skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Random opinion here: I don't think privacy safeguards will have material impact on big tech and on the whole. They own the platforms we engage on and can thus channel engagement with or without privacy guards in place.

I think the only solution to this, and I personally don't care to implement it so just discussing this intellectually, is to disallow M&A. These firms have reached such scale that they can overpay significantly for every next generation platform (that could eventually compete against them) and protect the moat. Otherwise we we will only see shakeups when paradigm shifts occur, only to see the companies leading the shake ups get acquired... OpenAi comes to mind as the only credible threat to Google in recent years, only to see it get swallowed by MSFT.

Its difficult for any company to be at the bleeding edge of innovation forever, so they must be prevented from acquiring all innovation forever.
As long as it stays off when you uncheck it, that's better.

When you set your default browser to Firefox but using the search bar in task bar opens everything in edge, that's problematic.
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Having worked on a couple of these projects, the new design system is being implemented as new systems are built or when upgrading tech on older systems. I don't think anybody is doing an overhaul just to implement the design system, but as part of a new design or redesign, it's quite useful.
"Inference" - getting the predictions out of the model.
While training you need to run: Input -> Model -> Output (Prediction) - Compare with True Output (Label) -> Backpropagation of Loss through the Model.
Which can highly batched & pipelined. (And you have to batch to train in any reasonable amount of times, and GPUs shine in batch regime)

When a single user request comes in, you just want the prediction of that single input, so no backprogation and no batching. Which is more CPU friendly.
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My total home costs are just less than 10k after mortgage principal+interest. I don't have a car. You're both right though my medical costs will definitely increase.
Inference on crappy hardware will bring crappy results. However upcoming SoC solutions with ML capabilities will definitely make a difference. E.g. RPi + Sony Aitrios on single board may bring interesting embedded applications: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/raspberry-pi-receiv...
The law does not restrict that. "Shouting fire in a crowded theatre" is a myth. Anyone parroting this immediately outs themselves as lacking even the most basic knowledge of first ammendment.

The court case where that quote came from was overturned 54 years ago!

https://www.techdirt.com/tag/fire-in-a-crowded-theater/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTsPgiUoBKA

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...
Another potential issue that comes to mind is the usage of "short hashes" as an identifier instead of the full hash.
Crypto hasn't been a factor on GPU pricing for nearing two years now.
The fastest way to warm up a car !== the best way to warm up a car fast.
>But in the spirit of experimentation, should we not try the one thing we have not actually tried online yet – capitalism?

Garbage quote. The Internet has been largely an ancap[0] wet dream. Rules are enforced by unaccountable corporations wielding monopoly power and one-sided contracts and enforcing laws through summary judgment and tattooing "POOR IMPULSE CONTROL" on people's heads. The only thing we're missing is the 3D Internet and ancient Babylonian computer viruses.

The EU already implemented data ownership, it's called GDPR. The points where it differs from a vanilla property right are there specifically because tech companies have already made data "too cheap to meter". If you just build a property right around data, the tech companies will just say "your data is the price of admission to a free service", and people will accept that because...

- Monopoly status is a form of power equivalent to that of government[1]

- People on the business end of power have no negotiating leverage

This is how dragnet surveillance became legalized in America[2]. SCOTUS argued that if you tell someone where to send a message or connect a call, that information has no expectation of privacy. AT&T would then go and put EULA roofies[3] into everyone's phone service that let them sell your phone numbers. Government and private surveillance coevolved from there into the privacy nightmare we have today. In order to fix this we need to change the starting conditions.

Also...

>Academics and the digital NGOs, a familiar looking blob, hate the prospect, in part because it leaves them with a diminished political role, if any at all.

I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean beyond the usual right-wing knock against civil libertarians and people with well-rounded educations.

[0] Short for "anarcho-capitalist", which is a contradiction in terms for reasons that should already be evident from everything else I already said.

[1] Conversely, government is just a monopoly on the legitimate use of force.

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_v._Maryland

[3] A colorful term Louis Rossmann uses to refer to contractual clauses you'd never agree to but for your lack of negotiating power.
The problem is: you have a square inch of TSMC 4N. Do you turn that into a 2k Gtx 4090 or a 25k H100 that will sell even faster than the former?
> some speech is "poisonous"

Yes, this kind of speech is called 'perlocutionary' and is dicussed in international human rights law, https://revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/TAHRJ/articl...
I always wonder about what do service providers do when the person who's data you've collected is a bad actor such as someone abusing the service, committing credit card fraud or running a bot network? They too can just submit a request on all your fraud data and have it deleted?

And if the answer is "well in those cases you can make an exception" well where is the line drawn, and how?
Zelda TOTK (and its prequel) are some of the best games in video game history and run on the underpowered Switch at 30fps. The gameplay is what makes them good.
Are you asserting the network formerly known as Twitter is a publisher (in the legal/technical sense)?
Whether or not he's critical of Elon has no bearing on his legal analysis
The author is assuming inference will eventually get broken across many cheaper machines.

To their credit, if an nvidia box is $50,000 and a cpu box is $5,000 then a cluster of ten cpu boxes is only one order of magnitude behind.
I got a Wasp T12 Speechtool - it's well weapon
I was just sitting here wondering how the logistics of coordinating the time of all of those developers worked.
> Bruce Campbell’s “Adventures of Brisco County, Jr”, which premiered just before the “X-Files” (and is now sadly forgotten).

Not forgotten by me. Some of my favorite childhood memories are ordering pizza and watching Brisco County, Jr. and X-Files on Friday nights for the season Brisco ran.

I was always disappointed that Brisco County, Jr. didn't get a second season. But it did get kind of weird when it veered off of old west stuff and into aliens/supernatural stuff.
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I disagree. This seems like a blatant 1A violation by the state:

> AB 587 passed in September 2022, requiring social media platforms to submit a "terms of service report" semi-annually to California's attorney general, providing "a detailed description of content moderation practices used" and "information about whether, and if so how, the social media company defines and moderates" hate speech or racism, extremism or radicalization, disinformation or misinformation, harassment, and foreign political interference. Under the law, social media platforms must also provide information and statistics on any content moderation actions taken in those categories.

All of the things listed, with the exception of foreign political interference, are protected expression. This is the government trying to outsource censorship.
I wonder if this is related to the fact that habitually smoking lots of cigarettes tends to dull one's taste buds.
I was hopeful starting this article. Because I do think we need something better than OpenAPI for self-documenting APIs...

The idea of an interactive tutorial is great, but as others have mentioned, likely very difficult to maintain over time.
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> What is the significant harm

Stochastic terrorism.
In sampling a couple I would call these narrations "serviceable" rather than "high quality". My benchmark is the voice of my mom reading Shakespeare and Grahame, with intonation and voice to each character. Perhaps AI authored narration could do that, but these haven't.
'It's a private company, they can ban/block/censor whoever/whatever they want'

Pre-Musk, wasn't that always the standard standard response to criticism of activism-driven social media censorship?
How they act is the hyper focus on first to market. HFT wants to have the first buy or sell order at price X.

Being first to market does not impact liquidity availability. After all someone else has an order at that price already.

My points about risk are beyond going long or short for a meaningful amount of time (certainly not seconds, probably not minutes) trading quickly isn't hugely impactful on end users. Thus all of the downsides of trading quickly aren't reducing risk for them.
Python is older than Java though.
Better or worse than oil and water?
Inference is only seconds on a GPU, but have a look at flops of modern GPUs to CPUs - matrix multiplications differ by two orders of magnitude. Seconds on the GPU is minutes on the CPU. And don’t forget inference needs to scale in the data center, it needs to run repeatedly for many users.
> The problem is neither old people nor young people. The problem is the people who have amassed extraordinary amounts of wealth and truly think that it ALL rightfully belongs to them

There are limits to how much you can redistribute. People will simply stop producing taxable income.

> We're not crushing young people with social security taxes. We're crushing them with wages that can't pay their bills, with or without social security taxes deducted.

Never said we were. But if the population continues to age like we see in places like Japan, we will very quickly find ourselves with huge social security bills.
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I'm reminded of wuffs, which only allows writing libraries and explicitly doesn't support allocateing memory, requiring the calling program to provide memory. It seemed like a nice separation of concerns in my non-expert view. (And then wuffs compiles to C, which is nice for interoperability)
Much like Nvidia's actual GPU supremacy is only temporary... it's just lasted a very long time and doesn't show any signs of stopping.

I personally think we're on a very long path AI improvement. At least to me the idea we're going to train an AI and stay on it's core for any significant amount of time doesn't seem likely to me. Continuous learning and feedback improvements are just one avenue we will take. Others will be expanding into multimodal models that self learn based on comparing what they generate with multiple forms of senses.
Hasn't been the case for you, and arguably for a lot of people, but not for everyone. Everyone has to run the numbers and do their own calculus. Buying being better than renting is a good rule of thumb but it has some glaring exceptions.
> My personal pet conspiracy theory is that the U.S. leadership realized that the U.S. homeland was not defensible against asymmetric attacks of this nature. They needed to create an external beacon for the jihadists–a theater in which the U.S. military would be the target and the aggressor, not soft targets. And so they chose Iraq, with its dormant sectarian divisions being a perfect cauldron to which those enemies would be drawn.

Interesting conspiracy theory! Especially considering that the resulting mess caused a massive refugee crisis and a spike of terrorism in Europe. Even if it didn't keep the terrorist mired in the Middle East, it redirected the violence towards our allies, thus maintaining the general casus beli.
It's actually really short...

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

That's it. But it's caused centuries of back and forth arguments and mountains of case law and supreme court opinions.

The US has a sort of Stockholm syndrome relationship with our Constitution... it's really hard to interpret or change and basically it's read however a given generation of politicized judges wants it to be. A decade or two later that will change, somewhat, and then be reversed again. Public will has little impact on it, and the supremes have no accountability. It's a mess.

We worship it as sacred but it creates a lot of problems in modern society the the ancients didn't foresee. It's an entirely undemocratic piece of paper holding the country and its future hostage, IMO.
While AAA games do tend to be bloated with extra content, it is all optional. The main quests usually take only 10-20 hours.

Also, the current trend is to make games more accessible and actually better for casual gamers. Most games now have customisable difficulty and quality of life features. When I think of 80s and 90s games I think of dying a lot and having to replay, not being able to figure things out without buying a walkthrough, no quicksave etc.
All the junk food advertising is literally telling you what to eat. If this goes against everything the US stands for maybe y'all should ban it.
I had a fairly weird 9/11 realtime experience. I had pulled an all-nighter and ended up going to sleep right around the time this all started happening. So I went to sleep blissfully unaware, and then was woken up by my wife. Within 30 seconds of being woken up I learned: "4 planes were hijacked. They were flown into the World Trade Center. The WTC collapsed."

I kept waiting for the punchline, but then realized it wasn't coming...
A good point - large incumbents often welcome complex regulation - as they act as a significant barrier to new entrants.

However you could argue that companies like Google or Facebook were new entrants into the advertising market and unfairly competed with traditional players by breaking existing norms ( around privacy or taking editorial responsibility for promoted content ).

Or the gig economy type of companies like Uber ignored existing employment law.

Sometimes it's just about enforcing existing expected standards in new situations to create a level playing field.

If you set the regulation at the level of what, and leave the how up to the companies - then you leave scope for competition and innovation in how to achieve the objective.
Although I agree that we are framing this thread in the context of the original article, this medical professional is presenting their (experienced) opinion, and GP is not discussing it and instead chooses to require some token criticism of the article. This doesn't seem charitable to someone presenting their professional opinion.
I’d be surprised if early Unix userland wasn’t even more barebones than busybox.
I get your point, but it's a blog post by a Ruby & Rails core member, published on a Ruby-oriented blog named "Rails at Scale", with a particular audience in mind, and is written as a response to an ongoing discussion in the Ruby community. In context, I think the title is fine. But, for those without the context the title may be misleading. At no point is the goal to convince people to throw away C and switch to Ruby for everything.
Step 1: Thing that is happening

Step 2-N: Things I made up, but I put them in quotes so they seem more impressive

Step N+1: Bad thing, literally 1984 thought police
It's too broad of a statement.

Take a look at individual tests to see if they make sense.

A PSA urine test, for example, is insanely cheap and catches many expensive prostate cancers in early stages. Mammograms are the similar (less cheap, but still life saving).

For those specific tests, the evidence is clear.
In the post: Frames 0-3 form a Group of Pictures (GOP) which is completely self-contained and can be decoded completely independently of any other GOPs.
I just got a heard attack that it was not published correctly.
If anything, this post suggests Nvidia has a long supremacy ahead. In particular, the author lays out what is likely to be a durable network in favor of Nvidia:

- best in breed software

- industry standard used and preferred by most practitioners

- better (faster) hardware

Notably, this is a similar combination to that which led Wintel to be a durable duopoly for decades, with the only likely end the mass migration to other modes of compute.

Regarding the "what will change" category, 2 of the bullet points essentially argue that the personnel he cites as being part of the lock-in will decide to no longer bias for Nvidia, primarily for cost reasons. A third point similarly leans on cost reasons.

Nowhere in the analysis does the author account for the historical fact that typically the market leader is best positioned to also be the low-cost leader if strategically desired. It is unlikely that a public company like Intel or AMD or (soon) Arm would enter the market explicitly to race to zero margins. (See also: the smartphone market.)

Nvidia also could follow the old Intel strategy and sell its high-end tech for training and its older (previously) high-end tech for inference, allowing customers to use a unified stack across training & inference at different price points. Training customers pay for R&D & profit margin; lower-price inference customers provide a strategic moat.
I think there's at least 3 different dimensions here:

1. Comfort vs. Anxiety: how anxious does a particular interaction make you feel.

2. Introversion vs. Extroversion: are you more recharged or more drained by social interaction in general. (anxiety probably causes people to be more drained than they would otherwise - anxious people probably consider themselves more introverted than they actually are)

3. Awkward vs. Fluid: is handling a social situation correctly hard or automatic? (the expectation of being awkward increases anxiety; anxiety may increase awkwardness)

Some extra dimensions:

- Experience level in a given kind of social interaction

- How much social interaction someone "needs" (e.g. they might get recharged by being social, but not need much charging)
"Hyperpalatable" is such an odd word. I suppose it's meant to be more sciency than "junk". But IMO the word does a disservice, because the it carries a positive connotation.