skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll care a little more about the creatives' arguments when they start paying royalties to every drawing, painting, illustration, tv show, or movie they've ever seen. Until then, it's just a cash grab. No individual is all that creative, and anyone accomplished is standing on the shoulders of past giants to get there.

The "what will we do for jobs argument?!?" would've applied to stage actors when movies came out a century ago and farm workers before the invention of tractors. Audio records, printing press, and so on. The world keeps getting better as technology advances, and people will adapt to the new changes.

And if you think art created by real people is more valuable, then there will be a market for the creatives. Focus on that.
> much of Asia, especially east Asia’s focus on stability over democratic principles is very much a product of China’s dominate role in that region

Not really. Giving up democracy for stability is increasingly a theme in South Asia, too. The West had their turn at it, too, in the 1940s; Asians don't have a monopoly over less-democratic governments. In fact I daresay the stereotypical nondemocratic example that comes to mind is Nazi Germany, which is distinctly Western.

People have a tendency to give up democracy for stability and improved quality of life when they've been trampled over, told they are inferior to other people with reduced melanin production, and generally not given opportunities to thrive.

Both China and India have massive inferiority complexes, and not without reason—they want a say in the world stage, and they'll get it by hook or crook. Together they have nearly two-fifths of the world population.
Sanctions on letting them buy chips 1. reduced available R&D money for US competitors by reducing their revenue and 2. raised the local price to monopoly prices, creating a great reward for the first local manufacturer to achieve parity.

If you want to see effective de-industrialization, look at what happens to US industry when China applies the opposite of sanctions (subsidies).

Adam Smith figured out that mercantilism is inherently self-defeating over two hundred years ago. Maybe nation-states will catch up in the next few centuries.
Off topic, but is everyone just logged into Twitter to see this? I only can see a single Tweet which by itself doesn't really lend itself to much discussion.
Teaching Innovative Entrepreneurship
Yeah I’m on the client side of this now with a new home, trying to vaguely describe a vision to contractors who have great questions about problems and decisions I hadn’t even thought about. I’m sorry for myself.
While the books is on the way, you can listen to an engaging talk by the author: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tSs7aESx8s
Good to hear that you have nothing to hide, comrade.
> It's hard to maintain a revenue stream

Appliance manufacturers survived most of the 20th century making reliable products for a smaller global population. On the other hand, it's hard to have never ending quarterly profit growth without planned obsolescence to create extra demand that normally wouldn't exist.
And the genie is already out of the bottle. As we've seen with LLMs, soon there will be open sourced versions of this essentially trained on everything. And with transfer learning the training will probably promiscuously propagate to inform future models. In essence in the limit case, all future models 5 years from now will have been "influenced" by nearly all work on the publicly accessible web today.

And there's no problem with that really -- all humans are a bit influenced by everything they've seen in their lives like you said, including tons of heavily copyrighted and trademarked stuff.
Honestly not complicated enough.

PPPS. House will might be sent to the moon or Mariana trench. Make sure it can sustain these pressures.

PPPPS. This goes for trailer as well. Additionally we need a plan to deploy it on a neutron star.
I miss gov.uk sites so much
The sad thing is his wife was wondering where all the money has gone, I was the first one he told about this.

He was saving it for his grandchildren and he basically had a meltdown when I told him he's probably been scammed.

I felt really bad and also uncomfortable with the whole situation, I gave him a hug and told him to get in touch with his bank and tell them everything he told me.

Not likely that they'll help him but I just didn't know how to deal with the situation.
It IS locked in the isp-supplied routers.

Get your own router if you want to change it. And that has various downsides.
It seems quite early to evaluate if they are making any progress, if the goal is to catch up to, say, ASML.
Cisco Fabric EXtender. Like a TOR switch but dumber.
I don't know if it's illegal, because I'm not a lawyer.

I do know that it is completely unethical. A few large companies should not be able to package up and sell the totality of humanity's creative output at the expense of humanity itself.

The backlash is certainly just beginning. Thus far, AI usage beyond brief exploration have mostly been driven by tech folks. As more people outside of the bubble get clued into what is happening, I think that reputations will take a serious hit.
Ah, the good ol “just get a burner sim bro” argument. Tried that once, they did KYC.
As per usual, money thinks of a human as a commodity for sale, not a neighbour being exploited or livelihood being stripped.

If you think throwing life into a black box and consuming its results will improve productivity and enhance creativity. You're forgetting the only thing we feed this thing is 'results'. You're drinking the piss from a million artists and thinking it's fresh water. Eventually this filtered, censored source of creativity is AI material being used and creating for AI, not humans -- because humans quit being a source of material and nothing more than a requester.

The short sightedness of believing you can commodify the human spirit is the most incredulous shit I've ever seen.
The article focuses a lot on GE, however from my experience now most of the appliances are Bosh or LG from Korea.

On the LG side, I feel like the quality has really gone downhill over the years. I had a GE washer which gave me 13 years of life -- not bad for $400. I replaced it with an LG now and already regretting it -- complicated controls which seem somewhat redundant, more electronics instead of just knobs to turn.

Also bought an LG microwave. Kept blowing my circuit (and yes, it was rated for 15A and I have 20A circuits). Replaced with smaller model, still Chinese garbage, but less complicated. It's worked perfectly.
You can get that. It’s a business account. It costs more because that’s the actual price of a dedicated line with an uptime SLA.
Do any appliance brands still do in company servicing? At least near me Wolf/Subzero and competitors outsource service.
What would you classify Signal as, with its stickers, cryptocurrency (MobileCoin), etc.?
Isn't this exactly what 37signals and even joelonsoftware were? Isn't HN essentially a free conduit to YCombinator awareness?

I don't see the problem with what you're describing. It seems like one of the most contributory ways to market well.
The person who wrote this doesn't know any building architects who serve the wealthy.

Rich people who want custom homes often want to design it themselves, and then get extremely annoyed when confronted with the reality of basic design principles, usability, materials, structural integrity, etc. And then like to change their plans last minute once they actually start to see it framed in (assuming they don't freak out because they've never seen framing before and don't realize it isn't done yet). Or perhaps one of their rich friends made a glib comment or a jab while being shown the foundation and now the customer wants both their kids to have their own recital hall, because one isn't enough.

Another stellar example: someone wanted a garage put above their kitchen because they wanted to park their ferrari next to their bedroom on the second floor. Damn the exhaust fumes.
I'll start caring about my fellow humans rights when I see each and everyone one of their tax returns. Until then my assumptions will appease my ability to remain ignorant.
> Well the big difference is that keys can't be accessed in a hardware wallet.

In theory.

> If you accidentally plug in the USB drive into some untrusted box, you could potentially have everything stolen.

This is like saying that no one should own a gun because you might point it straight at your own head and pull the trigger.

> You still have this option with a hardware wallet. eg:

Yes, that is true, but a hardware wallet is an extra piece of hardware that needs to be actively used to provide HD wallet keys for transactions. If all a person wants to do is store BTC for the very long term, then this approach is more complicated and hazardous than storing a non-HD wallet key pair on some physical medium; this is because a hardware wallet failure can result in loss of the ability to sign transactions, and chances are you're storing the seed phrase separately. Again, just for long term storage, there's next to no advantage between storing a seed phrase for an HD wallet and storing private and public keys. Depending on what a person intends to do with their money, a hardware wallet may provide zero value over the least complicated approach. Unless someone is paranoid over other people or the government knowing their balance, a single public address is more straight forward than managing an HD wallet.
The downstream reality of globalization and JIT. Push domestic labor overseas to eek out more profits, the products reduce in quality, and you get the surface-level appearance of making more money. Really, though, you're just long-term increasing the cost of everything else because what you save in labor, you lose in shipping costs, returns, customer support, and inflation of your national currency (more money printing to offset employment/entitlement deficits created by off-shoring).
We don't have to treat humans and machines the same.

Even if it were true that these models learn exactly like humans (which is patently false), we can still differentiate between the two.

Society is built by and for humans. If we want to empower humans over machines, that seems perfectly acceptable.
2019-03-01: 1 United States Dollar equals 39.82 Argentine Peso

2024-02-20: 1 United States Dollar equals 837.11 Argentine Peso

A 2002.23% increase in 5 years

https://www.reuters.com/markets/argentine-shoppers-face-dail...

> Argentina inflation hits 124% as cost-of-living crisis sharpens
There is merit in the opposite concept where programmers are working like architects/(other engineers outside of programming).

The problem is nobody cares about that style because although people die when a building falls, nobody dies when a program crashes.

At least most of the time, nobody dies.
cocaine?
Consider how low the score of Gemini here compared to the other LLM test. And I'm impressed by the evaluation method's ability to assess performance without relying on tailored prompts.
As an experienced and seasoned engineer, this is exactly my view. Though as a new college grad I used to work overnight for hackdays. Now I see new college grads doing the same.

I get paid for a job and I do it really well. But, I don't get paid enough to overthink creative ideas, burn midnight oil to meet an arbitrary submission deadline that only benefits the company.

Not to mention that if I don't meet my OKRs, mentioning that it's delayed because I was working on a hackday idea wouldn't help me at all.
In my previous position, management employed the concept of a 'hackathon competition' as a sales pitch to the judges. One team, having received advance instruction, constructed their work in progress as a hackathon demo in advance and ultimately "won". It pissed so many people once it was known.
China is still a few decades from commercially viable high end semiconductors. Yes, they can subsidize poor yields, but it doesn’t really bring them closer to figuring out the problem (they basically need to experiment a lot, and that will take time even if the money is there). China was always going to do this, they announced they were going to pour billions into semiconductors and modern jet turbines more than a decade ago. The trick is ensuring the money isn’t siphoned off to corruption.
No general-purpose programming language can be "perfectly safe". At the limit, you can always write to `/proc/self/mem`, actuate a robotic arm via USB to smash the CPU, etc.

A large portion of the bugs in that list require unstable language features. Most of the remainder are codegen bugs (miscompilations, ABI mismatches, linker problems, etc). The list of core type system soundness bugs is a lot shorter, it's tracked here: https://github.com/orgs/rust-lang/projects/44
Your firm’s partners have hired BCG to streamline the home building process. Your home and every other one in the neighborhood that your coworkers have been designing will be left to rot and most of you will be let go. Some of you will be reassigned to design horse stables and indoor pools for a more profitable market segment.
VPN companies already do sketchy shit to get around Netflix's georestrictions[0]. I've heard rumors like they route traffic through residential IP blocks somehow. If they're able to do this, then IP reputation doesn't matter as much. They're already burning IP addresses to connect to Netflix with anyway...

[0] BTW, how is this not a massive industry-wide DMCA 1201 lawsuit? Advertising a service as being capable of getting around georestrictions sounds like it should be as illegal as advertising a DVD decryptor.
this seems not correct. Using RAG to serve 10 chunks of the text from different pages using OpenAI can also give the same result.

Sounds like a scam
AWS has stated that there is a "Nitro Card for Instance Storage"[0][1] which is a NVMe PCIe controller that implements transparent encryption[2].

I don't have access to an EC2 instance to check, but you should be able to see the PCIe topology to determine how many physical cards are likely in i4i and im4gn and their PCIe connections. i4i claims to have 8 x 3,750 AWS Nitro SSD, but it isn't clear how many PCIe lanes are used.

Also, AWS claims "Traditionally, SSDs maximize the peak read and write I/O performance. AWS Nitro SSDs are architected to minimize latency and latency variability of I/O intensive workloads [...] which continuously read and write from the SSDs in a sustained manner, for fast and more predictable performance. AWS Nitro SSDs deliver up to 60% lower storage I/O latency and up to 75% reduced storage I/O latency variability [...]"

This could explain the findings in the article - they only meared peak r/w, not predictability.

[0] https://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2019/02/aws-nitro-system/
[1] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/nitro/
[2] https://d1.awsstatic.com/events/reinvent/2019/REPEAT_2_Power...
This is also true for GCE Local SSD: https://cloud.google.com/local-ssd

The GP is incorrect.
Have you honestly tried?

Product reviews were never the right place to look, because they don't get published after 10 years of use. But unlike in the 1970s, 1980s, or 1990s, you are one search away from appliance repairman forums that lay it bare.

I confess to not having done this when I first bought my LG appliances, but that's on me. And then when they broke and I called a number of SF Bay Area appliance repair shops and they all said "we don't touch LG", I had an epiphany.
most of any job is listening to people. doesnt matter if you are a president or a janitor. people want things but they dont know exactly how or why, most of all they just want to feel that you have listened to them about their problem. and then done your best to help them.
Same for Google (the GP is incorrect about how GCE Local SSD works).
I don't understand what you're saying. Am I the uncaring ignorant one? It seems unlikely that you're really referring to yourself there, and maybe you're using a rhetorical trick to try and skirt HN's policy about being civil to each other.
I understand globalization for most run of the mill items but I can’t believe we’ve let the high tech manufacturing go offshore.
The $50 piece of junk is a switch, a hot plate best not used because it ruins your coffee but there's probably no way to disable it short of physical disconnection, and a tube boiler you won't be able to source a replacement part for when it overheats and dies because the two (two!) thermal fuses are in free air, nowhere near thermal contact with what they're meant to be protecting. Ask me how I know.
How Many Attack Submarines Does the U.S. Navy Need?
But languages like C / C++ don't claim to be safe.
"As the technology finally reaches industry"

Have I missed some news?

If I remember, one promising aspect of the tech was that different subsystems could effectively run at different speeds, and could therefore be developed independently of the rest of the design.

It might pair well with TTA cpu designs, which I think Ivan Sutherland was also involved in.
Would von Braun's Mars landers have worked?
Glad that fad never caught on
A practical guide to using declarative shadow DOM
In most cases, they're physically plugged into a PCIe CEM slot in the host.

There is no network in the way, you are either misinformed or thinking of a different product.
It's always the entity with money that is liable, not the entity that committed the dirty deed.
It's almost always one then the other, no?
But the benchmark only scoring Gemini-Pro 1, I'm curious how the Gemini Ultra performance here but guessed we couldn't know yet.
I have a friend who works in production. I cannot remember exactly what his education is, but it's a type of engineer. If you want something produced that you have invented, he can get it done.

He has mentioned that they have software that can calculate the average lifespan of the finished product by entering the different components that goes into the product (like this piece has this amount of iron, this amount of tin, etc).

Based upon this the software can calculate the lifespan very precisely and determine if they have made it "too good". If it's too good the quality is decreased on purpose in order to reduce the lifespan such that people will buy more. Other testing goes into the equation as well, but enough data has been collected over the years that it can be calculated/simulated.
Here's the incident page
https://status.openai.com/incidents/ssg8fh7sfyz3
Democracy is a long developed ideal in the west, from when the Greeks invented it. Yes, Europe goes through spates of authoritarianism and was under autocratic rule for much of its history, but the direction is clear, Germany and Italy had no cultural problem in snapping back to democracy after WW2, and Portugal and Spain saw little value in continuing dictatorships after Franco and Salazar either.

I find skin tone to be a much bigger deal among the elites of India and China than in the west. It’s clear that classism plays a huge role in those countries, where the elites rule with little regard for the common people.
In terms of Tim Powers, Byron shows up in his "The Anubis Gates" as well.
I don't think it's a fair comparison. Every single other search engine sells ads including ddg. Sure, they don't track you, but will still serve ads for your quesries.

Kagi is explicitly an ad free subscription. Comparing profitability is not straightforward.
If there exists a company that makes appliances that are very expensive and that last a long time, a company with a real reputation for quality, then it is extremely profitable for that company to be purchased by a hedge fund that cuts quality by 90%, raises prices by 10%, and just rides that train into the ground over the next 20 years.
I think it’ll do even more: show why that’s impossible. We already know that thoughts are electric patterns, so the thought that the manipulation of those patterns could change the inputs or outputs of your conscious mind shouldn’t be a surprise.
Appliance repairmen existed in the 1980s, we probably had more of them per capita than we do now, and they had their hands full. The idea that it's often easier to toss out an appliance than to repair it is a newer trend...
The crazier the reproduction, the more interesting the bug. A trivial bug isn't an interesting. A bug where two edge cases interact to do something more than the sum of parts is quite interesting. You learn something about the edge where there's an interaction, and the underlying system as a whole.

(Have you ever looked at a fuzzer-generated failing piece of data and not though "oh whoa good point". That's interesting!)
My recommendation, civil or otherwise is to at least feign a moment of empathy and understanding for your fellow man in order to balance an otherwise repeat cliche that fundamentally argues for self. An inability to empathise first stops any ability to listen to, or accept alternative opinions to your own.

I'm not sure what's more insulting overall, my sarcasm or your immediate jump to insult any artist based on the fact they're outraged about the financial fall out of this situation and not take them on the merit of every other argument included. Philosophical, moral and otherwise. It's fingers in ears and it's assuming the only thing artists care about is the money leaving their pocket.

We can think a little beyond that cave. It's inclusion in the argument is because it is the guiding star for the greedy to nullify the realities. Visual AI has revealed the trickster.

> No individual is all that creative

It's nice to meet you too. I promise, you underestimate your neighbours.
if one believes in objective reality, it stands to reason that it is possible for a person to believe things that match to that reality and it is possible for a person to believe things that do not match to that reality.

My claim is we should bias towards believing things that match to reality. Seeking "unbias" is seeking ignorance.
I don't read RationalWiki pages for analysis, just for the receipts they have, which was the point of that link. You've cited a pseudonymous racial supremacist.
GCE local SSDs absolutely are on the same host as the VM. The docs [0] are pretty clear on this, I think:

> Local SSD disks are physically attached to the server that hosts your VM.

Disclosure: I work on GCE.

[0] https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/local-ssd
I worked at a company that had these and was initially excited about it, but my experience ended up matching yours. The "real" work is planned as if these days don't exist, so I spent all of them on my regular duties so I wouldn't slip deadlines. One day a week was never enough to make significant progress on anything interesting anyway.
I don't get how the hell the company that is laser-focused on power efficiency - like to the point of having separate display scanout RAM just so they can ramp down system DRAM separately - also has a perpetual problem with out-of-control daemons eating the CPU. iOS and it's derivatives should have the same problems macOS has, but we can't see any of the performance data on an iPhone (unless you're jailbroken), so this probably just crops up as random complaints about hot iPhones with flat batteries.