skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lol look up Dutch gas fields.
> I always put "rationalist" in quotes when referring to this group of people, because based on the things these people believe

I always found it amusing that Roko's Basilisk[1], which was incepted in the LessWrong forum, was just a roundabout way of adding eternal damnation of your "soul" (or rather, the recreation of your consciousness) to the already hilariously pseudo-religious way of treating a potential AGI.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko%27s_basilisk

(I know that Roko's Balisisk was not widely accepted and I don't want to paint all LessWrong users with the same brush here, but I still think it's a quaint example of where supposed "rationality" can take you.)
for context here, phosphorus is the 11th most common element in the earth's crust https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth... making up 0.1% of the crust. phosphorus and oxygen be sittin' in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g, so virtually all of it is in the form of phosphate (PO₄), which is 33% phosphorus by mass, so the earth's crust is about 0.3% phosphate. the most common phosphate is apatite, which is ubiquitous in igneous and metamorphic rocks. you can find phosphate literally anywhere on earth; there is no danger of any country monopolizing world phosphate supplies

if the crust is 3 × 10¹⁹ tonnes then phosphate is about 10¹⁷ tonnes of it, and phosphate rock a slightly larger amount

this article says the humans use 50 million tonnes of phosphate a year, much of which ends up in the oceans. at this rate, in 18 million years, the humans will have consumed 0.001% of the phosphate in the crust

but being able to find phosphate isn't the same thing as being able to mine it profitably, because, thanks to modern shipping, another phosphate miner halfway around the world can sell phosphate to your local customers at almost the same price they can sell it to their own neighbors. if they are working from more concentrated phosphate deposits, their price will be lower, and you'll lay off the miners and declare bankruptcy

so what's going on here is that local mining companies are fishing for government subsidies with rhetoric about sovereignty based on a completely imaginary phosphate shortage crisis

i'm not a hard rock mining engineer, just interested in questions of natural resources
Thing is, these were intentionally created as experiments with the expectation that they would be eventually shut down, with whatever learnings integrated into the mainline apps.

Since about 2017-18 there has been a unit at Facebook called NPE, New Product Experimentation, tasked with producing these.
Celsius = Kelvin + offset in any case, they're not so different .. not like that other scale used in very few countries.
Generally apple picks the optimal ppi and they don’t market the ppi value, only that it’s “retina”. They will prefer odd resolutions over suboptimal ppi. For example, the m2 macbook air is 2560 by 1664 at 224 ppi. The maximum ppi you can get on an iphone is 460 ppi, so I assume in their testing they found that even people with perfect vision holding it really close had no use for sharper screens than that.
Payment processors are not a natural monopoly, especially not online ones
Just because something is popular doesn't mean it's good. Tobacco smoking is also popular.
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> Company A is 6 days away from going out of business. They will shut their doors. All employees will lose their jobs. All customers will lose access to whatever Company A does that they find helpful.

If Company A was providing a service that people found helpful, someone else who is more competent at running a business will step in to fill that need. Employees will flock to the new better run business or move to some other better run business.

When new companies have to step up to provide popular goods and services that were previously being provided by failing, poorly run companies, it results in innovations and new ways of doing things instead of just letting bloated industry giants continue to be propped up artificially by restricting consumer choice.

Having more players in a market also increases resiliency and improves stability. If one company runs into problems, the others in that space can pick up the slack. No more "Too Big to Fail".
Reminds me of the old saying

"A computer is a device that moves data around and occasionally does computations with it."

think network/disk -> RAM -> L3 -> L2 -> L1 -> registers
Quantum computers make it practical for us to solve problems at much faster speeds, but at what cost? Quantum computers change the quantum state of particles in parallel universes, and likewise quantum computers in other universes change the quantum state of particles in our Universe. What is the effect of this? We should expect to see random otherwise unexplainable changes, and that’s exactly what we’ve seen over the last 10 years, it’s called the “Mandela Effect.”

But despite the name referring to an important historic figure most “mandela effects” are tiny almost insignificant changes such as the spelling of The Bernstein Bears or the presence of a Cornucopia in Fruit of the Loom logo, the kind of thing that quantum changes could alter. I realize this is probably too far out there for most Hacker News readers and I’ll get down-voted for it, but I believe there may be a real danger here, and it’s something we need to watch out for as we develop quantum computers further. If we don’t take the threat seriously the Universe we live in now may become different from the one we remember, and we will need to provide safe-guards to retain the consistency of our Universe.
Maybe some sites allow search engines to bypass paywalls so the full content gets indexed, and the plugin appears to be a whitelisted search engine to these sites?
I would expect ROCm to work just fine with with Steam Deck. Given that the Steam Deck apparently uses gfx1033. So you probably need to specify the environment variable HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=10.3.0 and corresponding gfx1030_20.ukdb miopen kernel. I do not own a Steam Deck, but I do have another RDNA2 card, an RX 6700XT, which uses the similar gfx1031 ISA, which works just fine. While I don't have a RX 570, I do have a RX 480 which is also gfx803 like your RX 570 which should technically work, however don't expect much in performance or capability, as most work loads expect more than your 4GB of vram and much more compute power. You will also would need to use older versions of ROCm as well as these older cards are deprecated; I think I had to use ROCm <=4.3.1 if I remember correctly. What did you want to run specifically?
I think the difference is that the stolen texture case is pretty cut and dry, right? If someone makes a complaint to valve that a game they're distributing has stolen textures, it's relatively easy for them to deal with it. Since AI generated content is in such a gray legal area now, I imagine it'd be impossible to deal with complaints about it, and they probably don't want to put themselves in a situation where they'd have to be the arbiter of that.
It’s also impossible for the customer to measure accurately the service that is provided. Siri also cannot write a simple SMS anymore. It’s like Amazon’s SKUs: At the beginning the product is great, then it’s replaced with a lesser version.
They could just not do it. Spend your time more wisely. If you git commit, you've lost your leverage. Don't go write a labor politics blog post about how you're enslaved for writing C for free.
There's nothing wrong with the std::regex design as it is the standard.

std::regex only sucks because the developers of gcc and clang never bothered to optimize it. (Too much work and they have other stuff to worry about.)
Be very careful about how you ask questions because some forms of question solicit "approval" answers. It's culturally informed, some cultures try very very hard NOT to have to deliver a negative.

This is one of those things that Steve Blank tries to address with the "Million dollar question." He suggests something like this (paraphrased from memory)

1. Ask your prospect (this assumes you've identified a prospect and gotten in the room, or at least on a call, with them) "If this product were available today and I offered it to you for free, would you start the process of deploying and roll it out immediately?"

If the answer is "no" then you clearly have bigger issues to deal with, considering you're offering the product for free. At this point you have to dig in and find out why. Maybe it's the case that while the current need is valid, there are simply higher priorities for the customer right now. In which case, your only issue is timing. But you may keep digging and find that there's something else. Anyway, repeat this with a few prospects, and you should start to converge on a valid understanding.

2. If the answer to question 1 was "Yes" (and I mean a solid "yes" not a bunch of hemming and hawing) then you next ask "OK, what if I charged you a million dollars for the product?"

Now... if the answer is still "yes", well, in that case you better have a purchase order ready to drop on your customer's desk Right Now. You've won, there's nothing left to do. Well, except for actually delivering the product, and successfully deploying, and integrating it, training users, creating value, etc. But in terms of sales, that would be the "Holy Shit" moment.

Probably not gonna happen though. Probably they'll start hemming and hawing and going "Well, uh... I mean, I dunno, a million dollars is a lot of money...", etc. That's OK. That's not a "no", it just means you now have an idea that the value your product represents to a customer is somewhere between 0 and a million dollars. If you find yourself in this situation, the (huge) body of material out there on sales, pricing and negotiation comes into play. But assuming you can get your customer to a "yes" at a number that would be profitable for you, then you now know that you have a product that can be sold to at least one customer for a profitable price. If you get this far, you're in pretty good shape. If the product actually exists, go ahead and sell it. Use the money to fund further exploration. Keep iterating. If it doesn't exist yet, promise the customer you'll let them know as soon as it's ready and keep iterating. Asking for a non-binding letter of intent to purchase might be useful if you're going to seek external funding.
yup powerfull open source model + embeddings + in context learning is the way hopefully.
> Release of this information has had a disastrous effect on worldwide eradication of infectious diseases, especially polio.

The people who think this are the same people who still wear covid masks while walking the dog
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> What is (not at all)OpenAI going to do?

The limiter right now is compute.

If we get to what you’re saying, OpenAI will be developing multi-model models with increasingly large d_model and n_ctx to do a better job of analyzing those images/sounds/videos.

People think ChatGPT is magic now, wait until you can input a picture, sound, and/or video as a prompt…

Don’t fall into the “Information Superhighway” trap of thinking the year 2 form is the final form.
Well a “20000 dollar calculator” is something QC can only dream of
I'd add that there are more user cohorts than you describe. There are the scrollers that just want a constantly changing feed to "engage" with (typically though not always, showing little discretion about whom they follow), there are the "industrial producers" (whether corporates or individuals) who want the world to benefit from their wisdom (showing little to no discretion about who follows them - the more the merrier), and there are the "communitarians", who want to actively engage with a more narrowly defined set of the tribes they are members of (showing greater discretion in their social graph, and also taking part in providing tribe-relevant content).

Of the three cohorots, the latter is by far the smallest (my own guess), and these are definitely (from my experience) finding homes on Mastodon (tribe-specific servers).
I think the point was that it's just "Kelvin" not "degrees Kelvin"
There are two sites that can get around most 'paywall' or 'no adblock' sites.

The main one for most US/UK sites is 'archive.today webpage capture' at

https://archive.is/

that one gives out a URL of https://archive.is/aDWkh for the 'gravity-hole' article.

Another site to try is '12-ft Ladder' - that also worked for me

https://12ft.io/

I keep bookmarks for both these site on my bookmarks bar. If I hit a 'paywall' site, I open up a tab with one of the sites, then I cut'n'paste the offending URLs of paywall sites into the address fields.
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This is for the single image self-hosted setup method, which is still in beta. The current supported self-hosted setup is a script that creates a bunch of individual containers for the different services.
True, on their own those numbers are not that impressive. To give some more context: That load is average, there are bursts. I use ATOMIC_REQUESTS=True which ties the transaction to the Django POST request. Given that it's quite easy to run into N+1 queries using the ORM, I somehow expected to see "database is locked" issue more often.
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if you'd prefer to use one of the contemporary alternative systems that unix and c outcompeted, well, some of them do survive, and in many cases you can run them on emulators

mit's its for the pdp-10 (runs in opensimh), ibm's mvs for the s/370 (runs in hercules), smalltalk-80, cp/m-80 with turbo pascal (since you wouldn't want to use bds c), openvms with bliss or pascal, f-83 or other forths, gw-basic — there are lots of options available, and some of them are even free software

there are also more recent alternatives (menuet, templeos with holy-c, reactos, symbian, oberon, risc os, symphonyos, xen, genode, sel4)

nowadays you can run any of these in emulation, you can run them even faster on a softcore in an fpga, and

i think that if you try some of these alternative systems you will come to understand that although most of these systems were superior to unix and c in some way, overall unix and c were part of the solution, not part of the problem

of course, we know a lot of things now that we didn't know 50 years ago when c was born, and one of c's original designers demonstrated how he would redesign c knowing what he knows now; the result was golang
> propaganda tool for one of the 2 political flavors in the US

I'm not American, but that doesn't reflect what I was seeing on Twitter before I closed my account (mid/late 2020).

I'm surprised to see a crowd that is supposed to see through the BS of the industry falling for Musk's neutrality and anti-censorship claims... https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2023/5/2/twitter-fulfillin...
The claim that scale makes support impossible is ridiculous. Just make support a paid service and it'll easily pay for itself and scale proportionally. The will is simply not there
https://techpays.eu is your friend.
In the immortal words of Michael Bluth, a poor carpenter blames his shoddy tools.
Also makes verification mean a lot more
I found the opposite, actually. All of ChatGPT queries that were "enhanced" by web search were invariably worse than without. Usually it gave up. Sometimes it clicked on ads. I don't think I ever asked anything that was enhanced by the web access.
TL;DR Using a slow thing is fine if you use it in conjunction with an even slower thing.
I didn’t pick that up, but I suppose that’s fair. I’ve heard both, as I have with Celsius.
Yes, it's a sarcastic "have".
Just for the record: Hinton was a Lisp user at some point in time. 1984 he got a Symbolics 3600. LeCun co-wrote Lush, a specialized Lisp for numerical computing. https://lush.sourceforge.net
I keep on getting calls for fundraisers by robots. When I ask to talk to a human the woman says 'oh it's a real human here'.

I'll bash the numbers to check if next time I get a human.
We use matterbridge to bridge IRC to matrix at https://tetaneutral.net

https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge
That is a relatively recent change.
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I'm curious - where have you been finding these thriving communities? Every year or so I try looking for something that feels like the web of the IRC / indie internet forums era, but never have any luck
Ah that mythical "quality LED lighting".

Anecdotally I saw the switch from normal bulbs to LEDs in my life and the lights break for me about as often. (One light broke in past month, still too lazy to buy a replacement.)

So how much more do I need to pay for 90% more efficient LED light that delivers on its "works forever" promise compared to a regular bulb? Also doesn't have flicker?

By the way, how dirty is its manufacturing compared to regular bulb?
Check out programs and communities of practice in the field of “learning engineering.” Strong attention to controlled experiments, data mining, human-centered design, among other things. Carnegie Mellon is one center.
Maybe https://www.npmjs.com/package/better-sqlite3? Hide concurrency issues by blocking!?
The bad news is that WIN32_EXTRA_LEAN has no effect, you have to define VC_EXTRALEAN if you want to exclude extra stuff from the MFC and VC headers.

The good news is also that it has no effect. :)

You can verify this for yourself by grepping the Visual Studio headers for VC_EXTRALEAN and WIN32_EXTRA_LEAN.
Japan-backed fund to buy semiconductor firm JSR for $6.3B
Yeah, I'll add DC later today. It's not much work.
The new Threads app is clearly not an update of their dead photo focused messaging app. I doubt any code was reused at all.
The end of the old Threads was such a blow to me, it was the perfect Digital Minimalism app for using Instagram's DMs to stay in touch with a circle of college friends.
> Imagine if signing up for a @gmail.com email meant that you can't send or receive emails from @outlook.com

This already happens for certain addresses / domains / source ranges. Although most of the time it's some big email provider ignoring a small one.
What do you see as the irony?
Threads, Meta's Twitter clone: interact on the Fediverse, like Mastodon
Salt is about a third the cost. You can get a 1 ton pallet of salt, processed, bagged up and delivered to a business for far less than $600. It is amazing to see in action.
I think, it's complicated. As I see it, Xerox tried to follow through on the paperless office vision, but it was either too early from a technological/price/scale perspective, and/or the organizational challenges and requirements for any adopters of such a complex system were too great and it was too early for these to be tackled in all seriousness (even Steve Jobs got just half the message), and/or it was already too late, as alternatives that required much less adjustments and promised better scalability (in adoption/deployment as well as in production) were already on the market, and these had also far less development costs to cope with. From this perspective, the Star was doomed from the beginning, nevertheless it was still an important and remarkable project. — Maybe, Xerox could have tried more intensely, maybe they could have been more interested, but I'm not sure, if it would have made much of a difference. (However, people like Larry Tesler switching to Apple, illustrates that there may have been also a systemic problem. In contrast to you, I wasn't there, and I haven't witnessed the frustration.)

Having said that, I'm definitely ordering your book (probably today)! :-)

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Edit:

Regarding the appearance of the IBM's PC in the article, "IBM ignoring the personal computer revolution" is much a popular myth, as is the IBM PC coming out of nowhere. In actuality, IBM had several projects over the 1970s, like Yellow Bird, Aquarius (both home computers, also under the lead of Bill Lowe), the latter, which would have included an app-store-like ecosystem of software on bubble memory cards, evolved to fully functional production prototypes, but was canceled last-minute in the meeting where it should have been finally approved over concerns regarding the reliability of bubble memory. Various other PC prototypes were designed at Eliot Noyes Associates. None of these internal projects succeeded. By this, the frustration had apparently grown to the extent that there had been deliberations of acquiring Atari's computer devision instead (at least, there were design prototypes for this.) Project Chess (IBM 1550) was just the final step in this process, which must have come with its own frustrations.

IBM Yellow Bird (1976) and IBM Aquarius (1977) home computer prototypes: https://images.app.goo.gl/JH9JLUrjHbUSfeQu7

IBM "Atari PC" design prototype (1979): https://images.app.goo.gl/Efh6kusDYboytWJ18

Eliot Noyes Associates PC prototype (1977): https://web.archive.org/web/20161025155337/http://danformosa...

(Images of Yellow Bird, Aquarius, and the "Atari PC" from “Delete.” by Paul Atkinson, where there's more of their story.)

The "birth of the personal computer" was not an easy one… even Apple failed with their more up-to-business Apple III…
Thank you for the summary, my ChatGPT powered friend.
Do you mean at the type level or also for the operational semantics? In the latter case it's undecidable.

Also, you mentioned matrices in the previous comment, but multiplication between matrices is not commutative.
I can tell just by the name alone that this is going to flop pretty hard.