skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure why you're being downvoted, but a carbon tax is a little too elegant to expect from a modern politician. This is far messier and more arbitrary. And just one of numerous proposed changes (the linked page is only tangentially about crypto mining).
"Now you take this home, throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you got a stew going."
Each of those is great, and more sophisticated strategies are being developed all the time: incorporating static analysis at inference time to ensure code is more than just syntactically correct [0]; to multi-LLM call agent-based frameworks [1]; decomposing hard tasks into many "easier" LLM tasks [2]; analyzing internal activations to identify potential hallucinations [3]; activation steering to control generations [4]; and "Language Model Arithmetic" to compose biases for style, vocab, etc [5].

But each also either requires tight integration with an LLM inference/serving engine (to access low-level internals of an inference engine); or adds a lot of overhead (many individual LLM calls) if they don't have tight integration.

The AI Controller Interface is creating an abstraction layer that exposes the low-level primitives so that all the above strategies can be implemented without each one needing to dive into the internals of every LLM engine. AICI doesn't support all the necessary primitives for all of these yet (e.g., we don't know what the right way is to represent internal activations); and not everything will end up fitting in a WASM module anyway.

Its a start at thinking about a new layer in the inference stack

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.10763
[1] https://github.com/microsoft/autogen
[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14292
[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02073
[4] https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.10248
[5] https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.14479
I'm not sure what you mean by "phantoms in the data". The distribution of stress-energy is a free parameter in GR; it has to be inferred from observations.

The terms "dark matter" and "dark energy" are just names for, respectively, "stress-energy that acts like the matter we can see, but we can't see it", and "stress-energy that acts like a cosmological constant". Neither of those things poses any problem for GR, since both types of stress-energy are allowed for in the theory.

"Dark matter" poses a problem for particle physicists, who have so far been unable to find any fundamental particles that would produce the observed properties. "Dark energy" only poses a problem if for some reason you don't like having a nonzero cosmological constant.
... I'd wager the US government has murdered a person or two.
Seeing AI do something you do for a living results in all the stages of grief.

Denial (Oh it made a mistake on this, or it's not as good as a person)

Anger (People are going to lose their jobs, this destroys the meaning of what we do, this will destroy society)

Bargaining (Maybe it's good at this simple thing, but I can pivot to some other niche the AI can't currently do)

Depression (It's faster, cheaper, better than me. It has taken over that which I relied on for meaning in my life...)

Acceptance (I need to find something else to do with my life)

AI Optimists often fall in 2 categories of people. They are capital owners who own the AI, and never had to go through the stages of grief... or they are people who learned how to use AI for their benefit, and have reached acceptance.
If I'm not mistaking adding /embed to mastodon links makes it possible to see them without js

https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/112079059323905912/embed
We want to support other devices and consider this the main blocker because Exynos is not widely used outside Samsung and Snapdragon is better at overall security than MediaTek. Qualcomm dropped the ball on MTE but they're quite good at security overall. It doesn't matter outside our perspective because MTE is not being used in production by others yet, which is why Qualcomm didn't prioritize it.
We can use the excess production to do other things, like desalinate water.
Image-scraping Midjourney bans rival AI firm for scraping images
> That Python code is a really elegant piece of API design.

await aici.FixedTokens("\n")

# Store the tokens generated in a result variable
aici.set_var("result", marker.text_since())

Not sure I agree.
Next you're gonna say that polynomial multiplication is also just convolution of the arguments.
I think about it as getting practical / low-tech observable physics right, then expanding out from there.

< atomic and > planetary have very important applications!

But I'd argue not nearly as many as "Here are all the formula that govern a falling apple."
The danger is not human like AGI but AGI that is completely apathetic to human goals and want to turn us into paperclips or so that the argument goes.

Antihuman AIs are a classic of the sci-fi genre, but that's just storytelling.

In my opinion, humans are going to be in the driver seat with regard to AI tech, and our abuse rather than AI autonomy is going to cause harm.
Yes, but my understanding is that dark energy doesn't play by the same rules, it's an exception. I certainly can't explain why but also it may not be known exactly why, given dark energy is an unexplained phenomenon.
False advertising is considered a type of fraud because you used false facts to extract, or try to extract, value from someone. If there was no job open, you just cost someone paper, ink, transportation, and time. It's a stetch, but in my book it fits.
It can go too far. Too many section headings and it becomes unreadable, like an undergraduate textbook where you're constantly being distracted by sections and boxes.
No. Margins on power delivery are marginal. Very little of the money paid for power stays local.

The bulk of the money goes to supply and transportation, which is usually a foreign state or a trans-national entity of some kind, far far from the point of consumption.

Mexico (in this example) could try to siphon off money through a tax or regularion or by investing capital in local supply, but the OP believes taxes/regularions are just a way to foreclose on any opportunity because the miners will just go elsewhere, and investing capital in growing local supply means redirecting it from somewhere else (assuming you can even make local supply price competitive without subsidies).

Some spending can stay local and benefit local economies. Spending on power is generally not one of those.
the hype bubble around it and subsequent power/environmental consequences [...]

The energy consumption is not the result of anything, it is a fundamental design element. [1] To reach a meaningful consensus, you have to give all participating users equal or at least similar voting power. But Bitcoin does not want a central database of users which opens the door for Sybil attacks - you can just invent an essentially unlimited number of users out of thin air and have them vote the way you want. The solution to this problem in case of Bitcoin is to tie votes to computing resources for calculating hashes. While you can invent users out of thin, you can not invent computing power out of thin air. This gives each user voting power in proportion to the amount of money they are willing to invest in computing resources. Not really equal voting power for all users but close enough in practice. If miners would not burn enormous amounts of energy, anyone could come along and influence or alter the transaction history or just mine empty blocks and with that block all transactions.

[1] For Bitcoin and similar proof of work systems, there are alternatives.
The slippery slope has meat at the end!
Right? Humans are more than capable of severely harming civilization at any point, but for some reason this AI narrative is so much more compelling than the boring old issues we're used to. I still don't get the reasoning - we have pretty good text and image generators, yes - but the article jumps the ship to a whole different universe, one where "AI" is an actual entity that has needs and that outpaces humans in all possible facets. Yet, despite the wide gap between what we have and what they're talking about, this level of AI is treated as if it's not just feasible, but basically already here.

The article constantly refers to a strange niche sub-community of pro-AI people, and extrapolates it to say that almost anyone who backs new technology is a hyper-capitalist libertarian who just wants to see the world burn for the sake of money. I feel that the opposite ideology is also far from pure - with this immense reaction to generative AI, it almost feels like big companies are capitalizing on fear to promote regulations that shut out anyone who's not a big company that publishes fancy charts about "risks of catastrophe".
Power is also a concern (at least for sailboats). While there are certainly other 12v computers, that is one of the pluses for rPi in this.
It’s not wasted in the slightest. That’s why it’s absolutely a loss.

A loss, felt in particular, by the many thousands of people employed in the vast supply chain which is the yacht building industry.

I’m not sure what you mean by production being “invested to further increase productivity” - seems like a non-sequitur.
I mean, he could presumably have died from other causes, but a gunshot wound is a gunshot wound.
They are clarifying that "a friend of mine" is not a euphemism for themselves, because it's more common to use it as a euphemism for yourself than it is to actually talk to strangers online about your friend's life, problems, opinions etc.
I imagine it's like how weed grow houses don't have snow on the roof in winter, it's kind of hard to hide a MW scale bitcoin mining operation.
>People still use Network Solutions? Is there a reason?

I'm with them since time immemorial.

The cost and headaches, both actual and potential, of the downtime incurred changing providers exceeds the potential savings in annual bills.
It is more upfront work for sure. But you get immunity from the planned obsolescence of syntax feature creeps from ISO or gcc extensions (a 5-10 years cycle)... and from compiler implementations.

Additionnally, if we are honnest with ourselves for a lot of programs, from a life cycle perspective, coding time of the bulk is actually negligictible. It is not the case with all types of programs though, but for a lot of system programs, this is very true.

And rv64 is supposed to become THE ISA standard. One of the main reasons for C existence is ISA abstraction which is kind of gone here. Of course, I wish risc-v to be a success.
Why haven't "hackers" hacked into nuclear weapons infrastructure? The street cred would be incredible!

I think it's possible to build secure anything if that is the goal. Most software is written by people motivated to write something useful and/or neat, or collect a paycheck, and don't focus on security.
I think thats part of the conspiracy: you don't directly murder one guy, you show him skeletons you know about him and tell him you will put them out in the public.

The rest solves itself.
>I know you can't buy discipline. But can I kick start it somehow? How would you do it?

I'm in excellent physical shape with visible abs. While I do have some genetic advantage in general it's as simple as walk a lot & go to the gym once( you read that right) a week.

That's all it takes. Just start walking. Doesn't matter the shoes, doesn't matter where.
Being better than Venezuelan currency isn’t the slam dunk point you might you think it is.
The DisplayPort standard supports being passively converted to HDMI, but you still need a DisplayPort connector on the source end. This is a weird custom port which can physically accept a DisplayPort connector or a HDMI connector, so you don't need a special DP to HDMI cable, a regular HDMI to HDMI will work.

I'm guessing this isn't more common because the HDMI forum charges a license fee per port, so turning every DP port into a DP/HDMI hybrid would increase the unit cost.
If your thinking is along the lines “if jodrellblank can’t convince me that a superintelligence is plausibly dangerous, off the top of their head, before my attention span wanders, then AI can’t be dangerous” that’s a really weak plan for protecting humanity.

Say, pops up on the US or Kremlin computers and blackmails or bribes or threatens someone to launch the nukes? Say, places orders with a lab to build some robots which then become the AI’s body and it builds nukes itself. Say, placed orders for custom biological things using stolen money which turn out to be extremely virulent and then it doesn’t need nukes. Say it finds out an effect to worsen global climate change and uses it to make earth uninhabitable on a short timescale, and doesn’t need nukes.
> First say which of my above statements you refer to.

Nothing in particular.

> Also, why should I not be here? You have any problem with it?

Not at all.

You might be reading too much into my comment, though.
> I've been predicting that companies would turn into criminal gangs sooner or later.

When have they not? This is literally the entire point of limited liability for hundreds of years. Goes back to the East India Company.
Don’t forget the CDs with imaging.
I'm getting 27.7 in Safari 17.4 on an M1 Pro MacBook. I'm puzzled how you got so low on a Mac Studio.
Bitcoin and food. Totally comparable. Also, food is under way more regulation than crypto.
Homicide rates seem to spike 1-2 years after a recession in Mexico, or at least based on comparisons of GDP Growth rate contractions and homicides per 10k [0][1].

And this does make sense - if you don't have a job, the cartel's offer is fairly competitive.

Also, those areas that tend to be the most violent are also part of the now largely defunct Maquiladora belt.

[0] - https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/MEX/nor...

[1] - https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/MEX/mex...
High blood sugar, hypertension and obesity can add up to cancer risk
Yes, it is meaningfully better at coding. Put in a large file and ask for a refactor with some criteria.
Small price to pay for cheap tropical fruit, no?
> Functions are just a useful abstraction

Yes. Containers are also just a useful abstraction. And both of them are contained, unless you add something that exposes their environment.
The universe is not expanding into anything. It is infinite. However, new space is being created in the voids between objects. It isn't super intuitive or particularly easy to grasp, things are just getting farther apart.
> In my opinion, humans are going to be in the driver seat with regard to AI tech, and our abuse rather than AI autonomy is going to cause harm.

This reminds me of a classic xkcd[0] foreboding.

0 - https://xkcd.com/538/
Reddit also occupies the space that otherwise might permit a more useful, benevolent internet platform. From a certain perspective, Reddit is standing in the way of an internet that better facilitates the enjoyment you describe.
I assume because the servers only expose an API rather than endpoints that render HTML. Probably simplifies things not having to render both client and server side.
I'm not denying it's an issue - it's a massive issue for massive swaths of Mexico.

In fact, Mexico could be growing even faster if organized crime is brought under control.

The fundamentals in Mexico are fairly strong (relatively high median household income, access to the largest market globally, decent enough social indicators) and good governance can carry it forward dramatically.

That said, we in the US could help much further by actually sanctioning Cartel organizations en masse, instead of doing it haphazardly as we are today. Similar economic warfare forced the Italian and Japanese governments to drastically crack down on organized crime in the 90s and 2010s respectively.
Nature Conformable to Herself (1992)
Register for an Ironman race for next year.
Buy a good bike, hire a coach to help you kick start the preparation.

You need a vision, a goal. A long term one. Ironman is perfect for that.

You practice 3 sports - and they are complimentary - you're unlikely to get injured.

It's achievable - yeah, I know that right now at 240lbs it probably doesn't seem like that, but the beauty is that anybody can do it. And once you register, you will have a strong incentive to prepare.

It will completely transform your self-esteem and the relation with your body and food.

PS. It doesn't cost 100k, but it's still expensive - registration, bike, maybe a coach - you're looking at 5-10k probably.
I'm not saying that Boeing had him assassinated, but I sure wouldn't put it past them. They've already shown themselves to be perfectly willing to sacrifice human lives for increased profits.
>In short, even if galaxies weren't accelerating

-Galaxies are not accelerating, space is expanding.

> Imagine there are some objects in space all moving in random directions and speeds, relative to Earth...

-No, In your scenario then end result would be a most static average distance between all objects in the universe. As an infinite number of objects come from infinite distances, there would ALWAYS be objects in the neighborhood.

I think what you're imagining is a bunch of objects in a box, give them random vector and then remove the box. If they maintain course, all will eventually move outside the original box boundaries, and away from each other. (not the way the universe is).

They know space is expanding. The primary mechanism we know this is the speed with with we measure an object (moving away) is redshifted. Objects at the same distance from Earth, but opposite regions of space are moving at the ~SAME measured velocity.

There simply is no existing theory which can account for what we are seeing besides space expanding. I'm not big on thinking we understand it all, but in this particular measurement, there is basically zero doubt. Space is expanding, which has the affect of accelerating all objects in the universe away from you, with an acceleration relative to the distance. The more space between you, the more opportunity to expand.
BBC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39673589
Diesel is diesel, if you're paying for it you should be able to use it as you please...

(don't look up what red diesel is if you don't want your bubble popped)
Without being able to harvest dark energy, it's actually the exact opposite.
“The Buddhist does not see the world as divided between warring good and evil influences, but rather views the wandering mind non-judgementally, as needing only constant gentle correction.”

This is something I never understood about the New Age movement.

You use the word correction. Now, whether done gently or forcefully, the act of correcting something implies a path of some sort— to compensate for getting off-course while moving toward a target, if you will. If you cannot judge that you are off-course, how can you possibly (gently) correct yourself? Further, can you define a target without asserting a judgement? Can you say “Let’s aim for the stars” without simultaneously implying, not the moon, and not the earth?

Even viewing the mind as “wandering” is a strong judgement!

If the enemy is simply a name for whatever is pulling you off-course, then isn’t that embedded in any judgement of correction?
It's kind of like collaborating directly on a database (Through the Grid that has been prepared) rather than building an application interface
With reports of a federal criminal investigation under way, very suspect. Civil judgments and penalties are one thing, the possibility of prison time is a whole different level of motivation.
I think there can be some middle ground. Someone I have followed on YouTube for years has done yearly donation drives for a homeless youth shelter around Christmas. They raised maybe 10k a year for a few years. Last time, they decided to go through the effort to setup an endowment for the charity, and raised a couple hundred grand. That charity now no longer has to look for donations during Christmas to provide presents to the kids and meals to families on hard times. I think that's a great thing. I wouldn't want that to go away. I absolutely want tax shelters for billionaires to go away.
This is the lump of labor fallacy in reverse isn't it? Those people would eventually be employed by other industries - both the labor and $ formerly going to yachts would be used somewhere else.
It's not the standard convolution.
Hey, thanks for the response!

Just to clarify, by "edge" I mean the combination of location and runtime of the serverless functions. Basically a bunch of places where your application is deployed automatically with a smaller runtime. Just like classic serverless functions (from AWS for example), but more optimized, which kind of fixes some issues like cold starts. Please note, that I'm more of an outside observer, so I could be missing a lot, that's why I'm asking more experienced people :).

Of course, it's not a "new industry standard" kind of thing, but I'm sure that Amazon and Cloudflare (and mainly hardware companies, once they notice it) will come up with something to optimize the hell out of this new approach.

The point is exactly that it's much easier to pay $5 a month to make your app work fast across the world after deploying it with 3 clicks, rather than setting up a box, or god forbid a physical machine (now you have to deal with outages, networking problems and scaling). I mean, it's good to remove bottlenecks from the process of creating new things, but as I said, something still bugs me about it (maybe the complexity, the level of abstractions, etc.).

Of course, thanks for your thoughts!
"Died from self-inflicted wounds" - Isn't there a word called "suicide" for this thing?
In the SingleLineText field, you can choose to show as email, Any format verification (regex) will be introduced in the future.
This is not about crypto mining per se, but the electricity used:

> Impose a new 30 percent excise tax on electricity costs associated with digital asset mining

Seems like an effective incentive to migrate cryptocurrencies from Proof-of-Work to the more eco-friendly Proof-of-Stake. Ethereum already did this two years ago.
There's some nasty shades of Karen Silkwood with this story.
Fiat as opposed to crypto currency? Crypto is the most fiat currency imaginable. I know crypto bros tries to redefine reality to trick people into thinking crypto is somehow tied to real tangible value, but it’s just not.

Non-fiat currency is physically tied to the creation of real-world value, like say mining gold which has thousands of real-world applications. Traditional fiat currencies are fundamentally designed to be a proxy for real world value. In a well designed system it’s most of its creation is tied to debt issues to, say a gold mine or an oil well or solar farm. Cryptocurrency is - in its utter insanity - fundamentally tied to the destruction of physical value. That is, burning electricity while creating nothing useful. So: more fiat than fiat. Another huge step removed from the creation of real physical valuables.

Traditional currencies are far more efficient and a basic necessity for the economy to function at all.

Cryptocurrency is fundamentally unsuited to become a real currency by its very design. Every one I’ve seen so far has been made by people who seem to lack even the most basic understanding of what the main origin of currency is. (Hint: it’s not metal coins..)
No, since it was published before the Copyright Act of 1976 took effect, it will be under copyright for 95 years, expiring in 2055.
You are right only the distro's build servers would be able to use DKMS as the distro couldn't ship the private key.
And it's quality and safety which constitute said costs.
What are some good popsci books?
You might, but your fellow citizens might not. That’s kind of the point right?

Sadly most people don’t even vote for issues anymore. They just vote along party lines.
The MoonBit Update – 2024/03/11
It's amazing: I only learned about that when I when I was middle-aged, reading some internet article. But as a native English speaker, I subconsciously already knew this rule, somehow, like it's hard-wired somehow. They never taught this to us in school.
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