skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that, like airplanes, when something goes wrong with nuclear there are 200-300 bodies on parade for the cameras of the whole world to see. Just the potential for 200-300 bodies is enough for the whole world to immediately focus its undivided attention on the matter.

This immediately leverages the cognitive dysfunction of completely ignoring the bodies produced by all other sources of energy that are not visible because such deaths are not as traumatic nor as visible.

France defeated this problem and one would think that very close European countries such as Germany, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg would have started thinking about the problem through a simple cost benefit analysis, being that if something goes wrong with one of France's reactor we are on the hook as well so we might as well get the benefit by installing as many reactors ourselves.

Unfortunately this sort of thinking always works for nefarious stuff and the nefarious type of nuclear specifically weapons, not for reactors unfortunately.

I really think that in order to beat this cognitive dysfunction we'd have to build reactors offshore, like hundreds of miles offshore and then engineer some kind of High Voltage line to get it to where the energy is needed.

Costs are going to baloon into possibly 100bn for a nuclear reactor that would normally cost 10bn but it's easier to engineeer solutions in the physical world than it is to do it in human psyche and psychology.
You can turn it back into storage, and you can sell it to people that want storage. I feel like that's good enough to establish value.
> GPT4 alone will especially not be that useful for analytical work. However, developers can make it a semi-capable analyst for some use cases by connecting it to data lakes, describing schemas, and giving it tools to do analysis. Usually this is not a generalist solution, and needs to be built for each company's application.

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I'm a data analyst and all these "give GPT you data warehouse schema, let it generate SQL to answer user's queries" products completely miss the point. An analyst has value as a curator of organizational knowledge, not translator from "business" to SQL. Things like knowing that when a product manager asks us for revenue/gmv, we exclude canceled orders, but include purchases made with bonus currency or promo codes.

Things like this are not documented and are decided during meetings and in Slack chats. So my idea is that in order to make LLMs truly useful, we'll create "hybrid" programming languages that are half-written by humans, and the part that's written by LLMs when translating from "human" language is simple enough for LLMs to do it reliably. I even made some weekend-prototypes with pretty interesting results.
Software also gets more features.
Search engines don't replicate the content, they index and point to it. When search engines have been caught replicating content they have been sued or had to work out licenses.
Infowars and Goop sell the same exact pseudoscientific "wellness" products
Of course, gentoo just started using prebuilt packages a few months ago…
If this can be used for training then this magic trick can be enough. Training a language model uses in principle also just one magic trick - trying to predict a next sentence in a large set of ordered sentences.
Honestly digital media in general has greatly cheapened the value of images, music, illustration, etc. and this has been been a long time coming.

It was clear to me over 20 years ago when I realized that I wouldn't be able to earn enough in the arts, and ironically due to creative people sharing so much good content for free.

While I feel for people who didn’t realize this, but it’s no surprise if you try to earn your living by adding digital content to the global network of computer systems that something like the current AI trend was bound to happen.

If you love art - paint a painting, make a sculpture, perform in a play, perform live music, dance, etc. Digital is a dead-end goal in and of itself.
From §25.8.9 Bounded value [alg.clamp]:

> 2 Preconditions: `bool(comp(proj(hi), proj(lo)))` is false. For the first form, type `T` meets the Cpp17LessThanComparable requirements (Table 26).

> 3 Returns: `lo` if `bool(comp(proj(v), proj(lo)))` is true, `hi` if `bool(comp(proj(hi), proj(v)))` is true, otherwise `v`.

> 4 [Note: If NaN is avoided, `T` can be a floating-point type. — end note]

From Table 26:

> `<` is a strict weak ordering relation (25.8)
Very true. If you want to add a chatbot, make sure to have workflows that the user can follow. Perplexity.AI does a great job at it.
> trucks driven by hand

Good thing nobody's working on automating that and nobody has any real world experience of such systems on public roads :P

(And the :P applies to basically all the supply chain, including the manufacturing of the equipment used to supply or manufacture the other equipment).

The comment I replied to wrote:

> So postpone this scenario until AI is fully standing on its own.

This is closer than I think you think.
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I think its true, but also that we all use existing hardware kit longer than we did 5/10/15/20 years ago.
Ok, these guys are great! I am watching the superstylin video right now! Lol, that near futuristic handheld locator, and their over the top, lightly overdrive, "in your face" production style hit solid.

That trombone part: well, it worked out well for them. There is one quiet part where we can hear the horn pretty well and I have to say the response of the speaker rolled off a lot of the subtlety of the instrument.

Normally, that would be bad, but for the overall production style of the tune, it just works! Feels a whole lot like a sample ripped from a cassette, or lo-fi vinyl setup.
It doesn't, but I've used Apple stuff for going on 25 years now and it is doubtful I will care to move to something different any time soon, so it works for me.

Always the tradeoff with Apple is choice and flexibility versus a seamless and pleasant user experience.
OK, so there is enough value in the company to pay the banks and PE firms lavishly and exorbitantly, but not enough to pay all their debts. So which debts can they not pay?
It's practically a cartoon.

"On this course you'll be learning why the the people who graduated before you won't be hiring you after you leave."
> One of the issues is that the MBA is a money maker for these universities, so why not graduate as many people as possible.

I wonder why U.S. universities issuing MBA degrees take a "graduate as many as possible" approach, whereas medical schools use a "intentionally limit the supply of doctors" approach. Perhaps it's a game theory thing. Any one school can easily and independently increase the number of MBAs it graduates, and so they all do despite wanting there to be fewer graduates overall, but it's harder for any one medical school to independently decide to create more doctors on its own.
This is amazing to hear! Good luck with any other project you're gonna build next!

I can recommend checking out building for more different hardware targets - there is a lot of interesting chips that can take advantage of Edge ML and are awesome to work with
Supreme Court rejects antitrust fight challenging Apple's app store
I keep my unimportant 2FA in 1Password and the really important one’s (e-mail, domains, etc) in a separate 2FA app.

If someone has pwned my 1Password I don’t really care if they log on to my Discord or order a limited amount of crap on Amazon because I am in much deeper shit at that point.
That doesn’t follow the thread of conversation here at all.
And now the guy who started Napster is on the board of Spotify who just decided they weren’t going to pay small time artists for their music anymore. Go figure.
Hardware is interesting now that Moore's Law (or Dennard scaling) has flatlined 10 years ago--are college courses now taught any differently because of this? It's a significant issue of computational resources in that we can't assume exponential transistor density anymore.
That makes me wonder how much sys-wide kernel<->userspace and/or glibc copying performance is sitting on the table there, to be potentially reclaimed with an optimized build and/or vulnerability mitigations disabled?
It’s not the same effect. People learned how to read and write, then the means of creation got cheaper. Now no one is learning how to draw and paint, they just create a random mashup of others works.
His background is likely more than enough. In my personal experience, I've seen people land jobs they weren't at all competitive for by applying anyways, while other people (such as myself in the past) decide not to apply for openings with the idea of preparing to become fully qualified first.

In the longer-run, I've observed a few of the people who did apply did struggle greatly, and either had to find a new position, or lost interest in the new line of work they were trying. But others did a good enough job (after a rough start) to do well at their new position, which would then give them the work experience to easily be competitive for similar positions or even better opportunities for their career.

So, in general, I've seen that it's a good idea for the applicant to apply, even if they aren't fully qualified.

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For Edelman specifically, he both competed in the olympics in his sport, and was a seven-time national champion in his country. He even has a detailed Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Edelman

That level of competitiveness in the sport takes a lot of persistence, discipline, and skill, so it's a fair basis for a resume—especially with an MBA from a recognizable university. His background as an Olympian and national athlete is a fair basis for his resume.

But he also has a rigorous background in engineering. According to Wikipedia, he has a degree in mechanical engineering from MIT, and is potentially well-connected through his father (who also has a Wikipedia page), who is an engineering professor at MIT and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

In his case, I wonder if he would find success by talking with people he has worked with before (such as fellow athletes or sponsors), or people he's known from his experience at university. He likely also has a potentially strong professional network through his family.

Perhaps he's only applying for a narrow range of opportunities in a specialized area. But then again, it does sound like he's applying cold for hundreds of positions. Another possibility is that some miscommunication occurred when he spoke to the journalist for his relatively minor part in the article.
Have you considered that it may be a personal skill issue? I'm not saying it is, but it seems like people with this opinion never seem to consider maybe they aren't using it properly or don't get it
I'm glad to hear that and I wonder what I am missing. How have you found your way into community there?

In my (limited) experience with Discord, it has worked exactly like a group chat: each "server" has its own fixed membership, and there does not appear to be any larger community. People don't come and go; I have never met anyone on a discord channel who wasn't already part of the group.

Telegram I have never tried; I thought it was a WhatsApp competitor, and I don't know anyone who uses it.
The term is used here in its legal meaning, therefore as competing in the same space as the original
There are also IO nodes, that talk to disks and network.

Mainframes use those names too. I'm not sure what name blade hacks use (yeah, I'm out of a datacenter for that long), but they have those things too.
So can midjourney replicate the art style or not? I was seeing a lot of back and forth on whether that list was actually used to train, and I haven't seen a single artist manage to claim that their style can accurately be replicated.
>> If my interlocutor isn't prepared to make any distinctions between a human being and a machine designed to mimic one, I think that I can't meaningfully discuss this with them. I hate that this is the case; it must be seen as a personal failing. I can't do it, though. These models aren't people. They don't know anything. They don't want anything. They don't need anything. I won't privilege it over a person. And I certainly won't privilege its master.

Perhaps if you read Gabe's post you could have saved yourself the trouble of making this comment.
Well the hobby began in the UK with the upper middle class.
I agree. Science is not Morality. (see atom bomb).

But also, morality shouldn't over-rule science. If there is a hypothesis, and it can be tested, so you know what is true, then a religious belief shouldn't make you ignore it. The 'right' these days is anti-science to the extent that they are rejecting things that can be tested and shown to be true. Rejecting things that can be proven.

Agree, probably enough on this thread.

Later, bye, best of luck.

Probably wont e-mail, because I'm paranoid about anonymity.
I don't think we even have a choice here. It's unstopable.
It's a problem with anything after USB3 in general, bandwidth is very unpredictable.
> If an AI views it, and is inspired by it, again, no harm done.

You had me till that^ line. In your example if "inspired" human start competing with you, then there is harm. If the inspired human is replaced by an AI, then it also harms. By harm I am referring to competition.

So instead of saying "no harm done", then maybe its more accurate to say "same harm as a other humans being inspired by your work".
> First, you heavily subsidize the price to maximize your user base, only then do you start charging what the product was worth all along.

More and more I feel this should run afoul of anti-trust laws. It's one thing to subsidize a product short term. It's another to subsidize a product for years upon years so you can squeeze out any competition in the market. In the example of Uber and Lyft, how many start-ups that weren't flush with hundreds of millions of VC cash completely failed or never even got off the launchpad because there was no way for them to compete against a company selling it's services at a loss for years at at time?
It's unfortunate that you stopped reading in the one paragraph that touched on whiteness when there's so much of the article left to be read after that. Had you continued, you'd see that they don't stay on that subject. In fact, a CTRL+F for "white" shows that the instance of "whiteness" in that paragraph is the last time that "white" shows up at all - and every time "white" shows up before that paragraph, it's about colors in a coffee shop. They touch on it because someone that they interviewed mentioned it, and then they move right back to how it's "an artifact of Internet enabled oligarchic capitalist technocracy" in the very next paragraph.

I don't know why people so willingly bury their heads in the sand sometimes...
> If all the calligraphers drop dead, the printing press still works.

If all artists drop dead, MidJourney still has a trained model that will continue to work.... it relied on artists to become operational (just like the printing press and automatic looms relied on their respective artisans success) but it is not dependent on them to continue to function.
"Bees get jet lag"

That seems like a much simpler experiment than the previous ones!
Thank you for your efforts. I have to say I'm quite confused about exactly what is in dispute.
Great job, thank you!
I think the most worrying one is that clients of independent contractors (which I know is an incredibly broad term and conditions, leverage and respect vary across and within industries) may be less willing to hire ICs if they're might be forced to treat them as full-time equivalent employees (benefits).

If true, then this could lead to reduced business for ICs, which in turn requires more time spent on business development and less time on billable engagements to maintain similar revenue levels going forward.

On the other hand, if you're, say, a trucker that would for all intents and purposes normally be considered an employee of a company because so much of their livelihood, hours and method of work depends on a single employer, then their situation (and total compensation) would likely improve.
Here's a little old fart story from more than 25 years ago.

We'd been working on a hardware product and put a fair bit of effort into optimizing something that had to be done 1M times at startup, getting it down to a few seconds, in theory.

Software comes to complain that it's grossly inefficient and takes forever. Investigate. Well. They're running a 1M iteration loop and then calling down through something like a dozen layers of object oriented subroutines, constructors and destructors and all, to execute the hardware primitive, one at a time.

So I crack the PowerPC (this is ancient history, remember) manual and write a bit of assembly language. See here, I can get it done in 2.5 seconds!

That's ridiculous! We can't block for 2.5 seconds in a subroutine call.

Well how long can you? Oh. Well, then call it 100 times and do 10K iterations each time. So they did that, and problem solved.

That's because we still had full-stack expertise. Everything was in house.

These days, complexity is so vast that you simply can't afford to own the full stack any more. And so gross inefficiencies like the above creep in and there's simply nobody around to understand, much less fix them.

The same thing is briefly alluded to in my brother's video about the early days at Research in Motion (https://youtu.be/GLxjXP-XCJA). Talk about full stack. He spent a huge amount of time just working out how to extract every last millijoule out of an alkaline AA cell. And stopping software developers from introducing inefficiencies like the above. Full stack! And the RIM 950 really was an awesome gadget, running, if I recall correctly, for two weeks on that measly AA battery. Simply not possible if you're just bolting together re-usable pieces from different sources.
Does copyright law say you can ingest copyrighted work at very large scale and sell derivates of those works to gain massive profit / massive market capitalizations? Honestly wondering. This seems to be the crux issue here.
So, if wires are chaeper in EUR (thanks to SEPA), than even if I want to store my wealth in USD, I need to always sell USD for EUR just to do wires?! That's crazy! It's a patchwork an a scheme, not an alternative to fiat, gold, or stocks!
Eh I wouldn't call that legal but rather a good coverup.
The text of his tweet also "gives away the magic trick":

> Optimus cannot yet do this autonomously, but certainly will be able to do this fully autonomously and in an arbitrary environment (won’t require a fixed table with box that has only one shirt).
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The deal with search engines was always that you would get traffic out of then.

Use my content, to get people to me. Google's snippets kinda broke that deal and people have indeed complained about that, but otoh you can still technically opt out of being indexed.

It's not clear how you opt out of LLMs.
> as proven by the NYT lawsuit filing

I would be careful in asserting that it's proven until the evidence is heard in court and we have all the data.
Absolutely not true. Non-artists use it to replace the need to purchase art and art services.

That said it is unclear if the connection is strong enough between a given artist and their replacement.
This! I’ve boosted cars in -30 and it takes a bit of extra crank because the fluids are all thick in the cold. But it works. It’s not a bad idea in really cold weather (-40) to start your car every 4 hours or so to keep it warm.

Edit: the gas cars failing to start are almost always having old batteries that need replacing. In a really cold climate you don’t want to push 7 beyond years. Some batteries are in rough shape after 5.
MBA degrees are really to supplement a worker by bringing business experience to their technical expertise. Somebody without any real work experience in industry simply can't do an MBA and benefit from it as the courses all require you to draw from your industry experience. Ergo an MBA only person simply isn't hirable in my book.
>But clearly BlueSky only wants people that are part of that existing niche. The monoculture.

What?
I'm just genuinely curious. I also live in a small country with a limited number of L1+2 speakers and I never see any machine translated content from Russian sources. It's not immediately obvious why Croatia would have Russian and not, say, German or English sources for machine translated content.
Training people and training AI are completely different things, and this tired argument is disingenuous.
Pre-face: MBA here

I got my MBA covered by my employer, but honest to god - I didn't learn or see much new.

Prior to that I had a MSEE, as well as a Bachelor in Econ and Business Administration. All the classes were just mixes of core finance/accounting/management classes. Had electives, but again, nothing I wouldn't have learned on the job or in my own spare time.

I guess you can get some academic/knowledge value if you're completely green to things related to business. But undergrad econ/finance/management/etc. grads? Same old.

The real value lies in the networking. It's just a formality to land certain jobs, or if you want a career change.
In my city they used to have a 25 minute (!) click to door delivery guarantee. Extremely impressive.
well yeah, because you'd have to be virtuous to be able to virtue signal, and the ones who bring that up generally aren't.
Actually having to develop (browser, IDE, compilers, etc) on a slow machine is pointless torture, but I do see the value in the app that you're building running in a resource constrained VM or equivalent. That way your dev experience is crisp, but you get a more realistic sense of how your application functions for the end user.
As far as I know they're not defined in any standard way, the attributes I mentioned were taken from a few that had open at the time.
However, Wirth himself realized the problems of Pascal and his later languages are basically improved versions of Pascal -- Modula, Modula-2, and Oberon. But these languages didn't even really displace Pascal itself let alone C -- but maybe if he had named them in a way that made it clear to outsiders that these were Pascal improvements they would have had more uptake.
Correct. Depending on the phone, on Android the face unlock will not work with a 2D image. Perhaps only on cheaper phones.

On Windows for example you can't even have face unlock without a sensor that will provide 3D details so most laptops don't support Windows Hello.
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Nah, you don't deal with floats. You do machine learning which just happens to use floats. I do both numerical computing and machine learning. And oh boy are you wrong!

People who deal with actual numerical computing know that the statement "fast math is only slightly less accurate" is absurd. Fast math is unbounded in its inaccuracy! It can reorder your computations so that something that used to sum to 1 now sums to 0, it can cause catastrophic cancellation, etc.

Please stop giving people terrible advice on a topic you're totally unfamiliar with.
Counter argument - HN post from 6 months ago:

"Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36446933