skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From one of the dissenting opinions:

> the majority points to delays in the development of SpaceX’s
Starship launch platform—the largest, most powerful rocket ever built—as evidence that SpaceX would
be unable to launch enough Starlink satellites to meet its 2025 commitments. The trouble with this
argument is that SpaceX never indicated that it was relying on the Starship platform to meet its RDOF
obligations, and in fact it repeatedly stated that it was not.

I think the metric was 'more likely than not achieve the metric by 2025' and the decision was made in 2022.
That also applies to any good compression though.
Wait what? I'm a confessed ignoramus but this does not make sense to me. Encrypted data is bits and bytes like everything else. You can compress it. (Maybe not as well as unencrypted text, but still.)
Having been paid a tipped wage, I have for half a century tipped 20%, almost invariably without regard to the service. For the first thirty years, this was thought to be on the generous side, now I guess I'm a piker.

I will say that on a recent vacation to Italy, where tipping seems to be just not done--none of the credit card slips had a line for tip--I found I didn't miss it.

[Edit: added missing "on" to last sentence.]
Amazon did? (ban encrypted files). I'm guessing so, just want to make sure.

I used to use Amazon stuff but it has really become such insane spyware. There is no data collection/analytics that goes too far for Amazon. It's really appalling, no less so that they use their near monopoly on using Kindles to deeply mine for data on exactly what people are reading, how long on each page, etc. Really gross.
The more people watch TBBT, the more Netflix is motivated to maintain the license to keep it in the library (and while I'm not positive about this, I thiiiiink the more they have to pay to maintain that license).

Money they take out of their budget to keep TBBT in their library is money they can no longer spend to keep shows that I, personally, care for alive.

It's the same thing as cable: by paying for a Netflix subscription, I'm partially paying for them to keep TBBT on their network, and I don't think it's a stretch to say if they didn't have TBBT they'd have a (or more than one) different show instead, that I might be more interested in.

TBBT isn't specifically the problem. But it's pretty emblematic of the lowest-common-denominator chaff that's currently clogging up streaming services. I don't even think it's a bad show, necessarily, in of that people do get joy from it. But I think broad-appeal, low risk, low effort content is horrendously overvalued in our society compared to more interesting, creative work, which is honestly not that hot of a take.

Tl;dr I want more people to like the sorts of things I like so that they get more financial support and become more prevalent compared to the sorts of things I care for less. This is not an unusual take.
Auto-pilot is not on all Teslas as it was a paid upgrade til mid-2019. My M3 does not have auto-pilot!
Sure. Make me read the article. lol
It's always been a garage argument. If someone is offering free food, and it gives you food poisoning, on purpose, you don't say "well it was free".
https://archive.ph/3LWD2

Why is housing so expensive in CA??
California does require front license plates, and putting one on a Tesla is still a PITA.

There is one company licensed to do front license plate stickers instead of plates though:

https://licenseplatewrap.com/
Dissenting statement by one of the FCC commissioners.

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/FCC-23-105A3.pdf
Well, this is just neuronal tissue that as far as we know, is only capable of what it has been trained to do. It has no emotions, no human experience.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEXefdbQDjw

Growing Living Rat Neurons To Play... DOOM?

The Thought Emporium

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2YDApNRK3g

Growing Human Neurons Connected to a Computer

The Thought Emporium
I'm not the OP, so I didn't cite anything but their point seems to not be dependent on the difference in any way.
Not only that, the article being from American media, even with the footnote, the commenters, miss the whole point about copyright being exclusively American concept and we don’t have this in EU. We have IP and authorship rights that work differently. See last part for explanation: https://thehftguy.com/2020/09/15/french-judge-rules-gpl-lice...
Joke, especially since conclusions were made in Persian Gulf
the above is incorrect, chimera does use scudo but it patches musl to achieve that

and scudo is probably one of the few allocators that would work for this purpose, it absolutely cannot be applied to any allocator; there are some concerns that get in the way of that, e.g. the handling of ELF TLS in a libc (ELF TLS may not be and in musl's case is not available within the dynamic linker, which means you cannot use __thread and the likes anywhere within libc.so; scudo is designed to be flexible so you can get around it (we shove a pointer to the thread-local state directly in the pthread structure and manually mmap the data for it) but that is not necessarily the case with many other allocators, including mimalloc, hardened_malloc, and others)
It probably does work for certain kinds of software, but groundbreaking research breakthroughs not so much.
As well they should be.
Good heavens, this is some writing. Deeply relatable as someone who has also lived in not so nice circumstances in the UK for much of my life. I like to think i'm on the way to escaping it but we'll see.
No joke, even if trying to correct GTP3.5 it still gives a nonsense answer:

> I apologize for any confusion caused by my previous response. Reading a book doesn't physically remove it from your house. The assumption I made was a misunderstanding. If you read a book, it is still in your house unless you lend it, give it away, or otherwise remove it.

> So, if you started with 31 books and read 2 over the weekend, you would have 31 - 2 = 29 books still in your house.
Aren’t the guarantees the SLA that is agreed with Amazon, Google etc?
GIMPLE is a joy compared to Tablegen in my opinion! It tries to do one thing well.
Just to be put the record straight: Google is an advertising company with hobbies.

And like for many of us hobbies change over time, so do Google's hobbies.

There's somewhere a website with all the products killed by Google for various reasons, some even after a few months.
Paragraphs 30 and 31 seem pretty dispositive to me. Starlink has not yet been able to reach the required speeds, its speeds have gotten worse over the past years, and it can point to no concrete evidence to suggest that Starlink's aspirational plans to suddenly and dramatically change that trend over the next several months are in fact realistic. Not that the report points this out, but Musk's companies do have a long history of touting unrealistic milestones and a very short history of actually reaching any such milestone on time.

So what's horseshit about it?
Might mean in this context Native Americans. At least that could make some sense.
Is it happening in some parts of Germany? I haven't experienced it so far but I visit only Baden-Württemberg.
Except for X, most of his companies have involved large government subsidies or contracts. Tesla, SpaceX, Boring, Hyperloop.
True, but since very, very few files are compressed with unique or unknown compression algorithms, you can read the metadata in the file and see if it's really compressed or if the whole thing is just seemingly random.

That gives me an idea. Might be fun to write a tool that will encrypt a file but make it look like a valid .zip file that just unpacks to meaningless noise. There's gotta be something like that already out there... Although you could recursively unpack/evaluate and eventually you should get to the point where it's non-random data. If you never do, then it's encrypted.
Ah that time the Arab states declared war by being surprise attacked by Israel.
They offered the service for 10 years and then sunset it.
Demographic Divergence
Executives talking their book isn't in contrast to what I wrote.
This is something crypto can solve. There I said it
As another example somewhat reflective of a position of privilege this just pushes me further and further towards "fine dining".

In daily life I cook simple and (extremely) healthy meals at home. Even with the increasing price of groceries this can be accomplished at very low cost. I've never tabulated it but my total grocery spend is likely somewhere in the range of a few hundred dollars/mo (max).

I've always been taught to see eating out as a luxury. An event that should be enjoyed and experienced as such - not a daily thing. When my social circle and I eat out it almost always feels like a celebration (or actually is) and between this approach and our overall financial status we have little (if any) price sensitivity. This happens a couple of times a month on average, with the occasional quick lunch being at what are probably best described as "fast casual" restaurants where you prepare yourself to deal with stuff like this and can tap some tip amount, eat to survive, and just get out of there. It's much easier to accept when it's not a daily shake down.

In all of the establishments we patronize you get professional, extremely polished, and highly skilled wait staff - what I refer to as "six figure servers". The overall experience is night and day from the moment you walk in and these establishments will never deploy these methods because they know you're there largely for the experience - the total package. Something like this completely ruins it at a key point in time (the end of the meal). In the US at least (at these establishments) getting handed a terminal with a series of hustles, bad UX, etc would completely ruin the impression and overall "feel" of the business. I wouldn't come back to such a place and I doubt many (or any) of their target customers would.

While you still hear horror stories of bad tippers at these establishments more often than not the experience is so professional and of such high quality (incredible) we find ourselves tipping 25% MINIMUM - which on a meal at least $100/person means a server on a decent night is walking out with at least $1000. 2-3 "good nights" a week (50 weeks) is $150k/yr gross. Throw in a few occasional large parties and/or big spenders (wine, etc) and they are often looking at $1k-$2k (or more) in tips per table. Even when split with other members of staff everyone is well beyond minimum or even living wage.

I much prefer spending ~$500/mo eating out a couple of times at very high quality restaurants vs eating out a couple of times a week and dealing with stupid stuff like this. You learn to actually appreciate it vs being some routine and mundane thing and you end up with the kinds of experiences that with memory only get better with time. My friends and I frequently recall specific meals (which are truly events) and talk about them years later.

Well worth it and everyone comes out further ahead. The sit down "terminal hustle" places need to exist for a variety of reasons but my friends and I aren't spending our money there.
Not only would Dijkstra disapprove of TFA's proposed criteria, but I've been paid (albeit with a job title of "software engineer" instead of "programmer") to write programs for silicon which did not yet exist.
> Tell me how you know.

Congratulations, you're performing one of the major functions of intellect that an LLM can't. Learning. You aren't a deterministic system. LLM's aren't a model that is suddenly going to change all the past failures of "make it bigger and AGI will emerge from it"... At its core what an LLM is produces something interesting, but it's NOT a path to intellect... It's more or less turning language into a mathematical model. Are we so foolish, so hubris driven that something bigger will emerge from the digitized version of our language, and our vision alone, we made god in our image and how did THAT work out?

And if a super intelligent AI emerges tomorrow so what? Is it going to be able to manipulate us all based on a deep understand of people, that it gained from the piles of bad psych research? Is it going to melt down reactors and launch nukes, cause we live in a brittle world and that is suicide for your AGI (and improbable to impossible). Is it going to kill us with paperclips... cause we're so stupid we keep feeding it metal till we drown ourselves.

If AGI shows up tomorrow how many decades to a tipping point where it could "take over" where it could "cause harm"? Walk me through that process where the world is automated enough that paperclips are what kills us. That AGI is gonna be stuck in a cradle, a data center for a LONG time. It's gonna need to be fed power, hardware, water (for cooling). A can of gas and a bag of rags will stop, A few people with shovels or one person with a backhoe cuts it off from the world.

It takes 50 to 100 years for that AGI to get to a place where it does not need us at all. I would be more worried about a doomer mudering it in its cradle than it going off the rails in that time frame.
> I have no way of knowing, without taking significant effort to investigate, whether it's not connecting to free wifi's and relaying back to home my books list etc.

I think this is bordering on the unreasonable to be honest. There is no reason to assume it's doing this, and it would be wildly illegal (in EU at least).
In fact all you can eat buffets ban people from showing up after they completely break the system.
Both of those examples require licenses in many states. Not to mention an apprenticeship for plumbers, so you’d never get a dumbass kid working from his phone if you expect a permit lol
If the goal is to get levels of performance that Starlink cannot provide, then this makes sense?

Odd that they'd include comments about Starship in it, though. That doesn't seem like a requirement for continued development of Starlink and seems very speculative. There could be details on that aspect that I'm missing though.
Blame WordPress / Jetpack.

I am a follower of her site for years, have all her books. What crashed her site I have no idea but it has never been the same since. It's a shame that Automattic - who created Jetpack - never reached out to help her restore the site. They have no obligation of course, but given her profile, given the massive good that she does, it would have been decent of them to do that.
> If you know a site has a 4-words policy, the xkcd pw has very low entropy, but if you use this strategy on a "any pw goes" site, a bruteforcer would have to test all lengths upto 25 chars before finding yours (sort of).

How so? Iirc, the entropy calculations assume that the attacked is aware passphrases are used. The eff-long word list often used for xkcd-style passphrases has 7776 words. So on average it would take 7776^4/2 attempts to guess one (randomly generated) 4-word passphrase, comparable to a truly random 8-9 character password with special chars. As the comic points out, people tend to be pretty bad at remembering random sequences of characters and therefore often often use combinations of common words and apply non-random substitutions and patterns, resulting in much lower entropy for those passwords.

Of course, everyone should use a password manager in the first place, but for cases where people don't or they need to reliably remember it (master passwords and critical ones), xkcd-style passphrases are a good and secure option.
It's really tough seeing the amount of sugar that this recipe has. Really puts things into perspective, compared to simply drinking the end product from a can.
…these issues aren't going to be solved by outsiders with messiah complexes coming in and telling established growers/experts that they're wrong/stupid, they'll be solved via unglamorous work over many years by people who really understand the field.

Couldn’t have said it better myself, as a former ag tech employee who worked for one of the tech god complex people.
The shocking thing about these M series comparisons is never "the M series is fast as the GIANT NVIDIA THING!" it's always "Man, the M series is 70% as fast with like 1/4 the power."
Reader mode worked for me
Finnish consumer protection officials very rarely do much. If the company doesn't voluntarily refund or otherwise compensate, you're usually SOL.

Finnish consumer ombudsman (and only the ombudsman) got the power to sue a class action suit in 2007. This power has been used exactly zero times.
Partly yes. But if you throw a million items at the wall you also have tell which ones stick. An infinite random walk isn’t useful unless you have infinite verification to determine what is promising, so you can guide your next steps and continue discovering stuff.
In general if Google is already paying for the engineers, etc to support their US offerings, then the EU can regulate their way into “paying” for the additional cost of supporting their users. Should be pretty cheap, no R&D costs.

If they go too far and Google leaves the EU market, I suspect nobody will be all that sad, goodbye giant competition, a boon for the local service providers.

I think what you are misunderstanding is: countries will sometimes be protectionist toward their own companies, but they don’t actually care if foreign companies have a viable business model, especially for non-critical things like YouTube. Asking the EU to care whether or not YouTube has a viable business model is not really reasonable.
Not on anything bigger than a raspberry pi on a dial up connection, no.
Somewhat confusing when GP uses it to refer to Microsoft, though.
Exactly. It’s 100% up to the customer to pay the employee, **not** the employee’s employer.

Why don’t people understand that?
Deleted is past tense, but in reality a 7 day advanced notice was sent. The title makes you think that the user lost the data where in reality he needs to host the data somewhere else.
My point was that both are finishing several plants per year, with reasonable cost ($3k per kW compared to $8-12k per kW in the US) and within reasonable time frames of 5-10 years of construction. This is competitive with renewables if you take the cost of storage into account.
This is really true. Simply different people value different things. Try to get multiple people to work together and disagreements are inevitable.
But are you using the newly released Apple MLX optimizations?
Simply Homes nabs $22M, leverages AI to tackle affordable housing crisis
No, I agree. Sorry, my phrasing there was poor. I meant: it is completely reasonable to say that "he has seven days to download it", not that it is completely reasonable for him to only have seven days.
Cloudflare covers this in their terms of service:

Content Delivery Network (Free, Pro, or Business)

Cloudflare’s content delivery network (the “CDN”) Service can be used to cache and serve web pages and websites. Unless you are an Enterprise customer, Cloudflare offers specific Paid Services (e.g., the Developer Platform, Images, and Stream) that you must use in order to serve video and other large files via the CDN. Cloudflare reserves the right to disable or limit your access to or use of the CDN, or to limit your End Users’ access to certain of your resources through the CDN, if you use or are suspected of using the CDN without such Paid Services to serve video or a disproportionate percentage of pictures, audio files, or other large files. We will use reasonable efforts to provide you with notice of such action.

In other words, if you serve HTML / CSS / JS you'll be fine. Too much of anything else and at some point they will ask you to pay.

I've experienced this first-hand and they're pretty fair about it. I believe they asked me to upgrade to Enterprise once I was serving something like >10-20TB per month of images / audio files (this was several years ago though!)
I was curious what the context of "grace period" is for Google Drive and found this:

https://support.google.com/drive/thread/13321050/what-will-h...

"If I cancel my additional storage, will all the files/documents that took up the additional space, be deleted? Or will I still have access to them?"

"You will still have access to all your files but, if you have used all storage you won't be able to add or create NEW files until you have space available."

Which sounds like you're right, unless the Product Expert was wrong.
We need a different word. This is not a recall.
We use go-sqlite3 at work and have had a positive experience, with the benefit of having fewer system dependencies and a simpler build process.
Brain Organoid Reservoir Computing for Artificial Intelligence
Well there aren't any, it's been more of a century of technological progress in agriculture and the field is very mature.
Can you say more about the pesticide drift work you did?

I can see that being valuable for a number of reasons - mainly just reducing the amount of human exposure to pesticides.
Hopefully.

However, I had the impression there doesn't exist enough training data to make that place different in a meaningful way.

Still, I think, letting some skilled UX designers loose on input methods could improve things quite a bit, even if the models won't get "smarter".
I don't feel tech has stagnated. There have been all sorts of advances or at least things being more common. The state of Linux on the desktop is much further along than it was 20 years ago. Hardware specs are better and the chips/memory/storage is cheaper (adjust for inflation). Internet is faster and more available. New stuff like ML/AI/blockchain/quantum/etc have become more mainstream or found practical implementations. Languages have advanced with new frameworks, libraries, etc that tend to make development faster or provide more functionality. 3D printers are readily available to consumers, as are drones and other formerly out of reach tech.

For culture, I don't know. What is culture? We don't really have a single national identity. We are a large diverse country with many nations. There are certainly cultures that exist here today. It might be that they are a smaller subset and not so homogenous as you will find in other countries.
Why not just a forum? Discourse, etc.?
>Encrypted data is bits and bytes like everything else. You can compress it.

You can "compress" anything, if one of the modes of your compressor is simply to store the data "as is", but generally speaking encrypted data is indistinguishable from a random bit stream and cannot be compressed.

If you think about it, one of the ways that compressors and attacks on encryption work is by looking for structure in the data. If you still have that after encryption, you don't have a good algorithm.
Does this translate to other models or was whisper cherry picked due to it's serial nature and integer math? looking at https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-examples/tree/main/stable_... seems to hint that this is the case:

>At the time of writing this comparison convolutions are still some of the least optimized operations in MLX.

I think the main thing at play is the fact you can have 64+G of very fast ram directly coupled to the cpu/gpu and the benefits of that from a latency/co-accessibility point of view.

These numbers are certainly impressive when you look at the power packages of these systems.

Worth considering/noting that the cost of m3 max system with the minimum ram config is ~2x the price of a 4090...
They never released Imagen 1 either, why do they even do these "releases"?
The offer was unlimited storage at 5+ seats, but in any case, the subject is quoted in the article writing 'I paid Google a lot of money for a long time for a plan,' so it was absolutely not viewed as 'free' to them.
So would using pigeons to send texts. It's weird, it's not a standard, it's vulnerable to attacks. We have standards that fix the problem that aren't purely security by obscurity.
based on the rest of the comment, I'm guessing GP missed a negative like "don't", or "isn't", or "not", etc