skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do we need anything close to superintelligence or "omniscience" (wtf) before we get profound changes to how humanity operates. It's really an obsession!

Instead compare to the average human, at most. Compare to refrigeration? Compare to fire? Compare to computers? And that's even if the bar is placed at the singularity. Human progress as we have known it so far is not founded on superhumans but on a lot of work by a mix of merely visionary, hard working, and just plain average people. Just speeding that an order of magnitude changes everything.
I love that song and found out recently it was actually written by Peter Hames.
there's no evidence that proportional repreesntation can achieve a higher level of voter satisfaction than good single-winner methods like score voting or approval voting.

and besides, you won't get PR at any scale beyond a handful of cities without first escaping duopoly, which requires score voting or approval voting as a prerequisite.

http://scorevoting.net/PropRep
View and Build Government Organization Like a Software
https://www.ign.com/articles/microsoft-admits-xbox-has-lost-...
"We need to wake up"

Maybe stop relying on third party DNS 24/7.

Most web users visit the same sites over and over, at a frequency of several times per month or even per week.

Few of these sites are changing their IP addresses with the same frequency. Some (most, based on personal experience) will go years without a change in address.

Yet people keep looking up the addresses every single day if not more frequently.

Google censors all the time. Search results are manipuated in ways that are optimised for advertising, not accesibility of information. Perhaps it's subtle enough that people do not notice. Popularity is not necessarily a proxy for truth. But for a so-called "tech" company, popularity is almost always the most important metric. Because advertising.
When I first entered this field in the 80s, there was a rivalry between vi users (as I was) and emacs users. There was so much about emacs that I couldn't stand, but I'll admit to quite a bit of envy as well.

Then, some time around 94 or so, I became aware of this vi clone called vim. My emacs envy could finally be put to rest because this vim could either do (or had on the roadmap to do) everything I had envied from looking over emacs users' shoulders! I became a rabid user and evangelist, immediately downloading each new version, reporting (and occasionally fixing) bugs. For a while when I was working at Sun in the late 90s, Bram and I had an ongoing email dialog.

My career path has never really allowed me to significantly work on open source, so I never really made the transition to a major contributor. Many years ago, vim hit peak feature set for me, so I didn't really need to track its development - the version bundled on my work desktop would always suffice and I'd download a new version at home whenever I changed out my home Windows PC. Other than that, I lost track of the community.

When I came to Google, I was tickled to find out that Bram worked here, though I never reached out to him personally. Before I knew it, he had retired, and I lost that chance.

For over 25 years, I have only ever used vim as my editor - at home or at work. It is the most dependable tool in my box, traveling with me through multiple employers and programming languages.

RIP Bram.
From my experience, it was more "too many cooks" than the ultimate bystander effect.

I saw someone feel unwell at a party, nothing serious, just a drink too much, but half of the room happened to work in healthcare, and half of the room came to help. As expected it went all over the place, until a relative (also a doctor) came in, ousted the crowd and took proper care of the poor guy.
> Let me zoom in on my browser without the website getting all out of whack.

This, weirdly, is a remarkably hard problem. I always like to think that I build sites that will be responsive and will scale correctly when zoomed, but not only is that not the case, but different browsers also handle zooming in substantially different ways such that I don’t even have a target to aim at.

Suffice it to say that it’s difficult to get even an okay representation of any sufficiently complex layout when zoomed, so I just have to settle for “okay”.
*Never build your house on someone else's land". Episode 237.
Somewhat interested, but tbh, the reason I thought of it is the same reason that they thought of it -- that it's obvious to anyone who studies physics from a philosophical angle that it really has to be that way. They just put it in a lot of fancy words so that it has academic rigor.
How does this compare to mlc-llm with 4 bit quantization? It runs llama2 13B incredibly fast on my 4090. Multiples of the speed of llama.cpp even on GPU with the same 4 bit quantization.
Yeah, I'm surprised they released the demo about multi-temporal crop prediction. Their accuracy is, frankly, pretty terrible. It's basically what I managed the first time I tried to run a classifier against the CDL dataset across years.
Cool, but kind of US-centric. People in rural Ontario sound pretty different to people from Vancouver, yet they get the same colour on this map.
it is truly a product of the computer age, to come up with self-centered ego BS like this.

You do not acknowledge different industries or business models, distribution of physical goods or market brand activity, let along "things that take more that one person to do" .. This is a rote recital of an inner dialog of an ill "investor" CEO who might as soon throw his secretary off of a bridge than give a bonus for winter holidays.

There are not enough words to scourge this infantile, Ayn Randian nonesense from the page.
Think of it like a GitHub for sharing datasets and weights.

I'd like 'huggingface' to the face hugger alien. You can just rip off the front and back of models and train them on new data. Although I've been told explicitly by the HF this is not the case, it's my preferred head cannon.
AGI dot zip: An AI agent inside a .zip bomb
Show HN: ChatData, yet another chat-with-document app querying millions of files
I never had the good fortune to meet him, but his work on vim has had an impact on my life every day ever since I started programming as a teenager. Seeing his name along with the "charityware" license of vim each time I create a new file had an impact on me when I first started using vim and I went to read up on this "odd fellow" using a non-standard license. I eventually stopped paying attention to it after many years of seeing the same screen every day. I didn't have money to donate when I first started using vim, but given the news I've donated to ICCF Holland in honour of his career-long effort to bring attention to the charity.

We lost a good one today. My heartfelt condolences go out to his family through this difficult time. I hope they are honoured to know that his work had an impact on so many people's lives. What an enormous loss. Rest in peace, Bram Moolenaar.
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai was awarded compensation worth more than $225 million in 2022, which marked a staggering 3,474% increase from the previous year, making him the nation’s highest-paid CEO, according to Equilar data.

There’s a whole rabbit hole to go down, but CEO compensation is not well defined. In this case it’s likely that Pichai was granted options with a multiyear vesting schedule, plus perhaps performance targets, and the entire net present value is being counted for 2022. Meanwhile he likely vested substantial options in 2021, but since it was granted in a prior year it’s not counted as compensation in that year.

This kind of accounting makes for extremely lumpy numbers and the evergreen opportunity to write articles about 3400% increases!!1! I don’t think it’s a particularly useful way to think about executive compensation and we shouldn’t pay attention to such articles.
This has been my "thing" for some time. Now, carrying capacity for Earth is a function, and one of the arguments is lifestyle, but I believe that we are beyond most values of that function for anything beyond "miserable and half-starved." The population will drop. We can do it or Nature will do it for us.

Nature will be wanton, cruel, perhaps overshoot. It will be ugly and horrific. We will not be left in great shape. The only fairness it will possess is unpredictable randomness.

Or, we can do it. Harsh. Belt-tightening. Unpleasant conversations. Lengthy debates about worth. Whole societies wanting their turn at the trough. Deprivation. Lifeboat politics. The Cold Equations in a hot, hot world.
>> They've already produced Whisper for audio-to-text, and image-to-text is underway.

Two modalities down. Another couple hundred to go.

Unfortunately we're fast running out of the modalities that neural nets have shown capability in (image, text, sound... I think that's it).
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37010539
Do you have any links to what you’re referring to? From what I dug up, early results had not shown effectiveness with reversing atherosclerosis.
I have also found the newsletter https://newsletter.theaiedge.io/p/table-of-contents they have a deep dive section on Facebook Ads, Uber, Tiktok, Twitter which is very in-depth and high value.
I do get that they aren't in a position where they have easy choices, but what they are currently doing is wrong. They need to be a much smaller and focused organization, which can generate funds from various sources and use them to do effective development. You don't need 200M to develop firefox.

In their current position they exist to give Google some protection against anti-trust allegations. That is about the worst spot for their organization to be in.

>As for "whether they can stand up to them", they can and do, all the time.

You are right. Google likely knows that they can completly ignore them, so they can say whatever they want.
> Guarded by atoms

atoms, not atom bombs.

> his mind on the thread

What is that?

All in all I found the poem to be really bad. "he won the game" is not something you'd hear in an epic, it generally seems to go by the gamer definition of "epic" which is just calling something epic because you can't be bothered to examine or describe it. It reminds me of Edgar A. Poe and his "draw the rest of the owl" style. "It was so foreboding and beyond human imagination". Show, don't tell.

It breathed fire, it was so heroic and resolute and a lot of other adjectives just floating about, there is no fight at all - that all is skipped, the army faltered (because fire was breathed on atomic bombs? okay?)... it's just a bunch of filler text with no substance, I can't imagine any sequence of events based on this.

And one of the images shows several people riding on the hippo, with another hippo in the background, totally failing the assignment. None of them show atomic bombs on legs, and don't even attempt to depict a speck of dust.
My rankings of the 2023 Hugo Best Novel nominees
Link Flight Simulation Demo (1984) [video]
I like how Finland internet culture seems very oriented to kind acts of offering services for free.

Btw there is also a (just as old) free domain hosting service: http://iki.fi
Or to look at companies that were more conversative about ramping up, used natural attrition more effectively to avoid the need for layoffs, used early retirement or separation incentives before layoffs, etc. Of course, that's difficult to research since it's not as newsworthy to do the right thing :)
The claim is that you want the CEO to be aligned with the shareholders, and therefore you incentivize them with high salaries.

Who cares about future shareholders or consequences for that matter when you earn 225MM ? Go move to some country that doesn't tax capital gains, sell it all, and live on 4% of it, which is 9MM per year; live like a king, buy absurd amounts of land and multiply your passive income. Obscene is an understatement.
I suppose Microsoft might be willing to broker a deal to have Bing as the default search, although that would probably attract similar levels of criticism from the same people.

DuckDuckGo would be the "obvious" choice, but I doubt they can come up with the same kind of numbers.

Brave Search might be an option, but unlike Google and Microsoft the browser is Brave's main product so they might not want to deal with a competitor, they probably have a lot less cash lying around, and they have some history with Mozilla.

Yahoo! Search is still around, maybe some others? I don't think anyone other than Microsoft and Google have a spare ~$500 million lying around for this though.
Exactly. It's more accurate to say "we look at long term as long as the short term stock price also looks good".
> And frankly layoffs had almost no effect on their stock prices. Announcing new products, even if quite half-baked AI efforts, had much bigger impact on stock prices than layoffs.

This is true but you know what? Every action of the CEO is meant for the investors and large shareholders. The layoff is merely a signal that says

"I am willing to do what it takes to give you your return. Buy more shares"
It's not that weird, it just looks weird if you don't have any idea of what is going on. But it's fairly logical if you get the principle behind it. Nullc's excellent video below shows a much clearer example.
Maybe they should have a try at becomming a bakery?
only 5 or 6?

4k a month is way more than the average person makes in my country, that's 3.84M for 80 years.

225 / 3.84 = 58.59 people

there is no fucking way you can justify that number but oh well, what can you do about it?
From the About Me of the project

"""
The goal of the Galileo Project is to bring the search for extraterrestrial technological signatures of Extraterrestrial Technological Civilizations (ETCs) from accidental or anecdotal observations and legends to the mainstream of transparent, validated and systematic scientific research.
"""
Sure, if you ignore offloading all the hard work to a C library, we can pretend any language is as fast as any other. It's a boring conversation then though - might as well use Python...

Not to mention you still pay a real performance penalty for being unable to make direct use of RocksDB features, because Kafka is shoving a million "abstraction" and cache layers in there and you just want your your damned merge operator to apply.

I don't agree Kafka off the JVM is subpar. Kafka Streams has a lot of sharp edges from "abstractions" that aren't, Spark is a godawful developer experience and tuning it for performance is black magic for 99% of data engineers, and Flink keeps dithering about how consistent/stable baseline features like queries will be. You can stand up very good apps for a huge set of common cases just as quickly in Go or C++, and not have to deal with Kafka Streams's funny opinions about threads/tasks/consumers.
Not familiar with Unum. From a quick glance, it seems that they truncate Least Significant Bits, which is the simplest but fastest quantization method.
Ah sure. I didn't mean they were now unpopular. Just that the need for them has drawn down as many things you would automate via expect now have better api-based choices. Or have otherwise dwindled...I don't see too many modem banks around these days.
I don't think this is true for all of us, possibly not even for most people in the US.

I know plenty of people who took lower paying jobs because they valued other things more than "growth": quality of life, family, passion, etc.

I know people who have enough to meet their needs and are not actively working towards having more.

People who retire by "aging in place" who do not care about the value of their home because they have no intention of selling it while they're alive.
People should start referring to it as "Ex".
What is special about bluesky is that you don't have to host the service yourself (or pay a third party) for it to work.
I know for a fact that people in the Csuite of medium size companies can easily make 400k/month total comp (specifically if they’re public companies, but private companies have outrageous paychecks also). Not even talking about the CEO, and not even talking about FAANGs and similar companies. Chances are that the leadership team of your company is making an absurd amount of money.
By that logic, Uber and Instagram and WhatsApp should not have been started, as the iOS App Store is unequivocally "someone else's land", and these services could only exist as native apps.
in the days of 7-digit dialing, dialing the Compuserve access number in Watertown MA (which one used from Cambridge MA) played "camptown ladies sing this song"
I bet you could run a similar analysis and look at the number of DUI arrests by car make and get a similar result.

People who get DUIs might be more likely to buy certain types of cars, but no type of car makes someone drink and drive
What makes you think it's a made up number?

It's a fictional prediction of the future. Even people trying to predict the future get it wrong. People being wrong isn't mind blowing.

Yes, there's exaggerations but big buget movies usually hire technical consultants to aid writers,

Is that what happened here?

prop builders and art directors with setting scenes that look realistic

That has nothing to do with the script

don't just pull radom numbers out of thin air

Yes they do

60 TFLOPS is the equivalent of 10.000x PS2s of processing power

60 TFLOPS was also about where the biggest super computer already was at 2003, so this was silly even using the present. That's fine, but it isn't "mind boggling" to base it on fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500

Why not say that in 20 years the biggest super computer in the world is now where a home graphics card is? That's actually mind boggling. No need to live your life based off of the fiction of someone else.

which seems about right for what would be a virus taking over all the compute power of the DoD.

Why does that "seem about right". Again, this is fiction vs reality. That is a science fiction scenario that should make no sense to anyone experienced with computers. Why would a virus need a super computer?

So definitely the writers consulted with some people

No you've move from 'technical consultants exist' to 'definitely the writers consulted people'. What are you basing this on?

so naturally they had to come up with a number that seemed very impresive but was also believable.

Which part in the made up number is mind blowing again?

Reality is 'mind blowing' enough, there is no need to mix reality and fiction.
This article isn't totally fair, in that the theory of cold dark matter is based mostly on observations of the cosmic microwave background rather than on galaxy behavior. Also, it's not like the 𝛬CDM crowd says they are certain of the nature of DM. And there are plenty of holes in alternative explanations as well.

If I were going to critique the anti-CDM arguments, I'd say that they aren't advancing their own alternative explanations. MOND is a very interesting observation for sure, but advocates freely admit 𝝰 is sort of a magical number and they don't really offer a physical/geometric justification for why it should exist or why it should take the value that it apparently has.

All the same, I love reading these lists of things that don't fit. I'm super glad observers are poking holes in (tearing apart?) the dominant paradigm. Their evidence is coming from the other side of the theory, it's totally valid and very interesting.

The best treatment I've see is Ethan Siegel's write up [0].

[0] https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/modifying-gravity/
What questions would I ask? Here are a few:

What bandwidth tiers do you offer? Are those numbers "best effort" or do you provide a minimum bandwidth guarantee?

Do you provide an SLA[0] and if so, What are the repair/service response time commitments for the telco?

The bandwidth offered is symmetric, yes?

What equipment, if any, do I need to provide for connection? That is, where is the demarcation point between the telco's equipment/responsibility and mine, and what sort of handoff (ethernet, presumably) will I get from the telco equipment?

Do you have IPv6 support? If so, may I have a /64 block?

Assuming the answers to those questions meet with your approval, I'd add these two as well:

How fast can you complete the install?

How can I assist in speeding up that process?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-level_agreement
The master password is also offline and require the key file to u lock the rest of the passwords. So by itself it’s not enough to compromise the accounts in the key file. The attacker would need the key file as well.
Why CAP theorem is so confusing
Why couldn't they be built as web apps?

Also, if it helps, by that logic no one shouldn't be using iOS or anything by Apple, which is also a rule that I follow.
There's a mirror available at ftp://foto.lu.lv/pub/mirror/x2ftp/msdos/programming. Only via FTP, as far as I can tell. It works well with e.g. Filezilla. Log in as anonymous...
This is a good point. Your apartment building requires a smart phone to get into and therefore everyone lives in apartment buildings that require smart phones to enter. It is silly to discuss living without a smart phone given the homogenous nature of our shared reality.
On the Digestion of Great Books
It will be part of the saving. Investment in fusion was and is still tiny compared to fossil fuel or fission.
I'm working on such a project now. The idea being to use NLP to track the subjects on HN and index their occurrences. When completed, it will be open source.

A direct answer to your question: not that I am aware of, but would like to learn more.
China and India have over a billion people. “Fair” doesn’t matter. Impact matters.
Done €100 to https://iccf-holland.org/
WASI is kind of in a hard place now

There is the version 1 which is not allowed to continue for political reasons (and that’s the one that everyone is implementing because it actually works)

and there is version 2 that redoes everything from 0.

Also there is wasix from an entirely different team that builds on top of version 1
Once again reading your description of problem people in a WFH situation makes me wonder how good those same people are in the office. I don't have any evidence on this, but if someone is actively looking to shrink their workday to 4 hours then were they actually working in the office or bunking off in some other way? Wanting to work 2 jobs - I have actually seen people in the office who spend all their time with a job search browser window open. If they're a flame war monster at home are they behind social problems in the office?

WFH might not be appropriate for everyone, but perhaps those abusing it actually aren't nice people to work with in an office environment either.
Agreed. I immediately nuked Warp when it demanded that I sign in to use it.
These are all bad analogies, because they are just better tools. They help with manual labor or the speed of transmission.

Computers actually did replace human computers (literally the origin of the word, people who sat all day and did math).

But now we're creating artificial minds. And I haven't heard a good argument why they can't replace humans pretty much everywhere.

Human minds are limited by the size of the skull. Digital minds don't have that limitation. They can, seemingly, be arbitrarily large (and maybe arbitrarily smart, as a result).
This would seem to apply to health outcomes being cited in the thread as well. Yes, if we shut down all hospitals tomorrow, less people would die in the short term. Presumably that affect diminishes and reverses relatively soon.
>Very long term

>5 years

That is so laughably short sighted that you could not have given a better example as to why CEOs are all the same.
It's assuming something we know to be false. AlphaZero wasn't even trained against humans at all, but still beats them at Go and Chess handily.