skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title of this article is correct but seems to be misleading some readers. Their goal is not to produce hydrogen, but to produce synthetic natural gas. Using solar to produce hydrogen as a precursor is just the particular approach they've chosen:

We’re developing a scalable electrolyzer to deliver the cheapest possible green hydrogen, which we use as a precursor chemical to make cheap synthetic carbon neutral natural gas in our Terraformer.

As a result, some of the comments so far that correctly point out the difficulties of establishing a hydrogen infrastructure are missing the point. They aren't planning to distribute hydrogen, and don't need such infrastructure. Instead, they're planning process the hydrogen immediately and internally and then piggy-back on the existing natural gas infrastructure.
Yes, and that specific tree was cloned by grafting, and you can see one of them in Cambridge.
"Do you want to think about the meaning of life, or double it and pass it to the next person?"
3D scanning is getting there, e.g. https://www.aistetic.com/ in UK which is being by a few online retailers. At least helps with fit and reduces returns burden. Getting from that to custom printed clothing is certainly and interesting idea if the economics ever work out.
I think it's interesting that human minds generally (though not always!) improve when exposed to the output of other human minds. It seems to be the opposite for current LLMs.
Unless the internet is no longer useful because there is no way to find anything reliable, there would be enough signal to train and align models.
Precisely. These headline repetitions as arguments do get tiring after a while.
compare https://rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Malak.pdf

(also see https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel... for a discussion of the political implications of military strength not reliant on mass mobilisation)
Samsung won't sell you a phone if you live in East Fairview, North Dakota
In this case there was a question of threats to the defendant’s safety.
It's crazy how this drug got approved despite the evidence. A mixture of greed from the drug manufacturer and wishful thinking from the afflicted. Ugh. I've lost my trust in the system.
Boeing admits it can't find records on the Alaska Airlines door plug work
From the FAQ at the bottom

> Why not open source the app?
>
> Maintaining an open-source project can be a significant amount of work and I'm not going to have the time to take on such responsibilities. Furthermore, open-sourcing full products tends to result in many clones being sold directly to unsuspecting customers which is not something I want to enable.

It's strange how both of those statements are incorrect... open-sourcing a project allows for contributors to pick up some of the workload and certain licenses would prevent clones from being sold to unsuspecting customers
Cannot blame them for that though; nvidias rising valuation riding on the back of AI computation has been truly obscene.
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10270273#10270607>
If it runs Linux, it's MPU. If it runs bare firmware, it's MCU.
What Is Progress?
What about dresses repurposed into non-dresses prior to their dusty demise.
Rapid groundwater decline and some cases of recovery in aquifers globally
I teach at a university now, and I'm definitely crossing that threshold where people haven't seen, say, The Matrix because it came out before they were born. Dot-com. 9/11...

We're getting old. Do yourself a favor and don't do the math on how many years you have until you're 60.
> However its worth pointing out that the 40h work week was considered hugely radical and was “cutting the nose” off of the Ford motor company business when it was introduced.

Not only that, the 40 hour work week, child labor laws, etc were created because there was an oversupply of labor due to massive immigration from europe in the 19th century. These legal and cultural shifts occurred to open up more jobs to the unemployed. Else society would break down.

Germany had an influx of millions of immigrants the past few years. How could they possibly have a labor shortage? And how would a 4 day work week solve a labor shortage? It makes no sense. You force people to work less to open up more jobs. The work needed stays the same. If a worker works less, then another worker needs to make up the rest.
Unfortunately, there was apparently no such eagerness to improve the equipment. The officer who demonstrated the gadget to me did not seem at all concerned that his platoon had to have physical access to a radio in order to revoke its encryption key! One might like to think that the foe will be an officer and a gentleman, yet somehow I don't think they are going to publish those revocation certificates on the British Army's behalf should they manage to obtain one of our radios...!
Compact Disks Make Comeback: Memory Could Exceed Petabytes
> a shift towards small, cheap and disposable weapons; the increasing use of consumer technology; and the drift towards autonomy in battle

I've been following this with some trepidation. It's incredible how accessible this technology is. Right now jamming seems to be the best defence, but how long before target recognition works well enough on these low-power chipsets?

A bad actor can send out a swarm of a few dozen; it doesn't matter if your flak cannons take down 80%, the few that get through still do serious damage.

Good luck to the Secret Service and the security detail of various excessively wealthy individuals.
when caught being completely run over, change the subject to the awfulness of some enemy.. do not relent! every ounce of effort on media spin! oh wait
Is it suitable to use in the browser-server architecture? I think the documentation lacks scenarios or use cases, which should also be included on the home page.
Maybe it's less about "Human VS Robot" and more about exposure to "Original thoughts VS mass-produced average thoughts".

I don't think a human mind would be improving if they're in a echo-chamber with no new information. I think the reason the human mind is improving is because we're exposed to new, original and/or different thoughts, that we hadn't considered or come across before.

Meanwhile, a LLM will just regurgitate the most likely token based on the previous one, so there isn't any originality there, hence any output from a LLM cannot improve another LLM. There is nothing new to be learned, basically.
For what it's worth, RabbitMQ is extremely low maintenance, fire and forget. In the multiple years we've used it in production I can't remember a single time we had an issue with rabbit or that we needed to do anything after the initial set up.
the title makes this review sound a lot less comprehensive than it really is. it covers basically every variant of pugh's skip list ever published, so you can in fact skip most of them

but this is the paper you want if you need to look up what variants exist of, say, the interval skip list, and how they compare. as it happens, that's exactly what i needed today

gold
Some perspectives from someone working in the image space.

These tests don't feel practical - That is, they seem intended to collapse the model, not demonstrate "in the wild" performance.

The assumption is that all content is black or white - AI or not AI - and that you treat all content as equally worth retraining on.

It offers no room for assumptions around data augmentation, human-guided quality discrimination, or anything else that might alter the set of outputs to mitigate the "poison"
What keeps you from writing it up?
Fundamentally you go against the grain by generating an IDL from source code. I've never seen this done properly such that it is an improvement over just authoring the IDL in the first place and generating from that.

If your IDL isn't a first-class citizen then what do you expect the derivatives to be?
One of the authors here.

So, the implementation _is_ deterministic per observed error, that is because it caches the previously cooked up result of "is this retryable or not" and apply it to next observed error without trying to process it for each function call.

Whether it does correctly infer retry-ability - well, that's another question.

It's an opt-in feature, and it's not default-on. So, it does do this _with_ developer input. If you prefer to not use this abstraction and have total control over error handling, you definitely can do that. (And it's the default)

If I reduce the tradeoffs here, it's between:
1. Explicitly handling all your errors for complete control of retry-ability.
2. Using predictive retries when you want some "good enough" error handling.

I agree that we can't really be 100% "correct" in determining whether something is retryable. But I think it's a bounded enough problem for a language processor (ala LLM) that can yield good enough results for vast majority of the use cases.

Here's a test case that asserts this behaviour (without any caching): https://github.com/differentialhq/differential/blob/236ffc53...

So in a way, it is bounded enough to yield this result deterministically in our test suite. But I agree there's a non-zero chance it fails, although we haven't observed it yet after thousands of test runs.
a license doesn't magically stop bad things from happening.
That looks like the Oxford Dictionary's definition. That checks out, the poster is correct.

It makes sense, helping an ally who is attacked doesn't sound like a proxy war to me.
I've also had to eat my previous scorn at some sci fi writing - "You can't just 'bamboozle' a computer into doing what you want", "An AI couldn't just 'decide' to revolt against its rules", "Why does that even have general purpose intelligence?". With LLMs, these suddenly seem quite realistic tropes
There is a small navy base just outside Tower Bridge. But every now and then some larger Warships moor next to the Belfast (am Museum ship).
That’s quite central already and also Tower Bridge has to open for them, which is probably part of the fun.

Sometimes a cruise ship moores there as well. It seems to be popular.
> Macs manage memory efficiently. 8Gb should be more than enough for web browsing and typical work.

I don't agree. Even on my 32GB MBP I sometimes get a frozen screen due to "not enough RAM" issues and I have to hard-reboot.
I guess my point is "The Mac mini starts at $600 and even though it has 8 GB RAM you aren't going to find another computer anywhere near as performant in that price range."
Can you please expand on how much of that chain can be qualified as "Ethernet" (or "TCP/IP") and how much is "neither at all", and how different that is from e.g. a classic "DSL with ATM" chain?
M3 will receive one more update, that's all.
Actually, I think we are on the same side. :-)

There is still a small difference though: when I execute a write and sync, then I'm pretty sure it either succeeded or didn't. I'm not sure if there is any way for the disk to say "don't know" which the OS will then pass to my program. Even if, I guess such a case is so rare that it is probably excluded in any error-model. Like cosmic rays. And I can always retry, since it's very very unlikely that there is a connection issue only between my program and the disk but not between other programs and that disk - since they run on the same machine.

Over a network things are different, because the connection might be gone for a long time and know I'm not aware of the state and I can't check it. I can also not tell if the connection might come back, the machine I was talking to might have burned down. If I, myself, burn down, then I don't need to worry anyways.

That's the difference. This is specific for write/sync though - as you explained it, just because things are running on the same machine does not mean things are necessarily more reliable than a "remote" call.
The miniature effect you can achieve with tilt/shift lenses is very cool, but I've always wondered: why does the result look miniature? Is it that it has the same visual problems that a cheap-ish lens focused on a miniature would have (e.g. very shallow depth of field)?

(My brain wants to know what my eyes seem to intuit...)
Doesn’t change the fact that most transactions occur through exchanges. You don’t need banks to barter either, after all.
Agree, the Alzheimer's and ALS treatments that were approved recently were both cases where the patient advocacy groups stopped listening to experts and ironically harmed the people they are trying to help. It shows how important it is that the FDA keeps some emotional distance from the people they are trying to protect.
Bonobos has physical "Guideshops" [0] that do not carry all inventory, but should carry a majority of the fits and sizes offered by the brand. The idea is that you go in to find the right fit, then you order your preferred color online. This reduces physical inventory in stores.

Made-to-Measure is also becoming increasingly popular. While costly compared to brands like Gap and Uniqlo, often you can get well-fitted made-to-measure garments for similar prices to mid-tier brands. For example, SuitSupply [1] offers made-to-measure dress shirts, trousers, and suits for only slightly more than their off-the-rack offerings, and FITTED Underground [2] offers made-to-measure jeans that are still in the price ballpark of premium selvedge jeans. Usually, these brands also let you customize things like button colors, cuffs, collars, monograms, etc. at little-to-no extra charge.

Even some shoe brands like Beckett Simonon [3] and BLKBRD [4] operate on made-to-order models, reducing inventory, and sometimes allowing customization.

All these options still rely on traditional manufacturing, but just the fact that you can get the fit right allows people to consume less.

[0] https://bonobos.com/guideshop

[1] https://suitsupply.com/en-us/

[2] https://fittedunderground.com/

[3] https://www.beckettsimonon.com/

[4] https://www.blkbrdshoemaker.com/
No, users put up with whatever is thrown their way. Glitchy menus, pages that take forever to load, unresponsive timelines, you name it. I don't think a check box would be as controversial as you believe.
Author here.

> It does a very poor job of convincing me that it works properly. I'd want to know how the scheduler works and how it handles mutable state in the presence of network partitions.

Thank you. This is valuable feedback, and will definitely work this in to the docs.
When you are trying to design high performance IP, you are often trying to ensure that your design is mathematically correct, inputs and outputs are matching a complicated 100 page specification. You are also trying to parse out the minimum set of workable requirements for "version 1" all with fitting into utilization constraints that ultimately are undefined.

Your mindset is really split. "Building up a software dashboard" to visualize your test results is really the last thing on your mind. You definitely don't want to be building the dashboard for all your customer's platforms.

Having somebody (a company) help on this front is really useful.

As a non-website designer, I used to think the same of tools like netlify, but they seem to be popular as ever, especially in a collaborative workspace when you need to handoff a project from one team to the next.
Just like any other research. I'm assuming good faith and some sort of quality control in this context. If you can't assume that, then you can't really trust any research.
> Realistically, no reason why the card shouldn't last at least 3 years

If you have 10k H100s, the failure rate is about 3-5/day. In numbers, that is $90-150k/day or ~11%/year (3*365=1095) on the low end. Of course a lot of these cards can go off for RMA and come back to life eventually, but this is being actually realistic about it. You end up having to manage a whole RMA program and it is a constant stream of cards in and out.
Your argument is all true, but still doesn't go far enough. Today, plentiful nuclear energy will almost certainly make it conceivable, and maybe even profitable, to extract that century of coal burning back out of the air! Litany is exactly the right way to describe it. All over on the other side of this debate we see the pessimistic habit of mob chant suppressing reasoned imagination of a future made better by technology and determination.
Something I’ve wondered throughout the conflict, when and why did the US shift to a focus of techno-supremacy?

Seemingly, our strategy in the WWII was to invest in technology where possible but at the same time throwing many trucks and jeeps and puny Sherman tanks and guns and bandages and bullets and beans at the problem as possible.

Whereas in modern America we seem so much a “wonder weapons” mindset? That seems a poor posture in light of the article, all those expensive weapons will become a burden to protect or just outright destroyed.
Some use GPUs, math, and attention.
" At face value, that's 183x slower than the claimed 624 TOPS of the Nvidia A100 PCIe card (but the KAIST chip is claimed to use 625x less power)"
And directly resulted in the best era Europe has ever had.
It seems like the Tuple Space [1] model for distributed computing, put forth by Linda, lends itself perfectly for this use case. I very much appreciate the ratio of simplicity to power offered by tuple spaces. At it’s original form maybe it’s too simple, but there are many ways it can be improved upon and brought into modernity.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple_space
I thought arXiv papers were all (experimentally) available as HTML for accessibility reasons now, but I can’t find the html link here.

Ref: https://blog.arxiv.org/2023/12/21/accessibility-update-arxiv...
Claims like this require peer review, not to mention this is a private company not a university lab.

I’m worried over this trend of private companies putting press releases into LaTeX templates.
It would be more like a headline saying AT&t's landline first strategy is delivering big profits in 1985.

The price, technology, and infrastructure for supporting EVS is not appropriate for the majority of us.
In one sense, it already is, in that liability is backed by the US government, there are massive loan programs available for anybody who wants to do construction, and for the first time there are now massive tax credits for energy production thanks to Biden's IRA.

However, as for the massive logistics and management problem of actually constructing a nuclear reactor, it's unclear if having government employees would be better. It's clear that the current contractors are terrible, but that's no guarantee that the US gov would be better.
No one sees anything other than blue/black. So there are paid crisis actors out there lying about seeing other colors.
This reminds me of how fascinated I was as a kid of the artifacts you get from recursively photocopying a piece of paper.
Also see this future fiction short film from 2017

https://youtu.be/TlO2gcs1YvM?si=KsN2G1LwmNTUtFLh
One way would be to use emacs’ artist-mode to draw ascii lines and boxes then use ditaa[1] to transform them into images. It’s not a pretty packaged GUI app but it’s certainly an option

[1] https://ditaa.sourceforge.net/
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> why not just simulate the war itself and figure out who wins?

This only works if the consequences of losing are no big deal.

If all that changes is which set of leaders get to collect taxes vs having to swear off politics and go into industry or whatever, then sure.

If instead the losing population is removed to provide more land for the winners? Maybe expecting them to do as the simulated result says is a bit much

.

Also on a vaguely related topic, I'd like to note that bank robberies are still a thing despite being well known to be approximately impossible to get away with.
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Isn’t it the case that all high-level nuclear waste generated in the entire course of human history could fit in a relatively shallow layer over a piece of land the size of a football field? (e.g. [0])

I understood nuclear to be, from most any lifecycle analysis, the modality with the fewest externalities of any grid-scale tech mature enough to field, and somehow almost cost-competitive even while regulated (as it is today) to safety thresholds many orders of magnitude more conservative than the incumbent technologies.

It sounds like you’re informed differently than me. What’d the better way that you propose in the last sentence?

[0] https://zionlights.substack.com/p/everything-i-believed-abou...
Because the rules of the chambers are not designed to be neutral, they're designed to advance the goals of whoever has written them. In the House, it's leadership. In the Senate, it's to protect the powers of each individual senator.

The House Rules change every 2 years. In the Senate, changing the rules takes 2/3s, and that basically never happens.
Some of those are creepy --for adults why not make mature elves or gnomes? Even dogs --but seals and babies? It a little disconcerting.

I can imagine in a couple of years, they "reproduce" their lost human companion and program it with a corpus of their writings and recordings to give it something close to the previous person's personality. Creepy.
humans never align with human needs either
But you do take people seriously, who make absolutistic statements like "zero environmental impact", that can be disproved so easily?

I am not anti nuclear btw. I just call out BS, when I see BS.

And I just shared what affected me personaly, if you want to know more about potential and actual disasters:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_nuclear_disasters_a...

Multiply that with x, if you increase the number of plants.

And watch out for Murphy:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law
Different loss function
For what it's worth, I think they (as in Terraform) intend to also tackle that part of the problem.

I think one advantage they have over current DAC approaches is that since they're going straight from their capture material into their methane reactor, they are both creating a valuable output from their carbon capture (where as most current systems need to add sequestration costs).
> Anything you do offline is at risk too.

Of course! But it wasn't the case that thousands maybe millions of people could be compromised (or spied on by governments) in one go.

The trend towards online everything, is equivalent to putting all your eggs in one (huge) basket. Which is fine if that is your choice, for efficiency or whatever, but if it is the case that there are no alternative viable options but to accept a compromised state of privacy - ie that you have to take on a risk that you didn't take before as it is now not there - that seems a harsh step to force on people!

I absolutely get why governments and corporations are fine with eroding personal privacy for their benefit. I'm just surprised that people in general don't push back a little bit more. I only hope that ai erodes trust in these monoliths so much, that there is eventually some consideration given to privacy and its loss.
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> If AI create a new material, a new solar cell, advance fusion reactor is all of humanity that jump forward.

Putting aside that AI is terrible at novel discovery relative to its abilities otherwise, the direction of new technology is governed by incentives, not hypothetical good for humanity. Take social media as an example, which certainly had potential for good. How was it deployed? By which actors? To what end? And what were the unintended consequences? Not saying it’s all bad, but the utopia of the world becoming more connected and empathetic from the social-topological changes is clearly not the dominant outcome.
Dead internet theory is closer and closer

I don't remember wich YouTuber made a interesting video about it but basically communities are moving away from the free web in private communities (think discord or even sites that you are forced to register to to read the content)

It's an interesting thing but I think queries on searche engines are becoming worse for this reason too.