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> antisthenes 1 day ago | parent | context | prev | next [–] | on: A rant on bus stops

> Some points in the article are hit and miss, but mostly correct.

> For example, Istanbul is flourishing because it's the Turkish capital, so it necessarily is the most dense and rich city in the country.
"Is not", "doesn't", and "does" are not adequate for demonstrating an organization's apoliticalness, it simply demonstrates that they content with the status quo. The status quo is a political position, and depending on what about it you don't want to see change, can be a rather contentious one.
Because to download and run it you need to have a laptop nearby to download and run it on, with the correct operating system and often additional dependencies too.

I do most of my research reading on my phone. I want to be able to understand things without breaking out a laptop.
Public documentation on how to automatically install + configure the Debian packages would be great (i.e. using debconf-set-selections). I've figured it out from forum posts, etc. in the past, but it keeps changing, causing my installation scripts to get stuck waiting for user input.
Most of the final assembly is done by hand. Hence why so many people are needed in the final assembly factories of Foxconn, Wistron, etc.
Good for the tuna.
My neighbor lived to be 109. This is what I learned from him
In Hyper-V it's fairly easy. You make a virtual serial port ("COMPort"), set the bootloader to enable kernel debugging over serial, then connect to the virtual serial port from the host via a named pipe.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...

I haven't tried it with vSphere but I suspect it'd be similar.
The indicated hypothesis would be "random conversion to consistent deviant" is the heritabile trait, not "deviance" itself.
How did this post go from new → top of HN → buried in 3rd page in 1 hour?!
Ask HN: How do you explain puzzle game rules gradually without contradictions?
For example, one could use simplified game rules for level 1 but at the cost of contradicting those rules when introducing new rules in level 2.

Should one avoid such contradictions even if it means having to explain quite a lot more in the first level?
It's pretty simple, put small, but yearly growing taxes on "stupid to grow in the desert" crops like alfalfa. Slow enough to make the transition away from them reasonable for the farmers, but high enough to pressure them into no longer producing the crops.
That ypy library looks very interesting. Do you have any idea what considerations would need to be kept in mind when trying to implement CRDTs?

I'm thinking about something relatively basic, let's say a shared markdown document and/or shared dataframe view of a database table?
It doesn't matter what you are "pretty sure" about. There are organizations that try to quantify these things and produce concrete metrics, and it might surprise you to learn that they don't necessarily agree with your world view.
I'm not sure I understand your third question, but I think beej's teaching power fulfills the second question in a very radical way which is that it is an act of caring for a large audience of strangers and does improve their lives.

Power that isn't attached to the desire to reap a direct benefit is a strange thing to witness, but it's power nonetheless!
Which one do you think you currently live in?
General CRDTs will guarantee valid data structures, but not schema/domain model validity. Kind of like how CRDTs applied to text will guarantee a string, but not valid English.
No, the single-thread aspect is just a limitation of Python & Node. Rust's Tokio is an example of a multithreaded async framework.
Even Bavarian is covered... :D
Reddit bootstraps new German subs with fake posts
Reddit is launching new German subs that are direct equivalents to popular English subs (like r/tipofmytongue). They have just sent messages to top German reddit users that ask them to interact with the content in the new subs - responding to posts that are just translations of English posts - which is especially rude with a sub like Tipofmytongue - the OP is not actually interested in the answers, by definition. It's a move I would not expect from a grown-up company, especially as it is directly annoying it's most active users.
If done right, it serves the interests of society (early detection of pandemic hotspots, for example).

But we know that governments all over the world are going to misuse that, so it's unlikely to happen. Unless it's already being done in secret.
You're still opening yourself up to massive losses in profit.

Profit that is desperately needed since the printer itself is being sold at a loss.
...it seems apparent that asking anyone with an incomplete understanding of your life to direct you through text would lead to disaster. It's a fun experiment, but nothing to write home about. If you retried this same experiment with a random stranger it probably wouldn't end any better.
Tuna is chicken of the sea. Chicken is tuna of the land.
Cherche: Semantic Search
They could repair the Bonneville Salt Flats. They have lost quite a bit of salt, more than 50 million tons.

Edit: I bet that only covers a few years of farming use though.
> One of the most salient archetypes of our current period is called “success to the successful,” which fairly well describes twenty-first-century capitalism or the late stages of the board game Monopoly

It seems a stretch to describe this as "One of the most salient" archetypes. This would only be true if "resources" are "one of the most salient" factors for success. If two companies are almost identical in every other way, then sure resources are a great tie-breaker. But if one company is significantly better than the other in some way, I would expect that company to overcome a resource-deficit. See Google winning search over other earlier and larger search engines. Facebook winning social media over other earlier and larger social networks. OpenAI leading/co-leading the AI race despite being outgunned by so many other companies. AMD surpassing Intel in valuation despite an enormous financial deficit a decade ago.

In fact, an abundance of resources can actually negatively impact success. See the resource curse: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse . Highly relevant in big tech companies that are so much slower and bureaucratic compared to startups. Today's world might possibly be the most startup friendly in history - there is far more VC financing available than ever before for any company that can demonstrate any form of competitive advantage in a lucrative market. Financing that provides just enough resources to avoid being handicapped, but not so much that startups are lulled into complacency the way more established companies are.

It's easy to pick one model that seems intuitive, and use it to make sweeping statements about "twenty-first-century capitalism". In the real world there are many different models all operating at the same time, and the one that is most intuitive may not be the most salient.
I think you are more likely to do so in a more logical and structured language like lojban
The better version of this is using this massive LLM to _create a program_ that can then extract the same data of similar PDFs. That way the high cost is incurred only once.
God I wish I could make that run on my iPhone.

Not being able to set per domain javascript rules is fucking infuriating
It's not really viable

desalination cost varies, but for the London desalination plant it's £1.6 per litre[1]. I am sure that's on the higher end, but let's just work through the math.

1 mm of rain on 1 ha of land is 10 000 litres or 10 cubic meters of water. So to replace 1mm of rain in Britain, costs £16. Average annual rainfall in UK ~1150 mm. So if you had to replace the entirety of it from desalination, you would spend like £18,400.

If you are growing wheat, you get like 8 or 9 tons per hectare and you sell if for like £230 per tonne (these are very rough numbers) so your total revenue is like £2,000 per hectare. Out of that, your profit margin is probably under 10%

So you will be loosing money you have to replace more than a couple of % of annual rainfall from desalination, and if you grew wheat with entirely desalinated water it would cost 10X as much as 'normal' wheat does.

Now, typically you only irrigate high value crops, and wheat is a low value crop. Also you probably don't need the entire annual rainfall, and there might be cheaper desalination elsewhere. You can re-do the math with other crops and other desalination costs.

But fundamentally price of desalinated water is too high for use in agriculture.

1 - https://www.energylivenews.com/2022/08/08/thames-water-switc...
More cynically, this could be a claim that half of the expert's answers are also BS.

Does anyone feel confident in their ability to disprove that one?
then don't donate?
but someone has to contribute vast amounts of unpaid labor to make their investor's purchase profitable!
/s presumably.

We're so democratic we lock up people who look like they might be going to protest against us having rulers selected by accident of birth, rulers we are forced to spend £10s of £Millions 'celebrating' despite them being some of the richest people in the World. You can't get more democratic than that! Good job everyone here has more than enough, so it's not at all immoral. /s
http://seinfeldscripts.com/TheOpposite.htm
> You'd have to be insanely good at controlling all of your costs to make money all the time

But to be fair, that's what hardware manufacturers are supposed to be good at.

The whole point is that the ones who are good at it make money, the ones who aren't go out of business. That's capitalism in a nutshell at every level, and manufacturing especially.
Are you saying people thousands of years ago making cloth fabric by hand needed attention? Unbelievable.
There's a paper associated with it that you can read on your phone. And I don't think demo videos are really associated with "research". I agree they could've added both, but let's be honest here you'll have demo videos on this in the next 12 hours for sure.
Relevant take from the author, some time back:

> On the Mac App Store, there isn't a practical way to charge for updates. You could release entirely new apps, but then upgrading is a pain for users, and you lose your ranking and reviews -- and it's difficult to charge an upgrade fee. You can gate-keep features with In-App-Purchases the way Agenda does, but then you're giving away bug fixes and polish on the app for free forever, and that's probably 80% of your development time. Plus, I would imagine the upgrade rate on that model is pretty low, since most users won't care about fringe features being added.

> If you really want to offer perpetual licenses with paid updates, since you're a desktop app, you can roll your own licensing system and use FastSpring/Paddle/etc. It's a fair model, but it's a lot of work. It may be worth it depending on your audience - e.g. developers tend to care a lot about this stuff.

> Selling this as a subscription is probably the best path if you can stomach the initial ire of users that don't like that model. Depending on your price point, you could consider a 4x-5x multiplier for a lifetime option if you want to try and keep some of them. Yes, you will lose some users that might have paid for a major version, but you'll probably make that up with the recurring revenue from less price-sensitive users.

> Best of luck. I know this can be agonizing and there's no easy answer here.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32827676
Bill Gates says A.I. could kill Google Search and Amazon as we know them
Not to mention if you can't move customer data out of a governance region that means you need a separate data center. Which is prohibitively expensive for a small business, but something a big corporation like Meta or Google would probably do anyway.
tell that to the lawyers who make a living defending corporations and putting up legal firewalls of plausible deniability
The “Code Red” that triggered “Code Reds” at Publishers: Impact of AI in Search
"Located less than 200 kilometers south of Moscow, the industrial city of Tula is home to around 549,992 people. And about a fifth of them have no access to centralized sewage systems."

From the first link in my previous comment.

Just bringing data to whether or not Russia is well equipped with flush toilets (or really more the point public sanitation).

From a public health standpoint, human waste reaching rivers tend not to be good.

"Untreated human sewage teems with salmonella, hepatitis, dysentery, cryptosporidium, and many other infectious diseases."

https://www.americanrivers.org/threats-solutions/clean-water...
It's a lot bigger investment. It'd be nice to at least see a video; that's easier than expecting people to download and run something just to see it.
Your interlocutor's earpiece could beam yours a delta for a finetuned model of their voice before they open their mouth. Except not compatible across iMessage users and whatsapp users or some other predictable silicon valley negative sum power play like that.
Isn’t that precisely the course correction we find ourselves having to make now? Decades of anti-nuclear sentiment calcified into regulatory opposition that needs to be unwound. Yeah, real funny. If there’s a lesson here we should all take to heart, it’s this: beware of letting bandwagon sentimental movements dictate policy.
This article is rather light and it seems the author only chatted with the subject for a few minutes. The vague title almost gives one the impression that habitat 67 no longer exists but it is still intact. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habitat_67
> "There just isn't a sense of urgency," one Apple engineer remarked."

Apple meets India, nothing new. They'll just have to adapt.

https://youtu.be/BTd-PWYQy4Y
> So either the theories are wrong, or the scopes are wrong. I’m leaning towards the latter.

Well, no. That's not really possible here. The scopes can't be adjusted. The theories are wrong. They both must explain all physical phenomena, but neither does, therefore a more accurate theory exists which we have not found yet.

I just don't know if there's much value in trying to make an analogy to psychology here. Currently it seems to be getting in the way of understanding.
Knuth Optimystic Benchmark
Hey all, I found the post about Don Knuth and ChatGPT [1] very interesting so I hacked together this project over the weekend. Optimystic periodically re-runs Knuth's questions against the latest GPT model (additionally I've asked GPT to score the updated answers as PASS/FAIL).

Initially I thought it would just be a fun thing, but I've realized there could be some value to the larger LLM community. Also I think it would be interesting to apply this format to experts in other fields.

Appreciate any feedback.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36012360
Cooperatives. The coop owns the building/land, and as a member you have the right to live there.

> Research found that housing cooperatives had residents rate themselves as having the highest quality of life and housing satisfaction of any housing organization in the city. ... Other research has found that housing cooperatives tended to have higher rates of building quality, building safety, feelings of security among residents, lower crime rates, stable access to housing and significantly lower costs compared to conventional housing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_cooperative#Research_o...
I'd hardly call it services, in terms of what inetd could do to keep the _service_, more like wrappers, but yeah. Systemd made it better - I run both xinetd based bash scripts for sorta network-accessible healthchecks used by haproxy later and 8000+ systemd's socket activated services, can compare apples to apples.
> worked for MNC in PRC tend to like their SKR bosses and frequently hated TW bosses simply because cultural overlap allowed them to push harder. With SKR they could at least feign ignorance with language barrier but TBH still got their work done

Haha yep, I've heard similar stories in Vietnam as well. Idk why but Taiwanese/Malaysian/Singaporean management culture is absolutely atrocious compared to Japanese+SK management culture. All of them share equally shitty work cultures, but at least the Japanese+SK ones actually tried to train people from scratch. I really don't know why Taiwanese/Malaysian/Singaporean companies don't do that as well.

> always felt like matter of time before audit/tax or political shenanigans drive foreign electronics assemblers out and eventually consolidate under India champions

Ehn, India's a federal system so financial+political shenanigans are highly dependent on the state's political and business culture.

It's the same in PRC ofc, with the administration in Guangdong/Zhejiang/Fujian being much more competent than the administration in Yunnan, Hunan, or Hubei.

That said, knowing about these intricacies requires cultural domain experience, which can only be acquired by training+hiring locally, or working with local players.

> I remember numbers last year that 2500/12000 registered forreign companies closed Indian operations since mid 10s, so maybe it's time for India chaebols to take over

I'd be curious about the breakdown by nationality.

After the Doklam standoff in 2017, Indian Federal Regulators began cracking down on Chinese FDI severely (which before 2018 was one of the largest FDI inflows India received), which lead those firms to divest their operations to Indian, Korean, Taiwanese or Japanese corporations.

For example, Xiaomi India's operation was originally run from Mainland China itself, but they were forced to sell their India operation to a Taiwanese-Indian consortium, so the only Chinese thing left of Xiaomi India is just the name.
Centuries really? I think Meta's going to be just on time.
Ok, so what do people expect the alternative route is? It's a known strategy, that works, and increases profit if implemented correctly.
Username.. checks out?
I turned off all alerts except for messages from my family. I check everything else often enough and people really can’t tell the difference in my responsiveness. My overall happiness is higher now that things aren’t popping up or vibrating all the time.
My guess is wav2vec performs better on low resource than whisper.
What an irritating article.

The simplest answer, respecting the article's own assumption is: They are giants of AI and they are not getting it wrong.

An immediate corrolary of which is: the article's author is the one getting it wrong. Eyballing the attempts to show that the "giants of AI" are wrong by poking GPT4 I'd say there's a good chance of that.

An even simpler answer, violating the assumption is: they're not giants of AI and that's why they're getting it wrong. Or is that a simpler answer? Well, now we have to explain how a guy with a machine learning PhD writing on Substack is getting it right, when LeCun, Brooks, and so on are getting it wrong.

Chomsky is not an AI expert, so there's that: the author doesn't quite know who he's talking about.
his life fell apart because he didn't follow the bot advice. the bot told him not to go to work, and to instead spend time enjoying his day. he didn't do it because he's a wagie and he was afraid his wife would hate him for his freedoms. he wouldn't even eat his turkey sandwich slowly, because he was so afraid of his wife.
Imagine if we used these types of models for like 500 years and it locked their vocabulary in time, disallowing any further language blending; then somehow the servers turned off and nobody could communicate across language barriers anymore.

Someone should write that down in some sort of short-story involving a really tall structure.
So? What targets are they supposed to nuke?
The general "price increases are because of inflation" is trivially disproven: if a company's profit ratio increases after price increases, the price increases are not due to inflation. That politicians get to stand up and say such trivially falsifiable BS without being called out is demonstrative of how much they are owned by businesses.
My name is George. I’m unemployed and I live with my parents.
Greedflation is bullshit because it’s not like companies weren’t greedy in 2019. Inflation has changed between four years ago and today, whatever explanation you want for that needs to have something changing to cause the inflation. Profit maximization attempts are not one of the things that have changed.
I don't think anyone is too surprised by the fact that OpenAI went closed. As ironic as it may be, it was pretty obviously the only way they were going to continue to exist.

On the other hand, it definitely underscores:

- How blatantly companies exploit the "open source" concept with no remorse or even tacit acknowledgement; for many startups, open source is a great way to buy some goodwill and get some customers, then once they have what they want, close the doors and start asking for rent money. Nothing wrong with doing closed source or commercial software, but would OpenAI still have gained relevance if they hadn't started the way they did with the name they did?

- How little anyone gives a shit; we all watched it happen, but apparently nobody really cares enough. Investors, customers, the general public, apparently all is fair in making money.

I'm not suggesting OpenAI is especially evil, definitely not. In fact, the most depressing thing is that doing this sort of bait and switch mechanic is so commonplace and accepted now that it wasn't news or even interesting. It's just what we expect. Anything for a dollar.

But maybe I still seem like I'm just being whiny. Okay, fair enough. But look at what's happening now; OpenAI wants heavy regulation on AI, particularly they want to curtail and probably just ban open source models, through whatever proxy necessary, using whatever tactics are needed to scare people into it. They may or may not get what they want, but I'm going to guess that if they do get it, ~nobody will care, and OpenAI will be raking in record profits while open source AI technology gets pushed underground.

Oh I'd love to be wrong, but then again, it's not like there's anything particularly novel about this strategy. It's basically textbook at this point.
What do you think the Venn Diagram overlap of people who “care about their privacy” and use Facebook is?

Do you think the overwhelming amount of people say that they really glad that cookie banners infest the internet is a good thing?

If you haven’t heard, Apple is not exactly great at
social media or anything that your data needs to be synced between devices.
The more you contain the plutonium core within something that reflects neutrons, the closer it gets to going critical. In this case, they used two half spheres of beryllium as reflectors. The screwdriver was used to adjust the amount of neutrons reflected, and the results were measurable on a Geiger counter. I believe the goal of this technique was to compare their calculations to the real thing.
any highlights?
Is that why they said "should"?
> and instead of a data center with a distributed load of Nvidia cards

You're missing something. Most models are trained on supercomputers. You still use DDP, but you also use Slurm. A supercomputer is just a many node machine, but one where you REALLY care about interconnect. It's why the fabric is one of the big points here. I/O is generally your bottleneck in these systems. Each node should be as powerful of a system as possible because of this.

A datacenter doesn't need a PB/s connection between machines. Your I/O probably isn't your bottleneck and so the tradeoff between PCIe and ethernet (infiniband or whatever) isn't a big deal. Usually because your processes are __independent__ (containers). In a supercomputer, your processes may be parallel, but that doesn't mean they're independent. You'll spend a lot of time writing code to be non-blocking but you're going to have to map reduce at some point.