skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was at IBM around 2010, they offered $250 for filing patent, then $750 when the patent office approved it, usually after 3-8 years -- if you were still at IBM.

Then after a few years, they swapped those numbers around, so that if you'd been waiting for your $750 bonus, you'd get $250.
It does mean disabled residents are sort of screwed if there's a fire alarm and the elevators are shutoff--as a friend told me recently--unless the neighbors can help. But that's sort of ignored given lack of realistic options.
The builder doesn’t design a building, they’re given a set of engineered plans and told to build it.

If it meets code and passes inspection, why are design problems the builder’s fault? That’s a rhetorical question, by the way.
It's quite misleading - there are 2 variations of this processor: The Elite A which is quite a beast (80W TDP) and the Elite B (which is very in-line with the M2 - 23W TDP but actively cooled).

I'm surprised the year-old M2 does as well as it does with passive cooling.

I'd love to see active benchmarks of the Elite A vs. M2 Max/Ultra.

All in all, happy to see some competitive moves in this space.
Good luck trying to figure out why your rental or employment application was denied.
> Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence

So...what happened to that whole "Metaverse" thing? Is it time to rename the company again?
There is one solution for the cookie notices that is very seldomly talked about: just don't use any marketing cookies, then you don't need consent from the user :)
> Internet service should be a public utility at this point, or at least ISPs should be much more heavily regulated.

Then we can have as great a service as going to the DMV.
How about instead abolishing local monopolies by allowing anyone to run an ISP? Worked great for Romania(1).

1. https://old.reddit.com/r/Romania/comments/gkkt4b/why_is_the_...
> All of these -- barring illegal discrimination -- are actual problems that will come to light when it turns out the information is incorrect.

If I need a hotel and the place I'm booking decides to change me more than they would have otherwise because they're mistaken about my finances, I'm still getting charged more. None of that comes to light.

When a store tells me that their return policy is "next day only, with receipt" but they tell the next person in line it's "30 days no questions asked" all because their "consumer reputation service" told them I was unreliable when I'm not, I'm still stuck with their shitty return policy for "bad" customers. None of that will ever come to light.

When my health insurance company jacks up my premiums because a data broker told them that I've been spending more time at fast food restaurants, I'm never told that's what happened, I just get a bigger bill. Nothing ever comes to light.

When the police arrest me and question me because of my search history, maybe the truth comes to light, but not without significant costs to me.

Most of the time when people use the data that's been collected about you as a result of surveillance capitalism you have no idea that it even happened or why. You're just charged more money than you would have been, or you aren't offered opportunities you would have been given, or you're just rejected for something you wanted, etc. Nobody tells you why. There's not an investigation into how it happened. There is no transparency and there is zero accountability for errors.

> It will make the data broker look bad when the prosecutor finds out that they fabricated my abortion.

When have you ever heard of a data broker taking a huge hit to their reputation because they have inaccurate data? It doesn't happen. What data broker has a great reputation in the first place? Everyone using data brokers knows that the data is not 100% reliable. It doesn't matter. It's usually just a numbers game. Even when it's only for an advertisement, they know that not everyone they're targeting is going to buy something. That doesn't matter to them as long as some percentage does.
> contort JS into a functional language

I made something last year in a functional style as I was fresh off the back of a few React jobs and projects. I got a proof of concept working but the code was awful to work with.

I took a couple of days to start over and rewrite it with OOP principles and it was in a much better state afterwards.
A 2nd set of stairs split across multiple units is a trivial matter from a cost perspective. Height restrictions, adding more office space than housing, mandatory parking etc are the real issues.

Tiny increases in construction costs get wiped out when there’s insufficient housing stock.
> Could there be a Chromebook in the works?

It wouldn't be hard; there are already enough Chromebooks running ARM, so unless there's some other problem with it (like terrible driver support, since ChromeOS actually seems to care about running mainline linux) it would make some sense to make one.
HN title seems editorialized as compared to the article title ("Meta’s new goal is to build artificial general intelligence" or the article headline is similar but with Mark Zuckerberg as the subject.)

The HN submitted title ("Meta will have a stockpile of almost 600k GPUs by the end of 2024") is one specific sentence in the article.
It's a 100% increase (i.e. double) relative to what the ordinary demand for lathes would have been.
> This situation would absolutely never happen, and I think it’s blatant fear mongering.

On the contrary, Texas in particular has gone out if its way to incentivize its citizens reporting other citizens for getting abortions. The law in that state creates an incentive for someone with the ability to do this, to do so.

What's special about the situation in Texas right now where humans at large will not follow the incentives placed in front of them for the first time in human history?
> There's no product in the world that would hit a limit if autoscaled globally on AWS.

While this may be true, autoscaling indefinitely is still not profitable.

> You can't say what architecture is or isn't profitable in general, business is more complicated than that. But besides the realities of commerce, you can easily architect a system such that the autoscaling cost is a fraction of opex.

Customer acquisition and retention cost more money than it should.

I cannot count how many times I got an email from the CTO asking to lower our cloud costs, while product and marketing refuse to raise prices, making the whole endeavor borderline unprofitable. You may then argue that the product suffers from either bad architecture, or bad pricing, or both, but the situation is far from uncommon.
By focusing on the word "wife" and calling it sexism you miss the point of the comment entirely. I agree with your side of the conversation but nitpicking words and throwing in an attack doesn't help the conversation.
> The new owners’ focus on profits meant...

Pretty much the answer in one sentence.
We’ve really done a number to cater to cars and the auto industry in the United States. Some More News does a great job on outlining the history of cars, roads, and what can be done to make things better - https://youtu.be/sayw3TOhykg
Would there be anything he could say?
This is all conditional on the prison system of a country being a retributive or rehabilitation oriented element. The USA strongly leans towards retribution.
if 3==1 then obviously everything in Heaven must be calculated mod 2.
Another European here: I think the law is fine. How companies, specially US companies react to it, that is not.

1. A ton of Health related websites in US refuse to work in Europe, because they are NOT willing to let you visit without sensitive data being grabbed with cookies. I truly do not understand how US people are ok with this.

2. The law says that you can't make hard to refuse cookies, yet many US-based sites I visit have shady, shady practices, for example many you have to click a button to see all the sliders for individual cookies, and when you click that button, it switches the orders of the buttons, so that the button you just clicked become "accept all", and the previous "accept all" button becomes "save current settings". Thus if you double click/tap by accident you accept all.

3. The sites that most often piss me off with shady cookie banner that tries its hardest to force you to opt-in to tracking, are ones that use a company called "Admiral", that according to LinkedIn is from Florida. https://www.linkedin.com/company/getadmiral/
The refineries were there first, well before these areas were populated at all. I don't think that should give them a forever license to massively pollute. Back when they were built, and started to become populated the health risks were unknown... the people living there now mostly grew up there, and there was never a conscious choice to move somewhere dangerous.

In the case of Richmond, the poor black communities directly downstream of the plant are mostly descended from the workers brought in to build liberty ships during World War II. This was during a time when black people were legally restricted from getting decent jobs other than these temporary wartime exceptions, so moving to this place was their only opportunity to get a decent job. They lacked the legal freedom to make a choice about where to live in the sense you are implying, because of racist laws.

As a society, it is time to look at phasing these refineries out entirely, rather than relocating them. We already have the technology to do transportation in other ways, and it's already much cheaper when you count all of the health and environmental externalities. Already, 50% of diesel fuel in California is from renewable biomass, so you don't need an electric car for non-petroleum transportation. One of the north bay refineries was shut down a few years back, and converted to a renewable diesel plant.
> He tells me that, by the end of this year, Meta will own more than 340,000 of Nvidia’s H100 GPUs

That's approx $15b worth of H100 GPUs.
Yes, I consider myself lucky to have seen it as well, though not at Carnegie Hall. A lot of very funny stuff but also some spectacular fiddling. If you ask me the best fiddlers are the ones who mostly play classical repertoire.

I do think WTWP: Classical Talkity Talk Radio is my favorite overall. Truly a vicious parody of both mediocre classical radio and morning drive style "banter".
this is kind of survivorship bias, it's a uniquely preserved specimen... the only known of its kind
It's hard to reconcile good things a person might have said and done, with the bad.

It's very easy to reconcile that a person that has done very bad things can say insightful things or be competent.

Being bad doesn't mean being stupid.
Yeah, I don't think the murder itself was premeditated, but he did treat the event with a sort of self-serving callousness that gave the perception that he did not care about Nina's life beyond how it affected his.
It is phrased as I believe it. I am not going to feel sympathetic towards Indian developers after they caused millions of dollars of damage to our businesses over the years. The great majority of them are very low-skilled and lie about their skills. When questioned they disappear. We even dealt with fake-named ones. Had some installing malicious scripts to random parts of the e-commerce systems.

I even had a conversation with one telling me "Americans can afford it, we don't feel
bad hacking them". This came from a developer who worked with us for over 2 years.

This is not a subject like genders and pronouns or whatever makes sensitive people feel angry. I advise anyone I meet the same thing. Avoid at all costs. Maybe 1 in 20 are okay but I don't recommend rolling the dice for that single gem.
Never heard about nostr until now and took a look using one popular client called coracle. It seems to be only used by cryptobros; I don't need or want that in my life.
I'm not him (and I'm also not a pilot or aircraft designer), but AFAIK there's also the elevator trim, which uses a separate mechanism and could be used to shift the range of the control authority.
Since this is about privacy, do note that syncthing relies on a discovery server to find peers on the internet. You should probably run your own public discovery server if you care about privacy and want to seriously use it outside of your home network.
Thanks! We aren't hiring right now, but if you shoot me an email at max@talc.ai I'll follow up in a few months.
I met him at the same place at the same time and had the same reaction to him. Are you me?
Or an append-only, E2EE backup to another Umbrel at e.g. your parents house?
That ain't us.... kind of. That's the websites deciding to follow the letter of the law (or a spiteful, capitalist interpretation, taking it right to the line) instead of the spirit of the law.

OK, unintended consequences of legislation. But those cookie banners are not mandated, exactly. They don't need to be there. It's the companies deciding to do it that way, so they can keep gobbling data.

It's like if the building companies implemented the 2nd staircase, but only so they could measure who is going up and down it. Not for saving lives.

If they were opt in, or unnecessary tracking wasn't implemented in the first place, then the banners could be elegant or gone.

But I do agree that the legislation (especially the ultra focus on cookies specifically) was... blinkered & short sighted.
The conclusion is incomplete, though: why would OpenAI remove the military arbitrary search ban from the most popular part of the platform rather than making a MVP specifically to present the pentagon or other government actors?

they could add all the controversial bits into a private and contained profile or application.

There's something else happening that led to this. Maybe something mundane (a bug in the code or a hack to fix another bug that allowed more dangerous output as a side effect), but "to court the government" is an overly simplistic answer.
Yeah, some follow-up reporting found that the guy was lying for some weird reason. He said as much. I forget the reason.
Similar pattern in academia. The more you publish the better your CV, so there's a lot of pressure to publish, and a lot of garbage research.
> Sure, no system is perfect, but not all imperfections are equal, and I'm tired of pretending like they are.

I think this is the actual issue, rather than the other specifics you raise — my anecdote of human mistakes includes having a 44kHz/16-bit audio recording of a whole university lecture where the lecturer insisted that nobody can record mocap joint positions for a mere dozen joints at a mere 24Hz/8-bit for more than a few minutes because that is too much data to store, and it was their confidence that kept them from updating.

But, back to the point.

Every instance of any specific AI release (GPT or LLM or whatever else) are identical; errors are therefore necessarily correlated. Humans get an advantage from our imperfections being un-equal, we benefit from the wisdom of the crowd (with conditions) and second opinions are meaningfully independent (again with conditions), but not so for any
specific AI.

(Possible twist: Mixture of Experts).
"IBM and the Holocaust", Edwin Black, 2001.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust
I wonder how many of those chips were acquired to run metaverse stuff. Should be lots of overlap between rendering graphics and running cuda based models.

I'm interested in seeing how the behemoths that are Meta and Google catch openai. I think it's a question of when, not if. Both companies just have a ridiculous amount of resources to throw behind these efforts. At least meta is releasing their stuff as "open source". We'll see how they justify putting out these models for free, or if it's purely about undercutting openai.
IMHO, each team does something poorly, and it doesn't mean you go on a fishing expedition to find everything else they're doing poorly. Rather, you focus on what they're doing great, and incentivize/reward them for that. As a manager this has what has worked for me over the years, but YMMV.
You don't need to/probably can't avoid the data brokers, you just have to inject enough noise in to their data to make it worthless. The data brokers are probably the most benign of all of the parties that expose you to security risks.

If you live in a high risk area (like Mexico), and are middle class or above, then you need to do some advanced stuff because cartels have access to things such as your live phone location data.

Ultimately you can't escape surveillance in the general sense. You have a face (probably) and face tracking is ubiquitous and continuous. Google, Bing, and so on crippled their reverse image search for faces, but that misrepresents how good it is.
Because starting your own business is usually even more of a soul-crushing activity, with even less pay, for many years, if not forever.

Not everyone can start a business and guide it to success. And if they can, it can easily become the corporate work you were attempting to avoid.
D1 has nothing to do with R2, apart from both being Cloudflare services.

R2 is an Amazon S3-style object store.

D1 is a Javascript/HTTP API to access a hosted SQLite.
As far as I can tell, the frequent flier program is the one thing that almost never gets touched even in bankruptcy.
Oddly, this is already a solved problem.

NYC fire escapes are world famous. If every sub-10 floor building can have a 2nd window fire escape.... then you can have your cake and eat it too.
There are construction defect laws in California which, infamously, only apply to multi-family buildings and exempt single-family homes. There's a 10-year window after certification of occupancy where the builder is liable for any construction defects, not just those that may lead to death of occupants. In practice it's mostly cosmetic/finishing issues that people complain and file lawsuits about. Leveling the playing field here would be nice.
> I know that some of my family members use it to write nice, "thoughtful" words to family and friends.

Which makes those expressions have about as much value as the ones in greeting cards: almost none.
I also worked at IBM (Research) early in my career. Most folks I know left but some good folks went into manager/leader positions. I always wonder .. do manager/leaders get paid better at IBM (Research)? Cause the people are really good.
It does, but maybe put it last!
Aren't there other ways to address these safety issues without ballooning the cost of the building? When safety regulations come with minimal extra cost/efficiency (think: ABS or seatbelts in cars) then it's a great idea. When it mandates massive inefficiencies, it must be questioned.
Meta's AR/VR strategy is still the over-arching priority and given how well Quest 3 and Ray Bans glasses are doing shows that it is likely the right one. Especially once Apple Vision Pro ignites the industry.

AI will be used to enhance that e.g. generated avatars, autonomous agents, hand/body tracking etc.
Could also work for him, like SBF in his hoodie playing fortnite impressing bankers and such.
I see. So anyone flipping burgers at McDonald's must have a passionate interest in and life goal to be flipping burgers. Otherwise, why would they spend so much time on it?

If I understand your argument correctly, you're saying that if someone in practice spends their time doing X and not Y, then they cannot actually be more interested in Y. I believe this flies in the face of human experience.

If you love software, there are a limited number of careers that involve writing software. If you do not have the privilege of a large trust fund, you're looking at industry or academia. Neither tends to involve just sitting in a room and coding all day. (Those situations that do probably won't satisfy a post-teenaged love of software.) Especially if you have a more academic love of software, academia is not a stupid option, even though you realize that your time is going to be filled with a lot of non-programming duties. Yes, you would probably spend more of your time programming if you got a corporate programming job, but loving software does not mean automatically loving any situation where you are typing code into an editor.
> and the inventor list should shrink. It rarely does.

The thing is there is literally no downside to adding people (assuming they have an assignment clause of some sort) but missing someone can cause problems later.

So it's a pretty obvious alignment to incentives.
No, if that's all it was, the excess memory usage would be 2x.

But it's 200x.

Right?
I’m more bullish on Meta’s AI efforts than OpenAI’s at this point. Everything open source can flow back into what they’re doing, whereas OpenAI seems focused on staying locked down, while diluting their core product in myriad ways.
Google boss warns staff to expect further job cuts this year
This confuses choosing a more phonetic option among multiple competing options with changing to a completely different language.
This is why an architect and/or engineer(s) supervise a general contractor. A few things have changed in the construction industry over the last 3800 years.

I’m not sure why I even bother reading HN threads about construction.
I looked back in my history and found one from just last week:

https://www.google.com/search?q=wevideo+%22masking%22

The top hits do not include the word "masking" in then as far as I can see (although I'm in Mobile right now so can't check the DOM).
>If it needs to be plugged in all the time, why do you need a laptop? Why not just a desktop?

I never said it needs to be plugged in all day, I said that's where it spends most of the time. Because desktops take up way too much space and because sometimes you leave the house with your computer for work or leisure. And when I do, I don't need more than a few hours of battery because I don't like doing work outside the ergonomics of a proper desk.

>short trips, airports

And do you do a full day's work in an airport?

And when you travel via airports, you probably don't air travel in just your shorts with nothing on you, other than your phone, keys and wallet, like you're going to the local pub, but I assume you also have a backpack/bag with you for your laptop and belongings, which can also fit a <100g charger you need for your phone anyway.
My recollection from flying kites a long time ago is that operating a kite gets easy after a certain height. I imagine the Kite Control Unit (KCU) can easily keep it aloft once it's high enough. The tether is 352m long according to https://thekitepower.com/the-hawk/#components
I don't think that's a good analogy because in this scenario only one store can even exist in the first place.

Would you be okay with Apple taking 30% from food ordering app companies when making orders through an Iphone? Because it's basically the exact same thing they're doing here.
I assume the title was edited for length, but cutting "Lanny Smoot" while including their employer seems wrong.
https://www.theonion.com/metric-system-thriving-in-nations-i...
Great comment. For me that fact means that I don't just read it with 'a higher bar' but with the possibility that what I'm looking at is created with the express purpose of deceiving me so some of it reverses in meaning.
I knew this was coming.

Affordability problems in desirable locales already caused progressives to jettison anti-sprawl initiatives and environmental reviews.

It was only a matter of time before our gaze shifted to building codes and life safety provisions as cost-adds that "we" should all work against.

It does not gratify me in any way to have foreseen this.
Were there technical reasons for the deprecation or was it more of a cancelled type thing?
I hope in the next few years, someone can be bothered to see if/how this event correlates with IBM's yearly patent-filing numbers.