skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right that’s what I’m saying. It’s not the drug it’s the user and dosage. Fentanyl is administered during labor at hospitals but it’s obviously a huge problem in Portland and elsewhere. It’s not the cannabis that’s the problem, it’s the dosage and situational usage.
Language models make nothing but fake news.
Yup. I live in Oak Park. Our teachers are in high tax brackets even in the US.
Incorrect, we have plenty of uranium both terrestrially and through seawater extraction: https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2016/07/01/uranium-s...

Sure seawater extraction is more expensive. But procuring raw uranium is a tiny fraction of nuclear's cost. You'll see statistics saying nuclear fuel is a significant cost, but most of that expense is from enrichment not extracting raw uranium.
Aim wget at The-Eye.eu, figure out how to get hold of complete snapshots of Library Genesis and sci-hub, scrape everything from HN to Stack Overflow to zombo.com, and invent a distributed training implementation that we can all sign up for and contribute to, a la Folding@home and SETI@home.

Nothing else will get those patronizing asshats at OpenAI(sic) out of the way of progress. Either we control our models, or they control us.
Are there any articles describing how GPT-4 without guardrails is different than the public version? I would be super interested in what the model’s actual “most probable next token” looks like.
> was there any point besides you feeling superior to other

If you don't like that as a motivation, I have some bad news for you about 99% of the entire edifice of human history...
I had a crappy college dorm with morning birds, not all night birds.

If you can't do a truly quiet room, I've found either an AC or fan can mask most noises effectively (I can still feel cars idling outside, or hear people yelling).

Also see https://mynoise.net/ which has a panoply of sound-generation options. I have spent hours trying various noises.
s/separating/not stupidly conflating/

In computer science, binding a variable and assignment are not only separated, but by an ideological chasm.
Construction companies do not have the profit margin to do that, and cities and homebuyers can barely afford construction costs as they are. Construction companies cannot charge much more than they are charging now. The market cannot support that and things start to break down.

There's already a huge infrastructure cost issue in the US. Can they afford more? How much more?
Hydro is indeed clean in that it does not emit greenhouse gases. Sure, it disrupts life around the dammed waterway. But that's way less of an impact than climate change.
Critical path nerds will be looking at lengthening the truck queue.

If you slip an extra truck into the rotation then there's a longer idle slot just before moving to the excvator - an opportunity to charge any difference lost on the round trip | regained on the descent to load out.

Cost to that is an extra truck - there's a few million.

Gains are longer idle time, less heat build on the tires, charging, reduced fuel costs with electric fleet.

There are many options to consider and cost.

The first draft of things like https://www.micromine.com/pitram/ were written in the early 1980s.
I find that Twitter account to be pretty dubious.
I can’t abide another text-to-SQL pitch
The failures of industry and government in this case are obvious. That doesn’t change the fact that there is a shortage. I agree the shortage is due to myopia.
The light rail MAX trains in Portland use regen braking without batteries, as one train is slowing it's generating power for other trains that are in motion[1].

1: https://www.wired.com/2013/06/portland-light-rail/
4chan killed Terry Davis. It was a concerted effort over many years to get him run out of his home and society.

HN banning him was not the cause of this, it was a symptom.

I think of Terry often, and he most certainly deserved better.
Calif. home in danger of sliding into the sea is for sale at a deep discount
Which is odd, because - I feel like we all have that friend.
Yes of course, my mistake. Unfortunately too late to edit.
The original authors have apparently said they are only able to successfully produce the material in around 1 in 10 attempts and they don't yet know why. Also, replicators have reported that the information in the papers and the patent aren't entirely clear on some potentially significant implementation details.

Unfortunately, real science makes for a pretty lousy spectator sport :-). Given the context of the release, it was always a near-certainty that early replication attempts would be a random mix of "No" and "Maybe" results. I think our best chance for any meaningful near-term clarity rest with the team of scientists reportedly visiting the original authors in their lab to test the author's own samples. While a positive result from that won't be a definitive replication, it will at least be external validation of the original process and results.
That is a good way for a company to be better prepared three years from now. Right now, there is a shortage.
Absolutely! Garbage in, garbage out. You can always predict what you push in.
Seawater extraction is even less plausible than breeders. The polyamidoxime fibers that article discusses do not have sufficiently long service lives. Also, if the uranium were to be burned in PWRs, the effective power per ocean area of uranium collectors would be much less than the effective power/area from photovoltaics.

Uranium is a small fraction of nuclear's cost at current uranium prices. But eventually that runs out, and the price of uranium would increase dramatically. This has always been the motivation for breeders.
I like the article, but what irks me is the use of the word "pseudorandomness," which has a technical definition in TCS.
Of course it’s rational - my primary point was that the left pretends to want to make citizenship for undocumented workers easier, and the right to kick them all out, but for the last 30 years we have been at a stalemate and more people come to the US illegally than ever. IMO both sides like the status quo and endlessly hype to their base but never intend to do anything.
Reading through the linked article, I don't think that's the way it's designed to be used. It can completely empty itself in 8 hours. That sounds like it's specifically designed to augment renewables at night and charge during the day, cycling every 24 hours.
Hah, yes, I can see how that would leave quite an impression
mac/iOS: Settings > General > Keyboard > Smart Punctuation [(0) ]

To disable.
I think it’s a bigger problem than fake news. Sure, LLMs can generate that, but what they can do much better than prior disinformation automation is have tailored, context-aware conversations. So a nefarious actor could deploy a fleet of AI bots to comment in various internet forums, to both argue down dissenting opinions, as well as build the impression of consensus for whatever point they are arguing.

It’s completely within the realm of expectation that you could have a nation-state level initiative to propagandize your enemy’s populace from the inside out. Basically 2015+ Russian disinformation tactics but massively scaled up. And those were already wildly effective.

Now extend that to more benign manipulation. Think about the companies that have great grassroots marketing, like Doluth’s darn tough socks being recommended all over Reddit. Now remove the need to have an actually good product because you can get the same result with an AI. A couple hundred/thousand comments a day wouldn’t cost that much, and could give the impression of huge grassroots support of a brand.
Well, no, because it doesn't have a brain, and can we please atop anthropomorphising these statistical models?
I agree there is nothing we can do to prevent the next 30 years or so of climate change.

However, there is plenty we can do longer-term.

Step 1: USA via coalition (or alone, it doesn't matter) goes Nuclear (Fission). Global energy consumption is 17.4 Terawatts. About 4 Terawatts of that is us. We therefore need about 4000 nuclear power plants to cover our usage (which, given the economy of scale, would probably cost about 4 Trillion or so). It would take 15 years to build them out, so that's about $280 billion a year. Not particularly expensive, given the overall federal budget is $6 trillion. In addition to domestic construction, we offer generous construction deals to all other countries at-cost with shared IP. Any country can sign up, and the US will use it's hegemony to backup all deals in a "too big to fail" kind of way. Note that we only need about $24 trillion to build out power for the rest of the world, which again isn't a substantial component of anyone's budget (except for developing countries, for which we would just provide the reactors for free/via loan schemes). China will probably do it themselves, so that's like another 5TW capacity we don't need to build.

Step 2: We change out the infrastructure. Massive funding, drowning-in-money level funding for Hydrogen aircraft. Massive funding for electric cars & electric grid improvements. Build out HSR between all cities & build out public transit to sap down air travel / car travel. Cut energy use & de-carbonize.

Step 3: Turn the CO2 in the air back into fossil fuel, or capture it into some other form. We build 17 TWatts of nuclear capacity, so we have plenty of energy. We need only scale up the chemical processes for doing the conversion.

Once completed, we can now "tune" CO2 levels, giving us a lever for global weather control. This will likely be a useful tool for humanity & will let us dynamically control mean surface temperature.
Note: video games

I assumed “games” meant board games until I read the rules.
Lots of impurities and limited quantity. Most of it was in ironsand, and even then most of it was in fairly low quality ironsand.

They had to get pretty creative in their use of ironsand to produce high quality steel.
In grad school we got to visit a children’s museum and learn about how they designed the exhibits. One of my favorite takeaways was that almost everything that’s reasonably possible for a child to touch/reach/climb is fair game. Consequently the constraints feel very natural, more like how you would learn from playing in your own backyard/neighborhood park.
You know you have to secure, patch, and monitor a VPS right? Why pay for a VPS at all? You can get more compute, memory, and storage with a dedicated server for the same price and even setup multiple VMs on that server, each with all the features of a VPS “for free”.
so I just spent the last hour tinkering with it, I think there is definetly room for some timing attack, at least on firefox, there is a pattern
With nuclear you're burning your powerplant, essentially. That the fuel is comparatively cheap is irrelevant, since that's not what's dominating the cost of power.
Yes, I point this out in the article too. Which CPU will perform better is heavily dependent on your workloads, so I refrain from relying 100% on synthetic benchmarks and directly ran canaries in production instead. It's definitely possible Ice Lake is superior for your workload than Milan
Replacing gas heating with solar thermal is even cheaper and doesn’t. Electric heat pumps are viable when electricity is cheap or demand is low and you want AC, the more they drive up electric costs the more alternatives become viable.

Net effect you tend to see them in areas where there’s a surplus of winter electricity which also tends to be places with minimal demand for heating like Virginia rather than Mane. 46% in South Carolina, 42% in North Carolina, 30% in Virginia etc: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1327164/share-of-househo...
Minisats will likely completely burn up though.
The fact that human brains are brain-washable shows we are statistical models
Brainwashing doesn't require a brain.
There are hundreds of nuclear power plants that have been in operation for decades. Most operating nuclear power plants run with dramatically higher uptimes than what they were originally conservatively designed to meet. Nuclear power plants are operating in an active war zone right now! Six reactors were the site of a military battle and ended up sustaining damage beyond anything foreseeable by the designers. Every one of them shut down successfully and at no point was there any evidence that there was ever a safety risk to the public unless a malevolent actor wanted to cause such an accident.

This body of evidence strongly supports the view that nuclear is not only safe but incredibly safe. We have incredible knowledge about how to run nuclear plants safely.
Most of the farm bill compliant edibles, at least the higher end ones, are made from rosin.
Hate to break it to you but in most western countries all the non exec employees in an office building get the same chairs.

Probably the only ones with Herman Miller and other expensive chairs are the receptionists. ;)
> It's a shame that these papers were published before they were polished by the authors.

Indeed. It's also a shame that they chose to use language like:

"We believe that our new development will be a brand-new historical event that opens a new era for humankind."

When you make grandiose boasts like these, you better be fucking certain you are correct.
Send him a chip.
Tcp connections are a 4-tuple {PeerAIP, PeerBIP, PeerAPort, PeerBPort}, if you hold your IP and port fixed, because you only listen on port 443, you can do 64k connections to each other peer's IP... if the other peer can manage to use them all.

Chances are you'll never run into that limit for this service, because even if there's a ton of users behind the same IP due to NAT, they don't need to hold long sessions, and you can disable http keep-alive and close connections right away. Chances are you'll have some ip diversity in 400k requests/second though.
I've felt a suggested dose of bennadryl hit harder than 10mg
The higher end of refrigerators don't have today's gadgets. The wolf zub-zero ones are 10k+ and are the most boring, efficient, and durable things I've seen.
But this won't happen.

Fossil fuels are the cheapest energy source because of they are already established (economy of scale) and are subsidized heavily. In a world were all major economies have shifted to nuclear power, solar power, and wind power, that will no longer be the case. It will be cheaper for developing countries to use green tech.

Also, once the powerful countries have moved off fossil-fuels, we'll hypocritically force poor countries not to use them anyway. Come now, be reasonable.
What you recently ate can have a big impact. I only bought from reputable brands that had consistent dosages, but my diet could make two doses of the same gummy feel quite different night to night.
This video is a nice introduction to “Utility AI” systems and includes examples from games like The Sims and Total War. (The Sims section starts around time 6:50.)

https://youtu.be/p3Jbp2cZg3Q

A utility system is basically a codification of Maslow’s hierarchy: the system continuously re-evaluates possible behaviors’ utility functions and then chooses the top-scoring behavior.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_system
Not necessarily. Just that the paper is rough and problems in synthesis aren’t well documented or explored.
Again, the energy density of uranium is such that even if seawater extraction remains expensive, it has negligible impact on nuclear power costs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_p...

> The cost of raw uranium contributes about $0.0015/kWh

Even if this increases by an order of magnitude, this is not significantly impacting the cost of nuclear power. Heck, even two orders of magnitude still amounts to ~1% increase in net cost per KWh.

RE your edit after I commented:

> Uranium is a small fraction of nuclear's cost at current uranium prices. But eventually that runs out, and the price of uranium would increase dramatically. This has always been the motivation for breeders.

Again, the cost of raw uranium extraction amounts to $0.0015/kWh in nuclear generation. A 100x cost increase will not amount to even a quarter of a cent per KWh. This is the power of fissile energy density: it's so energy dense that the cost of extraction is largely decoupled from the net cost of nuclear power.

By comparison, how would the price of lithium ion batteries be affected if the price of lithium carbonate increases by 100x? Half of a battery's cost comes from the cost of cathode material: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/breaking-down-the-cost-of-a...
Sounds like something that should be listed on https://codeforamerica.org
You do interviews over chat??? I've never seen that.

Weird of the person to just pipe in ChatGPT but conducting an interview without video is also weird IMO.
Sounds like you have rogue extension somewhere.
It takes very long time for going from preview to actual production usage for anyone. We had T2D preview access more than a year ago, it took several months to get enough stock in Tokyo region (US always gets preference in such cases whenever a new machine type comes out). GCP already has Zen4 in preview for some US customers. Also, us being one of the largest GCP customers in Japan made things even slower
Pink, Pussy, Venom, Inferno – Drainers coming for a crypto wallet near you
Google didn’t break the internet. They failed to execute on social and rewarded shitty players with traffic.

Since the 80s or earlier, companies always sought to exert control over their audience. Things like Compuserv were early entrants, followed by Prodigy and eventually AOL and Microsoft’s entry - MSN.

Google made the network aspect of the internet better and ended up being a sort of gatekeeper. Facebook reinvented AOL, and a thousand copycats did variants of the same… Discord, Instagram, Twitter, Reddit.

Social wounded the internet. If anything “killed the internet”, it was Reddit and Twitter, cancer-like services both of which metastasized to destroy small-time internet properties, only to consolidate them into poorly managed, unprofitable companies.
What Is Inferno Drainer? New Phishing Scam Pilfering Crypto, NFTs
A big part of why big American banks appear financially stable is the ruling class will bail them out with taxpayer money.
I'm not a hardware designer, so quite possibly wrong.

My understanding for the push for energy efficiency is not for cost reasons, but for performance and stability. At a certain power level, the chips just can't dissipate enough energy, especially on smaller nodes.

If amd could double the performance at double the power, they would.

Cost is obviously a marketing/client-value thing too.
It's annoying indeed. You can almost feel all the weasly lawyers and PR people training the thing.
Maybe for you it doesn't have strong psychological addiction, but for me it certainly did.
The cost of a million FUD spreading comments online for an election campaign just went down from $5m to maybe $100 of compute time.
Man I would love to see us go 100% nuclear. Just slap 50 power plants down and we'd be done, 10 years, in-and-out. It'd only cost like 100 billion or so, basically free.
Chinese companies typically say defect instead of bug. Naturally, the bug tracker is called the Defect Tracking System.

I think the impact of linguistic choices is vastly overstated.
You're right, I forgot EC2 got that. When Lightsail gets it, I'll consider AWS as having it.
Can you link one that comes as a wheel but is really a source distribution?
Biotech offers holistic approach to restoration of at-risk forest tree species
Show HN: AI Handsomeness Predict
Hi HN!

So excited to be posting here with something i built myself :) Worked/waited quite a bit towards this moment.

I created this product that uses a CLIP model to predict if you look good on a photo among other categories.

I find it funny / useful for when I am not sure about whether to post something and need an objective critic.

What do you think? How can I improve it further to make it more useful?
I've been self-hosting and using Shiori for couple years now. Originally it was my replacement for pocket. It’s the closest thing I found to Pocket. Not only for read-it-later, but also as my archiving tool. My only issue with Shiori is that I have not been able to find a working browser extension or get the official Shiori extensions to work. So adding URLs is a manual process. So I only use it archive dev and longform articles for reference later.
> If not the SEC then who?

For US entities other than the SEC in particular, the CFTC that can also handle this problem if the token's not a security.

However, I'm extremely weary of this immediate ceding of control, as it gives back power to the State. The ideal would be that such products would be marked as high-risk by default, and that it should be made explicitly clear that there's a high chance (> 90%) of failure in such a product's early stages, with ample warnings, cautions, & checks detailing so.

Past a certain point, it should be acknowledged that the individual made the decision to invest in such a product. The aforementioned warnings & checks on all new products & services by default will make that boundary clear, with the lack of said checks making it visible .

> It took decades before Bernie Madoff's crimes came to light under SEC investigation (and then eventual criminal prosecution). Most of his victims had already lost their money and were never getting it back, even with the criminal suits they eventually joined that was mostly to show justice to Madoff not to recover lost funds.

Bernie Madoff's scheme was prolonged due to the reputation of the man himself, and from A trusting that B said that he was trustworthy, based on C's vouch of his trustworthiness, based on D's vouch, ad infinitum. After establishing the minimal amount of people to vouch for him, the effects from said connected network compounded as more people trusted him based on that network.

Again, this circles back to the main issue regarding trust. It's way too easy to earn trust just because you look/act some way, were a part of something, and/or made connections to the right people. Trust should be isolated to a particular venture/effort & no further, and if someone wanted to try something else that was at least 2 steps removed from their previous ventures, that trust should be rebuilt from scratch & not based on existing efforts made.
They dented and rendered the road inoperable months earlier.

But the thing about dams is that they're over-engineered and massive. Even with high explosives it's difficult to demolish one. Hence why dam busting bombs were large (>4000 kg) and still required underwater detonation to boost their power [0].

It wasn't unreasonable for the Russians to expect Ukraine might be able to seize a bridgehead on the far side, rebuild an operable road over the dam, and then rush armor (and logistics) across it.

Much harder and more time consuming when there are no longer any load bearing remnants available.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Chastise#The_attac...
Looks like a superb material science hack.

A potential downside is the predominant production methods for cement aren't great for the climate.