skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The price of oil is a particularly bad example, since it is heavily controlled everywhere in the world, as is supply. The international price of oil is largely set by OPEC or the USA or a few other countries (depending on geographical region).

Also, this type of pundit influence is common with the price of stocks. It also happened with the price of natural gas in Europe last year, when it increased based on lack of confidence in reserves that turned out to be misplaced, and never really recovered.
You're implying that owning a property is unconditionally more favourable than renting. That's not neccessarily true though.

My wife and I recently decided to buy after renting voluntarily for decades. We did all sorts of calculations. In some scenarios renting comes out on top. In others buying is more favourable.

Ultimately, our decision was based on the uncertainty created by the referencing system, on the recent spell of inflation and on changed personal circumstances rather than any long term financial advantage.

I don't like the sort of relationship that exists between landlords and tenants in the UK, but I'm not convinced that it is necessarily one of financial exploitation.

Small landlords have their money tied up in a badly diversified, inflexible asset that comes with unpredictable maintanance costs. I would never invest my own money like this.

If all goes well for the landlord, they make a profit. If not, only the bank makes a profit (unless interest rates rise too quickly and they have issued too many fixed rate mortgages).

If you buy your own home, the bank makes a profit and if you're lucky it turns out well for you financially. There's no guarantee that it will.
I was referring to GP's claim that they "hate government". Believing that the federal government has evolved beyond what the Constitution legally permits and working to make it smaller isn't the same thing as hatefully burning it all down, which was the implication I took out of their comment.
What is the tangible threat of AGI though?

Let's do a thought experiment. I have the world's first AGI installed on my computer, named ERNIE, running in llama.cpp. This AGI is infinitely intelligent, confidently moreso than any living human. It can spit out text at 100 tokens/second and encode entire books in less than a minute.

What does this AI do, then?

Ostensibly nothing. It can output the entire Library of Babel for all it cares, but it's not harmful until I put it in control of a system. You could argue that a multimodal model has different ways of interacting with the world, but it's still a computer. All of it's actions and outputs are quantized as static data that is either encoded as text or some other significant representation. It inherantly does nothing, and if you ascribe power-seeking behavior to it then it's ultimately limited by the runtime you provide. Providing an overly dangerous runtime has been considered developer-error since 1995.

So - to prevent AGI from being shitty and ruining everything, compel human operators to not allow them to be shitty and ruin everything. Like how we punish people that let their kindergartner control a construction crane.
For NYC it seems right -- each person has a $15 plate and a $4 coffee, that's $38 which then adds 8.875% = $3.37 for sales tax and $7.60 for 20% tip, for a total of $48.97.

Where they're getting $100 from though, I have no idea. Nobody's charging $30 for eggs or $8 for coffee unless you're at a top-end business hotel in Tokyo or something. Or the eggs come with caviar or they're accompanied with a small steak.
Trustworthy AI in a confidential cloud using Nvidia GPUs (2022)
Just curious, what does it mean "fit for human habitation"?
Not really sure what you mean by ‘get away with’. Journalists are obliged to ask companies to comment and spokespeople make those comments. The spokesman doesn’t get interviewed or grilled and it is generally left to the reader to interpret the comment and decide if the spokesperson has ‘gotten away with it’.

Do you have the same reaction whenever an organisation has a scandal and they ‘don’t want to comment on an ongoing investigation’?
> This is why almost no normal US citizen can afford to fly personally, even just occasionally for fun.

In EU you can get to a lot of destinations for much less than 100€. And I bet EU regulations are not less stringent than US. Adding insult to injury, Airbus does fine smashing Boeing in the mid-range mid-size planes segment.

Maybe the problem is not in the regulations, but in Boeing? Which tries to circumvent the regulations, instead of following them, or at least trying to appeal the regulations in a legal way?
If by “ended up deciding they didn’t want on their platform” you mean being told by the USG to remove it, and when they didn’t remove enough of it, the President called them mass-murderers and threatened to do something about it?

The arrests of Jan 6 protestors, you mean like the “QAnon Shaman” who was guided through the Capital by police and had that evidence illegally withheld by the prosecution, and then when the truth came out was released?
I don't mind de-anonymizing as much as my ID getting leaked and having my identity stolen because some social media service doesn't follow proper security practices

Facebook has already been found to be storing passwords in plaintext [0]

How can you trust them, or any other social media for that matter?
Even if they do everything right, you are increasing the chance of giving your id to s service is that will get hacked by just giving it to more services

* [0] https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-passwords-plaintext-cha...
As i see it a monarch can have (or not have) an element of personal charisma. People liked Elizabeth. Commonwealth countries were not going to take her image off their currency and honor indigenous people instead but when it came to changing the money to honor Charles or honor indigenous people that’s another thing.

When I was younger I saw the Charles-Diana-Camilla triangle through the “it’s so awful to have to marry someone you don’t love” lens but today I see it as a lost opportunity for the monarchy if not the UK. There is very little choice about who’s going to inherit the monarchy (can’t select for ‘much better than average’) but you can pick somebody much better than average to marry into the family, and thus keep people interested in and emotionally connected with the monarchy, which is what it is all about. If people don’t care sooner or later it will become irrelevant and/or die out, if it cultivates that connection it can thrive.
This is of course an extremely modern view of democracy. If you think everything other than our system today is authoritarian, you are going to find a lot of authoritarianism in every place you look. It isn’t a very useful definition of authoritarianism. It reminds me a bit of the word “heretic” the way you are using it.
They own the mobile platforms because they blazed the trail as you put it.
That was the prize they were competing for, Meta was late with the HTC First / Facebook phone, and so they lost.
Of course they would have liked to own their own little mobile fiefdom, they are incredibly valuable platforms
This is a useful framing, and personally I learn hard toward the "speaker is responsible" strategy.

With that said, I think a continuum is an even more accurate framing. If you are confusing your audience, it is probably your fault. But not necessarily. Some people won't make an effort, will be distracted, or will engage in bad faith. I see it as a negotiation in which you should be strongly biased toward the audience being right.
Sure, if you're talking about a pre-seed stage startup with a single product 20 years ago. Meta/Facebook isn't that anymore, and hasn't been that for a very long time. Say what you want about Zuck, but the fact he more or less successfully has been running one the worlds largest tech companies of the century is pretty impressive.
Hey man, I hope you're able to feel better about this soon.

I'm not a waiter and I don't need any sympathy, just making an observation.
Yeah, that's just nonsense. There are certainly many societal ills that do not help. But your broad brush there is entirely wrong. Though I doubt any kind of legitimate discussion would sway you from it.
I don’t think “offended” is a fair assessment of how people react to these types of filler words. I think we tend to forget, especially after reading and writing computer languages, that our human languages are meant to be read and understood by other humans and our words can have a powerful effect on others. As the blog post suggests, this does seem to come out of a place of excitement to share knowledge, but it can come across as off-putting or disingenuous if, for example, something described as “simple” is not. Regardless of how fragile others are and conversely how tough you think you are, we are all affected by the way things are worded, with each of us carrying our own baggage and differing understanding of specific connotations. This is, however, not about adding bumpers to our language so that nobody feels hurt, it’s about communicating concepts and instructions in universally clear language that is not muddied with fluff or superlatives. In other words, it’s a UX problem.

For the record, I don’t disagree that people seem to be offended easily. Often the least charitable meaning is assumed and people escalate/react accordingly. Many individuals have become trained to fixate so heavily on micro aggressions that the context and tone of messages is lost and these people become difficult to interact with and a cycle of misery ensues where they find themselves surrounded by people who only walk on eggshells when communicating.
In metro areas of most concern, the cost of the house is almost always a pittance relative to the cost of the land the house sits on. The value of that land rarely having been accrued as the result of the landlord's actions.
Solutions will be quickly iterated once we have feet on the Moon. Hopefully within a few years of that, there will be cheap and reliable solutions. Being able to test with real humans will go so much faster than sandbox tests on Earth.
Speaking for myself, that’s damn near the dream. Wild success is nice, but consistency is the true holy grail in art. If I had a consistent reliable source of income and could budget the rest of my life around it, I’d never have to do all the side work — marketing, deal making, querying, networking, etc — that is required currently BECAUSE one must maximize the profit of the good times to shore up against the lean.
A user's guide for the people API
Any thoughts?

Yes, stay in your lane.
No, the heads of federal agencies are usually external so they can be held accountable for fuckups independently of the agencies’ cultures.
It looks like it's not possible to buy BYD cars in the United States, but they sell 5 models in Europe: https://www.byd.com/eu/news-list/BYD_Introduces_Two_New_Full...

With companies like Tesla and GM making so many unforced errors, I think there's a huge opportunity for BYD here. Like Honda, they're a company that made core components and has confidently progressed up the value chain.
I don’t know why some people are downvoting this comment. What is wrong with transparency?
My tone is similar throughout my comments. :P
Computer programs follow the same Darwinian principles as living organisms. Intelligence is just one dimension of ‘fitness’, but it’s an inefficient solution to a problem, and thus nature prefers adaption toward ‘dumb fitness’ once the problem has been solved.
Exactly right, you can't have democracy without information being available to everyone. But we all know this is just an illusion, all democratic states hide a great deal from their citizens.
What's the one thing that will solve 99.99% of climate change issues?
Can you add support for Obsidian markdown?
You don't need to "outsource all of your thinking to experts" to understand that data is not the plural of anecdote.

I, too, know people who met their future spouse online. However, after meeting online, they invariably meet in person before getting married, and then live together after getting married. Even the most plugged-in exemplars of the metaverse can't escape from the desire to interact outside of it.
Fauxwellian: When multitudes of people around you are suffering and you fabricate evidence as proof of it and then no one believes you because of the fraud
Increments so small they set the expected completion time to 1000 years from now are worthless.

There is only so much time people have to create, debate, modify, and enforce policies. Every time you waste our collective time to change on something so irrelevant, you starve out real topics.

Incremental change is fine, but the increments need to be large enough to actually put us on the needed “increments per year” path to get somewhere.

Something like 6 years ago California banned water being given out by restaurants by default. It did nothing to move the needle on the drought and had people debating water usage in people’s day to day lives for months. It was the tiniest increment and California was only saved by a massive winter precipitation event this winter.

We won’t have a massive winter to stop climate change. Stop fucking around with incremental shit and tax all hydrocarbons heavily.
Seth Rich’s own family and the officers investigating the murder say none of this is true.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich
Have it working on mine!
Reading the comments on the repo discussing the takedown notices explains why we can't have a nice things. There really are a lot people out there who are quite happy to damage other people.

"They left the door open - so it's completely fine to take all their stuff" is the attitude.
Personally, I find quite a big difference between the standard of the already widespread usage of K8S versus the cult of personality around DHH who is abrasively opinionated at times.
How to run this on linux?
I see, the 2.9 GB requirements seems to imply a 3 bit weights?

In any case I am happy to see these projects taking form. Perhaps one can eventually make the level of quantization dynamic based on the available vram etc :)

I will definitively play around with it (on linux though, not a phone!)
Maybe there was no response because it was expected. Probably all countries spy on all other countries. Especially during the Trump era, it wasn’t clear that USA was still an ally, so I hope other countries prepared for that by increasing their intelligence on the USA, just to avoid inconvenient surprises.
My favourite way to write code now is data objects and pure free functions.

Gets 90% of the way there and is loosely coupled, easy to test, and scale horizontally.
> “AI is the first tool that convincingly replicates the unique capabilities of the human mind.”

Isn’t… isn’t that literally the definition of term “artificial intelligence,” just rephrased?
You have not provided (and cannot provide) any proof to back those additional assertions, as such they do nothing to improve your argument.

> What makes a journalist a better place to whistle to than an elected politician on the intelligence committee or any one of a number of other options?

A history of actually doing their jobs in this regard.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Throat_(Watergate)
I'm glad there's at least one other person in the world who remembers that game.
40 Years of Koyaanisqatsi
Because there is a thin line between a whistleblower and a traitor. A whistleblower releases information about "messed up shit", a traitor releases legitimate secret information, how do you call someone who releases both?
Lol. I certainly know many people feel that way, otherwise Tailwind wouldn't exist. But I'm a strict adherent to the concept that you keep your languages separate. You should not have to wonder whether you need to go to your html or css file to change the appearance of a site.
No, the heads of federal agencies are external because they're political appointees. High profile jobs go to donors and those who have supported the politician in charge of the appointment.
IIRC, the argument was that there exist a special manoeuvre which can make it possible to save the plane by slowing down the the plane airspeed so the pilots can manually turn the wheels controlling the trim. So some pilots were claiming that "no American pilot would let this happen", I guess due to their superior training.

It wasn't just a distasteful position, but also the largest American 737 MAX operator opted in for the extra safety package which included a second angle of attack sensor and "sensors disagree" light which would have reduced the chances of this happening anyway[0].

Making faulty planes then selling the extra features for detecting the faults and claiming that if you can't fly a faulty plane you are not a good pilot is psychopathic IMHO.

[0] : https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/business/boeing-safety-fe...
Well, could you elaborate? If that's for me - what's wrong with my views/opinions? If that's for a novice who wants to learn programming but is not a rockstar - you just ignore the problem.
> You seem to be under the illusion that there are hordes of imaginary zealots out there going around telling people EVERYTHING should be in Rust. Go touch some grass because that's not true.

> (And let me blow your mind: every community has its bad apples. If you chose to judge Rust's viability based on a few loonies then that says bad things about your judgement.)

For the readers, too. You did blow my mind though.
A gas stove might be able to create more BTUs/min but if half of that heat misses the pan because it's rapidly rising and being vented out of the kitchen it's not really helping me much.

Meanwhile most of the energy from my electric stove actually makes it into my pan instead of out a vent or into my kitchen.
A future where "everything that you care about is in VR" describes a hellish dystopia. Even in a future where humans spend large amounts of time in virtual spaces, our meat bodies still appreciate going for walks in the park.
1. Gas stoves emit CO2 and likely Methane due to leaks. In fact, methane (natural gas is just methane) is a very potent greenhouse gas and the methane industry leaks a significant percent every year. So having lots of gas infrastructure basically guarantees a bunch of methane will leak into the atmosphere. I doubt the stove-only emissions are an appreciable percent of global emissions, but I'll take a 2% reduction. However, there is a follow on effect. Each utility we transition off of direct fossil fuels results in economiesof scale moving away from fossil fuel to electricity (and hopefully clean power generation). So in the medium-term the effect could be multiplied.

2. Burning methane in your house is going to cause some pollution. Methane isn't pure, so other stuff is likely getting burned too. I mean, just logically lighting a fire in your house is probably not going to be good for your health in general.

As for "should we regulate this". It depends on perspective. The gas lobby has worked hard and spent a lot of money to trick people like you into to thinking gas stoves can compete with induction ranges. They cannot. Induction ranges are cheaper, more energy efficient, safer, and healthier than gas stoves. Installing a gas stove in 2023 is using an inferior technology either because of ignorance or Nostalgia.

Now, you could argue that it's the right of each citizen to choose to make bad decisions. In this case, however, that bad decision perpetuates an unsustainable energy apparatus. So I would argue the public good outweighs the homeowner's (or more likely, corporate landlord's) ability to make bad decisions.
The article only mentions her as a picture (on purpose, I'm sure), but I'd like to take a second to address this:

Chelsea Manning is a very bad example of a whistleblower. First, she didn't reveal anything new. All the information that was produced was previously known. Second, she was releasing documents because she was angry that she was deployed. Third, she didn't even attempt to use the whistle blowing process in the military that is quite in tact (it was called request mast when I was in but goes by different names depending on the branch). How she was treated afterward was terrible, but to continue validating her story by labeling her a whistleblower is harmful imo. It's okay to say not all whistleblowers are cut from the same cloth while simultaneously promoting the system of request mast/whistleblowing in the government.
https://spsweb.fltops.jpl.nasa.gov/portaldataops/mpg/MPG_Doc...
Link to the actual paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00456...

Link to a better article: https://news.ubc.ca/2023/03/22/new-ubc-water-treatment-zaps-...
CEO worship is really cringey.
What were you missing?
The first source quoted in the Wikipedia article* for Smoothsort is a link to a transcript of Dijstra's discussion/presentation of it.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothsort#cite_note-EWD-796a-...
Despite pointing it out three times now, you don't seem to realize that the discussion is about whether the insurance cap is a good solution to the problem of rich people not using their money to make the world better, as you originally proposed, in the comment I originally replied to. You're not taking this discussion seriously. When you want to acknowledge the existence of the point I was engaging with, the point you raised, we can continue. Until then, I'll just use this thread as a reminder not to waste my time with you in the future.
Lithium could be considered a conflict metal on a larger scale though, in that it has likely been a large factor in geopolitical decision making over the last decades: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/8/24/as-us-exits-afghani...
> cheaper in the long term

Citation needed :)) There are economies of scale and various optimizations that are just not possible with dedicated machines.

Anecdotal evidence: a company I worked in had a dedicated DC with hundreds/thousands of machines that mostly ran SQL queries on petabytes of data (any query would take ~5-30 minutes). Eye-watering budget and whole teams to maintain the cluster...
They switched to GCP/BigQuery, got queries that ran in seconds at a fraction of the budget.
People who say that don’t understand what’s going on. Those futures eventually resolve to delivery so this is the real price that producers are selling and and consumers of commodity buy at.

All of the speculation is entirely based on how the news might impact the physical product.

Oil prices went negative precisely because storage was full and people didn’t want the obligation to take delivery of the oil when nobody was using it.
In Austria, the Government Pays to Repair Your Stuff (2022)
Kids don't actually learn much curriculum content (as opposed to social behavior) when at school. They do that when at home.

Poor kids' homes aren't conducive to learning. They lack the necessary materials, (undisturbed) space and time. Necessary social support for content learning is often absent.

Wondering about why money given to schools (used for the most part for administrative nonsense presumably) doesn't change outcomes much consequently appears to show a (class based?) detachment from respective realities?
Bummer it crashes on my iPhone 11pro.
I am very interested in this - my mom has MSA and is quickly losing her ability to talk. Not sure how to contact you, but I'll check the website and your profile again in a bit to see if there are updates
This has nothing to do with Trump per se, it's really a bipartisan issue, as the new pentagon leaks just confirmed.

I also doubt European countries have the capacity to intercept private calls between top level USA govt officials.
> Satellite orbits can be any of the four conic sections.

This seemed to leave out something important. All "orbits" are in reality, spirals. Away, or toward things they're orbiting.

Seems like it should be made clear at the outset that the ideal of an orbit as these ellipses or cones is only an idealised version of reality that is actually impossible, without additional, specific input generated to reach it.