skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and yet non white people do agree on things like white privilege and microaggressions. Non white people overwhelmingly support politics that reflects a view that white people are racist and privileged. It's seen in things like this poll https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2019/12/17/views-on-rac....

If the majority of non white people[1] support those politics, how is it a conspiracy by liberal whites? It sounds like it's affirmatively popular to reengineer society.

[1]: https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-11-16/...
I wonder if anyone has managed to run windows apps in seperate vms just like the dos apps were (could you even start Windows in standard mode in one somehow)
Not really a datacenter, it is a supercomputer. And yes, it is important to keep in mind that there aren't just single users. But with almost 64k nodes it isn't unreasonable for multiple teams to get 10k+ nodes at a time. I've seen runs on Summit use >50% capacity. Let's be clear, the teams aren't just going to start off using all the nodes at once. You step up.
Friend, I'm expressing myself on a thread that maybe a couple hundred people will read. If I set back climate reform then it was doomed to begin with. I have no idea what "concern trolling" is. I think nuclear is required to offset climate change. I think western countries shutting down farms is immoral and idiotic. I think expecting western countries to willingly handicap themselves in hopes it will make a difference while upcoming nations including China go full speed is dumb. If that's concern trolling then sure, I'm that.
Aren’t Zoom and Google meet end to end encrypted? Google might still track IPs finds out who talks to whom, but that’s doable via any interaction.
the separation of church and state is very inconvenient for them, and they have done every thing they can to blur those lines to be forgotten about by the masses.
I appended my comment for a bit more context.

Since the time scale of the exponential term in the equation for prompt criticality is on the order of nanoseconds, any sustained (i.e. non-oscillating/somehow naturally moderated) event, in a configuration as simple as a few geometric neutron reflectors, would either be over after less than a few of these, or leave a crater, and what was pictured in the clip seems sustained to me.
You can have crippling drug addiction/mental illness without being homeless
AI progress keeps accelerating more and more --> "not a single shred of evidence"
I doubt he is in a position to care profundly about losing his job. He's a highly successful person. Presumably has made decent bank over the years.
MX Technologies, Financial Data Aggregator of Aggregators, Hit with Class Action [pdf]
The lawsuit is fantastic fantasy. I highly recommend reading the first paragraph.

“Defendant MX is a criminal enterprise that mimics various national and regional banks, tricking financial technology (“FinTech”) application users into giving MX their bank account usernames and passwords. MX designs fake login pages on FinTech applications. These login pages use counterfeit bank trademarks and cyberpirated URLs to impersonate banks and trick app users into giving away their bank account usernames and passwords...”
Yes, the 94 years old Noam Chomsky is scared shitless that AI will leave him jobless. This is definitely a sane take on this issue.
Great to see this comparison! I haven't heard about Json-joy yet, so I'm curious to learn more. We are using Yjs in production and it works like magic!
In the uk politicians were allowed to opt out

https://www.digit.fyi/data-protection-political-parties/
> How do you have a global graph without sending data to every country where your friends are?

Why is it important that this can be done? The "social graph" is for the benefit of the likes of Facebook. You already know who your friends are and how to talk with them. You don't need a third-party social graph for that.
Companies and people have always been greedy.

Here's the actual cause of inflation:

https://www.federalbudgetinpictures.com/federal-spending-per...

This extra spending is paid for with inflation.
More responsibility demands more scrutiny.
A Neat OSS Contribution
That's entirely untrue. Countries in the EU had strong privacy laws before the EU existed. And before the internet existed. Mostly around phone companies, but not only. Having lived in a few countries in the EU I can also anecdotely say that privacy laws are generally liked.

GDPR laws are so popular that 17 countries outside the EU already have similar laws.
LLMs make it possible to scan every message, every phone call, every communication and classify it for intent. Ba Without E2E we are screwed.
I wonder if Lem supports running in server+client configuration, that's probably my favourite Emacs feature.
Whether it is in our national interest to materially support Ukraine is a different question than whether doing so puts us on the right side.

I would say the answer to that is also yes. The US is essentially the leader of a nominally consentual economic federation [0], which is what allows USD to remain the world reserve currency while creating more of it. If the US does not support a country that is trying to economically integrate with us, it's a strong data point that perhaps developing a relationship with the US isn't so valuable. This would facilitate the diminishing of US dominance that China is salivating over.

Furthermore, it's not like the big dollar amounts for Ukraine are being sent over there, or even being spent today. Rather it is the value of supplies that have already been manufactured and were sitting around. But rather than sitting on a huge military stockpile and considering the problem solved, we're better off rotating through stock and making sure that manufacturing supply chains still work. (I hate this reason because it was also a justification for Iraq, Afghanistan, and other assorted military actions. But it's true)

And lastly, solving domestic problems at home is not due to a lack of funds/resources, but rather a lack of political will because entrenched interests benefit from the status quo, and shamelessly buy politicians to maintain it.

[0] of course many times those giving consent are elites of a society, at the expense of the rest of the citizens. But that is still progress from "surprise, there's a foreign army marching through your streets!"
Maybe 90% is a bit dramatic, but the spirit of my post is that, even with $1m, you won't be printing money any time soon.
Good disclaimer. HPBN is still recommended reading (almost prereq?) before tackling H3/QUIC, though.
States reach landmark deal on water cuts to stave off a crisis on the Colorado
When painting a soft or melting pocket watch, where is the line between it being a real subject (pocket watch) painted unrealistically (as soft or melting instead of hard) and an unreal subject (a soft or melty pocket watch) painted realistically?
Neural network algorithm research was considered more of an academic endeavor rather than something that could have practical implications from the 1960s to even the early 2000s, compared to other machine learning algorithms. Look at where it took us today.
Because OSS doesn't work at scale, the economic incentives are not aligned.

Sure, it may work sometimes with the goodwill of someone who cares, but 90% of OSS code is a dead portfolio the authors built with the hope of landing a tech job or skipping some algorithm questions.

Sure, OSS allow people to experiment with crap for free (even though it's mostly big corps benefiting from OSS) but what about the negative effects OSS produce on small businesses?

How many developers could spend their life maintaining small parts of software instead of working in soulless corporations, if giving away your code for free (and without maintenance) wasn't so common?
How much better would this code be compared to the wasteland of OSS projects? How much more secure could the entire ecosystem be?
How many poor developers are working for free just in the hope of getting a job someday?

We need to stop dreaming the OSS dream and start making things fairer for the developers involved.
If you want to avoid too much blowback you need a scapegoat. The last few years have provided plenty:

* pandemic

* supply chain disruptions

* shifts from services to goods

* shifts back

The economy doesn't have enough major players for true perfect competition to exist in most industries. Your costs go up a bit? Why not try to get away with passing on some extra to pad your bottom line as well? Who is going to stop you or call you out on it right now?

I'm sure I'm not the only person here who's sat in a meeting for a company where there were high-level individuals talking about "how much can we get away with charging" entirely separately from "what are our raw unit costs."
> I don't even think it's deplorable,

That'd put you in the minority, but companies have been working hard for many years to get consumers used to the idea that they should be able to discriminate against specific groups of people and jack up their prices for individuals based on whatever they want. Retail, even grocery stores, have been experimenting with dynamic discriminatory pricing.

I'd love to see laws that require companies to post their prices clearly and publicly and prevents them from deviating from those prices no matter who places the order or brings an item to the register.

We may soon find ourselves in a future where you're required to identify yourself just to see a price because it'll be calculated as a percentage of your total income. Where your political views, your medical conditions, countless proxies for race/religion/sexual orientation, or even who your friends are, can cause you to pay more or even get you priced out of things you regularly buy today.

You might think that you can always "vote with your wallet" if you feel that you're being ripped off, but that doesn't help you when every restaurant and retailer is doing the exact same thing, and none of it is transparent to the user so you won't be allowed to know when you're getting screwed over or how badly no matter which arbitrary metric is being used as justification for squeezing every last possible penny out of you.
This article is of a piece with the "Sparks of AGI" paper in that it doesn't really provide any formal justification for its tests, and is mainly just a dude saying "well, certainly this seems like it would be outside the training set and the LLM seems to handle it OK so it must be reasoning". Meanwhile, we have no way of inspecting the training set, and even if we did the data and model are so massive it would be impossible to tell whether it was doing simple substitution or whatever.

Ultimately e.g. Brooks must be right that the model has no connection to the world, because to the model there is no world, only text. If the training text includes things that are untrue in the world, the model cannot access the world to make a final determination that its internal statistics are faulty. If there is an aspect of the world that isn't covered by the training text, the model cannot divine it. It is just correlating text to other text.
You can finetune whisper, stable diffusion, and LLM up to about 15B parameters with 24GB VRAM.

Which leads you to what hardware to get. Best bang for the $ right now is definitely a used 3090 at ~$700. If you want more than 24GB vram just rent the hardware as it will be cheaper.

If you're not willing to drop $700 don't buy anything just rent. I have had decent luck with vast.ai
I didn't say anything about acceptability. But if grandparent's comment is this

> with the EU and California it’s mostly the case where (one of) the largest market(s) is able to set laws that govern the entire world

this is not likely to be solved by yet another layer of government.
> This is classic survivorship bias.

The analysis is not looking at the probability of the situation occurring (where survivorship would apply). The formula is applied, where it can be. The observation is pointing out the Success driving success paradigm in action.
Just sit and watch.
Very fair point. I've never seen it used, but SignWriting is already in the Unicode standard[0] (at U+1D800 - U+1DAAF).

I suspect Meta/Facebook doesn't have a lot of content to work off of. I've only been able to find community-generated examples of SignWriting on the official website[1], and none of those seem to be using Unicode characters. MMS is an audio-to-text tool, so it seems unlikely that it can be trivially expanded to take in visual data (pictures of text or video of ASL being performed).

I suspect the process of turning viewed ASL into SignWriting text will be very difficult to automate. I would not be surprised if such a project would either use a different textual encoding or directly translate out to English (which also sounds terribly hard, but these LLM advances recently have surprised me).

[0] https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1D800.pdf

[1] https://signwriting.org/#RecentPostingsUS
I feel like I could have written this comment verbatim. Glad I'm not alone in the world. Thanks for sharing.
But there's plenty of cases where success drives failure (look at Bezos' Fire Phone as a low hanging fruit example, or more recently at Branson's Virgin Orbit), so, again, it's classic survivorship bias, as there are plenty of counter-examples.
And sometimes that modification is not just "we don't know which verb it ends in" but "the whole structure is different than expected":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
The logic is clear but incorrect. It's not a correct comparison because it assumes a watt-hour used by Google is the same as an average watt-hour. They actually buy enough renewable power for all their DCs (just not always locally). However, admitting that the CO2 impact of Google training LLMs is zero would reduce the impact of her paper, so she just makes this deceptive comparison. This is one of the reasons her paper was squashed, right? It effectively pretends all the efforts made by her colleagues on greening their DCs doesn't exist. Not very nice.

I looked up her PhD:

https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:xg519hx1735/thesis_ad...

In her own words it "pertains to using large scale publicly available images to gain sociological insight" and is about "visual computational sociology". The primary reported finding is that you can predict things like racial demographics based on what brands of cars are being driven around. It's consistent with a primary interest in society and not technology.
Show HN: PageWise AI – Chat with your Confluence data in Slack in minutes
I've spent a good amount of time in Confluence over the years and have always longed for a tool that made it easier to connect the dots between, and reason about, disparate and sometime scattered sources of information across large, information-dense confluence sites.

My first effort in this direction was to contribute the open source Confluence document loader for the llm application framework, Langchain: https://js.langchain.com/docs/modules/indexes/document_loade...

I wanted to take this concept a lot further though and release something that anyone could use, and so https://pagewise.ai was born.

I know this is a very specific use case that I'm catering for here, but I've got a feeling it could prove incredibly helpful for the right people, and I have lots of plans to build it out in to something more fully featured and widely applicable.

This is most definitely still an MVP, but I think it's already got the potential to be incredibly useful.
Hydro power is terrible for the local environment, an aspect always neglected.
A temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius impacts billions
The "greediness" in normal times would get companies dragged in front of Congress.

The inflation is a convenient foil for explaining price hikes. Federal spending certainly contributes to the problem, but is not the whole story.
I'm far from convinced that a global government could possibly be a good thing. I think that a large part of the political problems in the US, for instance, is because its trying to govern too many people of very different and often incompatible cultures and values.
Its so weird to me that they'd do 99% of the effort and just skip past the 1% of work to provide a dumbed-down summary and instructions for broader appeal. Clearly these are released in part for public-relations and industry clout.

Don't get me wrong they published this, it took a ton of work, they didn't have to do it. But its ultimately a form of gatekeeping that seems to come straight out of Academia. And honestly, that part of Academia sucks.
> Apple also pays suppliers on net 90.

I've always been surprised at how much of the business world runs on credit. You hear stories about how payments have been months-years delayed (or never show up).

I'd like to think if somebody got more than 100days behind I'd cut them off from the next shipment but never been in that spot.
Hey, I'm part of a team that self hosts a jitsi instance. I've made a small plugin that uses some CSS-hacks to make the buttons in the bottom of the call also have text, and not just icons. It makes it much easier to explain to someone which button you need to press to access the chat, or begin to screen share.

Instead of sharing the ugly CSS-hacks here's just the list of what I've named the buttons, the CSS-hack isn't something I would expect to make it upstream so to say.

From left to right:

- Mic
- Webcam
- Screen share
- Chat
- Hey! (it's willingly ambiguous so that someone might stumble upon the feature in a exploratory manner, we don't really use the "raise hand" function in a serious way)
- This call
- Layout
- More actions
- Leave

And lastly, thanks for making great software.
HN is a killer for my productivity, even though I only try to visit it a couple of times a day. Once in the morning to read the whole front page, and then later in the day to get updates.

I need to somehow massively increase my filtering of which articles I open. I often end up reading 50% of the stories on the front page, plus the comments.
> Can't you buy your own cable modem and use that?

Unfortunately no, Armstrong did not support bringing your own modem. It could technically be done prior to DOCSIS 2.0 but it was never officially allowed.

In the US providers are not required to allow users to own their modem, but they have to provide a modem for free if you can't bring your own.

This is mostly fine as long as they offer a plain modem, it's when they don't offer a model without its own (almost always absolute garbage) firewall/router built in that it's a problem. IMO it shouldn't be allowed to call something "internet service" unless I have a handoff I can plug in to a firewall of my choice and have a publicly routable internet address directly on my box's WAN port
Rumor has it that MX is telling some folks under NDA that they are working on a solution to sell to banks that works like this: if you ever connected an account on their platform (not using transaction data), they will sell user account information to 3rd party banks for marketing purposes. Pretty wild stuff, if this is true.
> Not really a datacenter, it is a supercomputer.

ok but when openai made one it was called a datacenter
I notice you didn't mention indexes...
Indeed, SELinux and AppArmor are the tools here. I had a lot of trouble with them when they first came out, and just left them out of the loop. I had forgotten them since moving to Mac's about 8 years ago.
It is not registered, your registrar hasn't "stolen" anything. It's a block on registry level.
I mean I personally feel like almost all software is math and anything that isn’t frontend isn’t legally copyrightable or patentable. But the courts disagree with my interpretation. And if it were up to me all copyright and patents would have exponentially increasing fees on an annual basis to maintain, but thatd require a change is statutes. I think the jury is still out on your interpretation though, and I suspect the courts will fall in line with whatever the largest rights holders want.
No, in fact it does not "work well for a lot of people" as the study found. I am not making it controversial, you are, by denying what they found in the paper.

What you are really hearing is the massive marketing that is flooding the airwaves so some corporations can make a profit off of sick people and when it does not work they can say "Oh well" and walk away with the money and all you get is rebound depression.
> just philosophical speculation with more math

Speaking of nomenclature, this is not a good characterization of what philosophy is, if your intention is to reduce philosophy to what you seem to have in mind for “philosophical speculation”. Metaphysical theory thoroughly supported by argument (hylomorphic dualism, theory of act and potency) is actually stronger than mere empirical science. Empirically testable predictions do not transcend reasoned argument as observation is interpreted though the body of propositions of prior theory and enters into scientific argument as argument.
But quantum supremacy is not a general purpose quantum computer or anything close to one. At best its a proof of concept that you can do something a classical computer cannot. Certainly a neccesary condition, but miles upon miles away from a practical quantum computer.

Maybe the point is that the press/computers really ran with the "quantum supremacy" thing and severely mislead people as to what it actually means. Which i would agree with.
Recently Safdie and Unreal Engine created a fly through model of Safdie's original vision for Habitat 67, which was scaled back dramatically from the original idea of creating a whole neighborhood, due to a 2/3 cut in the budget:
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/hillside

And learn more about the background here: https://youtu.be/Qwbp9T-WS-I
Re-Evaluating GPT-4's Bar Exam Performance
> When there's safety in failure, take risks, and favor risks that have asymptotic upside.

Seems to me that the real trick is knowing when there actually is safety in failure. Quit your steady job, strike out on your own, oops the economy popped and every steady job is now on a hiring freeze. Good luck!
Not all spending is created equal.

If you direct spending towards production it's much harder to have per-unit inflation since there are more goods available; instead, you get more total consumption. The classic "make the pie bigger."

If you don't then yeah, you have more dollars chasing the same number of goods. So we need to be smarter overall in terms of how we look at allocation of money.

It seems like the 2020 admin threw more money at the problem than was necessary, and did it in the second form, but it's probably still much better than having thrown too little at the problem would've been.
As a programmer, how do you allocate time for planning?
This question is really for those who program, not those who manage programmers. When working on a team, how do you make time for planning? Is it time you explicitly attempt to allocate? Or is it an implicit part of your work?

More importantly, how do you facilitate the time for team members to have time to think rather than just dive into implementation?
https://www.vice.com/en/article/7x47bb/wikipedia-editors-eli...

'Nearly All of Wikipedia Is Written By Just 1 Percent of Its Editors
Researchers found that 77 percent of Wikipedia articles are written by 1 percent of Wikipedia editors, and they think this is probably for the best.'