skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“consumer ISPs generally don't have great routes between them” is the way more important part.

An eyeball network will generally have considerably more, and considerably higher bandwidth, peering relationships with content provider networks than with other eyeball networks.

At AVStack we experimented quite a bit with P2P multiparty video calls, it’s certainly possible but as you scale up the number of participants there’s huge variance in quality depending on the combination of ISPs used by the participants, the time of day, network conditions etc.
Ammonia based fuels are only pushed by people who don’t have to work with ammonia. It’s being pushed for ships. If anyone is insane enough to try it, there will be a lot of blood on their hands after the first accident.

That biofuels have costs that concern people is letting perfect be the enemy of the good. Any of the synthetic fuels or hydrogen options require an incredible amount of energy. Energy that could have been available to decarbonize the grid, or energy that could have been used for making clean water or any other pressing issues. The thing is, those costs are more hidden.
Do what you will. Just be careful taking philosophy lessons taught by a robot.
Is this comment from 2015? AWS just had a $20B quarter.
If you look at the post, you'll notice that there is no reference to profit or money. I think that is the lens you are looking at it through.

You can build something that is good for the planet, but if nobody wants it, can it make an impact?
Why Does Stanford Have Speech Police?
Depends on the threads, it's certainly not like 4chan or /r/thedonald or something, but yeah some threads are more right wing, which I don't read. I usually read the other ones.
1) build a clone of old.reddit.com with the better features of RES baked in

2) scrape the original reddit

3) using the data, fine tune a LLM to reproduce the type of content posted on the top subreddits (fake it till you make it)

4) launch multiple agents using the LLM to generate the content and interact with each other, in order to make the site feel alive

5) put ads for the Reddit competitor on HN, Twitter, popular forums and Reddit.

6) eventually start to turn off the agents.
Universities, especially the more prestigious ones, have been trending towards aggressively simplistic labeling of complex social issues. While their stated goal is to protect minorities, the oversimplification increases polarization and division. These doctrines in fact harm the minorities that they were intended to help, by forcing people to choose a side. Plus, they focus too much on the negatives, when we need more positive, meaningful, constructive discourse.
He should have known he was going down a dangerous path doing what he did, but it was bound to happen somewhere. Someone has to die on this hill. Now let's see if the courts are going to stick to the letter of the law or succumb to culture war pressures like so many other institutions have done
This is very tangentially related, some comments here made me think of this:

What happened to the DDoS Open Threat Signaling (RFC 8811) protocol? Do any of the many service providers, most of which include some sort of DDoS protection, use this system at all?

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8811
> there are no physical or info-theoretical limits that superhuman intelligence must require a megawatt-sized compute cluster and all the data on the internet (which obviously no human could ever see).

Much of your "intelligence" is a function of natural selection. This is billions of years X bajillions of creatures in parallel, each processing tons of data at a crazy fast sampling rate in an insanely large/expensive environment (the real world). Humanity's algorithm is evolution moreso than the brain. Humans learn for a little while, start unlearning, and then die — which is an important inner for loop in the overall learning process.

Taken together, there is some evidence to suggest that superhuman intelligence must require megawatt-sized compute cluster and all the data on the internet (and a lot... LOT more)
Of course it's fashion. It's pretty and doesn't hurt anyone. Just select apps with thr keyboard
Not sure about open-source licenses specifically, but as for Ship of Theseus, _bits have color_. One sequence of bits may be a license violation, and the exact sequence of bits obtained through different means may be not a license violation.

See https://ansuz.sooke.bc.ca/entry/23 and discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24917679 and older
What if the family member is looking for their first job and is well trained?
Let's unwrap this.

It seems pretty uncontroversial that Kaczynski has participated in series of psychological experiments by Henry Murray. Do you accept this fact?

It seems to be well supported via anecdotal evidence that these experiments were quite brutal and stressful, one might even call them torture. Do you agree with this?

We know that the psychologist in question (Henry Murray) was associated with the Office of Strategic Services. Are you with me on this?

We know that the Office of Strategic Services is the predecessor of the CIA.

So what we know is that we have a researcher in the orbit of OSS/CIA who conducted brutal experiments on Kaczynski. So that is the connection you are looking for.

We do not know if these experiments were part of the CIA program running under the codename MKUltra, or if they were part of some other CIA supported program under some other codename.

> The most I can find are claims that some records were destroyed, so we won't know.

You are making it sound like mice got to archived papers or the ink faded. But that is not the case. The CIA director ordered all documentation regarding MKUltra to be destroyed in 1973. That is it. Those papers would have told us for certain what is the truth. They made sure they are destroyed.

As you say the fact that the documents were destroyed doesn't prove that Henry Murray's experiments were CIA backed. That would be crazy speak.

But it is also not entirely fair to say that there is no connection whatsoever. In the absence of hard evidence we won't ever know for certain, but we can make reasonable inferences.

If you disagree with anything I wrote in the above please be specific which part of it do you disagree with.
Said MUMPS programmer from the last link here.

I kept working with MUMPS, although it became much more Caché ObjectScript over the years, until this March.

I’ve moved on to doing other things now, but I can see myself absolutely going back to it. But not until I’m much older.

It’s cozy, it’s comfortable and it does so many complicated things just more easily than so many other programming environments. The only thing I won’t miss is the complete lack of strict typing, a charge that can be laid on many other programming languages too.
I'm not sure what the track record for FSD is so far but Autopilot's isn't great and inspires little confidence: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-a...

17 fatalities, 736 crashes.
Maven POM dependencies act as version pins, until you run versions:resolve-ranges to bump them. The only exceptions would be using a SNAPSHOT version (where each build gets a timestamp and is only cached briefly) or your Maven repo admin replaces the contents of a pre-existing artifact (and you'll see a lot of cached checksum warnings about it).
Singapore is the model system but it’s a hard sell here. The delusion that the modern Western way is the best is very deeply engrained here. People have completely internalized the rottenness of it and have deluded themselves into believing it’s a virtue.
Because not everything that's useful is layman-understandable.
> Let's be honest, it's far from factual that dense housing is problematic in any way

Densificatoin causes enshittification spiral. Each successive generation lives in worse conditions. This is an inherent property of densification.

> The sewer and water system to your house is subsidized.

It isn't. I'm paying for it from my taxes (that's why in Seattle my water is more costly than in the middle of a freaking desert).

> Snow removal from your cul-de-sac is subsidized.

It isn't. I'm responsible for keeping it clean, and I was once fined when I failed to do that.

> Many people enjoy living in a dense environment

The vast majority of people want to live in single family houses (90% or so - https://www.redfin.com/news/millennial-homebuyers-prefer-sin... ). They simply can't afford that. And of course, the psychological defense mechanism is: "I never wanted it anyway".
Agreed. Better response than normal. Also gives them an avenue to see how many have been actively used? Maybe that's just me.
This sounds remarkably like how I clean even though I mentally model it very differently. For me it’s “linear mode”: I start in one place and move til I’ve reached all targets, only moving when I’m done where I started or to put like things in their designated staging. It only trips me up when my staging categories don’t line up with reality, and then I just recategorize with a hard “snap decisions or no decisions” limit.
Google services work perfectly for me.

I think the users of this website just really like to repeat anything that fits the "Google bad" narrative, and if you don't have interactions with people outside of the bubble, it seems like Google services are on fire and practically unusable, but in reality it's fine for 99% of people.
from what I have been able to determine, this does not seem to be true—people who die from multiple self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head seem to be quite few and far between.
Twitter is refusing to pay its Google Cloud bills- Platformer
I have a several copies of Windows 98 running on emulators.

The quality of life is not that different from a modern OS. I wouldn’t call it dramatically improved. The paradigms have just changed, and not even that drastically. Business tasks are particularly similar. Certain tasks are actually easier on something like Excel 97 than they are on Excel 2021. Applications actually adhered to human interface guidelines.
Do you consider it ethical?
What you want is called a horse!
Profit is a very clear feedback loop. You go broke or you don’t. In that sense, it keeps you honest. There are pathologies of profit, such as building something people want, which is bad for them. Hello Big Food and Addictive social media.

But there are pathologies for these abstract ideals you mention too. Namely that they are hard to measure and therefore attract bullshit artists. They make it easy to fool yourself and others.

The best thing is to solve a real problem others have, thereby doing good, and to do so in a self-sustaining way, which is also called profit.
> Additionally, if you are not using a car for commute, you're likely to be in the lower tax brackets and thus not paying (much) in taxes anyway.

To the contrary, those in the highest income brackets are the ones most likely to walk to work,[1] and also the most likely to be paying more in taxes.

1. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0739456X18796652 page 9, figure 'Work Trip Walking by Income and Density'
Preparing for the Future
Safety features cost money; it doesn’t bother me for them to be optional, especially since the alternative for novel ones is more likely “not offered” or “everyone is forced to buy them” rather than “given away for no charge”.
> You don't know much about Martin Luther King, do you?
> And he opens your eyes about edge cases and the victims of this thinking in ways even heavyweights like Nassim Taleb will seem like a rookies in comparison.

Nassim Taleb is not a heavyweight by any stretch.
Do you consider “greybeard” to be a derogatory stereotype? I sure don’t..
> Have any of you checked out / made offers on music production subreddits? Or other music subreddits? various music production discords? Elsewhere on the internet?

When it's 3 am on a Saturday and I'm in the zone on a passion project, I'm not about to spend the rest of the weekend going back and forth with a music guy on Reddit.

I want a music robot that cranks out music on demand and responds to my every whim, and a real human being isn't going to want to fill that role no matter how impoverished they are.
It will be poetic justice if the marketing department is the first thing at Tesla to be completely automated.
A guy with a history of bombing buildings has more bombs at his house and you say it's not demonstrative of future bombings?

I don't see it, man, I think you just want to go against the grain, here.

Explain yourself.
Most people trust their families more than their work acquaintances. Still, the family member must have more than trust, to do a good job in a skilled profession.

Proof? I'm not going to spend the effort to cite data here, since we have no prior relationship.
An analysis of car ownership in NYC by neighborhood and income
You seem to be arguing against a fast takeoff, which I happen to agree is unlikely, but nothing you say here disproves the possibility of a slower takeoff over multiple years.

> It also means that a super intelligent AI has disincentives to build better AIs.

I think this argument is extremely weak. It makes two obviously fallacious assumptions:

First, we simply have no idea how these new minds will opine on theory of mind questions like the Ship of Theseus. There are humans who would think that booting up a “Me++” mind and turning themselves off would not mean they are dying. So obviously some potential AI minds wouldn’t care either. Whether specific future minds care is a question of facts but you cannot somehow logically disapprove either possible state.

Second, you are assuming that there is no “online upgrade” whereby an AGI takes a small part of itself offline without ceasing its thread of consciousness. Again, logic cannot disprove this possibility ahead of time.
So I take it the context is that SO is restricting the moderation of ChatGPT, et alia, generated answers. Also, to a lesser extent, SO has stopped the the Internet Archive data dump because they don't want it to be used by ChatGPT, et alia. It kind of feels like they're approaching the problem from the wrong end.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389811/moderation-s...

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/389922/june-2023-da...
“Statin Island” is funnier than perhaps you realize!
> We are planning to spend something like $3B/mile to expand a single train line a few stops further north.

> The MTA estimates they can put in platform doors like other developed world cities in only 1/3 of stations, at an average cost of $50M/station.

> We spent something close to $10B building an entire new terminal for LIRR

I'd love to see the itemized bills that add up to these values. We all know this isn't what labor and materials cost. Defenders will say "oh, it pays for environmental studies, and lawyers, and consultants..." OK, itemize those too. Let everyone see the numbers for everything and that it adds up to $10B without $7B mysteriously disappearing, un-accounted for.
I think there's a distinction to be made. The powerful to exert their power without making public noise are probably more likely to get away with it. But the ones who proudly (stupidly?) publicly proclaim their misbehavior tend to fare less well.

There's a very high profile example of this right now in the US, and I suspect it will demonstrate the difference between silent abuse of power vs overt public abuse of it.
Technically, they do both. Very confusing.
No. We need to government that government does not harass people for doing totally legal things and punishes actual decision makers criminally when they do.
The core of the MO issues seem to be related to the change of licence to prevent free use by openai etc when training llms?

Considering the value they draw from the overflow communities, and thy threat they do provide (I've stopped using SO...) I do understand their reasoning.
The original comment speaks of knowing someone killed by Kaczynski. I never said anything concerning the number of his maiming victims or potential victims.
I am not entirely sure that HAMR will be too different from CMR/PMR drives. The premise of HAMR is that they heat the area under the head, expanding it, for reads and writes, and otherwise they are essentially CMR devices. This isn't like SMR, which had huge implications for drivers (due to the overlap in the bit lines). There must be a significant durability cost to HAMR, but I don't think the difference in drivers will be nearly as big for HAMR as it was for SMR.
The fans in a max studio never actually turn off… they’re just really really quiet, and I’ve never managed to actually make the fans come off idle, even maxing out all cores.
Sometimes I'll type something correct, hit send, and it'll autocorrect the correct word to an incorrect word, e.g. "ant mode" to "any more", AFTER I've hit the send button
Violent crime might be rare, but unpleasant interactions with strangers are common.

Panhandling, for example, can make people feel unsafe. You can never be sure how a person will react if you say no. It's illegal to panhandle on the subway, but still happens all the time.
"Testing" has the problem where security patches also get delayed, so it ends up less secure than unstable or stable (!). Unstable isn't that bad IMHO, stable+backports also works.
Safety features also save money, though? Through the safety. Makes sense that we could mandate they exist.
Yeah, CF has made Firefox horrible. :(
All major creators are uploading YT shorts also now.

How’s the mechanics for it? Have you considered starting from there?
So can my old 14" RTX 2060 laptop, on a 4K TV.

I have seen the demos, but I am skeptical of the actual practicality or value proposition until a 3rd party publishes some frametime benchmarks, and games out in the wild get battle tested.
You're not telling me anything .. you're just ranting a bunch of gibberish.

Calm down.
There are two full time moderators, who, as I understand it, have professional backgrounds and are paid accordingly.

And I’d say HN was exceedingly lucky find these excellent moderators. Not sure you could replicate that success no matter how much cash you had to burn.
> Each increase in intelligence capability requires substantially more resources (Computing power, training data, electricity, hardware, time, etc). Being smart doesn’t just directly result in these becoming available with no limit. Any significant attempts to increase the availability of these to a level that mattered would almost certainly draw attention.

We know that "intelligence" can devise software optimizations and higher efficiency computing hardware, because humans do it.

Now suppose we had machines that could do it. Not any better, just the same. But for $10,000 in computing resources per year instead of $200,000 in salary and benefits. Then we would expect 20 years worth of progress in one year, wouldn't we? Spend the same money and get 20x more advancement.

Or we could say 20 months worth of advancement in one month.

With the current human efforts we've been getting about double the computing power every 18 months, and the most recent ones come in terms of performance per watt, so then that would double in less than a month.

For the first month.

After which we'd have computers with twice the performance per watt, so it would double in less than two weeks.

You're quickly going to hit real bottlenecks. Maybe shortly after this happens we can devise hardware which is twice as fast as the hardware we had one second ago every second, but we can't manufacture it that fast.

With a true exponential curve you would have a singularity. Put that aside. What happens if we "only" get a thousands years worth of advancement in one year?
$4k will buy you a hell of a lot of troubleshooting time before "same-day service" actually wins out.
There is a good talk about switching from Python to Elixir for a ML stack from ElixirCon 2022.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2Nr4dNu6hI
I mean, you are not really wrong, but I disagree doubles may be "preferable". It's like using integers for telephone numbers, which may work for many (or depending countries, most) inputs and you can justify that, but I would never accept it.
> I would appreciate "automated rumble strips" that warns me gently if I veer out of my lane.

Lane departure warning systems do exactly that. My mazda does this and basically between smart cruise, lane departure warnings, and big old alarms when someone in front of me suddenly hits the break, driving is SO MUCH MENTALLY EASIER. And don't get me started about blindspot alerts and HUDs oh man so amaze.

I still think Level 2 assist is worse than no assist. But level 1 assist is fucking amazing.

I agree about the parking thing. Its such a novelty thing like "hey hey hey bro check it out" and press a button. "ooooh! Aaaaah" meanwhile I can do the same maneuver in say 10 seconds flat since I've been doing it so long. Honestly maybe in 10 years the feature will be so smooth people will question how to even park without it, like rear cameras.
Maybe instead of arguing about land use we can just agree to build generation where it makes the most sense (the empty and consistently sun soaked desert) and just focus on building transmission.
I was going to say! The US is infamous for treating corporations with kid gloves and letting them basically get away with whatever they do. If there is a place in "The West" that's going to regulate AI, it's not going to be the US.
> Because if inferences and deduction where enough people wouldn’t bother with experiments.

Yet humans do, well beyond experimental evidence. Notably theoretical insert science. This is not directly relevant, but interesting to think about. I really appreciated Feynman's distinction between Physics and Mathematics.

We don't know if humans become addicted to alcohol due to ingestion or genetic predisposition, as it could be invisible fairies that live in the subatomic spaces of alcohol picking their favorites.

Suffice to say, what you and I are arguing for is no more truth than any other model of reality that provides the same answers. I don't see why requiring more specific experimental evidence is more scientific.
First, thanks for being an asshole. Second, the product has been released, I did not engineer it, and people online are arguing about it. I’m interested in whether the criticism I’m seeing is valid. Is your idea that anyone who claims something is unsafe, for any reason, should be immediately trusted? If not, how do we have such a discussion? How do we weed out poor arguments? I gave a first-principles argument for why the system might be about as safe as a commonly accepted feature, and also mentioned corroborating evidence of it’s safety. You are welcome to disagree with it, but so far, like most people, you’ve just come in hotheaded and not provided any substantive argument.
This is exactly why I went from a monster PC rig to a Mac Studio. Just got tired of random components dying every year or so.
Why does this article have a photo of a random woman? It's not the VP, it's not the author and it's rather unlikely that it's the VP's lawyer.
This entire post is one giant projection.

There used to be a time when discussing politics/sexuality/religion at work was basically taboo. Now it's encouraged and companies use it as a marketing tactic. At my work's yearly gathering last year, one of our VPs said his team are actively working to hire people that aren't white or male. He said that with 100% seriousness. Replace that with any other race/gender and they'd most likely be terminated within the week.

I don't care what people call themselves/who they sleep with, it's not my business. But to expect everyone to be just fine and dandy with all of this stuff now being encouraged/forced (especially when it's occurred in such a short timespan) is ludicrous.