skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's say that my silly BitGrid idea works, and the price of a Petaflop goes down by a factor of 1000. Then the other limiting factors that actually prevent AGI from taking place become exposed. Training data only gets you so far. A trained neural network is an optimization of the human knowledge its been fed, a premature optimization, one like the crisis in computer security (caused by settling on the wrong security model), will likely take decades to reverse.

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You're worried about the wrong end of economics, though... it's the physical economy that's about to bite, hard. (I got that phrase from Lyndon LaRouche, he had a lot of interesting ideas, but that one stuck)

The global consumption of fossil fuels is about to hit its downslope, and a great simplification of society is going to be the result. We're extracting resources from the plant at millions of times the rate they are created, and because of the American model of corporate governance, only focusing on the next Quarter, planning to deal with this reality isn't happening.

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It is possible to train an AGI today, with corporate level resources and a generational commitment. you need to put a really good anthropomorphic robot body through all the stages of childhood, being especially careful to emulate all the weaknesses, and the drive for survival, and the need for others to support you, as babies are completely helpless.
I'm pretty sure having a single service act a monopoly for all film/video content will not be a net win for consumers going forward. Also the DVD/physical media market is now mostly dead and never coming back. Those rights will not be given away for almost nothing again.
I was recently saddened by a response in the thread about the Euclid's first images that HN is not an astronomy forum, and that the audience needs to be explicitly told that a wide angle telescope is different from a wide angle camera lens on your mobile device.

So no, after that reset of expectations, I wouldn't expect Saturn's density to be widely known. Hell, I'm now starting to wonder if we've even reached the point that Saturn's rings might not even be associated with it at all?!?!
I've had two System76 machines, so I'm one anecdote ahead of you here.
Big middle finger from me to MyQ
Self-driving cars are the single biggest farce in modern times. It is an effectively intractable problem with our current technology and infrastructure. And in addition, it is a solution to a question or problem that doesn't exist. Driverless cars don't solve any problem and only create problems. Yet, taxpayers have been swindled out of money and their lives in pursuit of this.
I once met a couple who met in Felwood (the WoW region).

You never know where that person's going to come from! And the best ones seem to come while you're not looking for them directly and just having fun being yourself...
Do they just stick a 32gb in the other slot? Seems like dual channel will not work correctly if one stick is 8gb and the other 32
Because you only get to make the choice for products that are actually available, and in many situations companies won't bother to make certain choices available unless forced to, even if it would be perfectly profitable to do so.

Consumer choice is a blatant lie.
I have more hope in Ladybird than Servo, TBH. Considering how young it is, Ladybird is already very impressive.

Even just to take screenshots, Servo's renderer is very basic, slow and buggy.
https://www.samsung.com/us/business/mobile/phones/galaxy-xco...

You can make waterproof phones with swappable batteries.
Yes, I'm dropping Netflix and HBO this month and going back to piracy. They made a mistake and got too greedy and make a subscription I barely paid attention to something that got too expensive and now I will cancel.

The price hikes from both and unacceptable and I don't need to keep paying those prices. Even if they crack down on piracy, which is impossible, I'll still find a better way than paying $20/month for Netflix that I almost never watch.
Online learning and sequence memory with neuromorphic nanowire networks
I think you can see the same thing about many sites that got popular around that time.

People forget, but early reddit was pretty racist.

For every lovely flash animation on sites like albinoblacksheep, newgrounds, etc, there were dozens of deliberately-shocking animations with gratuitous violence, ___ism and nudity.

My take is that this is that these dark sides have a silver lining that everyone, even kids, intuitively recognize: if a site is full of content mainstream corporations wouldn't want to be associated with, the content you're getting is almost certainly not the product of mainstream corporations. What you're consuming there is someone's passion, and the barrier to your passion appearing on someone else's screen is as low as possible.

It is for this reason everyone waxes poetic each time a site like this shuts down: this was a site by regular people, for regular people. Its flaws are our flaws, and so we believe that its beauty is ours too.
Ban this, ban that, without understanding the consequences. As someone mentions below, fairphones are fragile and susceptible to water damage. That is a horrible trade-off for having to go to the store once every 2 or 3 years to get the battery replaced.
Planes are pressurized.
We Americans love our Exceptionalism, what can I say!
anecdotes aren't data, and the market has shifted a lot since 2020.

remote is here to stay, and AI will be eating a lot of jobs.

call my bluff: throw out 3 resumes this week and see what sticks. How many come with the same level of salary -- it's dropping, aggressively, across the market -- or more?
The 2 extra bedrooms are for kids, usually. They don't need big mattresses.

Having 3 smaller bedrooms is way better for a family than US style apartments where it's almost impossible to find 3 bedrooms at all.
Because reducing e-waste is more important than individual preference.
Most landlords (and property owners) in Dublin are not citizens but rather foreign investors and vulture funds.
I don't know how relevant this argument even is anymore considering I was wrong about the move rate. Is 1 in ~1650 really underperforming a 1800 Elo Human ? How much so ?

https://github.com/adamkarvonen/chess_gpt_eval

That said,

>if you understand that it's very often not approaching tasks from first principles

You don't how humans play chess ie what the brain computes. You don't know what "first principles" actually are for intelligence or reasoning or whatever.

If "first principles" were what we thought they were, we wouldn't be using GPT or artificial neural networks for nearly all computer intelligence tasks. We would be using symbolic systems.

Unfortunately the "first principles" systems we labored for decades to build mostly failed and we abandoned them once NNs had the compute to work.

Either we have no clue what these "first principles" are or that intelligence cannot generally be delineated as a system of "first principles"(ie intelligence is not actually logically tractable). My bet is both. Intelligence is not logically tractable and because we have no idea how intelligence works, we foolishly assumed so

Either way, Humans or any other animals we've observed are certainly not first principling their way out of chess or really anything.
Several hundred Hackernews act incredulous about the Omegle shut down?
What if I am fine with this minimal amount of waste? All the greenwashing by Apple and other companies does not reflect the actual material damage of the environment. Just like recycling doesn’t always make sense and it is highly situational. But ask anyone and it’s like a religion.

We need to get back to sensible environmentalism. Otherwise, you can justify pretty much anything.
How Arm is gaining chip dominance with its architecture
You walked through the most expensive neighborhood in all of Brooklyn, home to multi-million dollar brownstones and full floor condos. Try poking at some denser neighborhoods, the problems will become more evident.
ReactOS Runs on a Pentium II with 64 MB of RAM
If they elect to take the long position, usually a crime syndicate will move in on the industry and capture it. That doesn’t mean they can’t also opportunistically profit from industries they aren’t interested in managing.
Honestly at this point, they're probably not going to up sticks. Well-educated Anglophone workforce, lots of existing employees and infrastructure, excellent rule-of-law, lots of extant US-Irish good will, unlikely to elect popularist strongmen any time soon ... where else to go?
The way I understand it is that humor is a defense mechanism. And it's notable that the people who get drawn to or perfect their humor until it becomes an art or profession might have a higher incidence of depression or other disorders. Perhaps because they found humor earlier and/or used it more during childhood.
Its concentration in minerals is not reasonable, but extremely small.

The yearly production per human is a barely visible grain with a volume of about a quarter of a cubic millimeter. If each human would want to have a ring of rhenium, that would need all the global production accumulated during one thousand years.

All of it is heavily contended for various applications like gas turbine blades, so the price is in the same range as for platinum-group elements, which are in fact much more abundant.

If the semiconductor layers would have thicknesses in the tens of nanometer range, i.e. they would be deposited on some crystallographically compatible substrate, then such a semiconductor might be usable for expensive devices.

Nevertheless, developing a deposition method that can recycle all the non-deposited rhenium may be not easy. The deposition methods normally used frequently deposit far more substance on the equipment walls than on the semiconductor wafer. When depositing pure inert metals like gold or platinum, there are relatively easy methods to recover them, e.g. by dissolving in acid everything else. Such a complex substance containing rhenium might be obtained from a chemical reaction during the deposition, but it may be difficult to find precursors that are also easy to recycle.
You know what would instantly greatly help online debates like this?

Actual data.
Precisely. I've unsubscribed from everything years ago after second(?) round of netflix price increasee, on a rare occasion when I want to watch something I just use torrents.
Most of the western content is crap anyway.
Did anyone honestly think we were going to get out of the old cable world paying less for a better service? This is America, this is capitalism. We're going to drive it right off the cliff (yes, I know there are streaming services based elsewhere, but the big ones are all American)

This is following the exact trajectory that early cable TV did. No ads at first, relatively cheap. Then they figured out we can ratchet up the price, then they figured out not only can we charge to the full extent that the market will bear, we can put ads on it too--just like cable TV did

Growth of subscribers isn't going to get people buying Disney or Warner stock. These aren't all tech companies, and they have to have some way to make money. The idea the ecosystem would generate tons more content on less revenue was always a silly one
> They literally can't understand what iMessage is literally just another app, with the only difference is what it's default.

...since all the answers focused on it being a convenient progressive enhancement to the SMS experience, I'm pretty sure they do understand this.

> I would point out to "I do not need to ask them to download/register on iMessages".

Yeah, because the selling point is the aforementioned convenient progressive enhancement. You try to text someone, and if you both have iMessage it automatically becomes better. Would it be nice if Apple had some sort of framework so their messaging app let other messaging services integrate into it so that it wasn't only iMessage that benefited from this quiet upgrade? Yes, but I can see how that'd be an excessively complicated app to maintain.

> There was quite a shock for some people what Apple actually gives up info on their customers when the law enforcement comes with an order.

You're a bit of a goalpost-mover, aren't you?

To engage on the law enforcement and privacy aspect despite it being unrelated to the prior point: falling back from one logged and requestable messaging protocol (SMS) to a different slightly less-logged and less-requestable method (iMessage) is fine. Plus, unless Apple has been actually lying in their marketing, iMessage is end-to-end encrypted, with the only backdoor being that law enforcement can get a search warrant for your unencrypted backups. But there's also a way to turn on a fully encrypted backup, once you go through sufficient warnings that customer service won't be able to help you if you forget your password, and if you do that it's legitimately secure from law enforcement.

> [0] showerthought: there is an intersecting Venn diagram of people who doesn't use Signal 'because phone number' yet use iMessage.

It's because people can have different goals for different products. Signal markets itself as a secure messaging service, with a notable focus in activist communities, and so having to tie you to a super identifiable piece of information is a bit strange. iMessage is just texting-but-better, and automatically steps in when the alternative would have been sending a SMS.
However, and this is something I wrote about recently in my thesis, we are now experiencing somewhat of a renaissance of older approaches as it is only fairly recently that it has become practical to run the older (lisp-based) algorithmic tools in real-time. I can run Scheme during live playback and have the GC finish it's business fast enough to use it with very acceptable audio latencies within Ableton Live for example. I'm just now embarking on a PhD in this area actually, and its pretty exciting how many previously dusty things can be used in exciting new ways.

I discuss this a bit here: https://iainctduncan.github.io/papers/introduction.html
I think you're on the right track, but it's more complicated than that. It's not just success/failure, it's success/failure relative to one's perceived innate abilities. Take this example:

https://old.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/17ql19y/how_to_work_...

The fact that the audience member wearing the cargo pants clearly had a learning disability changed everything. The source of the comedy switched from teasing someone about poor fashion choices to being in the presence of a zen master who wore whatever the fuck he wanted. (It was actually a brilliant response on the part of the performer.)

This is almost universal. We celebrate (say) people confined to wheelchairs playing basketball, but only if they have no choice but to use a wheelchair. Able-bodied people playing wheelchair basketball would be a grotesque farce. (But it's not completely universal. The DAAA games [1], for example, are not nearly as widely known as (say) the special olympics [2].)

[1] http://www.daaa.org/

[2] https://www.specialolympics.org/
What macro assembler allows you to write a single code for multiple architectures?
> 3. Embedding. Like I said, using a web engine as a component seems to have been forgotten in modern times. Surely that can be sold to somebody, because there are plenty use cases for embedding web engines in stuff.

It's not forgotten. Microsoft has WebView2 which uses the same engine as MS Edge and it can be included in your .net applications.

If OTOH you want an ActiveX then you can buy AntView, which wraps WebView2 in an ActiveX control.

Disclaimer: AntView is a control sold by my company.
I notice a big difference with 2K at 13". Text looks much nicer and there's a lot more useable real estate.
I dunno man, the 80/20 rule definitely applies here (and it's cousin Dunning-Kruger does as well, so yes, stay humble). Most software engineers are paid for their expertise in rapidly acquiring and mentally modeling complex domains...

Believing that spending a month of high-effort learning will teach you enough of the basics of just about any field that you can flush out terrible choices isn't _that_ ridiculous...
> - China / Russia... used some kind of "Great firewall"

Also add to the list UK, DE, CH, IT, BG, probably others in Euro area.
Implementation varies, but most of the time DNS level blocking, sometimes plain old ACL to block IP. Varies on country-per-country basis.
Source - I consult ISPs across the world (fortunately not about blocking).
Apple made a bad computer by using components that were known to break down. Nvidia GPUs on mobile still break that way, and have broken in gaming laptops all the time. It took years for them to admit fault, by that time the computer was worthless. My friends Intel MacBook was good at first and it got worst and worst, he was glad he got applecare. His m1 Mac is doing great, but I'd call the quality closer to the consumer electronic I mentioned earlier. I've had other used MacBooks and laptops since, but apples customer service had gotten worst and there's long waits. If he didn't have apple care for the Intel one he would have hated his Mac too.

Framework is probably not going to be around in less than 10 years. I'm happy some products but not the Apple company. Waiting for hours to be sent away at the apple store is never a luxury and a dreadful experience.
The biggest problem with streaming sites is the lack of movies in different regions. For example, if I'm watching Better Call Saul and I do not get all the seasons at once while the rest of the world does, I have no other option but to look at the high seas and immediately without any trouble, get all episodes from all seasons and watch with a simple one click.
I paid for a 64GB M1 Max two years ago and don’t even do local inference in a serious way.
Indeed - when people feel entitled to content piracy is the inevitable outcome for those folks.
Note that a full power strobe will burn about 1-1.5 ms, so below 1/1000 you start to loose the ability to balance flash versus ambient via shutter speed.
Regardless of how smart someone is, don't hire assholes.

A single bad apple in a new team will drag everyone down, reducing communication, causing silos (as they avoid the bad person) and just generally making work not happen the way it should.
This doesn't necessarily preclude them, but a thing to note about underground utilization in NYC: the city has absolutely no idea what's beneath its surface, in part due to centuries of development with nonexistent or inaccurate recordkeeping.

Burying trash receptacles rather than reusing parking spaces may be cheaper, but it isn't guaranteed. It may also vary by borough (Queens in particular has less underground infrastructure).
Not complaining about moderation, but it's bizarre that a series of well-accepted historical facts would be moderated to minus three.
> Context is in the comments.

Maybe I'm old fashioned but I'd think a blog post should have sufficient context in the intro in standalone fashion
And they say engineers aren’t romantics
That's not the fault of consumers. That's the fault of greedy overpaid executives.

Executives deserve to have pay slashed and massive executive position layoffs before consumers, artists, or production staff feel any inconvenience. That will never happen, so it's on us consumers to overpay to keep artists fed.
Faster RAM is good, and more RAM is good, but faster RAM is not the same as more RAM.
The Oxford comma (comma before "and") made it clearer for me. In contrast, "Sex, Age and Smartphone Addiction" would more likely lead me to the same conclusion as you.
Journey from Big Tech to My Own Business
Good for you if you never need a car, but other people need cars for work and family needs. What do you propose that they do?
> Rhenium price seems to be $2k/kg

Based on what?
No, that's perfectly fine for me too, just wanted to be accurate and manage expectations :)

(In fact, I do still expect public phone numbers to be the "default", i.e. encouraged, experience, because of its viral properties. This is also fine by me, as I want Signal to be used by as many people as possible.)
Why in god's name are they _still_ using 1080p displays?
What about unrepairable wireless earphones? I wouldn't trust a company that decided to reverse revolutionize to cancel highly repairable wired earphones.

I wish their usb-c to 3.5mm dongles can be repaired.

By the way Sharp still making IP7/8 MIL-STD-801 flagship phones with 3.5mm headphone jack and microSD card slot in case you don't know. Don't say bs like 3.5mm jack lose waterproof.
I've surfed both. It's fleeting but amazing experience. The remoteness and structure of the coastline makes access the most fun (difficult part). AK gets trickier because its less long period swell and more localized systems, often times resulting in lots of wind and short swell windows.

The holy grail is undiscovered long point breaks.

Would love to give an LLM a dataset of satellite images and tell it to discover more waves containing similar attributes.
Of course it's understandable and it's good that they exist and expand. My only criticism is that they shouldn't act as if they don't also profit from customers buying a new phone every other year.
Counterpoint: my keyboard on my lemur pro died and they shipped me a new part in like 2 days and I had it swapped in 40 mins.

https://partofthething.com/thoughts/replacing-the-keyboard-o...
Other states (that are probably run better): Exist
I think in this case "smart" is equivalent to independent, self-directed, hard working
Ah, you now have two jobs. Sure you can code (quickly apparently!) but can you do sales? Look at lawyer ads on billboards and busses and work backwards from there. You should definitely become an extrovert if you are not already and "go out" every night with business cards. Talk to people. Make sales one by one until you have some momentum going.
HR and applications are already fucking awful.

and I don't care if large corps with automated ATS systems are mildly inconvenienced.

Statistically, most people weren't getting hired anyway with standard, non-AI ATS systems + the Mk1 Human Eyeball.

And of the hires, if you define successful hire as 2+ years in the role, most new hires fail at a rate between 50-80%[1]. Clearly not having AI is a failure. It might create tons of spam, but there is already a ton of spam, and it's miserable for everyone.

[1] https://itworkforce.intersog.com/blog/why-do-50-percent-of-a...
https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/9/23953620/omegle-anonymous...
> I don't know that there's a stable solution to this.

I just quietly download copies of media I may want to watch to an archive NAS so that they'll always be available when I want to watch them. I don't try and justify this to myself as a good thing; it's just the pragmatic thing I do because I don't like being at the whims of some publicly traded company or other (I've had WAY too much of that in my life). Most of my friends do the same.
you're just horrible at articulating yourself, or else you're doing it on purpose (hand waving). my question was rhetorical because your comment was bs.
Amazon basically provides that right now. If my mom wants to watch some movie or series she checks if it’s on a streaming service then rents/buys it from Amazon.

D+ for a month is a lot cheaper than paying 20$ for The Last Jedi, but they are happy to take 20$ from you.
No one controls Bitcoin. The people who fed you that story are simply trying to pump shitcoins.
For context, the UK enables massive tax dodging and shady dealings through its network of crown dependencies and overseas territories, amounting to £152bn a year.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/apr/30/king-charle...
Speak for yourself. I prefer a smaller phone with non replaceable battery. I don’t ever want to DIY my phone. I don’t care about repair. I’d prefer iPhone for this reason: it’s a highly optimized device from packaging standpoint and vertical integration is great for me as a consumer. A high performance secure phone.
What’s Apple’s effective tax rate?