skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. We currently clearly don't have the technical solutions. Just hope that if we put enough people on it we will find some.

As an engineer, I know that every project that is fundamentally new always ends up being harder than expected. Hoping that we will find a technological solution to a problem that will kill us if we fail is a bit irrational to me.
> The exact percentage isn't important.

The exact percentage is exactly critical informarion.

Imagine, for the sake of argument, that the 10% own 100% of all net worth. Imagine net worth of 90% of the population is exactly at zero. Do you think democracy would still function, liberty would survive?

The folks at zero would be closer to slaves than to anything we recognise today.
So they're willing to "authorize" all 3rd party controllers for no more than the cost of an engineer's time in examining each controller, regardless of who submitted it and paid?

Or can we acknowledge this for what it actually is, please.
What does the creator's right have to do with lying?

(1) Lying is bad.

(2) Lying and "collecting money from anyone you can trick" is fraud.

(3) Fraud is illegal, and that has nothing to do with copyright.

You are massively straw-manning here.
To be fair the problem is that its not baked into the language.

If you have to do X,Y,Z to get A done, then you'll do X,Y,Z.

If your language gives you a shortcut and now you can get away with X,Y then you'll drop Z.

And even if your language doesn't give you those shortcuts, if Cool Language lets you do just X or X,Y, you'll naturally want to use Cool Language. So, its a losing game...

KISS is great when applied correctly, but you have to be able to know the level of complexity you'll actually need for the problem at hand, and it is so so very easy to over or under engineer something...
This doesn't strike me as true at all. Honestly, it sounds like an excuse for a personal unwillingness to develop your own moral center. Even if you were right - which I don't think you are! - that other people "having a conscience" has receded, who cares what they're doing?, you're not them, make your own, better choices.
Is his status as a public intellectual immutable or irrevokable, ever? Or does his Ph.D + tenure position ahelter him from deserved pushback on his nonsense and grifting in perpetuity?

When he starts talking stupid, am I to defer to his "public intellectual" status and not only turn off my brain and logic and common sense and/or suspend judgment forever or would that still be ok and would you respond well to an invitation to join me in doing so?

Edit: how many stupid things or over how long a period of uninterrupted time does it take for you to at least reexamine your views? Like this advocacy is as illogical as it is manipulatively and fiercely incorrect on a factual and qualitative basis jointly :/
To those worried about regulatory capture, this EO just being about keeping incumbents in power, etc:

Even sans-regulation, do non-incumbents really have a chance at this point? The most recent major player in the field, Anthropic, only reached its level of prominence due to taking a critical mass of former OpenAI employees, and in a year reached 700 million in funding. Every company that became a major player in the AI space in the last 10 years either

1. Is an existing huge company (Google, Facebook, Microsoft, etc)

2. Secured 99.99th percentile level venture funding within the first year of its inception due to its founders preexisting connections/prestige

Realistically there isn't going to be a "Facebook" moment for AI where some scrappy genius in college cooks up a SOTA model and goes stratospheric overnight, even in a libertarian fantasyland just due to market/network effects. People just have to be realistic about the way things are.
I suspect most of the side by side comparisons, including this one, were GPU.
switch joycon?

https://github.com/fyhuang/enjoy2
Sure, that's the title, but at least in this PR they immediately show a graph with a comparison to both.

Presumably it makes more marketing sense to compare to the M1 family up front because most people that bought an M2 last year are probably not going to be upgrading to M3. They are speaking to the people most likely to upgrade.
Is that common though? I haven't met people that have a great pronunciation but poor grammar in a second language.
There is probably sufficient global surplus to ensure that children do not need to work to survive.

As described in the article, companies that control supply chains can squeeze suppliers so that all the surplus accumulates in wealthier countries, instead of with the suppliers. That is not an inevitability, it is a choice made by “our society”.

My point was against the sense of inevitability in the parent reply. We can imagine and enact a more equitable distribution. We don’t even need to mess around with socialism for decades to do it
There’s 2 reasons that can happen.

1. It’s not actually overcomplicated, but the people saying it is haven’t thought about it hard enough to realize this.

2. It is overcomplicated, but it’s such a tangle of complexity that fixing it would require the people pointing out the problems to basically do it over from scratch.

#2 is usually the result of a very experienced developer being overwhelmed by the amount of complexity coming out is the vastly larger amount of inexperienced developers around them. It’s much easier to add complexity than it is to fight it.
Why do you say that? I'm sure its good but why do you specifically call out the 40s?
FWIW, the main developer of GGML apparently runs a M2 Ultra himself. Apple Silicon is a first class citizen on GGML and runs fast.

See eg. https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/16o4ka8/running...
Microsoft Fixes Excel Feature That Forced Scientists to Rename Human Genes
Bandwidth means much less if those numbers aren't crunched faster.
Maybe for some people.

I would say 95% of people.
> surely it's not just an energy problem - but a resource problem.

It is an energy problem. The modern society is built upon fossil fuels, that's a fact. Remove the fossil fuels, and it collapses. Turns out that "building upon fossil fuels" means "gradually removing them". It's just a question of time, and we are talking decades, not centuries. We will live long enough to see it, most likely.

We need to rethink society to use less energy in general, and that includes consuming less of everything.
> but as it comes from Google and involves email centralisation

That's my concern as well. Ah well, we'll just mark them as arc=pass and sit back and relax.
Housing HAS to be a good investment, not in the sense of something that beats inflation, but something which appreciates at the same rate as inflation. The whole point of a 30-year fixed mortgage is that you pay off the mortgage in your working years and then enter your retirement only having to pay the property taxes. This allows you to retire on a smaller nest egg AND pass generational wealth on to your heirs.
And it has been accepted and merged into torvalds/linux, as of an ~hour ago.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/169870980914.17163.3315949638870...

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
It's people with deeper wallets who do what you're describing, including shopping at farmer's markets. This brings us to the real way a smaller business survives against a giant competitor: they raise their prices and target a niche market by offering more obscure/luxury products or services.

That produce at the farmer's market? It's not the same produce that you'll find at Kroger. If it were, the farmer's market wouldn't last long.
No, unless they lie and can cough up the minimum investment amount ($25,000 to $1,000,000)

Just a little counterintuitive but feasible
For most companies “deleting the model” is equivalent to dissolving the company so that is equivalent to not being able
to comply. More realistically what they would need to do is exit the market of the country that has such stupid laws.
Wasn't DC v Heller ghost written by the same group as Dobbs? (not literally but guided in a similar fashion)

Of course it is similar it was a test bed to pull this.

At least DC v Heller could point to actual facts to back up it's interpretation. Dobbs just dances around the idea saying "we believe" a lot and super focusing on the Supremacy clause in a way not seen in... I couldn't even say how long ago it was that the SC said it couldn't restrict something in that way.
> Occams Razor litterally just says that you should eliminate unnecessary entities from an explanation. It is a philosophical principle and not a statment about the natural world.

"Eliminate unnecessary entities" is a nice way of saying "minimize information-theoretic complexity" without having the formal framework to express it in. The intuition behind "counting entities" points in the right direction.

As for the philosophical part - once you take a piece of philosophy seriously and try to refine it into purity, it tends to turn into either mathematical theorem or a natural science hypothesis.

> But the statments “the simplest of two theories is most likelily to be true” on the other hand is itself a hypothesis about the world which can be examined empirically. But I very much doubt this have been proven true for real world scientific theories. Perhaps for randomly generated theories it would be true, but theories are not typically generated at random. To follow the theme of the article - how would you falsify this hypothesis?

This is exactly what information theory and probability theory deal with, among other things. They give a formal framework to define a measure of simplicity for a hypothesis, and to study its relation with probability of a hypothesis being correct. That framework can deal with correlated hypotheses just fine. So to answer your final question: when you strip away the vagueness, Occam's razor becomes a mathematical theorem, which you can prove or falsify using the tools of mathematics.

As for whether there is any reason for mathematics to apply to the real world, this ultimately follows from the basic axiom that the universe around us follows rules that we can infer from observations. If you accept it, you can use the tools of mathematics - including Ockham's razor - to understand the world. If you don't - well, if that axiom is wrong, then reality becomes completely arbitrary - nothing makes any sense whatsoever, nor it can ever make any sense, and we're better off giving up on the whole "thinking" thing, moving back into caves, and spending our days hunting and gathering and finger-painting stick figures on cave walls.
You are straw-manning.

Imagine you encounter a public domain image (which by definition is not protected by copyright), you download it, and put it on your website.

Perfectly fine.

But if you write "I made this image" below it, you are a liar and a fraud. No copyright needed.
> Why? Node's packaging story is about a million times better than Python's. You literally just listed some of the issues with Python, none of which apply to Node.

No, instead you get to deal with absurdly slow dependency solving / installation (I gather Bun is fast, so good on that guy), the existence of leftpad, and a `node_modules` directory that is stupidly large.

> Not an issue. [to let as few things as possible interact with system Python.]

Obviously, because systems aren't issuing tooling in Node.

> Node has one way to install things and it isn't the way that nobody has heard of (I honestly had not heard of pipx until now and I'm forced to write Python some of the time for my job).

This is literally untrue – I know for a fact that both npm and yarn are extremely popular, and as mentioned, the newcomer bun exists.

> How about knowing to use `--config-settings editable_mode=compat` in order to use editable installs with static tooling?

Or, you know, switch to modern solutions for this: `poetry add --path /foo/package` or `pipenv install -e /foo/package`.

> Oh and don't forget the whole `pip3`/`python3 -m pip` debacle. Did I say `python3`? I meant `python3` except on Windows.

Don't use Windows, obvs. Seriously though, I give absolutely zero fucks about development experience on Windows with Python.
> it's battery has been shot for a long time but it still works quite good when plugged in and I'm too much of a miser to have it replaced

Consider a battery pack? I have a Bluetti K2 and get far more hours running heavy workloads than people report on M1. It's never bothered me carrying it around, though some might care I guess.

My only regret is that it's slightly over the amount that is legal on planes in most jurisdictions.
I choose to imagine a world where this leads to a revitalisation of the internet where “free” services are de-normalised and people start to favour paid services (preferably usage-based rather than subscription-based).

Fuck you - I’ll dream whatever I want to.
Anyone who is putting you down for being genuinely interested is not someone worth your time. Sorry you had to go through that.

A good manager will find ways to communicate with each individual, usually in an individualized fashion (I say this as an ex-military, but nerdy city slicker guy). Sometimes it takes me a few tries to figure it out for everyone, but it's been helpful to connect with everyone on my team and even outside collaborators.
> And the M1 MacBook was quieter, lighter and I could actually sit it on my lap

Yeah this is key. In a laptop that’s meant to be used as a laptop, designing for maximum power at all costs isn’t the winning move. M1 was nice in that it’s plenty powerful while also not making the laptop’s fans scream and being able to survive away from an outlet for several hours despite doing “real work”.

In short, balance, which is still surprisingly hard to come by in x86 laptops. If you want a 10lb monster desktop replacement, gaming laptop that does the 2016 Apple thing and crams too many watts into too thin of a chassis, or a really weak ultraportable with mediocre battery life you’ve got plenty of options. If you want reasonable performance with great battery life and silence however you’re restricted to a tiny handful of options.
So, is 3nm not thinner/smaller in size compared to 5nm?
> WebRTC is basically a ready made implementation of a video calling app, bolted on the side of the browser

Yeah, Google bought GlobalIPSound, dumps the source code to w3c as a standard.
Frankly that superiority complex may be why neurodivergent people with similar ideas about "normal" people have issues getting along with others, no offense.
is that actually possible?
The A17 Pro benchmarks are extremely disappointing, so I don't think 3nm is actually doing much.
These are almost never pragmatic decisions. Giving teams independence over the stack usually results in resume-driven development, and now your JS developers are forced to maintain a Go server because some jock thought it was a cool thing to do .

Due diligence in these cases is rare.
I never thought "enforced monogamy" to be a reference to laws, because that is absurd. I always thought it meant socially enforced, and then not even by any particular sex.
From your username I thought you might be an expert :). All I have is a small pile of physics classes, so I'm also not an expert. Still, I agree: ridiculous.

Just to nit pick your "same speed" comment though...

The tube you linked to indicates 250V at the anode. Electrons have a mass of 10^-13 kg. For such a tiny thing, that voltage is positively tremendous. Even in the tiny space of the tube I think that the electrons are accelerating from 0 when at the cathode to relativistic speeds at the anode. The tube is an accelerator, and the control grid opposes that acceleration.

Accelerating the electrons to even greater energies would just mean that more voltage is needed at the triodes to have any modulating effect on the signal. Also, the beam would be, well, a beam, rather than a... gust? It would either strike the anode or miss it--that's not modulating anything, that's just an on-off switch.
> A mass extinction is terrible solely because of the impact it may have on humans, on human life. That's it.

Sure, I agree. But as it happens, I am a human, and I want to live in a society where I as a human don't have to experience a mass extinction.

I don't want to survive in a capsule on Mars, or even in a capsule on Earth once it's impossible to live outside on big parts of the globe. I want to live on Earth, with some amount of biodiversity. And I want to change society to achieve that.
You could also explore approaches like what puppeteer-heap-snapshot does and extract the data you're interested in from the in memory Javascript objects that the canvas powered website uses to generate its contents.
I was more surprised not to see any AI-specific benchmarks—sure, the most popular open-source models are from avowed competitors, but there should have been a way to define a re-training task that would be relevant for the wave of ML programmers.
I don't disagree with what you're saying (that people don't always understand the implications of their casual dealings with big evil corps).

But can I offer another perspective, one of potential differences in values?

Privacy, for me, isn't a super high concern. Having some is nice, but it's never my top consideration. (I know this skews against the dominant HN sentiment, and Slashdot's too before it. That's okay.)

Science, however, IS huge for me -- even when the science is done by sub-optimal orgs like your Big Evil Corp du jour. When I learned that Google owned 23andme, my reaction wasn't one of horror.

Instead, it was "Oh cool! Maybe they'll actually have the resources to correlate this with all their other data on me." I then proceeded to sign up for Google Health, Google Fit, etc., and made sure to upload my health readings to their servers in the explicit hope that they would be able to merge it with 23andme and other data. My dream was that one day they would be able to identify genetic markers not just for health and lifestyle stuff but also behavioral data, like my YouTube preferences and Gmail conservational styles.

Gattaca to me was a utopia, not a dystopia.

I know that's probably not a common viewpoint. But I was really excited by the possibilities, and it doesn't bother me in the least that Google knows so much about me. I just wish they'd do something useful with all of it.

FWIW, I just asked my partner about the data sharing. She said she's fine with it and would opt-in if given the choice. Most of her family too (many were early adopters of genetic testing). One individual in particular skews conservative and is conspiracy-theory-prone and would probably not, though.

I wonder how much of this preference is political or personality or similar. Would be interesting to plot privacy needs vs the Big 5 personality test, maybe. But how would you get participants? Lol.

> It's clear that they wanted the data, not clear that there would be benefits to the participants, the data returned is just too coarse for that and akin to doing a lot of screening without symptoms, a practice that the medical profession has warned against repeatedly.

To this point, yes, you're probably right, but these things are rarely black and white. It's a false dichotomy. They can be harvesting all my data but STILL offer a useful service at a good value to me. And -- more importantly -- nobody else stepped up to offer the same thing with a better business model. Whether it's 23andme or YouTube, it's not necessarily the case that all their customers have their blindfolds on. Some of us are just OK with the tradeoffs and buy into it willingly. The medical profession isn't always able to meet consumer desires, to say the least. And even if 23andme didn't do it perfectly... at least they did it. If the medical profession or the government wants to offer something similar, I'd still be interested... they just haven't yet, AFAIK.
Most likely. Let's not kid ourselves, there would be more players sharing those if they felt it was worth it.
Where is the 27”?
This. 1000x this. Even if it's a FAANG, do it, there's no shame. I had a good run at one, then the culture went to crap due to one of those long boring stories that still can't communicate how...easy it is for things to be awful, even when they shouldn't be.

When they are, just move on. Life's too short. Whatever blows you up with $2 million in savings would blow you up at $500K
Playdate Catalog Update
I love this website because it is advertised as a therapist and uses therapise.me as a domain
The golden rule of PR reviews
Anecdotally speaking, the deeply ingrained cultural view around me is that education is attained through educational institutions. One of Illich's core arguments against traditional schooling is that in fact the mechanisms of school are not the major contributor to one's aptitudes. When I traced my most promising or useful aptitudes, I agreed that school was not where these were developed. Having one dissenting and well-reasoned voice was important in being able to follow through with experimenting with a self-driven educational model.

Illich demonstrates real examples in learning Spanish through a dominant institutional approach versus intensive, ad-hoc immersive study groups to claim a growing disconnect between method & goal as well as agency problems arising in institutional education (credentialism, self-justification etc). For me, replacing the learning confirmation and feedback tools with a real-world cause/effect, market-driven approach (job interviews, low stakes freelancing, hobby projects) well aligned my intrinsic motivation with my educational goals.

Retrospectively, an institutional computer-science education would have had its advantages, though I don't think I was ready for it. I do think our dominant educational approaches are very far from optimal for a big subset of students, we haven't ventured far enough into experimenting with alternatives and from a macro lens, I definitely sympathise with the idea that broadly speaking, it begins to look like a grift designed to continue & justify its own existence.
Depends who you are, mostly the ones making the decisions aren't usually listening to their developers (maybe by choice maybe because they are at the whim of a customer), so their cost functions are calibrated towards course changing being more expensive than less.

By the time your devs are saying "this sucks" you've long overshot.
From what I’ve heard from folks connected with Apple, M3 was designed some time ago and TSMC delays on 3NM are why M2 happened at all. So, Apple is releasing M3 later than they’d have liked, and I expect we will see the M4 refresh faster than we would have otherwise.
I'm rocking a 2017 MacBook Air and it's great--really the only down side is that Apple stopped supporting it in macOS past Monterey. Almost all of my past and present Apple hardware has long outlasted software support, which is my biggest complaint with the company.
I was hoping there would finally be an Apple Silicon 27" iMac.

The last 27" model was in 2020, Intel, not sold on Apple's front-page anymore (but you can get Certified Refurbished).
You could call Google Alphabet and say MAAA. I’m partial to channeling my inner cow when pronouncing that.
I note that if those performance numbers are correct it'll still be a lot slower than Intel's Core i9-13980HX laptop CPU. The M2 Max was between 50% and 80% of the speed of the 13980HX on most benchmarks. A 15%-30% uplift will get it closer to the Intel part but still not reach it.
velocity of transactions in the economy is more useful than filling the government’s coffers

this is the crux of the American growth engine
Thanks! Will push on subreddits a bit more. Did a few posts lately and they performed quite well.
I wonder how others look upon you. Especially from your school days. And what they say about the entirety of the populace who've chosen to enter your occupation, on the basis of you as a teenager...
Add ‘em to the list: https://sso.tax/