skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Designing things such that they don't require/ use steel reinforcement goes a long way towards having a (potentially) indefinite lifespan.

Reinforced concrete and masonry design are underappreciated disciplines of modern engineering, but their Achilles heel is that reinforcement rusts, rust expands, and expansion ruptures. All at relatively accelerated speeds.

Things like the aqueducts weren't necessarily overengineered, they were just designed (mostly) without quickly deteriorating elements, like steel.

Which is to say, 2000 yrs ago, the design of an aqueduct with a 10yr lifespan didn't differ much compared to a hypothetical one with a 100yr or even 1000yr lifespan. At least compared to how things would be done today.

Much of space design seems to be similar, where the minimum requirements aren't that far off from what seems like excessive engineering. But that doesn't necessarily mean anything was "overengineered".
> So depending on the launch orientation to orbit

The Wikipedia page has the date, time, and location for the Pascal-B test:

August 27, 1957 22:35:00.0, 37.04903°N 116.0347°W

So that would have been 10:35PM local daylight savings time from southern Nevada, so 9:30PM solar time.

Turns out the potential adder from earth's rotation is a negligible ~0.37 km/s at that latitude. With earth tilted by 23.5 degrees, we have it launched 37-23.5 = 13.5 degrees away from the orbital plane. That seems smallish, so let's ignore that. Seems like the best time would have been around 6AM to add to the orbital velocity and 6PM to be about the worst, subtracting off the orbital velocity. At 9:30PM, our 55 km/s launch vector is 127.5 degrees (8.5/24*360) away from the 30 km/s orbit vector. For a combined velocity of around 43.8 km/s. Check my math.
While the first >1000 core x86 processor is probably a little ways out, Intel is releasing a 288-core x86 processor in the first half of 2024 (Sierra Forest). I assume AMD will have something similarly high core in 2024-25 as well.
> Growing the community is how you catch up.

Agreed 100%.

> That doesn't happen if people can't afford the only GPUs you support.

On this part, we are going to have to agree to disagree. I feel like being able to at least affordably rent time on the high end GPUs is another alternative to buying them. As I mentioned above, that is something I'm actively working on.
That still doesn't make sense from a fairness perspective. Why should should contract workers get to opt out of all the taxes that employees are subject to?
Between this and the occultation of Betelgeuse, 2023 is ending with very Cthulhu-y vibes.
My favorite graph of all time is the one that demonstrate Voyager 1 had left the solar system. I was a high school math and science teacher at the time, and I spent the whole day sharing this graph with students. It was so much fun watching everyone's faces and seeing the moment they realized what it really meant.

https://phys.org/news/2012-10-voyager-left-solar.html
DNS blocking has some nice qualities (simple! efficient! app agnostic!) but it is absolutely not a replacement for something that can inspect and modify the page itself. That has TONS of additional usecases beyond "replace ad image with blank space".
30,000 years worth of missing genetic immunity to essentially every disease imaginable wiped out native populations in the Americas and precipitated the collapse of civilizations there, actually.
Supposedly the drop-in compatibility was so they didn't have to also design a development board right out the gate. I don't know what one could want for a more direct, firsthand account of what it was or wasn't designed to compete with -- Bill Mensch is the guy who did the silicon tape-up for the thing!
software is the fundamental component of AI.

ITS basically this month the And accelerators are supported by llm
> … offers convincing evidence that the guards in the experiment were coached to be cruel.

This was the point of the experiment. That simply coaching people in banal ways to be cruel caused them to be cruel.

Yes the study participants were just doing what they thought the scientists wanted to see… exactly as many humans do in many human organizations.

Perhaps the guards believed deep down there was no real danger to the prisoners. Exactly as many people assume about civil society and the social safety net.

How many people would do things that are quite evil or disastrous to another human’s life if instructed to do so by a company’s performance management system, at risk of losing their job?

Remember the context in the early 70s was the relatively recent discovery of the Nazi’s unimaginably cruel treatment of people, and the unknown question of what could cause humans to behave that way.

It turns out, just some authoritative instructions.

Worth reading the original PIs 2018 response to recent criticism in full. Well written. https://www.prisonexp.org/response
Are we all sure the times aren’t asymmetric?

The transmitter on Earth can be massive with an enormous power budget. Sending from Voyager might be much more constrained: less compute to compress the payload, less power to send it.

The speed of light is obviously the same either way but it’s not obvious to me that the speed of a byte (error corrected, etc) must be.
In the UK there's a tax for viewing live TV, and more recently for a subset of on-demand content (specifically from the BBC). Yes, it's a tax.

Another bit of context that's important is that at the relevant times for this, you're looking at almost certainly 4 possible channels for most of the population of the UK.

There's a few ways of viewing some of this

One is simply that it's a lie and a deterrent. Not so interesting on the technical level. Most likely true but a dead end for fun tech ideas.

The more interesting is to think about how this could work - certainly some of the people in BBC R&D have. I'm sure someone will mention Van Eck phreaking, which is extremely cool but more than you need.

A much simpler approach, and one that actually seems easiest is

> it was thought that they operated by detecting electromagnetic radiation given off by a TV,

looking at the diffuse light through windows/curtains. You then simply need to have a live TV feed tuned to each channel and see if there's a direct match between the changing light and your own blurred monitor tuned to the same channel.

You can make this even easier by doing it at certain times, when Eastenders or Coronation Street is on, as a vast amount of the population would watch these.
John's Background Switcher
Best wallpaper switcher for Mac and Windows.
Version 5.7 for Windows fixes a few bugs.
> Doing the same infra, across multiple clouds, is a different thing, it's not a Hashi thing.

Not sure about this. Here is what official site says:

"Provisioning infrastructure across multiple clouds increases fault tolerance, allowing for more graceful recovery from cloud provider outages."

https://www.terraform.io/use-cases/multi-cloud-deployment
Heh, I have mostly worked on AWS but we stopped using CloudFormation because the experience was so much worse than Terraform with the lengthy deploys, no diffs, significant time delays supporting new AWS features, and deadlocks. They’ve added diffs but turning debugging into a half hour or longer break is still a problem.
Tunnels of Cash and Cryptocurrency: Hamas' Finances Explained
https://archive.is/MHcib
>To give credit where it's due, Levitt basically made a whole career out of showing the replication problems of psychology experiments.

Ironic, given the many documented mistakes made by the Freakonomics team.

https://www.americanscientist.org/article/freakonomics-what-...
And on-demand things from the BBC, that got added in the last royal charter.
He had a whole term to be a dictator. Why didn't he go full dictator last term? Or are you just saying in a hyperbolic way that that he'll do the same stuff he did last term?
Apple's iMessage implementation loses messages all the time. It happens about once every month between my girlfriend and I.

I have also had iMesages be sent to the wrong recipient. In one ongoing case, my aunt and uncle frequently receive each other's iMessages, suggesting it's related to their group carrier plan but it's hard to say. The extended family all knows to use SMS instead, which reliably goes to the intended recipient. They are both retired and always together so they haven't reached the point of getting a new plan.
What would you recommend instead? Personally, I think Typescript makes a great config language
> Give it another try. The current version of Nightly (v122.0a1) from the Play Store has functional sideloading for me after I unlock the "secret menu" in the settings by going to "About Nightly" and tapping the Nightly icon several times.

uh-huh

> You need to enable desktop mode when assembling the add-on collection (or do it from a computer) for Violentmonkey to show up as an option in the search.

And people say "Firefox not popular, why?"

what a tire fire, for no damn good reason
the 7000 processors have NPU on the higher end.
His response is informative, and should be read against what I believe to be a stronger case than the OP (and linked from it): https://gwern.net/doc/psychology/2019-letexier.pdf

Some of the more damning parts:

>"Of the students tested, 81% accurately figured out the experimenter’s hypothesis (that guards would be aggressive and that prisoners would revolt or comply), and 90% predicted that the guards would be “oppressive, hostile, aggressive, humiliating” (p. 158), thereby supporting the argument that demand characteristics were likely operating in the SPE and that the participants in the SPE would have probably guessed how Zimbardo and his coexperimenters wanted
them to behave."

>"Reason 4: The experimenters intervened directly in the experiment, either to give precise instructions, to recall the purposes of the experiment, or to set a general direction. "

>"When he began to get interested in prisons, only 3 months before the beginning of the experiment, Zimbardo already had strong views on the subject. As he would confide later, “my sympathies were heavily with prisoners. I was anti-prisons, anti-corrections, etc.” (Zimbardo, 2009, p. 34)."
Perhaps, but the data doesn't show that there's a bias towards or against, and if anything it could be easier for there to be upwards mobility in a larger country.
There nothing better than a huge comment describing behaviors above a value: {} to ruin your day.
'Remarkable' results in Leeds leukemia trial
It continues to be weird that anyone treats this as a technical battle when I'm sure Beeper will get a cease and desist at anytime.
> Of course everyone can switch to Signal and this is a moot point, but millions of Apple users use iMessage and aren't likely to switch.

Doesn’t this mean that most people simply don’t care?
We don't know if iMessage leads any markets or not. It might lead the US market.
I don't play MTG, but wouldn't that be like saying that your CPU is Turing-complete as long as you don't install a system that lets you manually modify data while it is in the CPU? In other words, it's Turing-complete but has a manual override to allow you to change/corrupt your data.
There's a nice 2017 documentary about Voyager called The Farthest [1]. It includes interviews with many of the now very old team members, and they do exude (deserved) pride, and a still fresh sense of wonder that they pulled it off.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farthest
I have read it. He basically doesn’t address any of the criticism, he just reframes to claim that the experiment was actually testing something different than what we’ve all understood it to be.

Maybe that is true. In which case he would be a terrible scientist rather than a fraudulent one. Even so, that still makes the legacy of the SPE false, and one has to wonder why he never corrected the record in the nearly 50 years between the experiment and its failure to replicate.
Are there discoveries or theories from the field of psychology that are (a) not obvious and (b) generally regarded as correct?

For example, things like general relativity, continental drift, or evolution from the fields of physics, geology, and biology.

Does psychology have anything like that?
"name it the way you'd like, it can be called Spanish" is a very different proposition to "[you should say] Spanish, Castilian does not exist [and you are wrong to use that name]", which was the angle of the poster who kicked all this off.
In China, you might be disappointed to find that people would just shrug in response to you announcing that. Absolutely nobody cares. You'd get far less reaction than you would in some southern states or small towns in the US.
The unintuitive thing about self driving cars is when we drive it’s not just about the source, destination, road lights and signs. That may be the 99% but the last 1% is all sorts of crap on the road that one has to triage in milliseconds whether it’s safe or not to run over.

Pedestrians slight gestures, animals on the road, construction, police, wet cement, pot holes, fallen trees etc.

One needs to have somewhat a human experience and know the physics and behavior of almost all objects, including infering and learning on the fly unknown objects and environments.

Now if you build a system that does that, not only have you solved self driving cars, but robotics itself.

And if you solved robotics, that is inches away from AGI. Only a matter of time before it’s learned all physical trades, and only a matter of time a few humans use an army of robots to take over, or the robots themselves doing it in the goal of self preservation.

So inventing AGI is kind of conditional to L5 self driving and once you solve AGI, it’s a very different unpredictable world.

I fundamentally believe alignment is impossible. Sure you can align AGI to a few powerful humans but something aligned to all humans is very unlikely going to happen.
> However, using the crypto networks also has drawbacks. The most obvious ones are the tremendous volatility of cryptocurrency, and the transactions' transparency. You can closely follow the course of each cryptocurrency and, especially, see when a currency is converted to regular currency, and at what bank. In other words, who the account holder is.

There is no currently volatility if you use stable coins and even if you use Bitcoin there are periods where you can make the transaction with little risk.
Your original link was to the “Assisted Driving Gradings” which evaluates ADAS systems such as Tesla Autopilot.

What you just linked is the AEB (and other collision avoidance/warning) rating and “AEB has nothing to do with self driving or Autopilot” as you said, so is totally irrelevant.

So, I stand by your position that we should trust Euro NCAP which means concluding Tesla Autopilot is by far the worst system.
You could try Lichee Pi 4A, CPU TH1520, 12nm, RISC-V 2.0G C910 x4

> https://sipeed.com/licheepi4a
It's been a few decades, but I recall having to write in all caps in my high school drafting class. We were told the all caps and the letterforms we were told to use helped legibility when the drawings are stored on microfiche.
I remember reading about said ignorance once early smartphones and laptops could have a TV tuner.
> the GitHub Octoverse report found that HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) has once again emerged as one of the top languages used in open source projects

"Hashicorp Configuration Language (HCL) with a 56,1% increase in popularity is the fastest-growing language according to GitHub"

Fastest growing and "top" are not the same thing, but I have to assume that you know that @mitchellh. Embarrassed for you.

https://xkcd.com/1102/
Ubiquiti has always been pushing the remote management feature pretty hard. But recently they are also making some really nice VPN features. I hope incident like this would further change their standpoint and actually make local account access nicer.

There are tons of dark pattern in the Protect app that prevents you from using a local account. And when you finally learned to workaround all of them, you realized that there's no push notification without remote access. (I understand the difficulty to push message straight from console to mobile device, but many selfhostable software offer a centralized, managed push notification relay over internet. I am not sure if this is too much to ask for)
The fact that some people are snobs doesn’t justify the government dictating software specifications to Apple.
They do? Or do you mean on mobile, where AFAIK almost no browser supports extensions?
>The speed of light is obviously the same either way

It's not obvious that it is :) We don't have any way to prove that it is the same, because every experiment to measure the speed of light going from A to B requires some light to go from B to A which cancels out any difference. We just assume that it is the same because we don't have any reason to believe it's not.

Veritasium video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTn6Ewhb27k
Given the majority of their users don't care about that, it seems unlikely to be an accurate portrayal of the internal discussions.
Yeah, I was thinking of xstate too. I think you do a better job than xstate does in describing how a DAG model is a better fit for organizing the frontend state than the current more common spaghetti paradigm. And xstate isn't solely for representing the frontend as a DAG, but my understanding is that it can do that too.

So while I think the description of your solution is better than I've seen in xstate's docs, I'd be inclined to go with the xstate's more mature software that gives me the ability to represent front-end state in a DAG, since it has a thriving ecosystem and (I assume) better tooling.

But I might give Octopus a spin anyway to see what the DX is like
> It turns out, just some authoritative instructions.

And even better if the authority tells them "this is for science".
Both ChatGPT and DALL-E have received major updates over the last year (3 to 4 turbo and 2 to 3, respectively).
Minnesota new state flag design narrowed to 3 finalists
AMD announced a successor to 7840, mostly with _more_ NPU
An IDE plugin for Rust that helps you focus on relevant code
> Unable to think of any way to help. All I can do is retweet and protest and write a stupid blog post. I feel so stupid.

By writing this blog post, you have already done something extremely significant and noble. You are giving a voice to those who cannot speak for themselves because they are running from bombs with their children and doing what they can to increase their chances of being able to feed them tomorrow. Very few have internet access, and fewer still have the time and energy to spend writing about their experiences. If people like you and others who share your empathy (a huge shout out to Jewish Voice for Peace who are spearheading the protests and spreading awareness of war crimes that are being done in their name; showing the world that this is not a religious war) did not speak about this, they would have no one to represent them.

Thank you.
Agreed. Time will tell.

MI300x and ROCm 6 and their support of projects like Pytorch, are all good steps in the right direction. HuggingFace now supports ROCm.
I don't think that’s the only salient point. The point being made above is about escalation. If we are talking about eroding our norms, the whole course of conduct matters.

Clinton conceded, but spent years calling Trump illegitimate and spreading falsehoods about Russian interference. At one point, half of democrats believed Russia manipulated vote tallies: https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/trumps-denial-second-b... (“a 2016 Economist/YouGov poll found that half of Clinton voters thought a foreign power tampered with voting results”).

So what’s the next step in the escalation after that?

The stuff about “sabotaging the electoral college’s vote” is an escalation of what Gore did in 2000–pushing the law to its limit to win the case. What’s the next step after that? If it’s okay to request partial hand recounts only in counties you won (to unfairly get more votes), because it’s technically legal, why is it impermissible to lobby the state legislator to select alternate electors? (Which is technically constitutional.)

Why shouldn’t we do it first, before you do?
> ie most ML inferencing

Most ML inferencing is throttled with memory, not compute. This certainly applies to both Whisper and Mistral models.

> it certainly doesn't spell the end of CUDA

No, because traditional HPC. Some people in the industry spent many man-years developing very complicated compute kernels, which are very expensive to port.

AI is another story. Not too hard to port from CUDA to compute shaders, because the GPU-running code is rather simple.

Moreover, it can help with performance just by removing abstraction layers. I think the reason why compute shaders-based Whisper outperformed CUDA-based version on the same GPU, these implementations do slightly different things. Unlike Python and Torch, compute shaders actually program GPUs as opposed to calling libraries with tons of abstractions layers inside them. This saves memory bandwidth storing and then loading temporary tensors.
> so are you telling me that every human can do those tests and perform better than every model on that list

This is a strange bar to require clearing. Every human is not even capable of reading, or speaking, or thinking at all. But those humans who can't are not the benchmark of general human intelligence.

Let's make this simple - the average human IQ is around 100. Will an LLM ever have an IQ of 100? No, I don't believe they'll ever even be close.

How can we gauge this abstract reasoning ability? Lots of ways. Try to teach them mathematics. Try to teach them physics. Try to explain to an LLM the rules to a card game and have it actually play the game with you accurately.
and AMD just refreshed and upted those NPUs
Well that explains the man in the cat detector van from the Ministry of Howzinge.

https://youtu.be/pnq96W9jtuw?t=185
How China's top LLMs stack up against GPT-4
> Broadly correct, yes, but a little clarification - elements don't have to be input elements, then can be any elements. So, for example, if the psjs-bind 'for' target would is a span element, then the innerText content is updated. For input elements, the value is updated, etc. I'm still working out whether this is a good idea or not.

Got it. I'm curious how this works out in practice; it feels like this would end up being a bit too unstructured in practice, but that's just a guess, and that might not be an issue when it's used in relatively small amounts.

> You're correct; some JS is still needed! Of course I consider that a failure that needs to be rectified - for updating the page based on user actions (or input element changes) I'm considering a custom element that subscribes to a channel and listens for a subject pattern, and then changes its style fields (`display: none` to `display: block` (or vice versa)) based on the payload.

I like the idea of being able to write most/all client-side logic with custom elements and/or a server-side rendering library. It can't cover all use cases without being so general that you might as well use JS, but there's probably some 80/20 point that covers most use cases with relatively simple tools.
Making them yes.

But a large part of the cost is not just construction but testing and verification. Not only that it does what it needs to do, but that it survives launch without destroying itself, survives being in a vacuum etc.

Most of that testing is specific to how each individual item was manufactured, so there's little cost saving if any to be had there.

Then there's the price of the launch, and the time on the radio dishes to follow them.
> "It won't ever do this thing" and "ok, it kind of does it in simple cases and may do it in increasingly complex cases as time goes on" are two very different statements with a gulf between them.

Until it's perfect, the amount of trust you can have in the latter case makes it equivalent to the former. There's no gulf really — you can't count on what the code "may do".