skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The smaller the potential upside of the project is, the more the estimates matter.

Put another way: A project that promises to return USD 10 for every USD 1 invested is still an attractive investment when the ratio is 8:1 or 7:1. This suggests that construction costs can double or triple without destroying and the investment still has a healthy return, and so an estimate really only needs to be very rough. (In fact, the act of estimating quickly adds to “construction” costs so should be kept to a bare minimum in these cases, to keep profits as high as possible.)

It’s when the cost/profit ratio slips lower that estimates become more important, and ironically, waste more time and money.

(Note that I’m talking specifically about estimation and not project planning… projects, especially large ones, still need plans.)
Again, facebook whitelists every query.

Hypermedia URLs are typically specialized and don't expose general query functionality, whereas, as its expressiveness increases, GraphQL approaches the expressiveness of SQL. That's the whole point: you don't want to have to make back end changes to support new front end features.

The more powerful you make your GraphQL-based API, the more dangerous the security implications are. The less powerful you make it, the more it fails to address the fundamental problem of requiring back end changes to support front end needs.

It boils down to the fact that you simply can't increase the expressiveness of an untrusted computing environment like the browser without increasing security risk, whereas on the server side you can hand full SQL-style query access to your developers.
C++ inherits from C the flaw that it is as Dennis Ritchie put it "Strongly typed but weakly checked".

In this case that hurts really badly because it means your C++ compiler is likely to let you do stuff that's nonsense, because checking isn't part of the job description, if you claim this Duck is a Goose the C++ compiler just rolls its eyes, sure whatever, however rustc says that is a Duck, you said it's a Goose but it is not, that's an error.

That checking means a hard left shift for such bug finding, which can mean a substantial direct financial saving on QA or an improvement in feature velocity.
At these levels of spending the actual cost is heavily negotiated and is usually far below the advertised on-demand pricing.

Considering I could negotiate A100 for under a dollar/hr - 8 months ago, when they were in high demand, I wouldn't be surprised if the cost was close to 100k for this training run.
Before there wasn't so much incentive to dedollarize, dollar hegemony worked Ok for most people, enough to accept it if only grudgingly. Now major players have large incentives to make it happen. When large incentives exist the market usually eventually finds a way to happen. Now that we have used out financial system as a weapon(Russia) states may see it as a national defense(aka military capability) issue. After we've let inflation run rampant there may be less confidence in our currency, though admittedly many other countries are in the same inflationary boat.
Russian military ship spotted near Nord Stream pipelines days before blasts
>Yes, I absolutely hate linking to YouTube

Why?

>but this is Patrick Boyle, and if you know anything about him

I don't, maybe you should start your comment with some intoduction about him instead of "...hate linking to YouTube..."?

>you know that he knows what he's talking about

He obviously knows what he is talking about. Do you?

>Russia and specially China understand that they could never be the world reserve currency

Neither of them is trying to create new reserve currency (at least neither thing of ruble or yuan being the one). The 'narrative' is about using local currencies in trade between the parties instead of using USD.
> Essentially all we've done is pushed the basic model proposed by linear regression to it's absolutely limits [emphasis mine]

Where's the data to show that we've hit the limits?

It's obviously not linear regression. You mean gradient descent?
People waiting on the arc waitlist should also give Opera + Tab Suspender a try. I heavily use the native Opera sidebar which is what I believe has people here interested in Arc.
Experimental editor for WebGPU compute shaders
Yes it does, and it has nothing to do with ego, and I am not at least emotional about it. Let’s turn it around, so there is absolutely no distinction between Russia and the US?

So let’s demonstrate near the White House and the Kremlin. I assure you both outcomes are different. Let’s set up a fund that allows me to criticize the government, pretty sure I can do that in the US, and good luck doing that for Russia.

You get the idea. There is definitely a difference.
I just visited a tea plantation where the average salary was about $2.50/day and people were raising kids on that. The average per person is less than $2/day.

Those people know about the outside world, send their kids to school and are aware that they can't afford to go to the doctor.
It is not chrome webview. It is android webview. Yes, it is similar to chrome engine, but it is not chrome. Just like edge is not chrome.

It is also per-app choice. If an app decides doing something in a particular way, it is not the system's fault -- some reddit readers do the same, for some reason. For now, apps do have preferences to open in browser instead, and that option respects the default one.
I've been using Arc on my personal machine for a couple months now, and my favorite feature is one that surprised me:

Tab persistence is opt-in

Meaning that, unless you explicitly pin a tab, or stick it in a folder you create, it will get automatically closed after some period of time (in practice for me this meant between browsing sessions).

Initially this surprised and annoyed me, but over time it prodded me to be intentional about evaluating whether my tabs are disposable, or need to be held on to across multiple sessions, which I've found led to much tidier browsing habits.

Other features of Arc (spaces, pop-up previews, folders, tab renaming) aren't particularly novel, but the way they integrate seamlessly and function intuitively with inputs I'm used to, has made the whole thing a really pleasant experience in a way I've never been able to achieve by cobbling together extensions in other browser.

Really hope their ideas catch on and they start to see some competition because Arc is doing a great job bringing novelty while maintaining polish and I'd love to see some of this UX replicated in a non-chromium browser.
On Android Microsoft Outlook refused to open links in Chrome or Firefox and made me install Edge from the Playstore.

I couldn't even copy the links to paste them manually, as my organization disabled this.
This is not OK.
Ecosystem Services and Algae Tech with Professor Charlie Yarish
Professor Charlie Yarish is widely hailed as the grandfather of the commercial seaweed industry in the United States.

Boasting a Masters degree from the University of Texas, a Ph.D. from Rutgers University, 43 years of experience as a faculty member at the University of Connecticut (plus 3 years as a Professor Emeritus), Charlie's expertise in seaweed research and aquaculture has earned him global recognition.

Throughout his distinguished career, Charlie has played a pivotal role in shaping the seaweed industry as we know it today. And in this interview, he shares his thoughts on the evolution of ecosystem services, challenges facing seaweed cultivation, and the role of the Algae Technology Education Consortium.
I think that's a misinterpretation of the data. Based on reports, SVB had around 130B of deposits when it was taken into receivership. Something like 90% of that was uninsured, so around 115B of uninsured deposits. The 20B hole means that without FDIC backing the uninsured deposits, they still could have paid out over 80 cents on the dollar. So if the top ten accounts had about 13.3B of deposits, they only received less than 2.7B of the bailout - less than 15%, not "well over half".
AI ‘Will Cause Real Damage,’ Microsoft Chief Economist Warns
> Supreme Court says guns aren’t only for the rich in nyc anymore.

That law evens the playing field for law abiding citizens. But hey man, you wanna cosplay Dirty Harry or Paul Kersey then by all means. Just hope the NYPD and DA are cool with your vigilantism.
My PC hangs for some time as well

I thought FF should not allow that to happen?
>until Alt-Svc over DNS (DNS-SVB) is fully specified and universally supported

Don't they already have hardcoded DoH?
I'm not saying a full k8s stack, but consider mobile apps - you can't control when your user will update, if they do at all. So you either have to have a very rigid data model that makes a lot of translations and such on the backend, or a hook to check for updates and pester the user, or just ship late in pursuit of perfection. Plus now you get to deal with the entire Internet and cell networks and VPNs and bad actors.
This is the debate, isn’t it? I think if we create tests for understanding and deliver them to people, we will find variations in what people understand. I think we will find the same for chatGPT.

But I suspect your notion of understanding is not measurable, is it? For you, chatGPT lacks something essential such that it is incapable of understanding, no matter the test. Or do you have a way to measure this without appeal to consciousness or essentialism?
Their concern is to not put the people in the photos at risk of recriminations.

It seems to me that if this were an illustration by an artist no one would care. So it seems to me they should just use "in the style of".
Paranoia about untrusted hardware is absolutely warranted but just to try and convince you of what this is trying to do. Imagine you have a file that you have never shown anyone, and some untrusted host wants to convince you they also have that file. They can prove this to you without you revealing the file to them (or them to you) by having them send you the hash of the file that you can compare to your own. If it matches there is an overwhelming probability they also have the file even though you completely distrust them or their execution environment. In other words, you are able to verify the computation (via the hash) was executed even though you don't trust them. Cairo is using similar techniques that let you verify other forms of computation than just hashes using more advanced primitives.

The obvious caveat to this just as with hashes is you trust the underlying cryptography is secure.
Personally I use Chrome’s first party profiles + tab groups to manage persistent tabs. Got more than a hundred persistent tabs and a couple hundred more ephemeral ones across three profiles and haven’t been overwhelmed yet.
But you compared Microsoft apps on Android. This article is more analogous to Google apps on Android always using Chrome.
America’s anything-goes Supreme Court
Gergo Erdi gave a talk on the GHC efforts of Standard Chartered last year:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ66Pz7015Q
I think it never broke past 5% of smart phone market. If this was a reason, I never heard. I feel like most people just were interested in something else and never even really considered it as an alternative.
According to Geoff Hinton the correct term from human psychology is "confabulations".

Hallucinations are a mistake in perception.
One thing your phone can't emulate is clicky buttons
Okay, but how is that relevant? No bank is running anything older then a System 390.
> The good news for some HPC simulations and models, both inside of the National Nuclear Security Administration program at the DOE and in the HPC community at large, is that many large-scale physics codes have been rewritten or coded from scratch in C++

When C++ one day goes out of fashion, like Fortran already has, this will turn out to be bad news. Fortran is not a big language, and any programmer can learn Fortran in a matter of weeks. But if you'd need to teach people C++ just so that they'd be able to maintain a legacy code base, that will be considerably more difficult than with Fortran.
Google starts rolling out passkey support for Google Accounts
Agree, the article mentions this in a way:

> There are many ways to do so: race others in ranked online challenges, try to solve hard programming riddles, or study new paradigms. However, most programmers, whose work involves a form of writing, overlook writing itself.

The point is that sometimes that "doing" doesn't advance you, as it's not challenging anymore. Writing can be a form of deliberate effort to improve in your craft. There are many other ways to improve, the post focuses on one.
There's a difference between capital/operational expenditures to reproduce work, and directly paying the owner of the work.

The former is science. The latter is a commercial product.

Stretching their business model to its most charitable interpretation of "open", OpenAI is essentially offering "Here's the cost for the lab and labor for the work you want to do. We'll do it and send you the results, but won't give you any of our lab procedures or intermediate data."
Workers are currently able to purchase shares in their employer if their employer is listed, giving them a vested interest in its success.
Lets stick to worker coops as I think that is the type you're most interested in.

A coop cannot pursue outside investment by issuing shares, it must rely on philanthropy, subsidisation, or loans for this.

Why would an employee-shareholder willingly reliquish their interest in the company to improve productivity and returns for their peers - such as automating away their own role? It necessitates make-work inefficiencies.

Increasing the size of the company doesn't mean an increased return for the employee-shareholders, they might even end up working much harder to just maintain their income - the larger the company gets the truer this becomes as they reach dimishing returns in their sector.

Successful coops get insular and wary of freeriders, as such they prefer to outsource where possible - Mondragon for example outsources labour.

Again the literature is plentiful and on a personal level I have no objection to them, but to believe they are without serious shortcomings is naive.
No, I'm not building porn! (Not that there's anything wrong with those that are.) I conflated GenAI as a whole and I see how my post is interpreted now. My mistake.

I always think of the oft-quoted meme about porn being the canary in the coal mine for the adoption of new tech: film, VHS, usenet, web, P2P, Twitter/Tumblr/Reddit, streaming, VR, AI... I think the trend has held pretty well historically.

NovelAI, Civit, etc. are making a lot of money on it, and they're leading indicators of more expansive "SFW" use cases that will follow.
So many questions left unasked! In particular they have "recursion disabled by default" but "we have all the usual recursive combinators". Does this mean that they can't explicitly write recursion buy may achieve recursive effects only through the combinators? I'd like to know more about this. Is it as expressive as recursion only through "properly optimised" combinators?
> The middleware developers were also in the room at the time, the Unity and Epic and Valve guys. They were beaming as the Khronos guy explained this. Their lives were about to get much, much easier.

Lol, I wonder what their opinion is now 8 years later (at least those who haven't been burned out by Vulkan).
/one-way memorable/ - recognisable, but not memorable.
Arc user for a few months now (after a failed first attempt to switch late last year). The article is a pretty solid rundown of what makes it different. You do need to approach it with a willingness to change how you interact with your browser, specifically how you organize and use bookmarks and tabs.

If you try to fight against the way they suggest you use Arc, then you might as well stick with what you are using. If you are willing to try some of the new ideas for a few weeks, you might find that they make a lot of sense for you and Arc will quickly become very familiar and switching back to Chrome, Brave, Firefox, or Safari will be frustrating. Or maybe the way you work with the browser is not compatible with how Arc works and you'll abandon it after a few weeks and wonder what all the fuss is about.

Five invites if you want to give it a go: https://arc.net/gift/cc465c9e
time for a calculator -> bluetooth keyboard project
Nobody in their right mind is using GCE for training. Take a look at real prices: https://vast.ai/
The sidebar just looks like TreeStyleTabs from Firefox. I wish Firefox would have these as "blessed" or native UI.
Twilio, a developer-based business model, and its early explosive growth
Non sequitur. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non_sequitur
I just came across a company yesterday that is using engineered microbes (with a kind of bar code coded in them) as tracers for food. Personally it sounds a bit icky.

https://www.aanikabio.com/
Actually, there is no "folding in good faith" in such like cases.

A company is bankrupt if a point in time can be foreseen, where the company can no longer pay its debtors (employees here are debtors, sometimes even a higher-priority class of such). And while one can argue about the "foreseen" part, e.g. by saying "I did reasonably expect that incoming payment to arrive, which didn't". As soon as you were unable to pay a debt once, or like here even twice, you are actually too late in declaring your bankruptcy. Which, in most jurisdictions, is a crime. And it certainly is in bad faith. If the company isn't actually bankrupt, could pay but won't, then it is also an act of bad faith.
I had forgotten about Watson. I don't normally watch Jeopardy. However, maybe I'm not part of the general public.

I did some fast checking, my numbers may be off, but it looks like Jeopardy has a viewership of around 11 million perhaps it was higher in 2011. Now news reports would have spread the word further, but that's a small percentage of the general public of the USA.
I have wanted deterministic timing in Julia for years. It's come up periodically in the forums.

That, and optimized static binaries, would make Julia truly general purpose.

I don't mind Python syntax, I hope Mojo lives up to all these claims...it could easily (and finally!) hit the sweet spot of C performance, elegance, and expressiveness!
Writers and Readers Paying the Price for Twitter and Substack “Fight”
How to make people like you on Zoom
It's not really the THC percentage I'm concerned about, it's the potential for other added chemicals which could potentiate the THC.
Honestly, I rarely see research as accessible as in the field of AI: a new method is published to fine-tune SD, dozens of repos reimplement the technique and improve it and this happens every day.
Yup. I wonder if people who "always carefully arrange my apps on my extended desktop" and have time to write articles such "The 46 Mac Apps I Actually Use and Why" actually do some work or just spend their time tidying and making lists.
> In fact it is so good I think it will replace Vulkan as well as normal OpenGL, and become just the standard way to draw, in any kind of software, from any programming language.

I fully agree with that, for a lot of use cases WebGL has everything you need, means it has the potential to become the cross platform graphics API OpenGL dreamed to be. And as a bonus you have a realistic way to run whatever app you are writing in the browser with WASM+WebGL.

I just think for AAA games Vulcan, Metal and DirectX12 will probably still be the way to go. But GUI libraries? Less highest end games? There is just no point once you can use WebGL everywhere. And then if you want to have a browser Demo you have a realistic chance to get it.
This likely stems from the proposers building on existing "in-the-wild" development patterns: it's become a convention for DSLs in the JS development community.

Consider similar for a larger amount of data:

<script type="custom-dsl">{ "very": { "large": "json", "object": "with", "many": "keys" }</script>

Even sticking strictly to JSON (the DSL can be any syntax), this has a few advantages to SGML-style attributes:

1. Supports nesting to any depth

2. Easier to deserialize from an in-memory object in the most common server-side languages

3. Supports easy developer/hacker copypasta into a JS file for debugging.

4. Broader/better expand/collapse support in text editors (in the case of very large lists)

---

> I'd have to look up every time I wanted to use it

I'd likely have to look up the HTML attribute names just as much - I recall having to do this a lot at first with the viewport meta when it was introduced - the only real hurdle to get over with this is to internalise the following pattern (which, as mentioned, some in the JS community are already familiar with):

<script type="dsl-name">DSL SOURCE</script>
Mmm.page Beta Launch: An Internet Canvas
You sneaky bastard
The entire web has been built on textual formats though, and quite successfully so.

Even without Apple in the way, SPIRV as it is wouldn't have been usable for WebGPU: http://kvark.github.io/spirv/2021/05/01/spirv-horrors.html
Ask HN: Which GPU has StabilityAI CEO claimed will upend AI by October?
Source: This interview between Emad Mostaque (CEO of StabilityAI) and Peter Diamandis. The relevant bit is at 4min53s [0].

It was published on April 6th and Emad claims that "in 6 months" (early October?) we are going to see GPU tech that will allow much larger scale (for large companies) and democratize training AI systems (for smaller companies).

His followup claim is that NVidia has solved the scaling problem that was limiting large GPU clusters to ~1000 GPUs. He says while GPT-3 took three months to train, this new supercomputer hardware will enable training 4 models of GPT-3's size per day.

However I couldn't transcribe the tech's name properly, nor could I find any announcement or literature around it. What are some sources where one could learn more about this?

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKoYhcC3HrM&t=293s
They haven't trained a 1 trillion token model yet. They have only done 200bn so far
Interested to hear your thoughts on who else makes the list
The ‘virtual machine’ that’s used on IBM z is hardware virtualization, not a foreign system like Java or Infocom’s z Machine.

A mainframe is usually running a hypervisor (VM) and underneath that hypervisor there are various operating systems running, z/OS is one of them. Circa 1989 I was in the Computer Explorers and we got to use VM/CMS on an IBM 3090 which is basically a single-user OS a lot like MS-DOS (though it is really the other way around.). To do software development on such a beast you would create a VM and log into it.

Of course you can run Linux or Java applications in a VM on z too so you can consolidate legacy applications on the same server with more mainstream workloads.
The present article delves into one of the most comppelling ethical dilemmas of our time: the use of lab-grown human brains, called organoids, as bio-hardware in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The article examines both the technical feasibility and potential applications of this technology, while grappling with profound questions surrounding the nature of consciousness and moral agency. Is it possible to create synthetic intelligent life forms that can think, feel and interact? If so, should we pursue such developments given their implications for humanity’s future trajectory? This analysis uncovers challenges we face when reconciling ethics and science at their cutting edges and offers perspectives on where we might go from here.
Have you rooted it?