skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not the goal but the value itself (1).

It's strange that we don't a value but a definition of a value.

I totally understand that we need a target to motivate politicians (sad but true).
That's not true. For the same number of training tokens, bigger is better. And for the same size, more tokens is better. So obviously more tokens and bigger is better.
I dont think EU will ban US business, but if they did, that would create opportunity for homegrown co petition to emerge.

That's one theory. The problem is the several years of lag time between the opportunity being created and anyone actually exploiting it at scale. In the meantime countless SMEs that depend on modern online services for their day to day operations would probably have failed.

By now, cloud services are not rocket science.

And yet the US keeps producing them at a far higher rate than we do over here. Much of that has been due to the VCs almost casually giving away millions in funding in the hope of backing the next unicorn among all the failures, which is an investment culture you don't see so much in Europe. But there are also reasons investors tend to favour some countries over others and the regulatory environment is usually second on that list (after taxes/subsidies) if it's not first.

And in their regulatory environments the EU and US are almost polar opposites. The US is very lightly regulated (apart from the problems of regulatory capture, where the US seems to do much worse when it does happen) but that means tech firms engage in practices we might not like. The EU is very heavily regulated but that means added overheads even for well-behaved businesses that can eventually add up to being less competitive in a global market. Maybe there is a sweet spot in between but certainly neither the US nor the EU have found it yet.
this video always comes to mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC_BCz0pzMw

The economic incentives (in a sort of basic example) are in favor of fossil fuel plants. It takes too long for traditional nuclear plants to have a return.

Energy generation is sadly more complicated than I had hoped as a laymen. The sources have to compete on variable demand basis along with amortized costs over years.

Nuclear needs novel designs with better economic returns, or to be given assistance by government to be more competitive on this amortized basis.
He's using a specific legal term in the US.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_group

A protected class is a group that is illegal to discriminate against in this manner, in the United States (and several other legal systems).

"Phone OS" is not a protected class. Many other things are, though, such as Race, Religion, Sex, etc... Varying a bit by jurisdiction and legal system.
> Dutch don't seize farms because of global warming

This isn't true. A major goal of nitrogen cutting programs (started by the UN Environment Program) is to reduce climate change. You can read about it here:

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/four-reasons-why...
Only for the 'easy' things... A gas furnace works out far cheaper per unit of heat than a heat pump... A plane is far cheaper to fly with jet fuel than batteries. Steel is far cheaper to make (not recycle) with coal and a blast furnace than direct reduction. Cement is far cheaper to make with gas than electricity...
Are you maybe thinking of this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VMyNQCVS410

That wasn't something quite as dangerous as the demon core, but a fake "orphan source".
I am still dialing in my home row shift
I'm happy to distrust every source you'll try to cite, and wait 10 years until this is both over and we obtain enough document leaks that we can more closely approximate the truth than we could using anything available now.
It loads no faster for me. The For You feed is worse for me. Top replies to posts I do want to see are consistently more hostile. These used to fall to the bottom or behind a filter click like they should.
“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were: any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.”

— John Donne, 1623
What is the evidence you'd expect to see that you aren't seeing, and how many years in advance is too soon to make a plan?
It's a joke because it demonizes a specific technology which is only tangentially related to the goal. Imagine if we wanted to make drive-by shootings illegal and rather than passing a murder law your politicians criminalized having windows in cars.

Cookies are the least offensive tracking technology. They're visible to users and the interactions with them can be seen. The EU should have mandated that all tracking has to be implemented as a cookie so that users could see it and block it themselves. Instead they added a lot of cruft and legal risk to every website and it doesn't make anyone "safer".

> you quickly see who works in bad faith

No, and that's the ultimate fail. You click the button and feel safe but you can't see the server-side logs so it's entirely a false sense of security.

If you want to stop tracking, make the law about tracking not about the current methods.
...which is equivalent to just 62x H100 GPUs from Nvidia?
Can't be less though, the latency difference between them implies that GPT-4 is significantly larger. This is unlike with PaLM, where latency decreased.
"Gaudi" isn't the source of the term "gaudy". They likely both came from an earlier root meaning but gaudy was in place with the modern meaning before Gaudi was even born and many would probably disagree with the assumption his work could even be seen as the related to the term in the first place.
> that is absolutely stupid money for what I get out of their services, which is almost nothing

That's why it's a free product! Revenue is from the value they deliver to advertisers. Meta's average revenue per user is significantly higher than other ad platforms (except Google).

For someone selling to a particular group of people, getting ads to that specific group, and ONLY that group, is really valuable.
Saying Republicans understand fiscal reality when Bush pissed away unimaginable amounts of wealth in the middle east is ludicrous. I'd like some of what you're smoking.

There's currently some noise about costs because the president isn't Republican and it's an easy way to score asinine political points. None of that is coming from any sort of principled belief system, though.
> China is also investing heavily in reducing their dependency on fossil imports.

Sure they want to import less LNG because of increased cost and unstable geopolitics. But they are continuing to build huge amounts of new coal plants (which is largely domestically sourced).
> Given the picture as we see it now, it’s conceivable that within the next ten years, AI systems will exceed expert skill level in most domains, and carry out as much productive activity as one of today’s largest corporations.

This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard claimed about AI. They finally have a crappy algorithm that can sound confident, even though over half its answers are complete bullshit. With this accomplishment, they now expect in 10 years it will be able to do any job, better than an expert. This is some major league swing-for-the-fences bullshit.

And that's not the worst part. Let's say the fancy algorithm has real pixie dust that just magically gives better-than-expert answers for literally any question. That still leaves it to the human to ask the questions. How much do you want to bet a police force won't use AI by submitting a random picture of a young black male suspect and asking it "What is the likelihood this person has committed a crime, and what was the crime?" The AI just interprets the question and answers it, and the human just accepts the answer, even though the premise is ridiculous.

We won't create a real intelligent AI any time soon. But even if we did, the AI being perfect or not isn't the problem. The problem is the stupid humans using it. You can't "design", regulate, govern, etc your way out of human stupidity.
Thanks, raising 1,5 degrees on a average of 13,9 it's really a lot.

In my opinion the only way to slow down involves changing this growth oriented economy. I hope the EU conference "Beyond growth" is a start of a new movement.
>I'm not convinced that simply increasing the number of parameters improves the models

How so? Llama 33B is clearly worse than llama-64B and that's 'only' a 2x increase.

Are you aware of any example where a larger model fails to outperform a smaller one when all else is equal (tokens, architecture, data quality, etc.)?

Obviously for a fixed amount of training compute more parameters can be bad, but there's a trade off where more parameters means you train on fewer tokens.
I would suggest reading a book called Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance. It might help to align your feelings of addiction with your feelings of “spread” :)

Engineering is a wonderful tool but also a form of art. It’s ok to indulge your passion with some balance to the rest of life without calling it addiction.
Cross device meetings should work without problems, sorry you ran into some!

If you’d like to dig into it, please reach out to us on GH or to me at HNusername@jitsi.org
It is deeply authoritarian from Labour and the Conservatives. During the Troubles (eg, the Irish Republican Army bombing the UK and their opposite numbers in Northern Ireland doing the same) we practiced internment - eg mass incarceration without charge:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Demetrius

We also routinely convicted people on flimsy charges, this being the most notorious case:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Six

A notoriously brutal policing operation split along ethnic lines:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Ulster_Constabulary

Infiltration of various groups by police with the sole purpose of surveilling and disrupting their activities:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/15/undercover-p...

Mass surveillance by GCHQ as documented by Snowden:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...

Rendition without trial (aka kidnapping) and torture:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/may/22/uk-support-cia...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Ghraib_torture_and_prisone...

London is the most surveiled city outside China:

https://www.verdict.co.uk/most-surveilled-city/

And last but not least, the Metropolitan Police is full of creeps, rapists and murderers:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-58747614

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/28/met-police-p...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/apr/22/fourth-offic...

...

OK, one more, I give you.. indefinite prison sentences:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/sep/28/call-to-rese...

Edit: The pattern I'd identify throughout 200 years of our history is that we regularly "clamp down" on groups that are no threat (eg, Catholics, Irish people, and today Muslims) and radicals of any kind who wanted stuff like the vote, or socialised healthcare, or a decent environment. The pattern may well span longer, but I can definitely pick it up during that time.

I don't think it is even a matter of national character, either: it is a function of how our politics works. We have two viable parties of government, and they don't contest certain things, including authoritarian policymaking.
I call people who don't care about the outcome of a particular issue that is a source conflict disinterested, and that's close enough to politically neutral to kiss it. Instead, on Wikipedia the people most involved and passionate about an issue will be the biggest contributors to entries related to it, and the side with the most paid contributors and/or internet-addicted contributors will run those pages like a fiefdom.
Funny you say that because I know someone who picked Manchester after moving to UK from HK because he and his dad support Manchester United. He moved along with his brother,
sister and retired parents, all under the HK visa. They are looking to buy two homes in Manc with their in savings.

The newspapers are suggesting the new migrant stats to be published soon by Home Office for past 12 months will show extremely high numbers from both Hong Kong and Ukraine. To be honest I'm surprised people from Hong Kong didn't pick Australia instead of UK given it's better weather and bigger homes/roads compared to cramped England.
I think the idea of the Rust implementations of Y and A is portability, primarily. A JS implementation alone is very opinionated about, for example, what your backend should look like. A Rust ditto will be less opinionated and more accessible in a variety of environments.

I don’t think the main point is the supposed superiority of WASM vs JS in terms of performance, as the article surmises.
The Atlas of Ownership
Web3 is positive but close to zero sum game for society, say.

While AI can be massively negative sum game for the world.
So what military block did Ukraine join prior to Russia annexing its territory?
As I said last week on the lobbying article [1], if you don't like how "Open"AI is trying to build a regulatory capture moat, cancel your subscription.

Yes, the open models are worse, but are getting better. There will be plenty of high quality commercial alternatives.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35967864
> This might make you realize why MDI (or Multiple Document Interface, where there are multiple small per-document "windows" inside one big window) was so popular back then. The MDI "windows" weren't actually windows — they didn't have their own WndProc. They were just controls, like a tab view is a control. Only the big container window was a real window, and so all the resources within that big window were shared between all the virtual windows. MDI was a memory-saving trick!

MDI may have saved some memory - I can't say one way or the other on that - but the mechanism you describe is incorrect.

Every MDI child window was a window of its own with its own WndProc. Every control inside those windows was also a window with its own WndProc. Every dialog box was also - yes - a window with its own WndProc.

You wouldn't always be aware of the WndProc in your code, but it was there.

If you ran WinSight or Spy++, you could see the entire window hierarchy including all the child windows, child control windows, and so on.

Later on, a few applications implemented "windowless controls" to save memory, but this was uncommon, especially in the early days. For example, there was an optional windowless version of the Rich Edit control:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/controls/win...

Fun fact: an early informal name for MDI was "Mac in a box", because if you maximized the top level window, you had a somewhat Mac-like environment, with one menu bar at the top that was shared by the child windows.

Source: I was the author of WinSight and the VBX (Visual Basic eXtension) API.
The British system (parliamentary sovereignty) means your rights are ONLY what the current government decides. There is no way to establish fundamental rights the way the US can with an Amendment. So any improvement you get post brexit is only worth a damn until the next change of whim of parliament.

Personally, I would take a guaranteed "90% right" system (aka the EU) over a random number generator (aka Brexit)...
Does this imply that the caller has to poll the result buffer to know when the kernel has processed the initial data?
As bombcar mentioned check your DNS settings. Archive are known to block Cloudflare DNS for not forwarding EDNS Client Subnet Information.

If you are on someone elses network and are unsure what DNS they are using, check here [1] and click the DNS Leak Test, requires Javascript or here [2]

[1] - https://browserleaks.com/ip

[2] - https://ipleak.net/
To enable a dark mode you need to have a premium? No thanks! I’ve been using Hacki app so far and it’s awesome, need some improvements but generally speaking it’s been the best I tried, and it’s free.
Is this article actually trying to talk about superintelligence? Or is this article just trying to make GPT look like AGI by taking AGI for granted?
Yo. Have any of these so called journalists actually purchased or held the machine?
They are and they aren't. I mean, they are still spending money on the core product and it is still a great product and I still love it, but I understand what you're getting at - they're getting proportionally more cash but not spending it on Wikipedia, but all sorts of other side projects that most people are never going to use.

I'm still happy to let them do it simply because of the love I have for all their work on Wikipedia. They can spend my money on crazy if they want, as long as it makes the right people happy.

The fact that the (essentially) negative article about severance payments exists on Wikipedia itself is at least a good sign that they're not trying to hide what other nonprofits would gladly want to sweep under the rug.
Joke's on you, I didn't think it. Everything digital keeps dying with a decade or two. Hardware platforms, drivers, optical and magnetic storage, operating system compatibility, apps, services, sites, APIs, port standards, SDKs.

Nothing lasts in computers, it's just a myth, a legend, a promise never kept.

Somehow the illusion persists, and it's especially funny when someone starts daydreaming about his brain uploaded to a computer so they can live forever. Nah you'll live a few years and then you'll gradually be cut off from the world and die, just like you normally would. Sorry!
Russia is completely in the wrong here, but this is false:

> NATO is a defensive only alliance, and can't be invoked for an invasion of Russia.

NATO is a regional security alliance with a mutual defense commitment. Most of the operations for which it has been activated were not invocations of that defensive commitment, which has only happened exactly once.
Your are misinformed/wrong.

Germany only had 5% nuclear, those have been replaced by renewables not by coal[1].

Those reactors were at the end of their lifespans anyways. Would nuclear have been great if we never stopped investing in the technology? Maybe, but as it stands now it's much cheaper and way way faster to install renewables than to install nuclear. (Nuclear power plants have lead times in decades and cost overruns in the billions.)

As for your farming claim. Netherlands is reducing milk and meat production, products that have been artificially propped up EU wide by subsidiaries.
Meat and diary are one of the biggest contributors of greenhouse gasses and the major driving force behind deforestation (more than 80% in terms of area).

Nobody is going to starve without meat or diary, in fact you are much less likely to have certain diseases on a vegan diet. As for vitamin deficiencies, almost everybody is B12 and D deficient, including omnivores, so you should take vitamin supplements anyways. In fact most cows are B12 deficient too (not enough grass feed), so we inject them with vitamin boosters, so you might as well cut out the middleman.

1: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/germanys-energy-c...
There was a Google engineer last summer who leaked a whole giant chat transcript with one of their LLMs that was pretty impressive before ChatGPT went opened up at the end of the year.
They might have suspected, but I doubt they formally knew. I would guess it was a type of "don't tell me, I don't want to know, plausible deniability and all".
Neuroscientists discover the tricks and shortcuts the brain takes to help us survive.
Official Website: https://to.pbs.org/3Ic9dRS | #novapbs
If you had mentioned Solaris, I’d have agreed.

But POSIX async I/O (the aio_* functions) in Linux is basically worthless performance-wise AFAIU, because Glibc implements it in userspace by spawning threads to do standard sync I/O. Now Linux also has non-POSIX async I/O (the io_* functions), but it’s very situational because it works only if you bypass the cache (O_DIRECT) and can still randomly block on metadata operations (so can Win32, to be fair). There’s select/poll/epoll with O_NONBLOCK of course, which is what people normally use, but those do not really work with files on disk (neither do their WinSock equivalents). Hell, signal-driven IO (O_ASYNC) exists, I’ve used it to make a single-threaded emulator (CPU-bound unlike a network server) interact with the terminal. But asynchronous I/O of normal, cached files is only possible on Linux through the use of io_uring, as far as I’ve been able to figure out.

That said, I’ve read people here saying[1] that overlapped I/O on Windows also works by scheduling operations on a thread pool, even referencing KB articles[2]. This does not mesh with everything I’ve read about I/O in the NT kernel, which is supposed to be natively async to the point where the I/O request datastructure (the IRP) has what’s essentially an emulated call stack inside of it, in order to allow the I/O subsystem to juggle continuations. What am I missing? Does the Win32 subsystem need to dumb things down that much even inside its own implementation?

(Windows 8 also introduced a ringbuffer-based, no-syscalls thing called Registered I/O that looks very much like io_uring.)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11867351

[2] https://support.microsoft.com/kb/156932
> We do not even have a consensus around a working definition of "intelligence"

I’m sorry but if you really think this is relevant, you just aren’t paying attention. This is my number one giveaway sign that someone just doesn’t have any idea why lots of people are concerned about ai x-risk.
> The Netherlands is a net exporter, apparently, so we could stand to loose some food production.

The countries importing that food will now have to import from somewhere else. It doesn’t seem to be solving any climate problem, just shifting it elsewhere.
Ory + Tailscale = fully open source authentication and authorization w/ VPN access ?
CLS is probably from ads, even Google's own "responsive" Adsense ads will nuke your score there.

Both the text compression and JS issues are again related to ads, since in many cases the page loads, makes a request with user info, goes to an auction then returns the ad to be shown-- and with multiple ads on the page, this ends up impacting both FCP and LCP.

If they removed all ads, they would probably be at an 80+ performance score?
This is a bit flippant and a bit humorous, but I think the underlying point is true. If anything like AGI is coming, the powers that be will absolutely try to maintain complete control of it, and all the worst outcomes involve forbidding individuals from using AI for their own benefit.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

"Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't really see the point of getting deep into this, the logic is very clear in the peer reviewed paper. The energy consumption to train new models is marginal extra electricity consumption and so they've cited the EPA's numbers for CO2 emissions per Watt-hour of electricity. It's a perfectly fair comparison. Yes, you can caveat all sorts of "But we could do this with green energy" but that's not what the paper was about.

>none of her work seems particularly interested in technology.

Honestly! Her PhD in computer vision seems pretty technological to me.

Fine, if the position you want to have is all universities are race ideology centres great, again, it reflects more on you than on anyone else.
This is what Malcolm Gladwell wrote about in his book, Outliers. His examples are more insidious as they can happen based on non-success based criteria such as birth dates.
Selling data erodes Facebook's ability to make money selling ads (because then other people will be able to target users just as well). It's never been something they did intentionally.