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I don't have much again Thiel's program but US college is only four years. People talk as if that's an eternity. At 22 you're still basically a kid. If you are a genius of geniuses, you can even speed run college and finish sooner.
That said, the article is talking about the big picture and missing all the important details. These Thiel fellows think that Thiel's connections and network, which is basically SV startup scene aristocracy, are worth more than what connections than can gain at a top-10 US college. They probably aren't wrong.
Isn't this a bit too cynical? Is there nothing of value that can be, you know, learned at MIT? What about the social aspects of being in college?
Elevated levels of Cortisol outside the natural time window.
Okay that's pretty funny.

But the joke's on them because we all know GSuite paying customers can't use 90% of the other Google services with that login. We all have dummy gmail accounts for these purposes.
Well rented cloud instances shouldn't idle in the first place.
On Linux it's specifically a problem of the default GNOME window chrome and standard applications, yeah.

For instance look at the settings app screenshots here, everything is surrounded by at least twice as much empty space then actually needed for no obvious reason (except maybe to prevent fat-finger-syndrome on touch displays, but I use a mouse cursor, thank you very much):

https://apps.gnome.org/Settings/

Look how few settings actually fit on one page before scrolling is necessary (and since there's no scrollbar it's not even clear in some cases that more settings are hiding below). It looks less a settings application but more like an example application for UI design mistakes.

I have the same beef with modern macOS and Windows UIs though (but GNOME definitely takes the crown of most weird desktop UI).

It's some sort of modern UI designer brain virus to waste valuable screen real estate with empty pixels (but not wasting space doesn't mean to fall into the other extreme to fill everything with clutter, UI design is a fine art of balancing functionality with aesthetics - currently the pendulum has been swinging way too much into the aesthetics direction, ignoring that UIs should be functional first, and pretty only second.
Colonial Myth of 'Sub-Saharan Africa' in Medieval Geography: Egypt and Bornu
I've only ever seen dogs yawn on purpose as submissive/appeasing behavior. Kind of a nervous "I'm not trying to cause trouble." I'll get it from dogs if I've asked them to do too many behaviors in a row and they think it's because they haven't given me the correct one. Kind of an apology that they don't know what I want.

I see it occasionally between dogs when one is being stiff/dominant and the other yawns to kind of apologize and diffuse the situation.

Then again, I haven't worked much with sighthounds and they're basically a different species from other dogs, haha.
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Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39488247
Yeah like all those external pressures that have kept private mega corps from polluting, monopolizing, pervasively surveiling, brutally exploiting labor, and generating false "science" that maintains their dominance even in the face of huge global negative effects... Oh, wait...
I think that lawyers should be sworn in just like the witnesses. The fact they are not has always bothered me
I understand what they are saying and I’m saying the outcomes they are referring to are simply selection bias.
I have to say that the last decade or so of my life has been one confirmation after another that the parable of “The Emperor’s New Clothes” is about the most accurate bit of folk sociological wisdom that exists.
But in which way isn't most of our Intelligence not what is from training data?

1st evolutionary algorithm and then the constant input we receive from the World being the training data and we having reward mechanisms rewiring our neural networks based on what our senses interpret as good?
> Something susceptible to scratches

If a DVD gets scratched, that'll buff right out. If a drive platter gets scratched, goodbye data! If you don't want it scratched, put it in a caddy. Caddy-load disc drives have been around for years.

Your concerns about scratches are valid for really old technology, like CED, but I don't think those were ever made writeable.
I guess that's fewer syllables than "hallucination."

I'm not sure how I feel about the term "hallucination" as it's applied to AI. Since you seem strongly opposed to it, let me ask you this long-winded half-question:

People understand computer things by creating analogies to the physical world - just look at the "Desktop" motif. "Folders" and "Files" too, for that matter. It seems to me that anthropomorphization would fit under that umbrella, though you may disagree. How do you feel about computer anthropomorphization in general? Is there something about "hallucination" that's particularly offensive?
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Some more discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39488247
Why would no recent graduate use AI in this manner?

I'd imagine that a lot of law schools have started warning students against it, but in other fields there's often quite a pronounced lag between changes in the field and changes in the curriculum. Even if the best schools have adapted, I'd be shocked if there aren't a bunch that haven't.
This is mitigated via workspaces. Not sure how Win/Mac does it, but that's how I work on Linux desktops.
I forget where I originally heard this idea, but I always explain to people that LLMs are (affectionately) "bullshitters." Terms like "lying" or "hallucinating" imply that it's trying to tell the truth, but actually it doesn't care if what it says is true or not at all save for the fact that true text is slightly more plausible than false text.
Interestingly enough, you have the syntax required to make them a thing.

https://tio.run/##dY/NDoIwDMfve4oeh4hEvBiT3bj4FAuZRUmWsXTDzK...

No postfix inc/dec though.
But note how all the examples were private companies or enterprising individuals who weren't controlled somehow, but simply wanted to protect their profits.
What a ridiculous statement, are you saying that lower income families don't live a life of dignity because they can't project "substantial economic" value?

If your argument is about providing enough to have a roof over your head, then that doesn't equate to "substantial economic value".

I find such obsession with wealth very unhealthy.
The first one is not a lawyer, so cannot be disbarred.

The second one allegedly only quickly checked the examples provided by his associates.
How a Canadian digital lobby group is pushing for age verification
My first thought was of the 2 major US political parties and their mission of promising things they have no intention of ever doing to get votes so they can win elections, take away more of our freedoms and redistribute more wealth from the many to the few. TurboTax is also a great example though.
>Ability to view the email in different languages. Ability to modify the email data. Ability to preview email in desktop and mobile.

All those things would be solved by sending text email. Whereas this overly complicated markup langage to HTML w/ javascript, and server response dynamic stack of programs will fail completely if JS doesn't execute just right in the mail client or there's some connection issue.

I guess for for-profit contexts one cares more about aesthetics than functionality.
I'll use an example outside my field. I have a friend who's a mechanical engineer. He's smart and pretty talented, and is a real hard worker. But the reason he's a mechanical engineer is that he wasn't good at theoretical physics and by going "down" a step, he was able to apply all the physics ideas to mechanical engineering. So he was able to do well in the field. But it's not what he "does for fun".

There are also people at his small company who spend every weekend building race cars just for fun. They have barns full of engines and tools (I'm jealous of how much space they can afford out in the rural areas!). The reason that they are such good engineers is that they find it fun. They do it in their spare time for fun. They find solving these kind of problems fun. So when they go to work during the week, they're having fun which makes them really good at what they do.

My friend said it to me before that "you can't beat someone who does it for fun" and that's just about for everything. If you look at the best hedge fund managers, sure they had more money than I did to get started. But they also find it fun to do (what I think is) the drudgery of learning the space that they're working in.

So back to grades...if you find someone with good grades who sounds like they worked for the good grades, that's fine, they're a hard worker and you probably won't go wrong with them. But if you find someone with good grades who just was having fun solving problems and happened to get good grades, then you have a real winner. And I think you need to just talk to people and see what they say. You can tell the "grinds" from the others.

I'm also careful to keep in mind that lots of it is luck: having interest (finding it fun), talent (also being good at it), and value (someone willing to pay for it) doesn't make you a better person, it just makes you good at the one thing that someone wants. For example, the things that I find fun are related so solving certain kinds of mathematical problems with software. I was able to find a company that needs that, but there are very small number of places that need what I love. If I had to work for Big Software Co, I'd be ok at it, but wouldn't be a 10x developer. I guess I'm just saying that luck plays a lot into it.
And the replier to OP is arguing that just because it worked for OP and a friend doesn't mean it's a good strategy. This is selection bias.

I also think of it as a survivorship bias and some correlation/causation violations: Me and my successful friends (I don't hang out with unsuccessful people) have similar stories, therefore our choices are a pattern which can be followed to our successes.

I could say "every successful engineer I know either abuses drugs or has in the past" and it could fundamentally be true for me and the group of people I know. But would you agree with me if I said that abusing drugs is a smart strategy to succeed?
About this we agree.
The complete history of Gondar: Africa's city of castles (1636-1900)
I think the more archetypal example is that _treating_ a disease is a lot more profitable than _curing_ a disease -- would the Epipen manufacturer ever develop and market a allergy _vaccine_ that cured an allergy with a one time shot?
Not one example given in this article was a government institution.
In most European law, there is no such distinction.
I disagree, the energy you have at that age is unparalleled. If you spend it on entrepreneurship, your chances of success are much higher. People consistently underestimate what it takes to build an innovative new company, young very bright people can do it. If they wait til 25/30, they will have lost some of the spark required. It can also take a decade, so start at 25, you are looking at success by 35. Start at 19, by your mid 20s you are in a very good place.
The optics on the machine falling over are horrendous. The CEO lying the model down on the side for a large stretch of the press release yesterday interacted badly with the stock price.

I've just about convinced myself that the falling over is interesting but unimportant. There was a statement that the panel under the vehicle contained "passive experiments" which didn't need to leave the machine. That probably means the various experiments it's supposed to run can happen anyway.

The fixed antennae being pointed in an unhelpful direction seems bad for bandwidth but that could mean send the experiment results back with higher priority than photos of the surface which also sounds alright.

I'd really like to know whether NASA are happy with the run (i.e. paying for it and keen for the next) or putting on a brave face for the press. Interested to see what this community thinks about it, reddit is having signal to noise challenges.
Alt tab stays half-usable forever because it shows windows in MRU order.
Yes, it's definitely unfair to count it as a 7B model. In that case, we could call Llama 2, which is 6.6B parameters, a 6B (or even 5B) parameter model.
This explains a lot about the effectiveness of San Francisco's $600M in spending on drug addiction/homelessness, the spend and problem seem to increase together
This.

People complain about the "Nvidia tax". I don't like monopolies and I fully support the efforts of AMD, Intel, Apple, anyone to chip away at this.

That said as-is with ROCm you will:

- Absolutely burn hours/days/weeks getting many (most?) things to work at all. If you get it working you need to essentially "freeze" the configuration because an upgrade means do it all over again.

- In the event you get it to work at all you'll realize performance is nowhere near the hardware specs.

- Throw up your hands and go back to CUDA.

Between what it takes to get ROCm to work and the performance issues the Nvidia tax becomes a dividend nearly instantly once you factor in human time, less-than-optimal performance, and opportunity cost.

Nvidia says roughly 30% of their costs are on software. That's what you need to do to deliver something that's actually usable in the real world. With the "Nvidia tax" they're also reaping the benefit of the ~15 years they've been sinking resources into CUDA.
>No, it was resource hungry

Was it really, or was that just a rumor from non-technical "C++ is bloated" Linux crowd?

I used to run KDE in the early 00's, and it run just fine, in very primitive CPUs of the time.
The original Hanlon's law is an excellent argument for why Reverse Hanlon's law is more often true.

For another example, see every customer service phone tree in existence. Or more broadly, any customer service, although Google gets extra side-eye.
Radiolab did an episode about people in this pickle. https://radiolab.org/podcast/null
Because Clay Shirky stated it at some point, and someone quoted him on it, and it stuck. Hope this helps.
Asynchronous Clean-Up [in Rust]
> I can’t think of other animated series you could class as a drama.

Honestly, there are tons. They’re just all Japanese.
Well if you are not using a rented machine during a period of time, you should release it.

Agreed on reliability and data transfer, that's a good point.

Out of curiosity, what do you use a 2x3090 rig for? Bulk not time-sensitive inference on down quanted models?
I have felt for a long time that this half closed state was a mistake. It fails to match naive expectations and can be hard to handle correctly even if you know about it. And as far as I can see there is no real benefit to having it. Is there some real use case for it (i.e. not just a minor convenience)?
Further discussion on the mission:

Private company landing on the moon today

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465230

Intuitive Machines successfully lands on the Moon

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39474909
> the USPS is financially self-sustaining.

Sarcasm I hope?

https://thehill.com/opinion/congress-blog/4138391-the-usps-n...
Um yes I do? Lol why do you just assume this?
I came here to suggest the same thing. This "hallucination" soft euphemism seems to be the tech press's way to continue to write positively about defective AI software while lightheartedly joking about how it sometimes does an oopsie.

If I ask a software to write about a well known fact or historical event and it just makes stuff up, it's not simply hallucinating. It's defective.
> These changes mark what is often described as the end of the open web, where corporations centralise services and invisibly control what you see when you try to find something, with business models that are ever more incentivised to move away from interoperable web standards.
It was a link in the article :

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/acd5e8

“””What’s more is that while plants absorb carbon, industrial cropland typically produces more carbon emissions than it absorbs over the long term. “””
Generating a GraphQL API for Calibre (Or Any SQLite Database)
Paris School Streets: Safe for Children, Safe for Everyone [video]
I’m curious, what happens to such patients in USA, when they have no one and no funding?
It is much more expensive to port scan against UDP than TCP so a nonstandard UDP port would be a lot safer again. OpenVPN is one of the only services that let you do that though.
I really enjoy Blessed and Possessed, so I don't think your analogy holds, unfortunately. If you want to give them another try, Sacrament of Sin is worth a listen.
It’s objectively worse in my local tests compared to Mistral. Again their model doesn’t include MT-bench benchmark because it’s really really bad at answering a follow up question(s). (this is also a problem in Ultra). It’s reasoning is also pretty bad compared to mistral.
No it's a digital neural network expressing it's inputs and outputs in language.
Anything that can be mass produced, yes. Anything that requires bespoke work with dexterity, unlikely.

I think it's much more likely LLMs become good enough to replace programmers before we have robots replacing plumbers.
Shaders were originally a production rendering concept introduced by Pixar's RenderMan in the 80s. It only became a thing in GPUs much later.
Programmable shading is really more of a design pattern in graphics renderers.
I also am over 60 and my philosophy regarding this topic is similar. Life is a series of moments that happen and are over never to be revisted again (unless you make this effort - and good for those who do and get value in their lives for having done so). My memory of the past is also limited - I remember random people and events going back to early childhood for reasons I don't fully understand, but mostly I have forgotten all the eras of my life and I don't really dwell on it. I have no concept of time and it has always been that way and age has had zero impact here. I get it "The unexamined life..." etc. So I invest energy in introspection and self discovery in service of continuous improvment. Whether I am satisfied with the life I have lived or not makes no difference - I cannot go back and change it. However, no longer do I have the luxury of time. By comparison to the journey I have already completed, I have very few moments remaining. And one day.... So I gratfully focus on this moment and all the precious few moments I am graced with.
I don't get this obsession with skipping college. When you finish college, you're still a "kid" as in totally young and nothing to loose. There's absolutely nothing lost time-wise in the greater scheme of life. Peter Thiel is playing on the insecurity of these young people like they will loose out on something if they don't do this.
Yeah, it does make sense. That's also the reason for the close button or start menu to be at a corner, at least on Windows derivatives. Of course, this clashes with the menubar placement on Mac, if they were placed the same way.
I find it challenging to get my 4090s to consume more than 300 watts. There are also a lot of articles, benchmarks, etc around showing you can dramatically limit power while reducing perf by insignificant mounts (single digit %).
I think it’s mostly (corporate) disconnection from reality.

It’s understandable that a failing business lays off a bunch of people to try and stay afloat, to survive.

But companies thriving, making a bunch of money and seeing their share price increase… and still laying off a bunch of people?

If that’s the game companies play, it’s understandable that people will adapt sooner or later.
It'll be mass. Self righting mechanisms are a thing and probably quite easy in low gravity, but they have mass, and every kilo you spend on making the machine better is one you haven't spent on carrying stuff up. Very like the aerospace problem where making aircraft heavier is worse, except that you're climbing out of the gravity well by throwing stuff out the back of the rocket which makes the ratios much worse.
Gnome 3 and KDE 4 are "modern history" compared to the events we describe. Back then (way before those release) KDE was less free than Gnome.
I see your point but is firmly on "team window". I feel the scalability problem is better solved with multiple desktops. My work is rarely in one application so grouping based on work context is a better fit for me.

This can work really well even on MS Windows. It is unfortunately not default nor obvious to the regular user. But what comes in the box sprinkled with a PowerToy is rather good.

That is the paradigm I strongly prefer.

I have always liked the tight integration on Mac (such as printing - no driver fuss) and the UI looks really sleek. But the UX of the window/app handling does not sit well with me. Not for the lack of trying.

My first GUI was GEM Desktop which might have damaged me for life.
I really don't consider this to be a gotcha. If you explicitly cast to type X, it isn't surprising to get back an object of type X, right? These aren't implicit type conversions a la the Javascript + operator
Ha! I'm sure I've heard of that before -- but didn't remember it.

Yesterday I came to this exact conclusion when talking about how things work at my job :/
What's New in WebGPU (Chrome 122)
>But there's no way, all things considered, it's a net benefit overall.

This seems like a very dogmatic statement to make. Especially when weighed with benefits of cheap energy and economic growth. A wealthier world can build the infrastructure to handle potentially negative effects of climate change.

The more extreme environmentalists and marxists say we should be engaging in degrowth, which would just result in a kind of feudal and static society, even more vulnerable to climate change. It should also be noted that the Little Ice Age in Europe was associated with scarcity and famine, while the Roman Warm Period was associated with golden ages of several civilizations across the world.
Also the March of Dimes. When humanity miraculously fixed their core issue they expanded their mission.
The felonynolef principle is now "No matter who you name something after, someone will complain about it."
There should be a special word for the rare occasion when the LLM generates truth.
Thanks for sharing! These tiny little ones are such interesting particles, with applications that are changing the world.
I should point out that also my eggs are not in one basket. My passion for board games, videogames, my children and my wife cover everything else, but if my job wasn't software development, I would include it in some way in my life
So who understands the Chinese economy? Definitely not China (2023)
Often times there's nothing to iterate on because the original solution was BS.
He had three others doing the research preparing the brief, that means especially the citations that were fake. He did not realize they didn’t do the due diligence to check that the citations were correct, let alone that they were not completely invented.

But he was the person on the hook with the judge. This amounts to filing false statements and that is well known issue that we don’t have to invent new penalties for.
> The KCC also imposed another fine of 15 million won on Twitch for its failure to implement a system to prevent the distribution of illegal footage.

That's an interesting point. I wonder how much processing would be required to get something similar to YouTub's Content ID system for twitch.

YouTube has it at least somewhat working for their livestreams but that surely wasn't easy given their scale and the latency requirements for livestreams.
EIGHT ads on the first URL. what the fuck WSJ.
This is one reason it's essential to have a free enterprise system, where anyone can take on such problems.
Niklaus Wirth, Who Inspired a Generation of Computer Programmers, Dies at 89
Nonsense. Go look at this very site’s startups and you will see it’s not true