skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Common misconception. Japan can be very trashy, especially in big cities. It doesn't help that the government doesn't put public trash bins anywhere, supposedly because they're scared of terrorists putting bombs in them.

Even in the suburbs and countryside, people illegally dump trash all the time because they don't want to pay to dispose of it properly. Anywhere you go, you will see signs imploring, "don't throw away your trash here!" under which are mounds of trash.

It may be true that Japan is on average a bit cleaner than other countries, but not nearly so much as people seem to think.
No true human reasons with mere electrical signals!
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Right time, right place. Europe was wrecked after WWII.
> It's just too easy for anyone to throw together a Supermicro machine with 6x GPUs in it, which is what it sounds like they'll be doing.

HPC compute is well advanced past just slapping GPUs into generic supermicro servers anyway. Without semi-custom hardware and equivalents to nvlink/nvswitch AMD won't ever be competitive in the HPC space.
That's right, but if you did that compression, it wouldn't be an n-gram anymore. What I'm attempting to get across is that you could model GPT-4 as an equivalent 8000-gram in an abstract sense, but that's not a good mental picture for how it actually functions. Internally, GPT-4 is no more an 8000-gram than Stockfish is a giant lookup table of chess positions. GPT-4 is learning RASP programs, not statistical text correlations.
The drives are expensive and the tapes are pretty much only useable for offline storage and not for keeping the data accessible.
Nonsense. The contrary is philosophically arguable: optimization is how reason comes to exist, as goal-oriented reinforcement means that an initially stochastic state loses entropy as it becomes ordered in such a manner (perhaps unknown) that its outputs more closely align with that goal.
You might want to reread the HN guidelines. While the comment was clumsily worded, the meaning was quite obvious.
> The major factor against supersonic is actually the fact that sonic booms are not allowed over the continental United states.

How do military pilots train then I wonder?
The example about servers is not the complete interpretation of the law. It is merely a simple, understandable example.

> The CFAA broadly38 defines “computer” as any “electronic, magnetic, optical, electrochemical,
or other high speed data processing device performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions,”
including “any data storage facility or communications facility directly related to or operating in
conjunction with such device . . . .”39 The CFAA excludes only automated typewriters,
typesetters, portable hand held calculators, and similar devices from its definition of computer.40
These limited exceptions to the CFAA’s definition of “computer” “show just how general” the
statute’s definition of computer is.41 As one court explained, the definition includes any device
with an electronic data processor, of which there are numerous examples.42 Thus, under the
CFAA, computers include not only laptops and desktops, but also a wide array of computerized devices ranging from cellphones to objects embedded with microchips, such as certain
microwave ovens, watches, and televisions. 43

The definition is extremely broad; which means it also includes things like modems and routers.
My email provider (me since I self-host) doesn't provide a web UI
I mean, in training children we give them reasoning tasks they commonly get wrong. I don't think we say they are incapable of reasoning because they get wrong answers commonly?

This is why we see improvement in GPT when chain of thought/tree of thought is used with reasoning for each step. That can't correct every failure mode, but it increases the likelihood you'll receive a more correct answer.
You might enjoy https://www.seriouseats.com or The Food Lab by J. Kenji López-Alt.
The lite model is any gaming PC with a 7900 XTX.
Ain't that the truth. I once was locked out of my work systems for a day or two while IT investigated, turns out a trailing space at the end was...not disallowed explicitly, but would result in a broken account everywhere but your laptop.
You aren't, but who's going to stop you?
Can You Love the Art and Hate the Monster?
> the latter will command both extreme heating and possibly also cooling

I fully disagree with your use of "extreme" here, you have no evidence for that. Homes naturally have insulation which would mean the +22 temperatures would heat them, and some of that leftover heat would therefore reduce the need for heating. Indeed, it seems likely to me that the rate of heat leach would keep both these situations identical except for the fact you managed to inject "also using AC" in here like anyone ever does that.

Quite a weak argument.

The overall climate of our planet has nothing to do with the energy cost to heat a home.
That, and use formats which can be accessed and explained concisely, like "read the first X bytes to metadata field A, then read the image payload by interpreting every three bytes as an RGB triplet until EOF" so that the information can be transmitted orally, in the off chance that becomes necessary

Hey I think I just described Windows 3.0-era PCX format :P
Nvidia has stuff like hardware sparsity support. Modern methods (RigL) can let you train sparse for a 2X speedup.

Memory bandwidth (sparsity helps) and networking connectivity (Nvidia bought Mellanox and other networking companies) are important too. They are also using a lot of die space on raytracing stuff that they don't waste on the datacenter versions presumably.
The law includes a special level of "protected computer", but it broadly includes many other devices.
Not to mention that this simply moves the initial conflict to space, where adversaries can deploy DE satellites to destroy ours... and THEN launch missiles.

It's incredible that 40 years after Reagan and the "Star Wars" defense plan, we finally have entities doing what seemed obvious even to high-schoolers at the time: just make the missiles zig-zag.
The author's claim is "this isn't just statistics; the model is reasoning". But just because something goes beyond "just statistics" doesn't mean it's reasoning.
I couldn’t disagree more. First of all college participants get more money, period:

https://www.aplu.org/our-work/4-policy-and-advocacy/publicuv...

Second of all, your emotional plea around students being disabled is salient but irrelevant. If they’re that poor they would get money through a straight “give poor people money scheme.”

No matter how you slice it there will be poor people who fit any scenario you can conceive who also did not participant in college. Any sort of prioritizing or preference on college participation is regressive.
Unlike Logitech, Sony has an interest in pushing people towards the ecosystem. I could see it being sold at a loss to compete with other portables like the Switch.
What do you mean by pressure?

I think that you are making an assumption about how the FBI operates.
Very cool. Way to go!
It’s suspect until it’s demonstrated. Once someone has demonstrated it, counterexamples are meaningless.

I claim I can juggle. I pick up three tennis balls and juggle them. You hand me three basketballs. I try and fail. My original claim, that I can juggle, still stands.
Share Information with Post-Quantum Encryption
Happy to get feedback and comments for improvement! info@defensestation.ca
Neeva raised $70m pre ChatGPT. Why is anything they're building better than the gajillion open source LLMs out there? Why did Snowflake do this?
Maybe, maybe not; self focusing [1] is an active area of research. Optics is one area where secret projects have been shown to be way ahead of what is publicly available [2] so I wouldn't be surprised if they've figured out some scifi way of making orbital lasers more effective.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-focusing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_National_Reconnaissance_O...
I know a fair amount about this problem, my last startup built a working prototype of a performance-portable deep learning framework that got good performance out of AMD cards. The compiler stack is way harder than most people appreciate because scheduling operations for GPUs is very specific to the workload, hardware, and app constraints. The two strongest companies I'm aware of that are working in this area now are Modular.AI and OctoML. On the new chip side Cerebras and Tenstorrent both look quite interesting. It's pretty hard to really beat NVIDIA for developer support though, they've invested a lot of work into the CUDA ecosystem over the years and it shows.
While it's not available to many of us (and especially those outside of US) it doesn't take that much money to just tinker with whatever you want. Just have to cut time wasted on news and politics, socialising and literally anything outsidie of being hacker or entrepreneur.

Most people just would never take that risk and will stick to their well-paying job.
Perpetual growth, nothing. CPUs and graphics hardware changes, so the OS has to change.
> Fuck Microsoft's open source, since you need things spelled out for you.

I do need that spelled out for me; TS is clearly such a humungous improvement on writing JS that it's ludicrous you would prefer them to just... keep it to themselves.

You're fully capable of opting out of using it and writing NodeJS; with all the rage in your heart for TS, I don't really understand why you didn't take that approach

> people who actually give a shit about situations getting from bad to worse

Lmao, you're so dramatic. Enjoy
Exactly what I think of, every time.

Now off to make some popcorn...
> He laid out some pretty shocking facts, like children as young as 12 take drugs. This made me absolutely convinced that we should not legalise drugs, except in the case where there legitimate medical uses.

I don't understand the logic that because children as young as 12 are able to obtain and take drugs, we should keep the drug policies under which that occurs in place.

As far as I'm aware, nobody serious is suggesting that 12 year olds should be allowed to buy or use drugs if they're legalized. Given that, the legalization question that matters is how we can do the best job of limiting the damage they do to 12 year olds through a combination of preventing them from acquiring drugs and regulating the drugs themselves, so that if they do get some drugs, those drugs don't contain a bunch of fentanyl.

I'm not going to say that legalizing drugs will certainly result in less harm, but I'm not writing it off as impossible, either. But to cite the fact that a bad thing is happening under your current harm mitigation strategy as a reason that we should absolutely keep that harm mitigation strategy seems like fundamentally flawed logic to me.
> Those criticisms are not about the technical capability of missile defenses, but the scale at which they are deployed.

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/disastrous-us-approach-stra...

https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-missile-defense/

https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/30/15713966/ballistic-missil...

https://www.extremetech.com/defense/182175-the-united-states...

https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2019/05/28/pentagon-hit...

https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2019/08/21/dod-tanks-re...

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2019-10/news/pentagon-seeks-...

https://missilethreat.csis.org/a-new-generation-of-homeland-...
Cool, thanks for posting this!
When your platform is the source of malware used in supply chain attacks you gotta expect the Feds are going to come knocking eventually.
https://medium.com/gethelm/how-helm-works-part-1-4cf68956dd2... is a really interesting setup - a modern DynDNS-reverse-proxy hybrid with no more ability to decrypt traffic than any other part of the routing infrastructure of the Internet.

Does anyone else offer something like this? I'd gladly pay for a cloud service that terminates SSL on a home server but otherwise handles keeping a stable IP for me, and proxies traffic to me in a way that is resilient to connection interruptions and IP address changes. This should be a software startup, though, not one whose market is only those people who would buy hardware from them.
It seems like I didn't quite get my point across, when I said reward, I meant Heaven, not economic compensation, I went into a little more Detail in my other answer in this Thread
Ask HN: How to Provide Value for Cloners?
My company's project (BrowserBox) consistently gets dozens of git clones per day. I've never adding tracking / analytics to my projects (because laziness, fear of doing it wrong and hurting users, and because it's a security / privacy product). Most of our revenue has come from organic inbound emails from people who have seen or heard of our work and needed to license it for their companies, but I think there's lots of opportunity to provide extra value for people who clone our repos.

Any ideas for how you would want to be treated, or what you would do to serve cloners better?
13 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1148425

10 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5546450

7 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11282788

6 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148007
For some reason, you forget the usual disclaimer "Ukraine says" and instead state it as a fact. It's hard to take them at face value similarly to their Russian counterparts. Also the "minor" claim is also maid by an interested party. If it was just a paint job, I think they would've preferred to simply stay silent on the matter. With available objective data we know that two explosions have happened on the ground level and that 2 launched Patriot missiles have failed, which is a fairly high value.
> The main advantage is in the tinygrad IR. It has 12 operations, all of which are ADD/MUL only. `x[3]` is supported, `x[y]` is not.

Can someone educate me why that is the case? Does `x[y]` require a Turing-complete kernel to compute?
>Despite reason being a metaphysical property of the training data, the process of optimisation means weights are metaphysically reasonless. Therefore, any output, as it is a product of the weights, is also reasonless.

This seems wrong. We know that neural networks with hidden layers can approximate any function with arbitrary precision (universal approximation theorem). We also know that transformer models are Turing complete. Therefore anything you can point to and say "that thing reasons" can be simulated by a neural network, not just in the weights, but in the structure of the computation. Unless you add an assumption that there is something ontologically special about brains and biology, the impossibility claim doesn't hold up.
Isn’t “connections” just another word for “networking”? If I’m an investor I want a warm introduction. There are enough scammers and fraudsters out there that a basic filter on “who can vouch for you” is important. Furthermore I like entrepreneurs that had a history in industry, working for other successful people and orgs, before they strike out on their own. That’s my personal preference. And it’s through that history that they make the connections and have people vouch for them.

It’s not some injustice that private firms raise money and then direct it to who they want. That’s just a mechanism for reducing risk in a game where everything is extraordinarily risky.
The fact that so many here on all sides seem to think that intentional massacres could possibly be happening on a weekly basis in America is a testament to the distortionary power of the media

Nobody is making that argument or getting confused by these numbers. The Edweek figures were linked by someone complaining about media influence.

"School shootings" in the sense of intentional mass murders are nearly nonexistent.

There are only a few such incidents each year but that is far from 'nearly nonexistent'. Perhaps you'd care to quantify what you consider to be the acceptable number of deaths from shooting sprees?
But can it be compressed with something like UPX?
Spreading the cost of each instance across everyone doesn’t make it more affordable, since the reduction in magnitude of harm from each instance is offset by a directly proportional increase in the frequency of instances each individual pays for.
As part of his coronation, the King has sworn an oath to uphold the Law and to respect the primacy of Parliament. Not appointing the PM and his government has serious consequences as the PM is the leader of Parliament, which is the institution that has actually restored monarchy after the Glorious Revolution and which actually bankrolls the armed forces, and which was ultimately elected according to the Law by the citizens.
Never forget it's just some person's opinion. You can accept or reject it.

I used to get a lot of negative feedback from my boss, every week it was something else. Turns out he was going through a bad period. I switched bosses and everything was fine. It sucks when it's your boss, but it's still only a personal opinion of one person.
Cool! I love that geonodes site. I like everything about your products especially how it looks! :)
Both sides of this argument are pointless. The questions to ask are, is and how is it useful?

For philosophical problems arise when language goes on holiday.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Disclosure: I run a commercial VPN service.

If all you need is to "change your IP" for some specific purpose, this and many other tutorials out there can accomplish this task for <$5/month. You are in complete control and have to trust no-one. However be aware of the following downsides:

1. You are mapping your traffic 1:1 to the VPN IP address, that you are the sole user of. This will do virtually nothing for pseudo-anonymity as your original ISP assigned IP will be quickly linked to your new VPN IP by every single shady data broker out there as you lose the benefit of "being lost in the crowd" when you share VPN exit IPs with hundreds/thousands of other people.

2. If you do anything shady that results in a LE subpoena or a DMCA, it's like you were not using a VPN at all. The cloud provider will hand over your details instantly.

3. Many sites block data-center ranges. You will not be able to use most streaming services, and random websites like Papa Johns, Home Depot, banks, gov websites, Ticketmaster, etc. Not all ASNs are banned, but many are. Commercial VPNs can (and do) re-route traffic using "residential looking" or actual residential IP addresses to combat this.

4. Performance MAY not be great. VPN providers do quite a bit of Linux kernel tuning in order to get high(er) throughput.

Depending on your use case, the above may not matter but if you plan to use this 24/7, be prepared to be annoyed.
I doubt they have even spent $5M on developing ROCm even though it's been a thing for nearly 10 years. AMD is just notoriously stingy about investing in things outside their core business.
> we know that two explosions have happened on the ground level

Site a source for that please.

Do you think that when you "down" a hypersonic missile the debris fall harmlessly to the ground or do they continue moving?
This sounds like a job ChatGPT would excel at :) I will leave actually doing so as an exercise for the reader.
They are probably just checking headers such as user agent and cookies. Would copy whatever your normal browser sends and put it in the urllib.request. If that doesn’t work, then it is likely more sophisticated.
If you talking of AMD SEV it's actually a useful technology. Confidential virtual machines not only protects you from possible spying on AWS or Azure, but also make it possible to have some decentralized / P2P compute more feasible.

Of course nothing is perfect and you can never have 100% trust to someone else hardware, but it's defenetely step in right direction.
One of my favorite ideas in Structure is Kuhn's observation that contradictory evidence seldom suffices to overturn a scientific theory. Contradictory evidence is the norm. What's required to overturn a scientific theory is both contradictory evidence and a better theory - and even then adoption is often grudging and uneven.

I've found that idea to be very valuable when navigating disagreements at work (and in life generally). Refutation is seldom constructive in isolation - you also need to bring a constructive alternative if you want to keep things moving forward.

I guess that sounds like common sense, but I'm surprised by how often people cleave to exclusively negative argumentation (particularly in political discussions).
substack is OK but not being able to post a picture of the cat on this is limiting
Had seen this one before. Not bad. Not so fond it was using Debian ss their base is much bigger than necessary.

They also have caddy-tailscale which directly connects a tailnet IP with Caddy as a proxy. The development has stalled as it seems, but works.
At least with barter exchange tends to happen in person so you can figure out if you're being scammed before you hand over your goods. Bitcoin gives you the worst of all worlds by making the exchange completely impersonal while lacking the ability to look your counter-party in the eye. The two are most decidedly not the same.
LTO is one of the best choices for compatibility. I remember just how awful DDS (same sort of media as DAT) tape backups were - due to differences in head alignments, it was a real lottery as to whether any given tape could be read on a different drive than the one that wrote it.
Whether or not the regulation goes anywhere, OpenAI keeps doing what they're doing, and they look good to politicians for being cooperative.
Until it’s standard practice by all companies to protect up under the guise of consumer protection with all closed sourced software.
> Maybe this is a joke, but it's the truth.

Not meant as a joke.

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

>Memetic warfare on the part of 4chan and r/The_Donald sub-reddit is widely credited with assisting Donald Trump in winning the election in an event they call 'The Great Meme War'. According to Ben Schreckinger, "a group of anonymous keyboard commandos conquered the internet for Donald Trump—and plans to deliver Europe to the far right."
> This is exactly the opposite of copyright as described in the What Colour Are Your Bits, essay.

Wait, what? "Colour of your bits" doesn't have anything to do with metaphysics. It's about provenance. The colour doesn't exist in the bits, but it exists in the casual history - the chain of events that led you to have a piece of copyrighted (or criminalized) data on your hard drive. You may argue that it's just a big integer, and it could've been produced by a random number generator. "Colour" encodes the response: "yes, it could have been produced by an RNG, but it wasn't - those particular bits on this particular machine came from some unauthorized download site".
Now only if they would support their hardware and Windows.
Why wouldn't AMD throw a few million at this? Worst case they lose a small amount of money, but best case they finally get good software for their hardware.

The past decade or so, they haven't been able to create any good software for their hardware. They made small improvements but the competition, Nvidia, has also made improvements to their already good software.

It too the point where their software is the reason why most people/companies don't use their products. Their drivers for their customer products are just as bad.

They are very competitive in hardware, but Nvidia dominates them at software which make companies buy Nvidia. No one wants to deal with the pain of AMD software.

AMD is a better company to work with than Nvidia, but it not worth it when it comes to dealing with their software lol.