the variables similarly and their code will look very similar. Just like if two people wrote out the same hamburger recipe or instructions for hooking up a stereo would also write something similar.

The copyright on the implementation will outlive the patent and allow the implementor to legally take action on claims of copyright infringement. Even though a program is literally just a list of instructions to implement the expired patent.
Look for the Tricastin plant
I don't know enough to answer precisely but it has leaked recently and a few years ago. Of course it doesn't leak uranium, but other byproducts, which not a sign of a well managed plant.
Some were stopped not just maintenance but the discovery of micro-breaches caused by maintenance decades ago.
That's actually a sign of proper management, but a counter-argument to reliability.
the article mentions that 2 billion tons of coal would be needed to manufacture solar panels to meet half of today's global energy needs with renewables. That is about 3 months of global coal consumption at current rates. If we decide to go all in on nuclear instead, we can turn off the coal plants in a mere 15 years or so.
>> This doesn't really engage with my points.

Sorry. I thought you described a system that did what MuZero did. It still seems to me that's what you're describing.

"In-context learning" is a big potato. It's just some jargon that OpenAI came up with to play up the capabilities of GPT-3, just another example of the time-honoured tradition in AI of inventing grandiloquent terms to describe something much simpler. See Drew McDermot's "Artificial Intelligence meets Natural Stupidity", a paper from 1976, that castigates this already very common habit of AI researchers: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1045339.1045340

To clarify, "in-context learning" is what we used to call "sampling from a model" back in my time (in 2014, when I did my Master's and studied neural nets and language modelling, and also game-playing algos; not coincidentally, because I usually engage in conversation about things that I understand, so you won't catch me talking about quantum computers, say, or physics). Models got better and sampling from them gets better results, so OpenAI figured they could embiggen it and call it something more impressive than "sampling". But it's sampling, not learning.

>> People who argue LLMs are just another example in the history of narrow AI don't seem to have a strong response to the example of in-context learning.

I don't think it's very productive to try and fit opinions into "people who say" kinds of boxes. I don't treat my interlocutors like that. Perhaps I haven't yet heard all the arguments on any particular claim. I'll never know if I assume everyone is just repeating the same old stuff.

Anyway there's no point in arguing anything here. If you've used language models before, you know how sampling works and it's obvious it's what OpenAI call "in-context learning". They're not even pretending it's not sampling. They're just claiming it's different because they're sampling from a large Language model.

Edit:

>> Neural net based evaluations result in moves that more closely match human expert choices[1], which suggests a similarity in mechanism compared to prior evaluation mechanisms.

The paper you linked describes a system that was explicitly trained to predict human moves. That's probably why it can do better at simulating the way humans play chess than a system that wasn't trained to simulate the way humans play chess.
Looks like copilot is pretty upfront:

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Looks like this code in https://github.com/ChRis6/circuit-simulation/blob/2e45c7db01... is older then the GPL code in question or provided by the example. Uh oh, did we discover something? Who actually owns this code because this code predates the code in question by a calendar year using git blame, by a different author, and with no license attached to the oldest code. Is it possible the code in the codeium.com example is relicensed and not GPL code at all?
A poem is an entire work. A 5 line snippet is one brick in a wall.
This is the exact direction I think we should reshape political systems. Perhaps even make empowering experts the main point. Too much is legislated and enforced by people who are overly self-interested or out of touch. It's a huge missed opportunity that experts are forced to watch representatives fumble around or make wrong decisions.

A long those lines, governance power should not require being a celebrity either.

Applying this post to the topic of AI alignment, I'd like a democratic option for large entitlements of tax funds to be applied as Yudkowsky sees fit, if enough people vote to appoint him as AI Minister, and vote to give him governance teeth against big tech and the thousands of startups driving Moloch via the standard economic paradigm.
>> How Much Notice Can You Give?
>> It depends on a lot of things:

The list misses what's most important for me: depends on how good am I feeling at the company, or I appreciate its people. Then, I want to make it also easier to transfer knowledge or help them finish things that were dependent on me, etc. Especially on project management.
I'm not sure I understand, apps in the store are already sandboxed, which affords me some protection from them. I'd like the same protection from side-loaded apps.

Perhaps relaxing the no-JIT restriction, though. I think I'd be ok with them relaxing that in side-load. It might be fine in normal apps too, since we have lockdown mode to disable it across the board (including MobileSafari) if extra security against zero-days is needed.
> Have you used GDB?

I've used debuggers in general (IDEA, Resharper, Visual Studio), and even dabbled with disassemblers like IDA in my youth.

> Browser developer tools don't "emulate hardware" they change the viewport and throttle network, there's a huge difference.

So, out-of-thebox int their primary tool frontend developers get: viewport simulation, cpu throttling, network throttling, sensor simulation (geolocation and orientation).

And can emulate performance with different number of processor cores. Not bad https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/performance/refer...

> As far as all-in-one solutions go that's a new goal post, your first comment mentioned "tooling", and hot reloading is not a part of the browser

Wat. The original comment claimed this: "Maybe the web ecosystem will finally get some sane tooling". So yes, hot loading is a part of tooling. I've yet to see anything outside the web manage hot reloading with any degree of confidence and speed.

You don't like the hot loading, and let's focus on non-moved non-goal non-posts. I hope you noticed the ellipsis at the end of my list?

What's that immediately available tool for GDB and Wireshark whatever that:

- can let me examine and change the UI of the app on the fly? Including handful tools like layout overlays, layers etc.

- examine and debug animations?

- analyze paint/re-paint performance?

- view and debug delayed background actions?

- record and replay user flows?

...

^ Note the ellipsis again.

The build tools for Web are undoubtedly atrocious. However, there are very few, if any, tools that come even close to the versatility and ease of use of the tools that exist for the web ecosystem.