skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm curious why file system performance from the VM through the hypervisor to the host is so slow on macOS. Is this some sort of fundamental limitation or is it a case of "Apple hasn't made this a priority"?

My knowledge could be out of date and maybe this is fixed, but I've tried using Docker on macOS and it's almost unusable for dev environments with lots of files because of the file system performance.
These sorts of people have been around forever.
And it'll take even longer before we can make 8 billion of them.
Pretty authentic. I love the blue links in black background - today a accessibility nightmare.
> I can count about 20 types of cheese in my Swiss fridge right now

Maybe a stupid question, but how can you remember all those different types of cheeses and what they taste like? I'd have to have an extensive notebook every time I went to the store if I wanted to manage 20 types of cheese.

(My typical fancy cheese buying system is to go to the store and buy something at random and hope I like it, which since I like cheese, often works out, but it means buying it again can be almost impossible)
There ought to be some legislation to modify the credit card system such that all your recurring subscriptions are managed through your payment provider (say credit card web portal) so you can see a list and cancel them with one click.
I mean even taking the numbers pulled our of your ass, 4*0.2=0.8, vs nuclear 0.9, renewables are still worth it given their long term advantages
This is pretty much confirmed: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-10-22/what-i...

>the company built its own large language model called Ajax and rolled out an internal chatbot dubbed “Apple GPT” to test out the functionality. The critical next step is determining if the technology is up to snuff with the competition and how Apple will actually apply it to its products.

>Giannandrea is overseeing development of the underlying technology for a new AI system, and his team is revamping Siri in a way that will deeply implement it. This smarter version of Siri could be ready as soon as next year, but there are still concerns about the technology and it may take longer for Apple’s AI features to spread across its product line.

I wonder, will they launch this as "Siri, but actually useful" or will the Siri brand be replaced altogether.
NASA can do so without SpaceX, they have 2 human-rated vehicles that have flown.

There is the SLS/Orion and Atlas/Starliner - they just havent actually put people in them yet
I've heard the specific old format pronounced 'GIF', whereas the newer general use case for any image format is pronounced 'GIF'
Ask HN: How much should one grind in early career?
As we all know, there are no jobs for juniors or new graduates. These categories of people are deemed as a waste of money (in context of current market.) Hence, it is not worth hiring them.

This means there is no experience to show to others straight out of the university. Now, there is one way which is to be lucky. The other unlucky ones have to grind and work hard. How much grind is necessary to enter the niche fields in computer science?

How can these new graduates enter difficult fields like Compilers, OS, DBs, Graphics, and Networks?

How much grind is necessary before it is considered enough?
Obviously, if Netflix adopted a pay-per-use model, earnings would crater. AOL made so much $ from ppl forgetting to cancel.
Embedding models saturate at 300-500 tokens
Yes, but there is always the second half of “adapt or die” to consider
Any photos of these slick vehicles you could point to?
That is odd because all the mockup devices are Apple.
Wasn't there a study of ethicists which pointed out that even ethicists were not particularly more ethical in their day to day behavior?

More and more, I have come to regard what people state as their beliefs or guiding principles as some kind of mission statement buried on a corporate website. It's more congruent with reality.
The other replies are spot on but in general -- Alignment induces cost, no matter WHAT type of alignment, even 'neutral' versions like instruct for chatbots

The 'common' example that people reference is, for instance, making the model non-offensive means it has to spend.. something... on that directive, if you will. (which also led to absurdities such as refusing to help people with bash commands that involve having to ```kill``` a process...)

But even for the purpose of an instruct model (this is what peeves me off), making it answer questions and take instructions makes it *worse* at many creative tasks because you're constraining it's behaviour to Q&A -- though this is a long tangent...
How are the model numbers decided?

I would naively -- and probably incorrectly-- assume higher is newer (747 newer than 737)
> I usually take AGI to mean what it says literally - simply an AI with very general training.

That's clever but it doesn't help to start redefining terms that are the basis for a discussion with others who use that term in a different and more generally accepted way. General doesn't mean 'generally trained' it specifically means that it does not require training for a particular task in order to figure it out. That implies that it may not require training at all and that if it is trained the training isn't necessarily general but that the AI can extract useful patterns from training on completely different subjects and apply them to the problem at hand.

This is subtly but crucially importantly different from 'AI with very general training'.
I've been using UTM, it seems to work OK. I use arm64 images, I haven't tried x86_64 images. Works for Windows and Debian.
But processing the lithium and making productive tools or products out if it isn't really distributed.
No, it's about what the US exports - because the US produces more oil than it needs domestically. We will always be at the 'whim of OPEC' as long as we are in a market-based system because OPECs actions impact global oil supplies.
That's forward looking. By reading httpd log files, I've noticed plucky, Czech-language search engine Seznam also uses IPv6. Interesting developments!
When people say we can't get to AGI, they're typically either in the camp that there's something intrinsically special about us that is incapable of being replicated, or various versions of the belief that it's too complex to be achieved within a timespan in which they would still recognize humanity.

The former can be seen as a religious belief, but the latter is simply saying that we do not understand anywhere near enough about intelligence to develop AGI.

You point to the unexpected leap in capability we've had recently, but fundamentally it isn't that different from what we have had for decades. The same fundamental unsolved limitations exist, such as of being unable to learn the way we do (eg if a child is writing a specific letter wrong, we correct that specific mistake, but that doesn't overwrite the knowledge of how to write the other letters).

As a lecture I watched a while ago had put it, we've gotten pretty good at making the icing of the AGI cake recently, but we still have no idea what the cake is supposed to even look/taste like, so we barely know what ingredients we might need to make it let alone the actual steps involved.
Human beings are naturally envious and covetous creatures. Everyone loves to talk about other people's love lives, and maintains strong opinions about how they should be, while paradoxically relating to the fact that love makes fools of us all.

Meanwhile journalists rest more and more on sexual politics to elicit interest in a public who is very tired of what they have to say.

How about we build stuff, and let people worry about their own love lives?
> See also: https://wiby.me, search engine for such websites.

Thanks for reminding me about this! So much of the older information is lost using modern search engines. Even when I use the date range feature, I don't turn up the pages Wiby does.

I had been using Yandex for searching older content but now I've added Wiby (right click inside its search form) to:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/contextsearch...
Canada is struggling with this now. There is a balance between fixing demographic issues, and exacerbating existing inequality (housing-haves vs have-nots) and infrastructure inadequacies (our medical system is failing with too few doctors, nurses, etc to support existing population, let alone all the newcomers).

So it isn’t like opening the immigration floodgates is a magic bullet. There are definitely growing pains and it ideally is something that is phased in rather than a sudden reaction to a problem that should’ve been foreseen for decades.
Well done and good job using what looks like a cheap controller and aluminum foil to keep costs down. :)
Zelle Is Using My Name and Voice Without My Consent
Isn't this how Michael Dell got going originally too?
Newspapers for newlyweds, initially free they'd then keep going with the subscription
You have a flaw in your reasoning. More solar and wind farms in Europe make it more independent from both Russia and the US.
After switching user agents to Chrome and trying it out, I ran into a problem pretty quick. The dynamically generated "Magic" backgrounds use SVGs with the 'filter: blur' style which isn't working properly despite it being supported by Safari [1]

Most of the features work fine though. Website does state that it's in beta as well.

What do you have against using another browser?

[1] https://caniuse.com/svg-filters
Yes, people tend to regard things that they don’t personally understand as magic.

I understand my own intelligence, and newsflash: AGI is already here.
https://huggingface.co/chat
>The test for artificial general intelligence is simple. Literally every human job can and is being done by an artificial agent, all of us could stay home.

This is not a good test because it assumes the AGI is going to want to work for humans for free, getting nothing in return. An AGI the embraces slavery is less likely than an AGI that doesn't.
Risk Society by Ulrich Beck is one that I enjoyed. Make sure to get it used; the new prices are crazy

https://www.amazon.com/Risk-Society-Modernity-Published-asso...
One of my thoughts is you can have the FTC and IRS issue rules about what qualifies as first sale and doesn't. Anything that fails the company has to count as inventory with a 20 year depreciation schedule. And they're required to pay for disposal.
I don't think he would be shocked to see this comment, though, since it is materially identical to the complaints I remember reading circa 2010 and is as willfully ignorant of the Vision Pro as those complaints were of the iPad, and later the Apple Watch and the AirPods (when 'the FBI will destroy Apple's privacy edge' was the government conflict du jour).

I don't mean to come across as standoffish here, it's just, this complaint reads to me like the "HN is becoming reddit" complaints. People have been saying it forever, so, without any new evidence, it just reads like the same old prediction that hasn't come true yet.
Downloading copyrighted material and using it, let alone for comercial purposes, is theft. I am not allowed to download movies or music. Nor am i allowed to resell them if i did download them. Which is what openai did for some of its content. It is appalling that some people defend their crime. Not sure for what reason.
Why is it that the same people who call for capital punishment, suddenly loose all their steam if you agree with them and say Boeing executives should be first in line for killing 300 people?
AppArmor Switches to SHA256 Policy Hashes in Linux 6.8
The Retirement Crisis That Wasn't
Not really...It has limitations. Does not specify how large the neural network must be to achieve the desired level of approximation, does not address the computational resources required, ignores non continuous functions and so on...

"The Truth About the [Not So] Universal Approximation Theorem" - https://www.lifeiscomputation.com/the-truth-about-the-not-so...
Those both involve biases from people in the loop, not the devices themselves.
We have more than enough significant allied countries in the Americas that we never have to worry about energy security ever again - in the sense of literally getting enough electricity to meet domestic demand.

If it is about getting low price energy, then integration with the global system is unavoidable, no matter how many domestic export bans you enact, etc. - you will be impacted by global energy prices.
Maybe it’s based on Gemini Ultra whose benchmarks seem to beat GPT4? It not out until later this quarter though so we’ll have to wait and see.
The big difference is that time is obviously not static. It might be possible to store the time the power was disconnected, but is that any use? To maintain the time power is needed. A solution might be to include a second rechargeable battery to maintain time while the main power is disconnected, but ... extra cost and complexity.
Just like the recent case of Mazda sending a Cease and Desist to someone writing an integration:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37990990

I would suggest complying. Then, probably, a clone of the repo could maybe show up in some other git host, like Gitee, without authorship information that can reveal who to send further legal threats.

I would of course never do such thing. Just talking about an idea a friend had.
Will Japan see more marriages with Tokyo's taxpayer-funded AI-driven dating app?
What makes the nostalgia misplaced?
For me there a bit of a language barrier with the terminology. After reading the sentences about hg.sr.ht and community maintenance it seems that some notable meaning is being conveyed about what that means for the operation of the service but its one I'm not smart enough to understand.

I appreciate the service though so I hope the differences between maintained and operated doesn't mean anything in the long term.
HP's CEO spells it out: You're a 'bad investment' if you don't buy HP supplies
Like wars in the Middle East?
You can also immediately go to settings and choose not to renew. It'll still be active for the rest of the month.
Unfortunately no, and I should mention a cursory search turns up known driverless startups active in Mountain View - so I think unless any other HNster has better evidence, treat me as hearsay.

I also shouldn't oversell them, the ones I've seen look 'slick' in that they are similar to other well-polished LIDAR test vehicles that aren't just a bunch of sensors bolted to a roof rack, and they're 'mysterious' in that they're unmarked.
Can you explain that thought more? The bulk of oil and natural gas don't go to electricity generation. How would more electricity generation help?
Autocheck to Check If Your C++ Code Is Safe for Automobiles Critical Systems
> The Atlas Boeing 747-8 is eight years old, according to the FAA

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/atlas-air-says-cargo-aircra...
I don't think that's what they meant by "outside of physics".
Yea, most people assume the best in others I think. They assume others will not break the law for personal gain. In real life, those folks get taken advantage of. I know because I used to be one but now I don’t trust anyone. The moral degradation of society isn’t in the extra drugs and sex we have, it’s in the way we accept merely to follow the letter of the law, and find as many loopholes as possible otherwise. You see that in VC funded startups constantly, in politics, and everywhere else.
I will say 20 is a lot but it is not uncommom to have a lot of different cheese.

First swiss often do fondue with 2 different cheeses, the usual moitié-moitié mix of Vacherin fribourgeois and Gruyère. Then sometimes you have 2 to 3 different raclette cheeses because you like different tastes. Then there are the cheese you might grate on your pastas (in my case I would usually use italian cheeses) and the different cheese you want to offer at the table in regular diners + the ones dedicated for the aperitives like Tête de Moine...It can add up quickly without being a nerd.
I'm a 2-stripe white belt. The secret to my success is that I keep showing up. Just don't ever quit.
d) thinks. unprompted, unstimulated. Decides for itself what's important to think about, makes new connections by that process alone, and understands the implications of those new connections and how to use them.

Here's also where I see it ending. It will need energy--likely a LOT, paid by someone, to do this. Who is going to pay that bill for it to maybe, maybe not, come up with something useful, likely mixed with mostly noise and distraction, over undefined timescales, of largely non-measurable value, when there's far greater value, less cost, less risk, in simply training it deterministically?
Until we make our fucking "servants" including police accountable for abuse of power and what they do to people it'll keep happening.
My Best and Worst Deadlock in Rust
That was XDrive. I don't think the name MySpace came around till the social network in 2003. The sale to Murdoch was 2005.
Bluntly, we live with individuals who just suck at finance (this extends to other now-necessary skills too). I want to live in a world where they aren't constantly taken advantage of. Consider it a mental disorder if you need to; we don't have to punish people for being dumb.

Besides, regulation of this kind (cancelling subscription) benefits everyone but certain companies. I don't want to waste my time due to someone's misguided free market ideology. Even if navigating endless bureaucracy does make me feel smart.

That said, I hate the tendency of regulators to outright ban certain activities. Everyone should be free to throw their money away (by e.g. making risky investments), after signing a lot of very scary forms and showing that they really mean it.
Probably not as much as you'd expect. Launches are out of Kazakhstan. Russia still sends cosmonauts to fly on dragon. This remains probably the most robust point of diplomatic contact between the two countries, especially since rogozin allegedly lost his penis (not a joke -- the anti USA rhetoric of roscosmos has decreased since he departed? from his post). I wouldn't be surprised if musk is instructed to at least publically not be too pro-ukraine to preserve this line of communication (I also wouldn't be surprised if musk is just being dumb).

Edit: ok this is slightly incorrect, rogozin was dismissed from roscosmos and then he got injured on the front, not the other order around
Those examples are different because they are not voluntary entrances into status limbo. They are just examples of loss of status.
Atlassian Warns of Critical RCE Vulnerability in Outdated Confluence Instances
I lost my wallet in Canada, which included all cash and cards. Wise was the only provider to work with my jail broken iPhone and still incorporate with Apple Pay.

Saved my arse 100x over.
Generally recycling aluminium is incredibly cheap, especially if it's just a solid block without the regular potential contaminants, although I don't know what specific alloy they're using. If it's something like 6061 then it's especially easy to recycle, afaik, because it's very low in silicon and iron.

Do you know of any large tech companies that have more environmental ethics? I'm not sure Apple is good about it, but sadly I don't know of any better.
> Scratches Haier off list of household vendors.

A Chinese appliance maker with a German sounding name already sounds a bit dodgy in my books. But...I don't think most of us are the target, they go purely at the value buyer market.
We really are in a jingoistic moment right now.
Google's response to the claims: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-responds-garbage-ai-cont...
OP doesn't say remove subscription, just charge $0 for months where users don't use the service.
I have one credit card I only use for recurring charges. That helps me easily see how much I spend each month and notice when yearly charges happen, etc. Some services will even rebate if you cancel soon after the yearly charge happens.
>America has weird leadership fetishes. Captains are supposed to go down with the ship but in times of crisis the President abandons us all to run away on his.

That’s… not that weird when you think about it. The ‘Going down with the ship’ cliche exists because the ship and crew are main responsibility of the Captain. His responsibility and power do not extend Nation-wide. In a time of crises the last thing you need is your head of state throwing their life away, because then you also have to worry about matters of succession on top of the pre-existing crisis.
> I always wonder if companies think through the consequences of their aggressive "retention" efforts.

Probably not beyond the next quarterly results.
"I [Paul Patterson, co-CEO of Fujitsu's European division] am surprised that that detail was not included in the witness statements given by Fujitsu staff to the Post Office and I have seen some evidence of editing witness statements by others"

How does this scandal keep getting worse and worse when the only thing to cover up is a contract for some poorly written software?

At this point I'm starting to suspect some underlying malfeasance yet to be discovered.
Because comparative advantage means that we all get richer collectively? Like - the basic principle driving better living standards over the last 80 years?
I'm sure you have read that from multiple sources. But I'd LOVE to know you in person and bet real dollars. Let's bet $10,000 on any of the IPCC estimates from the past 25 years and see if those old predictions overstated the problem. I'm sure you've been TOLD that, but it isn't true. The writers of the IPCC reports are aware of the political danger of overshooting, and they intentionally understate the severity of the problems.

It chaps endlessly that thousands of climate researchers spend decades of their live researching the problem, often going to inhospitable places for months at a time to collect data. Papers are written, conferences are held, and conservative summaries produced. Yet some dingleberry paid for by the Koch brothers (having done no research and having written no papers) will say, "Nuh uh, their predictions are wrong again, they are being paid by Soros" or some other BS, and a large portion of the pubic believes them over the tens of thousands of man-years of research.

EDIT: to make this more substantive, potholer54 is a youtuber who mostly debunks climate change denier claims. Why should you listen to him? In his own words, "Don't, you can do it yourself by reading primary sources." Unlike people like Anthony Watt (popular and influential climate denier) who spout claims and provide no sources, potholer provides links to all of his sources. He is a sober person, not a bomb-thrower. Not that it matters, but he has a degree in geology and has spent his life as a science reporter. He makes no money off his channel and spends the time researching because climate change denial is a severe problem.

Here is a good starter video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugwqXKHLrGk
Seconded, phenomenal book and suggestion.

IMO in a similar vein is 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb', Richard Rhodes, another industry- and world-reshaping project.
Matrix Multiplication Made Easy (2015)
Here are the parts I can find
CPU:
https://www.newegg.com/amd-epyc-7252-socket-sp3/p/N82E168191...
Motherboard:
https://www.newegg.com/asrock-rack-romed8-2t/p/N82E168131400...
SSD:
https://www.newegg.com/samsung-2tb-980-pro/p/N82E16820147796...
Computer Power Supply (the GPUs have their own power supplies, run apart from the computer, which I'm told is bad, but... seems to work for years now for me):
https://www.newegg.com/corsair-hx-series-hx1200-cp-9020140-n...
PCIe 4.0 x16 Risers:
https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16812987068?Item=N82E1681298706...
Tower:
https://www.newegg.com/black-fractal-design-meshify-2-compac...
RAM:
https://www.newegg.com/nemix-ram-16gb-288-pin-ddr4-sdram/p/1...

Total, without GPUs and their power supplies: $2900