skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The number of cores has gone way up, with AMD pioneering a massive growth here. They also super sized the amount of PCIe available. Memory bandwidth has gone up significantly but not colosally (unless you consider the nearly 1GB of 3d vcache). NVMe are blitz fast. 400GBe is ok (but man NVLink is lapping everyone badly). Servers are getting crazy faster.

Part of this article is talking about people not needing advancements. Fine, sure. But many people do benefit greatly from this or that improvement here. Different things are different people's bottleneck & all pieces are pressured to improve.

It's excellent that single system scale out continues to advance so. I'm excited to see Intel re-entering the fray soon with Sierra Forest. And more excitingly, CXL 3+ really gets us to a point where there is a large pool of very high-speed devices servers can access in a somewhat on-demand fashion (and hopefully also serve as highspeed fabric).
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> But the question I would ask you is whether you are any barrier to simply scaling up the tokens on the existing technology? I don’t. I see us at the beginning of a ladder where the only input is capacity just like when Intel was young.

My expectation is that we need algorithmic improvements rather than scaling; AI can read approximately all of the internet, but current models need to actually do so just to reach the level of intern or fresh graduate. While this makes them superhuman in the breadth of skills they can perform, they need something else to improve the maximum quality in any given skill — in some cases, we can already train them on synthetic data or self-play, e.g. chess, though I don't know how broad an impact that would have.

But I do expect such algorithmic improvements, so in effect we are in agreement, if not in the details of how.

When it comes to hardware improvements, I'm not sure how that particular landscape will change over the next decade. Transistors are close enough to atomic scale they can't go on much longer, and Dennard scaling has long since stopped, but that doesn't mean nobody cares or that nobody is working on the energy efficiency. And if — just if, it isn't necessarily true — if human level intelligence needs a network with as many free parameters as there are synapses in a human brain, we're around 3-4 orders of magnitude away from that at present.

> I mean to invoke Smihula's theory of waves in this argument, since I know you’ll understand that.

Thanks, I was unfamiliar with it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smihula_waves

> Having worked a lot with large scale networks, agents and task specialized networked AI systems get me excited. My brain considers it a blue ocean opportunity.

I think you're correct. The current zeitgeist is do-everything models, and the only blue ocean opportunities are found when you zig when everyone else is zagging, and vice-versa.

Although, be quick; if my cursory reading of Smihula's theory of waves was correct, you don't have much time before the current market reaches saturation, and moves on to the next thing.
I started practicing last summer and went on a few via ferratas in Switzerland and Italy. The hardest one was in the Dolomites and required climbing knowledge and upper body strength because there were no easy anchors.

The scariest one was in Switzerland, called Mürren where there's a 30m horizontal section with a 400m vertical drop with nothing to hold on to other than the steel cable and some metal inserts in the wall, see https://www.sac-cas.ch/processed/sa2020assetsprod/9/0/csm_15... .
Looks like it's about html to pdf:

https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-us-to-test-the-html-pastin...
It seems strange that a recent article about the video game industry could fail to mention the massive layoffs that have happened and continue to happen in our industry, all while the parent companies that own these studios reap record profits.

It's worth pointing out that COVID was good for the games industry. There's certainly enough money to pay the people who work there.
It's becoming a meme already :)
If OP has an AWD the mechanic has to swap out all four.
When is an LLM the right tool for the job?
How Not To: Logging (use logs to make $$$, by not losing it)
Let me introduce you to a case of a $65M bill for a DataDog subscription that happened to Coinbase.
I used to do 3 12 hour days and it was glorious.
Subdomains on a service that will do authentication for cheap or free?

Your packages could be published for lucacasonato.imbroke.com
> Governments do not tax all money

No one said they did. I said all private money is money not available to the public. If Facebook bribes legislators to carve out tax loopholes for them, that money stays private, therefore it's denied to the public coffers.

Aside from any offended libertarian sensibilities, what part of that do you disagree with?
If you think nature must be left unspoiled then do not go.

If you think only those like you with your specialized equipment and your physical fitness should be able to go, you do still ‘spoil nature.’

There’s no need to point fingers at others for going an inch beyond your intrusion by leaving equipment in place. Popular routes are visited so often than the average condition for the area is climbers with equipment. Any peaceful absence of human presence is entirely imagined.
Syncretic Past: Black weddings, vampire plagues, a blood tax
> And if one factory can churn out X steel widgets and another one only X -20% because they work only 4 days per week,

When was the last time you saw a widget factory running 8 hours a day 5 days a week? Factories already run 24/7/365. They hire enough workers for their own economics to make sense (either enough so they all work no more than 40 a week or they just pay a bunch of overtime). If a 4 day workweek became standard it would just mean hiring more people or giving more overtime, since it's not the people that need to be optimized in that equation.

But for knowledge work it makes a ton of sense. It's been repeatedly shown that knowledge workers are equally if not more productive at 32 hours a week vs 40 hours a week.
the way openai structure their pay is dubious to say the least. maybe they will find a way to make money someday but rn everything they are doing is setting my alarm bells off.

"In conversations with recruiters we’ve heard from some candidates that OpenAI is communicating that they don’t expect to turn a profit until they reach their mission of Artificial General Intelligence"
https://www.levels.fyi/blog/openai-compensation.html
We also need all of this we can give.

So many people are unhappy these days because they feel they aren't doing anything that meaningfully helps their community. We're a social species. We thrive when we feel we are helping our tribe thrive.
Nonprofit is a tax status, not a corporate structure.
Elon Musk sues OpenAI and CEO Altman, alleging broken pact to benefit humanity
> optimism that ruled in the 90s

This is such an interesting take, about which we could probably write whole paragraphs.

Can the 90s be really summarized in such way? Yes, we had the "information highway" and "waiting for year 2000", but at the same time people distrusted their governments. X-files was all the rage, maybe grunge.

In USA there was Bill Clinton - the president that didnt do any wars and balanced the budget.. who got removed for blowjobs. But at the same time there was outsourcing. In rest of the world it also cannot be summed up so easily - I remember that 90s were a struggle, especially for post communism countries.

Obviously later on we got cell phones, but we also got the cancer such as Jack Welch style management that lead to various methods of enshittyfying everything.

I had a talk some time ago - I have a genuine polo bought in a supermarket in the 1980s (wont tell the brand since it is irrelevant). This piece of cloth feels and fits very well - after 40 years. It was worn through many summers.
Now I cant buy a polo shirt that will last more than 2 seasons. And I buy the "better" ones. There is lots of crap that falls apart fast.
For me the 90s were a start of that trend - enshittification of products that are designed to last 25 months (with a 24 month guarantee) and be thrown away.

But maybe it depends on life experience and anecdotes.

Was there optimism in 90s? Lots of it in marketing materials. But did people really believe that?
> Musk contributed general non-restricted funding so the nonprofit can more or less do what they want with the money.

Seems like "more or less" is doing a lot of work in this statement.

I suppose this is what the legal system is for, to settle the dispute within the "more or less" grey area. I would wager this will get settled out of court. But if it makes it all the way to judgement then I will be interested to see if the court sees OpenAI's recent behavior as "more" or "less" in line with the agreements around its founding and initial funding.
I have been making the argument that apple pulling back on this was a "security" issue.

Browsers are more code than most OS's they run on. Hell a browser IS its own operating system for all intents. One that can access the network and do all sorts of bad things on its own.

This matters for the phone. Its a device many people take with them everywhere, bathrooms, bedrooms etc.

Locking PWA's to web kit likely has some underlying security issues. If you dont think browsers aren't full of holes and permissions issues go look at the LAST compromise, Edge snarfing Chrome tabs.

All that said, there are a lot of places where PWA's still suck, because browsers suck.
Yes, treating wood does work, but what use to treat depends on the application.

For instance railroad ties were treated with creosote or tar. Similar for the underground part of telephone poles. There was a Copper-Chromium-Arsenic mix also that would kill bugs and mold but is extremely toxic, so isn't EPA approved anymore.

I would not want creosote or tar-treated wood in a house I live in, though. It's all toxic.

In the exterior-treated SPF (think what we use in America for a deck or exterior staircase) there's a durability limit to the rot resistance. And the wood is tough to restore.

Better woods (not necessarily old growth, just white pine or high quality cedar) are easier to restore. They also look nice, so people are more inclined to take care of them.

In the end, nothing lasts forever without maintenance.
> Startups like OpenAI don't pay income taxes because they don't have income.

Where is my $20/month for GPT-4 going then?
The Biden administration backs a switch to more memory-safe programming languages. The tech industry sees their point, but it won't be easy.
Well, the better approach at city scale is to use actual street sweepers.

Magnets don't pick up broken glass.
That is true. You understand that right?

Like, a donation is voluntary, taxes aren't and you think that makes them theft, I get all that. If I choose not to donate my house to the state, it is literally money denied to the public coffers.

In the case of my home, the state has no expectation or entitlement to receive it. One could argue the same in the case of Facebook bribing legislators to get tax carve outs. I wouldn't (because it's very corrupt), but one could.
I mean make a profit for the non-profit, but not the owner investors.

Non-profits dont need to balance their expenses with revenue. They can maximize revenue, minimize expenses, and grow an ever larger bank account. What they cant do is turn that bank account over to past donors.

Large non-profits can amass huge amounts of cash, stocks, and other assets. Non-profit hospitals, universities, and special interest orgs can have billions of dollars in reserve.

There is nothing wrong with indirectly benefiting the donors. Cancer patients benefit from donating to cancer research. Hospital donors benefit from being patients. University donors can benefit from hiring graduates.

The distinction is that the non-profit does not pay donors cash.
Maybe a better way to say it is: when you’re investing millions of dollars in risky ventures, reputation is very important.
I am speaking in the context of your own assumption in your post, that previously people were only doing 4 days of work in a 5 day week, so there's some option of getting people to work 5 days a week at the 4-day-a-week pace. Please don't equivocate on your own terminology for the purpose of hostilely misunderstanding my reply.

If you're going to roll with "actually people have in fact been productively working 5 days a week after all" than I would advise FirmwareBurner of 6 minutes ago to take the debate up with FirmwareBurner of 1 hour ago. I don't see that I'd add any value in mediating that discussion.
The histrionical descriptions of other people's takes are like nails on chalkboard and kinda gross. (bloody murder?)

No one thought removing them in the EU was the first step to removing them everywhere.

Jen Simmons isn't a "rock star."

Hiring someone with a lot of Twitter followers to do something doesn't preclude the company from stopping doing something.

I think everyone over 30 in tech has seen that first hand. Couple right off the top of my head for Apple: Graeme Devine, Max Howell...

In general, it is important for discussions to have nuance. I'm sure you've seen some un-nuanced discussions that I haven't. However, escalating rhetoric to condemn lack of nuance in others rhetoric should be reconsidered.
>Five nines is admirable in many circumstances and would be considered disastrously below expectations for e.g. Google Search.

This is BS. 5 nines is great for pretty much any system especially if extrapolated over 5+ years. I stopped reading right after this statement as the rest is probably BS.
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>But for knowledge work it makes a ton of sense. It's been repeatedly shown that knowledge workers are equally if not more productive at 32 hours a week vs 40 hours a week.

But then why hasn't it become the norm already and even in some cases, like in Asia, people are forced to stay in the office way more hours than 40?

If I take that research and show it to my boss saying I should work 32 hours/week instead of 40 for the same pay, he'll most likely laugh in my face and tell me to go back to work.

Clearly the vast majority of companies don't believe the same research, otherwise we'd be working 32 hours/week a long time ago.
So... you're saying that having PWAs is purely performative because nobody actually uses PWAs... meaning that the loss of PWAs has no impact on customers?
> did people migrate from twitter / reddit to discord / slack?

Six technical reddit groups that I monitor regularly all migrated. I was kind of surprised as that was 100% of the technical groups I regularly track on reddit. 3 are now on Discord, 1 went to Slack, 2 set up a Discourse.

In terms of "number of people", it's probably not that much. However, in terms of adding "+reddit" to Google searches, it's going to be a massive hit.
$1bn in assets isn’t much, at the high end you can charge maybe $20mm a year (hedge fund), at the low end a few million (public equity fund). That needs to pay not just execs but accountants, etc.

Put another way, a $1bn hedge fund is considered a small boutique that typically only employs a handful of people.
Indeed, Zulip has several views along the lines of "All threads", designed for different use cases and user preferences:

- https://zulip.com/help/inbox

- https://zulip.com/help/recent-conversations

- https://zulip.com/help/all-messages
AGI is a threat to humanity; so is existing tech: e.g., spending all day staring at various screens (phone, laptop, tv). You can also take the opposite view that AGI will save or expand humanity. It depends on how you define 'humanity'. Page's definition is understandably concerning to Elon, and probably most humans.
Finally something is being done about this that I have always wondered about: non-profit that operates like for-profit business
On android PWA home shortcut create by one browser, will use that browser, regardless of default browser. I don't see why Apple couldn't do the same.
Not saying you can't owe tax on it but isn't that unrealized profit?
Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Tantalizing, Unsentimental, American Prophet
I don't understand why you're angry? It's hard to say someone working at Elon's companies are abused; they're talented and could easily quit and get a new job. And Giga is closer to Austin's downtown than Apple's campus in north Austin.

Hope you're well!
Elon Musk Sues OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman, Saying They Breached Founding Mission
> Nothing in the DMA says that Apple can't provide PWAs

Not specifically. Apple is just forced not to gatekeep functionality. My suspicion is that the problem is that Apple doesn't want to grant anyone but themselves the ability to install a new app icon onto the home screen.

Chrome and Firefox can't make equivalent PWAs without such an API, especially not if they also need certain background execution exemptions to keep ServiceWorkers active at the right times. This would violate the DMA.

The nice solution would be to expose certain APIs to apps with certain permissions (requiring some explicit user consent, if required, though Safari would require the same consent in that case) so that other apps can do normal PWAs. The shitty, angry toddler approach would be to take away all PWAs and say "well then I guess NOBODY CAN HAVE THIS, _MOM_". Apple seems to have applied the latter strategy.

Interesting enough, Android has the same limitation: Chrome can add "apps" to the system, but other browsers don't have the same capabilities.

If Apple's PWAs are deemed unacceptable because Chrome can't implement them, I would expect Google's Android PWAs will be unacceptable for the same reason.
Does this mean that users will only be able to add the pwa from Safari or that when adding it from any browser it will always run with WebKit?
I know this is a joke (like the Jets), but the NFL was a 501(c)(6) organization. You can't deduct donations to those.
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Can you explain more what you mean by this, with some numbers? This is not my understanding, but maybe we are thinking of different things. For example, NIH in 2023 spent over $30B of public funds on research^0, and has been spending in the billions for decades.

[0] https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/budget
TL;DR
The document outlines a lawsuit filed by Elon Musk against Samuel Altman, Gregory Brockman, and various OpenAI entities. The complaint includes allegations of breach of contract, promissory estoppel, breach of fiduciary duty, unfair competition, and demands for an accounting and a jury trial. Musk accuses Altman and others of deviating from OpenAI's founding principles, which were supposed to focus on developing Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) for the benefit of humanity and not for profit. The suit details the founding of OpenAI, Musk's significant contributions and involvement, and accuses the defendants of transforming OpenAI into a profit-driven entity contrary to its original mission, thereby violating the foundational agreement.
> For some reason people just can’t resist reductionism.

Being a bit reductive there, eh?

:)
This is a great point but has me realizing I don't know how to square this with the idea that quite a few people are making enormous profits from unprofitable businesses.

It feels like there should be a way to tax these startups that exist as vehicles for cash grabs, but are not profitable.
> only found one or two of more than 50 former bike owners who wanted their property back

Why didn't they want their bicycles?
For the same reason companies are forcing return to office -- control. They like to see their people working, it makes them feel like better managers.
You replace the glass for the insulation value. You don't need to (and shouldn't!!) replace a wooden frame.

Replacing good wooden windows with vynil/aluminium windows is basically signing up to a subscription to the window company. You can't really restore that vynil crap, and the lifespan has a hard limit at 15 years when the double seal breaks.

I'm just replacing the panes and restoring the wood. On the parts where the wood rotted out, I'm replacing the crappy cheap wood with rot resistant hardwoods.

Modern windows aren't that much better. Window companies have good marketing.

A 200 year old single pane window is R-1. Double pane is R-2, and with argon maybe R-3 or R-4.5

Triple pane is R-3 to R-6 depending, and vacuum sealed glass is R-4 to R-14(!!! But no one buys that).

Changing an old window to a new one is often a stark difference because the old window leaked air. Not because the R-value is much lower. You can fix that with reglazing.
Looks quite nice, and in tune with was common to use on Z80s. :)
There's no such thing as "entrapment via prompt injection" since it still requires the LLM to have the underlying article in its training set.

And that is precisely the problem: that the underlying article is in the training set and in the body of reproducible output without permission. This requires an act of copying, and was done without permission, so it's a copyright violation unless a fair use exception applies. (Courts haven't yet ruled on that; it's likely that the NYT case is the case that will ultimately lead to a SCOTUS ruling resolving the issue one way or the other.)
> who got removed for blowjobs.

He was impeached but not removed.
Indoctrinated? That's a common conservative talking point, except that many professors will just keep quiet in the fear of losing their jobs - no one wants to deal with a social media onslaught and sometimes even physical intimidation.

The young ones eventually grow out of it - but the "adults" need to have more spine.
> Nearly every day, Benigno bikes about 10 miles and picks up around six pounds of debris — about the max the magnets can carry.

As an European, this left me a bit shocked. Where is that debris even coming from? Shoddily "maintained" vehicles? Insecure loads? And why are there no sweeper trucks sweeping the streets and bike lanes?
> Because the AI is and can only be trained on human knowledge, it's knowledge of reality has an upper bound (whereas, theoretically, humans can know anything or make new discoveries that don't exist in our current knowledge set).

AI do not have such a limitation; they can be trained on anything, including to design and then perform their own experiments in laboratories, e.g. this one: https://engineering.cmu.edu/news-events/news/2023/12/20-ai-c...

> If you don't tell the AI that strawberries are a thing/reality, it will never conceive of a strawberry on its own. And arguably, it's not fair to call these things "AI" until they can do so.

I have far too many projects on my plate right now, but that is kinda one of them, has been since… wow, only December, these last few months have felt like years: https://benwheatley.github.io/blog/2023/12/12.html