skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are very misinformed if you believe this is true for planet-scale energy demand. Dial back the hope and faith and engage the critical thinking.
One of the few interesting ideas from Neal Stephenson’s book Fall is the idea that the rich pay people to curate the information they see on the web and in their social feeds. The poor have to wade through all of the machine generated content and propaganda and figure out what is true on their own.

An AI that does that detection would be both wonderful and dangerous.

(That book abandoned its only interesting ideas and went totally off the rails a few chapters later IIRC.)
> The system doesn't have to be perfect to prevent a boatload of Javelin's from becoming some kind of trump card.

It kinda does. A Javelin costs $100k. A main battle tank costs millions. Even if it takes 10-20 Javelins you're coming out on top.

> Sure, but supply chain problems could prevent that. Isn't the West pouring so much of their available stockpiles into Ukraine that they may not have enough send to sit in a Taiwanese warehouse?

Make more? Call it economic stimulus.

> It will give them pause, but not a despondent "we give up forever because this proves we will always fail" pause, but rather a "lets make sure we're even better, so we can succeed when we try" pause.

Do you think it's impossible to make Taiwan a tough enough target to resist an invasion, of the kind (massive-scale amphibious) China's never performed before?
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They're intended for researchers/professionals not consumers, and I'm not sure how a video is going to be helpful?

And the issue with a live demo is that these are resource-intensive, they're not just webpages. It's an entire project to figure out how to host them, scale them to handle peaks, pay for them, implement rate-limiting, and so forth.

For the intended audience, download-and-run-it doesn't seem like an issue at all. I don't see how any questions are going to be answered by a video.
As an aside, it’s ridiculous that video got flagged as a video for kids and suggests downloading the YouTube Kids app.
A lesson for us all
Anyone know what hardware it takes to run this? Asking as an enthusiastic newbie
Here's the blog post with video of it working: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/multilingual-model-speech-recog...
Interesting points to consider — thanks.

To clarify: endorsing the status quo is a political position. Not saying something is not identical to that. It of course can have probabilistic implications. In other words, silence doesn’t necessarily mean an entity (a person or org) is content with the status quo. It can be a strategic decision.
1NF bans relation-valued attributes, not repetition of attribute value across tuples in a relation. Mainstream SQL databases don't support relation-valued attributes, so any table you make in a relational database is 1NF.

You can push back on this a little - for instance maybe you consider an array-valued attribute to be enough like a relation to argue array-valued attributes violate 1NF. But if you do that you must also explain what makes arrays different from strings, since strings are pretty similar to arrays of characters and can be treated the same way in most respects (for instance characters in a string can be addressed by index or split into substrings).
Why should we have any marketing materials, ever? Why do we show pictures of products? Sometimes people want to see the capabilities before they completely dive in and spend their time working on something.
Re. your second paragraph: Like others in this thread, you're assuming the answer. Or rather, you're assuming the presupposition. And that's fine, if you want to do that. But be aware that you're doing it, and that it's unproven. (And maybe be aware how much you're doing it.)

> Is there any function of consciousness we’re aware of that doesn’t relate to information?

Maybe awareness of your own emotional state? (Though I'm sure that there are views where that also is information processing, and nothing more.)
This also reminds me of the Radio Lab episode that tracks bird migration, including one bird (that they were actively tracking) that simply peeled off the group and settled down somewhere else that wasn't part of the historic migration path. Feels like the same idea.

In the book A Mote in God's Eye, they have a concept of the Crazy Eddie (presumably named after the 'eddies' in fluid dynamics), which is a mythical social phenotype where the member disagrees with the status quo and believes there is an unknown solution to their thus-far unsolved generational problem. Simply believing in a solution that is worth searching for denotes the member as 'insane'.

Kind of seems like we, as natural beings and members of natural systems, absolutely have some kind of pattern-breaking behavior built in at a systemic level. A master-level emergent behavior that can exploit local maxima but still succeed in finding other local maxima to ensure the survival and adaptation of a species.
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This is a great analogy for something I've struggled to put into words.

I’ll add: if you have invariants, you almost by definition have conflicts. The C in CRDT is for conflict-free, so if you can have conflicts in the data domain you probably want something that can preserve them (like state machine synchronization) rather than a CRDT.
You need to design your document to minimize these kinds of issues. You can treat properties in the document as a last-write-wins register to minimize “strange merge” consistency within that property.

For use cases with a central server, you can use server reconciliation to handle “true conflicts”, essentially doing layer of OT-style ops at the application level around CRDT structures provided by a library. See how Replicache suggests handling text for example. They provide a server reconciliation framework, and suggest you use a CRDT for text within that semantics.
Rethinking My PKM: How I Organize Everything in Obsidian
By way of his tweet

https://twitter.com/zsviczian/status/1660387823449432071
We're in upside-down world, Meta is now cool; actually I always admired their open source projects, starting with React and PyTorch.
Scotland’s wind turbines have been using fossil fuels
I suspect in general if 'they were here first' is the only tool in your policy toolbox, you are going to have a bad time of it with growth and resource allocation. It works pretty ok with symmetric situations, but most situations aren't.
We don’t know yet. To be determined. But science has taken us pretty far.
Most of languages support only LID (language identification) task. Still impressive
I would guess the pool of IP addressed used by Apple has been blocked from contributing since for any good faith editor, there is a vast amount of vandals taking advantage of the feature to deface articles en masse.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Apple_iCloud_Private_Relay has some context and list potential problems that might arise (and do in your case).

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Apple_iCloud_Private_Re... is the related discussion page if you want to ask more.

Back in the old days, we maintained a list of trustworthy http proxies for which we trusted the IP of their client. The community could then block the user behind the proxy. With everything behind https nowadays, that is no more possible (the intermediate proxy can not inject any header to carry the information). So the sole thing we see is the Apple relays IPs and if those are a source of vandalism for sure the community will block them from contributing.

There is a more or less similar issue with TOR exit node for which the issue is described at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Editing_with_Tor

Given the relay is only enforced by Safari (as I understand it), you can use the IOS Wikipedia application for editing: https://apps.apple.com/app/wikipedia/id324715238 , though that will not pass through the Apple relays and leak your IP.
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If that were true, Sam would never have founded OpenAI. He already had generational wealth.
a similar situation just happened between Nvidia and EVGA.
NVidia makes the chips, And So, holds all the bargaining chips so to speak, and EVGA is just the board partner that has to find some way to make the price work. At some point it becomes impossible and they have to actually walk away in order to not be taken advantage of.
We know this much, and I'm going to assume the situation was similar here with Apple and Wistron.
> A vat of liquid can end up in a state of mixture and configuration that causes it suddenly become critical.

It can indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Kelley_criticality_accid...
Not sure about iPhone, but most browsers on Android (e.g. Chrome, Edge) let you disable JavaScript in "site settings" by default. You then opt-in for a given site by clicking the little padlock on the address bar and enabling JavaScript for the site in question. Also works for things like audio, location, etc.
I side with you, same here. WhatsApp is pull only, so to say, no alerts at all. Other apps are restricted by iPhone.

I am so glad there is no "Hacker News" app. ;)
> a) it makes no sense to advocate for them prior, there’s a natural sequence of dependencies.

We had that back when the government made it mandatory to have ID to be employed or have a bank account or rent a house. Not having an ID scheme didn't prevent it being made a requirement.
What is your better suggestion: The world follows lax US law? Or anything goes, no law?

These are not acceptable options to the EU.
So yes you’re right my personal messages attached to my user name doesn’t relate to an identifiable person.

“which is any piece of information that relates to an identifiable person.”
Related:

"Here's a phenomenon I was surprised to find: you'll go to talks, and hear various words, whose definitions you're not so sure about. At some point you'll be able to make a sentence using those words; you won't know what the words mean, but you'll know the sentence is correct. You'll also be able to ask a question using those words. You still won't know what the words mean, but you'll know the question is interesting, and you'll want to know the answer. Then later on, you'll learn what the words mean more precisely, and your sense of how they fit together will make that learning much easier. The reason for this phenomenon is that mathematics is so rich and infinite that it is impossible to learn it systematically, and if you wait to master one topic before moving on to the next, you'll never get anywhere. Instead, you'll have tendrils of knowledge extending far from your comfort zone. Then you can later backfill from these tendrils, and extend your comfort zone; this is much easier to do than learning "forwards". (Caution: this backfilling is necessary. There can be a temptation to learn lots of fancy words and to use them in fancy sentences without being able to say precisely what you mean. You should feel free to do that, but you should always feel a pang of guilt when you do.)"

Reminds me of the attention mechanism in transformers!

http://math.stanford.edu/~vakil/potentialstudents.html

And for any parents with toddler age children, seeing the way that toddlers relate to language, and that people relate to toddlers about language, leads to lots of fun observations that remind me of LLM related concepts.
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As someone who grew up in Phoenix and just bought a house here, I've been trying to responsibly educate myself in terms of how big of a crisis this might be. But I've found that a lot of comments, headlines, and judgment calls on this topic are just hilarious. Mainly because it's one of the simplest topics with which to find appropriate historical context and data. I'll show two examples.

Picking apart this particular headline, perhaps a few of us are wondering how close the Colorado River is from drying up? My subjective measurement is that a river drying up would constitute 5% of its average discharge, or even less. The USGS tracks multiple key indicators on the Colorado River, including discharge at certain gauges along the river. From 1952 to 2022, the average is about 5,900 cubic feet per second. The worst year in the history of tracking the Colorado was 21 years ago, 2,417 cubic feet per second, or 40% of average discharge. That's 8 times what I would personally qualify as a dried up river. Compare that to the mighty Mississippi, which averages 208,833 cubic feet per second each year. Now their worst year was 1956, 93,990 cubic feet per second, or 45% of their average discharge. So the Mississippi is statistically fairly as variable in its discharge as the Colorado river, albeit with much more water. And anyway, that's only 9 times my personal qualification. I know these aren't universal measurements, but I hope this allows me to prove a point. The Mississippi River and the Colorado River aren't all that different in variability, and neither of them are even close to drying up. But it's the cities that are closer to the Mississippi River that are actually having water problems -- not Arizona (e.g. Jackson, MS had a water crisis where the National Guard was mobilized to help 150k residents with drinking water just last year). [1]

In the last two decades, the SW has been experiencing extreme drought, and all the while it's one of the fastest growing regions in the US. For example, since the 1950s, Arizona has grown from 700,000 to over 7,000,000, all while using less water. Yep, it's true. Remember that when people point to more neighborhoods, golf courses, and "cities in the desert" as the reason for this 'crisis'. [2]

With all that being said, my personal judgment is that there's a very real drought that is just about to conclude, as seen from recent projections of El Nińo, heavy snowpack and rainfall this winter in the region, and water conservation technology improving at an exponential scale. The Southwest will continue growing, especially due to immigration from South America and Mexico and recent onshoring due to the China/Russia crisis into the next few decades. And the water situation is going to be fine the whole way.

[1] - https://waterdata.usgs.gov/nwis/annual/?referred_module=sw&a...
[2] - https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environme...
But that's not what the paper does. Asians have many skin colors from light to very dark (compare China, Korea, and Japan to Thailand, Vietnam, and India). I'm not sure what you are talking about here. I don't see how it erases Asians since Asians are a very diverse group of people in appearance.

In regards to CRT, CRT has always included Asians, for example, studying the Chinese Exclusion Act in the US. Many people who criticize CRT (mostly on the right) have no idea what it is.

It seems to me that the anti-CRT crowd (mostly right-wing reactionaries) are making shit up to bring down this kind of important research in AI down.
Things work wonderfully where i don't need to waste time follow the crowd.

It's from when i was a child already and it's been that way. I have no reason to change, too. My nickname is (rev)skill in reverse, you can see, i just want to reverse the crowd, because i know they're mostly wrong.

The essense is always behind the curtain, i'm sure about it.

One note is, there's difference between follow the crowd and know what they do. To avoid something, you need to get a knowledge of them.
I just had a thought: no profiting off a company that you don't work [forty] hours a week at.

If you work eight hours a week, you get shares. No negotiations, labour is entitled to the value it creates. The trust fund scumbag who just uses money like a sponge to suck up more money is not.

edit: I'm on drugs

edit 2: In case my employer is trolling my history for signs of moral degeneracy, it's a holiday, piss off.

edit 3: I was gonna come back and make the second 8 into a 40 also, but fuck that. 8 hours a week, you get shares. Send the trust fund babies to me, I'll explain the reality of work to them. I used to drive a dump truck, it's lots of fun.
They would've if they took the Chinese approach to gradually improve the standard of living organically through productivity improvements and education. Saudi Arabia instead immediately skyrocketed their standard of living far past what the population can do productively without oil. Populations don't take well to huge standard of living decreases that are inevitable when oil $ runs out to subsidize everything in the state enormously.
Attention is all you need.
You've got a lot of opinions for someone who hasn't paid any attention to the conflict.

For those who have been following, it's pretty clear it's been disastrous for Russia.
> this is what apple does

This is what globalism does. Take the environmental destruction and shitty working conditions that would never be allowed in your own country to other countries and centralize the profits from doing so into the hands of a few.
All sites not run by shit-heads have a "reject all non-essential cookies and close button" clearly displayed.

They could just choose to honour "do not track", but I realise they want the money. Most large sites seem to have added the "reject all" button when it appeared that this was necessary for compliance. Those that did not don't care if they comply.

Obnoxious banners are a choice. If we didn't have them the choices of site -owner's wouldn't be less obnoxious, they would just be hidden.

It's like the warning your car makes 'put your seatbelt on'; sucks, but better than it not existing.
This is not the account in question, there have been actual fake Bloomberg accounts reporting it, which made other accounts report it in belief it's true. Don't call people frauds when you're so uninformed.
Not saying this is the explanation, but here's a possibility. True, greed is a constant, but what companies can get away with isn't. It may be the case that companies can get away with putting the screws to everyone harder now than they could prior to 2020.
Have you successfully got friends, former coworkers, or loved ones a tech job?
Many times in the past I have attempted to help people I know find a job by floating their resume around with a solid recommendation as well as using my social media network to try create leads and generate some interest (with permission)

I don't think my efforts have ever been successful.

What have you done to successfully help people land a gig? Can you share some stories?
I don't see anything about bundling, monopolistic pricing power, cartels.

I have a question why is there such a thing as union busting but not trade association busting?
I don’t know. The problem does look big, but we’ve all recently seen the Neovim community rewrite a similarly-scoped ecosystem in Lua in couple of years. Logseq seems like a rewrite of a large part of Org, and was also doable.

Also, tons of Emacs packages should not exist, and are only there because core is slow-moving and old. Zillion completion frameworks, modal editing modes used by three guys, &c.

Deep issues (async/multi-thread, performance, display, namespaces) seem hard to solve without a breaking change.
A strike against music recording led to the rise of bebop jazz
We’re Losing Our Seed Breeders
> The real takeaway is that researchers may have found a potential test for string theory.

Not really. All this paper is really saying is that they have found solutions in classical theories of gravity with extra dimensions that, in four dimensions, can look like standard black holes. So even observing effects predicted by these models would not be evidence for string theory. It would at best be evidence for possible extra dimensions of spacetime at the classical level.

Also, the paper only compares its models with the standard Schwarzschild black hole. But first, most black holes are spinning so the comparison should be with Kerr, not Schwarzschild; and second, as the paper notes early on, there are many other proposed models of compact objects that can look similar to standard black holes. Any given set of observations would have to be tested against all proposed models, not just this one.
IIRC the Calendar standards (iCal, etc) are pull-based, so your Calendar app has to poll/request the whole calendar constantly to check for new events in case you make one on another device (e.g. your computer). There are also enough edge cases that also nobody wants to change/improve on the standards.

WhatsApp can send you a push when you get a message, so its usage is ~nothing if you're not sending and receiving messages.
io_uring is the single coolest thing to come out of facebook
> It's simplistic but he's basically printing money.

Upvoted you, but I disagree. This is classic survivorship bias. You see the 10% of cases where this works, and you don't see the 90% of cases where the owner goes into crippling debt, can't sell the land, can't sell the condos, or vacancies are at 50%+. There's no such thing as "printing money" in capitalistic markets and it's naïve to think there is. I'm not an efficient market hypothesis guy, but markets tend to be efficient.

There are cases of problematic monopolies (e.g. telecom companies, energy distribution, steel, Google advertising, "too big to fail" banks, etc.) and maybe you could argue those actually do print money, but, imo, that's far and few in between.
> The problem is that once you have proof of these things, it may be too late.

If the thing you're worried about is Skynet, regulation isn't going to do anything. Once someone builds it, you lose regardless of whatever the law says, and the person building it may not even be in your jurisdiction.

If the thing you're worried about is AI being used for copyright infringement or something, in what sense will it be "too late" if that sort of thing happens for a period of time before any laws are passed?
b might just not be possible as above poster wrote, regulations might be in conflict.
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Hello, thanks for the feedback.
One thing you can do is turn off the nauseating animation when switching between desktops/spaces.
>> If Wall Street wants Disney+ to cost less, the easiest way to do that without impacting subs or engagement is to delete the old stuff nobody watches.

This seems bananas on its face, are the execs at Disney thinking that it will save money to have fewer titles available to stream? The storage costs of titles that are never delivered is near zero.
DOS provided a tiny fraction of what Windows provided?

A full kernel acts as gatekeeper to system resources. While DOS provided access to some resources, it was single-process and so had no gatekeeping. No concept of different pools of resources, different lifetimes of activity. No comprehensive cleanup.

Half of a kernel (or more) is taking things from one list and putting them on another list, so when something exits or dies or faults, it can release resources that were allocated to the dying thing.

The hardware access was the lowest, simplest part of that. And DOS used the BIOS anyway, for half of what it did (floppy drivers etc). Which meant it had not a chance in hell of performing well (executing out of ROM or whatever).
Or don't build global networks. Build local networks and federate them.