skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting. Competition aside, I would think that having fewer big banks is worse than many smaller banks because big banks become “too big to fail” such that tax payers end up needing to bail out the bank itself (rather than stopping with the depositors). I’m surprised to hear this is how the Canadian system is set up?
My point is that power cost is absolutely not the bottleneck, but to address the rest of your comment:

4M is actually relatively low endgame profit per hour. I haven’t touched the botting scene since 2012, but I run 9 merching accounts on the same box. I have a custom Runelite launcher to manage cache/windows/plugin data, and it’d still be under 20 lines of simple bash to add proxying.

Botters routinely run far more than 16 accounts on the same box by running the game in Android VMs with a lot of graphical rendering disabled. SOTA afaik is to pick up a few wireless hotspots with IPs behind CGNAT, and lock clusters of accounts to common IP pools.
This does not connect to the internet.
This appears to be one more real reason why vinyl is objectively worse than a CD.
Our own history does not include any AGI. Likening AI to predators in an ecosystem is bizarre and irrelevant.
The sucked at it though - kept trying to outsource, never paid enough to retain necessary talent even in discount markets like Canada.
> Based on my limited conversations with NTT academics who considered career changes during the pandemic, there is an odd quality of stockholm syndrome where PhDs (especially in the humanities) simply cannot fathom that any other life path might be worthwhile, and hence toil away.

Calling it Stockholm Syndrome seems correct to me, at least based on my anecdotes. So many smart friends who can't leave academia after more or less growing up inside it. Like the person who can't leave the small town they grew up in, so they just languish there forever.
Thank you for posting this. I think there must be even more back story but of course you are not obligated to share it.

I am astonished it takes two years of study to be a bailiff in Poland. As I understand it the job requires a basic understand of a very narrow area of law, plus the 'soft skills' to avoid escalating difficult situations into violent ones. Is the long study some kind of gatekeeping?
You know, the thing with SEGA (only imho as I do not actually follow the industry too closely) was burning both retailers and developers with SEGA CD/32X and Saturn. Effectively, the CD and 32X launched and had some initial success (not overwhelming or anything, but not complete failures for add-ons), and then the Saturn was released. The Saturn was also difficult to develop for, was expensive, had zero backwards compatibility, and had volume delivery issues. All of this meant that when the DC (best console ever made) launched neither developers nor retailers really had any trust or loyalty in SEGA.

It's sad. I was always a bit of a SEGA fan, and with SEGA's demise I haven't considered consoles as devices for myself... until the SteamDeck.
You forgot:

- who have reliable electrical power

- who need low latency in particular

- who do not need internet access while outside wifi range of their base station

I honestly can't think of more than a handful of applications for which Starlink makes sense. And even then, it would make more sense as a backhaul for a cellular network.
I still don't understand the true goal of Deno.

It started as "better node.js", with better security and modern tooling.
Better security was not achieved imo, it's not flexible enough but painful enough that you want to allow everything straight away. The module system suffers the same issues as of npm, and since everything is loaded from the same domain its hard to tell what is official or not.

They have a builtin server, linter, testing, benchmarking, a hosting platform, now a kv store.

I feel like they are getting away from being a language and heading toward being a framework. Why not, but will probably not help adoption imo.
Main reason is that hardware matters and exponential singularity is a myth because pace of hardware is hard to over come. Maybe when one day you have a whole system setup where the AI can control hardware like actual humans so, that could be where it’s feasible. Otherwise AI improving it self is just gonna be software side
You'd want S3 sleep, which is where only RAM is powered and refreshing slowly. That was a good thing but S3 has been replaced by S0ix on many laptops. It's theoretically better than S3, as S0ix allows very quick state switching and low power active states where the system is drawing less power while you're doing low-intensity work like reading what's on the screen.

A proper implementation of S0ix requires the OS to do a lot more power management work though, so that's a whole lot for Linux to get right on various hardware configurations.
Robot folding is an active research area, see

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16898

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00323

https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02832

https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.10149
The sentence is just a factual statement. 3 agencies have done it. That is fact.

The sentence did mention china has done it on the first attempt which is also factual and relevant to context. The article is about moon landings and associated failures.

As for the Apollo program everyone knows about it. There's no point in regurgitating obvious facts.
Did you read the whole article? Especially the part about the quality of the training data to do anything at the level of the best human.

What exactly do you think is the pattern is that humans can recognize, in the training data that would be required to do "AI Research"?
Thank you for articulating this. I remember similar problems and arguments arising after RNNs and CNNs became massively successful. People argued that training larger models would be infeasible for several reasons that all were made moot by Attention Is All You Need. Somebody seems to always figure out a new approach
Same, please!
You're assuming an awful lot there. Humans are resilient in part because they are so mobile. I'd have to bet that AGI would be extremely resilient too, which likely means it's also way ahead of whatever you've got planned and there isn't only one of it. By the sounds of things, it would be right to be suspicious of you too.
It's only launched in a few African countries, see starlink.com/map
Why would I want to install termux? You basically need a keyboard to use it; at which point you might as well grab a laptop.
I'm not sure, but I feel like if a feature for blind people couldn't be turned on blindly, that would be problematic.
This maps coverage is not accurate.
>we dominated and decimated other close species (Homo Neanderthals) thanks to our intelligence

it's a nice homo sapiens supremacy narrative but the truth is much more complicated. we existed at least 4/5 thousand years together and a lot of mixing and mingling has been going on.
India's quest to build the largest solar farm
> my friends with advanced degrees (like philosophy) have either become software engineers or are saddled with more debt than they’ll ever be able to repay. I don’t see how that’s better?

Your sample size represents nothing, of course (nor does my personal experience), and I agree that college is much too expensive. So saying that college isn't worthwhile because it's too expensive is circular.

Education, including college, provides far more than a career. It was in my humanities education that I learned that framing the argument is most of the battle. The anti-intellectuals / anti-liberal / low-tax crowd claims there is no value in intellect and other things learned in college; the only value is later money earned. They express that by framing the debate around career and income - do you see that when others respond in that frame, that 'crowd' already has won the debate and nobody else even realized it happened.

You can see many or most people in this discussion talking within that frame, as if it's an assumed truth and not a radical rejection of the Enlightenment - that through knowledge and reason we can control our destiny and change the fate of ours and our communities and societies.

Career is just a side issue. It's life. It's every day, in everything - our experience, understanding, love, family, community, citizen, etc etc. And also in career (including undertanding economics, the history of labor, the politics of the relationships, how to communicate, etc.).

> going to college is a mistake for a lot of people

Is going to high school a mistake? Middle school? Where do we draw the line? Why at 12 years and not 16 years?

Do you have any basis for this? How about we let people individually decide if they want to go to college, instead of others deciding for them. The fact is, many more want to go than do go.
Darwinistic tendencies will always be part of human behavior, it is ingrained in our biology.

People will be competitive, and they will form groups and take sides and compare technological achievements.
> But I am concerned about the direction Android is headed,

Over securing systems seems to be the modern trend, and mercy, it's such suffocating paternalism.

We have incredible phones and Android/Google just keeps making them less and less capable.
There's no real chance of starlink satellites falling and hitting you.

They're designed to fall out of orbit at the end of their lifespan (or whenever something goes wrong), and fully burn up in the atmosphere before reaching the ground.
IDK - I think the hyperscaler market should have been the target market but yeah more academia/open source accessibility would have been cool.
Ask HN: How to navigate through office politics?
How to improve your psychological makeup so that someone is able to navigate through office politics?
Anyone want to share his/her experience?
Suggest me resources.
My understanding is that SVB also invested a significant share of those deposits in bonds which are reasonably conservative, but they bought so many of those bonds at/near the peak of the bond market such that they couldn’t liquidate them to cover withdrawals. Banks are supposed to keep a certain ratio of insured:uninsured deposits as well as liquid:illiquid investments and SVB broke both of these rules and regulators let them do it.
Logically that would make a lot of sense, if we were to design things in such a way that products are only shipped to their local urban areas. However, the modern day system has given rise to such absurdities as fruit grown in South America being shipped to Asia for packaging, and then shipped to North America for consumption. It's not that the entire system is amazingly efficient, it's that it's simply been possible because energy has been very cheap this last century. The food system will have to adapt one way or another (and I think we will), but it will probably end up being more human-labor intensive and local.

Relating to energy, one of the coming issues we will need to solve is fertilizer supply. Modern agriculture heavily depends on natural gas (via Haber-Bosch) to juice yields alongside genetic engineering. This isn't great for long-term soil health either, we just haven't been doing it long enough to see the effects of soil depletion.
Wondering whether most major inference libraries support storage-direct or if the listed providers are cheaping out on storage latency. Several seconds to load a 100MB model when pcie 4 is 256Gb/s I'd have expected an order of magnitude less - at least from my experience with gpudirect and real-time processing of up to 200Gb/s network streams with datacenter gpus (not performing inference but I'm talking about actual streaming to gpu memory here). PCIe-5 and H100 (the only one in the line-up that has PCIe-5...) should also improve on that.
There are other places with a similar experience that don’t have the same oil wealth. I wonder though if it’s different at the higher end of things, like expensive treatments for major issues which a tighter public purse might not stretch to.
I suppose if it's invite only you can keep the rabble and anyone with different opinions out.
Then we are fairly aligned. I've been used to talking to people that thought bailed out meant they had nothing, otherwise.

I do think the calculus of keeping the bonds from visibly losing value was more important. (Edit: but I do not disagree with your assertion.)
When there are lots of data like asteroids trajectories it’s easier to estimate probability, AI has too many unknowns to estimate. Also time frame matters of the probability matters too
Rediscovered Interview with Eliezer Yudkowsky
Interview's pretty interesting. From back when Yudkowsky was more of a techno-accelerationist type. The post also includes an "AI learns new tricks" item.
> You obviously didn't read the article.

Guidelines contemplation for you.
The First 1-1: Laying the Foundation with Clear Expectations
Is this speculating or just parroting within the echo chamber? E.g., people who believed in 5G mind control, microchips in the COVID vaccines etc. They themselves just repeated what they heard.

Like with the crypto hype cycle, people repeated all kinds of unfounded claims, but they themselves didn't come up with the idea. That the idea existed was all the "evidence" they needed for these things to be apparently true.
From the paper:

> ...the original full text of the question was put into a fresh chatbot session, in which the session was free of prior questions asked that could bias the results (version GPT-3.5, OpenAI), and the chatbot response was saved.

It seems like they just pasted the question in. For those who have asked it for medical advice, how did you frame your questions? Is there a prompt that will help ChatGPT get into a mode where it knows it is to provide medical advice? As an example, should it be prompted to ask follow up questions if it is uncertain?
No.

We all know that we can fill it up.

But every launch the FCC requires you do calculations to show that the chance of collision is below some threshold. I.e. that it (the orbit you are in) isn't full yet.
Obviously a typo

> I'll do a time-boxed (2 years) boycott of the BBC until proven otherwise.

Oh wow
They noticed the breach in the trial version and still bought the product. Makes me wonder what would have led to them not buying the product.
US Army grounds aviators after fatal helicopter crashes
We'll always have the versions of AOSP Google has released, but they're not forced to do so in the future. And I'm not sure anyone else is interested in maintaining it.
It’s not so easy. Hardware and money, they cannot overcome realities of life and physics
Royal Families: Outdated and undemocratic, no accountability, the perfect example of taxation without representation. The modern example of nepotism and favoritism, the stereotype of class, wealth, and privilege. The fine example of reinforcing social divides and inequalities. A relic of colonialism and imperialism.

While in the UK in 2023, people go hungry [1] let's get the BBC and other supposed independent media, to run a 48 hours operation to tell the Nation what they really need now, is spend 125 million dollars on a tradition worth celebrating...

[1] "Millions forced to skip meals as UK cost of living crisis deepens" - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/18/millions-for....

[2] "Here's What We Know About the Vast Cost of King Charles III's Coronation" - https://time.com/6275383/king-charles-iii-coronation-cost-ta....
Yeah, should be 'elastic' and 'very reduced runtime, possibly just inferencing', so exposing Triton to an API gateway and putting a custom load balancer and task queue facade ? Curious too.

Also, GPUs do other things than inferencing, right?
I was laid off from a small SaaS company. Didn’t seem performance based though. I imagine it was mostly due to the over hiring in 2020 and 2021. Pretty much everyone laid off was hired in the prior year, across every part of the company. Only person who didn’t get axed was my manager, who was told he’d have to do the work of all us developers.

The given reason was that their new product didn’t see the level of adoption they wanted, and in my personal experience that also makes sense.
So what are the arguments for why not to just print as much money as the government needs?

If many people believe printing trillions of dollars doesn’t matter, then I’d like to hear why. I’d like to not have taxes…
It took Open.ai 10 years of fine tuning, can’t expect things to work as well in day 1.
And you can sell otherwise non-revenue generating assets if you need to.

If you want to say it's difficult to tax illiquid assets, that's fine. But it's not impossible and while it would just change people's relationships to these types of assets (maybe in a good way for society), it's not going to be the end of the world.
This is not about likening AI to predators, it’s about the fact that AI is and will be created by and in the image of the most dominant predator in the history of biological life.

To whatever degree AI is embedded with the properties of our species, it carries the risks of repeating our worst behaviors, and has the potential to do so far more potently than we ever could due to the absence of biological constraints.
Good thing the rest of the document is dedicated to pointing out all the specific things wrong with it, then?
I’m using it to deploy a dockerized nodejs app, it works great!
It won’t explode most likely because of hardware limitations, unless you think this is purely a software issue but last 10 years has proven otherwise
For that matter, I'd even say that it can be dangerous to choose cofounders within one's friend circle. It tends to make people more blind to lacks and red flags (for the needs of a tech business) that would clearly be recognized as disqualifying if selecting someone who isn't a friend, on the basis of a focused rational evaluation.
Why are people so determined to 'debunk' it? Why not try to work with it and within its limitations?
No. It simply isn't in the spotlight anymore. Same reason you don't hear about pottery much, but they still exist.
Look at the chart. Looks pretty ominous to me.
This is exactly why I have a turntable, too. Just buying the records of my most loved albums, setting aside some time to listen them intently and enjoy the process.

It’s not like meditation. It is meditation. As a meditation teacher, I can definitely say that.
> they spend $1000s of dollars testing for

The subtext you're missing here is that GPT with access to the entire corpus of medical data could undermine the entire money printing machine (referring to US healthcare here). What test would cost thousands of dollars if the only human cost to run it is drawing some blood and putting it in a machine?
An AI couldn't touch anyone even if we could give it the desire to do so.
Poll: Should Comments Support Lists?
Most semi-popular threads now contain comments where people try to make lists the usual markdown way, and it turns into one long tangled mess because HN requires a blank line before anything is rendered as a new line.

Should the comment syntax support these lists? The vast majority seems to use - as item marker (although some also use asterisks, it already being used for italics would make things more complicated than necessary I think).

Please vote for all applicable entries, e.g. "should apply only to new comments" + "\n- should translate into <br>-". Note that the order is randomized so binary choices cannot be grouped.
Any list parsing option would be a bad change / none of the proposed options are good (please specify in the comments)
This should apply only to comments posted after some date, to avoid breaking comments that relied on the old formatting
This should apply to comments posted at any time
Hyphens at the beginning of a line, so \n-, should translate into
- such that it is rendered how the user typed it (very simple code change)
Hyphens at the beginning of a line, so \n-, should translate into
, and the whole list needs to be surrounded by

(looks slightly nicer and may work better for screen readers(?), but harder to code because you need to detect where a list starts)
The moon is gaining velocity from earth’s rotation which is a finite energy source, given a long enough timescales it would collide with earth. However, the sun is going to consume the earth before that happens.
You call passing a bill through Congress "immediate", and you think it can be "undone quickly"? I think the long-term budget deficit is too high, but the budget process is not responsive enough to be used to control inflation. (It's also too slow and clumsy when used the other way, as fiscal stimulus.)

One way of using the deficit deliberately as an economic control dial would be for Congress to grant the Federal Reserve the authority to adjust payroll tax rates within a given range. I doubt this could ever happen politically, though.
Such a nice perspective, I’ve actually felt this same way for several years now too
The whole point of computing is to have it do tasks for us and here you are advocating that we should do tasks by ourselves. I hate everything about this.
You can just drive it to a laundromat and have them do it. It's not really that expensive.
You lived in LA, you don't drive, and you think that cycling works?

Cycling worked in LA to get places? Really?

This is clearly a troll. You either spent all of your time in a tiny radius or you're just making it up completely. Things are 20-50 miles apart in LA unless you spend all of your time in one little neighbourhood.

I mean, it's nice on the beach.
I know almost nothing about Android app development and especially disassembly (if that's even the correct term): Is it possible to modify an apk to eliminate this flag anywhere it's set?

I assume in the case of apps trying to protect copyrighted content, the answer is likely "yes but the app might check its own signature and exit if it's not valid, which it won't be at that point, so you'd also need to rip that out, which makes the job way harder."
Ooh ooh ooh!

I've been trying to get Termux/Alpine going on my old Android so I can install IIAB in it, for precisely all these reasons. But I'm linux-clueless and haven't had the best of luck.

UNI doesn't look like it's actually IIAB-on-Android, more like another similar project, yes?
I think that to give an AI an inner voice we need to train a set of AI, with shared weights but ability to cooperate through low bandwidth channels. This should mimic human language , to communicate the AI will need to conceptualize its internal thinking, and thus also be able to communicate with itself, i.e., be able to do internal reasoning.
>I haven't really heard a reason to think that there exist intelligence algorithms that are dramatically superior to ours.

I don't think that is the case at all. Neural nets like AlphaGo Zero are already crystal clear evidence of algorithms which leave human minds far behind.

Even if that wasn't the case and Einstein level intelligence was the physics-imposed ceiling, there are still the dangers of speed and numbers.

A compute node running one million instances of Einstein intelligence each thinking 1000x faster than an organic instance, fully focused 24/7, and working in complete group cooperation, doesn't sound all that much less dangerous.