skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's the knife sharpness one, they were referring to people being "sharp", which is another way of saying smart, typically the kind of person who thinks very quickly and nothing gets past them

(hope this doesn't come off as condescending, I'm including these extra details for any non native English speakers because it's kind of a slang word)
“England has developed a hypothesis of the physics of the origins of life, that he calls "dissipation-driven adaptation."[3][5] The hypothesis holds that random groups of molecules can self-organize to more efficiently absorb and dissipate heat from the environment. His hypothesis states that such self-organizing systems are an inherent part of the physical world.[7]”

If Jeremy England’s hypothesis is true, then life shouldn’t be unique but rather inevitable, as life in general would be the way for matter to better dissipate heat, and better turn low entropy into high entropy.

In fact, if you watch what life is doing in terms of physics, then it’s obvious that all it does is consume low entropy (stored chemical energy, heat from heat baths), and dissipates it around very efficiently.

Even we, humans are more and more good at it: we take hydrocarbons chemical energy and turn it into work and heat. It’s not enough for us, we now consume energy stored in atomic bonds, and turn it into work and heat. We capture concentrated sunlight and also turn it into work and heat, etc.

Essentially, we are doing what we are supposed to do as a function of physical matter: we produce more entropy.
Only one certainty, HBM memory makers will be doing nicely in the current climate as all these AI processing options are using it in larger and larger volumes. Those will be the unnoticed winners in this rush.
No, Eve Online was one of the sponsors. Surprisingly pro level gamers use spreadsheets more than one would expect from „gaming”.

Final round was really about calculating stuff based on game economy. Challenge was created by top game guy. Which in some ways was surprising for finance guys.
Interesting charts. I like the one that shows that there's less republicans than democrats at every income bracket. I think it shows that republicans are not really equally strong power in american democracy as democrats and they are propped up as one only due to intentional retention of very flawed, antique elections system. Basically republican party is allowed by democrats to exists just so they can have mock opposition (supposedly representing half of the people, which it really doesn't) so that they can swap out with them ever n years and it all seems like two party system on the surface.

Basically way more than half of the people are democrats and they are denied proportional representation because if they had it either USA would become one party system with a perpetually disgruntled minority opposition that would need to be controlled or it would have to have an actual multipolar democracy but that would interfere with making money the usual way too much.
I believe you may discussing at cross-purposes.

Presumably like your parent, I believed this was a discussion about the probability that life has originated elsewhere in the galaxy / universe, independently of life on Earth.
Oh, it certainly is the context. Nirvana had its beginnings and appeal by being uninterested in success and only played to a niche as "their" group. When Nirvana suddenly became wildly successful, that group felt betrayed.

Nirvana is the perfect example of what I was talking about.
It’s a bet. Probably a good one to make. The upside of being the ones who have an AI chip (not a graphics chip larping as an AI chip) is huge. It will run faster and more cheaply. You get to step all over OpenAI, or get a multi
billion dollar deal to supply Microsoft data centres. Or these ship on every new laptop etc. You get to be the next unicorn ($1tn company). So that is a decent bet for investors assuming the team can deliver. Yes the danger is there is a new architecture that runs on a CPU that for practical purposes whoop’s Attention’s ass. In which case investors can throw some money at ASICifying that.
Like ASIC Botcoin miners did. There are parallels here in how it might just pan out.
A much better approach is outside-in. Start with the protocol a client (command line/browser/desktop) will use to communicate with your system and then implement each req/rpy in logical usage order.

And use auto tests to verify functionality. Having a test program running a full end-to-end req/rpy session checking all functionality makes the bug count approach zero.

I am maintaining large scale mission critical C++ applications using this approach. With zero production bugs for 5+ years.

And yes of course split the implementation into reusable parts as much possible. That is basic Software/System Engineering.

Claims that it can't be done in other languages than Lisp is absolutely BS. Linux (for example) is mostly a huge collection of reusable components written in C.

It works for any language/environment and is therefore a more fundamental technique.
To maintain the current level of security then, all else being equal, the total fees collected will have to increase by the amount the subsidy decreases by. So each byte of block space will cost more for the person buying it. That could be an issue, but the solution to that problem is to extend the protocol to allow for more sophisticated "layer 2" systems so that the end-user experience has as small of a footprint as possible.

Ideally without compromising security, which can be done with zero-knowledge proofs and such. But it's unclear if the political will is there from the community around the Bitcoin project.
As a long term Wizards player / purchaser, I think their product quality has been dropping over the last few years. In D&D, take the Planescape box set - it was a really empty world lacking in the imagination that the original second ed Planescape had. All the D&D content just seems like filler to me.
In MTG, they are releasing so many sets that it would cost a fortune to keep up, and the cards are all like 'meh'. They are doing Dr Who and Lord of the Rings - so of course they are easy sells, but the quality is really average.

I guess the equation is - people keep buying, we have market dominance, so who cares about the quality?
Wallpaper paste is cheap as dirt.
The link talks about setting up a ssh ca, not x509?

> For our part, the most recent release of step & step-ca (v0.12.0) adds basic SSH certificate support. In other words:

> step-ca is now an SSH CA (in addition to being an X.509 CA)

> step makes it easy for users and hosts to get certificates from step-ca

It's a tool that do x509 ca for x509 things and ssh ca for ssh.
That is true even with pennies. 5% of $4.99 is 24.95¢.
The critique here is that the primary discussion is about fossilization rather than geological modification. A brutalist architecture building acts kind of like a granite batholith in sedimentary rock. And yes even then eventually things will likely be recycled but for definitions of the "last couple hundred million years" the argument can be made that there will be signs that something was making changes with intent.
I'm really curious about this part:

> and requires training the network to use it.

I thought one of the benefits of MCTS was, if you already have your value network, then a general MCTS implementation can walk the tree of values created by that network. And so no special update to the model is necessary. But I'm probably wrong about this.

(also, it boosts my confidence to hear that even folks at DeepMind find MCTS difficult to implement :D Because I tried to implement a simple MCTS a few years back for a very small toy project. I was following a step-by-step explanation of how it worked, and even still, it was super difficult, and very prone to subtle bugs)
I think they are saying that in the operating system developer way, where "just works" means coherent and behaving according to some technical specification.

It absolutely does not mean "no manual programming or customization from the user required". It means no dirty hacks, like the ones mainstream distros employ to make some of the customization and programming unnecessary that is actually kind of inherent to the way Unix has traditionally worked.

That may very well be much less easy to work with from a consumer perspective, but from a systems programmer perspective it's the opposite way. Those hacks that allow for the ease of use in a GNU userland make programming a massive pain in the ass where nothing "just works" the way it should, because GNU programs and libraries are in flagrant violation of every specification and rule of thumb that has ever really mattered for Unices.

Also, it's GNU libc that has gone out of its way to fail to adhere to standards, not musl. GNU does not give a single crap about open standards, because they believe that whatever GNU is IS the standard, which apparently is your view as well. That's simply unacceptable for a lot of people.
People use MongoDB because it’s easy to get started. It does “db stuff” and “authentication”. I’ve given up trying to fight the trend. I just recognize immediately when it is used early on that the devs are still operating with training wheels on.
> That's a frustrating response, because you must surely understand as a whole what they are saying.

It's late and I couldn't come up with something that'd survive the timespan in question, so I just wanted an example.
I overstated that life from inorganic in a controlled laboratory environment is what we have evidence for. What we do have evidence for is organic compounds forming from inorganic environments and we’ve shown certain kinds of RNA can self-replicate.

Unless life originated directly at the formation of the universe and panspermia is how life got to this planet, the only logical explanation is that life somehow emerges from “nothing”. We don’t know the exact mechanism and it seems much more likely that life originates on a planet rather than in space & arriving at a planet. The “intelligent” panspermia explanation (i.e. aliens seeding life throughout the universe to preserve it) would still require an inorganic origin for life.
Regularly rotating secrets for applications is good. Forcing users to regularly rotate their passwords is not so good.
I would feel like the local newspaper should tell me why they are shutting down, if it wasn't already obvious because they're a newspaper. Wouldn't you?

That's what we're talking about here, not forcing them to stay up somehow.
Hominids have shown insular dwarfism: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_floresiensis
You are replying to someone who did, so there's your example. There's a bunch of other people in this thread as well – you really don't need to look very far.

"Standard" is one of those words that can mean different things. Insisting on one absolute definition and calling anyone who uses another definition "disingenuous" is not hugely constructive.
AMD's Response to Nvidia regarding H100 vs. MI300X on real world workloads
I assumed the 2007 year would be the same “1 night in January” method. But it occurs to me, reading your comment that maybe they didn’t mean 2007 was the second highest count, just that the collection only goes back to 2007. Again, terrible journalism.
Well, GPT-4 runs on a transformer architecture, and even if for unknown reasons GPT-4 is the upper limit of what you can achieve with transformer models, having hardware specialized to run the architecture extremely fast would always be very useful for many tasks (the tasks GPT-4 can already handle at least).
I see what you're saying, but consider https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide

> [DHMO]:

> - is also known as hydroxyl acid, and is the major component of acid rain.

> - contributes to the "greenhouse effect".

> - contributes to the erosion of our natural landscape.

> - has been found in excised tumors of terminal cancer patients.

[etc.]

> Despite the danger, dihydrogen monoxide is often used: as an industrial solvent and coolant [...] [and] as an additive in certain "junk-foods" and other food products.

You can convince virtually anyone that water is dangerous and should be outlawed by saying only true things.

> In 2001, a staffer in New Zealand Green Party [...] office responded to a request for support for a campaign to ban dihydrogen monoxide by saying she was "absolutely supportive of the campaign to ban this toxic substance". This was criticized in a press release by the National Party, one of whose MPs fell for the very same joke six years later.

More related to this thread, the difference between "just asking questions" and "just sowing doubt" is in the effect on the casual reader rather than in the legitimacy of the question, unfortunately :(. There are things that are harmful to randomly call into question without being specific enough (such that it may sound like you're doubting all of climate change) and/or doing your own research first (many things needn't be carefully asked if you just type it into duckduckgo instead), I believe.

Not saying anyone was sowing doubt here, I'm just responding to your point that there cannot be questions that are off-limits in science. (Also noting that this is a comment thread for the general public on the topic of some graphs, not precisely scientific discourse itself.)
To me the simpler question is “if life didn’t originate from inorganic conditions somehow, what other explanation is there? Life came into being with the creation of the universe?”. It’s possible the latter explanation is what happened, it just feels extremely unlikely. So the more likely explanation is that life originates from inorganic conditions. Then the question is where? Is it on a planet or in space? Panspermia doesn’t have a lot of traction because the mechanism of action seems too complex to have a good probability of success unless intentional (but then you have a question of how did life that started panspermia intentionally begin & you’re back to needing it forming spontaneously out of nothing).

And if “out of nothing” is the baseline condition, the most likely explanation is that it happens where there’s a lot of energy to sustain it while not enough to kill it, which means planets at the boundary of thermal activity (since we need something more direct than photosynthesis which is a relatively complex capability that came late in Earth’s cycle as far as we know).
I would turn this argument around and say if life elsewhere is more likely, than it should be more likely that life from beyond has found us. If the likelihood of life elsewhere is so high that it has to be true, to me it would also be true that life should have found us by now
It could be rephrased as "worry about them later" :P gotta get those returns on the VC money and pawn those issues onto the next team in 7yrs :)
So this is why AI will also fail to replace many many jobs.
For oidic there's at least:

https://github.com/salesforce/pam_oidc

https://github.com/EOSC-synergy/ssh-oidc
Someone Has Stolen Lots of Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT's
Firecracker is the same VM technology used by Fly.io although they don’t have memory cloning as seen here. A VM can be cloned and the clone started in seconds though this heavily depends on image / rootfs size so it’s likely more in the order of 30 seconds or so (number pulled out of thin air).
How do you scale a single master out of the box?
But the horizontal scaling is easier with Mongo than Citus.
Atomic radius (average distance from the center to the outermost isolated electron) of copper 135pm, silicon 0.11pm.

2nm is 7 copper atoms or 9 silicon atoms.
This only tells me we are at peak AI hype, given that products like this have to dress up ASICs as 'Transformers on Chips' or 'Transformer Supercomputer'.

As always, no technical reports or in-depth benchmarks other than a unlabelled chart comparing against Nvidia H100s with little context and marketing jargon to the untrained eye.

It seems that this would tie you into a specific neural net implementation (i.e llama.cpp as a ASIC) and would have to require a hardware design change to support another.
prices should include all taxes and fees
One of the more interesting political splits is within the beer industry which in this analysis has only one point. Beer brewers tend to be extremely left of left while beer distributors tend to be strongly right leaning.

What is particularly interesting about this combination is that it appears to be the case that both sides are required for business success. Without good brews distributors lose market share and without good distributors brewers lose market share. Maybe in this analysis the brewers are smarties and the distributors are capital rich but that doesn't match my limited personal experience.
This has 0 to do with AI issues, and more to do with companies rushing things and likely buying the shittiest versions of things to save money, honestly im still laughing that people order at the window and fight to get the order across i havent ordered non-app based for drive through in years, they should just have a tablet pop out to the car when you drive up.
For a proper head spin, consider that gravity propagates at the speed of light... And light is not fast enough to escape the black hole.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2019/10/24/this...
One nice thing about this: despite the "one zone" in the name, it still has the durability of standard S3, just not the availability.
I'm really glad I went with a Pixel!
Bananas are radioactive, so better keep them away from the chips.
World Crisis Map
Interactive map displaying humanitarian crises and crises in general worldwide with articles. For each article it is highlighted which region or country is affected. Articles stem from UN sources.
A layoff gives managers the opportunity to fire people who they've wanted to fire for a while. The firings within WotC were likely opportunistic and not about trying to change the direction or strength of the company. Doing it as part of larger layoffs gives an excuse for it and in theory mitigates drama.
The real low quality stuff was just wood fibers and coal tar, IIRC!
"Once in its post-main sequence phase the Hawking star becomes fully convective and slowly swells over multiple Gyr to about 10 R⊙ and about 10 L⊙ causing them to appear as a sub-subgiant star, joining a relatively sparse population on the HR diagram."

and then

"The resulting increase in accretion luminosity causes the inner convective region to grow outwards, mix the He core with the H-burning shell, and quench fusion."

Would the aftermath of all this be observable? Once fusion is quenched wouldn't the gas cool rapidly?
"D&D is, for lack of a better term than I have used previously, a culture. Serving that culture is such an honor. Does such a culture survive, truly survive, lodged within a pair of digital, aggressively monetized parentheses?" (Penny Arcade)

D&D is the ony common RPG available these days is most of Australia - it certainly has the largest market share. As cultures go, RPG can easily rebuild itself from a fan-base. I personally liked 5th Ed core rules, yet I could be very happy to see D&D topple itself and reintroduce gamers to a new world of freshly minted RPGs.
Fun fact, I’m UK based and should I find the police demanding I open my (gun) safe I would legally have to refuse until an authorised firearms officer is present lest I lose my shotgun license.
What about Transformers on FPGAs?
ByteDance is using OpenAI API to build a competitor
> This is simply incorrect. iMessage is the default for iPhones.

You're an Android user, right? Suffice to say that you are wrong. Messages.app, not iMessage is the default. It is designed to handle SMS, MMS and Apple iMessage service. iMessage exists for Apple-to-Apple messaging and for those iPhone customers that choose not to have a carrier messaging plan. This is not an opinion.

> I'm not here in bad faith at all. Adding RCS support won't do much to fix the division apples has caused between iPhone users and other phone users.

What? That is certainly a take. I can't say anymore for fear of causing offence. In all sincerity and candor - you really do come across as someone with a chip on their shoulder.

> It's definitely a step in the right direction. Forcing Apple to be more open with iMessage is a good thing for consumers.

> They should have been using RCS from the start and cooperated with and contributed to the standard. Now, yeah it's pretty late and won't fix the problem they have caused.

So RCS will "fix" most of the "problems they have caused" here. What's more the main barrier, as ever, has been carrier adoption. Google only really started to push for RCS after miserably failing to deliver a coherent messaging platform strategy and releasing Google Messages in 2019. Whats more, their suposedly "open" E2EE RCS implementation is only available for Pixel and Samsung users. The carrier RCS landscape is a mess globally, with little to no use outside of US carriers, who have either switched to Google (privacy concerns) or have recently (last 5 years) added support for Universal Profile. By the way, the GSMA are a carrier-only body. Neither Google nor Apple were involved in the creation of RCS. Not that it matters as adoption by GSMA members has been, if I'm being generous, laughably slow. Google are involved by virtue of their acquisition of Jibe. Remind me, who is responsible for this problem?

> Because in the US Apple users insist on using iMessage.

Why is that? See above...

Edit: The issue I, and it seems many others have with Beepers approach is the commercialisation of someone else's property. Like it or not, de facto or not, iMessages is a private API. Hacking it for kicks is fine. Commercialising it is not. Bragging about to one one the big tech firms is going to end in tears. The merits of iMessages being open are obvious, but it's seems to be a market in which Apple doesn't want to be in. The service exists for customers of Apple's products and is directly tied to hardware ownership.
SeaQuest... Soon...
I look forward to a copilot trained on custom code bases to pair program with.
Also one that can write test cases and documentation.
Exactly I feel that belt - albeit funny - is more cringey than whatever else they could come up with.

Then I say dynamic commentary is still something you want - but talkative host asking a guy that is going to drop underground in seconds is not bes use of watch time
Remember that most cast iron isn't like it was for hundreds of years, nowadays there's no-hub and even if you do need to use hub and spigot, lots of folks use the neoprene bushing instead of oakum...and if you're still using oakum, you can usually use a modern sealant that comes in a caulk tube, instead of molten lead.
I really don’t think people are talking about intelligent life here.
Quiche? (Or quissh)
That was a great read, thank you
I think this hypothesis is a good example of an opinion I’m developing that any average executive team can follow the spreadsheet. But what makes a team truly exceptional is the ability and wisdom to identify and act on the subjective and immeasurable qualities of the business.

If quality falls but sales rise, did quality not matter? Will it not matter? Maybe we’re not measuring the right things. Maybe we have the wrong models. Maybe there is no model and you just have a general intuition that this is probably important regardless.
Tether publishes the totals daily.

$94,120,164,388.60 > $90,912,507,793.55

https://tether.to/en/transparency/
This was my experience as a dual citizen. Sydneysiders are sometimes wannabe Londoners with an odd superiority complex and frequent use of passive aggression.
Product page like this... they haven't even designed the chip. Complete vaporware.
Eytzinger ("heap") layout packs the pivots as efficiently as possible, so cache misses are confined to the lower levels of the tree. But ordered iteration is slower, and of course it only works for static data. I agree that for dynamic structures I have yet to find anything more cache-efficient than a B-tree.
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What made the demiurge?